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Dxtusive KAssodatcd Pre. Ti35l vice akkmti Mtional ortb i-rf I 1 UmlCLi.Prvss CoroolUlaled Press VOL. CXIX- OAKLAND, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1933 15 NO. 172 WE Week-Day Column WASHINGTON By GEORGE Dl'RNO It won't be many EASTBAY IS BRIGHT WITH YULE TREES NEEDED FOR OF AID; READ Family Has Had Nothing for Thanksgiving or Yuletide for Two Years; Meager Supply of Fuel Stolen; Help Must Be Extended. GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN jl ll yyl kK- 11 1 mwT which were returned because of changed addresses.

F.ach name must be looked up on the great register and the registration cancelled. 1 here was a 5 per cent return, Tribune pholo. 4 That's what Miss Priscilla Moniz, deputy county clerk, seated atop a pile of mail jacks on the Hall of Records' front porch and County Clerk George Cross are thinking today as they begin the work of sorting 15,000 sample ballots They are putting up a garage on the spot where James G. Fair, John Mackay, GHOSTS William Sharon once paid ten dollars a plate to entertain their guests; where Senator Piatt of New York, Duke De Morney, U. S.

Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes lived in suites that cost them at the rate of five hundred dollars a. month. un tne sue oi Virginia uny famous six-story International Hotel, a stable for automobiles now rises to a height of one stofy. It is the nineteenth anniversary of the fire that destroyed the hostelry at the corner of and Union Streets.

On the night of March 31, 1877, Albeit Hanak and Ike Bateman opened what was to be the most famous hotel on the coast. Built of brick and occupying a solid block, it was magnificence itself. The finest of hard woods went into its interior and its furnishings and drapes were equalled only by the Palace in San Francisco. A restaurant paid the management $600 a month. On the sixth story you could rent a room for $65.

They dubbed this "Paupers' Alley." The saloon was the scene of poker games that lasted many days and in which thousands of dollars changed hands in a single night. Of all the men who grubbed millions out of the Comstock Lode, Hanak and Bateman alone left a material monument in Virginia City. The others Flood, Sharon, ATtifUnv O'Rrinn Pair tnnlr hpir money to San Francisco. COO One or two of the unidentified humorists of Oakland are going to DANGER get some salt into their systems in the very near future, according to Walter F. Gibson, superintendent of street cleaning and garbage collecting, who has loaded the salt intehis repeating shotgun and says stands ready to deliver the salt into the funny men who have been tossing garbage at night onto his front lawn.

In addition to the salt, Gibson says he will arrest and prosecute the Kumorists for tossing garbage on an unauthorized place. Gibson has been active recently in enforcing the laws against thtf illicit dumping of garbage in vacant lots, a practice which has been on the increase in Oakland during the last year or two. Several arrests have been made. Most of the defendants have pleaded that thejr financial condition has been such that ,1 tn garbage collected through the regular channels, but Gibson has contended that even if this is so, it is not proper that innocent property owners should have their lots made into barbage dumps all over tjje city. As a comment on Gibson's activl- ties, humorists have been tossing garbage on Gibson's front lawn at 1315 Wellington Street.

This has happened five times, according to Gibson, who declares that the joke has gone far enough. "The sixth humorist," said Gibson, "is likely to get hurt." When Blanche Bates took her deb-u a daughter, Frances Bates Creel, RETURN back to New York to engineer her stage debut on Broadway in "Jezebel" she made it clear to all that she did not intend to be a stage mother. Miss Creel would be put to work under fier own name, no attempt would be made to trade on the Bates' fame, and she must Stand or fall on her own effort. The statements were taken with the customary granum salis but it appears that Miss Bates was Jn earnest. So much so that she lias left Frances to the tender mercies of Guthrie McClintic, Katherine Cornell's husband and impresario who is producing "Jezebel," and lifts accepted a job herself in "The Lake" under the management of Jed Harris.

So, if everything proceeds according to Hoyle, the glamorous Blanche, star of yesterday, will be one of the mainstays in the support of Katherine Hepburn while, it Is to be hoped, daughter Frances one of the mainstays iA Creel Says S. F. Bay Ferry Strike Settlement Is Certain 15,000 SAMPLE IBALLDTS BACK Tribune's Annual Illumination Content Adds Color To Holiday Pageant The Eastbay's annual holiday pageant of hundreds of outdoor Christmas trees is being' enacted nightly for the joy of Eastbay citizens, thanks to the many entrants in The Tribune's Fourth Annual Illuminated Outdoor Christmas Tree Contest. The trees bright with their glistening colored lights are on display from Richmond to Hayward from 7 to 9:30 p. m.

each night. While motorists are driving around the brightly lighted districts viewing the trees judges are still hard at work trying to select first and second prize winners and the grand sweepstakes prize winner of the entire Eastbay district. "Better than last year'one judge describes the trees decorated for the fourth annual contest. "It's much harder to select prize winners this year. They are all so good," declares another judge who served last year also.

HARD JOB FOR JUDGES. Judges will work again tonight, tomorrow and Saturday nights in order that prize winners may be announced on Christmas morning. The outdoor Christmas tree movement was inspired by the delight of an invalid lad seven years ago. It has now grown to such proportions that a goal of 75,000 outdoor Christmas trees in California hasfbeen set for this year, according to Clarence F. (Sandy) Pratt, president of the California Outdoor Christmas Tree Association.

In 1926 Pratt strung colored electric lights on a giant cypress outside his home near Sutro Forest, San Francisco, and scores wrote in of the enjoyment it had given them. But when he learned that the tree had brought such joy to an invalid in a nearby home, he decided to spread the work and in 1927 launched the outdoor Christmas Tree Association. HAS SPREAD RAPIDLY. The idea has been taken up with rapidity and now Eastbay citizens with others throughout the state each year decorate outdoor trees in their lawns, gardens and parkways. One of the earliest outdoor tree decorators in this region is Mrs.

J. H. Holmes of 92 Hillcrest Road, Berkeley. Prize winners in past Tribune outdoor illuminated Christ- HERE th list II district in Th Tribune's fourth annual Outdoor Illuminated Christmas Tree contest. The districts include the entire Eastbay.

No. 1 Richmond. No. 2 El Oerrlto. No.

3 Albany and of Berkeley bounded by Shattuck Avenue. Berryman. Grant, Honklni, Peralta Avenue and the bay. 1N0. 4 A nertlon of Berkeley bounds') on the west by Shattuck Avenue, Berryman, Grant.

Hopklnj and Peralta Avenue. No. 5 A lection of Oakland bounded on the north by the Berkeley line, on the east by CoUeae Avenue and Broadway a far south as Grand Avenue, over Grand Avenue to Harrison Street. The boundary then follows the shoreline of iJke Merrltt. crosses the Twelfth Street Dam and follows the tfstuary west and the Bay-shore north as far as tha Berkeley line, takinu in Emeryville.

No. Oakland from the Berkeley line aouth and east of College Avenue. Broadway and Lake Merrltt. Eastern boundary. Park Avenue.

No. 1 Piedmont. No. East Oakland, east of Park Boulevard, to Seminary Avenue. No.

Alameda. No. 10 East Oakland. et of Seminary Avenue to city limits. No.

11 San Leandro. No. fa Hayward. Nothing on Thanksgiving 1 No Christmas, celebration for two years Their small supply of fuel stolen The mother ill and facing a serious operation And Christmas only' four days away A friendly neighbor wrote to the Bluebird about this family. The privation and sadness it already has experienced almost transcends belief.

The Bluebird had a short talk with the boy, only 6 years old. Since thieves stole the few remaining sticks of wood that they were carefully saving for cold winter nights the boy, wearing only a pair of threadbare "coveralls," and bedroom slippers with holes in each sole, trudges, the streets at night searching for fuel. Often he must carry it in his thin arms for more than a mile to the house where they live. "One evening when it was cold," he began, "mother sent me out for a few pieces of wood. "I had a little pile near the back fence that I had been saving.

"But it was all gone. Some one took it I don't know why the boy explained earnestly. "There's a box factory about a mile from us where I go in the evenings after school for a little wood. It is pretty far though. I don't always find scraps of wood there." Contributions are needed Good-fellows.

Much, much more money is necessary if the Bluebird is to do his job fully and properly this year. Sadness, privation and hunger must be banished in EVERY East-bay home. Each child should wake up Christmas morning to claim at least one simple-toy. Do YOUR part. Send or bring in your contribution to the Bluebird at the Tribune TODAY.

Here is a portion of the letter this Bluebird's "helper" sent in. "I am writing to ask you to help a widow and her two children. The mother Is sick all the time and must go to the hospital soon. "I know there is nothing from cooking utensils and dishes to blankets and food that they do not need. "I know every rag of clothing the CLUBS TONIGHT.

Eastlake Oakland Kiwanis Club, 8:15 p. 1416 Fruitvale Avenue. 50-50 Club, 6:45 p. 1441 Franklin Street. Oakland Radio Club, 8 p.

917 Harrison Street. Seventy-third Avenue and East Fourteenth Improvement Club, 8 p. 7201 East Fourteenth Street. Tribune radio broadcast. TOMORROW 'Eastbay Engineers Club, noon, Athens Club.

North Oakland Kiwanis Club, noon, Hotel Claremont. December 21, 1913 (The day was Sunday) EASTBAY A giant Christmas tree, around which the city's great Christmas Eve celebration will be held, was "erected" this morning in the City Hall Plaza. The Playground Department is conducting the affair Christmas Eve, under Ethel Moore, Cora E. Jones, Herman Albert W. Palmer, Arthur G.

Tasheira and Secretary G. W. Dickie. A NOBCIBLE EXAMPLE 13 A PROBLEM IN ARITHMETIC WHICH JUNIOR MUST SOLVE BEFORE HE CAN bO ourAMD play. The 1914 convention of the California Bank-e s' Association is coming to Oakland, it was disclosed today at the Oakland Clearing House.

Tribdud 2 YEARS AGO DjH' IWcCALENDAL CHRISTMAS THIS CASE children wear is made out of some one's old clothes. It has been that way for two years and they haven't had a Christmas during that time. "The poor little boy would ask before Thanksgiving, 'Mother, what are we going to have to and she could only say she didn't know. "This boy has been going to a box factory and picking up some trashy wood at nights. Someone stole the little fuel they had.

On some days he goes to service stations asking if they have something for him to do to make a little money for Christmas. He has succeeded in getting two or three wash basins to clean. "If you go to see them you'll find the mother patching and darning or trying to make some garment out of old rags. And if you ask her about their condition she will tell you but it hurts her pride. She tries so hard to get along.

"A lady gave them three plates, a tea pot and a ten kettle a few months ago and you will be -surprised to know that up to nd(v that is all they have." Already acknowledged $1260.65 N. N. A Friend M. E. Mr.

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Mrs. Albie 2.00 .50 5.00 5.00 2.50 2.00 LOO 2.50 5.00 1.00 5.00 LOO LOO 1.00 .50 2.50 1.00 5.00 1.50 Total CYCLE, AUTO BERKELEY, Dec. 21 Lawrence Malley, 14, of 1828 Francisco Street, Is in a serious condition at Berkeley General Hospital today from brain and leg injuries suffered last night when his bicycle and an automobile collided here. The accident, which occurred near the boy's home, was witnessed by Ftre Chief George Haggerty, who took him to the hospital. J.

H. Stafford, 1913 San Antonio Avenue, was driver of the automobile, according to the police report. Richmond Boy, 4, Is Injured by Auto RICHMOND, Dec. 21. A fractured ankle, cuts and bruises were suffered by Walter Slasher, 4, of 433 Nineteenth Street, Richmond, when he was struck by an automobile driven by Clayton Bowles, 609 Twentieth Street, Richmond, at.

Tenth and Macdonal'd Avenues. The boy was taken to the Abbot Hospital. Berkeleyan Injured As Autos' Collide BERKELEY, Dec. 21. Thomas C.

King, 68, of 2009 Cedar Street, suffered a possible skull fracture when the automobile in which he was riding collided with another machine at Grove and Cedar Streets. King was a passenger in a car driven by Frank Pepper, 36, of 1236 Ordway Street, who was lacerated and bruised. Rudolph F. Lucht, 31, of 762 En-senada Avenue, driver of the second machine, escaped injury. King was taken to Berkeley General Hospital, Oakland lioy 9, Hurt By Backing Auto Robert Thompson, 9, of 4801 Brookdale Avenue, is at Highland Emergency Hospital today with possible fractured ribs, suffered when he was struck by an auto operated by Rufus L.

Phelps, 34, of 2560 Renwiclt Avenue. Police reported that the boy was struck as Phelps backed 'Cut of his garage driveway. IDAHO CUPID BUSY -TWIN FALLS, worked over time in this section this year. To date over 220 couples have applied for license to marry, compared to 98 for a like period in 1931 IN.IUFIE HT days now before you begin hearing a lot about an or HEALTH ganized consumer demand for "health insurance." This is the group treatment plan whereby any person pays a comparatively small annual fee and gets in return assurance of any medical, dental and hospital attention he may need. Money thus collected is pro-rated among doctors, dentists and nurses who provide the treatment and hospitals that handle the serious cases.

At this moment medicine is being mixed to sell you the idea that group treatment is better all around than the present system whereby you get a rush job on your appendix and then the doctor spends six months wondering if he's going to be paid. On the other hand you'll hear a lot in oppositioii to the proposition. The American Medical Association Is on record against it. Nevertheless those on the pro side of the fence have decided the time has come to stir the public mass production of health. 0 A year ago a learned committee of 50 completed a 5-year study and put TRYOUT their findings into a 23-volume reV port with voluminous recommenda-tions.

These advocated experimentation to reduce medical and dentfal costs, at the same time stabilizing doctors' and nurses' incomes and relieving them of bookkeeping and bill-sending. A million dollars was set aside for this research. The Rockefeller Foundation, the Rosenwald Fund, the Milbank Memorial Fund, the Carnegie Corporation, the Twentieth Century Fund and others contributed. Now twelve months after the report they're beginning to wonder whether it was a five-year labor of love. Proponents of the plan are going to sound out sentiment.

Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles are experimenting with the system. Those about to carry the torch for it say its western success means inevitable adoption by the East. Further, they allege that of the 30 doctors on fte fact-finding committee, a large majority favor the idea despite the Medical Association. No doctor or dentist would be forced to join up. Any practitioner who wanted to do business as now would have the privilege.

a Another impending battle on a related subject would radically change the pre CREDIT vailing system of open charge accounts. A bid is about: to be made to get the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board behind a proposition to divorce merchandising and financing as inharmonious functions. Finance companies would be established under strict state supervision. They and not your retail stores collect bills. Men sponsoring the idea say the present credit system is all out joint.

A rose that bloomed beautifully last year is showing signs of a sec VETS ond spring. You may recall it under the name of the National Economy League-. This organization was formed by a group of prominent men during the latter stages of the Hoover administration to combat veterans' demands. It continued to show signs of life during the first six months of the Roosevelt regime. Now the league is about to open up again.

A new Washington press agent has been engaged. Its offices here, closed since September, are re-opening. Their major offensive in the coming session of Congress will be "maintenance of the credit of the United Stales." a a State Department experts report the British Cabinet's policy is a last attempt, regard ARMS ed as hopeless, a disarmament conference between Britain, France, Italy and Germany, with America on the sidelines, and then a straight rush ahead to build up armaments. So sure are the Islanders that world arms competition will be the answer that already detailed estimates are being prepared for pres-ei tation to Parliament. The Air Force is to be built up to double its present strength: 1650 airplanes as against 850.

An increase in national preparedness expenditures of 300 million sterling is expected. Backstage the Australians are Clamoring over their defenseless-ness, and Britain is sending out a naval mission to see what can be done about protecting their far-flung colonials. As it is expected that the next naval war will take place iu the Pacific the British will be very active during the year to come augmenting their eastern safeguards. One of the difficulties is that in the event of war Britain would be dependent on Australia for much of her foodstuffs, and the convoys required for her food ships would greatly weaken her naval fighting strength. This is one of the things being discussed behind closed Cabinet doors in London today.

A regular night force of -eight stenographers has been put to work at the. White NOTES House In addition ie other workers put in the daylfchl hours in overflow offices at the State Department opening and sorting the letters addressed to Roosevelt by a newly articulate public'. Back in fltay, when the Federal Emergency Relief Administration was organized, it occupied a floor of office space in an old building Then it moved to another building and took two floors, finally sttoving the obsolete Bicentennial Commission out to get a third With the advent pf Civil Works, Administrator Harry Hopkins is tossing everybody out ofthe building and taking over all pine floors. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21.

Cieoi'Mt' Creel, National Labor Board representative, is "satisfied" today that threatened strikes, among automobile ferry operators and longshoremen would be averted by arbitration. Creel believes that, a set tlement is "imminent" in the dis- San Joaquin Grange Selects President MANTF.CA. Dec. 21. -Election of George Lloyd of Wooodbridge, president, featured the meeting of San AT THE Allendale wood," Broadway to llolly- American "Mouthpiece and "One Heavenly Night." Arabian "Secret of the Blue Room" and "What Price Innocence." Broadway "The Rebel" and" Fid-dlin' Buckaroo." Capitol "Broadway to Hollywood." Central "Her First Male "World Gone Mad." Dimond "The Bowery." Eastmont "Don't Bet on and "Narrow Corner." Fairfax "Solitaire Man "Refore Dawn." Fox-Oakland Fruitvale "Elysia" and and Love" and "Sing Sinner Sing." Golden State Parents." Granada "Broadway to Hollywood." Moulin Rouge -Burlesque.

ITONIGHT Tribune radio broadcast. Dinner, 6:30 p. Sheriff Driver, Hotel Oakland, Blue Room. Lobby Concert, 6:30 p. Y.

W. C. 1515 Webster Street. Whist, 8:15, St. Margaret's Church Parish Hall, Emerson and Excelsior Streets.

8 Whist, 8:30 p. St. Louis Ber-trand Church Parish Hall, One Hundred and First Avenue and East Fourteenth Street. Dance, 8:30 p. Yorks Old Style Dance Club, Roof Garden, Pacific Building.

Whist, 8:30 p. Fairfax Community Club, 5234 Foothill Boulevard. Dinner, 6:30 p. Sheriff Driver, Hotel Oakland, Blue Room. Lobby Concert, 6:30 p.

Y. W. C. 1515 Webster Street. Annual Christmas party, 8 p.

Oakland Damenthor, Herman Sons Hall, Twelfth and West Streets. Whist, 8:15, St. Margaret's Church Parish Hall, Emerson and Excelsior Streets. Whist, 8:30 p. St.

Louis Ber-trand Church Parish Hall, 101st Avenue and East Fourteenth Street. Dance, 8:30 p. m. Yorks Old Style Dance Club, Roof Garden( Pacific Building. Whist, 8:30 p.

Fairfax Community Club, 5234 Foothill Boulevard. Children's Christmas Tree Party, 8 p. Oakland Moose Club, Twelfth and Clay Streets. PAID OFF EARLY. MARYSVILLE, Dec.

A The City of Marysville assisted Santa Claus in his final rush to round up gifts by handing all municipal employees theiP' December salary warrants yesterday1 instead of at' the end of the month as is customary. Thus city workers will be enabled to do their last-minute, shopping in plenty ol time. pute between the Southern Pacific- Golden Gate Ferries Co. and its workmen over continuance of a 10 per cent wage cut. lie said that the longshoremen's disagreement with shipowners awaited only 'satisfactory arrangements for ar- i nitration." Joaquin Pomona Grange here.

Lloyd will succeed Gus Schmeidt, who has served as president since founding of the grange two years ago. Sam Travaille of Manteca was named overseer. THEATERS Grand-Lake "Smoky" and "East of Fifth Avenue." Orpheum "Jimmy and Sally" and "World Changes." Parents." Paramount Pretty." Parkway "Charlie Chan's Greatest Case" and "My Weakness." Peralta in Vienna." Piedmont the Next Best nng" and P. Premier "Man Against Woman" and "Out All Night." Rialto "Bed of Hoses," Hoxie Yesterday." Roynl "Tomorrow at Seven." Senator "Solitaire Man" and "Ladies Must Love." State of Missing Persons" and P. 1." ft "When Ladies Meet" and "It's Great to Be Alive." Uptown "My Woman" and "Good Companions." ALAMEDA Alameda- "Bowery." Lincoln "Elysia." Neptune Palace "Heroes for Sale" and "Hello Everybody." BERKELEY California "Flaming Gold" and "My Woman." Lorin "Pilgrimage" and "Beauty for Sale." Oaks "Bombshell" "My Weakness." Ri vol i Parents." Strand "Power arid the Glory" and "Arizona to Broadway." U.

C. "Mary Stevens M. and "Big Executive." United Artists "White Woman." HAYWARD Hayyvard Man." SAN LEANDRO Palace "Lady for a Day." TOMORROW Tribune radio broadcast. Employees' Christmas dinner, 12:30 p. Hotel Claremont, Blue and Gold Room.

Whist, 2 p. Martha Washington No. 6, Daughters of America, Snots' Hall. Thcosophical Lodge No. 4, 8 p.

Mission Street Temple. Benefit whist, 8 p. Berkeley Post No. 7, Veterans' Memorial Building. Christmas party, 8:15 p.

Security Benefit Association, Oakland Council No. 733, Porter Hall, 1918 Grove Street. Family Forum of American Institute of Fraternal Citizenship, 8:30 p. 528 Seventeenth Street. Christmas Whist, p.

St Bernard's Hall, Sixty-second Avenue and East Seventeenth Strefet. Whist, evening, St, Lawrence O'Toole's Parish Hall, High and Porter Streets. Bridge, 8 p. Hotel Oakland lounge. Dance, 9 p.

Associated Fraternities and Sororities, Ivory room, Hotel Oakland, More than 15,000 sample ballots sent out to Alameda County voters for yesterday's election were dumped back on County Clerk George Gross' front doorstep at the Hall of Records this morning. Indicating the number of persons who had moved in the past year without changing their registration. The letters fill between 50 and 60 mail sacks, and the problem of what to do with them was giving Gross a slight headache today. The work of going through all the sacks and looking up each name on the county's great register, in order to cancel the registration will take a lot of men and women a long, long time, Gross pointed out, and meanwhile there are other matters to be attended to around the Hall of Records that-at present, require all their time. And there is no money for a special crew.

The returned letters represent nl-most 5 per cent of all 1hat were sent out to the registered voters in the county, according to Gross. Elder Is Selected At Church Session I.ODI, Dec. 21- Election of Elder J. E. Fulton of Eugene, as president featured the closing session of the Northern California and Oregon Conference of the Seventh Day Methodist Church here yesterday.

Other officers chosen were C. C. Mattison, Oakland, secretary-treasurer; A. C. Nelson, Oakland, secretary of the Young Peoples' Union; A.

E. Barnes, Oakland, secretary of field missions, and W. B. Burnell of Los Angeles, secretary of home missions. Seek Name of Man Found by Hunters YUBA CITY, Dec.

21. Sutter County authorities today were continuing- their efforts to identify the body Of a man, aged about 65 years, found near his rude camp in the Sutter basin by two duck hunters. The man had been dead two or three days when found. His clothing contairied nothing that offered a clue to identity or residence. A horse and wagon belonging to the dead man were found near the camp.

streets Three-candle Rembrandt floor lamp and shade. Safeway and Piggly-Wlggly Stores Two cases of Brown Derby beer. Berman's Furniture Clay and 15th streets Bridge lamp. Kenyoh Electric 52(5 Thirteenth Street General Electric Mantel clock. Oakland Umbrella Factory, 1617 San Pablo Avenue Silk umbrella.

Scott-Buttner Electric 19 Grand Avenue Portable electric heater, value $15- Kahn's, Broadway and Fifteenth Street Merchandise order, value $10. Tennyson Nursery Company, 2509 Humboldt Avenue, Oakland Outdoor tree (Cedrus Atlantica) 8 feet high, sometimes called. Mt. Atlas Cedar. Maxwell Hardware Company, Washington at Fourteenth Street.

Chrome plated Universal electric coffee urn, value $16.50. Florshelm Shoe 1444 BroadwayOne pair of Florshelm shoes for men. In addition to the 26 grand prizes, there will be 24 miniature potted Christmas trees for planting, so that a start may be made for the future year contestant the support of Mtnam Hopkins. I think Miss Bates' last New York appearance was about 10 years ago in the Henry Miller production of "The Changelings." She played on the coast in more recent years and went on one 'tour with Margaret Anglin. 'Other-'' wise she has been a familiar figure at first nights, especially, those at the Columbia during the lifetime of Jake Gottlob who died a few days afted he wished godspeed tov young Frances as she started for New York.

You don't need to worry about the mas tree contests. The Holmes tree is not entered this year in order that others their district may have a chance. The Bert Scotts of Piedmont also present a beautifully decorated tree for the enjoyment of others again this year. Also prize winners in previous contests the Scotts are not entered in the Tribune contest for a prize In district five there are numerous interesting trees. One is located at 757 Forty-fifth Street, Oakland, near West Street.

Alameda, Richmond, El Cerrito, Hayward, San Leandro and other districts also offer hundreds of illuminated outdoor trees for enjoyment of the entire community. LIST OFsPRIZES. Here are the prizes some lucky Eastbay residents will receive amiiuJ? their Christmas presents. Grand sweepstakes prize $150 electric range. Jackson Furniture Company, Thirteenth and Clay streets $25 merchandise order.

Charles C. Navlet 471 Twelfth Street Four-frallon compressed air garden sprayer, retailing at $9. Schwartz Grodin, clothiers, Twelfth and Broadway $6.50 Stetson hat or Stetson hat order. II. Morton Company, 1930 Broadway Ecrase leather gold tooled picture frame valued at $20.

Davidson Licht, 1970 Broadway 26-piece set of Rogers Bros. 1847 in case, valued at $30. Markus Cut Rate Hardware Company, Seventh and Washington streets An electric Iron with cord. Kay Jewelry Company, 1308 Broadway Electric percolator set valued at $27.50. Tenth Street Store, Tenth and Washington streets One suede leather coat.

California Nursery Niles Outdoor tree (Cedrus Deodara), 12 to 14 feet high. Redlick's, Twelfth and Clay h- EQUALS Marina Pfirnc ffTVi ,111. UVt peters any more; they can take care of themselves now. I told you the other day how Uncle Sam had cut two inches off the neignt requirements oi me men who blow the privates awake in the morning; how the privates felt about being blown awake and at what a disadvantage this two-inch difference placed the troublesome bugler. Uncle Sam evidently read my squib.

So, today; he notified lyfajor R. R. Wright, in charge of Marine recruiting on the Pacific Coast, to do something about it. So, Major Wffghf informs me, he's slashed a corresponding twd' inches, off each recruit coming up for enlistment. If you intend joining up you need now be but 66 inches high; that's the of a trumpeter, THE KNAVE.

The Knave has a full page of "inside" gossip every Sun-lay in The Tribune. Two hundred children were in "Fairyland" at the Home Club in East Oakland yesterday afternoon, guests of their elders at the annual Christmas party. In the background were Mrs. Daniel Easterbrook, Mrs. Gljjnn Barnhart, Miss Lucy Shinn, Mrs.

G. A. Gray, Mrs. Robert Leet and others. ELSEWHERE WASHINGTON, Dec.

21, Abill was introduced by vgenator'-' Works today to. repeal the action of San Francisco in Retting Hetch Heichy Valley in Yosemite National Park for as a source of municipal water supply. Senator Works charges that San Francisco has, at the present time sufficient water f6r a hundred years' use and that the beauty of Hetch Hetchy Valley will be destroyed by the project. SPORTS NEW YORK, Dec. 21.

Maurice McLaughlin and Mary Browne headed the list of American amateur tennis players In the national rankings issued hert IvopyrilMi iVMi lor ine inouni.i.