.Tnr SUNDAY OUEGOXIAX. PORTLAND. MAY 23. 1920
GRAIN PRICES STILL
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Get More Wear
Out of Your Clothes
St. Louis Reports Slump in
Corn and Wheat.
RETAIL CUTTING" GOES ON
In, " .?
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Shoe and Clothing Flffures Slashed
in -Kansas City So Danger,
Eastern Banker Says.
ST. LOUIS. May 12. Following yes
terday's slump in grain futures, cash
corn today dropped 8 to 18 cents a
bushel on the Merchants' Exchange,
while cash wheat fell 9 to 10 cents a
bushel.
KANSAS CITY. Mo.. May 22. Kan
sas City dealers tn wearing apparel j
today advertised reductions from 10.
to 60 per cent.
One department store offered worn
rn's silk hose, formerly S to $, for
SI. 95, and shoes "formerly it. xor ,
$7.75. I
An exclusive shoe store placed its
entire stock on the block at from S5 J
downward.
"WASHINGTON, May 22. Another
step designed to aid in driving down
prices of necessities lias bc-en taken j
by the federal reserve board. Uov- !
ernor Harding is understood to have j
intimated to federal reserve bank of-
ficials that they fiiould scrutinize i
carefully the pjper they hold as se
curity for loar.s made to the sugar
trade to the end that more sugar ma)
be marie available for domestic con
sumption. It was estimated that probably
J230.00O.OOO was tied up in "frozen
loans" on sugar stocks and it was re
garded as probable that the banks
would locate sugar slocks held for
speculative purposes and force their
distribution.
ST. LOUIS. .May 22. There is no
cause fot fliianuiiil alarm in the pres
ent nation-wkJr price-.shtsh in :r move
ment, according to a statement today
by Richard . Hawes of this city,
president of the American Bankers'
association.
Mr. Hawe.s referred to persons who
professed to foresee hard times in the
tightening of the credit system as
"calamjty howlers."
Altltoush bankers arc discouraging
non-essential investments and wild j
speculation. .Mr. Hawes asserted that
no bank would refuse credit to carry
on essential production.
NEW YORK. May 22. Herbert
Hoover "will testify here Monday on
general economic conditions, with spe
cial reference to the sugar situation,
before the joint legislative committee
investigating profiteering, it was an
nounced today by Leputy Attorney
General Berber.
SAN "FRANCISCO. May 22. Reduc
tion of half a cent a pound in the
wholesale price of heavy beef steers,
dressed and other classes of beef
was announced by the Western Meat
company here today. The reduction
brought the price to 16 cents a
pound.
Decreased consumption was given
as a reason for the reduction.
34 GRADUATES IN CLASS
Commencement Kxercises Held at
First Congregational Church.
Commencement exercises for the
class of 1920 of the Pacific Chiroprac
tic college were held Thursday at the
First Congregational church, the
graduating- class being composed of
31 members. Dr. O. W. Elliott, presi
dent of the collejta, conferred the de
grees. The valedictory address was
delivered by AV. P. Kvans, while Rev.
J. William Byrd spoke the invocation.
Also on the programme were George
K. Malett. Mrs. Charles W. Burtt. Miss
Nina rressel and Dorothy Winkle.
Graduates this year are:
Prank F. "Winzenried, Hazel B. I.augh-
lin, Kobert A. t:rawtord. John O. Huiler,
Julia Rhode Winkler, William Winkler,
Mila r. Warren. Myrtle M. Ftldbausen
Aibert F. I.utea, Harvey p. Coleman. Ber
tha Bays White, Klla Wall Wight, P. P.
uyDeaRL, c-naries c josui, w. r . livans
Theresa L. Koote, Anna Karvonen, H. K
Spencer, Kathryn Baker. L.ucy K. Hum
phreys. I. H. X, Jameson. Albert H
Pinnry, K. B. Ansell.'O. J. Norri. Charles
K. Rigdon. Herman H. Peters, John W.
Peck, Ernest U. icsc. Mm in H. Ioust
Calvin V. Guerrettaz. Howard I. Pooi-e,
V,lton . Jones. Maurice L.. Uchman,
Lillian Deal Wllkins.
Hart Schaffner
V SMarx 7
ALL clothes are high-priced,
whether they are good or
bad, so there's just one . way to
make your clothes cost less
Get good ones; the kind that
wear the longest; that lowers
your clothes cost per day. You
spend less by the yean
That's the kind of a service
we can give you; more wear
and a lower cost.
Hart Schaffner & Marx make the
clothes; all wool and stylish; if you
aren't satisfied that you get your
money's worth,- you'll get your
money back. .
SamT Rosenblatt & Co.
The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes -
Fifth at Alder
Gasco Building
EX-PRESIDENT
TEACHERS ASKS
BREAD PRICE GOING UP
Wholesale Cost Will Be 10 Cents
Instead of 9.
Housewives not yet calloused to i
creases in food prices will find their
pocketbooks suffering another serious
jolt after tomorrow, when the pnn
cipal bakers of the city will add one
cent to the charge for bread, making
It 10 cents wholesale instead of
cents. Kising: costs of flour, sugar
and labor are held responsible for
this Increase.
Among the bakers who could be
reached yesterday and who admitted
they were expecting to put in effect
the new schedule were J. A. Wright of
the Log Cabin Baking company, H. H
Haynes of the Haynes-Poster and E
F. Davidson of the Davidson Baking
company. The BaKe-Klte also is plan
ning for the increase later in the
week.
Convicted I. W. W. Is Insane.
ABERDEEN, Wash.. May 22. (Spe
cial.) Anti Kol. a Russian and on
of the 11 I. W. W. criminal syndlcal
ists convicted in February, today was
committed by Judge Abel to the west
rn Washington hospital for the in
sane. Koi. who has been in jail here
since his arrest last November, was
sentenced to pay a fine of $300 and
costs, and being without funds he
has been serving the fine in jail.
OF , PAKEXT-
DIVORCE.
struct a riilroad track over Pittsburg
street, in the city of St. Helens, Co
lumbia county. Hearing of the ap
rlicaion has - been set for early in
June.- -.
Obituary.
Mrs. I. X. Hyndman Alleges nos
band Caused Friends to Avoid
Her Home.
Yow-yowing" is a new divorce rea
son cited in a suit ior epi'""'
in the circuit court yesterday by fcva
A. Hyndman. ex-president of the local
parent-teacher association, against
Ira N. Hyndman. wnom sue
November 27. 189o.
Mrs. Hyndman declares mat nci
husband "made her existence a miser
able thins by his Jealous and narrow
heckling and yow-yowing.
rouchy and would nag unm evei
nerve was on lire.
also offensive to her lrienas to ouun
a degree that thev "avoided her home
they would a pestilence.
Mr. Hyndman was parsimonious.
says his wire, - unm ner iiei.c.
whipped to hysteria anu b.ic
obliged to leave him ior me sane vi
her health and peace of mind."
Fred Julian discovered on January
?2 1919. that she had been leit -iuu
by the death of her husband in a
local shipyard, ana on apru ..
persuaded her to marry him. asserts
Mrs. Ast-cnia Julian. Mrs. Julian says
that shortlv after marriage ner nus-
Via nil i-saiixf-ri her to Duy a nome lur
2000 at 1798 Belmont street and took
th riri in his name.
On February 20, 192U. Mrs. juuan
was taken to a logging camp at Oak
Point. Wash., to live. She declares
her husband abused her child by for
mer marriage and she told him: "You
fight my child, youvfight with me. I
am tired of being beat up and I will
have to leave you."
"Go to blazes" was her husband s
only reply, as he handed her J1.50.
says Mrs. Julian. The fare to Portland
was 1.10. leaving 40 cents to live on.
"How about my 2000T' she asked
her husband, and he proceeded, she
declares, to "beat her up." A collec
tion was taken up at the logging camp
and J9.50 raised to send her to Port
land, it was asserted.
Since marriage to her, Ethel D.
Nelson declares, Arthur Nelson mar
ried a woman named Dorothy in Santa
Ana. CaL, ' and lived there with her
until the superior court of California
annulled the ceremony. Mrs. Nelson
asks a divorce on grounds of cruelty
and desertion.
Other divorce suits filed with Coun
ty Clerk Beveridge yesterday were:
Elma Marie Thurber against Ernest
P. Thurber Eva Holcomb 'against S.
A. Holcomb. Dorothy Raynolds against
Fritz Raynolds and Veta Holton
against Warren Holton.
RIDGEFIELD, Wash., May 22.
(Special.) Alfre Alonzo Knox, one of
the oldest residents of this commu
nity, died May 19, and was buried
yesterday from the Community
church. Rev. George V. McClure offi
ciating. He was 83 years old. ,-He
was born- in New . Hampshire and
moved to the Pacific coast In 1862,
first locating in Portland. From
there. tie moved to Ridgefield in 1876
and engaged in the cattle business.
He leaves nine nieces and nephews:
Mrs. Gage Hazelton, Mrs. M. H.
Schmeer, J. A. Hazelton, H. A. Hazel
ton, W. C Hazelton. Florance M.
Stackpole. all of Portland: Mrs.
D. W. C. Durgin of New Hampshire
and N. H. Knox of Ridgefield. He
owned considerable real estate in
fortiand and Vancouver. tie never
married. i
COTTAGE GROVE, Or., May 22.
(Special.) S. K.- Lewis and E. K.
Turpin died yesterday. Mr. Lewis
was born in Polk county and was 61
years of age last month. He was in
the merchandise business at Yoncalla,
but had been a resident here for a
number1 of years,' having a ranch east
of the-oity.. He s survived by the
widow, three brothers and a sister.-,
E. K. Turpin was born in Missouri,
December 27. 1852, crossed the plains
with his family when a little child
and settled in-California. He settled
in 1864 in the Coast fork valley here,
where he married Miss Emma Lacky,
who survives. One son, Wlnnifred M.,
lives at home and another son.
Lester H., lives in California.
Funeral services Tor Thomas D.
Richardson, aged 60. of 525 Columbia
street, who died at the Good Samaritan
hospital Friday., will be held today at
2 P. M. from the chapel of J. P. Finley
& Son. Services will be under the di
rection of the Knights of Pythias of
which order the deceased was a prom-'
inent member. Prior to his death Mr.
Richardson was employed at the Co
lumbia Ship company in the capacity
of watchman. He was a native of Ore
gon and is survived by his sister, Mrs.
A. M. Mattlngly of Portland. Inter
ment will be in the Mount Scott
cre-mtorium.
OREGON CITY. Or.. May 22. (Spe
cial. Bernard Moynaugh, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh Moynaugh of this city
died ' at Salem, yesterday. The body
will be .brought here for burial. Fu
neral arrangements await word from
his sisters, one of whom lives at Cot
tonwood, Idaho, and another in Mon
tana. Moynaugh was 24 years of ape.
PLANE FALLS 150 FEET
Welfare Conference to Be Held.
Representatives of the Parent
Teacher associations of the city will
confer with public welfare bureau of
ficials at 3 o'clock next Thursday
afternoon for the purpose of en
deavoring to provide training and
employment for handicapped people
and clothing for depencnt families.
A study of fani'ly problems during
the past winter revealed these two
needs.
Contrlbntions to Isom Fund ASked.
Contributions for the fund to erect
a memorial to Mary Frances Isom.
city librarian, it'jo died a short time
ago, are to be solicited by the direc
tors of the library association. Boxes
and envelopes to be used in collecting
money will be placed in all branches,
or it may be sent through the mail
with the nam and addresa of the
donor.
but
X. B. Evans, Pilot, Bruised,
Able to Make Trip.
N. B. Evans, pilot for the Iforth-
west Aircraft corporation, received
bruises yesterday afternoon, when an
airplane which he was driving took
a header 150 feet to the ground at
the municipal flying field. W. E.
Kobson, police lieutenant, who was
riding in the machine at the time,
was unhurt.
The airplane was broken when it
struck a fence in landing.
The pilot's injuries were noj se
rious enough to prevent his leaving
on a trip for Bejid in another air
plane shortly afterwards.
Track Wanted Across Street.
SALEM. Or., May 22. (Special.)
The Milton Creek Logging company
today filed with the Oregon public
service commission application to con-
PORTLAND
BUSINESS MEN
It's Up To. You
You have been fighting for "Truth in Adver
tising." You established a BETTER BUSI
NESS BUREAU for the express purpose of
protecting the purchasing public against the
dishonest merchants.
In June Portland will be host to thousands
from all over the United States. Stand by
the BETTER BUSINESS -BUREAU in its
efforts to protect these men and women
from extortion or misrepresentation of any
sort. .
" . - -i
Notify this BUREAU of any attempt on the
part of stores or itinerant merchants to im
pose on strangers. Such information will
be held confidential, but will enable the
BUREAU to take action through the proper
authorities.
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU,
Portland Ad Club,
308 Oregon Bldg. Broadway 2605
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