The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1923, Page 1

Temperature Maximum, 44, ay nn ens TWO MORE DEAD momma WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Sun- day; moderate winds, mostly northerly, noon, Last 44 Hours Minimum, 36. 39, The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington NO. 262. Howdy, folks! Has litth Wik | lie broken his Kiddie Kar yet? Now is the time to swear off boot: | lex whisky. If y New Year's Eve, If hell !s paved with good Inten- tions, it sure ought to be a great driveway about Janua! oe. Have you used up ye cigars yet? No? Goo swear off smo RESOLUTIONS, , NO. 2 7 “[ hereby resolve that I will never again let a strange hairpin remain in the back seat of my automobile.” “ee NEW YEAR’ Next to the golfer who makes a hole tn one, the proudest man tn the world is the motorist who succeeds in getting auto license No. 1. * . | “Fascinate Him New Year's Evo With the Radiance of Your Hatr,” says on. advertisement for a halr{ ‘wash. “Fascinate Her New Year's Eve} With the Radiance of Your Nose,” | comments Li'l Gee Geo sarotstically. eee University professor at Cornell ad- | vocates the abolition of grand fur.) les. So do the bootleggers. ck, TH’ OFFICE : VAMP, SEZ: | | In this chilly weather, it ts | much better to pour alcohol Into | the radiator than to pour it into | the driver. = who wanted to keep ag filled i One autoist his radiator from free with moonshine he found his wat cket eate nae Saas way. | Hiram Johnson -alls Ford a “po- litical turncoat.” Oh, well, a Ford has been called worse things than/ that. | YE DIARY (December 25) This afternoon to B. Leonard, the he did skip rope and shadow-bor the best ever I saw. And he did say J iugly that when he Is defeated, 17th ave. nd Jackson st. will be shrouded in epe, but other parts of the city will be in mourning also, methinks, for he is « eredit to his p nda rare boxer, The } been sho Ho got t G 5 I T eldom 1 for t You ©: F | have t im. You to I . ten to a r er. D Inve ne from c . 1! L, he r the nex | Rivoll Apartmen |n cook of Cushmere, |She was with The next morning |* | turn was trying to pi Another Hit-and-' Run Driver Is Sought as Toll Increases Reckless driving was respon bie for the death of a young girl and a man and the arrest of four persons Friday night. Three of the men were still held In jail on open charges Satur- day. Miss Laura Hughes, 25, daughter of Mr. and Mra. ¢ D. Hughes, 227 Second ave. was the first victim of the. series of auto accidents. Bho died An the Seattle General hospital shortly after a collision between an auto. mobile and a street car at ‘Weat- like ave. hd Denny way. Donald E. Murphy, 80 years old, | Wash. died at 3:20 a. m. motorist who fled after atriking him at Sixth eve. 8. and Norman st. A total of 55 auto accidents were reported to the po ing ed OF SAYS HE DROV 3) MILES AN HOUR ce as ha Miss had been riding In an ew by Henry © Bartie hth ave. W. Metc 20 and on Westlake, to pass north, ine wh in sa car ahead of it. Bartlett's car wae over on the left-hand side of the street and when he saw a southbound Green Lake street car he put on the brakes, The street was wet and the rear end of his car skidded and struck the street car, throwing the girl out into the street, fracturing her skull. MAN FOUND IN ie fly a flock |STREET UNCONSC 10Us CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON | at man IVY CLUB rida 104 The auto driver who, the sec- | 2ist the ond he is held up by traffi city ho nix in that rs lent (i “The him down From the coné ait Murphy und the extent uries, re said, by an automobile trave hig te of Meph 1 nhed ition ¥ Imost impouss as 10 ed from papers found ind ne Tom n, 23, was held fr following his arrest Friday night ! accused of a A H 1 o oD. 3 ot Enumela He was captured and nearly mobbed by f ' an angry crowd strians who were threat iz to hang him when Pa trolman B. A. Sands rescued him and took him to jail, His companion, whose name is not known, fought his way out of the crowd escaped c I , (Lurn to Page 3, Column 1) Saturday in the city | | hospital, victim of another cowardly | M Aileen Branshaw, 2 down by an automobile at 36th at. and Phinney ave. She tied Christmas day as night, she sustained. And the Business Review in Star Today Ss A TT LE is closing what is said to be its greatest year in bus- iness prog What it has accomplished in the growth of shipping, real estate, building, manu- facturing, banking many other lines, is viewed today Business page of The Star. Read what your city has accomplished in the past 12 months and it will you some idea a at 1924 i about to bring in at tle’s business develop ment. on the May sheriff's man who is held re eapon sible | for her death. = BOOST PAY OF : LONGSHOREMEN Increase of 10 Cents an! Hour Given Here (furn to Page 3, Column 7) SE ATL E, Was H, SATU R DAY, DE ;CEMBE R 29, 1 ear-old crippled girl, office At the Postoffice at Seattle, Ienocked ORDERS SHOWS CLOSED AT 12 - Chief Says Burlesque Will Not Be Tolerated ed th that ther fa Wash. Ole Knutson, arrested Friday @ Sunday | charged with running down and killing Aileen Branshaw. the injuries Friday arrested a under the Act of Congress March 3, Then 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $3.50 a man who Spotingl Death Drivers Editor The Star: I am more than iteronbée in your campaign for swift dealing justice for speed I drive a car , nearly every , and have had many arrow escapes from other machines, both when driving and when walking. On three dif- ferent occasions since coming to Seattle, in 1919, I have been hit, once suffering broken ribs and the ruin of a perfectly new suit On the steering wheel of my car is fastened a pad of paper, and under the edge of my cap is a pencil. I leave my home in the North Side with an hour to arrive at work down town, and take my time at it Every morning and eve ning I see and meet cars without one headlight, or both, and perhaps without a tail light throw my spot light low and am able to catch number both and coming And beginning today I intend to mail you the numbers going correct and I rarely drive faster than that. I did the same thing back E. and it. helped, ac- cording to the authori- ties. This morning a Ford roadster belonging to the city light department, meter division No. 238, was* driving thru town with one headlight burn- ing, and at thé corner of Prefontaine and Fourth it narrowly mi ed a newsboy. Licer number was 80008 1924, Another of the kind of car, license num- ber 26147, bearing a corporation insignia, w speeding thru town with- out a tail light. (1928 license.) A milk truck ing to the Royal license number 1923, drove at break- neck speed across the 15th ave. bridge with no tail light, and headlight o dim that they could carcely be seen. All of these cs “spotted” between same belong- Dairy, 2534 re The Seattle Star Entered as fecond Class Matter id held in the county jail said he knew office and Knut- Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers and 7:45 a. m. Yours of cars having irregular tral ul light noving faster than riles per hour A CONSCIENTIOUS My own speedometer i DRIVER na r ution for Yosterday the prince regent th xpe d to refuse mully refused resignatiga, more, “‘TWo CE NTS IN SEATTLE, Mis latest g CLAIM ALIBI OF * Laura Hughes is the l victim of reckless Searchers were baffled in their search for the hit-and-run driving in Seattle. suspect until The Star printed a story graphically describing | thrown from an auto Friday | the mental torture the guilty man would experience even|night and fatally injured. _ injured. tho never apprehended. 7m Knutson hit the girl tipped the sheriff's son’s arrest followed. She AVERS HE IS Knutson, Accused “Death Car Driver,” Talks but Little BY JIM MARSHALL His eyes hea y-lidded and his face white and haggard from a sleepless night, Ole Knutson, accused death car driver, and The Star reporter whose story resulted in his capture ate Friday, met Saturday in Supers intendent Allen Stark's office at the King county jail. They did not shake hands. When Knutsof was told of his | visitor's identity he expressed no emotjon. Firelight from an open He still seemed dazed at his bs i) # | ence. “I didn’t sleep last night,” he ‘paid, all hazy to me.” 1 ow that you've had a chance to think things over, don’t you feel that you must have been the man who hit Miss Branshaw, the crippled s asked, HE HAD he replied, passing his work-c d hand over his | forehead, wrinkled in perplexity. “£ know I hit something at that corner . but I don't think it was I didn’t see her before the D came. My lights were burns and I think I should have seen I had not been drinki either wag |—hadn't had a drink all day.” Knutson said he had lived in Seate le several years. Before that; he |had lived i Havre, Mont., and in Colorado. Until his arrest he was first mate and engineer of The Rain- He is part owner r, a fishing boat. ip, he si To many questions fired at him, “You'll have to To others he Auto Did Not H Hit Obstruc- | that he did not know he had struck tion; Prepare Charges |; The alibi ste that lust Sunday evenir old crippled girl. happened at N. 36th st 1 of Knut ment disproving that in. by the ca nd the broken used when his car un obstruction on 57th st tlevard. NO OBSTRUCTION TE ST. ATEM who lives in rison and Mir no ob: ys that point named by Knv could have ¢ 1 the d the car Pre R : cor Kaw rn nugt ¥ bail I 1 uum ¢ i 1 m \ t, 1 " i ard, 1 1 N, abt } avy. a he ot , lazzled hir STORY IN THE STAK RESULTED IN CAPTURE (Turn to Page 3, Column 2) of Ole d failed to hold up Saturda r the acid test, it was de- d. Knutson is unde rest im the King ¢ounty He is accused of driving the knock- ed down and fataily injured Miss Aileen Branshaw, : ar county Oscar | a day. Ro: uty obtained from state: | Oakland car we e made | solid dents windshiek n into | yy th, apartment truction in the stree the girl. ‘LUCTANT, HE DOES T NOT WANT TO TALK Knut- “Well, but you read in the pa- driver, | pers about the girl being struck at y |that point, You knew you had struck something there. Didn't you connect the two fi “Oh, I can't talk. t of a -rattled. ttorney.” “Well, when they caught you, |down on the Rainier, at Smith cove, I'm still in a You see my accident | weren't you trying“to make a get- nd Phi Miss Branshaw | away |. “No; T had planned that trip long | @ the accident—it w planned n we were to sail some time g0—before this ever happened,” Knutson was coatless and in his to| shirt sleeves. He is a typical, silent, Norseman, emotionless and owner. | calm, with a colorless face and exe the tempt to make him ade » even suspected he had the} (Turn to Page 3, Column 8) »«.|'NITRO’ PROVES Har “: YEGGS" WEAPON mage to} Threatens Cashier With Ex pnlosive; Gets $500 LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dee, ung | Shoving a small vial of nitre veers in the bank here at , thin-faced man, $ counte W y ' nd the " w r t en- for b te 1 over $500 which t et 1 ft his 1 : 1 t wulked out the bank, DAZED grate played over his placid features. | It's the first time J was ever in © | trouble, but I ami worried. It stilk J | Knutson replied: ee my attorney.” merely maintained a stolid silence. But all thru the talk he insisted