The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 14, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER occasional by n Temperature Maximun nday noon, ointed en. » Zackary are shown © Howdy, folks! Say, who won the election? eee Mayor Brown is going to Van to Seattle's} ie fs in Vancouver uch of that the ia. 8 | The annual dog show ts now being | 3a at tho Crystal Po In three} utter season will] om at the ball park. What a coln- edence: eee The flirver season will be ners} ortiy. Now is the time to save up fear old tin cans and newspapers. | dats make this a Bi; and Dirtier Yer at picnic grounds! bf see (CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON : IVY CLUB } i bloke who refers to his as “Friend Wife.” ralng to v cloudy; st winds. Last 24 Hours Minimum, 44, 47. The Entered as Second Clase Ma oo aes pwith « lady yenterduy, she! his apartment so the kocked | eee : dy the name of Brown,! ipeing to clean yp the town, | the rascals refuse | Ip give wp their booze, Bi gues 1H 70 and sit down” | 4 —H. FE. Men, | eee Speaking of sports, a moth can} MWholes in your golf suit in a} mn. eae Hew doth the busy little cop : ardent brew-erat Be takes the essence of the hop And pours it in the sew-ers. —Spokesman-Review. Feige Gordon—Ten dollars or 10] ys. Tike your choice. | Prisoner—I'll take the mony, if mind. | - eee | Kindy drop everything and read} ‘the: | | 1 Dt, Pietle, of West Texas Normal! 4 poe fays the chemicais compos-| Man's body are worth only 98) | Aly yes, but that was at prewar! YE DIARY (March 13) and to playing on my new ‘and thenee to the office, | all the day. And so to my where did purchase two vol- charcoal fire jeake, and my wite |R. Agnew at The ‘ >| stances surrounding the tragedy are mystifying, afraid that Little Homer might be lonely, and so to eee Yon will be Aclighted to hear Katherine Welling has wo the Prize for coining t an Mitonym to “scofflaw.” . Beautiful Virginia Clarke, wife of Casper W. Clarke, prominent Seattle banker, whose} found by Mr. Clarke's father in the vacant summer home of Edward | Highlands Thursday evening with a bullet thru her heart. Tho eireum- the sheriff's, office Friday morning ex- lifeless form. was pressed the opinion that it is a clear case of suicide. U. S. SENATE PROBE OF The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington seattle Star } SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1924. HIT AGAIN Harry M. Daugherty BANKER'S WIFE IS SHOT \Mrs. Casper Clarke Found Dead in Vacant House MYSTERY SHROUDS CASE | Preparing to Go to Opera; Luke May on Case Mystery, so deep and impene- trable that not a single clue to its solution hus ‘been discovered, Friday surrounded the death Thursday, from . a . gunshot wound, of beantiful Virginia Clarke, wife of Casper W. Clarke, Seattle banker. So baffling are the circumstances surrounding the case, that Luke §. 'May, noted criminologist, has been employed by relatives of the dead |woman to attempt te unravel the case. lng face downward on a bed tn the rear of the Edward Agnew home |in the fashionabie Highlands resi Thursday, by Charles W. Clarke. her father-in-law, who went in search for her when she had failed to return home In time to prepare jfor an opera party. | Deputy Sheriffs and Joo Harrahan, |gated the eas evidence of suicide, as {tt appears the young woman sat down on the bed and pressed the trigger of the 46 caliber automatic, sending the Wiftam who Scars investi. heart. If the case ts suicide, mystery enshrduds the motive for the ect GIRL AND HER “4tenPis,, Henry G. eve of his 80th birthds Draper, Civil war v Mrs, Clarke was a mother of only |a few months and wis apparently jin wood heaith and spirits. Friends | and relatives are certain the woman was hot by some other person. Fashionable circlea were shocked Mrs, Clarke's body was found ty. | dential district, shortly after 6 p. m.| , say thére, is strong ENSATI i TWO CENTS IN SE. DAUGHERTY! TITLE. ONAL TORY TOLD! | In Amazing Revelations, Witness ‘Says He Got $100,000 From Jap in Airplane Suit and Gave Money to Jess Smith, Daugherty’s Friend BY FRANK GETTY (United Press Staff Correspondent) | WASHINGTON, March 14.—In the most astounding story ever itold a congressional committee, Gaston B. Means, former depart- iment of justice agent, today bared before the senate’s Daugherty linvestigating committee the details of alleged secret investigation \of cabinet members and congressmen, collection of huge sums of money and other clandestine activities which he said were directed iby Jess Smith, Daugherty’s intimate friend, |department. Jess Smith later committed suicide in Washington. | Means’ story formed an amazing sequel to the |sketchy details already outlined by Roxie Stinson, |Smith’s divorced wife. With breath-taking rapidity Means made these revelations” and charges: 1. That he had collected $100,000 from “a Jap from the Mitsu company,” in connection with the |Standard Aircraft Co. case, which was before the de- “ ‘partment of justice for prosecution, and that he) turned the money over to Jess Smith. The aircraft |case was afterward turned over to the war depart- }ment. (Mrs. Stinson yesterday.told how Smith one \time had 75 $1,000 bills.) | 2. How the late President Harding had ordered |him to investigate Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, ‘after reports reached Harding that Mellon had en- |tered into arrangements for the issuance of “certain |permits.” |Admits Investigation of United States Senators 3. That he had investigated Senator La Follette, of | Wisconsin; Caraway, of. Arkansas, and Bruce, of Maryland, at the request of Jess Smith. (La Follette, after he had in- \troduced his resolution for the investigation of the Teapot | Dome lease.) 4. That he had once been suspended as a department agent after “a cabinet officer” had protested that he was \“too active in investigation oil matters in Mexico.” | 5. That he was assigned to investigate sale of models jof United States airplanes to the Japanese government. Means said his attorney, Col. Felder, warned him yester- |day not to go on the witness stand, because “the powers that were after me were omnipotent and if I went on the stand I would be indicted on any number of things. Sidney bullet thru her body, Just over the| Bieber of Washington came and told me I should not hurt |the attorney general nor the republican party.” | Means said he handled money “paid over for showing \the Dempsey-Carpentier fight films” and turned this money over to Jess Smith. Roxie Stinson told the committee yesterday Smith told her there was $180,000 in the fight film deal. President Harding and Secretary Hughes, he said, were from an office in the ] | SEATTLE MEN | URGED PROBE j 1S is not the first time | that the Standard Aircraft |] corporation has been “on the fire” in connection with federal investigations, In 1922 Congressman Wood- ruff, of Michigan, sought to stir up an investigation of its workings, and charged in con- | gress that both this company and the Standard Aero com- pany were controlled by Mitsui || & Co., Japan's fiscal agents in H this country, and that both companies had been overpaid |] millions of dollars on contracts | when, as a matter of fact, the i government got no airplanes |] from them. He charged also that the Japanese government |] was sold many of the models |] that were made. |] Woodruff showed that George W. Wickersham, former attor- |] Ney general, was among the at- |! torneys negotiating for the |] company with this govern- |} ment. A new demand for an inves- tigation of Wickersham's rec- ord in this connection was | made March 6 in a round robin |] letter signed by Miller Free- |] man, head of the Washington |] Anti-Japanese league, and |]. other anti-Jap leaders here and |] sent to the immigration com- || mittee of the senate. This fol- lowed an attempt by Wicker- sham to have the clause ban- ning aliens who cannot become citizens stricken from the Japa- nese immigration bill, now pending. WILBUR NAMED NAVY HEAD present at a showing of the film at E. B. McLean’s house in Washington. Admits Being Accused of as news of the tragic affair spread. | Mrs. Clarke's body was found by | her fathersin-law, Chas, W. Clarke, | an hour before she was to have | |joined.a party of friends to attend | Dest designate a prohibitioni«t Word is “spigot-bigot.” cee McAdoo says he would rather be MOTHER HELD © | HE'S VICTIM | died Thursday at the home of his eon, California Judge Accepts | Daughter Tramples. Father Denby’s Vacated Seat WASHINGTON, March 14.—Presi- J3.°W, Draper, on, Merce Mo Ax. os | yoke Draper rendes injites Acts of Two Other, jother son, Tacoma 4 in the Whits| Santornia than _ That makes tt unanimous see | | Well, you cen say this of most of 8r motern booze. It carte Wiles in bers t is certainly eee oa Gee Gee pot most of yester.| irying to get rubber| fer on the office pencils vulean tad *#e 4 The frouble with a ot of } fighters Prize. | ing i. that they persist in punch. | fists, F foses against their oppo. eee | WHAT THs COUNTRY NEEDS— in, tonsils for starving doe. eee ‘Alleats AY’ yay), ‘hs; #0 Mee yet. srand o *, Mayor Brown to Death, Charge |from the Piper chapel at 2 p. m. Sat- Pid urday TAMPA, F March 14.—Mrs. e John E. Winchester and her 16-year- old daughter were held in the Hills- borough county jail today charged with the murder, of the former's husband. Dissecting the “Grand Uproar”’ TS addition to the regular critics who are covering the Chicago Opera company's performances here this out. They guarantee to track the “grand uproar” to its | Winchester, according to an al: |leged. contession, was kicked to {death by the girl while the mother urged her on threat of death, under || lair and to dissect it for your edification. Last night the police reporter covered “Mefistofele.” His story appears today on page 9. Tonight the sporting editor will be sent to write the story of “The Jewess.” Saturday Homer Brew will be assigned to cither “Sa- lome” or “Boris Godunoff,” whichever opera Homer “fig- gers” he can sit thru the easiest. You'll get these opinions from the super-experts in addi- tion to the regular eritie’s opinions. The funeral will be held) Board Members Commissioner Declares He Will Smash “Ring” =| | Declaring that he will fite «| | mandamus sult in the superior court | |here to force “orderly government | fot county) affairs,” Frank Paul, | fcommisstoner from the South dis |the Chicago Grand opera Her hus- band, Caspar Clarke, head of the dated Dexter Horton-Union National bank and formér cashier of the late, but was called by telephone, and became hysterical on arriving at the death scene. RELATIVES BAFFLED BY STRANGE AFFAIR: RFeiatives and friends were baffled by the mystery surrounding the af- fair. No clues that would reveal |trict Friday charged he ia the vic: tim of “political intrigues” which | have forced suspension of highly necessary road work In the south jend of King county: | Paul announced ‘he fa preparing | ja complaint directed gainet his ax | sociates on the board of commis- }atoners, who, he. claims formed ja conspiracy to eliminate itm from | the coming election | A‘frameup” on the part collengues, Paul charges, led in his distfet bein without ifunds for team hire, which has Hforced suspension of work at the big county gravel pit at Sunnydale and has foreed Paul to call off Me} repair and maintenance crews, | Paul declared that Comaniasioner ‘Tom Dobson from the north end and (Turn to Page 9, Column l) of hin 4 romult (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) Auto Bargains Today , Here ta one of the Used Car bargains that are offered {in to: night's Want Ads: 1922 DODGE ROADSTER Wo bellove this ta the nicest used Dodge in Beattle, positively ke new. Finiah, top, upholstery and everything Is perfect, Used yery little and very carofully, Has new cord tires and spare. Tain awipe, mirror, apot ight. ete, Will guarantee, §200 cash, balance nany, ‘The Want Ad columns will tell you where to find this barentn Crimes but not Convicted Early in his testimony, Means said he had been accused WILL START MANDAMUS |creait aepartment of the consoli- | «of every crime in the calendar, but never convicted of any.” He told smilingly of his career as a soldier of fortune—how |Union National bank, was working|he had worked for the German government, for Great | Britain, for Mexico and for the United States. Means said he went to work for the department of jnstice | October 28, 1921; was suspended February 8, 1922, and re- instated with back pay some months later. He said his relations with William J. Burns were “the friendliest in the world.” In the impeachment proceedings in the house, Daugherty _|was charged with failing to prosecute the Standard Aircraft case. “State when was the first time you ever collected money and the details,” Senator Wheeler ordered. | “One hundred $1,000 bills in connection with the Standard | Aircraft case,” said Means. | “Where?” “In the Bellevue hotel, in Washington, it to me from the Mitsui company.” “Smith made trips from Washington to Columbus and Washington court house, Ohio?” “He said he went there.” “You said you investigated the Standard Aircraft case?” “Yes.” “To whom did you give the money?” | “Jess Smith.” A Jap delivered (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) dent Coolidge today sent to the sen- | ate the nomination of Curtis D. Wil- bur, chief justice of the California supreme court, to be secretary of the navy. eee \_ WASHINGTON, March 14.— Judge Curtis Dwight Wilbur, of California, has been named sec- retary. of the navy to succeed Edwin Denby and has accepted. Judge Wilbur's nomination will be sent to the senate by President Coolidge at once, The nomination was tendered him last night by the president. Judge Wilbur wired his accept- ance immediately. There will be no formal an- nouncement’ from the White House concerning Judge Wilbur's accept ance, it was stated, but his nomin- ation willbe sent to the senate to- day. C. Bascom Slemp, secretary to the president, announced receipt of | Witbur's telegram accepting the | president's offer. Wilbur is chief justice of the }California supreme court. He graduated from the naval academy jat Annapolis and has always been, despite the fact that his career was (Turn to Page 9, Column »% A | interested in naval affairs,