The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 24, 1919, Page 1

SEATTLE BOMB FIEND MAILS DEATH PARCEL EGC APES AS CHRISTMAS GIFT v the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Tides in Seattle WEDNESDAY DRC, M4 Firet High Tide 4:82 am, 106 ft First Low Tide 12:42 Bom, Tat High Tide 4:38 Dm, 10,2 tt THURSDAY DRC, 25 First Law Tide » CENTS Late Edition Mai! 9.00 Per Year, b: $6.00 to 1 as Second Clase Matter May 2, 1199, af the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 ‘onight and Ider tonight STRAIGHT AND CLEAR (Thursday occasional rein; SEATTL , oderate southwesterly gales WASH., _ VOLUME 22. NO. 257. TS emaamiererean | AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1919. Weather Forecast: INSANE INFATUATION FOR MOTHER BELIEVED TO HAVE PROMPTED MURDEROUS PLAN HERE is just ONE phase of this jobless soldier prob- lem that The Star is considering; that is, how to speed- ily get work for these men. And those who argue why this or that should not be done, are merely delaying the game; a game that must be played fast and hard. Seattle today has two thousand or more ex-service men seeking jobs. Seattle has some thousands of Japs, aliens, slackers, in- dependent women, who have jobs. The Star says get rid of the aliens; replace Japs with returned soldiers; give the slacker the gate, and send the women who have husbands and homes, and who do not BY BANDITS Attempts Robbery in Seattle — Store Crowded With Shoppers; Escapes WOUNDS TWO EMPLOYES Police and sheriff's deputies combed the city all night, and — were continuing the search Wed nesday for a bandit who, single handed, held up the Morey Sta tionery store, 812 Rirst ave., dar- ing the peak hour, at 6 o'clock Tuesday evening, shot and se riously wounded two clerks and@ escaped by mingling with the street crowds in the vicinity of Second ave. and Yesler way. He is believed to be the same wayman who, early Monday evening, 1 Olympia store and killed” HIS being the night before . Christmas, I'm donning the red flannel, white furred habiliments of Santa himself and toting pin a small Christmas pres | ent for that buxom brunet widow. Not such a small present, at that, | as it is six feet long and weighs 175 Ibs. net, Here's the letter in answer to the widow's recent appeal in. this column: “I notice in your edition ef Saturday, on the first page, some one describing herself as a Pbuxom brunet widow wants to meet a tall, stately man. ‘ell, here he is. Iam six feet fall, straight a= an arrow, weigh 75 pounds, am genial, like a good ner; also the cook. The pinks ‘And tulips bordering the walks Ve gone into winter quarters, Promise to show up in May; the meantime, there is a plano need meee and she can play “The Prayer.” Pive Years a Widower.” see HERE, now; who says ni prayer is not answered? Whether it be collect- ing phonograph records for sick . soldiers, or genial, long-legeed husbands, with tulips and pianos, and lonely | hearts, for buxom widows, here's you gét action. Who would ave supposed that Uses Same Tactles While the police here were ing for the Olympia-Tacoma-Pu lup desperado, at 6 o'clock , night a young, unmasked | walked into the Morey store, | much the same manner as the Olym=> pia store was held up, began te operations by suddenly ordert Howe, who was standing at the ¢ register. to throw up his hands, Howe ed to understand, snapped the register drawer The bandit jerked his gun into play.” As he whipped it from his pocket fired. The bullet struck Howe's and he crumpled up with @ moan the floor, At the same moment bandit reached for the cash This he was unable to open, and jhe jerked at the drawer, d stepped up and seized him by. wrist With a quick twist the vata man wrenched his hand free |fired into Hedges’ face, The Here are the littl Finke children, who narrowly escaped death late Tuesday as they stood watching their mother unwrap « Christmas package, delivered by the mailman, which contained a deadly bomb. From left to right they are: Fred, 12; Lilly ind Walter, 10. Fortunately, the infernal machine did not explode, The father believes it was sent by a man who was insanely infatuated with his wife, and who, he says, attempted to) kill the children by gas poisoning in yee Lake City. A mail man, heavily laden with Christmas packages, stopped | Lake City, when he roomed at my| house,” sald Finke, “and I am certain | Don’t Forget to hese twain and would tions at need this extra money, back to their homes. One local lumber yard, it is reported, has Japs doing 60 per cent of its work; if so, this lumber yard is exactly 60 inter went to Ta e, i staging her holdup in that per cent un. American. : : A staging another holdup in thai The Star, as any intelligent reader knows, is not advis- other man en route, and whe Saal ing the ousting of any girl or woman who must work to "Tuesday morning, after enenging 3 in a gu ight. . support herself. list of victims inctndéa: The Star DOES seek to displace the thousands of ter ise Cle Meta core won es i shes ? ed in the right Bc, Whe would Nave supponed. thst women who. are working for “side money;” who are not Skee eet coe © filled all these requirements, just dependent on their own efforts; who have husbands earn- Morey store salesman, hungering for piano music and . ffi . li . in the right hand and portion « buxomness; with even the tulips ings a sufficient living. [ile Jaw shot away, soe go gary cttgpe ecg neliggn, Al If the aliens, the slackers, the Japs, and the women who Tacoma:Puyallup motor stage, [rit advice me: Twin forward the have homes, and who should be in them, were ousted, there ff inti the cunt one mnie. erenen: Wine,’ and mag, you would be opportunities for every returned soldier and for Bocng ao ee every other worker who needs a job. ({E) Mtheo seagese vetde vee These women workers who slip their wedding sings q) recenty vinted eat 1 from their fingers when they sight an ex-soldier hunting rico ent bold fer then. a job; these women who come to work in big touring cars; gy reaggec odes saan gran these women who are covered with furs and loaded with heir linked bodies, h thene i we oS entitien going to Uve their | ; ; jewels—these are some of the women The Star would re- a nos PES aati i place with ex-service men, and there are enough of these p tran. they expect to rater amateur players on the field of life'in Seattle to solve re [80 A t . . ir profesivon seriously, and to the problem, if they were retired to the homes and hearts iekaape they are best fitted to adorn. ever two youths face a ca- m er under weirder circumstances? Seattle owes a square deal to the returned soldiers who h de dent on the weak of the other; each with hie have no work. Slicor tis ows urthtie tempers: Seattle owes them more than a bronze medal, a kind 5 4 bound to his tw . . lie ctnete of tied and the tn. word, a Christmas dinner, a few rounds of applause. ible bonJe of spirit, too. 1 would hate “to be a Siamese twin. Or « Filipino twin And when it comes to the love Yorn age, and they each lose their to some maid, what then” Must they face a lifelong cell bacy because of a slender finger of | tiesue between their bodies, or Will they seek an operation that F they may unite with some adored one? Or wil they find in each other complete happiness and a farer understanding than man and wife usually achieve? Indeed, the career of bristies with = interro; dramatic possibilities t delight a Dumas or a Hi ATURE is forever doing In the hunchback and the dwarf she places a great heart that tears fteclf against its fleshy prison Dipecks to accomplish great deeds, “end only makes the world laugh. In the handso powerful fel Tow she often p a simpering, perfumed tatter of a soul, and he Jolis thru life like some «tupid doll The little fellow frequent all the nerve, and the big who is fitted to perform miracles, Jacks the spiritual nerve Is this the law of compensation working out, ure these things and as she doe: dren to 4 sharp witted to slim parents, who k law of health whone childr chance to develop? Is there a reason for everyt or are a lot of things we i flying sparks from the grindstone of Nature; sparke Eing into the outer darkness, fo die? ve violated « and morality, » can have very and no real but careless fly there Storm Warning storm we Southwest warnings 1 all Puget sound seaports torm center is over Vancouver ts were | box labeled witt rdered displayed at 7:14 Wednenday | tag it would be ‘The | Piclon Tuesday afternoon at 3 p. m. in front of 723 Marion st. Mrs, Fred Finke went to the door, The mailman handed her three packages done up in holly paper and gaudy with Christ mas seals and gay ribbons, One package, heaviest of the three, feil to the floor. Mrs. Finke picked it “up, shook and remarked: “Never mind. broken.” She went into the kitchen, her three children—Fred, 12; Walter, 10, and Lilly, 9—clustered about her, and began to take off the wrapping. Fate played kindly with Mrs. Finke and her littl ones when it prompted her to break open the package rather than untie it in the usual manner intended by the sender. For the package con. tained « deadly infernal machine, caliber revolver, cor | shells, placed in such a manner in a box filled with minced dynamite and a half dozen high powered percussion t it was designed to explo the lid of the box was slipped hammer of the revolver it, There's nothing bomb consisted of a loaded .38 taining three cap: when back was céc rubber tic The contents were tightly the container by Something told me,” careful.” to the lid packed in attached cotton said Mra Finke, “to be sufficient ed, killing had the bomb wo! to nthe building up upants. The bomb was mailed from Portland and the wrap marked with a stamp issued Johnson Music house of Mond per wa by the G. I | that it | Finke | Symphony | home just as the bomb. He is co |the man who plann family. ‘The sender evidently k | Finke ts a and probably | thought by Husbond a Musician the Seattle orchestra, He arrived his wife was examining to destro: ew musician ending the package in a om . wccepted without Finke furnished the detective de partment with the name of his en d, moving rapidiy eastward and|emy, and an effort is being made to gusty southwesterly gales. locate the man, as it is believed he \ | and held in place by «| Rainier lare the explosives were|ley Railroad ¢ inced he knows | sus: | ¢ saiad bo Give “Password” All Christmas eve and all Chriat- mas day, it is the edict of neigh- borhood celebration committees, everybody tn Seattle is to way, at least once, to everybody else: Merry Christmas'” Don't forget it. It is the only password of the Yuletide army, and none shatl pass without it came to the city his to learn the re to Finke, the suspected tuated with Finke's and suffered from brain dis after sending machine sits According man was wife order Finke recognized the box in which the bomb was placed by the burned design on it It looks like the box that used to| be on this fellow’s dresser in Salt] JUDGE ORDERS | FREE CAR RIDES Line Must Uniformed Men Carry A temporar mandate, requiring the police free, Cal rhe 1920 and firemen in ned} §. Hall Tuexc writ was returnable when it argued and a perma nent decision handed n The company har policemen and firerr 18 they with the public which stated that passengers would be men uniform Judge von was iperior afterr January 9. en carrying n free, but on filed a new tariff commission, November rvice charged Such action would require the city to ex to pay these fares, sel Walter I ate board of contro! ied $97 le held in County Trea A, Gaines Tuesday, The bonds issued by Seattle school district No, 1, and bear 4.4 per cent interest, at 5,000 at were jer Vale} in the future such | 1a large amount of money | ¢ office | I remember the box. Second Attempt? | This is the second time an at- tempt has been made to kill my fam. | ily. The first attempt was made a! few months ago, when we left the} jchildren in bed and went out. We! returned home and found them near death, and their room filled with gas The gas meter had been sawed with a hack saw, Physicians worked four hours before the children were re believed by Mra.| to be the owner of | lived in it is pre from the Finke a mir Sait 1 sumed, mine she said Colorado The dynamite who may come “I hope they catch him," she said, | He would make a fine Christmas| Present | Finke s he moved his family from Salt Lake, following the first attempt on the lives of the childre He hag since attempted to locate the former roomer, but without success. sa Given to Gover There were in the hou det ors bomb | 4 number of at the time th Among them was E | Mutter, also a musician. Muller| jealled the police, and Motorcycle Pa-| trolman C. Rix responded to the call. | | He brought the bomb to the station. | | Patrolman Rix declared the gun was | Well oiled, and work expressed considerable | the gun di handling t received surprise with the The bomb was turned over to the} postal authorities All thre of the from Finke children | " school their Christmas vacation. Lilly was help ing her mother iron in the kitchen when the bomb arrived, while the |two boys were playing in the kitehen: Altho the |to appreciat | death, none |vous, Mrs. Finke ly inspected the contents of the death box, altho Muller, the roomer, said |ehe did turn white for an instant |when she first removed the revolver, children are ola enough AculOUSs escA emed to be ner aughed and calm Even the man who ts unable ta ‘keep a horse may afford a night mare, bia » | bias, Jand Suit Manufacture | the | facturer a ‘fair day's A city that will not give of its best, not of its leavings, to the men who went to the front for it, is a city that needs fixing. These returned soldiers, who have done their best in the place they were put; who didn’t hang back on the collar; who didn’t sneak out; who did not hurry to a shipyard, or yelp about dependent relatives; these lads who went while the slackers stayed behind—these lads have something coming to them besides kind words, and The Star is going to keep jabbing the town’s memory in its most sensitive spot until the last willing, worthy lad has his decent job and an assured future. Our duty is straight and clear. ligh-< Grade Clothing for Women \ 9 Won't Show Increase in Price } * DEPUTIES FIND. * - — CHICAGO, Dec. 24 High grade clothing f “Our output this season as com women will not be higher | pared with last has decreased 42 per in the asprin but no early price drop| cent whil our expenses have in of handonea to is in prospect to M. To-|creased. ‘This was the result of the uring car found an official of the Chicago Cloak | shift from the work basis t¢ ah ity be spot near Bryn woclation. | the weekly wage system,’ 1 Saké Whihineton ¢ is no chance . drop in} Materials are high and scarce and * he until labor realizes | likely to remain for some. tim: | amity giving the x Jeome. Ordinary workmen are recely work for a high as $75, $85 and even $100] eye a desperate struggle must have he stated. Women workers | taken place in the tonneau tter than $90 a week,| Adding further to the mystery ar | the footprints of a man and a wom jan leading from the to. the lake |shore, From the non OF te tracks, it was judged the man either shoved or half dragged t across the Interv tracks could from the water's Deputy Sheriff ¢ {portea finding the oe: \ enger Studebaker to |e uring leense No. 0. This It Jeense had been issued to the White Hardware company for a \ter, and had apparently by Jand transferred tO the larger In the rear of the abandoned car Staniey found strands of a woman's hair and a handful of hairpins, Deputy sheriffs were endeavoring Wednesday, to unravel the myate according piece sald to for prices | conceal its identity Indications nae e found that lead deputies to be- fair dey's pay week the present time rtain that a manufacturer ean ure the cost of his product in Where a workman former 1 six garments a day he is ue three r output is] are averaging #o Ut he sald. not fi advan ly produc now prod: Says | Italy King Will Visit U. S. LONDON, Deo, 24—-An xchange Telegraph dispatch from Paris quote: Rom ndvices as declaring King Vic tor Emmanuel of Italy plans to visit the United States and South Amer ica, especially Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Perv, unless the political situ: tion prevents. ‘The dispatch does not say “wher the king B to leave the city, c Showers Due Here on Christmas Day Ideal Christmas weather pre snow and sleighbells nta Claus arriving via the route, but Seattle will be content with showers, according Weather Observer George Salisbury. The climate willbe little colder, too, the weather server said Wednesday, with mod erate southeasterly match, if Mg ground, No leading back M. Stanley re reindee onday it have to ensional seven-pa MYSTERY CLUES he car had been camouflaged to | woman | |fell beside Howe with a bullet: | the lower part of his face. Lost in Crowd | The crowd which filled the pe {shrank back against the counters am” | the baridit started for the door, ABs he reached the street he started at @ brisk walk down First ave. to Cherry st. A number of clerks and shoppers took up the pursuit, The gunj broke into a run, crossed into ave., where he was easily mistaken | for a citizen hurrying to catch a-cary | and disappeared below Yesler way, | Meanwhile the police were sum- moned, and took up the chase, and an ambulance removed fhe wounded men to the city hospital. Howe's condition is not serious, but Hedges? |Jaw is partly shot away |Police of ‘Olympia | Still on Lookout © =| OLYMPIA, Dec. 24.+On the ory that the bandit who held up {J, C. Penney store here Mo ‘evening and shot to death B. | Schulte a citizen who pursued hit, — is still in the city, Olympia police — jtoday are watching all means of — ss from the city, ‘ chultz was a member of the lodge here and that organization probably make the funeral arrange: ments. “He formerly lived in § the road skirting | A man's ability in business will not remain unknown long. | You cannot keep a fast horse 1% A man © of brains and industry sooner — or later finds his true place in i] the scheme of things, |] in & poor man’s ba If recognition of your abil: ity is not forthcoming in your present job, use the || Situation Wanted Column of The Star And use the HELP WANTED column to selectia,