The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 24, 1923, Page 2

dps sae eualatatene as oe aeonpeaainbAc cca oAaNN A dh eC ipegl dallas ea I rR a ea as jenni 3 eA. Trait 2 ASN a Rees yeh Ne Liha v bs Suey as ‘ ‘Man Shot Down Trying to “Enter Woman's House Lured to her home by the at “ractiveness of a former land: Andy, Oliver West, 34, ran into 4 ‘jan ambush and was shot thru “the abdomen by Frank Carter, betleved Monday, with a owned Mrs, Jessi t, the widow In the case, est is in tho city hospital, sith slight chances of recover while Carter is still held in city jail, Haight was taken to pollce dquarters Sunday and told the of the trouble with West, preceded the shooting, She sad obtained, previously, an injunc- to keep him from molesting Saturday morning West attempted force, his way {nto the house at) James st, Mrs. Haight told the By appointment, she met “palm downtown, and he followed her | “home. She had omployed Carter to | get as guard and had given him ss istol. Oa ae Saturday West tried to fol here Into the house, but the we was closed in his face and held Mrs. Haight and a roomer named Reynolds held him out, West raisted In his effort to enter, and @ Shet into the floor by Carter did wet deter him. The second shot “from Carter entered West's stom- “West told the police his attentions Mrs, Haight had been welcome “up to a short time ago, and that he 4 heen friendly with her for the Ee two years. y Is Sentenced * . 25 Years in Prison LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24.—Losing Gesperate fight to stay out of Michael Degnen, convicted of ‘AN attack upoh Eloise Clement, leo- and actress, was sentenced, , to pay a $500 fine and not to exceed 25 years” in ‘Attorneys for the wealthy radium “chemist put up a stubborn last-min- “ute resistance, seeking to secure a “stay of: Judgment on the charge that Degnen to the penitentary. Conklin, however, denied the A new trial. ‘The court did, however, rule that jegnen may secure liberty pending | ecision on appeal of the case ‘Bhould he deposit $20,000 bail. Elks Have Public Celebration Tonight “Music by the Elks’ band and a < of 1,000 volces will feature “the Elks’ public Christmas tree and) Bongfest at 7:30 Monday, on the lot “next to the lodge temple, at Fourth “aye. and Marion s ‘The chorus will be under the di- ection of R. H. Vivian, Seattle song leader. ) Chairman C. A. Reynolds, of the ‘Elks’ welfare committee, announced | erday that 3.000 Christmas boxes | f been’ distributed by the Big hers this year. | Students toLeave _ for Christian Meet) Forty students of the University Washingion, delegates to the Stu- Christian convention at In- imapolis, December 23 to January “@re scheduled to leave Seattle) ynday night on the special train} college stuents of the Pa- Northwest to the Eastern ses- ’ A special car on the train| Deill serve for meetings and de pfional services en route. There be two carloads from Seattle, two arom Portland and one from Spo-/ Jn the extracuon of teeth we fay to our patrons: If we hurt you, don’t pay—could we say 2 mor Set of Teeth From é $5.00 UP Gold Crown and Bridge Work From $1.00 UP Boston Dental Offices 1422 Second Avenue We Stand the Test of Time 22 Years in One Location | | Get Two Trial Boxes PAZO OINTMENT is a Guaran- od Remedy for all forms of Pay your druggist $1.20 for two boxes of PAZO OINTMENT. When you have used the two boxes, if you are not satisfied with the results obtained, we will send $1.20 to your druggist and request him to hand it to you. We prefer to handle this through the druggist because his cus- tomers are usually his friends and will be honest with him. PARIS MEDICINE COMPANY, St. Louis, Mo, Dn. N. Yow Physician and Sur- geon, uses Chinese roots and herbs {, treating all disease, of men and Hpeclalizes in ach trouble, other ailmenta. women stom- and f 1D Is Fireman Had Gold Touch VICTIM OF GUN QuitsW ork With$200,000 a == BECAME GROCER WITH DIVIDED INTEREST cow LPR ro S A FIREMAN WORKED REAL EETATE On THE Se. William J. Wiesener HITESTONE, N. Y., Dec, 24.— You'll never get rich. by saving. So says William J, Wiesener, Queens (N.Y) fireman, who retired from service the other day worth more than $200,000, Yet he never received a salary of) mote than $50 a week, And when he began he received just $15 weekly! But Wiesener didn't get that way by taking $2 out of his weekly pay envelope and poking ft thru the wicket at a courteous bank clerk. No, ma’‘am! When he wasn't rescu-) ing lovely blondes from burning thirdstory windows and carryin kittens down from telegraph poles, he was putting in time turning over Little odd jobs of real estate, That's the reason that in addition | couples. All the bankers laughed at) . : |One Dead; Six Hurt to tho $1,280 yearly pension which | he will draw hereafter for his 20 years of service in the fire depart:| ment, hewill have an annual income | of $9,000 from his $200,000 invest:| ments. He owns a 23-family apart ment dwelling, numerous small houses and 350 lots. The neighbors in this little town where he lives say they wouldn't be surprised if in another five years Bill turned out to be a millionaire. Right now he's only 45. ‘WENT over to call on Bill to ask/ him what he intended doing with al) that mone: out on the porch to grect me. He had on a blue sweater and I could) see he was getting a little bald. | “I suppose,” I said, “that you're) going to do quite a little fixin' up} $9,000 a year,” I walled. “What're Sidney to Address with that $200,000?" “Not at all,” said Bill. “We've been | livin’ the same way for 20 years and ‘ate, put on another pork chop! There's company come to dinner.” oe ERE, according to Bill, was the way it happened: Bill himwelf came | ¢ He'd always wanted a little place in the country with chickens and 80 on, and one day, 20 years ago, he sold out hin grocery store, paid up his debts, pocketed the $200 that re- mained and sturted looking around, The place, when he found it, con sisted of four and a half acres an two houses and the owner wanted $5,800 for It, Bill borrowed the money somehow, got a job in the fire department, moved into one of the houses and the next month old the other house at $500 profit. He's been selling things at profit ver since. Along about 1916 Bill got an idea that there weren't enough three and fourroom apartments for young married people and old him, so Bill had to go out of town to wet the money, But the day those apartments were finished there wer 50 families on the waiting list, ee 467 SUPPOSE," I said to Bill, “that if you don't intend to move into & new house nor anything, maybo you'll put your money in & swell new motor car. “Nope,” said Bill, 1915 model.” “Same old bus, I suppose you have y swell times? said Bilt, go fishing vite & bit and the petimes Kate nia I go to the theater. But the balcony. Twenty-five dolls & week could cover everything we buy.” “But you've got an- income of you going to do with it?" “The children can have {t,”" sald Bill. “If I had a million I wouldn't | we don’t intend to change now, Hey,|do a bit different.” Bill's going to let the neighborhood kids his firema helmet But he's going to keep the boots. He says they'll be dandy to go fish ing in. Rules for Making Money Here are the maxims whic fireman, a rich man: Make quick sales and small h made William J. Wiesener, profits. Don’t try for all you can get. Use as little of your own capital as possible. Your credit’s better than your name. Tell your banker all about it. Work in a grocery store if human nature, Don’t keep budgets. Don’t bother about getting Don’t worry. AUDITORIUM’S | FATE PENDING Action on Councilman A. Lou} Cohen's ordinance to submit the proposed construction of an audi torium to the voters at the coming election was to be taken by the city council Mond: Cohen's ordinance is the only one remaining before the council for consideration as Corporation Counsel J. L. Kenned# has ruled that the proposal of Seattle bankers to finanes construction the audi torium is of Cohen’s ordinance puts the ques tion of an auditorium bond issue up to the electorate at the comin; municipal elections. | Your Pain May ected v is disease of the nerves pains, aches, and soreness in Aifterent parts of the body, just like ments mentioned tix are colds, injuries, bru , diseases or a rundown ner- Long-standing cases tism or sclatica frequently In tho nerves, setting tip I~ n and producing neuritis t Its origin, neuritis mpanied by. sharp, usually in. the Fhoulder, foreatm, neck, thigh, leg or as medicines that reljeve tor today Assist Nature | to fen ausen of Influmma tion and ng Lopa Now EDWIN J. BROW DENTAL OFFICE 106 Columbia St. Mears you want to find out about rich. $35,000 Asked in New Libel Charges Sek. Worden 00 s in a suit asks fi $35, 4} libel i sam W, ager of the Red Top Cab Co,, nam ing f stances when Ta iw alleged to have slandered en. Worden deputy inspector of ht 1 measures in the public utilities department. | Attorney Hugh M. Caldwell repre sents Worden in the action, which w out of published charge: Worden sby Taggart, follow appearance e the King county grand fury. Japanese Cabinet May Be Overthrown TOKYO, Dec, U—Te ered today a the resig of Hom Den, which he prosented Den resigned because the } netruction consid ult of Mir the probat the providing for 1 government to person ment losing pre in the fire and earth quake of 10 per cent of the insur ¢ —S Porsonals— fied section ortiseme ’s| “COUGHS: ‘COLDS: ‘BRONCHITIS, MORE BOTTLES USED EACH YEAR THAN ANY OTHER COUCH REMEDV= TAKE WO SuasTirure uo NARCOTICS - SOLD EVERYWHERE land that man is son of God." ter RECTOR LAUDS THE MODERNIST Fundamentalists for Beliefs PORTLAND, Ore, Deo, 2 AVA Morrison, rector of Trinity Bpisoopal Jchureh, marked himself as a mod ornist cgusader Sunday when he pub: Holy espoused the caune of modern thinking and preached a sermon in which the hides of fundamentaliate “and other bigoted persona’ w wently but firmly pulled over thelr heads and nailed to the Gothic doors of the church, “The mission of the church Im to teach the love of God, and not to quibble over minor matters,” he said. “It anyone tells you that God will not gave you and does not love you, ho is speaking an untruth, and that does not depend on your bellef in tha virgin birth of Christ or anything elve except that God in father of all 4, The physical imposalbility of hay. ing retained for future use the words of Christ was discussed by Dr, Morri- ‘son, Who said that only a compara- tlvely few persons actually heard Christ speak, and of thoae closest to him none waa equipped to aot as lit- éral transeriber to the world, “Unless one assumes that there ts A god who whispers inta the receptive ear of man the actual words of His doctrine, there is no possible place in tho mind of a rational man for belief in the absolute infallibility of Bible from cover to cove Charge Boys Kept in Chorus Against Will PORTLAND, Dec, 24.--Complainta that four boys from 11 to 14 years ot age are being kept in the Whitney | Boys’ charus against their wishes were made here last night by parents, | who appeated to police to investigate |the affairs of H. B. K. Whitney and the chorus, now in Winnipeg, The parents declared that Whitney took the youths away for a North west tour of not more than nine weeks with their consent, but that he [has now been on the road four | [months and the lads write home nay- | |ing a continued commerela! trip to} Florida in in prospect. Winnipeg | ‘authorities have been asked to inves: | | tigate, | The chorus ts composed of 27 boys. | in Auto Smashups PORTLAND, Ore, Deo. 14.—One} \aen is dead, six are in hospitats| land four are tn jail today as a result of a series of automobile accidents part of which Christmas inently i was killed | Aa |by a Linton bus. Burelback stepped jin front of the bus suddenly, and| | was swiped down befere it could be| stopped. The bus driver was not held | All of the Injured persons were In two ears which were demolished in| & collisioin. Moonshine was found in one, while the driver of the other uaa | intoxleated, police say Classical Teachers | Prof. T. K laity of W ashington, will addres elght | dered er. | BY MELVIN B, VOORHEES Cedar branches strung around a« dingy pilot house. A. sprig of evergreen net in a pile of red shrimps, A holly berry floating near a plece of driftwood in the murky, olly water, Christmas on the waterfront, ‘ . “Taino it a little, mate, Up ‘a Ute higher on the main mast. Good. Now, out on the spar, That's it, Make ‘er fast.’ A ship preparing to sail? Well, yes, but not in the way you think, Tho men and officern weren't put- ting up canvas; they were putting up Christmas trees, Many small steamers and tugs along tho harbor edge wera deco rated for the season, with greens strung along their rails and around the tops of the cabin and trees mounted on their mast heads, fore and aft, and on the crossbars, Seamen were bually trimming the motorship Suquamish = Monday morning, even the ship's bell was enyeloped In green. eee A big Orfental liner lay at her berth “and seemed to be peering curiously up the decorated street before it at the holiday throngs. A Chinaman Jeaned laaily over the rail, high above the dock level. Seattle Waterfront ~ Observes Christmas; Trees at Mastheads “Morry Christmas," someone called up at him, “Melly Kilsmnus,'* came floating down from abo Out at the Admiral Tine docks at Bmith Cove, five big liners were in Seattle for the yuletide, The Hoxton Maru, West Himrod, Admiral Farray gut, Cascade and the Bhikahara Maru rented alongside the lgng piers, and from every masthead a green fir treo stood out against the wintry sky. Colored Hghta sparkled from the windowy of a panienger cabin, A holly wreath hung from a porthole far down near the water line, see Bafhanas from tho tropics were be- ing unloaded from a merchant ship by © gang of ntevedores, ‘ “How'd y' like to be where this yellow fruit comes from?” asked one, “where it's warm;and balmy an’ y’ can go ewimmin’ “Nothin doin’,' came back another. ‘ot at Christmas time, If it wasnt cold ft wouldn't be Christmas, would it? Gimme a overcoat, not a bathing sult, when old Balnt Nick comes around . “ee An old “salt with a scragsly beard, a dirty peajacket and a blue cap with a shiny, black visor, stand. Ing at @ greasy counter drinking @ bottle of pop under a sprig of mintle toe, Christmas on the waterfront, Perfect Doll Her Price But She Daren’t Cry When Poor Tots Turn Away Disappointed The brown, calm eyes of Mins Cora Vere Do Vero gazed lan- guidly out onto the shopping crowds on Second ave. today, ‘The matin-smooth cheeks of Miss Cora revealed no rose-peta! blush as passing men and women glanced at her, The tit of her rounded chin remained the same, regardless of the appraising re marks that sifted thru the open doorway, Her poise, as a passing police- man remarked, rivaled that of Henry Cabot Lodge upon being introduced to Mr. Magnus John- son, “Or thereabouts, Mine Cora wan, an the corner clgar store cavaliers say, “a per: fect doll.” ‘This was quite as {t should be, because that in what the Rhodes company specified .when it or- Miss Cora and several thousand other bisque manne- quins some months ago, for the Christmas trade, motionless at she seemed, however, Mins Cora revealed to a Star reporter that she is not without feeling, She has her litte embarrassments, price tag, now,” she ping it with a atitt “Rather banal Asse of the Pacific State and vulgar, don’t you think?” Portia . Dec, 27 and 28, ac-| ‘The reporter said yes, sir, 1 cording to announcement of Prof.| ™ean, yes, ma'am, it certainly fereno B. ington “L » also of the Wash. lent of the Northern section of the association. | Sidney's topic will be ‘arthage."* The organization ts composed of "The Fate of jclassical teachers of all schools and sin Idaho, Montana, Nevada | Arizona and the Pac coast 83 Wasranls Shed on Jury Indictments A total of 83 of the 112 warr issued on the 77 to date by the grand jury investigat ng ¥ and crime in t 0 been « 1, Sheriff Matt Starwich | said Monday | | wa | “f wish I could tear the | dratted thing up sometimes and r with one readin, De Ve eyes and long for me. thei T mothers or fathers read my figur SUCH comptexions!* The reporter, v had been letting his admit glance from the silk-clad figure d De Vere, hastily sent out an AWOL call for both expect unt. Three additifnal arrests were made | nokn y you late Saturday on warrants insued) CTY Sometimes,” h Do- from and jury Indictments. The Mitel three © C. E. Smith, proprietor of "Oh, mercy, not cried thé the Battersby-Smith card rooma: perfect doll, alarmed. “My George Bontere and Fred Morrisey ar, it i simply ruin y all charged with being common A complexi A r the trio was fur 1ev Adam Beetle Ruston Pharmacist | Is Killed in Crash | TACOMA, 4.—A. W. 63 Ruston pharma killed when his tomobile collided with another car | last nig Wash., Shelley, 63-ye cixt, was instantly one of neven fn Tacoma Sunday in whic four sor | Dyer Is Improved, His Physicians Say Automobile bor Death Blow To Rheumatism * with auimente hi Many rs skin, bladder and’ tomale Aisorders. Call of write, Wo Chinese Medicine be, cor, 2nd Ave, Neattio Phone MA (n-2106 mus thing for a doll ere on the er it got so hot that * © © well, thelr n moulders wouldn't have & n these dolls. “I'm just a young thing, y'know," said Misa Cora, lower ing her black lashes as a floor- walker smiled at her, “but I tell you—I'v on life And the best re the poor folks, after all hey come in here and admire me and want me, but the rich folks, now * * ¢"* “Here's a fine doll for $12.85, All’s Ready Peggy Party Tomorrow “Clip the Coupon and Bring It to the Columbia Wishes Tag Was 5c madam,” maid the salengirl, plek- ing up the perfect doll by the waist and twirling her around for inupection. ‘The fur-clad woman customer, with the trim ittie oliver-cloth hat and the lemon kid gloves, took the doll kingerly from the salesgirl and handed her to her amall daugh- [| ter, The child looked at her olsdainfully, pulling her clothes about, ' "Oh, {t will DO, mamma!" said the girl. “Charge if snapped her | mother, turning away and bust- ling off, } “e © @ these rich folks, now,” said the perfect doll, but just | | then the salesgiri gave hor a little squeeze and pushed her into a tinsue-paper lined box. “Oh, mammat* said the sales. | girl and Mins Vere De Vere, to- gether, | Unmarked Grave for Murderer of Quintet JEFFERSON, Me. Dec. 24.—An |unmarked grave in the corner of a farm will be the last resting place | of the body of John Snow, 35, who | last Saturday shot and killed five jPpersons, including his wife,” and/| | then committed sulcide. | Snow was insane. His victims; | were Mrs. Snow, Mrs. Frank Jew: | ,ett, Kenneth Jewett, 16; Mrs, Eva| | Baton and Mra, Brann, A postcard | |from hia wife, from whom he had | been separated, wishing him al Merry Christmas, ts belleved to have started Snow on his shooting rampage. The crumpled card was found in hin pocket | | Mouniaineers Will | See Nature Films| Members of ‘Tho Mountaineers, a mountain-climbers' organization of | Seattle, meet in regular. se: | ston at the Y. W. C, A. Januar 4, to eee the famous film, Four Seasons,” by Ruymond mars, curator of the New York! | Zoological gardens. The Seattle! | Audubon soclety will meet with the peak scalers, | Dit Week-End Parties {eave -out; her jast means of com.) | ported he would try to make a land- *| stead of white whiskers and a re¢ * MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, ALASKAN SANTA IS FOUND DEAD Priest Freezes to Death on Trail Near Nome NOMH, Alaska, Dee, 24-~The Santa Claus of Hot Springs orphan age ty dead, Tho body of Father ¥. J. Ruppert, head of the Lourdes minsion and ite orphanage, situated 76 miles from here, was found dend | on the dog trail 40 miles from Nome | late lat night, Ils dog team had stopped several miles from the spot where, the priest's body was found, ‘The team ts believed to have bolt od, throwing the priest to the trail and leaving him tothe mercy of the frigid night with insufficieny cloth. ing to protect him until he could have reached Nome on foot, Wrapped around one handle of the sled was the fur parka, a dou. ble fur coat out like a shirt, which would have saved his life. Father Ruppert was on his way here to participate in Christmas services, Eskimos with a fast dog team were bringing the body to Nome today for burial, HERE'S MORE ABOUT | DIRIGIBLE STARTS ON PAGE 1 |) $$ ______ ailies who have taken charge of gi- gantic German mechanical contriv- ances, the spoils of the world war, seemed in store for the Dixmude's| crew, ‘The airship was en route for Bisk- ta, having cruised over a bit of the Sahara when the winds took her in charge, Blown towards Mendanine at a rate | of 20 kilometers per hour, despite the efforts of her engines to send her against the gale, the Dixmude next! wan forced to gall over the Gulf of} Gabes, WARSHIPS SPEED TO THY RESCUE In the storm ner commander had | no chance to effect a landing on the Tunis coast Ho sent an urgent wireless ap- peal; "Heavy tempest: ed; many men sic! French war vessels, including the} cruiser Mulhouse, sped to the res-| cue. Then the Dixmude's wirelens | asoline exhaust: | rth was cut} munication with the off, Her propellers were {dle when | she was sighted from Tunis and it; wan believed that she must inevi- | tably be lost, The crew's one chance seemed to be to rip the huge gas bag and risk & plunge into the sea, trusting they might land near some versel. The Dixmude had carried rations for two days. By the end of the sixth day the crew faced the actual prospect of starving in midair, Many became exhausted from easickngns,” caused by the tosring of the dirigible at the whim of the gales and from | lack of food, | For 24 hours the naval station here was without word from the Dixmude. Then, in some way as yet | unexplained, the airship re-estab- lished {ts wireless—its one link with | earth. j Late Sunday the commander re. | Ing at Medenine. Fires were lighted in 2 ring around | the landing ground there and troops awaited thruout the night to help the Dixmude to earth, but at latest | reports the effort had been unsuc- cessful. PORTLAND COPS | CHEER HUNGRY Bluecoats Will Turn Santa! for One Night | Ore... PORTLAND, Dee. 24.—In- coat, Santa Claus for at least 266 Portland families tonight will wear a blue coat with brass buttons and a silver star. Uniformed police during the past tow days have found something be-| side sordid details to attend to. é +17_| In place of loading the patrol Planned in Hills) wasons with prisoners, they have No special outings are planned at| filled them time and again with Snoqualmie lodge by the members| meats and groceries donated by Port of The Mountaineers for January,| nd merchants. | but regular week-end visits will be) Today 266 families will get baskets the order. Special lockers for skils) Stuffed with good things to eat equipment is expected by| Ct mas presents of the police 7 « day for the accommoda-| force. tion of ‘visitors | During the last few months all of TCH se Oldun caught a burglar in m and married him to reform | him. And did {t work? “Well—at least it taught him to be me careful,"—American Leglon | Week! for Baby | | Theater Christmas Morning ou. Me Baby Pogsy Merry Christ club will be the biggest club tn Seattle this week. We want ev little friend of tho famous litt! | screen star to bo happy on Ct mar and we also want thelr promise to make many others happy a possit That is the first thing you h to do to join the club. Then just clip the on from Star and bring it umbia theat tomorrow morning 4 you will be given a beautiful Baby Peggy club button and will be ad mitted FRIGY to the Christmas party where you will Kee the little star in hor big feature, “The Darling of New| t 10 o'clock and Yor Be sure and be on time and don't fi to haye with you The Star coupon. And, above all, you must b happy and we know you will make r| others happy BABY PEGGY MERRY CHRISTMAS CLUB 1. I promise to be happy and make someone else happy on Christmas. I am less than 6 years old. Signed (Present this coupon at the Columbia theater Christmas It will admit one “Baby Peggy ¢ morning. lub" member.) ' the “coppers” have been watching for persons who need a littl Christ mas cheer And a lot of kids who might other wise have believed there ig no § Claus will find him in the bi policeman who walks the beat, RE SALUTES A SENT MORTON An exchange of © ings and salutations b Gen. Morton, commanding the Ninth army corps area at Sin Fran. cisco, and Lieut, Col, Oliver H. Dock ery, commanding Fort Lawton, Seattle, tas been made public to attle citizens. The ngs from G “On behalf of the offic ed men of these headquarter tended to Lieut tr aN Rreet ween Maj Col. Dockery'’s com mand, “best wishes for a Merry | Christmas and a Happy New Year.” | In answer, Lieut. Col, Dockery wrote : “Fort Lawton salutes you, “In behalt of the officers and on listed men of the garrison, including j all members of their families, 1 ber leave to extond to the commander and to Mts to tho officers and enlisted men of your headquarters and staff and it families, our cordial Christmas greet {ngs and best wishes for a New Year happy, prosperous and peaceful “We pray that 1923 of happy Morton, and Gen. Morton’ may. be and congenial per eful yea active service his m sonally, and oneyof his most u and valuable to the army AN rocks can be molted nd at higher temperatures they become gases ' | ak BY FREDERICK G, NBT MEIER Civil War Vet Is Dae 1928 MEXICAN REBELS SUFFER DEFEAT 200 Are Slain and 1,000, Taken Prisoner (United Press staff Correspondent) MEXICO CITY, Dec, 24 (Der layed,)-Fearing « rebel thrust from the South, President Obregon today dixpatche Arnulfo Gomez, military commander of the eapi with 1,500 men to Cuernavacao, state of Morelos Gen. Figueroa’s rebel force oceu. pled Punto De Ixtla, Just south of that city, Saturday, In the Kast federais werp busy consolidatt, thelr victory at Puebla, which they captured Saturday afternoon, not earlier, a erroneously Two hundred r behind when the Del Ta Huerta force was driven from Puebla and 1,000 prisoners taken. Alrplanes and artillery were used in the at. tack before the city was captured, Eye witnesses to the battle of Puebla, returning from that city to the capital today, reported that the victory wan decisive. They place the number of rebelg enptured at more than 2,000 waid the. remainder withdrew fi riedly in a xouthern direction, Many simply threw away thelr rifles and fled. Immediately after taking Puebla the federal troops be. gan further advance eabtward, Federal airplanes opened the-at- tack on the city by bombing the gates, Then the infantry advanced, ‘The witnesses said many rebel dead lay in the streets when they left. HERE'S MORE ABOUT SUPER-GIFT STARTS ON PAGE 1 with the voys" looks and wanted to adopt them, but the two lads were the only ones of the 13, Who objected to going’ into strange homes. So, while ar- rangements are being made by Miss Mary Sibbett, of the home society, and Miss Mamie Mil- larée, matron of the home, to place the other 11 boys with Be- attie families, the two little Hudson boys are left. “Oh, con't let them take my babies,” Mrs. Hudson pleaded Monday. “If they can only stay out at the home just a little while longer, ‘perhaps 1 sball be able get enough to money to look after them. Please don't Jet them go!” rE The chilaret are m the cus- tody of Judge Dykeman’s court, but if some way can be found for the mother to get a’ posi- tion where she can care for them, they may be released to her. Here 1s a chance to make the supreme Christmas gift. in all Seattle—the gift toa sorrowing mother of her two children} who love her so much that they, are battling, with all their small strength, “against being: adopted by strangers. Arrangements are being made for 11 other boys at tim home to become Christmas gifts in Seattic homes, Miss Sibbett sald Monday, “The result of The Star's ory Saturday proves that Se- 0 has hundreds of warm- hearted folks,” ehe said. “All afternoon the home was throng- * ed with would-be daddies and mothers for the boys and this morning there have been dozens of telephone and personal calls about the Goys. Some of the people came out with cars, all ready to take the boys to 127 homes right aw READ TO ENTER HOSPICE FIGHT Controversy Over Erection of Sanatorium Probed = struct controversy over the con- om of a saiatorium near the city’s Maple & water reservoir north of the city limits will be ended summarily if Dr. Hiram E. Read, city health comn a r to prevent cons of the institu. tion In a letter to Corporation Counsel J. L, Kennedy Monday, Dr, Read asked if he had the authority to pr vent the construction of the sana- torium. Kennedy sald he would have to look up the law on the question. Buried by Comrades Funeral services for R. 8. Hudson, Civil war veteran, ere to be held from the University undertak- ing parle 1 p.m, Monday, with the Green Lake Post, G. A. R, f chi Rey. J. D. O. Powers w 80 officiate. Hudson was born d in Defiance, O., served in the 48th Ohio ing the entire course of in 18 infant the w He ls survived by two sons, John 8, and Harry E, Hudson, archt- tects and building contractors, in the American Bank building Interment will be at Washelll cemetery Report Venizelos Will Not Return ATHENS, Dec. 24.—-Euleuthorios Venizelos, former premier, and vi tual dictator of Greece, is reported in private messages from Paris to have refused to return to Athens and a lership of his country in the Appeals to Venizelos, who is in Paris with a newly acquired bride, to come back to th 1 which once banished him, were sent following the expulsion of King ¢ and | Queen HBlizabeth and su of the republicat 1 Vene s in the ational SANTA CLAUS RICH NEW YORK, D {.—Christma. buying is 6 per cent greater than I to the Feder of New York, based eu December sales, “ka Che ¢€ Pursu lets Belle and tha ing as to stop Nainie: Arno! trail om mobile. nearby turned, given ¥ The Ed Alfré dits, early) ‘in t man was Offi Dent Rol have the st mornil succed after fut at Fry store Joiteri on to wateh a tell pryini when towa: Roys found’ longi gave wrap] Christ