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_ Merry Christmas, Folks! * wasn't any wy Const Claus, , ainsi, daieanmintaiend Piry ror And father had spent “The coin he had saved for the Groceries and rent; The rest of the family Had gone to the hay, But Paw, he stayed up 80's to dope out @ way To settle his bills when The blame things came due, But he s00n gave it up And went to bed, too! . . Pour babies wert born Texas family in 12 months. Ping to a newspaper disparch. awfully big down th ebe age of i a ts an airplane fi iz home. up. The lowly ftv attled but it ead | in spite of wu see nkey has ma a ser to these as t on old days. IT’S DIFFERED had been skating for several) for He \ when, upon venturing upon|more than a week teel c.’ Beland's Of he suddenly fell in. He waa! workers quit the used thelr « ca - itd sed until on had | strikebreakers and there has been Industi of at ed by when hi« the | constant clashes between the strikers | China wns ce thru which he had fallen. land the men’ who filled their places jess = : sin" | The body has been taken to Issa-| 1p jasuing the order at Frankfort * . , ier son Tedd | quan last night for entrainment of troops INN Feiners . . | Morrow stated he had been informed Mlthts Nis «tate port | mea that @ state of lawlenmness had ex Armory Taken ts the darnedeat thing we know, |EXusband Missing, — {istea ‘a Newport for more than 10| 4. 4a new oe Dkae cur three astute commiesion Fears Foul Play “”* valend yetvial hail mt. the at : A ? « were searching Saturday . . \¢ - Can't keep it pure as anogo E. Adkin, 140 W. 85th st., Matriculation Fee BP sinh Setauee and. nuevo tes a! ppeared Friday under m bombs and other munitios Miiicis ans erie haid anchinitie Giegeatansen Seat Aus | CAepeele A Decision says Le r half right 4 that her husband had left! SACRAMENTO, A. al, Dee Educator’s Fate in pi to) aur teamship tickets |The University of California has the Bla yA rs gg ee) Mant to Caan “enividide bhaeee? at] thande of the Jury : desoant eee in his person, (students attending that school, ae | powriAND, 1 fat q¢ Qs Ad belie to have been way cordin, to an of von Oo Attorney of ¢ V cf imley rtland nd teneral U Webb, handed to the |S Exe writt | laid by thugs and robbed General Ta » bust head woot i essa | state board of control today a 1 seth eriminal nasal on paihe Fleet Maneuvers if il] probably be in the hands | H by noon today TE ort Is tracing to Be Abandoned | WEATHER uded its taking of elles ge WASHINGTON, Dec, 24 The | Tonight and Sunday, cloudy; tent! t noon yesterday, and thé joint maneuvers of the Atlantic and moderate easterly defense rested at 4:30 in the after Pacific fleeta in the Pacific ache led | winds noon for early in the new year protably|| ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours ae will be abandoned this year as al) Maximum, 38. Minimum, $2 EVERETT. —Liquor char filed “Rursian Opera Singers Are Like| matter of economy, It wan indicated Today noon, 35. against Fo t %. West, brother of (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) ‘today at the navy department Sheriff W. W. West Pe se b iii Sahil atid lain . ee — patanedenatiie [Home Brew Now aren't you serry you said there "Twas the night before Christmas Gee irst in News—First in Circulation (by 11,727 ty Well bet Pete witt believes in} Poiks who waited until Saturday | noon to do their Christmas shop: | y now know how a sardine with} tory rheumatiem feels, | “And, by the way, fates, do you re | pt when it really was a “Merry” | “+ to one accord Whillikens, but the storks must grow The Star, the light of Heaven's diadem, Thru all the years between still sends the call That brought the wise men to the manger-stall— To Love Everlasting—Bethlehem! Within our hearts the music of the Star, A silver song that angel messengers Once sang for Him in glory, today still stirs And breaks where eternal are. faith and love And city streets, lonely, cold and proud, Will drop their masks for these few fleeting hours While strangers smile alien crowd, O, could each day but hold these magic powers! If they but smile, they, too, have heard the call That brought the wise men to that manger-stall! within that INVALID FLEES REDS PLOT TO _ BURNING HOUSE Man Drops Out Out Window } Awakened by ‘Ww te rear of flames in his bedroom on the second floor of his home at 7073 | 20th ave. N. W., Friday night, ©. L. Huey, 6, an invalid, escaped from the burning build. | ing by staggering to the eo dow, dropping to the roof of & small porch lind then fasting” Police BY ED L. KEEN LONDON, Dee. jraid fashionable I fing the Christmas rm Five hundred unemp West London districts | reiapae efore retiring, fire in the heater jept the stove net Mts” agai Christmas | are ne of Willest confusion. They] arched Wt e Barched, and] to the snow-covered ground. shopping — extravagunc inf ¢ Oregon mped and they roamed and—tI'm | he thought he never would find any ' Huey was rescued by Arthur/reality to loot nto: Jor Minne: jsorry to have to admit It-—they even |body, but prene ‘way over in | Amundson and taken to the home| Many of the men were armed, it | ata wae t started to fight a little. H t cross one man that lot. neighbors, where his condition | Was said. . leve neh with We G to," they explained ear . a l@aturday was said to be critical Two thoumnd others from the | thé situation that Senator Cummins, |nestly when I remor 1 We Th Keri You've | Huey operated a small grocery! East End were to commence lopting| lows, was the sixth member of this can't have at home, ‘cause | prot rd of him—some people Fetore in the front part of the build. {at the nd work w of | group. Mamma says Santa’ll see us and’ll| thing } ne mame as Santa Claus jing and had hie living quarters|until ¢ ed the West End| Repubticans ready to bel get angry an’ burn up our presen and he | 4 way—but he's not rs. He had been in iit health | bedy, according to the © ding pat YOUTS. Soamen. Bie. Sar be. Won't | Me Saat (hati tiene. bil © [for several weeks, and had a severe | Doris of the plot your hom ingle at te. Sa 8 Friday night | The scheme was frustrated when Spey Sa > ype Huey had buftt | Pelice me stove. Aa| Points the walt | Warnin jong th 4 ® insued to store A red p |Keved thwarted by police today LOOT LONDON [Trapped by Flames, Old Plan Thwarted by Action of nounted men at route Keep. Entered as Se 29 23 ~VOLU ME eed SIX MEN DESERT SENATOR \To Vote Against | Him if He Does Not Make Reply to Ford Charges BY FRASER EDWARDS WASHINGTON, Dec, M.—An unexpected development whieh for the flest time during the long fight over his campaign expendi- tures definitely places in jJeop- ariy the senatorial seat of Tra- man Ho Newberry, has occurred in the republican senate ranks have Senator ¢ hia unseating prob n the vote is taken From reliable soure xt mon © name to march to Oxford circus, osterait | jof five of tha six wer fonrned, They | ether "s*/ SHARIN G nd Class Matter May 9, 1899, at the Postoffice at slover for p copies a day)—Call Main 0600 to Order The Star at Your Home ~-50 Cents a Month—Why Pay More? Newberry Now Losing Ground | RL SLA On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be 0 The Seattle Star ™ Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Cong SATURDA®, DECEMBER 2 SATTLE, WASH., A WIRELESS FROM SANTA Arctic ffin’s Bay, Ocean. Dear Children: Well, well, here's Christmas come again, and I'm off on my yearly visit to all my little friends. I left the North P at noon sharp today in my special 8-reindeer-power sleigh. I may have to change to a flivver if the snow melts, but I'll get there if | have to ride ‘on the street cars. You may expect me in Seattle between one o'clock. If I have time I will call in person at all your homes; otherwise, you will only hear the jingle of sleigh-bells on the roof, If you have been good children—that is, fairly good —lI won't forget you. I have been working hard all winter long, and my storehouse is full to bursting with kiddie kars and choo-choo trains and dolls and wireless sets and games and candy and picture boaks and wiggly dogs and paint boxes. God bless you all! SANTA CLAUS. —If you live in an apartment house, don’t forget open. I can’t very well get down P.S. to leave a window a radiator. ‘James ’n’ Clare Find Out All About Santa BY AILPEN CLAIRE jto the walking deleg James—bo's been called that ever) “We you know, Santa just nee hig kindergarten teacher told couldn't Jet ‘em report him to the him this year that Ji waen't a ng delegate--so he had to get nd Clare dropped in on at wan a harder job than work himnelf — because ta Clouses aren't easy to n te F had called me up and | do he might them IF OT FO, hat she |¢ vwntown five min ¥ came trooping in at Apartment -wae tho ;n0 ae you his reindeer and ause Santa is ¢ hitched up out, tho, b afraid of-w might go item deter th Inatantly: HOWDEDO wha 80 goC he was glad v that’s a pretty howd: Jo." 1! to give up his business to help the retorted. “Santa not watching, in-| kiddies, and so he was made first don't you deputy to Santa Claw: afire. Huey was awakenes | ¢f to be prep > : : ile bale tee § jense clouds of smoke and| Several hundred unemployed men te, an Ot GRE ee DEE motec lal Ba about t mes that were sweeping the|MArched to Hyde park, may > real nic A Then Santa found st room. Altho barely able to walk,|WStched by police, There was no All of ‘em! They seized on my {And he was just as good Huey staggered to the window and natration po ; Whint 4 you the job as Kri threw it open, dropping from there| . Psland’s cup of joy at the hol JAPS ANSWER can? Te Sar cat meade |tade Gotu Gemity Bante ¢ me y sean as somewhat © ttered pes om nere only one . 4 to tha porch, snd then rolling |i Seepen was somewhat embittered c FATHER CHRISTMAS n to the snow on the ground. - 1 weselipaar adigbene Loy at the ES ‘Only one Rent lane * . Fay Sona ee oeonar cans ee| TREATY FO vn Cae, 7 rn | HOWE UF * } ol f x ue an ‘or 7 ei acc t at's you k w turned neonscious by Amundson, who | rt. sha’ cates : KYO, D apaAn does NOC | about it, W “ 1 think one * k him to the home of neighbors SS eee ee eee hat the » Claus could do all wor y nd then turned in a fire alarm. | Prices, made it appear the cheapest apan, the om} 4, for that year Christmas in years i © has great Por nearly an hour firemen fought | A France f Clauses together ° 4 Bands of unemployed gathered as i the blaze, but were unable to save ' tell us about ‘em eir work without jearly as 4 a. m. at the town halle the t the building. wep Bp iv Phone . at wai.” Saez nd Char re than seven The ons on the structure and its| ‘2 be borougha, registered ar ‘ Béut #o the walk received Christmas gt jeoutents ix estimated at $4,500,| 07 taigte ot tea, armed is . aa ng partially covered by 10+! Lutter milk and flour was made clear, | att ? At m. today, 4,000 persons | ineorpr 1 in wer t ea | wer red in one line teak te tae tren: Unit ¢ e | val family will spend Christ-| on the er 4 that it would bir a or well a r tthe integrity What hae become of the old-fash TROOPS STOP IS DROWNED STRIKE RIOT orders? While dusting m Lake Tradi- | Ky., Dee “2° | tion near High Point Friday |‘ neve -10. quell We don't really know if little! night, Paul Lovegreen, son of | Homer Brew, Jr, believes in Santa) John Lovegreen, owner of the | trike of # Cans Sometines we suspect that) High Point MIM company, fell he thinks we believe in Santa and he| thru the ice and was drowned. hates to deceive us. After an alln search by rescue | rived in the according to a r troops were sent fe coroner's office here was with a party of friends request to Gov of Newport and Covingtor le here has been Morrow from ¢ BRIAND FACES FRESH , ATTACK Be nb ki i aly on him in cham. z, former cabinet member, # situation t r Briand + 1 a postpone way anything at yournerve: I them | @ adding the warn’ "You'd But the world grows, you, know, use I hay » know |@nd_ pre the Santa Clau of the Santa uses {s t k overt a this very ¢ they didn’t have ushed ther ment later they were sittin beside and each me auie ons A LONG, LONG STORY a I began—that w The w ta Cl £00. 1, wh « for | "nd n tim 7 tor so | Thir any Tt n t fa ove t and t u 1 work , i e ned, “but that was|_, But Just ng and ae their moth told me she had got t 25 back and that ed to put the rs 1 know me kiddies to bed § . and e y Year tw tor 1 nid, firmly had to >to a nitarium for a I 1 along no or Til tell the San ‘eek or two to rest uy ta Clauses on you, “He didn't mind cause Santa’d ‘ey w nyt rw aren "tt NINE, KELLED Th is a nice example you're} EARLE, Ark Dec wetting.’ they told him, ‘when ul negroes and one white man were know that we're working for baits © | killet! in a eyelone which practically ditior You start working union! wiped out Clarksdale Ark a die hours right now, or we'll report you patch received here today, said “A Ww hite Face in the Gray Water” Virginia's horse pitched forward into the wild water * * © The waters seemed to pounce with merciless fury, and str with all their power. In the halfJight it was impossibie even for Bill to follow the lightning events of the next second. He waw the horse strug flounder, then roll on his back from the force of the current, It swept him down as the wind swe a straw. And he saw Virginia struggle to shake loose from the addle He had but an instant mpse of a white face in the gray water, of hair that streamed; an instant’ ization of a faint cry that the waters obscured. And then he sprang to her aid And then? hair-raising events are described in “The whieh is soon to appear serially in The Star. Compromise roan March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 TWO CENTS IN SBATTILE $$$ WOMAN IS ALSO MURDER VICTIM, POLICE BELIEVE Ward of Hochbrunn Found to Registered at Portland Hotel November 28 to December 3 24, 1921 Everybody likes to “work Captain of Detectives Tennant is not the only person in working out a solution of the Hochbrunn murder mystery, He has bis theories, You have yours. Who is right? What IS the solution, the real solution? Have YOU the correct theory that will lead to the apprehension 4 the assassin of Ferdinand Mochbrunn? Send your solution to The Mystery Editor, Seattle Star. It help run the murderer to earth, By Hal Armstrong Clara Skarin was registered at the Del Ma Joho in Portland from November 28 to December 8. Captain Leo H. Harms, chief of the detective bu reau at Portland, made this positive announceme to the United Press in that city today. She gave the name “Betty Winborn.” | “We are informed,” Harms said, “that Skarin also bore the name ‘Winborn’ from her m riage toa man now dead. It is prebable-that Bel ‘Winborn and Clara Skarin are the same. “A woman answering the same description as the one registered at the Del Ma Jo hotel left a mail forwarding at the Imperial hote! here,” Harms added. “It was signed 4 Hochbrunn, per B. V 7 & slip was ut” puzzles, to cover)- mail a for Hochbrunn at the! imperial between November 6 and 5 November 16. It was left at the nm November 16. The s his mail be sent to 2520 Seattle, where his body 1) in death, Political Prisoners Not te E Freed Till Christmas been seen since. < led with Harms’ announce WASHINGTON, Dee, 24¢ ment came the start sure | that the police Sani an for | OTders for the release of Bui Clara, not only alive—but DEAD. | Debs and 23 other political ter federal ie hunt for her body, ing in Portland, it was hk is based on an angle to the m | der mystery heretofore merely hinted at by Captain of Detect- | ives Charle jat This angle p ther | ing ew theory, 1 ty at the White House last dinand § not to release any of ie prisoners until tomorrow—01 mas day Attorr ers from the three Hleft the | morning, according | Finch, pardon attorney, A definite decision was a conference of President and Attorn eneral D entric guar t his death nds of dean: e two months att y General Daugherty t “ man whose description ‘Tennant said regretted that co knows a as wired to police depart. | statements regarding when the ments up and down the Pacific) oners would be released, which coast jmade in the official statement ya THINK CLARA WAS POOLED And—this is the new houncing the commutations of used many friends of angle— ‘s to believe they would that Clara was fooled the sume jable to spend Christmas at as Edward von Tobel, Hoch- |homes. It was because of these brunn's lawyer he fooled, | "rs that the conference between that she, from the posing as too, re murder grand. |president and the attorney |was held last night, In one place the offictal state said Debs’ sentence was commu my she went [expire “at once” and in another i F the man | Ws 1 the commutation would masquerading there as her aged | effective Christmas day. 3 | esident is said to haye fat | relative and was herself mur- dered because, then, she would x Debs so he could | have known too much. jhis home at Terre Haute on Chi / It would be no n of a surprise | Ma day All the orders went {to the police to learn that she had | this morning. |been fe in Portland, or nearb: | as ER dead, tha would be to he . ha “4 been fos ate a alive soba \Everett Bandits ‘There is only one thing to it,"| re Tennant said. '“That is — find! Elude Police He; Pyne: Two bandits, after robbing #m This statement, whioh at first ap-|Bverett citizen Priday night dy peared to Clara was Everett, were pursued by police ion as the!Seen to board an interurban train in the ght of | for Seattle, Seattle detectives were overed facta, is now con | detailed to meet a strued to mean that and something | rived fiy after the train’ | tle station, 4 1 plain inference that under suspic er of Hochbrunn newly cope of the investigation | timson, 7501 2ist ave, Ny ed today. The theories now! W,, reported to police Saturday # are th |he had been held up Friday by twen Q) That Clara knew at the cut) men at 24th ave, N. W..and We set, two months ago, that he body lay with the head in the front re st. Stimson was compelled up $45 while the bandits held against his head, threatening: uncle's rs} guns of the Hochbrunn house 20) to Fifth ave, where it was co ee Tera che Wed tier uaee artnet | oy ptians Attack had been living as father and daugh.| Government Ho ter, frequently’ to. avert suspicion | and keep up the belief of friends] °, 24--A mah ettack wnd neighbors that he was still) ish government @@fice alive; ad that she went to 1 |Gisa, a suburb, of Cairo, today” Bi land & month ago deliberately tolish troops are belng rushed t (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) isceng,