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sot iis WOM APRIL Conditions for Wom-| and Children to Be-| ded Over Continent RY HARRY HUNT | INGTON, Jan. 2.—-Subjects Importance to women will 4 at their Pan-American to be heli in Baltimore} Hi 20 to 29, during the annual! fention of the National League| Voters. | program for a series of round | @ conferences, to be a part of the} conferenca, already | worked out, 1b Aedes: welfare. In industry. | status of women. of traffic in women. status of women, fight of women in the United ‘to better conditions for women will be extended to the Western continent. It is hoped may develop a rivalry Rhe case of children and mothers at may be a powerful factor in effort Abbott, chiet of the chil- Dureau of the U. 5. labor de who will lead the discus ‘on child welfare, says | Ought to be possible to work | ‘a8 @ result of these meetings, | might be regarded as Pan-/ h standards in the several ‘of child welfare. At least four Gific phases of the problem of pub- don for children will be con-! ‘These are: ernity and infancy. j Child hygiene. *3—Child labor and Industrial prob- affecting children. | Conditions for assisting chil- Heeding special care—the de neglected, defective and de it children.” ™M Walker Willebrandt, aanist-} Mt U. S. attorney geenral, believes | he conference will have a great part f Shaping the future civil and eco omic status of women We find everywhere,” she says, Pan awakening recognition of woman | ¢ivit and economic factor. “Legally, however, sho is sunt rin from coveture. Harily have the laws giving her ty and personal rights kept ‘with the advance of public opin on these questions. Any effort, to stabilize her advanced posi by laws protecting it are of the importance. coming together of women the two Americas in the Pan an conference cannot but give Sreatest impetus toward compicte | ‘Between men and women.” © Mary Anderson, chief of the depart-| Ment of labor's bureau of women in fndustry, declares: | é “It is most significant and import. | ‘nt, not only to the women in indus} try, but to all women in the United | Bates, that a conference is to be | held where industrial standards can| be discussed and understood “Women in the industries of all ©) the countries represented at the con- | ference,” she says, “are faced with} common problems, which must be Solved in cooperation. Industrially "the two continents are linked; the Standards of one must affect th @ther. The’ health, happiness, p Perity and efficiency of both individ. Mals and industries will be furthered | by the observance of common aims) and common standards.” PROTECTION OF PARENTHOOD ‘The better protection of fgmily life ahd parenthood will be sought by the discussions on the prevention of traf. fic in women, led by Dr. Valeria H. Parker, executive secretary of the} fnterdepartmental social hygiene board. “American countries should lead} the way in proclaiming contine | be not incom with health,” | gay Dr. Parker. The Pan-American conference is one of the media by which this may be accomplished. “No subject will arouse more active fnterest. A conference of intelligent | women citizens should in bring: fng about conditions under which health and character may be better | safe 1 in all the nations repre- ne; A Education is the keynote to all the problems of the conference," | Julia Wade Abbott, of the bureau of | education, will tell the delegates. The term ‘America she says, “should pplied not alone to the systems in the 48 states of the United States, but to those] Prevailing in the whole of both West-| ern continents.” Woman's politcal status will be pre pented rrie Chapman Catt, who! wit uri ive work by her sisters| in Canada and Central and South America toward obtgining an effec-|r tive power in government. LEADERS } Prominent figures at Pan- | American Women’s meet. Top | |to bottom, Mrs. Carrie Chap- Denver Engravers Catt, honorary chair- man, National League of Women Voters; Miss Julia Abbott, of the United States Bureau of Education; Miss Mary Anderson, chief f Bureau of Women in Indus- try, department of labor; Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille- man Fecognition of the partnership status|brandt, United States assist- | ant attorney general. Dry Law Officials Hurt in Auto Crash SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2.--E. Forrest Mitchell, state prohibition director, and Agenw Elton Mahon and L. Pidot, are in Fresno recov Jering from injuries received in an|but the fire failed to destroy the|If she doesn’t happen to live there, | auto accident at Wasco. THE SEATT EN TO FORM UNION 2 SAVED FROM [COWEN JITNEYS | "KIDNAPING GANG DELAY RESUMING Children Found Same Day) Reeves’ Militant Attitude in Different Sections Causes Halt | | | | 1 ) ST, LOUIS, Jan. 2—Two bands) Owing to the militant attitude of of kidnapers, each operating in ig | Supt, Carl I, Reeves of the publiq norance of the, other, were deprived | gpilities department, buses of the lof their prey when Vincent Castelli, |Sound Transit Co, will net be oper 7, whose | ated on the Roosevelt heights route are within four blocks of| until & copy of the recent ruling by leach other and whose fathers are |@ Thurston county rior rt has friends, were found, a few houra| been received here “ | J apart, after days of searching. ‘This waa the announcement made Hoth vanished after their fathers |Monday by W. KR, Crawford, att were threatened with blackmail | °*¥ for the Bound Transit Co. Vincent, the first to be found, was| Superior Judge John M. Wilson missing for 13 days and Dominic for | Wied in @ test case that the munio- | 96 dace. tpal authorities could not Interfere ‘A. letter @emanding $60,000 ran-| With the operation of auto buses do- | som was received by Di Franco, |! business under authority of «| Dominic's father, the day after the | Permit from the state department of | public works. } ae eee Sree Reeves has declared he wilt 4 Dominic di Fran | hom . - | Supt |. “Dear Friend: We have Gone) vise the arrest of any drivers who }this to kidnap your boy because | Oe ee eee en the Ttounevelt we want monney, You don't bave | ’ heights run to look around very much. We|"*s>™ Ful ‘ | want $50,000, So look out for your me" 42°, Sank 2 S05 PASTOR URGES | in case you talk too much and also) to the law, you will be destroyed.” | Seven other letters were found. | ‘The first one threatened Di Franco's | | life unless he would pay $6,000. The | | last demanded $5,000. The others) were threatening letters which | Ureed names no a@pecitic amounts, None | M. Balle | merd jcontained @ threat that Di Franco's | "it ebureh. |boy would be kidnaped Dr, Hatley elted statintion obtained After the boy had been taken, Di | from the White Cross on the narcotic | Franco got the following “You are a good fellow with lot . of money and your boy is all right. | @?0UEh dope in Beattie to kill every We bought him a suit of elother|Mbabltant, and that it Is almost tm: and are giving him plenty of food | Possible to cure an addic and toys and treating him aa good | '% as you were. We give you 48 hours |to pay off. When a man comes, to you, and if you don’t pay off your boy will come to you cut to pieces, | CURBING DOPE Passage of the JonesMifiiler antl. | narcotic bill, whieh Is to come up| before congress in February, was nday night by Kev. Ambrose pastor of the First Bap. | He declared that there ts probably | Reporter Shot in end drawings which the father ree jand A. K. Brobasky were lowe seri ognized as his son's which bore ously injured today In a battle the signature, “Dom! tween police and private citizens Vincent's father received simflar | and Brobasky threats | They had about abandoned hope when mysterious phone calla at jtracted Di Franco to a atreet In a | | | Bureau of poor «ection of the city. Some one [had heard a child crying for days. Mi ing by the police the 88 | Accompanied | father went from door to door thru R ] ti the neighborhood. e a ves The Star invites He readers to use thie | A man whone home they started | , Th to search gave them the tip pm a senng y F Red Wy Rng | “Why, I am the man who has |t help In reuniting these wie been been telephoning the police,” he aad | Spersted. These whese rete frlewae ore ve iw and indicated @ house near by. — |the disagpesrance directly to The mar There, hidden under the sink tn |Meaders whe may know the whereaboats af persons reeetioned the kitchen, Di Franco found litte | Vincent, the son of his friend, The Sar spapers | Tt was after nightfall when Dom. te repredmce each Heme ae will interest theie canmenition eee CHARLES PERCIVAL ROBERT. | | |inle was found, two or three hours later, in a different section of the | city. " io 8ON—Formerly of, Hamilton, Ont. |Charle Percival Robertson has been missing for 10 years, according to! |James J. MeQuarrie, 229 tith ave. {Seaitia, Phone Bast 61 see ] Threaten Strike | DENVER, Jan. 2.—Fifty members | | of the Photo Engravers’ union here| EVAN CHAPMAN — Miss Mar will strike tomorrow, union leadern|saret Chapman, 148 Spruce st. said today, as the result of a 15 per| Elyria, O. ts seeking information that will lead to the Minding of her father, Evan Chapman, last believed to have been in Seattle Chapman | in 86, and left his home in Ohio 40 years ago. cent wage reduction and an increase in hours from 44 to 48 a week, Em ployers declare they will institute the “open shop” plan when the men | walk out eee MAMIF, RALPH-Thts one was received by Postma Pattie, whe turned it over to t tives t Wife Confesses to Murder of Husband ANGOULEME, France, Jan. 2— Mme. Berthe Dulac has confessed that she killed ber husband and chopped his body to pieces with an jax because she was jealous. She | burned the pieces in the fireplace, Olive Holmes, Ha “Would you please write and let me know whether my aunt, Mamie Ralph, lives in Seattle, and if you |would kindly give mo her address. | bones. please tell me where she b Harry Tate, Appearing With Lively Musical Comedy Ronald Hutchinson, Tom Tweedly and Harry Tate, a trio of funmakers in the Albert de | forma’ Courville Revue at the Metropolitan this week. comedians. The present tour of Harry Tate the famous English comedian, with Albert de Courville's London Follies now at the Metropolitan, is his first visit to the United States since 1906 TY ES CASCARA(9Q QUININE Pi? At All Drwggists—30 Conts ‘winter completa. bearing Mr. Hill's portrait and ST rr eee enw ates English Comedian, at Met Tate is considered one of England's best! when he played eight weeks in Newysor to “Motoring” and another new |York and Boston, Mr. Tate's com-|interlude, “The Patent Offce,” as pany in “Motoring” has been seen |well as numerous other acreamingly in vaudev thruout the country. |tunny bits conce: u celv ir. do but he has never appeared himself |, ita er eee Ree {on this aide except in the above men. | “CUFVHIe. tioned cities, In the de Courye Revue Mr. Tate presents his latest skit “Selling the Ci hich tq @ worthy # | ‘America Is World’s Wealthiest Nation, en: | - - ~—I| WASHINGTON, Jan, 2—A cash Boy 8 Leg Broken balance of approximately $475,000,-| in Auto Accident) °° remains in the treasury after| Hiroshi Kunar, 3, is suffering from | the goverriment has wound up its| a broken right leg at his home, 1043 | business for 19) With a monetary Main #t., Monday, the result of being | woalth of 00,000 the United Fun down at 12th ave, 8, and Main |g, |st., by @ car driven by Kenneth G,| States entern the new year as the | Hein, 16, living at 707 KH. Howell st.| richest nation In the world. Public The boy was playing on the side | debts are reported as $23,462,000,000, walk nes is home and sudder - alk near his home and suddenly! which 1% $460,000,000 than a! |dodged Into the etreet. Hein said he| was busy watching the traffic and | did not see the boy until his left front wheel struck him, knocking him to the pavement, Mn year ago. “For something tasty, serve Roldt's Brench Pastry.""—Advortisement, | situation In Seattle. | | permanent | Battle in Oakland, in a box” | OAKLAND, Jan. 2--Phil Bredy, The letter was unsigned. There| newspaper reporter, was ponsibly were two inclosures, childish scrolls | fatally shot, and John M. Lockley | oat LE STAR YAK | Firmly Yard Satin-Finished Bed yn All linen; size 18x fine lingerie and infants’ $1 | Each Cambric Pet SENATORS AT A WILD PARTY Were Present When Actress Attempted Suicide WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 — Two United States senators attended the liquor party at which Mies Rita Hall, “The Goddess of Love.” in a| Broadway play, atvempted muicid by swallowing a quantity of poison it has been found. Miss Hall in the east of “Mecea,” a musical extravaganza is in @ critical condition at @ local hospital. ‘The police say that she swallowed 24 grains of poison in her dressing following the matinee per ‘Thursday Altho Police Inspector Allen, questioned the girl at the hospital, s her as saying, “I wanted to was who quot die,” members of the “Mecca” com pany insist that she did not at tempt suicide, but that she was taken to the hospital suffering from the effects of bad Nquor. The managers of the company charged that Waehington has been the ne of many @bootleg” Hauor parties since the company reached here and that several of the dancers had suffered thereby Prohibition agents are endeavor- ing to run down the source of the Intimations have been that the lquor com from attaches of the visiting delo- gations to the arms conference who have authority to possess liquor. Buried Off Shore; liquor broadeast Tombstone on Land FOLKSTONE, Eng, Jan, 2. Tho Admiral P 8e-Fitzgerald was buried off shore by his own re quest, a tombstone in his memory will be erected in the local ceme- tery. ASIER- weight and finish for women’ garments. Crocheted Bed Spreads $1.95 Good weight, full double-bed size. Excellent quality; size 82x94 inches. Same quality as above with scalloped edges and cut corners, $5 each. | 1200 Pillow Cases 25¢ Each Size 42x36 inches; medium weight. 1200 Pillow Cases 29¢ Each Size 45x36 inches. 300 Huck Towels 50¢ Each 500 Yards Nainsook 35c Yd. Fine quality; especially desirable for | Nainsook Chemises icoats SECOND AVENUE AND NOTE: New, JANUARY SPECIAL SALES OF White Wash Goods DEPENDABLE WASH FABRICS AND BEDDING AT THE LOWEST PRICES IN YEARS 1500 Yards Long Cloth 20c Yard woven, full 86 inches 12 s 1. | 2,000 yards, opreads inches wide. 100 bolts fine ish, 36 inches | tains 10 yards, English Nainsook $4.85 Bolt 100 bolts, with a beautiful mercer- which ized finish, being laundere inches. 400 yards fin wide. wear, | white. Gowns, Chemises, Skirts, Bloomers A variety of attractive styles, including lace and embroidery trimmed gowns and chemises, ruffled bloomers and scalloped petticoats. —On the Center Aisle Sales Booth $1.98 | | $1.69 val , @ smal Se Ihe January Special Sales Will Begin All Over the Store Tuesday, January 3rd bought for this sale, and every department of the store /is prepared to take part in this annual event with a . series of very special offerings. s and children’s under- White Outing Flannel 1-2¢ Yard medium weight, | Long Cloth $2.45 Bolt | yards in a bol Cotton Charmeuse 85c Yard desirable for lingerie. Plain and stripes, flesh and Crepe Gowns $1.98 Gowns and Chemises $1.69 Vindsor Crepe Bloomers &9c | Gowns and Chemises $2.19 UN fresh merchandise has been specially I npentory Specials All incomplete lots found in - inventory will be greatly re~ duced for quick clearance. Following is an example: A Three-Day Clearance Sale of Men’s High Quality Gloves Mocha Dress Gloves $5 Gloves for $3.35 $4.50 Gloves for $ Gray and brown, with plain- stitched or black-embroidered backs. $2.75 Suede Gloves $1.85 Self-finished backs for dress wear. Capeskin Gloves $4 Gloves for $2.85 $3.50 Gloves for $2.35 Tan and gray gloves with spearpoint backs or black em- broidered backs. $2.25 Fabric Gloves $1.85 Fine finished gloves with silk lining, in gray, dark chamois and seal brown. For dress and street gloves. —Ben's Sectiqn, First Floor wide. Excellent 27 quality, chamois fin- wide. Each bolt con- it\ retains after d; 41 inches wide; 10 t. est quality; especially Full 36 inches —Second Floor Special Price - Basement In the January Sales New, Fresh Stocks of Dainty Lingerie Underwear at Remarkably Low Prices Remarkable Values at $13.50 Dresses which combine smartness and excellent materials; at exceptional savings. Tricotines, serges, satins, jj Canton crepes and velvets in clever styles. Navy Brown Black Burgundy With trimmings of cire ribbon, moire braid, bugle beads, French knots and silk braids. Particularly good selections in sizes 16 to 38. Second Floor HUNTERS FIND. ~ HORNED RABBIT |Rare Species to Be Mounted and Given Museum ¥ hunt 1D, Okla, Jan. Local * are olling thetr guns in prey jaration for a big rabbit hunt fol lowing the shooting of a nit on | whose head was a pair of well jefined horns, A few days previous another rabbit had been shot by couple of outoftown hunters who claimed that their trophy also had real horns, alfho not quite so woll defin as in the case of the | second rabbit Four loeal rabbit fanciers were j bunting the “cottontail” about nine miles northwest of Enid. Suddenly jan unusually large rabbit ran out lof a bush in front and sat up on its jhaunches directly in their path | about fifty yards ahead. One of |the men ehot it Upon examination they found that it possessed a pair of real |horns, located just back of the ears and about the size of a man's finger According to scientists euch spe |clos of rabbits do exist, but they are very rare This t the first time, as far as can be learned, that any have been seen in th ection. The hunters who killed the horned rabbit are going to have the head mounted and will then probably pre sent it to some museum. Five Sensinenn Are Taken in Rum Raid Arrested by police and federal dry They are Y. Sayina, EB. Oto, J, Waki. moto, Y. Matura and Mrs. B. Yamoto, ‘Two 50-gallon stills 1,800 gallons of Mash were confiscated, while a small amount of finished product is held as evidence, officers. in a raid on a dwelling at | 1021 1. James st, Sunday, five Jap anese are held on quor charges, | Is there a place in your home for a modern player piano? SHALE we call, and make an estimate of the turn-in value of your old instrument? Mail this coupon. 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