The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 10, 1922, Page 1

* rain breaking to Maximum, 45, WEATHER Tonight and Saturday, moderate win Temperature Last RARER AAA Annee On the I. 8 occasional probably southerly gale , 36, a ,. VOU UME 24. 0. 12. Entered as Second Clase Matter May 3, 189: sue of Americanism There Can Be N jo Comr , at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, promise he Seattle Sta 1879, Per Yoar, by Mail, $5 to $9 First in News—First in Circulation (by 11,727 copies a day)—Call Main 0600 to Order The Star at Your Home—-50 Cents a Month—Why Pay More? ut HOM EDITION SEAT’ TL E, W, ASH., FRIDAY, MARC mM 10, 1922 Tong Man in Seattle _ TWO. Cc ENTS IN SEATTLE lowdy, folks! Say what you Now that Seattle physicians can) no longer issue prescriptions for | booge, would it be incorrect to oF) i | Mayor Caldwell and his baby) camel will arrive here this after noon on the Keystone State. After thoro investigation, the department of agriculture has decided to per mit both of them to land. $00,000 silk mill.—Newspaper. j ‘This ts the only kind of a silk mill ‘we could ever buy. . POEMS OF PASSION | | | ‘The proper dress for a person to | wear after being hit by an automo | bile is crepe machine. “. Why girls wear meeft hate We never could sce IE Bo long as they show A cute, dimpled knee. eee i ‘The editor of a paper in Eastern! ‘Washington announced that he would try for one week to tell the truth. He is still in the hospital. | see 80: iG TO CROW ABOUT For Sale — Nine Barred Rock hens, | thorobred roosters, all laying, $22.56. 15th ave N. W. eee | ‘The mayor and council spend $35,- 000.000 a year. Perhaps that is the | Feason there are so many candidates | for city jobs. We hope the mysterious “chief of the dope ring” is run to earth in short order. But we fear the police will never land him. We recall they never caught the “king of the whité siavers,” “the man with the poison-| Ous needle” or the “master mind.” | However, understand, we are not biaming the police. o .- BEATING JULIAN ELTINGE George Hansen has accepted a position as waitress at the Em- press Lancheon, commencing to | _—Cedar Falls (lowa) Record. | oe Jim Jeffries is going to try his hand as an evangelist. We hope he knocks the hell out of a lot of fel lows. . Great Britain's highest court has @ecided that a woman may sit in the house of lords. If whe sits in the house she won't be much like the women in Seattle oe MOTHER GOOSE REVISED Taffy was a moocher, Tally was a bum | 1 went to Taffy's house To use hés telephone. Taffy came to my house— Of course I wasn't there He not only used my radio, But sold concerts in the air. eee ents of fretful babies will soon ll radio stations in their bed Moms, no that when neighbors com in about the baby's howling they | may reply, body tle is hearing the game thing.” | eee “Man Caught in Blast Dying.” r headline. always dangerous to sit in | | [night Jaudience dismissed the Rev. \— ; \| JUMPS OUT OF |SAVES LIVES CITY IS TIRRED BY KLAN Dramatic Entry in'Price of $3,000 on Everett Church Head of Hits Officials Leader By E. P. C Chalcraft Wht a price of $3,000 upon his head, Y. K. Moon, secretary of the Hip Sing tong and a clerk in pont Ia the ok ne charged In'a | the foreign department of the Se- note from the Ka Kiux Klan, aitle National bank, has been which made its first public ap | hiding day and night in the bank pearance Thursday night at the for the last week. First Baptist chureh, ‘This inteat development tn the “I think eae bs a pretty | tong war which has been raging fn large statements,” = W. B Seattie’s Chinatown for weeks past, | hag pore el Mayor W. H. | became known Friday. ‘The report was officially confirmed | by J. H. Miner, assistant cashier of |the Seattle National, who empha- sland the fact that the bank waain no| way connected with the affair anal that officials had not known Moon waa using the institution as 4] | refuge until the matter was brought | | to his attention by The Star. | OUTGROWTH or From Mayor Clay on down the cit-| TONG WARK HERE zens of Everett were discussing the| The situation in the outgrowth of | Klan’s dramatic appearance of last 4 tong war which hag been raging inj Shortly after § p. m., just as | Seattle's Chinatown for weeks past. | Dr. W. F. Swift, evangelist, was|It is said to be the direct after about to begin his evening sermon, | math of the killing in front of the five men in the white regalia of the! Tacoma interurban station, February “The lawleaxnees in Everett.” aid | Charles A. Turner, commissioner o! public safety. “Say, I challenge any stranger in this town to go out and try to buy a drink of Uquor. He can’t get it unless he is known or is vouched for by someone on the in side.” | EVERYBODY TALKS KLAN Ku Klux Klan appeared in the rear| 27, of 8, Y. Lee—otherwine Lee Si of the church and stalked down the|Goon—Tacoma Bow Leong tong aisle. In the dead silence that fol | man. | jlowed their appearance the leader| A Hip Sing “highbinder” was paused in front of the pulpit and/accused of the murder, and the handed a large envelope to the Rev.| crime gave an impetus to the bit . BE. Henry, pastor of the church. |ter feud between the Hip Sing With all eyes riveted upon |on one side, and the Row Leongs them the Klansmen turned and (and Bing Kungs on the other. marched out, no word having been spoken. How they came or how they left no one was able to say toda; The white-clad figures disappeared. Dr. Swift took up his sermon, mak ing no reference to the interruption. After the services were over and the Henry and Dr. Swift opened the envelope in private. It contained a substan. | tial bundle of greenbacks and a note written on the official stationery of the Klan. On the letterhead were the words, 1 PALACE, INVISIBL It is common knowledge in Chine | town that p have been placed upon the heads of practically all the leaders in the three tongs. ANOTHER TONG | LEADEK IN HIDING | Charlie Fong and Enge Yee Moye, | both high In the councils of the Hip Sings, went into/ hiding | according to repute, at the eame time No rehension is felt by the po- lice over the situation as, as long as | the tong leader stays in the bank if he is there—the ¢ there will It is traditional that or willingly | be no trouble no Chinese tong man IGHTS OF THE KU | piaces the lives of whites in jeopardy | ZAN, INC., ATLANTA |in “getting” his victim. EPARTMENT OF PROPAGA | wip The note was addressed “To the Lovers of Law and Order.” 1t| Two Paymasters assured the reader that the Klan ® fives its heafty support to the Prot-| Robbed if $4,500) estant churches and congratulates | DETROIT, Mareh 10. Two pay Dr. Swift on his evangelistic cam-|masters of the John Finn & Son paign Construction Co. were robbe of ‘The part to which the city offi- | $4,500 payroll as they left the (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) | Thank You, Folks! David D. Foster’s Big Ambition has been realized. By the time you read this he will have the wneel chair which will free him from the burden of total invalidism. Within a few hours after Thursday’s Star had appeared on the street, telling how Foster, destitute and paralyzed from the waist down, felt that he would be happy if he only had some means of getting about, generous readers of The Star phoned and wrote in assurances that the chair would be provided. Hazen J. Titu Cake Co., wrote: “May I ask you to have this chair purchased and send me the bill? By return mail my check will go to you. I will appreciate your kindness very much and feel it a priv- ilege to do my iittle part.” Others wanced to help, too, however, so The Star decided to accept their contributions, buy the chair and let Mr. Titus pay the balance. And Herb Schoenfeld, of the Standard Furniture Co., called up to say that he would donate a mattress for Foster’s use. H. L. Polglase, 1220 Third av class chair at a special reduced rate— Contributions received included : Sterling Hotel, $7.00. Dr. J. R. Binyon, Binyon Optical Co., $5.00. Anonymous, $1.00. president of the Hazen J. Titus Fruit | agreed to sell a first- so it’s all settled. EARTHQUAKE ROCKS Peninsula State bank here today |. | was robbed of between $14,000 and| Frank Leslie (eft) and Johnnie O'Leary (right), whom | Resto. oe rosea lalled Friday. ee * J ohnny O'Leary Was ‘Among Ring’s Best By Leo H. Lassen champion of the world. Johnny ports Editor of The Stan | didn't win the world's title because * the bout was a nodecision affair One of the best boxers ever) Ho also won a decision over Johnny |turned out In Seattle Dundee on that trip and Dundee is That was Johnny O'Leary still rated as one of the best How he could battle when he was|™en in the ring game. He also in his petme boxed a draw with Johnny Kilbane, About seven or eight years ago featherweight champion. | O'Leary was mpion of the When he was at his best O'Leary ghtweights and was also ho was one of the glove sensations of the Canadian 133-pound title the country because matched | Then he went back East o cleverness with strength and ag bigest was winning a popular|gressiveness, an unbeatable com verdict + Freddie Welsh, then in the squared circle. CALIFORNIA TOWNS SAN FRANCISCO, March 10. —California was visited today by an earthquake which shook the region comprising the lower San Joaquin valley and southern California as far south as Los | Angeles, together with the coast al region from north of San Luis Obispo county south to the vicin 50 miles, was broken in four places. |The line is owned by the Union Of) npany of California. In San Luis Obispo the local tele- phone system was severely disrupted. It was be age, altho not serious, had been done in other parts of the oil fields. The quake seemed to center in the ity of Los Angeles. It covered a | territory lying between Bakersfield territory roughly described as jon the east and San Luis Obispo on 200 miles long and 150 miles [the west. wide. It was composed, according to most | ‘The only damage reported was | reports, 6f three shocks coming with in the oil fields. in a period of seven minutes. The} th ‘The oll pipe line running from the | first shock wa heaviest. San Joaquin valley to the coast, at| The shocks were distinct at Bakers. | San Luis Obispo, a distance of about! (Tarn to Page 4, Column 3) ESCAPE |alleyway back of the Superior Laun- | . |caped thru a hail of bullets, jacross the | net {ment with eved that various dam-} FIGHTER SLAIN HERE! Slayer Waits for Arrival of Police Frank Leslie, Boilermaker, Admits Killing, Claiming Self Defense; His Companion Still Being Sought Johnny O'Leary, by Officers ~~ By Hal A Armstrong a former prize fighter and one-time contender for the world’s lightweight championship, was shot thru the heart at daybreak Friday in a narrow roadway on a brush-covered hillside near Tenth ave. S. and Shel don st., Georgetown, and Police are sper’ § Fran nand st., who is saic instantly killed. k Narolesky, alias Frank R. Leslie, of 1711 Ferdi-;/ to have confessed that he shot O’Leary in self-defense. Detectives are looking for a third man, who, according to Leslie and tw# eye- “witnesses of the shooting, fled fromthe scene in the early-morning dusk. / YEGGS BULLETS Surprised by De- tectives at Cache Surprised by four detectives in an dry company, 2219 Ninth ave., early Friday, two members of the safe leracking gang that has robbed 12 safes in Seattle since January 1 ee When the Superior laundry was |robbed March 4 by the safe-crackers, who lasted the safe and escaped jwith detectives found an electric; | drill, a quantity of dynamite and two} | flashlights secreted under a stairway | al from the office. Every night since then the detectives | have maintained a guard, expecting | the yeegmen to return after their material. } At an early hour Friday Detect-| ives Ernest Yoris, Claude Fortner, H. L. Barton and C. L. Toms saw two shadowy figures appear suddenly 0 feet in front of them and/| make for the cache, The detective stepped from their places of conceal the command, “Hold up your hands!” As the men ducked all four officers opened fire The yexgs escaped, however, parently unhurt BEAT MOTHER, | IS ACCUSATION “an I. Mooney, 31, an fmsurance man, was held in the city jail Friday }accused of attacking his mother in| her home at 913 Hiawatha place and injuring her so severely that she was removed to the city hospital She was suffering from severe in-| juries to the head, but her condition HOTEL WINDOW) FIGHT ING FIRE} Alleged to have been caught in the} Single handed, worth Ander-| lact of burglarizing a room in the! son, 50, fought a * controlled a fire ‘ apps n st. Friday,{°f S¢rious proportions that threat Empire hotel ogi Main st., Fride ened for a time the lives of sev. M. L. Ferguson, 23, a laborer, Jumped | oral women and children in thi thru a pane of glass to the pavement! Dreamiand hotel, Sixth ave. S, and two floors below, injuring himself se-| King st., early Friday | | verely about the les | Anderson. in) pes ing the kitehen Patrolman George Reynolds found | aii) wurtecate! by the wauke waa Ferguson lying in the street too bad-| tiames, Recovering his composure to move and took him to the | nowever, he seized a hose from th jail wall and managed to turn a stream He is held as a burglar suspect.) upon the fire that checked its pre and ia said to have been in possessic res jong enough for the fire ¢ of skeleton keys and other burglar’s) partment to arrive and extinguish | tools. He ix also «aid to be & parole | tho flames [vine from Monroe reformatory,| 4 fire due to spontaneous com where he was sent for burglary. Jbustion early Friday dams |clothes and fixtures in th | torturn Dye Works, 1419 Fourth| SAFE ROBBED (2%. 2.20% $700, OF $15,000: OMAHA, Neb., dearch 10.—The safe ‘ROBBERS GET in the office of W Sanford, treas $25, 000 LOOT, urer of the Tigion. ‘Pat ific railroad, \ | $15,000 in cash this morning SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 10. | The robbers evidently worked the|—The New Braunfels State bank at | combination in opening the safe, The Braunfels, 30 miles north of time lock went off at 7 a.m. Only |here, was held up and robbed of $2 two men, Sanford and his chief clerk, |900 in cash and $50,000 in Liberty | W. H. Rhodes, knew the combina: |bonds by five men at noon today. | tion, is wold, from military police head: | The robbery was discovered when police radquarters and | an office boy found a bunch of ¢ iffs' office left here in auto} mobiles a8 soon as word Was received of the robbery. leg checks on the floor of a la has not b fully determined. ‘The police declare that Mooney was | | drunk at the time of the alleged as sault and that he struck his mother | several times without provocation He was arrested by Patrolman J. B. | Clark and C. G. Stanley | Here We Are Again with a fine list of bar- gains for the thrifty Saturday shopper. Look over the advertisements || in today’s Star. Make up your Saturday shop- ping list from them. || You'll save consider- able sum of money—and || you'll be doing business || with the live concerns of the city—they will ap- preciate your business and will aim to treat you so well to make you |) a permanent customer. \ a | kettle of hot water off the stove and officers ca Labor unrest and anemployment are said by the police to have been the primary causes of the tragedy. Leslie, a non-union:st, was°on his way to work at the Har- bor Island Petroleum Co.’s plant about 6:30 a. m. when O'Leary and a companion are said to have waylaid him. Tho ex pugilist and the man with| Recovering the weapon, they took him, according to Leslie, were mem-| Leslie to headquarters and joined bers of the boilermakers’ union and | the hunt for the missing companion were formeriy employed by the pe | of O'Leary. troleum company. This man is said to have headed The shooting took place at a point! toward the municipal golf links in the narrow roadway that was to! on Beacon hill, where it was found be clearly seen from the kitchen win-| no had disappeared in "his eto dow of the home of P. F. Ptolemy, | nopite. 4955 Ninth ave, S, where Mrs. -- ¥ O'Leary's body wns taken to the Ptolemy was preparing breakfast fOr} county morgue cout soe | other, Family Mourn Passing — of Son, Brother from her washtub, wiping her hands on a checkered apron. Out at the home of Mrs, John O'Leary, at 2405 Irving st, a “There was just one, “I looked up quickly and saw three men out there, One of them was holding a little revolver or an auomatic pistol. One had falien and the other man was holding him up in his arms. Then I heard a shout: “Ho! Bring some water, grief-stricken family is mourn- quick! He's shot!” ing the fate of a son and brother, ; “The man with the gunturned and| their famous Johnny, who, in the started off up the road. I took my| old boxing day, “when he was right,” was their mainstay and support and lavish benefactor. “There wasn’t a time, after he'd won a fight,” said his sister, Margar- et, “that Johnny didn’t send us all | presents and a lot of money. It don’t | dont’ seem as if I can realize that he | was shot like that.” Johnny was the eldest of the O'Leary brood. He was 28, and, younger than he, are Margaret, Marie and Dan. He was 16 when he took up boxing as his work. “Then, after while, the police came. | “He'd been working,” said Some came on motorcycles and some | garet, “ap till about three weeks on foot. They looked at the body over at a ship repair plant—I think and took it away, and later some |it was on Harbor island. me back leading the man| “When the job was finished, the who had the gun | men were told they would be put “They brought him down as far right to work for the Petroleam com- the road and stopped. They asked|pany. But the ePtroleum company us if we knew who he was, and we | wouldn't give them a job. They were said we did, but that he had on a/ hiring cheaper men, nonunion ones, |different coat than when we saw/from San Franeisco and anywhere | bim with the gun. | they could get them. “r'm = used to so much excite.| “Johnny was a union man, and grabbed up a pail of cold—tI didn’t | know which they would want—and/ ran out there. | “My husband followed ma We saw) the man who had the wounded fel- low in his arms carrying him into the brush. He propped him up against a bush. He was dead. “Just then the man with the gun} came back down the road toward us, and I ran into the house. I didn’t know what he might do. ment. going to move away | you know how union men feel about from ria Mrs. Ptolemy concluded, | men who take their jobs away and turning in to her tub. ut wages, I don't think Johnny At police headquarters Leslie will-| was home last night. I think he ingly told his story of the killing to| stayed with that other man. ‘They Captain of Detéctives Charles were together most of the time.” Tennant. —_——$——<—— O'Leary and the other man had |Bonus Dispute Is Worrying Harding ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, March 10. ~The proposed bonus legislation to- | followed him, he said, and, when he |reached the brushy hillside, O'Leary | ad struck him on the back of the head with a piece of pipe that had/ an elbow joint on the end. “There's the place,” said the [day loomed as the disturbing ele- prisoner, by way of corrobora- ment in President Harding's quest tion, exhibiting a bump at the | for rest and relaxation amid the charms of the Florida resorts. Reports from Washington that the sales tax group wants him to re state his position in favor of that plan for obtaining revenue to pay the bonus were met by the state- back of his skull. “There's where the blow hit.” He had been carrying a re volver for just such an emer gency. Ho faced about and fired and O'Leary went down, Police records show that Leslie | ment today in official quarters that Phoned headquarters almost imme- | Harding will stand pat on his let- diately after the shooting and a mo.|ter to Chairman Fordney, in which ment later called the Georgetown |he recommended the direct sales precinct station asking them to|‘#* or a postponement of the legis come after him, lation. When they arrived at the place| The president arose early, With where the body was, however, he | Speaker lett, Undersecretary of was not to be found, either was | State Fletcher and E. B. McLean he the third man, and a search imme. | Played an 18-hole golf game. | diately commenced. After luncheon they will motor While this was going on, Leslie| toward Ormond Beach, picking up phoned headquarters again the McLean houseboat somewhere “Pm the man you're looking | between here and Ormond, Mrs. for about that shooting,” he ex. | Harding, Mrs. McLean and other |members of the | houseboat earlier, arty boarded the plained. “I've come home, You'll The president will find me at 1711 Ferdinand st.” Detectives James Byrne and W. T, | Sif at Ormond tomorrow. | Fuller hurried to the Ferdinand st. . 7 ppsc< address and found a large, ram- UNFILLED TON: shack house in which Leslie was| NEW YORK, Mareh 1 awaiting them, explaining his pre-|tonnage of the United 8 |dicament to his aged, white-haired | corporation decreased 100,609 tons, it mother, Mrs. Augusta Narolesky was announced today, He went with them without a| The unfilled tonnage totalled 4,- word, explaining that he had thrown | 141,069 on February 28 against 4,- away his gun after the shooting and | 241,678 on January 31 and 4,268,414 telling them the exact snot where | on December 31 and 6,933,867 on pb they would find it. ruary 28, 192.