The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 20, 1923, Page 7

EAMER SINKS ELLIOTT BAY Captain Tries in Vain to Save His Ship True to an aged tradition of noses, Cant, C.8, Basford, mas: ter of the sound steamer Astor. jan, stayed with his ship until the waves were lapping at the striving feverishly but to plug 8 a gaping wound in o's side with bedeloth- and bundles of cargo, follow: ing & collision with a barge resulted in the sinking of Astorian in Elliott bay short- ly before 11 o'clock Wednesday Warned by his associates and com: 4 by the rising water to take to boat a fow minutes before the n sank from sight, Capt. Bas Ri refused to leave tho scene of mishap until the last vestige of craft had gone. The barge, proper of the Union Co,, was being towed from Harbor | nd to discharge a load of oll for Viner President McKinley by the ico tug No, 20, when the crash, a dense fog. Capt. Fred of the tug, declared after accident that the Astorian had mmed the barge, while Capt. Bas- ford maintained that the tug had wk his ship after he had seen ‘the lights on tho tug thru the fog and Popped in his course to avoid dis aster, 7 The tug haa ample time to rescue Fall of the crew and passengers from © the Astorian before the vessel sank. E Phey were landed at Pier 3. Tho Astorian, formerly the Nis: Squally, was on her way from Belling- ham to Seattle. her second trip under new owner- ‘ship, as she was recently purchased dy the San Juan Transportation Co. of Bellingham. Her 12 passengers “and a cargo of Christmas turkeys, ued at $6,000, were from the San Yuan islands. The vessel wiia valued | as formerly plied be- Well known % Sound shipping men, HERE'S MORE ABOUT BOY BANDIT STARTS ON PAGE 1 Money, except for Christmas pres | A ents. I wa to earn my own Money and not to be a drag on “Mather and mother. “Pr tramped Work, but couldn't. find blue and discouraged “I wanted so much to get | thing for mot he streets looking | it, some. the girls. The > pretty, and didn't to buy anything with to go downtown ie for my Andt nt into Cinrence’s my oldest brother—and get his gun. I put it in my pocket nd went downtown, “I wandered around quite a while, frying to find a Job. Then I passed the steamship office. I haw’ the @erk in there alone and went in. I er and uisters n E had Fathers Star Anti-Gun Bill Congressman John F, 4 Miller, of Seattle, who intro- duced the anti-gun bill in the house, || HERE'S MORE ABOUT GUN BILL STARTS ON PAGE 1 territories, or districts; nor to offi- cers of the United States or of the Several states, territories or districts jor public subdivisions thereof, in- She was making} cluding municipalities, who are au-| * thorized by law, municipal ordinance or regulation made in pursuance thereof, to carry concealed firearms fon the person; nor shall it apply to manufacturers, authorized or lM: censed dealers in customary trade shipments from one to the other, “Section 3.. That violation of this |law shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or by imprisonment in any prison. designated by the years and as part of the judgment to be rendered in such case the court |shall order said pistol, revolver or lother firearm destroyed. peter limenenteerme HERE'S MORE ABOUT GRAND JURY STARTS ON PAGE 1 ij qT} joffice, and during a conversation said the gambling Interests of the city would pay thousands of dollars to head off indictments, and that he would get $500 for putting tho deal | ever,” McCabe said. “It made n }mad thatJ frightened him off before 1 coul White Inspector of George F- jthe wate | tendent « Mayor Brown, J. P. We Worden, asures, ad. Superin. lark Jackson of the utilities departme yesterday announced they would go before the county and firy to testify to bribe charges | court for a pertod not exceeding two | lay a plot to get the bribers.” | THE SEATTLE CRACK DEPUTY SHERIFF DIES Asa Lee Victim of Weak Heart at Hospital Duo to a weak heart, not throw adminiat ype which could off the effects of ether red. at Providence hospital paratory to an operation, Ana | Lee, former crack deputy sheriff un. [der Sheriffs Matt Starwich, Robert Hodge and John A, Stringer, dio Jate Wednesday afternoon, Desperate efforts to revive Leo, by means of oxygen, failed after it had first appeared he would recover, Lee was taken to the hospital Sat: urnlay night soffering from two broken logs, which he sustained in a fall near Lake Forest Park, Ho had alighted from a truck driven by his brother, George A, Leo, to close a kate, when he stepped into a small hole, In an effort to protect a weakened fall about five months ago, and which had a silver plate in it, he so twisted himself that both legs were broken, dent, but was to be operated on Wednesday morning, when an effort was to have made to graft on a piece of bone instead of the silver plate After he had been taken to the Operating table and placed under the influence of ether, It was noticed given oxygen to revive him. Taken back to his ward, without going un. der the: knife, he seemed to rally from the heart weakness. At 3 p. m. he had a second sinking spell and died at 3:30, The funeral will be in charge of Seattle Aerie No. 1 of the KBagle: Sunday afternoon from Bonney-Wa son's funeral parlors, He is sur. vived by four sisters, Mra, W. F. | Buckmiller, Mea. William ‘Tierney, Mrs. Ben Hayden and Mra. Allen Grant; three brothers, George A., W. E. and James A. Loe; his mother, Mra. Mary A. Lee, and his widow, Mra, Marie Lorraine Lee, He made his home with his ariel Mrs. Grant, at 236 23nd ave. LAMPING MAY BE CANDIDATE | Looks Favorably on Olympia’ and Port Jobs BY SI ABURN- BROWN Geo: B. Lamping, who | | Col {port commis! : | Wenesday from a trip to Washing ton, D. C., during which he suc fully neg «i for the sale of the Skinner & idy port site by the « ernment tp the Port of Seattle nominal figure, is, likely to b A. didato either for the governorship or }for reelection to the port comn according to his expression of | views Thursday | Rumors that sentiment toward | Lamping’s posaible candidacy for the [stato executive's office is developing favorably in many quarters in the showed him the gun and told him to! made by SamyTaggart, manager of | | State were confirmed by the colon: Five me his money. He did. “Then I hurried out and ran. And/|sign immunity waivers before being | telegrams asking w ‘the policeman caught nfe,” Nelson broke down and sobbed steel bars separating him ht cast shadows length ‘Wise over him. Chief Severyns used hls bandker. whief vigorously. “A Christmas tragedy,” y is not a bad boy. He ts ninal. He is just 8 destres—inno- ish to provide ness for his pitiful victim of cent pessure inced that the hoy ts and f will do all that he gets another ¢ son of Mr. and on, 1814 Hight ghlan HERE'S MORE ABOUT JAP TRIAL STARTS ON PAGE 1 for possible anothei W ARNED OF TROUBLE BY JAPS, HE SAYS uid that hé had been in- 3 © men Mexican Rebels he said. | the Red Top Taxi Co, they must | admitted, Deputy Prosecutor E. Colvin said, “Persons requesting to testify be fore the grand jusy aré not granted |the immunity that witnesseg called are.” in ead. ‘ollowing a long conference be. Judge Calvin 8. Hall man James MeCabe of the nty grand jury, dn which it believed the alleged leak of grand | ju happenings was discussed, Judge Hall iqsued a statement stat jing he had every confidence fn the jwork of the jury and the dispatch with which it Is handling its cases. On leaving the judge's chambers, Foreman McCabs announced that he we make no more statementat the balance Db. jury main ita find he prog the jury this far has actory. I have in it and the work over e Hall every confidence has done. rift M: it arwich eafd that d on turday a dis Starwieh re » made pute all of men name on of Olat T. A a bookkeeper Lumber Mills 5 He from | testify the mornink heriff of Thur Tum of Olym for Co came ol HERE’S MORE ABOUT HOLDUP STARTS ON* PAGE The other bandit struck him ross the head with his gun, catting his forehead. t r was dazed 9 the floor by Aland him 1 fror ware naged altho tled — 0 cray Capture Apizac|" and | when he admitted that letters and her he would consider making race have been pouring into his office in stream since his return | Ena. | OUT OF TOUCH | WITH POLITICS | “tam not {na position now what I may do with respect t © governorship,” the ¢olonel said. have been so busy with the port | deal and other port m ers di n |the past two months (that I ain tem | porarily out of t h with state p tes, I can just say that an move on my part is still ‘on the fire iw hether it will come off remains to; ibe seen.” i Expressing deep Interest in th velopment of th Port | business and the Skinner & Edd jin particular, Col. Lamping int that he will be a candidate for tion to the comm! it b of the off Nothing rema from th t run for governor, an ¢ busines# affairs can be rmit him time for the a} Eddy fer of nmer mal trans 4 ouf the p 1 made f¢ ™ worked out both principa ment. off !) ATTENDED NEW ORLE PORT CONVENTION ported ar le visits to the ies on h ention ISdatich Hand’s Suit for $15, 000 to bed | Charge Man Received Stolen Navy Goods| leg, one he broke in a motorcycle} Ho was recovering from this accl: | MOB PURSUES KLAN LEADER Drdebi Hawkins Escapes Volleys of Shots WILMINGTON, J, HM, representative of the imperial and hin wife, in Wilmington today after being 0 miles by angry Klan opponents, |The pursuing party fired a ncore of shota at the Hawkins motor car, which js scarred by bullets. ‘Tho chase followed a riot at Kim- bieville, near Weatchester, Pa, where Hawkins spoke, Hawking sharply criticised a re ligious denomination which ig op posed by the Klan, Cries of “Har” APO from the rear of the hall When members of the Klan made efforts to quell the disturbarce jabout 50 men left the hall, tearing | {the doors from thelr hinges and} | jhurling bricks back thru the door: way The crowd made several attempts jto force an entrance but were re pulsed, Dpl, Deo, 20 I Hawkins, Klan organizer and palace, arrived | | Ag soon as the meeting was over Hawking and his wife hurried ae A waiting automobile, jJust started to Wilm! they were attacked. | fp The n ber of men who began firing at it A number of shots struck the car. Hawkins declared he would give the number of the pursuing car to the authorities today. | chased | automo: | | that his heart was weak and he was|hiie sped away, pursued by a num-|the Great Lakes region, and T. V. ee STAR PAGE 7 | CHINA BANDIT IS EXECUTED PEKIN, Dec, 20.—Sun Mel Yac, the Chinese bandit who directed tho wrecking and robbing of the Pokiny Shanghal exprows at Lincheng, ot May 8, when many Americans and forelaners were kidnaped, Was exes outed today ‘The bandit leader, who had been taken with his followers Into the regular army os one of the condi | tons under which the forelyn cap tives were released, was caught re handed attempting to arouse tre under his command to mutiny. Gen. Chang Pel Yung, commis: sioner™ of pacification at shang: | tung, ordered Immediate execution. The Chinese cabinet resigne bloc tonight because it wan contin. ually harrassed by members’ of parliament and prevented trom reaghing @ settlement regarding the sold franc debt to France, witich was incurred at the time of the 1901 Boxer rebellion, Before resigning the cabinet ordered police protection withdrawn from both houses of parliament, F avley. Opposed as Ship Board Leader WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The senate commerce committee dec unanimously today to |ngainat the nomination of P. Farley of Chicago as chairman lof tho United States shipping | board. Farley was opposed because the liaw specifies that only one men- ber of the board shall come from nnor of Buffalo ady Is a Reports. were favorable on Bert E. Haney of Oregon and) Frederick I. Thompson, as mmissione | orc | me mer, PLANS PARTY t|Community Christmas Tree | Will Be Feature | “Yoo-hoo, Skin-nay! Chris'mus tree?’ Comin! to the At seven o'clock on Sat-day night, {With Christmas spirit and bright, | Yo burghers bold, out Phinney, way Will celebrate ye holiday! That tells the stor |the Phinney Ridge Improvement club is responsible for the whole doin's. A 40-foot community Christ- mas tree will be set up at 60th and Phinney ave., all tricked out and lit up, with a re Claus, and Mayor Brown—(Santa gets the honor in this case)—and J, ¥, Me president of the club, will ad dress the throng, and the police band will play, as only they CAN play, and a community sing |L ‘mont forgot—a surprise for kiddies—-yes, sir, “C'mon on,” Dad and Mother, n'everybody—and bring | along ail the stray kiddies that need a lot of Christmas cheer—for Phin- except that spirit It invites every last one of its |"burghers'—from 40th to 85th—-from Green lake to Sixth ave.-and fur- ther’n that, to pitch in and make thelr own Christmas party a glorious succens ‘The weather man {# especially in to see that the night fa as {it should} be. If ho slips up on this and it rains—really bad, you know—the big Alabama,] doings will be postponed to Sunday afternoon, 4 p, m., but Phinney ‘and ob, | the} PHINNEY RIDGE SLAYER SOON | TO HEAR FATE ATLANTA, Dec, 20.—The fate of Phil ¥ x, Ku Klux Klan [Publicity director, charged with the |marder of W, 8, Coburn, will rest | with the Jury this afternoon, | Arguments to the jury will be con- cluded today, after which Judge How- | lara will deliver nin charge, |. W. 8. Howard, attorney for the | [family of Coburn, opened the argu- |ments to the jury with an attack on | |tho de’ rfenie for not seeking a lunacy |commission, and for failure th put Dr. Newdigate Owensy, a noted} Jallenist, who made a detatled exami. jnation of Fox, on the witness stand, \Rebel Dead Piled Up Outside of City MEXICO CITY, Dec. 20—Two hundred rebel dead Me heaped out- |nide the clty of Villa Hermosa, which | | fell to federal forces atter a day and |a half of battle, official advices today | report. | ‘The clty, which is the capital of Tabasco, was stormed from four | sides. | Fifty-four insurgent prisoners | | brought here from the San Marcos | battlefront where the De La Huer-| and addressed by the secretary of | |war last night. They were told they | | were pardoned by President Obregon and were given a couple of pesos apiece and released, United States trade with the Brit- lish colonies, protectorates and de- jsince the beginning of the war. Ridge expects you Saturday, ber 22, at 7 p. Decem- m., weather permit. SEIZE BOOZE, MAN AND CAR Said to have been caught in the act of delivering six bottles of bonds ed Ilquor to an address at B, Water way and Spokane st., Chas, E, Pow: ell was arrested and hig Packard car wan wolzed by federal dry agents Wednesday evening, according to a report, Discovery of a still and 600 gale lons of mash at $912 14th ave. N. E. was also reported to the dry men, The premises were deserted at the time of the raid and no ar rests were made, Worden Peas: He Will Sue Taggert J. P. Worden, inspector of weights and measures, announced Wednesday that he would sue Sam Tawgurt, proprietor of the Red Top for $26,000 for slander as pao result of Taggart's charge that Worden had attempted to extort | money from him. Attorney Hugh Caldwell, who has been retained by Worden to bring the suit, said that he will show | Taggart threatened to get Worden'’s ney Ridge is proud of its community |taixtas were beaten, were lined up| job when he could not obtain prefer- ential tre his caxic atment in the placing of Thief Got Nothing, Except Sarcastic A sarcastic burglar broke into the vited—and that leaves it up to him | pendencies has more than doubled | Ripolin Paint, Co. 1614 Third ayve., | Wednesday night and ransacked the place. When he found nothing, the thief typed a note on the typewriter reading, “I thank you.” He did not sign his name. “Buy the Best but Save Money At Our Great “oa at oe tabe low prices oa on Napeciotally easy terms. @ steady. A Grand Piano will make an ideal Chris mas gift—we urge you to come in now in order to have your piano delivered in time for Christmas morning. 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