The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1922, Page 2

Tonight and Tuesday, rain i tonight freak southe Temperature Last M4 Maximum, 99, Today nt ~VOLU ME 24. NO. 254. not #0 Moder to asterty gales jours Minimum, 90 noon, a9. SEATTL: E, WA , Class Matter May 4, 1909, at the Postoffion ai heattle MONDAY, “DE EMBER 18, 1922. HOM EDITION , x § Ui[h ‘Two CENTS IN SE EATTLE. MINT ROBBED? Howdy, folks! Don't you just love this Puget sound sunshine? carey Styles 300 years old are now the vogue with Purls society, says « news dispatch, 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.) if Germany had won the Lykell! Of course, war, she'd lend us money. Lykell! Gi TW OFFICE VAMP, SEZ: There are just two kinds of suits; those suitable for women over 60, and those suit- able for denunciation from the pulpit. eee German frau accuses ex-kaiser of fitting her. Well, boys will be boys. eee It ls reported that Henry Ford was fined for speeding thru a town ip New York. He was riding In an automobile. . “At the annual College club dinner oe Sacramento has signed an Indian pitcher named “Chief Yellow Horse.” Now if Seattle can only secure the OLGA FARLEY | ANSWERS FOR MAN'S DEATH ‘Mother Weeps in { Court and Says | : She Knows Girl) Innocent | aa Mrs. Olga Farley Momday | eye 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. Howarth 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 accidentally shot himseff, and another to Miss Ruth Calle han, bis nurse, In which he ae cused Mrs. Farley of shooting him. Mrs. Hilda Firdell, 1087 Bl ave. the aray-haired mother of the ac used woman, stood in court Monday, Mrs. Olga Farley, 29, on trial today charged with | cheeks. ~~ hy a is Innocent second degree murder of Wea~ nro eae ena bro ley J. Howarth, a chauffeur. | veside her lawyer Howarth died May 21 follow-| According to Adam Peeler, attor- i i i for Mrs. Farley, the defense will ing 2 shooting fray im 6 |e peeet that Howarth wan't wz==r/ SAYS POLICE een sta DEMORALIZED by his own hand. BROKEN RAIL A. President Tells Couneil of Vice WRECKS TRAIN VANCOUVER, B. C., Deo. 18, — Canadian Pacific train No. 4 struck « broken rail at 6 o'clock this morning near Palliser, B. C. The engine was deratied, an well an mail, baggage and coloniat cars. The engine turned on Its side. Fireman J. A. Field was instantly killed and W. Melville, the engine driver, died three hours later. No $200,000 Is Stolen, Two Guards Shot in Denver Battle Seven Masked Bandits ts Stage Sensational Robbery on Street Before Mint; Windows and Door Shattered by Bullet Hail DENVER, Colo., Dec. 18.—Charles Linton, 60, federal reserve ibank 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 mone | the bandits dt rency. Guards at the mint opened | returned by the bandits. Linton fell at the first volley. was being transferred from the mint to the bank automobile when rew up to the curb in an automobile and seized the packages of cur- fire with shotguns, which was|~- One | of the bandits was believed to have been wounded. Employes} lof the mint shot at the bandits from windows and doors,| and with tears running down 4 | while the robbers stood on the curb and fired volleys at the '| building. The door of the mint was riddled with bullets and| xen | Windows in the building were broken by the hail of lead. The bandits drew up in front of the mint in a closed car 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 SYNAGOGUE IN ROW OVER WINE lSecretary Charged With| Iegal Profit watched the bandits as they leaped in thelr car and sped away. The loenre number of the car wan ob- tained and police immediately started & city-wide 7 for the automo- bile. Police reserves were rushed to the neene and kept all persons away from the mint. The was the most dar- tng In Denver's histery. The ban- dite apparently had planned the holdup carefully and their action waa timed so that when the bank Trouble between opposing Jewish | factions of the Bikur Cholom syna AMERICAN BANKS HAVE 40 PER CENT OF WORLD’S GOLD CHICAGO, Dec, 14.—Forty per cent of the world’s gold i In American banka and one-third of the diamonds in existence on the finger, and bowomm of American women, Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, of New’ York, declared here to- Boynton has just completed a 20,000mile trip «te all parte-of the world. on religion,” he said. PACIFIC GALE SWEEPING IN xin seeesinssitninnarsensoapniensi Ca cusrooy ] NAB FORGER Chains ‘Miller, ry held by | the police on suspicion of hav- ling carried on wholesale rob- | beries in Seattle hotels. 92 KILLED IN | 27 Lost Battling Winter | merea Sjorm on Lake CONSTANTINOPLE, Dee. 18. —At least 25 persons, Including three children and their mother, it ih i H i i ; H _IN SEATTLE HOTEL RAW Raffles Arrested After Robbing | Room in Hotel Washington | ‘Traced by his own backhanded style of writing, Charlies Miller, — 38, four times convicted of a pistol on the 10th the New Washington hotel Sunday morning by Charles J. Waechter and Christensen, in the act a room that had been for, his benefit. Miller, parading under @ flock | aliases, operated in Seattle for 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. Detatied to watch the Frye & and the New Washington as sult of dozens of burglaries Waechter and Christensen first unable to find the the cunning thief. At length obtained a clue from a stolen that had been taken from a... and pawned in Tacoma. ture on the pawnbroker’s wee one of Miller's many allases, ‘written in a backhand scr sy ‘Waechter and Chi ed” two men services of Chief White Mule! eee % & passengers were injured. Traffic will | gous over the inmuing of permits for| ear started away, the bandit au- omoblle t crowded it into the curb j i be resumed this evening, it ts ex-| + Little Homer Brew, IJr.. is becom- ing a cynic. He says the thing & girl likes best about a boy is a sack ot gum Gree one es against probibition fs that you never hear a soda clerk say, “This one is on the house.” “- oles of old Vancouve “Tet! me, Chapple, what'll We print the above poem to show that Genius is not dead in Seattle. cee Anyway, Mrs. Clara Phillips upset the old theory that the only tool a woman knows how to use is @ hair pin » me — | | NOTICE TO ‘ORN POPPERS | * Do your Christmas popping early. Stone & Webster will not oppose the fivecent carfare so long as the city continues to make {ts bond pay- ments. Which is darn nice of them —darn nice! Dear Homer: I saw in your cot umn that a paper in the East adver tised for « man to milk and drive a Ford. Maybe that’s how they get ean milk.—G. D. Bayrum, . Btreet car conductors should wear @® bee pick as 4 lodge pin ore STATISTICS Energy wasted by people shty ering on the Ballard cars is enough to make 2,100 milk shakes a day. And a fellow on the Madrona line | retused to pay his tare this morning. | Said his hands would freeze if he took them out of his pockets. see Warning: Don't put your feet on the electric heaters In the cars, They | + might freeze there . Heaven help the commuters on a day like this! | hag never been solicited in his life pected GRAND JURY mittee Monday that she had seen ® patrolman who at one time covered a beat including the 12th ave. and Jackson district so in- toxicated that he could hardly walk to a police box at midnight to phone in his report. Mrs. Hall's statement was made | during a discussion of Councilwom- an Mrs. Henry Landes’ proposed |dance hall ordinance at an open| |meeting. The ordinance contains a | clause that would automatically close jthe Liberty and Dreamland dance jhalls, thru prohibiting halle that | | eater to men patrons only | The remark came as an interrup- tion to @ battle of words between Councilman A. Lou Cohen and Herbert W. Myers, an attorney. Cohen's statement that he was “sick of listening to charges by ca- Hiamity howling citizens that are giv-| first being Police Lieut. George Oim |ing Seattle the name of the blackest| stead, who was called Saturday |city from a moral standpoint in the! Olmstead brought with him a list United States, when it is, in reality,; showing the location of police boxes one of the cleanest,” brought a per-|from which the police refiort to the sonal attack from Myers. | station every héur. “You, Mr, Cohen, have consist- Very little information of a start ently fought every attempt to legislate cleanliness into the vice districts of this city,” Myers said. “You attempt to cover up the rotten conditions that exist | in certain places by such gen | last eralities as you have just said.” | fied before the grand jury. The Cohen retorted that he had lived| first to be called was Rev. Chaun lin Seattle for mone than 80 years,,cey J. Hawkins, pastor of the has children and grandchildren, and| Plymouth Congregational church, 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 jury 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 is the second city of. ficial to be called before the jury, the |jury so far. The prediction is being | | result from the present investigation. Since the investigation started | Then, after one woman in the|or Brown and the police department crowd that thronged the council|from his pulpit. Hawking in one chamber stated that one man of her|*¢rmon accused the mayor of lying acquaintance was solicited five times| When he said he or the police knew in one day recently, Mra. Hall took|f no place in the city where booze the floor | was being sold. ‘The advimability of including in| Following Rev. Mr. Hawkins came the ordinance a provision for com.| Rev. H. I. Chatterton, who present pelling operators lea list of 48 places which were, of prospective|® Fen alin to post a notice on the|it 1 alleged, houses of ill repute rrpaghtnge tae in some of which liquor could Dre the | site for 10 days previous to the). chased. He also presented a list Sranting ed ® Hoense, in’ onder pa lot places where he said gambling Phave possible objectors appear | was allowed fore the council to voice their com-|" yrany of thone called to plaints, was the principal issue be! professed to have no knowledge of fore the committee vice conditions in Seattle Attorney Meagher of the corpor-| am Jaton counsel's office was called tol Lonm the council chamber and he gave] young son his opinion that the [be legal. * Prince George, of King George, 20, to be dicitin THESE WINTER NIGHTS a a , good istory is the best of companions; that’s ‘why “The Sky Line of Spruce” is mak- ling such a hit. For today’s chapter turn to page 11. the use and importation of 1,000 gal-| CALLS MAYOR ling nature has been presented to the | week 10 witnesses have teatt- | !who made accusations against May-| be! tentity | clause would | operated on immediately for appen- | to involve the county auditor's office in a court action. | A-petition for a restraining order to prevent the county auditor issuing & permit to 8. the synagogue, } coumty superior court Saturday The petition was filed by Alien & | Griffiths, attorneys for 16 members of the congregation, who claim that ward the Volstead act, and that they will be held up to ridicule and acorn if Levinson is permitted to import wine on the claim that it is for aucre- acting as an agent for 30 members of the congregation, and that he will receive a profit for handling the wine D. FB. Ferguson, county auditor, declared that the “drys” moved too late. The permit was requested some time ago, and the “drys” had plenty lof time to make their complaint be- } fore it was issued, according to Fer- |guson, The facts are, said Ferguson, | that the “drys” have no desire to | stop the importation of sacramental | wine. Rather, the move is an at ltempt to bring his office into disre pute, Ferguson declares. It is not a question of respect to the Volstead | act, byt m question of which faction | \freely made that no indictments will | shall be allowed to get the wine, he | town district |charges, Further litigation over the wine is threatened | WALLACE REID IS IMPROVING Dope and Whisky BY ROBERT A. DONALDSON LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18.— Wallace Reid, film idol, suffering & mysterions relapse which has threatened his life, after, accerd- ing to Dorothy Davenport, bis wife, he had won a fight against the drug habit, today was report- ed “a little improved.” He was stil] at « sanitarium in Hollywood, under the care of physicains, who said that his pres ent iiness frad nothing whatever to do with his alleged use of nar. liquor. made bis fight against the | enslaving drugs, his wife and his friends declared, and has won Physicians, ‘Including the best available, have been unable to diag- nse accurately, it was announced, his present condition, Th believed, however, he t# now suffering from @ touch of influenza, rendered more | serious and more than usually bat. fling in its effects, due to a weakened (Turn to Page 8, Column 2) Levinson, secretary of | was filed in King | | they take a respectful attitude to- | mentad use. They assert Levinson in} Actor’s Breakdown Laid to| jona of sacramental wine threatens | and the robbery at: ‘The money was in $5 bills and was [being taken to the federal reserve bank. As soon as the gun battle ‘started guards on duty at the mint rushed to the front door and opened tire. When the bandits drove up the packages of currency were stacked on the curb as the driver and guard of the bank loaded the money into the automobile. The leader of the bandits leaped from the car and while he was cover: ing the two men with a revolver the | others seized the currency and began | placing ft in their own automobile | A waitress in a restaurant across |the street from the mint saw the | holdup and made frantic efforts to call the police, Before she was able | to met headquarters, mint employes | rushed to the door of the bullding and began shooting with sawed-off | shotguns and repeating rifles. Guards at the mint fired from every point of vantage, but the ban |dits stood their ground until the | money had been transferred to their | automobile. Then they sped away. | Bundles of money had been brok len up and coins were scattered along | the sidewalk in front of the mint The government building is only about three blocks from the down- The loot consisted of ye coined silver and gold and | bills, The rain of bullets struck several buildings in the neighborhood of the jmint. 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 | jarmed guards rushing to windows and doors. Rifles and shotguns roared as the government men en deavored to drive off the bandits. . . WASHINGTON, Dec, 18.—United | States secret service operatives will | ~ be assigned immediately to (he gigan- | tle robbery of federal reserve cur |rency in front of the United States mint at Denver, the secret service of. | fice here stated today. A complete investigation of the robbery will be made by the secret service as soon as possible, it was | stated, j |$32,000,000 Asked pet | for Building Roads | WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—In-| creased appropriations of $32,300,000 | | for new road buliding were recom mended in the annual agriculture de partment supply bill reported to the house today by the appropriations {committee, The appropriation for | new road work in the agricultural | bill for the current year was $10, | 000,000, as compared with $42,000,000 for next year, ly 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. A southeasterly gale, rain and a moderate temperature are predicted for Seattle Monday night and Tues. day, Early Sunday morning the temperature fell to 23 degrees above but rose to 36 degrees before night- fall. Monday the mercury fell and driv- ing rain coated the streets with slippery {ce that ts expected to swell the month's total of automo. bile and sled accidents. Snow covering the clty for more than a 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 tioned Monday by Police Chief Severyns to remove ice snow coatings from their side- walks, Persons injured by fall- ing on the icy walks may obtain Judgment from the property owners, Severyns warned. Po- lice 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 his head, on a lonely road 35 miles south of Denver, yesterday, Friends |Delieve he committed suicide in a fit of deapondency over ill-health, LOST— FOUND— BUY— SELL— EXCHANGE— STAR WANT ADS give all these services. Call Main 0600 F | tu 3 i i | : ii y of persons | Jumped from the Vinchlong to the deck of the Bainbridge, one | being killed and several injured in this manner. o- shore of Lake Superior, Wednes- day, were found capsized today. They were badly battered and rescue party abeard the bg 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 lifeboats. 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- Hance, ; 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 reouperated. They then started a weary march, climbing | many high, tcy 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 received shelter, A party of men from the camp rescued the Hartons, After spending two days at this }eamp, the party went to Agawa, {Where the Agawa Central railroad has a station, VANCOUVER, B. C.—Murlel Stark, 3 months, instantly killed by flying fragments of iron when fro. }men water jacket of kitchen range ‘explodes in Stark home, then leaped at him, p i revolvers against his stomach. — Miller gasped, then, reo composure, smiled and held r wrists for the handcuffs. He ¥ taken to the city jail and the police finding a wallet that bi been stolen from a prominent land physician at the Frye hotel, a quantity of jewels, also property. “Miller is one of the most ous, and certainly the man the local police have had with in a long time,” detectives: Monday. “He never carried pf keys and often worked in so that the police could never him in the act of burglarizing He never entered a room that W locked, either. Invariably, he have an ironclad alibi when wandering in the hallway.” Miller was convicted of a 1905 and served 14 months in Quentin penitentiary. He went in 1906 for three years on checks, and was given four Folsom prison in 1910, for He was arrested again in Los 4 geles in 1918 for burglary and larceny. Miller is suspected of thief who, within the — months, has committed dozens 6 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 Washi ton he secured nearly $1,000 in ables, the police declare, Detectives Waechter and tensen were commended Mon Chief of Police W. B. Seve! Captain of Detectives Charles: 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’ stolen articles have been loo police declare. Miller was being held in the jail Monday under an open preparatory to the filing of bur charges against him by P Attorney Malcolm Douglas, w eer ns DENVER. — Approximately motorists witnessed a battle at Morrison, near here, which blocked traffic for half @ hour, The fight started over ing « tire on @ car and wag by state police,