The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 19, 1923, Page 4

— SUNDAY'S SON ESCAPES DEATH Police Say He Tries Suicide by Gas in His Room LOS ANGELES, Noy, 19.—Altho Members of the family denied the truth of the report today, police of Statement that Goorge PF. Sunday, eldest son of “Rilly’’ Sunday, famous evangelist, attempted to take his lite yesterday afternoon by inhaling gas the Wilshire division reaffirmed thetr | thru a tubo in a bedroom of his home, "Two officers, responding to a tele: phono call from Ernest Holm, Sun- day's chauffeur, reported they went to tho residence, where they met the chauffeur, Ho told them, they declared, that Sunday had attempted to kill him: self. When they insisted on seeing him, Holm led them to a room where Dr, James Johnson was administer ing to Sunday, Both officers claimed they were met with a curt reception by the Physician, who told them Sunday Would be taken care of and removed to a private sanitarium. Dr, John- Bon admitted, however, the officers declared, that Sunday had attempted death, Interviewers told George Sunday the two investigating officers were Outside to rectify their error and Would like to {dentify the man to | «Whom they saw Dr, Johnson admin- istering. Sunday, it is said, refused to see the officers and declared he ‘Wanted the matter dropped. “Then the police report is cor Fect?” he was asked. “Yes,” replied Sunday, “let it go as It ts.” Sunday's name was found In a Tocal bootlegger’s directory recently by federal officers, who said they Would question all persons whose Hames were found listed in the book. ope % HERE’S MORE ABOUT BANDITS STARTS ON PAGE 1 fauto. The two women bandits are employed in a downtown shooting fallery, according to the police, They hhaye so far evaded arrest. . BANDIT TAKES OVERCOAT, CAR Bandits were active Saturday | might and Sunday night. robbing| three men and attempting to rob another. A lone highwayman stopped an automobile driven by O. B. Babcock, | of R. F. D. No. 8, a mile southwest Of the city limits on 2ist ave. 8. W. Sunday night. Babcock was forced to give up $14, his overcoat and his automobile. Babcock made his way, coatless, in the rainstorm to a tele phone, where he called the police. E. W. Sutton, 5511 23rd ave. N. E., lost $23 and a stickpin when he gras held up at 40th ave. N. E. and Railroad ave. Saturday night. M. R. Martin, Excelsior apart. ments, was robbed of $35 by a ban- Git, who held him up at Boren ave. and Pike st. early Sunday morning. Surprising a man in tho act of fobbing his room Sunday morning, W. C. White, Columbia hotel, sprang | from his bed and grappled with the fellow. They engaged tn a terrific fight, during which the bandit lost} his hat and part of his overcoat, but | ings Managed to escape from White by] @ desperate effort. He obtained HERE’S MORE ABOUT VETERAN STARTS ON PAGE 1 his wife as guardian. Testimony against which Johnson| Protested, was given the senate/| tommittes by Dr. Smith of the bu- Feau. Smith sald that Kasavage had only recetved five dollars out Of a liberal amount furnished Mra.| Kasavage to care for him, that she| hhad failed to visit him and that) Kasavage objected to her being ap- Pointed his guardian. Col. Easby-Smith, counsel for Col. Forbes, deplored the fact that the committee Had found ft “necessary #0 to limit my time for tho pres- @ntation of testimony In defense} of Col. Forbes as to make it im- Possible for me to make a com- Plete and adequate defense. fBut I know full well that this| has been due to the limitations of} time {n which the committee must} conclude its labors,” he added. He} fasked the committee for permis- tion. to submit a summary of w he had hoped to prove iu Forbes'| behalf, a list of witnesses he had expected to call and a number of| documents. The cor tes «= as-| sented. RIFT SEEN ON POWER ISSUE That the Was ranks may €r fight is indicated to eo ¢@rs in the announced Pierce County ¥ club, last week, ; tions condem ‘ } {1 taking ing permit ] ting the c outs{de ' The Reed id tax gross sales of munic ’ pal power 5 cally mentioned, is hell to the last lep 1 is not specifi <a} an leadershit ' i Will never forget Y Lou, cre * The HUNCHBA | of NOTRE. PAE” Who are wenk and run down, id call upon ux without de- Selence In doing wonderful things nowadnys for the unfor- tunate. We specialize in ali the neute chromle diseases of men ' Sires erecta ELECTRO MEDICAL DOCTORS 6il THIRD AVE. James St. Sam and His Caretaker and Pal, George Mohr —Photo by Price & Carter, Mtar Btatt Photographers Has “Done His Stuff” for Seven Years in Landscape Class Sam may not have higher educa- tion, but he has “horse sense” enough that ‘tending a university tsa mighty good job, So Sam goes on ‘tending at the University of Washington—'tending the lawns and ‘tending to the waste | paper and rubbish on the campus. For seven years Sam hag been “doing hie stuft” in the class of land. scape gardening, and, ao far as he can see, it's going to be a dozen years or so more before he's ready to matriculate. For Sam, you see, is only a horse. In fact, he's “the” horse. The only horse owned by the university, and the object of campus affection. He's the pal of George Mohr, of the build and grounds department, who bas driven and cared for Sam all| during his univeralty days. Sam came out of a skirmish re- cently with sophomores with flying colors. The sophs wanted to strip off the trappings Sam wears when drawing the lawn mower, and re- place them wtih posters annbuncing the sopha' barn dance and parade Sam about a3 a walking advertise. ment. But belng a “sandwich: horse’'| didn’t appeal to Sam. So, when everything waa set for the parade, | Sam balked. Stubborn as any mule, | Nary an inch would he budge, And the sophomores finally had to| take the posters off and carry them themselves, On top of that Sam was Ibeled in| the students’ Dally. It reported that | Sam waa greatly humiliated as « result of the incident. As a matter of fact, Why should he be? Sam's been around the knowl edge factory for seven years; the| sophomores only one. he waan't. Lake Union Water Too Cold for Easy Suicide Kansas City Jazz Hound Gets New Idea of | Things as He Plunges to Icy Depths | A moonshine jazz party that had/ that he was shadowed by detectives, its inception tn the soft-tinted road- | houses of Kansas Cityrsevers weeks | Ak# one x leap and seek peace | about departmental matters and sea! ago, came to a nerve-shocking end| in the icy waters of Lake Union Sun- day for Willis Buck, 27-year-old death | Buck said. seeker. Several husky fishermen, sinying at thelr work on a boat at the foot | of Roy st., heard a splash and left off thelr singing long enough to| | haul the shivering body of Buck to |the dock. Later, when some of the | chill had passed out of his blue jaws at the emergency hospital, Buck told| hag had no {Il effects upon Buck, it |/!0* department reorganization thot} Detective O, I. Van Buskirk all) about it. “Ever been in trouble? queried! Van Buskirk. “Never been in nothing else but— trouble—and the lake,” Buck said. | Buck then confessed that weeks ago while “staging a part. Kansas City, he had passed sev checks, aggregating about $200 that he had no funds to meet them. He fled. Tho shadow of remorse has dogged him until Sunday, fearing Man, 90, Near Death | From Thugs’ Blows'| LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19.—Pteda Garcia, 90 yearn old, for over score of years candle Ughter a Viblana cathedral, Mes in the pa ceiving hospital near death today. Disappointed because Garcia only had $3, two young bandits set upon him as he was coming from his| work early this morning and beat him nearly to death. Doctors fear| the enfeebled old man, who is suf. fering from a fractured jaw numerous othe ries, may dle. | and } broke and despondent, ho decided to | and seclut “There's something marvelousty | invigorating about that lake water,” “I guess it's a pretty good world after all.” Ho is going to return to Kansas | City, face the music and start all over. Police have wired Kanaas City asking if a charge has been lodged against Buck. The plunge Into 20 feet of water, barring the possibility of pneumonia, was reported at 1 elty hospital. SEN. MAGNUS JOHNSON |! CANNOT GIVE AID TO SEN. HIRAM JOHNSON IHICAGO, Nov, 19.— Senator Magnus Johnson of Minne- || sota is convinced that Senator || Hiram Johnson, California, who Just announced his candidacy for the republican nomination for president, has “lost some of his || progressivism.” For that reason Magnus Johnson fears he may be unable to support his name- nake. The Minnesota senator made two addresses here yesterday and left for Washington A third party ticket appears inevitable, Johnson said. The ro- publicans undoubtedly will nom inate President Coolidge, and the democratic convention will select another he said Johnson refused to talk further on a third party. “stand patte Your Girl will Aake a real interest make a success of the fin with the at home. necessary Just bec stove is no r younger gener: ioned coal why the of cooking if you provide her equipment ause her grandmother used an old- and e art fash- ason ion should be burdened ~~ Biscuits _ Searing Roast Let us show you the N The G Stuart Building YOU MEASURED THE REST— NOW MEASURE THE HEAT Bake at 375 Degrees for 50 Minutes Seattle Lighting Company Nut Bread 4 cups of flour, 6 tea- spoons of baking powder, teaspoon salt, 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup English wal- nuts, 1 cup milk, 2 eggs. Mix and sift dry ingredients the chopped nuts. Add and well-beaten eggs. Put in two buttered pans and let stand 20 minutes. ECESSITY of LORAIN! as Co. Main 6767 | see that no more is thrown away on | pocket to a porch climber," “Hmm! Did he say that? Well, that sounds like Erickson, It's all) | polities." forcement of tra pended for 20 ye and removed |from the traffic department | Asked to comment on Couneil-| an Oliver T. E: ‘s statement, “If I were a crook when Hans| | Damm, Captain Searing, Lieutenant | Carr and Captain Bannick were sent to the outskirts, I would move | 13 RAILROADS SUED ON RATES 1,000 Western Shippers Say Grain Charges Excessive KANSAS © ry, Mo, Nov. 19.— Suits totaling $2,000,000 were filed againet 14 railroads today by repre nentatives of 1,000 Wentern shippers, demanding rebate on alleged over charges in frelaht rates, The sults, filed aitnultansously in federal courts in Kansas City, Chit, cago, St. Louls, Topeka and St, Jo: soph, are based on the Interstate commerce comminsion’s decision that rates being charged for carrying grnin In thia territory are unreason able and‘exeeed by one-half the in- crease granted ARS IEE aay 1920, Workman Hurt ir in Fall Down Stairs Albert J. Armstrong, 41, superin- tendent of the ‘T'raung Label and Lithograph Co, wan serlously ine jured Suplay, when he fell down a flight of steps at the company’s plant, He was found by an em. ploye in an unconscious condition and rushed to the city hospital, where physicians sald it wan prob. able his pkull had been fractured. Later on he was taken to his home. Woman Steps From Moving Jitney; Hurt TACOMA, Noy, 19—Stepping from & moving jJitney car at 66th ave, and Union st, Miss Jonnie Alnted, 6603 §. Junett st., was thrown to the pave- ment by the velocity of the car. She wan taken to the Tacoma General hospital in a serious condition, ‘The driver of the vehicle opened the door to ald him in seeing thru the dense fog and Mian Alsted mistook the ac- tion for a sign that her destination had been reached. HERE’S MORE ABOUT ERICKSON STARTS ON PAGE 1 Project Is wrong—that all the mon- ey that has been put into it already is wasted, And I am determined to it, Go ahead!” “—There havo been a number of deals during the mayor’s administra. tion that he did not stop, They| were stopped by others. 1 will have something to say about these when |the attacks on the ecaling comes along— “That'll be Interesting.” “—But the mayor's challenge to | |bring him evidence ts like asking | one to carry evidence against a pick (Probably te Be Continued) | GARR 1S SILENT. IN VICE TANGLE Says He Talked Once and/ Was Sent to “Sticks” “I talked to a newspaper once! what happened to me," anid Liew |tenant “Carr, former head of the} |traffic department of tho Beattie} [police force, who now rulea the! [destinies of Went Seattle precinct | station, “That's interesting stuff] you are printing, but as for me— never again.” jeutenant Carr is one of the four polices officers who have been| sent to “the sticks” under the po-| B.| followed the appointment of W. t a.) Severyns as chief by Mayor E. Brown The other three officers are Cap-| tain Seartng, former chief of police under Mayor Hugh Caldwell; Cap. tain Hans Damm, former inspector co under Searing, and Cap: tain Claude Bann who had a 7 joaring. Ca was ous ANTI-JAP LAW STRENGTHENED Court Upholds Another Alion Land Feature WASHINGTON, Nov, 19-Tho mir premoe court today held that that por: tion of the California allen land law which prohibits an ineligible allen from acquiring ntock in a corporation owning land was constitutional. The sult, brought by Raymond 1. Fick and N, Satow, an American citizen and a Japanese subject resid. ing in California, was one of a series to test the constitutionality of the California land act which was design ed to prevent Orientals from owning or leasing land or from acquiring stock in a landowning corporation, The decinion upheld a previous de- cision of the United States district court in California. Frick and Batow appenied on the grounds the act wag in violation of the 14th amendment of the constitution and the provisions of the treaty of 1911 between the United States and Japan. Educational Week Programs Outlined Friday will be “open house day” for the schools of the elty, celebrat- ing the observance of National Edu cation week, which started Sunday with special addresses and programs in many of Seattle's churches, ‘The American Legion will also feature Friday with special speakers in the high schools of the city, Monday, designated as American Constitution day, waa to be charac. terized by programs at the Emerson, Georgetown, Latona and Greenwood schools, Special designations of the other days of the week follow: Tutsday, Patriotism day; Wednenday, School and Teacher day; Thursday, liter acy day; Friday, Community day; Saturday, Physical Culture day, PEASANTS FIGHT RHINELANDERS French Disarm 1,000 Sep- aratists After Battle PARIS, Nov, 19—Iight persons were killed and 60 wounded tn re. newed fighting between peasants and Ithineland separatists that broke out today at Hinberg, dispatches from Tuaneldort wald, French troops intervened and dis armed 1,000 neparatiata, reports paid. ‘The peasants fled when the French arrived, ALLIES FATL ON DECISION PARIS, Nov. 19-—After the Anglo- French entente appeared to have weathered a serious crisis by agree ment in the ambassadors’ conference early today on a proposed Joint note to Germany, a new obstacle arose when the French cabinet refused to accept the terms of the note dealing with the demand for expulsion of the crown prince, LONDON, Nov. 19.—London faced the bluest Week since the war today as lastminute efforts to save the Anglo-French entento appeared to be falling. Speeches of Premier Poincare and Chancellor Siresemann yesterday only made the situation worse, diplo- mats believed, The British government, while anxious for a compromise apparent- ly, refused to alter its decision not to not to join in occupying more Ger- man territory in response to France's demands. TWELVE HURT IN TACOMA TACOMA, Nov. 19—Twelve per- sons were injured in 28 traffic accl. dents here over the week-end, police reports showed today. , NOVEMBER 19, 1928. rien oe MRA ABLE gus eee la WIDELY KNOWN ENGINEER DIES A. 0. Powell, Designer of Lake Canal, Passes Here Col. Archibald O. Powell, 65, con sulting engin dled Bu noon at at his N. E., from cerebral hemor. Ho had resided tn Seattle wince 1906, when ho came here for the war department and prepareq plans and specifications for the Lake Washington canal and too He was a member of the nivernity post, American Legion; the Muntelpal league, the Rainier club, the Amer} can Association for the »Jvance ment of Science, and tne American Society of Civil Engineers. He served in the Spanish-American war as captain and in the world war as @ Meutenant colonel. Funeral arrange, ments are pending. 16th ave rhage Seattle Man Dies While in Tacoma TACOMA, Nov. 19—John 8. Hume, Seattle salmon péicker, 47, dropped’ dond here Sunday night shortly after he, with Mrs, Hume, had arrived in Tacoma, returning from an auto tour of California, Dr. T. 8. Murphy, summoned to the stricken man‘s room in the Hotel Mason, arrived a minute before he died. The physician saserted death was due to heart disease. Hume wag manager of the Hume Packing com pany and resided at 122 40th aye, The Humes have no children. Mill Manager at Granite Falls Dies EVERETT, Nov. 19.—Succumbing to sudden ‘IIness, N. K. Hende manager of the Waite Mill & Lumber Co. of Granite Falls, died at his home yesterday. NOW COAT TIME If you are going to buy your first or second new coat this season, Madam, you should forego every- thing else to get one of the NEW TYPE SPORT COATS offered here tomorrow at the un- usual price for such unusual style, beauty and quality, at I j told him that if he would come tn. | side he would give him some tar pa- | |per. The boy snatched his air-rifle and fled hastily, Norris went into jhis office in the warehouse and found fires raging on his desk, in a . te-basket and in the With difficulty the flar Ingulshed in time to prevent ruction of the plant Marshal Laing detailed In spector EB. W. Akers to search for the lad, and after a week of investiga tion Akers and Norris ident down town,” Carr declined to aay | a word. Carr declared there in a : * * departmental ruling which forbids] High School girls, misses an officer to discuss departmen’ tal} d f HY matters with the press. It was his and women of all ages, in unintentional yiolation of this order : that caused him to be punished sizes 16 to 44, by Chief of Police Severyna. | Captain Damm ha been fh for! two weeks and anid e is out of touch with the ailtua! “down tain not care Searing said that he did to become Involved in the controversy and refused to make any statement. Captain Bannick {s out of town | HERE’S MORE ABOUT INCENDIARY STARTS ON PAGE 1 | boy standing on the platform and 10-year-old incend tending act mar headquart nfessed. 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