The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 11, 1922, Page 1

YEGGS BLOW 2 SEATTLE SAFES WEATHER Tomight and tinued Tuesday, fair, cold; moderate easterly winds FORECAST con The paper with a 15, 000 daily circulation lead | over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star Hotered ae Beoond Clans Mateor May 8 VOLUME 24, NO. 248, 1499, at the Postoffice at Heuttle Pastor Exposes Vice Dens: Dope, Booze Mart Wide Open + Howdy, folks! Honorary life memberships in the Meanest Man club are hereby bestowed upon the yeaggs who dynamited the Ked Cross Jumble shop Monday. ee Sctentist says the day ts approach. tng when it will be possible to broad: | cast smells. But this ty old stuff, ax anyone who knows limburger cheese will testity cee Gong Lee, the man who taught | Chicago how to eat chop sucy, com. | mitted suicide. He probably ate some of his own stuff by mi T SAME FOR CHAPLIN Kumor now is that Jack Demp- sey_is to marry some movie star uasiied Doris somebody, We wish that fella would get married or licked o something. Une thing the King county grand jury doesn’t have to worry about: | Doing their Christmas shopping | arly. | eee | And-Jim Marshall potnts out that | all the neckties the stores can’t sell to men during the year are put out on the and sold to women Just before | 4 o- They went to school together, | They grew up side by side; But he never know he loved her— | Till her rich uncle died. | eee Judge Oriffiths advocates two month vacations for judges. We're im favor of giving ‘em 12-month va cations see It now develops that Pola Negri stil! has « perfectly good husband (Turn to Page 8. Column 1) Great Cipher A short story, of the “Triumphs of M. Jon- queile” series, by Mel- || ville Davisson Post. _ - W ann under the A Consress March 8 WwW ASH, . MONDAY, DECE MBE: R 1, 19 Dr. Chauncey J. Hawkins, pastor of Plymouth Congregational church, who charges open vice is rampant in Seattle and announces a war to force the city administration to rid the city of bootleggers and scarlet women. PRoto by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers Copyrighted, 1922, N. E. A. Service, Inc. It was @ night of tiiustons. The wholé world was unreal. The city could not be seen, There was a sort of fairy vista extending over the gar- dens across the bit of park into the haze, pierced by the narrow white shaft of the National mounment ex- | tending into the sky There was a heavy odor of Jeasa- mine and honeysuckle lying about the southern portico of the executive mansion. But there were no lights. ‘The whole of the portico was in heavy shadow. A big, strong, mascu- line voice, cultivated and firm, was speaking. “I any glad that business of your halls. embaney brought you to America, | Seattle. Monsieur Jonque' it maid, “be- eaune 1 wanted to ask you about that laxt expedition of Chauvannes' 1 knew Chanvannes in South Afri- ca. He was a first-class mah. What was the mystery about his death? ‘The current report at the time could ot have been the truth. It was| too fantastic.” One might have made out the fig- ure of the Frenchman by looking closely in the dim light. He sat in « long chair, his legs extended, fers. His voice was low and clear when he spoke, like one engaged with & reflection. “It wan all the truth, Excellency,” he sald, “ax we now know.” ‘The big voice interrupted fantastic story! The Preachaian's change, , "The truth about it,” he said, “Is even more fantastic than the current story of the time, Nobody believed it. Nobody could have belteved t.| When his journal finally came in, everybody thought Chauvannes had kone mad before the end. The things he wrote down simply could not have happenea!” He paused. Then: “But it was every word the truth. . There are the emeralds in the Louvre.” The big man beyond Mondeur Jonquelte, obscured by the thick | shadow, mate an exclamation of an- tontshment “The emeralds,” he sald, “are of Solrne proof of the fact that Chau- urn to Page 11, Column 1) MR, DUFF, YOUR TAK! 1S HERE! ALL RIGHT, "That voice did not chief executive of Seattle. here are the high spots of his last week: Denounced by the University of Washington Daily be- cause he said that girls at the Varsity ball were no more modestly dressed than the “entertainers MISS, LEE - Mayor Has Hectic Week With Beloved Citizens Mayor E. J. Brown has just had what is probably the most hectic week that has ever been experienced by any Not to go into painful details, - Called a liar by Rev. Chauncey J. Hawkins from the pulpit of Plymouth Congregational church because of his statements denying the existence of vice conditions in Bars federal prohibition agents’ prisoners from the city jail and makes serious accusations against William Whi ney, assistant prohibition director, who in turn intimates that Brown is in league with the bootleggers. Fights with city council over 5-cent carfare and sees his own pet scheme go down to probable defeat. Issues statement making counter attack on clergymen who are criticizing his administration. clgarst, ualighted, moving in his fin. | DOINGS OF THE DUFFS SAY. HELEN, | WON'T BE HOME FOR DINNER | HAVE A COUPLE OF ERRANDS TO GO ON AND WON'T BE HOmE UNTIL ABOUT NINE OCLOCK ~ | CAN'T in public dance CONSPIRACY IS League With Lawyer By Robert B. Bermann William Whitney, federal aceused by Mayor E. Monday of a force law partner standby, Bert } It was this all assistant prohibition agent, was J. Brown conspiracy to prisoners to employ his and old political throp 1 conspiracy, | the mayor said, whieh led him | to authorize Chief of Police W. B. Severyns to refuse to lodge the prohibition office's prixo In the elty Jail. “I have been informed,” said Brown, “that Bill Whitney has been arresting people and throwing them Minto the elty jail without any war. rant or other process of law: that \ (Turn to Page 8, Corumn 5) MAYOR'S CLAIM | es a Asserts Whitney Is in| | Hawking has had members of his lcongregation investigating vi | ditions as they exist in Seat { places where intoxicating | WOMEN CALL TO PASSERS Mayor, Chief Deny Existence, but Many Find Dives} By F. A. Fessler Vice rampant, uncontrolied and unashamed, walks the streets, haunts the hotels, and plies its trade in Seattle, while Mayor FE. | 4. Brown, Chief of Police W, B Severyns and every police offi corr is utterly unaware of its exlstence. Such i» the declaration of Dr. Chauncey J. Hawkins, pastor of the Plymouth Congregational church, at Sixth ave. and Uni- versity st. For the past several weeks Dr con » today. | he myn, they! hundreds of quor may be purchased, where drugs are ve ed openly, and where scarlet women | solicit in the oldest profession known in that short time have found literally j to man. Dr. Hawkina informed The & 1879, Ver Year, by Mal, #6 to 9° His eye fell on a long, heavy club of spruce. * * * He bent and his strong hands seized it. As he swung it high, the girl leaped between—with a last, frantic effort, wholly instinctive—to shield Ben’s body with her own. But it was only an instant’s reprieve. Chan * * ® jerkedheraside. * * * Yet it was to be that Ray’s murderous blow was never to go home. A mighty and terrible ally had come to Ben’s aid. He “ame pouncing from the darkness, a gaunt and dreadful avenger whose code of death was as remorseless as Ray’s own. It was Fenris, the wolf, and he had found his master at last. That's just one of a hundred gripping passages from “The Sky Line of Spruce”’—the latest novel from the pen of Edison Marshall, It’s one of the kind of books that you just can’t stop reading once you've started it. It will be published serially in THE STAR BEGINNING THURSDAY s..@ #& Astoria Asks Money Relief ASTORIA, Ore., Dee, Ih— | Ne confirmation has been ob- puty State Fire Marshal Hal tained by authorities of the Pomeroy Is here today commence story told by a local business lng his investigation of the ori | man Friday, who said that a gin of Friday's fire, which Inid woman had told him of a visit the business section of Astoria to her room made by a lumber- in ashes Jack, who claimed to have set —_—-—. _ the town on fire, SEEK SLAYER wea mostly wal a, sllee: WRN ee- v Ct “0 OF DRY AGENT, sauy avenues for the epread of tha flames. Mipeteral offers and pomsen ot| Most of the eye witnesses of the ALL LAL LAL LPL TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE {CROOKS ROB RED CROSS; $160 TAKEN \Expert Cracksmen Get Charity Cash but Find Nothing at Soda Works A team of experienced yemg- men dynamited two Seattle safes: early Monday, but owing to tne — oversight of the owners, ob tained but $160 cash from both attempts. ‘The safe at the Red Crome Shop, at Fourth ave, and Wh st., was discovered with tts biown off at 9 o'clock, when | Cross workers arrived. The | had pulled it to the center of |shop and drilled thru the | tion dial, blowing it off with mite. The inner door had forced open and $160 cash o | The remainder of the week's had been removed to « bank | day night. ‘ For the thifd time in @ year, J. G. Fox Bottling Works, at ave. N. and Republican et., was |tered and the safe blown open. )heavy charge of dynamite wag the whole front of the safe being ¢ molished. But a few valueless” pers were in the strong box, as Fox deposited the company’s in a bank Saturday. Detectives Jack Landis and cases, have been unable to any clues to the identity cracksmen, who were evidently perts. ‘ citizens scoured the hill country of r | Monday that he Intends to push nie | fa E Reged ‘sae talon ig | Menefee county ane the wet Mayor Brown dentes Dr. Hawking |e ‘Freatupy, mos $1 charge, claiming absolute ignorance Of the dives the pastor mentioned, Treadway was sain from ambush | withbut im hie sermon at inte Sunday as he led a party of Plymouth chureh Bunday night. [county officers on the trail of Elsewhere in The Star today Dr.|moonmhinere thought to be respon- Hawkins’ sermon appears as he de. |aible for the death of Prohibition livered & Upon request of The Star,| Agent Robert Duff. who wan shot) | the doctor gave the blocks and|fsom ambush the day before | streets in which the vice conditions| Treadway fell within a few yards | exiat. They follow: jot the spot where Duff was killed. | “In the 700 block on Wash- rons ington st. I (an investi, stor) was solicited by colored’ women trom [BOOZ E CASES the third floor. “In the 900 block on Wash- ington st. I was solicited by col- ored women from window.” In another house on the same block the man was solicited by WASHINGTON, Deo, 11.—Prose- ution of dry law violators under | atate law In state courts i not a bar to prosecution for the same offense | colored women, who came to the | under federal jaw in federal courts. door and called out, “Come on (the supreme court held today, over in, Honey.” ruling a decision by the courts of In another house tn the same the state of Washington block, same street, a colored Double liability was intended by woman from an upstairs window | congress, the court declared, go the pet wary for an investigator to | federal government could prosecute come in. Mquor violators if states having their In the same block a colored | wr, enforeement lawn failed to pun- wre to Page 48, Ootemen | bad Tacs properly Hawkins Is ‘‘Tool’’ in Vice War, Says Brown Heplying to Rey. Chauncey J. Hawkins’ Sunday night sermon at Ply- mouth Congregational church, Mayor E. J. Brown issued a statement Monday in which he intimated that the clergyman was acting as the tuol of sinieter special interests tn his crusade against vioe in Seattle. "ve never mot the Rey. Mr. Hawkins,” Brown said, “so I don't know much about his connections, "But I'm reminded of a case that recently came to my attention. A certain group of cigar stores in this clty found that they couldn't keep any check on their stock as long as they prac- ticed dice-shaking, so they decide#to put an end to the game. But they knew that they couldn't compete very successfully with other stores that permitted shaking—and they paid a local clergyman $1,000 in cash to start a crusade against, dice-shaking. “As I say, I don't know much about the Rev. Mr. Hawkins—but it'll all come out some day “And when I meet him tn front of St, Peter one of these days, I'm positive that there'll be Just as many lies charged up to him as there are to me.” Dr. Brown alxo took a fling at Rev tary of the Federation of Churches. Mr. Chatterton admitted to me that the crusade his organization has been conducting agninst the dance halls was started because the federa- tlon i# out of money and they thoughf they might get back on their feet financially if they attracted a lot ofttention,” he asserted A peal of merry laughter answered the above charges by Mayor Brown when they were read to Dr. Hawkins’ secretary over the tele phone. Dr. Hawkins was out and could not be reached tn time to answer personally, ‘That's some more of the mayor's amoke screen to evade the real issue,” the secretary declared, “Of course he doesn’t know Dr. Hawkins or he would know how impossible euch a statement can be.” H. 1, Chatterton, executive secre. It Smacks of Mystery WELL, WHAT DID ME HAVE To SAY - WAS HE MORE AGREEABLE THAN HE WAS LasT JUDGE FOR YOUR SELF, OLIVIA= HE SAID HE WoULD NOT BE HOME FoR DIMMER- | CALLED HIM AT THE OFFICE THIS MORNING AND THEY SAID HE WASN'T WHERE Do You SUPPOSE HE ‘S HELEN? HE DIDN'T SAY -HUH? DO You THINK HE'S AY HIS OFFICE P Sad ie WHERE HE. 15, THAT'S IT! | BELIEVE ML CAL (LE CALL HIS OFFICE ANY WAY AND SEE IF HE'S THeRe TRIED TWICE) | | | | reported the commerce and labor de- fire in ite early stages saw it from the residential section on the hill behind the town. These witnesses “GENT FARES _ PUT OFF W Councll Agrees" to viaducts before the alarm was given. Police are, however, quietly tn- vestigating the actions of a small |sroup of radicals, whom Chief of | | Police Carlson believes may have | been responsible for the conflagra tion. a who are at work on the ty The danger of factional dis- putes among local politicians was dissipated this morning at sae meeting of the committee of ten, all differences have been (Turn to Page 8. Column 2) Editorial Astoria needs $100,000 for re- lief purposes this winter, accord- ing to the estimate of Major Oles, Chamber of Commerce rep- resentative, who has just re |ed, it calls for a 6-cent fare turned from a mission of inquiry ‘free transfers. This change in the burned city. made effective by @ vote of fi Seattle will wish toraisen sub- | fUF stantial part of that sum. What The expressed attitude of Coun means shall be adopted for ob- |men C. B. Fitzgerald, Robert taining this city’s share must ina be “ o be ; . jonday morning was Esteem a é or’s plan be incorporated into # e Star does not believe the | °° i nice and tried out, In onder money can or should come out give the people lower fare and at of the Community Chest. same time put the eepaneinnnean However, it might be the part | Th! ayo as sponser of the of good sense and efficiency to In addition, Council wonmil organize a big new civie commit. ficatnryn Miracle and Mra tee to undertake the joint task of |Tondes spoke in favor of the fe compleing the | Community | quested week's delay, before fund and raising the amount de- | Cosnoit met at 2 p.m. cided upon for Astoria’s assist- With six of the nine counelt ance all in one whirlwind pre- | hers for delay and four for the holiday drive. or's plan, it appeared before the Seattle is at heart a Good | ct! met that either postponement Neighbor, and must show by adoption of the transfer plan her performances now that she | be voted by the council. is one in deed, That free transfers allow cost- —_—_ ly abuses of the system, thru trons who do not use ti ere taking them for friends, is of the strong objections by the mayor and others favor a nominal transfer charge. in a letter to the council at Monday afternoon session, _ Consideration of two substi the provisions in the ordinance ts the basts for the desire for delay in balloting ordinance. The Fitzgerald as first considered by the o a joint session of the council utt and finance committees last specified a S-cent cash fare 6\-cent transfer token. As | tition was to be officially Appropriation Bill Reported in House WASHINGTON, Dec, 11,—The house appropriations committee today PENDING LEGISLATION women will be particularly in the Seattle Grade School zine, publication of Seattle teacl which published its anni number Saturday, First di of the number was to be made day, partment appropriation bill, carrying a total of $26,807,101. The report allows the commerce department $19,168,646 and the labor department $6,643,556. —BY ALLMAN NO, MR. DUFF AIN'T BEEN HERE ALL NIGHT? A STAR WANT AD Will bring that prospect * to your door, Call Main 0600 and Phone Us ~ Your Want Ads