The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1920, Page 1

lA PDP PPP PPP ‘Today moon, 52 Ew Weather Tonight ram. and Fresh to strong southerly gales, Temperature Last Thursday, 4 Hours Minimum, 46 SEATTLE WOMA CRUSHED IN A i On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Class Mattor May $, 1999, at the Postoffice at Seatth Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 The Seattle Star 3 CHILDREN TO WRECK TH EW LATE EDITION He Had the Ducks Of That He's Sure And When? BY HAL ARMSTRONG Boulevard iffer. He'll Tivecourse di Rimseif, tear up you cafe and set you up r, the on your way out, Schiffer always goes out first day of the duck season. fall was vo bunting companions forth the night before Feach the lake early ecourred. &p when the Ration. exception. he in far, gathe Jed into tired ed up their kits and the woods. Shiffer He had put iar, and was, in short, Rearby @ucks were reported ron thru the timber @n the smalier. headed ter the larger I felt drowsy.” oke, shouldered hia «up Struck across to the smaller where he could hear quacking loudly. On hands SHOOTS HIS QUOTA, RETURNS TO SNOOZE few! Ppervonally from ledge. a pile of fallen leaves. was away culty, using butaide, looked at his watch. noon. fe and went to sleep. A rough shake companions had returned tion. on this party We shoot @ucks, remember.” “I've got my quota,” bis mental faculties after his Doubtless he “Shake yourself and come on.” said | Monday morning. : P ‘another. “We were almost to the, The postman left the packages a| So ah erg ng ae Jake when we missed you and came/ large one, addremsed to Miss Law-) 4 une came out aghing The can hack. Thought you were lost. Hurry.|rence, and a small one for her) yo i customary pia She *We want to get there before the motion tn cn oe ot the Loma | picked up the bundle from the corner | all gone.” |apartments, 715 Seventh ave. ophigy Reed -- echoed Schiffer.| The landlord carried the packages -_ fob age ng he rox 2 gme | What do you mean, get there. Been |p to the second floor, put them| iis oe tM Rotimi nyatery. | there all day, haven't you—and no|down in front of the door that he| St aft} @ucks? I went over to the small thought was Mra, Lawrence's, and| Meanwhile Miss Lawrence and her Tie amd shot thine.” | rapped. mother decided to do a little detect-| TIME W BACK, SHAPELY ARM eee BUT HE HAD THE FOWL REACHES FOR IT He scratched among the leaves| A shapely © arm reached out | nd dincovered his string of birds.| A feminine voice said. “Thank you. | Ihe others gasped, We're Just getting up.” “Where the 7” they unisoned.| And, presto! The packages var , hot ‘em on the small lake, I tell | ished pou,” +S hiffer insisted, | That might have been the end of “Tell it to Sweeney,” said one,|it had it not been for a friend of} <a pulling out his wateh. “We've only| Mrs. Lawrence. The friend had seen|TQO Be Introduced been gone 20 minutes.” packages in the office just after - : Schiffer glanced at the timepice,|the postman left California then at his own. It was not yet 9 You're getting lots of Christrnas, o'clock aren't you?” said the friend to Mra.| SAN FRANCISCO, I 29.—As- He examined his gun. It had not| Lawrence, later. “Did you get your]... re Rosenate! M4 once been shot. But there were the| packages from downstairs this ; pagh a. Aaoeet - ROUenaeN, °, 8 é Gicka, #He'brought them home and| morning?” San Francisco, announced today that ate them. j Mrs, Law ce replied that abe had| he would introduce into the seasion not, and ed out to look for|of the California legislature, opening ys j them. next Tuesday, a bill forbidding any b G l I | “Why, I left them at your door,”| alien from owning land in California a y ir Ss | explained the landlord. “Your daugh. The measure will extend to all } ter must have got them.” | aliens the present California law for The mystery deepened. The maid) bidding Japanese from owning land. i orn on aS was questioned. She could throw no| Whether Rosenstein's bill is the light on the matter, The landlord) one which was contemplated by the went up to Mra. Lawrence's apart: | antiJ. nes Association of Califor. | cross ‘aci 1c ment to show her exactly where he| nia wax not indicated, but, accord | “ had placed the package jing to Rosenstein’s sta t, it will GAN FRANCISCO, Dec The! “I put them here,” he said, “The cover the same ground well-known stork overtook the steam-|hand reached out here and picked ean er Nile en route from San Francisco | them up. » \ to Honolulu, and as a result today! “But that ts not my door,” said} Charles Ww. York Is \. the Nile has an extra passenger on| Mra. Lawrence. “This is my door | ard here, No. 214. That door is No. a16,| Seriously Injured "The new arrival ts a baby daugh.| where you left the packages.” | SPOKANE, Dec. 29.—Charles W ter born to Mrs. Roy Coulter, wife of AND THE MAID York, manager of the Auditorium | a Texas oil man. The child was) SAW THE D D jtheatre, and well known theatrical | named “Pacifica The landlord apologized profusely.|man of the Northwest, is in a ho# Pacifica was born aboard a British| He would find the packages and see| pital today wth a fractured skull ship, chartered to a Ch e company |they were returned. It was most|due to a fall down a flight of stairs| on the high seas, but she is an’ Amer- | absurd in the theatre last night. He may ’ bean citizen, If you believe this yarn, drop in down waitr You a bit cigar with his complime With motored | order to} Engine trouble It was an hour after sun- party reached its dest- “Come on,” said one of them. thought you were lost. Nobody sleeps our own How Did He Get 'Em? at Jack te yr check and hand ts on the This} four The five ef them piled out of the head- was a fatiguing day | ithe day before, had slept none in the “all in.” There were two lakes, a small one and a large one, where the! plentiful, ys It was miles and a half to the larger One. No ducks had ever been seen ‘The party strung out along the lake, “I looked at my watch. It was Some time later. Schiffer says he and) lake, thé ducks and knees he crawled 100 yards to a point of vantage overlooking the pond. © water was literally black with He shot his limit, retrieved the water, them onto his shoulders, and | ragged himself back to the shelter-| He Duried the ducks un-! Hix fire had gone dead white he He rebuilt it with diff-/ leaves from under the and damp twigs that he gath-| awakened him. His They had no ducks, he noted with self-satisfac-| “We Schiffer said. The four others laughed deristvely Tt was obvious he had not regained nap. ad been dreaming. | | Tt nina} He sprawled before the Perhaps Santa Was to Blame mot" Tardiness Is Mrs. Audrey Lawrence, victim of a belated Christmas tragedy-drama. Two pretty girls, Gait Gilemith and | came one of its girl occupants with | ing. [her sister arrest. Handsome Miss Audrey Law “TT put my crumbs here,” she mid|they were addreased to the Law-| rence and her charming young| stood—when mother, Mrs. Bertha Lawrence, are| ise. At without their Christinas packages. | where else. Detectives and prosecutor's assist ants are up in the air. All becaum|itn Mrn Santa Claus came late, got his trails | gi tn a corner. twisted and left the packages before} ip in the door of the wrong apartment} pack Out of room $16 some moments later} ecover, SEATTL E, WASH., “WEDNI 2¢ 2 29, SDAY, DECEMBE Cause “of "Two Girls Being Held hog Jail! And Audrey Is Minus Her Nightie Marion Hayes, are under|a bundle of trash. She went to the| tioned. | corner where the garbage can always | it was not somewhere| the moment it was some Lawrence, setting the bum | rences and “The janitor can put| down at the door of the Lawr the can when the can comes} apartment | b | } | ‘The girls in 316 were ques Had they seen any bundles? They had. ‘Two of them. ‘The land- lord had put them at their door. They had taken them into their room, saw | had at once put the a oe same They had done thy | with another package, similarly left at the wrong door, only a few days! before Entor two detectives, who take a hand in the investigation. Had the two sisters # take the two packages fr of the Lawrence door. | They had not But some one m any one m im front must have taken them? The packages must have | been stolen? Surely! Vory well, but the sisters had not opened the packages themselves? Indeed, not! | Did the maid remember the bundie of crumbs that bad been placed in |the garbage can by one of the sis- ters? She did Could whe identify it among the other rubbish and feteh it? | She could AH! THE CARDS! THE NAMES! Bhe went to the can and lifted the) | lid. She drew out a bundie. She said it was the one, The detectives opened it. Miss Lawrence uttered a ery of surprise. Mrs. Lawrence gasped. Inside the bundle were the torn! wrappings of th two Christmas | packages, with cards attached bear ing the names of the intended recip. jents and of the senders as well, One was from a friend of Mixw Law- rence in Pocatello, The other was from Bellingham for Mrs. Lawrence. But the contents of the two packages | were miseing Miss Gilamith and Miss Hayes, pro- testing their innocence, were led} away to the elty jail, Yesterday aft ernoon they were charged with petit) Prosecutor T. H ny by tterson. Mrs. Lawrence has not yet learned | what was in her package, but her| | daughter wired her friend in Poca. tello, who replied “The present I gent you was a white and Javender silk nightie.” It is yet unrecovered, Deputy F | CHARGED WITH HAVING company "For the last several weeks, the | wtandard has been down to. 450,” | Hutchinson admitted, “but as all ap- | pliances have been adjusted to use |no change BAND IS BUT CHILD, SAYS COURT Boy of 16 Is Sent to Juve- nile Department in | Care of Mother | year-old Arminarm with his wife, who # an expectant mother, Loule Arnol4, 16, charged with grand larceny, left the ruperior court Tuesday afternoon, bound for the | juvenile court, in ecustedy of his mother aa his only guard “1920. SHOT DOWN RESISTING OFFICERS | weary of Small Town Work, Twins of 24 Stage Holdup and Fail KANKAKER, Ill, Dee ing in their father’s little automobile shop in the village of Greenville, near here, was an uneventful existenon for Jacob and Joseph Scott. The two youths, twins, 24, decided to add spice to the humdrum life by 29, He had been adjudged too young {holding up the crack Ne. 2 New Or for the jurisdiction of the higher | court, In spite of hin fatherhood and his marriage of 15 months’ «tanding, | Jitge Calvin & Hall found him « bt rier company, covering was deal loday from the mage on ved by. fire a child, n Cd C, Roms, who informed the court | that the brighteyed, #traieht-stand- | ing, handsome boy had accidentally fallen in with an expert forger and had been badly twisted from the straight course over which bis nat ural instincts might have led him. dene on the recommendn- | » | rear car as the train wae getting a PASSED BAD CHECK letart over the lapgpvered totte, ctl Loule was specifically charged | Gilman, IIL, when he felt three re with having passed a forged check | volvers sticking in his ribs jon RF. Langiaise, obtaining $5 tn! “As you are, flaggie.” the twogun merchandise and $25 in money. Ar-| bandits sald. “We are going to stick | | ralgned with him was his companion in the deed, Henry Meyers, 21, to! whom the court gave a suspended sentence of one to five years at Mon-| rom. the case to the court. “The boy has | no evil inclinations,” she sald. “He merely bas not worked, except that recently he joined a scheme to earn pennies by working for a local news paper. have supported him and | his wife. After the proceedings, the girl wite | clung to he® husband and smiled. Her pretty face Showed no trace of doubt She believed In Louie | “We will cover the thing up,” she | nid. Yobody. must know.” Loule was asked for a photograph of himaelf. “Don't.” interposed the little wife. “Please, Louie, don't, We will cover) the thing up,” she smiled again. “No. body must know.” “You may go to the juvenile court | at it next session,” said Deputy Prosecutor Ross, departing. “I leave you in charge only of your mother.” The ‘boy Imughed appreciatively and mother, husband and wife were gone. | He, will probably tell his story to| Judge King Dykeman when the juve | nile court convenes Friday. | It ie understood that all parties concerned with the case have recom: | mended extreme leniency GAS CONSUMER NOT BENEFITED That the effect of the public eer. vice commission's order in lowering 600 500 the gas standard from to B. T. U. will be ne ible so far as) the consumer is concerned, was the | assertion made Tuesday by 8. RK. Hutchinson, of the Seattle Lighting | gas ranging from 450 to 620 British thermal units, there will be virtually from present conditions, Ford’s Detroit Plant Is Closed, \ DETROIT, Dee. 29.—The I Motor company's Highland ok plant, where approximately 50,000 men are employed, has been closed for an indefinite period, it was of. | ficially announced today | The plant was practically shut | down last week when it was an- nounced that an inventory would be taken from December 24 to January 3, While it ix possible the shops may remain idle many days following the completion of the inventory, reports were current that the entire opera tions would be at a standstill until at least Pebruary 4. | brother for forgetting his other gat. For Louis, his mother explained | 1 | JEWELRY STOLEN . A. secretary, and pass it down the car, All were instructed | jto drop in thelr valuablex About 000 in cash and jewe coh | "| lected veral women argued with the youth and induced them to allow them to keep some “keepsake” or irloom.” The boys were quite | gallant. They refused to take any | of the brakeman's money, saying they “weren't picking on working | men.” \5 ROBBERS ARE ‘CAUGHT; SHOOT :/ TWO CITIZENS leane-Chicago train, on the Lilinois Central PRES. WAS just compar Wilson day. offer. The fusing his liter bring. inite » when ure to has set _..'$2,500,000 1S Delaware Leather Plant Is WILMINGTON, TURNS DOWN OFFER $150, was given 2 BROTHERS IDENT WILSON 000 ARTICLE HINGTON, Dec, 29.—For article a publishing has offered President 0,000, it was learned to. president declined the ne y $15 president's reason for re this offer and ot r ones as a desire to market ary output for what it will rather tha pt a def. um for any tha mpleted might not meas the standard the president for himself. article LOST IN FIRE Destroyed Det. As @ reat of thetr venture, Jacob |The plant of the Wilmington Leath- & ratirond detective’s, gun, four Joneph was in jail here, Their father | ‘Be night. broken, BOAKD TRAIN IN WILD WEST STYLE The boys boarded the flyer in true Wild Wert fashion, James Rowe, a flagman, was the first to learn of the holdup. He was climbing aboard the up this rattler. Toss your oii lantern a* usual and then climb aboard.” As the trio swung aboard the train the twogun bandit scolded his ie explained he had left it home. With handkerchiefs over their! faces, they dashed into the Pullman, | gave the order to “#tick ‘em up,” and scores of startled passengers obeyed. | “We're tough eggs, and we mean business,” the two-gun bandit said, “It anyone makes a phoney move, he's His voice trembled as he spoke. The passengers said they were aware the boys were novices at up game, but they were not taking any chan: of moving. The one-gun | man swung his gun around wildly. | 000 IN CASH, The brakeman was directed to take the hat of Miss Margery Fawcett, a f. W.iC. The news vein cr selling cigars. The entered the car, boys ordered a box passed among the men passen ers just before they left the train. ‘The robbery was completed in about 30 minutes, The boys were captured a few hours later at Aroma Park, a station near Kankakee. Jacob made a dash to ¢ mortally wounded. CULVE! Ind, Dee *—Five | bank robb held up the State Bx. | nge bank here today and shot tw leading business men of the villag Three of the alleged robbers were captured by a posse of civilians here | 15 minutes gun battle after the robbery after a in which a hundred shots were exchanged. Two other alleged members of the ig were taken into custody by K¥ox (Ind.) police. Most of the money obtained was re- ered from the captured men WAT | Water will be shut off from { high service tank at Maple } voir from 8 a. m, to | p. m. on Thursday, Decem- | Prosecuting Attorney | ang mother in Greenville were heart-| The loms ane sa, er stead 500 HOMELESS AS FIRE HITS BROOKLYN ZONE NEW YORK, Dee. 29.—Five hun- dred homeless women and children, wrapped in blankets and shivering under the spray of a dozen hose lines, w atched a fire today which swept over five building in Brook lyn. Lon@’ was estimated at $75,000. Policemen and firemen rescued a hundred failed to or more persons who had awaken at the first alarm. TERRE HAUTE SUFFERS IN | $500, TERRE HAUTE, Five hu rarity th a fire which wrecked a section of 000 FIRE Ind., Dec. 29.— ndred persons were tempo- rown out of employment by the downtown business district here jlast nigh age of $5 damaged GUN 1 One of led wy way night A reve against open charge, and will nt, with an estimated dam. 500,000. The fire destroyed the hold-|the entire stocks of two stores and 5, ARRESTED the youngest prisoners ever id in city jail for carrying a con- eapon, is Leslie Dayton, 15. | He was arrested by Detectives BE, W Yoris and C. and ©. Fortner at Broad Republican st, Tuesday over and five shells is held Dayton. He is held on an probably be turned over to the juvenile authori- ‘ties. WAGE CUT TO HIDE DEFICIT? can Asse The en ape from the officers and lock That the Thomson ordinance pro. | ed himself in a wash room. Ordered | posing a 15 per cent wage reduction to come out, he started shooting thru | for all city employes is an attempt jthe panels of the door, After he| to juggle the civil service payroll to had emptied his revolver, Special | overcome a deficit in the operation of Agent John O'Neill returned the fire] public utilities was the charge made thru the door, and when it was| Wednesday by the executive board broken down, the bandit was found, | of the seattle chapter of the Ameri- oclation of Engineers. ngineers went on record as being strongly opposed to the salary ion de: reduc The when pri mal rate ‘ HAA proposed by Thomson, jared that from 1916 to 1919, joes were Mounting at abnor. the great majority of civil employes were denied raises sufficient to meet the in § AGAIN IS CITY CANDIDATE Bushell, the Gira F, Haas, for ten years a mem Me of the council, filed his declaration of candidacy to succeed |himself Wednesday, Haas is presi dent of the council at the present! time. He has been a resident of attle for 80 years. He is the second man to file for the couneil, John a retired auctioneer, being Dee, 29.— eity TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE _ MACHINE ‘CRASHES ROB TRAIN; ONE KILLED WNTOCAR; © SINJURED © Seattle Family in Tacoma Street Accident; Tires Stick in Rails Mrs, Roy R. Bachelder, of 1258 | Eastlake ave., this city, and her three Ismail children were seriously injured | when her husband drove thelr auto mobile into a Portland ave, stenet jcar in Tacoma today. Mrs, Hachelder sustained internal injuries. Virginia, aged 3% years, has con- cussion of the brain, Margaret, 6, received internal im juries, William, 6, haw a fractured leg. Bachelder hurts, The family went to Tacoma this morning to attend a Bachelder drove a car he had rowed from H. A. Pallady, of Pallady Welding Co, 1106 Pine where Bachelder is employed as mechanic for J, H. McDiarmid, In driving along Bay st., Bachelder kept his machine in the car tracks, A car was approaching. Bachelder attempted to swing his ai out of the tracks, but succeeded in turning the front wheels from tl rails. The street car and au’ collided with great force. The chine was completely smashed an the ccupanta thrown into the street, GUARDS THWART PRISON BREAK Bullets Fly in Walla Walla Riot WALLA WALLA, Wash., Dec. 29, —J. Williams, convict, is believed dy+ ing in the prison hospital today, and Turnkey Joe Smith has a fractured tempted jail break late yesterday. Convicts armed with knives they — |had made attacked guards on their |return from the jute mill to the cell | tiers. The alarm brought guards with | rifles and a fusillade was volleyed ag the mutineers. The names of three mén involved have been given out. They are Frank Holmes and George Kimes of Seattle and T. O, Young. ‘ The trouble started in what was known as the “San Quentin gang.” Officials say this gang has been plan | ning to shoot its way out of jail for two weeks. BOOZE VILLAGE IS OPEN AGAIN Insists on Being “He-Man” Town ASHLAND, Wis., Dec. 29.—Saloons raided by federal officers at Hurley, Wis., the mecca for north woodsmen | and miners, were reoponed today, Tol |lowing withdrawal of authorities, ac | cording to reports received here. Relatives of the men arrested at | Hurley and taken to jail here were | again dispensing liquor over the it was reported, and vows “to keep. Hurley a he-man’s town” were again heard. Thirty-eight alleged vendors of liquor who were caught in the raid yesterday were to be arraigned be fore United States Commissioner @, |C. Gates here today, Together with | these were 19 “customers” caught ip | the raids. Federal officers here stated that they “were not thru up in Hurley,* and indicated that other raids woul@ be conducted. Oregon Prisoner Is Sentenced to Hang PORTLAND, Dec, 29.—Husted A, | Walters, Who was recently convicted jof a charge of murdering Patrolman Jerome Palmer here, was sentenced yesterday afternoon to hang at the | Feate penitentiary February 10. Car. | BALTIMORE, Ma., Dec. dinal Gibbons’ physicians said today he had slept well aguin last night and was much refreshed today, He is still confined to his bed but it is probable he will be removed to his Baltimore home shortly after New Year's day, skull as the result of a desperate at- ti 4