The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 13, 1922, Page 7

THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1922 ARRESTS NEAR WHEN SHERIFF FINDS CLUES! Murders of Youth| and Sweetheart) Are Under Probe} Conservatives Win — | at Labor Meeting B unkurnron duly 1. ative and radical had their first really serious clash today on the floor of the State Federation of Labor con | vention, and the conservatives | emerged triumphant, | The tiff came over the question of Whether labor should attempt to de feat Senator Miles Poindexter by ro ing inte the republican primaries as the conservatives urge—or by sup porting the farmeriabor candidate Seaburn Brown he elements | Rast and stump for that true p that they aren't unless we re place them with men who will fairly repres The president did not escape the general censure. “Harding,” Marsh — sald, “doesn't yet know that he, and not Morgan, is president of the United States—and neither does around and challenge him to per sonal debate when he campaigns thru this state, and then I'm going triot la and representative of the people, | the radicals’ pian. Follette.” Marsh sald. by Officers | When the auditor's report on the! ‘The situation was tense when the a | federation’ books was brought up at | convention opened its fourth day Sin this morning's session, Duncan tried | this morning, FRESNO, Cal, Juty 13.—Bit by /t© bring the organisation's political! Visiting speakers and routine bit Sheriff Jones today was piecing | Policy into the tasue lwork of various committees has together clews which he hoped | He was ruled out of order by| taken up the time of past seasions, Short, who was in the chair, but/and the leaders of opposing forces would ultimately lead to the arrest Mins Grass and Awe W . of Sanger, as they sat in their parked car along | of the murderer of a nearby county road Seven youths have already been quired by Jones in connection with the slaying of the couple. An unexploded automatic revolver | shell of unusual caliber, found in} Winter's car, gave trace of such a} gun in the community said the gun had been stolen from Dis cash drawer about three months ago. He told the sheriff whom he suspected of the theft ‘A searchlicht found near the body of the girl was identified by her girt friends as belonging to a boy acquaintance. Another girl told of secing a certain boy with a gun. ‘Time of the double killing has been established between 10:30 and 11 p. m. Sunday night. Having obtained two valuable leads from the school girl friends of Mins ‘Winter, the sheriff today followed up that source in hope of further de- velopments. SIX KILLED IN TRAIN CRASH! Passenger Hits Freight at Kansas City KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 13.-—Six bodies were recovered today from| the wreck of a Missouri Pacific pas- senger train which crashed into a freight at Swope park. Misreading orders by the crew of the passenger was believed by of- fieials to be responsible for the wreck. ‘The baggage car carried valuabie consignments of gold. Irish Insur, Tex owner | And was succeeded by Alice Lord, of | the Waltreases" union Miss Lord sustained Short, her | decision being hailed with loud cheers from the conservatives , and sharp speeches by the radi cals, Firing the opening gun In the expected clash between farmer. pected clash between the farmer. labor party adherents and fac: tlons in the State Federation of Labor, John C. Kennedy, farm: erlabor state secretary, told dele- gates to the labor convention here yesterday that his party will go ahead with its program and | put » full quota of candidates in the field at the next election, with or without the support of the Federation of Labor, | That powerful upposition tn the} convention toward the farmer-iabor party would develop was indicated | by the declaration of R. A. McCloud, speaking for the railroad workers, “We are not in accord with the farmer-tabor party,” he terse- ly announced, } Almost every speaker who took the | platform yeaterday, however, agreed | on one point-—that the present party in power has done everything to smash thé labor movement and “turn the nation over to the bankers.” Speaking for the farmers’ national council, Benjamin C. Marsh urged the workers to combine with the farmers td weed out of the senate and house the majority of legislators hostile to “everybedy but Wall A vigorous effort was made by Marsh to draw the sympathy of the convention toward the farmers’ or.) gantration. “Hundreds of thousands of farm. and raliroad workers are striking,” | [khoremen’s union Pauline | Duncan protested, so Short withdrew | within the ranks of the delegates were expected to clash openly within the next few hours ‘STEVEDORING FIRMS ACCUSE Union Man Alleges Double Dealing and Rum-Running By S. B. Groff Bringing wholesale charges of dou ble dealing whisky runnl and thuggery against officals of Puget Sound stevedoring firma, J. M. Wit son, president of the Paelfie coast division of the International Long ‘Thursday started tate campaign to en list the aid rious patriotic and civic bodies in a fight for better con ditions along Sound waterfront ‘That Chinese sailors are forerd to do the work of longshoremen at Anacortes, on vessels flying the American flag, and are treat ed brutally when they resist, ‘That hired gangsters have at- tempted to take his life. That whisky running ts car ried on to such an extent at Ana- cortes and Everett that lives of Jongshoremen are imperiled by their drunken is, and families are made to suffer thru the traffic, That union workers have been forced to seek police protection from gangsters Wired by steve doring firms in Seattle and Ta- @ farreachin ‘These are some of the charges hold court records to prove. | Speedy Trials Expected for EXPECT CLASH AT CITY HALL Tennant and Brown at Dag- ger Points Over Legate With Mayor Brown emphati tn bis demand | department rw Legate, Capt still more em Charles h the mayor has by clash of authority was foreseen at the city hall Thursday, } “The grand jary found that Legate wae mu the mayor said ‘That mak » duty of the police | to captur The time has come “There ia no evidence to «how that | Legate was murdered,” nnant de | jelared, He laughed when told of the inquiry ordered into his office by the mayor | “It is high time we settied who yor in Seattle,” Brow | “If any police officer fails to ear. ry out instenetions with vigor and good spirit, he will have to account to me.” INDICTED MEN SEEK ACTION Accused Officials / | With arraignment of 10 county of ficlais and business men under grand jury indictment de ely set for | next Tuesday, it was declared Thurs day that all will demand speedy trial. | Walter §. Fulton, counsel for the | three county commissioners, stated that the popular method of delaying prosecution by the raising of teehnt | eal objections wil! not be indulged in, }no far as his clients are tonoerned. Tt was believed that this attitude is shared by counsel for the other de. fendante Tt had been reported that some of the grand jurors were not accredited taxpayers, and that some had not paid thelr poll tax, but no credence. ta given this rumor by those who pos. sibly might benefit from disqualifica- tion of the fury SHOPMEN REPLY | eee | ere are glad that the mine workers de by Wilson, which he claims to | T0 PRESIDENT he declared, “and showing Washing. ton that the country belongs to the |Soest port great mass of Americans and not to qoute Wall St. Defeated in Clash) "1. sanintstration te drwnil™ DUBLIN, Juy 13.—Free state troops wer victorious today in mi- Ror clashes with insurgents thruout Ireland, according to word reaching here. One rebel was killed and 12 cap- tured when free staters attacked in- Surgents in Galway. Two free stat- ets were killed and several wounded, It was announced that Michael Collins, provisional head of the Free State government, had been appoint. @d@ commander-in-chief of the army, ‘The supreme Irish war council will be composed of Collins, Defense Min- ister Mulcahy and General O'Duffy. Ta Follette brought tumultuous applause from all delegations. “Iam going to follow Poindexter the voters, taxes Style 240 Price $115 Style XIV Price $225 Wilson, after a tour of Pacific , lett for Bremerton Thuraday as a delegate from Everett to the State Federation of Labor con vention now in progress there President Short, state presment of the A. PF. of L., © Ge axked to probe the charges, Wilson said. A hearing on the picketing tnjuno- tion recently given by the court at Anacortes against the union long shoremen will be heard July 20, at which time the whole affair will be thoroly alred. it ts said. Wilson branded the situation at Anacortes as “disgraceful” and “a blot upon the name of the state.” Wilson also charges that union longshoremen were forced to work on holidays, in direct viola tion of their agreement. Through Our Easy, Yet Dignified, Payment Plan You Can Own A GENUINE VICTROLA WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST INCONVENIENCE WILL PLACE IN YOUR HOME ANY GENUINE VICTOR THROUGH THIS EA DAILY FINDING HOME THE INCOME IS LIMIT HOME’S E These are the genuine Vietor Vietrolas, made by the Victor Talking M: chine Co., Camden, N. and cost no more than the so-called true Victrola, pure Victrola and the like, Push Jone Piano &. 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LORAINE, O.-William Heinman, municipal life guard, rescues from drowning 11 persons in eight hours. | | Style 280 Price $200 | | Style XVI Vries $275 nner me mee RNAS ANS NL hse THE SEATTLE jon it. Ithey had ad tcient [they had administered sufficien owt Walkouts |ther attacks. | | they left the shop |the strikers’ answer to the importa dications were the Western Pacific | would do everything possible to iden-| | tity the rioters | rioters who attacked the Western Pa | cific shops in went there from Sacramento by auto: | 44¥- mobile, company officials here an-| } | nounced today. They said their in. T&d labor board, started a new move | formation clearly indicated that } th |the mob was not made up of the: striking Oroville employes. jevery inch of its line from any fur ke utives’ stand, the movement now | ther depredations. July 13.—Mainte- | | nance of way workers here today no- | tough enough to have to button up tiffed union officials that unless some | Just one wife's dress ‘Old Artillery Shell Explosion } playful }artiliery shell by a little girl y day went the torn bodies of eight chil ficials STA ae uous COUNTY OFFICIALS S778 M. W. O’Brien, his son, state highway man, | W. W. O’Brien, his son, } T. J. O'Brien, his son, W. E. O’Brien, his son, M. A, O’Brien, his cousin. Timothy O’Brien (possibly the son, T. J. O'Brien). | Will O'Brien. | Dennis O’Brien, | Frank O'Brien. | Patrick Lewis O’Brien, | “T have made a careful investigation of this list,” Paul said, “but I have been unable to place the last four names) Oddly enough, altho their names are on the county! payroll, nobody in their neighborhood seems to have heard of them,” | This branch of the O’Brien family, according to Paul, drew public pay in the following amounts during 1921: | Morgan Family January 82 | February | March j April / May June | July | August 529.75 j September 526.39 | October 431.00 | November ...... 756.50 | December ......... 660.00 » OAR a pe eeeeeee + B11,586.25 This, however, is only one branch of the O’Brien family ; that has been levying tribute, Paul says. “There's Mrs. Martin Cummings, Morgan O'Brien's sis- | ter,” Paul points out. “Her little family hasn’t been doing | at all badly. Warrants drawn in their favor in 1921 totaled | $5,734.17. | “And then there’s Art Anderson, who married Morgan's | daughter, Kate, and who has a repair shop at Orillia. He) got $3,308.09 for repairing county cars. I’m not saying he didn’t make a good job of it—but it’s all in the family. | “That makes a total of $20,628.51 for the O’Brien family, | and the Cummings and Anderson offshoots, for 1921—every penny out of road funds, “Even that isn’t all, however. Another of Morgan | O'Brien's daughters, Rose O’Brien, is a clerk in the county clerk’s office and gets $1,440 a year out of the general funds. And John hran, cousin of Morgan O’Brien, is a road foreman under M. W. O’Brien, and pulled down | $3,222.69. “The women who appear on my list, of course, are simply ladies of straw. own teams on county jobs—so the county pays the wives for the use of the teams. “I'm inclined to think that I’ve underestimated on my lists. I am informed that two or more of the names which appear as having been paid for teams are fictitious and | ord represent another $8,000 or so for the cae oak ‘amily. “However, I don’t want anyone to think that the O’Briens are alone in this matter. The whole district is rotten—from end to end. On Vashon Island, for in- stance, with a total road fund of only $16,000, $9,800 sor for salaries—and a shade over $6,000 for actual wi “This condition, of course, has its effect on every section in the district. In the McKinley district, where 1 live, we've paid $3,400 a year in taxes into the road fund for the last five years. And not more than $1,000 has been spent in all that time on roads in our district. ‘e voted against Smith, you see.” “HERES wd PARALYSIS OF HERE’S MORE ABOUT RAIL STRIKE | STRIKES GROWS, STARTS ON PAGE ONE ita. | Transportation Hard Hit by} ishment to the strikebreakers, | members withdrew as quickly as they | ey ec nam BY JAMES T. KOLBERT As the rioters roared away in th se | WASHINGTON, July 13—The be- | automobiles the workers In the shops numbing effect of two great strikes took a count of their injured. Wil-| made itself felt on the nation’s trans- kinson was taken to a hospital where | portation system today, according to | he ts slowly regaining consciousness. | reports reaching President Harding. 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Webber Immediately |», President Harding is receiving con: | questioned workers for any clue that —- St ce cel merge might lead to the identity of the mob | POrt* compiled today indicate that members or its leaders. j conditions are daily becoming more Webber said one worker told him | **rlous. he heard one of the rioters declare as|, 1?creasing numbers of trains are | being laid up. it would have been a com.| “Creeping paralysis,” according to had shot An,| One Official, is in progress, If the same rate of progress is continued for | ;|tWe weeks more, industry in gen: | eral will be dealt a severe blow, he said. In the meantime the pastoftice department ty quretiy pushing plane| © prevent demoralization of the! mails. A vast fleet of airplanes, mo-| tor trucks and automobiles will be pressed into service In the event of @ breakdown in railway transporta. tion. The door to peace in the railroad shopmen's strike was still open to | “Well, plete success if we drews,” Western Pacific officials here fee! ertain the rioters were striking shopmen. They consider the attack | tion of 60 strikebreakers yesterday by BE. T. Coyle, superintendent. In. SAN FRANCISCO, July 13.—The! Oroville early today of: } is said they were convinced that|"efusal of the railroad executives to | meet in joint session with the union | chiefs. | Th cles Answering the attack, the Western | general opinion in railroad cir ific announced that it intended to | e that while an agreement | ct every bit of its property and | had been postponed as a result of th | under way would eventually result in & settlement, ee Maintenance Men Warn Rail Leaders CLEVELAND, action was taken to remove guards from raliroad property, they would Fatal refuse to work Y. July 1A | Miexicans Release ir yester: American Officer MEXICO CITY, July 18—-M. K, , American detective held police since the investigation of » kidnaping of A. Bruce Bielaskl, | IVE BOYS and girls| American of) operator, started, was home left Wednesday | released today. It was reported that | he was freed on condition that he} leave M WATERTOWN, N. blow struck hurling to death, Army of. and police today searched Pine Plains river for similar “duds,” | by jren TWENTY of the Dra on the annual outing They are planning to travel until September 1, and whenever they come to a theater on thelr booking list, they will pre nent thelr play, “Bobby the News: . An electric lamp which will burn three years without eurrent is the in. vention of an Italian engineer, Chairman Ben Hooper, of the rail- | this colyum “Moonshine Smiles,” . to bring about settlement, following | ® | A FACE MASSAC Boys’ Athletic . Union Suits, 65c, ROSS-BAR Muslin Union Suits, with fine ribbed knitted band at back, in low-neck, sleeveless and knee-length style, sizes 28 to 34, good values at 65¢. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Boy Killed on 2 Runaway Car — LA GRANDE, Ore., July 13.—One 7 child was killed, three persons suf fered severe injuries and a half dom * }en other persons were bruised when a flat car on a George Palmer Loge ging company train broke away last ae Then, oh then, I'd like to die. All my strength and pep forsake me, Aa the sun's rays never cease, And your love can scarce prevent me d " |night, careened wildly four miles” From juat turning into grease! | down a long grade and jumped the o Pe | track, Dr. Frank Loope conducts a de-| The breakaway occurred near Vige™ partment in The Star entitled “Sun-jcent, 25 miles up in the mountains shine Smiles.” And Li'l Gee Gee is/trom La Grande, William Palmer, mean enough to suggest that we call|7, is dead. His parents, Mr, and - |Mrs, James Palmer, and Leonard Leslie, conductor on the train, were _ the injured. About 20 people clung |to the car during its wild dash do |the mountainside, oe EXTRA! EXTRA! } Mayor Brown hasn't kicked those 575 poliiical incurables out of the city hall yet, but he is | making some awfully mean faces at ‘em! { A well known firm of London jcaterers has 25,000 pieces of crock- Jery broken weekly cee | “City Hall Due for a Clean Up!” shrieks a headline, We'll be satisfied if they only wash the building. . . . “Constantinople harem attendants have gone on a strike.” We know just how they feel. It's ane SOCIETY NOTE (Putting a little color and romance | into the society column.) \ At Agate Pass, where breakers roll, Sojourneth a month Miss Rose Pohl, . Wonder what would happen if you put « reisin in lem cee | Gurney Northland Cabinet Refrigerator pound tce capacity, 825.00 0-pound ive capacity, 880,00 —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE A soft answer turneth away wrath, | but it encourageth an insurance salesman to hang around your desk all afternoon | see | FOR US, PLEASE The class orator, Ferguson Martin, | soared inte heights end untathomed the depthe in the a wonderfully delivered oratiow, “What Next?"—Mussellville (Ark) Courier- Democrat FREDERICK @ N