The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 23, 1919, Page 1

} ‘MURDERER ESCAPES! * * * ® * Pa DARING THUG FLEES TO SEATTLE On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Tides in Seattle TURSDAY DRE. 28 First High fam, i First Low Tide : ‘ VOLUME 22 a Ls AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH NoTic article al temple in stories are frequently the Gream children of expert young men who make considerable | out of nothing, but this particular | yarn was specific enough to invite confidence 7 And the latest directory Buddhist mission So, while we send men to India to watives, India sends priests to America to convert us heathen Christians. Sometimes [I have doubted whether the foreign missionary ef fort really pmpliahes much, far as bringing to Orientals real Christian ideals is concerned, Medical missionaries, sanitary rts, educational directors, these & great work, but whether the mtal really becames Christian, fz we know idealized Christianity, something we will never be ht sure of, for no Occidental "can follow the twistings of the Oriental mind And when one learns that even our word tor God cannot be ex pressed in Chinese, and that no Caucasian scholar has ever yet be- come adept enough to translate into Chinese the Word, but hax to rely’ on the impression the native translater may get from the ng word, still more doubts lists a iring young convert the occasional an ‘might easily be that we are not making much more of an im- pression an China and India and Japan than the Buddhists are making on us. | $65 many of these Oriental “converts” are situated p Mbout as the Korean boy who “was asked by his white employer if he was a Christian He said: “Yes, sometimes. It | takes plenty time to be Christian When I get no work then I be Christian, but when I have good tffen I no chance for waste in such silly things.” Certainly the Chinaman, ob- frving seven or more different feands of Christian missionaries, ‘each purporting to represent the true faith, may be pardoned his misgivings. And until Christian proselyters Are as united in their attack on ‘the devil as Buddhists and Con fucians and the disciples of hammed are, they are likely to 4 that, in the Ortent at least, is a case of divided they fall. UT for the eee NDERNEATH ing skin of com. plaisance, we suspect the smil- ¢ P sincere, self. sacrificing, humanity loving bero that will in cold blood and un- derstanding deliberate ay choose the lot of foreign mission ry we have nothing but abound Ing admiration. Men like Bishop Taylor of Africa, Thoburn of India; men like the Catholic fathers who carried the message to the barbarians of every clime and time; men like these Arctic fathers of the Epis- copal church, who go months without seeing a white man and whose life is one of unrecompensed service—for these men and their peers one must have ad miration And those who bestrode » eternal joneer preachers, ny nag and car. ried the mensage for $150 a year over the Western wilds; thru Blizzard and sand storm, thru fesert and rocky waste nd 10 ot drifts of frozen snow; they too did a man's work in creating the great West, and some of them, Who still remain with us, can take as profound in their Tecord of service for humanity as can any beribboned hero of a dozen war at isfaction ‘ notice preacher to employ a band to to his particular that has negro crowd House Denver decided jazz attract a ot God. He may get the crowd, but it to be doubted if he will do the crowd much good We have enough quip and political o nomic propa a methinks. But we do not have a great deal of the burning spiritual fire, that puts the fear of the Lord into hard men, and that dared fight wicked. ness in high places, even tho it meant crucifixion. If the spirit of the Reformation, of the Crusades, or of the early hurch®in America was breathing today probably there would be less need of jazz, moving pictures and mid-week banquets. Because this is a careless that is mostly deaf te the urge, and prophets cry and merry tion and eco- nda in the pulpit, age, higher in the e 2 tt WEDNESDAY DE, First High Tide 32 am First Low Tide t hm, tl ft Second High Tide red LET THERE BE NO TWIDDLING EATTLE’S city government is in the market for approximately $1,000,000 worth of labor. There are, at the very least, 1,000 ex- service men in Seattle without jobs. Seattle wants certain work performed. Ex-service men want jobs. With these facts facing the city coun- cil there need be no delay in putting two and two together and acting accordingly for the general welfare of the community. Mayor Fitzgerald and the board of public works asked the council Monday to co-operate in solving the situation by making the necessary appropriations for the projects that have already been adopted in the plans for the year. The council referred the proposals to committees, and is proceeding with char- acteristic leisure. The Star hopes that the council will not inflict needless delays upon the commu- nity in this urgent matter. Just as delay was fatal when, time came .to send thesé men to war, delay is fatal in keeping SEATTLE, WASH., TU COUNCIL TO ORDER WORK Proposal to Give Employ- | ment to 1,000 Vets Re- ferred to Committee MAY SPEND $1,000,000 Mt the § city council follows Mayor Fitsgerald’s urgent re- quest that steps be taken at once to provide funds to pay re turned soldiers for work on municipal jobs on the day labor basis, not less than 1,000 ex service men will be at work be fore this week bs ended. The council, at ite Monday meet. | ing, referred a written request from | the mayor, to its finance and public | utilities committees, If the commit: | teen act promptly and authorize ap- propriation of funds on the basin of day labor, Mayor Pitageraid’s plan to put the idle exeervice men to wark| will be realized At the Monday meeting of the counci! it was indicated that several jobn were available for} employment of hundreds of ex. | jwervice men, The coat of proposed | | improvements which will provide work far returned soldiers will ag gregate nearly $1,000,000. In Committee's Hands Supplementing the mayor's request | | that returned service men be put to! | work At ones, the Hoard ef public | works tied a similar request, It tn the purpose of the board to proceed | | municipal le ISDAY, | SOLONS PROBE | Admiral Alleged Favoritism) | Press) | of charges that Secretary Dantels has DECEMBER 23, “Princess Pat” Mother of Boy LONDON, Dec, 23.—The former Princess Patricia of Canada is in excellent health, following the birth of a son Sunday, it was of- ficlally announced today, ‘ “Princess Pat,” a cousin of King George and a daughter of the dulse of Connaught, former governor general of Cannda, mar- ried Commander Alexander Ram of the British navy, in Febru: thie year SIMS’ CHARGE in Awarding Medals WASHINOTO! | 23.—«United | investigations | Dee. Congressional shown favoritiam in awarding distin. guished service medals by disregard ing recommendations of high naval| officers are under way today, The immediate cause of the inves tigations is the refusal of Admiral} | Sime to accept a medal fr the seo: | jretary, because of Daniels’ alleged awarding of honors t6 men who, in Sims’ opinion, do not deserve them. Kecretary Daniels stated he ha received from Sima a letter of pro- text thin mornipe. in which he re- fused to accept the medal, and one |from Senator Page, Vermont, chair- |man of the naval affairs committee, | asking complete details of the award- ing of the service medala Asks for Report Representative . Lufkin, Masaa- chusetts, also gave. notice today that | them jobless when there is work to per- at once with work the | ae Bon as cOngres® Treconvenen he improvement of ts Hy ave. W. and | willy introduce 8. resolution asking! The Seattle Star fecond Class Matter May 2, 1899, @& the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 179 1919. HORDE GOES OVER TOP [11th Hour Christmas Shop- TODAY pers Sweep Forward at Any Cost ADVANCE IS DANGEROUS BY EDDIE BOYDEN Consider the 11th hour Christmas sbopper He's the bird and she's the birdene | who put off, defer, delay, stall and fail to get off his or her foot, as the cane may be. Hin or her middle name is Tarry he or she anewers to the call of Luza | Nopportunity; he or she travels un- der the alias of P. R. Ocrastinate. In spite of the beseeching urge of that clarion summons, “SHOP EARLY,” the 11th hour shopper hangs fire; he or she waits, stops and waits again; he or she dawdles and dangien around; he or she lingers CENTS Late Edition Per Y ear, Mal! $5.00 to 9.00 Tonight and Wednesday, rainy moderate to fresh southerly gi lee KILLS PURSUER; ROBS DRUGSTORE After holding up a store and killing a citi- zen in Olympia early Monday evening, a lone, fair-haired bandit went to Tacoma, where he joined a pal, held up another store, and, in@ — running gun fight with police and sheriffs deputies, escaped to Ptiyallup in a jitney b shooting an unruly passenger thru the leg on ithe way. On reaching Puyallup, he separated from his comp |and went into hiding. Once during the night he | brush with a posse, again eluding them. At 6:02 Tu ;| morning he made a dash for a Seattle-bound passenger t which he boarded, headed for this city. Seattle motorcycle policemen, notified by long di: intercepted all interurban electric trains and searched # | coaches, but found no bandit. It was learned later that had taken a steam train and may have dropped off at | way-point or ridden on into the city and disap, Posses of Seattle and Tacoma po-| ry, from another clothing store, lice and King and Pierce county) by Schultz, the latter armed | deputies, alded by the town marshal/ gun. jof Puyallup and his men, were con Schultz ran up Franklin st., tinuing the search outside the city| ently intending to cut the |iate Tuesday, while police and de-| after the lafter had leaped a tectives here are watching hotels| fence and crossed the railroad and lodging houses as well as all) When Schultz reached the Oly trains and boats entering and leay-| Knitting mills, he was warned ing. employe to “look out,” as the Victim of the bandit are EB. H.| ¥9* hidden between two ba | Schultz, shot to death at Olympia, Gees hy, Bay metals eae Craig, passenger of the th bus, whose’ leg’ Weather F Forecast: The bandit began his wild night of robbery and murder when he en- form. Certainly this i is no time for yawning or twiddling of official thumbs. The council must take advantage of the ‘fortunate opportunity to help eliminate needless unemployment of ex-service WOMEN FORCE {CHOKES WOMAN, PRICES DOWN 70,000 in Chicago Boycott|Flees With $150 Cash and Eggs and Other ‘Higherups’| Diamond Pins CHICAGO, Dec, 23.—“First blood” | Police centered ‘attention Tues in the fight of Tilinoi women against| ay 5 seh tk wom high prices went to the women to strangler, who, in the gui ofa day. Old Hi Price went down for| ‘ansient looking for rooms, en- the count on the first blow tered the Yukon Annex lodging Seventy thousand women decided| house, 161 Waghington st.. at not to buy high-priced eggs or other} midnight, and dverpowered Mrs. high-costing foods jm gle Papago a ‘oday eggs were selling wholesale | qi Con ee Seen, a drop of 12| ani escaped with $950 in jewels cents, and dealers were crying “help! | we money. ‘The boycott on eggs will continue hen the stranger appeared, Mrs. during the remainder of this week See upined toe gen yore actengep eniiee to Oe Oe ee sat facing her. Suddenly he sprang Jat seized her by the throat and her until she sank back semi | conscious, Quickly he stuffed chief into her mouth of bureau drawers. two gold nugget monds, valued at h, then fled, When Mr« that | stupor, she too} the robber Eggs Take a Drop Plunk! Eggs shot three cents Tuesday to the ridiculously low price of 65 cents a dozen to the consumer. to the re r retail price ought something like 85 cents now Commission men complain California hens are laying many. down her He ex pins set $400, and Dear | to be #ummoned soometsy but had disappear KANSAS MINER Christmas Mail Breaks Records 500 extra men working and day and heavy handling post records With 1 handling broken at INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 23. —Alexander Howatt, president of the Kansas district of the United Mine Workers, was today re leased from jail and allowed to re- turn to Kansas, when he agreed to call off the strike of miners in his district. Called before Judge Howatt agreed not. only the strike, which has be in effect since last July, but also to order miners back to work who struck in protest against Howatt's arrest Baby Sandholm to Be Home Christmas|; Little Bobby Sandholm, 11-month- old child, who was accidentally pot soned when his brother fed him mer jeury tablets, will be taken home from | the city hospital for Christmas. e physicians who have watched carefully every change in the baby's since the second blood jon Sunday, declare that the last of the deadly bichloride of mer cury poison has been driven from the infant's syster par for being toffice Charles M. Perkins, of mails, Tuesday busiest week in the h poutoffice, de 414,500 out Mon. out as last trucks are por ace Seattle tendent It’s the of Anderson to local Over handled 9,000 ared Perkin: ng letter and there sacks of with 8 were were parcel 3,000 sacks 1,750 sacks ar Tuesday nd of incoming to smash all matter re going post, compared year, More than rived Monday. Thi Wednesday quota mail is expected records for postoffice s while the town goes to 4 vamp her latest * have laws regulating conduct and aracter than we ever had of “moral” legislation makes for personal in difference | Or #o it seems to me, more lews excens TAKES JEWELRY handker- | and began his | ‘Taylor roused from her | IS RELEASED, all oft! adjacent streets by laying sewers) jana the grading of 42nd ave, & W |The board axked for the appropria | ton of funds so that returned serv. | joe men may be employed on the | day Iabor basis, The board's re.| | Guest wan referred to the cannefl fi | Rance and streets and sewers com. | | mittee for action. |_ Construction of car barns at Youngstown will afford employment | to 100 veterans and will Femult in jthe saving of $100 a day to the de. partment of public utilities, if the council approves a request from Superintendent Murphine. A large number of returned sol-| diers will be employed in construc: | tion work on First ave. 8. and Marginal way and on Fi. 55th at from 29th ave, N. EB. to 85th ave.| N. E. Just as soon aa the council appropriates the necessary funds, Superintendent Murphine reported ta the council. Funds for the improve: | ments mentioned by Murphine were | voted last spring by the council | Murphine's request was referred to the public utilities and finance com mittees, | x. | | belongs the credit’ | tice to distinguished officers, the ef- | is for @ report on the awarding} < Maval medals, He promised that the house naval affairs committee will go to the bottom of the dispute. “The department has been ples to award me a Distinguished Service | medal, as an expression of Its app: re-| ciation of the success of the forces under my command.” Admiral Sims | is understood to have written, “but | since the success of the forces abroad | was chiefly due to the loyal and ef- ficient service of the officers recom. mended for distinction—‘ang to them T am necessarily in a position which renders it impos. | sible for me to accept this award under the conditions now existing. | “This becomes my duty becaune this list (the one finally arranged | by Daniels for war decorations) con-| tains a number of instances of injus- | fect of which on the morale of ser- vice cannot fail to be very detri-| mental.” It's @ grons error to belleve that jevery Bostonian is saturated with | culture, and loiters by the happy hearth. If you stick a stick of verbal dyna- tered the store of J. C. Penney & mite under the full-blown 11th hour|Co. at Olympia at 6 o'clock Monday) shopper, he or she will point out that |evening while the place was filled the motion to adjourn is never de-| with holiday shoppers. batable, Working his way thru the crowd, ‘There is something uncannily slow,| topping to make a few purchases | lolsurely, deliberate, ex post facto | from W. H. MeManus, assistant and sine die about the 11th hour| manager, he reached the counter shopper. |where the cash register was placed While all the world and depart-|and suddenly whipped out an auto | mont stores are filled with harried | matic, |husbands shooting the sesterces| “See this gun?” he asked McManus. against the festive fur cout or things | “Keep quiet and say nothing.” for the kids, the dreamy, uncaring} At the same time the robber 1ith hour shopper sits supine at/ reached for the cash drawer with home. He or she worry no more| his free hand. Failing to open ft, he over the joys and tragedies of Christ-| forced McManus to turn over the! mas shopping than an angle worm | cash, amounting to $1,500. —and I've always thought that an| Wemen, Meheialiidain cose pellet oo ~chersiggia be) stuffing the money into his pock- . ' ets, he turned and crossed the store} This Is the Day |to where Mrs. Ella Deliness, another | ‘Tragedies of Christmas shopping?| clerk, stood beside another ash reg-| If you could see a raggedy little| ister. Mrs. Deliness’ husband was kid with nose glued against a win-| formerly a Montana sheriff, She dow heaped high with colored can.| seized the robber’s gun, | | dies—some tragedy, folks. | Disconcerted, he turned and fled. | However, there comes a day—to-| McManus followed as close as he {CONT'D ON PAGE NINE) dared. He was joined by F. H. Hen- | se | HOW ABOUT WOMEN Editor The Star Your attack on sployers for refusal to reinstate re |turned soldiers in their former posi |tions is certainly a welbtimed sub-| jeet In connection with this agita | tion, I would suggest an attack also on married coups, the man in good health and both employed, the wo man in the case robbing @ girl or al eturned soldier, actually destitute) ‘or want of work, of their right he position, and the husband of the |woman so lacking in real manhood his wife to work when he able-bodied and has 4 posl tion, well able to support her. I personally know of two cases of husband wife em} In one case the husband is $12 per day, and his wi making a Joint earning of $17 per enabling them to buy and maintain an automobile, home and | beet of clothes and good times, | In the other case, the husband is learning $8 per day and’ his wife $150 per month. They also have an automobile. Neither of these couples own a “fliv but have high | priced ‘These men claimed ex mption during the war beciuse they as to allow | ployed | earning uM | ‘The other men, who fought that |these couples might be free to enjoy |this great country of ours, are now vlad to earn any pay at all, doing work, road work, etc. thig is @ erying shame and ng their heads in shame, Perhaps agitation on this phase of the problem will awaken the consel ence of a few. Yours for fair play, AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. __ JUST A FEW LETTERS HEREAS: The Star has, of reward, made the cause of the unemployed ex- service men its own, BE IT RESOLVED, By 8 tude and appreciation of the notice dier It is a letter signed “Jobless Sol- trie soldiers that al a job & good many are of work; also true great many of them expect to come and hunt them up, Now this jobless person says he joined the British army. All I can say that he showed very poor judg ment for a married man in joining the British army when he could have joined the Canadian army, got | $1.10 per day and had his wife taken care of. The pay in the Im- al (English) army since 1917 21 shilling and 6 pence per I soldiered in the radian army during the war and have no kick coming. My wife and baby got $70 every month T served, and when I was discharged I was given enough money to get a job with. If this bird really did serve in the British army all he needs to do to get on his feet is take the matter up with the Great War Veterans’ association, Vancouver, BR. C., and they will fix him out with a job. fhe sympathy sob stuff a lot of these birds are pulling gets on the nerve, A real man gets out and gets a Job when he is up against It and surely does not squeal to the out ORES JOBLESS MAN Editor The Star: On the page of your Dec, 19th Issue front I public for help, ‘There 1s always some kind of a job for a man who wants to work, It would pay these returned heroes to get wise to the the Veterans’ ttle, that a committee of three be appointed to convey personally to The Star an expression of our sincere grati- would be a long stride toward the solving of this problem if all ele- |Vators in Seattle now being oper- ated by women, be immediately (say January 1) manned by return- 1 service men. Then let the other le who are keeping women in positions, or who are em- ploying Japs, t undoubtedly jour problems above would not that the war ts over, and itl] pelong to a class is up to them. A man sick or]has not increase maimed ts a different proposition, | iong before the war, altho the size but for a “whole man” there is no! of my family has, and I am com- excuse, pelled to pay $7.50 to $8 for a pair of ordinary black calf school shoes for my 9-year-old child. Undoubt- edly rge part of our so-called “hysterical spending” has resulted in the boosting of prices and has |been done principally by girls and women who since the war began have had four to five times the amount of money to spend on themselves than they ever had be- fore, unsolicited and without hope Federation of good work they are doing. many of} which the Personally whose income penny sin solve, fact A YANK Who Years With Can orved a Four BEGIN WITH ELEVATORS Editor The Star: While reading | your front page letter from “A Jobless Returned Soldier,” a num of conditions which I have re- cently observed in Seattle were forcibly recalled to my attention, to-wit Numerous positions which to the war were occupied by are still being held by women girls, most noticeable of which probably is the fact that the ele- vators in all of the department stores and many of the office build- ings continue to be operated t women, During the war busin men and merchants welcomed wom- en to these positions, and were willing to pay almost any limit in wages for their services, added to which was the fact that the women who did this work were praised for their patriotism, The same ts true of the help in our hotels and res taurants, and numerous other lines TLE AT NA Editor The Star: After reading of the condition of the soldiers and sail- ors I wondered if something couldn't be done to Investigate and find out why the navy yard at Bremer- ton was employing women (who were taken on as late as this last summer) whose husbands are also working in the yard and who have no children to support, I know of two or three such cases. I know of one case where the woman was taken on this summer as a helper. I believe her husband also works in the yard, getting $6 or $7 MOTHER, prior | arriving | Puyallup. ing out at the back of died instantly. Five posses hastily surrounded the district, searched foot by foot. The "as not found. ‘ A good description wag fl surrounding towns and cities, @ about 10 o'clock the bandit sud appeared in Tacoma with a jon he had joined there. held up and robbed a drug cording to word telephoned the te police, Organize Posse Shortly afterward the two 4 jitney bus leaving Tacoma fi allup. They became ob passengers and the driver, Taunt, was appealed to. dered them off as the stage nearing Puyallup, The robbers jumped off into ra: | roadway and opened fire with | revolvers, Several shots were Five struck the bus. One the leg of Robert Craig. Taunt sped up his machine, in Puyallup, notified marshal, who hastily organized posse. Meanwhile a posse left The bandits were met on the tracks as they were A running gunfight sued in which no persan was ed, the fugitives finally 4 in the edge of town, Thruout the night a search kept up. Once the Olympia who had left his companion, seen. Shots were again and he again disappeared. As a steam passenger train 1 pulling out of Puyallup at 6:02, bandit was seen to break for coaches, He swung aboard and gone towards Seattle, Hoping to head him off, Puyallup marshal phoned the tle police and sheriff's office, In message he forget to mention , fact the train was not the nee attle electric interurban. oversight gave the bandit ‘ingen opportunity ta escape, as Motorcycle, Policemen Dench and N, C, Ander son, who left police headquarters ims mediately, intercepted only electria. trains, made several The steam train stops before reaching Seattle, | the time the police were correctly J formed, the train had arrived and discharged its passengers, While the bandit may be in tle or in hiding some distance side the city, it was believed late hour that the companion im the Tacoma holdup is still in or Puyallup and an effort is made to round him up, while | search is going on here, Street Car Men to Dance Ton If the street cars are running” night it is only because the men and conductors have to be the job. For Tuesday night is the — night of the big benefit ball Oe by the Street Railway Smphpene Relief association. Cd Mayor C, B, Fitsgerald will the grand march over the floor of the Masonic temple, a vard ave. and Pine st,, and he be followed by Thomas B, Mi superintendent of public util and D, W. Henderson, superinten- a day. They own their home, also a ( Continued on Page Nine) which might be mentioned, It seems to the writer that it dent of transportation, “Step forward, please!