The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 2, 1924, Page 1

Hooray: $2,000,000 in Day’s y's Building Permits Indicates a Year of Prosperity een PPP AARP ALP, m|STOVE BLAST KILLS THREE! E Movie Colony Scene of New sal SCAMRRSRR PANTERA Lon The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington Snow, turning to rein, and warm- H H0 M er tonight; Thursday, rain and | wermer, increasing 8. FB. winds, pissin, ho Mica 941 er a KEDITION Entered 9 Becond Class Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress Merch 3, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $3.60 SEATTLE, W. ASH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2 1924, * ie “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. OUR FIRST 1924 TOURIST THREE OF THESE ARE DEAD; TWO DYING Howdy, folks! Gunghay fat choy eee Don't let that first line worry you, folks. It's Chinese for “come on ca va, ma cherie, voulez voulez prome- nade avec m cee “sp! Only 365 days until the eee ger flew her agile Jaws, | ear words darted from her ue, | a8 fighting mad because ldn't_make her bange stay} eee sg to the old custom, If a man refuses a girl during Leap Year, ‘The must buy her a silk dress. LY'1 Gee Gee already has a whole wardrobe. #9 : cou 4 THINGS WE HAVE SWORN “F PS id heavy OFF OF tases little Near beer. : i fe f Canned: weinle-wurst, Mabel Normand, movie star, questioned by Los Angeles| Fr : eg od sy git ' Ate ce bint dceply to | Police, Wednesday, after her chauffeur had confessed to A can of kerosene and a blaze 4 @ kitchen stove proved. a tragic combination for denote strang emotion. shooting Courtland S. Dines, an oil operator, Tuesday night, this Ps 8 Sie aaa family Tuesday night. Anthony Pettinnichi, a shoemaker of 4105 Inflammatory ties. in Dines’ apartment, during a party at which Dines was) ~ . oe igh: th ave. S. (right), died Wednegday noon from burns he received in striving to er Chow mein. | entertaining Miss Normand and Edna Purviance, another} Presenting Miss Ruth Jones, Seattle's first tourist for) cue the children and his wife, Mrggbbdis Pettinnichi (left). She holds baby Evadina, 8, New Year’ penicaicn: Christmas| S¢reen star. 1924. Miss Ruth is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. Ray|who died early Tuesday morning, Josephine, 6, in the center, died soon after her little cigars will be delightful Ruta tl ae eae Jones, 2002 Federal ave. She arrived at the Seattle General form was carried from the blazing home by the fatally-burned father. He holds Mar- sorn beef. | hospital when the New Year was only 15 minutes old, but ite, 4, who is reported dying ay the city hospital, where the mother, doctors say, is sf ecind HOST OF 2 STARS iS posed like an old hand for The Star, Wednesday, after being fies with less, than an even glance Jor recovery. Now that we know why a chicken | advised by Miss A. Fowler, head nurse, to “watch for ‘the crosses the road, why does one cross URE) FATHER AND 2 BABES ATILE VICTIMS OF HORROR! Has Call on New Year Policy|; “Alias 0 iife tnrurance polley, for the fist dl “Gang: ‘One patie Exploding Kerosene Kills Three; One Se WOUNDED BY DRIVER "= ——===2=> === Yep diker. § know ’ . | Mabel Normand and Edna Purviance, tila ts the lnaeel tayo the. Witness Gun Play by Chauffeur year. The Christmas bills fall ne p bey | BY HAROLD F. SWISHER | wood apartment, where he was en- aby lo, wa ) go to Miss Ruth Jones. ® * eve espondent) | tertaining ‘Miss Normand and Edna tuth, , ' and Mrs, W. Ray Jones, of 2002 M Lik | Di Francisco girl wh J . Jan, 2—/|Purviance, another prominont | peacrat ave, arrived just 15 minutes behind the new year, while the || , Surprised by three. polleemen ore ely to le use her mother insisted Lying dangerously wounded in a | screen actress, lis were still ringing and the whistles blowing. immediately after they had —_—— gown with sleeves in it Courtland S$. Dines,| Kelly, whose name 1s aald to be At the Seattle General hospita o sho is registered, Miss Ruth || blown the door from the safe in | The Dead: quoted 34, wealthy oll operator, shot .AOwR | HL A. Greer, shot Dines, according | was Interviewed > , bt wed to say a word for publication. || {he ‘Rislte theater in, facoms Josephine, 6, and Evadina, 3, daughters of Mrs. Anthony comanieutions by Joe Kelly, chauffeur for “Mabel to his story, when the oll man at- James F, Bi | manager for the Pacific Mutual Life Insur- bia - . Ss. y right to bare arms shall not be in-| Normand, film star, will recover, | tempted to strike him over the head | ance compa California, ed a paid-up {nsurance policy for one || morning, a gang of three yegs- | Pettinicci, 4105 Eighth ave. and Anthony Pettinicci. fringed. ding to hospital physicians | with a liquor bottle, He had gone | year to the first baby, If at 6 p. m. tonight there has been no earlier men engaged in py Upcanr nd gun cee : to the apartment, Kelly told police, | arrival than Ruth reported to the Bab: or at The Star, the award attle. with the o oak prap - Another daughter, Marguerite, aged 4, in city hospital. Dear Ho I have heard that it} The shooting occurred early last/at Miss Normand’s request, she || wi) pe made to her merchant patrolman which re Badly Burned: Is proper ¢ entieman to prec evening in Dines’ luxurious Holly having callea for him to take her My fami! nia Dr. Jones. “My other sulted in the capture of one | 5 proper for a gentlema P 6 pace po = meme ‘ ate My pen. fala of the men and the wounding | Mrs, Edis Pettinicci, in city hospital. a lady when descending steps. Is home after Dines refused to allow || aaughter arrived rth of July tennis | * * this good form when descending a cas ag oS ea ig pad aig bibraretes wa i fi wend together with fire escape?—Anxious, UIL t was then Kelly sald he shot es baby, and ¢ notin’ the or the $1, euiat, | She wounded: aegis ah Nb Two small children and their father are dead, unter girl . I & third embers 5 Us ; is dying and their mother and wife, unconscious of the fate heir escape Wednes- NEW YEAR'S RESOLTFLON tance, Miss Normand No, 1,234,897 and Ke ed up um, K We hereby resolve never acain placed him on a couch, admin to make a New Year's resolution, ist first aid and left Duonk Permits Issued for Three Big | arrir Structures and Many Homes **' of one child and her husband, is battling for life in the City captured was booked | hospital as the result of an explosion and fire Tuesday even- under the name of| ing, Gust Poh Anthony Pettinicci, the father, ran a small shoe repair : shop at 4105 Eighth ave. At 11:30 o'clock Tuesday night minutes | he prepared to stir up the fire in a stove in the living room car a few behind the store. The fire had burned down to embers. The ene. The) workman picked up a gallon can of kerosene standing behind curb with 1 was un.| the stove and poured some of its contents onto the fire. Himothoch *ranklir made ter, were arrested a afterwards in a for-hi ks away fi BY W. B. FRANCE Business Editor of The Star ges and original Mark Reed, BURNING OIL SETS i and former ,| BUILDID AFIRE Police ent’ to Dines’ ar eaker of t house There was an immediate explosion. Flaming oil spurted nent ere they found him | ‘ will ~ conduct over the children, standing close behind their father, and unded, but compla. | Frosty Weather Chills Val- | leys in South over the man himself, The children, screaming with agony, rolled on the floor, while the woodwork of the room started to blaze. Burning coals from the stove helped spread the fire. Pettinicci came rushing into the room at her babies* 3oth she and her husband, seared in a dozen vainly attempted to save their children, burning further in weir: wild | efforts. : WORK OUT NEW TRAFFIC PLANS ro w egos Mayor Would Make Every ea.| Cop Watch for Violations mpaign for | were routed fre dential nomina-| sarsiial W.-D:-Collln m ret Officer ¢ x the safe of the M I loved a crazy lady once, With au St Was an-/ thom rif ‘oolidge’s national campalgn headquarte ere today. chauffeurs etory, | ¢ led to K rand last Curiosity Results in Arrest of Man « TH’ OFFICE A caterpillar is only an op WILL RUILD SEATTLE'S I wa holstered worm. BIGGEST APARTMENT x mit N t and cartrid, ing and whistling about z Mr. Di ind Ke nA far | y could not believe it mer. | Comm r Elliott Wed: THREE OFFICERS the ele De caer ine ihé Pacit 1 he frie tropried 7 HEARD EXPLOSION ment t 5 erahig: cont $606,000, could fi ord ta 29, koted severas veo. | QUaKe Is Felt at Drastic measures to develop a id I : ; ad ‘ ‘a t ° r . ? fig f tho stat A Cairo, Illinois ise police depertment that can be be : > : : I \ , i thrown into traffic work during uxu o " : out | Bat I a, T rush hours are being planned by eee - bib se . his tw iy Mayor E. J. Brown and Chief of PICTURE OF COLYUMIST’S 7 ' ; C : i Winnifred Gibbons t ©. GIRL DIES IN CAR Police W. B. Severyns, the may BRAIN THE DAY AVTER oa 1 Goes to Pen Today 5 i ON WAY TO HOSPITAL or announced Wednesday NEW YEAR'S ; 6 t ; ’ Gikt é 4 Josey on t to} The maye t . . x Pi ri 7 tar ‘ + i i fire \ ru & Ww j ae Spite police I | 1 Pil os ; for ' of then where ¥ h | , 7 ‘ ting that i" Pp sete me mr ike at 1 ion for t 0 ‘ nt, but | sata | t h t T and con t of t mot a Pp i 1 | I t " i 1 . | ‘st F i ‘ 1 ‘al 1 ra R m wn the a imm-| Baby Evadina died Wednesday b the 1 v 7g 7 % Turn to Page 6, Column 8) (furn to Page 6. Column 4 ‘ lows | Turn to Page 6, Column 3) (Turn to Page 6, Column 1) | (Turn to Page 6, Column 2)