The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 6, 1922, Page 1

Renn’ WEATHER Tonight rain and or The om ‘day, prodadly moderate northerly winds FORECAST ) * § Att CHARGES GRAFT! Citizen Accuses Muny Garbage Department! The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor VOLUME 24. NO. 244 Airplane Used to Assist Clara Phillips in Jail Break DIEGO, Cal, S| Believe get . Beattie pedestrians are having tough time these days, what with being hit by automobiles, snowballs and bullets. nage, Tec SAN Dec, 6— When a man accosts you on the) Possibility that Clara Phillips, @treet and reaches toward his hip, escaped “tiger woman,” had You don't know whether you are eluded officers by airplane caused Under Sheriff Eugene Bisealluz, of Los Angeles, to hurry to Ensenada, Lower Cal- to get shot or half-shot. eee | MASSACRES FOR THE j MASSES: ifornia, today, according to Woman who tried to walk Under Sheriff Ed Cooper, of fvom Seattle to Bothell col- San Diego. | | | Cooper has been aiding the Los then sawed her way out of jail. . rie was in one of these planes. Accompanied by Guillermo Ybarra, hiram ~~ pl PLEASE experienced guide of Lower Califor. . nia roads, and a party of deputies, i ee geht lan damde Under Sheriff Bincailuz crossed the border here and headed into Mexico toward Ensenada. every border le Dep uty Sheriff Nolan, of Los is directing of the officers here. a hammer is that you that you didn’t know it|™ade by which It is hoped to ~~ dite Mrs. Phillips tn case ea © CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON [from the attitude of Mexican of- 5 . Bimbo who uses your name when he gets arrested. eee & perfumed grape fruit. But who! rail wants perfume squirted all them? over,/owns a ranch, which was her ob- eee after the hammer murder. “BLANK WALL” STOPS POSSE LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6.—Ad- mitting they had run into a “blank wall on every clue they have followed,” sheriff's officers engaged in pursuit of Mrs. Clara Phillips today placed their great. est hopes for recapture on a dragnet being laid about Lower And a waistcoat of blue And polka dots, too, Good tard, you could hear him for blocks! eee With five hornes on Renton Hill robbed tn the last few days, we wish Chief Severyns would tell us who/ has the burglary concession in that district. | ANOTHER SPUG . No doubt, all of these Seattle Californian borders, and even men who refuse to band over within its territory. their cash to bandits belong to Under-sheriff Eugene Biscafluz, who left for the border as soon as }the sensational escape was discov | ered, telephoned from Tia Juana that | a strict watch of the border had been the Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving. cee Most of the holdups occur close to the business section as the bandits; can't afford carfare to the outlying districts. ‘This is another argument tn favor of a cheaper carfare. oe ‘There seems to be only one way to stop these highwaymen—get out an|have already crossed the border by) injunction against them. cee iff Nolan, and that he himself ex peted to penetrate into Mexico, to earn what he could learn.” Armour Phillips, husband of the |daring refugee, who evidently sent | officers on a false scent last night, was held in technical custody, tho it |was stated his alibi | broken. Phillips, who appeared at the sher- iff's office late yesterday, Sign in window on Second ave. store: “Say It With Leather.” That's how Dad used to say it. o- . LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE | | VAMP, SEZ 1} dust because a fella parts his | hair in the middle isn’t any sign a girl can trust him. 1] and afterward Sheriff Treager, with | a party of deputies, including Chief | Criminal Deputy Al Deputy Sheriff Frank Dewar, oe Seattle now has one of the lowest | ‘@eath rates in the United States. Can it be that there are leas saxo- phone players in our fair city? eee The questioning of Phillips | was secret, but it was | ed that he had named certain per- sons he thought might be con- nected with the case, “And these are the only persons you know about who might have had @ part in it?” he was asked, “Yes,” he said, “except there waa| }@ little negress who my wife said oe on we get the five-cent cartare| W#* lways good to her—used to do} Whi |her work. But I don't think #he we'll have something to boast about. | Tt in not every city that will sell you |"@4 “nything to do with it. | apace in a refrigerator car for aj. The girl he referred to was Alma} A couple of months ago a police man, driving a big red Stutz, was badly injured. The other night an- other officer was shot by bandits while driving his Plerce-Arrow home. Not that it is any of our business, but we wonder if there isn't someone on the force who owns a Ford? . | Smith, occupant of the cell next} el. : y “ nick ae |Mrs, Phillips, who disclaimed any | QUANDARY |part In the affair, and said she| heard no noise the escape, “Are you sure about the others?” Phillips was asked, “No,” he said, “It's just my crazy | notion of what might have hap- pened,” The sheriff and his party were gone for nearly four hours in the foggy night, while Phillips, pale, slight and excessively ner- vous, sat in the sheriff's office Does anybody know whether during the night of the big white elephant in the Frederick & Nelson window is supposed to represent the G. 0. P. or the municipal rallway? oe Star editorial writer says that small apartments are the cause of | the divorce evil. Let his wife try to run a big, old- fashioned 12-room house and see how fast she gets a divorce! stunned by the fact that she | Angelos deputies, who are combin hadn't been Sit by 2 single ante. the border. He says that his office learned Talking about snappy comebacks, /that two airplanes of unknown | Mra. Ciara Phillipe is back on the) identity had been seen flying across front page. “he OM |the San Diego mountains into Mex- Ico. A bandy girl with tools is Clara} 1, was considered = possible that She hammered her chum to death! the hunted “hammer murderess” {it wus believed she would head for| Prof. Albert Lovejoy of the Ensenada, where she cauld catch & | ment of dramatics Fiorida horticulturist has created) boat for Guaymas and then £0 by | lovable title role of “ to Juarez, where her sister |a Playlet by Sir organized, in charge of Deputy Sher- | g645 o99 Biseailuz was expected to head for Ensenada on a theory that the fugi-| tive might land there by boat or may | tn. | automobile. | | had not been| Manning and! |two automobiles, prosumably. to fol- | p, |low a “tip” given them by Phillips. | | that or nervously walked about. “I remember the first night I spent here,” he said, referring to (Zurn to Page 8, Column 5) cas bacmeny. Wh conducive to harmony. Site cant aah to throw, Mise Ruth Hecht, coed at t Postoffice at Heatth under the Act of ¢ * March 8, ate. The seattle Star May 3, Per ¥ by Mati, to 2 , DECEMBER 6, 192! ARNY PLANES COLLIDE; SIX AIRMEN DEAD Two Officers and Four Enlisted Men Victims of Iniversity of Washington, let to be presented Friday evening by the department of traced to Mexico, it ‘was paltevea | 2ramatics, Miss Ruth Hecht, a fair Wash- dep present t ry Rose, James Barrie,, which will be presented Friday eve |Jective in her flight immediately ning in Meany auditorium. Miss Hecht was selected after competition with many other stu w Clara enters Lower Caltfornia | ington co-ed, has been selected by rt —Photo by Grady dent players who are turning out in larger numbers this year than formerly. She i a pledge to MP Beta Phi girls’ sorority and te prominent in student circles Other members of the cast are: Marie Christianson, Sarah Tenn, Grant Merriti, Joo Greenleaf, Paul Whipple, Harold Thompson and Clifford Mattox. FUND WORKERS CLARA SKARIN BOUND TO WIN ENJOYS PRISON Air Accident NORFOLK, Va., Dee. 6—Two officers and four enlisted men were killed at Langley field to day when a pursuit plane piloted by Maj. Guy L. Gearhart col- lided in the air with « Martin bembing plane commanded by Capt, Benton A, Doyle. The de Maj. Guy L. Gearhart, Towa, Capt. Benton A. Doyle, San Francisco. Staff Sergt. Arthur Marsick, Cleveland, Obie, Privates Leon Rolan, Philadel. phia; Felix Blumka, Chicago, and Tom Jordan, Georgia. The crash occurred approximately 200 feet in the alr and directly over) the flying field. Three of the men were killed when the ahipa erashed to the ground and the other three were | burned to death. Capt. Doyle was leading a forma- tion of five bombers that were just taking off. The ships had hardly cleared the ground before the Fokker pursuit plane piloted by Major Gear- | { Special arrangements have been| who will play the title role in “Mary Rose,” a charming play- | beart headed directly toward the for- | mation, It is believed the steering gear on his machine went wrong as he ap- peared to spectators on the ground to be making every effort to turn the course of his ship. The four bombers trailing Capt. Doyle managed to escape the eollis- sion by climbing above the wrecked machines, They circled the field waking « hurried landing and rushed over to the two planes, which caught fire when they fell. | Col Charles H. Danforth tmmedt- jately appointed a board of inquiry to investigate the accident. Capt. Walt- jer R. Lawson fs president of the board. | Funeral arrangements for the men | probably will be arranged Thursday Capt. Doyle was commander of the 11th flying squadron, He was one of pest known aviators in the serv- lie ber for several montha had been | Spurred On by Encouraging |Having “Lovely Time,” She directing the manouvers of the giant | First Day’s Effort When Chairman Otto F Kegel read a news dispatch, noon, saying that Denver population of 256,000, oversubscribed its Community Chest fund, and in stead of raising $609,000, subscribed in less than the allotted time, volunteer workers engaged in completing Seattle's Community | Fund took it as a challenge, and there were pledges from all parts of the hall that the solicitors will get $250,000 required to bring the fund to the required total $798,000. | The workers took the field Wed-) nesday morning full of confidn as they obtained $10,800 in tw hours’ solicitation Tuesday morning, with only part of the teams report- ing. These unpaid solicitors, all of them subscribers, say they purpose to stay on the job until Seattle denying | takes rank with other leading cities he was implicated in the plot, was| where | subjected to a severe questioning, | “gone over big.” the Communtiy Fund has The appeal made at the workers’ | meeting Wednesday noon was for volunteer subseriptions and @ subscription, which should be ne- companied by a quarter of amount, if it ia under $5, or a month- ly payment, at least, 3302 sum, to headquarters, | White building, a solicitor’s time is | saved. Chairman Kegel today urged the workers to personally ask friends to join the solicitors’ group and thug get a thousand men and women into the field, as there are 50,000 names carded for solicitation. Wednesday = morning's mail brought ® pleasing number of volunteer pledges, while a clerk at headquarters has been busy taking subscriptions brought in by men and women from all parts of the elty, Nathan Eckstein, who spoke to the workers Wednesday noon, sald: “During the war they used to say, ‘Give till it hurts’ Certainly, the suggested schedule for Community Fund giving is not in keeping with that slogan, for many of the workers are urging those who are day wage earners to give one day's pay, and those whose income in below $2,500) at the rate of a dollar to a dollar and (Turn to Page 8, Column 6) the! if it ts above! Her appearance didn’t belie her | words. She has put on several pounds during her sojourn in the] women's section of the county jail, and, attractive tho she was when she was first brought back to Se lattle for trial weeks ago, she is twice as pretty now Misys Skarin has the rare ability for | of looking her left In| workers who are, of course, unpald.' she is dressed. very time a person brings or mails| blue breakfast | Tells Reporter “I'm glad it's settled,” said Clara Skarin at the county jail Wednes-| day, when she was Informed that John F. Dore, and| Malcolm Douglas had her attorne: Prosecutor agreed on January 8 as the date for/ he ing Ferdinand “Worrk trial on the charge of murder- Hochbrunn she continued, in answer to a query. “Not a bit of it. I don’t believe I'm nearly as worried about my case as lot of folks who never laid eyes on either me or Mr, Hoehbrunn. lovely And I'm having a time here—they and let me walk walk right back in again.” best, no matter how Clothed in a soft | robe, which envel oped her entire slim body, she looked more like a debutante in her boudoir than an alleged murderess in the waiting room of a jail, Altho en dishabille, her hair was carefully dressed—piled high on top of her head—and her nails showed traces of a recent manicure, She was apparently in her highest spir ita. m sure everything will turn out all right, she declared vivactously. nu see, down ie my inmost heart, I know that I haven't done anything wrong. So, no matter what they do to me, I won't be worried. If I had been driving an automo- bile and had killed someone— that would be awful, But this Is—different. “I'm really having a lovely time here. The matrons are splendid just fine—and we girls have a lot of fun together, Of course, every one has some little tasks to do in the morning, but we're always thru by 11, and then we have the rest of the day to ourselves, “All of us are busy making Christ. mas presents now—embroldering and knitting and crocheting, We do #0 much of that that 1 haven't any |bombing ships at Langley field, |*. Major Gearheart was taking off in jorder to be in @ position to watch |the maneuvers of the be bombers. WARRANT OUT FOR JAP BANK A warrant of distraint, authorizing him to close the Japanese Commer- |cial bank of Seattle, 222 Second ave. 'S., because of alleged tax delin jquency was turned over to Sheriff |Matt Starwich Wednesday The warrant was not served, how- jever, as a motion for an order to jrestrain Starwich from closing the bank's doors had been filed in the |meantime in superior court ‘The case has been turned over to Deputy Prosecuting Attorney How- ‘ard Hanson, who ts investigating, preparatory to taking legal action | According to the language of the | warrant, it was issued because of al }leged default of payment of a per sonal tax levied against the stock of the “Sp: bank"—not stock of the Japanese Commercial. Neither | Hanson nor jam A. Gaines was able to explain just what the connection was be- |tween the two banks. jtime for any reading except the |newspapers and a few magazines. “So the time doesn’t hang heavily on my hands at ail, It's just lke a rest cure. Of course, it wouldn't be that way if I had a nervous tem- perament. But then, if I was the worrying kind, I never could have stood those in hiding before long months that IT was they caught me." || HERE’S SOLUTION OF MAYOR BROWN ON CRIME WAVE HERE Mayor Brown has found the cause of the present crime wave. He called up The Star and an- nounced it Wednesday morning. “It's because the lid is clamped on so tight,” he said, “If we per- mitted bootlegging and gambling and other forms of vice, the criminals wouldn't have to turn to banditry, But we're keeping so close on their heels that they have to stick people up to make o living,” unty Treasurer Will: | lee of the is sweeping west, outward bound shipping ts being delayed in salting until in- dications that the storm off Cape FI from the Tatoosh weather sta- tion, which was isolated early Wednesday when wire communi- cation was cut off. bound mountain-high waves struggle to make port against the 72-mile-an-hour gale. Interruption of telegraph and tele- phone service came as an aftermath tions New Cal, NOT BY Seattle’s Way Isn Chest Must Be Filled (EDITORIAL) “Do you vision the merely a chest of boards and nails? It is a motherless baby’s cry, that at all. white-haired woman’s despair.” * * The Chest moreover, the accepted method. It is the ef- ficient way. It is many drives in one. Because of it, you are spared further importunities during the ensuing year. The Chest is not near- ly full. Giving lags. What would you have? A chest half-filled means a baby on full rations half the year. Plenty of time in which to starve to death before we fill the Chest again! Or it means a half-fed, under-nourished baby the whole year ‘round. A half-filled Chest means sorrow and de- spair but half assuaged. It means snatching away the loaf before hunger is satisfied. It means old age, half-clad, plan is, with thinning blood, shivering in chilled rooms. It means help- less youth and tired age fighting for life when they might better die quickly and get the struggle over with! Half-measures are not the Seattle way. Better an empty Chest than one half full. ‘STORM DELAYS {BANDIT VICTIM COAST SHIPPING Steamers Battling 72-Mile Gale; Wires Down As a result of the storm which the entire North- lattery is abating are received Last reports stated that In- vessels were fighting in’ their the snowstorm. terrific wind accompanying Western Union sta- at Vancouver, Victoria and Westminster, B. C.; Eureka, and Port Angeles were reported off from the Seattle station Wednesday morning Telephone was local, and the service was re- stored to normal after a few hours’ inte: damage to rural lines has been re- ported to the Seattle office. Altho the heavy snow in the Cas- interruption, however, rruption Tuesday afternoon. No cades threatened to tie up train serv- loe ot ing all ity the the Pat versity way and E, 45th st,, ering In the Seattle General hospital, An operation was performed Mon tracks clear, Richard Holbrook, during the peak of the snowfall Tuesday, snowplows kept the and Wednesday morn. Seattle offices of all railway com panies reported their lines clear and trains running on schedule, Other damage in Seattle and vicin- was slight, Some street car lines operated all night Tuesday to keep tracks clear, ‘The weather forecast for Seattle and vicinity ts, snow or rain—prob: (Turn to Page 8, Column ») College Man. Has Chance for Life sophomore at University of Washington, who was shot a week ago Tuesday by roman J, H, Karlberg, at Unt. is recov. day night by Dr, Don H, Palmer to bullet, remove the HALVES ’t to Half Do Job; Community Chest as It is not ’ sorrow, an old man’s Let us fill it to the brim! Frances is showing her idea of filling the Community Chest, altho the chest in this case is a coal bucket. “Anyhow,” says Frances, “it's absolutely full.” This baby lives with her mother at the Theodora Home, where mothers and their chil- dren are kept together. A most interesting part of the work of the Community Fund agencies deals with chil dren and child welfare. Homes are found for the homeless, food for the hungry ones, and warm clothing for those not warmly clad. “Fred Galeno, who owns home on Queen Anne Hill, as @ garbage truck driver on these affidavits,” Douglas “and his brother Fred appears. other—in face of the stat was made to me by Council ert B. Hesketh that the em) of trucks for garbage collection authorized by city ordinance. _ “Fred Galeno’s beget is ed with 118% days’ work BELIEVED DYING Doctors Say Other Pistol Victim May Live After a night of great pain, Arthur De Fol, 2180 42d ave. 8. W., who was shot by two motor bandits Monday night on Admiral way near | College st., was reported to be grow- |ing weaker hourry at the City hos- pital, and physicians fear that he will not live. An X-ray examination was made jshowing that De Fol'’s left lung had |been pierced by a .88-callber bullet, | which passed close to the heart. De Foi was robbed of $65 by the two bandits after he had been shot. He provoked the shooting by knock- ing down one of the bandits with his fist when commanded to hold up his hands. Patrolman John F, Stevens, who was shot in a similar manner by bandits on Thanksgiving day morn- ing, at 17th ave. and E. Pike st., was reported to be improving slowly at the Providence hospital Wednes- day. There is now little doubt that Stevens will recover. He also was shot thru the left lung with a .88- caliber bullet when he attempted to draw his pistol on the two bandits, who were driving a stolen automo- bile, elght hours to a day, the would be used only 120 days a month if it worked conti 24 hours a day—which course, be manifestly —but that hold, because the health i ment has assured me that never pays overtime makes 30 days an absolute mum. “Edward Galeno was a close ond to his brother, His r cording to the voucher with he was paid, worked 116% one month—for $1,631, MAYOR ASKS CHANGE UNDER NEXT BUDGET “This means that the city ts ing the Galeno brothers $3, month, or $39,480 a year, for the of two trucks, “Fred Galeno—whose voucher $10,906 for one month of gal hauling was the principal reason the auditor's action in holding up. payments —is credited with, hay worked 38 teams during the mi Yet Dr. H. M. Read, the health missioner, assured me that he (Turn to Page 8, Cotumn 7) Why Not a Real — Cosy Home Now? If you arre not living in a vies built home that keeps you te and comfy, perhaps this one be the one to cheer you. Harding Nominee Is Investigated WASHINGTON, Deo, 6.—The sec- ond skirmish between President Harding and the newly organized progressives of the senate began in earnest today when the judiclary committee referred the nomination of Pierce Butler, St. Paul democrat, to 4 special sub-committee for further investigation, WONDERFUL VIE IMMEDIATE sees 4-room bungalow; bea: with closets, bath} divin and nice large kit tray and bas fine condition; Tot "ixi00. e $2,200; $300 cash, monthly, a Turn to the Dant Ad Pete Arete aise little home, Double Steamer Route Scheduled WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.--The naval hydfegraphic office shortly will recommend a “double track” for steamship traffic in the Pacific. The office has made a thorough study of Pacific ocean currents and after conference with other govern. ments Bikes suggest east and west