The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 2, 1922, Page 4

PAGE 4 NOTORIOUS GUNMAN IS APTURED? Tommy O'Connor, Fugitive; From Noose, Reported Caught OSKALOOSA, Ia, March 2— A man believed to be Tommy Connor, convicted Chicago gunman, who escaped from the Cook county jail on the eve of his hanging, was arrested hero last night. Police here declared today they have a man who answers in ev. ery detail the description of O'Connor, Chicago police have been notified. “ee ‘The prisoner was taken from a/ Rock Island train coming from Des} Moines on a tip furnished by rail road claim men. He was half-trozem, according to police, and made no re- sistance. | Phtotgraphs and finger prints of | the suspect were taken this morning and sent to Chicago police. He gave his name as Harry Andrews, and said he had been under arrest for several days in Des Moines, Des Moines police have been hold- ing a man for several days who gave | his name as Harry Andrews, and who, when first arrested, was be-| Heved to be O'Connor, This man, however, ig still in the Des Moin wil Oskaloosa police are positive they have none other than “Lucky Tom- my” O'Connor himself. He is of the same weight and height as the es-/ caped Chicago gunman, he has a! Sear over his left eye, has steel-gray | eyes and has the characteristic O'Connor “limp.” JAP SHIP PACT END BRINGS JOY Officials of U. S. Lines See Finish of Preference set the two railroads were busy @enying that the contracts in any ‘Way benefitted the Japanese by giv- ing them preferential rates over the, Failroads, but little credence was American steamship men stated their opinion that the contracts granted the Japanese con- siderable preference in the matter Of railway freight rates. Otherwise, they reasoned, there could be no Motive for contracts being made. “The ruling of the shipping ‘Roard.” said J. J. Gorman, of the Admiral line, “will have this ef- fect. Cargo consigned to overland Points, now being brought here on) Japanese ships, will be diverted to be an appreciable @mount, and the ruling should be of | Sreat benefit to the American mer. ehant marine.” Gorman said it had been possibie for several years for such contracts | as the shipping board har now nulll-| fied to be made. “Of course,” he sald, “we don't) ‘know exactly what the contracts are Because we have never seen them. | But the shipping board was evidently | assured that the Japanese were be-| ing given preferential freight rates | Over the two American railways.” | Dodwell & Co, said the shipping} beard’s action would probably effect no change in their business, but | @greed that the board evidently pre- | sumed some preference in rates had | been granted by the railroads to the gap steamship lines. | An official of Dodwell & Co, said: | “The contracts in question we have Known for some time were between the Great Northern and the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, and between the Mil-| Waukee and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha.” Plan to Save on Service Men’s Pay} WASHINGTON, March 2.—Read-| ictaiant of sevice man’s pay $0 06- fect an immediate saving of more than $13,000,000 and an ultimate sav. ing of over $26,000,000 was provided for in a bill introduced today by Sen- ator Wadsworth, chairman of the senate military affairs committee, Hitchcock Demands Changes in Treaty WASHINGTON, March 2.—Sena- tor Hitchcock, Nebraska, served no- tice in @ speech in the senate today | that unless the four-power Pacific treaty is changed by amendment or reservation he will vote against its Yatification, Hitchcock was leader of the fight for the league of nations covenant. WO MORE BROWN DERBIES IN RING Two more brown derbies were towed into the ring Wednesday when C. 8. Colegrove, Seattle restaurateur, and T. H. Bolton, former counct man, filed declarations of candidacy for the city council. This brings the Humber of candidates who have filed up to 10, with several other aspirants only waiting to hear more clearly the clarion call of the people. Woman Wins Seat in House of Lords LONDON, March 2.—The claim of Viscountess Rhonda to a seat in the house of lords was conceded today by a commnittee of peers. The house of lords committee, Which will seat Viscountess Rhonda, the first woman to take her place in that house, held that the sex bar to hereditary tities was removed by the woman suffrage a* HERE'S MORE ABOUT house” run by a Jap, Nakagawi, at Sixth ave and Dearborn at. the assessor tried to make it clear to th day clerk that be wanted a Hat of th names of all steady roomers between the ages of 21 and 6 “YUM, AYS CHE AND THAT'S A “Yuh!’ grunted no hee The assessor repeated his request “Yuh! said the clvrk, and went on with his work “Where's: Mr the assessor, “In country today lightened. “Come back, mebbe, urday.” “These ‘flop houses,’ explained the assessor, “are where the floating population makes its h got their names listed hb move into another ‘flop house’ the tax collector never would fi them—so what's the use? Still, have to list them.” The assessor mounted the long flight of stairs leading up into the Wabash hotel, 165% Washington st 50 CLERK, the clerk, giving Nakagawi?” asked * the clerk an we land pulled the bell cord for the land, | lady Somewhere up above a plano was hitting up a jazs melody “What do you want?” asked a man in his shirtsleeves, rounding the cor ner of a darkened hallway, He car- tied broom and bucket “Ia the landlady in?” “Not up yet. Lf you could call back in about an hour “All right. I'm from the county assessor's office, tell her, come to lst the poll tax.” “Sure.” ‘The assessor glanced at hin watch Tt was 1:30 p. m. The landlady, it seemed, was not an early lark, AND NOW SHE" GONE TO COUNTRY At 4 p. m. the assessor returned and pulled the bel. A middieaged © woman in «a gingham apron ap peared, rubbing har eyes with the back of her hand. “The landlady,” asked the assessor. “No, she's not here.” “Where—?” “She's gone to the country. can come back in three or four days—" So had the landlady of the New Vancouver hotel, at 116% yash- ington st. gone to the country. But Alta Wilson assured the as sessor there were no permanent guests in the New Vancouver, tho the place contains 17 rooms. “How old is the alndiady? assessor asked. “Oh, about 27." “Tl put her down for And how old are you’ “Twenty-nine. You I'm lying, but “Just so, you don't say you're up der 21 or over 60.” Miss Wilson laughed. “Then I'd be able to hook you. No, I'm 29." NO PERMANENT GUESTS HERE In the office of the Josie hotel. across the street from the New Vancouver, there is @ sink. A young woman was washing dishes in this sink, A man wiping them, Louise Canto, the landlady, an- Swered the assessor's ring. “No,” abe said, “my roomers are all transients. I'm the only one that paid last year. This year I don't know whether even I will pay.” 8 watched the Usting of her name with signs of evident discon tent. “You're quite sure there are no others in this house who ought to pay?” Mrs. Canto pulled shut the tiny Window thru which the young woman and the man at the sink were visibie and replied “Yen, quite sure. Goodby.” At the Porters’ and Waiters’ Pro- gressive club, Local No. 638, in the basement at 206% Third ave. §., the “secahtary” informed the assessor that “Mistah Gath our president, sah, is not about today, sah.” JES OVAR THE MARGIN “And.” he added, with a grin that showed a double row of gleaming white ivories, “Ah am 51, just ovah the margin, sah.” He looked, possibly, 40 “When were you born?” asked the assessor, quickly. And just a» quickly the “secah- tary” answered In ‘70, sah.” “All right.” returned the assessor. vou pass. Tell Mr. Galloway, when he comes back, to list the names of all members of this club between the ages of 21 and 60, will you?” “Yes, sah; yes, sah,” the “secah tary” agreed. “Tt say,” said a member with an expansive chest, acroxs which swung a large and fancy watch chain, “what would they do if a man just natcher. ly allowed he woulda’t pay the poll tax?” “Well, the law says, for instance,” the assessor replied, “that the sher- iff can send a man down here if you won't pay and take your overcoat.” “It seems to me,” the member said, “that somehow Ah would just find myself constrained to throw that kind of a sheriff's man outa here on his ear, ‘spe- cially if this is the only ovacoat Ah got. “Ah hope,” he added, after a pause, “that we get a mayor who hag the foresight to open up this town. Not wide open, you understand, but —liberal-like again.” ‘The assessor called at a shooting gallery where a pretty, blonde-haired girl inveigied him to shoot four-bits’ worth of 22-caliber ammuntion at the running rabbite—and then shot two- bits’ worth herself, and made him pay for them She didn’t see why she should pay the poll tax. She didn’t live in Se. attle; she lived in Portland; and Or egon had @ poll tax law, too, Any way, she thought Mr. Dan MeCar. thy would, perhaps, pay her tax Mrs. MeCarthy wasnt’ around today. HE'D GONE TO THE COUNTRY, TOO “He's gone to the country for a day or two,” she explained, aweetly “Come on, now, shoot six more times and see if you can knock down six of the rabbits.” Assensors always reserve the New Weller house, for some reason, as their last call—tor the same reason that one always saves his ple until the last, perhaps. The New Weller House Weller #t., and Josie Colling runs it, You can always depend upon Josie to make you glad you called But first the assessor tried a experiment. So far, no scheme hi been devised by which to catch the floating population and make them pay their share of the poll tax, experiment the assessor tried w this: On @ corner a group of men the the tax may think is on POLL TAX DODGING Sat: | If you! STARTS ON PAGE 1 were gathered. standing = tatking pockets, He approached, out @ man of the group 100 NELSON AND let your name for poll tax," he sald, politely returned the man your name? de you want to hands in ingting jof_ perhaps MR. AXEL FROM IRE I want to j the 1922 Hub What's “What for? “Poll tax.” The man hesitated. “Nelson,” he sald, at length, in a rich Irish brogue. “Axel Nelson,” “Where do you live!” know Gress, but It's up here two blocks east and about a bleck and a half to the left, You can go up there and ask the name of the The arsemor grinned. Then he looked about him. ‘There wasn't a man left on the corner beside him seit and the Irish Mr, Nelson he exclaimed, and head. Jed for the New Weller. He rang the bell at the head of the stairway, Foosteps were heard. A face appeared at a peephole and wurveyed him, It was Josie's face, She let him tn. |“MY GOODNESS,” | SAYS Jost | “From the county assessor's of. fice,” he explained, “to lst you for |the poll tax.” | | “My goodness! exclaimed Josie, How do you get that way! Do Ah} have to pay that old poll tax again? Step right in and have a chair, Can't you cut that tax down a litte this yeah? "Can't do it, Josie, Tow many jroomers have you got in the hotel ihere that are over 21 and under replied. dence? Ah ain't got a man in the house that ain't over 50, All old men, every one. One of them bs 63." “How about yourself? I hope you jWon't say you're under %1." “No. I'm 29. I don't lie about it Tt don't do no good. When I wase chicken I had to work just the same.” She laughed. So did the assessor, | “How about your husband? How old is her" “Oh, Oscar’ } land, you don't knew Oscar? 1 thought every. body knew my man. He's 57, Sure, But, say, we got to get ao new governor. What's the mat- ter with this old Hart? He's a - pain, LEGION READY TO DROP BONUS BY CARL D. GROAT WASHINGTON, March 2.—-Amert- can Legion leaders here are mtiatied | with the house sub-committes pro posal to drop the cash benus, pro vided a workable insurance certifi. cate plan, with the privilege of bor. rowing money on (he certificate & substituted. They stated this to the United Prene today, adding that while they may make & protest—to keep the record straight—on elimination of }the cash payments, they do not now j plan any campaign against the pro- | COMmMittee method | The house drafters are aiming now ;at a bill under which an ill or un- employed man or others actually re- quiring cash could get a loan from a bank at once up to 50 per cent of the amount allotted to the soldier for tis term of service on a $1 a day basis, For instance, the average | noldier served 229 dayn; he could take [bin certificate to a bank and get a loan of $164.50. If he defaulted pay ment, the bank would then turn to the treasury and get its advance. with interest, back at the close of three years from the date of pas- sage of the bill The legion leaders contend that the insurance certificates would really mean more to the average [man than cash, which he might squander, The certificate would mean something for old age, but it could tide over hard times now as well. SAYS LINDEBERG ONLY BLUFFING SAN FRANCISCO, March 2.— Deputy District Attorney Rex Roudebush, of Pierce county, Wash ington, today termed as “grand stand play” and a “smoke screen” the suite filed yesterday by Jafet Lindeberg for $27,900 damages against him and other officials and private detectives from Washington. “There's only one word to de scribe the sult,” eaid Roundebush. ‘It's grand stand play. “Lindeberg knows a# well as we do that we were within the law in serving the warrant on him. He knows we had @ perfect right to take him back to Tacoma, And what does he mean by this term ‘kidnaping I don’t know.” | Lindeberg, in the complaint filed | Yesterday, alleged false prosecution | and attempted kidnaping in connec: | tion with efforts of Washington offi-| cers to remove him from California | jafter Governor Stephens of Calj-| | fornia had agreed to his extradition | jon charges growing out of the fnil-| jure of the Scandinavian American | |bank in Tacoma eee [LARSON VISITS J. LINDEBERG TACOMA, March 2.—Ole 8. Lar. jon, former president of the Scandi. |Mavian American bank of Tacoma, | was seen in company with attorneys for Jafet Lindeberg in San Francisco | yesterday, according to word received | here today from Rex 8, Roudebush, [deputy Pierce county prosecuting at |torney who is attempting to extra- dite Lindeberg to Washington for | trial on a charge of fraud conspiracy in connection with the failure of the | bank larson is under sentence to the tate penitentiary for alleged viola- tions of the state banking laws, His appeal in now in the Washington state supreme court ‘Tho it was hinted that Larson has *| gone to San Francisco to help Linde. berg, this was vehemently denied this morning by Maurice Langhorne, Larson's attorney, FOUR INJURED | IN AUTO CRASH Machines Collide at Fifth Ave. W. and Crockett St. Two men and two women were un dergoing treatment for severe in Juries today ax the result of a spec tacular automobile collision dant night at Fitth ave, W. and Crockett | st. ‘The injured are Kenneth Holcomb, 5802 Brook lyn ave, cut by flying glass, Mrs, Holcomb, cut and bruised, and wrenched shoulder, wr. 27 15th ave, N. E., bruised and cut by flying glass. Mrs, Patterson, back and shoulder. injuries to All four of the injured were riding | in @ car driven by Holcomb, Ax they reached the crossing, at about 6 p.m, thelr machine was struck broadside by an automobile driven by A. Hocking, 9616 Stone way There was a crash which could be heard for a dozen blocks, and the Holeomb car was overturned, throw ing ita occupants to the street Passing automobilints took the tn Jured persons to their homes, HERE’S MORE ABOUT SEATTLE STAR MOVIE MURDER STARTS ON PAGE ONE drugs was not the only business con ducted by the gang now held incom. municado at the central station, the informant intimated “Any job wanted could be arranged thru this actor,” was the way Mra. Rupp expressed it. Detective Sergeant Cline sald today that he believed this actor, knowing all the secrets of the underworld gangsters, and their contact with the film world, would be able to give the police the facts of the “movie mur. der.” Detectives were trying to locate him. It was believed he would be found before night. STILL HOPE FOR CONFESSION “We atill hope for a confession from one of the two men directly accused by Mra. Rupp,” Cline assert ed. “Thia man appeared to be on| the verge of breaking down yester. day, but the expected confession did not come.” ‘The gangsters now under arrest are booked for robbery. while investi gation into their possible connection with the Tuylor affair is being pushed. Mra. Rupp, the informant, also known as May Lynch, had been beat en by the gang and her life attempt ed by asphyxiation, she told the poles, Fear that she was going to “squeal” was the motive, she sald. ‘The men gave the names of George Rodney Calvert, 25, Walter Kirby, 23, Wiliam Kast, 24, John Herkey, May Lynch, 26, and Harry Amor- heim, 27, eee START DRIVE ON DOPE RING BY PHILIP SCHUYLER NEW YORK, March 2.—De- termined efforts to break up international drug ring and apprehend the “brains” of the gang—who is believed impli- cated in the Taylor murder in Los Angeles—are being made today by thousands of narcotic police working from coast to coast, Dr. Carleton Simon, chief of the New York narcotic division, who originated the inter-city narcotic police communicating system to fight the drug trade, is working in close touch with Los Angeles authorities, More than 200 arrests of drug peddlers and addicts were made in New York city alone during Febru ary, Dr. Simon declared. So fur this year there have been 651 ar rests. Many of those arrested were questioned about the Taylor mur der. There are estimated to bo| 400,000 drug users in the United States. ‘The presence of the narcotic trade in Hollywood had long been | known to us," eaid Dr. Simon, sit ting among his photographs and fingerprint charts of drug sellers and smugglers. He has the largest collection of its kind in the world “Hollywood, however, is but one point in the long chain of cities sup- plied by the international drug ring There is no doubt that the drug smuggling is on the increase. hut we are maintaining an active ane Successful fight against both illegal sellers and users “Narcotics from France, Germany and Japan enter the United States on the East and West coasts, Can fda and Mexico, and are relayed to 32x3', N. 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C, Dal a conference |. ves tain, officta of the party, and Sir George Younger, chairman of the unionist party organization, known as the ‘man behind the throne.” Lioyd George's letter to Chamber lain, conceived by many here an Uhreat to resign unless the conserva tives ceased personal attacks, bas precipitated the trouble, The prime minister, according to leaders of the unionist party, has asked @ quasi Baked Halibut ao Gratin Mashed Potatoes Bread and Kutter 25cC In the following COLEGROVE Restaurants EGYPTIAN KITCHEN, 1924 Third Ave. AUTO KITOHE: Went business the lure of the more than money, Witnesses are said to have ident! politics in the Kast, fied him as the man who shot and family statement on the propowed|yiieq L. ¥. Lee, member of a rival | migration |tong, at the oma interurban de os pot Monday night Also ag @ result of the shooting golden 1¢ wennion followed ton. or pays DETROIT.—Winifred Dodge Gray daughter of the late John I’, Dodge,| Dr, Sing Lee, allan Jung Hing June is granted divorce from William John |and Wong Sing are charged with |Gray here on charges of cruelty jcarrying concealed weapons. The outcome of today's meeting) PORTLAND.—#o Hoo, Chin Chung will furnish a further definition of and Joe Wa Lee are found guilty vote of confidence and their secret |the incident of the premier’s letter, here of violating the Harrison act meeting today was to determine their| which came as a “bombshell” to|and opium act before Federal Judge | many polit is here yesterday. 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