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DECEMB ‘BRIEF | NEWS TAFT IS IMPROVING 22.—Chtet | WASHINGTON, Dee Justice Taft today continued to show improvement from the effects of his recent operation. Beginning today | he probably will be able to devote | some time to the writing of supreme | court opinions at his home here, but his doctors have recommended that he do little work during the next 10 days ee WILL TRY FORMER COP Capt. A. C. Sullivan, former potice @epartment secretary, who was dis missed from the police service fol Jowing an examination of his books by state inspectors, will be tried on a charge of grand larceny on Janu ary 2 Sullivan accused of having cashed a check for $595 and convert the money to bis own use. eee m WANT OCCUPATION TAX The Civil Service league, an or- ganization of municipal employes, adopted resolutions indorsing a state fncome and occupation tax, The| meeting went on record as approv- | q ing efforts to reduce the present tax | on real property, They met Thurs-| @ay noon } 4 BUILD ALASKAN ROADS Construction. on highways and railroads te continuing thru the win ter in Alaska, despite the bitter cold that has fn some places already Teached 40 degrees below mero, ac cording to Maj. J. C. Gotwals, of Alaska, who is at the Frye hotel this ‘week AVIATORS FOUND DEAD SAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec. 22.—Con- firmation of yesterday's reports ever Southern Pacific's wires that the bodies of Col. Francis C, Marshal! and Lieut. Charles Webber, Jost avintors, had been found in their burned plane near Indian Oasis, Ariz, was anxiously awaited at Rockwell field army air station Word from the cavairy from Fort Hachuca was cted some time this afternoon, Was announced. o-. DANCERS PRESENT ACT A Christmas program, featured by “The Dragon's Third Wish,” a one- ect play written by Ruth Kerr, for. mer Cornish student, was given by Cornish school pupils in their theater Thursday evening. Dance panto mimes, solo dances amd other dra- Matic offerings filled the evening. SCORES FLEE FROM FLAMES NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Thirteen ns were injured in a spectacular that drove scores of apartment houre cecupants to the streét in theirs night clothes, in the Williams- section of Brooklyn, earty to into save for the flames and i & panic. Five adjoining dwelling houses aught fire and several apartments Were endangered before the blaze ‘Was brought under controt at 6 HERE’S MORE ABOUT KITTENS STARTS ON PAGE ONE bette, favoring the blondes with the Mitional name “banana cats.” What he is to do with them has not been decided. He has threatened turning them lowe down Seventh ave. Whereupon we all yell and call him a brute. quite at a lows, We rejoice in his discomfort. He has tried giving the kittens away. He has offered to sell them at two for 15. But the office insists that Homer keep them and care for them daily fm the manner in which they have been accustomed. They are sleek, well-fed, wellbathed cats, Since Paddy first brought them into the well-working office this morning that office has been in ® spin. “Ob, where are the cats?” “WHAT! Out of the box again!” “Homer, come and get your cat. Now it's gone. Homer, follow tt it’s headed for the preas room, and get its tail caught in the wheels.” Today we all aided as nurse- maids, taking the kittens to the Photographers to be snapped, going in search of food, and so forth. This, however, cannot continue. We find that we simply can’t get our work done, when spending our working hours lugging crated ant- mals and milk botties about the streets. If Homer keeps the cata, 8s we insist he shall, and finds that the devotion of his own time to their care is not sufficient, he will have to bring in help from the outside Tt i# now late in the afternoon. Mr. Brew, having spent a decidedly busy apd eventful day, has Just settled ‘down to work. With one of the banana cats asleep on his left shoulder and the other three} Gurled up in their box at his feet| after they, too, have spent a de eidediy busy day, pounds his type writer heavily, glares over that shoulder on which his jittle yule- fide gift is not sleeping, and re- marks; “If this isn't the cat's meow!” LONDON, Dec, 22— According to Elliott O'Donnell, writer of psychic | Mibjects, “the purpose \f the ultr _ feminist movement now pn full ewing 44 to establiah the fact fhat man ts 22, 1 | burning of the church, monastery F QUEBEC CHURCH Incendiary Blazze Threatens Many Buildings QUEBEC, Que, Dee The Chureh of Notre Dame de la Recouv- rance, oldest basilios in the city, and many art treasures, were destroyed in the fire that left the edifice a mass of ruins early today For a time many of the city’s fin- est buildings were endangered. © included the Chateau Fron- the Canadian Pacific railroad and newspaper offices. ‘The fire was believed to have been incendiary, The chief of detectives elved a threatening letter several days ago saying the church, most beautiful In Canada, would be burned December 18 The blaze was a climax to others in Canada recently which destroyed churches. The same firebug, police sald, ta be- Neved to have been responsible for the destruction of many religious edifices In the last fow years. ‘The first institution to be burned was the Roman Cathol urch at Three Rivers, near th reduced to ashes at a loss of $100,000 Then followed fire in building of the University treal; damage of $500,000 by fire to! the St, Boniface college, Winnipeg: | estruction by fire of the Laval Unt versity Dental college, Montreal the matin of Mon and presbytery of Fathers at Oka. the Sulpician Besides, the village of Terrebonne, |* 25 miles from here, has been swept by mysterious flames, rendering more than 1,000 homeless, MURDER CHARGE STILL MYSTERY Six Persons Held in Port= land Probe PORTLAND, Dee. 2. — The “mystery of the Willamette” re ol4 man is known along the river front, was arrested at Rainier, Ore., | last night by Sheriff Wellington, of Columbia county, and Deputy Dis trict Attorney John Mowry, of Port land, when he landed there with the tug Cowlitz, on which he ts pilot. Young Weir denied all knowledge of the alleged crime, but exprensed Ro sympathy for his aged father. always fail here for further questioning. Contrary to the hope of question. ing officers, young Weir had heard of the charges against his father be- fore the Cowlitz left Portland yes he said. Weir denied that he had ever told Mrs, Leary that he had aided his father in disposing of « body, or that he had indicated the spot where the body had been cast. ‘Weir left the tug willingly and came with officers without protest. ‘He will bé given further questioning today. Young Weir admitted to officers that he had been fn love with Mrs. Leary, but had ceased paying her attentions because his father ob- Jected. STORM HEADED FOR NORTHWEST Gale Reported Sweeping In to Pacific Ports Storm warnings were ordered hoisted at 7:30 Friday morning by the weather bureau, which reported a fresh and strong southeasterly gale | sweeping toward the coast. The full force of the blast is expected Friday night and Saturday morning, with the gale coming from the southwest. A rapidly falling barometer, heavy 4riving rain and a 26<mile wind were reported off Cape Flattery early Fri- day by the Tatoosh weather station. The exact force of the coming gale when it reaches Seattle has not been ascertained, but the Seattle office of the weather bureau ts busy with its instruments computing the data which will be given outbound mart. ners who will meet the gale on their way to the open nea, PORTLAND TO BE STEEL CITY PORTLAND, Dee, 22.— Business men here hailed with enthusiasm to- day the announcement that this city is to have a steel plant of the newly formed Columbia Steel corporation. Manufacture of steel on the Pa- cific coast on a huge basis, independ ent of Eastern sources, is the pro- posal of the Columbia corporation. The all-western steel industry be. comes possible thru merger between the Columbia's present plants in Portiand and California with iron ore properties in Utah a# well as the Utah Coal & Coke Co. Immediate steps will be taken to- wards expansion of present proper- ties, construction of sheet and tron mills and open hearth capacity in creased. This announcement comes from Wisginton Creed, San Francisco or. ganizer and president of the new cor- poration, ‘There are 40,000 lakes in New~ foundiand, BANDIT’S VICTIM Bold Thief Grabs From Auto Purse Thieves again reaped a harvest in Seattle Thursday night Mrs. H. A. Beilgard, Waldorf hotel, who was recently held ap and robbed by two aute bandits in Denny-Blaing park, losing $45, s victimized again Thursday night while driving her hile at Second ave. and Mrs. Beilgard had slowed her tor le down, owing to the traffic, when a thief suddenty ed on her running board and snatch whieh on th The purse contained ‘tke st. heavy jump ed her pur» was lying seat beside her $116.83, an order for two steamship tickets, a string of amethysts and a check book, The thief escaped in the crowd White Mra, Clarence Gerald, pro- prietress of Gerald's eafe, wan ab sent from her apartment in the Pen hrook ‘Thursday night, a burglar en tered her room thru a side door, » furs valued at $1,500. oll paintings valued at $1,800 were out from their frames and stolen from the home of K, Schlageter, 5623 California ave. while Schlageter was ab sent The loss of the paintings was discovered late Thursday night when Schlageter returned from a visit out. of the elty, A purse containing $23 in cash and diamond studded bracelet was from a woman on Columbia at. near Boren ave. by a purse snatener Thursday evening The name of the woman has not been learned. By breaking the glass tn the front door at the home of R. Calkins, 3114 McClellan at, a burglar entered and looted the place, taking two wate! @ valuable diamond ring and sever other articles of Jewelry, valued at $200, and a revolver. HERE’S MORE ABOUT PROSPERITY STARTS ON PAGE ONE was a period of transition—and we got over the hill” HERBERT SCHONENFELD, STANDARD FURNITURE 00. “Taking everything into conaiera- tion—the fact that it was a transl- tion period—the last year has been very satiefactory. The present eea- son has been much more active than awd | the 1921 holidays, and prosperts are exceedingly bright for 1923-—-for an even better year than the ons now ‘The son of “Captain Crash,” as thé| drawing to a close, Conditions are becoming stabilized, and 1 fully ex: pect a splendid year in 1923." A. B. STEWART, STEWART & HOLMES; “fusiness thi yoar has been about § per cent above last year’s, and prospects for an even bet. ter year in 1923 are very good. Un ike many other concerns, we expert enced the best year in our history In 1920. This year’s businéey hasn't quite equaled the record set that year, but we may pase the mark In 928." F. T. BARTON, RHODES CO.: “This year has been very, very satis- factory—the best we have expert. enced since 1919—and we expect an ‘leven better year in 1923. Even tho prices remain fairly high, they have been stablized, and people are no longer afraid to buy. The last year saw the turning point—and we're on the upgrade now.” E. G. ANDERSON, WESTERN DRY GOODS CO; “The volume of 1922's business was considerably tn excess of last year’s. Competition hag been keen and gross profits have thus been kept small, but this ts only a natural result of the adjustment period, The outlook for 1923 is cer tainly favorable.” 4. T. HARDEMAN, HARDEMAN HAT ©O.: “The last year has been Much better thal we expected, and things look better today than they have for a long time, The cost of taw materials ts going pp, but, in general, prospects are extremely bright for a good, if not a record, year in 1923.” NATHAN ECKSTEIN, SCHWA- BACHER BROS: “We have expert- enced a very good year. Both sales and collections have been entirely satisfactory, and we look for contin ued improvement next year. Good lumber conditions have more than Offset poor agricultural conditions.” HOWARD ALLEN, NATIONA GROCERY CO: “We are now fin- ishing a very good year, and look ahead with confidence to.1923. Local conditions are unusdally good—there is & tremendous amount of conatruc tion at present, and the lumber mar. ket is in splendid shape, which ne that we are wntirely justified feeling optimistic about the fu ture.” CHARLES 8, WILLS, SEATTLE HARDWARE ©0: “Buriness has been very good in 1922 — especial. ly when you take the car shortage and agricultural conditions into con: sideration. Prospects for 1923 are for an even better year, The car shortage is being adjusted and I look for a big improvement.” PORT ANGELES MILL DOUBLED PORT ANGELES, Dec. 22.— All machinery for the Washington Pulp & Paper Co.'s new addition has been installed and is now being tested out It is expected to take two weeks for proper adjustment to be made as there are 10 new motors to ad just. The new machinery gives the plant a capacity of from 80 to 85 tone of newsprint daily, more than doubling the output of the present plant. The new machine installed is claimed to be the fastest newsprint machine in the world, The ground pulp machine ts com pleted, with nine grinders installed Early in the year the newsprint out put will be approximately 185 tons daily. This will faean employment of an additional number of men, Football Kick Kills Player HOXTON, Eng., Dec. 22.—Twelve- year-old Alfred Cook was kicked in a football game, Septic poisoning developed from the injury and the boy died THE SEATT IRE DESTROYS WOMAN IS AGAIN DOPE SUSPECTS — UNDER ARREST Three Held as Hollywood Drug Agents 108 ANGELES, Dee, tt. — Three alleged peddlers,” who are belli to have been « Wally Reid as well ax ber of other people in the colony, were a here early today by the pol nar cote squad A quantity of narcotion was sela By Hoe Againet them ee p. clare, is a Hitt red book found by a | patrolman several days ago in a car |parked in front of a rooming house. |The book contained the names of a |number of Hollywood people, includ ing Wally Reid. Since then the narcotic squad has trailed the men and their machine thru Hollywood to various homes and studios Reid's condition was reported | slightly worse this morning “His condition ts not so favorable an in days gone by,” his physicians declared, He spent an indifferent 24 hours and the dysentery from| which he suffers has increased to some extent and he in weaker His pyilee has increased to 104, ab | tho his temperature is normal,” Reid's condition, however, is not causing undue worry, Mra. Dorothy Davenport Reid, his wife, declared this morning, Whi setback of this sort would have been exceed ingly grave last week, he has re covered enough strength in the past seven days to make them feel much easier over the danger of a relapse Reid did not get to sleep until an early Nour this morning. His physi clans declared that when he wakes up there tx a good chance be in better condition than he last night. MINT SUSPECTS BEING PURSUED Report Four Men Fleeing in Automobile GREELY, Colo, Dec. 22.-—-Pursult of four men believed to be the Den- ver mint bandits, was renewed at daybreak today by sheriffs posses tn northeastern Colorado, The men are reported traveling in « large automo- bile, The suspected bandits spent Wed neaday nicht in a deserted ranch house 20 miles east of here and were discovered by Dr. J. W. qua, owner of the ranch, who called at the house Wednesday evening. Fuqua sald the men were heavily armed and well supplied with am- munition. When he asked them what they were doing tn the house, the men told him they were hunters and for Fuqua to “move on.” Fuqua did not report the incident to county authorities unt! this morn. ing, A posse was organized and rushed to the pla No ons wa found, but on tips from ranchers Itv- ing farther east that a large car had been seen bound for the Nebraska Mine, the chase was continued, but without resu't. One of the men in the car ts wounded, according to John Downer, rancher near Greely, who said the men stopped at his home yesterday for a bucket of water, he w was Divorce Granted to Barrymores NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Details of the interlocutory decree of divorce | obtained by Mrs, Doris Rankin Bar. rymore from Lionel Barrymore, fa- mous actor, were cloaked In secrecy today. Mrs. Barrymore, herself a noted theatrical star, obtained the decree before Supreme Court Judge Morschauser, In Wentcheater county. The Barrymores were reported to have been estranged for the last six months, The decree was based on a referee's finding, and stories ax to whether the findings were contested closed. The decree will become final in three months. LACK OF KISSES CAUSED DIVORCE CHICAGO, Dee. altho married for two years,” Mra. Charlotte Bancroft told theeourt, and was granted a divorce. “Tinkinsed, STAR U.S, MAY CALL WORLD PARLEY | Borah Urges “Economic Disarmament” RY LAWRENCE MARTIN world conference f disarmament,” whieh will write a | national code, is the } 4 ose behind Senator Borah’s t President Harding be empowered to invite the na tions to meet. Borah’s suggestion was in the form Jof an amendment to the naval appro | priation bill, which the senate will take up today Borah's move Aintinet | surprise in official circies, and tend [ed to transfer the center of interest caused a on the negotiations looking toward |intervention in Burope from the | ntate department to the senatewham ber Hurope'n economic troubles, her ar. mament pre n and the tlle of the | Amertean farmer are all so vitally | | Vother than differed, The names of the witnesses | and others in the sult were not dis. | and closely linked that the United tates should make another vigoroun || ffort, Borah said today, to break “the vicious elrcle in which we are |moving—a circle made up of at }tempts to palliate and poultice fle | without curin | AMERICAN AID | PLAN GROWING | WASHINGTON, ean ald in solving Europe's critieal |economte problem me extended on a than was first contemp President Harding Jand Hughes ae Deo, 22.—Amert broader ted by Secretary of State scale the result of recent important inter natic developments The entire situation looking to- jf} ward American economic interven tion was said today by a high official to be progressing ably, with the probability to just what the U likely to come year Senator Borah's action in introduc ng an amendment to the naval ap-|f/ propriation bill axking the president |} to call an economic conference here was taken positive Indication that many of the irreconcilables in of a definite decixion as 4 Staten will early in the new an a the senate who defeated the Ver- [| railles treaty now favor a return of || America to Europe tn order that business conditions’ there may be mtabilteed cee Poincare Triumphs in Senators’ Vote PARIS, Dec. 22.— Premier Poin care, emerging triumphant from his administrative “ertsix today, wax fully empowered to go ahead with hin drastic reparations program The French senate unanimously | Yoted confidence in Poincare’s pro gram at the London conference | eee | Germans Deny Aid Request of America| An official de-| nial was issued today that Germany | | had requested America to make over. |[) tures for a joint American allied) commission to fix reparations, | VOLSTEAD MAY ENFORCE LAW | WASHINGTON, Deo. 22.-—The Andrew Volstead him: |}) weit! « \W) Political “dope” is, that after !f} March 4, 1923, when Andrew J. Vol-|[) stead of Minnesota retires to private life after 20 years in congress the president will place him at the head jot the prohibition enforcement de- | partment, to succeed Roy Haynes, of | Obie. | | Haynes, according to inside in-| | formation, will not be left out in the | lcold, but wilt be “kicked upstairs” jinto a better job. Blind Women Gave | Money to Others! SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Deo, 22. |f) ~Miss Dorothy Gorham, blind for} many years, died here of malnutri- | tion, Neighbors said she used most | of her income to aid others poorer | than herself. | MANCHESTER, Eng., Dee. — | Dame Genevieve Ward, now 85 years| old, gives this recipe for keeping} young: “Keep busy; avoid over-ent-| ing and over-drinking; don't worry.” | 22. | Affected by WASHINGTON, Dec, 22, — “Oh, gee!” the average American ts now saying. “I'm sick and tired of all this ‘Europe on the verge of war and ‘the world ow’ the brink’ stuff! What's that got to do with me?” Well, here are some of the things A. It cuts your wages down B. It keeps the high cost of liv- ing high. C. If you work in a factory, store or office, it may cause you to lose your job, ‘ D. If you depend on your wages for a living, it may mean you can't pay your house rent; that your folks will have less to eat and fewer good clothes to wear, EB. If you operate some kind of business or factory, you may be forced to take in sail or run only part time. F. If you run a farm, you know the bottom has already dropped out of prices for the things you sell— out of all raw materials—and that you are up against it hard. And all on account of Europe being “on the verge” and the “world on the brink.” Here's why American industry and agrisuiture have expanded #0 in recent years that a vast quantity of our surplus products must be shipped abroad id we are to be really prosperous, When conditions abroad are nor- mal, foreign countries buy this sur plus, ‘That's money in our pockets The worker has money. The farmer has money. Everybody has money. And everybody is happy. But when foreign countries go broke, or worse—as is the ease thruy out Burope at present—our over- head goes on just the same, but our surplus farm products, raw matert-| ‘All Americans Vitally By William Philip Simms °" War Rumors| This means ruined farmers, slack business, industry working under. capacity. Which, tm turn, means men laid off, wages cit. or both, Unless the world can get back on & peace footing; unless foreign coun- tries can get back to normal and again take up our slack, the tendency must be from bad to worse, Thus far, Europe has had pretty good credit. If she had no money, she could at least buy from us on credit, Now Burope’s credit is about gone, And our high tariff will pre- vent her exchanging goods for goods, And so, wheat, which was $1.30 @ bushel on an average during 1921, | slumped to an average of $1.17 for the first half of this year, the Octo- ber price reaching as low as $1.03. This as against $2.75 wheat when Europe's credit was good! The story of cotton—and all raw} materials—is the same. Europe for- merly used tremendous quantities of such things, Today, she can’t buy. Industry has slowed down over there exchange is bad, money ix worthless | or next to worthless, and credit is} near! if not quite, gone. price of wheat is made in Liv- erpool, not in Chicago. ‘The price of cotton is made in Manchester, not New Orleans, And Manchester and IAverpool are directly affected by every Buropean ripple—let alone the tempests now sweeping that part of the world Don't think * of war" and “the world on the| brink” stuff doesn't mean anything | to you. It does, The German reparations wrangle in London; the conference to theet January 2, In Paris; all such things touch YOU right where you live, Don't let anybody fool yov i Redeem- able at Any Time FRASER-PATERSON CO. 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