The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 14, 1922, Page 1

Tonight and Friday fair, tinued cold; easter Temperature Last 34 Hours Maximum, 34, Today rane con- moderate ty wind. Minimum, 25. noon, 25, VOLUME 24. NO. 261. Here Is the Opening Chapter of Great New! “Sky Line of Sp Matered as Hocond Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffios attie, Wash, wader the Act of Tongress March 8, 167, ape SEATTLE WASIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 192: Pacific Northwest Adventure Tale BY EDISON MARSHALL Author of “The Snowshoe Trail,’ Etc. Copyright, 1922, Littls, Brown & Company. PART 1—The Wakening e convict gang had a pleasant place to work today. Their road building had taken them some miles from the scattered outskirts of Walla Walla, among fields green with growing barley. The air was fresh and sweet; the Western meadow larks, newly come, seemed in ruce” MARK TRIAL OF MAYOR'S AIDE Charged With to Addicts By Robert B. Bermann That J. Howard Shattuck, state parole officer, approached Mayor EK. J. Brown and told him that Mrs, Hartford was being made a “goat,” that the whole trouble was over the Legate mur- der and that he could “square” it if he went to the federal au- thoritios. ‘That federal narcotic agents tn Beattlo give narcotics to their “stool pigeons” tn exchange for the services in betraying other dope addieta, | These two charges were the sensa- | tons of Thursday morning's session of the trial of Nellie Hartford before | Federal Judge Cushman on the} |charge of illegal possession of na: | cotion, ‘The first charge was made by the mayor, who took the stand shortly | before noon as the last witness for the defense. “Shattuck called me up on dune 14,” Dr. Brown testified, “and anked me to come to the Butler hotel to see him. When I got there he told me that Nel Me had been the goat; that the whole trouble was over the Le gate cane and that I could square it by going to the federal people.” The other charge was made by Harry Mercer, a self-admitted former dope-addict, who declared that he had been employed by the local federal officials to investigate the narcotic traffic and that dope was the only payment he had ever received for these services, An effort waa mate to tmpeach his testimony by show!ng that he wae still « narcotic addict, but he stead faxtly maintained that he had been cured. Dr. Brown's testimony was repudt- | ated by Shattuck, who was recalled to the etand by the government as | soon an the mayor finished. | “Emphatieally not,” he és | elared, when asked if he had made the statement which Dr, Brown had just ascribed to him from the stand. Mrs. Hartford herself took the stand during the morning, test fying that the morphh hich (Turn 15, Column 3) 36 PLANES IN AIRMEN HUNT imminent danger of splitting their own throats thru the exuber-| joiner me army toany in the week ance of their song. Pe Howdy, folks! Bought your motherin-law'’s Christmas pres ent yet? oe According to the society column, many people are planning egs-no« parties for Christmas. Our telephone number ts Main 9690. ee Seattle ministers are boping that a Claus will bring Mayor Brown ute little recall for Christmas. eee LITTLE HOMER'S SONG Don't give me posies, When it's a kiddiekar that I ‘Want. eee The favorite indoor sport these Gays is buying dad @ Christmas Present with his own money. ose The Yule season 4s dedicated to “peace on earth and good-will to men.” Nothing ts said about women shoppers. eee The merrie old custom of bringing fn the Yule log is no longer ob- nerved; instead, the janitor throws on another nickel’s worth of coal. see THE FIGHTING DENTIST Why doesn’t Mayor Brown put himself under the management of Austin & Sait? see ‘That narcotics and whisky are sold in Seattle, and that other vices ure practiced to a limited extent is probable.”--Mayor Brown. By gosh, you can't fool that guy! see ROY LYLE, PLEASE NOTE Engineers lowered Lake Union and Lake Washington 15 inches yesterday, and all the residents {Turn to Page 6, Column 5) ‘easily moved to wide 4 Even the steel rails of the Northern Pacific, | ,running parallel to the stretch of new road, gleamed |pleasantly in the spring sun. The convicts themselves were in a genial mood, ins; and with a single excep- gang at n expert might have ‘recognized purely criminal types among them: to a an they suggested merely the lower grades of Some of the faces were distinctly brutal; there was the sullen visage of a powerful negro who, with different environment, might have been a Congo prince; but | | the face of “Plug” Spanos, a notorious gunman who was by ov far the worst character in the gang, might have been that of an artless plow-boy in a distant land under a warm sun. Curiously tion they looked much like any other roa work anywhere in the land. laym: \unskilled labor. There however, the “exception.” remained, enough, whenever the warden’s thought dwelt upon the in- |mates of his prison, classifying them into various groups, there was always one wind-tanned, vivid face, one brawny, |towering form, that seemed to demand individual consider- | lation. The man who was listed on the records as Ben Kin-| jney was distinctly an individual. jclassify among the groups of his fellows. ‘guards had an interesting subject of conversation. In the first place he habitually did two men’s work. made any such mistake as that. (Turn to Page 6, Column 3) |DOINGS OF THE DUFFS THERE SEEMS To BE / wero, ouwia, ) A STRANGE SITUATION] ARE YoUHOME ) IN THE DUFE HOUSEHOU ai one? WHERE pets Sgt a 19 THE REST OF SOMETHING OTHER THE FAMILY 7 THON HIS HOME WHE HELEN SPENDS A GREAT DEOL OF WER Time IN & Room BY HERSELF wiTh THE DooR. LOCKED -!T 15 LOCKED | AT 4LL TIMES JUST WHAT 1S THE CAUSE OF THIS SITVATION TIME Ory CAN TELL~ OH NO, DANNY 1S in BED AND HELEN 13 UP STAIRS IN He some way failed to Because he had been sent out today with the road gang the two armed He |did not do it with any idea of trying to ingratiate himself with his keepers; no inmate of the institution at Walla Walla He did it purely because |he could not tone down his mighty strength and energy to | with’ $100,000 in uncut stones and old search for the missing aviators, Col, Francie Marshall and Charles Webber. ‘There are now 36 planes of the two branches of the service in the hunt for the misisng men. Cavalry te beat- ing thru the berren Santa Rita mountains and Indian runners are Lieut. hope of finding them, There ts little hope of finding them allve, officials said today, unless they spot, far from ctvilization and away | from means of communication, | Jailed as Vagrant, Is Heir to $30,000 DENVER, Col., Dec. 14—In Jail today was heir to an estate of $20,000. Scull, whose arrest yesterday was his ninth this year, recetved word of his good fortune from a son, Delroy Scull, prosperous merchant of Ster- ling, Colo, The estate was left Scull by a aister, Fannie Fillmore, who died in Williamsport, Pa., three weeks ago. HOLDUPS GET $100,000 GEMS) CHICAGO, Dec. 14.-Police today had no trace of the two r last night held up James rigon, diamond broker, n who| 2. Har and escaped $2,000 In cash HELEN, MAY I SEE You FoR \ A MINUTE D NO, NOT JUST NOW, Tom: 2 SENSATIONS) [Federal Officials | Supplying Dope): 17 KILLED IN Trapped Victims. sine on the Houston, a West Texas railroad Hum ble. The liston. YEGES BLOW Union Co-operative Stores A band of crackamen obtained ap- nate of the Union Co-operative Stores at Auburn early Thursday morning. The yoges entered the store by crashing open a side door dragged the safe to the center of the room about It to deaden the sound of the dynamite explosion which demolish. tratling over the Sonora desert in the | 64 the safe door and inner compart: | ments, The lo’clock when the store was opened, |are being cared for at some remote jana City Marshal Nathan Pade was immediately called. King patched to Auburn when the ald of Sheriff Starwich was sought. From the methods employed tn forcing the door of the safe it is be- |Iheved that the same band of yes for vagrancy, William P. Scull, 68,{who entered the Red Cross Jumble [Shop and Fox Bottling Works here last Auburn robbery. ARIZONA LAND located | grand canals. of the The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star Per Tear, by Mall, $5 to 99 STATE AND U. S. OFFICIALS ARE ACCUSED) Make WO boys killed, one near death, five more seriously injured—that’s the toll of the snow in Seattle within the past week. Nobody would deprive the youngsters of the sport they enjoy on the hills but somebody ought to make it safe. The hil Jnderneath the snow, the ice is like glass. The sleds dart like lightning. Youthful spirits are high. Caution is thrown to the winds. All is merry until—until some young life is snuffed out by a crash into a street car, a telephone pole or over an em- bankment! Most cities have found it necessary to regulate coasting—to set aside streets where it is permitted and to prohibit iton others. Policemen are used to warn coasters of approaching danger. ‘he need of supervision in this hilly city is doubly urgent. It’s the street department the streets, says Chief of Police Severyns. It is certainly somebody’s job. Action today may save @ life tonight. are steep. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE s job to designate TRAIN WRECK Are Scalded to Death in Cars HOUSTON, Texas, Dee. 14— | STORE SAFE Robbed Thursday and Sacks of potatoes were piled loss was dincovered at 8 county deputies were dis. | tion are responsible for the | Irish to th week tally FLOOD SWEPT jas a PHOENIX, Ariz, Dec. 14.—Flood| with some other waters from Cave creek this morn- | added ing broke thru the Arizona seven miles north of here, inundating| met type of Irishmen. rm lands. canal | between the Arizona and | hair. district here, as on three former ocea-| pretty women are really only sym- sions during the past two years. Olivia Is in the Dark, Too ue! Irish Rebel Defends His Countrymen ralsing funds for the army, “We are perfectly capable of governing ourselves, England to the contrary,” he continued, “If you doubt it Just look at the way the Irish are governing other poople in America, for instance.” “There is no civil war in Ireland.| The new recommendation specifies transfer tokens at four for five cents, the charge for transfer to be one token in addition to the straight fare of five cents. A cash rate for trans fer of two cents is also suggested. “The rate will same—a transfer costlt the mayor said; “but the purchase of tokens will be more convenient at four for a nickel than at four for a quarter, charge will benefit transient visitors to the city, who will in many cases use but one transfer before leaving.” FEW NEGLECT TAX PAYMENTS The Christmas rush fs not causing any noticeable amount of forgetful- ness, according to officials at the jinternal revenue office, come tax payments are due Friday, December 15. “Citizens are coming in consider. able numbers,” they say. not as yet had any reason to sus- there payees.” This is the last of the four 1922 income tax Seattle residents will be free of tax for this year Friday of course, they forget the date, The struggle is just the same as it always was, England trying to keep Ireland down. The arms, the funds, the propaganda and even the forces of the so-called Free Staters are fur- nished by England. The only solu- | tion of the Irish situation ts for the English to get out and leave us alone. Golden says that there are two things which he wishes to impress on his American audiences. The first ts that there never has been an elec- State proposition has been submitted to the Irish vote, The second is that when such an election ocours, of that electorate. “There is a clause in the English | treaty with Ireland which is poten- | clause permits England to use Ireland Golden ts the typical Robert Em- The flooded district is| Windsor ties and has long, curly “Even the Irish songs show the | Measures have been taken which | duress under which the Irish have j will prevent a repetition of flooding | been laboring,” Golden laughed. “The apltol grounds and residence | songs which seem to be written about 'botical of Ireland.” \ J Althe a Dr. Hawkins Goes Before King County Grand Ju MORE CARS DOUGLAS IS. HAVE HEAT! ALSO CALL ‘Some Relief Now,|Y. M. C. A. See But Riders Still Are Shivering of Seattle railway patrons shivered in the chill alr Thursday morn- ing, a measure of relief was re ported thru the sudden operation of a few additional cars equipped with heat. : i H if E i HH é ? [ F | » BF52 FH HF 3F' | rl a H | Thursday. Golden ts Seattle heading a move for republican in Ireland at which the Free the republicans pledge themselves 6 world to abide by the results dangerous to America, This base of war in event of trouble power,” Golden He wears | pect which IN THAT ROOM ? WHY DOES SHE Lock THE DooR? STurren ia ! Peter Golden walt a couple of additional win- Photo by Price & Carter,| ters before riding will be comfort- Star Btatt Photographers (Turn to Page 15, Column 4) Railway D. W. Henderson i pl i i ithe HAS NEW CAR FARE PLAN A alight revision of his plan for a five-cent cash fare with transfer to- kens at four for 25 cents will be pre gented before the city council by Mayor Brown, according to a letter written for the council's considera tion Thursday. be precisely the 6% cents,” and the two cents cash where In- “We have will be many tardy installment payments. night, unless, In case they will have the tax plus 5 per cent to pay later, —BY ALLMAN WHAT IS HELEN DOING , DON'T ASK ME! SHE WON'T LET ME IN - IF You DQuIT RUNNING OUT EVERY NIGHT MAYBE you WOULD KNOW SOME THING ABOUT IT! i tary and Fedei tion Head Nex A 3 eral secretary of the local A., was also scheduled to be ed—in spite of the fact that J nounced recently, after a Mayor Brown, that he had dence to give.” Meartime, Mayor Brown fs new names daily to the list nesses that he wants sul the grand jury. These ine of Police W. B. Severyns two dozen other police offi proprietors of the dance ating “below the line”; Mrs, E Landes, chairman of the | safety committee of the city o and a half dozen other citi various walks of life. | In addition to attempting to. the vice charges that are being: by the clergy, Mayor Brown nounced that he will make #@ accusations against the heads of local prohibition enforcement of He is expected to appear bef |grand jury himself. hath SLED RIDER "BADLY INI Coasting Victim Su Fractured Skull Two boys were injured, possibly fatally, in two cons accidents late Wednesday Charles C, Smith, 18, clerk Sears-Roebuck company, while 4 ing in front of his home at m struck a telephone pole with fi and was knocked unconselo was found a few minutes several of his boy companions taken to his residence, 505 N, st, where he was given medic The lad was later removed! lumbus sanitarlum, where it Wal found he was suffering from a tured skull and possible int Juries e boy Was undo funtil $46 a. m. Thursday, His aition ts reported to be critical, Douglas Coehran, 8, 0! ry ave,, suffered a broken leg day night when his sled an automobile driven by Tupper, 804 Seventh ave., ave, and Cherry st. Ho was taken to the eral hospital,