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

SEVERYNS SAYS FORMER POLICEMAN IDENTIFIED AS HOLDUP: ferat Maximum, 65. Howdy, folks! Our vacation Starts today and gosh how we dread it! . Dumbell Dud, the next dumbest Tuy in tho office, is left in charge “f the colyum, Li'l Gee Gee, you behave yourself while we're gone! Joe Bungstarter, You keep sober! Trade and Mark » You oF And you, yull, don't you let Doc Brown mor You around too much! The weather bureau reports that ttle this year has piled up 317 degrees of heat above normal. Web, let's use a few of those surplus de- grees tomorrow. . . Sign on the Back of = Ford: GO It used to be cheaply og one? Now it's : ‘Can two smoke 35 cent cigarets, drink $7 gin and visit $20 road houses as cheaply as one?” o eh “Can two live as New auto models are with four-wheel brakes and balloon tires. Family cars, as usual, can be driven from either the back or "He ‘front sent. CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB (Thenx to C. A. BL) The bimbo who tries to sell you! a view lot in a cometary. front of a rondhouse: Different in Chicke: . . Judge: ‘‘Why do you want your name changed?” Applicant (pathetically) ‘‘Please Your Honor, it's Lizzie Tinford."* KG Sign in “Something The bungalow type of architecture 4s now quite prominent among states- | men. A bungalow is a house without an attic. | Th’ clinging-vine type some- | | times turns out to be poison ivy. | Be No wonder the bride's mother weeps. She, better than any other, knows what is going to happen to the groom. Seattle lecturer says corsets will return. Sure, some flappers will go to any length to get tight. “ee If Will Hays really wants to im- prove the movies, why doesn’t he issue a decree forbidding fat people Yom occupying the end seats? YE DIARY (Auguat 8) Up betimes, and to the office, but Lord! could think of nothing but my vacation, and did try to write, but before my mind naught but purple, faraway hills, smoky sunsets above the Selkirks, and the glit- ter of the moon on straits. And so to home, and to trying on my Khaki shirt, which I did wear in the Lowlands, bat Lord! it did fit me like @ baby’s belly-band, so tight it was. And | my Reo did laugh mightily to see me in ft, but I could see naught to laugh at, until the wench did appear in her new hiking breeches, whereat, did laugh heartily. see All sorts of methods have been ad- vanced to combat the present plague of mosquitoes on Puget Sound, but Iittle can be accomplished until the sleeveless gown goes out of fashion. re ail Old Silas Grump, the sage of Pumpkin Holiow, was at Alki Point yesterday, and he says th'y bath- a skin Ing beach stuff is mostly game. "Mr. and Homer G, Brew leaving for ouver Island, where they will spend a short vacatior great crowd saw them off, ma the creditors weeping openly. On their return, the Brews, who are well-inown among the leading collee- tion agencies, will occupy a suite at tie Souseland Arms, oe Mrs equipped | Temperature Last 24 Hours lay | | | your whiskers dod-| you derned little) | | rt | low. W. wt “ noon, 5%, "um, 52. SEATTL Bathing Beauties and Water Circus and Ever'thing There Next Saturday i | \ S| | Alki’s staging a bathing girl revue and circus next Sat-| urday and all the girls out there are making beach costumes.| Here are two of them. The lady on the right is a Spanish beach vamp, all the way from Biarritz, The one on the left) | is just a plain American girl—and not so plain at that, —Photos by Frank Jacobs, tea t Photog pher | PASSING THE | OL’ ACID TEST’ Forty-four years ago Theo Pich- ette bought two handsaws. He wrote his name on the biades with acid, Saturday morning the two saws! jeaused the arrest of Roy Morrison, | 46, when Detectives A. Brown and L. C. Harris found him trying to sell them in a pawnshop. The name “Pichette’ was still dis- }cernible on the side of the saws, Ts open to all girls under 18-| storrison claimed that they were giv- Any girl who wants to enter should ‘ jen to biti by a barber named Clark. telephone Mrs. C. K. Rogers, WE st-| i itis, when found by the. polt LKI beach will show ‘em how to{ put on a land and water circus) next Saturday, August 16. | The park board band committee is} supervising it. Alki and West Se- attle Community clubs are helping. From 1 to 4 in the afternoon there'll be parades, dances and con. tests for young and old on the play-| grounds. At 4 o'clock beach contests! start. Boating, swimming and div- ing competitions will be held. A bathing beauty revue will fo! Se Of Manager Milner at” Alki) 3+ ‘his home, 817.W.. Prospect. st., } Song ae said he had loaned the saws to Clark There'll be a dinner at 6 p. M12 years ugo, and had never been | while the band plays. lable to make Clark give them back. All the west side invites the whole! Clark came to the station Satur. city to join in. | day to claim the saws, but the po-} |lice refused to give themrto him. | SEEK KIDNAPER Tee Held Herein | Patrolman Shooting | | | “og Police Saturday held threo men / | re ro’ sh jin connection with the shooting 0 gon P fesse: Accused Tuesday night of State Highway | |Patrolman Joo Fladek, at Mecker | |Junction, not far from Tacoma. | |The men gave the names of Joo Aug. 9—Pollce | rittiker, 28; Joo: House, 19, and | Bob Short, 22. The first two are} sailors. | | Pladek was shot while pursuing | bandits who had robbed a ‘Tacoma | of Stealing Daughter DEDHAM, Mass., in seaport cities have been asked to} watch for Prof. Will Goettling, Uni- versity of Oregon, who Friday kid- naped his 56-year-old daughter Elsi from .the home of Mrs, Goettling| oy station. He is in a Puyallup | here. hospital, recovertng. The Goettlings haye been sepa-) ‘The men arrested here were taken | rated for about one year and Mrs. Goettling says her husband has been offered a position in Japan. She fears he will attempt to fiee to that country with the little girt. The kidnaping was on one of the regular visits of Goettling to his|! wife's home. After greeting Mrs. Goettling he suddenly seized the lit-| off | tle girl and ran, He escaped in ajfiled Saturday for tne superior | motor car which was waiting for}bench. He will run against Judge | him. King Dykeman, World Flight Starts and Ends in Seattle OS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 9.—The official termination of the American round-the-world flight will be at Seattle. Following a rest at that city, the flyers will pro- ceed to San Diego by way of San Francisco and Los An- geles, and then will be reconditioned for a tour thruout the United States. ; Gen. John J. Pershing is authority for these statements. In a letter received by the Chamber of Commerce today he answers in detail requests by Californians that the flight end in Santa Monica. “While the planes which comprise the round the world flight equipment were constructed at Santa Monica, the official starting point for this flight was Seattle and in consequence the flight will officially terminate in that city,” the message said. lin a Jewett car, by city detectives. |They are being held for officers | |from Tacoma, who aye coming to} jtry to identify them. | FILES AGAINST DYKEMAN | Edgar $. Hadley, a lawyer with | in the Lewman building, | | | i} | i | cst a ohh iti | what |and was given impetus by the read | sought |the measure | 100 Are Arrested Ws |. at the Popteftice at Seatiia Wash SH., AUC Mareb E, SATURDAY, Leopold Denied Godi 5 “FANTASY LIFE" OF MURDERER © Slayer Lost Faith in Religion | After His Mother Died GIRL SAYS HE’S SANE} | FEDERAL LAWS ARM IS LONG “You can't get away from the arm Jot tho federal law,” A. B. Miller, leni “ Jef deputy United States marshal Alienist Tells of “Perfect- Jin charge of the Seattle office, de Slave” Theory of Youth | isrea saturday on is retury from 15a eland, where he took Vert R RIMINAL COURT ROOM, Chica: |J0Be% wanted thers for robbing | il Riticd. 9s eaten | Tartan: ood | goods in interstate transi | 7 : oes | Jones jumped his bail in Cleve. jt. University of Chicago co-ed s aliend a year ago, and the federal friend of Nathan Leopold, Jr, wi i bes pins oy Wom’ Glavelend’. ts 4 to the witnem stand by |°™ ew » to teatity thet tn hee opie, | Went Bucceasively to New York, Flor "Babe' was per! y “ane and ida, Arizona ere c i wre After sig | spe ling some time in Los Angeles ~ mate's Attorney Hohert B.l 4 pasadena, he picked Wittlock, to [ae Hl Washington ¢ a oig | Place to hide. He was finally caught there on July to Cleveland TILL ‘CURING WHISKY HABIT lion normal,” Crowe announced today y, as Miss Lur hie office soo: Crowe said after young L and his companion, Richard confessed killing Robert I aks and told him sho had “been on couple of dates with Bat the murder.” Shé sald Leog talked of the Franks case repeat-| Iways somewhat bosstfully,"| Employes of the Seattle federal She sald she had|¢Mforcement department sighed er doubted Leopold was heavily Saturday. One of them got Ne’ bit pana kad’ Hoccial hold of @ current magazine and These facts, Lrowe mid, he would] discovered an advertisement labeled usan tO repeat b Chiet| “Stop Whisky.” |Justice Caverty, ‘Any lady," also any "hearing | sald the ad, “can cof- who is Jevidence for the purpose of decid-| give it secretly. at héme in te Pig bother to nend Leopold and| feo or food, if she has a- husband, son, brother or father who is a Vic- nome | tim of whisky.” “Looks kind of hopeless if they still have to advertise whisky cures,” moaned the officers. 1 \ Mf aL T ak sap on «| PUNCTURITIS made Leopold] to prison or the gullowa | will be called week, when the defense! » completed and the| ato rebuttal testimony ts opened. | “PERFECT AVE FANTASY EXPLAIN Childhood dreams, “kingslave fantasy, Miss Lurie time next case has t Puncturitis, he is today. Dr. Harold 8.| a Hurlburt, allenist, testified today at} It's hit West Seattle auto owners. the hearing | Cause Loose boards on W. Spo- Dr. Hurlburt sald Leopold told} *#e st. bridge. Spikes stick up and catch in tires, Some residents say him he gave up a study of religions after his mother died and had concluded that there ts no God. |% Week. mostly at night when they Leopold's “kingwlave” fantasy | “AN t dodge the spikes. sth sony antasy| City workers continually pound started when he was still a child| vn tne anikes, but they work un joe rapidly TURNER CRASHES INTO FAME HALL for nomeone to enact the! hares A. Turner, an attorney of. role of the perfect king, the wit-/ ticing at the Stokes building, Ever- nes said. Leopold visioned him-|ett, got into the hall of fame today self as the “perfect slave” of the| He refused to run for congress from “perfect and powerful king.” Hi8) the second Washington district, eay- hunt for the “perfect king” cul-|ing that one progressive was run minated in his finding of Loeb, the} ning already and he didn't want to witness said. |imperil his chances, “Leopold felt that Loeb was much| ‘So I have sacrificed my personal superior and that he was his ideal) ambition,” Turner said. ing of the story of Saint Christe by his governess, the doctor said. As he dwelt on the subject of being tho “perfect slave," Leopold 26 and was returned | SES CUSSES| hey average two or three pnuctures | The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in W ashington The Seattle Sta Botered as Second Class Matier May 2, 4, 1879, Per Year, by Mail, Nothing to DESCRIBED |\Worry Abou YROTHER BIDS VS. BROTHER | It was brother against brother | Friday in the bidding for the grad ing work on N, dist at. before the |board of public works. | H was awarded the contract at a fig. ure of $4,777.50. His brother, nue Job |ROUND WHEELS FOR TROLLE Anyone who has cursed wheel of @ street car for slumber will be pleased to know that YS flat the board of pubile works has aw. | thorized the purchase of 260 new | steel wheels. The contract goes to | |the United States Steel Products | company, The wheels will cost $35.26 | each. MaASscot IS JUST 2 MONTHS OLD He's only 2 months old, but Bar- [ney Oldtimer has the proud distinc- tion of boing head mascot at the University gymnasium, Coach Jimmy Arbuthnot {x raising the ttle pedi- greed Boston terrier for entry in next’ year's bench show. ST SEATTLE LIKES BOATING “To the boats!’ Js the new slogan for many residents of West Se- | attle. Motor launches and outboard mo- jtorboats are |number along the beach from Alki |Point to Three Tree point Where one was seen last. year, [there's a flotilla now. Desire to get away from dusty roads and crowded highways. is |given by residents as the cause. | AND OH, HOW HE DREADS IT ALL James Townsend Fullerton, mayor of Port Townsend, said today he didn't want to be governor. Then he filed for the governor. ship on the progressive republican ticket, He sald he would fight graft, reduce taxes and hew to the line. Headquarters for his campaign | have been opened at 412 Haller building, Seattle. of the superman,” the witness said.| This urge to be the perfect slave} drove Leopold to every crimo| brought out at the ree! ee cluding the murder, sald, ree u Absolve Ross of Complicity OPOLD DECIDES THERE IS NO GOD “This fantasy made Leopold what} in Attempted Holdup he is,” Dr. Hurlburt testified. A} person usua‘ly-is a result’ of what| J0* Ross, arrested with four he contemplates, admires and loves. |others in the attempted hold-up in “Nathan told me that he seemed | Chinese gambling resort early) |to lose-his Inspiration after his moth-|iast Monday morning, will be re- er's death, which, I believe, was three years ago. Altho as a smail|!eased of all charges, according to boy he was very much interested in|Acting Prosecutor Ewing Colvin, religion, studying the doctrines ot | Who declared Saturday that all of} the various churches and classifiy.(‘H® other prisoners had declared ling them, he later gave up hia be.|"m/an innocent member of the p P his be- | party. [fee An religion and finally decided) "Ross, according to the stories told Leopold craved friends and friend.| Col. wis drunk at the timo. of (Turn to Page 2, Column 1) (the &ttomptod hold-up, and was ig. : bd norant of what was going on. The others explained that they couldn't |New Censor Bill Up get rid of him, and that was the |reason he was along. A complete confession has been gained from the other four men, Lee H. White, former city ambu- Before Women’s Club, An ordinance constructed for the purpose of reconstructing the city censorship board and proposing to|lance driver, Dewey Gilman, L. B put the board on a “paying basis" |Robins and Walte's 20-year-old will be talked over Monday by the|brother, T. D, Waite, according to |board of directors of the Women's |Colvin, Charges will not be filed, City club. Mra. 1, Ballaine ts | ho vr, until early next week, as chairman of the’ motion picture|Colvin declares he is anxious to GOMMIttes. OF HON ATOb |gain mote evidence from witness: The club hay formed no judgment |of the attempted hold-up before de- of tho merits of the proposed: law, |Clding what specific charges to Mrs, Ballaine said, She added that |Place against the prisoners | Colvin declared that it was dif. the club had made no effort to keep from being made pub- lic, declaring that a story in The| Star Friday might have given that impression | ficult to get information regarding jthe holdup, as the Chinamen and jpatrons of the gambling place were reluctant to tell of the affair, Canada Bucks at Insane Citizen) in Gambling Raid! PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. %—In one} William 8, Beeman, elvil engineer of the most sensational raids here in| on tho Southern Pacific railway, wax recent years, police last night swoop-|in Seattle Saturday, having brought ed down on Chinatown, wrecking) an insane employe of the road from 4 score of known gambling dens| Tepleo, Mexico, to Vancouver, B. C., and arresting more than 100 per-| which was his home, 1 re sons. -| ported that he had some trouble in Hearch warrants and technicalities convincing Canadian authorities that were ignored a8 a patrol of 160] his charge was a Canadian citizen, police smashed away with sledge} owing to the fact that ho had been hammers and cut thelr way thru}absent from Canada for a number of iron doors with avetylone torches. ye 700 DIE IN FLOOD |10,000 Houses Destroyed in Formosa Island Disaster TOKYO, Aug. 9.—Territic floods have swept the island of Formosa, drowning more than 700 persons, jaccording to messages here today. Ten thousand homes have been |demolished and large .areas inun- dated. 3 Girl Is Murdered in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9.—After 12 hours of investigation, police to- day admitted they were no nearer ) solving the mystery surrounding the murder of Andrietta Hildebrand, 19- year-old telephone operator, than they were an hour after her mutil- ated body was discovered late. yes- terday. Four men were taken to head- quarters for questioning, but re- leased shortly after midnight and told to return to the hall of justice again this morning. No arrests were made, The girl's body was found in bed lin her tiny apartment on Green- wich st bab yesterday. 'Herrick to Sail From Paris Today PARIS, Aug. 9.—Ambassador Her- rick of the United States will sail |for New York today on the French according to Lo Matin, the ambassador's of the utmost importance in view of the return to America of Secretary of State Hughes after his Buropean tour, EXPORTS TO ASIA GAIN Pacific ports. will show a |Raln of nearly 50 per cent exports jto Asia this year, a tabulation by the Chamber of Commerce showed today, Lumber, flour, barley and canned salmon head the 1't Paris, considers | liner | which trip as coast mM | Espeland Mag: | Espeland, bid $5,576.50 for the | roying | increasing rapldly in| WORLD. FLIGHT TO. CONTINUE, |U. S. Flyers Determined to| Reach Home Before Fall | STORM MAY BREAK ICE| May Refuel Planes at Sea if Supply Ship Fails EYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 9.— America’s round-the-world flight | will go on. Cold, gray clouds floated J out of the west today as messages | crackled into the radio room of the cruiser Milwaukee, telling of a xtorm on the west coast of Greenland, which the army airmen hope will move eastward and break up pack| ice which has imprisoned the steam er Gertrude Rask, attempting to make Angmagsallk and esta a base for the Iceland-Greenls of the world flight. Whether the Gertrude Rask makes | |the lonely, windswept Greenland | port or not, the airmen have no in |tention now of abandoning their | Might until next season. With more than 21,000 miles of their long Jour- ney completed, Lleuts, Lowell Smith and Eric Nelson are determined to continue, reaching home shores be- fore fall sets in. If the Rask does not make port the airmen are considering a plan to refuel their planes at sea at somo convenient point halfway between Reykjavik and Ivigtut, Greenland, . Major MacLaren Is Coming to Seattle Major MacLaren, iil-fated British world-looper, whose plane was wreck- ed recently in the Pacific, radioed the Seattle Chamber of Commerce Saturday that he will be present at Sand Point to welcome the American earth-girdiers when they arrive, His radio message, sent from the Canadian trawler Thiepva] and re- layed by the navy from | St. island, said: invitation. We shall be honored to attend the landing of the Americans. Will let you know further when we reach Vancouver. Good luck and success to the American flyers.” FIRST ALASKAN WOOL ARRIVES The first wool ever clipped in Alaska was .in Seattle Saturday |morning. It arrived here Friday and |is to go. to San Francisco by ship} Saturday night. Alaska's start as a wool-producing | district began with a project started last’ year by a group of northwestern | sheep men who sent several hun- dred sheep over Seattle wharves to W. J. Erskine on Kodiak island. “History is repeating itself,” it was declared by old-timers who remember | the arrival of the first Alaskan gold ship here, MitHicasdene Will Picnic at Suquamish | Former Michiganders —also. the Michigeese and the Michigoslings— will picnic Sunday at Suquamish. A boat will leave the Galbraith dock, foot of Madison st., at. 9 a. m, re. | turning to Seattle at. 6 p.m. The Michigan club will visit the burial place of Chief Soattle, planning per- petual care of the grave. G. Schoon- | maker ts secretary of the club. | Second Ave. Store Entered, Robbed | Thieves Vriday night broke into the store of the Hatton-Oliver com- pany, at 907 Second ave, went over the stock and selected several hun- dred dollary ‘worth of’ silk shirts, hats and other wearing apparel. The cash rogister was opened and $12.05 taken. Main Street, Seattle Hugh Todd, dodging auto at See. ond and James. Dick Worthington, Troy Laundry, calling for some more of Mayor Brown's — di. shirts, W, I. Carpenter, secreta street car men’s union, wonder about raise in pay, Mike Mitchell, | editor Ballard ‘Pribune, waiting for | someone in front of county-city | building. Morey Weisfield, deputy | sheriff, strolling along waterfront, | Dr. Charles D, Shinnon, entering Cobb building, Frank Kannair, sec: retary Retail Grocers’ association, ambling up Union st, Frank Mitten with freshly cleaned straw hat Richard Gibbs, telligg all about Carbon River park ‘road. ® Paul | ‘Many thanks for your | jave. |Sheriffs and- police detectives, with “its lef — SEATTLE. HELD FOR BIG ROBBERY t SAY AIRMEN |Ex-Cop and Wife in Toils; Witnes: $22,900 Stick- Us Tells His Story POLICE w. n turday told ne that Joe O. Neal, HIEF OF men a formes |policeman had béen _ positively identified as one of the robbera who held up and robbed the Boo Marche of $22,900 Friday afternoon Under the guiding hand of: Cap tain of Detectives Charles Tennant a net of evidence was slowly tight ening Saturday around four otlivt prisoners who are held in the- city |Jail as suspects, suspects include Mrs. Neal |the former patrolman’s wife; Ed« ward Fasick, 31; Mrs. Fasick and |S. E. Douglas, °42. ‘eal, aceording to the police, waa | seea standing near the entrance to the Bon Marche just before the holdup. Later he was seen by Patrolman J. J. Kokesh in the bane dit car and traced by KXokesh to @ J. O. Neal point on Western ave., where he got out to tear the license plate off the | Chevrolet car. Here he was arrest- led by Kokesh, who, according to hik statement to Chief Seyeryns, neyer lost he was seen iff the bandit car until he was arrested. When he was arrested. the! policy say Neal had in his possession at automatic pistol and 36 -cartridges pocket, which police think he ine Fasick, his wife, Mrs. Neal ang | Douglas. were arrested. in a |on the Stanley apartments, Seventy and Madison st., by deputy Neal's Studebaker, side crushed in, was found” at Bighth ave. and Madison st. Doug actual participant in the crime, but All day Saturday witnesses to the holdup tried to identify Fasick and Neal, but failed, because their reo ollection of how the bandits looked. were hazy and incomplete. THREE ARE : IDENTIFIED The only feature so far has b the ulleged identification of Fas! Neal and Mrs. Neal by the mystery witness, who says he trailed the bandit car onto Western ave. and Poirited out Neal to the officers after the license plate had been taken from the Chevrolet. One of the money bags was found Saturday in an alleyway in the 1200 block on Westlake ave. N, The holdup took placo at 2:0u p.m. Friday, just as W. J. Boutin, S. M, Telfor, J. A, Whelan and My Tamaki were leaving the Bon Marche store on the Union st. side with $22,900 to tako to the Seattle, National bank, automobile after firing three shots In thé air; snatched the money, and sped away, Tennant refuses to say whether or not the four employes have tar, tified the suspects, sight of Neal from the time — He also had an extra hat invhit | tended to put on to change his ape — | pearance, é las is not suspected of being ar {may have information which Ting nant wants, When questioned, Mrs. Neal. tow Tennant: that she was delivering Moonshine whisky for her husband and ran into a ‘truck with the — Studebaker. Neal told a different story. The four bandits jumped from an