The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 14, 1922, Page 7

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1922, DITOR 1S ( BROFSDEAD ) STRICKEN IN OFFICE H. G. Nicholas Dies Sudden- ly During Talk With Post- Intelligencer Staff Stricken at his desk shortly after feturning from the Lincoln Day banquet of the Young Men's Repub- lican club, Harold Gardiner Nich- olas, managing editor of the Seat: | tle Post-Intelligencer, died Monday | ht before physicians could be nmoned. Heart trouble is be- Meved to have been the cause, Mr, Nicholas, apparently in the Dest of health, had hurried back to his office from the banquet hall Jor & staff conference. His collapse game without warning while he was talking with several of his assist: ants Mr, Nicholas, who was 51 years okt, was born in Constantinople, the son of William G. Nicholas, a New York newspaper man then in government service. He was edu gated in Washington, D. C, and the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, | Colorado. He entered the newspaper bust | Ress in Washington, D. C., where he served his apprenticeship on the Post under Scott CC. Bone, now governor of Alaska. After this he | was employed in St, Louis, Dallas, | Denver and San Francisco. For eight years prior to last September, when he came to Seattle, he had deen assistant managing editor of the San Francisco Examiner. > Harold G, Nicholas FLEE AFTER AUTO WRECK |Valera, Collins and Ulster factions are; \farmally establishing the Free State. TRI-SIDED WAR THREATENS ERIN Supporters of Bamonn De Valera, who are reported plotting to over throw the provisional ge nment of the Irish Free State and proclaim a republic ‘The provisional government of the | Irish Free State, headed by Michael | Collins The government has halted mill tary evacuation of Ireland, Winston Churehil! announced in the house of commons today Ulster, which is in arma against |raids over ite border by the republl leans who want more of the territory imed by Ulster With evacuation of Ireland by the | British army held up temporafily the |xituation was more tense than at any jtime since the truce. Meanwhile the | | British house of commons has before | jit final ratification of the Irish peace Itreaty thru passage of the legislation | | There was a possibility that strong opposition to such ratification might |develop if Ireland does not become |more peaceful immediately. For the first time since the truce which preceded the negotiations there were lorry loads of soldiers carrying rifles trundiing about the streets of Cork today, a dispatch from that elty sald. 2 3% 18 Are Slain in Belfast Fighting BELFAST, Feb, 14.—-Casualties In the street fighting between Sinn Feiners and Ulster men mounted to Mr. Nicholas ts survived by his widow, Mra, Ethel C. Nicholas; a 6. year-oh daughter, Judith; his moth. er. a sister and two brothers. He ide his home at 1638 35th ave, His body is at the Bonney-Wat- gon Undertaking Co, {Men Captured | After Chase and Fight thetr tric Fixture Co, at ey HERE’S MORE ABOUT || Sicaa"si, be "ss, were caught only after chase and a fist fight. The driver lost control of the car and it slewed into the show case with & crash that could be heard for | dlocks, Altho suffering from minor STARTS ON PAGE ONE | injuries inflicted by flying glass, the had been stopped as tho by a viclent|two men leaped out and raced up poison, but no tell-tale corrosion of | Pine «t hey saw policemen run. the stomach or intestinal linings was | ning toward them found, such as strychnine leaves, They might have escaped had not Prosecuting Attorney Herman! Fire Marshal John M Boyle and Gua Allen and Sheriff F. M. Roberts were | Anderson, 616 East Denfy way, been expected to return in time for the| attracted by the taunts which they funeral today with the report of the} were shouting at their pursuers. chemical analysis. | Boyle and Andersof took up the White officials of the West Coast | chase and overtook the pair after Grocery Co., the Tacoma concern brunning two more blocks. The fusi which distributed the salts, deny that | tives put up a fight, but their cap they handle poisons or that the fatal|tors had quieted them by the ume package contained anything injurious | policemen arrived. when it left their packink room, the| Holstead and Opple were charged belief is held here that the sub with being drunk and disorderly and stante, whatever it was, was intro- | held for $100 bail apiece. Their ma. duced before the package came into | chine was taken to the Metropolitan the Rhodes home, wara The entire countryside ts planning |* attend the quintuple funeral, Bie COAL STRIKE ra, 9; Marie, 7; Jamies, 5, and Vernie, 3. in collisions Monday night. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 14.—An in Mrs. Samuel W. Noyes, 4710 Brook- | dustrial war, tying up America’s soft when ber husband's auto crashed at | Mine Workers’ convention met to E. 50th st. and 14th ave. N. E. into | determine their policies. James M. Sherman, 704 James st..! son hall, where the miners convened. reported Tuesday that an unknown! They make daily reports to the de st. A woman in the car was hurled | conference before the present agree against a shattered windshield and | ment expires at midnight, March 31, which will be held at the cemetery mear Klaber, 15 miles west of here. BADLY HURT Union Delegates Gather to lyn ave., wife of Col. Noyes, Univer- | coal output, and possibly paralyzing sity of Washington instructor, was | transportation, threatened the nation a machine driven by Spencer Adams,! Agents of the government were 6215 Ravenna bivd. She was taken | seen about union headquarters and driver on Eastlake ave. had crashed | partment of labor. into the rear of his machine, which | Unieas mine owners agree to meet suffered severe cuts on the head and | the coal diggers are expected to drop body. |their pieks without orders from ¢ childrem were: Verda, 11; Ed- Decide on Action Two women were severely injured —_—_— rendered unconscious for 30 minutes | today as 2,300 delegates to the United to her home. in corridors circulating about Tomlin- stood near a gas station on Hamlin |their employes in interstate wage union headquarters. Russia, prior to the world war, was the most extensive dominion_in the | doesn't know what he will receive for world. + ER’ his lwbors,” a union leader said. TRY FRYE’S PIG PORK SAUSAGE 1 Sc Per Lb. 2 Ibs. for 35c ‘On Sale in Bulk Every ' Wednesday and Saturday Guaranteed Pure and Fresh Best and Cheapest Food Article on the Market For Sale at All of FRYE’S MARKETS American Meat Co., 519 Third Avenue Ballard Meat Co., 5443 Ballard Avenue Bay City Meat Co., 1420 First Avenue Central Meat Co., 1420 First Avenue Olympic Meat Co., 1426 First Avenue Western Meat Co., 1102 Western Avenue Seattle Market, 109 Occidental Avenue “No man is gotmg to work when he | @ total of 18 dead and 60 wounded today There was intermittent sniping all be during HERE’S MORE ABOUT BANK STARTS ON PAGE ONE made a determined effort to prevent the Judges action, but he was cut off. . “I have informed myself on the | law in the case, and it is needless for you to present your arguments,” Christopher told him coldly. Christopher promised to tmpane! another grand jury at once, but Hepburn, dinregarding the usual rigid etiquette of the court room, told him: “You'll never impanel another jury in this county!" Citizens formed an intignation committee immediately after the grand jury had been dismiased, with a view of ridding the bench of Judge Christopher and filling hie place with a man who will aid, rather than deter, the efforts of vic timiaed depositors to get justice. ‘The entire state ts intensely inter. ested in the local situation, a» there ie hardly @ hamlet in Oklahoma which has mot felt directly the col lapee of the guaranty fund. The state administration is follow Ing the policy of discouraging pub lieity about the situation on the ground that it would hurt other ban Organizations of depositors and independent newspapers take violent issue with thie etand. and are pushing legal action in an effort to punish the men responsible for the failures and to get at least some money out of the wreck The “guaranty fund” ts supposed to stand behind the failed banks, but it ta milliong in debt already, and the hope of putting it back on its feet seems forlorn. rennin HERE’S MORE ABOUT BOY STUDENT STARTS ON PAGE ONE who are given other things to do beside attend schoot tn their early years, who are made to develo; |thru some means other than book learning, will advance with excep- tional speed when finally they enter school Clifford himself is a reular boy, with big, gray eyes and light }brown hair, who grins and says |"Yeh, I get ‘bout a ‘B’ average t }h she said he chided her about extray THE SEATTLE STAR HERE’S MORE ABOUT MOVIE MURDER STARTS ON PAGE ONE || been found on her books. Factions All in Arms | The queen iy desoribed a a wom an of beauty who doe not show, the ee Tavages of the drugs she distributes BY Ma , {to the ring's victims. | |, LONDON Ireland today “Pracing the woman's movements 1 chee ‘on the verge of op Bang during the last few montha, officers , ar between three factions Thes® have found that she frequently changed her place of residence but a od near Taylor’ of j cnr AONE Eve ens POTTS 90 months old, suffered a fractured | 1. issued today, Desperate eftorta were made to| AUBURN Two Muckieshoot fe # LOA A wkull The accident occurred at ay ee reach the boat but night settied 4 | dane escape from custody here by a Western ave, and Bell st, when , may Ee and) starting fire under the jall door, DEFEND HO! Allard’s auto collided with one driven| CHICAGO, Feb. 14,—Operations|it wag lost They escaped in the excitement, _ a my gen sr goo any by M, «weilvaine, 690 First! of « gigantic “swindle trust” which — — — —— _____ he motive for the murder o ' an ie Gass owovirss by. Diatriet Avi’ horcin eee tee | haw robbed the foreign born of mil torney Woolwine Discussing the new jealousy clue, Woolwine said it implicated a you man greatly infatuated with a movie| mobile drivgn by Charles L. Kelsey, nctroas, Woolwine would dincuss it\troe Palntive ase nt Fremont ave.| Others were involved in the “Ponat no further, refusing to name the/and N, 40th at. Tough had just] plot” following probe of the affairs Cotrens ntepped from a street car and seem. | of Raymond J. Bischoff, 26, who ad- ‘The Los Angeles Chamber of Com- merce has decided to back the move ment of the Producers’ association, Screen Writers’ Guild and Low An. gelos Publishers’ association to coun: teract the unfavorable publicity ame ing from the Arbuckle and Taylor ‘The broadcast the above organizations and signed by the mayor and city council that exploitation of the two cases in un fair, that Hollywood is not a den of iniquity, a sink of vice or pest hole Chamber of Commerce will & statement indorsed by of drug addicts, ax pictured, Instead & majority of the people in Holly wood are good, God-fearing citizens. MISS NORMAND @ i LETTERS BACK Mabel Normand now haa the letters back that she had written to the slain director, ‘They were returned to her by District Attorney Wool- wine after examination for any pos sible bearing on the murder mystery The movie comedienne had been trying to obtain possession of these notes ever since Taylor's body was found cold on the floor of his lux. urtous quarters She described the letters as those of a childish nature of a young girl to an older man whom she admired As to Taylor's answers to her notes, agance in some of them, With the official theory of jealouny a* & motive for the killing of Taylor, Miss N&rmand declared sho had no lovers, to any nothing of jealous ones For she had never encouraged any one. Denouncing the “unkind” things that had been said of her dead friend, Mins Normand declared “The murderer must be found. His friends, every one of them, should contribute toward an enormous sum, te be offered as a reward for capture of the man who killed him. Even if it is only a dollar, all should contrib- ute. I shall ask the privilege to head the list. He has friends who should contribute hundreds. I do not see how folks can be- lieve such unkind things as are said of him. It is impossible for me to consider It, Often be and I went riding alone, but I thank my stars my chauffeur was with me on that last trip. 1 think the fand will be rained, and I will head the list.” Mine Nermand's rooma were filled witheflowers, Her desk was laden with letters and telegrams of sym pathy and condolence from all over the country for her mention in the cane. She was feeling much stronger after a night's rest, and thought per. hapa she would go to a drier climate | for the balance of the winter to re cuperate from her nerve shattering experience. Says Taylor Was Not Irish Lord DENVER, Feb. 14.—- William D. Taylor. an Irish lord but just the son of good old-fashioned Kansas farmer,” according to Mra. Elizabeth Petroft, of Denver. Mrs. Petroff claims to |be a second cousin of the dead di ector, | “Hila father was Oscar Tann came’to Kansas from Irelan Petroff maid. =] “He wettled in Kansas} because his cousin, Joseph, my| father, wan living in Topeka.” Taylor married Ethel May Harri son in New York city in 1901, ao cording to Mra. Petroff. Reports that Taylor had a sister to whom he was giving $50. month are not true, Mra. Petroff declared. “That was his sisterindaw, the widow of Howard Tanger,” she sald jon my work now, and maybe I'll |skip some more—tI don't know. But, | gee—tien’t anything, anyway. Aa mother says, I guess the things 1 was traveling] m’ I learned when made it er for ing to school | When asked what he Intends to do when he's “grown-up,” Cliffor who says he ts going on the “roa ‘l“tfor hire’ “FOR HIRE” MAN SUED MAN AND BABY Both May Die as Result of ied jthe ain movie director, was not| SWINDLE TRUST IS UNEARTHED! 'Foreign Born Lose Millions AUTO VICTIMS The bonds were sold to Seattle's ‘ ney, who ts thought to be adrift!|“inner bond ring’ at a discount esth to Crooks ney, w d $ Accidents ' lin @ lifeboat 600 miles off Sandy|mated at 15 per cent, Mayor a ; ‘ well charged that the deal cost ¢ A man and a baby were near death | “CHICAGO, Feb, 14 Warrants | Hook. | hed " charging embezzlement against Ray: | mond J. Bisehoft and Leslie Harring ton, alleged to have swindled citizens Tuesday as the result of auto accel dents Monday night ‘hrown from her father’s automo tte Allard, of Snoqualmie, a | ne ee | tone of dollars were unearthed to: ed to Pro’ |day as police sought Lesile Harring jton, who fled Chicago shortly after | his office waa raided, Robert Tough, Aurora ave., was reme dence hospital with a fractured skull after be had been struck by an auto mitted he drained / $4,600,000 from an stock yard employer, nfumed when he saw Kelsey's automobile, which had stopped to let) him pass, When Kelsey started. ‘Tough stepped directly in the path of , ording to Kelsey, Kelsey was arrested but later released, Leaking Gas Plate Claims Third Victim A leaky gas plate in a rooming! “we hive given prominsory notes house at 411 Yesler way claimed ita! gor about $1,400,000 wince the office necond and third victims Tuesday! opened,” he said ple came to} with the death of J, Keller, 65,| uy with their money and wanted us and Thomas Fulbigg, 52, at the city|to invest It for them, If they de-| hospital, For more than 48 hours | manded thelr interest or original in desperate fight was waged to eave) vestment, we made them accept their lives, but they never regained | tpck in the Novacolite company.” | conaclousnena after being found in| “Large blocks of stock and books of the gas-filled room’ Saturday night.| promissory notes were seized by po- A companion, Henry L. Grebbein, 66, | lice in the raid. was dead when they were discovered.| Bischoff, whore shattered finan: Keller leaves a sinter, Mra. Helen! cial Vntures were aired before Fed Langstrom, 1138 19th ave. N Jeral Judge Landix, admitted that he ane and Harrington had worked together in some deals, It was discloned how the “wiz ards” fought over the spoils and used every effort to take each other's customers. Operations of the Western Land Operators’ company came under the scrutiny of the police today, Casimir Phillipovich was under arrest here and M. P, West was reported cap tured at Aurora, Col, Both are al leged to be field agents of the com ‘taped It was sald by federal operatives Cuban has invented a hammertike jthat the company dealt with Lithu punch to extract milk from cocoa-lanians in ol} land leases and had nuts gathered in over $1,000,000, Lithuan Harrington was sought after po-! lice swooped down, on the offices of the American Novacolite company land arrested President Luke Byrnes, | Secretary Thomas Moran and Man ager A, A. Lebecki According to Lebeck!, Harrington won the “genius” of the frenaied fi nance operations Two Are Sentenced in Federal Court ‘Two nentences were passed by Fed: eral Judge Jeremiah Neterer Tues. day. Harry Simmonson was given 13 months in MoNeti island peniten- tary on narcotic charges and Oscar Johnson was sentenced to four months in the county jail and to pay a fine of $200 when ho pleaded guilty to quor charges. FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET A New Purchase of Blouses Georgette and Pongee SAILOR LOST NEW atlantic weus today for John Brickner, nea man of the American freighter Gaft placing @ line in the lifeboat during | will be quizzed at the counclimanig little Poland” out of $6,000,000,)away with t PAGE 7 [Will Probe “Bond Steal” on Friday z Probe of the sale of more than Tran® | $2,990,000 worth of Skagit power the | bonds will be held Friday afternoon lin the council chambers, according te | plans formulated at the city hall ON ATLANTIC YORK, Feb, 14 vensels were scanning city nearly $100,000. ' | Five days ago while he wns re! . cnoineern and other officials bad storm, the boat was swept investigation, him a8 @ passenger. —<ine FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET ; DOWAISTAINS Notable Values in Housewares FEATURED IN CONNECTION WITH THE HOUSEWARES SHOW. 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Household Brooms 75c yen rege Brooms of good quality broom corn, sewed five times for extra strength—with smoothly-finished handles, An ex- ceptional value at 75¢. | At an Exceptionally $3 95 Low Price M° RE than 50Q Blouses in this new purchase broideries, bead trimmings, rich, heavy laces Charging that Axel Jorgenson, car driver, operating be- | tween Auburn and Enumclaw is un. lawfully Interfering with the busi-| ness of the Enumelaw Transporta- | tion Co, Arthur riffin, receiver rooraes Sd hind rye “If T hav) tor the company, opened suit in| jmy way about it, I’m going to be) judge Austin H. Griffiths’ court an actor and @ musician. That's! Tuesday, Griffin, allegen ‘that |what I’ve alwayn wanted to be.” Incidentally, while in Seattle Clif ford is carrying a newspaper rout for The Seatile Star, and is mak \ing an unusual record in his work. | LONDON, Feb. 14.—"T not doubt for one minute that Great Britain wil) ratify the Washington arms conference treaties,” Arthur Ji Balfour, who was head of the British delegation, declared on arrival here today He was mot at do Waterloo station by Lioyd George, George Harvey, the | American ambassador, and members | of the British cabinet, SPECIAL | TOMORROW Ham Croquettes Cream Gravy Mashed Potatoes Bread and Butter 25c IN THE FOLLOWING COLEGROVE’ RESTAURANTS EGYPTIAN KITCH 1624 Third Ave, AUTO KITCHEN Pike and Broadway SPECIALTY FOOD sHor 110 Pike St (Business Ix Geting Better) Jorgenson has been operating his car since September, 1921, without a cer-|f} tificate of necessity, and asks that| an injunetion prohibiting him from further operating be issued; that the company be and that $1,000 per month be paid the transportation company by Jorgenson if at any future time he operates the “for hire’ car on the regular company route. { Sister Wins Point | Against Brother | A motion to dismiss the case against Ralph #8. Hopkins, charged by his sister, Carrie Hopkins, with being ineapable of managing his own finances, was denied in Judgo King Dykeman's court ‘Tuesday. Hopkins, a resident of Seattle for 40 years and son of former U. 8. Mar. shal Hopkins, is 60 years old. His sister, represented by Attorney Fred H. Peterson, asks that a guar. dian be appointed to guard her brother's interests. Hopkins’ income is estimated at approximately $225 a month, LUTHER WEEDIN, United States immigration commissioner, returned to Seattle Monday from a tour of inspection along the Canadian bor. dor, visiting Sumas, Blaine, Belling. ham and Vancouver, B. © HOQUIAM during January born during the according to H. C. Out of 18 births here 14 of the children month were boys, Watkins, city —a delightful showing, with lovely em- and clever details: in contrasting color—un- usual, from every standpoint, for this price. 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