Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.
| | B P and Temperature Maxt ‘ L Today VOL. 26. NO, 248. ’ } Howdy, folks! Man comes into 7 this world with nothing on him, but in a short time everybody has something on him i A r = wit | c to h { wearing \ BUSINESS MAN'S XMAS GREETINGS @ To his Stenographer: A Merry X-mas, To the Elevator Boy: A Metry V-mas, fo the Char-woman: A Merry Buckmas | | | / j ROAD SIGN IN AUTOMOBEEL ATTENTIO Speed Limit Rests no mourn He 1 sure had a had static fa little YE DIARY the y recruiting my bonus app! omer Brew, Jr.. years hence on the res toll, which, methink of aerial combat he must And so, busy, passage of time, so that so to Manca’s for dinner, Jack Russell, the comedian \ Perforce, in town over ni; my wyfe will say heaven help me! 1 hare for Caddy McTate too often can stage a party te of his ane I know net, montha of bridge ane at. middle $111,000 IDAHO en 100 Miles per Hour Fords Do Your Dernedest tough night. night and the yes out from office, where 1 anon to the where did pre ation, so that Little will be but small reward for the long-winded tayles needs listen to. and wotted not of the 5:30 did come, nnd T had missed the evening boat, and | and later to see nd did stay, ight, tat wha albei my suspicions, Conct the | r How about Ma H } The on he doesn't it i H I Jol i TODAY'S DEFINITION Giggle: Sound made by an idea suffering from solitary confinement. | Youldn't It be pitiful if an effi- } ciency expert were compelled to con-| fuct a business of his own? } Cpe yi | r, DuBoth met a girt j 0 lisped thru her tecth of pure i pearl. ‘ “hug you or kiss you,” he swore with an oath he cried in surprise, “Oh! Mr. Du- Both!” We'vo just sent I'l Gee Gee a bathing suit for Christmas. Gosh, she'll be surprised n she gets the etter. ABIGAIL, APPLES** 4 \osmall bay can't make much joise around the louse these days, t With the . asleep, father tuning In on the radio and mother working cross. Word puzzles,” ‘ SAYS: The vewspaper With ‘the I Circulz ation i in W ashington 3igges “BOYS CHARGE RENTON MEN AID THEM FOR STEALIN nnn | | WEATHER ~ The Seattle Star Girts I Dream Shattered Parents Resent ACCUSED Board’s Action! PAIR ARE RRESTED w- Youths, Held in De- tention Station, Tell Story Like That of But She Got Swindler! Miss Irene First ave. N., confidence man, their jobs.” Monroe, who ha the of earnings BY G. AST work LUCILLE BUTLER night ‘ ok off he apron’ and step; out tn the night for Irene ved swept dar with sorting solled linen, forever been This morning the little fair-haired girl h the wistful eyes had just n leas as she took he: aundry bags at to work be use I had a better Job.” ld be back Irent came with her brother from Wallace, Idaho, last summer. She got work in the laundry, but {t ts heavy work, and sho wished a job with a future, Irene confided her| ambitions to the wife of a nearby rekeeper, and the woman thought t ¢ of the nattily attired young an wh bought roll there He 1 «aid } ral f y night, work, she meet the man who called himself Floyd Olson, pay him $9 and accept a position in the Great Northern freight checking de-| of which, according to his | partment story—he was the head And then a doubt entered her is a nice new home ready you to move in ‘dining fire- m with living and hardwood floors; good alzed bedro clonet; nice bath; cab- Inet kitchen with breakfast nook; broom cloret; unusual cooler, cement basement, fur- nace, laundry; good garage. See the Want Ads for more de all of Year, by Ma SATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1924 I * Declare School Officials Overstepped Authority in Booze Case How far the authority of the — ¢ Seattle school board extends over the actions of students Flem non-school days and not attend. 5 Ing school functions will be de " - termined by ‘ amities of tot nn fathers of the stud who were en summarily suspended by the P . board Tuesday, They were sus Mr pended following reports that Ale b had been brought to a so inwit ' cial gathering of Lincoln high | 4 “ sehoot boys and girls Saturday |) et night Mia wunnts ‘We A con : Fle , board ely sus 4 the dren becor t reached “The yp not condone | Tuesday when the boa ets with the aetion of the children in per (Turn to Page 13, Column boore to be brought to ir party. But Tas one parent el that my boy's conduct is matter for parental attention and discipline, not for public ridicule and punishment by the school authorities, even extend. ing to the opportunity of the boy to gain an education at our public schools.” COOLIDGE OKEHS POSTAL BOOST Indorses Higher Salaries if’ { the schoo! believes the author ffictaln ext 18-year-old laundry worker at 222 ts at who caused the arrest of Floyd Olson, alle ged} X4 : ta ey Ww ASHINGTON, De Pres swindling working girls owt |¢ pep agreed promise of getting them “hetle ‘ . t ‘ ‘ oole pre € ena by congress at the sam rk t according to senators who wing rece him at the White various st ing employm detiecal iNawile’ Grate Richmond laundry worker, | fortune told, too. She also was wear- Bomething told Irene to viding for the neces s $132 to learn from Mme. Carline, | ing a “bad luck gown,” she discov. in a woman friend. Susp! it may be : ; University st. seeress, that she |ered. She was coaxed to have it confirmed when she phoned Train Carries Labor Leader) was going to live to “be a very | Senlee Tel eo, ae friend, Alice Mobbs, 11 ; old lady,” the girt told Deputy piles | Teaeeres Sorte neam AE Was aa teinedisTo toe - Across U. S.-Mexico Border| pid,ted." the sirt told Deputy | Ciudes longevity, cost ‘her $8, aie to O1 1 d | filed a complaint accusing the | told Hammer. oF: furthe stead NO CAUSE FOR ALARM) seeress with vagrancy. A warrant i aE: at} r rosecutor | was issued for Mme. Carline's ts m ’ ae | arrest by Justice John B, apes? arrived an hour Inte 5 Physicians Flash Encourag- | Having heard of the prop loth incanny knowledge of the future Sina her ’ J | ing Report on His Coniaition tence moors os oe Glare RAILROAD AVE Olson, b ng the officer to be 0 ou for a reading ‘ } her brother, introduced htmaelf. giv B || LAREDO, Texas, Dec. 12—Samuel] “Oh, that dress! ‘That dress!” said | ing the name this time, of Henry |Gompers’ condition was “very much | th r a |the woman, according to the girl. “It Granger, He was arrested. | ie (EDITORIAL) jbetter"” and there is “absolutely no| gives you the wrong atmosphere. i: Engineer's $30,000 Improve- “We went to his room, and found }cause for alarm,” according to a|will bring you bad luck. Leave | }he didn’t have as much as a hand HE STAR Friday put squarely up to Prosecutor | statement to the United Press by Dr. | here ana will fumigate {t with my ment Report Delayed |erchlef there.” said Irene. “And Douglas this question: | W. F. Cockrell, his attending phys-|mystic Egyptian Incense salts.” | we got bac’ {as Mobb's $7 nich te c " © 8p ave. { Pitiad oil ul. 21 With an aroused public demanding an end to the “Laredo. (olay at Tae ne | Miss Tucker left her $125 gown, | Railroad ‘ave. inno neares Gag he had on him am , © Laredo today at 7:45 a. m.,/recelved her $2 reading and went) Promised $30,000 repair Job Friday j he didn’t get mine, and 1 offering of bribes in an attempt to cor upt city and | Mexican time. J ita B | noon than it was three weeks ago | the girly making fun county officials, and with a law on the statute books || The veteran leader of the American |" ‘The. next day.she appeare ng | When Star called attention to | WM help othe making it a felony for a man who is offered a brib ase of Labor was asleep asked for her rejuvenated gown, the ‘decayed condition” of pilings: qa | ir haludegor “¢ Pines to refuse to name that man, why is it that you do not inlined fro kei 3 Wtbye$ fel {i madame's | Wooden trestle which makes. up ai | Yiae who has been ope ix - e bm exico onowing een ente by bur- | “ id stree! ; indie‘foe sonnet f demand of County Commissioner Dobson the name of A near he ack, cros#ed yi nee be tabs ane ra be board of public works, sched- i glars the night before and the gow f s, : names, including the man who he says offered him $10,000 for his the border sole R caw aayn later-Anta Trio. | wled to have approved plans and ; turns,” in held Jompers’ car i be ched to}). r £ = catio: o1 yr, j charge, and cused by almos : : ernatio ire ern | ot sche was unable to take any action whe: i score of girls of having defrauded Prosecutor Douglas’ answer is enlightening. train which will leave here at 10] |the city engineer's office reported them of amounts ringing from $2 I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY,” he replied. o'clock for San Antonio. | that the specifications were as yet j to $9. if That thread-worn phrase covers a lot of ground. Ho is due at the latter place " | incomplete i , 205: dave st $7; ‘ ckrell's statement follows: when the plans will be ready, but Alice Mobbs, 115 Warren ave.; Mabel ignorance of the fact that they are busy on a case “Respiration normal; pulse normal; | HIS IDENTITY had they een approved Friday, | Fuller, 722 Bell st,, lost $9; Mra. W about which, for some reason or other, ‘they do not | temperature normal | under statute provisions, no publio | B. Wilson, $7, and, according to po- care to talk. | “We will stop In San Antonio for | | hearing for protests could havt been | lice, a number of girls at the Ro: More it i ng i ici P atter a few days’ rest.” | 1h til the idle of } { mary club, 1015 Union, e him $2 More often, it is the alibi of officials in a matter Dr. Cockrel! was uncertain whether | REfUSES to ‘Discuss Activi- ear akte : eeu Sonia j each in exchange for * whict where they cannot, or for some reason or other do Gompers would be ‘0 hos) ties Since Le P urribty “oven tha TC uN eet never materialized. Miss Winnifred not want to take action, (Turn to Page | Golutin 3) e aving en around the gaping holes aa ove Hyae, $44 Bi. 66th at Prd kl If Douglas is seriously working on the bribery | ie ee rReTTT., . yo | the shaky trestle at imminent dan- fonroe, grew suspicious of Olson saga, he isto BaCeonerati lated Ww * SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12.—| 20° Op ait a property tron ete scheme, refused to him an nt he a5 tit A” Na ie ie rey 1 i | Western Chickens Douglas Storrs, former King ‘county | fp a cig mney. Miss Mo’ with her he is alibjng, he is to be condemnec deput t convict from W. 0 eo raaniey. (Ate 1h ing, Barred in New York | uty and ex-convict from Walla : | brother at the Avalon apartments | Detectives later identified Olson as Stanley Ray Blelski, convicted thief | and burglar. He was sent to Mon in 1923 for a 1-15-year term and |has served four term@ for petty lar- | ceny beside, police records show. The people would feel more in a mood for waiting if the prosecutor would take them into his confidence. They won't wait long, in any event. Unless Doug- las gets prompt results in going to the bottom of this filthy bribery business, the public is going to demand outside action that will, | IT IS UP TO DOUGLAS! TOULOUSE, Dee, 12.—Pedro Cam. po Polo, noted Spanish art reviewer, | is here toc while on his to| Paria, where he was forced into exile | SAS Sa Beemee 2) § BY JIM MARSHALL Gee passenger agents for other railroads nearly had heart failure Friday when local office of the Pennsylvania the aywtem started bragging about that road’s new Congressional Limited. Ina frantic attempt to heat other roads to it, the Pennsy fy going to name all the 4“ on this train after mous patriots, in a final effort to uchleve su- premacy. Hitherto it has been the custom to name Pullmans after everything else has been named, using the letters left over, sidering furnishing cross-word do luxe trains and {t's a poor hit or miss. puzzles to its patrons, It will system that hasn't barbers, The Great Northern, with tts also offer prizos for correct pro- mantoures, bellboy, hotidog new Orlental Limited, and the nunclation of the name Saca- Northern Pacific, with great big Jawea, which appears on a salesmen, maids, matrons, but- baked potatoes, were hardest hit tatute near the track at Three lors, first and second footmen, by, the astern road's idea, it was Forks, Mont. Eastern ctourists | elevator-starters and radio ex- said in Seattle rail circles, Ex- only will be eligible in {Ws com. | porta on {ts erack flyer, Some perts from both roads wore @ potition, ‘The Columbian ta to be | of the flyers have more help locked up in thinking-roomas to- {| renamed the Crosswordian, and | than patrons, and h to lug day, thinking up new ways to the Olymplan, the Sacajawea along a couple of extra cars to make thelr trains famous, Another road—the Milwaukee —which is infected into the story over the protest of President H BH, Byram—was vaid to be pon- in compliment to these innova- tions, It 19 reported on terribly unreliable authority, — @ Vor some years now various roads have been competing with carry them. Ono of the roade—it was said to bo the Great Northern—once got the idea of having a home like atmosphero on its traing WO CEN’ Dickens’ | Mra. E. C. Bostick, wife of the manager of the Pantages theater, who is making a streriuous effort to obtain the cus A TALES approximating that | tody of her little daughter, Vivian, | SL of Dick famous Fagin, a v; iP F ‘i e Pe :. 1 who trained Oliver Twist to WHO witt have ‘the Pi aeons ; be lead the Ie of a sneak-thlef, bese was disclosed Friday by Deputy Wal } | Prosecutor Hammer, with the | Wegner to Arizona | arrest of two Renton te a year’s treatment in a ; They are temporarily charged w wits recelving awarded her custody >» 1921, the first time in J .. eanories, tires and coal, when the couple was divorced pint But this qbees iia acts the boys were paid small sum Her mother’s attorney, V. T. twit of fale douanleedent Te | id Tustin, insists that the celta uate Aiemn! the {ite arrest of the mother, who, in August s ras ¢ and Guention of the boys n the manager of ; Geain*t’ sifeamn’: ti? relia | venile home, Hammer Northwest =Pa lesen vt: ae Chief Pete Dullahant be should take Vivian back to her Taio eaten aie serien of small thieveries has been| jovely new home in Beattle ees gre ee raaaienc ape Be Giieeds ya Vivian's mother has had a | jooking gefitlenian, no solicitous steal. ripen "He peer tha | movie career since her estrange of his new wife's comfort, as | youth 60 cents for tt December 3,| ent with the child's father. she snugeies close to him dur | On the silver screen she was ing the hearing, may, after all, |The same boys were trained by ; f Jones, according to the complaint, to| known as Cleo Jocelyn. be a new papa! steal coal from Higher Rate Bill Is Passed |empioyed by Lonsol to steal a mpot a Renton man's car, ht from ate ~ GOMPERS Grows Mer Life Woul BETTER AS HE NEARS HOME ¥ YORK, Dec. 12.—Western| the count Jail at San Francisco, i chickens were barred from New|where he is held on & charge of liv- | Heavy Earth Shock i York markets today, ing off the earnings of two women. Is Felt in Italy | Alarmed at reports of a “pesti. Storrs refused to say anything | LONDON, Dec, 12.—Severe earth- lential disease found among fowls|about his activities since saving | quake shocks were felt {n northern | from Tilinols, Indiana, Iowa, the Da- Walla Walla. He was arrested on Italy today, a Central News dispatch kotas, Nebraska, Kansas and Mis-|the complaint of Blaine Hollings-| from Rome saye, sourt,” Health Commissioner Mona. worth, : |Shan announced chickens from these | of | states conditions are They’re Going to Think Now Before Naming Pullmans and supplied porters with framed mottoes to be hung in the cars. Onbict).the pottera newaver, Seite eae run a serlal visa sree Gaeria reer ian ] ‘ahs jovie in the observation car when gho's not dressed for it, or hung up @ motto reading: "Bet- every night—one episode a night. hasn't a thing to wear or tor late than never,” and the ‘Then all the passengers would be sumpin® And all the other no- f Jden died. So did the porter so Interested in how it was com- taries male her life miserable almost, : ing out they would ride clear tu because thelr commissions expire Karly Friday afternoon one of % before hers does, or aftorward the Idea experts in the thinking | y {d the idea.maker, in- | maybe—that's a detail, Woll. rooma came to the door in re- quiringly. there's a plot to kill the beautiful sponse to a call from a re- “What I mean to say,” said girl nota commission ahead porter, who wanted to know the reporter, “is that I have an of its time and What do what {dea he had. ‘The re- idea for the film, You seo, it you think of it, so far porter said; "IT have an idea ought to be about a notary public “Nothing whatever,” said the of my own for you" are embargoed until norma 1] Investig: restored, Mother Seeks Her Child Mrs. Bostick Is in Court Home Edition IN SEATTL jum. Then mother left people and i r a movie i g to his story, i |} tuberculosis len property drayman, Jo has taken ment 1 of Vivian’ nd the ex-husband ha Robert the milroad and were | for Cost Her $132 to Learn uld Be Long Warrant Issued for Seeress Charging She Is Vagrant; Others Mulcted decided to have her laundry, T cost Miss Clara Tucker, New at the Walla, has admitted his identity in| The citizens of Trieste, Fiume and abuso at the hands of Storrs. An|Tolmezzo were thrown into panic. fon revealed he was living} Many buildings were heavily dam- With another woman, aged. who told police a pitiful tale said the expert. 25, 1926. This notary is a beau- said the reporter, “the tiful girl, but ts obsessed by the whose commission expires March / idoadman, and closed the *~ aw