The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 31, 1923, Page 6

“Dixmude,” Theory BY WEBB MILLER PARIS, Deo, -31-—Tno eloments which destroyed tho dirigiblo Dix. mude conspired today to obscure hor fate. Unprecedented storme swept South. France and roared over the literranean, cutting land com. munication, as well ax interrupting and preventing news of the earch for the airship and her gal- erew from reaching the capt ee ‘Official inquiry was begun into causes that led to the Dix- de’s destruction In the storm on night of December 21.22, when, How appears, the giant liner was a lightning bolt and sea, where «ll her officers and perished. Meanwhile, little stock is taken tn the report of a fishing vessel which its way in Sfax on the Tunis Peoast and told of seeing three men | slinging to a raft north of the Kor-| cee ed in Tunis over the pos | ‘sibility that these men might be/ Survivors of the Dixmude. + Tugs were put out but were ~ @riven back by storms, Minister of Eapearine officals place little cre @ence in the theory that the mon ‘Sighted were from the ill-fated) ‘dirigible. } Delayed reports from French Maval commanders now in Sicilian Waters seeking trace of others of |— =the Dixmude crew of fifty, express | tiet the dirigible sank in the lediterranean about 10 kilometers Sciacea. The hody of the com | "mander, which was dragged up by Wshermen last Friday, was taken today via Palermo, Naples -and Toulon. A fina: pathetic touch was lent #o the traxedy of the air by the of a son yesterday to Madame ; de Greneda, wife of the Dixmude's She had been kept in ig: | Tiorance of her husband's fate he- cause of her delicate condition. e FLOODS HIT PARISIANS| PARIS, Dec. 31.—Hundreds of per- | ons evacuated their homes during the night, as rising waters tn the! Priver Seine inundated new districts | | Sot Paris, Nantarre, St. Denis and} | | & ‘The river rose eight inches Sundown, and the situation is offi- Gially recognized as critical Workmen are throwing up pars- pets along the quays, while 80 sail. hors, with specially constructed pumps, have arrived from Havre. ‘The Seine, swollen by freshets, al le ‘ready has caused great damage and | ‘ Peuffering. It hag risen nearly 20} ‘feet. HERE’S MORE ABOUT CALENDAR STARTS ON PAGE 1 || | Pmext December you'll be just as flat | unger, “De . is a long time ahead yet. Long before that pretty strenog-| aphers will mark red rings around emy dates and tne oss will put a| Blue pencil mark on Jul n fa! the anniversary of his wedding day.’ “Yeah, and right next door is Jul 4, all in re ®uce Day,’ , because that's ‘Independ- | sneered the old calendar. | Slavery day in } dependence | day in red. Huh! “You fellows make Said % voice from the polished m hogany desk. It came from hanghty brass perpetual cplendar, | Which was a veteran of the office, having survived three years. “After | your dates once you're But me—I've more dates chorus girl, Most of them Rave been used three times already and Tuesday, my ‘Januar it be a veteran of four turn-over The calendars were silent Office door opened and the Fapher came in. She hung her hat ‘on the stand, took off her fur coat, Opened her vanity bag and pow- dered her nose and stood, looking Out upon the crowds on Second ave. The old calendar shuddered wear- fly. It sensed the tragedy to come. | ANOTHER YEAR IS STARTED—ALMOST The stenographer 1 Parely an instant. Th it from the wall added ball and basket. Ti " afraid, ax the girl tur and lifted it from its merely laid it on desk and rolled it ten it out. Then she rep and smiled at January, reassured, me tired, the stenog. at it flipped it Into a en she But she its on the| verse, to flat- hook of at miled back Another year stenograp tarted er. Disgrace Suicide Reported in Tokyo TOKYO, Dec, 31 Ports were in circulation today that Representatis Member of the lower ho diet and father of the tempted to ass Hirohito last suicide The suicide according Ports, was done as a mark of extreme anguish 0 e thought that his son had attempted to kill the popular young prince. Indications today of the present ministry a# an immedi ate result of the attac Prince Hirohito could not be a Unconfirmed re- | in Tok: mba, of the uth who at ssinate Prince R gent had committed to these re on Wealthy Recluse Is Foun Dead in Home HUTCHINSON Robbery wa i the motive for th £. Gibbs, wealth in hi« home he had been crushed. to have been he had little trace of the Mrs. Jackson ter, i a Another n lives in Williamstown. He worth mone slayers ha otified | wai lodges, where sy jand Fi o——— A LETTER FROM AVRIDGE MANN Turn the Page to Bright 1924 Dec, 81, 1923. Dear Folks: : Tie a cow-bell on the lizzie, let it make a lot of din; blow your horn until you're dizzy, wag a loud and lusty chin! Wander singing, shouting, flinging ser- pentine along your way; make it snappy, noisy, happy, while you welcome New Year's day! If you're quiet, try it staying sitting up around the house; kill the moments calmly playing double-can- field with the spouse! Pistols shooting, sirens tooting, make you open up the door; yawning, while the year is dawning, “Well, it’s 1924! Or, go down and get a table in a lively eating-place; drink whatever you are able, lead a very merry race! Gaily glancing, laughing, dancing, who should worry, who should grieve? Drop the sorrow till tomorrow— this is Happy New Year's Eve! Maybe you would like to spend it far from where the trumpets blare; go and see the old year ended in a quiet House of Prayer! Tarry kneeling, praying, feeling solace fill your yearning heart; bringing, while the bells are ringing, strength to make another start! Waiting, dancing, praying, yelling, we shall greet the coming year—each his chosen mode of telling 1924 is here! All are voicing glad rejoicing, saint and sin- ner, youth and age; may we find it leaves behind it quite a brighter, better page! PLAN TO GREET \GLERK IS FINED MISS '24 HERE $250 FOR THEFT Churches, Clubs, Theaters, | Previous Good Record Gets to Welcome New Year Mail Thief Off Easy Aided and abetted by musicians, miles of ers, tons of confett: and an ing prosperity,’ thousands of folks will guther tonig tho warmth and color of brightly light ed halls, cabarets and clubs to wel Miss 1924. Others will mgregate in dimly lighted churches to kneel |! and pray as the 4 ring out the | te story upon. the air, for |? support, are be guidance thru t ar and to | He to have influenced the court o | to give fine InsteaG of a | senter of stream: | Valdemar pay scores A. Smith was sentenced a fine of $250 by Federal Jeremiah Neterer Monday for ime of stealing letters contain ing money from the mails, Smith 49, wax arrested on November 14 he was coming off shift from his as mail clerk In the Seattle fice, The fact that the offense he black mark on Smit? rd, and that he ndent on him f paper to | positic come 4 reverent! only has a wife de a prison welvemonth will be room for everybody: good ch Y NERE’S MORE ABOUT KNUTSON “|| STARTS ON PA that cheers Ineas for those | \ who feel something to stimulate their celebration. Mr. Common C! 1 feel lit ald in cele food for pered—p of liquor bedy. pite the threat bition agents to give Seatt fired at Kn farrest, no on jin the "That non the night asked If he had ot f his “en however, rte and ating. W he reco None of the ot if his car ng note, wit Kaitson reads that. Seattic, saying farewell | Knute Rodal, 59 to a most prosperous year, enters | John, hia brot the new era with high hopes that|drews, and Miss Selma business Fifth ave. N. W. Roda! While A Knutson nor ad olson, 6908 steam id of Knute | ahead. NO ROWDYISM MUST MAR CELEBRATIONS aon efforts b ait damaged any “rowdyiam’ which killed r the advent of the New other evi cording to Chief of Police B. Severyns. It asion of special howe ets, cafes many table at the the ¢ the girl, to might Ye Ww. oe m: nd merry-| "Beat it; for That Knw' shortly aft Joy rom 1 and ations at roadhouse be and churches caba home « Oscar Hi where gaged and pecial parties are | tt That planned. at the point Hundreds of wen will bo in th for the rymaking, hotel men say tion agents admit that liquor is like ly to flow pretty But they be abroad and woe to the liquor eddler caught with the goods. Chief eryns sald no special raids were antielpated by his force, but that al special detail watch the crowds F “rough stuff.” IRE, AND HOW TO UEBRATE TONIGHT CHURCHES- nounced for Un First Presbyter' KNUTSON'S FRIENDS MAKE STATEMENTS In a signed statement « th fatal in Knutson's car and Phir mething fle He dent freely . Ke at on the night ridi ave car “hit windshield connect the shaw’s death, about the latter accident in the news- papers Ball in the services an. Methodist, Methodist tion Army Miss Br ne n, will hol DA um of $10,000 asked by Mad aa for who is said to be almost ir of physical and men Attorney Horr plar sk for a c He feeling in Seattle, t ed such “t is impos will Knute a state Knidhts club, Masonic temp! Eagles’ audi Butler cafe, club, Amer other reta and d of Yacht Count onic club, i cotlages mople he mople Chantecler hall, ub, Rainier adquarters, Is, cat dance he torium, an avers t crimes by hit-and-run dr a fair trial for bie. Knutson rect re ors his client — Orpheum, Hip, Liberty, Colle ¢ and Strand theat HOW EARLY YOU CAN STAY FOR STREET CARS HERE’S MORE ABOUT BABY TARTS ON PAGE orth 40th st., 2 ast Queen her lin will operat dia other All ot 1m ight On e dow en 1 a,m. and n mid days. m, on ot the la will ntown on outbound runs a lines wt car the base into which it had been to go thru the do It dress the ; was too big fell over and ret of Mra. La while t Love's clothin managed to be follows A 320 a Jallard North, 4 x sallard-2 ¥ 4a, m Beacon Hill bus, 2:27 ; Capitol Hill, 4:19 a. m, 218 a. m.; Ei Fauntleroy, 3 fire to the and the b Be nnett yin, reso ‘ caught but the neighbor's house The fauce was frozen, and he was 1 fig’ he f 4:10 ™m.; 410 Sun " he m 4| ran to Jetfer- |» 40 elhu a, m. m.; North Quee Phinney, 410 2 South depart utes and ext able 4. enna Seattle, conside One Dead, One Hurt, in Theater Blaze EDFORD, CHILLY NE, O AT EUGEN of theate torm, 10use tistomen %© sneh weather THE SHATT HERE'S MORE ABOUT WINTER STARTS ON PAGE 1 swept two Denver apartment house: this morning ax a direct result heavy furnace firing, duo [tremely cold Weather, | Firemon battled a jbroke out at 780 a.m tow apartment house overheated furnace pipe Kramer Kenant was three seriously injured |leuped from thirdatory windows, A fire which keb out in old twowtory apartment of to Diage whieb in a down from an Moe, killed when an ar 31, DenVer wehool teacher, and vious Injury of Min Evelyn Lau man, O'Fallon, TL, Olwon, of Denver, from secondatory pavement, Several firemen were overqine the nd blaxe, Frogen ho jthe cold ewather proved a # | handicap’ in the fight it | ed the crumbling building m }euune further injury to the men FOUR STATES All three leaped windows to in oH and and fire BLIZZARD HIT | OMAHA, | retiet. tros blizzard whieh raged in praska, Wyoming [the Dakotas since Saturday night was promised by the weather bu reau here today ‘Temperature below Neb, Deo, 31,-—-Partial hav Omaba hut the bult 7 o'clock and it would at $ at 6 a was slowing rising the bureau predic KO below that point accompanied by and a wind which 25 to 40 miles an hour, rtures thruout — the from zero 17 this morning It wax 10 Neb, at 7 p. the mercury Wyo., reported m. and wire traffic hampered by t car service and tax almoat com coow fro = mi below reported to Hastings & below Valentine, ht with eyenne, at 7 Railroad considerably | storin. | ner below m. n cl 6 a were plete KANSAS SWEPT BY COLD GALE|E=. mild, and the re able to consery early In the even shelter for t Winter Weather Chills Portland PORTLAND, , Or first 1 Sunday and was predicted for surrounding were used lant Tillamook points looked for hed: It us! t ‘ al Slippery Streets Ox Ula they house caused death of Miss Beatrice Jones, and Mise Mary the rious | other boys. was and reached | not storm conaiderable ranged at last | falling. | be- waa the onde ore LE STAR TWO BOYS ARE BADLY INJURED \_: One Hurt Coasting; Another in Auto Crash” Two boys were near death Mon day oN & renult of neeldenta Sunday | caused by the cold weather and the subsequent slippery streets, Jonoph Levy, 14, waa taken to Providence hospital after hin sled had crashed into an auto at 27th avo, 8. und Washington st, He way unconscious Monday and thought to bo dying, Wonley Haug, 11, was also in a critteal condition Monday, following an accident in which hin father’s auto skidded into another machine and overturned at Ravenna blvd. and Brooklyn ave, ‘The Levy lad was coasting down the hill on Washington st. with two His sled, traveling at speed, crashed into an auto jdriven by H. M. Aumiller, 26, of | 919% 27th ave, 8, Levy was thrown ‘| head first Into a wheel, fracturing | his skull, Aumilier' wan not held re sponsiblo for the accident, ax he wan traveling slowly and could nor | avoid the sled, according to his] ntatement. He was booked by the| | police and released. Levy is the son of Mr Frank Levy, 197 26th. ave. ‘The other accident occurred when he Haug boy, with hie father, Gax |W: Haug, 1004 EB. 73d 8t., was riding | n the family automobile, Haug's| | car skidded on the icy pavernent and | collided with a mhchine driven by | D. R. Mitchell, 1711 Naomi pl. Haug’s| car overturned, pinning the fath and son underneath it, ‘The boy was | taken to hia home, unconscious, The} father was not badly PRISONERS | MAKE ESCAPE! ATLANTA, Dec, 31.—All law | enforcement agencies of the South {today concentrated in the search for |four privonerg>who made a daring | te ing from the federal penitenth f n a A and Mrs,| 8 i hurt. | ntate 4 fourth h The fugitives been fo Include George sentence 00,000 mail| Ander id Maret ving a 2hyear & $1.0 vel men circling the Billy Miske, Boxer, Said to Be’ Dying {INNEAPOLIS to lie down Defends Himself, Is Shot Dead by Thugs Lou che here Italian Steamer Is Reported Safe pat Bother New York! NEW YORK Dee. a1 A pery ed would turn int the da f pavement ured slit New Year ne weather ma might be a New with heavy snow cor of the mountains ‘of 3 Texas Norther Is Sweeping Cities & down out aine. DALLAS in the 1d f 10) swept o Northwest § atterno c ng in tempe Unoffi th the u a sudden ture temp in ark en thi forec colder er orted Sund Fear for Livestock in Wyoming Drifts ROCK SPRID Dec and Zero for Chicago, Heavy Snow Falls CHICAGO, D Yenr’s day, cold burban WITHIN THE LAW NEW YEAR'S And Celebrate by Seeing That Great Pieture NormaTalmadge “WITHIN THE LAW” EVE ar rus Market Theater Virst Met. Pike and Union WED. & ALM. N rien STILE NIGHT HIG NEW YEAR DANCE DANCING Advanced ely | im. | Texas |ing cause for profanity | rectified, HERE'S MORE ABOUT COLD HERE ; 1 ARTS ON PAGE tures'in this city over Sunday eal Monday ranged from 30 degrees nro at 6, m. Sunday mornir reon above zero Sunday ning, At midnight the mereury rem Intored at 26 degre and then a i» abo dropp degrees above at 6 a. Ito Mon Spokane reported the lowest tem erature In Washington olties Mon day morning at 5 o'clock, with the} meroury hanging around 2 n above zero, Walla Walla, Ase only city in Bastern Washington with an appreciable fall of new snow, two Inches having fallen Sunday night, reported 10 degrees nbove zero, and Yakima thermometers were register: ing 8 degrees "above." Outside of Washington extremely low temperatures were listed, Hel ena, Mont., showed 20 degrees below zero, while at Billings, in the same state, the thermometers recorded below at 5 a.m, Kamloot : reported 14 degrees below. Sheridan, Wyo., weather bureau fig | ures Hated 92 degrees below zero, | while St, Paul, Minn,, edge of the area, low zero. A recorded but 4 be: unique record was ‘made Monday morning when A lene showed 18 degrees above, 60 ¢ lveston, only nix was Inid to high pressure ened to} In the area, movement of the which had not Galveston. fey widewalks and slippery ments drew thelr quota of bruises and falls Sunday and Monday, with automobiles steaming like Puget | i Lake Washington fer. rh and many frozen radiators giv The streets sewers department had received calls on broken water and frozen pipes Monday morning. With froga und switches full of lee and snow, early cars found difficulty in getting over thelr routes for the first time, the trouble department of the municl pal street railways reported, Minor difficulties were also dixcovered by motormen for th Sound Electric company, 0 in terurban De lays in nervice ¢ not were q and no ating the nro cattle ntreet the city car and just 1ou: but make a bad enough a municipal to th offices declar Fuel ing the! ssenger Ol Operators the pecting h mai ds of hou ning coal any more this winter Sunday and Skykomish station» at the eastern and fen of the storm zone report no reported from 8 were ly Wenatchee practica’ been a oa Indu: 18 fac TODAY P Get Tickets Now for our MIDNIC MATINEE 1923 SONG REVUE Arranged by LIBORIOUS HAUPTMAN || ORCHESTRA on the eastern | pave] mains morning street) WANS IS TSG UE HE MONDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1928, PROBE HELD IN YOUNG FORGER “DEATH OF GIRL 1S FINED $250 Youth Testifies He Bought Leo Russell's Mother Liquor for Party Made Happy Person | | An inquest Jury, which began an| By SEABURN. es Pas : Jinventigation at 10 o'clock Monday| The tired eyen of Mra. J | morning into the death of Miss sell brightened for the firwt tin | Laura 1 Hughes, 2127 Second ave, |nearly #even long, hartowl who was killed Friday night in a|months on Monday morning: \collision between an automobile and |in the somber surroundings Ja wtrect car at Westlake ave, and federal courtroom, she heard’ 3g Denny way, was regaled with testl-|Jeremiah Neterer profounce mony showing how easy liquor can | words that swept the shadow be purchased in Seattle, penitentiary from the form Maurice Vining, 18, of 1419 | 19-year-old son, Lao. Highth ave. W., University of! Young Ftusnell received tf Washington sophomore, wis thelinal sentence of a $250 tine, firnt witness to be called, He test! |offense of altering and a fied that he had purchaseé n quart|to pass a money order at & lof alleged Scotch whisky at a dell-| hotel Jast June. catessen store on Kast Madison st.| The case has attracted the to provide refreshments for the|tlon and drawn the # |automobile party, consisting of Miss official concern: Hughes, Henry Bartlett, 1205|United Statey Attorney Eight ave. W., University of Wash-|Revelle to the court bailiffs, 4 ington junior; Miss Orma Metcalf | cause of the dauntless herolam and himself, |which the Ind's mother fought] Vining took save him from the stigma of p ASKED COURT TO GIVE BOY CHANCE At the time of his arrest, 1» contributing to the support The |her family from the prodeeda vmall real estate business at troft, Mich. according to ff | officials. Converting her sole of income into cash, she and th jelder Fussell came to Seattle |was $500 of her money’ thal |tained freedom on bail for the bo injand her pleadings with the, dry | that extended the period before as U |tence to give Leo a chance to m violating | good. peace Jaws.) When young Russell was order announced |to appear in court for sentence @ |October #1, Mrs. Russell, then cons Altho extensive plans for celebrat- | tinea to a hospital bed, summ ing the death of 1923 and the birth| strength to appear in court of 1924 have been made in Seattle’s| him. Sentence was deferred centers of night Mfe in the city lim-| December on that occasion, and |its, roadhouses report a scarcity of | first skirmish in the fight for table reservations and slack busl-| freedom was won. ness, Sheriff Starwich’s warning} It was proven to the sutistaction o |has had noticeable effect, it is re-|the court Monday that Russell h | ported. | made good, so far, to the best of h “IT expect to keep my men. on th bility. He has supported his mother) “There |with arned as a deliver | drink and of ‘the Uquor referring to it | poison,” according to Vining | Metcalf girl did not drink |ROADHOUSES | WILL BE DRY a of whisky gave Mins d. Bart- bu | New Year's Eve celebrationa King county roadhouses will be jand orderly—tho as gay can possibly be without jthe Maquor, moral or Sheriff Matt Starwich | Monday. jump tonight,” Starwich sald. are no licenses for extra-hour dances | truck driver. thin violators of the 1] “I could send you to the peniten o'clock will be prose-|tiary for a term of years,” the Judge cuted. |told the prisoner. “But the purpose, ‘Intoxicated ar-|of the law is not vengeance, but pros rested and anyone altection of society. Continue im thi bottle of liquor will path you have set for yourself, worl. no reason wh and take care of your mother, liv celebration cannot be |right, and the law ts satisfied. . The youth paid the fine before leave” jing the courtroom. ye nd closing hour persons will be possessing be prosecuted New Year's lnw-abld. President Jackson Has Rough Voyage! |Girls Paddled to of the fact that sho hai| —- Discourage Revolt forced to ba for hours} COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 31—Pad stiff northeast gale, the Ad-|diing was re-established today a miral Oriental liner President the G Industrial School ni on her arrival here last night.| Delaware, when the state welfi ed a e from the Orient | department's order against corpora as within one hour of the tr hment w revoked by Gove pacific record time, according to her |ernor Donahe commander, Captain John Griffiths. | yfargaret nm, matron of th The decks of the big liner was ¢ chool, said the whack of the paddle cased in ice when she docked. Due balk further attempts by fn- to the high seas off Willlams Head « to organize an uprising lke the quarantine doctors had difficulty |tnat which threw the institution In- boarding her in the roads Tee Ab: promo aie: Walle The President Jack#on brought 250 passengers, In her 2,000-ton cargo | 6.133 bales of Faw silk an d300 bales of hemp, Jack voy were A steamship “set vice “for |freight shipments between Chi¢ |and Manchester is proposed company which has been form Pin sland. Sixteen vessels will be eh= gaged in the service. We F Star's aneous ¢ results. olumns bring very Phone | [MA in.0600. quick oa THE mane | NEW SHOW IN TOWN TODAY mS EH PRISCILLA DEAN In Her Latest, Greatest Screen Success A Thrilling Drama . That YoullRemember ForMany A Day AND: BILLY SULLIVAN In the First of the Latest H. C, “LEATHER PUSHERS” Another Series of Those Inimitable Fight-Romance Pictures Witwer “CARISSIMA™ and Lindy Played by hls ALL-ARTIST | “™) Lou” INTERNATIONAL NEWS