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INSANITY IS PLEA MADE
Man Shot to Death Because He
Had Bicycle, Priest Because
He Was Close By.
-nrrtT.TM Dee. 16. The frank ad-
- 'mission that Canon Magner. killed
' yesterday at Dunmanway, County
V - cork, was shot by an auxiliary cadet,
. '" -was made by Dublin castle today. A
statement says the cadet was one of
a lorry party wnicn was
''.'' near Cork Saturday night and inti
'"" mated that he became insane as a
- rKiilr of that experience. it con
' ' firms the report that the cadet also
killed Timothy Crowley, a farmer's
. . son. P. S. Brady, a magistrate wnu
... , witnessed the tragedy, came near suf-
-.. .". - ' ferine the same fate. .
"Thirtv auxiliaries left Dunman
' way for Cork to attend the funeral of
, colleague killed a lew nignts as".
, " ' : says the statement. "They were in
'" charge of an auxiliary cadet and pro-7-
- ceeded In two motor lorries. Some
' ' distance along they encountered
'- Canon Manner and Timothy Crowley
.-I waikinir. The cadet ordered tne lor
. ' ries to halt. He jumped out and de-
' manded that Crowley show him his
' permit for the bicycle he was trun-
' i i I in e "
: At this point, a castle official ex-
i nlained. the report was not clear as
i. !"to just what led to the shooting. The
- ; statement continues:
"The cadet then shot Crowley dead
; ;with bis revolver and then turned to
: ; the priest and shot him dead. After
i the cadet re-entered the lorry, the
.' . men decided to return to Dunman-
way, where they reported the occur-
" renca to the colonel in charge. The
' colonel promptly arrested the cadet.
., "Crowley was respectable, 24 years
.- x , of age and not engaged in politics.
Canon Magner was a highly respected
priest and exerted influence for good
. ' In the district."
. jnVO DESCRIBE ATROCITIES
', Committee of 100 Awaits Others
From Ireland.
. "WASHINGTON. Dec. IS. The com
' irission of the committee of 100 ln
Yeatigating conditions in Ireland
v"'.-; heard two witnesses today and ad-(-".
journed until other witnesses arrive
, ' - from England and Ireland early next
-" week. , 1
' Miss Nellie Craven of Washington
' . described the killing1 of ber cousin,
1 , Michael Walsh, which she said was
done by the Black and Tans while
' " , sha was visiting at Ualway, Ireland,
." last October. She also declared that
her 19-year-old brother had been
stripped and beaten by British' sol
' i' diers.
Paul J. Furnas of New Tork, a
. i member of the Society of Friends,
' ' presented a report of the British
'' branch of the society on conditions in
Ireland. The report said the English
government has "ceased to function
' over at least 80 per cent of Ireland."
I: CLASH AGAIX IX COMMOXS
Devlin Tells Greenwood He Is Real
Murderer of Irish.
LONDON. Dec. 16. Sir Ha mar
Greenwood, chief secretary for Ire
land, expressed regret in the house
of commons today at the deaths of
Canon Magner and Timothy Crowley
at Dunmanway. He said that the
cadet who had shot them was in cus
tody and would be court-martialed.
"In view of the murder of this
innocent priest and this innocent
peasant boy, is the chief secretary
prepared to withdraw the cadets al
together?" demanded Joseph Devlin.
The chief secretary replied emphat
ically that ha was not.
Mr. Devlin retorted:
Then you are the murderer."
This brought cries of "Withdraw!"
tram the house.
OIL DRILLING IS BEGUN
EEGrXXIXG OF OPERATIONS IS
i - WITNESSED BX .CROWD.
Programme Is Given in Honor of
Initial Work by Company on
t Lower Columbia..
ASTORIA. Or- Dec. 16. (Special.)
A rnmntetfi and thorough test of
. . ? tha oil and gas resources of the lower
' . 1 Columbia river district will be made
1 immediately. "Work on the project
n was startea at z o ciook mis aiter--1
noon, when the Lower Columbia Oil &
tas company began active arming
operations at its proposed wen on tne
Chew ranch in the Lewis and Clark
river section and about 1100 feet from
tha highway.
The start was attended by an ap
propriate programme and was wit
nessed by a large number of people,
including stockholders in the company
and others. Following the programme,
K. F. Johnson, president of tha com
pany, set the machinery in motion
and the huge drill began digging.
The company,-which has a capitali
zation of $100,000. was composed al
most entirely of local people. It has
more than 60000 acres of land under
lease.
A derrick 120 feet in height has
been erected and the drilling equip
ment includes No. S rotary machine,
the largest and heaviest made, op
erated! by a 30-borsepower engine and
150 - horsepower boilers. The ma
chinery with casing cost In the .neigh
borhood of $30,000 and its massive
ness Is Indicated by the fact that
the drill stem, which is 40 feet long
and ,6ix Inches square, weighs six
tons.
At the Theater.
Hippodrome.
AGREENWALD and Herman act
tops the list of things entertain
ing on the new Hippodrome bill. This
enterprising management has sent a
good company in a musical revue of
pretentious qualities 'entitled "My
Dream GirL"
There are five talented folk. in this
act, and an -attractive maid. Miss
Dearl Burton is featured. She is com
pletely surrounded by four cleVer men
smartly garbed and entertaining as
to dance and song. Miss Burton's
voice is an excellent one. she dances
delightfully, and she has plenty of
variety in her offerings. She dresses
beautifully and is graceful and ciiaru-
ing. The act made a big dent in the
hearts of the Hippodroraltes yester
day. The scenic qualities of the act
are quite noteworthy.
Hazel Brown and Chariest Darby
have a musical flirtation, which as-
Isumes humorous and diverting pro
' portions and provides joyful enter
tainment. Miss Brown is especially
keen and her partner lets her reap
the applause she really merits.
Alf Grant is all by his lonesome,
a monologue backed up by philos
ophy and fun. He has a pleasant way
of putting his songs and jokes across.
A comedy oddity is offered by
Johnny Clark and company with ac
robatic ideas set to unusual and sur
prising humorous adventure. Open
ing the bill are Lou and Grace Harvey
a pair of delightful harmonists, whose
selections please immensely.
A Portland girl, dainty Gladys Wal
ton. Is starred in the film feature,
a fascinating story called "Risky
Business," which shows the talents
and beauty of the little maid in a
most effective manner.
MINES CUT PAY SI DAILY
EMPLOYERS COXSCLT UXIOXS
BEFORE TAKING ACTION.
Reduction Will Afreet 9500 Men
in Butte, Great Falls and An
aconda District.
BUTTE. Mont., Dec.16. Basic wages
of miners and all crafts employed in
and around the copper and other
mines of the Butte district will be
reduced $1 a day effective January
20. 1921, according to announcement
made today.
The action followed a general eon
ference of the various companies of
Butte with the representatives of
labor organizations having jurisdic
tion in the district. The reduction
was made, according to the compa
nies, to avoid a complete shutdown of
mining operations as a result of the
adverse market condition. '
The wage cut here followed redue
tions In Michigan, Arizona, Idaho and
other western states, made for the
same reason, according to information
advanced at the time the reductions
were made. Approximately 9500 em
ployes in Butte. Great Falls and Ana'
conda will be affected by the reduc
tion of pay. Of this number, 6000 are
In the Butte district. The reduction
was made in accordance with and in
the manner provided for in the con
tract between the mining companies
and the metal trades crafts.
WAGE CUT ORDERED IX CTAH
Pay of Silver-Lead Miners to Be
Reduced 75 Cents to $1.
SALT LAKE CITY. Dec. 16. A cut
in wages of silver-lead miners of 75
cents a day and of copper miners of
II, the reductions to go into effect
January 1, was decided upon at
final conference of Ltah mine opera
tors here. An official of the Utah
Copper company, speaking in behalf
of all the big operators, said notices
of the reductions would be posted
within the next few days.
The Utah Copper company posted a
notice this afternoon announcing
reduction in miners' wages of $la day
effective January 1.
SOVIET BUYS IN CANADA
Millions of Dollars of Order9 Dc
dared to Have Been Placed.
MONTREAL, Dec. 16. F. A. Boyer,
Montreal business man who has
just returned from England, where
he . was in close touch with Leonid
Krassin, special trade envoy of the
Russian soviet government, declared
, today that many millions of dollars'
worth of Russian orders had been
obtained for Canadian manufacturers.
Mr. Boyer's visit to London was
to consolidate the position of the
?G,000,000 contract obtained by his
firm from Ludwig C. A. K. Martens
last January, when Martens was en
deavoring to obtain supplies for the
Russian soviet government in the
United States.
AUSTRIA FOOD PURVEYOR
4 Billion Crowns Credit Voted;
Public Gets Supplies Below Cost.
VIENNA. Dec. 15. The finance com
mission of the national assembly to
day authorized a bill grantirg the
government an additional credit of
8,000,000,000 crowns to coven- ex
traordinary expenses for the first
three months of 1921, of which sum
4,000.000.000 crowns will be used in
payment for foodstuffs, which will be
sold to the public at a loss. Last week
a credit of 6,000.000.000 crowns was
granted tha government. The Neue
Abdenblatt says:
' "The entente must hurry and fur
nish credits, otherwise the state will
be faced by chaos, causing the col
lapse of all its neighboring countries.
AMERICANS LEAVE. TABRIZ
Action of Reds and Turks Make
Persian City Bangcrons.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. Increas
ing activities of the radical element in
Persia has resulted in the evacuation
of Tabriz by the European and Amer
lean residents, according to advices
today from Teheran to the state de
partment.
The bolshevik! and the forces of
Mustapha Kemal have been extending
their operations until the consuls in
Tabriz considered it unwise for their
nationals to remain longer.
Gordon Patrick, the American con
suU and J. C. Hlgdon, vice-consul at
Tabriz, are among the refugees.
Consuls of Great Britain and France
also left.
WOMAN, AGEDJ02, DEAD
Husband, 99, Survives County Hos
. pital Inmate.
HOLLISTER, Cal., Dec. 16 Mra
Massena Tbarra. said to have been 102
years of age, died at the county hos
pital here last night.
Her husband, 99 years of age, sur
vives her.
Prizes Given for Potatoes.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. Dec. 16.
(Special.) Merle Fitzgerald, with an
exhibit or one bushel of Bjurbank po
tatoes, grown In a quarter-acre patch,
was awarded the first prize of $25 by
the Clarke county farm bureau. The
"second prize of 15 was won- by How
ard Damon. R. F. D., No. 6, Vancouver.
Third prise of $10 was won by Elmer
Pagh of Sara, the prize being $10.
F. B." Rhodes judged the dozen entries.
Prisoners Escape Through Sewer.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.. Dec. 16.
Two prisoners escaped from the state
penitentiary, today, tiiroush, sewer. ,
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Burleson Blarjies Congress
for Department Loss.
WAR BONUS IS DECRIED
Secretary Predicts Losses in 1921
Will Total $36,000,000 Unless
Changes Are Made.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. Operation
of the United States postal service
for the fiscal year 1920 resulted in
a deficit of $17.270,482 the second
largest in the history of the service
Postmaster-General Burleson shows
In his annual report to the president.
In which expenditures of the post
office department are placed at $454,-
322.609 and revenues at $437,150,212.
The postmaster-general charges con
gress with direct responsibility for
the deficit, explaining that the ex
penditure included approximately
$33,202,600 paid as a war bonus to
postal employes and stating that but
for this there would have been a
surplus of $18,427,917. Mr. Burleson
says he declined to approve the bonus
action of the legislative department,
adding that ha had offered sugges
tions of another plan for compeniiat
ing the employes which would have
served the purpose without at the
same time giving a blanket increase
In pay to "thousands who were al
ready amply compensated."
"For reasons that can be readily
Understood," he continues, "the leg
islative department rejected these
suggestions made by the- postmaster
general and hence is directly re
sponsible for the deficit which. In
evitably followed the indefensible
action. ....
Farther Deficiency Predicted.
"The postmaster-general feels con
strained to point out that if a prompt
halt is not called and such a policy
is persisted in, there will be a defi
ciency for the next fiscal year of
approximately $36,000,000 and the
pqstal establishment will cease to be
self-supporting, as. it should be, and
will become a constantly increasing
burden upon the general treasury."
Reference also is made to the de
cision of the interstate commerce
commission, granting the railways
additional pay aggregating $8,103,889
for carrying the mails.
In bis discussion of his administra
tion of the postal service the postmaster-general
says:
"The present postal administration
has been one of continuous and per
manent progress and improvement.
"The air mail service, which has
been operated successfully since its
Inauguration, May 15, 1918, has been
extended across the continent.
Parcel Post Extended.
"The parcel post service, both do
mestic and international, has been
greatly extended and facilities for
handling parcels improved.
"City delivery service has been ex
tended, the established service in all
the larger cities materially improved
and the government owned motor
vehicle service established in 163
cities.
'The railway mail service has been
operated with increased efficiency
undr the space system.
'Vt ar conditions have been over
come in the foreign mail service,
which has been brought back to
normal and is rapidly improving.
The money order service and the
postal savings system have rapidly
recovered from war conditions.
The rural mail sservice was ex
tended during the fiscal year to more
than 600.000 additional persons.
There has been still further im
provement in the registry and insured
parcel post systems and the methods
of handling dead letters.
A large number of important im
provements have been made in the
mail-equipment shop; facilitating the
work, adding to the compensation and
the comforts of the employes and at
the same time lowering, by efficient
methods, the unit cost of production."
POSTAL TREATIES MADE
Cnited States' Comes to Agreement
ATith South American Countries.
WASHINGTON, Dec 16. Negotia
tions of postal treaties providing for
reciprocal domestic postage rates on
letters, postal card's and printed mat
ter between the United States and the
countries of south and central Amer
ica. Mexico and Spain was announced
today at the conclusion of a meet
ing of the governing board of the
advisory committee on international
parcel post.
The treaties are to take effect as
rapidly after January 1 as they are
ratified by the several signatory coun
tries. They provide that letters and
postal cards shall be sent from the
United States to the signatory coun
tries at the prevailing domestic rate
in the United! States and that letters
and postal cards shall be sent from
the signatory countries at the do
mestic rate in effect in those coun
tries. . ,
WAR' OBJECTORS HONORED
Men Whose Conscience Kept Them
Out of Battle Feted.
NEW TORK, Dec. 16. Twenty-five
conscientious objectors, several of
whom served prison terms because of
their refusal to bear arms during the
war, were "guests of honor" last
night at a dinner given by the Amer
ican Civil Liberties bureau.
Speakers, who included Scott Near-
ing, former professor at the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, and Rev. John
Haynes Holmes, pastor of the Com
munity church, lauded the objectors
as the "bravest of the brave."-
STIFF PENALTY OPPOSED
Solitary Confinement on Bread and
Water in Jfa-ry Rapped. - "
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 Solitary
confinement of navy prisoners on a
bread-and-water diet would be forbid
den if a biH introduced today by Rep
sentative Butler - of Pennsylvania,
chairman of the house naval affairs
committee, becomes law.
BLUE SUNDAY IS MOCKED
Xcw York's llte Join . Burlesque
Poking Fun at Restrictions.
NEW YORK, Dec. IS. "Blue Sun
day," .was burlesqued on Broadway
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L OPERATION
DEFICIT 17 MlLLIOri
and Fifth avenue today in a mourn
ful parade sponsored by the Interna
tional Sporting club of which many
society folk are members. Five floats
were drawn by horses harneseed with
crepe. Bandsmen at the head of the
procession played "Gee, but This Is a
Lonesome- Town" and funeral dirges.
- A man with ball and chain rode
the first float for "Riding in transit
on Sunday."
In .the next a whipping post cere
mony was applied on one who
"whistled on Sunday," and on the
third float was a husband in stocks
for "kissing his wife."
Two boys were put in a cage for
"fishing on Sunday," and the last
float showed a man at the pillory
"for smoking on Sunday."
Similar parades will be held daily
next week, the leaders announced.
STEAM HEAT COST RISES
FUEL OIL PRICE " IXCREASE
COMPELS HIGHER PRICES.
Northwest Electric Co. Says Serv
ices Xext. Year Cannot Be
on Present Bassi...
Application for increase in the rates
for delivery of steam heat in Portland
by the Northwestern Eleatric com
pany, filed last June, will be heard by
the public service commission in the
county courthouse on December 29.
.Data will be produced by .the com
pany to show .the cost of operation
during 1920 and' estimates also will be
submitted to show the probable cost
of operation during 1921. The large
item of expense in the production of
steam heat, according -to the officials,
is fuel oil. which has shown a marked
increase in cost during the. last two
years;
It is claimed by the officials of the
company that operation under pres
ent rates and present costs of ma
terial and labor, ,brings about a loss
when the final reports are tabulated.
The present rates are in Fteps rang
ing from $1 for 1000 pounds of steam
to 65 cents for the same measure, ac
cording to the quantity consumed. The
table of present-rates, which officials
of the company claim are Inadequate,
is as follows:
Bate per
100 lbs.
U.00
00
80
70
05
Amount.
First 25.000 pounds
Next 25,000 pounds ,
Next 50.000 pounds
Xext 100.000 pounds
Next 300.000 pounds
All in excess ,
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An increase in the rates of steam
heat will affect practically all large
office buildings, stores and hotels in
the down-town district furnished heat
by this company.
RYAN TACKLES HARD JOB
Retired General to Be Adviser to
Mexican Prelsdent.
WASHINGTON. Tasks of difficulty
and variety have fallen to the lot of
Brigadier-General James A. Ryan (re
tired). United States army, in bis long
career in the service. Perhaps It is
his hardest which he is now to un
dertake confidential adviser to Gen
eral Obregon, president of Mexico.
Ryan graduated from West Point
in 1890 and entered the cavalry. He
was assigned to service in China In
the Boxer rebellion. After serving
seven years as a second lieutenant be
was promoted to be first lieutenant
and served in that grade in the Span
ish war.
In that conflict he was assigned the
unwarlike, but hazardous and neces
sary task of taking 200 mules, old
campaigners, stationed in Alaska, on
a long journey to the front In Cuba.
He is said to have effected tha trans
fer with great dispatch.
But the mules themselves brought
him more notice than the commen
dation. The animals had long, shag
gy coats, with which nature had pro
vided them against the rigors of the
Alaskan climate. Naturally they
stood out as mules among mules. The
creatures were dubbed Ryan mules."
War correspondents were able to
identify regiments with which "Ryan
mules" were serving.
Another feat of Lieutenant Ryan's
was recognized a short time later. In
three weeks he enlisted 1400 men from
western states to replace volunteers
stationed in Manila.
Ranking a lieutenant-colonel at the
beginning of the world war, he was
pronjoted to be a brigadier-general in
tne national army, ne was commanu
ing officer at the second officers'
training camp at Fort Sheridan, 111.
He retired in April, 1919,. with more
than 30 years service.
IMMIGRANT ACTION URGED
Chairman Colt Issues Call for Sen
ate Committee to Act.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. The house
bill barring nearly all immigration
for one year will be taken up by the
senate immigration committee next
Tuesday under a call issued today by
Chairman Colt.
Senator King, democrat, Utah, in a
brief address in the senate favoring
immediate action to restrict immigra
tion, said he understood that the sen
ate committee would hold hearings,
but that it was sot planned to have
them begin until after the holidays.
He said ae would urge immediate
hearings.
STOLEN AUT0 IMPROVED
Work Valued at $200 19 Fonnd on
Oar When Recovered.
STOCKTON, Cal.. Dec 16. To have
a car stolen and returned fully re
paired and with many improvements
costing $200. is the luck that befell
a business man here.
Two rips in the canopy top were
patched, a new motor meter put on
tha radiator cap, four brand-new
tires were found, together with two
extras in the tire carrier, and the car
had been washed and polished.
WEDDING TANGLE WAITS
Bill on Citizenship In Inter-Mar-.
riages Is Deferred.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. The house
Immigration committee deferred ac
tion today on the bill urged by Rep
resentative Rogers, republican, Mass
achusetts, proposing to allow Ameri
can women who marry foreigners to
retain their citizenship.
The bill also would deny citizen
ship, unless obtained under the nat
uralization laws, to foreign women
who marry Americans.
RADIO LINKS FOUR CITIES
Xcw Tork, Chicago, Cleveland and
Detroit Exchange Messages.
NEW TORK. Dec. 16. New 'Tork.
Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit were
linked by commercial radio today."
The inauguration of regular wire
less communication between the cities
was marked by the interchange of
messages between the mayors of each.
BUSINESS PIUNG UP
NEXT
SESSION
Bills on Autos, Traffic and
Schools Being Framed.
FUNDS FOR BLIND SOUGHT
Franchises Wanted by Bus Lines
for Runs on State Roads.
Pioneers Have Measure.
Business for the lawmakers at
Salem is gradually accumulating. The
session will have other things to do
than to consider only the teachers'
tenure bill, the fish and game legis
lation, port consolidation and like
subjects. That the session will have
its hands full of work is apparent.
The legislature will be asked to
straighten out a few matters con
nected with the proposed industrial
school for the sightless. The voters
of the state approved this measure
when referred by the legislature, but
the measure requires supplementary
sections. Nothing has been done
toward carrying out the provisions of
the bill, originally introduced in the
legislature by Oscar W. Home, as a
representative of Multnomah county.
The bill provides that an industrial
school for sightless persons be lo
cated in Portland and makes stipula
tions relative to maintenance.
, Site Not Selected.
No site has been selected, nor has
any public-spirited citizen offered a
free site for the institution nor will
funds be available for a couple of
years. To remedy this matter of
funds and a few other points which
should be made more specific, Gus C.
Moser, state senator from Multnomah
county, is now drafting a bill.
More regulation lor auiomouneu
will be made at Salem during the ses
sion. Although a road code was
adopted by the last session. . condi
tions are changing so rapidly that
there are many matters that are not
covered by the code. Almost every
dav letters are received at the office
of the secretary of state calling at-
tention to something with regard to
automobiles and asking what law
there is on the subject. Generally
there is no law applicable. The in
creased use of the automobiles neces
sitates progressive statutes to keep
pace with the machines.
New legislation regulating traffic
on the state highways, with particu
lar reference to trucks and truck
loads, is promised. In this connection
it is also possible that some sort or
regulation may be made for the In
terurban Jitneys, the motor buses
which operate between towns on the
Pacific and Columbia highways.
Franchises Are Considered.
Some of the operators of these con
veyances would like to have the state
issue franchises for certain runs. The
argument of the bus men is that
about the time a line of machines
works up a good trade, several other
independent buses appear on the
scene, until the traffic is so split up
that no one can make money In the
business. By receiving a franchise
from tha state, a bus line would be
protected from competition and at
the same time would be subjected to
strict regulations for the. protection
of tha traveling public patronizing a
motor conveyance, as well as calling
for a regular schedule of arrivals and
departures and. rates.
Teaching Oregon history in . the
public schools of the state is to be
the object of 'a bill to be advocated
by the executive committee of the
Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pio
neers. The committee in charge .of
preparing the bill consists of Harver
G. Starkweather, Mrs. S. B. Huston,
T. T. Geer. Milton A. Miller and Mrs.
Ida B. Callahan of Corva'llis. The bill
will also provide for the adoption of a
textbook on the subject.
NO BLUE SUNDAY WANTED
Amusement Promoters Prepare to
Fight Proposed Reform.
NEW TORK. Promoters of Sunday
sports, the candy, ice cream and to
bacco trades and amusement enter
prises are showing an interest in the
proposed national "Blue Sunday" laws
of the Lord's Day Alliance, which in
dicates that they may comblneto re
sist the enactment of any legislation
aimed at their Sunday patronage.
Sunday sports promoters certainly
will pool their resources and their en
ergies to fight such laws, Colonel Ja
cob Ruppert, president and part own
er of the New York Yankees, de
clared. The Yankees were largely instru
mental in securing the passage of the
New York state law permitting Sun
day baseball, which attracted hun
dreds of thousands of fans to the
Polo grounds and Ebbets field here
last summer. Sunday became the
most protitable day for the three ma
jor league ball clubs here.
The motion picture industry also is
taking alarm -at the proposed laws.
Resorts such as Coney Island, which
mark the Sundays of the summer in
red numerals, would suffer a tremen
dous reduction of revenue if com
pelled to shut .down on the Sabbath.
Coney's losses due to rain on several
Sundays, in the 1919 season furnished
the concessionaires,, having hundreds
of thousands of dollars invested, a
convincing and disagreeable foretaste
of the blue Sunday. .1
There are. "blue laws" in New York
state at present which are winked at
by all the enforcement agencies, thuj
permitting Sunday vaudeville shows
to flourish in Broadway theaters as
"sacred entertainments." The medita
tion Is usually conducted by such
Kt Their line texture, snug fit, brilliant SB.
Mt lustre and wonderful Wear-resisting
Si . made them famous the world over. TOi
There Is One Electric Store
Where Prices Are Lower!
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prayer leaders as the Dooleys, Eddie
Cantor, W. C. Fields, Frank Tinney.
Norah Bayes and Fannie Brice. Un
der the law no make-up is permitted
and there must be no change of stage
setting during the "concert." The au
thorities have never quibbled as to
what -really constitutes make-up.
Samuel Rochapfel, managing direc
tor of the Capitol theater, one of the
largest of movie houses, said the Sun
day audiences at the Capitol frequent
ly numbered close to 7000 persons.
Sunday closing of the motion pic
ture theaters would cut off ro much
revenue that prices would have to be
increased on other days," Rochapfel
said. "Sunday Is the biggest day for
the movies. But there is the public
welfare to be considered, too, and 1
think Sunday closing would be against
it."
Although the Rev. Harry L. Bowley.
general secretary of the Loid's Day
Alliance, claims that the Anti-Saloon
leagues of many states are backing
the movement, William H. Anderson,
head of the league In New York state,
denied that this was true in his Juris
diction and claimed thnt thu liquor
Interests were circulating the Inti
mation that It was true.
Woman Attempts Suicide.
Mrs. Rlllie Burke. 27 year old. re
siding at a downtown liotrl. took
eight grains .of a poison at Central li
brary about 4:30 o'clock jeslerilny
afternoon with suicidal Intent. The
librarian called an anihuln-e and
sent the patient to St. Vlnci-nt's hos
pital, whtM-e it was raid Ixst night
that her life was In no danger. No
motive for the attrnnu at suicide wan
advanced by authorities.
Building JnvretiRnloM Continued.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1 Continu
ance of the senate committee which
has been investigating the building
situation, Includlnit houalng con
ditions, was authorlxrd In a revolution
adopted today by the senate without
discussion.
Every large city has one nfwpnpr
which, by universal conient. Is the
Want-Ad mrdlum of tha oniinuiwt
In rnrtlnnd lt Th frctronl:in.
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