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

ee {i & F VOLUME 23 ey Tonight rain; @ mod Maximunt Weather westerly winds, ‘Temperature Last % 17 Tray moan, 44, nd Saturday, derate south- Hours Minimum, 39, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Watered as Second Class Matter May 3 3, 189) at the Pr SEATTL E, W ASH., F *RIDAY, offices at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March The seattle Star &, 1879, Per Year, by Mail, $5 to §9 TWO MEN DROP sir ek ‘DEC ‘EMBER 24, 1920. Yuletide Mellows ’Em. Both Judge and Judged. Andy Was Grateful. Even to His Undoing. BY HAL ARMSTRONG “Handy Andy” limped into court suffused in It was the Gay before long ago, Judge Otta Brinker, then a@ksistant city prosecutor, remembers dt as vividly xlay Vagrancy, jee a thousand petty was charged to Andy. He had been] There mafiy times Ddefore thus! charged, but never had he se med | BO sad. Bent almost double, he tot-| fered im at the very end of a long ine of expectant prisoners and sat down, his face a portrayal of acute Pain, . “John “Bump, stand up!" com- F Manded the bailiff, and the first Prisoner came forward, downcast| )) Gnd penitent. There were half a J) dozen reasons why he should not be committed to jail. He explained them all. He promised to do better. | He was ready to leave town and go) to work, | _ SUDGE ALMOST | SHOWS SMILE |- An austere judge looked down Slowly his expression changed. He “almost smiled, benignty “Bump,” he said, at last, “tomor- | Pow will be Christmas.” “Yes,” Bumprhastened to confirm. then added, apologetically, “if your please.” “Whether I please or not,” melancholy Christmas but & young| as if It were yest PY that term which im indiscretions rises out Of its lethargic rut affectionately” and oonsserate- Bump. it is the spirit of the a lenient this day—* face lighted up. the attitude of profound respect, interest and f, ootdloy but “Handy Andy.” "Go your way,” said the judge to; Bump went. The next prisoner | G14 likewise. With growing pleas- Ure the men on the bench looked on @a, one by one, their companions stood up. were lectured and dis But with Andy not so. With each @iamissal bis face grew gloomier, his pain, apparently, more acute. He was, a pitiable object when the bailit? called, cheerily: “Andrew Jones, come forward! Andy shuffled to the bar, features | Wincing at every step. A policeman draped himself upon the witness chair. “This man, your honor,” he draw “was arrested last night drunk. didn’t know where he was and) he had no’ place to go, so I bught him in. He never works:| lives around— “That'll do, officer,” suid the court. “I'm acquainted with the prisoner's! record pretty well. Andrew, what| have you got to say? Tomorrow is Christmas, and—” “Guilty,” broke in Andy. “I got) nothing to say. The last time I was} . judge, you? honor, you said if I @ver come back 1 woula go to Jail / for 60 days, but I can't help it ="m/ guilty. I admit it.” “But “[ ain't got a dime, judge. T ain't! able to work. I can't lift my arm above this an 4 or HELPLESSNESS Andy, his face twitching, fously raised his right arm level of his shoulder, gave an ex clamatioh dénoting 4 sudden twinge of pait,jand slowly lowered the arm | again. ‘The siirt afternoon was waning. In the jow-cellinged courtroom it was growing dusk. Andy stepped nearer to the judge's bench, that the court night be impressed with his utter helplessness. Two deep furrows appeared be- tween the judge's eyes. He regarded the prisoner before him with an air of sudden suspicion, But thi story is former Assistant Prosecutor Brinker's. He should have been telling it all along. “he judge was a wise and sagacious judge,” Brinker concluded, “His gaze sat on Andy for one brief moment, Then he said: “ ‘Andrew, it is the sentence of ¢his| eourt that you be confined in jail for two months.’ | “Andy bent lower. For the first! time that day a faint smile crossed | his face, | “ ‘Judge, thank you,’ he said, and turned on his heel “‘'By the way, Andrew,’ the judge spoke, halting him. ‘It’s getting dark labor: | to the in here, Just turn on that light, will you, Andre | “That I will, and a Merry Christ- mas to you, judge,’ returned Andy, and he did se, With a contented in he stood on his tiptoes, stretch: H up his right arm to its full length and pressed the button that hung suspended more than seven fee@ from the floor, The light| flashed on. “1 thought #0, said the judge,| evenly. ‘Sentence is suspended! You're too agile a cripple, Andrew. Get out” | dent Wilson | ago | pardon Debs, GEM THER ON2D A CAU 1$5,000 Diamonds Missing; | Thief Says He Stole to Help His Christmas “I wanted a warm Christmas. was broke. dow looked #0 easy to get. And they meant a merry Christmas to me.” In the above words, Eddie Thomas, 20, morning, the Amerioan Jewelry Co. $21 Sec! ond ave, at 6 p. m. Thursday. CAUGHT BY STORE MAN AFTER STRUGGLE After a handtohand struggle, Thomas was captured by R. L. Ridesn, manager of Pig'n Whistle restaurant, and Capt. BE. L. Hedges. | |Some witnesses maid Irving Reed, | Heller building, alded in the cap- ture. auspicious time when man-| -romas had smashed the jewelry | store window with a brick wrapped in Christmas paper, and matched «| tray of diamonds, During the strug: | to collect the sparklers, he was able to fint onty half of them. DIAMONDS VALUED AT $5,000 ARE MISSING Diamonds valued at %6,000 are missing, Tipp say: ‘Thomas carried a loaded revolver. During the struggle, Thomas and | Ridean crashed thru the window of Jewelry store, Joe Himeihoeh, manager of the Blue Taxi Co., aid ed materially in the battle with Thomas, accorting to Capt. Redges. |APARTMENT IS ROBBED OF $400 JEWELRY Detectives were investigating Fri day the burglary of the apartment of W. P. Frost at 1628 Bellevue ave. Thursday night. The thieves stole Jewelry valued at $300 or $400. They gained entrance thru a win dow, opening on an alley. The Frosts were out between § p. m. and 8:30 p. m., and it was then that the burglars | worked. Seven diamond rings, two stick | pins, a gold vest chain, lavalliere, neck chain and revolver comprised the loot. four rings, a gold bracelet, $3 ‘worth of street car tokens, $12 cash and several toilet articles were stolen from the home of Mra. W. Miller, 1414 28th ave., by a pass key thief Thursday night. ‘Theft of a package containing a $15 sapphire ring from his mail box | was reported Thursday night by Ed Andermatton, 322 Seventh ave. Ragna Stevens, 1736 W. 64th at., left her purse containing $100 and a bank book on the counter of a Pike at. candy shop Thursday afternoon Shé told police it was gone when she returned a moment later. Pres. Wilson Will Not Pardon Debs} WASHINGTON, Dec. 24--Presi- has not changed bis mind regarding a pardon for Eugene V. Debs, it was sald at the White | House today. White House officials some time said the president would inot believing the socialist leader deliberately had broken a law which had been put on the statute books for protection of the country | during wartime. Every Day Shows Big Results to Star Want Ad advertisers. But Saturday i* the best Want Ad day. The Saturday evening Star is the Sunday newspaper in the homes of the great portion of the ter- ritory in and around Seattle because it is a big, complete newspaper and has a Sat- urday circulation of several thousand over its nearest competitor in Seattle. The Want Ad rute of The Star iv legs, and a few pen nies investe in a Star Want Ad have made many dollars for thousands of satisfied customers The diamonds in the win-| a confessed to detectives Friday | the attempted robbery of) the Hatton-Oliver store, next to the} It has been man can do, Certainly said that women can unc John Perex had Mee that moonshine and not she, Christmas day tn jail his wife was ma‘ show In response furnished by to | Peres, the 1816 Dawson st, on Decembe: ‘There they found a 20-gallon hidden under the bed, and a half of brandy and 100 tone of frult mazh Josephine Perez was by alone with ber | | “I cannot speak,” and outfit. “Then we shall have to | So the little black-eyed 8 ish woman was taken to city bastile, and her child placed im the care of Mo Ryther until Fah sce ER ee “2 don't want a wWite makes Maquor,” “And besides, she dots not er man.” o-. The little woman in the maid nothing When John peared with « paper for he sign, she refused to put name on the dotted Line. it was well she did. for document would have away her rights In the o have given the husband all interest in their property, would have granted him an solute divorce . oe Josephine Perex into police court one day “Did you make this liqu she at He, and I and some other who were to sell it for us. | will be heard after nightfall. Christmas music ors. Community Christmas trees been arranged at the follo’ places: First hill, in front old courthouse; Bryant School trict, in front of the old Y jschool; Qui Anne high 8c what to, 1 no idea, when he reported to the po- king that it was himself, who would spend But facts are facts, a» the court records information police dry squad visited his home at ry. ati a gallon eal ome 22-months-old she said, when asked who owned the liquor take you in Jail," the officers maid pan the was ther the case should a who Peres declared. love me any more—she jdves anoth cell ap r to her And, the staned hifa, her and ab was called jor? was asked on the stand And then Josephine spoke, for the firet time. "T did,” she aid. “I made it the bidding of my husband. men One troup will tour the lakes and bring to houseboat dwell. have! wing of the dia- esler hool Five thousand choristers will sing | campus; | Christmas carols in Seattle tonight In all parts of the city their songs John Played His Corde Against One Woman— How Could He Figure— On a Feminine Triple Alliance? “And then,” she spoke “he no down and me locked up! And—and my baby away! 7 “This must be looked into, the judge declared, And the cane was turned over to the federal prohibition officers. Friday, Josephine and John ‘eres appeared before Federal Judge Neterer to plead to an in formation charging manufacture and possession of liquor. And the whole came in court John story out Peres confident All he had to Jo was plead not xullty, put up perbaps $100 ball, and be at liberty until time for trial, But he did pet count on having three women against him, The three were his wife, her attorney, Lady Josephine For bus, and Mire Charlotte Kol mitt, aadetant United States district attorney, Every flaw itn hin story, every evasion, every subter was Josephine Perez pleaded guilty, and was allowed to go on her personal recognitance. She will be with her baby on Christmas. John Verez pleaded not guilty. Ball was fixed at $600. “I hall ask the court to re lease him on hin personal recog nizance, also,” his attorney said. “No you won't.” Miss Koimitz replied. “I am going to ask that his ball be rained.” They appeared Neterer. “Hm,” before Judge hia honor remarked. “Ball $500. I'm going to raise that to $750. Lat me see; no, T'll make it $1,000. “The case will be assigned tor trial January 3.” So John Perez will spend Christmas, and perhaps many days thereafter, behind the bars. 5,000 Choristers to Sing Carols in Seattle Tonight play tiera Youngstown Georgetown playfield, and on the niversity campus The celebration at all tie trees, except that at the university, will begin at 7 p. m. and last just half an hour, At the university the tree | will be lit at 7:30, Instead of tonight, some of the choral clubs will begin their tours at 4a. m. Christmas morning. All in all, Seattle will have plenty of Christmas spirit in song this year, Opened the Way LOS ANG |ington D. Vanderlip, Los An j engineer, who haw just returned Russia with a $3,000,000,000 from the Bolshevist governmen | American raw materials factured goods, today brande “camouflage” the recent annow | ment from Washington that trad | moved by the state department “Trade with Flussia ts still eff ly prevented,” “because our government will permit United States minta to “Furthermore, actual trade tions cannot be re-established the United States government | sents to arrange for the clearanc ships, port and ptlot facilities, consular officers ports of Russia,” accredited to ‘RUSSIAN TRADE PLAN IS BUNK? Vanderlip Says U. S. Hasn’t Dee, 24.--Wash geles from | order t for and manu as| ance: | fe Te |strictions with Russia have been re ‘eotu: | Vanderlip declared, not pur. chase Russian roubles or bullion, rela until con eof postal raph and banking provisions and the FAKE OFFICERS TERRORIZE HOME Ransasck House, Frighten Sick Woman Two men and a woman repre senting themselves to be dry squad officers visited the home Tuesday | afternoon of L. Reecheo, 2920 19th ave. S., frightened Mrs, Reccheo, who was ill and alone, rinsacked the house from cellar to gurret, overturned two cords of wood, and jleft without liquor because there was none in the house, Reecheo tuld The Star today Reecheo does not speak or land English, her husband and becaiwe greatly excifod the unexpected visit. pecheo said he went to the police, the sheriff office and to federal agents bat was unable to find any record of the raid He was told at each place, he vaid,*that no such raid was ana by Guthorlzed dry officers, OF WH SWIND Police Chief Former Cop Mentioned in Star to Trial Police Chief Searing maid today he knows the name of the person ported jn yesterday's Star as having SKY awindied a boat captain out of a cargo of whixky here this week. But be wasn't « policeman,” said | the chief, days. “and hasn't been for some He's an ex-pollceman now. He was let out of the department for srafting.” 1S TRYING TO GET } IDENCE IN BOOZE SWINDL to get the actual evidence in the whisky swindle case. [f he in uc: | cemmful, he mid, he will charge the former policeman and bring him to trial “This fellow, and several others like him,” said Inepector Hans Damm, “have dope a lot of hich in time we might be able to! the ‘Then we'd have! something to take to évurt.” In nO case, he said, does the vic- tim eure to report the matter or even permit himself to be known, as that would put an end to his bootlegging. UNEARTH BOOTLEGGING RING NEAR EVEKETT Police were searching the city to- day for Seattle members of an al leged bootlegging and moonshining ring, following the arrest of three near Everett yesterday | The prisoners are Edtward Robin- C. F. Baker, 45, and R. A Butts, 17, They are in the Everett | all. A still and a quantity of moon | ahine were seized. CLARA HAMON NEARING HOM jwon, 36; |CRtizens Will Welcome Ac-| cused Girl ARDMORE, is home-coming Hamon. The girl fugitive, who surrendered to Sheriff Buck Garrett at El Paso, after being sought in connection with the death of Jake L. Hamon, “em ‘ey butider,” will arrive here late to Okla, Dec, 14.—This y for Clara Smith Ph binkes citizens are preparing a | welcome for the girl and are ready |to give her the definite assurance | that a huge defense fund will be| in her hands County Attorney Brown said to- |day the girl would be released on | bond immediately after her arrival. She will be allowed to waive prelimi nary hearing, he said see FORT WORTH, Tex. Dec. 24 The Texan and Pacific train carry ing Clara Smith Hamon as far as Fort Worth on her “home coming” 1 to Ardmore developed engine trouble | west of Baird, Tex., and will not ar- |rive here until 2:20 p. m. |shortly after 7 a News) men and women and dozens of curious were at the station this morning to meet the woman charged |with slaying Jake L, Hamon, ofl millionaire and politician, UADRUPLETS' SING CAROLS) YUBA cit Cal, Dee. They've got a Christmas quartet at | Nota ingh'’s house, Quadrupleta, born yesterday, were warbling their | Yuletide carois today Cardinal Gibbons’ Health No Better! BALTIMORE, Ma., Dee, 24,—-Card. inal Gibbons’ physical condition is no better, it Was announced by friends | today. EW ARRIV TO G NEW YORK, Deo, 24.—Frederick [a Wallis, immigration commissioner | will superintend distribution of 1 000 Christmas gifts among new ar rivals at Ellis island tomorrow, m. aper ALS LERS May Bring) ‘The chief suid he wax endeavoring | train was to have arrived here | T GIFTS| REPRES SAVINGS OF A LIFETIME Scrub Woman at King St. Station Probably Fatally Injured Knocked down by an auto, Mrs. Blanche La Rue, scrub woman at the King wt | Friday with a fractured skull, Her | ] 1 recovery is considered doubtful. | She was struck by a machine driv. len by C. M. Nelson, 617 30th ave., at | Fifth ave, §. and Jackson st., at 7:30 a. m. Nelwonwwag held by the police while the condition of Mrs. La Rue was being established. He was driving | west on eo st, As Me btespge cromed, the auto struck knocked ber to the pareeedh. ane | was on her way home from work, it | le beliewed. | Mra. La Rue had $1,500 in her pos gepsion when picked up. She lay at the tecomcous hoxpital for several hours sensam, meas ies Be that she had had the money for several years. It apparently way iid neoumniated be emg of a lifetime, Two certified oka, eich for $600, weer in her purse. They were drawn in her name on a Kansas City Dank. She also had $500 cash | Mrs. La Rue’s home is at 614 James st. |AGED SEAMAN IS KILLED BY CAR Harry Johnson, 66, seaman, died in City hospital Thursday night after | being struck by a Cowen Park street jear at Second ave. and Blanchard | at. His skull was fractured and his | right arm and jaw broken. Relatives have not been found. He was identified by a Seamen's union card. The car, operated by Motorman BE. |R. Foreter and Conductor E) T. Christensen, was headed for the | North Seattle barns. MOTHER GIVEN BABY AS GIFT | Court Order Is Happy Christmas Present Mrs. Hilda Scott received her own A. W. Prater’s court Friday morning. | She is not to be molested at least until January 10, when her court ac tion against her husband, growing | out of recent divorce proceedings, | will be heard. Moreover, the judge | awarded her the home and the furni. ture. According to the statement of her | counsel, the custody of the 14-month old child, the home and furniture had been given her in the divorce decree, |but her husband, Arthur P. Scott, forced her to agree to part with them | and then obtained a court order to that effect without notifying her. She was in court Frid: la motion against Scott to show cause why the order should not be set | aside In continuing the matter until Jan. uary 10, Judge Frater declared that no showing aginst Mrs, Scott at the | present time could prevent him from | | allowing hbr to have her baby and home during the Christmas holidays, 'She Beg Burglar Return Watch LOS 5 Be LES, Dee. 24.—Kdna | Harron, 14, is begging a burglar to be her Santa Claus, Christmas won't | | be complete unless a thief who ran- sacked the Harron Hollywood resi- a returns her gold wrist watch It was @ present, last Christmas, |from her brother, Robert (Bobbie) Harron, motion picture star, who ac: cldentally killed himself with a re. volver in New York, several months ago. St. Louis Bandit Escapes With $4,200 8 LOUIS, Dee ~A bandit to- day held up the office foree of the N. ©. Nelson Manufacturing company, located in the heart of the city, and i pacaped with $4,200, b station, was in city hospital | baby as a Christmas present in Judge | to press | S| ve Gift for Vet Is a Job, Editor The Star: The American | | Legion posts are taking care of their |wick and disabled comrades in the | hospitals with a view of making this | @* happy 4 Christmas as possible for them. We are trying to take care | of our own. But we must also have | the ald of the public, The veterans jare not looking for charity, and the best Christmas gift for an ex#ervice | man is a position where he may work honorably and earn a fair livelihood | Thanking you for your cooperation, |tam | Yours very truly, CAPTAIN J. R. DEAN, airman Benevolent Comenittee, | Rime 3 td N Post. MOUNT ASAMA HURLS DEATH Loss of Life in Japan Is Feared to Be Heavy | TOKYO, Dec. 24.—Loss of life was expected to be heavy as officials be- | gan checking casualties in the worst eruption in the history of Mount Arama. A terrific explosion Wednesday showered smouldering ashes over a wide territory, It was followed by} & great display of smoke and flame and a number of shocks. Sparks from the crater started a great fire near Karuizawa and set ablaze a village at the foot of the mountain. BASEBALL MEN ARE ACQUITTED: Charges Quashed Against Coast Players Los ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 4. Superior Judge Willis _ today quashed indictments against W. B. | Ww. G. il) Rumier, Players involved in the Pacific Coast league gambling scandal. In dismissing the charges Judge Willis dectared the indictments did not alleged a criminal act. Girl Ends Life When Rejected By Boy of 17 LOS ANGELES, Dec, 24.-—Trem- bling with fear, Karl Pyle, 17 years| old, a grocery clerk, was a prisoner | in thetcounty jail today, while Viva | Howard, 15, a victim of love unre- quited, lay dead, a suicide. | Heart-broken because another girt| held the affections of the boy she! | loved, Viva ended her life yesterday | by hurling herself from, a speeding | automobile, Two girls chums and| another boy were in the car from | which Viva Mung herself, near Mon- terey Park, Cal., the home of all of | them. She died last night in the Al- | hambra hospital, near here, of a frac- | ture of the skull “Go to the dickens—I’m going with | Janother girl,” Earl is said to have told Viva just before she leaped. Young Pyle is held pending an in- vestigation of the girl's death, “rd give my life to bring her| hack,” young Pyle declared today in| hig cell. “I liked her, but I didn’t | love her, I've got a steady girl, and) | Viva was trying to separate us,” ‘Bosworth W eds Mrs. Percival | in San Diego LOS ANGELES, Dec. ‘The Los | Angeles motion picture colony heard with surprise today news of the ret marriage of Hobart Bosworth, screen and stage celebrity, and Mrs. Cecile Percival, widow of the late Harold Percival, who, at the time of his death, in 1918, was art director at the Ince studio. | ‘The marriage was performed in San Diego Wednesday night by a | justice of the peace, who did not | know that the groom was the famous jactor, | Bosworth, also a director and sce- nario writer, is a native of Marietta, Ohio. He formerly was the husband of Adele Farrington, actre \Says Mine Cave-In Was Unavoidable Four men, crushed to death in the} Pacific Coast Coal company's mine | at Black Diamond Wednesday, were | victims of an unavoidable cave-in, | according to the verdict of a coro- ner’a jury ‘Thursday. The disaster | | was investigated under the direction ! jof Deputy Coroners W. H. Corson (Babe) Borton, Harl V. Maggert and|two of the so-called Howard _ baseball | gangsters under conviction for | BARN BURNED TO HEART FAILURE! One Falls on Westlake en the Other at News Stand. on Fourth Two men dropped dead on Seattle streets today from heart failure. 9 — Michael F, Carroll, formerly of 1621 20th ave., succumbed at 101 Weatiake ave. N., at 10am. E. L. Botts, elty ~ hospital physician, hurried to the scene with restoratives, but found: Carrolt dead on his arrival, Carroll was 55, and had been lumber in the yard of J. C den He was found by W. G. Dubois, Ninth ave, N. The body was taken to the county morgue. He leaves widow and four children, whose ent address is unknown, Charles Wills, 55, blacksmith, ped dead at a magazine, m and tobacco stand at 1617 ave., when he stopped to buy a paper, Friday morning. He lived @ the Reha hotel, Bighth ave. | Union st, Wills was on his way to the Seattle Frog and Switch Earlington. . ‘The body was taken to the morgue, where Deputy Coro Sellers, who handied the cided death was due to heart TWO ANGST Murphy and Kr Kruvosky A Convicted SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, ra Me et a tt] sault, the third gang Jim Carey—was announced oar Monday morning. Ed (Knockout) Kruvosky found guilty late yesterday after jury had deliberated 20 mim making the second man to be victed in the gangster p tions. Ed (Spud) Murphy, the first convicted, was to come up for tence today, time for passing tence having been continued day while his attorney produce new evidence warranting new trial. The jury in Kruvosky's case ed a verdict on the first ballot. fore the verdict was read the had warned spectators against demonstration, and when the was announced the quiet sobbing Kruvosky’s wife was the only in the room. Kruvosky had nothing to say as he was led back to jail MURPHY STAGING | STUBBORN FIGHT The foundation for a fight for a new trial for Ed ( Murphy, prizefighter convicted alleged assault upon Jessie M gomery, was laid in the court today by E. F, Spagnoll, Mure phy's attorney. Murphy was called for sentencs this morning, but as a result of the production of four witnesses who claimed to have been the driver — and passengers in the heretofore — |more or less mysterious automo bile, in which Murphy said he went home Thanksgiving morning, Judge Ward ordefd the case continued until Tuesday morning, The four witnesses were Thomas Callaghey, William Brooks, Thomas McGonnigle and Mrs, Jennie Brown, — Callaghey and MeGonnigle toldthe court that they met Murphy on the street ThankSgiving mofning as — they were returning from a late dinner at a downtown cafe. re: per BY FIREBUGS? Charles Larson, mayor of Tolt, re ported to the sheriff's office that hig barn was completely destroyed by fire at 5 a. m. Friday, Larson he suspected the fire was of in diary origin, He requested an investigation anf said he could furnish names of sus- pects, Senator Chamberlain ‘Is Operated On WASHING TOMS Dec. 24.-—Senator George EK. Chéipberlain, Oregon, was operated on today in a local hospital. Chamberlain stoed the op- eration well, his physicians said, His condition is not believed to be serious NEW “YORK Body of Rt. Rev, Charles Sumner Burch, Protestant and Frank Koeptli Episcopal bishop, placed in crypt at cathedral of St. John the’ Divine,