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THE 1 0REGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, . OREGON
THURSDAY, JANUARY - 13. JC21.
CREDITORS V
i DECISION GIVEN IN
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BOND HOUSE CASE
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and the decision set down as a preqe
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Th derinion of Jifdt?e Wolverton thia
. tnornlnK means that all proceeding In
the federal court, save the hearing be
fore the special master, are stayed un
til . the matter fs decided in the Mate
Courts.: : . 1 i ' .,!
Over $200,000 worth of assets hot here
tofore found and about that much more
lamed as uncertain were positively Iden
tified by John L. Etherldge former head
fcf the defunct bond house, Wednesday
afternopn on the -federal fcourt witness.
Stand during the examination, being con
ducted by Kobert Magruire, master ! in
' J-hancery.
Kflhh EXAMINE BOOKS'
. i Ktherldse almost created a turmoil
imongr the creditors who crowded the
arge court room to the doors when he
'-said: i - ,
, "If " I am allowed to see the books I
will be able to. prove that every dollar
cf (Henrietta and FreJ S. Mortis has
been taken from Morris Bros., Inc.. since
J914." ; . ' ! ... f ,-. . -
f In order to allow Ktherldfce to obtain
I Information from the books of the bank
rupt Institution to prove thin allegation
ridge fs later said to have given Hen
rietta Morris $99,600 of this money back.
The remaining $400 mas also returned,
Etheridge eald,' but ha did not remem
ber Just t how. He said the cancelled
checks in the bankrupt bond house
would show, and tie asked permission
to se them. ' . ? H ' i ;
FEHTOJT WAS FEABK1) f i
! -If the court will allow : me," Kthe
Hdge said. "I will state that I read In
the paper that Morris said on the ; wit
ness stand that he owed his sister $45,
000 and that she got ithe money1 from
the sale of some property in King street.
This house lrt King street was sold to
Judge Stearns for $22,400 and the furni
ture sold at a public sals for $1750. : The
money was never deposited here,' but
with Morris Bros.,! in i New York,! and
then transferred, to Philadelphia. Finally
Henrietta Morris received credit for
stock on 1 fh books of. the - company.
"Morris ; remained as president until
September, 1SU9, or. thereabouts, and rei
mained in fhe office of Morris Brothers.
He left then for the Gasco building be
cause I had a man named Fenton 1ft
my employ, who was ; a relative ot a
lawyer named Featon, who was I em
ployed by Muir in the Oregon water
Power company suit. ' He thought Fen
ton had been placed there by, the lawyer
got
2ktaaulre adjourned the hearing at I 6
o'clock Wednesday afternoon until jlO
clock next Monday morning. ...
JIIECOVEBS POISK
LWhen Etherldge first took I he witness
tand he appeared to be dazed, and
r azed continuously at the wails and ceil
ng, or buried his head in his hands,
fcpparently m deep thought, before re
sponding to a question. As the hearing
fjrogressed the apparent nervousness
eft him and he talked with ease, looking
squarely at the court, lawyers and spec
tators. I Only once during this time did
lie become outwardly confused, and that
was when he related his experiences : in
Minneapolis. .His eyes became moistened
nd it appeared to be withji deep strug-!
tie that he related these experiences..;
F Mrs. Etherldge sat Inside the rail of
Ithe bar and was one of the most in
terested ' spectators in the court room.
JtJhe appeared to be disturbed, but she
feat almost motionless in her chair during
he three hours her husband was on the
Btaed. j "
OBCSlESS MULTIPLIES j
I Following an agreement between coun
Jrel, Ktherldge was allowed to make an
(open statement and "tell all" as he had
promised, before questions were put to
Shim. He reviewed the history of the
jbankrupt bond house in chronological
-Jorder for the most part. j
He spoke slowly, and clearly' and sev
eral times related transactions in which
the had taken part. A brief review ot
rlA testimony follows:
"Ther4 has never been an accurate
Jtrlal balance of Morris Bros. Inc.. taken
ho my knowledge, since I came here.
JfThe business grew from' about $80,000
fin -April . Co over a million dollars per
Jmonth) In the fall, during which time
the books grew worse. We tried book-keeper
after 'bookkeeper and at times
employed night and day forces to keep
them Inj proper condition. " .
JBEMODELS BUILDING
I ; "Some time in the later part of 1917
Jor early. 1918 the present location was
pleased and the building remodeled and
(safety., deposit boxes, installed and when
j I returned from the Liberty loan work
tney "were in the new building. It cost
some $77,000 to put the building in con
dition for a bonding house. L
v "I am trying to trace this accurately."
Etherldge explained when he feared at
(this juncture the court would become
9imnatint for his Rtonntnp- n mnmnt lrt
IthinkJ i
j "When Morris moved to Portland In
1917 he bought the house at Twenty-
fourth and Hancock streets. The Land
Company of Oregon owrfed a piece of
(ground near -Kstacada. This ' piece of
ground was transferred to Henrietta
Morris by the Land Company of Oregon
arid, together with money from Morris
Bros., used to purchase the home at
Twenty-fourth and Hancock streets. The
Oregon Land company was a. subsidiary
company to Morris Bros., Inc.
CAPITAL INCREASED.
. "During this period also, overriding
my' objection. Morris Brothers of Port-
latnd were forced to take from Morris
Brothers company of Philadelphia about
,$125,000 in bonds of the Tuscatooea
J(Ala.) Hallway, Light Power com
pany at 98. Some of these. bonds are
still In the hands of Morris Brothers,
it was Impossible to sell them."
f.tneriage also stated that the Alabama
company was a subsidiary to the Phila
delphia office of Morris Brothers, j
Continuing, he said: j ' '
"In the fall of 1918, at the time we
had moved Into the new building and
(spent considerable money, Morris called
me in and said .it would be necessary
to increase the capital, and then told
Jme to sell some preferred stock of Mor
ris Bros., Inc. I believe this Stock was
ursi eoia aurmg- tne latter part or isis
and interim certificates issued for; It.
BEGS HIS PABDOX ." i ..' j .
'"In! the "early part of 1919, Morris.
Who was in the habit of sitting in j the
main office I was In the habit of doing
the business gave some order in the
vaults, and as I thought this work was
directly under my .supervision I had a
talk with him. Morris didn't talk tn
me during the remainder of ithe week.
I On Saturday he said he wanted to see
Jme Sunday in his office. I came down
J on Sunday .and he said, 'I look up to
4 you aa a son. I couldn't operate this
I business If I tried." " i - V- -
- Etherldge then explained how Morris
J proposed a means of increasing the
I finances of the company and suggested
the Issuing of $500,000 worth of. preferred
Stock.-- as he considered the good wjll
i i of the business worth that amount.
j Morris is said to have told Etherldge
that this was the same "method used by
the Oregon Water Power1 company and
other organizations. . I
The transaction was then explained
wherehv Morrla la altered tn hiva talraik
$100,000 from the bond house and de
posited it to the credit of Mrs. Ethe
rldge in the Foreat Grove banks The
reason for selecting this bank is said
to have been because It was not a state
bank.' and It was therefore thought the
-transaction could escape the watchful
J eye of Portland bankers. Mrs. Ethe-
ms
relative - to get information. He
very indignant and left for the Gasco
building.! ; ; -
After this I took up the corporation
atters with my " attorney and it was
then that the old corporation was dis
solved and a new one ; formed. Iti was
also about this time that The Telegram
commenced to attack me. There would
have been no difficulty in selling the
$500,000 worth of preferred stock had it
not been for this attack. In fact, it
forced' me to purchase back almost all
the stock, sold by Morris." j
PAST HtSTOBr SPREAD
I Ktherjdge then ; explained howl the
business j bad grown from $2,000,000 to
$6,000,000; per month, and the number
of employes Increased from two to about
80. He also stated that he never had
made an entry ; on any of the books.
The new incorporation being formed! with
the $500,000 common stock and $500,000
preferred stock, was to take care of the
Stockholders, who had purchased, interim
certificates, Etherldge said. ,
I At this point Etherldge's face became
drawn and he appeared to have tears in
bis eyes j as he said :
For 14 months my past record has
been peddled from bank to bank, then
to the clearing house, ; and finally even
back to my customers. I It became so bad
that about 10 months ago I told my at
torneys. I In fact (Mrs. Etheridge) told
them before I did. Three or four weeks
before I left Portland I was in posses
sion of positive information that the
Telegram would publish the -hlstoj-y of
my life as a Christmas present oh the
night of December 24, so I consulted; with
my mends ana- attorneys ana iinauy
decided J. would resign and go.
DENIES HATI5G MOJfEY
"During this time I i repeatedly called
ogetherimy office' force, and "while my
office thought I could withstand the
onslaught my attorneys advised me to
leave the city and not come back to
the coast until March, 1921, when Mrs.
Etheridge is to undergo an operation
In San FranciRro. : T i nrtFinal wi i yi'PK.
lion to, , take a trip ; and escape Lhis
puoiicityj was suggested Dy Ted S.
Morris. On the night of December 23
I went to the Morris home, alone, and
he then told me my nerve were all gone.
hYou know you worked awful hard,'
Morris' said. 'You promised to go! and
see the bid man and you ought tol keeD
your pifomise.' : I told him I hadn't
any money, so he said he would, glte
me $10,000. I then decided to visit my
wife's folks in, Chicago, go on to Phila
delphia, land then to New Jersey, where
jl hoped! to secure a pardon from the
Vfcovernor and then go to England. On
the morning of the day I was to leave,
John Logan called me and asked' me
about the bonds In Tacoma, which were
taken oyer and placed there during the
state- investigation in March, 1930.
"My reason for driving to Tacoma
was to ship the bonds to Miris Bros.
I turned over everything I had except
one Liberty bond and $2000 in the Ilwaco
bank. Morris has no mortgage on my
home artd never had. j Any money bor
rowed has been borrowed on mj own
personal note, with no agreement as to
security"' '
BELIEtED IK SOLVENCY"
This concluded i Etherldge's loni vol
untary Statement, after which the fol
lowing answers were made in reply, to
questions pat by Cassius Peck, one of
the attorneys for the receiver. j
"None of the assets that are camou
flaged ever belonged to any other than
Morris Brothers. They have none other
than those belonging to Fred 3. and
J. H. . Morris. That I know, because I
audited ,the books for many, years."
The question of "the solvency of Mor
ris Bros, was never discussed with! Fred
S. Morris, Etheridge said. During the
three months expert auditors were jwork
ing on the books nothing was ever, dis
covered! that would -1 indicate the company
was Insolvent, he said; "Whitfield. Whit-
comb & Co. suggested that we change our
system") he said. For the reason that
the auditors had not found the concern
to be Insolvent after three months,
Etheridge said he did not believe Morris
could have discovered it as such in the
one or two days that he actively man
aged the house. I
Etheridge then said the Morris
brothers- had transferred securities to
their wives to conceal their assets and
escape payments of law suit judgments
which were feared. On Januarv 23. 1918.
Etheridge declared Fred Morris became
the equitable owner of the local; bond
house, but the legal title rested in Hen
rietta A. Morris,, he said.
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INOTESi STILL U5TAID
When asked to explain one. of these
alleged Ideals, Etheridge said: "In 1913
Morris 4Bros. operated the Birmingham
street railroad. The railroad was formed
by thej sale of $3,500,000 bonds and the
issuance of bonus stocks for the same
amount. Early' in 1914 the railway was
not making expenses, so an agreement
was made to borrow $390,000 from its
opponent at I per cent. Shortly after
this the road owned by Morris Bros,
went into the' hands of the receiver and
has never paid off the notes. That claim
Is still! outstanding and it was for this
reason that the firm was reincorporated
in m Fmiaaelphla."
Etheridge then gave the dates
organization and reorganization i
various firms with which the tw
brothers were connected. He was then
asked I to relate , the manner in1 which
Henrietta Morris earned her livijngt He
answered , that each brother paid -her
$100 per month, i - .- . ) .
- At j this point Etherldge mentioned
something about assets, after which he
was asked if he knew of any assets not
on the books. i . j
"I would say," he answered. 'l would
be able to locate some as general entries
belonging to others, which thel general
auditor might easily overlook. ( I will
be able to prove that every dollar of
Henrietta and F. S. Morris has been
taken . from Morris Bros, Inc.. since
all these securities were in Henrietta or
Fred S. Morris's safety deposit box. The
majority,' he aid, were in Miss Morris'
box. He said Morris's will was in the
same "box and that it contained a list
of all his securities. ",'
-Etheridge also stated that the reason
his salary was raised last Jury was so
that ha could pay Morris an additional
$500 per month, in addition to the $500
salary he was already getting from the
ewmpany. thus giving Morris a salary of
$1000 per month, the same as he received
while active president of the company.
INTERIM CERTIFICATES OF
SEATTLE TOTAIi $176,000
Liabilities against Morris Bros.. Inc.
to the extent of $178,000 exist among
Seattle holders of - the company' in
terim certificates, according to Re
ceiver : W. -1. Wtiiteomb, who spent
Wednesday evening . in Seattle. " Whit
comb addressed a. meeting of.-creditors
and checked over the holdings of Seattle
investors In the 'defunct company's se
curities. Whitcomb was advised upon his re
turn of the willingness'of John Lw Eth
eridge to serve the receiver in any pos
sible way, even submitting ; himself to
a police guard while he cleared up any
thing possible ia connection with the
company's books. The receiver, " while
determining to let his- attorneys settle
the matter of, Etheridge's service, de
clared himself ready to let the former
bond house head do everything possible
to aid in straightening accounts.
Today the Morris Bros, office became
a clearing house for creditors and in
formation concerning their holdings, is
obtainable officially only from the "re
ceiver and from A. M. Cannon, referee
in bankruptcy. It is explained by cred
itors who have investigated that the in
formal association of creditors .which
has assembled several times since the
vreck of the bond house, has no offi
cial significance: and any instructions
to creditors can pome officially only
from officers of the court.
GRAND JURY; INVESTIGATES
SALE OF MORRIS STOCK
Grand jury investigation of the sale
of preferred stock by Morris Brothers,
when that concern advanced its capi
talisation from $100,000 to $1,000,000, is
under way today. The Investigation Is
based upon the finding that the 'defunct
concern had received no permit from the
corporation commissioner to sell such
preftrred stock, nor had a permit been
issued- to sell interim certificates ex
changeable for preferred stock.
Upon the grand jury investigation is
expected to be issued an indictment that
will hold the personnel of the wrecked
company liable under the blue sky laws
of Oregon. .
W. D. Whitcomb. receiver, . was
subpenaed to the investigation today,
but, pending a direct need for his per
sonal appearance, he was permitted to
substitute one of the -receiver's auditors.
GRAIN SPECULATION
DECLARED BENEFIT
Washington, Jan. 13. I.j K. S.)
Grain speculators instead of being
the curse of the grain . market are
in reality Its salvation, according:
Leslie F. Gates, former president
the Chicago Board of Trade, who
appeared today before the house g
rlculture committee in opposition to
the cjapperrTincher bill. I j.
"The futures market provides a con
stant market In peace or war, in pros
perity or panic, where the producer may
dispose of his holdings for prices based
on world ' supply and demanji," said
OatesJ Futures trading stabilizes val
ues, reduces the toll between producer
and consumer, facilitates distribution
and prevents monopoly. j " .
"A satisfactory future market, where
grain insurance might be obtained can
not be had without speculation. It Is
the speculative class who are real buy
ers and sellers and thus make a con
stant market." ' .
. Trading in futures cannot be held re
sponsible for price declines of the last
year (in farm products. Gates said. He
pointed out there was no future trading
in silk, wool, hides, copper, ete, yet
they jail experienced sharp declines.
"Remove the futures market;" Gates
continued, "and you not only strike a
blow at the producer, but you paralyze
the grain marketing machinery. Ger
many! abolished future trading and so
serious -was the situation resulting that
she had to restore it. ";. j
"You hear much talk of manipulation.
Most jof it is fancied. ' Under the. rules
of the exchanges now ' corners are i ut
terly impossible.
GOVERNOR OLCOTT TO
GIVE NEW MESSAGE
(Continued From Pt On)
CAPITAL AND LABOR
FIGHT FOR CABINET
(Continued Prom Pat One)
of the
of the
Morris
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FREE LESSONS GIVEN
REMOVAL SALE ,
McDougall Music Co J
IZB ALDER STREET ' "Z
BETWEEN SIXTH AND ROADWAY
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'-SALARY IXCBEASED
Some of the assets which. Morris got
first! and which have, since been con
verted to others things,. according ; to
Etheridge. follow: : $54,000 stock, of
Morris Bros, company of Philadelphia,
$100,000 in Victory bonds.' $50,000 stock
in the Rogue River . Water company,
$30,000 bonds x Ot ,the TJmpqua Valley
Light & Power company, $15,000 bonds of
the Tuscaloosa Railway & Utility, com
pany. Etheridge note of $5000 on the
purchase of the house and $268,000 in
other securities. - , i :
Etheridge then seated that he believed
appointment of Hoover with sighs of
relief; hot because he represents their
Viewpoint, but because they have been
in fear that a neutral would not be
appointed and that the next four years
at least would be a constant battle with
an arch-foe of unionism in the depart
ment of labor.
EACH SIDE 8ICBBOK5
The trouble is that both sides are
emphasizing their rights when each side
should be announcing their concessions
so a compromise may be worked out.
That's why Mr. Harding himself is
eager to' appoint a man who shall have
the. imagination, the initiative and force
to work out a real solution of the dif
ference between employer . and employe.
"The Importance of the appointment,
too, lies in the fact that the department
of labor investigators must be impartial
and just whenever a big strike arises,
and that their conciliators must be skill
ful enough to retain' the confidence of
the parties to a strike. The fear of the
conservative labor leaders is that, if a
foe of unionism Is appointed, there never
will be any recourse to government
boards of mediation and conciliation,
and : that the progress which has been
made toward the friendly settlement of
labor disputes will be lost.
COMPROMISE "SPIRIT LACKIK
The president's firSt industrial confer
ence failed because both sides refused to
compromise. The second conference, dif
ferently constituted, got somewhat far
ther along, but never attempted to deal
with fundamentals.
OPEX SHOP IS ISSCE '
The open land closed shop question is
still unsolved. The real fight that Is
coming is not over reductions in wages,
but the open shop issue. Employers'
organizations here admit that the strug
gle is on in earnest and that the first
step is the appointment of a secretary of
labor. There are two kinds of open shop :
One that is open to union' and non-union
'workers, with the two classes on an
equal footing, and in which the manage
ment deals with the workers through
committees without , reference to their
national organizations. The other kind
is the shop closed to union workers al
together. Unfortunately, some employ
ers' leaders mean the latter kind when
they talk about an "open" shop. What
they mean is one that is closed to union
men and open only to non-union men.
LABOR WOULD RETAIJT RIGHT
However, the Interesting undercurrent
of the fight is that labof is not making
at the time a concerted fight against
wage reductions, but a fight to retain
rights already won. Now that prices are
falling and the cost of living is being
slowly. , but gradually, reduced, -the
workers whose wages are not reduced is
In actuality getting progressive wages.
Skilled labor, as evidenced in the depart
ment of labor statistics, for the most
part received wage increase during the
war which were in excess of the in
creased living costs. Open warfare will
result, however, if, in addition to reduc
ing wages; advantage is taken by em
ployers to reopen old sores and start the
trade union . battle anew. Disinterested
folks is such institutions as the depart
ment of labor and the United States
Chamber of Commerce predict the fail
ure on the part of union labor to force
a closed shop on the country and the de
feat of the manufacturers to bring about
their kind of a closed shop. .
HOOTER Hl'S 1 ALTERNATIVE
When the armistice Is declared, both
sides will be more reasonable, but in the
meantime the struggle has managed to
affect the chances of Herbert Hoover
for the secretaryship of labor. The ad
vantage that Mr. Hoover has, j however.
Is that Mr. Harding wants him either for
secretary of labor or secretary of the in
terior. If he ts sidetracked for the one
portfolio because of the open ehop issue,
Mr. Hoover being a Caliornian and an
engineer, still remains eligible for the
secretaryship of the Interior, which
usually goes to a westerner. .
not desired to give out advance notice
of the subject matter of the message.
Various surmises have sprung up, one
that the . executive desires to lay be
fore the . assembly the reporjt of the
special commission appointed by him to
ferret out additional sources of revenue
and report methods and means for con
verting these into tax money for the
support of the state government.
Another is that it has to do with
forest and scenic road development.
Whatever the message may consider and
whether its contents may be pleasur
able I to the assembly or. otherwise, the
sudden and unexpected, request fr a
personally conducted special I message
has Jut the members on their notice
and in a state of mind that makes them
morel than usually interested in next
Monday's joint session. I .
BLTjLi provides legislators
SHALL RECEIVE $5 DAILY
State House, Salem, Or., Jan, 13. The
house adjourned at noon today to recon
vene) at 11 o'clock Monday morning. A
resolution was adopted, during , the fore
noon! to meet in joint session with the
senate to receive a message from the
governor, the purport of which has not
been made public.
During today's session Lyrfh of Mult
nomah introduced a house joint resolu-J
tion iprovidlng that members of the legH
islature shall receive $5 per day but not
to exceed $300 for any one session ; that
the same compensation per day shall be
allowed for special sessions not to ex
ceed 20 days," and, that $3 be allowed for
every 20 miles traveled by a member in
coming to or going from places of as
sembly. Representative Belknap , introduced a
bill that prohibits the use of dogs in
hunting China pheasants. Carey of Yam
hill introduced e bill providing for an
appropriation of $800 for improvement of
Soda Springs and grounds at Sodaville.
LLnn county. . j
Lyjnn of Multnomah introduced a bill
providing for five-year terms for ; con
stables in counties of 100,000 or more
populations, and providing that consta
bles elected In sue hcounties in 1920 shall
remain in office until election of their
successors in lSZo.
Move to Make Army
Measure Unfinished
Business Is Defeated
i ' ,
Washington, Jan. 13. (I. X. S.) A
motion to make the New resolution to
reduce the army to 175,000 men the "un
finished business" before the senate in
place of the Mussle Shoals nitrate bill
now) holding that position, was defeat
ed in the senate this afternoon by a
votej of 34 to 29.
Four Republicans voted with the
Democrats in defeating the motion :
Cdpper, Kansas ; Gronna, North Da
kota) ; La Follette, Wisconsin, and Mc
Nary, Oregon. I
Senator Gore (Dem., Okla.) voted wKh
the Republicans who supported the mo
tion
Windmill Topples
Near -Woman's Bed
Albany, Or., Jan. 13. Missing her bed
by ) three feet, a windmill, fell early
Wednesday morning at the home of Miss
Myrtle Rowe, hurled to the ground by a
gust of wind. The crash awakened the
other members of the family, but the
catapulted mill .had caused no damage.
The mill and tank were destroyed. ? -
McGormick Employe
s to His Death
Itced Named Deputy i'
':. Vancouver. "Wash., Jan. 13. Walter
Schwara, county engineer, has appointed
E. I, Reed, formerly connected with the
city engineer's force In this city,; and
with the Washington state highway de
partment, as nis deputy.
Leap!
Oakland, Cal., Jan. 1. (I. K. S.)
.cuwaru jn. unu, prouueuon engineer
for the McCormick Lumber company of
San Francisco and formerly a promlneat
Boston construction engineer, leaped
from the fourth story of the Palace
apartments here today. Death Was in
apartments here Wednesday. Death, was
instantaneous. Blake had been Buffering
from pneumonia for a week. It is be
lieved his illness caused him to take his
life. He is survived by his wife and a
son, 8 years of age. i
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Vessel in Distress;
Tug Goes to Rescue
I San Francisco, Jan. 13. U." P.j A
four masted, sailing vessel was reported
K distress shortly before noon today by
iptain i Anderson, lookout at Point
Lobos, at thejentrance to San Francisco
bay. The vessel was not identified. A
Red .Stack tug was : immediately dis
patched from San Francisco to crlve is.
M. E. Church Will
Make Own Films
In 'Movie Campaign
Chicago, Jan. 13.-(1, N. S.) With an
announcement at today's session of the
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church for the Chicago area that motion
pictures and electric eigne as means of
salvation are to enter largely in the
church's centenary ) evangelistic cam
paign, there, was made public a "white
list" of motion pictures and- motion pic
ture players whichi have found favor
with the denomination. It follows :
J William . S.' Hart. Lillian , Gish, - Uharles
Ray, Robert Harron, Gloria Swanson.
Eliott Dexter, Wallace Re id, Mary Miles
Minter, Shirley Mason. Robert Warwick,
Marguerite Clark. Bryant Washburn.
Roscoe iFatt-y) Arbuckje, Forbes Rob
ertson, Dorothy Gish and other minor,
lights of the movie industry.
J The Rev. R. J Wade, secretary of the
church's ; board of advance, - announced
that the moving of the church's motion
picture enterprises from New York to
Chicago, j where a four stoty factory- is
to be taken'over, the denomination will
go Into the manufacture of religious and
missionary films in earnest An expert
motion picture man is to, nave, charge
of the work . and all producing com
panies will be Invited "to . submit films
for the jchurch's approval.
Jobbing Contractors
Announce Reduction
rln Carpenters' Wage
i Officials of the General Jobbing Con
tractors' association announced today
that a reduction in the wages ' of car
penters and other' employes . of! members
of the association would become effec
tive February 1.. Pay for the carpenters
is cut "from $J per!day to $7 per day by
the proposed scale and other wages are
trimmed proportionately. Thie charge
per man per hour made to the: public by
the association would be cut from $1.50
to $1.35. !
The contractors', association has a
contract with the carpenters calling for
$8 per day, effective until May, accord
ing to B. W. Sleeman. district repre
sentative of the carpenters' union. Slee
man stated the association members em
ploy only a small percentage of the car
penters of the city and the principal ef
fect of the new scale would be the hir
ing of Inferior workmen by the association.
Convict Who Broke
Parole Returned
To Grants Pass
r
Grants Pass, Or., Jan. 13. Irving
Rudd, a young man convicted last sum
mer on a. charge of holding up and rob
bing an automobile party on the Pacific
highway, north of Grants Pass near
Merlin, was returned to this city Mon
day and lodged in the county jail as a
parole breaker. Rudd was sentenced
to from one to seven years in the state
penitentiary, and was paroled to the
Salvation army. He disappeared and the
sheriffs office finally located- him at
Moorehead, Minn.
C. C Cranchell. arrested nn a .i,,...
of bootlegging, was found guilty and
Our January Clearance Is, Setting a
New Record for Value-Giving in
"Men's Fine Wear
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UMC
Men's Hats and Furnishings
3f& Off 2
EXTRA
SPECIAL
f
65c and 75c Interwoven and
Phoenix Fine Lisle Hose . . .
40c
NOTHING RESERVED IN THIS SALE EXCEPT COLLARS
MENS WEAR
CORBETT BUILDING FIFTH AND MORRISON
Extra
Special
Plaid
Skirts
$8.75
Final clear
ance wool
plaid skirts 1
former values I'
to $20:00. ;
Practically all
colors.! Spe
cial for this
sale. . .$8.75
Spring goods are arriving daily. We must
clear our racks. So here they go atprices that
will move them quick. Arid, too, buy them on
credit, if you desire.
Dresses '
$1&75
.Serges, satins and wool jerseys. , At this
price you'll - pro'bably decide to select
two models, so chief and smart .are they.
Beaded, embroidered and yarn trimmed.
$49.75
Tricotine, iduvetyn; velvet, 'satin, migno
nette, kitten's ear crepe, georgette, and
few light colored taffetas. Former reg
ular price to 85 but in this quick
sale they go for... ...$49.75
$12.75
Beaver plush coats
.one of these coats;
ment. Formerly
fancy lined. Every
are this year's gar
worth 25. Large
patch pockets. Belted and loose-fitting -
models. Only few left the values.
remarkable at the low .'.
however, are
price
.A..
i
$12.75
$19.75
Plush coats 'with peaver plush collars
and cuffs. The touch of beaver plush
gives the finished appearance to the
coat.'so sought by the woman ,of re
fined taste. They are bargains at $19.75
" JJCtO J.JL jiy w
a 7 'J. .-'.I.'
ays;
ft
$3.95
Values to $830
Georgette blouses in flesh
and white. Embroidered,
silk and bead trimmed.
Long and short sleeves.
An ample number of
blouses are here from
which you may make
your selection. ' -
. $3.95
First Showing
Spring Hats
haye .,- arrived -tfiese
new Spring creations in our
Millinery Department.
may
be worn from
(They
now
through the summer months
to; Fall. No two alike. Silk
and straw, celophane braid.
Beads, tassels and fancy or
naments form the j trim
mings. Prices range from
VI
$5 V$15
' Washington at Tenth St.
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Sweaters
$3.95
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Values to $16.75 ,
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Included arc 25 .wool
sweaters which we desire to
close out. Some arc slightly
soiled and shop ,wprh but
all are exceptional values.
Tuxed1 models; ripple bot
toms; Coat Sweaters, Slip
Ons with pr without sleeves.
Practically all colors. For
quick sale-r , , ,",
$3.95
Credit
Too!
Use your
credit. Our
"Cheerful
Credit" plan
enables you '
to buy NOW,
pay later at
convenient
periods.
Our prices
are the same,
-icashor
credit. -
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