The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 15, 1923, Page 1

h attle Main 0. 600| Get the Habit ‘HEALER’ Sunday’s Crowd Is Record; i Blesses Handker- *” chiefs Monday fore he kills th sixth and probably his final week of “miracle healing” a Up detimes, and shaved he t auto park Sunday myself after = how yesterday and how fine t In the afternoon, out in my coach and four (horsepower), my wife w noon and evening with a recora crowd of fully 5,000 persons. a result of his strenuous demon stration which ended at 1 a. m, morning the “ took Monday 7,000 handkerchiefs left belicvers, These are held to possess supernatural powers of n, famous opera star, will sing here tonieht the Univeraity of] Washington and *h k up wome of y neance with | the fine points Lil Gee Gee is used her perfume Washington from Seattle . figures from the stear Lincoln's purser showed It does not seem posstble, but Jazz | fe than they used to be. and the rain which There is one t favor of prohibi 2 mob which packed the heal and overflowed ® canvas structure, were parked on the school nd up and down Market! split two peas with one stroke. he camp grounds, if a mille each way from the park Down in Los Angeles customers are putting signs in thelr windows to let the boot sessiong and took news reel pictures | deltvered ie th 1 disciples were at the home | cases always scrat Sunday I went to aire They wers| J enjoyed it imme! nsely. Wednesday night services. I will do this. his “disciples that he wilt stay | to save Seattle! they are staying. Another disad t available for interviews r age is that when you" put a placard F iid for the tent for that p 1| the six biggest men in Seattl at Where he may from Kirkland was not intimated. (More About Isaiah on Page 4) NINE DEAD IN AUTO WRECK! next morning. put cards in beat to the party ve R GIVES UP) Star's continued leadership l) quently attested than now. spapers, has attained SECOND PL the largest circulation in the state-- Rotered as Becond Clase Matter May 2, ‘Mr. Brew to Save City;From What AS NEVE ICE. , at the Postoffice at Seattle, Ww, TTLE, , OCTOBER 15, 192: YANKEES WIN 6,000 GO TO HEAR ifter a brisk fight between two one of them proudly The Star LAFE'S We Don’t Know ON JOB Eminent Expert Here to Pull Seattle rite About It; He Puts On New Collar, Goes to C hurch,| ark, Takes Nap Together and W Sees Woodland (This article appears today in 1 087 of the nation’s great-' including Captain Billy's Whizbang.) BY H. G. BREW Well, folks, I’m her daily pape . Seattle was getting in a bad way. The s | Chamber of Commerce had fallen down on| By John W. Nelson the job. The civic spitit was dead. Thousands} of business men could be Second ave. crying bitterly. 7 viewing the utter BREW That was the condition of Seattle just two short week: Then something happened. The owner of the Police Gazette, W. R. Hornswoggle, had a thoro investigation made of the whole situation. | sults convinced him that conditions were deplorable. | save the city he sent me here. Well, sir, Seattle and ‘the state of Washington began to think and talk and act with revived confidence. i picked up. You could see people on Second ave. as late as 5 o'clock in the afternoon. dees gs More. The split pea soup industry revived. peeches and articles, expert splitters of peas began to} Another industry saved to Seattle! Pies Wee People began to consume home products. ancient ; many clams that, as Francis Cushman said, their stom and fell with the tide. It was a new experience, and} 1 was invited to preach at the I will do anything * * * In the meantime I am endeavoring to ascertain who are I want suggestions from my} . Personally, my selection of the six biggest men‘in| According to Beeman, the estimate Sea attle i is as follows: Ole Hanson ......esveseecsseeesves Doc Brown ......- In conclusion, it may not be out of place to tell my readers what I am going to do next. 3 1 am going out to lunch. seen walking down! south Merchants hung) titical machine thru the assist black crepe over their doors, and housewives,| ance of his chief leutenant, demoralization of their} Lafe Hamilton, were openly 5 city, were shaken with paroxysms of grief.| } Things were rotten, Hooray * Under the urge of) They ate so achs| “The ‘Other 5 ified Ad in Seatt WILL trade Wal ords for some dishes, reducing Fee: | this old mill we're BROOKVILLE, members of one trom @unday school when the att : Crippled May Get Death Penalty MARSHYIELD, Ore. Oct. 15—| SOUTH BEND. y her the neck of Arthur Covell, | § broken once in an automobile acct snapped again by a|to go on trial here today. or » decided by| of accepting John C. Kendall here today.) when he @ in this part of the cou n the mud is hold tenth occupant of the a hout time for Wade hempen rope, n nouncement that the granddaughter | sistern- | the, Propped on a ¢ crippled astrolo one murder and admitted|the bank sa for n dozen others, will elther'| will later bo tried on a charge of no. |cts¢ of fraternal organizations hold- cepting deposits when she knew the|!N& annual or semiannual dances, to be insolvent, old Aiton Covell] Sincialr'y attorneys were expected | dances, but such cases will be con: | Admit@to ask the court ment of the vember, {t wa How can a goof daughter of Mra . tister of Mrs. | be sentenced ouright or be ordered to |tace the formalit , husband of one| Today also, 16 will appear in court to plead, ting that he was the one who ac ally killed his stepmother, Mrs. Ebba , necording to wit-| Coy Ma shoes aren't shined, Aud his trow Beattie man died last week from | vivor or the crash. the results of poi His last |100 feet in front of the sp box of matches unsuecens. | y trying to start then come home |Oregon Man Killed While Out Hunting CORVALLIS, a full charge 1 gun in the hands of G with whom he into the waste- nv wlated by Arthur Covell to vealed today. s heads the lint of women college football iustantly killed here yesterday, AGAIN! Commissioner and’ Road Supervisor} Use Funds Illeg-) ally, Charge Charges that Frank Paul, county commissioner from the end, is building up a po- made Monday by County Engi- neer Thomas Beeman, Hedinan reported the alleged “ir }iemnl use of between $60,000 and $70,000 in county funds by Paul to further his political ambitions, The! | money was spent to construct roads lin the South End without the proper | process of law. In order to protect himself and) his office in the event of legal] To|action being brought to nullify/ | Paul's road bul g, Beeman re |ported the matter to Prosecuting} Attorney Malcolm Douglas, who} rendered an opinion that the money] {legally spent. Coples| opinion were sent to |the board of county commissioners | Monday for their information. | Beeman’s letter to Douglas, dated] September 27, specifically names} the Star Lake road, which Is under] construction at Paul's orders with out proper authorization, according tot Beeman. Plans and specifications for the road. were drawn by the engineer's office last March, but the construc tion was never authorized by the} |board of commissioners. Lafe Ham-| |ilton started construction work on| the road about the middie of Sep-| }tember, using county machinery and charging the expense up to the! | county. | “The intent of the road law is | plain,” Douglas letter sald, “It is {that roads cannot be built except by contract, unless the estimates are un. 2,500 when the roads can be built by day work for the construction of the Star lake road was $6,000 with $3,500 additional | avelling the surface. here have been many roads con cted by Commissioner Paul and his road supervisor, Lafe Hamilton, in the same manner,’ Beeman sald. Some of the roade which have been (Turn to Page 9, Column i) - Ten His Car: vii o» ASTROLOGER 1S SINCLAIR FACES DANCES MUST Way From Sunday School “AWAITING FATE CHARGE TODAY CLOSE AT ONE will be 1, who has|other of a jury trial. | bank , the youth Is expected to de a sary, una thLOOD SWEEPS foreed him to commit the crime, Ma George R. Wade, of Bandon, were 16. violent deaths, officers ro lair, Southwestern bani | houses y it to be insolvent. the | expoKe of dance hall conditions by | t in the court room| Sinclair Is facing two c of making: « fais ‘report Sinclair |be made, the board agr » until late in No- HOUSES AWA OKLAHOMA of Oklahoma reached Seven | grove distri prominent citizens were In} eq down at the list of a dozen or more residents of this section whom Covell, plotting under direction of Jupiter and other Turn to Page 9, Column 1) adian riy Low “Murder Genius” | Goes on Trial for Irregular | Commissioners Adopt Reso- | Bank Deals lution on Roadhouses | Members of the board of county | commissioners Monday formally adopted a resolution refusing to grant oxtra hour permits to road: | ind rural dances in the fu The action follows the recent | ture, The Seattle Star. An exe ption may | In the Jor where communities hold public | ered individually on their merits. | Commissioner Tom Dobson de. clarell that he belleves all dances or | roadhouses operated for a commer: | cial putpowe should be required to | iBioa at 1 o'clock, ax the state law provides, Commissioner Paul de. | | jmurred at a sweeping resolution and |the board finally agreed to modity | Oct, | it in the case of semi-private dances d|by lodack and communities Jeity limits, aweeping| "I had hoped the gheriff or prose \« away homes and endangering lives.|cuting attorney would state thoir| plunged down a steep ¢ Walnut| position in this matter,” Chairman fa suburb, were | W. A. Gaines, of the board, sald “Flowever, they have sald nothing, so T think It time for the board to districts Injuse ite Initiative and close them, Packingtown and Capitol Hill were}since there nas been so much public isolated, criticlam of the extra-hour policy.” mor proclaims continues to have » under the Act of Congress March J, The Seattle Star ootlegger Quits WhiskyTrade to Please His Boy! Brother of One of Dumas Bay Victims Goes Out of Booze Business When His Son Suffers Ignominy at Hands of School Ground Playmates By S. B. Groff son over the deeply touched Arne M r of Ludwig Holtan, w Johansen, met mysterious death at Dumas Bay last month whi! loading a liquor cargo, t he told The Star Mon- “f am thru with running whis- “From now on, T’wint ft Understood that I am Why did I quit? out of the game. borhood—playmates of my called him a “He could not understand. was loyal to his dad. And I will be loyal to him, years in Seattle. record that would do credit to And I will win back elf respect and the respect thru honest 1 have lived 20 I have a past Holtan explained tion with the in which his brother a sen were members, rum-running ring Arne M. Holton, confessed} the death of the two men houn left his Los Angeles home to come to Seattle, BOUGHT $4,000 BOAT IN CALIFORNIA “Johansen, former husband of ‘arter/ the progress of the American taff Photographers | champions toward the rich prize it would only temporarily halt t speed boat to Los Angeles with a load of whisky once or twice. HOLD MAN FOR FIRING VESSEL "= went to see his first wife. posed as the skipper of the boat and told how much he was mak- ax a whisky runner, ¢ met his death the houns became While in Los Angeles on the , the two men bought Charge Kenneth Brown Set! 2%, 8tm® Nts announced as Ruth Alexander Afire Accused of having set afire the Alexander as she left her dock Saturday night at | overcoats. , Kenneth Brow! It was the craft which they met death at lonely 30, alleged was held in the city narcotic addict, jail Monday aw miral line officials, steamship had just left her berth and was heading for the swift crulser to 8 th in Lake Union, ‘ost from $40 to $6 case at Vancouver, easy to obtain, despite the re s of Canadian officiats, hansen and Holtan made up the crew of the ill-fated vessel r trips were made between Vancouver and Dur Seattle the liquor sold at around and ordered Carl for the company, to ‘The steamer San Francisco. Admiral line authorities were try- | hit'a home run into the appeal in touch with |f stands. R. Meusel out Cousins by radio to learn the |“ ails of the attempted arson. Brown | . worked during the war superintendent three years following haying Iso a timber man, With his brother, ’, B, Nelson to take out ¢ Ktala to the al times for having dope os other of} run, three hi Holtan in 1909, was employed on contract can. struction for M, J, 1910 and 1911 Want Ad Columns in | [no error: y of Yankeoes—Scott out, Nehf to K Heney of the From there he went to Kamloops to work for the Cana: dian Northern railway. Four Miraculously Escape From Death, 198 Mord chain-drive trek. $1 an automobile driven. by 192 1 Ford i ton truc! A. Johnson, John Olron,| Westlund, who now and see Who Is selling these TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. SERIES! GIANTS WEAKEN IN STH Amer. ~ Leaguers world’s champions. four games out of six. Art Nehf had w 4 to 1 but blew up in the eighth, the Yankees scored five rum clinching the _ title. “poste” 3, Bob Meusel then singled to threw the ball away, all three Yankee runners scoring. ning. pitched for the Yanks. the Giants in what they hope § Only rain threatened to inter rush of the Yankees to victory, the opinion of most of the b the Yanks now as almost impr “OFFICIALLY ON” ficially on” for the time being least, when. Henry Tierney, tary of the Giants, inspected playing field at noon and found in condition to play. It was ja little soggy. The skinned dark spots. pie to Dugan out, Frisch to Kelly, De- s 's shins, the ball rol to left field and Groh’ stopped | Young singled to. cent sen: ; . Frisch was out. for third, Witt to Dugan. Yor held first. EB. Mond fanned, SECON NNIN' ankees—Pipp out, Nehf to Kel Ward singled to left. Schang j into a d ble play, Nehf to Bit to Kelly. No runs, one hit, errors, Giants—Cunningham flied to Wi | kelly fouled to Schang on the j ball in front of the Giant du Snyder fanned, No runs, THIRD INNING Pennock out, Nehf to Kelly, | filed to, Meusel. No runs, no h jno Drs. jants—Nehf fanned. out, Dugan to Pipp. Groh nals R use. No runs, no errors, OURTHE INNING | |} Yank Ruth w croft stoppi second, Pipp out, Bancroft to (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) oo )Schang, ¢3 i Pennock, p, GlanteHanerott, a; Groh, $b; 2b; Young, rf feunol, It; Gu han, : Snyder, 0 Nehf, Umpires-O'Day at plates Ni first; Hart at second; Bvans at ] 1 i Come from Be- hind and take Honors; Score 6-4 POLO GROUNDS, New York, Oct. 15—The Yankees are the They won the deciding game of the series from the Giants today, 6 to 4, taking the series, Ryan relieved Nehf and struck out Babe Ruth with three men on bases and with the score Ae center and Bill Connie Babe Ruth hit his third home — run of the series in the first in- Herb Pennock and Sam Jones: POLO GROUNDS, New York, Oct. 15.—Just one step away from the — bootlegger, who says he|goal for which they have been | couldn't stay in the game/|Strussling for three years, the when his little son told him the other boys wouldn’t play | make the last e 8 game of the with a fellow whose dad was| series. @ rumrunner. —Photo by Price & Btar BI York Yanks mobilized today to fight ~ ‘Teague experts, who regard the position of — and most of the fans wore bee The turf of the outfield was juste % | of the infield had been covered with ting action by AQ: /4 tarpaulin, The soil showed only When the Giants went out for batting practice, Al Schacht “Ee turned | (Turn to Page 9; Column 2) back to the dock. Capt, vert (THE GAME Strout, a hits