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t i WEDNESDAY, DECEMNER &, 1 RCAR WAGES | i q if “It was while she was undergoing py with him to India f ) FROM GEN. » FUND, PLAN ouncil May Adopt That Scheme to Meet Rail- way Payroll ‘With the municipal r hn a warrant anciimen are deli method by w nts into cash fo basis b2 Seattle street car mer & Wednesday night © will not be permitted t of wages due to tnat rants or to r script at » be held 10 o'clock, Possibility making a lean from the Failwar ov @idered. = Mayc Chiet D. W. ed | HERE’S MORE ABOUT THE “PRINCE” STARTS ON PAGE ONE O20, Alice Waugh belie ves tm co-operation, Fifteen weeks ago, when she attended the first nutrition clinic. of the Anti-| Tuberculosis League of Kin Mission, more nourishing food. Alice classes, persuaded her mother strations, and voluntarily put g county at the Cosmopolitan was found to be underweight and in need of listened attentively during the | to come to the cooking demon-| herself on the diet prescribed. | She drinks a quart of milk a day, and faithfully practices all, the health rules taught. She has gained 10 pounds, and is |holding up her chart, which shows the ascending line which ith the explanation that prin ot} iia are not permitted to eat “out caste.” He would, however, if he| ight be allowed, eat a smati junch-| eon he had brought from his nape! » This was satisfactory to the Fan and Pondexter is said to have thdrawn from his robes a few of bread which he bolted as as their dryness would permit HLEADS HER INTO ‘D ROOM; LOCKS DOOR The two daughters appeared for PRzamination at the “sanatorium,” ac- ‘Cording to their appointment. Pon mter chose the eider young woman t, Mading her into a dark room locking the door, it ts said. He required her to be seated for “erystal test." He then brought & large glass ball, she is said to @ told Claypool, on which she was d to breathe. Having breathed, she guve the ball the “prince,” who counted “one, 6, three” up to 60. Vapor still re- on the crystal. he “prince” explained to the girl. is said, that had the vapor dis- d before the count of 60 was d, that would have been proof sae was not seriously UL As had not vanished, there was but bo has moved upward each we HERE’S MORE ABOUT PRO- JAPS STARTS ON PAGE ONE with whom they must intermingte in Alice lives at 1917 18th ave. S.} HERE’S MORE ABOUT THE FLEET STARTS ON PAGE ONE |) earn aidihae Sdrasnaad trained In that direction, Like the} the intimate contact of all their daily backfield of a foothall team, at al relations, for no other considerations | signal from the flagship, every ves: than that of dollars and centa? I4| se) shifted from mailing position into this the 100 per cent Americanism to} pattie formation which you repeatedly make claim? An alarm rang on the flagship “Ef it is, the tine is drawn defl- | peiden and was echoed in every olber| nitely between your views and ours, | gyjp's nerve center. The lookout in and we say here and now that for) ing fighting tower, a hundred fect! the sake of the children of those) arove the bridge, bad elehted the} who betieve with you, as well as of tra: “enemy” ship. The entimated those who believe with us, we intend | range was given. Within 15 seconds to carry the fight aggressively and everything awaited the command to unretentingty against any further ad- mission of Japanese into this country and to force those now here to re- linquish the held which they have obtained upon our soil and upen our economic life, “We are convinced that the Amert- can public are with us in this de termination. Lulled by those who place their dollars above their coun- try, they have been slow in awaken- open fire. Simultaneously with the signal ao button on the bridge had been pressed and the forward turret let loose. “A hit.” reported the lookout | From then on everything was anto- matic. A little box down in the plotting room, called the “Ford,” for the man who invented it, is adjusted to the distance and wind, tempera- conclusion—she needed his serv-|ing. Japanese money Lagat bran ture, the apeed and direction of the She was then shown the door and younger sister entered. The sort of “test” was gone thru, @nd the “examination” ended, Pen Gexter telling the girls to return such appointments were ‘Gmade and kept. The elder girl was! ; informed she was “cured,” it A |, but her sister's ills were more! ] pbdurate. SVARK GARMENTS ID SHE 1S DRAPED IN GAUZE .“One of the examinations,” said Miapyool, “consisted of the drawing a feather across the girl’s palms. | ter then examined the feather Zor ‘traces of ill.’ Repeatedly he ask- (ed her if she had absolute confidence nd trust in him. Informed that she) d, he told her her dark garments hindering progress and would! we to be rembved. The rest of the} examination was made with the girl raped in a piece of gauze, “His ‘treatments’ were even more @inconventional, The girl was re qyired to sit on his knee and pro \ claim her faith in him and his ‘di ‘wine power,’ and to clasp her arms} Sabout him that the ‘divine vibrations’ | b might pass thru him to her. She was told that the more tight-| ly she clasped him, the greater the! Benefit would be. She began to have Misgivings, which gave place to some § @light alarm when he told her it was) Mecessary for him to breathe upon her. fina! treatment that ehe conclud- d the ‘prince’ was a beast. He told) his wife was a help to him in “healing,’ but was a jealous woman and too large in stature to please his “princely sense of beauty, He prefer- Ted a smaller woman, he said, and! ‘agked her how she would like to flee | county has created an insidious nar. cotle propaganda. But the signs of the awakening are unmistakable.” HERE IS MORE AX. INCOME TA STARTS ON PAGE ONE action to stabilize quotations of Lib- ery bonds and Victory notes. Houston characterized as “impern- tive” the necessity of a budget sys tem, because the “national finances must be handled on a business basis.” Homston condemned the proposal that the United States should donate to foreign governments nearly $10, | 000,000,000 in war loans. He warned against any attempt to revive the proposal to pay a bonus of $1,000,000,000 to ex-nervice men. The cost of the war, Houston placed at $33,455,000,000, taking into | consideration all expenditures result- ing therefrom. Federal farm land banks loaned $61,961,980 to 19,459 persons during 1919, according to the report. ‘The public health service needs | $35,000,000 to acquire and maintain hospitals to take care of disabled war veterans, Houston sald. TO RUSH TRIAL OF MURDERERS SANTA ROSA, Cal, Dec. $.—With the funeral of Sheriff James Petray over without incident, Sonoma officials today believed enemy, and speed and direction of the firing ship itseit. RANGE DEVICE ‘OF DEADLY ACCURACY From the time the Ford ts ad. tb sumted, firing goes on an fapidly as the guns can be loaded. A crank on | the device is turned, and the exact range appears. A button speeds an other ton of steel to its mark. The same procedure is going on In the six other ships of the Meet. Mean time the destroyers, scooting around like @ football interference squad, Protect the combat ships from possi- ble submarine attack. The big guns were not used tn |maneuvers. Instead, little one | pounders were mounted on the top lof the big rifies and fired, But with | this exception, everything was the | same as tho an actual battle were in | progress. But most impressive of all, more than the wonderful speed with which | the guns were loaded, sighted and | fired, more than the cleanliness and | l efficiency of everything on the ship, was the exactness with which the ponderous monsters drilled and| | veered with the whole Pacific ocean | ae thelr field. NEW POLICIES | } MARION, ©, Dec. &—Policies, which will guide the government during the Harding administration, | were being formulated here todal | The president-elect arrived home facing a long siege of work prepara. | tory to taking over the administra | tive reins March 4. | 2 | | WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. — Presi }dent Wilson ts considering resub. j “That night, without giving him ® ganger of mob action against the|mitting the treaty to congress, send. finite answer, she hastened to in-| r her sister, and, in turn, their} young men at the university. | “The two young students flew / rage and hurried to th son | | home. While they were ther ’on dexter came, arrayed in his royal! robes, | “They told him to keep out, but he! forced his way in and shouted, ‘You boys will never get those girls.’ “At the same time, the boys tell me, he pulled out of his robes a shin- ing metal bar, like a billy, and brandished it The boys showed they were determined that he should go, and, after more words, he sheathed his weapon and departed. | “They had him arrested. He was} already under police cpurt bonds facing a charge of vagrancy, but was failed a second time, and yeaterday furnished bonds put up by his white wife and Thomas Pitts, of Marlington Heights.” THREE MEN DIE IN HOUSE FIRE VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. Three deaths and property dam: estimated at $75,000 resulted from a} fire which br out in the premises | of the Imperial Varnish & Color Co.,| Pender #t, W., nt 2 o'clock this morn ing. The dead are Thomas Freeman, | Jack Davey and one an who was not identified, all lodgers in the Park’ rooms, which occupted | three floors above the vaint store. 6 \ three men held here for the so-called gang murders of Sunday had definitely passed, An Anxious night, however, was spent at the county jail. The build- ing was kept under heavy guard and) continued to be protected today. Rumors of possible direct action against the three men indicted for murder kept officers on the alert Preparations for an immediate trial of the three men were laid by District Attorney George Hoyle to: day. tomorrew morning to hear the Aictrents read and probably plead. to Escaped Reformatory Inmate Captured TT, Dec. 8.—-Charles Wil liamso jas “Beatty” Wilson, trusty at the reformatory, who es- caped Sunday evening, was back in his cell today with one year added to his sentence asa penalty for breaking away. He called for food at a farmhouse yesterday, wife notified Ray Myrick, marshal at Snohomish, Skelton Williams Name to Senate WASHINGTON, Dec, 8.—President Wilwon yesterday sent to the senate the name of John Skelton Williams to be comptroller of the currency. A EVE jong fight on Williams’ confirmation | the| was made last session and the senate | refused to confirm, They will be brought into court | In: | | a The house. | ing with it a special message on the | subject of America’s foreign rela tions, it was intimated if administra tion quarters today. | ROUT ROOMERS: Fire of mysterious origin damage @ rooming house operated by Mri Elliott at 1800 Yeuler way to tent of $800 at 220 a. m. W day. The fire started in a closet. Several roomers were routed to the wtreet, but were not endangered by |the blaze. Fire Marshal Harry W | Bringhurst is investigating. WRONG WOMAN GETS || DIAMOND NECKLACE LOST IN CAFETERIA He reached to the floor of the |] cafeteria and lifted a pearl, gold and diamond necklace. He held |] it up to the light and watched the ewels dazzle and seintillate | ‘s mine, gimme," she said, {| a he snatched for it | yith pleasure,” he said and returned it. A walter witnessed | n Mrs. Nellie Levy, California ave., returned t she had lost her necklace he told her about 1 is looking with woman. THE GOVERNOR SEES | SEATTLE Bloodhounds Trail Babe Lost in Weeds WALLA WALLA, Dee, §.TMlood hounds late last night found §-year old Smith of Tac who} cry, : Mrs, Luther Maxwell, near College | Pittsburg heavy | Place, and became lost in the dense STAR JERSEY Mickey & weight, died here early today from @ bh pewent oun oul a nel in the aixth | ¥* in near here yesterday. The dogs |, round of a bout with Al Roberts of| tweed her 10 miles, When found), Staten Int lant night she was exhausted from cold and |e Gov, Ba of the spec | hunger tators at t we Shannon fell heavily here ties asanult, while the back | Hilly his manager, and Ire and died | nest Heldler and John Rippity, pro ingatd he from a left on « charge of hook to the Jaw and str Glbeon of hin head on the ring without regaining con Roberts is bemg weld by fh suthort- | being disorderly i minwion to Lreland, we of the bout, are charged with | day when the cabinet ‘NO ACTION ON BY W LONDON, Doc cers conferred with lalmed to bring Home defin f Arthur te acti Henderson. met again Prospects of peace were br "| Irish office officials and Sinn Fein | gq port | Irelar be 1 to ehtened | soldiers: Alaskan Natives Reported Starving Natives of the Kuskokwim rive in Alaska, are facing vation this winter, Sh nt in many of th te, ‘This is t ived here CAUGHT AFTER "HALE A YEAR Vioyd Ruchardson, whe 4 over the wall of the Monroe and escaped last June in under arrest in El Paso for bigh- way alleged to have bees Denver, according to Seattle police, wall Richardson y in an auto, His mother, Thornton, has been a charge that she Grant Jur urtment of edu 1 has no fe the emergency, reformatory it wae cls robbery committed in word After | Mrs, Beatrice tried twice on ded hin « ed by ing the by improved industrial conditions ‘in Railway workers on a brafich line of Dublin returned to work agreeing to transport munitions and out FREDERICK & NELSO FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET Every Member of the Family May Find ” : “Comfy” Slippers Under the Christmas Tree ‘WEN and women, boys and girls are alike in their appreciation of the cozy “Comfy” Slippers as gifts. In the Downstairs Store their popularity as heliday remembrances is foreseen with well-assorted displays. WOMEN’S FELT “COMFY” SLIPPERS with soft leather soles; in Light-biue, Pink, Lavender, Pur- ple, Ecru, Copenhagen, Orchid and Black; $2.50 pair, WOMEN’S FORD - “COMFY PERS; sizes 7; $1.75. MISSES’ AND CHILDKEN'S HIGH FELT SLIPPERS with cuff at top; blue or red; sizes 5 to 11, $2.15; 1114 to 2, $2.25. BOYS’ HOUSE SLIPPERS in leather and felt, with hand-turned soles; $2.25 to $4.50 pair. OX- Men’s House Slippers In Leather and Felt ° MEN’S LEATHER HOUSE SLIPPERS in tan and black, with hand-turned soles and soft kid uppers; Romeo, Everett and Opera styles; sizes 6 to 11; $4.50 to $5.50 pair. MEN’S OXFORD-GRAY FELT SLIPPERS in high pattern, with plaid collar; sizes 6 to 11; $2.95 pair, MEN'S OXFORD-GRAY “COMFY” SLIPPERS in Everett style, with soft leather soles; sizes 6 to 11; $2.75 pair. ~—THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Brushed Wool Scarfs at $5.00 Well-liked as Gifts ESIGNED with pockets and belt are these Scarfs, and so generous in proportion that they have almost the effect of a coat. Featured in Buff and Turquoise-blue. American-beauty and Buff. Turquoise-blue and Buff. Attractively priced at $5.00. MOHAIR SCARFS AT $10.00 have a soft, fluffy surface, striped with contrasting color and finished with long fringe. Measure 214 yards long and % yard wide. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE New Silk Petticoats, $7.50 Of the Superior Qualities Required for Gifts UTSPREAD in colorful array for the delight of gift-shoppers are these New Petticoats in Soft Printed Satins Jersey with Printed Satin Flounces. All-Jersey in Peacock, Jade, Plum, Navy, Purple, Brown, Rose and Copenhagen. Attractively priced at $7.50. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Net-top Laces, 50c Yard For Gift-making OR trimming the gift-negligee, petticoat or making caps these dainty Laces are well-adapted. They are of sheer net with plain and scalloped edges, 4 to 9 inches wide; 50¢@ yard. VENISE-PATTERN LACE EDGES for trimming col- lar and cuff sets and lingerie, priced low at 18¢ yard. THE DOWNSTAIRS STORIE Have You Seen the Prizes for the Toytown Letter Contest? ERE they are, Boys and Girls, on display in Toytown, and they are certainly tempting enough to spur you on to do your best. Five prizes for girls and five for boys, for the best letters describing a visit to Toytown. F This contest is open to grammar-school boys and girls only. The letters should be addressed to Toytown Letter Editor, Frederick & Nelson, Seattle, and should be mailed not later than Monday, December 18. Be sure to give your address, your age and your school- grade. Prize-winners will be announced in Sunday’s papers, December 19. 85 Winter Hats Reduced to $9.85 UST when wiftter Hats seem to need freshening comes this at- tractive opportunity to add another Hat to the winter wardrobe at a saving. This reduced price covers a group of Dress Hats Tailleur Hats Sports Hats in pheasant- brown, taupe; gray, honey, peacock and black—Hats in gold and silver brocades are -also included. A reduced-price offering —$9.85. THE DOWNSTAIRS STGRE Women’s Silk-boot Stockings, $1.35 DMIRABLY combining serviceability and fine appearance, these Silk-boot Stockings have reinforced heel and toe and elastic hemmed top. In Black afid Brown;. sizes 844 to 10; $1.35 pair. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORB Women’s Glace Gloves for Gifts $2.35 Pair WILL be a pleasure to present Gloves of this admirable quality on Christmas day. They are in Black Brown White Tan - with three rows of em- broidery on back. In at- tractive gift-box, $2.35. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Bluebird Water Set - $3.50 AND-PAINTED blue- birds in enamel-like colorings are poised in flight on the clear glass of these Water Sets. Large pitcher as pictured, with six glasses; $3.50 set. Salad and Fruit Sets in the same pattern, $3.50 set. THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Bathrobe Gifts for Women $5.00 and $5.75 © | ROVIDING comfort and ease for hours of leisure is one of the most pleasant forms a gift may take. Bathrobes answer this description exactly. Good style and generous fullness distinguish Robes of fleecy blanket cloth, trimmed with satin bands, cord braid and silk frog fastening. Navy, Light-blue, Rose and Laven- der with contrasting patterns. Priced at $5.00 and $5.75. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Gifts of Good Half-hose . Win the Man’s Approval HE Downstairs Store is featuring the practical qualities in Men’s Half-hose that will be worn immediately after Christmas as a sign of his appre- ciation. LISLE HALF-HOSE of excellent quality with spliced heel and toe, in Black, Navy, Gray, White, Tan and Cor- dovan; 25¢ pair. HEAVIER LISLE with fine-ribbed top, in Black, Navy, Gray and Brown, 35¢ pair; three’ pairs for $1.00. SILK - LISLE HALF- HOSE, in Black, White, Gray ‘and Cor- dovan, with double sole, heel and toe; 50¢ pair. THREAD-SILK HALF-HOSE, with reinforced heel and toe and elastic-ribbed top, in Black, White, Gray and Brown; $1.00 pair. NOVELTY SILK HALF-HOSE, full-fashioned, in two-tone effects of Brown and Green, Black and Purple, Black and Blue, and Green and Brown; $2.00 pair. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE