The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 23, 1920, Page 1

~~, EM Weather i Tonight 1 Friday, rain, Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximam, 47, Minimum, 42, Today neon, 47 On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise, The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 99 25 and moderate easterly winds, VOL U ME 2 A Defense of Luck. The Knife-Edge. A Split Head. Rolling-Mill Perils. BY HAL ARMSTRONG Jatt DOORS “There is no such thing as luck.” - phe A Treatise n Certain- ve ae Was necessary to have 4 * thin strip of metal to finish the job Strip as thin, almost, us the blade NEWLYWE & juckky William McClellan sted the great shears. A sheet iron was hoisted into place and d into the shearer, McClellan's Bensitive fingers were thrust into the machine close to the keen cut ting knives. They felt the edge of She Married; Won't Go the strip as it came thru shorn. He Modded his satisfaction; it was thin Back to Parents enough. . “Jim?” he shouted to an assistant.) Cnaries T. Kelsey, “Come, take the shears.” dim came and thrust his fingers to the place where McClellan's had | few days, w stmas in spend his © his bride jail while patiently waits but a moment before, felt the for him on the outside, unless the of the strip as McClellan had/authorities of Salem, Ore, rouse wad | themselves from their lethargy ‘There was a piercing shriek. Jim's | Kelsey was had been shorn off cleau. the nails. [by Detectives J. D, Landis and J. McClellan is 72 years old. He lives! Byrnes in an apartment at First ave, 224 Beach Drive, and is building Bhop of his own near the West/ and Ce ww tle ferry landing. aeraning, bevels jar st. le his bride was at hot. cakes. ‘8 He has ham-| p hot. qlee. oom Mered steel and iron for 60 years, | Police had asked his arrest, We worked for Jim Hill in St. Paul When Jim had only two engines, He! Made a two-ton anchor at the Vulcan} Tron Works, where he was foreman; | aa they der age. the Digest anchor ever turned out | Salem that the couple were married & Seattle foundry. and asked if Kelsey should be re here ain't anything in luck?” he /|ledxed. In reply Salem police said “Hold,” so Kelsey in being Held. and well I know it. ted, incredulousty. “Indeed ae ‘It ts bis favorite story, the defense luck. His bride visited him at the eity jJail Thureday, and is doing her beat to guin his release, byt police here DING ROLLED IRON say the only thing they can do is te WITH TONGS hold him in accordance with the re “We were roiling out some heavy | quest of Salem officials. . 1 mind, time,” said Mo| ‘The girt said the marriage was sat- lian. “The rollers were uneven, | isfactory to her. She will be 18 ina as the metal came thru, instead | few months. laying down im a fat sheet, it] She thinks her mother js responsi- d up, as it serpetimes does. 1) ‘ holding it dowG with the tongs. are married she says she see# no rea PM “It was fattening out all right,|#0n why her husband should be held When another man came along and !n jail. hold of the tongs. All of a sud-| “Maybe they think they will get gen the sheet sprung. It jerked him me to go back to Salem,” she said p 12 feet in the alrand b © both | Thursday. “Well, maybe they will, ag bie wrists |but-I°l never return to my folks Li“You see them things frequent | I'm married to Charley for good, | ound a rolling mill. I mind an- r time I was standing beside the working @ square nail plate. | been there all day. At quitting | another workman relleved me. | Me had just stepped inta my place| When a pile struck him, jammed him} inst the furnace and burnt off oth legs. “Did you ever see them saw ship's Inees in @ rolling mill? No? We day the saw cracked. .A fo was trying to get it out, and I! standing beside him, looking on FOR CHRISTMAS Boy Returns to Mother From Four Years Abroad After an absence of four years during which he hax survived the thickest of fighting in the world war and served In the army of occupation in Germany, Arthur C. A. Langdon was having a hard time of It, so — ad sald: “Here, Jerry, stand over here and| Jet me fix the saw.’ anchor, if it wasn't for luck. Fel} How stepped on something and the Beam 1 was standing on sprung up Hosts of friends are preparing to make Christmas a real festival for the returned soldier. Arthur left Se nd threw me 20 feet into the air. 1| atte with the Sunset Division and| Was coming down right onto 4 bi«| was among the first of Seattle boys ebunk of steel. It had been laying there three days. It would have broke every bone jn my body and flattened me out like a hot cake, but Just then a block and tackle they had Ega Bitehed onto it snaked it out from weunder me and I landed on the plank EZufloor, safe and sound, | $300 Is Loss at Keyport Postoffice Approximately $200 in stamps and postal funds and $600 worth of mer. . owe a lot of things to Inck, but naar peg cpt 0 oon = " 0 postoffice and gene ore at Ke Lighest e © to bel ] - Righest' I ever ‘com being | port, Wash., by thieves who entered 4 was when I wae serving my p 4 the plaée during Tues nig .j 7 inticeship in Glasgow, Scotjand, , . 1 wax a boy. I worked for Postotfice Inspector H. EB. Whitne oa + wees ae a wind des bond urne® from Keyport Thursday five “en a os ht with a detailed report of the top boots and one, suit of home No arrests have been made apun every year. I was almost kill ed, them days, from starving to ot — j USH AND MILK in, your | own cottage has a lobster 1] banquet at Sherry's faded to This is what furnishes perennial honey to the plain- eat fare. Saving from the in come to pay for a*home! This ls what keeps life fresh and the future rosy ment! - 1S CONTINUED } Hearing on the complaint against , the Clasu A theatre for alleged viola on of the theatre censpr law In ex A home in prospect is worth ibiting “The Tong Man” was con- tinued in police court Wednesday, 100 rent receipts in retrospect after tM@timony of the city’s wit On Classified page today Dewes been heard, T theatre o tl fs charged with showing parts of a ph od u fon aay. hose i © picture banned by the city theatre|| *#® 0” y be @ensors. ers on emaltier incomes than Goon Di Chinese consul, fur. yours are paying for similar homes. ned the excitement of the hearing M4 bitter denouncement of the film, a): aera which purports to show alleged Chi 4A Sask tse Wik 906. Gan natown life among the lower clasy of pale nies roe BS be Neg oy ee cee ne the oe ome of the Realtors adver called Chinamen in the picture were tised there and tell them what you want really Japan and that th ole affair was a slander on the C y race. f, Girl-Bride Says She’s Glad: bridegroom of a! arrested Wednesday | claimed he had eloped with a girl un- | ‘The detective department notified | ble for the arrest, but now that they! will greet his mother, Mra, C. Lang don, 1102 Fifth ave., Thursday*nigh “He come o ’ ont 3 ES ctanting sod yd P24 spend the rest of his Christmas eg — ewanone ax o ha. Htood, when 18 inches of the saw) "*70ns M* ee cried ee ke off and flew straight for bis) eee ee tal train at #45 It split his head wide open | -, dasa we séubve bith:an sen ae ioe “eo yo — sire (Aepot will be his brother, Leonard J Benen F Badan ot Langton, who ser with Arthur Bot. “Aliyaithing in iuck. eh? |one year in Mexico before the world pd ts , dead cr! war began. Leonard also served in tain, when we were making the two-| pene 7 - _. [-) oO. = ‘om "~U > =< Jay 1899, at the Postoffic SE ATTL hk, “WASH at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 AMION GIRL COLLAPSES On Way Home for Murder Trial LATE EDITION cease < HURSDAY, DE c EMBE R 23, 1920. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE he’s “Pavlowa of the West” eattle Girl Is Star on Tour | | { | 88 Dorothy May Vi olke DOPE BILL UP | TO LAWMAKERS : |White Cross Urges Passage of State Measure Fighting for approval of a newly drafted law designed to strike a blow Jat the trade in narcotics in the state of Washington, representatives of the American White Croas, recently | organized to kill the dope traffic in th United States, appeared befc |the legislators of this state at me New Washington hotel Thursday | morning. | The meeting was ed for the leg islators to give an oy tunity to all persons. to present measures legislation. The White Cross, if it is successful in the it presented, will have achieved its first purpe It will have obtained the consent of the law makers of the state in making the s of arcotics a felon use of narcotics a m emeanor. In the bill prov is made for| the establishment of hospitals in which addicts may be treated under the immediate direction of the ata board of health and the ultimate jurisdiction of the state commissién er of health As an emergency mi por tions of the variou under the proposed law, to be made avail able for the treatment of vietims of | the drug evil. Dog Eats Rabbits; Master Fined 5 In Justice of Peace J. W Hoar'g court Wedr im aft Namma obtained a ment for $5 against Frank Berry which ate 10 of Namma sued for or of a dog ‘6 rabbits, | chestra, y, Seattle dancér, featured of Portland, NOAA WN AZ with starts January | 10 on a tour whieh will embrace half of the cont be with it as the unization inent, Seattle feature of the or girl will ty She ia Mins Dorothy May Volkey, hatled Went.” with the orchestra, the conduct The “The or. organization, Paviowa of the She will be a solo dancer and assistant to which is posed entirely of western womep, will travel south to the Mexican bor. der and east as far’as Minnpapolis. | Mme, Phanges Knight is conductor | of the orchestra. } Dainty Misa Vol « the daugh-| Charles Heverlain and Joo Grill, mi-| ter of Theodore Volkey, 1044 Summit | ners, each nk Buksey, 68, and ave. N Volkey a family of | Frank Nivon 45, both timber work three daughte them devotees | ¢T8. Bussey leaves a widow, one son of ‘Terpsich sides Dorothy | and four or five daughters. Hever May, there are Ursule and Lucille, | lain leaves a widow and, two sons. Lucile, “the baby sister,” while too] The cave-in occurred at pillar No. young to appear in public dance ex. | 3% of the 11h south gangway in the hibitions, haw already clearly indi-| southeast corner of the mine, cated where her talents } — Dorothy May has studied her Bandit Tcsas Hi chosen art for years in Seattle with and the gprs masters 3 MURDERERS FROM NORTH | Two Mexicans and a Canadian, convicted of murder, were brought to Seattle Wednesday from Ketchi kan by J, M. ‘Tanner, United States marshal, J. Shanahan, the 4 shot and killed Steve > sistant 1 district at ltornpy at Ketchikan in Oet., 1919 He ig being taken to the Mornin, ide f ital for the insane at Port land, O: The two Mexicans are on their way to MeNeil’s island for the kill ling of J, M. Browning and two Chinamen, con | N SS SS ON fa ie eS S Photo by Pinney. western women's orchestr | When the Columbia Symphony or FIND B BODIES } Blaok Diamond | the Black Diamond early today found the de bodies of the trapped Wednesday in on the 11th level, noon by & ca KELSO, Wash., Dec bandit daringly robbed Ke here last night and then, lost his nerve, stopped the train a | fled into the woods. Starting from the observation pl form, the robber fired a shot his revolver to intimidate passenge land then relieved two men of § 23.—A two pass | Trapped by Cave-in at After toiling all of Wednesday aft- ernoon and night @ rescue crew in Diamona mine at Blact four miners who were ve- The victims of the cave-tn were: | precedent Nerve; Flees Train «on a Great Northern train near apparently nd jat~ with |ment and killed himself by 4 at for he pull-|troubles are said to have been the | The bandit's courage failext him | that juncture, evidently, led th nergency cord, stopping the| Kissers and Huggers at Dances to Be Barred WARREN The dancers. w) pro priety w , Oblo, Dee » beyond the ., under “J. D. some UNWERSAL REDUCTION PROPOSED | Thomson Would Lower All Salaries to Ease Finan- cial Strain Mc of | dances are || j scenes at public merely improper, ingly immoral. He information that you not but shock says he has g men open. id couple spot for sever ting their whol un enthusiastic ly Kine their partner ain at one minutes, dev tention to * bug.” MRS,STAGG SEES, vm SAILED HUSBAND of to be re “Salaries, wages all i | ployes, will hay | This was the drastic rem pro | Visits Him “Almost Daily; powed Thursday by € fiman R. H.} T kes | Thomson, chairman of the public a Baby, Too utilities committer, ax a solution of! acoA, Dec raith Stage | j mee y's financial problema. has been almost a daily visitor of | ‘Thomson asserted that the finan.|the father of her erstwhile kid | celal condition of the city would have | M@Ped baby at the county jail here, it was learned today. to be met by 4 general cut in wages. | Tho it was she who set the proc- | He a d that foodstuffs were 30) ess of law in motion which termi- | per cent lower now and that the cut! nated last Saturday in a 10-year sen the city tence for her divorced husband, George Stagg, newspaperman, she is apparently just as determined now | I‘. keep the father of her boy from the penitentiary, if possible. | would not place workers in | a worse poxition than they were six | months ago STHRN MEASURES NEEDED TO AVERT BANKRUPTC Not only have her own visits been “Railway Chief Henderson has! ther regular, but she has permit- | attracted nation-wide jnterest, tem for the succeeding year,” Thom-| @n several occasions, Bobby was von pointed ont, taken to the county jail by Mra | “This will entail an added expendi-,Stage's father, Herbert Cunningham. rowing from every conceivable mu-/from Walla Willa will arrive to nag fund and #ill going eyed take Stagg to the state he petaph, daily. Stern measures most g jen to stave off bankruptey: ITALIAN CIVIL asked. over $500,000 for betterments | 4 Stage to visit with Baby Stage, | whose kidnaping by his father had } and extensions to the street car sys: | vag ture of $250,000 for additionss «treet | No information has been received card, with the railway direndy bor-| bere as to wyek the traveling guards | “Salaries And wages of all city em- | ployes will have to be reduced.” |Negro ro Murderer Is Sentenced 30 Years | TACOMA, Dec. 23.—Ceel Skages, | ROME, Dec, 23.—Rifle fire spat| negro, who shot and killed his wife|{fom the crags and promontories) | guarding the eastern shore of the) a few weeks ago, was sentenced to. day to 30 to 50 yee tiary. He was convicted of second | degree murder. } in the penitdn.| Adriatic today. Civil strife between | 4 | the legionnaires of Fiume and the regular Italian army had begun. Where government troops quietly ponzi’s T'S NERVE. yielded to @’Annunzio's troops pre- usly, they braced today, employ- IS STILL GOOD] ing machine guns and rifles to BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 2% Charles | Ponzi, “bushel basket millionaire," now serving & sentence in Miymouth Jail, today sent his several thousand creditors & message of Christmas “eheer.” The message follows in part: “I hope your financial losses may not mar your Christmas spirit nor cause you an hour of grief. Some! lday, perhaps in the near future,| school pupils dropped their books leventa may bring a happy change| Thursday afternoon fof the Christ-| thru our mutual peration and | mas and New Year holidays. determined efforts.” | School will reconvene January 3, ps. al the Monday after New Year's. , Bank Robbers Get $4,000 in Daylight TEXANS LYNCH show that they: will not give ground. SCHOOL'S OUT FOR CHRISTMAS More than 45,000 grade and high | leral times during the da: ACCUSED = ASKILLER OF G.0.P. OL KING Relative of Oklahoma Poli- tician Gives Up for Trial After Long Flight + PASO, Texas, Dec. 23—Only parually recovered from a nervous breakdown, after greeting her par ts here last night, Clara Smith Hamon, ged with the shooting of Jake Hamon, oll millionaire, left here today for Ardmore, Okla. ae companied by Sheriff “Buck” Gargett_ of that place. “LT must have my trunks and clothes,” were Mrs, Hamon's first words after greeting the sheriff on her arrival last night. Garrett prom- ised to get her clothes, adding that “Ardmore was all for her.” Mra. Hamon dented that she fled from Ardmore immediately after the shooting. “I drove around town sev she as- serted. FRIENDLY MEXICANS GAVE HER AID After being brought to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Ie Smith, last might, she greeted father affectionately and asked her mother. Reporters were admitted by several deputies who guarded home of the girl's parents, but refused to answer any. tions. “I don't know,” wag al Her father, however, stated friendly Mexican family had for his daughter, while she was Mexico, Mrs. Hamon arrived here from huahua City last night. She taken into custody by United States officials at Juarez and later over to Sheriff “Buck” Garrett, Ardmore. Hamon was republican national commiteeman of Oklahoma, and was — a candidate for the presidential noms — ination during the last G. O. P. con- vention at Chicago, He amassed immense wealth in — townsite transactions and thru the discovery of ofl on his large holdings. Mrs. Hamon made ¢he trip with her brother Jimmy. The girl greeted the sheriff affectionately, as they are friends of long standing. Gam rett said the sympathies of Carter county and “all Ardmore” are with the accused girl. WILL BE HELD IN $10,000 BONDS: rial) Mrs. Hamon wilt be held in $16,000 bond at Ardmore. After that is fur- |nished she will return here to live with her parents until the trial starts, . The prisoner was attired in a fur coat, small closeYitting hat and blue serge dress. Arrangements were made to get her two trunks, sent to Kansas City when she flew after the shooting, back to Ardmore. The clothes she was wearing, she told of- ficials, were all she had with her on her flight a With the arrival of the woman KANSAS CITY, Dec, 23.—Forcing | the assistrnt cashier and the book-| keeper of the Intercity State bank | of Rosedale into a vault, three un-/ | masked robbers escaped with more| PORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 23.— than $4,000 late Wednesday, The Tom Vickery, a white man held on) |xame bank lost $25,000 in a daylight| 4 charge of murdering Jeff C 9 }a policeman, Monday night, was| robbery April taken from the county jail here| Ss CHRISTMAS _ | seertly after midnight by a mob and| DOING THIS?) "2s is, m | After Vickery was suspended in ie hates and strifes of mankind) migair, the mob fired several shots yielded, apparently, to the spirit of iftto his bedy and dispersed. The Christmas Thursday morning, Not @/tynching was staged about a mile single bill of complaint of any nature} from the courthouse between Fort whatsoever was filed, not a sult was! worth and North Fort Worth, |started in King county's superior pulicechecalocd courts, It was a record without SEEK NEW U W. ‘ i] Couch, | Says Two Men and | Women Robbed Him Two men and two women robbed him of $300 in his room in the| To attend a conference of college] and Pacific hotel, 1115% First/student and faculty officials to be/ ave, Wednesday night, John|beld in Chicago, Prof. Leslie J. Ayer Zvitkovitz, 95, laborer, told police,|f the law department left for the Zvitkovitz was arrested and booked y night, Manager Darwin Meis-| as being drunk. Farmer Murders His Family; Kills Self BRADSHAW »., Dee, 23,—Carl Nicholson, 45, a farmer, last night Kill his wife by beating her with 1 hammer cut the throats of his three children and then went to the base shooting, The at the home of M, E. ‘adshaw, shortly ufter 7 o'clock last night. Financial nest will be W ‘ashington's other rep- | meeting. He will resentative at the leave Dec While in Chicago Meisnest and Ayer will interview a number of pros- pective coaches for next year’s foot- ball season. THREE SLEEPING MEN GASSED Gassed while they slept by fumes Jescaping from a gus jet in a bed: tragedy occured | cause, child was a month. » youngest here a mad scramble by officials and attorneys for the right to defend the woman and to advise her began. ‘There was an apparent belief among the attorneys that she would be plentifully supplied with money with which to conduct her defense. eee Jake Hamon’s Will in Ardmore Bank ARDMORE, Okla., Dec, 23.—The will of Jake Hamon, slain pi and politician, is in a safety depguit box in an Ardmore bank, according to James P, Mathers, attorney for Clara Smith Hamon. Under provisions of the will, aw cording to Mathers, one-fourth of the estate is left to Clara Smith Hamon, who is under clmrge of murdering the wealthy oil man, eee ‘ictures of Principics in Hamon Case on Page 8 Lloyd George’s Hopes Agree With Daniels WASHINGTON, Dec, 23,—Secre- tary of the Navy Daniel¥ and Pre- mier Lioyd George of Great Britain stand together today on the ques tion of international naval disarma- ment, Daniels said. “ram glad the prime minister believes the way I do,” Daniels said today in commenting on Lioyd rye's statement in a speech that world disarmament could not be ef+ fected unless all nations were in- eluded in the agreement Two Lottery Games Raided by Police Two lottery games, one at 218 Washington st., and the other next door, at 220 Washington st., were | train, and disappeared, No trace of | him had been found up to a late hour |0!d baby. The other children were| room, three men were in the city this morning. 2% and 6 years old. Mrs, Nicholson | hospital Thursday They will ‘re. . was a daughter of the Blacks, and/cover. They gave their names as: NEW YORK.—With $16,000 in|the families had been living to-| Alec Gebow, 40. bank notes tied to her thigh, uni-|gether for some time, Nicholson suf-} Anton Sukoff, 40 dentified woman found dead from|fered a severe attack of influenza} William Romanoff, 82 gas in room on EB. 12th st ste |during the recent epidemic and had] All are laborers, They were taken name M. Boulton & Son, Sharon, Pa, | bebn subject to spells of despong@-|to the hospital from 811 Yesler way Pa, as owners of money, eney. at 4:40 a, my raided by police Wednesday night, and six men arrested, 4