The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 19, 1924, Page 1

‘HART. PAROLES ANOTHER “LIFER” 4 sus’; Lf | WEATHER | i The SeattleStar <=. *red a Second Class Matter May 9, 1899, at the Poetoffice at Seattle, Wash or the Act of Congrers March §, 1878. Per Tea Mall, #208 VOL, 26, NO. 254 Le SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1924. ik TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ree eects || | ND HE WAS PA- | ain ene Dh aS a oo i ROLED! nies Deputy Sheriff Coffey Home PISONER FROM Shop Is Robbed 5 BURNED WHEN, Any Ice Today, Lady? || te ircles asa “hard The Old Answer, ‘No, Your Ice Melts! gg.” He had served | G0 FREE ‘on Second Ave, _ \N FLAMES yeti a Wete | eae f Sentenced to Life Term on} Father Risks Life to Save BOLD Then he went to Idaho, Charge of Rape b L B di Young Son OLE LARSON noperut| 'y one an it HOT STOVE IS CAUSE and the grocer paid with { his life for the lack of i / _ , Sinclair Regrets Uproar Mother Forced to Jump Thru Howdy, folks! Here's hoping * © oh’, ° Said wate alto porcamiens Over” Pardons Escapes While Victim Opens Fire on window to Escape justice in this state. : ae | Sa "a ae Him; Part of Loots Recovered by _ HE COLD wave was indirect ’ EANTIME Govern- or Hart goes mer- rily about his business of making a mockery out of justice with oss ~ always wondered what | \) 4 A A a ‘omen baal ly responsible for a» fire a perature” meant. Now we p hung | f v 4 ciew on Gc t's pevels\tres ye Police i In Ash Can which made tlie family of Christmas present” pa- 4 cng terday, it was revealed today, Oscar new | Charles W. Rule, 6661 Carleton roles. : riding across street Corl smith, comvicted of rape in Spokar ULLETS flew on Second ave, Friday shortly before| ave, homeiess Friday morning Another “lifer” from La ' Jer Faeper 10) nity and sentenced to life at bard noon Ww hen a bandit held up the London Jewelry com-| and placed Rule, his wife and Spokane has just been : rye labor, is to go free by reason of the| Pany’s store, at Second ave. and Yesler way, and escaped) son in the city hospital, severely turned loose on society. H ve © going | €overnor’s action, taken reo-| With a cigar box full of mounted diamonds, said to be valued| purned. This makes the third | 4 t ee | Seereoentee by tne, te at $15,000. Y Rule heroteally risked his life to that the public has i , ; bea] Smith was convi and The cigar box, containing 20 of the diamond rings, Val-| save nis syearold son Johnny, but found out about. No : ¢ Liellhpeensinging ued at $9,000, was found a few minutes later in a garbage |, : rs. Rule | one knows how many os reported ‘ ‘ I both were badly burned, Mrs. Mul GIFT SUGGESTIONS FOR th ea.|can in an alley facing on Washington st., between Second) ior os aping from the flaming more there are. ; CHRISTMAS ut prison off >», ave. and Occidental ave. niin Aas tackle vanve Gand During Hart's six Dental floss, he was still an tr eased as a logger, |&t the bandit, who was outside the i we kopes, hs years as governor he Machine for twisting pretzels. was admitted that he 1s tO| entered the shop just after 10 a ore to iaestitie er twill has pardoned or paroled ‘ ass eye polish | recetv reedom SOVETREN'S| 11, Sinted @ Luger platol at Revert | Tarek” attered the from prison 857 persons. By Crocheted muffler for Ford en-!action and th ‘ na @ to the robber, but of fire Twenty-eight of th dines. the state par ame, It was|Lurte, the owner hit hi hasten “Kise. ier ane wenty-cight o em Imitation dandruff for toupes fter Judge Blake, the tria “Give me those diamonds, In The crowd took up the chase and|cisude, 19, escaped unhurt have been murderers. Cigarlighter for baby buggies. judge, members of and va-| that tray In the window,” the | when lt got too hot the! ~ pute about daybreak and And now, with less ve . ie f seat saibe sees —_ persone had joined ax ay ayy polating to the er pag dey oo: - 7 placed coal on the embers in th than a month more to <id MeCoy tal for murder, is} on for his release. G jo monde from the box and tossed the|Vitchen stove, and retired to. bed | Bp ce ning to plead nity. Exhibit A} doubts, It was sal ntertained Larie hesitated. The bandit (remainder Into the garbage car t vane re awh : « | serve, he has entered © wait until the house warmed. H holesal t lefense be his eight|concerning Smith's guilt, altho the| fired ashot. It sent » bullet Into Then he disappeared thru the alley.| v6 tater to find flames licking upon a wholesale pro- jury « trial saw fit to find him| the counter The diamonds later were found by |'" A), over his bedroom door || gram of paroles. Most se he judge to senter “Give me that try or I'll blow | Detect! Chad Ballard and Joe Sixduithcie ‘this the baied cal of those released, or ‘ns, aioe tance ¢ Your ‘head: off,” the bandic | Kokesh afire, Rule snatched up the little || slated for release, have |. * other conte: ed © open ” to the | me ten dons and paroles which the gov-|display-and handed the tray to the 8 oe ee oe | soe ‘The thug scooped the jewels Robbed in Daylight | Shielding the child with his body, ernor had planned to h: Role dashed thru the inferno, his T’S time, governor, in lependent movie producers! tore Christmas had be Following on the heels of the Lor tanking of offering General | checke of the state-| Meyer Larto, son of the proprietor, | gon Jewelry Co, holdup, alone bana, "ueHt ae ee een a } the name of justice, he job of czar over thelt | wige uproar ov ho release of Fition ,“Ppeared from a back room. The | held up a = 12 First | He was followed by Mra. Rule. that you stopped. duction and Boudas, Tacoma and Seattle con. | *ndit commanded both men to go ave. at tr jay. The rob.! Running across the snow and ice te : ahs . ‘or tl sak - If he takes the position, he should | y4., whe wor ah wth ur 388 tented back and keep out of aight. He|ber, armed wit pistol, forced I.,* Netehbor’s home, they were given Packing 250-pound cakes of ice is:no'worse on a cold day igs te re aa tely court-martial the motion | clemency by Gov. Hart thre to kill them If they dis-| Siegel, the mar , to lay on his |Shelter. Mra. Rule donned some|—well, not MUCH. worse—than it. is in midsummer, éays; 2. K t oe. who reetters <Sire? |" Wiens. of Ots “Larson, former| ne es sy i face on the floor. ‘Then he ransacked | clothing and one ae _ ar) P.O. Lee, cheerful congealed water juggler for the Ice De- wah thet vives fo 0 se histication t his cigaret r " r former crowd had collected outside tn | the ti! hoi n o 8 als. 7 . A A y y P by tapping bis cigaret! a4 of the Scandinavian American néthat. "The pote 1b Age . ‘ enc. . livery Co. He has a complicated job these days, having to Ndr geseeciy | *. t of bis‘band. An instant. ‘The bandit backed to the| ‘The idot was $12 in ca scaped meanwhile ¥ : injustice, end this dan- Sadi Bank, have been unusually active! door, still bandishing ‘the plato! he bandit answers the same descri In her bedroom, Mrs. Rule| keep himself warm and the ice cold at the same time. . The bandit answ ne descrip. erous practice. CANDIDATE FOR THE Porson |°% ! and pressure became #0 / opened {t and darted outside. tlon as that of the robber in the gem | snatched up an armful of clothing Photo by Price & Carter, Star Btaff Photographers g be) sae IVY CLUB strong that the governor had all but) Meyer Lurie picked up a platol and| holdup, but police are not satinfied |and tried to fight her way out. The BY JIM. MARSHALL j Rae st SR ae _ Protect society! That wéegwallaliins dun made up his mind to let Larson out fired thru two thicknesses of glass {he ts the same perso fire was too great. In desperation ; : in” extieroles* ill ¢ is why society put you along with Percy Sinclair, who is ———————— | nho stashed the window, climbed out ICK What's a three-letter a ne 2 et a 3 yoga ' 1 4 ou warn Ben ee jsurcet where you are! 4 BIR: croas-(0!N# a minimum of 18 months tn and collapsed base vepadit rid Malai gee Pali AY VCE Spc AR h } paitentararsp sg words they | Dank at Ilwaco. the firemen who arrived almost im right. “Put that in 32 hort) 201. weather ia ‘Gol? then why Sine! going to be pretty hard to| penitentiary with a minimum a of tie se a thrilling yarn about Ra,|Years to serve. Both Larson and goddess, who caught /Sinclair, the Walla Walla reports they measured |*ay, fre manifestly disturbed over so decided she’d|the wholesale condemnation of the wot erremars recent rartoon ote Witness Alleges “ “Ring” and Says He * irs son, Myron T., Is In media and the blaze had taken i and listen to this one: r > people need ice to keep thin ‘ol of the house to such an ex-| Supposing ono of the Ice Deliv- | oooj> Roan dcatheyy They ina COLD WEATHER that efforts to save It were use Co.'s wa welghs 1,056 | 4 Toh-cbthpatibe fate. falttectin sara a with 1867; hundreds of tons ‘today in ‘Seattle of the coldest days in years a4 Why is) this extra cold neces- | s of ice won has s of gas in its tank of accessories. | sary? Because alt the citizens are | add in the tongs | keeping cool with Coolidge. Mr. s badly burned, his | poun and his hands and #. Rule was burned rms and body, Tho arms seared ut the head, hild was less se : t jously injured. Rule|at five pounds. Got, that? ; = Frigid Wave Sv Sweeping On GASTRONOMIC NOTE before the Present | storm blows over. in an em ea! : | Coolidge: is all het up over the| FIg ping U employe of the Puckett Salmon! Oh by George! We've forgotten | Britten pl Pact . es Columbus, Ohio, restaurants today | Is is S. Investigator » Spokane st: dock. the iceman. What does the tceman tecencieayn ie ake agers to Atlantic and Gulf Stat pe ‘ross-word puzzles Seen 4 ‘ ith the dessert. 7 Z “PARDON ORGY” Mayor Brown and his son, B. J. mering away at Behneman in an i ONers 1 wrong. T man | sia a ies ty k } ) B | 0; you're all wrong he ice t imple, when you come to thin’ ij That's rigess We meee Terabe Brown, Jr., were to testify Friday effort to compel him to divulge e weigha fee. about "it f "| MIDWEST Is PARALYZED | crossword puzzles with al i 8 in the drunk-driving case against the contents of the alleged in M St t soup months ag INCLUDES 857 i vesccots tormee snyer's riminating apes whieh Bohne ain otree SOUTHE AST Cc ALES ‘Florida to Get Touch of man and his attorney, W. U. hashed Ts y 13 days left for Leap Park, swear, were taken from : re : Winter; Wires Are Broken to propose, und Joe Newberger STEPHEN A. HULL hiking Ai att sas La teva 29 Lif | | ded in Li ti! r the past year, Behneman at the time of his ar. up First ave. with @ Terminal sing pe haned7ee Sonthos ifers Included in List “tpi ie Thursday told a Teeth, early on the morning of | gaies prospect in tow. TT. NTENSE suffering, demoralized z eee | Freed by Gov. Hart fury in Judge Dalton's justice court | October 1, and never returned by LIPPY, capitalist, traveling Wine] Snel Tel: Comrie ¥ceitmus that the charge and arrest is a Police. south on ‘Third ava W. 8 | sub-zero weather today followed on Dent -06 (Ons frameup engineered to gain posse Policeman William Lance, of the| IVES, railroad man, wearing the heels of the snow storm and cold Year inven! tor and avowed special in w for the federal authorities oa et bee sap oats on iy phe sion of documents In nating the station booking office, corroborated! Christmas ‘smile, at Fourth and t t | wave that invaded the entire Middle jod trus in office, has pardoned no fe a F on, Bobby Kernan, |that part of Behnem ony| Unio! HARRY COLL N Qui Cc old Hexe H Alth I = | West. Ail others cash. than 857 prisoners serving terms at |Tavor, | his son, nye ec } ee oO € so LO. ere, ono im former investigator for Police Chief said that he tint, wearing luxurious ove From the Dakotas down to Okla- te ela Monroe reformatory and Walla P vel i" 1 "9 he d as far east west In- ¥ everyns, and Roy Thornton, 4: an envelope r b ng along Fourth ave edi Ch h oma Aan Seay dager! ern Jackie Coogan's new brother 18} Walla penitentiary, figures com. /S*veryns. and Roy Thornton. a ag ee SN, BROOKE, babertasner mediate ange in Sight dlana, the atorm raged, ow week old. There is no truth| piled today at Ob la show. He did not know, he A cold wave of marked intensity vice charges. inspecting new window display to the rumor that he Is to be starred) Included in this pardon oj The mayor and his son were re-| happened to that envelo H. D. WINGATE, lawyer, get ITH fresh to strong southeast ,ter would go, howéver, was not has-| (Turn to Page 9, Bate » hortly in the gripping melodrama, | been 29 men serving life terms for ported to have arrived at tho not the one containing Behneman's| ting a hurried buttermilk lunch gales predicted by the Seattle | arded by Fore er M. B. Summers. set ere Last Safety Pin.” jerimes ranging from rape’ to mur: |} eooms at adjournment at Jewelry and money, which was re ED MecDOWELL, banker, sail a lite wal Fr tay | Frida morning temperatures Ca der. 5 p. m. and are expected to take|turned to him on his release on his| ing before the wind down Secona | “eather bureau for Friday, Friday) |. severay degrees above those of | LD N R. I. P. The figures show, too, that tho ls. stand Friday to discount Behne-| Personal r nhzance ave. JOHN L. BIRD, stationer, | Peht and probably Saturday, ttle | i. same hours Thursd L prison populations of Monroe a | rnan’s alibi Af is releane man test! driving up Union et. in great | Tellef from the excessive cc Was) Tacoma and South Sound ‘points Walla Walla have increased Beyond admitting ho had fied, the evening October 1,} hurry, J. H. KANB, lawyer, | xpected. recorded new low temperatures, per cent during the Hart brought them informa ome of | Th on and Kernar th dodging cars at Fourth The new disturbance is forming (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) ! San Francisco Citizens tration, despite the liberal which will be used in evidence be- | « and a Chinese ted 1. F. B. MORENESS off the Washington coast, and policy. The governor's effor' cut down prison inmates appe: have failed. In addition, Hart has paroled | 5 | vho eo 8 ae : nearly 1,500 convicts whose t he The afternoon hearing was Le had not expired, according to th series of sensations, Deputy Beneath this ston ei dante é Lies Shingler MeGoot, bes dit BR aot | Prosecutor Ralph mer ham tel man, tightentng up effic storm signals are out from the Co Shiver in Heavy Frost but crews at the Olympic. FRED | lumbia northward an| W. CARLSON, salesmah, point The unofficial forecase was for SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19.—Sun , ng out advantages of traffic | slowly rising temperature, following | cisco was still shivering today mum downtown reading of 15 lin the worst cold snap since Jan+ Thursday night and early) Thin Ice Causes Fatalities | ary. 1923, official thermometers ope How far up the thermom jregistering 87 degrees above zero: obi atiekt — = ow me ne es in Bellingham District | rteavy trost was reported thruout the On the edge of a root. To Sue Hart for ity. LINGHAM, Dec, 19.—The sec.| , Many Unoffictal thermometers ea | : B NGH: s | i * ’ dropped as low 3 r" ; The Optimists are going to feast| Parole of Filion ] Ui ] Y t ond drowning within two days due | Groped as low as 30 degrees above ) kids at the Elks Club tonight. If) rrcosa, Dec. 19.—Seeking to set J to thin ice resulted near here yes-| *"y ect) p ral grand jury regar acy charges, federal dry | mitted fore the fi ing consp! officers refused to comment The two white mi ‘omined he court t Behneman’s tale t gnal at Fifth and Jackson 0 A. M, BERRY, manager Sear Roebuck, driving south on First Reports early today indicated prae- ney think they can fill up that many| 14, the pardon Issued to Edward terday when Henry Knutzen, 20, fell lticaiy no damage had been done 6 oungasters, they're real Optimists. | ion murderer of a Tacoma taxi eal - —— thru: the teavon(a slough near Bur [crops by tho cold wave thus far. Tn - Ries winis|ariver, Plerce county will tile sult) Pras care ime] [amen tev wir or PRT Ts pee OR + yrerndate, {the central and southern California Timely suggestion to J. hed gainat Governor Hart, asorting that | |REMiSs 3'F,, NE CAVES 16 “yeti . « wae Biowre ' ea pe as we M iy bareloe loitrus belt the temperature was as re, of the Tibert ey tee aig {thie executive has exceeded hig au Topey_ with I TMEY® NUON roe ene Se pete Rb Kauing on Bars liow as 27, but the orange crop es | poe change the ee Ses 4s Ithority. The state code forbids the VAG iB . eaped injury, In lemon groves | oyd comedy, “Hol ater, |governor to pardon murderers or |those serving life tefms. The Plerce) mudging was resorted to and is be. lieved to have prevented damage. os ee lcounty prosecutor's office sald that CHRISTMAS | CAROLS Ls) one ; Ve ood Pe ke tae teamed NOT APPRECIATED; | Below Freezing in ina share a oes mes! Bat Yeaterese | Arias 2 JAILED AS DRUNK | Southern California LOS ANGELES, Dec, 19.—With tho temperature dropping below {ntoxieated, were not appreciated {| feexing in inany sections, reports by residents of tn apartment ||ftom southern California citrus dias house at 117 Pike st. in the |/tricts today Indicated that little, i Morand toany the couch betroren tt. Negra Ig Executed So at it with « blow-torch, & prophane, mad entertainment. And no sooner | mended than my wyfr did report the eel: for Idaho Murder lar pipes froren, and so to work again, ‘aa bat with Tittle ence And if had my| BOISE, Waho, Dee, 19.—Noah Ar- y was, would go down toa Torkish bath. noid. negro, was hanged at the Idaho LL the great auto-folling ine | At the left in the Intest thing | outfit, The main thing is to carols, sung by od to hg (GRRaIy two © been weather there gis a fog | SMR MTaC GE TRERY morn any, damage resulted during the find sit in the steam reom wattl state penitentiary at 12:20 o'clock ventions shown here are | in nailatudded coats, talking to | have it #0 low for a car to horn dingus which Tmitates a Barly) Goure. OF striday. morning.) 1a weather doth modagate, but alas this be state P | . ? and brought the police patrol {| Msht n yaln expectation, thin morning patented, or copyrighted, or Armor-Plate Al, the ehiropodist sneak under. Not guaranteed polleeman'sy cough. A sure auto Be atecuee: THe. Woathian:buyeatts ibrecacnt lem see | Arnold paid the extre penalty| whatever ft fs. But that's all | ‘The armor used to be worn by for trucks of more than five stopper rete denotes 6, ana || warnitg luat night that the merouiiie Kiconomy of motion is now prac-|for the murder of Willlam Crisp,| right, You may ure ‘em, "Damn William, the CornGurer; that's tone. | Next is the prize of the whol Martin) Nowaskowsk!, 42, were |{Could bo expected to reach 27 to 88 ther, Just one'trip tambie| Hbpe, 14s Thik was the first! the royalties; ko ahead!’ ax | why tho chiropodist eatoomns it no The rear-view mirror, next tn affair. Phe jointed aut irrested as the singers, on a || “esrees I some districts, and smudg: ind he can fill both the|negro hanged in Idaho and the first} Washington toid his troops at | highly line, explains itself, Made with When a pedestrian is about to obred. ots bane Hite jing Was necessary in different sea and hime man executed since 190%, | Yorktown, ‘ | Next door is tho Low Bridge | powder puff, rouge and Npatick (Turn to 9, Colu ) u tons « o . a ? i bag Perera eens tt et RT TTT wolileresidi te « Pl are : ra > ahh ; arate marss a ila