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Few men in Seattle are in a more unfortunate position at this Christmas time than Police Chief m@ W.B. Severyns. Hemmed in by city hall politics, surrounded'’by influences that would wreck a him, laughed at by older men on the force and undermined by “black sheep” on the police pay- ; roll, the chief sits by, little more than a figurehead. Seattle has had few police chiefs who have heen more likable, courteous and accommodating, Good fellowship radiates from Bill Severyns. The milk of human kindness flows deep in his souk. He’s the kind of a man you like to say “Howdy” to. His personality is charming. But he’s out of luck. The Star doesn’t pretend to know just where the trouble lies because it knows Chief Severyns is capable and efficient in many ways. The Star believes, however, that the chief would profit and. that Seattle would profit if he would throw good fellowship to the four winds, make up his mind to run his department with an iron hand, clean out the crooks and give his honest men a chance to become a police force worthy of the name. Go on and do it, Chief. x ¢ SLUR MIMI EEA LAL Ok i . The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington cm x @ & 6 | Increasing cloudiness, © probably . with rain late tonight and } Friday, Moderate winds, 2 ! E Tenr ture Last 24 i be « Metered as Cocond Claas Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postotfice at Geattio, Wash. under the Act of Congress March §, lfiv, Per Year, by Mall, $3.50 ¥99 fi “s a _— ay, oS ANEMIA, BUA NC ORIARETINN page ro Saninaeeniiaeieetiemeees —_ areenptnasscnnsjanenpsbnseen ee oo — — nt ————— _ a ro 4 \ VOL. 25. NO. 256. <> SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1923, * TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. ; , , 4 | Home Brew | (WHICH DY S’POSE DOC GETS? }) 0 q a 1, Howdy, foiks! Mrs. Katherine | | 4 Viet Nei va Y | a 4 Miracle announces that she will | | « z Sis, My Pn, { 2 be a candidate for mayor, Evi: | é f Aes ie ; : , dently she believes that the day | | Z ¢ a a Pe me See { * & 8 ¥ # ® Pa ser Ob el ee Ci tee | You have to hand tt to Mra, Mit} facie, It’s not every woman who will] | throw her new fall hat into the ring. | : oe | | 4 ‘A number of mayoralty candidates | ® have now thrown their hats into the e ring. Gosh, we'd like to have the 3 FA hat-checking concessions at the ring r e = 2878 + _— —_——$$_—__— pepe we —— 1 4 FY Ford will not run for the White pete alee House, it ts announced. a) Te o wv] | } . = rai cecraeetono FRAR KILLING (Stove For Morne’ Girt ) INTRODUCED IN 23,000 Victims of ~. Dut there were too many nuts. | | 3 ®@ __ | EOS . | Temblor Ravages ra uce the b cost of flivving 4 | ie =< Are Homeless in Fi Those who were figuring on run IN COURTROOM HOUSE TODAY | 1 ; ning Ford for president didn’t figure dovicks | South America x on the way a Ford back fires " <i i KS POLITICAL NOTE Ss l eu t h S Detailed | B ans Mailing of BY LAWRENCE HAASS 3 Ford would have jected Nt ee | ‘ ‘ Snlked ‘Press’ State: Corr > ; x praidet aimert umaninonsy* | tO Court After’ Weapons With- | BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. platform contained a plank wy 20.— lead. i cmemere = | Death Threat out Permit te Tae Nomen : 4 cee sila sma 1 eart! ich i 7 J. Dashleigh Fitzhugh—Last night To prevent the outbreak of a Congressman John F, Miller, af} . 4 ign artinekes: lee # 1 dreamed I was:saarriedta the mont | nosy feud pene ivowers | Washington Thursday, ta: | jalong the. froutles “between Deautiful girl in the world! = . Yamado, Japanese, on woos eared - BP ng Dashicigh! Were! for nares = ants} Te KiLee brokipiline the eatine!| . os ha Colombia, it see | tim, = heavy police guard was 4f pistols’ agd small frearnia“into | . learned today as reports “Wont seu come into my gerior| plaek ene at ee | regions heFo permits are required! ‘\of the full extent of: the dis- — Said the spider to the fly. | ter’s court Tuesday withouti@ueh permits first being sup | “aster reached the capital. } “Parlor nothin’—getta filever!” | ‘The action was taken after Chief | Karis oh ly ali wreepgn. | One lake, known as Las ‘MY | Wes the modern fiy's erly. | | - Petice savetyee Deaf carci | aan wir pebycie a Pale |Granadas, near the town of t 4 cee : | Seen tet Chore aul kote ee | such a measure to Peduoe Seattle's Tulcan, was completely swal- — & “Marriage Ends Romance."—News-| ing In the courtroom today. bili Onn |lowed up when the earth was ( j paper headline Detectives under the personal di-} tity inehieatiie teat rent by tremendous shocks, pM ® i eS Yea, it generally does rection of Capt. of Detectives Chas, | Oe tea | Four towns were wiped | : <8 mnant mingled with the specta-| ce | iM } cn ee tors who attended the trial, and unt . | out. < Tile off oe poe, who did read | frMed officers had posts of vantage | EEG VS aa 5 | SStota. vay pene anaes a | for to the convening of spite the fact that I do consintently say Tioneer Square instead of Pioneer Place, |} which doth vex him sorely. This day |; my wife bought herself a new suit of flowered ash-colored slike, very noble, _ colony between the | factions after the trial. OF ROADHOUSES ce © INTENSE Ke | Lady Diana Ma G SAPS ; 4, ; Aesth bags book Avis Hii |McCabe Says Grand Jury 4 hi ac s ing has been intense all dur. of Mayor Brown, downtown Thursday on a belated Christ- + ' oN « baa up ae hal Sg op or| mas shopping expedition. He snapped her just as she was | Will Take Up Matter erhas hat eason \¢ “Segal the gence Nay opp oa ptaded |entering her car with her arms full of bundle s, after com- Road®houses of King’ county Z ; the rear of the courtroom to in jing from one of the downtown stores. No, she wauldn’t! ana rural dance halls and chick (o} } timidate one of the witnesses,” say just which ones were for her husband! With her| en dinner resorts will be Inyesté . 1 ris 2 | (left) was Miss Blanche Haines, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa,| sated by the King county grand : . i cording to Dougins, is | af segspiptins + Seattl jury when the probe of vice in- E § president of the influential Toyo ee freien t | NO S88 POURED MD SOOKE. son | 8 ee Ae sido the city is completed, Fore. ) ea 2 (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) 4 4 ; riiare ie tiers rs Bt _i Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers} 1 James McCabe. announced: : 3 . i / wed NeGa'ta iets Thursday. -4 i ane’ t F that: betire: de “Just as soon as the present in- v xe : ‘ ; ion of vice, lawlessness and " j ‘i ery ae raft has been completed, the, ei " : : |inquisitors will inquire into the vice AUTO BLINDED Einar Nelson, Broadway high school boy who Thursday iN p WAT WH SHOP :: sald to exist outside the olives », } | viewed the world from behind cold steel bars, awaiting a ints ere: Sie people have asked ms — _ | charge of robbery. Einar sold his future for “60 pieces of |* Bei 2 0s2 we are going to do about the be Ake Oe Alla Axiom Makes Good His) si‘ver.” T O road houses and chicken dinner re ] Jim Conne ys he tands te | ——-— firear | sorts. I have told them all we will | imc - Boasted Ability Youthful Holdup Caught in: Chases oe =: ry to Force Store Manager to Open} :°", 1 »ve toi tnem 4 — | OlCc te wilase eealin of the said pist McCabe said he did noi know y Alla did it | Af Daviiot p bl & Q H er or other said firearr Safe for Them whether the prosecuting attors t ay" avil nt vO 9erV ays e ty ory P ated a acneghibaibenathsiet ney’s office planned an investi- J o Atte yg: y 9a nation in the addre Risking his life in defense of his employer’s money when| &atlon of conditions outside Se- : t ar ae ; attle, but that he—MeCabe— sked bandits Thursday morning i personally intends to see ono is art Schaffner & rx store on Second! made that will be as searching ander, 48, store ucceeded in| and thoro as that made inside keeping the men from robbing the r after he had! the city. been slugged and brutally beaten over the head and bound! BRISE 0! Wanted Christmas Cash * LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE { VAMP, SEZ RED Py ‘ ; 1 JURY FORE ‘J Why will men pay $9 a quart t and gagged . = 4 for bootleg booze when they can | |, paper hee ee 1 i McCabe said Iate Wednesday that J go out and gather toadstools for ria ne : 5 [anvotfer to bribe him had been made 4 oth ? | ’ eeks ago, bt ha ° a ee iicas t 1 hi ! 5 ep ned it so indignantly that later, } : ve 8 ie : borat eG ML he r <i the incident, it was the ave r Peta ble to trace the originators of 4 Xe " A- . ‘ “An* acquaintance came into my i be here ‘ there It : 0. Page 7, © 9 free of feds DOI I S Fr ar othe: trout? 1G (Turn to,Page % Column 2) ter He: told = fac door at-8 o'clock. He was the nstant.” | Friedlander again told| first “man to arrive. As he | them that he did not have the keys | ce walked inside. the two thugs | to af Sighs I R kK kK ! leaped upon him from the 1 don’t need any keys and FOR THE ¥ ® back and knocked him to the you'd better work that com r 1 mone 4 i SEE PAGE 15 floor. bination before 1 blow your LAND BUYER i “Open ‘the sace 1 be quick} head off,” the man told him. i id . LEARN A FACT EVERY DAY 7, Column 4) about it,” the men yelled at him (furn:to Page ¥, Goldin’ #) Today's Want Ad columns offer = Haigensiviking “le: Gummpats i cide _\| many bargains for the buyer. ely recent, but the silence irike has been in domestic use + for centuries. | Cl e e ° e Th “cuusen| Ormer Op aims Truc e1zead 1n DOOZEe KAI nd reported to be | declared that a larg ber yuld turn the tas t to th t rald found Want Aa