The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 7, 1923, Page 1

BOY INCENDIARY CONFESSES IPRA APP PPD PIPED PPP PDIP Pts OPP PRPRDIAPRPPPAPAPPPAPAAIMAISISISOPP APPA PPP ARID PPI PPP. PPP PDD Dat LOCO! WEATHER Generally fog: ing up Thur erate Maximu 45, Today VOL, 25. NO. 219. soins, ‘Temperature Last 24 1 ov tonight; clear- day. Gentle mod- mostly easterly. 1s Minimum, 39. noon, 44, The Newspaper With the B SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1928, iggest Circulation in Washington The Seattle Star Batered as Seoond Class Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beatle, Wash. under the Act of Conaress March 2, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $1.60 PROBE BEGUN TWO OTIVE IS BLOWN UP CENTS IN SEATTLE. SKAGIT JOB "EMEE MILL CAMP "HEIN SETS 4 FIRES IS DELAYED Huge Tunnel May by Time Specified and City’s Penalty Not Be Completed of $500 Daily Threatens By Leland Hannum With the “zero hour,” Decem- ber 1, drawing near, it is doubt- ful if the Skagit river power project tunnel for Seattle service will be completed in the time al- lotted the R. C, Storrle company, Home Brew Howdy, folks! Do you belleve that people can be cured by the laying on of hands? We do. We cured Little Homer Brew, Jr., of the ciguret habit that way. oe “Are the women we love the wom- en we marry?” asks a film ad. No, indeed. All of us are not bigamist: ee To the guillotine With Johnny Foz, Wonder if Providence tempers the wind to the shown limb? YE DIARY (November 6) To the office till past 5, and then home to supper and to bed, being now well of the xgrippe, and truly I cannot bat impute my recovery to my new hare’s foote. Before I went to bed I sat up till Lord! could make little of it, my French being limited to “Voulez-voo promenade ce moi, mamzelle” a play. yank blank, see Yoo Say’ what you like about prohtbl- tlon enforcement in Seattle, there is still more liquor being poured down than out, . Back from Canada, Prince of Wales will go to Africa. That boy must think he is a traveling sales- man. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY A fortune awaits the man who in-| vents a way to can this Seattle fog so that he can sell it for soup. see A prehistoric man has been tn- earthed at Santa Barbara. He had a mouth 7 Inches long, which leads us to believe that he was a politician. eee Troupe of Canadian actors In town this. week call themselves “The Dumbbells.” You'll never find an American actor willing to admit it. Pelee “Seattle Bull Again Wins Grand Prize.” —Headline in Oregon Journal. ‘We don't know whether they're speaking of E. A. Stuart's bull or Mayor Brown's. EE GEE, JH’ OFFIC VAMP, SEZ: 4 | Tht way to win some cats is to stroke their fur; th’ way to | ee others is to give them a | | fu | (a | LL ® ‘Take a bite out of this apple,” re- marked Eve, as she handed a juicy Jonathan to Adam, “Remember, it’s Apple week.” “Wee” Coyle articles on Gil Do- bie’s system of building up a foot- ball team are very interesting, but he doesn’t tell how the Gloomy scot kept his cheer-leaders in condition. ee What's become of the old-fashioned burlesque show in which the Dutch comedian hit the leading lady a swat with a slapstick? ee People who are fond of statistics should read the Police Gazette. It fs full of figures. eee CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB The busy | executive who dic- tates his week's correspondence Saturday morning, and tells his stenographer to be sure and get it out before evening. “ee / With everybody reading books on business efficiency, things are apt to be carried too far. For example, the valesman who said when proposing to his girl: “My love for you, dar- ing, exceeds anything that can be} offered in that line." see I'l Gee Gee said this morning a furnace would have a longer life if} it didn’t smoke, And then she ughed a if her little heart would break, 2 } contractors. Whether or not the | $500-a-day penalty clause with be invoked by Mayor Brown for all work on the two-mile tunnel, is not yet definitely decided. J. D. Ross, superintendent of the elty Nght department, was informed Wednesday morning by the contrac tors’ office that they were not in dl- rect touch with the tunnel operations and could not definitely say that the work will be completed by December . ified. Ro: authorized tho statement that it will be completed ‘some time in December.’* The project under way, with the Gorge tunnel, at an approximate cost .000,000, will ‘provide Seattle with 50,000 horsepower electric ser- vice, Ross declared, and eventually | at a cost of $11,000,000 the completed | project can provide 113,000 horse- | power for Seattle service. When th | current will first be supplied the city jcannot yet be determined, Ross and | Mayor Brown said. | BROWN TO MAKE INSPECTION TRIP Pending a third visit to the site of the tuaneling operatlons,..which *he’ declares he will take very s0on, May- or Brown will make no statement as }to the enforcement of the- penalty) f{elause for all work on the tunnel after the first of December. “Te | he added, ‘I find that they have kept up the work and progress that they| were accomplishing at my last visit, | I certainly will not invoke the pen- | | Brown declared himself pleaned | with the progress made by the| | Storrle Co, in the past and retter- | ated hia past statements that the accomplishment of the project will give the city “what it needs.” He id that fires and other unanticl-| | pated events had handicapped the | contractors, whom he held not sole- ly to blame if the tunnel work is |not completed In fhe time limit set | forth. | “The tunnel, as all doubtless know | no explained Supt. Ross Wednes- | day, “is already cut thru the solid jrock for 11,000 feet and the com | pany {s now engaged in lining. the | jlast 3,000 feet of it. I am not in |direct touch with affairs at the Skagit river site and find that the | Seattle office of the Storrie Co, is} not either.” | | TUNNEL TO CARRY WATER TO PLANT Ross said that the Gorge tunnel, in question, {s proposed to carry | the water from the stream (event- ually from a reservoir) to the power plant, with three branch tunnels, | cut in solid rock, to “feed” the three dynamos to be started first. In time, he added, a second and aimost parallel tunnel 1s planned to| furnish other units of the same plant. This will be accomplished by a higher dam at the Gorge reser- voir site, he said. Higher up, about five miles nearer | the Canadian border, Ross contin-| ued, another reservoir and dam and | another tunnel, the Ruby tunnel, 10| be three miles long, will also be | cut some time in the future to| |furnish the remainder of the 172,-| |000 horsepower planned. This last flow to the lower plant at the Gorge | ‘COVELL CASE UP FOR TRIAL, COQUILLE, Ore., Nov. 7—Thirty- | Jone prospective jurors have been or-| |dered to face Judge Kendall, in| Coos county clrenit court today, | when Arthur Covell, maimed as. trologer, 1s carried into court to answer a first-degree murder charge in connection with the kill- ing of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Ebba Covell. Claude Giles, defense attorney, ap- | pointed by Judge ‘Kendall, has} steadfastly refrained from Indicat- | ing his line of defense, but general opinion here is that the plea will be Insanity. Twenty-four men and seven wom- en are on the panel from which the first attempt of picking a jury will} bezin this morning, It. ig, probable that more names will he submitted | before the jury is finally selected, OKEH CITY MANAGER SACRAMENTO, Cal., Nov, 7— Sacramento has tried the city man-! ager system for two years and found | It good. Mayor Albert Hlkus and seven other candidates pledged to a continuation of the system and of the present city manager swept into 4.5, 8. office with large majorities, ing Merchant Are Held by Police Arrested upon information furnished by a Seattle Chinese merchant, two alleged tong war gunmen, Henry Woo, 26, and Elmer Doung, 23, wore held in the city jsil Inst Wednesday charged with carrying concealed weapons. The two when tho out to the police were gunmen from Portland who had como here to kill another © nese merchant who has been mark- ed for by tong. The v was said to c m t pointed them saying that they tim of have a pr a. © gunmen armed with pistols, Heve that, with threatened tong The two men will bestried In court Wednesday afternoon on charges of carrying concealed weapons. FOUR INJURED found to be The police be- their arrest, & war Was averte were IN CAR CRASH Tacoma Trolleys Meet Head Onin Fog TACOMA, Nov, 7.~Four men were badly cut and bruised and a number of other persons were shaken up this morning when two McKinley park street cars crashed head-on In a dense Besides William Leblanc, operator of one of the cars, the injured are Robert C. Williams, F. C, Bowman and Pollce Offieer Tom Ross, All were on the inbound car. Failure of the signal light to work correctly was given by Operator Le- blan the cause of the accident According to the story he told he had Just left the switch on 40th and Mc: Kinley sts. when the crash occurred The signal light, he said, flashed for him to go ahead and when ho proceeded he ran head-on into an outbound car. Police Oftk jury to his leg and was removed to his home. The three other men were taken to the Tacoma General hos. pital. The crash oc ing rush hour; urred after the morn. Boy Is Dying From Pitchfork Wound BEND, Ore., Nov. 7.—Robert Bu- chanan, 9-year-old son of Marvin Buchanan, Silver Lake, lies at the point of death here today, his skull pierced by a pitchfork, The boy's small sister blindly threw a pitchfork from a hay loft One tine of the implement pene: trated to Robert's brain. Woman’s Hair Cut Off by Two Thu TU gs Oklu, Nov, Mrs. Dorothy Smith, 35, was attacked by two men in ner apartment late night who cutoffher hair and slash today. SORROWFUL LOGGERS ARRANGE FUNERAL OF TWO LITTLE FRIENDS (Oeases BAY, Wash.,, Nov. 7—There js no undertaker at the Olympic mountain logging camp of Selku, near here. So when little Betty Jackson, 4, friend of every logger in the camp, and her baby sister Delma Arlene, were burned to death Menday in a fire which de- stroyed thelr parents’ home, leav- ing Mr, and Mrs. 0, L. Jackson prostrated by grief, the funeral arrangements were left in the hands of thelr friends, A logger, beneath whose mack- inaw beats the heart of a poct, built a small box coffin, and for handles broke the pike pole, with which Jackson, working as a boom man, earned a living for his. children, The ilttle box, covered with a white cloth, the pike pole handles grasped by calloused hands of loggers, Was carriedy Tuesday to the Presbyterian chureh, where very man from camps within many miles’ radius assembled ¢ assist In the unconventional core emony. I ‘Two Gunmen Seek- S HA K F N BY ~ EXPLOSION! Logging Engine Wrecked in Blast and swe were ereset, Windows Shattered; Spite Work Is: Charged by Redmond Man An explosion that shook t Campbell's | houses. he country for blocks around mills, about 8 p. m. Tuesday, completely wrecked © on bis |& $20,000 logging engine and shattered windows in nearby The explosion was caused by outside agencies, ac- cording to Postmaster H. S. Reed, of Redmond. An investigation revealed .|Stroyed by a heavy charge dynamite, Reed said, The first report of the explosion was made to Sheriff| Matt Starwich late Tuesday night and he dispatched a crew} ‘of deputies to investigate. lerew went to the scene, |Roland Bartling and Robert The explosion culminated a series jot attempts to damage the engine, which was the property of Brown & Brown Logging Co, About & Week ago émory aURt wis found lin the cylinders of the engine, but | tile was discovered ond removed. Two weeks ago a vandal destroyed {the controls and destructible parte lof a logging engine belonging to the Paradise Lake Shingle Co: with | ws the | that the engine had been de- of either nitro-glycerine or Wednesday morning a second accompanied by Deputy Prosecutor Macfarlane, & wledge hammer, Tho Brown. brothers are operat ing thelr logging camp with mem- bers of the Loyal Legion of Log- gee and Liurmbermen. The camp WRAITH He 100 percent organized, and other labor organizations have been unable to obtain a foothold in the district, according to Reed. The | Browns lay the exploston to spite work, /Results in 13 States | Neither Party Can | BY LAWRENCE MARTI |(Copyright, 1923, United WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 ction results in “off-year” contests in 13 states showed clearly today that neither the republican nor the demo- jeratic parties could claim any great N Press) Rosas suffered an in-| reversal of the form shown in the! politica |past general election. There was, |however, more encouragement for |democrats in the results than for lrepublicans, tho both parties could claim with entire justification that no accurate appraisal of the na- tional trend could be based on yes- terday’s voting. The democrats, who in the last congressional election, wiped out the huge republican majorities register. ed in 1920, appeared today to be holding the ground gained in 1922, |speaking generally. They made one |notable gain, when they elected a democratic governor in Kentucky, a state that went republican as to | states offices, and one United States |senator in 1920 Nowhere were democratic pre-elec. tion hopes disappointed yesterday where there was a basis for such |hopes, except possibly in New York | state, where Goy. Al Smith's forces [hoped to control of the state assembly They suffered a decided setback, the republicans capturing five seats lost that election. This was a set- capture junit will furnish another power) ed her with a knife across Ner arm, | york politics that {t cannot be called plant or can be used to control the | limbs and back, she told authorities | | ver: ‘ALLEGED CHICK ~ THIEF CAUGHT! | ae /Man With Truck Arrested at | Point of Pistol Aroused by the cackling of lis chickens at 2 a. m. Wednes- day, L. W. Mines, 8920 Highth ave. N. W., Investigated and at the point of a gun captured a man who gave the name of ‘Tom Kelley, in the act of driv- ing away With a half coop full of his prize fowls. Kelley was driving a small Ford ltruck and In the truck Mines found Jone coop full of birds and another halt full. Only half a dozen birds |had been removed from the Mines lehicken house, but a neighbor |nearby. reported the Joss of 10 | birds. Kelley was marched |house at the point of fand held until deputy rived to take hin to fail, where he w on a larceny charge in Meu of $600 bail, significant. into» the Mines’ gun sheriffs ar. the county being held Wednesday, Democrats Encouraged by Off-Year Elections Yesterday, Show That Claim Great Change The Ku Klux Klan‘s sweeping vic- jtory in the Ohio city elections was j causing much comment among po- litical leaders here today. Taken in jconnection with other developments, it seemed to point to the entrance of the klan into state and national in 1924 to" a degree that | Will embarrass many candidate | There was little Indication, in the | scattered contests, of the lineup on prohibition. The drys won in New | Jersey, apparently, and that may bring former Senator Joe Freling- |huywen to the front as republican |leader there, supplanting Senator | Walter Edge, who has moist lean- lings. The wets won in Maryland, verybody expected they would, jbecause Gov. Ritchie, who was re- jelected, is a highly popular gov- jernor, aside from his views on pro- hibition, | The margin by which President Coolldge’s native state of Vermont |returned republicans to the senate jseat left vacint by Senator Dilling- |ham's death and the house vacan- cy caused by Porter Dale's senator!- al candidacy, was impressive enough to show that Mr, Coolidge was in no danger there of the psycholog- jical repudiation which the demo- crats sought to inflict on him. By and large, the elections yester: day simply whetted the appetites of (Turn to Last Page, Column 2) ere Meeker Able to Leave His Bed Continued Improvement of Ezra Meeker, 82, who has been suffering for three weeks with an attack of throat and bronchial trouble, was such that Tuesday he was able to leave his bed and sit up in a chair for a short time, according to his grand-daughter, Mrs. C. L, Temple. ton, 2501 Casendin ave. Tonight's Want Ad Columns Are filled with and opportunities, many bargains HOME: USED CARS FURNITUF RENTALS CHANGES: BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES All can be found at sacrifice and bargain prices. Turn to the Want Ad columns NOW. IN JURY CASE \Believe Douglas Is Out After Addi- tional Evidence | By John W. Nelson Presumably on a quiet hunt for jevidence to sustain charges of jury | | tampering, Prosecuting Attorney |Malcolm Douglas left Seattle early | | Wednesday, his office absent |from the city all day Chiet Prosecutor Ewing Colvin, of the office during the absence of Douglas, sald that no arr S and according to assistants, would be Deputy }D, | in charge had been made in the Jury tampering case,“and, so far jas he knew, no warranty-for the arrest of anyone had been issued. Colvin declared that he had not thoroly briefed the law governing jury tampering, 9 determine ’ us Mr. Wha- as he was described by petit jury talesmen, had so far overstep- ped the bounds of propriety as to jlay himself liable to criminal pros- ecution, Section 5 of Reming: | ton's code defines that anyone at- tempting to influence or coerce a| juror in a case “pending or about to be brought before the juror” is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. EVIDENCE IN HAND MAY NOT BE ENOUGH Late Tuesday, while studying the legal aspects of the case, Douglas jexpreased the opinion that the evi- | | dence obtained from questioning: the veniremen did not go far enough to Warrant’ the filing of a criminal complaint against this “Mr. Wha- len.” - Deputy Prosecutor T, H. Patter. son's questions first revealed that someone had been calling up pros- pective jurors of the November panel and visiting them with the purpose of ascertaining their opin. }ions on the Dr. W. A. Shannon |case. Dr. Shannon ts to be tried |the Jast of the month on a charge} {of violating the Beeler narcotic law. Patterson was questioning tales. jmen in the trial of Floyd Scanto, |charged with selling stolen prop- jerty, when he discovered that many of the prospective Jurors had been visited and questioned about the Shannon case. Veniremen who sald they had been approached by the man named Whalen or by a wom an on the phone were Lee Morgan, |1503 Dawson st.; Emille Atwood |706 Montelius ave.; J. B. Curtin |3926 Angeline st.; Lilian J. Call. han, 7000 14th ave. N, Cc. Ww. |Jewell, 1814 E. Denny way; Eloise |Liebes, 1163 18th ave. Ni; H. B Peters, 419 13th avd, N |MANY BEING QU Patterson said Wednesday thai | several additional members of th: | panel talked with him late Tues | day in. the corridors and volun teered additional information. Pat terson said they did not know at| first. what’ Kis questions mean’ | but since hearing others talk, they} remembered having been approach ed on the Shannon case. Judge Everett E. Smith has de. clared he will ask the coming county grand jury to investigate the jury-tampering charge. Judge Smith wag requested to place the matter before the grand jury ,bs Judge Calvin S. Hall, who heart the jurors’ answers to Patterson's questions. CLERK CATCHES HOTEL BURGLAR Two Men Grapple in Hall; Robbed Two Places Caught In the act of burglariz- ing two hotels during which he en- | gaged in two furious hand-to-hand struggles early Wednesda’ morn. jing, Charles Earle, 33, barber, was captured at the second hotel and lodged in the city Jail, according | to: the police. | Barle was first seen in the Med- |ford hotel on First ave, where he | was surprised by two Japanese |porters. In the struggle that en- | sued, Earle lost his overcoat, hat, and half of his tie, but escaped, At the Mayflower hotel, 2209 Sec. ond ave, Earle was seen in the \hallway by Harry Saylor, a clerk, |Coramanded to halt, Karle — fied. | Saylor grappled with him and tore off the other half of his necktio, but ended by capturing the alleged | prowler, Patrolmen J, A. Haguewood, M. A, Coons and M. W, Palmer ar- rested Earle and took him to jail. 5 | | | ENGIN TO SEE THE ES RUN | Heartbroken Mother Sobs Out Story of 8-Year-Old Son’s Headstrong Ways That Lead to His Arrest BY S. B, GROFF That word, embracing all the thrills and excitement his nervous, high-strung temperament* demanded, caused an OR} eight. year-old boy, a pupil at St. Benedict’s school, to set four incendiary fires in the Fremont district, according to a confession made by the L, Laing, Wednesday. youngster to Fire Marshal Robert — The boy, whose name is withheld by The Star, in accord- ance with a policy adopted in juvenile cases, was taken in custody by Marshal Laing and turned over to juvenile au- thorities Monday, after he had made a startling confession _ that he had deliberately fired the Stoneway Hay & Grain — warehouse, 3500 Stoneway; the Sunnyside Fuel Co., 3616 Stoneway, and Murphy’s Wholesale Meat market, 720 N. 84th st. “The Stoneway Hay twice, Maintaining a remarkable poise and composure, the little fellow toll Laing tn tho presence of his father, that h@ “loved to see the fire en- «ines run" and that he found his greatest thrill in seeing the smoke and flames pour upward from the blazing buildings while the firemen tried desperately to control the fires he had set, BOY WATCHES FIRE IN HUGE GLEE It was to supply his intense crev- ing for excitement that he first set afire the hay and grain warehouse jdirectly in front of his own home. 2 It was on November 2 when he made the first attempt. Piling pa- pers and rubbish against the rear of the structure, he struck a match to it. Within a few minutes the big structure was belching flames and smoke as the 1,500 bales of hay inside caught fire. Several fire trucks dashed to the scene and the boy watched in glee as they climbed to the roof and chopped holes in it to pour streams of water on the flam- ing masses below. Smoke from the burning building covered the entire district, attract- ing hundreds. of spectators and au- tomobiles to the scene. After four hours’ hard fight the fire was extinguished and the boy returned to his home. The success of his first attempt at arson had caused a damage of over $3,000 to the warehouse, but it had only | served as a stimulus to his imagina- tion. SETS SAME FIRE SECOND TIME Next day the embryo pyro-mantiac returned and again set the ware- house afire, The beles of hay which had been rescued were water-soaked, however, and the fire was put out. Failing in this venture, the lad went to the Murphy meat market, In the heart of Fremont, the same day, November: 3, and started a blaze which, if it had been successful, would have menaced the entire dust- ness district. After several attempts the fire department. put out the blaze. ‘The next day was November 4 and the boy firebug built up a mass of trash against the office of the Sunny- side Fuel company, 3616 Stone way, which he also set afire. As the flames licked against the building he stood nearby and watched the fire engines shrick to a stop at the curb, while the firemen coupled their hose and turned walls of water on the fast-rising, flames. When the fire had been put out the firemen began wondering how so many blazes were caused. Fire inspectors began checking up on the small boys who had watched the four fires and as a result they found the S.year-old Incendiary had been to all of them. When arrested and questioned the lad maintained a stolid in- difference and denied his part in the offense, At last he admitted that he had set the places afire, and told Laing of his intense longing for thrills and excite ment whlch had prompted him, SAW APPARATUS AT HIS SCHOOL “He is a bright boy," his mother sobbed, Wednesday, “But he is head- strong and wilful. He is of a very nervous disposition, and I think the reason he set the buildings afire Was because the fire department had & Grain warehouse was fired been displaying some apparat the schools. » “They had a fire box on an auto dnd showed all pupils how to send in an alarm on jit. It seized his’ imagination and he was forever talking about it am how easy it would be to send am alarm. i “He is in the third grade at St. Benedict's school and he doesn’t study his lessons, He knows them almost without studying and even — does some of his sister's fourth grade work for her. wie" “I put him in that school vecause he got to running with a < gang of boys when he was at tl B. F. Day grade school. He didn’t like it very well there, But we never had any idea he setting the fires until the fire shal brought him here.’* ‘ The boy's father took him before: the juvenile court officials and thé lad was released temporarily he had been questioned. © “There is little we can do in case such as that,” said one official, “The boy is so young he has | idea of the enormity of the offenses he has committed, He needs ¢ mar. PICTURE SHOWS: ee Resents Attack Made by Dance Hall Supervisor — Attacks made on the moving ple. ture shows and the city playgrounds Monday night by Mrs. Elizabeth Hare ris, dance hall matron supervisor, im her address before the Common: wealth club, were denounced Wednes. day by J. W. Sayre, of the Greater: Moving Picture corporation, Bes. “I defy Mrs. Harris to point out — one moving picture show that has) been shown in this. town in recent: years that had such effect on the minds of the young folks as she. intimated in her speech,” Sayre salds “There is no basis for her attack on either the movie or the play- ground, There is no comparison be: tween these two places. I haye no objection to make tofthe dance hall, — but I certainly do resent the reflec: tion that has been cast on the shows. and the playgrounds. “There is absolutely no educa - al value to the dance resorts, It is merely a recreational and a comi nt the moving picture show is educ Uonal as well as recreational.” Sayre, in answer to the chai that the movies were an incentive | crime, offered the following state ment, made by Afa B. Keyes, form district attorney of Los Angeles: _ “During my entire career I have yet to see any criminal who ace! ited the crime of which he was con victed to the movies, As a matter of fact, the movies are a great deters — rent to crime of all sorts,” SPENCER, Ind. Nov. 7.—Pellee- today held out little hope for capture of the bandit gang between 15 and 20 men who early | ‘Tuesday raided two banks here and — escaped with $18,000 in cash after terrorizing the inhabitants for nears ly two hours. Ps &