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8 TITE 3I0RXIXO OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1918. VRESTLIHG RULES 10 BE MADE OVER Standard Code Governing AH Professional Matches Is Declared Necessary.' JACK CURLEY HEADS MOVE FAMOUS BALLPLAYERS XOW BATTING OVER .300 FOR UNCLE SAM. IX re-ting of Promoter and Wrestlers to Be Called in New Tork. 'Stranffler' Lewis and Zbysxko Claim Title. Jek Curler. ths New Tor wrestlln authority, announce that ha Intends to draft a Mt of wrestling- rulee to govern ail professional matches that he pro motes. "Ever sines the close of the Interna tional tournament In New Tork." said Curler recently, discussing the propo sition, "there has been a greet deal of sanitation over the fact that a recos; KUed set of standard wrestling- rales Cor not exist. "Of coarse, wrestling- has roles that are known to every professional fol lower of the sport. For Instance, every fcsdy knows that practically wherever wrestling- Is tndnlced la the strangle hold Is barred. But It appears tna there Is a cry Ins; need for a fixed or standard set of rales, and I Intend to supply that need. "Within the next few days It Is my Intention to call a meeting of the ran. cus promoters and most prominent wrestlers, and ws will set up a coda ct roles that will take Its place alone side the Marquis of Queensberry rales that rovers boxing. Naturally. George Bothner will be one of the men who will hay a srreat deal to say on the subject, and bis opinions will go a Ions; way towards making the rales. Bothner probably la better rersed on the finer points of the mat came than any man now before the public Now that the wrestllns; gams Is on ach aa upward trend. It Is time for such a set of rules and the fans will look with Interest for the outcome of the meeting. e e Another bl question la the wrestllns world at present I "who Is the Cham ron of the world!" For a while It looked aa though things had been straightened out. when "siranfMer" Ed Lewis threw Zbysxko la the final match f the International meet la New Tork recently, with his famous headlock. Put a few days later they met In a return match with Lewis' headlock tarred and Zbysxko defeated the Xentucklan. Zbysxko was hearlded throughout the country as ths heavy wetcht champion of the world, when he was met by a storm of protest from the aaanacers, friends and admirers of Ed Lewis, Jos Ktecher and t-axl Caddock. all of ths three claiming the title. Cad dork and Sterher did not enter ths tournament la Kew Tork this year, and Hilly Saadow. whs manages Lewis, says that ths 6tranW ean defeat Zbysxko any time. The New Torksrs are well acquainted with ths work of the four men and think that they- are the only ones that are real contenders for the throne held for so many years by the late Frank Ootch. It seems that the laurels mast fall on one of these, but which one cannot be said until one of ths blg-ttms promoters rets ' busy and state a couple of elimination matches. The New Tork fans want to see such matches, but the wrestler will ret plenty of stiff competition from the Middle West, where the grappling sport lias thrived for ever so Ions- It Is not aa uncommon thins; for a match to draw a lao.00 house In that section of the country. The New Tork folk will hare to corns high to set even ons of the three big matches that present themselves. " . . i ; " . " . I; - . - K .4 . . ' ' - .. ' tr. ' - f V " . '. ' , .' :r -V- ' .,t 1 s ,'.: . - i ; j : . jx . :: - ;: :-x..: ! l . : .-. - , ; . - t . . : Jr. . : ' r-- i SEATTLE. HOCKEY PLAYERS SeEEDY Game Tonight With Vancouver May Give More Exact Line on Metropolitans. LOCAL FANS AWAIT RESULT Phots by Underwood A Underwood. New Tork. tft IUah They Are Mike MeKally. Chick Shorten. Del Galaer, Machinist Kelly, ths Messmate sf the flayers, aad Ernie Shore. This run holds a load of baseball t alent that is now strlvlnr as earnestly for Uncle 8am as they ever did on the diamond. They are members of the Boston Red Sox who. now that they have left the National pastime for the raval Keserve, ars striving to bat at least .300 for Lncle 6am In the war leag-us. MEETING IS CALLED Northwestern Directors Con vene in Seattle January 17. UUCH BUSINESS AT HAND At present It Is rather hard to set a f jrlourh from ths Army of long enough duration to permit Earl Caddock, a logical contender, to get Into the right sort of training for a championship match. That may be arranged, though, and if It la Earl and any ons of ths three other men would bs aa attrac tion that would go good In any big place. Gens Melady, who manages him. would hardly think of letting a bout In which his man figures get a way from him. Ills promoting placo la Omaha, Neb., and It Is there that Melady believes ho could draw a house such aa was never befors played to In the history of ths wrestling game. e e The rivalry would be great for any one of ths three matches which eoiHd be suggested by any follower of the game, say ons between Zbysxbo and Etecher to bs held In New York: a sec end between Earl Caddock and Ed lswls In Omaha, and the two winners to meet In any placo which shows it self to be ths best center. Boston la a city where wrestling prospers, too, and It mirht make a big effort to cut In en the bidding. That's the way It stands now and the sooner any of the matches ars arranged the sooner It will be de termined who has ths right to wear the mantle of champion. With such able managers as Jack Curley and Louis Meyers In New Tork. Cene Melady In the Middle 'West and George Toughey In Boston the wrest ling markst should receive a boom that will further It along to ths road of returning popularity. New Tork especially needs something to entertain It from now on. There is rot any boxing worth speaking of. and in fact nothing la tne professional ath letlc line to take ths people's mind off of se-lous things of the day. It la long way off to ths outdoor season of sports and outside of a few athletic meets there la absolutely nothing on the calendar for some time. SCHOLASTIC 1IOCKET ASSCRED T"oar nigh Schools Are Members of New Learae. Tef!nlts arrangements were com pleted yesterday between the Portland Ice Palacs and Columbia. Washington. Jefferson and Lincoln high schools for aa Interscholaatlc Ice Hockey Lesgue. Manager Peter MulJoon. of the Port land Kosebuda. represented the Palace at ths conference, and each of the In stitutions Interested had a representa tive present. A satisfactory arrange ment was made for financing ths sea son. All games ars to be played In the afternoon. Commencing at 1 IS. they will bs over with earl.- enough so aa not to Interfere with the crowds at ths svenlng skating session. Practice will commence Immediately and ths first match of ths season probably will he played about January 14. Ths lnterscholastio Ice hockey schedule will bs drawn r today and announced tomorrow. flayer Limit and Sleeting fmplres to Come Cp Walter StcCredle Leaves for New Bailiwick at Salt lake. Ths meeting of ths directors of the orthwestern League will bs held In -nttie on Thursday, January 1. ac- rding to official notice Just received by Judge W. W. McCredle, owner sr ths Portland baseball team- Many Important matters will be taken op. What clubs shall compose he league will be settled definitely. and ths schedule probably will bs ar ranged. The player limit, number and ersonnel of ths umpiring stair ana special arrangements necessitated ty ths entrancs of Portland into the cir cuit will have to be decided, like wise ths all-absorbing question o which team legally may bear the tin of -Beavers." Bob Brown's Vancouver Ites or Judgs McCredie's Portlanders, lan will be decided upon. Walter McCredle. manager of the Salt Lake Bees, left Portland for 6a Lake yesterday morning, after com in from the tense mental strain which awaits growing casualty lists. Baseball will give needed diversion to the sol dler In the trenches, to the drafted man In the training camps, to the la borer and the artisan and the business man In our cities. Baseball, in short, will act aa a National escape valve for feelings too strong to be suppressed. Baseball Is as necessary In time of war as ammunition or khaki uniforms. "From thoughts of bursting shells and blood and carnage ths great Amer loan publlo turns with a sense of re lief to ths baseball diamond with Its peace and health and sanity. In like manner the great American public, wearied and surfeited with war news, turns from sensational headlines to baseball scores and to this great sport which haa become one of the needs of the hour." MAZAMAS OUT ON -TRIP SIX FROM PORTXAJfD TRY SXOW. SHOEING O.f MOUNT RAINIER. Rales Prereat Slds Visits and Ralsler Peak Is Reported Obscured 8t Dsys la Stretch. Next Big. Match In Portland Will Be Played Tuesday With Pat rick's Whirlwinds Fog Menace to Be Subdued.' The third les hockey grams of the season will be played tonight at Van couver, B. C, when the Seattle Metro politans, heroes of the 1-0 overtime match with Portland, will play the Canadians. Theroetloally. Vanoouver and Port land have the two best-balanced teams In ths league, and Vancouver should win. But then, Portland couldn't, al though they held the Mets to one goal! in 80 minutes of play. ri wouldn t be surprised to see Se attle win," said Manager Muldoon, of the Rosebuds, yesterday. "They are whirlwinds at speedy playing, and they have a wonderful goal-tender. Desplt the fact that the aggregation as whole does not stack up with Portland or Vancouver, nevertheless they have lucky combination that surely sur prised us In our first gams with them. Close Race Is Expected. "There's not a man In the circuit wh can offer a sound prediction as to th championship winner. It's going to be the closest racs in years." . The result of tonight's ' game Is awaited locally with much Interest, as the Portland fans ars anxious to see whether It was just through a lucky streak that Seattle defeated Portland or whether It was superior playing an the Mets can really deliver the goods. The next gams at Portland will be on next Tuesday night, when the Met ropolltana come down to battle the Rosebuds again. Manager Muldoon and his seven husky Portlanders swear to turn the tables In this gams and even things up for their recent de feat. Fog Nalsaaee to Be Abated. No more will a thick fog hover over the les at the Portland Palacs and obscure the players, as In the Initial gams here when the locals defeated Vancouver. 4-1. The Ice since that game nas peen clear as crystal, but to Insure the spectator against a possible recurrence of the fog ths management haa pur chased large portable fans which may be Installed In two hours' notice. The fans take up quits a bit of room, and will not be UBed unless necessary, it, however, late In the afternoon preced Ing the game, fog threatens to rise from the Ice. the fans will bo set up to clear the atmosphere. thing as he went along, b-t leaving the five pin standing In the last frame. If he had not missed this one pin, he would have had a perfect score. He let up a little In competition following ths practice and rolled 22S for his high score. BLLLIARD EQUIPMENT BOUGHT Ontflt or McCredie's Parlors Taken by J. J. Parker. McCredie's bllllard-room on the sec ond floor of the Yeon building, which has been the headquarters of the Port land baseball club for many years, will close Its doors this morning. Clarke & Beamer, who have been operating the parlors since they were purchased from the McCredles about a year ago, have sold the - entire equipment to J. J. Parker, proprietor of the Waldorf Bil liard Room, at Broadway and Washing' ton. The Waldorf, In turn. Is to move into the new building now nearlng comple tion at the southeast corner of Alder and Park streets. The McCredle equip ment, as well as that of the Waldorf, will be Installed there, making the new parlors ths largest on ths Pacific Coast. NEW YORK 5 Cold Extreme, Fuel Scarce and Waters Frozen. the wood shipbuilding school's com mittee of management, will preside. Mr. Curtis' address will be illustrated with , a large number of stereoptlcon views. Already 287 students have been en rolled and many others are expected to come In, said Mr. Nichols. The course will teach the practical science of wooden shipbuilding. All who are Interested in the sub ject of wood shipbuilding have been invited ' to attend tonight's session. There will be no admission fee. E IS BIG SUCCESS M. C. A. PARTY PASSES CHRIST MAS AT SPIRIT LAKE. j Little Snow at Timber Line of Mount St. Helens . Is Encountered, Going Is Found Hard. but j. n. o'doxntxtj wins pl-aV-off TACOMA. Wash, Jan. I. (Special.) I Open High-Run Contest Is Captured Trxreaa feigns for McGraw. NEW TORK. Jan. J. Ths New Tork National League baseball club an nounced today that Charles M. Tes reau. veteran pitcher of the team, had signed a contract for lilt. Tesreaa Is ths first major-leagu player to alga a Ills cemracL nlotlna- several business deals here his home town. Walter will leave Salt Lake soon for the East, where he will confer with the owners and managers of ths Detroit. Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and New Tork clubs rerardlng the purchase and disposal o playsrs. Ths Salt Lake club Is pretty well shot to Pieces at present, the nltchtns staff especially being hard hit. He probably will return from the East with contracts lor several sjooa twlrlera under his wing. "Be back In Portland In six weeks or so." he said before leaving. Lm golner to take a run through ths old town and say "hello" to the boys when I take the Bees Into training In ths earlv Ecrlnc "I orobablr will dig up some promis ing young bushers In the East and turn them over to Portiana lor seasoning, If they amount to anything." PARKWAY TEAM BEATS AltLETA Basketball Game Is Won by Score of 2e to 7. Ths South Parkway basketball team met and defeated the Arleta h opera on the Parkway floor Wednesday evening by a score of 2 to T. The excellent teamclay of tne faraway quintet proved the undoing of their rivals. This la ths secona game Deiween these two aggregations, the first end Ing IT to It In favor of ths Parkway players. Preliminary to ths big game oetween the South Parkway team and the Che mawa Indian School next Wednesday night, the South Parkway Juniors wfH play Jefferson High Srhol. Btyh games will be played on the faraway floor. South l'arkway plays Flanklln High School tonight. Lineup and scoring of ths Parkway- Arleta game: Parkwer (IS). Polities. Arleta (T GurlAH. 10 C. F Thompaoa fniM. I" ............ Lieul..n Tt.r, 4 C limy Publn.Ky. O Pnrr.UI lolit.li. O O ..... Thomas A. Ciurl.n. 0 Spare R.r.r.e "Fuds." iirosn. War Is Aid, Not Hindrance, to Baseball, Says Writer. Game Fvralahea Relief People From Mesial Strata aad blves Xeeded Dlverslea to Soldiers. YTTE WONDER If you realise that W baseball thrives on war." re marks C F. Lane, editor of Baseball Maa-aalne. "our Civil War mads baseball Amer ica's National sport. The soldiers played baseball In their leisure hours, and when they disbanded they carried home with them a lasting love for the gams. The present world conflict In the sams way Is making baseball the International game. "Wlth the first signs of Spring the crack of the bat will bs heard literally around the world In every allied camp. "Baseball during our first year In the war gave the American people their chief diversion and recreation the sea son winding up In a grand climax with record-breaking world's series crowds, "Washington haa warned us that the IMS war strain will bs mors severe than any other year regardless of ths war's duration. -Baseball will do Its bit at this crit ical time, not as a luxury, but as a necessity. Baseball will furnish relief Frank I. Jones and five other members of the Mssama Club, of Portland, were In a party which mads a snowshos trip in Paradise Valley. Rainier National Park, and returned Tuesday. Thsy were forced to fell trees to cross swollen streams where bridges had been washed away. The party consisted of 11 per sons, with an equal division of men and women. Miss Elsa" Qreele, of the "Sierras." of California, was among ths crowd. Lulls NetUeton. who has scaled peaks of ths Cascades. Sierras. Olacler National Park and Alaska, and Miss Mabel McBaln! of Everett, who has a number of high peaks to her credit, made the trip. It rained four of ths five days the mountaineers were In the park and they were told by attendants at Para dise Inn that Mount Rainier had not been seen for It days, so shrouded had It been In rain and mist. On account of the weather the usual trips were not taken, although one group did reach McCluro Rock. Miss Shane, of Tacoma. was ths only woman member. New Year's evs was spent at Long mire's, where an ambitious programme waa given under the leadership of Dr. H. 8. Nichols, Portland, who featured his celebrated "Pavlowa" dance In cos tume. John A. Lee, Portland, and Irland Davis, Seattle, contributed songs and Miss Ida Kratsch, Seattle, who Is to leave soon for France as Red ' Cross nurse, red ted "The Red Cross Nurse's Prayer." The visitors were told at Messlers that the waters are higher In the park now than at any time in the last Z! years- Edmund S. Meany, teacher of history at ths University of Washington, is the president of the Mountaineers. From E. Davis. J. H. O'Donnell won the play-off or the tie between himself and E. Davis Wednesday night in the open high-run three-oushlon contest recently conduct ed by the Bowie & Caldwell Billiard Parlors. Both men tied with a high run of seven. On Wednesday night the play-off ran 55 Innings. O'Donnell finally winning with a high run of four. Davis made a high run of three on two occasions during ths match, but could not put them together for a winning soore. O'Donnell was presented with a fancy billiard -cue at the close of the match. A good crowd of billiard enthusiasts attended. Bowler Makes Fine Score. E. C Watklos, of the Modern Prlntery bowling team, rolled 299 in practice Wednesday night, cleaning up every- FAST QUINTETS TO MEET SEASIDE TEAM TO PLAT WITfGED rM CX. LB TOMORROW NIGHT. Visitors Are Former College Stars and Ars Expected ts Pat Vr Stiff Fight for Honors. Ths Multnomah Amateur Athletlo Club basketball quintet will make Its 191S debut tomorrow night, when the Winded "M hoopers will battle the fast Seaslds Athletlo Club aggrega tlon. The Seaside team Is composed al most entirely of former Oregon Agri cultural College stare. It recently ad ministered a drubbing to the fast Christian Brothers' Business College team of Portland In a game played at Seaside during the holidays. The Multnomah team is known to bs ons of the best that ever repre sented ths club. Sharp and Sttnson will start the game at forward. Mor ton will play center, while Mix and Toomey will hold down the guard po sition. Dunlway also will probably get In the fray a bit later. The game will be played in the Mult nomah Club gym. and will be called at t:15 P. M. Admission Is 25 cents. This Is ths first game of col lege caliber to bs plsyed in Portland this season, and a largs crowd is ex pected o attend. Coast Directors Meet. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. . Directors of the Paclflo Coast Baseball League met here today to consider the lalS schedule, which has been drafted by John Cook, of the Salt Lake club. Sac ramento, ths newest member of the circuit, will be sdm.tted formally and plans will bs made for the start of the season there. 9 Phone your want ads to Ths Orego- nlaa. Mais 7079, A (095. '. I t . .. v ' i J- if W Ths party of T. M. C. A. hikers who passed the Christmas holidays at Spirit Lake, at the north bass of Mount St Helens, returned to Portland late on Wednesday night, after a hard and ex citing but thoroughly enjoyable trip. Those who made the Jaunt of 100-odd miles were J. C. Meehan, who led the party, Remey Cox, Brad and Chester Frouda, Paul Irvine. Haddon Rockhey and Tom McMullen. The party left the Union Depot at midnight on Christmas, arriving at Castle Rock, Wash., about A. M. In heavy rainstorm. Here two machines Were waiting to take them for 15 or 20 miles along the road eastward to wards St. Helens. The machines were cot able to take the party as far along the road as was expected on account frequent washouts encountered. The automobiles made the summit of Green Mountain at 6 A. M. and were forced to call a halt. The boys then struck out on foot and made a point 11 miles from Spirit Lake at 4:30 P. M., where they slept for ths night In a cabin. Starting out at I A. M. the following day, at the Eight-Mile Post they found the road bridge across the swollen Tuttle River washed out. Following the bed of the stream a short distance they crossed It on a tree which had bridged the stream In falling. They arrived at Spirit Lake, approximately B0 miles from Castle Rock, at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Practically no snow was encountered until the lake was reached. At this time of the year six or seven feet of snow on the Castle Rock-St. Helens road is the usual con dition. The party opened up the famous Y. M. C. A, Summer camp at Spirit Lake, which housea nearly 100 boys each Summer, and stayed, until New Year's day. Side trips were made to points of Interest in the neighborhood and the party climbed Mount St. Helens as far as the timber line. On the return home the young moun taineers hiked 28 miles In one day and on the next caught up with their wait ing machines and arrived In Castle Rock In time to catch the 8:30 P. M. train Wednesday. COAL BARGES HELD IN ICE i! G. W. Smith. Who Will Try to Capture 200-Yard Event In Coming State Swimming Cham pionship Meet at Multnomah Club. '-se.s . RITCHIE ISN'T SURE OF TITLE Boxing Instructor at Camp Lewis and Draft Board Disagree. TACOMA. Wash., Jan. . (Special.) Willie Ritchie, boxing instructor at Camp Lewis, doesn't know whether he will be considered an officer or whether he shall become a plain soldier. Willie s draft board at San Francisco Is to blame. The board placed "Gear- hardt A. Steffen" in class L the first to be called to the front. Steffen is Willie's regular name, the one he use's when he Is not boxing. The fact that the former lightweight champion of the world has been ap pointed boxing instructor at the can tonment led him to believe that he was a Government employe ana ne so stated In his questionnaire. But the board has disagreed with him and when Ritchie gets back to the cantonment he will have a prob lem on hand that Uncle Sam must figure out. COAST LEAGUE FIXES SCHEDULE Season to Open April 2 and Termi nate October 2 7. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. . The base ball season for 1918 will begin on Tues day, April 2, and will close on Sunday, October 27, with Oakland playing here. Vernon at Sacramento and Salt Lake at Los Angeles on the opening day. The directors of the Paclflo Coast League at a meeting here today ar ranged those dates, voted a franchise to Sacramento, as had been forecast. and elected C J. Heeseman, of Sacra mento, and J. Cal Ewing of Oakland, vice-presidents. Heeseman and Ewing upplant F. S. Murphy, of Salt Lake, and Judge W. W. McCredle, of Portland, which city will not be in the league this Season. Warren Defeats Conley. George Warren won from O. M. Conley In a brief, one-sided game of three-cushion billiards Wednesday night at the Waldorf parlors. While making his 32 points. Warren allowed Conley only six points. The finals of the handicap tournament now are being played off with Goodland, Roth and Ryan leading. Twenty Schools Closed for Lack of Heat Hospitals and Other In stitutlons Have Exhausted Their Coal Supplies. NEW TORK, Jan. 3. With the tem perature hovering around zero for the sixth successive day, New York was confronted tonight with a fuel short age that took on added menace every hour as the waters surrounding the city became coated more deeply with ice. Dozens of coal-laden barges ane Icebound on their way from New Jer sey terminals with many thousands of tons of fuel. Twenty schools were closed today because of lack of fuel and 15 others because of frozen water pipes. Hos pitals and other Institutions are at the end of their coal supplies. The Weather Bureau could give no hope of relief from the Intense cold. EDISOX PLANT LACKS COAL West Orange Work Stops and 5000 Are Forced to Be Idle. ORANGE. N. X, Jan. S. Efforts tb provide fuel for the operation of the Edison plant In West Orange today failed and officials of the company said it probably would be necessary to continue suspension of work until Hon day. It was necessary to close the works yesterday when the coal sup ply was exhausted. More than E000 employes are Idle as a result. NEW YORK, Jan. S. Statements that the country's export traffio is being affected by the coal shortage at this port were made here today by men endeavoring to remedy the situation. It Is estimated that nearly 100 steam ships are affected. Involving delay . in the transportation of war supplies, In eluding foodstuffs. RONTRADES WIN STRIKE TEN PER CENT BONUS GRANTED TO SAN FRANCISCO WORKERS. Rise ts Be In Effect During Period of ' War and Employes Agree Not to Walk Out. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8 A strike of approximately 6000 Iron trades me chanics in this district was ended to night when their employers granted them a 10 per cent Increase In wages which, by agreement, will prevail dur ing the period of the war. The men now will receive the same war bonus paid to Iron trades workers engaged in shipyards. The strike had been in progress One week and effected several Industries Identified with war work activities. The men contended that their work outside of shipyards was Just as im portant as that within, and for that reason they should receive the 10 per cent war bonus recently granted ship yard iron trades workers by the Fed eral Shipbuilding Wage Adjustment Board. One clause of the agreement speci fied that, during the life of the agree ment, there would be no strike by the employes nor lockout by the employers. In the event that future grievances should arise which could not be ad- Justed by firm representatives and union representatives in conference the dispute would be submitted to Mortimer Flelshhacker, representing the Wage Adjustment Board, for In vestigation and recommendation. McNARY SECURES INQUIRY Status of Oregon Students) of Ord- i nance Will Be Investigated. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Jan. 3. The Adjutant-General, at the request of Senator McNary, to day ordered an Inquiry Into the status of 62 students of the University of Ore gon who recently completed a els weeks' ordnance course, in the ex pectation they would be appointed ser geants of ordnance and assigned te duty at San Antonio. The Senator was notified these stu dents have been denied Army appoint ments because they are of draft age. Refusal of appointments, in the cir cumstances, the Senator eays, would constitute a breach of good faith on the part of the Government. An emergency appropriation of 165. 000 for the Salem Indian School was urged by Representative Hawley before the Indian committee today. High prices have nearly exhausted the cur rent appropriation for the Salem eclrool, and unless additional funds are soon made available,! Mr. Hawley Is advised that the school must close. TWO HELD T0GRAND JURY Astoria Man Is Accused of Violat ing Espionage Act. ASTORIA. Or.. Jan. 8. (Special.) The preliminary examination of Fred C. Brendlnger on a charge of violating ths espionage act was held before United States Commissioner Carney to day. He was held to await the action of the Federal, grand Jury with bonds fixed at $2000. Brendlnger Is accused of Issuing seditious circulars against the United States.. William E. Seal, a plumber, also was given a preliminary hearing on a charge of violating the espionage act and was held under $1500 bonds. Seal, who had been working on the con struction of cantonments at Fort Stevens, telegraphed the plumbers' union at Portland not to send any more men to Fort Stevens as the plumbers were being laid off. He admitted to day that the latter statement was false. . , SHIP SCHOOL PROPOSED M. C. A. TO TEACH ART WOODEN CONSTRUCTION. OF Meeting; Called for Tonight In Audito rium of Building, With Naval Architect as Speaker, What Is said to be the first wood shipbuilding school In the United States will have Its formal opening with a publlo meeting this evening In the auditorium of the Portland Y. M. A. The school has been organized by the Y. M. C A. solely as an aid to the local wood shipbuilding industry. which we expect to assume even great er proportions in the future than at the present time," announced L. G. Nichols, director of the educational department of the Y. M. C. A. W. H. Curtis, naval architect, who is to be chief instructor in the wood hlpbuildlng school, will be the chief Bpeaker at the formal opening of the school this evening. His subject will be "Wooden Shipbuilding." W. C Shaw, chief engineer of the Columbia River Shipbuilding Corporation and head of McNARY, WILL SEE McADOO Conference on Routing of Freight to Be Held Today. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Jan. S. Senator McNary has an appointment to corner tomorrow with Secretary McAdoo with reference to the routing of Northwest freight through Portland and also will take up the offer of the Oregon Public Service Commission, made through Fred G. Buchtel, to act aa Oregon representa tive of the Federal railroad director. Mr. Buchtel telegraphed Secretary Mc Adoo direct as iouows: This commission tenders hearty-co operation and its gratuitous service in any capacity connected with railroad management and supervision in Ore gon. We shall be glad to nave you in dicate .In what manner we can best serve." Silk Manufacturers Close Shop. iPATERSON, N. J.. Jan. 3. On orders of the state fuel administrator 170 Bilk manufacturing plants were closed here today for an Indefinite period, due to shortage of coal. Save $2, Men, WalkTwo Blocks. Low Rent Prices! we; Nsls 5r d ev Portland ' 243 Washington, Near Second 5. Steelhead Fishing! Will soon be real good. The recent rains have brought in a big run of fish. We are ready for them, with some really - dependable steelhead tackle. BackusSorria 273 Morrison St, near Fourth. DRUG DEALING CHARGE LOUIS COHX'S ARREST REQUEST OF FEDERAL AUTHORITIES. Trunk ef Opium Seised Recently Los Angeles ef Which Conn la Said te Be Owner. LOS ANGELES. Cat, Jan. 8. Louis Conn, said by Federal authorities here to have been connected with the smug gling and sale of contraband drugs, was arrested today at Portland, Or., according to a private dispatch received here. Federar authorities refused to di vulge the specific charge against Cohn, but admitted he was wanted to stand trial in connection with alleged drug running operations. Pour trunks of opium and other contraband materials were seized here recently. The De partment of Justice investigators said Cohn was the owner. Officers connected with the United States Customs Service yesterday ar rested Louis Cohn. also variously known as Joe or Julius Cohn, and are holding him In the county Jail for Fed eral authorities at Los Ancelo, IT IS CLEARLY THE DUTY of every man. woman and child to be thrifty in every way and at all times. Money and its handling should be given as careful consideration as food. The conservation of one is as essen tial to success as the other. Checking accounts and savings accounts are the safest and most profitable methods of saving money. This old established and strong state bank invites you to make this your banking home. LADD & TILTON BANK Washington and Third Member Federal Reserve . System Oldest in the Northvett