The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 25, 1924, Page 1

BAR Ml ss VOL. OLD revere WEATHER tonight and Sunda not hange tn temper oderate herly winds FORECAST | 26. NO. 207. The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington Entered as Se: od Clase Matior May 2, 1 SEATTLE, WASH., OCTOBER 25, 1924. Home Bre Howdy, folks! Weill, well, if it Who's got a Qi maxim: A straw show wih way the wind blows New maxim: A straw vote shows shkh way the hot air blow Lil Gee Gee says she would like bear Mayor Brown testify in! probe, as he is ttle who can carry fhe street car aly man in fawe dozen ccls up five ft of airs ond r single one at ee A man ts middle-aged when he er when he thought it a cubed, ar CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB The rait’e-skull who gargles bis words when he talks over the teiephone. aa Mere people might make money didn't take ali their time to mike a living. eee TA spendthrift Scotch» tts Angus McThrilts Throws pennies crownd Like five-dolar ditts! cee fe the old days a drunk used t fm filled up with bromo mr a party: now he gets filled up seltzer SAYS CONNER IN GOOD REPUTE Defense Calls Character Witness in Trial MET receipts, nee: at ee ¥.1 Breed Hal — ot $40 Thursday ek Government officials have ruled Gat all income taxes must be made fic. Which makes us wonder ‘iat the government did with the Heat stamp we sent in as payment | Moar income tax. oes nightly haunts my| | Says Reputation for Telling Truth Is “Bad” IACOMA, Oct. How heartily I hate her; jfome night she'll! come and mew iit} late, And then I mew-ti-later omer | A Woman's Idea of being prepared an emergency is to have three Mituce leaves and a can of sardines ‘trays in reserve ; eee der of his wife lant May, erally bad reputation for telling the truth,” while Conner, himself, bore ia es . }@ good reputation in his community ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SAYS: | tris was the testimony Saturday of | Mrs. Mary Evans of Spanaway, who 14 she had known both Mrs. Holt jand the defendant since thelr child- | hood, “I would dress ea flapper, only T don’t believe in initin’ 5 1924 ton- | self with character witnesses, reserv fi | ing Conner’s appearance on the stand | ae 3 1870 gy | as its last volley. thanals,”" | The accused Fern Hill grocery |clerk may take the stand late Mon- 620% day. Mrs. Pearl Conner disappeared May 19. No search for her was undertaken for some days, when Conner reported that he had left her near the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Wright. She was to have gone to their home for a few days’ stay, Con- Micome tax figures are now be- Mg Made public, but it isn’t worry- ME collegs professors so much as (lege football coaches. eee Canned rabbit may the Beattle market. soon appear Canned dish Miler has long been on the mar-| ner said. only they cali it canned soup.}| Mrs. Conner’s body was discov- ie 6 6 ered in an abandoned well on the Pabbit meat is used as a food;|Camp Lewis reservation on June 1 Tt skin is made into fur, and of} The prosecution alleges that Mrs. /“NOT SO MRS. HOLT”) The defense Saturday contented it- | =tone Holt, gov-| ernment’s star witness against | Richard Conner, accused. of the mur. | “had a gen-} Short, president of the; statement or do anything in mylin a gun battle with Eddie and John tion of Labor, charged! power to cloar names of you five. stevens, Elgin, Kan. Ellis sought to jthat the committee was responsible | as your names do not appear in th¢/arrest the brothers on a robbery for a blanket of suspicion being affidavit or in connection with the) charge, authorities said. z thrown upon the entire labor move-|deal in any way.” Nichols said. Eddie’ Stevens. was shot and per-| ment, and that, in justice to labor) Statements, that Mayor E. J. | haps fatally wounded and to the public, that the names) Brown “double crossed” organ- | corroborative evidence » {SAYS MAYOR CAN | | GIVE INFORMATION | | fidavit ire bunny ecgs are a well-known) Holt, a friend of the Conners, delicacy | wormed from Conner the fact that bas igh his wife's body was in the well. MORE Another witness Saturday was “We were going Henry Coblentz, Fern Hill grocer enya big car |and a former employer of both the ts year, but | Conners. \He testified that Conners Be we think a, demeanor showed no difference fol- Hall car is: much lowing the time Conner said he had prs convenient lteft his wife at her parents’ home. pia ve, | In an attempt to prove that) eee vee? | Conner was unaware of the location| of the well in which his wife's| mE e188 he ower avoreat itl Say was found, the detenee pion Py gig * © lstelvin H. Hawke, an old-time farmer living near Spanway. Hawke ae 2 “9.9 " , aeeey | testified that the well was dug in = song a so Bs ta }1916, some time after Conner had Abpea Sagi Y¢r\ sett the district to live elsewhere. : orn ED ME. SLROPP, | Two or three uther character wit- Mis bought a drink from a belb| nesses, who gave Conner a good / reputation, ended the week's test!- coe mony. Court will not reconvene a Francisco man proposed to| until 2 o'clock Monday afternoon Rimeci¢ cast by air mail. pana Z Z: te all right, but heaven help PORTLAND, 25.—After he tries to send himself to} by cabie. “8 Ye DIARY (October 24) oar +, and boat to town, 1 did read tek income tmx re- wate to be made publique, whieh “= . for when Mrs. “ye pay 4 itt yeare, she Will figure 1 do be! and will atraighteway hie to % millinery shoppe for a now I can iM afford after th 24 hours of beavy gales along the Oregon and V hington coasts, the southeasterly storm disturbance sub. sided today and the storm v@rn- Ings were ordered down in the dis trict weather bureau. | promised to turn over the © | before | ana William MeGuerin. “What’s the 40 ay jayor rown's testimony before the council efficiency ‘committee, headed by Ralph Nichols, developed these hot shots between the mayor and the com- mittee chairman: NICHOLS Have your private investigators ever reported to you that collection districts exist in the city for the pro- tection of bootlegging and gambling? BROWN: No. But you know more about the old red light district than the investigators do, Mr. Nichols. NICHOLS: Has it ever been reported to you that Felix Crane was one of those collectors? BROWN: Ask him! You know him! a place to him. You know him, don’t you? NICHOLS: No, I don't know him, BROWN: Wait, whether you know him or not. I want Crane subpoenaed. You used to rent I'll prove In the argument over whether officials were enforcing the law, Nichols inquired about sentences given by judge Gordon and acting Judge Kalina, Brown replied: “I'll make you police judge some day, and then some of your old friends will come before you and you won't dare to fine them.” The room was packed with Brown supporters, them Chief Horse Gray chief joined in the Brown applause, group planted near the committee table. ‘Nichols Labor Demands Name of Accused Members ‘Want to Know Who Accepted “Bribes”; Charge Mayor Double-Crossed Them, RGANIZED labor ‘Saturday den nded from Chairman Ralph Nichols, of the council efficiency committee, that | | the names of the labor leaders accused of having accepted | | bribes in the street car deal from Stone & Webster be made public, ct those g of accepting bribes! |be rev | “Organized labor will pledge you} iity ized labor in appointing Harry Bolton civil service commission. er, were made at the clty coun- its support with money and tn any| ll efficiency committee meeting other way possible if you clear up| aturday, this charge mado against} Five leaders of organized labor tes | Rain some of its members, by saying who/| tified that Brown violated his agree- they said ments with labor, and had appointed C Nichols refused to di-| Bolton against the express wishes of vulge the names contained in the| the local untons The five labor leaders called to the stand are Willlam McGuern of the Baker's union, B. B, Ault, editor and | manager of the Seattle Union Rec. testimony | rd; Chasies W. Doyle, secretary of of Minich,’" Nichols said. ‘I do not|the central labor council; William vouch for his testimony before this| Short, president of the state feder. committee; therefore I will not re-|ation, and Leo Flynn, of the carpen veal the names of these men and) ters’ union. do ces the injustice of being ac They testified that they had In- cused of u erime when I have nol formed Mayor Brown that a close " liason existed between Bolton and (Turn to Page 2, umn 6) Emil Minich, | doing the} affidavit furnished by saying that it would be men an injustice. “There is nothing in sion to corroborate the my posses: Brown was given the af which contains the names of the men together with receipt and documentary evidence. He ha them now and can release them this minute if you ask him.” Short caid that the m: “Mayor MEEKER'S HOME © had idence Goes Right to Bed committee al days| Wearled starts func-|trip from Vancouver, Wash., to Washington, D. C., officials business in the capital for the Seattle Cham: ber of Commerce, and a long trip home, Ezra Meeker, 93-year-old Oregon trail pioneer, went straight to bed Friday evening on arrival here. His only statement had a “swell trip” the mayor's citizens that it may be this committee to but by a strenuous airplane tioning “In the meantime continues to spread,” this slander | Short declared. | « of three men were} mentioned in connection with the| work of this committee in such a way as to create suspicion in the) street car deal. “These men are myself, Leo Flynn was that h id “In justice to these three you should release names in your posses- sion.” Nichols said that none of the five men subpoenaed to testify Sat- Jap Colonies in Mexico Questioned WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Investi- gation of alleged Japanese coloniza- urday, including the thtee named|tion schemes in Mexico was asked by Short and EB. B. Ault, managing|/of the state department today by editor of the Seattle Union Record,| Representative Phil Swing, republi- were named and Charles W. can, of California, who announced, in the affidavit. j following a visit to the department, “T am willing to make a written that the Inquiry would be made. Doyle, rail Tho opening game of the Junior | world’s series here between St Paul and Seattle, was postponed| today because of rain. The big} baseball series will start Sunday, weather permitting. The Sunday game will start at near here, among Kagle, an Indian from Missouri, who gays he came here to attend a cowboy convention. which was led by a The |Flyers Scosdina' to Santa Monica SAN FRANCISCO, Oct The United States army round world flyers expect to reach Santa Monica Cal., at 2 p. m. today They loft Crissey field, San Fran c at 10:15 a. m. and. headed southward. They wil make no stops en route. Lieutenant Wrig in a pilot . Preceded them. Sheriff Kiiled in Attempting Arrest BARTLESVILLE, Okla., Oct. 25 Marshal W. 8. Ellin, 30, of Ocheleta, waa shot and killed today CALL GAME OFF Interferes With First of Little World Series 2 o'clock, |Warren Realty Co. Says He Had-“Swell Trip23| fis insurance ond rental ss | Varied List of Incomes Is} As a result of the disclosures of | Opens New Office | Pharr ate | fn North End prop the Warren Realty Co, will open November 1 at the corner of 45th st. and Stone way, it was an nounced by Jesse M. Warren Satur {day. The firm will handle genera a1 estate and will also have loan, ments Warren Realty Co. Warren when conducted the from 1919 to 1 he took up spectal work manager for the Gardner Co, The new office force about seven men. as J. Gwinn will total —<<——$—__—_—__—.. | A Closed Car Offer Today Here is a little car that is just what you are looking for 1923 DODGE COUPE Fintsh Ice ; motor perfect; original cord tires; front. and rear bumpers; |ar & M spotlight; sun vino down, balance FE % The Want Ad columns will tell rou where this car is located, sales} Per Year, by Math § Only One Thing Lacking As Mayor and Nichols Clashed! It Was Tex Rickard) Brown SEC. NEAR DEATH “Just Barely Alive” Latest Report of Physician IS NOW UNCONSCIOUS ;Head of Agriculture Col- lapses Following Operation WASHINGTON, 745 p, m. today Oct, —, physicians At tending Secretary of Agriculture House he Wallace a was the White doubtful an hour. | ASHINGTON, Oct. 2 dition of Secretar Agriculture Wallace, ill in hospital here following an oper- ation for the removal of his ap- pendix and gatl bladder, was reported today to “be most un- favorable” by Dr. Joel T. Boone, | White House physician, | “The toxemia which caused his relapse has become more intensive," Boone said after a | physicians’ consultation today. “The toxemia which set in fol- | Jowing the operation, resulted in an infected condition of the in- testine.” Boone said that Wallace became unconscious again this morn- ing after having been uncon- scious most of yesterday. WALLACE The SeattleStar | at the Postoffice at Beaitia Wash., under the Act of Congress March 3, 157% ATURDAY, HOM EDITION| TWO CE i{|l S IN SEATTLE. Suspects Taken in Missouri for Seattle Slaying Charles Fairchild and Floyd Siverly Arrested One Month After Litsey Is Killed Here ACTLY a month from the time Patrolman Robert L. Litsey was shot and killed by three thugs near Seventh ave, and Pine st., word was received by the Seattle police, Friday morning that Charles Fairchild and Floyd Siverly were under arrest in Bethany, Mo., for the murde A third man, F. G. Richardson, is under arrest here on ja charge of first degree murder. | | | see the day | took up one of my own officer: It was just a month ago, on the! The telegram rectived by the pe morning of September 25, that Litsey |lice Friday read appr 4 three young men in a “We have Floyd Siverly and rooming house hallway to question! Charles’ Fairchild. They say them, They shot him without warn-| wanted on murder charges there. ing and he died soon after Richardson wed by Wire if true and if reward is of. Tucker, wan ¢ Patrol-| fered.” Signed Fred man E Johnson, who fired sey-| County Sheriff, Beathany eral shots at him in @ long chase.| Capt. of Detectives Chi Before Litney died he identified Fair-|nant wired Tucker imm child's police picture as being the|hold the men and to watch Siverly photo of the man who killed him.|as he has escaped from fail tw3 Siverly was also wounded. Charges |The reward is $500 for both of the of first di murder were filed in| prisoners. It ts believed that Siver! court against Siverly, Fairchild and|and Fairchild were picked up on Richardson, A nation-wide hunt fol:|minor charge and admitted they lowed for tl the two fugitives were wanted in Seattle. Majewski Should Be in Jail, Tennant. Charges Watson Is Held on Count of Aiding in Bon Marche ie Holdup | Flees City Detective John M. Majewski should be in jail for attempted bribery, Capt. of Detectives Charles Tennant declared Saturday morning, fol- lowing the arrest of former De- tective Ross Watson on a charge of aiding and abetting the Bon Marche holdup. “Majewski tried to. bribe ‘osecutor T. H. ‘Patterhon , brought in. Mrs. Watson identified | Watson as the man she had seen |near the Bon Marche on the day of |the robbery. | Watson denied having seen the woman, but Mrs. Johnson claims he lived in an apartment adjoining hers |in Wenatchee several years ago. She |naid she also recognized him instant- ly the day she saw him near the Bon Marche. Deputy in an attempt to get evidence fot the de-| Both Detective Tennant and Prose fense of Joe Neal and Edward Fas. | cutor Malcolm Douglas refused to di- ick, according to Patterson's state-|Vulge whether Watson is the man ment,” Tennant said. “No greater |implicated in a confession by Norris a po-| Lockwood, a suspect in the case, | who was a janitor at the store. This confession, according ‘to ru mors, names a city detectlve. It caused the discharge of both Watson crime could be committed by lice officer, and especially a detect I never thought that I would when I would have to he ive. said, referring to Watson, “but/and City Detective John F. Majew- both Watson and Majewski should | ski, who were accused of attempting be in jail.” |to obtain copies of it by offering Tennant declared that he had lots|bribes to Deputy Prosécutor T. H. more evidence against Watson in| Patterson and Detective R. R. Her- the Bon Marche holdup than had | bert. been published Both men have applied for rein- “[ never try a case in the newspa- | statement to the department. pers,” he said, “but when the trial! Staunch loyalty to her husband opens we will be able to hang a|was displayed by Mrs. Ross Wat- great deal more on Watson than!son at her home, 5319 Latona ave. lanyone supects, The evidence giv-| Saturday. en by Mrs. Vivian Johnson, stenog- “Ross wasn't mixed up in the rapher, is only a part of what we/Bon Marche job,” she said “It looks | have secured. |to be like he has been framed, or | | |ing that he | | Spokane NEW TAX LISTS _ MADE PUBLIC | Printed in New York | payments of in for 1923 | were made public here today, Tol. | lowing are some of the more inter: | esting. | Harry I. Sinclair, | pot Dome oil reserve, } Peggy Hopkins Joye lessee of Tea $1,069. Goy. At Smith, $31. | Fanny Bryce, wife of Nickey Arn j stein, $1,340. | Attorney General Stone, $6,722 | Charles F. Murphy, $9,948. | Frank L. Bacon (estat® of the au thor and star of ‘Lightnin’ "), | $7,195 | Avery Hopwood, playwright, $2,702 | Ethel Barrymore, $1,298 | Irving Berlin, $4,134 Cohan, $876. George M | De Wolf Hopper, $1,374. (Turn to Page 2, Column 4) | $10,000. | | Praia: _ 80 CRASHES ON FRIDAY Wet Pavements Blamed; Boy Is Seriously Hurt “Majewski does not figure in the actual holdup, so far,” Tennant said. A formal charge of robbery was filed late Friday against former city detective Ross Watson, charg: | “was present, aided and in the Bon Marche holdup His bail was set at abetted” last August Saturday an application was to be made for a reduction of the bail by Attorney George H. Crandall, former prosecutor, who has been engaged as his counsel. The woman who caused Watson's arrest and {dentified him as “the mysterious stranger” who was seen | in front of the store at the time of the robbery, was _Tevealed to news- papermen late Friday by the prose- riday was one of the worst of the year in point of traffic idents, A total of more than 80 was reported, Albert Pittson, 7. year-old son of cutor's office, as N Vivian John-|Mrs. Harry Pittson, 4524 33rd~ave }son, an employe of C. W. Chamber-|W., was seriously injured when tain & Co, knocked down by an automobile ] Charles Further [disprove Watson's statements before | | | coupe, jon the da bandits transferred the satchel when | they st the day of the holdup. are still others implicated who are at large, came Friday | Captain ‘Tennan jdriven by J. H. Hardy, 4266 Wins- Jlow ave. The boy was on his way home from school when he ran in |front of the auto. Wet streets were held responsible for the majority of the accidents. The 80 smashups represent an in crease of from 80 to 100 per cent over the daily average. Many peo- ple were injured, but none, with the boy's exception, seriously, Auto Demolished, Driver Near Death BEND, Ore., Oct, 25.—Injuries re- ceived early this morning in a most spectacular and complete auto wreck may cause the death of Fred Metzger, Jr, meat market propri jetor, Fractures df the skull and serious lacerations are. among hi most critical hurts. The machi which Metzger was driving was ut office, where hel terly demojished when it hit a pile until Mrs. Johnson was of rocks, after hurdling a sidewalk. Prosecutor Malcolm of Detectives Johnson, and Captain Tennant have been able to Mrs. Dow the civil service commission that he was nowhere near the Bon Marche of the robbery. has been instituted for a to which the pursued Search rd coupe were followed from the store son formerly owned a Ford it is sald, Sometime after the holdup he acquired a new car, Six arrests have been made in the Bon Marche robbery case, but there Prosecutor Douglas said. arrest of the former detective morning when Detect- ives Charles Waechter and Jim Byrne called at Watson's home be- re he was up. He was taken to The was held Mill Tax Bill All About?’’ In The Star Next Week 3 FOR COP MURDER! | aaa