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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, . FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1920 17 BERRY IS DECLARED INSANE BY EXPERTS "College Boy" Hoidup May Be Sent to Asylum. DEMENTIA IS AFFLICTION Grand Jury Indictment Against Vooth Will Stand Pending His .Recovery From Ailment. Hubert Berry. 21 years old, and member of a prominent local family, who is charged with having hit James Vines, an aged pawnbroker, with a bottle, yesterday was found to be insane by an examining board, com posed of Drs. S. E. Josephi. J. . cai breath and W. T. Williamson. Simul taneously with the announcement was the report of the grand jury, wh'eh brought an Indictment against the youth for assault with attempt to rob. Although Berry has not yet been committed to the state hospital, cir cult judges conferred on the matter last night and it is probable that such action will be taken this week. In this event the indictment will be sent with him and- when the boy is re stored to his mental equilibrium he may be held to answer to the charge in the circuit court. Dementia of Paranoic Type. , The physicians were unanimous in their opinion that Berry is sutler lag from demntia praecox of paranoic type. It was brought out at the hear ing held before Judge. Morrow that for a number of years Berry has not been in a normal state of mind- Stories told yesterday by the de fen'dant, who is the stepson of J. H. Mackenzie, agreed to a certain extent with his statements at the time of his arrest on December 6. He de clared yesterday that he "always had been a criminal" and maintained that he was rUigleader In the recent bi mail robbery at Council Bluffs, la.. although at the time this took place he was at home in the care of his mother. The young man has the delusion that all persons are persecuting him and says that he assaulted the pawn broker because he imagined Vines ' knew where bonds taken from United States mail pouches -were hidden, and that he had not told the police was because he did not wish to be lm plicated In train robberies at the time. Criminal Law His Ambition. He declared that it always had been his ambition to become a great criminal lawyer, and that in order to be a good one he believed he should first know how to be a criminal. An other statement was to the effect that he has burled J15.000 on an island, his share in one robbery, and mat ne got jsuuu on anotner aeai ana lost it in Wall street. Relatives testified that members both the young man's mother's and father's families have been confined In the state hospital. Ito be found in any other part of Spain. The military -spectacle alone is bril liant, with the striking, uniforms of red and blue hussars, the dark blue of the artillerymen and the red trousers and blue tunics of the infantry as the ' old and new guards face each other at 10 o'clock, with flags unfurled in the center and the two regimental bands drawn up In circles playing martial airs. "The customary brilliant sun shine makes the fixed bayonets and unsheathed swords flash in the air as the various units carry out the smare military exercises. Thousands of civilians, mostly vis itors to Madrid, gather around the precincts of the palace to watch the spectacle. Numbers of them are from the Spanish nrovincea and their brisrht shawls and scarves, mixed with the m'RIVE form a fit setting to the bright pic ture. Further details are added by the Itinerant venders of. peanuts and hot butter rolls and other delicacies loved by the children, who, under the eye of their nursemaids, in their pic turesque costumes of varied hues, run hither and thither. Sometimes the king himself comes out onto the balcony to salute his guard and then all Is hushed while he faces the regimental flags and, af. ter bowing his head, raises his hand to his kepi. The picture is on view for about an hour every morning. Sl OLD LIBERTY LOAN WORKERS AID ASKED $250,000 Wanted in Oregon . for European Relief. OPENS SUNDAY Vafiou9 Organizations Are Called Into Service In Hoover Cam - palgn to Help Children. ' RAPS i BHIl"'! 'ARMED IXTASIOX OP IREI IS DEXOUXCED. City Council Unanimously Adopts Resolution Condemning . "Bar barous Practices." ., ' CHICAGO, Dec. 1. The city coun cil yesterday unanimously adopted resolution condemning what it termed the armed Invasion of Ireland bx Great Britain." The resolution follows in part: "Whereas, Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief secretary for Ireland for the British government, declared in speech in parliament that he 'ba,d not heard condemnation, official or unof ficial, from any civilised community of Great Britain's actions in Ireland, and Whereas, the action referred to embrace the uncivilized, reprehensible and barbarous practice of making re. prisals against the lives and property of the civilian population of Ireland that has been carried on by the mili tary forces of Great Britain for the last several months with ever-increas ing brutality and disregard for human life; therefore, be it Resolved, by the city council of the city of Chicago, that we hereby unreservedly condemn such practices and that we earnestly protest against the present armed invasion of Ireland by Great Britain as being clearly against the great principle of 'govern ment by the consent of the governed. which is the basic principle of the Pair on Wav South From Spokane united scales ana wnicn was aaopcea Once more the call has' sounded for the old liberty loan organization which placed Oregon in the forefront not to strive again for financial sinews to prosecute war, but to aid in the Herbert Hoover relief drive for the starving children of Europe, estimated at the appalling total of 3.300.000. The drive in this state, its objective $250,000, apportioned equal ly to Portland and the outlying coun ties,; is to begin on Sunday, Decern bar 19. - Various relief societies were called into service by Mr. Hoover when the national campaign was outlined, and when W. B. Ayer was appointed di rector for Oregon the local branches answered to the last unit, supplying a complete organization for the city campaign. Robert L. Smith, ex-state manager o'f liberty loans, and Edward Cookinghn, chairman of the state liberty loan committee, rallied the formerly comprehensive liberty loan organization for work in the outer state counties. Mr. Cookingham al ready has received more than 300 re plies to his messages to various county managers and city chairmen. pledging the full support of their liberty loan organizations in the European relief drive. We have divided the state into (seven districts, with an oia lmeriy loan field man directing each district," said Mr. Smith yesterday, -opienaia moetings have already been held in many counties, and wnen tne state goes after its share of the Oregon quota it will go with the old spirit and determination that made light of liberty loan quotas. LOST TRAVELER FREEZES BRAWLEY, CAL., MAX DIES AS COMPANION" SEEKS AID. will either be occupied by them or the fund will receive the rental and other accruements. ' . Included In. the. arrangement are the splendid estates of Orth. Voes sendorf, Maltighoefen, . Poeggste.ll, Augontfen, . Laxenbourgi Hetsendorf and many otherse,. the decision also covering the Lainz Tiergarten near Vienna, on which a group of some hundreds at former soldiers recently squatted. . , . The income of the Prater. Vienna's most famous suburban park with its numerous restaurants and amusement places, is also included. Many of the estates . contain model farms . and others are under- rentals of much value;: . . .. ... ,- . The late "Emperor Francis Joseph, who died in 1916. beaueathed 60.000,- 000 crowns from hie private fortune! to a fund for wounded soldiers, in valids and relatives of men killed in the war. To two daughters and one granddaughter he bequeathed 10, 000,000 crowns each, the remaining 10.000.000 crowns of his estate to be divided among several other legatees. It haa since-been reported that an American-Dutch company has bought theemperor's summer palace at lscni, in thev Tyrol, for hotel purposes. The hunting estates and lodges of the late emperor in the Tyrol were ad vertised for sale in January last, Francis considered these the finest In Europe. . - if ARLETA 14, ST. JOHNS 12 FAST GAME IS DECIDED JN LAST TWO MIXCTES. by the allied powers during the late world war, including Great Britain. Copies will be sent to Lloyd George, Sir Hamar Greenwood, Secretary of State Colby, the United States senate. and to the house of representatives. LETTER CALLED FORGERY Dallas Minister Denies Antliorship of Vitriolic Publication. DAI,LES. Or., Dec. 16. (Special.X Rev. Donald A- Mackenzie, pastor of the Presbyterian church in this city, yesterday pronounced a vitriolic : let ter addressed to the Signs of the Times and appearing in the Liberty, a Washington (D. C.) publication, over his alleged signature, a forgery. The letter, written by an unidentified person, attacked the liberal Sunday attitude toward amusements and pur ported to have been written follow ing the defeat last summer in Dallas of a measure designed to close mo tion picture theaters on Sunday. Rev. Mr. Mackenzie declared today that the Masonic lodge of Dallas had HOUSE OF 800,000 CUSTOMERS OPERATES WITH CHECKS. Company Adopts System to Put Stop to Epidemic of Payroll Robberies In East. ROCHESTER, N. T. A large busi ness, house having headquarters In this city has undertaken to conduct Its affairs entirely without the use of money. Instead of currency it in tends to use checks, trade acceptances and travel checks to make payments of every kind, including its- payroll. As the concern deals with more than 800.000 individual customers the re investigated the authenticity of the suit of the exDeriment will be watched letter ano as a result ot tne inquiry with interest. had exonerated him from all sus picion of writing it, although it bore his name. Mr. Mackenzie said that the author! of the letter had not been traced. He said the letter had not been published by the Signs of the Times and its publication in the Liberty at Wash ington came as a complete surprise to him. . The company's reason for adopting this method is given as an effort to demonstrate a means of ending the epidemic of payroll robberies and "to show that modern business may be conducted most efficiently without the use of 'small change,' thus leav- lng the nation's money where It be longs, in the banks, to serve as the basis of credit." ' The announcement says even car fares, hotel bills and railroad fares (for the company's force of several hundred salesmen, and other sundries Rents and Food Go Up Instead of are to be paid by checks. All petty items, even to l-cent postage stamps, CAPITAL SEES NO SLUMP Down ln Washington. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, Dec. IS. Votes for resi dents of the District of Columbia are more remote Just now than for some years. It would seem. The reason for this is found in present economic con ditions. Rents and food have climbed steadily higher and higher here, while everything, particularly food, has slumped throughout the rest of the country. Residents of Washington are blamed for the exorbitant prices be cause the merchant and landlord class constitute a large part of the population of the city. Of the 440.000 inhabitants of Washington 150.000 or more are non-residents who are com pelled to be here most of the year be cause this city is the seat of the na tional government. When members of congress re turned for the present session they found that rents on apartments and dwellings had in many Instances doubled in price and some had gone even higher, hence the reluctance of lawmakers to place any more power in the hands of Washington residents. will be paid henceforth by check, and "no currency of any amount or de nomination is to be carried In any form as company property." To meet the payroll of its factory the company has offered to employes tion of receiving on pay day a deposit MEXICAN DRYS DEFEATED slip showing that his earnings for Are Caught in Snowstorm Even Without Food. BEND. Or.. Dec. 16. (Special.) A victim of the cold wave which swept over central Oregon early In tne week, Frank Cherrytree, aged 34, of Brawley, CaL. traveling by automo bile from Spokane to his home, froze to death 16 miles below Crescent, in Klamath countv. it was reported at national forest headquarters Wednes day. E. C. Sweo of Spokane who was accompanying Cherrytree when their light automobile stalled in the deep snow, passed through the same ordeal as the Californian, but' suffered no ill ffects. , Without provisions, . bedding. - or snowshoes, wearing light summer clothing and possessing little knowl edge of the country, Sweo and Cherry tree passed through Crescent on their way south last . Wednesday.. After they had made 16 miles, they ran into snow three feet deep, and could neither go on nor back out. On con sulting their map, they tramped to Beaver Marsh, 10 miles distant, be lieving there to be a town at that point. They found none and plodded back to their automobile, the entire 20 miles taking two days, Sweo de clared. Weak from starvation and loss of sleep, and suffering intensely in the 20-below-zero cold, Cherrytree told his companion to return to Crescent for help. Doggedly pushing his way through the drifts and averaging only five miles a day, Sweo finally reached the town Monday noon. He had been without food or sleep for five days. A searching party set out at once and the body of the Californian was found shortly before dark yesterday by Carey Stearns. Apparently Cherry tree had been unable to keep awake to feed his campflre, and had decided to try the trip to Crescent. He had made only a quarter of a mile when he fell exhausted, and soon succumbed to the cold. The body was brought to Crescent this morning. The Klamath county coroner was notified. '. M. p. A. Swastikas Easily Beat Lumber Company's Quint on -Washington High. Floor. In the two games played in the Portland Basketball league Wednes day night the Arleta Athletic club de feated the fast St. Johns Bachelors' club, 14 to 12, and the T. M. C. A. Swastikas easily won from the St. Johns Lumber company, 34 to 9. The Arleta-Bachelor club game proved a nip-and-tuck affair. The St Johns men took the lead and were not headed until the last three min utes of play when the Arleta boys shot two field goals, giving them the game. The-- Swastlka-St. Jonns Lumper company clash was last and nara- fought, although the Lumoermen were outclassed on passing and shoot- ng. Stephson and "Pollock were the point-makers for the Swastikas, while Savies and Blum starred for the lumbermen. Both games were played 6n the Washington high school floor. The lineups: First same Arleta A. C. 14. Position. 12 St. J. B. C. King (8) tX) uugoee Scott 3) F (2) Sundstom H. Johnson (2) C (IS) Hyatt Kolkana G . . . . wnnKie C. Johnson G Una Thomas (2) Spare Magoon Hobson (1) Spare. Referee Phil Irvine. Second same Position. ...F ...F ...C .. .G ...a . .Spare .spare. Helping the People enjoy a i i vierryinristmas COME where clothing prices are at the new price level COME where the word VALUE is used N Instead of v "SALE" To me the word VALUE means dependable clothing guaranteed fit new styles and - m ji AttoUJLrU in, aatisiaction at kuuiy dui TOM PRICES. Use My Stairway Save Money SUITS and OVERCOATS $25 $30 S40 Swastikas 34. Blumberg (5) . Strphnon (10) . Pollock 6 ... McCracken (5) Humphrey (4) Kriexre Johnson (4) 8 St. J. L. Co. Agnew (2) Hyde . ... (3) Savies Stevenson (4) Blum .. Pryer Keleree Ray Brookes. AXABEIi IOSES FIRST. GAME s - Woodstock Basket Shooters Win by ' Point, 25 to 24. The Anabel basbetball team met its first defeat Tuesday night on the Heed college floor at the hands of the Woodstock quintet, 25 to 24. Eur role made 13 points for Woodstock, While Meyer was high-point man for Anabel with 16 points. Lineup: Anabel 24j Position. 25 Woodstock. H. M.ller ()....... F (6) Heydler Meyer no; ....... .v uoj Hurrole Robertson ........ .C. Worden Erlckson (4) G (2) Van Fleet Fisher G (i) Jabuin . jricason, spare. HUSBAN&S TOLD TO LIE English Novelist Thinks Occasional Fibbing to Wife Permissible. the week have been deposited to his credit in a local bank. This plan is expected by the house to prove popu lar with the thrifty class of employes and to increase the volume of bank deposits. Executive employes who have no bank accounts have been ad vised to start them at once. HOTEL PATRONS HELD UP Rftbbery Perpetrated in Gotham Daring Dinner Hour. HEW YORK, Dec. 1$. (Special.) Daring the dinner hour at the Hotel Astor last night, when hundreds of persons crowded the lobby and, scores of patrons passed through the halls. inree masked men entered the suite ot Owen C. Linthwaite on the second floor and at revolver points robbed him and his wife and another woman and then knocked him unconscious with the butt end of one of the weapons when he tried to fight. H. L. Worley. another guest of Linthwaite, was held In the bathroom under cover of a revolver by one of them, while the other two searched their victims." One of the robers finally was cap tured, after a desperate battle with a policeman and a house detective. The other two escaped through the crowds In the halL WOMAN. CAUSES FIGHT Husband Stabs AUeged .Stealer of V7avor pro" bUion'and E Attempt to Close Saloons Sa tarda? Xlgrhts and Sundays Fails. MEXICO CITY, The "dry" elements In the Mexican government have just suffered defeat in an attempt to close the cantinas, , or saloons, Saturday nights and Sundays. The "wets" com prising some 2000 cantina owners and their patrons are rejoicing. The government has strong "dry leanings, the chief executive being His Spouse. DETROIT. Alex Jawor, 42 years old, is in Samaritan hospital. He has 40 knife wounds and may die. According to a confession obtained by Allen W. Kent, assistant prosecut ing attorney, Jawor was stabbed by John Kierpaul, 39. Kierpaul, it Is said, accused Jawor of stealing, his wife. After the stab bing Kierpaul stuck. his kn'fe in the ground beside Jawor and gave him self up. . . - SPANISH COSTUMES 'RICH Guards Around King Alfonso Wear Brilliant Uniforms. v , MADRID. More color is to be seen In the palace yard of Madrid when King Alfonso is in residence than is 300 From Wisconsin Meet. Three hundred members of the Wisconsin State society attended the regular monthly meeting at the Portland Social Turnverein Wednes day night. The meeting was a special Christmas party, celebrating, in addi tion, the landing of the Pilgrims. Following -the business meeting, a musical programme was enjoyed. After the programme and a social hour, the evening was spent in danc ing and cards. Oregon-made prod ucts were exhibited and eight Oregon firms furnished food for the supper, which followed the dancing. . Baptists. Mourn Pastor. Resolutions expressing the sorrow of fellow-pastors over the sudden death December S of Rev. Herbert T. Cash, late associate pastor of East Side 6(01181 church, were adopted last -Monday by the Portland BaptiBt Ministerial association, atr a meeting in White Temple. Sympathy was also extended to the family of Rev. Mr. Cash. The resolution was signed by J. E. Thomas, president; O. T. Day, secretary, and E. A. Leonard and J. Kratt of the committee. Plutarco Calles, minister of war, be ing known throughout the republic as a "bone dry advocate. Several weeks ago a presidential decree closed all places where liquor was sold from Saturday night at o clock until Monday morning at 7. This edict had a depressing effect upon Saturday night revelry. v More than 2000 local vendors of liquor signed a request that the gov ernment be legally restrained from infcsrclng the decree. After the ques tion was violently agitated in the newspapers, the supreme court hand ed down- a decision which virtually granted the request of the "wets" by naming several hundred -cafes and cantinas where liquor might be. sold over ounaay. m nis oraer was later expanded, to include all cafes and cantinas and the "estado seco" (dry state; is a mytn so iar as the capital is concerned. President de la Huerta's "dry" de cree was the subject of much satir ical comment in the newspapers. Handbills and placards were distrib uted on the main streets ridiculing the measure by burlesquing It. For instance, one bill carried a purported decree stopping profanity from sun' set Saturday to sunrise Monday.. VAST ESTATES TO BE USED Francis Joseph's Property to Go to Soldiers' Pension, Fund. , VIENNA. The: vast estates of the late Emperor . Francis Joseph will be devoted to the pension fund of Invalid soldiers under a decision just taken by the cabinet council. Cer tain castles and dwellings in this city and the nearby suburb of Baden , W A8H1NUTUN. tiusbande are re sponsible for all trouble in married life, according to W. L. George, fa mous English novelist, now making a study of America. "Caliban," his new book, is creat ing a furore on two continents. Mr. George gave this valuable advice to men: "When a man is married he. is not married and done for; he is married and begun. "Don't be too truthful to your wife it is better to lie a little than be un happy much. "Don't say her drees is unbecoming even if It is. "Don't tell her she is looking fagged. i "Don't try to be too humorous; it piques her vanity. "Only too many' men allow happy courtships to grow into dull mar-riages. "Once he is married a man first neglects his clothes, then his manners and finally his attentions to his wife. "Only the husband who finds some thing to keep his wife's mind occupied every evening can hope to be happy. Women are more Interested In men talitv than men. . "Finally, maintain the complimen tary attitude of a sweetheart. A lit tle exaggeration of your wife's vir tues and good looks is not a bad thing. "I am making a first-hand study, not of your amazing skyscrapers and other mammoth monuments to the builders' art. but of the American character and of the individual ,and Industrial elements . that , form so laree a part of life .in the United States. ' "I have visited the rolling mills of Chicago, the big flour mills of Minne apolis and the oil fields of Oklahoma. Now I am going, on to rennsyivama and New York to study . automobile plants end other Industries. ; . FIVE MILLION BUGS LOST Typhoid Germs Mysteriously Dis appear in Philadelphia. '' Philadelphia! Lost," 6.000,000 bugs. Finder please return : to jonn Gibbons. No. 126 South Second street ad receive liberal reward. The bugs are typhoid germs and are supposed to be at large somewhere in the city. They bad been done up in a package and had been intended! for use in Inoculating dough boys ,' in France gaainst typhoid fever. . The last seen of the bugs they were In a wagon being, driven along the Delaware river front, near ' South street. When the wagon reached its destination at a warehouse' the germs were missing. Medical Society Has Election. ' CENTRALIA, Wash., De. 18. (Special.V-r-Dr. F. G". Hackney of 'this city Tuesday Bight was elected presi dent of the Lewis County Medical so ciety, for the coming year. Other of ficers elected were Dr. Harry Feagles. Chehalis, Wash., vice-president, and Dr.. Rush Banks, Centralia, secretary- treasurer. i J 3fr ?2 MM mm With the Cream of the Clothinjr World ., at ? 15 and $50 PORTLAND'S ORIGINAL , UPSTAIRS CLOTHIER Upstairs, Broadway at Alder Cat-ty Corner From the Pantages 1 JOE GORMAN KNOCKS OUT SHIFTY GRUNAN Finishing WaHop Is Smash to Pit of Stomach. FOUL CLAIM DISALLOWED Whole Card of Five Fights Full of Sensational Battling, With Every Bout a Good One. - BY DICK SHARP. Five red hot battles crammed full of torrid milling greeted the fistic fans who were on hand at the Heillg theater Wednesday night. From the time that Freddie Lough and Johnny Fug-ate stepped into the ring and bat tled to a four-round draw in the cur tain raiser until Joe Gorman lifted left hook to some spot on A. Grunan's body between the latter's shoe laces and his chin, it was a darb of a show, The main go of the evening was a thrilling racket from the opening gong to the sixth, when it came to sudden termination. The round had been under way a little more than a minute when Gorman lifted a left from the floor that caught Grunan in the region of the solar plexus. Some said it. was low, Grunan among them. Others were staunch in pro nouncing it a fair punch to the pit. Grunan dropped to the floor In pain fronvthe effect of the wallop and lay there. Instead of counting out Referee Grover Francis-stooped over him and unloosened the belt around his waist. Grunan writhed in pain and was unable to rise to his feet. The crowd was on its toes and clam bering onto the stage from every di rection. Referee Takes Time to Call It. - The fact that Gorman had hit Gru nan rather low on the right side of the groin several times previously evidently left some doubt in the ref eree's mind as to the finishing punch. Grunan was lifted to his corner still uncounted while Timer George Par ker rang the bell. Doctor Sam Gellert, for the Portland boxing commission, examined Grunan and said it was not evident that Grunan had been fouled, so Francis, walked over to Gorman's 6orner and raised the fight-mad KewpJe's hand in token of victory.. wnat a battle it was up to the finish! Grunan was there with the boxing ability and landed many ' a clean punch, but Joe was as tough as a keg of nails and his wallops seemed more effective than Grunan's. Gorman has had some soft fights in his day and he has had some tough nes. He was in one of the tough ones last night until it ended. Grunan's weight was announced as 13414 while Gorman's was 133 ft. - Some confusion arose at the start when Gorman declined to shake hands In the center of the ring after the boys had received their instructions from the rereree. In justice to Gorman it must be said that it was not be cause he did not care to shake hands with Grunan that he backed away, but a matter of his religion. He did stick out his paws to shake when the gong rang for the start of the bout. Gmnam Cleverer Boxer Grunan boxed carefully in the first canto and took the round. Gorman was unable to get anything at long range and only kidney blows were on his list. - " . The second round; ' found the . two warming up to the Iray and was even Grunan easily outboxed Joe, but Gor man's work in close and in the clinches evened up the session. The third was a donnybrook, both men opening up and letting drive with everything they had on the ball. Grunan caught Gorman flush on the chin but couldn't slow up his opponent for a minute. Gorman swung and landed with a left -uppercut and took some on the chin. The fourth round was blng-bang-bing, with never a stop. Gorman fought like an enraged tiger. Grunan remained cool and was ready to ex change wallops with his rugged op ponent at any stage of the game. He came near ..to upsetting Joe with a crashing right-cross. . Gorman came out strong in the fifth and led continually with a left swinging upperout. Grunan jabbed him with a left and fought back. Grunan led with a left and crossed a right. Gorman got in some hefty punches in -the clinches and caught Grunan with a solid overhand right on the side of the face. ' Gorman Too Tonga, a Bird. Gorman was becoming more fero cious each round, but had yet to bat ter down Grunan's attack. This he did in the sixth, as has been related. Roy Sutherland, the aggressive young Los Angeles lightweight, rushed Willie St. Clair, Sacramento colored lightweight, around the ring or eight rounds in the semr-windup, the match ending in a draw. Suther land tried every minute of the going to put over a knockout punch, but St. Clair was too wily and declined to stand still long enough in one spot to let Sutherland finish him. As the bout progressed St. Clair got better; and earned a draw. Sammy Gordon, Portland feather weight, was clever to the 33d degree, while Baby Blue, his colored oppo nent, just kept coming in and send ing in wallops. Gordon took a lot he didn't have to, and as a result the match was a draw. It was a great battle from start to finish. Tex Vernon, former favorite here, registered a successful comeback last night against Eddie Gorman. Vernon won a six-round decision hands down. Joe Gorman's kid brother took an awful lacing from Vernon, who hit him with everything but the ring. posts. It was said after the fight that Gorman injured his thumb. Freddie Lough and Johnny Fugate fought a four-round draw in the cur tain-raiser. It was a slashing mill. Lough broke his hand In two places in the second round, but gamely con tinued. her open mouth, cutting the spinal cord. The. dead she panther weighed ITS pounds and measured eight feet from tip to tip. The cub was killed, and later another young one was added to the bag. They weighed about 0 pounds each. Klerstead wnl draw $75 in bounties for his three shots. Gloom Threatens AVoodburn. . WOODBURN, Or., Dec. (Spe cial.) An effort is being made to close the Sunday movies hers and the movement may result In a special lection to close all bunlnns nooses on that day. This will be decided at the next regular meeting ot the council. EX-EMPRESS IS WEAKER Condition of Former Kalwrln Wo ported to lie Critical. ' DDORN, Holland, Dec. 1. The former German empress Is Fteadliy becoming wenker, says a bulleua isiiued from Doom houe today. Her condition remains critical. PORTLAND'S GREATEST TIRE SALE We mast tarn all our tires into money, regardless of make or size STOCK WILL NOT LAST LONG AT THESE LOW PRICES QfWQ LIST $19.10, $767 OUXt) SALE PRICE.. AERIAL ROUTE PROPOSED Edmonton to Be Conencted With -MacKenzle River Oil Fields. EDMONTON. Alta. The establish ment of an aerial route from Edmon ton to the oil fields of Fert Norman, on the MacKenrie river, is the latest talked of development in connection with the pressing transportation problem existing as a result of the Fort Norman point being so far re moved, from the business centers of Alberta- Edmonton aviators are entering into negotiations for such a service with a zest indicating that as little time as possible will be wasted In the preliminary arrangements. The proposal ' calls for the estab lishment of landing stages at inter vals along the route and the trans portation, in the first instahoe, before flying, of gasoline and other essen tials for the successful operation of flying machines. The distance to Fort Norman from here is about 900 miles as the crow flies. Three or four days at the most would be sufficient to accomplish the distance when once a relay service of planes is estab lished. -..-. LIST $32.50, SALE PRICE.. QHvQl LIST 2J-20' JUaO 2 SALE PRICE. 000l LIST $28.03, SI 1 27 OLA 02 SALE PRICE.. JL JL 31x4 32x4 33x4 34x4 LIST $36.80, SALE PRICE.. LIST $38.60, SALE PRICE.. LIST $39.60. SALE PRICE.. 12M 16 40 IZvAlL "ST $33.45, JJA'x72 SALE PRICE. 30 Out-of-town orders during1 this big1 sale must come with deposit Eagle Tire Company 122 NORTH BROADWAY PORTLAND, OREGON Phone Broadway 1612 Opposite New Post Office PANTHER FIGHTS HUNTER Death ol Kittens Bring9 Parent Beast in Rage to Rescue. NANAIMO, B. C Shooting panther kittens is stirring sport, according to J. Klerstead,' who resides In one of the valleys some miles back of this city: While hunting deer In the in terior of Vancouver island, he saw a young panther,' about half grown. He shot and woundeQ It and its screams brought a-raging mother that sprang straight from the dense brush at the hunter, leaping from a distance of but a few yards. Klerstead fired quickly, while she was in the air, for tunately sending the bullet . through New Year's Eve 0 regon rtlle Oh,' Boy! Make your reservations early same for Xmas Eve and dinner