The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1922, Page 1

— “VOLUME 24. NO. 264. Mowdy, folks! Don't you just love this Puget sound sunshine? 7 ee i Styles 300 years old are now the/ voxue with Parts society, says a news dispateh. ‘ That's nothing—some of our re- cent styles went back to the Garden of Eden | ¥ The United States is thinking of making a gigantic loan to Germany. Of course, if Germany had won the war, she'd lend us money. Lykelll Lykell! Lykell! . e- * TH OFFICE There are just two kinds of able for denunciation from the pulpit. . German frau geounes ex-kaiser of > filting her, Well, boys will be boys. | / oe. It ts reported that Henry Ford was fined for speeding thru a town in|” New York. He was riding In an automobile, Mrs. Olga Farley, 29, on trial today charged with second degree murder of Wes- “At the aanuat College club dinner! 1 7 Howarth, a chauffeur. revived of bringing in the boar's| Howarth died May 21 follow- ing a shooting fray in a | fe ese DEMORALIZED A. President Tells Council of Vice P | Be. ag Creating ® sensation with the | 5 Traveling man who sends you a Gideon Bible a5 a Christmas present. Sacramento has signed an Indian pitcher named “Chief Yellow Horse.” Now if Seattle can only secure the services of Chief White Mule! eee Little Homer Brew, Jr.. ts becom- ; president of the Franklin PT. ul i cynic. He says the thing oa fil likes best about a boy is a sack A., told the council license com- # of gum drops. mittee Monday that she had seen f fee ® patrolman who at one time covered « beat including the 12th ave, and Jackson district so in- toxicated that he could hardly One argument against probibition fs that you never hear a soda clerk say, “This one is on the house.” QUOTH THE OLD CROW, walk to a police pox at midnight NEVERMORE(” to phone in his report. Standin’ on the shores of Puget, 3 ‘Where my feet had chanced to wands! Mrs. Hall's statement was made : S tree ccca''the'beda yende. | during a discussion of Councilwom- hale’ nan’, lan Mrs. Henry Landes’ proposed! ; bag mag Bg ot og |dance hall ordinance at an open} 3 Like = a tall a-waggin’, | meeting. The ordinance contains a} q Waagin’ at « friendly greetin’. | clause that would automaticaliy close And the roles of old Vancouve jthe Liberty and Dreamland dance} ‘Whispered, “Fell me, Chapple, what'll | halis, thru prohibiting halle that | cater to men patrons only Happen if I ask you 4 The remark came as an intergup- ‘To come up and get « bottle?” Ever since dear prohibition |tlon to a battle of words between ’, ‘ef a, nie ae a Toul” |Councilman A. Low Cohen and a So I didn't have to ponds. | Herbert W. Myers, an attorney bettie Cohen's statement that he was Be oy Sttedees apitied ae thanda.”| “sick of listening to charges by ca- ‘Did he joke with me, | wonda? ing Seattle the name of the blackest | I stand by dear old Puget jelty from a moral standpoint in the! there my feet had chanced to wands, | ('nited States, when it is, in reality, Lesaies fev = tig, Vee eee one of the cleanest,” brought a per- ye Among Contrib, | sonal attack from Myers. | om, Mr, Cohen, have consist- ‘ We print the above poem to show | thet Genius is not dead in Seattle. legislate cleanliness into the viee | . % Anyway, Mrs. Clara Phillips upset sald. “You attempt to cover up the old theory that the only tool a| the rotten conditions that exist | ‘woman knows how to use i# a bair in certain places by such { eralities as you have Just sald. Cohen retorted that he had lived in Seattle for more than 80 years, | | |has children and grandchildren, and | ———ii | hag never been solicited in his life. +——_——_—__—_ i Do your Christmas popping Then, after one woman in the! early. crowd that thronged the council} 4 oF chamber stated that one man of her! a Stone & Webster will not oppose | acquaintance was solicited five times : the fivecent carfare so long as the/in one day recently, Mrs. Hall took city continues to make its bond pay-|the floor. | ments, Which is darn nice of them) The advisability of including in} —darn nice! the ordinance a proviston for com-| / o: Sie pelling operators of prospective! Dear Homer: I saw in your col-!dance halls to post a notice on the! % umn that « paper in the East adver-|«ite for 10 days previous to the| tised for a man to milk and drive @| granting of a licer in order to} Ford. Maybe that’s how they #¢tihave possible objectors appear be-| oan milk.—G. D. Bayrum. fore the council to voice their com-| Bisa plaints, was the principal issue be-| Btreet car conductors whould wear | tore the committee. @ fee pick as a lodges pin Attorney Meagher of the corpor- 4 lation counsel's office was called tol PERSIST lity. {the council chamber and he gave Eqgergy wasted by people shiv. |i, opinion that the clause would ering on the Ballard cars is | DM opinie enough to make 2,700 milk x The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor Botered as Second Class Matter May 5, 1899, at the Postoffioe at beattie, \\ aeh., und ANSWERS FOR SEATTLE, WASH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1922. MAN'S DEATH Mother Weeps in Court and Says She Knows Girl Innocent Mrs. Olga Farley Momday morning In the superior court faced the jurors who will decide whether she ts innocent or guilty of killing Wesley J. Howarth tn the room of a downtown hotel on May 20. Mowarth died the next day In the Providence bos pital, after having made, tt is said, two dying statements, one to J. J. Sullivan, attorney for the defense, in which he declared that he seckdentally shot himseff, and another to Miss Ruth Cally han, bis nurse, in which he se cused Mrs, Farley of shooting him. Mrs. Hilda Pirdell, 1037 Blt ave, the ray-haired mother of the so cused woman, stood in court Monday, and with tears running down her heoks, cried: “Olga is innocent now it. I know it.” Mrs. Farley sat pale and broken beside her lawyer According to Adam Beeler, attor- ney for Mra. Farley, the defense will offer proof that Howarth was « de erate and & panderer and his 4 -aphes Seattle hotel. WRECKS TRAIN VANCOUVER, B. C., Deo. 18. — Canadian Pacific train No. 4 struck a near Palliser, B.C. The engine was derailed, an well as mail, begence and colonist cars. The engine turned on its aide. Fireman J. A. Field was inetantly killed and W. Melville, the engine) driver, dled three hours later. No passengers were injured. Traffic wil! be resumed this evening, it t# ex | ed pect AND JURY CALLS MAYOR Executive Summoned to Go Before Body Today Mayor Brown was summoned before the King county grand jury Monday morning to tell what he knows of alleged vice conditions in Seattle, The jory is investigating charges of boot- legging, gambling and other forms of vice in the city and al- leged corruption in the police department. ‘The mayor in the second city of. ficial to be called before the jury, the | of time te But Vancoura never answered— Hlamity howling citizens that are giv-| first being Police Lieut. George Olm- | fore it wa stead, who was called Saturday.|uson, The facts are, said Ferguson, Olmstead brought with him a list|that the “drys” have no desire to! money had been transferred to their showing the location of police boxes| stop the importation of sacramental | automobile. Then they sped away. from which the police refort to the; wine. Rather, the move is an at-| 7 station every hour Very little information of « start-| pute, Ferguson declares. It is not a| ently fought every attempt to /ling nature has been presented to the| question of respect to the Volstead | ‘png government building is only | jury #o far. ‘The prediction is being| act, but m question of which faction | about three blocks from the down oe districts of this city," Myers | freely made that no indictments will | shall be allowed to get the wine, he | town district result from the present investigation Since the investigation started last week 10 witnesses have test! fied before the grand jury. The first to be called was Rev, Chaun cey J. Hawkins, pastor of the Plymouth Congregational church, who made accusations against May or Brown and the police department from his pulpit. Hawkins in one sermon accused the mayor of lying when he said he or the police knew of no place in the city where booze was being sold Following Rev. Mr. Hawkins came Rev. H. I. Chatterton, who present- ed a list of 48 places which were, it is alleged, houses of ill repute. in some of which liquor could be purchased, He also presented a list of places where he said gambling was allowed Many of thone called to testify professed to have no knowledge of vice conditions in Seattle LONDC Prince George, 20, young son of King George, to be operated on immediately for appen | dicitis a shakes a day. And a fellow o the Madrona line | ‘THESE WINTER NIGHTS a good] @ refused to pay his fare thie morning. took them out of his pockets ee Warniog: Don't pat your teet on| WHY “The Sky Line the electric heaters in the cars, They | + -* ae iia” the commuters ona turn to page 11. Haid hie bande woula trees 1¢ -h6|StOYy is the best of companions; that’s| of Spruce” is mak- might freeo there. ing such a hit. For today’s chapter, broken rail at 6 o'clock this morning | | | | one the Volstend act, and that they! rye leader of the bandit leaped | | wing on the claim that it fe for acre | others seized the currency and began | | | NT ROB $200,000 Is Stolen, Two Guards Shot in Denver Battle The pron was being transferred from the mint to the bandits drew up to the curb in an automobile and rency. Guards at the mint opened fire with shotguns, which was returned by the bandits. Linton fell at the first volley. One of the bandits was believed to have been wounded. Employes Jof the mint shot at the bandits from windows and doors, | while the robbers stood on the curb and fired volleys at the | building. The door of the mint was riddled with bullets and windows in the building were broken by the hail of lead. just as the bank automobile, which had been loaded with currency, started away. One of the bandits commanded the driver of the car to stop. The others, covering the driver and the guard with shotguns, transferred the money to their own ony. eit _ feores of pedestrians and motor fete, attracted by the shooting. watched the bandits as they leaped in thelr car and sped away. The Hoense tained and police immediately started ® clty-wide search for the automo- \" ‘ it}; | Hoene and kept ad persons away Secretary Charged With | from the mine, The robbery was the most dar. Megal Profit ing in Denver's history. The ban- Trouble between opposing Jewish | holdup carefully and their action factions of the Bikur Cholom syna | was timed so that when the bank gogue over the issuing of permits for | car started away, the bandit au- jonas of sacramental wine threatens | and the robbery st: to involve the county auditor's office| The money was in $5 bills and was in @ court action | being taken to the federal reserve to prevent the county auditor issuing / started guards on duty at the mint & permit to 8. Levinson, secretary of | rushed to the front door and opened the synagogue, was filed in King | fire. The petition was fied by Allen &| packages of currency were Griffiths, attorneys for 16 mombers | stacked on the curb as the driver of the congregation, who claim that | and guard of the bank loaded number of the car waa ob- ROW OVER WINE Police reserves were rushed to the dite apparently had planned the the use and importation of 1,000 gal-| tomoblle crowded it into the curb A petition for a restraining order! bank. As soon as the gun battle county superior court Saturday. When the bandits drove up the they take @ respectful attitude to-| the money into the automobile. will be held up to ridicule and scorn | trom the car and while he was cover- if Levinson ia permitted to import | ing the two men with a revolver the mental use, They assert Levinson i# | Diactng it in their own automobile acting as an agent for 30 members of | A ‘waitress in. @ resmurant across the congregation, and that he will receive a profit for handling the wine. D. BF. Ferguson, county auditor, | get headquarters, mint employes Marea ol ‘permit was requested some | rusted to the door of the building time ago, and the “drys” had plenty make their complaint be- isnued, according to Fer- holdup and made frantic efforts to shotguns and repeating rifles. Guards at the mint fired from every point of vantage, but the ban dita stood their ground anti the Bundies of money had been brok en up and coins were scattered along the sidewalk in front of the mint tempt to bring his office into disre- | charges, Further litigation over the The loot consisted of newly wine is threatened. | coined silver and gold and $5 bills, The rain of bullets struck several bulidings in the neighborhood of the |mint. All the bandits were well | dressed and wore overcoats, accord- ing to witnesses, When the robbers appeared, Joe | Leyken, a mint employe, pressed an alarm button, which sent 30 heavily | Actor’s Breakdown Laid to |«rmed guards rushing to windows } and doors. Rifles and shotguns Dope and Whisky roared ax the government men en deavored to drive off the bandits eee | WASHINGTON, Dec, 18.—United | LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 | states secret service operatives will | Wallace Reid, film idol, suffering | he ausigned immediately to the gigan- a mysterious relapse which has | tj. robbery of federal reserve cur threatened his Ife, after, accord: | renoy in front of the United States ing to Dorothy Davenport, his | mint at Denver, the secret sertice of: | wife, he had won a fight against | tic here stated today. BY ROBERT A, DONALDSON © Act of Toneress Marob 8, The bandits drew up in front of the mint in a closed car! 1819, Per Year, by Mall, 8 to 6 Seven Masked Bandits Stage Sensational Robbery on Street Before Mint; Windows and Door Shattered by Bullet Hail DENVER, Colo., Dec. 18.—Charles Linton, 60, federal reserve bank guard, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded today in a gun battle staged in front of the United States mint by seven masked ibandits, who escaped with $200,000 in currency. the bank automobile when seized the packages of cur- AMERICAN BANKS |} HAVE 40 PER CENT OF WORLD’S GOLD CHICAGO, Dec. 14. Forty per cont of the world's gold ts in |] American banks and one-third of |] the diamonds in existence on the | fingers and bosoma of American women, Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, of New York, declared here to Boynton has just completed a 20,000-mile trip «te all parte of the world. He warned Americans to guard their property. “America needs a tighter grip on religion,” he said. PACIFIC GALE SWEEPING IN lcy Streets Halt Traffic, Storm Signals Up A gale sweeping toward Van- couver island from the North Pacific ocean, a 36-mile wind tossing the waves off Cape Flat- tery, and a falling barometer brought storm signals to the | peak of the weather bureau staff Monday. All North Pacific seaports were ordered to display | the storm signals at 7:10 a. m. | moderate temperature are predicted for Seattle Monday night and Tues- | temperature fell to 23 degrees above but rose to 35 degrees before night- the street from the mint saw the | gai Monday the meroury fell and driv- call the police. Before she wan ableling rain coated the streeta with slippery ice that is expected to swell the month's total of automo. and began shooting with sawed-off | pie and sled accidents. Snow covering the city for more than & week was disappearing as a result of the rain. Mariners are watching reports from the Tatoosh station on inbound vessels that will probably meet the scheduled gale. Property owners were cau- tioned Monday by Police Ohief Severyns to remove ice and snow coatings from their side- walks, Persons injured by fall- ing on the icy walks may obtain t from the property owners, Severyns warned. Po- ee action will be taken, he said, (Turn to Page 8, Column 5) Find Dead Broker on Lonely Road DENVER, Dep, 18.—John H. Por- ter, 48, wealthy Denver broker, was found dead with a bullet wound in south of Denver, yesterday, Friends ‘believe he committed suicide in a fit of despondency over ill-health, LOST— the drag habit, today was report | 4 complete investigation of the | ed “a little improved, robbery will be made by the secret He was still at « sanitariam | service as soon as possible, it was in Hollywood, under the care of | Seated physieains, who sid that his pres. age bi ent illness fad nothing whatever | to do with his alleged use ot nar. | $32,000,000 Asked cotles or liqaor. ° . Ho has mate his tight against the} for Building Roads | enslaving drugs, bis wife and his| WASHINGTON, Dec. 18~-In-| friends declared, and has won. creased appropriations of $32,800,000 | Physicians, ‘Including the best! for new road building were available, have been unable to diag: | mended in the annual agricultur nse accurately, It was announged, his partment supply bill reported to the | present condition. They believed,| house today by the appropriations however, he i# now suffering from| committee, The appropriation for & touch of influenza, rendered more; new road work in the agricultural | serious and more than usually bat-| gi for the current year was $10. | fling in ite effects, due to a weakened 000,000, as compared with $42,000,000 (Turn to Page 8, Column 2) for next year. de FOUND— BuUYy— SELL— EXCHANGE— STAR WANT ADS give all these services, Call Main 0600 A southeasterly gale, rain and a day. Barly Sunday morning the! his head, on a lonely road 35 miles | IN CUSTODY ® dhe 1 Oe Charles Miller, 38, held by | the police on suspicion of hav- ling carried on wholesale rob- ‘beries in Seattle hotels. 52 KILLED IN "SHIP WRECKS! '27 Lost Battling Winter Sjorm on Lake CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 18. if i lib confusion. Scores of persons jumped from the Vinchlong to the deck of the Bainbridge, one being killed and several injured in this manner, near Lizzard Island, on the north shore of Lake Superior, Wednes- day, were found capsized today. They were badly battered and caked with Ice, The boats were picked up a rescue party aboard the “ Gray, which set out for the is- lands shortly after midnight. No clues as to the whereabouts of the missing men were found, and it Is believed they were drowned. According: to the story learned from the survivors, the crew divided into groups shortly after the Re Nance was wrecked and set out in lfeboats. The survivors, under command of Charles Currie, second engineer, of Sault Ste. Marie, took {the lead and soon left the other groups that lingered near the Re- Hanes After fighting zero weather and storm waves three feet high, the party landed on the shore near Batchawana bay, where they built a fire and recuperated, They then j Started a weary march, climbing |many high, tey bluffs, crossing two rivers and wading snow up to their waists most of the way Jack Harton and his wife, cooks on the Reliance, who were mem- bers of the party, broke down when Mrs. Harton lost her shoes. A fire {was built and Harton directed ‘the |men to continue their journey. The {men left the Hartons. Four miles |further on they found a lumber camp, where they recelved shelter, ‘A party of men from the camp rescued the Hartons, After spending two days at this leamp, the party went to Agawa, jWhere the Agawa Central railroad has a station, VANCOUVER, B. C.— Murtel Stark, 3 months, instantly killed by NAB FORGER “HOTEL RAD Raffles Arrested After Robbing | Room in Hotel ” Washington Traced by his own hackhanded — style of writing, Charles Miller, 38, four times convicted of burglary, forgery and grand lar ceny, wan arrested at the point — of # pistol on the 10th floor of — the New Washington hotel early Sunday morning by Detectives Charles J. Waechter and P. ©. — Christensen, in the act of a room that had been for, his benefit. Miller, parading under a flock aliases, operated in Seattle for tw months, looting the apartments millionaires and other wealthy town visitors in Seattle's most |tentious hostelries, the police securing many thousands of in cash and jewelry. fad Detailed to watch the Frye and the New Washington as sult of dozens of burglaries Waechter and Christensen first unable to find the id ty the cunning thief. At length obtained a clue from a stolen that had been taken from the Fr and pawned in Tacoma. The ture on the pawnbroker’s ledger ‘ Waechter and Chi ea” two men Miller, creeping quietly hallway with all the stinct of a movie actor. t door of @ locai millionaire, but | ing it locked, passed to room ] one of the “plants.” c door unlocked, he entered and the bureau, taking $10 tn money, while the occupant then leaped at him, pressing revolvers against his stomach. — Miller gasped, then, taken to the city jail and the police finding a wallet that | been stolen from a prominent Po land physician at the Frye , a quantity of jewels, also property. “Miller is one of the most ous, and certainly the man the local police have had 5 with In a long time,” detectives: Monday. “He never carried keys and often worked in so that the police could never him in the act of burglarizing He never entered a room that 4 locked, either, Invariably, he have an ironclad alibi when wandering in the hallway.” Miller was convicted of a 1905 and served 14 months tn Quentin penitentiary. He went in 1906 for three years on Bom checks, and was gfven four years | Folsom prison in 1910, for : He was arrested again in Los geles in 1918 for burglary and larceny. Miller is suspected of being thief who, within the last | months, has committed dozens ¢ skillful burglaries in the New mond hotel and other downtown hotels. Miller's alleged operations at Frye hotel are said to have him between $2,000 and $3,000 In and jewels, At the New in ton he secured nearly $1,000 in ables, the police declare, Detectives Waechter and tensen were commended Monday SF Chief of Police W. B. Severyns al Captain of Detectives Charles n nant for the skillful manner — which Miller was trapped. Of the loot that has been ered, involving about $2,000 in monds and cash, claimants for thy stolen articles have been police declare, Miller was being held in the jail Monday under an open preparatory to the filing of charges against him by Pro Attorney Malcolm Douglas. Bees DENVER. — Approximately motorists witnessed a battle at Morrison, near here, which blocked traffic for half flying fragments of iron when fro- ‘wen water jacket of kitchen range ‘explodes in Stark home, hour, The fight started over ing a tire on @ car and was by state police,