Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1923, Page 5

JAPANESE OUSTED, | CALIFORNIA LOSES, Drastic Land Laws Reduce Farm Output, Send Race to Eastern Coast. Bpecial Dispateh to The Star. SACRAMENTO, Calif., December 24 —After twenty-six years of legislative endeavor to drive Japanese from Cal- ifornia agriculture and with those efforts finally crowned with success through recent decisions .of fhe United States Supreme Court yphold- Ing the anti-alien,land lgws, this state today finds itself wondering 1f it has not succeeded g 1ittle too well. First effects of the complete oust- ing of the Qgentals from all agri- cultural “etivities, except as day Wage arners, e just commencing to Take themselves felt and already lacte is u tendency in many sections to regret that anti-alien land. legis- Yation has been made so sweeping. This feeling is rapidly gaining headway as thousands of Japanese farmers, refusing to go back to the former status as wage-earfing farm hands, are preparing to depart for ates tarther east. Something like 1.000 Orientals are expected to join in this migratory movement, and Ore- £0n and Washington, with similar land laws, will contribute many to the eastward hegira. H Coming to Eastern Coast. 1 The objectlve points, according to Japanese " associations here, will be the larger centers of population along the Atlantic seaboard and in the central state where the Japa- nese plan to establish truck farms. The anti-alien land act prohibits all persons ineligible to cltizenship— mostly Japanese, Chinesc and Hindus —from owning or leasing farm lands, from tilling land on crop-share greements, and also from owning ock in land-holding corporations. | Farming has long_since ceased to tract Chinese In Californla. Most them are in mercantile pursuits or conduct lotteries. The Hindus are w and they have always been con tent to he wage carners, but the anti- alien land laws hits the Japanese with terrific force, for out of the 120,000 Japanese in California 58 per cent are engaged in agricultural pursuits, and four-fifths of that number arc “on eir own.” Briefly summarized, the situation here is that, having had its anti-Jap- anecse legislation declared valid, the £tate is suddenly confronted with 25,000 acres of farm lands left with- out tenants, and an annual income of 00,000 derived from the sale of Japanese-grown farm products in eastern marketa is suddenly lopped off. Coincidentally there has been a sudden depreciation in the farm land values. Call for White Farmers, ‘The cr for white farmers from other states to replace the Japanese already has gone out. But even with vhite farmers there is still a que tion whether California can ever re gain the agricultural prestige which the Japanese have helped her attain. 1t is an accepted truth here that Jap- anese farmers can make two blades of grass or anything else grow where other farmers grow but one. In 1909 the total value of Califor- nia's Japanese-grown crops was $6,- 235,000, as compared with $73,000,000 in 1833 Last vear the Japanese farmed one-eighth of the state's 4,- 000,000 acres of irrigated farm land— but from this one-eighth they pro- duced almost one-third of Callfornia’s annual $230,000,000 crop of farm product Of the various California vegetable and fruit crops last vear, Japanese farmers produced asparagus, 75 per cent; berries, 95 per cent; celery, 90 per cent: cantaloupes, 70 per cent; onions, 90 per cent; tomatoes, 80 per cent; mixed vegetables, 95 per cent; grapes, 30 per cent; deciduous fruits, per cent; lettuce, %) per cent; sugar beets, 45 per cent, and pota- toes, 40 per cent. In the Imperial valley, where the Japanese last vear raised 70 per cent of Califdrnia’s cotton crop, thousands of acres next spring will remain un- planted. Land owners, meeting in Stgckton, asserted that 40,000 acres in”that section and 50,000 acres in the rich Sacramento river delta re- &ion must be planted In barley if planted at all. Would Amend Law. Already there is in progress a movement by land owners to have the anti-alien land law amended through initiative and referendum to permit Japanese farming on crop- cha agreements. Unless a special cssion of the legislature is called, however, 110 change can be made for | least a vear and a half. Even then mcudment will meet’ with much «._-sition in the cities. _lleanwhile, the Japanese fhey are finished with fght to stay in California. The east, they say, ‘offers rpich opportunities for truck farming with no anti-alien land laws. —_— FRANCE HOPES TO HAVE OLD-TIME CHRISTMAS It Weather Prophets Are Correct, Will Have Celebration of Type Seldom Seen. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 24.—That old- fachioned Christmas, always wished for, but seldom seen, will bo cele- | brated in France this year if the weather prophets are not altogether wrong. The ocountry is already under a deep mantle of snow, to the annoyance of .such prosaic folk as the railroad men, who in the central regions particularly are calling loud. 1y for volunteers to dig out the iracks. Many villages there, as well as in the Alps and Pyrenees, have been cut off from the rest of France, and their Christmas is likely to be | a fast rather than a feast H persons who have the mea; to do €0 are spending the holiday ds280n.on the shores of the Mediter. ranean, but the usually mild olimate | of that region is at present being visited by tempests of considerable intensity. sports are hurry- declare their long P Ter3of winter ng to those resorts in Fra Switzerland_which feature !r:xc';‘ .l“l&3 tractions. These vacation places are :,l?::t equaling the Riviera in Claiming to Make' Gold, Alchemists' Pop Up in Bavdria By the Assoclated Press. * LEIPSIC, Germany, December 24, near-alchemists I —Alchemists and are begining to pop up in various parts of Germany with devices for making gold. As the financial situa- tion - grows worse the readiness to belleve the tales of these imposters increases. In the middle ages, Bavaria had much experienco with men who pre- tended to have learned the secret of making gold. Duke William the Fifth went down in history as the ruler who dealt most harshly with this tvpe of faker. ~The Venetian impostor, Marc Antonio Bragadino, who fleeced Duke William on a gold making scheme, was hanged in 1591 at Munich on @ red gibbet, with a gold cord for the noose. For more than a century after- ward _such impostors kept away from Bavaria. Now they are flourish- ing. undeterred by fear of drastic punishment. RALROAD LEADS TOMONKEY LAND Kenya Colony Line’ Extension to Pierce Uganda, Says Geographic Society. “A remote but exceptionally im- portant bit of railroad building is the proposed extension of the Kenya Colony line into Uganda, which will link Mombasa with the Nile,” says a bulletin from the Washington head- quarters of the National Geographi Soctety. “Pushing the line seventy-five miles bevond jts present terminus. at Turbo, will open to coastal travelers one of the most diverse reglons of the world, from a geographic and | scenic standpoint. “The existing railroad gives umple promise of what lies beyond. When he entered Africa for his famous lion hunt, the late Theodoreq Roosevelt rode over this stretch on aYocomotive cowcatcher and when he gave his first lecture before the National Geographic Society, after his return, he said: ‘I really doubt if there is railroad trip in the world as well worth taking as that up to the .it:le British = East African eéapital- of Nairobi." Two Natural Wonders. rom the terminus of the con- templated extension, at Jinja, the passenger some day will emerge to view two of ths world's notable natural features—Victoria Nyanza, to the south, and in the northern back- ground the giant Mount Elgon, with its crater ten miles across and its Jagged rim rising to 14,000 feet. “Jinja is located on the marvelously beautiful gulf through which the waters pour trom the mighty lake over Ripon falls and enter upon the cascaded and swirllng course of the Victoria Nile. “These arc only two of Uganda's physical aspects. which range from snow-capped mountains, some velled in heavy mists, to arid areas, where rain has not failen for periods of two vears. “In the Rift valley is a people, who are guiltless of clothes, but extremely painstaking of their hair. It is most unwomanly for a Suk woman to have any hair on her head. The men. however, let their hair grow, and upon a father's death his hair fs divided among his sons Each son weaves his into a sort of receptacle in which snuff box, ornaments valuable trinkets. Remnants of Stone Age. “Sir Harry Johnston tells of an- other tribé, the Andorobo, who wander among denSe forests and game-haunted wildernesses. He says “These Andorobo reproduce in a most striking: manner the life which we may suppose to have been led by our far-away ancestors in the earliest stone ages. They lead, in fact, very much the life that the most primitive types of man led in Great Britain and France in the far-back daye of big animals, possibly before the com- ing of the glacial periods. *‘“They live entirely by the chas: and other and beasts uncooked. commit considerable devastations among the game of the province, they are a picturesque feature when encountered.” “Joseph Thomson. founder of Brit- ish East Africa, which now is Kenya, is famous for never having fired at a native. He first penetrated Masai- land where the reality approaches Kipling's fantastic lines: *“*This is the sorrowful story, Told when the twilight fails, And the monkeys walk together, Holding each others’ tails.’ r Harry Johnston's Masailand picture follows: A Fairy-Land Area. “Their towns are surrounded by belts of tall trees, mainly acacias, séme of which must be considerably over a hundred feet in height, with green boughs and trunks and ever- present flaky films of pinnated foliage, Though they trees are loaded with tiny golden balls of flowers, like tassels of floss silk, which exhale a most delicious perfume of honey. In the plains be- tween the villages Grevy’'s zebra and a few oryx antelopes scamper about, while golden and black jackals hunt for small prey in broad daylight with a constant whimpering. “Enormous baboons st in_ the branches of the huge trees, ready to rifle the native crops at the least lack of vigilance on the part of the boy guardians. Large herds of cat- tlo and troops of lisabella colored donkeys, with broad black shoulder stripes, go out in the morning to graze and return through a faint cloud of dust, which is turned golden by the setting sun in the mellow even- ing, the cattle lowing and occasion- ally fighting, the asses kicking, plunging and biting one another.” MOVIE SCHOOL PUPILS SAY THEY WERE- BILKED' Charge, in Court, Jobs Were AMNESIA VICTIM HALTS DIVORCE SUIT ON RETURN Leonard Danison, Restored byl Hypnotism, and Wife Become ~Reconciled. By the Associated Press, MANSFIELD, Ohio, December 24.— Leonard Danison, thirty-five, who dis. appeared from his home here summer, returned home in time to prevent’ hearing of _divorce pro- ceedings (instituted by his wife, Mary, on grounds of desertion. For five mon Danison sald, he was confined in the Cook County Hospital at Chicago under the name of John Doe, & victim of amnesia, and unable 1o tell his real name. Hypotism was finally restorted to by hospital at- taches he sald, with the result that he recalled his name and that he lived in this city. On November 2, Mrs. Danigon filed spit for divorce and arranged to place four of her young children in an orphanage and gave her baby to a family in Loudenville to care for. The couple settled all their differ- ences an t":rrlnx‘:gd to have the divorce petition withdrawn. Today they plan to gather their family Qfll’&ihlr'lnd o to Zanesville, where they will start life_anew. Promised Upon Completion of Courses. By the Associated Pre CHICAGO, December 24.—More than fifty young men and women, claiming to be graduates of the Popular Moti Flcture Products Corporation. wers o court to testify against four/officials of "the corporation, on trial on charges of operating a confidence game. The four officials, L. F. Callahan, pres! dent; W. B. Bower, vice president ; Ben- Jamin Black, secretary and treasurer, #hd Jack Lilley, another.official, are said to have promised men and women employment in companies after comple. tion of the course offered by the corporation. —_— NEW CRUISER TRIED OUT. QUINCY, Mass., December 24.—The scout cruiser Raleigh successfully com- pleted a four-hour full-power run down Massachusetts bay Saturday, and offi- clals of the trial board of the United States Navy pronounced the vessel “satisfactory. The cruiser did not return to the Fore river yards of the Bethlehem Ship- building Corporation owing to darkness, and tonight was anchored near the en- trance to Boston harbor. Word that the acceptance trial had been success. curious | he places his| often consuming the flesh of birds | In the rainy time of the year these ! *You and I" and H. B. Warner. Bright throughout, brillant spots, scintillating with real'wit and clean comedy, and withal an under- tone of sincerity which impresses one subconsciously, “You and 1" from the pen of Philip Barry of Harvard, demonstrated to Washingtonians at the Schubert-Belasco last night why New York gobbled it up and ever {since its first night has been smack- ]lng its lips for more. And it demonstrated else. With not a risque | suggestive sltuation in the entire | three acts, u and I" has become {a pulsating denial to those who main- tain that “the public wants snappy. ispicy stuff and it's up to producers to glve it to them.” The play strikes home to all, de- nuded of superficiality and unneces- sary flourishes. It's the story of the sacrifice of a man's ambitlon in life ‘(nr the girl he wants to marry. The threads of plot stand out as clearly and positively as tone motifs in a masterwork in tapestry. There is the yvoung couple. @ hoy of twenty-on {and a girl of twenty. The boy wants ito study architecture -=broad. He loves it, breathes it. He wants the zirl as a wife; he adores her. The boy is living over the life of his father. The father married young and sacri- | ficed the brush and pestle to become a | success in soap manufacturing. | ""H. B. Warner. in his apparently ef- | fortiess - manner. carries over the character of Maitland White, the | father, in a way that would easily I place it on a pedestal entitled. “The | American Father—Red Blooded and | Human.” He made his audience want more of it. ~And Lucile Watson. still brilliant on the same stage she graced {in the days of Clyde Fitch, played the modern, seml-youns, semi-old mothe: to perfection. Outstanding in the suprise iist, how- | ever, is the work of the juveniles, Alan | Bunce, as the son, and Rita Stanwood, fas the son's flancee. There is some: thing about this pair that rets you Possibly it's the fact that the world loves young lovers. and these seenf so sincere in their delineations, so realis- tic. that, there 4s no restising them. Meritihg praise also are the others of the cast—Beatrice Miles, maid who wants to be “a lady"; Fer- dinand Gottschalk, as G. T. Warren, the head of the soap industry, and Gil- bert Douglas, as Geoffrey ~Nichols, Maitland White’s best man of a gen- eration back. AlL in all, “You and I” is a smooth entertainment. It makes the hands of the clock fly. It makes an audi- ence sit still after the final curtain, sigh and then go home talking about it. Take the ambitious vouths to see it—and take the debutantes, too. in gomething line or a an i Burton Holmes—"Glorious _ Switzerland.” Burton Holmes closed his season's travelogues at the National Theater Hlast night with an illustrated descrip- tion of “Glorious Switzerland"—a theme presented with the freshness |of an explorer adventuring into new ilands, though to many in his large audience Switzerland must have been a tourist-beaten way. From a news point of value, the lecturer's ‘“call on the league of nations” with ac- companying photographs and com- ments, was of special interest, just as a_glimpse of the Castle of Chillon invoked memory of the poet who made it famous. Scenically consid- ered, nothing more thrilling has been shown throughout the present.series than a motion-panoramo of “the ebb- ing sea of clouds, seven hours of cloud movement” with the peak emerging from its wrap of vapors and with American Alpinists and Swiss guldes “walting till the clouds roll by."” The ascent of the Jungfrau has been made so easy for the average traveler that a motion picture trip, by rallway, inside the mountain wit rock-cut stations in_the skles, re vealed magnificent perspectives of heights and depths that the most tim{d might venture to reach. A cruise on the lake of the Four| Cantons: exhilarating sports suth as ski-jumps; an extraordinary voyage down the raging river Limmat, from the lake of Zurich to the Rhine, shooting watery chutes, dashing un der bridges; swirling ‘through for- ests, and. for a final interest for Americans, a view of the Leviathan, “the greatest liner viewed from sea and air.” Poli's—The Covered Wagon." James great Paramount pleture, 6 Covered Wagon.” be- gan its final week at Poll's Theater yesterday afternoon. It is-one of those remarkable productions of the photoplay industry which will not soon be forgotten or fail in its in- terest to genuine Americans. It is not a preachment, not a vapld outpouring of spectacular beauty and sentiment, but it is a wholesome les- son in Americanism which all who are interested in that subject should se While full of entertainment of the lighter sort anfl not lacking in soenes and settings that charm with their beauty, its crowning claim success is ‘it faithful picturization of the “early settlers of this country, who. despite almost insurmountabie Ftta. a| | Strand—"Man With 1,000 Faces.” Charles T. Aldrich, the *Man with | a Thousand Faces,” direct from a tour of Burops, where he perform- ed for King George of England, heads the vaudevilie portion of the double bill at the Strand this week. The moticn picture offering is_the film version of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, ¥The Barefoot Boy oy Aldrich lives up to his description, and his performance is without doubt the most remarkable of its kind in | Washington. THa is a master of il- |1usion, « lightning change artist, un- (like anything seen here before | Tuge und Rose, “versatile aerial humorists.” open the bill with thrill ing athletic stunts, Interspersed with | {laugh-making jibes. Cortez and Ryan {follow with “musical and artistic {impressions,” after which Jean Mc- {Coy and Ralph Walton keep all in i high epirits with an original skit, *Moments With Oulja.”” A one-act comedy, “Happy Hollow.” featuring | Chris Chisolm and Viola Bgeen. is an- other clever act well recelved i The photo play, based on Whittier's famous poem, is very beautiful and one of the most attractive produc- tions the screen has produced this| ear. A _capable cast includes John | {Bower, Majorie Daw. Tully Mar- shall and Sylvia Breamer. A Pathe comedy is among the add- | ed attractions of an enjoyable Christ- | mas week bill Palace—Mary Pickford's “Rosita.” “Rosita” is a tale of sunny Spain, “land of dreams and romance.” and | there are castles and villas, carnivals and cathedrals, prisons and hovels. | kings and beggars, all strangely In- | terwoven in the thread of fairy- | romance spun upon the silver sheet. tat Loew's Palace Theater this week But dominating them is the slender | little figure of & woman—just a com- mon street singer, and such a great actress that the make-belleve story becomes real under the spell of her art, and the spectator is transported to a castle in Spain which is more than a dream. for it will be a vivid memory for many a day. Mary Pickford doesn't pose and look pretty in her happy moments, or wring her bands and make faces in the tragic ones—she lives her role. that of a beggar-maid of Seville, sud- denly lifted to the rank of a countess by the favor of her king. In the first scenes she sings and dances for the populace—a gaucy mimic in her glory, ntil the passing by of the king sud- denly takes away her audience and turns her triumph into a ‘no-re-} ceipt” performance, and her happy | song into a rage of despair. Later royal favor changes her rags to gorgeous gowns, and places her amid | luxurious surroundings, but she is! {still the street-singer, ill-mannered | jand common, and yet strangely ap- pealing: Her great moment comes when she learns the king has tricked her. and ordered her lover shot when he had promised him release. Her table is set for three, for “Death dines with us tonight” she tells a bewildered footman, and when his majesty looks into her crazed eyes as she lifts her glass to drink a toast, he trembles at what he sees there. Were there nothing else of note in the produc- tion—no rare and beautiful settings, no shadowy vistas of unforgetable artistry, no masterful acting by the supporting cast—this scene at the ta- blg alone would lift “Rosita” to greatness. Perhaps It is the hand of the re- nowned director, Lubitsch, which has added the magic touch to this film in developing the art of Mary Pickford to its highest possibilities—anyway, the combination has produced one of the outstanding pictures of the year. Don't miss it Metropolitan:r arkington's “Boy of Mine." “Boy, of Mine,” the holiday offering at Crandall's Metropolitan, is the kind of picture that would make good campaign material for a “father and son week,” and is at the same time a good picture for any week in the year—one that parents might well profit by seeing. When _Booth Tarkington writes about a boy one can be sure that the boy will be a normal human, endowed with all the imps that satan can de- vise, as well as a goodly share of the angelic. In “Boy of Mine" Mr. Tark- ington tells a story .of two men and a boy. One man is the father. The | other man is just a chap who under- stands a lad of twelve years or so and knows how to be a pal. The mother is an understanding ‘soul aléo, but she is terribly handicapped ! by being the wife of the boy's father. | She tries hard to récall to her hus. band's mind the days of his own boy hood, but his two guardian angels, Discipline and _Punctuality, have plugged’ up the memory cells of an otherwise brilliant mind. The result is hearthache and heartbreak all around until a foundation for compan- ionship is dug ruthlessly into the father’'s heart. Ben Alexander is an_ adorable youngster—and a good actor. Despite its appeal for the humanizing of pa- renthood, the picture is bubbling over produce, and is played by an excel- lent cast, including Rockliffe Fel, lowes, Henry B. Walthall, Irene Rich ful was sent to the yards by radio, but |hardships, still persevered and fought |and Gene Jackson. statistics as to the speeds attained were not transmitted, their way to success in building up the great west, “Poodles” Hanneford > a halr-ral ing comedy eatitled | ture which | and includes the ride of the reindeer | i few “in th to | with the fun that a regular boy can |= and the news films complete the bill with a delightful Santa Claus” over “unpdeks” the whole line of toys and noise-makers that the Jolly 0ld chap carries in his huge bag. twelve and a whizz-bang celebration in the finale. mids ight Rialto—"Lucretia Lombard.” Irene Rich gives an interesting por- trayal of the long-suffering. yet suc- cessful heroine of Kathleen Norris' novel, “Lucretia_Lombard,” in the picture at the Rialto Theater this | week. Miss Rich is one of that group | of screen actresses that are “different.” She seems to have distinct personal- | ty that is not composed of masses of curly hair. beautiful orbs and a lim- ited ‘set of standardized facial expres- sions. actress and tions vivi of Lucret ent opportunities for her abilit Monte Blue plays the earnest district attorney. Stephen who loves Lucretia from the moment makes her characteriza- and realistic. In the role ung he first sees her, but who is in turn | loved by the spoiled. young ward of his father. Mimf. fmpetuous other members of the cast are ade- | quate, The story follows the novel closely, ! with many episodes that are ideal for picture thrills, such as the forest| with George N scenes and the river Many of the threads of do not work out as one might ex- rescue the stor Miss Rich also is a gelightful | Lombard she has excel- | Winship. | The | President Coolidge, Ex-Gov. Clements of Vermont and Commender Andrews strolling along the deck of the Mayflower. day. when the President and Mra. Coolldge were hosts to a distinguished party of guests. AMUSEMENTS |ing the pect them to. Somewhat different complications seem to lie in every feet. This holds the interest until the end of the film with ad- mirable suepense. The scenery is beautiful and photography ‘good. the One of Hal Roach's “Spat Family” | three days of Wwhich | Lioyd, in comedies kept packed the tinuously. It the addienca. theater, laughing is a burlesq “wild and woolly west. mas was represented in both the claborate display in the theater lob- by and in a special feature on program entitled “A Little Friend to All the World.” The Fox News com- Dleted the film offerings. Arsino Ralon, concert master-and violinist, played “Roses of Plcardy” and “From the Canebrake.” Columbis—"His| Childzen's Children.” con- Arthur Train's recent story_of|GIRL IN 24-HOUR SWIM modern American_life, as lived with “great speed” in New York, makes.a fascinating and dramatic feature at the Columbia Theater this week. The story tells of how nearly every member of the Kayne family in- dulges in follies and yields to temp- tations that suggest the theme “the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children,” but Diana Kayne proves of stern enough metal to withstand the pitfalls that engulf her sisters and father, and she it is who manages to hold the family to- gether and guide them Into eventual happiness. The orate and beautifully photographed, and the plot holds tha Intereat, even | belng the first person to accomplish | though it is on a themo that haé been overworked for some time. Bebe Danlels has the leading role of Diana Kayne, tha eldest of threes lovely daughters of Rufus Kayne, jr., and Dorothy Mackalll has the other cutstanding feminine character. Sheila; the youngest daughter. James Rennie is a_good hero and George Fawcett, Mahlon Hamilton and Warner Oland are fine in their roles. Dainty Mary Eaton. star of in Washington last week, gives an interesting portrayal of a gold-dig- ging, unscrupulous young stage beauty. er films include a “Top! The sho: of the Day” and a “News Reel.” ics Ambassador—"Poodles™ I'lanneforti. A program full of the spirit of Christmas and a love for the Amer- ican boy is presented at Crandall's Ambassador the first part of the week, Booth Tarkington's “Boy of Mine,” the feature picture, is a source of enjoyment for the “grown-ups” as well as the voungsters. With Ben Alexander, Irene Rich, Henry B. Wal- thall and Rockliffe Fellowes in the leading roles. A review of it will be found elsewhere. Another new entertainer on the screen i{s Poodles Hanneford, the well known circus clown-rider, who is the star in a comedy, “No loafin, Youngsters who know Poodles from his antics on his horses at the circus had an opportunity of seeing how he : >1923 Crop ; 3 Ibs. for $100 10 Ibs. for $2.‘)8 1332 F St. N.W. Jitiil i the | settings are elab- | “Kid | Boots.” the musical show which was|across the English channel last sum- | | has ever been 11 DECLARED SUICIDE| GANGSTER’S “GIRL” Have Been Only Witness to Slaying of Sweetheart. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 24.—Acting on a mysterious message volice iden- tified the body of a young woman which had been taken to the morgue as that of Edna Churgin. vears old, said by police to have been the sweetheart of Louls Schwartz- man, who was shot and killed by gangsters in a street fight on August 1 The mysterious telephonist, police said, declared that the body in the morgue would be found to be that of the only witness to Schwartzman's staying, and that she had been the vigtim of foul play During an investigation last sum- mer of the slaying of Schwartzman The picture was made Satur- can move a grand plano from the top »{ an apartment house. After knock- wall out of the building he succeeds to getting was was once a grand piano to the main floor, only to be met there by irate policemen and a merry chase with plenty of luughs and thrills. Selections from “Poppy” by the Ambassador orchestra under the di- rection of Bailey F. Alart complete the bill. Central—"The Spider and the Rose.’ “The Spider and the Rose." pre- ented the first four days of Christ- mas week at Crandall's Central Thea- ter, is a melodramatic romance of California during the days when it was a province of Mexico, ruled by a governor appointed by the emperor in Mexico City Tts notable cast in- cludes Alice Lake, Gaston Glass, Robert McKim, Frank Campeau. Noah Beery, Louise Fezenda, Otis Harlan, Joseph~ J. Dowling, Edwin Stevens, Alec B. Francis, Billie Bennett, little Richard Headrick and Hector Sarno. Intrigue and revolution, love and raval, confiict and romance are deftly blended in an entertainment of suspense. thrills and heart Interest not devoid of spectacular qualities “The Merchant of Menace.” No. §, of the new “Fighting Blood” series, O'Hara, is an added at- traction. Crandall's—"Why Worry?" “Advenmfe! in '}lc Faf North." At Crandall's Theater the first week, Haroid Worry,” with its amusing story of a young hypochon- of lifedriac who visits a supposedly tran- (‘hrlst-l quil South American _republic ®ain rest and recover from a flock of imaginary ailments and then runs 1 tol into a full-fledged revolution, fur- "Clpl,i H nishes the laughter, and Kleinschmidt's Adventures in the Far North,” one of the most remarkable studies of wild life in the Arctic that screened, furnishes mething to interest and admire for ristmas time. The program also includes short- | Tcel subjects and pipe organ music. WINS RIVER PLATE HONORi‘ Anglo-Argentine Mermaid Covers | Thirty Miles Between Colonia and Uruguay. By the Associated Press, BUENOS ATRES, December 24.—A twenty-year-old Anglo-Argentine girl | swimmer, Lillian Harrison, has com- pleted a swim across the Riveér Plata, the feat. She started from Colonia, | on the, Uruguayan side, and reached | Punta Lara, near La Plata, a distance of about thirty miles. She swam for twenty-four hours and nineteen minutes. Others who have attempted to swim across the River Plata, includ- ing Enrique Tirabocehi, who swam mer, and Romeo Maciel, who has made several unsuccessful attempts to swim the English channel, swam longer distances in the River Plata, but deviated from a direct course and failed to reach the opposite shore. DE VALERA’S DEPUTY SAYS POPE WAS MISINFORMED Responds to Reference in Pontiff's Allocution to Prospective Peace in Ireland. By. the Associated Press. DUBLIN, December 24.—P. J. Rut- ledge, who is acting as deputy for De Valera during the latter’s_ internment, has sent a message to Pope Plus regard- ing the pontiff's reference to Ireland in his recent allocution. In it Rutledge says: “We fear your holiness must have been misinformed about the happy ap- proach of a settlement in Ireland.” sald to have been a member of the “Italian” gang, Jack Kaplan, alias “Kid Dropper.’ and six other per- sons were questioned. While Kaplan and the others were leaving the wcourthouse, where they had been discharged for lack of evi- dence, Kaplan was shot and killed by Loufs Cohen.a wet wash worker, who was later tried and sentenced to Sing Sing prison for a term of from twenty years to life Imprisonment. An autopsy which was immediately performed showed. the police said that the girl's death was due to poi- son and that it was “clearly a case of suicide.” After Schwartzman was murdered his sweetheart was held in £100 bail as a material witness, as she w the only person who saw the killing At that time the polfce stated that they were sure the girl could identify the murderer if he were found. Late in August she disappeared ITALY WOULD KEEP DEBT OFF U. S. BALANCE SHEET Paper Says America and England Should Treat Rome as She Treats Germany By the Associated Press. ROME, December 24— The sixteen | Unitea | States and England should not enter | PROGRESS IN YEAR PLEASES HAYNES |Sees Nation’s Respect for Dry Laws Increasing Rapidly. Summarizing activities of his unit for the earr, Prohibition Commissioner Hanes last night made publio a state- ment in which he declared respect for the prohibition law was growing,, and that progress had been made in en- i forcing the Harrison narcotic act High points in fue year's progrese were said by the commlssioner to’ be: Progress in Year, Lessening indifference on the part of state and municipal author- itles as a result of governors' and citi- zenship conferences growing out of the White House conference of governors. Banning of liquor by many leading | hotels and clubs, and strict enforce- ment by college authorities among students | Breaking up of large liquor smug- gling conspiracies through arrest and conviction of their jeaders. Revocation of brewery permits to halt the flow of illegal supplies to bootlegging center. und the reduc- { tion of supplies through careful super vision f bonded warehouse with- drawals Concentration of bonded 1 “official” warehouses. aving of more th Tne of Institution in ne: the injunction adlock™ pro- visions of the law: issuance of regu- lations permitting inspection by state officers of places holding permits for legitimate man and tentative plans laid for curtalling smuggling on the Canadian border. T report declared more than 000 local officlals were charged with “upholding th Constitution,” anid that 1 federal agents were neaged in enforcing the Volstead act. While it was not intended the fede force to engage in “petty police jobe, the report said they made more than 50,000 arrests and seized properts worth more than £4,000.000 during the last fifteen months of or tn resulting in a n §400,000 adlock, every atate of for Italy’s debts to them ou their balance sheets, vesterday, report of 'the soclation’s Italy and other European countries. commenting American Bankers® survey reparations, debts out o the newspaper. dent and have not entered.the reparations For the same reason our credi- England ar not enter our debts on their balance Either all the formula of forgiveness of debts. | have fused with the running our government.” their own pockets,” says “We man sheet. tors, sheets. Our The two i Giornale . D'Italin upon important step: the Ase of conditions in | dTuEs and ti which they are are are not awalting paying their | 4! purposes.” are most pru- Ger- upon our balance; A college with are members of th organizations may study in history | political economy ’ll}h(‘d in_Wichita been con- | jeading Wichita is located in Labor America, should pay, or all apply not rnational at Geneva on narcotics were toward production of habit-forming Tiw made 1o the actually required for strictly mediels where working men tri pursue public spea has Kan educators . promised Temp conferences “limiting the narcotic m at LABOR STARTS COLLEGE. nightly classes, and women who labor ced Jes and adva ing and heen estal Lectures hy and The college D Parker-Bridget Co. Christmas Day Service A competent man will be at the Ninth Street entrance Christmas morning from 9 .m. to 11 a.m. to correct any possible errors of delivery of Christmas packages. Also the telephone service will receive messages during these hours. Christmas purchases cheer- fully exchanged during the next few days. Merrie Christmas to you all. A fitting climax to the year’s activities—a day set apart for the observance of His Golden Rule— “peace on earth, good will to men.” LOFFLERS “May this Christmas be the merriest of your life and may the coming year of 1924 shower you with success in every venture.” A. Loffler Provision Com- pany, Inc. cited as from amount Dusi-