The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 24, 1922, Page 20

" mediately,” he said, walking into the Tn en Na ae ern Reena BiG FRAUD IS BARED THRU RAID Sheriff Asked to Resign as Result of Wire-Tapping Scandal in Florida FT. LAUDERDALE, Pla, March) 24.—Gov. Cary Hartes and other! state officials are making determined efforts to break up the gangs of wire tappers and other confidence men that infest this state. Operations of these crooks during the last year have swindled wealthy guests from the North out of more than $2,500,000. Recent raids here, which resulted 4m the arrest of a dozen men, believed {mong the leaders in one of the ange, and the closing of one of the wire tapwing “stores,” is only the be- ginning of the state's activities, of ficials say. Gov. Hardee wasted no time when he learned of the huge sums the con- fidence men had obtained. “We'll elean “em out,” he said He didn’t order out the militia or all an army of deputy sheriffs. He picked a man in whom he had con- fidence, swore him in as @ deputy, ‘and told him to “get” the swindiers, Robert Shackleford, the, man Hardee had chosen, began a quiet In- ‘vestigation. A week or two later he @ropped into Ft Lauderdale. DISCOVERS _ EVIDENCE “T'd like about 20 or 80 deputies tm- sheriffs office. Within a few min- ‘utes a score of citizens, picked up in the streets and sworn in, were on their way with Shackieford to a fine house, almost in the center Shackleford entered alone, demand- ing the surrender of the occupants. Within an hour 12 men, ranging In lage from 20 to 75 and in appearance thugs to capitalists, were be- Thind the bars. Inside the house was found a complete equipment of Blackbeards, telegraph instruments, and all the other usual i 2g Ht @ refused to raid the wire! den, altho he knew it ex- i i all kinds of swindling games been worked on rich winter vis- Hh j na é i i lar. ‘This method was the luring of vic: | tims into what purported to be the| tapping of telegraph wires to obtain Face results before the results were sg known to the public. fwindlers fit up a house! to them a# a “store,” with| full race betting equipment. Usually this house ts in a good neighborhood to add “class” to the appearance. The victim is lured to this “store,” and by subtle methods ts led to be- Neve be has won large sums. No} cash is required of the victim during | the betting, his checks being accept | ed, but after the “winning” had been! ‘amnounced, the “cashier” would de mand that the “winner” give evi- dence of his financial responsibility by producing a certified check or cash to the amount of the money or. iginally bet. Once the swinders get their bands on the cash or certified | check, the victim either is slugged or | enticed away until the swindiers es- cape. FOR SCHEME The whole scheme is so carefully laid out and so methodically worked | that scores of the wealthiest men in| the North have fallen for it. Bankers say they have repeatedly warned these rich men that they were being duped, but {n most cases have been told not to interfere. Ina few days the victims come back, panic stricken, but too late to recover their money. | ‘The real backers of the swindling | gangs now infesting the winter re- sorts are believed by officials to be| wealthy criminals living in the Kast. | ‘They are said to recruit their “store” men from the ranks of criminals, and | to carefully train them for their Parts. No “store” man is allowed to officials say if operate, they learned, without at least a year of | observation. | have BLOCK PRINT | ON EXHIBITION Ambrose Patterson, professor of painting at the university, has now on exhibition at the Fine Arts gal. lery a new block print, It is a deli cate and colectas study of Mount Rainier, y eating as having that su: f warmth which characterized his large oil that Was awarded the first prize at the Northwest artists’ exhibition last month. Two Dead as Train Hits Steam Roller} LOS ANGELES, March 24.—Two members of the tram crew are dead, while Miss Nellie Hamblin, of Phoentx, Ariz, is being treated for nevere injuries as d result of n col lision at Azusa, 20 miles east of he yesterday, between @ train and steam roller. The dead are: O. A. Brinon, en gineer, and C. N. Hugh, fireman, | both of Los Angeles, THE MERIDIAN District Im. provement club will meet Monday at % p. m. in the basement room of the McDonald school, } }at the Seattle offices of the bureau |was involved fn a confession as \ACCUSE PALS jher, he told Ghost Speaks at Fete Given in His Honor LOS ANGELES, March 24.— The ghost of Dr, James Martin Peebles, who died February 15, in alleged by spiritualists to have made a apeech last night at @ dinner in honor of bis 100th birthday anniversary Dr. Guy Bogart acted ag medi um. He quoted Dr, Peebles as desiring to say that he was on joying himself in Astraland, but despite the joys to be found there, he strengly advised that life on earth be prolonged to the uttermost Dr. Bogart turned pale and frequently mopped the perspira- tion from his forehead: About 300 members of the Longer Life club gathered in a “banquet hall” over a cafeteria to hear the speech. Simultaneously, Mra. Susie McFarland Page staged « rival celebration in a theater, However, Dr. Peebles’ ghost falled to attend. Just before the festivities, Dr. Peebles’ ashes were scattered by the Sunshine club, URGE VETERANS TO FILE CLAIMS Disabled Men Must Speak Before It Is Too Late Disabled war veterans of Seattle should file claim for compensation | with the United States Veterans’ bureau immediately whether they are payable under the present laws or not, according to an announcy ment made today by L. C. Jesseph, head of the bureau here. Veterans’ bureau officials belleve | that there are hundreds of veterans in this city whe should protect themselves by making a claim against the government before August 9, expiration date of appli- cation privilege. “If war veterans are to make claims against the government,| these claims should be made now,”| ud Mr. Jeseph. “No matter whether the injury or disability) comes within the present law on compensation, the claim should be filed for protection in the future.” Instructions have been received that no eligible veteran shall here after be inducted Into vocational training tm home study or evening courses simply to protect rights of eligibility. LABOR LEADERS ARE UNDER FIRE CHICAGO, March 34.—Several la bor aders under fire in the probe of alleged “fixing” of juries had fled | Chicago today, according to Robert | Crowe, state's attorney. As & grand jury met to consider charges of tribipg of the jury that | tried the case of William Quesn | head of the janitors’ union, who was | charged with conspiracy, Quesz was reported in California, An attorney was under guard tn @ hotel here today. Crowe stated he “fixer” of the jury that disagreed in Quesz’s cane. ‘The prisoner ts said to have at. tempted to “shake down” labor lead. | ers after he had bribed a jury mem. | ber for them. GUILTY COP TO, Sentence of Carlton H. Parker, | former police officer, who pleaded | | fuilty to charges of complicity in the | | robbery of a government liquor ware. house last fall before Federal pccnird | Jeremiah Neterer Thursday, will be| deferred until the conclusion of the! trial of eight others on the same charge. Parker will be used as a |government witness against his al leged confederates. Others indicted on March 28 « William M. M Carl Ht Charles M mans and A. L. Woman, Girl jal Boy Disappear in a Day} A woman, a girl and a youth were being sought by the police Friday, following their disappearance from their homes recently, Mrs. Amy McKnight, 18, colored, took a .45-caliber automatic pistol and left for Hollywood, Cal., to “join the movies,” as she told her husband, Robert McKnight, 1424-Jackson st., and also took his clothes along with ne police Henderson, 18, of 6281 Amor ave., disappeared March 17, according to her mother, and has pot since been seen. Since leaving the Weatern Union Telegraph company a few @ays ago, | Lazerne Nichols, 17, 1440 W. 62nd St., has not been seen. and awalting trial Curtis Berndahl, ray, C. H. Linde, | Martin, R. H. Livingston, | Crawford, W. J. You Dickey. Martha F Victim’s Interests Guarded by Burglar Instead of rmashing a costly win-| dow to gain entrance to the Crockett | st. pharmac t Sixth ave,W. and} Crockett st., Friday, a burglar | worked for an hour to remove the| glass, which he carefully placed in a safe place. A quantity of cigars and | were stolen, | e asked to search for | ported stolen from 16th ave, which |Don B. was left on top of a school locker. | Olson. BIRMINGHAM, England, March 24 When William J. Evans wag ar. raigned for driving bis motor car into a crowd of people he pleaded that he was helpless because of a sudden paroxyem of coughing. He was fined, MILLER TO BE TOASTMASTER Dean toastm. Washington Association of Building and Construction, when that body ef: | fects & permanent organisation at the Masonic clubrooms, next Wed: | an nenday Other epearers wit) be Hugh M. Caldwell, Walter Clixt, Al vin F. A. Swalwell, B. W. Sleeman and Dan fol RK Huntington. ‘The association is romoting higher | Sttle’s most standard of construction in Seattie. $100,000 Damage by |=? s swt w gr mtn Fire ORRGON CITY age of done h fire to practically destroyed the and consumed a number of automo. biles and stages stored in the build ing garage, THE SEATTLE STAR eapecially to care for gir wi hatrt to keep hair is pase! One who t#| They « the girl with the oth ing whe 1 head igen to covering the new evening. pie Mayor alley, William Short, Joneph| There you have the two opporing | Jopinions, Which are you to follow They are the verdicts ot two of Se fashionab! milliners, buying trips, “Rop it” The ether Cc the impression of having a|‘Tru r.” | dreds who is In favor of the shorn | stormed od thei Tt in| today to gt lot o| in Oregon City) March 24—Dam | Bh approximately $100,000 locks anys: ere during the night a “Hobbed hair ta still good. the Busch and Son bullding | here to stay Two-thirds of the new structure | spring bats, with the up close to te head in the back, are madd for the girls with bobbet claim. The hats! “Hobbed hair is very p little nod of her head, tempted run on the Nérthwestern & Savings bank, in which hun nemies of John F. Smuleki, for brime which |mer state treasurer and president of turn up from the face and cutting |the bank, wrote anonymous letters, causing the ‘Now What Cana Poor Girl Do? Se Rey Stephen 1, Miller will be) BY HELEN ROBINSON jhair, That which proves conclusive) the Hast have even gone no aster at the meeting of the| “Robbed hair in a wl as ever.|ly that they are for the ‘bob’ is thi: |to wear a wig to The new spring hats are made @mall| The head sizes are too #mall for al hair, Mo and trans hate, with thi | crowns, are Fr and curls, ith long hair, ‘Tell the girls » on bobbing ft if "t go far wrong er woman, with a for now on. 1g Of her shoulders and wine| Now, wha “The girls in! case like the BLAME -ANIMUS| California Lumber | who have just returned ‘rem spring FOR BANK. RUN March 24. The at “AGO, jon of & per cer 1 employ by the of foreign 4 the institution and demand. ir money, was laid to a plot born desopitors | Li here. which drop $2 panic, investigators ver their short m wear #v *. The new wprir ma The new wring | undred and aisty boys and eiria|“Steam Roller Are Charged by Farmers J the puffs 1 ask you Company Cuts Pay ° REDDING, Cal., March 24 effective mber company at Westwood, near rhe new wage scale in made neces | sary by declines in lumber prices same date, the company stated fome geese are known to have|bon monoxide, which tends to cause | reached the age of 40 years aturday is the da creek bicycle ride, planned tchea lub of Beattie, Seven | Greater Bicycle « have thelr bike tires pumped up to-| rom | ¢ y to the first wheel| 4 f the spring } the world, will stop at Cedar 11 o'clock for a fiveminutes Inapection by the boys and girls of King director refusal of the WAE® | the club. according to Fred ¢ jens, secretary and founder of the MILLION DOLLAR SWINDLE GANG IS TAKEN IN NEF CO-OP MEETING. eSey ENDS IN SPLIT Methods” CHICAGO, March 24.--The Unitey farmerw’ co-operative organization iq A Milwaukee crack |i, world, was xplit wide open today, drawn by the largest locome The first annual convention of the organization broke up in a fight with the resignation of the three Ilinols and announcement of the North Dakota di to nerve | bleycle orgaaization. +. Vickha P William G. Eckhardt, De Kalb, Ti) The party will save Beattie at 9)» 0 ual crest wal Gelented Un | o'cloek | re-election 344 to 18,941 Protest wag made by LONDON, March 24.—Dr, Francis |tration delegates, Allen of St. Bartholomew's hospital |from Ili reports the scientific discovery that |methods” of the con clgaret paper produces car on the inois, again: burning heart disease Concentration Concent Why We Lead The F-B Success is the logical result of cer- tain definite causes. A mercantile business does not jump from a lowly investment of several hundred dollars up to a million anda half annually in a few years by chance. Concentration on a given objective ac- counts for that. We concentrated on giving the greatest possible values and the men and young men of the Northwest concen- trate more and more on buying our clothes. F-B Values Unrivaled No clothing house in the Northwest has ever successfully competed with F-B Values. That isn’t in the cards. To compete with F-B Values competitors would have to prac- tice F-B Economies. They would have to cut out the fol-de-rols and fancy fronts— high rents and top-heavy overheads. They would have to increase their buying power and turn their stock every 60 days. Because they cannot do these things we know they cannot equal I'-B Values—even approach them within ten dollars. And thousands of men know that just as well as we do. F-B CLOTHES Greater Values Than Average $35 Values Fahey-Brockman prices are always rock-bottom. They’re never varied or averaged because we believe in treating every man square—giving him his money’s worth plus ten dol- lars in actual value. ration in business. See the F-B Display of Spring Styles direct from America’s fore- most fashion centers. Observe the excellency of designs and fabrics— the consummate art of America’s Master. Tailors at their best! F-B CLOTHES Greater Values Than Average $40 Values Fahey-Brockman iy. Third and Pike There you have the miracle word of the English language. It means the centering of all efforts and resources on a given task. It accounts for the Fahey-Brock- man success far better than a whole sentence of other /words could. Because the F-B Merchandising System is simply a practical and successful application of the law of The Plain Truth Fahey-Brockman Values are nof ap- proached within ten dollars by competition for the simple reason that competition is not organized and operated the F-B way. We concentrate on rental economies to the tune of $50,000 a year. We concentrate on plain utilities instead of costly fixtures, We con- centrate our buying and we buy often in huge quantities. Our 60-day turnover al- lows us to concentrate on permanently low prices—prices that would break the ordi- nary merchant. We concentrate on a cash business. We concentrate on intensive sell- ing—not for a week or a season but for every business day in the year. Always in Advance Of course, Fahey-Brockman is always ahead—always first with authentic styles. We don’t buy clothes to put them in pretty cases. We buy them to sell them fast and they go fast. That’s why F-B Clothes are always ultra modern—that’s why style and workmanship are always the latest and RRR ce $45 Values B CLOTHES Greater Values Than Average Our prices mean just what they say. They’re not juggled. And we abso- lutely guarantee quality, workman- ship, style and satisfaction or return your money. There’s no quibble about the F-B guarantee. eupectally steam roller anti aAminis thowe Firet bricks in America were mate by the Virginia colonists in 1611, esg ve w hi br x A 2 aag7