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TIIE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 14, 1917. STORES ROCKED, 4 HURT BY EXPLOSION Powder Ignited While Being Extracted From Shells at Oregon City. GLASS FRONT BLOWN OUT T'ire Department Chases Around, .Looking for lilaze, AVliile Big Crowd Fills the Street After Quake Is Felt. OREGON CITY, Or, Jan. 13. (Spe cial.) Foul men were injured, a. part of the business section of Oregon City was rocked as if by an earthquake, and the nardware and second-hand etore of I. Tolpolar, 614 Main street, was partly wrecked when -a quantity of powder exploded in the Tolpolar store today. The entire front of the store was blown into the street, and the damage ie estimated at several hundred dollars. Those injured are: I W. Parker, 802 Seventh street, se riously burned, arms and hands. ' ' Fred Woerms, Clairmont, burns on hands. James S. Hart, Molalla avenue, burns on face and hands.' , I. Tolpolar, 509 Adams street, burns on face. : Mr. Parker and Mr. Hart were work ing in the rear of the store, taking: the powder and lead from shells. The shells vre old and the powder stuck into the shells. One would take a hold on the lead bullets and the other on the brass shell with large pinchers until the lead was pulled loose. Then they would poke the powder out of the shell with a screwdriver. Crowd Blocks Street. After working several hours they filled a large cigarbox with powder. Mr. Parker was working the powder loose from a shell, and the friction. It Is thought, ignited the powder. A ter- rific explosion followed, which shook the entire block and sent the glass lrot of the store flyipg into the street, ' bits of glass sailing even as far as the sidewalk on the opposite side of the (street. Business men for a block in each direction, feeling their stores rock and hearing the explosion, ran to the street and in an instant Main street was blocked with the crowd. "I heard the explosion, and felt the building rock." said Henry Strebig, proprietor of a butcher shop five doors removed from the Tolpolar store. "I ran to the street and saw smoke pour ing from the building as if it were afire. I felt the force of the explo sion in my store." Knee Badly Burned. Mr. Parker was leaning over the powder at the time of the explosion and was the most seriously injured. His face was badly burned, and the scars left by the explosion will prob ably be permanent. He was taken to the office of Dr. C. A. Stuart and the burns dressed. Mr. Woerms, a Clairmont farmer, was buying a milk strainer from Mr. Tol polar, and both were in the front of the store, yet both were burned. In the excitement which followed the explosion a fire alarm was turned in. However, through an error, the wrong alarm was sounded and Main street apparatus was taken up the hill and the firemen hunted for a blaze which did not exist. No fire followed the explosion A sale was on at the Tolpolar store at the time of the explosion, and draped high across the building was a cloth J sign which survived the blast, although torn in a number of places. It read: "My doctor orders me to quit business." DOGFISH IS BEING CANNED . Commodity Pronounced Excellent by Newspapermen at Seattle. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 13. A packing-house at Friday Harbor, Wash., has just canned 300 cases of dogfish and plans to complete 15,000 cases before the end of the season. The label on the cans says: "Grayfish, a new food packed at the request of the United States Bureau of Fisheries and under methods approved by it. The grayfish la esteemed in European countries but hitherto has been unutilized in the United States." Grayfish was served last night at the annual dinner of the Washington Newspaper Institute at fhe University of Washington and was pronounced excellent. SEARCHERS NARROW CHASE All Hope of Findlng'll. M. Christen son Alive Is Abandoned. LA PINE, Or., Jan. 13. (Special.) Searchers for Russell. M. Christenson, lost in the mountains near Crescent tor nine days, today had surrounded a Mack pine thicket into which he had been trailed. All hope of finding him alive has been abandoned, and the parties, consisting of 24 men, will en deaver to find the body. This report was received at 11 o'clock today. , Late yesterday the searchers fouad where Christenson had been flounder ing in the deep snow, but darkness put a stop to the search until this morning. LEWIS AUTO PARKS SOUGHT Citizens Plan Camping Places for Touring Parties. CHEHALIS. Wash., Jan. 13. (Spe cial.) A committee consisting of O. J. Albers, president of the Chehalis Auto mobile Club; H. C. Coffman, L. J. Stlck lin. Dr. J. H. Johnson and W. F. West, of Chehalis, have been appointed by Dan W. Bush, president of the Cit izens' Club, to confer with the Lewis County Commissioners regarding the DRINK HOT TEA FOR A BAD COLD Get a small package of Hamburg Breast Tea, or as the German folks call it, "Ham burger Brust Thee," at any pharmacy. Take a tablespoonf ul of the tea, put a cup of boiling- water -npon It, pour , through a sieve anc?drink a teacup full at any time. It is the most effective way to break a cold and cure grip, rs it opens the pores, relieving congestion. Also loosens the bowels, thus breaking a cold at once. It Is inexpensive and entirely vege table, therefore harmless. Adv. matter of securing at the earliest pos sible date camping sites in various parts of Lewis County lor automobile tourists and others traveling through the country. It is believed that with the rapid completion of the splendid road system it is not too early to take steps to offer every inducement and comfort possible to visitors, as well as local people who may wish to enjoy outing trips in various parts of the county. LOGGING TRAIN KILLS BOY Pe Ell Youngster Victim of Accl- dent on AVay to School.- CHEHALIS, Wash., Jan. 13. (Spe cial.) Eugene Goins, 10-year-old son of Robert Goins. a well-known resident of Pe Ell, was killed by a logging NEW PROFESSOR IS PHI BETA KAPPA MAN AND U-'-BIARRIEU. George Tnrnbnll. UNIVERSITY OF" OREGON,. Eugene, Jan. 12. (Special.) George TurnbulL of the Seattle Times, who will arrive in Eugene January 26 to Join the faculty of the university, has been engaged in city and country newspaper work for nearly 20 years. In ad dition to belps an experienced newspaper man, he Is a practical printer, having learned the trade and joined the union when he t used to work in country news- ? paper offices as a boy. He is a J graduate of the University of I Washington department of Span- i ish. He is a member of Phi Bea t Kappa, the honorary scholastic f fraternity, and of Sigma Delta I Chi, the honorary journalistic f ra- I .ternity. He is unmarried. train on the Toemans mill yesterday. The lad was going from school to his home shortly before noon, and was caught at a street crossing by the log trucks. Both arms and one leg were broken, besides injuries about the head. The accident occurred when the boy started over the crossing as a log truck was being bumped down the switch to the main line. CAMAS. IMPROVES STREETS Block of Sidewalk Completed' and Grading Is Tnder Way. CAMAS, Wash., Jan. 13. (Special.) Improvement of Third street has been taken up again. Contractor Claud ICnapp has about 15 men at work, and another block of sidewalk was com pleted within the past few days. The crew is engaged in grading the upper end of the street, but there are several more blocks of concrete walk to be built, and it is the desire of the City Council that the walks be laid as quickly as possible, being more essen tial than the graded streets. Fourth street pavement will com mence as soon as the weather can be depended on. Catch-basins and other preliminary work is to be done in the immediate future. Contractor Welton's crew of men are now in Portland, but will return here at the first sign of re newed activity. STRIKER SENTT0 PRISON Seattle Longshoreman Sentenced for Assault on Outsider. SEATTLE, Jan. 13. John Vander berg, a striking longshoreman, conf vlcted of assaulting Charles Miller, an outsider, who happened to be on the waterfront during the strike several months ago, was sentenced today to one to ten years In the State Pen itentiary. In passing sentence Superior Judge Tallman said: "There might be some sympathy with you if the attack had been made by one of the men taking the piace of union men, but the fact that this as sault was made on an lnno.snt party who had no interest whatever in the trouble between the longshoremen and the nonunion men makes it deserving of the severest punishment." BAKER WOMAN IS DEAD Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Chambers Among Early Settlers. BAKER, Or.,' Jan. 13. (Special.) Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Chambers, who crossed the plains from Ohio in 1862 with her husband, died recently here. They were among the first settlers In the Powder River country. Mrs. Chamber's grandfather was an aide to General Washington, her father fought in the War of 1812 and her brother saw service in the Civil War. Mr. Chambers died four years ago. "Three children survive Edgar E. Chambers, of Baker; Mrs. James Cavin, of Baker, and Mrs. J. F. Phy, of La Grande. Midyear College Entry Arranged. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallis, Jan. 13. (Special.) Recog nizing the fact that many of the high schools of the state now have graduat ing classes at the end of the first semester as well as at the regular June commencement, arrangements have been made at the Oregon Agricultural College whereby high school students may enter at the beginning of the sec ond semester. Under the new plans, the class schedule has been arranged to accommodate a large number of enter ing students each year at midterm and first semester courses will be repeated for students who enter at this time. Tree Kills Timber Faller. CHEHALIS, Wash., Jan. 13. (Spe cial.) Joe Bonar, a timber faller in the P. and E. camp of the South Bend Mills & Timber Company, was killed by a tree while working in the woods. Bonar was 46 years old. and had worked in various camps in Western Lewis County. He was known familiarly by the nickname of Joe Bosko. An. effort is being mad to find his relations. ' - i t V i ' - ' : r - - 1 ii i Jr , - it x -v" ; it l 1, v ",4& I I t ' ' ' T OLYffIA ACTS Ofl VETOES TOMORROW Washington Legislature Ex pected to Approve All bik Possibly One. COURT PROCEDURE IS ISSUE House Bill 246 of 1915 Session May Be Passed Over Governor's Veto, as Supreme Court Justice Crges Its Adoption. OLTMPIA, Wash., Jan. 13. (Special.) Bills vetoed by Governor Lister after adjournment of the 1915. session will be a special order of business Monday afternoon. It is probable that the vetoes will be sustained, with the pos sible exception of House bill 246. which amends the code of court procedure in the matter of extending time for re opening Judgments and in handling ap peals. Governor Lister disapproved of the bill on the ground that it was largely a duplication of existing laws. Within the last few days George E. Morris, Justice of the State Supreme Court, has called the attention of House mem bers to the bill as one that should be passed, notwithstanding the veto. He says it is a necessary judicial regula tion, and lawyers in the House are now giving the matter closer consideration. Action Is In Doubt. Whether enough support can he drawn to a bill dealing entirely with technical procedure to overcome the Governor's disapproval has not. de veloped. Senate records today were made to show that the Senate did not officially adjourn Friday for longer than 72 hours, the constitutional limit. In the meantime Attorney-General Tanner has held that a fraction of a day does not count as excess time. In an official communication re ceived by Governor Lister today. Sec retary of the Treasury McAdoo re quested that all state legislation to fa cilitate the operation of Federal land banks under the farm-loan act be at tended to at this session. The object of the request is to make farm-loan bonds legal investments for trustees and guardians, and for savings banks and insurance companies, as a means of enlarging the market for the bonds and farm mortgages. Attorney-General Advised. Governor Lister immediately trans mitted the request to Attorney-General Tanner, with a request that whatever state legislation is necessary along the lines suggested be prepared for sub mission to the present session. ARGUMENTIS FOREGONE ATTORXEV.GEKERAL IXABI.E TO LEAVE SALEM NOW. Presentation of Welfare Commission Case In Supreme Court Is Left to Harvard Profesaor. SALEM, Or.. Jan. 13. (Special.) After repeated telegrams from Wash ington urging him to be at the National capital by January 16 to argue the O'Hara cases involving the constitution, ality of the act creating the Industrial Welfare Commission. Attorney-General Brown has practically decided not to make the trip, but will leave the argu ments of the cases up to Professor Frankfurter, of Harvard University, if that instructor will consent. The Attorney-General did not reach the decision to remain, however, until after he had been waited on by a ma jority of the Senators and Representa tives left at the Capitol today. They pointed out that numerous legal points will arise In regard to pending legislation' ana mat to leave at mis time would be derogatory to the progress- of legislation. The Attorney-General has In hla of fice data on which to base 20 or 80 bills which iegislators have asked that he frame. Among these bills are the rural credits measure and the bill mak ing effective certain provisions of the 6 per cent limitation amendment. The Attorney-General telegraphed to day to Professor Frankfurter and urged him to reargue the cases. Mr. Brown considers his appearance in Washing ton not quite so Important at this time, as the cases are up for reargument only. Roseburg Bank Elects Officers. ROSEBURG, Or., Jan. 13. (Special.) The annual meetings of the Roseburg National and Douglas National banks were held here this week. The Douglas National Bank re-elected its former board of directors as follows: J. H. Corns Peel Right Off With "Gets-It" 2 Drops, and the Corn Is a "Goner!" When you've got to walk on the sides of your shoe to get away from those awful corn-pains, there's only one cor- Use Geta-It' Tonr Corns Wont Swell in Water. Beside. They'll Shrivel, Loosen and Feel Ofl I mon-sense thing to do. Put 2 or 3 drops of "Gets-It" on the corn right away. Pain and Inflammation will disappear, the corn will begin to shrivel from that instant then it loosens and falls right off. There's no other corn-remover In the world that acte like "Gets-It." No new discovery has been made in corn-remov ers since "Gets-It" was born. Don't forget that fact. "Gets-It" does away forever with the use of salves that irri tate, bandages that make a bundle of your toe, plasters that half do the work. knives and sclseors that draw blood. Use "Gets-It" no more digging or cut ting. "Gets-It" Is sold everywhere, 25c a bottle, or sent on receipt of price by E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago, 111. Sold in Portland at all stores of The Owl Drug Co. Booth, E. L. Parrott, J. C. Campbell. R. A. Booth, H. Wollenberg. Joseph Mi- celll and H. Stapleton. J. H. Booth was elected president, E. L. Parrott vice- president, H. H. Stapleton cashier and H. C. Slocum assistant cashier. Direc tors elected by the Roseburg National Bank were A. C. Marsters, J. F. Barker, J. O. Newland, I. Abraham, S. C. Bar trum, C. W. Park and W. T. Wright. A. C. Marsters was elected president, J. F. Barker and J. O. Newland vice-presidents. W. T. Wright cashier, D. S. Hou ser and Grace Clayton assistant cash iers. OREGON CADETS RATE HIGH One at West Point and One at An napolis Near Class Heads. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallis, Jan. 13. (Special.) Infor mation that Oregon men attending West Point and Annapolis are making good was recently received here from Richard Babbitt and Lloyd Harrison, students last year at the Oregon Agri cultural College. Mr. Babbitt was one of 30 students selected out of a class of 236 at West Pointi to be exempted from final examinations. Lloyd Harrison, a freshman at the Oregon Agricultural College last year, attending the Naval Academy at An napolis this year, has been doing a grade of work which has placed him among the first ten in scholarship in his class and also is exempted from final examinations. BELGIAN TO BE ADMITTED Son of Mrs. Ladere Dies In Canada on Way to Washington. TACOMA. Wash.. Jan. 13. (Special.) Immigration officials will allow Mrs. Eliza Ladere to enter this country from Canada to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Ferdinand Hayet, of South Prairie. Mrs. Ladere and her son, refugees from Belgium to Nova Scotia, started West from there a few days ago' for South Prairie. At Em field, B. C, the son left the train and could not be found. Mrs. Ladere being unaccustomed to the ways of the coun try proceeded to Vancouver alone, where she was cared for by the Strangers' Aid as her son carried all the money and both tickets. Word reached immigration officials here today that Ladere died in Ernf ield. Mrs. Ladere will learn of his death when she arrives here. RURAL SCHOOL WEEK SET Normal Students Visit Instructors In Polk and Yamhill. OREGON NORMAL SCHOOL, Mon mouth, Jan. 13. (Special.) Complete plans were announced this week for the rural school week to be held by the Normal School commencing Monday of the second school week in February and ending Friday night. M. S. Pittman, head of the rural in struction department, has scheduled squads of his students to visit schools In Polk and Yamhill counties on each of the five days. Each student will be required to write down complete ob servations made of the manner in which the pupils were taught and the disci pline and general conduct of the school- 135 SCHOOLS TO COMPETE Clackamas League Plans Contests of Many Kinds in Spring." OREGON CITY. Or.. Jan. 13. (Spe cial.) The reorganized Clackamas County School League plans a busy Spring season and is arranging con tests in which all of the 135 schools in the county will be asked to take part. In order to promote Interest In ehort- If (TT7TT7 BROADWAY AT STARK STREET W 1 it . lVlill FOUR DAYS ONLY MAIN hn illi L1 . BEGINNING TODAY II- 21 I f t iENftf B. WALTIAll t (Famous in "The Birth of a Nation" and Other Great Productions) With MARY CH ART .F.SOTV n 4 f.,, J . ..Vfc Henry B.Walthall awl Mary1 Charleson U t the TroiTAM'T if s. Ji vU.jM.In U 1 ' fir'- 1 Of s : 4 .4 H;.' . ST lib - ; Copyright IIart The Men's Store for Quality and Service story writing, debating, essay writing, oratory and athletics. Schools may enter any or all of these events. The question for the school league debates will be, "Resolved, That the United States should set an example for universal peace by ceasing to en large its Navy and Army." Original short stories and essays are to contain not less than 300 words in the grammar school contests and not more than 600 in the high school division. INVENTION SAVES EGGS 8,000,000 Salmon Eggs to Bo Taken This Season on Coos River. MARSHFTELD, Or., Jan. 13. (Spe cial.) More salmon eggs will be taken at the South Coos River Hatchery this season than ever before in the history of the establishment, and the estimate today was placed at 8.000.000 by Frank W. Smith, superintendent, who has been head of the hatchery for more than 10 years. The unusual large "take" is due to an arrangement of ponds Invented by - .:. . '.fV l77 5r- "ir - -- .rff......1 r."Aj??yu " . .. l ' 1 -T I . U We hav just new broad-brim English Cloth Hats. They're all the rage. "Come in and get you one tomor row. Several beautiful patterns to select from. They're $3. Sam'l Rosenblatt & Co. Schaflner &Mang Mr. Smith for saving the salmon, whereas in former years many salmon were released from the reser-e pond, which was In the channel of the river, and In time of freshets escaped when the racks were washed away. The eggs at the hatchery are ready for hatching, and will be put into the troughs next week. There remain 2500 salmon, yet to spawn, and these are expected to be "ripe" within an other two weeks. RATE REDUCTION DEFERRED Klamath Falls Men to Press Matter With Southern Pacific. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Jan. 13. (Special.) The expected reduction in freight rates between. San Francisco and other California points and this city, scheduled to take effect the first of this month, will not go into effect now until February 4, according to word received today from Bishop & Bahler, the San Francisco rate attor neys retained by the Klamath Falls business men to forward this matter. The case was brought before the A Super Drama of a Hidden Menace Bringing Up Father Comedy Broadway Symphony Orchestra Matinees 10 Evenings, Sundays, Holidays 15 Children 5 Here You Are This young fellow in the picture is wearing one of HART SCHAFFNER & MARX Varsity Fifty Five Suits This is one of the models that takes with the young , fellows; it's a semi-fitting model in a three-button, one or two-button effect, with soft roll collar. He's carrying a Varsity Six Hundred Overcoat over his arm, one 01 the models young men prefer. You'll find many other models in different variations here to select from. They're Priced $20 to $40 New English Cloth Hats Just In received a biff shipment of the Southeast Corner Fifth and Alder California Railroad Commission, and a reduction of approximately 40 per cent ordered. The Southern Pacific de clare they are "giving consideration" to a drop of from $1.61 to $l.il on first class freight between San Francisco and Klamath Falls, and a correspond ing reduction in the other classes. Thi3 reduction is not considered sufficient by the attorneys. CUT RATES MAZDA AND TUNG STEN LAMP 25c lO to 4).Wul( Same Lamp Others eu lor z i c 40-WATT MTRO GKN LA MI', for resi-f- Uence use OvJCL o Kxtra fharpp for Fronted Lamps. II. W. MAXNIXG LIGHT ING & SUPPLY t o. H aul 63 Vi Sixth Street. Phone Broadway 311. Mi if ! V: ? II ir is." Esther Sundquist Violin SOUL