The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 9, 1923, Page 1

Another Semi Armuat Postal Statement Shows The Stan Slbk Leadimg- By MUKE THAN 15000 a Day VASHON Entered as Second Clase Metter WEATHER ) Alt soccer SE ATTLE, May 8, ANK IS ROBBED! 1899, at the Pestoftice W ASH., MONDAY, Per Year, by Mail, $3.00 The Seattle star AP RIL 9, 1928, aying Other Men’s Game | Brought Ruin to Waterhouse When He Turned From Lucrative Ship Business to Other Lines Crash Came | BY BOB BERMANN T is a traditional fact that no gambler ever won except at his own game. The bookmaker wins thousands on the races—and drops them at roulette. The gambling house proprietor takes down his percentage —and loses it on the ponies. They win at the game they know—and lose at the game they) don’t. So it has been with Frank Waterhouse. He knows the shipping game and made millions at it. Then he} started playing the other fellow’s games—not one, but a dozen.| And, true to the tradition, he dropped every penny that he had| won. } This is the one big, outstanding, undisputed fact that one can| shta‘n from the amazingly tangled skein of litigation, both crimi- nal and civil, which has grown out of the crash of Frank Water- house & ( Co. If one believed all the charges that have been made on j both sides, it would be impossible to comprehend how half lof Seattle's leading business citizens have kept out of the! ‘ome rew |penitentiary. Waterhouse’s friends would paint him the} |victim of a sinster conspiracy. His enemies picture him as a knave. (AME to Ruin Thru Spreading Out Too Widely But it is utterly impossible to accept all the charges of making eard-|@ither faction. Most of them are probably made in good) dis-lenough faith—but they must be honeycombed with mis-| understandings of one sort and another. And, after all, these are matters upon which the courts are going to pass. far as the public is concerned, the only concl draw from it all at this time is that Waterhouse, Napoleon, dreamed too great a dream, | Had Napoleon been content with being merely emperor | lof France, he would not have died in exile. ee ere And had Waterhouse been content with being merely the| Princess Yolanda marries in Rome| biggest shipping man in the Northwest, the great firm of} today. Let's hope she has the bless-| Frank Waterhouse & Co. would not be in bankruptcy today. Ang of her pa and me. It may seem--especially to Waterhouse’s enemies—that| eas \it’s a far cry from Napoleon to the Seattle business man.} | But, as a matter of fact, the stories of the two men are | strikingly alike. | One played with empires—the other with millions. And each went down to ruin because he extended his | achievements on too broad a scale. i . | | N OT Waterhouse’s Own Story, Nor Yet His Enemies’ | It is this story—the story of how Frank Waterhouse first | made his millions and then lost them—that The Star pro-| poses to publish The story has been written only after the most exhaustive Seattle examination of records and interviewing of principals. It is not Waterhouse’s is it the story as his enemies tell it. | column, page one) It is an unbiased account, compiled from the records and editorial, declar- from the statements of interested parties on both sides— ing: “The gentle and it has but one purpose: to narrate the astonishingly manly thing on the dramatic events which have led up to the present feud be eid hate Peal tween the leading business men of Seattle. and would be si-} The story, in chronological order, will appear in succeed: | Dye ats ling issues of The Star. Buty before eid ite nee SWSPAP sary to give an impartial resume of the situation as it) 1, echihic tani pen: 9 pall today so that those who have not followed the entire case may understand the full significance of the various | chapter operated by Seattle men, And so to the resume. Howdy, folks! Did'ya catch a | couple bullheads yesterday? So'd we. . ‘These days, every batmball pitcher must have bis fling. oo. ‘are ac The G board furniture, patches. Card tables, no de like} EVERYDAY HEROES The man who does not tell how far he can hear over his home- Conan Doyle is exhibiting photo- &raphs showing the spirits of the dead. Are good photograph: Oh, just medium. oe GRAPHIC SECTION This is a photo- graph of Ezekiel H i ggonbottom, Kiridand pioneer, who remembers when Frank Wat- erhouse didn't have a ship to his Tame. For edi- torial comment, see page 97. } | | | Great editor who on Sun-| day shattered the silence with a and 2. Newspapers owned Operated by newspaper-men. | | The death of Lord Carnarvon bed | Said to be due to the curse of the Pharaohs. “™ Thove Pharaohs must ave been | able to curse like a qolt player. | 'HIPPING Firm Did Business That Girdled the Globe | No doubt the oirle witt now ve| © few years ago Frank Waterhouse & Co, was one of the Gfrald to wear these now King Tut great firms of the Pacific Coast. Its ships carried cargoes sandals, for fear of being cursed. \to every port oi the seven seas; it had its offices in America, i jin the Orient, in Europe. its annual earnings mounted into we'd like to curse the|the millions. “arted these King Tut!” poday the company is hopelessly bankrupt; it seems cer- tain that unsecured creditors will be lucky if they realize if any of our|five cents on the dollar. ie from south} And out of this bankruptey has grown a veritable nest of ne. Then we lawsuits. ra planters" +” Waterhouse, on his side, has laid the blame of his failure | va that all this tate largely upon his financial advisers—Daniel Kelleher and his | ib he municipal railway being in| associates in the Seattle National bank, As one result. of fo nettle, Doe in tie ihat oualt this, Perry Truax, vice president of the latter institution, | ext expert on bunks * 9re4* hag stood trial— and been acquitted—on fraud charges, “The ‘alas | Other litigation is pending. : E who refuses to Hqually serious charges ave made against Waterhouse by join the Chamber | some of his creditors, The Continental and Commercial of ¢ commerce is tn Trust and Savings bank, of Chicago, the company’s largest a8 ihernuneany lereditor, in an action filed only last week, accuses Water- refuses. to vote. ‘house of disposing of mortgaged property without permis- Seattio Sunday paper sion, In a suit which comes up here this week, Waterhouse | AD Med is accused of paying personal losses, involved in the building ““Y"/of the steamer Wl Aquario, out of company funds. There ree) aie charges of misapplication of funds held by Waterhouse’s (Turn to Page 9, Colunm 2) Personally, Deople who atylen We wish wo kne Seattle undertakers es of the Mason-Dixon could call them. “Hou oe Mayor Brown aa “Men are tired of Wherty,!* Mussolini, The marringe license ords fa to show it, n to Pago 9, Column 1) TWO CE IN SI ATTL) E Frank Waterhouse oto by Webster & Stevens IRELAND REVOLT NEAR COLLAPSE Captured Papers Show) Rebels Are Weakening BY GEORGE MACDONAGH in. Ireland is in desperate if. one may judge from captured documents published today by the] Free State, Collapse of the rebellion against |the present Irish government would appear to be imminent, One document, the minutes of a recent meeting of the first South- Jern insurgent states that division ‘he fought to a standatill,” that its morale is weak and that a summer campaign is imposaible. Another division, been document quotes a reso- lution of the trregular committee meeting March 28, to thé effect that further armed resistance against the Free State “will not further the cause of independence,” The resolution was defeated, 6 2, Other documents describe the “futile tink: with the situa tion by Eamonn de Valera and his to | aswociates The Free State government vouches for the authenticity of the document. On Saturday Kevin O'Higgins, secretary of state for home affairs, announced rebela were being cap. tured at a rate of 200 a week and that los than 2,500 remained or ganized against the ree State, } | story of his rise and fall; neither| DUBLIN, April ¢—Tho insurgent | straits | executive | S DREAM OF SCIENCE IS ANNOUNCED A REALITY HICAGO, April 9—Invention of an apparatus to isolate living “human celis, a dream of sclence for many years, was an~ nounced here today by Prof, C. E. Tharoldson, of Northwest univer- aity's department of zoology. The inyention will be of great aid in the search for a cure for cancer, scarlet fever and similar plagues, physicians assert. It is @ small "machjno” about the size of tho hand and keeps the living tissues allye while functions are observed, CHARGE MAN WITH MURDER A charge of first-degree murder wns to be filed Monday against Thomas J. Cannift, a mechanic, who Ix accused of ng shot and kifled John Wiley, negro, at the home of Minnie Boyd, 24th ave. , last We Three other to have been members of party which, with Wiley, attended an all-night dance at the Alhambra cabaret, are bell held, pending developments. They are W. E. Sponsiler, Louls Arnold, 19 Smith, 24, an enter Kelso Bridge Crash ghey Damage Suits Filed KELSO, April 9-—Damage suite agerregating 219,000 are on file against Cowlltz county on behalf qf nino claimants for damages on neeount of the Kelso bridre collapse last January: . a mec nd Mra, in Anita WHAT'S PRICE OF RED BLOOD ? Cafe Man Gave Employer a Pint; Wants $5,000 BY JOHN W. NELSON How much is a pound of flesh, or its équivalent, worth in hard, round American dollars? | Shylock, the Merchant of Venice, would take no gold, tho thousands of she were offered him by friends of the unfortunate Antonio, In Seat- | tle a superior court Judge and jury, |starting Tuesday, must sett the | the worth of a quantity of human blood, extim: nearly a pint. Arthur Cast: plaintiff in the demands $5,000, Two years ago this coming May, Dominick Bozzello, proprietor of the Burope cafe, an Italian restaurant at | 609%) Jackson st., was unconscious In a Seattle hospital, weak from loss of blood in an operation, and ina dan. gerous condition, A call for volunteers to suffer a blood transfusion went out among his friends, His wife volunteered, as (Turn to Page y, Column 2) | | | | | ! | | | | Defense Ready in Murder Hearing SAN DIEGO, Cal, April 9—The defense has {ts Inning tn the Fritzl Mann murder case this week, Dr. Louis L. Jacobs, accused of the murder of the butterfly girl, will begin his fight for freedom, His at- torneys say he will take the stand himself, In addition they have about 15 other witnesses ready to testify in bis behalf, CITY DAIRIES [5 ANNOUNCED Make Public Re sults of Surprise Sampling Here Results of a rece | vey” by the city he under the direction of States department of agr the milk sold in the shows that the averag tifled milk is 97.6 per cent; tuerized mil raw milk, 87 a statement re! | partment Monday. | The milk samples on which tests were made were ta the knowledge of the jsources and were tested by 8. J. Pearce of the ¢ milk service and G. 8, Henderson of the state department of health Tho milk was scored on the follow- Jing {tems Bacteria, flavor and odor, sediment, fat, solids not fat, I temperature (street samples), acidity | (prepared samples), and bottle and “suprise sur- United ot 1 ot) per cent, according to| ed by the city de- the nile judged | Bas in with the tests take: jular intervals by the depar | The scores made by t |mitk companies suppl with milk are as follows: 94; Kristoferson, ainier Valley, 91.5; Dairlem, £06: Central, 9 West Co. Beatle, #3; Wilcox Independent, s ington, 76.2. “Average score, $8.21. Hollywood Farm (baby Jind J. Clark, #6; Matt i Hichmond Highlands, 84.3; Little Gem, arm, . 2. Wella: 93,5; Seward Park, A. Pilling, 93. Licton eerarden, Merrymou: Hollywood Foster, 90.83 A nit ia nr eco Bake: “lairmont, 87.8; Victory | Punnett, Farm, franchi, 69.1; Spring Hil, 65 66.9; Clover Ridge, 61.1, Average score, § MANIAC BEATS BOYS IN HOME PETALUMA, Cal, April 9%— County officers today led a posse searching the outlying parts of Sonoma county for trace of an un- identified maniac who yesterday attacked Earle and Jack Wayland at their home here yesterday. The manaic broke Into the house, beat both boys, wrecked the inter. jor of the house, and fled, Earle, who is aged 10, underwent an operation during the night in an effort to save his life. Jack, aged 17, was severely, but net serious- ly, injured. Ask Receiver for Big Corporation NEW YORK, April 9.—Recelvers in equity were appointed today for the American Fuel & Transport Co., a $30,000,000 corporation of Dela: ware, by Judge Julian Mack, in the federal district court, Application for the recelvers was made by Donald) McCreadry, who represented himself as a stockholder and creditor, He held the company was unable to meet maturing obliga: tions. Bomb Is Exploded : in German Canal DUSSELDORF, April $9—A mine was exploded at the junction of the Rhine, Herne and Dortmund canals In an effort to blow up the locks today. The explosion occurred Just as a French patrol passed out, but none of the soldiers was Injured. Little damage was dono to the canals, only one branch being choked, *‘Murder Ain’t No Joke’’ Sighs Christopher DALLAS, Tox, April 9, Halt asleep, James Christopher Columbus Washington, negro laborer and dincoverer, Was walkie slowly to Ia work shortly after daybreak At Ton nd Hall st, James Christopher Colambwe Wanhington awakened from tia dreams with @ wtart—and w wild ye Ave At his lay right log and her head! What did James Christopher Columbus Washington do? How perfectly foolish of you to ask! “Ol, Lordy! Oh, Diereing servams “Bang, bang!-exelted noigh: bors, throwing open (hele win dows, foot © woman's Lordy!"his "Whe-eoo Who-ee-e!" goreech: ing of siren on police rot ear a4 It sped to tho scene, a mere flash of red paint and a whirt of Kosoling as it thundered over tho crossings, Finally, the cops succeeded in quieting James Christopher Columbus Washington about the time he was getting ready to climb a tlophone pola Investigation of the ‘murder’ showed that the presence of the woman's leg and head was mere. ly the result of a yrank by some medical students, who had wileved a dissecting of somo of its propertios, That's all there way to it But James Christoper Col umbus Washington, negro la. borer and explorer, says, “Mure dor ain't a0 Joke," room department | of V of Seattle n without | supply | - | the same od, | tle. STANDING OF VALUABLES IN. VAULT TAKEN BY YEGGKEN! | \He alth Officials| Deposit Boxes Are | | Looted by Bank Robbers; Door Forced by Bar Cracksmen entered the State Bank Vashon island early obtained $300 trance ta y use of a with which the front door was forced open. The cracksmen, belleved to be ama teurs, then drilled the lock off the | vault doors and jimmied several de- | posit boxes. The big bank safe, with the funds of the institution in it, was not touched, according to Cash jer Dan Olinda. was discovered Mon: when the institution 1 for business. drill, stolen from @ Je firm over a year ago, was by the cracksmen. rwich and deputies rn clues Monday, try |ing to trace the drill. Starwich said that he does noi think the Vashon job was done by s who burned their way the mond bank, escaping eral thousand dollars, soma 0. A torch was used on the Redmond job instead of a drill. Deputy Sheriffs Ed Hughes and was An Bea left Sherift open electric are runnin, 7:| William Sears are probing the rob bery at Vashon. Efforts to tiace tha men by thelr means of getiltig on and off the island are being made {| by the deputies, COPS QUARREL; FUGITIVE SAFE :|Lack of Co-operation Mani- fested in Marsh Case Lack of co-operation between aus thorities of Pierce and King couns ties and a practice of “passing the buck” has resulted in practically na progress being made toward solving | the mystery of the murder of George | Mars! attle for-hire car driver, | who fatally beaten by thugs om the highway near Tacoma last Tues day morning. 3 This was the statement made Mons — day by high police officials of Seat Neither the slayers of Marsh ~ nor the automobile of the slain mam has been found, altho the search extending over the Northwest hag been maintained steadily since the killing. “The case is a very awkward one,” Captain of Detectives Charles Tens nant said Monday, “because we have difficulties here in Seattle findit out what steps the Tacoma shi and police were taking, and what ine tf any, they had obe WHAT'S BEEN DONE Captain Tennant declared that he. did not know whether the Pierce county authorities had even sent out — circulars bearing the description of the supposed murderer and the sto- len car, 5 A warrant for the arrest of any person found driving the auto should have been issued by the Pierce couns. ty authorities, Tennant said, Relations between Tacoma and Se attle police officers have been crism# crossed for some time, it was sald Monday. Tacoma police officers, it is said, refuse to co-operate with the Seattle police department. HOW THE WIRES ARE CROSSED When the Destiny city police have — business in Seattle they get in touch with the King county sheriff's office} when the sheriff's office at Tacoma — has information of interest to King county its members talk to the Se- attle police department, ‘The Seattle polica department and the King county sheriff's office have little in common; hence justice often goes begging when a Tacoma case is ine volved, : For a small cost you can greatly benefit thru STAR WANT ADS. response active. Your very is Your returns satis- factor Ye Phone Main NOW!