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PAGE TWO THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNau HAW i, OREGON. FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1919. CI ! r 1 mil Saleaa. friends are anticipating iit front Mr. George Rodger of As toria, who is expected to arrive in the itf tody or tomorrow for a several Ays tojourn, during the absenee of Mr. Rodgers, who has gone east on a tfoort business trip Mr. and Mri Rodgors have been spending a few days t Portland preceding Mr. Rodgers' de parture for the east. Daring their Port land star the Rodger were domiciled at the Hotel Benson. A. marriage of interest to literary and social folk of Salem and of the went ia general i that of Miss Vir ginia Drake, well known poetess and writer, to Jame Upham, son of Mrs. Francis Bcott Upham, a writer of Bos ton. The ceremony took place on New a ears day at high noon in the artistie new bungalow of the couple at Seaside, ev. R. J. T. McKelvey of the Seaside Methodist church officiating. The brido ia a daughter of Mrs. M. H. Drake formerly of Portland. She is gifted writer of verse, her litorary -work in poetizing Indian legends among the tribes of the northwest hav ing won high fftTor. She ha made her Dome with her mother at Seaside dur ing the past few years. Mr. Upham bag been stationed at Seaside in the aervico. Mrs. George IL Burnett, accompan ied by Mr. Harry H. Belt of Dallas, are passing a few days in Portland t the Imperial hotel. The regular fortnightly meeting of the P'. E. O. Sisterhood was not held as originally scheduled yesterday at the residence of Mrs. William McGikur it, Sr., but has been postponed until the influenza baa is suspended.. THE MOST DANGEROUS OF ALL DISEASES ' Wo organs of tht human body are so Important to health and Ion life as the kidneys. When they slow up and com mence to lag in their duties, look outl Danger is iu sight. Find out what the trouble is with out delay. Whenever you feel nervous, weak, dtasy, suffer from sleeplessness, ' sr hare pains in the bark, wake HP at ace. lour kidneys uel help. Th are signs to warn you that jour kidneys are not performing their " functions firoperly. They are only half doing heir work and ara allowing impurities to accumulate and be converted into uric acid and other poisons, which ar raualnir tou distress snd will de stroy you unless they ara fciraji sjoin your system, . v Avoid Crowding It's a good plan to visit the stores during the fore noon if possible. It's safer, and will assist the City Board of Health to check the epidemic. Store Closed Today New Years A die Brown Boot For Women We just received these and they are really beauties. It's that soft, rich Havana Brown Kid admired by everyone. The style is a high top lace boot with imitation tip and military heels, mingling beauty with fitness for use a rather rare alliance, Price $8.75. Wool Blankets Frosty Nights Opsn Windows Check influenza There are just seventeen of those warm, fluffy wool blankets left. When these are gone there will be no more for sale at Barnes' Cash Store and not likely to be any such blankets anywhere at these prices. They range from $7.85 to $19.50 less 20 per cent. Hats Men's Black Stiff Hats in several shapes, sizes 7 to 7 1-2. Formerly pric ed $1.95 to $3.45. Your choice for J125 By CAROL 5. DIBBLE KWs) Lacile Watson, who has bees ill with influenza at the Good Samar itan hospital in Portland, spent yester day ia Salem. Miss Watson is an in structor in the English department at the Salem high school and un'il the schools re-open here, will enjoy a few day visit with her mother, who resides in Washington. Miss Mary Vineta Eastburn of Aums ville and Dewit C. Drury of Alpine, Beaton eounty, were quietly married yesterday afternoon at the Christian shares parsonage, Bev. Lealand W. Porter pfificiating at the ceremony," which was at 2:30. The young couple left immediately afterwards for Port land, where they will enjoy a short honeymoon. Upon their return they will make their home at (Jorvallis. Mr. Dru ry. ia a well known lumberman of Al pine. Miss Ethel Hummel,-an instructor in the high school, is passing the closed school interim in Portland. Mis Lena Christiansen, nr. 0. A. 0. student,' has returned to Corvallis after a visit with Salem friends over the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mdllroy of Salem are spending a fow davs in Portland. Mr. and Mr. Ernest Clark are visit ing relatives in Council, Idaho, over the holidays. , Mrs. Sarah Levy and daughter, Miss Elizabeth Levy, are recuperating from an influeuaa siege. Miss Levy is re suming eharge of her violin classes again at her studio on Court street. Jtfr. ind Mr Frank W. Castle en- Get some GOLD MEDAL IlanrUm Oil Capsules at once. . They are an old, tried preparation used all over the world for centuries. They contain only old-fasbioned, soothing oils combined with strength-giving and system-cleansing herbs, well known and used by phy sicians in their daily practice. GOLD MEDAL Hsarlem Ott Capsules ase im ported direct from tbe laboratories in Holland. They are convenient to take, and will- either give prompt relief or your money will be refunded. Ask for them at any drug store, but bs sure to get the original imported GOLD MEDAL brand. Accept no substitutes. t'ln sealed packages. Three sizes. Lot of Boys' Grey, Brown, Blue and Black Felt Hats, in all sizes, especially good for win ter wear, choice for 75c joyaibly entertained a congenial group of friends at their country borne on New Year 's dajt when they were din ner hosts to a gathering of twelve guests. The hours were pleasantly pass ed later with games and informal di version. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Clark have re turned from a short weding trip to Portland and are now domiciled at their home in Pringle. Mrs. Clark was formerly Mrs. Sarah J. Dorscy of 8 lem. Miss Hazel Laycock and Miss Dollie Ingle students at the Oregon Agricul tural college are guests id Salem at the J. C. Laycock residence. "Americanization" is to be the key note of the 2,000,000 club women over the United States affiliated with the General Federation of Women's clubs for the next two years. Mrs. Court Wood of Washington, D. C, chairman of the committee on civil service, as serts that the committees of the gen eral federation will render a peculiar service in the Americanization work. " They cover art, music, literature, civ ics, home economics, industrial and so cial conditions, conservation, publie health, legislation, literature nnd civil service," said Mrs. Wood. Naturally the general federation representatives will reach the women, who usually have fewer opportunities than men enjoy for contact with the people of the new country. Oregon club women are keen ly interested in the subject of '-Americanization." Quinine That Does Not Affect Head Because of it tonic and laxative ef fect, liAXATIVE BBOMO QUININE (Tablets) can bo taken by anyone witn out causing nervousness or ringing in the head. There is only one "Bromo Quinine." E. W. GROVE'S signature oil the box. 30c. Returned Heroes Speak Right Ud In Australia Molbourne, Australia, Dec. 1. (By Mail) The men who represented Aus tralia in the war are not going to be bashful about asking for what tttey consider their riirhts when they get back. An indication of what may be ex pected in this line is contained in do mands formulated by the Returned Sol diers' and Sailors' Impelial league. TMb organization has about 3,500 mem bers. It demands: That all property and money owned by Oerman-born persons in Australia be confiscated. That returned mon nnd dependents of fallen men be freed from taxation on income derived from personal exer tion for 5 years. That mon from the fighting forces be selected to represent the common wealth at the peace conference. That fit men employed at home by the defense dpartiuent be replaced by returned warriors. tr mui " Toilet Preparations , supply the very help nature requires. They rectify morbid skin conditions then from the source of akin health, springs loveliness of natural beauty. Don't confuse Marinello Prep ration, with ordinary cmnwtks. Thev'redtfferenl. They ramrcf faults and (tatter natural Ross KaaT Beauty. MBS. IBJBNB ftOOTT 155 N. High Bt 5a Roy Kelly Tells About French Towns Being Americanized I was sick as hell on the beat when I came across tho Atlantic, and I fed the fish considerable. " When Private Rov O- Kelly of the hospital center in Franco i sick, he doesn't mind writing his father in ex pressive English language just how he felt about it. In telling of his sea voyage he writes in part as follows! "We wore 13 days at ea. While crossing the English channel we sight ed two submarines but wo were well protected by submarine chasers. We stayed two days at Lellavre for rea and then went to a little towa called j Uengy In aouthern France. We stayed I there until lato in ISoptentlwr, when 1 , was transferred from my old company jafid went into tho Argonne forests with . them. There I got a taste of the Boche shell fire which sure was hell on that front. I Bad Influensa. ''I was stricken with influensa while in the lines and then taken to a f! m Wi'a antj th?n to an other hospital where I was for, six V 1 CiiUI HATE PILLS, CALOMEL AliD CASTOR OIL If Cress, Fererish, Constat- tei Git Cainrcni Sj rp Of figs." Look back at your ehildhood days. Remember the "dose" ranker insisted on eastor oil, calomel, cathartics. How yon hated them, how yon lought against taking them. With our children it's different. Mother who cline to the old form of physie simply don't realize what they do. The children's revi.lt is well four ti ed. Their tender little "insides" are injured by them. If your child's stomaen liver and bowels need cleansing, give onl deli eions "California Syrup of Figs." Its action is positive, but gentle. Millions of mothers keep this harmless "fruit laxative" handy; they know children love to take it; that it never fails to clean tho liver and bowels and sweeten the stouacn, and that teaopooufui givei today saves a sick ehild tomor row. Ask yv A' .ft. st fcr a fcott'e of "Californu f-lriip of r.L-s," whi?h has full .1i-f ti.ipr lor baWs. children of all a" a. i ior 'grown i pi psainly on each bottle. Beware of counterfeits sold here. See that it is made by "Cal ifornia Fig Syrup Company." Refuse any other kind -with contempt. FMTE HANSOII IS III diP HOSPITAL Went Over The Top 5 Times Struck In Left Leg By Piece Of Shrapnel Private Leon Hanson, whose parents Jive at lsU Miller street, a well known Salem boy, who waB recently reported mine casualty liBt as wounded in ac tion, is now at the base hospital, Camp Lewis, Wash., according t0 information received from Set. Ernest Everhart Ba ker, former Balem attorney, now first sergeant 01 Motor Ambulance company 55 at Camp Lewis. Private Hanson ar rived at Camp Lewis New Year's eve from the east aliyig with about 30 other convalescents t rem , overseas. Included with the contingent was Sgt. Fred Kick hill,, also well known in Halem, unin jured, however, but a scarlet feer sus pect and in temporary quarantine, awaiting the outcome of his case. . Private Hanson was injured on tho fourth day of the big drive of the Yanks at Soissons, his injury occurring on his fifth time over the top. For the past lour months he has been in a Paris hospital as a result of his injury, which is a compound ftaoture of the lei as a rosult of being struck by shrapnei. Hanson enlisted at Seattle, Wash., July 14, 1917, in tbe 161st infantry. Boon atfer hiB enlistment he was assigned to the 41st or Golden West division, and after about six months training was or dered overseas. He was out of the U. 8. one day less than one year. He sail ed on the President Lincoln which was sunk on tho voyage immediately suc ceeding the one which took him over. Four months were spent in training in Franco, and then four months more on guard duty, and intensive training in France, and four months in the hospital The biggest story he has to tell in that he was a member of I Co. of the 26th infantry, which with another com pany captured a dugout containing a thousand living and thoroughly cowed Boches. His address is Ward 83, Base Hospital, Camp Lewis. WESTERN MEN BACK Ceatiaued from page u round, you know. "And so, explained Colonel Fancuf, "the California field artillery regiment had to eomo home." The 143rd had ' just completed its scheduled course of training, and had been assigned to the first army, the combat army of the United Btutes forces, the week prior to the signing of the armistice. As a motorized 75 milometer regiment, it was momentari ly expecting to go into action when the war ended. "If these men coming back work one half as well in civilian life s they have worked for me," Colonel Faneuf told the United Pross proudly, they be strictly 100 per cent investments for their employers. "They are coming back clearer in mind and body." The last unit of the 65th field artil lery brigade, of which the 143rd was a part, reached New York totday. The California Uriizlics, the 144th. F. A , were not on these trains. They will follow in the course of a week or ten days. ' The only Griuly on the train was Major R- L Bentley of San Francisco, adjutant of the 65th field artillery bri gade. Bentley was one of the officers who got opportunity to go to the front weeks. Am now on my way back toi my company. ' 'The camp where I am now locatei feeds about 8,000 a day at the rate of ' 1000 per hour through one kitchen There is sure some system to tha ''This country is becoming American ised fast. They have full American trains now run by Americana The cap acity of a French bos ear is about t to tea tons whilo this U. 8. ears are three times as large. ' JOHN D0E1ND1CTMENT EXPLAINS FEW POINTS III INVESTIGATION Marion County Grand Jury Submits Tresentmenf Con cerning Parole Selling What facte are necessary to consti tute a crime nnder the laws of Oregon in connection with parole selling at the state penitentiary! That is the substance of a question put up to Circuit Judge Kelly this morning by the Marion county grand jury which has been investigating tne state prison. The matter was presented to the court in the form of a ' 'presentment " or John Doe indictment, and the court advised the jury that the facts alleged were sot sufficient to constitute a erime. This presentment stated that John Doe and Bichard Doo, two guards at the prison, entered into a conspiracy with John Brown, a tonvict, to pro cure a parole or conditional pardon for him for 150 The convict was sent up from Mult nomah county in 1910 for 18 years for highway robbery. Twice he had been given a conditional pardon ana eacn time he had violated the terms of his freedom and was returned to the prison. Aflc For Parole The deal to ob'ain a parole or an other pardon for him was made March 10, 1918, and two days later one of the guards wrote a letter to the gov ernor, asking for a parole for the con vict. This letter made the plea that liqnor had been the cause of the con vict 's past crimes, and now that saloons were abolished he would get along all right if given his freedom. It also said that the eonvict's mother was oid and getting blind and needed her son. Judge Kelly said there were three statutes which should be considered. One makes it a crime for a publie of ficial to aeeept emoluments in audi tioito the compensation provided for him by law. The other relates to brib ery' of publie officials, and the third makes it a crime for anyone to gross ly disturb the publie peace and health or to outrage publie decency and mor ale. , JMd Not Show Character Ho said the presentment did not show the character of the defendants to be officers or that they had violated the rules of the prison, and that the first two statutes clearly did not apply to the facts stated by the grand jury. Judge Kelly stated that the facts presented do outrage decency, but they do not disclose that the publie knew anything about them and they do not come within the meaning of outraging publie deeency. He declared that the act of using of ficial position to obtain clemency for a convict for a compensation and re gardless of merit would bo an outrage against public decency and there could be two opinions about it, but the facts stated do not show this to have been done. The foreman of the grand jury an nounced that the jury had not yot fin ished its work and the members re turned to the jury Toom for further deliberations. How The Office Of Poke Matron Happened To Occur Now that the pdice matron troubles are temporarily settled, it may bo. of interest to know hew salom evr hap pened to have a police matron. Accord ing to old time council members, the story is as follows: When Dr. B. L. Sleeves was mayor a fight came up Ja the council over the dog catcher. According to tne oesi information, .the annual Tcport showed that the dog eateher had managed to capture three dogs during the year The budge' allowed the dog catcher $50 a month. Borne of the councilmen thought $600 a year a pretty high price to pay for a dog catcher that brought in only three dogs and the motion was made to abolish the office. But there happened to be $600 in the budget for the coming year and the next question was as to how tho money should be spent. Alderman J. F. Jones, now deputy district senior of weights and measures, was opposed to the dog eateher and suggested as a joke that the office of police matron be es tablished. The idea was approved. Mrs. Lelia Lynch was given the first ap pointment and held the position two vears under the Steeves administration Mrs. Myra Bhank served for two years when Jack Welsh was chief of police. Mrs. Sarah J. Dorsey succeeded and was matron during the Keyes adminis tration until last October when she KNOCKS OUT PMC THE FIRST ROUND Comforting relief from pain makes Sloan's the World'i Liniment This famous reliever of rheumatic aches, soreness, stiffness, painful sprains, neuralgic pain, and most other external twinges that humanity suffers from, enjoys its great sales because it practically never fails to bring speedy, comforting reiki. Always ready for use, it takes little) results. Clean, refreshing. At all drug stores. A large bottle means economy. January Sale Suits, $19.75 to $34.75 Coats, $14.75 to $42.50 Dresses, $12.48 to $37.50 Extraordinary Values U.G. Shipley Co. Liberty Street resigned when the council would not increase the salary $10 a month. Mrs. Myra hank was then appoint ed to fill the position until the first of the' year and was again re-elected at the caucus held last evening. $600 In Fmes Paid By Seven City Bootleggers Prom the Doint of bootlceeine. the old saying that an honest confession is good for the soul evidently holds Ood in the capital city as the seven men implicated in the latest bootlegging stunt have all pleaded guilty before Judge Webster. Sheriff Needham has the 36 quarts of fire water left from the original shipment ox it quarts. IRpairifla Inointr considerable curren cy in the way of fines, the men impli cated' stand a line cnance oi losing their jobs, especially if they were work ing for the Southern Pacific It is not yet known what the express company will hand its employes who got mixed up tn the deal. t A- Iia nam iynw Rtnnila. '.Tsalft 1?tte.- - n Grath, switch engineer on the South ern liacilie, drew tne prize nne. no mi rivnn 2!n bv Judge Webster this morning on a plea of guilty. Howard Hulsey, tno Baggageman ana f. a- A nation's necessity has plunged many thousands of boys and girls in their teens into the vortex of business before their time. Many will feel the strain upon vitality and energy and likewise the need for the nourishing and tonic virtues of A very little, taken regularly, when taken by fits and starts. Scoff s Emulsion is concentrated nourishment that contributes to strength and helps confirm the body in vigor and health. ft.ntt Itown. Bloom fcjJssBsttsAJUNssMIWMMi' 1 9M,t$JkMiMMt9JtM- Mr. Business Asa matter of economy you should consult the Journal's Job Department before placing your printing--we are satisfying Salem's leading firms put us on your calling list. Phone 8 1 Clearance Salem, Ore. Cook, signal man, each drew $75 and costs. The Wells-Fargo or rather the combined express company employes managed to got out or tne situation with a fine of $50 each and eosts. Tno express men who were given the fine on pleading guilty before the court were Waiter Kardnor, n. M. uowa ana V. Xi. Tyler. J. E. Maddison mado $10 Out of the deal and paid the eourt $50 and costs. The Alameda plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation at Oakland, Cal., launched its sixteenth vessel since May 18 on the last day of the year. Chairman Lever notifies Secrctnry Houston that legifdation is being draft ed to insure the maintenance of the government wheat guarantee price for the 1919 crop. Orders issued ct Camp Lewis Tues day transferred 305 men to California for discharee. - GctRidofTKat Persistent Cough Btdb that weakening, persistent coughi ot cold? threter-ng throat or lung; affections, with .cJckman's Alterative, the tonlo and upbuilder of year successful use. 80o and $1.60 bottles &SBlTf,Phlladelphh, is far more beneficial than fild. N. 1 MiiwiwVviiiv) Man