The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1922, Page 1

THUGS MUTILATE MAN Ballard Groceryman Is Branded With Knife ——<—< WEATHER Saturday, creasing southerly winds. Temperature Last M4 Hours Tonight and Maximum, 49. Today noon, 45. tain; in- Minimum, $8. The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation Jead over its The Seattle Star Bntered as Second Clase Matter the Postoffice at Seattie, pATTL E, WASH., FRIDAY, DECEMBE R 29, Wann, under the Act of Congress March nearest competitor 41%, Per Your, by Mall, $6 to 69 1922. TWO CENTS PARA DAD DAR ALD DEPP DED PPP PEP DPD EPP PEPD PAPE PEEP PEPE IN SEATTLE. Howdy, folks! Son of J. J. Hill tips at the New Wash- ington with $10 bills. Bet the boys think he bs a wealthy boot- legger. eee HM gave the clerk $100. Well, it fakes almost that much before a hotel clerk will condescend to talk : fag eee _ . Sim Hill was largely instrumental fh the upbuilding of Seattle, and now ‘Bis son is trying to endow it. eee ‘Tt was a good thing Danz wasn't the machine at the time of the ‘Explosion or Doc Corson would have had to hoki the inquest in an air Perhaps the mysterious package Which exploded was a box of Christ: to him who Allen of West walt an hour for a come along, and sagt ~~, more! pom acumen an article by Dr. Coue in an evening ry) you ennai? Have several hebbies. Whee tired of one, hele Rev. Chauncey Hawkins, in a before the Young Men's Re club, says that Seattle is to be cleaned. Well, the city has almost cleaned it. eee Hawkins charged that on Christ- mas eve, in a downtown theater, a éanced a hula-hula. This plainly in violation of the traffic regu- cs against parking with your en- running. eee | Days were when the town hall's Beauty filled us with elation. ~ owe an our pride ts lavished on Our fevely fUiag stations! “Our Review of 1922" will be on streets tomorrow. The rest of paper will be given over to The Star, a most praiseworthy newspaper of which we will uch in the future. eee CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB which sends your handkerchiefs back marked with — Initials in black, indclibie eee What is the name of the Seattle millionaire who is going to build a new home with three faucets at ‘every sink—hot water, cold water end home brew? . TEN MILES ‘prom NOW Higaw the anguish on his face, "While great and salty tears shed, he What sorrow can be yours?” I cried. | “Alas!” he wept, dead'” “my engine's eee Members of the Mountaineers’ elub will hold their New Year's eve celebration in Paradise Valley. Bet they have a high old time. ee Greece is considering another war with Turkey, and Jess Willard wants @ return fight with Dempsey. see We're only going to write one colyum this year, hurrah! 15 VICTIM OF COPS BAFFLED Knifing Follows Burning of Store| and Fierce Fight; Note Mystifies Vietim of tree “mysterious at tacks during the last month and @ half, George G. Clements, 24, 1423 W. 64th st, was found un- conscious near the Golden Gar. dens, in Ballard, early Friday morning. Clements had been slugged over the head, stripped Hunting for Things Santa Claus Lost | ef ‘most of his clothes, and thrown from an automobile, His mts is believed to have a fractured skull and has been uncon. scious since he wag found, abi} only to mutter threats against his assail- ants. “Don't hit me again,” Detectives ‘William Peterson and R. C. Chris tenson that her hustand had left home at 6 a m. to look for work in @ Ballard sawmill and that he was undoubtedly attacked by the same two men who left him for dead after & desperate fight in Clements’ gro- cery at 1443 W. 65th st. on Novem ber 14. Clements had just opened his grocery early in the morning when the pair leaped at him from the Inside. Clements was slugged with a sack of salt during the fight, but not until he had wounded one of the men on the arm with an ax. The cause of the assault was never determined. Thursday morning Clements’ gro- cory store was set afire and partially | destroyed. He had said that he left) his home at 630 a. m. Thuraday to look for work. It was at that time the fire was-discovered. Fire depart- ment officials are still investigating the blaze. Police, on the other hand, declare themaeives to be dissatisfied with Clements’ story that he was at- tacked by bandits in both cases and believe an investigation may disclose other motives. Police learned Friday morning that Clements’ home had been burglarized December 16 and his revolver stolen. A note was found lying on a table in the house which .anted of a des perate fend tetween Clements and his assailants. It read: “Who comes first—you or met Why do you carry this gun? I know you well, kid.” In place of a signature a question mark ended the note, BERGDOLL IS IN GERMANY BERLIN, Dec. 29.-—Grover Cleve- land Bergdoll, American draft evad- er, has not left Germany, according to advices from Eberlach today. A dispatch received here said he spent Christmas there. eee It was recently reported in the United States that Bergdoll was en route to America aboard a steamer | which will dock shortly at a Pacific port. This report said he was on the vesset in the disguise of a sailor. The Closing Hours for STAR “Want Ads” Is 10:30 A. M. Intoxication Seattle has as a whole behaved according to reports now being pre: pared by the police and coroner. A weneral increase in violent crimes, jincluding holdups, robberies, bur- | Slartes, suicides—all but murdere— }has been noted, it was announced Frida; While the coroner's office has re- ported only 20 murders during 1922, 48 compared to” 28 in 1921, have increased from the 70 mark in| 1921 to 109 for 1922. Patrolman | Charles. ©. Legate, however, morgue reports, despite the conten tion of the police that the officer was | 4 homicide vietim. From one-fourth of the total ar- rests made by the police if 1921, ar. |rests for intoxteation have mounted the total figure. More arrests for drunkenness are than before prohibition! Bandits, burglaries and safe-blow- ers put in a busy and profitable DRUNKEN MAN Oregon Rancher Kills His Wife and Neighbor MARSHFIELD, Ore., Deo. 29.—Is A. Perle, rancher from the remote Kitchin creek section, today was lodged in the Coos county jail, at Co- were lodged against him, Perrie confessed Thursday night to murdering hia wife and James &. | Culver, a neighbor. The confession l}was made before Coroner Fred Wil- json, Sheriff B. F. Ellingsen and City Constable Robert Redell and a group | of citizens, at Myrtle Point, shortly | after he had been brought in from | Kitchin mountein. ‘The story related by Perrie was substantially by him to Charles neighboring rancher, the killing. Verrie said he had fought with his wife in their homestead cabin on Kitchin mountain late Wednesday night. He had been drinking =moonshine, he — said. He choked the woman to death. Then, armed with a 30-30 rifle, he shot all his dogs and set out for the ranch of dames Culver, on Kitchin mountain, Culver, a man about 65 years of (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) 8. Stevens, a sbortly after rather badly during the past year,/ sulcides | has! been classed as a suicide on the| upwards during 1922 to one-third of | now being made | MURDERS TWO, quille, and formal charges of murder | the same as that told | Mounting Crime Record Shown During Last Year Police Report Increase in Violent Crimes, and Suicide j Year, the reports show, with a total of 244 cases of banditry, nearly 1,500 | home and apartment robberies, and | approximately 150 safe robberies. | Auto aceidents caused 62 deaths, while in 1921 the death total of traf | fle crashes amounted to 3% | With just twovdays until the new year, Seattle's total of arrests for all pos in 1922 stands at 23,082. In | 1921, 23,061 persons were arrested. Arrests for intoxication this year number 7,233 up to the first of De. |cember, while during *the whole of 1921 only 5,797 were arrested. Striking an average, Seattle would seem to have two suicides each week, nearly two murders a month, four holdupea a week and five burglaries every day of the year, The police bulletin, times daily, graphically illustrates the year’s crime wave. During the winter months holdups appear in the majority, while during the summer the activities of bandits decline Burglaries, however, flourish year ‘round, ‘SHORT DEMANDS BOMB INQUIRY Says Explosion Was Scheme to Discragit Labor fesued three the Declaring that he |the bombing of John Danz’ automo |bile Wednesday night was a “put-up Job,” William R. Short, the State Federation of Labor, nounced Friday that he would de |mand that the authorities make Ithoro investigation. Short sald he | was certain In his own mind that the car bad been destroyed simply to nAvertise Danz’ movie theaters and to create sympathy in favor of Dans in the controversy which he has been having with th “Hane Kver 8 president of an » unions was in a cigar stor ort ¢ ger of one of Dang’ theaters Florence in the 1. C jWuilding—entered and told him: ‘You ought to wee the crowd I've got to night. I'll say it pays to advertise’ “Another matter which seema ex- tremely fishy is the fact that Danz was so quick to have a photographer on the scene, immediately after the explosion, to take pictures of the machine and himself, He also had reporters right there, and, without any investigation, told them it was all the result of labor troubles and blamed the unions. “when evidence that | Smith | | Dorothy Pollett, In Charge Of The Lost And Found Department Of The Seattle Municipal Railway, Is Still Playing Santa Claus. Loads Of Christmas -ackages Were Left On Seattle Street Cars By Hurrying Shoppers. She's About The Busiest Little Woman In The City In Her Effort To Locate Some Of The Many Things Dropped Out Of Santa Claus’ Pack. The Most Recent Search She Made Was A Quest For Three Bottles Of Beer A Man Nervy, Wat? —Photo by Price & Carter, Btar Staff Photographers eee Christmas is over as far as Santa Claus is concerned—but it's just. beginning for Miss Dorothy Pollett, who presides over the lost and found division of the Seattle municipal rail- road, In her office on the fifth floor of the county-city building she has a veritable mountain of Christmas presents that Santa Claus—or somebody—lost on Se- attle street cars during the holi- day rush. And she's being kept busy from morning till night, looking up articies for folks who think that they may own some of the strayed gifts, “This is the nicest part of my Job.” Mins Pollett remarked Friday, when she gained a moment of leisure after looking up @ couple of lembroidered pillow slips that Santa had lost on a W. Queen Anne car. | “Of course, it's always pleasant to restore lost articles to people—but it's particularly so around Christmas time. Makes me feel sort of like an amateur Santa Claus. seems funny that s0 many| lone Christmas presents on | altho it’s no funnier than | they lose things all the "round. re, for instance’—she walked | into the storeroom-—"“are half a doz-| en setx of false teeth that have been picked up in the street cars |recently. How people can lose their tecth is more than I can figure out —but we get in quite a number, regularly every year. “Of course, we have more umbrel- las than apy other single artic and lunch ‘pails—the the nos bottie | kind—run second. rr etbooks, | suitcases, and the like are/ also regu ommodities with us, | “But,” she smiled engagingly, “I think the funniest part of it all is the way people lose liquor on the cars—and then have the nerve to come in and inquire about it. One man has ber here five or six times rece: to see if we have heard . thing about three bottles of beer that he lost on the street car Just before Christmas.” Miss Pollett has been In charge of the lost and found division ever) since the street car lines were! owned by Stone & Webster came over to the city when it pur chased the system State Visited ram 300,000 Tourists | State records, and particularly | those in Seattle, showing tourist travel in other years, w hattered th flux during 1 a report | made yesterday by the tourist depart- | ment to the Chamber of Commerce board of trustees showed, More than 300,000 visitors were recorded in| various sections of the state; differ ent localities showing an increase of | 150 per cent ove? former | rs, sburg, Spokane, Mount Vernon, Aberdeen, Chehalis and | Anacortes include prenomenal gains | in their reports for 19 Seattle's tourist bureau gave personal service to 20,427 guests and more than 6,000 others wore given telephone informa- tion, year of She ny jin WAR SESSION OF CABINET IS Conflict With Turkey Appears Inevitable and Both Side Are Endeavoring to Put Blame on Other; Final Moslem Word Is Awaited Europe today stood at the cross ade one path leading to war in the Near East, # other to peace. The Lausanne conference was suspended while Ismet Pasha, chief of the Turkish gation, prepared a reply to the allied demand that the Turks permit international o at which cases involving foreigners would be tried. There was an obvious effort on the part of the allies to make it appear that obstinacy on this point is responsible for the impending disruption of the confi while Ismet desires the world to believe that British greed for the rich Mosul oil in Mesopotamia is the real reason. Ismet’s reply will probably try to throw the blame on Britain. Meanwhile, the British cabinet met ostensibly to discuss reparations, but the tion of hostilities in the Near East probably was taken up also. Reports ar Athens said Greece _— renewed war with the Tarks inevitable, * *% * % % + * British Chiefs in Meeting LONDON, Dee, 29.— Meeting of the British cabinet today, os- tensibly to discuss reparations, was believed due in a large the critical Near to proceed to the straits. Resumption of war between Greece and Turkey is considered inevitable ia the former country, according to * & xk * a cable from Athens to the Daily Ex- press today, Former Premier Ventaelos, vision- ing a breakdown of the Lausanne costerence, has telegraphed the WEDDING PLANS | that the 1920 and 1922 military | Mi classes be called to the colors, the Express correspondent cabled. Venizelos declared that the entire Greek army should be sent to Thrace, leaving only one regiment in Athens, The mme advices report that General Pangalos, Greek com- mander in Thrace, has entrained se- eretly for Saloniki. * ® & Peace Parley Suspends LAUSANNE, Dec. 29.—Final decision as to peace or war in the Near East rested with the Turks today. The conference stood practically suspended, walt- ing for word from Ismet Pasha. The Turk delegate had a few days) in which to reply to allied insistence that mixed tribunals and judicial kuarantees replace capitulations. he made final, formal rejection of the demand, !t would moan the im- mediate end of the peace conference, | delegates declared. Meanwhile the British were report: ed — — to meet an * If} open break with a return to armed watchfulness at the Straits. A Brit- ish fleet, led by the Iron Duke, was reported under full steam for the Dardanelles. ‘The conference having become a struggle between British and Turks to shift the blame on each other for the break, now regarded as inevit- able, the former won the backing of all other delegations except the Rus- | sians. The United States supported the allied demands for judicial guaran- tees. France, Japan and Italy stood with Great Britain in the matter of capitulations, ee * J lkaediies Flays Borah Plan’ WASHINGTON, Dec. 29,—-Bitterly land sarcastically assailing Senator Borah and bis proposal for a world economic conference, Senator Hiram Johnson, California, in a speech in the senate today, charged that Borah’s plan was in the interest of international bankers. He declared he would rather see the United States the league of nations than in such a conference as Borah sug gested, Just before Johnson started his Ispeech, Senator Bursum, of New Mexico, introduced a resolution for a loan of $1,000,000,000 to Germany, to be used in purchasing farm products and farm implements in this coun: try. German industrial securities, Johnson, who shared with Borah the leadership of the irreconcilables in the fight against the league coven: ant, turned on his former associate all the venom he formerly reserved for their joint opponents, He indi- rectly declared that Borah was be ing made the tool of propagandists land of the international bankers, and used Borah's own words to convict him of now favoring American em broilment in Europe “Tam agninst the Borah amend ment for precisely the same reason T was against taking the United States Into the league of nations,” id Johnson. “Tt am aguinst it be. use, fa my opinion, ft will do ex notly what thug far we have declined 0 do “T am against it because, in greater degree and with less safe. guards, than the league of! nations gave us, it will embro us in Kurope's controversies and finally make the United States, after 150 years, a part of the European sys- tem “Tam against it with either reser vations or amendments, for I have been unable to conceive either amendment or reservation, whieh leaving the design, would avert the possible injurious consequences.” ‘Advocates of the amendment, Johnson charged, “arrogate to them- selves all the world’s idealism and The loan will be secured by} “superior beings, demand upon the pain of their denial of idealism and altruism to the rest of the United States, that we follow whatever course they may mark, We decline to enter into Europe’s maelstrom, without definite and cogent reasons, upon the mere arrogation of a su- perior charity benevolence and altru- jism by those who would take us in, or because of the denunciation of those who will not blindly accept and |follow any suggested course.” Borah’s plan, Johnson said, pre vides, not only for consideration of every world economic problem, but distinctly directs that understand: ings and arrangements of a political nature be arrived at. It would be Impossible to keep political questions out of the conference, he said, Fur- thermore, it would be up to the United States as the nation calling the parley to join in its agreements and Inter to see to it that they be- came operative. Good faith would prohibit any other course, he as- serted “I am well within the fact when T (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) BREWER MEETS VIOLENT DEATH ST. LOUIS, Dec, 29.-—William J. Lemp, .55, president of the brewery company bearing his name, was found shot to death in his office to- day. Lomp, the third member of the famous brewer faintly to meet a vio- lent death, had been shot twice near the heart. A revolver was found at his feet. There was no note of ex planation, Busi: associates said Lemp had been worrying ver the passing of the brewery, valued at $4,000,000. The properties are now in the pro- cess of liquidation, Lemp's father, founder of the brewery, and a sister, Mrs, Bisa | | | | } $13,143.02, sympathy” and taking the pose of | asked when the much c riage would take place, ly: “It is none of your = will make no stat ss ever." Krenn only blushes | eee BERNHARDT CANT P AUTOS COLLIDE — A Paco) car containing W. 8. McGraw and Detectives Freeman and M. 8. Serafford ¢ with an auto driven by M. H. Gr schmit, 8053 15th ave. N. W., Tl day at Fifth ave. and severely injuring A. Anderson, Seattle boiler works. Anderson: @ passenger in Grobschmit's | He was thrown thru tne wit receiving cuts on the face and He was taken to the city it Both cars were badly damaged. | eee RELIEF FUND GROWS Fourteen contributors hh the Astoria relief fund by Thursday, making the total Gifts of food, and necessities as well as are acceptable. Checks or orders should be made the Chamber of Commerce relief fund and mailed or to the chamber, ninth floor Arctic building. eee CHARGE FORGERY» Charges of forgeries 2,705 are made against Dibble, real estate dealer and public, in a civil suit now before Superior Judge Otis Brinker, The suit is brought by @ National Surety Co., which Didbie for $1,000 as a notary, which now seeks to determine ff responsibility. B. B. Simpson Dibble sold him a note and gage Por $1,400, with the names | | Mr, and Mrs. W. Schulz forged, he forged the name of John M. Call fas in a real estate conveyance volving $710. Arthur M. Dailey, health Inspector, and Mrs, D accuse Dibble of forging their to a $595 deed. Dibble held tha had contracts with the p whose names he signed, and: these contracts would be eee MORE CARS COMING Eastern Washington apples other perishable products will | shipped from here the early part of | next week owing to the allotment « 1,000 refrigerator cars and an eq number of box cars by the Gi Northern railroad in this dist General Manager J. H. O'Neil nounced Friday. The cars are @m route here from Eastern yards are expected daily. The box will be used mainly for transpe lumber, TRAGEDY IS ENDED Funeral services. of Anna, and Lilly Engle, who were shot killed at their home, 2550 W. . Christmas day by Emil were held Thursday Lemp Wright, previously met death jat the Booth Undertaking in a similar manner, ment, The bodies were c