THE SUNDAY OEEGOMAX, PORTLAND, DIXE3IBER 28, 1919. 1 N M V The Boys' Holiday Special" Here's what I shall offer for the boys this Holiday week: 395 Boys' Knicker Suits 103 Child's Overcoats Regularly priced $10, $12.50, $13.50. $9.85 Every garment right out of my regular stock ! The suits are for boys of 6 to 18 years; the overcoats for boys of 3 to 9 years ! Take ad vantage; garments like these will be higher in price next season. P I El en Selling MbrrisonStreet at FburiH WOUNDED VETERAN HOME STEVE TRASH RETURNS FROM SIBIiRI.V TO ABERDEEN. Discharged Soldlrr Relates Expe riences in Flgliting Reds. Gold Specimens Obtained. ABERDEEN, Wash., Dec. 27. (Spe cial.) Steve Trask, who enlisted here In 1916. returned to Aberdeen last week after an absenco of three years. Trask went through two campaigns In Siberia and in the last action of his company against the bolshevik! was wounded so severely that he suffered the amputation, of his left leg. Trask' a parents live near Elma. Trask declared that the Japanese and Americans were not on cordial terms. "Last winter I was at Habarosk," said Trask. "The weather was pretty severe. Some 500 Cossacks had de serted and surrendered to us. My company was detailed to guard them and it was not long before we were doin a 52-hour guard mount. "We were called out for interior duty in May. going by train to Spasko, 900 miles into the wilds. We were stationed at Spasko three weeks when we were called to go to the aid of two other companies. In this expe dition I was wounded. 1 spent five months In the hospital at Spasko. Later I was removed to Vladivostok and embarked on the United States transport Sheridan for San Krancisco. About ten other wounded men were on board, as were the bodies of sev eral Americans who had been killed or died of disease. Trask showed specimens of Russian gold picked up, he says, from running streams in Siberia. He predicted a big gold rusli to the new north. be employed in giving instruction on any subject to pupils below the ninth grade. That foreign languages may be taught as languages in the ninth and higher grades. Validity of the law was attacked by the Nebraska district of the Evan gelical Lutheran synod of Missouri, Ohio and other states and by St. Francis' Catholic church of South Omaha, whose attorneys charged, among other things, that its opera tion would interfere with religious liberty. The court also held that the act does not prohibit teaching of moral and religious matters in languages other than English. U. S. ADMIRAL DECORATED fcjnpcror of Japan Gives FuIIam Order of Rising Sun. SAX DTEG-O. Cal., Dec. 27. Rear- Admiral Wiiliam F. Fullam. retired, who commanded the ( allied naval forces on the Pacific coast during the war, has been decorated by the em peror of Japan with the order of the rising sun. The fact that he had been decorated by the Japanese emperor became known Friday with the receipt by Admiral Fullam of the decoration from the Japanese ambassador at Washington. The decoration, the ambassador states, is in recognition of Admiral Fullam's work as commander of the allied naval forces on the Pacific dur ing the war and as a token of the friendship and co-operation that pre vailed between the American and Japanese navies. AGGIES GET NEXT SESSION SIGMA ALPHA EPSILOX TO EX TEND ACTIVITIES. BANKER TO BE ACCUSED Converting and Kmbczzling Vunds WW Bo Charged. LT.VCOLX. Neb.. Dec. 27. K. A. Ridings of Minneapolis. Minn., presi dent of the closed State Bank of llalsey, who reached here FTiday from Minnesota, left tonight in charge of County Attorney Reisncr for Thed ford, county seat of Thomas county. The county attorney said before leav ing, he would, on arriving at Thed ford. file an Information against Hidings charging him with convert ing and embezzling the bank's funds. Mr. Hidings, he said, would submit to arrest and proffer a bond of $25,000 which he obtained before leaving Minneapolis. The county attorney- said he had consented to this arrange ment and would offer no objection to the Telease of the banker on bond. Cashier E. N. Dion, who will appear as a witness, also left for Thedford. FLASKS TO BE CARRIED San 1 i ancisco Hip" New to Year's "Sliwl T"roni Eve. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 27. "San Francisco is going to shoot from the hip," on New Year's eve. Dealers reported Friday the sale of more than 5000 flasks during the holi day season to date. The only Infer ence, one dealer said, is that convivial San Franciscans are not going to weight themselves down with heavy bottles from the home stock on the last night of the year, but are going to "wear" the flasks, most of which are-finished in the silver scroll design. Meeting at Pullman Plans to Or ganize Building Corporation in British Columbia. WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE, Pullman, Dec. 27. (Special.) Oregon Agricultural college was selected as the college to hold the next biennial province convention of Province Lam da of Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fra ternity at the closing session of the province convention held at the lo cal chapter this week. More than 100 delegates were pres ent from the chapter at Oregon Agri cultural college, the Universities of Oregon, Washington and Idaho and the state colleges of Montana and Washington. Although the national fraternity of Sigma Alpha Epsilon now has chap ters in 93 colleges, the province con vention went on record as favoring the University of British Columbia as a field for extension. Other schools acted upon favorably were Occidental college of Los Angeles, Whitman col lege and the University of Montana. Plans for the organization of a province building corporation were laid, which will have complete charge of all chapter house construction. manufacture of "national shoes" were published. It appears certain manu facturers offered to produce shoes just as cheaply as the government if they were supplied with cheap leath er. The government, finding that leather could be bought in Spain and brought to France for 10 francs per kilogram, as compared with the French price of 20 francs, gave li censes for the Importation. But It was noticed no cheap shoes made their appearance and the price of shoes increased. Thirty-five search warrants were issued to find what use had been made of the imported leather. The investigation shows that several ho'd- ers of permits to import this leather sold It through Intermediaries. Some had exported it to Mayence and Con stantinople. Others sold theirs In France at speculative prices. SHOE SCANDAL IS BARED Leather Imported to Cut Prices Is Sold Through Intermediaries. PARIS. Dec. 27. Another Bcandal connected with manufactures during the war came to light Friday when the result of an Investigation into the JAMAICA CARMEN STRIKE Canadian Company Operates at Heavy Loss. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Dec. 27. The street railway employes have struck for higher pay. A Canadian company which operates the cars is suffering heavy loss. Under the terms of the franchise the government will have the power to take over the affairs of the company if service Is not resumed in 48 hours. The marine pilots have refused to bring In or take out vessels unless their fees tor creased. this service Steamer Sajls With Rum. BOSTON, Dec. 27. Two hundred barrels of New England rum were In cluded In the cargo of the American steamer Lake Ellsbury, which left here Friday for Smyrna and Constan tinople. The Lake Ellsbury's depar ture Inaugurated a new service be tween this port and Roumanian and Black Sea porta. CLOCKS TO BE SET AHEAD French Cabinet Takes Action to Conserve Euel. PARIS. Dec. 27. The cabinet met Friday and approved the bill pro viding for the turning ahead of the clocks one hour beginning February 1 as a fuel conservation measure. Louis Klotz, minister of finance, met with the cabinet and presented questions relating to the financial sit uation, which, it was decided, would be discussed further at a meeting next Monday. WOMAN HELD SMUGGLER C S. Agents Arrest Mrs. Thomas Vint at San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 27. Mrs. Thomas Vint, young bride of a Hong kong business man. who arrived here from Seattle several days ago after coming Xfi the United States from the far east, was arrested here Friday by a special agent of the treasury department on a charge of smuggling. It is claimed by the gov ernment that Mrs. Vint brought from China eight aigrette plumes valued at thousands of dollars. The government will produce at Mrs. Vint's preliminary hearing, set for today,, two sport skirts, in the seams of which, it is alleged, she had sewed the plumes. 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