The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 24, 1920, Page 12

, today at a joint hearing by Armed rorize Japs; Steal $35; Pedestrians Victimized Hokbup of a store and two high way robberies were reported to police late Thursday and Friday The store of K. Canigucht, First ave, was helt up at 7 p. m./ by two armed bandits wore dark-rimmed glasses, evidently AS a digguine, They rifled the cash tih of $35 and greatly frightened the Japanese proprietor with their dis play of guns. Two robbers stole $20. a wateh and $5 charm from Bdward Fish 1016 dames st. at Fifth ave nd Jackson st., at midnight, he reported to police. One carried a gun, E ¢ the highwaymen oth wore red masks, W. B. Cott 0 Aurora ave, was robbed of $1 at 39th ave. S& and Aurora ave, by two men early ‘Thursday, he told police Thursday night. AID TO FARMERS BEING DEBATED Entire Question Is Reopened by Congressmen BY A. L. BRADFORD WASHINGTON, Dec. 24,— entire question of how congr best aid the farmers was reopened the sen- tte banking and agriculture commit tee. J. R. Howard, head of the Amer- iean Farm Bureau Federation, and other farmers’ representatives were witnesses at the hearing, Howard bringing up the question of a vast credit to.Germany to allow the pur- chases of agricultural and other sup Plies in this country. Howard's bureau support the German credit plan,/ which William Wallace Braver, 4 representative of the Berlin govern- ment, has brought here. Braver pro- poses a billion dollars loan to Ger- Goons secured by the seized German now in the hands of the aon Property custodian. Mag one of the Treasury Houston has expressed opposition to Brauer's plan. Republican leaders have in- is expected to Now Western and Southern mem- = are working on @ new program farm legislation which, it is ite will be in shape for presenta tion to congress after the holidays. Senator Gronna, chairman of the senate agriculture committee, . and Representative Haugen, chairman of the house committee, are now farm- ing two new bills, One will embody @ plan for farmers’ co-operative asso- cations for marketing of their products and the other carries a pro- poral for short time rural credits to farmers thru the. issuance of bonds by the farmers’ associations. ARNSTEIN JURY CANNOT AGREE WASHINGTON, . 24—The jury trying Jules we (Nicky) Arn- stein and others on charges of bring’ ing stolen New York securities t Washington reported it was unable to agree and was dixcharged today. Immediately after the jury report ed, M. Bowles, Washington attorney and one of the defendants, was re arrested on a request of the New York authorities, He was released | on ball, however, as were the other defendants, Arnstein, W. W. Easter- day and David W. Sullivan of Waahb- announced he wonld leave for Chicago tonight, where he will join his wife, Fannie Brice. The Arnstein case here wgs the outgrowth of Wall st, bond “thefts in connection with which Arnstein was arrested after a long search. It was charged here that Arnstein and the other defendants conspired to Bring the stolen securities to Wash fngton and dispose of them thru Sul Svan & Co., Washington brokers. FEEBLE WOMAN GETS DIVORCE Aged and feeble, unable to walk without assistance to the witness stand, Mrs. Miriam Leasure had sev. ered Thursday, in Judge Waiter M French's court, matrimonial bonds that were tied in 1880, Mrs. Leawure charged desertion, saying she hadn't seen ber husband for 25 years. She said he was a veteran of the Civil war. West Indian Meare Escapes Stockade! Police were Friday searching for W. F. Fanchez, 44, West Indian ne. gro, who escaped Thursday night from the county stockade, where he was serving a 150-day sentence im- posed by Justice of the Peace O. W. Brinker, September 13, on a vagran- ey charge, Highwaymen Ter-| one of whom | Says lt Is So i ! DtsTEe } “There is no animal so NEW YORK, Dec, 23.—-“All femt nine nature turns to love, and there ‘e no anima, so demanding as «| snake!" Stephanie Deste says this, jPlaining her predilection. She uses |& snake for a headdress. She has plenty of precedents, in her love of wild animals, Oiga Pe trova kept a «nake “The divine Sarah” t# credited with the remark —“Love has taught me how to weep, but my panther has taught me how to smile”-—referring to the ERGO! SHE LOVES HIM Then there is pretty Ruth Shep ley, who keeps a bear, a real honey bear, naming him harmlessly “Jim.” “I have had many animals,” she says, “but none of them can com- pare with the little bear, He i# an animal that cannot be tamed, and that's why I love him. There is something Wild tn his blood, some thing “uncaught, undomesticated. He will never = trust nip—that's bis charm.” Then the lion cub belonging to KENT GRANGERS PLEAD FOR ISOM | Farmers Ask Hart to Com- mute Boy’s Sentence Kent grangers have joined thou- sands of other petitioners thruout the state in urging Gov. Hart to com- mute the death sentence of Isom| White to life imprisonment. Resolutions entitled “Expreasion Against Capital Punishment in Washington” have been mailed the governor. They read “Whereas, Capital punishment, In| the case of Isom White, of Stanwood, who, on the 19th day of poe 1919, murdered Lee Linton, again about to be invoked in the state of Washington; and, “Whereas, We citizens and taxpay- ers of the state, ayhile believing in stern enforcement of the law, yet doubt the philosophy and wisdom of putting to death our criminals—we 's| believe that the capital punishment | jaw falle short of the end for which it was instituted, and in ite execution | violates the most noble impulseg of the human heart. “In view of our decided convictions in this matter, be it “Resolved, by the members of Val ley Central grange, No. 243, in reg. we raise our volce against the exe cution of the above-mentioned Isom White, as lawfully decreed by a Snohomish county jury, and affirmed by our state supreme court; and, be it further “Resolved, That his excellency, Hon. “Resolved, That his excellency, Hon. Louis F. Hart, governor of Washing. |ton is herein petitioned to exercise his powers and commute White's sentence to that of life imprison- ment. Gigned) “Ts J. COSTELLO.” IS PRESENTS CALL FIREMEN DENVER, Dec. 24.—A stranger with an armful of Christmas pack ages tried to mail them in a red box on @ street corner, Two fire en- | mires and seve hose companies re- | sponded. The firemen told him where | to mail his burden. \Soviet Lays Claim to All Armenia CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec, 24.—La bor claimed all Armenia today. A soviet proclamation assigned to the masses all property, mine and forest, state and church. Private property not exempted to withdraw, but this was alleviated romewhat when the Moscow govern. ment sent 60 wagon loads of clothing and foodstuffs into the country, in ex.| stimulus of wild animals in her) career HE CAN'T BE TAMED; ular session at Kent, Wash., on this, | the 18th day of December, 1920, that} “|like mw bee was The proclamation repudiated all national debts, “especially the} American loan which Armenian bor- rowers have been tolling to pay.” There was much suffering after American relief forces were ordered THE SEATTLE STAR She Likes Her Snake Best CITIZENS FLEE IRISH GUARDED; FIUME BATTLE | Government Troops Sur- round City “Demanding Ff ay sen ROMM, Deo. 2k—Ttaly dreaded a ivi} war today as the ponalble result of Gabriel Annunaio's retention of | from “the regular Itallan yunded the city today, en if « Whe blockade ordered by the government Hundreds of citizens left Mume. Despite pecpecy surrounding Pre mier Giolitti’é conference with the foreign committees of parliament, it was upderstood premier had promised d'Annunsio will be given | another chance to accept the Rap pato treaty as an accompliahed fact and to cease his obatructionixt pro am, Meanwhile, he said, strict rckade Will be enforced. Count Sforna, foreign seeretary, 6x plained to the committees the p liplomatic diffieutties whieh if the treaty Minister of War military prob would result were not ried out in full discunmed the would remult lem that “It Hurt, ’’Says | Ruth; Bow Legs Straightened CHICAGO, j has filled Ruth | with a stralicht pair of leew. | Mine fumed as the “baby |taik lady”, in B ‘Tarkington's | “woventoen,” in speedily recovering }at @ howpltal here, after having had Santa Claus! rdon'» stockings | rion, ooth both legs broken so that she would) no longer be “how legged.” ‘Oh, but it burt.” sald Miss Gor | don at the hompital today: “but it didn’t hurt pear as much as It does o receive visitors in thin nightie I am wearthg.” ‘The beautiful star alluded to the outing Manne! hospital garment she Whe wearing. [Irby Marwhall, prima donna—a ti Piccsh me mauasr sc honchatee Scat! of magnificent black and ye it stripes, and with the gleam of the| “I wae walking in a Statest. depart little as yet | ment store and saw a pair of legs But.” says Miss Marshall, “noth-| coming toward me in the mirror. ing to be sure of—he will grow UP. | They wore so funny that I laughed, and begin to pace slowly back and|and when I got close—they were forth across the floor of my b0U-| mine? doir with a long tense tall in which! \tiew Gordon was reminded that there seems to be no danger until) her bow-legs didn't show when she you reach the tip, and there, pulsing | appeared on thé stage, and was told like @ sheathed flame, ls terror and| that the public never knew her deep, death, That's what makes me love| dark secret him." “Of course not,” she sald. “T train demanding as a snake.” |junglé in his eye WILD ANIMALS FOR ed myself to #tand so my bow-legs jeomrene ONLY would not show.” | And last there te Mary Blair--a “The baby talk lady,” with her leew young poctess and dancer, who) 4!! done up In plaster of paris, enid keeps what might be supposed to be | Me hadn't felt so happy in three fa rather harmies animal, an Afrt) YOarn. husband, Gregory in lamb, She has another pet—a| Her youthful camel named Jock. Kelly, who played the boy in “Seven “Men are all right with dogs,” teen,” In at her bedside constantly. “bechuse dogs are servile, mo He approved o of the operation, almost any other animal— eae “4 Hopeful for, Better Times men. Animals, wild or tama, be BY LANTON LANG jong to the world where women alone may «o0.” Famous Player of “Christus” in Oberammergaa Passion Play JAPAN NOT IN 24—Again Christmas approaches re and that noble heavenly song re Declares Nipponese Ambas- | sador in England Who Are of Good Will” Thankfully our glances turn across | race for armament, Count Hayashi, | heaven reward them richly for what ambassador tO Great Britain, de.|they already have done unto our | Join in discussions of armament r@ | Pecty ‘of the future, and to pour new duction,” he said, courage into despairing hearta. where the question was brought up| f food makes it imponsible to my |in the league of nations asembly and| Whether wo can hold our Passion ARMAMENT RACE OBERAMMERGAU, Bavaria, Deo. sounds—"Pralse Be to God in the Highest, and on Barth, Peace to Men LONDON, Dec. 24-—Japan has no} the ocean to where the gentle and | intention of setting the pace in a/|>elpful American folk live. May | clared today. freezing children and for what they “This country will be pleased to|have done to relieve the bleak pros: Hayashi made his statement imme. With us in Omerammergau the diately on returning from Geneva, | *ituation still is bad. ‘The shortage abandoned without action. Play within the next two years in ac | “Japan's policy always has been| cordance with the vow of our ances. | directed toward maintaining friendly | tors in 1643. It will be a disappoint relations with the United States and| Ment if we cannot. On the other China,” he said. | hand Oberammergau would be ruined “The alliance with Great Britain is|!f the play failed & source of satisfaction to the entire We hope for better times, We Japanese nation, but it does not| thank those who have helped relieve Mean Japan has any intention of set-|OUr needs and we all will be glad | ting the pace in armaments. The| When we will be able to greet our old Japanese naval program is a mens. | friends again ure for defense natural to any island is “wogneer gepeene'* yas tar Carriers Each Get a Box of Candy AWAIT THE TREE ers of The Star today by the circu lation department as the annual Big Doings at Home on Christmas Eve ristmas treat Christmas eve will find the kiddies at the Ryther home all on tip-toe TU R K FY awaiting the big Christmas tree and trimmings, and Mother Ryther her-| self is fairly swamped with letters! San Francisco and phone calls, expressing appre. ciation of the good work she is 505 Third Ave. doing. ‘The headquarters of the| campaign to raise a $26,000 fund JACK BARBERIS Proprietor with which to continue work of the home another year and to erect a |amall isolation hospital ward, buzzed | hive today, and W. A.| (‘Weary”) Wilkins, in his offices, |501 Collins building, was the busiest |of the force of Christmas workers, | One of the best gifts of the day was that received ‘from the Bridge | and Structural Iron Workers’ union, a check for $60, with brick coupons | aa receipts for the individual mem- bers contgibuting to the cause, An-| other gift was a quantity of anited! peanuts from the Nut House, and| Harry 8. Larson, a tailor at 1317 1. | 45th st., presented the home with 36} pairs of children’s stockings. | The brick coupon salesmen ap peared on the street, and will con tinue to appear until the $26,000 fund has been raised. The efforts to rai the fund will not slacken after th Christmas holidays, but will be} pushed with renewed vigor. A bar of iron made into balance springs for w value 60,000 times. “BRITONS JOYOUS land; Curfew in Ireland | y YORK, Deo, 24,—"Explor | nY WEEB MIL ing can hardly be called a pers! | LONDON, Dec. 24.—Hope for a occupation for women—but I would) Chrtatmas peace in Ireland was lost| °t Sive it up for all the pink teas in the United Kingdom ‘hus * aka | ge Harriet Chalmers Adams, accorded | | ‘The chance for definite action dis-|t> be the first American woman to| 1 with the proroguing of made 4 Fellow of the Royall | t by King George erenhie ‘Goddty ot Snat at Hritain, not content with &! honorary member of the Society of | prewar Christmas tomorrow,| arts of Cadiz and lecturer | ine oslebration of & pre-Vietorian | traordinaire | Business is to be suspended for! the lure of “little voices” which take | |three days, The curtailment of | men to the outlands and the strange | communication was th st ap-| unknown places, But Mrs, Adama, tp » to the olden days when tele| who Ike ber husband, Franklin| |kraph was unknown, the cable was | Adams, editor of the bulletin of the | |not even a wild dream and news| Pan-American Union, t# a Califor-| |papers were not necessarily bearers | flan, listened. From the beginning | {of news. of her literary life Mra, Adams has | With no interest in what tran | been particularly interested in Spain | spires in the reat of the world in| nd its custor»—here was romance, | the next three days, Great Britain |#he felt, that romance which per-| | wae xupposed to settf into an old-| Vades every place where the descend: | |faahioned Yuleti with blazing | ents of Castile dwell 4 finally it logs and warming drinks to aid the| ot into her blood and she took up [the long trait THREE YEARS TRAVELS 10,000 MILES In three years Mrs. | merriment. CURTAIL WORK FOR | THREE-DAY FETE Adams put ‘Transportation by rail, steamer | 000 miles behind her, on foot, o and truck was ordered confined to; $0,000 miles behind her, on foot, on r horseback, by canoe—to Panama and the most necesmary business, No nero hg Fading ® yA mail will be delivered and tele-| Soll RT te ee ntine’ Brasil, grams will be distributed only at| Cl. Patagonia, Argentine, Brazil, lcertain hours. Newspapers will be ide Saturday, Sunday and Monday Reports of Irish difficulties, compli: cations in France and the Near| ast, unemployment and all other| | troubles confronting the government will cease for those three days to | |worry the ordinary citizen. | King George, after giving amsent | |to the home rule bill passed by par-| lament, referred feelingly to the! jirish situation, hoping the bill |would mean a return to constity tonal government. King George also declared the league of nations| jhad shown ite value. } While England planned a holiday, | it was found necessary to restrict | |Irwland in her celebrations. The| }ourfew laws were to be enforced 4a & result of continued attacks by | Bin Feiners on crown forces. WANTS ANTI-JAP PLANS DROPPED: Says Jap Laborers Good Thing for U. S. = Venexuela and the West Indies. Harriet Adams is also said to be the only American woman who was permitted to visit the first line trenches on the French front after the great offensive along the Somme Bho ip known as one Of the seve ‘That friendly relations must be STestest world travelers. She has maintained between the U. & ana|Mept on mountain pealps 15,000 feet! Japan if this country im to fet Jap {Beh Bho has been to the head- business was the warning issued | Waters of the Amazon. She has vis-/ Thursday night by D. Matsumi,|!*¢ every Spanish pomession. For) manager of the Untted Northwest | 10 Years she has written ime aero on Sou ceeeeng ‘aaa tee ines at|0oked more wild things in the face | a banquet at the New Washington |‘? many men—the savage Chun- Mie emanate chos, the jaguar, the tapir and the| manager of the Yokohama vampire. She discovered five gad pask here, specimens of the solenodon, the an- That proposed anttJap tand bews | be dropped here was strongly urged her seinen “oie andaeted tal as Wen kar eahaincd Mite. bins wel ia performing | delicate, almost a sickly child—and Cais etme now she drives camels in Mongolia! NO REASON WHY jor of the rat, Three of these were presented to the Bronx Zoo. lap small tand a work for which is constitutionally unfit. WOMAN CAN'T EQUAL MEN EAR DEATH; Phage + ogg of women as explorers, CHICAGO, Dec. 24—Rruce C. Sem [cannot go wherever a man goce— per Froeived a Christmas present of | and further. If @ woman be fond & divorce, He sent word to Judge|of travel, if she bas love of the Sabath he was dying and the only | strange, the mysterious and the lost, thing he wanted before death was a/there is nothing that will keep her legal separation from his wife, The|at home—all that is needed for it, judge gave it to him. as in all other things, is the driving TS and the love, And as for Lost-and-Found Sale arog Perel because she is a . ° woman, that sounds rather 4 stupid at University, Jan. 7|notion to me—she has proved that Absent-minded students will see she can go where men go, and that their belongings pass into strangers’ |@ck of caution (which is a little of hands when the annual auction of |eVery woman) will take her out of lost and found goods of the Asso. |the tent to discover something else, ciated Students of the university is while her husband is sleeping, cov- held on the campus Friday, Jan. Po up to the ears in blankets and wary 7, at4 » mm. fur, é — “Aw T said, it can hardly be called ® popular occupation for women as AN TA CLAUS IS yet, but 1 see no reason why it may | NDER ARREST J not become one af women's activit- ae, », Dec. 24.—Jack Luder. |{es—one of the rarer, but one of the| man was buying whiskers and other articles for dimruise to play Santa Claus to a bunch of boys when he most thrilling, the most charming.” | was recognized by @ detective and ar- rested on charges of desertion from the army PORTLAND, Ore—Alaaka. invited to take part in Atlantic-Pacific High ways and Electrical exposition here tn 1926 TONIGHT Exploring, Future for Wome 09 carat ov They Can Rival Men, S She Sati Mrs. Adamé is known as one of the seven greatest wor AT BOLDT’S Sure, that’s where we'll go for a delights dinner served in delightful surroundings. the favorite Christmassy dishes— TENDER ROAST TURKEY —with fancy dress- ing and all the trim- mings Cranberry Sauce and Salads Juicy Plum Pudding and Glorious Mince Pie— " THE BEST FOOD FOR THE LEAST CO —with all the enjoyable goodness of He Cooking and none of the inconveniences. Xmas Program Children and Grownups Seattle Symphony Orchestra 40) SPARGUR, Conductor Fri. Eve., Dec. 24 MEANY HALL 8:20 New—Matinee Saturday “COAL OLL JOHNNIK” The Comedy of Comedies Mata. 27¢ to SOc, Eves., 28¢ to ‘6c, Mats, Nights (Bundy) Featuring we Mate {Powers ts. Daily Ex- “MOTHER GOOSE” | Teer Monaay and ‘Thursday, | and Mats. 2:30, Nights 7:15 and 9:15. “THE NUTCRACKER SUITE” Hear the Wonderful CELESTA PRICES: Children Under 16 (Any Seat) 25c Adults 35c, 50c, 75c, $1.00 SHERMAN, CLAY & CO, 10 TOS TONIGHT METROPOLIT. AND WEEK eo Saturday Only Devia Belasco Presen Mate, 2 , aN Imperial Quintet; Meehan; Chase and La Tour; Moe Japs; Dorothy Lewis of Altitu goride 18 ene: Matinees ‘be Niches 400. Nights, 7 and © iayin, RUBINE Rowland and Mo- ‘Girls STAR WANT ADS BRING RES BRING your families and enj Christmas Dinner at the Y. W. C. A. Cafeteria FIFTH AND SENECA Men and Women Welcome COME AND ENJOY CHRISTMAS DINNER. $ .00 , A Five-Course ‘ or TURKEY DINNER cover Served From 11 a m, to 8 p. m CHINA INN 1023 Third Avenue, Corner Spring