VOL. LX NO. i!M
Entered t Portland (Oregon)
Pottnfflce a flcnn1-Clas Matter
PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SINN FEIN CHIEF
OPPOSES TREATY
Pact Is Unsatisfactory,
Says De Valera.
'OIL EXHAUSTION FEAR
IS DECLARED BUGABOO
ANGLO-JAPANESE
SOLUTIONOFFEBED
Four-Power Alliance Held
Substitute.
RESTAURANT PRICES
SLUMP M'.rflALLY
PORT OF PORTLAND
BUYS SWAN ISLAND
CHEMICAL WARFARE
CONDEMNATION ASKED
1 SHOT .MANY HURT
INDIAN T PILL
METHODIST PULPIT
Dr. B. E. Parker Assigned
to First Church.
CUT SAID TO P J .OM 10 TO 40 $120,577 PAID TO CARRY OUT
SI 1'1'LY ALWAYS Will BE
PLENTIFUL, SAYS MAGNATE.
COMPLETE ABANDONMENT IS
URGED BY ADVISERS.
ZNT.
.IMPROVEMENTS.
PLEA FOR DISCIPLINE MADE
Irish Leader Declares Cabinet
Is Divided on Question.
DAIL EIREANN TO MEET
Republican Parliament to .-cin-ble
Wednesday to Debate Pro
posals for Free State.
DUBLIN. Dec. 8. (By the Associ
ated Press.) Eamonn de Valcra to
night issued a statement saying he
could not recommend the peace treaty
with Great Britain to the Dall Elreann
or to the country, and that in his
attitude he is supported by the min
isters of defense and of home affairs.
A public meeting of the Dail Elreann
has been fixed for Wednesday.
Following Is the text of Eamon de
Valera's message to the Irish people:
"You have seen In the public press
the text of the proposed treaty with
Great Britain. The terms of this
agreement are in violent conflict with
the wishes of the majority of this
nation as expressed freely at succes
sive elections in the past three years.
"I feel it my duty to Inform you
Immediately that I cannot recommend
acceptance of this treaty either to
the Dail Elreann or to the country.
I am supported by the ministers of
home affairs and defense. A public
session of the Dail Elreann is being
summoned for Wednesday.
Dlaclpllnr Is Urged.
"I ask the people to maintain the
same discipline as heretofore. Mem
bers of the cabinet, though of di
vided opinions, are prepared to carry
on public services as usual. The army
as such. Is of course not affected by
the political bltuation.
"The great test of our people has
eo-me. L-et us face It worthily, with
out bitterness, and above all, without
recriminations. There Is a definite
constitutional way of resolving our
political differences. Let us not de
part from it, and let the conduct of
the cabinet In this matter be an ex
ample to the whole nation."
The third session of the Dail
Elreann cabinet ended tonight a few
minutes after 9 o'clock. It Is under
stood that the opinions of the mem
bers of the cabinet regarding the
peace agreement were divided, and
that the questions will be left to the
decision of the Dail Elreann.
DE VALERA'S ACT EXPECTED
Silence on Part of Sinn Fein Head
Interpreted as Opposition.
LONDON. Dec. 8. (By the Associat
ed Press.) Eamonn de Valera's action
In opposing the treaty between Great
Britain and Ireland was not entirely
unexpected, the conclusion having
been drawn because of his silence,
that the terms did not meet his
wishes or, in his opinion, the aspira
tions of that section of Ireland which
he represents.
Several meetings of the Dall
Elreann cabinet were held in Dublin
today, and while no official state
ment was given out it was early
hinted that a division of views had
occurred among Sinn Fein ministers.
Mr. de Valcra made it known that in
his opposition to the settlement he
had the support of at least two mem
bers of the cabinet, the minister of
home affairs and the minister of de
fense. Austen Stack and Charles Bur
gess. On the other hand. Arthur Griffith,
founder of the Sinn Fein, and min
ister of foreign affairs; Michael Col
lins, the finance minister; Robert C.
Barton, minister of economics, and
George Gavan Duffy and Eamon J.
Duggan have already affixed their
signatures to the treaty as plenipo
tentiaries. Mr. de Valera has sum
moned the Dail Elreann tc meet next
Wednesday. It Is on thai day that
the Imperial parliament would be
opened here.
Under the caption, "A Word of
Counsel to the Irish," Art O'Brien, the
Dail Eireann's representative in Eng
land, in a letter today to the organ
of the Irish self-determination league
In Great Britain wrote:
"Be not ted into rejoicing and
thanksgiving without cause or reason
The claim of the people of Ireland is
and always has been recognition of
the complete independence of their
country. That is a claim no nation
can forego and until It la met in
their case the Irish race cannot re
joice. "The 700 years' war has not ended,
because no war can be ended by en
forced peace. The time for rejoicing
and thanksgiving will come when Ire
land again enters the circle ;f sov
ereign and Independent states."
PACT LIKELY TO STIlt INDIA
Arni9 Delegate Says Influence May
Be for Good Eventually.
WASHINGTON. D. C. Dec. 8 (By
the Associated Press.) Settlement of
the Irish question will have a pow
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H. F. Sinclair Advises America to
Prepare to Hold Supremacy
Over Foreign Countries.
CHICAGO, Dec. 8. Fear of exhaus
tion of the world's supply of petro
leum is a "bugaboo," H. F. Sinclair,
chairman of the board of directors
of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil cor
poration, declared today before the
American Petroleum institute.
"There is plenty of petroleum and
always will be," he asserted.
"The great question we are con
fronting is this: 'Is America willing
to pay the price for an adequate share
of the world's supply?'"
He declared that while America is
tlje chief consumer of petroleum
products, the day is coming when the
collective requirements of other coun
tries will far exceed American de
mands. "Unless America is willing now to
pay the price of preparedness," lie
said, "she will lose her position of
petroleum supremacy and other coun
tries will force her to 'pay through
the nose.' "
Mr. Sinclair said that in the last
six years American oil companies
have drilled on an average of about
26,000 new wells each year in this
country, of which about 7000 were dry
holes.
"We are spending more than $300.
000.000 annually in new drilling," he
continued. "But America must have
oil. If she cannot get It from her
own fields, she must get it from for
eign fields. If she cannot buy it from
her own citizens, she must buy it
from foreigners "
Mexidan production, he predicted,
will be as great in ten years as now.
"Mexico last year produced 22'ii
per cent of the world's total produc
tion of petroleum," he added.
If this country is to maintain its
oil production $945,000,000 will have
to be expended In 1922 on productive
oil acreage and new well operations,
J. D. Donnell, president of the Ohio
Oil company, declared.
The outlook for next year is fairly
bright, he said.
COFFIN FOR LIVE SQUAW
Indian Chief Doesn't Think Aunt,
125, Can Live .Much Longer.
HOQUIAM, Wash.. Dec. 8. (Spe
cial.) Though his great aunt, Patty
fjcorge, full-blooded Quinault Indian
whose age he estimated to be between
125 and 130 years, was not dead when
he left home at Taholah, Chief Billy
Bason came into the city today to
purchase a coffin. It was believed
by him and the members of his family
at the reservation that the old squaw
could not live many more hours.
Plans were to bury her on the res
ervation, no particular ceremony be
ing observed.
Patty George was born at Taholah.
according to Chief Mason. She mar
ried Deaf tleorge, a member of the
Grays Harbor tribe, who died a few
years ago.
SHY HUNTINGTON MARRIED
Bride to Accompany Oregon Coach
and Tea ii? to Hawaii.
EUGENE. Or., Dec. 8. Charles
(Shy) Huntington, head coach of the
University of Oregon football team
and star backfield man of the 1916
Pasadena game when Oregon defeat
ed Pennsylvania, 14-0. was married
tonight to Miss Hallle Hills, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hills of
Oakridge. Her work during the war
as lookout in the Cascade nationail
forest attracted wide attention.
Mr. Huntington and his bride will
accompany the Oregon football squad
to the Hawaiian islands for the
Christmas football name with the
University of Hawaii, sailing from
San Francisco December 14.
IDLE TO GET WORK SOON
Government About to Begin Con
struction of Hospitals.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 8.
Additional construction work is to be
undertaken by the treasury depart
ment to relieve unemployment, As
sistant Secretary Clifford said today
after a conference with representa
tives of the national unemployment
conference.
Among the new building project
about to be begun, he said, is a pro
posed hospital at Palo Alto, Cal.
MENNONITES GOING SOUTH
Colony From Saskatchewan Will
Settle in Alabama.
REGINA, Sask., Dec. 8. Migrating
Mennonltes from Saskatchewan were
on their way to Yellow Pine, Ala., to
day, carrying supplies to last them
a year or more. A special train with
115 members of the religious sect
aboard left the town of Ernfold
Tuesday night.
Cattle, horses, implements and sup
plies and household effects filled 14
freight cars.
AUSTRO-SLAV PACT MADE
Conclusion of Political-Commercial
Treaty Announced.
VIENNA. Dec. 8. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The conclusion of a
political and commercial treaty be
tween Austria and soviet Russia, sup
plementing the convention consum
mated at Copenhagen some time ago.
was announced today.
The treaty provides for immediate
i resumption of diplomatic relations
between the two countries.
FIRST DRAFT IS READY
Conferences in Case of Dis
putes Also Provided.
HARDING'S IDEA TAKEN
Tokio .News Agency, However, Says
Treaty Abrogation Depends
on Naval Parley.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 8 (By
the Associated Press.) The prelimi
nary draft of the proposed four-power
Pacific agreement is understood to
include foOr clauses, the first of
which declares that the agreement
shall serve as a substitute for the
Anglo-Japanese alliance.
The draft further provides, it is
understood, for discussions or con
ferences In case any matters of dis
putatious nature arise, thus incor
porating President Harding's idea for
a later series of international con
ferences. TOKIO, Dec. 8 (By the Associated
Press.) The semi-official Teikoku
News agency today reported that the
Japanese government has notified Its
delegates at Washington of Its ap
proval of the proposed quadruple en
tente In principle, but not as a sub
stitute for the Anglo-Japanese alli
ance, which It said cannot be abro
gated until an agreement is reached
on a reduction in naval armament and
there is a realization of Klihu Root's
principles concerning China.
Approval la Hrwnrit.
The government declared, the news
agency added, that It must reserve
approval of the quadruple ent'
account of the different views re
garding the significance of the en
tente and the Anglo-Japanese al
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 The Japa
nese government has accepted the
proposal for a quadruple understand -ing
in the Pacific, an authorised Brit
ish spokesman said today.
The British spokesman said the
5-5-3 ratio proposition with re,;ard
to capital ships, was in some way
related to a complete setti i
that this proposition had not
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I THE HARDEST JOLT YET. I
t .. ' 4 s m " e e a e 4
Lower ' ? ale Rate and Re
duced 1. tg Power of Public
Given as Cause of Drop.
Restaurant prices in Portland, like
London bridge, are falling down
headed for the pleasing valley of pre
war days.
This welcome condition
was
vealed yesterday in interviews given
by prominent restaurant men of the
city, representing various types of
eating places. Prices in general to
day are from 10 to 40 per cent lower
than those a year ago. and the cost
of any article on the menu has been
cut In two, according to these ex
perts on feeding the public. In many
cases where the price has remained
the same, the portions are consider
ably larger.
The principal reason for the reduc
tion, aside from the reflection of
lower wholesale prices, is the fact
that the pocketbook of the average
man and woman is thinner and opened
less at present than during the war
and the period immediately after. In
the opinion of the restaurant chiefs.
Wages and salaries are lower, they
said, and people are more cautious
about spending money. To keep the
tables and counters busy, it has been
necessary to cut the cost of eating
away from home as much as possible.
A gaudy and expensive silk shirt
often covers the stomach of an ex
shlpyard worker looking for coffee
and doughnuts at bargain rates.
An example of substantial reduc
tion in prices among local restau
rants is that made by D. ,P. Lewis of
the Bohemian.
"Our prices are nearly 40 per cent
lower than they were a year ago,"
said Mr. Lewis. "As an example, we
reduced the price of French pastry
from 15 to 10 cents, without chang
ing the size or quality. Meat orders
are down 40 per cent, and we sell a
cup of coffee for 5 cents. People do
not realize that a 5-cent reduction in
the cost of a cup of coffee makes a
difference of 91200 a month on our
bonks However, we are working
for volume of business and good will.
To achieve this, we lower prices
whenever possible, and maintain the
same service and quality in food.
"I believe prices will keep going
dowc We are striving to get back
to the prices of 1912 and 1913."
A. H. Johnston, manager of the Cof
fee Cup cafeterias, is also optimistic
about the downward trend in prices,
and supported the view advanced by
Mr. Lewis about present conditions.
-Our slogan has been 'Plenty for
Twenty.' which means that for 20
cents a meal, including meat, po
tatoes, bread and butter, pie and cof
fee, may be sold at our cafeterias at
a profit." he said.
"All our prices on pies are down
50 per cent below Oiose of last win
ter. Our meats have been reduced
about 10 per cent in general. Vege
tables that sold at 10 cents a portion
are now 5 cents. Hot roast beef
sandwiches that were 15 cents are
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Immediate Programme Includes
Cutting Off Thin Slice and
Deepening Channel.
The Port of Portland purchased
Swa.i island yesterday afternoon from
the Swan Island Real Estate com
lany for a price of 8120.577. The im
mediate programme for improvement
re-i.ncludes cutting a tnin suCe off the
west side of the island, deepening,
widening and straightening the ship
channel past the west side of the
.sland and depositing the material
moved upon the lowlands of Guilds
.ake to fill a site for a new union
railroad terminal.
The purchase of the Island by the
port commission followed upon the
htels of a contract executed Tuesday
with the Northern Pacific Terminal
company whereby the port will fill
'he terminal site for a payment on
the part of the terminal company of
$80,000. As the tilling of this site
will necessitate the dredging of much
Material from the river bed on the
west side of Swan Island, it was de
sired to lop off a portion of the island
itself and thus create a straight
channel.
The history of the "Swan Island
project," as it has come to be known,
dates back for many years. From
time to time various proposals have
been made to dig the island out com
pletely, or to make of It a site for
docks and industries, but objections
have -always been raised that de
feated the enterprise. The Island
and the adjacent lowlands are also
iromlnently mentioned as a site for
the 1925 exposition
As early as 1915 the purchase of
the island by the Port of Portland
commission was advocated by S. M
Mears. then president of the com
mission, who obtained from the
owners of the island an offer to sell
:r to the port for 8300.000. The price
;.t which the property was purchased
jesterday is much less than a half
of this amount.
With the appointment of Mayor
Baker of a committee of 15 business
men to conduct a survey of the clty
in search of suitable sites for new
ndustries. Swan island again came
to the fore In the summer and fall
at 1919, when its purchase as a site
for docks and industries was recom
mended In the final report of this
I ommittee
In the general state election of
November. 1919. an amendment of the
charter of the Port of Portland to
extend its powers to include the pur
chase and improvement of land con
stituted one of the Important meas
ures passed upon by the voters, and
it was defeated by the state vote,
though the measure carried in the
port district.
A substitute measure, framed to
meet the objections raised to the
specific Swan island project, was then
lassed by the state legislature early
ir. the present year, and the port
was empowered to purchase land for
channel improvement purposes, re
serving for, vote of the people any
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IN PACKERS' HIQTS
Women Hurl Red Pepper
in Eyes of Officers.
SNIPERS SHOOT AT POLICE
Chicago Stockyard District
Searched for Firearms.
WHISKY IS CONFISCATED
Rifle and Pistol Fights Feature
Day After Strikers Are F.n
joined From Picketing.
CHICAGO. Dec. 8. (By the, Asso
ciated Press.) Chicago's stockyards
district today was the scene of fur
ther outbreaks, which at times ap
proached the riot stage, as a result
of the strike of packing plant em
ployes. One man was shot, scores were In
jured, police engaged in pistol and
rifle fights with strike sympathizers,
and dozens of men and women were
arrested. The disorders occurred as
workers were leaving the plants. In
other cities the situation was reported
quiet.
The outbreaks came within a few
hours after Judge Sullivan had issued
a temporary Injunction restraining
strikers from picketing, but despite
this order several thousand men gath
ered around the plants.
At the Armour Glue company about
2000 men began hurling bricks and
stones at the workers as they left.
Almost simultaneously disorders broke
out in half a dozen other places, and
within a short time the whole pack
ing district seemed to be in disorder.
Women Take Part.
Women played an important part,
forming In crowds which blocked the
traffic and hindered the police. One
crowd of 250 led by a gray-haired
woAan was charged repeatedly by
mounted police before it was dis
banded. When the larger mobs had been
broken up the police found their work
was only half finished, for men bar
ricaded in houses and behind piles of
debris kept up a sporadic fire on the
police. The man shot was a sniper
and ,he kept up his fire until detec
tives closed in on the house where he
was barricaded and arrested him.
Attempts of the police to arrest the
fighters brought attacks from the
women, who hurled pepper in the po
licemon'B eyes and effected the re
lease of many prisoners.
Chief of Police Fitzmorrls threw
every available policeman Into the
district tonight and assumed personal
charge of his forces. Two hours after
the first outbreak he declared "every
thing seems well In hand." In a
house-to-house search of the district
scores of firearms and gallons of
whisky were confiscated.
Strike's Effect Disputed.
While the packing companies still
maintain that the strike was of small
consequence and not seriously affect
ing them, Cornelius Hayes, interna
tional president of the Amalgamated
Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen
of North America, declared it had
reached the 100 per cent stage
Mr. Hayes declared that 55,000 men
were on strike in the various pack
ing centers, 29,000 of these being In
Chicago. Of the latter, 20,000 were
employed by the big five packers
Swift, Armour, Morris, Wilson and
Cudahy he said.
Forty men were cut' and bruised
this morning when strike sympa
thizers stormed an elevated train car
rying packer employes to the stock
yards. All windows in the train were
broken by missiles which were
thrown.
Negro's Body Found.
Fifteen hundred policemen were
sent to the yards early, when, long
before daylight, several groups of
persons, including a few women, gath
ered there. Only a few hours before
200 policemen had fired into thou
sands of strike sympathizers who at
tacked plant employes, and. finally,
the policemen. Last night's toll of
casualties included one dead, nine
seriously injured and an uncounted
number hurt when mounted police
charged Into the crowd with drawn
batons.
"The women are more difficlt to
deal with than the men," Chief of
Police Fltzmorrls said this morning.
"They carry red pepper and throw
It In the policemen's eyes. Tacks
have been scattered through the ad
jacent streets in an effort to stop the
police motor 'cars."
The man killed last night was an
unidentified negro, who was seized
by a crowd of men, thrown into
Bubbly creek, north of the yards, and
pelted with stones until he sank. The
body was recovered several hours
later.
At 9 P. M. Chief Fltzmorris In a
statement declared that the strike
situation was well in hand and that
he did not think it would be neces
sary to call for outside help.
Miners Back Up President.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 8. Action' of
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, In
revoking the charter of the Kansas
district organization and deposing its
officers, was approved by the inter
iCo.icluded o i Pace 2, Column 2.)
Report Is Put in Hands of V. S.
Delegation to Arms Purlcj .
Some Experts Disagree.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8. (By
the .Associated Press.) Complete
abandonment of all forms of chemical
warfare was understood to have been
recommended to the American arms
conference delegation by its official
advisory committee.
The advisory committee report was
drawn up by General Pershing and
there was some intimation that it
does not reflect views of all other
high army officials. In general, army
officers were Inclined to believe poi
son gas or any other form of chemi
cal warfare should be treated as any
other military weapon.
American army policy under Presi
dent Wilson prescribed gas warfare
after the armistice was signed.
It was formally stated that the
American army would not develop gas
for offensive use but would confine
Itself to a thorough study of chemical
warfare in preparation for adequate
defense. The general theory of this
policy, it has been understood, was
that it was impossible to confine gas
attack to purely military zones of
operations.
In his annual report Secretary
Weeks does not say definitely what
the present army ' policy as to gas
warfare is. He does devote space,
however, to arguing the necessity of
keeping up the Intensive study on
this subject. So far as known the de
termination not to use gas as a
weapon of offense unless an enemy
should first employ It, has not been
changed.
There have been extraordinary ad
vances In chemical warfare possibili
ties since the armistice. It Is cur
rently reported that gases far more
deadly than anything used In the war
have been evolved.
Whether the American advisory
committee recommending abolishment
of iras warfare presents any definite
I s.-l, ,!!;. fnr carrvinsr out such a
project beyond an international
agreement Is not known. It has oc
curred to officers that it would bo
difficult to set up a rule for peace
time application, which would tend to
prevent gas production for war In an
emergency.
The advisory committee's report
was in Secretary Hughes' hands.
HOSPITAL DEAL APPROVED
Expenditure or $1,100,000 at Palo
Alio. Oal., Sanctioned.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 8 Ap
proval of the expenditure of $1,400,
000 to provide a permanent former
soldier hospital for nervous and men
tal cases at Palo Alto, Cal.. was an
nounced today by Secretary Mellon
The public health service, Mr. Mel
lon said, is at present operating a
hospital on this site with a capacity
of 550 beds. In temporary buildings,
and the new nospital Is being built
with provision for enlargement to
1000 beds.
FUGITIVE BANKER CAUGHT
California Man Accused of Fraud
Arrested in Tcxh-.
DALLAS, Tex.. Dec. 8. Monte Berg,
president of the Sierra Valley Bank
of Loyalton, Cal., who disappeared
November 30, after discovery was
made that the bank had been de
frauded of $87,500, was arrested to
day at Terrell, 30 miles east of here,
by operatives of a detective agency.
Berg had been living at Terrell
under an assumed name, it was said.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 50
degrees; minimum, .11) degrees.
TODAY'S Fair, easterly wlnda
Dlurmampiit Conference.
Elimination of all chemical warfare urged.
Paga 1.
Bases in Pacific are discussed. Page 4.
Four-power alliance viewed u substitute
for Anglo-Japanese treaty. Pace 1.
De Valera oppoeea Irish treaty. Page 1.
Jab Bent to heart of secret treaties. Page 4.
Chinese of Sun Francisco denounce "secret
diplomacy" at Washington. Page 2.
Foreign.
German public debt soara, while mark
sinka In value. Page 6.
National.
Irish settlement relieves America of po
litical problem, saya Sullivan. Page 2.
Touching trlbutea paid President Wilson on
his departure from Paris. Page 4.
Eleven army hangings on record, senate
committee Is told. Page S.
Mope la expressed for rail rate cut.
Page IT.
Domestic.
Fear of exhaustion of petroleum supply de
clared bugaboo. Page 1.
One shot, many beaten, in packers' riots.
Page 1.
Submarine sinks, 51 of crew escape death.
Page 2.
Sports.
Minors determined to cling to their draft
advantage. Page 14.
Two Franklin athletes suspended for eu
days. Page 14.
Washington back In northwest conference.
Page 14.
Commercial and Marine.
Beavy Increase In boxed apple shipment!
eastward. Page 28.
Chicago wheat higher on better export de
mand. Page 23.
Foreign buyers use own banking credit.
Page 22.
Higher money rate cause reaction in stock
market. Page 23.
Terminal business for November sets rec
ord. Page 22.
Trade conference programme ready.
Page 22.
Xew advances nade in price of wool.
Page 23.
Portland and Vlrlnlty.
Reclamation bill to benefit Oregon. Page 7.
(150,000 may be cut from hospital budget.
Page 18.
Restaurant price slump materially. Page 1.
1035 ex-service men registered at legion
employment office. Page 18.
Port of Portland buya Swan island. Page 1.
Dr. B. E. Parker, "best preacher In In
diana." assigned to First Methodist
pulpit. Page l.
DR. STANSFIELD SUCCEEDED
"Best Preacher in Indiana" to
Come to Portand.
MOVE TO BE MADE SOON
Arrival Expected as Soon as Fam
ily Can Be Brought Here and
Kastern Affairs Settled.
Dr. B. E. Parker, for five years
pastor of the First Methodist Epis
copal church of Mlshawaka, Ind.. near
South Bend, has been appointed by
Bishop W. O. Shepard of this area
to be pastor of First church, Port
land, and he will take charge just as
soon as he can bring his family here
and close his affairs there.
j Dr. Parker, who Is declared to be
"the best preacher in Indiana, will
come to Portland First church as
the successor of Dr. Joshua Stans
ficld. recently transferred at the
unanimous Invitation of McCabe
Memorial church, Chicago, to become
pastor ther
Dr. Parker 43 Yearn Old.
Dr. Parker is 42 years old, Is de
scribed by high officials of the church
as a great evangelistic preacher and
a man of exceptional educational at
tainments, he being a graduate of
De Pauw. Chicago university and the
Ciarrett Biblical Institute, Northwest
ern university. Chicago.
Dr. Parker's family consists of his
wife and four children, the eldest of
whom is 16. Mrs. Parker is charac
terized as one who is deeply interest
ed in the work of her husband in the
church and one who ably assists him
In all his undertakings.
The First Church of Mishawaka
consists of 1200 members. Its Sun
day schwol has 1500 members, the
average attendance being 800. It is
one of the largest In that section of
the country in any denomination.
I I'hxrntii 1m Received.
Telegraphic announcement that he
bad assigned Dr. Parker to the First
i ll u rrh. Portland, was received from
Bishop Shoiard last night by Amedee
11 Smith, chairman of the pulpit sup
ply committee of the church, the other
members of which are G. F. Jhnnaon
and lr. Richmond Kelly. The bisnop,
who has been In the east for some
time attending hoard meetings of
the church, tel. graphed from Hart
ford. I'onn., where he Is visiting at
the home of a Hon, who Is a professor
in Trinity college at that place.
It Is a coincidence that Dr. Parker
comes from the same state as did
Dr. Stansfield. The latter was for
many years pastor of Meridian-street
church, Indianapolis, and camo to
Portland from that charge. nr.
Stansfield announced his leave-taking
of First church here two weeks prior
to the annual Oregon conference,
which met In October, since whicli
time the pulpit has been supplied by
various ministers and laymen. He
said the work he came here to do
was finished and left with the good
wltl of all.
Mr. Smith, on behalf of the supply
committee, last night telegraphed
Dr. Parker, extending him a welcome
for the' congregation of First church.
TRAIN PULLS INTO BEND
First Through Service Effected
From Port In nd in 18 Days.
BEND, Or.. Dec. 8. (Special.)
With V. A. Smith, engineer, at the
throttle, the first train from Portland
to arrive In 18 days pulled Into Bend
shortly before noon today. CrowdB
gathered at the station cheered whole
heartedly as the Oregon Trunk loco
motive rounded the curve and wheeled
Into Bend on high. The train carried
the first parcel post consignment to
reach Bend for nearly three weeks
and Christmas express merchants
have been anxiously waiting for.
Despite the fact that the way Is
now open through the Deschutes can
yon the train had a rough time of It.
Scratches along the side of the bag
gage car, broken windows in the ma'l
and passenger coaches and badly bent
grade Irons showwed that only com
paratively narrow paths have been
dug through the piled-up snow and
rock on the rails.
The outgoing Oregon Trunk train'
left on schedule time and the O.-W..
B. & N. train will be routed over the
Oregon Trunk track.
TIJUANA SWEPT BY FIRE
One Woman Loses Life and Ixjss
Reported to Be Heavy.
SAN DIEGO. Cal.. Dec. 8. One
third of the business section of Tiju
ana. Lower California, was destroyed
by fire today. An unidentified bod.
that of a woman, has been recovered
It is not known whether there wa.
other losa of life.
The buildings destroyed include"
several saloons, dance halls and cafes
Estimates of the loss ran into e -eral
hundred thousand dollars. mostl
the value of liquor which wis btirned
Tijuana Is Just across the Mexican
border line from California and. as
pleasure reon, is much frequented
by Americans. .