The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 31, 1925, Page 1

j . J i t t ~ 4 ™ Ne OE errr rarer rere eS ve COLVIN MAY PROSECUTE LAMPING aloe ee Spring is only Howdy, folk» yen tons of coal aveay Added AX’ Thinks th Is axe go in mus M kj tor Yeu" an PICKPOCKET’S MOTTO Leek for the silver lining — ‘The last time J way emereise Was wt his bay Dack in Ul Gee Gee, w patank, says the 5 geben-bearted whe Paaungton’s birthday gaa Sunday. (CANDIDATE FOR THE POLSON Wy CLUB Gink who gues crazy with evxelte- nent in the office when he finds the teektier diminutive for father- is pet Nobody has ever named a flivver ‘Dppartunity.” Opportunity knocks | wat ener. We had to «sr This_in @ pinch In order to Fit up an inch, If Association the standard © glad of th well, 4 buy ‘The United States ( * icdals intend to keep plall another year. W er G4 ane ts doing tate to throw it awa: ther one. ABIGAIL APPL “hh takes 20 fears for a muither to make ‘man out of her 0, and 20 min- ‘tes for another Yeman to make a fool out of we AUCE SAYS: | . . | A foreign painter is coming here} © paint Beattie women, it is an- esneed, He won't need to paint Li'l Gee Gen, She can do It herse Wither, dear father, out there im the tub, The home brew is gassy and pale; We hope you will hurry away to the club, people drink mild ginger —Washington Star. | , by Tachal- } asted in Seattle | ithe trestle by all TENANTS DEAD: IN ASHES OF APARTMENT Eight Are Dead and Three Others Believed Victims GIRLS AID IN RESCUE 30 Injured as Flames Sweep Home Building in Chicago NHICAGO, Ja 1.—k dead was t atest t toda ( s h swer threy ar the smoking ruins and it is believed two or three bodies are buried or masses of debris. Thir # were injured. Flv may die the quick thinking of two telephone girls and the hero- sm of several college students « GIRLS RESCLE FOUR PERSONS Margaret Locke the Del Padri partment build rsons from wha The girls sav da boy on the four 1s at death, woman @ f by the flames. ing to the fourth Moor of the © girls secured a long board, ‘om thelr window acros# the e et areaway and the four led to anfety bodies of Anthony Harding, } hid wife. 24, and Dera, 19menth-} old baby, were found huddied tn their | tment he hedy of Loretta Brayer, 15. / was removed from a ballway, appar-| aphyxiated, while groping her} way thru the smoke. | But heroism of firemen police sualties would have | ‘ | ently for the the « been m the 18th bat score of fire & starch of the ted the rescue of yped in their beds al persons jumped from their | Horace McLean of fireme c led and potice in nd dir persons tra windows, but none was seriously hurt The fire started in the basement from an overheated furnace, police} eve. FALLS 50 ‘FEET OFF TRESTLE Street Car Passenger Seri- ously Hurt in Tumble | Stepping from a street car on the overhead trestle near the Todd |dry docks early Saturday morning, of 21 War the aide of dent and crashed | ground, 60 feet below. He} waa picked up and taken to the city | hospital suffering from a broken| leg and broken right arm Lawrence J. Clark, 29, ren ave., plunged over to the | have done. And Boo Tonight He's L Going to at Kind Words Club Banquet SEATTLE, WASH.L, Seattle’s Bookkeeper lance The N } Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington The Seattle Star SATURDAY, JANUARY His OO ne Oe Ora 31, Check Shows Bottles Stolen! Two Cases of Whisky Seized in Raid by Bannick’s Men Recovered / OM EDITION TWO CENTS I — IN SI * ZE THEFT! —— GUN NOW PART OF SCHOOL EQUIPMENT PROSECUTOR IS wot MOUNTAIN 80°S | PROBING. PORT saat e's) UIRCHASES | But ther he caries | CONFERS WITH DUNBAR Statute of Limitations May Stop Prosecution t 1 well ‘ sl By SFT of a case of liquor during the unloading of a con- n against 1 P® COMMISSIONER fiseated booze cargo at police headquarters Friday after- M6 | GEORGE LAMPING vio- noon resulted Friday in Chief Severyn’s starting an inquiry pe ||lated the state criminal laws in an effort to find out who got the liquor. ened | if he used the credit of the Captain C. G. Bannick, whose men at West Seattle made 1 ke the | attle Port commission, or the seizure of 5514 cases of fancy liquors early Friday, ; wate =f A port funds, for his personal appeared at Police headquarters Saturday to demand a uaa’ ee de ends, Prosecutor E. D. Colvin receipt from Inspector Joe T. Mason, for exactly that ix district. A bo age his || said Saturday amount. mur and his Colvin declared that he will He was given a receipt for 58 cases and nine bottles. Le ee confer with Attorney General At the West Seattlo station Cap the garage, but the liquor a+ John H. Dunbar and state ac- tain Bannick and a federal dry sing lcountants next week to deter- agent carefully counted and checked, Finally s were found un % & oes the 651% cases before loading them | der in & dark corner [maine whether prosecution into two automobties | near the sit door | cs n be brought. The booze was taken into the ga:| One of the tien told Scheible |" Lamping may escape prose rage at police headquarters and car-|that he was ordered to put the liquor m thru the statute of tmita ried into the ¥ about 90 feet|under the stairway, & |tions was intimated by Colvin, who of Bannick’s officers were engaged |The trusty at this point was intimi por ‘dena is outlawed after one in unloading and storing the liquor.|dated by one of Bannick's me ear if the offender remains in the ldeut. G. H. CG « was in the! Sehelble declared, nd refused st sr aetna ge Tha 9 RO gta gp Jo Convict Ex-Head of Bureau |r), particular occurrences which asnistant, Offi Robert Schelble Chief Be declared that he and J. W. Thompson | were brought to light by a report wes Upstairs counting the sacks as| Would question the four trusties, but of state examiners filed in Olympia they passed by him in the handa of/*aid he could put little rellance on | with the attorney general, occur trustion their words DEFENDANTS » TREMBLE | rea between July 6, 1922, and De | Sehelble went downetairs to trace! Meantin Bannick iv indignant} cember 31, 1923, the records show. ta broken sack, he sald, and when/and mands a receipt fdr the full “The state law proclaims it a | Lockers were | Here's Seattle's champion | bookkeeper and: goatherd—H.| c Photo by indeed follows that profession, he is a goat-herder by temperament. That's how he comes to keep! books Ln Seattle's masculine popu- lation and what they should do andj ‘The debit side of his} big ledger is simply filled with en- tries, and he balances accounts once | a year at the annual dinner and/ high jinx party o club—of which he ts president. banquet will be tonight at The Olympic Hotel. Everybody goes that possibly can| farm near publicans, they and because politicians and = sinners get in | saints | know they'll find oyt all that's been y and shake in their shoes, wonderin we" G. LUCILLE BUTLER ix the stern-visaged gentle man in the above picture? has on them. We'd hate to be Gov. | of Patrolman Robert 14 Litsey. creer? fot served atx, mint ‘ They were cha mas transferred from King coun. Why, he's Seattle's bookkeeper, 0) Hartley tonight—und as for Dan} They were chargod with first deli) tq the state prison April, 1919, Henn. Hin namo ts Mr. H.C. Pigott,| Landon and “Adam Becler—oh, ob,| sree murder but the Jury compro-|on a gecond degree burelary charge. | pone: me white he was eaucated by ‘his!from what we infer, it's Indeed a| mised on the lemer chargo after|In August, 192 parents for the printing trade, and) piessing tho ladiea will 00 permitted | four and a half hours’ deliberation, Was Convicted of second degree to remain away froni, the .verbal| ‘Twenty ycars in the state prison |UP#aryY here, sentenced to one to the Kind Words, The} | fontering plans to es Pigott, President of the Kind Words Club. Price, & Carter, Star # how much Seattle's super-accot barbecue that will accompany the! iy the maximum sentence Judge gridiron dinner this} entree at the evening. It's the club's) 24th and its members are celebrating anniversary, opraphers | ant! Night of the slaying, September 26th, it jIna! charges for which the renee he returned one of Bannick’s check-| amount of liquor It te admitted that | ers told him three cases were mist |more than 18 bottles were stolen dur-| A search followed. up and general torn ing. ing the storing * broken Them te but who got a mystery Be Given Life Terms! ‘Habitual Criminal Char Charge Considered for Siverly and Richardson MARLES FAIRCHILD, 25; Floyd Siverty, 22, and Floyd G. Rich. ardson, 25, will be sentenced early next manslaughter, fol lowing thelr conviction late Friday when he was 11 years old escaped from the Chehalis reform: atory after one and a half months’ sentence: was recaptured in Seattle, And escaped again, In 1922, Ne was caught cr in Grays Harbor county, week for aba ember, 15 years, and later released. Fairchild’s record shows he served 80 days at Montesano, February, 1923, for larceny. The following September he was arrested here as & disorderty person. Last Hall pass on manslaughter. Siverly and Richarason, however, may be made to face habitual erim- can thei: ewe club », being used bo a clamae dag vin announced Saturday. degree lara ‘eobe . The defense in not expected to As remarked before, Mr. Pigott fa | o ow . an hccomnlished goatherd, He ia|%*K for & new trial or to appeal Seattle, tn | bers of the K. W may preferred stock Pigott will attend personally Setting | tists goats” for them. EDEN PARTY ROBBED Mr.not stop to render aid. The robberx Jumped into their car | convicted biish a goat which mem. | purchase | to [from the jury's verdict. MAY LINK TRIO Meanwhile the prosecutor js in- vestigating a wired report from} Sheriff Fred Norling of Pasco, re jeeived Saturday, which sajd Fair LDUP child ‘war arrested there June,| }1923, with two pit Bg Jcharged with burglary. Falrchik P © was released on bond after the| Sheriff Seeks to Identify other two escaped, Norling said. fi Records obtained from Sherif! Tacoma Men as Bandits Starwich Saturday showed that both | Siverly and Richardson had been! Efforts were being made Saturday of felonies twice before.|by Sheriff Matt Starwich to f y ‘and disappeared after the holdup. |The third time constitutes habitual | |three men arrested Friday night in Mrs. Charlotte Bouffleur was tho | Criminality, | Tacoma as auto thieves, as the ban heaviest loser, The holdup men| Richardson, according to this re-/dits who held up and robbed the took a sevencarat $10,000 diamond | port, was sentenced to two years at)bank at Bothell, The men undef ring off her fingers. Her husband | Canyon City, Colorado, in 1915; w W. J. Murray, 29; ie chief surgeon in Seattle for the | sent to the Washington state prison ® Meyers, 3: and Joseph Milwaukee ’& St. Paul Rail-fin 1920 for one to 15 years, and|V company icy reside at 2036 | was paroled two years later, In| The men were arrested by Tacoma Eden is Portland president of the Cement Co, and he Superior | and | in his wife live at The Highlands, Se- | attle. Southern party is wintering fornia i police after streets of A that wild chase thru city by police | commande tax! After the he|turo Murray sald that he was on half | his way to Portland and had picke 1913,!up the other men 1919 he received a similar sentence to Monroe and escaped from there June, 1920, Siverly'’s record shows that was sentenced to eight and a months at Mercer Island’ in in a ¢ Tie tadio announcer will be gind| Clark may also have internal in-| going on since the Inst banquet | ltow that the name Tschaikovski, | juries. }— ee Techaikovaki | Hoe ig a garage man. He said the | : } as street car failed to stop at the reg . | . % ular landing and he did not suspect i Tae ts NOTE |that the trestle was unguarded “ Mate legislature has taxed | |i10 point where he alighted have, seek everything the el} >ABADENA, Cal., Jan. 3 hing the people | J at al Nips dead le Mrs. Albert R. Bouffleur and 4 i [Mr and Mrs, John C. Eden, all of a6 » Tourists Show Keen Seattle, were stripped of Jewels The cold was 20 int in New Interest in Turkey | jand ue ~ oa worth 1d. n00, by Bee 4 Mae : | armed highwaymen who eld i” t \ Tek Yesterday, according to dis-| Turkey is the most remote spot) Sk ll Wither, that tt stopped the clocks, |on the earth when it comés to| thelr limousine on a boulevard near ly the hand ‘ot frost-| getting accurate information for the here last night ten, by tourist, reports Miss Foster, of the| The bundits overtook the wealthy Pee 6 k Mr. Foster Service. | Sea sri citizens’ ‘net rie fore zy ater “th this a hand laundry There seems to be fewer reliable|to halt, compelling the quartet to Ya" iis ks and guides on Turkey than on|alight and line up while Jewels, furs, S Wath my hands, witt ‘ other counts; In the world,”|clothing and cash were taken from ie, + |she sa “And just now there is | their aris Several di rales i unusual demand for information| mobiles passed the scene while the “had one legnosrniiig that country.” Vroubery’ Was 1h ‘progress tnut- did is an’ fink Seting, Most people Mieously, that the three houses of WeMeture are the upper and # ‘ower houses, and ihe i Sign on the Back of a Ford: an tie Lit: 12 Miles Per Hour. Lt PDAS ks “sometising lighter tor Wear,” it will be because he eas | of kinds | Now any cop who B Yellow siip on our car will : | | YE DIARY sand to reading “A Story by Sherwood Anderson, Bmuring tayle ever I rend, also 47 1. Cobh, in the Commopolitan, we editor who did write the Me gw sie ivie Biich wwe first printed. me- the Gutenberg press. And s0| which do be BY JIM MARSHALL HITE terror slid blanching fingers over the impasstve bronze of Chinatown Saturday. Steel chains elinked and click- ed on heavy doors. Far under- ground, cool automatics close to hand, Orientals flung strings of staccato gutturals; received grunting assent In Seattle's two Chine tions drab-garbed merchants clipped along silently, furtive- eyed. hurrying from the lurking white terror. Behind them, try- ing to appear nonchalant, strods | white guards. The Orientals slid rapidly thru gloomy doorways. The guards, glancing up and down the street, hefted heavy nec- hip-pockets and spat speculative- ly into the gutter. Tradition, mainstay of the philosophy with which the Chinaman comforts his exile, has been broken. Aforetime tho Cantonese, did their own killing, decently and respectably, bow ing gracefully to the inconstder- ate interest of white policemen. But now White it spitting lead. Chinatown And the gunmen Incredible. doesn't understand It. white terror grips. Up in Providence hospital ties Fred Woo, high in the councils of the Hip Sing tofg, wounded in breast, thigh and arm, likely to die. in his home at 104 17th his wife rocks, mourning In the elity jail are Jack Ray- feared by the Chinese as "; Lew Dow, alias ave., white mond, w, and Mra. Lew Dow, Mrs. Lew Dow in sald to mond's sister. Raymond” and Dow are brothera-n-law, if the police theory is right. Fred Woo and his wife reached their home friday night. From the shadows stepped a white man and a Chinese, The Chinese pointed a finger. The white man shot four times. Woo fell. His wife ran shrieking into their ne, slamming the ¢ door. The white gunman and his accomplice slipped back into the shadows, Police arrested Raymond and Dow. They took them to the bedside of the wounded Oriental. He nodded, as the surgeons probed his wounds, Then Raymond 1 Dow were taken back to jail. Raymond's sister was taken, sent to Jail, too. It's a tong war, It's a private qu some tocal Chinese. police are right. Hero's what's happened. Tongs are like fraternal orders, only more aggressive. They go hunt ing new members, forcing mem- bers to pay tribute from lottery games, opium sales—any mate or illegitimate trade. tong becomes too powerful From the ends of America the defeated tong gathers its gun men It Is as if the Elks and Eagles, in & membership campaign, took to gun-battling for new mem. bers. Heretofore it had been tradi- tion that Chinese did the shoot ing; and never did it in the pres ence of white men. White gun men were employed as guards— even yon Dip, Chinese consul, has a bodyguard—but they rare y legiti One police rrel, Pro say wert ably the abe. | the} | | |confident Later he | words, * | trembled king a safelattorneys whispered encouragement. convicted | James Hamiiton Lewis, the record adds, he FROM COURTROOM | | “Will Continue Fight.” Says Attorney for the Colonel gross misdemeanor for any pub- lie official or public employe to use the funds or credit of a city, state or county institution for his personal convenience,” Col- vin said. “I will confer this week with Attorney General Dunbar and the state accountants to see if the law has been violated. Offenses occurring within a year are subject to prosecution and will be prosecuted by my office.” That Commissioner Lamping ‘had used the services of one or more port employes on his house during the period he was remodeling it, and then |reimbursed the port, developed Sat- urday. Jack Vest, a sheet metal worker; |was employed on Lamping’s house } once during May. HICAGO, Jan. 1.—Appeal for a new trial was prepared today for | Charles R. Forbes, former head} * bureau, and John Louis contractor, a federal jury last charge of conspiring the government in hospitalization contracts. rings on the appeal will be Wednesday and if the appeal is denied the case will be taken to the United States supreme court, it was announced. Up to an hour of the time the jury brought in its verdict Forbes, Thompson and their attorneys were | On two occasions, of acquittal, But the/ 1923, and once during October, 19 uilty as charged,” stunned/He was paid by the port commis detendants sion and the sums were charged ruddy face paled and he|®&#inst Lamping’s personal account. Thompson also paled and| Ray Oliver, a painter employed ‘d stricken rigid, Quickly thete | BY the port, laid off for a period of three weeks during October and worked om Lamping’s house, Oliver, however, was paid direct by Lamp- | ing, according to port records. Lamping admitted the transac- tion Saturday, and declared there is nothing to conceal about it. “My record is clear and I don’t care what that gang at Olympia tries to do,” said the colonel. “They will find my transactions with the port above suspicion.” Col. of the veterans W. Thompson, jfound guilty t Int ight on the defraud ireau He he th | Forbes’ former sena-| tor from Illinois and attorney for | Thompson, slapped his client on the back. cS IS LED “We'll keep on fighting,” he sald. Elwood Godman, attorney for Forbes, took the trembling man by the arm and led him from the room. The jury was out nearly five Prosecutor Colvin sald that hours and took 12 ballots. the memorandum order issued Under the verdict, Forbes and] by the port commission more Thompson are liable to a maximum (Turn to Page 2, Column 1) 3 DIE IN WRECK Irish Train Smash Also Injures 10 Persons than three eyars ago, which grants employes the right to use the trade discounts of the port commission in purchasing personal supplies, is illegal, un- less the transactions are made with the funds given to the purchasing department by the men, This practice was permitted by the commissioners, the order merely providing that the transactions be LONDONDERRY, Jan. 31.—Cross- (Turn to Page 2, Column 1) ing the Owencarra viaduct in the SuBeNee | STSres desolate Donegal mountains, during| a terrific storm, the Londonderry Burton port express was blown| from the rails and wrecked early | — today, three persons being killed| Dojj j i ‘ ii her aale . Police Trail California Hit- The train, toppled by the gale, and-Run Car fell over against a stone parapet which prevented it crashing to the ae sae Pate CRE Traffic squad police Saturday were partments wus, more than $5,000| ;_ search’ Of &. hit-and-run dstver who at Fremont fled after crashing Rescue 90 From Jinto an auto and then into @ . | bicyele, knocking down a boy. Indian Ocean Wreck | “the car was a California ma- RANGOON, Jan. 31.—A survey | chine. It struck the auto of A. L. ship of the Indian government today| Johnson, 7281 Fourth ave. N. W. |rescued 90 members of the ‘crew| and then hit the boy on the bicycle. | of the sloop Elphinstone, which was|'The boy, slightly bruised, disappear- wrecked in the Indian ocean. ed. The California car escaped. | White Terror Blanches Bronze Faces in Chinatown ly shot—and then never in a but the Hip Sings and the On planned killing. Leongs are, Fred Woo, shot Now, apparently, white gun- Friday night, is a Hip Sing. men are to do the shooting. The On Leongs, however, are “Alla time before just ch not powerful here. for China boy; now got watch The Hip Sings signed » peace China boy and ‘Melican man, resolution, supposed to include too,” objected a Chinese mer- kane, in the chant to a reporter: Saturday, > sald Sat- Cause of the present racket is urday that this did not include that the Hip Sings, who have other tong but was merely been powerful in the East, have Hip Sing resolve. The resolu: invaded the Seattle area. Oth tion, they affirm, has been or tongs arp jealous. And the faithfully kept pon, as ever, is terroristn, There is only one rule in tor glinting from bluesteel auto. warfare—“An eye for an eyo. matics, Meanwhile, the white terror Hip Sings and Hop. Sings blanches bronzed faces im Cab Chinese say, are not at war, natown, +