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13 HALIFAX REPORT Ifl ACTRESS TO BE SEEN THIS WEEK HAS WIDE EXPERIENCE Katherine Grey, Who Made Her Debut With Augustin Daly, Also Played With Charles Frohman, Charles Coghlan, Richard Mansfield and Goodwin. Manager C. A. Dunham Com- pany Tells of Disaster. NARROW ESCAPE SURPRISE tietter to Home Concern Reaches XI. - K. Lead, Portland Representa tiT, Descriptive of Horror In Wake of Explosion. THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAXD, DECE3IBER 30, 1917, .First-hand Information of the Hall fax disaster and the work, of rescue following- the explosion Is contained In a letter from R. F. Eager, manager of the Halifax branch of the C. A. Dun ham Company, Limited, to the home office of the company in Marsnaiitown, la-, and recently received here in copy by EL JC Lead, manager of the Portland branch. The letter, describing the experiences of Mr. Baser and his partner, Mr. Coombs, follows. "We telegraphed you yesterday In re Bly to your very kind telegram. Both Coombs and myself and our wives are not only alive but uninjured. Our offi ces and homes are wrecked but fortu nately not to such an extent as to make them dangerous for occupation, as are eo many homes outside the a-.uaiiy ae troved area. "Mr. Coombs had a rather wonderful experience, being on the ferry boat at the time and actually witnessed the ex plosion. The steamer was very nearly destroyed, but being on the upper deck he escaped the flying glass that muti lated the occupants of the cabins. The writer was in the postoffice and every one about him, practically without ex ccption, was cut, some cf them eerl ously. "Everywhere about us were blood stained people, most of them, fortu nately, not dangerously wounded, but all more or less scarred for life and some with impaired eyesight. At that time we did not lajiow what bad hap pened and it was an hour later before we knew that the xvortu bna naa prac tically been destroyed. "Ambulance and resoue work engaged my attention for the rest of the day. Having had some considerable experi ence in this work, I was a little better fitted out with nerves than most, but I can tell you frankly that I never ex pected to see anything like it and hope never to see so much suffering again. The physical suffering was small as compared to the mental. Fancy a mother having to stand by and watch the ruins of her home burning and four of her children with it, and yet that is exactly one instance of what happened. "The newspapers have so far failed to describe the disaster adequately. The district affected must be seen and with some previous knowledge of what it was to appreciate properly what hap pened. Ocean liners, or what la left of them, are high and dry from the tide wave. Where large piers stood, there Is open water. Pieces of the ship, heavier than a man could lift, were blown about two miles away and most of these pieces apparently were red hot. The exodus of people from the Korth End, on the alarm that a second explosion was likely to occur, was something too heartrending for words Old people, too feeble to walk, were be ing; supported by the younger, who were further burdened with household goods, to make them as comfortable as possible in the open. There were in fants in arms, some . of them -only a' few days old, mostly in the arms of men, and bedrtdden people on trucks or being carried, and this crowd being vomited forth from every street that opened onto the common or citadel. "The relief committees did heroic work and though everyone suffered from exposure, I thin practically everyone was housed before night somewhere or other. "Picture to yourself this - condition and Imagine what things were the day ' after, with a blizzard upon us. Car lines were out of comn ission 70 pas senger cars, 20 to 30 locomotives and about 600 freight cars totally destroyed and crowds of people anxious to leave the city." SCHOOL 45 CELEBRATES FINE HOLIDAY ENTERTAINMENT WELL ATTENDED. Honor Won In Various County Con tests Recounted by Superintendent at Festive Gathering. The Christmas entertainment at Dis trict 45 School on Friday evening be fore the holidays was one of the most Interesting given since the school was established in its new quarters. There was a large attendance and the pro gramme, to which each room con tributed, was one of excellence through out. Mr. Alderson, County Superintendent, (poke briefly of the honors that District 45 has won in the various county con tests the past two years, and said that at many of the schools of the county where preparations are in progress for competitive work of any kind the slogan Is "Beat District 45." Miss Joyce, representing the Oregon Agricultural College in the extension work that is being done throughout the state, pave a talk on what the boys and girls are doing at many of the schools and the good they are deriving therefrom. Refreshments were served by the Parent-Teacher Association and the Red Cross workers were busy rounding up new members for that organization. BONUS IS GIVEN EMPLOYES Log Cabin Company Distributes Checks at Annual Dinner. The Log Cabin Baking Company, at the annual banquet for the employes Christmas eve, introduced the pleasant surprise of a bonus which was to be distributed to its employes on the basis of the number pf years in service, the wages earned and the importance of the position held. Employes will re ceive all the way from. $10 to $175 each. Without expecting anything other than the annual banquet in the Log Cabin assembly hall, the employes gathered, and at each place was a letter announcing the Sonus, signed by H. F. Kittman, manager, and inclosing a check. Special prizes were given for the best vaudeville stunts prepared by em ployes. The first prize of $5 went to C. F- Hemming for his clever Scotch characterizations. The wrapping girls, In a dialogue on the "High Cost of Living" were given second prize and Mr. Wise third. - To show their appreciation of the management's generosity in declaring the bonus, which is to be an annual Institution, the employes took up a col lection among themselves, and Christ mas morning found a handsome leather rocker and tw reading lamps, respect-4 lvely, under the Christmas trees of the three department heads. v r Fa - , x r4 .' : A ...'.:' : ; -: I - , w - , - ' H V::':- ' ' '' :':V':' ;: - : t ' . " ' if CA f S " . - -v'J -:y &r y : & -''y-y- ., -,. ' -. '.-' . v : : ': ' i . - - vr I L. r I KATHERIXE CIJEY, WHO STARS fS "THE THIHTEBNTH C II A IK," COM INO TO HKILIC THLATEB TUIS WE EK. TT ATHERINB GREY, who will be v seen as nosalie i.a Orange In -The Thirteenth Chair." at the Heilig Theater for the three nights beginning Thursday, January 10, has had a most interesting, theatrical ca reer. . Born In San Francisco, while in her teens she made her debut In a company of Augustin Daly. It was the custom in those days of taking the five or six principals from New York and filling the remainder of the cast on the Coast, thus avoiding the cost of railroading. She displayed such marked ability that Mr. Daly took he to New xork. where she appeared In The Golden Widow" and "A Priceless Par agon" at Daly's Theater. Charles f rohman borrowed her for his productions of "Jane" and "All the Comforts of Home," after which she was selected to create the role of Helen Berry in James A. Heme's pro duction of "Shore Acres" at Miner's Fifth-Avenue Theater. She later ap peared for several seasons with Rich ard Mansfield In "Napoleon," "Arms and the Man," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" ITALIAN WAR PHOTOGRAPHS TO BE SHOWN AT HEILIG THEATER Films of Battles in Mountains and Plains and Depicting Difficulties Under Which Latins labored Will Be Exhibited Fo".r Days, Beginning Jan. 2. vv.ll! H )r'J$& , - 6 : . I A sf I I i to" w i v w N'umerous war films, official and un official, have been exhibited in this city within the last year; yet among these the first pictures from the Italian battle front that will be shown for four days at the Heilig Theater, beginning Wednesday night, January 2, stand out in many respects as extraordinary, it is said. The pictures were taken under the supervision of the Italian govern ment and as achievements of photog raphy, if for nothing else, are remar able. For a great part of them the telephoto lens was employed, carrying the observer from a distant point into the thick of the action. These pictures introduce a new field, or rather a new field of war. They explain why the seeming stalemate for so many months on the Italian front was not stalemate at all, but was a season of stupendous effort. The Alpine war in the clouds, on ski and in white uniforms with faces masked, is quite unlike anything' which has been seen here before, " to say nothing of the transportation of men, food, munitions and guns in baskets by means of aerial rope ways over wide ehaama thousands hi Xf - '- V . ' i 4- i and "The Parisian Romance" and toured the country in support of Charles Coghlan in "The Royal Box." She created the roles of Loey Tslng in "The First Born," a drama in which all the characters were Chinese, and Sophia in "The Gay Lord Quel." During successive seasons she played With Nat Goodwin in "When We' Were Twenty-pne," and with Arnold Daly in "You Never Can Tell." She played the title role in "Every woman" under the direction of Henry W. Savage for a season, and then cre ated roles in New York productions which were more or less successful. 6h has been a stock star in Boston, Chicago and Denver and appeared in Australia under the management of J. E. Williamson. It Is this wealth of theatrical expert' ence that Miss Grey brings to the char acter of Rosalie La Grange, the old Irish charlatan, who accepts small fees for untrue manifestations in order to rear her daughter as a lady, and away from her own mean surroundings, that convinces us that William Harris, Jr., has made a wise selection for the part. of feet in depth. One picture shows a six-inch gun on a sledge being dragged to the highest peak of a mountain chain with three long hawsers in the hands of several hundred soldiers. The second part of the picture is dev6ted to the battle of Goritza and shows the Italian entry into the city. The third part is in the Adriatic, prin cipally at Venice, depicting the air service and anti-submarine campaign ISO Classified In Cowlitz County. KELSO, Wash., Dec. 29. (Special.) The Cowlitz County exemption board and the office of County Auditor OlBon have been busy the past ten days with the mailing and listing of question naires. More than half of the ques tionnaires have been mailed out and are being returned rapidly. Up to Thursday the county exemption' board had classi fied 130 of the registered men. Most of these went into class 4, as the first questionnaires returned were largely from men who had been granted ex emption on the first call for depend ency or on occupational grounds. l 1 ) 7-f I I r . fir u- - 4 . ' ; " ' Sm&h mm imM" !l,' Good TtHngs In The Market THE stores and markets report hav ing done a phenomenally good Christmas business. One retail dealer had the manly courage to declare that, though he him self bad once been numbered In the enemy's camp, the splendid trade the city enjoyed was due to prohibition, for the cash went directly into the hands of the women, with no check cashing middleman intervening. And is it permissible to suggest that coupled with prohibition stands equal suffrage? A few dainty odds and ends, left over from Christmas, may come in for those who exalt the New Year. Salmlrings, olives cut In circles a new finish for salads, apd sandwiches, 25 cents a bottle.. Mushrooms and truffles and with truffle sauce, 60 cents a bottle. French peeled chestnuts in vanilla syrup, bottles 75 cents and $1.60 a choice Importation from France. Orange Jelly from Southern Califor nia, 15, 20 and 30 cents a glass. Maple sugar, new stock, 40 cents a pound. ' Milk chocolate, with toasted almonds, a new arrival from Switzerland which successfully ran the blockade, E cents a cake. Fresh Brazil and mixed nuts, 20 and 25 cents a pound. - Homemade grape jelly, 10 cents a glass. Hominy, 16 cents a quart. t ' The problem of obtaining grain for feeding poultry is liable to make fowls scarce. Hens are quoted 25 and 32 cents a pound, with very few steps between. Roasting Spring chickens, 30 and 32 cents a pound; broilers, 35 cents. Turkeys, i0 cents; capons, 42 cents a pound. China pheasants, f2.50 each; squabs, 50 cents each. Best butter, CO cents a pound; $1.05 a roll. - Good table butter, 50, 63 and 65 cents a pound; 98 cents a roll. Fresh ranch butter, 80 cents a roll. Best eggs, 65 cents a dozen. "Absolutely fresh," 68 cents; fresh ranch and pullets' . eggs, 55 cents a dozen. - - Good storage eggs, 48 cents a dozen. ... Fish, owing to the oontinued rain and high water, (a not as plentiful as could be desired. Columbia River smelt is now coming in sufficient quantity to reduce the price to 16 and 20 cents a pound. The fish seem to be of unusually large size this season. . Silverside and steelhead salmon, 30 cents a pound; the same price is asked for halibut. Fresh mackerel, 14 and 20 cents a pound. Sand-dabs. 11 and 15 cents a pound. Storage black cod, 10 and 12 cents; whole or half fish, sliced, 16 cents a pound. Kingfish, 20 cents a pound. Dressed flounders, soles, perch. Linn cod. silver smelt and fillet of carp, 15 cents a pound. Carp, B and 6 cents a pound. Lobsters, 40 cents a pound; crabs, 20, 25 and 30 cents each. Butter clams, 25 cents a pint. Olympia oysters, 65 cents; Eastern, 50 cents a pint. The Olympia variety are mostly used for cocktails. Salmon eggs, 10 cents a string. In the vegetable market: Burbank potatoes, raised on high ground, : $1.65 a sack; five pounds, 10 cents; 15 pounds for a quarter. Artichokes, two for 15 and two for 25 cents. Sweet potatoes, Including the Nancy Hall variety, 6 cents a pound; six pounds for a quarter. Dried onlani, four pounds, 16 cents. Tellow rutabagas, four pounds, 10 cents grpwn- in Bapd. on" Columbia Slough. Cucumbers, 10 and 20 pent each. mm Sweet bell peppers, 20 cents a pound. Tomatoes are very scarce and 10 and 12 oents a pound Is asked for them. Cauliflower, 10 to 25 cents a head. Brussels sprouts, 15 cents a pound. Cabbage, 3 cents; spinach, fi cents a pound. Celery root, 5 cents eaoh: three for 10 cents. Celery, 10 cents a bunch. Lettuce heads, 6 and 10 cents each, two for 15 cents. Pumpkins and Hubbard squash, 2 and 8 cents a pound. Vegetable oyster and watercress, S cents a bunch. ' in the fruit market: Alligator pears, 60 cents each. Eastern cranberries, 25 cents a quart; other stock,' 20 cents a pound. Bananas, 25, 30 and 35 cents a, dozen. Japanese oranges. In boxes, $1.60; tangerines, 20 cents a dozen. Navel oranges, 40, 50 and 60 cents a dozen; lemons, 20 to 60 cents. Malaga and Tokay grapes In cork dust, 30 and 85 cents a pound. Eastern black, walnuts, 15 cents a pound. Beauty Boso and De Anjou pears, 50 cents a dozen; Winter Nellls, 40 cents. Florida grapefruit, 10, 15 and 20 cents each;. California, three for 10 cents. Imported Japanese oranges, 80 and 35 eents a dozen. e. The last of ground cherries for .this season, 20 cents a pound. It is calculated, that the. apple crop Is now all on the market. Good ' household fruit Winter Ba nana, Rome Beauty, Red-cheeked and Golden Ortley, $1.75 a box. Newtown and Jonathan, $1.50 a box. Spitzenberg, $2 a box; 25 cents a dozen. Cooking apples, 75 cents a box; 6 cents a dozen. - ' Hood River Spitzenberg, $1.75 a box; 20 cents a dozen good. Baskets of four pounds, for chil dren's lunches, 10 cents good eating apples. . Wlnesap, small, 10 centa. a dozen; three dozen for a quarter. London evening papers are delivered a few hours after publication by avia tors to the men on the French front. Appendicitis U primarily due to th pol lons formed by decaying food in tha boweli. It li a disease caused by improper and in sufficient bowel elimination. - Many peo ple have only a small passage In the cen ter of the bowels while the aides are clogged with, old, stale, fermenting matter. They may have a bowel movement every day but It Ip not a complete movement, and the old stale matter stays la the system to ferment and cause trouble. Besides appen dicitis such unclean bowels cause head aches, stomach trouble and 90 per cent of all other sickness. The old foul matter stick ing to the sides of the bowels often stays in for months, poisoning the body and caus ing that listless, tired feeling known as ."auto Intoxication." HOW TO AVOID TROUBLE. The way to avoid sickness and to keep feeling full of ambition is to watch your bowels. Just as you keep the outside of your body clean, you should also KEEP THE INSIDE CLEAN. It is even more Important to keep the bowels clean than it is to keep your body washed, because the millions of pores in the 30 feet of bowels quickly, ab sorb poisons generated by decaying food left carelessly in the bowels. Don't allow the old,- fermenting, filthy stuff to stay in your bowels for weeks, but GET IT OUT and keep it out. Remember, (11 thy bowels are the cause of most sickness no stomach, liver or any other organ can do U work "i iTinilii in ifi i nT ninW-"'"' A MELLOW Here's When 1917 says hello to 1918, what will it be? . RAINIER SPECIAL, of course. Mellow as a "Honey Dew," and as satis fying as a home run with the bases full. The only beverage to finish the old year on and start the new year with. Made by the exclusive Rainier Process. No other beverage like it none so good. Insure yourself the genuine by asking for RAINIER SPECIAL. Have it with and between meals. Order a case for home. 10c BOTTLES Distributed in Portland and the State of Oregon by LANG & COMPANY WHOLESALE GROCERS Phones Broadway 4273, A 6061 RAINIER PRODUCTS CO. SEATTLE, WASH. Manufacturer of Rainier, the Wonder BeVerage; Malt Rainier, a Health Tonic; Rainier Special, a Mellow Bev erage, and Syro, a Table Syrup. MOOSE WILL DEOIGATE SERVICES TO 11 H HELD AT TEMPLE WEDNESDAY EVENING. Prominent Membera of Order Will Speak and Forty Watting Candi date Be Initiated. Portland Lodge, No. 291, Loyal Order of Moose, will formally dedicate its nw temple at Fourth and Alder streets next Wednesday evening. A. C. Meek, of Eugene, state expense dictator of the order, will speak at the dedicatory ex ercises. The dedication will be followed by the initiation of a class of 40 candi dates. Judges Morrow and Gatens, meinbers of the order, will give a his tory of the lodge and will also speak of "Mooseheart," the Mecca of Mooaedom. The Moose band will furnish music, and the members of the lodge will make the most of their first evening in their new temple. In addition to contributing the war assessment of $1, which every Moose in the world is required to pay, the Portland lodge has 75 of its members serving with the colors in France, and the "Ladies of Mooseheart" are busily engaged in knitting. The officers of the Portland lodge are: Allan R. Joy, dictator; Roscoe P. Hurst, vice-dictator; George M. Orton, past dictator; R. TV Byrnes, prelate; George B. Thomas, treasurer, and J. Fred Kennedy, eecretary. . Hood River Students Home. " HOOD RIVER, Or., Dec. 29. (Spe cial.) Twelve students of different Oregon Institutions of higher educa tion are visiting at their homes here. Those from the University of Oregon are Misses Frances Baker, Elizabeth Carson, Helen Guttery, Thurston Lara way, Laurence Hershner and Chaffer Newton. Oregon Agricultural College students, include Misses Frances Cast- with a foul cesspool sending out gases and poisons. Evan if your bowels move slightly each day, that is not enough. There must be an occasional THOROUGH, complete cleansing to rid your system pf all accumu lated, decaying matter. HOW TO CLEAN BOWELS QUICK. The MOST COMPLETE bowel cleanser known is a mixture of buckthorn bark, glycerine and ten other ingredients, put up in ready prepared form under the trade name of Adler-i-ka. This mixture is so powerful a bowel cleanser that It ALWAYS does its work properly and thoroughly. It removes foul and poisonous matter ' which other carthartfc or laxative mixtures are unable to dislodge. It does a COMPLETE job and it works QUICKLY and without the least discomfort or trouble. It is so gentle, that one forgets he has taken it until the THOROUGH evacuation starts. It Is as tonishing the great amount of foul, poisonous matter a SINGLE SPOONFUL of Adler-i-ka draws from the alimentary canal matter lou would never have thought was in your system. Try it right after a natural lv wel movement and notice how much MORE foul matter will be' brought out which was poi soning your system. In slight disorders such as occasional constipation, sour stomach, "gas on the stomach" or sick headache, one spoonful brings relief almost INSTANTLY. Adler-i-ka is the MOST THOROUGH bowel cleanser and antlsepticizer ever offered in ready prepared form. It Is a constant sur- grise to people who have used only ordinary owel and stomach medicines , and the various oils and waters. REPORTS FROM PHYSICIANS, rjir. James Weaver, J-oa, Utah; "J have BEVERAGE to 1918 ner, 'Esther and Myrtle Husbands. Earl Shank and Howard Cooper. Robert Waugh is home from Willamette Uni versity. AUXILIARIES BOARD CALLED Report to Be Made Tomorrow on. War Emergency Council. The War Auxiliaries Central Com mittee, comprising delegates from 21 auxiliaries representing the various Oregon soldiers' and sailors' units, will hold its regular weekly meeting tomor row at 2 o'clock in room 520 Court house. A report will be submitted by the chairman, Mrs. George L. Williams, on the form of organization adopted by the Portland War Emergency Council, particularly with respect to the duties assigned to the committee on war bodies and auxiliaries. In addition to the regular delegates two or three representatives of recently organized auxiliaries will be present at Monday's meeting. In planning for the welfare of the Oregon troops the cen tral committee will have the co-operation of the recently formed organiza tion known as the Fathers of Oregon Soldiers and Sailors. Phone your want ads to The Orego- nian. Main 7070, A 6095. CATARRH is now easily overcome by using an antiseptic oil spray which absorbs and dislodges the hard weblike mucous membrane of throat and nose. Quick relief is always obtained by using tha EIcKenzie Catarrh Spray. The price complete with special atomizer is only $2.00. We pay the postage on this and all other drug orders. Laue-DavisDrugCo. Truss Experts PORTLAND. OREGON found nothing in my BO years' practice to excel Adler-i-ka," Tr. W. A. Line, West Baden, Ind.: "I use Adler-1-ka in my practice and have found nothing to excel it." Dr. F. M. Prettyman, Mallard, Minn.: "I use Adler-i-ka in all bowel cases and have been very successful with it, Some cases require only one dose." Druggist D. Hawks,, Goshen, Ind. : "One of our leading doctors has used Adler-i-ka, In cases of stomach trouble with wonderful success. He has not lost a patient and saved many operations." J. E. Puckett, Gillham, Ark.t "I had bad stomach trouble. After taking Adler-i-ka feel better than for 20 years. Haven't lan guage to express the awful impurities which were eliminated from my system." Cora E. Noblett, Segeeyah, Okla. : "Thanks to Adler-1-ka I can sleep all night now, something I could not do for years' Mrs. L. A. Austin, Ausland, Minn.: "I could not eat a thing, my stomach was so weak. Adler-i-ka made me feel better and am now able to work and gaining." Adler-i-ka fs sold only by the leading druggists in each city. Sold in Portland only by Woodard-CIarke Drug Company, cor. Alder and West Park; Skldmore Drug Company, 151 Third street; A. H. Brown, 08-1 Lombard ; Arnold Drug Company. Sixth and Burn aide ; Beaver Pharmacy, CtfO Umatilla; Janke Drug Com pany, Grand avenue and Hawthorne; Gel man & Bader, XUn Gibbs street; Matthleu Drug Company, 275 Russell street; A, W. Allen, 221 North Sixteenth street.