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PALMOUVE AND TROCO - CONCERNS ANNOUNCE PURCHASE OF KAOLA tieaUs'SatMo Mean Estatn Industry in Portland, ; ' OUTPUT TO BE 150 TONS rroduet Xs OU Bstraetea rrem Coses Ot Dried Cocoannt Meat. By rto daet Meal" Also XukiteU. Under th terms of a deal closed Bsturday afternoon, the Kaola com pany, engaged in the manufacture of crude old from copra, la taken over by the Palmollve company and the Troce Sfut Butter oompany. two organizations Under the same management, though aeparate concerns. .''Tbe deal, which la the reault of an investigation of the local situation oa ttie part of officials of these two com panies covering a period of nearly two months, means the establishment of an industry that will do approximately 0.000,000 'year In business, and an if.crtane Irt the capacity of the plant pf the Kaola company, necessitating the expenditure of several thousand dollars, besides adding to the business df the port of Portland In tbe importa tion of the raw material. Representing the Palmollve company and the Troco- Nut Butter company m the transection was C. S. Pierce of Milwaukee. Wis., director of the for mer company, and in charge of sales and a-dvertialnr. and vice president of the" latter company. Details. of tbe deal will he completed at a meeting Tues day of the directors of the Kaola com pany. .. Under the terms of the deal, tbe Caola company will remain a separate organisation, though under the direct control of the new owners. C. IA Pals ton, who has been responsible for the development of the concern, will become a director under thes new or ganization and will become general r,anagrr of the local' plant. He will also retain a stock interest. Mr. Pierce Vttl become first vice president. C. i. otmjioa, president of the Palmollve and Troco companies, will become president of the Kaola company, The Palmollve company manufac tures "Palmollve" soap. It has plants at . Milwaukee and Toronto, Canada. (The Troco Nut Butter company has plants at Milwaukee. Chicago and New . York. The Kaola company, has been en gaged In the manufacture of crude oil from copra, for which it found a mar Vet with eastern concerns. Copra, which is dried cocoar.ut meat, has been shipped to this port aboard sailing ves sels direct from the South sea islands. Under the new organization, the ob ject of h ninnt win ba to manufac ture both crude and refined ott for the Palmollve and Troco plants. 'Tba plant Is located at , Twentieth - and Roosevelt streets. The present capac ity is 20 tons of eopra a day. Our plans call for Increasing; Its ca pacity to jfrom 100 to 160 tons a -day" saldl Mr, Pierce, (n speaking of the deal. r"Mot of the stock of the Kaola company . wUl be . controlled by -the Troco company, as a majority of its output will be used In the Troco plants. - $400,000 Business Expected "We expect to establish a business here doing; approximately, 6,000.000 a year, being.' abmit $20,000 a day. One hundred tons 'pf copra will make 5 tons of oil. sealing at 14 to 15 cents a ' pound. After the oil, is extracted there is a by product known as 'meal' which also is marketable. "To provide fotr this increase In out put, the plant wfll have to be enlarged to a great extent. This will call for the expenditure of several ; thousand additional cacital. I am unable to give an accurate estimate at this time. Our Diana for increasing the plant In clude the installation of more machin ery, construction of, additional cuua ings and possibly thke acquiring of ad ditional ground." '" ' -Credit Due Sainton "We had planned. ta establish an oil mill at San Francisao and had even gone so' far as to" select a site, when Mr. Pamton came to us and made a proposition. To him is due all the credit for interesting us in Portland. "We have purchased 6000 tons of copra an X it will all be brought here in sailing' vessels from the south sea islands. Shipments are now under way.' On .the return voyages the ships wttl take away lumber or any other commodity that will, make up a cargo." i i m - Food Dealers Must Take Out Licenses Merchants Jolag Business of '$100,000 of Xore Beqnired to Meet Bales of the Hatlonal Tood Admlni ctratlon. W. B. Ayer, food administrator for Oregon, has Just received definite in structions from Herbert Hoover to no tify all dealers in foodstuffs doing a business of $100,000 or more that they must take out licenses before Novem ber l. Application for license must be made to the license division of the food ad ministration. Law Department, Wash ington, D. C Instructions as to the methods will be supplied from. Mr: Ayer's office. That the license system would- be adopted wae announced in the procla mation of President Wilson of October 8, the purpose being to prevent hoard ing of food and profiteering. Penal tips are provided for. . Though dealers doing1 a business of less than $100,000 are not required to procure a license, it will be to the ad vantage of all dealers to apply to the food administrator's office for in structions and become familiar with the provisions of the new law, Mr. Ayer said. , ! FIVE CENT BREAD AT; PRESENT PRICES HELD - WASTEFUL BY HOOVER Sugar Sales' to Luxury Man-s ufacturers Prohibited Until Supply Increases. EGGS TO BE WITHIN REACH Hope of Hlcxel war X.oaf Blasted Be spits Efforts of Committee to '- Determine Its easfbUity. Washington., Oct, 89. (U.' P.) Five cent bakers bread at present "r would be: '"wasteful,". Herbert' Hoover 1 stated tonight, olasting hopes of a nickel war loaf. This was 'preceded by an edict on sugar directing refiners and distrib utors to "stop sales 'to confectionary, syrup and luxury manufacturers un'il Cuban and western beet - sugar are available." . ' v But Hoover included in these -announcements the glad . tidings thut bread prices are really 'dropping. His office also Indicated that eggs soar ing luxury bid fair to come within reach of all. - Boarding; Zs Sapped The sugar order is one of the most sweeping steps yet taken by the fool administration. "By this means," said Hoover, "the consumption in the area of plentiful sugar, south of Savannah and west of Pittsburg should be greatly reduced and; thus expedite the arrival of beet sugar into the sparse eastern area.' Hoover rapped "hoarding consum ers" who are storming retail grocery stores and trying te buy up all the sugar possible. He "complimented ' many retailers twno are doing ther best to effect just distribution and hold down prices. Many eastern cities are virtually on sugar ratiou3 at the stores and in not a few places sugar is unobtainable today. Small Loaf Wasteful "The purohase of more sugar by households than is needed from weeK to week only adds difficulties to the distributing agencies," Hoover said. His stand on bread prices was in terpreted as a knockout for a, col sumers' committee in his own organi zation which was trying to establish the feasibility of a 5 cent loaf. -"The reports of the food adminis tration's investigators demonstrate that the baking of a standard single loaf of a size wh'ch may be sold for 5 cents at the prasent price of flour, is wasteful of both flour and labor,'' said Hoover. Wilson Fixes -Oct. 28 Day of Prayer ; in U. S. V Washington, Oct 20.- (L . S.) -Pursuant r- to a - resolution adopted fcy congress October 4 - asking ' the president , to name a . day for supplication and- prayer. President "Wilson today issued a proclamation fixing October 28. ' The president's proclamation f was as follows; - " ; J'Whereas, The congress of the United States, by a concur? . rent resolution adopted '- on the fourth day of the present month of October,-"in view of the en trance of our nation into the vast and awful war-winch now afflicts ' the greater part of the world; has "requested me to-set apart by of t ficial proclamation a day upon' ' "which our people' should, be called upon to offer concerted : prayer to Almighty God for hU divine aid in. the success of our arms; and, f "Whereas, It - behooves a great free people nurtured as we have been in the eternal princi ples of justice and of right, a nation which has sought from the earliest days of -its -existence to be obedient to the divine teach ings which have inspired it in the xercise. of its liberties, to turn arways to the supreme master and cast themselves in faith at his feet, praying for his aid and suc cor in every hour of trial, to the end thai the great aims to which our fathers dedicated our power as.; a . people may not perish, among men, but. be always as serted, arfd" defended with fresh ardor and devotion and, through the . divine blessing, set at last upon enduring foundations for the benefit of all the free peo ples oil the earth; "Now, Therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, gladly responding to the wish expressed by the congress, do appoint October 28th, being the last Sunday of the present month, as a day of supplication and prayer for all the people of the nation, earnestly exhorting all my countrymen to observe the appointed day, according to their several faiths, in solemn prayer that God's blessing may rest upon the high task which is laid ,upon us, to the encr that the cause for which We give our lives and treasure may triumph and our efforts be blessed with high achievement." CITY PROPOSES LEASE OF 6 MOTOR PUMPS AT COST OF $60,000 Bids on Apparaius Are Being i Considered by Bar Faith Is City Council; Dharged, WORD OF CHIEFS AWAITED Commissioner Blgelow Insists Brokers Are Seeking; Advantage and Action Zs ThenwjjeUyed. T7tT3C$ TUT Tjhe Fairyjarid Phpbopl-ay- Spectacle supreme! Th&S $MM&m. bieeesc and ttiost stii- a wic vemcnr or ittoaeirittttttes, ya J I 3i?a, KV VTS&sSS?I"lU-.- V,V v4 I . . 13(K) Wonder ' llM M A The biggest nln in the world, J. M. ' MnfiJ ?Jjr M Tarver, 8 iCB ins. taU, weight lU JtrA Fairy agin the - '" ' -1 m Y " cost wvo , . jM mW , I r yM " toProduce W Direct from p h e n oraenal success at the Globe Theateti j i N. Y., at $1-00 admission. , Prices here Children, 10c Adulta 25c Shows at 11, 1, A 3; 6, 7 and 9 P. M. ; Big Potatoes In , War Garden Miss toulse Blocomb. late of Bos tonralsed a war garden on three city lots In Mllwaukle this summer.' Ten sacka of big White Burbanks and pounds of beans were the results. Miss Slocomb ; gives all the credit to the soil. This is her first ; experiment in gardening;, and not only did she put on no fertiliser, but dld not irrigate or cultivate. She is sending to Boston several potatoes 8x6 inches,, weighing nearly two pounds each. , , Isn't This, sl Sort of SediUonT - rrom tse I1ttborS G'tti Times . I Hotels sre omitting veal from thels tervice. How about restoring beef to its former leading place? The present portions are merely appetl;wra,T I ' Six ,; 1000 gallon gasoline motor pumpers to be used by the fire bureau will cost tbe city approximately IS 000, according; to bids rrom the Amer ican La France Fire Apparatus com pany and the Seagraves company, being considered by the city council. The city proposes to lease the ma chines temporarily and purchase them within two years. The American La France company offers to furnish the six machines for a total of J61.800. Of this 130,000 : to be paid on acceptance, 130,000 after one 'year and interest is to total J 1800. . If the company is required to pay a war tax of 3 per cent, its price' will be 164,600 for the six machines. The bid of the Seagraves company was 164,133.40, Including the 3 per cent war .tax. The bid is conditional upon the' purohase within two years. It offered a price of $10,500 on one machine, 310,400 each on two or three machines, 310,290 each on four or five machines, and 310,180 eaoh on six ma chines. A. Q. Long, representing the Ameri can La France company, declared that be did not think that the war tax would affect fire apparatus, and for that reason did not figure 3 per cent additional. He said that if the tax was Imposed -the price would have to be increased. Munnell & Sherrill, local brokers, representing the Ahrens Fox Fire En gine company - of Cincinnati, wanted to have tife cHy readvertise for., bids on the apparatus, contending that the specifications were incomplete and th"y had insufficient time in which to submit their bids. Commissioner Blgelow, head of the fire bureau, declared that the brokers were not acting In good faith. He said that the company had no branch on the coast, and, even should it offer j-s, lower price than those already sub mitted, he would; vote against award ing them the contract because of this. On Bigelow's motion the council filed the letter. Commissioners Barbur and Mann de clared they are ready to purchase tbe council has deferred action until re ceiving recommendations from the fire chiefs. MOTORS ARfi MORE EFFECTIVE Commissioner Blgelow Explains Policy to Alblna People. When fire stations for horse drawn apparatus are closed and automobile apparatus mstauea in otner lire sta tions to cover the same districts, the fire bureau is more efficient ana economy results. Such was the explanation of Com missioner C. A. Blgelow, head of the fire bureau, to a large delegation of residents from Alblna, appearing be fore the city council last week pro testing against the closing of the sta tion on Mississippi avenue near Sha ver street The delegation left, ap parently satisfied with the explana tion. Bigelow declared that the automo bile apparatus to be Installed in an other part -of Alblna could cover the district in the vicinity of Mississippi and Shaver street much more quickly than could the old horse drawn ap paratus. "They ve closed 10 stations in Los Angeles because of motorization of apparatus," said Bigelow, "and with more automobile -equipment here fewer houses are needed." The city now purposes to lease six large automobile fire engines to take the place of horse drawn apparatus inhouses being closed. It plans later to buy the leased apparatus. HEALTH OFFICE SAY FINAL Council Refuses to Pay $500 to Rectify Alleged Mistake. When City Health Officer Parrish. Chief Medical Inspector Abele and their assistants diagnose a case as one of scarlet fever, it is scarlet fever. other opinions notwithstanding. The city council so held Friday in rejecting theadaihi of Eileen Clifford, i tv noyt street, for 3500 damages sought because of an alleged mistake of the city health bureau. W. T. Hume, appearing for the Clif ford family, declared that three other physicians bad held that the Clifford girl did 1 not have scarlet fever, but merely a rash resulting from sunburn. While he asked for $500; he said" $100 would cover expenses. Commissioner Kellaher made a plea for poor families who might suffer from mistakes, but the plea was over. ruled when the other commissioners held that Or. Parrish had not made a mistake. REASONS 3IUST BE GIVEN McCargar, Bates dc Lively, bonds men , of owners of automobiles re quired to file 32500 bonds with the city, are to give reasons for cancel ing bonds, especially when , the bonds are canceled for violations, by. the bonded owners, of the traffic laws. The agents of the bonding company had previously been asked to explain why bonds on passenger cars were canceled before the council refunded automobile licenses. In ji' letter to the council the agents declared that their work was confidential. Commissioner Bigelow said the council should know when drivers vlolatedthe law, however, and Com missioner Mann said that he would get such Information from the bond ing company hereafter. OBJECTIONS' ARE OVERRULED 11 I, m 1 Woodstock avenue from Eastmore land to Bast Fifty-second street is to be improved, despite objections of 23 per cent of the property owners. The council last week overruled objec tions and ordered the work to proceed. A number of the -esidents of the district opposed -each other at Wednes day's session, but the council held that Woodstock avnue was a princi pal highway through the southeast district and should be Improved. Mrs. A-;M. Huff, W; B. Kinney and Mrs. Leek spoke against, the. Improvement. while George Pope and others spoke VsMlBBBSl fl I BBBSSSSSBSSSBSSsf I No Advance 1 5c 11 A. M. 11 P. M. Today and All Week Evelyn Nesbit And Her Son Russell Hiiaw IN R edejuiptloii She now tells her; true story to the world. It is a picture you will re member as long as you live. - A gi gantic and stupendous story of a woman's life Coming : Julien Eltinge "Countess Charming lilt 1 i VictroW 11 .IS ."A u MWm " 20 1 " jl I . 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