The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 30, 1922, Page 1

GROCER HELD FOR ARSON! CHARGE POLICE! NAAR ARAAAARRRARAR ARR AAA | BRANDED HIMSELF, WEATHER Tonight and Sunday. southeriy Temperature Last t4 Hours Maximum, 48 Today rain; fresh winds Minimum, 39, noon, 48. The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffion ar Seattle under the Act of ( The Seattle Sta 1 Per Your, by Mall, to” : HOME! i REVIEW OF 1922 Jap. 1.—Seattle drug stores 18.946 pounds of bromo-seltzer. Jan. §.—Moonshiners get “Buy Northwest Products campaign dan. 9.—Last Christmas neck. tie is thrown into the ash can. Jan. 28.—Louie Sidelsky publishes advertisement in which he does not sell behind Only” } 1 refer to himself as being forced tol the wall by his creditors. eee Feb. 11.—C. C. Dili announces he will run for senator against Miles Poindexter “Feb. 12.—Frank B. Lighthouse as- friends by making patent ter work. Mea 17. — Newspaper prints aad March 1. “sn i $.—Leo Druxman of the Cigar store threatens to kill bier tg man who says, “Are you relation to Nate?” 13.—Man tries to buy over Second ave. store and kills try to sell him ene . | effect sul-|tirement of Albert B. Fall, secretary plays “Windy Willie” march. ly cheers. ‘31.—-Sea serpent season opens Sound. adds 44 to his collec. Department store start to grow whis- season. week opens. Peo- hardly waft until ft is over ean get hurt. eee 1.—Mayor Brown denies vice for the first time. 18—Cop 1s discovered in the ‘Hin district. Chief Severyns investigation. ‘4 ee 1—Walter Fulton defends ri in federal court and is unable /ery. Thinks of retiring from prac- the law. 14.—Bill Hedley, anly . violinist who does - Mot play “Traumerei” for an en- ore, ls decorated by Liberian 29.—Dignified cheer leading at University of Wash- %.-—Rioting at university eee | Oct. 14.—George Balivbury in cor in weather forecast but promises to do it again. ‘Oct. 20.—Sporting editor fails to) refer to Dan Salt as “Caruso Dan” Balt. eee Nov. 3.—Seattle cops seize 36 cases of Whisky and turn 36 cases into the Police station. Detectives are inves Nov. 8—Rev. Chauncey Haw- ‘Kins discovers dice playing in cigar’ stores. Nov. 11.—Washington cheer lead- ers.win from California. Nov. 20--Harold Weeks lives on bird seed for week betore comporing his Fuzzy Wuzzy 5 wr of . . Dec. 3.—J. von Herberg buys hunt- preserve in Austria for 156,890,-| marks and tips vendor the re- of the dollar bill. . 25.—Three thousand wom- en say to their husbands. vow he careful; don't let those wool whiskers catch fire from the candies!” Dec. 26. Protessional Clauses go back to work Dec, 29.—Bootleggers report rush. busines» Santa Mayor Edw J. Brown, who, what- ever his shortcomings as a publi official may be, has kept the pudi @mused ever since he took office Seattle has been—shall we say Blessed ?—with a long line of mayors who have been principally notable |for their extreme efficiency in at- | tracting notoriety. But Doc Brown has ‘em all beat. He's been on the [front page of the newspapers every | day since he was elected —usually with | his little bull trating after him-—and, | even if he hasn't Hved up to a few of his campaign promises about political inouradles and the like, he has won the municipal entertainment cham- plonship of the wor! Mme. Davenport Engberg, who, os the guiding spirit of the Seattle Cinic has done #0 to Symphony orchestra, much during the 0 bring to the city a realieation of its cultural possibilities, Unrewarded except by the Joy of her work, she has toiled unceasingly toward the end of arousing greater popular interest in the beauties of music. The new year, may it be hoped, will crown her efforts with success and give to the civie orchestra the best support that it has ever received from the city wince tt was firat brought into being as a pioneer enterprise by Mme. oberg. clow year SATTLE, WASH SATURDAY ©. C. Din, who, by achieving the scemingly impossible in defeating Miles Poindexter for United States senator, proved once again that the voters of Washington have the sound common sense and the courage to rise above party lines at the polls and clect the man who most truly represents their interests, In wishing Senator-elect Dill a Happy New Year The Star can only urge that he bear hia campaign promiace in mind thru his work im ¢ senate and that he devote all his energies toward pro pressive legislation—for complete happiness can be found by no man cxcept im the satisfaction of those whom he serve DECEMB 80, Frank Waterhouse, under whose administration as the Chamber of Commerce ts bringing to a close @ year of unprecedented civic achievement, With Waterhouse at the wheel, the chamber has made three great forward steps in 1922 firet, by perauading the Hilt group of railroads to agree on a $1,000,000 ad- vertising campaign to advertise the Northwest ; second, by bringing about a new feeling of sympathy with the public thru abolition of chamber “bureaucracy,” and, third, by pro- moting an unparalleled feeling of good wlll and co-operation between the various communities of the North- went section. president DAUGHERTY MAY|Fiancee of GUNMAN SHOOTS|Ole Sorry RESIGN OFFICE| Forger Here'TWQ; I$ KILLED) for Old Doc) CAMP FRAUDS oreoe| Secretary Fall Is Also Ex- pected to Quit BY LEO Re SACK WASHINGTON, Dee. 30.— Attor ney General Harry M. Daugherty is about to quit President Harding's cabinet. His resignation may take! before the contemplated re-| | of the interior, probably about March | 4, the end of his second year in Office, if the attorney general's pres: | ent plans work out. An investigation of Daugherty har Just been completed by the house | judiciary committee. It resulted in & vindication for Daugherty, in the opinion of congressmen who will #0) Teport to the house of representa tives. Daugherty hopes to have his ma jor investigations and contemplated court actions in the war frauds probe | completed by March 4, insofar as the filing of actual multe is concerned. | Already Daugherty has gone into} court on the aircraft and army ecan-| tonment cases. His assistants have anntunced that other important sults Will be filed. With these suite finished and a} favorable report on the Impeachment | proceedipgs matter of record.) Daugherty then will be able to retire without having it appear that he re- signed under fire, Other reasons prompt Daugherty’s resignation. Chief of them is the question of finance. Since coming! to Washington his expenses have | been heavy. Daugherty wants to In- |erease his earnings before he be |eomes too old to rebuild his law) | practice. | Daugherty’s main reason, however, | is this j Above everything else, Daugherty wants to see President Harding serve | @ second term. As a private citizen he believes he | can be of greater help to the prest- | dent than if he remained in the cabi- net. By retiring he wil! have greater freedom of political action. ; SAYSFALLTO | RESIGN POST WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Secre |tary of the Intertor Fall has decided to resign from President Harding's cabinet and will retire March 4, the | Washington Post, regarded as well informed on administration affairs, declared in a copyrighted article pub- lished here today. Altho reports have been current [that Fall would resign because of friction with President Harding and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace over the proposal to transfer the for- estry bureau to the department of in |terior, the Post declares he is leav ing the cabinet to give more atten tion to business interests. } |Name Sea Captain in Divorce Suit FRANCISCO, Dec. 30 Capt. W. A. Hall, of the steamer Ad | miral Rodman, and well known in | Pacific coast ports, today was named | co-respondent in a suit for divorce filed by Donald Rogers against Mel- ‘a Ruth Rogers, SAN | roy ave. \Fatty’s Attorney | ney. the whole matter, I can’t yet believe that Kari Larkin is = crook. A man with his ability and accomplishments, tt Quietly maintaining her belief that Larkin, her ex-convict flance and alleged forger, 1s innocent, Mins | Ada Tilley, music teacher at the; University of Washington conferred, at length Saturday with Captain of} Detectives Charles Tennant, follow. | ing her arrival in Seattle on an early train from Secramenw, Cas “I want him to be brought bac® | here,” she told Tennant, “so that this thing can be cleared up. 1 bear him no malice whatever, but "m just sick at heart.” Ming ‘Tilley repented the story of how sh@ had first met Larkin on a steamer bound for Seattle recent: | ly. She did not know then that he had been released from San Quen. tin penitentiary but four days pre vious, after serving two years for jarceny Sfe admired him for his ac- complishments, his polish and his evident capability of attain. ing success in the business world. And so she agreed to marry him. Then came the shock. Larkin, after cashing thousands of dollars on worth~ lens, forged checks, dicappeared after wiring her that he would join her mother and herself in Sacramento. Tennant expressed his belief Sat- urday that Larkin would be appre hended in California before many days had elapsed. FIREMAN SAVES WIFE AND CHILD Dwelling Awakened to find his home in flames, J. T. Jordan, elty fireman, | risked his own life to save his wife and 4-year-old daughter early Satur- day Jordan succeeded in carrying out | his wife and child, and then called the fire department, but before help could reach him the home had burned to the ground, Jordan had left a smal} fire in the stove Friday night, and it, is thought that the | stove may ha¥e become overheated. | ‘The residence was at 8802 Fauntle- | Tho one-story frame build- | ing was valued at $1,000, and the con tents, valued at $2,000, alno were de- stroyed, to Aid Comedian SAN FRANCISCO, Dec .80.—Qnv- in Me’ pb, San Francisco attorney, who defended Roscoe Arbuckle, film star, at three trialx on charges of having caused th death of Virginia Rappe, movie actress, has been re tained to “see that Arbuckle gets a square deal in the United States,” he | announced today. | He said 4 company to produce Ar-| buckle’s pictures had been formed, | and that he would act as tts attor Girl Is Wounded and Officer Slain on Street CHICAGO, Dee. 30, — John Riese, gunman who killed Po- iceman William 0. Malley and wounded Minnie Finkelstein, died today from bullet wounds inflict ed by Policeman 8. BK. Kennedy. The gunman before dying re- fused to talk other than give his name and say his home was In Omaha. Riese wan one of three gunmen who accosted @ party of high school students returning home from a dance. He opened fire when they refused to return his greeting. Mins Finkelstein, 17 years old, wae shot In the hip by Riese. Miss Finkelstein was walking prom at 1:30 a. m. with her brother, Isadore, and another cou Three rowdies brushed by, gene touching Miss Finkelstein and saying: “Hello, kiar” The girl protested, and one of the trio, identified by the four young people as Riese, started shooting. Miss Finkelstein was the only one wounded. Officer O'Malley was just calling headquarters to be checked out when the report of the shooting reached him. Accompanied by Ken nedy he rushed to the scene and pursued the bandits., Riese turned and opened fire on the policemen while the two companions of the gunman escaped. , The first three shots struck O'Malley and he fell dead. Shooting over the body of his brother officer, Kennedy shot and seriously wound: ed Riese O'Malley was a probationary offi cer, having been on the force only seven months. He lived with his widowed mother, '8 PRISONERS ARE PARDONED WASHINGTON, Dec. %0.—Presi- dent Harding today commuted the sentences of eight “political prison. Atturney General Daugherty announced, The eight political prisoners must leave the country within 60 days or they will be returned to prison, President Harding atipulated in his commutation of sentence, the depart- ment of justice announced. The men are Aurelio Azuara, C. Peter Green, Charles Harry Lloyd, Burt Lorton, Scarlett and Archie Sinclair. No home addresses were given, All were sentenced August 30, 1918, for violation of the espionage act. Azuara was sentenced to 20 sand a fine Bourg was sentenced to 10 years and $30,000 costs; Green, 10 years and $20,000 and costs; Lambert, 20 years and $10,000 and costs; Lloyd, five years and $20,000 and costs; Lorton, 10 years and $20,000 and conts; Scarlett, 20 years and $10,000 and costs: 000 and costs J. Bourg, Lambert, Sam BREMERTON. — Bremerton navy yard to get appropriation in 1928 of $226,700 for improvements and re- pairs, yard officials lear~ f $10,000 and costs; | Sinclair, 10 years and $20,- | Ole Hanson's back in town. He reached Seattle Friday from his new home tn Los Angeles and, tho he remained largely in seclusion during the day, he got into action Raturday and assumed something of his old-time form. He called The Btar during the morning and said he was ready to talk to a newspaper man if any such would like to hear | him. So the city editor sent me over to hear the concert. Ole was eating breakfast in a Cherry st. cafe. “What are you herg for, Mr. Han- son?’ I piped up as I drew my chair \alongside. There was another news. | paper reporter there, but neither he | nor Ole offered me a chair, so I just had to sort of horn In, as the boys at | the office say. || “Me?” replied Ole. “Why, I came |back to settle up some of my real |eatate affairs and to pay some bills.” That was encouraging, #0 I fired |home from the Medill high school | away again. | When asked what he, thought about vice conditions in Seattle, he replied that such conditions could j weually be judged by the price of | liquor; and that Mquor was retailing In Seattle for from $6 to $8 a quart, | while it costs $30 in Los Angeles, according to reports, He also said | that he bad been looking around Fri |day night, and that he hadn't found |things very bad. He was going to | see Doc Brown later in the day. He | felt rather sorry for Doc, he said. | “What do you think about the five cent carfare,” I asked hime “I don’t know if it will work or not, aw I understand that both prin cipal and interest must be paid from the earnings of the system,” he replied. “I believe that the street cars are now paying 6 per cent in- |terest on their bonds, and about 6 per cent on the principal,” he said. “If this is the case they are prob. ably paying more than those of any other city In the country, and the wages are probably higher than in any other city.” Ole was in a jovial mood and said it xeemed good to get back to Seattle and see his old friends. He was loud in his praise of Los Angeles and boosted that city with true Califor. nia spirit. Ole seemed particularly interested in everything except those things I talked to him about. He was sorry that the old world isn’t always right side up and he was |sorry for me—sorry I had to work and spend my time watching him SEARCH SOUND FOR SUICIDE TACOMA, Dec. 30.—No trace had been found early Saturday morning of the body of Miss A. Margaret Cochen, aged 60, who ts believed to have leaped into the Sound from the deck of the steamer Vashona, Fri- }day afternoon, somewhere between | Brown's Point and Rose Hill. The strange disappearance of the |woman from the boat shortly after lit left Brown's Point, and the discov ery by Capt, T, W. Phillips of the woman's pocketbook and hat on the deck of the steamer make the police positive that the woman committed suicide. | As soon as it was discovered that ithe woman had disappeared and the | bag and hat had been found Captain Phillips got in touch with Tacoma police and then headed back to nee if he could find any trace of the woman. Mrs. Henry Landes, who, by being elected to the ctty council by the preatest majority ever rolled up ina municipal election—and then knuck- ling down to real work as soon as has established the fact that woman has a place in pub- No life just as she has in the home. Mra, Landes and her colleague, Mra. Kathryn Miracle, are among the most active members of the city council and both have been tnatrumental in bringing about many important steps toward civic betterment. The Btar wishes doth of you ladies, a very Happy New Year! JURY CHARGES she took office War Department Officials Are Indicted WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—In- dictments charging former high officials of the war department with a conspirucy to defraud the government were returned here today by the special war frauds grand jury. Among those indicted was Benedict Crowell, assistant sec- fetary of war during part of the Wilson administration. Others indicted were William A. Starrett, Morton C. Tuttle, Clem ens Lundoff, Clair Foster, John Bas MeGibbons and James A. Mears. ‘The indictment charges that Crow: ell gave army commissions to some of those indicted and that later they were in a position to grant |valuable contracts to themselves | Most of the contracts were said to involve construction work during the war, Five hundred contracts calling for 60 national army cantonments, 60 National Guard camps, warehouses, port terminals, hospitals, aviatior fields, ordnance plants and fortif cations are mentioned in the 70 pages of the indictment Contracts amounting to $80,000,- 000 were awarded on Armistice day, 1918, of which $11,000,000 were sald to have gone to “ cted con- tractors” tn league with the alleged conspirators, FRANCE BLOCKS INTERVENTION Hughes Announces U. S$, Plan to Aid Europe BY A. L, BRADFORD (Copyright, 1922, by United Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 30— France alone is withholding ac- ceptance of American interven- tion in Europe. Great Britain, Germany and some other nations concerned, it was learned from a high administration official today, already have in. formally indicated their willingness to accept the American proposal—an international commission of business men and financial experts, to recom- mend a just and practicable revision of German reparations, The United States would be represented on the commission. The official revelation of the American plan for bringing Europe out of {ty present economic chaos was made by President Harding here and Secretary of State Hughes in an address at New Haven last night to force a “showdown” gs to whether the United States can aid Europe, France has not rejected the pro- posal, but for some time has been withholding {ts attitude regarding ft. Tired of waiting for the French, this government decided to force the issue by making the proposal public, according to the administration of. ficial, It was learned that negotia- tions on the proposal have been car- (Turn to Last Page, Column 3) _ TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. Claude 0. Ramsay, whose closing days as county commissioner have been marked by @ great personal triumph, in the action of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt in signing the lease which turns Band Point over to the govern- ment for 10 years for use as a naval aviation base. In the face of he most disappointing obstacles Ramsay has pushed his fight with untiring deter- mination for many months and has turned defeat into victory. In achiev- ing his greatest personal ambition on the eve of his retirement he has written a happy ending to an admin- | istration that has not been without tts vicissitudes, | Flashes LAST DAY FOR LICENSE Orders have been issued by the state highway department at Olym- pia to arrest drivers of cars with) 1922 Moenses after Saturday. King) county motorists must get their Ii- conses before 5 p. m. Saturday, and 80,000 had not done so Friday eve-| ning, according to Auditor D. E.| Ferguson, } HOLD BANDIT SUSPECT Arrested in possession of an auto- matic pistol, which he was carrying im an overcoat pocket tn the office of The Seattle Star, Frank Cim- clome, 51, tive department in the | Saturday for investigation as a ban- \ dit suspect. Cimeiome was arrested by Patrol: man John Brady when he was seen loitering in a dark doorway, and, according to police, was unable to properly explain his presence there t night. eee SUICIDE’S WIFE GONE Coroner W. H. Corson had been unable Saturday to locate Mrs. Al- {fred McInnis, wife of Alfred Mcin- nis, 55, who committed suicide Fri- iay by inhaling gas in his apart- ents at 815 Olive st, McInnis, a sub-contractor em- ployed by A. C. Goering & Co., had separated from his wife Tuesday after a quarrel on Christmas day, | He had been grieving over the loss of his wife, according to the police. |He was found in bed when Mrs, Anna Nortop, a roomer in the apartment house, smelled the gas jand called the police. McInnis had no children, eee RAISE SHIP STOCK SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 30.—The | Robert Dollar Steamship Co. today filed notice of increase of its capital stock from $50,000 to $6,000,000, see OPIUM IS SEIZED G. W. Harlow, customs inspector, seized two five-tael tins of opium, valued at $160, on the steamship Achilles late Friday. The tins were concealed in a mattress, No arrests were made, Twenty-five quarts of whisky, five quarts of gin and two German Mauser rifles, destined for China, were also seized. eee 1S BURNED TO DEATH ARDMORE, Okla., Dec. 80.—One person was burned to death in a fire which wiped out two business blocks here early today. Property damage was estimated at $160,000. BANDITS GET $15,000 CLEVELAND, Dec, 80.—Two ban. | dits held up the paymaster for the | Ferry Cap and Set Screw Co. here today and escaped with $15,000, . WET SHIP FIGHT ON WASHINGTON, Dec. 80.—Declar- ing that the constitution of the United States “cannot be made to conform to the shipping regulations | of foreign nations,” the government today filed in the supreme court its answer to the sult brought by for. eign shipping lines to, set aside the Daugherty ruling prohibiting trans- portation of liquor inside the Amer fean “three-mile limit.’ Fire to Colleet Insurance, Clai Officers Swathed In bandages, J. Clements, Ballard grocer, was taken from his bed in hospital shortly before noon urday and lodged in the elty on a charge of second arson in connection with burning of his store morning, Clements was phe to post $2,500 bail. He was: companied by his wife, but Was not arrested. The arson rant was sworn to by spector John Reid. Clements was accused by partment officials and the with staging a deliberate n incidents which made it he was the victim of thugs on sev occasions and that his enemies fire to his store out of revenge, | real motive, police say, lay in ing his insurance of $1,400. he also aroused of the police, it was Detectives Peterson bundie in the W. 76th st., near the auto plunged over a after it had AUTOISTS JA LIGENSE Ul commodated, even If the remained open all night. tl which automobile licenses o obtained, and persons who secure them will be liable to” alty. However, many of the wal motorists declared that they ¥ refuse to be penalized, because. had done their utmost to pay but had been unable to get tl crowd, Bi Much indignation was. Pressed by the men and in line at what they dec be totally inadequate service vided for the issuance of Some of the motorists c that they had been trying day this week to get a without success, as the same gested condition has been in ev dence for days, D. E. Ferguson, the county tor, was so harassed by angry mi ists that he refused even to the situation, except to say state authorities, in view of usual situation, might grant a p of grace in which the licenses be obtained. * . City Wins $8,100 Land Rental § Owing to the supreme court's | versal of Judge Brinker's against the city, in the case b by the Island Line Co, for : damages to rental values at: ave. and Yesler way, $8,100 saved to the city, announ from Olympia stated Saturday, city statute requiring damages to be made within-