The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 19, 1923, Page 1

ROB OLYMPIA P.O. OF $20,000! WEATHER Tonight day, pr wc occas Awe sterly gules Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, Today Entered as Second Clase Matter May 9, 1899, at the Postoffion at Beattie, Was, under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879, Per Year, by Mall $3.60 The seattle Star | VOL, 25. NO. 19. MONDAY, SEATTLE, WASH., MARCH 19, 1923 Howdy, folks! The boy who thinks that eight pints make a gallon will never be a success working at a filling station, The Seattle federation of church: is Investigating the “beggar trust. We wish they'd probe restaurant hat-checking concessions. People who drink moonshine should first buy @ bundle of pencils aud a sign reading, “liclp the Blind.” . Lil Gee Gee has parody on “Hot Lips.” ne calls it “I Got Warm Jaws. She says she got that way from chewing too much _ Double Mint. composed a GOING UP Bread prices are to be ad vanced in Seattle Monday, The public will find it hard to raise the dough. Thirty spoons bave been removed from a Kansas man's stomach. With such a digestion, that man could eat doughnuts for breakfast. see y enemies say I am a nut,” says Ex-Congressman Herrick of Oklahoma, “but I serve notice on them that I'm a hard nut to, crack.” We thought he was already cracked. When the evening shadows tengthen O'er the ponds acroas the way, You can héar the frogs a-croaking As they pipe their merry lay. How similar ore’ we to frogs— My friends, this ix no joke; When our evening shadows lengthen, their said wo," We also have to croak! Senor Firpo, after his battle with Brennan, went to a restaurant and In Seattle the fighters do ee dancing in the ring. ‘m awfully fond of Keats,” Li'l Gee Gee. replied J. Dashleigh Fitzhugh. Many a brave, cheery face hides an aching heart—or a . . danced the tango. “a I'm crazy abaut children, YOU NEVER CAN TELL , bunion, . Cable from Scotland says the fox} trot fling: We may yet live to see the day when the saxophone supplants the bagpipe. is driving out the Highland We went to a movie yesterday and the movie didn’t have a single fire in it. What are the movies coming to, anyway? * SHORT STORY TWINS! peers Today's candidate for the Poison Ivy Club is the xxp who believed the Joke dad used to tell about the man’ who ordered some his barber pole. . He tried to cross the railroad track Before the rushing train, They put the pieces.in a sack, But couldn't find the brain, oe There is only one thing that sounds worse than a phonograph that is run down—a pedestrian who ig almost run down. If there is such a thing as a movie trust, we wish they'd trust us for a couple of tickets for tonight 6 Mr.—Any installments due to- day? Mrs—No, dear, I think not, Mr—Any payments due on the house, the radio, the furnt- ture, the rugs, the baby carriage or the books? Mra.—No, Mr—Then I've got $10 we don't need. What do you say we buy # car? see ny All the poor prunes are not in the boarding house. Some of them are in. politics, * Bhe put her lips to his, Khe gazed into his eves, But there was no response, alas Unto her loving Agha, She said sweet words to him Dut they were thrown away, As she was sweet and twenty-three ile was four months and a day, eee Well, if this Ine doesn't colyum~+ fill the . This one will, * oe Or this one will, striped paint for | Dry Chief Hits Town Wyoming Man Be gins Rum Round-Up By Steve Arnett to bh prohibition ved Je Sunday from Cheyen: >», where held the position of state p: |director. He assumed his new dut Mond morning. | The order in a forerunner of the rough and detern “d methods Which Jackson | to use in jclearing Seattle and Puget Sound of | bootleggers and rum-runners Here is Jackson's program as he has been able to arrange during the short time he has be here: The si lon ay as near it ring nt-owned pow of which could es rumery | Com and ei Ine a number of gov: r boats, one y Overhaul any ‘on the Sound operat fickals, axed vigilance on the Cana }dian boundary on the part of prohi.| bition officials. Added co-operation with the five {state prohibition directors of the 17th rict, composing Alaska, Washing ton, Oregon, Idaho and M “I intend to secure from the |ernment ‘as soon as possible a fleet | of power boats that can overhaul any of your fastest rum-runners. T'll stop .the business of importing booze If I possibly can,” sald Juck son in his office Monday morning. “T am handicapped with a small force and haye a big territory to cover but [ will certainly give these boys something £6 do,” he continued. Jackson gave his first order when |he arrived at his office and was in: | formed that considerable clerical | ul ton with county owboy! Here's Carl Jackson, new federal prohibition chief, who in- tends to use Wyoming cowpuncher tactics in Younding up @ branding Puget Sound bootleggers and rum-runners, =-Photo by Price & Carter, work had accumulated and it would | be his duty to clean {t up. “Not much," declared the tpuncher. Then he continued to out. +line his polley. “I will work with the state direc. | tors, and not over them, This talk jof the state men delrig placed under [a division chief ts all bunk, and there will be no change In thelr status or | () duties,” said Jackson, ‘The new chief ig said to hav | tablished an enviable record in Wyo- | (Tarn to Vage 6, Column 2) | cow. m) fa SWEEP SEATTLE in Canadian Areas With the barometer at the weather | a bureau continually falling and rising, | 12 degrees during Monday morning, | re Seattleites may expect ‘storms and | br jes. Monday night and Tuesday. |: thermometer dropped from 54| pa and 10 a.m I haye never seen such uncertain weather conditions,” sald Wea Observer George Monday | jn morning. “My barometer is bobbing | jo: up and down and I expect most any. | 6 | thing.” Storms were reported over Alberta and were sald to be heading south. | Storm warnings were posted at all | seaport stations, warning mariners, | Elliott bay and Lake Washington | were dotted with white caps as wind| and rain swept the city early Mon |day, Many small craft were report ed in danger. Heavy rains and high winds were predicted by the weather man. He} also said that the storm center might | | suddenly shift, in which case Seattle | would not experlenc: gales than have preva past few hour: fa w ht [at | mi any worse |ta < t fled during the), . A Storm Warning Is Southwest storm warnings being displayed at all Washington | seaport stations Monday, following| weather reports recelyed at the 1o-| cal weather bureau, The storm center were }bu ig id to be of Alberta and to be moving south: | | east, Storms and fresh southeast. erly gales may be expected Monday |}, and Monday night from the Colum:| 4 | bla river north, it was stated by the! weather bureau’ Monday morning. ove Ferry Drifts in Lake Washington) Disabled by engine trouble, the forryboat West Seattle, running ty tween Kirkland and Madison park,|M! drifted for Washington early Monday morning |ar before the steamer Vashon came to| a |her aid, The engines were repaired Jand the ferry continued on her trip, ‘The boat was loaded with passengers and cargo at the time of the acel dent, A gale which whipped Lake Washington caused the ferry to drift a considdrable distance, pr thi in th WIND AND RAIN brother, Milton Bedell, | beat Gales Head This Way From |noter men in the state and o | hotels. | }and with a drop in temperature of | and gla her| sumably attempted to force his time,” me, the hallw | the either to my brother or myself, Issued by Bureau Orphans Help Fight | vation Army checked a fire which distritbuted over all of the province |qestroy the orphanage, ed spread of the fire to the dormitory nd adjacent buildings, Mourners in Hurry, severn! minutes on Lake | were have hurried to the grave, BY HOTEL MAN — BIG BLIZZARD { PRINCESS 10 Star Stat? Photographers/ that tho BROTHER SHOT FOUR DEAD IN i the | folk uarrel at Sacramento Ends| Middle West Is Cut Off by| in Tragic Shooting Raging Storm | SACRAMEN 19—1} J. Bedell, March eo and CHICAGO, March 19.—The en- tire country from the Rocky the Alleghenies was in the grip of a blizzard today man | of the mountains y. Jail idnight Hotel Clunie, is in the} to following today an hich after | his s perhaps shooting Four persons were killed in Colorado as a result of the Hy injured. The tragedy known storm. inv olved one of tne and the Oki leading | he h and most prominer Kansas potato cr irred homa wilt | Wire com peach crop one of Sacramen y. experts sald jeation was paralyzed in many and miles The shooting occur 2:16] m. | Milton Bedell entered hotel | compa went to the apartment at tho} ar of the secon floor, where hi ‘other, E. J, Bedell, resides. The en quarreled thru the n aneled door, sts the ated, and crash as man ections. telephone ot on Telegraph the reported wire | down. Passenger service ral} roads was curt Freight empar Kor sections K hotel ot | pre-| way] vicos fol-| most wevere in 25 ot a Fs there the younger was ans ed thruout the Middle the West storm Ad declared was to the apartment. ‘The wed “Oh, shot Sede The gale of | snow, swept into mountainous drifts the wind. wenger & Northwestern were reported | stalled in drifts near Boone, Iowa Forty families, including any children, were forced to flee into the street, scantily clad, when flames destroyed a large apart ment building here. Dama More than $26,000 damage was done to a business block In the heart of Omaha's downtown section when fire broke out during the storm Chicago was threatened with a milk famine, as dairymen found it tmpodsible to bring thele supply over impasai roads The storm swept out of the northwest, causing temperatures to drop from 20 to 50 degrees in a few hours, Rockford, Ml, was practically lated by the storm. No trains have been operated over the Harbor Springs branch of the Pennsylvania In nearly a week. ‘eams carried the mal} over Little averse bay to Pelotzkey, Mich. Milwaukee traffic’ was snowbound | by 10 to 12-foot drifts, Temperature w were point The weather bureau predicted freezing weather in tho southeast and Atlantic coast states today. Tho (Turn to Page 6, Column 5) brothet war accompanied by a heuyy fal the wounded Ning to the floor itneascs stated. Guests rushed to the The police ambulance urried the to “Good-bye, George, Won't for fie said to a frjend as the retcher bearers carried him down you've got me this man moaned, of the hallway, | bY | traigs on the Ch! arrived and victim the hospital. FE. J. Bedol! dressed and went with officers to the city prison. The hotel manager refused to ake a statement today. “I can't lic about it,” he declared. “God nows I wish {t had not occurred. statement now would not t Fire in Orphanage HEALDSBURG, Cal., March 19, Orphans at the Lytton Springs Sal orphanage formed . a brigade early teday and threatened to iso: rocket The flames were confined to the ain pehool building which was irned at a loss estimated by Col, Ameeton, in charge, at $25,000. The youthful firefighters prevent. reported in) many | Speed Cop Gets ’Em VORT WORTH, Tex., March 19 ourners at a local negro funeral | to Appear in court here today | id explain why they were in such hurry to get to the cemetery. Vive automobiles, containing a encher and friends and relativen of 6 corpse, were arrested for speed Kg hy Officer 1, W, Norwood as 6 funeral procession is alleged to Stole Airplane for Joyride, Arrested SAN FRANCISCO, Cat, Mareh 19 J. CG, Collier, mechanic, was under arrest here today charged with Jo; riding in an airplane He Iw alles self to @ plane at the Marina hangars Jheve at midnight Saturday night and to have started a Might. ‘The plane fell when about 100 feet off the ground, but Collier was not Injured, ™ The hearse escaped, * was estimated at $75,000. | ich were the lowest of the winter | Missour! | | d to have helped him ty ¢ Sub-zero temperatures were report-| the| | South Prairie express station of $18, | Paul Repl }and Jerry Pannings, 3 Hermine | tly. } caatle | Bnumelaw, — CE AAA Ran Parnas ‘7 a SEATTLE. FITZGERALD FAMILY DRIVEN FROM HOME BY MORNING BLAZE Fitzgerald re which #023 n EVENPEROR |= == men, fina em after they utted upper half of the bu , Bride of sore at tn ae Ex-Kaiser, Say She Won’t Quit Exiled Husband 2 ARE HELD IN n a defective fi EDITON'S NOTE—The first exel Interview granted by the Princes mine, ride of Kix-Kalser Wilhelm WH h of m series of the princess, n words, definitely sete reports of differences the ex-emperor je family home life ks on polition and Police Grill Men Regarding Deaths of Four ollowing three articles, ely in her o reat worldw between herself ribes the intin BOB BERMANN TT, March 19. every turn BY EVER fight world super Forced to old the ther ener. his visit Doorn de regarding eating event in at nat jon and tradition, police were directing all gies today to grilling the two Greeks BY FERDINAND JAHN prvight, 1923, by United Mopyright in Cana DOORN, H fam ka who hay en taken into custod Premed in ¢ a.) der son plot which snuffed Pere old brother who was George Chakos, of Mrs. Cleopatra ed with her an, wo childr the mip tae th vie The in in the qui is the re beriain, is th granted since rge De per tained. Attorney heriff James dividing their time betwe eo two jails subjecting first Chakos and then Dennis to third-degree ex- aminations, The authorities are endeavoring to force Chakos to accuse Dennis of thecrime but. this he hag stub- bornly refused to do. The investigntors are now work- jing on the theory that the quad. unity | ruple murder was the outcome of active|an old yendetta brought to out-| country from the Near East |that it was not a primitive of punishm us It was first ing ut and B, T. of the court the princess h wedding. ft her She disafpated all tne chatter that spread. worldwide to the offect that she fs leaving Wilhelm or gojng to Corfu. She made it plain ex-emperor and herself are Pursuing in happiness and simple life of studious, here in this picturesque, way cor of the world of th incess for kalser and children was muc t «a for the kaiserin nai end of this mor an eight weoks' and form be. of-th I m her fa in; the for it he } t | Heved. Under Chakos rime he has | murder am to th evider 1 new r of course, innocent. of police believe information abs he ‘has divulged theory, or wns h in e be the that the Bo but more than my vi the Ext Germa “At going aini theoming trip to hI visit ks in Everett ltremely clannish and the police be lieve that they inelined to feel ne.|that they should be permitted to And/| fight their own feuds without inter. de-| ference. For this reason it is ex tremely difficult for the investiga tion to make any progress, but | Prosecutor intimated today | that they expected to have the mys- | tery cleared up before long. | It has been decided not to hold any inquest as it is unnecessary and would only serve to expose the |rvarra cane, Arrangements are being made |Monday for a quadruple funeral. No information has. been filed Peacesiet either Chakos or Dennis. Chakos has been in custody ever on he are ex Silesia You me tov leay ut helleve hard i a can mo the em «mother children for 1 am interest my aso A& of th mand twice a 8 my ence h in Germany times that natural © chos they coin. Rosco (Turn to Page 6, Column 3) BANDITS ENTER - GUILTY PLEAS! ed in effect in several | Train Robbers Tell Story to|sinco a few hours after the tnurder was discovered Saturday. was arrested Sunday, [rave a criminal record at] the | not Greeks, Dennis Tacoma Officials Pleas of guilty tempting to hold to charges of up and rob in good repute with the but they refuse to were to be entered in{/agninst him because of their strange code of honor which forbids them to interfere with the vendetts. ” after the attempted holdup} posses and deputy sheriffs, near in, a wild chase in auto Suspect in 1 Los Angeles Murder Held Here mobiles, after all three men kad been injured by rifle and shotgun fire. The robbery was frustrated by E. ho remarkable ability of "Camera- yo" Dan McLennan, member of the city detective bureau, manifested F. Goin, station agent at South itself Sunday night, when McLennan Prairie, Who heard the shooting of the bandits as they entered the town. singled out Tom Kelley, 42, alias Tom Smith, In a crowd of loiterers on He immediately hid the money in n pile of rubbish. and thwarted the holdup. i Washington st. as a man wanted in Los Angeles for the murder of ‘a po- leeman, Kelley, mustache and long unkempt hair and rough clothes, failed to establish an- othor {dentity, and Monday morning admitted his true name and tho fact that he was wanted In Los Angelos in connection with the murder, Fin- r prints and Bertillon ‘measur |ments gave the police conclust proof that he was the man. Questioned by Chief of Police W, B, |Severyns and Capt. of Detectives Charles Tennant, Kelley confessed | that ho had served two terms in Fol- som prison and San Quentin peniten- tlary, He arrived In Seattle two days ago, he said, MeLennan was congratulated by Severyns and Tennant for the eap- ture, He had memorized Kelle; |face only from a small picture taken of him in prison garb several years Ago, The suspect will be tried for the murder of Patrolman Cruse in Lon Angoles, January 20, when he was shot ax he responded to a call for help from Mrs, Florence Connor, who was held up by two bandits In her home, 000 Saturds superior court Monday afternoon by , Floyd Jorgenson, 26 , according to] their statements Monday morning in| Tacoma he shortly by on lived with his parents] 24th ave, 8 W., Seattle, and| had. gone to Tacoma to look for work. He met Pannings and Reple at a cafe in Seattle and planned the robbery, he told court officials, His mother and sister went to Tacoma Monday morning to see him at the Pierce county jail | THE CALL OF THE ROAD Are you going to have that car by next Sunday that you were wishing you had yesterday? Spring has come and a makes life just a little pleasant, Might we sug: bargain ear more 1090 Studebaker Special Bix, bepassen ker; cord trex; paint ts almost now top And upholatery ts tn flewt lawn condition; mechantoally the ear, tn perfect, We know that wo have a harkaln price on this ear mt $060; $200 cnah, balance 12 months Want Ad Columns where you can demonstrated, Turn to the NOW and seo have this car Any nM EVERETT CRIME, with Saturday's mur-| MeCulloch | this} He Is said to) According to the police, Dennis ts | local | testify | altho disguised with a red} FLAMES RUIN WATERFRONT STEEL WORKS Eight ie ompanies | POST OFFICE VAULT BLOWN BY YEGCHEN! ‘Olympia Robbers of Firemen and) Get Big Sum in a Snoqualmie | ight Big Fire By S. B. Groff | In one of the most spectacu- lar fires of the year, the West- Pipe and Steel company . Marginal way and Fidalgo st., was swept by flames early Monday morning, causing damage estimated at between 000 and $100,000, Eight fire companie Chief George Mantor tug Snogvalmis, nd the fire fought. the blaze for several hours, following {ts dis. covery at 6:10 a. m. The ruins continued to blaze In places. According to H. W. Lunceford, plant superintendent, the fire broke| ut in the dipping p nt and spread to the dock and three other build ings, destroying them all. | Herole work by the firemen suc- ceeded in saving the main building jand w oune. Re hills near attle lined the g the morning to # from the burning atened to spread to |@ nearby lumber yard. The dipping plant, a large | {Mg containing a concrete vat of tar, oil and asphalt, which was used for dipping the huge steel pipes as a Preservative mixture, caught fire when the watchman, G, K. White, started a fire under the vat to heat it. The dipping plant soon was a mass of flames and left but a skele- ton of poles and steel girders that swayed @p @ high wind and menaced the lives of the firemen working be- neath them. The three buildings nearby, which | Were stored with tar barrels, burned to the ground. | The dock also was destroyed, the flames eating large holes in the metal jand undermining the whole founda- tion The loss was fully covered by in-| surance, aocording to Lunceford. The | Western Pipe & Steel company ts controlled by the Carstens Packing company interests, The plant is on the site of the old Patterson-McDon- jald shipyard The p' company management asked The Star to express its appre- elation to the fire department for its jstrenuous fight. 5-CENT VOTE CALLED OFF! | Erickson Finds Opposition Is Too Strong BY JOHN V ELSON attle voters will not have an op- portunity at the city elections May |§ to vote upon the 6-cent street car fare, and a proposal to invade the neral tax funds to pay any de- ficiencies arising therefrom. This was ostablished definately Monday when Councilman Oliver T, Erickson announced that his proposed bill was dead. A conference scheduled for Monday morning between members of the council and Corporation Counsel T. J. L, Kennedy was abandoned when Counciiman Phillip Tindall an- nounced he would vote against the Erickson measure {f introduced. It was proposed at this conference to 0 over the entire situation and de- fine state laws governing the pro- posed election, “There is no use {n holding a post mortem on my bill,” Councilman Erickson said Monday when in- formed of Tindall’s stand." ‘There are three votes definitely against it and it would require seven to make it an emergency measure, which would be necessary to have If voted upon at the May election, The three councilmen who have announced that they would oppose any attempt to have the people vote upon an ordinance which would dip {nto general taxes to pay for street ar operation or purchase are Coun- eilmen John E. Carroll, Lou Cohen and Phillip Tindall, As the carfare muddle now stands thore Is absolutely nothing before | ‘council for consideration, It was said Monday that the next step probably will be to call a special elec~ tion under the state law which gov- erns voting of taxes to pay for utility Indebtednens, In tho event of such Q proposition tt would require a three-fifths vote of the people to use general taxes for utility payments, according to Corporation Counsel Kenned: si RESCUED FROM BAY Plunged into the fey wators of the }Sound, near Plor 6, Saturday, § )Martin, & Pullman porthr, narrow jeseaped death by drowning, Martin | was pulled aghore by Capt, Mike Col. Mins of the Shamrock 111, and was te. vived with & pulmotor at the recely: {ng hospital, led by Fire | | heay: puita. | B¢ Postoftice and thru a similar door | | Safe, But Fail to ake $100,000 After breaking their way thru’ three doors to gain entrance to the building, bandits early Mon- day blew two doors on the Olym- pia postoffice vauli, cracked @ huge steel safe inside the vault and escaped with between $16,000 and $20,000 in stamps and ap proximately $500 of the postof- fice’s money, More than $100,000 in the money chambers was not touched, altho there were indica tions that preparations had been. made to blow the chambers, The robbery was discovered early misery morning by Fireman Paul nm he came to work. He y notified the postmaster, Clem, and postoffice in= und secret service men Were on the Job soon afterward. An investigation disclosed that the robbers had first broken theif | way thru the heavy tron doors on the coal chu were sectl locke y smashed thru ® oak door to the main floor of immed Frank at 8 to the financlal room, Secret service men who were the job Monday declared the to be that of experts. First bandits had drilled the hea side vault door and had blo the combination, Next the the inner vault door had b and opened. The combination of the safe, a the vault, was also blastec off. “The men must have worked - ly and accurately,” Postmaster Clem: said Monday. “The robbery c Place betw the hours of 1 and possibly 4 a, m. “Uusually we have a man on duty | until 3 o'clock in the morning, bul on Sunday nights there is not #0 |much work, and he leaves, generally | about 1 o'clock Monday morning. Tt” is evident that the men knew the of the land and probably knew nde the employe quit early Sunday © nights.” Every precaution had been’ taken by the bandits, it was even the telephone wires found. I a from the building had been cut. Olympla police were inclined to be= _ lieve that the work was that of one — man, but this ‘theory was discounts by the Investigators who were on the job later In the day. They doubted » if one man would attempt such a Job § without at least one lookout. 3. Monday morning a guest registered. at the Hotel Mitchell declared ‘that he heard a muffled explosion early in the morning. The hotel is just” across the street from the postoffice, Two suspicious strangers were ported to have been loitering a the postoffice building early Sunday evening, but police could not confirm the report. Cities all along the coast had been advised Monday at noon of the robs _ ery’ und asked’ to be on the Jookout i for any suspicious characters. Post= office officials were making a carefull check to establish the exact amount. of loot obtained by the robbers, | Three Auto Bandits Escape With $30,000 | LOS ANGELES, March 19,—Three automobile bandits today held up Clarence Dale, collector for a chain grocery store company, and escaped with betwen 000 and $30,000 in cash and checks. The robbery took place on a busy. street corner in sight of many per- sons. Police Hold Three He Holdup Suspects A trio of navy sailors, R. A, Stin son, J. B. Larson and R, W, Cum: mings, were being held by the police in the city jail Monday in conneet with the daring holdup and piste of the Brewster cigar store at Third ave. and Union st, March 11, Stinson was arrested when h walked into police headquarters Sun day evening to Inquire. about friend. Lawson and Cummings wet arrested later by Detectives T. G Montgomery ant ©. 1, Van Buskirk. An attempt to identify the men as. the bandits will be made thru the — clerk of the clgar store who was held | up, Captain ‘Tennant said Monday, Hiram Johnson Is Visitor in Paris — ‘dl PARIS, Mareh 19.—Sonator Hiram Johnson of California may visit Kuss sin shortly, he said upon his arrival here today. * Johnson declared he would visit most of the countries of the old world: and try to form a reasoned opinion about Wuropean and American “isola tion” during @ three months’ staye |