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r and Saturday, continued c moderate easterly Temperature Maximum, 33, ind. Last M Hours The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor Baterea « Clase Matter May ® 1 W ash, under the Act of at the Postotficn at Beattie, Congress March &, Per Your, by Mall, #6 to 99 =-==|| The Seattle Star anTs, GRAND JURY MAY PROBE BANK Waterhouse & Co. Victory Is Likely to Result in Criminal Charges Against Seattle National | _. WEATHER EDI Ladees an’ Gents! Th’ next bout on th program will be « four-round battle between Chaun- cey Hawkins, th’ fightin’ sky pilot, and Laughing Gas Brown, th’ terror of — Avenoo! . When Doc Sin thru telling the gtand jury how he cleaned up Seat tle Xe might also inform them how | he cut taxes $1,500,000, reduced car | fare to a nickel and fired 575 polit die eal incurables, . At that, we could use @ lot oft! Mayor Brown's hot air on bis street | | eee THE ULTIMATE ZERO The man who wrote, “Blow, Blow, thou winter wind, thou art | net as cold as man’s ingratitude,” never rode on a Seattle street car. eee ‘The street car men will hold thetr | ennual ball tomorrow night at the | Masonic temple. | ‘When they asked Dave Henderson how be wanted the hall decorated, he guggested a little frieze. oe The most popular dance will be the | Lake shimry; the most popu: fox-trot, the West Seattle Blues. | 4 eee Ey the hall ts heated like the etrest | everybody is sure to. feel at | Judging from the speed they! showed last summer, what Seattle really need is more moving pitchers. eee There was a young man named Bamuet Jone: _ ould he didn't neg an educa- Bove each - he earns eight bones Bweeping out a railroad station, eee It's a canny married man who Gives his wife an electric foot warm @ for Christmas so that she can keep her feet warm. see Bootleg whisky has made the World safe for the undertaker. o* Mayor Brown is acting as attorney for Neilie Hartford. “Walt till the clouds by. Nellie.” eee POME OF PASHUN 1 Kissed her in the parlor, I felt myself grow faint ; 1 breathed a lot of cheap perfume 1 tasted too much paint. see Down in Olympia they're now call- | fae ‘em COUE-DUCKS. one Coue-duck: A species of clam that When attacked or hurt says, “IL am} Seing, I am going’ and goes. owe One of our secret agents reports that they have paroled the fellow who first sprung the gag that Seat roll te’s streets are the longest in the} Worid—extending from Mai to Virginia. | ae air’ GIMME A ROUBLE | S. secret service re ports on there are thousands of counterfeit $50 bills im cireula | This is another thing for a young fella to worry about. oe 3 More than one-half of the world’s Supply of gold is now in this coun | ity. If you don’t helieve it, watch Some of our leading pugilists when they smile. eee TOM Duff, we see by the papers, i getting into an awful mess. We Siways did suspect that bird. MOST of the symnathy of our Women readers will go out to Helen. Mf 4 woman is not the boss of her #¥n home, who in? ONALLY, at a time like this, | We'4 rather ve Doe Brown than Tom | * going to be dirty work road hefore Tom gets Medico Spirited Away From Bride CHICAGO, Dec, 15-—After being from his bride of @ Charles Pike, army “somewhere d h bigamy. Pike was to ape into custody last | it by three men who rushed him fen the lobby of his apartment to Waiting automobile and spirited use the lodiana line, jlutely free rein, with no political | mine. DOINGS OF THE DUFFS SE ATTLI B, WaSH., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1922, SAVE EUROPE FROM WRECK’ U. S. Intervention Now Imminent in Crisis; Harvey | Is Coming Home| BY A. L. BRADFORD WASHINGTON. Dee. 13. — seca intervention tn the European ertsts ts Imminent. Tho United States shortly will take a major step of far-reaching importance in the serious situ: ation abroad, the United Press Was informed in a highly aw thoritative quarter today. George Harvey, American ambas sador to London, has been directly instructed by President Harding end Secretary Hughes to return to V ington for consultation on the Euro- pean crisis Another international conference in Washington, this one designed to bring about relief from the deaper ate economic situation in France, is & probability. private interests, Andrew Eonar Law's dark picture of the European situation and his statement that / Great Britain cannot pay her debt to|as far as the charges of extrava:|and wil! haw nothing fo do with the the United States unless she recetves| cance that have been made against | administration, him, I don't think that anyore ever | out my orders tf he' ‘accused hiro of being extravagunt in | (Turn to we to Fogo 11, i, Coloma x» o» COLLINS WILL RESIGN OFFICE “I have intended right along,” Cot- line said, “to resign a» soon as the administrations chan to give the new commissioners @ chance to fill the office as they see best. If they later tendered me the office—on the same conditions under which I took} it before: that I be given an abso-| } manded prosecution for grand lar. ceny. They and attorneys for the bank filed briefs with Douglas. ‘The latter finally took the posttton | that because no penalty for such an offense was provided under the Jaw | that it would be useless to prose cute. The matter was then submitted to | the attorney general's office for an opinion, He ruled that the bank could be punished, in case of convic. tion, under a saving clause of the/ law which leaves it to the discretion of the judge to fix a fine up to $5,000 where a specific penalty is not provided, However, no action along this line wan taken Stuawer a9 a witness denied promis. (Turn fe Page 11, Column 2) ROOFER KILLED. IN PIER FALL While working on the roof of pler 1, Thursday afternoon, John Washel, . roofer, slipped on the tcy boards, and before the horror-filled eyes of | his companions, skidded to the edge. hesitated for a moment and then plunged over the eaves, dropping 60 | feet. Washel was immediately picked np | were unquestionably those of the boy | surprise me, any more. I suppose | had killed herneclf, land rushed to the city hospital, but | he had seen grow to manhood's years, | you're kin of mine rT | Detectives who Investigated the} leffort to save hia life failed He | Ben Darby, Melville gazed at him tn incredulous | suicide declared that Mrs, Brew had | | died within a few minutes from a| It was true that he had changed, | astonishment, then turned to Sprig-| been suffering from melancholia and fractured skull. Wasbel lived at the| Gis face was more deeply lined, his|'*¥. “May T talk to you about this| had been iil with nervous trouble for O. K. hotel and had no relatives so |vyes more bright and nervous; there |C@#¢?" he asked quietly. “If not to| seme time. The Rrews had no chil far as the coroner's office can deter-| was a long, dark scar just under the |¥ou. who can I talk to? There are! dren. They came here from Spokane HELEN ARE YOU IN THERE AGAIN? ARENT YOU FEELING hance OH I'M ALLRIGHT: DON’T LET ME bg ay 2 wiTH OUR GOING our! pointment in his bestowal. ling another man—Robert Sparger, old-time contractor— {for the position, but that he was inclined to doubt whether Talk of « big loan to Germany by | Sparger had the necessary experience in road work, there'll he a jot of kicks believe he did more road work for commissioner we've ever had. “WILD KINNEY.” daring crook, 1» Caught in the act of robbing a Seattle ing thrilled ail the spectators with | over the droll features as he walked the sense of monumental drama. The | nearer and took Darby's hand. convicts stared; Howard, the second | guard, forgot his vigilance and stared | struggling with deep emotion. “What surdly, rather guiltily, when the old dignation. der. | if you want to know thedetails turned his eyes again the dar! OLD BOSS TRIES TO ET BACK|, of W. Chemist Lafe Hamilton, Widely Known in} Perfects Powder Stormy Days of Yore, to Be Made; That Will Save Supervisor of Roads by New Man Many Thousands, on County Board A discovery that. It ts esti- mated, will mean the saving of ae . tens of thousands of dollars a By Robert Bastien Bermann year to the farmers of this Lafe Hamilton, former chairman of the board of region and will greatly speed up county commissioners and often referred to as “King the clearing of logged-off lands county boss,” is going to try to “come back.” was announced at the University In spite of bitter protests from the men who fought of Washington Thursday after. him while he was in office 10 years ago, and who noon on the occasion ot a visit almost succeeded in having him recalled, Hamilton is of » Chamber of Commerce com- virtually sure of being appointed road supervisor for mittee, the South district. Prof. Wm. M. Dehn of the This was admitted Friday by Frank H. Paul, county com-| chemistry department is the missioner-elect from the South district, who has this ap- He said that he was consider- USE SANDUST TO BLOW BIG. STUMPS! originator of the new compound —a high explosive very cheap to manufacture and especially ef- fective for stump blasting. The new powder ts made of am. montum nitrate, @ low price chem. | feat, and SAWDUST. It ean be} manufactured, university authorities simply carry |informred The Star, for 5 to 6 cents appointed,” & pound, as compared with 15 cents Paul complained bitterly over what! for the present commercial dyna- read. work, On the other hand, I} he declared to be the inadequate sum | i, Unusioc tor rood werk Im the ised} The naw explosive ‘has elf er of TNT, st won't burn, tt when thang, tt doesn't profuce headaches on the part of people working with f and it can only be exploded by dstonation Professor Dehn obtained the “hunch” for his discoyery when do- ing’ War research in nigh explosives. He now has patents covering his pro- commen, Because he worked ont the for- mula while In the service of the he is going to offer the its of his discovery, practi cally at cost to the people of the state, then the next legis bank ard fw sent to the state penitentiary at Walla Walla, Sprigly, @| lature, university authorities say. guard, believes that Kinney ts @ victim of amnesia—that he drifted into| This is expected to rewult in a great the criminal Ufe because of bis malady and that he @uddenly recovered | impetur to Jand clearing. at the time of bis capture. Hoe ts unable to do anything, however, One| Incidentally, In the manufacture day. whild Kinney is at work with a gang of convicts of the road, an| of the powder, a new pories of dyes, axed pedestrian accosts him as not heretofore known, will be by- BEN DARBY, and “Kinney” admits his Identity. products, WOW GO ON WITH THE STORY ‘The Chamber of Commerce com- mittes was given a demonstration of due had never seen before. And the! it explosive under a 13-foot-ciream- ference stimp. Twenty-five pounds of the powder tore the great fir root out of the earth, hurled its parts high in the air and left a noman’s- jand crater instead. AGED WOMAN SHOOTS SELF Mra. Ethel Brew, 50, committed suicide in her room at the St. Regis apartments, 1417 13th ave, at noon} Friday, by shooting herself thru the heart. She fired four shots from her hus- band’s revolver, a .38-caliber Colt One of the shots struck in the leg, another pierced the wall, while “Sure,” Paul conecded, “I know! “Of course,” he added, “Hamilton -but I think | won't be commissioner, He won't do- And, | cide where the work ts to be done that Hamilton's the best man. the money than any other county 1992 Little Brown & Company) oP a hae m For the moment that chance meet-| finality of despair seemed to settle “Ben, Ben!" he said, evidently He started ab- with open mouth, are you doing here?" ‘The younger man gave him bis hand, but continued to stare at him in growing bewilderment, “Five years —for burglary,” he anawered «imply. “Guilty, too—I don't know anything more, And 1 can't remember—who you are.” “You don’t know me?” Some of jon's own bewilderment seemed to pass to him. “You know Ezra Mel- ville ” man whirled toward him. “What are you doing with Ben Darby in a convict gang?” the old wan tered demanded, “What am I doin'?” Howard's as- tonishment gave way to righteous In- “I'm guardin’ convicts, that’s what I'm a-doin’.” He com-| poxed himself then and shifted hia! sun from his left to his right shoul- “He's here in this gang because) Sprigley, whose beliefs in regard to Ask my friend, here,| Rem had been strengthened by the| And | tittle episode, stepped quickly to Melville's side. ‘He's suffering loss/the third bullet penetrated a door jot memory,” he explained swiftly,| The fourth shot struck her heart, “At least, he’s either lost his mem. | killing her almost instantly and set ory or doing powerful lot of | ting fire to ber clothing. The shoot | faking. ‘This ts the first time he ever | ing was heard by Mrs. John L. Mat- recalled his own name.” son, who roomed nearby. Mrs, Mat “I'm not faking,” Ben told them] son called her husband and they ex- quietly. “I honestly don't remember | tinguished the you—I feel that I ought to, but I] Harry Brew, husband of the dead don't. I honestly didn't remember| woman, was about to start on his my name was Darby until a minute| run to Spokane as a railway mail ago—then Just as soon as you spoke | clerk for the American Express Co., t, I knew the truth, Nothing can| when he was notified that his wife he’s a convict. who might you be?” There was no immediate answer to that question. The old man had to the tall, trembling figure of Ben, trying to find further proof of hin identity. To| Ezra Melville there could no longer any shadow of doubt as to the! truth; even that he had found the! young man working in a gang cf con victs id not impugn the fact that gray vivid eyes, net in the vivid face under dark, beetling browa, | r | short hair at his temple that Mel- (Tarn to Page 6. Column 3) two months ago. Tough on Danny HELLO, IS MR. DRAKE THERE ? HELLO CHARLEY, SAY, DID You GET THOSE FIGUCES FOR ME ? ‘You DID, FINE - TLL RON OVER AND GET THEM - I'D Like. TO Look "EM OVER “TONIGHT - ALLRIGHT GOODBYE / vavpy 1S GOING To ( PUT You To BED - HE HAS TO GO OUT ON ALITTLE ERRAND - 17S BEEN ALONG TIME SINCE 1 TUCKED You IN HE'S GONE Out AGAIN. STRANGE CQNDUCT \ HERG LATELY r\\ jis Bright Renate of Great Men George F. Russet Tis REMARK “I will assure the people of Se attle that every street car oper: ated by the municipal railway will be fully and completely beat- ed—on the 12th day of next July, at noon.”—Superii le Utilities George F. Russell. V W. G. Murphy Goes Before Grand Jury Rev. ot ot Yesler way, W. @. Mur ger sy epee the Japa- pet entered sanctum hot ad King count at 1030 iv because he was instrumental in securing evidence that resulted in the general cleanup during the administration of Hi Gill, followed Rev. John W. Hannum, pastor of the Court Pres- byterfan chur testified after Rev. H. I, Chatterton on the stand Thursday afternoon, and continued his testimony Fri- day morning. ‘When Murphy left the room, short- NESSES CE PROBE DECISION _ OF JUDGE DRASTIC! Sieh Declares Conduct of Bank’s Officers “Reprehensible”; Suit Cons cerns $18,500 Shi | Was Wrongfully Taken What Judge Decided “I am well convinced that a fraud was perpetrated b the officers of the bank quite glaringly. “To call it a reprehensible in: instance of high finanee, | think is putting it mildly. “There is strong equity in case. in good conscience should the civil case which resulted favor. TION It is an action brought to recover money party.”—From opinion of Judge Hewen, who 0 presided fs OME APRRAP ILL ADDO ae Eg {iil pping, Man Charges ” favor of the defendant in thi re not be retained by in a decision in An $18,500 transaction in which the Seattle National has been found guilty in a civil action of “trickery and fi intendent of Pub- || will likely be submitted to the present —, Attorney Clarence L, id jury for crim es told The already has been laid before noth the King scone and the attorney general of Washington. It concerns one of a series of controversies b bank and Frank Waterhouse. In it, as also in the ax Co. case, Waterhouse has ogo for the hearing of Chamber of Commerce Frank Waterhouse ech Co., bankruptcy court, owed the! 500 in question on a As collateral there haa been agreed valuation of $30,000. bank and the shipping firm came about and was due, the latter sent its cashier, Robert a talk with A. S. Stusser, manager of the ment of the bank. An agreement was reached between these fied in superior court here last week, that if the c sli off the $18,500 note the bank would return This tt was desired by the con cause of the fact it also owed a $100,000 note at t bank, and under the terms of the notes all the c would be held until both were paid. In accordince with this under. standing, it was testified, Rodolf re- turned with a $10,000 check on the Bank of California signed by the ly after 11 o'clock, R. T. Whiting, wt | Waterhouse company and a blank the Park Auto Transportation Co., check on the same bank signed by 754 Stuart bullding, was summoned. | the Seattle Globe & Investment Co. Whiting was called from his office and evidently was surprised, He sald | he knew nothing about vice condi- Rodolf said he talked on that visit with Perry B. Truax, vice president | of the Seattle National, and arranged tiong in Seattle. He added, however, | With him that the collateral be re- that he might be able to furnish evi.i turned, Truax, it was testified, told dence about the operation of a slot hine in one cigar store. Recent pulpit charges that Seattle the most “wide open” city in America are not expected to result in grand jury indictments, This admission was made by Rev. Hannum, after he and Rev. Chaun cey J. Hawkins, pastor of Plymouth Congregational chureh, and Rey. I Chatterton, had gone before the grand jury Thursday to tell of the| results of their Investigations, “We don't look for indictments,” Hannum asserted. “The investiga- tion fs in another direction. ever, the grand jury may make ree- ommendations. We hope tt will,” While the ministers were giving their testimony befora the grand jury, Mayor FE. J. Brown was adding to the list of persons whom he wants subpoenaed in the vice probe. After hearing United States Attorney Thomas P. nevelle denounce the city administration before the Young Men's Republican club, he declared that he would have Revelle sum. moned before the grand Jury, and he |also declared he would subpoena all members of The Star staff to explain (Turn to Page 11, Column 2) .€ Aw cee! A hn How,| | ask Stusser to make out the necessary papers. ‘The following day Rodolf returned with the same checks. Truax, he says, rent for the collateral and fig- ured the interest. Rodolph there- upon filled tn the blank check for $8,500 plus the Interest. Then, it was testified, Truax re- marked that, in view of the strained relations between the two concerns, he felt he should not go Ahead with the transactions until he learned if the checks were good. A few minutes later Stusser ap- peared at the Bank of California and demanded cash payment of the checks, Bank of California officers telephoned the Seattle National to if a cashier's check for the amount would not be acceptabje, but were told no, that cash was desired. Stusser was thereupon paid the 18,500 in currency, He then ad- vised Truax that the note de- partment had the money, In the meantime Truax and Rodolf, it was testified, had been sitting on opposite sides of a desk with the collateral be- tween them, and going over de- tails of the t 1 Guess | N'T GOT NO DADDY oR NO MUZZER OR NOTHIN’ ANY MoRE! emerged the heavy romissory en the break b cont two, it w: Fh ete coward eee Bank Officials _ Refuse Comn Officials of the Seattle Natt bank declined Friday to make 1 statement on the proposed jury investigation of the transaction between the bank Frank Waterhouse & Co. The bi was found guilty in civil brought in superior court, 4 grand jury probe was proposed | Clarance L. Reames, attorney for Waterhouse interests. 4 “This matter was all threshed § in the prosecuting atorney’s Further than that I care to _ | nothing,” said Robert Oldham, att ney for the Seattle National eee Douglas Silent on : Grand Jury Pr Prosecuting Attorney Douglas Friday morning comment on the proposed probe of charges brought Seattle National bank by Cl Reames, attorney for Frank house & Co, The bank was con of fraud in civil. court, and en ion handed down by Superior Hewen called the actions of bank's officers “repreh Douglas declined to state Y his office has looked into the’ presented by Reames, i A New One Bu for You Every day, thru STAR Wj ADS, you are able to find fe. many things that one In homes can find just you want, WALLINGFORD HILL. modern % rooms; just nowly-wede: Itving and dining Toom ia Comply dandy bedroom; bath; cement basement;

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