The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 23, 1920, Page 16

ON SUNDAY: HE'LL ATONE Boalt Will Blow the Whole Seven Dollars on Some Hungry Human BY FRED L. BOALT ‘The bluelaw folks will be to learn 1 played pennyante tas Urday night. So engrossed in this Wicked game were my friends and | that we took no count of the passage of time. And to’ on the gune ended and we 4 eur chipa, it Was Sunday morning A pretty pickle Merry game pained canbe It had been eentric way every hand. We played Jack pots and stud; and sometimes the dealer turned up a card Olared it and all its kind were “wild and we played “Li n wh three cards are bu oft one, and one card Won a pot with five Do you wonder th: ours flew Upheeded? 1 may be hard-bolled, but EZ was brought up in a Christian gs where we had a blu t our own, We plo Week-days, but not for money all games were taboo on the Le trifling head Bo I found no joy in my 30 Winnings§1 was cents @ When we quit—ne at x for the gloom of my friends by tributing it to their pitting | i" ven We eyed the am Ws accursed! We co sinful dollars! The banker thrust it from him. No One seemed to want it. Then I xvized Upon it—a bill or two, a handful of | @iiver—and put it in my pocket. 1} ean.feel the bulge of it now, for even Bt this Inte date, 106 hours (comput @4 to noon) after It was stuffed into , that money remains un unted It On Christmas day I shall fare} forth, and I shall find, a hungry, i man. In my search for him shall not enlist the aid of the Pub- Ne Welfare league or any other or- ®anized charity. I shal! not ask him | # he is “worthy.” The professional philanthropists wil say I am highly | Unscientific; that I will only succeed in “pauperizing” the fellow. I don't qare a hang! When I find him I shall lay the facts squarely before him. I shall tell him about the seven Unshriven dollars If I can make him see this thing fas I see it—and it shouldn't be ditt eult—he will go with me to a ree faurant, where I will buy him $7 Worth of food. Tam not particularly interested in my guest-tobe. The day after Christ- T am worrted about this money fn My pocket—the crisp bills, the bright | silver pieces. Money can be put to _ such excellent uses. This money may led a blameless life before Sun- H ony know what the restaurant will do with the seven shriven Maybe he will go to church gomed to some far heat ‘here the population nev: oven beard of penny-ante. -VANDERLIP MEN TALK Bi6 DEAL Will Discuss Details of Big Siberian Syndicate LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23.—The third of a series of secret conferences | of the Vanderlip syndicate, com-| ate hean of ve financiers, was to} iPSEEE-? uue Grahinates D. Vanderlip was to Fesume reading of contracts he se. cured with the Russian government and, it was believed, steps may be| taken today toward organization of | the syndicate on a more permanent} basis. BE. L. Doheney, one of Ky nation’: | Wealthiest oil men, who bhs just | turned to Los Angeles after an av.| gence of six months, was expected | to be present at today’s meeting. Contracts have already been read | by Vanderlip calling for a concession | to the syndicate of oil, coal and fish- Ing rights in a large portion of Si-| beria and also for the expenditure of $3,000,000,000 of Russian funds for | the purchase of suppli¢s in this try. None of the syndicate members | would express an opinion on the val Idity of the contracts or feasibility of | enforcing them, | MOSCOW PAPER ‘WRITES ABOUT SIBERIA DEAL WASHINGTON, I Capital | represented by Washington D. Van @erlip of California has promised Soviet Russia “enthusiastic sup port,” according to an articie in the Moscow Izvestia, which was received by the state department today. The article explained that the United States was in great need of ofl, and other raw materials, | and for this reason the concessions granted Vanderlip would mean in creased support of the iki The Moscow paper prints the terms of the Vanderlip concession, which includes stipulation that if any disagreement arises, the dispute will be settled by a third country The article states that concessions are the only weapon for the time be ing which Russia ®may use in pro. moting the social revolution. It also is intimated that American | capitalists were desirous of obtaining concessions in Siberia because of fear of the Japanese expansion in that part of the world. 23 bolshes . Brick Contractor | . | Is Up for Perjury! Accused of having made a falue at. | fidavit in regard to the payment of certain claims, 1 Smiley brick contractor, was ¢ ed with perjury | in the second degree in an informa | tion filed in the superior court by} Deputy Prosecuting Attorney J Carmody Wednesday, smiley gave | bail of $1,500, The dealer had his eo: | |fense today in his jon a brake and my wagon stoppec D. lof For kissing his wifer on “Sinless Sabbath” crusaders fight on proposed Sunday blue laws has been organized ‘Keep the Sum in Sundny’” under the slogan “ ridiculing blue law rule was he. One of the floats is shown here. | Wh SY Bpec w | bers Sunday s are meeting opposition, A and a parade ld in New York the other day. GIRL BLAMED BY KRUVOSKY Alleged Gangster on Stand in Frisco SAN FRANCISCO, Dee, 22.—Ea| (K. 0) Kruvosky, prize fighter, be in hin own de trial for alleged assault upon Jessie Montgomery Kruvosky declared he first met} Miss Montgomery at 12:30 Thank» | giving day at the Strollers cafe. | Kruvosky admitted he waa intoxt gan his testimony | cated at that time and that Jim Brady, another alieged member of the socalled vice gang, had told him that “I never saw you like this before.” Kruvosky’s testimony east inti.| mations against the character of) Miss Montgomery, ] eee SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29.—Pane ing of sentence on Ed (Spud) Mur | phy, convicted of ashauiting Jeue! Montgomery, was continued today until tomorrow morning, when Mur phy was brought before Superior} Judge Ward. | The omler for a continuance was made when FE. F. Spagnoli, Murphy's | attorney, notified the court he was in @ position to present new evi-| dence on the case and moved for a} new trial HALIFAX, N. §.—County insane asylum at St. Petersburg burns; pa | tients reported naved. | Infantry companies in the new | United States army will be reduced | Some 200 ¢ 25 2 Trip: to Santa’s Land| * With n Old Jack Frost BY JACK FROST This message from Santa Claus Land is for the littl folks, and par ents aren't supposed to rend it un) Jess they read out loud. SANTA Dec CLAUS LAND, North} It's getting pretty | time when Santa Claus Pole, Close to the is golng to pack up.bis airplane and ail away from his toy workshop and | head for Seattle. 80 | was pretty rushed today in going thru the plac where the North Pole workmen have | been getting big play toys In shape} for shipment. | Banta let me use one of these toys | xo 1 could hurry. ‘It was a big red | n and [ knelt in it and | f along with one fe ne to a great lot of thing: s on them, I just pushed express w pushed mye Te | When | with w suddenly SCOOTERS 'N EVERY THING I never wa ‘ kars wn a more ¢ wagons like the one I was riding One of the things that looked beat all to me and made me wish Iw just a little fellow again, was a t double-seated automobile. It had | Of Superintendent of Lighting J. D. | EVERYBODY | HURRIES ROSS’ RAISE RECOMMENDED Utilities Committee Approve Proposed Increase The city utilities committee voted | two to one Thursday morning to recommend an increase In the salary Rows | The increase would be from $5,000 | to $7,500, Mayor Caldwell, the Chamber of | Commerce, civic and engineering a» sociations have recommended that | | Rous salary be increased. It is point ed out that the lighting department | handles over $10,000,000 of businens | annually, with an income of $2,000, 000, If Rosen’ salary ix not increaned | before the first of the year, when bis new term beging, it will be im-| possible to raise his pay for the suc | ceeding three years, Counciimen Phil Tindan and Rn} B. Heaketh voted for the increase | R. H. Thomson cast the only oppos | ing vote. Councilman W. H. Moore! 4id not vote. " ; More Witnesses in Defense of Judge CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec, | | Twenty four new witnesses were) | summoned today by the defense in| an effort to crush the state's cano| against Judge William H. MeGan- | non, chief justice of Clevetand'’s mu | nicipal courts, charged with second | degree murder in connection with the slaying of Harold Kay. | rubber tires on it and leather weats | and a steering gear and everything Even a horn t kar. First they took a flat board and sawed it and ut it and trimmed it. Then they made a hole in’it and | put a long stick, like @ broom han die, thru fi. On top of this they | fixed a piece of wood which was to | be the handle, Next they put some | pleces of wood underneath and nailed wheels on, A man with « pail of paint ane | along and swish brush around for a minute « a nice bright |for some yo The workme set around the pla to hurry like everything | expect to get all thru in time for| nd up his airplane, But! told me | even if fail in and help finish up | yw morning ¥ to help load the big airplar it all ready for the trip to Seattle. | That ought toot a lot of fu I'l tell you about everyth puts into his machine in tom story. THE SEATTLE STAR (TO KEEP THE SUN IN SUNDAY) MALAYS, JAPS rotting Japanese orbitant rents and high pr the proponition to dwellings resulting from the nation ? mine crt A i a ; ; 0 Wind |w vouning shortage wan shown - ashington, , urge the reco: i ite Constables Disarm) ee ee ee uk Se Starts Tongues Wagging at nition ‘ot the toc channel 39 1 Thief Leaps pe re m Rioters y eral ronorve rg Screed Divorce Colony Coe nut projecc was ax-| Leaves Trail of Boo if iIding #ituation in ® nounced Wednesda | DNEY, N W., Doe 7 a ee ned important| RENO, Nev, Deb, 23,—Conside 45 } ial dixpatehos received from | dixtricta of the country lable interest and endiess ¢ , aa Australia give details of the} Despite cuts ranking fro! to ss en aroused by the unobtrusive SU | et there on Monday between orien mittee of Ww tar|@rrival in Reno of Mrs, John D,| | ur and Malays. All the white! no evidence of a re setivity | Clack") Bpreeke Ir, known for ED ae | citizens of the town, including in the lumber industry, the bulletin | 6 time being as M mith | ps of rifle clubs and ex-soldiers, | owed ape mason die " pecause few of the cit neltmen | 4 have been sworn in an apecial the had read City Eng A Dim ididied disk Wis “hede:-eaecuintsl ts ‘Jap Outwits Wily a Hndree wening CITY EMPLOYE ‘BEATS BURGE Say No Relief for Oppressed Renters (MRS. SPRECKELS MOVES TO RENO « by the trad r of Commerce f any, relief ta in wight from ex © Hotel ¥ , 4 to the itude of her|ock’s report on the p “ | A cr. 000 wubway #ystem, the pr on | Wioting among the Aniation them-| 4 snortchange artixt, bel or ene eee ee committee Thursda | Solves rewulted in the kill of two}! be the mame as the one wh Hl be en up when | . be & . e ¥ The mysterious “Mrs, Smith" and rag red eg Abingred Japanese and the w of three| the White Luneh, 1810 2 Fon goreirr snag Rion so Imen ba nd gaiaen tedk uae, | Mal One th ots way night Be Pmy A . wt th A stpriatng the wurgies. 2 armed with re I, Kawashima - - Rony wae io tha vacy of thelr were indignantly amount o ( are the i out of $10 lant 1 wane we denied by the couple. he time this Sores vi Jo © are indentured laborers in ine of the Jap a” sls Last October Mrs, Spreckels’ visit | Soelen’s tgusers during his Sigh es ee _ ) Hill wt, 4 abroad was suddenly shortened by ; After a good deal of difficulty anew t week the theft of $100,000 worth of Jewels In wey wore al anarmed by the whe| Noted Editor Has |= sti {the thet of #100.000 worth of Je°'* 100 Words a Minute constables, but net before one ¢ he \ Wixom Barrett, former Seattlelte, Barrett, Sent by Wire the latter had basen apeared in the Diamond WHGing |: séisu: 15. eoreckicin, 91, esd ean te whos C6 daira rere dave 16 Bl arm and another clubbed over LONDON, DP Editor of | Sidi Wirt, Kansas } - © them cleaned and reset, we LONDON, Eng., D ao head by a Japanese, The police in-| Lioyd’s News = ym 1884 to 1907,| were married 19 by the Low Angeles pc on | less me ure being rece |spector in charge fears there wili| Thomas Catling celebrated his dia- | separat { 4 of insufficient evidence.| Aldershot from Cologne at 4 speed be more bloodshed. | mond wedding anniversary this week. ¢ went te ew Yo went to Mexico. of 100 words « minute. ome TES ARSE EE SE on oi ies wale: 5 STORE HOURS—10 A. M. TO 6 P. M. UNTIL CHRISTMAS TheBonMarché ESTABLIS HED 1890 Buy Your Gifts Amid Music and Laughter at The Bon Marche Tt you have a few last-minute Christmas errands to do on Friday you'll find the Bon Marche a merry place to shop. Old-fashioned Christmas carols, played by our trumpeters, are heard throughout the building, bustling crowds of jolly shoppers are intent upon their exciting errands, everywhere are lights and decorations. Happiness and good nature are here in abundance—and why not, with such Christmas stocks from which to choose and such courteous salespeople to assist you? Whatever your gift problem, it can be solved easily and reasonably at the Bon Marche. ’ And your purchases will be delivered by noon of Christmas Day—that we can promise. If your time is too short to make satisfactory selections, we suggest the purchase of Bon Marche Glove Bonds or Merchandise Bonds. They’re always welcome! ~—- ~~~ ee