The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 12, 1919, Page 16

Four Boys in Stolen Car Hold Up and Rob Autoists ‘Tracing clews to the identity ef the four youthful aw - dts who speeded over “WeEverett highway Su might robbing « obilixts at tie pistol, reported Monday an early capture is ex thre mor he capture of the highwaymen ain Fireman Is Arrested. A. FP. Peterson, 25, a me mien, wel. partly ste holdup victims early Sunday ng, tho positive identification POperating in a stolen machine of | ° ata theme et High power, the four youths held up aaedinie et Might people, and thon went thru (he | i Oohew 85 Sorlhagae of Seattle, robbing a pe vented with Peter m in the University district | [n't Rd another north of Woodland on, See ‘The first report of the activities of | Motor bandits came from Mar iB. H. Hitsman, of Bothell, who ted to Seattle police that the bile in which Mr, and Mra. Wilbur Browder, 14 Madison st. Mr. and Mrs. L. 1. Grines, of | ioe ve lunnyside, while traveling to Seat vontity fe, had been held up between Holly At the ‘and Woodinville, on the Both- co wenn aannen ah Ge Foad, by four youths in a high cnet. waiting (0 6 OOF car. The bandits crowded | Cones claimed to have walked from ng Ce ‘amie a vas har the down town district, a distance of 0 stop, Jumped out and | 96° niocks. Sup with your hands" | Copes had an automatic pistol Take Victims’ Machine loaded, and 15 reserve syunde — | Ka Hetima to | Munition, a safety razor and a flash ‘Were not to The ban-| bad only a small amount of money pot about $6, One of the hold.| Edward Attila, 115 Thomas at., was hen drove off with their vic- | stopped at 9th ave. and Seneca at machine, leaving them strand. |>Y two men in uniform and wearing lem the hihghway, while the re. | OVerseas cape. One of them held a Three followed their com, |fevolver at Attila's head while the riggs and Browder found | other searched him. A pair of gloves machine about a mile away,|W%* their only reward. it had been abandoned Hse tnaite atenpea their) Yankees Get Ready the lights of Brigg’s car * ‘upon the license number of for Allied Games fobber’s machine. Briggs made} PARIS, May 12.—Harry W. Ma} Rote of the number, 29,087, This|loney, track coach and trainer of Was found to be the license number | Stanford university, is assisting the & Machine stolen Saturday night| American athletes here in preparing Mrs. Catherine Boyd, 2727) for the interallied games | ave. &.. while it was parked in| Among the noted athletes In active of her home. training are } tt half an hour before this! Lieut. Harry Worthington, who} E. Main, 1210 Jobn st.. and} won the national broad Jump title| nner, 717 holdups, upon as the tallest of the couple, not certain, They could not ne of thelr arrest Peter son and ‘em route to Seattle from Falls|five world records in the hammer ‘were stopped by the same tac-/ throw; Sergt. Howard P. Drew, hold by four young bandits and re-jer of the world record for the 100 | wed of about $7., Main and Miss/yard dash and National 220-yard/ were told to stay where | champion; Lieut. F. L. Maker of the| Were, and the highwaymen en-| University of California, high jump/ their machine and raced off. | champion. py eientrian Ie Hono otei| MEETING OF RUSSIAN 7 stranger in | Se ee ian could not wai te| _ BOLSHEVIKS STOPPED the exact spot where he was| LOS ANGELES, May 12.—Ratter but said it was in the Uni-|ing down the door of a hall in the ity district. He was walking to| Boyle Heights district. police broke street car line when the machine| up a meeting of Russians, said to Bd up, halted and the four ban-| have been engaged in an attempt to ‘alighted. One of them pointed |organize a Holshevist movement in| Automatic pistol at Sheridan's | Los Angeles « ~~ i “Admiral of the Nancies” Best Naval Aviator in United States COM. J.H. ‘TOWERS @iettrede more aw BY J. HW. DUCKWORTH N. BE. A. Correspondent NEW YORK, May 12.—Comman Irene Ashford, S14 28th ave.|three times; Pat Ryan, holder Of] 40. jonn H. Towers, 26-year-old “ad miral of the nancies.” in command of Uncle Sam's transatlantic alr fleet, is the only naval aviator who has never he hi to make an alibi Towers doesn’t talk much. Ask im & question about his work, and he weighs it long before be answers, ov passes to air stations, Commar Te ter well also know that he can be a | dey ery entertaining he ve Because he never makes a fuse or girls who by “pull” get visitor# pwers han been called & woman ha r. But those who know Towers Whén Gienn H. Curtias fret deve! oped his flying boat, it was Ensign ‘and commanded him to throw) No arrests were made, but the | towers who was the first haval of B hie hands. Sheridan complied| meeting wan dispersed and & QUAD-| Aoor to learn to navigate It. He had the demand. He wae robbed of tity of radical literature was seized. and his watch. Names of those who attended the motorcycle patrolmen were) meeting were noted. } out and a veritable dragnet) A report was submitted to the de 1 about the northeastern por-| partment of justice, which is under- on of the city. Hardly had they| stood to be Investigating. len dispatched when A. O'Brien, peer a aaa Hm IS 6 lives on Greenwood ave., about MAN HIT BY AUTO mile north of the city limita, tele-| Harry Lovson, employed at the med to the police that he had| Ames shipyard, suffered painful but) held. up at North 7th st. and|not serious injuries early Sunday | 4 ave,. by four youths and| morning when he was struck by an of $6. O'Brien was walking | automobile driven by I. Kints, 2419 his home when the machine | Tist ave. S.. on Yesier way between and-he was invited for a/ Second and Third aves. Lovson said “As he entered the machine | he did not see the machine approach of the bandits pressed the muz-|ing. He was taken to the City how | of a pistol to the back of his| pital. His right leg was wrenched| thrown out of the car. | een Descriptions of the highwaymen HE'S NERVY CHAP | OAKLAN Ml go bis bail, I ad. | to the various victims'| mire his nerve,” said A. B. Smith, | ts two of the bandits wore | tallest Oakland policeman, posting | ‘and the other two wore caps.|$25 for release of Tom Robison, 6 One of them was armed as in| feet 5 and weight 135. Robison cane only one automatic pistol | floored the cop with a wallop during evidence. The bandits evi-|a raid. | stole Mrs. Boyd's machine _— | y night and headed for the | H road in the belief that there \@ When you think of diaries, C | be many automobile parties | | think of The Star. into Seattle. The police be- | to the police tally exactly THE BON MARCHE Ba RGAIN BASEMENT Helping you to look your best in the kitchen Helping you to do so economically is the plan of the Basement by offering GINGHAM AND PERCALE COVERALL APRONS AT many records with his flying boat on| Chesapeake bay Just before the outbreak of the War in 1914 Towers was in Hac mondsport, N. Y.. assisting Lieut Cyril Porte, the British naval avia tor, in preparations to fly across the A 'U. S. Sea Flig Coverall Aprons in apron gingham checks; side-button style, bound with white tape; another style, of plaid percale, is more like a dress, and is suitable to wear at home, for picnics or camping; white collar that buttons in surplice style, pockets trimmed with white. Still another style of plaid percale is trimmed with contrasting colors. tlantic in the America. Towers * * * * Ready for 1 BY A. E. JOHNSON ON BOARD U. 8. 8. PRAL RIE, Trepassey, N. F., May 12. —Commander Towers today awaited information as to the probable time of arrival here of the seaplane NC-4, before giving orders for the start of the at transatlantic flight and the NC-3 are ready to go, but the NC-4 was de layed at Chatham, Mass., by en- gine trouble. Towers wuggented that Lieut. Com —Aprons in three styles, as sketched —Aprons the busy housewife will find serviceable —Made in roomy coverall styles —So comfortable and handy for kitchen wear —And the price js low enough $1.39 THE SEATTLE STAR ~x CT would probably have accompanied | Porte, rs vin States on nder Towers made several ngland before the United red the war. He placed nee at the disposal of the piralty whieh was fever ping the America type of lixstowe, with which man submarines. During 1917 Commander Towers spent much of his time first at Ak ron, O., where they were made. At the air station on the lantic coast, organizing the feet of naval blimps,” or dirigibles, He is now officially connected with the his exper ha the G netruction and repair designated as comman “NC (Nancy) seaplane di the new title of the trio of overseas craft 1 have seen him many thnes at naval air stations inconspicuously drosned in “civvies,” but Commander Towers. with all his absence of swank.” is undoubtedly the beet all round naval aviator in the United States. No pilot ever feels that he is | being anked to take an unnecessary risk in making a fight when Com. | mander Towers says that everything in all right. * * * * ht Planes 200-Mile Jump ;mander Read, of the NC-4, make a His purse was taken and he | and bruised. | (United Press Staff Correspondent) | non-stop Might from Chatham to Tre passey, xo as to arrive in time for the getaway Weather conditions in midocean are rough, according to latest re ports. 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Weather | FLOOR reports were being received from the destroyers strung across the Atiantia} relayed from ship to ship. | The huge planes were given an: | other Inspection, in which every mo- tor and every stay was gone over | inch by inch. ‘There was consider able talk of awaiting arrival of the NC4, which was forced to stop at} Thatham, Mass., for motore. | If the NC-4 makes a quick direct | flight from Chatham to Trepasney it | is believed possible the three naval | machines can start together on the longest hop of their transatlantic fly- ing attempt Harry Hawker, pilot of the British Sopwith airplane, who has been in Newfoundland for weeks awaiting auspicious weather conditions, sent | wishes for good luck to the Amert- | ‘ean aviators today, The message | was conveyed thru friends ot Hawker who visited the American | baxe here | The big navy planes have been able to sail serenely thru head | | winds that kept the British single | motored craft on the ground. ‘This [fact causes apprehension in the British camps, according to word re- | ceived here, aw it is evident that the | United States fiyera will not het | tate to start in weather that would | make a Sopwith flight unsuce: nmander J. H. Towel | miral" of the transatlantic their arrival at Plymouth. were ag yet unformulate been suggested that the Americans might fly back to the United States TRAITORS TO ALLIES (Special to The Star by N. BE. A.) STOCKHOLM, May 12.—Bolshe- | vik outbreaks to start in Murmansk jand e to all towns on the |Murmansk front would have been | Joined by portions of the allied | troops had not the plot n dis- covered and the leaders sted. Copies of & proclamation calling on the workmen to kill the authorits and transfer their allegiance Lenine and Trotsky were confis- leated. Demonstrations and pro- |cessions were forbidden and troops thrown about the quarter of the city where the plotters were taken, Pitt its i f i Von! dette PLOT WITH BOLSHIES “big” for summer wear. 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