The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 11, 1923, Page 1

y \ . SEATTLE STORE HELD UP! Daylight Bandit Escapes With Grocery Cash! qi WEATHER | | F ORECAST ans Matter | Batered as 4 winds NO, 170. VOL. SI ATTLE, Ma 3, 189 ftice et Beattle, WASH., TUESDAY, SEPT Seattle Cop, Caught ith Booze, Is Fired DUMBBELL Patrolman Insist Hisst! Dumbbell Dud didn't show up for work this morning. After a careful search he was found at the home of Joe Bungstarter, anxiously waiting for Joe’s still to drip out a mug full of “light- x drops.” you remem: her, is attending the W..C. T. U, convention back East.) Dumbbell refused to return to before impersonated a officer and I believe I like the job. If I run off a couple of more batches I should know enough to join the dry squad. ar “Phe prise for Mondaylw que | | bell. Mr. Dud informs us, is to; | go to HK, C. Jenner on the. fol- lowing: . “Dumbbell Dud is so dumb he thinks they jecall ‘em totem poles | because Eskimos carry ‘em d on their shoulder — HERE GOES FOR SOME MORE Dumbbell Dud is so dumb he ix the glacier The Seattle D. J. Healy. dry squad is thirsty.—| Calendars grow on Guy Bates Post quarters in the postoffice date trees makes his head- M. Rusk. Ly on had ac paymi whisky form Muscle Shoals is Ruth Kraemer. a prizefighter— Pompadour is a Spanish dull-fight- er.—Mrs. C. E. Decker j Virginia Creeper is a reptile That Forgloves are worn by aris- tocratic foxes.—Mrs. Roy Clarke. A crowbar is a place roost Nightmares are Ground at night. A Yellow Bantam painful—V. McC: horses that run| corn is very Dumbbell Dud refused to be in- ewed today on the libelous le written Monday about him by Avridge Mann, “I'm not the only that’s writing around this place," | was his only comment, as he tched the “imagination tonic” | drip from Joe’s death-machin ———— oa dumbbell Alf Restad says Dumbbell is jumb he thinks: A hairbrush is plant. Net weight is a boxing division. Coclidge is a refrigerator. Gridiron is a medal. A woman's = ies a rolling pin. some kind of a Dumbbell Dud thinks: A wrestling match will start a for-| est fire. You can spread bread jam. An ear trumpet is a musical in- strument.—Eloise Kreithe. + | ae its He also thinks: A water tumbler is a person who falls into the water.—Christine Funk. | icith door | | | | Blood vessels are ships on the ‘tea | sea.—Gordon Kennedy. eee League of Nations is a ball team. Ladies’ Aid is a soft drink, An eye-opener is a surgical in- @eument—Mrs, Ben Parish. Pere Dumbbell is so dumb he se a vacuum cleaner to sh is head.—Rose M. Fi Sugar Goes Up 15 Cents Per Hundred | SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11 Sugar went up 15 cents 100} pounds today. The Callfornia-Hawalian announced the {ncrease haale price ts $8.96 per M4 tho refinery. has to mpoo per refinery The new 100 pounds ber of the Seatt Metropolitan Z tarque ts built of dc prohibition for ministers.—Kenneth Rusk Tue pw tion of his act fin the afternoon, vestigations | Prompted him to dismiss the ‘patrol rounding for crows to| he unfit Du] Chief Acts Quickl; y in Glen Fulkerson’s Case He’s “Goat,” but Severyns Says Probe Warrants Immediate Discharge HALL OF FAME (Incomplete) Patrolman Glen Fulkerson, arrested September 1923, by federal prohibition officers on charges of session and sale of intoxicating liquor. Discharged tember 11 by order of Chief of Police Severyns Investigation Sergeant Edward W. Pielow, dismissed in February, , after investigation of rum-running activities on the Rearrested several times since for liquor deals. Patrolman Ed Hagen, resigned 1918. Sent to McNeil island for booze. Rearrested many times since. Lieutenant Roy Olmstead, dismissed 1920, after in big booze-smuggling plot. Since connected with running rings on Puget Sound. Sergeant Tom Clark, dismiss Olmstead. Patrolman Dick Shively, pos- after arrest rum- ed 1920 with Lieutenant dismissed 1918, posed as deputy sheriff, seized. 98 cases whisky for own use. i |to have bean recovered. VESSELS WILL BE Patrolman Paul Enos Knapp, dismissed 1922 for rob- bing bootlegger of quantity of moonshine. Later em- ployed as town marshal in city near Seattle. Patrolman A. G. Ford, dismissed 1920, for robbing boot- legger of money and liquor. By Steve Arnett Patrolman G! BOOTLEGGER? » Fulkerson, mem 6 police department was arrested late Monday at th apartments by agents and summarily smissed from the pd morning by Chief of Police follow! estign. was being held| tion Tuesday to produce $756 | Commissioner RF. his preliminary Jay Severyns immigr tion sta! set Prohibition Director red Tuesday that Fulker: epted marked money in| sold the in unt Roy | for liquor and ha to the agents while assertion, together with in made by Severyns, This y morning, circum: arrest show | to be a policeman, associating in uniform | (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) FEDERAL DRY MEN LAUDED BY BROWN 667NHE arrest of Fulkerson is | one of the best things the federal dry squad has done : it was created," Mayor J Brown said Tuesday. “Fulkerson is no longer on the Seattle police force. “With the police de Patrolman Glen Fulkerson, | \from whom federal dry agents say they purchased a bottle of whisky at his apart-| artment || ment Friday night. | keeping a close watch on the fed, | eral men and the federal men ar- personally sold bottle of liquor and resting police bootleggers, Seattle || accepted a marked bill in payment. should soon become a clean city ‘The police have kept close watch on booze qctivitie: of the federal dry squad and I hope the federal men do as well with the || rest,’ declared Ly police. | Lyle also aaserted that A. C. Me “Any police officer caught sell. || Laughlin, arrested with Fulkerson ing booze should not only be dis- |/at the Metropolitan apartments, had charged summarily but should be || criminal record dating from tw given the maximum penalty, if | years He is known to h found guilty in court.” “He took the money and handed the liquor over himself. We seized} the money back before he could do janything and he submitted to ar Ko. | served two terms in the county jail} J\ (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) an U. 8. 8 man jcrash should ne fallibility, | tidal condi | THOUGHT |20 MILES AT SEA | tion | due to th FOR COP’S ARREST By 5 ise eh eine carina th cay ler | believed } when |terious currents SEARCH FOR VICTIMS OF NAVY WRECK Drown When Destroyers Go on Rocks; Ships to Be Deserted me 1 dead or missing wreck | hy ths odies are known rep So fu ‘T ON ROCKS Two bodies have Fireman # Yan destroyer Yc A. Conroy « identified haack of the n nd Fire been oung. R f the ing men of the eft to a heavy men ge onty a portion of paratus H. Watson, who was miniat ficet | wher when in command hold his 4 of the naval board of responsibility for the belief of 1 responsibil r laid to human ather to unusual ma and a radio Jam, THEY WERE ox the the naval compass sta Arguetlo tell an inter Altho the de- position and thus verted the crash, they were are that the tragedy had ed a short distance away, until thlese ranchers arrived at their en on ut Point sting story wero r fleet its oc tower The compass station men say that method of obtaining read- urd giving bearings, the ships destroy the the in » general way where the flotiti was located. wireless representatives commanders aboard the the closely formed at at 1 single put th | air was so clogged with radio mes. | sages regarding the freighter Cub: | which had run ashore near by, that} satisfactory communication was im. | poxsible. | Seven minutes before the crash | the Delphi is supposed to have | learned its correct north and south | position ‘oup | the crit moment, wireless flash might destroyers aright, th was mitt Then have Ordinarily this might have | en sufiicient but that night mys: | re sweeping ¢ ward from the scene of the Japan earthquake and these are given | (Turn to Page y, Column 3) | ese are EMBER 11, 1 | embassy h jin 928. Per Year, by Mall, $1.40 he Seattle Star HUGE NEW DIRIGIBLE IN FLIGHT The newest addition to the lafter it left the hangar at L water tower and gas tank and to the spectators in the foreground, of whom there were} response to the ba air forces of the United States, the ZR-1, akehurst, N. J.,in ita initial flight. Compare its size to the| photographed just | Two cE NTS IN SEATTLE. PIGGLY WIGGLY AGAIN! Robber Insists on “Big Stuff First,” as Clerk Opens Cash Register Walking into the Piggly Wig- store at 231 N. 11 o'clock Tuesday an unmasked bandit poked a gun into the stomach of Arthur McDonald, the manager, and forced him to open the cash register, which he robbed of $66 in currency and small change, 1 was at work in the store en the robber The man thru the place and working. Me- -d to see what and looked into police wa gun move,” the bandit m a cotton sack vy wire. you have. “Don't make told him, handin: held open with a h “Empty all the money into this?’ he said McDonald went to the till, and it it's order, “thie | several th thousand. The ZR-1 Tuesday started a Slight from Lakehurst, N.J to Philadelphia. | vis stuff first,” McDonald emptied == STEAMER SENDS = REFUGEE LIST! Radio Message From Jeffer- son Names Survivors 1 by radio from Jefferson, Admiral which will the ik America from the Jay . thquak r, was recelved here Tuesday t of ref aboard the ves Was named. The Jefferson like Victoria Sunday from Capt. Nichols master of t Jeffersan, by cable as to the effect that she eed food upon her arrival at Vic due to th that large were divided with half starved Japanese before the ship left Yokohama and Kobe A number of Seattle passeng are aboard, including Mrs, Don Tin ling and little child. Mrs. Tinlittg is the wife of the Yokohama agent of the Admiral Oriental line, and was celebrating her wedding with her husband on the disaster. The Jefferson's lows S. Aberthy, tourist, with Beck- (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) TROTSKY. SLAIN, - |S NEW RUMOR | Soviet Embassy at Berlin| Denies Uprising in Russia ly will reach word received amounts day of the lst fol- LONDON, Sept. 11 ‘The Central} News’ Berlin correspondent forwards a report from Moscow, which is un confirmed, that Leon ‘Trotsky, soviet war minister, has been murdered. No tails are given. eee Sept. 11.—The Russian denies today a report antibolshevik circles that the so viet. government had been over. thrown and Leon ‘Trotsky murdered, BERLIN, Last | would | # anniversary | pestis “GERMANS READY NEW ZR, home wank, navy Sept dirigit Lakehurst, N left . today The New big its field, flight fiying 1 ‘or & to Philadelphia. Dw, passed It ip over Wy this morning. carried a There were line aboard, { | was enough PARIS. n half for 30 members of the} stiesemann Water tanks were filled with a 12 u upply 4 message the ZR-1 when the Deal, N. J peed, 43 knots, |fect. Everything 0. enough for food the to keep the There and} neers : in Paris for Parley dirigibie 12 hours, for a meal het ii Germany —Chane ee crew French Ambassador started negotictions 16) Nad ger eniecal hente fers paral ment of the Ruhr and reparations problems, it semi-officially con: | firmed today. 4,300} it state K." it read. not yet made The commander then turned his|this is hip around and returned to Lake-| French | hurst, pping to an altitude of| t is semi-officially | 2.200 feet, An attempted flash| that from the tenor of Strese- message was not successful./mann's conversations with more the wireless apparatus | gerie, wirtch are taking place at and the ship's master an-| Berlin, can be concluded that completed test of valves.| Germany. is approaching the mo- down to about 3,000 feet.;ment when she will make in this vicinity for a| nite offer. Then will salute statue of] France will submit: any liberty and fly over New York.|/fer she may receive to Notify Philadelphia will fly over|and the other allies. 5 o'clock.” | Stresemann is believed | Gliding about Manhattan atabout| merely. souniing out | 40 miles an liour, {ts slender, sil-| opinion at the moment, | ver envelope flashing in the sun Si .9 € light, the dirigible was a sight that BY WEBB MILLER BA abet aE eer ik 1g strong that Europe is on the eve of over the heart of che sity, | mbortant and perhaps bout 1,200 feet up, little jooking like ghats at play a big silver fish, buzzed maneuvered After passing uptown the ship returned downtown before heading jfor New Jersey and Philadelphia.|" some move of Germany toward | opening the negotiations is confi- | Violent Rioting | dently expected. No official requests | ‘ 5 for negotiations, however, have yet Raging in Dresden been received, BERLIN, 11.—Violent riot-| Leaders in the government point jing started by a demonstration of out that Chancellor Stresemann’s unemployed has broken out in| Speech was a clear recognition of Dresden, a dispatch from that city | German defeat. It is also declared | sata that official messages from the Ruhr the | and Berlin show that the Germans |mow realize they have been beaten Jin their resistance, It is stressed, Purn to Page 9, Coramn 1) Margerie el . received after 8 Was sighted was ortly ship from | over Altitude, is nave but | the} the Germans a definite offer, expected soon by | sis | On unc | Coming | Will tate such of- England] at to be} French however, irplanes, | about | crisis, and | today. it was stated semi-officially say, Where officials seem to believe victory for France is near, Sept. today persons were first clash between the police and jthe demonstrators, Fighting con- tinued at the hour the telegram was filed this .afternoon Five killed in however, that ADAM AND EVA HELLO, SID. DID you KNOW WE ARE GOING To Buy A House? BETTER NOT! PRICES ARE SKY HIGH- WAIT A, YEAR OR TWO AND YOU CAN GET'EM FOR HALF _PRICE>./ LEAKS, FEW YEARS, - YOU CAN'T EVER. es The AND THEY BUILD FLIMSY HOUSES NOWADAYS » GREEN WOOD,- HOUSE. SETTLES, — WALLS CRACK; ROOF = ONLY HOLD TOGETHER A Pessimist AND YOu CAN LIVE FLAT FOR THE INTERES A HOUSE (NA SWELL = ANC) NO REPAIRS BY CAP HIGGINS Weir, YOu See, ADAM, WE'VE JUST BOUGHT T OM THE ‘TO MAKE PEACE 260 gallons of gaso-| Chancellor Stresemann Now | announced; Mar-| a deft.) decisive | | events looking toward solution of the | Ruhr occupation and the reparations | There is jubilation im Qual d’Or-} | the bills into the sack, “Neyer mind the coppers or the checks," he said. ‘He insisted on all the currency and silver, however, Seizing the partially filled sack, the stickup man ran from the rear door Donald to make no move for five minutes. McDonald immediately notified the police, who arrived within a few minutes after the rob- | bery but were e of him. “= LUMBER PROBE ~ WILL BE MADE Senate Committee to Meet in Seattle Wednesday BY S. B. GROFF The future of the lumber industry |in the Northwest may be largely jdecidea by five men Wednesday, when the United States senate-elect committee on reforestation opena | Public hearings on the forestry situ. ation here. The committee is com: posed of Senators Charles L. Me: |N of Oregon, George H. Moses of New Hampshire, Duncan U. Fleteh- er of Florida, Patrick Harrison of | Mississippi, and W. B. Greely, chief of the United States forestry sery- lee. | One member of the official com: mittee, Senator Joseph Couzens, of Michigan, will not pe present. Couz ens is touring Europe, studying Bue ropean methods of forest conserva- tion and reforestation, Sitting in conference at the Wash: ington hotel banquet rooms, the committee will open the hearings | Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock. The great forest of the Olympic |peninsula ana of Western Washing: ton, comprising the greatest stand: ing forest of America, will be under the hands of the investigating body. REFORESTATION NEEDS TO BE CONSIDERED | The purpose of the committee ir | brief is to fully investigate the lum |ber industry, the situation in whick the forests have been placed, to de termine the exact need and extent | of reforestation, and to find in what |respoct the government can assist ir | | | { in making the bare logged-off land: bloom again with sturdy fir ‘spruce (Turn to Page 9, Colusa Q PaSSeriy Waidner, Homes and Where to Find Them Bargains in homes are hard to find unless you know who is of- fering the bargain. 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