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I - . . THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 19; 1920 r-v.1 .... ', I . ! t 1 r 1 i if TlllS T SHIER POTENTATE Ovaiion Follows Announce ment of Election. OTHER OFFICERS CHOSEN wholesornfc.plays, support them. If you don't like a play don't talk or abuse if. for that only serves as an advertisement, but just .treat jt with the silence it deserves and stay away. We have bedroom, bathroom and plays of a like .character at this time and there Is a possibility that the scenes may be moved to the dining room and parlor In the near future and posBibly to God's outdoors." 1 Mr. Warde told of his start in the theatrical profession at the time he was studying law in London ana treated his audience to some choice reminiscences of his long stage ca reer. He described his first appear ance and how be was no more than human In that he suffered from a severe attack of stage fright' and as a EXPERT TELLS COST OF FOB G ev Potentate Long Known as One of Al Kader's Most Popular and Active Members. Frank S. Grant was elected illus trious potentate of Al Kader temple. Order of the Mystic Shrine, last night and the announcement was followed by an ovation to him' continuing sev eral minutes. George L. Baker, mayor of Port land, who Is absent from the city on a combined business and pleasure trip in California in company with the im perial potentate, Ellis Lewis Garret son, also was accorded an ovation, fully shared in by Harvey Well3, who was the logical candidate for succes sion to the office of oriental guide, but who stepped aside to enable Mr. Baker to be in line for the imperial divan. Other officers elected were: Chief rabban, A. I Tetu; assistant rabban, Hal T. Hutchinson; high priest and prophet. Ivan Humason; treasurer, A. U. Brown; recorder, Hugh J. Boyd. Potentate Grant has long been one of the most, active members of Al Kader temple. He was chosen to head the committee on decorations for the 1920 imperial session, and thus serving designed the street dec orative scheme- which brought seo much praise to Portland from the visiting Shriners. His original Idea of utilizing red ferzes for lights on the street will be carried out in many future ii perial sessions, according to statements coming from members of the imperial divan. Al Kader temple is the only Shrine temple in North America wh'ch car ries out its ritual in dramatic form. Potentate Grant has been in charge of this production for years and has so handled it as to make it practically PROMINENT SHRINER ' IS ELECTED POTENTATE OF . AL KADER TEMPLE. Extra Income of $1,244,438 Declared Need in 1921.- TABLES SHOW EXPENSES I . Prank. S. Grant. I i i i Engineers Figure Price Xccessarj to Charge Consumers When Crude Oil Goes Up. i An inert during thi t sured the consequence proved to be the worst murderer that ever appeared in Mac beth. This was on September 4, 1867, and in the course of his varied tale of his experiences he transported his aud tors with hlB terse description of the company. Instead .of showing a gross make-shift properties that tey were return of $1,011,330.95 In the year An increased Income of $1,244,438.92 the coming year must be as- Portland Gas & Coke com pany, provided that $2.75 per barrel is the best price it can get on oil, if dividends to stockholders are to be maintained at the present scale. This was the testimony of C. J. Green, chief engineer of the public service com mission, at the hearing yesterday, following an exhaustive research into records of the corporation. The gross return to the company for the 12 months ending September 30, 1920, was shown to be $1,011,330.95. Before any dividend is paid from that amount there must' be subtracted sums covering depreciation, bond and other interest, and the income tax. Other taxes are included in "opera tions" and have already been deducted from the total. Whether or not the gross return should be figured before the Income tax is deducted is a point which will beargued Monday, during the continuance of the hearing. At torney John A.'Lalng, counsel for the gas company, contending with H. L. Gray, public utility engineer in the employ of the company, that it should be Included under operating expenses. Engineer Present Figures. In the report of Green, he esti mated that the Portland Gas & Coke ager of the gas company, when he oil, the gas cost will vary $.025, he pointed out that the new revenue from asserted. the sale of briquets, gas appliances, . Green, who followed Rasch on the stove installation, etc, was all cred-' stand, gave the results of an lnvesti ited to the eeneral Income of the com- gatipn- of books and accounts of the pany, and consequently was reflected gas company during the year ending in the reduced cost of gas to the con- September 30, 1920, in which he .said sumer. ' - - Fred A. Rasch, public utilities 'en gineer, testified concerning a per sonal check made on the operation of the gas plant on December 7. On that day he went to the gas works' at 7 o'clock in the morning and meas ured and .checked the actual amount of oil used and gas produced until 7 o'clock the following morning. He measured tanks, read oil meters ana ures were correct within one-half of 1 per cent. He said that it would be impossible for the gas company to continue in business and sell gas under 80 cents per lOOOVubic feet even to the largest consumer.' He declared further that the small consumer in Portland has never paid his priper proportion of checked them against the actual re- j the commercial expense for delivery wages," he said. His figures showed further that increase, in cost of ma terials amounted to $201,456 a year and in taxes to $107,485. Papst , asserted that the rate now being paid for gas in Portland was the lowest paid in any city of its siss he had checked all cash receipts and , in the United States and that the in- was prepared to swear that his Xig- i crease asked would still leave Port- duction of oil in the oij tanks, using as a basis the amount of oil shown by oil tank measurements. . Coat Increase Shown, - .. As a result of his Investigation, he reported that he found that 9.72 gal lons of oil were required that day to produce 1000 cubic feet of gas, which. at the present rate of $0,745 a barrel, would cost $0,177 for. the actual man ufacturing cost. Checking the cost of oil used in September. 1920. he found it to be $0,172 per 1000 cubic feet of manufactured gas, and the same for the year ending with Sep tember 30, 1920. As the total amount or gas sonas figured at 83.22 per cent of the total manufactured, Rasch estimated that the actual manufacturing cost would be $0,207 per 1000 cubic feet. Making an allowance for lamp black and tar. a credit of $0,024 would be deducted, leaving the gas cost at $0,183, he said. New Cost Calculated. Rasrh then calculated that if It cost $0,183 for gas on the basis of $0,745 a barrel for oil. that It would cost $0,677 for 1000 cubic feet if oil cost $2.75 a barrel. Adding laDor costs ana miscel laneous supplies to the s47i.oiz.os total for the year in cost of oil at the old contract figure, the total produc tion cost was reached as $655,909.20. This would increase the cost for 1000 cubic feet of gas $.067 or a total of $.250 under the contract rate, t ig of gas because of the low rate. Expense Not Relative. While the figures of the engineers brought the cost nr producing gas for 1000 cubic feet to .307 cents under the contract rate of .745 cents for oil and .801 cents under the proposed new rate of $2.75 they could pursue their figures no further in determining the logical cost of 1000 feet after adding land among cities having cheap gas. BURGLARS OVERLOOK $900 Bank Book Containing Money Is Thrown Away bf Thieves. VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec Is. (Special.) Two burglars last night collected about $50 in cash, a suit of clothes, overcoat, four watches and a little Jewelry. . The joke, however, is on the burg lar who visited the home of Harry McCubrey. He missed $900 folded in a bank book. When Mr. McCubrey entered the kitchen' this morning he JMTO DRIVERS SAVE GIRLS PItESEXCE OP MIXD AVEKTS SERIOUS ACCIDENTS. expenses of utilization, commercial aw the ba-ck door open. The bank handling and miscellaneous drains, for the reason that these other expenses, they pointed out, were not relative to the gas delivered to the consumer. - -"The underlying economic rules by which the business of a public utility has been built up or acquired should be followed in the new rate structure," said Green "Also the established con ditions resulting from the application of a previous rate are entitled to proper consideration. The great diffi culty in rate making has arisen from the failure of the public and some of the rate makers to understand that a portion of the costs of utility service have practically no relationship to the number of units fit the tangible pro duct delivered and consumed. . More Employes .Hired. Manager Papst in his testimony during the morning session of the commission showed that the increase in employes of the gas company since 1916 had been from 349 to 523 In the office and field at a total monthly pay forced to employ in their olden days, especially the time that Yorlck's skull in Hamlet was a turnip and later an onion. One of his most, appreciated tales was that of the start of Douglas Fairbanks on the stage. The Denver perfect. He has been aided by what boy joined Warde's company when 16 his "section pang, com- ! and proved to he terms posed of Shriners who assist him In handling the stage work during cere monials. According to announcement made by Mr! Grant last night. Al Kader temple will be represented at a north west meeting of Shrine temples to be held in Tacoma January 8 In honor of Imperial Potentate Garret son. The divan of Al Kader temple will travel to Tacoma on this date, accompanied by the Al Kader patrol, band and chanters. Among the cities to take part in this meeting will be Tacoma. Seattle. Portland, Boise. Lew iston and Vancouver and Victoria, B. C. Delegates to the 1921 . imperial council of the Shrine were elected from, a field of seven candidates as follows: Frank S. Grant. George L. Baker. George W. Stapleton and W. J. Hofmann. to be a very poor hand at enunciation, this auguring well for his success In the silent drama, ob served his tutor. ending September 30. 1920, would have lost S233,l0i.97, had the price of oil been $2.75 a barrel in that year in- stead of $.745. The increased cost of oil alone under the $2.75 rate would amount to $1,434,433.87, or a net amount of $1,263,652.97 after allowing for a credit of $170,669.90. due to the production of lamp black and tar. Green In effect substantiated testi- mony of Hilmar Papst, general man- urlnsr these extra costs as constant. ; ""V..-'. "i7 ---. Rasch held that they would increase tne ratio of wages wlih higher priced oil. making the , to 1923 wages it nil! be seen that of 2.. t Vnr innn ft the total present wages on an annual I l LiXl all uuu.fcvi wwm-. - $.744. - v Rasch then asserted that he found transmission expenses to gas holders Increased tke cost for 1000 feet $.012, and the distribution expense added $.045 mors to the cost of 1000 cubic rent of gas. This brought the total cost of 1000 cubic feet of gas under the old rate to $.307, .witnout consia erlng utilization, commercial, general aiid miscellaneous expenses, and the cost under the new rate to $.801. Table In Submitted. As the Drice of $2.75 is not certain Rasch submitted a table showing the variation in the cost of gas if oil sold from $2.50 to-$3. For every 10- cent variation in cost per barrel of 1 I - nnA n, - n n a - . . I UablS OL 904i,04D.J4, dCZ.VUU IS QUO lO ! book was on the porch as well as his watch and other things that had been engraved. The money was in the bank book, held closed by a small rubber band. Other homes entered were those of J. F. Elmgren, 3027 Washington street; Mrs. John Dillon, 2003 Main street; Harry Burgy, 612 East Twenty sixth .street: Gerry I Shaw,' West Twenty-sixth street. a 69.3 per cent increase in the rate of Nicholson Funeral Is Monday. Funeral services for Clyde R. Nich clcon, 54, who resided at 8108 Sixty fifth avenue southeast, and died yes terday in Salem, will be held tomor row afternoon at 2 P. M. from the chapel of the Holman undertaking establishment. Interment Is to be in Lone Fir cemetery. Woman Asks Love Balm. One hundred thousand dollars' ise- is asked in a suit filed yesterday I by Lillian Johnson against James J. Turrish. The plaintiff charged that August ' 1, 1920, Turrish agreed to marry her, and he has failed to keep hi promise. Children In Street Xarrowiy Escape With Their Lives When Ther Fail to Heed Traffic. ! Eva Spady, 4 years old. of 891 Cleve land avenue, escaped serious injury and possible death yesterday when she stumbled aa she was running across th". street and fell directly in front of an automobile driven by L S. Hicks of 915 Failing street. As soon, a he saw the girl fall Hicks swerved his mach'ne sharply to the left and passed over the little tot without ' touching her. Hicks was traveling about 10 miles an hour and because of his slow speed was able to control his machine and thus save the girl from being hit. - The girl had started to rush across the street as her sister was mailing a letter In a corner postal box. The near-accident was witnessed by sev eral persons who were passing along the street. Hicks was . warmly com mended for his presence of mind when the case was reported to the police trafic bureau. By the same presence of mind C. J. Peterspn, of 67$ East Twenty-sixth street north"; averted a serious acci dent when his machine brushed Kath erlne Hollen, 9 years old, 170 East Nineteenth street north, as she was "Jay-walking" at Seventeenth and Clatsop streets. Peterson swerved his car to the right to avoid a collision, but a fender hit the girl, knocking her tor the ground. She was badly bruised and suffered some from shock. LICENSES JN JEOPARDY Loss of Permit to Drive Automobile to Follow Court Conviction. Drivers and owners of for-hlre cars convicted in the municipal court re peatedly for. various offenses will lose licenses Issued them by the city. according to Raymond QUI. motor bus Inspector. An arrangement was effected yes terday whereby Municipal Juditf Rossman will forward a record f all conviction of motor bus and for.hjr car drivers and owner to Inspector Gill. Such convictions will be record ed In the office of the motor bus de partment and repeated offenses will result In recommendations forwarded to the city council for revocation of licenses. NEGRO FACES GRAND JURY Suspected Peddler of Narcotics Is Held in Federal Court. -. Joe Chambers, negro, arrested Vif federal operatives Friday night with a quantity of morphine In his posses sion, wss brought' before Kenneth Fraser, United States commissioner, yesterday and waived his preliminary hearing. He wtl unable to furnish bonds and was bound over to the grand Jury. He Is charged with selling drugs to addicts in violation, of the Harrison drug act. Trunk Full of Whisky Seised. There was a wild stampede for a certain well-laden trunk at the Unlo i depot yesterday when persons about the station noticed a thin, amber- colored stream coming from a crack in the corner of the trunk. In his report of the affair. Patrol man Cameron, on duty at tht Union station, said he had. trouble In holding the crowd in check while he proceed ed to Investigate. He found the trunk filled with Canadian whlnky. It had arrived during the day front Seattle. There was no nam on me trunk. Several bottles had broken, thus causing the anxious look of those who saw th liquor trickling along the floor.. Boy's Lrjc Is Cut Off. William Harney, aged IT, an em ploye of the O.-W. R. A. N. company, suffered the loss of hi left leg be low the knee when he fell from a loco motive in the Albina yards yesterday afternoon. The youth wss rushed to St. Vincent's hospital, whers It was said he probably will recover. uuuuyuuuuuuuuuuuyyiju THIRD SUICIDE TRY -LAST 4009 HEAB NOTED iCTflil . FREDERICK WARDE TELLS OF 50 YEARS OX STAGE. Don't Talk or Abuse Play You Don't Like It Acts as Ad vertising, Varning. Experiences gleaned in half a cen tury on the American stage were told to an audience of 4000 at the audi torium last night by Frederick Warde, noted actor, appearing aa one of the attractions of the Ellison-White lyceum course. "Drama in the present day is just what the public makes it," observed Mr. Warde in telling of his 50 years of "make-believe." "If you wisb good. Girl Gets Letter From Husband and I Wants to Live. Dorothy Connor, aged 21, late last night in her room at a downtown hotel attempted for the third time witnin a month to commit suicide by drinking poison. Soon after she received a letter from her husband, who is in Idaho, stating that he soon will arrive In Portland to take care Of her. She lost all desire to die and tele phoned for the house physician. Phy sicians said she would recover. The girl said that the third attempt would undoubtedly .be her, last. She I explained that being practically pen niless and without work she wished I to die. but that since her husband will soon Some for her she wishes to live Christm as G alls! But a few' days re main in which to do your Christmas shop ping. If you are still unde cided what to give but prefer to give some thing of a useful nature then visit our KNIGHTS TO INITIATE 55 Installation of New' Council at St. Paul, Or., Is Postponed. Initiation for 55 candidates will be held by the Portland council. Knights of Columbus, at the new clubhouse, 364 Taylor street, at 1 P. M. . today. The ceremony will be in: charge of) W. J. Chamberlain of Corvallis, Or., district deputy of the order. . -The installation of a new council of the Knights of Columbus 'at St Paul, Or., has been postponed from December 26 to January 9. J. H. Peare of La Grande, Or., state dep uty, twill have supervision over the exercises. 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