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W .m . iniminu"liii wwi "wwt "WEDNESDAY. " OCTOBER i; 12 4 -THE OREGON " DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND.' rQREGON , Over-hasty financial arrangements In connection with th recent concert ot the -Whitney Boys' chortn at the State - fair resulted In deficit of $501.11, it wu : revealed at the annual- meeting of the supporters of the chprus Tuesday night The apecial finance committee recently appoiated by the association with, power to act; paid a local money lender, whose fc&me it refused to revest, a'commisaion - of $100 for a $500 Joan for two weeks, it Was shown. This was for the payment of a special train to Salem, the commute explained. The expenditures, of the concert were 12147.! and the proceeds only. $1(44.80. a The association, by applying f44C.Se left 'n iia treasury irom previous local con? certs, has reduced the deficit to $56.25. ' The apecial finance committee was composed of Sanfield MacDonald and the Rev. H. K. Whitney. It was appointed with power to act According to E. 8. Miller, treasurer. MacDonald was made chairman of the committee with instruc tions to appoint four other members.- In stead of appointing four, he chose only Dr. Whitney, and proceeded to act with- out any suggestion from the regular of ficers. MJDer said : Officers of the association agreed that the proceedings was Irregular and recom .raended that hereafter all financial mat tors be handled through the regular treasurer. The committee explained the $500 loan by saying it was needed in a I4irry to pay for a special train. I Officers for the . ensuing year were elected as follows : O., V. Badley, presi dent; Sanfield MacDonald. vice presi dent; E. S. Miller, treasurer; the Rev. . A. R. Evans. Mrs. Otto Ruedy and A. C. Alexander, directors, Phony Warrant Is Worked, But Fakers Fail to Get Booze Martin Pratt,' chief deputy in the sheriffs office, wanta the moral of this story to be put first: -Don't throw your door open to men who claim to be deputy sheriffs but who won't let you read the search warrant ' they claim to carry." The story : Monday night there was a pounding on the door of a prominent west side resident The householder's . sister opened the door. Three men were waiting outside. They flashed stars on her but did not give her time to see what kind of stars they were. "We are deputy sheriffs and we've come to search your hoube. You've got boose here." "Where is your search warrant?" the woman demanded. She recalled recent 4Xurt decisions On the Question of search . warrants. "Here it Is." one of the men said. You Are Cordially Public Redding "J '- II BROADWAY HALL Come and Dance With the Blushing Bride and Groom WEDDING CBTREMOXT PROMPTLY AT If:! O'CLOCK Dancing the Entire Evening ,.. : " SIES 7J, LADIES e Iaelsdiag Tax aad Cheeking : MVIC MEYERS' SYNCOPATERS" showing her a piece of paper, -Tut only enough of it so that she could se "Dis trict Court" printed .across the top. They pushed, by her and. entered the room. ; One stayed by her while the others descended to -the cellar. A few minutes later the two men returned, - Wot a drop," they repot ted.1"-" In the meantime the householder had entered the room and . one of the. men who had returned from the cellar, evi dently' recognised hlm s 4 s- know this fellow. He ain't got aayr thing." be said. , "Let's go . to the next place."':1-. -'' . r-" f" " No other complaints have been re ceived, according. to Martin Pratt. "Probably they found boose at the next place and the people were afraid to report." he said. There is one thing the public should understand. . Every deputy-sheriff going out of this office will be found , to be courteous and al ways reedy ; to show the search war rant These men were Impostors." AUTO L Automobile theft Is becoming too com mon an offense. Federal Judge It S. Bean told Henry Geffen : and Walter Macklett this morning, after they plead ed guilty to stealing the automobile of C R. Watts of HUlsboro. "People have a right to leave their cars on the street," the court, continued. Geffen, who was indicted under the names of Calvin S. Spencer,-alias Henry Martin, alias.' Spencer C. Colvln, was sentenced to 13 months at McNeils island prison. Macklett was given a nine months' county Jail ' sentence. The Watts car j eras-taken to. Seattle by the two, where unsuccessful efforts w ere made to sell K. They were arrest ed upon their return to Portland with the machine. Geffen also admitted to the court the theft a few weeks ago of an automobile belonging, to W. W. Dugan, an attorney in The Journal building. The Dugan car was taken to Los Angeles and sold, the court was advised. Alfred Col vey alias Alfred J. Creasy, an ex-soldier, pleaded guilty to having a part in the robbery of the Tangent Or., postoffice on August 28. .He was given six months in the county Jail. Colvey and Kenneth Riggens are said to have taken a sack containing $145 off the postmaster's desk. Riggens haa not been apprehended. Plans Made for 'Go To Church Sunday' Extensive plans are being made by the Portland Federation of Churches to make r.ext Sunday a great day in Portland's churches. The day has been set aside as "Go to Church Sunday." The advertising committee of which David M. Botsford is chairman has placed 100 signs on street cars, and, through the courtesy of Foster &, Kleiser. is securing free rental of 50 spaces on prominent billboards in the city. The billboards and streetcar signs are being displayed today. Invited to Attend a Jl ill i 1 rfif KB SCORED SENTENCED WE lay it down as an axiom, that a man should neither consider quality to the exclusion of price.nor price to the exclusion of quality. The man who approaches our Hickey Freeman Clothes in that spirit, will find satisfaction at both 'ends of the proposi tion. They are as high as they can be in quality, but not as high as they might be , . , i ' , - - . in price. ; v IN MERCHANT TAILOR FABRICS Why i Became we choose them ourselves. What everybody wants Is not what we want or you want. Look thensom and ea how well we'va chosen In your behalf 1 . BEN SELLING . Leading Clothier Morrison Street at Fourth 1 SHORT LINES MUST SEK PROTECTION, SAYS. RAIL CHIEF . sBsMsaasBBsaaaaMSBBBaasassssasBssw If trunk' line railroads are going to merge, as suggested in the - tentative plan of the interstate commerce com mission, short line 'railroads 'for their own protection will have to line up with the major organizations. Bird M. Robin son, president of the American Short Line railroads, told representatives , at a meeting in the Portland hotel today. The meeting is a regional one of the mssocla-tlon. held so that short line roads in the Northwest may gain an expres sion of opinion as to their needs. During the war all the' meetings of the short lme organisation were held at the national capital, since the rail roads were under federal control. VALUATIONS UirOBTAST : r . v?. , Since: the. conclusion of federal con trol. - however, i the . sessions are belna held in the various, regions. ' To con duct the meeting, in Portland today the offlcera of the organisation came here. In addition to Robinson they are : Ben X. Cain, vice' president and gen eral counsel; T. F. Whlttelaey, secretary-treasurer ; F..C. Reilly, traffic man ager of the western classification terri tory and acting manager of the labor department ; J. W. Cain, manager of purchases, and I. T. Hanson, manager of the bureau ot tariffs and printing. Cain told the 40 representatives of Northwestern short lines roads that particular thought should be given the subject of valuations at this time, since it Is on this basis that the rate structure is built by the interstate commerce com mission. He said that many of the short line roads are still basing, their claims on 1914 prices and have not even taken into consideration the - depreciation or added valuation of the property since that time: . -, 8TCDT SITUATION , Cain told the delegates df the work the purchasing department is doing: to save money for the small roads by mak ing large collective purchases. The speakers told the delegates that they are here to get an Idea of the local situation and its bearing on the national railroad problem. The short line or ganisation is made up of S00 member roads with a total of approximately 36. 000 miles. Of this number about 75 roads are located in the Northwest : territory and over 200 west of Colorado. The-meeting was scheduled to continue this afternoon with a discussion of rates, automobile competition, demands of labor, financing, legislation ,and other problems. The officials will leave for other regional meetings tonight. Fair Tax Measure to Come Up Thursday ' -i" : i . . The proposed charter amendment en abling the city of Portland to levy a $2,000,000 tat for the purpose of financ ing the 192S exposition, will "toe present ed at a council meeting at 2 p. in. Thursday by members of' the executive committee of the exposition, j The com mittee will hold s. luncheon meeting at the Old Colony club at Boon. The pro posed amendment to the city charter will be voted on at a special election in November. "' a ci - Columbus Day Not Generally Observed Today, the 429th anniversary of the discovery of America, was passed - in Portland with little in the way of com memoration of the feat of Christopher Columbus save programs in schools and by Knights of Columbus. Banks' -were closed, the day being a state legal holiday, but courthouse offices and fed eral buildings were open. V Mock: Trial: to Bet Feature, of "Fire Prevention Week One of the features of Fire Prevention week will -be a , mock trial at Couch school. next Friday at, 2:3e o'clock. A playlet staged with e. certain amount of poetic license, will be put on by pupils et the eighth grade from the school under the supervision of Professor I A. Wi ley and Miss Viola OrtschUd. , In the advance announcement it -is stated that considerable time has been spent in the perpetration of the mock trial, which will . be ; elaborate' and will- have many difficult characters.' .; iS - The cast fcs as follows : '.Judge, Jack Rice ; district attorney, Rodney Banks ; attorney for defense, Roy Hotop ; court clerk,' Jack Davis: jury foreman, Ed ward Sewell ; carelessness. Joe Friedea- thal. . ' ..try The following causes of fire are de picted and portrayed by pupils who have an active part In the program: Kerosene, Homer Wright; cigarette. Dunlap Taylor ; matches, Muriel W ei ther; electricity, Jane Friedlander; rubbish. Edwin Mills; gas, Florence Horn; defective chimney. Mar jorie War ren ; gasoline, Marion Look ; lightning, Billy Henry ; bonfire, Faye Howe ;' spon taneous combustion, Ruth Wilhelm. . . During the remainder of Fire Preven tion week the following schedule has been prepared : . Speakers will appear at the following schools: , Albina, Friday, 1:45 p. m. ; Kenton, Wednesday, 1 p. m. . Alameda, Friday, 2 p. m. -? Portland Woman's Research club will have a meeting at the home of Mrs. D. M. Watson, 21 Cornell road, in which Fire Marshal Grenfell will speak on the bureau of fire prevention and its rela tion to the city government, and will be augmented by actual scenes of fires illustrated by slides and lecture by Captain Roberts. , DISARMAMENT IS NOT (Continued From Ptf Ont) President Harding's reply to the letter Miss Freed wrote October 5, - declared for "reasonable limitation." She replied that this letter "seemed to bring a mes sage of hopelessness" to those , seeking disarmament, and asked him to explain what "he meant by "reasonable limita tion." - "By reasonable limitation" the presi dent replied, "I mean something practi cable that there is a chance to accom plish, rather than the ideal that there would be no chance to realise. It is nec essary to deal with actualities to do the best possible.' .Universal disarmament would be beyond the hope of realization ; even its desirability at this time might well be questioned. Thousands of years of history recording the wars and con troversies of mankind, suggest that human nature would require revolution ary reorganization to make universal disarmament possible. A consideration of the present state of the world must, I think, enforce the conclusion that this is not a hopeful time to undertake that kind of revolution. "On the other hand, t world with the horrors of recent experiences seared into its mind, and staggering under the load of , debt and armaments, has gen erously justified our hope for a favorable attitude toward the practical effort, the sincere beginning, that we are attempt ing. tBGES SUPPORT "The fine spirit in which leading na tions have received the invitation to meet and consider these things is alto gether encouraging. To undertake the impossible and fail might leave our last state worse than our first. The attitude of the nations warrants confidence that we will not fail, but rather than sub stantial results will be accomplished, cal culated to lessen the armament burden and to reduce the danger of armed con flict i ; "I feel that in such an 'effort we are entitled to the support of all people who would be 'glad as I can assure you I would to see etill more accomplished if possible." ; - . HABDUTGS WRITES OF HIS TIEJT8 03T PCBLIC PRESS (Br United Plea) Washington, Oct 12.-r-President Hard ing, in a letter to be read at the open ing of the world press congress at Hono lulu, expresses the hope that the con gress "might prove the precursor of an understanding which would Insure the peace of the world" and the "proximate end of the frightful waste of competing armaments." The letter made public at the White House Tuesday was addressed to Gov ernor Farrington, of the Hawaiian islands. Taking up the powers and evils of th6 press. Harding's letter said: "Not only have the world war and lthe events transpiring since the armis tice impressed us an anew with the use and value of the public press, but they have demonstrated the possbile danger, which resides in a press too;, freely em ployed for mere propaganda." "It is hard to Imagine." the president's letter continues, ."justifications in this day and age, especially in view of the world's late unhappy, experiences, for armed conflict among 'civilised people anywhere, and, especially, among peo ples so widely separated as those on Op posite borders of the Pacific.'' DISARMAMENT MUST SOT FAIL, DECLA&ES 6BA5GE The coming disarmament conference in Washington must not fait, assert the members of Woodburn - grange, in - a resolution urging Americans to omit nothing to .create-:-a righteous public opinion 'which American represenatives will heed.' r - - "If the conference does not do what it is called upon to do. its failure will mark the darkest day civilisation has seen." says the resolution. ' - Arrest Of Brothers Hits Bootlegger Eing In the arrest Tuesday afternoon of the .three Johnson brothers, colored, fed eral prohibition agents declared today they had the "king pins" in the North End bootlegging ring, which has . been bothering them for weeks. Louis John son. Mack Johnson" and Tom Johnson are charged with having liquor Is their possession and with selling Uqutr. All are at liberty under-S1500 each. Earlier in the 4ay four . prohibition agents say they made a purchase of li quor at a North Fourteenth street house. A few hours later they returned with' a search warrant for more. One of the brothers is said to have broken the bot tles containing the remaining supply be fore Che agents could. finish reading the search warrant, but one bottle, happened to break a little ways below the neck, so the agents secured half a bottle ot liquor as evidence. The case, will be presented to the next grand Jury ' , POSSIBLE HARDING KLAN LAW ABIDING, wizard mm Washington, Oct. 12. Imperial Wisard J. Simmons of the Ku Klux an de nounced as "false, ridiculous and With out foundation:' charges that bis organ-' Ixatlon preaches - religious Intolerance and violation of the law, when he ap peared late ' today before, the house rules committee to defend his secret ordv- . ..-:"-. ' . Colonel. Simmons ; today nersonally organised a counter attack on the forces ; . . . -- i -. seeking to disband his - organisation throuighl a congressional Investigation. Simmons directed his attorneys , and others, from the croup representing the "Invisible empire' In an attack against C Anderson Wright, formerly King Kleagle in New York, who bared many of the secrets of the Klan to. the house rules committee. The committee is to decide whether a congressional Investi gation Is' warranted. - The 11,000.000 negroes of the United States live In constant terror of the Ku Klux Klan, Rev. J. L. Watson, chairman of the. National Equal Rights league, composed of negroes, told the house rules eommttee today. Rev. Mr. Watson and other officers of the league urged the committee to take steps to wipe out "the menace. ' William M. Trotter, Boston, also an of ficer of the league, charged that, the present Ku Klux Klan is perpetuating the greatest terror organisation in the history of the United States.' : MUX JAILED, BAB BOBBED ; ' Aberdeen; Wash., 'jcL 12. While John Trimmer and Charles Champ, owners of the Olympia bar, were serving a 30 day term in the city lail for violations of the liquor law, their establishment was entered and robbed of all the prop erty worth taking, -it,. (Q). Why do you continue to pay your good money for rent? . If you buy a lot at the Laurelhurst sale next Saturday you will be getting t - a start and a start is what you heed ' When you own your lot you can go to most any reputable, builder, who will arrange to finance building your home on reasonable basis. ' Do you realize that $50 per month compounded amounts to $7908.40 in 10 years? WHY GIVE THAT MUCH TO YOUR LANDLORD? PUT IT IN YOUR HOME INSTEAD TERMS The Laurelhurst Company also will sell the following lots at the "same auction sale, oh the same conditions ; governing this sale ; , r Sandy BouIeVard -N. side 124 ft. E. of 29th. L'ot 50x100. Lot 3, Block 2, Commercial Add." East 18th Street -W. side 200 ft. N. of ; Siskiyou St. 50x100 each. Lots 5 and . 6, Block 44, Irvington. 'y-. . ; . , pMgeTOsf Co. ,s , i .. -i - -r t . Festival Board Has ;; $4,300, as Leftover; Election on . Friday . - i r - -. " ' - ' i When the Rose .Festival board bal anced . its . accounts '.Tuesday, night it found that lisM remained in the treas ury after staging the 1921 festival. Deo orations were inexpensive and but little was paid for band music because ot the amplifier which projected phonograph music, said President O. W, Mielae, giv ing; reasons for the . balance," the first that lias ever-been shown by a festival board. Other economies enabled : the board to finish without drawing on the emergency fund ot IJ500 provided by the county. - .vfe'"" - ''y:0:y - Three members of the 1921 board will be recommended for re-election on the 1922 board Friday night In the Chamber of Commerce. ; Members the old board will .seek to re-elect are Fred German, Fred W. Vogler and Harry W. Kent. pvery regularly organised body lot citlsena In Portland Is entitled to a voice 1a the electiou of a board of di rectors, according toOeorge L Ranch, secretary of the Rose Festival auxiliary. Each of the organisations Interested In the success of te festival is urged to send three delegates to the meeting and to name one nominee for the board ef-dl-jectora. . , s , Hearings by Public Service Body for Month Scheduled Salem. Or., Oct. 12. The application Of the Nevada-California-Oregon Tele phone & Telegraph company, with head quarters at SOsanville. CaL, for a certif icate of convenience and necessity in order that it may install telephone servr ice at Lakeview, in competition .with the Lakeview-Pine Creek iilectric com a P asareliiirslt TAKES PLACE AT T SAT. .-at ,1 10 and auctioneer's fee of $15 per lot, at time of tale. 10 on or before Not. 1st, 1921. Balance due Laurelhurst Co., payable in 18 monthly payments commencing January 1, 1922. Ti. E. Cor. Hancock and E. 54th 50x100. Lot 9, Block 10, Elmhurst. - ' SEND FOR "t Owners 27012 STARK ST." x - pany, win be the subject of an investi- gauon y nv . vwrey. puouc service commissioner at a hearing in Lakeview, October 2L On the same day he .will In vestigate the application ot the Lake- view-Pine Creek vcompanyj tor an 4n- creaae In phone rates. :-' : r l ' On ?Octooer . 17 Corey : will-: conduct hearings on two grade crossing appli cations at end and on October 19 be win bold a bearing at Barns relative to electric service given . by the " Burns Electric Companyi Inadequacy of which Is charged by the Burns Commercial club. , " i -, 'if .-. , Telephone service at The Dalles will be 'Investigated by Corey Saturday and - , Do they cramp, do they, tire easily? t y ; Have you corns, callouses or bunions, : weakjor broken arches, pains in feet or J v 5 , limbs? , , ' , , . ,V Don't think your troubles are of too long standing to be ' corrected, but let me treat them -simply and surely. You'll know the joy of foot comfort if you come to ROBT. FISHER, Foot Specialist 152 Fourth Street, Between Alder and Morrison ; , emi Payer Aicii! MULTNOMAH HOTEL t IP sii o S. W. Cor.E. 19Ui and Claybourne Street 50x100. i Lot 24, Block 1 5, Westmore land. ' ' ' N. Side Schuyler Street 200 ft. W; of E. " 35th' St. "50x100. Lot 16,-Block' 2, . Hahcock Street Addition. BOOKMAP Walter H. PHONE- MA1N1700 . ' -'" : : ... on October 24 he will bold a hearing at Klamath Falls relative" to the main tenance cf an agency - by the Southern; Pacific railroad at Modoc Point. Commissioner 1 Fred , Q," Buchtel is scheduled - for a hearing at Portland. November t orf the application ot the Nehalem . Boom company tor a togging franchise; en' the .Willamette alough. . ? . , ... . i.-w . ; - 9EKTEKCKD FO FOKOEBT " Vancouver. Waslu. Oct . It. -George Clauses, charged with forging the name ot tamer Lawson to a bonus check and obtaining! 300 thereon 'from the Camas State .bank, pleaded guilty to the charge before Judge Simpson, Tuesday, and was sentenced to serve net leas than one yfear in the reformatory at Monroe." - - ; ' ' WhatGouht It's not what you pay but what you get If four feet hurt, come in and get them examined free. M, J Barry Auctioneer Sal