The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 24, 1923, Page 3

DAY, DECEMBER Ya, 2 HELD AFTER POLICE CHASE voce | Pursuing Cops Fire Ten Bul- | lets Into Speeding Auto Relieving they were chasing kid: | napers, Patrotmen I, A. Emmons | and In R, Arnolds of Columbia pre: | cinct early Monday fired 10 shots} into a fleeing auto near Rainier peach, and after several hours’ | reh, arrested men, Harold chug, 20, and Vincent Barton, 19, Both of the men aro held in the * elty jail on open charges for investi. gation. Tho two policemen were standing | on Rainier ave, shortly after mid. | night when they saw a small tour: | ing car, covered with mud, dash by at high speed. A woman wus screaming for help in the auto and the two officers tried to stop the car, The driver Increased his speed and the patrolmen gave chase, fir y did so, The car falled and disappeared toward Rainier Beach, oid and Emmons kept on the any a found the deserted auto. waited in the brush and Barton olice had} two The two suspects were arrested | t the point of the poticemen’s pis- and were taken to Jail, where hey denied there had been any | voman In the car and said they aad been on a party. They also said they failed to stop because they were afraid of being arrested for speeding. Both men will be Investigated by the detective department Monday. BOY THIEF SHOT BY POLICEMAN Surprised, With Pal, While Looting Downtown Store Captured in the act of looting Druxman’s Cigar Store, 142534 Fifth ave. early Monday morn- ing, two boys, Earl Roberts and Alfred Roys, both 17, were held in the city jail Monday. Roberts | | | paring | those which will be held in tt {tol hill, Earl Roberts (top) and| Alfred Roys, youthful ban- di who were captured|' early Monday morning while | ‘in the act of robbing Druz-|ve man’s cigar store. Spe was shot in the hand by Officer R. L. Fryant, Denny way. s both ¢ and Roys, lice brok bout cord records, 4 er Roys drew his gun and threw it in the stres He t his finger up the window pane n Roberts, who was still Roberts ran toward the rear door and Fryant fired at him, the bullet striking him in the finger and wrist. Both boys then surrendered and were taken to ik 1 THE G RESERVES Int (WINS FORTUNE (iG SL icbitercas 4 satan anatatanatenarmeeee re ona eager 128, dik SA dL ARD_) FIVE HOLDUPS REPORTED HERE WITH BEARD Thugs Over Week-End Five holdups were reported Satur day night and Sunday night While asleep in his room at the St. Paul hotel Sunday afternoon, Joe Hitner was attacked by four Mexi ns, who pow him and took 9 and A watch, ©, C. Statler, R421 Firat ave, way between Occidental and Second ave, on Washington st, The two | bandits robbed Statler of $7. Willlam Delaney, 700 E, Pine at., reported that two bandits entered hin |store Saturday night and escaped in a small automobile after robbing him jot $100, Both men were armed and had thelr coats pulled up over thelr faces, Two mon offered a chindler, 6230 Stanley ance at Renton, where Schindler had beon playing in the orchestra late Sunday night, They took him to the Beacon. Hill brid where they robbed him of $8 and set him afoot Fred J. Wilson, 14 Dravus st., “for-hire car’ driver, was slugged and robbed et Spokane st, and ¥. Waterway by tao bandits who took $10 from him, hired Wilson to drive them to the East Waterway dock. € pulled @ gun and forced Wilson to }wet out of tho car, His companion |nlugged him with a lead pipe. ‘VIRGIN BIRTH ride to Jim ave. after a Frank Campbell BY BOB DORMAN NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—Not every man’s face is his fortune, nor is it} ristmas time brought me work given to many men of 68 sufficiont | 4% Santa Claud, in the stores, Chil- ambition to force from derided op-| ren liked the real beard better than portunity the sticcess tossed away in| the cotton imitation, youth. But that {s the happy cir-| “Artists became another source of cumstance in which Frank Campbell | income. I posed as Rip Van Winkle finds himself. jfor Starkweather. I havo also sat Ta movie, it was worth ‘money for other things. Citizens Slugged by Many | wan} strongarmed by two men in an alloy: | The two men had » of them | BATTLE RAGES | Both Sides Vigorously Wage | Las aad | Ada B, Miller, who has realized her life's ambition in| | placing public stenography on a professional basis, and | hopes later to protect the cult by state license. Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers GR i “Certainly I make my living by my face, or perhaps I should say, by many times for Joseph Leyendecker, The artists wero kind. They secared Church Warfare | This Is the 1th of a series of stories in Tho Star about Seattle women who have “made good” In | shirt factory days forever behind her. By this time the young flock was on its own feet pretty well, and Miss | for much }the park wond: }I we what grows there,” says Frank, as he | strokes and combs with knarled and stubby, yet caressing, fingers the} carefully groomed mass of hair|the “Merchant of Venice’ was staged | Sweeping down upon his breast. {in New York last year, I played for ‘Five years ago things were not /20 weeks in it as a Magnifico. 80 good with me. I was 63 years| “At present I am rehearsing for a old, too old to do the work I had fol-| part in the ‘Miracle,’ the play which lowed all my life, that of coal miner|is to open about Christmas time. and lumberjack, | There I play the part of a patriarch, “T had wound up ia New York, and| “To do it has meant to give up} was doing such odd jobs as I could | many of my engagements as a mode! | find to keep myself out of the bread/in the studios, line, It wasn’t so easy, People don't} “The things that I neglected in the seem to think that old men are good | days of my youth and strength are |to be atoned for, and I know that 68 flo I was sitting in| years old or not, I shall yet make my/ what I was go-| mark in the world. ing to do next, low asked mo if “Most poor old men are pitied, Not n't like to work as an extra | for me. in the movies. Seems that he wanted| | “I'd rather be envied than p a man with a beard like I had to y folks will envy m take a character part. “For I'feol that I still have a “That gave me work, chance to rise—that thru my beard idea I shall eventually climb to the top ¢ my beard was wo: <3 of the Indder of success.” me engagements as model at varicus art schools, ‘The Merchant of Venice’ was staged NEW YORK, Dec, 24.— and fundamentalists In the war rend continued in armed truce today, Not « single controversy of creed centering around the virgin birth of Christ in | his sermon yesterday, | Obedient to the of Bish ning of the diocese of New York & cessation of warfare over the Chriatinas holiday, Uberals and con servatives alike laid down thelr y artillery and confi their nristmas sermons to “ ly cussions of tho faith. » COLUMBUS, Ohio, 24.—Both rides of the modernist-fundamental contre wero defended from pit in Bund: as here. Jernist fe" “One ¢ Dee. a J— and som m) placopal mn the has w do | tleal wits and turned more to the Bible, “More people ar gion," “A gre h I hope no from controversy 1s a bronder Chris chareh ’ Orient Forgets Its Age-Old Religions |». in Christmas Plans| ©" from their Sidney Paul's cong ure prenent and also r of St ni ttent study ine money ho said, will a Thompron f the hur of Chri hrist came to say fd Res 1 not be a savi n any degree tfhder the tin n in his own person, He might been a great cher us a man, us ‘© people meotaD: BY JACK HOHENBERG Down In Chinatown they an elabora which w fll be alive with ex- have elebration, only but_to be a envior Ho must have been born of a virgin.” to dawn white ma: th pansions on Queen An. Laurelhurst and th and the ands © Celestial look- . where ub show’ reso Orient HERE’S MORE ABOUT BEGGAR STARTS ON PAGE 1 brother; bonanza ahead! A nic On after all r » and baby ¥ for two n nickel, park 6 city council al } $568,2 ~ home T sha jon addi ed to raise nent park impro a nicked ‘nt you rity" tr here the other sido it hie poor that help The newspaperman ot himself. the poor,” © of the holida. ndows ver-r; If | omme submi council dati the tted to the approves the rec proposal will be voters next March SNOW IN NEW yuRK NEW YORK New York red to the of a “white 5 the « n around with sult g to boat na. hur yin from possibilit to put a” t y arowe a dime. f ing kes were f st and a ax blowing. hor wfall wisea: might 8 thought je during EVEN JAP “CHILDRE N BELIEVE IN ST, NICK LOGGER, IN STAG IS GLAD TO “DIVVY psu the SHIRT, LLOYD Gro from t De what to the alarm ¢ recov. ot It up in a red a dime CHRISTMAS TREES LIVE BUT A DAY; ae THE ASH Gi AN {Common Folks May Get Passion Salt \ GOOD H THEY TIME LL. WAVE SAYS THE { Modernists ing tho Protestant Episcopal church | pastor referred to tho! or | fundamen: | leader or a great will the business and professional Miller came West, still continuing | world, her business college work, from that | to court reporter in Colorado, and finally the course of her travels brought her to the state of Wash-| ington, where she saw an opening| in the public stenographic line and opened an office. She now runs two offices and mpi ] number of girls in the work, Aside fron® making a marked suc- cess in the business world, Ada B. Miller has always been eager to help the other woman, and with this idea| in view, was the first to organize the | stenographers of Seattle into} fon for their mutual pro- tection and benefit. This was somo xX years ago, and proved to be the association of its kin in the Following up her ideals with | ent and constructive effort, | saw her dreams materialize in ubli phic ASSOC lations | nging ‘Ker cities of} nd Canada, BY LUCILLE BUTLER Just Imagine being bereft of father, mother and property at the age of 13—and with a heritage of five little, |huigry mouths to feed, besiae her lown? That's what fo 1 Ada B. Miller, back in the p ys of No. | braska, and forced the girl, who b | always had the advantages of school- ing and a sheltered, refined home, to frantically seek work, and secure it in a shirt factory. | How tho young family weathered the storm sho can hardly relate—but thy ach other, th the Hing papers and work ing® a tern Union messeng they ed to get along. Later this falthful sister took up a busi. at night school, grad- ually began to teach a little In the business college gt nig’ and finally | became principal of Nebraska Bus at Omaha, with = DOPE SEIZED IN RAID ON LINER Williamson and Men Get $1,500 Cache on Ship traffic In Federal Nar V. Williamson the Canadian Empress of Canada, in dry t Bremerton Saturday night, seized $1,500 worth of dope and ar rested t nese members of the onda, they reported . er had be several weeks and tho crow had coi ucted a er the side in lquor > sales. | made by before the night for atuck ng boys ¥ your course x stenog: the of being of the "Ada ¥ ssociaten, finds } cinbs—tho } fonal Women's} an "as is known to her time to belon Art club, » home Motnes highway, with her 10 chick-} Pal,"’ the c and all the hun- ry quail in t hborhood, ta up what time she has left over, and| she finds her ft form of *‘let-up’’| in motoring k and forth—andj} making those hot biscuits for which, | many friends, sho is fa-| busy Interrupting a “Christmas N tor Har men raided an liner, dock hi ree Ci | | | E DANGER | NOW PRESENT Printed ast the nd Christmas time were distrib- | fg to re s, and nar warnl es and safegua eral purchases were fire menaco #0 prevalent | nson and his me ho liner left 8 uise around th A not to prev with narcotic season was arou! uted by two of Chief firemen during the s Will rald. jeorge Mantor’s| opping rush in the downtown district this morning. Chief Mantor’: ings were few a number, but he asked in the cireu- lar that Seattle citizens be more care. ful than ever in the handling of Christmas tree ornaments, and dies in particular, | world, flooding the city the holiday Williamson pCa s to keep doubled. du spread r ¢ were w out the “| DEC LARES WAR ON LIQUORISTS JOLIET, Ill, Dec. 24—A de | tion of war until ev bootleg ed out c w hen Believe Haney to Win Nomination | : WASHINGTON, Vic Bena: McNa Id of Ore. uftor rident to- apparently ation of Bert ned to the sen. s mal pas h here, A call on the p the White Ho’ , would be t chur raids o} ore § 1 around Jc anda 1 his raids in name of Ha 3 en and women v ommerce com the saloons and ne unfa and helpe nvorably on arley. “Shooting Cop” to Face Trial Shen iH f n Former Convict Is Now Free at Home NVE & attlo Hambur ©. Keller, | Iss near man. was fter dom, } and is Vet Missing Four Years Retiinns for Christmas |services In Seattle's Catholic church- | public % ila as pc ee BROS FURNITURE CO. INC. BLAH AVE,"BETWEEN PIKE AND PINK Y i Merry Christmas WE-Santa Claus and Grunbaum Bros.—(we’re partners, you know)—wish YOU a Merry Christ- mas and a prosperous New Year. This season, thanks to your pat- ronage, we have enjoyed the busiest and most prosperous Christmas trade of all our many successful years in business, for which, again, we THANK YOU. For the convenience of those who have forgot- ten to call for their packages, the superintendent will be at this store Christmas morning between the hours of 10 a, m. and 11 a. m, to make any adjustments, Grunbaum Bros. Furniture Co. RIPEIERE IAI Ae Wife Gave Bootlegger an Earful--of Lig So Now the Reading Lamp and the Tele- — phone Are Far Apart the be head. Accustomed to’ nocturnal disturbances of the kind, the wife jogged her spouse with a sharp elbow and went back to sleep. Again came the ringing, jarring away Morpheus with its insistence. Again the tipsy bootlegger was shaken by the sleepy wife. For the third time the bell range “Clyde! Clyd Wake up! Someone is trying to get you on the phone,” said the wife, now thoroly awake. “Sh-shlem me alone,” said the inebriated booze peddler. “Can't yuh shee I’m-m anshering it? H'lo, H’lo. What do you want? Hayen't got a bit. Goo-bye,” But the phone was still ring- ing and, thoroly mystified, the poor little woman clicked the light chain. “Ouch! id the surprised bootlegger, jerking the reading light bulb away from his ear. So that’s why the reading light is now on the other side of bo bed. SAYS COP WAS bootleggers sometimes make mistakes about things other than the quality of booze they deliver to you, according to a story by Walter Metzenbaum, Seattle attorney. And this story is about a bootlegger who made the mistake of sampling his own booze and then— The bdootlegger came home rather late at night. His sails were “reefed,” but he was ca- reening dangerously as he went to his room in one ‘vf the city’s fashionable hote At the head man had a telephone, course was necessary, for a man of business expects calls at time of the day and night. Zeside the phone was a reading lamp, also necessary, to count the various bills, checks and bank notes received during the work. When both the bootlegger and his beautiful wife had retired to the depths of slumberland there | came a ringing on the phone at | his bed which of of the HERE’S MORE ABOUT CHRISTMAS STARTS ON PAGE 1 The dinner hour at these be @rom 12 noon to 2 Main st. places will ae “Looker- On” We Wonders why. | Policemen Let Him Escape | Editor The Star: Please give this to polic TIME: 3 p.m. PLACE: First and Columbia, OCCUPANTS OF CAR: A cig officer and a woman. CHARGE: Driving while drunik, The officer? Well, circumstances | must tell, Here are the circutme stances, part of the act being Witt nessed by at [east 50 persons, The auto finally given’ a rest in the alley west of First ave., almost at corner—parking, of course, pros Along strolled a patrolman, they are drunk. ning with several programs night, Christmas will be ushered in at almost all churches of the city with song and story Pontifical high mass at cathedral will head the Christmas es Tuesday morning. Organ pre- ludes, choir relections, carols, special | addresses and prayers will mark the services at all other denominational representatives also. Tho Elks of Seattle will stage a glee-singing and pro- grim in front of their giant Christ- mas tree at Fourth ave and Madi- Monday night. R. H. Viv- 1 the community singing. es lodge announced a new | hibited. day night dances for |Someone said, members only at their headquarters, |The officer, while looking in at the! the first to be held Christmas night | Pair, was interrupted by an autom@y " ond on New Year's night. | bile driven up alongside, containing @ Dozens her organizations|™an and woman. The man opened carol son st. fan will le The E series of 1 ne Sr office n down 18 ment and again eight steps to get able It seems almost inconc ernment in pla ning a public building lik off , Where many thousands of peo- cs month floor street le ever? the to enter made main hive vadael cial programs and|the door, and with some difficulty: thousands of homes will be lighted |ot the drunken woman and polices and. ‘decorated 1d happy in the/Man into the rear of his auto and |drove away thru the ailey northe ward, The patrolman examined the inside. “KICKS ON STEPS of the auto that was left parked, and then leisur withdrew. Why |was not this auto sent to headquars ) |ters. What was the officer doing {mt ihe auto with a woman, soaked with) ? Did this patrolman make anyt tn Spek ? ¢| Star Contributor Says They | , This happened tn the crowded jowntown section, hat are th Should Be Eliminated | suardians of the peace and publla |employed for, anyway? Rojee go ae hile tncraing 3 | LOOKER-ON, mailed an Xmas package, and in do ing so I climbed up 14 steps to main | ¢¢: . ” on ‘one to bace.| Red Mike” Gone; ° * . Little Girl Cries Christmas promises to be a doleful }day for Alvah, small daughter of Mme. Carson, of the Carson Halpy dressing college, Yale building, unless someone locates her boon coms panion, “Mike,” a red Irish terriety 3 years old, Monday or Tuesdays ve Mike” disappeared a week ago when time encroached on| the family stopped at Third ant sidewalk for the above: | adisc He jumped from the autos It is also Inconesiy.| Mobile and failed to return to the of Beattie: did Hot Hence Al tears and @iie when: (thigt sigan ies to the police to find her Gm isted upon them by « sHiend untl architec 1 that and remod of Comm car tr nin the put in a Inking bunch nment Poincare Meets Germany’s Enyoy ARIS, 4.—Premler Poin I Hert Von e daffaires, > renew prelim. esurding the ind Phtnes ought to be Francs ambe ive Von Hoesct t German min neare’s approve, INTOXICATED the chief of |