THE SUNDAY OREGOXLlX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 2, 1917. tight tussles the Giants let escape last FLANIGAN PUTS UP FINE BOXING CARD QUARTET OF FIGHTERS WHO WILL APPEAR AT ELEVENTH-STREET PLAYHOUSE FRIDAY NIGHT. GIAflTS DROP MANY season: Boston, one, Kelly. Brooklyn. four. Hickman, Olson Johnston and Z. Wheat- GAMES BY ONE RUM Chicago three. Deal, Wilson and .elt der. Cincinnati, one, Neihoff. Pittsburg. five, Schmidt. Cooperj Ward. Btgbee and Carey. St. Louis, four. Cruise, Ames, Smyth and Snyder. Carey did not bat In winning run Butler Club's Event for Friday Night to See Ail-Star Programme. Twenty-Two Are in Balance he stole home with it. and Some of These Are Gifts to Opponents. - CONGRESSMEN AT POSTS Representatives McArthur and HawJ 4 ley Again in Washington. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash BEND BOY HAS REAL TASK Sensational Central Oregon Welter weight to Meet Johnny McCarthy, Coast Champion, at Eleventh Stfect Playhouse. FRIDAY NIGHT'S CARD. Johnny McCarthy vs. Fred Gil bert. 145 pounds. Al Sommers vs. Val Sontag, 158 pounds. Frankte Tucker vs. Jack Wagner,' 135 pounds. Abe Gordon vs. Beals Manning, 110 pounds. Ted Hoke vs. Joe Hoff, 125 pounds. Matchmaker Joe Flanlgan, of the Butler Boxing Club, has lined up a card for Friday which on paper looks like the best bet since the advent of the six-round game in Portland. The bill In set for the Eleventh-Street Play house. Every ' weight from middle weight to flyweight is represented by the best boys on the Pacific Coast. Topping the all-star bill will be Johnny McCarthy, welterweight cham pion of the Pacific Coast, who will clash with Fred Gilbert, the sensa tional Bend welterweight, who burst out on the fistic horizon with a bang in his two battles here. Although only" b irreen country boy a month ago, Gilbert came to Portland unheralded in search of matches. He was put on with Johnny Boscovitch, a tough 150 pounder, and, much to the surprise of everyone, Gilbert beat Johnny by a mile, nearly stopping him. A few weeks later he was matched to box Lloyd Madden, one of the best 140-pounders in the Northwest, who had never been knocked off his feet in his entire career. Gilbert stepped In the ring and polished Lloyd off In quick order, knocking him out in two rounds. Fred's friends now are hailing him as a second Stanley Ketchel, and if he keeps up his sensational show ings it will not be long before he will be meeting the best Eastern welter weights. A win over McCarthy, the kingpin of the Coast welterweights, will put him right in line for any 145-pounder In the country. Gilbert's task to win over McCarthy is no easy one. Johnny has met nearly all of the best boys at his weight in the country, including Willie Ritchie (four times). Johnny Griffiths, Ted "Kid" Lewis, welterweight cham pion of the world; Packey McFarland, Charley White, and during the past three months he has demonstrated that he is far from being a "has-been" by defeating Joe Rivers and Willie Hoppe by wide margins. Of almost equal importance with the main event will be the first appear ance here of Frankie Tucker- and his Bister manager, Elizabeth Tucker. Al though the Portland Boxing Commis sion has a rule prohibiting women from boxing shows here. Miss Tucker hopes to get special permission to second her brother In his bout. The little miss from Oklahoma contends that her brother is a sure winner when she Is at the ringside as coach. Tucker is a likely looking performer and has been mowing down his opponents with reg ularity of late. Last week In Seattle Frankie fought Muff Bronson a hurri cane draw, some of the Seattle scribes saying that Muff was lucky to get an even break with the battling Okla homan. Jack Wagner, the fast coming Port land lightweight, has agreed to make 135 pounds at 6 o'clock for Tucker. This should result in a hair-raising battle. The winner of this bout will have a strong claim on the lightweight championship of the Northwest, which Is In dispute again since Eddie Pink ham announced that he had outgrown the weight limit. Al Sommers, the aggressive Portland middleweight, will meet Val Sontag. Abe Gordon will meet Bcals Manning and Ted Hoke will meet Joe Hoff, all of which, Mike Butler declares, is the greatest card of boxlngr bouts ever presented In Portland fistic annals. VARXELL CHOOSES ALIi-COAST Star Football Players for Northwest Also Are Selected. SPOKANE, Dec. 1. Northwest con ference and Pacific Coast conference all-star football teams were announced today by George M. Varnell, who ref ereed the principal games of both con ferences this season. Californ'n., Ore gon, Oregon Agricultural College, Washington and Washington State Col lege were taken into consideration in eelectlon of the first and second Pa cific Coast conference all-star teams, while Montana, Idaho, Whitman, Wash ington, Washington State College, Ore gon and Oregon Agricultural College figured in deciding the places on the Northwest conference elevn. The selections follow: Northwest Conference All-Star Eleven. Flrat Team. Position.- Second Team. Felph, O. A. C C. Ftlten. W. S. C G. Williams. O. A. C...G. . . .Schnebly, V. s. C. . Blake, V. of W ...Busch. Whitman Walker. O. A. C T . . Benz. Montana T.. . Zim'erman, W. S. C.E.. Hubbaid, O. A. C...E... fleers. Oregon. .... ..Q. . . Banes. W. ti. C H B. Thompson. Idaho.. .HB. JUurphy. U. of W..K B. . . .Herreid. W. S. C, .Anderson. U. of W, .L. Hanley, w. S. C. . . . . .Medley, Oregon . . . Keardon. u. A. C .. Gardner, U. of W. Lodell. O. A. C . .. Bissett, O. A. C. Pacific Coast Conference All-Star Eleven. First Team. Position. Second Team. Hansen. Cal O. . . . . SelDh. O. A. C. Elites. W. S. C G. . Williams. O. A. C...G. . Walker. O. A. C....T. , Herreld. W. S. C T. Zim'erman, W. S. C. . K . Hubbard. O. A. C...K. Steers. Ore Q. . Lane, Cal. . . ... .Blake, U. ot W, Gordon. Cal. . .Anderson. U. of W. . .1. Hanley. W. S. U. Uifford. Cal. . . . . Reardon. O. A. o. BanRs, W. S. C HB... Gardner. V. ot W Wells. Cal H B Lodell. O. A. C, Murphy, IT. of W...F B Bissau. O. A. C. CHARLEY-, WHITE IS DEAD Man W ho Had Been "Third Man in Ring" in Hlg Events Succumbs. NEW YORK, Dec. 1. Charley White boxing referee, who had been ill a long time of a complication of diseases, died litre tonight. He was the most prominent referee of pugilistic contests in this country snd in nearly all the big events in the Kastern states he was "the third man In the rincr." Teachers Condemn Senator. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Dec. 1. Resolutions condemning United States Senator Gore for "detaining legisla tion necessary for the successful prose cution of the war" were adopted by the teachers of the Oklahoma Lducatioual Association here today. r vs" "-' !" . ,,-4 - ) -y '"' y ' : ; l Js-J V,. $ - ' -. ; " J V-T ?v S Li-- ; - - v !- m . - j, BILL SUBS FLIGHTY pi . 'i : !EMLE is mra Umpire Billy Evans Recounts Some Idiosyncracies. ACTIONS OFTEN PECULIAR Eddie Collins Always Lays Glove on Grass In Certain Way After Each Inning Pitchers Also Have Own "Hunches. BT BILLY EVANS. It was the sixth game of the 1917 world's series. The Chicago White Sox had Just been retired after making three runs in their half or the fourth. The players were jubilant as they has tened to their positioins in the field. The Sox realized it was quite a handi cap for the Giants to spot them three runs. I was umpiring at second Dase. As Eddie Collins trotted out to his posi tion, I started to pick up his glove and throw It to him, to hurry things along. Don't touch it, Bill," he yelled as I was about to pick up the glove. "Superstitious, I remarked as I drew my hand away, and allowed Collins to recover the glove. Collins is a graduate of Columbia University, one of the brightest players n the game, but he is heir to some of the freak customs of the ball field. "Not superstitious, BUI," he replied, just peculiar." Collins Has Superstition. In the half of the Inning Just closed Collins had made possible a Sox rally by outwitting Zimmerman in the now memorable sprint to the plate. That incident wa perhaps the turn- ng point in rne series. iwo other runs had followed Collins over toe plate on Gandil's hit. Dame Fortune was smiling on him. He had no de sire to cross her by haying someone else hand him his glove. Each inning Collins carefully de posits his glove on the grass in a certain way, and to have It disturbed would be" most unfortunate. The first man up as play was resumed was Benny Kauff. He hit a nasty bounder over second on which Collins made a clever play, getting his man at first by a step. After completing the play he glanced at me as if to say: I probably would have booted that one if you had dis turbed my glove." In the fourth inning of the second game at Chicago, in which the Sox de a cluster of five runs and de cided the game, a crashing single by Joe Jackson had much to do with keep ing up the batting rally. As Jackson approached the plate I was standing rather close to the New York catcher. There was probably less than a foot between us. Jackson brushed through the opening and offered an apology by stating he never felt sure of having any luck at the bat unless he walked between the- catcher and umpire. Of course, we merely smiled, but I'll wager Jackson didn't regard the matter lightly after he had made his base hit. That evening in our dressing-room GRAND ARMY VETERAN ISSUES ONE-SIDED RELAY RACE HERE NEXT JULY. S ' sJ '-if i v i v ; d 4 .. ..y l COLOSEL J. li SMITH. OF DETROIT. What do you think of a man 73 years of age who Is willing to run five miles against 20 other men, relaying one another every quarter mile? This is what Colonel James L. Smith. Cival War veteran, wants to do here in Portland at the Grand Army of the Republic encampment next July, and he has already issued a challenge to that effect. Colonel Smith can run 10 miles In 74 minutes. What husky young sprinter of 19 can do as well? Pronounced by Army physicians as a "physical specimen without a parallel." he has partaken in every foot race of the annun Grand. Army reunions witb- out once being defeated or tied, as we were preparing to make the jump back to New York the four um pires were discussing the peculiar su perstitions of many of the star play ers. In the midst of the conversa tion George Moriarity, who did such fine work In his first year on the American League staff, dropped in. Moriarity lives in Chicago. That Is, he registers Chicago, although he pays taxes in Woodstock; so, of course, he took in the games. Getting the drift of the conversation, he related a most unusual case of superstition with which the entire Detroit club was once af flicted. This superstition wasn't con fined entirely to the players. Manager Jennings and Owner Navin sharing In the belief. Here is the way Moriarity tells it: "Charley O'Leary was a member of our infield that year. Charley's home was in Chicago, and whenever we played in that city his father and mother always came out to see a.t least one of the games. Our team was going along only fairly well. Things were breaking badly for us. In a joking manner O'Leary remarked that his father and mother ought to be carried by the Detroit -club as a mascot, since they had never seen the Tigers lose a game. The players were much Inter ested in the statement. Some rather doubted the truth of the remark. We later learned from Charley's father that it was a fact. Mr. and Mrs. O'Leary had never seen the Tigers lose a game. Charley laughingly told the boys he in. tended having his father and mother come up to Detroit for a visit. The an nouncement cheered the players. They were all superstitious enough to be lieve a break might come their way. Hughey Jennings, who had been listen ing, informed O'Leary that if his father and mother made pood on the mascot job the expenses of the trip would be on the club. Winning Streak Started. ""Well, to make my story short, the O'Leary came to Detroit and, strange as it may sound, the Tigers started a winning streak that didn't stop until 14 straight had been registered. Char ley's father and mother witnessed every one of the 14 straight wins. The club was then due to mak long road trip, and a special invitation was extended to Mr. and Mrs. O'Leary to make the trip. Such a thing was impossible, and on the evening of the 14th straight vic- REMARKABLE CHALLENGE FOR V 4 i t tory they left for Chicago. The very next time out our record of straight wins was broken, and you can bet that the loss of the game was blamed not on pitching or hitting, but the absence of the mascot." Chief Bender, one ot the greatest pitchers the game has ever produced, had a most peculiar' superstition, to which he strictly adhered. Time and again I have seen members of his own team try to get him to break away from his pet hobby, but always in vain. Even in a world's series, with so much at stake. Bender would cling to his one big superstition, even though at times it seemed be was courting disaster. Under no condition would Bender warm up between innings with any other player on the field except his regular catcher. In several big series I have seen it happen that Ira Thomas, who received Bender for a number of years, would be the last man out, or would be on the bases when the side was retired. Of course, that necessitated his return to the bench to don his shin guards, protector and mask. In such cases one of the other catchers always goes up to the plate and warms up the pitcher. Often the pitcher tosses the ball to the first baseman until his catcher gets ready, but not so with Bender. Members of Mack's team were aware of Bender's superstition, but they always acted as if not wise. Time and again I have seen Jack Lapp rush up to the plate while Bender stood on the rubber with the ball in his hand. Lapp would yell frantically at Bender to toss a couple, but the Indian would oniy grin. "Stuffy" Mclnnis. at first base, would also offer to catch a few until Thomas got ready, but neither Mclnnis nor Lapp evar remember of Bender breaking over. Leonard Has Peculiarity. Dutch Leonard, star southpaw of the Boston Red Sox, wouldn't think of starting an Inning unless the last ball he pitched to his catcher in a warming up session was a curve. I had noticed Leonard's desire to finish off with the curve, and on several occasions I have had Bill Carrigan make his practice throw to second on be fourth ball, and Leonard, by the way, always takes the limit five balls to warm up. Every time Carrigan pulled the stunt a scowl would . come over Leonard's face, he would call my attention to the fact that he still had one more ball to throw, and would then come through with a curve. Once, when in a batting slump. "Stuffy" Mclnnis must have hit the um pire's broom with the bat as he ap proached the plate, and then followed it up by making a home run. because now Mclnnis regards It as essential that he play golf with the umpire's broom Just before Ke steps into the batter's box. According to Stuffy, such a practice al most got him Into trouble with a cer tain American League umpire. The time previous he had been called out on strikes; he slightly disagreed with the ruling on the third one. On his next time at bat he swatted the umpire's broom a considerable distance. Just as the Judge of play was about to stoop over and pick the broom up to dust off the plate. He bad a hard time explain ing his action. (Copyright. 1917. by W. G. Evans.) HERRMANN CALLS . MEETING National Commission to Gather In Cincinnati January 7. CINCINNATI. Dec. 1. August Her mann, chairman of the National Base ball Commission, tonight announced the commission would hold its annual meeting In Cincinnati on January 7. At this meeting the chairman, treas urer and secretary of the commission will be elected. Mr. Herrmann said he has moved to reduce the player limit of the National League to 18 men to a team, exclusive of the manager, by forwarding to President Tener an amendment to the constitution calling for that number. Mr, Grilley Goes to Camp. A. M. Grilley, physical director of the Portland Y. M. C. A., will leave to day for American Lake to look after physical recreation of the men at Camp Lewis for 10 days or two weeks. His presence there is demanded by the fact that Mr. Strlckler, camp physical dl. rector, is laid UP with a broken arm. Mr. Grilley has charge of the physical enl of the'Y. M. C. A. work at mobiliza tion points ot the Northwestern states. BIT Jake Enkella. Star Lineman. Telia of Beino; Treated to Real Thanlu glvlng Dinner. Jake Enkells, Lincoln's star line man, tells some interesting experiences of the team when they went to Gol- dendale. Wash., for a Thanksgiving game with the hlBn school there. "They had a fine team." says Jake, "and they walloped us 33 to 0. We have no alibi. The game was clean, and as the field was very muddy both teams had to resort to line plunges. "The local people treated us royally while wc were there. On our arrival we were taken to the homes of the members of the Goldendale team, where we had fine dinners. Downtown the Population turned out en masse to greet us. The town was 'serpentined' thoroughly. A bonfire was built, and speeches of welcome were made by prominent Goldendale citizens. "The next day was Thanksgiving, and the big game was played. After the game we were all treated to a real country Thanksgiving feast. Person ally, I never "ef so much in my life. In the evening the townspeople gave a big dance for us. "On Friday we were taken In ma chines through the Cimco Mountains and for a visit to the home of Samuel Hill. Before leaving for Portland ltter in the day the people of Golden dale invited all of us to visit them next Summer and stay as long as we liked." Those who made the trip were: Mr. and Mrs. Sen wartzstrauber, "Pinky" Wright, Ray Dodge, Morris Rogoway, Ed Leach, Marlon Monroe, Estelle Han son, Russell Kaufman, George Wolff, Johnny Tuerck. Ned Twining. Earl Larrlmore, Dave Dunne. Clem Saunders, Vic Risley, Ted Barton and Jake Enkelis. Albert Johnson Coming West. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Dec. 1. Representative Albert Johnson, of Washington, will start west December 6 on a tour for the Red Cross, winding up at Tacoma about Christmas. He will spend 10 days In his district and return to Washington early in January. Knights of Columbus Give Benefit. MOUNT ANGEL COLLEGE. St. Bene dict. Or., Dec. 1. (Special.) A pro gramme was given by the members of the local lodge of the Knights of Co lumbus on Thanksgiving afternoon and evening. The proceeds were donated to the Red Cross. FORMER OREGON GRID STAR GETS COMMISSION. , Lou I. Finkham, Jr. Louis H. Pinkham, Jr., former star tackle on the University of Oregon football team and later coach at the same Institution, was appointed a First Lieutenant in the Officers' Reserve, field artillery. Since leaving college Pinkham has been engaged in civil engineering and during the last four years was with the Government under Civil Service. LINCOLN 'ELEVEN BEATEN. ROYALLY ENTERTAINED. I V " c X Yf' " - Ik X - i At 4 ' - 4 4 4 ; ' j ? .. .i- . ..-.. v k. J 4 I - - ' "$ 1 I - -v -(at I i ; . ' ' A it . '.'- . -v .j i - X ! i . r . :.- .";V " ; :'Vi COOPER McGRAW NEMESIS Seven Extra Round Battles Also Go Against New Vorkers Eight Op posing Pitchers Have Records of Three Victories. Like the Yankees, the Giants have their Jinxes and hoodoos. but there was no pitcher on the National League circuit last season who op pressed the McGrawttes as Mordecai Brown used to oppress them eight or nine years ago, nor was there any player who wrought the damage on attack like Joe Tinker was wont to do when the great Cub machine was running at Its smoothest clip. As good a way as any to locate the members of the Society of Giant Jinxes without trusting too much to treach erous memory Is to take the list of one-run games lost by the Polo Grounders, the list of games lost In the ninth and the list of games lost In ex tra Innings and find out who drove in the winning run. Then the Joe Tinker of 1917 will be found. Additionally, go over the pitching records and find out who beat the Giants oftenest. Thus will the Mor decai Brown of 1917 be discovered. McGraw's men dropped 22 battles for the want of one wee tally during the 1917 campaign, presenting the run that eventually decided things to their op ponents on four occasions. Seven ex tra round battles went against the res idents and the enemy flashed six ninth- Inning rallies that meant defeats for Pa Knickerbocker's National League representatives. Making the necessary deductions for duplications leaves 25 games to go over fb pick out the men who did the most damage to the Giant cause. Cooper la Giant Jinx. No pitcher registered more than three victories over the champions last season, eight men having a record of this kind. The eight were Artie Nehf, of Boston; Rube Marquard and Larry Cheney, of Brooklyn; Jim Vaughn, of Chicago; Fred Toney. of Cincinnati; in his three wins the Phillies gave but Cooper, of Pittsburg, and Leon Ames, of St. Louis. Half of these men lasted through all three of their successes against the McGrawttes, the quartet of stickers consisting of Cooper, Laven der, Vaughn and Toney. The Pirate gave the Giants four runs in the three wins, the Phillies gave them four, the Cubs gave them six and the Reds gave them seven. Cooper's counters, IS, were made behind Laven der and behind Toney and 23 behind Vaughn. So it looks from the figures as If Cooper, more than anyone else, was the Giants' Mordecai Brown of 1917. Pitchers who conquered the Polo Grounds team twice were Rudolph, of Boston; Coombs, of Brooklyn; Douglas, of Chicago; Hogan. Schneider and Mitchell, of Cincinnati; Alexander' and Rixey, of the Phillies, and Goodwin, of St. Louis. Moundsmen who subdued them once were Barnes and Tyler, of Boston; Pfeffer, of Brooklyn: Demaree and Hendrlx, of Chicago; Rcuther and Eller. of Cincinnati; Oeschger, of the Phillies: Miller, Ponder and Carlson, of Pittsburg, and Doak. Meadows and Packard, of St. Louis. In their 66 re serves the Giants made 118 runs. Giants Tally B06 liana. In their 98 successes the New York rang the scoring gong on SOB occasions, winning more games from Willie Doak than from any one else. Lucky for Bill, there was only one New York team In the National League, else he would not have captured the $500 bonus con tingent on his winning 15 games. "Bonus Bill" fell before the Giants six times, Burleight Grimes of the Pi rates, meeting five reverses at their hands. Twenty-four tallies were made off the Missourian. 35 off the Pennsyl vanlan, Frank Miller, of Pittsburg, a stumbling block to the McGrawttes in 1916, was beaten four times by the new champions, and so were Sherrod Smith, of Brooklyn, Phil Douglas, of Chicago, and Jimmy Lavender and Eppa Rixey, of the Phillies. The Giants earned three decisions over Alexander the Great, and the same number over Barnes. Tyler and Ragan, of the Braves, Coombs of the Robins, Demaree and Vaught of the Cubs, and Mitchell and Schneider of the Reds. Two Recruits Win. Only nine artillerists pitched better than .500 against the New York Na tionals last season, there being Just two men who escaped beatings at their hands. The two were Ponder, of Pitts burg, and Reuther, of Chicago. In the closing stages f the season these youths bathed the McGrawttes In the whitewash tub. These were the nine pitchers who won more games than they lost from New York last season: Runs Pitchers Ponder. Plttsburr . Reuther, C'innclnn&ti. . t W. L. Pet. N.y. Opp. 1 O UMIO 0 1 1 O 10O0 0 4 3 1 .730 8 12 3 1 .7.10 15 li S 1 .750 12 IS 2 1 .607 8 U 3 2 .61)0 IT IS 8 2 .600 2 J 2a 3 2 .000 17 15 Marquard. Brooklyn.... Anita. St. Loula Goodwin, St. Ixiuia Nehf. Boston Tnney, Cincinnati....... Said man Jim Thrope again is on the reserve list of the New York Na tional club. The Indian during his career as a Red broke up two battles against the Giants, no other player on the circuit wrecking more than one close game against them. Bill Rarlden Blunders. In four conflicts where the foe gained the decision by a single encounter the Polo Grounders forced the run that set tled things on their adversaries. Bill Rarlden started the fashion of blunder ing at the wrong moment In the game with the Phillies on June 28. when his passed ball in the tenth gave them a six-to-five victory. On August 13 Brooklyn won over the residents, two to one. Gibson's error in the fourth ac counting for the winning marker. On September 10 the Robins again won on the basis of two to one. Ben ton's error in the first frame spilling the beans. Anderson, with a wild pitch In the seventh on September 19, gave the Cubs a four-to-three success. The tallendera, the Pirates strange to say. took more close games from the Giants without help through blunders than any other team. They landed five. Brooklyn took six. but two of the con tests were prlven to the Gowanus team on errors. Gibbon and Benton, as told, being the donors. These were the men who drove in the winning run in the 21 ington. Dec. 1. Representative SlcArJ thur and Mrs. McArthur arrived today from New Orleans, where the Portland Representative completed Inspection of the navy-yards. He is convinced by what he saw that there is immediate need for submarine and aviation bases at the Columbia River and other points recommended by the Helm Board and will propose that the Pacific Coast delegations unite in an effort to securo these appropriations, notwithstanding the seenunfc adverse attitude of th Navy Department. Mr. McArthur will Introduce a bill next week to further protect Portland s water supply. Representative Hawley reached hero this morning, but has not yet drawn his bills for Introduction. He expects that a river and harbor bill will be passed and will urge the allowance of the full amounts recommended for Ore gon waterways. Mr. Hawley says be is not a candidate for Senator, but will be a candidate to succeed himself in the House. TWO BOARDS IN CONFLICT, Question of Priority Troubles Food nd Fuel Administrations. WASHINGTON. Dec 1. The contest between the food and fuel administra tions over priority rights for food and, coal transportation was taken up to day at a conference between represen tatives of the Railroad War Board, the committee on priority and the two administrations concerned, to decide, whether foodstuffs or coal and coka shall move first on the railroads. The Fuel Administration's request that coal be given right of way haa drawn objections from the Food Admin istration. If coal goes ahead of food, the Food Administration declares the country will be brought to the point of actual hunger. TOKIO HONORS DIPLOMAT Ambassador Morris Tells Japaneso Meaning of War Slogan. TOKIO, Dec 1. The America-Japan Society gave a dinner last night to the new American Ambassador. Roland S. Morris. Premier Terrauchl, Foreign Minister Motono and others In the Cabinet, as well as 200 rrvembers of the Society, were present. Addresses were delivered by Mr. Morris, Viscount Ka neko. Baron Shibusawa and Prince Tokuguwa. In his address, Mr. Morris said that to make the world safe for democracy meant democracy among nations with the right of national self development. WAR SUPPLIES IMPERATIVE Foreign, Countries AV1I1 Be Asked to Relax Embargoes. WASHINGTON. Dec. 1. Pressure will be brought to bear by Federal export and import control to induce foreign governments to relax. In favor of American manufacturers, arbitrary embargo restrictions which have pre vented valuable war supplies from reaching this country. The War Trade Board, in a statement published today, expresses an un equivocal determination to effect a form of reciprocity between this gov ernment and nations which have com modities needed here for war prepara tions. Mr. lloff to Met Farmers. SALEM, Or.. Dec. 1. (Special.) La bor Commissioner Hoff said today that he' would attend the meeting of the Farmers' Union In Pendleton next week and will hold a conference relative to safety devices in warehouses. A num ber of new warehouses are to be con structed throughout the state, and it is the plan to modernise them as far as possible. Mr. Hoff also will address the convention. Runaway Boy Is Traced. ALBANY. Or.. Dec. 1. (Special.) A picture in this morning's Oregonian led to trace of James Bromberg. a run away boy from Portland. F. M. French, local Jeweler, recojenixed the picture as that of a boy who was in his storn Wednesday. The lad said he was on his way to Mill City to work in the sawmill there. American Wounded In Action. WASHINGTON. Dec. 1. First Lieu tenant Wallace A. Belfey. medical offi cer of the reserve corps, attached to the British forces, has been seriously wcunded In action, the War Depart ment was advised today by General Pershing. Lieutenant Belfey Is the son of Rev. M. W. Belfey, of Belvidere. Hi. " BUTLER CLUB o 11th St. Playhouse (Eleventh and Morrison Sts.) Friday Eve., Dec 7 Featuring San Francisco's fighting Harp, Johnny McCarthy (conqueror of Willie Hoppe and Jeo Rivers). vs. . Fred Gilbert (the sensational Bend cyclone.) Al Sommers Val Sontag. Frankie Tucker Jack Wagner. Abe Gordon Beals Manning. Ted Hope Joe Hoff. Price's $1.C0, $1.50, $2.00 Seats now on sale Rich's and Stiller's Cigar Stores.