PALMOUVE AND TROCO
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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."
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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
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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
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