The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 9, 1924, Page 1

Page views left: 0

You have reached the hourly page view limit. Unlock higher limit to our entire archive!

Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.

Text content (automatically generated)

The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Wa. ainsio “| The Seattle Star Batered as Gecond Class Matier May 2, 1499 At the Postoftics at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1812, Per Year, by Mall, $1.60 <a SEATTLE, WASH,, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1924 « s TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. [tie Sives th Day MOTHER wry BLUFFS HOLDUP! re First Of 4 Is Only Tnehmen on First A Does } sanera Baa to pecs Ere of a Irish Ship to Ever Come Here How Skagit Cash Was Used? MS +. wheal Ae aa | 5 AV E 5 Fig REFUSES Canadian Road Pays | | tail Head Says Canadian National F’ igures a T0 GIVE = Argument for Government Owners Gasoline Explosion af fy ABApe 3 arg UP CASH Perils Lives of Two in City sarc Mr Bsc, Gig ran Payroll Bandits in Daring Attempt; Restaurant Man) Defies Them cued the child from her blazing home at Fifth ave, and Terrace Two payroll bandits, declared by the police to be the same nes who last Saturday secured $12,000 in a daring daylight h , up at Summit ave. and Seneca | | wt., were bluffed out of an $1,800 loot Saturday noon when J. C. Raymer refused to throw up his hands when commanded to do so at First ave, 8. and King st. Raymer, wh “a res tat 43 Firat ave. & had been to the where he recelved $1,800 for cashing pay checks. He was ying the money in an Inside t and he bad a sack of sugar jer his arm As Raymer stepped trom the curb at Mirst ave. and King st, in front! of the Western Dry Goods company, qne of: the twe bandits stepped up) [in front of him and ordered him | | give up the money. | The thug carried a large pistol | | which he shielded with his coat. at eae Pee ye * *% * | "Give mo that money or I'll blo SLAs, st, across the street from the central police station, shortly aft er noon Saturday. The mother d babe were burned on their faces by gasoline. Ogino runs a hand laundry just ack of the Gladstone hotel., He was ing gas Sed, ¢ room and on 1. Almost immediat © was wrapped in flames, whi nto the dry we ry bu to clean a suit, when hrowing off over t atruc iwork of the the four hed outsid art, A dozen policemen rushed t the fire and turned in an alarm. ‘our fire companies responded almost in when they arrived the buliding was spitting fire trom every | window, door, and even from the root, A dozen lines of hone were rned on it by the firemen and noles were chopped in the roof. The ro was put out, altho the butlding plete wreck. | Jured woman and child were | There is Bu one réal dyed-in-the-wool Irishman aboard led at the city hospital. | ERE is Council President C. B. Fitzgerald, who is | *°tt Dratns out.” he ordered. the Knockfierna, the first Irish ship that ever sailed into } making every effort to block an investigation of ||; ‘ deter inode 7 Seah sist the Seattle harbor. He's Robert Rowden, first officer, from | how the $11,000,000 paid into the Skagit project to | the gun. The bandit backed off and Dublin. The Irish flag—a tricolor of yellow, white and date has been spent, repeated: AG is green—flies from the foremast of the vessel, which is owned “Give me that money or I'll The Star asked for such an investigation to safe- | jay * | by the Limerick Steamship Co., Limerick, Ireland. Capt. T0 TRY BANS guard the policy of public ownership, pointing out | agent moe pet 0 Rago’ Maurice Strymans is in command. The vessel had shifted that money waste on the it would necessitate so | told him and Jumped at him again. | to Tacoma Saturday to load lumber for Japan. many bond issues to insure its completion that the Tho bandit kept retreating foot by | handed so Star Batt Photeersphers! Rancher Innocent of Slay-| plant might be unable to bear the financial burden. el eethe St a the Corcee | ing, Jury Decides | The Star, as well as other friends of municipal owner- bing fe yh " on. Bent tt, 1 don't want! WU 7 ship, realizes that the Skagit must not fail if munic- | you HOME BRE BY JOR | Albert M. : : : Hse! v4 he exclaimed, nervously, as/ ipal ownership of this and other public utilities is to Raymer kept approaching. Then he succeed in Seattle and Washington. turned and jumped into a waiting | “4 who came fi to his teleph , then, does Fitzgerald seek to throw a monkey pices cesar pubdate tore spo a formal dinner?—Agnes. ;@ car is an Ash | island farm had been removed. wrench into such an impartial inquiry? If all's well Ans.—Spareribs. | First Gent: “Second-hand Cole." | Jy the back of his head was still} on the Skagit, the investigators want to ascertain and wines | fol me: |ringing the bitter, impassioned plea’ pyblish that fact. If something is amiss behind the MADMANSHOOTS Why do some men marry for a| Cynthia Grey says that attractive jof Deputy Prosecutor Bert Ros! Curtain in which the Skagit operations have been hid- | young widows should marry again. |made to the jury just before it re Second Gent: Why, what kind of) kitted J. C. Smith on a Mercer is the prettiest table decoration for | | . | 2aian. 3. T, Renalie court room | The public clamored for light on the “Skagit heragre aa se ena Tt Howdy, folks! Some people | | rirst Gent: “I got another car.| urday morning happy to the | rvatory,’” out license plates, according to Ray. | | | point of dizziness, and in the papa £8 : " na plates, ic y-| think salvation is free; others | An Ash.” | bright sunshine, spread out his Council as a whole went on record as favoring such mer. | think it costs a dime a Sunday, | Second Gent: “You don't mean an| gems, took a deep breath and an investigation. | “It wag the biggest gun I ever saw | see Ash. You eet Neat | tasked the Wwarld tn the fi Rao ER na Ceuee: jin my°life,” Raymer told the ofticer | Dest Homer: What do you think| First Gent: | “No, it's an As! free man. The stigma of having | | | The RTASIGY of the Canddian National shane hes been, increased titdér ‘government ownership and the road has > home end theu stay ascoy from {7/10 . et to stop them! |tired Friday, to “take this man's den, the investigators: want to find out what it is— been put on a paying basis since the government took con- pee shard ? ee | life." and publish that. | trol, according to J. E. Dalrymple, vice president, who was “The Prince of Wales suffered a | The jury, tho, walked Into the court What does Fitzgerald say about the “mystery”— tn Seattle Friday. ‘ | Ce a t | y Fs broken collar bone when ho fell from | Cecil Po aie amenta” When {fom Satuniay morning with a ver the failure’of councilmen, of the public and of The —Photoity Price & Carter, Star Staft Photographera his horse at the Billington steeple; “The Ten Commandments.” When | gi¢ of «not guilty.’ | he eee chase today.""—News dispatch. jdid he first hear about the other |” Friends croyded around him; his) Star to get from Skagit engineers any accurate lOverpowered A After Killing WEL: Wha ids hace ecoute ehiwinn There’s no use talking. that boy | nine aye ( wife wept and his attorneys congrat-| figures on what is transpiring? Conductor; 1s Printer an operating profit of approxt- simply WON'T listen to our advice!) iieience ulated him, und Balley’s face once | “There isn’t any mystery,” he tells his fellow coun- y mately $20,000,000, the Canadian sSione | more lit up with a smile of self-con- | il “T'll answer any question about the Skagit mame & National railways, government ; ; 4 APE U ORES be te cilmen. ans q _the & SAN BERNARDINO, — Cal, |N& efit apt Adhesive postage stamps were in-| There are 2,362 arc lig! fiden cry . : lic want: to #4, 5 owned and operated by a govern: | vented in Eneland by James Chal-|attle, and 798 of these are in com-| Before leaving the court room he} Within 48 hours that you or the public want t Fe Bh Geipeai va) ® eaters Sees paitiad corsihianton, tote GON mers of Dundee, in 1834. mission. thanked the jurors Ina halting way,| | ask me. : he ee amentbe ot “Dalen on a sound financial basis for LJ Read Home Brew and get all the| The rest are darc lights. [end raniieoies svords: avout beak sp | Very good, Mr. Fitzgerald. If you have entree o Pacific train No. S24, westbound, |the first time since the slump. of ey: | “ee nocent. le was s' partially under p o - Sy 2 - r] 7 o i - i . 4 ne’ Bae thin Aroiaeitig iniioation! ot eae te | information that séems to be concealed from the pub. early today shot and killed Con. |the world war forced private own-| Two Men Are Killed; Sheriff | She sipped the amber fluid | gripped him during the closing hours lic, The Star would like to have you answer these ductor Norton 8. Norton as the |@rs to relinquish the. lines a the isdUntens Aeeaet ae EAeN NG daiobine ot aviation: | Peli haceb nh age onl toh shake; of tho trial Friday, when Prosecutor | questions—questions that the public long has been train was pulling out of Bar [dominion government. Beets S Under Arres' Ter regi On fustabenck exe esd | © ay. pena 3 4 a bag? rebuilt the story of the murder! asking in vain. The 48-hour limit you yourself set tow, Cal. . ryrbies“vidaeprealdent vot (hesGansl soc Gk pista namin ean a a of Joseph C. Smith, and pointed an) . ya Continuing his w! rampage, e » = xi NASER ay Me eo oe to be bootlegging the Darwinian As father used to make hocusing finger at Balley as “‘there's| Will expire on Monday. madman emptied his revolver, |Solidated lines and also of the| Sheriff George Galligan, of Wil thiedey. | cee the gdity: bias.” As |wounding ‘Brakeman Harry Bar.|Grand ‘Trunk system, a subsidiary) fiamson county, was arrested Uncle Sam, however, cannot war-| But once outside the court house, ble to Alkali Al Fall: [his spirits revived and he thanked} “Oil pal, off pal, you left me oil! his loyal little wife, who had sat be-| 20 Questions % piel es LI'L GEEK GEE, TH’ OFFICE |rington and Chris Carlson, a pas-|concern, while in Seattle for a few} here today on a warrant charg- |senger, and then attempted to com-|hours Friday. . ing first degree murder in con- VAMP, 8) with his wife and} nection with the slaying of Cae * mit suicide. He was overpowered| Dalrymple, | . “4 | | alone.” | side him during the long trial. The Star Would Like to]} lby ‘Tom Williams, constable of|secretary, W. A. Redmond, is on a| sar Cagle, Ku Klux Klan leader, | Who ix this gal Eva Loo- | | 20" osene | Attorney Albert D. Martin, counsel | Have Fitzgerald Answer DRO E A T Yona desert town, who was en|tour of headquarters of the Grand| in Herrin last night, | shen, that William Jennings | for Bailey, had predicted his client's i route to San Bernardino. Trunk lines in the United States a ee | ; A wl a: Pt i } Discarded similes: Pouring oll up- | nequlttat rid | said Martin, w “IT told you so, q Bryan is always talking about? ; h a bro Details wore telephoned to Sherift|in his private car. ‘They left for| SPRINGFIELD, HL, Feb, 9.— g|on the troubled waters. | | Walter A. Shay here, and were| Portland Friday evening. e companies of Ilinois na- d smile. | ¢ —Wwill it bo possible, as Skagit ee ; Attorney W. D. Totten, who made i Uhden says, to com.| Fitzgerald Fights Move for AY ores dahl aah, { tional guardsmen today. patrolled Ludwig Lewisohn, famous author,| princeton professors have voted| what he termed “his last address to A eeataees con ene tigati upplemented when the, rain wr) er cannot say in all fairness that) yrerrin ‘and 10 additional. cot wrote a book containing caustic ret-|on the six most important words in|a jury in a criminal case,"" was deep- tar it | hves iga ion askaviner enamuly the measure of prosperity the Cans) panies ane under arms at thelr erences to his wife, so that shé|th» Pnglish language, but R. L. H.’s| ly gratified at the verdict. His son)" ~A% " thio il xd raving insanely: swoli, Taaho, {122 National railways and subsid-) home stations waiting for orders would get a divorce. selection wins; |W. P. Totten, also an associate coun- y apis what does «the Gorge unit’ BY JOHN Ww. NELSON eri sites And tive otca valine lines are now enjoying. is dae! ¢» move.on Herrin if the “booze In other words, the pen is mightier | “jtere’s the money I owe you." | sel, way deeply pleased nt tho verdict, | ad a8 spoken of by Uhden, consist? | i Coinoit president C. B, Fitz | 2° i Printer and was travel lentirely to tho benefits of govern: war” outbreak spreads. than the co-respondent. } ee | It now remains for the state to| ¢y—Is it a complete unit, with suf. deals brgpklt bca pene uate i ie Los saapiee te, oH ae Paws ment ownership,” + Dalrymple — said, Tho five companies arrived at AP RS YE DIAKY | prosecute Adolph Boos, whose multl. ficient: "head": and, water. ator; | Fert! «blocking ‘every | attempy. toa. wife and. two children an the 20 “for the country as a whole {s| Herrin following a shooting in The Cedar River reservoir is being | (February 8) |tudinous confessions and varied| age? Ope) te |. REAR POTS, OR ae ent y: WIA rapidly recovering the depression of} which a policeman who be- dammed with faint praise by Mayor| this evening to the Orpheum play-| stories, according to the jurors who| @-1¢ not, what additional work {| council members Friday delayed ac. | SUDDENL ARTS the war and business in all lines| Jonged to the Ku Klux Klan DEATH ATTACK Brakeman Barrington said that a commission to mako an investiga-|parnett had been acting strangely Brown. Wi t he use concrete, |house, and did sit behind J. Egan, the diftey, Brown.” Ws sisee:D ae, id eases, ‘whe'ald wee| tried Bailey, caused them to repudl to run the county, And did watch C When my wife has gota cold, | tain Bruce Baiensfather draw pictures of | brought to trial as soon as court {s improved, But I am positive that} was shot to death and an certain economies have been effect-| anti-klan deputy sheriff was ed thru the centralization of con-| wounded. necessary to give it the proper] tion on the proopsed appointment of ate his testimony. Boos will Le] nonaa and storage? ¢ A, 4 . What would such additional) tion until after Monday, when alay night, Sitting in the smoker, Hen SO ah Gia di (armen and’ my. wite aid | Procedure permits, Prosecutor Doug-| FY oi cost and when wobld it|conterence of the counell with May-|win a . piumeker |trol, and that efficiency has been tee She always gets a ttle hoarse | BIN” In the trenches, io and | las said. he 1 tt 7cf with) a peculiar glow In his eyes | tacreaned.” HERRIN, Il, Feb, 9.—The Car ‘And becomes an axcful nag. | mmediately sumimen om ott vont es be completed? or “Brown and. the bodrd of publld|ynq: mumbling to himeelf, ‘the man} "oc 0 OO nee In| onGlle Groopel ot: the Tilinala mae cee Nee eT oen), ab tao cites wert _With the unit’ that Uhden says | Works will be held. went violently mad as the train p-Bge lde Lh? tional gdlira: took’ conte): oeneRE “What,” posteards L. K. W. “is {It And so to home. Noted Army Flyer will be completed by May 1,| Fitzgerald bluntly told courell Vey jeaving Barstow. Rising from{Canada now compriso 22,600 miles is of more than 60 per cent of the Williamson county mining camp to- | members that they didn’t know what x day and with loaded rifles patrolled 8, re i vatlablh to Be City Guest | wnat horsepower will be available jy wanted, and that he could an- In one the difference between amateur and! hia seat, Barnett pulled a revolver 4 | professional athletes?” O14 Silas Grump, the sage of| Matti * iit |the year round? What maximum? Wwerg question about the Ska, {and commenced firing. Dozing Gominion’s total, the vice president |i. o prsetin hospital. whith was fired & Well, one difference is that the|Pumpkin Hollow, says that some| Mal. 1. 1». Mattin, who will Conk | whit minimum? y late thagtonute aie Ska) assengera awakened in fright and |S. ‘on s early’ by. a sboty: of 100 Aline amateurs win jewelry, which they| people couldn't kick any more Cs Dime ig tout army panes eich —How will the long periods of |" wwe are not going ahead with fu-/ ducked beneath the seats as bullets} Durlng the. war, when Private! icy Klux Klansmen. exchange for money, while the pro-|they were contipeden. Hering: pov teil around. the: worlds L: ppater’ ott thalakeatt affect | sure development of the Bkagib anti! t thelr heads, gage east mea to ft]. Several men, from whom the al } fessionals win money, which they ex 5 ‘ tne ret Will be the guest of honor at a Val-| this unit? |wo find what the Gorge unit delly.| Conductor Norton, standing In the) nine | he, HY mY Nits thts soba lesed klansmen sald they had: wars change for jewelry. Wy C08 eRe? Shing Ficemere| Tine party fo be lied at the En. If, low water should affect the/ers,” sald Witzgernld, “It's impor-| vestibule, wax -plerced by a bullet|sradually began taking them over! rants “forthe killing of pray “is ahhaed ee Jerpared: gineers' club on’ the evening of 8 production of the ‘Gorge unit,|tant to get this first unit completed, |in his chest and died instantly, | thru buying» securities: Tho: lines) Gagte, klan Ieader, of the street } CANDIDATE FOR THE POIGON th n-| February 16 by the Serttle-Tacoma | how much per horsepower will the |leaving out considepation of future | Brakeman Barrington, braving the|were finally consolidated under one! jast night, took refuse in the how TVY CLUB |, Bow, run deromstatrs to the cash-| Eubiiery civersity Alumni ansocin-| elty nave to pay for power if tho| developments.” tmanlac's flourishing gun and wild{commission, members of which ‘nre| pita nnd fired a volley at the are { Fellow who walks along the street | ier's office and pet my pay check, Swe o t conte founcilman Blaine echoed a simt-|shrieks, leaped for him, but was{appointed by the government, in| jroaching band, ‘The firing was re 2 tio Martin i; a member of|city council contracts at contem:| Couneilm ir H a sim M D 5 5 Was and seratehes matches on highly pol:| And be careful with that $1000 | tion (Purn to Page 3, Column 5) (urn to Page 3, Column & (Turn to Page 3, Column %) (Turn to Page 3, Column 3) (Turn to Page 3, Column & { ished automobile fenders, A.J, 8. ~ the class of '08,

Other pages from this issue: