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The Holbrook news., 1920-12-24
NAmerica Uses 700 Billion Matches

America Uses 700 Billion Matches
 Few realize the immense labor, capi- tai and material used to produce matches. Thousands of men are en- plOyed, millions of dollars invested and vast forests cut down to meet the de mand in America of TOO billion matches a year. One plant alone on the Pacific coast covers 240 acres and uses two. hundred thousand feet of sugar pine and yellow pine logs in q day. The odds and ends will not do. A constant search is in progress for large forests of perfect trees to meet the future needs.-F. H. Cheley in "Stories for Talks to :soys."
The Holbrook news., 1920-12-24
FOREIGN

Austria has been elected a member of the League of Nations by the assembly of the league at Geneva.
 Belgium, Brazil, Spain and China have been chosen as the four elective members of the council of the League of Nations
 Brig. Gen. Henry T. Allen, com mander of the American Rhineland forces, has been decorated by General grand commander of the Legion of Honor.
 The plan for an international court, submitted to the assembly by the League of Nations by its committee which had been considering the sub ject, was unanimously adopted by the assembly at Geneva.
 Unconfirmed reports received at Con stantinople say that the whole of Ar menia has gone BOlshevist. The re- ports add the soviet Azerbaijan has been ceded to soviet Armenia and that it is expected Georgia will follow Ar menia's lead and adopt BOlShevism.
 Constantine of Greece has person ally declared he would not abdicate the throne. "I will not abdicate and never had any such intention" said Constantine in his farewell interview with correspondents preliminary to his departure for Venice, en route to Athens.
 Andre Lefevre, French war minister, has resigned. His resignation resulted from his opposition to the new mili' tary service bill before the chamber of deputies, which provides for eight cen months obligatory military serv- ice NJ. Lefevre had insisted upon two years service with the cOlOrs.
 A court decision has been handed down authorizing Madame ManOs, the wife of the late King. Alexander of Greece, to enter into immediate pos session of the fortune left by the king. This is estimated in value at 100000 drachmas (about $400,000 nOrmally) and consists almost entirely of money and jewels.
 The weekend of terror and wild de struction through which Cork has passed left in its train a terrible welt CT of ruin. The conflagrations have burned themselves out, but the finest part of the city is a mass of ruins. In St., Patrick's street, which was the main commercial artery of the city, solid blocks of business premises, the most imposing in Cork, have been wiped out. f
 The members of the reichstag at Berlin went on ratiOns of black bread without butter, and coffee without su- gar or milk when the managers and employees of the reichstag restaurant refused to serve the forbidden foods, ''in view of the governments apparent intention to continue raiding hotels to compel them to obey the rationing reg ulations." The hotel proprietors have closed the restaurants in virtually all the principal hostelries as a protest against the government insisting on obedience to these regulations.
The Holbrook news., 1920-12-24
AN EPITOME OF
 LATE LIVE NEWS CONDENSED RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
 HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAVINGS, ooINes, ACHIEVE MENTs, sUFFERINes. HoPES
 AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN
western Newspaper Union News Service

WESTERN
 Two men were killed, literally blown to pieces, and three others were seri- ously injured by an explosion of coal gases in the bunkers of the steamship Victoria of the Alaska Steamship line at Seattle, Wash. Witnesses told of a sheet of flame 100 feet high accom- panying the explosion.
 Deaths from automobile accidents continued to show an increase during 1919, with a. total of 1869 for the census bureaus registration area, com prising about 80 per cent of the coun- try's total population, according to sta tistics completed by the census. The total includes 3,S0S deaths in sixty siT of the larger cities of the country.
 Negotiations of postal treaties pro- viding for reciprocal domestic postage rates on letters, postal cards and printed matter between the United States and the countries of South and Central America, Mexico and Spain was announced at the conclusion of a meeting of the governing board of the advisory committee on international parcel post.
 Blinded by red pepper hurled into his eyes, Richard E. Hoegling, wealthy business man of Los Angeles, Cal, was robbed of a diamond stickpin, a diamond ring watch and $200 by a pretty girl bandit. She jumped on the running board of his automobile and pressed a revolver against his side, compelling him to stop, he said. After throwing the pepper into his eyes she robbed him.
 Pearls and diamonds valued at S3O,- 0OO are in the hantls Of the Los Ange- les, Calif., police assa result of a search of a safety deposit box maintained in the name of Mrs. Frances Matthews, under arrest there and suspected of being one of the cleverest sIIoplifters and pickpockets that ever operated in the West. These gems were in addi- ton to jewelry, clothing and other ar : ticles valued at about $50,000 which were seized when detectives raided the palatial Matthews home.
The Holbrook news., 1920-12-24
Rational Cause.

"what makes you have such low tastesT'
 "High cost of living, my dear."
The Holbrook news., 1920-12-24
GENERAL

President-elect Harding, according g to information received at Washing ton, will spend the last four weeks be- fore his inauguration at Palm Beach, Fla.
 The National League, at it's annual meeting, extended for three years the term of President John A. Heydler and granted to him substantial in- crease in salary. President Heydlers present salary is $1O,OOO year and the increase, while it was not of ficially stated, is said to have been 50 per cent. The additional years will make his term expire Dec. 31, 1924.
 Edward David Rice, 70, of Edward E. Rice & Go. and prominent Bos- ton clubman, has been arrested on an indictment. charging him with the larceny of $3OO,OOO from two Boston banks. Rice was alleged to have ob- tained S150,0O0 from the National .Shawrnut bank, and the same amount from the New England Trust Company under false representations.
 All the mail sacks stolen from the storage car Of a Burlington mail train at Council Bluffs, la, Nov IS, were accounted for when a small boy re- ported to police the discovery of five locks of the kind used on registered mail sacks. Examination of the. num- bers on the locks showed them to be- long to the missing sacks.
 Stockyards' workers in Chicago will abide by the recent wage decision. of Judge Samuel Alschuler, federal medi- ator, it has been announced by George Youstra, secretary of the stockyards labor council. A mass meeting called to protest against the award, which denied. most of the wage increases asked by the employees, was attended by less than 100 workers.
 Federal grand jury indictments against sixteen officials of the Dan iel Hayes Company of Idaho, charging conspiracy to use the mails to defraud, were announced at Chicago. The in- dictments were returned Oct. 24, but were kept secret until they had been served. According to federal officials, officials of the company sold from $3,OO0,OO0 to $5,O00,OOO worth of. Cali fOrnia land which they are alleged to have misrepresented.
 E. D. (Strangler) Lewis of San Jose, Calif, won the worlds heavyweight catch-as-catch-can wrestling champion ship at New York by throwing Joe Stecher of Dodge, Neb., in l hour, Al minutes and 56 seconds, with head and hip lock.
 Jack Dempsey is still the heavy weight champion pugilist of the world by reason of his knockout of Bill Bren- nan at Madison Square garden in New York. Dempsey is still boss of the heavies, but he had to travel twelve hard and serious rounds to accomplish the task
 Charles Ponzi has entered upon service of his sentence of five years at the Plymouth, Mass, county jail that was imposed by the Federal Court as punishment for the fraud by which he obtained millions of dollars from thousands of persons.
 Lower prices for spring clothing will result from New York manufacturers in placing their shops on the piece work system, William Bandler, presi- | dent of the New York Clothing Manu- | facturers' Association, predicted after a special meeting of members of the
The Holbrook news., 1920-12-24
palatial Matthews
WASHINGTON

A resolution requesting the Presi- dent to open negotiations with Great Britain and Japan for an agreement to reduce naval building program 5O per cent for the next five years has been introduced in the Senate by Sen ator BOrah, Republican, Idaho. When Senator Borah offered his resolution. Secretary Daniels was before the House naval committee strongly Op- posing such a proposal
 Credit for saving the lives of 1,S00 AustrO-H Hungarian prisoners of war in d prison camp near ChabarOvsk, in eastern Siberia, during the fall of 1918, is given to officers of the Twenty seventh United States infantry by Lieut.. Col. Ferdinand Reder of the former AustrO-Hungarian army, in an open letter to the press of Austria and Hungary. Colonel Reders letter, for warded to the state department by the American mission at Budapest, says an epidemic of influenza had threatened to convert the camp into a ''vast cem- etery" when personnel of the Ameri- can regiment took charge.
 Peter J.. Dooling, son of Congress man Peter DoOling of New York city, was killed by the accidental discharge of rifle that was being shifted in an automobile near Fresno, Calif., ac- cording to a verdict of coroner's jury. DoOling was driving an automo- bile on the last lap of trip from New York to San Francisco with. Hugo Engle and Joseph C.. Farrell. ass
 The Western Union Telegraph Com- pany has brought suit in the District of Columbia Supreme Court for aIf if- Junction. restraining the secretaries Of state, war and navy from interfering with the proposed connection of the c0mpany's cable with the new cable line from Barbadoes, where is con nects with a British cable to South America.
 Nearly one-half of the nations rec ord breaking overseas commerce inetIie, past fiscal year was carried in Ameri- can ships, Secretary Alexander shows in his annual report The overseas trade reached the unprecedented total of $11,S75. .424, 900 and S5,O71, ,9O5, ,OOO of it was carried in American-owned yes sels as against $36S, ,359,OOO carried in American bottoms the year before the war.
 Thirty-five Chinese sailors from the steamship Washington Maru jumped from the ship at her pier in Staten isl and and, armed with clubs and other weapons, attempted to gain the free dom of American soil Police reserves rounded up the sailors after chase and returned them to the vessel. When the men made their break. the mate, Wong Fang, was the only officer aboard. His efforts to halt them were met with threats and the sailors swarmed the street and started for the New York ferry They were caught before they reached the pier.
 The Treasury Department estimates that more than $1,000,OOO,0 ,0O0" is out standing in unpaid taxes because of the governments inability to audit the returns. Dr. Thomas $. Adams of the treasury staff testified at hearing on taxation before the House ways and I1eans committee.
 Mrs. Hattie G. Kinsman and eighty one other plaintiffs were awarded SS5,OO0 damages against the Utah Gas and Coke Company for depreciation in property due to the location of the company's plant in their locality in Salt Lake City.
Evening star., 1920-03-08
COLUMBIA-'Her Elephant
Man"

"Her Elephant Man" is a photo
NAV story OF life under the big top in
which Shirley Mason. as a rider. in
traditional tarlatan. gallops her horse
with the poise of a professional star
of the sawdust, and Albert Roscoe, as
attendant upon string Of elephants,
gives the play it's name. Both the
star and her support are well fitted
as to roles The photoplay. which had
its premier showing here yesterday.
crowded Loew's Columbia afternoon
and evening.
The plot has its introduction In the
wilds of tribal Africa, where the child
of a missionary, left orphaned in the
care of converted natives. is discov-
cred and adopted by Uncle Jeremy"
who is buying up animals for his show.
In his party is a wealthy youth whose
marriage ended on his wedding day, and
who. in seeking forgetfulness, has
ioined the old circus man in his
travels and later becomes the ele-
phant trainer without revealing his
station in llte.
A romance develops between the
Waif and the elephant man which
causes him to leave the show to seek
release from the bonds of a marriage
which his wife has ALREADY dissolved
without his knowledge. During his
absence the ringmaster makes trou
ble as villains will bat & storm
browns out all misunderstanding and
everybody is happy, except the ring
master. who very properly is crushed
by the falling of the tent pole. And
even he found smiling satisfaction in
his last boast that he had had a way
Evening star., 1920-03-08

Cranda11's Theater yesterday under
the title Of Haunting Shadows" with
H. B. Warner pictured in the leading
role In THE House of a Thousand
Candles" Meredith Nicholson chroni-
cled the adventures of young man
who was compelled by the terms of
an accentric will to live uninterrupt-
edly for one year in a house that
seemed to be worse than haunted.
The story was replete with the sort
of episodes that send cold chills
coursing through the body AS a
stage play the piece ran for months.
The amplification of incident which
the photoplay permits and the visu-
aliZation of eerie aspects of the
story made possible by photography
AXE the picture a melo-
dramatic power.
rNr impressively plays the
role of the beneficiary who finds him
self beset by ali manner of odd ap-
Evening star., 1920-03-08
POLI'S-"Chu Chin Chow"

The coloring and splendor of the an
clent east, the interest which the
Arabian Nights tales have reused in
the minds of many generations. and a
group OF beautiful women all con-
tribute to the spell which .'Chu Chin
Chow once again cast over Washing
ton theater goers at Polls Theater
last night. This musical adaptation of
the story of "Ali Baba and the Forty
Thieves, ada pied by Oscar Asche and
set to music by Frederick Norton.
which amazed and delighted London
several years ago and which has had
an equally great success in this coun-
try continues to appeal to Washing
ton as evidenced by the large audience
last night.
With it's remarkable stage settings
of many scenes and it's large troop of
actors, "Chu Chin Chow rivals
the elaborate screen spectacles of the
day. but its brilliant coloring outdoes
anything that has been attempted on
the screen. The story of Ali Baba and
the Forty Thieves is followed fairly
closely. Abu HaSSan. the robber chief
tain; the treasure cave, which opens
only at the magic word; Ali Baba him.
sell and the slave girl, who finally
brings death to the robbers. are all
found in the narrative. Bagdad, with
its regal palaces, it's slave market and
strange street scenes, is unfolded to
the spectators.
lhe company IS large. and the prin-
cipal parts are acceptably filled. The
beauty and costuming of the chorus
Is big feature Of the spectacle. Lionel
Braham plays well the part of Abu
Hassan. alias Chu Chin Chow, making
the robber chief truly terrifying
person. Marjorie Wood, as Zahrat-al-
kulub. the desert woman, who in the
end, outwits Abu Hassan, is dramatic,
effective and beautiful. Ali Baba, the
wine bibber. who. with his son and
singing slave. stumbles on the Sc
cret of the treasure cave, is played
amusingly by Don w. Ferrandon.
George Rasely and Helen Gunther
sing some of the principal songs Eu-
gene Cowles. Albert Howson, Stella ST.
Audrie and Felice De Gregorio are
others in the cast.
The music of "Chu Chin Chow" adds
to the enthrallment of the scenes
The Song of the Scimitar," Cleo
patra's Nile" I'VE Are the Robbers of
the Wood and "Any Times kissing
Time" are among the songs that were
received with much applause The
dances are oriental and graceful, al
though costumes of some of the dan
GERS are not calculated to ward off
pneumonia 1t would be unfair to
overlook the live stock in a review A
camel. kid. several donkeys and a
pony all have their parts in the ex-
travaganza
Evening star., 1920-03-08

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Evening star., 1920-03-08
Photoplay Features.
Young Mrs. Win
throp."

Ethel Clayton in young Mrs
Winthrop" a cinema adaptation Of
the stage play by Bronson Howard. is
the attraction at Loew's Palace The
ater this week. Mr.. Towards lively
drama Of society life provides a de-
lightful vehicle for the display of the
charms and talent Of this popular
actress.
The Winthrops had begun married
life refreshingly unsophisticated
wholesome pair. Four years of pros
perity. however. make a difference
how to check. He is engrossed in
business. she in society. Both. never
theless. have time to be the devoted
slaves of a small baby daughter. On
the eve of the latter's birthday the
drifting parents strike a bargain.
Young Mrs. Winthrop renounces her
intention of attending jazz party
with her friends in the fast set while
her husband agrees to leave business
early for a quiet evening at home.
Through the Vaccinations of neigh
Dor. lady living on the shady fringe
of society. the plan goes astray, and
on the evening on which she had
hoped would be the beginning Of bet
ter things the young mother returns
in her firefy costume from the Jazz
party to find the light of the house
gone out. A sudden attack of Group
has carried away her baby daughter.
Mutual accusations follow on the
part of the parents and n separation
is arranged. Young Winthrop is
called from temporary quarters at his
club by his lawyer. a friend of hap
pier days to discuss the divorce. His
wife is given an appointment at the
same hour by the crafty advocate Of
the law, who so contrives in the dis
cussions as to the division of family
property to bring back memories Of
youth and love and happiness that
with irresistible force finally draw
the young pair together.
A comedy follows as an added at
traction and the Palace Orchestra
gives its usual treat to music lovers.
Evening star., 1920-03-08
ADJUSTMENTS
GARRICK-"Little Miss Charity"

An entertaining musical comedy IS
presented at the Garrick this week
by Edward Clark. Inc, under the
title Little Miss Charity" Although
the opening performance last nlght
did not commence until nearly ;?
o'clock and was not finished until
nearly midnight, the large audience
Little Miss Charity" is familiar in
type and involves the efforts Of
coterie of crooks to make some easy
money at the expense of a young
woman with legacy of $1,oo9.0oo
who desires a manager to take
charge of the sum and expend it in
charity. After two acts and five
scenes the chief crook and Little
Miss Charity get rid of the en-
tanGiing youth who would MARI,
Miss Charity for her bank roll and
the crook reforms and is accepted by
his fair employer. The last curtain
falls on a lighted model Of Angel
Town" to be built by the ex-crook
from the big fund and devoted to the
welfare of the lower five"
Anne Sands is winsome in the role
of Little Miss Charity. Others with
leading parts are Roy Gordon, as
"Dicky' Foster. the deep-dyed conf
dence man. and his conniving pals"
ton, and Lucy Weston, as Amy LIE
Grande
The music, by S. r. Henry and NJ
Savin. has a winning air which runs
through the production. A catchy
song by Miss Sands and Mr.. Gordon
Il Think So, Too" is particularly
fetching and carries with it the catch
phrase. which was heard repeated by
the home going audience. The
Crinoline Girl" in which Little Miss
Charity dreams that the girls chorus
parade in costumes of Martha Wash
1ngton's day. made hit Excellent
dancing by Miss Sadie Gordon, Miss
Gwendolyn Roland and Joe Niemeyer
and Bernard Wells is feature.
The chorus sang and danced we'll
and wore ''creationS' which will find
favor with womankind. The male
chorus also pleased
Evening star., 1920-03-08


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Evening star., 1920-03-08
GARDEN-"On With the Dance.

"On With the Dance" George FltZ-
maurice's realistic spectacle of New
York. a Paramount-Artcra special
production with Mae Murray and
David Powell in the leading roles.
opened for it's second consecutive
week at Moore's Garden Theater yes
terday to "A capacity audience
Mae Murray in this production has
by giving the greatest performance
of her stage or screen career. liter
ally danced her way into popular ap-
proval She also shows qualities as
an emotional actress.
The story concerns the ADVENTURES
of a Russian girl. suddenly lett an
orphan. amid the luxury of New
York's smart set, her encounters with
men. good and bad; her temporary
yielding to the lure of soft life
and her final redemption in the Dig
crisis
Evening star., 1920-03-08
RIALTO-"The Right of Way"

At NIoore's Rialto this week GlIbcrt
Parker's well known story. THE Right
of way" is presented in photoplay with
Bert Lytell in the role of Charles steele
a brilliant lawyer, whose doubt OF the
existence of God. coupled with iack
of realization of the moral force OF lie,
forms the theme of the drama.
The play opens in courtroom IN
Montreal After a dramatic trial,
Steeles appeal to the jury saves the
life of a murderer. Several years later
Steele is injured in a drunken Dra"l
and. unconscious, is thrown into the
river. and is rescued by the man whose
acuuittal he obtained, now rec!use IN
the mountains Steele is nursed back
to health in the mountain cabin, but
with his mind blank as to the past.
A noted surgeon performs an operation
that restores his memory and a nurse,
Rosalie, a village girl with deep faith