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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1918.
EX-
IS
COMEBACK
IN ARMY
Jlugene Krapp Pitches Ball at
, Camp Custer.
'MAJORS HAD HIM 2 YEARS
4 Old Favorite of Coast League Helps
Citc Michigan Training; Camp
Good Baseball Team.
r BY JAMES J. RICHARDSON.
Fighters and their managers, ball
players and their batting averages,
have all tried to stage a comeback at
some time, or other after having been
bounced off the boards as box office
attractions, but it remained for Uncle
Sam to put on the old war game which
cave all the boys a chance to come
back and make good. livery day we
cast our peepers over tne exchanges
we read of a fighter, ballplayer, grid
iron star, swimmer, who only a few
years ago held the spotlight in the
athletic world but whom. Father Time
had "kayoed." who has staged a come
back in the Army or Navy.
The latest athlete again to step into
the breach in Eucen "Hubber" Krapp.
the diminutive but efficient pitcher of
the 110 champion Portland Beavers,
who. after leaving the service of the
McCredies. went to Cleveland, where
he tried to walk every player in the
American Leneue who faced him at bat.
Krapp dropped out of sight for a
few year, but under the management
of your Uncle Sammy is now putting
'em right down the alleyway with a
world of stuff on his "fast one" at
Camp Custer, Mich., where, with a num
ber of other former major and minor
league stars, he helped put Camp Cus
ter on the map as possessing one of
the. best nines in the country.
Career Started la 11MTO.
Rubber." as Krapp was known when
he first started professional baseball
with the Flint tram in the Southern
Michigan League in 1909, was regarded
as one of the best fielding pitchers in
the business, lie was wild as a March
hare and few, if any, walked more men
than Krapp.
Krapp won 23 games and lost 15
with Flint and was drafted by the Mc
Credies. reporting at the Portland train
in: ramp iii 1910. He had a big year w'ith
the Beavers and helped win the pennant.
His record for 1910 was 54 games
pitched. -9 won and 1 lost. He fanned
256 batsmen, walked 179. hit 22 and
was'charced with six wild pitches. rllis
work was so brilliant in 1910 that he
was sold to the Cleveland Americans,
and In 1911 won 12 and lost 8 games in
the big show, striking out 130 and
walking 1.1B. He pasted the old pellet
into the ribs of 12 of the batsmen anil
threw wildly 14 times. Although with
Cleveland in 1912. he only worked 58 2-3
innings, winning two and losing five
games. In this short interval he walked
43 batsmen, struck nut 22, hit 4 and
was charged with six wild heaves.
Federal Signed Hint la If! I.
Cleveland was unable to get Krapp
down to earth in IMS and turned him
back to Portland, where out of 23
games pitched he won 12 and lost 13.
He whiffed 139. walked 134 not a bit
bashful a-tall. hit 13 and threw the
ball away eight times. The Federal
League made Krapp a nice offer in
1914 and he cast himself adrift from
organized baseball and Joined the Buf
falo Feds, where he won 16 and lost 14
games, striking out 113. walking 123,
hitting 12 and had 10 wild pitches. He
ranked sixth best pitcher with the Feds
that year.
Krapp started on the toboggan 'in
1S15. In 3S games pitched he only won
and lost 19. walked 122 and fanned
95. The last heard of him he was down
around the Southern League, where he
tried to make the grade as an infielder.
He was a great favorite In the Pa
cific Coast League in his palmy days
and was rated the best fielder of bunts
in the circuit. He pitched nice ball for i
the Camp Custer team this season and I
Is said to have shown some of the form
which characterized his work a few
years ago.
ming champion of America, Is dead of
Spanish influenza in New London,
Conn. - ElionBky, unquestionably one
of the strongest swimmers this coun
try ever produced, was a member of
the Naval Reserves at Pelham Bay
naval training station. He recently se
cured a furlough and Tisited relatives
at New London. Early last week he
caught cold, which soon developed into
the dreaded Blague.
Klionsky one time swam 90 miles
without a stop.' On several occasions
manacled and tied hand and foot he
swam from the Battery. N. Y.. to
Coney Island, dragging a rowboat filled
with passengers after him.
Bill Hayward lo Have Charge.
When Dean Walker, graduate man
ager of athletics at the University of
Oregon, leaves Eugene next Saturday
for the officers' training camp, jjiii
Hayward. the veteran track coach, will
be in charge of athletic activities at
.ICOn GRIDIRON
I
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WILLARD ASKED TO FIGHT.
NEW YORK. Oct. 22. Jess Wll
lard, heavyweight champion of
the world, was requested by tel
egraph today to give his pugilis
tic services in the Nation-wide
campaign to raise J170.000.000 for
the various welfare organizations
engaged in furnishing comfort to
the American forces. The tele
gram, which was addressed to
Willard at his home at Lawrence,
Kan., does not mention the name
of a prospective opponent It sim
ply asks him to volunteer his
services, as many other boxing
champions are doing. The tele
gram says there will be boxing
in every city in the United States.
Game Between Barracks and
Eugene May Be Cancelled.
INFLUENZA IS NOT CAUSE
conclusions arrived at will be presented
to the principals of the various high
schools, who are the directors of the
Interscholastic Athletic Association.
Although nothing was decided upon as
bow to play the remainder of the sea
son, it was the general sentiment
among the coaches present to start
Haying where the present schedule was
left off and lengthen the. season two
weeks.
In that way there would not be any
such thing as postponed games having
to be played off. Coaches not present,
however, may have other ideas on the
subject and it will be threshed out at
the other meeting slated for this week.
Columbia university had a game
game scheduled with Oregon City High
last Saturday, when the town was put
under a ban as far as public gather
ings were concerned. The game had
to be called off.
Spruce Producers HaTe to Put
Eight Hours a Day In Mill In Ad
dition to Daily Practice.
in
METHODS TENDING TO CREATE
The. football came scheduled for MUAUfULI cttAKUiLU.
Eugene next Saturday between Van
couver Barracks and the university oi
Oregon is likely to be called off. This Five Corporations' and Some or Their 1
is one time that Spanish "flu has iot
the Ku irene institution. "Shy" Hunting
ton will coach the football team and
Eddie O'Connell will have charge of
the wrestling, boxing and other ath
litic activities.
MARINES TO MEET OREGON
SEASON'S GRIDIRON CLASSIC TO
BE PLAYED IX PORTLAND.
Coach Huntington Is Fast Whipping
His Men Into Shape, and Hard
Struggle Is Anticipated.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON". Eugene,
Oct. 22. (Special.) Dean H. Walker
has closed negotiations with Captain
Lynn Coovert, athletic director of the
Mare Island marines, for a game be
tween the University of Oregon eleven
and the soldiers of the sea to be played
in Portland on November 23.
Oregon has a good team and Coacn
Huntington is of the opinion that if the
"flu"' blows over so that he can get
all of the men out he will be able to
round out a team that will give the
marines a run for their money.
Dean Walker, in discussing the con
test, said: "This game with the ma
rines is the big contest of the year.
Oregon has a good team and should put
up a real big-league contest. I think
that the Oregon team is as fast as any
in the Northwest and I believe that the
game in Portland win De one grana
light.'
This contest with the marines will
give old Oregon students a chance to
look over "Bill" Steers, who performed
for last year, and who is now fighting
it out with C.illis. last year with Wash
ington State College, for the fullback
position on the marine team. There Is
no doubt expressed here as to who is
the best of the two men and Oregon
students are ready to bet their last
nickel that Steers will win out.
"Dick" Hanley, former Washington
State star, is also causing a lot of com
ment upon the Oregon campus. Those
who have seen this quarterback in ac
tion declare he is a whiz and that he
will have to be closely watched in the
Oregon contest.
Jake Risley, center on the Oregon
team of 1916, is back in his old posi
tion for the marines and is playing the
same brand of football that won for
him laurels at Oregon..
been made the "goat" for postponing a
game. Vancouver soldiers who must
work eight hours a day in the cut-up
plant and then turn out for scrimmage
every night are finding it a difficult
proposition. Broken bones and dis
located ankles mixed in with a few
cases of grip may force the Vancou
ver authorities to call off the game
with the Eugene school.
Officers Named in Federal
Trade Board Complaint.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 22. Five tobacco
corporations and a number of their of
ficers and directors were charged in a
formal complaint today by the Federal
Trade Commission with price discrim-
Vancouver soldiers are differently I ination in the sale of cigarettes and
situated from other warriors wearing other tobacco products tending to cre
Uncle Sam's uniforms. Each one must lte a monopoIjr, unfair methods of
do his eight-hour "bit" in the big
spruce mill. And when they have
finished their daily labors they are
usually ready for the "hay." Those sol
diers serving in the infantry and other
branches of the service have it much
"softer" than the Vancouverites.
When the Vancouver coach started
checking up his players yesterday he
is said to have the found the follow
ing casualties:
Leslie, tackle, grip, blood poison In
heel; Daley, fullback, grip, blood poison
in right arm; Mitchell, center, dis
located shoulder; Carey, right half.
shoulder dislocated in Foundation
game, unable to turn out for practice;
Shipman, guard, three broken ribs, Ore
gon Aggie game; Steere, guard,
ruptured blood vessel, Oregon Aggie
game; Hawkes, end, torn kidney re-
competition, under the maintenance of
interlocking directorates and illegal
conscription of control of producing
compannies.
Those named are the Tobacco Prod
ucts Corporation, of Richmond. Va.:
the Melchrino Tobacco Trading Com
pany, New York; Schinasi Bros.. Inc..
iew xork: the Prudential Tobacco
Company, Inc.. New York: the Falk To
bacco Company, of Virginia, and George
u. fatorm. Kuben Miller, L. B. McKit-
terick and T,enn SVhinnai
The defendants were ordered to ap
pear before the commission in Wash
ington on December 7 to show cause I
why the corporations should not be re
quired to dispose of stock held in vio
lation of the Clayton law.
The Tobacco Products Corporation.
the complaint alleges, acquired all of
ceived in Foundation game and hurt in I the stock and capital of the four other
Oregon Aggie game; Miller, end, broken
ankle in scrimmage last Wednesday.
Aside from the above casualties the
Vancouver Barracks eleven is doing
nicely.
The Camp Lewis-Multnomah Club
game originally scheduled for Multno
mah Field next Saturday has been
switched to Camp Lewis. Owing to the
strict quarantine placed on Camp Lewis
the soldiers found they would not be
allowed to leave the cantonment, so
Captain T.' G. Cook, athletic officer, ar
ranged with Manager Bertz to bring
the clubmen to Camp Lewis.
'
Brewer Billie, former Oregon Aggie
star halfback and end, who captained
the Aggies when they went East and
trimmed the Michigan Aggies, has been
commissioned a Second Lieutenant in
the spruce production division at Van-
Private "Tick" Malarkey is anxious
to get his Vancouver Barracks eleven
into fighting trim again. He wants to
tackle Camp Lewis on Multnomah Field
and let the proceeds outside of actual
expenses go to some war charity fund.
mm
Rumors have it that the Oregon Ag
ricultural College-Washington State
College game will not be played in
Portland on Thanksgiving day, but that
the Multnomah Club will schedule a
game with Vancouver Barracks as the
Turkey day gridiron attraction.
concerns, and also controls the Khedi-
vial Company, of New York, the Stand
ard Tobacco Company, Inc., and Stefano I
Bros., Inc., both of Virginia: the Nestor
Giandis . Company, of Maine, and the
Surbrug Company, of New Jersey.
It is charged that the corporation.
I with the intent o stifling competition
in the manufacture and sale of tobacco
products, concealed its ownership and
control or these corporations.
Further charges include payment of I
commisisons under rebates to dealers
who advertised products of these cor
porations. The corporation. it
charged, paid the Louis J. Liggett Com
pany, owner of about 700 retail chain
stores, monthly commissions equaling
5 per cent of purchase and contracted
to pay further Improper commissions.
Preferred Shipments
THERE is one way to avoid railway tieups,
to beat freight schedules put your freight
on a cross country line that doesn't require tracks
and right of way.
Avoid freight yard delays, and eliminate switch
ing and demurrage charges.
Don't wait for train dispatching orders or to be
sidetracked by preferred shipment lists.
Hundreds of owners make intercity shipments
with the
ierce-Arrow
Delivers more work in a given time;
Loses less time on the job and off the job;
Costs less to operate and less to maintain;
Lasts longer, depreciates less and commands
a higher resale price at all times.
P
RAILROAD MEN BACK LOAN
TOTAL SUBSCRIPTION REPORT
ED OF FULLY $164,992,150.
e 1
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Army Officers, Men and Attaches at I
Washington Make Remark
able Showing.
JOHNNY EVERS UNDER FIRE
FAMOUS IXFIELDER HEARS
SHRIEK OF SHRAPNEL'.
Worker for Knights of Columbus
starts for Knt-k of Dugout When
Ronibardmrnt Starts.
PARIS, Oct. Johnny Kvers,
known wherever baseball is played,
who is in France serving as a Knights
of Columbus secretary, has been under
shell fire of the Germans, but came
through unscathed. Kvers was near
the front fighting lines distributing
Knights of Columbus supplies to
American soldiers when caught in a
bombardment.
Since the battle of Chateau Thierry,
when American troops began their ad
vance in earnest, the Knights of Co
lumbjis have employed several big
motor-trucks to convey Knights of Co
lumbus supplies to the moving Ameri
can troops. Small cars are employed
for work near the advanced lines.
Kvers was in charge of one of these,
lie had Just finished distributing a
quantity -of cigarettes when the Ger
mans got busy.
describing his experience, Kvers mid:
'"Heine was in fine pitching form that
day and served everything he had n
stock high and low ones and vicious
inshoots. I moved the home plate so
fast he couldn't put anything over on
me and I went to first base on four
balls. I never did look for second or
third base first was good enough' for
me it was located in the rear end of
a 30-foot dugout. It's a good place to
have a base. too. when Heine lets fly
a cargo of shrapnel."
Empty Swimming Tank Is
Dormitory of Marines.
H iKclKh Friend Lets Mates In With
out Warning and Ciimm Goat
Inland Men to Swim for the Shore.
A LOT of boxers well known in San
Francisco and three of whom have
performed in Portland rings, and who
are now at Goat Island Navy Training
Station, got the scare of their young
lives one morning last week. The
quarters are crowded at Goat Island,
so much so that Chet "Preshy" Owens,
of Portland,. Is "forced ' to sleep on a
feather mattress most of the boys
don't have it so "soft" but the boxers
have shown an inclination to sleep out
in the open air and have been put
ting thVir cots in the outdoor swim
ming tank at night after the'tank has
been drained.
Spider Roach. Walter McDevitt,
Frankie Farren. Jimmy Duffy and a
number of others including "My
Preshy" Owens, were pounding their
well-known swollen ears and unshaved
faces against a pillow and snoring the
snore of the innocent and just when
Chet Owens let one of his pair of
"fourteens" drop over the side of his
cot.
His bare foot struck something cold
and wet that splashed. He let out a
yell that woke the others, and as they
tumbled out of their cots they fell
into the bubbling' waves of the tank.
Some sly sea dog had let the water
into the tank without telling the boys
and there was a mad scramble for safe
ty as the cots began to float.
Chet Owens has been delegated to
find out who the culprit was.
ALLIES MEET IN SPORTS
INTERNATIONAL GAMES OPEN
TO SOLDIERS A"D SAILORS.
Contests Similar to Olympic Games
May Be Fart of Peace Celebra
tion at Close of War.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. Employes of
railroads under Federal control sub
scribed not less than $164,992,150 to the
fourth liberty loan. This total, accord
ing to incomplete reports received to
day by the Railroad Administration,
was distributed among 1,642,694 per
sons.
Officers, employes and enlisted men
attached to the War Department in
Washington subscribed $14,341,400 to
the fourth loan, more than the depart- I
ment's subscriptions to all previous
loans combined.
NEW YORK, Oct. 22. Receipt of
late subscriptions to the fourth liberty
loan, amounting to more than $15,000,
000, "was announced tonight by the
campaign committee for the New York
Federal Reserve district, which has not
yet completed a compilation of the dis
trict's' total.
Among the subscriptions was one of
$5,666,000 by the Midvale Steel & Ord
nance Company.
CHICAGO, Oct. 22. Oversubscrip-
for instance:
Pennsylvania Silk Dyeing & Finishing Company run two trucks
daily between New York and Philadelphia. The drivers ex
change trucks midway and each sleeps at home each night.
Deliveries are uninterrupted. The saving in money is great;
in time, enormous.
Return loads will cut your haulage costs
Pierce-Arrow Pacific Sales Co., Inc.
60-62 Cornell Road, Portland
Main 4693 Prompt Deliveries Available
KID BEEBE SEEKS A BOUT
Chicago Bantamweight Is Working
In Portland Shipyard. '
Kid Beebe. bantamweight boxer, who
hails from Chicago, is in Portland and
ready to meet all comers as soon as
,the boxing game opens up again.
Beebe does not claim to have fought all
of the past and present-day champions,
but he does have newspaper clippings
proving that he has met some of the
best boys at his weight in the game.
Beebe would like to meet Joe Gor
man and had a talk with Tommy
Tracey. municipal matchmaker, the
other day In regard to boxing on the
first card. Beebe is working in
Portland shipyard and is training at
nights with Claire Bromeo.
SWIMMING CHAMPION IS DEAD
Harry Elionsky Succumbs to Infln
rma in Connecticut.
Harry Elloniky, long-distanc awim-
BENJAMIN'S PRICE IS HIGH
PORTLAND LIGHTWEIGHT ASKS
. $450 AND TICKETS.
NEW YORK, Oct. 22. International
games, modeled along the lines of the
Olympic games, open to the soldiers
and sailors of the inter-allied nations.
will be a feature of the demobilization
period following the declaration of
peace. These contests, which may
eventually be a part of the peace cel
ebration at the close of the world war, tions to the fourth liberty loan in the
will be held in Paris, according to a Seventh Federal Reserve district out-
cablegram received at the headquar- side of Chicago and Cook County now
ters of the United War Work Campaign approximate $36,000,000, the total be-
here today. I ing $653,743,000, against a quota of
Work on the plan already has been $617,700,000, according to latest figures.
started by the athletic department of T.r4.TT r, r oo i. t,,-
the Y. M. C. A. abroad and the program !MA?,I,LA V J- ct 22T7 The JPh"ip:
will be submitted to General Pershing f'ne and.s n,ave mor1 than doubled
subscriptions remaining to be tabulat
ed, it was officially announced here.
RAIL RATES TO
E
WATER COMPETITIVE CONDI
TIONS NOT CONSIDERED.
for his sanction, as well as the com
manders of the other armies and navies
forming the allied forces. It is real
ized that the field of welfare work will
mobilization period and special efforts SPECIAL BOAT TO ALASKA
will be made to provide entertainment
Tentative Proposition Would Raise
First-Class Rate Between Portland
to Seattle From 30 to 80 Cents.
SALEM, Or., Oct. 22. (Special.)
Uniform class rates throughout the
country are contemplated by the Rail
road Administration. The Public Serv
inn Commission has received a letter
from O. O. Calderhead, of the Wash
inrrnn Crttn m i S 5I OT1 . 1 Tl Which the gen-
SEATTLE, W,ash., Oct. 22. With -rai outline of the proposed plan is
agaiii in certain zones where the Sur
geon General's office has decided it is
safe to send the men to cantonments.
The localities and the exact nlmber of
men will not be announced for the
present. t
The October program is understood
to provide for the induction of about
350,000 men and the number not called
out during the remaining days of the
month will be added to succeeding
monthly quotas, all being called as
quickly as precautions for safety will
permit. The largest single call sus
pended was for 140.000 men who were
to have entrained October 14. .
day. Walter A. Dimick, chairman of
the board, A. C. Howlan'd and Private
John Mason will instruct the 12 selects
who go to Fort Stevens today.
Northerners Clamor for Transporta
tion, to the States.
and instruction for the soldiers and
sailors after the close of hostilities.
With this in mind those in charge
cf the work have outlined an extensive
camnaign. a nrominent nart of which
includes a series of competitions in va- nearly every port in Alaska besieged ciVen.
rious branches of sport. As tentatively with persons desiring transportation Mr Calderhead calls attention to an
grouped at present the series will be lo lne "aiea, me -acmc bteamship important change which would raise
composed in part of maximum mass Company has arranged to send the th first-class rate from Portland to
games to reach every man; champion- steamship Admiral Watson on a rush pUE-et Sound from 30 cents to 80 cents.
..vtn , . i . . i . , I trin to Anphnra?p Afrpr Hal, vem a. a I . . , , , .1 : . ; .1.. int an.
U if luiacacs iui 1110 wuemueis ui me
Manager and Trainer Also Would
Have to Accompany Him Here
From San Francisco.
Joe Benjamin, the lanky Portland
lightweght. who has been cutting quite
a swath in California fistic ranks of
late, while acting in the capacity of
sparring partner for Douglas Fair
banks has evidently taken in some of
"Doug's" ideas on money, as Joe "only"
wants $450 training expenses and
three round-trip tickets from San
Francisco to Portland, to box here. Joe
mentions that three tickets are for
himself, his manager and a trainer. Joe
might as well have asked for a mort
gage on the new Postoffice. Tommy
Tracey was spared the shock of get
ting a letter from Benjamin, as the
latter wrote to his Portland repre
sentative, Willie Bernstien. to get him
the match. Bernstien is now convalesc
ing at his borne.
Benjamin's match with Joe Herrera
scheduled for last Friday night at
Dreamland Rink in San Frajicisco had
to be called off because of the influ
enza epidemic.
American -expeditionary forces to be
conducted in various war regions with
the hnals to be held in Paris; physical
pageants and demonstrations illustrat
ing the best in American sports for
the French; inter-allied championships
in the form of a military Olympiad.
Secretary Ha user Has Influenza.
Herbert Hauser, secretary-treasurer
of the Pacific Amateur Athletic Asso
ciation, which has its headquarters in
San Francisco, and Bill Brandt, one of
the directors, have been confined to
bed, suffering from Spanish influenza.
This was learned when Hauser and
Brandt failed to show up at the
meeting of the directors last week.
SCHOOL SCHEDULE IN AIR
COACHES PROPOSE TO REACH
AGREEMENT THIS WEEK.
Columbia University and Oregon
City High Game Called Off Be
cause of Influenzal Epidemic.
As several of the high school foot
ball coaches failed to put in their ap
pearance at the meeting scheduled at
the Oregon Hotel yesterday to talk
over the gridiron situation and the ar
ranging of a schedule, nothing definite
was accomplished.
Another meeting of the coaches will
be held at the Oregon either Thursday
or Friday, when all phases of the foot
ball question will be taken up, and the
trip to Anchorage. After delivering a Mr calderhead says it is the inten-
speciai ireigm consignment lor tne tion of the Administration to nave ex
aminers meet at the various places
Alaskan engineering commission the
vessel will call at Southwestern and
Southeastern Alaska ports southbound
in an effort to relieve the congestion.
The Watson Is due from Nome to
morrow and will be sent north as soon
throughout the country taking testi
mony of shippers and local traffic com
mittees, of railroads as well as of state
commissions, if they desire to be heard,
the object being to secure criticism of
as she can be dispatched. No stops I v Hofcts that mav be in the plan.
will be made between Seattle and An- "it i nroDosed." Mr. Calderhead says,
chorage northbound, as navigation in I to include the states' of Washington,
Cook Inlet closes about November 1. nn.n and California in one zone,
which may be designated as zone 6.
m -. . - . Tnhn Mnnfgna W VOTTl-
K 1 1 VI U lu ?t l-llil-l I t-IIK I I UI T ine- Colorado. Utah. Nevada, ivew jviex
ic.o and Arizona wouw tuHauiuio
zone 4.
"Apparently no consideration is being
given tq water competitive conditions,
anri undoubtedly this will have the ef
fect of raising the rate between Port
land and Puget sound rrom o cenis,
Captured Transjlvanians Form Le-
, gion of 18,000.
WASHINGTON. Oct 22. Information
was received todav bv the Roumanian
legation that Transylvania Roumanians j first 'class, as at present, to more than
captured by the Italians while in the 80 cents. It will also increase the rates
Austrian army have organized a Rou- I between Seattle and Tacoma and Bel-
manian Legion and now are fighting linerham.
with the Italian armv airninst thoii. 1 "Von understand that these rates are
ancient enemy. I to be put out tentatively, and will be
The Legion numbers 18,000, and was I subject to discussion, but apparently
organized under the supervision of the
Roumanian national committee of
Paris.
Officer Material to Be Selected.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene,
Oct. 22. (Special.) The university will
select officer material for field artillery
at once. A telegram received by Colo
nel W. H: C. Bowen from the commit
tee on education and special training.
Washington, D. C, advises that men
are to be selected, not to exceed 40,
for the field artillery, 20 pilots, six
observers, three maneuvering officers.
Field artillery officers will visit the
university here soon to examine the
candidates selected for the field ar
tillery, - .
it in the desire to have rates uniform
within prescribed zones and on a mile
age basis, eliminating as much as pos
sible commodity rates and exceptions
to the -classifications. It is my under
standing also that there will be a hear
ing before the I. C. C. in Washington
on November 18 for the purpose of se
curing suggestions and information."
DRAFT CALLS TO RESUME
Men Will Be Cabled to Training
Where and When Influenza Permits.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 22. Draft calls,
suspsnded three weeKs ago by the in
fluenza epidemic, now; are, going out
WOMEN ON LABOR BUREAU
Questionnaires Will Show Number
of Men Who Can, Be Replaced.
Women shall have a voice in the
placement of their sex by the Federal
employment bureau, for it has decided
by the five local community boards
that each board will have one woman
to represent women employers and one
to represent employes.
Recommendations for the women who
are to become members of the Portland
community boards are being made to
Franklin T. Griffith, state director of
public service reserve. The move comes
after the decision of Wilfred F. Smith,
state director of the Federal Employ
ment Bureau, to establish a bureau for
the placement of women. This bureau
will come into being when the employ
ment offices located at 247 Davis street
move the latter part of octoDer to jk
and Third streets. The need has been
realized by Federal employment ex
ecutives since the decision to replace,
where possible,- male employes with
women and girls, was reached. The
number of men who will be released
in this manner will be known toward
tho end of the week, for 5000 question
naires to employers have been mailed.
Fire Endangers Flour Mills.
A TBA'NY. Or.. Oct. 22. (Special.)
Fire starting shortly after noon today
endangered the big Red Crown Flour-
g mill here, owned Dy ine roruauu
Flouring Mills Company, but was ex-
tingushed with a loss esiimaiea nut ii
exceed $1000. The fire started in suc
tion machinery m tne oasemeni nu
.iimw n.n the flues to the top of the
huilding. It was confined to these flues
and a few connecting bins. The loss is
covered by insurance.
Instruction Given Selects.
OREGON CITY, Or., Oct. 22. (Spe
cial.) Fifty select service men wno
reported iere Tuesday for examination
were given instruction by members of
u .intv infitrnction board at the
courthouse, and were addressed by H. E.
Cross, Dr. " W. - T. MllllKen ana a.
ujVo. in the Circuit courtroom. An
other party of 60 will report Wednas-
BRAZILIAN DIPLOMAT GOES
Luncheon in New York Honors Man
Who Will Have Cabinet Office.
NEW YORK, Oct. 22. Domlcia Da
Gama, Brazilian Ambassador to the
United States, was characterized "mas
ter of South American diplomacy and
good will" at a farewell luncheon in
his honor here today by the Pan-American
Society on occasion tf his return
to Brazil to become Minister of For
eign Affairs. More than 200 prominent
persons, including representatives of
the Army, Navy and diplomatic corps,
were guests, while John Bassett Moore,
E. H. Gary and John Barrett, director
general of the Pan-American Union,
were speakers.
The departing diplomat said:
"There is a sympathy between us that
means more than I can express. In my
heart there has always been the idea
of doing my part to cement the rela
tionship between our countries. If I
can do anything to further that idea
when I return to Brazil you may rest
assured that I will do it."
British Casualties 3 7,150.
' LONDON, Monday. Oct. 21. British
casualties reported for the week end
ing today numbered 37.150 compared
with 35,710 for the previous week.
Thv are divided as follows. Killed
or died of wounds Officers, 617; men,
4971. Wounded or missing Officers,
1464; men, 30,198.
Canada Bars All I. W. W. Mail.
WASHINGTON, Oct.. 22. All printed
matter put out 'by or in the interest'
of the Industrial Workers of the World
has been barred from the Canadian
mails. Postmaster-General Burleson to
day notified postmasters not to accept
such matter destined for Canada.
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