The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 16, 1923, Page 1

NARADA WEATHER and Saturday; ex Light to winds. Pair cept moderate FORECAST tonight foo am easterly x ul VOL. NO, 227, 26. time to go into business downtown.”— “NEVER since the days of Wappenstein has the lid been off in Seattle as it is now. “Not in all the Northwest do the ‘gamblers, the dark alley control things as they do in Seattle. “Seattle seems to be on a moral toboggan. “Public conscience is becoming deadened to vice Howdy, folks! Has the grand |@nd all that goes with it, because it is such a common jury investigated your family |thing—because every element that militates against a hoagie FUR Nor onrst ‘decent standard of living seems to be running ram- flying, says|pant.”” pee ges | Such were the startling declarations of Councilman Oliver T. Erickson Friday. Erickson declared his broadside was fired with no malice toward the city administration. . Mayor Brown's attack on the city council had formed the basis of the mayor’s campaign for re-election. “Mayor Brown has assailed the city council again and again and charged its members with incompe- tency and perfidy,” Erickson said. “I have refrained from getting into altercations with him during his There's no danger The Prince of Wales nod singer. Hal Mu ir, eh? eee aps nobody gets “called down as an elevator man said to be ic in the There is some talk of a woman candidate for mayor. Nonsense! state, asa xaestiahkctsn Wheever heard of a woman throwing her hat into a ring? .. Insane Lover Slays Four corner has ‘the hey never come The operas of WMAG bro ‘Girl Spends Night ‘of Terror in Woods, With Madman, Who Escapes © day, and we thought our re-| ceiving set had gone floocy. Then learned that the general was) —_——_ Minn ~My was found by ng in Polish BEMIDJI - Sanders, 20-gallon still blew up yesterday fire to the ied Sande i to the 1 of moonsh: a Pyr on oO “Nurse Arrested for Bootlegging.”’ Headline. A wet nurse, no doubt +. | marsha. , KILLS MOTHER ATHER * MAN is KILLED. BY STREET GAR ® (Turn to Page 10, Column 3) is! Money Plants Work BERLIN, N 16.—M a : 2 ical ae R I ead POLITICAL NOTE Victim Is Fatally Hurt While | tn bide “The Nobel prize tur physies Hidden in Fog 4 , has been awarded to Dr. Robert orld Millikan, the first scientist to c ical st d in isolating an election.”"— drop eo a an all 1 right, but we * go f A 4 Automobile irpl nd » farther 0 all the " eo e ) ONEP ruck by ce Yeats Given Nobel } rome. 1 aor 1 not | ay Wane get Literature Prize ees Savings Banks Deposits ce Increase Thruout Nation | 19 3,f 0 sept ‘ sera i c r € mber n in ist and 9 bootleggers, the porch climbers and the yeggs of the | | He insisted | : and Kidnaps Sweetheart All out End of the tin SEATTLE, WASH., SEVERYNS SORE ‘MYSTERY MAN’ Overtime in Berlin Answers Erickson in Matter ARRAS ong 0 FRIDAY, NOVE MBER 16, 194 ERICKSON CHARGES MAKE JURY HAS NEW. of Police Department “I Councilman Erickson made such ean hardly a statement—which I believe he did—I'll say ft is a dirty, insidious re mark. I dount if he meant what he said. It was ( Ww. B, 4 m: “Captain on a preel tion I He ort want them, police spector f m 1 Bannick? He was net station when 1 I offered him every could except chief of could have been in raffie chief. He didn't Auto Insurance Man Denies | '*"' See een ees The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington he SeattleStar Botered as Second Class Matter May 2, 1899, at tho Postoffice at Beattie, Wash.. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, “If I Were a Crook”—-How About It “If I were a crook, when Searing, Bannick, Hans Damm and Carr were sent to the outskirts, I would think it a good Excerpt from interview with Councilman Oliver T. Erickson in Thursday’s Star. HES nese iin Pgs Sel na dame pot eS Yer Your, by Mali abbas Ss ip HEL ral Sy aN BOY'S MURDER BULLET FAILS: TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. Vice Rules Seattle—Erickson |term of office, but now he is a candidate for re-elec- |tion, and it seems his campaign is to be directed at |the city council. “He has thrown down the gauntlet, and I am ready to take it up. “And I’ll admit I’m selfish,” he said. in that I want a decent place in which to live. I’m selfish bacause I’ve spent much of my life in Seattle, because I’ve given it the best I have had in public | service, because I have pride in its growth and devel- opment along decent lines, because I know a city con- trolled by vice can’t prosper in the long run.” came from reliable sources. “My informants are men who represent the crime! bosses of Seattle,” he said. “They tell of at least six places along First ave. where whisky can be pur-| \chased over the bar; of many more where open gam- |bling has existed, and of other gambling games that | run nightly behind closed doors.” Heroine ‘Alarms Town, Foils Attack of Bandits Citizens Pursue Robber Gang N, IL, 16.- and pre Noy. athering citizens. They made their escape, however, tho citizens still are combing timberland this vicinity in search of them. Hoopeston today is almost off from wire local tele city from down on outside world. One ¢ | midnight, cut g to the north and one to t pd started tains outside the two bank nd tele her lines were cut anies say it will be sever |__ When 1 realized immediately that| before the damage can be nr ething was wrong and she turn. » yeggs failed to secure any in a general fire alarm, which ught crowds of armed ci peston is the wealthiest city ne ortion to its 5,000 popul rted to e staté’ Many millionaires re e here rural and it is a center of banking firemen the str icemen, into watchmen, p¢ tizzens flocked Knowledge of Probe DENI DOUGLAS | h ES on insurance Another mystery witne _ man c had mar experience Investigator, was subpoenaed King county grand jury Fri 1 awaited his turn to the inquisit He | rdon, Ww employed tex Inter-Insur of kc y Two More Holdups he yergs, frightened by the ring ing of the bell, were almost cut off from their autom s by the Klan Defies. Mayor by Burning Cross “HIRAM JOHNSON ISIN 1924 RACE NEW YORK, Nov 16. A huge bur cross, which illuminated At y's beach for miles last|Wants Presidential Candi- | midnight Klux Klan's ¢ ward L, Bac was accepted as the Ku Henge to Mayor Ed ‘0 pass his threaten date Selected by People d dinance making it illegal for CHICAGO, Nov. 16.—Senator HI. masked men to parade the city's ‘alifornia, has formal- str his candidacy for th nation for president, @ strenuous effort to selected by direct and will make Bad Liquor Cause nave tab of Soldier’ 8 Death Vote, of the Intimate OMA, Nov andidate people. sociates today California » in the fully No man office nequi who ks to serve.” incement came last al days of confer aders from all in N. Y. Crime Wave NEW YO! Nov. 16.—While lier ‘or bandits he prominent men who ' stant touch with Johnson were A. D. Li r, former chairman of the shipping b 1, and William "| Wrigley, the gum million ire, I am against the le tions,” he sald. aries and memberships tend to participation Johnson also tion We © wave con re ho chew! last night It its sub which would “and SNE BATA TO THOUSANDS COMPETE FOR PRIZE PLAN TO ill against ounded a tion and prog t again in the coming presidenti DECIDE WORLD PEACE | "s There YORK, N N*r. “ate an pi in the 1 primaries,” he said. The republican party with disintegration, he dec Release Mail Clerk on Bond of $2,000 threatened lared. Chief Severyns? “I'm selfish | Erickson said his information concerning the oper- | ations of influences detrimental to Seattle’s wae ‘Phone Wires Cut, Girl Rings Bell and 004 | in| cut) communication with |4 .|leged member of the gang, followed LIFE OF SLEUTH SAVED Youthful Gunman Fires Pointblank | at Detective and | Revolver Sticks Because a cartridge In an automatic pistol failed to ex- plode when Jack MeDonald, 19, palled the trigger on Thursday afternoon, in the Dreamland ho- tel, Detective Robert §. Scheible was alive Friday. Scheible was trying to arrest McDonald when the youth jerked out a pistol, snapped the weapon at him and fled down the rallway. Scheible fired at the man as he eatapult- ed down the stairway, but kis bullet failed to take effect. Me- Denald was captured at the ho- tel entrance by Detective L. C. Harris. Scheible, with Detective C. Re dt, was investigating the activ! ties of a burglar gang consisting of four men, They found one of the men, Amoto de Carlo, 23, a negro, jand took him to the Dreamland ho- tel, where he said he lived. McDon- ald, aw hite youth, and another al- jw them into the hotel. several stolen sults of clothes and a quantity of ammunition. Howaldt had taken De Carlo down to the , Where he met Detectives Har- nd A. A. Brown. Scheible was ing tothe Japanese landlady, when she uttered a warning shout, and when Scheible whirled around he saw McDonald with the pistol in | his outstretched hand. | McDonald tried desperately to | discharge the weapon at close range, but fled when it failed to go off. He dashed down the cor- ridor with Scheibel at his heels. Scheibel drew his pistol and fired at McDonald's heels. The bullet lodged in the step a few inches from the fugitive's foot. Detective Harris jumped from the | door and secured McDonald about the arms. The prisoner tried in vain to rais¢ his gun and shoot Scheibel, but Was disarmed. When questioned by Captain of | Detectives Charles Tennant, MceDon- ald admitted that he intended to kill he officer, it is alleged. He said to have confessed that de Carlo and himself were members of the burglar gang and that two other men were the ones who actually did the looting, leaving himself and the negro to dispose of the loot. SAYS FORGE IS TOO EFFICIENT Lyle Blames “Dry” Scrap | Onto Men’s Good Work | ‘That his force of prohibition al sistants may be “too efficient” and that they may e “tread upon @ few persons’ toes” in recent activ= ities, was the sole but significant comment made Friday by, Prohb bition Director Roy C. Lyle, in con- nectio nwith rumo that several members of his force are to be dis- missed and replaced with other men, According to the of irregularities in ¢ duties rumors, charges e of their William jorra, H. V. Simmons, are now Internal Revenue Blair at Wash- are: Accept e unts from both tate nd national treasuries when agents have gone to the ex- ; “ Valdemar A. Smith, mail. clerk! pense of travel in line of duty; that it ‘4 ested = W have been too free with Un- aut 1 in the ary use and display of fire. ward A Tash: MB LHE tealing m¢ s in making certain raids; that 1 were scote Takt-tn transit thre tt y have confiscated personal prop: ute ay ns, some coming by |) on $2,000 bond when f ther than Kquor and equip: able m all parts of th 1d, || before 8.Comm s manufacture in raids; The 1 wked v T ulny afterne h was|that uncalled for severity, amount. | 2,16 bound to the federal grand/ing to brutality, has been exercised | sury. (Turn to Page 10, Column a