The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 23, 1925, Page 1

i Weather } Tides 7 | ree | Clase Matter 180 VOL. 27. NO. The Newspaper With the at the Postott *W TTLE, WASH., owes Circulation in W EDNESDAY, SEP ‘TEMBER 28, W: saninaden f “The Seattle Star 1925 AKE OM EDITION x ll ok TWO CEN INTERURBANS CRASH; 9 HURT! | Home Brew folks! Col, Wiliam n prominent in + for so many ow they're going Howdy, Mitchell has army air mat years, that to give him the air Starwich Declares Someone Made a’ “Pile of Money”; Probe Continues aioe that investigation of gun- smuggling into the county jail, by which six prisoners escaped more than a week ago, is not concluded, Sheriff Starwich Wednes- day told The Star: ntroduce ore kites sion for m ROTOGRAYURE SECTION An old portrait of Secretary of when he the Navy Wilbur was studying — naval aviatlon at Au “Someone made a pile of money—I have napalis 25 years reasons to believe about $10,000 was in- ago. He is shown holding volved—for aiding the jailbreak.” Starwich admitted that men of his own| jail staff may have been involved. “Ten thousand dollars looks big to a man |making but $150 a month,” he said. it’s hard to believe that even a money-hungry man would fall in with a plan that meant one of the early sand: wieh.guns, used shooting wiches {0 tors whose engines have gone dead in the alr and who are unable to come down. Note ore arene putting a gun in a prisoner's hand which Splinter our fore-top gallant halyards, = but there was an old sea dog, Shove off! might be used to kill another officer. “I have no direct information of this side of the matter,” he hastened to add. It’s Aon | xunman or Merely a theory and a nasty one. It’s an Walla “Walls, a9. be don't are answer to street rumor to let everyone know suter season that I’m not overlooking any bets. “We have informants among the prison-| ers in every cell-tank in the jail,” plained. “Our last information, several | mates. Should be adjourned every duy during low tude Senator Kirkman claims to be the legislature's chainpion Olympia oys ter cater. inate motmna. We know aver’ oners, some of them members of the jail- : thg, pork € P ‘cast firemen’s ce ver F ssion at the Olympic To‘ make ‘em ¢, the management of the Olympic should they can slide help in getting away. That offer was re- fused. feel at hoi down to the Tein” the tanks, on duty for several nights and ae * prevented an earlier break. I have reason | A woman jaywalker slapped | to believe that the $2,500 ante was raised | ® policeman Monday, and nov | to $10,000—and that someone fell for it.’ Sergt. Frank Fuqua is thinking fats owcspeies all. SRIDe Se “We have received such rumors intermit- | with baseball masks. i , am ——* tently ever since the Nanaimo bank suspects '« bear Homer. What ever tecame were jailed last spring,” said Allan Stark, of all the shell holes on the West jail superintendent, Wednesday. Each time ‘we heard of such rejected offers we have shaken down all prisoners in jail for weap- ons. I had not heard of this $10,000 matter | myself,” he added. Both Stark and Starwich denied having suspicions against any certain jailers and |» a can declared they were loath to believe that any a members of the staff would be guilty of MISS BETTY BICARBONATE VETERAN MEMBER OF aiding the fugitives. HOME BREW STAFF CHARGE JAILER MORGAN ern Front? They w try in 1924 and detours Curiow © brought to this for making coun used Thruout the ether everywhere 4 million tenors fill the air; Rut I should worry, | should frown, My crystal set has broken down! Abig: s that the only hop’ ay he to ta This is Betty Bicarbonate, writer of heart-throb stories, whose “Purple novels, vie" it! WITH BEING BOOTLEGGER duck,” are known to all readers of” Home Brew, Miss sf ° : ‘ Bicarbonate 1's of Selling Booze to Jail Grocer now at work on pleas new serial voy?" r Dandruff, or wie is Colvin asked J jail. Colvin saya he t White Shadows) an g24. James st, a grocer,|that he had been buying on Blue Serge f 3 Jailer Morgan, represented to him Tuesday Morgan & ecy of Colvin office prepared vid evening. ye his answer in the|as having been gifts to Jailers from y wrixoners after they which is destined to create sensation wnong manufacturers of two-pants °°! ‘ sults. Watch for itt immediately 2 - charge against Da were re Colvin has been given free uting the case against ‘Past 13 ets the | sistant Jail superinte ich told The Sto Blue Mouse next week, it in ana|ed tast week after 18 ied having any informa rdnoed. rie volving either of the Morgans in the With the c The Morgans art not rela-| alleged smuggling of guns to the six joners who escaped a week ago tives, a war jer Morgan was ligence in permitting the Starwieh said eceived n’'s arrest Wed. The ex-jailer’ Olsen ap dismissed’ for nex Divorced are Mr Jailbreak And Mrs. DeKoe; Bhe served him spinach George torney Bir nights in a row | d the sheriff's office before the war Rudolph valgsllig: was kicke rant had been prepared and ar MIT HELL WILL the mouth by « mule rec ranged to post $2,000. ball Probably the mule had witness BOUGHT BOOZE performance of “The Sheik At THE JAIL fh UW] rite ; ‘The charge, “being a boc aE RIAMY carries with it a of Up betimes, faire wu wWitne to fi " fon per co : Siti, tube ara ne did tell Dame drew itneawe ed \n ders und ate did aske me whey seme | court bd fight hax Just started, Out of the complaint are Mor heriff St Morrow present embroglio will come vin's office rate and better ait Col y he had two} William Mitchell, deposed air officer, lay | predicted here today Mitchell left here early today for Louls, en route to Washington cheduled to appear be- and I did tell her experts did Hiffer on the t + 4 service, grocer ‘Tue evening in Starwich's presence and} that the storekeeper readily told him | st » had been purchasing whinky from | where he he former jailer at the jail fore the p AJ. 8 | ‘The srocer unt recently had the Monday, we with the rt (ire: * but old ft from your “But | he ex-|, break party, had offers out of $2,500 for''” “We put extra guards, secreted around |; Warrant Issued Accusing Discharged Man) Atial alr board inquiry | “Somebody Got Cash “for That Jailbreak” DOGS LEAD POSSE ON HOT TRAIL |2 Fugitives Demand Food From Woman Near Everett Sheriff McCullough at Everett Wednesday *e to the district where residents reported having seen two men resembling Alvah Kil bourn and Joe Ward, the es caped jail fugitives. & posse Monroe Poraes search fur Fobey a hot tra house, wer the bay ng blood * * A HEAD-ON COLLISION between two Seattle-Tacoma Wednesday injured nine pers coaches, * * * ho W day {the omcaped prisoners, Al-y INJURED vah Kittoern and Joe Ward, were Thomas P. Healey, Ithein. ho. ng thru the dense, teh Tacoma, employe of Puget hae thale Seund Electric Co. Face cut by the flying Bruised, back and five m {side Jones, former ans Alvah Kil who was k li bank holdup and whone led In wan dt the fleeing be Pick ng worn by K eriff Matt Starv t promising trail of the ¢ picked ther clue to the wheres two was picked 1 S.A. Harris, 523.8. G st, Ta U, 8. Rubber Co. employe, attle, Left leg broken below Deep cuts on face knee, body Angus MeDonald, and $711 S. 11th st, Tacoma, P. 8. EB. oworkman. Sealp wound, chest and neck in jured TW 1326 Lenmore and bruised Johnson, Cat and body fow, RO. D3, Au red in chest, with ken ribs Corcoran, P. 8. E. . Auburn. Scalp wounds and cuts from flying glass, Mrs. Maude Ortwein, Auburn. Cut by fying gloss. Blanche Ortwein, 16, daughter. Cut by glass. Dave Davies, section foreman for S. Ninth st. pl, Tacoma face Ge Cut sealp wound, rib Bungalow roathouse at 8 Ink broken, It in belleved Ward yourn mite. hid the machin A ruard | PQLINDED by dense fog, two Se has hee stationed aro ma ttle-Tacom: urban train chine to awalt the possi return | crashed in a h n collision, half of the bandits. a mile south of th Kent station at Running to the achoolhouse after! 740 Wednesday m ing. the outlaws dashed back to the curity of the brush lands, M on called Sheriff MeCulle tt. Within 26 posse of about (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) __Negro Robs Gas Station, Eludes Mob AYTING until there was no one near to interfere with gro bandit, shortly be p on Wednesday, walked into the Union Oil Co, service station at S. and Jackson st, minut took cash re from the open nd dashed down Jackson st. at top speed. Wilson took after him, Like a snowball rolling down a hillside, the chase grew as estrians came from all di rections and fell in behind the others, ‘The ro vutdistanced the mob and dis: ed a ra of six blocks, He van ished near 0. & W. depot, on Fourth ave, QROMPTED by the Star ¢ und inequitable campaign waged by ‘The obsolete rate plan of coal delivery tn Atte Mayor Brown entered the fight | Wedne by addressing a letter to} P. J, Emt, president of the Seattle | uel Dealers |westing that |done, and also | do it Tho toxt, of Mayor Brown's letter 1 follows; Credit association, sug something should be} suggesting w way to} Four of 1 attent them we The other injured man wa. th bound train, motorman of the } Ted Catron, ¢ oma NORTHBOUND TRAIN € paid 17 PERSONS empty. 7 d train carried about 47 passengers =| old to the night prowlers and shifty Es A DANDY USED CAR Here should # 1923 MAXWELL COUPE Turn to the and to y ‘olumna. this car DRA 9! Credit Assn Wash, Dear Sir; In view of the fact that the present zoning system that was adopted by the tiet ad milnistrator during the war has served ity usefulness and. now Appears to be an inequitable rule whieh makes the cost of fuel Wigher (han it should be, 1am | destrous of your, appolnting | committee of theee from the re: as shown in the above photograph. crash that acetylene torches had to be used to cut thru steel rods to separate them. Seattle-Kent Trains Meet Head-On in Dense Fog Fear Kent; Cause Unexplained | throat % : oS ion El RIVER OF Climbs Out of Coupe and Disappears; Now Sought C RASHING thru the east guard rail of the south ap- proach of the University bridge, at 6 o'clock Wednesday morning, a Hupmobile coupe occupied only by its driver, plunged 50 feet into the Lake Washington eanal, be- neath. Police have been unable to clear away the mystery surrounding the accident, and the identity of the | driver, who escaped unhurt and dis- appeared, The license number of the car, 10842, is issued to Thomas Been, 1421 Boren ave., owner of the Bot tling Supply store at 723 EB, Pike st Been could not be reached by tele- phone Wednesday morning, and hin employ the store declared they had not seen him, but they believed he was driving the car A dense fog shrouded the bridge when the accident hap- pened. The auto apparently skidded on the wet street, jumped the guard rail, ran across the sidewalk and went thru the sy wooden railing. The car, its terrifying drop, turned end interurban trains early 1s and demolished the front ends of two of the wooden The cars were so entangled together in the * * co * * * The two train playwed into eaeh | ms noon ay Chie track’ by cleared, 6: other for a distance of about’a2 Ave Rounds aspitant: manager, stated. fest. completely demolixhing the Noisotheps tenitingn was injured over end, breaking off a timber front end of the two cars. The! sp Davenport, motorman of the) 0” the bridge support in its fall, southbound train mounted the top! northbound train, leaped from his! Miss Clarice Ramsow. fivine in a northbound tr and the cab just before the he Te te: (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) re strewn about on the! Finney, conductor, an Hanson, brakeman, all escaped injury ] king cr work! On the southbound train Conduct- | after the They |or B. C. Plummer and Brakeman } to haye the track Lackey were uninjured. Catron, the motorman, ¥ badly bruised and cut by flying He was able to h climb out of the isted after ON DEBT PLAN direct caune of the dense fe ab unAss ible to see more than | the collision. j eee . ‘An investigation #0 ‘The trains swere not traveling at French Premier Arrives at determine how tw tral: were a high rate of speed a’ he time of ij in the m track will ne ae the pee trelinee a eas i New York Quarantine BY CARL D. GROAT | (United Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—The French debt commission arrived in America today, to arrange payment | of approximately $4,200,000,000 owed the United States government as a result of war loans and accrued in- terest. Headed by seph Caillaux, met at Quarantine by Garrard Big VILE BOOZE DENS PROVE HAUNTS OF UNDERWORLD Fierce Concoctions Sold to Shadowy Charac- | ters of Se attle’s Night Life refused us Finance Minister Jo- the commisison was Thin ts the fifth it wa he place is two of stories In whl The place | elow Winston, under-secretary of The Star w stories underground and can be en the treasury and secretary of the | American debt funding commission; Myron 'T. Herrick, American am- i bassador to France, and Emile | Dashner, French ambassador to the United es, together with other Another booze parlor was visited at | American and French officials. 800 Pike st., Caillaux was in a light and jovial when he took samples of liquor |; 4 only by which he bought around Seattle nly y an elevator. Its patron unquestionably, is limited to those few who are well known to the lookout above. BY JACK HALL KHALI in the rear of a small ‘There are many eak casy” bar od Ww y : 5 uke-shift cafe. ‘This place had a|™0od when besieged by newspaper tuated in bus ks and repu- | van tuneh EL correspondents at Quarantine. big Gta clcth VOP Alia ley! chalating a ater which is ap-) sp you expect as good terms (FREE SECS es parently oniy a blind for the booze | from our government voir ae a ooze trade. operations. We purchased a pint of | ceived from the British?” I asked 3ut there are also some unspeakably | the stuff there its chemical an- | nim, holes where moonshine and | #lysis follows “Oh, better,” he replied, with a “Alcohol, ume. Coloring jper 100 c. ¢ [sins of raw 40.40 per cent by vol extract, 0.026 grams Moonshine liquor, cc hol and water." cheerful smile ROBBERY FAILS fierce concoctions ‘that burn th and singe the stomach are zens of the underworld. We went into one of these ie ayer || IS CRUSHED cncinee Fears Plot and Opens the Throttle Spring st. Overhead the routine traf. of the city passed. In this aun-!Boy Run Over by Auto as jos annuus, sept. 22—An at geon booze den ft required no tempted holdup of the Union Pacific Salt Lake Limited, near here early ¢ {hy imiaginnibn (0) plet\in | He Crosses Street of evil portent and malignant rev-} (14 A tnt ; today, was frustrated by a quick Iry Crusoe ALEPRALY: by an a '0- | \Witted engineer, in the belief of au- is : bile which passed over his body. | thorities haat enwas jue oe ie it 1 Parmeter, son of Mr. and} 4 woman ran in the path of the barroom’ of coniorete::. brick | was A. Parmeter, 1109 N. 48th. | oncoming train as it neared the sta- | walls, spattered, with leaden. bullets ants a sib 1 ae Rue Hon’ Sirkiee Aad aicnikedino Bake a nossibly fatally hur ir i om promixcuous pistol fire nf down. The engineer shickened speed, from promi 18 pistol fir The lad is only 6 years old | but, as he neared the fon, he ob- ra And (ables completed the! ‘The tittle boy was running across | served that the wo face was N. 45th st, near Wallingford ave. ' covered with. a bandana handker- the vilest nature ‘| when a machine driven by J. C. | were the UN to buy Mayor Urges Conference on Coal Z chief. As the train slowed almost to a stop the woman leaped from the \track into the bushes, Fearing a@ i plot, the engineer opened the throttle wide. At the next regular stop the | sheriff's office was notified, Depu- ore hit: | ties hastened to Pico, arriving Just as _|a m. jous automobile sped from | the scene, o into the 1 milk bottle unbearable, While we pasty-faced and furtive} from the Wallingford station, which individual, probably a dope addict,| is only a block away, investigated red and quakingly gulped down | the aceldent Witnesses declared 4 drink of’ the vile stuff. We tried| the car skidded 30) feet bef A bottle of the bull ting the boy Littell struck him, | across the boy's ‘The wheels ran abdomen. Police ‘Strawn es Attend Pekin Conference Will ask a committee 5 ts dso that he will prob: can Kmpowe: x 0 o » bly ple to determine future re to be appointed from the | delivery, with a view to taking the |{vly be abl loier ‘ wholesale dealers, and E shall ap: | ae lations of the United es with polnt & committee of three citt | PCAC out of this service, placing IC! China, Silas Hardy Strawn, U. 8. rons, Lo go into conferen jon a cost basis, and confine the |commissioner to the Peking confer- 1 notice that the press hay | profit in fuel to the margin added at fen on extraterritoriatity in China taken this matter up and belleve j the bunkers jurrived in Seattle Tuesday on his it to be aw worthy ea and | Resides reducing the average pried | way’ to the Orient, He will sail with Wish to give it all the s Jof fuel thruout the elty, it i his staff on the President McKinley \ i | that a flat dolivery rate would ‘Thursday N, Mayor, | {nate discrimination against certain} Strawn ha Hrown's {dea that {sections of the city as compared with 8, commissioner t vonference of a group such as he! other sections, toms tarift confere) pport also been appd@ted U. the Chinese cus Le, a rere CATS ee ea be