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Newspaper Page Texti.i mm my- ' i ( - ' '"- PExroBTETETrnrG" Journal Circuhticn '.'' THK WEATHER. ' '. 1 'V Occasion! rain tonight and Friday "iouth W wci winde. t'"' . . , Yesterday. Was iV ; , VOL.". IV. , NO; 879. ' ; ; PORTLAND. OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING. JANUARY 25, 1906. SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. EtJXPgZl i a ; a Mi ES WIT . ,-: Gity-Gourici I-F uts -Through Programiri" Pre-J udged Bruin -a RiiiTiii m n Trt: n in n n rn it i i ii r WH 1 w 1 1 1 1 1 1 V U I U U I u tl li LU 1 1 LH N L5 11 iii.ru uuLu iu uLuun p.. In Bruin Case Council Convicts ' ; Mayor and Civil Service Com '7 ' mission' of Trying to Get Best M0forCity., SPENDS ITS FORCE , , IN PETTY QUIBBLING ,.. -,v ,( -.;'('. --'-. -, . Draws Coacluaiona From Bold Mia- ' atatementi, Twists Evidence to Suit : it. Ends and in Matter of Citizen- '.I ahip Runa Counter to Only TeatU r mony Offered. ; ' ' ' :r "" in a report extraordinary for Its petti fogging distortion -or . suppression -of every material, fact involved. . the Re publican members or the city council have charred Mayor Lane and the civil service commissioners with flag-rant vio lation of the city charter. It la the ex pealed and Intended result si 4ns inqul Itlon by the peanut politicians into the appointment of Patrick Bruin as police captain, for the case was prejudged be . fore a syllable of testimony had been '. heard. , : . The crime-of . which the mayor and " the civil service commissioners stand accused is the effort to get the best men possible for the city's service. , Because ' they adopted thla policy, the city atlor , v ney has been instructed by the council , to ascertain what - legal steps cam be taken', for the punishment of the offend . ing offclala. , - .. . , ' . The report of the inquisitorial com v nlttee was presented laat evening at thej . meetlna; of the council and waa adopted i by - a strict party jyote. Councilman ..Vaughn alone voting in the negative. The report was prepared By Den J. Ma larkey, employed 'by the committee as special prosecutor, and it purports to be , based on the evidence. The conclusions anf the facta are seldom within speak ing, distance of each other. - - -- A transcript of the testimony accom panied the report and covered over 400 typewritten pages. Twenty-six pages were required for the report of the com mute, which consisted of Councilman A. N. Wills. H. A. Balding and Thomas' Gray. When Councilman Vaughn In quired sarcastically whether the mem. hers of the committee had read the re port before signing and presenting It, the shot struck home. There was an obvious reference to an Incident that 'occurred at the city hall ' laat month, when Councilman' Wills, finding in the auditor's office a number of papers awaiting signature, had promptly signed them all 'Without -reading them. The documents happened to be reports by the sewer committee of the executive board, and of course could not' properly be signed by a member of the council, but In blissful ignorance of their nature Wills affixed his signature. -. . Soma Bald Misstatements. '. Straining at gnats and swallowing eamela. the Investigating committee. In its report, resorted to frequent mis statements In order to Justify Its con clusions. ' The most flagrant are la ref- (Continued on Page Two.) YOUNG GIRL'S CLEVER HIGHWAYMAN Ordered to Hold Up Her Hands, Miss Emily ReckarU, Sixteen .-- Years Old, First Turns Ring Into Palm of Hand and " ; Covers It With Her Thumb. : MIks Emily Reckard. K yekra old, i daughter of A. M. Recksrd. hresldent of - Una Northweet Gun Bicycle company, exhibited rare presence of mind -when he and r escort were held up about - o'clock this-morning -and thereby m nt rff.tfiAnd rlnr. : The hlsh- wayman magnanimously allowed the glrltAt thla Juncture a man and a woman j and John CBiien, aged 18 years, to paas on. arcar warnina ui.m nui iv iw. vm.m -an mttr no-rmtcryrwithont takrnr wy "thing from thamrwnenna was toia xnai all the -money the youth had with him , was 16 cents. No clue was secured, by the police except a good description of the thug, who wore black mask which covered the upper part of his face. The Reckerds.lfr at Sixteenth and - Yamhill streets and- last night airs. V Reckard accompanied her daughter to a ' dance at Twenty-third and - Kearney streets. They left there about ll:lt 'clock this morning and young O'Brien, , who lives , not far from them, walked ; along with them and another woman, a friend of the -Reckard ' family. Mrs. Reckard and the other woman walked about half a block ahead. ' - The highwayman stopped O'Brien and Miss Reckard at seventeenth and Davis . streets .'and, presenting . a revolver at O'Brien, ordered him to throw up his hands. He then ordered the girl to hold .tip her hands, but told her not to -be frightened. He did - not point the re volver at her. ' Miss Reckard twisted .... mm ..'" IE if; Mayor Demands of Couneilmen That They Pass a Box Ordi- .' nance and Revoke LI- -jJ cense of Richards.-4 MAKES THEM ADMIT . TRUTH OF LETTER X Neverthejeaa, Council Passeg Reeolu - don Denying That He Had old Them of Richarda' Place and De manded in Vain That Its License i Be Taken Away.' ' , Mayor Lne hurled a bombshell Into the city council laat night in the form of two communications. In one of which he asked for the revocation of the llq uor and hotel licenses of the Richards eetablishment and in the other for the Immediate consideration of a box and restaurants In Portland. The two meaages fell Ilka firebrands and made his opponents in tba body run to eover. His scathing denunciation ' brought forth feeble attempta . at- denial from certain members while others sat with shamed faces and were silent '-" Slayot nays Bennett. Then It members of the council Intro duced s resolution denouncing; as false the . statement which the mayor made In hi open letter Sunday that he had aaked- the. city council to . revoke the license of the Richard -lece -tout-that his, pie bad fallen on deaf ears. It was at thla point that the climax to the "session - came. Pointing- his finger at Councilman Bennett, one of the imeuibeis who tiaa signed theTmoTutlon, end looking him straight in the eyea. tne mayor aaaea: r. 7 ---v. Za Qaesttowaa. "Don't yeu remember what I told yon at that conference in the room above at which the membera of the council were present? I . told you- then -that the Richards place waa one of the vlleat in the city and I wanted It closed; that If you. did not do It I would close It my self." . -- . - - .. ' Turning quickly to Councilman Gray and pointing his finger straight at the councilman, he aaked: "Dld I not say thatr . ". ' Both members cowered in their seats for a moment before they speke and then began to make excuses. Mayor Lane found an able champion In Councilman Vaughn, who accused his colleagues of Insincerity and defied tbem to take the Wills-Bennett box ordinance off the table and consider it. or either of .the other two box ordinances which were laid on the table two months ago. ' The rirst Keseag-ek ' The first message read was that ask ing for the revocation of the two li censes of ths Richarda hotel, as follows: "To the Honorable, the Council Gen tlemen :- As a measure of much Impor tance looking toward the proper and de cent conduct of the city's affairs, I would respectfully ask of your honor able body that you take eway the hotel and liquor license of the "Rlchsr ds Place -. (Continued on Page Two. BUSE CHEATS OF her diamond ring around her finger with her -thumb, so that the stone was on the palm, side of .the hand and then covered It with her thumb before lifting her hands. She held the thumb of tha. other band In the same position, so that y.J?PbefPllght cot suspect the ruaa, walked byontbe othersldeof -the street, but did not glance toward the scene-of thr 1i0totr -I Have only tt centa.-said TTBrleiC "and I hope you will leave me k cents for carfare, because it Is a long way home." . Humph! ejaculated the highwayman, "you're not very flush, sure." , . , Then he aaked the girl If she had any money and received a negative answer. He glanced at her hands and saw no rings. - He - then looked ' at O'Brien's hands, making: the youth first lower them i trifle and extend them toward him.'1 - . .-,.v v- Well,-if that's all the -money yea have," he remarked, "I guess you can trot along. Don't make any nolae and don't look back. Tou perhaps need thst money as badly as I dp, snd If you make no trouhla yeu will be all right." Harrying ahead, lfles Reckard and O'Brien Joined Mra. Reckard and the Other woman and told them what had hap pened. . O'Brien says that be had more money than the II cents ho told ths highwayman of, ' - i DIAMOND s - , I',: - i l' w. 1.' ' r. jr- " Zkf 1 Where Ore - HembreeV bones - were found; 2 Where Mra. Hembree'a ashes lay; 3 Stove in which skulls were found; 4 Hembree'a barn; lir i f ' y - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' , j wagon siieu. - ... ,. . . Crosamarka where' wood was piled hten.Jburnd: r ACCUSED ORSLAYiriG WIFE AND YOUHG DAUGHTER 1 1 1 - Cbil'r of .'Evidence , Is "Tightening ' j Hembree , Brought Several Cords of Wood to House Day Before It' Was. Destroyed . by Fire...' r ; 1 ; ( (RpecUl DUpttth to Tbe Jeoreal.) . Tillamook; . 1 Or- Jan. - 25. Abraro Hembree. of Sand Lake, Tillamook coun ty, a' native of Yamhill county,-member of a pioneer family,- la In Jail at McMinnvlUe, accused of one of the moat atrocious crimes chronicled In the criminal annals of this state the mur der of his wife and daughter and the destruction of his home by fire.. Since 1S80 there hsve been so far as known but three murders in Tillamook county.. Years ago one Lattle met with a violent death In a domestic alter cation. . Ills wife, an Indian woman, acknowledged having killed him, but she waa not punished, being considered of "unsound, mind.' Later, Adklna, a farmer, was deliberately,, shot .with-a rifle by a boy,' who served come years in the penitentiary, was pardoned snd Is reported afterward to - have killed a sheriff In California. Edward Haux hurst was stabbed to death by a thin-llpped "bad man," a cowboy, who waa arrested but escaped from Jail and never was recaptured At the next term of the circuit court an attempt will be made to ascertain what really took place on the week ending December 20 of last year In the Isolated, storm-beaten house of Abram Hembree. where the thunder of the surf could well nsve drowned any cry for life or any scream of terror that might have emanated from its -waits before . they went up in flames, smldst the storm and darkness of midnight - ;""''" Indians Killed Tather. ' Hembree comes of good family. His father, Abram. Hembree,- creased the plains In lit J and settled upon a traot of land near to the preeent alto of Carl ton In Yamhill county. Two of Hem bree'a brothers followed him, 'also locat ing In Ymhlll..,The Abram Hembree branch, consisted of two or more girls, and the toni- rank.r"Ab,,r,Xoss,afid ' DORArJENNINGSyURY-DISAGREES; HER BROTREiTSENTENCEDTOTJIE (Xpecla! Ptopetrk to The Jeerael.) . Grants Pass, -Or, Jan. IS. Jasper Jennings, . convicted of ' the murder of his father. N. M. "Jennings, at Granite Hill the night of September T laat. was this morning sentenced to hang, Friday, March t, being the day set for the exe cution. When called, before Judge Hanna, Jasper calmly stood and-heard his. death sentence. He showed far more nerve than when the announce ment of the-Jury's verdict waa made last week. The boy had nothing to ssy other than that he la not guilty. His mother, brothers and sisters were In the courtroom when the sentence -was pronounced. - - . .- XL. u. Norton, jasper s attorney, will . v t-' seat wos y , I,", .- 6 ,m- ' : if i- - '1 I ' 1 e - i ' with' which bodies arc aald to have iifio ci?Er.iiiriiG About Tillamook Ranche'r- Joseph It. Hembree..). Frank Hembree still occupies the old homestead. In mi the' father.' Abram Hembree, waa made captain of Company D Of Ore gon volunteers. Captain William D. 8 till well of 'the earns company, now resident in Tillamook, tells thla story of the death of Captain Hembree: "He was as brave a man aa ever stood before ranks. I waa with him when he was killed In the fall of 18&6. Captain Hembree and three or four othera had separated themselves from the main body of the company to make a reconnolter, when he ran Into an am bush, and before we could go to his rescue our . captain was killed . and scalped." ' Tell Into Bra Ways. . Young Abram Hembree, left with the venturesome spirit of his father, but without his retaining hand fell .early Into evil w.iye. Twenty years ago he came to Tillamook county, where he married a handsome girl, Columbia Lor- ance- They lived at Sand Lake, eventu ally acquiring from the United States the home whefe Mrs. Hembree'S' life ended. Their family consisted of a son, Jefforson, aged II, a daughter, Ora, aged II. and two younger boys Lossle, aged about 11, and Roy, 10 years old. Hembree was never a money-maker, at . times he . was dissipated, and , when drinking affected to be bad, but was not considered vicious. .' At times he visited a eross-roada saloon with one or two roistering companions, one a man who had ridden with Mosby, the guerrilla, and a most accurate shot. Each In turn would "take the floor," flourishing his pistols and dsscantlng upon his In dividual prowess, blood-thirstiness and Immediate intention of converting the room Into a alaughter-house. Having thus impressed the audience, upon oc casion punctuating his remarks with a (Continued on Page Three.) ' appeal the case to. the supreme-court His motion for s new trial haa been de nied. A stay of execution will,. In all. probability, be allowed by Judge Hanna to give the higher court time to act. ' After helng out'' tt hours the Jury trying the ease against Dora Jennings waa recalled and, after maklng-an an nouncement of their Inability to agree, were dismissed this morning. The lest ballot stood seven for acquittal and five for conviction. Dora Jennings Is today receiving the congratulatlona of friends and enters her cell In Jail "for bar long wait for a new trial next. autumn, with great hopefulness. Hhe believes she. will be acquitted at the next trial and hepea for new developments .thmt , will be la her favor. -. . , : - , - Gaser Bcifl PREACHERSP PfllTfTD1 Thirty-Three Survivors Rescued One Lifeboat and One t Raft From Wrecked Ves- . .. sel Unaccounted For. SHIP -GOES TO PIECES . ALL ON BOARD LOST Graphic Story of Disaster Told by - Survivor Boats Are Smashed aa , Soon aa Launched Scorea . Are Swept to Death From Deck of Vea- rgel by Raging Seas. . (Jsernsl Bpecfsl Service.) " Victoria. B. C. Jan. 26. Of the 154 passengers and crew aboard, the ateamer Valencia when she struck the reef oft Klanaway rock, but II are known, to have survived, leaving . the probable death list 12L The Topgxa.-wmcn rescued 11 from a life raft yesterday and brought the survivors to Port Angeles laat night,, returned this morning to the scene of the wreck, where ' other vessels are cruising, seeking to render assistance to the shipwrecked. ... ...... .. , The Valencia is reported to have brok en up yesterday afternoon with a acore of men clinging to her rigging, all of whom perished In the turbulent waters. after withstanding for hours terrible suffering from cold and exposure. - Te Boats BUU Oat. - ' One. lifeboat escaped the breaker and put to sea with eight or nine- people aboard. ' Another raft, wnicn left tne wreck before the one picked up by tbe Topeka, has not been accounted for. All Other " boats " were Smftihed-to- splinters when the attempt was made to lower them. . O. Wllletts, one of the passengers res cued from, the raft - of ths ateamer Valencia by the Topeka tells the follow ing story: The Shin atrucx at iz:vt ociock in the morning of Tuesday, January 21. I waa on deck at the time smoking a cigar and was looking at my watch when the first crash, came, in an in stant all was excitement. There were shrieks of frightened men and women, the wail of little children and the hoarse orders of officers.- ; The vessel reeled like a drunken man and alld over the reef and struck again. The command to back her off waa given. and she went astern at full speed, but; too late, water poured in line a mm- race euid with a sound which drowned all else. .ataay Are Prowaad, The wind swung the vessel's stern to the beach and her head to the waves. Thla aaved many' Uvea, aa ahe waa then swept back to ahore and struck once again In such a position that she re mained partly above the water and on an even keel. Every wave now waahed clear over her and many people who hastily rushed on deck went to their deatha without time to murmur a prayer. The order waa given to get out tha boats. . Two of them, on the - weather-aide, were launched and were amashed like egg shells ss soon aa they struck water. "Then came an attempt to get out the lee boats. Pursur O'Farrell took charge. Four women and a number of men went In the boat. I don't know how many, but ahe was practically full. Just as they were lowering It, the other davits broke, snd, the stern of the bost fell to the wster while the bow hung in sir, spilling those in 'her into tha surging sea." t -, LIFEBOATS PICKED UP. Blfffctee Xalf Dead Survivors Kescued by Steamer Topeka. (ftpMtel Dtopetrh to The Joorsal.) Victoria. B. C, Jan. tl. While patrol Ing the straits in the vicinity of the Valencia wreck laat evening the stesmer City of Topeka picked up one of the missing life rafts of tbe lost steamer. containing II passengers and members fefthe crew. The condition of the sur vivors waa- pitiable. - They were-half (Continued on Pags Bl) UP - HOLjDS - (loorsal Special Serrlm.) ' Washington, Jan. 16. Chief Engineer John F. Stevens of the Panama -canal commission In his testimony before the senate Interoceenlo canal committee, now published for the first time, recom. mends that the government construct a lock canal Instead of a see-level canal and that It be 'built under private con tracts He advises that Chinese labor be employed snd that the. limitation of work . to eight hours day on the Isthmus be repeslsd. - Stevens stated that hs thought the canal could be built within Its original eatlmated coet and In the time estimated and aald that the srreetest . problem- would - be- - labor. Stevens said: . " . .'.;., "Engineering difficulties are Insle- nlflcant as . compared with the labor problem. American white or negroes could do the work, but It la Impossible to get either class, ao it la Useless to Despitelh Clergymen ' Declare Two At tempts Were Made to Bring . Li Disgrace JLUport-Dr.i-k . , , Whitcomb Brougher. SAY THEY CAN PROVE . FACTS BY. EVIDENtE Executive CommrteejC)fLIqupcDeal- era' Association Denlea There Has Been Plot, But Preachera, While Not Implicating Association Of fie cialfy, Maintain There Haa Been. "That they possess1; Intontrovertlble evidence thst certain liquor dealers, of the city, including members of the Li quor Dealers' association, hava conoocted plot to bring disgrace upon certain prominent ministers ' of Portland and haxa made st Least two abon tempts to trap - Rev. J. Whitcomb Brougher, la the claim of several prom inent preachera who met thla morning and dictated a statement to a Journal representative. This statement wss given In reply to an open communication received by The Journal from the exeeutlve committee of the Liquor Dealers' association. In this letter the committee ' stated that Dr. Brougher and - Dr. Clarence True Wilson recently told their congregations and ths press that a schema had been conoocted by the liquor dealera to trap any one of five prominent pastors and bring disgrace upon him. The executive committee declares that no such scheme haa been planned. It aecuaea the minis ters of ' using the- statements- for the purpose of arousing public sentiment agalnat tha proposed amendment to the local option law. ' Stiek' by Stctemeat. When Dr. Brougher and ; Dr. Wilson wore shown the communication of the liquor dealers they called a meeting of the ministers who could be located and, after consultation, dictated the follow ing statement to The Journal "We know the facta as stated by Dr. Brougher and Dr. .Wilson to be true. We have the names of the liquor dealers who have been planning to trap certain ministers; know the places and datea when attempte were made and were to be made, and knew, beforehand, their first attempt to put their plot Into exe cution. "We have never charged the Liquor Dealera' association, aa an association. with being In thla scheme and are glad that tha five membera who signed themselves aa executive committee state that they have no knowledge of the scheme. At this point In the dictation One of (Continued on Page Nine.) WILLIAM J. BRYAN AT TOGO'S RECEPTION During hla trip to Japan,. of which he write in The Sunday Journal, William Jennings Bryan happened to be In Toklo when Admlsal Togo waa given a recep tion in honor of hla naval vic tories. . By special request Mr. Brysn attended this reception and wan one of the favored few who had places on tbe speaker's stsnd. In his letter Mr. Bryan tells of this experience and also how he waa presented with on -of the-little-stools used during, the reception. In his letter next Sunday Mr. Bryan also telle of the reception accorded him at the Imperial palace and the Interview he enjoyed with the emperor. Few letters of foreign . travel have been written aa Interesting as those - Mr. - Bryan write for the Sunday Journal,' for they are of that personal nature that makes every line and word worth-read-- Ing. ' , ., CANAL discuss their ability. The beat labor that can be procured la Chinese, and I advise Its Importation.'- The eight hour law for American labor aa ap plied to the Isthmus should be abol Ished. for it continuance will increase the cost of the canal 29 per cent, and American labor must be taxed to pay for it -.- - . - T , "Regarding the charge mad of money wasted personally, I do not know of any money that haa been squandered. Some mistakes have been made and there arj likely to.be other made. It I impossible not -to make mistakes under the clrcumatanoee found en- the isthmus. Ths freight- congestion has been terrible In the paat. but it le now being atralghtened out. We have found the equipment used by the French In dlgclng the canal absolutely oseleee. "tefaraiaf the cfrre .1: , ; e Facts Local Lleutenantr of Hill and 1 Harriman Are Said to Be - Arranging Terms of - , ? :;kiairc?roy:?;i; COMPETITIVE BUILDING MAY SOON BE STOPPED Division of Territory aa of Old With out Expenditure of Millions the Goal Striven For WQl Be a Real Blow to Portland in Opinion of Those .-Who Know. v-. Indications are that the lieutenants of James J. Hill and SL H. Harrtmaa are ' reported 'to be about to complete an as- rangeraent by which the railroad war . in the Pacific northwest will be stopped TnroHLsnd return. The propoeeta compromise would, it is said, give Harriman trackage rights over Northern Pacif io rails to the sound. ' and atop Inroads of the Hill lines pro- Jeoted into the Interior of Oregon, while ' ths Northern Pacific and Great Northern would have Joint use of the new O. R. N. line over the peninsula and across . the steel bridge, and avoid the- expense of the "pitopoeed tremendous cut and new 11,000,000 bridge over tbe Willamette.- . Hill would also have use of the O. R- N. main line, front WalluLa. to PM-Maad,! operate train of both the ' northern roada over It temnoraHlv .iM - perhaps permanently, holding the north -bank Una in . abevanca or ni.nl mm. tlnulna- wfvk .mmHimII. a a knii i ' mm m ciuo over me Harriman people to onrorc strict performance of the agree ment, i ,. 'i , Seeking a Compromise, . For two weeks. Ja It said on a-ood authority, negotiations have been wider way between the Hill and Harriman railroad managers with a vlsw to ef fecting a compromise that would avoid the enormous aimnilltup. a mahaw now threatened. In the Inner circle of local Harriman officialdom It la whis pered that a week ago a compromise waa almost errecteo, when Jame J. Hill, president of the Great Northern. balked at one of the provisions Insert ed by the Harriman people affecting ' nnai disposition or the north bank Una, the truce waa declared off and the fight continued. - . - v . It la believed by the beet Informed, railroad men. a few of whoa are on the '. Inside, that U the Harriman force can continue the atruggle all along the line from Wallula 'into Portland three . months, they will win their fight and lorce tne HiU'road to a compromise, arrlmaa.Xs Seteraalned. Tha bitter determination of tha Har riman people I apparent In every move. Tha courts are being appealed t In . every county on the Washington aide of the Columbia, through which the rival surveys run. The right-of-way fight An h. MHln.nl. V. W .. I . ' tn,.M..BU.a .U, III ..III W stags and the - temporary advantage gained by the Portland Seattle In the . decision given by Judge Fraser in Its -favor today is believed to be hut the first round In a long-continued battle in the courta. Involving every technical point raised by the Herriman attorneys. ' The result of todays decision I aim ply a finding In favor of tha Portland Sr RMfd. PflmMHV .tin Mum -I the O. B. N, Ca'a plea In abatement. and tma mean that the eounter-lnjuno. - lions operating against both of the rival roada are to continue Indefinitely, ' preventing construction work of the entire peninsula, line ot the Portland aV :JL Seattle and preventing construction of both bridges, as It Is upon the grade established acroas the peninsula that a ' final decision as to the hela-ht and l. menaions of the .bridge piers must do- 1 pend. - In ths negotiation that have been la , . progress for the laat two week look ing to a eeaaatlon of the railroad war. the representative of the O. R, A N. Co.. the Wallula Pacific the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern have participated. ... ', .. . f ... (Continued en Pag Nine.) aeer Wallace rn which he la accused of having done unneoeesary work and work" that' would bar to be done over again, they are false, and are a aiur upon Mr. Wallace , and hla reputation.' Not a , spoonful of earth that he took out waa wasted effort or should not have been removed. . ... -"The charge that the commission has Imported Immoral women on tbe Isth mus are false. All the women taken down had either father, brother or hue band employed on the canal. Til' "' Ing of the ismlllea haa cm I aa a better clae of V 'r 1 been secured and the v tledoown enl bed- . - Tbe r ess. -- pi'" If yUMlVIISSIQN .... ';...-. V "Jr- . ', . ' --'; " . ',' - '".V -' - -