The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 19, 1922, Page 1

WORKER ELECTROCUTED! PARAL PAD LDPE P PP PPP PP PPP PPP Tonight and fresh southerly winds Temperature Last Maximum, 48. “VOLUME 24. NO. 255. Howdy, iris! Made your Sweetie a crocheted necktie yet? see wifo is a platinum ring with a 14 karat bunk of coal instead of one of those cheap diamonds Suggested Christmas present for Mayor Brown: A year's pew rent in Rev. Chauncey Hawkins’ church. see THE DAILY MAIL Dear Homer: Could you tell me of a good Christmas gift for my favorite movie actor? — Helene. used to they In the olden days they carry in the Tule log ~~ now merely light the gas log ee With the First ave. paving being rushed to completion, it looks like they're going to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas, ee The voice of winter grumbiles at the door, Old Boreas chants his fav'rite tunes once more; We sit in casy chairs ensconced, the grate before, And read cheap thrillers, red and dank with gore. eee Bill McCurdy tells us that “The Emperor Jones” is packing the Met The Seattle Joneses must be turn- ing out In force. e+e INTERESTING FACTS Mra. Phillips is reported in Chi- cago, Kansas City, Havana and Tia Juana. Some giobe-trotter! ee Ministers who are knocking Mayor Brown's administration believe in do- . te despite the fact that they were skating on Green lake Sunday. Skaters made a lot of wise cracks about how safe the ice was, and then the ice made a few cracks. ee Here tes the body Of Billy Bluff. He thought the tice Was thick enough. eee Just as soon as the police get thru stamping out turkey raffles they are called upon to arrest a hotel Raffles. . —_—____ ee | LI'L GEE GER, TH OFFICE | 7 VAMP, SEZ: | | Far coats for women are three | crying spells more expensive | than they were last year. | - “British *hilitary rule in Ireland game to an end festerday after 600 ers.” —Newspaper @hink of the poor bird isted in duration of the war! o- ‘The Turkish government ts looking for husbands for the sultan’s 150 de- verted wives, “They are eaquipfed with matchless complexions, dark eyes and long chest- that en a put bair, and are religious and affec- fonate,” says a government report Put what American bachelors want to willing te get up end in the morning? .. “Does she drees well?” “I dunno; I never watched her.” gow ta: Are t ‘ert the furna, eee CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB Bimbo who tells your wife to give you a box cigars for Christmas. eee “What was your gnost exciting night?” in the name of a contest being conducted by The Star one when we got on Capitol Hill ear and found it heated! oe . 5 Good ot days and good ol’ nights, Times when the Yuletide was) 4 MERRY, Hourly we sat and with much eclat Now nights and daya sad and drear, Wouldn't tt make you sick? You can't even get a slice of mince are vie Which carries a genuine kick. eee eR Mayor Brown has at last got his fivecent carfare ordinance passed. | Sacre nom de chat! Sacre nom de chat’s pajamas! eee Now that the earfare is to be i lowered, we'll have some way of j spending our nickels other than q romping them in the collection x. see You can say this for Doe: He always carries out his promises if ¢ him time, We were afraid, that lw might die of oid before he got around to the age nickel cartare One minute, pleane, Poerator changes reels, while the A nifty Christmas present for the! Cromwell's army for the} Our most exciting night was the Ordered our warm Tom and Jerry. | Wednesday -|Boy Seeks — His Mother in Seattle TELLS OF TH DEATH FIGHT Girl Describes Her} | Struggle With Lover in Fatal) Shooting Fray | By Robert B. Bermann While hundreds of curious spectators stood on thelr tip toes and held their breath, Mrs. Olga Farley reenacted, Tuesday morning, the straggle which re sulted the killing of Wesley Howarth, for which she is now on trial. With Judge William R. Bell, one of ber attorneys, acting in the role of warth, she went then every detail of the death battle. “I picked up the gun," she testi fied, suiting the action to her words “I didn’t want to shoot him. I was | Robert Towler Kearns, who | jafraid that he was going to shoot! iy searching for his missing | m I was going to put it away " Ss th . ! But he grabbed me, like this*—Ren | Parents in Seattle. Can you help him find them? demonstrated in a graphic manner i "then I shifted the gun to the other —Phote by Price & Carter thand, and he grabbed that, too. Mar Melt P | Seeking = mother he cannot re | And—then I don’t know what hap- | pened.” This dramatic scene came an the climax of an hour's sensational test!- mony by Mrs. Farley, With remark- lable control, Mra, Farley described all of the harrowing’ detatla which jled up to the shooting, She never jeven changed color, altho many of) the incidents which she mentioned were of a highly revolting nature, and she was foreed to use obscene and profane language in quoting the dead man. & tmighbor woman, Eva Kearns | It was a sordid story—the story of/ In Seattle the grandmother could | & woman infatuated by @ man to|80t be found and Mrs. Kearns took such an-extent that she forgot pride | the child to New York. Years passed and everything oles, and the grandmother could not be “Il met Wesley,” she said, "in| found. Denver, San Francisco and March, about two months before the | Pertiand were visited, all with the killing. I met him at the Lodge |*@me reault. cabaret, We became intimate right| The mother had vanished and the away—tI Itked him very much—and | father, Harry Towler, was reported about a month Inter he saw me often |to be traveling with a road show in| at the Metropole. the Western states. A month ago | “about two weeks after he met|Mrs. Kearns returned to New York | me he began to beat me, and he/#nd Robert continued his search | |beat me up a lot—many, many “lone. member and a father he has never} seen, Robert Kearna, 20, ix tn Seat |tle to continue a nation-wide search for his missing parents, Born in a box-like room in a hotel joperated by hia mother In Douglas, christened Vernon Deuscharn Towler His mother, harassed by the work of her establishment and the care of a Jamal! daughter, sent Kearns to hie! |times. He told me of beating other| A faint clue to his mother's whore. } women, too. I was deathly afraid | “bouts was given him when he heard of him |that she had been divorced and had | “He n't working any of this! married a Seattle contractor named | time. He was living on my monay.| Hutchinson. So far the couple ha “About a week before the killing Not been found, {I had a minor operation and I didn’t; Alaskans who may know of Mabel |get out of bed until that day. Then; Towler or Mabel Hutchinson, or of jwe went out together and Wesley |the father, Harry Towler, or the nis quarreled with me on the way home, |ter. Fern, are asked to communicate jit got so bad later in the evening | with the boy at 218 Ninth ave. N. j that I left him and walked home. | He came In about 15 minutes later and started to beat me and abuse |me right away. He knocked me | down and struck me repeatediy, jand, after I had fallen, he kicked jme in the chest and stomach | | man, so | returned he struck me again | and said, ‘I will kill you, now! After he had knocked me down AMERICA PLANS | WORLD PARLEY Europe 1 i (Copyright. by United Preas) and I was lying on the floor, I WASHINGTON, Dec, 19—The saw the revolver on the dresser, United States, as the outstanding and I was afraid he would use it, so I grabbed it. That's all that I know. I don’t know to this day who fired the shot, T move in its plan to avert a col lapse in the old world, is about to invite the European powers to make a final attempt to settle | | | } | | | don’t remember touching the | the German reparations problem, | trigger.’ it was learned from most | The rest of the morning was de-/ authoritative sources here to | voted to testimony substantiating the fact that Mrs. Farley had been badly beaten and that she did make an ef. | fort to get the police shortly before | the shooting. | ‘The case wag expected to go to the jury Tuesday afternoon Deputy Prosecuting Attorney John | Carmody is appearing for the state, | while Mrs. Farley is being defended | by Judge Bell and Adam Beeler, } jay. The “plan” of the United States for intervention in the European situation, which has filled two conti- | nents with excitement and anticipa tion partly because of the deep mys | tery surrounding it vealed by the United Press. | It follows: | | 1. Believing that reparations in the |key to the present European crigis, the United States will participate in a commission or some other form of can now be re | official inquiry to establish an exact | figure for Germany to pay. It would A WANT AD be a figure that would constitute |just reparations for the war—an A DAY jameunt that would be up to Ger. | many’s capacity to pay, but not be- | | yond | | 2. If m settlement of the repara- tions problem can be effected by an agreement among the Euro. | pean powers on such a figure, the United States can give as | surances that American bankers | stand ready to advance « loan, with the proper securities, suf flelent to put Germany on her feet and start her towards | amortisation of the indemnity, Finally, the United States govern. (Turn to Page 7, Column 5) MAKES BUSINESS PAY Call Main 0600 and Phone Your WANT ADS | | | By Wanda von Kettler Christmas is the time for gladness—and Christmas is ‘most here. Let’s be glad. The meaning is this: Hundreds of people right here in Se- attle are stocked with worldly goods—comfortable homes, pantries well filled, and plenty of wealth to buy more of what in worldly goods they desire. At the same time, not so many blocks away from those| people, are little children whose mothers and dads can’t | quired for kiddies to borrow? Wouldn’t they be glad on “ASS Aa al ails iced die Mincisaitisniiciiled 4 Se i Bntered as Becond Clase Mater May 8, | coat on the porch. The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star 1899, at the Postofficn at meatth “SEATTLE, WASH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1 | $10,000 “Dead or} Offered) by City for Men OST REWARD FOR DENVER Alive” With $200,000 19.—All roads watched to CHICAGO, Dee into Chicago wer day following the receipt by po lice of a tip that the bandits who robbéd the Denver mint of $200,000 were beaded thin way. Federal authopities declared they received the tp from a woman who refused to divulge her name, The ormant sald members of the gang were from Chicago, Plans were made to search all transcontinental trains, BY A. SNYDER DENVER, Colo, Dee, 1— The city of Denver today of- fered a reward of $10,000 for the capture, de@! or alive, of ny one of the bandits who yew terday killed a» federal reserve bank guard and escaped with $200,000 from front of the United States mint here. The city offered $2,500 for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of any of the bandits, Police and federal officers ha Alaska, 20 years ago, Kearna was | centered the search for the men in| an grandmother in Seattle in charge of “utomobile loads of policemen were stationed in the neighborhood the mint for an hour thie mornin: They refused to state what purpéne was. returned to headquarters, Rooming houses in section of the elty were search: and underworld thru by officers. od and are in hiding here, Two] be meted ¢ their | and accused, and finally reached « Atter an hour they | verdict. dives were gone| "a man named Baker.” ander the Act of Songress March 19, Per Your s by Mall, 6 to ‘Other Ma n’ Pays Penalty * % % Condemns Self to Death Mrs. Lottie Clark and George O. Baker | OAKLAND, Dec. 19.—Into the; But first, Baker had penned a de- Denver. Officials were becoming} code of unwritten law George Baker | cision in the case of Baker, the more convinced that the bandits, |has inserted « decision | | thier," wi , an. Ba lingtend of leaving the dite; pep.|. Ie conecrnd the penalty that shouwla| 7% % Beker, the Man. Baker t to the “love thief,” the |the Man had won home-wrecker, and women he left a warning and a Raker dramatically placed himself| sermon. Here, ax he penned ft, was on trial, made himwelf Judge, jury | Baker's self-imposed death sentence: “The man who steals another man's wife in the greatest thiet of He must pay. T am the ‘man of « Tt waa the death penalty. Such Is the astounding sequet to a} all: the poorer | triangle that involved Mra. Lottie B. | named Baker’ and I have decided to 4 | Clark, her husband, Leo Clark, and | pay In full. Will someone please tell Naming “a| Mr. Clark I am sorry for any pain I [man named Baker” as correspond. }have caused him, I loved well but ‘The city’s underworld was being | ent, Clark divorced his wife at Free | foolishly. What more can one in my thoroly searched by police and seer service operatives in the hopes running down the partigipants Denver's boldest daylight robbery, Officers have three leads to follow One | after in their efforts to find the men. ia the fact that one of the bandits jhe clung to the running board of! ing a bullet thru his head the speeding car as it roared away | from in front of thie mint was seen slump in a heap with blood pouring His the from a wound In his cheek. companions dragged him onto car, whieh did not slacken speed. ‘The second is a bloody sawed-off |whotgun used by the bandits and left }lying on the curb after Linton had been killed by a charge of buckshe Finger prints on the stock of the gu may lead to the dixcovery of the me: in was believed by police. The third ix the tact that the loot et no. That was the only identification | position say? of | Clark or the world had for the “other | this; We who cheat fn must pay. I am glad to pay.” | Baker has « chance to survive his house here where Mra. Clark came | relf-inflicted penalty. But if he does the separation. Finally, {t| recover he will be blind—the fates or found Haker, revolver in hand, send-|a higher tribunal commuting his own ‘death wentence to life suffering. man.” The sequel moved to an apartment to} Admit Alaska as State, Says U.S. Forestry Chief WASHINGTON, Dec, 19.—Urgent ot. Iy recommending that Alaska. terri- 4D | tory be admitted to full sisterhood in ™ | the United Siates of America, Chief . in his annual re. elsewhere, but they want to make their own laws, levy their own taxes and spend their public money just as In short, what Alaska wants Is. not that the the people do in the states, | Forester Gr obtained by the men waa all in newport, made public today, declares Union should be ousted from the ter- $5 bills, 50 packages, each totaling, that “it is becoming perfectly evi ritory, but that Alaska should be ad. $4,000, The number on cll the bills mitted to the Union.” is known by bank officials, lation they can be newly minted currency All principal highways in this section are being watched while (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) SALE DETAILS ARE INSPECTED | Atte | h Will Make Attempt to Save | point out that when tho bandits at.|Kan problem |tempt to put the money into etre: traced thru the) dent that the solution of the Alas SAVE INVALID FROM FLAMES Prompt action by firemen saved the life of Mrs. Louis Schinann, an invalid, shortly after midnight Mon day, when flames consumed greater part of the Shinann dwell- ing at 2213 W. Gist st Rushing into the firemen carried the invalid wom- is local self govern- u-| ment.” In this view, Groeley differs radi cally from Secretary of the Intertor| Albert Fall, who holas, in his annual | Jreport, that what Alaska needs to wettle her problem ts a sting of jurisdiction over the whole of Alaska, excepting her fisheries, in the depart. ment of the interior, which is best equipped to handle territorial prob- loms, and the substitution of a co CHICAGO, Dee 19 Secretary of ordinated and centralized system ef an be place of rigs bres a Ne Agriculture Wallace will arrive in| gaministration for the present bu-| °F Her bust nd and two children jeago late today to go over final | renucratic system at the earliest pos. | Would not leave the home unt of Morris & Go. packers, to 3, Owe o. | Sao ot $406 wan caused by the fire hima | chiet Greeley deveiops his thesls| which was caused by an overheated According to best information, the Rory apa bgt nt | Ove, It is believed. transfer will take place at mid-|, “What bast cnc vg caper 0 —_t i NS night, December 31, Auditors check. | %20t the power to run the govern : Ing up the nasote of Morrin & co, ment’s business or property, but! Flower Fight Is completed their work today, while} Power to run thelr gown business. | Aired in C il financial aides of Armour were in| 2¢ people of the territory who come | ire In ouncl New York handling the money mat. |!" contact with the national forests! Compiaints that the proposed leg- ters Surprises Burglar in Her Kitchen) Surprising a burglar In the kitch- en of her home, Miss Edna Johnaso: 1607 Winthrop st., succeeded routing him with a well-timed screa! the coat, but the burglar pants, W. A. Blair, 2712 93rd av §., also discovered a burglar ear ‘Tuesday, and in similar fashion, p him to flight. The able to locate the thy Mi were give them any too much C| Christmas tree with a little ‘The police seized | ber used in Alaska ig cut from the} the pric has the| gov un-| national forests in Al; jare thoroly satisfied with the exist-|isiation to prohibit the sale of hot- |ing form of administration and con-| house and “forced out of season” | trot of these properties, The counsel | rowers at the Pike Place city mar- jand assistance of our scientific bu-| ket will drive a number of small | reaus are welcomed,” | growers out of business were pre- ng on the bill Secretary Fall's report says that | sented at a public hea the great natural resources of Alan-| before the council harbors and pub- n,| ka are now being held out of use,/ lie grounds committee, Tuesday in| when they should be developed by| morning, The bill, in the form of an m | the introduction of private capital. | amendment to an established ordl- early Tuesday. ‘The purelar. who had| Greeley favors the strictest gov-| nance, was proposed, according to lentered via a rear door, departed in| ernment control of the great nation-| one councilman, as a protection to the same manner, carrying off a pair | al eats of Alaska, large floral houses which are said to of trousers, but leaving bis own over-| “Bighty-six per cent of the lum-/be threatened with extinction thru cutting of market sellers, lly no overhead ex- ment forests,” says Gr who have practics 6.| Finally, Greeley says, in answer to| pense, The large florists are claimed ly | his erities in the interior department: | as a public necessity, as their estab: ut| "The territory does not object to the | lishments are the only source of aska being ad- | large floral pieces for funerals, wed- administered Ings and social functl hristmas cheer. Maybe a bare cotton batting on it and a five- fairly rung with youngster cent toy. Maybe a Christmas dinner that is like every other; WOULDN’T THEY? dinner in the poor, tumbled Now in the big house, w Here’s somebody now with A lady has called The Star house the year ‘round. vhere the lights are bright and/| and to all men| the} the flaming house! 190 FEET 10 WFUL DEATH George F. Deane, City Lineman, Is Victim of Water- way Live Wire While of persons watched, paralyzed with horror, George F. Deane, 31, elty light department lineman, plunged 190 feet to bis death from the top of a huge steel used for transporting high tension cables across the West Spokane water way, Toesday morning at 9:30 o'clock. A great puffball of white smoke arose from the tower, It was immediately followed by 4 burst of bluish flame, in whieh Deane’s body was sharply sil- houetted for a moment on the steel girders of the tower, Then his body fell outward and down- ward, describing a graceful arc. It struck the ground about 50 feet from the waterway. Deane, working with a crew of city linemen, had climbed the tower to inspect the high tension wires, car- rying 15,000 volts. The lines had been giving considerable trouble. Hix companions continued across to the other side of the river and climbed the opposite tower. Ww. scores tower “eve | companions, obsefved the white cloud of smoke, showing that Deane had in contact with the wires, | come probably by slipping on the wet gird- ore mile from Deane. jet alive, despite the fact that there. It all comes down to| Frances Deane, and a small baby. someone else | He resided at 7825 Stroud ave. An the accident was being made Tuesday by Coroner W. |Investigntion of |H. Corson and Deputy Coroner | Harry Johnson. PACIFIC PAPER FIRMS ACCUSED WASHINGTON, Dec. ‘The federal trade commission to- | day issued a formal complaint | against the Pacific States Paper | Trade association, its officers | and members, charging unfair | business practices, | It was alleged by the commission that, thru the association, prices are maintained and competition elimi- nated, It was charged that the asso- ciation brings pressure on its mem- bers to maintain prices by classing i keep their prices on the same level as the majority of the association. The respondents named in the com- | plaint are given 30 days to make an- | swer before the case goes to trial and are the Pacific States Paper Trade association, B. N. Coffman, secre- tary; Seattle-Tacoma Paper Trade conference, J, Y. C. Kellogg, secre- tary; Spokane Paper dealers, W. B. Gilbert, secretary; Portland Paper Trade association, Chris A. Bell, seo- retary; Paper Trade conference, of San Francisco, B. N, Coffman, secre- tary; Los Angeles Wholesale Paper jobbers, J. R. Coffman, secretary. The companies composing the above association include: American Paper company, J. (Turn to Page 7, Column 6) ‘MACHINE KIL ‘KIRKLAND BOY Run over by an automobile while crossing a street in Kirkland Monday night, George Thomas, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Thomas, of Kirk- land, was almost instantly killed. Investigation of the accident was be. | ing made Tuesday by Coroner W. H. | Corson. | The driver of the car which struck the boy, A. Pakkala, Juanita, Wash., | carpenter, told Kirkland authori- jties that his windshield was ob- |soured by rain, and that he was unable to see the boy until the car {struck him. Young Thomas was a Star carrier and had hosts of admiring friends ir. the Kirkland 4 | No Kiddies at Your House? Borrow Some for Christmas Christmas day when their lonesome, dignified old houses Well, just! squeals of joy? the Christmas spirit. and asked that somebody tell the people have what they want of things’ their money can|her of two or three little girls that she might “borrow” for buy, are often no little children. lacking, isn’t there, at Chri Supposing some of these So there's something | the Christmas holidays. She stmas time, people just looked about or in- 4 wants two or three little girls | who might not otherwise have very much Christmas cheer, to come to her home from Sunday until Tuesday of the Christ- mas week. She may be reached by telephone—Main 2888. Morehouse, one of Deane's| of He was « horrified witness to! the tragedy, altho separated by a half When the electrician’s body was picked up, Deane was found to be A ‘ne the stores claimed that ft. had fallen 190 feet and was terribly burned. He was rushed to the city hospital, but died before he arrived | Work, and that the policy Deane ts survived by his wife, Mrs. | Velopment of retail trade, them as “illegitimate” if they fail to | |FLASHE | 4 DEAD IN TUG WRECK SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich, Deeey John McPherson and three r men lost their lives when the The men were sw ny, it was ned here to information was contained #8 message from Capt, Dy commander of the ile The men were swept into the waters of Lake Superior] when the ttempted to lower a ife- boat and escape from the Reliames, | the message suid. “ee BOMB WRECKS HOMES” BALTIMORE, Dee, 19.— The homes of Patrolman ing and the Misses Caroling 19,—Capt oth fated tug The |A i rated tug Pauline Reuter were wrecked by | explosion at 3 a m. today, and detectives who rushed to were investigating @ t the policeman’s home haa |dynamited by persons who su |he caused a raid on a still whieh being run on @ lot in the rear of home. FIND LOST MAIL PLANE WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. maj) plane flown by Pilot B of the United States mall which was lost in a blizzard last day, was located on Porcupine # late yesterday by Pilot Bishop, | was detailed to the search, the office department was notified | The aviator is believed to be | snowbound cabin, awaiting ald. eee FASCISTI BATT TURIN, Dec. 19.—Two five communists were killed | persons wounded in a fight betw | these factions on the premises of | |chamber of labor today. The the communists’ daily, Nuevo, were burned. 08 NO NIGHT SHOPPII ‘The retail trade bureau of | attle Chamber of Con | nounced Tuesday that stores « | ed with it will not remain \ings this week. Rep rhe | for them to subject their 1 staffs to the strain of ing wae @ step backward SEIZE BIG DOPE CAR NEW YORK, Doc. 1 | seizure of narcotics in New several years was made on lyn plier by federal cu today. The officers consignment of fish, among the barrels 11 morphine and cocaine, Fi FIND STILL, M A 50-gallon still, 500 mash and two gallons of moonshine were shack 18 miles south of the Des Moines road, by Prohibition agents late night. No arrests have as made. The still and the product, however, were evidence. The mash was |FIGHTS MATERNITY WASHINGTON, Dee. 19. | tutionality of the Shepard |ternity act was attacked h | before the District of |preme court. Mrs. Harriet ingham, wife of a Boston | filed suit against the treasury and the board of n and infant hygiene created j act, asking that the defer restrained from carrying out {visions of the law, The | tended that the act was tional. a HELD FOR BAD CHEC SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. Eilers, president of the Oregon’ Music company, was indicted by county grand jury here last h charges of passing worthless The charge against Eilers sequel to the arrest in No Gus R. Smith, who was passing bad checks to the $3,300. The checks were have been signed by Eilers, eee APPROVE PENSION WASHINGTON, Dec, 19. and house conferees reg agreement on the Bursu Pension bill teday, Tt is p press for an early ratifying both houses as a»Christmas brance to soldiers and widows Mexican, Civil and Indian also for the maimed soldiers | wars—including the world war, eee PROBE “ROYAL BOMB? LONDON, Dec. 19.—Police t Giscovered a Mills hand gren ® garbage wagon used for cl out ash cans at Buckingham the home of the royal fami was immediately turned lexperts for examination by | who began an Investigation out how it came to be in the eee WORKER IS STRICKE Stricken with a cerebral . rhage while unloading pa plies for First ave, Monday noon, Andrew C. Campbell, of the Municipal Street R died in the Seattle General mber re ‘Tuesday. Campbell lived at tl Home Undertaking Co, |