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Preparations for Battle Are} Rushed; Venizelos Seems to Be Gaining WITH THE Grr yr ARMIES IN Greek armies) offensive | ‘Against Turkish nationalists ‘ “With the inimstion of “cleaning them | ol If the allies fail to take action | &t London, General Viachopoulos de. | glared in an interview today, | | “Mustapha Kemal's forees can be Wiped out im ten days, Mander declared * Thousands of mon are being rushed | %o the front from back sectors and| “Preparations for the attack are com ‘Plete, he said Anterviews with scores of Greek of: |) | oers indicated clearty that the ma. | a are ant!-Constantinists, carry- Out their present duties at the di Sorder of the former premier, | os, in the belief that he will power again and that King ptin® will be forced to abdi-| | ‘Greek forces in this region number 25,500, Kemaltists, according ‘the intelligence department, num ‘only 10,000 and are poorly equip. and illy-disciplined. They are) with small arms and ma guns and ammunition partly of | A, partly of Italian manufac CHURCHMAN E WEDNESDAY ‘Dr. Herbert L. Willett of will arrive Wednesday Shon from Spokane, to address a} of ministers and laymen) by the Seattle Federation of s wit launch & whirtwina here | the com. ope Willett’s theme will be Chureh Co-operation Has | plished in Chicago and Other | At noon he will address Unt of Washingten students in men's building on the campus. “At 6 o'clock he will be the guest honor at the church federation in Plymouth Congregational Dr. Willett is dean of one of schools of the University of was for several years pres- of the Chicago Federation of and also represents the Council of Churches of in America. ER FIGHTS HER CHILDREN For the possession of a ranch and in the White River valley, J. Vaut, 75, is fighting her and her daughter-in-law, Emory and Maud Vaut, in Judge Otis W. Brinker's court. All are living the disputed premises, | “Mrs. Vaut says her son gave her) her husband the property 19 ago, and she wishes to assert title. The son says he gave only the right to live on the ‘The cuit is airing an‘alleged con. conflict between the mother the daughter-in-law. /SPAPERS IN ENGLISH ONLY |the trial of ‘Thomas Mooney was! jean Matheson, captain of detectives, | Mooney and Warren K. Billings. ‘Husband Allows | Her to Have but LOS ANGELES, Feb, §.—It was} all right in the days of courtship, but married, Mra. Jack more than one once they were Shaingold wanted ht inthe house. “she testified in a divorce action that her husband allowed but one electric Nght bulb in the house and that she carried it from room to room at night in order to find her way about HERE’S MORE ABOUT MOONEY CASE STARTS ON PAGE ONE ed needed. | “Freedom for Mooney will be one of the greatest victories for labor} in the history of the country. It} should have a powerful effect on the status of all political prisoners.”*| eee M’DONALD WORD WAS IMPORTANT IN CONVICTION SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. § testimony of John McDonald ‘The in of major importance in that [t con- sisted of Mooney’s identification. In substance, McDonald testified | he saw a man piace a suitcase at} Stuart and Market sts, where the} bomb exploded and then he identi fied Mooney as the man he had seen. McDonald's statement follows one recently given by Detective Draper Hand to Mayor Rolph in which Hand is alleged to have said that he himself was instrumental in “framing” certain parts of the case against Mooney. District Attorney Mathew Brady publicly announced recently that if| the evidence tends to establish that} the Mooney case was “framed” he} will ask for a new trial for Mooney immediately. Brady announced today that he would make an immediate effort to have MacDonald brought to San Francisco to appear before the grand jury SAYS HELL HELP RIGHT INJUSTICE The,announcement thet John Mac Donald was ready to repudiate his testimony, stirred up a new interest in the Preparedness day dynamit-| ings today. “If any injustice has been done, I will help right it,” declared Dun who which “bomb bureau” | evidence against headed the gathered Matheson declared that when he first heard of MacDonald as a pos sible witness, he warned his assoct-)} ates that the evidence should not be | used without verification. “It is more important that justice Resolutions directed against the ‘publication of any newspaper, peri- tical or pamphlet except in Eng- No, 18, American Legion, and Forwariea to the state legislature. It is asked that legislation on thiq) ES “eubject be passed. The terms pro “posed would require each foreign | “publication to print in the same issue “@ complete and literal translation in English of its contents. Violation of “the act would be made a misdemean yor, with penalty of $500 fine or six Months in jail, or both. DEAN HUGO WINKENWER- DER, head of the forestry depart: “Ment at the university, will lecture! the Chamber of Commerce assem: | Diy hall at & p. m. Wednesday, > BNative Trees ot sof Washington : on _ davenile Dancers Wanted Seattle children ali DANC- FREE. enrolling the Blue D ING one with Rendemy before | y before COURSE is ci arge of the Childre: ympetent teacher who h @inder the best masters in EF 9TH AND EB. MAL Phi ‘ Feb. 15, a MONTH'S SON Miss Frances Hamm ‘Class Prophet and winner of gold medal scholarship in Wilson's Business Collexe, will read the Class Prophecy at the Commenc ment Exerciaes of the 26th G nating Class to be held © Temple Thursday Ing, February 10. he public is invited, The ex- ercives are free, for Modern i ven have been adopted by Seattle | de vindicated in the Mooney and Billings cases than in any other cases I know of,” commented Dis trict Attorney Matthew Brady. He jadded that he was anxious to accept | | Attorney Walsh's offer to bring Mac- | |Donald to San Francisco to appear before the grand jury Brady said he received an import | lant message from Walsh today, the contents of which he did not give out. He said it was “hotly ex lermy ” PEETE WOULD | SAVE HIS WIFE ROPER 300 a ALA HERE’S MORE ABOUT One Light Globe | St48TS on PAGE one ferred to a little grip. oxfords, of pumps sweater lereen silk aw Jother thingy, | Alice, | Bvans visited J | Alic THE SEATTLE STAR GIRL ROBBER Pair of brown two henna blouses, a pair a blue two drens, skirts and vest, a three silk night ater, ies, & French cap and breakfast cap, pairs of silk and forks and spoons, hose, six knives carving set @ dozen more spoong and #everal unmentioned, but seen sometimes in the back of the Ladies’ |Home Journal, they 1 of Alice The grip in which rested was held in the ha | the maid DRESSES IN BEST GOWN AND FLEES When Tipp called his home about 4:30, his 18 old son informed him that the “plano was being moved.” Whereupon Mr. Tipp moved |homewards with great speed. And Alice dressed hurriedly in Mrs. Tipp’s best gown and moved out wards with greater sr Tipp arrived to find his plano crossing the sidewalk, propelled by two brawny movers. Halt! Ret order was ¢ Meanwhile The ordered Tipp. Alice wan fingering a cheek for § that she had received from H. Colson, 1216 37th ave. N which he had gt her for the | Plano. She had c him on the representing herself ax Mra Tipp, and made the sal SUL posing ax Mra, Tipp. she se cured $60 on the check from the McClure grocery, nearby, and din} appeared—to reappear For, the next day she waited at the | Queen Anne school and onenaed a Hittle girl to go to the gr and get the reat of the money on ‘the check, She gave lttle sirl a note to that effect But Me was suspicious and answered “Nix.” So ended the Tipp eplaode mn rarily With the speed of a Napoleon, at least 22, appeared at Went & Wheeler's office and wanted to see & house in the Phinney district. She was given the key to a house at 3969 Fremont ave. An hour later, Martin Magnussen, of 3612 Fremont ave, \who in a plumber, was hastening toward 3969 Fremont ave. Some momenta later he had cleaned the house of plumb ing under orders from the new land lady, Mra. E. C. Evans—sheheh—it was Alice, at least 22 Alice naid |for thin NEXT TO NO PL “But you may pay me Magnussen paid NANT OBJECTS MBIN G The next proapective tenant that Yinited 3959 Fremont ave., discovered that he was being shown a plumbing }less houne. And told Weat & Wheel jer 80. Then they discovered their! Joma, Detectives dincovered they plumbing in Magnussen's shop ona and Yesler way, occupies a apace on the fifth tloor of the public safety building. Mag nuessen told his story rarity. J. M. Price, of the Junction Realty Co., 4219 W. Alaska st., was the next mere man to be a pawn for the clever, adroit Allee. As Mre. F. H. Evana, of 2610 Tenth N., she rented a house at 5926 46th ave. 8. W., from him. The house was furnished—that ts until Mrs. H. Rice, a Junction furniture dealer—tt WAS furnished. Soon thereafter the furniture found itself in Mr. Rice's after Rice transferred $120 to Mre Evans, And soon thereafter Mra. Evans transferred her whereabouts to parts unknown—to Price's and Rice's disgust SHE TRIES TO SELL THEM CAR LINE (7) Monday at Kauffman station, on Green Lake, the three detectives met with Ali It is alleged that line for a jit, when they were com- ing downtown, and that she endeay ored to pawn the jail off second-hand soon thereafter. But there reste the strange and mysterious case of the dazzling. puzzling, befuddling Alice Peres, alia. . ditto Riley, at least 22 is said to have con * the detectives, reel twisted ownerships, to straighten Price, Rice, Magnussen, aned all others concerned GIRL BANDIT | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 8 Filing a motiop for a new trial in |her behalf, attorneys for Mrs | Louise L. Peete today obtained a the formal passing of a sentence of life imprisonment, fixed by a jury as the penalty she must pay for the murder of Jacob C. Denton A stay of execution was granted pending arguments on motion before Judge Willis on t date. Mrs. Peete, appearing in court for the first time since she heard the tragic verdict last Saturday, seemed more than before. weary and depressed | Monday night, Oil Co. money bag dropped by a col matching a Standard | postponement until February 16 in| lector who was held up in the station | by| at Fourth ave. and Lenora st her youthful man companion, abou 7 p.m. T. H. Lacy, collector, of 202 23rd ave. N., was the victim }1227-B Terry ave., ma. Ww. |an automatic pistol was thrust thru |a rear window with a crash of brok glass, and N. LOS ANGEL , Feb, 8.— valid husband of Mrs, Louise L. | Peete, who faces a life prison term |for the murder of Jacob C. Denton, | wants to serve the termn in his wife's | piace “He Jeould by n Q F ‘The in- told me that he wished ranged for him to go to entin in my place,” Mra id today, in her cell where she | was awaiting the opening of court She is to be sentenced at 10 a, m | today. “Until yesterday, [not told me |missed me, it | Pes my husband had how much my baby because he wanted spare me that anguish,” Mra, Peet added. “He said the baby needs me. ‘L wouldn't live long in confinement, jand I'd jus soon be dead ay have [vou @ there,’ he told me Gets $2, 500 Damages | From Auto Accident} Returning a sealed verdict in| | Federal Judge hman’s the jury in the case of John Hayes vs, J, Bechler awarded the plaintiff $2,500 damages Monday afternoon. The suit arose from an auto ac cident in which Hayes was injured court, | young man, lying on an embankmen | outside the window. He orde |to put up their hands. As they complied the girl came in| the door, grabbed the collector's! | satchel, and left as hastily and silent. | |ly as whe had come, stoppin, jwhut off the gas on Lacey's car, prevent his starting pursuit After keeping his victims covered for a few minutes longer, the girl time to esgape, the man also disappeared The loot totaled more than $125, 1 is estimated. ONLY A FISH STORY loading frozen at the foot of t, and they're going in the bay because the storage rges have en up the profits,” said an excited |} voice over @ Star telephone today The Star called the port com mission “Yes, scow, te | they're scow |] Spokane |] to dump it we're loading it on a but not to be dumped in the "was the reply. “It is to be taken up the Sound, to be consumed.” a pink silk | finalty | “New plumbing is to be Installed,” | he was hastened toward Fourth ave./ where the city jail | Detectives | smiled. But they released him tempo. | hop. Soon there: | ahe | tried to sell them the city street car | And | « in a maze bt} are endeavoring McClure, Colson, Tipp, Mra. Tipp and | ROBS OIL CO, A girl about 18 years of age made | |her debut as a hold-up artist here | He was chatting with B. H. Scobey, | Bangs, 70th st., in the station when} Behind the pistol the three saw al them | only to an immediate to allow cae MINE LEADER MAY BE JAILED ‘Alexander Howat Will Learn Fate | PITTSHURG, Kan, Feb. 8. Alex ander Howat, district president of the United Mino Workers of Amer lea must go to jail for calling @ trike He is to face Judge Curran on charge of violating the permanent injunction against calling wtriken Howat haw admitted that he signed the order which resulted in 200 minera throwing down their tools Ho refused to plead guilty to viola tion of the injynetion yesterday |however, and said it was up to the court to make the decision, 'MORRISON SAYS_ | INDUSTRY COURT) IS A FAILURE | WASHINGTON, Feb, 8.—Frank Morrison, secretary of the American | Federation of Labor, today declared o coal strike in Pittsburg, Kan, wed the failure of the idea on h the Kansas industrial court ts | based ‘Approximately 200 miners quit in Kansas, in the face of an or | der not strike Morrison said. Thin shows you cannot compel men to work with th wechinery of a urt or any other form of compul sory arbitrat The strike demon strates conclusively the |of labor that constitutional | hould be resorted to for the tion of this court.” BENEFIT DRIVE TO END TONIGHT Two benefit dances Tuesday night will close the campaign which haw brought more th $20,000 Into the ¢ relief of the families of on contention cane bolts | >. ttle police officers who were killed by bandits With Art Hickman's 10-plece orchestra furnishing the Tuste, the | dance _ the Hippedrome, from #30 }to 12:80, will be for the benefit of roe fund. Admission is $1. | The servioes of all employes have been donated that the entire amount taken in will go to the fund. The other da will be given by » Aerie No, 1, Fraternal Order | cien, and in for the benefit of the widow of Patrolman W. T. An |gle, who wan a member of the lodge |The dance «tarts at § p.m. In Kaglo| jhall, and adminsion ix 60 cents HIBBARD OIL CASE RESUMES, The George J. Hibbant case, con-| tinued from Friday, was reopened ‘Tuesday morning before Federal Judge Noeterer. Procedure wan a repetition of what has gone before. | | Numerous witnesses were called} lby F. C. Reagan, assistant United! States district attorney, to thatity as to their business relations with | the defendant ‘They told how they had advanced Hibbart various #ums of money for| locating them on alleged oil and pincer claims, and had given him the: power of attorney | | only | Morris jon the suggestion of Senator John |son, ‘JAPANESE LAND BILL UP TODAY : Chamber Commerce Man Asks Further Delay OLYMPIA, Feb, 8 That pro: anese interests were end amother the antiJap land bill was the eh made at the open hearing before the joint ec relations by Rep Jones, of King, yesterday ge followed the request Seattle Chamber of Commerce ntatives for a further post at of the measure, The ré quest was not granted, the commit tee voting unanimously against fur ay committee went {nto executive immediately after the open The session was continued fternoon, to permit of the of documentary evi until this examination dence Roginald Parsons, former, dent of the Chamber of Commerce of Seattle, charged that Washington is being made a cat’s-paw by Californ’ presi politicians Miller Freeman, editor and pub linher, pointed out that he had been fighting Japanese aggression here 18 yours, D. Melntosh, who repre | sented himmelf to have been connect ed with the United States intelli ® department during the war,! appeared in behalf of the Japanese He asked leave to file confidential, papers with the committ He tx now connected with the government he maid. | Alice Lord, business secretary of the waitresses’ union, declared it wae imponsible to compete with’ the Jap anne corgs B, Lamping, of the Seattle port commission, while de \claring himself opposed to Japanene nin the Northwest, urged na law was too dras would drive Japanese shipping to iritish Columbia, | 1. W. Ringer and Rert Ross, Heattle, spoke in favor of the bill Rone recited the difficulties of land ing €x-service men in employment Marriages between whites and Ori entaln are prohibited by a bill which was passed by the house yesterday ‘Thomas F, Murphine was the father of the provision ‘The bill raised the age of girls who can marry without their consent to 21, Mra Anna Col woman representative, intro duced the measure, No provision is made in the bill for girls between the agen of 18 and 21 who are without parents or guardians and who wish to marry Mra, Colwell’s bill, which would raine the ages of girls for legal pur to 31, was defeated by the parente | poses | house, ‘SENATE TO ASK ‘FOR REPORT ON | JAP DISCUSSION | WASHINGTON, Feb. &—The sen-} ate foreign relations committee will | ask Secretary of State Colby to lay before it the report of Ambansador | on hin conversations with Ambassador Shidehara, of Japan, on | the California immigration and land | rights controversy, it was decided to- day. ‘The committee instructed Senator Lodge to ank Colby informally to! submit the report for information of the committee, The action wag taken j 1 | California, and it was decided | not to request the information thru | a formal resolution bed the senate. 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