The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 24, 1920, Page 1

Tonight an casiona easte Maxtmum, » *~ 6 Weather Temperature Last '4 Hours Today noon, 48 d Thursday: oc- 1 rain; fres rly winds. 1. Minimum, 4 On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Clase Matter May 8, 1899, VOLUME 23 ATTLI Postotfios at Meattie, Wash. undegehe Aet of Congress March 8, 1 Per Yoar, by Mall, $5 ti The Seattle Star RUTHER ChiLoReN From FINE: TH EW LATE EDITION WASH., WEDNE DAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1920. s The Downcutter. Salt in the Ocean. Drowning of a Dog. Chipmunks as Tiger It is only natural that the mists ¢ legend should obscure the epic figure Of Paul Bunyan, king he tall tim Der, The Star has printed without question the stories it has received 2 The daily agcumulation of Bunyan Letters now ipcludes many from those WAo knew the great man im person who worked with him and are irri fated dy unretiadle reports, Today The Star is adie to print significant figures and other data gathered of first hand, Certain incidents in the life Paul have deen many times repeated 4m the ietters. When the stories are ut, it is to avoid repetition EVEN SANTA CLAUS FIGURES IN PAUL BUNYAN LEGEND Editor The Star: I have seen some big ones about Paul Bunyan in your paper that are not so, but you wish to know some facta about Paul, if I Understand it right, When his blue Ox Was full grown, he waa seven ax handles between the eyes and 42 ax handies between the tips of the horns, and his tracks in the soft dirt Were so dgep and big that if a fellow felr into one of them, some one had to bring him a long step-ladder to get him out. Paul bad Big Ole make him a bie Mowing machine. They called it the Gown-cutter. He would hitch the of ‘ground ¢ight townships of timber and cut @ qwath 500 feet wide. ‘The smaiiest man in Paul's crew shed $00 pounds, They called the (waa logging at the North Santa Claus was bringing 0. A. JOHNSON, Onalaska, Wash. ‘to pull the aia road, Hp cast a shoe at the time and it was thrown a mile and gether, with his notes written from remy. Hoping that nothing but the truth Star in the future regarding Pau! @tate further that he never owned & fullgrown dog. His dog drowned when a pippy, in Lake Superior, ing thfu four feet of ice. Yours for the truth, ROONEY McNABB. RE KNEW PAUL BUNYAN BACK IN MICHIGAN itor The Star: I knew Paul logging for Write He had 100 men in bis ¢amp. Ninety-nine of them from Peterborough, Canada, They ere seven feet across the shoulders. fix feet acrosa the hips and 11 feet fall. The other one was the chore boy, of medium size, who weighed 200 pounds. He had a toughs time. Because the Canadians ed catch with him in the evening. Those men ‘sed 22-pound, double-bitted axes with 12 to 14 feet of rope, so they gould chop both ways, Th tripped all the foots and sent the whole trees fn, Prune pits from the cook shanty were baled and taken to the woods where chipmunks ate them until they were so big people shot them s. A barrel eat on the table of four-foot wood for tooth If any one doubts this ean find out the truth by going to Roscommon county, ne Higgins fake, where Paul had a camp. HM ag a well 168 feet and six inches deep. They pulled the curb up when he left, and the last time I was there the sand had blown away and left the hole sticking up in the air 60 gan, when be & Ketchum. for full he . feet. A MAN FROM BIG LAKE, WASH : German Planes to. 4 " New York Halted BERLIN 24.—The gir mission has halted a shipment of German all-metal planes to the Lar- gen Co. in New York The mission demanded that 11 ma hines of the shipment be given to ie allies, The manufacturers de- © Mared this violated assurances pre “Yiously given that there would be} no interference with the transaction} Mince the planes were not for mili-} farv uses. entente Kit, The last I heard of) crooks out of 18 miles of | will appear in the columns of The! Bunyan and hi« Btue Ox, I wish to) were | SLAYER IS | CAUGHT ON WAY HERE Kills Everett Officer Almost Instantly When | Accosted EVERETT, Nov. 34- Following a revolver duel on the street here last night, Charles Harris, Tl, was being held today in the Snohemish county Jail acoused of the murder of Police | Detective J, H. Fox. He is said to Blue ‘ox to the machine and £9) have confessed to Sheriff John Mo-! | Caltoch, Fox wns shot to death by & foot | pad, identified as Harria, who had bel holding up pedestrians at 35th st. and Broadway. Sent to the scene of the holtups, accompanied by Detective H. Miller, whose shooting arm was in a sling, Fox accosted a suspect, intend. ing to question him. Immediately the suspect opened gun, Six shots were fired in quick ME TO HOSPITALY “He's got me; take me to the how pital, quick?” The sinyer fied as Fox was breath- ing his Inst. he had fired only one cartridge, | cordon of deputies south of city, in which direction the mur/ derer had disappeared, and Harris) walked into the trap. He was armed with a Cota revolver when Deputies | N. 8 Berridge and James Myrick stopped him on the interurban tracks | south of town, } On reaching they sent for Detective Miller and| | the latter positively identified Har-| ria as the slayer of Fox. The prisoner was Closeted with Sheriff | McCulloch for some time. When the conference ended the sheriff an-| nounced that Harris had “come) | clean.” |MAY HAVE POLICE RECORD IN SEATTLE | | Others who will be asked If they| can identify Harris as the man who held them up just before the shoot- ing last night are: G. F. Abmert,| 3609 Lombard ave. and J. G. Folks, | 3405 Broadway. A young woman stenographer, whose name has not been disclosed, | ‘was at the scene of the shooting. Harris has a long police record,| according to Seattle police. He is be- | lieved to have been arrested In Seat- |tle in 1918 and sent to Walla Walla Roscommon county, Mich- | f0F One to 15 years for grand larceny. | eyes, his coat collar turned up, fing. Bunyen in n } jering a dollar and looking nervously \Suit Transferred | | to Federal Court! | Suit brought by Eddie Gorman, | Seattle botlerworker, against the| Western Union Tele ph Co, for in-| | Juries alleged to have been sustained |when hit by one of the telegraph company cars, was transferred from superior to federal court Wed. neaday. Gorman claims to have suffered a stnashed leg and other injuries due| to the alleged carelewmess of the! company's driver. He asks $5,000 | damages and $1,192 costs |Nearly Half of “U” |. Students Freshmen | Of 5,191 students enrolled in the university, 2,083 are in their fresh- man year, according to Secretary “KIDNAPED CHILD” | IS FOUND HAPPILY || BLOWING BUBBLES || | Hist! Kidnapers, maybet | So Matt Starwich, deputy sher- || | ent forth Tuesda with R. F, Lindh, 141 N. 76th wt to help find the latter’s 2-year-old baby, which had disappeared dur. || ing the morning. | They found the child making |} bubbies in Green lake and wading || happily in the mud, none the || worse for having missed its || morning nap and a good meal | A neighbor reported seeing the tot strike out from home with arming independence hours be- fore the disappearance was noted, afternoon | | fire on Fox, as the latter drew hin! Fox's revolver showed). Sheriff MeCulloch threw out @ tne and effi the sheriffs oftice| | 21, shot by Motorcycle Patrolman @,| | well, Milton apartm WIDE VARIATION IN PRICE OF TURKEYS UP AND DOWN COAST Wide variation in the price of turkeys was by reports from Pacific coast cities today In Seattle, the prices ranged from 65 to 67 cents. In Los Ap colon the Thanksgiving birds were retailing for 67 cents. San Francisco had the highest price. Turkeys were selling at {5 cente a pound, with very few avaliable under 70 cents. In Portiand it took only 60 cents to persuade the turkey own: r to part with a pound. shown CONSOLIDATION | | CHICAGO, Nov. 24.—"Mike members of the largest booze ring | — jopernting in the country, were in | dicted by the federal jury bere today on charges of conspiracy to violate the prohibition lawa, Among thone indicted were str Chi: the consolidation of | *#? Police sergeants, ©. TL. Walthen, an official of the Granddad Distiliery Co, of | Loulavilie, and W. D. Knebelkomp, owner of the Loulevtile American As ‘The bill, which wan prepared at the | sociation baseball club, also were eo cused in the indictments. Practical |tlons, will be presented to the state | iy al of the others charged with eon- 1 vow-dropped, wih) the ery: 5 “HE'S GOT ME; TAKE ‘City-County Merger to Go to Legislature | Completion of the tentative Dim providing or | city and county governments was an |nounced Wednesday by Corporation | oO Counsel Walter Ef. Meter and Vivian | Carkeek, who have been working on |the measure for several montha. request of prominent ctyic organiza Jan fon wnt be mubmitted to & Vote of the people | to jan amendment of Article XI of the| | present state constitution, | the proposed merger of city apd | county tency. | closing eight tions of the city. THREE DEAD IN | STC ‘Three ITON, Wis, Nov. raona were killed and two explosion of a boiler at the Stough- ton Marketing company plant today. ‘The blast occurred while the botler | was being tested. The entire boiler was blown thru the wall of the creamery plant 100 yards away, HE SELLS DOPE TO AN OFFICER Patrolman P. EB. Knapp, in plain clothes, stood at Third ave. 8 and Washington st. Tuesday afternoon with his cap pulled down over his about. | Charile Chinn, 34, a Citraman, stepped up to Knapp, looked greedily at the dollar and said. “Just a minute; I'l get some. When Chin returned with a pack age of “dope” he was arrested by | Knapp and Lieut. G. V. Hasselblad He is charged with possessing nar cities. AUTO UPSETS; Volstead law. EP! univernity, Wednem Caught underneath their over. turned auto at Dexter ave, and Roy st, at 8 a. m, Wednesday, Robert Becker, 8405 Greenwood ave. and John Laindquist, 88 Eighth ave. N. w ved with bruises and slight Their auto collided with that Miller, 4157 47th ave. 8. W. IDENTIFY AUTO IN SHOOTING used by Elwood Cox, | mer children was former c | recovery. The ot Prince and ‘The auto | AN V. Harvey at First ave, 8, and Hor- ton st. the night of November 4, has been identified by Detective W. EH Worsham as stolen from Guy Bos- ents, October 29. The engine number has been dis- figuréd, but Wiresham identified it by the numbers on the tire | poses, C ot cape after being arrested by Harvey | someone following & gas station holdup. Cox fw still in clty hospital, | who running loose, | another brother, | named in an indictment returned late yenterday by the federal grand jury investigating bootlegging activities, it became known today | |ineue of the U were garbed in full dress, sults for their day's labor. empresa’ and specialists held former When the East co a pair of elks for advertising pur- A. Taylor, of 4 Clinton:ave., | Albany, N. Y., decided to go to the frontier of America his georgraphy designating Seattle as the spot, he writes to the Chamber Commerce, Cox ‘was shot when he tried to es-|to put him in communication with BOOZE QU of BE. Daily Daily the former Friedrich Eitel Albert arrived today TED—PAIR OF 4-LEGGED ELK ld not produce asking CHICAGO IS LAUN - BIG DRIVE | six Police Sergeants Includ- | ed in List of Men,Named in Whisky Probe at the pext general election in No- | from Waltham warehous. at Hi ‘The bili will require) Ky, to Chicago, via Peoria, I, eral agents claim. Continuing thelr warfare on the f- Tho primary objects to be gained | jegai booze business in the city, fed- eral authorities today obtained in- vernments are economy | junctions from Federal Judge Landis Chicago's Copies of the bill have been mub-| cabarets. The places must remain mitted to most of the large organiza | closed for a year under the Volstead Act, unless it can be shown they were Rot weed for the liquor business Suits asking closing of 72 other places also wore filed. William Gorman, a nephew of the | president of the Chicago @ Rock Is land railway, was indicted, it waa | learned. . . PROHIBI MAN others probably fatally injured in the [§ ACCUSED IN S. F. BOOZE CASE | LOS ANGELES, Nov Groves, secretary of the California | | democratic state central committee; | | Ralph Groves, his brother, a former | | prohibition enforcement officer, and| Cc to All are charged | States district court In response to! bench warrants for their arrest. Another man high in state political | circles in reported named with them. with having conspired to violate the PAPER IN DRESS SUITS Pledges to Sigma Delta Chi, hon orary journalism fraternity at the published The make-up of after the Chicago Herald Examiner. TWO UNDER IT) Former Ke : Now Nearing Death AMSTERDAM, Nov. 24- Kaiserin Augustine Victoria's gatbered Doorn today in what they feared | their last visit fever little hope for erin Is around Princess Loulse and her husband, Brunswick, for them, knows De largest 4.—F. Ray Groves, were: vindow to sav: } : | Mrs. Anna B. Johnson, who tossed her three children out a them from fire. Below are (left) Elmer, aged ‘The three brothers, accused of vio-| five, and Jackie, the baby, two months. At the right ts Ar- lating the Volatead act, were prepar-| thur, aged 8. Photos of the children by Carter of Cress-Dale. ing to appear today in the nited | ~ have been In keeping with his duties as dt vores proctor to maintain peace be- |tween warring spouses, Charles C. Dalton, acting as superior Judge in the case of Katherine M, Peterson against Charles M. Peterson, an- nounced Wednesday that the divorce Wednesday's The neophites was modeled would be granted to both parties. urthermore,” said Col, Dalton, speaking from the bench, “I have ‘The for- wiked up my rulings on objections made by attorneys to the submission her at to her. The was high Victoria the duke Crown and OONSHINE AT $50 A GALLON Joe ’Garnett changed a former plea of not guilty of liquor transpor- tation charges to guilty, when he appeared in federal court Wednes- day, and was fined $250 by Federal Judge Neterer, Five gallons of moon- shine jn an auto was the evidence against Joe. Bandits Escape With $75,000 in Booze CHICAGO, Nov. 24.—Bandits es- caped with $75,000 worth of liquor where there | when they robbed the Harders’ ware- and that body i a couple of elks, four-legged ones, | house here early today, The watch: man was bound, Man Whose Job Is Averting Divorce Divorces Couple of evidence during the case and I find that each side has been sustain. ed an equal number of times.” By a “gentiemen's agreement” dur. ing the progress of the case, alleged lluerative bootlegging activities of |the husband were referred to as “business operations,” | Pending the colonel’s decision on | the distribution of the property he granted Mrs, Peterson $200 out of her husband's earnings from “busi ness operations.” | In order that as many of our employes as possible may enjoy the holiday tomorrow, only three editions of The Star will be issued—the First, Fifth and Final. “PATIY. IS ON WAY ACROSS NEW YORK, Nov. 24.--When the steamer Aquitania sailed from here, it was noticed she had a decided list to starboard. This was ex plained when it was learned that for Burope. OUGLAS FLIRTED ONCE TOO OFTEN NEW YORK, Nov. 24,—Douglas Cruickshank flirted with a middle- aged woman on an “L" train. Later he discovered she was the wife he deserted 14 years ago. Now he is paying $10 a week back all- mony to hor and their daughter, A” “Fatty” Arbuckle was a passenger | PLUCKY WO CHEATS OF THEIR PREY” Thru Scorching Heat and Snatches Tots From Blazing Beds; Throws Them Out Window | Plunges BY HAL ARMSTRONG | Without the slightest premonition that she would be called upon to risk | her life tn blinding, choking smoke | and flames four hours later to save | her three little ones from being burn. [ed to death, Mrs. Anna B. Johnson, STABS VAUGHN, CUBS’ PITCHER Chicago Player Wounded by Father-in-Law KENOSHA, Wis., Nov. 24.—James (Hippo) Vaughn, star pitcher of the Chicago Cubs baseball team, was in the clty hospital here today suffer- ing from wounds received when his father-in-law, Harry De Bold, is al- leged to have stabbed him during an argument at the Vaughn home. The stabbing followed settlement of the divorce proceedings of the Vaughns, which was echeduled for hearing yesterday. De Bold is said to have become angered over charges made by Vaughn against his wife. Vaughn and his wife arranged a reconciliation before the case came up for hearing. Vaughn was cut about three inches deep in the ab- | domen. Altho the Vaughns had been recon- ciled and decided to live together, Mrs. Vaughn and their nine-year old son were in Chicago at the time of the quarrel. Because of the publicity given their domestic troubles in Kenosha, they planned to move to Chicago and Mrs, Vaughn was making ar rangements fer the family, Vaughn called constantly for his wife and boy and Mrs. Vaughn was requested today to hurry to her hus band's bedside, ASTORIA.—Gus Bufinigh, 35, of Brookfield, Ore., killed by accidental discharge of gun in hands of Charles Salsberg, Call Main 600 When you have something which has outlived its useful- ness to you. A small want ad will very the party who likely reach can use it, and you will have the price of something you desire, Try It Today ‘TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE MAN FLAMES a& plucky little dressmaker living at 328 Vine st, went to bed at I1 o'clock last night utterly exhausted from a day and half a night of fatiguing toil. “ At 3 o'clock this morning she awakened by the screams of eldest, Syearold son, in the room | adjoining hers. She went thru ordeal that followed in total |gard of her own yeril, rescuing ‘ail three children by heroic effort, sit gle-handed, and was herself from the burning home by a bor woman after she had inside a smoke-filled room. § Last night's episode was the max of a lgng series of m that have filled Mra. Johnson's with and disappointment, “I AM VERY FORTUNATE,” SHE MOANS “But I ama very fortunate meager living, when a seconf came into her life. She him. He abandoned her, going to | couver, B. C., and two months the third little son was born, another burden. Johnson has ten to her twice, she says. while she has resumed her work dressmaking. YESTERDAY WAS HARD |DAY FOR HER Yesterday was ‘h hard day for Mra, Johnson. She had her usual work © to do, and, besides, found it neces: sary to spend most of the n downtown. Returning home, she her children’s supper and p to put in the evening at sewing. also had a washing to do, Several neighbor women came call on her after supper. They re mained until about 9 o'clock. With & smile and a cheerful “good : she closed the door when they de parted, and turned again to work. Arthur, her 8-yearold, and 5, she put to bed on a davenport the living room of her small : ment. Babie Jackie was restless needed attention, but witen 11 came she had finished her and hung it on a line across from the stove to the | wall over the davenport. Then [retired to her own room off living room, closed the door went to bed with. Jackie sm beside her. “When I woke up,” she explained, “I heard Arthur screaming, ‘Mother, » mother, I am choking to death! My own room was full of smoke, There: was no electric light bulb in the socket. I was in the dark and couldn't see, : HEAT SO STRONG HER EYEBALLS BURN “My first. thought waste Arthur and Elmer out of there, opened the door, More smoke ed into my room. It was so and thick it almost knocked down. The clothes on the line i caught fire and the davenport = smoking. ¥ “I couldn't keep my eyes open in there; it was so hot and the smoke burnt my eyeballs so. I felt my way over to the davenport and first I got hold of Arthur. I carried him into my room and opened the dow. Then I tossed him out, It was — only a few feet to the ground. “Elmer was crying and I ran after him. I couldn't have left him in there to burn to death—not if T had died. Just as I took him out the mattress caught fire on the” jdavenport. It was burning all around him. * * * Oh, my shoulder hurts so! I don’t mind the burn on my arm, but my shoulder pains me | terrible, ¢ * © Then I threw Elmer out the same window I had put Arthur thru. “I picked up baby. He was in my | bea and was crying, too. I couldn't | see, I had to throw him out just like the older boys. I was trying to climb out thru the window my» self. A woman grabbed me. She pulled me thru and we both fell, she on top of me. That’ 1 I'm glad I had the strength. * * * Brave? Do yo uthink so? * * * And, just think, none of them were burned? (Turn to Page §, Column 1) ns 2 9