The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 20, 1924, Page 1

Hooray! _ , 23 STOR YY ee eee We ey ear ; <- mg r st | - § The Thermometer Is Going Up! | Weather Makes “Snow Difference | @ | Kiddies at Firland Take Their Air Bath ®very Day, Regardless of Snow, Rain or Freezing Weather 9 \' The N IE os) ee Fae Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington he seattle Star tered ae Be NO, 255. Home Edition SEA’ TLE E. WRECKS TANGLE MIDWEST How Governor Is Implored Millions in Money Lost in Area Hit Clase Matter $09, The Dead H at Wall BY RAY W, FELTON ALLA WALLA, Dec, 20.—The charnel house on the hill! That's what Walla Walla prison looks like now. It does not harbor dead bodies or stacks of bones like the charnel houses of old. Instead, it has become a mortuary for dead hopes and bleak despair. Governor Hart and the st the Posteftion at Seattle SEATTLE, W ASH., wader the Act of © SATURDAY, ateee March S19, Per Year DECEMBER 20, 1924. by Mail, $2.08 TWO CENTS IN _ WHY FLION WAS JUS) PAROLED TOLD Vag) BY HART AD Secretary Scores Seekers of Clemency PROSECUTOR IS HIT VOL, 26. Home Howdy, folks! Is your igloo é by Disaster; Towns : Isolated by Storm | y hes ‘CAST of an east to north east wind reaching gale pro F portions at Seattle with next 96 hours was made bureau Saturday weather morning, Wind has already - cold? So is ours. state parole obard have sung Christmas carols to more than he ag 60 inmates, to whom they have given paroles. But they for Pardons Is Bared have played a funeral dirge for a thousand more. forward te detend ns J ie inst “pardon Edward Filion, Tacoma murderer of a Tacoma taxi driv- Howard B. er, and John Soudas, Seattle woman butcher, have obtained a inld Meteden on SC eer ey, yee, os hare executive clemen Wealthy and influential friends Of} inethods by which pressure is ORECAST oi ; e flivvers sometimes start at 20th got to the governor’s ear and they were paroled. Both! brought to bear upon the gov 2 wt ay re once, left the prison quietly. Paroled convicts always do, The ¢mor to pardon convicts, riers But mostly they do not. parole board does its best to keep it all a secret. Publicity 4 ind Mamped Prosecutor James W : bd Mile gums up the works and the machinery of the parole board, S A pth 7 Pid ac : poss ts tough weather on the bottle’ must run smoothly if friends of the administration are to be|serted thet Selden, mow no re To-mile velocity at Ta- ootleggers. Everytime they sitp on : toosh, Temperature a the their capita! stock goes into| taken care of. dignant over the pardon of Edward || \ 7 4 P ieae aaapase * Rquidation. Ra Bs oe Filton Sanriior eee Leap on igher than it was at 5 a. m. 2 ote UT you can't beat the inside intelligence system in a) faye een (oanne Warmer weather is expected to : eae . prison. Even the “fish,” as the newcomers are dubbed, |« highs | WHAT THIS CITY N hear what's going on outside. Like dumb beasts, their in-|'» sought | | Softer Sidewalks stinct is developed to an uncanny keenness. The word, whis-| "7! @ sedi Ps x pered softly, passes swiftly when anything of importance! Mea2while, tt bend ad happens in the front office | a4 Well, cheer up. Spring Is o So when Filion and Soudas, whom peace officers say were app 2 ob ‘ator alcohol | two of the most brutal characters that ever entered the big : reached « 70-mile velocity at Ta was 27 at 11 & m fptendhaordeh soli night. Snow was falling | Beattie n Oregon, from the Cascades, & Por charge and who ni necti with th caster expec before night re T least 23 persons were killed as a result of the sub-tero weather centering over the Mid in late die West, according to data ob lity to the board.| tainable today © members at will 1f| jour were killed in does not please him in Oklahoma, tw and respon away house on the hill, passed out the gate the other day, every wae executiy cell wing and every shop got the flash. ahifted reagan First, it was a general buzz, then a rumble and then—be- ie may remov cause you can’t beat the system—the thunder of a threat-| their work who ened storm, died, and with it the confidence of men in their masters, governor canes, bas After your aufo has frozen stiff,| vou begin to understand why Santa} Claus drives a reindeer sleigh, eee It makes “snow” difference to the Iciddies at Firland, King county's banarvuleaes sani- ukee; five | tarium, at Richmond Highlands, whether the sun shines or whether Mother Goose is a as | plo king her chickens. Every day—weather no object—they don their “birthday suits” and FILION NOT COLD Chicago, four tr BLOODED MURDERER” Wailea tite and wns ta Wen give their little bodies an invigorating air bath. Saturday it was particular fun, owing Fults, who sald the govern Tho deaths were due to fires trom | to the two new tricycles which Herb Schoenfeld of the Standard Furniture Co. sent out to not aware of his secretary's ¢ rheated stoves, im, traffic ncct-| them for Christmas. —Photo by Price & Carter, Btar Staff Photographers statements, said in a written account from Milve Detroit, on Don't ever believe the ¢ ays he takes a cold shower every morning, He'll lie about other things, | . ° ° | Be eee T WAS cold and a depressing fog hung over Walla Walla was fensive fonts and exhaustic * — - , pt the Fi affair, that Fillon did The polar weather shoul 4 ute from q ODE TO WINTER when I went to the prison city after the governor hadj° ocala ’ pe We love the snow, passed out his notorious Christmas presents. Thru the un-/%t commit “a deliberate, cold-blooded |chis territory within the next We love the ice, murder," ns how is charged by Sel-| nourk, the weather bureau stated “THREE MEN HELD-IN CEASE EFFORTS | certain light of the gloomy dawn the charnel house loomed |, eat. He quoted the indictment as We love the slush, ota | con Nor ge etl faaatrvcmaagprgpedang pet BAT We think i's nice. like a great, gray monster. The prison whistle blew like a redding: “Bald Alling: being aceon | TN TANGLED WRECK | wail from the tortured souls within. death,” and said this phrase also wag |, 20 the meantime, the Middle West D We love to freeze | es included in Judge Card's instru |in struggling with tho gigantic t a eee a Christmas paroles—one isn’t supposed to discuss that sub-|to the jury, Judge Card aluce Filion’ ing up the tangle of ata We love the cold, Aln’t we the liar? J Pers it. e and telegraph w sprawling ject in the front office. Nobody cares to know a thing about release has been vehement in con Would Mr. Mahoney, the superintendent’s chief clerk | ‘¢™tlon of the governor's actlo over the GARRISON =s' One Said to Have Been Caught Cut-| 1, |Mde, disrupting comm a When the gove signed Filion's Gov. Hart ts granting pardons to| and secretary of the parole board, mind telling us what it’s : slowing: up railroad and interurban 4 a parole, Fult: tatement he had ¢ convicts, But its no favor to free! all about? Mr. Mahoney, being a very loyal young man, Fe-|hefore him «th * ae s _ Where snow and sleet-co ting Telephone Wires |Attorney Says N No Plans for ae cee "| fers the newspaper man, in a low voice, to the superintend-| 4 report trom the parole board!” fo not alo ‘ ETS New Move Under Way | rather sie fe pear Mr. Long that § n’s years in Jafl had made} >a snall's pace, lac f iV JILLIAM COLLINS, Williams is said to have told the : jent, Mr. Long. — 7 ae eae (Turn to Page 2, Column 4) marshal of Falls iff that he had borrowed the 2 | x ' " vely him realize the ae | Annual Joke: Ed Hagen was or Mr. Long, obviously nervous, glances furtively about, and 7 le gers rad vg iy f ¢ Caren © Sims were arrested from Sims and that Sims haa|CAN APPEAL HER CASE | reated yesterday. Im again, vt! refers the newspaper man back to Mr. Mahoney, he being S lased Ey de wtatatilen “riday evening in wed It from Kruger. The s atts | be rapt the secretary of the parole board and the parole board and jo) 1 yes mmendation en i} Esobtle said. to hare teen stelon troeh [itr his deputies recently Pri Ss f eed bei ible for the paroles. Morrie sales 4 Moke 4 Falls City man named Kruger,|two men while frustrating a holdup|’ "SON Surgeon Refuses to y 12 days left to Leap Year,|the governor being responsible or pi Morris, former sheriff Pierce Wag Fite Mais on teen chek Jp : che A R 4 Dad Landon 's still sew sounty, who ald that the soldier We ie wiggle nation, pprove Release ing on his own buttons. was “led into trouble”; a letter from | nvestigat in’ Seattle o! It is believed the wires were be- R. MAHONEY did not seem surprised at this course. Getting in- ged bank holdup attempt at Carnation. Ward Williams, 19, was O10; 16 the governor of F | Michigan, lion's home state, testifying to ing cut to ald in a holdup attempt} Attempts to free Ruth Garrison PECULIAR But he sat tight. He is a good secretary. IT AIN'T LASTING 4 : count saturday | of the Carnation. bank from Walla Walla havo ended, for Sitver threads among the gold, | formation from Mr. Mahoney is like getting blood from the | Brevious good character; letters from i aged anty Jail” Saturday S the, time| Heng, “at Janst . Sea , . “lion's ‘on e ‘mp i y, H when bes . ib gtaatiny ta of Fr Jel ok e} Shine upon her brow today, proverbial turnip. : lTaeths Satine te bad lite cane Indicates: He'd'Been Having |icaipan ckught witeccipting:¢9.ont | Fred Wettrick, ‘her counsel, indi- Altho the lady, I've been told, | A trip thru the prison is suggested. We go first to see yg fer harpeltge ders “ abar T bl ' " telephone wires between Seattle and cated Saturday. He was asked, in } Dyed her hair just yesterday. | oar Frid: Harbo Tom)! Planning the holdup which re rouble With Second Wife - view of Governor Hart’s “parole j e 6 old Tom Robinson, from Olga, near Friday Harbor. sulted in the murder; letters from Falls City, ain tre et Srey” and: the. feapcestbttty aan vs he’s 96 years old. Anyhow, he’s the oldest prisoner jury members saying that ° be An autoombile, parked nearby, it 'e: ¢ a Impossibility of o) j A thing of beauty fs a joy fore ese ¥ Mah ests, old Tom will tellj was caught in an unguarded moment|_ WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The | was reported, was later claimed by taining necessary statements from | ‘ but a lot of the boys would rather|there. Perhaps, Mr. Mahoney suggests, old [ror ponent ict an ong Meade ue] Will of the Inte Samue? Gompers, | Collins. It ts this automobile, Sher prison officials, if any further plans ff have a stein of beer. us how he is going to spend Christmas. Tom, talkative, in-| $nd offense”: und. lastly n ratition| bor leader, probated here today, | itt Matt Starwich belleves, in which J. H. DERN, governor-elect ‘for the: Seattle murderess’ release | a is sists on telling his own story, the outstanding feature of shgtied iy ciara Chats ios: tatrcention | ete, Cue DO Ae estato to } » twelbhda were atrested. at Cha-|" ot/ Utah, Cee’ a at the Jwere under way. x } The cause of all our woe- > wa ced to the : pide: . ‘*' | three sons and hall: Olympic hotel. A. P. BUR- H oN . ee Set enn Faee bie oe a eg ee 0 tk OAs years Be as- dyaitey' ead Wo ‘nigned the petj-| {2® minimum amount a SALINE WELL, insurance, crossing The bret to ss A ‘ae oa i But her tongue and feet penitentiary to serve from six months ) , mong th: ear emcee) Des Union in jeaee before. it maybe | susoselt j fre always on the go. ‘sault with a deadly weapon. . (Turn to Page 2, Column 6) ember 8 BREWSTER, must be backed by statements from | : © eee | “Why don’t they let me go?” asks Tom. Tom didn’t con- rsede the one culating * between | Warden Clarence Long. and Prisoit j The new 1925 auto leenses are) sider himself much more dangerous to society than either hen he married hi OUrE AyS. Physician J..W. Ingram, to the ef J 4 lack and white. Why discriminate | 9!@er ni slativ leaving his entire prop. | of Olympia, seeing things tn a pant ks) } Fili Soudas. But Tom has no influential relatives. lig) Satine y GAFEN ao. |fect that the girl's mental condition, n favor of black and white? Why | M1 Th oe a if ke wees ful tod: ay, "he moaned, They had been having Seat . ns - a ¥ ad . “ now.’ Is ‘iniproved: overs her alan x not make some of them Haig & Haig. “That pain in my back— 8 é countaint, making bank deposit. | 2O™. : ane een ee % Pp * TRAIN WRECK The will probated today said: “re! al J. J. MURRAY, saledman, see! | sopeticn tee bebertepess eee ee, as i ate 5 : or . Gertrude A. Gompe second . ing victims on Second ave. | *equests % bis * 1 E LEFT Tom and on the way down the corridor Get | wife) shall not be my lawfully wed Says He Found Jewels in|} sons BUSHELL, retired busi. | Set both to the penitentiary early LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE a glimpse of Percy Sinclai Sinclair is 63 years old. : |ded wife at the time of my death Ash Can After Robbery | ness man, watching his step on | ane reer VAMP, |Less than two years ago he was a political power in this / Diner Plunges Into River at) se shall not recelv« part | the ice'on Seventh ave. W. A. | ‘The reply of the warden, and of If money ts th’ root of all Bre te. He was senator from Pacific county and he and his - : my estate and the shall be - GILLAM, merchant, . dilating |the physician, was that, because wil li nhac ona | a bank at South Bend. The bank failed and a jury Chippewa, Wis. divided among my other heir Asem 13 mented aeme ie in his} on the weather in front of the |they were not at the penitentiary gon ran a bank at § end. 17 Ga jury) | ‘The amount of the estate was not | Possession, Aben Sahaba, 32, a pé Stuart building. JOHN CAMP. |at the time Miss Garrison was sent era aban father and son were responsible. Both got penit: see td CHIPPEWA FALS, Wis, Dec, 20, | vealed Fah: aoe aa 06 I A ava BELL, patoware | fapre ht, there, they could not, obviously, sentences. |—Several lives may have been lost ieee A for the s - |give any opinion concerning One good thing about the radio is, . 2 n the hospital. He} pear here 48h | $15,000 el bery of the London] plar convention that comes next change in h tal c | that the operatic star cameat all the| The father serves as an assistant i Porire ot atriped (anor ae toon, toda when 21 Former Warden Is. |jensiry:co. second ave, and Yesler bane ee | hange in her mental condition. j garlic she wants before broadeasting| was neat and clean in his indoor prison unifor eon| Sources Pea tat Chip: | to Face Bribery “”: | chant, meandering down Sec. |, Superior court proceedings in Miss Ting songs. ay shirt and gray trousers. He looked well physically, rews © when the diner of Soo t Y! A tone bandit held up Robert} ond ave. C. HE MORFORD, |Garrison's behalf in Seattlo have jf oe gray ‘ rain No. 2 plunged off the bridge} ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 20—Indict-| Lurie, the proprietor, and his son < dow | proven’ fruitless, Unless her coun- \ but he was in the very depths of despair. ita thecwate 7 proy merchant, window shopping on a “When I married you, I thought| 2U ea ad what a Christmas!” he aye ee ater ments char that they had Moyer, Friday morning and escaped) pine st, HOMER G. McDON sel can obtain statements from the F 7 youiicere on angel” Christmas — my goodness, ass ae wenty persons were in the diner | llcited and accepted bribes from in-| with a tray of diamond rings, after! ALD, banker, hurrying along | Warden and physician further moves i “Bo that's why you never bought) murmured. “And just think, it was two years ago At the time, and #0 far only 14 have | mates of the United States peniten: |ongaging in a piatol battle with Mey-| gecona to his Junch, |@Ppear to be blocked. ‘There still jf me any clothes.” about now that I visited President Harding at the White Pe eee ac : lary here, faced former Warden A. /or Lurie in which four shots were| TAME MERON, superin. |!8 the possibility of appeal to the mises foe 3 f I in ff) talk abo ttahe oe |B. Satrain, and L. J. Fletcher fired. tendent Monroe reformatory, |S8UPreme court, but without the Hl There is no truth to the rumor that | jouse.” BS ew to redtartulhe whiter alted aah aon haw o Avplenr box hag sae eae electing good things for the | Rect af rapeshan ue course ap- y Humane society 1s = eek walpr dare < bok Bhat) a rings was found ina garbage can in| poys' Christmas dinner. MAR. | Pears to be as hopeless as any the ta Acating of T\OWN in the auto license plate shop Ole Larson, former ts, were drowned or got ashore un-| each The indictments un alloy hack of the store afew min-| TIN PENSKA, fiecalact of | other. ‘ bagpipe music on the grounds that it | head of the defunct Scandinavian-American bank, which | °”*¢rve« apie January § Zz ites later, The gems had been tos Fairbanks, meeting old friends It was the general opinton in is unduly cruel to the alr waves. there by the bandit. ut the Butler (Turn to Page 2, Column 4) la jury said he wrecked, worked diligently. He had hopes of | — . - * The remaining jewels were found | + ¥E DIARY | getting out before Christmas, but Filion and Soudas bea y) a Biles: at Bakube Sonuctels wefbecsber 19) him to it and now the storm of protest is so strong that police that he had seen a man drop my chilblains con- Bi onina Is Confessed tmas presents for and that gems and them in the garbage can, he had then recovered the \the governor says he is about out of Chris 'anon'to| the time being. some kerosene apon them, Nearly Froze to Death . ing done, they were better. * is run away. A man living in a hotel) se aeons altel coe or ae ; victed | Y £Wo Witferen EM] || hear by sora patio he 'taw Sababal| « spprehension ot Kt great. $0 to home,| Up at the prison library we found Peter Miller, convicte: Se Z f tako the diamonds from the can andi) J JD Ef fort to k ee W ar and to winding another batch of gunny- of burgla: ry Pd sentenced as an habitual criminal. Miller} Cae OF Hie z VES ters and gave himself up on tho || gave the police a de ption, which} sacks about the water-pipes, leat they ° CHARLES TENNANT found wate Schatee » Sha aha a led to tho palmist's arrest. Boa ee "i ; y , freexe again, and the plamber’s bill,/ has made a game fight for his freedom but, he says, every | Hilinwelt, ids ted eteenge ss poettion m) ree, ying ho had ae iat ie Note - jee DIETRIC H, 45, couldn't leaped into the pool again, heaven heip us, doth foree as Into the b blocked by Governor Hart. turd: evita ter learned he was wanted for the . : keep warm Friday night. fully clothed. bankroptey courts, And so to bed. effort has been blocked by Gov PAUP ey 8 HY) A oh 7 Cie OI OIRS | ca the bandit, but the suspect is held}! S64 he started-imbibing freely The water was too hot. Joo RE | “What a great laugh Filion and Soudas must get when|| murderers in jail for only one | ‘murde in_jall_ for furthér investigation |] of moonshine by way 6f warm- treaked it for the open air ve wc a , 2 a rder. | Both men offe ho. explana — y way st air. ‘ ited kno’ : et Mae i nhe oe they contemplate the operation of the law and its majesty,” br a cht Manulani wakicaas <8 | ih vg I A oh i “ ing) Up) and faleo Pedlébratitie Patrolihin 3” Aus Haguesone could get Littic Homer Brew dr. to| Pete remarked. had faded, || 1%, ¥atked into poltco headquar- | bling, and that they shot him W E AT H E R a sine i na ne taneas Feacued stitm et his clothes chop some kindling sometimes. The smile with which he usually greets one had faded | tors and told Patrolman William | when ho refused to obey thelr Snow and warmer tonight and warmth, Joo went to the Club hire tb hb clty Nowtitel “Dee | Pete Miller had drunk his cup of gall. i eed y ei voeireenbitariieed Ta HG ak IN aE AIL A | Sunday; ‘posatbly rain |] Baths, stripped and took a hot rich admitted his. adventures Nth ape 4E Pe re iG oad.” 6 had ot nnd led K i Te: t belleves jamoto to q Re ki ic ‘ os "a Beet’, lied Se) fF “My light has failed,” he said. “I can see nothing ahead. He > Ha * i ears et ag bd mataiee MA rane as ae Sunday : |} plunge, But when ho put his Saturday as he shivered bo- f He hapa "Me tha #} Fi tebe off 9 : A''woek: or two ago, Kimpacht | is “a Ittle off” and will release | Pee astat vie Ninian ele jj clothes on, Dietrich’ became neath a ton of blankets. He : The charnel house on the hill! cold again, In desperation he That’ s what Walla Walla pri ison looks like now. | | To smoke his stogies shorter, | Yamamoto walked into headquar him will recover, What has become of the old-fash- oned man who brought an extra large toothbrush becnuse he had 10} children? \ ’ . ® Clean the ice and snow off your sidewalks. You are financially responsible for accidents sus- ilies ‘not eats Here Sa Tip! tained by those who slip. | Today noon, | ee Nias sae Do It Now! Bou, around Ww sw front door, ‘ ‘ ’ te ry