The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1920, Page 1

SEATTLE WOMAN yR R Weather Tonight rain; fresh Maximum ‘Today 4 if ‘Story’ Some Will Call It Luck Others Predesti — It May Have Been Hymn Anyhow, Well BY HAL Seme might Predest Brown, 4636 = All Ended ARMSTRONG but Mra. Roby sat € vver Lucile putes to her. rs, E veral of her mily ch near Olymy road was SBad. It had been + Tt B Was a part Righway to b Bundred yards Rarrows down Perpendicular side and on the other a precipitous cliff over Banging a chasr To » drivi re, th wer « nome from a ¢ extra hazardous clayey and, whea The Brown flivver rly for days as Krease | had been acting! this trip it was corrigibic bucking, balk Ww hlyrnily its worst behavior iB reserved for tne worst place in road Mrs. snort Brown was at the ste i. She t an unusually careful er, for a woman, and knows the ference between high, low, sqark, ke-fire, gasoline and side-curtaths. took deliberate aim at the wheel- | Fut on the insite of the road nearest the perpendicular wall and the grade. AINLY GROPES FOR ORDS OF HYMN ‘The flivver stepped gingerty for Picking its way with precision ring | slipperiest, most eherous point was reached. Then, ith « heavy furch, it slewed and s! nearly to the brink. Mrs. Brown bandied her levers erfully, without fear of panic. j@ Was trying to recall the words | fof the hymn. The air she clearly) “remembered. With another lodged a hug lurch the car dis stone that dropped! own the ede” of the cartyon. See-| o later, it seemed two minutes, the bou was heard crashing on the chasm floor. Still Mrs, Brown roped for the words of the song { d minded her driving. \ r The rear wheels spun in the gre d, stopped, started agai d the car settled back slipping towards the precipice There was no poxsibility of getting Pout. it required but the movement @f an arm or foot to have sent the Auto plunging to the bottom the danger of tragedy was not bling Mrs.. Brown, She was rehing her memory for the song 7 It was barely possible, as the auto Wetted, that the driving wheels would find a footing, « bit of gravel @r a handful of sand in that oily lay. er of yellow clay. But another lurch fowards the chasm left two wheels hanging in midair. A breath would have sent it over. | THE MIRACLE HAPPENED, | THE FLIVVER WENT ON The story was first told recently at a chureh where weekly experfence Meetings are held. Mrs. Brown is an ardent Christian. She believes miracles, | The auto paused there, overhang “Ang death. It« engine was dead one dared move breathed When the words of the hymn came Brown. © voice she began to sing. So matter what the words were; | is a hymn we! wn, proclaiming all powerful of th to ahead, back bumped into 8 on its way ning. She luck nor pre words of but Something in started. The shot Anto the narrow road Bhe wheel ruts and w irs, Brown ceased ows it was neither destinat iv the gong that saved them, Fise car nor ds the MILK TO STAY AT 13 CENTS Milk prices for January will prob ably remain at 12 cents a 4 Hivered to the consumer, Dr Smith, secretary of the city commission, armounced today. A slight reduction in the wholesale 100-pound price is not expected to af fect the .price tile Dr Smith sald The milk commission by Mayor Caldwell to prices in the city Clara Smith Hamon Suffers Collapse WILSON, Okla Suffer from a ner Clara ith Harmon with murder mm connection with of Jake L. Hamon and politician, recuperating the Borne of her sister, Mra. W, V. Wall | ting, here today. to public, us created milk Dec oun dA the ¢ millionaire ol was an | START | member | po! Wednesday, outhwesterly Temperature Last 34 Hours Minimum, noon, 30 ECEIVES BOX OF On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise ‘ eSeattle Star Second Glass Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash . under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Por Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 ATTL kh SE DAY , D WASH., TUES ‘EMBER 28, 1920. INVADE WHISKY TOWN U. S. AGENTS SWOOP DOWN ON WISCONSIN SALOONS CITY-WIDE. WAGE DROP PLOT SEEN Proposed Municipal Cut Ex- cuse for Wholesale Slash, Forecast “A general reduc thruout Seattle indus This is declared to be the h aim of th ing aries paid Thomson ordinance cail for a 15 per cent slash in the sal civil service em ployes of the city government. Men so close to the mner circle of | counciimanic deliberations that they cannot be quoted declared Tuesday that the Thomson ordinance was in tended as the starting point for a general reduction of wages here Ore IT WILL Ke atte al * Backers of the ‘Thom: hoping that it will be the er «mall ‘oor that will start the avalanche of uni- verwal wage reductions, It ia con to all sidered, among a certain chins of em- ployers. ganda, ors The 15 per cent reduction proposed by Thomson. and now before the finance committee of the council, will affect over 5.000 workers. as & capital piece of propa according to city hall observ: | 16-Year-Old Father Up for Grand Larceny Loule Arnold, 16. with a wife th and married, noon to be arraigned in superior ¢ Tu after noon, charged with «rand larceny Will the court sentence him, in case ” the off he the court give him ay guilty believes he as prosecutor's ° will, or will another chance? That is the question which ts being axked by persons interested in the case. Arnold's wife is dso 16 years old. ‘The couple was m 1 two years ago. Now the husband accused of having passed a forged check for $30, obtaining $5 in merchandise and $25 f Arnold is adjudged a Juvenile decaune of his years instead of a man because of his experience, sentence may be suspended. RUSS TRADE IS UP TO HARDING, ils Being Urged to Open} | Business Gates | n cash. BY RAYMOND | CLAPPER | MARION, Ohio, Dec. 28.—Restors: | tion of trade with Russa is being urged on President-elect Harding by many of his influential advisers, and | TTLE TO BE S B. T. U. Public Service Commission Concedes Slight Compro- mise to City OLYMPIA Dec. 28.—-Following the open hearing held In Seattle a week ago, the public commiasion yexterday fixed a minimum standard of gas for Seattle of 600 British ther mal units ‘This ia virtually the standard that was demanded by the Seattle Light ing company Due to plant conditions, the stand: | ard for Spokane was fixed at not lens | than 520 or more than 560 B. T. U.'e To minimum thermal standard for Tacoma wha placed at 460 8. T. t And the maximum was fixed at 475 All standards xed were declared tw te es tre adjustments for the ‘of making « tore thero tw vestigation of the staecin ae of & reduced thermal! standard of Kas. ‘The 600 B. T. U. wtandard permit ted the Seattle Li Slightly higher than the quality of was that has been served there In the past two mo , but tt ts almost 100! heat units balay the old standard The maximum for Seattle was placed at 636 B. T. U.'s Further provisions of the commis City employes deciare that they! is being seriously considered as one|sion’s ofder follows Will fight the cut to the last ditch. “The only cut will be made in the salary of Councilman Thomson,” a ot the railway department declared, “and then it will be a 100 per cent reduction—at the next eleo tion?” BARELY GET ENOUGH TO LIVE ON Now Superintendent of Public Utilities Carl Reeves pointed out that the ma. jority of the civil service were barely getting enough to sup. port their families at the present time. “The men didn't get a raise until ar the 4: of the armistice,” coves said. “This was after prices had soared for more than a year. Now they want to cut their wages before cut prices The Thomson ordinance would cut | the salaries and wages of all civil| service employes of the city. It would affect all members of the fire, nd railway departments workers at the city hall, app tely 5,000 in all. =, REDUCTION JUSTIFIED THOMSON SAVE <The ordinance would save $500,000 the department alone, homs 4. “I Have made no inquiry as to the saving in the po fire and street departments.” Thomson stated his belief that the réduction was justified so far as th street car employes are He said that he believed that al! service employes of the be treated alike. The preamble dinance states that the cost of living in deAining, that large numbers of men are out of work and that the changed conditions of living justify a » in the of city ne and th oxt railway on decla lice civil city should wages bill, if passed by the council » into effect March 31, 1921 STECTIVES ASK THOMSON | TO CUT HIS OWN PAY y detectives Tuesday started a wented to City man R. H. Th asking whether or not he would reduce cent if his ordi pay reduction employes went round robin to be Counell him his own eu 15 per nance for a 1 for all civil into effect Patrolmen and round the round robin in haste fi per cent service detect to Start New Business With The New Year a grocery partnership in other bust Do you want or a age or any in Seattle? will Cha what find You listed day probably ified page you want on just want” of getting satiafy or and plies tell be that there re. your ure will employes | the profiteers are forced to | “linent Jews, backed up concerned of the proposed or- | crowded | let ‘the proposed coming The reported cancellation by soviet Russia of millions of detlare worth | | of contracts with American firms to day threw the Russian question into! the front rank of problems |_ Herbert Hoover, Nicholax Murray Butler and others who were in Mar jon recently, urged upon Harding the | necessity of opening up the latent wealth of Rusvia, Until this ts done, | they declare, the economic turmoil of Europe and the United States will continue Hardme, how: pathy with the « ia said th policies of the in-| administration. er, has no sym! et government, it and is opposed to doing any ing which would extend ite power. Oscar Straus, of New York, con | ferred here with Harding today about | the aspiration of American Jewry for the appointment of of their faith to be ambansa © to Germany when diplomatic relations resumed. Strus is a leading Jewish philan thropist, a former ambassador to Turkey and was a member of Presi dent Roosevelt's cabinet Straus told Senator Harding that was the opinion of many prom y word from (Germany, that the wave of anti | Semitic feeling that has swept Ger many since the revolutions might be overcome if the United! States would send a Jew to Rerlin| the diplomatic represertative |when peace ix lared. | nator McCumber, of North Da | ke arrived today and conferred with Senator Harding about the sen ate’s pending program. The presi-| |dent-elect explained to him that as the appropriations to ve made by the present congress will be carried well | [into his administration, he felt ‘the| republican party should be econom eal ETHERIDGE HELD IN MINNEAPOLIS Charge Portland Bond | Deficit $100,000 naling MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Di |John L. Etheridge, prom | | dealer of Portland, Ore., Tac | Seattle, Wash., was held by police | here today on information from Sher iff Thomas Hurlburt of Portland | Sheriff Hurlburt wired that h | sending a deputy to return Ether to Portland on a charge of lar baile Information here was that Ether idge president of Morris Bros., big bond house operating in Port land, Tacoma and Seattle, had re signed his position last week, leaving | deficit of $100,000 ur 1 the company’s boc Etheridge, with his wife, . was| about to board an eastbound train | here when apprehended. Mrs, Ether |idge was not held, * as Age | y as d for} cooun there4 | tween the commisison and the “It ix ordered that there standards be and remain effective on and after January 1, 1921, and until the fur ther order of the commission, the commission expreasty retaining Juri diction in this case for the purpose of receiving further eviderice, making further tests and taking such other action in the matter ‘aa may be found | | necensary. “It i further ordered, that tn an| cases where the change in the ther mal standard may necessitate the ad justment or readjustment of consum ors’ appliances, said gaa companies are directed and ordered to maintain & wufficient corps of competent em- ployes to promptly and matisfactorily adjust all Justment, “It ie further ordered that the Se-| attle Lighting company, immediately |upon seryice of a copy of this order proceed to gradually increase the Piriti#h thermal uhit content in suc way as to afford the least Por venience possible to consumers and to be furnishing gas of a heating value as prescribed above on Jan uary 1, 1921." cee CONSUMERS HERE FORCED GAS COMPROMISE That the public service commission Was compelled to compromise on the | Seat-| on account of the | stores launched their “January clear- | overwhelming number and vigor of kas standard permitted to the tle Lighting Co. protests made by consumers here tion of City Attorney ) | Thomay Kennedy Tuesday. “Tacoma consumers will suffer from a 450 B. T. U. standard because they did not protest at the public h ring held here last week,” Ken nedy asserted. Seattle's temporary standard heat units is well below the ay thruout the country, ed out. The B. T. U. for Tuesday were 471, according to the records of the elty chemist The day following the pub service commiasion hearing here, quality of the gas dropped 35 points. Kennedy, in commenting on the recent ruling of the public service commission, quoted from his brief, just filed in the supreme court, at tacking the $1.60 tariff of the Seattle Lighting Co. “If the feeling of Kennedy point be. gas company becomes more pronounced, we Inay expect soon to Hee a situa ever the gas any’s ‘Mouse’ is stepped on, public service commission's ‘cat’ wall in agmapeths ” TACOMA CITY ‘aympathy’ [ATTORNEY PANS |COMMISSION TACOMA, ney J. C, Dennis, commenting th action of the public service commission in lower- (furn to Page 4, Column 3) Dec. 28. in ity Attor a Matement on appliances requiring | of! xe | the | Wise Wives Will Want 1 | hting company int ERVED to Read— ELPFUL words in crucial mar- || riage problems writ- ten by the “Happiest in Filmland” Wife especially for The Star, in eight articles entitle d: “Wisdom for Wives” By Florence Vidor Beoreen Celebrity Starts Today on Page 9 SLASH PRICES | _ IN PORTLAND Heavy Reduction Made in Men’s Clothing ing prices, ance sales per cent. ¢ | tised e store for PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 28, Portland today, one $36, claiming Slash department Men's clothing prices received the heaviest cuts, ranging from 30 to 60 ablishment adver ery suit and overcoat In the| that the | wholesale price of some of the gar crows ments was as high as $86. local ds in the depart those of pre-Christmas rush days, store managers said ver discs, |livery of t made their of the rail funding old way headqu BALTIMC pbons, Robert T. slept better time since about three street he “three-far ppearance departn tokens for r varters. ORE, Dec Shriver att last night he became weeks aga NEW STREET CAR TOKENS IN TOWN car tokens limade their debut Tuesday More than 150,000 of the bright sik constituting the first de aquarters,”” in the offices nt It is expected that the work of re w will com. mence Wednesday at the street rail- Cardinal Gibbons Gets Night’ 28.--Cardinal who is {ll at the Rest home of nion Mills, than at any indisposed WIDE OPEN VILLAGE IS ‘ATTACKED’ 75 Federal “Operatives End Joy Days in Hurley Town we prohibition A agents noon HURLEY small army of down on Hurtey started alleged swooped widespread iMicit, Bquor today an cleanup traffic. Seventy-five agents, led by J H. Hannah, arrived from Chicago and immediately started serving 59 warrants issued for arrest of members of the alleged whisky | ring. | uxiness tn the “widest open |town in the North woods" came to & stop ag the agents deployed down the wide their hands of their revolvers for trouble. The band of whisky runners who had vowed to keep the place “a | man's town for real men” were ap- parently taken completely by sur | prise and no opposition was met jby the federal agents, |*TWAS PARADISE | FOR LUMBERJACKS | This town, noted thruout four | wtates aa the lumberjucks’ paradise, has a population of about 6,000. Many Kentuckians, driven from their moonshining operations in the | hills of their native state, have set tled around here and taken up their moonshining work, federal agents | claim. Michigan's famous fron range is just across the county line and be- tween the lumberjacks and the min- the moonshiners did a heavy business. Dance halls of “character” and | saloons of “clase lined the muir: | street. Roulette and faro were alleged to have flourished without opposition. Drug stores, groceries, and even blackamith shops, were dispensing the iilielt Mquor. Small groups of interested specta- tors gathered on the street corners }and watched the federal agents at |thetr work. Arrangements had been made by the federal officers to remove their prisoners from Hurley immediately for fear an ef. fort might be made to obtain their | release forcibly TOWN WAS READY FOR NEW YEAR Fifty “soft drink” saloons were ided and their doors closed. Most the proprietors were arrested. The raids were conducted rapidly and few any, of the alleged liquor. law violators had time to escape or cover up anything. The town was running wide open in preparation for a hilarious greeting of the New Year. A reporter last night succeeded in buying a good mixture of port wine and “white mule” for $2 a quart. a of jor, if THREE VICTIMS OF BOOTLEG IN \SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 28.—With two men dead and another dying from drinking bottleg whisky, it be came known here today that saloons have been operating in mor wide-open fashion for several weeks Drinks have been sold openly r the bar, as in pre-prohibition days. The dead are: Corp. J. H. Dur ham, of the army supply corps, and Dan Shanahan, otherwiee unidentt- fied. The dying man was found un conscious in Washington squ night. “Whisky poisoning” was the verdict of physicians in the three cases. Cost OF DYING IS REDUCED MIAMI, Okla-—Cost of dying has been reduced here. A large urider taking establishment announced a 88 1-8 per cent cut in the price of caskets 28.—Reports gAVe no prospects of immediate peace in Korea, It was indicated that Japan probabty will send an additional army di- vision to Korea soon, TOKYO, Dec ing Tokyo today reach FIUME IS REPORTED \Forces of ‘d’Annunzio Giv- ing Way as Veterans Cut Thru Defenses or less | re last | 28.—Wreathed smoke from burning forests and exploding mines, Fiume today neared surrender to Italian soldiers. At 10 a m. today (Tuesday) reg ular troops had drawn a tight line Jaround three widex of the city. (Swarming thru berricadés and slashing wire entanglements, the | soldiers edged their way thru |erooked streets until they had un- disputed possession of a number of important structures. Premier Giolit. was informed by Gen. Cavigita, commanding the regulars, that he could expect oc- cupation of the city this afternoon. He reported progress of his troops impeded by d’Annunzio’s tactics of burning bridges and streets and by sniping, but said his men had oc- cupied several important centers in the city. Out in the harbor dreadnoughts and lesser craft trained their guns on Fiume, ready to support the land forces if necessary. Navy of- ficers thus far have refrained from bombarding the city except for a few shells thrown on the barracks of Fiume legionnaires, Cavigtia’s carbiniers found use for their wartime training. They were foreed to advance against machine gun and snipers’ fire, to break thru burbed wire entanglements criss crossing the streets. ‘The opposi- tion melted away before the steady nee of Caviglia’s troops. SCORES OF WOUNDED TAKEN TO HOSPITALS Scores of wounded were taken aboard vessels in the harbor and carried across the Adriatic to per. manent hogpitals. The regulars were compelled to withold their fire except in extreme cases, but their advance continued. From refugees it was learned that @Annunzio had many bitter ene mies within the city. They o Jected to the manner of the legion® naires, who, they said, treated Fiume as a conquered city and gave the civilians no recognition. They disliked d’Annunzio's militar ization of civilian employes also. The poet's troops were accused of mining many buildings as well as streets and bridges, The government harsh punishment of d'Annunzio's assistants, Fifteen years of im prisonment as “traitors” will be meted out to the poet's followers, Premier Giolitti declared. He in formed a parliamentary commis- sion that Gen. Caviglia had issued @ manifesto demanding capitulation without further opposition, He an. nounced that the Rapallo treaty, which settled the Adriatic boun: daries, was a national necessity and that those opposing it must be con. sidered traitors D'Annunzio’: ROME, Dec In prepared for wide experience dur. ing the war was exemplified at Fiume in the construction of the city's defenses, The mines destroy ing roads and bridges and impeding the progress of the regulars, the barbed wire entanglements, the nest of machine guns and the location of snipers in steeples were ‘planned from his observations over the Italian and enemy line Fiume was more of a fortress than @ residential city, Its citizens were | beginning to feel the blockade and | the wreckage in the city streets add Jed to their demoralization. The poet was said to have sup- pressed ruthlessly any attempt of cit: izens to oppose his program. ‘That the commandant was contending with opposition within the camp was shown by a rumor that Mayor Gi- gante sought a parley with Gen. Ca- Viglia, commanding the regulars, Dr. Belasich, former councilman of Fiume, was reported to havé escaped from prison and fled to Abszaia, where he declared the legionnaires were treating the city as a conquered municipality, with no regard for the rights of its people. D'Annunzio's decree militarizing all city employes met with resistance, he said, and 160 leaders were arrest ed, Similar reports were brought out by former Mayor Zanella, who was downeast over the city's plight, ~ CAPTURED | teria, CHOCOLATE. PRESENT FATAL Mrs. Carrie Booth, Named in Divorce Case, Reports Attempt on Life Her suspicions aroused by their appearance, chocolates, containing, according — to City Chemist Jacobsen, some ~ sort of poisonous salts, were brought for examination Tues day by Mrs, Carrie Booth, whe lives at the Vega apartments, — 1618 Terry ave. Had Mrs. Booth eaten any of the c , she would have been badly, fatally, burned, Jacobsen Mrs. Booth stated that she had no suspicion a# to the sender of ~ the package, which she received thre 7% the mails Monday at Wing's cafe where she is employed as @ waitress, she sald, 2 The chocolates were originally up in a 140unce box by a local ¢ manufacturer. POISONING JOB WAS CRUDE ONE The injection of the poison the candy was a crude job. That confections had been tampered was easily detectable: Each was mashed and crushed and ored by the coating of It was with one of these Jacobsen made his test. He liqui! a small part of the yellowish stance and placed it in a glass a piece of copper. This was b After the liquid had come to a Jacobsen poured it off. The of copper was coated with mereury, and reflected like a mirror, Mrs. Booth hurried from building after delivering whe, soned chocolates to Jacobsen, as said she had to be at work at IL o'clock. | DIVORCE SUIT FOLLOWS ALIENATION FIGHT Mrs. Booth is being sued for $ vorce by Donald H. Booth. marital troubles were first public several weeks ago when Booth brought suit for $50, against Mrs, Valeria Dwyer, milliner in the Hotel Frye building, charg! alienation of her husband's aff tions, Soon after wae 00 Mite naldehe, a ben indulgent husband = had “tried. make a home, but that his wife refused to keep caused his arrest on assault plaint which was later dismissed ourety, bared him. forced to pay her ‘di Valeria Dwyer was Booth in this answer. "y SAYS OTHER WOMAN SHOWERED GIFTS ON HIM Mrs. Booth stated that from the time she married Booth in Victoria, B. C.,"on October 15, 1915, they lived lovingly, peacefully and harmonious- y until January 1, 1920, whe charged, Mrs. Dwyer. her attentions on Boot She alleged Mrs, Dwyer bestowed “numerous costly presents and gifts on her husband, gave him valuable suits, clothes, silk pajamas, silk hose, silk nighties, costly hats, expensive shoes, silk shirts, elegant ties, and even a Packard automobile.” “Mrs. Dwyer is a mature widow of 50 years, used to the ways of the world, while my husband is 30, um- sophisticated, and unused to the world,” Mrs, Booth charged. “She vamped and allured my husband by flattery and induced him to take her for auto rides and to expensive cafes, where she contributed to the bill TOLD WIFE HE HAD LOST ALL LOVE FOR HBR Booth then. told her he had lost all love for her, Mrs. Booth said. In “another court document filed after Mrs, Booth’s answer to Booth’s original suit, the husband charged that she was not his legal wife, He alleged that she had married him within six months after she had been divorced from a man named Laird, in Clallam county, Washington. Booth also said that they had been married in Victoria in an ef fort to dodge the six-months’ pro hibition of marriage after divorce, George Olson and Pierce Loner gan are Mrs, Booth’s attorneys, while Philip TWoroger represents Booth After a harried examination Tues- day, Jacobson said he was’ not able to rmine the exact nature of the salts, but said he was satisfied they were poisonous Police are withholding action ins the case pending the outcome of Ja cobsen'’s complete examination.