The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 24, 1923, Page 4

Jacobs to Answer in ‘Fritzi Mann Death OLOGY OF MANN DER MYSTERY 14—Fritzi Mann, cabaret ef home in Sen Diogo for a house party at » Caliturréa beach resort § Bb—Her body discovered Pines deach 26.—Authprities one of murder 1l—Autopsy reveals in | Gondition probable motive declare i 18.—Dr, Louis L. Jacobs and held for investiga Jacobs secured writ of habeas 27.—Dr, Jacobs rearrested “grand jury indictment him with Miss Mann's 26.—Date of scheduled DIEGO, Cal, March 24. tan to 4 pretty girl on . byway of love. f. Louls L. Jacobs, 30, debonair im the United States public werviice at Camp Kearne to persuade a jury this was Tole in the case of Fritzi for wltose murder he stands and will go to trial March fool altruism,” he say @ for his interest in the at 2-year-vki cabaret dancer balf-clad wedy was found on : Torrey Pines beach Jan. D MAN iMS GUILT F the circumstances shapipx the ‘end for any act leading to ith the army physician has b Case Against nim, so far as it i divulged by District At Mey Kempiey, is wholly circum: i. He expects to establish an the proper time comes.” is based on the theory Mann wes stuaned by a the head, and was then cast gea where she drowned q revival. @ had spent the early part of © pt evening with a man at Sea cottage in La Jolla. “two arrived in a, closed car : registered by ©. A. Kern, , a3 man and wife under names. had scrutinized the woman ind identified her readily. the man he was less certain Mann and her eswort left the im for an hour, retugned and left for good, Kern will tell the CTIM OF Spot where the body was is 10 miles away. On the road, meattered in flight, were ; Vanity case and 9 of the dancer and a blanket Blue Sea cottage. ‘the pretty entertainer was of her own popularity ts y. She had not wisely but too ; ing to surgeons. id it was in worry of the conse- es that she consulted him, de § Dr. Jacobs. He had, he ad- c advised her about a con- led operation which was to ‘taken place a few days after Solved her problem. He had @rranged for a nurse, police / am a friend of the dead girl,” man told officers the day started. “She had re- t I can to help clear the mtys- f. Jacobs was arrested. released B writ of habeas corpus, and ‘Secretly indicted two weeks after Chief of Police Patrick to him, 'm not at all with what you have told S CASE HAS NESS “Weakness of the state's case professed inability of BE. A. Positively to’ identify Jacobs man who occupied his cot- “with Miss Mann. Jacobs’ defense weakness lies f thus far to substantiate ‘witnesses his claim that he wa Grand hotel during the hours id by investigators as the death | : s | the Camp Kearney captain trial promises to be one of contests ever fought in 0 courts. lish-Hungarian parents. She fm Denver from childhood un- ‘about two years ago, when she to San Diego and Los Angeles. of Baths in ermany Increases “bathing in the municipal baths re been heavily increased, but spe- “reductions must be made mh and students, ovely Healthy Skin pt 80 By Cuticura Daily use of the Soap keeps the fresh and cleat, while touches Ointment now and then pre- little skin troubles becoming Do not fail to include the | | fly confided in me. Told me she/ kK. E. Carroll, 1728 Minor ave., she| married. I want to do/ reported to the police Friday night. ly friends are strongly aligned | sister. i Mann was born in Austria|Nee and Charles , March 24,—The charges | for | | | Fritzi Mann, dancing girl mysteriously slain near San Diego, and Dr. Louis L. Jacobs, army physician, who} will go on trial Monday, ac-} cused by the state of her murder, DRIVER BREAKS STORE WINDOW! Then Thief Comes Along and Helps Himself paper threw a bundle of papers off at Pike st., early Saturday, and broke a} plate glass window. This enabled a| thief who strolled along some tim: ater to reach thru the hole tn th window and take nine gold watches, valued at between $200 and $300, Michael at first thought his loss would run to $$00 or $1,000, but he later found a tray of rings which he thought had been stolen. . The police were searching Satur: day for a man who Friday passed a $200 bogus check on the B. EB. Cutler Jewelry store, 9341 S4th ave. S., In payment for a mond brooch, set In platinum, with 40 small diamonds and two emeralds. Burglars entered the Madrona Ma-! chine Works, 612 E. Pike st., Friday / night, stealing a Ford engine and other auto equipment. | The United Motors Service com-/ pany, 1708 Broadway, was aiso robbed by thieves, who stole a large} case containing 3,800 steel ball bear-| ings, valued at several hundred dol-| lars. A purse containing $180 cash, two! gold earrings, some diamonds and a) lavalliere set with two diamonds and five pearls were stolen from Mrs. | The purse also contained some safe deposit keys and a check for $7.50, YOUTHS ADMIT MURDER PLOT Two Women and Two Boys! , Held After Shooting CHICAGO, March 24.—Two boys confessed today, authorities an- nounced, to a plot to kill Michael feGinnis, a city fireman, in order that one youth might possess tho fireman's wife and the other her The two women—Mra, Anna Belle | McGinnis, the widow, and Mina Pioch, her sister, were accused of murder, and the two lads, Francis Shade — face | charges of accessories to murder, McGinnis was shot to death in his home March 13, At the inquest Mrs. McGinnis declared her hus- band had attacked her, and Miss | Ploch, coming to her defense, fired the fatal shot, Nee and Shade, police charge, were on friendly terms with the | two women and were in the MeGin- jas home at the time of the killing. | Medical Officer. Vacancies Exist Examtnations to fill 15 vacances as medical officer, assistant medical officer and junior medical officer in the 11th United States civil service district, are now pending, it Is an-| nounced by C. W. Paine, district seo. |retary. Further information may be| | obtained from the civil service sec- retary, in the federal bullding, or in jany first or second claws postoffice Permission Asked to Buy Equipment WASHINGTON, March 24.—Re. ceivera for the Denveré Rio Grande | Western railway today applied to |the Interstate commerce commission for authority to assume obligation as Mability for $4,500,000 of 5% per jcent equipment trust notes to finance the purchase of new equip: Babes to cost a total of $6,001,626. |Children Hungry, Had to Eat Grass NEWPORT, ing, March 24 Robert T, Jones and his mother were wentenced to jail for feeding the | arted |Columbus, N. M,, to Fort Bliss was | | versity of California charter day ex~- CAPTAIN (—TRacEDy TEACHERS LOSE. FACE TRIAL IN WAGE FIGHT Board Refuses to Authorize Increased Salaries Seattle school teachers Friday lost the first round of their campaign to reestablish salaries that prevailed here before the reduction last sum. mer, when the school board refused to include in {te referendum to the vot ers a Lanill levy to raise the money needed for the increase A request from a joint committee. representing the Grad lub, the High 8c ot the Principals’ associa tion presented to the board Wednesday, asking. that the voters pass upon the question of teachers salaries by submitting a referendum at the May elections, Attorney Henry W, Pennock, for the board, submitted an opinion that the mill salaries levy could not be sep from the 3 mills asked for building purposes, Members of the | beard ~ald they did not wikh to con fuse the issue up to the voters. Action on the salary question was requested immediately by the teach. ers, The board promised to give definite answer at its next meeting, so that the teachers who are dissat intied with terms offered may have An opportunity to seek poritions else where, if they desire. ores of Seattle's protested the cut last summer, claring !t came so late In the season that it did not permit them to seek other positions, Unless salaries are increased to the old standard, many teachers will locate in other cities, it is predicted. le Teachers’ Teachers eague and was | ablest teachers de HERE'S MORE ABOUT SCHOOLS STARTS ON PAGE 1 increase and did not vote on the bond fasue. Director E. F, Taylor voted “no” on both propositions, de claring that his opposition was bansec on the method of submitting the} mattér to the voters. Taylor said that all of the money should be raised by one method or the other | as the double plan is castly de | featod. JUNIOR HIGH | PLAN OUTLINED | The balance of the $1,766,000, it was intimated, will be spent largely on juntor high schools, next year. Half of the sum will not be avail-| able unt the 1924 taxes ‘are py | | A truck driver for a morning news-|and the selection gf building sites) thin for the new junior highs will be the Peter Michae! jewelry store, 202| delayed for the present, the board) anese in evading the law said A strong plea for residents of the district for a high school was pre-/ nted by a delegation. A com Promise proposition, recommended by Superintendent Cole, was adopted. This provides for the opening of junior high echool work in the Georgetown district, the re- tention of these studen% as they progreas into high school work and the gradual building of a high school. The board promined, ff auffictent students are available, to furnish a high school two years hence. Mrs. Jay A. Todd, 4004 13th ave, vice president of the Franklin Parent Teacher asséctation, said that South End residents will not be satisfied with leas than a high school bulld ing at once. If approved by the voters, the schoollevy will be Incranned to a new high figure, or 17.16 mills. The high ent previous levy wan 1655 mills, three years ago. | | | to 40) The bonds mature in thre years, and are payable $10,000 in three years and $10,000 every six months thereafter until maturity PLANE SPEED RECORD MAD WASHINGTON, March 24. — All airplane speed records were broken by the United States army air serv | ice’ wtren one of Its machines extab-. | Mahed the record of 250 miles an| hour, the war department officially | announced today. The record was established during a flight from Nogales, Ariz, to Fort | Bliss, Tex. Tho plane, a DH-4-B, was piloted by Maj. Leo Heffernan, with Sergt. Jensen acting as ob server, The distance of miles from | negotiated In 18 age speed of department st: minutes, an aver: 6 miles an hour, the | nd. TRINITY CHAPEL, Tenth ave. N. and Aloha—Sunday school 9:46 am on Home Brew (Starts on Page 1) wrote about Chinese games long be-| fore they became popular her In detense of this theory, you remem. ber the lines: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! Mah Jongg," he said. see A LITTLE FOURSOME AT ME Act —Brother gets mad and quite rumps his ace of spaden, igns from the ensuing | when she fails to io-trumpea, playing doable Can- mad when father loses the deck, himself cheating nd expels himself from the We don't admit that the politieal iteh can be cured, but to date Wil Nam Hickman Moore has not filed for the councll, . Pneumonia, it nas been discovered, | can now be cured by small shots of electricity, No doubt the biggest shock comes when the doctor p sents his bill, . . [{——— - — —H ‘ONL Gun ann, Tr oFrion | VAMP, SEZ: | Ob, for gnashing my tute and | | pulling my teeth and erying out | | loud w T appear at the office | with a cold sore on my tip and some masculine wit says, “Uh Jones children wo little that they ate grass in the yard from hunger, | huh, who bit yer?” THE The first lady of the land SEATTLE STAR gee peat real: a letter from the home | folks as the houseboat Pioneer, on which President Harding and his party are cruising, steams into Palm Beach, Fla. Realty Dealer Guilty | Under Jap Land Law :|A. V. Williams Convicted of Aiding Aliens| to Grab. Farms From White Men A. V. Willlama, prominent Seattle real estate dealer, was found guilty of violating the anti-allen land law by @ jury in Judge A. W. Frater’s de partment of superior court late Fri day. It tw the first conviction under the act of 1921, which seeks to pro- hibit allen ownership of state of Washington lands. Williams will file an immediate mo- tion for a new t and failing in will appeal to the supreme| court. Interests associated with Jap will nook to defeat the result of the trial. it establishes ngtrous precedent |Dywamish valley and South End) for them, and opens the way for scores of prosecutions, according to Prosecutor Malcolm Dotigias and his chief deputy, Ewing D. Colvin. Colvin has a dozen criminal cases Against alleged violators of the allen land law in course of preparation, and in addition has more than 100 civil sults, Williams was charged by the state with holding a “dummy” tract of 70 acres of rich agricultural land on Vashon Island as « trust for title to a P. Miyagawa, a Japanese, Williams acting as an agent for the Jap, Jensed the land, but permitted the Japanese to retain co of it, and | to operate for his own benefit, ac Jcording to testimony. An American jtenant, Cart J. Engstrom, was fore bly ejected from the property, and it wan turned over to Japanese to farm. | Williams aid that was within the law title to the property | with he believed he and that actually rested Miyarawa's 20-year-old Amer- | ican daughter, | The maximum penalty provided under the law is §1,000 fine and one year in the county Jail th FIRE DESTROYS WOOLEN MILL Town Is Menaced by $100,000 Blaze WASHOUGAL, Wash. March 24 —Fire, which at one time threaten. to destroy the town, $100,000 damage to the plant of the Washougal Woolen mills early this | morning. ‘The blaze was discovered by the nigh? watchman shortly after mid- night, having started In the wool room from spontaneous combustion. After an unsuccessful attempt to drag out the burning wool, the watchman turned to the mill's fire. | fighting equipment. The hose burst and before other help could be sum. moned the fire was beyond control. Efforts of the citizens were then centered on confining the fumes to the mill butldings. The destruction of the mill throws 175 men out of employment. “Re. building will take about two months. Adraival, Sims Says Nothing of Attack BERKELEY, Cal, March 2%. Rear Admiral William 8. Sims, who spoke yesterday at the annual Unt- ercises, prepared to leave for South- ern California today. Admiral Sims in his address did not touch on any phase of the Irish quea- tion, and made no reference to at- tacks upon him in the state legts ture. He told the university students that loyalty and ability to “make your own decisions” were prime req- ulsites to success In clvil as well as offictal life, HERE’S MORE ABOUT SUGAR STARTS ON PAGE 1 grand) jury Investigations would satisfy him. “No long-drawn-out Investigation la necessary,” he sald “All that in needed ia to summon grand juries in New York and Washing. ton and subpoenas the leading sugar brokers to produce their books, which will show who has been bulling the market, “Tl am suggesting to the depart. ment of justice that one of the principal matters which the grand jury should investigate ts a meet. ing which is alleged to have taken place in Cuba about the middie of January, 1928 betwoen the presi dent of tho National City bynk of New York, the president of the OM Colony Trust company of Bos. ton, the president of a prominent Montreal bank, all of which hold large quantities of sugar paper, and certain prominent Cugar sugar pro. ducers, Tam Informed that means of further increasing the price of sugar were discussed on this oc casion.!' JERUSALEM, March 24-A new new hotel will be eracted here thin yenr by Americans to aceominodate the Increasing number of Holy Land fourlutm caused HERE’S MORE ABOUT PORT STARTS ON PAGE 1 community, Sol, George B. Lamp ing, chairman of the commission, commented Saturday. “We regret that some few business men of the community have seen fit to oppose the proper development of the port | “Never in the history of the port commission has {t shown any unjust antagonism to private interests or to business men. On the contrary, we are ready and anxious to co-operate In every way “In turning over the property to the merchants’ convention we real ize that it is a great thing for the community and we are making con- siderable sacrifice, both in business and finances, to accommodate the convention. | “However, {t is a pleasure for us to make any conceasions or sacri. | fices necessary to the upbuilding of the community.” Tho port commiasion’s letter sald in part: “Your request waa taken up at the last regular meeting of the port com mission and it was the unanimous opinion of the port commissioners that they should co-operate with the Chamber of Commerce and your a» sociation to the fullest extent in or |der that your exposition may be a success. OFFER USE OF SECOND FLOOK “You are aware, of course, that several steamship Hnes have been recently procured in Intercoastal traffic for the Bell st. dock and also that the year 1928 will be one of our biggest years os far as the shipment of canned salmon fs con. cerned, the Inatter freight making use of our Ball st, warehouse most necessary. “With these facts confronting the commission ond even at the present time the two bulldings beingglargely occupied, it has seemed almost an impoastbility to accommodate you, “Knowing that there {x no other building fn the elty large enough to accommodate your exposition, we have felt that we should go to the very limit fn assisting your associa |tlon, Therefore, the commiasion j will guarantee the une of the entire second floor of the traffic shed and the entire second floor of the con: crete warehoune, together with the roof marden. “You appreciate, of course, that space must be available for the tn. terconatal traffic now being carrte on by the several steamship com. pantes using the Rell st, dook and fino practically all of the freight stored on the second floor of the Rell at, warehouse munt be trans. ferred elsewhere In order to accom modate you, Tt will then be neces sary for us to ask you to assume the expense of transferring thts chro and uch other expenses as may arixe to make the above apace avaliable for your une “As for additional spree other than | mentioned above, we should he most pleased to provide «ame for you, but YOU can rendily understand from our explanation that tt would be hardy nonnihle, Tf it Is at all poastble to furnieh you additional «nace. vou can he assured that thin wilt be done," Columbin Bethlehem Chureh, pH, Mau, pastor, Sunday school, 10 A my kervieg, oa. om. “Hosannaha and Palma for the Saviour King, { GERMAN REVOLT SCHEME BROKEN Leading Members of Alleged Clique Are Held BERLIN, March %4.—Isading members of the alleged revolutionary conspiracy recently broken up by the Kovernment, were ordered indefinite ly detained today, while the lesser members were liberated. | Among thone held are Gen. Hugher and Majors Schroder and Smethlage, Profs, Dag Erdmann and Ehr | host, and Lieut. Hone h. | Premier Von Koliling, of Bavaria ie an interview today, de was no chance of a re putech succeeding against the cen tral government of Germany 0 long as Berlin stands fast against the French.” | Havaria completely agrees with the remainder of ¢ y.” he sald. We oppone capitulation and wouldn't |support any central government which advised capitulation. Since | Chancellor Cuno and I are eager for settlement and realize that « ventual ly negotiations must come, neither of us would consent to German hu- | miliation or surrender. | “A successful putsch ts only pos sible If any central government ac ceded to French dictation, Otherwise the Idea of German unity prevalis| over the putsch idea. Mort Bavar better om of the Ruhr munt precede any negotiation.” The organization which was eng! neering the known as the German Mberty party. According to nelz | government ¢ that evacuat proposed putach documer ids, the h a1 poke Mir r Severing, charged Ludendorff and buck of the w coup The govern ter of the In in the diet ther scheduled for Mar ment man. that General archists mo: were xpiracy, that the plan was to neize Berlin and set up a dictatorship. Several members of the reichetag were {mplicated also, Severing said Hitler, the Bavarian agitator, was also Involved. | The government had advance tn formation of the and broke {t up by a series of raids on| various headq conspiracy . . WASHINGTON, March 24.--Ger many is not yet rendy to surrender to | France tn the oceupation of the rich Ruhr valley, srding to informa tion obtained today | The communication from the German government to the Un ed States and Great Brttain, stating f rmany in the oo recent | the position o pation, and how far the Cuno govern | ment was ready to go towards reach ing a settlement with France, insist 4 ana first requisite for negotiate that the Frer troops be wit drawn, It was learned. This information, observers be feve, strongly Indicates that the su lon struggle between the two cour tries in the Ruhr will have to con | tinue for a time before a nettlement can be agreed upon, or even open peace neg na undertaken. | : | HERE’S MORE ABOUT ELECTION STARTS ON PAGE 1 paan, Other propositions certified to the election board are the Montlake bridge, which falled In the Inst mu- | | nicipal election, and the port com missioners’ plan to acquire the old | Skinner & Eddy shipyard aite, The latter ts put In the form of two ques: tlone—firet, shall the port extend its | development program to include the site, and, second, as to whether the com Jon shall be authorized to tse $600,000 of unexpended funds for | the acquisition of the property? ‘TWO WEEKS MORE |FOR SOME ASPIRANTS Altho filings for the municipal primary clom today—30 days before the primary—candidates and port offices } two weeks longer tn which to make up thetr| |minds, as they are given ‘until 30 ve which will be held May 8. The two school directors whose terms expire this year aro W. J. Santniyer and E. F, Taylor, while A. 8. Lincoln's term on the port commission also comes to an end. Saturday Frederick 1. Bolton, dean of the school of education, University of Washington, filed for school di rector. The three city councilmen whose jterms expire are Robert B. Hesketh, }Philip Tindall and Olfsrer T, Brick. son, all of whom have filed for re- nomination, Others filing are Hugo | G. Kelley, J. A. Stevenson and Allen C. Spencer. T. J. L. Kennedy has filed for corporation counsel, and to date has | no opposition, Unless more candidates appear be- fore 5 o'clock this afternoon these will be the only men on the ticket —and the primary will thus be nothing more than an expensive formality. HUGO SPELLS HIS NAME TWO WAYS In spite of this, there may be i} | son question of the legality of the election—in view of the fact that Hugo Kelley lias spelled his name in two different ways in filing his candidacy Most people think that the city, |port and school district elections are | all that the election board has worry about this ye but, as a matter of fi this is far from be: Ing tho case. ‘lections are to be held in three third class cities—Auburn, Kent and Renton—and in t2 fourth class | cities—Bothell, Carnation, Duvall, | Enumclaw, Tiaquah, irkland, North Bend, Pacific, Hedmond, Sky komish, Snoqualmie ead Tukwila | euch of which is opting eounell men and a vity treasurer and some of them a mayor, in addition, No Primaries are held in fourth class cities and the board has nothing to do with the third class cities’ pri | marles—but the board does have to. |Hupervine the general elections in Jail of them } In addition to theme, there are | elections in 117 school districts--oute | side of the Seattle district’ two com: morcial waterway districts; olght| \dratnage districts; eight water die tricia, and one independent highway for school | jdays before the general election, | Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, wo HERE’S MORE ABOUT BERNHARDT STARTS ON PAGE 1 she wax the queen of the stage Mme. Bernhardt had hoped she might die upon the stage. If her present Iiness pr e end, thin will be denied her, but as cable and arters | wireless flashed to the ends of the Jearth the news of the sinking of the great actress, {t wax not alone those at the bedside, but the world, which rnhardt’s last audience uddition to Bernhardt’s regular specialists were called o m of six of the leading physicians of Parin were sled for 6 o'clock. It develops that one of Mme, B ardt’s kid meys has been In: 4 for the past 30 years, She ts 2 18 years old and with the existing complications her condition ts regarded an little short of desperate At oe it waa announced that the phy na had resorted te Injections hor as aid to action. the A half hour later Bernhardt was declared to have re gained consciousness for a. short time. Her son, Maurice, standing nearby, was immediately recognized | |by her. | “lam very weak, tut I am not suffring. Do not worry,” Bern hardt said to him. Her secretary came from the room for a few mo- ment He sald: | "She ts very bad, poor beloved |madame, I cannot say more.” | election board will either have to re phrase the proposition, which would | be tn violation of the schoo! code, or olse let tt ride an it ls, and thus vio- late tho election law. ither way, the courts may hold that the propo: aitions are invalidated, even tho they Urnemic polsoning has steadily be. come w since Thursday, {t learned. The physicians declare that unless crisis terminates today the issue will be fatal the BULLETS FAIL TO STOP JAP Breaks From Guard on Car | Escapes Hail of Lead LOS ANGELB®, Cal, March 24.~- K. Nagai, owner of the fishing boat captured at Long Beach Thursday morning as an alleged rum ring, was unloading a cargo of high grade Naquor for the Hollywood film colony, jescaped from prohibition jearly today after a spectacular gun battle on a San Pedro car, Officers had had Naga! at San Pedro for an investigation and were bringing him, in company with four other alleged Volstead law violators | to a Los Angeles interurban car. As the car slowed down, Nagai muddenly made a rush for liberty. He broke the hold of his guards and ran for the exit of the car. The officers |immediately began firing. The mo- }torman brought the car to a violent | stop, the panio-stricken passengers | huddled below thelr seats trying to lescape the line of fire. Nagai swung off the car and rapidly disappeared into the darkness, HERE’S MORE ABOUT CARFARE STARTS ON PAGE 1 years Coineldent with Councilman Blaine's accusation, the first inkling of Mayor Brown's mysterious street car “solution” leaked out Saturday. Brown, according to Blaine, has some anonymous stranger in mind who $s willing and able to re-finance the trolley system upon a 40-year basis, BROWN HAS JITNEY SCHEME 1 am not a lawyer,” commented Blaine Satuyday, “bit 1 don't see how {t can be done—even if the mysterious stranger uses German marks or Russian rubles.” "IT understand that Brown has. some scheme of putting the street cars Back on a 10-cent basis if ab. solutely necessary and then opening a city jitney line to run in direct opposition to the munictpal trolleys, Personally, 1 don't believe that any court would permit such a thing.” The work of the council investi gating committee ts being held up. by the absence trom the city of D, W. Henderton, superintendent of railways, with whom the committee must confer before reaching any cisions, Haine of Counellmen chairman, and de In addition to Councilman committee is comprised C. B. Eitzgerald, 1, Carroll RELIGIOUS OPEN FORUM, 106 Madison at, 11 a om Dr ‘Thaye: will open discussion on “Universal digtriot, Uducation,” ported dying in Paris after an illness of several weeks. was} | officers rld famous actress, who is re- ——$—$—$——— HERE’S MORE ABOUT PIELOW STARTS ON PAGE 1 returned to Snohomish county, Star. wich said | er, after the liquor had been unloaded, according to Starwich, Pie low drove his empty car up and laughed at the officers | Early Saturday morning Sheriff Starwich and deputies were lying in wait Rainler ave. when Plelow's | Car appeared, going at a high rete of speed. He was arrested and the 26 sacks of Canadian beer seized as evidence. The arrest of Pielow marks the clone of 4 success ul day’s operation by Sherif? 8 rwich, when the small- gest illicit liquor-anak ing plants yet found were discovered. Late Friday Sheriff Starwich raided a house at 2224 Western ave and found two bottles of moonshine and a tiny still made out of ree-pound tin coffee can and Ml tin baking powder can. A bucketful of mash sat near. The product of this still, Starwich said, ts highly poisonous. Friday night Starwich and depu- ties arrested Mike Rullo at 9328 89th ave. S. and found the largest and best equipped distillery yet located by the deputies, Rullo's still was down two tong tunnels, 20 feet below the ground. The still, a 100-gallon capacity cop- per affair, was equipped with a ther- mometer and a steam gauge, and an | elaborate system of coils and a gas burner. Twenty-five five-gallon | wooden kegs full of moonshine of an jexcellent quality, were destroyed. released Saturday under HEIRESS DENIES FORGERY GUILT \Mrs. Catherine Mortiboy Repudiates Confession Mrs. Catherine Mortiboy, Seattle “heiress,” with @ suspended sentence at Walla Walla hanging over her for the remainder of her life, left Se- attle Friday to “start life anew” on ner father’s ranch near Lethbridge, Alberta, Friday she pleaded guilty to ja charge of forging more than 20 checks on the W. H. Deatherage Co., totaling approximately $400, and a suspended sentence of one to 20 years was given her. As a final farewell to Seattle Mrs. | Mortiboy repudiated her confession jof guilt and declared she had led to | escape a long and expensive criminal trial. “I never thought I would have to He, wut IT surely did-when I sald I jwas guilty of these framed-up | charges,” Mrs, Mortiboy said. “I am j innocent, but {t would have bank- rupted all of us if we had gone into jcourt to fight the case. The eastest | way was the best way out.” Mrs. Mortiboy said her youthful | drug store clerk, Neal Mortiboy, will soon join her in Lethbridge. PIUTE REBELS MAKE ESCAPE | SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March |24.—Citizen posses today were re- ported penetrating deep into the In- |dian country beyond Blanding on the trail of the renegade Piute Indian band which engaged the whites in j battle in the dark canyon region | Thursday night. Reports reaching here by courier were that a total of nine prisoners were captured in the battle by the whites and that five of there, includ- jing “Old Posey,” supposed leader of the Piute warriors, had later broken away and escaped. Reports here indicated the Indians were scattering into smaller bands, which would mean that the chase would settle down to a perhaps long pursuit of the Plutes by the whites thru the little known regions of Utah, Northern Pacific Plans Improvements PORTLAND, March %4—J. M. Rapelje, vice president in charge of Joperation of the Northern Pacific, |here on his annual inspection trip, saya improvements and betterments Jof the company’s lines are planned & comprehensive scale for this an | Much of the work of ballasting and replacement is already under way and further improvements will [he started soon | Accompanying Rapelje were Chief Kngineer H. ©. Stevens, B,C. Manchard, general manager at Tas coma, and other officials, lon