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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1821 RUMORS THICK AS DBMS M Breach Over Training Regu lations, Says Report. CARPENTIER LOOKS FIT roilu lias "ot Been Boxing Tom Gibbon or Any Other First Rater, Says Edgren. BT ROBERT EDGREN. (Copyrljrht by the Bell Syndicate, Inc. Published by Arrangement.) XEW YORK. June 29. (Special.) Both Carpentier and Dempsey have been doing more work this week than their published schedules called for. and both will work until Thurs day afternoon. Every movement around the two camps is closely watched and rumors are as thick as flies in a sugar mill. Jack Kearns took a flying trip to New York on some moving picture business. Im- .iinuisicij kuc i ujuur w nci u Kearns and Dempsey had broken up. Another rumor' had it that Demp sey rebelled against Kearns' train ing directions and had Jumped into a session of hard fighting with his sparring partners as soon as .Kearns was out of sight. As a matter of fact, Kearns and Dempsey plan the work together. When Kearns left it was agreed Dempsey would do a lot of heavy bag punching and take on a couple of his toughest sparring partners for a final tryout of his speed and punch in private. This he did in the big airdrome at his headquarters. He will work hard again Thursday, which will finish his) training, for on Friday he will atart for Jersey City, where ar rangements have been made to keep him secluded in a private residence not far from the arena until It is time to strip for the fight. His location will be kept a secret so that he can have a rest from the annoyance of being questioned and advised by Visitors. Pollu Also Working Secret. Carpentier has also been doing ome boxing in private, so far as local visitors are concerned. Only a few visiting rrench newspaper writers who haven't had a chance to see him before have been admitted to his quarters. His guard has been In creased, an armed man patrolling the fence around the Matthews farm where he lives, and two more watch ing the front gate and the house to keep out persons who have no busi ness on the grounds. Carpentier has not been boxing with Tim Gibbons or any other first-class man as rumored. He has sparred with Joe Jeanette, a Harlem heavy called Samson and his French mates. He has done little hard hitting. Both men have taped their hands carefully this week and have avoided all chance of injury. Dempsey's cut eyebrow has healed entirely, only a narrow white scar showing the location of the injury. As for Carpentier, ha had a slightly bruised eye a few days ago, which is alt right again, and he shows no cars of battle except a few new scattered places where he has brushed against the ropes. The actual rounds boxed and the manner in which the men have worked th,ese last few days are of little importance and indicate nothing whatever, as they are not extending themselves. I have seen no really significant workout by Carpentier. On the rare occasions when he has knocked down sparring partners this hasn't meant much of a feat, as they are poor second raters. Natural Style Concealed. He hasn't tried to show anything of his real fighting form, but on the contrary, if we can take the word of many who have seen him fight in Eu rope, has carefully concealed his nat ural fighting style and hippodromed it for the benefit of the spectators. We know only that he looks very fit that he is well built for fighting and that ne is a sniity fellow with good punch. His endurance under punishment such as Dempsey is like ly to deal out is an unknown item. Dempsey's stamina was shown when be let Brennan batter him for 12 rounds and then knocked Brennan out. Dempsey has encouraged his sparring partners to wallop him at every opportunity, a thing Carpen tier nasn t aone at an. .Dempsey be lieves in roughing and being roughed. Carpentier doesn't. in an tne training i have seen at Dempsey's camp Dempsey has pushed his face into hard punches, has taken thumps with a snort and clouted back bard, but not with his full power. At times I have thought that he didn't display the speed he had at Toledo. He has drifted away from the con stant swaying and weaving that at- ways has been the most Important detail of his original fighting style and stands nearly straight, bobbing and ducking straight up and down Instead of from side to side. He seems to be trying to box as other fighters, which certainly is not the best style for Dempsey. I asked Kearns about this. Dempsey's Nerves on Edge. Kearns said: "Never mind that. Jack Is every bit as fast, but he can't use his speed without bitting too hard, and if he hits too hard he won't have any sparring partners left to fight. He'll have the speed and the old punch at Jersey City and he'll go back to his weaving style in the real fight be cause he doesn't know how to fight any other way. He's stronger, big ger and a better boxer than he was two years ago and in every bit as good condition, except that his nerves are on edge because of criticisms of his war record that we can't keep en tirely from his notice. Instead of hurting him, this is going to help him Saturday. The canny Manager Descamps vis ited New York with Pierre Mallet yesterday and with Tex Rickard in spected the new ring that has been built In Pouirhkeepsie especially for this bout. Descamps moved with an air of mystery and his inspection was given out as "very private." Every thing is private and mysterious where the Frenchman is concerned, appar ently. But at that a crowd of a cou ple of hundred persons stood in the doorway to the cellar under the gar den where the ring was erected tem porarily before being moved to Jer sey City and had as good a look at it as Descamps. It is a 22-foot ring, platform with the ropes set inside far enough to give a safe margin. It is bunt in sections, trussed with steel so that it can hold as many persons as may rush onto it after the bout. The flooring is of two-inch planks. It is covered with an inch of felt padding and a canvas that is laced down tight all along the four edges. The four posts at the corners are of ateel. thick enough to stand any strain without bracing. They won't give like the posts at Toledo, which bent like hairpins when Willard was knocked against the ropes. The ropes are of soft, white Manila, and on the ring posts in the opposing corners' are ingenious devices, seats that swing into place and fold up between rounds, and hinged cooling buckets to hold the water bottles. There is much talk of betting in Wall street and wagers total some thing like $300,000. In the slang of the day bets are "investments." The largest was "an investment" of $90. 000 to $30,000 on Dempsey to win. Ena-Iiahmen Back Carpentier. The influx of many English and French followers of Carpentier will probably influence "investing" during the rest of the week. The English sportsmen are absolutely positive that Carpentier will stop Dempsey and some of them say the American's finish will not be delayed beyond the third round. An English army officer of much prominence in the sporting woria gave Arthur O'Connell of the Belmont an earful yesterday and fairly begged him to copper his ventures on Demp sey and plunge on Carpentier. "I wagered $25,000 against (o.uuu i on Carnentier." he told Arthur. "You are a nice fellow and I hate to see you lose all your money on Dempsey, who hasn't a chance. I've seen them both. Dempsey's record is nothing startling, old top. for the men he beat in a round were a lot of slow old timers er second raters. Car pentier will drop Dempsey. Carpen tier will completely outclass him. In siaing up a fighter you must con sider his career from the start. A great leader in any line shows some sign of genius in his youth. When Carpentier began fighting as a small boy he easily beat our most expe rienced boxers in his class. He is a genius and the greatest fighter in the world. He cannot lose." This opinion may be tempered by the fact that the English also think I Frank I Moran a great neavyweignv. MINE WANTS CHANGES ARMY BFLL. IS EXPECTED .TO BE SIGNED, HOWEVER. Attention of Congress to Be Called to Provisions, Modification of Which Is Held 'eedcd. WASHINGTON, P. C. June 2$. Although President Harding is ex pected to sign the army appropriation bill reducing the standing army .to 150.000.' he orobably will call atten tion of congress to certain provisions of the measure which he is under stood to consider will require modi fication at the next session. The measure was discussed Tuesday at a conference of the president. Secretary Weeks. Speaker Gillett and neoublican Leader llondeii oi tne km:. Renresentative Green of Ver mont,1 a republican member of the house military committee, and Sena tor Borah, republican, Idaho. It is understood that a provision of the bill, adopted at the suggestion of Senator Borah and affecting tne re duction of personnel, occupied most attention and that the president ex plained why he considered that this nrovtsion migm neea moaiiicuuu later. The aoDrooriation measure pro vides that the reduction to 150.000 men must be accomplished by Octo ber 1. War department officials say thin will reauire the discharge of several thousand men by arbitrary means. Under the Borah, provision the department is prohibited from exceeding the actual amount appro priated, a stipulation which Secretary Weeks is understood to feeliimlght force the government, in its efforts to reduce the enlisted strength, to break its enlistment contracts with some of the men to be discharged. Mr. Harding has three days in which to approve the bill if a lapse of army 'appropriations at the be ginning of the next fiscal year, July 1. Is to be avoided. It is understood that the shortness of the time led to his decision to attach his signature and allow objectionable features to be straightened out later. COMET CAUSES THRILL Washington Folk Watch Marvelous Illumination of Sky. STEVENSON, Wash., June 29. (Spe-ciaD-r-What appeared to be a comet was viewed here Tuesday morning from 2:25 until 4:10. Mayor W. G. Hufford and wife, who just returned from a trip to Trout lake, at the foot of Mount Adams, when they wit nessed the illumination Sunday night. The comet was visible in the north east and traveled in an easterly di rection, was very bright and as com pared to the ordinary star would be as comparing a 1000-watt nitro lamp to a common 40-watt. Guests at the Hot Springs hotel were viewing the comet, as well at others living here, and last night there were several families who set the alarm clock for the purpose of viewing the phenomena which it was hoped will be visible again if the sky is clear enough. NEWPORT ROAD IMPROVES Stage Line Drivers Make Albany Trip in Six Hours. - - NEWPORT. Or., June 29. (Spe cial.) Drivers of the Newport-Al bany stage line, on completing the run today, reported road conditions generally good and the wet spot on Pioneer hill improving fast. This stretch will be put in good condition by Thursday. The Albany-Corvallls road is good, and Corvallis to Eddyville fair. This will be In good condition Wednesday when the graders will have finished operations on this stretch. The Toledo-Newport road is in excellent shape. The big ' fifteen-passenger auto stage is making the trip from and to NewDort in six hours and will cut this time to five hours by the end of this week if weather conditions re main the same as at present. U. S. DELEGATES NAMED President Names Envoys to World Congress Against Alcoholism. WASHINGTON. D. C. June 29. (Special. President Harding has named the American delegates to the 16th international congress against alcoholism, to be held at Lausanne, Switzerland, in August. The delegates are: Deets Pickett, Washington. D. C: Ernest H. Cher rington. Westville. Ohio; Rev. Edwin C. Dinwiddie. Washington, D. C; Mon signor M. F. Foley, Baltimore; E. L. G. Rosenthal. South Manchester; Rev. Charles Scanlon. Pittsburg; Miss Cora Frances Stoddard, Boston; Mrs. Lenna Low, Yost, Morgantown, W. Va.; Dr. A. J. Barton, Alexandria. La.; George F. Cotterill, Seattle, Wash. Concrete Will Be Laid. HOOD RIVER. Qr.. June 29. (Spe cial.) The United Contract company of Portland will begin this week to lay concrete on a half-mile of pa ing at Van Horn. Following the com pletion of the Van Horn paving the company will lay about a mile of con crete on roads at Odell. The total cost of the paving will reach approx imately 140,000. Thexwork will be dune under the market roads blU. DAWES' MOVE HELD STEP FOB ECONOMY President, Cabinet and Ai Other Heads to Attend. NEW IMPETUS NOTED Sullivan Declares Event to Be Most Important . Things Happening Under Administration. BY MARK SULLIVAN. (Copyright by the Ne w York Evening- Post, Inc. Published by Arrangement.) WASHINGTON, ' D. C, June 29. The- meeting that General Dawes called for today can be described without extravagance as potentially the most important thing that has happened In Washington during this administration. It Js the first time that such a thing has ever happened in the con-duct of the government's business. In the conduct of private business by any compact corporation, this sort of thing happens all the time, and it is at the very heart of good management. President Harding will attend the meeting, all the cabinet officers will be there and all the heads of indi vidual departments like the Smithso nian institution, the shipping board and various others, and all the chiefs of bureaus, all the assistant chiefs of bureaus, all the chief clerks and many others who have important posts in the management of tne gov- ernment's daily business will be there. Inertia Declared Shown. That no one ever before has had the imagination or the energy to bring about such a meeting is testi mony to the inertia of all government business. General Dawes has come to town in precisely the spirit In which he would take up the presi dency of a limping or badly managed bank or other corporation. Apart' from the economy . and .effi ciency' that may arise out of this and other similar -meetings, it may Have , , Asked by American Le important effects in shifting the cen- ter of attention of Washington and he hiird on rt f nnurar tTnm pnnrrM to the executive departments. There is cvorv rmnn tit hoiirve that Gen- eral Dawes means business and that Tuesday that it had indorsed the pro the president will back him up with gramme of legislation asked by the all the power that is necessary to achieve results. Economy Drive Expected.' Out of this we shall have a real drive .towards economy and good management such as never would have come out of congress. To get economy and efficiency of manage ment out of congress is not to be ex pected in the nature of things. Hu man nature being what it is, the next motive is not to be found in the heart of the majority of individual members of congress. An occasional member who can make governmental reform a hobby who can identify his name with it, and can take credit before the coun try for it, will work hard towards this result. Some others will do the same thing for conscientious moves. But with the great majority of indi vidual members .of congress the domi nating selfish move is greater ex penditures, not less. Individuals Seek Credit. The average individual member is Iookir.-for credit not with the coun- try as a whole but with his home dis- trict. and as a rule the political or- ganizations of his home district are I more satisfied with jobs, with river and harbor improvements, with pub- lie buildings, and with federal aid for good roads than with abstractions of economy. I The heart-of congress has not truly been behind the movement for gov- arnment reorganisation, efficiency and economy. General Dawes will need all the momentum he can muster to achieve his results. The device of the meeting he has called for today is the best Imaginable for his pur pose. TWO GIRLS RUN DOWN CHILD -PLAYING IX STREET IS BRUISED BY MOTORCYCLE. Automobile Driven by Woman Hits Little Maid, Who Also Re ceives Abrasions. Ruth Gadsby, 8 years old, 314 Tilla- mook street, was playing in the street Tuesday evening with a companion and did not notice the approach of a motorcycle driven by H. F. Holmboe Jr Her playmate ran to the curb, but Ruth dodged directly in front of the machine. Holmboe tried to turn, but the heavy motorcycle skid ded and fell on the child, bruising her oacK, arms and legs. She was car ried into her home, where her in juries were found not to be serious. Hazel B. Batson, 11 years old. was crossing Broa4way Tuesday evening! at Larrabee street with her mother. I Eleanor Batson and .an aunt. Mrs. O. A. Lewis, both of 763 East Broadway, I as Edna , Butts, 404 East Eleventh I street North, drove off the Broadway bridge - toward the crossing. The wo men saw the car and stepped back in I time, but the child, running ahead, J was hit and hurled to the. pavement. ne was taKen to tne emergency hos pital in the Butts machine, where she was treated for bruises on her arms and legs and taken home. SEGAL TO BE TAKEN EAST Much-Married Man to Face Non- ,ke Support Charge in Boston. SALEM, Or., June 29. (Special.) Sam Segal, under arrest in Portland on a charge of non-support preferred by his invalid wife who resides in Boston, will return to the latter -itv to face trial. 'This was announced bv Governor Olcott following extradition hearing. Segal is an ex-service man. and after coming to Oregon from Boston married a Portland woman. But he was said to be the father of three children by his first wife. At the request of Maurice Gold stein, attorney for Segal, the latter was examined by hospital physicians and was found physically fit to mane tne trip. n naa Den con tended that the long journey might jeopardize his life. J. D. WILKERSON SUICIDE Body of Canby ex-Resident Found Near His Home. OREGON CITY. Or.. June 29. (Spe cial.) J. D. Wiikerson, ex-resident of Canby and mail carrier for a num ber of years, recently of Liberal, was found dead Tuesday afternoon near his home, having committed suicide by cutting an artery with a pen knife. Searching parties had made every effort to locate Mr. Wiikerson since his disappearance from the home of his daughter, Mrs. Schatzman, resid ing near Mulino. Coroner Pace of this city was called to the scene, but only an in quiry was made, as it was a plain case of suicide. Wiikerson was about 63 years of age and is survived by his widow, his daughter, a son, Sam Wiikerson of Canby; stepson, Eugene Falkner of Canby, and a brother, Sam Wiikerson of Canby. ' DO! HEENT BEGINS 11 CALIFORNIA TO BE COMBED IX 10 DAYS, IS PROMISE. Oregon, Washington and Nevada Then Are to Be Swept by Picked Squad of Workers. SAN FRANCISCO. June 29. Ore gon, Washington, California and Ne vada will be freed of bootleggers within 90 days if accomplishments of John Exnicios, newly appointed United States prohibition enforcement agent for these states, meet his expecta- t'ons, he declared Tuesday. Exnicios will leave San Francisco next Saturday with a picked squad to "sweep California dry from one end to the other inside a month," he announced, and then he will proceed to the other states. Exnicios said he expects to make San Francisco dry within ten days In the four days since he took of fice the 11 agents here have made 31 raids and 61 arrests "I have already communicated my plans to the commissioner at Wash- tngton, assuring him of my purpose to enforce the prohibition law abso lutely in the west and he has ap proved." Exnicios stated. He added that he will enforce his plan of re taining in his service only the agents who "effect arrests. "If I accomplish what I expect. he said, "there won't be a bootlegger blind-Pigger or moonshiner operating in me we&iern totaico at, -tuu 1 90 days.' FARMERS BACK VETERANS CHICAGO, June 29 The American Farm Bureau federation announceo American Legion of the 67th .con srress. The resolution of indorsement said: "We hereby indorse the programme in the interest of disabled soldiers sailors and marines of America and ur uDon our representatives and 8enators the speedy enactment of the five bills involved, including: 'Legislation consolidating the three ex-service bureaus. "Appropriations for a permanent hospital building programme. "Legislation decentralizing the bu reau of war-risk insurance. "Legislation to further extend the benefits of vocational training and providing vocational training with pay for all disabled men, with disa bilities of 10 per cent or more trace able to the service. "Legislation providing privilege of retirement with pay for disabled emergency officers of the world war." PEKIN LEGATIONS ADVISED w . G1 n Agalnst contracts With Canton Government PEKING. Tho foreign office has recently sent a formal notification to all legations in Pekin advising them to warn their nationals againBt entering into any contracts witn tne (Canton government headed by Dr. Sun Yat Sen which entail hypotheca tion of any properties which right fully belong to the Chinese govern ment. 'It develops." says the note of trninR, "that Dr. Sun Yat Sen, Gen eral Chiung Min and others in Kwang Tung to issue a series of notes aggregating $10,000,000 and to put them in circulation', one-half to be pledged to foreign banks for a cash advance. "They are also reported to have or dered that the mint or the Canton Hankow railway be pledged to for eign Interests for loans to be used for military purposes. PERU BUILDS RAILWAYS Big Development Projects Contem plated by Government. LIMA. An ambitious scheme for development of Peru's railway sys- tern is said to be under consideration by the government. It includes the building of two north and south lines and one or more railways connecting the western coast with the navigable rivers on the eastern frontier. There are now approximately 1700 miles of railways 'n operation in the country, 1300 miles of which are said to be controlled by the Peruvian corporation, a British concern. Engineering difficulties and the almost prohibitive cost of construe tion have been directly responsible In the past for the slowness with which railway construction has been pushed in the river valleys of Peru, according to Daniel Waters, United States commercial attache here. HARDING APPOINTS NEGRO Georgia Man Chosen for Recorder of Deeds at Washington. WASHINGTON. June 29 Lincoln Tnhnsnn pantihlinan n a tlAna 1 I- teman of Georsia- a negro, was nominaiea i usaay oy rresiaent nutrict of -oimhi. Lurtin R. Ginn of Indiana, was nominated to be assistant controller- general of the United Sta-tes under the provisions of the new budget law. Contractors Speed Road Work. STEVENSON, Wash., June 29. (Special.) Contractors on the North Bank highway near Stevenson are in creasing the number of men on their work and are getting-ready for the concrete on the bridge across Rock creek, as a part of the reinforcing steel is now in place and the pits for the piers are nearly completed. The highway department is contemplat ing calling for bids for five miles of grading and graveling from Lookout point west to Hamilton creek, around The Lang Range HEATS THE WATER with gas, same as wood or coal, while cooking or baking. F. S. LANG MFG. CO, 191 4th Government slide and across the Cas cade flats. Senate Speeding Tariff Action. WASHINGTON. June ' 29. Senate leaders sought a "gentlemen's agree ment" with the leaders of the house today to suspend business generally MI i His s? III il.. ?3S3 ,aVJ" '-Ut Sii, ft sf: S m$ PI mm a m&W" U : m 1 V'Sarj TW rrr ss """nhiM J--- ' its-- r 631 & ssr : &1I ill .taft ,&&Mifr r: i . i jr im 1 1. - - The style they'll TOUNG men want simple style lines; free drape; soft tailoring that conforms to natural ! lines They know they can get it best in clothes made by Hart Schaffher & Marx . mown while the tariff bill is before the two finance committees. A series of three-day - recesses . beginning early next week, and continuing until Au gust 8, or later, with agreement for transaction of no important business until the end of the period, was sug gested, contingent on disposal of the peace resolution, the beer bill and Money back if you Sani'l Rosenblatt & Co. Fifth at Alder other measures which it was hoped to clear up late this week. Incinerator Reaches Capacity. The city's incinerator has reached its capacity, according to Acting May or Bigelow, and steps must be taken In the near future to care for the sur 4r v '.' . vtr, , . f : . .' -r aren't satisfied plus. The plant is d-lnneJ to car for 130 tons of garbage daily, hut la now faced with more than 160 tons, it is probable that the matter will 1 taken up by City Engineer Laura;iid and the superintendent of the plant In an effort to devise some means of disposing of the surplus garbage without too great expert. Ml I V . . ? mil -Vn TV ; . wvrv ' S If W 1 HX til i i niii i isa-aai- i ilnlaaaaM T i ke