The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 24, 1924, Page 1

“SEATTLE FINANCIER GONE, - BROKERAGE FIRM CRASHES! yaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington ‘+i The Seattle Star (|! Boiered a2 Beewed Clase Maller May 3, 289%, ot the Powiutfion at Beattia Wash, wbGer the Act of Congress March & A5/s, Bex Vous, by Mash 0706 VOL. 26. NO Cpe EATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1924 ra TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. Company Suspends; By ata ma Plans Jury y NOW wovKg. WellLook Who's Here] Receiver Is Asked Bre Auto Victims to Judge Speeders femes Macfarlane " NOW MOVING \.. pisit Backs In; He'll Be on the_ =m S| th Chick Deviees Pan Fortune May Save Investors nothing now remains but to pick the AllAmerican team. Warships to Enforce De- eee to Curb Recklessness mands Over Assassination - Nominated f ! he A AMES MACFARLANE & CO., stock brokers, at 811 Sec- ican eley The Bitex sto! JUDGE FAVORS IDEA DREADNAUGHT IS GOING J ond ave., were closed down Monday when Judge Otis We ee: Brinker appointed a temporary receiver to administer the Ot course’ ime erste for a Jury From Hospitals Will Egyptian Troops Reported Seni waa etic’ colgivar onl: coecal a to the gink tho th new 3! Judge Accused Men Evacuating Soudan cease at 11:20 a. m. Liabilities are set at $150,000, with forby ever ¢ ae ee doubtful assets of undetermined amount. tv fotims of reckless Seattle pu BY LLOYD ALLEN More than a score of investors, bewildered by the pros- pects of losing their savirigs, thronged the office, bewailing their losses. drivers will sit on a I ONDON, N —! I 4 warshis ¥ rivers I t t I Mr. Jensen expressed ignorance as to Macfarlane’s wher B te abouts. ae: regi " “1 don’t know where he is; I wish I did,” he said. ll fo . Ne yt! Wenn ye — a Duk 5 to Alexandria brought th ge ranip| 80 PER CENT LOSS embers of the jur annot be from Ma r able, he said, to hallenged, ier caiiet : : collect $1, rm held for him| IS SEEN IN CRASH ightily, And so to walking along the cases. The fecide each cane nvestments closed out Inst Sat Investors in the James Mac: each. even ws far as Carad teas urday Farlane brokerage house stand ; ee Donnell has been dealing in mar- to lose 80 per cent of thelr for some months, he said, and! money, according to a rough estis ® 1 k sold out his heidings in|] mate made by William Jenseny me ord profit. of jy more|| temporary receiver of the com- ft han $100, He had in 1 $1,500.1] pany, He applied for his monay Monday, “But we all hope that the fam- bine e t but was told the firm gould not]! jy money will come to the ald — pay it i ‘ c |] of the company,” he told The? : t Mrs, MacFarlane told m Star Te!) star “Tf it does, nobody will .. m cases on the hile m porter that MacFarlane guffered 2/| jose a cent. i o. a" jury may heandir ox ar | nervous attack Sunday and wan|| “But if it does not, investors sent fo a manitartum by the family|! may get back about some ‘3 physician. She refused to disclose!! in ‘the neighborhood of 20 which sanitarium or the nature of]! gent. jthe attack "Tt is too early to make a def | | “The family will take care of/| Inite estimate, however.” | everything,” inquiring investors were! told Moritz ‘Thomsen, fatherin-law of | a y and reported to be interested in the firm, hurrying back to Seattle from OF DR BROWN Mr. Fixit, the handy man about The Star office, backed| At Thomeen's oftice in the Central | Efficiency Committee Meets into his job this morning. He thinks he can do better work|™!4ing, Monday, it was sald that he SaGNE ce thaeerew Again on Tuesday ¢ difference betwe jorton, who pre sta ned & Yate has given the WILDE LIFE Broadway Seniors Play Oscar WW tide." —Heacline. Is Osear Wilde anything like & Deuces Wilde? ' * Jefferson, Ea nglewood, Real urb the ffic a» the ‘word is r | PAYS INDEMNITY Egypt Hands Over 500,000 Pounds for Sirdar Killing — ermon on reckless drivers se brought before it in the elty = MRS, HARDING'S CATRO, Nov. 24 is expected Mrs. Motoist—Why don’t you ash mit f tit ‘ alae ia eg ‘ ale C ies S oe eee mit if his identity is not revealed, so this picture, the back of |\thomsen was called back by the fall. : fr Wot What difference Me yt Great “ his bald head, is all yow'll ever see of him. Tomorrow he'l of the firm, his associates said.| Resuming !ts probe of alleged in- uld it make? Five minutes from pounds » = m-jhave a regular department in The Star, and you're priv-| Thomsen is head of the Centennial | efficiency in city goverment, Couns ow we won't be anywhere near for the a nation of Sir Lee|ileged to call upon htm for most anythi want ficed,| Mill Co., and reputed to be worth |¢ilman Ralph Nichols’ department ene . t, headed } ‘ f pe"! According to Donnell, who brought {287 Morning, will investigate “the: Daugherty Tuesday your coal chute, but if it’s a public job you're interested in, | executive department of the city ot Seattle.” Mayor Brown !s the executive « 4 the recelvership action, MacFarlane eye ’ Mr. Fixit promises to get it fixed. |is reported to have dealt heavily in MARION, Ohio, Nov. 24. and to have sold short. Last i 4 lof friends 4 before the bier ¢ Bayotian treamuty, wa sneak ta, Ceba partment, : yr turday the Chicago connections of : f are | Mrs. _ Kling Harding today (Turn to Page 3, Column 3) Seattle World ( ruiser |the firm demanded more margins.|_ Beyond admitting that four wits) AMERICA’S THREE LEADING. | before the casket was closed at noon Failure to supply them precipitated |Pensew pone of whom bas eves sis INDUSTRIES Mar Weieea Gira toe soha tela 11-months-Old Girl | |the break, Donnell said. Pmdertestah tec 1. Steel ist Episcopal church for the my ig $ 2 5 2 The complaint and receivership ac Automobiles, Jal which wan to begin at 2 pm Is Burned to Death eats Veath on COAT eer eas, Tuesday, Nichols was ellen |mony was to be held. song, “A Perfect Day.” which was her are $150,000 and the assets are of /matter, I believe,” he announced Wa P. Mebonald, was burst to Tommy Drake, Buf feted by Storm, Is dow vatue ana uminown, “| Monday. there are no ministers ie death in Perhaps t ke to wear favorite, was to be rendere De aed ea eae once volved this time, I have confidential ran |'"irne body ‘wilt be eacorted to the bao, Houpe et Safe After Perilous Trip in Small Boat |intornfation upon which 1 have based be eee emetery by a%stroop of United ricther ‘bad’ © tows eS es A typical scene resulted when the|® call to four men as witnesses. I | | States soldiers and the militar er older| The world cruise of Tommy Drake, , Pilgrim at Hadlock, near Port ‘Town.|fitm closed. The customers crowded |@M not at liberty now to state ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SAYS |" (Turn to Page 3, Column 3) rie ‘ : ype nl. He patehed hee rapine sesma|about the windows seeking informa-|nature of their probable testimony, | “Live so tnat if z i : or and the Game on tai Hak {tion iH Bu i an aged mariner, paienold ride hopes to concl aaa . fire “T guess the Lo sasaki a» {Who hobbled about on two canes, vestigations whic! j when you come to Deafness an Asset ii V. McLoughlin ' teas the Lord was against me") cai he will lose $2,000 unless the |occupted his committee within oe ) die your death to This Newsdealer - Back‘in Busi andPopened Up thesbect, oear| Sem niakes good. next week or two. He admits that ; William Peterman, who sells out: Tmyestors Gobble [RCH In DUSInEss re, instead of lettin et out| “I had shipping stock valued at|he does not see much basis for aC | , won't appear {town papers at Second and Union, at the Age of 75 |< to the middle of the I $1,800 up as margin on 20 shares|ton thus far. i among the list 0 deat. Up Loan to France) . "n,n oy Drake and the Pilgrim are at Stan.|of Mexican Gulf and 1,000 bushels| “The police. department efficiency es Y But deafness often ts an asset,"|~ xiw YORK, Nov. 24.—The $100! oy. sai died ie tata ona: wood, his old stamping ground. They {of oats,” he said. “I also had $150/4Nd alleged grafting conditions preva ‘ >wn improve he says 'y customers write down | 999,000 French loan was overaub-| °° | ie tas will whitey there ai eee on the{eash up. My losses on the day's |Jent within that body," he said, “will } one their orders on a pad I carry, and | subscribed $60,000,000 after the 1 But © playing: for ff « ia world cruise again Saath, business would not exceed $60, but|Probably be taken up again before: s él I never have to stop and listen to|wore offered for sale today and the| fu Tier Paving tor Sve yours bel T suppose I will lose everything.” {We finally adjourn this series, T da” — t is immoral | thelr troubles.” books ‘were cloged importing business om A gray-haired old woman with [7Ot eva ent ne street ee to jena | Gal = | — | othe worst thing @ tan cat ¢o § ROBBED FOR FIFTH TIME expressed confidence that |000) Dor the civil service commission smoke without k 12 Cops Exonerated | WATCHMAN CATCHES BOYS | to retire from business,” he says. Storms outside the Straits kept] Burglars have gotten into the|MacFarlane's family connections will | Matte) py much of OUR aan tan Caught by a night watchman at} "After I reach 100, if business condi-| him duty four days and four | habit ng on Licut. J, U. An.|make good her losses, = Be = : The shades of night were falling by Police Captain! the Parisian Candy Co.'s plant, 14th|tlons are good, | expect to branch] nights, without sleep. His sails wore tle fire department.| “All my savings are gone unless eS fast | Police Sergeant H. G. Cinnamon! oye and Washington st. Sur out into other lines.” blown, away, and under a trysail he! For the fifth time in as many years, |they do,” she said. Cop Proud That He a “ As th ar pine age passed | and rolman L. L. Mead have been | evening, two young boys were being aren | managed to beat up for Flattery. He | thieve oted the Angers home | Macfarlane experienced a similar . na A youth, who bore, ‘mid mow andlexonerated by Capt. W. H. Searins | noid by Juvenile authorities Monday.| KANSAS GITY, Mo. 24.—I| nearly got there, but another storm | Third Bundy s dateatine aig eenketare eee tthe Owns His Own Home tee, | of charges growing ont of the arrest, | rie nds had raided the candy wa Three bandits held up a wp | blew hint 120 miles out to sea again. | Angers iis wife were re-|firm of Macfarlane & Hall crashed,|__ 7: W: Phelps of 1017 Boylston avey A banner with this strange device,| October 28, of J. G. Jones, a real) rouse and were well loaded with|store of the Barr & Dunn Jewelry | His cra an to leak turning home when th fled,|yJonn L. Hall quit the firm at that] Veteran policeman, is a great bes “It ain't gonna rain no more, no\estate operator. Jones, arrested for] ,., when caught. ‘Two other boys today. and escaped| Finally he maniged to get. inside |i n phonograph standing hait.|tine, “The losses then aggregated (ever in every man’ owning hig gama more, speeding, accused the officers of be-| joaned jewels yalued at $30,000 the Strits ag und beached the! way thru the front door $60,000. home. ; It ain't gonna rain no more.”\ing drunk and abusive, Searing's ARR T bought my place 18’ years agg ox9 |report says that this {« untrue,| ~——— and have lived in it ever since, wi ngton sugi —eats| sored was fined $25 on the speeding some of the city's finest homes have oe oO smuinr | Lhe Inside Story of the Rum Scandal |i come —“ Opened in Olympic a Seattle Is Great + ele A Christmas substation for the HAT is the “real inside” of the liquor smug- } que At the time. of the Olmsted arrests, Stern It relates the thrilling details of the battle be- Buttermilk wn A GRAVE ISSUE | postoffice Is being opened at 1210 gling business? | already had most of his facts. tween “The Big Consolidated” and “The Inde-| goattto is tho greatest tom The city counc 7. aot y| Fo ¢. in the Olymple hoter _ baled ein aN &, ; Stare ee i a he Ee Le era alia Wie donate pendents”—their fights, their spy system, and|drinking town along the coast, bos The Star, beginning tomorrow, is going to an- He has the names of the men who finance the sedan. Maj. J. Douglas and pvill be] swer the question that has been on everybody's Aunineen Maree akiien wi aermmnatantune the all. ! ; 4 i lieves H. Augsburg, of the Holly. } OF course, the kind of sedan they’d| manned, of course, by postal ¢m-| mind since the arrest of Roy \Olmsted and his) ("SSS Us" boahes i It describes how lighthouse keepers, in some bas Minch oe Ocean Hike to tity thim would |g wr HeneNe) eZee Aes coterie of friends last week, and since the dis- | liquor, names of smugglers, names of public offi- | instances, are in the pay of smugglers and flash] termine con ep te LANE 1,500 | . : closures in the recent San Francisco booze | cials who have been bought up by the rum rings, | warnings to rum vessels when revenue cutters| glasses,” he says. “In. winter oe en-peckd rancisco me| Hotel Power Plant bands } The Of scandal names and pictures of ships that carry the | Jeayve port fall off to 300 to 400,” ands have named a club, “The Of} $54] Pete : i et had TOR INE sale ; ei ‘t. : fice,” no that they sid truthfully} as Big as Auburn’s| ‘To get the “true inside story” of the smug- wh 8k} He has THE CTS relating to the It details the war that the United States gov- @ y that cs that they are de| yew realize the intricacies of «| gling business The Star assigned Max Stern, star | illicit trade in whisky all up and down the | ernment, represented by a handful of courageous TRIES POISON ROUTE B. J. Nolan, 38, was found by tho | lone “at the office.” telephone system for such & bull”) Kenorter, to spend as much time and money as Coast. men ng to stem the flood of liguor that! potice early Monday morning at 4244 pemaa toe eae ee achat by piert el Map alta ted (deta beat, was necessary to get at the facts. And Stern The story is replete with tales of murder, of | pours down from Canada as thru a funnel. Morgan st., suffering from lysol poise Friend,” @ that they can toll witlel hoard arrangements Installed there | got them. millions made and lost in the hazardous business, | 'Thig)“inside story” is an amazing recital of jonné. Aha ba ek inti bet they sre “sitting up with a sick} are equal to those used for operat. He went to Canada, the source of supply. He| of the corruption of public offigials. It links | crime, adventure and romance—all th® Thora) ne Whine oe at oe friend,” jhe the city of Auburn," naye WR] teaternized with rum runners, with wholesalers | influential politicians an@ millioffire financiers | amazing because it is true.. It will be published | (ar later discharged and allowed ta Seat ige Norwood, of the Pacific Telegraph} 9 ao it, wattle man.” He spent weeks in the | with the lowliest of bootleggers. in installments in The Star, beginning Tuesday. | return home, : —A. I. 8 ind Telephone Co