The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 11, 1925, Page 1

gi — 9 ee Sa Bee Star's M atinee for the Ki ias at ‘‘Over the Top’ Show Saturday; See Page 9) AR. AVE. REPAIRS VOTED! “ The Seattle Star Pi: ec ee ol SEATTLE, WASHL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, ms * TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. sf ° ome MAYOR BLAMES RAILWAYS Wins Weading Wager,,£0 Be Filled 4 Council Committee and Property FOR FATAL AUTO CRASH Remains Single Five Years Just to Owners Reach Agreement a Collect Bet From Mere Man | RRAiLRoAD AVENUE, de ath trap ba wiht orlete: and traf- Cc ks Pl \INQUEST JURY xt | IVTOOKS Ft; DEBATING — mendations voted Wednesday noon by the council streets Howdy, fotks! In the past six’ || geoihs, bandits in Seattle have | ] VERDICT $126,000 from victims, the bandits and ay. The money for the much-needed repairs will be obtained from joint contributions from the city’s general fund and abutting property owners. | The port commission and representatives of various rail- lroads and properties successfully protested against the repairs being done thru a local improvement district. \” mittee. soon own the aw 2 rate 3y this move the council committee rejects having the (EDITORIAL) To Fix Responsibility for ie Ai iM rd ap aS a ie eater hi ice shes ae \TTLE police situation’ ls a- simple open and Plunge Into Bay work done at the sole exper e of the property owners con- Tee new scale of price: cerned. The same proposal was submitted to the council Debs shut busine ks, $5,000; Fire insurane S proposition, rates in three years have dropped 40 THREE DROWNED IN CAR last fall and was rejected because of lack of funds. It will y, and will be tdect by the Bandits be acted upon by the finance committee Frid. wing picture thea $4,000; Jew |] per cent. cil | dras i then d 4 coat . Nelaniy ; ats : Sat ES! ; ; submitted to the council |drawn and then di sea a year ago, Ba Git cee satons 815] get "frum BO to 900 per cents ew om 788Y" | Brown Says City Not to Be kgogs aoe jan-vee: Under in plan Bee ence 323 Fire rates went down because of motorization of the Blamed for Tragedy a nea arrae soo | an ve. Sater : i} department, a better inspection system and improved s ¥ sae may efficiency generally in the fire department. | Rees ROAD compar ove sd Fay tho wee an Burglary insurance rates went up because politics in reritsy 4 — hb nAgiticnal "wirast 4 eae the police department and obvious crooked work on the | '. é seas wane drov here part of a few made the department unable to stem the f th poe ibe a weet tee Wednest ter was deaths was being I merning, while the ted by the council rising tide of payroll and other “stick-ups.” Insurance men estimate the higher rates will cost the |)" business men of Seattle at least $100,000 for instrance ||, during 19% On top of this will be the direct and in- ‘ direct losses due to stolen rolls, And every loss || quiring shouldered by the insurance companies this year will make rates proportionately higher in the future. King county is now in what is termed Class 2 of the Wt income tax. Dedu four c into which insurance underwriters divide the M7 professional expenses, such as |} country according to hazard. faye’ fees, gasoline for his car, Only two Midwest counties are in Class 1, the most 4 side theat drvps and the cost of am-)) hazardous, With King in the next class are: Oklahoma, yuncil, on December 31, | ? Metioofus figures that he|| © ; - St. Louis county, Mo., Polk county, lowa, Wayne coun’ [liad catended the lease of the water Mil have to pay $15,682.09 (his year. e Neb 7 N.Y. lyr front rightofway to. the raltwaye “Kain't right to penalize # man for | Mich., Douglas count rie county, N. teen nies 7 We industry,” complains MeGoofus. | King county, because of the increased hazard during |} 4) y5:9, pert neosiien '| the past year was jumped from the fourth class into the second, over Chicago, which remains in the third. 4 More i in Death Probe Suspects Rounded Up for Tacoma in Slaying of Bank Manager ednes-|attle detectives at the Angelus hotel, S ATTLE detectives earl: day arrested two mo Seattle’| Kinney has been identified: by a half- jmen as suspects in the killing and | dozen witnesses, who say that Kin- robbery of Harry Schmidt, manager) ney was one of the two gunmen who of the 38th st. branch of the Na-| wantonly shot down Schmidt from ra jury accident, Wednes dent submit rkhuff, superin which the Metioofus, a wiinewn thuc-about-town, is here doen calculating the amount of his ASSE v Gratword puzzles haven't reached Se Might of their popularity. No-| ; . i » it the WMyhas yet thought to put them The whole thing, Mr. Business Man, resolves itself tees) bank of Tacoma last Satur-| behind and took his money. ii» Baillie typo for the blind. {| into the question of whether YOU want to pay out cold t stated that even atx ‘bébeckis tate <atow’ Gila Sint irk Boren seh b ae be makin 3 in the ih ___y || cash from YOUR pocket to perpetuate the present police || i¢ the city had been in per coma for questioning concerning the | «sicy" anes aera Memes i a ADDLED AXIOM | || system. : fact condition at the point, it would bank murder and holdup. opener, in the cell of Guy Ruther- | The drunker they are, the | It’s not a matter of unwillingness to interfere in the : oily thie and salesman.| ford, one of the suspects, led police ! 2 . nl railroad urth ave. | 4, a ‘ ,|| other fellow’s business, t | Fon. at Pourth ave-| to” believe that a jail break was . It’s not a case where you can turn your back and say, Brown said th had | i Juriseh, of the Tacoma po- Gr nd aot Pegtop trousers are said to be||. “Let the police de, partment run itself; I'm not interested.” || urged the council to re . |lice at 6:45 a. m Due phase of the details concern- taing tack into style. We hope ‘ . fi . te, |) ave. in bis annual m A few hours before, detectives ar-|'"& the arrest of Rutherford and into’ style. ° _With insurance, today's losses fix tomorrow's rate. |) oy on. hu teen an n'Lioy i, in « rooming | Kinney was not. accurately explained Het-nowed dog pipes at were Worn in 1905 will fea. Men were men in tho: in the Tuesday edition of The Star. Miss Helen Whaley, who next Friday will collect a $ Sarees ee pai! ha doe re |The Angelus hotel was not raided. ‘k thes can, Det which she made five years ago with Harry Bangert.| "vio .4 is said to be the husband ot; The men were arrested in their about eng | She wagered that she would not be married within that) once of the two women who are held | MS, Where they were found by the who} time. She's planning to spend the money for window curs| in the Tacoma Jail in connection with | Police Pesan at 626 University st. and YOU bring sufficient pressure on Chief Seve “L prepared that advice ce him rid the police department of the politicians | data of my engineer ome gentlemen who and knaves who infest it, and who bring dishonor on the heads of the many honest policemen, the cost of such morh whore knowle from the alr than me Ray West, young bank messenger a system will come out of YOUR OWN POCKET. nt thelr lives: at 1,’ thel faz, ¢ : i the mur nd $3,400 holdup, Mr. Business Man, it’s up to YOU. mayor said. “My advice is not neta | (2178. ee ee ee ee who was with Schmidt, has also very highly.”* | BY G. LUCKULE BUTLER bet Bangert $25 that SITE would. | permtcasin esnips ree = | The sald ho favored the PILLED salt, ladders and Gok “aa. atthin tive “seerm: Tacoma officers now are holding} "0t yet been identified, and may be I did snenk off to the city acatiring the entire waterfront; warnings of mysterious ex Patents Se = eit, [MT Lloyd, who ts held under the innocent of the actual holdup, un-| Jamity make any 13th day of the Sho hay “the papers” to prove It, | nume of Jane Moore; Ruby McIn-| Goodman and Lloyd will face the signed by herself and Bungert, nes, seen sca Hartley State Machine 2:3) 220": | t de} month that falls on a Wriday actress: Guy Rutherford, 23;| witnesses Wednesday. The gang was ' nounced the cit ger campaign.| doubly dreadful, This particular before witnesses, where she sets | Charles Kinney, Goodman and | traced by telephone calls sent in by Ourse, it may be a coincidence,| ° “I don’t see w the car could ming Friday February 13, forth that she is young wom- py. the women from Tacoma when they the price of gasoline wes in- | I R ad for | rial Run have come to a stop, then reversed] 1925 —leern wickedly from’ the an of sound mind, education and Rutherford and Kinney were ar-| were seeking to converse with the | 9 Peed just os the flivver waited) S e | itself and back off tho nr calendar above the desk of Harry who can’ dance and entertain a | Te ear ear! Mabnatond morning by Se-! men who were in Seattle. less Peterson shifted gears,” 5 angert, Seattle newspaper man, young man very properly.” With | #twn was about to open. see mayor said, ‘The testimony is that] reminding him of fur worse two d: “The resources of the Pullman com ss ] 1F t Tor ht, Ha Ihe had his car in high gear all the] things in store than witchcraft belly rb Fin yee Ny Me May seem to be unlimited. It fur-| gis ature Qui Ss onig PPY |, a or the dread banana peel, Whaley says, it looks pretty @) om ae oe cst of the homes in} That It Has Passed the Buck | = : Sent Fi years ago Pebroary 15 black for Harry. anal an Robber Is towels, and yet has} | 20-——Harry made a bet, a How the fair Helen has man- e bd kirl—and Friday, February 13, aged to remain single long 1 1 ing his tax machine into action Harry will pay. nobody can figure she e omes Wr gone into bankruptcy. AE fies MPIA, Feb. 11.—The famous y “ten commandments,”|as soon asx he appoints the three} arehan uae maiseat aninthenk Boeeeds ei | figube = and she ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SAYS: 0 Hartley siness-ma ht hhine for operating the| commissioners. Thess must, it ts gert wan discussing mirriago five-year-old position as head of : 5 te, was practically ready today for | true, be okehed by the senate, but | with Mixy Helen G, Whaley and the offies of tho Rapid Service Police Hunt Fem 1 nin e Bandit as 1s lits trial run. Tho legislature milled|the senate doesn't meet until Miss Esther Sauers—friendly-like Engraving company, and recent , thru its closing hours with less on| vember, and the commissione and unususpecting— when Old ly built herself a bungalow “nest” , d Wes: goaael ce this session than ever|get in a lot of work this summer Captain Darling Has Aban-| Mar Bad Luck picked him for a cal! Takes Wankingion ct aint Burglar and Hol up Leader 4 before. Unlike other legislatures, it| If they are diligent. is ® pa near Medina. “Just a nest—NOT bd Wife's birth. ise merely taken {ts orders and done = as doned Air Flight Bangert bet Mixs Sauers $5 a ‘love nest,’ she warns—and WOMAN burglar and bandit, a telephone call would prove whether ty, but forgets g; ‘the work. The session ends tonight. she would not mary within a when Harry ‘8 the $25 on my habitually accompanied by 8 10F: not the occupants were at home, ‘hich one it is.” | And what made it espec dally happy | UE W RANT Seite alasia: freucten rns tan’ ee He won that bet, but got good lek Fri the 13th, I'm | mon on her midnight raids, is sought | Several‘ times the occupants was the fact that it had succeeded in " 3 no money! going to invest it in window cur by the police, it was admitted Wed-| would answer calls from a strange doing what nobody in the army ever supply of serum expected to help Then Miss Whaley offered to tains.” nesday, in connection with recent im-| woman, who immediately hung up. - | succeeded in doing—passing the buck F sae paige aera blow oe portant burglaries: in the Capitol! Then as soon as they had gone out Pig W the season ot the year when | upward. | pn ged | beanie pes Siar +4 | Hill, University, Mt. Baker and for the evening, the back door Mt the ci soverno ‘es the machine | e ° c | om to Palm Ph 100 ts ritadl occa ieee 1s te exislature | Arrest of Frank §, Polet, Italian] day. Several times she has been seen | and the house pillaged. ch for the win-| more efficiency—w fi Dog teams, working in fast rela leaving the scenes of her robberies, At least a score of robberies, | zy to come be ‘ovembe inancier, and leade © loc ‘ r, ae the ours,| 2 Wiling:to com back ssh shai bs and leader in tho local)... o nearing. Kaltag, on the Yuko: loaded down with plunder, but in|each committed in the same identi- za hey drown in the surf,|and accept its share of the pra Italian colony, on a warrant charg-| trait. after a fast run and relay at each instance she managed craftily }cal manner, are credited to the If the machine docs not work the} ing grand larceny, was forecast | to. From Kaltag they will Workers Hit New Crevice That Mal to elude the police sent after her. papa pair. Several times tho 7 rind lig é |police have been called out to | legislature will be able to say: Sheriff Matt Starwich for Wednesday the Yukon, cut across the She was probably the woman, po- the other) “Well, it wasn't our Ay: YOU aAernodn. tundra to Norton sound, elrclo its! M Im edi ltice say, who held up and robbed |Search for the man and woman si fest rome know. You'll ve to seo the BV) starwich believes the man will be| ice shelf to Golovin bay and then | ean im late Release | John Throckmorton, ‘at driver, at |bUrslar, but the officers were never 4 ernor about | i | apprehended before night, despite the| make the final dash to Nome —___—__ | a lonely street corner in Rainier val. | Wick enough. Hartle ‘s grip on : Sy mA fact that he has not been seen sin Three times many drivers eA THE MOUTH OF §& SAND | into the one beneath the floor, and| ley Monday night, menacing Throck-| And in h case the description ts jae bk I ge at! ne ~ a Phas ri irs Cone na recelv rw ap ae Bi Set ve frieaftiteestt CAVE Ky, Feb. 11, Five | that this connects directly with Sand | morton with an automatic pistol, |Of the pair was the same, “a medi- f a oe Rema eh fas demon. | Pointed by the superior court for hix | mercy J x ©} fect below tho bottom of the shaft} ove. while her male companion robbed | Um-sized woman, dressed in a heavy | j bi grip 57 sag ep gy mip private bank, real estate and Jand| serum is hours ahead of the schedule being sunk toward him is a four-foot . him. ‘They had engaged the taxi /OVercoat that hides her figure, and a | | trated by the ‘cow hg atter of | OfCe# at 501 Jackson st. | Maintained by many of these same| crevice which may mean the| Use of dynamite, started last night) downtown, telling the driver to go} Small dark hat. The man is also p- | leg a pigeahy ee ee ro Starwich received the warrant) drivers two weeks ago. learly release of Floyd Collins from)}to hasten work, was abandoned to-!to a certain address, The holdup| dressed in a large overcoat, and [pets wen a woman ts fics: } el ele Bove heat loan, 4o|from the prosecuting attorney lato| The ‘epldemie tote is being erad-| hig underground prison. day aa the workers drew nearer the| Was staged shortly after midnight. [turned down brim hat.” Tike wishes it hadn't been found | | Pibaldd °\ Tuesday and has several Italian! ually controlled. No new cases have| ‘hig was ascertatned early today| oor of Collins’ cell. ‘Th Rnd el : oe Thousands of dollars worth of nt, ds | deputies, fami with the man,|been reported, but the new serum! yy q drill running ahead of the dig-| cell. They fear to} WOMAN ENTERS jewelry, clothing, lingerie and mis- sh a aE eee remanent rehing for him. Ree be welcomed by Dr, Curtis] gers to keep them informed of the|>reak it in upon him, | AND ROBS HOME cellancous articles have been stolen By! 2 TODAY’S Joseph Belloni was appointed re-| Welch because of the added security | Conditions they must meet. Inquiry being conducted into ru.| About three months ago the police|by the woman thief, according to celver Saturday, aft | Was the first poker player.| ot getting 0 ‘fa ind unt WANT ADS jan hi a Seattle Ital-|{t will give the physician and his) j was found the odor of banana| mors that Collins’ entombment is a| were astonished to hear that a wom. |pawnshop detail detectives. filed suft, charging Polet| nurses should the disease be reluct-| oi) gas, which was sv strongly in| grand hoax staged for purposes of/ an had been seen breaking into a t night | publicity was to be resumed today home in the University district. She Pa full house with misappropriating $136 intrusted| ant to loose its hold, Dr. Welch is} the bottom of the shaft 1 Will help you find a good used int to : | Ree oe ney, within. your. means, ||t0 him to be converted into Itallan|Nome’s sole physician. }emanated from an eight-inch crevice }had used her elbow, padded with a ‘Amundsen Arranges 4 fatal toss i a sipnc#® currency and sent to relatives in| Capt. Roy Darling has definitely in the side wall. The gas is being | \ coat; to break the glass in the kitch- hice sicci } Her is _ || Italy. The complaint, filed by Attor:| abandoned his flight here from An-| used in an effort to find a second| ] 2. Years-Old Boy |en door. By reaching thru the hole, | Polar Flight Soon OP West dead || “RARGAIN IN FORD Coupnm ||ney J. Y. C. Kellogg, charged that|chorage, according to wireless mes: | and rear entrance to Collins’ rock | |ste had turned the key and un-| OSOLO, Sweden, Feb. 11.—Follow- Wethe rélirocd track Late 1923 Ford pe in Al cons || approximately 400 other attle Ital-| sag: cell Run Down by Suid locked the door, ing a successful trial flight, Raoul dition. This used ear, ike all our used cara, truly pleases. jans had been similarly Welch and authorities of| ‘This and the presence of cave jetimized. | I ter while the po-| Amundsen is completing arrange: Injuries about t#e head and iimbs| A few minutes | ont and rear bumpers, double Wednesday Belloni admitted hay-| Nome advised federal officials at} crickets in the dirt removed, gave) pogentets id ¥ A s ORS 595 a » place, | Ments to start on a Polar flight from || Kifomatic swipe, spotlight, || ing already found npparent shor Anchorage that the epidemic now] rise to hopes of Collins’ immediate] *ere sustain a his TORE GE | Wok ores eee Here apitadegsi tine) % you Huht for | foot throttle, sun visor, in fact |! aoproximating $30,000. There wero|is not sufficiently serious to make} release. |George Myers Tuesday when he was|netghbors saw her leave, carrying @ eeet, Sune te g i nt for thia car ie FULLY EQUIPPED. || 1 confirmed rumors also that Polet|the hazardous flight necessary, Fly-| After a hurried conference early|TUn down by an automobile nei with loot. ‘The man | LPT A 9 Cherry st. Vincent] also carried a grip. | PHARMACY ROBBED dries, 1 Hee our list of used cara be-~ it * fore buying any car, Our |/has received nearly $75,000 from hia|ing conditions now are ideal, how-/today H. T. Carmichael, in direct | his home, | os 6 LICKS are SO LOW and OUR |! fellow countr 1 to be sent to rela-| eve charge of the pit, asserted they} E. Manca, 11 2ist ave told} From that time on, the woman has | A holdup man shortly before mid- MMS Crump, the save of TERMS are SO EASY. _ || tives in Italy and Prosecutor Colvin| ‘The plane assembled by Darling | would seck to ) the large crevice| Police the lad ran from between! made weekly raids. Displaying a/night Tuesday held up and robbed Mt Hollow, says: “Th’ bonds | Now turi®to the Want Ad page || declaren his belief that a large share) and Hin mactiagnloléns "Wil Sb Kept | beneath the floor rather than widen| parked automobiles and a had| finesse that amazed the detectives on|the University pharmacy, Broad: = of this has been converted to Polet's|ready for a few days in case condl-|the narrow one uncovered, Geolog- {no opportunity to avoid striking} her trail, she would campfully study | way N, and Martin st., and escaped OMY seem to be only short\| and see who is offering this one. BPMs thes days” | peraghig’d own use tions here warrant the flight later on. | ists believe the smaller crevice leads |him down, the house she intended to rob. Then with $150. vi eapbesi } 2 a : Lint eas