The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 20, 1924, Page 1

a) | | | { 3 ARMY FLYER WEATHER Temperature Maximum, 47 Today “VOL. NO. 22 Home Brew Howdy, folks: Year's at the spring, "s at the morn, Morning’s at seven. And 1 am dead tired 26. The party was grand I must get to work, The boss will be sore, It’s a beluva world! fhe marble season will open soon, he king pin among the kids is the most chapped pa’ anished the caliph many of ny hai rems ove go to Hollywood. many of our young men these days is Whether to get a wife or a second-hand car, “eis *« cee he way, haa become ed mother-in-law And what of the oldf i see The senate ol] committee ls now nyestigating the Dempsey-Carpen fight {fms When are they to probe the David-Goltath cee * “Why did you fire young JoneaT “He spent too much time reading success storie: eee The first sign of spring: Wh the umpire carols, “Zchxyshenxc gating for Gulmpackzxhtlopoof? Mah Jongg: “What are you look: = for, father?” Paw Jongg (on knees under table): for the East wind.” cee SPORTS NOTE “I'm looklug Now that the amateur garden- ing season is here, golfers and fishermen will have a little com- petition. eee The Star ts going to run a series of articles on how people go to the poorhouse. his ought to be of interest every owner of a second-hand car. eee to The ne-world flyers didn’t arrive | ey lay. Evident- ly de “i by the muddy roads. « eee Today's Fable: Once upon a time a newspaper reporter rote a story about an avi ind didn’t call him YE DIARY (Mareh 18) Up betimes. and to the office, bat suf- fering with the laryngitis now epidemic im the city. So, afler m day of tall, ta a cottee house with Tt. Reynolds, and did irloin steak, New York ed in cream, and Cn and would have ordered more but that fam ona diet. This day did promise my wife, who is progressing mightily on the harmonica, to send her to Earope to aman wi call up his 6 bot way ont | guson Is sed, his to pay*for teeth to replace ponent rtherly winds Last “Are You Headed for the § aN Poorhouse? Turn to Page 8 Today! The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington Friday fair Hours mum, 3 Batered Second Clase Matter May 2, . E. Ferguson, County Auditor —Photo by Price & Carter, Star Statt Photographers | nis wants ang County Officials Must at Once Deter-| mine Truth or Falsity of Unsavory Rumors! (EDITORIAL) ASAIN the ugly story crops up of assessments being levied upon employes of the county auditor’s office, for purposes other than political expenses, It’s a story that has been brought up repeated- ly—a story that became so widespread a few months ago that the county prosecutor was asked to take action on it. The Star doesn’t know whether the story is true or false. It hopes that there is no truth in it. County Auditor Ferguson says there is noth- ing to it. But a letter to the county commissioners, pur- porting to come from Ferguson’s employes, in- sists that the tribute system is rigidly enforeed— $1 a week from the men and 50 cents a week from the women employes—and that failure to pay means loss of a job. The letter was unsigned, the writers maintain- ing that making public their names would lose them their jobs. County Prosecutor Douglas says there is noth- ing in the law to prevent a county official from levying such assessments from his employes if he sees fit. Judge Everett Smith, in charge of the grand jury, is willing to have that body reconvened, but fears it will be unable to do anything. The Star believes it is up to the board of coun- ty commissioners, as the nominal head of our county government, to make a rigid investiga- tion to determine the truth or falsity of these charges. If true, the situation is one that righteous pub- lic indignation would promptly take care of. If false, it is owing to the man against whom the charges have been brought that the public be informed. Commissioners hesitate, wondering whether such an investigation is within their province. If murder had been committed, they would not delay. WILL would find a way! The present situation shocks public sensibilities almost as much, It undermines good government, locally, in the same way the abuses disclosed by senate committees thwart national effi- ciency. It's up to the county commissioners to act and to ACT NOW! Determine, by what means you will, the truth or falsity of these unsavory rumors. After that you can safely leave it in the pub- s hands! |, Bt the Postoftics at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress Mar SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1924, Is Fisst to Reach City Hisotite Wade and Smith Close Behind Leader of Air Expedition; Airmen Met by Lieut. Koenig of Sand Point Maj. F. L. Martin, commander of the three round-the- world fliers, arrived at the Sand Point field Thursday at 12:44 p. m. in plane No. 1, the first of three airmen to complete the preliminary trip from Los Angeles to Seattle. He was followed by Lieut. Leigh Wade in No. 3, who arrived at 12:52. Lieut, Lowell Smith was third, landing} at 12:55. | Lieut. Arnold, tn plane No. 7, an | ——— @eort who bas flown with the men |! Plane No. 3. since they left California, was the| AM escort fleet rose into the air first man to alight. He landed at |*ortly afterwards, and all started Sand Point jute m fow seconds be | Porth together, fore Maj. Martis, The planes struck out under ‘The world flyers were greated in |/"evinE skiea with the expectatior th alr by three scout planee from {of Fetching Beattie about 11:45 the alr base here, headed by Lieut. | Weather permitting. j T. 3. Koenig, commandant at Sand|, Ater making a start for Beattle| | Point sam % % from Vancouver yesterday, the air- . : men and escorts were forced to} Sig ty omer hei i = turn back by heavy fog, rains and) south and met the approaching alr. |men just before noon. They then m. for the night. Koenig landed immediately after (Turn to Page Le Column 3) tho escort plane glided along the |ground, He jumped from his plane and went over to greet Maj. Martin, who was next to land. | ‘The three aviators were then ten | dered greetings by the committee of | | Seattle citizens, headed by David | Whitcomb, president of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, World Flyer - Rushes Toward| Seattle and Mates County Commissioner W. A. Gaines flew with Koenig when the latter went out to greet the flyers. The three Douglas planes will be fitted with pontoons here and will then. prepare to hop off the last of the month on the start of the! tout. Nelson left without know-| |slobe-circling trip ing whether the rest of the fieet| adit Se ha departed from Vancouver, | VANCOUVER, Wash., March 20.| Wash, saying he would stop there |—Bound for Seattle, the round-the-|1¢ his fleet mates were still on the world flyers took off from Vancou- | field. Tver field at 10:15 o. m. | Accordingly, {t Maj. F. L. Martin, he will ascertain that his compan-} 1, took the air first, fons have left Vancouver, and then! Jorder by Lieut. Lowell urty northward without landing | plane No, 2 and Lieut. Lelgh there. | Ferguson’s Employes | Deny “Toll” Charges ‘Sign Statement That No Monthly Assessment Is Made by Auditor | BY JOHN W. NELSON While Judge Everett ith stands ready to recall fc county grand jury should competent evidence be placed before him by present employes of County Auditor D. KE. Fergu son that a monthly toll is col | lected, the employes themselves ‘Thursday had signed an affi- davit denouncing the ymous letter libelous attack. dvantage of a bit of clear sky,| Erik Nelson, piloting plane | 4 of the Douglas round-the. world fleet, hopped off at 11:26 a. m.| today, bound for Seattle. in plane No. followed in Smith tn Wade ' All of the county officials denounced any_policy of collecting donations. o toll from county exists an charged in the letter. The | statement by employes of the audi | tor’s office follows: A sourrilous, anonymous com- munication, of an extremely libelous nature, has been directed to the board of county commissioners, at- tacking the character of County | Auditor D. FE. Ferguson and making| | ‘This affidavit was prepared by | several charges which reflect upon} lChiet Deputy County Auditor Rict)| the entire personnel of this depart. ard Faris, and presented to every | ment. employe with the statement that This letter purports to come from they could sign it or not as they|® self-styled “Protest Committee,” desired. All who signed it, Farin | consisting of three employes said, “raised their right arm and | office. | under oath pronounced {t true.” BR. ») STATEMENTS William A.| AS FALSEHOODS Gaines said Thursd: that he will We, undersigned, comprising} present # resoldtion the next|the entire staff of the county aud-| meeting of the board of commission-| itor's office, refuse to believe that ers next Monday calling upon Prose-|thero is in our midst a single crea- olm Douglas to detail the| ture who has sunk ¢o low Into the estigate con-| depths of depravity that he would office. | become a party to such a vile slan- sald that) der, and even if one of our force had fallen so far, we believe that he would at least have the moral hin signature to from hi employe County Commissioner Ma d’n authority t of Auditor F Everett F cuto > fi Smith not received a single from any of Ferguson's verifying the data con tained in the anonymous letter, and | unle an take no ac tion Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas said he doe a grand jury tr | yestlestion as the mitter at Ineve commu: present employe nication courage to affix any statement coming Under ordinary circ | would tgnore such a cowardly tack, but Inasmuch as the press 1 [seen fit to take notice of , (Turn to Page 7, Columr umstances we at 5 not favor Tysngdagetyenens + LOTR ror ame ae fs oxpected that |?" does not come under criminal laws. | s | Eastlake ave., “Here's the ax they used to open the cash boz,” locked in the McDougall-Southwick| wind near Ridgefield, Wash. and| vault Thursday morning, to A. McKay, janitor in the store, Geeceded thaah t0\the: Geld: eae at Vancouver fleld at 4:12! who heard the cries of Burgess and Charles Gant, who were William E. Burgess, he seattle Star |. explains | ecko in the vault by two masked bandits. STILL OUT NO, 4 EN ROUTE GAMBLING JURY EUGENE, Ore. March 20—Tak- | Judge Refuses t to Give Any Additional Instruction Refusing to structions to the ported its inability to reach of Jack Sears and Claude N. the ju tions, At-11 a. m. the jurors notified the ey desired to make a Ralston were unable to reach a| As they were polled on the judgo report. that they | verdict. matter, They told Judge one of the jurors said: “I believe {t would be possible to} ff you would give; us some additional instructions.” reach a verdict “Tho court can give you no add. | Judge Ralston tional instructions,” said. Attorney plea for a verdic the case had been expensive state and the defendants, us importance. Adam Beeler The jurors were ‘reported to stand nvic- that one of the wom- }11 for soqralttal and one for c to a report gained circ nulatlo en members of the jury durin deliberations was heard to sa “T will not vote for I have to stay here a month Two Auto Crashes Result in Arrest Accused of having run into the |automobile of FE. S. Millward, | Eastlake ave., dence on March 10 Albert BR. Cooper, at Prospect st. owned by | Eastlake, on tho followir George W. Westmund, 20, 48rd st, was jon bond on two c! jdriving Thursday. Man Is Killed by of 66 Train Near Seattle! h pock out 40 Ide ets as Harry T. man wa: unnyside loc: killed while ified by par Anderson, struck ers in years old southbound al and insta 740 a. m., Northern Pacific miles north er junction walking on railway ot the hires { give additional tn jury which re- |agreement on a verdict In the trial |charged with gambling in a grand tment, Judge J. T. Ralston sent the jurors back to room for further delibera- acquittal if in front of that resl- and of having of this/ Tan into another parked automobile, 1144 and night, 1B. sted and released arges of reckt by a train Thursday the tracks | Black —BStar Staff Photograph STABBING HELD AN ACCIDENT Coroner Clears Wife for Fatal Affair | Coroner W. H. Corson Thursday morning declared upon investiga- tion that the fatal stabbing of James P. Henry, 48, a@ street car motorman, was an accident. Henry was injured by his wife last Saturday when he grabbed her in a playful mood and she turned} suddenly and struck him with a butcher knife with which she had {been cutting a cake. The investl- |gation mado by the coroner will jprobably result in clearing Mrs. Henry of any blame for the tragedy. Henry died in the West Side hos- pital early nly, Wrecneetay. morning. TAXL DRIVER HELD DRUNK an made a t, protesting that ‘or the nd of Second Driver Arrested Crashing Into a light pole at Sec- ond ave. and Cherry st. late Wednes ay night 22, was badly wrecked. ‘The light pole was demolished. A policeman who heard the crash arrested Duke} on a charge of drunken driving and} put him in the city jail. Duke was| still held Thursday morning when he failed to put up $200 bail. The acci-| dent was witnessed by a crowd of late theater patrons, Another driver, Tops Larson, 30, was arrested for alleged drunken driving after two policemen had seen | him drive a zigzag course up Third ave. They arrested him at Battery jst. Larson was held all night, t posted $200 Thursday morning. A |small quantity of iquor was found | in his car, according to the arresting 9| officers, TRY INN MEN Al he Austin and J. C. Dean, ‘pro- prietors of The Grove roadhotise, were to be tried on at|charging them with being fointists Thursday The two men. said to be owners of The Grove, were indicted by the [recent King county grand Jury. PATE TACT FT RARE TT 2 NINES MEET a taxi driven by Joe Duke, | indictments | SIN SEATTLE, “UMN $15,000 Payroll Is | Taken by Pair | Who Surprise De- partment Head Two armed and masked ban- dits Thursday morning held up — the MacDougall-Southwick de partment store, at Second ave, and after locking two men in~ the steel yault escaped with be tween §10,000 und $15,000, the largest single haul bandits in Seattle in the last two years, Charles G. Gant, recelving roont 4 just opened the vault, | appeared as if by magic behind him. | Gant was astonished and thought thé _ men were joking when they com manded him to enter the vault ahead of them. They pushed guns against © | his side and forced him into the little room. Then the men wheeled outside the wooden box in which the money was kept. At this point William E. Burgess appeared. Burgess, assistant stock: What's going on here?” Instant 0 into the open vault with Gant. “You'd better come in,” Gant told him. “They've got guns and we haven't. We'd better let them do what they want!” Burgess then went inside, and the ban- dits finished chopping the lid of the box away. A huge pile of currency and cash rewarded — their efforts. They then turned — to lock the vault. “Don't lock the door,” Gant plea |ea. “We'll suffocate in here. You've got the money. part way so we can breathe.” | ESCAPED THRU BACK DOOR INTO ALLEYWAY The bandits, both of whom ape danas over their faces, shut the door partly, leaving a narrow crack. The bolt held, and Burgess and Gant were prisoners. The bandits escaped thru an unlocked door on the alley, For 10 or 15 minutes Gant and Burgess pounded on the heavy steck |door and called for help. At Iaat Bob McKay, an employe, jthelr shouts and turned the bole enough to release them. A sco ed to the alarm which was sent im.” While the exact amount of — the loot has not been checked — | up, the loss will be about $15, 000, according to C. C, Car penter, general manager of the | MacDougall-Southwick Co. The | payroll of the store amounted | to over two-thirds of the total, | and the rest of the money was” | a fraction of the day's receipts from the MacDougall-South: | | wick anniversary sale. : Had the bandits obtained the |tire receipts from the sale Wednesday, the loss would have | |becn multiplied several times, it is. said. The money was kept in the jwooden case which runs on: wheels, | During the day the case is kept Im: the cashier's office on the top Moor, {but at night it is taken downs stairs to the basement and locked in the vault. | According to the police, the |bandits had apparently been locked jin the store all night, hiding in & narrow passage piled and merchant and which is witty in 30 feet of the vault door. Smock to Speak P. Monroe Smock. commissioner o# public welfare for King county, will speak Thursday evening at a ments ing of the Men's Brotherhood of th | University — Christian “Robert Burns.” Dinner will be ‘served at 6:30, at which Lincoln hight school boys will be guests. |Man, saw the two men chopping the § lid from the money wagon with & hatchet. He called out “Hello, bert peared young, and wore blue bane” made by » When the two bandits ~ the two bandits turned on him with their guns and motioned for him to Just shut the door” heard |of detectives and policemen resp“de Auto Hits Pole; | Is Wrecked; | church. om : with boxes 7G Ronen erro