The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 8, 1921, Page 1

LONE BANK ROBBER GETS 34,000 EM Weather Tr «ED Tonight and Sunday rain; gusty southeasterly LAT E HI winds, EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Mareb ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 43. Minimum, 38 ‘Today noon, 38 Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congre: SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1921. 1879. Per Yoar, by Mall, §5 to 69 ne LOVE FUGITIVES PLAN DEATHDISSS® PACT IF ROMANCE IS STOPPED tmar or 2 F ---at the End of the Week SHOOTING | WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- Cashier After He Gets “Keep Decks Clear.” Kelleher’s Advice. This Section Favored. Prosperity Certain. 6 RECASTS ARE PRECARI- \ OUS," sald Daniel Kelleher, airman of the Seattle National bank. “Business conditions which wil de- Iwelop thru the ensu!ng year are de mdent upon changing factors, hich will face unprecedented situa- . “AID that any of us can do In navi ating the uncharted routes before Us is to take frequent soundings and jobservations, keep our decks cleared for action, be sure that our masts sails are seaworthy, and keep a firm hand on the steering wheel. AIL PRICES REFLECT IOLESALE DE! NES present the encouragement of prices asked of the consumers actually reflecting the decreases in wholesale values, or, at Jeast. rapidly approaching this state. Buch a situation shouki remove the cause of the ‘consumers’ strike’ whien we have been experiencing. “Now the question of essential in- | terest that arises is: Is there avail- Adie the purchasing power needed for | Fesumed buying on the part of the; consumer? Has the readjustment up to this time resulted in the lesen fing or destroying of this purchasing power? Nustactory revival of business Activities requires proper adjustment of both of these elements. The con- @umer must be satisfled with the prices asked, and in addition have funds with which to pay. “The latest Bradstreet report of Christmas trade and the preinven- 4 KEN BY PEMENT War Hero and Sweetheart Halted by Order of De- serted Wife, Husband ST. LOUIS, Mo, Jan. §.—Pierra Paul Auther, descendant of Spanish [nobility and war hero, and Mra, Phillip Franzen, wife of a Madison, | Wis, decorator, who were arrested | here in an attempted elopement to the Mexican border, have made a compact to die together if they can not live together, Mra, Franzen said in an interview today. The couple were making a dash for the Mexican border and had stop: | |ped here for the night when Mra. Money in Holdup SALT LAKE, Utah, Jan. 8A | lone robber held up the Utah Sav- ‘ings and Trust company here this | morning obtained betweem | $2,000 and $4,000. The man walkee to the cashier's cage and banda @ note thru the wicket which remd: | “Hand out af the money you um jreach or you are a dead man.” ~ | The cashier passed out several | thousand dollars and then ran from behind the cage te the lobby, As | ne attempted to intercept the rob- ber the man fired @ bullet over the jcashier’s head into the ceiling and jescaped from tne building. ber was described as being He fled down ppearec. A dragnet |has been thrown out by the police jand sheriff's office in an attempt to and | tory sales immediately following, re | Franzen's trunk led police to a hotel fect that up to the present time/ where they were and resulted in| there HAS been ah available surplus the hands of purchasers. QUIDATION SURE BRING fle in this district the tumber pe and mills are closed down. ct are being held) farmers, fishing packs western business enterprises are sure to enjoy a period of prosperity. “In comparison with other dis | tricts thruout the country, oe gions here at present are muc | ouraging than those prevailing here—except for the one I ‘ous problem of the extravagance of the public administrations of this dis- trict, which has resulted in abnor- mally high taxes, as compared with @ther localities. | “Ecdnomy is fust as necessary fn | period auch as this on the part of| those in public office as on the part} of individuals or corporate business enterprises” = |, iO HARD TIMES AHEAD, SAYS CKSTEIN ing on “Optimistic Sides to} the 1971 Business Outlook.” Nathan Eckstein, president of Schwabacher | Bros. & Co., told the members’ coun- ef) of the Chamber of Commerce Fri- @ay that the fear of hard times is a| foolish one. “Instead of business going to the Bottom, it has already been there and fs on its way back,” Eckstein said. Former panics, he pointed out, have been caused by overbutiding of Cities or railroads, Today, he said, it Would require $50,000,009 to put up| the buildings so badly needed for} Schools, hospitals, offices, homes and the big hotel Seattle ought to have. “The calamity howler is a false prophet,” Eckstein declared, “He is trying to make good the dire things he predicted half a year ago.” HOTEL SMOKED BY CAFE FIRE Fire, starting in the grease flue ever the stove in the Klondike rew nt, 116 Washington st. Satur noon, aroused the tenants of the iging house on the upper three orien by sending swirls of thick f amoke thru the hallway ‘The smoke did #mall damage, but E required complete ventilation of the} edging house. Every window in the four-story brick and frame struc ture was opened. A large crowd thronged the streets @nd watched the firemen fight the smudge. Damage alto amoke not exceed $250. JAPS DENY U, S, WAR PROPOSED TOKYO, J L Japanese fore office today offi Cinlly denied reports that it had tnstr Japanese minister to Pekin to adopt a friendly atti-| tude toward China because of ap: | Proaching between Japan and | the United | “m “ | | (Delayed.)—The | war ta report as branded an fabrication” and the foreign office | | ¥. J. ELLISON, PROPRIETOR of the Skagit hotel, 207% First ave., ar Tested Thursday night on a charge of selling quer, was released Friday | n deposit of $1,000 cash bail a chievous was deplored by |Madison for a warrant. their capture. NEITHER SORROW FOR ACT Neither Auther, who has a wife and baby at Highland Park, Til, where he was employed as a chemist, nor Mra. Franzen expressed regret today over their act. “I love Pierra and I know that he loves me,” said Mrs. Franzen. “1 don't feel that wo have anything wrong. I expect to grt divorce, “Pierra wi do the ame, and then only death can keep us apart. And if more trouble comes, we two have decided that we will die together.” ‘The threeday honeymoon of the fleeing husband and wife was a flight from one place to another, according to Auther. The couple arrtved here yesterday and registered at a hotel near Union station. Mrs. Franzen denied to detectives that she and Auther were married She said she had known him several years and that he came to their home several times. She also denied | that Auther had a revolver, or that any demand had been made upon her husband. Auther is wanted on charges pre ferred by Mra. Auther and Phillip Franzen, the husband of Mrs. Franzen. TWO CHARGES AGAINST AUTHER Highland Park, ITL, polies want him on his wife’s complaint of aban- donment. Franzen has sworn to a warrant charging Auther with hold- ing him up for $100 and stealing his wife. Auther, a war hero and chemist, vanished several days ago and left a note in the form of a will advising his wife to marry the day after he was dead About the same time Franzen, who is a Gecorator, applied to police at He said Auther had been keeping company with his wife for some time. He said he found the two tn his home one night when he returned home from a movie. Auther, Fransen mid, pointed a re- volver at him and offered him to write out a check for $100 and sign a paper waiving all rights to his wife. Franzen declared Auther told him that he and Mrs. Franzen had been married in Australia 11 years ago and that Mra. Franzen support ed the statement Ford Gains 357 in Vote Recount WASHINGTON, Jan. 8-~-The re count of votes in the Ford-Newberry senatorial election in 398 of 2,200 pre- cincts today gave a net gain of 857 votes for Ford, the senate elections | baton that only persons holding tick- M committee announced. Dorothy’s Diary 1 am Grendfully exctted about the young man who answered our ad and who ts coming to live with us. He ten’t what you'd call handsome, bat he’s got a nice face. He owns a car, I think, because he asked about a garage. Mayte I was a little bold to butt into the conversation, but I told him I'd seen 4 garage advertised for rent in The Star and ran and fot the paper to show him. The location proved to be only a short block from our house, so he went over to the place and took it Maybe I'll get a motor ride that 1s, after we get bet- ter acquainted, BETTY CINNAMON— Ddecause she wasn't veered over the reports of her non-disap- pearing “disappearance,” but came back smiling and had thie photo taken of James 4 Merri. hew's especially for The Star. KIDNAPERS FREE LEGLESS EDITOR | Villard Nearly Freezes as Pedestrians Pass | | | ST. LOUIS, Mo, Jan &—After | having been held captive at the potnt of a gun for 11 Gays tn a Chicago) convict’s den, Jacques Villard, the| | legions editor of a Polish magazine published im St. Lauis, is today at/ home with Mra. Villard and their «| year-old daughter. Villard, released yesterday by the kidnapers, who were afraid of the| outcry in the newspapers, tele-| graphed his wife from Chicago lant | night that he was free, At 8:15 this morning he arrived here, For two hours after he was re) leased by his kidnapers at Franklin jcourt and Chestnut st. near the Chi | cago lakeside, Villard was unable to summon help. Paanersby to whom jhe called looked at the egies man, thought he was a beggar and went jon. Fearing that he would freeze to |death when the bandits abandoned |him, they left him « blanket which | was later found at the lakeside. | The man ts so light, the blanket | Was so heavy that he had to abandon | it, and he nearly perished with cold. jas he crawled along for more than | two blocks before he found aid Villard’s story was told this morn- ing to Floyd Young, superintendent of the St. Louis branch of the Burns International Detective agen- cy, which had been called In by Mra. Villard to help find her husband. POLICEMAN AID TO NEWLY WEDS Patrolman W. % Carr held the | Great Northern station gates Satur: | day against the onslaughta of the Munsey-Jenking wedding party, Carr explained from behind his trusty eta could pass. And, besides, the station was not to be littered up with rice, old shoes | and other genial post-marriage mis | | alles, Neither was the peace of the | station to be shattered with the rasp | |ing honk of shrieking horns, Patrol man Carr said But so persistent was the party on | etving a rousing sendoff to the new. | lywedg that they protested Carr's or: | ders | Carr called the patro! wagon, and| the party, except the bride and groom, rode to jail, where they were | interviewed by Hedges. Capt. Hedg dd the indig-| nant party by explaining that “the | law was the law.” Meanwhile, the newlyweds, John Jenking and Irene Munsey, speeded on their to their honeymoon ha ven in Denver, minus much-expected, high-priced rice and longed-for luxw rious old br " king lived at 1715 Rainier ave. | LINCOLN, Neb.—Mrs. Hiland H Wheeler, of Lincoln, and Mra, Drap: er Smith, of Omaha, presidential lelectors, selected to carry Harding land Coolidge votes lo Washington, coma NS GEORGE E, ARLUND— because, when two bandits whanged him ever the head Monday ‘he hung onto the bag containing 34,000, and saved that much for the Chauncey Wright Co,—Priee & Carter photo. DAISY HENRY— Because, in addition to writing movies and woman's pape stuff for The Star, she’s now reading 8442 scenarios mubmitted in the Parker Read, 7, $4,000 contest, —Prige é Carter photo. EEE | ARTHUR PRIEST— because, as secretary of the civ committer of the Seattle Cham- hea working to the - mit ta find employment for the ‘Cys foticas men Wife’s Hunger Strike to Make Husband Religious Now in Forty-First Day DANVILLE, IM, Jan. &—“If Great Britain could not make MacSwiney break his fast, how can we, in our smal) way, compel a woman to eat™ ‘This was the statement of State's Attorney John of Vermiftion caunty, asked if the state contemplated an effort to break H. Lawman, the 41-day fast of Mrv. Sadie FE. is uxtng this unique method in an attempt to force her husband to “get refigious.” An emaciated appearance # the only known ef- fect of the fast upon Mrs. Harrington, who former. ly was a plump woman. So far her pulse and temperature continue normal “Altho my husband ts not a bed man, be has no May 15. today when Harrington, who “If she wants her business,” the hunger strik him to come to I LAST RITES FOR |Prophet Says J, 6, SCRIPPS! Funeral of Publisher to Be Held Monday SAN DIPGO, Cal, Jan. 8.—Final arrangements for the funeral of the | “Papa” Johannes, that King Canstan- }An old musty late James G. Scripps, newspaper publisher, who died here yesterday, were completed today. Rervices will be held at 10 a m. Monday at the Scripps home at Mira- mar, 15 miles north of this city. The Rev. Howard B. Bard, pastor of the First’ Unitarian chureh, will be in charge of the services, Interment will be at Greenwood cemetery here. Business associates of Scripps on the Pacific coast will attend the services. Those in the Kast and jddle West were unable to come west in time to attend, with the ex ception of Roy W. Howard, business director of the Scfipps newspapers, who was en route to the coast at the time of Scripps’ death. Girl Bandit Up for Carrying Weapons Carrying concealed weapons was the char turday in Just B, Gordon's court against Fay strom, 21, and Wilbus Haskell, alleged to have n beaten to the draw of gung when they are said to D. J. MeLennan Thursday night. EASTERN COAL PRICES FALLING CHICAGO, Jan &.—Coal started to fall here tc Monday is expected to see slashing, according to dealers here, One of the largest coal retailers announced a reduction of from $1 to $2 effective today, prices | have attempted to hold up Detective | Greek King to Subdue Turks ATHENS, Jan, §.—A sensation has been created in Greece by the fore cast of the aged prophet-priest, tine will enter Constantinople at the hend of his army “before the end of October.” “But at the moment of Ais triumph something terrible will happen,” Jo- hannes added, which ia interpreted as meaning the king will be assas- sinated, Constantine is said to place credence in the prophecy, and to have declared that if he once enters Constantinople at the head of a Greek army, he does not care what may happen Johannes now resides tn Janina, and formerly was an official in the Greek church at Philadelphia, Asia Minor, He forecast the world w the duration of the Venizelos regim and the death of King Alexander, it is said, CHIN SH = TN! CHINAMAN, WAS FINED $1,000 in federal court Friday afternoon when he pleaded guilty to dealing in nar cotios. CARFARES GO UP SUNDAY Saturday is the last day that the little bronze tokens will en title you to a ride on Mr. Seat tle’« electric Hmousines, Beginning Sunday morning, at 3 o'clock, the new 8-cent fare goes into effect, Silver tokens for the increased fare are now being sold on the cars, tronze tokens will be ex changed only at the office of the muny railway, at the city hall Fares on the Seatt Valley line will undergo a r increase at the same time, he said rington weakened, and Wednesday pastor of the Chureh of God, El Doro, Mls., asking religion.” enld Mrs. Harringtor! today, “I will pray and abstain, from food until he is converted, on The Lord told me to do this.” The woman has also refused medicine tn which food was concealed. and refuses to take it Barnist 8, Harrington, a local business man, is the woman's husband. Pach day she is offered food to starve herself to death, that’s in the incipient stages of As the strike continued Har. he wrote the “ Janville and urge Mra. Harrington to abandon her fast. ALIENS BANNED BY TEXAS LAW | Expected to Stop Jap Colon- | | Pinas 2 | ization 1 SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan, 8.— law passed by the! | state legisiature in 1892 and denying | |to nomresident aliens the right to jown land in Texas, may prbve the |nolution for white farmers around | Harlingen and Brownsville in pre- |venting Japanese colonization plans. | ‘The law was uncovered by attor- neys in the employ of the Ameri- can Legion at Harlingen yesterday jafter the little town had been thrown Into a chaotic state by the Appearance of two Japanese fam ies, prepared to colonize, The ion citizens’ committee wnhited the Japanese and told them |they could not settle there, how: ever, offering to assist them to scure a refund of the money which | they had already paid out for land in the valley. on Democrats Cancel Jackson Day Fest WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—The Jack son day banquet, a notable annual event here of the democratic party, | will not be held today, for the first |time in many years. 30 GALLONS OF | MRS. M. B. RODERICK— Ddecause, altho she hal been dail- 4/f of the King county superior court for mine years, and was the country’s first woman bail- ff, the had never before had her picture printed.—Curtis photo. INSURANCE MAN “1S FOUND DEAD Two Revolvers Point to Murder KANSAS CITY, Mo. Jan. 8.—The | body of O. V. Dodge, vice president of the Midland Life Insurance Co., ‘Was found early today in the yard at his country home. Within two feet of the dead man's hand was a revolv- | er containing one empty shell, An-| other revolver, said to be the prop- | erty of Dodge, was found ten feet away. A ladder by an open window led po- | lice to believe that Dodge had seen | & prowler attempting to enter the building, had dressed, taking his re-/ volver, and slipped out to prevent the | intruder forcing entrance. | Police believe when the prowler| waa surprised he fired once, saw he} had killed Dodge and threw his gun | down beside his victim, apparently trying to build up a suicide theory. No shots had been fired from Dodge's revolver. Mra. W. R. Jaques, a neighbor, said she saw a man leave the Dodge prem- ises in a motor car. HE WASN’T DEAD; HE’S DIVORCED Charles ‘R. Foster, street car con- ductor, received a telegram from| Portland saying his wife, Mildred was dead, He went and found it} false, Wherefore, he got a divorce in Judge J. M. Ralston’s court Fri- day. 3 BALLOONISTS NEARING GOAL BY JAMES R. KELLY (Copyright, 1921, by the United Press.) MATTICE, Ont, Jan, &—The three American balloonists, who are returning to civilization after their record-breaking flight into northern Canada, were believed today to be within 30 miles of Mattice. They were believed to be resting at the camp of John Sutherland, an Indian trapper, who has a line| of traps and good shelter about! 30 miles down the Missinabi from | here. | Mattice assmed the aspect of a| the arrival persons ‘interested An abandoned small city of numbers in the bailoonis billiard hail was reopened to furs nish housing for the crowd fhe outside estimate as to the today, with of BOOZE IS FOUND Thirty gations of grapo were vol untarily turned over to police Fri |day night by C. EB, Prather The liquor was not intended for | consumption, how Prather ex | plained, and ts being held for safe | keeping. | Prather said he found the booze 300 | set south of Jefferson park olf fe Links, time of their arrival is now Mon-| day evening. They probably will | get here before that time, SPRING IS COMING Another sign of spring! 2, A. Miller, 4442 33d ave. S., reported today that a Japanese flowering cherry is in full bloom on 14th ave, S., next to the play. fleld and directly across from the Standard ofl station, |a taxi driver here capture the bandit oe TWO SOLDIERS ARE ARRESTED AS AUTO THUGS PORTLAND, Jan. 8.—Boyd Efile” and Frank McCleary, members of an infantry company at the United. States army barracks, Vancouver, — Wash., were arrested in a Vancouver pool. hall this and leged to be the two men who gee! last night, his machine and robbed a garage, later making their escape from the city after a duel with two policemen. is, who is said by the police to have been positively identified by the taxi driver and the garage man, was brought to Portland by the local. officers who made the arrest, McCleary, when the state line bee tween Washington and Oregon had been reached, refused to proceed and announced he would fight extrad tion. He is being held at Vancouver, The police took $40 and a bottle of ammonia from the suspects. The amount of money about tallies with the proceeds of the loot from the two holdups. Ellis is being held on charges of assault, robbery, and for having dam apons in his on. Pollcemsa, Skoghiaml and Simpkins, who are held te have abandoned ‘the chase of Bilis jand McCleary here last night whem their capture was possible, were removed from the Portland police force today by Chief Jenkins, fol- lowing a conference with Mayor Baker, who publicly charged, the officers with cowardice, eee AUTO BANDITS ROB JEWELRY STORE $20,000 CHICAGO, Jan. 8.—Auto bandits today held up and robbed Jacob Klein's jewelry store of $20,000 im cash and jewelry. Klein and three employes, including a girl were bound and placed in a room while the bandits rifled the show cases and safe. ae ae ae = a Eligible Men Must — Marry in 60 Days PARIS, Jan, 8.—Hungarian news Papers state that in certain villages of Hungary an order has been pub lished according to which all men over the age of 18 who are able to maintain a family must marry with in two months, The objects are te decrease immorality and increase the birth rate. Tasmanian Police to Aid Murderer HOBART, Jan. 8.—A trooper of the Tasmanian police has been sen+ tenced to seven years’ imprisonment for shooting dead an escaping poach- er. The police threaten to strike and to rescue the prisoner if he is not re leased. The cabinet is considering re- mission of the sentence, GIRLS WEEP AS THEY SEPARATE Bonds of $500 having been depow ited In Gan Francisco for her by her fiance, Lloyd Jacot, Eva Printz, Rus- sian girl stowaway, is a free resident of Seattle today. There was a tearful parting be- tween Eva and her companion stow: away, Anna Lapina, at the immigra- tion station yesterday, The latter's case has not yet been acted upon by the department of labor, Fva Printz is being cared for by Russian friends, and expects to sail for San Francisco soon to wed her lover,