The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 19, 1920, Page 1

Tonight rain; Maxim T fresh to strong southerly winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours and Saturday: Min um, 48 On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Bntered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1999, the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, ~HIGHWAYMEN ATTACK CITY EMPLOYE; LEAVE HIM BOUND, GAGGED, AND ROBBE Ey eather lor the Act of Congress March 8, 1479. TH EW pat ES Por Year, by Mall, §5 to 69 : Started Armour. Helped Mr. Puget. Corn Grew Fast. lumber, These turned ever to the University of ation as the Editor The Star: igan. i. de 1 ain't what you may call a anthor, | but if they want to know about old Paul why I can tell them. Dern in the Saginaw valley when! Fou had to look straight up to sce the sky and it was not fir them cays! ite cork pine and clean as &nd I knew old Paul them days Paul he had @ deer dog part bound | ‘Four Others Reported to Port Commissioner, Seeking Paul knew if he could see the deer oft was hissén because bis old gun _ Betsy she was loaded with two dish pans der and a kee Of} sorthnern Califo aad hy tull of “ge sol cemeg cl Botreit] rthern California gripped in th ‘and around by Flint and up north! tiony today were that the peak of again and Paul he seen by the track#® tne gtorm was p Mt was a big buck. fell into one track inthe mud 4M aisagter which for ‘was too deep for him to climb out — Ten days after he started out, the | joy » puck took to water at Muskegon dnd | j),4 gwum to the Wisconsin side. scow to Elmer's tail and he towed Paul across Lake Finally the buck took south, and) vul seen him near Chicago, about miles off and downed him. | That am I going to do with al meat?" says Paul, and just then| . Armour came along and «& 1 $1,000 for the buck and offered him a $1,000,000 for Elmer, and Mr Armour right there set up his big meat business. eatin oid for Paul. in sound,” Gen. Del, Bellingham, V ee Paul Bunyan in print. ‘used to tell me how Paul helped Mr |, Puget dig the sound. Mc. Puget had a government con: |(jrany Valley weather b fravt to dig the sound, but he didn’t} | know just how to go at It, so } ig blue ox. * tched hia head , that’s easy. Alaska So he went to Alaska with Babe and hitched onto u glacier and all set up at the b sound is now and holl "to Babe. F But just then Babe saw a school Meacher carrying a. pink | parasol ever could stan K, #0 bh ie 2 Paul dug his heel into|'*% UP 9.2 fee ground to keep from + being} into the ocean. for Hood Canal. (furn to Page 7, Columa » away. GEORGE J. SPARKS, Qaltor The Star: It certainly re- times to seo my friend My father Paul came with Babe, d got dig They that can of wh a pink 1 was) straight away so A little boy had Paul | jens ash. went | teh the He looked the job over | said gla parasol, That @ | and dinner of the Michigan club will | The school | be held on the university campus at 16 LOGGERS DROWNED LAUNCHIS 'T.S. LIPPY : BURNED IN IS CHARGED Scscecc= LAKE FIRE AS PROJAP | Have Escaped Death in Tragedy on Water LEWISTON, Maine, Nov. 19.— Sixteen lumberjacks were drowned and four more narrowly escaped death when a motor boat in which they were crossing Lake Chesun- cock caught fire, according to reports here today. Wrecked Huge Rice Crops MARYSVILLE, Cal, Nov. 19-~ Rumors were circulated in Marys- | ville thie morning that farmers in| | the Sutter basin district were dyna- | mi levees of the Sutter basin by- | |, following @ series of violent ex- plosions heard here at 5:30 a m. sufficiently | Violent to shake windows for miles. | Storm conditions have made com- | munication difficult and the exact nature of the blasts could not be learned, eee SACRAMENTO, Cal, Nov. 19-—F. |v. BE. Harria assistant secretary of | the Sutter Basin company, today de nied that farmers in the Sutter Basin jdistrict were dynamiting levees and that $25,000,000 in rice way endan gered. No dynamiting wae heard in the Sutter Basin district this morning, and all levees are intact. There ix no necessity for blasting the levees, as {the water level in the by-pass is not | high, Harris declared. - ‘BIGGEST STORM |IN FIVE YEARS HITS BIG ZONE SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19 with heaviest floods in five years, indica i there were still hopes of a serious time seemed to threaten in the Sacramento val- Altho it was believed lonwes to rmers in the valley would be if the storm jen to} it was predicted that the damage would not ruinous. | ‘The weather bureau reports today pointed to a breaking up of the] storm. “Clearing weather” was fore-) | cast for tonicht with fair weather | and westerly winds tomorrow. | Many pointa reported signs of the| storm already breaking. Train serv-| ice thru the Sacramento valley has been hampered seriou Traine Nos, 64 and 16 on the Southern Pa- cifie proceeded as far as Kennett | this morning and then returned to Redding, where they expected to re main for the day Cache and Putah creeks tn Yolo} county, dry for two years, today | are running full of water. The warm) na have washed most of the snow) according to the uu Calaboowe creek a family n in Redding and the family conti | subside, from the mountain inva 4 Southern Pacific dispatchers here reported this morning that trains were running carefully, but mat | om time.” No bridges were reported out The weather bi r ported that heavy rajina were con | tinuing in the upper Sacramento | | valley. The river at Red Bluff this morning was 22.9. | night. At Colusa up 5.5 feet over the water wak| THE SIXTH ANNUAL REUNION | | other generation, 6p. m. Friday, November °¢ party WASH., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1920. CAR CREW Re-election, Favors the Orientals, Says League Thomas 8. Lippy, port missioner, now » candidate for ene interests OPPOSES LEGISLATION AGAINST JAP INVASION ‘The resolutions passed by the Antt- Jap league follow: “Whereas, Thomas & Lippy, port comminsioner of the port of Beattie, | now a candidate for reelection, pathizer; and “Whereas, Mr. Lippy has repeat- edly in public specches announced that he is opposed to any legisla tion which will tend to restrict | Asiatic immigration to the Pacific coast, aod “Whereas, Mf, Lippy tm a public epeech, recently delivered by him, stated: ‘That he was not opposed to Japanene immigration; that we need ed immigrants in the state of Wash- ington to develop the vacant lands which the white people refused and failed to do; that the Japanese were no more of & menace to the welfare of America than other immigrants are, and that be had done business with Japanese and found them as) honest and upright as white people’; and LAMPING ELECTION 18 URGED “Whereas, The AntiTapanene league is fgunded on the principle ‘that the unrestricted Asiatic imfhi- gration is @ menace to the welfare of America, particularly the Pacific Coast states, and that there ta a fundamental difference between the civilization of Japan and the United States, and that if Japanese immt gration and Japanese ens are al lowed free sway in the United ates, particularly in the Pacific Coast states, iat the higher moral ideals and economic ideas would soon succumb to the lower Asiatic morals and economic ideas; that before an. the Pacific coast would become an outpost of Asiatic ideas a8 against American ideals; and . “Whereas, George B. Lamping, also candidate for port commissioner is in accord with the principles of the AntiJapanese league on question of Japari immigration and economic penetration and is op: posed to Japanese immigration and penetration of Japanese economic {dens in the United States; “Resolved, therefore, That the Anti-Japanese league hereby indorses | the candidacy of George B. and recommends his support by all persons who believe in the survi of American civilization as agains Japanese Pacific coast SSERT CLARA HAD FEATHERS DETROIT, Nov, 19—-Clara Rei, 22, applied for and was given a po sition as d@omertic and allowed garage «pace for her Own sedan, On complaint of her employer’ police found some missing plumes and clothing under the seat of her ma chine, SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19-—-The Hobo club announced a drunken pig |will be turned loowe at its pion Prohibition officers are stumped Blind pigs are illegal, but there's nothing im the law about pickled pork, | | torne: | well known as a proJapanese sy ried a petition to have thetr case re |/Mx Out of the ear to his rescue, pre | the | Lamping | omic penetration of the) TERRIFIC SNORER FACES ASSAULT IN THIRD DEGREE NOW Ansault in the third degree was charged against H.W. Pitta, ter rifle snorer of Redmond, by Dep uty prosecuting Attorney J. D. Carmody Friday, Pitts ts alleged to have stabbed Frank Nielson tn rage Monday night when men oceupying the same bunk house kept throwing shoes and sticks at Pitts to wake him from his torrential mnoring. 1) | (COMES TO WED GIRL STOWAWAY San . Franciscan Would Marry Russian Maid Further complications tp the case of the two Russian giria, Anta La pina and Eva Pring, who came from Viadivortok aa stowaways Novem- ber 5, have arisen with the arrival tn Seattilo Friday of Licyd D. Jacot, of Eva Pring stoutty maintained at her deportation hearing that she was coming to the United States to find & friend, Lloyd Jacot, who lived, she said, in San Francisco. | Jacot heard of the girls being here | land immediately hurried to fight the deportation of Era, ‘Thru Bimon 14 Wetner, thetr at | , the two Rusimn girls have | | opened, and are planning to put up a | hard fight to stay in this country. BODY FOUND IN BEATS STORE MAN CLUBS AND FISTS ARE EMPLOYED! Shirt Merchant Swears Out Warrant for Capitol Hill Line Motorman — ‘With his jaw badly wollen and one front tooth loose, J. D. Zahrt, proprietor of the Silk Shop, 1600 ‘Wreatlake ave, went to Justice O. W.| Brinker's court this morning and swore out a warrant for the arrest | of J, W. Huntington, « Capitol Hill) street car motomman, charging him with ansanlt, Zahrt says he was leaving the car | at 15th ave. and Pine et, on bis way home at 6:30 last evening with four other men acquaintancen, when the conductor Jumped off and demanded: | “Are you looking for trouble?” | RUSHED THEM WITH IRON BAR Surprised at the inquiry, one ef the men with Zabrt is said to have answered: “No, we're not looking for any- thing.” Whereupon, Zabrt mya, the con- ductor climbed back on the car and | IE ' ee WAKES UP TO FIN My Adventuresin | SELF the . Midnight Frolic’ | MUDH Miss Edith May Will Tell Her Story for staggers .Home Shar the Readers of The Star - | Father Thinks Him Won’t Let Him In Attacked by two hig he was leaving the home ef & woman friend at 12:30 this ing, Arlo Hurd, an employe and found department of railway, was bound, loroformed by his EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ~ i treet and chi |teft lying helpless and une in a mud puddle a¢ Franklin. and East Blaine st. 4 picked up an iron bur, descended again and rushed to attack them. end, without « word, Zabrt declares, struck him a terrific biow with his fist. whieh landed flush on the silk merchant's jaw. “It didn't knock me down.” Zahrt said, “but I'l lose one tooth. It must have been a case of mistaken identity, Otherwise, I can’t explain it Anyway, I don't see as that in the way for a street car crew to treat | pameengera I had my hands in my overcoat pockets when the blow was | trick.” OTHER PASSENGERS | RUSH TO FUS RESCUB Zabrt says other passengera rush- vented further violence. * “The attack was entirely unpro- | voked,” he said. “Nothing had been | mid inside the car before we got, oft, and I hadn't spoken a word after leaving the car when the mo GAS-FULL ROOM Anphyxiated, the body of a man believed to have been John Lockner, wan found in the Gladstone hotel, on ‘Terrace st. across from police head- quarters, this morning. He was about 45 years old. The body was taken to the county morgue, He is believed to have turned on the gas and committed suicide Discovery of the body was made by the Jap proprietor, who smelled gas and burst tn the door. BOY SUES CITY $4,200 DAMAGE Claiming to have been run over by a careleasly-driven munictpal auto- mobile, Lester Anderson, eight-year: old boy, thru his father, August An- derson, 2268 W. 57th st, demanded $4,200 damages from the city Friday for internal injuries sustained in the accident JUDGE W. R, GAY DIES SUDDENLY Wilson PR. Gay. former judge of the superior ‘court,and one of the most widely known lawyers in the city, died suddenly Friday morning. Judge Gay was one of the leaders of the New Thought movement in| |Seattle. He te survived by his wife, Mra. Lillian B, Gay, Uving at 1733 15th ave, and a married daughter. He was senior member of the law firm of Gay & Griffin, with offices in the Alaska bldg. Death came at daybreak. 'ANTI-JAP FIGHT "PLANS FINISHED | Plans for circulating an antiJap | petition were drawn up at a meeting of the Anthd. e league, in the fasonic club rooms, Arcade building, | ursday; afternoon, and arrange: | ments were completed for backing the antéJap initiative law to be in:| the next seusion of the | slature, | ributions for the fight for the anti-Jap law may be went to Frank H. Kannair, in the Joshua Green| buulding, | boarding houses in Seattle. torman hit me Javeniles to Aid Campaign of Red Cross Hey kidst Here's a chance to make some money—bdesides helping the “Greatest Mother in the World.” ‘The Red Cross has started a seven day contest to aid its membership roll tall. The boy who collects the greatest number of Red Cross dues outside the business district starting Friday, will receive the Red Cross distinguished nervies medal and $10. The one getting the next highest number will receive a similar medal and $5. | Contestants must register and get supplies at 315 University st. The Red Crows roll call will close on Thankagiving. Divorce Proctor Sits As Divorce Judge For a Day With Divorce Proctor Charles C. Dalton sitting as superior judge Fri day in department No. 10, Katherine M. and Charles M. Peterson aired their de ic troubles in a contested divorce sult. Kach of the parties accuses the other of being continually under the influence of liquor, The Petersons were married March 29, 1917, and own and operate two Counsel on both sides, wishing a special judge, agreed to the appoint ment of Col, Dalton Local Astronomer Called by Cornell S. L, Boothroyd, head of the department of astronomy at the unt versity since 1912, has been appoint ed head of the department of astron omy and geodesy ateCornell, He ts expected to leave the local institu. tion in the fall of 1921. Robbery Is Charged Against E. S. Henry An information charging robbery against Everett 8. Henry and John Doe Walters, accused of having held up KE. V, Rodgers Oct taking $30 from him, waa filed by the prosecu: tor Friday, f Prof Another striking human-interest document came to~The Star today from its New York bureau. It is the story of Edith May, national salesgirl beauty contest winner, and her adven- tures in the Ziegfeld midnight frolic. ; This little Wisconsin girl, when she went to shine on Broad- way, had never been 100 miles from home— Never seen a skyscraper— Never ridden in an elevator— Never taken a bus ride— Never gone to a theatre— Never eaten in a city restaurant— Never stopped at a hotel— Never seen a large body of water— Never ridden in a Pullman car— Never seen the-modern styles, Then suddenly she was whisked overnight to the great metropolis. She jumped into tights and became a feature of the Mid- night Frolic, the famous Ziegfeld girl-and-music show. Edith May’s own story will appear in The Star. First chapter, Monday, Watch for it! MAIL ROBBERS) SUES HER SON OMAHA, Neb, Nov. 19-—Seven| An effort to set aside an agreement more arrests were made last night in| between Elizabeth Smith and her connection with the Burlington mail| son, Arthur FE. Smith, whereby the robbery at Council Bluffs, in which | former transfered one of the richest $3,500,000 was stolen. farms in the White River valley to A large amount of plunder and the | the latter, on condition that she automobile in which the robbers es:| would be taken care of, were being police. That she frightened thieves away was evident by amount of loot they left behind Jewelry and silks were left pil different rooms. Mrs. Nicholsom just brought the necklace safety deposit vault earlier in | day. $800 DIAMOND HORSESHOB DROPPED ON BACK PORCH A diamond horseshoe pin, at $800, was dropped on the porch by the burglars. The woe Fe According to the complaint, Mrs. Smith, 85 yeers old, and her daugh- ter, Hattie, have been living together, | ¢, expecting Arthur and his wife, Mary. to keep them provitled with neces sariea and $35 a month. The con tention is that fuel has not been forthcoming, Involved in the action fs a section of the farm which Arthur Smith ts |said to have sold to Walter. Mess, json of Representative Fred Moss, for $19,000, Mrs. Smith and her daughter, Hattie, thru their guard jan, B. Margaret Smith, another daughter, want this alleged sale can- celled. STRUCK BY CAR; HE ASKS $5,000 Claim for $5,000 was filed against the city Friday by Benjamin F. Johnson, 4417 Woodlawn ave, for spinal injuries alleged to have been received when he was run down street ‘car at the corner of First ave, 8, and Horton st. . a chain. ‘Two robbers, who gained entran J, P, Smith's home at 108 Ni a S., when they flashed #1 police badges, robbed Smith at point of a gun of his gold chain $1,100 in currency. The drove away in a powerful auto, robbery occurred at 8:30 p.m, Weer nesday. Two opal rings were stolen from a dresser in her home, Mra EL As Betzer, 715 Stewart st, notified pe lice Friday. Two unmasked robbers held up Rert Barnes, of Portland, at Tenth, — ave. and B. Pike st. Thursday night and disappeared in the brush of Line - coln park with $38 loot. Barnes is. stopping at the Imperial hotel, 1408 Fourth ave. One diamond ring, a wedding rt two other rings, a watch, ® sa) bank containing $80, and $1 was the loot of at the home of Ralph Behan, 328 24th ave, with ® passkey last night. > ¢ G, Isnacs, 1121% Jackson at, Ww caped on the night of the robbery | made in Judge A. W. Frater’s court | Recklace contained 20. fi also were recovere¢ + Leda. lace con Y ‘Those arrested Inst night are: T. y karat diamonds, set in a platinum A. Daly, in whose chicken house @ large, amount of bonds were found; H. A, Reed, a roomer at the Daly home, and five negroes, members of the family of John Bell, This new development was brought about by the confession of Fred Poffenbarger, Who was arrest ed sevéral days ago. C. H. Glenn, postal Inspector tn charge of the hunt for the missing bonds, stid this morning he believed they would all be recovered in a fow hours, Postal authorities investigating the robbery of Rock Island train No, 7 yesterday, waid this morning that nothing of value Wad been taken The, car robbed was a parcel post » cat and contained nothing of Cotton Is Forced Down on Exchange y YORK, Nov. 19.—Profit tak Ing by shorts failed to. stem the tide of Southern hedging and liquidation, nd at noon eotton made a new low for the season, off 55 to 86,