The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 17, 1921, Page 1

‘BOOTLEG RING WRECKS BANK On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to §9 iii =-| TheSeattleStar A j. RHODES IS DEAD LOANS TO BOOZE Booze Parties, 2e\A. J. | LI ee HANDLERS C0 WASHINGTON, ye 11.—Fed Mane? Talked abot ‘Teller Paul Schaefer’s Confession eral Prohibition Commissioner Hugh! [ | The city treastrer says the street ga. e o The Star Is Mysteriously John F. Kran today appealed to American women to help en- Tailway finances look good. The city comptroller says so. Eight members of the city council i Bay 90. Several city banks say so—and are Corporation Counsel Says Interrupted for the Volstead act. willing to prove it by their money. “Taxpayers” Failed to Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash., und SATTLE, WASH., THU RSDAY, Fi VOLUME 23 <ae . can bring a «trong public senti ment behind the law for its strict enforcement,” he said, “They are the leaders of an ormmunity in a general way, Their influence, when exerted, is tremendous.” At the same time, Kramer warned women bootieggers that they need expect no leniency if caught violating the law. “This office is now working for the con viction of some feminine whisky runners, said to have operated with @ boldness and deftness that 1 the efforts of their male associates omen of the United States But Mayor Hugh says it's not so. as Seattle Store President Was Why is he so insistent that the Ill Only a Week; Wife a. system is going to the on Way East : Bring in Material Party Women frequently ride ax pas Heavy loans of depositors’ money to bootleggers ¢ Is he working for Stone-Webster ein | ical sengers in cars used for whisky the crash of the North Side State bank, according to ’ most prominent th runaing, Kramer said. Their be to get the lines back for them og] One of, Seattle’ terms they never had before? citizens died today when Albert J.) Stone Webster can make money on | rhodes, president of the Rhodes Co. | & fare of 8 1.3 cents, capecially with | a cartment store and former pres-| Charactertatng sult brought |by 14 taxpayers to force the city to default on ite interest payment on the street railways March 1 aa in Schaefer, accused teller, whose shortage when the closed on January 26 was somewhere between $10,000 az $30,000. Schaefer was. to appear for sentence in | King Dykeman’s court at 1:30 today. presence is supposed to divert sus picion, Kramer has received report: that in many cities women by 4 an indeterminate franchise, such as capable of binding anybody even hundreds tend liquor tes the city now enjoys. dent of the Chamber of Commeree, jafter its adjudication, Corporation || 1 eee = gy 2 Wh yrds | The Seattle bank is believed to be’the first such it Is Mayor Caldwell's pretense of| succumbed to a short attack of in-| 4 |Counsel Waiter F. Meier took steps | eared * || tion in the United States to go to the wall thru the fi fighting Stone-Webster merely & fiuenza in New York city. \* r Mthureday morning to force the|| T€astities of intoxicants are swal- 1 le Uni e wal t fin: iigeat i jplaintitte’ to remedy) the matter, || lowed. Police records bear out | of illegal whisky operations. . It was known, in the the reports, he said, Girly under 20 were reported to have been caught in police raids on much occasions, “Undoubtedly there are man# world, as the “bootleggers’ bank.” | Most of the money advanced to liq- vor runners and moonshiners is said & Bank R | practically unsecured notes and on. || ARR MCOPeNs He died at the Waldorf-Astoria ho | Is he consciousty or unconsctousty | a tool of Stone Webster interests? | tl @t 10 o'clock’ today, after an ill-| What other explanation is there/ ness of only one week for the mayor's constant attacks| HEART PEACEFULLY | He filed a motion preparatory to arguing the question before the court probably Thursday afternoon, fo compel the plaintiffs to join as upon the «treet railway system | STOPPED BEATING defendants in the action the Puget | b women who indulge in intoxi: |) er worthless paper, but ead ges pple rage : peor f Delby| Gordon C. Corbaley, former secre | Bound Light @ Power Cov and such |] cants in a spirit of bravado,” the Coe Tec bite teeetured Grae ie at | ‘ T 4918? tary of the Chamber of Commerce, | sal be 7 raormrnt camuuinteae aids. ame same |! forts of Thomas P, Revelle, Schae-| omorrow. and a ch Rhodes, ' it tiated Men who are fer's lawyer, that the de it MADE PROFIT FIRST YEAR boar hen naxcrhobc 4 ‘ . |ontraversy. trying to evade the law by drink pom hag o mee may | ON FIVE-CENT FARE who was with him thruoat his. fil- ‘ “aa | Another motion was filed by Does it not seem strange that the ness, wired to W. L. Rhodes, his Meter asking that the plaintiffs be car system should have made a| >rother, here, as follows: ans gases taaeas cnceeamia Profit on a nickel fare in its first year| | “Albert passed away at 10. His Heauses of action referred to in the Gf operation, not counting deprecia- | MAFt peacefully stopped beating.” complaint.” is ae Sicwen ee a ag a sev serious iliness, started’ East early | Besides these, Meier flied a de e He sat down on a bench, with his | yesterday morning. Corbaley in his | murrer to the complaint on the four} > it not seem strange that now with | \ire togny maid that he would “4 following grounds: The court has| | head between his hands, and wept as | | a still higher fare and all city of-| A no jurisdiction of the sub: t he blurted out nfession her in Chicago and accompany her | nae acetal tamens of econ tae | “When I come out of the peniten-| been im united, ene he sobbed, “I will be broke, | ing all sorts of intoxicating bever- ages “It is up to the mothers and fa thers of young girls to see that they obey the laws of the United States, ‘The mothers expecially should be able to help.” Enter Cla Bank Examiner Karl 8. in charge of the North state bank since its doors Visited In the county jail, Schaefer told The Star he was being made the | “goat” by persons he had once be- leved were friends, WEEPS AS HE BLURTS OUT CONFESSION morrow to depositors and ors who wish to prove “We will have finished over the ledger by Lapp said. “Until all claims ficials ahd the banks fully agreed) tg New York that the traction system IS paying.| Rhodes left here a month ago for! »perly and the the mayor should still maintain it is| Washington, D. C., as chairman of a complaint does not state facts sut-| | pei omy Byard aon up ever, || proved we will be unable to an impossible proposition? \ Chemuher 6¢ Colaberds coransittes 40 |ficient to constitute a cause of ao | resid pling 8 Prue oA how much the shortage rea tion oe “HH te.” What's’ the mayor trying to ac-| Work for appointment of a man from (aed 15,000 in all. I've been complish? | this state to the United States ship- | SAYS SUIT SEEKS TO taste ja foot * iapianser ese Officers of the bank, ping board. He also attended a meet | VIOLATE CONTRACT | h financ _ |] the accused teller, Paul Sch Does alone know? Ing of the Chamber of Commerce of The Late A ibert J. Khoaes” in connectign with the motion to| Suspects Held at Everett;) ttre tuanced bootecsine oper.|| frankly stated they do not | | He can start a suit today, ff he| the United States, of which he was a force the addition of other de Third Escapes |deals.. I loaned money to people 1|( ‘Me smount of the shortage: Ghooses, to compel the traction com-| vice president. At this meeting he fendanta to the #ult, Meler filed an | shoushe tea tae: Clautomaman cial pany to alter or cancel the purchase | worked on the national housing sit- jaffidavit netting forth that the! 6... owe, one of two men ar.|Sauare with me, ‘They've doubie-| “That's right. Schaefer contrag. He has spent $8,000 for | uation, | Plaintiffx seek to enjoin the defend.| O° ote | crossed me—made me the goat, changed his mind. He this purpose. fle spent it to get evi-| Besides his widow, Mra. Harriet A. | ants from complying with terms | tested in Everett for the bank rob-) «1 trusted Charlie Sullivan, the| doesn’t want to see The Star! an dence. He paid a lawyer $1,000 to | Rhodes, Rhodes is survived by three | |and provisions of certain contracts |bery at Lake Stevens Wednesday, | secretary of police. I loaned him lots} It is known, however, that get legal opinions. He has $2,000} brothers and two sisters, ate entered into between the city and|wag identified by Sheriff Matt Star-| of money for business deals, When [| em times the prisoner has ’ left. He can do anything he pense E children. the Puget Sound Light & Power] wicn's deputies here Thursday, as| Went to him, after J got in trouble, taken from the jail to BROTHERS IN BUSINESS Co. for the acquisition of the street and begged him t ise money | Malcolm Douglas’ offi: and } with this money. It costs only $4 to RS IN i z 2 ceeK ‘0 raise money to! ice, ; sgl ve aga | HERE AND IN TACOMA |Escape as Overcharge of] Iwo Seattle Men on His| sivas. one of four mon who held up and! Wovect"me and the bank, he looked | sumably questioned af length Aa le & suit, One of the brothers, Win LL} He recites further that the plain. |robbed the bank at Bothel in 1916.) a¢ me and said, ‘I can’t do anything | Presence of deputy prosecutors WHY NOT Rhodes, is a Seattle man, president | Nitro Explodes List tiffs are seeking to stop compliance| Deputy Sheriff Frank Brower tele-| for you.’ a court stenographer, As a * . FILE THE SUIT? and manager of Rhodes Bros.’ 10-cent | pat vt with terms and provisons of certain! pnoned the fact fo Sheriff West, of| “My brother, Charlie Schaefer, has of these interviews, su} Caldwell himself was the city’s cor. | Store The two others, Henry and| frightened by the deafening ée-| OLYMPIA, Feb. 17.—-Goy. Hart to-|"pecial utility bonds issued by the). onomiah county this morning.| Pte of Sullivan's in his pocket,| Douglas and Chief Searing poration counsel before he became| Charles, conduct the Rhodes depart-|ionution of the excessive charge|@ay announced his “cabinet” ap-| city pledging gross receipts from) ia later that Lowe had ad.|{uTying it around with a lot of oth- dry squad officials to arrest Ji ayor. He could draw up the com-|™ént store in Tacoma { pointees, to serve aa the 10 depart-|the gallways as payment on tho| West said later that Lowe ‘d-/er notes and papers, It is Sullivan’s|T. Michener, Daniel Sullivan randeg himself, if necessary. He|_ OD slater, Mary A. Nelaon, lives at ‘hey had placed in the eafe of the) Toit heads created by the civil ad-| bonds, mitted his part in the Bothell bank! note for $1,000 that I loaned him—| Harry Greening, alleged bootlegs “ were To this recital he adds: | robbery. the last transaction I had with him.|early this week. Greening idity of the | He told me he wanted the money to| Michener were among the b buy pork and beans to ship to Van-| gers mentioned by Schaefer in i P could give Witmon Tucker, who oe des the se. Mrs. Ida | Parisian Chocolate Ca, 1319 Wash-| ministration code, The nam ‘! 4 ayblan ves at Trempealeau, to havoc | » eee obabl “The question of v cin ie oth 90 * ington st, and by the b ubmitted to the senate and probably handled his probe, another $1,000, if | yo. |bonds, in the absence of the trac-| Lowe and his three robber com r i wrought by the nitro biast, will be confirmed tod: | ong wer oie . necessary, to ay sney What on} During the 14 years Rhodes Tived | 7rOuent OF te tee ob The oabinet officers appointed are:| tion company, is a moot question |Panions were arrested following the | couver interrupted confession to The eee in Seattle herwae a consistent and en- |. 1, rhureday thru a back w Director of the department of pub jand any adjudication I respect |Bothell holdup. He turned state's| “He said he was in business with a| Bank Examiner H. S. Ben It’s really sickening, all this horse-| ergetic worker in the interests of Se le works—Elgin V, Kuykendall, of| thereto, in their absence and in/jevidence and was given a suspended | man named Eagan, and the under-| who was called to the North Side” jas Patrolman William Cronk cam¢ Garfield county the absence of such other persons|sentence, The other three were sent | Standing was that I was to receive| bank from Tacoma about midnight play. 4f the city is to get a reduc-| attle. in the front 5 | . Ee tlon of s@p purchase price, a mult ask-| HELPED CONSOLIDATE Dee front way parton and C.| Director of the department of busl-|as may haye an Interest in the sub-|to the penitentiary at Walla Walla, | $200 interest on the $1,000 loan on the day before the bank was ¢ for this sort of relief should be | BUSINESS CLUBS L. Toms investigated the job Thurs | #8 control—Thomas BE, Skaggs, | ject matter, would be binding neither | where one has #4 die I want to tell the whole story. It] announced closed, said he had on - vd “ alleged companion in the| Will be as long as this corridor,”| dered the vault opened and found Snohomish county upon the defendants named nor on| or of the department of effk| the traction company nor on such |Lake'S | REGUS and not merely TALKED| He was one of the principal factors | gay ‘They de ABOUT. in bringing about the consolidation 4 of the Chamber of Commerce and the Jared it to be the I ciency—I. D. McArdle, Jefferson| other persons, and could not be |to disclose his name to Sheriff West, | hand. work of amateurs. vens robbery had declined | Schaefer said, with a sweep of his| the usual bank books, deposit hoa The safe doors were hurled across ° a safe and one whisky bottk But, no; nothing Ike that In done. | Geattie Commercial Club. He be unt jeaded t efonse t |the later said today. Schaefer arose and paced the pate 8 bent 2 e line oti sag | co pleaded as a bar or defense to any|the later si ay. |taining about two drinks, Imelda The mayor is still howling about | camo the first president of the con pas coe Bae te Fad Director of the department of tax-|action that might be tnstituted by| “He lives in Centralia, and t# a|ridor nervously, He asked that Roy,| the vault, 3 FETE any eae eit homt| Solidated organization and served | tindows in the office were blown |#tion and examination—W. L. Farna-|the traction company.” jmember of the Centralia | Knowles, a friend, and his brother, | «Lops OF PEOPLE HAVE fact that those who know more a with credit during a strenuous term, | worth, Lincoln county WANT said West Phat's all w |Charles Schaefer, be called to the| 4 ‘BOTTLE HIDDEN AWAY" cleanly out of their cases. A glass JEGALITY TO BE Hepes . STABLISHED n he would mak nt, that “the re a complete | people that |.“ Paid no attention to the tle,” he said, “Lots of people a bottle hidden away nowad 7" in one minute than he knows in a n able to find out about him.” | Jail, w it week (the bankers and the account when the war drives were on, in 1918. | At the same time he was also serv. Director of the department of | FULLY Dr. Paul A, Turner, King!” fo states that the defendants do pr tive in * x “ e ot wish to comply with the terms mayor succeeds in making| this state of thé natio} in. | Showcases, filled with display candy. |" ryrector of the department of con-|"r any contmnet that in illegal and| West, of Snohomish county, and two| known and “ believe that the finances are | jgtration, assisting the inis- | Were shattered by the blast and the). ition and development—Dan A.| jail trusties, as the suspects were| “Rby and Ch | st ation, as 7 sada $i | servation an pment—Dan A.| voi4, and for that reason they want | | took charge of the bank, érator in fixing retail pHi glaas blown from them. | Walking along the road near Lochs-| be able to corroborate everything T s . Te he nk, 0 that, despite higher fares,/ Rhodes, at the time of hisfdeath Jloy, A third man disappeared in the | say.” [ihe See ene ee ie books continue to lose money, tho| way in the Kast in the interests of | woods, Asked how much whisky was in|/@nd the next morning hung * ft off not—naturally, the system|the Seattle Chamber of Commerce Lowe {a supposed to have| the bank vault when the bank exam-| ‘clued’ Sign on the Goon. “7 om will go back to Stone & Webster, and was endeavoring to further the | waited in an automobile while his|iner took charge and opened it, 1 took up all the keys to the w ps, each armed with | Schaefer replied: | bank except one that Jacob Schae TRYING TO DOT went to Washington, D. €., a month atered the Rucker | ust a little—four quarts is all.| fer, the president, had. He Is that the goal towards which the |*#° t attend the meeting of the Wednesday | Not any great amount.” said to be ill at his home, I - ‘ : Phis 0 dicted « 7 t there the next day and got directors of the United St ci eries and game—Ernest A, Seaborg, 4 noon, held up the Harold} This contradicted a rumor that the | ow . Irectorm of the United States Cham-| i. hand @il While this work | tacre mocaty 4 *Or& |e CONTRACT VALID |Bell, and a state ,| bank examiner had found 15 cases of | Key. ‘There were two store yor ie striving? * ber of Co e t di 7 ’ t If it ia, it iw high timedo know it.) 0°" ° gf vim papecl yg oe Bet aye PA in progres, Patrolman Cronk | sisSlciaed SHOULD BE HONORED | John A. Vande | bottled liquor inside the vault, which |in the bank that T hadn't looked | om the present fares, amd apt | chortage of moana chairman | P™#e4 the office. Because there} He sums up his position In the |» ,200 from the tll, and leisurely | had been hurriedly removed and de-| into. There were several hours, be 1 prefent outlook, the stremt’ rail ie no Nght over the safe, he ad | Says Hubby tii following language | departed livered to a well-known bootlegger, | while I was gone, that someone partition was stove in, A radiator behind the safe cracked. T he two were captured late Wed-| Staten | behind the was cracked wo Inesday afternoon by Sheriff W. W.| Caused the bank to close” might be their medicine.” ants) are well satisfied, ar machant .2 If th the « in bad condition, and if he runs the | lie,” he said, “wil!| That's all the whisky I saw, Scott, Adams county. all int Director of the department of 1a-| bor and tndustries-Ed Cliffor ste persons brought in foi | After climbing over a backyard jfence, the yeges placed a ladder against the side of the building, | climbed it, broke a hole in a win-| dow at the lock, opened the window | . * wevhage T 18 THE MAYOR interesta of this community. Rhodes | 207 toopea into the hop. culture—E, 1, French, Clorke| wages to employes and expenses of ‘Two holes were drilled in the|°Unty operation and maintenance are paid safe door with a seven-sixteenths. | out of the revenues a final adjudication. | “If the contract is void," M pler King county. says, “the defendants don't want to Director of the department of agrl-| 1. with it either before or after two accompli two automatics, bank at Lake Ste re Director of the department of fish- y can be financed succensfully and - hire ngs gir oe af not notice the work of the ye l "If said contract and bonds con-| jell, according to Sheriff West,| Knowles and Charles Schaefer| might have got into the bank ax. fitably, provided the elty adminis. | trustees of ‘ah car pide j om | With a terrific, shattering crash Her Like a Chi 1 stitute valid and binding obliga-|jate W tified the man| Were notified that Paul wished to|means of a duplicate key, if they , tration is not deliberately trying el boagd sone aps the nip.) and roar the charge exploded. The| Craiming she ix tirec of having|tions, common honesty and the in-lin the Everett jail, who refuses to| see th at the jail, and promised|had one, but they couldn't have. = . « show lonses—elther Mx political rea-|0° ® Ket cn ns awe yh is rmuie s had misjudged the calibre of her husband treat her like a child, |tegrity of the city’s credit require |talk, as one of the two who en-|to be there got into the vault, because I'd ping board, he had been «ving this | tie safe and the amount of nitro|toiy M. Dubor filed suit ‘Thursday |that they be honored according to| tered the bank MYSTERIOUS GERMAN SA | they placed in the drill holes was|morning for divorce from A. H.|their terms. The other man who entered the AUL CHANGED HIS MIND’ | strong enough to blow open s#ev-| pupor. “If they are illegal and vold they |bank is sipposed to be the one for At the appointed time, an ¢ should in no event be observed, whom a sheriff's posse Was still|man with gray hair and mus mn changed the combination when I locked It.” ‘The bank was turned over by eoneemeemccneer Bennett to Karl S. Lapp, another 4 also the office. “Plaintiffs should be anxious to}searching Thursday. Sheriff West | wearing heavy lens spectac! and| examiner, the following day when Patrolman Cronk, two blocks |Ed Hagen on Trial bring the nec ary parties before|said early Thursday he was con-|Who spoke with German ac ent| Bennett was called to investigate hastened back, gun in hand the court to obtain @ final and/fident this man would be caught|and said he was “a friend of the}another bank in Georgetown. a the fumes | in Federal Court binding adjudication of this ques-| before night ee | tamily,” informed two members of| “I found,” said Lapp, “that there | ton.” The robbers, in their flight, lost|'The Star staff that “Paul had|were traces of whisky having been _ ——n much of the money, A schoo! girl,| changed his mind. He doesn’t want/in the bank, There were « lot of . FRATERNAL | coming along the road over which} to talk. He has nothing to say,” empty bottles, I found a full quart in conference relative to the coming | Joe Vinikow, proprietor, was not!-| charges, in connection with the find S, will build an|the bandits fled, near the bank,| The German left the jail hur-| hidden under the safe. But if meeting of the shipping board on the} fied at once. He sald the loss|ing of a large quantity of beer in a|adequate home in this city this year,| picked $400 out of the mud and diy and disappeared. The jailer} there were 15 cases in the bank, (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) was fully covered by insurance. residence at 1362 Yakima ave, according to announcement, ‘turned it in at the bank, said? I didn’t see them.” * gons or for Stone-Webster reasons. matter his attention while at the national capit He also conferred with the naval affairs committee on the report it was to make on Party Will Dishand |---= bases on the Pacific WASHINGTON, Feb. 11~The WORKED FOR a ‘National Woman's party will VPS NAVY YARD He entered the offic He worked also on behalf of th eral similar snfes, The safe was wrecked Soast. of the nitro were clearing to the hd Hagen, former seattle police. | Puget Sound navy yard, re The yeges are believed to}/man, went on trial Friday before | ot Washington lands, and h caped as he entered |Pederat Judge Cushman on boose and immediately reorganize, accord: | ing to recommendations of its execu tive committee submitted to the con- vention here ti Dozens of re- ports urging th ~ made by stato and national unite. larpatic been