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3 SECOND SECTION CLASSIFIED PAGES VOL. LXXVIIL OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1912. NO. 127. WORSHIP USHERS IN 'HOLIDAY XMAS IS -MARKED BY SERVICE TURKISH DELEGATES ADOPT GENERAL COURSE Of DEAY Eventually Must Accept Conditions Laid Down by Allies IN SCENE AT ST.

MARY'S AD THE REV. FATHER E. P. DEMPSEY, WHO DELIVERED THE SERMON. Sims 11 UNFITNESS drastlo enforcement the cea sorship of newt of military affair.

The mobilizations, by Russian and Austria have been quite different, Rue-sla having called to the colors evt. dently more men than Austria and also authorized a different method la gathering them together. Early in November a draft of ,100 000 Russians was due to finish their LONDON. Dec. 25.

The Turkish delegates to the peace conference, although they realize' that eventually they must accept the conditions laid down by the allies to bring about peace in Southeastern Europe, are following their usual course of procrastination, and will take advantage of every diplomatic device to. postpone the Inevitable dismemberment Wholesale Sterilization of In sane Proposed by Utah State Board. Charles 0. Pickett Shoots military training. At the last mo ot the territory which has been their ment, however, they received orders to remain with the colors.

These or- armed camp for 500 years. "f.r-4- K'i i Yf r-fi Meanwhile. allies are so con- ders still are in force and give Russia Urge Appointment of Eugenic Stranger at tha Door of His Room fldent that the outcome of the peace urriciais to Control Marriages. a margin of 300,000 veterans. Austria's mobilization consisted In the calling of young men to the colors.

The Balkan peace delegates are serene as to the outcome ot their negotiations with Turkey, but are watching Austria with some concern. It she refuses to demobilize the allies John I. Morris of Bakersfield negotiations will be In line with their demands that they have agreed on the boundaries for an autonomous Albania. These boundaries wllL bnsub-mltted later to the ambassadorial conference, which has adjourned to meet early in the new year. The ouestinn loomlnir sinister be.

SALT SLAKE CITY. Dec. 25. Wholesale sterilizations of persdns unfit to have offspring Is advocated In the biennial report of the state board of insanity and the superin shortly may ask the reason for tha Supposed to Have Been the Victim fore Europe is not when peace will delay. tendent of the state mental hospital.

which was filed with the governor late yesterday. The following recommendations are made in the report: Sterilization of all persons' Insane from hereditary causes. be signed by tho belligerents, but why, In view of the settlement of Jhe quarrel between Austria and Servia, Austria docs not demobilize. FRONTIER ITlOrOSED. The allies have agreed to propose to the ambassadorial conference the following frontier for an autonomous Albania: North along the River Drin, leaving a few on the left btrk of that river to Montenegro, as It represents the only passage possible from the interior to the sea.

The frontier as Creation of a state board of eu genics to control marriages and Issue certificates for licenses to onlv the fit. FRESNO, Dec. 25. At 1 o'clock this morning Charles O. a Southern Pacific conductor, whose run la between Stockton and Fresno, shot and mortally wounded a Htranger, presumed to be John J.

Morris of Bakersfield. Pickett was writing In his room In a lodging house when, he claims, he heard an attempt to open his door. Into the hallway, he found Ifor-rls in an altercation, shot him. The dead man Is about 35 years of age and unidentified except by papers found in his pocket. Pickett is held at the county jail.

He has a family living in Stockton. CONTROVERSY SETTLED. BELGRADE, Deo. 25. The AustttJ Servian controversy Is considered in.

well-informed circles here to have been entirely settled. Servia accepts the decision of the ambassadorial conference in London to reorganize the autonomy of Albania and the giving of a commercial port on the Adriatic to Servia. Some differences, it Is believed, may arise in fixing the Albanian frontiers, but no Importance is attached to this phase of the situation, because Servia Is supposed to be in possession of assurances that her desires in this respect vyill receive favorable action. There is some dissatisfaction over the situation, aa evinced In tha press comments, but the government does not fear any serious opposition. An amendment to the penal code giving the upper courts the power to impose a sentence of sterilization in lieu of imprisonment in certain statu tory crimes.

A law giving the board of nardnnn the power to make sterilisation a re quirement precedent to parole or par proposed will follow the Drin until the White Drin Joins the Black Drin. The eastern frontier Is marked by the watershed between Albania and Servia, leaving to Servia both Pristrend and Monastlr. The southern frontier consists of a line practically straight from Southern Italona to the watershed, leaving the town of Ergherklstre don rrom penal Institutions when in the Judgment of the bureau of eugenics such Is necessary dinner at noon toaay, Including turkey. Plum pudding and lobsr a la Newburg. to Greece.

The proposed frontier between Montenegro and Servia will be along the -Hi mo oincr accessories to a holiday feast. The president of the home, Albert Jvayser, presided at the dinner. WELL IMII WILLTflUR WORLD ine girls of the Young Women's Association boardlnr home on PVonU. iln street were surprised with an elabo PROMISED 10 10: GDI CO 111 INSTEAD Sacred Day Is Observed rate Christmas breakfast this morning. It was prepared under the direction' of Mrs.

E. G. Crulckshank, who has charge of the institution, and Miss M. A. Smith, the business secretary of the association! White Drin, leaving DJacova tf Montenegro and passing through the River Ibar at a spot called Rojas, from where it reaches a straight line to the River Lim, which constitutes the last of the frontier, leaving the town of Plevlle to Montenegro.

AEGEAN'S TO GREECE. The Aegean islands will go to Greece, they having a population made up almost entirely of Greeks, but the Athens government pledges the neutralization of these Islands, desiring to guarantee to all the powers free passage and liberty of commerce through in Leading Oakland Chuirches Oakland Merchant to Be Gons Greater Part of Next -Year. I Miss Isabel Smith, the educational work secretary, presided. The decorations were Japanese and little souvenirs representative of Mother Goose rhymes were at each plate. These the girls were expected to guess.

Japanese hand-painted Beginning with servicess last of the ancient history of martyrdom and trl.il know that. Christmas has come to night at Trinity Episcopal church, carol them as a symbol of good will." out the archipelago. Although the Chicago Doctor Arrested and Charged With Obtaining $2000 From Woman. The priests officiating at the solemn high mass were Fathers P. E.

Doyle and place cards were at each place. About forty girls were present. At the Young Men's Christian Association open, house -was kept all day today, although the regular Christmas entertainment will h. hoM am (. Bulgarians yesterday asked to be permitted to occupy territory on a line from Rodesto, on the Sea of Marmora, to Mldia, on the Black sea, it Is be- P.

A. Anderson. An augmented choir sang the mass. ST. JOHN'S.

H. C. Capwelt. one of Oakland's most representative cltlsens and merchants, and former president of the Chamber ol Commerce, Is to leave on a tour of the world on February accompanied by his son, Cebert. They wlU first leave for the Orient, sailing on the steamer Cleveland, -and will make a tour of China and Japan.

They will leave the steamer at Naples and from that point will make an extended tour of Europe. Mr. Capwell Is one of the directors of PROVIDE FOR at which the chlerfeatures Twill be eved they will be saUsf led to have SAN DIEGO. Dec. 25.

Dr. Otto W. the frontier start from Enos, a port With a full choir singing the numbers singing tfliroughout the early morning hours, and masses from 5 o'clock on In the Roman Catholic edifices, Christmas was celebrated today In the Oakland churches. In t'ne cold dark hours of early morning practically all of Oakland was awakened by the singers, who walked through the streets, according to the custom of the Church of England, singing the hymns of Yuletide. At the c'lurch services this morning augmented choirs rendered special music, and many of the churches were elaborately decorated In honor of the day.

At Sacred Heart church Mercadante's celebrated mass was sung, and at St. Francis on the? Aegean sea, and follow the Marltza river until It reaches a point I of the morning service a large audience was edified at St. John's Church this south of Lule Burgas and then cut morning. Adeste Fideles, the procession across eastward to Mldia. al, was followed by the Kyrle Elesion by Hall.

"Hark, the Herald Angels Sing' reading by Miss Jean Rutherford, who will inttrpret "The Sign of the Cross." The clubs of the city held open house throughout the day. The Athenian Club will depart from Its usual custom and will hold Its Christmas dinner in January. The Elks and Nile Clubs were open. The usual Christmas hospitality was In evidence. The newly opened Oakland Hotel had a Christmas tree last night and between This line, while It would not give AririunnnlA to thA 'Rnlamrlnnn.

would ENTAIL! the new Hotel Oakland, where, during hli was made beautiful by the chOlr and deep nrevent it belnir a menace In the u- absence, his wife and daughter will re- toned organ. The offertory was "Noel, by Adam, sung in solo by Francis Neil de Sales solemn high mass, with Rev' son. The rest of the program was Tour' J. P. Keant as celebrffnt, was observed ture.

It Is purposed to make Salonlkl 1 8lde- Mr- Capwell has long been one and the surrounding territory within I the m0Bt ct'v nd energetlo boosters a radius of 100 miles neutral under (ln the city. In addition to his interest In the protection of the allies. th Chamber of Commerce he has been rKTm, wATvnvn at th front of Very vn tor the WATtllED. I advancement of the city. It was due to Hauck of Chicago, aged 52, who has been In San Diego several weeks, Is under arrest here, charged with hav-ilng obtained more than $2000 from jaJrs.

Nellie Hessler of Chicago upon iffromlse of marriage, after having corresponded With her and subsequently arranged meetings in Chicago, where It is claimed Hauck plighted his troth, then hurried to between $2000 and $3000 from the woman. Mrs. Hessler hart him traced from Chicago to Galveston, and finally to this city via Los Angeles She confronted him at the city prison today end the police declare Dr. Hauck ad- mltted his financial entanglement rftH her. and also several similar affairs with women.

Nicene Creed; Sanotus Benedlctus, Agnes the hours of 8:30 and 9:30 the choir of Del and Gloria In Excelsis by Roland t. John's church sang Christmas carols Sweet: Psalm 117 and recessional "Once he hostelry. In Royal David's City." Father E. Evere; The European chancellories are his enterprise that the nresent Chamhe Singing Christmas carols, the Athena officiated as vicar of the with Jt Quartet made a 40-ml'le automobile watcnlnK w'tlJ. the.

keenest anxiety for of Commerce was organised along modern oVfMah Male De P. Teller, choirmaster, and Junio tour through Berkeley, Linda Vista ana I lines. East Oakland during the early hours this I lth the sett'ement of the Incident Mr. capwell and his son will be gone the greater portion of a year. arising from the com' morning, winding up at the Hotel Oak $200,000 Available for Establishment of America's First "Clearing House." plaint of ill treatment by the Austrian consul In Pristrend and the announce.

In the morning, at both churches, other masses wpre heard hourly from 5 o'clock on. At St. Mary's Hadyn's "Imperial Mass In was the feature of the services. Father McGrattan was the cele-' brant. Tonight at 7:30 rosary and benediction will be observed, the music to consist of numbers from "Stabat Mater." Miss Kenny will sing Salutarls" and "Tan-tum Ergo." St.

Francis De Sales church was crowded at the last morning mass. Wreaths of greens and berries, flowers, decorated the altar and windows. Similar decorations were also seen at St. Mary's. At St.

Paid's Episcopal church St. ment by the ambassadorial conference I CLASS INITIATION. Court Advocate, Ancient Order Foresters, No. 7378, will hold a class Initiation next Friday evening" al Pythian Castle, The San Francisco drill team will confer the degree on Medcraft as organist. Rev.

E. F. Gee, the rector, delivered the sermon, taking his text from the 81 to' the 10th verses from the second chapter of St. Luke. "It Is an old story, but ever new," said Father Gee.

"It tells of De message to the shepherds of the birth of the Savior. He came not to the scribes, Pharisees, mighty ones or the king In his palace, but to the humble shepherds In Bethlehem, the city of David, the shepherd king. It was the place of tradition where NEW YORK, Dee. 25. A sum of land, where they sang In the lobby and In the upper corridors, concluding festivities with an elaborate breakfast as the guests of the hotel management.

The quartet consisted of Philip Hah, first tenor; H. B. Lyons, seoond tenor; Edward Parker, first bass, and E. B. Johnson, second bases.

The automobile party stopped at nearly fifty different places, and hundreds' of homes in the residence sections enjoyed the singing. that It favored autonomy for Albania and a commercial port on the Adriatic for Servia, every reason for the Austrian mobilization apparently was ended. The failure of that country to de OOfl been provided for the establish the many new candidates recently brought into the order. The meeting ment of America's first clearing house for mentally defective persons, and for Wilson Family Hangs Up Christmas Stockings Prffsident-EIect Plays Santa i Claus; Half Dozen Turkeys Gifts. mobilize coincides with the announce will be followed bv Antortalnmant mnA scientific study of the causes of mental Saen's Christmas oratorio was sune.

urul ment from St. Petersburg yesterday of ipfreshments. deficiency, according to announcement I Christ should often wander in his ministrations to men. "So, my brethren, we have the lesson of the exaltation of the poor. It Is so that poverty has ever been exalted and glorified as we find It among mankind." ST.

AUGUSTINE'S CHAPEL. Rev. D. R. Wallace delivered a short sermon following the morning service at St.

Augustine's Episcopal chapel, on the "Exaltation of Christ." The offering of the morning Is to be devoted to the building fund of the church. Tomorrow Rev. Alexander Allen preached on "Tho Infant Savior." WHAT HOLIDAY-TEACHES. "Christmas," said the clergyman, "appeals to essential manhood. The Christmas spirit, and the lesson it suggests, teaches us that Christmas day means to us a remembrance thatllfe.an God sees it, does not mean what the world of men think grand, famous, or desirable; not the external appearance of life, but life as life; the glory of the human life In itself.

"So we celebrate this day, because It discloses to us the nature of a God whose power, wisdom and Justice Is great and whose Justice is the supreme law. Christ's message Is not a message from afar, but made today. The Idea of such a during house was discussed seriously for the Srst time directly after the shooting of Colonel Roosevelt by John Schrank. It Is announced that several philanthropists have gathered the sum named and that under the guidance of the department of charities this new plan will be carried out early In the new year. A squad of physicians and psychologists is being organized to carry on the work which will be conducted In the training school and hospital "for feeble PRINCETON, N.

Dec. 25. President-elect Woodrow 'Wilson played Santa Claus today with real Christmas mystery. Not until the Wilson family rose and tiptoed eagerly into the big studio did they find their gifts, which were crammed In the old-fashioned way into stockings that hung over the fireplace. Presents from all parts of the' Bear in Mind country came In great nurlnbers to the night a Christmas tree will be the medium of the gathering of the congregation at the chapel, at the rear of St.

John's Church. Pnesident-elect and his family, and minded children on Randall's Island. A Princeton friends came merrily to the 50,000 small army of 'Investigators Is to be em- I closely identified with life, for Christ en- tered human life. Humanity Is taught by Wilson bungalow with holiday greetings. The weather had cleared, leaving a nlrely packed snow, and ployed In obtaining Indexed records of all persons coming within the class of the mentally defective.

throughout the day sleighbells gave Want to Know Christmas, the time when man helps his fellow men. It reveals the nature of the base of life love." SERVICES AT TRINITY. Elaborate musical services were held at Trinity Church. Rev. S.

W. Creasy, a missionary, occupied the pulpit, speaking on his experiences in Idaho among the Indian tribes, and Field's communion servire In was rendered by the choir. Masses were held at St. Joseph's Portuguese ehureh, with solemn high mass at 10:30, Father Uibiero being celebrant! Similar services were held at Rt. Augustine's, in North Oakland.

Rev. Father E. P. Dempsey, at the last Santa Claus Comes To S. F.

in Airship Mayor Rolph Helps Distribute Gifts to 10,000 Children. the Wilsons true Christmas music. Miss Louise and Casper Wood-bridge, her brother, whose father Is a cousin of the governor, and a Chinese missionary, were the only household guests. Of the half doen tuikeys that came, the biggest, a 24-pounder, was served for dinner. 4 Suffragette Army Rests on Christmas Skating Party, Dinner and Ball on Today's Program.

235 Why they should live in Oakland. tW What this beautiful city looks like. J3T What opportunities there are for business enterprises. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 25.

There was no snow for the reindeer sleigh here today onA Snntn Clmm flnntprl rinwr, In service at St. Mary's church this morning, brought home in a particularly forcl- Christmas Cheer at OaKIand Hospitals Throughout the corridors of the hospitals of tills city, Christmas carols were sung this morning by augmented choirs composed of young men and women. young college people serenaded the patients In the East Bay sanatorium at is o'clock, when the anthems awakened the Inmates. As a prelude to the holiday festivities, the choir of St. Marks' Episcopal church of Berkeley sang carols In the new building of the King's Daughters' Home for Incurables.

Yesterday afternoon the members of the Junior Epworth League gave a literary and musical program. The annual Christmas dinner was given today in the King's Daughters' Home, where Mrs. Matilda Brown, president of the Institution, presided. Immediately after breakfast this morning gifts were distributed to the old folks. Every member of the home received a present.

At Fablola Hospital a company of talented singers wended their way through the hell as they entertained the sick. MASS AT MIDNIGHT. Midnight mass was celebrated In the Providence Hospital last evening. It was preceded by. three masses, which were conducted In the hospital chapel.

There was also a Chrlstmae tree in St. Joseph's ward, where one Of the undergraduato nurfes Impersonated Santa Clans. From a plane from a brilliant blue sky Into tho ble addrSsa the, 'dea that Christmas is verdure5 of Golden Gate Park with candy, nuts and toys for ten thousand children. Mayor Rolph and the city fathers presided; over the presentation. Isf Not less than 50,000 western-bound colonists will ask for literature after January 1st concerning Oakland and suburbs.

tjgr Answer them all by having your business enterprise represented in its columns and by sending the magazine to TTTrnSfYNT V. Dec. 25. The snffra- J-tte army en route to Albany did not Anernl Rnnnlln frr- fiwat tlmA slnee the armv left New season of rejoicing to Christian people chiefly because It demands that their whole religious life is the work of God himself. His sermon In part follows; "Were religion a mere matter of- human wisdom and did Its truths, dictates and demands come solely as the work of some poetical dreams or the work of some great wise mamthen it would be easy to understand a 'Sun's indifference, If not to say sometimes, contempt.

"Human wisdom In Irs pride Is prone to consider Its thoughts and counsels as good as the next man's. Religion Is not of the human kind. The center of its truths, its commands, Its. counsels, its hopes, ls "Tork on. December 16, ordered a full Clay's rest for the observance of Christ Six Firemen Are Overcome by Smoke Eight-Story Building of West-inghftuse Co.

Destroyed; Damage $100,000. be issued January 15th by Oakland Tribune Beautifully Issued in the beds the patl 'nts welcomed old Christ himself. And believing In the dl ivlnitv of Christ, the Christian rests his wno wus most Kenerous in uie uisniou- PITTSBURG. Dec. Six firemen i nralv nf mfcuLJind contentment of spirit 1 of remembrances for the young and i i i i old.

About twenty-four are In the ward. mas festivities. Tne program or celebration included a skating party, a Christmas dinner and, tonight, attendance-fit a charity ball, where Miss Jones and Jthers will be given opportunity to make speeches for the Tomorrow the marchers will go through the snow to Stuyvesant Falls, a nine-mile Journey. i Taft Spends Christmas Inspecting Great Canal Resident Will Attend Ball Given by Perras i Magazine Shape were lU'eerome by smoke and damage was done today when an eight-story building occupied as the city warehouse of the Westing-house Electric Manufacturing company was destroyed by fire. Crossed wires were given as the caue.

with the whole scheme of ills religious life. In God himself." ST. ANTHONY'S CHURCH. "This is an age of universal benevolence and mercy and yet, hirelings are going about the world preaching peace while the blood of the nations laps at the very which Is maintained principally for the poor of his city. The tree with Its abundance of tokens was decorated by Mrs.

Thomas Hogan, president of the Providence Hospital Auxiliary, Mrs. L. F. Ag-new and Mr; J. H.

Realy. Nine masses were sung itoday at the steps of the marble tnmples of peace, Providence Hospital, wherwRacred mini- said Rev. P. jtiglnns in (1m rnnr.mn rr ai m. n- coin' The Inmates of the the Tonight.

Culebra cut1, and tho fortifications at the Pacific end of the eiuui.1. 1'crctval H. Dodge, the American minister to Panama, entertained the President at Sixteenth street and Sixteenth avenue, where solemn high mass was held. "The time for divine mercy Is now come 1 German Old People's Homo, enjoyed their Christmas tre? last night with th" superintendent, Kranz Jacoby, and the matron, Mrs. El Behnker, as host and host-esa, Thar had as elaborate Christinas and people, if they only knew It, live' in dinner tonight Taft will at PANAMA, Dec.

25, President Taft spent the forenoon of his Christmas oveting'th central and Paoifio di- i tend a bail given tar President Verraa. the seventh beavea of comfort Students.