The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 7, 1922, Page 1

GIRL BURGLAR CONFESSES! WEATHER Tonight fair and moderat Temperature Last Maximum, S¢ Tody “VOLUME 24. Pri generally © easterly winds Hours Minimum, 20, noon, 28, The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor Mntered ae Second Clase Matter May a4 at the Postoffios at Seattle, The Seattle Sta Wash., under the Act of Congress March 8, Tindan says we should “talk up” ur street cars. Well, most of the ears can squeak for themselves. eee Why not hire a slogan writer to invent enticing phrases like OF RED PLOT U.S. Official Says) Moscow School) Operating Here BY LAURENCE M. BENEDICT WASHINGTON, Dec, 7-—The communist internationale, with headquarters at Moscow, Rus sla, is directing a widespread campaign in the United States for overthrow of the American government and Its deliverance into the hands of radicals, se cording to William J. Burns, head of the federal bureau of investigation. Direct statements to this effect! T| were made by Burns before secret see Or we might appeal to the health. faddists with, “Old Doc Brown's Lit We Brown Cars; Good for Your Liver.” cee DERN THIS WEATHER: My auto, ‘tis of thee, in—aw, this is only the tenth time we've pulled this one! . At any rate, the Turkish suitan Just escaped from Constantinople in time. eee of po F i g535F ii i 7 | “—Mayor brown. With articles on the French Tiger, Clara Phillips, the “tiger woman,” and a story by Wanda on the Pan tages tigers, yesterday's edition of ‘The Star was decidediy catty. oe “I'm having a lovely time in jail,” says Clara Skarin. Well, it all de pends on what you have been used to. Clara, you remember, was i i |committee and were revealed today | jin printed transcripts of the hear- | ings. | Burns declared that documents} obtained by hie buréau during the past year “clearly indicate” that the communist internationale ts behind | a strong movement “among negroes, | labor unions and various social or-| ganizations and women’s clubs, the ujtimate purpose being to undermine | | those organizations with the view of overthrowing the United States | government and establishing dicta- bei : iW ry fe geregeg,! i i swept the country since the raf] strikes and the Herrin mine sacre, Burns declared and “has re-/ sulted in the spreading of thousands | of ciroulars by the communist party | urging ers to disregard injuno | tions by the courts and to en-! gage in mase action against the gov- Burns made the startling reve- lation that the reds have extab- (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) CAR FARE BILL | MAY BE PASSED |Finance Board Considers | Recommendation At the close of Thursday meet- ing, packed with debate, a joint session of the city finance and | utilities committees took no ne- tion on the proposed Fitzgerald Scent carfare ordinance, other than to withhold decision until the finance committee meets Fri- day afternoon, at 2 o'clock, Several members of the joint committees expressed a desire for more time to consider the complete ordinance before voting | | i] Author of Adventure Tales Meets Real Thing—Grizzl y M EDFORD, Ore., Dec. 7 ing of underbrush, Edi writer, turned to meet the grizzly bear. Quick as a flash, Marshall for a moment; then, enraged ferociousness by the sting Marshall put everything he | | | Startled by the crash- son Marshall, noted fiction savage glare of a monster fired. The grizzly paused into even greater of the wound, charged. e had—including a prayer into one more shot—the last he would be able to fire before the bear would be upon him. Luck was with him, the bear fell dead at Marshall's feet. “And that, The Star, * easy to write fiction.” said Marsha first hand. The encounter him and the conquered grizz' to camp. Marshall is well known known to Star readers as the au! was published in this newspaper curred while he was in Alaska, in search of “colo And to prove it, he brought forth a picture showing ll today, to a reporter for is my answer to your question whether it is Marshall is a writer who believes in getting material with the grizzly bear oc ly in a canoe, crossing back ly In Seattle, and even better thor of “Snowshoe Trail,” which ® year ago and which proved to #/ be ane of the most popular fiction serials that ever appeared in Seattle. His latest book, “Sky Line of Spruce,” is apparently starting off #/ to duplicate the earlier novel's success. if | knew that she had squeezed out of | 4 . Y : Liquor Prices H igher attle Booze Is Cheaper YORK, Dec, 7—With Bootleg quotations are going up because the operators of the booms fleets have gone om virtual strike, demanding a bigger profit. While land agents and fleet opera tors haggle, the holiday demand im creanes and the price rines. “The profiteering virus” has Following are the present retail| cases prices, compared with those of the 1921 Christmas season as given by prominent bootleggers: | Rye whisky 0 | Heoteh ‘4 Gin (domes) Gin (imp) Henedictine Table wine 100.0% 0-46.00 | 0-50.00 | 100.00-110.00 | 3.00 116.00-135.00 4.00 12.00 9.00 Champagne, | cane ° 120.00 $100. up! Several bootleggers, wholesale and | retail, and a fleet operator were ques- | tioned as to the causes of the in- crease and the general condition of the rum running trade. all agreed that the man who | On strike as they have in New York. New York may be in the throes pre-holiday drought, with Such was the statement made by Prominent “wholesalers” and “retail ere” along Seattle's bootleg curb ex-| change Thursday, when they were; informed of the liquor profiteering tn | New York as announced by United! Press dispatches. “Personally,” one leading bootleg: ger said, “I’m inclined to belleve that this is all propaganda—issued in an attempt to feree the public to pay exorbitant prices for their holiday | wet goods. As far as Seattle ts con cerned, at any rats, the contraband liquor industry is on « smoother. working basis than ever before, and there is absolutely no excuse for any increase in prices. As a matter of fact, Uquor will be cheaper this year than it has been for a long time.” He explained that ft would be im- possible for the rum-runners to £0 “Too much competition,” he explained. “If one bunch of runners decided to hold up their operations to get bigger prices, another gang would be sure to step In and take their business away from them.” To show the difference between New York and Seattle bootleg con- | ditions, a table was prepared from| TRAIL CLARA ON DESERTS Fugitive Woman Is Reported in Many Places LOS ANGELES, Dee. 1-—Out on the trackless wastes of the desert south of the Mexican bor. der the real hunt for Clara Mhil- lips, escaped “tleer woman” of the “hammer murder” case, was in progress today. While office clerks and stenogra pher# at the jail here were left to | deal with the reports coming from all points of the compass — Ogden, Omaha, Chieago and a half dozen towns in California and Arizonw that “Clara was seen here,” Sheriff Traeger and his picked assistants de voted themmelves to the Mexican bor der country, Those who know the border and who know something of Mre. Phil Ups are convinced that she has crossed the international line. Prob- ably she cronsed it before the officers: the cell in the county Jail here. 6o, down “below the line” in Low. er California, Vincente Ignacio, half Mexican and half Indian, a guide| ® known the length of the border coun- try ae « man familiar with every trafl in the wastes of northern Mex- feo, rode at the head of a mounted Behind him rofe Mexican police, resplendent in bright red uniforme, contrasting against the drab color. ings of the desert in the clouded morning light, and picked represen tatives from the Los Angeles sher iff's office. But Vincente’s party wasn’t alone in ite search, altho Vincente prob- ably will lead it farther and into wilder lands, where water holes are farther between than the others. Sheriff Traeger himself crossed the international line at Tia Juana today. hound for the cabin of “Gold Tooth” Johnson, a character well | known in Low Angeles, Clara Phillips had befriended “Gold Tooth” in the Los An- fkeles jail, “Maybe “Gold Tooth’ is paying her back now in her hour when friends are needed,” officers thought. St a third expedition, led by Eugene Biscailus, of the Los Angeles sheriff's office—a man whose name often has been in print when Los Angeles ts enjoying one of its mur. der mysteries—had penetrated as {Turn to Page 9, Column 3) STORM SUBSIDES u" Per Your, by Mati, z The Triangular H ypothesis A short story, of the “Triumphs of M. Jon- quelle” series, by Mel- ville Davisson Post. Copyrighted, 1922, N. E. A. Service, Inc. “ | | | ' ! | j | The man's loose body seemed to |have been packed into his clothing as tho under @ pressure. There was |the vague note of victory in his | voice. “Monsteur,” he said, “no dead Frenchman has ever been valued to us at less than fifty thousand francs. He may have been a worthless vei dor of roast chestnuts “before the Madeleine, but if he died in Stam- |boul, he was straightaway worth | fifty thousand francs. You will ob. |serve, monsieur, that your govern- ment has already fixed the price for murder.” The Prefect of Police looked across the long, empty room at the joned door, “But was this dead man e@ citizen of the Turkish empire? We seem to have a memory of him.” The Ortental smiled. it down-—-the citizen which is born, and the citizen which is aequired. Each are vatued to us at least fifty thousand franca, as your schedule in the Indemnities ot the Sublime Porte so clearly set it out. Dernburg Pasha was acquired, monsieur. But he is dead! And the indemnity for him, as you have so admirably e¢s- | tablished it, is not subject to a dis count... . You came from the For- eign Office, monsieur?” The Prefect of Police bowed. He put his hand tnto the pocket of his coat as with a casual gesture, his fingers closing over an article that lay concealed there. The Envoy went on: “I found the Minister Dellaux of an unfailing courtesy; if a subject of our empire has been murdered in Parts, an adequate indemnity would | be paid.” The scene at the Foreign Office, when he had been called in before the Minister, came up for an instant to Monsieur Jonquelle, The tall, ele- gant old man had been profoundly annoyed. This murder came at a vexatious moment, at precisely the moment when the Foreign Office (Turn to Page 17, Column 1) COUNCIL HEARS GRAFT CHARGES Thoro Probe Looms After r HOM Til EDITION Mill TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE CAUGHT AS SHE STEALS Milliner Decl ares She Was Fore to Try Burglary to Gain Livelihood Millinery didn’t pay well enough, so she turned b . This is what Elsie Yolen told Captain of Detectives Ch Tennant Thursday morning, fo! charge of burglary. *. & & * wing her arrest * * #& Arrested as a burglar at 3:30 a. m. Thursday, Miss Yolen, pretty young milliner, of 1010 University st., fessed at noon to Captain of Detectives Charles that she had within the last week burglarized two ho caping with a quantity of elaborate household goods, : ing to a statement given at police headquarters. The arrest of Miss Yolen the crime wave Wednesday night and Thursday, which 1 marked by the apprehension of 10 men in the general r up of “undesirables” and burglar-bandit suspects no carried out by the police on was the outstanding feature Bes a wholesale scale, fol shooting of three men and dozens of holdups and other crim in Seattle during the past two weeks, E As Miss Yolen left her apartment brought back from California. o- Douglas Talks at $30 a. m. Thursday, carrying a brass jardiniere flower pot, Sergt. R. F, Newton and Patrolman H. J. Hayes stepped up to her and put her buys his drinks over the bar will not {be affected. Each saloon, according | to its location, its patronage and the quality of its wares, has a fixed price, |data collected along rum_ row, | which proves conclusively that boot. | lleg prices are lower thie year than last—in direct contradiction of the on its recommendation. The Fitzgerald ordinance, in addition to the 5-cent cash fare, provides for transfers with token AND SHIPS SAIL KILL BANDITS CHIEF ORDE! Believe it or not, the name of our mew waterfront reporter is BE. Tardy and he was late to work on his first | An investigation of graft charges against the garbage di- coat 6 | Lr. . TH OFFICE | | One book that some of these female literary clubs ought to study is the cook book pr ee Ralph Douglas, importer, charges municipal garbage department pays $29,480 a year for the use of two garbage trucks. They must be Kolls-Royces eee li Undoubtedly the council will take action and then we can expect to see headlines like “WILL KILL SWILL | BILL. f | . And Li'l Gee Gee thinks that a is a place where they destroy CHRISTMAS, ioe? the night before Christmas, ‘hen all thru the house, By the chimney with care, In that the Coal Man Seon would be there, ee Banditry is rife in Seattle, but to! date we have heard of no postmen being shot under the delusion that they were confederate soldiers. eee So many men are being hot on the streets these days that when one pedestrian meets another he says, “Did you have your iron today?” LINCOLN, Neb.— Prof. William Francis Dann, 66, head of art and| department at University of Nebraska, dies here, |troduced shortly after the session } selling at 4 for 25 cents, to con form with recommendations made by Mayor Brown. The Fitzgerald motion to pass, in j opened, at 10 o'clock, was immediate. | ly seconded by Councilman Robert B. Hesketh, but action was held up | by @ series of debates on the wisdom of minor details of the ordinance, | and objection on the part of Council: | man Oliver T. Erickson and Philip | ‘Tindall to the transfer system. | Erickson’s suggestion that his plan with a Scent cash fare, 3-cent| tokens and no transfer—be weighed | against the Fitzgerald plan was (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) Day by Day in Every Way, Star Want Ads Bring Greater Returns || From bargains offered the WANT AD COLUMNS. Here is a dandy. in BARGAIN $1,450 finished building a California bungalow for an elderly couple. Owing to death of husband, it is neces- sary to dispoge of this hou It fs brand new, and has ne been occupied. | Will sell house and 2 acres choice pou try and berry land for $1,450, on terms of $200 cash and $16 per month, Only 2% miles from city mits of Seattle. If you're seeking bargain, see this place today. Inquire | Turn to the Want Ad Columns and see who will show this little bargain lout, contending they cannot afford to | trade would fall off. | mas | private telegram from Rellingham, | Competition is too strong to allow anyone to raine the bar drinkers’ | price, Smail bootleggers are holding | risk arrest and imprisonment for profit as small as they would recetve if they paid the operators’ price. ‘They point out that they cannot md- dently boost their prices or their Prohibition agents in the New York district estimate that 200 ships, large and small, are now engaged in rum running along the Atlantic const ‘This fleet is now occupied tn an at- tempt to smuggle tnto the United States $30,000,000 worth of Christ- “cheer,” these agents and offi- clals of the dry navy said. SHIP DAMAGED BY EXPLOSION! SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 7.—The steamer W. A, Higgins narrowly | excaped destruction by fire at sea early today, following an explosion | in the vessel's hold, according to Wash., received No details here to today | the extent of| the damage, whether there was any | lows of life anyone injured or the cause of the explosion were con- tained in the message, as To Bury Mahoney in Walla Walla WALLA WALLA, Dec, 7.—Funer- al services for James BE. Mahoney, who was executed at the prison De cember | for the murder of his wife, will be held here Saturday Rev. Stephen Buckley will conduct hee Bastern state of affairs. The table follows This Year Last Year| $90 80! 75 | 40) Rye Scotch (per case) Gin (Gordon's) (per case) Gin (synthetic) (per gal.) Benedictine (no figures available) .. l Table wine, red (per al.) Madeira (no figures available) Champagne (per case). whisky (per case), $80 1% 65 20 PRESIDENT IS TIGER’S HOST WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. — The United States government today of. ficlally honored Georges Clemenceau As a state luncheon guest of Presi dent Harding at the White House, the French war premier sat with the highest officials of the administrat ive and legislative branches of the government The vice-president tice of the supreme court, seven cabinet memt house and senate leaders and ranking officers of the army and navy all combined to hon- or Clemenceau. Two Workmen Die . Ms in Oregon River EUGENE, Ore, Dee, 7.— David Lynn, ploneer resident of Eugene, and Henry Nestle were drowned early this morning in the Willamette river while they were attempting to string a cable across the river. Their the chief jus Seattle Feels Cold, but Is Not Troubled The violent wind and snow storm which has been sweeping the North Pacific coast has ap- parently passed, and shipping was getting back to normal Thursday, Only a 30-mile wind was reported off Tatoosh, as against the 72-mile gale that lashed the point Wednesday, and the general weather prospect was promising. A number of ships delayed sall- ing Wednesday on account of the heavy weather, but all of them cleared Thursday, in addl- tion to the vessels scheduled to leave, No ships in distress have reported, ttle felt comparatively little of the storm which hit the coast. The temperature Wednesday night — 28 degrees —was the lowest recorded since last winter, but weather bureau officials said that this was not un usually low for this season of the year, Last December the tempera ture went as low as 19, and in De. cember, 1919, it reached the low mark of 12. ‘The cold was felt more than usual, however, on account of a chilly 24 mile wind which accompanied It, com- ing from the north and northeast. No inconvente: s have been suf- fered by public utilities companies on account of the cold snap, D, W. Hen- derson, superintendent of the muniet- pal railroad, announced that all lines were operating on schedule, and the transcontinental railroads made the same report. No more snow is expected by the boat overturned, and neither body has yet been recovered. Mr, Lynn serv: was well known thruout the North. weat. weather bureau for the present, but the mercury was expected to drop below the freezing point again Thurs- day night, visioin of the city health depart- ment loomed Thursday as the re- sult of a public hearing held Wednesday by the public safety committee of the city council. The committee refused to con- ider the charges which were made by Ralph Douglas, repre- senting the Auto Truck Co., but Mrs. Henry Landes, chairman of the committee, suggested that a thoro investigation should be authorized by the city council. The only actual action taken at Wednesday's hearing was the rejection of Councilman A, Lou Cohen's ordinance directing the board of public works to call for bids for a 10-year contract for collecting and disposing of all the city’s garbage under a §150,- 000 bond. It was in advocating passage of this bill, on the ground that the pres- ent system of garbage collection ts hopelessly obsolete and graft-ridden, that Douglas made his charges against the department, but the coun- cll members refused to give serious consideration to the accusations, J. A, Johnston, H, H. Kulies, T. Davies and others spoke in op- position to the bill, their principal argument being that the contract system would permit the employ- ment of foreigners for garbage re- moval, Phil Tworoger pointed out that, under the existing system, | Practically all the garbage men are Ttallans, but he was not permitted a. remarks were irrelevant Charles L, Murray, superintendent of the garbage removal division, spoke in answer to Douglas’ charges and explained how the department had paid one truck for 118% day: work in a single month and another (Turn t Page 9, Column 4 to continue on the ground that his) under arrest. She was taken back to her rooms, where the officers lo- cated a large amount of goods, in- cluding a mahogany piano lamp, & bronze table lamp, a china vase and a silk pillow, which had been stolen from Mrs. Daugherty, of 1010 Union st., on December 4. Articles, including the flower pot, which had been stolen from Mrs. Maud, 716 Madison st., found in the apartment. “I was hard up for money,” Miss Yolen is said to have told Capt. Ten. nant, “and altho I was employed in a millinery shop here, I couldn't make enough at it. So I just turned to burglary.” ‘The girl came to Seattle recently from Vancouver, B. had been working os @ milliner for the past seven years, The girl refused to tell Tennant how she had become acquainted with modern methods of burglars, or how she had learned the use of pass keys. How Miss Yolen managed to calmly enter apartments and ransack them with the sangtroid of an experienced yegg, carrying off heavy and unwieldy articles —for she weighs only 92 pounds and is slight of build—is a mys- tery to the police. She insists that she worked alone and had no male accom: plices. According to Tennant, bur. glary charges will be preferred against her, Among the 10 suspects arrested in the roundup Wednesday night were several men with polloe records as burglars and safe crackers. These men will be charged as disorderly persons and vagrants and sentneced in police court. Altho several police “prowler cars’ “Vurn to Page 9, Column 2) A general clean-up of all @ desirable citizens was 4 by coc by Chief of Police 1 Severyns, who is acting der direct orders from ; J. Brown in the matter. A by the wave of outlawry has been sweeping the city the last several weeks—the since the orgy of crime years ago, which resulted in murder of four Brown called Severyns into drastic steps be taken to on- verbal orders to his policemen | “shoot to kill” In the bandits, provided they are guilt of their prey, Both Severyns and tectives Charles Tennant are the present crime wave as an ment in favor of their plea more policemen, now pending: the city council. “One of the reasons for all @ outlawry,” said Severyns Thurs “ts the fact that we haven't policemen—either downtown the outlying districts.” Capt. Tennant said the great | is for more “prowler cars” town, and more men to man “Foot patrolmen,” he “can't be expected to cope with: mobile bandits. We must fight with fire.” An impetus was added to € clean-up of crooks by the news: (Turn to Page 9, © a a