The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 31, 1920, Page 1

mamma gew YORK, Jan. 3 The Reve and aympathy and the Imaginat Bring fiction writ Jed thru PTO Be thie cou A “SLEETH Jesiving VERY person to drive & motor ve hicle shall be regi tered with the chief ot police by filing fein the chief of police a card be * * stating thereon the name and postal address of such with a brief description of nehicle to be driven | Pi you know that the get of the law of Seattle Diivend it out by chance, Appar there is a conspiracy to pre the public from bothering the qwith these trifling matters, mm there are such a number of Ieteresting things to do with Beial office time see we ts HAVE a hobby, ) It is to oheerve every law they make, Not because I'm so law-abiding, but ax a pastime, to wee whether peldone and stil} leave time eating and calling on the cash pe for the pay check once in a while I get then the legislature meets months and manufac- severa] hundred laws that Tam observing. and can be a tawabid in this city, state and puts his whole mind to hothing else, Nobody even a policeman; forget and spit on the or walk on the wrong street, or something that, and muss up 4 fecerd in a minute eee . anyhow, here was & new law, and I eagerly Went out to capture it al add it to my collec ee tour of the clty and bullding led me to the exit. Metructions to go down to the thwn hai and seek out the traffic ‘Gpain with my complaint. SL Went and ranged myself long desk and watched je hours whiz by ‘The slim, blase young man was busy hunting for something: Imag my fat man was too busy my column in The Star, M, of course, he couldn't be both- the larger fat man waa too important to do anything but i and out every 15 or 20 Po...4 waited, and I waited, and T I wished I hadn't writ long « column for the little Miman to read, or that somebody Wake up the skinny little time place Ah conte ole urban haste tive contentment that I Mite mined since I used to loaf in Be quires office back in the town, where only a blue bot ever seemed in haste M4 in time the phor We young man ar calm and he even were ecing me for one he had taken rm te fixtures of the p Lhe « stening id it happen nday was ooked blandly , arnestly Tze calen fr hansing a fe t a nie “ee ikled with, train Wt Mat calendar says it v ath , Was it the are Must be m e ol MM It's too dee " be % Ras the 18th. « ry ri * H—~it WAs 1th.” Pie about the way he looked Was figur t out Then Me Wtarted to hunt thru a lot of re 7 but dusk wa ng, and Was far trom horns asked if 41d regi 1 and he + decided 1 mig 1 I took Sard, and I'm ma t, and I Moe everything will be all right ang that nobody wit go down there for at least 90 days odie the wort of fun you en you wet out to obe Seams that aha ates al fn My throw off their che hour. and thereaf: the democrac t Rt sension Tam the oniy « . and wasting time MUch foolishness juxt a My score up to noon as 109,000, , woman cart nding that 4 ip ber heart as give the w ing new to think a = : mere story, an an . } exceeding ania © The Star's Phone Get the Habit! young English girt, and monthold baby "| M Knowles and her child have ome here at the invitation of Mrs Cora M. Spiker, of Baltimore, wife » of the gitl's sweetheart, | Mrs t Spiker, tn an affidavit, declares willingnes# to take into her ome the girl and baby who have detatmed a¢ Ellis Island since $ IT SEEMS LEAVE | | BLEEDING = IN STORE Two Young Holdups Stage! Daring Robbery in Pine Street District Two daylight thugs brutal-| ‘ly assaulted A, (“Dad”) Fill-| man, 85-year-old grocery |store proprietor, at 1531) | Seventh ave., beat him over the head with the butt of a jheavy revolver, dragged him! jinto a back room, rifled the| leash register of $15, and jeseaped at 10:30 a. m, Sat-| urday. | The robbery was committed with: | in 100 feet of Pine wt. downtown traf: | \ fle, an artery where dozens of autoe| and pedestrians pass. | The thugs were youths about 20) years old, weighed about 130 pounds | and wore dark sults, according to} the broken story told by the old man, who stumbled out on Seventh ave. ASKED FOR MILK, THEN SLUGGED HIM “To young men came Into the erted for help. again, they were gone.” ] “If 1 had known that they had/ come to rob me, I would have licked | them,” the aged storekeeper told po- lee who hurried to the scene of the robbery when summoned by aint’ storekeepers. No trace was found of the bandits | by motorcycle officers who searched | the neighborhood. | Fillman was painfully cut on top| of the head by the blow of the re jolver butt, and was removed to the city hospital, He lives alone in a back room of the store. He has tela-| tives living in Pittsburg VES and We Correct Them, Too J But car reporters are human, SEK everything they er am error creeps | will be very gind to hank the friends hom, | charge. they dew’ call it to our . The Star of Tuesday, January 27, in an account of charges made against George Tagas by hia wife, Amzel Tagas, stated she had secured yree from him. This was ine: lrect. She sued for divorce January } 14, and sult is still pending. Tagas denies be struck three women, as |charged by his wife in justice court |Senate Confirms Cabinet Changes WASHINGTON. Jan. a1 ‘The senate today confirmed David F. | Houston as secretary of the treas lury and E. T. Meredith as secretary lof agriculture QUENTIN QUIDNUNC DAILY TION OF FIVE PICKED AT RANDOM THE QUESTION for high | Is It necessary school | girle to use cosmetics ANSWERS FRANK ATKINSON, 4403 29th o, W.—Whew! Ask my wife, She | knows. | MRS. FRANK ATKINSON, 4403 l2oth ave, W—Some of them need more than cosmetics to hide them deep enough MRS. MARY «No; a young girl is gh without it. There's too much e in the high schools. MES ZWECKI, foot Allison «t out of place, but if they wre doing it, I know nothing about it Ss. M. MILNE, Joshua Green build | ing—I'm well posted on \thome matters Ithey’re overdoing it DULE, 533 S1at [t's entire not very “pop the question” month, but advice of Evelyn Greeley, who has) |to get the right man ts to let him do | whe agreed pretty | but It seems to me| January 15. She ia leading the eling on money furnished by Mra. legal fight to gain them admit: gpiker, arrived here on the Lap ance to this country . Perley Spiker, the husband-aweet. Mnd. They were barred by tmmt heart and former aviator in the &Pfation authorities, A special board American expeditionary forces, of inquiry confirmed thin action. Wishes to adopt the child. His Then the Spikers appealed to the brother, Guy Spiker, wishes to immigration bureau in Washing» marry Miss Knowles, altho he has ton, The appeal is pending never seen her I have been informed of all the Mixes Knowles and the baby, trav: conditions of my husband's friend On the Issue of American Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, SEATTLE, WASH., SATU Girls, DON’T Propose, Says | EvelynGreeley Father and Soa. ads Upon Trigge' Faced Each Other | One move from either would have meant | DEATH. They loved | each other, but the part- | ing of the ways had come. | The boy was speaking: “I will shoot — and shoot to kill if I must.” Evelyn Greeley j | Proper Way | Is to Make the) His dad eyed him keen- Man Do It ly, affectionately, fear- | | lessly. ‘This ts leap | and February ts the | NEW YORK, Jan. a1 year, all right. That's just one scene in“Rim = | 0” the World,” by B. M. Bow- er, which will begin Monday in The Star. It is a story of | strong men and strong loves. | An installment willappeareach | day—and the novel will be con- Girls, don’t propose matrimony to| your best beau! This ts the stralght-from-the- ‘nad played the accepting (or rejecting) role in more “Wilt You Marry Me? acts than any other movie actrens cluded in two weeks “Fine business,” she mid, “to ac- | ~~.~~~W~nnnnnnnnrnnrnnnne quire a htsband—if he's the one the girl wants Mut the one the girl wanta usually n't the on she can); get by coming right out and asking | i] | } the right way | Read Wants Council to Make Appropriation | him to marry her the proposing What if he docen't? c ed the much-pr ere are number »him. 1 you »poned ing a married , the re r sug sted that Miss Greeley give her leap year advice to the! Dr. H, M. Read, city health com r, wants the council finance | to appropriate $10,000 to| health department to | mis committee the young lady readera of The Star, and promising to reveal one | timid | enable |sure met of making the wooer propose each day until she had! handle influenza cases. It is plan told her six “best ways to make him|ned to hire two additional phys propose.” liclans and several nurses in case eee |they are needed for the “flu.” ! To Young Ladies Only: Dr. Read declared to the commit | Our New York office as-| tee Priday that there was noth _ . : ing im the present situation to sures The Star that Miss) -auso alarm and that the measures |Greeley's “Make Him Pro-\ ne advocated were purely precau-| | pose” lessons will reach Seat-| tionary. Cases reported in Seattle tle in time to appear in our|sre of a mild character, he stated The emergency will probably be over In two weeks. ‘The appropriation will be put up to the city council Monday for final action Dr, Read stated that only Lifeboat With 23 leeumar of the money might be Persons Is M ing Fifty-four mild next issue. } Start February right! | Read them! Influenza cases were reported to the health depart NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—One life-| ment Saturday morning. | boat containing 18 mbers of the} The total today will probably be! crew of the tanker Mielro, which! snout the same as yesterday, when broke in two and sank off Tybee]. total of 76 casex were reported,” river January 26, was picked up by | said Health Commissioner Read steamship Ozet cording to offie “ee cial naval radio dispatches received) gan FRANCISCO, Jan, 31.—Mayor here: Iph announced today he would ask Another lifeboat the for an appropriation of $50,000 to! captain and 22 of the crew Is still tight influenza. A committes of Red aaritt. | Cross workers called on him, declar ing money i# needed immediately The epidemic reached its highest | | point yesterday, when 227 new cases) land nine deaths were reported. The| \figures have been showing a constant containing These warm days why not look up that prop- erty you have wanted to increase buy? In tode ussi- o* fied Section you'll find PORTLAND, Jan. 31.—Thitty three new caves of influenza were; some attractive offers in homes and acreage. reported to health authorities here today, bringing the total up to No deaths were reported today. | 1999, at the Postoffice at Sea 132 ship with Miss Knowles while he was in an aviation training camp in England in 1918. Mra, Spiker sald, In her affidavit “I know the moral character and tendencies of my husband, and f know them to be beyond reproweh husband 1 Mise Know ‘ 14 friendship whieh ripened wometht more than friend Mins Knowles is not immoral int ship. Waeh., RDAY, JANU ARY 31, Pedestrians Hit by Autos] 33 This Year An unidentified pedestrian stepped from behind a street car at Sixth ave. and Pine st. late Friday and was struck by an auto driven by Jack Stewart, 4109 38th ave, 8. W. Stewart reported the accident to the po lice, He said he did not know the victim's name. Pedestrians Hit by Autos] 94 This Year Miss Lavena Anderson, 60, of 217 Westlake ave., was knocked down and her leg fractured by an auto driven by Charles Bergland, #16 Warren ave, at Seventh ave. and Westlake, at 6 p.m. Friday. Bergland said he honked his horn, yut Miss Anderson did not stop, Pedestrians Hit by Autos] 35 This Year An unknown man, who said he wasn’t hurt, and wouldn't give his name, was hit by an auto driven t J. Pounds, 1722 Summit ave., Fifth ave. and Marion st., at 7 ao m. Saturday, Pounds said the man was walking in the mid die of the street Pedestrians Hit by Autos This Year Peter Marillas, residing at the Yakima hotel, was knocked down Friday afternoon by a car driven by W. Malakoff, 107 14th ave. &., at Second ave. and Yesler way. Marillas was jaywalking, Malakoff said. He was not seriously injured. Pedestrians Hit by Autos 137 This Year Frank Joh an expressman son, living at 61 st ave., sustained bruises Friday when he was knocked down by an automobile driven by Don Malone, 318 27th ave at 19th ave. and KB. Jeffer son st. Johnson was chasing his runaway t at the time he was struck Pedestrians Hit by Autos This Year Mrs. Louise Nightall, 710% 10th ave., is suffering, Saturday, from bruises and shogk in her home from being knocked down 138} by an automobile driven by Elmer Mackie, Puget Sound hotel, at Mth ave, and Wheeler at, Fri day THE LOVE. THAT PASSETH UNDERSTANDING | n ‘ under the rules laid down in the brother, who now makes his home « that Minn Knowles be re ? immigration laws She is a With us 1 waved on $1,000 bond, and went to } The brothe h affidavit lovable, refined girl aoe Sree a ae . sie feted “Witla and tate t mi I am perfectly willing to , I would welcome her in my marry her and be her faithful hu Butterfly, of Fall River, Ma 5 home, It would never disturb the band ae long as I live, for 1 know The Butterflys had not previous ; happiness of my h nd and my that her moral character is good been mentioned in the case, and § self, if Misw Knowles should « Byron H, Ubi, acting comm Ubl said he wax mystified by th trary, | would be gind to see her land, received a telegram today be filed before late today or Mon- ) become the wife of my husband's from the Washington bureau, di da ) ism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star (2 under the Act of Congress Maroh 1920. <a That is the number of letters received by The Star from its readers, suggesting plans for making Seattle’s streets safe. When 1,322 readers take the trouble to write to a newspaper on such a subject it is a certain indication that the city regards the situation as serious. Expert opinion agrees that one of the best proved ways to cope with the condition is to form a separate traffic division in the police force. This view is indorsed by Mayor Fitzger- ald, Councilmen Drake, Carroll, Hesketh and Haas. =— WELL—LETS HAVE SOMETHING DONE CENTS Late Edition Per Year, by Mail $5.00 to $9.00 Tonight and Bunday, rain; southeasterly probably winds Rice eames | Mayor, Councilman Pick Letter Cecil L. Nelson, st, Star for the best 100word sux gestion on tle Streets Safe for Pedestrians Mayor C. B, Fitagerald, A. 8. El them. Five cops on one crossing can’t regulate traffic Sate Sneath, entbic of te Whenever anyone carelessly or willfully violates a public safety committee of the city traffic law, endangering his own life and the lives of council, acted as judges, They choxe Nelson's letter as the best out of 1,322 received by |Auto Accident Editor during the contest ito be rejected because they exceed [the 100word limit, but their va to the publie “Life Savers” from day to day in The Star. The three judges, explaining th reasons for choosing Nelson the w ner, said ELDRIDGE: on hits the r head when he tween as the main m dents and maki FITZGERALD: Mr automob: ns of reducing ac Nelson prestes my ideas on traffic cor |tione and the way to make streets safe. When the people Auto Dealer and! a railway mail clerk, living af 317 N. 84th was declared the winner Saturday of $50 offered by The low to Make Seat the Many excellent letters ha was not lost inasmuch | main points were published lists appearing $50 FOR ‘LIFE SAVER’ THE $50 LETTER Seattle, Wash., Jan. 22, '20. Auto Accident Editor, Seattle Star. We have enough traffic regulations now Let’s enforce Dear Sir: to make the streets safe for everyone. others, he should be arrested and made to pay the full penalty, whether he be rich or poor, driver or pedes- trian. Carelessness and ignorance cause 99 per cent of these accidents. Keep up a Safety First educational cam- paign. Publicity has worked wonders in preventing accidents in private industries. It will do the same for Seattle. CECIL L. NELSON, 317 N. 84th st. will please call at The dent Editor, he will be given ir o EDITOR r office and a check for $5 8 NOTE k for If Cecil L. the Auto 4 se sweet": TWO JURORS EXCUSED ex “| IN MONTESANO TRIAL; ke jan intelligent interest in traffic | operate with motorists the numb of accidents will take a sharp drop.” | BY CLEM J. RANDAU union man, said whatever opinion he | HESKETH: son said it all HARBOR COURT | might have would readily yield to and I believe his plan to make the| 3, Montesano, Jan, 31.— | evidence, streets safe for best that has been suggested.” eee Dies of Injuries in Auto Accident! hattle vurseryman, Florentia seven weeks’ 1, 1 After Christian N. San {dead at his hor His is the sixth ¢ year due to auto accidents. | Seven weeks ago ho was struck Ja machine on the Fremont bridge. Funeral services will be held 1:30 Sunday ton hall, 14th ave. and B. Fir st Sandahl was a resident of the city years. He was prominent club and lodge life . Mahoney, Mahoney Mary Anne old daughter of P. J 22nd ave., pedestrians is the for life ath in this city this afternoon in Washing- in church, 14-months. was injured in an automo-| statements of Two temporary jurors were ex- | cused from serving in the Cen- | at tralia massacre case when court | formally opened just before 11 Mrs. Inez Moore, wife of a farmer ima, will be further examined this afternoon. Today's short session of the trial o'clock this morning. They are undoubtedly will see the jury box Orton G Satsop garageown- [again temporarily filled, With 11 Mrs. Emily ©, Pattison, | men passed, attorneys probably will | the only woman to be called in- |) exercising peremptory chal Po to the jury box as yet. jlenges this afternoon. The state is {A clash between attorneys over! allowed six peremptory challenges | the introduction of witnesses to Jay| and the defense 12 in cases where | ground for the impeachment of tem-| capital punishment may be inflicted, by porary jurors delayed proceedings | under Washington statutes, at|for more than an hour, Prosecutor Abel expressed himself vg-| ‘The squabble between opposing|as well satisfied with the progress counsel took place in Judge John/ made 30|M. Wilson's chambers, | “We shall probably begin introduc ing testimony by next Thursday or Friday,” he said today | Temporary jurors chosen thus far j are Thomas C, Connor, dealer and mill owner. The action of the |14- Months-Old Baby |g Mrs. Pattison and Glenn Ja distinct sury Hurt in Auto Crash) toa court in excus: former liquor Attorne Vander-| 8. A, Youngs, lumber mil! watch- | veer yesterday announced he would | man 507} introduce witnesses to impeach the Pp, R. Ames, retired farmer. Juror Glenn, made! §E. E. Torpen, retired farmer. bile accident Friday | during his examination, when he de-| John E. Hill, poultry raiser The little girl was riding with her| nied having expressed the opinion) ©, ©, Strayer, paint and grain father when his auto hit a Madrona|that “the defendants are ali guilty | dealer street car at 2ist ave. and James and should be hung.” | A. H. Kuhn, shingle mill owner, was thrown from the seat Her | E. G. Robinson, Hoquiam carpen-| Robert L. Steptoe, sawmill clerk. |tongue was bitten thru and the left) ter, was rapidly passed by both| ©, C. Schneider, hotel keeper sides today, Robinson, who is a! W. F. Ferguson, lumber dealer, — eet side of her face badly bruised.