The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 31, 1920, Page 1

g457iie 18 t Ey Weather Tonight, f fresh southweate rly winds, ‘Temperature Last MM Hours rain; _—e dit Today noon, 44. air; Saturday, 50, Mintmum, 3& On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Yoar, by Mail, $5 to $9 _vOLU ME 23 ‘Story HAGEN CONFESSES : Three Men Three Automobiles. Three Lengths of Hose. What the Moon Saw, BY AL ARMSTRONG down thru scudding clouds into Third ave, near James st (This is one of the best yarns tn the repertoire of Capt BE. H. Plum r) The yellow moonlight {ilumined automobiles standing againet curb across the street from the County-City building. ‘There was no necessity for the Moon shining that night. There were plenty of arc lights in the street, Dut Capt. Plummer likes the moon. Underhanded work was afoot. A man stole quietly out frofh a dowy doorway. He looked up the oe then down. Then he darted | across the sidewalk to the nearest | of the three autos. HIS FINGERS TOUCH THE RADIATOR CAP Gingerly, his fingers clasped the Padiator cap. He started to unscrew $, then jerked away and scuttled) Back into the doorway. Another man Q@ppeared from another door, 10 Paces distant. The first man watch- @4 him with suspicion He had no hat on. Neither had) the first. He was in his shirt sleeves, as the first man was. He approach (@d another of the three autos, and Bis hand gravped the radiator cap. Suddenly he, too, started back, and 4m three quick steps disappeared in ‘the shadow whence he had first) ome, just as a third man stole into Siar from @ third position. the two others had previousty @one, he rapidly crossed the sidewalk © nd esmayed to unscrew the radiator | ap from the third car, He detached the cap and set ft on the curb, From his pocket he pulled @ three-foot tength of bose. “Weir exclaimed the man whe @ firm appeared. |, well” echoed the second. APPARENTLY HE DIDNT | OWN THAT CAR “I say, brother,” shouted the first fm a stage whisper. “Do you own that er” ‘The third man winced. 3 “I beg pardon,” he apologted. “1) fwas only—" ) “In that case,” said the first, “you ‘won't mind if I tap the radiator of | ‘one of these other cars. ‘The third man sighed, relievedty. “Certainly not," he replied. “As like. It's hot dog, isn’t it?” “Yl tell the world,” said the first,/ “as he advanced, drawing « short of hose from his shirt bosom. Up to this time, the second man had remained in the shadow, quietly. | He now announced: “I've bad my eye on that middle for some time, brethren. If you "t mind—” Not the slightest.” chorused the ) @ther two in startled tones, and the Pecond man crossed over to the) car, jerking a hose from his! Fight sleeve ‘Three radiator caps stood on the hatone, three lengths of hose sen into three radiators, three| men bent over and remained in that Position a long, long time. RCH BACK TO THEIR ECTIVE DOORWAYS “With my own eyes I saw it,” says Capt. Plummer. “After a time the three men withdrew their hoses,/ gcrewed on the radiator caps, lureh-! 4 back into their respective door- ways and disappeared. “The next morning I went to the CountyCity building on business The three cara were still standing Dy the carb across the street. It was Pitterly cold. I heard Sheriff Btringer say to Deputy Bill Sears “‘{ thought I told you to put a quart of moonshine into each of those radiators last night so they Wouldn't freeze.’ “And Sears rv “So I did, fennson.”” plied: sheriff, so help me (Note: The practice has been dis- | @ontinued on account of the warm weather. Capt. Plummer is watch- fing the forecast.) YNAMITE JUICE MAY BE CAUSE MILWAUKEE, Dec. %1.--Shore ward, Milwaukee's most exclusive suburb, is seeing things. Monday a Geer was reported; Tuesday, a wolf Wednesday, a bear, and yesterday, an elephant. Prohibition agents were paged, o_ Operation for tor Chamberlain WASHINGTON, Dec. 31—fenator orge Chamberlain, whb haw been fat Emergency hospital here sev. efal days, will undergo a second oper ation today, it was announced at his office. The senator's temperature was enough to permit the operation, . mid. His condition, however, £ said to be critical. * Cardinal Gibbons ‘ Condition Worse BALTIMORE, M4, Dee. 31.—The condition of Cardinal Gibbons was Feported as unfavorable today. The prelate spent ry restless night _ end was rather weak, ATTLE, WASH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, TO BOOZE RUNNING : TE pale December moon beamed | LIQUO DISCLOSED : T? Former Poljceman Admits He Was Waiting for Booze Shipment Confemsion that he was waiting for a consignment of booze from a ship | when he was arrented early today on the beach at Endolyne, south of the city limita, was made at noon today by Ed Hagen, 34, former 7 | who is at liberty on heavy bad ing appeal from conviction In ei jcourt for alleged looting ee a a whisky warehouse Bannick, West Seattle ae rege vad Jack Larsen, 36, fisherman, arrested in Hagen’s auto, B.C. wit, |lams, 27, engineer, waa captured | shortly afterwards in an auto of his} own, near where Hagen and Larsen were arrested. Police believe that) they eracked wide open two whisky | running rings by the — ipade oo oe deach. WILLIAMB Nort HIS PARTNER “Williams was not my partner,” Hagen is alleged to have said. “Byi- | dently he was waiting to get some) booze from one of his own ships.” “What were you doing down i at that time of night?’ Capt. Bannick asked. “I was down there to get booze.” Hagen in said to have reptied. | |vBut I didn’t get it. 1 didn’t have lany booze when you hy me, and you | haven't a thing on me, so what are! you going to do about it?” Hagen also eald that he had re | ceived several shipments of liquor on the beach at Endotyne, and bootie: ged some in the city affer running police lines in a high-powered car, | Capt, Bannick said. “Business was very good, Cap,” Hagen ia alleged to have eaid with a | «mile to his former superior officer. | “We knew it,” plied. “We have been laying for you for two months,” PATROLMEN PRAISED FOR ARREST Patrolmen C. W. Quade and W. J great credit for the arrest, according to Capt. Bannick, Patrolmen Mc | Quade and O’Brien made the first ar- | rest at 230 a.m, Hagen and Larsen \are said to have been seated in Ha gen’s powerful auto, watching the waters of the Sound, when the offi- jcers estore ee They submitted without resisthnce. A loaded .24-caliber revolver was found in the auto, Larsen had $160 in cash, Hagen was taken to West Seattle station, while Larsen was locked in the city jail. Shortly after the first arrest, Patrolman Bell ar rested Williams in an auto near where Hagen was caught. Williams had a loaded automatic pistol and $321 Until Hagen's report Williams a member of his alleged gang. With| Hagen’s denial of thie, complications | were added to the exposure, and |Capt. Bannick said he was sure that two whisky rings instead of one had n spoiled. Bell, A confession, /HOLD WOMAN |FOR SMUGGLING CHINAMEN Caught by sheriff's |the Acme bridge with two Chinese that they are alleged to have smug gled over the Canadian their new touring car, a woman. Ethel Clayton, and a man, Sam Lar. son, are held by immigration offi clals today. Larson i# held in Bellingham, while the woman and the two Chi nese are lodged in thesimmigration detention station here, pending in vestigation. According to Inespector Vall, of Bel- lingham, the car, a five-pasnenger Hupmobile, was stopped at the Ac me bridge yesterday, Larson and Mrs. Clayton, he said, professed will ingness to submit to search, but did not satisfactorily explain the pres ence of the two Chinamen. The Chinks were a lot of camping equipment in the rear of the car, Inspector Vail ald, and when this waa removed, the 500 bottles of Chinese whisky were found, packed in burlap. ‘The man and woman are said to have con teawed Acme is a short distance south of Lindin, Whateom county, not far — the Canadian line, Capt. Bannick re | | R. C. Me thought t re have been | deputies at) neated on top of | Ford Closing Is Vacation With Selary| DETROIT, Dec. 31.— The situtdown of the Ford Motor company will, for a while at least, be but a “vacation with salary” for the employes, officials of the company said today, in announcing that the distri- bution of 7,000,000 in bonus checks will start early next week. The checks are being drawn up today, it was announced. Nearly 70,000 employes will share in the bonus, includ- ing every branch of the plant. KRUVOSKY GETS 1 TO 50 YEARS =: SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 31.—F4 (K. 0) Kruvonky, prizefighter, today was sentenced to a term of from one to 50 yearn in the state penitentiary aa & rewuit of his conviction on 4 charge of assauiting Jessie Montgom- ery of pte ta Nev. '13 PLANES ON | MEXICAN COAST! SAN DIEGO, Dec. 11.—Thirteen of | the 14 navy seaplanes flying from San Diewo to the Panama canal zone were at San Bartolome bay, on the} Mexican coast, today, preparing to | hop off for Magdalena bay, on the second leg of thelr journey. The 14th plane, the NC-5, had been forced } to return here, but waa expecta rewume the flight in @ day or so. The 12 F-5-L type planes arrived }at San Partolome yesterday, about an hour ahead of the heavier NC-4, which was the 13th plane to leave here. ‘SAYS VALERA NEW YORK, Dec, 31.--Eamonn de Valera, “president of the Irish re public,” ha& returned to Ireland, it was announced here today by his secretary, Harry Boland. De Valera, who spent more than & year In the United States selling Sinn Fein bonds and making speeches in behalf of the Sinn Fein cause, has been missing for several weeks. Boland refuses to say when and| where De Valera landed. It i as sumed that he went as @ member o: the crew of a liner. RAMS HIS HEAD ON RADIATOR Declaring he would be better off if he could only knock his brains out of head, C. 8. Ward {Bremerton as mentally unsound, | rammed his head against a steam ra |diator in the county jail Friday un til stopped by deputy sheriffs said he lived at 1120 Cogan ave. Bremerton, He had $1,787 in his | pockets when taken into custody. He is maid to have been involved in sev eral large real estate where in New Hampshire, ATTORNEY SUES | MADGE SAWYEK Madge Anna Sawyer, granted a new trial on a charge of |murdering her husband, Howard I. | Sawyer, is being gued for an attor. © of $1,456.65 by Edward C. e, who defended her when she waa convicted Hyde says Mrs. Sawyer agreed to} pay him $1,600 to defend her, and all expenses, and that the balance un paid i# the amount sued for, He border in| attorney He recites that the probate court |«ranted her, on November 8, 1920, 2,000 shares of capital stock of the H. I. 8, Motor corporation as a par: tial allowance on her husband's ew tate, and from thie he has tried and failed to collect the money he claims is dua IS IN IRELAND picked up at? Ward) transactions. | 500 bottles of Chinese whisky | His nearest relative is a sister some- | recently | saya he has been discharged as her) TO ENTER | ON TPPTOE Police Chief Wz Warns Seattle Not to Get Too Bois- terous Tonight Have af the fun you want tonight, secing the New Year In, but don't be nolay, don’t throw talcum com fettl, don't use ticklers, don't drink Nquer, don't be rowdy, The law is the law, ‘This was the warning today of Po | lee Chief Searing. Dancing of the proper sort will be tolerated, he maid The chief'# warning was to some extent unnecesmry, No liquor, ac cording to bootirgrers, has reached the vant pore Christmas, with the ex- of @ very «mall consignment ot Jeon Dewar Scotch. This wae cageriy snatehed up at fancy prices, $27.50 the quart, tie Nomads of Avrudka, Ale Pantha No. 17, will hold a dance in Knights of Pythias hall, Third sve and Virginia st, At the Armory the Second Division famoctation will dance. Tape will come the dying of the old year. | Harriett L. V. Herbert, French ee Rein oe will sing. Festivities for about 1,000 young men in uniform, including dinner, have been arranged by the Ex-Serv- lies Women's club, of Seattle, for New Year's day, Former service | men without families wil be cared | for if they will phone Elliott 3844, Watch night services will be held in many city churches, To bring the New Year in with & | merry swing, lively entertainment te | promixed at a number of Seattle the | atres which have provided special at tractions for a midnight performance. Tickets have been sold out for the big doings at the Moore. Levy's Orpheum will present more than 20 vaudeville acta, followed by dancing upon the stage and in the big marble foyer. Jazzy music and | surprises galore are promised in the Midnight Follies at the Pantages. The Palace Hip will give an extra show Oodies of fun, with lively muaie by | Arthur Kay's big orchestra, will be | the feature of the midnight show at the Coliseum, The Blue Mouse, the | Strand, the Colonial and the Oak also promise a variety of happy | stunts SIXTY MILLION FOR NEW YEAR’S FETE WASHINGTON, Dee. 31.—-Approx imately $60,000,000 will be squan dered in merrymaking celebrations of New Year's eve tonight, if the nation | runs true to form shown in govern | ment reports of other years, The government, however, will col- lect money in consumption taxes on the national reve cases except on liquor consumpti jon admissions to theatres and cab arets are expected to net the gov ernment at least $500,000 for the evening, or 10 per cent of the sum hepent for this purpose. Dinners and parties will account |for an expenditure of probably $50,- 000,000, it was believed. Rootleggers have been unusually active during the last few weeks, ac- cording to reports from prohibition agents and police of big cities, owe Some Will Pray; Some Will Weep CHICAGO, Dec, 31.—Silent suppli- jeation to the divinity, munching of | golls and sipping of coffee by hungry jand ragged strangers and clamor. | ously and incoherently uttered toasts to the god of conviviality, will mark |the advent of 1921 in Chicago. | In the churches faithful flocks will gather to thank God for blessings be- stowed during the year just passed land entreaties will be made for | bounties during the new year. On | the stroking of 12, silent prayers will be offered With only 60 federal prohfbition operatives in Chicago, those who feel |the urge of conviviality and imbiba- ition have little fears but what thelr | joy will go on uninterrupted. The Chicago police department has an- nounced there will be no interference with the carrying of liquor to cab 1920. Seattle’s Greatest Year AFE you getting the New Year Blues? Forget it! This city of Seattle has less reason to be lugabrious than has any other community in the United States. We've had our “slump” im Seattle. We've ab- sorbed it. It’s a thing of the past. We're down at rock bottom now—and it’s rock bottom, mind you, that builders look for whén they want to build a solid foundation. When the shipyards closed, Seattle ex- perienced what cities of the East are ex- oat Progress build up. * 8 NWVHEN things get slow in the Eastern cities, men are going to turn to other things. Men are going to the farms, for one thing, and that’s what the country has been needing for 15 years. Men are going to undeveloped territories—to Alaska, as the greatest undeveloped area under our flag—and every man who goes from the States to Alaska is an asset to Seattle, Alaska’s gateway. The Orient needs American goods, and these goods are going to be shipped—mostly thru Seattle. + & ON’T let this senseless wave of pessimism which has started in the East depress you. The East has less reason for the doldrums thane it thinks it has. Seattle has none at all. The very reasons which cause Easterners to view the future with unjustified dread point to Seattle’s immediate future as bright and rosy. The needs of the Orient and the certain de- velopment of Alaska mean that the coming year can be made Seattle’s greatest— Not greatest in profits, but greatest in Not greatest in business volume, but greatest in business vision. Seattle’s “slump” is past—and discounted. The unstable element is gone from our civic structure. There’s no mushroom growth in town. ~- What we have is substantial. It’s solid. It’s sure. Let that sink in. Look up, not down. To revive an old sl : “Look at the doughtnut, not the hole.” LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE CROOKS MURDER TO STEAL PAY CASH 1 Seas Crime Commi as Manufacturers Are Shot in Cleveland CLEVELAND, Obio, Dec. 31.—W. C. Sly, president, and George Fam — ner, vice president of the W, v= Manufacturing company, were and killed by five automobile bandits on an open street here at noon today, The bandits escaped with the om pany payroll of $4,500. ‘The bandits used two automobiles for the holdup. As Sly and were driving at fair speed their plant, another machine into them. When Sly and Fanner from their wrecked car, another chine drove up. The occupants of the car which caused the wreck Ge manded the names and addresses of the two officials, blaming them for — the wreck. Witnesses told police that bandits drew revolvers after @ ment’s parley and, without deliberately shot down Sly and ner, Then they seized the bag and sped aren . BONDS ROBBER IS SHOT DOWN Bonds, a man identified by police Hobart Austin, 32, was killed Sheriff A. L. Jett in a gun duel. bonds were recovered. The robber entered the bank from : the rear while officials were in the front, and rifled the vault before his presence was detected. Z When discovered he made escape down an alley in the rear the bank. In the running battle foll Deputy Sheriff Dillard was thru the leg. The bandit took refuge in a storage warehouse. Sheriff Jett went in after him and killed him a gun duel inside the building, eee CHAUFFEUR IS SHOT; HELPER IS WOUNDED CHICAGO, Dec. 31.—Three limou- sine bandits shot and killed Joseph Sweitzer, chauffeur, and his helper, Edward Ridell, when attempted to seize a truck-load whisky consigned to a druggist. Fear Caruso’s Voice Stilled by Suffering NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—Fear was expressed here today that the ae en voice” of Enrico Caruso may never again be heard on the operatic stage. Despite unofficial reports from his bedside that he was “better,” follow: ing a second operation in connection with his serious illness with pleurisy, the feeling grew among his friends and admirers that the series of mis- haps, culminating in his present com dition, mark the beginning of a de cline in the musical career of the most brilliant tenor the world has ever known. It is practically certain now that Caruso cannot appear again at this season of the Metropolitan grand opera, No one but members of the family, the six attending physicians and the nursing staff has been per mitted to see Caruso since his illness became admittedly serious this week, But his apartments in the Hotel Vanderbilt have been deluged with messages of condolence from all parts of the world, and with great bouquets of flowers, including some which represent the greatest self-de nial by little groups of his worship. ers in the poorer quarters of the Italian colony here. Caruso, himself, ever an optimist, has not at any time conceded the possibility of his permanent retire ment from the stage, according to re ports here from the sick room, and has constantly evinced the greatest cheerfulness, despite the severe pain he has sometimes suffered. Salary Reduction Up This Afternoon Calling for a reduction of 15 per cent in the salary of all civil service employes of the city, the ordinance introduced by Councilman R. HB. Thomson will be before the finance committee Friday afternoon for con- sideration. A large lobby is expected the bearing,