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9 J " i f f - ' - j mi . A -. W- CITY EDITION f It's All Here and If All True t .HAPPENINGS In the Sorthmest of ; - interest to the veterans of American : : wars re told in The American t Yet . i.. eraii. a feature of The Sunday. Journal. ' Decisions of the various federal board , , are told Jn. concise f oris. CITY EDITION ft s All Here and It's All True THE WEATHER Ram tonight and Saturday ;', southerly winds.- . : Minimum temperatures Thursday : ' Portland 4 1-New-Orleans ,,,.44 : Pocatello ..i....!S;Xw York ...... -Jo Lioa Angeles ...&0,St.- Paul s......ti PRICE TWO CENTS. Oft TWAINS AMD STANDS' FIVS 4J2NTS VOL. ' XX. - NO. 252. , Eatend a aeeoad-Claaa Matter at Pwrtottira. Portlaad, Orccoa -, ; PORTLAND, OREGON, FRI DAY "EVENING,. DECEMBER 29,- 1922. TWFN1T.F0UR - PAGES. 0'" " i : - . : . . ? J IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS 0;, M. Connell, Hit by. Street Car.' and Mrs Louise Lowell, ;Struckr fcy Auto, Latest Vic : tims: 3 Deaths Toll Dec; 23. ' Street traffic claimed two more vic- - , tints today when O. M. Cornell, h ' was struck by a atreetcar, and Mrs. : Louise Lowell, who. was knocked down . by an mutomobf Ie. died In Portland hos pitals. '. '"'Cornell. 54 years old. was "station agent for the S. P. & S. company at St Johns. He had parked his auto mobile, in which his wife was sitting: at Wall and Newark streets. Thursday, while he sot out to put on skid chains. i Tie vai working on one of the outer - .wheels when his -wife heard a streets "- oar approaching-.. She streamed but he 'apparently did not notice. -v , KPISE IS I7IJURED ' . ':.;i. - v. The streetcar," operated by Motor man Cross, struck him. He was taken -to I St. Vincents hospital where physi . l:trfii3 discovered that be had spinal injuries. funeral, services will be held .Satur day from the parlors of the St. Johns i undertakers, " He 4s survived by , his wife. No. 14 Newark street, and one . tlauirhter. Mrs. Guy Anderson, whose i husband Is an 8. P. i S. trafficof flcial. - V : . Mrs. Lowell, who was M years old . and lived at No. 269 Kast 45th street. t was crossing Hawthorne . avenue 1 Kast 45th ' street two days', before . Christmas .when-she stepped In. front , of . an .automobile - driven by George ' Hutehisonji No. - 407 East 0tli streeC .J Hutchison ; was driving east on the "aveaue. and In the darkness the aged .. woman did not .- observe the car. Hutchison cared for Mrs. Lowell.-called medical aid, and had Jier taken to the - county- hospital It la probable that inquests will be . I neia in both cases. itntiiic is vimif . ' The death of Mrs. Lowell makes the third fatality In traffic accidents of December - S3. - K. B. . Watson- died :l after being struck by an automobile . in front of his home. No.. 130 Grand venue, sad Sarah Rockwood.? a young girl,' was- killed -by an unidentified si motorttt, near. , bx Jiom -at "o t(Fast t5U. street north. The driver : . speeded on without , stopping to . ln estisate his deed. , - , ri j November j and lDeeembr afl ac . cidenta caused 15 Keiths,1 the heaviest !- lif toll shown In the police . records Nine of these were tn November and . six to date this month, The 12-month period; ending November SI recorded ' 34 deaths from this cause, -vs. , FATALITIES OK IXCKEASE " ' ... - Seattle. -; Dec.-2S. U. - P.There nnv been fewer automobile accidents this year than last, but the number of traffic fataMtles hss Increased per rent, according to a report 4y Lieu tenant C. O. Garr; head of the police traffic division. , Fifty-two persons ' v ere killed tn 332 accidents as against - tn 1921.- but the number of accidents .a cut from S91S to S223. , Weil-Known Brewer, Takes Life .;;'"-.".- - " " ''..'..'.'. St. Louis. Mo.. Dec. 25. -CI;N. S.i William J, Lemp. 58 years old, presi tient . of . the Lemp Brewing company, committed suicide by firing bullet into his heart In his office here to fiay. The millionaire brewery owner iwas the third member of' the immedi ate Lemp family to die 'by ' self , de ist ruction,. The property of the Lemp Brewing company here, once valued at . S7.fr0fl.0O9. recently was -sold at auc 1 tion for- $5S,000. 5 s i t ' New York Banker Drops Dead at Work l -New York, Dec. 29. ( L N." & W. ' fL Jones. gS. vies president of the Na tional Park. bank. 'and one of the best ,. hiiown bankers In the country, .dropped dead of apoplexy - In his Broadway i office this afternoon. . . ' "i :t9y Csiwiif Sorrily.) s ' i New f York, Dec 2. The third dl-! mension in motion pictures has come,! W Ith tny two eyes ; t saw length breadth : and thickness on the ' screen ' iu a. New York theatre last nlghu, There tliey were, the actors' walking traight toward me and away from me out of the silver sheet anda Into It . asaln. - Once they perched on the brass - rod around "the balcony where L was sittingv-, -f " . ; - -tt-''v 't -."."?::, - ' The depth sf a room' the distance . between two persons standing, one be hind the other, the projection of an ' arm beyond the curtain, were so dis ' tinct that I had to blink and look ; again', to . make- swre.is ' Chasms in the Canadian Rockies ' . yawned with awful realism and moun ts tain heights reared Into the "sky with : 'atmospheric effects back -of i them. V-4 And all, through the latest improve- i aent the pictoree th teleview ; tihown for the first rtlme to the. Amer- ii-an public last night, A J -i '. Tho isstrumerrt Is attached to each - eat. sof thstvery patron has Bis own ' teleview. ? Its long arms looks like the , Pexible stem "of a desk light. Where ;e Mb: should be on the llht. Is a : sbolit five ; inches - In diameter. , Ahrsr3h the inKldle of which, horiiont- Ta .-: v .lOrl .' ' T-x.s.- :-" :: ...,::- rictures dhow lJime Films Attain Another Marvel I " ! ." 11 i n j . .; , ..'.,, ?4 .; U. S. Irish Consulate Dispute By MTestir Pegler TaaiS-Ml s rata si Rfa ff innMnrMUlflt- New York, Dec S9.Tls war ,by candlelight, on-the tenth floor of the old Temple Court building, and trie saints preserve the poor gossoon who blunders in .there to have his passport vised. - . l .aKKXS Tis the battle of the Irish consulate, high eaves of the original-skyscraper, where banshees howl past on the wings of the wind and rattle the panes with their bony f ingersj In this comer of the consulate sits Mrs.. Murtele MacSwlney.i widow of the Cork lord mayor who .starved himself to death, with her blonde bobbed hair. looking the least bit stringy, and her self somewhat the worse for wear rrora her St hours'; beleaguxement. ; She claims to represent the Republicans. , And In this i corner sits himself Lindsey . Crawford, appointed by the Irish fee State to take over the prop erty.' -- -- - - ' ' ' VERBAL WAR BEGINS "Good marnin'. Missus MacSwlney, said himself, the Free State consul. And would ye kindly get out of here where there's no call for the likes of I you ? ' ! I "'Tis the Republican consulate, I said Mrs. MacSwlney. . . 'ed making preparations' to meet an T'alnt," said himself. 1 'Tis,' site saia, sna me war - was ! on, : nv v . ' Crawford telephoned police - head- I quarters. J Down; came Jimmy Ceegan. I detective lieutenant, in command of the bomb squad. He ' withdrew with warning to both r sides that any she' naoigan ' would bring a patrol wagon. so it would, and spoil the war for one and -all. r '- And so they sat. Young Republican reservists - from about town were told off to take turns at civilian sentry go. A rusty haired Coaeladed oa Isc Fourteen. Cousma Four) IShadow, Junior Captured: Captor - Gives5 Legion $100 r. j," ....... ' ' V, .' "Shadow, Junior," the' elusive, man. who has been i walking about the city etreeu for t week with the price' of S100 on his bead for his captor, was taken at noon today! at Broadway and Washington streets' at 12 :65 ; pi wa " . Shadow. Junior", was d ward Val entine of the "48 and 8" society and the Portland- post of the American Legion tanja ms captor wa jBen tsowrnarupuu ;T flic accountant,' No. 1S4 ilstl street. Bowman was one of four who recog nised "Shadow" about the same time; tftit.he was the tily ont-who had. the phrase, right. - The $100 was presented to-him, bat b Immediately returned it to the Legion to be used in promot ing the snow at the Auditorium Satur day, night.- ' t j,. ..-.'. "Shadow" has- been sought on. the downtown .streets as week arid has been an 'advertising medium, for he j show, "A Night In Parts." . I ? On the streets at noon today ,were I heard repeated shots. One report from 1 Fourth - and -Washington was that hooting 4 scrape is going on here. Other reports emanated from other parts of the downtown district. But horrified bystanders soon stilled their pounding hearts, when, it was discov ered that the American Legion boys were making the noise to stimulate in terest In VA - Night - in Perls." to be given at The ' Auditorium Saturday mgnt. H. G. Wells :Nearly Killed; in Airplane London,' Dec 29. (L N S.)TFL' G. Wells, famous novelist and : historian, and Count St. AUlaire, French ambas sador at London, while traveling across the English channel today in a mercial airplane, were caught terrific storm and nearly lost lives. -; - com- their j Sarali Bernhardt Gaining Steadily Parts, Dec. 29. I. N. S.) Madame Sarah Bernhardt, world famous act-" ress who is iu, showed . further - Im provement" .today and her friends are hopeful that all danger now is past. She was allowed to leave her bed to receive some Intimate friends. nsions ally. Is inserted a double elaas or such alse that when looked through it cov ers toe f entire screen. .When a email electric motor Is at t ached, a shuttle revolves between the two glasses so rapidly that it is not visible to the eye. ''H- The shuttle makes it possible. It Is claimed. Tor each eye In turn to view the screen - as they would narmallvl JJrEFLS? ,-TI"'l0r eKvT-iITL 7"" HW 1 k I!- - W!J annuncd mfr wWl "eyes- of the human. These special features. when seen "without the use of the tele view, appear double and hurt the eyes. The teleview harks back to the days of a generation ago. when the young caller got down the, family stereoscope from the what-ot In the corner - and wnned away Sunday afternoon took lng .at ' Niagara frosen ! over. C In those days the wonder of making a picture solid ? Instead of flat never railed to entertain. -And -; today, ap plied to the movies, this saai prin ciple, as something 'new bids fsir to interest the public. - The 'teleview is the Invention - Of Leurens Hammond of ; Cornell nnl Teraty WARFARE OR PEACE OP TO TURK UN Britain Making Ready:forOut- break Wh He Awaiting TurT key's Answer , to Near East Problems; Parley Nears Rocks Lausanne, Dec. 29. (U. P.)-Final decision as . to . eeace- or war. in the Near Kat rested wUh the Turks to day. The conference stood practically suspended, walting for word .from Ismet Pasha. ' '--- t . The Turk delegate bad a few days hv-which to reply.' to allied Insistance that mixed tribunals and judicial guarantees replace capitulation. , If he made final, -formal rejection of th demand, it would mean the immediate nd of the peace conference, delegates dclared. - n - . 1 Meanwhile the British were report- open brk with m return to armed watchfulness at the straits. JO ' A British fleet, ied by the Iron Duke, was reported under full steam jor tni rjrdaneltes. - i The I conference tiavtng . become a straggle between- British and Turks to ishlf t the blame c-n each other for the' break, now : regarded as Inevitable. theformer have ; won i the backing Of all Vother delegations except thev Rus sians, i The- United States supported the sallied demands for judicisl frusr- antots; Frsnoe. Japan end Italy stood wkh Great Britain is the matter of capitulations. , i -,"-'"? ,- OEEECE BEUETES WAR IS - '. fJTE YITABLEi SAYS DISPATCH London. Dec. 29. U.: P.) Resump tion of war between Greece and Turkey Is considered inevitable in the former country, according to. a cable from Athens to the Dally Express today. . ' Former Premier Venltelos,. vlsionlng a breakdown-of the- Lausanne confer ence., has telegraphed- he Greek . rev- nlntlonarv government, urging : tnai ( Ueotuiaed nt PsortMS, Cohusn Un) , V' ' . ., .1 .. , ..... .. ., liffi'KOffilLty Balttmorei Mdv Pee 29.-(L N. S-V Dr. B. M. McKotn, held for the! Louisi ana, authorities in . connection -with the 1 Mer Rouse tragedy. today was moved to , the hospital of the Baltimore city jail, uf ferine with a severe bronchial attack. His friend. Dr. Hugh H. Young. was called In and ' attended him this morning. HCGE IWa BEIlfO RAISED . ' FOR NEB BOTJGE JJEFEX8E Mer Rouge. Ls., Dec (tfi. P.) A million dollar defense was .being or ganised to fight the state's efforts to rid Morehouse, pariah of the terrorist bands. -. - - '. - ;: ." ' - ( -- Some of the -roost-noted criminal . at torneys in the country hsve received overtures to act in behalf of those , im plicated on charges ot murder and eut- Iawrysf-,f ederat ' investigators learned. The source of funds for this gigantic defense was . being traced by. depart ment of Justice-'operatives today.,-.; Friends of Dn a, M. McKotn, former mayor, ' wre: also ? raising fund Of SiO.OOO to prevent his return here from Baltimore,- where he ie held -charged with the two murders. . . : - v-jfit ..d,.; i. r,,uj members of the terrorist mob- impll eating 45 other prominent members of the parish. The - confessions told of the kidnaping or five men on August 24, and described the slaying of Dan iels and Richards, It was reported. 2 More Executed By Free. Staters Dublin, Dec 89- I."N.'r S.) Two more Republican irregular prisoners were executed by the1 Free State au thorities todays - - ' i --" The executions , took place at , Kil kenny. Aecorttuig to the official an nouncement. Issued here, the men were named Murphy and Whelan. .They had been engaged In guerilla . : warfare against Ithe regulars. : - t. .- ,.. About 14 Irregslars have been exe cuted In the last few 'months. . ' Halts Increase of China's Postal Rate (Spesial Cable to - The Jooraal asd Chicago ... Mint ."ew . . . s : , " (Copyriaht. 133) ' f , : Shanghai, Dec. 29. The recent order Increasing the Chinese postal and tele crranh rates is renorted Inr hut '. tiwn . , , . ... cabinet In Peking, following Vitorm of I protest throughout the country.' The military governor here ordered that the UeW ntt be disregarded and 10 nrov- the new rates. Flood Waters "of V? " Willamette Halted ... -... Rising flood waiters la ; the WU lamette n ver were checked early to day : when the . crest of -j the ; river reached a maximum height Of 10. feet. A steady drop in the flood waters after today la forecast by the district weather office. Cooler tempera tunes and less rain caused the flood to re cede, i . ,, Club Pays -Tribute to ; Hero Dead The usual hum of evening activity at Multnomah Amateur Athletic club gave place Thursday night to silence a rev erent silence while all honor, tribute and remembrance were paid the names of the club's 88 hero dead. " Twenty-six candle flames flickered out as the names.- one by. one, were called from a newly unveiled . tablet. lust as 88 mortal flames flickered out one bv. one. in response to ins roiicsu of the Great Creator during the World war.- j- i.. 5 Amid the notes f a softly played anthem could be heard a sob and . an other sob. each arising from the heart of m man who-had lost . a comrade and was unashamed that his emotion should ' be shown on such a touching occasion.''' v ": BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE It was all a beautiful tribute to the! memory of 8s men who laid down their lives- for their country i, 26 men who had. paid the. supreme sacrifice. ... . .The exercises for the dedication of. the tablet bearing these names-was held in the gymnasium of the club, and S loyal group of friends and relatives of the club men gathered for the cere mony, .Never before had the; evening enjoyment of the club men! been broken by such an Impressive scene. . At t :30 - the 'clubrooms "were ' closed and darkened, the club men and friends of the honored 86 gathered in - the gymnasium, which was " banked with floral . tributes f and lines by the uni formed ranks of soldiers and marines from local posts. " , - As the final notes of "taps" sounded. R. C Sammons. secretary of the club. read the 88 names - from the tablet. Twenty-six young- women, garbed ; in white, each bearing a lighted candle. stood in front of the tablet and ss each (Concluded oa Pass Tweatyone, Column Four) T HfTS JEW YORK f::r- New York. Dec. 29. I. N. S.V While - New - York shivered today in" 20 degrees above sero weather. In the wake of the heaviest storm of the win- tfrvvth city -was menaced with ,tb worst fuel -crisis in- its history- There,. are - onJy- 4s hours -supply :, of ; coal on i hand, - and snow has blocked many of i the railway lines leading to the freight terminals - where i fueT 1-"onToa5sk The storm began with a gale, which swept all the eastern states, but par- tlcularly -. the .- Atlantic tsoast, : Xiain turned"" to sleet and sleet . to . snow, Throughout the -early part of the -day. SO-mlle -' wind whirled the now in high drifts. . - - , j . . , - J , TRAFFIC HALTED ' . Railroad and . street - traffic . were badly crippled .and thousands - of com muters were late for -work. ' . The deep slush which rilled : th streets, was frosen over.t making foot traffic dangerous. ' The- hospitals were kept busy caring ; for "persons injured In falls.. ff:Vv,.-;,-. "V::"v.A?i--:V- Five .ships sre in distress -on the 'At lantic coast, many others are 'Overdue. scores are ;.held 71 port'unabW to ven ture out, seaboard cities are Sheathed in ice ana five persons : arii known dead, the result of gales which raged during the last 8L hours The weather was clearing today and the wind sub siding. ... :", .'' i ' '. The schooner Ma is! e Peabody, with a crew of four men, was believed to have gone down 50 miles off Point Comfort.. . An S. O. S. was received from the steamer Munmotora, with a crew of 34 - men.f Norfolk . to? Boston, which ; was partly waterlogged. ; .Tha steamer : Sa n ta- lloa a was ashore i off Charleston, S.. C. . - I LIXEBS HELD CP ? it , The - steamer Courtoise, somewhere ofT New York, wirelessed she was tn distress. ''.--';'; Thei schooner Anna 1a' Spindler; of Nova Scotia, grounded at Race Point, near Provlncetown, Mass. Many liners , were reported behind schedule. Including the Cunarder Berengaria, which- is bringing Ambas sador Harvey home from London.,: Scores of. vessels remained behind Delaware breakwater while the gale hipped up mountainous waves and the air was filled with sleet and snow. Three persons 'were killed In New England, where the gale reached a- ve locity of 70 miles an hour.- Two were killed in NeWYork - i Three thousand street-sweepers were put at work ' cleaning ' the chief bus iness thoroughfares. . v f:- - :- Toward noon the skies cleared and the sun broke through, but the mer cury did not S rise sppreclably. Twenty-five, persona were shaken up, but none seriously hurt when a Brook lyn electric.- ear was derailed by - ice upon the tracka. - - Seventy-two hours overdue, the storm battered .-"American liner Manchuria limped into port today from Hamburg. She brought 475 frightened passengers and three panic-stricken : stowaways. A seaman was washed, overboard by terrific wave" and was pulled back on deck by another during the storm. 8TOEM KILLS FOUR . - : - i. - v"" . - - ... , " - -' - i Boston.- Mass., Dec 39.-ti. N. S. Boston and - other New England cities were facing a fuel famine as the re suit of a terrific storm which killed four persons and demoralised rail , and marine traffic The victims met death in Boston, Providence,' K. I., and Lake Port, N. H,- . . . Man Committed to" -Hospital, Escapes ' - " "" 'i 7T ; HTJ.-k Wilder,- who was recently com. nutted to the state .hospital iu Salem escaped from - L.. Scott, : a hospital guard,- ; in - the corridor : of the court' house , Wednesday night Scott had lust come down the jail elevator with the prisoner and was . starting to the talon when Wilder, broke : away and ran out of the building, going -north on Fourth street, east on Salmon -and disappeared. x The police, and ' deputies are searching for him. , FRRIFIC STORM II S SF1TF I W;.-.- wi . Vtai mm , -, i . ifi i; a nnnflit L iio uuimii Idaho ' Senator ' Gives Consent - - When He Js Informed That "VHarding Is . Working Along ; lines Urged by His Proposal. v Washington. Dec. 29. I. N. S- In, the face of statements by administra tion senators . that President Harding and Secretary of , State Hughes are new engaged in formal discussions and delicate negotiations toward the call ing of an economic conference, the Borah amendment to the naval bill re questing the "president to call - such a conference was killed this afternoon without ever coming to a vote,. After Senators Lodge and Watson, speaking for ithe administration, had assured Senator Borah 'that the gov. ernment Is now moving in ; the direction-desired by him, Borah, said he had no desire to 'retard ; progress", and lie announced - he would., not-, push .his amendment to a-vote. --. BOB AH C0KSE3TTS f ,'- senator Watson declared that in a strictly - parliamentary '" sense, "' the;! Borah amendment' was not actually I oeiure ine sensie. j naa oeen pnn lea. but never actually placed before the senate by the Idaho senator, although debate on it has raged and stormed. in the senate for several days. . ; "Well," said - Borah, "if that's , the case, ji win not then- present it." - ft .. The- end1- of the -now: famous- Borah proposal came with dramatic sudden ness. There , was e rapid exchange between Borah, i Lodge and Watson and then the Borah amendment - was consigned no the neap of other dis- carded legislation, -v , - , . : . "I can state. said Senator Watson. ''that' President Harding has in mind the calling, of conference," ' KNOCK PROPOSAL .- t -f , Senator Lodge said he: too. ander- stood r that "confidential Inquiries and ; informal idlscus.ionstf- have been nneluised on Tasa Twenty-ons, Ootuau Four ' j C3;iE ISKED Full UlAHOIli! ? ' 5 . : r Washington, Dec. . WASHING TON BUREAU .OF THE JOURNAL i senators Mo Nary and Stan field have I joined in recommeiiding Judge John . S. cokst of Marshfieid as federal district attorney for Oregon to succeed Lester W.- Humphreys, , resigned. Their Joint tetter to Attorney General Daurhertv naming Coke was sent to the depart ment or justice this morning, and It is considered likely that ithe president will transmit it to the senate for con-i firmation early next week. This will permit Governor Olcott. to YiU the state! PnlMUii ..... . , t . tirement of Coke. ' - - - J A telejfram of inquiry IS also solmr out today to Alex Sweek to ask if he menus io ruit ms tana-office-Job in January. The 'senators desire: to se- lect his successor immediately If he Is preparing -to resign; but they are not ouite certain that reports of this - im reports are incorrect, "they say, he will not be disturbed until his terra expires I next Auguau Eetiirning, Is Informed Washington, Dec. 29. (TJ.- P.) Sec retary of "War Weeks said today that he had been - advised by the ' depart ment of 'Justice that G rover Cleveland BergdoU, arch draft dodger, waa on a toat headed for , Pensacola. Florida. Beyond this. Weeks said. that he had no' information that Bergdoll has left Uermany. , Berlin, Dec 29. (U. P.) Orover Cleveland Bergdoll, American draft evader, has not left Germany, accord ing to advices from Eberbach today. A dispatch received here said, he spent tnnetma there. - . Concrete , Bridge For E. 33d Street The old wooden viaduct -across Sul livan's gulch at? Kast 3Id street north is to be replaced with. a concrete bridge, which, - with- the fills and. paving ap proaches, is estimated to cost 138. 000. The bridge itself wiJI the about 100 feet in . length. Commissioner Barboi1 will asjt the city council -next Wedne4 day": to Instruct City Kncrlneer Laur- gaard to prepare, the plans and specif ficaticns.?Thisiwilliinclade the im provement of. Kast 1 33d street t from Halsey to Broadway. " The O-W. K. te N. company ill "pay- half the cost and the remainder will be paid for, out, of the city's special - bridge fund. ?. Side walks and curbing will, be paid for 'by assessing adjacent property., - PensibnBiJUs I mm I VI llt--; .-&'JWVS v WH. ' Delayed at Capital . Washington, Dec. 23. U. P.) Aotion by : President Harding on the Bursum pension bill has' been delayed because of the absence from the city of Secretary- of 'the Interior Fall. The bill is now at the -interior department. await ing a report by Fall and will -be .sent to the White House shortly, it wes staged. . - - A,. - - 1 - ;Notables fin Today's News T TPPER left. Irene Fenvnck. who, itls rumored, may soon . marry Oon-BarrymoreJ from whom Mrs. Doris Ran kin Barrymore has just secured Bernhardt, who; at 78, is holding her own m a fight to Irve. Below, at :-1efC 'Fowler McConnkk 'who is' trying to prevent the marriage ol. his mother, Edith Rockefeller McCoraiicivio Edfin- Krenn young Swiss architect. :r Below, at right, Ezr Meeker, famous traveler of the Oregon Trail,1 who is 92 years old today! and b giving a dinner in New York to alL ."boys over ninety. . v , , ; : r mum BEAD WHIN Detectives are strlvtnr- today :to dis-: cover what strain Mjf ' despair- had so turned - lC-year-old Chauncey- Morris mind that he . should ,-. put a3bunet, throorn his brain n a. lonely, cabin on Catrvon road. where his body was I found.; late Thursday, 'vPolice are con-J vlnced that his death was suicidal, a! f though a phased of mystery presented Itself ro the Yorm of" empty , cartridges I , W LI l . n . kitltaMtn. tured . window panes, the edges or -tne I holes pointing inward. , I ' Captain Harms declared his'' opinion that the : windows were shattered Jy hunters who are -constantly roaming I throunh the woods in this wilder por- I tion.. of the Canyon road district- He - .laccountartothe "cicrldaes.Jn, muchr The cabin stands .in. the woods bor- derina- Canyon- road., at mile tfronvi the Ford street, bridge. Thebody was seat ed upright on an old lounge; -ith. the feet propped on a box -in xront..-. . .. -j A powder-burned outlet wouna, was in tha : right , temple. - A t pistol , was clutched In he. right hand. , :,,.; Morris livedo at KJamatn aiw, out had ben staying recently with bis grandmother.' , Mr. .Jack T.Holson. at No: 1115, Division street. ... . . .... The boy's' body, was found by -John Kluser.'a friend of Morris, a half hour after John TalL another friend, had ; ie ft Morris, In the cabin. At , the- ti me Morris had in his possession a revolver which, he had picked ud in the . borne I of An tone Kl user, en the Canyon road.M ; with, the declaration that he was going hunting;., . . .. . ... , ,r : REMAINS BKHI5B ' v . : :, According to the. atorV told the -no- lice by the Kluser boy.; Morris and Tall (Coneladed pn Pass Tweatr-ona, Column Two) Able-bodied Man's - Bloodls' Needed to r;Save CaptV'Milnfe Over the Top-Post of the Veterans if Foreign Wars today issued" a' call ' for an. able bodied man to volnnteer' for a 'blood- transfusion r to save the Ufa of Jack .Milne, - formerly . a, captain - In the Ninety-first; division, wearer of the auttnernisbed servioe cross,' and SpanJ iKh. -wr veteran,- - S'- ?-. s - j - Mnrrtf tsn-a aeHous" condition ar the HftbJiemann hospttil. " His -physicians' report .nothing cart csave his life but an fmftitls"DloodranmiOn. '- Sev-i eralycJunteeri.haVi "been ejected .be c-auise nir. niooa -.count rwas not n same as the patient's. Volunteers may telephone District Judge Richard Deich in the courthouse., i . - Windows at-Bandon Shatteredlby Gale , ' .. Bandon. ' Dec. . 29. A 70-mlIe-"" g ale Tuesday shattered several plate-glass windows and tore down signs ; about Bandon, , ...... . K " r .'.-.. ;r. : ' ( ' tiiai amm-m m . a a mm lyf Byne way nmjs nATiuiretuuuj whatever atl . the tragedy';; " T a divorce. Upper right, barah ' " , r-'- '.' ! " ' ,;.S9.65 t -. i - ;: "Two yduthsj who; seem to make' a specialty, of robbing ;restaurants. hld tip and rDbbcci Ai? A.- Schuitxin his cafe at No. "tS4 Savler street early tOday es capngr with-.9.25 '- In "change scooped from the till. 'f They -answered in every detail the description of this lads who robbed the Chief Lunch last week; and .who have, made . similar appearances recently on other occasions. . ,, r : Schultz reported to the police that the two men came Into his cafe, and after seating themselves ordered coffee. When 5 he "came--tOs serve - the coffee and turned, away, one visitor stood up and--pressed , the .muzzle - of a gun against Schults's back. ; The "" other robbed the till and without the least trace of nervoushess." and a display of perfect .system,; they "turned; end ran rapidly down Savler. street. ; : " r - -i tit 'I - -'' . ' -i . Cane May.f K. Dec. 29. (L N. S.) An S. O. si call fron-rtthe American ahi- plng vesselMonmotor was received to day. - Th yessei u waterlogged, with bad list to starboard. 10 miles east of Five Fathom, bank lightship. The Monmotor has 43 men aboard, , The coastguard, Kicks poo is" rushing to, the ship s aid. ine Monmoior Wis aus to arrive in. New York today (rom couth- i" :-r:. y-, - iMfeSjfeac'ss End: " ' PrMdand' Oregon inC Picture and Text ?Yourfriend;eti this : : numherrid thtt copies. i5 cents the copy. WrtippdiJstan ready , for mailing. JO.i-jcenisz.theZCop OMef Extra utjUOMD SLAYINGTWO Crazed by Moonshine,1 Kitchin Creek, Coos County, Farmer, Jakes Mate's Life and Blows Off Head of 'Man Living Necr MsrshfieM, Or, Dee. l'; P.) Formal charges ef first degree marker were files ' f a Jsstir eoart at Coqsl.le today - against L. W. Peare, raneher, for the sssrder of James S. CnlTer, a neighbor. .Avy. :ts.. vV-;-?-.-;?. Marshfjeld. Or Dec. . 29. U. T.) L. W. Peare. rancher from the remote Kitchin- creev section, .today : :vt s -lodged in the Coos county Jail at Co- . quille under formal charges of murder. Peare confessed Thursday night to - Murdering his wife and James H Cut- .. ver,: a neighbor. The confession ai : made before Coroner .Fred W 11 :. Sheriff K. P Ellingsen, City Conetalj'-s Robert Redeil and'a-group of citla-. .. 4 : at Myrtle Point shortly .sfter he lird ; been brought In from Kitchin momi- : tain. . - ' Sobered up in Jail here,-Peare an. peared to be complelely sane. While, he did not -talk 5 much," he did say hw guessed ho had tilled his wife,, but b" - was not certain. Last night no ravu about the crime and its details. . - The story related- by-Peare was sub stantially the - name a that told by - him to Charles S. Stevens, a neighbor- . lng rancher, shortly sfter the killing. Peare said he had fought, with his wife n their' homestead ; cabin - on Kitchin "'mountain ;-: Late v Wednesday ' night, s Hei had been - drinking moo.i--Shine, he said. He choked the woman -. to death.: i Then, armed .'With a JoO-.ZQ rifle, he shot all his dogs and. sett out , for the' ranch of , James Culver, on Kitchin mountain. -)s -.:';;fi Culver, i a bachelor about- i year of age. - was bringing in an armloo d of wood ? when, -Peare approached ; h' . eabla, Pears - said ha-and Culver had quarreled: over some cattle and theiv existed an Intense hatred, between Hi two, ", - )--'- - , - - "- - , s - Without warning of any kind. Peare said he shot Culver through the shoul der. Culver -dropped the wood and f e.l to the ground .v "Then Peare said lie calmly tool aim- and blew the top ft tCoacludad oa Pace Twenty-one, Column Thiec EusiaEptiTtin Gfairi Activities to Lnci Within five months the Amerlct. ft Relief administration will leave Rus sia, so said Dr.' WUliamr D. Nickels t . who recently returned from that serv ice. .Dr. Nlckelsen, who Is , a natii of Hood River, returned to the Unlttti States a short time before Thanksgiv ing. He was Visiting in Portland , to day and said that be intended to local here. "The ; A. ; R. . A. Is coming out b -cause the soviet has -commenced ex' porting grain." the doctor said. "Tlie Volga- region- la shipping goodly quar ttties and the warehouses at Petrogrsd are filled. Of course the soviet clain-.-it is for the army, but the warehouses are' on the waterfront where ships are loading." ' -'"",':' "'. ft -. :.?-:; . Mrs. McCormick Is ' iNbtTeUing World: When She'll Wed Chlcago. lDec. .29. 0. P.V All ChU -cago society today awaited word of the marriage of Mrs; Edith Rockefeller McCormick and Edward Krenn, Swiss architect. . , .-'-.:-,. .: Mrs. McCormick, asked when the much-discussed marriage would take, place, -replied, hotly t -r; ' . "It is none of your businesa It will make no statement now or ever!1. Krenn only blushes And grins. ' 5 .; "i Numjber 1922 a Great "A summary): of Pacific Northwest achievements during, the passing twelvemonth most grati" f;ing to read. ' -. Copies Now