The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 18, 1924, Page 1

Lal MRS. OLMSTED CALLS COPS L DRY AGENTS RAID HOME ae WEATHER — VOL. frome Brew Howdy, folks! When a Seattle man is ordered to take a a dimate, all he has to do is to gait another day Federal yued that 3 at be pinched Maryland’ The clove it is a startling thing Exciting. It doean’t « But Al the world ous husbands h parts. ABIGIAL APPLESAUCE SAYS: “There's many a mun who comes home late at night aad tries to make a reise like the sind blowing up Men with college feat of luck. Any an get just as peters behind its r jon an array of want Jackie Coogan says fo be an automobile mech De grows up. Isn't that just like Jackie? Always after the big money hen THE CROSSWORD F! OMAR KHAYYAM A detionary underneath the bough. A book of synonyms also, and Thou | Beside me in the wilderness hecaching for another word for} At the police station Rev. Sheats iNhew"! | ey told the same story he had told |” ay vay |e coroner. Hi 4 home last This is National Education Week Father will celebrate b sn at college anot . heck I'd lke to be This Everett True He does the things Ta tke to do. eee Rudolph Valentino, according drs dispatches, is growing bald. ¥ @rays did tell Ruddy he shouldn't gat © much Thousand Island dress- is on his hair. . RUDDY HOME Rudolph Valen- tio has returned froma lengthy tour i with a mus. and beard he grew while step He is ends shortly to nin on a trellis, e fact that this is Na- in Week, Li'l Gee Gee three R's signify p Pome is @ fiecting and ephemeral . What has become of the lads ‘rote, “Yes, We Have No} ? p Pupils in San Diego schools, ac mg to Mayor Brown. esht that there is sk: ing on El Hike rumor. West Seattle residents, d of having to cross the Spo- &. bridge, sould skate home. q Caray ANDIDATE FOR THE POISON a IVY CLUB te sink whao invented the key sardine cans. E eee tthe old days, Bobby used to ask M8 father to help him with his arith Now father asks Bobb a8 »by to “phim with his cross-word puzzle PASTRANGE, STRANGE GAL IS HELEN sTAI fT YANK RAY HATE fons of the scott! 6 Scofflaw: bumble, there's no an liquor store o-° “Be it ever place ike a YE DIAny ‘ovember 17) 4 i, md to reading “The Little | which do be a book much | days, but Lord! its action over nw vast ber of aibelt it he interest! Ing enongh Feo the ottice, und there did nome | ee) and ‘then abroad, nnd. to for my musick box, a-hearten Hannah, the Vamp And also some gum-drops my Rig am when she do be in aa oo Mamma, marnn cried the ‘ ri hley As it hov@Ped over a pair ks, “I've made « hole in| 4 tt pleasct sending his are being | Bay. Too bad there is no truth | n intk @ot at all. The Newspaper With the Big _ SEAT TLE, WIFE 1S ~ DEAD | FURNACE Pastor Is Questioned by Prosecutor in Death Mystery; He Finds Body UMBUS, ©. Ne 5 ing that he is as much r John R. King he discov harred remains, Deing for burial DEATH SHOCK RESIDENTS The death of Mr {trict of Bexley, whe | ls pastor of its leading chu: Coroner Murphy wanted | & verdict of suicide, but cutor: Insinted that the w be made the subject of a } Veatigation, his flock and found hi | Milton, a student at C Isity, where Rev. Sheatsley bas a Bible class, investiga burning fiesh old The boy said he had looked tn the, Mrs. |furnace several s before his (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) : IN CAR CRASH "| Another Hurt; Two Men | Held in Seattle Jail an auto crash near Auburn Monday night. The dead woman is Mrs. Jos Bastunaro, 29, of 510 th 8. Mrs, Loulsa Traversa, of 20th ave. &., is in Aubrn hospital} with internal injuries. Adolph Jac-|K conina, restaurant man, of Seattle, | Alfred Hubbard, Sverett, who | working on » wrecked car, are oe und Andy Sennimore,.of were in th rrest. Police say that broken liquor bot- tles were found in the automobile. The crayh occurred on the highway near the Motor Inn. The Jacconina while traveling at high speed. Each of the women has two minor rsa. is the moth. | way children. Mrs, Tra er of E $, and Josephine, 12 The dead woman leaves Marino, and Margaret, 11. on’t You Dare Laugh at This! trying to find the ocean? fombee viny THEY ALLOW COMMON THE a Class Me ISDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1924. Mt. Baker Home and Principals i in Raid Left, stor went immediately to the parsonage furnace, were Aunt Vivien’ 8 Bedtime Tales Rudely Checked! Olmsted Hoped Radio Would Win Hull band Respectable Place in Society BY JACK HALL night after calling on member: is tal cain ing the odor of | WOMAN IS DEAD wi Idren radio fans over tation KE 2X the Italy f Altho pati ing t Hquor charges Mra. Ormsted at times would flash re at criticlsms of Olms has traveled the mov | KFQX, the wife of Roy Olmsted, Olmsted has or |#eemed to be making slow, painful his former occu-| headway. The station fans were in. | creas and the programs were weral. electrical. inven- | inged into the with the rest Bard .to make outstanding Some say she liked the work, the’ stepping « r husband mig pierce car skidded from the road, it ia said, | stories of ¢ faced the obs Neighbor of Roy Olmsted in the ex ted by federal dry agents, dea of an alleged rum king | the district. F he appeared when he was a police lieutenant istant Prohibition Director interested in the shed nxide the ¢ nd kept on at her work. She 1 oad ing room like mn used by the singers in r and her hu the Hmelight of respectabilt nd TIL Monda tt “Aunt Viv ler of bedtime stories, spirit behind radio when the federal prohi ts swept d on the |Olmsted home and guthored her in| Aunt Vivien's” yoice| Mrs, Harding Now | a Little e, Stronger | And ether agai n with the perhaps the| hardened by the experience of alg night and a day in the s of the her first such experience in her gest Circulation in Washington |e - The Seattle Star TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. Mount Bake Olmsted, his wife and a party of guests beautiful home. Prohiibtion Director Roy ¢ right, Roy Olmsted |Red Lantern to Mark Dry | | Agents Coup i ED-GLOB: ED | de deral prohibition he » months ago agents of Olm: . according to placed the lantern in the of a federal agent's t im her efforts to} that lantern here in the Lyle commanded his men won't go out of here and his gang have been pla under arrest on charges of ‘al prohibition dusted off, filled ni Star Camera Man Mauled by Olmsted Li'l Bre'r Rabbit” and of | “Jackie Dumplin voice, perhaps softened, it will be a new} seems to be OBERT BRADLEY, a little kan | w life. Sawyer's 9 a. Jotin sald today, |of Roy Olmsted and his fornia—pertect drink!: j | BY JIM MARSHALL, | W L, sir, you'd hardly be | lieve the dastardly things they do down in Funny Califor tila, would you? Mayor Brown says that some friends of his tell him that down there teach- ers tell the children that Wiliott Bay is fresh water and freezes over every winter. “It's no laughing matter,” says the mayor. Why, of course W's not? We'd like to catch anybody laughing It looks to us like an- trick of the council o6fi- committees to blacken the | clty's name, and we wouldn't be surprised ff Ralph Nichols was mixed up in its somewhere. Doc wants to send a dolegate back to Washington and have the rivers and harbors congress fo a small and o And that it isn’t fresh, tricts in San Diego. first thought of describing fornia earthquake: ganda about Ci nia and have our schoolma’ams tell it to our nian who, after use in elementary, grade schgo! HO in the Americ an consul Who runs the blac! kamith shop years walking Who first thought up the joke about the two kinds of being only ather in Call and unusual? How many ships were sunk in the Jast tidal wave in San Francisco bay? Describe the seven kinds of nnimal, found in Los Angeles Who first thoug t of affixing ure knoll in Northern California tho title of “Mount Shasta’? Name the seven slum dis: Who was the pros 8 fires’ Rewrite the story of Califor » jaw by Olmst a jiu-jitsu victim of one of the and 15 others arr commissioner's | § his blankets Third ave. after posting bail and snapped a picture of her. She » sometimes re de-| radio and was stroying the p ntaining Mrs. When Bradley of disitusioned y was a block down the street fray, but'mado no move to] US. there. | When 1$ MT RANIER. WERE BUT WHATS Lire BUMP 9 OVER ON THE FIGHT! otvca: Co. § Sued for Three Million called the police. OOKLYN, N, ¢ $8,000,000,000 for right back at in the face, the phono nobody." Dour You Kwow? WINY THAT “THING THERE alleged breach lof contract has been filed against the |Goodyear Cotton & Rubber company of Akron, Ohio, it was learned today moved in supreme court to set aside service and complaint on the ground the service was defective, concerns are Stockton & Co., Manufacturing Thistle Cotton Mills, Home| Roy, His Wife Edition and Guests Are Taken to Jail Released After Bail in Sum of $10,500 Is Posted; Federal Officers Say Alleged Liquor Ring Broken RY agents Monday night staged their long-promised raid on the home of Roy Olmsted, ’ As they broke in to the Olmsted Mrs. Elsie Olmsted, host- “king of the bootleggers. residence at 3757 Ridgeway place, at a lively party, rushed to the telephone, according to sistant prohibition director. e me MA in-7810,” she called. Then, hand over the siver, she turned to Whitney. I'll have this house full of police in a few minutes,” she cried in defiance. “The police are with us. An agent, at a sign from instrument from her and hung up. While Mrs. William Whitney, M. Whitney, who has been called the ording to his story. Whitney, roughly took the aide to her husband, stood by and smiled, Whitney announced for the benefit of Mrs. Olmsted and the guests that: will come here that I don’t want.” “This is my party. No one Olmsted, Mrs. Olmsted and 16 other prisoners captured at the Olmsted home were arraigned Tuesda: States Commissioner H. 8S. issued the search warrant under raid. The entire party, which released. and posted bail totaling $10,500. gration station, Among the was Mark B. F ribew himself as ts and prisone ming, who but who has been described by witnesses before city investigating nmittees as “a collector” for the police department prominently mentioned in the recent ension of two city detectives 4 was necused of offering to have} ome decorator, rleming was y before United who, on November 12, which Whitney made the had been held at the immi- The Olmsteds arranged for All pleaded not guilty. against Olinsted and his com had been made. Warrants were issued by United States Com. missioner H, § ‘The complaints charge “the posses. sion and sale of Nquor on July 4 ott November 12 19, October 13 and Novem: “Under cover’ agents, unknown one of them reinstated upon pay-|to the residents, have been watching m never was proyed and Fleming 4 pled it flatly, KAD POLLAWED ‘LONG EFFORT Imported “under cover” agents of the prohibition department were]. given credit Tuesday by Roy Lyle. rtment head, for the success of jthe raid. They got the evidence aged teh affair following seve ra months of unproductive labor eattlo office, of which Lyle . the head ard Whitney the and ms Olms Twice they were on the verge of] ng. Once, they said, they} a police ar came prowling thru the exclusive Mount Baker district in which Olmsted purchased his were vented becaust prowler mansion. When the raid was made Monday no resistance. araded before the wn reyolvers, warn- in the house to make no evening ther The agents guests with ng tho: oute ot Tom Takagawa, die Sadick, L Clarence H. ("Baldy") Healy, ed later at his home, 625 E. | Lynn st., on a similar charge. le, was made only after a carefully prepared The arrest, according to L imported agents have watch-| a home for weeks. rs arrested include Ruth Ben- panese ‘vant; Ed Engdohl, Phil Karanski, lagpole on the top of the build-| Richard Elbrow, allas Dick Bennett, Kleimen, Herb | Fletcher, William J. Symonds, ence G. Heaty, Carl E. Wilson, Ho- |bart Hector, Isador Fischler and Myer Rose. Clar- said by Lyle to be one of the ring, was nt of a certain sum* The charge, the house for days. The name and address of every person who has vis ited the house in the past fortnight has been obtained by the agents. According to Whitney, the mect ing of the party was held “to direct operations of Seattle's rum i, SEVERAL IN HOME ARE NOT HELD Several perséns who were present the house at the time of the raid were not held, Whitney said Included in these were Earl of the Butler hotel theater orches ; A, M. Hubbard, young inventor and operator of Olmsted's radio sta tion, KFQX; Mrs. H. Fletcher and 4 man named Gearing. Farl Gray declared he was at the home arranging for the remote radio control lines from the house to the Butler hotel. . Jerry Finch, Olmsted's attorney was ready to post bail for all of the defendants Tuesday morning. Blank bail bond forms, issued by the Na- tional Surety Co, were ready for the insertion of the names. The raid was conducted by Whit- ney, aided by Federal Agents Earl Corwin and James Johnson. Sam Ragsdale, private investigator for Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas, partici- tray Several under cover men, whose names are unknown, were stationed at various entrances to the building. The agents entered the house first at about 10 o'clock, Whitney said Two or three arrivals came after- wards and walked into the trap. OVER-ZEAL ROBS THEM OF VICTIM Sid Greene, said by Whitney to be (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) : Mrs. Olmsted Says She . Was Sla pped b by Whitney \Wife of Alleged Rum Runner Describes Scenes That Followed Raid bedtime story when the age {broke into the house.’ It was Mrs. Roy Olmsted talking. had just been released with her s|/husband from the United States »{immigration station, where they |were placed éarly ‘Tuesday morning, »| following their arrest at their home to/on federal liquor charges. “T was broadcasting over the| stopped right in the |middle of it. The men came in rants which declared pigked him-|that they had knowledge there was |liquor in the house. with search wa “There were only half a dozen of I let them look thru the entire place and they found nothing. they couldn't find anything 1 expected they would leave. “Bill Whitney .refused to go so “A man who knows me and knows T can talk soveral languages got sus- picious and started to talk to her in German. Mrs. Whitney said; ‘Cut that stuff out and bring out the booze.’ Tho fellow knew it wasn't me be- cause I often talk to him in German, Mp didn’t come out and they atdn’t | a charge.” ts Ho slapped me pushed me away from d-said T would call WAS right in the middle of a; have good luck after that.” “Then Whitney and the rest of the fellows began to call up boot- leggers. They would say, ‘This is Olmsted. Bring out some We're having a party “When the men would come out |they would make them come inside and wait, and then would call more numbers. “The agents would probably had every bootlegger in town out there, only Mrs. Whit- ney, who was helping her hus- band, made a mistake. not worrted in the least,” Olmsted declared. “The agents didn’t find a drop of liquor in the house. Every bit they seized they got by calling up bootleggers’ numbers. It wasn't my liquor, known Lyle was watehing mo for some time. It didn’t bother There was nothing about my home that T was ashamed of or was, afraid to let him see. Of course, bo responsible for the: liquor Lyle brings in. “We're going right back to broad- casting. The agents stopped us list , & thing they had no right to do, They also arrested Hubbard, the operator, and aro still holding him in the immigration station witheut an eet