The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 20, 1920, Page 1

‘ nnn Ew Weather Tonight and Sunday: prob- P gentle southerly winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 55. Minimum, 45. Today noon, 52. rain; On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Sta ed ag Mecond Clase Mal rNINE BURNED IN TENEMENT at the Postoffios at Mette, W eee VOLUN 2, WASH,, SATUI Born in Maine. Cradle Raised Tide. Boiled Beans in Lake. Now Logs in Alaska. ts collecting stories e mythical here o DISAPPEAR Fear He May Be Held for Hostage by Seattle Tongmen Editor The + Paul Bunyan ‘Was born in Mai When 3 weeks Old he rolled around so much tn his sleep that he destroyed four square miles of standing timber. Then they bullt a floating cr and anchored it off Eastport When Paut rocked in his cradle it Caused a TS-foot tide In the Bay of Fundy, and several villages were washed away, It was soon seen that if this kept up Nova Scotia would be come an island, and Paul's parents ‘were ordered | tuke him away He couldn't be wakened, however, until the British navy was called out and fired broadsides for seven hours When Paul stenyed out of his cradle he sank seven warships, and the Britieh government selsed his cradle and used the timbers to build seven more. That saved Nova Scotia from be- ing made an island, but the tides in the Bay of Fundy haven't subsided yet. All the cows in Maine were re quired to give milk for Paul to drink ‘When he was & year old he became playful and used to throw the cows into the Guif of St. Lawrence. That's | fare no dairy herds in ’ A. H.C A LAKE HIS BEANS > rene 'cne it Paul Bunyan «i ime { : dug out Puget Sound, and wah |e, ete procdigges Mgnt dR the dirt taken out. built the Ca®/tiy and thought he bale Ped og cade Mountains, “Yes, Sir” 1 have) Or that he is bet: held : heard Dad speak of the time when |b. Chinese pe leone clara = od hima pty er’ ‘AKiNE | spirators in this city for the purpose 0 Where up in the mountains; it was In| 0 Guorling rangom from his enor- P the middie of the winter, and Paul | Y") oo after hie b decided to take a short cut acrowm | “OUD \ Bene, reakdown, N the lake near the camp. On nearing | 7** rousht here from Virginia by the center, the ice broke, and Paul, | Nich, a Shanghal business the Blue Ox and the wagon went |" And friend of the filao family. thru. It happened that on this trip | Nich came to Seattle several weeks they were loaded with beans (the | “5° Was ® guest of the China club Metin’ Geel, end. here |here, and upon hearing of the plight ue of the young student, hastened to in the bottom of the lake. Virginia, intending to take Siao t What did Paul do? Day says tha hate: os Chien. he got all his men together, and they built fires all around the lake, |GOES FOR STROLI, lake to boiling and cooked| FAILS TO RETURN the beans right there, “YES, Sir.” Returning here with the youth, Dad says that they sure had ser-|Nich took him to the New Wash- vice in them logging camps of his}!ngton, where they put up to await ay. In the camp that he was in,|2 sailing date back to Shanghai. On they bad men on roller skates run- Tuesday, Nieh left the hotel op a fing around the top of the dining| matter of business. Siao remained tables, and another bunch of men/in their rooms. mounted on wild bronchs carrying} About noon the young man was the food to them from the kitchen.|seen In the lobby. He remarked to ‘They hdd 126 women sweeping prune-|4 hotel employe that he was going stones from under the tables, and at|out for a stroll, and would return the back door of the kitchen there) presently. That was the last seen were six large steam shovels work-| of him. ing day and night taking away the| Nieh returned later to the hotel egg shells, “Yes, Sir.” + and waited for hours for his charge ‘And he remembers the time the|t? come back, finally became} Biue Ox got sick in its stomach; the |*larmed at his continued mysterious | cause was, that the animal had got-|4bsence and notified Falkenberg & ten loose and broken into a large|Co. @ firm having business reia-| warehouse full of baled hay. Weill,|tions with Nien ad@ the father of sir, the Blue Ox ate so much that | Siao he almost died. Paul had.to have| Members of the firm immediately 2% men working in the antmal’s|put private detectives on the trail, stomach for ten days rolling out|and informed Consul Goon Dip and} bales of hay, “YES, Sir.” the police. The search thus far has| Well, eventually Mr. Blue Ox met | #ffled them . his doom. It happened this way:| The missing man is 6 feet 3 Thru some mistake, Ole, the keeper, |!nebes in height, weighs about 115 fed hin 12 rolls of barbed wire, and| Pounds, and was well dressed when you folks can imagine what the ef-|he vanished. TO BOOST PRICE Mington Siao, 25-year-old son of @ Shanghai heir to one of the greatest fortunes in China and until recently a student in the Uni versity of Virginia, stepped out of the lobby of the New Washington hotel here Tuesday for a short walk downtown, and disappeared. Today the Chinese conmul, Goon Dip, private detectives and the po- lice are conducting a search for the migsing young Chinaman with four possible solutions of the sysfery in mind ‘That he may be wandering about in a condition of aphasia—loss of memory—in which case he is proba- bly suffering the pangs of starve ton, for he had no money when he disappeared. capitalist, ‘That he has ended hie life in a | fit of despondency as « result of | being compelied to quit his studies in the Virginia college due to a te cent rervous breakdown, fe still in the logging business, but everything is modern with him now —logs by airplane. On a bright day you can see his machines way up in the sky, going south to Mexico.| “Yes, Sir”; he has a contrast to sup| srl Siagay ply the Mexican government with poeeed taeet fev. 38 : Unem- | timber to build their new navy.|Ploym ruou © country, re-| Ships like we have in Lake Union “Yes, Sir.” TEX GORDON, HE DROVE PAU! SALT AND PEPPER WAGON persed PMc, Editor The Star: As long as you! “Price ts the only bar to full time) {nsist to.know about Paul Bunion of | production,” said Stewart, course I'll tell you all I know, and (title is commissioner of bureau of that’s quite a lot. I first went to! statistics of the labor department work for him in the winter of the| “Every mill in the country could plue snow, We were logging off | operate full time if prices were down Eastern Wash. Of course I'm an| “The ‘depression’ will disappear as old Jumberjack cook but I got my) soon aa the producers and salesmen | start a flunkey for Paul. He only |of food, clothing and other cormmodi- | had & little camp in thone days, nine |ties give up the idea of profiteering | cooks und 75 flunkeys. The cook-|\as in war time. When that ! house was two miles long and the|the public will find tt possible flunkeys was on roller skates. Welend the big buyers’ or consumers’ | didn't use any pearl divers, the| strike. Altho slight cuts have been plates were nailed to the table and | made in the retail prices of a few after meal we would get the hose | commodities, the cutting is not ‘and a broom each and scrub them /general enough. Cuts in whole every morning. prices have been deeper than retail I drove the salt and pepper wagon. | prices, I used to get to the end of the table; “It must be remembered that it} every nite and I'd start back the| takes from six months to a year for | next morning; made thrée trips | reduced wholesale quotations to be} every week | reflected in retail prices,” | My bro. Dan had a contract haul- » rua, se nia aca ing away the egg shells from the CHARGED WITH HA vina| tack door of the cook house He| LIQUOR in his possession unlaw:| Kept tour wagons busy all the time, }fully; John BE. Jones, of Redmond, | Cne day the old blue ox ran @woy| was fined $190 and costa by Justice | with the scriper and it mado quite|of the Peace O, W. Brinker Satur- urn to Page 5, Column 2) ‘day, | mills and factories, is directly due to | Stewart, government price expert, | HY CHINESE LOST HERE Wears Trousers to Dodge Man; Woman | Nabbed As Insane An experiment in wearing trousers neparated Celia Rosen, 935 21st ave. S., from $859.18, according, to her story to Divorce Proctor’ C. C. Dalton, who will make an effort to recover the money The money, she said, was deposit ed in @ Brooklyn hospital, where she was committed during a recent visit there, on a charge of insanity, which has since been adjudged to have been & mistake. According to the story, the | woman, while viniting in New York, JAP BOY BADLY HURT AT PLAY became convinced a man was follow ing her, To avoid him she put on trousers. The police picked her up, doubting her soundness of mind. That was in September, 1920. here by Katherin Cahoon, @ spe- cial nurse and guard The hospitdl, she claims, was to return her money when she was re- leased from custody | Presiding Judge J. T. Ronald ad-| Judged her perfectly normal Wednes- \HUNTING HERO Playing football on City Hall park, | S-year-old Tadasl Saturday afternoon into Dilling place and was struck by Brooklyn ave. Drake brought the Japanese the city hospital, wh: to “Pll Help You am ® young man of 1 am looking place to “y good character. for a comfortable live. “I will pay you $250 a year, or more, as rental, if you will offer me the use of your spare room. “You can reach me by run- ning a ‘room for rent’ ad in ‘The Star. (Signed) “ONE OF A THOUSAND.” Note: Telephone your ad to The Star. MAIN 600 jin the case, |charged with receiving stolen prop: sulting from part time operation of/Kuniyuki 415 Yesler way, tan out} tad | IN MAIL THEFT OMAHA, Neb. Nov. 20.—Kelth Collins, 27, former Veutenant in the air service in the great war, and | attempts to keep up prices, Hthelbert | the auto of Ronald R. Drake, 406 |decorated several times for bravery, is being sought by federal officials as the “master mind” in the $3,500, e he W8S)/ 990 Burlington mail robbery in Coun whose | till unconscious Saturday afternoon. | oy [it is possible that the bo \ fractured. Bluffs just Saturday, Collins, ‘s skull 18/who was an Union Pacific fireman, is believed to have .eseaped with a large amount of plunder. Mrs, T. A. Daly, the only woman was arrested last night | lerty. ¢ Only $20,000 of the loot has been | recovered. RUSSIAN GIRLS’ _ CASE REOPENED Deportation hearings for Kva Pring and Anna Lapina, the two Rus- sian girls who were smuggled across from Viadivostok on the liner Cross Keys by two sallora, were reopened at the immigration station Saturday | morning, at the instance of Lioyd | Jacet, of San Francisco, who is seek: | ing to prevent the deportation of Eva Pring, who, it is sald, care to! the United States toumarry him & Held 10 weeks, she was brought) FIND HIS FATHER Complaint was made last night ident Wilson prgbably will be award: | age estimated at $2,000,000 was sus | that Alexius Burns, assigned to rob|ed the Nobel peace prize. tained by the Cuyamel Fruit and | the Denny Way precinct, held up a og Steamship Co. when fine, believed asking them to find a man named! heavy set, dark complexioned pedes-| caused by sparks from an engine, asking the mto find a man named | trian, who apologized for his empty} svrept thru its great shed on the Klqgnschmith, a mining engineer.| pockets, but politely explained that river front here today, | William F, Kramer, Box 483, Fair-| he had been robbed only two blocks | a , banks, Alaska, wrote the letter, He} back. . said that Kleinschmith'’s son Henry | Alexius Burns, after holding up LEVY SOUGHT Baby Girl Scalded died in Puirbanks of the “flu last! four more pedestrians, all of whom to Death In Boiler spring, Young Kleinschmith had/ registered the same complaint, in-|_ That the city of Seattle s@bmit a) ee og Ruth been in the Circle and Fairbanks dis- |+yestigated and found that Mike|Sharter amendment to the people to “aS wihtte walkina Maa tricts since 1902 Mulligan, @ discredited member of|"@move the levy fixed at one mill SA imo Dolkalt ¢ [had ended the day before, POPPI ew” EDITION ‘ash. wader the Act of Congress March #, 1879. IDAY, Per Your, by Mall, #5 to #9 IVEMBER 20, 1 HELPLESS \ VICTIMS © TRAPPED < BY FIRE ‘Pitiful Scenes Enacted as. Tenants Go to Death in Doomed Building | NEW YORK, Nov. 20-—Nine per-* ~ |#ons were killed todey in @ ff 9) STANFORD, BURGLARS CALIFORNIA FILE KICK GAME TODAY) WITH COPS Cardinal Wearers Fear Hus-|Complain Ethics of Game| ky Berkeley Players Will | Not Being Observed; Resi- Take the Honors dence Police Doubled Edith Will Tell | = | - | which swept a tenement house im BY M. D. TRACY | Additional policé protection for Harle ; " being BERKELEY, Cal 20.—A| the central residence districts dur poten. Se va 1 lot of Btantora |: th® night hours Bas been or searched for more bodies. The Gogsed, Cetermined lot of Btanford | aereq by Chiet W. H, Searing, as charred remains of three children rooters and a merry, confident crowd! q result of the crime wave which were among the first carried from) of Californians wandered beneath the | has been sweeping over the city the building. Most of the dead were” unidentified. 5 The tenement house had 100 tem jants. The fire was discovered on | the first floor, It spread so quicke | ly that Harry Sturkars, who § jin the alarm, found escape by the |tront door blocked by a wall of |flame. He climbed out of a ground | floor window. 5, With a roar, the fire swept up # stakway and was soon crack thru the structure from to roof. Terri men, women children in thelr night clothing h screaming from windows |flames coming up behind them, a Thru checking up the of the building, it was later IF you were the village blacksmith | oreq that the victims were in g little country town—_ Ralph Gibbs, his wife, Anna, 1¥ you have ‘a beautiful daughter | neir “os eh{idren, n | Whose sweetness and simplicity you|yrank, 6; Lena, 3, and Jennie, 18 | Prixed above everything in the months; Mrs, Ada Frank and world | Bertha Reynolds and her ; IF her beauty won her an oppor-} Ruth, 16. Bier tunity to become famous on Broad- Many fled down fire escapes but Bit. | Way overnight in a “git! show" Otmara, were Unable. to Gaeeee WOULD YOU let her go? and remained at the windows | WOULD YOU consider her safe inj firemen reached them with for the past week, They are bound- @ by the canal, Lake Washington, the bay and Spokane st, thus em-| bracing Queen Anne hill, Capitot hill, | Denny Blaine and the dowfftown av. | | enue / Other districts are covered by pre rinet stations i More than 30 men will be asnlgned | protect Seattle homes between the hours of 4 o'clock and midnight, oaks of the Berkeley campus today, | awaiting the opening of California | Meld for the game which wilt decide the Coast conference football cham, | plonahip. Never in the hintory of the Berke ley college had it gone into a game so supremely confident that it would be a Blue and Gold victory and a Blue and Gold serpentine that would mark the last moments of daylight And never in the history of Stan ford did ber nopea of winning look quite no dark, Yet the famed Stan- ford fighting spirit way wera STANFORD ROOTEKS WARY OF THE BEAR The. wearers of jong cardinal streamers strolied around the campus this morning with faces set and act much aa if they expected the Cal- ‘fornia bear to leap at them from be. bind any oak tree, and they were feady for him. regular night patrol and practically Reports from training quarters |@oubles the number of’ policemen on abd the field were not discouraging |GUty Im the central residence dis to elther side. Probably the most din | tricte at night cussion was caused by the sudden| Youths found wangering about the announcement of Andy Smith, Call-/#treets at night will be given par fornia’s tread coach, that he would| ticular attention, it was announced Good Night, Thieves, Now. This force iw in addition to the \ fend Barnes into game at left tackle |4t headquarters. It is believed that/the feverish, free-and-casy atmos: | jadders. * imetead of Dean. The reason for Young burglars are guilty of many jDhere backstage in ad New York soyp FROM WINDOWS change was a mystery, Indications |of the recent crimes hore. frolic? TO SIDEWALKS Edith May went! Her father and mother, faced with | | Just that situation when the girl won the National Salesgiris’ Beauty con- test, said: “Yer They had faith in the training she had received from childhood. also were that Toney would appear | ditional prowler \cars will also lat right tackle for California instead | be placed on the streets at night of McMillan, whose lanre foot still} The sweeping “crime wave pro- was giving him trouble. | tection” order was issued Friday ‘The field was rapidly rounding into | Msht. following & star chamber ces- shape during the morning. The | sion between Chief Searing, the in- coaches thought the lineup would be: /#Pector and the captains. Others jumped from the second tory windows to the ;many sustaining slight injuries, The great crowd watching |when two figures at one ps silhouetted against the red glare Of jthe fire behind them, suddenly vam” s Because of the increased number| What hapfened? Californi Poaith A ford. " he: ew ee “Peloure/Of complaints, furloughs for mem-| Edith's own story, “My Adventures | shed “han ood Tame patted Ot Barnes Lt McAlpine | bers of the foree for Sunday have|in the Midnight Frolic,” will appear | "2 © w Lo Cravens been cancelled by Chief Searing. | exclusively in The Star— | Firemen reported that other wit: < Righter Ba » tims appeared to have been trapped Majors KG. Lavy | sinning Monday. in their beds. Several Toney er Pershing Watch for it forms were found huddied at . ‘aller eh oR ES Srp a ' room doors where they had fallen | mproti iii vans, Wileox as they were groping their way Chief Kenlon believes the fire may |have started in the wicker baby jearriages in the lower hall, There were five of them at the point where the flames were first noticed, victed of first degree forgery, was cg apy dab Ren E sth BODIES OF 15 nliman Saturday. OKeete [RECOVERED IN Boyd J. Tallman Saturday, O'Keefe s F. Officiais—Referes, Cave} umpire, Clark; head lneaman, Korbel, fleld judge, at- teraby. |HARVARD KICKS |FIELD GOAL IN |GAME WITH YALE 2 TO 20 YEARS Maurice O'Keefe, 24, recently con- Thieves Musn’t Loaf! ‘Thieves caught loafing on the job, | failing to attend strictly to the bust- YALE BOWL, N y HAVEN, | dese of thieving, will be tapped on! waa accused of representing himself | We: |Conn., Nov, 20.—Harvard kicked a| the trilbies and told to get busy, as James McAteer, of the Meatecr |LAKE TRAGEDY field ‘goal shortly after the tirst| Police aregietermined positively to| Shipbuilding Co., and passing a bo-| BANGOR, Me., Nov. 20.— } | tolerate no sleepers, ‘Thieves either | gus check on a downtown store, At | must work @ full shift or get off| the time of the offense he was an es the beat and let conscientious and | caped prisoner. hard-working thieves have a clear| — field. | Numerous complaints have been | | registered at headquarters of the} burglars’ union that the ethics of the game are not being observed by certain unscrupulous members The city is supposed to be divided into precincts, it was explained today by the secretary of the union, & | burglar being assigned to cover each | preeinet. skirmish of the YaleHarvard game |here this afternoon, The score was 3 to O at this stage of the game, THE SCORE | First quarter, Harvard 3, Yale 0. |Second quarter, Harvard 3, Yale 0. \Third quarter, Harvard 6, Yale 0. |have recovered 15 bodies Chesuncook lake, where a party | woodsmen leaped into the water yes terday, after their boat had caught fire. The men were employed by the Great Northern Paper Co. Bach. firing of the motor ignited the gaso- line tank of the boat. ONE DEAD AND IMANY HURT IN 'DETROIT FIRE DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 20—One man is dead and several injured as the result of a fire which swept the TWO MEXICANS ARE SENTENCED Sentences of fromgtwo to fifteen | years each at fe state reformatory | were imposed by Judge Mitchell Gil- Mam Saturday,.on Ramon Fernan- dez and Robert Sanchez, Mexicans, charged with stealing clothing from a downtown store, FREIGHT RATE CONFERENCE ON With representatives present from jevery steamship line oerating in the transpacific trade, the Pacific | saber ister ea Savoy hotel here today, ‘ | Westbound conference was in ses- | The hotel was occupied chiefly by sion here today discussing plans | sailors and dock workers, 7 for stabilizing freight rates in west PEACE PRIZE ae ern waters, $2,000,000 IS LOSS IN FLAMES AT NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 20.—Dame BOY DIES; CAN'T | FOR WILSON? STOCKHOLM 20.—News- papers here declared today that Pres: Poachers to Get Theirs wards, tumbled into a boiler full of Kramer said he met the elder! the union, who has been behind with | £0" Park purposes, was the substance ater win + Kleinsehmith, Mrs. Kleinschmith | his dues for a month, and wAo has|°f, ® etititon prepared by Corpior-| hot water which ba oer oe and a daughter here 26 years ago. | heen involved in several uhady trans-| tion Counsel Walter I. Mejor Sal | fie Neon Ml only a few hours : — actions, was working the Burns’ beat |UFday At the request of the Pax pase paint: ‘OOK FARES; WAS and picking off the cream of the| "me contemplated legislation would He®’s PROSPEROUS NO CONDUCTOR Police. today, after receiving «| Place the park levy in the same cate- | BOOTLEGGER gory as the library assessment, the city council fixing the maximum levy in either case. HAROLD B, WRIGHT, ELEC- TRICIAN at Bremerton navy yard, was acquitted of theft at a hearing held Friday before U, 8, Commis- sioner R, C, McClelland, . Petit larceny was charged against complaint from the burglars’ union, John Motto in a complaint filed by | said that burglars caught poaching the pro utor Saturday reciting) on other burglars’ reserves would that Motto obtained money from one| be arrested without warning and J. Cohen by representing himself to| would get theirs in police court. be a street car conductor when his} J. Jelleff was arrested at Second connection with the street rallways | Ave. and Washington st. last night (Turn to Page 5, Column 2) \ In the counter charges being hurled at each other by Katherine M. and Chas, M. Peterson in their contested divorce suit before acting? Superior Judge C, C. Dalton, Mrs, Peterson testified that her husband earned $29,000 this year as @ boot. [leseer,