The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 18, 1920, Page 1

We Tonight and Friday: rain; moderate erly gale. Temperature Last ather fresh south- Hours » 49. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise ; Batered as Second Class Matter Mi jay 9, 10 At the Postoffics at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March %, 1179. The Seattle Sta Per Year, by Mail, § 9 Tr EW Paul Bunyan Babe, the Blue Ox. Brimstone Bill. Big Ole’s Griddle. Skating on Pork. BY LEE J. SMITS | Many are the stories woodsmen tell of the exploits of “Paul Bun Yan,” the mythical giant whose epic The Star is collecting for the use of posterity. Are you familiar with this lee endary patron of the timber workers? If you are, The Star invites you pin such “Paul Bunyan” stories | uu may have heard. These stories printed and turned over to niversity of Washington to belp out the saga of this unique Sfigure in American folklore. Icing single file thru the snowy jroods, I have heard lumber. jacks “ecount solemnly the most amaging adventures. | There are stories, for instance, of the time “Paul” logged off North De-| kota. He had a blue ox named Babe ‘This animal was seven ax-handles Wide between the eyes. “Paul” was he ? | cutting on the Big Onion river the winter of the biue snow and he sent) Babe from camp to camp to help) out.’ Babe could only put up one night at a camp because he'd eat) all the feed that could be hauled in a! month. Big Ole was the blacksmith at headquarters and the only man strong enough to shoe Babe. Ole! once carried a pair of shoes for Babe | s and sank to his knees in rock at every step. Brimstone Bill drove Babe. In- etead of logging in the usual manner, Babe would be hitched to a quarter — which was hauled to the ing grounds and shorn of its} timber. When the spring drive was on| Babe got to be a nuisance. He de-| lighted to sneak up behind the drive} 9nd drink the river dry. ' “Paul? excavated the Great Laks to Obtain a water supply for icing) his roads In North Dakota, Babe, his ox, was hauling a water tank from Duluth to North Dakota when! it broke down and sprung a leak—| hence the Missiasippi. When “Paul” was running his orth Dakota outfit he had trouble in cooking flapjacks fast enough to feed the crew. To obtain this, Bis| Ole made a griddle that a man couldn't see across on a foggy morn- ing. Then arose the difficulty of greasing this griddle. “Paul” excavated the Great Lakes who fastened sides of pork on their| feet and skated over the griddie| ahead of the torrents of ter. | “Paul Bunyan” bad a shotgun that required four dishpans full of powder for each barrel. 1t would kill geen so high in the air that they'd spoil} before hitting the ground. MEXICANS SEIZE COAHUILA MINES EAGLE PASS, Texas, Nov. 18.—| Strikers in the coal regions of the! state of Coahuila, Mexico, have taken over the coal mines, according to reports received here today. | The situation was said to be seri. | ous with some rioting and disorders taking place. Americans in the region were re-| ported to have been guaranteed pro- | tection by te central government. 72 Silver Mines | in Mexico Closed) SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. 18. } Seventy-two silver mines in Mexico! have suspended operations because | of the iow value of the metal, it was) ,ATTLE, WASH., SDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1920. EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE TO JAIL ALL DOPE PEDDLERS... WORK ON 2 CAR LINES Start for Homes; Many Thefts Reported Armed Highwaymen Oper- ate in Ravenna and Bal- lard Districts Two daring holdups on streets and numerous burglaries and petty thefts were reported to the police last night-and early today from vari- ous parts of the city. L. W. Chapman, 235¢ N. Broad- way, was‘ held up at the end of the Ravenna park street car tine last night by a short, heavy set highway- man, who wore a slicker and cap. ‘The robber took $15 and disap peared in the brush. Two men held ap and robbed Thomas Trahey, of 5816 17th ave, N. W, when he stepped from a Ballard street car, at 1 a. m. today, near his |home, They searched his pockets, but failed to find his puree, contain: Mra. C. Ryan, Northern hotel, 113 First ave. &., reported to the police today the theft of a greeg silk um- brella worth $11. Demanding money, © begwar at- tempted to force his way into the home of Mrs. G. Cooledge, 4221 224 ave. N., yesterday afternoon, when she answered his knock at the door. Mrs, Cooledge slammed the door in his face and immediately called police by phone. Motorcycle Patrolman Fred Mills responded, but was unable to find the beggar. An overcoat, the property of J. H Keena, and another overcoat belong: ing to L. C. Gilman, vice president of the Great Northern, from the Moore theatre, & report made to the police this morning by W. A. Hartung, sasist ant manager of the rhow house. A new mackinaw was stolen from Harvey Thompson, Puget Sound hotel, 718 Sixth ave, #. last night, he told police Thursday. CHARGES NEGRO WINDOW CLEANER WITH THEFT Diamond studded elk’s tooth charm was taken from the home of Mrs. C W. Seaborn, 2350 34th ave. &, by a colored man hired to clean windows, she reported to police late Wednes. day. A diamond pin, valued at $200, was stolen from Mrs. George Menich, | friend with a retriever,.and they all | were told, 6223 42th ave. N, E. Clothing valued at $250 was the loot of a burglar who ransacked the apartment of Mra. M. Armstrong, Metropolitan apartments, Sixth ave and Seneca #t. Valuable wrist watch, the property of Mra. E. J. McGrath, 622 Melrose ave, N., was stolen. Edward M. Joyce, Colonial hotel, First ave. and Seneca st., had ,Rob Passengers as They) ky yw : Mary Young, actress starring in “The Outra, Palmer,” in which she plays the part of a indiana attractive woman who ensna eniors. young man’s obsession and ¥ studious and observant Miss i. and Be John H, Steen is a duck hunter. Between duck shooting trips he t» & photographer. | Friends of bis at Skagit flate tn- | formed him by telephone “Big blow bas brought ‘em in, Fields are flood ed, Hurry up.” John hurried. He assembled a friend with a large car and another | three temporarily threw up their jobs and hit the trail for the fats, | Just outside the city limits a black cat limped across the road. | “That black cat idea is foolish- | ness,” said one duck hunter to the other, eee After driving 50 miles they came to & slough of despond, in which half study of the role reached an explanation of “calf lov which boys sometimes bear for women many yeata their “It ia because the older woman understands the Mra. id but res young men, has thru her mpathizes with him,” says the} ‘oung. ‘Black Cats Omens ' of Ill?--Read This Convinced 1 “The train doesn't atop here,” they were told. “You can make it at Sil vana.” They rushed to Silvana “The train doesn't stop here,” they were told. “You can make it at | Marysville.” They had 30 minutes In which to make 17 miles, and they made it “The train doesn’t atop here,” they “You should have gone to Everett.” | eee | They ate supper and started for home, The self-starter went out of commission and the crank was dug out. At midnight they were in se | attic and stopped to let Steen out at | his home It wae then found that the crank was lost. Three men pushed the car $74 and a big sweater until someone| a dozen cara were mired and a score | until It started, entered his room with a passkey. When Sergt. W. F. Donian and Patrolman F, Vallett passed the Call- fornia bakery, at 2736 KE. Madison st., at 2 a, m, today, they heard a man yelling within. They investi- gated and found that W. Auer had frightened away a burglar, Another prowler lurking in a back yard was shooed away by a Mr: Rows, 2843 Franklin ave. James R. Caldwell, 2203 Fourth Fourth ave. N., reported to the po that some unscrupulous person had made away with a green check overcoat and $89 in the Arcade building. ite Center Store Burglar Loss, $50 Candy, tobacco and merchandise valued at $50 were stolen from the White Center Commercial Co. last night by @ thief who entered thru a basement window. Danger Lurks on Every Corner You never know. This is not pessimistic, just realistic. If you have the kind of a business you should have you will be ready to laugh at adversity and meet it as a matter of fate. Secure yourself. You can do so hy looking daily at the Business Gpportunities listed in The Star You can make ‘em or break ‘em! If some one told you money was «lipping through your fingers you'd doubt it, yet it is if you have not looked at these listings. You are never too old to learn and earn. 100K, NOW—IT PAYS. | of others were held up. They spent three hours at the slough, then turn ed back to make a detour, The de | tour wag full of chuck holes, mud pits and misery, In the rain and | darkness they turned back with the brilliant Intention of catching the train at Arlington. NO COMPROMISE WITH JITNEURS Refusing to compromise with the fitney interests, the council utilities committee summarily pigeonholed, Thursday, the proposed ordinance whereby the jits would be permitted to run over certain specified routes here. Members of the committer declared that the council would not mak terms with the jitneurs until the su |preme court has finally determined |the rights of the city to legislate on the use of ite own streets, Ww. R Jitney Owners’ association that the auto men would dismiss all litigation if the council would agree to pase the compromtse ordinance. His offer was refused without com. ment | That the present restraining order prohibiting the city from enforcing its original jitney measure, will re main in force until the jitneur'a ap peal is argued in the supreme court, |was Indicated by city attorneys Thursday. The jitney interests lout the fight for a permanent Intunction declared against the city in the superior seuss Wednesday, le Crawford, representing the | | The owner of the car found he had | |lont his lucky watch charm, a $2.50 | gold piece cherished for years, i | ‘This noon Steen met @ black eat on his way to lunch and ran three blocks out of his way to avold the creature, |IS SHE OR ISN'T. SHE HIS WIDOW? Here's & new one the law must | solve. | Inger Marie Gordon wants a widow's share in the estate of the | late W. H. Gordon. |. She admits she married Gordon |two months after being divorced |from a former husband, thus vio- | lating Washington law, which re- quires @ lapse of six months before re-marringe. | She admits also there was no legal marriage ceremony, but can |show she lived several years as Gordon's wife in states recognizing common law marriages, | She deciares Washington ~ must | recognize the marriage by courtesy |to other states, Judge King Dykeman has the matter under advisement, |Arrested Here for Police in Illinois Louis Badgett, 17, whose arrest on grand larceny charges was asked by | Police of Galesburg, Il, was lodged lin the city jail Thursday, after being taken into custedy at First ave, and Yesler way by Detectives Jim Byrnes nd Jack Budgett denies FOOD COST DROP, SAYS in Seattle; Wholesale Drops Greater WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 tween September 15 and October 15, the department of labor announced today. Wholesale food prices during Oc tober dropped 8% per cent, and the prices received by farmers dropped a still greater percentage, according to figures given out by the labor and agricultural departimenta, ‘This showed that the full effect A prige drops is slow in reaching the cohsumer. Prices declined for 39 out of 43 food articles listed. Sugar decreas ed 24 per cent, potatoes 15 per cent, | onions 11 per cent, rice 9 per cent; steak and meats 4 per cent and mis- cellancous from 2 to 1 per cent. Price increases were: Eggs, 14 per cont; lard, 5 per cent; bacon, but- ter and other articles, less than one-half of one per cent. The greatest decrease in living conta was shown at Omaha and St anapolia, Memphis, Pittsburg, Port land, Me., St. Loula, San Francisco and Springfield, 1) ‘Three per cent decreases were re- — that corded at Atlanta, Cleveland, Colum: | jbua, Ohio; Kansas City, Little Rock, Lon Angeles, Louisville, Mobile, | Newark, N, New Haven, Peoria, Rochester, New York and Washing: ton, ‘ Two per cent decreases were shown at faitimore, Birmingham, Boston, Bridgeport, Buffalo, Butte, Salt Lake City, Savannah and Scran- ton, Charleston, New York and Richmond 4 decreases of 1 per cont. 3 Houston, Texas, was the only city which showed an increase. It was lens than one-half of one per cent. eee Prices of Turkeys Are Very Unsettled urkey market so far has fail ed to become stabilized, altho as Thankegiving draws near the prices undoubtedly will find their level. The turkey crop is suid to be fair this year, with the birds retailing at 60 and 65 cents a pound at present, ONEST, SHOWER WAS UNUSUAL! 4 a regular down East fainstorm for a few minutes late Thursday forenoon, Old Jupe Plu vius upset his buckets and gave us some of the best in his stock The weather office reports .11 Inch fell in three minutes, But ‘twan't the wust we ever had. In June, 1917, .96 inch fell in five minutes, (Not to tourists: This is VERY unusual) Fireman’s Damage Case Near Finish Closing argument in the case of A. T. Anderson, fireman, suing Freder- ick & Nelson for $20,000 damages for alleged injuries were being heard by Judge Clay Allen Thursday, Ander. son claims he waa thrown off his fire truck, suffering severe lacerations on the head when the defendant's truck forced the apparatus on which he was riding off its course until it struck a telephone pole. OSES EDUCATED TYPEWRITER Pete Penoff was mourning the loss of his educated typewriter Thursday as a result of a visit to his room at 916% Howell st., of an enterpris- ing sneak thief, ‘Thé~ typewriter writes in English and Bulgarian. Pete also lost a gold watch and chain and a pet kodak, Leaky Meter Starts Small Fire in Home Gas from a leaky meter was re- sponsible for starting a small blaze in the home of L, P. Elliett, 113 B. 57th st, at 7 a.m, Thursday, The fire was quickly extinguished by thi fire it before any lous was | Seattle UNCLE SAM Retail Decrease 5 Per Cent/Neterer Says He Is Thru, Retail | | food prices decreased % per cent be-| DRUG TRADE MUST STOP SAYS JUDGE With Leniency; Two Are . . Sent Up Judicial recognition of the serious nens of trafficking in narcotics was taken in federal court Thursday when Judge Neterer announced that in all dope convictions hereafter jail sentences would be given. This declaration was followed by two prison sentences, Jail for 30 days and fined $200 for Poxsemxion of four ounces of mor- phine and cocaine, George W. Palmer, who pleaded guilty to smuggling in a large amount of narcotics, which he had | concealed in the hollow legs of a steamer chair and a table, was sen- tenced to 15 months in McNell Island penitentiary, “This thing has got to stop,” Judge Neterer said in sentencing Callahan. “Men and women flock in here lik ducks, loaded with narcotics. And always it ds thélr ‘first offense.’ “Lam of the opinion that if every one had bern sent to the penitentiary ¥ou would not have done this, “From now on everybody will have go torah” Callahan's wife burst into térs and was 14 when she heard’ her husband sen. | tenced to A term in the county jail. George Palmer dispensed with the | serv! of an attorney and pleaded | guilty, | The Star fn its long campaign | Against the dope evil has repeatedly insinted that heavy jail sentences | are the only way to curb the traffic | Fines” however large, amount to merely licensing the peddling of nar. Cotlos, it waa argued. \He Loses Interest in His Bail Money | G. FB. Lewis, 27, was greatly con- cerned over $10, when he deposited | it as bail after being arrested by Of. ficers C. J. Swanson and H. J, Rush for speeding 23 miles an hour on Phinney ave. But Lewis lost af interest in the ball Thureday in police court, when | Swanson explained that Lewis’ speed [had been exhibited in passing a school. : D THEN THE COP SAID!?!! For two weeks police searched dil igently for the seven-passenger auto of Lars Peterso 4 First, reported stolen November 3, Detective W. KE Worsham located the machine in a downtown garage and had joyous | visions of a handsome reward. He notified Peterson. “By George, that's right,” Peter |son answered over the phone, “I [left the auto in’ that @ and for: got all about it. Thanks, very much.” ‘Loses 90 Gallons of Wine and $50 Fine Besides losing 90 gallons of red wine, Louis Medica was fined $50 in police court Thursday for posses- sion of the forbidden stuff. He was arrested at 707 Seventh ave. N. by | Motoreyclé Patrolmen G. F. Rey- nolds and V Dench. JAIL MYSTERY PROBE STARTS ‘The mystery surrounding Morris O'Keefe, the “dual persohality” man, who is alleged to have passed forged checks on downtown stores while ostensibly imprisoned in the county | jail, will be probed by Sheriff John | Stringer, it was announced Thursday afternoon, O'Keefe, convicted and waiting sentence for forgery, has been an in mate of the county jail for the past two months/ according to all avail able records, Yet two Seattle credit men have positively identified him as the who passed worthless checks on fhem just one week ago, Cheasty's store let the convicted forger have @ sult for which he tend- ered A wotthless $75 check and Flor- shelm’s shoe store received a bad check for $16.60 in return for a pair of fancy-topped shoes, “There ts no question that O'Keefe was in the county jail at the time he is alleged to have passed the worth- less checks,” Speriff Stringer de- jared, “1 believe that the two credit men, who picked O'Keefe out of six pioners, were mistaken,” Deputy Prosecuting Attorney John Carmody, asserted that there could be Uttle doubt that O'Keefo was the beatin owed whe. beck: a W. E. Callahan was sent to county | the courtroom | Mat night, (YES, JACK DECIDES HE DOESN'T CARE TO CUT MEAT ANY MORE GRANDE, Or., Nov. 18,-—Jack elll was a butcher when he left La Grande recently, to attend the funeral of his uncle, “Tax Title” O'Neill, of Sault Ste Marie, Mich, O'NeM will return to this city soon, but not to take up his old job in the meat market. He has decided he doesn’t care about cut ting meat longer, having inherited |] bis uncle's estate, which is worth approximately $1,000,000, O'Neill was well known in Bast || ern Oregon as a wrestler. IS SLENT i Believed to Be Playing Grim! Hide-and-Seek Game With | Fugitive Craft MERE BOYS PLAN BIG MAIL THEFT | Two coast guard scutters, ‘ | command of Capt. ¢. B, Wi | left here early Wednesday in p | of the gasboat hepoint and pirate crew that the vessel, out of the harbor some time night, were unheard from by officials here today. Belief was expressed that ti rates and the revenue men were gaged in a grim game of bidednd-| seck on the high seas, somewhere off the coast, © Possibly thru fear of 4 | their location t} the crew of |Four Arrsted, Two Million! Dollars of Loot Recovered OMAHA, Neb, Nov. 18.—~The Burlington mail robbery in Council | Bluffs Saturday, probably t Tate ship, Capt. West has b | west of its kind in history, in Which | ™uMicated with authorities here | $3,500,000 Was stolen, was planned | Wireless since he sped out of the |und executed by a band of boya| br in search of the stolen craft. | ncarcely out of their teens. West took out the cuttirs Four of the boys have been arrest. 204 Arcadia, two of the e4, three of them have confeased,|°"™ 0n-the Coast, armed with and over’ $2,000.000 of the plunder | POUnd guns, and wae optimistic has been recovered. Only one other| h® would overhaul the Roch member of the band remains at large, | “fore she left Washington | officials believe. ‘The boys under ar-| A ea fight with the pirates [rest are: Merle Phillips, 20; Orvitie| Unextected. | NEW YORK, Nov. 1 |additional emergency coal stati j where fuel may be obtained in | pound lots were opened in New |today. Health authorities A |these additional stations would t |sufferers over until December when it is believed the shortage end. Nine Jap stowaways and a boy on the Hiner Arizona Maru, Thomas Fishe Three of the stowaways were rested at noon Wednesday after chase during which two more caped. Shortly afterward, officers ing for contraband, found more Japs huddled in a linen ci with hats on and suitcases in apparently ready to dash ashore the first opportunity, first and are railroad men. was Merle, who was arrested y, had | King & Winge plicated. Poffenbarger, who police /4en in secluded shelters along found in a lake near Council Bluffs.) Saunders sald today if the ity, he added, that the men were. | BUILDING FALLS: | t, without the training high school, under construc-| supposed an effort being made waters, of international bootleggers mai from the Unitea States government that she was collecting as the wife |Metted six prisoners. of the handles of the tub broke, of a crowd of about 250 that ‘The federal grand jury concluded was one against the 14 Japs held men are charged with conspiracy to Frank Mitchell, indicted Tuesday of passing dope-filled straws to pris: Mitchell can be sent to prison for of the Cross Keys, who brought two The jury decided that the offense Joseph Trippy, postal mail clerk, for sending obscene matter thru the} One of the Phillips, 17; Fred E, Poffenbarger,|MAY BE HIDING BY DAY; |and a man named 21. Ali| TRAVELING BY NIGHT four are residents of Council Bioffs maid to be leader in the z Orville Phillipe gave himself- up @eclaring that pis brother | Yeseel was being. | nothing to do with the crime, but | Was Painted black. had confersed in order to shield) Owing to her color, it is him. Officials say both are im. |the pirates may be keeping her say is a deserter from the navy, con. | Coast during the day, doing | fexmed last ht. : bagesteres g only by night. The rities recovered were, United States Attorney | Police were tofay dragging the lake | Potnt is captured, he probably jin an effort’ to recover additional Charge all members of the crew loot. piracy, tho there is a bare a Se aware that the vessel had | Ubeled. MANNED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOTLEGGERS? x : The fact that the gas boat removed from the harbor atts ye " cover of INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 18—\eage of anyone connected: with | Twelve workmen were injured here | King & Winge yard, leads to | today when they were buried under conviction that the men knew | fallen walls and steel girders by col-/they were about. Inasmuch 8 @ | lapse of the frafhework of the UPPET | boat is owned by the Do | two stories of the Emmerich manual | Tryst Co, of Vancouver, B. Cc, it tion. The injured men were hurried| get her into Ca: n to hospitals and the condition of another possibility ia that her three was said to be serious, tors are persons unknown to | Py Be owning company. The most probable theory, ac | ing to federal officials, is that a 9 her and took her out for the pose of smuggling liquor, ‘ Three allotments that came in OME BREW monthly to*his wife during the war RAINS ON Cd |made him suspicious, according to|, 108 ANGELES, Nov. 18. the testimony of George Schilireff, i of the “pyrity squad navy officer, suing for divorce in|ffom an I. Seventh st. residence Judge Calvin 8, Hal's court day; covered with foam: sam Schillreff found out, he asserted, |Of home brew, following a raid The bluecoats were of three different husbands, He was granted a divorce. tub ‘containing 100 betas \down a flight of stairs, when cargo crashed to the floor, Foam shot high in the air, accompanied byt the popping of cor! nd the SMUGGLING GIRL gathered to witness the raid. its two day session with a report late Tuesday afternoon, Among the indictments returned in connection with the alleged Jap smuggling ring exposed by imniigra- tion officials early this month, The smuse@fe aliens into the United States and are held on $1,000 bail each, on dope peddling charges and held on $5,000 bail, was again indicted Thursday for his latest offense, that oners in the county jail, Bail on this charge was fixed at $1,000, If convicted, or if he pleads guilty, 20 years. Hans Peter Hansen and’ Frank Charles Butts, members of the crew Russian girls over with them as stowaways, were exonerated of smuggling aliens into the country. was committed outside the jurisdic- tion of the United States. ‘The girls are held for deportation, was indicted for theft from the mails; Arthur Swanson for a similar offense; Ed Shaughnessy, of Yakima, mails, and Fritz Heuss for possession of 10 quarts of Canadian booze, grand jury waa ai eB JAP STOWAWAYS: QUIZZED HERE rested Wednesday by } officials, were being inter ‘Thursday by Immigration Ii ts ¢