The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 3, 1923, Page 1

ADVERTISES OWN SUICIDE! Police Guard Point Where Writer Says He'll Die ae The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington j The SeattleStar 6. Batered as Hecond Claas Matter May F NIUE arate aaremey mas, WEATHER unsettled ; Cloudy, rains tonight Moderate southerly winds, ‘Temperature Maximum, 50, Today noon, 50, NO. 241, Lees! i BE a ait occasional and Tuesday, Last M4 Hours Minimum, 43, At the Postotticg at Seattl, Wash. under the Act of Congress March §, SEAI (frome Brew | Howdy, folks! Time to put on your “heavies.” The Yukon has ‘frozen up for the winter, 658 The mysterious man who “mur ered” a Star reporter has not yet been found. Wo wish somebody would discover this fellow” We wart to present him with the croix:de guerre. eee Luke May, criminologist on the | case, says the gun that killed} Brown belonged to us. Hub, we wouldn't kill that. re- porter, Ho owes us 75 cents! eee Personally, we suspect that the slayer ts Li'l Gee Gee. The mur. dered man was once heard to remark that she had green eyes and the tem. per of an alley cat, eee TODAY'S DEFINITION Football Classic: Any game | between two football teams on | ‘Thanksgiving. | ee The football season Is now over, | and the caretakers are busy picking up loose ears and detached teeth; from the gridirons. | eee Scene: University stadium. | Time: The year 3190. | First Archaeologist: “I would say that these are the ruins of some gi- gantic arena of prehistoric days.” Second Archaeologist: “Not so, net so! By the number of teeth} found burid here, this was undoubt- | edly an ancient burial mound." After one game at the stadium, the caretaker picked up what he thought was a rock. It was really an Oregon player, who had been stamped on by so many cleats he looked like a Baby Dimple golf ball. see A major operation is what happens when one football player's ear comes into close juxtaposition with another player’s teeth, eee THERE'S A TWIST TO THIS | Cheer leaders who have sur- vived the season can now make good money in vaudeville as con- tortionists, After a cheér leader has gone thru two months of a football season, it is| possible for him to get undressed in| a Piiman upper without dislocating | a single joint. ‘Walter Camp will be soon selecting | his annual All-American team. Lit. his, however, gible. ident says football| He's wrong. How| else could we butld our stadiums? | ee | Luke May, Now that football is a thing of the past, the doctors haven't a thing to look forward to except hockey. MR. CYNTHIA GREY Dear Mr. Grey: What would make| a suitable gift for a 3-year-old child who cries all the time for toys?—| Fond Mother, Ans-—A double-barreled shotgun. | ing, and mother fow more weeks It will be j-year-old cynics to ex- n, there ain't no LYL is | t | all | knickerbockers these days, it is ] only matter of time before we'll se them wearing rompers With th’ men adopting & |gtven up the idea of being ab to get the story in this edition, { NORMALCY SPELLS ‘MURDER BULLET’ AND DUMMY Here is some of Detective Luke May's evidence in The} At the right is the} Star “mystery murder” in pictures, “murder bullet” May dug out of the woodwork where it imbedded itself. Notice how the grooves marked by the | rifling in the pistol barrel (the long ones, not the row of short ones) slant to the right. This identifies the bullet as being from a Savage gun. In the bullet on the left, which was fired into a test block from Homer Brew's gun picked) up on the floor near the “body,” these grooves slant to the left. This identifies the bullet as being from a Colt, and areciies the possibility be Brew’s was ne aerler gun.” * *% » “Murder Gun” in ‘Star’ S Mystery Is Identified Luke May, Trailing “Slayer,” How Bullet Betrayed Him Finishing, he turned back to the man assigned to “cover” HIS murder was “imaginary,” of courm, intended modern ertminals. and was simply lemonstrate how ologists track “murder bullet” 8 fired thr a dressed dummy, to mystery. This was arranged to resemble a real murder and May was put to work on ft to demon [strate to Star readers how ¢ and Reporter Brown then put|iie ie gor the nelentific det on these clothes and posed 8% 11 o¢ today to run down, criminals, the “victim” when May was |] °F, 070y tO re dow tionee that's ao tig really worth somet while I was out this morning,” May sald It was almost noon Monday wh the scientific detectiv walked ‘Into’ The Star office. late, in fact, that we had abo experimenting with down. the laboratory As down to cases, Mr. we told him. “We have prom: our readers to give them the ins of all your clues as you them out. in just what. y HOW MAY BULLETS APART “Weill,” said May men 4 “Been rather busy all morning on your case,” he said. “Just want to do one thing, and then I'll tell |you about it, I want to see the coat of every man in the editorial |department. And as the men walk ed into the room in turn, May] der ‘room’ we f ell and a scraped one pocket in each coat} Colt gun and th hen we y foreign matter there might] searched’ the found a (Turn to Column 1) ; Nell Austin Conscious and Asks for Mother Sisters May Take Her to Oklahoma; Story May Never Be Known 3y John W. Nelson Unless Inspector J. Jewett of the Vancouver detective depart ment is able to elude the close watch being kept on Miss Nell Austin by her sisters and learn from her own lips the strange story of her disappearance and adventures on her long hike from Silver Lake to Vancouver, it is prob: that it will never be made th Let's Have the Facts er mind still wander ARE VERY BRIEF Tells) him while! he runs down The Star's murder} “you will re-| of the ‘mur-| (furn to Page 3, Column 5) TLE, WASH., MONDAY, DE CEMBER 3, 1928. q 1819, Per Year, by Mall, 43.00 TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. Let Us Have Peace ODAY the United States senate | once more begins its grind. For you, for your young son, for this | country and for the world, this con- gress may be epoch-making. World peace or world war may spring from its sessions. For peace or war—life or death, it may be, for some of your own flesh and blood—largely depends upon whether the senate decides to co- | operate with the other nations to prevent war, or adopts the cold- blooded do-nothing attitude of its small band of isolationists. * Opinion is overwhelming, both here and abroad, that another world war is virtually certain within the next five or ten years, The question is: Shall we stand | still, like helpless ninnies, and let it engulf us? Or shall.we at least do what we can to stave it off? * * * The Star indorses at this time no | particular peace plan. But it does indorse PEACE and will make every | effort that it conscientiously can to prevent a repetition of the horror of a world war. And for the moment, the key to the situation seems to be the late President Harding’s proposal of last February, that we join the world court. A resolution to this effect is now in the hands of the senate for- eign relations committee, headed by Senator Lodge, foe of the court. This committee will kill the resolution if it possibly can. | Joining the world court does not | | mean an absolute guarantee against war. No peace plan can. But it does not entangle us with any Euro- pean or other foreign power. And | it is a short step in the right direc- tion. * &, # Almost every chureh in the coun- try has gone on record as favoring some such effort. So have innumer- able chambers of commerce, veter- | ans’ associations, labor unions, wom- en’s and civie clubs and similar or- ganizations. Ours is a government for and of the people. Are all these voices to count for nothing? * Isolationists in the senate, we re- peat, will kill the world court plan if they can! Senator Lodge’s commit- tee will kill it if it ean! Whether they do so or not is largely up to YOU! Write to the senators state—Dill and Jones ton, D. C. Tell them you’ve had enough of war and are expecting them to head off another in the pres- ent session of congress! Write to President Coolidge. him the same thing! Do it now! Don’t put it off, lest a soldier’s grave come to hear a name dear to you and the memory of a smile that’s gone forever come back to reproach you for your delay! ! from this at Washing- | Tell ” | fae | he wa ( ASKS LIFE TERM IN. PE Ee “I can’t seem to stay outside the pen, so I might as well plan to spend my life inside,” Burrell Hamblin said Mon- day, in explanation of his request before Judge Otis Brinker Saturday. for a life term when he was found guilty of robbery. * * & - * & * “Can't Buck the Law,” * Sobs Man Behind Bars Burrell Hamblin. Says He Might as| Well Spend Life in Penitentiary BY LELAND HANNUM |won't hurt you, you might as well Sy cc bye ee a ie re | take your medicine all in one dose.” tried it too long. I can’t seem | rat is Hamblin’s philosophy. to stay outside the pen so I might just.as well prepare to spend my life| Outside the barred and wire-netted inside Walla Walla.” encloseure in which Hamblin sat on ‘Thus, with tears streaming down his wife, pretty, his cheeks, B Hamblin, ex-con: d, leaned against the sep- |ylet and cony robber, Monday, | nd whispered encour expl his unique request made |agingly to husbahd, ‘There was nprisonment when sen-|none of th fiant law-breaker in aturday by Judge Hamblin a eaned toward her. | Otis W. a term of five to nitentiary, aft ity of having held up R. ¢ as a little boy again, his eyes ning and his voice quaver ‘0 he turned to his wife, and s! Foote a month agoand taking $75 / side the bars, was unable to ta from Foote in his home at 616 W.|in her arms and mother him as she Blewett, st wished tim of circumstance, as he| “I’ve spent seven years in ‘Wallie,”” 18 himself to be, Hamblin, with | he c “and I'm going back for | > a seven-year previous term in the | anothe n. The wife is on her} Walla Walla penitentiary, placing a | own e wealthy but they | little cause she took up stigma on } terview nt this t that, It to buck the law “T'm 1 ang ey all s nywhere Tolt Marshal a Five Safe-Crackers! Awakened by ‘Dynamite Blast; Fires} « on F leeing Men; Wounds Two The ben Awakened by a heavy charge — | b< of dy th t them. of the barre Two . Which was used by t nen to shatter the safe mil gsran into the street, with a double-bar: fe crack shotgu: who hi to of the men Collings r the stor Rites Announced ‘68TH CONGRESS young and} for Film Actress ISSUES | DEFY IN LETTE Declares Officers Cannot Stop Him; Expert Says He Is Despondent Following receipt of a letter from an anonymous writes Monday, who declared that he — would leap from the Marion st, ~ bridge over Railroad ave., front of a train, between 8: and 9 o'clock Tuesday morning, Chief of Police W. B. Severyns ordered a squad of policemen to guard the spot at that time, © Severyns declared he would be there persenally to see that the — man did not do as he threat 7 ened. ‘The letter was turned over to J. W. Sampson, handwriting expert of the detective department, who de- clared that the note apparently was written by a man suffering from | despondency, and in all probability” the writer would attempt to carry | out his plan. “My bealth is broken and T have nothing more to live for. I am sick and despondent,”” the “Tetter” sald. The writer gave no reason for a” to commit suicide, The letter was to stop him. “All the cops in Seattle can't stop me from killing myself,” }it declared. IS IN SESSION Air Is Tense as Factions Prepare for Battle j BY LAWRENCE MARTIN (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Dec, 3.—Ui the most unfavorable conditions | have marked the occasion in years, | the 68th congress met at noon, All” | the time-honored traditions which in- vest the meeting of congress with perennial interest were carried out. The scene as the two houses. gath- ered was unusual in two respects: First—There were more new mem- _ bers in both house and senate than | at most recent sessions. Second—There was a tenseness in the air that communicated Itself even. to the overflowing galleries, for fac- tional conflict was imminent even ay | the gavels fell calling the esteem | to order. | In the houso tnterest centered om .| the rival leaders in the factional | fight which threatened to cause | deadlock preventing the house frot functioning. They are Represents atives Longworth, of Ohio, ats on, of Wisconsin, leaders progressive bloc. x As noon struck, William Tyler Page, clerk of the house, called the house to order under constitutional provisions and asked the call of the | roll to ascertain whether there wag a quorum. 4 Immediately afterward Repres sentative Longworth moved to pros ceed to election of a speaker, thus precipitating the contest with the progressive bloc who have declared they will not permit election of Representative Gmett, auministras tion candidate for speaker, unless: the eis rules are liberalized. rogressives claimed they a score of votes, which more than enough to lock the house, nator Cummins, president pre (Turn to Page 3, Column 4) ae HOLD GOVERNOR ON 191 GOUNTS McCray of Indiana Released on Bail of $25,000 Dec. 3.—Goyy was formally ar indictment re. k by the Marlon sed Immediately served on him tn s W. Noel, attor. 1 on ip + embeazle. forming Severyns of his intentions | | apparently written to defy the police |