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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-19

Dear Santa Claus:
want a little baby doll and a
trunk and a serge dress and fruit,
nuts and candy and sparkler. Don't
forget mother and daddy.
MARCELE BROWN.
Dear Santa:
Please bring me a big don, and q
violin case, and some games, and
some dishes for mama, and some
candy and fruit, and nuts and fire
works, and two boxes of sparklers.
And don't forget dada.
Your friend,
ALMA BROWN.
kenansvil1e, Fla.
Dear Santa:
I am little girl years old and
I want YOU to- bring me a doll, stove,
and tea set, also bring my little sis
ter a stove and tea set.
Merry Christmas,
JESSIE WALLER.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-19

Dear Santa:
want a pair of skates and a pair
of gloves, and a pocketbook. and nuts
and candy.
EDNA MARQUES.
p. S.-Don't forget my little Dog
"Jiggs" and my little friend JAG
quelyn Brandon.
Dear Santa Claus:
l am a little girl 10 years old and
in the fourth grade. l want a doll,
Il pair of skates and a pair Of kid
gloves.
From your friend,
MARGUERITE HALL.
Dear Santa:
l am little girl years old and in
the third grade. L want a doll, doll
carriage, and a broom and some
fruits, and nuts.
From your friend,
NATHALIE MARQUES.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-19
Landlord Denies It.

Landlord Denies II.
Griffin. denies this. He loves chill
dren. he says. but was forced TO deny
Mrs. Darcy occupancy because he'd
already promised his premises to
someone else.
Here's the background Of the fight:
Mrs. Darcy supports herself and
children. Her invalid husband is in
a hospital.
She had to move to make room for
the new owner of her home. Griffin
advertised for a tenant.
Mrs Darcy says she agreed to take
Griffin's apartment and Griffin was
agreeable until he learned of her
children.
When he turned me down." Mrs,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-19

I Darcy says. Il couldn't help wonder
! ing what the country was coming to.
Son a Veteran
II had gladly seen my eldest boy
enlist. He returned, bullet SCARED.
1 am trying to bring up my younger
boys like their older brother
But if I can't find a shelter for
them, how can I convince them their
country is worth sacrifice?
II am angry there should be in
America people who would deny chill
dren the right to live. And as I
know there are thousands in the same
plight as I, 1 am going to fight this
case out"'
But Griffin will maintain in court
Mrs. Darcys children had nothing to
do with his refusal to rent to her.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-19

! Dear Santa:
I am a little boy six years old and
l have tried to be good. / so to
school every day and l am in the
second grade. 1 want you to bring
me a little train, football. firetruck
and all kinds of fruits and don't for
get to bring me a steam engine.
ROBERT MARTIN.
Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me a kitticar. And
a baby doll, and a big train, and
little rocking chair, and some candy.
and some nuts, and fruit, and ro-
man candle, and some fireworks, and
one box of sparklers. And don't for
get dada. l am little boy two
years of age, and don't forget mama.
Your friend,
CHARLES BROWN, JR.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am a good little girl and I win
be five years old next month and dear
Santa please bring me mamma doll
dressed in white and blue, a china
teaset, some fruits, candy and nuts.
Thanking you for what you will bring
me, goodbye, wishing you a Merry
Christmas.
Your little friend
LENA ARIZONA.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am a little girl only eleven years
old I go to school every day and
in the fifth grade. l would like to
tell you what want for Christmas. ]
would like for you to bring me a pair
of skates, dress and hat, and some
fruit, and doll
From yours truly,
EVELYN HARVEY.
Evening star., 1922-12-26
CRIES DRY AGENT
AS AUTOS CRASH; COSTS HIM $40

The law versus the law-policeman
prosecuting dry agent-was the scene
set for enactment in Police Court this
morning when the name of Jonathan
Paul." an alleged prohibition enforce
ment agent. was called to answer
charge of disorderly conduct. prefer
red by Sergt. H. T. Miskell. member
of the park force. But the man who
had given the name of Paul at the
sixth precinct station last night failed
to respond, and SO collateral was for
feited to satisfy justice.
According to Sergt. Miskell. he was
attracted to q collision between two
automobiles at John Marshall place
and Pennsylvania avenue late yester-
day. A touring car had run down a
hackers machine and, the damage be-
ing negligible. both automobiles were
driven to the curb for an investiga-
ton. After taking tho numbers of
the cars, Sergt. Miskell declared he
was about to continue his rounds
when a man shouted:
aMoonshine! Moonshine!"
'Moonsnlne! MooHsnihe! Ahey re
bootleggers!"
Miskell asserted he tried IN vain
to quiet tho man, who by this time
had begun a search Of the hackers
car without q warrant. Forcing the
stranger to the pavement, Miskell de-
mandsd his name. Flashing q badge,
he 10 declared to have replied that
he was Jonathan Paul of s3s c street
northwest. and a member of Com
Evening star., 1922-12-26

missioner Haynes prohibition en-
forcement squad, temporarily at
tached to the second precinct"
When Miskell declared he could
not accept the badge as evidence of
its owners authority as federal
to run away. the policeman declared,
and he was placed under arrest as a
result. A near-fight between the two
is said to have occurred at the patrol
box and it was with difficulty that
the prisoner was taken to the sixth
precinct.
Falls to Appear.
There he repeated that he was "Jona-
than Paul of the prohibition enforce
ment department" and was charged
on the ''blotter" as such. Upon CIV
ing collateral for his appearance in
Police Court the prisoner was re-
leased. When his name was called
this morning. however. there was no
feited in lieu of fine. Sergt Miskell
had half a dozen witnesses on hand
to testify for him. and declared he
would go further into the case.
Miskell denied any liquor was found
in either of the wrecked cars. Paul -
he said. had completely searched the
hacker before he could restrain him,
but no intoxicants were uncovered.
He also denied any alleged bootleg
gers had escaped while he and Paul
were arguing. On the other hand,
Miskell said, the hacker waited for
him to give him a note saying that
his rear license plates had been lost
in the collision.
Prohibition headquarters are inves.
tigatinS the case.
Evening star., 1922-12-26
JAPANESE NAVY STRONG.
BY JUNIUs b. WOOD.

BY Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1922
TOXIC, December Is. Should
France and Italy refuse to ratify the
naval limitations treaty made at the
Washington conference Japan pro-
poses Il tri-party agreement between
herself. Great Britain and the United
States, according to announcement by
Admiral 1de, vice minister of the
Japanese navy, as preliminary to
the Governing of the Japanese diet.
her naval building program. which
has been discontinued since the Wash
ington conference.
The Japanese diet met and named
committees Monday, preliminary to
the formal opening Wednesday, when
will then recess until the end of
January, when it's actual work will
start
1--WE are confident that France and
Italy will ratify the Washington
treaty during the coming MONTH
Japanese peers in private meeting
IF they should fail to do so, Grea,
Britain. America and Japan will ne
gotiate and carry out a treaty OF
their own. This failing, the impe.
rial government will restore its nava
Washington conference"
Auxiliary warships being excluded
from the scope of the Washington
conference agreement. Americas pro
gram has been unaltered Consequent
ly Japan. in adhering to her program
in constructing four 10.000-ton ant
four 7.500-ton cruisers and a proper
tionate number Of destroyers will b,
maintaining the conference ratio o.
three to FIVE"
Replying to questions by Japanes,
peers as to whether Japan had beer
eclipsed by the American Navy. Ad
miral 1de said that Japan alone pos
! sesses fast warships that are capabl,
of making twenty-seven to twenty
eight knots an hour. while japanese
shipyards are far superior to those O
the United States located in Pacif,
coast states. Regarding fuel oil. h,
ueclared that while Japan Is destitut,
! of oil fields, she is storing a suffic.en
supply to meet any emergencies.
Evening star., 1922-12-26
STEPM0THERW WIFE
FOR0NLY AN HOUR
Romance of Stepson Blast.
ed When Law Declares
Marriage Illegal.
COUPLE RECEIVE SHOCK
Judge Mattingly Performs Cere.
mony Not Knowing of Re-
lationship of Two.

A loveless, uncompromising law
today wrecked the romance of Seba
l. Christie, twenty-eight years old,
anu his stepmother. Mrs. Bessie Lee
Christie, forty-two. less than an hour
after they had been married by Judge
Robert E. Mattingly in the latter's
office adjoining the Municipal Court.
Their wedding. they discovered. was
prohibited by a District code, so that
they were not married after all.
Third Matrimonial Venture.
1t was Mrs Christie's third voyage
on the balmy sea of matrimony Be
fore she married Seba's father she
had been divorced from a previous
husband in Ohio. 1t was the young
bridegroom's first venture. however,
and his craft was permanently de-
stroyed almost before its moorings
had been loosened.
Christie and his stepmother, whose
home address Is 6O7 o street north
west, appeared at the marriage IL
cense bureau early this morning and
obtained legal authorization to be
made man and wife. They went i'm
to the oinCe of Judge Mat
tingly and waited patiently for his
arrival When that official came in
they presented their license and asked
him to tie the nuptial knot.
Lnw Discovered.
Since there was nothing on the
paper to indicate the relationship
between the couple. Judge Mattingly
willingly consented and gave the
bride and bridegroom his official
blessing before they departed smil-
ingly for their home. A few min
utes later. however. it became known
that the couple, before the ceremony,
had been stepmother and stepson.
Hurried perusals of law books dis
closed the following District code. in
section 1888.
1.-The following marriages are pro-
hibited in the District of Columbia
and shall be absolutely void alb initio.
without being so decreed, and their
nullty may be shown in any collateral
proceedings, namely. the marriage of
a man with his grandmother .
stepmother. etc. The marriage
of woman with her grandfather
husbands son, ETC.
When shown this section of the
Evening star., 1922-12-26
Senators Learn
Who Dropped
Whisky Bottle

The identity of the luckless wait
er in the Senate restaurant who'
dropped a bottle of liquor on the
marble floor of the senators din
ing room last week, thereby losing
his Christmas cheer. has been fix
ed. 1t was learned today.
Senator Curtis of Kansas. chair
man of the rules committee. who
has declared war on bootleggers
and all liquor in the Capitol build
ing. is further Investigating the
case. He has promised that stern
measures will be taken to prevent
recurrence of recent happenings in
the Senate wing in which bootleg
gers and their product have had
their part.
1t appears that the bottle of IL
quor which smashed on the floor Of
the Senate restaurant and caused
no little excitement. was the gift
of a friend to one of the walters
and that no effort was being made
by the waiter to do a bootlegging
business.
Evening star., 1922-12-26
BY GEORGE WITTE.
Nv Wireless to The Star and Chicago
News Copyright, 1922.

Nv Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1922.
BERLIN, December 26.-Germany
will begin the new year with the larg-
est national debt in the history of the
world. Her paper money will exceed
1,0o0, ,0O0, ,OOO, 900 marks or 100000
marks for each person. including
women and children one month old.
Whether Germany ever will be able
to redeem this debt Is a question
which, at present, is unanswerable,
but the odds seem to be against her.
According to the statisticianA the
average male person earns 10000
marks in lifetime or one-eishth Of
Evening star., 1922-12-26
Irish Consulate
Closes at Time Set
Bv Death Threat
By the Associated Press

By the Associated PreSs.
NEW YORK, December 26.-The
office of the Irish consulate"
from which Daniel ]. McGrath di-
rected the affairs of the dali
eireann in this city before he re-
ceived a letter threatening death
unless he left the country before
December Is. was closed today.
Leaders in Irish affairs in the city
claimed they did not know where
McGrath was. McGrath received
the letter. signed by military au-
thority. Irish republican army"
on December IA. In it he was told
he would be shot on sight after
the morning of December 26. be-
cause the writer's held him re-
sponsible for the execution of Rory
OConnor and three other Irish re-
publican leaders in November.
At that time McGrath declared
he was not actually Irish consul.
He said he had directed affairs
since the resignation of Joseph
Connolly, a few weeks before, but
insisted he had resigned even that
slight office the night O'Connor
was executed.
officials in the British consulate
said today that McGrath had not
been officially recognized as con-
sui here.
Evening star., 1922-12-26
TURKS PROTEST HEARING.
Hold Armenians Are Not Entitled
to Separate Audience.
Rr the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LAUSANNE, December GA Wig
orously worded protest against the
decision of the near east conference
subcommission on minoritieS to per-
nit the Armenian delegates to appear
before the subcommission and set
forth their desires was forwarded to
the conference today by the Turkish
delegation.
Thus a new discordant note marked
the resumption of the peace negotia-
tions after the Christmas recess. The
subcommission on minorftieS had
planned to receive the Armenian and
the Bulgarian represe entatives this
afternoon-the Armenians to explain
their demands for an Armenian ma
tional home and the Bulgarians to set
forth the position of the Bulgarian
residents of eastern Thrace, which is
passing to Turkish sovereignty.
The ottoman protest was addressed
10 President Montagna of the subcom-
mission on minorities. 1t read:
Text Of Ottoman Protest.
TN the official program for today.
which was received by our delegation.
I read. not without surprise. that the
Armenian and Bulgarian delegations
will be heard by the subcommission on
minorities At the end of the last
meeting of this subcommission l pre-
vented objections to your plan to hear
the Bulgarian delegation. and 1t was
agreed that the Bulgarians would be
received privately by the allies. Now
! learn that you not only intend to re-
Sf0n c
of the subcommiSSion. but also to hear
The Armenians j protest energetically
against the audiences.
1T, despite the Interchangeable atti-
iude OF the Turkish delegation. which
has a direct interest in the proposed
upon listening to these two delegations
I cannot agree that this meeting should
be regarded as official or that the
declarations made should find a place
in the official report of the conference.
VIII Disregard Conference.
From the official standpoint and
the standpoint of the Turkish delega-
tion the session must be considered
non-existent. The conference consists
Of two parties. The allies constitute
one party and Turkey the other.
Therefore any session at which Tur-
key is not represented cannot be re-
sarded as official.
Despite the logical arguments
which 1 furnished the other day in
support of our position. you have de-
rided now to hear the Armenians as
well as the Bulgarians. The Arme-
Jian delegation is composed of Turk
ish subjects and it pretends to rep
resent Armenians who are Turkish
subjects To enter into contact with
such a delegation would be eQuiva-
lent to employing against a state sub
jects of this same state. Any initia-
tive or step in this direction will only
encourage as to suspect the aSsur-
ances which have been showered upon
us in connection with the safeguard
.Contlnued VA 1a.e :. Column -
Evening star., 1922-12-26
Poincare Backs Full Ratifica.
tion, Which May Come by
February.
JAPAN FOR 3-POWER
PACT IF OTHERS BALK
Resumption of Naval Program
Certain in Case Washington
Accord Is Not Carried Out.
BY PAUL SCOTT MowRER.

tBy Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1927
PARIS, December 26.-Full, unre-
served ratification by France of the
Washington treaties at an early date
is now virtually assured The COM
mittee report on the treaties will be
submitted to the chamber Of depu-
ties early in January, debate will
ensue almost Immediately and rati-
fication should be completed by Feb
ruary. Doubtless there will be lively
parliamentary attacks on the naval
treaty. but the Poincare government
favors its acceptance and it appears
likely that all the treaties will pass
by large majorities.
The constitution of the French re-
public does not permit parliament to
touch a single word of the diplomatic
texts submitted. Parliament must re-
1ect or accept them exactly as pre-
sented. Hence no reservations in the
American sense are possible. How
ever. in recommending to. the foreign
affairs committee the speedy ratifica-
tion of the treaties in their entirety.
Premier Poincare requested that the
committee in its report should en-
phasize the point that France under
of the reservation voted by the Amer
lean Senate in connection with this
treaty.
Finds Objections Covered.
French objections to the naval
treaty are sufficiently covered, NJ
Poincare considers. by article 81
which provides that ratios and limi-
.tations may be changed If new situa-
tions arise.
Deputy Guernier. chairman of the
committee which will report on the
nantly that the delay in their rati-
fication by France was due to feel
ing of hostility against the treaties
or the United States.
THE question of the treaties" hi
found sympathy with the United
States. The delay in submitting the
treaties to parliament is due solely
to the fact that until four days age
we had not received the necessary
documents from Washington. These
documents comprise $500 pages and
until they were placed at my disposi.
tion a report was impossible. l mus,
have a few more days in which tc
study them. but l expect that our re.
port will be ready for the chamber ir
January"
From another source, I am Informed
that the usual French yellow book
although still unpublished, has beer
composed and is now ready for the
press. NJ. Tardieu, NJ. Mandel and
other Clemencist deputies. who, q
few days ago. gave signs of a desire
to oppose the treaties. will be greatly
handicapped. it is said. II they persist
in this design, by M. Clemenceau's
recent speeches and articles in the
United States.
IApANESE NAVY STRONG
Evening star., 1922-12-26
GERMANS OWE TRILLION Marks
AND MOUNTAINOUS VAR DEBTS

what he owes the nation at present.
The sum Of 1000. 200. 100000 marks
does not include Germany's war debt
of132. 900, 900. 900 gold marks for rep
arations to former enemies. It 10 diff
cult for the average person in the
United States to figure out for him.
self just what this means. 1t means
taxation from the cradle to the grave
for several generations. The Ger
mans are taxed for everything-food,
clothes, furniture, transportation,
marriage, divorce, liquor and tobacco.
This applies not only to the wealthy,
but to everybody.
As q result, the cost of living in
Germany IL gradually getting ~ high
~ IL 10 in Austria, whore 1t 10 higher
than in Chicago, New York. London
|or Parts. although the Austrian ex-
tiian.e is Way DOWN.
Evening star., 1922-12-26
Soviet-Inspired Group in An
CORA Assembly Resent
! Agreements With Allies.
TURKS PROTEST GIVING
AUDIENCE TO ARMENIANS
Claim Ottomans Have Settled by
Treaty All Differences
With Them.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
tRy Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1927


News. Copyright 1927
CONSTANTINOPLE,D December 26.-
Optimistic news from Lausanne since
the conference began there has been
regarded with a certain amount OF
skepticism by all those conversant
with the situation in Angora.
Well intentioned Turkish leaders
realizing that they have gained far
more than they ever hoped for. are
anxious to see peace concluded. Their
number. however, is small and they
are handicapped by the ignorant
members of the national assembly
who. fearing that the moderate eIe-
ments may decide for peace. have
given Ismet Pasha so little freedom
of action that he has been compelled
TO refer every important question to
Angora.
Anti-Kemalists Gain.
In the assembly the anti kemalist
party, supported by the Russian So
Niets, is gaining strength daily and
kemal is able to have a small ma
jority only by siding with certain
unreliable extremist elements. Even
the army, which so far has appeared
To be devoted to the victorious ra-
tionalist leader, is not reliable and
kcmal twice has refused the SuCgeS-
zion of his friends that he att"mp: d
coup d'etat by diSSolving the assem-
bly, by armed force. fearing that at
HE critical momeu; he might find him
s,lf alone.
From "a well informed source the
writer learns that stormy sittings
take place in the assembly every
time Ismet Pasha seems to agree
with the allies and the chief dele
gate is ordered to change his attitude
immediately.
MOsul Is Pivot.
The latest news from Angora in
dlcates that the settlement of the
,ninorities and straits control ques-
tions is entirely dependent regarding
the Mosul oil fields. Those in charge
of the headquarters at Stamboul are
extremely pessimistic today. declar-
ing that Angora has instructed Ism ct
Pasha not to agree to any modifica-
;ion of the national pact regarding
the Mesopotamian territories claimed
10y the nationaliStS
On the other hand. nationalists here
saw that the new Greek concentration
of troops in western Thrace is very
suspicious and that the Turks may
soon have to take measures to pre-
vent any possible surprise on the
part of the enemy.
The nationalist forces in eastern
'Thrace do not exceed 10000 at pres
ont, but all are picked men, and
though the Mudania treaty provided
that the army should not be permitted
10 possess field guns. the correspondent
learns that an adequate number has
been smuggled in recently.