The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1923, Page 3

Bark fines on fal took march SEEK BABY TO REPLACE LOSS Burns Agency Hunting Fair- Haired Boy Here J.J, Flammen, of the Burns De: fective agency, and his assistants Were engaged today in a hunt for 4 years, Altho sought high and low in the Seattle country, even exist, Tho tad, if ho ts found, will re. place In tho family of a wellknown umberman, a tot who died within the past year, Griefstrieken at his loss, his parents have engaged the detective agency to find his double. When this is done the boy will, if Such a course ix possible, be adopted by the lumberman and Drought up as his own son, The lumberman and his wife, Flammer says, wish to obtain a child as much like and as near the ze of their own lost son as pos- sible. They will give him every ad- Vantage of wealth and wish him to Brow up believing them to be his! | Parents, Shoplifter Spends Holiday in Prison | George Bailey, 31, 1s held at the police station today on an open charge, accused of shoplifting in the business section dering the pre Christmas rush, Bailey was caught | by Detective R. R. Herbert, near Second and University. He is said to have made a considerable collec tion of gifts from various stores without the formatity of paying for them, Employment Bureau Measure Is Held Up erans’ employment bureau at Roose- velt hall, 1616% Third ave. has been indefinitely held up by Councliman FE. L. Blaine, who is questioning the legality of an ordl- Rance drawn for the purpose, The City council again will matter next Monday evening. [this inside stutt w jyou & Diue-eyed, Mirhaired boy of about | rumor the child) notice is not lost—and perhaps does not | BY JIM MARSHALL You understand, of course, that all about to y not be tr e don't gu All we know Is t around the traffic bu headquarters that 8 Frank Fuqua, in charge of t flo squad, has recelved a lett that this letter is about pean The sergeant, who is waunily a secretive person, was loath to admit today even a crunching acquaint ance with peanuts, But the fact that @ janitor, suitably bribed, gave a re- porter an envelope bearing the re- turn address of the Peanut Raisers’ Co-operative league, coupled with a mysterious appropriation said to Jhave been asked of the city council, foreshadows, it in felt by most of us action of | take up the | up hero at the office, something unique in traffic regulation. It is our idea that the peanut grow- Jers’ deague has prevailed upon the sergeant to adopt the new Peanut |parking plan, At the present time, |tragfic cops have several schemes to |discover whether one's car has been | parked over the time limit, But none of the plans {s entirely satisfactory. | Cops used to make chalk marks on |the tres, on the theory that, i¢ the |car was moved, the mark would be, to use a learned word, obliterated. | ‘That was all right until the more joff the marks ourselves. Fuqua ts said—just “ald,” | He would stroll down the street and, jUkely to be parked overtime, tire and another under the back. Then, of course, if he came back an hour later and found the peanuts luninjured, he would jin the o first, | Brown's ¢ lar stocks. course, noyiit the peanuts were cracked, that would show that the car had | been moved, thus foiling the law, cording to the wise ts what the sergeant from the peanut longue is about. The loague wants to sell mory peanuts, our theorlats say, This old heads to the ache! and that's why woheme, You must remember, however, that We don't guarantee this story, There may be nothing at all to it, Or it may be, ax Sergeant Carr is said to have remarked, “just peanut polition,” Youth Hurt When Struck by Auto Leslie Cain, 11, faced the spending | of Christman in the city hospital Tuesday as a result of being struck and knocked down by an auto Mon- day afternoon at First ave, and His head was severely 1229 Sixth ave, driver of the car, told police that the | ot from ber two parked automobiles. tery at. A. Hutchinson, | boy twee Christmas in Jail TACOMA, when he saw a car he considered | Paulson, he | Sanford _R it M aybe I t’s Clever, or Just Peanut Politics Anyway, It’s a Good Plan for the Peanut Man and Bad for Motorist Invented the n out in the st lott THE SHATTLE SUIT STARTED OVER CANNERY Mismanagement Is Alleged in Complaint Alleged removal of valuable men and machinery and substitution of incompetent men and poor machin ory are the bases for a sult filed in supertor court by attorneys for the Southern Alaska against the Bank of California, Na tional association, charging mlsman agement, The complaint ania $260, 000 damages for the canneries for. petitions postponement of a forced sale scheduled for Wednesday of three of it fishing boats at Hough: ton, on Lake Washington, The sale was slated Ww satisfy the bank for alleged promissory notes, the petition seeking an Injunction against the sale by Sheriff Matt Starwich. The suit in based op the charges that the bank offered to operate the canneries in December, 1921, thru the Alaska Consolidated Can at Ineries, Inc, subsidiary corpora ut. | tion, for the benefit of the: plaintitr the | company. That thousands of salmon were dl. | verted from the canneries to the cor. |poration’s plants In also charged in ithe filing. The bank had heretofore jasked foreclonure on the fishing ves velx Alf, Haakon and Shamrock IIT for These Youths lolted 4x property given by the plain Christmas —to be conaicering, every traffic cop |noon by Judge | would be equipped with two sacks of | superior court, peanuts, at the taxpayers’ expense. | with robbing stores at | National and MeMillan, were Charles fax D. Lane; J. Simpson, | Strand, Operation by the city of the vet-| Would lay one peanut under the front | Harold Moen and Walter May, Smelzer, Dei M €. Dec. 25- in Six YOUNE! case will be jeducated among us starting rubbing ioe from, 19 to 23 years old, will the Arthur OTTO F. KEGEL, President Yeggs at Everett fie Safe of $800) _ THE GROTE-RANKIN CQ In Our Bargain Annex Beginning Wednesday We Offer More Than 700 Pieces of New Furniture At Greatly Reduced Prices — —Because we want you to get acquainted with our Bargain Annex as a place for unusual values. —Because we had an opportunity to buy several lots of Furniture at price concessions. —Because we want a place to dispose of Odds and Ends from our regu- —Are reasons why we call your attention ss our Bargain Annex (ac- cessible from Fifth Avenue or through the Main Store) and the op- portunities for saving you will find there. Come prepared to buy—the values in Living Room, Dining Room and Bedroom Furniture are unusual. Forty 9x12 Axminster Rugs Featured an Our Bargain Annex This is the lowest price we have featured dependable Axminster Rugs in several seasons. $29.90 This assortment includes many good patterns and colorings. Rugs our salesmen will call your attention to the slight mismatching of designs— so slight that the imperfections are hardly discerni}. ¢. Clifford in ‘The boys, charged onville, Cracksmen | Ret [tiff as security for the nates Wednesday. The Monroe Under the plan which Sergeant] stato reformatory ax the result of | Nancy ‘Kikor Sends mind you | sentences meted out Monday after Greetings to U. S. LONDON, Dec —Lady Astor sent Christmas ings to Amer. joa yesterday, She sald: “When | Christmas comes my heart turns jback to Dixie and to Canada, I | hope our Cliveden Canadians will | mains us Just o little, We shall Bont of them and |health in grade they know so well.’ and | er Cliveden luring the In some of these morly operated by the company, and |}! Hh drink to their | A milk—the kind | | | | ence to Cliveden coal night when they | were the Injured soldiers cared udier Motor Co, and. cash register. 't members use,taxtcabs on official -] STAR PAGE 3 3 THE GROTE-RANKIN CO OTTO F. KEGEL. President A Special Purchase of 137 Beautiful SILK DRESSES 97 EW models, right out of their wrappings — smartly styled Dresses purchased much below their original value and offered at a price that will make Wednes- day a day long to be remembered for value giving in our Apparel Section. — deus for the First Time At an Exceptionally | Low Price The sketches prove their claim for smartness — there are very few duplicates—the range of sizes, colors and styles is so complete that you will find ample opportunity for selection. Sizes are: 16 to 42—draped, tiered and straightline styles. —Second Floor, Colors are: Navy, King’s blue, Brown, Cocoa and Black. Fabrics are: Flat Crepe, Char- meuse, Crepe Meteor, Baronette Satin, Moire, Soirre Velour. en | Train Hits Auto, Dead; Girl Dying “HMOND, Cal., Dec. 35.—Capt . captain for the a ‘Berry’ ‘Presents Phonograph to Jail The rat her gloomy eae UR c George Hay du Barry indictment, wan lightened eam | today an.ho read a letter of thanks of the letter ‘u: s) Mrs. Inez Marie Pier, an Englist One )Hindu Preacher and woman, are honeymooning here, fol« East Side Girl Wed| tans tee marrage by a local SPOKANE, Dec. 25 halt |Justice last Saturday. Dr, Thind, @ NE, 4 | veteran of the world war, is a grade 7 Singh Thin, « a - |uate of the University of California, He has been lecturing locally. Characterizen our methods tn every transaction, and our cus- -Dr, led almost instantly when his auto was struck Pacific train here. laell, who was riding was seriously hurt and from prisoners in tank 4 King county jail. ‘The thanked him for the gift of q new phonograph, recently given the pris with him, may dle. jazz musto {xsue from its wooden 'Thug Slugs ‘Orneon eR oe pan yet throat | Man, Steals $1,000 LA GRANDE, Dec. 25 Council Gets Car for 4% 7/0 Ore., i 3. Wa ras knocked un 4 rit elf, Despite Mayor |i. i, watkins wos Faea de pavieds ikeenie ta” Subject. to Check Mayor Kdwin J. Brown's Christ-| consclous as he leaned over to open |] Accounts, Subject Ne clack Are mas was slightly marred Tuesday as the executive reflected on his col leagues’ overriding of his veto con cerning purchase of a $1,700 « council's the appropri Tt was his safe, by an unknown man late Monday. The thief escaped with $1,000, Edwin 0. 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