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TUT, MORNING OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 7. 1920 0 HT ROBBER IS COLLEGE YOUTH Hubert M. Berry Uses Bottle as Weapon on Victim. CAPTURE FOLLOWS CHASE Motive for Attempt la Mystery as Xced for funds Is Absent and Bank -Deposits Are Shown. (Continued From TMrst PaBe.) turned to Portland from California early In September of this year. Family Disgrace Regretted. .Although he was brought to a full realization of the seriousness of the offense after he had been in jail for several hours. Berry's greatest con cern was for his family and hia friends, who include many of the most prominent families of the city. He said he hated the disgrace of the thing more on their account than on his own. "But I am going to go through and make- a clean breast of everything and try to start all over," he said. "It is the first time I was ever in trouble of any kind, and the first time I had ever even thought of doing such a thing. In fact, I can t realize r.0V p.hat caused me to do it." Kerry's mother and step-father live at the Fordham apartments, and the youth-had been living in a downtown hotel for the past several weeks be cpuse of lack of room in the apart ment, he said. For a month after he returned from California, he said he had been working on his step-father's farm in Washington county. He moved into the Ritz hotel when he came in from the farm. Other Robberies Denied. When police were questioning him they asked him detailed questions re garding his movements and where abouts on certain nights last week when a number of daring1 robberies and burglaries were staged. "I'm telling you the truth," he said with a cynical laugh, as they shot question after question at him. "Of course, I know you fellows think I can be guilty of every robbery in Portland now that I'm under 'arrest, but I am telling you that this is the only one and the last one. There is nobody to blame but myself. None of my pals or friends put such a notion into my head." Questioned as to his actions last Friday night. Berry said he attended a dinner party at the Oregon grill, and he mentioned the name of a vice president of one of the largest Port land banks as his host at this dinner. Asked where he was Saturday night, he said he had been visiting at the home of a prominent Irvington family. Prominent Friends Mentioned. "Say, honestly, you don't know what this means to a lot of my friends in Portland," he said seriously as he sought to escape thebarrage of ques tioning. And then he named over numerous families prominent in the business and social life of the city as among those with whom he was on intimate terms. Berry served In the navy during the war and was for some time sta tioned at Mare Island. Upon his re turn to Portland last summer he eloped with a 19-year-old girl to Vancouver, where they were married. The marriage was annulled at Oregon City a month later. , Jail Preferred to Freedom. Young Berry said last night that he did not want to be released on bonds until final disposition is made of his case. Although he is getting his first taste of jail life, he much prefers re maining behind the bars to walking the streets the object of the scorn and curiosity of his former friends ajid acquaintances. "This isn't much of a place to live but It's far better at this particular time than being out where everybody can see me." he suggested as he sur veyed the grimy blankets which cov ered the cot in his jail cell. "This is giving me my first intimate knowledge of police work and police methods," he continued as he stood puffing a cigarette which was handed to him through the bars. "They have made me talk so much this after noon that I can't remember half of what I told them, except that I told the truth at all times. I have made no effort to shield myself, for I know that 1 am in mighty bad. Police Fnll of Suspicion. "While they were talking to me some big detective came in and began looking me over. He turned me around and after a moment of think ing, turned to the others and said: " 1 know this bird; he looks like Jimmy, the Flea." "Then another one of the police made me roll up my sleeves and ' trousers ad show my arms and legs. "Well, the kid's no "hop-head,"' he aaid after he had finished his exam ination. "It seems as though they suspect a fellow of nearly every crime ever committed once they get him In jail. I am not complaining about the treatment, except that it all teems so peculiar In that I never was mixed up with the police before In my life." NEW SWINDLE IS WORKED Alleged Takers Pose as Members ol SalTation Army. HOQUIAM, Wash., Dec. 6. (Spe cial.) Police have learned of a new ruse employed by what they term a faker to get money. According to reports, G. Laurie, 55 years of age, with two boys he said were his sons, came to Hoquiam a few weeks ago, told Ensign Mitchell of the Salvation Army that he was a Salvation officer. He added that his wife was in the state hospital for tlie insane at Steilacoom and his boys had frequently gone hungry in the last few weeks. Ensign Mitchell took them In, fed them, and gave Laurie a uniform of the Salvation Army. They next went to the Moose lodge and with a similar pathetic plea secured a bass drum and a snare drum. They then proceeded to a street corner and gave a "con cert," after which they passed the hat. This was done at least enough times to get money sufficient to carry them out of town, along with the drums, two suitcases and the uniform. They were later arrested in Salem, Or., and will be held pending decision here as to prosecution. ganize a cnuntv nnultrw ARRnrixtinn. ! The new organization proposes to im prove poultry-raising conditions gen erally, to purchase supplies in whole sale quantities and to procure better grading and marketing of eggs. It also is proposed to help prose cute persons preserving summer eggs and later selling thenT as fresh ranch product. Lectures by well-known poultry experts will be provided here, it is said, and exhibits of poultry at shows will be encouraged. "The extent of the poultry Industry here has advanced beyond the com prehension of most citizens," said C. D. Nickelsen, one of the promoters of the organization. "While Hood River a few years ago was Importing most of the eggs consumed, the val- h.r. ' I Hubert M. Berry, college youth, who attempted darine dayliirht robbery of Tnird-Btret pawnbroker. ley today Is eupplying home needs and is shipping out many cases of eggs weekly. The valley now has eight poultry raisers who own from 2U0 to 500 laying pullets." LOOP LINK BEiNG CLEARED Crew Slashing Way tor Road Work Xext Spring. HOOD RIVER, Or., Dec. 6. (Spe cial.) A crew of men is busy slash ing out the right of way of the Mount Hood Loop road on the northwest base of Mount Hood, where grading may be started next spring, accord ing to F. H. Gooalander, Parkdale rancher, and Frank Stanton, who with County Engineer Cruikshank have returned from a formal view of the route. The route being slashed will con nect existing Hood River county roads with the portion of the Loop highway within the national forest. Tne route chosen, it is said, is not as originally surveyed up the east fork of Hood river, but instead it proceeds on a higher altitude. The saving in grading, it is declared, will reach more than $50,000. ROAD WORK PROGRESSES Wheeler-Gilliam Section of John Iay Ilig-hway Being Bushed. FOSSIL "Or., Dec. 6. (Special.) Residents of Wheeler and Gilliam counties aregreatly encouraged over the rapid progress on the John Day highway. Three trucks and the port able screening plant recently pur chased by Wheeler county has begun to put the dirt surface on the high way between Service creek and Spray. AVhen the Service creek-Spray sec tion of the highway is thus rendered fit for traffic, and the 11-mile stretch from the Fossil city limits to the Cummins hill a three-mile stretch put in, the highway through Wheeler county will be practically done. In Gilliam county, as soon as the 30-mile ilayville section of the high way is completed, the road will be finished from the .Wheeler county line north to Condon. BURGLARS ROB FIREMEN QC DOC DOC DO EXGIXE COMPAXV QUARTERS LOOTED DCRIXG BLAZE. Cash, Clothing and . Shaving Out fits Carried Off While Men Are on Duty at Fire. While members of engine company No. 3, Third and Glisan streets, were fighting the fire at Fifth and Everett streets early Sunday morning a bur glar entered the firehouse quarters of the company and . stole a quan tity of wearing apparel from Cap tain Wiggenton and other firemen, according to a report made yesterday to police detective headquarters. The loot consisted of a small amount of cash, clothing and. two shaving out fits. Two suits of clothing were taken from the home of Frank Adams, 349 East Lombard street, during the ab sence of the family. When members of the family returned late at night they found evidences of the prowler as they entered the front door, and heard him leave by the kitchen door just as they entered. Footprints in the soft earth showed the burglar had small feet and wore overshoes, inspectors reported after making an investigation. Andrew Basbich, 624 East Fifth street North, frightened away a bur glar as he entered his house late Sunday. The prowler had gained en trance through a basement door. Nothing was missed. "Virgil Cooper, proprietor of the Boulevard garage. reported that someone had worked the combina tion of his office safe and stolen $91.98 in cash and checks some time Sunday. IS BONDING IIOCSE IS SUED FOR $100,000 SHARE IN PROFIT. Lumber Co. Makes Assignment. CHEHALIS. Wash., Dec. 6. (Spe cial.) The Valley Lumber company has made an assignment to Joseph Schuss. Herman Allen and C. W. Hanson were the owners. The mill plant Is located 12 miles west of Che halis, near Ceres. December 17 has been set as the date for a meeting of the creditors, the Western Oil com pany and the Brown-Hartman Hard ware company being named as. among the principal ones. Power Company Receiver Asked. CHEHALIS, Wash.. Dec. 6. (Spe cial.) The Central Light & Power company of Pe Ell, which receives Its current from the North Coast Power company of Chehalis, has been thrown Into the courts by the action of the Pe Ell State bank, which yesterday flled a petition asking that a receiver be named. Denver Concern Declared to Have Refused to Keep Agreement to Divide Gains. Keeler Brothers' bonding firm is made the defendant in a suit filed in the circuit court yesterday by Fred Glenn, now a vice-president of Morris Brothers, Inc., who is seeking to "re cover $100,000 said by him to be due from his former employers. He asks that Keelers be required to render an accounting of their profits in order that, the share due him may be more accurately estimated. Mr. Glenn was manager of the Port land branch of K.eeler Brothers, a concern having headquarters in Den ver, joining them in 1913. At the time, he states, he entered an agreement whereby he was to start with a sal ary of $150 a month, to be increased to $350.and that he was to have 40 per cent of the annual profits. Thse were payable on September 1, 1916, and March 1, 1917, and on these dates each year thereafter. He says pay ments were not made and that the firm owes him his percentage from February. 1916, to August. 1920, when he severed his connection with it. The complainant alleges that Mr. Glenn asked an accounting of the un paid money and the firm declined to make it. His estimate is that $100,000 is due him and he asks the court to choose between the alternative of or dering the accounting or compelling Keeler Brothers to pay hir.i this sum outright. Mr. Glenn is. represented by John F. Logan in the suit. j PROFITEERS MAY E HIT SPECULATORS IX STREET CAR TOKENS TARGET IN MEASURE. City Would Redeem Checks at Par and Issue New Set to Prevent Profit on Rides. SEATTLE, Wash.. Dec. 6. (Spe cial.) Persons who have bought up municipal street railway tokens in anticipation of an increase in their value from 6Vt cent,s to 8 1-3 cents will fail to profit thereby if a section drafted today is incorporated in the proposed tare ordinance when it is passed. The section provides for the man ufacture of new set of tokens and re demption of the present ones at the rate of 6V cents cash or the exchange of four of them for three of the new tokens. The fare ordinance, Including its new provision will not receive con sideration until the next meeting of the utilities committee Thursday morning. The fare bill was referred back to the committee by the council last Friday after the measure with POULTRYMEN TO ORGANIZE Growers ot Hood River Valley Will Form Association. HOOD RIVER, Or.. Dec. 6. .Spe cial.) Hood River county' poultry men will meet at the Commercial club Friday afternoon, December 17, to or- HOW TO "BE FIT" AT SIXTY BY DR. LEE HERBERT SMITH. As our boys "came mare?l ing home," they brought a cer tain red-blooded doctrine, and showed us the glory of a perfect body. They will show us how to 'Tceep fit," even if we have passed middle life and are be yond the athletic stage. For the tired business man, the man who feels the daily grind and the nightly fag, has meager appetite, headaches, nerves unstrung? is gloomy, ending in a soggy brain, try the right way. Get out of bed, open the window, breathe deeply, exer cise the army "setting-up" exercise or use dumb bells, until in a warm glow. . Before breakfast take hot water, and occasionally castor oil or a pleasant laxative made up of May-apple, aloin, jalap, and sold by all druggists as Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. As Prof. Strauss says, "The excretion of uric acid we are able to effect by exciting diuresis'' Drink copiously of soft rain or distilled water, six or eight glasses per day, hot water before meals, and obtain Dr. Pierce's Aiiurio Tablets, for 6t) cts., at the nearest drug; store and take them three times a day. ; If you want a trial package send 10 cents to Dr. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. I Amine (anti-unc-acid) is the recent discovery of Dr. Pierce and is much more potent than lithia, for it will j dissolve uric acid as hot tea dissolves sugar. The Shop of Intimate Feminine Things" Announces a Christmas Sale J Your Biggest Christmas Shopping Opportunity Every, article in the shop offered at irresistible values, many at less than today's wholesale cost. You can buy cheaper merchandise, but it won't equal ours in quality our customers are judges of value. Reductions on everything. Because a sale before Christmas offers a marvelous Christmas shopping op portunity to those seeking dainty wearables for gifts. Because we'd like to show our appreciation of the co-operation Portland has given us in building our business. Because we want to close up the year's business with a record-making month and get ready for a bigger and more prosperous year than ever before. This store specializes on quality every article offered is superior. Silk Petticoats Regularly Priced $7.75 to $14.75, at Vz OFF ' Extra heavy qual ity jersey silk, with satin or taf feta flounces. Al most any color or combination of shades. Lovely for a gift. Silk Underwear Reduced Knickers Vests $4.50 Vests now 2.95 $5.50 Vests now 3.95 $6.50 Vests now 4.95 $7.50 Vests now 5.85 $6.50 Knickers now .4.95 $8.50 Knickers now" 5.95 $9.50 Knickers now 6.95 Envelope Chemise at Vz Price Satin and georgette in white, flesh and colors. Regularly . priced $8 to $25. ; GOWNS regularly $6.73 to $33.50 now 4.50 to 22.35 CAMISOLES regularly $3.50 to $9, now 2.25 to 6.45 NEGLIGEES reg. $12.50 to $55, now 8.25 to 27.50 Corduroy dressing gowns, iridescent negligees, crepe de chine . and taffeta breakfast coats delightful gifts for any woman. Competent Salespeople Will Help You in Selection, but SHOP EARLY before the Choicest Things Are Taken BLOUSES Selling regularly at $6.50 to $40 Reduced 33Vs BLOUSES selling regularly at $40 to $S7.50 Reduced 50 Georgette, crepe de chine, satin, taffeta, duyetyn, net.- Overblouses and tuck-in models, many in com binations of material. Elaborate beading and em broidery distinguish the better blouses, and of course there are- others of tailored simplicity. If you know "her" tastes.jvvb.at more acceptable gift ? SKIRTS Regularly Priced $39.50 to $52.50 at PRICE Plaid and striped wool of superior quality and fin ish. Make your self a Christmas present of one of these, handsome skirts. O r?T fSEI J V-Zn Off Corsets and at Brassieres Our entire line of Bon Ton, Madame Lo rena, La Grecque and elastic corsets. $ 5.00 Corsets now 3.75 $ 8.00 Corsets now 6.00 $12.50 Corsets now 9.88 $18.00 Corsets now 13.50 $25.00 Corsets now 18.75 Miss Howard, corset expert in charge of, fittings. Mornings only, or afternoons by appointment. 374 Morrison, at West Park Phone Main 482 Novelty Bead Necklaces regularly $9.00 to $27.00 now 6 to 18 Bracelets regularly $6.50 to $13.50 now 4.50 to 8.50 oc DOC DOC DO an emergency clause had been de feated by a vote of six to three. Announcement of the addition to the ordinance of the section relating to tokens is interpreted in city hall circles to indicate that no further ef forts will be made to brinabout ani increase in street railway fares by passing" of an mergency ordinance, depending rather on the regular 30 day procedure to bring" about the results. Kelso lias Tuberculosis Clinic. KELSO, Wash.. Dec. 6. (Special.) A successful tuberculosis clinic was held in the office of Miss Bess Lawler, county nurse of Cowlitz county, by Dr. Raymond J. Cary of the Washing ton Anti-Tuberculosis association, as sisyed by Miss Lawler. A number ol patients were examined. Dr. Cary lectuVed on the prevention and treat ment of tuberculosis at the gymna sium and also visited the Castle Rock schools. y Kelso to Elect Officers. KELSO, Wash., Dec. 6. (Special.) Kelso will elect officers for a two year period tomorrow. The only can didates' names on the ballots are those of the citizens' party. They are: Mayor, "E. J. McLane; eouncilmen, E. Kenney, Oliver Knoles and S. L. Rob- erts; clerk, M. J. Lord; treasurer, C. C. Bashor FEELS LIKE REAL AGAIN. SAYS JACKSON Appetite Fine, Can Eat Anything and Works All Day Without Tiring Since He Took Tanlac. "Tanlac has built me up until I feel like a real man again," said Emerson Jackson, Rock Spur, Or., a valued em ploye at the government shipbuilding plant, recently. "My stomach was all out of order and 1 was in a badly run-down condi tion. I lost my appetite and what liltle I did eat distressed me all the ptlroe. After meals gas would form and bloat me up so bad I felt miser able for hours. 1 seemed to have no energy at all, just felt tired and worn out all the time and could hardly stand VP under my' work. I tried sev eral different kinds of medicines and Just kept getting worse right on. "Finally a. friend recommended Tanlac to me, and I count myself lucky that I got it. Why, it Jist built me right up. I got better with every bottle, and now I feel like my old self again. My appetite is fine arfd my stomach never troubles me the least bit. I have plenty of energy and can do a real man's work with out feeling tired and worn out like I used to. I am only too glad to give this statement and I hope it will cause others to take Tanlac and get relief as 1 did." Tanlac is sold In Portland by the Owl Drug Co. Adv. o o Take only as Tolcf In each package of genuine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" are directions and dosage worked " out by physicians during 21 years, and proved safe by millions. Take no chances. If you see the "Bayer Cross" on tablets, take them without fear. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost but a few cents Larger packages. ' Aspirin ia the trad mrk of Bayer Manufacture of lianoacoticacidMMr of Salicylicacid DON'T SUFFER ' WITHNEURALGIA Use Soothing . Musterole When those sharp pains go shooting through your head, when your skull seems as if it would split, just rub a littla Mustexole on your temples and neck. It draws out the inflammation, soothes away the pain.usuallygivingquickrelief. Musterole is a clean, white ointment made with oil of mustard. Better than a mustard plaster and does not blister. 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