The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 24, 1919, Page 9

Police Seek Shrinking Search was extended today to, all} Pacific coast cities for Mrs, Rae Stevens Foote, a dashing bride of 22, who tripped nonchalently out of tower the day after she charmed R. G After in & short conversation, knowledged that $500 was “kind of | heavy,” the three went to the Seattle hotel to meet the “detective” in the Foote, a thrifty mechanic, Into mar | case, ostensibly for the purpose of riage on November 10, | dickertng The young woman ts said by av) As they approached the room, Cur. thorities to have been the “lost brite” | wood's head was poked out of the in a glever confidence Kame by which | door an attempt was made to flimflag the Are you the detective? sorrowing bridegroom out of $500 sid to have whim The game came to a sudden ar murmured Curwood, ‘ac Unexpected termination, with the orviing to the charges, ag he opened * Wacehter rest of Ernest Wilson and Fred Cur the door wood, ex-navy men, at the Searth Reclie Details hotel. They are being held on a ce Sin ‘ceniiin. Gtine, ts while the the elusive Mrs plaint charging conspiracy hunt continues for Foote Begins a Search Foote, whe lives at 616 W, Blewett st, Degan a search for his vanished bride a few days after she left the city, and called on the police to aid him. Mra, Foote, he says, told him | , we @n teaving, that ehe was going to|'° have revealed correspondence b |tween Mra, Foote and Wilson, tn Rellingham for a couple of days tO which the former maid she had ob- viait ber mother. tained $100 from one man and mar Thursday night Foote was visited | Heq an bo " “d ‘hs her, but had dodged 1 dy Wilson. Wilson in sald to have] ce them. She ia alao alleged to have * | explained to him that Mrs. Foote had hat Wi Become involved, Innocently enough, | Sieeswed that Wilson Ket acquainted in an alleged Mega! transaction, that | , —" she feared arrest, and that a detec: tive had found her hiding place. Foote is said to have been notice ably touched by the pitiful tale, and| inquired what might be done, where A upon, it is alleged, Wilson offered Christmas Da to see if the detective could be “ ABOARD FLAGSHIP > proached” for the purpose of “talk-| MEXICO, Off San Pedro, Cal, Dec. ing turkey.” (Via Wireless to United Press)— Wilson then left, and Foote was| Four battleships of the Pacific fleet, not greatly surprised when he re-|stationed at San Pedro, will enter ceived a telegram from Wilson, | tain §00 children of Los Angles and Stating that matters could be ar- vicinity on Christmas day with a ranged for the paltry sum of $500, | real banquet. $200 down and $300 Friday, between) Santa Claus will visit the ships S and 12 p.m.” It was suggested and will leave a present for every that Foote take the money to the child. King st. station. | This announcement was made to Reports to Petice |day by Admiral Hugh Rodman, com- At this juncture, Foote is said to/manderinchief of the United States have been struck with a suspicion | Pacific fleet, thru Capt. N. C. Twin- that $500 was a somewhat larger ing, his chief of staff. sum than a detective should demand, Capt. Twining’s announcement fo!- ina case of that kind. He reported | lows: the matter to the police, be went to the Kimg st. station he Which aj! the detalls of the plan are reported to have beon arranged. whereby the shrinking bride was to be restored to Footg, after which Waechter announced that Wilson and Curwood were under arrest Further investigation, after the two men had been locked up, is said ee |Battleships to Entertain Kiddies ows: “Ships of the Pacific fleet will sus- pend operations from. December 22 to January 5 and remain at their men holiday leave, “Following tho custom naugurat- ed by him when in command of the U. 8. 8. New York, on the East coast, and continued by ships of his com- mand in the North ea during the war, the commanderin-chief has sug: |memted that the battleships at San | Pedro entertain children on board at Christmas by giving them a dinner jana presents, | “Four battleships will entertain $00 children of Los Angeles and “TWINING, “Chief of Staff.” DELAYS RETURN OF RAILROADS | Before April 1, Belief WASHINGTON, Dee. 34.—(United their owners has been postponed by earliest, it was generally believed here today. It seemed Certain the lines could not possibly be handed back January 1, as Wilson had last | May intended to do. Congress has passed no legislation |to regulate and care for the roade |when the government relinquishes |its control. In addition, with the | government exercising ita control of |the fuel supply mainly thru the rail. lroads, the president is believed to have abandoned plans for the return until the present situation clears up Has ne equal for RNEUMATISM and Kinérea Disorders. It remeves the cause and restores the system te bralt Desert; Tecoma, Wash. KAR-RY KAR-RAU COMPANY. Bride in “Bribe” Case which Wilsor is reported to have ac | Present bases to give officers and/ Won’t Hand Back Rail Lines} In leaving the United States | | for his trip to Panama, Preat nt Roosevelt shattered a tradi tion of the White House. I was the first president to leave this country while in office; the iret to enter a foreign country; the first to visit a dependency of the United States At thie time | he was putting forward his sim | | plified spelling ideas, in the face of much o| In fact, Theodore Ri attracted most to causes in which | he was certain to encounter viK- crous antagonism.—The Editor. | | | a = Names of the Guns On Board U, §. 8. Louisiana, Sunday, Nov, 11, 1906, leased Archie: I wish you were along with us, for you would thoroly enjoy everything on this ship. We} jhave bad three days of perfect | weather, while this great battleship | | with her two convoys, the great arm- ored cruisers Tennessee and Wash-| ington, have steamed steadily in col-| umn ahead southward thru calm seas until now we are in the tropics. They are three as splendid ships of their | class as there are afloat, save only the English dreadnaught. The Loui siana now has her gun-eights and everything ts all in good shape for her to begin practice of the duties) which will make her crew an fit for) | manotwar's work as the crew of |any one of our other first-class bet tleships, The men are such splen-| did-looking follows, Americans of the | best type, young, active, vigorous, | with lots of intelligence. I was much | amused at the names of the seven- inch guns, which include Victor, In- vinelble, Peacemaker, together with Skidoo, and also one called Tedd and lone called the Big Stick | Relfections on the Way | On Board U. 8. 8. Loulsiana. | Dear Kermit: 80 far this trip has been a great success, and I think mother has really enjoyed it. As for me, I of course feel a little bored, ax I always do on shipboard, but I have brought on a great variety of books and am at this moment reading Mil ton’s prose works, “Tacitus.” and a German novel called “Jorn Uni" Mother and I walk briskly up and down the deck together, or else nit aft under the awning, or in the afer In, with the gun ports open, and ; and I also spend a good dea! time on the forward bridge, and course have gone bridge, and sometimes on the aft over the ship to inspect it with the captain. It ts | a splendid thing to see one of these menof-war, and ft does really make | one proud of one’s country. Hoth the | officers and the enlisted men are as fine a set as one could wish to see. | It t» a beautiful sight, these three great warships standing southward | in close column, and almost as beau- tiful at night when we see not onty the lights, but,the loom thru the | | RAGE now in the tropics and I have thought @ good deal of the time over eight years ago when I was sailing | Preas.)—Return of the railroads to to Santiago in the fleet of warships|party to the only plan which offers and transports. It seems a strange President Wilson until April 1, at the | thing to think of my now being pres-/!n a form that Is safe for China to ident, going to visit the work of the |Panama canal which I bave made i ble. Mother, very pretty and dainty In white summer clothes, came up on Sunday mofning to see inspection and review, or whatever they call it, of the men. T usually spend half an |hour on deck before er ‘Then we breakfast together alone; have also taken lunch alone, | but at dinner have two or three offi-| cers to dine with us. Doctor Rixey | is along, and is a perfect dear, as} always. | Events Since Columbus’ Discovery | ' Nov, 14. The fourth day out was in some of a Christmas di just as essential your dinner tha Pudding Ice Cam that rich wir For sale by Druggists and Trimmings those of the tree, and what could make a more delight- ful or appropriate finale for “pnd brandy nner are AS are n Plum ? It has all leading Confection A Merry Christmas To All TLE Y te Quayiry CREAMS | Psesaris Ice Cazamo | WH |respects the most tnteresting. lon her In 1896 It is generally and chiefly indicat~ A by ptions and sores, but In| | many on it enlarges the glands | of the neck, affects the internal organs, eapecially the lungs, and if} neglected may develop into con-| sumption. | It causes many troubles, and ta] aggravated by impure whole= me food, bad water much heat old, and want of proper exercise. jing better for billousness or Josep All the foreneon we had Cuba on ofr part of the afternoon Hayti on our left shores and in each case green. and bold jungly mountains—two great, beautiful, mous tropic islands, These a historic seas and mother and L have kept thinking of all that has happened in them since Columbue landed at San Salvador (which we also saw), the Spanish ex plorera, the buccaneers, the English and Dutch seadogs dd adventure: the great Pnglieh and French fleets, the desperate fighting, the triumphs, the pestilence, of all the turbulence, the splendor and the wickedness, and the hot, evil, riotous life of the old planters and slaveowners, Spanish, French, English and Duteh)—thetr extermination of the Indians and bringing in of negro slaves, the de cay of most of the islands, the turn ing of Mayti into a land of savage negroes, who have reverted to voo dooism and eanniballam; the effort we are now making to bring Cuba and Porto Rico forward. Today is calm and beautiful, as all the days have been on our trip. We have just sighted the highest land of Panama ahead of us, and we shall be at nchor by 2 Afternoon; Just a little less than six days from the tine we left Wash- ington. | |right and most of the forenoon and) been lovely haying mother along v Nov, 14 Pride in America On Board U. 8. 8, Loulutana, Nov, 14. Dear Ted: I am very glad to have | (Copyright, 19; taken this trip, altho as usual I am o'clock this} h Bucklin Bishop COPYIIGNT.1919 Dy wens ecmiasen's sone. ‘ b Jb ed by the nea, Bverything has smooth as possible, and it has It gives mo great pride in America to nd | be ab ard this great battleship © not only the material per |tion of the ship itself in engi eu and all arrangements, but the fine quality of the officers and crew Have you ever read Smollett'’s novel, 1 think “Roderick Random” or “Humphrey Clinker,” in which the hero goes to seat It gives me an awful idea what a floating hell of filth, disease, tyraany and cruelty Now nd |a warship was in those days every arrangement is aa clean | healthful as possible, ‘The men bathe and do bathe as often as clean Mness requires, Their fare is excel }lent and they are an self-respecting & #et as can be imagined. Iam no reat believer in the superiority of times past; and I have no question that the officers and men of our navy now are in point of fighting capacity better than in the times of Drake and Nelson; and morally and in physical surroundings the advan: tage is infinitely in our favor, It was delightful to have you two or three days at Washington. Bleaned old fellow, you had @ pretty hard time in college this fall; but it Jean't be helped, Ted; ax one grows older the bitter and the sweet keep coming togethef, Tho only thing to do is to grin and bear it, to flinch as Uttle as possible under the pun- ishment, and to keep pegging steadi- ly away until the luck turna, (To Be Continued.) , Charles Scribner's Sons.) Japan Bl - Pl of artic Gilbert.) ! the sixth of a series | on Japan by Redney | BY RODNEY GILBERT (Leading Oriental Journalist.) If China is to buy large quantities of goods from Japan, she must sell | large quantities somewhere. China does not sell, she cannot eell, decause he does not produce in larce | quantities In order to become @ iceieass producer with the reasonably, near! future, a large measure of foreign | assintance, financial as well as tech: | nical will be required | But how likely is China to invite) the assistance of even a liberal power, when the privileges accorded in return will be regarded as prece dents justifying demands from Japan? JAPAN FAILS TO SEE CHANCE IN “CONSORTIUM™ ‘The nation which mont of al! would progit from large production tn | whose language is most similar and whose customna least strange. Yet Japan definitely refuses to become a any hope of extending ald to China accept Japan haa been hostile to the new | Consortium, or conference of interna. tional bankers, from the beginning She stirred up the first opposition to it on the part of the Chinese. The movement to nationalize the railways of China to the extent that Japan's are nationalized, was frus trated by Japan, acting thru the par- ticular Chineso offic whom she notoriously con’ ihe Inaista up- on the exclusion of Manchuria and Mongolia from the scope of the Con sortium. First, be equivalent to acknowledgement by tho powers that these territories are) hers; second, because she believes that this reservation will prevent the formation of the Consortium; third, because she knows that the Chinese would have nothing to do with a Consortium organized on that baats, AN ENACTIVE CHINA WON'T BUY JAP GOODS If the Consortium finally fails to! materialize, the result will be that) China will resume a policy of master. | ly inactivity for another generation at least. The effect of this can be guaged by contemplating what it has accomplished in the past, | China has some 10,000 kilometres because that would! ocks Bankers’ an to Help China Out space of two years—1912 to 1914! This record can be repeated. JAPAN HAS FOR CHOICE OF CUSTOMER, NA, A MILLION. AIRE, OR CHINA’ A PAUPER. SHE CHOOSES THE PAUPER. S STATESMEN MUST ANSWER NOT SO MUCH FOR THE MORALITY OF THIS CHOICE, AS FOR THE MENTALITY OF 17 Railroad Shopmen Strike Is Averted WASHINGTON, Dec.” 24.—(United Press.)—Threat of a strike of 600,000 tallroad shopmen was considered temporarily averted today when it was learned at the railroad depart ment that a proposed conference be tween representatives of shepmen and the administration had been postponed. The conference was scheduled to have been held early | Unis week, but has been put off until after the firet of the year, it was darkness of the ships astern. We are|China, ia the one nearest at hand, | stared |MISSOURI EDJTOR SHOT BY MAN IN LIBEL SUIT GALLATIN, Mo, Dee. 24.—We: ley L. Robinson, editor of the ¢ |tin Democrat, died last night an the reawtt of gunshot wounds inflicted jby Hugh Y. Tarwater yesterday. 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You know it ad after-effects, incor- Za BY BEATRICE JACKSON NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—A modern Santa Claus is Pop Crandall, one.ot the oldest toymakers in the world, yet still young at 86. He has been making toys for boys and girls all over the world since he was 4 years old. Yes, he ix still young—his eyes are bright, hin smile cheery and his step is sure and firm, and the reasom of railway, She built 1,000 of her own Volition, 4,000 she had forced up: | and 1897, but for 10 years she thwarted the best ‘brains| representing the mightiest nations of and America, that the| ly contract they could get was for | ilometres more, The remain ing 2,500 kilometres she contracted for om her own terme. Wet, once granted terms that safe | guard her sovereignty, China con tracted for a greater length of line than all this put together within the) CROFULA? ften Acquired a. HAVE YOU S re i Sarsaparilia, the medicine used with so much} three generations, is ul in the treat. ive it a trial m cathartic or laxative Is need~ there is noth= onstl« er If a ed, take Hood's Pills pation, 1221-Third Ave “COR UNIVERSITY | Oldest Toymaker, “Pop” Crandall, E is {his life has been spent in mg @thers happy, men and wom- cn.» well as boys and gigls. "What toys do you like to make best?” I asked him, “girls’ toys or boys’ toys? “I don’t know that T have any choice,” he replied. “I like to make both, because I love little boys and girls, and like to make things for them to play with, and to repair them when they are broken.. I have four children of my own, but they're pretty groy\-up now. I had five, but one little § died." And whe “AT spoke of his wife, his eyes became filled with tears and his voice grew thick and broken. “she left me a year " he said. In fact, during my interview with him, his eyes were dimmed wit tears most of the time, as tho he had seen all the sorrow in the world while he had given his whole life to making it happy. “I have four gran and xhibiting Ono of His Christmas Dolls two great-grandchildren,” “he said, proudl But I reminded him that jhe had many, many more; just hun« dreds of grandehildren and greats grandchildren all over the world, He is “Pop” Crandall to everygne, a grandpa and a Santa Claus to thou- sands of little boys and girls. ‘The children love to visit his shop, and the grown-ups, too, Many young men and women have gone to him for advice and help in thelr troubles, and he has fathered them all, “I have 160 patents of my own én | toys," dhe said, and Hamed some. of | them, Ho is the inventor of tho spring hobby hor dent about it, “Dincoln wo r down es , In New York, his way #0 Washington to take the tial Chair, I had some of m |spring horses rocking away in the | window, and I wag told that I'd have to take them out or stop them; that they were taking the attention of the Oldest Toymaker Is Bright and Cheery as Santa Claus | crowds. So I had to stop them until pall | chairs. the parade passed!” “Pop” Crandall made the hobby horse that the present king of Eng- land played with when he was a@ youngster. “Why,” he said, “the prince who has just visited us must have played with the hobby horse that I made for hjs father.” But he has made so many useful things, too. Baby carriages. go-carts, cradies, even orange peelers and but- ton hooks! But the most useful of are the crutches and invalid When all other manufac- turers had faifed, he alone made the invalid chair for Ruth, daughter of Grover Cleveland, and Mr. Cleveland wrote him a very beautiful letter of thknks and appreciation. 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