The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1923, Page 1

‘Temperature Maximum, 4. VOL, 25. NO, 260. Howdy, folks! Say, who start- ) ed this Santa Claus stuff, any: way? | | Yominated and unanimously’ elect: | d to the presidency of the Polson club: The who “told his | We boy that he would have his } pails pulled out for Christmas 4 ‘One sometimes wishes that one had @ Toll like the Atlantic Ocean. | 4 ar } time, New Alphonse, to Year's resolu-| Now is th rust off last NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS, NO. 1 1 hereby resolve that I will never again tell a traffic cop what a big sap he is. eee he bady elephant is sad, a Iti and gray; Me co é humb because © lis nose is is dul r says a fish ot PBiitorial in 1 lan reason. Wonde te planKed shad thinks when it a one of those jazz cabarets? what one tens a young lady from Gotha lisped:. “Winter. winds, I Totham, Myiegs really oin't Like Coles Phillips éan paint ind I hate for the wind to expo- tham 5 ce is the most valuable crop, Mays the department of agriculture. Doubtless the Seattle moonshiners | a Seattle Ford adr Mrinks of moor Mhoweht he wa fylinder car iver drank esterday, an eight. | two ne Eight-c tows open: & and break oma. The cannot do Screenland. are th en. FINANCIAL NOTE In case a republi e will vote they must think he is a fommercial traveler! Before leaving Greece, King George announced that he retained #il his rights to the throne What Bim ba sald n they ing room helped ar known, ne Grew a picture repre aus a 2 man Four pc Moscow ast to 50. hove love for 47.50. go strong that farche ya aie oe VAME Th’ old-fash | said it nev } fell, now advertise. who and s to SOME DETECTIVE THOUGHT IT Pr i g be Fair tonight and Thursday; moderate northwesterly winds, [WEATHER Today noon, 39, That's | © | “Make 300ZE RAs a Last M4 Hours Minimum, 36, The Entered as Second Clan Mattor May 2 RRO LT AD t “Ho-hum,” yaiéns Miss Violet Elliott, RR nnn ABANDON HOPE FOR 52 M 199, at the Postotfice at Beattie, Wash, aaa SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1923. 2458 Queen Anne KS —| N) ave.,as she resumes work Wednesday at Browning, King & 'Co.store on Second ave., after the’ strénudiis Christnias shopping rush. “Thank goodness the mobs have stopped jamming around the counters. We poor girls are ready for | the post-holiday peace and quiet, believe me, if there ix such @ thing.” Women Here Rush| to Exchange Presents and look w he gimme, | girlie! She knows George and I never could look a waffle in ite checkerboard face, and here, after 1 paw off nine yards of red ribbons and four miles of tissue paper what do I lamp but a silver-plated wat. fle iron. Lemme tell you sum'pin:| as a Christmas giver that woman's! od plhin and .fancy -tatter “Slip me a credit slip, & and lemme go down to the unter, and gemme a cour bbon backs."* ores of Seattle like palrs sglesgiris heard of that Wednesday “Here I was,” said head off for a tmas selling things 80 per cent of ‘em con Some of these buyers must at students of the human na- Nashoshe LUXURY GIFTS” . ARTICLES TRADE FOR USEFUL pitts” id « underwear und hose nothing of ; the sizes. And . 1 i ; i f mah? ee Today’s Shortest Story He ry in a Second aye. drug Bromo selizer —Phate by Price & Cort y [his trading fre fall of 1922 w tar Blatt Photog GEN, WOOD'S SON MAKES MILLION Officer in Philippines Specu- lates in Wall Street NEW YORK, Dec, 26. more than one y Lieutenant 0: horne Cutter Woe n of Leonard Wood, governor-general of the Phil Ipping nds, has made approx mately $800, This righted Mantia diss was reve York Times: wh the United ant Wood, wh of age and whi m his fi ard Oil of New 1 60 point INTENDS TO RESIGN HIS COMMISSION no Wall Pre | Crippled Girl, Run Down “= by Coward-Driver, Dead Several Are Seriously Hurt, Scores (Turn to Page 4, Column 7) GRAND JURY IS BACK T0 WORK Taxi Drivers Summoned to Testify Before Body Ww lights. scious. night. policemen, the S a boy on a bicyele. NIGHT or two ago a poor, crippled girl s knocked down in a street in F by a wretch driving an automobile with no He left her lying in the street, uncon- She died at the city hospital Christmas remont A few moments after the fiend with the lightless car had killed the girl, a paper boy, hurrying home to help prepare his tree, was held up by one of our brave traffic The lights on the boy’s bike had gone out. He-was given a-scorching lecture the dangers of riding without a light and, be- fore he was released, he had promised to spend his last dime to have the light fixed. All around the boy and the brave traffic po- liceman roared the traffic of the street. Speed- ing cars—big ones, of course—shot by with no lights at all, others with one light, flickering intermittently. The next morning at 6 attle Dairy Co., one ¢ south on Seventh ave. from Westlake to Union, not one of them burning a light. and Pike the dairy trucks barely missed a thundering truck of the Velvet Ice Cream Co. speeding west on Pike without a sign of a light, Did the brave traffic policemen stop the speeding cars or the roaring trucks? They stopped the boy on the bike. Like Chief Severyns, Mr. Fuqua, head of the traffic department, is a good fellow, but— The blood of that crippled girl is on Seattle’s head, Mr. Fuqua, and will stay there until you and your brave men are able to stop more than Christmas some three trucks of fter the other, shot At Seventh O, No. Bruised, Cut, in Wrecks A crippled girl, wantonly run down by speeding auto fiend, dead in the hospital, Several persons, including two women, seriously hurt in automo bile accidents More than a score of other persons, more of less injured. Thousands of dollars’ worth of property damage done More th 150 tomebile acc. dents, according to the police estimate at noon today That, in short, is the story of Seattle traffic toll over the holi day nal re h fractured Cingle al (Turn to Page 4, Commn 8) SAVAGE ALLIGATOR IN Z00; RESCUED IN TIM Head the rept he 200. ke rind n plotu ft um Ostrande t leaped t under the Act of Congress March 4, 1879 THROWN ON STOVE STARTS ROADHOUSE The Newspaper With the Bigg est Circulation in Washington Seattle Star Ver Yoar, by Mall, $3.60 | | | | SHE’LL DRIVE CAREFULLY EN ON LOST AIRSHIP! [MAN IS ATTACKED BY “T’ve got mine, as she emerged | said Miss Ethel West, 2024 Fourth ave., ‘om the automobite license department of the county auditor's office, proudly displaying her 1924 li- cense placard. She has the coveted number, too. Photo JAPS. REOPEN by Price & Carter, Star Btaff Photographers ‘Annual Rush Is On for New Automo- LAND BATTLE). bite Licenses Protest Western State Laws; | ty-three. Legioon to Fight Move Japan's fight against the anti- alien land laws of Washington, Western eved to have heen reopened in Washing. Califorma and other states was bel formally “Just look! Number thirteen twen- jto obey the traffic laws and drive | CAREFULLY.” I Ing escaped from the jam of neking motorists in the coun- office Wednesday morn- 1924 placard, Miss Ethel audite ing with hi West, chief operator in the city phone exchange, was. considerably shocked when The Star's cameraman ton, D. ©, Wednesday when called attention to the mystic Ambassitdor Hani the Japa- | ill-omened- numbers on her license nese representations |r Miss West was in line early before to the United States amounting to a protest against land laws | the’ automobile department of the recently upbeld by the supreme | quditor's office on the first floor of court ent LEGION READY FOR RENEWED ACTION Atte Tom m ental committee of the jonal orgunization of the Amer n,, declared Wednesday ve had been ex ed for th ation ) get into action in the F The auditor's office has a large Ac patche nm the | staff of clerks on hand to take the!) Sahara t from Japan is the | applications, and can issue as many ute onsequence of the long his: | as 5,000 licenses a day. But there is tor the Westerr alien land! sure to be 40,000 60,000 who will legislation. Since Secretary Hughes | not have their 1924 plates in time to ame into offi ecretary of state | ¢ Japa t un tand auto license department is be- . s the | ing kept open from § a, m, to 5 p, m urt 1 ot ; 7 r 4 Po FOUR KILLED ws, It Ist anh ta ana ia now iry to establish al IN KENTUCKY H witl in effect 1 dob HAZARD, Ky., Dec. 26.—Four men 11 were killed wounded in three Christ ¢ attrays DETAILED REPORT ; ty ¥ IS COMPLETED William Legic ed al ‘h ; Three ¢ John Smith hioh thé move made t nes Wilkins and J.T, Davidson, ffort te h,. mistook explosion of. a mat the ‘county-city b in iiding Wednesday, n effor avoid the crush,” f&uto license w istmas shopping, after an hour's at a bad time said ruefully, 0 bill to th nd back a few coins in change. han 15,000 motorists have for. mselves tor after New Year's according to W. R. Faris, >uty county auditor. Auditor uson estimates that between 80, ind 100,000 licenses will be issued of of the slipp' cashier can that ome se now driving r license plates before Janu- They are lable to arrest under ate law for using old license mbers after that date. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. ‘This is one year I'm going | Sheriff Opens an Attack on Rum- Selling Chicken Dinner Inns Frenzied efforts to destroy evidence at the Blue Moon roadhouse, while deputy sheriffs were clamoring at the door Christmas eve, almost resulted in the destruction of the place by fire, Sheriff Matt Starwich said Wednesday. As the deputies hammered at the front entrance, someone smashed a Ihottle over the stove, and the al- |cohol caught fire and threatened to {Spread to the building. No one was arrested as no more liquor was |found on the premises, Starwich j sald, Threats to arrest’ every person found’in a King county roadhouse with Mquor In their possession or under the influence of liquor were made. Wednesday by Sheriff Star- wich, who. declared he jis. going to take drastic steps to clean up the places. “They are springing up like mushrooms,” said the sheriff, “and [ do not think it possible for them to operate without violating the law and make a profit. 1 will post a man in every institution if necessary.” Two arrests were made in a series of eight raids conducted Christmas jeve under the direction of Sheriff |Starwich. At the Green Mill, Oscar Johnson, a patron, was arrested with a quart lquor bottle half full of whisky. The bottle was on the table in the booth and Johnson |admitted ownership of it. He was possession of liquor | charged. with jin a complaint filed Wednesday. C. Es McKenzie, a patron at the | Grove, was arrested. by. the samo crew of deputies, when a quart jbottle was found in his possession. Mr. and Mrs. S, Marriman were jarrested at the Motor Inn on the Pacific highway, and turned over to federal narcotic agents for investiga- |tion. A hypodermic outfit was found |in thelr possession, according to Star- wich. No liquor was found at The Blue Bird, formrely the Marginal Way Inn, the High Line Cafe or the Plan- tation, which also were visited by the deputi CAMEL COURIERS AUNT DIRIGIBLE |Faint Hope Exists That Some | of Crew Have Landed BY WEBB MILLER (United Press Staff Correspondent) PARIS, Dec. 26,—By camel cour- iers, by cavalry and by fleets of airs planes, French military and naval }authorities redoubled efforts today to find the missing naval dirigible Dixmude, lost in Northeast Africa. | At the same time the government ordered the cruiser Strasbourg and ‘five torpedo boats to rush to Biz erte and thence to sea, to do their utmost to find the airship in case ad been blown down in the anean. e expect nothing now but bad * Commander Duroc, attache of the ministry of marine, said, “Our only hope is that the Dix. mude's crew has reached the ground.” acking definite word from the giant air liner since 2a. m, Friday, the Fre h government does not know whether the Dixmude still hovers, powerless to land, over the Mediterranean coast, or hi some down a wreck, on. the hara wastes, SOME OF CREW MAY BE ALIVE “Tho: of the ew that « and desert nd find water sist for three week: t their emergency rat ander Duroc sald q Dixmude, w sailed from Suers Pierrefu a week 2 Tuesday taken from