The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 5, 1923, Page 1

“BIGAMIST!” CHARGES WIFE eee ——_—_—_—___— AA The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington WEATHER Rain tonight and Thursday; in- creasing easterly winds, Temperature Last 3 Hours Maximum, 48. Minimunt, 38, Today noon, 43, — | ‘Batered as second Class Matter May 2, 1599, at the Postotfiog at Beattie, SEATTLE, WASH., WwW )DNESDAY, Kerry Heads Hotel Sateen 25. VOL. Howdy, gals! Only 26 more @ays until Leap Year, and then it'll be open season on ginks like Phil Tindall, who don’t know what it Is to dodge a flatiron! eee And, of course, with Leap Year so close, you don't want to forget, gals, that Tiny Burnett, the orchest leader, could take a wife—if he had | one—into the Orpheum free of} charge. and Refuses to eee Tn answer to many anxious quer fea, wo can positively assure the pub- Nie that Hiram Joh! 3 backers have not selected Marion Davies his running mate. a8 | NG SECTION a BY LELAND HANNUM Declaring that if he took the of- | flee | be allowed to carry on the work in his own w and that he would not }be bound “hand and foot" by | executive board, A. 8. Kerry, Seattle capitalist, was nay Junanimously elected to mucceed | Frank Waterhouse as president of the Communit Hotel corporation, having under the establiahme | of Seattle's $4,000,000 community. tel enterprise. The election was hek |by the board of directors, fol- Rolling stones g2 |lowing the second annual session of less they roll seven F : |the stockholders of the corporation, i atte | Bie 4 : | Other officers named, all by acta. An old grouch {s a man who} mation when their names were sub. doesn't care what women do to their mitted by the nomination hair just so they keep it out of the | ‘ tee, were: utter. : Vico presidents, David Whitcomb a jand C. D, Stimson; secretary, J. F. Dougiaa, and treasurer, M F ua. for the ensuing year he must “You just know ernoon she wears ‘em.”* no moss—un- | Home Town Notes: Cyrus J. ‘Twinkler, manager Piggly Wh y store, fainted with surprise this morning when he opened shop and found that the safe had not been rted away by bandits during the | by acclamation, consist | following: M. F. | Burke, J. Dough » Cc. Otte Kegel, A. 8. Lowman, W. H. Par- of the Backus, LC Thomas F. Gilman, Hofry, Reo 13 ‘ 4 rry, J. D. ANOTHER ALL-AMERICAN Gers ie z : a W. LE C. J. Stewart, TEAM j D. Stimson, Frank Waterhouse, (Selected by Omar W. Wiley, C. 8 Wills, Worrall Imfrum (Missouri) fiwon, David Whitcomb, M.A. Ar Water (Maine) 4, Joshua Green, Victor El des, "26) ‘Wash, under the Act of Congress March 4878, Per Your, by Mall, $3.60 The Seattle Star DE :CEMBER B, 1028. _ Two CENTS IN SEATTLE, aaa Demands Free Rein| | | Wet (Wash) Bull (Montana) Fish (Bates) coKanta (Fordham) Hard (Knox) - Pigg (Penn) Swiss (Navy) Cherry (Pitt) |dahl, E.G. Ames, RD. | A. 8. Eldridge. | MAJORITY OF STOCK- | HOLDERS PRESENT | There were 60 stockholders pres- ent, representing, personally and by |proxy, a majority of the stockhold. Jers, it was announ: Righteen of 2 Merrill and | |the new directorate attended the election of offic The stockhold fers adjourned to meet again Thurw. day, December at the Chamber | [of Commerce asembly hall, where ns ol - Tuesday's sessions were held. | —a- | When elected Kerry told the direc Washington|, 4; S. Kerry, Seattle capitalist, Tuesday was elected to|torate that he would take the presi ason| head the Community Hotel corporation, which:has the re-|%?c¥ ‘nder one consideration, that i Be sepa bite Z he wanted to be allowed to conduct on New| sponsibility of putting over Seattle's $4,000,000 community the thutaeee in 6 taistneeetiice way, hotel. Kerry insists he will run the job himself and asks for by himself, and not bowing to the a free hand, which the directors agreed to give him. | wills of the directorate or an execu —Photo by Price & Carter, tive board in what he termed “the if si smaller thingn.” we * * Hotel Bonds Soon to. [=e _ Soar, Kerry Predicts me what to do. I think this organ. Salvation (Army) ing closed, ms to offer | the yell} ity hock af puc y Star Staff Photographers uly? ers on the Mebbe nk the Nav boys } day ization is handicapp tive board; they PROMISES TO MONTHLY REPORT “I expect to give the monthly report of pre two principal duties Hing the first teage bonds and build ng the building, And I'm going etings Whenever there is ¢ Nae vader ‘orate body to do But if you want me to take this po and give year of my time to have faith ow > carry GIVE * out to chow— the it back! Gaiters acentet nas amconenal NEW» President ‘of Company Sees : Bright Future for Project B. FRANC Pg the abterp now: § mor to th: at warts ca call me ome. BY W. One hund: bid for Ot bonds offe dollar} and has found st In my ju mpc with no on the CAREFUL, DICK, OR THEY'LL GIVE YOU AVRIDGE MAN’S JOB! ple unk house repo (Turn to Page 3, Column GILLETT NAMED HOUSE SPEAKER Deadlock Broken and Fight Ends on Night Ballot Kerry, the f the Community bonds of ful h expert n big enterprises and an intl wledge of conditior and the Pacific con 4 man who knc about $25,000 he th a long and st behind him, tel I fina I er ay “and now am going ally as Le ing to ing central oftice ite t FRAZER EDWARDS taff Corre SHINGTOD BY and WA conflict comm nit with of the balloting of W “MIA- Column 1) The Star Has a Great A” Big, Walking, Talking | 22nd ave | Be Bothered by, Directors’ Whims | an} commit | The curtain of life has rung down on Martha Mansfield. Tho now diretcorate, also. elected | She has played her last scene. The plaudits of her admirers S| have turned into sorrowing tributes. For Martha is dead. Burns received when an attendant accidentally dropped a match in her lap, while she and other members of her cast were doing “location” near Sa n Antonio, Tex., cost her life. Believe Piggly Wiggly Yeggs Used Cop’s Car ‘Car Stolen From Patrolman Last Friday Deserted Wednesday by Five Men A Seattle police officer’s automo- bile was used by the yesgs who early ‘Tuesday morning stole the} wafo from the Piggly Wig at 4728 University way, in a race with a po it was believed Wednesday recovery of a Hudson stolen from Patrolman E. ford, last Playford’s car w nesday morning, jt Sixth ave. and Virgin’ men, according to Detectives were immediately work to apprehend there men suspects inthe safe robbery Jobe store, nd escaped prowler far, ith the peedater erted a st. by fl police report Wed. sot ‘to | of | Tucsd Officer Playford lett car at} and B, Madison st., Friday | night, he reported, . It stolen during the night, When the car was found Wednesday morning "the | ne FALLING TREE KILLS LOGGER Hood Canal Accident Proves Fatal to Worker was ration Co. near al, Mik killed from Semovict jay when a roots by al upon him. wife and two children. pe Today's Want Ad Bargains DOLL speedometer showed {t had been run 450 miles by the thieves, It bege humerous scratches and dents, tho it had recet ard u and the handrail in the tonneau had been crushed out of shape, as tho a safe had rested against it. The police think it the. car may,be the « sed by flv upon L. E , early airsbreadth probable that ame that was arnied thugs who fired Lamb, Des Moines garage Wednesday, missing by when a bullet took | Lamb's hat off. Much progress has been made, po- lice said, in the search for the safe 8 who ha looted Piggly Several member been traced and their defihitely -known. ‘The sonnel of the department notified’ to search for the _ WEATHER MAN | S PROMOTED, ‘omplet ye in the Seattle Unt ted athér bureau office, Lawrence her, meteorol was AC led to leave Wednes: nvér, where jhe Wiggly 4 of ‘the Co. gar identi entire tores. have ye "serv: night promot to assista t foreca He is to be Andre H. Palmer rologist at. thi Francisco office Fisher March, ears hag been occupy! of first assistant: for clerk, with the teorologist In the federal Hi has had 10 per ather bt Wedn ily to the und for came 1904, sucee ence in wv Fisher was to take hig fi start immedia: under the g Hi eau \ ty preparin to Denver and on his new duties ernment promotion. expected here Vets’ Bureau Probe Testimony Halted WASHINGTON, Bec The ate committee investigot the bureau today » hear further former Dir Charles RF uccessor | soon testime ither to fute ¢ commit For Every Girl in Seattle Read the Announcement on Jimmy Pushes Em In} the Mayoralty Creek See Page 20 SAILS OUT TO MEET, DEATH, BUT GOES TO SLEEP IN HIS BOAT EW YORK, De who went to se George Hoerman 5.—The man to die, didn’t. was found asleep in his po boat on the sands off Rockaway point a few hours after coast guards had set out to head him off from his pro- posed Journey to the great un- known. Hoerman’s fam! reported to the police that he had left a note saying he was going to commit suicide by sailing out to sea until h overtook him, Bleep, however, overtook him first, CALS AUSTIN TALE ABSURD Chief Says. Kidnap- ing Impossible;| “Ridiculous,” |Severyns Wednes: when er, Who recovered consciousness in | Vancouver Tuesday and had issued a | statement to the effect that she was kidnaped. The strange details of and experiences after her flight she from time to time | is! per- | the has been | naped were not reveal statement Vancouver by the thin and wearied girl, as she lay convalescing on her cot in a ward of the eral hospital. These, are lost in the realms of delirium, as Miss Austin claims she neyer regain ed consciousness after two men had seized her and rushed her into an automobile a week ago Sunday. J in a brief “I was on my way to church—al-| when two men grabbed 1 and bundled me into They held their hands over my mouth so I could not scream, Then they drove away very fast. That's all I remember until |found myself in the hospital her UNABLE TO ACCOUNT FOR HER HIKING TOGS Miss Austin was unabl how she happened to be jher sister's hiking togs. She had jnot worn them away from home | when she started to church she said. |but was gowned in a black velvet |frock, which she asked about. The statement of the girl was made to Inspector J. Jewett of the Van- couver police and Chief Simpson of the Point Grey Physicians refused to permit furthe tion as girl is still in a weakened and perilous The and Georg _ urn to 3, most there. me from b an automobile. to explain dressed in pollc r que condition. the . were s Leila not pres: Column 3) two sisters, Aust SEATTLE CITIZEN ACCUSED Sisters Resentful, | for separate maintenance was * said Chief of Police | ques- | | tioned about the story of Nell Austin, | Seattle choir singer and school teach- | was kid-| yen out to the press of| ancouver Gen- | she intimated, | } (Name Walker in Charges of De- sertion and Mar- ital Tangle | Charging Kenneth M. Walker, Prominent Seattle business man and marine surveyor, who formerly maintained offices in the Central building, with big- amous marriage to a woman named’ Charlotte Walton, suit filed in superior court Tuesday by Mrs. Helen Walker, the first wife. According to the complaint, | Walker deserted and abandoned the |plaintif? last May and went to | Minnesota. A few days later therd jhe married Charlotte Walton in | Hennepin county. Ever since then the couple have been living in a bigamous marriage, the complaint charges. | The firm of Bogle, Merritt & Bogie, attorneys for Walker, aro co-defendants, as it is ale 4 that they have custody of cash property belonging to the come munity, and court order compelle |ing them to make an accounting to Mrs. Walker is asked Walker formerly w most prominent men sion on the entire His sudden desertion and subsequent marriage in the complai surprise, named s one of the in profes Pacific coast, of his wife as ale came as & Mrs. Walker have been made 1 his serve them with action, according to find wife to in the to complaint, but the couple are in . Mme Walker has t n compelled to find employment to support herself since the desertion. rhe: legal firm of represent Mrs. Walker. papers hid’ Poe & Falknor Anieatey” ee Mrs. Harding Proposed WASHINGTON, Dee. 5.—Mrs. Harding will be given $5,000 a year yy the government for life and free of the mails under a bill now ie awn by Senator Willis, Ohio, _Fepubliea : May to Name Slayer’ in ‘| Star’s Mystery Thursday Cr iminologist Finds Hot Trail in Hairs in “Victim’s’ said Luke | about By tomorrow mo May, the criminologist, when we met him Wednesday, be to livulge the perpetrator of The Star's imaginary murder’ case. By that time I'll have » in shape to justify it slaye in the toils we ich a solid chain of circumst idence built up about him that it will be imy for him to break it The Star to demonstrate the with which Iminologist modern § run crook. A ed dummy and i in the dummy’'s clothe the was told to pick left by t run him “we'll able and once the will have ntlal ¢ ssible by ence, can wa h report victim when M up wh could, own “s and to unkt just quite a} lay afternoon of the two hairs from that man’ after mil exampl nd out that is| ’ Hand , that he probably wears his hair t back. He's a young best of health. And there’s one other thing about hing that I found that will enable me to identify him positively, I) believe, from among The editorial when I see t mind tellin ander detail mi we } is very dark nd brushed stra man in the Star's ‘ou us ‘for who want of this ke those asked. led by & entific ane hairs ortant micro. nerat n the nd tex. rm and (Turn to see, . Column 4) of PAGE, 1