The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 27, 1925, Page 1

wee WEATHER | ome Howdy, folks! March came in like a lion, but she's going out like a lamb stew. For two months the singers of the country have been enquiring as to the whereabouts of Sa Perhaps she sent them to the laundry A of the Weat and sell | | onton taste—| that some Burbank Would patent, Spring onions with an But with a violet smell eee ‘Audio frequencies at the micro- phone are transformed to radio fre quencies from the antenna." The | Star's radio page. How strange, these simple truths | eo: not discovered before! ALTOMOTIVE NOTE Automobile Row was agog with in- terest Friday when it became known that the new Smellie-Six will be equipped with a rumble seat in front of the radiator. This innovation will provide room for an additional pas- | senger, who will be able to kick pedestrians out of the way, pot new bulbs in the lights and spear cigaret butts in transit. we “Trade in your old phonograpb records on new ones!’ says a Bush & Lane advertisement. Here's where we get rid of “Old Bailey,” “Come Be My Rain * “Bluebell,” “My Merry Olds epurles nA ’ The Newspaper With the tered an Bece ase Matter at the hy fof the girl accused of matricide. As the trial swings painfully along nearer actual testi- tortion’ at SEATTLE, W ’ASH., DOROTHY ELLINGSON MAY DENY THAT SHE | KILLED, HER. Ba Shielding Someone May Be Big Feature of Her Trial AN FRANCISCO, March That Dorothy Ellingson did not kill her mother and is shielding the person who did, may be one of the startling points in the defense mony, the plan of defense looms up big with possibilities of | | surprise and the denial of the murder is the most sensa- tional of the hints which are said to have emanated from} the defense camp. The condition of the “jazz girl’ defendant continues to be the chief Se reoetional topic of the huge crowds of , Spectators w ho jam the court room. |GIRL COLLAPSES spport this theory, detailing result FOR SEVENTH TIME { their examinations and laying Dorothy collapsed again today for] tne groundwork for the “legal” in the seventh time in the five day®) oo. ctatm Bee eat aes tes cmittoord | OER MAX DENY ger algt eae 2) SLAYING MOTHER after the morning aension, the x weakened girl fell unconscious to 4. Th int that Dor ward the floor, just ax she has done kill r mother, but is every day t week | eo elxe will t jury room and restoratives were af There in little possibility that the plied. She was unconscious for sev- girl will take the stand. Aside from ‘fal tiinties. the fact that she could hardly} ai chica ther, sala] Mtfenathen her case, it in ngreed| Joseph Ellingson, the father, salwjahe could not stand the. ordeal of! he was determined “to sit bY | Gvoationtag. Gaushter He ease agit ie The prosecution consists chiefly of | aca SD aan sergeanty han . ‘with the | Police reports and allenists’ teatl- | The court adjourned: wit bates | ciaite 't a S hat be nelected be-| The state ts not expected to be nab Vi pa Ad contented with a manslaughter ver fore late today dict So far the prosecutors have yesterday’s session erfly rried f Twiee during the er lapsed and court room he TRY TO CLOUD the tnsar indicated they y defense nxed butt impr will fight nd hinatown cafon life. utwhile of the cafes | om th was ¢ mobile” and ‘‘Up in a Balloon, Boys, | STATE'S CASE Up in a Balloon.” That the defense will attempt to BEE RS | cloud the state's case with a num They planted here ner of posaible th s and Old Jacob Ryder, prise theories ween in the tine Carbolie acid of questioning of veniremen ‘ Tan't cider. crporary, insanity” wit be a| Seek Evidence of Other 2d * | leading plea in the defense, it Is Deaths in Germ Murder It’s only a question of time until | assured. somebody writes a book entitled, The “skeleton” of Dorothy's case crn eae ey “The Confessions of a Reformed! upon which her attorneys will # ae eth ae Radio Announcer.” not more than a manslaughter vor sa Bare ory brig pte 9529: 8 dict, Includes the following prob-|t®. determine whether death was able action aneed.t posses “ETIQUETTE NOTE 1. The defense will place Joseph| | Chemists from the office of Cor Soup should be seen ‘and not | |and Earl Ellingson, father and oa on the’ bee ra hie: codustacy heard. jg| Drother of the defendant, on the | crrice s— eae witness stand to detail the girl's! 4) tne same time other officia | past life and her relations with her She: It’s only stx o'clock and I told you to came after supper He: That's what I came eee after. Let's cuss for once, And must emphatic The bimbo who Invented static! eee | Radio tenors are still wondering what has become of Sally. Probably she has died of old age by this time. ore ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SAYS: “You are not gettin’ old until you begin to think the younger gen- ‘ | th’ dogs.” | eration is goin’ to i No matter what happens, you can | always find a man or two loafing| about the streets who knew it would. | oe: lies what's left | Of Bill and Mame, | They made a date And hubby came. i eee Today's Fable: Once upon a time a woman started a thrilling book and didn't turn to the end to see how it came out | oe | Ye DIAur (March 15) Up very hetimes, and te the office, where did find a package from Kay Watne, it being m poster advertising the First Grand Ball of the Bartenders’ Union, Local 651, af Carpenters’ Hull, 1904, and why he did send It to me, I know not, uniess to remind me that the Bock beer season ix almost at hand, | which, methinks, was a eruel thing to do, and will tell him ao, And anon, with No good grace, to work, « double pox on such eumpory tanks An old-timer is one who remembers | when only high-priced. executives | |p from Wolff's office started digging up the body of Mrs. Emma McClin. tock who died 16 years ago. ‘The exhumations were ordered for the purpose of securing further evi- dence against Willlam D. Shepherd, who is chargdd with killing his mil _Honaire ward, Billy McClintock, HIJACKER TELLS OF MURDER ON BERYL G. family. It will be held that Dorothy's ysical and mental! condition at the time of the killing was abnor mal and she was temporarily in: ane. 2. Alienists for the defense will I Sensak Confession Read in Court;| Crime Laid to Baker ICTORIA, B, C,, March 2 A confession, told by one of the defendants to a British Co- lumbia officer, was read in the trial of Harry F. Sowash and Owen B. Baker, charged with murdering Capt. William 4. Gillls and his son on the rum boat | then asked an adjournment of the case without even introduc. ing his trump card, the Paul Strumpkins confession, — thru which the hijackers have been traced to distant corners of the continent and brought back to face trial for murder, Baker and Sowash are conducting Heryl G., before a hushed and | their own defense of the and attentive audience in Magistrate | frequently surprise courtroom hab: George Jay's court ‘Thursday, itues with their maneuver. | One of the highlights of the trial The document, signed and sworn) oe vetation of a prison trick by to, was written by Harry Sowash,| tarry gowash, by tieans of a key, one of the murdér suspects and con-| 4 ty road of yarn unraveled from a fessed hijacker of the liquor cargo} yi cnet, a xecret key to thelr con on the boat, It gave a complete) pion and a magazine with mar. history of the gruesome midn ginal notes |raid on the Beryl G,, while the boat)” me entire lot of exhibits was In at anchor off Sidney Island troduced us evidence by the crown, And it painted a bloody picture of | with statements that it had been un Owen Baker, the commander and or-|carthed by of the Jailers at ganizer of the expedition which spent | Oakallala prison, many days haunting the rum coves| ‘The feeble efforts of the two pris- along the border Islands, like a sea|oners to build a story by such sur. hawk, waiting to pounce on Its proy.|reptitious means that would with Like a hawk the pirates’ ship, with | stand the powerful and sunning at a crew of four @board, slipped up|tack of the provincial police and the | on the Beryl G., with its sleeping {British Catumbia government, crew, old Captain Gillis and his son. | brought smiles from coukt room spec one Knocked off work at 2p, m, to play | Over the sides of the rum ship crept | tators, wolf Haker and Charles Morris. A vivid| It was,introduced to show that the + ABR hed leat and a loud report, the sounds | confession of Sowash, in which Bak 6. It is said that Mohammedana| of a scuffle and then a deathly still is held responsible for the murder, ever swear, Well, it may be true.|neas brooded over the ship, Sowash |was not entirely true v don't permit their wives to| wrote, He, Sowash, was sitting ina! ‘The hearing will probably be con have any charge accounts anywhere. | rowbout beside the rum boat when|cluded Iriday, and no one here ie ee | the fight occurred, he said in his con:| doubts that the two will be bound It doesn't sound consistent when a. | fession. over for trial at the next altting of feller yell ut unemployment The confession, a complete |the assizes, on a charge of murder while he Ja putting the nine ball inj. surprise, was read by the high sens, for which the the wide pocket, Crown on Prosecutor A, M, Johnson, who [death penalty @ provided, rf é Motion for a new trial for Elmer Attempts to Kill Officer | atannart filed Thursday ates noon {n supertor court by his Arrested on a charge of driving|tomey, BR. F. Kier while drunk and speeding at 42 miles| It i the first step in the at an hour, J, Barrington, 24, later,|0n the verdict of a jury in Judge while on the way to the police sta-|P¥erett Smith's court, which Tues. tion, tried to wreck the automobile | 4&y ordered that he be imprisoned nd kill himself and Patrolman Pat | fr Nfe for the murder of Mrs. Lil Kenyon, hf Helen Morley in a taxicab on) Kenyo: fellow officer,| February 1 Frank Gladwin, saw Barrington) Arguments on the motion will be ape on Bastlake ave., they sald,| heard before Judge Smith Saturday and gave cha About 630 a. m. | morning. The motion recites vari. Friday, after a race of several! ous technical grounds for a now blocks, they foreed Barrington to} trial. |wtop. Kenyon got in the automobile} q¢ the new trin} is denied, Man and started to drive it to the station.| hart will be immediately sentenced Barrington who was sitting beside) to tite Imprisonment. | Decision will | him suddenly shouted: “I'm going t0| then be. made, acocrding to Kien wreck this car and we'll go with It"! stra, on the possibility of taking the | He seized the nteoring wheel and) aonoal to the state supreme court sa "Biggest Circulation in Washington Seattle, sh. unde naress Mar er F RIDAY, MARCH 27, 1925. Year x i TWO CE Home (Edition ‘TS IN SEATTL. Away Go the Little Mints Deputies With Trucks From Central Supply D =y XV “They only vend mints and gum, ting children to play the gambling devices. Profits from valuable as a government mint, it i¢ said. Deputy Sheriff a raid Friday morning on a depot of the gambling clique thousands of dollars’ worth of paraphernalia was gonsese DRIVER TRIES 10 IA WRECK AUTO Arrested for Speeding, Man ASKS NEW TRIAL. | Motion Filed fo for New Hear- ing in Manhart Case swerved the car into a concrete em Haul Gambli ing Devices Away Jepots nied io said slot machine owners, when accused of permit-| the machines made them as Nick Carina is shown during at 2226 Second ave., where ted, f &. radle Star State Pho wrephere BOTHELL HOLDUP TRIAL STARTS two Men Are Accused of | | Looting Bank of $3,811 nk Kolly, known to Pacific | coast officers under niiases, and Frank Gorman, his ompanion, trial |Judae Ch with h | bank ing with went on before ries Paul Friday, charged the Bothell sta ding up 30 qT selecting a Jannary and $3,811 1 in lant escap: forenoon jury. | was consum |} Shortly after noon Vaughn Jey, 27-year-old assistant cashier of | the bank, who was imprisoned in| the by jatand, Hoe repeated his. identifica tion of the two men on trial as the locked him in the vault and escaped with the cash in vault the bandits, took the robbers who bankment. Kenyon barely stopped | the machine with the front wheels waiting auto after telephone wires touching the masonry Barrington | | between Bothell and Seattle had was held in solitary confinement at bean cut the city jJall when he grew violent. | The men were captured in Ta His bail wa About 2:30, Nelson, 21, set at $260 Pridey: tlornldeni Wits State Board of of Bar Exam- was arrested after a) iners Discuss Charges chase which extended along the en-| tire length of First ave, Sergeant | P, F. Looker in a prowler car finally| Charges against Thomas Page, an| overhauled Nelson after the cars| attorney, growing out of an outburst had reached a maxiinum speed of |{n Judge Ronald's court a few days between and 60 miles an hour,|@&0 have been looked into by the Nelson later posted $50 ball. He lives | State board of bar examiners. at 1704 Boylston ave. FLAMES SPREAD South Dakota Forest Fires Take Toll of Seven |known Friday. Chairman Howard |M. Findley could not be reached Page complained publicly that he was not getting a fair deal in jurors sent to courts in which he had cases: Judge Ronald asked him to put the charges in writing. Page did this, | but finally admitted that he had no {stable ground for complaint and of | fered an ‘apology Since then jurymon havo filed vomplaints concerning Page's con | duct with the state board, ‘The board SIOUX FALLS, 8, D., March Prairie fires terrorized South Cen. tral South Dakota today Three villages were destroyed and) discussed these accusations late threo casualties reported. Thursday, It did not make public On the South Dakota-Nebraskan | ity findings line, three separate fires have burn- | ed over more than prairie ‘land 100,000 acres of PIERRE, 8. D., March Prairie fires in widely separhted Jsections of Nebraska, South and North Dakota aro causing great| Refugee of Mid West Disas- What! action the board has taken was un-| coma the next evening, while escap- ling in a stolen automobile with W. J, Murray. Murray was convicted [In Pierce county and sent up for | from three to 10 years for stealing the car. When searched, Murray | jhad $200 sewn inside his under. wear, according to Hammer, The loot from the Bothell robbery has never been recovered. | Witnesses of the holdup were ex- pected to take the stand and iden tify Kelly and Gorman Friday ,af- ternoon. The men are defended by Attorneys George Crandell and} |Henvy C! Agnew, FLYERS MISSING One of Eight Planes Lost in Pennsylvania Storm WASHINGTON, March 27.—Lieut . P, Rogers and three enlisted men i the army air service, In a glant Martin bombing plane, wore reported missing when seven other planes of their squadron returned to safety after running into a storm over York, Pa., today. damage to property and menacing Lieut. “L. J. Brigham and Lieut liver, according to reports here to.| ter Victim of Electrical Bolt) Thiele tostebe weessanite day, ho other five plunes landed Wour lives already have been lost.| MURPHYSBORO, Il, March 27.| near Baltimore iy One man was Killed and thous:| phe eight planes, from Langloy Funeral of First ands of dollars’ damage done when fied, Virginia, were on a trip to an electrical storm struck the ¢¥-| Middletown, Pa,, when’a heavy rain clone devastated region today, Engineer Is Held Funeral services for Goorge D,| ‘The man Killed, a negro, was Snow, Seattle's first city ongineer,|struck hy lightning while in bed} were to be held at 1 nm. Friday|in one of the refugee tents thrown from Butterworth's mortuary, with up since the death dealing cyélone Interment ja Lakeview cemetery. last week, x we j storm was encountered, No searehing planes have been sent after the missing flyers Bolling field authorities said they would wait a reasonable time for a report from Rogers, Supp ) three | Bos: : USeS BLOW IS STRUCK A SWINDLE GAMES B EROSEGUTOR. COM thers Are Sought on Warrants; soe Worth Thousands Taken ENRY BERNSTEIN, head of the arrested and thousands of bling device including slot machines and punch boards were seized when Sheriff Matt Starwich and deputies Fri- day swooped down upon the three central depots of Seat- tle’s million dollar slot machine gambling cliques. Raids were carried out at 1510 Eighth ave., offices of the Standard Sales Co., where Bernstein was arrested; at 2226 Second ave., headquarters of the Union Supply Co., and at 1620 Broadway. Warrants for the arrest Schoen, heads of the United ner of the Union Supply Co. deputies. The blow, aimed at the heart of Seattle’s extensive slot machine and punchboard gambling clique, was planned by Prosecutor Colvin, following an investigation by his agents. Colvin’s attention was directed to the gambling practices by articles in The Star last week, when an expose of the meth- ods of slot machine owners in preying upon Seattle school children was made. The warrants for the search of the three central depots jof the gambling clique and the seizure of the gambling paraphernalia were issued by Justice of the Peace Dalton, at Colvin’s request, Friday morning. The warrants were turned over to Sheriff Starwich, who detailed a squad of deputies, including Joe Hill, Ed Hughes, Nick Carina and Leo Sowers to carry out the raids. Standard Sales Co., we dollars’ worth of gam- of Vera Shoen and Abe R. Sales Co., and for Jack O’Con- were in the hands of the 30 MACHINES | The three raids Friday were die ARE FOUND rected at the headquarters of the At the Union supply empty |T98- Scores of individual raids in\ jcases for m than £00 slot ma-|°Y¢TY business establishment in Se- es were found. These devices |@ttle Where the slot machines and a all placed in Seattle stores, |PUnCh boards are being operated, Seattle and King |Wer® planned by Prosecutor Colvin More than 30 of the ma-|late Friday, to be carried out by chines were found, some Intact and |the sheriff's deuti somne in various stages of repair. | An enormous amount of slugs Jor checks was found and the of-| fice contained a large sum of money, |done up in rolls, apparently the ree sults of the night's collections, Bher- iff's deputies were searching tal O'Conner, said to be head a "AGAIN INDICTED Att 1810 Eighth ave, where Bern. ‘Grand Jury Che Charges Con- stead ts/ SPiracy in Montana Oil Deal |found a “number of slot machines | and a large quantity of merchandise scattered thruout used of} punch ards. A Li re a ae ite Ae SECOND ACCUSATION a5 ABORATE EQ IPMENT | - iz DISCOVERED |First Case Returned Last That gamblin was ¢ sively | H crated nan indie’ ts tie) Fall Has Not Been Tried 8 calling for merchandise in | amounts ap to $10, which were is-| sued on punch boards. WASHINGTON, March —A A number | true bill indicting Senator Burton K. of cases for carrying this kind of | wheeler, Montana, democret, on @ jourrency were found, revealing | yoo. o¢ mR . plans of the gamblers to substitute | CRAP of conspiracy to defraud the government in connection with M tana oil deals, was returned today by the District of Columbia grand jury. Edwin Booth and Gordon Camp- bell, of Montana, were indicted with Wheeler on the sume charges. The indictment charges Wheeler and the other men with “conspiracy to obtain illegally the use of lang in Montana which was part of the pub- | He domain of the United States.” James McGowan, who was also named in the government's case, was not indicted. He appeared before the grand jury and testified recently, This is the second indictment of Wheeler in connection with his al- their seript for currency victims of the habit. That the gambling ring was high- ly organized and operated without fear of interference was revealed by the extensive and elaborate equipment. One of the investiga- jtors v told that all they had to] do to recover their machines, when they were seized by the police, was jto send a truck down to. police [headquarters and haul them back. among | the McCoy Is Sentenced | for 3 to 38 Years | Los AN LES, March 27,—Kid | McCoy was sentenced to’ a prison | !¢ged activities as a lawyer before |term of three to 38 years today, for |the Interior department for Camp- bell, his client, for whom it was his shooting rampage the morning the charged he was using his influence. The first indictment was returned last fall in Great Falls, Mont., short ly after Wheeler had become a can- didate for vice president on the inde- pendent ticket with Senator La Fol (Turn to Page 12, Column 8) after | Mors, | McCoy's previous sentence of one jto 10 years for manslaughter in |connection with Mrs, Mors’ death [will be served concurrently with his | Present sentence. | slaying of Mrs. Teresa | Alaska’s Golden Hoard to Add to | Our Prosperity i LASKA again will pour millions of dollars from | her golden hoard into Seattle this summer, Outlook for salmon fishing this season is “unusually good,” a Chamber of Commerce statement said Fri- put of cans. Hundreds of men already have gone put of cans. Twenty thousand men already have gone North to prepare the way for fishing and packing crews. The pack will be so heavy that cannery companies Will_use steamers instead of sailing vessels. Steam- ers can make several trips in a season; sailing vessels could make but one. The herring fleet is looking for a ntiber crop. Takings have been slim for two years. More ships and supplies are being made ready ; }; more men will be employed. Alaskan sawmills are preparing for a record cut of spruce. Most of this will be shipped to Seattle, giv- ing work to sawmills. “Alaska is looking forward to her most prosperous year,” says the chamber’s statement. ‘That means added prosperity for Seattle, supply station for the North,” ‘SEN, WHEELER IS ve aren oe nr ar ao