The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 1, 1925, Page 1

HIT-RUN DRIV ae Duel, Robberies, shooting, Usher in New Year! The Newspaper With the The Seattle Star Ah Eros! Y¥E@ ith Star’s Phone Main 0-600 Get the |_ Get the Habit | / H | Some Slept Thru It—And Some Didn't x } (Some Slept Thru It—And Some Di " Prosecutor’ 5 Pro er Spends Night in Jail RAGSDALE (Weer) Two Near Death PREDICTION BY FORD | Howdy, folks! Oi OF Wotta ved?) Wottahed! Joesn't re | = . : ; HELD FOR : Seaee Following Crash ¥} pe : tole for 1934—2.988.000 carn 1 ups Over Night Charge Investigator | ee. ey ce napeats if, th acces = : Was Drunk; Colvin | %' » © 8 in singe 3 CEAT Rk E welcomed the New Y Thursday amidst a wild WW orgy to accidents, robberies, holdups and shootings, Orders He and eae edie pesnarenet ee One was killed by a hit-and-run driver avho, so Woman Released a t 7 fan, has ecaped capture by the police. Pwo people are near death as a result of one auto crash: a score more are suffering from serious or pain- ful injuries following other accidents, and many others are suffering from minor cuts and bruises. Prosecutor KE. D. Colvin, was ar A bandit was wounded when police and robbers staged rested by Deputy Sheriff doe p p TY AND a duel early in the morning. Fourteen holdups occurred Harrahan. A woman, who gave over night and 24 robberies were reported. mame of Blanche Alaxte 4 man was shot in a Jackson st. cafe by a woman. tags ee WORLD PEACE He will recover. Fifteen others received treatment at i st official act ¢ the city hospital as a result of street fights and other “GEASS NOTICE The editor of this column an nounces with regret that, ow ing to a slight indixposition, Mr. Joseph Bungstarter, well-known don-vivant, is unable to take his 1 ‘ customary place at the head of | the « teday. Mr. Dumb bell Dud has kindly offered to take over Mr. Bungstarter’s po sition for the day ProLLowine a crash on the Victory highway at 230 m. Thursday, ‘Tho F. Kags dale, private investigator for Leap Year fee Gee ha: snother annex January 1 ts a most inapprovr'-| Waiting up to welcome the new year proved too much of a Yor mcwn +Seaktla Diy wes okay fe Sprit ros : "*! boys and girls Wednesday evening and resolutions to see the old year out and the new | trouble. $5 316 | year in came to nothing. Sleep oper gates 10-year-old Barbara Smith, daughter of Mr. anc : Automobiles raced madly thru Seattle’s streets, endanger Abigail Applesauce says: vei Mra. E. Claude Smith, 2349 N, 7th xt., and 11-year-old Billy Foley, son of Mr. and Mrs.\aaie and tho woran. It opened the ing the thes of ito der oe asters hignw 4 Were turned ealy made one goo! resolution thx J J Foley, 6316 Woodlawn ave:, tttbe? they had their cowbells and noisemakers ready | activities of the prosecutor's offic: Pw into speedways by the mad drivers who tore along with cut- $key pa trom tracking mud [for ihe important instant: While by Price’ A’ Carter, tar Balt Photographers {in the year 1036, | Hoover, Davis and Work |outs open and horns sounding. ———$——————— Haged: the woman were re. j Are Optimistic % jturning to Seattle from Botheli high % Wild Festivities Faatured Advent of|(goruce woua oc Vim somone sete mut | — - "New Year in Dgwntowin Streets” |"iey'ies'angy |asisnoravcc, we wees we wen Aut Speeds Away! and in Cafes and Theaters SHE CANNOT KEEP Jey, ng ins tenes t= {100 Per Cent Above 1913, Magoo: . Fw, ces see or ae cene nee, mae |, oi Sy | ane “=e ree oa, Death Driver Sought After Knocking | |ane calebration extended oxt Inia itis HeLi sway were. the, Olyrgole| WWiscecouarcecraatytee. fa Victim Into eb Dy s Path gdaie, driving 25 to 30 miles an r in the heavy rain, rounded the jcountry, where the “Little Young-|New Washington, Sedttis and Butler Sralete:“alinost ster” was christened in roadhouses}, And if. part of Seattle guve the what it is to be op by her volce. urb and hook@d the rear wheel Harrahan's car while attempting to onsed on. her, bed tal Thursday, and |r perity, higher driven by Mr Myrtle King, | eaeals P. DUIGNAN, 1406 | this for the practice void a = n |P crag teviser aie and country homes to the accom-|new twelvemonth a festive and e the baby whic: she pe hig Ls So ec aeabarabast nd less unemp! Summit ave. Great Norch- |cupied by herself, Mis ® gives employment to a lot of cal ca om 4 of). "Bilerity, : soe My sags ote ay Mh wa b ess vend een Hot words followed between the | 1%? y of Come ern railway trainman, was | King Carl Oldb all 153 i, Siiefesturecs iz on COR ity gd. Stead Aah never coud |/{%2: ending with Ragedale’s arrest /*#!d in a Year's’ m dead, victim of a hitand-run | Republican st oe | _ It was not a dry beginning for the asian ie esi Bap by Harrahan, | ry of the Treas i S| driv tursday. A man and Both cars collapsed, rolled over oe 3 rained thruout| Watch night’ parties in: churc woman and teh hat thig will b wonun were probably fatally {and thudded in twisted mass on Today's Fable: Once upon a tt a man didn't 10 thwest corner of Dexter < nd Roy st. Two pass ear since injured early Thursday morn Sted to dampen | hemes ; merrymakers who| And when the “ ted by Hoover hour’ came ing, and a score of other per. instead of “1924.” es lth and entertain-|and the old year gave way to the Miss y of Labor Davis and Sec sons were severely infured injured people to v the State | m enter ¢ city. And there |New, even the indest’ sleepers far of t [ jtary 0 terior Work in New De pita’ NM eetstature - batts | w y in evidence jout at The’ Highlands awak { Main Sek t |! Year mest a) lave | O'Connell was charged with being greg Tat En eneta were, packed [ened by the righty blast of whistle was born, at ain ee me ave, : Daa with ee ae! | with: a4 of pedestrians atid auto- {fgom buildings and ships in the har 1 . om v after its nomic str ekull and may die. She is in the cr mother had been brought to the more solid founda ity hospital. Arnston'’s head was and streets cars, Jammed with | A. S., Nickerson, commission nd he is YE DIARY | mobile (December 31) nost severed by glas: 1913," Hoover ceptions are China, disrupted by ctv | hospital | *’ és is Ris y. The peci-|VerY. low, according to man, wearing a straw hat on Swedish ing passengers bidding n 1924 and welcoming 1925 San Francisco Is baby was |} 1; betimes. and to the office, | a : : | Western ave. J. W. Maxwell, | 5 mith, of , Se 2 ie Sine with C. Grey sad Leciile Batic 1 of popping: corks, whis- . tie Providence hon. |} banker, hustling around the cor . jdent occurred almost exactly at mid | hospital, where he was taken. meen . sirens, auto horna and Gay in Festivi ; : neve ats Besend. and “Mario (Turn to Page 4, Column 5) |night, while crowds of revelers wel-| 1m oUnen accidents, whlch occurred see A. Denny, W. McMicken, W. Read, pital isthe: aw eae nent nd and Marion mr ZL. Berge, 1. Tolman, it. Donuldeon, L.| shouts and laughter. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1—8anj} Minutes old. Dr. Chi Dana? || George Coombs, insurance, tray. | comed in the new year. Siar pice J Les dering: the Wiens; aed anon (eo Kippe's, where) put tho the streets were packed| Francisco hailed’ the new year with || non announced it was a «irl cling north on Second ave. Lee ‘Portlanders Skid | Aftersstriking Dulgnan, the driy.|New 3 tok Rise ration, the ‘follow. Newer, Le inecr Hon Stela, Micky ‘Me. |(hruout the length Of the business |tsual zest last night, the festivities || ty pg apple] nson, lawyer, traveling down er of the car looked . ing people were hurt: Cormick, H. Hotchkis, Mike Collins, \distict, cv entertainment. estab-| being lubricated by plenty of stimu- |] tut cy employe of the; Fuget hill on James st. W. 8S. Gris Into the New Year “> ‘ John Totland, Liberty hotel, severe Bert Morton, K. Bartlett, J. Markey, Sol jishmen ery theater, every hotel, | lants. Le : | wold, physician ing the | ear fn head injuries. Hit by Conrad Eines = Se ee ee | PORTLAND, Ore., Jan, 1—Port at Westlake and Virginia st. Eines Olympic hotel ¥, Patterson, Alaskan furrier, resting at the i A. Kose, and others; and so, at $ = late hour, to home. every dance hall, \enge . |was crowded: to capacity RITY LASTED nd cabaret,{ Cafes and downtown streets | packed from 10 p. m. yesterd: the small hours this morning land skidded into the new year on| ing under the twisted and bloody released on $200 bail. slippery pavements. of two automobiles Irvin, 70, 511 Cherry st., ins ; New Arctic. Gordon Thompson, Fresh, White Snow Dignan tang funche nag | Wet rain and wetter liquor con-| gave mute testimony to a crash |Jured hip and elbow automobile} in which Mrs, Octavia O°C | Sam Clevely, Mrs. Homer Brew i still keeping | HUL twhen some folks were coming W. Holly st., cut her New Year's resolution, which !s| UNTIL DAYLIGHT " 1. h NTIL DAYD) rc any. bre? were fault” eC ms i tributed toward pl: : 10 keep us tf ig tobaco ee me | ork many others were just goin Union st. George Boukhart, ie arse st ode bir oer Reman catty Jp tbe | nome. Blankets Nebraska | candy merchant, getting over |mishaps, while halls} ne, Charlesgate apartments, {on the head when his auto struck evening and jasted, in some scans, © WAS as ich t % a : 3, he ist sh f | anc heaters rs) 8 to di Arthur Arnt 2602 Wi - street car at and S&S Ca evatcordoace swith our annvalluntiiigaylight ushered in\JanuMeyl| pier atv ae an ce there; coal ta | LEN GOLN: Neb. Jan. 1—Nebras.| i Ti TR amie Ae anaes he Sa at : ; ns patentee . RS y : ket st, at 4 @, m. as there usually is jor, Presbyterian, explaining | watch the old year out and the new] ern ave. were probably fatally Joe Pollock, Tokio hotel, knocked custom, we will distribute our usuallio the more stolid citizens who went tka sarted the new year with i frosh | | 12h rh ‘ MMP ie centributore—t0 per cont| ogy Soaporggen byn at 4 p.m : - matters to a friend on See Jone in | hurt Thursday. unconscious by an auto driven. by EAS ycasty salarie home and slept just as on any other! pienty of liquor was flowing, but, | Ct of © ovpr the old, smudgy | Monte Lynch, While the more cor drank} / At 621 m. an auto in which}A. J, Monohan on Rainier aye. In ee, Crreree night, las usual, police declared that the | | Martin {the year in with open ¢ ra for |they were riding, together with Her-| Columbus sanitarium Almost every seat y Were | night the m order' Snowfal née to six Inches was} nines, enjoy law ins ar down. | bert O'Cor in-| jozens of others suffered minoe Bookmakers are giving 10 to 1/an re 4 ft he naka RUM sether Sins’ tewken: all. ot | scteete’ aud thelts + WAS 00-/ Years,” ‘They said the same reported from Western Nebraska and| ing the weather, on Fourth ave wn cafes a th. |Jured woman, crashed into mR iy! and bruise sonny’ \arletise a lore =a o | cupled in the theaters where special | and thé year before that. Few | smaller fallé in eastern section were} E. I. Merritt, architect, trayel- | ered in Portland ch to pray for | ited Y |midnight frolics were the order. arrests were made. | reported. | ing homeward on the car. la tounteous year in 1 THE FIVE MOST POPULAR | 3 fe bie I _ WORDS LAST NIGHT ° 58 3329 ane talme | Hail to 1925, Best Year of This Old World! New Year eve rties ere like ) Be eters. Yon never knew when ee ee eee ee ei Watchman aud’ Obeer eld Up; Your life would be snuffed out by E 7 * * s ees | (EDITORIAL) will be hungry; more will prosper. | most wonderful art of all—the artistry Battle Follows; Thugs Flee ; Ms wise Sens ae HE main thing to remember today is Education, cornerstone of all progress, | with which nature has made the world} if Now is the time | this: The best year the world has will reach thousands of new people in we live in, a fairyland for all of us. | Rees Gani th Ais. Sirvig Johnson fired at a dark figure, saw © 900: n | * “We 5 i ans ray wi . eae | i rs, two. ee e stagger 8 0 fall Dba coed rs leven seen—and it has seen millions of 1925. That means war will become If in some things the world has seemed | jen wat three bardits staged a ae bin S ou ie Of the party! \them—starts now more improbable; nations will under- | to have slipped back in 1924, do not be-| rier gun duet outside the Union ee i mene me o ea automa 19 Al ‘ | . ; , hatter: naw. ras la . i " sco, | Oil company’s main office, 3000 | believed stolen. Later the police am ee ics GEM Mica |e. TEL the cid folks talk-about,the good stand each other better; new realms of | lieve that the ebb is more than tran-| jeaitrnad avey carly. Thursday |rested William Cooper, 25, who was idlotions are ban Pia tint -and auttlesiLet them tole Ks our wonderful old earth’s treasure king- | sitory. The world and its people move} morning. walting near thé Scene! in an auto ‘pee ip eo eh better thing FE 58 in?73 y d doms will be opened for all of us. forward as the tides off Flattery, waves ling weecatrioe vith the intent of blow: | «aid to be owned by Ed Hagen, con- “ a : tth Se eth ici th t'th Science, handmaiden of progress, will | ebbing and flowing, but going ever for- ‘ed outside the oftice while the night | Wa ating for some hauor, Tee mile. Let them argue with you tha © | conquer more old ills. It will lengthen ward to a high tide crashing the cliffs of |stemman, TA. Mattews, talked |icis on an ope Ghatge,sANUnitaet Vereen generation the rtd moral in life; give babies a better chance to grow __ eternity. Fe an es Nrowler ear af, States marines cont, a blicktack, | Peas fe oe wine oe hire up healthy and full of vigor; alleviate The world tide will never ebb until cere, who ad received taformation hlight and some rope were found the i 8 ae v: vite ite AMAIA pain; find new ways to prevent sickness; those cliffs are reached. Civilization ne oe ee Poe op tae: eke more honest—anqa smile, — speed up transportation; improve and will swing back and forth a little, but trate the robbery Aol cCica ven, opaea (Menten ae Old folks have been like that since cheapen the radio so that every home each succeeding wave of progress will} Matthews went out io ene tre [man Madrona street ear, held up. at airy men liyed in swamps and killed may listen to the voices in the sky. leave all of us a little better off, a little jand parncit went with him, leaving | with s women eommanton, who bored. ‘dinosaurs beat vA eae be anery Art, allowing men and women and happier, a little more tolerant’ of our Johnsen In the office, As the two) ed tho ear and forced him to drivey |with them. Retrospection is the privilege children to glory in beautiful things, to neighbors, a little freer from the ma-|pandite held them un Lihtoo Re Gers lakines sit ana. week lof old age; looking ahead is the right of | brighten the lives of all of us, will pro- chine. JOPENS FIRE | tokens !youth. duce more wonderful emotions than ever Stand on the threshhold of the New Pays Deehiy: haha ior’, Saeabl Cnae Soe aT eae You're looking ahead now into the before. As people grow more prosper- Year with joy in your heart, and remem- |yelied, s0 that Johnson would hear} from him Wednesday eve ee | world’s banner year. ous, they will have more time to enjoy ber this: ‘The best year the world has |\!" 20" looked out, saw what) Willlam. Renko, 2808, 14th | ave. I large, all the world over the beautiful thi ti me ‘ wan°happeniug, and fired (NeW thal a, robbed: at Tsth. aves Al De Be and large, a e » peo- e beautiful things artists produc — ever seen—and from snowy poles to trop-| windows. ‘The roar of several guns} torn st, by two men, who took $ » Hie \ple vill be happier in 1925 than ever be- | good books, fine paintings, inspiring ic ‘isles it has seen millions of them—|amwered Mm. Tne party outide [td a watch “Hp Asap, . fore for millions of years, Fewer people ' statuary, enchanting —and the ' vints NOW rauhed tru Ue walls and windows" (Turis Ae Kace &: Calta’ aS |