The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 6, 1924, Page 1

a rere ew | lat M Home Bre Howdy, folks! The mew Olym pic hotel opens tonight, and Li'l ive Gee says she is going to « b ring away a fire extinguisher as ‘ = The Newspaper ane Ma SEATTLE, WASH SATURDAY * With the Biggest C irculation in stem Ma DECEMBER 6, 1924 an Robbers Get $7,000 _ In Daring Daylight Holdup! Wile Identifies Slain Bandit ! MEN FROM = WOUNDED MARSHAL * souvenir . wish t t a t t CITIZENS Xmas Tree Merchants: “Do your Christmas chopping early Musicians: “Do your Christmas th Nimble-fingered Gentry Phristmas she Rum Smugglers »pin earty Do your lifting early “Do your Christ mas shipping early.” é ¢ for, My 7) r crying ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SAYS: ‘When a newly parried man be gins to call his Lovey Dovie “Say-there,” the % honeymoon is over ai te ¢ a b And } rare? 1. Pico 4537 foubt, being YE DIARY Karly up, and to town, where busy all the Hayden, whom day, and did see ¢ J have not seen since we were in, Tex together, and we did talk of the time when we did prepare a petition to con. of my own, when I did remonstrate with her, su “How do you get this way?” about look up and say, sausage’ that I did hide the ax, lest she become | haven't demanding that it give T k to Mexico, bat alas! nothing ¢ it. And so to home, where did find wyfe sitting around In her dressing working crossword puzzles, and food?” she did merely What's an “Hakimo letters?” ending in 1—six violent, Photographs can now across the ocean in 20 minutes. our Parti us Rouge and A cautious man Ia Marmaduke Chylde, Refuses to play With deuces wild. 6) Be Vandeville actors say that it is their jokes that made Henry Ford so seceastul, We don't know about} we know that without the ment One-Eye, a inging A Alleys of Phir Rldge.” be radioed | a picture of t slinble Ford joke a lot of ham (and columnists) ved to death ON THE AIR TONIGHT Return en of LA famou shoan sopra “Froglegs Dish for from the fa “The re the ous opera Vatch those sharp curves and the 4vel and the police reporter won't | vo to write a story about you Station BREW sdgning off. gu, ra ithe Citizens of Kent Slay Utah Man tempted Holdup; Official Is Shot IDDLED with bullets, the body of Lionel Edward Grow was in the Kent morgue Satur day, following his unsuccessful aitempt Friday afternoon to hold up the Kent National bank sin gle-handed Fred Grant, town marshal, was in the Taylor-Lacey how pital at Auburn, fighting for life with a bullet wound in his stom. ach, inflicted by Grow as the latter emerged from the bank building And Ke WIFE MOURNS FOR HUSBAND SON OF BANKER TURNS IN ALARM in the & wlarr You've turned in A | haven't Grow i of (Turn to Page 2, Colunin 1) e elder ¢ in At- | The Olympic It’s Heart Must Be Big (EDITORIAL) Coy NITY SPIRIT! That's wi at put Se sattle where it is toda T what built Seattle’ community he what will spell its succes formal opening of the Olympic tonight should more than an out ding social event. It should ng t e minds of the thousands who will attend big housewarming the urgency of plannir well the success of the great institution, which is cor iderable of an experiment in these parts Just an ordinary hotel policy with ordinary cial service will not do. The Olympic must qualities far and away greater than either of these two. Being the outgrowth of an awakened community spirit, the Olympic must continue to reflect it. Other- wise it will be just @ yreat pile of steel and brick and soulless trappings. commer- possess IKE one’s self one’ Olympie must possess individuality and personality if it is to be distinctive enough to command sufficient Lys 2 age to the make it pay. It must represent the big heart of Its atmosphere must breathe the warmth and h ity which has de this city famous the world over There are elaborate suites with elegant furnish hey can be rented most where. There great dining rooms and banquet but they are to be found elsewt would expect in a modern, 1alls and ballrooms, Nothing that one al hotel | has ere comm: overlo but no one, nor the combination of all, will nake the Olympic truly renowned or keep its head above water Bu Seattle Spirit, harmonized with the material beauty and complete appointments of the place, will insure the returns the investment is entitled to Seattle ckholders ma eel comforted in the fact that those directly responsible for the management of the hotel are men of long experience and broad vision. Those from other cities who have come here in executive capacity will profit much by the continued co-operation and counsel of Seattle folks, whose friend- ship and sympathetic understanding will do much to help the management over the big hump. - Hotel Opening Tonight to Be Brilliant Affair ! | Jacks BANK ARE VICTIMS Manager, Messenger Held Up; Thugs Flee Police Hunt; Roads Are Watched ACOMA, Dec, 6.—In « spec tacular holdup of three em ployes of the National Bank of Tacoma, in front of the branch bank at 12th and K pt. shortly before 10 o'clock this mornin three bandits escaped with b tween $7,000 and $10,000. Emory A president of the bank e three victims of the robbe ed upon by one of the ban missed being victims of the highwa men were Huge Delin, th #% agency of the bank, A Atkina, employe. jwas f and e The othor | Jackson is employed at the main ntown, nd was experienced offen: clared 3 made their escape an auto which they ling the in De © none he b ere oe Ser eae street bery, and was I * pur slight ‘clues without avail, No one distinguished th cense number of the autoy some #ay Ing it began with a figure BABY I$ BURNED Dies in Fire - That Destroys Home at Colfax, Wash. COLFAX Mc rrow wa committed sul lashing his Washington | - The Seattle Star manager of ery was sensational tn the executed with « 4 dispatch that indicated j | * n= (4 TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. Faced Robber’s Gun Here are four of the principals in the daring pee of | MONEY Grout Says Bolton Got Copies of Three Former Police Exams A attempt to bribe Chair- man Frank Boyle, of the civil service commission, for advance copies of the i questions given at Saturday quiz to select 10 police and | cramer tenes detective sergeants from the jrank and file of the depart- ‘ment, was revealed by Boyle Saturday. In a dramatic denouncement be fore 146 patrolmen, gathered in the Central school to take the examina the alleged scandal war brought to light by A. D. Grout, secretary of the commission | Charges involve several jsergeants now on duty, t names were not revealed. When the f attempt to obtain copies of the ex: ' police whose } amination failed, fraudulent ques- tions were drawn up and several |copies of these were sold to the pa- é |trolmen taking the examinations, as originals, according to the _ j 4 One set of fraudulent questions was: sold for $750, according to the re- ports; The customary price paid is said to have been $500. An investigation of the affair will be made by the civil service commis- sion, altho one member of that body ha aroused indignation by attempt- o ing to obtain copies of the three previous sets of questions used by é the commission, BOYLE SA APPROACHED HIM Boyle admitted Saturday that he t had been approached with a bribe offer. “Some weeks ago an attorney called at my office and said it would be worth $500 to get an advance copy of the questions,” Boyle said Saturday. “I felt like kicking him out of the office, but, on second thought, I remem- bered I had written the opinions in the Majewski and Watson the Kent National bank Friday afternoon by L. Grow.| Cases ‘and’ had: exitséidedi thee i At the left is Lowry Armstrong, proprietor of the Com-! pte involved for not getting the - mercial hotel, where Grow stopped the night before the| goods on the bribers. from behind with the is W. H. Overlock, Armstrong shot Grow s holding. At the right (top), dent of the bank, holdup. he pre guard. Beélow him is Sam Miller, customer the time of the holdup, who was forced to enter the with W. H. Overlock, Jr., —Phot EALING an attempt to urday said he ha ppointment of ©. BY JIM MARSHALL Fer years we have been kidded because the heir to ¢ ical millions has al w to walt until about December 20 to get a chance to play with his toys—the ones he would have| got for Christmas v interesting to: , what do ey make such for gift to us has anyway? God's che Chri 4, while we with the playing Meccano set or the new electric the ou hanical automo: big Dy going to grow train ¢ bile Aren't you ¢ mec great When t ya felt quential snuck off to the on the oiling or with it in Christmas day, dayn thereafter, a chance to play pretext that we the heir how to work it, amall and inconse hy have basement with poetence that it fixing, and solitude, and for a, few used to get with it on the showing A poor alw General we the toy, needed played wate Lt Seems as Tho Folks Never Do Grow Up|= | displa Do folks ever grow up? This picture, taken in would seem to indicate that folks never do. toys with this erowd of grown-ups there? excuse, but it generally got by. | If you don’t hellove it, go This year, however, we have | down and look at the crowds of discover that weren't a | “children around the toy win great big baby all, Or, if | dowa of the, stores on Second we were, eo were a lot of other | nd all other’ avenue Crowd. people, | of — ehildren—yeah!—"children” a v front of the What chance Bon Photo by Price & Ca ears of age It's got so that 4 toHannah child All they the up. eal, honest hasn't a look can do is stand outekirts and sul | from 36 in around Marche toy window has a child to see the rter who coolly obeyed the bandit's orders and-walked out of the bank ahead of him as a forced body-| son of the president (lower right).| been offered $10,000 to vote against Colvin’s 2, Column 2) rifle Sr., “So I temporized and the offer was | increased to $1,000. I was to get half the sum and the other two commis- sioners were to get the other haif. “I told this attorney that I wanted in the bank at|to meet with the people he was acting vault | pa He immediately backed away, ind that was the last I heard of him. | He told me later it had all been called q os by Price & Carter | off. $10,000 Bribe Offer Revealed by Dobson [eee QUESTIONS PREPARED “But I had learned from other Re urces that it hadn't. Instead of | selling the original questions, they |had drawn up a set of fraudulent jones and were selling these to the applicants. Capt. J. J. Haag, who has been conducting a school for sergeants, said he was informed $750 had been paid for one set of ques- | tions. “A client of mine, a policeman, approached me and said it was D. Colvin as prosecutor to suc appointment. throat | ceed Ma leolm Douglak, County Halt of the money was to go to beep ated es tee , ssione ‘ jobson Sa ‘ iasioner jaine jobson | ya : AAA Opa, | Conmmmlsntonte, Wi Ae; Gaines, Debeot | sara: were | Weltie, BokdytOE go ve | He said he did not have the The money, 100 crisp $100 bills.) noney to buy a copy and I ad- Was RBDOCA Ie sorta vised him to get the evidence on Saves ste aba rene noe those selling the questions. : orney, Dobson sald. When this} Royle said he consulted with a Lei Sarge ss ‘, he! prosecutor Douglas on the bribe Vite ya additional $5,000) vttempt, and had planned on arre | 4 fr Dee REE _¢|ing those responsible. He declined ok Aaseane ‘heaw | Wegeattntat seotenta ihe ik oan, to reveal the name of the go What plo. look! ar Ratibe e Va, | betwee: torney att or y ia 100k Mice gata ging ‘it anes tea Grout, after the 146 patrolmen n the t $2,000. ad taken ir seats, announced i é ta Giolla A stay ci: cod to | that efforts had been made to steal P: Riss oat lees Rd BP atts or procure copies of a ee , REFUSES TO TELL He said that these had failed, as ’ 5 OFFER the questions had been written by ‘ ee ek : a Gaines about {OB@ Person and had not left the bi acanelaediie ie teaug {hands of the commission, Anyone Aig neice "OF the bribe. phe: inte] Devine pure sot of questions |had been dur | | Not a single question from any hee nt Nir | |riven in the past three years was f “ included in Saturday's quiz, Boyle ; answer: “Oh, || A Used Car | paid. One of the questions sin the ith “civ. Lunges’ or: tors aebend fraudulent set called for a composi- ole 4 ‘ au easy Buy tion on crime prevention. No such bee ‘or, my reventi ross.word é Here is one of the bargains that }/auestion was asked, Boyle said. are offercd today Commissioner H. 'T. Bolton two® Se pocan (thee Sava aay a :0N) months ago asked Grout for coples AP savas Cem pletery lof the examinations given for sers Tf it wasn't for us old folk: DO YOU WANT A jgeants during tho pastgthree years, if he toy. stores would .be, clean TRUE BARGAIN 2 t phree Sete HERE IT 18 AT |Grout sald. Grout handed the ques dace tare hh ih lt ‘ r tire, [Itions to Bolton under protest, he ad- to buy the butting blocks and cow! Nights atic rath awipe’ |! vised Boyle the steel construction. sets,’ and sun visor dash lig % ‘ iter Sipe Worley FALE GORE BAC nde ry. $100 down, || KYAMATH FALLS, Ore. Dec. ah Bnd: tho: Clectrig: tran balance $23 for 12 months, includ: |{-—Anfiouncement that the Shelyin If you don’t bolieve, it, wateh ing interest Hixdn “Limtier: Go. of Rahn jy ate Eble. babe start lumber operations in Klamath |. 60 packed around, th The Auto for Safe columns will | county early in 1925 was made here window aving the tell'you the addre MeCann, general mana A | thelr lives, ) ARAN ee ac MON of the comapnys a setae li