The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1924, Page 1

20, according to M S. 1. Riel Green Lake district othe re WEATHER ‘ \ NO. 259. VOL. 26. é rve Fo HOME BREW I's s—Christmas, With All That Goes With It Delighted Children, Gifts, Turkey Din- ners, and Everything Elks’ gymnasium $ came to th id in the tree had been at into out brown, | disappeared, | % in Oak with a Uber Santa, The | tributed many packa cheer to poor persons Christma arians staged a Christmas r 5r= 600 persons Wednesday after noon at the Olympic ERVICES appropriate of the sea; Witton, Malo fan of cranberries heard they had forgot: | tmay cards to Tewas, 1 in short, Christmas REI ea tne|> son were Held in many city Voluntecen, telloctay tha way to| churches and were largely attended Wat's roul ts thru his stomach,| 2dnerents of r faiths joining in Wolter tie e "| celebrating ivity of Christ eh 5 fare all a! 10N8 | special music was a feature of the all wh army's Mditoriurn aervicen t served Fe ai “ Pag " tbe! A CHRISTMAS feast spread is tenes... arped lbh a's for 1,000 homelens unem i cast Ww ntinue until vgaiitibe pod was 1 rmy Hi ; Btrinuted ) 7 Main st., under the directio executive Ary. topped off by here. thes 500, to, tin Johanson af ‘Turkey oke Onn + t gi M I 1 iomel was the m o- men iy oT? fed by t ttle Good-| TT ONWSOME girls in the city were | Indust ric t th Wirst Nor L ests of the Wvangeline Young 0-Donish M, 1. church, stew-| (Turn to Page 4, Column 1) nd Boren, at 2 o'clock. * Tho|' W. M. Dews preached a Christ ermon, and Charles Culver|) m of songs and read Th ooth rface has bee The Newspaper With the Entered as Be Clase Matter Wash, u . F SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1924 37 PERSONS PERISH LEGISLATORS OF IN CHRISTMAS FIRES COUNTY ARE Happy Families Trapped in School DIVIDED House Flames; Others Die in Hotel — majority Against Ratitica- WO Christmas fires resulted in holiday tragedies in whic! tion of Amendment HARD BATTLE EXPECTED at least 37 persons lost their lives. A school house in! Oklahoma, packed with happy burned when fami u candle ignited a Christmas t: Thir y-two were known to be dead and other victims are being hunted in the ashes. Landon, Hastings, Houser Five persons were killed when a hotel in Texas burned for the Measure Others were injured. Yes, Kiddies, 25.— ture repudiate the isen of ity state prom I OBART, Okla, Dev Morror-stricken fami dled in shud yups about the charted und national conventions and the individual cation of the mational child Ja amendment? remains of @ country school platforms of fourfifilis of Its house even miles south of members and vote down ratifi a n t a a S here, this morning as rescue Workers sought remains ad ditional vietinws bor of a disastrous cremated remains of eT have t persons, recovered late oe byt prliy <i night after an overturned ; : at ‘ Christmas tree started a fire p f $ i am * wh ravaged the schoolhouse, sé c " ; 3 were In local mor u wis pow t nk William the State Mederati Thursday said he ha termined whether the is real or merely Short, ident of of Labor not de to hide seme ot of leg od islation that the Interests want | torr rm and the pled indoe Two 1 w u 18 Chat P A n vi kers. H m r | wba fs 5 xf th a mn t h The heroine was Mrs, Florence ete measu L. A. Harbor Swept |, ithe hersine was Mra. Florence | Pen cnaTeD INDUSTRIKS by a (Do Mile Gale! She, too, when she saw the |ARE FIGHTING MEASURE candle fall, rose and attempted Other friends, of tho child Ia to exln the panic. She died trying to shelter some of the smallest children from the mad rush about the doorway FIVE VICTIMS IN m erio amendment of Was! : a { Hasti s ae lel AD.. velit : armer mem! fear it will preve tha ge = bas cee yA ‘ them employing their children on the ey Guests in Hotel Are Burned farm Senator Dan Landor another of Kelley to Fly to to Death; Loss $60,000 ino tricnas of tho measure, 1s expect ing termined fight to kill the San Diego Today IFORD, ‘Tex, Dec Five | amendment VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 2 persons were burned to h and it King county ator Lieut. Oakley G. Kelle commander | thr thers injured in a Christma. the amendment one st observation squadron of | tree fire w hich gutted the Stamford | 1 it,and the other four nd Lieuts. H.C. M nd/inn here last midnight ure unfa hle to it, a pool mad hop off Property lo! was estimated at}by The Star showed Thur Sen They will | $60,000. Ato! 1, Hastings and Pau their plan re guests were in the hotel at | Hou e for the amendment, and | the time and the fire had gained | they dec too much he to h the Senator Robert Grass has not de fl r vater tha cided; Senators William Wray and pl Walter Lung of Auburn will vote burning building until against it DAN LANDON IS " i AMENDME NI Blaze Threatened day Denver Theaters « Wenatchee Woman » morning L adn of $50,000 to the Tabor Palme have not fully ded, Sata taeTHoRNbata nial abasdHnake Burned to Death ji ice uiivensuis immense ened to sperad over the adjoining| WENATCHEE, Dee. 25.—Mra. ¥,| the bill theater district P. Furnaworth, of Riverside, Okn Horo's what they say in th@ ame block filed out without }when she was trapped uputaire in|the Child bat mendment and| panie when the alarm was glvon. [her burning house (Yorn to P 1, Column 3) 4 2878, Iment, however, t the situ Biggest Circulation in Wa hingten oncsr’ Tne Seattle Star PPL Ee | KITSAP FERRIES ALL CARRYING CHRISTMAS TREES AT MASTHEADS THIS YEAR U. S. Total Is 41% Above 1923 False \ $$ rae | Geta aw (MORE BUILDING the} been of the 4 were HOME EDITION TWO CENTS IN i SEATTLE. ONE TO JOIN MY BABY” STATE CHILD LABOR FIGHT LOOMSMother Dies as Christmas Comes Doll and Baby Clothes Clasped i Arms, She Finds Death Here BY JIM MARSHALL ECAUSE she could not bear the thought of Christmas without. the sound of her baby’s voice and without the jclutch of her baby’s soft fingers, Mrs. Arvilla Hackett, a ; young mother living at 606 E th st., sent her soul into the unknown on Christmas eve, seeking the spirit of her dead daughter. With one of her baby’s dolls clasped in found dying in the apartment of I ave. In her hands also were crus ome baby garments. The doll had been dressed in one of the baby’s tiny frocks. An ambulance took the dying mother to the Norwegian hos- | pitals. When she arrived there doctors and nurses shook their j|heads and said they could do nothing. r arms, she was er at 4420 Dayton he home of Mrs. Hackett’s parents, Mr. and Mrs, Leander G. Palmer, at 6709 17th ave. N. W., a Christmas Per Cent sa ebration was turned into a tragedy of sorrow as James Hackett, the husband, joined hi woman they loved. The love between the Hacketts had fullest, it was said. None of those at the home Christmas morning could speak of the death because of their relatives in mourning the , . grief, & ¢ {ficial rey from Mrs. Hackett’s 6-month-old baby girl died four months 0 nd towns, and made public / ago, Since that time the mother was inconsolable. She fre- aes --.| quently told her husband, her mother and father, and friends Penta “or| that she “just couldn't stand it,” and that she “couldn’t bear he oouiite il re-| to think of Christmas without her bat report Early on the afternoon of Christmas eve the bereaved pects 2s ? eh mother gathered up the doll and some of her baby’s gar- ie . bused on the amount; ments and went to the home of her sister, Mrs. Thomas, in oat filed and building permits!the Dayton apartments. There was nobody there. Mrs. 0 leading centers, ex-) Hackett let herself in and, locking the door, turned on four tual ne espe a fife Filion Pardon Is Legal, Dunbar Says OLYMPIA, D Governor Hart in parol ney ge utor J. N - FLOOD KILLS FIVE MERCURY DROPS jdon I amended 1 has + coo “ot | Main Main Street | ion officer, putting things order at the immigation station WILLIAM NORWOOD, JR, stu dent, going home a hard day's work, W MATHE. SON, foundryman, tearing along in sc Hirst ave DR, J. B, BAGLE: SON, surgeon, traveling south on ALPH MAJOR lawyer, jay walking on Union st JIM PRICKBTT, Rotary secre ury, rushing to lunch at the Olymplo, A. CG. FRY, wholesale | poultry, counting hi ns | before they are sold Ly ROCKWELL, architect, drawing plans for Christmas, ERVIN C BRAUN, broker, mailing his Christmas letters, 11, ©. BOW ure 1 man, travelir on 8 WICK, re + sunny travelling econd ave 4% per the tdward jets of the gas stove. A little later a neighbor, Mrs, Benskin, heard a noise as if someone had fallen. She managed to open the door and enter the room. The figure of Mrs. Hackett. was slumped YA in achair. In her arms were the doll and the baby clothing. n.| Mrs. Benskin managed to turn off the gas and call an ambu- | lance, A note left in her own home and addressed to her father jsaid that Mrs. Hackett “could not stand the thought of Christmas, I am going to join nfy baby.” ‘i '. Hackett is connected with the Men’s 2 Second ave. Exchange at of Dam in Tennessee Breaks;|Christmas Arrives Degree Homes Swept Away Colder Than Yesterday BRISTOL, Tenn., Dec. ive | Christ mas day ersons wer vere over lam at tt h m., Alkali Wor at Saltville bureau eats broke ast ny f 21 de- rains the past few day was ex dam to way, releasin, to oS vail thruout the day of water, which swept ev Jin its path, including sis |Christmas Is Cold rehins| in Mid- West States jured to: being unac.| CHICAGO, Dec prevailed in mi today after a night 4-Day Celebration wos Two death: e workers Zero weather e Mid of sub-ge several counted for. pe nttributed to em cold, w ‘ous fire in Great. Britain |i oit ost tion overneated vover LONDON, Dec Great Britain} TE was whit Christmas in this tled down today to an old-fash-| territory. No new snowfall was te | toned Christmas celebration that will | ported jlast four day Yor four days there will be ne business transacted and little ‘com 11 Dead, 1 Missing plished besides eating, drinking and fheldie vives as Car Runs Amuck There are no newspapers today or! SAN FRANCISCO, Dec One | tomorrow and most of the trains and|man was buriod to death and an buses in tho larger clties stopped! othor is missing, believed to have running at 4 p.m. On Friday tho|been drowned, whon an auton Christmas pantomimes open, while} containing four mon plunged off the the celebrations continue over Sat-|foot of « waterfront pier here owrly jurday and Sunday, ‘today and burst into flames