The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 24, 1924, Page 1

As Nanaimo Bank Ban The Seattle Star ‘VOL. NO 26. 8. HOME BREW! Howdy, folks mpy the rush. Shep late, and B game Now Santa Claus . One thing an slide down nt is ce YULETIDE SUGGESTION Remember that a year’s subscrip tien to Home Brew 4 Christmas present ms payment second-hand pale books, aged goldfish, guts suits, polo ponies and anied ketchup bottles makes a splen We accept two dis: Household Gristmas present for aa be Hint made from Tonight everyone wil! up his Christma. at the police stati all trying ¢ borr iphin's socks Battie citizens are try) Bt ¢ Brown and Codnéiitian Ni- out of the clinches | Christ MBIGAIL. AP PSAUCKE SAYS “One way to hten with mighdors ie th’ kiddie & Axophone for % your mas A fortune awa a fireproof Sar is the mar Twas the ind all Not a creature was stirring Sot even the spouse Bat father was up {Altho mama objects ‘figuring hard The amount of his chec Why do one’s maiden aunts pis send one red polka-dotted neck i? night before Christmas thru the house and cook ® jelly St on the arm of my ¢ my hair, and she never swe: her life before, tmt her pretty way some to naught, ast did tell her I alread» to give Lakin coat for Christm: fever, saying: “I knew » na itm week ago” dozing to ested that the going to start istma, Once upon a time 1 a Christmas card finger over it to! EPITAPH Ton Tibbs’ ashes here repose, Where loving friends may pause, Y think how Tom in cotton Clothes up as Santa Claus. Poison tells his | 18 won't a reindeers all and mouth disease yg t0 tnaurance mM to sett hin salesmen tying first-class acei in TO DOC BROWN nd to thee, Oh Doctor dear lever could be neater?) Christmas gift theer— A snappy, new gas-meter! with lots of Me early wouldn't crossword And so to have a time this year, what with all The Newspaper With the Bigg est C irculation in W: ashington SEATTLE, Fed WASH., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24 R s TWO CENT: Home Edition IN SEATTLE ald ullding passions s A ourt search quo Ajax Imn Mull was “ap nt atten) appearing in the sheriff's office Wednesday morning, gave his information to Sheriff Matt Starwich and asked Starwich to swear to a search warrant, which Starwich | refused to. do. the | Efiazettine’s assistance = in search Hazeltine immed’ tu Justice of the Peace C. C. D: to @ warrant naming paint she under the of Bob Nemitz"" De Elliott accompanied > usement shot Both exits to the shop were locked nen the officers arrived and a Iet {ter was posted on one door reading ‘Gone to Medina—back at noon. The Painter.” Ajax, in absence of Nemitz, | i sence se Life for Hight, 35 Hazeltine, ately ty man mipervi UNABLE TO FIND ECAUSE human went uncurbed, Political Frameup Charged is celebrated Thursday, no Christmas joy will Starwich Refuses to Swear : ; a and Lawrence Hight will weep silently. There : fee ‘ soul-mate, Elsie Sweetin, must go to the pe ni- died—her husband, his wife. For that brief always bring the remembrance of their parents’ thousand years ago Thursday, suffered even of others children of Hisie ee eh! To protect the innocent; to keep unharmed ANY LiquoR IN One Hour of ‘Love’ PAINT SHOP (EDITORIAL) M because two stained souls had not learned by Superintendent the lesson taught by the Man whose birthday r DEPUTIES AID SEARCH enter two modest homes in Mount Vernon, III. In these homes the children of Elsie Sweetin to Warrant : ae will be no toy-decked Christmas tree. | pt epee Lawrence Hight, once a minister, and his tentiary—Hight for life, his mistr for For a brief hour’s pleasure two people hour’s pleasure, children must grow up in the shadow of disgrace. For them Christmas will sin. Jesus, the man born in Bethlehem nearly two unto death for our transgressions. That is the law: That the innocent must suffer for the sins Think, on Christmas day, of this immutable Jaw, Resolve ag the, pictuaiiatie eat and Lawrence before you, to cause no suffering by wrongdo- ing. That is one of the lessons of Christmas: those of whom the Man of Bethlehem said “such is the kingdom of heaven.” and served the papers on him. Mul lane unlocked the shop and a thoro | search, which disclosed only the emp. was carried on by Hazeltine Etiiott ties, Ajax and 8 KILLED IN AIR IN ENGLAND London to Paris Passenger | Plane Catches Fire Guilty of Love Pact Murder T. VERNON, IIL, Dee. Lawrence M. Hight, former Methodist pastor, niust seTve a life sentence in the Iinois peni tentiary and Mrs, Elsie Sweetin 35 years for the murder of Wil ford Sweetin. A jury brought in the verdict shortly before 9 o'clock this morning with the foregoing sen tences, The jury had ¢ on case for approximately 11 hours. The |main question among the jurors, ac — jtinely and in the end the state's eviden the poisoning of Mra band The Hight it Sweetin’ ministers Mrs also died from arsenic i wife CROYDON, England, a4 persons were killed at the Croy n aerdrome here today when a Lon- don-Paris passenger airplane burst into flames and crashed. The machine caught fire and fell shortly after starting for Paris. The airplane, which was seen to burst into flames as it soared above the aerodrome here, came down at} cording to rumors about the court Haling. Downs, a short distance) 0007) Whethoc + the feed abe bicpectlg: A aA rae minister should hang Rescuers rushed to the in| : |automobiles and afoot Both Hight and Mra ‘The plane's passenger verdict calmly The pastor burned to death, however, before the d resigned te Mrs first of rescuers reached the tin expressed gratification at the wreckage | had not life Among those killed in the crash |*"@ntence Dr. Barbosa Lima, of Brazil,| This who was starting for Switzerland. perfect hich the Another of those killed is Cedric|and the miner's wife had built a representative of the} For months he Revue.” s at Croydon aerodrome this afternoon told the United Press that there were no cltizens of the United States aboard the death plane. | Dec. nection with over the two. State's attorneys announced her death stil! the |der case The sta was very immediately ‘8 attorney much disple leniency of the jurors. as r ne thet tin took | a verdict the prosecutors, In Thompson plea: went to the Hight’s minister | Insanity up. | tended clandes scene said closing arguments and his were nis setence the the been given a ‘of the was the fin 1 episode and Mrs she had wooed her (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) Two Towns Looted Main Street a | DAN EARLS, lawyer, eating m soup on a cold { the Elks’ club, LAWRENCE BOOTH, abstractor, hurrying slowly along tbe icy vement on Union st. STAR YOKUM, salesman, chasing a Madison ca. ble car for a ‘ate connection ARTHUR SWARTS, salesman buying Christmas cards hurry, REV. RALPH J. MA Methodist, seeing — the the Olymple, ALIX student, seeing dad Christmas shopping BROWN, deep hustling down ve. AL, SCHMIDT, seller of draft controls, looking up a tall keatack, FRED EVERETT, | tice s discussing finances | tion » banker, GRHORGE | Paradise is 60 mi GUPPY, taiking machines, talk Dallas and Britten 2 to a customer, ALBERT The bandits wor making bank and extreme JOHNSON, mannger | Robbed by Organized Band Dec, 24.—Bandits | sheriff's towns of Britten | of | Tex., Details of the ALLAS, sacke and Paradise in a near today, bere nd Britten from both rt Worth taining loot valued at thousands loll In the postoffices, 1 raflroad stations were open with sledge hammers The jn the which tained $2 |into the street, wh ered thiy morning the First pi Stato bank entered termined thelr Loss of the Britten the safe In « ights at GOULD, about the DAVID singer Two banks, 1 th Paradise tores, the postof- | railroad station were » town of 1,6 fice and lodted | population At Britten, the " bass at 000, Second 1 town of 600 popula dits robbed the postof-| ¥ ank and the railroad sta tion, National at Paradine northeast of ras ‘iret State bank determined miles south ed with precision none of the citi zens in elther town being aroused perpetrated both robber cannot t in reopened ying out bandite displ | (Turn to Page 4, LAUD, deposit reaitor, quiet, DALI cireulating city the robbery pe One gang a | Column 4) according resulted and Peo unt mt Years for His Aide: Minister and Mrs. Sweetin Are Found in Anna poison ifg, and a charge of murder in con hangs they would not take up the second mur today said he aned with the “We built up a perfect case against | ine I am displeased with such | weather Frank Thompson, one of | mornin: both | for the day for a br assistant ma # that Hight and Mra. Sweetin be gallows for the murder defense was based around Sweetin had con! no part in the affair, ~\ considered good by the by Gang of Bandits ‘Texas Banks, Stores and Postoffices |. deputies and | detectives are en route to Paradise Dallas and | stores | knocked Britten station, was carted it was discov were | Bank officials have not de the 3 OTHERS ARE ALSO PICKED; ONE FREED Money Seized in Suspect’s Room Is Identified SHIVELY TO PRISON Will Serve on Booze Charge at McNeil pom Ke City Detective Rows Watson and former Patrol man Richard Shively, together with three of the other four su pects beld for the robbery of the Nanaimo branch of the Roy al Bank of Canada on Decem ber 12, were positively identified Wednesday by employes of the bank as the holdups i. W. Hunte ntity Tolind Tussilay ate ment of Harry Stor int the apart. 405 Fourt Identifieation of the suspects was made under the most diffi cult chreumstances. Watson was placed before them with five other prisoners in the jail and two of the Canadian party, both bank employes picked him ont as one of the bandits who, swear ing loudly and flourishing guns, entered the bank December 15, and made away with $40,000 in currency At the county 4 was used. O ‘ow of fly and the ¢ Every identification was absolute, ac cording to the officers Inspector ben ¢ the Provinet, po ran, chief of p brought or more jall inmat uickst and J © of Nanaimo, v to Seattle of apparently Column 4) of the party jubilant as the links against the five were (Turn to Page 4, were evidence 22 ABOVE ZERO. WEDNESDAY Little Colder Than Tuesday; | Thaw Possible Today ‘Twenty-two degrees above low mark bureat early two dog low mark zero was by the Wednesday The akup Was doubt another slight registered rees thay Tuesday's outlook ful, altho it | thaw was probable The temperature 36, but wattled back point at sundown | continuatio ditions, p Tuesday to th Pr of prosent ¥ rhaps for several days, bure Good weather continues over the whole of the Pacific Northwest A | storm apparently is brewing over the extreme westerly tip of Alaska, but jhas had, as yet. no sign of an effect on Seattle conditions {108 IN COLUMBIA | HANDICAPS SHIPS Parts of Oregon and Au yet this season Littie wire trouble was being ex rienced because of an absence of | precipitation generally. Trains were still having some difficulty with frozen water and air lines. Ioe in the Willamette | bla rivers was | to navigation of all but the big and Colum [deep sea vessels. Minimum tempe ing were reported Umatilla, 17 Baker, 14 below above; Hugene Spokane, ratures this morn as follow green below zero Roseburg, 1 4 below; Yakima. below; ) above. « WEATHER |): Fair and continued cold Thursday | tonigh t | . temperature 6 and lowest Pty Minimum, 8 Temperature Last Maximum, 96, Today Hours 0. noon, a growing handicap) | | Cle fat the not gla fat Pa him. asked ; The the Sun, Cle Veog s, Patricia, a Santa Claus in 1924) Patricia wrote aus ins whirl, de? Ilan her and dryads golden-stringed ~ lyres, : sport around forest pools, or the fairies secluded BY to Howlahar who JIM MARSHALL ars “Please tell me since N ines Charles A Virginia O' Har York Is there is spoken. the has are bee Today ish sur the Cli the handwriting, childhood e Is a n it Dana, gr vrote in reply, a classic wherever Se Santa quoted iterhted around the have Sun arm becomes pleasant duty of The Star, spurred by a note in child- » existence aus, t » whi o te buckle armor to ked kee A The lor and a Santa at editor become English Virgini Claus,” re- world. reas- concerning of on of Santa again faith around small souls, to place Their lives are stark, The lives of little children, on A ot da light as air, PHERE Patricia st., says in a Sant ask Mr. Fi and he will tell me true And here, with the tricia How , dear, foo ther * eisa nd nee or in every Houlahan, Mount who to the Claus 2" of Baker of The it Please tell me.” slvall the fauns 3404 park. lilt in childish hands the rosy shield of illu- sion, sure defense against the unbearable | realities of life. | Let the realists jeer; people scoff. ren and ugly. tinted by illusion, lead thru paths of mel- low sunlight in worlds peopled by dryads, fairies. let the practical bar- say of not writes Me- My hade of Dana guid- Santa Claus. as surely now as in the old day, people became wise and too smart to be- lieve in what they call myths. These people, some of them, say is no Santa Claus because they cannot see sh they are! ing our thoughts, is The Star’s answer to just before there Voices sing carols i in our homes, coming thru the Christmas Washington | ~ oxperienced the lowest temperatures! nity | 1 tne | under | caroler business care a once 1 world's ain While 7end » wonder way » streams Yuletide city celebration of the Wednesday West Fea afternoon. of last-split.second flowed in and out of stores, invaded t nore in windows in thousands of szction, bidding ho dropped it singing y thousan: rapiembrance alvatior As dusic gray le homes glowed with light, trees against tooned wails and holly-hung delier® | peace Thir in hosp | pic prisons contint Wirt and ty Rirls vitals tel the and were vie Tonight t on Chri great submerged all other to fostiva sing « ja “inging dull rejoice the cur toy- the chan ml of things arols golng later to the Olym: | iting ou cannot | see here IS Santa Claus P there a Star, otographers the singers You do not have Sweet mu from violins and pianos comes out of a box _you call your phono- graph, when you put a needle on a flat- back plate and start the plate whirling. You cannot see the players, but you know they must exist somewhere. From your mother’s perfume flask comes the scent field blossoms. You cannot the blossoms waving in the warm breeze under the summer sunshine, but you know they must have lived and spread their fragrance for . wandering lovers Every day, dear, you are surrounded by kind friends, comforts, good food and m little sleep, and‘ you know that these things come because people like your mother and father love you. You cannot love, but you know its exists. but you know they exist. of cot for ND tomorrow morning, when you get up and run into the living room, there will be a tree, gaily lit up with col- ored lights, glowing thru the gray dawnlight. . And around the tree will be gifts for you, just as sure as the sun will shine again and the spring wind whimper in the pine trees. If you ask. mother or father who brought the presents and lit up the tree they will say: “Santa Claus ~the Christmas Spirit.” And that will , be true, Patricia. Just as true as it is that love keeps you safe from want and cold all the rest of the year. Let the wise people scoff at S For them, ita has from them and they good works. As Santa Claus. nothing; he hides never see even his you grow up sometimes self will doubt, perhaps, mas Spirit really lives. But it will be < passing cloud only, dear, for when your own children ask you the old, old question all your doubts will fade away and you say, with all the good folks in the you your- that the Christ- “Yes, dear, there IS a Santa Claus!” Td services is|birth of the in the Christ-child ts |by pealing organs and the harmonies jof worshippers | Unemployea matorialistic|Christmas dinner by America, where of to care will | start tinue to iter be fed. m on the Salvation similar and} will will | fons stage program in the from the n Matron will manner Christma afternoon at preparations for a thousand. mm Roast beet is menu, head of the Volunteers.| | roop Army and other or Mary men Theodora Christmas S pirit Grips City chureh aS the} tertaining ebrated | Mrs. Gi! Mr dys Frances Seward und will Everett give and there will be for ly Army several numbers, | candy given The und gifts Salvation everybo the Volunteers Washington st under The dinner and will will Wednosday food Thursday rye meals from 7 a, m food has gone, late in This will be done tn auditorium at 1414 buting baskets of to are Way} 500 poor families. Army will s all tl eventr army the cons} until the the | Sixth there aro the says Col any main | Fred Will be m. > owner able to listen, to Christmas earl Christmas day They roadeast by KGO, the powerful Oakland The same tl will. presont trio in Christmas song Hit they have ant i be t for the in The Vv poor station. unter tree and with ehil tation, at the Arion Jand in the Handel's Me "(Puen to Page evening portion will} varede 1, Column ® home, un ints br M, Mitchell, en