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i Our Entire Stock of Waists One-Fourth to One-Third Below Regular Prices (Old White Corner Bniltline) ' Salem's Greatest Women's Apparel Store (D Am Entire Stock Offered at One-Fourth to One-Half Regular Prices Friday and Saturday Owing to the unseasonable Fall weather, unfavorable trade conditions caused by the war and influenza epidemic, and because of fhc late arrival of many lots of seasonable merchandise, our distributing agents for the northwest chain of stores owned and operated by this company find themselves greatly overstocked with this season's merchandise and have shipped to us as our allotment an immense quantity of New Coats, Suits, Dresses, Millinery and Furs, With explicit instructions to take radical' price reducing measures for immediate unloading of surplus stock. SALE BEGINS FRIDAY at 10 A. M. MOONEY ESCAPES GALLOWS WHEN HE RECEIVES COMMUTATION TO LIFE FROM GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA (Continued from Page 1.) arrested shortly after the explosion, and of these Warren K. Billings . a. M " a, 1 IM. I I was convicted and sentenced to me imprisonmrni ami iuum . Mnnnev found cuiltv and sentenced to be hanged. "So long as avenues of apieal to the courts remained open to Mooney, and he was availing himself thereof, I deemed it improper for executive authority to interfere. Although the constitution of California clothes the governor with power to exercise clemency ai anv time after conviction, it is important, so far as practicable not - ... i . court of California, which appeal SALEM'S GREATEST SALE OF YOUNG LADIES' AND WOMEN'S NEW SUITS carries with it convincing jroof- that this is the center of greatest values in fashionable apparel., Not another store in Oregon can offer garments of the cleverest style and equal quality at the prices we name for our unloading sale?. You 11 find this a marvelous opportunity to secure styl ish tailor-made and novelty suits at one-third to one-half below regular values. IJelow we men tion a few only; many other equally good values. Regular values $29.50, Sale Price . . . Regular values $37.50, Sale Price ...................... Regular values $42.00, Sale Price . .......... $1 5.50 $19.75 $23.75 Regular values $49.00, Sale Price Regular values $59.00, Sale Price Regular values $67.50, Sale Price $27.50 $32.50 $37.50 COATS $15.50 $19.75 ..: $25.00 Regular values $45.00, JQO CH Sale Price SH,i3U 2ffte?.,V2!'. . , ; . . .$37.50 Regular values $75.00. :. . -' !M 7 K( Sale Price .......... . . . . . .V.V. . Regular values $24.50, Sale Price .. ........ Regular values $27.60, Sale Price Regular values $37.50, Sale Price Regular values $17.50, Sale Price Regular values $25.00. Sale ...$11.95 lar vdlues $25.00, C 1 C E?A Price ..iplO.OU Regular values $32.50. Ol Q TC Sale price plO. 0 Regular values $39.50. . flfl Sale Price StJJU Regular values $47.50, OOQ K( Sale Price ....?' Ov ..$31.50 Regular values $50.00, Sale Price ., DINNER IS SERVED WITH SHOVELS Patients at State Hospital Par take of Biggest Thanksgiving Feast in Salem With Great Gusto Excellent Menu Given Rice pudding for dessert? Yes. Just take U pounds of raisins. 15 : gallons of milk, 15 dozen eggs, and 20 pounds of sugar and dump into them a 100-pound sack of He. Place .all in a 100-gallon iron kettle, cook till done, and you have enough to ' satisfy the 1500 patients of the stiU hospital. But rice pudding wasn't all they ; had for' dessert yesterday. There Were also some 480 pumpkin pies, made especially to be devoured. " Thanksgiving dinner at the hos pital was attacked by the 1900 peo- pie connected with it with just as much vim as anywhere else in the city. Under the able direction of Mrs. llattie Allen and her assistant. Mrs. Lena White, a feast of roast pork, fruit salad, sweet . and white , potatoes. ,'ojster soup and half a dozen other good things was dished up, loaded on trucks, shdt along the ' tracks In the basement and up the CASTOR I A For Infants aad CbiMrea In Uso For Over 30 Years Always bears i the ' Clnatur of OREGON MAN'S PLAN IS BEST itself acted as a stay of execution, there was at that tune no occa sion for action on my part. I take it that the president was not cor rectly informed as to the status of the case. "In March I received a tele gram from the president urging. that I commute Mooney s sen tence. It was as follows: The White House, Washing ton. D. C, 2:0Q T. M., March 27, 1918 to intrude into any criminal case until the judicial branch has final ly disposed of it. Only recently has final action been taken by the United States supreme court, and the case of the people versus T. J Mooney placed squarely before me. "In considering the Mooney case, 1 nave had beiore me ine urgent appeal of the president of the United States that I grant commutation. "Originally, in January of this ytar, I received a letter from the president asking me if it woul not be possible to postpone the execution of Mooney until he could be tried on one f the other indictments against him. "Inasmuch as an appeal already had been taken to the supreme " 'Governor William D. Steph ens, Sacramento, Cal. " 'With very great respect I take the. liberty of saying to you that if you could see your way to commute the sentence of Moon ey it would have a most heartfelt effect upon certain international Affairs which his execution would greatly complicate. "(Signed) 'Woodrow Wilson.' "In June I received this addi tional message, the president again urging commutation of en- tence " 'The White House, Washing ton. D. C, 3:51 T. M., June 4, 1918. "'Hon. William D. Stephens, Sacramento, Cal " 'I beg that you will lelievc that I am moved only by a witsr of public duty and of eorM-io;i- liess of the many and eo;npl:e;i?vd interests involved when I asa'n most respectfully liggist a com mutation of the death sentence imposed upon Mooney. I would not venture again to call your at tent ion to this case did I not know the international significance which attaches to it. "(Signed) 'Woodrow Wilson.' "At the time of the receipt of these messages the rase was still "The logic that a roan is either guilty or Innocent, and that neces sarily if the maximum punishment is not Justified, pardon should rouow does not hold, either In theory or In practice. It has been no uncommon thing for executives In granting i clemency to entertain doubt surn- clent to save men from th gallows, but not of that degree of 'reasonable doubt' that the law resolves com pletely In favor of a defendant. "I refuse to recognize this case as in any fashion representing a clash between capital and labor. I regard the petition of the defendant for clemency solely as that of a man convicted of murder In the first de gree. On his behalf a propaganda has been carried on to make It ap pear that he is a martyr to the cause of labor. This Is absurd. The metb- LADIES' KID GLOVES REDFERN WASHABLE KID GLOVES All Colon $2.25 Alio WHITE KID DRESS GLOVES $2.50 OUR PRICES ALWAYS THE LOWEST GALE- & CO. Commercial and Court St-, Salem Fonnerlj Chicago BVcn . PHONE 1072 In Ka ttlA this 5Mh da of S'O- ods pursued in this propaganda have I Tember 1918. partaken largely or me system ae- William D. Stephens. Governor.' a a a a a a m mm m a a - scrioed in me louowing teiier writ ten by Alexander Ilerkman. an asso ciate of Mooney and an agitator lifts to the various' wards. On such a large scale was the dinner served that vegetables were literally dished tip by the shovelful an.d a three tlned instrument, greatly iesmbling a potato fork, was used in portion ing out the meat. Twice a year, on Christmas and Thanksgiving, the hospital Is pre pared for a feast of extraordinarily large proportions, probably the larg est in Oregon, Yesterday the at tendants were setved in three in stallments before the meals were sent up to the wards at 2:30. All of the food for the patients is placed in large aluminum containers stacked one on top of the other so that each tin kep3 the one below it warm. These are run out of the kitchen on small trucks and taken down to the basement, where they travel to vari ous places on the three miles of track leading to the shafts from the wards. Practically everything served at the hospital is raised on its farm and prepared In its kitchen or bakery or canning roms. Sweet cider, manu factured, from Delicious apples grown at Cottage farm, for Instance, formed the principal beverage at yesterday's meal. Commissioner Schulderman pending in the supreme court of the Prnnntet FffiriVnrw tte. Not until August 23 was the ' aj w ' v ss ssaa fat J ' Scheme to Assn. It isn't necessary to take all of the cntes that you hear are good for influenza. rase finally disposed of by the Call fornia courts, and on November IS Of 29 corporation commissioners by the B1,prerae court of tbe tolled of the United States who were asked b...: by the committee on Joint investl-I 1 haTC carefully reviewed all the gatlons of the National Association avaiiauie eviu-nre oeanng on me of Securities commissioners to evolve p"8- Tnere are certain reatures plans by which Information concern-1 connected with It which convince me ing corporations that apply Tor per-that th extreme sentence should not mlts In any state can be made avail-1 execuiea. inereiore, ana oecause eble to the commissioners of other the earnest request of the presl states. Commissioner II. J. Schulder- dent for commutation, and conscious man of Oregon has drawn no thel"" the duty I owe as gorernor of this Plan that Drobablr will be adonted. I tte to all of Its people. I have de- Mr. Schulderman's plan Is the choice 1 elded to commute Mooney's sentence of E. S. Rloley. chairman of the m ine imprisonment, in doing so. I committee on joint Investigations and I accept full responsibility for the wls- he has ssked all other commission-1 dom and Justification of the action. ers for further suggestions. The record of the trial In the Mr. Schulderman s suggestion was superior court was reviewed y the that of having all applicants to fill supreme court of our state and It out a general form that would be I found no reason for upsettlnr the broad enough to give the desired In-1 judgment of the lower court. How formation to any commission deslr-lover, there has remained tb con ing It. As a suggestion be drew up motion that could not be considered a form, a copy of which is enclosed! by the supreme coutt. It is because in a letter from Mr. Ripley to each of this new evidence that I find Jus- t ; I I r . ... oi me 2 9 commissioners. i mtwiuon lor commutation or sen- Commissioner Schulderman of Or-ltcnce. In arriving at this conclusion egon and Commissioner II. l. Carna- I have exercised that caution which han of California for some time have must be observed In weixhlnr evl- had a mutual arrangement by which douce presented ontside of establlsh- tbey Interchanged Information rela-led legal procedure. tlve to corporations of one or the two l "By commutation to life Imprls states applying for permits in tbelonmcnt Mooney's case will be In the " "I have "had some- experience In labor matters. I have also partici pated in the defense work of various labor cases in the east. And all my experience -has convinced me that In such matters the thing of chief Im portance is to create favorable public sentiment. Funds, money for the defense, etc.. are of secondary Im portance. Take, for Instance, the case of Alexander Alderaas, tbe Span ish marine worker. He was arrested during the transport workers' strike of some three years ago and he was charged with cutting a scab and shooting three policemen. The dis trict attorney claimed he could five him 40 years. I was secretary of the Aldemas' defense committee when Simon Pollock, one of our at torneys, came with an offer of com promise from the district attorney; Aldemas should plead guilty and get off with seven years in state prison. We bad little money. Lawyer Dar Jing of Brooklyn had squandered several thousand dollars of our hard collected funds, but we gave him the sack and engaged Pollock, but we did uot depend on money. We at once organized a wide campaign of publicity; held numerous mass meet ings, aglated the matter la the press and got in touch with the people all over the country for purposes of agi tation. When Aldemas was first ar rested everyone ciied 'banc him. Within two months of intense agita tion we so chsnged the public mind on the matter that Aldemas was sen tenced to one and a half years In stead of 40 the district attorney had threatened us with, and Instead of seven years the lawyers were quite ready to accept for him. The moral Is obvious. Stick to your guns al ways and under all circumstances and furthef public agitation to change the pyschology of the people Is mote Important In such matters than big funds. "The defendant Mooney, never has been Identified with the labor movement that has achieved so much for the benefit cf the working men and working women of California, ills connections has been with a small grour of agitators of pronounc ed anarchistic tendencies. However. the propaganda In hli behalf, follow ing tbe plan outlined by Herkman. has been so effective as to become world-wide. Moonejr's previous record Is not anarc"stie OREGON LABOR NOT TO STOP STRIKE MOVE (Continued from page !) 2 DAY 2 MORROW 2 DAYS ONLY T 3 NO! NO ADVANCE IN PRICES "The Sign Invisible" A mighty drama of the Northland, featuring Mitchell Lewis, the giant of "The Harrier," in a fighting, loving, ; daring role. , ' Nothing Pertaining to the War. "Where These Who Know Prefer to Go" '- V-.-. ... " . ---'.-. ! pberty Theatre other. County Comix Allowed Cdmpromise on Delinquents same status as that of Warren K. hillings, who was convicted of the same erlmo and received a sentence to life imprisonment. IT PUTS THE "PEP" Oregon has no statute authorizing a county court to enter Into any com promise agreement as to the amount shall pay. but Attorney General! ,nto Teptlron Tha Combination of Itrown holds that it is proper fori i epMn. isui, iron. Celery. me county court xo consent 10 a com- This Is what makes Pentlron of promise u mere is a aereet in ine i wonderful theraoeutle valne. and n prwTcemnps oi lax muriais or a ie- successful after Influents, the rrn gitimate dispute over the amount to and iQ blood and nerve troubles, ana- be paid. A supreme court opinion Islmla. paleness, nervous weakness and quoted as a precedent. I tho exhausting worry and anxletr ine question was put to ine at-1 over tne world war torney general by W. M. Duncan, dls-l It is a real iron blood and nerve tnci attorney ior Ktamatn county, i tonle. especially beneficial In the A south Dakota law wnich covers weakness following the. Influenta and toe suoject gives tne court a ngniigrlp, to worn-out, brain-fagged men io mate a compromise wnen 11 is to (delicate women, school-tired girl t&e county s interest to do so. Inland to fast-growing boys, invalids Klamath county toe question arose I and convalescents, the ared and in. over Instances in which delinquent firm. It actually puts Iron, a natur- laxes togetner with penalty and In- al strengthened Into the blood, and terest amount to more than the Drop-1 restores the wasted red cornusrlrs erty Is worth. I your druggist knows Its great merit. sentence of hanging Imposed npoa Thomas J. Mooney, ended court act ion In a case that excited Internation al Interest. The death sentence' was pasted upon him for the murder of Mrs. Myrtle Irene Van Loo ot Mer ced. Cal. one of ten persons killed by a clock-work bomb which explod ed on Market street In Ean Francisco during a "preparedness day parade. July 22, 11. roar others were In dicted with him on tea counts of murder but his case was singled out as an Issue by labor organisations of several parts of the country. Moon ey's appeal to the war-time workers not to strike stopped agitation for a general strike May I, It 18. President Wilson Intervened asking Governor William D. Stephen to obtain a new trial for Mooney. II ordered an Investigation by a commission which recommended, rehearing. Four of the five persons indicted weie tried for murder. Mooney was sentenced to hanged May 17, 1917. Warren K. UiUIngs. a shoe clerk. now It serving his sentence of life Imprisonment: Mrs. Rena Herman Mooney, Mooney's wife, and Israel Weinberg, a Jitney bus driver, were Lcaultted on one charge and now are at liberty on ball on other charges of murder, while Edward D. Nolan, a machinist Is still awaiting trial. Mdcney's alleged activity la a 8 a KranJlrco street car strike, character ised by violence, and his alleged In dustrial Workers of the World affil iations drew suspicion toward him and his wife. . They were arrested five days after the explosion, at Gueraevllle. Cal. They said they had read In newspapers that they were wanted and they had telegraphed the police that they would surrender themselves. Four of the ten counts of murder against Mr. Mooney. Hill ings. Weinberg and Nolsa were dis missed, the state admitting Inability to proceed on them. Mooney's trial opened January 2. 1917, and ended with his conviction February JO. 1 Frank C. Oxman. a cattleman of Purkee, Or.; the state's chief wit ness, testified In the Mooney trial that he saw the Mooneys.. Rilling and Weinberg drive to the spot where supreme court for a new trial an u was supported by a "coixcf by the state attorney general. C. 4 Webb. Charles M. Kkkert, dlstra attorney of Ean Francisco, who pr secuted the bomb murder cases, c posed the consent" as "lrrreUr vicious and It was dismissed. X i ey's appeal was denied Mans. I. 1918. the supreme court rUytlii: ; t could not consider evlde&ee - side tbe record. Mooney appealed to Goverscr Z poena of California for a par&os i-.i meantime Mooney's attorneys to the dial court for a writ t v ram nobis (before as. the i. action seldom 'resorted to vliii,' suitors . under the commos h could seek a reversal of a JJrtii obtained by fraud. Attorjers s. ! all other legal-mesas were siinr 4 except this appeal to the bi at. The application was denied sil t hanging reset for August XX. li'.L Mooney had been la "death rsv tt San Qaentia prison since Ji!y II The California supreme cosrt i firmed this denial Jaly 22. llll. !- two year after tbe explosioa. r. days later, exactly two years snrr i arrest. Mooney u reprieved t l eember 11 by Governor Stejtru allow time for Elm to review lit r ord. Action of the Tatted Fut prem court November 18. c t the long court fight, was la tke f: of a memorandum by Chief Jtx White refuting a writ of ertion.-i During the two years world-v .: appeals were msd to UVor i to act Uv support of a new trtsL t slan radicals psraded la Petrorr. and mad a deraonstratloa bfrs U American embassy. Tt Ar-ff-fU Trad council, and other errxs-i' tlons mad public tfemarSi far a rr trial for Mooney. 1 joiiSNr rrsnrn ncros - - - ' PHILADELPHIA. Nor. II. Ji ny Dundee of New Tork. h4 l- better of a six-round boat wUs Phnilpt of Phillips Of PhtUsen"- her today. Dundee was too tW for the local boy and had the ' vantage of every round. ' l.i .!m e Mth lmruB "Plosion occurred andVaw mil terr a" tcas tPPosed t. ter of man he Is may be gained from 1 v :.C n statement he Issued as secretary of the International Workers' De fense league when Governor Jonnson had refused to pardon Ford and Buhr, two I. W. W convicted of mur der. from The governor's statement of his reasons for refusing to act at this to contain tlws bomb. Subsequently Mooney's attorneys charged Oxman testified falsely agalnsu Mooney and that he sought to Induce F. E. Rlsall of Orsyrllle. III., to do likewise. Th till. .1 . WaA a a. at a The following is an excerpt U'""'-" ft liX , ,rir, iioonar'a .laivmr-Bi. I snnounced It had similar Information. testified at Oxtnsa's trial for attempt time shows him nn In Tnla tma led subornation of perjury that Ox ors. a cowardly cur. detnlcable. re- mu nduc1 ,n to torn here and rond recomltinn mnA r.ni. I orrered to divide with him a portloo the cunning, shrewd nesatrirkr .n!0' reward offered for Moon- cowardice of the average district at-leJrs conviction. Oxman was acquit ira. It was also charged that three others, two of them a woman, had perjured themselves to "railroad Mooney to the gallows but the rharg es were not pressed. 1 Mooney appealed to the California torney In prosecuting the case. There are some workers at lesst. Gorernor jonnson. who will hot aerept os final your decision on th Ford and Suhr cae, and from now on thy will, at tempt to use ine only kind of reason ing that will eventually reach you. ana we nope u win re Indulged In until Ford and Suhr are out of prison. " 'And so If violence Is committed. Governor Johnson is responsible for It. as he has closed the last legal or governmental avenue of action. The workeis must act and they will act until Ford and Snhr walk forth free men. vindicated to the labor world as their champions In the greatest cstise In history. (Signed) " 'Tom Mooney. secretary.' "In reaching my conclusion 1 have been guided by what has come before me thst bore dlrecti on She esse, it Is. of course, unnecessary to argue the Wnt that whatever TWO ADD GOVERNOR HINTS... Money's character or his past record might have been, this particular rase miKt be determined upon its merits "Now. therefore. I. William D. Stephens, governor of the state of California, do hereby commute the sentmre of death Imposed upon Thomas J. Money In the superior iwuri i ine and for the -1 ALLNEW SHOW THEATRE V A '"Mother" Sent This '.'.I i If lL sweetest Iitllo Aa 1ZL6 old and crabbed EVldlsM. From the pain tbat'a la their mid& CascaretMl When tho child bepxia to aH, Coated tongue and looVunjr pale. Spend two Jitneys of your kale Cascaret$f You'd reEere your kiddle if you could Of coarse you will I knew you would. Any druTtt In your rehborhood Cascarttt! 10 cents! This wise mother knows that tlw bat and .uft-t wav to relieve, a t- state of Califorala. .In kus, skk or constipattd c!u!J is by rivinj canJy Canartts at the fcs city and countv nt c I x - .. . ... " Francisco, to Imprisonment for the XOnjuc, a Icvcmh trcath or a swr f4omach. term or his natural ure in the state Children love Cascarcts because of the canJy Ustc. rvhc cl- P "n" Cltne" wh'rlSf. I have here- ' Wks" lh Y Mc, tout fcrmcntaUoas and xtoxs frum unto set my hani an.i r. v. livcf and bmvt !s m r.-nt! . n... . ,kk. rh 11 rrr.t IxX c Ereai seat or. the state of Calllorrila Cascarcts has directions fur chilJrcn a2cJ c-nc xar c4J asi XT-'