The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 30, 1924, Page 7

pm nd. te ty AY, JANUARY GANGSTERS ROB TWO GAMBLING |Oil I, @ , ANDBEAT TWO JOINTS RAIDED Thugs Waylay Men; Escape | 58 Arrested; Squad Also | After Looting Pockets ‘Two me re slugged and robbed by sang y night "Henry rer, O, K, hotel, was ed by several men at Railroad ad Washington st, at midnight And was knocked unconscious, They fabbed him of several foreign gold Gus twon, T340 Bist a cols, N, W. was slugged in Salmon park by a aixfoot bandit, who took $45 in cash, TELEPHONE DIRECT MA in4271 - PACIFIC Market Blouse Shop Quits SALE Starts Friday, 10 A. M. Wateh The ‘Thursday for Sensational Detatis from $27.50 up. ‘ Established 102 Years End-of-the-Month Suit and Overcoat CLEARANCE SALE All our Fall and Winter Suits and Over- coats for Men and Young Men are now re- duced for quick selling. The prices range We call special attention to this list of Suits and Overcoats rol These are extraordinary values Do not miss this opportunity Second Ave. at University, Arcade Square Seizes Liquor The police special detatl ralded| two Chinese gambling joints Tues | day wight, arresting 68 mon. The! Officers then carried out two booze | raids, in which three men quantity of quor was seined. A dozen policemen under Lieut, I J. Forbes battered down’a door at} 873 Weller st., where they arrested and a 21 men, Moving half a block up the street, they staged a second raid where they arrested 87 meg. Sov al trips were made by the police atrol before all of the prisoners had been booked at the station, At 113 Battery st, which is a gar- | Age, the police found seven cases of whisky, R. Johnson, 23, was found hiding in an automobile inside and | was arrested on a liqua Johnson ts said to have h Of boore prices in his pons Stopping a motor truck at Rainier ave. and Adama st. the polloe| searched the car, finding two gallons ef moonshine. They solzed the truck and arrested H. L. Mercord, 31, and George Mowan, 23, both of whom Were still in Jail Wednesday | GERMANY FREES U. $. PRISONER Man Who Tried to Kidnap | Bergdoll Released BERLIN, Jan. 20.—Corliss Hooven Griffia, American ex-service officer, serving a term in prison at Moss bach for attempting to kkinap Gro- ver Cleveland Bergdoll, millionaire | slacker, was released from jail at 6 o'clock this evening. CHOOSES GUN | FOR SENTENCE SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan, 30. —"I guess shooting would be best.” George Allen, allas Henry C. Hett, waa cool, at least, almost non: chalant, when asked how he prefer red to be executed for the murder of Pplice Sergt, Anderson. Allen eases Fraudulent, ays Gifford Pinchot ‘Security of Nation THE SBATTI Gambled Away to| Exploiters, States Governor KY ROBERT J, BENDER (United Press statt Corr nt) t. 1924, by United Presa) BURG, Pa, Jan, 30. Don't lot all of the guilty be washed |in the blood of Fall Thix is the ery of conservation lata, who, foaring the nate oll lease probers may rest content with ting” the former secretary of the in terior, demand that congress and the administration clean up the whole conservation meas. | Albert Bi. Fall, they contend, ts merely the moans finally utilized by the oil Interests toward accomplish ing & purpose unsuccessfully sought ‘or 10 yeu days when conservation ‘# natural resources first became an issue, they declare, there has been relentless effort to break thru the barriirs designed to guard these rescurces from looting and ex ploitation Because the ramifications of the ing of naval reserves and count promises @ scandal surpassing in im portance the famous Ballinger-Pin chot coal lease fight during the Taft Administration, the United Press to- day vought the views of Gifford Pin chot, crusader in that fight and now governor of Pennsylvania Pinchot Is still one of the leading conservationists of the country and HERE’S MORE ABOUT OIL PROBE STARTS ON PAGE 1 the threat of congreas to impeach him. 3. Efforts of administration lead. ers, under personal | President Coolidge, to “tone down" the Walsh resolution calling upon the president to appoint prosecutors. Mr, Coolidge’s selection of spe celal counsel to prosdcute the leas. ing cases, both civilly and crim: Inally, 1f evidence warrants, occa- sioned much surprise, He chose Thomas Watt Gregory, lens acres of other government lands} an authority on government land. “Just what does the present witu ation " Pinchot was anked, | NAVY OWL, RE “What that the its vast 3 VES it means, navy loses practically all reserves of oll in the ground where they are permanently safe-—and what \he navy loses the and Dohenys gain, © oll reserves belong to peoplo of America to be * ho replied, “is the used for the benefit of the na tion thru the navy. What the present situation means is that our future security as a people | | has been gambled away In order | that # rich public property might be turned over to a small group of explolters, If the naval oll reserves had been’) left in charge of the navy, this scandal never would have occurred, | |The thing of first importance now| is to get them back into the hinds of the navy, where they will be| safe.’ "DO yo! committ | think fraud has been Pinchot was asked. “1 believe these leases are fraud: | ulent," he replied. ‘But whether |fraudulpnt or not, they are directly contrary to the public interest, They should never have been made. ‘They ‘whe ® canceled at once. MORE ABOL NORRIS STARTS ON PAGE 1 |Lean, Washington publisher, jsaid he loaned Fall $100,000 tn direction of | Checks, but that the checks were ro-| |turned before they were cashed. Norris referred to McLean's story as a “cock and bull yarn.” MeLean's story is one of the beat evidences that there was “fraud corruption In this lease, he }and said, | “It knew you were humiliated (senators) that the newly elected president of the United States came to Washington and stayed at his was Sentenced to be executed March |and Silas H. Strawn, republican, of | home nu. French “‘Nobleman” Behind Jail Doors) Robert Smith, who claims he ts a French nobleman, began serving six months in the county jail Wed. nesday. + He was arrested on a for-4 gery charge and entered a plea of 75 democrat, of Texas, attorney gen- eral in the Wilson administration, Chicago. The senate resolution providing for employment of special counsel, calls for their confirmation by the senate Strawn, unknown’ here, is a law partner of John Barton Payne, a lose friend of the late President Harding. He ts described as “one of the best known lawyers of the middie west," having been promi. nont in the Illinois Bar association. He has never been in poljtics. Gregory was @ special assistant attorney general in the anti-trust cases before Mr. Wilson made him Sttorney general. Mr. Coolidge wants Strawn and Gregory to go to work at once on the leasing cases, They will meet here this week. Senator Wal: Montana, leading investigator of Teapot Dome scandal, expressed apprehension In the senate that the president intended to put his counsel to work without waiting for the senate's approval, and said that if that were done he would demand that no part of the $100,000 appro priation for special counsel! be used to pay them, The house resolution calling for ap- propriation of $100,000 was taken up today by the senate appropriations committee. Plans to bring about tmpeachment of Secretary Denby and Attorney General Daugherty were being dia cussed. Resolutions demanding their removal will be considered when the resolution authoriging the president to prosecute the leasing cases has been disposed of. . WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.— The senate public lands commit- tee today decided to appoint three medical experts to deter- mine the actual condition of for- mer Secretary of the Interior Fall, central figure In the naval reserve oil The physicians cgain suggested that a sub-committee go to the home of J. W. Zevely, Sinclair's at- torney, where Fall is staying, and examige him there. Four persona! physicians who have | | We are pleased to announce redactions in the prices of mS practically all MAZDA Lamps, beginning February 1, 1924. The reductions range from FIVE TO FIFTEEN PER CENT, and will be in effect at all our stores. Customers who are buying their requirements under lamp contracts, will suto- y matically be given the benefit of the lower prices. * SEATTLE STORES Ballard, 2612 Vernon Place This is the fifth reduction’ announced since 1920. A tre mendous Increase in the use of incandescent lamps has made it possible for the manufacturer and this Company to repeat- edly lower the cost of MAZDA service while maintaining the highest standards, with the result that better lighting may be had at costs lower than ever before. stores carry full stocks of regul and anxious to serve you. Would not February & go0d time to fill up your empty lamp sockets? uget Sound Power: Stand Light Company MA in-5000 Electric Bidg., Seventh and Olive St. Henry Bidg., 1312 Fourth Ave. | a ’ a | | | a a | i Suburban Stores: Renton a Kirkland Enumclaw Buckley a i ‘ + | we ‘yeveral days ago, been attending Fall told the commit- tee in executive seasion that Fall was in a cor.jition bordering on neryous prostration. Members of the committee, how- ever, were not satisfied with this testimony and decided to employ three impartial experts of their own ‘0 determine whether or not Fall is able to testify. Senatorn Smoot, republican, of Utah, and Walsh, democrat, Mon- ana, who were designated by the committee to select the experts, will meet later in the day, “We probably will make our selec: fon this afternoon so the physicians may begin their examination tonight or tomorrow,” Smoot raid. All members of the committee re- fused to comment for publication on the testimony of Fall's physicians. One member of the commit. tee, however, privately said: “There has been so much lying about this case that we are al- most afraid to believe anyone.” SENATE VOTES $100,000 FUND WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. — The senate appropriations committee te- day voted to report favorably to the the house bill appropriating $100,000 to prosecute ofl land cases, out attached an amendment making the fund available only if the presi- dent-submits the names of counsel! he has chosen to the senate for con- firmation, As amended, the resolution pro- vides that any counsel employed by ho president under the authority of this resolution shall be appointed by| and with the advice and consent of the senate. The amendment was unanimously agreed to in the committes. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 30—J. W. Chambers, Linn county rancher, to. “I know you were humiliated |when you went to a White House |reception and found him there |occupying @ position second to none |—and I know your wives were hu miliated when they went down on the Mayflower and saw his wife jthere, loaded with diamonds, when | they had no right there, except that rt h was purchased by }his mi ht wh fons |GREGORY WILL | ANSWER CALL | AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 30.—Thomas | | Watt Gregory, former attorney gen eral, appointed with Silas H. Strawn | of Chicago to ponduet court action In |the off reserve leasing scandal, will | |leave here tonight for Washington, | | “Lam going down to see what they | want me to do," Gregory said. “Any: | thing further that is made publie wilt | have to come from Washington.” | Gregory conferred with State At. | torney General Keeling today regard: | }ing his services as counsel for the |ntato of Texas in litigation before th United States supreme court over the Texas-Oklahoma boundary HERE’S MORE ABOUT |) SKAGIT _ || STARTS ON PAGE 1 || Blaine was asked. “Well,” he said, “in that cane, 1 suppose we will have to divert the money from some other light depart- | ment fund, You see, we must fin-| Ish the plant without any long de- lay.” Both the mayor and Blaine said they had assurance from the eng!-| neers that the city would get power | from the Skagit by May 1. Blaine had no idea, he sald, of how much additional cost there would be to complete the work, both inside and outside the city, Uhden said several days ago that he thought it would be possible to complete the work out. side the city, If the balance of the money appropriated for work inside the city was diverted into the outside work fund. This would mean that, without ad. ditional financing, the Skagit plant would be able to bring power to the city limits by May 1, but that there would be no system for {ts distribu. tion In the city itaelf. Auto Victim Hurt; Speeder Arrested PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 10—R. R. Irving wan being held in jail today on an open charge, pending the out: come of injuries received by Silas F, Kratz, struck down by the former's automobile, Kratz suffered a frac. tured skull, Irving admitted to po. | lice he was driving 80 miles an hour. EXTRACTION v — a | OHIO PAINLESS ¢ Our whalebone rubber which does not the roof of the mouth if you have two or more iy Natural Rubber, h 5.00 Gum Lyk Rubber, + perfect re- roduction of the ‘hi et of eth GOLD CROWN BRIDGEWORK Au guaranteed for Examination free, OHIO CUT-RATE DENTISTS years day offered $50 reward for the re. } urn of his wife, who disappeared Eat 20 Years, University st. who | sE STAR W < \ pk et pee " $5.9 RESH from their packings are new Trimmed Hats of straw braids, silk, straw and silk combined, straw cloth in dark shades and high colors, hair-cloth and hair- braid. Smart, close-fitting shapes for bobbed heads and matrons. Veil trimmed and draped turbans, Three of the many new styles are pictured. Trim- ming effects offer a wide choic which includes many new creations. Attractive value at $5.95. DOWNSTAIRS TORE Attractive Percale Aprons, 89c | ‘OMEN’S and misses’ sizes in Percale Aprons in the slip-over style. In a wide variety of light and dark colored patternings. Trimmed | with braids and pipings in contrasting colors. With sash. Attractive value at 89¢, —DOWNSTAIRS STORE New “Model” and “Regal” Brassieres, 50c N*™ Model and Regal Brassieres in the favored bandeau style. Made of pink brocade effect and mercerized stripe fabrics. izes 82 to 88. At 50¢, —DOWNSTAIRS STORE Little Tots’ Sleeveless Play Suits, 75c LEEVELESS Play Suits can be worn over little tots’ nice white romp- ers—for these are made of blue chambray, blue denim and khaki PAGE 7? FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE—PINE STREET—SIXTH AVENUE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Broken Lines of Curtain Corners and Single Curtains AT VERY LOW PRICES NUFACTURE. sample Curtain Corners and Bingle Curtsins in @ wide variety of qualities and styles. Suitable for individual windows, door s and other uses. CURTAIN CORNERS, 20¢ and 294. SINGLE CURTAINS, each, 35¢ to $2.50. DOWNSTAIRS STORE “Sam ple” Strips of Rugs $1.75 and $2.50 Garis strips of WO tn varie 4 color effects. Width 3 feet, lengths 9 and 10% feet. Lowe and $2.50 cach. China Cups and Saucers In the Phoenix Pattern 6 for 95c HINA Cups and Saucers in the graceful shape pictured. Decorated in the pleasing blue Phoenix pattern. Set of six (6), 95¢. —DOWNSTAIRS STORE | cloth. With colored pipings and little pockets. Sizes 1 to 3, At 75¢. WILL QUESTION |Sanitarium Head BOOZE FIGURES DR. HAZZARD} Surrenders investigation by the state again/dering W. E. Gibbs, wealthy Claim Mercer Island Fight Weiuetey, Dr. Paul A, Turner of state department of health is Began Over Rum Deal | making Inquiry concerning the death, surrendered to authorities and, after pleading not gull owing treatment at the Hazzar tarjum at Olalla, Kitsap county , of Seattle, it wa Business transactions over alleged! of Victor Johnson, 5 | Iewal liquor deals prompted the brutal murder of Joseph Smith on/ last fall. Later he was removed to the Mercer Island farm of Adolph|PTovidence hospital here. He died Bi December 6. The cause of death was joos, the state will |given as intestinal cirrhosis. The Prove in the trial of A. M. Bailey, | certificate was signed by Dr. Annie| mitted dufing an argument oj murder. Authorities conten desired to recover $102,000 w stock in his sanitarium ow: attempt to charged with the killing, Deputy/ Russell, a Seattle woman practi-| “My brother Quentin was killed Prosecutor Bert Ross told the: Jury | tioner ¥ aoe becauss he ‘had an interior alt in Judge J. T. Ronald's court) According to Dr, Russell, however, plane, " peaking Wednenday . | Johnson's treatment at Olalla tna Holds Governor ae Sue: chine the Se The second day of the trial/nothing to do with his death, His| McCray Bankrupt | (ict o' me sag sas pr Bis. opened with the corridor full of| physical state when he entered the| : : Party ad basen shies Fi Bice. hs mpectators who were unable to ob-|wanttarum, sino declares, was such| INDIANAPOLIS, Jan 2 Gey. | Tork Ue, eaied nie paredness, tain admission to the already over-| that death was inevitable. |Warren T. MoCray shoul | eee hard-headed ctowded courtroom. The first wit-| Dr |judged bankrupt, according to a| peace lover. Turner @aid Wednesday that he did not know whether Dr. Hazzard | F had @ license to practice her cure in |Feferee in bankruptcy, today. the state, and that he was checking | the records at the state license de- | ness called by the state after Ross had outlined th e's cane was George D. Burr, deputy county en- sineer, who Identified a drawing of the scene of the crime, and ex-! partment to ascertain this fact. acdleanes plained the topography of the coun- ZARD SERVED death i woes: Bate met his — act RS IN PRISON A charge of second-degree murder jurr's testimony occupied Dr. Linda Hazzard first attained jazzard. greater part of the morning, and Ngo gry poory Pe oe notoriety in 1911, when Miss Claire he was followed on the stand by 8. J.) witjamson, well-to-do Calderhead, a loan man, who was planning to advance Boos $2,006 for! the improvement of his home. } “The murder was first planned in| &@ conversation between Boos and Bailey outside the Dexter Horton National bank about May 5, 1923, @ week before the deed was com- mitted,” Ross said his witnesses will show. “The actual crime was committed May 12, and followed a terrific hand-to-hand battle between the three men. Boos, who had con- fessed to the crime, will tell the jury that Balley shot Smith with a/ shotgun, the charge striking him in the back; and then attempted to beat him over the head. Boos will claim that he stepped between the two men, having suffered a change of heart and wishing to save Smith. That Bailey struck him (Boos) over the head with the gun and then grappled with Smith and choked him to death.” Attorney William D. Totten, of Totten & Totten, counsel for Bailey, said that a sensation will be sprung| when Bailey tells his story. | Englist)to serve from two to 20 yea: lowing a starvation course. meet rigid tests of investment safety. 1, Management of the hotel will be in the all charges on the funded debt money until fined charges are paid. par value of approzimately $2,670,000. acore of the leading business men of Seattle. Bonds. 5. Earnings have been carefully estimated ani operating expenses are expected to equal 2.95 tim nual principal and interest charges of this loan, an annual sinking fund beginning November 1, 1 of tha issue cach year. Price 934 and Interest to ALMA KATZEN Valedictorian Of the Twenty-ninth Annual Graduating Class of Wilson's Modern Business College USE THIS COUPO The graduating exercises will be held in the Masonic Temple, Pine Street and Har- vard Avenue, Friday evening, February 1. Over two hun Lloyd Spencer wil! speak, and Mr. W. G. G. Benway will act as the presiding officer. MA in-7700 Chicago San Francisco New York ‘The public ts cordially in vited. Exercise, free. Jan. fame, was under|Dr. Kenn B. Uhla, accused of mur- sed on bond set at $15,000. 1s, drug sanitarlum proprietor, jand Frank Leonard, 4 patient. are Johnson entered the sanitarium | sointly accused of committing the Gibbs, and that the murder was com- finding made by Harry C. Sheridan, | The report will be submitted to Judge Albert B. Anderson for ap- She was convicted and sentenced woman, died at her institution, fol-/the end of two years she was par-| An aus|doned by Gov. Ernest Lister and lat: | topsy revealed the girl starved toler resumed practice at Olalla. Why Olympic Hotel Bonds Are a Good Investment The First Mortgage Leasehold 6% Bonds of the Olympic Hotel We unhesitatingly recom- mend them for the six reasons outlined below: cessful operators who are investing $750,000 in the business. and will ‘receive no return on their own Self 30.— recluse, today, ty, was ness in Address NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—" dq Uhis vorth of ned by wer the dress last night. rs. At} hands of experienced, suc- They will pay 2. The First Mortgage Bonds are followed by junior securities having a $. Officers and directors of the Community Hotel Corporation include @ 4 Bonds are secured by a first mortgage upon an unusual leasehold of the Olympic Hotel building (costing $4,400,000) and site. tageous than ownership of land and building, this leaschold has a tangible value more than adequate to secure this issue of $2,000,000 First Mortgage Being more advan- be d yearly net carnings after es the maximum annual in- terest and sinking fund requirements and more than 4.35 times average an- 6. This entire issue is to be retired by maturity through the operation of 1929, sufficient to retire 1-15 Yield 6.60% Detailed information will be furnished gladly upon request. Even if you do not have funds for investment at present you should be familiar with the sound financial structure of Seattle's new hotel. IN BLYTH, WITTER. & Co dred students will receive their diplomas. Mr. J, C. Herbsman will deliver the address to the Mr. 808 SECOND AVE. Les Angeles Portland CITES BROTHER AS WAR VICTIM Roosevelt Flays Unprepared- ‘Quentin | Roosevelt was killed, in the war be |cause of our unpreparedness in the air,” Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, told the Har lem Chamber of Commerce in an ad- re — i