The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 7, 1923, Page 6

BEG BON id GIRL ARRESTED IN DEATH FRAUD -to Rob Grave and Burn Body NAPA, Cal, Deo. T.—'That Is as Mt should be,” was the comment to 7 day of Dorothy Anderson, held under > ‘suant in the county hospital here, > When sho was told that she must go Shack to Superior, Wis, and face charges along with Edward Sallstad, with whom she was arrested two ago. ~ “E want to go back with him,” she _ Went on, _ “And can you fix it so that we can By together?” sho asked District At: oy forney T. C. Anglin. - Sailstad and Miss Anderson are charged with haying robbed a graye ‘ef the body of Allen McFee in Wis fonsin in 1920, burned it in Ball Stad’s cottage, permitted Identific: ton of thecharred remains as those ‘of Sailstad, and to have fled togethe: “She broke down and told me everything,” sald Angtin, after the girl for several hours had denied any f knowledge of the Sallstad affair, “She admitted that she aided him very way in hatching and carry > ing out the plot for Sailstad to lose himself in palming off the identity of » Bnother as that of himself by burn- Sing a corpse in the cottage he had ~ Tented for that purpose, > “She helped him dig up the body © from the grave, wrap it In canvas, Pa. “ho told mo, and bury it in the gravel PH spit. She came with Sailstad the next Might and dug it up again and took At to the cottage In the lak: She said she helped Sailstad fix the © ‘body so that it would appear to be Ehis with rings, watch and his belong. sings, and stood near by as he struck "(the match to the mattress. They fled E Htogether from the scene as the cot- > tage burst into flames. “Leaving the lake, they ‘bummed’ “AN auto ride to Duluth, where they went to St. Louis and thence to “Louisiana and on to Texas. ; “The story of their wanderings “from that time on is substantially 5G the same as that told by Sailstad, © how they were in business in San An. “tonio, how a storm wiped them out, @nd then how they started wandering "again, finally coming to California, » “This confession makes the woman equally culpable with the man in the “fommission of the crime. “Both Sailstad and Miss Anderson have waived extradition and both wre anxious to go back to Superior, Wis., and ‘get it over with.’ “This girl 's far from well, weak and extremely nervo: HERE’S MORE ABOUT MEXICO STARTS ON PAGE 1 Mexico City was talm today as tho nothing was happening. Business went on as usual. ‘There was no exodus of foreign. | era. | Many Americans gathered tn small groups at the American and University clubs and at the Hotel U Regis, discussing the situation. : eee VERA CRUZ, Dec. 7.—A state-| | ment issued from the headquarters | >= of Gen. Guadalupe sanchez, rebel | ( leader, announced stoday that the } Mexican insurrection had been start- Sed to prevent President Obregon P dictating the election of P. Elias | Calles as his successor, ‘The proclamation said that. the federal administration was attempt- Ing to impose a successor to Obre- ne nation and that con- Sequently it was the duty of sup- proters of Adolfo de la Huera, Lib- feral candidate, to protest against F # such action. ; ‘The revolt started with a meeting of military leaders and politicians at the home of Sanchez. This meet. ing ended at midnight when a mes- sent Obregon announcing ion. The rebels then proceeded to put » their own men in charge of the prin- cipal federal offices of the port, taking over the customs house, mails and the telegraph. | The governor of the state was f Ousted and Edwardo Loyo named © provisional governor by the rebels. | | E Ef Wyoming Town Is Swept by Blizzard % — ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Dec. = A blizzard, accompanied by heavy | BE snowfall and © winds, swept }) Springs today. © The storm, the worst experienced | E here this yeor, is continuimg un-| @ abated and drifts are rapidly form. © ing. | No damage has . | | | | mat high northwesterly | down upon Rock} ~» MacReady Abandons | Altitude Air Test); DAYTON, Ohio, Dec. -Lieut. | John A. MacReady, weeking a ne altitude record in a De Lepre air. plane, was forced to abandon his| attempt to climb to a height of 50,000 fect today when his plane developed engine trouble at ap. proximate! 7,000 feet. | A second will be made within a few days, atte ; THAT SETTLES IT f The bargaining for the cow had } been going on lelsurely for an. hour. | Finally the prospective purchaser| came flatly to the point. “How much milk does she give?” he asked. “I don't rightly know,” answered] the farmer who owned her, “but] she’s a darn good-natured c and she'll give all ‘sho man’s World. i can.” OPEN EVENINGS we will For your convenience keep both our open evenings u show rooms it Christmas. Eldridge Buick Co. Hast Vike nt Harvard Downtown Store Fourth at University t Building Ruth Vaughn Jones, importer and conisseur of Oriental textiles and novelties, gives critical inspection to a bolt of hand-made Chinese “Irish” lace. —Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers In the Far East Ruth Vaughn Jones Found a Business Which Brought Her Fun and Fortune This is the second of a series of stories that will appear in Tho Star about Seattle women who have made a success in the bus iness world, an importer-and not only that, I would seek the fastnenses of the Himalayas, the tinknown villages of the Western provinces, and carve myself a career that was both pic ose turesque and profitable!" BY G, LUCILLE BUTLER Shortly thereafter Ruth Vaughn ¥ what paradox of human nature/Jones set sail. Eight months she did Ruth Vaughn Jones, reared! spent acquainting herself with ative of aupply and making con. urn from the sheltered Returning to Seattle, she h C's" of voice culture shed’ her importing company to the high seas of Oriental com.,and now makes regular annual trips nares? to the Orient to personally purchase By what lurking spirit of adven-| her wares, ture did this young woman, ¢asting| Tracing with a slim forefinger on off the shackles of convention, stake|the map above her desk, ale pointed her all on @ tour of the Orient with/ont Szechuen, In Western China, the avowed intention of lining up her} thru which filter the few commodl- future via the trade routes, and in|ties that ever reach the outside any event, enjoy a rollicking holiday|world from the jealously guarde poking about the highways and by-|fastnesses of Thibet—ailks fot the ways of the Far East? most part, heavy crepe, with silk “Well!” said the altm lttle lady | embroideries, and scarts, who is manager, typist and general) yoqe gr 2 factotum of the North American Im- ai duamatr see porting Co., as she stood In her of.] : fice, No. 27 Colman dock, Thursday; |) °° WOHU#bI—this point jutting bat into the Yellow nea—produces pot: “back at old Ames, when I was a co-ed at Town State college, there | tery such as this,” and she indicated some odd teapots of a sort of earth. was a Chinese student taking a course in horticulture—he fs now my | eware id with metal, “and {s agent in FooChow, by the way—and | 180 @ fortified port leased to he used to spin some wonderful tales | Britsh during the oplum war fof a about China that always intrigued] Period of 99 years. my interest. Handmade Chinese laces, silka, Later, on a Pullman bound for| pottery, jade, pearls and ivory are Spokane, I was becoming vastly|dmong the many things handled by bored with the interminable adven-| this young woman, and she plang to tures of a traveling salesman, when | establish, jobt agencies —he switched to China! He had been | thruout the Mid-West, where Orien a salesman in the Orient for an|tal novelties are le w American company, and right away| “Adventures?” she iaughed. “Oh, his ravings assumed a different/the usual kind by flood and field, aspect for me. He had seen a thou-| and once I was suspectet! of being a sand and one intimacies of Chinese| federal epy out after opium, but the tradé—rugs in the making, jade in| knife which meant for me the cutting, pearls, idols, broideries.| missed. That's one branch of im. Very well—I would see the same!| porting, by the way, that I haven't I would be that thing he spoke of—| gone into shortly, was HERE’S MORE ABOUT DIES IN JAIL STARTS ON PAGE 1 HERE’S MORE ABOUT ROAD FIGHT } Il STARTS ON PAGE 1 Reelsing case, bringing the total to|/ burn south highway to the Plerce seven, | cot ine, extimated at $21,000 The ‘following names were sub-| “4 mitted: Harry tember 2! mencing at the end of the brick pav ing and paving in the neighborhood of two miles, or as far as the money | would go. “But Commissioner Dobson, with Engineer Beeman, had the state treasurer set End highway SAYS ENGINEER Chapman, arrested died in jail two Sep- Victor Johnson, arrested Septem- ber 19, 1923, died September 23, in/ 1 Tom Powers, arrested May 12, 1923; died May 19 in the city jail Frank Buchanan, 70, Port Orch-| WASTED MONEY ard rancher, arrested March “I did not le 1923; died March in the city I had | planned, then I to prepare plang ithe two-mile exte mon the Des eived & Moines brick highv He did so, at poet eas a coat of several hundred do! bt ‘ Finally, he knew his duplicity of his assistants, who told mr was not enough money to b urn of thi construc asked th nd cal roads engineer H. Miner, ri for bids for arrested October hours later. Miner tured skull on the ing to taken to jail unc charged with being drunk and gwas 1 to He in a cell ‘for several he befeee’ (eae dh on that, he| road, that there only $14,7 : 1 - He waai in the fund dying of his injury. He wasi'" (ne find. eh to p taken he hospital where he soo ee oe ater A eave n to the hospital where he 800M) ni the minimum for which died. tract can be awarded, #0 all extension Chinese patie sane q a; Coin atient in an insane) wore on the Des Moines higt cell name is not kriown,) Dist be abandoned another also died in jail last summer, Rec- " ‘ The sum ould o7 ords of the public morgue fall to] scout one-half « mile. that medical attention w "/ deliberately wasted the money n these men with the exception| ¢» plats and specifications ape | did not notify me of the jug | road funds.”* Paul claims that in addition to this uth district has lost $40 1 000 which wag taken from the South FL fe } bridge fund and 7% xHT spent in th h district. ‘The $14 t 1 loss to th South dis one a con whose 1g of LEAVES GUN lona, the § trict road and ire in such haste the 700 is oper: | ¢ a raided | be dondo this state mone used this year and re to the state highway fund. Dobson was not in his office Fri to answer the charges made by ul, cannot now erts back A GOOD SPEEDOMETER CITY MOTORIST—How do now if I was exceeding the s you 1 haven't a watch or UNTRY that CONSTABLE eller dog t ye When that dog can't up with a feller, the era a Wa a chaain’ ye more'n thutty miles an hour and 4 ention, ,| congre: Pi Sib ca MUR rie BATTLE STAR CATE FALLS; MAN KILLED! Bellingham Mill Employe Loses Life in Storm BELLINGHAM, Deo. 7.—Thomas MH. Phipps, 32, timekeeper at the Whatcom Falls Mill Co, ws crushed to death by tho huge en trance gate to the property when It blew over onto him, during the ‘Thursday storm here, His death was the only known casualty of the flerce gale and rainstorm whlch Jashed this section Thursday. Phipps leaves a widow and four children, Telephone communication with 8u- mas and Lynden was broken during the storm, and 400 phones in this olty were out of order Thursday, Fire alarm wires ynd telephone wires were all repaired again Thure- day evening, Fifty log booms in the bay were broken up by the pounding of the waves, whipped by tho southwest gale, HERE’S MORE ABOUT SHIPWRECK STARTS ON PAGE 1 owns the ship, who ieft Tacoma ‘Thursday to aid in the hunt for the ship and the storm victims. ‘Tho five bodies already recovered are in charge of Prosecutor 8, R. Buck of Friday Harbor. One, found flonting in tho water, is re- ported to have borne a badge dest, nating the man as a@ veteran of the world war. Two of the officers of the mins- ing veanel are Seattle residents Firat Officer 8. O. Uddenberg 30th ave S, and Purser EE Fields, Tho rest of the men are from Tacoma, and Include Captain i. FE. Mason, an experienced Sound captain, Names of others known to have betn aboard the} T. W. Lake are: Chief Engineer J. 1. Larson, Anatat- ant Engineer Lara Drupine, Cook FE. V. Abbott, Quartermasters Al Mason and W. Banks, Btovedores Charles Pearson, George Erhart, William Carson and Deckhands A Skinner, J. Dunn, H. Skilllam and George Corbin. The T. W. Lake, built fn Bal lard in 1895, wan a staunch vessel her owners declare, despite her great age. She was of 191 displacement with a length all, of 9% fect and a beam of 24 I feet, She drew six feet of water Seeks Commission to Study Liquors WASHINGTON, Deo. 7.—Thé wets in the senate made thelr first atep for ultimate mofieration of the Vol stead law today when Senator Spencer, Missourt, republican, intro duced @ bill creating a commiasion to study the alcoholic content of in- toxicating beverages. Spencer hopes that this commis: sion, which would be composed of fy, 1 and two women, appointed ithe pros over congress before this session is co: cluded. Elks’ Band to Give Concert at Heilig The 35-piece,tand of the Seattie Elks’ lodge will give a 45-minute concert Friday fight the lobby of the Heilig theater as a feature of Elks’ night the Heilig’s pro- jon of the “Hunchback of Notre Daime.” Subsidences of land in England, du round work. ings, have brow into existence | laken 80, 90 and 100 feet deep, wh once there was nolld earth Cheshire In Ireland, where the people hi a very | shopkee been blende¢ | INHERITS JOB The balance of $6,000 to be} used in paving at Dea Moines, com-| aside $157,000 for North was The engineer | spent | when ho} Mrs. Mae | Hunt | (above) of San F Nolan ‘ancisco, tons] ¢ nt, can report back to| eaten Line! MAIL AIRMEN REACH SAFETY Forced Down by Storm, but Find Shelter on Shore Safe at Victoria, B.C, Herbert A. Munter, mail airman, who had been missing since Wednesday, telephoned hw wife Thursday pight that both he and J. M. Kelley, hia mechanic, were safe and well, Munter had made hin way to Victoria from Portland island, a fow miles from Bidnoy, B. C., where his plane had been forced to descend to the water by the flercenoss of a 10.mile gale Wednesday. , After pull: ing thelr plane ashore and seeking ubolter at ono of the fnjund's two farm houses, Munter left by launch, and arrived at Victoria late Thurs: day, while Kelley remained with the plane. ‘The men wore objects of a wide. wpread search by Puget sound vessels after they had failed to reach Vic: toria in scheduled time after leaving Seattle, ‘They loft Seattle early Wed: nesday, shortly before noon, in order to spend some time in searching for | a drifting vensel in the vicinity of Stewart island, of the San Juan group, For a time it was believed that a body washed ashore at Friday Har. bor might. be that of one of the aviators, but Henry A. Pratt, bust ness partner of Munter’s, who aped| to the acene in a power boat, found it to be an unknown victim of ship: wreck, After descending to the water in the lee of Portiand/ island, the men found it imposalbje, to resume flight, an the pontoona became partly filled with water, The plano was dragged to a safe position on the beach. Plans for bringing the plane back ‘were under way Friday, STORM’S FURY NOW ABATED With overcast skiew greeting the| early morning risers, the. Seattle| ather bureau predicted fair and| iday, following one of the heaviest wind storms in this nec. | on this season. The storm, which originated in the Gulf of Alaska, and a portion of which swept over| Seattle, accompanied by a 48-mile| aalo Thursday morning, ts w well ‘er Canada, Weather Forecaster M. | B, Summers said | Four street car lines were atopped | for a period, Thursday ing, | arts of the city larknoas, bh were er were plunged in| go plate glans windows! the force of the gale ¥ nia were! flood n_of street on » dropped a foot due to al washout, OREGON SWEPT | BY WILD GALE PORTLAND, Dec, 7.—As wire com. | munication ts restored thruout Ore- | gon today reports are alowly coming| in of property damage caused by the| gale and heavy rains which have! prevailed for two days, Near the Kelly mill at Warren-| ton, Orey at the mouth of the Colum. ja river, the Skipanon river dike broke and a large area in that dis trict was flooded to a depth of three feet. | High tides at Astoria, Seaside and} other pointe on the Coast, in. the j vicinity of the mouth of the Colum | dia, were backed up by the gale and} | Mooded waterfront streets, | | At the foot of Eleventh st, in An-| |torla, the water rose over. the sea| |wall and flooded a large portion of the area burned over by Inst Janu-| jary's fire. Telegraph and | panies muffered the heaviest lonses, | | wires and poles being down in all di Portland completely | | cut off from communication with out-| side points for two or three ‘periods | 1 hours durati Motorints rt Jong strotches of | {highway flooded, with fallen poles and trees blocking the roads at fre quent intervals | North Head radio station reported |tho maximum velocity of the wind a8 91 milewan hour. At 2 o'clock {this morning the barometer was at the low point, 29:20, but shortly ‘aft. | jerwards rose slightly. The gale be-| gan to subside at 6 o'clock with| |the turn of the tide. | telephone com.| | recti waa lads Coiiteis io | Murder of Child) PASAD Cal, Dee, 71—Two 14} id boys confessed early tdday | they had shot 5-year-ol Arthu | Martinez, whose mutilated body wa dincovered yester n abandoned | | ay wired to a px factory near the| he city | boys, Willie | or, first t found the bx two "aul Dadi t they id the po. while They are bot for subnormal ¢ students at a school | iildren, | TOO MUCH A small boy strolied into an A zona drug and sald, “Gim: ja nickei's worth of Assafetity.” The r rapped it up and pass ‘Charge it,” sald the boy “What name?” inquired the drug 0 ‘Hunnygunkle,” was the | “Take it for nothin |languid chemist |‘a tida’ and |for no nickel ans retorted the “I wouldn't write ‘Hunnyfunkle’ both Everyboc | PEKING thelr little nothing for or Chineso — coolles joy-rides. of them to on an leave home. 4 back money's we | Mobile ride tranded placentl he has ge will from CANDID SURE ENOUGH on in advert vent print show horse who succeeded her husband,\"” | the late John R. Nolan, as aman from the Fifth | California district, is expect- \ed to be tendered the léader- | ship of the house labor com- | mittee. Nolan held that chair- | manship veral terms. E low is Mrs. Nolan's littl | daughter. SONNY'S GEOGRAPHY took off at attempt to set ‘ord. } altitude Ladies’ All» nen Handkerchiefs 2 for 26¢ Women's all pure Linen — HHandker chiefs, with Mein hematitehed hem A real good value, SECOND AVENUE AT JAMES Dover Dormanaco ELUCTRIC IRONS with unoonditlon guarantes; enc $5.00 i) STREer The Daylight Store where you can get SENSIBLE CHRISTMAS GIFTS for any of the family without paying ex- orbitant prices—FOR CASH ONLY! CHRISTMAS HOSIERY Women’s Silk Hose and Silk-and-Wool Mixed Very fine quality full-fash- ioned Pure Silk Hose—a pair, $2.00 and $2.25, Pure Silk Hosé; an excep- tional value; semi-fashioned—a pair, $1.50. Fine Wool and Silk-Mixed Hose, cashmere knit, in brown or black—a pair, $1.50. and $1.95. Pure Silk and Silk-and-Arti- ficial-Silk-Mixed Hose, i fashioned—a pair, $1.25. Extra fine quality Wool-and- Silk-Mixed Hose, drop stitch, in heather mixtures or black—a pair, $2.50. Fine Wool Hose, cashmere knit or drop stitch, in heather mixtures, plain brown or black % 2 pair, $1.00 and $1.25. Women’s and Children’s Winter Underwear Exceptional Values! Women’s fine silk-stripe wool-mixed Union Suits; unusually good garments— a suit, $3.95. Women’s Silk-stripe Union Suits in a medium light weight, in all styles; regu- lar and extra sizes—a suit, $2.50 and $2.95. Misses’ and Children’s Wool-finish Cot- ton Union Suits; well made garments; long or short sleeves; sizes 4 to 16 years; priced according to size—a suit, 95¢ to $1.35. Misses’ and Children’s Silk-stripe Union Suits, long or short sleeves; sizes 2 to 15 years, priced according to size—a suit, $1.50 to $2.50. Mi and Children’s Wool-mixed me- dium-heavy Union Suits; long or short sleeves; sizes 4 to 15 years; priced ac- cording to size—a suit, $1.39 to $2.25. Boys’ good quality Wool-finish Union splendid garments; gray or ecru color; sizes 4 to 16 years—a suit, 95¢ to $1.25. Christmas Silk Underwear—at Popular Prices! Silk Camisoles, made of a fine standard grade Mesgaline, in every ppoular shade— each, $1.35. Novelty Silk-mixed Vests and Step-In Bloomers to match, in flesh color, pink, orchid and peach—each, $1.50. Fine Silk Envelope Chemises, Vests and Gowns, made of crepe de Ghine and Radi- um in the popular light colors—each, $3.50 to $6.95. Children’s Sweaters and Infants’ Sweater Sets, sizes 6 months to 114 years; made of pure wool zephyr in white with colored trimming — a set, $3.95. Novelty Boudoir Caps in great variety 25c to $2.50 Over a score of styles in pretty. Bou- doir Caps, in all the looked-for light col- ors; made of fine laces, nets, ribbons and silks; especially pretty Caps at $1.00 to $1.95. Sets Make Popular Gifts! Children’s Sweater Sets, 2 to 4 years— Sweater, Leggings and Cap to match—a set, $5.95 and $6.95. Toys and Dolls in Abundance Moderately Priced! MAMA" DOLLS in all sizes, from the very small to the large Baby Do! Bome with plain dresses, others with kinds of Drums, Toys. Dominoe: Drawing dainty dresses of organdie and lawn, with Val on to $6.95. mmings Each, 98¢ of fir HUNDREDS of popular Novelty Toys of the kind that will last—at prices that aro the most reasonable it Is possible to find. Jam ee, Mechanical nd Toys, ¢ Slates. PAINT SETS, Sail Boats, Me- chanical Boats, Musical Toys, Bell Toys, Tinker T: Chemis. try Sets, Rubber Balls, Shoo- Coaster Included are Mechanical Autos, | Piss, recker | Wagons, Laundry Wagons, Express Kiddie Kars, Ho: Bugles, Toy Dishes—and 4 of other popular playthings, Tops, Christmas Handkerchiefs of Every Description Separate or in Fancy Christmas Boxes WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN’S HANDKERCHIEFS in every quality and style that could be destred, from the plain hematitched plain col 5¢ to 35 BOXED HANDKE MEN'S *“ALL-LEATHER APPERS, chocolate col en 6 to 11—special, $2.60 palr. MEN'S ALLLEATHER SLIPPERS; els heavy les $3.00 pair. . furtrimm sizer 3 to 8~$1.75 8 6 to 11 soles and heel mn to the very dainty rx or two-tone combination, embroidered in white or colors. CHIEFS—89¢ to $1.75. Hand-embroidered Swiss Novelties—in all-white, SINGLE HANDKERCHIEFS— ) FELT “HILO” SLIPPERS, in gray; soft on i sizes §& to 11—82,00 MEN’ 8 BROWN. FELT SLIPPER sizes 6 to 11—$1.75 pair. CHILDREN’S FELT BOOTEES 6 85¢ to $1.10 p RIBBON-TRIMMED FELT SLIPPE) with pompons on toe; sizes 3 to 8; very sf 85¢ p soft cushion in red or blue; Most Acceptable Gifts for Men and Boys BOYS’ SUITS, with 2 pairs of pants to +98, $9.98, $13.98, each suit- BoYs ALL-WOOL MACKINAWS $5.00 (to $7.50 each BO OVERCOATS; all to $10.00 each $6.00 YS' SWEATERS; all $3.50 ond $7.50 cach pure MEN'S SHIRTS—a splendid selec 1 the newe uding ‘Fiber Silk and Pur priced $1.50, 00, $2.50, to $5.00. brics and neatest pat MEN'S UNDERWEAR in union and 2 uits; in cotton, et all sizes rs—81.75, $2.50, $3.50, 85.00 to $6.50. BOYS' SHIRTS to $1.50 AND BLOUSES—50¢ and $2.50, MEN'S SOX—a varied assortr fe, cotton, wool, silk-and-wool and all- silk, in plain black and white and all the lifferent colors used; priced 25¢, 35¢, 50¢, 75¢, $1.00, MEN'S celvable we f he Me. con Cc gh § eds, ersian and Knit from BO¢, 75¢, $1.00, $1.50 .00 each Silks to § MEN'S SWEATER COATS heather mixtures, w front; very rea 85.00, 86.00. Blankets—Table Damasks—Household Supplies Always Acceptable Gifts ! BEACON satin t colorings, in all BATH nmed dark patterns priced from $4.95 Ladies’ Umt AND MI EATER to $3.50 and up Ladies’ Umbrellas $3.50 to $7.50 and $12.50 LADIE KID GLOVES, 1 back all col $2.50 to $3 made now, $1.95 pair %