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

a VoL. NO. 145, | Colyum | j Greetings: Only 115 more days | to do your Christmas shopping. | Rry le wohibitionists. Well, a man can’t very well buy | Finks and support five or six wives. | a urer declares the Turks are | Ho-hum, Mayor ee hasn't | tarted a single investigation today. Judge in East holds a ukelele is a deadly weapon, | They've killed many a young | fellow’s chances with a girl, all | right. | PHOTOGRAVURE SECTION PYMBEEBLL VE —Photo by C. W. Allen. Dumbell Dud wishes to announce tat he is not taking “setting wp”) wercises in this picture. Quite on the contrary, he ‘s preparing to eat an asparagus dinner. He's get- ting neck exercise. eee Radium has dropped to $25,000,000,- 100 a pound. Gosh, what'll we do with that ton! ¥e've got stored in our basement? see HOv-Z00? Who is the city’s legal shark? Who made the phone rate case his mark? | Who writes opinions on the law? Shake Tommy Kennedy's right pay. TUNE IN ON THIS The most useless person in the world is the ventriloquist on the radio broadcast program. eo. Eastern tourist party just returned from climbing Mount Rainier, Bet they had a high old time, eee Bos cation * It’s a short hill that has no | | brake burnings. | p Ge gucdeateeloomn . EASY MONEY! Dumbell Dud, the man who fs so dumb he thinks: Ladies Ald is a soft drink and the Prince of Wales is a weeping willow tree is going to give a dollar a day to the contributor who sends in the best Dud. o. It took hundreds of years to build the pyramids and when the contrac- tor got thru he was hired to work on the West Seattle bridge. MOTTO first you don't succeed, J iat, iat again ——______.___g Parr Lieut. Conant, the flyer who fell 200 feet the other day, probably wouldn't mind a bit of the next legis- lature would appeal the law of gravity. -* PAGE CHARLIF’S BROTHER, WILLIE Photo by Sam Groft. Two a, ™. in the police station. Patrolman Dan Hogan was sleepily reading a newspaper. “I see,’ he began, “where science has found! Out that apes have developed more| rapidly than man during the last 100 years.” | Ivan Miller woke up with a start and yawned, “More police scandal,| 1 suppose.” see SISTER'S SUITOR He was too bashful to propose, And she began to pout; But dad came down at midnight, And quickly helped him out. SIGN IN FRONT “FLAPPER WIVE ANY TIME “hean at halt tho “price.) OF THEATEN 5 Nee DAY, _ WEATHER To and co Temperature Last 2 Maximum, 67 Today . ler tonight Friday t 24 Hours Minimum, oO, 56 noon, << Dumbell | Brown Starts Move for Seattle System Legislature Also Will Be Asked for) Power to Build State Lines ‘ELOPMENTS TODAY, AYOR BROWN announces he will ask an ordi- nance establishing a city-owned and operated PHONE FIGHT DE telephone system for Seattl TATE SENATOR DAN LANDON will introduce and back, in the next state for a state-owned system. ELEPHO launches a third attack to this newspaper's complaint. DGE AUSTIN GRIFFITHS, referring to the affi- davit of prejudice filed against him, says: Respon- sible lawyers do not take advantage of this privilege.” ‘bs HOUSANDS of phones trolled by John Davis dodge increased rates. Sw Excelsior apartments, 1509 * ROPOSAL, that the city of Se attle immediately take steps to} Institute a system and city-owned telephone drive the Pacific Tele phone & Telegraph Co., with its tl | legal and ‘excessive rates, from the city, was made Thursday by Mayor} | Brown, The mayor declared that he wou! call on the elty council to prepare ordinance instructing Corporation Counsel T. J. L, Kennedy to pro-) ceed at once with the necessary legal stepa in the matter, “The telephone situation In ; the city of Seattle presents a very grave problem, and {it must now be ap- }parent to all citizens that the tele-| phone company in this city pro- poses to sandbag the entire city,” the mayor said. WANTS COURTS “HUMANIZED” “When «a man's each month Is raised from $27 to $46 by a supreme court judge or a federal court judge, as the case may be, it is about time to humanize the courts of this country and to make such changes {n the fundamental (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) telephone cost = company, twice defeated by The Star, The Newspaper With the Entered « ond Clase Matter SEATT ie. legislature, a bill providing in the shape of a demurrer in apartment houses con- & Co, may be removed to itchboard is ordered out of Ninth ave. IHOUSANDS of phones in Seattle apartment houses under the con. trol of the real estate firm of John| | in & Co. may be removed as the result of increased rates, it was an jnounced Thursday by A. Morris At wood, vice president 'of the company. | A switchboard connecting 60) |phones was removed from the Ex- Jcelsior apartments. 1509 Ninth ave., Wednesday, as a first step. Similar action ts being contemplated in the |case of 40 other apartments. totaling [approximately 2,000 phones, Atwood | declared | In addition to apartment houses | with private ewitchboards, there are labout 60 others In whieh phones are jmaintained in individual apartments +| These, Atwood suid, may be removed land be replaced by but one phone tn each hall. Attorneys for John Davis & Co. are [investigating the situation, Atwood sald. before any extensive action Is! taken. The Increase in many cases brings the cost of awitchboards from $175 a month to $400, and makes a prohibitive operating cost. Other real estate companies who handle large apartment properties were considering similar action, Flyers Still Are Waiting Planes in Bay Tuned Up for Hop but Ice Again Threatens Landing REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 14.— Storm conditions along the route be- tween here and Greenland prevented America’s round-the-world aviators from taking off today. They probably will get away Fri- day, providing the weather clears up sufficiently, It was sald. Plans had been made for the fly- ers to take off from here to Ang- magsalik, Greenland, the first thing this morning, The two planes were moved out in the harbor late last night and the engines tuned up for the next lap in thelr homeward bound flight. Late last night reports from the Danis steamer Gertrude Rask said heavy fog held over the bay at Ang- magsalik and that ice packs were again moving near ,the shore. A landing would be dangerous, the re- port sald. Admiral Magruder, who 1s direct- ing the destinies of the flyers, then went into conference with the two flyers and it was decided to post: pone the flight unti} Friday. WOK e Zanni Flies Over Ayab to Rangoon CALCUTTA, Aug. 14.—MajJ. Zan- ni, Argentine airman, who 1s at- tempting an eastward flight around the world, hopped off from here at 8:35 a. m. The next hop in the flight will take Zanni to Rangoon. He at- tempted to make the flight Wednes- day, but was forced to call it off owing to tire troubl ene RANGOON, Aug. 14.—Maj. Zanni was reported to have passed over Akyab at 12:59 p. m, Slashing Fires O. K.; Campfires are Taboo State to Lift Ban Monday on Piled Debris Despite Blaze Danger SSPITE frequent opinions of |the D forest fire fighters and officials that the burning of slashings after the spring rains and before the fall rains have started is one of the big- gest causes of forest fire spread, D. A. Scott, director of the department of conservation and development, will Monday lift the ban on piled slashing fire permite. Meanwhile, campers and tourists who have come to Washington's out-of-doors paradise, to live in its woods and “get back to nature,” must continue to do so without camp fires except in specified places. Scott's new order, dated August 13, to become effective Monday, Au gust 18, revokes his order of July 11, which suspended all burning and fire permits privileges. This is de- spite the opinion volced earlier in the week by weather bureau and forest fire association men that the next three or four weeks will be the worst period of the summer from the standpoint of forest fire danger. “On and after August 18,” Scott's order, signed by Fred 1. Pape, super- visor of state forests, says, “permits may be issued or unexpired ones re- newed for burning piled debris, stumps and logs when located in clared or partly cleared fields, where all dead trees or snags have been cut down and where conditions are such that there ts absolutely no da ger of fire spreading or escapin Permits will be granted for one week at a time and the official granting: the permit and the person obtaining It will be held responsible for all damages which may occur, May 2, Boott were sigge 1899, at the Postoffice at Beatin WASH., THURSDAY, w LE, Al City Phone Plant Planned: TRAIL OF DEATH ENDS CAREER | OF ROBBERS — ‘Deputy Sheriff Tells How Holdup Was Foiled TWO BANDITS KILLED Deputy Is Shot; 2 Suspects Are in Jail OLDUP of the Snoqualmie Val ley bank at Tolt Wednesday, slaying of two bandits who opened fire on waiting deputy sheriffs, and capture of the robbers’ accomplice is gradually told today by Herbert | Beebe, deputy sheriff, who took an active part fn the battle with gun men, BY HERBERT BEEBE Deputy Sheriff “Tam going to tell this just in the! order in which the events happened, so that none of the lesser facts will be left out. "Yesterday morning wo had tn formation that D, C. Malone, alias A. J. Brown, a tough one, and Ted| Lashe were going to stick up the! bank, We rolled out to Toit and got there at 11 o'clock, the time the bank opened. No one in town knew we wore coming but the mayor, ety marshal and & grocer across the street from the bank. We planted the car on| the north side of town and the ot! on the other side, so if anything did happen that we slipped up, we follow thPtmndits cloxely, At 2:25 deputies Tom Morgan, Ray Murphy and myself were planted’ in the back of the bank. Frank Ah: derson, Virgil! Murphy and “Ed Fitz gerald were in a store room adjoin: | ing the grocery on the other side of | the street. S TRIBUTE TO GIRL’S COOLNESS About 20 minutes before the stick: up they saw Malone walk by the bank twice. He wore a light cap and overalls, as wo had been told he would. Then he got into a car| & little way south of the bank and drove by, golng north, That was about 15 minutes before the/ stickup. . Finally Malone and(Lasho jeame| in. Taisho told Miss TeWf6Fo" Hall, vice president of the bank and the! only one in front, to stick ‘em up.| Malone grabbed the top of the rall- ing around the cashier's cage and swung himself thru the open eash- fer's window. Miss Hall was cool as a cucumber. “Here they come now,” she says, giving us our cue. Malone wasn't two feet away, and she was right between Malone and ux When she said, “Here they come now,” that was tho first information we fellows in the back had that the bandits were there. Tom Morgan and I stepped from behind the back partition to the door leading into the cage. st Circulation in “Throw them up." we hollered to Malone. He turned, shooting, just as Miss Hall slowly backed out. of the lino of fire. Morgan fired the first shot, hitting Malone in the side. Right then the only one Malone could see was his partner, (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) DENY MISHAPS AT SKAGIT Only Minor Difficulties in Gorge Unit Test Test work on the Gorge unit of the Skagit river power project is rapidly fearing completion, according to in- formation furnished by the city light department engineers Thursday. The Westinghouse company, which installed the generators of the unit, is doing the test work and will turn the machinery over to the city as soon as finished. This may be with. in a week, they sald. The exact time depends on how soon the generators are dried out. Minor mishaps have held up the work several times, but nothing serl- ous has happened since the test work began, engineers in Carl ¥, Uhden's office, Skagit engineer, de- clared ‘Thursday. So far tho test work has been satisfactory they sald, Reports that serious mishaps, In. cluding tho’ burning out of several bearingy and twisting of two wheel shafts, has tied up work for 30 to 60 days, were vigorously denied Thursday by both Uhden's office and city light department engineer's, Ac cording to light department eng!- neers the only mishap of any conse quence that has happened since the plant testing started, was the heat- ing of an oll pan, This, they sald, was noon adjusted, J, D, Rosa, superintendent of the city Hight department, was out of town Thursday, G UST 14, 1924, Left: The Seattle St under the Act of Congress March 4, 1879. Washington Fer Year, by Mall, #390 D. C. Malone, alias A. J. Brown, reputed leader ‘ 0 tempted Tolt bank holdup Wednesday. He was shot dead by sheriff's deputies. r i of ‘TO ARREST STARWIC HOME Eg {({l the bandit trio in the at- Right: Virgil Murphy, young deputy sheriff, accidentally shot in the leg by one of his comrades during the battle. LOVE VENTURES END; LOTHARIO, 86, TAKES MATE OF HIS OWN, 75 BREMERTON, Aug. 14.—Tho $6-year-old Tathario from “the Soldiers’ home at Retail, would do credit to a 20-year-old caké- onter, Two weeks ago Frank Walker, another resident of the home, tapped McElhinney across the face with his cane and followed with a biff to the eye. Walker's wife was an old sweetheart of McEthinney’s. Walker was ac- quitted of assault and battery charges because the judge said he had sufficient provocation. Nothing daunted, McEthinney sul longed for a wife. Tuesday he was married to Rebecca A. Prince, 75, by Justice of the Peace J. W. Carr in the presence of friends from the Sol- diers’ home, who wished them happiness, $100,000 BLAZE HITS YAKIMA Incenidary “Fire Destroys Produce Plant BLAME LABOR TROUBLE Conflagration Is Second in a Few Weeks YAKIMA, Aug. 14.—For the third time this summer, an incendiary fire blazed out Wednesday night in Yaki- ma's “Produce Row," this time de- wtroying the plant of the Pacific Frult & Produce Co. with an estim- ated loss of $100,000. A larger fire two ‘weeks ago struck 11 firms in the same district with a loss of $400, 000 and a fire earller In the season destroyed a box factory nearby with a loss of $50,000, While police were loath to place blame for tho Intest conflagration, they did refer to tho first blaze in which a letter, signed “I, W. W,,” told of its start and predicted others to follow, mentioning the famous Yakima “pick-ax brigade" of wartime as the cause. “The pick-ax brigade" was a group of fruit and produce men who armed themselves with pick-ax handles and forcibly escorted a crowd of malcon- tents out of the city limits. They were threatened with vongeanco at that time. 3 STORAGE PLANTS TO HANDLE CROPS Most of the plants destroyed thus far have been large cash buyers, tho several cold storage plants have been victimized, Three large cold storage plants, still standing, will care for this year's fruit crop, offi- clals believe, since the output is smaller than usual, Yakima valley's peach and pear crop is moving rapidly now, 200 car having been shipped out within the past week, The Yakima Frult and Storage Co, warehouse, razed in the big fire two weeks ago, Is already boing rebuilt for the apple season, and George Youel of the Pacific Fruit & Produce Co, plant destroyed Wednesday night, believes his com: pany will rebuild also, Tt operates a chain of 40 warehouses in the M “Hang MeCoy: Let Me Pull Rope,” Cries Mors ‘Husband of Slain Wife Pleads for Vengeance; Pugilist Held LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14—"I want Kid MeCoy to hang and Til pull the rope,” cried Albert A. Mors today. Mors’ wife, Theresa, once pro- prietress of an antique shop in the Ritz-Carleton hotel, New York, and later of Los Angeles, was killed yesterday and Nor- man Selby (Kid MeCoy) was in Jail, suspected of the murder. Then came the other side of the story—the faith of Mrs. Mary E. Selby, mother of the once-champion pugilist. “Surely he couldn't have done it," she insisted. “He loved her too much. “He's in jail, the papers say. Is my boy comfortable there? I have heard that jails are such terrible places.” These two statements, made by the two living persons perhaps most closely interested in what’ happens to a third, McCoy, summed up the opposing views of the case, On the one hand was Mors and the police demanding pun- ishment of “Kid McCoy” and bending every effort to draw the net around him, On the other was the mother and MeCoy's friends, still pro- testing Innocence of the man who is accused of one of Los Angeles’ many _ sensational crimes, Mors discussed the case but brief- ly—tho bitterly. “I knew no good would ever como from my wife's association with Me- Coy,” ho said. “I protested to her and my fears now have como true. It was nothing short of an act of. God that I, too, am. not dead. “McCoy's story that I drove Ther- esa to suicide is a lie.” Then the mother spoke—sitting alono In her little home, huddled in a rocking chalr, pouring over news- paper reports. 1 can't seem to think very well. Surely .he couldn't have done it. He loved her too dearly. She loved him, too. “He came to see me Wednesday morning very early. I heard his voice outside the window. He said, ‘Mother.’ Then he came in and put his arms around me and said ‘How's my mother? He didn't say anything of any trouble. “That was just 10 minutes to 2.” But McCoy's friends will not ac- cept Mors’ accusations of guilt, and Mors and the police will not accept the mother’s faith in her son's in- nocence, So the mills ground ‘today, weaving tighter a fabric of evi- dence on which conviction of Kid McCoy of murder will be sought. “We expect a confession before sundown,” was the way Captain a Detectives George Home put it. Original declarations by police that McCoy killed Mrs. Mors were not altered by them today, yet thus far they have produced no actual wit- nesses to the shooting nor have they wrung a confessoin from the :pugil- ist. They have established thru state- ments of victims sufficient evidence to warrant their assertion that it was McCoy who shot three persons at the Mors antique shop—a fash- fonable store where the wealthy of Los Angeles often paid large sums; for old furniture, pictures and bric- a-brac, McCoy has neither confirm- ed nor denied his connection with) that shooting. They also know that {t was Mc- Coy whom they arrested, after a chase of several blocks in automo- biles, a revolver of the calibergof the bullet which ended Mrs. Mors’ life (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) McCoy Tells Vivid Tale of Quarrel and Killing LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14.— During a two-hour grilling last night Kid McCoy, held by the pollee on suspicion of having murdered his lover, Mrs, Ther- esa Mors, stuck to his statement that Mrs, Mors had committed suicide with a butcher knife, Ho sald she first slashed herself with the Knife and then shot herself thru the mouth with his gun, “Whose gun ifs this?” was the first question Detective Lieut. Jar. vis asked McCoy. “That gun was given to mo by Hubert Kittle some months before he blew out his brains,’ MeCoy as: sorted, (Kittle, a former policeman, committed suicide recently after confessing that he was involved tn a bank robbery, for which three in. nocent Mexicans had been sent to San Quentin penitentiary,” Asked to explain the cuts bruises on Mrs. Mors’ body, said: “Woll, you seo, it was this way. Wo had been out all afternoon, Aftor we got home I cooked a leg of lamb and a lot of other stuff, and McCoy You know, I am a pretty good 19 Then we sat down to eat, “All during the afternoon Theresa and I had been talking about her troubles and she was pretty sad, We quarreled ao little, too. The butcher knife was on the table. We had been using tt to cut bread, “Without warning Theresa Teaped to her feet and sald she was going to end it all. She grabbed the butcher knife and attempted to stab herself in the breast. I saw the blood spurt out and then I grabbed her, We struggled about the room and she cut herself on the left wrist and also slashed her up: per lip, She was holding the Knife in her right hand and T was trying to get it away from her, “Some time before she had got hold of the knife I had taken the gun from my pocket and put {t on the table, During the struggle for the knife we bumped into the table and with her left hand sho seized the revolver and shot herself, That's (Turn to Pago 7, Column 2) IN SEATTLE, Anacortes Robbery Roundup Victim | Gets Warrant for Captor’s Arrest ARRANT for the arrest { of Sheriff Matt Star- aan | | wich, of King county, was is- |sued Thursday by Justice i | Blanche Funk Miller, of Ta- jcoma. The warrant was sworn to by David A. Nadeau, Tacoma business man and secretary of the Lions’ club, who was arrested by Starwich in con- nection with the robbery of : an Anacortes bank, May 27. |Nadeau and his companions |later were released and clear- jed of the charge. The case attracted wide attention thru- out the Northwest, due to the prominence of the prisoners. The warrant accuses Starwich of violating section 8824 of Plerce's code, which sets forth that a pris- joner must be given a chance to interview and confer with friends after his arrest. Penalty for conviction runs up to six months in jail and a $250 fine. Starwich is in Vancouver, B. C., having gone there to meet a son, en route to the coast from Iowa, _ The action is seen in Tacoma as laying the ground for civil action jasainst Starwich in connection with |the case, Pace Starwich, at the time of the ar- rest of Nadeau and his three com- panions on a fishing trip, made the statement that the evidence against them was. conclusive, and took much of the credit for the arrests, é ‘All Set for Salt Water Park Dance NIGHT'S the night, Fifteen hundred former Montana residents now living in Seattle and vicinity are staging their annual dance and reunion, this time open to the public and for the benefit of the ‘state salt water park fund. sponsored in this city by the Young Men's Business club. Warren Anderson's orchestra will play and the Moose temple has pane | donated for the occasion. More than: 2,000 persons are ex: pected to attend. Your presence ig requested, with your dollars to help swell the purchase price fund for the oor man’s paradise,” half way bes tween Seattle and Tacoma, on the Sound. ‘ALTER MORGAN, Seattle flor ist. has a corps of assistants busy with the decorations for the big dance, which he has offered as his bit towards the succes of the affatr, | Glen McLeod, president of the Mon- ‘tana society and in active charge of ‘the dance with Joe Carney, has ob- tained an old bartender'’s union card to grace the famous “Wild West bar” from which harmless concoc- |tions will be labeled out by a bevy lof cowgirls, | (urn to Page % Column 3) GIVE GERMANY ULTIMATUM | Await Berlin Reply td Evacuation Proposal LONDON, Aug. 14,— Reports that a complete agreement had © been reached on the question of Franco-Belgian evacuation of the Ruhr followed a call by the alk lied conference on the Dawes re port at 5 p. m. today for at. — tendance of all the German and allled experts, eee 7 LONDON, Aug 14—What amounted to a virtual ultimatum was handed to Germany today when representatives of Great Britain, United States and Italy joined hands with Premier Herriot of France on the plan for Franco-Belgian military {ovacuation of the Ruhr within one. year, The decision, was handed to the Germans with the demand that they reply to the agreement by 3 p. m, today, Tho Germans are awaiting an ane swer from Berlin before replying, They’ are resentful of the ulti matumlike character of the pros posal, one member of the delegation Inti snd. ‘|