The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 13, 1923, Page 1

@ WEATHER Rain tonight and Priday; erate to strong r gales, shifting southwesterty, ‘Temperature Last 44 Hours | Maximum, 47, 5 Today noon, 47, VOL. 25. NO, 250. | Prosecutor Douglas Starts Wholesale CHANGE ROUSES . Howdy, folks! Reserved your seat in a dairy lunch yet for New Year's Eve? see One Seattle cabaret fs going to sock patrons a $10 table charge. And, | at that, most of the patrons will be under the table. eee Leap Year is going to de a fail- ‘ure. How are the dear girls going to propose in these tight skirts? eee After shooting a grizly bear and @ seven-point buck, Jack Dempsey is still looking for action, according? to his demon press-agent. Golly, what a terror that boy will be In the next war! eee Russian word for cootle—Ivaniteh. TODAY'S RECIPE Take one damphool, soak In moonshine a few hours, place in a fast auto and race train to crossing. Remove from wreck- age, place in black, satin-lined box and garnish with flowers, eee What's « dictator? Willie asksd pop. And pop replied, He's @ traffic cop. see Honeymoon tsland,.{n the Pacific, started its careér as a convict st: tion. Who can doubt the eternal fit- ness of things?—Jack Raper. eee The new home of a Hollyw actress will have as a feature bee | aviary with a collection of rare| Oregon Police Find No Trace | cnsns birds. What, you may ask us, is a rare bird in Hollywood? A guy who| can read and write, ] orks YE DIARY (December 12) Anon comes my wife from Astoria, not looked for till Saturday, which will hin-| der me of a little pleasure, bat I am glad of her coming. a | ] Another physician is out with an] | | Give us a double shot, Doc, we've got to attend a council meeting. eee Seattle are} don’t last nent wave. | } only 18 days| n 4 ur Leap Year and gosh all hemlocks and apples, there is Charlie the lawyer, as innocent of as the democrats of/ These cold waves in | bride, So mona natant etn mod. southeasterly Minimum, $7, TRAFFIC seatintaestiiiner tn aaa ora Rm ERRRRRRRDRNNNT RENE eer rere The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington SE ATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1928, CS WNC) GERD AT IS HE THE MAN? fe ed This is Josephine Dombeck Byers, missing Aberdeen as she appeared two years ago at first communion at St. Mary's church in Aberdeen, INVESTIGATING | BRIDE MYSTERY of Girl Reported Drowned HARRISBURG, Ore., Dec. 13. —Police officials today were con- tinuing a determined investiga tion into the mysterious disap- pearance of Mrs. Josephine Dom- beck Byers, 47-year-old girl bride of Aberdeen, Wash. who was reported drowned in an auto ac- cident in the W while en route to No trace of the girl ha found sines the reported mishap in which Byers, the husband, Parks,n friend, , escaped. Stanley ther of the bride, hag arrive Francisco to aid a ing the mysterio Dompeck, bre curred jin Ha y girl, us CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB The gink who invented mah ment reports used | Demands THE FIRST VANITY CASE “Upon whieh, Torralva went after him and followed him at « distance, with a pilgrim’s staff in her hand and a wallet about her neck in which she carried, a4 Is reported, f looking gla the remains of a comb and a kind of lipot for the face. a plece Ge Game o neal | suppe p lw. Turn to Page BALLAINE ASKS RAILWAY PROBE Investigation of}! U. S. Line in Alaska w of pe regard E FUOUA loniinanes Creat-| ing Traffic Divi-) sion Gives Ser- geant New Job Seattle automobile owners were aroused Thursday at the pros: pect of immediate passage by the city council of an ordinance establishing Frank Fuqua, ser geant in the traffic department of the police department, as pers manent head of a newly created 1 was Introduced by | unciiman A, Lou Cohen and re ved the indorsement of tho public ety committees of the council! at} dine afternoon's meeting, | nough strength ts mustered | [in the counsit to obtain a delay, the} {measure will slip thru. and become | an ordinances at next Monday's meqt-! A mneeting of the executive com-| mittee of the Western W ton Antone club ha» been called by Douglas Shelor for Thurs when the proposed discussed rman of the trat he tour amber of Comme that wh his organization fa the creation of a permanent traf | division that will be removed fre |the whims of the various chiefs a police or may it bad not tak any a individual to fill the posit WANT TO STOP CALS LIKE CARR'S Pliny fle comm Jof the C rs becauso| he dis ant fo keep f the elor said that the © of the bigg most capable tr tho city could obta ho drew up ent ually ord or cap- vr divis Councilman ¢ the mea is the inte ance to permit a lieuten tain to be One-Time Seattle Girl mills Self PEDRY, ( Butte Woman Is Brutally Kille The public safety committee of the city coun- cil has recommended for passage an ordinance creating a separate traffic division of the police department. The idea is commendable. It’s in line with what most big cities have done in handling their traffic congestion. But there’s a joker in the Seattle ordinance. Traffic now is handled by a regular squad, in charge of Sergt. Frank Fuqua, operating, like the pawnshop and other squads, under the direct supervision of Chief Severyns. cue The new ordinance puts the traffic division on the same plane as the detective bureau. Its chief will be the real boss. Protected by civil service, he can be removed only for cause. Here, in the language of the ordinance, is the joker: “such sergeant of the traffic depart- ment shall be deemed to be and hereby is named the incumbent in charge of the traf- fic division. And the former position of ser- geant of the traffic department is abol- ished.” That means that Sergeant Fuqua will be automat ically given the job as chief of the traffic division. And following the new job will Gome an increase in rating and in salary commensurate with the respon- sibility, Sergeant Fuqua is a Chief Severyns appointee. He replaced Lieut, Carr when Carr was “sent to the woods” by the chief for criticizing the tearing up of traffic violation s' ps and other irregularities which he said Severyns insisted upon. 2 The Star believes a separate traffic division, with no strings tied to it, will go far in straightening out Seat- tle’s present serious traffic snarl. But it does not believe that provision for such a di- vision should carry with it into the security of a civil service job, the advancement of a man to head it who has not fully shown himself capable of handling it. Is Fuqua the man? He does not have the indorsement of organizations that have studied Seattle's traffic needs. Downtown congestion and everyday traffic tangles, growing worse constantly and with no remedy in sight, indicate that something wrong with the handling. ee In view of these facts, The Star suggests that the Fuqua joker be killed out of ithe traffic division ordinance puree it is passed. Let’s get the traffic division first. idea. And then the man, The best we can find. will be none too big for him. The Fuqua joker, as it stanls, smells too much like peanut politics. It’s an admirable The job Miller Works on Bill to Bar Guns by Mail Seattle Representative Will Introduce Measure in Congress in Week pint, and ship Portugal Crushes Revolt; Nine Dead FAIL (Storm Signals Ordered Here At the Postoffics ot Meattie, Wash, under the Aot of Congress March 8, 44 The SeattleStar 6. Matered as Hecond Clans Matter May 2 1) UTOIST. % Se rgt. Frank Fuqua, in charge of the traffic; squad TEN PERISH IN JUROR DIES OF N. M, BLIZZARD THROAT WOUND Fierce Winter Storm Sweeps | Attempt at Suicide i in Court Southwest Region Finally Successful ALBUQUERQL 13—A_ blizzard precedented . W.. Dee. of almost proporti swept New Mexico and the Southwest leaving i0 Jamas st., T. Willams, 85, of 708 E. un- | 65th who slashed his |ruesday’ morning in superior court wh erving on a jury, died sud- \denly at 8 o'clock Thursday mor ing. Williams had been considered improving until he was regarded as almost out of danger, city hos. pital physicians said, He took a udden turn for the worse Thurs. terday: word was :ProUseCtaky! more nd died within a few women minutes, yesterday, de known of tho storm appeared to ely subsided this morning. ers Wee- ‘eal mo- was about the ulcide orrying cial that service emn ssive that 1 on his He said he had never served jury t and that. the iris » had attempted been used him that he was be and Ww fraid that he ive a wrong verdict In the the cansider: a grocer and had difficulties for admit Will in financial me time, his wife s widow. They TAXIC AB BILL IS PO: TPONED on the council BODY OF xt Weare ent over for Trail 3 Bandits in cen a Woods FLORENCE Three throat | and |‘ t puzzled Two CENTS IN SEATTLE, VICE RAL Hil RESORTS WILL BE CLOSED! ‘Starts Abatement | Action Against — 14 Houses Within — Seattle Firing the opening gun in a campaign of vice eradication that has been in preparation for many weeks, Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas Thursday filed abate ment preceedings against 14 Se- attle rooming houses and apart- ments where he alleges vice exists, ; Fully as many more complaints are in preparation and will be filed” within two or three days. And bev fore the campaign has closed Doug” |las expects to obtain restraining ore |ders against half a hundred Institue |tions of vice in Seattle, he said. © | “Aan of the places named in the: abatement suits filed today haves previously been notified by regis! | tered mailto close their institutions, | Douglas said.. “They have bse | these notices and our only weal to abate them and close them up. by. elvil procedure.” e While Dogulas was filing the {cases deputy sheriffs were sent out |by Sheriff Matt Starwich to ar rest Mrs, Maud Townsend, allag Mrs. Maude Everett, on a on of contempt of court. \ The woman was restrained by court order issued April 4, 1928; from permitting a house of vice to operate at 1036 King st, after # trial in court. | Tho warrant for her arrest was }issued on complaint that on Dec. jember 10, she permitted vice an@ | lewdness in the property in con= | tempt of the court order. Her ar |rest was expected at any time, Douglas refused to state whether the grand jury had in- vestigated any of the places to be abated, but said that their abatement is a proceeding and without the functions of the. grand jury. It is believed that evidence against, jthe places was obtained thru use of funds voted Douglas by the | county commissioners to be used for secret investigation purposes. The suits are filed against the owners of the property s the occu. pants change so frequently that it is impossible to bring a suit against them, according to Deputy Prose- cutor Arthur Schramm, who pre- d the suits. The 14 places named suits follow sidence at 717 Seventh ave. Si by Holt Investment company; |residence at 500 12th ave. S., owned by the Hempstead Investment com pany and E. F. Horne and wife; the Curtis hotel, 1314 Second ave., owned by Ella S. Rosenburg and husbands the Ottawa hotel, t AVOy owned by H. P. Sinclair, William Reginald Sin th nee own Side hotel, owned by R. By Yale hotel, 924 Westlake eer and wife; the owned by Fi Jersey hotel Washing- ton owned by Sarah E trustee, and Ruby Blasburg We | e other places were residences, as follows: 919 Washington sty owned by David ©. Sullivan and wife; 209 10th ave. owned by Harry Soames and wife and Nettié Briggs and husband; 1207 Main sts owned by James Boyd and wifey 1010% King st., owned by Walter By Gerard and wife King sty owned by Gusta J. Gunderson; two places, 514 and 414 12th ave. owned by Emma C, B, Stone, Muriel Coombs ane st., wife; the Summers Today’s Week Ad Offers Used Ads If you Car the are | “ a Aut Want will help you 1924 FORD ROADSTER ) miles; 1! Wiil give terms. » COUPE, ew; ns will tell these cars, m NOW