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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.
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KATHERIXE CIJEY, WHO STARS fS "THE THIHTEBNTH C II A IK," COM
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TT ATHERINB GREY, who will be
v seen as nosalie i.a Orange In
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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.
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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
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.