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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-16
Editor The star:

Editor The Star:
To thlnk a humane society would
gioat over failing poor devil 20 Ions.
heiliah days-so days behind prison
bars; 80 days wiihou, liberty all be-
cause We. tho supposed power behind
Tho throne. We. tho people (poor
suckerD allow such a thing AZ a hu-
mano society 20 exist and 10 uHurp
tho power OF tho people by nothing
but bluff Bluff and hot Airl
Does the constitution say that No
should soak Ia prisons 10 that white.
hvercd. sanctimonious dybpsp;ier
may sioat over tho business Of elS-
waiting q baking horse over and
above n human hsinK7
II Il docA then 1, In but a scrap
Of paper and should 10 repealed.
But 10. and hcholdl How aro you
going 10 repeal 1T.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-16

OF young man and he never win be
much Of an old man. AZ least not
such an Old man as some deHire 70
be. I am not one Of those who be-
lleyo the violation Of that sacred
something must come 10 my own
doorstep or even 20 my country's
gates before II is time for action. II
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-16
Hart Does Good DAVIS Work

Gov Hart used his veto power just where il ought TO be
used when he killed Ed Sims pet bill approprating $780,
GOO for oil well and otherwise embarng the State of
Washington on a career Of validating.
The bill vicious porkgraft measure and the deader
il is the better for the welfare Of the state.
Now if GovHar will kick Ed Sims himself off the state
payroll he will be doing the state and himself good turn.
PcnnlAn commission TO soundhog No doubt
= many people have tried o them lately
people think equality swapping places
with those above them
only marry live happily
Il takes
Practically brIdeErOOns
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-16

tho young man wants 70 leave II 10
the man az 90. all right It's 20.
He may not stand tho goff quite %
well. but hs has some real red blood
left IN his veins Death with honor
better than life a. traitor 20 his dear
cot and most valued ideals
G. l.. PERCY.
Qulleene. Wash.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-16
Selling Poison Booze Murder

In Iowa, where people close enough to the soil to
be sensible, the legislature passes bill which charges
the vender or giver OF poison hooch with mansaughter
That will end the wood alcohol danger in Iowa
Every state should have similar law But the crime
might better be cassed frstdegree murder instead
OF mansiaughter since the vender Of poison booze op
may be absent.
Ono tax that WIN get kick most OF u is this inheritance
tar "''
Ono sign Of spring In when fellows general
pervcrsty OF things they Join navy.
San Francisco seeking his should be made nm
honorary movie - " 1880 ."
Any make enough cfances 10 pracco nm
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-16
6,S63 Books Off the Press

Only 6,S6S new books were published last year in
America You wonder why the only" II seems lot.
But in 1921 the total 1880.
falhng-off Of third in the number of new books
published however doesn't necessarily reveal the amount
of reading being done by the public For instance 100
new books selling average of 1000 copies each
total of 100000 copies, do not much good
book selling 10000 copies The public unquestonably
read more books last year than the year before
The drop in the number Of books issued last year
means that publishers selecting manuscripts
carefully before putting their money and sales organiza
tons back of them
Fewer works of fiction are being published than
IN 1892. The movies explain that. They supply fiction
without the bother of wading thru type
The poets and dramatsts to be getting larger
audience Last year $50 works of and drama
were published, compared with 259 in 1892.
Geography and travel in the matter of new books,
Biography has fallen off third; get our great men
in the daily news
The world war has made many Of interested in
original causes. Which probably explains why 51S diff
ferent works Of history were published last year,
pared with 165 in 1892.
When you observe that 17173 new books were pub
ished in country during the last two years, you
realize how few books out of the total the average per-
son has time to read. To wade thru all Of them, you
would have to read nearly "a volumes day.
cheap government who do the talking but
rs darned expensive to the who have the
This country many people making money
without making anything else.
Not being able to break way Sing Sing prisoners
broken out with the mumps
Boston cops may her husband
II docs sound plausible
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-16

Boston admits may
II plausible.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-16

Talk be cheap do the talking but
It's darned expensive the who have
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-16

This country Of has mang money
without making anything else.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-16

Not being able 20 break out other Sing
broken with the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-25

the Legion building was attended by
about ten members and no other
than routine business was transacted.
Mrs. George Shultz Is spending
some time at Asbury Park.
Fight fans to the number of
nearly seventy-five heard the return
on Monday evening from the Leon
ard-Tendler championship bout held
at the Yankee Stadium through the
courtesy of w. Harry Dokerson, who
brought his radio to fire head
quarters and entertained the crowd
for over three hours.
Mrs. William Perrine, who has
been visiting her parents and friends
at her former home, at Franklin
Vile, N. Y. for several weeks, has
returned home.
The alterations to the building to
be occupied by the Nisonoff meat
market are nearing completion and
adds much to tho appearance of
Railroad avenue at that point. An
other store will be added to the
number of the towns business house
in the Nisonoff building. Mr.. Nison-
off will occupy apartments in the
rear of the store proper.
Paul S. Dawson, who has been i'll
for some months show some i'm
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-25

She closed her eyes to still the
throbbing OF her fevered brain.
She opened them again, and, acting
on a sudden impulse, glanced up at
Pennington. He was kneeling on
the soft earth, one eye to the mar
rover portion of the chink that
served as a spy-hole, while the bar
rel of his automatic was thrust
partly through the wider extremity
of the aperture. She caught some
thing of the infection of the calm
that seemed to pervade his being,
and looked back into the hut in
time to see a tall Chinaman in
black rise to his full length, a hide
Gus grin Illuminating his swarthy
features, the Yellow Seven held
aloft. The cultural chattering be-
gan again, the cards were swept in
to a neat pack, disappearing into
the capacious sleeve of the man who
had originally spread them out, and
the nand of the Oriental who held
the Yellow Seven slipped to his
waist.
Every head was turned toward
the Commissioner as a long blade
flashed in the lamp-light, and the
Cinnamon, still gesticulating, rose
one by one, spreading themselves
u along the walls; but the figure
in the mandarin jacket. embroider-
ed with a many-headed dragon, re-
manned in precisely the same posi-
ton as that in which Monica had
first see him.
The tall Oriental in black drew
back his sleeve and tested the
blade with a grimy thumb. A sud
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-25

den hush fell upon the entire assem-
bly, and the girl, cramped and trem-
bling, became aware of the ticking
of the watch at her wrist. In all
this CHASTITY nightmare, these cease
less, regular pulsations rang out as
the sole links with the normal ex-
istence she had left behind her. She
tried to think of the bungalow on
the hill, the long cane chairs with
their many cushions, the winding
path that led, ribbon-like to the
road, the wooden jetty where the
coasting-steamers lay at anchor;
but these phantom creatures refused
to materialize and her eyes, sore
and tingling. gazed straight before
her. fixed, because she was power
less to withdraw them, upon whom
the lot had fallen to destroy her
brother.
Someone came forward and
threw aside the. log, and the hand
that held the knife swung suddenly
aloft.
Pennington.s pistol broke upon
the stiffness. The man with the dag
ger spun round awkwardly and col
lapsed in a heap. Cries of terror
resounded on every side, and a
hand, reaching upward. plunged the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-25
LAURENCE HARBOR


Miss Helen Cockley, of eWsthel1,
is visitinv at the home of Mrs.
Thomas Wells.
Miss Anne Mackey. of Richmond
Hill lis spending her vacation with
friends here.
Mrs. L. r. Bates is visiting friends
for several days.
Miss Lillian Hoffman, of Danyillc
is the guest of Mrs. o. Vincent (
Forest Xenue
J. c.. Arrowsmith is visiting
friends here.
Mrs. Walter S. Rooney has opened
her bungalow for the season.
Miss Catherine Conner, of Newark,
| svisiting 1t the home of Mrs.
Frank Keeney of Sunset avenue.
M. H. Mayors an dhis party en-
joyed a fishing trip on Sunday re-
turning with a record catch.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-25
.5NE NGGL0W SGVeN
& THEHUT IN 81
NA THE EAR NGI
ev EDNUNp sNsLL.
MAVs1RAxsp BY
e. RM1SAnsRSaALp

I slab, she counted seven Orientals.
His back to her. clad in a gorgeous
widesleeved jacket of dark blue silk
on yhich was embroidered a many
headed dragon, sat an elderly
| Chinaman whose enormous proper
tons could belong to no other man
| she had yet seen than the arch
criminal whom Pennington sought
to secure redhanded.
On the stone slab, like so many
sponge-fingers, Chinese playing cards
were spread face-downward and,
even as the girl bent forward, a yell
low hand began passing to and fro
over the surface of the improyised
table, sweeping the cards into a
shapeless mass.
Each drew a card except the man
whose back vas toward her, who sat
motionless as a carved figure, silent
and watchful as the sphynx. She
saw the cards turned so that they
formed the nucleus of seven packs,
their converging cirEles of black and
red showing clearly in the light of a
hurricane lamp that hung, askew,
from a beam. The light 1ickered
and an arm shot up from the hud-
died group and raised the wick. For
a moment it flared to the roof, Ill
uminating every corner of the build
ing, and Monica gasped. Half-htd-
den behind a log, his arms stretched
out beyound his head, the wrists
secured by leathern thongs, his
knees drawn up almost to his chest,
lay the Commissioner of Police. The
head came slowly round and the
PROSTATE man gazed inquiringly to-
ward the squatting circle. As if
realizing that she had seen, Penning-
toms fingers closed on her arm and,
at that instant, she realized the
significance of those seven, ever-in-
creasing piles of greasy cards. They
were drawing for the Yellow Seven!
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-25
JAMESBURG

Fidelity Lodge, Independent Order
Odd Fellow will meet to night.
w. Harry Lokerson, Democrat
county Committeeman, of James
burg, has been honored by the coun-
ty officers of the party with a place
on the reception committee to re-
| ceive the voters and friends of Gov
ernor George Silzer, at the recep-
ton to be held on Friday. Middlesex
County Day, at Sea Girt. Andrew
Yorke, of Helmetta, has also been
named in a similar capacity, acting
for Helmetta.
Harry L. Emmons and John Rule,
Jr., of the office force of the George
w. Helme Company, are spending
this week as part of their vacation
period.
Clarence Bennett has taken a posi-
ton in Trenton.
Joseph Corey has opened a
"uuick lunch in the building form
erly occupied as a bakery on Rail-
road avenue and there seems to be
need for such an enterprise.
The regular monthly meeting or
the, Chamber of Commerce, held at
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-25
building in

building in darkness.
Monica and Pennington rose ST.
multaneously.
stop where you are" he called
back to her. Lie close up to the
wall, They'll be too scared to look
for you there"
He raced on toward the entrance
and Monica, too dazed to catch the
! meaning of his words, followed in
his wake. AS he stumbled through
the underground she remembered
that she still carried the torch.
Vague shadowy forms slithered past
her, stampeding as if surprised by
a regiment of soldiers. rather than
by one white man and a girl. She
heard them crashing away into the
distance and somewhere a man
screamed in mortal terror as he
ran, as il fearful that the friend
who strove to keep pace with him
were the a%venging Englishman
seeking his life.
AS their footsteps died away.
Monica switched on the torch. The
door of the building stood wide
open before her and she let the
light travel from left to right, from
Pennington kneeling over some
thing on the floor to the huddled
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-25

heap that sprawled awkwardly With
In a foot of where her brother lay.
lShe ran forward with a little cry
land fell on her knees at his side.
She was reaching out for the knife
the Chinaman had let fall when
Pennington fired, when a voice call
ed to her from the darkness.
"Monicai-er-Mrs. Viney!-Just
switch that light over here a Sec
ond. There's something l don't
quite und Srxtnnd."
The Commissioner stirred and his
eyes blinked up at her.
With shaking hands, she steered
the narrow ray until it concentrated
on the disguised features of Pen
nington, who was slowly rising to
his feet from the thing over which
he had been kneeling.
She saw a preposterous effigy, a
cunningly contrived figure of straw,
with china mask and hands, over
which a coat of blue embroidered
with a many-headed dragon was
still drawn!
"The Daughter of LChai-H Hung"
the next episode of this gripping
series. will start I'm our next issue.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-25

provement.
A crowd of rooters will accompany
the Jamesburg baseball team to
Helmetta tonight 10 see the newly
organized team in action against the
George w. Helme Company nine.
The game will start at 6 o'clock.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-05-18
FOREIGN


Irish Free State rejects De vaIera's
peace terms and declares it will have
no further parley with him.
British Commons satirizes United
States dry ship ruling by bill reQuir-
ing liners to carry liquor for Dassen-
gers.
Pope Plus received King George
and Queen Mary of England In solemn
audience in the Apostolic Palace OF
the Vatican.
James Miller Parmelee. twenty-six.
Of Yonkers, n Y, was killed in Paris
when he was caught accidentally be-
tween gendarmes and apaches during
a street battle.
British in new note to urge Ger
many to make more substantial rep
aratlons offer.
French court martial imposes death
sentence upon German labor leader
convicted Of sabotage.
james M. Parmelee of Yonkers, en-
ployee Of Guaranty Trust Company
branch, slain In fight between police
and gangsters in Paris.
Chinese bandits send American cap
tives with notes threatening sdire
Consequences unless troops are
Withdrawn. Miss Aldrich, in Pekin,
tells her story OF hardships. Majors
Pringer. Allen and latter's son escape.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-05-18
GENERAL

Thirteen men burned to death when
Texas oil gusher takes fire.
Demand that Senator Knobb be ex-
PEELED made by colleague in Florida
senate.
President of General Federation Of
Women's Clubs advocates world court
in convention.
Federal Judge Knox in New York
rules prescriptions of whisky by ply
sicians shall not be limited by prohi-
bition.
Mrs. Hayes is indicted in New York
for forgery as Charles NJ. Schwab tes-
titles signatures to S325.000 notes are
forgeries.
Former Justice Hatch of New York
will receive s65 an hour for acting as
referee in Gould estate case.
Witness in Famous Players-Lasky
trust inquiry says Charlie Chaplin
makes million out Of The Kid
The Democrats made clean sweep
in Baltimores municipal contest,
electing their candidates for mayor,
comptroller. president of council and
seventeen of the eighteen members
Of the new one-chamber council. How.
ard w. Jackson, Democratic mayoral-
ty nominee, defeated William F, Broe-
ming, Republican incumbent, by ap-
prommately $4,000 votes.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-05-18
NATIONS BUSINESS

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We" AoiA l. eVu.. $3.50 $3.50 .1 ~ So. ~.
,nlunclion asa'ns. So.ee anu sa.1 9us@'
EAchanse' sosei "'alen' y eppea-
Transportation groups Oh uhiteu
States Cnamoer OF Commerce ap-
proves railroad eampalsn ior improve
ment-
More tnan seo'VVV'ooo ia eonsaruc-
ton held up IN new YORK Clty pc
cause OF hign costs as New YORK lei
sephone company postpones slA'VvV'-
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-05-18
Great Events That Are Chang
ing the Worlds Destiny Told
In Paragraphs.
ITEMS TO INTEREST ALL
Short Chronicle Of Past Occurrences
Throughout the Union and Our
colonles-News From Europe
That VIII interest.
WASHINGTON

Secretary of the Navy DENLY is
greatly displeased at the reported
criticism by Admiral Sims of recent
appointments to high naval posts Of
officers who were not graduates Of
the Naval War College.
Fraud order issued by Postmaster
General New against the Pilgrim
Oil Company Of Texas, which collect
ed nearly s1,OOO,O00 from investors in
three months, could show assets Of
only sS.S77.
A winter wheat crop of 57S,2S7, 900
bushels. or Ia per cent less than 1922
crop. was forecast.
Stocks Of American cotton on hand
April /, the Commerce Department es-
timated, totaled 6,O39,0OO bales, while
total world stocks on the same date
were 12,0i0,00O bales.
Pension claim filed by widow Of
Andrew Wheeler, Civil War veteran,
reveals a married life of more than
seventy-three years.
Harding defends World Court plan
in letter to women's Federation Of
Clubs.
Drastic demands of the American
Government in behalf OF its citizens
kidnapped and held for ransom by Chi
nese bandits were met by the Chinese
Prime Minister, who promises release
of all prisoners and payment Of ran
som by Chinese Government
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-05-18

The eruption Of Mount Etua is be.
coming more violent.
Pope cables Archbishop Mundeleln
awarding International Eucharist con-
gress to Chicago In 1895.
Mayor Frederick W. DonneIly, an
outspoken advocate Of liberal inter
probation Of the dry laws. was re-
elected mayor of Trenton. N. j.
Governor ]. o. Prens will resign
to accept appointment as United
States senator from Minnesota in sue
cession to the late Senator Knute Nell
son, If the State Supreme Court holds
the governor of the state may appoint
the successor
Date of the Liberty Motor sale was
postponed indefinitely.
Joseph Haag. who entered the EN-.
ploy Of the city Of New York fifty
three years ago. at the time Of Boss
Tweed, as a 5000 year clerk, and
who has served under twenty mayors.
was named assistant to Mayor Hylan
at an annual salary OF $1,000.
Episcopal convention In New York
ieers defense of Lusk laws and
laughs at resolution attacking mod.
ernists.
Memphis editor is fined $500 on
contempt charge for expressing his
opinion of the shopmen's strike in
an editorial.
Woman witness tells Florida Legis.
lative Committee twenty-one prison.
ers died in yelr in Senator Knabb's
convict camp.
Marquis Of Curzon joins Lady Mar
guerite Hyde in charging Joseph Lei
ter. of Chicago. with mismanagemenl
Of his fathers estate.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-05-18
.HATPlN 10 YEARS IN LEG.
Man Jabbed As Youth While Teasing
Girl Gets Relief.

New York--A two-and-one-half-inch
hatpin which had been imbedded for
16 years in the right leg of James
Connolly. 27 years old, a World War
veteran living at 304 West One Hun.
dred and Twenty-eighth street, was
removed at point IL inches from
where 1t had entered. The operation
was performed by DR.. Frank SoIley,
i02 Hamilton place.
Connolly, who served for two years
in France, had the pin jabbed into him
as youngster when he was teasing a
girl. He was reluctant to say any
thing about 1t at the time. but as he
grew older ne became more and more
per,urbed over the location Of the pin,
Occasionally pains made him believe
ithad wandered far and he decided to
try to have il located and removed.
DR.. Solley found the pin with its
point in the muscle of his leg just
above the knee and about an inch be-
low the surface. II had axorked down
at least foot
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-05-18
SPORTING

Georges Carpenters bout with
Battling Sikh in Paris on Sept 1e next
will be his last.
1t is worthy of note that more home
runs have been made in National
league games this season than in the
American league contests.
The decline Of Bob veach of Detroit
is Indicated by the fact that some
times Ty Cobb keeps Fothergill. in
the lineup even IL right banded
pitcher is facing Detroit.
Miller Huggins released Johnny
Wight to Shreveport Of the Texas
league and stripped the New York
Yankee team bare of reserve infield-
ers with the exception of the old and
reliable Mike McNally.
Walter Johnson recorded his Tooth
major league shutout the day Everett
Scott played his 1.OOOth game. Some
veteransl
The pitching in the American
League has improved considerably,
which is another important reason
for the home run deficiency in that
circuit
In taking on Tom Gibbons for a If
teen round fight" in the wiids Of
Montana on July &. Jack Dempsey,
world heavyweight champion, again
has lodged Harry Wills. the danger
Gus negro champion.
For years the Pirates searched for
a first sacker to take the place Of
kitty" Bransheld. and they were un-
successful until they obtained Grimm,
who is now one of the best in the
league at this position.
Norwich University defeats Har-
ward at polo at Fort Hamilton, New
York City.
Robert McQuaid. right-handed pitch
er. formerly with the San Francisco
and Los Angeles teams of the Pacific
Coast League, signed a contract to
play with Cincinnati Nationals.
Iu facing Gibbons. Dempsey Is meet
ing about the best opponent he has
faced, and running a greater risk
than at any time since he became IA
nous as boxer.
At South Bend. Ind, after holding
Iowa to three hits and no runs, strik-
ing out ten batters and keeping the
Hawkeyes away from third base for
twelve innings. Dick Falyey. Notrs
Dame. broke up the game by hitting
one over the fenca-
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1923-05-18
|OFF|CER STAYS
RED DELEGATE
Swiss Kills vorovsky in Luas-
anne Hotel
ASSASSIN TRIES TO FLEE
Man Says He Committed The Crime
To Get Even For Death OF Two
kinsmen-struek Behind

Lausanne.-M Voroysky, an un-
hidden guest from Soviet Russia
at the Lausanne conference, lies
dead, slain by a Swiss, formerly
an officer in the Russian service,
and two Of his lieutenants are
seriously wounded, each with two
bullets in his body.
One Of the wounded is Hermann
Ahrens. Bolshevist from Berlin, who
was the Russian press agent at both
the first and second Lausanne confer
encc. The other Is J. Didwilkowski,
voroysky's young Russian secretary.
The assassin, whose name Is
Maurice Alexander Conradi and whose
home was in the canton OF Grissns,
was ssized Immediately after he shot
the three Russians while they were
dining at the Hotel Cecil, headquar-
ters OF the Russian delegation.
Most Of the guests in the dining
room had finished dinner when the
vancjnr onicklv ared anon he Rms.
slams The tirst bullet struck voroy.
skv behind the ear: he. fell across the
table and uttered no word probably
he died Immediately He was struck
by other bullets also
Ahrens wbo 4 aIwsv. "a d-e.,.
his weapon after hein9 shot fwice. Int
before he could use II a waiter seized
his arm. apparently fearing for tbs
safety Of the euests now orowdinq tha
doorways.
The murderer having emptied his
reyolvers. surned 10 the horror.strick-
en- guests. who had risen IN alarm and
said: