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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-07
Vancouver Police
Drop Austin Probe

VANCOUVER, b. G., Dec. T.
Vancouver police Friday announced
that they have dropped the lnvesti.
cation In the mysterious disappear
ance OF Miss Nellie Austin, 20. from
Seattle and her discovery later. UNI
conscious. here. They share the
theory OF the Seattle police that
she was not kidnapped. as she
claims. but that her disguise as IA
boy and disappearance was a result
OF trouble In her home.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-07
PHONE SUIT is
TO BE ARGUED

A motion 70 dismiss tho complaint
OF the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
Co. for higher rates viii be argued
before the federal court at Tacoma
next Monday, Corporation Counsel
T. j. l.. Kennedy was informed Fri
day. The date for. the argument was
set at the request OF Otto b. Rupp
for the phone concern.
Tho motion TO dismiss was made
by the state department of public
works.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-07
SEVEN DIE IN
JAIL IN YEAR

Five cases Of men dying as n re-
suit OF imprisonment and total alb
sence OF medical attention In the
city Jail during the past year, were
brought to the attention OF Police
Chief w. y. seyeryns Friday.
Two others died shortly after re.
ceIying attention, including the
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BY MRS. w. S. AUSTIN
Mother of Nell Austin

r REACHED Seattle this morning
L from my home in Hugo. Okla,
TO investigate for myself and to
learn the truth about the disap-
pearancs of my daughter.
This afternoon am going TO Van
couyer to visit Nell at the hospital
and to ask her to tell me her story.
If Nell says she was kidnapped
while on her way to church Sunday
night. know that the story she
is telling is true in spite of any
police testimony that she ran away
voluntarily
Nell is a good girl She is a
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-07
LII GEE GEE, TIL OFFICE
NAMP, SEZ:
a sweetie in the hall Is worth
two on the telephone.

steinmetz. the famous scientist, in.
vented artificial lightning elk months
ago. but Seattle bootleggers were
selling IL years ago.
A hick town r. one where II a man
appears on the street with a collar
everybody ssks him II he IL going nm
70 the city
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Howdy. folksl This Is Friday.
Heaven help the fish on day
like this.

Howdy, folks, This Is Friday.
Heaven help the fish on day
like this.
May Allison. movie actress. IL
asking a divorce from Robert T.
Reel.
As they used to say In the old
days; One moment. please. while
the operator changes reels"
President Coolidge has already
been presented with Is dogs. but
people stil continue 10 hound him.
President Coolidge has written his
message TO congress, but II wasn't
half as interesting as Doc Brown
trying to bawl out Jimmy Kellogg.
PROVED!
Coolidge read his message.
which contained over 1000
words. This ought TO prove once
and for all Cal can talk II he
wants 10.
Leap Year Is only ~ days away,
gals. and our private detective in.
forms us that both f. L. and Il. T..
McGrath. the tailors. are as free Of
wives as a gas stove Is OF gas.
And toiHs ire are about u. ire
might az iceH inform the girls that
Frank Reagan. the Lawyer. siiil
buys his oicn Hecbtics.
And Of course Dan Landon Is as
wild and untutored as a Texas steer.
But whether or not he'll survive the
coming New Year is right up to the
gals who are willing to take n
chance. /.
An aviator at San Antonio. flying
while drunk. crashed his plane.
No doubt he came down In a red
nose dive.
w DIARY
CDscsmber 81
up. and TO the office. where all the
! morning busy, and - dined with my
people at home, and then 10 tho Metro
polhan playhouse. and there saw 80
This IL LondOu." n fine comedy, I
think. and written largely by g. Conan.
the poet, and ~ 10 home. Did spend !
shiliings this day.
Favored lipstlcks are going 10 be
placed on the market soon, II is an.
nOunced.
We know several girls whose lip.
stick ought TO be favored with
ounce.
Wei. the guy who admits that he
Is as honest as the day is long
doesn't have to be 80 honest now that
the days are shorter.
Down in California when a report.
er Is told to go out and dig up n
story, he comes back with one about
buried ape.man.
What has become Of Juanlta Nil.
Ter. the California poetess. VINO was
recently divorced from the noon
Is that lunar body stIll paying all.
mony7
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-07
VETERANS DEPENDENT
ON sIyNDAf DANCES

This Sunday closing law r. sub.
terfuge, rcsorted 10 by lot OF
reared officials. who fear to wrestle
with tho problem on It's merits. .
Tworoger said. Under tho excuse
that Vice and law violations exist In
certaln dances south Of ycsler way.
the city council has passed nm ordi.
nance closing all dance halls on
Sunday.
MANY veterans OF tho city. par
ticularly tho disabled veterans and
tho relief organizations, nro depend.
ent upon the proceeds from certain
Sunday night dances. such ns tho
HIppodromc and the Bungalow. 20
finance their welfare activities. They
hold no brief for tho dances south
OF tho slot. but believe those dances
should be compelled 10 obey tho
law.
1.-THE city council has remedy
nj hand 10 compel observance OF
tho law in these South End
dances" TworoEer declared. That
relief Is impeachment OF Mayor
Brown. The council has full Ru-
1 thority. sitting aa board Of in.
/ auiry. 10 impcach the mayor for
wllful violation OF the city laws or
for any crime involving moral turpi.
/ tude.
These charges must be posted five
days before the hearing OF the
I charges and n twothirds vote OF
the council ia necessary 70 remove
the mayor.
THE council knows this II Is
I set forth In the city chart c r.
Article v. Section IL.
There has been no complaint OF
law violations In the uptown dances
where veterans receive benefit from
the proceeds. Certainly Il Ia no
more Illegal 10 attend n Sunday
night dance than II Ii to attend n
Sunday night theatsr or any Of the
other Sunday attractions"
VETERANS ARE IN
NEED OF DANCE MONEY
Tworoser said that Roosevelt hall
OF tho disabled veterans orgnnlza-
/ ton VIII DC iofceu 10 huhpcnu Ns
activities and close II the proceeds
from Sunday night dances are shut
off. The employment bureau for
veterans and many other activities
will be forced to suspend. he de-
clared.
John witherspoon, chairman OF
the allied relief work OF tho yeter.
ana also declared the hall must
close. The hail Is headquarters for
the Disabled Veterans organiza-
lions, Veterans Relief association,
the Roosevelt post. American Le-
elon, the Spanish War Veterans,
their auxlliaries and several other
veterans organizations.
The referendum movement, n
successful. will be placed before the
voters OF the city at the spring elec.
lions. II IL the first time that n
referendum has been reaorted 10 In
several years and Is expected 10 re-
suit in n concrete expression Of
opinion from citizens on the dance
hall question.
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ADOLFO la HUERTA
is BACKED ny REBELS

The war cry OF the rebels II
Down with imposition
The revolt Is aimed NJ President
ObreRon and his candidate for tho
presidency. Gen. Gales.
The rebels back Adolfo De Ia
Huerta.
Vera Cruz. hot bed Of the insur.
rectlon. was entirely cut off from
the capital today
No trains are running. roads are
blocked. Communication by tele.
phone and wire is interrupted.
Federal forces moved promptly
against tho Vera Cruz rebels. ready
TO attack and TO conflnc the move.
ment TO the state.
Tho movement in Vera Cruz. MS
In the states OF Mlchoachan. Guer.
zero. Jalisco and Tamaulipos, where
apparently Independent outbreaks
have occurred. apparently is entire.
ly political and has TO do with the
forthcoming presidential elections.
The uprising in Vera Cruz. how.
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CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON
IVY CLUB

The barber who tells you for
the Goth time how he once
shaved Doc Brown.
Our idea OF really cautious man
Is one who hides his German marks
under brick in the fireplace.
Now that congress Is again In
session. our radio broadcastcr'
won't have 70 sprain their skulls
inventing Bedtime Stories. They
can merely read a few pages from
the Congressional Record
A. Us.
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.MExICANSTATES
REVOLT
Battle Between Rebels and
,FederaIs Looms
ny FREpEnIrR O. NEUsEIER

ny FREDERICK q. NEUMEIER
United Press staff Correspondent
MEXICO CITY. Dec. 7.--RevoIt in
ak Mexican states appeared likely
20 culminate in fighting between
federal forces and rebels In Vera
Cruz. NJ least. before nightfail.
Some unconfirmed dispatches told
OF skirmishes already having taken
place.
a rebellion. supported By $4,000
soldiers under Gen. Guadalupe San.
chez, started yesterday IN the state
OF Vera Cruz. Four other states are
reported 20 have followed suit and
rcpudlatcd tho federal government.
Dispatches from Vera Cruz today
indicated that city was calm and
that 30 far no conflicts OF any kind
have taken place.
Vera Cruz. being the rebel head.
quarters. reports OF rapid spread
Of tho revolt and It's success were
being sent broadcast by propagand.
lsta for the movement.
Gov. Laurens OF San Luis Potosi.
n lieutenant OF De In Herta. L..
sued a proclamation In XilItla.
throwing Off allegiance 10 the OBJ
RECON government. This made six
states in which the rvvolt against
Obregon had spread.
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LLOYD WITHOUT A MAKEUP.

them slapstick dancing and singing.
ut was a wonderful sensation"
Harold says, ito know such a really
great actor. And it was through
him that I got my first stage part,
that of Little Abraham in the Bur-
wood stock company's production of
Tess of the D'Urbervilles. This is a
wonderful part, if you can recall the
play. [ had forty lines to speak.
O'Connor worked hard to drill me in
this part, and the proudest moment
of my life came when L stepped on
the stage to do Little Abraham. My
work in this won me eight other
engagements that season, all kid
parts. Among the plays were The
Little Minister and Lovers Lane.
The Lloyds Move Again.
Few persons are aware of the fact
that one of the persons who gave
this lad much help in his early at
tempts to be. a good actor was that
grand old man of the stage, Frank
Bacon, unforgettable Li0htnin' Bill
Jones of "Lightnin" When the
Burwood season closed, Bacon, al
ways eager to assist youngsters who
were set upon a stage career, want
ed Harold to go with him on
vaudeville tour in a one act sketch
along the lines of 'Lightnin'." But
the elder Lloyds refused, and the
boy was forced to remain behind to
do what little he could in entertain
ing the family circle and his neigh
borhood friends with his magic and
his dancing.
When he became IS Lloyd senior
suddenly decided another move would
do no harm, and this time the fam
lily drew up at San Diego. Now
Harold was at the awkward age, too
big for boy parts and too young for
juveniles. SO he chose the alterna-
tive of, character acting,
at was funny how we happened
to go to San Diego" he says. Dad
had come into an inheritance Of
something like $4,000, and didn't
know what to do with all that
money. but he finally chose San
Diego. We were really all undecid-
ed about whether to go there or to
so to New York, where could real
ly be an actor. So dad said. one
day, we'd toss a coin. 1 said if the
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his day is told by him with much
spirit and interest. He always had
been interested in magic. And one
night while he was standing in
crowd before a store window in
Omaha looking at display of magic
tricks a fire wagon came rumbling
down the street, and instantly every
one took to his heels and followed
the laundering vehicle around the
corner. That is, every one but Har-
old.
The child was looking earnestly in
upon the display when suddenly he
peered up and saw the face of none
other than the. handsome John Lane
O'Connor, stock actor leading man
wonder man of young Harolds
life!
Could it be that John Lane O'Con-
nor had spoken to him?
Yes, John Lane O'Connor had
spoken to him!
Interested in magic. son?" he had
said.
YES, sir. Harold replied. "And
I'm pleased to meet you. Mr.. John
Lane O'Connor."
The actor was so impressed with
the fact that child would prefer
to stand there and look at a magic
display rather than join the crowd
that trailed away after the ~fire
engine that he "squatted down Oh
his launches" as Harold puts Is,
and asked the little fellow all about
himself
This was the beginning.
"Stay away from it, sonny" O'Con-
nor said to him. when Harold con-
fided in him that he, too, wanNed to
be a great actor. Look at me.
Why, I haven't had square meal
for a month"
And on the instant young Harold
had a thought. If the great John
Lane OConnor hadn't had a square
meal for month something would
have to be done about it.
Mothers a fine cook" the child
assured him. "Why don't you come
live at our house. Will you? Wei
take you as a roomer."
The actor, much to the boys sur
prise, took Harold's address, and the
next day he came, to the Lloyd home,
according to promise. He would like
: to engage board and lodging. And
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Eskimo Seal Hunt

the deck of the lkyacl< and plays out.
It carries with it "a drag like kite,
which retards the animal and eX-
hausts him, but. does not pull hard
enough to break the line. Even this
draw is made Of skin stretched over
a spliced framework. When the line
is all played out it is seen to be at
tached to float, which is also car
ried on the. deck of the boat. This is
made of an inflated skin. It has
plugs and attachments of cleverly
carved ivory, for wood is far too
precious to be used Ill this land Of
ivory so far from the forests. The
float serves as a buoy SO that the
Eskimo can follow the animal and
find it after it gives up it's struggle
and dies. Then, too, the float keeps
the catch from sinking and being
lost in the oceans depths.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-08
Arsenic in Nature

Y T. has long been known that
traces of arsenic are to be found
not only in human and animal
organisms but in certain plants such
as the cabbage, turnip and potato,
and in wheat. Jadin and Astruc,
members Of the French Academy Of
Sciences, found also that arsenic is
to be encountered in rice, peas, beans,
lettuce, celery, asparagus, parsnip
and in most vegetables used as food
by man, as well as in apples, pears,
pineapples, oranges and nuts. Since
plants undoubtedly get the elements
from the soil arsenic must occur far
more widely in nature than was at
one time supposed.
long since a "fire keeper" died worth
more than $500, which he had saved
out Of his earnings.
1t often happens that in the East
End a strict. Jew goes out into the
street and says to some Christian
passerby: would you be so kind
as to come indoors and light my
lamp? The fire poker has failed
me-"
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Exercising to
Cure Eye Ills
Setting Up System Involve
Memory and Imagination
Glasses Not Allowed.

Some accomplishments are unluc'
even among the ones we are most Va
of. For instance, the ability to me
ones ears up and down, while Npleasi
to the possessor, might ALLEVIATE the
gard Of some supersensitive pers
whose friendship was essential to !
fortune. And the same possibility ext
in the case of eating glass, shrielli
like a motor truck and many other gil
natural and acquired.
One unlucky gift that many delu6
persons are very proud of and ia
great pains to improve Is that of sect
on either side of them without movi
their eyes from the front. A man w
this accomplishment can see credi
across the street without turning
head. Or, if he is detective, he {
do his shadowing unnoticed.
A society woman sometimes boa
that she has eyes in the back of
head" enabling her to avoid meet
the eyes of that dreadful Mrs. Jon
who is trying to bow t. her but VIII,
she is determined not to recognize.
School teachers, policemen and +;
tory forenien deliberately cultivate {
art of overing wide range of Wis
with motionless eyes that seem to
looking straight ahead, Anybody
do it. No cleverness is required. /
whoever acquires the habit will hs
cause to regret it, for he will hs
strained his eyes and impaired
vision.
There is a depressed spot in
center of the retina at the back of
eye, and with that spot you can
better than with any other part
the retina. 1t is called the fovea. WI
you see with the fovea your vision
normal and perfect When You GU
vate "eyes in the back of your hef
you are training your eyes to he hal
ual use of other parts OF the r~tina,
parts with which vision is imperfect.
Exercises as Cure.
If you keep it up long enough
strain and the imperfection will beco
so marked that you will no longer
best at the point to which your eyes &
directed but at some other point mo
or less remote from it. To gaze II
the eyes Of your beloved you may ha
to level your eyes at her ear or you m
have to look off over her shoulder, pc
sibly in the direction Of some other 81.
A great variety of eye troubles resu
from that kind of a strain, and in mo
cases the victims are quite unconsciol
of the cause off the trouble. Wearir
glasses enables them to see for the tin
being but does not cure the bad strain
ing habit.
II can be cured, however and the no
NAL habit Of central fiXation" restore
by a series Of simple exercises involvir
the memory and imagination. The II!
of these exercises is spreading amor
school children and teachers through Il
missionary work Of the Better Eyesigl
League, and also through the clinic
the Harlem Hospital conducted by d
w. H Bates, author Of 1.-THE Cure
Imperfect Sight by Treatment Withol
Glasses"
Savages seldom have imperfect vlslo
because having fewer motives for SEER
while pretending not to see they frank
turn their eyes and heads toward Il
object Of vision.
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Curious Way to
Make a Living

sa .an. Of u 1 fosm are. are n rsny
strange to an American. One
occupation by which a score of Brit
ons are said to earn their livelihood
is that of "poking fires
BY the rabbinical law no Jew is
allowed to kindle or mend any fire
on the Sabbath and in certain
places in England where Jews are
very numerous this prohibition
makes it necessary that persons shall
be employed from sunset on Friday
to the same hour on Saturday in
going from house to house lighting
fires and lamps and attending to
them.
One woman in the East End of
London often has as many of fifty
houses to attend to and draws small
fees from each of them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-08
Curious Storage
of Hay

THERE) is practieed in Kashmir,
India, novel method of put
ting fodder up for winter use.
The country lies in a valley an ong
the TIimalayas. The chief industry
of the people consists of raising fine
wool and in making this into fabrics
which have carried the name of the
country all over the world.
A curious custom in some places is
that of hanging quantities Of hay up
among the branches of trees. Why
this is done is more than the
stranger can guess and he is much
puzzled until some native informs
him that in winter the snow lies five
and six yards in depth and that the
supplies of hay, which as he now
looks at them seem only as if in
tended for giraffes, are then easily
reached by the focks of sheep which
abound there.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-08
Buzzer Reminds to
Turn Off Lights

THROUGH forgetfulness lamps
are left burning in cellars, at
tics or closets, and current il
wasted.
This waste Of electricity can be
efectually prevsnted by a switch
and buzzer now on the market. Both
are mouGted on the same base.
When the switch that controls the
lights is on, the buzzer furnishes
gentle though insistent reminder that
the lamps are burning.
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not the most satisfied and settled in
-dividual in the world, decided that
Omaha was good town, and so they
went to Omaha.
The first-the very first-thing
that happened in his life which was
to lead indirectly to his arrival at
the top of the class of comedians Of
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WY HEN once he has gone to
w the trouble Of splicing =
fine spear handle the Els
lzimo does not wish to break it; so
the point is put on with a toggle or
joint. When a ST. 81 walrus is
harpooned the sudden struggle Of
the animal does not break the spear,
but merely unjoints the point, and
the more the animal struggles the
more the point turns crosswise in
the wound and the firmer the baTbs
take hold.
But the animal cannot escape, for
with thongs of skin the point is con-
nected with the spear shaft The
animal merely swims away or dives
deep into the sea, carrying with him
the spear. The long leather thong
which is attached to it uncoils from
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senior years spent their time in
wondering what on earth they were
going to do after they left college.
The thought of idleness was intoler-
able to them.
an my opinion" said married
graduate. "being a wife and mother
should not take up 100 per cent. of
an intelligent woman's time. 1t
ought only to take IS per cent. The
remaining % per cent. can be spent
on the movies. bridge, politics and
charities Or it can be spent in bust
ness or a profession. This is where
the part time job should come in. I
think it is going to come in, for bust
ness firms are beginning to realize
the valued of trained women who are
married and who can only give part
time to their work"
A part time job is being held down
very successfully by a married
woman, a college girl, who has a
three year-old baby. And the baby
does not suffer from neglect, for
competent governess takes her out
every morning while her mother is
at work.
There are two Numerically OPP
posed views at large about college
girls. One is that they are "blue-
stockings" only interested in careers
and the demonstration Of the theory
that they can be perfectly happy and
Independent of men, both financially
and emotionally. The other is that
they are only occupied with boys,
lipsticl1 and the glorification of them
selves-a view adhered to by Mr.. A.
B. See. Neither of these views is
correct, according to the last college
woman interviewed, another Smith
girl. She also is married, and she
also married for love.
"They accuse u.s." she said, "of
first one thing and then its opposite.
1t is just that they feel that they
must accuse us of something. They
are wrong. For if we are mannish
and independent. how can we be
feminine and f1irtatious at the same
timer"
The extraordinary thing about the
whole affair is that while everybody
goes into rhapsodies as to the rea-
sons why college girls marry the
facts, show that a relatively small
proportion of them marry at all. Ac-
cording to reports of statisticians in
the journal of Heredity" less than
so per cent. of them marry. And
among those who go in for the post
graduate studies the percentage is
even lower.
OF the women doctors, for instance,
who graduated from Johns Hopkins
from 1897 to 1907 only 36.8 per cent.
married. This report was compiled
in 1917 so we can hardly blame
their maiden state on a lack of time.
OF those receiving Phi. D. degrees
from Bryn Mawr between 1888 and
1909 only 1913 per cent. married.
While a larger percentage may be
getting married now than formerly,
statistics of recent classes don't
mean anything, because many of the
girls who are not married now will
very probably. get married in the
future. According to a ''dean Of
women" they marry late. but they
marry well. She did not indicate
whether she meant "marrS well"
from social, financial, eugenic or
an amorous standpoint.
AS to why they don't marry, Of
course that is hard to suggest. Some
have dependents to support, others
careers, and still others independence
to maintain.
And it is highly impertinent to ask
further.