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Show the weather. Fair and continued raid Thursday and probably Friday. Lacal Settlement Pnea. Stiver 44tee LA 22 Copper (cathode; I) 24 14J( VOL. 110, NO. 72. Legion Commander in His Candle Seta Fire to Decorated Tree in Crowded Building; Maid Rush Follows. Parents Try in Vain to ' Reach , Children; Windows Blocked by Heavy Wire Netting. Too Literal About Autopsy to Be Held to At. Following Orderti Landlord Is in Jail certain Cause of MilNEW YORK. Dec. 14. Tha only lionaire Orphan's Death land lord in Iowa who provided hie tenant with a white Christ-ms- s wiii pane hta holidays ia the Workhouse. Joseph Etoen, the landlord, to Sweetheart of Dead Youth Gives Details of His Illness v and Demise. the first to drew a straight oentenro tinder tbo act. Ordered to remedy dirty walla broken windows, falling piaster and cracked ceilings in bis set house apartment hero, ho complied bv whltewaah-In- g the entire interior. Including walls, pictures, tsnaats rugs ana Ho was given tea furniture. work-hou- satee- n-family CHICAGO,; Doc. 20. (By th AssoTh body of William Nelson McCIIntock, "millions Ire orphan, bho died three weeks ago, whit hi fiance waited with a marriage license to wed him, waa exhumed today and tonight the ciated Press! days. Th Hat ef Mat Included i , Mrs. Flaranaa Hill, teacher. Paul Ella Pack. Om Pack. Bud and Harry Bigger, brother J. C. Caffay and wife and twa ' ahll-dra- A. M. Coffey. Veata Jackaen. Dawall and Eugene Bolding, breth r- ,X . - John Duka. Jr. Mina Duka. (By the HOBART, Okla.. Pc CHritmaa feetlvl-tlc- a Associated Preaa. for tha children In tha Babb Switch school district War turned tc ot th tragedy tonight, and thirty-- ! rural population wer hurnad to whan fir, atartlng from acaedl In burned Ui achcol Christmas tr houa. which had been crowded with s. , Th Chrlatmaa tra on a atag at th tha back of th achooi hour renter ot all ayes when a taper, expiring after It effort to help cheer flame the assembled children, shot Into some decoration, at the top of Tb crowd arose as on th tree. person, with shouts of fear and thof children, who had been at the foot th tree, enjoetflg their gifts, tried to The tree was upset and get away. the flames spread rapidly. The one door was at the other end of the building and only a few could get out in the freney of all to escape The desperate fathers and at once. mothers, separated - from their children, fought madly to get to the youngster and then, when that proved futile, to break out the windows. The way, but outside, to pro-af lassthegave glastng, wee wife netting that kept the entrapped people in th torment of th flames. The frail building, swept by a Wintry wind, was soon a maaa of flames, and th door waa Jammed by Those tb few wbo ''could reach It. who had escaped th furnace worked in mass frantically to extricate the the door, and thus saved some of the Cries of children for their neighbor parents end the exertion of th elders th to reach their offspring mad flaming room Uks a madhouse, but tbs frsnry was not for long. It I believed several bodies are yet In th ember. Many of tbe victims are children who were taking In th program. They war part grouped at th front of the room near th tree and wer fnrtbeest from th nn door. Hospitals her are filled with Injured, and several wer taken to farm houses near th scene of the fir. Physicians here said that only four or five of tha persons In hospitals wer seriously burned. The schoolroom, which was 11 by M feat In sis, was pecked, persons who escaped declaring no less then tod spectator were Jammed Into 0 tie. 1 1 ea Fete Wastes. dth merry-maker- t ct A (0le tr 1 Twa.) Inflammable Mail Matter Caused IFire MITCHELL. B. D., Dec, 14. In flammable matter In th man caused the fir In the mall car on Omaha train No. 12, between Ruehmor and Trent, Minn., early Tuesday, according to J- - B. Crowley and Clarence Anderson. Mitchell mall clerks In charts of the - car which was destroyed, Both men denied today that tha fir had been caused by a stove, as first reported. 1 saw tb flames first," Mr. Crow, ley said, under a pile of mall racks. material, which Rome Inflammable was mailed In Mitchell, must Srobably th cans of the fire." , Crowley mid that 250 racks of parrel poet mall, three large pouches of firat-clsmail and all ot the registered mail pouohes war saved. It waa Impossible to ray how many sacks of mail wer destroyed. All parcel post matt from Mitchell and stations be tween her and Salem wer destroyed, he thought. YIELDS GIFTS. TREE ANCIENT SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24 Santa Claus paid his annual visit to San Francisco's oddest Christmas tree tocleaner night. Once a year thq. sewer of the city gather round a tree te receive articles which have been found In eewera and have been unclaimed. This year's tree was weighted down under a load ot presents which in rluded gold watches, bracelets, fouo tain pens, empty flasks, pockstbooks, parts of automobiles, a shaving mug and a large assortment of other article Jhe Day in Washington r 34 Oongr authorities spent th Christmas are la hurrying an Investigation to determine If tha helr to tha millions died from natural cans While workmen at Oskwoods cemetery wer cutting through the cement covering of th great bronme casket ll with pickaxes and sledge Mis Pop pretty school teacher who waa to have married the young millionaire, rat In th state's attorneys office and fnlteringly related th story of bar romance which was ended by death. As aoon an th body had been disinterred It waa taken to a morgue, where an autopsy was Immediately performed under the direction of Coroner Oscar Wolff. Th result ot th examination will be mad publlo tomorrow after a conference between the coroner and several doctors wbo wer present. In th meantime a coroner's Jury to hold an inquest was Impaneled and th Inquest was then oontlnued to January 20. FORTUNK TO FOSTSR PARENTS. Young McCIIntock, who. according to the death certificate, died of fever, left nearly hie entire estate. valued at approximately 12,000,0(10, to William D. Shepherd, a t, whoa ward he waa Mr Shepherd was a coguard Isa of th rich youth until he became of age last spring. - By tji terra of th will Miss Pope, who would have become his wife had b regained consciousness the day h died, received . , nn annuity ot Huoit. Sitting close to her father," the ear row which befell her still waa plainly Osatlssed ra Fxse lie (Celtras Twa) . "I wax in races. X tncreaa continued Potto! tb subject of hearings btfort s senate committee. Justice McKenna's Associate early resignation from the sueras forecast preme court The White House issued a formal statement oa the comment made there In regard to Ambassador Jusseraad's speech on tbe debt fneh' The situation of the Americans removed from WraQgel island by a soviet transport wo taken up with the state department which decided the government could not legally expend money for their transportation home. Eight Persons Including Pilot Killed; Seven of the Dead Passengers. CROYDON, England. Dee. 24. (By th Associated Free) A Christmas-tid- e tragedy occurred today at th airdrome herg when th seven passenger and th pilot W th big Imperial Alrwaya air axpreaa DH-2- 4 wer killed when th airplane hanked and crashed aoon after It had taken off. Tb passenger wbo were on their way to Parte.. for Chris tins, were hardly awar they wer well in th air when- - th machine suddenly banked over Purley Down, In a gust of wind, went Into A nosedlv and buret Into flame through th explosion of th gasolln tank. All sight In th machine wer burned to death and tha machine was destroyed. There werw two women among the passenger five men passengers, Including Dr. Barbosa- lima, a Brasilian, and Cedric Trugdett, representative of th Chilean Review, and the pilot. An ,of th tragedy raid th plane, flying low, suddenly banked, cleared a near-b- y house, and then staggered in th air. Almost Immeof a wind diately gust caught th Ita tail shot up, it went into plan a nosedlv and fell Ilk a stone. Immediately th machine touched th ground tt burnt Into flame 1 ran to tb spot," raid th but by the time I got there th whole machine had burned away. d Th only things 1 could see were th two wheels of tb In th wrackag 1 under earring could see th charred remains of bodice that of the pilot In front. All th passengers must have died Instantaneously. Their clothes wer goti and their bodies wer black." Firs brigades from Purley and Croydon hurried to the spot but' wer unable to arrive In time to be of any aeststanew. Tha charred bodies war . removed to tha police mortuary. It-On May It. a passenger airn route plane oa tha crashed near th village of Monsuer Six persons. Including two Franc Americans, were killed. It was believed that th machlns caught fir while traveling. A crash on the Manchestar-Londo- n air mall routs September 14, 1222, cost th lives of five persons. Thi was Ut first fatal accident to a British plane In commercial service since September, 1220, when four persons wer killed In a crash at Solders Green, a suburb of London, of last year a French passenger airplane crashed near England, and one passenger was killed. Three Americana wer injured. - typ-pho- td lawyer-chemis- Loiter Estate Sait : Nears Completion Dec. 24. Approximately of tho questions at Issue In the litigation over the 2100.000, 000 estate of th late Levi Z. Letter, pioneer merchant. Involving Lord former foreign secretary of Great Britain, whose first wife- Waa Mary Latter, a daughter of tho financier, we settled by agreement today. Joseph Leiter, a son. and on of th turned over trustees of tha estat In securities for complete $4,040,000 control of the Zeiglar Coal company. Th controversy over ownership and control of th coal company was tbs principal matter at lasu. . Thera remain to be heard th charges of Lady Marguerite Hyde, Duchess of Suffolk and Berk that her brother, Joseph, has mismanaged the estat Lord Curson Joined Lady Hyde In th littrstion because of the Interest ot his daughters In their mothers share of her father's estate, Joseph Leiter, after obtaining control of th coal company, then paid 11.171,202 In claims against the comCHICAGO. three-fourt- hs Cut-ton- - Eng-lan- pany. Mr. Leiter was supported In his legal battle with th English heirs by Ms sister, Mrs. Colin Campbell of California who will benefit under tb settlement agreed to today. Impatience Costs Man Hit Lite Cklesf Trtbsae gait Lak Tribute WtF. LONDON, Dec. 14. Michael Caven was bitterly disappointed when a Christmas letter which he had exson In hi America from failed pected to arrive t noon today. Ho he Jumped Into the river Avr at Catrln. The awlft current awept th body dowu the alream too swiftly to permit rescue. and he waa drowned. An hour later n postman brought th expected letter to hia home, and shortly thereto tho Uttl after others returned house with tho man' body. , . , . CHICAGO. Dec. ft. Two youthful rn4bors held up employee snd guest ef tb Parkway hotel early today and rifled th safety boxes la tbe aa it more than $144(404, It waa disclosed aftar th guests made hurried checkTh robbers up ot their valuable escaped. Mr Harry Hart, wlf ef aa official of Hart Schaffasr sad Marx, clothing manufacturer reported that her safety box had bees looted of mors than 2104,402 la Jewels. Another ef th rifled boxes bad contained between 21.04 and 22044 belonging to th hotel management. Mr Hart's principal loss waa a peart necklace valued at 15.000. The robbers compelled Dirk Potter, the Bight dark, Charles Mealy, a bellboy an Jama Brady, an elevator operator, to go Into th check room and II on th floor. They wer taming their attention to th safe whan Jams Trarer a fueet, entered th hotel, and he, to was escorted to th check room. Th pawn shop and loan hank of Benjamin AdJIn oa West Madison street was raided by three robbers who escaped with $12,404 worth of jewelry. Six men entered the Sheridan Park chib In an exclusive residential section. tied and gagged too steward and held up and robbed fifty members of Jewelry and money estimated ,J t 22444. The club te located near the rest dsne of Mayor William B. Dever. . Entire Country Under Low Temperature; Colorado Town Holds Record. i - 24. Sweetin Convicted Jointly in Illinois, Case and Given 35 Years. Mrs. VERNON, . is inatn. FailhHolds True as Tot 'Seeks Santa Girl of Six, Crippled and Victim of White Plague, Makes Sure This Dee. 11 The song at Bethlehem was caroled tonight from the White Ilona to a nation at pear with th world find with good will toward all men.,' Th chief executive et th nation and tha first lady et th land Joined with a white vested choir and with thousands who thronged th Whit Hons ground In observance of th recurrence ot another Chrlatmaa eve. Previously tha presflent and Mr. Ctmlldgi another custom following they Inaugurated at thstr first Christ- -, maa tn th Whit House a year ago, had visited on of tha public parka near tbe executive mansion, and, with another large group, witnessed th lighting of a national community Chrlatmaa tre Mr. Coolldg blmralf preaaed tha button that flooded th tre a forty-foepruce transplanted from the Adirondack mountains of Nsw York, lighted with thousands of varicolored giobea Having thus taken th lead In th two ceremonies that marked th public celebration of Chriatma eve In Washington, th president and hia wife returned to their own Brealde to spend Christmas day with th simobplicity that ha always attended livservance ef th holiday by thorn ing tn th rural regions of their native state of Vermont, ftevaml hours before th dusk ot Christmas v descended on the gray d and city, almost all governmental activities had ceased. Ita races SatChrlatmaa began urday, and tha departments, by execu- I doors closed ot their tive order, e'rlork, releasing the thousands of, clerks for shopping end ( other work of preparation. WASHINGTON. an-ga- te Con-gre- ra te Dam Give j Way Theater, j Landmark of Denver, Stream Is Swollen by Damaged; No Lives Lost Rains; Houses Flooded Tabor-Gran- d ' it DENVER. Colo.. Deo. 24. Fire which-- " heavily fifth damaged th d flopC of th opera house building, a famous landmark, occupied on th first floor by th Colorado theater, early tonight aarrlad a threat of panic In tha heart of th city's thratrlcal district. r Sevsral hundred Christmas eve theatergoers was quickly ordered out of 'th building.. Theater attendants aided Ijy police and firemen emptied th first floor and tb galleria ot tb theater without disorder. Most of the city firemen, summoned to the fire by a general alarm, bat tied the flame handicapped by se verely cold weather which quickly fro a th water as it streamed from the hoee. A number of hose lines wer put out of commission when thsy ' split open. As the leaping flames added their brilliance to the dsssllng Incandeecent glow of theater row. many thousand of Vnen, women and children, in Christmas shopping rush, flocked to the scene. Police quickly established a dead line extending several blocks In every direction and many motorists caught within the lone wer forced to spend more than an hour In waiting be foe thsy could ' leave. Tha Tabor-Gran-d building la one of th oldest theatrical structures In the west and at th tim It was built was regarded a th most pretentious adventure of Its kind west of Chicago. stag Many famous stars of th bowed before )h footlights to crowded houses In th years that have gone Officials were unable to announce th cause of the fire, which etarted In an architects office on th fifth floor. Estimates of th damage had not Tabor-Gran- Lak TVibaa Wir MAIL EMPLOYEES. .WORK, CHICAGO.- - Dee. 4r Wrtn 1a a true Employees and officials of the mell girl, with n cripstory of a t year-old alon remained at their task during pled lag, and a tuberculosis cough, th afternoon, striving to clean up a who otumblod and trudged through Chrlatmaa mall that averaged throughcountry nearly 15 per cent tbo snow In uero weather six mite out th Volume than a year ago. greater from Cicero to Chicago to find Bant ef these worked tar Into th Claus and collapsed la his arms whan Many tn th vartou poet offices over night ah found him, buf even that work will th Truo enough, her Renta Claus waa ceasecountry, at fl oclock tomorrow forenoon hut on of many who preside In th by order of Postmaster General New, various store but to Mary AIlco he who has decreed that they must not was th real article and he so proved aarrtflr all of tb holiday. A year himself when her pitiful story cam ago postal employees worked until out. aoon on Chrlatmaa day, and th poet-offl- ea Mary Alice's mother works la a facdepartment to hoping that betory. Her father te dead and during fore many more year euch aucrera tho enforced absence of her mother will attend th mail early campaign th little girl had been left to tb aa to permit thee worker to enjoy V, Preaa.) ABINGDON, Dec. 24. (By PI persona th 'nr Associated known to b deed end 244 era home-tea- s ns n result of n muck- - dam breaking at Parmartown, Ve,, on th north fork of th Holatou river, at 14 o'clock teat plghl. Virtually tb whole village of Parmartown. settled chiefly by work era at th Mathleaon Alkali work waa wiped out,1- according to reports received bar. Th boapRal and prinear tbe vate bomee at' BaltrUla, seen ef tha flood, ar raid to be filled with injured. - tt.-- Flv BRISTOL, Ten! Dee. Uvea ware lost and great damage waa don to property near Saltvlll tonight when n dam oa th north fork of th Holatoa river broke, ac- V. cording to telephonic advices here by tb Bristol ceived Trlbaae-aa- of neighbor This haphaaard car gave her leisure 'fto plan her great adventure. Hh once had seen a Santa Claus ring a bell and presiding over a Salvation Army papier machie chimney and th vision lived with bar throughout th year, Bo. directly, her mother ,k etarted for tho facorty, leaving th little girl home about 5 In th morning. Mary Alice set out to find him. Bhe avoided tbe high roads for big car were whirring In both direction and a child with a crippled leg and a cough could make better time through the field Eventually her abiding faith, many times stronger than her feoble body, 8. brought her to a loop stnro. Mr. Claus (Nee Roclnskl), official Krtsa Kringle for the atom, first eaw her about 2.24 oclock leaning against the rail surrounding hia booth. - "What do you want for Christmas T Osatiaesd ea Peg (deisms I re- Herald-Courie- rl.) Tie r. te til., Dec. halo and aorrow remained of Mrs. Elxi Swaetln aa aha waa tad from tha courtroom today aftar hearing a Jury pronounce her guilty of the murder by poimfn of her husband, W Ilford Sweetin, and sentenc her to thirty-fiv- e years In prison. Her codefendant, Lawrence a M. Hlght, received life sentence. lf they had only hanged him. she cried ta Sheriff Grant Holcomb, been mad. ae the waa led back ta Jail through the Chrlatmaa ehoppera, 4 wouldnt Bank Robber Suspects care Infiltration for Hlght by Woman Csstinned se fin Twe (OsMlatd ea Tigs ttaeteee.) (Celama Twe.) (Coins Three.) SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 24 Five of six suspects In a $42,444 robbery oa December 12 of th Nanelmo, B. C. Royal Bank of Canada wer today Identified sufficiently to warrant holding them here. Chief of Pollc Sevy-riannounced after flv witnesses of the robbery confronted th suspects. C. Rose Watson, former Seattle city detective, was Identified by a woman customer who was In the bank at th MOStOW, Dec. 24. ( Bv th Associated Preaa.) Coincident with time of the robbery as ons of the tbe advent of Christmas, Gregori.v 8. Zinovieff, ebairmau of the bandits, detectives announoed. Edof tb third Internationale, today wade a significant proward Hunter, operator of Clarence H. nouncement concerning tb communistic campaign against religion. He (Dick) Shivelv'e speedboat, fa Toro, admitted the eommoaista had gone too far ia their propaganda against which was believed to have been used and establish effort their to ritual atheism. by th bandits to escape from Brit, religious existing tsh Columbia to United States terriho said, " where the majority "In a peasanti country like our tory, was freed, as non of tb witof th population illiterate, and where tbe peasantry pays so high tor nesses could identity him. we allow cannot ourselves of such articles neressitv, luxury aa a vigorous and inflexible religion campaign. We shall pursue our attack Texas Town Suffers oa Almighty Uod in due time and in an appropriate manner.. "Wa are confident wo shall subdue him ia hi empyrean.,' W shall Wholesale Robbery bide he we must go about such a himself, but fight him wherever question as aotiretigions propaganda more carefullv ia th future. Texe FORT Dec. 24 "I have been informed by Old workmen that aot only tbe yonng1 The bank WORTH. end practically every store communists, but boy acaut, are mocking people who are religion In Perndl- - Wise county, were robbed 1 have also been told that group of hoy scouts have oven imprisoned last night, according to word received whole congregation in churches while they were worshiping. Tbit is a her today. Th robbers ar believed to be those who racked and burned Ood Our and mistake, t campaign against religion must be carried out Valley View teat week. Th amount only In a pedagogic wsy, aot by violence or force." of motley secured at Paradis has not bean determined. MOUNT tn tha heart v Cfelrege -- (Celsms Three.) (By th weather bureau reiterated today that Christmas will b cold almost generally aver tha United Stated with snow on th ground over moat middle and'northem sections east of the Pacific state Although precipitation hna occurred almost generally from th plateau region eastward within th last twenty-fou- r hour th weather will clear In th lower Ohio valley, Tennessee and the east Gulf states and In th south Atlaatte and portions of the middle Atlantic etstea tomorrow. The rain will probably change to snow, except In Plortdn and along tbe south Atlantic and east Gulf coasts, x The temperature has risen In th Atlantic- - and east Gulf state but much colder weather ha overspread th upper lake region, the lower Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys and plains state the plateau region and the Antral and southern llorkr mountain region while colder weath-t- t will overspread all sections east of the Mississippi river Within U next twenty-fou- r hours. Cold wav warning were Issued for th east Oulf state OMAHA, Neb., Dee. 24. Nebraska experienced its second cold speU of the winter last night and early todav. with temperatures ranging from 17 degrees below at YorkssNeb., to be low at Omaha. With a promise. of rising temperature snd with a moderate snowfall last night, Nebraskans wer assured Dec. Associated Press.) Th WASHINGTON, n. - Countrys Cap Chief Executive Turns on Lights of National Community Tree in Park. Washington .Year. ,, and-llqn- forty-two-kn- ot unoon-eume- e, S i NEW YORK. Dee. 4. Coast guard nineteen officers tonight captured a British achooner, three prisoner valued at mors motorboats than 2500,000 her. ' Tb British prison-er- a arhsom Pater- - with and $000 cases of alleged cham-pag- n was snd among whisky, liquor th vessel brought t tho- barge office. i Th seven prisoners on the peter were captured after a n forty-m- il chess by the coast guard Th and Sense cutters Raritan ball and prisoners aers held without In th quarkept under heavy guard ters of their ship, which was docked at th Battery. For th past two years th Patara has been listed as n suspect rum runner by customs authorities, they raid. motor Th Dick, n boat, was captured alongside the Jones Inlet, Patara, nineteen mile off Six prisoner with 122 on Tuesdey. case tf liquor were seised with th boat. The prisoners are held under J1000 ball each. ORDERS FROM CAPITAL. On being Informed of the Dick', speed capacity, the coast guard --authe with thorities communicated treasury department et Washington Omtlsved a Pag Tws v eys-wltn-es Maid-ston- - pass Christmas tomorrow President CooUdgsAt tfes Whits Houss with Mrs Coolldgs sod thslr on. John. Sscrotary ef fltats Hughs With Mrs. Hughs end thslr family at thstr horns hsrs. Boers t ary of th Treasury MsU his with In )on Pittsburg dengtitsr end eon. Wssk-wl- th . f War Bscrsury Mrs Wseks snd thslr daughter snd grandchildren at his Wash-4 ington homo. Attorney Osnsml Stone With Mrs. Stems and thslr son. Law-so' In Nsw York. Post mast sr Osnsral Nsw With Mrs. Nsw at his Washington horns. Bserstary ef the Navy Wilbur ef With Mrs. Wilbur at the home 'thslr daughter, Mrs. T, M PeUft, at Wayne. Pa. Bsors tary ef the Interior Work With his daughter, Mrs. A. W. III. BisssU, tn Rscretary of Agriculture Gore With his mother at his home In Clarksburg, W. V. Bscrrtary of Commerce Hoover With Mrs. Hoover at thslr Washington boms. Ihvle At Secretary ef sea on tbs way home from his South Americas trip. ; follows' two-mast- eye-witn- eu Parls-Londo- eight-year-o- u tin - Scotch colli dog belonging to Mr. and Mr F. B. Runyon of Orlsk 'near here, found his way home fromrafalifornla, where Runyon had taken him oa a trip last fall. Th dog appeared to be a bit footsore and weary from his trip, hi but showed approval with many wags of th tell when he men near Or taka. knew he sighted Tha Runyons first bad noted hi from their Calidisappearance fornia bom about three months . WASHINGTON. De dllMit of tb republic and of his officuU family One Woman Reports Loss of $100,000 in Jewels; Other Bold Holdups. Assortment of Cham Sanny California Nothing to Scotch , Other jpagne and Collie of Dakota Brands in Hands of VALLEY CITT. N. D., Bee. 24. Apparently liking th weather of Dakota better then that In Federal Sea Patrol. North Callfornt th Capture, AH Told, Is Valued at $500,000; Seven MenAre Held Prisoners on Boat. Bf I'nHnml Mrrlci, mtmbtn II Broadcast Message of Good Will Toward Men. flrmt Holiday Liquor Cargo andi British Schooner Taken by Coast Guard m From Where Government Heads Will Spend it&l Christmas tfoliday Employees Forced Into Checkroom, and Safety Boxes of Guests Rifled. Ins-he- 4. ' IS LOOTED OT t. Whether th "most colossal war of INDIANAPOLIS, De. history shall be a benefit or a detriment, to the world depesds for th most part upon haw wa whs wer left ia tha wsrld, normal and Itttl declared James A. Drain, national afferled. shall us our opportunity commander of th Americas Legion, ia a personal Christmas message to Legion member delivered from a local radio eastmg station tonight, if th world war is to prov a greater help than a hindrance to manhind, be raid, "tbo of us left behind, whom th war has sot too " deeply scarred, are th instruments under Uod to malt it Commander Drain sketched tb activities of tho Legion, which, ha asserted, earn into being "for th specific purpose of raving to ear country and tha world everything of good which could possibly com out of the world war." He called attentioa to th Legions work for Americanism, for rehabilitation of disabled veterans and th 13,000,000 endowment fund, tha income from which is to p used largely for child welfare work. "Think 'bach with me," the commander raid in' conclusion, "to thos splendid men of ours who lives have gone out by reason of their being in the war men who literally died as Christ died, that other men might live, and that other men might live not only ia th phyatenl sense, but ia the spiritual sense as well. ' cannot doubt that tonight the epirit of these mea look dowa npoa ns, and I feel that they are pleased to kaow that w of th American Legion are doing our beat to save to tha world tha good for which they fought and died." , FIVE CENTS Nation Celebrates Christmas at Peace With Entire World , Christmas Message Asks Comrades to Keep Faith Tragedy; 36 Perish y 28 PAGES SALT LAKE CITY, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2o, 1924. Y uletide Program at School Ends in , Thousands upon thousands of interested renders scan The Tribune Want Ad Columns daily. Several houses In tb vicinity of th Alkali works war said to have been washed away and acorns of persona had narrow aacapea from death. at Abingdon Telephone1 operator and other places la this vicinity wer kept buav notifying person In the danger ton of tho br.sk. It wee reported that the Hnlston waa out of Its hooka at a number of ptocoa. InHeavy rain with th consequent creased pressure on the dam 1s believed to beve caused th break. Th dam gave way about 14 oclock and what waa described as a wall of water" descended without warning on thus dwalllnga situated near the river bank. Those Caught by tb swiftly moving water wer picked up and carried downstream in their home. north fork roe rapidly and many other home farther down the atreem were endangered. A far aa eon kl be ascertained here, however, there wer only five death. A number of other persona wer mid to havo been Injured, several seriously. Th Third Internationale Will Continue Fight on Religion Aviator Risks Life to Sound Fire Alarm; Saves Friend's Home - t , By Vnlrerta! Bftrvtr. SACRAMENTO. Cml., Dec. 24 By aa odd coinrideac. Jimmy Aa of an airplane gto, aviator lln operating between thin city and Ban FYanclaco, taut night ighud a fir a b piloted hi a 6cramento. mad htp daring aoa div into a vacant lot, railed th fir department, and wa Iniirumntal in caving from destruction th bom whrr he had been !nvttd to pend ChrUtma e Antel' ipctacular div to earth and hi warning aaved tb home of Roy White, according to fir department official. No until th out did Angola fir w lam whoa horn h had aaved. ps-eng- er vr I remaining In Department lert their Washington for th holidays but Presdeaks with their employ, ident Coolldg. feeling that per ha pa In work ha might forget th loea alnc last Christmas of hia younger eon, remained at hia office until nearly dark. Then, threading hie way practically unnoticed among th throng of hurrying lata ehoppers, h took a abort walk through a part of th retail district. will Bareral of th cabinet head Secspend tomorrow In other cities.several left Washington retaryaaoWork to visit hi daughter in Ev days General Ptoo anstmv HU 'Attorn ht hom In Nw York rturo4 toMellon went to hta bom In Secretary Secretary WUbur, to after Pittsburg: offiof greeting sending a tnesrag cer a and enllated men of tha naval Pa.. forces, left on a vtelt to Wayne, Gore where hi eleter live; Secretary departed for hi hom la Clarksburg. W. Ve., and Secretary Pavla, an rout bom from South America, la In Havana, Cuba. i POSTMASTER GENERAL BUSY. and Week Secretaries Hugh, Hoover and Potmatr Genera! a will ealebrat tb day at their. although Mr. New aid horn, w moat today he expected to gpend rw Wah-Jmrto- Mathleaon Identified a complete holiday. head MICH Supreme Court Justice to Retire Within a Few Weeks; Wilbur Talked. WASHINGTON Th Dec. 24 near year la expected to briny a vacancy J oaIn th puprem court, Anaociat th McKenna, tbe aenior member of th bench, having dcldd to resign ia the sear future. Whit thi tutement la authoritatively made. Juatice McKenna, In view of tb etiquette which prevail tn txh matters, will not publicly d lacuna hia plana until hta resignation ta tendered to tb president, and there ia alwaya th poaatbilHy. however that something may develop to cause him to reconsider hia decision. 4 Juattr McKenna has been for more than eligible eleven for retirement years, nine h had already served tnor than th years' service on th federal bench necessary to qualify him to retire when be reached th age of 7 on August 10, 1913. On January 34 he will hav rounded out twenty seven years a a member of th suprem court and prior to hi appointment aa an aaaoclato Justice he had served five years aa a federal eurmit Judga, JueiTb McKenna's friends, feom time to time since he became eligible for retirement, hav tried to in fluenc him to isy down bis ardud ous work and take a rest but hia enthusiasm in ti disof his bis court duties and charge entuyment of tfe upon the hnch si 0eat!aa4 ea fit Flv tn much-neede- (Cel earn Five.) . a Bm To Cbw4 0)aaia Tw.) Celebrate Christmas in Your Own Home 5 Next Year , Hang UP Youf Mocking In Your own home next year. A Christmas celebration m a I something to piece of your own look forward to with eatlatacUon and pleasure. eveDevote thra longth winter new bom ta plan for ning mind' In eye. the It grow vision than on paper a delightful in wood, taka form that will aoon bricks and mortar. Our Washington bureau will aid It building. you In your hom has for free dlatributlon a booklet extefloor and the plan showing sixty brick homes. rior view of wer prepared by Thee plan with a view to skilled architect tn comfort, utmost offering th convenience and attractiveness at the least expense.for your ropv of Write today this booklet Enclose two cent In return for postage. stamps Frederic J. Haakln. Director, The Balt Lake Tribune Information Bureau, Washington, D. C. J enclose herewith two rente In pimps for return postage on a free copy of th bouruef. . Brick Home. Nam -- . |