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19 THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1917. CLUB CLOSING IS FUEL SAVING PLAN Administrator Garfield Puts Projected Move Up to U. U. Qolf Association. HEARTIY AID IS EXPECTED Plea Made That Sports Oraniza lions Should , Conserve 100,000 Tons of Coal When Needs of Nation Are So Vital. Golf jinri countrv clubs of America will be asked to close their doors. j. uc . 1:4 u k "111 v, tiiu . j 11 i a. u a Dersonage than H. A. Garfield, the Tk .... will rmn VI n ..fuel administrator, who, in a lengthy letter sent to the United States Golf A a.uf a 1 n .kln'h m , a If t Vt T T1 mltted to every country and golf club ' In the association, suggests that in order to conserve the output of coal that the clubs close their doors during the months of December. January, Feb riiar DnH Ta rfh. and if that is ImDOS Bible to "Hooverize" as much as possi ble and use only what coal is necessary for sustenance. According to Mr. Garfield, it has been estimated that something 11 ice iuu.uuu tons of coal are burned at tne club houses during the months of December, January, February and March, and the request is made for at least parts of the buildings to be closed until April 1. Howard W. Perrin, president of the National body, has delegated Howard F. Whitney, secretary of the United States Golf Association, to send out Mr. Garfield's letter to all clubs which, are members of the association. The letter follows: "Th coal situation Is. as you know. very serious from the point of view of the domestic consumer as well as for Industries working on munitions and other war necessities. "I have been working since August ; to stimulate production in every pos sible way, and while the Increase in the output of coal during 1917 promises to exceed the previous year by 50,000,000 tons, the increased demand brought about by the war is very much in ex cess of that figure. Co-Operatloa Held Breed. "All elements of our people are going . forward in a very encouraging way to "wii.a and nacrlfi. Wfthnilt flUPh l'P!l- erai co-operation tne xuei aarainistra tion will be powerless to prevent seri- - ous suffering or serious disorganiza tion' of business through lack of coal. "It has been brought to my attention that a large number of golf and coun try clubs keep their clubhouses open ). n , . .- Y. ,V.A Wtnta. a nil n .atlmatA made, to be sure, from partial data, in dicates that the amount of coal which will be burned by these clubs during LUO 11IVJ1I vi iLVI-lllui.' , a,....,, -w ruary and March will total for the T'nila Ktntea at laaaa- 1fl0 AHA tfllla Thi. is an amount worth saving for the American people. I am appealing to you and through you to all of the golf clubs of the country to arrange this year to close up their clubhouses dur ing the four months mentioned, or where that is impossible to reduce the beating to the lowest possible point. Clubs Regarded Luxury. The country clubs are serving a very useful purpose in the lives of our peo ple, but they are after all a luxury, and In a Winter of coal shortage their con sumption of fuel will, I believe, create an unfortunate impression upon those ' who may have to suffer for lack of coal. "Will you be so kind as to transmit to all the clubs in your association this request that from now until April 1 they discontinue the heating of their clubhouses and contribute this 100,000 tons to the National coal pile? "I feel sure that those in charge of tne various gon ana country ciuos are sincerely patriotic and are anxious to make whatever sacrifices are necessary for winning the war and that It is only necessary that I make these sugges tions through you to obtain a hearty response." COOS CHAMPIOX IS DEFEATED Walter Miller Throws M. G. Lutsey f In Two Straight Falls. MARSHFIELD, Or., Dec Z4. (Spe cial.) Walter Miller, who claims the middleweight welterweight wrestling championship of the world, was an easy winner over M. G. Lutsey, the Coquille cheesemaker, at a bout staged at the Pioneer Theajer in Powers. Miller was 10 pounds lighter than' Lutsey and won two straight bouts in 30 and S minutes. The bout was at . i i i. . . i i .. nwAn.j that had gathered for a sporting event In Coos County for several years. Lutsey held the championship of Curry County for several years, and wrestles tomorrow with Nels Carlson, .-f Portland, for the Coos and Curry championship of Marshfield. Walter iMiller will referee the Carlson-Lutsey match. CHEVROLET CLIP'S RECORD Test Trial Driven In Fraction; of Sec ond Under World Speed Time. BAKERSFIELD, Cal- Dec. 24. In a r test trial for the Bakersf ield sweep stakes, to be run here tomorrow after noon at 2:30 o'clock. Laouis Chevrolet, . driving his specially designed car which lie will drive in the race tomorrow, clipped two-fifths of a second off the world's record time. Timed by Eddy Hearne, Tommy Mil " ton, William Drury and other experts, Chevrolet drove the mile in 46 seconds, two-fifths of a second faster than the world's record time, made by Disbrow In St. Louis last Summer. . QUINTET WIMi INVADE COAST Christian Brothers Five to Battle Astoria and Seaside. The Christian Brothers Business Col lege basketball quintet is to leave Port- . land on the 8:10 train tomorrow for Astoria, where they will play the local high school Wednesday night. The following day the local hoopers will entrain again for Seaside, where they will meet the Seaside quintet. The match with Seaside probably will be ' played in the afternoon, enabling the boys to take the evening train for 'Portland. The Christian Brothers team has made a good record, winning six games and losing but two. 1 National Army Bouts Planned. CHICAGO, Dec 24. National Army men of Camps Grant and Custer will meet in a series of boxing matches it plans being formulated by Danny Good- - , wva..io ........ ..ww. abw vnuiy J t auL, nnina n . . f , today that he is arranging a boxing tournament between eoldlers of the two camps. NATIONAL LEAGUE CHIEF, WHO PREDICTS WAR WILL RE VIVE MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. S "- ' t i f - v - ft . t - f . . - V Ti .Jt -K '- , I - . . "'.jut ' - t fr yi -f JOH.V TENER IS OPTIMIST National League Head Pre dicts Baseball Prosperity. PEACE TO BRING REVIVAL Belief Expressed That American Spirit Will Find Outlet in Na tional Game When Soldiers Return From War. Whatever setback professional base ball may be forced to endure because of the war, John K. Tener, president o fthe National League, is convinced that in the long run the war will do America's great game a world of good. He already is looking forward to the harvest days that will come after a declaration of peace. "Baseball will receive a wonderful impetus after the war," says the Na tional League chieftain. "In fact, it is getting it now, but the full harvest will be reaped after the soldiers return to civil life. "I look for a reawakening of base ball interest all over the country as soon as hostilities end. This will be especially true in territory which is not suffering most. The chain of minor leagues throughout the country up to three or four years ago will all be back with a new vigor and' supported by a fresh interest. "Generally speaking, the major league clubs are weathering the war satis factorily, but peace will bring a new era of prosperity to those organiza tions. I wouldn't mind having a big league franchise after this war. It certainly will be well worth having. "In fact, I look for the big leagues to surpass their previous best records after we emerge from this struggle. "There is no time in the recent his tory of our country in which the real red-blooded Americanism of our peo ple has been so manifest as in the last few weeks. It took a little time for it to reach the surface, but now that it is aroused, it will increase in volume until it wins the war. That spirit of Americanism will' need an outlet when the boys come home and will find a natural one in baseball." it METS" AFTER ROBERTS MX'LDOOX AND VANCOUVER PLAT. R MAY AGREE ON TERMS. Seattle Manager Already Bu Good Start, Having Contracts of Riley, WiLson, Morris and Bone, Seattle's hockey team 1s gradually taking shape. Pete Muldoon already has four fast players signed up. Riley, Wilson, Morris and Rows are assured the Seattle team, and Muldoon an nounces that others will be signed up and on their way within a few days. Morris, Rowe and Riley are already on the job and Cully Wilson is ex pected In Seattle tonight Ran Mc Donald, utility player, is in Vancouver and has not yet closed with Manager Muldoon. Dr. Roberts, the great Vancouver forward, may become a member of the Seattle team. He announced his re tirement and is working In a hospital near the Canadian boundary line. Van couver, despairing of signing him. took on Cook, of Spokane, and he, with Moynes, Taylor and Grlffls, have al ready made Vancouver's team work per fect. Roberts now has the fever and has announced his willingness to play and Muldoon is angling for his services. Morris stood first and. Roberts third in scoring last season. At the Vancouver meeting it Is planned to revise the schedule so that play can be finished by March 15. at which time the pennant winner can journey East to meet the winners of the Eastern League. Three games a week are to be played, according to the-new arrangement. BOXING CARD RAISES $7000 Philadelphia Sporting Editor Works for National "Smoke Fund." Seven thousand dollars was the sum raised by the sportinsr editors of Phil K. TE.EK, adelphia in the boxing card they staged last Thursday for the benefit of the National "smoke fund" for soldiers and sailors. Three world's champions ap peared on the programme during the course of the nine bouts. They were Benny Leonard, lightweight; Mike O'Dowd, middleweight, and Pete Her man, bantamweight. The card was an entire success. Fi nancially it far exceeded expectations. The bouts resulted as follows: Battling Murray defeated Battling Leonard. Frank le Conway defeated Joe Mendel. Joe- Jeannette defeated George Chris tian. Benny Leonard defeated Fred Kelly. . Johnny Tillman defeated Billy Ralph. Pete Herman fought Gussie Lewis to a draw. Little Bear defeated Toung Buck Flem. Red Dolan fought Paul Doyle to a draw. Mike O'Dowd defeated Joe Walsh. WASHINGTON CATCHER ENLISTS Fred IT. Schroeder Declared 100 Per Cent Perfect in Examinations. Fred H. Schroeder, Washington State College athlete and change catcher on the Spokane baseball team last season, will leave Pullman for Seattle this week to take his final examination for the aviation corps of the United States Navy. The young backstop took his physical examination for the aviation corps re cently at Pullman, and was declared 100 per cent perfect. Schroeder has been at W. S. C. for three years and is a member of the Sigma Alpha Ep- silon fraternity. Schroeder was signed last Spring by SPORTS EDITOR TO "COVER" BIG GAME FOR THE OREGO.MA.V, Cognizant of the widespread In terest in the big service cham pionship foot ball game at Pasadena New Yea rs day, James J. Rich ardson. The Orego nian's sport ing editor, will leave to night to "cov er" the game from the side lines. Mr. Rich ardson w 1 1 James J. Rich- watch the ardson. workouts of the two rival machines and chronicle his observations to The Oregonian. Ten former Univer sity of Oregon football stars will participate in the football classic of the Pacific Coast five on each team. With the Marines are Johnny Beckett. "Brick" Mitchell. Hollis Huntington, Elmer Hall and Ed Bailey. The 91st Division team plays Orville Monteith, Ken neth Bartlett, Bill Holden, W. C. "Chubby" Snyder and Sam Cook. Read The Oregronian 'or de tails of the bis same. Spokane, but did not report to Nick Williams until after the close of the varsity baseball season. He showed lots of promise in professional company and was especially strong as a back stop and thrower. -i MADDEN' AND PETE MATCHED Ragged lightweights Will Battle in Seattle Next Friday. Lloyd Madden and Mike Pete, two of Seattle's rugged lightweights, have been matched for next Friday night's fistic smoker in the Sound City, when Chet Mclntyre meets Reynolds. Pete has won two bouts by the knockout route since boxing in Seattle and these two agressive battlers promise to put up a stiff bout. Fred Gilbert, the Bend butcher boy, who put Lloyd Madden away here a few weeks ago, will make his debut In a Seattle arena when he tangles with Clarence Dudley, of Kansas City, who is now at Bremerton Navy-yard. Dudley has a good record and Gilbert will have to battle to stay the limit. Griffith Loses Two to Army. WASHINGTON. Dec 24. Horace Milan, utility outfielder for the Wash ington Americans, has joined the Armj Aviation Corps. Billy Murray, one of the newly acquired outfielders, has joined the Army quartermaster corps. Manager Griffith received their resig nations from the club today. CAMP LEWIS SPECIAL. Special train for returning soldiers leaves Union Station 11:45 o'clock to night (December 25) via Union Pacific System (O.-W. R. R. & N.) for Ameri can Lake. Adv. t 5 j REVIVAL IS URGED Tennis Players Would Restore Championship Events. PLAN GENERALLY APPROVED Action Taken in Discontinuing Vari ous Lines of Sport When War Broke Out Believed to Have Been IIl-Advised. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. Dec. 24. Tennis players of the Pacific Coast are one in commending the action of the National Lawn Tennis Association In its proposed restoration of champion ship games In the future. It Is felt that hasty action was taken when the country was first plunged into the war which more mature reflection will show to have been Inadvisable. With the elimination of champion ship events, it Is felt that the principal incentive and objective of players Is re moved and that interest In the game has suffered accordingly. This, It is urged, will have Its effect on the future of the game. Reconsideration of the action taken in discontinuing various lines of sport has been going on in various parts of the country. Army and Navy officials. headed by no less than their command er-in-chief, the President of the United States, have come out with the asser tion that athletics should be continued for the welfare of the younger men who soon may be called to the colors, and that they ehould not be deprived of the body-building enjoyed by their elders. A man Interested In professional boxing has estimated that, as. a result of the draft, at least 1000 men who formed part of the regular atendance at the boxing shows held In San Fran cisco no longer contribute to the box office returns. As the average audi ence comprises between 2000 and 3000 spectators in normal times, the loss of from one-half to a third of the "regu lars" has put a serious nick in the financial returns of the promoters. As a result the staging of these shows has been considerably curtailed. While the Olympic Club of San Fran cisco is proud of the manner in which its athletes have responded to the call of the country for men to the various branches of Army and Navy service, the members are wondering what kind of a figure they will cut In future competition, as a result. Every line of sport has been affect ed. Probably its severest Individual loss is Norman Ross, the ewimmer, who holds half a dozen records. In cluding both world's and National fig ures. Football has contributed the greatest number of fighters to the Nation, so that the club's Rugby, soccer and American teams have been reduced to. mere skeletons, with practically all the best players missing. Reports from various parts of the country indicate, however, that prac tically the same conditions prevail in all , of the larger organizations, and this is borne out by the fact that re ports of games and sports held on the athletic fields of the various military cantonments largely are made up of the names of club and university stars. With the decision of the University of California and Stanford University not to put eight-oared varsity crews next Spring on the water, colleges of the Northwest are considering the pros and cons of the matter. With the death of Coach Conibear, of the Uni versity of Washington, and the lack of enthusiasm in a number of the confer ence institutions, it appears that the sport will have a hard time coming into its own next Spring if, indeed, it does at all. FISHER IS FIRST NAMED E. II. COLLIS OPENS SUGGESTIONS COR MANAGER. Judge MeCredle's Reqneat That Fan Help Him Pick Baseball Clnb'a Leader Brings Tito Tlpa. Gus Fisher, popular catcher, annexed the first two votes sent in by Portland fans to Judge McCredie in the latter's attempt to feel the pulse of Portland baseball fans as to who should be ap pointed manager of the 1918 Portland Northwestern team. Before the week Is out Judge Mc Credie's offices should contain nu merous epistles suggesting names of Portland players worthy of assuming the managerial reins of the Portland team. E. H. Collis. of Portland, was the first fan who made known his choice for manager and if all Portland fans are of the same opinion regarding the high qualifications of their choice Judge McCredie is going to find it a difficult task to please them all. Collis" letter follows: "I wish to express my choice for Gus Fisher as manager of the Port land baseball club. He is a splendid player, Bteady and reliable, with a well- controlled temper and his age and lone and varied experiences have given him a well-ripened judgment and a record that commands respect. "Moreover, he is a man of the high est character, a thorough gentlemen and by reason of his general good qualities is held in high regard and esteem and has won the confidence both of his fellows and the public "I sincerely believe that his appoint ment will win the appreciation of the vast majority of your patrons." Lefts and Rights. Steve Reynolds, Seattle's fighting fireman, who has knocked out five boys in a row, will box ,Chet Mclntyre in Seattle Friday night for the heavy weight title of the Northwest. Lloyd Madden will Taox Mike Pete, and Fred Gilbert, of Bend, will meet a Salt Lake boy on the same card. Leo Houck will box Frankie Tucker in Seattle on December. 28. Houck is back in Seattle from Los Angeles, where he has been boxing and acting in mo tion pictures. Bryan Downey entered the ring a 10-to-8 favorite over Ted Lewis in their bout in Columbus, O., recently. In Columbus, his home, they think that he is a marvel with the mitts. . Jeff Smith, the Bayonne, N. J., mid dleweight, knocked out "Kid" Sheeler, of Frederick, Md., In the first round of a scheduled 15-round bout at Ard more. Camp Dlx, Wrightstown, N. J. There are nine St. Louis boxers with Uncle Sam in different branches of the service. Tommy Belrose and Napp Warren are at the front; Lee Witt and Jimmy Turner are in the Navy; Frankie Rnpoell and Ed1ie Oonlon are In Sont?- ern camps, and Bobby Anderson and Everett Anderson are awaiting a call to the colors. , . Dave Burns. National and Far-Western wrestling champion during the year of 1915, has entered In the aero corps of the Army and will report to Fort George Wright. Burns went to San Francisco from Spokane and took part In the Exposition tournament staged by the Olympic Club, returning home a winner. First-Class Private Earl R. Goodwin managed'to get away from Camp Lewis to drop down to Portland for Christ mas. Goodwin says that all of the box ers In camp are getting along fine and that . they have some great boxing shows at the camp. Nothing but real fights go there Weeghman on Trail of Talent. CHICAGO. Dec 24. Charles Weegh man, president of the Chicago Na tionals, said today that he still had hopes of obtaining Rogers Hornsby. the St. Louis shortstop. Weeghman re turned yesterday from St. Louis, where, it Is understood. President Rickey turned down a large cash offer for Hornsby. Weeghman announced that he was ready to buy Charley Herxog, of New York, any time the Gotham club would name a price. Plfl TOURNEY IS HEAR HOLIDAY HANDICAP TOURNAMENT ' . OPENS TOMORROW. Crack Alley Men Who Want to Enter Match Play Have Until 6 O'clock Wednesday 12 Teams Signed Up. Bowlers desiring to enter the an nual Holiday Handicap Tournment on the Oregon alleys will have until 6 o'clock tomorrow to sign up. Much interest is being evinced in the tour ney. Twelve teams have already en tered, 40 pairs of pin-wreckers have signed up for the doubles, while 60 individuals will try for the singles championship of the city. The tournament commences at 8 o'clock tomorrow and continues for one week. The special tournament alleys, Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, are now being worked over, and will be In perfect condition for the tourna ment. Special A-B-C pins will be used, most of them brand new. All ordinary pins have been removed from the alleys, and only the tournament wood will stand. Events have been classified as team meets, doubles meets and singles meets. Each will be conducted under the han dicap system, giving all entrants an equal chance. One prize will be put up for every four entries in each divi sion. All prizes will be cash. The regular system of handicapping will be used. When the last team has filed prior to the tournament, team rec ords will be gone over and the team which has maintained the highest will be the "scratch, and the handicaps worked out out on that basis. The same will hold true in the doubles and sin gles entries. Over a hundred "maple-maulers" have been working put on the regular alleys during the pas); few days, get ting in shape for the meet. It is pre dicted that some Northwest records will be established. All regular bowl ing leagues have suspended their schedules for the week on account of the coming tournament. YOUTHS ARE PAROLED PARTICIPANTS IN "SHA9I BATTLE" AT PARKPLACE IN COURT. Boyi . Promise Not to Possess Nor Use Firearms of Any Description Until They Reach Maturity. OREGON CITT. Or.. Dec. 24. (Spe cial.) Cecil Green and Lake Smith, two or the youthful participants in the Parkplace "sham battle" which result ed in the killing of Leslie LeDoux last Saturday, were arraigned before County Judge i. S. Anderson today on juven ile delinquency charges preferred by the state. The court, after exacting promises from the lads that they would neither possess nor use firearms of any de scription until they become 18 years of age, took the case under advisement pending final disposition of the delin quency charges. Young Green was paroled to his grandfather, while Smith was given to the care of his father, William Smith. No charges were pre ferred against Cecil Shaw, fourth mem ber of the party. The lads asserted before the court today that they did not know which one of them fired the fatal shot. The details of the tragedy were briefly re lated before the court by Sheriff Wil son and Deputy Frost. Judge Anderson talked to the boys for half an hour, and all present in the courtroom were visibly affected by his words. In taking the matter under fur ther advisement the court declared he would keep In personal touch with the lads and see that they live up to their promises of good behavior and truth fulness in all matters. GERMAN ARSON IS FEARED Knoxville Manufacturers Place Ex tra Guard of Watchmen. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Dec 24. Warn ing reported to have been received from the secret service department in Wash ington that German agents are believed to have selected Christmas eve as the time for beginning a campaign of de struction caused manufacturers here tonight to throw an extra guard of watchmen about the plants. Several factories here are making munitions and Government supplies. ' " 4r GRAYELTS CELEBRATED R?al Chewing Plug made At Rich, Sappy Tobaooe the Gravely Way give more Solid Comfort with a Uttla Chew -than big chew of ordinary plug. A lOo. POUCH IS PROOF OF IT J?JS.9ravefySoAusarCa Oumtiz.YA. SHrn ii iiij in fait, ,XOOK. FOR THE PROTECTION PIRATES HEED MEN Team Must Be Strengthened for 1918 Season. DREYFUSS KEEPS SILENT Announcements Predicted From Pittsburg Mogul -That Will Dis close Some Interesting Seal9 In Baseball Talent. When all the big league magnates, or at least a few of them, seem to be going crazy and are selling their best men for figures tha.t look good to them, and the fans set up a howl which makes no "neverminds" to the mag nates, Barney Dreyfuss. of the Pitts burg Pirates, sits still and says little or nothing. Possibly u might be because Bar ney has no baseball material of a sale able nature that he is keeping a stiff upper lip. The lowly position the Pi rates held In the National League race would Indicate that Dreyfuss is not possessed of an over-abundance of even mediocre material, much less players who might be sold or traded at such a figure as to break into the sport pages with seven-column scare heads. Dreyfuss must strengthen for the 1918 season. His roster for 1918 is not going to be an aggregation which will give the ticket sellers calloused hands from taking the fans' money to aee them play. Barney has been sitting tight re garding his future plans, but during the last week he did manage to break into print with an announcement that Max. Carey, the only real star on the Pirate team, was sought by another club, at a figure said to be 150,000. Whether Barney is pulling the spot light stuff is a matter of conjecture. In addition to the $50,000, Dreyfuss was to receive two players. According to reports, Barney did not even stop to think of the deal. He announced that he did not intend to sell Carey; that the Pirate star was not on the market, nor would he be for some years to come. Dreyfuss realizes that to have any kind of a show with the big fellows, he must get some additional players. He must get some good ones, and, as they are a very scarce commodity at this time, it is like pulling teeth to get any of them away from the other magnates without breaking some bank up in business. The Pittsburg mogul and Hugo Bez dek, his manager, realize the Pirates must be improved if they are to be in the running. They know better than the fans that the team has not been giving Its best for the money received and that the Pittsburg fans demand a better brand of ball. Hugo Bezdek will soon be on his way East and then Pirate fans and the base ball world are very likely to be dazzled by Dreyfuss' announcement of some startling trades and purchases. QUEBEC TO STATE LOYALTY City Council to Discuss Question of Secession. MONTREAL, Dec. 24. The City Council of Montreal will have before It for discussion at its next meeting the question of the Province of Quebec separating from the other provinces. Alderman La Riviere, leader of the council, will introduce the question in the form of a resolution, which he has not yet drafted, but which he says will contain a protest against the at acks upon this province and a sugges tion that the question as to whether the other provinces are Justified in making these attacks, should be studied. "Another thing which we should look into," said Alderman La Riviere today, in speaking of his proposed motion, "is whether we give fair play to English-Canadians in this province." Alderman La Riviere said his reso lution would affirm the loyalty ot Quebec to the British empire. GENERAL IRONS TO LEAVE Commandant at Camp Lewi9 to Turn Reins Over to General Foltz. TACOMA. Wash., Dec. 24 (Special.) General Irons, who has been in com mand at Camp Lewis aiivce Major-General H. A. Greene went away not long ago for an unnamed destination, will shortly leave also for a trip. He will be succeeded by Brigadier-General Frederick Steinmetz Foltz. who will be commander until General Greene re turns. General Foltz is an old campaigner, having been' in the Army for many years. He has been in command of a brigade since the first draft troops ar rived. 2 AIRMEN BURN IN FLIGHT Aviators Meet Death When Craft Blazes 5000 Feet Aloft. FORT WORTH, Tex., Dec. 24. Two unidentified aviators were burned to death 5000 feet in the air at Hicks Field this evening. They fell to the earth with the remnant of the airplane a mass of wreckage. The cause of burning is supposed to have been an explosion of the gasoline tank. The bodies were burned beyond identifica- .jrgy. THANK HEAVENS THAT MONKEY IS STUFFED! ! i, SO ARE SOME MEN WHEN THEY SWALLOW THAT JUST AS GOOD JOKE AND LET SOMEBODY HAND THEM ORDINARY PLUG INSTEAD OF REAL GRAVELY fr SEAL- IT IS MOT REAL GRAVELY fy. f Conts aj. R. SMITH CO. SOU-311 Everett S Portland, Or. Distributor. . tion. Their identity will be ascer tained tomorrow morning when a check of the machines 'and men will bo made. One is supposed to be a lieutenant and the other a cadet in the Royal e lying corps. J. Syrad, aged 44, a member of the aerial gunnery company of the Royal Flying Corps, was killed at Hicks rield this afternoon when he was struck in the head by the propeller of a machine. BRITISH TURKEY SCARCE ENGLISH HOSPITALITY To r.niirr AMERICANS IN LONDON. Y. M. C. A. Hat Plana Novel Celebra. tion Many English Homes Will Be Open to Soldiers and Sailors. LONDON, Dec 24. American offi cers, soldiers and sailors in London generally will go without turkey on Christmas because of war conditions. Otherwise they will enjoy open Eng lish hospitality and be made to feel at home as much as possible. Perhaps the most unique celebration will be at the Y. M. C. A eagle hut. where continuous concerts will be given throughout the holidays. A Christmas tree on which there will be presents for all the guests has been erected and two special free dinners will be given Christmas. Soldiers and sailors who sleep in the hut tonight will find when they awake tomorrow mOminST Rtnfkinira tfri tA tViakl-a. Hakrlct rney will be awakened early by chil dren ringing bells and In the stockings win De girts ot tobacco, fruit and other delicacies. Later the children's choir will sing Christmas carols. Most of the Americans In London are officers attached to special missions. There are also aviators, sailors and New England lumbermen who have been working in Scotland. Many Eng lish homes will be thrown open to th Americans and scores will be enter tained at Christmas dinners. An in formal luncheon will be held at the American officers' club. Walter H. Page, the American Am bassador, and Mrs. Page will spend Christmas in the country. Attaches ot the Embassy and the American Con sulate will spend the day quietly in their homes. YAMHILL OFFICER IS DEAD Deputy Sheriff George Kelly Expire Suddenly on Farm. SHERIDAN, Or., Dec. 24. (Special. George Kelly, Deputy Sheriff of Yam hill County, for the Grand Ronde res ervation and said to be the largest man physically in the Southern part of the county, dropped dead last evening on his farm, about 13 miles west of here. When weighed last Friday he tipped the beam at 265 pounds.' He is sur vived by a widow and one child. The funeral will be Wednesday with burial in the Grand Ronde Cemetery. Felix Crane Pardoned. WALLA WALLA, Wash.. Dec. 24. (Special.) Felix Crane, a notorious character in Seattle's underworld, where. It was charged, he acted as In termediary in many graft transactions. was released from the penitentiary to night on a conditional pardon from Governor Lister. He left on the night train for Seattle. His was one of 10 Christmas gift conditional pardons. War-Time Efficiency Is Put Into Effect at Capital. President Wilson Serves Notice on All Executive Departments to Speed Up If Kaiser la to Be Defeated. WASHINGTON. Dec 24. War-time efficiency is being practiced aa well as preached by the Government. President Wilson has sent to all the executive departments copies of a let ter recently addressed by Secretary Redfleld to his bureau chiefs: "Forget how things were done before the war, eliminate red tape," the let ter said. "We must learn, with the Germans, that 'the war won't wait; delay is the Kaiser's ally." " Secretary Redfied has instructed all his bureaus to install machines for stamping on papers theday and hour of receipt, so that delays in action may be traced to fix responsibility. He is refusing to sign documents not so stamped. WITHOUT THIS SEAL