The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 17, 1925, Page 1

A Ad Ilo to with Howdy, fol gant the spring peice tes pated Ax gear" ght gretewer TODAY'S NEWS PICTURE Brew again the world! This is positively frst photograph ever publish lly, While thousands of r were puzzling frantically wht had become of the girl, 4. Mudguard, staff pho of Home Brew, snapped as she was playing tit-tat jmatber home on the West Water: | jag, whither she had retired on ac- | east of distasteful publicity. scoops smilingly prom her Alma Mater in th Code,” which is being \place the antiquated | Cheat” placards nou eet | school is shown inset feattle’s fir’ Show open hut bight. Suggested Hippodrome Mott Ohm, Sv It Gee Gee is poi Ip he Ropes that they datic on exhidition. fpgive if @ good swift kick to the shot har wants ‘Honor Amon will She eg BY G. LUCILLE “A NOR for Ma pretty bard ie te throw mt these days, jog all the @ how ig tte darn stuff off his li wh ty WELL, THANK GOODNESS, Ua THATS SETTLED: Tear Homer: In response to te radio broadcasters’ anxiety “What has become of Sal- she has undoubiedly “Fol- the Swallow back home,” a further search on their part ‘mediess.—L. W. B. fg abeolutely no that farmers are iB crossword. pu: tides of cows in order to make | more the ot man. 1 dent gore > be discussed We sdent-faculty con President Hen if ac Sa members nd the be kn truth to Draven up dy consid uncll Daily, it will Washington Ww the code i be be Wilic, precious dear Jost his pep, don’t fear studen | igreund glass in father’s mush, | code provide the code will be tions against the names of nindents acc be kept secret by council}, an of students or report angered, said “tush! tush! held 24 5 Judge Gordon announces is going to rigidly entorge | Jaywalking ordinance, iMet also enforce the law giv rians the right of way at} ‘crossings? = ie: the m as well faculty who violations code. university wi ises that*she will do her utmost for e observance of the new “Washington q formulated at the university to re- “Honor Code.” One of the “Don't being displayed in the halls of the! the picture. Price & x Students in Statt Pho pote tar apnere g °6 Will Be Spurred by Washington Code BUTL. versity e sub ramen ain y meni ry y If this de : pose and the & member the sentor council. While membexs of the faauly...4 as weil of viok cepted. honor.” the as at ts may of U waa by und to cape to the cor remain names pembers of the pelled fr from one quarter to permanen YE DIARY (@ebruary 16) erening did listen over my crystal Kad the woke: meaty ea calat erg feet —, a! * of Sally, bat Lord! they be Meried skeet’ something, and firs year ago Inat Cundiernas day, they ‘ever the shortage of bam- taad long before that thé minne- were erying. "Where, O where, is dog gone? © where, O where, be?” so that, heaven help me, I become jous concerning the of Sally, albeit 1 hope they her, erase their | And so to bed. t reese) Gee Geo says her sweetie is Of rare hasn't bought years. * tath this stone ) Lies Herman Bards ; ever pays [To use marked cards. FRANCISCO, think It was can't nt to think I expected it, know. to k her a present bu A shock. 009,000, can't get day.” George Campbe! er and self-styled day wandered about cisco, dazed by the deci the United States circuit which held t his smelter feeding device bi infringed on by panies. The Refining Co, ordered to give which, It Is estimated, Carson $20,000,000 or mo Carso in a e- you used prema erie nts coun! towns San m low ceilings. Would you say} i they have a low overhead? APPI gettin’ So me of th’ i ‘At CE SAYS: American ay ery “mee gm an For ten years lived in poverty hotel here “pon't tell live,” he pleaded. to be bothered “1 didn’t feel like going on a spree,” continue will spend the money ¢ Rittiet says the radio wilt play | Part in future all the rad MM be eport people. w “1 don ou! the o! wars, nnounc croix Gosh, | 0 rs de | . TA clever girt Is Irma trout; fies thin, but wool Hore help her out. mee 8 « | my worldly goods 1/ ” the bridegroom re- Atler the minister ‘murmured M7 goes his father, BY MARIE ROWE DU Ope Feb. 17.—“I son who cycle?” cy | spalr urday, It seem akened with a am soon to this time n: and I've @ find that I that perhaps we'll be sailing over thi ocean horme—home, just t It's been just a he memories the ls stent know why radio stations | 40 broad bedtime stor-| i need is for Bae voice to nay over the} TO BED CHILDREN, OR AFTER YOU WITH A| home! thourand months.” It was Hitt who ap Hitt, son of State Hitt, college graduate trical engineer, who di from his home here on i at Mrs, Marjory yoke, the wife o Libraris e man ereby who| the | hook on to; and haul him a ~A. J. & that . tramp min- floater, patented big copper com: Smolting nd other firms were acocunting will “1 don’t know lieve that I am the same was in the slough of de- bad dream, those last seven months, a ee WhatWould You DoWith — $20, 000, 000 Fortune Dazes This Man 17. don't such @ 4 - 9 | ut $ “ lid and - of his in ‘ellow vn a hundreds He think: “rl made said, but only for reducing the cost r has been put to others are resting unused in the patent office. I’m not thru, tho, I'll keep on in things, Tt the only thing I ee to do. Carson left his Kansas home at the age of 14. He wandered over the West and while work as a laborer perfected his in ” to- | n ¥ | sion of court, entin, * ud been ing vention. % money yet,” he said. v know what I'll do with {t until it’s placed In my hands.” and aven’t neon net ore. on has sallor’s |P.-T. A. Council Has Annual Dinner Nine hundred Seattle citizens were to wit down in the Chamber of Com-| | merce banquet room Tuesday noon at la banquet celebrating the 28th an: nual gathering of the Seattle council, | Parent-T associations | here I ‘t want ting or Id man how I don't » that cher } This Woman Never while suffering from amnesia. | Saturday, rding to Los An- gelen dispatches’ his subconscicus | mind was touched by a hypnotist. | Today he i» asking for hix wife. | Last evening Mrs. Hitt left for Los | Angeles to bring her husband howe HAD PREMONITION seo Wil, |OF SOME GOOD ext week! “The time drags so. I know the © Pacifie|train will simply crawl,” said Mrs hink, our| Hitt. ‘Saturday afternoon 1 went | nuse of a| ton little bridge party, the first par seven |ty I had been to since Will left. 1 was xo depreased as I walked home. All the girls had been talking about their homes, their spring and summer. NBAR can't be per like 8 a start, to | | ast Peretwal ¢ Will M., thelr husbands, J. M_| plans for the and elec-| “What there on the road isappeared | 4 for me? Nothing, it seemed, July 7, | but thar and disappointments, But an was } man ir | b: | than th Bon Marche Witness Tells TRAITOR STORY The Newspaper With the Bigg est Circulation in W The SeattleSta Entered as Second Class VOL. 26. NO, 305. Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, u SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, ee shington 1925. Home Edition TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. Children Sleep, Mother Robbed PLANS OF IS MENACED BY TERRIFIC COLD GRIPS'COLLINS 10 BE ROBBERY BURGLAR IN ALASKA COAST CITIES LEFT IN HIS HER HOME ISS RUBY FOY, University of Washington co-ed, who| Thug Enters House After Husband Leaves for Work FLEES WITH $125 LOOT | Two Sons and Two Daugh- ters Were Asleep Upstairs ein = ed bedroom ap her puree er room he FUND $357,250 =: JOrthopedic Endowment Drive Makes Good Progress | 000,000 hospital the ted Monday f the A policy Metr writers that $3 000 w Bulla: de ured nf g company Mond Underw of I that 000 of the $100. them had t their yam report 0 pledged underwriters 1 breath and the cam paign is runn like well-ollod machine, Pi are being lined up as fast an the workers can handle them, and the Insuran to do even better the second y did the fire n ob caught second oxpects » men week EE TODAY’S WANT ADS Will help you find car. Don't wait an is the time to BUY. a good used longer, now “Automobiles of Charactor” LATE DODGE ROADSTER, $495 FORMER 0 SR was in acute eed of cash and was forced to erifice this beautiful, little used, carefully kept We bought it exceedingly cheap and for today only aro offering it at the above price. Has . handsome bevel ge, mirror rain meter and bar cap, alemito greasing Turn to the Want Ad page and ee who is offering this on even tho I was in this despondent mood, there seemed to be some: thing singing in my heart as walked home—a sort of premoni tion of some good about to happen A notice from Western Union greeted me at the door. Cold chills jalways fought a pounding bh “i when I received those telegrams. he found or is he dead?” would beat thru my brain. I called telegraph office. They sent up the messages, Jone of which was from Dr. Samuel Marcus, of Low Angeles, felling of Will's recovery, and the Will, asking me to come to Los An geles, and stating that he did not | know how he got there. “Then,” continued Mrs. Hitt, “fol lowed hours of doubt, He had sent me two previous messages, one from oioe'TheStarris.one of the few links betweenisolated nd} tl extradition 1| Then never another word. other from | Fuel Running ‘Low in Many Towns, Captain of Star Reports DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, Feb, 17.—Terrific ‘and ice conditions prevail along the coast between Dutch harbor and Seward, fuel running low in many places, other towns have been without mail or freight for weeks, and thousands of dollars’ damage has been done to fishing equipmeat to Capt. Johansen of the mail steamer Starr, Eight hours out from Seward, the Starr encountered heavy northeasterly gales, with temperature down to 9 de- gre below the coldest Capt. Henderson had ex- perienced in the 38 years he has commanded vessels on this weather is ice, according zero, when she} listed been heavily with hours from Seward, dangerously and forced to dock until cleared sufficiently to keep an even keen. For five days the Starr lay at Kana ice to clear at Chignik, her next stop, and waiting in vain. | Finally she put out cg chopped her way thru to enter the} harbor, bringing with her a fleet of gasoline boats which had waited for three weeks to come in for gasoline. They} followed the Starr thru the channel she had broken. er coated ed Kanatak, 80 ice that she she had 8 was k, waiting for the! settle-| ments of the coast and the Southern Alaskan ports, bring-| ing mail and supplies on a fairly regular: schedule. KING GEORGE ILL! THIRD KID SHOW “Over the Top” Special Performance Tuesday , Is Victim of London Influ- | enza Epidemic ery the tim of the | INDON embryo Pershing in ¥ of 8 e's boydom will get nC see the Top,” 2 ance to great film, “Over the © more © bronchitis from y afternoc courtesy | sty has been and The sufferi management 1! | influe “The the bull t genera ” nt flow matinee will m. and run thru} P. show packed youngsters who Saturday's ma The by rd Daw Ree members of | afflicted with In-| « Lord Winterton Henderson, Another disease, is the Arch builetin Sir ck Staley of Penn and sides the kit ment was signed Stowell Fe ir Miles 30 tinee theater with Se-| attle availed them- | selves of The Star coupon-15 cents admission price, There were so! many left that another performance | hur Tuesday after. | the « Jund {it } A with for was arranged Ishop of noon, WATSON LEAVES 'B.C. Holdup Suspect Waives Extradition After Fight two-month court fight, waived for ‘anterbur Seattlo youngsters may be ac- |companied by their parents, but the oldsters must pay full price of ad:| mission for the matinee. (WHOLE FAMILY 1s Now AT WORK, INCLUDING MATT AND MA AND SON RS MATT STARWICH Is the third of a promi. Auburn family to become a King county peace officer. First the Matt, himself, the sheriff. Then there young Ray, a |) student at St. Mary's college, whom Matt swore in as deputy He helped his father on several cas Now Mrs. Starwich is packing her bags for her first experience ax an official. She is to leave with Matt the latter part of the week for California to aid in bringing back 4 woman prisoner || and two men from Los , Angeles and Francisco, Ross C. nding a Watson voluntarily Tuesday and starte British Columbia to stand trial on |the $42,000 Royal Bank of Canada holdup at Nanaimo December The former Seattle detective was by Forbes Cruikshank of pvincial police. | Watson signed a walver of extra-| dition Monday night. He will de-; mand an immediate trial and took | the action because of his already long imprisonment for an act which | ims, he did not commit. Wat- | |son's name wns recently dismissed from the Bon M ¢ holdup case! now being tried before Judge Mitch ell Gilliam, who sat as extradition |commiasioner for the United States (ast month when Watson was fight Ing extradition | member nent last © is fhe « San Oregon City and one from San Fran- cisco soon after his disappearance. is brimming over this morning.” On July 2, 1924, Mr. and Mrs, Hitt Jand several young couples motored to Hicks lake, four miles east of| Olympia, for a swimming party and| pienic supper, Fate twisted merri-! ment into tragedy. Mr. Hitt struck | his head on a hard surface when he dove into the lake, Followed five days of intense pain, Physictans| diagnosed the injury as misplace-| ment of the spine at the base of| the neck or a possible slight fr ng On the morning of July Mr.} Hitt went down to his off and his father-in-law, J of Olympla, had a contract for pile driving, That was the Inst time jhis wife saw him, Then came a telephone messoge from Oregon | “We last heard from him on July 12. Was this message Saturday just | another high hope to be dashed to | pleces? ye SAGE COMES 14 FROM RELATIVE “Then this morning (Monday) I re- ceived a telegram from my brother- inlaw, Frank Bottum, of Santa Mon- fea, He had seen Will and talked to him, and said that Will was in physical condition, that he asked for me, his mother and father, Jand he recognized Frank, T also re- |ceived a telegram today from Cecil |Burr, of Los Angeles, a former schoolmate of Will's and mine. He |nud been to see Will, and he had war|' too great | cisco, CAVE TOMB Body, Found Monday, Will | Not Be Taken Out WORK TOO DANGEROUS | Father Satisfied to Let Son | Remain in Cavern r SAND T—The THE MOUTH OF CAVE, Ky. Feb, of Floyd Collins will rest forever in the eave in which he trapped 18 days ago and in he died while were frantically digging a shaft body was which crews to rescue him from his living tomb, This practically decided today, following the completion of the reseue shaft Monday af- ternoon and the discovery of the lifeless form of Collins, caught under a huge boulder in a viselike grip. A coroner”s jury the rescue shaft leading to Collins’. tomb and officially nour ad. The reported the route to the Collins lies ts too dangerous for further attempts at was tor entered | Floyd} pro- m ju spot where removal. Rescue plans will almost cer- be abandoned as a result of report of the coroner's jury and ling will left undisturbed in his H. T. Car- the michael, in equ terri- to the attempts, Idiers who, picketed the around the entrance during the rescue breaking camp. number of business m¢ City pledged $1,000 to of recover if that is possible. Authorities believed the danger involved in the attempt would be to accept the offer. Lee Collin, father of Floyd, said he is satisfied to have Sand cave as the final resting place and will not sanction any further attempt to take him out because of the danger to workers. Dr, William Hazlett, Chicago, sur- geon, descended to the cavern and examined Collins’ body. He said the entombed man had been dead from two to five days. Carmichael announced were A a of a cute body of Collins, he was } men would refuse to enter the shaft | becuuse of the danger. Halibut Season Is Opened Here| Monday was a good day for fish- Ing, and more than 200 boat loads of fishermen from Seattle took ad- vantage of it. It was the opening jor the halibut season, and for two weeks the halibut boats have been | going out from Pier 8, with a view to being on tho grounds when the season opened. “Most of these boats go to Alas- kan waters, but some of them stop off Vancouver island,” says Rod McDonald, of the fishermen’s unton. “They will be out for nine months, | only coming in for supplies. During | nine months ‘the men work very hard. They make all the way from $600 to $4,000 a season, but the average is around $1,700 per man.” these recognized him. Therefore, my cup;City, to Mrs. Hitt, saying: “T do) hot Know how Come and get me.” She immediately went to Portland | | where they were to meet. Her hus- jband nover arrived. On July 12 came a message from He repeated that he did not know how he got there, that he had 16 cents and he would wait to hear from home. BREMERTON BROTHER CONDUCTS EARCH Again a vast silence and no trace} of the sick man. His brother, Henry Hitt, of Bremerton, conduct- ed a futile search in San Francisco, Dr. W. Steele, a former class- mate, say Hitt in Los Angeles shortly after July 12, but Hitt de- nied his {dentity and said he was William Bronson and was working I got here. rescue | | fore San Fran-} _ RELATED Former Porter of Store Admits He | Aided Others in | $22,800 Holdup ERVOUSLY chewing gum and stopping now and |then to wipe the perspira- | tion from his clenched hands, | Norris W. Lockwood, former porter at the Bon Marche, Tuesday told a jury of nine women and three men how |he had been tempted to play the traitor to his employers and finally aided in the $22,- | 800 holdup of three of its em- ployes last August 8th. His tale was the big sensa- tion of the case thus far, when he declared Ed Fasick and Joe O. Neal had plotted 'the holdup with him after finally gaining his agreement to act as “inside man to keep them posted,” and to take 15 per cent of the loot as his share. IDENTIFY FASICK AS MAN ON STREET Neal Monday forfeited $16,000 bail | tor himself and $5,000 for his wife | by disappearing before the trial be- gan. | Prior fo Lockwood's appearance |to turn state's evidence, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Powers, witnesses of a | part of the robbery, identified Fas- |Ick as a man who had walked up jand down the street on Union be- |tween First and Second aves. be- the robbery, finally jumping on to a parked sedan when a shot | was heard. Neal and Fasick were identified in |connéction with the ‘robbery by James Whalen, store em- ploye. Mrs. Fasick was identified as a |woman who was standing in front lof the Bon Marche prior to the lrobbery by Roy M. Holland, auto salesman, who was sitting in a car at the entrance at the time. He testified that she was talking to |two men, one of whom he thought was J. M. Dooley. He said that he recognized him “by his bow legs.” Lillian Quinville, arrested in Port- |land several weeks after the holdup, | testified that she was present at a | |thru with rescue efforts, saying his | meeting between Lockwood and Fas- ick at | planned. T. Tamaki, Japanese employe of the store and one of the victims, opened the day's hearing before Judge Mitchell Gillam with a description of the holdup. Lockwood interrupted cross-exam- |ination on several occasions by ob- Jecting to questions tending to cast a doubt upon his honor, This was j upon advice by the court that he | could refuse to testify to anything | whi h might incriminate him. T met Fasick at his and | (Turn to Page 7, Coiumn 6) | WEATHER which the robbery was || Generally cloudy tonight and Wednesday; moderate tem- _ perature; light S. W. winds FORECAST | Lest Hope; She’s Happy Now a carpenter. He eluded Dr, Steele and then followed the long |search, the dreads, the disappoint |ments, and the misery of a half ‘year. Mrs. home. Hands that had never done hard- er work than light household tasks lor piano playing (Mrs. Hitt is an | accomplished pianist), took up mon- jotonons clerical work. To me, she was ax courageous and brave as the women who knitted at home while their loved ones went into battle. The radio, the telegraph, the bul- Htetin boards, police officers, detec- tives, newspapers, letters, were all employed in the seven months’ search which ended Saturday im a Los Angeles hospital Hitt refused to give up her