The Seattle Daily Times from Seattle, Washington • 3

THE SEATTLE TIMES MAin 0300 211 VETERANS MOTHER SEES BABY SHE ABANDONED DUE BACK TODAY his the personnel is be to A abandoned baby smiled at' her son Billy in Harborview else Holding the baby is Lorraine Boos a nurse ar Says Merchants Mother (Continued rom Page One) RAILROADING IS of to Pennsylvania Railroad 8 lb faztntr BUY UNITBD STATU VICTOBT BONN ABB STAMPS 4 a ft To deter prowlers a group of Columbia City business men yester day petitioned the City Council to order a street light placed in the alley behind business houses front ing on Rainier Avenue between Ed munds and erdinand Streets The letter forwarded by George Hartung declared numerous burglaries have taken place in that block rightened "and conscience stricken Mrs Ann Weaver who admitted she abandoned her baby son in a Seattle restroom a week before is shown as she was questioned last night by Police Capt Janies Moore Mrs Weaver was identified by A Blair (left) and red Blizzard (next to Blair) hotel em ployes who saw the woman enter the hotel with the child a week ago yesterday NEW STADIUM ID BE MEMORIAL do anything you miss someone '1 Members of the Seattle School Board yesterday agreed to name the new high school stadium at Civic ield the High School Memorial in honor of former pupils who were killed in the Second World War The name was suggested by James A Duncan of the board our lots were purchased" from the Colman Company for $1800 adding to the ground at' West Seattle High School An archi tect John Paul Jones was re tained to draw plans for a six room addition to the Crown Hill School' 14th Avenue Northwest and West 95th Street Purchase of fencing replacement at Colman and Hawthorne Schools was authorized and bids were called for a motion picture projec tor for Martha Washington School Eighteen substitute teachers were elected our regular teachers and one for emergency service were assigned Mrs Anna Nieder 48 years old well known a 1 1 1 clubwoman and Red Cross worker died yes terday in a hospital uneral services will be held at 11:30 Monday Tn the chapel of the Bonney Watson Company Rabbi Raphael Levine will offi ciate Burial will be in Hills of Eternity Cemetery Mrs Nieder was bom in Seattle and attended the University of Washington She was an officer of the Auxiliary of Temple de Hirsch a member of the Coun cil of Jewish Women and a mem ber of the board of the Seattle Chapter of Hadassah and had been active in Red Cross and Seattle work She lived at the Camlin Hotel Surviving are her husband Harry a son Army Lieut Law rence Nieder a daughter Marilyn Seattle and a sister Mrs Rosenbaum of New York City By Associated Press Two cold masses spread chilling weather in the northern section of the country today Most of the nation however had clearing skies and normal temperatures One cold disturbance centered over the Dakotas was moving east ward with fringes of it touching as far as North Carolina Another mass of cold air moved onto the Northern Plains The cold movements produced such temperature figures as Devils Lake 24 below Duluth 15 below Minneapolis 8 below Bis marck 11 below i Light snows fell over the Upper Mississippi Valley and the Great? Lakes regions There was an upward swing of mercury readings in Northern New York and New England but the weather forecaster said tempera tures there would start falling later Saturday Albany had 35 and Buffalo 37 early Saturday The northern sector of New Eng land produced weather of a few degrees above Zero Mild weather was in store for the South in general after Satur day started off with freezing tem peratures as far south as South ern Georgia This freezing condi tion extended info the Gulf States as far as Louisiana Sub zero weather extended as far south as Iowa and Southern Wisconsih And near freezing marks prevailed in Oklahoma and The city We think of it a people The countryside is people And so is thfr'Bflfeoad i just dLofabeoW NORTHERN AREA DE NATION COLD MORE LIGHT ID LESSEN HE to her maybe amnesia or some thing like Child Recognized Picture Christman said that even his 3 year oId daughter Geraldine in stantly recognized Billy from the newspaper photograph which had been taken by a Seattle Times photographer and transmitted by Associated Press wirephoto network throughout the nation i Mrs Weaver said she exhausted every hope of aid in caring for her child before reaching the deci sion to abandon him requested aid of the USO in Tacoma also the Tacoma Police Department and different people at ort Lewis to find somebody to care for him but could get no one to help she said people in California wanted to adopt my boy but my parents objected so I let them adopt The hazel eyed young mother said father a Navy radio man second class died in battle in the South Pacific in May 1944 Her government insurance she said went to his mother in Pennsylvania I could get somebody to care for my Mrs Weaver said would like to have him 'back My parents are unable to give me any further tion He has lived much of his life away from his mother and the smile he gave her was the same the friendly youngster bestows im partially upon anyone who speaks to him Into the sympathetic ears of Police Capt ames Moore and in a signed statement given to State Pa trolman A Tull Mrs Weaver haltingly poured a grim and tragic story It was a story of a girl who made a bad mistake a girl who in dire extremity stole and for a year and a half has been haunted by the specter of prison It was a story of brief ecstacy and lingering heartbreak of boy and girl love and mother love It was a story of fear and pov erty and desperation of hope and hopelessness of birth and death Mrs Weaver told her story hesi tantly That she was sick with shame and fright could be read in her eyes and to be seen there too was dull resignation to whatever might come took him to the rest rootn and left him the youth ful mother said in a voice barely audible was out of money and find anyone to care for him thought he would be better off I asked Mrs Nothing in this world is interesting people! Nothing is as important as people people who live and grow love and get married people with their habits and manners their likes and dislikes Nothing really matters people We of the Pennsylvania Railroad try to keep in mind always: everything we do is measured by how we help people hpw we get along with people how we treat people Our greatest reward is in having people think well of us because we have served them well MAN NIL Bl HUS INJURED ATALLY RICHMOND Calif eb GT) Oil Company of Cali fornia announced yesterday an 18 per cent wage increase for the 2100 employees of its El Segundo re finery and offered similar adjust ments on a company wide basis af fecting 17000 oil workers The announcement followed an agreement1 between the company and the International Oil Workers Union (C I O) after negotiations which had reached the strike vote stage last week The urfionhad originally demanded a 30 per cent Increase while the company had declined to go beyond 15 per cent The new agreement includes 4 cent and 5 cent differentials for afternoon and night shifts retro active to January 1 The 18 per cent increase will be retroactive to November 19 the date of resump tion of the 40 hour week io at two East West Coast a SATURDAY EBRUARY 2 1946 with in a tourist cabin I cashed it and went to San William Haley Seattle Secret Service agent who questioned Mrs Weaver about the check last week did not arrest her Mrs Weaver ex plained Haley thought it possible she might escape prosecution if she made immediate restitution was just one of those un fortunate Haley said today case is just one of where a good hearted country girl who always had to go on her own finally reached the end of being able to go it Right now she needs help not condemnation my talks with her she did not show at any time any adverse attitude toward society She has had lots of hard luck She has tried to do the right thing I am sure that She isn't a bad girl 'She Needs Good Advice all times she has tried tell a straight forward story and did not intentionally try to hold back anything "What she needs is good advice someone who can understand her That was all she needed at any time but she was just up against a stone wall and did not know which way to Haley is reporting the case to his superiors in San rancisco have any money and I had to pay that $50 by next Mon Mrs Weaver said afford to pay for board any where because then I get the $50 I brought him up here and left you plan to abandon your baby when you went to Montana to get a questioner asked the woman cried Her eyes begged 'for mercy planned to board him 'Out Then this busi ness about the $50 came up and oh I just know what to Mrs Weaver said she "worried myself about her baby until she read in a newspaper that he was safe She Watched for Neros knew be found soon she added was a maid working just outside the restroom where I left It Weis this maid who found Billy shortly after his mother left him 1 Mrs Weaver said she walked quickly out of the hotel after leav ing Billy and directly to the Cen tral Bus Terminal where she im mediately took a bus back to ort Lewis In the ensuing days she said she read avidly every word she could find in newspapers about her son and looked often and long ingly at the many pictures of him which were published It was one of the newspaper pho tographs" which led to iden tification and his arrest It was spotted in a Missoula paper by Mrs Weaver's mother and step father Mr and Mrs Lloyd Christ man are certain it is Billy Boy" I Christman told The Tines by tele i phone "but we are sure she have deliberately deserted him She loves that bdv must have happened the Texas Panhandle Mrs Ann Weaver mother of County Hospital last night when she was taken to see him before being jailed while the abandonment case was investigated Mrs Weaver said she could not afford to board the baby out and thought he would be better off with someone mothers fathers grand parents and uncles and aunts were all relieved today because little the baby abandoned here last week by his mother had found his but they agreed on what should be done with the baby Some told The Times this morn ing they believed the baby should go to the grandparents Others de clared he should go back to the mother while some insisted he should be placed for adoption But young who yes terday' was identified as Billy Weaver son of Ann Weaver played happily in his bed at Harbor view County Hospital caring little about the opinions of his admiring public Lacks believe conditions surrounding the case should be in vestigated from the facts I know now I think the mother should have said Jack son 1100 58th St who is the father of two boys Gary 6 years old and Ted 9 are lots of people who would love that baby and give it such wonderful care I think that girl will ever prove to be a good mother She lacks the feelings a mother usually has What I mean is this: A mother just usually do those Jackson said Adoption was favored by Richards 711 Summit Ave "In view of what the mother already has done it seems to me the boy would stand a better chance of proper care if 'some good family adopted Richards said doubt that the mother could give him the care he Mrs Miles 615 14th Ave a registered nurse was too busy tending her own lively 14 month old baby to spend much time dis cussing the case However she did Tear Gas in India BOMBAY eb The Nationalist weekly magazine Blitz said today that tear gets grenades used by the police during recent Bombay riots bore the labels "Tear gas grenade made in for "civil protection Locomotives cars equipment aS theautovu been tbteght out designed engineered developed and built by people for people They aae of value only as they serve people Standard Oil Gives 18 Wage Increase Marmot Kin Groun og Snub Shadow 1 1 4 Man Robbing otel Has Close Escape I S'A" robber who forced Mrs Esther Carlson and Mrs Doris Harnden employes of the Morrison Hotel 515 Third Ave to give him $125 of the money narrowly escaped capture at 1:20 this morning Walking up to the hotel counter one hand in his pocket the robber nodded to Mrs Hamden and when she went to see what was wanted he said: want the William Wood 35 years old a bellboy' jumped into the elevator when he overheard the conversa tion and went to the fifth fiber and got Richard Jones the house detective In the meantime Mrs Harnden called Mrs Esther Carlson the clerk whom the robber told: "This is a holdup! I want your dough currency only I want it all or get it from Mrs Carlson handed over the money whereupon the robber marched the two women and Wil liam Gordon who had $250 in his pocket and was trying to rent a room into a back room of the hotel The robber left a few moments before Jones and Wood returned to the lobby In another 1 William Thorpe clerk in the Mansfield Hotel 417 James St was robbed of $30 at 11:40 last night by a man wearing a handkerchief over his face a watch cap white trousers and a brown shirt averted eyes swung angrily upon her questioner impaled him she said simply emphatically Her lower lip trembled and the tears ever near glistened on her eyelashes at the unkind question did you happen to choose the Roosevelt Mrs Weaver hung her head she said Parents Keep Him parents have been taking care of Billy for me since last June" Mrs Weaver went ont they informed me that they were unable to care for him any longer "I went to Missoula on January 12 and brought my baby back with me to Seattle I kept him one day at the inn where I It was at this stage that the United States Secret Service entered the picture with embar rassing questions about another Navy allotment check for $50 which Mrs Weaver admits she stole and cashed forging the in dorsement "Jt was in Salinas Calif just after Billy was born" Mrs Weaver said and now shame glowed deeper in her eyes The words came hard i was broke when I left the hospi tal father had been killed i a month earlier on his destroyer in the South Pacific Had Job No Money "I had a job to go to in San rancisco in Richmond shipyards But I had no money to get there or to live on "I was desperate I took the check of a girl I had been living Mrs Nieder Active Club Worker Dies express the opinion that some mem ber of the family not neces sarily his mother should be custodian Grandparents Suggested "Ordinarily I would think baby should go back to its mother" said Mrs Charles Skinner of 4470 Abelia Ct "but in this case I am wondering if she is a proper person to care for him I believe in such a case it might be just as well that he be given back to the grandparents They help but love him and somehow al ways felt that better for blood relatives to have a child if pos my opinion the grandpar ents should take the said Mrs Inga 923 15th Ave who has two grandchildren "If I were a grandparent of the boy I would want to keep him under any conditions doubt if the mother is a very good mother I think they should let her keep the baby ana i don believe ir should given to an To Some ine baby should be given some fine family who could give it proper said Mrs Evans 1409 32nd Ave grand mother of a 10 month old boy is such a sweet baby If I weren't so old 1 would try to get him my l( Dlrs Anna Ross 1534 16th Ave says she would take the baby away from the mother the most darling young Mrs Ross said believe they should give him back to her She abandoned him once and she might do it again are hundreds of people who would be happy to take that dear little boy and care for him and love him No I give him By Associated Press Thirty two vessels with more than 24200 service men are sched uiea to arrive today Coast and at three ports One ship with 529 due at New Orleans Arriving at New York are 14 transports with 5771 One ship with 35 is expected at Norfolk Va West Coast arrivals include: Los Angeles two ships with 5109 San rancisco 12 vessels with 8173 Seattle two transports with 4598 Ships and units arriving: NEW YORK Rushville Victory from Marseille 1530 troops including 325th and 3006th Ordnance Depot 7th Medical Convalescent Hospi tal 39th Signal Heavy Construe tion Battalion 3423rd Quarter master Depot Supply Company Company 355th Quartermaster Railhead Company William Wilkins from Maseille 124 troops of the Headquarters ana Headquarters Company of the 399th Infantry Regiment Rock Hili Victory from Le Havre 1143 troops and 24 civil ians including 301st ield Artil lery Battalion Headquarters and Headquarters Battery Band of 94th Infantry Regiment detach ment of 301st Infantry Regiment St Albans Victory from Mar seille 1563 troops including Head quarters and Headquarters Com pany Engineer Group 1370th pumn Truck Company 3559th and 3537th Ordnance Heavy Automotive Maintenance Com panies 843rd Ordnance Depot Com pany 220th Chemical Maintenance Company 788th Base Depot Com pany 693rd Engineer Base Equip ment Company 3450th and 354th Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Companies Miscellaneous troops on follow ing Louis Bamberger from Ant werp 3: Robert Hunter from Ant werp 575 Willliam Beaumont from Calcutta 25 American Vic tory from Calcutta 17: New World Victory from Calcutta 5: Alexan der Lillington from Antwerp 577 (due originally vesterdav) Titan from Calcutta 25: Tyson Lykes from Le Havre 10 soldiers and 6 war dogs: Cornelius Gilliam from Port Said 162 (due originally yes terday) Edward Logan from Bre men 2 AT NOROLK James Shurman 35 miscellane ous troops (due originally yester day) AT NEW ORLEANS A Cuba from Caribbean area 529 miscellaneous personnel 77 civilians AT SEATTLE Miscellaneous on following: General A Greeley from Ka rachi 3142 Army Typhoon from Okinawa 1454 Army 2 Navy AT LOS ANGELES Miscellaneous personnel General Langsitt from Manila 3079: Kwajalein from Saipan 2030 AT SAN RANCISCO Miscellaneous on 'following: Drake 1742 Navy Goucher from Yokohama 1514 Armv: SantaCruz from Kwajalein 378 Navy 743 Army (due originally vesterdav) Carteret 936 Navy San Jacinto' 907 Navy Burleson 846 Army: Re lief from Saipan 346 Naw pa tients 169 Armv patients: Colum bia from Pearl Harbor 393 Army Navy LST 1025 47 Navy: Sea Indianan 93 marines LST 853 51 ox 8 Navy In butter is used as a hair dressing There are five beet sugar refineries in Canada Scientist Wins Honor i DALLAS Tex eb 2 (ff) A 35 year old scientist's quest for the' dOk secret of old age has won him rec tjognitlon as outstanding young man of 1945 Hp is Dr War ren Andrew Southwestern Medical College professor who came here from Portland Or The award was made by the Dallas Junior Cham ber of Commerce Seattle Has Varied Idegs On ate of 'John Doe Baby Luther Edward ine 30 years old 4237 182nd St died in a Renton hospital one hour after he was struck by a north bound bus in the Seattle Tacoma High way at South 182nd Street at 10 last night ine was knocked down by the bus and then run over by an au tomobile following the bus state patrolmen reported The bus was driven by Gilbert A Kanaan 13625 irst Ave and the automobile by Paul Morris Everett death brought the King County traffic death toll this year to 23 as against nine for the same period last year A 7 year old boy was 'in critical condition today at Harborview County Hospital and six other per sons were treated for minor in juries as the result of other pedestrian automobile accidents last night and early this morning I Michael Estlow 7 son of Mr and Mrs Robert Estlow 1431 Minor Ave suffered a fractured skullwhen he was struck by an automo bile at 7:10 last night at Minor Avenue and Pike Street The condition was critical The driver of the car was HarryL 26 of 4551 17th Ave who told traffic investigators the little boy ran across the street in front of his car Mrs Mary La Count 54 of 509 Belmont Ave suffered a sprained ankle and bruises when she wastruck by a car at 12:15 this morning at Second Avenue and Union Street Louis Cerinie 59 of 7557 Detroit St suffered face lacerations when struck by a hit run automobile at 1 this morning near East Marginal Way and Michigan Street Oscar Stone 56 of 1611 Bellevue Ave suffered a head injury and bruises when struck by an automo bile about 6 last night near Bellevue Avenue North and Olive Way red Stans 50 of 2020 Tenth Ave suffered an eye injury whenstruck by a car at 6:10 last night at Beacon Avenue: and Bay view Street Jess Copenhaver 1620 Ninth Ave suffered severe lacerations when struck by an automobile last night at Eighth Avenue and Pike Street The driver of the car Mrs Ina Dunberg was charged with failing to yield the right of way to a pedestrian The trouble with whistling mar mots is they are jealous And when comes to predicting weather ar whistling marmot' is close to useless It is suspected that if the little beasts weren't so green eyed they could beat a groundhog all hollow at guessing how much longer win ter is going to last Whistling marmots often come out of their holes too on Ground hog Day according to Dr Gus Knudson director of Woodland Park Zoo but they only sneer and go back in They appear to care a hoot about their shadows The casual observer is likely to mistake a whistling marmot for a groundhog or woodchuck because the whistling marmot is about the only variety of the breed found in these parts Weather Man Doesn't Care This distinction presumably should impart a sense of responsi bility to them but it angry and going to stay that way Until someone gets around to designating a Whistling Marmot Day they lift a fin ger to help out the Weather Bu reau The Weather Bureau people of course fool around much with guessing going to hap pen as a result of seeing or failing to see their shadows Pennsylvania Groundhog Predicts More Winter PUNXSUTAWNEY Pa eb (A) The Punxsutawney Ground hog Club reported today that pre cisely at 7 :52 this morning the goundhog emerged from his Canoe Ridge weather works at Knob and saw his sha dow In accordance with an old tradi tion the groundhog thus forecast to the nation that winter weather will continue for six more weeks A represntative of the club said: verdict is six more weeks of winter I enlarge on the meaning It stands for as you well know six more weeks of rain sleet wind cold ice and Creek Yields Body COLUMBIA CITY Or eb A widespread search of the hills and waterfront here by state police and more than a hundred neighbors ended last night with the discovery of 3 year old Richard body in a creek The search party said the child appar ently fell into the stream mouth and 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