The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 24, 1923, Page 1

saggy OIE S LAIN Mystery Surrounds Case PADI AAPA RIAA ARPA ARP AR ADA ARAD ADA Temperature Maximum, 60, Toda, NO. LEVIAT IN DI Home Brew Howdy, folks! Well, it begins to look as if the automobile had come to stay. eee 207. It's getting so that the oldest in- | habitant can hardly remember the Gays when he took the affirmative in the debate esolved, That the! Horse Is a Greater Friend to M Than the Automobil: eee Seattle's population, according to} Tocal real estate firm, tx now 259,508. | The eight people on the end of that total are said to be supporters of | Gov. Hart in the coming election, | eee Of course, this number doesn’t rep- | resent the entire population of Se- attle, as the census-takers did not catch the thousands en route to Van- couver, | HOME, SWEET NOME Hundreds of Séattie people go up to Vancouver every week-end. To make them feel at home, the provincial authorities arc going to import Seattle policemen to shoot up and down the street during the rush hours. ee Seattle should follow the example of Les Angeles and annex British Columbia. That’s how L. A. got something wet within her city limits. “ee “New York Caddy Finds Necklace."—Headline. Gosh! The next thing we know they'll be finding golf balls! $1,500 ir GEE GEE, TH OFFICE | VAMP, SE: { You can’t blame a husband | for forgetting his wife's birth- | day, She forgets so many of | them, | saree —% Rumor says that George B. Chris tian, who was President Harding's secretary, is going to buy the Cleve = Indians. We hope he does. aven knows professional baséball sate a Christian. ave..é in Eastern Lots of hard Record apple Washington this cidar! Pretty sof “2 crop all, A dinosaur egg is 6 inches long, which makes it admirable for throw: | | ing at ham actors, He. e Of all the words that nave ever been writ, the worst are: “Just open your mouth; it won't hurt a bi | 65,058: | The Seattie auto park housed 9,000 automobiles during the past summer. Of these, 8,999 bore pictures of a div- ing girl on their windshield. | eee YE DIARY (October 23) Up betimes, and to the office, intent upon work, but Lord! the number of people who did come in and try to sell me thing but I did turn them all down am resolved not to buy any -fangled contraptions, bat only crssary for my estate in life. Inneb, and in the afternoon, | fe man did show me w little kettle that | can be screwed on the radiator cap of @ flivver, and food can be cooked there- in with the hot water from the radiator, the most carious thing ever I saw. And I did bay one, and will try it out ent Sonday when I do drive into the coun-| try, and indeed it will be a great pleas- ure to drive along an Autumn highway, surrounded by the rich odor of corn| beet and cabbage. cee Doggone it, somebody is always trying to lengthen our working day! ere # Old Fisherman (scathingly, to} neighbor who has shifted twice in the last five hours)—“Now, now! Did ye come out here to fish, er to make a non-stop dancing recoray” see Li'l Gee Gee says the top offa dress this year is about where the bottom of a dress was last year, eee Mother—Where evening, Gee Gee e you going this Oh, & little while to pla we're Just going out hide and sheik. | new plan to} save money, She ing shoulder for her new evening gown gut of old typewriter ribbons, Li'l Gee Gee has straps } morrow. Among the 800 passengers | Raffles, when arraigned Tuesday be his foot)? | eutor’s Thursday. Mod- rly. Last M Hours Minimam, 44, noon, 60 SAYS REPORT FROM LONDON Big U. S. Liner Is| Reported as in Little Danger LONDON, Oct. 24.—The Eve- ning News today declared that the American liner Leviathan had broken down in bad weather 500 miles west of tho Scilly island. The newspaper gave as its authority a wireless, picked up at Southan It stated that there was no» danger but that’ the liner was expected to be seriously. delayed. At the offites of the United States lines thero was nowcon- firmation of the report, No, Confirmation Is Received in U. S. NEW YORK, Oct. 24—Oftices of | the United States lines have no con- firmation of the wireless report that thet Leviathan had broken down off | the Scllly isles. The vessel left here Saturday for Southampton, where she is due to- on board is Gen. John J. Pershing, on his way abroad for a rest. According to information volun teered at the lne's offices here, all Messages outside of 8 O 8 calls and personal messages are sent from their ships in code, obviating the possibility of other messages to the oe to Page id Column 4) “ERAT” BURGLAR IN COURT TODAY John E. Taylor Decides to Plead at Once John E. Taylor, fraternity house burglar, was to plead guilty before Judge King Dyke- man at 1:15 Wednesday, Prose- cutor Malcolm Douglas an- nounced. The youth reached the decision after talking with his father-in-law, Burt G, Campbell, and h mother, Mrs. Faye Campbell, Wednesday morning. The youthful university student The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington Entered as Second Class Matter May J, 189%, at the Postoffics at Beattie, " SEATTL E, W. ASH,, He’: 8 ; Weather | Forecaster * \Lions Help Uncle John’ “When you hear a cougar or mountain lion cry in the morning you can be sure it is going to rain soon,” says John Cashner, 72, civil war veteran, plainsman and. buffalo hunter. “Uncle John,” as he is called, admits, however, that he is more accurate with a gun than in his weather pre- dictions, —Photo by Biisa studio time Is to stay out in the open, eat “Mother” Cashner’s cooking, cut out (ura to Page Column x eee BY LELAND HANNUM “You can have your weather bu- reaus and storm signals and every- thing, but I'll take the old cougar] in the Woodland park zoo for my| weather forecaster. Yep, it's go-! ing to rain soon; didn’t you hear} him howl this morning? When you| hear & OougAT oF mountain io kno’ TEACHERS’ BIG = WORK STRESSED ite “seuns Cashuer, “peat 811Dean Condon “Speaks to years,” 2110 N, 77th ave, speaking. Educators at Institute “Uncle John” to all the kids in the) Green Lake district lucky enough! hits BY SEABURN BROWN An appeal by Dean John T. Con- fore Judge King Dykeman, pleaded for a few days in which to “talk it over” with his parents before mak ng an answer of “guilty” or “not guilty.” By a sudden change of mind Taylor spoiled the plans of Prosecutor Douglas, who had hoped to completely dispose of the case Tuesday by asking immediate pro: nouncement of sentence, Earlier in the day, when Taylor was telling the stories of his many robberies, he intimated he would plead guilty. Taylor just escaped arrest a few weeks ago when he rented a “for hire” car and failed to return It to| its owner, John Sant, 1322 Highth ave. After keeping the car several Taylor returned it, altho a com nt charging grand larceny had been drawn up. Judge J. T. Ronald interceded in behalf of the youth for the sake of his mother, Mrs. Faye Taylor Camp- bell, wife of Burt G. Campbell, presi- dent of the Puget Timber company. Young Taylor was ordered to report to the prosecuting attorney each week, but he failed to do so. As a result of his wayward acts and his ways of living without vis ible means of support, suspicion had pointed a finger at him for sev- eral days, cording to the office, Both Judge Ronald, Probation Officer Morrow of the prosecutor's staff and Douglas be came suspicious that Taylor was the prose- fraternity house ¢ burglar. (Turn to Page 9, Column LIL. Den Y TURN TO PAGE I1 FOR “CAPITA AIN BLOOD,” THRILLING NEW to be on intimate terms with the| picturesque Civil war __veteran,| sman, buffalo hunter et cetera, . ee Ad the, funny part| 22% of the University of Washing. About It ts that ft did rain the next|t©% school of law, to his audience setae to realize that upon the shoulders of nets John,” ia pant 82 all right|@aeh Of them, as individual educa- he admits that—but he isn’t) “rests the responsibility of rah RE Aaa! GaGa. Preis: cape |shaping tho future, not only of the able of long hunting jaunts and|Srade and high schools, but of the all day fishing. trips. belles his ad-| tate college and the university it: mitted years and. seems to give cor-| Self,” was the feature of the opening roboration to his testitnony that | tion of orf ens SAAD Batata a ong{tion of the Wash 1 Educatio sae 2 Paahtel z fitted Lio fe Jon K | aasocintion and joint teachers’ tnatl. | tutes, which opened at Meany hall on |the campus Wednesday “I belleve that statistics now being compiled will bear me out,” Dean Condon said, “in the statement that not one student out of a hundred changes the habits of . work thought he develops in the pre Kept Loans and Wanted] Ry ae hee Cabinet Job, Says Witness “You are the people who wield th most potent influence on the char Jacters of Washington's youth. }to it that you do the work well.” | MANY HER | FROM OUTSIDE Tho auditorium was more than half filled by the teachers, 2,500 of whom are from schools outside of Seattle, Seattle, Tacoma and Island, fferson, King, Kitsap, Pierce and Skagit county schools were repre- sented, An extensive program of speeches, conferences and entertainments is | planned for each morning, afternoon land evening of the convention, which will close Friday. Following brief addresses of wel- come by Mayor Brown, speaking for city of Seattie; Thomas R. Cole, perintendent the city public schools, and I don, who sub: for Pr nry Suzzallo, music program and ad by Himer L. Breckner, prest nt of the W, B, Av and Dr, Edward (Turn to Page 9 Column 3) WASHINGTC that Colonel C rbes, form- er director of the veterans’ burean, had accepted loans from contractors which he did not repay, were Inid before the senate investigating com- mittee by Counsel John F. O'Ryan with the testimony of EB. H, Morti- mer, a former agent for contractors. Mortimer, who is now a member of a Philadelphia coal firm, testified that he came to Washington in Feb- ruary, 1922, as the representative of a number of contracting companiex of St, Louis, Detroit, Dallas and Chi- . 4—Charges at after becoming ac uainted with Forbes in a social way, | th Forbes gave him confidential into mation on the location of propose: sites for hospitals, plans and specifi- cations which gave the companies he represented an enormous advantage over their om petitors, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, hy under the Act of Cong 1928. ment of the theater. TENNANT WILL Looks Like Clear Case of Murder, He Declares Captain of Detectives Charles Ten nant, the man who has unraveled many tangled mystery threads, was co-opetating with Coroner W. H. Corson Wednesday trying to locate the person who left the lifeless form of a tiny baby boy In the | Princess theater. Only one clew the search. the theater, in usher at sald she had/ seen an old woman enter tho the- ater with a large market basket an hour or so before the body was found.; The woman had sat in the back part ‘of the house on the right hand side, next to the wall, where the baby was found Jater by Mrs, George B. Strohl 6936 42nd aye. 8. W, and Mra 1107 Howell st H. Corson ordered & post-mortem to be held Wednes- day by Dr. Willlam J. Jones to determine the exact cause of death Corson Stated, however, that it was apparently a clear caso of murder an the child was apparently healthy and normal in every respect, only a few hours old nt the he had been strangled with cord, Mrs. Strohl told that with Mrs. Roberts she had entered the theater about 3:30 Tuesday aft ernoon to seo the movie play, “The Woman Conquers,” t looks to me,” said Capt. ‘Ten- nant, “as tho someone didn't want a baby and was not afraid to murder it, Somewhere in. this city there ta & person with the blood of a child on his head. 1 will do my best } find tht person.” ALLEGED BANK BANDITS HELD PORTLAND, Oct. 24—Belleved to| time the jof the West Oakland branch of the Oakland, Cal., bank, | $16,000 was stolen, Junder arrest here today, awaiting further identification A revolver found in the men's be longings ix the ame weapon which one of the bank robbers stole a few days previous from an Oakland po Hceman, loenl officers sald, The quartet gave names of Leslle and Robert Owens, James Regan and Guido Collo, They were arrested in a downtown hotel when the pro: prietor became suspicious of thelr aotivitie four men were F reighter Overdue on Eastern Coast BALTIMORE, Md, Oct. 24.The 2,000-ton freighter Peter H. Crowell, which cleared from Galveston, Tex on October 18 for Baltimore, te days overdue and h not d from, according to agents here She carried a crew of 83 and men. toda officers AID IN PROBE has been found to ald the detectives} Miss Lola Glass,|has left a bundle in here.’ Stohl reached down for it and then, | altho} to| have been implicated in the robbery in which over | i | didn’t The Seattle Star 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $2.60 Body Found in Theater Market Basket a Clew! TWO CENTS IN FOR AGED WOMAN A PEABENTEY murdered, a baby boy was found on the floor of the Princess theater, 1409 Third ave., late Tuesday afternoon. piece of surgical gauze, which was tied tightly about its neck. The body was wrapped in a newspaper and an old, gray cotton blanket. There were no other clothes. Coroner’s office attaches and members of the police force are mystified and so is the manage- The child had been strangled with a” The police are looking for an old woman with a big market basket, their only clew. ee eae s 8 FELT A LITTLE BODY AT FEET Women Horrified as Instinct Tells Them What It Is ‘The picture play, “The Wom- an Conquers,” at the Prin- cess theater Tuesday afternoon was hardly half finished when Mrs, George B, Stohl, who, with Mrs. M. G. Roberts was attend- ing the matinee, felt a bundle at her feet. She told Mrs. Roberts, | with a woman's instinct, it came to her in a flash that the package con-| tained the body of a baby. The twe women were and refused to touch it. they called to a man, front of them, 8. B. horrified Instead, sitting in Livingston, 216 Burke bidg., and Livingston open- | ed it Inside found the blanket, the form of a baby which had hardly had time to grow cold. | ed O. R. ger, and the police were sum- The infant Hartman, moned. was taken to the morgue where the coroner pro- | nounced it a case of strangulation. The chila welghed about 10 pounds and was a well-formed hoy. He had reddish hair and bine eyes. ‘The baby — was chunky. It hail no clothes and was wrapped only in the news- paper and the blanket from which every mark, by which its owner might be identified, had been removed. ; The pkece of surgical been drawn tightly helpless infant's into the flesh. several time: determination. “I cannot conceive of any ee who could deliberately | helpless baby in that mai ‘ Mrs. Strohl Wednesday. “It was all so shocking to us we left the th iter and T have not yet gotten over it. The person who killed it shou he made to suffer, Even tho they want it they neédn't have killed it. There a scores of homes which would have gladly have-adopt- ed the homeless waif." Traffic Is Tied Up gauze had about the that it eut en knotted in savagy 80 in Canal by Flood | BALBOA HEIGHTS, C, Z., Oct. 24. A flood from the Chagres river flowing into Gatun lake yesterday, cause a strong current where the lake connects with the eqnal and caused a suspension of traffic until 3 p,m. when 19 delayed ships re. sumed transit. Tt was the heaviest run off since} 1 discharging thru 11 gates of the spillway, ‘The water was at its height thru the lock culverts, A slide covered 500 feet of the Panama railroad but traffic was re. sumed last night, ‘There slides in tho canal. ‘Traftiy was reported normal today, were no Someone | Mrs. | Livingston | theater | “OLD HONAN” Usher Tells of Pa- tron Who Carried Large Basket An old woman, about 5 4 inches In height, straggly nur, who carried a large | market basket, was believed by Miss Lola Glass, an usher at the Princess theater, to hold the key to the mystery of the death baby found in the theater Tuesday afternoon, This woman was mot in the aisle Miss Glass and directed to a it. I don't remember just where I seated her,” Miss Glass said Wed- nesday. “It was somewhere in the |center of the house, The baby was |found over behind that wall sup port, It may have been there." | Miss Glass is 19. She lives with a private family at 211 18th av | CARRIED BASKET 14 INC LONG “There was nothing about her appearance to arouse suspicion of anything wrong, but sdmehow I seem to distinctly remember her. She was just a little shorter than I, and had gray hair, and carrigl a market basket about 14 inches long.” O. R. Hartman, manager of the theater, said the bundle *that con- ained the baby could easily be car- lried in a basket of ‘the size de- | scribea by the’ girl It was not more than a foot long, he said, Whoever it was that left the new. ly-strangled Infant in the theater, remained during the entire sho’ ing of the picture, “Wandering Daughter,” which is the attraction at the how according to H E, Wool proprietor of the Prin- feet 3 or by JER WENT OFF SHIFT AT 2:30 “Miss Glass went off shift at 2:30 afternoon,” Wooley said. {3 nembers seating the old | woman shortly before leaving, The | baby wag, found at 4:15, by two en who came in as soon as the vacated. ‘There is just n entire performance to be run off in the interim.” Wooley is actively co-operating with the police in. running’ down clews in the He deplores the said he hoped the guilty persons will be arrested and prosecuted, the baby had only been few hours, it would seem to me that the people responsible |for the affair could be — traced, Somewhere, quite probably in the downtown apartment districts, is the mother," he said, won jentire affair a “Since born a Schoches on Fie: Seamen Are Saved | NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—The schoon. jer William S. McDonald i on fire |16 miles east of Ambrose Hehts ja radio from the British tank er San Manuel, Cardiff to N sald today, ‘The San Manuel has restued the William 8. MeDonald's crew, | [S ONLY CLE with gray, rather | jis the third baby known to be de- of the) FICTION THREE BABIES FOUND IN OCT. One Tot Is Lef on Doorstep;'An- other in an Auto — The baby found, dead in the Princess theater Tuesday night serted in Seattle this month. On October 7, 8. T. ‘Alderson: found a little baby boy in his car in front of 607 E. Pike st. The ~ person who haf left the child also |left a change of clothing, a box of — talcum powder and a bottle of | milk, : The Aldersons,’ who live at 514 W. Smith st., adop.ea the baby. ‘Two days later a snugly wrapped baby girl was found by Mrs. HL Lewis on the doorstep of her home, 2317 18th ave. A note said that it ~ was hoped Mrs. Lewis would adopt the baby. Mrs. Lewis kept the child. LEGISLATORS FIRE WALTON Suspended ‘and Ordered to Face Impeachment Trial OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Oct- 24—The upper house of the Oklahoma Vegtiintire today re- solved itself into a court of im- peachment to sit in trial of Gov. J. C. Walton The governor was suspended by — the senate last night after the lower ~ house had adopted impeachment ar” ticles charging him with paying his private chauffeur from the health board's funds and with pre venting a grand jury from’ meeting by a declaration of martial law, Lieut. Gov. Trapp arrived in the city during the night to take up the duties of the office, altho Walton was understood to be ready to fight the suspension, declaring he could ~ not be removed until the impeach+ ment charges were finally acted upon by the senate, T. J. Johnson, chief justice of the supreme court, was called in by the senate to organize it as an impeach- ment body, Walton refused to give up the of- fice today. He sat in the executive offices closely surrounded by his personal _ bodyguard and refused to leave when — the sergeant at arms of the senate _ officially presented him with the no- tice of removal, George Short, attorney general, advised Acting Gov. Trapp that the senat action was legal and that he was entitled to the office, After looking over the armed police around the governor's office, however, Trapp decided he would not “force the is: sue,” but would “take things easy,” _ . | awaiting developments, Testimony of E. W. Marland, Pon: ca City oll man, regarding the source — of the funds for purchase of Wal. {on's $48,000 home, was read to the house today, SERTAL