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named a committee to Investigate the
subject. The committee is composed
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graduate school; Dr. W. P. Boynton,
professor of physics, and Dr. H.. D.
Sheldon, dean of the school of edu
cation. It was decided by the council to
make a distinct effort to increase the
number of graduate courses offered,
particularly In connection with the
summer school. Several of the In
structors In smaller colleges are aim
ing. Dr. Sheldon said, to do graduate
work here this summer. Next year,
in addition to offering more courses,
!t is planned to Increase, the number
of asststantships provided for gradu
ate students, and the graduate coun
cil will recommend that the stipend
for these be increased from $400 to
1500. The assistants' work usually
is grading of papers, assisting in
laboratories and otherwise assisting
the "instructors part time, devoting
the remainder of their time to ad
Two Men, Two Boys and Girl
Run Down by Machines.
LAD IS BADLY INJURED
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Total of 23 Mihnps Reported.
fharRos of Reckless Driving
Placed Against Drivers.
vanced study. Ten new graduate stu
dents are enrolled this term, bring
lng the number up to about 40.
TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX,. PORTLAND. FEBRUARY 1, 1920
III AUTO
ACC DENTS
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Five per.-ons were injured, one,
Robert Ilohmann. 10 years old. of 689
Trnino street, seriously, as the result
of automobile accidents yesterday in
Portland. In all a total of 23 acci
dents were reported to the police up
to 6 o'clock last night.
Harry Sayle, salesman living: at 868
Kast Sixth street, was held on a
charge of reckless driving: by Police
Lieutenant Krvin and Patrolmen Kelly
and Wiles after an accident at Tol
man avenue and Milwaukie street
vexterrlav afternoon, in which his au
tomobile struck and badly injured
vounir Hohmann.
The boy was reported last night
to ho snfferine- from a fracture of
the skull at the. Sellwood hospital
where he was taken by the Ambu
lance Service company.
The lad was riding with a farmer
who was selling produce and he went
Into a store to inquire if they wished
to purchase anything. On the return
to the wagon he stepped from behind
another machine into the path of the
mac-hine driven by Sayle.
Saylc's bail was placed at $200.
Pedestrian Is Injured.
A charge of reckless ' driving was
placed against 1. J. Wattson. 173 East
Twentieth street, a salesman by pro
fession. after he ran onto the side
walk at Nineteenth and Irving streets
and struck Guy H. Wilson, 228 Nine
teenth street, injuring him about the
head.
Mr. Wattson was attempting to
avoid a collision with a machine
driven bv W. H. McVay, 94 East
Kieventh street, at the time, and
swerved his machine onto the side
walk.
Wattson gave 1100 bail. He will
hava a hearing in the municipal court
tomorrow.
l.rd at riay linn Down.
Harry De Franq, 15, of 811 Kerby
otreet was taken to the Emanuel hos
pital with a fracture of the right leg
yesterday Afternoon as the result of
having becli struck by a machine
driven by P. A. Burke, 683 East Ninth
street, in front of the boy's home.
The boy was running to catch a
football which had been kicked to
him by a companion and he ran in
front of the approaching automobile.
Mr. Burke reported that he put on
the brakes in an effort to stop, but
that his machine skidded on the wet
pavement.
Lillian Holland. 9-year-old daugh
ter of G. S. Holland, 159 East Eight
ieth street North, was struck by an
automobile at East Eightieth and
;iisan streets, receiving injuries to
the head. Reports to the police were
that the driver of the machine, which
was given as bearing dealer's license
419E, cut the corner at that place.
Warrant to Be Iaraed.
Mr. Holland said that he would have
a warrant issued for the driver's ar
rest. ... a .
Martin A. Colin. 981 Tale street, ad
his head and face cut and bruised
when his motorcycle was struck by an
automobile driven by Stanley Jagel-j
ski, 101 Monroe street, at the corner
of Mississippi avenue and
street. -.He was treated at the police
.emergency hospital.
John M. Thompson, a grocer, was
arrested on a charge of driving an
automobile while intoxicated at East
Forty-seventh and Division streets
yesterday at 4 o'clock after he was
said to have had an accident at First
and Morrison streets.
According to Motorcycle Patrolman
Sehad, Thompson admitted having had
some cider.
INFLUENZA IS ON WANE
GENERAL SITUATION IX STATE
REPORTED IMPROVED.
Day Passes Without Any Fatalities.
Wallowa Only County De
veloping New Cases.
Reports on . the Influenza situation
throughout the state, received yester
day by State Health Officer Roberg,
indicated great Improvement gener
ally. No deaths occurred either In the
state or the city during the day.
The only county from which a large
number of new cases was reported
was Wallowa. There 71 more cases
developed. In Portland 35 new cases
had been reporieu up "to noon yester
day, making a total of 256 cases, for
the city.
Dr. Roberg Is especially encouraged
over the clearing up of cases In Burns.
The report showed that the victims
were rapidly recovering, few new
cases were developing and no deaths
had occurred' from the disease.
"The Burns situation," said Dr. Ro
berg, "is conclusive evidence that the
infkienza which is breaking out in
the state is of an extremely mild case
The fact that we have had .only 12
deaths from 1800 cases is another In
dication of the mildness of the dis
ease.
"However, the fact that the disease
is in a mild form, should not be rea
son for anyone to ignore the regula
tions now in effect. By continued co
operation of the public with the
health officials I feel confident that
we can clear up the influenza epi
demic within two weeks."
Dr. Roberg expressed keen satis
faction over the manner In which City
Health Officer Parrlsh and his aides
are handling the situation in Port
land.
SCOUTS TO GET CHIEF
JAMES E. WEST TO ARRIVE IX
PORTLAXD TUESDAY.
Banquet, Columbia Highway. Ride
and Address at Auditorium
Included in Porgrammc.
REED TO SIGN STUDENTS
Registration for Second Semester
Starts Tomorrow.
Registration at Reed college for the
second semester starts tomorrow
morning and classes will begin Tues
day. Applications from a number of
prospective students have been ac
cepted and the prospects point to an
Increased enrollment.
Professor Ralph Phillip Boas, Reed's
new head of the English department,
arrived yesterday from the east to
succeed Professor N. F. Coleman, who
assumes hi duties February 2 as
president of the Loyal Legion of Log
gers and Lumbermen. Professor Boas
will conduct classes in freshman Eng
lish, senior seminars and the study of
Chaucer and Milton.
L. H. Bailey, dean of the college of
agriculture of Cornell university, will
speak at a special assembly tomorrow
morning at 11 o'clock. Mr. Bailey's
talk is open to the p-blic.
Dr. Thomas Lamb Eliot will be the
vespers speaker at the Reed college
chapel this afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Special organ and vocal selections are
features of the afternoon service,
which is open to the public
Professor Coleman returned yester
day from speaking engagements at
Seattle and McMinnville.
Portland Boy Scouts will welcome
their national chief to Portland this
week with the visit here of James E.
West of New York. Mr. West Is na
tional chief scout executive of the Boy-
Scouts of America and is scheduled to
Morris 1 arrlve 'n Portland Tuesday night and
10 spend an aay Wednesday nere.
Plans for a busy programme for the
scout chief are being outlined by the
local leaders of the organization, and
the entire day will be taken up with
conferences, meetings and entertain
ments. with ample opportunity to en
able the visitor to meet not only the
Boy Scouts and the scout leaders, but
the business men of the city also. ..
On Wednesday morning Mr. West
will address a ..number of. the high
school assemblies, and at noon will be
the guest at a luncheon of Boy Scout
leaders here at the Benson hotel. The
early afternoon will be taken up with
an automobile tour of the city and
Columbia highway, and at 5:30 o'clock
there will be a conference of the
Portland scout masters with the na
tional executive. ,
At 6 o'clock Wednesday night Mr.
West will be entertained at dinner at
the Chamber of Commerce, wben sev
eral hundred business men and mem
bers of the club will attend. At 8
o'clock he wil appear at the municipal
auditorium to address Boy Scouts,
their parents and citizens upon "Con
servation of Boyhood."
Mr. West has been attending a con
ference of western Boy Scout leaders
at Berkeley. Cal. He will proceed to
Puget sound, where he will make an
inspection of the various Boy Scout
posts in Washington prior to return
ing to the east.
RED CROSS WILL MOVE
Headquarters to Be Taken in
Worcester Building.
The Portland chapter, American Red
Cross, will move its headquarters next
Tuesday from the Gasco building,
where it hr.s been tor the past year,
to the sixth floor of the Worcester
bujlding.
For the first year of its existence
the- Portland chapter, which was or
ganized in February, 1917, occupied
offices on the second floor of the Cor
nctt building, donated by the Corbett
estate. With its tremendous expan
sion the chapter moved to the fifth
floor of ihe Gasco building, almost the
entire floor being required.
At the same time the chapter occu
pied the Red Cross shop on Fifth
street: the Red Cross retail salvage
bureau t Third and Oak. the Red
Cross wholesale salvage warehouse on
Second street, 'he Red Cross work
room on the eighth floor of the Lip-man-Wolfe
building and branch estab
lishment at. Oregon City. Tillamook.
Forest Grove, Hillstoro and McMinnville.
SCHOOL EXPANSION PLAN
Vnivcrsity of Oregon Graduate
Work May Offer Xcw Degree.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene,
Jan. 31. (Special.) Expansion of the
work of the graduate school, with the
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18634 Freckles Billy Murray
18635 Bye-Lo Vernon Dalhart
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Castles in the Air John
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Charles Hart
18638 Tm Like a Ship Without a
Sail Charles Hart - Elliot
Shaw .
18639 Drowsy Maggie Patrick J.
Touhey
18639 Dublin Jig Medley Patrick
J.' Clancy-Arthur P. Kcnna
18632 On Miami ShoreWoseph C.
Smith's Orch.
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18640 Taxi One-Step Joseph C.
Smith's Novelty Orch.
18641 Fluffy Ruffles All Star Trio
64844 The Bells of St. Mary's
Frances Alda
87305 Vienl Sul Mar (Over the Sea)
Enrico Caruso
74600 Romance Jascha Heifetz
64839 Her Bright Smile Haunts Me
Still Edward Johnson
S72S8 Thy Beaming Eyes-Ernes-tine
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Pussy willows are here. Next will come happy yellow daffodils and lavender crocuses. Frost is out of
the ground. Fields are being worked. Some early crops are already planted. Balmy breezes whisper
SPRING. . One begins to crave the unexpected, the something different and as usual that desire can be
gratified best at MEIER & FRANK'S. Its doors are opened wide to the new. Its receiving rooms are
filled with advance shipments of what Portland will wear this spring and Portland is invited to see and
approve now while the first freshness is over it all.
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SPRING suits are here to answer all the
questions which women have been asking.
Skirts are medium width and rather short.
Collars are tuxedo and otherwise. Coats are short
or quite long. Braid binding, floss embroidery,
many buttons, finger width belts, large pockets,
big collars, cord tassels and other novelties are
noticed. Some have astrakhan-like embroidery.
Meier & Frank's: Fourth Floor.
DRESSES are of quaint taffeta, satin, trico
tine, gabardine, foulard and georgette.
Sleeves are above the elbow, below it, and
reaching demurely to the hand. Frocks of seven
ruffles, frocks with frilled apron fronts, frocks of
the Velasquez type but with feminine laces to
mitigate the severity of black taffeta and velvet
ribbons a charming variety is here.
Narrow cravat girdles, tiny belts, slashed lace
collars, pipe-organ pleating and other features.
Meier & Frank's:'Fourth Floor.
ENTER upon the scene the new shorter out
side blouses with elbow sleeves. Arresting
in their originality -and most effective to
wear with dress and sports skirts. Taffeta, georg
ette, satin, tricolette and other materials no two
alike.
Meier & Frank's: Fourth Floor.
A extremely interesting collection of hats
has been received from New York and will
be on exhibition Monday. Such novelties
as the hat with four satin brims, the Egyptian
turban of apple green haircloth with ostrich
plume to match, the black haircloth quill hat, the
lace veil hat with silver work, the new porcupine
turban of pleated moire ribbon, the Egyptian
hat with little roofs of raffia extending over the
ears and hats of glittering cellophane.
Meier & Frank's: Fourth Floor.
COPIES of Paris corsets are here. Exclusive
models from an American corsetiere who
has followed the clever lines of the French
but at moderate prices. Corsets that button in
front or at each side. Corsets with garters which
unbutton when the corset, is to be laundered.
Corsets daringly cut away in the back for backless
gowns or with more support but all giving the new
silhouette. Either lovely pink satin or tricot.
$8.50 upward.
Meier &. Frank's: Third Floor.
"Tk TEW dress silks are the most beautiful of
Xl many a day. The famous Mallinson silks
for "spring include Kumsi-Kumsa, Dew-Kist
and the lovely 1920 Fan-Ta-Si. There are wonder
ful colors and designs or plain weaves with which
to make the distinguished gowns of spi'ing.
Meier & Frank's: Second Floor.
tOR sports skirts and street dresses are new
fancy silks in fifty-four different colors and
patterns all of them at $2.50 yard.
Meier & Frank's: Second Floor.
NEW fabrics for street dresses, skirts and
suits ' include 42-inch all-wool poplin at
$2.50 yard; 50-inch all-wool French serge
at $3 yard; 50-inch all-wool tricotine at $4 yard.
Meier & Frank's: Second Floor.
SCOTCH gingham dresses for girls 12 to 16
years. Spring models of the famous "Dor
othy Frocks" for small and large girls.
Novelty cotton frocks from a new maker whose
originality is a revelation for girls from 6 to 16
years.
Creepers and rompers with embroidered chick
ens, rabbits and so on.
Saucy sun bonnets for tiny girls.
A splendid collection for mother or daughter to
see.
Meier & Frank's: Second Floor
T" ICH heavy habutai silk underclothes from
It Japan are more luxurious than crepe de
chine and wear better; they are obtainable
at about the same prices.
Girls' and women's smocks in novelty styles
include the amusing "patched" model.
Fine nainsook night gowns and cherriises are
entirely plain so that they can be trimmed with
your hand-crocheted lace yokes.
Alpaca sweaters are semi-transparent and come
in black and colors to wear over spring and sum
mer clothes.
Meier & Frank's: Third Floor.
THE Veil Shop is showing new imported
veils. The Lace Shop presents newly arrived
georgette crepe in fascinating spring shades,
also metal laces for evening gowns and new chan
tilly and Venise laces for neckwear, blouses and
dresses. There are also many new Swiss embroid-
eries for women and babies. In the Neckwear
Shop are new polka dotted dimity sets, entirely
different lace camisole-gilets which dispense with
blouses, and many other new styles.
Meier & Frank's: Main Floor.
THE Glove Shop is showing new fabric gloves,
slip-ons with contrasting cuffs and 16-but-ton
length gloves to wear with the short
sleeve frocks of spring.
Meier Frank's: Main Floor.
N
EW silk handbags are ready to complete
the costume and there are new colored
necklaces which will be interesting to visi
tors in the Jewelry Store,
Meier & Frank's: Main Floor.
P. S The Shoe Shop has just reported a large shipment of new spring styles in pumps and
oxfords, many with the new lower heels so much in demand.
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