The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 27, 1924, Page 1

ANACORTES BANK SUSPECTS HERE STARWICH DESCRIBES CAPTURE | ‘ Mil = The Seattle Star The Newspaper With. the Big rgest Circulation in Washington HOME EDITION Was VOL. 26. NO, 50 [Home Brew | Howdy, folks! Newspaper re ports the formation of a tooth brush trust, We wouldn't trust ours to anybody k Los Ang . - the same T " E t . man who Sign om the Back of a Ford ™ Half an inch, half an tachs'| Half an inch onward! b x Pullt ar r I u Ah @ ayin s Ah ast ain't A ou “No one works / primarily for money,” says Rey. F. D. Adams of Detroit. “He works for the 3 sheer lowe of working.” t em for broadcasting finger bas been devised in Washing r Brew, Jr, ting —_tingerprin has P ever since he j fof B. L. T.’s old column on the Chi received 5,061 contri nth we recefved four con und three of them were were a moron “Ee, TH’ OFFICE . SEZ: President of the Hairdressers’ association says if girls bob their hair they will lose it. Nonsense! | I bobbed mine and I didn't lose i it. I saved it. { ys he wanta no big gifts republican cam Coolidge f money to the ays, would be to give Idier’s bonus. Dear Homer you pleane 3 tell me what kind of costume would be appropriate to wear while play ing golf on the municipal links Sun day after Fastidious. There is only safe thing to wear—a suit of medieval armor. CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB The gink who mows his lawn at 530 a. m. YE DIARY (May 26) Up, and to the office, where bnsy get- fing before hand with my business as last, as Lean. Diligent till night, pleas Ing myself mightily to see what a deal Of business goes off a man’s hands when he stays by It. And so to home. Before the land Went prohibition Smithers used to walk like this, But now he's in No such condition, And he always walks like this, TO PLANT A PLAN of Commerce fl noon?. PLAN Chamber mittee. Yes, and WE'D WEED WEEDS. er com It's getting so that you can't darn thing 1 a coffee id speaker oe whether the Sign on a dilapidated building in middle of the rba "For Sale rguin, or xchange for Low Angele: Gotta run home and see how that nasturtium Is getting along, AL S8 " Tear es SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, MAY ¢ 30 KILLED Star Cameraman Snaps Robber Suspects ~ BY STORM Prdtaiienit A atcaaias En Raute to Jail 7 SOUTH “Two States Swept | by Death Winds; 40 Injured in! Wrecked Areas Between 25 and 30 persons were reported killed and nearly two score injured last night and early today in cyclones which swept Mississippi and Alabama, 4a u * PROMINENT TACOMANS ARRESTED! © Four prominent Tacoma men were brought to the King county jail Tuesday noon by Sheriff Matt Starwich, accused of the holdup and shooting, April 14, at the Citizens’ State bank at Anacortest. The holdup netted $18,5( President T. Odlin was wounded during the gun battle at the bank. fhe suspects deny all knowledge of the affair and protest their innocence. They refused, howeyer, to n any state- TWO CE TS IN SEATTLE. tisturbance manth ments to reporters. 4 Jack Those under arrest are: brthorhewnpfensdes RUSSELL R. EVANS, president of the Evans Self-Sealing » crope and build Can company, of Tacoma, former captain, intelligence de- A few hours later partment, JU. S. navy. d into north DAVID W. NADEAU, secretary of the Tacoma Lions’ A ling 10 persons, In club, cena gn hag ipphr OY wpeghe WARREN L. RIDLEY, Nadeau’s brother-in-law. fatally others and dwellings. The same gale swept the little town tained as their insists the arre _L AWRENCE L LAWRENCE LEE, Tacoma engineer. take and that the men are seca 4. O. Burmeister PREDICT PHONE : They were taken into custody by the sheriffs of it. and King counties, aided by the police depart= jment at Tacoma. lamont, near the Tennessee line, | {where several persons were reported dead | Gadsen, Ala., was visited by the! high wind and a half dozen residents inju ains of almost cloudburst propor. ns came in the wake of the tor. do. In tn street car service was partia morning rt The after arrests came as a surprise the bank holdup | had almost faded into the realm of {Interest in “Purchase Plan Grows in City sensational y paralyzed during the h hours. - unsolved crimes sscranag bene gdh rccersagi |NEW TARIFF. COMING?! Advices ‘trom Tacoma Tuesday Al aa P Spits “ nme | ha men were arrested telegraph tin i ne store | i s citizens, who wit- ferept area cut o€t, reports were {Nothing to Prevent Phone nk holdup. were’ caf eager oie | with photographs of the yelones and storms ayer Co. Raising Charges | oicrtet. Who are alleged to have Alabama, Georgia, Ne | month ag | : posed in Anacortes as outers on a just. a mont >, | Faced by the possibility arly | camping trip about the time dead, injuring Here are the four suspects in the Anacortes bank robbey as they looked Tuesday when Sheriff Matt Starwich led | mr x ree cae ts 3 sais per 2 et aS ae pie: te m. crease in phone rates in Seattle, | robb ese photographs were nearly perty dam- | them from the auto in which they had made the trip from Tacoma into the county jail. iner nN phone rates in “I won't have my picture Sheriff timated at interes the propose tiative | identified as those of the bank rob- [ase estimated at $10,000,000 taken,” shouted Lawrence Lee, and he tugged at the manacles to get his face turned away. peters fo: the, Beppe | inet Left to right: mee : bers. They were immediately taken Starwich; Russell R. Evans, in white straw hat; D. W. Nadeau, Lawrence Lee, in black t and hat, handcuffed to ies 4 opens eee ee eet as yernreg # RE ‘i ight. se SN 8 | Kennedy, to authorize citle: | With their plans perfected, the city « Heavy Toll Taken Warren L. Ridley, on extreme righ aie, DC cae, Proto by Frank Jacobs, Star Siatt Puotosrapher lover and operate phone companies| and county officers stationed them: in Mis. ssippi BY MATT STARWICH Sheriff, King County Skagit county officials of the bank’ of and I have been working toward toda weeks. ACK Miss., May A to nado which swept sections of Miasis ippt during the night took a heavy toll In life and property damage, ac eports today. ation with the the exact record lietas hatehitened ‘Tdnbaey. | selves in the various parts of Tacoma | Until of what} /2 which the men reside, and at @ | given moment, swooped down and ar Anacortes |‘ Pisce *t Washington, when the | rested them simultancously, rushing! | United States supreme court re-) them out of the city to Seattle almost 8 arrests for tWO| versed the federal courts in the tele. mmediately. Our first tip came when two hunters on Camano} phone », is recelvod here, of-| BANK ROBBED Island Is Disappearing as Northland Moves reas was impossibl island discovered an empty revolver case and shells cached | ficlals » the power) APRIL 14 ¢ down, Johnson 1 3 in a deserted spot 1 the phone company to boost) ‘Three armed bandits entered the ae 3 aven, appeared athe ie . ~ a} iwi P Aa phone rates. | Citizens’: State bs f cord “arprhioasse! Sieg Zs agin geecommaa Alaska Distur bances Laid to Activity They turned over their find. We traced the thing down| According to Washington ais-| “itivens’ State bank at Anacortes early in the afternoon of April 14 nd escaped in a waiting automobile fter scooping up $18,500 from the bank counters, robbing a patron’ of ht were Brook ed were Unverified reports that killed there were received a haver injur until we found that the revolver had been purchased from| patches, it is believed that the three- SS Rec ae eC ee [seetpauy: en lesuaction akataarsti At the same time we found that the crew of a government |<) of Hawaiian Volcano, Kilauea May 27 ‘ where six hs me NCHORAGE, Alaska juiida : miakiow: dabnoke tid tate public service commission tO’ ¢199 and wounding W. T. Odlin, bank brought for treatment Bt - AG, Alea ' Jes, making explorations pre: | hoat at Anacortes had seen four men near the island on the] prevent interference with rate-rais 1 chedinante with’ a dolley oe threatalie Two were killed and several in-| Nature is undergoing growing pains | pay taking tourists andj day of the robbery Jing activities, was reversed. This! in. shots : Jured at Collins, Miss. || im the volcanic regions of Alaska nto the “V of Ten | Gem PHOTOS TO |means there 1s nothing to prevent| ‘posses were immediately organized The de pan eo : Coincident with thé eruption of |-rhousand smol which be . the phone company from putting a! }.. ‘ 2 . Sarah bertson, 14 | Thousand Smok hict aA Vy QTICPROTS by Skagit county Sheriff Tip Conn he Rot damaged| Kilauea in the Hawaiian islands,!farthor inland, report the unusual | (OENTIFY SUSPECTS | new tariff into effect and, should the] anq Police Chief A. R. Sellenthin and” | andit were fiurt thet thin henometia’ ‘are’ reported |» sf ee ev, . For the past 10 days the four men now under arrest have| Public servico commission protest, ! or more than a week they scoured: | and 2 were ft ee urtling phenomena : : appenir here toes wee been under surveillance. We picked up photos of each of |*** ® temporary injunction pending | the wooded interiors of Fidalgo and hree neg i ted on A’ from the region of Cook’s inlet, the} which its name well describes, Is inde e | the outcome of the litization, Wniabe iru |plantation near Greenville, in Wash-|s-vaney of Ten Thousand Smokes, filled with fumaroles, from whieh |them in Tacoma, unknown to them, and had enlargements) HiGHER ) | bibaVipasy se eo nade — | ington county , and the volcanoes of | "le ft a . ee a ale car used by eh A large number were reported in “ag ieséke conttuwally: levies... rhe awe: | MMe, These enlargements we took to the bank at Ana-| G0 INTO E ap | Was found jured in Jones county, in .the cen st very and exploration has been jcortes. There, employes of the bank identified all four as} If this were granted, the higher "| The search was called off after it ju “ *henomena incl | cove and exploratc f bee te P shone rates would be in effec ring | yo, al part of the state a y ae m . ity in fone of the interesting developments |those of the men who pulled off the holdup and shooting. | fie ion iitteation that would follow i: aie auperent that tne men bag t cl were filled Marked subsidence of vity 1 ne of th ! i aaance é 4 ape " SOP ag itis " % ade ir getaway, tho a stric salad lla ehady sea tyr an FSpagPieer ara, |af scte / ¢ North,| Tuesday morning four deputies went to Tacoma. Evans| — “This city should have author- | ™24e thelr ‘ i according to reports from there. 't loff-Katmat canic craters, | of r research in the North, | pater i ° Nad | ity i i Garth watch was kept up at the border and Union Creck, # village in Jones| following a period of violgat activity | tts streams flowed with hot water | WaS arrested in the can company office. Nadeau was taken pede Rhine Mise voile | in lower Sound cities county, was stroyed sf ended just ' Kilauea, in| 4 the ground in many places was |@t the Lions’ club; the other two were arrested at their) said. “If such a law were | CACHE 1S FOUND + ‘ e Hawaiian islands, broke out | ‘ i \ q . Great damag Gateeal chatiges in the shore’tine {too hot to. walk (ipod, | work. pashed We; Could Ouse the ‘plone ry Sel Ie EIS ras $190 and The storm canbe LO ela a Mapbokai 2 eee ‘The guides report that while there} Later we brought the men here, manacled. They all re-| company from our streets, con- Reged RSs Wee a te uitaneously over 2 wide ares and) ner ny ‘Ten Thousand : fuse to talk, other | than to declare their innocence. demn the property and bid it in |® deposit slip taken from Arthuky Ware apparently. several tornadoes| 10 the “Valley of Ten Thousand ig tit activity in the valley, many f | at junk prices, or make the com- | Campbell, Anacortes baker, who instead of a general storm of cy-| Smokes ce Pi raaties “ veeile [Of the fumaroles are now quiet, said pany agree to operate upder = | With Weis McCracken, 7 a netive are now quiesce! H AN aoe ; e iv lonic_proportio | vround laces {s cooll . franchiso ‘se fortti :rai age plant owner, were onl} onic proportions \ecoddd which a fier;months ago und in places is cooling and ranchise “setting hor ga ReprerNMce aS eo hot that it could not be walked|most remarkable of all—several | that would protect phone users.” | int c pon. with fort {s cool, Streams|streams ha suddenly changed | | The supreme court decision, it in| the robbery. A week ago, Odiin which recently flowed with steaming | from rivulets of hot water to creeks | believed, will mean that the three-| told The Star Tuesday, campers apie bee old, |that are {cy cold. | Oops or as ing OTL | suase court will be mandamused to | found & cache on Camano tsland th | |" Rogoloy island, off the Alaskan in Nick ‘Gaskema, who tast | |hear arguments on the granting of | Which lay coveralls similar to thoss | pigaral pein “ eded and re- | immer xpl red the valley, is now | eae 55 the Injunction asked by the phone Wa es Reg ganceiieia¥ on | sal | coast, w 4 summer explored . "ra Fe “ . leeranchce | deposit slip taken from Campbell. | appeared in 1906, about the time | proparing an expedition into it. to Major Say It Wouldn’t Be Fair for Him to saree. eve pendbesyMe-sayenspecgtite | o San Francisco earthquake {check up and record the changes 3 2 a a 1 Petree igrrceneried Ueseeditig © twha'te sae & hem Foul to 1cAtnal Rejoin World Squadron Now ON ITS MERITS [ih Aeoame ate, Unengen ae Ruins for Bodies of and fire, is reported m Aa | aetna eke, zs It ts also. believed that the de-| TO loot, first thought to have | re. crater | | also by de- 8,000, Search Ruins Ln | Staten: retdrning from. lower'| yHTANT COW: BOGOLOV. | Major’ Frederick T. Martin and) Sergeant Harvey was equally destt-|clsion of Judge B, B. Cushman: dis- Te eet ike Be Other Victims Cook's inlet reported the phenom-| SLIPPING INTO SEA | Start Sergeant Alva L. Harvey, who] tuto of fresh clothing. missing the phone company’s suit Beery th wold re the ‘remalngiad c Pavloff vVolca-| : ‘ left Seattle Tuesday, believe that] ¢, Aisha é i to establish new rates, also was re- | $2 ns 50! ena at Katmat and Pavloff volea-| On the mysterious island of Bosco: | Ne world flight. (4 6° friends, and acquaintances | on” mig will mean that Judge {12 currency, exclusive of the eum NEWARK, N. J., May Bodies |tioes, Ttecently these craters were | ioy, which once receded, and in 1906| they are thru with the world flght. jig all in their pewer to express | Versed. sane ” egy | taken from Campbell. Only Odlin, 2 spectacul eruption . Neither expects to rejoin the flying | nei: joyalty to the two mei ho | Cushman will be directed to procee of six men were found in the ruins | ¢ ed in spectacular reappeared, fishermen report great |? PR piney heir loya men who | i"ine hearing of the case on ita { &itl stenographer and the two of the C.D. Mills hotel, which was Vast plumes of dense black smoke | changes in the shore line, which,|sauadron now in the Orient. t9| flow the ship bore the city'n| with t saltihin.. wate. 16 they JRRitSaane \swept by fire here today marked by tongues of flames, were | they believe, indicate It 18 preparing} “It wouldn't a a a ed © | nume. City officials were indignant ‘Tues. | When the bank robbers entered, firs! oe tore than 100 mon were asleep inlemitted and a certain amount of! to wlip back Into the sen once more pair tne fare’ Major Martin| “We're glad to have you back|day at the speed with which the |! Shale platols, 2 f was OM s ott eo process of re-| carried 6! far, lajor Mar y “ | 4 y ‘ seer RB SLE the building when the flames burat | volcanic ash and days bs athe “if or te a Pet span 5 ‘et ae ated n this fa r alive,” Major Martin. waa told. phone company got its appeal thru | ’ out and sniya.parof thats ave out, hate arwotion®cawed, Just cade. dais hey wy, wile Have [Oa sa gel tem We ed to' bev alive ‘bathe GB guprere, ome 10 Are Killed in been accounted for qretore Sou eae ee aan ae Nencted the | him. ‘They were to leave Seattle (replied. “But at tho first shock of] Under ordinary conditions an ap- | | Firemen and police continued to sh DOANE ea fess cHebaabe maioeh zeta |Tueeday morning at 9:20 over the| the wreek T almost wished I wasn't." |peal takes 18 to 20 months. ‘The | Alabama Cyclone jsearoh the rulng fos mo@lonel be ant ae ie nen tic t + the chi |" phe mena in this region are be-| Milwaukee. Harvey was to go to} = phone appeal was taken to the} BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 27— When the fire broke out, eigh bred alone netgear | aan Dies ae Fas be Oe ‘ ‘ i Highest court December 31, and it} ‘Ten persons were killed, four were: t je nen c vat he: eved to have direct connectio: n te field, Mi, and Martin to [men were seen to run down the fire|in the eoast line nent Katmal: ‘hey | jiaved to have direct connection with | Chania, Meld Te Martin wes tj ean Spencer Talks |vas advanced on the calendar until| perhapa. fatally, inured and. ag excape to nafety, A number of men |s nat the haus be a IP sea la ean lauea, | ¢ : ; . | April 14, an unusual proceeding. {homes wore demolished at Creel- "7 oir} Z |} and recesslot of | dence | port o1 iclentific theo: top over one day at St, Paul as | ere the dows trong telling, rule, nde Ee a erie ettatiaee nue] at Kelso Hi School | [Roem ae o “ee norte | persona ‘oct to the groune hey |the shore line any Dol Pietaet es. VCmea eeepc aren se y A | a a ak ee 4 | pateoriat ercty oaoapa Indicative of some violent dis-|in the Pacific 1s related, support-| Both men were besieged with oni Doan M. Lyle Spencer, of the Uni: | Organ Students to ne ae by a tornado. were nol Mm » | tustnaide ’ c 0. of probally z predictions T. Monday, both in person and by! versity of Washington school of rhe doad: ‘ ‘\. patrolman who discovered the|turbance of the earth—probably an | ing predictions of Dr. 'T. A. Jaggar, | 3 ii said He wa man running from| earthquake —an {mmense glacier | noted volcanologist from the govern:|phone. Major Martin had a score] jounatism, Monday delivered tho | : Give Recital Here| Mr. and Mrs. William Robins and ding carrying @ container|has suddenly slipped forward into| ment observatory in the Hawatian|ot tnvitations to dinner, and coud | PUN Tim a CNY OO NN ON) sieneity students of the organ, |thelr six children, ranging in agoy bac flaming Nauid wan|Cook's inlet at one point, breaking | islands, that a perlod of ‘reat vol:|find no army shirt to fit hiny ox. | Prneipal ac ais under Carl Paige Wood, will give aj from @ to 18, ee Pa drum.ja.be 1g held, and|up into immense icebergs which on-|canic activity in the Pagific region|copt the one ho was wearine and) ment exercises of the Kelso high | concort at the University Methodist} Mrs. John: Hayes, Pehigi red will be analyzed. danger navigation | may be expected. had worn since he ieft Port Moller, ' school. church Tuosday evening at 8:15, | Vera Abbot, 16. " & 2 ——