The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 18, 1922, Page 1

I The Newspaper With a 15,000 Circulation Lead Over I ts Nearest Seattle Com petitor — WEATHER Tonight and Friday, shower: moderate to fresh west- erly winds Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 70. Minimum, 45. Today noon, 45, Mey & 49 VOLUME 24. NO. 71 (Copyright, 1923, by The Seattie Star) Howdy, folks! Back to the Old Fedora day. eee Thh m “Crew Quite Sinking Ship.”"—Head- line in Wednesday's paper. We'll bet the captain made them stop eee Lives of great men oft remind ua | That we can also wealthy be: And by grafting dimes and nickels | Leave @ fortune to posterity. } ” owe | HARD AND THICK | “Stoel Heads WE Dine With | These modern jokes are not much Detter than the old ones, altho they / are sometimes older. eee “These are trying times,” said Judge C. C. Dalton Thursday. eee We wonder if that highwayman Mwho robbed a municipal bath house made a clean getaway? oe THE GRAPO GANG “Hammer and Coffin” ts the name of @ fraternity at the Unt versity ef Washington. Sounds as if it were a drinking club. fe the | TNE beer syor Caldwell is having another | camel brought to Seattle. It really | fan’t necessary. We already know that America Is a desert. oe. Throw a tear for the poor frater- nity boy. When he tells his friends that he Is a member of “TNE,” they at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act 118 IN SHIPWRECK RESCUED! GED SEATTLE MAN FOUND SLAIN IN STREET! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Ma\ tf Congress March 3, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 SEATTL E, WASH. THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1922. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE j into th lL became @ student a carefull Hroreerwehoat oe-enontftthi, | fear of betrayal and death caused her ontinue @ crime career once she was embarked upon it are but a few “shoplifter queen,” I'm i thru! f” PR) | think he is working @ broadeasting | = Harriet Crothers, who almost became age aes buts now says, Brew, Jr, went to a party last week ' and ate a butter ball in the belief BY ©. C. LYON that it was a new form of Eskimo | Be. CHARLESTOW ; | Ris tee: May 18.—With the state's case j ‘The crookedest man in the world! brought to a close it appears to | | ts the bimbo who has to use a curling) be a 100 to J het there will be fron on macaroni before he can! no conviction on the murder and dictments oe West Virginia miners on trial eat it treason VERY DAY | here. W.ECHRONOM ARN A WORD s word is TE Opinion is general Blizzard, ntate « ronounced — tel-e-chro-nom-e. a It means—a mechanical device for increasing telephone rates It comes from—Greek “tel,” which hung” jury fs « contraction of the Yiddish “wot | lary has do Vell,” together with the suffix “me. | factor to crystallize sentiment ter,” also from the Greek, which |the miners Means a device which never knows It has been tne contention of When to stop. | the defense from the beginning It's used like this—“A telechro- that there wo nometer can't soak people for talk-| armed march upon Logan and ing just because some guy said st | Mingo counties, last summer, if Jence in golden | the operators’ 2: Ss deputies and m | Dh Valentino facing charges | ane st of ting a the ma Deopia lip kn ONE MORE WEEK Now that Better Babies week assemblage. d er, we suggest More Babies | The detachment of state consta-| |bles sent to Charlestown ce trials proceeded at once to conduct If fich aren't plentiful in the | themselves according to their Log Streams around Seattle just now,|and Mingo county customs. then lia ©. clashed with the local oe claimed authority over Little Homer Brew, Jr., 1 very|treated the local citizens with arro Bligious—iike hie daddy. He be-lgance and contempt; J (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) occasion they rushed upon the bas * LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE | VAMP, SEZ: Every week is Paint Up week for we weak gels, & ie ee Writer to The Star comp ns of the complexities of dining out Which reminds us that Little Homer Special Correspondent of The ‘Star | wrangling over whether it wa | fair or foul ball that had been hit! the introduct idence tend-| ing to show the Vitetais state | constabulary non-union coal oy mine leader ed to try first, be acquitted or there The West Virginia state conatabu-| Miners into ne more than a handkerchief. » were killed or injured This ts as far tors have got the coal opera plate constabulary jusband,| driven union miners to despera- ovie| tion by their mistreatment them in the shape of personal ces | assaults and the abridgment of | rights of free speech and free | interminable \Fred G, Davis ef counsel for » has also said, pose behind the march ‘get’ the thugs and gunr nd Mingo counties, land government West Virginia. “This whole affair was a fight American-born (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) GIRL TRAPPED! Ex- Portland High School Student, Near “Shoplifter Queen, “3 Says: of; m Thru’ IWAS BETRAYE D TFaintea, Picked Up, Taught to Steal GOT RIC H HAUL SAN FRANCISCO, May 18.—~ Harriet Crothers, ating Rae Du- pont, has achieved a master’s de gree in the school of shopiiiting since she left the Jefferson high school, in Portland, five years ago, This youthful heiress to the throne of “Shoplifter Queen,” un der arrest here in nection with huge department store thefts, has bared an almost in eredible tale of melodramatic in cidents woven about the opera tion of nationwide ring of scientific store thieves. How an accident of fate toased her | 8POK: banda of this ring, to of her thrilling chapters She wax taken into custody her after she had, in a single week, stolen $15,000 worth of gowns, according to her admis. sion, Seven gowns per store trip was her modest average, sho says. I was a convent girl,” she begins her story. That was in Winnepeg riland ats, My father ie in busines: My par re the His name is not Crothers that is my husband's name—and nis are respectable I would not drag my father inte this d. Aft er convent, I went to the Jefferson school. I had @ good voice and de mens for anything in the w cided to try for vaudeville “In Chicago my story really starts. I had not been feeling well, and on « hot summer day f fainted on the street. A strange man came to my aid, He ap peared a gentleman and cared for me tenderly. 1 fell in love with him, but awakened one day to find my lo was Gus Saun- ders, head of the greatest shop- lifting gang in America. One day he took me to the ‘shoplifting class.’ It was room filled with tables, and on them were piled high all sorts of dresses and gowns, There were 10 other giris in the class, most of them recrulted by fear, as I had been ‘He then threatened my life if I at mpted to betray his secret. We were trained in this school for three d then were ¢ not considered profic 1 escape unc with seven gowns, four to be ed beneath a coat and thr (Tur nto Page 3, WRECK VICTIM tine 3) IS HYSTERICAL : na coal operators nave failed |Woman Whose Companion Died in Plunge Suffering By Wanda von Kettler Mrs. George Carlson, who with sister, Mrs, Genevieve Mar- cum, now dead, crashed thru the University bridge railing at 8 p.m. Wednesday, im her auto- bile, is now suffering w severe atinck of nervous bysterin at her home, 2234 Second ave, W. Mrs. Carlson was rescued from the water by Clayton Os- t, a city fireman, after sinking. Her sister's body, 30 feet below} the water, was not found until p. m., when Charles F. Gilmur after dragging from a rowb: tragedy of Wednesday Accoréing to her daughter, an em-| ploye of Rigg's Optical Co, who} hastened to the bridge immediately n auto it” had occurred, Mrs. Cart upon being informed that aceld (Turn to Page 7, Colu Petitions tore cond Give Weapon to, Shot Thru Heart | sics'tttne te conven City to Clean Up Telechronometer hew shi ut | Water or public | them by municipal o ‘The bill means simply freedom of the cities from state control,” Smith, tn explanation. sive citizens feel that they are capa bie of managing thelr own affairs. i does not dictate, and is not vicious, It simply enlar cities’ powers.” The seizure of the telephone com- pany may be considered as a last re-| sort to defeat the phone meters, Faussett stated, and in caso the! |phone company should emerge vic }torlous at the hearing before the The nor unjust using the as much & sc ness ass to be car-'be considered, they dec pered by her family, ith her friends as she desires, and |must use the phone to keep in rocts |touch with the world utes each da phone company, are b fested area must bate erty by next Saturday, or the estate will do it for them, it was announced today Sy 1°, §. Coyne, epecial inspector in t tural division of che state depart ment of agriculture 1t done,” Coyne ad rought it to shore || we are forced to it, but the st law empowers us to have the work done and pre cost shall constitute a len the property,’ ‘oday no one is allowed to see the one survivor but her daughter, Miss Bernice Pound; a nurse and friend of the family, Mrs, Lois Long physician, Each moment in her hysteria, she lives again he| | plications to the lot siz EVERETT MAY - SEIZE Spied By S. B. Groff EVERETT, May 18.—Not only will the telechronometer, —s0- called “speech measuring” de- vier, be defeated, but the Puget Sound Telephone Co., owners of the in may be taken over by the city, either by purchase or condemnation, and operated as 8 municipal monopoly This was indicated today by City Attorney R. J. Faussett and advocates of the “home rule bill,” known as initiative 44, under which the seiaure will be made possible. | The petition ts now belng cireu lated thruout the state by agents of jthe public uti tien committee: ne, Beatth nership, ate board of public works June 6 The fight against the meter is only just beginning, tussett said. The citizens of Everett are organizing with such apparent strength and determination to force the removal of the unpop- ular device, that. to an un- prejudiced observer) their efforts seem sure of success. The citizens view the telechro. r am elementally unfair and in that it penalizes them for phone when necessity de: mands, making a public convenience @ public nuisance declare that the telephone is fal necessity as a busi and that a necessity must not be made a luxury simply thru the ambitions of one man home must dso are. Ham she cannot visit | Ti he woman in th an allow call the grocery and c y's menu. The phone company 1s selling (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) chvidelseisielpectibnecatieme things LAST CALL ISSUED ON EARWIG POISON ‘wie in eir prop: All persons in the forticul “And if we are much pensive than if the owner attended to it Limself, as there are certain fees which must wsartly be added to the cost don’t want to do this unl Harwig bait should not be spread except on a evening. The approved formula 1s one pound of parls « pounds of bran, mixed with water ary atil it will run thru the hands iis makes enough Cir three ap. Tacoma and Ever o| ett. “The quota of 40,000 voters’ natufes are said to have be She bill then automat leally {8 placed on the Ballot at November elections for approval by the voters According to Marvin W. Smith, local exponent of the “home ‘rule | dH” any city will be empowered thru the bill, to acquire, thru ¢ demnation or purchase, any put y, such as telephones, light markets and operate aig 2 almost the said “The progres upon the And five min 1 by the ly enough er the foreed to haw 4, ““t will be jew that the against en to 16 of ordinary ) ‘a ANDIT ROBS |[HARDING’S BROTHER DENIES PREDICTING END OF THE WORLD 8AN FRANCISCO, May 18 Dr. George Harding, brother of dent, today emphatically ports circulute’ thruout that he hud predicted the | the pres ar den h discussed x medical subjects—th'ngs whieh I Out to) Litieahash Holm, TT, | fae oaths “teases fean ontt $e es. I iiave not yet Are Rifled || for such statements « b I un- Holm, 77, of 4437 46th ave. S. W., “I have not made any state a8 a prediction of the m'Tlenium, Apparently murdered by a bul- derstand are credited to me.” wns ng stretched across the sidewalk at 1 a. m. Thursday at Geneseo st, and 49th ave. 8. W., | in West Seattle. A f ter Pockets sent or In committee discussions and I will not take respor sibility | let thra the heart, Abraham The body was found by G. EB. inking the man was drunk, he parsed by the body, ran home and informed hig father, T rilen, who notified the West Seattle police, / G. E. | in Delbert Min - ° the body and found a re- volver lying close by the right hand. One of the trousers pock- ‘Unarmed Veteran ets was turned inside out, a short ear the aiiehaik: Huchaman cee | Lakes Revolver Kept anit tsi, | From Thug and Ties Him Sellers made the following report after the body had been removed to the county morgue The old man was lying on his left eet side; his left hand was under his Because of the heroism of head. The right hand was lying over Loring C, Streeter, 151 Boylaton hin waist with the hand in front Of ave, world war veteran, Ivan him d i . p Snyder, 19, was in the city jail “The gun, a .38-caliber revo! Thursday, following one of the | er, was lying on the ground most daring attempted ‘robberies about a foot from the body and =? al kerchief, with a pair of a he criminal annals of the glasses on it, was on the ground ~ about opposite the feet. The Snyder ts alleged to have entered handkerchief was damp, and the |'"* drug store of C. E. Goff, 103 left eyeglass was broken. ] “Sergt. Buchanan picked up a | Mbt, @nd attempted to hold up severed link of a yellow watch. | D8lf @ dozen customers in the full chain on the sidewalk. glare of a dozen brilliant lights. The righthand trouser pocket | Unarmed, Streeter grappled was partly turned out, as if with the bandit, took his revol- someone had gone thru the pock- ver away from him after ono et in a hurry ot had been fired, threw him “There are powder burns on the| to the floor and held him until shirt and aiso on the flesh. Appar witnesses brought rope with ently the man was shot w which to truss the prisoner, imu the body. There were| Streeter was tn the drug store with jno other marks of violence, nor/his wife, his mother, Mrs, Stella |powder marks on the hands, Streeter, a woman friend of the fam “A thoro search of the body and) !ly's | clothes showed that he had no valu-| building. Goff was behind the pre scription counter and did not emerge until after the bandit had been over powered The bandit stuck a revolver at the of Dr. Nutting’s head when he ed, commanding everyone to ; “stick ‘em up.” i painting oo Instead of obeying, Streeter Column 6) clinched with the Intruder, knocking his weapon away from | Dr. Nutting’s head. The bandit | fired, but the bullet lodged | harmlessly In the mirror back of the soda fountain, The next mo- | ment Streeter gained possession of the revolver and threw it away as he bore the robber to the floor. p < | Motoreyele Patrolmen C. G. Stan. 800 Imperiled in Blaze at)tey ana sz. J. Krush took Snyder into {custody after he had been securely Rome | bound with rope by his captor. z | | ROME, May 18.—Nineteen persons | | } | ables left on his person. | “Mrs, Abraham Holm stated to son that she had awak ened her husband from a nap about 3 p. m. at his request, as he wanted to go out and seo if he bie in bac could get some we | (Turn to Page 7, |today, when the Santo Spirito hospi tal, near St. Peter's, was sw fire, according to an official an | Councilman C. BR, Fitzgerald's hundred patients were im-| resolution, proposing to open nego- jled. Four besides those dead were | tiations with Henry Ford for the riously burned, one fatally |leasing of part of the Skagit power Several firemen and guards were) site will be considered by Mayor injured during heroic rescue work. | Caldwell, the entire city counell Some victims leaped from high! the members of the board of public) | windows. | works. A great crowd of relatives of pa-| ‘This was the decision reached] tients fought to get near the hospital. | pursday Pitiful cries went up from those seek. | utilities committee. ing to struggle thru the lines | Doubt was expressed at the util. By ® freak of fate, the ward where! tog session regarding the power of incurables were treated was first de-| th» city to lease Ruby stroyed, much as the city has only a revo- cable permit from the government /TU JIRNS TABLES "5 the development of the Skagit It is m that the expecte matter morning & y the council ON 2 ROBBERS. {Moexe, time, weet saat for aecaive| | Stanley Hages, mechanic at. the| action, | Wildeiap a Sas aey 7686 Rainier ave. | eee ony. el turned the tables on two bandits | jwho attempted to hold him up|Star Newsboy Dying Jearly ‘Thursday The men phoned the gare that they wanted a tow. When! Wednesday when a board struck | Hages arrived he found no car, but) by a motor truck at Fifth ave. the two highwaymen informed him | and Union st, hit him in the head, they wanted his watch and money, | wa reported “no better at Prov. He pulled a gun and the men| idence hospital Thursday, He is fled, [not expected to live, O2NO’S CRE Briles, a Uni f Washington | student, livir 13 46th ave, 8. W. Briles was returning home when he| saw the body } p | . | | Woodland Park ‘ave., Wednesday | and Dr, L. R, Nutting, 301 Yale | | ON FORD PLAN j still aboard, NOW ON WAY INTO HARBOR Disabled Vessel Being Brought in by Steamer, | Braving Fog MARSHFIELD, May 18.—The disabled motor ship Ozmo was In tow of the steamer Daisy and was being brought into Coos bay harbor, despite the fog, accord- ing to a radiogram from the steamer La Purisina to the En- glewood naval radio station here this morning. The entire crew of the Ozmo, Capt. Worth and 17 men, is aboard the Daisy, the radio said. No further details were given, The lumber schooner Willamette reported early that she had given up the search for the Ozmo and was steaming on toward San Francisco. There has been no report from the Coos bay harbor tug Fearless, “=/ #4 WIRELESS MEN |IN GOOD HUMOR The Ozmo first reported her poste tion and her condition shortly after 4 o'clock Wednesday morning. From that time on the radio operator om | the motorship kept up a stream of {good cheer which was matched in jairy persifiage by the operator at the Englewood station here and by | the operator on the lumber steamer | Willamette, en route from Portland |to San Francisco. “Stick to ‘em, lad, and we'll buy you some sandwiches when we come |up.” wirelessed the chap on the Willamette, “A pair of web feet would be better. The going is rough and we could make better time,” chanted back the Osmo's operator, name une known, “You'd better stick some blotting paper around that gas engine of | yours or your radio will be shot flooey,” suggested the man at | Englewood, “You tell ‘em! The fly wheel fs running in water half its diameter now, This old dasher I'm wiggling won't last much longer.” | Interspersed with these bits of | humor went out from the Ozmo the ‘details of the disaster which had be- fallen her in the ¢arly morning hours of Wednesday, It was the best account ever sent out by @ vessel distressed off the Oregon coast, the Englewood station here reported. | WATER DROWNS OUT MESSAG Constant check was kept upon the Ozmo's movements thruout the day until the seeping water had drowned out her wireless. The op- erator told how the vessel had be- come waterlogged, how the engines became disabled and the pumps re fused to work; how the hand pumps. were manned vigorously but without effect; how a portion of the crew took to a lifeboat and stood by for a time and then melted away into the fog, leaving Captain Worth, the operator and seven other men ‘it | that the Osmo's radio | creek, inas-| tr the steamer Codi; reach the ii |tor ship the fog dropped suddenly haat From Auto Accident} | Rainier ave, and Alacka st, that} Jimmy Fionn, 14-year-old Star) their car had broken down and| newsboy, whose skull was fractured | | Then the movements of the steamer Willamette and the Coos Bay tug Fearless were taken up. reporting these two vessels ‘drowned.” “The Willamette just to the northward. Think we see tug | Fea spluttered the radio, Then silence. The Willamette reported later that she and the tug Fearless were | about to take off the crew and take the Ozmo in tow, Then came the age that before either the tug |and the fate of the motorship was | wrapped in mystery until the mes- sage of good cheer came from the La Purisana this morning. SEATTLE SUNSHINE SUCCUMBS TO RAIN Northwest winds blew rain back to Seattle at 6:30 a. m, Thursday after a five-day spell of sunshine, By noon Thursday the temperature had receded to 45, comparing with a mercury report of 60 the noonday before, The winds changed to southeast, but the rains pers'sted,