The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 22, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER Cloudy and unsettled tonight and Sunday. Moderate winds, mostly southerly. Temperature Last 4 Hours Maximum, 50, Minimum, 41, Today noon, 47, The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington he Seattle Sta Barered as Cocond Class Matter May % 1899, at (he Postotfion at Seaitis Wash. under the Aet of Congress March % 187y, Per Your, by Mall, 6 VOL, 25, No. BOT. SE ATTLE, w ASH. § ATURDAY, DECE MBER 22, 1028, Going! Going! Nine ONE sturdy youngsters hanging ' on a Christmas tree for Seattle folks. And four | more, just as good-looking | and healthy, waiting out at | the Washington Children’s Who Wants a Boy for Christmas? home to be adopted into homes of their own. Who | wants a BOY for Christ- | mas? Speak up quickly, be- cause they won't last long! Howdy, fotks! Do your Christ: | mas shopping late, and enjoy | the rush! Scientist says bist way to reach North Pole is by submarine, | By gosh, Santa Cluus never} thought of that! 4 | eee [Death in Flames| Takes One of Two Men Cling- ing Utsalady Site) The town of Utsalady ost} half its population Friday) night when Henry Bining,| 77-year-old veteran and one of the two remaining citizens of the once proud center, was | burned to death in his cabin. The cause of his death is a mystery, as he alone at | the time. But it is believed he was caught by the when trying to revive a | dying fire by throwing oi: | on it. | Mack In the good old days, Ut- Santa’ still uses nis old 16-reindeer | steigh, altho relndeersleigh sales- men have assured him that he} ought to have the new four-brake | model. eee You can say this for Kriss Kringle —he never had his whiskers cut, even if the kids did cry ‘‘Beaver!” eee CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB Tho gink who says, “Huh, this Christmas stuff is just part of a sales campaign by the stores!” : ata An §,000,000-year-old whale has been discovered in California, Gosh, we are glad we weren't around when they disinterred {t eee | A Chicago bride shot at her hus- band. She's going to be a hara man to manage when the Roncy-| salady liked to talk about the tim Sedan te over jt would be the equal of oa See Jan ic “I wish,” postcards E. H., “that | | was’ be The Puget Mill Co.'s mill a near. Stran; tled most every | did a landoffice business. And folks came to Utsalady to shop from all {that section of the country |. Then came the slump. The mill closed down. One by one the dis- appointed home-owners abandoned P places—there; was no Kale for nd wandéfed tiway to more crative. positions. TOWN GRADUALLY FANED AWAY The exodus continued until the Inbor from far and ers came in and set day. The hotel you would rim a paragraph asking girls not to carry their lipsticks and cigarets in the same case.” ‘Tell ‘em yourself. eee Smoking has completely etiminat. | ed girls from business. You can't | find 4 single one around an office. | They're all out in the washroom, smoking. eee More than 700 students were | graduated from the University of Washington this week. But Decem- | = ber’ is a bad month in which to/ main street of Utsalady became only ' graduate. The’ park benches’ are #0} a vista of houses with roofs broken cold. : | jand shutters hanging by single Dey hinges. Gaunt, dark holes, rimmed POLITICAL NOTE by shattered sections of glass, indi ; A member of congress has in- ted what once were the show | troduced 4 bill for the protec- fows of the town’s store meet tion of canary birds, but it is {ng places. ‘The mill and the em- doubtful if cats ever read the houses tumbled in and de t taj Congressional Record. ; ; Ce a) Miracle, council- wunced her candl- ‘stuck It out was = nee nd they con umn 1) DEPUTIES SEEK MEN INDICTED ‘Grand Jury / Takes Recess | ‘Coates Arrest Knocks Super-Race Plan Cold “Love Salt” Letters Undoing of du Barry; Held for $2,000 Bail FOR NCHRISTMAS Bill-fold (filled). One fur coat, ladies’, (We gotta get it, anyhow.) xe One pardon (from a governor— niay come in handy some day). Life insurance policy (on life of apoplectic old lady). Billiard table (fo sleep on when arrivirlg home late). Raise (from the editor). Five pounds black jelly beans Good book on how to write. (We gotta learn soon.) | Until Wednesday | Deputy sheriffs Saturday | searching the haunts of gamblers for the six men indicted late Friday by King county grand jury r of the men are charged with yn gamblers and two face perdury s. Sheriff Matt Starwich sald that uddresses of the men are and that his deputies will them u ome of the they ar at to congre gambler: r who has The Poured a Bhe bottt g. pinta at * 13 Seattle Boys Are Last Call for WOMANBURNED Ready as Xmas Gifts Yuletide Jams — |N HOTEL FIRE usiness rea Alameda Apartments Scene “ ‘| What Better Present Could You Have Than 45 Pounds of “Boy’”? Wild Rushto Purchase, of Morning Blaze sent a ; Forgotten Gifts Is) rive wr tke Outfit: rode Bete Hilldags ales Bea ’Sunt egy oe tw On at Last Mintte:,| te sMnete apartment taken away BY G, LUCILLE BUTLER al pernc to th You r - ‘ t Var - ; 1 then 1 HE ; it 1} tr 7 m 1 k ; i t (Turn to Page 3, Column 3) 1 ft $0-the ‘it at 1 round ‘ 1 F c x t. ¥ I i Another Real Buy ehide sit them by Taggart and hi t i eee ; { ° i I I 1 n I SOME SELLING POINTS 1 ' 4 have’ ov (Turn to Page 3, Column 1) V 1 z t re 1 1 0) 1) ABOUT OUR LIVE BOYS k h thout f . efi BS Two “oENTS IN SEATTLE. Count du Barry Count George Hay du Bay, who is charge of improper use of the mails. oto vy Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers % * "Y *% % * * * under arrest on @ The Count du Barry Explains ERE is what the Count du Barry says may be accom- plished if the American people—or such of them as are worthy of the honor—dissolve his rose-pink crystals into the “bath of passion.” “Those who use the bath,” he says, “become rejuven- ated. Mundane care is washed away as one laves one- s with the warm impregnated waters. There comes over one an impelling desire for beauty, for noble chil- dren. Thus shall a strain of American royal blood be built up, far superior to the common blood of democracy, well fitted to rule, in future years, over this great empire.” But not everyone may have access to this wonder-work- ing bath, says the count. Only married people, of un- imy le morals and ideals, personally selected by the count himself, may bathe in the rejuvenating waters and become the forbe: of the super-race. te a Stuff . 5 ays F athel Elder du Barry Does Not Like Idea of Nobility Meantime t nt ble mi i lec t rT} T th sed by Ba i i|t c orge Hay du p I who was Du B r I r , 3¥ n ion on @ t In 1932, sent j|charge of misu: © mails Satur 2 if ding lay, following a secret indictment re= (Turn to Page 3, Coiumn 2) (Turn to Page 3, Column 3)