The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 8, 1923, Page 1

Be merey work. If ) ‘ou knew that your individual failure to ING the Community Fund campaign to a strong finish, Give at least one day’s pay toward the $775,000 that the 50 char- ity and welfare organizations must have to carry on Seattle’s ive your one day’s pay m some W WEI WOUL A Personal Responsibilit nt that some orphan was to go homeless or hungry, that you'd give it. idow w to be turned o1 And more. iL, THAT D MEAN. IS EXACTLY it in the street WHAT YOUR FAILURE The $775,000 is vitally necessary. will carry this work. y for You to Face It Unless it suffering and want and misery. The responsibility DOF rest upon YO How will you meet it today? all raised, there s the least amount that will be actual U individually. | WEA Ah NO. 198 GIN, GUN AND GIRL MURDER MAN Home Brew Prevention Week. Take off that celluloid collar! a weather strip, or Agric the low pric should remember th 0 ome pint of nm to mak newspaper ¢ and D, E. Cheese are at Bismarck, N, D. that up. We've g ce some way Henry Gar’ court offi Sure, we mad to fill this “The Eternal Struggle’ name of a film showing at seum, but judging from som advertisements we would say its re (tle should be “The Eternal This morning, betore I Inging of the song, ntit the Janitor did | was disturbing the Lori's day.) up, 1 fel “Oh, Sasannah, warn me that T , “Oh, go and put some the fire.” And so high | thence to church, where I have lie, and later to head with the butts of heavy revol-| and to out Today's Definition: A golfer is a person who dates everything from the day he made that hole in one stroke, . ng about pe Vitus dance to the Ge: is that he can always be called ‘upon to wield the cocktail shaker, eee EFFICIENCY NOTE You never heard of the mayor of Vancouver presenting the key of the city to distinguished American guests. He knows darn well they'd never be able | to find a keyhole, anyway, Li'l Gee Gee, who honest, American girl, tinction. She never had her picture | taken for a beauty contest. | eee Another candidate for the Polson Ivy club is the gink who sits outside your office and honks his horn for five minutes. inviting a ust a simple, 3 one dis- . Sing @ song of sizpence, A pocket full of rye It costs one only sizpence, For it 4s made: of lye. Today's candidate for the Poison Ivy club ig the fond mother who has| Uittle Marion, age 6, recite ‘Curfew | Shall Not Ring Tonight” for yoyr| special benefit | cee IF SWINBURNE HAD WRIT.-| TEN IT (F. P. A. in New York World) © dearth that is dead as desire © famine more frantic than fain! © love that is frigid as fire, | And hate that is pleasant as pain! | Let the Swiss and the Serb and the Slav know. To the Celt and the Cossack convey The fatuous fact that we have no Bananas today. Wiee v ju can say this for our cit When you're in it, you don’t hi Worry about running down to the basement and putting more coal on the fire. 8aid Waldo, Phoebe Just simply will not let meobe; She just makes suggestions And continually questions No child is more brilliant shee.” “My young Anfant than eee Boil pars Ps; cut in two; put into cold water to remove skins, and man; season with salt, pepper and melted butter; flour hands slightly, and make mixture {nto small cakes: ip the cakes into flour; saute in hot fat until nicely brown. That's the Way to make parsnip patties. But who in heck wants to make parsnip Datties? EE GEE, VAMP, 8 | I'd love to go hunting, but every time I do a lot of grouse keep biting my legs, | _ 3 H OFFICE Today's Definition: A cauliflower a cabbage with a bald head, A. J. 8. | back [the barn*by a secret THER FORECAST a OUTL BREAKS PRISON! Jailer Is Attacked by Bandit’s Pals and Ed Lockhart Gains Freedom GROVE, Okla. Oct Lockhart, the Southwest's most notorious desperado, gained his liberty today in a daring jail break. Lockhart, arrested last week and lodged in jail at Jay, Okla., obtained his freedom when three men drove up in front of the jail in an auto and beat Jailer Jack Carey over the vers until outlaw, he agreed to release the } The prisoner, with. hie palsy xpéd lout of the city to the security of | hiding places in led hit Oxage hills Pospes, Sheriff Smith, scoured the bandit gang. Lockhart, a protege of Al Spencer, who was shot to death three weeks ago, has a long ca- reer as bank robber and out- law, At Spencer's death he be- came head of the gang which for five years has operated along the Okiahoma-Kansas and Okla- homa-Arkansas line, holding up banks, trains and paymasters. While under a for robbing a bank, a paroled In August by J Cc. Walton Two. da: pa role was revoked when the execu- tive learned that Lockhart had gon to his old haunts and com panions. Authorities. were unable to locate Lockhart until they picked up his trall thru bank robberies. He finally located by Sheriff Smith the Baker farm, near Jay three compa: ma, all heav Lockhart thought himeelf secure in a barn fortified as a fortress. The sheriff's deputies, entered door and sur. prised the lookouts and the gang without firing a shot Rewards of more than $20.900 had been offered for Lockhart's PRISONER ENDS LIVES OF TWO Convicted Slayer Stabs Two by vernor he was on With y armed however, took arrest | Men in Walla Walla Prison WALLA WALLA, Oct state penitentiary convicts are dead here and another is to face a first degree murder charge as a result of the culmination of a ud between Thomas Walton, 40, and F. 8, Burt, 27, both of whom were serving time |for murder. Walton stabbed Burt to death yes. terday and fatally wounded George McDonald, 20, Burt's celimate, wh the prisoners were crossing the court yard after attending chapel. P. Gregory, prison guard beat Walton into submission with a bunch of prison keys, but not until he had accomplistred the double killing | “I should have killed Burt before |we came here,” was Walton's ex | planation of his act. | Walton! and Burt were companions in crime before the gates of the state prison closed behind them, according to records, After escaping from San Quentin prison, Calif, they made their way to Washington, and were traveling thru Colfax in a car stolen at Spokane when a policeman named Caskatt wag fatally wounded in an attempt to arrest them, Later they ere captured at Des Moines, In brought to Washington for trial, and committed to the penitentiary. It is believed that Walton killed |MeDonald, who died a few hours | after attack from the effect of |17 knife wounds, because he believed Burt had told him of Walton's past 8.—Tw the WASHINGTC A road of re memberance for Warren G. Hard ing, beautified by trees planted by 16,000 school children, is to be built in Allen county, Ohio searching for the| 4 | coulee, th: ered as Second Class Matter Ma MEMORIAL TO HARDING WILL BE ERECTED BY CITIZEN CORPORATION ‘NEW PLAN FOR COLUMBIA JOB East Side Man Would Have State Reclaim Basin | BY FIELDING LEMMON That the state of Washington bond itself for $500,000,000 and develop the Columbia river basin as @ State project, and without aid of the federal government, under a combined gravity-pump. Ing plan, with an auxiliary pow er feature, is the proposal made Monday by W. E. Southard, an Ephrata lawyer, who hay been studying the basin development | plans for the past five years. | Southard proposes his state plan lof development work on the ground that it ia not Jikely that the federal government will appropriate suffi clent funds for the work for at le 30 or 40 years “It take that congresn realize the possib are offered in this undevelop th of the he sald. that federal « nmment would take this matter up right away, I would notgmake my sugges tion or press my plans HERE IS NE PLAN OFF 1 generally method work | 2 across the Columbia r head of the Grand . re the proponents of the pumping proj. ject would have started in their op-| | erations. | |—Carrying the thru tun falls, where a 300-foot retaining wail stot natructed. The water here | would be high enough for distribu tion th most of the ist will long to make i that 1 por. ‘It I state, rd’s plan is this mt of the P project that ha. the reclamation Abandonm Oreille gravity been in which to be done nstruction of accepted the dam at th n gigantic | water, uout section to be reclaimed Construction of as at head jrand power to be used on the power unit at the m the farms that would follow the comple of the project, and r to such places where altitude higher than the el at the retaining dam. ules tax levy to ra initial money for survey work] und then the issuance of 30 year 5 per cent bonds for the actual con. , uction work | Southard has placed proposi tion be all the engineers the have been interested in the Colum- bia Basin project GOETHALS SAYS HE'S INTERESTED General Goethals who here on a tour of inspection and inves tigation of the project more than a year ago, wrote to Southard that (Turn to Page 4, Column 4) WOUNDED BOY MAY RECOVER. Melvin Sweet, 7-year-old Redmond boy, who Saturday was accidently | shot thru the abdomen and thigh | while on a hunting trip with two! companions, was fighting for his life | Monday morning in the Redmond hosp Doctors were more hope: ful of his recovery than when the | lad first came under their care Sat urday afternoon, Young Sweet fon pump the ater 5 was se the his { | was was out hunting with Lee Lohner, 16, and Nelson Johnson, 15. Lohner tripped over a log and his shotgun was discharged |the shots lodging in th all lad, | who was a few feet behind the older | boy, | tempted 2, 1899, at the F yatoffion at Seattle, W INFANT FOUND IN CAR Childless Couple Adopts Day-Old Baby When It Is Abandoned By S. B. Groff his put adiliac Hmousine of 8. president of Alderson 607 E. Pike st, a six boy had found a new with Aldersons, fashionable Queen | 514 W. Smith nt The tiny baby wan discovered by Alderson at 7 p. m. Sunday night Alderson had gone to the shop after! a drive. with’ higetamily. He went} into the office alone and left the lim urine at the curb while he went in tide. He was gone 10 minutes, and back and got in the he heard a faint wall mother who MeQuoid Ce day-old baty home Monday who live-in the Anne district when he came driver's sent from the rear. Alderson was astonished and igated. He opened the rear d round a package lying seat. On the floor of the of Alderson'’s pillows had been laid to form a bed for the infant, whe opened wide blue eyes and yowled lustily, Alderson shut the door and shed back to the shop where he J. T. MeQuold, hin partner, “By God, there's a baby in my car The two men went back and looked at the infant again make sure whether Alderson had been dream ing. It was still there and no one was in sight, The package on the contained a of malted a package of talcum powder and some diapers. The baby was taken to police headquarters and shown to Chiefof-Police W. B. Sev yns, Alderson told Severyns that he wished to keep the baby and was | given p The Alderson home is childless and Mra. Alderson welcomed the infant h open arms, She took the flimsy ¢ night gown from the infant and skirmished among the neighbors until she found a better one | She found the child to be half (Turn to Page 4, Column 6) Officer Is Shot by | Auto Thief Suspect! THE DALLES, Ore. Oct, 8 eriff's pe was searching the along The Dalles-California lay, seeking a man who| ' and) wounded J traffic officer tys her name is Mre and who was in the car with the man when shooting occurred, is being held here. Saltzmen was shot when he and Hang Blazer, another officer, at to halt the machine in which the man and girl were riding, believing it a stolen car, The man fired twice Three Robbers Flee With $50,000 Jewels YORK, Oct. 8-—Three hold. ¥p men walked into the Ritz-Carlton rly today, drove the night force into an elevator at the point of guns and 1 with $5,000 in jewels from the Cariton apartment, adjoin ing. | They were frightened away when | a night watchman was attracted as| the holdup men broke the glass dis. | play case | in. foor the ve! to seat e milk mission to do #0. zman, a state A girl who s Robert Smith Monday and Back to Business Want Ad columns many oppor. people who homes to buy ‘Tonight's are filled with tunities for the are looking for or rent The Used Car buyer some bargains that it tively the fered will find will make eaay th of comp terms ind low prices Turn to the UMNS NOW. WANT AD COL, | Sw ‘ashe under the Act of Congress March ? WASH., MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1928. 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $2.60 The Seattle Star SEATTLE All Alone in adi g Auto The - smoking revolver-clutched in her hand. * TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. ROADHOUSE IS SCENE OF | SHOOTING! Advertising Man Is Shot Dead by — Young Divorcee; Bride of Two Months Bemoans Fate of Husband BY LELAND HANNUM Pretty Mrs. Ann Semanski and the center of a gay road Bothell highwa truant husband Sunday morn found him sprawling, mortall. bullet in his abdomen. Lacelle, bride of two months house party at The Grove, on y, laughingly tripped downstairs to find her ing at about 2:30 o'clock. She y wounded, on the inn porch, Beside him lay attractive Wini- ‘fred Gibbons, 19-year-old divorcee, in a dead faint, the still A circle of some 12 or 15 men, onlookers, circled the body, filled with awe ‘from the tragedy which replaced hilarious gaiety with sorrow. Monday the: body of Harry La- celle, widely known Seattle publicity and advertising fan, lay in the morgue. Mins Gibbons held in y the county Jail pending further in- vestigation and the possible filing. by Malcolm Douglas, King county Prosecutor, of murder charges. At an apartment at 1515. Terry ave. the sorrowful young bride bemoans | the results of the ‘christening party home of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Alderson, 607:E. Pike|tor tne automobiic riven her as st, isn't childless any more. Sunday night Mr. Alderson, who |a wedding gift by her husband. It is president of the Alderson-McQuoid Co., found this tiny lit- tle fellow, six days old, in his automobile with milk, talcum powder, diapers an’ everything. ing to keep him and give him the home which the mother | tuity established. evidently didn't have for him. MISSING GIRL COMES HOME Virginia Bull Didn't Commit | Suicide After All BUR Virginia BY {Miss srapher, BROW Bull 1 with Seattle disappen knowledge of her close friends and for private reasons of her own, two weeks ago, was the statement made by Attorney Malcolm Douglas Monday, after the girl had voluntarily place, at county home. Widespread publicity the disappearanc ister, Miss Betty that she believ committed suicide, disappeared from Prescott, 6570 16th sisters spending there, “Both Prescott and knew that Virginia was knew where she story Prosecuting returned from her hiding White in Yakima and at Douglas’ Swan, ppeared was given Bull 1 her sister had the girl had home of H 3., while the evening her Hee the ave we the ing and was going, accord toid me this morn gas eaid, “She first then to White ready to come back Myron Ove rl, motored to White ing to the ing D to Bremerton, When she got Prescott and friend of the n after her explanation either of the sisters for their action in palming off the suicide th@ory on local police, according to the prosecutor A reward of $50 for as to the whereabouts wns offered by W. H of the Stores Mutual sociation, at the time of her dis appearance, She had worked for Uecker ag a stenographer for the past 10 months, Another Victim of Kelso Bridge Found KELSO, Oct. 8—An employe the Star Guernsey Dairy on the Cow litz river, Saturday afternoon diac ered the body John Godfrey, of the victims of the Kelso e disaster, buried in a sandbar. nd a brother, I » who were thrown Into the river, turday Earl identified the body from the clothing and a ring en graved “Jack.” wer Swan. was given him by information of the girl Uecker, head Protective. as. on! brid trey the | of by Price & Carter, of the girl when | promis told po-| FUND WORKERS | months to come. And the Aldersons are go- Star Staff Photographers ON LAST LAP Hope to Put It Over Before Nightfall BY G. LUCILLE BUTL Community x Fund workers are up on their toes this Jast day of the big making preme effort to'put it over the top— annual drive last, su trusting when the evening shadows | lengthen into the night the lid of the Community Chest will not lightly snap shut with a click to be forced slowly, tightly down, in but will have to cover the overflowing con- of bills, and of the big-hearted tle for the protection tent coins “notes * donated by citizens of Se and safeguarding of Seattle's needy during the coming year Men and women, working shard gainst time, to make this vision a dream come true; men and women etty Bull} jeaving their homes and occupations to care for themsely hour effort to see th over the petty and in difference of the few who have fail to respond, Are you one of the f Do not, for the sake of lack of time or direct approach, let this night go down in the annals of “yesterday” and find your donation lacking. day is your last chance to be square with yourself for the whole ¥2 Don't turn. your face away—but join the majority, and BE A RBAL CITIZ! W. U. BANDITS ON WAY HERE PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 8—In the custody of Seattle officers, Bert acobs and Ray Hensgen, alias Cum- mings, passed thru this city today from Grant’é Pass, Ore., returning to Seattle, where they will face charges of robbing Western Union ‘Telegraph Co. employes of $7,500. Identification of Jacobs was pos itive, haying been made by M. Yowir and L. R, Williams, the two Western Union men who were re- Neved of the company’s/payroll early last week, Hensgen will be identified as the driver of the machine in which the crooks excaped, Detective Waechter of the Senttle department said. in 1ith Fund triumph an miseuliness To: | |was gin and a revolver in the |hands of a hysterically-intoxicated |wirl, say the authorities, tho the jactual cause of the shooting is not DIESCREPANCL GIRLS STORE | Discrepancies |stories told since. her bewilderiug the authorities |first arrested Miss Gibbons, whose marriage to Mort A, Moores, a Garageman residing with his mother t the Burton apartments, 2314 | Third ave. June 2, at Vancouver, B: C, ts also being investigated, told the authorities ‘that she mis- took Lacelle for “Bill Williams,” a |man she had known formerly and |who is alleged to have wronged her. When questioned later “Sunday, after Lacelle died at Providence hospital, she Said that she did not know Lacelle and that she could not account for the shooting. She is alleged to have admitted taking several drinks of gin and of being partly intoxicated. Lacelle ;tligd 10 hours after the shooting,-z"lust as he was to be placed ong{the operating table. a dying statement to his” wife Ne declared that he had never before seen his assailant. The story of the events which led up to the tragedy were told by Mrs. Lacelle. She and her husband had | gone to the Butler hotel to dance, |she ‘said, and had then made up a party af six persons and had gone to the Grove about 1 o'clock Sunday morning. They were trying out an automobile which had. been pur. chased by Lacelle for his bride. They took a table in an upper room at the roadhouse, and Lacelle finished his dinner early. He went downstairs, leaving the rest of the party to finish their meal, | Laceile stood on the porch, listening to the orchestra and smoking. Miss Gibbons had left the roadhouse in an automobile with her escort, whose name has not been learned. She ran the machine into a ditch jabout a mile up the road and was |taken back to the roadhouse by a passing automobile. She came up jon the porch, where -Lacelle was \standing amid’ a crowd of men and Vegged the men to return with her and get the automobile out of the ditch, None of the men appeared willing to help her. Then she drew’ an au- tomatic pistol and fired a shot which struck Lacelle in the abdo- | men. | Horrorstricken, she fainted and | was taken Inside the building. Mrs. |Lacelle and members of the party hen came downstairs and found Lavelle lying on the floor, bleeding profusely, A telephone call was sent Ito the sheriff's office and officers arrived within a few minutes, Miss ; Gibbons was taken to the county jail, while Lacelle was rushed to the | hoxpitat Lacelle was placed on the oper: ating table, but when the physicians IN in the several arrest are When In} a man} found that he was too weak to | stand an operation “his bride alled in and allowed to talk ts him. SLAYER IS NIECK ' OF W. W. SHIELDS ‘ } Lacelie spoke with — difficulty. | “Honey, what did they do with the j woman that shot me?” : Mrs. Lacelle replied that they had taken her t jail, and asked Lacelle saying that he did not know her. His last words were, “Good-bye, Honey; be a good girl.” Mrs. La- celle was then taken from the room, and soon afterward was told that her husband was dead. Miss Gibbons is a niece of Coun- \ty Treasurer W. W. Shields. She |has been living at the Kerr~e hotel, '1108% Fourth ave., where She had been known as Mrs. Martin. She told Prosecuting Attorney Douglas that she had been granted a 4i- vores from her husband, who lives at Issaquah. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gibbons, live at £209 24th ave. N. We 4 Douglas located Mortimer Moores at the Burton apartments, 2514 Third jave. Moore claims he mur- |ried the girl in Vancouver, B. , | |last summer, and that they were to |be married again in Seattle Mon- |day, owing to doubt of the legality of the Vancouver ceremony. ‘ Moores declared that it was hig automobile which the woman was |using and that the gun was also |furnished by him. Why she was care |rying the pistol he did not know, | Douglas that it was for protection. Moores did not know E. B. Linn, Cedarburg hotel, 616 Seneca st., who his story to the county prosecuting attorney. He said that he was the man with Miss Gibbons when the ear became stalled and that, after waiting forHer return for two hours, jhe came back to the city, first learn- ing of the tragedy when he saw al aceount In a newspaper. 2 He admitted having several drinks with the woman, but denied her al- \leged statement that they had met before. He told Douglas that she “picked him up” while he was | standing on a downtown street talk- ing with W, N. Moody, who has not yet been identified, Moody and | Linn accompanied Miss ‘Gibbons in j her car for a time when Moody left. |The couple then motored to the Grove, where they ate and had sey- eral drinks, according to Linn, It (Turn to Page 4, Column 3) 40 Convicts Gone; SALEM, Ore, Oct, 8—Yielding to statewide protest against a human: ‘itarian program which has permit: | ted 40 escapes from the state peni+ tentiary in less than 10 months, — Governor Walter M. Pierce today installed A. M. Dalrymple, warden. at the prison, replacing Johnson Smith, whose resignation was ac= cepted yesterday Woman Mistaken for Burglar Shot LOS ANC , 8,~Shot by jher unc! Hufford, when he mistook for a burglar at his home at Lorena st. early yesterday morning, Lois Opedyke, 9, is in a critical condition at @ local hospital today, Jaltho she {s alleged to have told _ jlate Sunday night voluntarily told” if he knew her. Lacelle spoke again, | Warden Loses Job | ¥