The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1923, Page 1

RAPS KING STAT oy w GHARGES!| Wo kilt] “Three File for Mayor’s Job! Mia Vane —the man who loyed her, Gordon Ladd? Bx 4 —the bachelor who said he hated women, Henry j | The Newspaper With the Bigg est Circulation in Washington aneeaits EDITION | | —the spinster who wrote poetry, Patricia Shaw? 4 i } This gripping mystery of the killing of the beau- 4 tiful and mocking Greenwich Village artist begins in i Tuesday, January 1 “The Step on the Stairs”) —BY— Entered as Second Clans Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Ver Your, by Mall, $3.60 NO, 261, wee “TWO CENTS IN 8 5 , WASH,, FRIDAY, ‘DE ;CEMBER 28, 192 Vv OL. 25. ISABEL OSTRANDER America’s Greatest Detective Story Writer Road Funds — Wasted, Say Examiners! Payrolls so badly made up that it is impossible to determine road costs. Work ostensibly done on one road charged to another | highway. | Illegal application of road funds to “forest and moun- tain trails.” Howdy, folks! The police traf- fie department is waging a cam- paign against motorists who drive without lights, but we wish they would enforce the auto dim- mer law against Christmas neck- ties. Seattle bootleggers announce they will remain open New Year's for the convenience of shoppers. ‘Twas a week after Christmas, And the I pping gent Was busin Out thirty ps Only three more days to Leap Bud Blanchett is on the n if his car was home from the bo And then, Pigott and Jack Heffern iN your shopping list, fvon't last long Work performed without contracts. “a Spies : | No accurate check on the cost of miles of road con- | LVL GEE GEE, TH’ OFFIC | struction. VAMP, SE: Rejection of legitimate bids and employment, in their All men are born free and | | | stead, of day labor. equal, but some of them get | | married. A “gentlemen’s agreement” regarding disposition of road funds between North and South districts, *he highlights Friday |!dentified with any road distric® P Sea: of scathing criticism of the actions |or project. | 48 how part viuossiopers Frank! “In commissioners’ district No. # 4 " pan tp estabiliat Paul and Tom Dobson, of King|there is an unidentified amount of hality In which c county, relative to road work | $8,093.20.” | vorite methods, contaived ‘n @ report made| SO-CALLED “GENTLEMEN'S itn ; by State Auditor ©, W, Cleusen.| AGREEMENT” CENSURED brim- } Paul is commissioner for the Second! The report also censured the #0- district; Dobson for the Third dis-|cafled “gentlemen's _agreement,'* trict The report was made by|Whereby funds were to be divided ~ State Examiners O. S Brung and|for work on the North and South | J. L, Dittymore, at the request of | districts and declared that the funds | were to be expended on roads ‘all jover the county. It also called at- period|tention to the need of segregating this} funds immediately, that a basis = may be a for the 1924 }0H4 budget: 3 William Gaines, chair- of the board. The report, covering the from January 1 to October 31, year, ch that Paul and Dob- went ahead with | road and bridge w without, in| most cases, calling for _ co! “Shenar xt spring. le to compare it PE Mayor Brown and Councilman Erickson got close together Friday morning—the closest i they h been for many months. They had to meet on common ground because they're both after the same job, the mayor to succeed himself, and the councilman to unseat him. Picture shows them (mayor at left) as they filled in their filing blanks at the comptroller's of fice. Ph & Cart ERICKSON AND BROWN FIRST! al gas-bags. Barred from the Poison Ivy Club! ato by Price er, Bta tf Photographer Woman Hurt; th rejecting the and doing ulshing betwee ‘eo Steal It Here; Used in Ta- , and work s e ALL HIT. AND-RUN Mrs. Miracle Trips Along Soon Afterward coma Safe Robbery 4 DRIVER i , EXPENDITURES An autoraobile, stolen in Mrs. Kathryn Seattle a Miracle, Seattde's woman candidate for Jail Driver ty of applying road funds} Thursday night safe crackers, This is the eggno a fr mayor, ag she started home Friday morning after filing her|to construction and mainte f| Who took it to Tacoma and used it to im ve Which c x ; | danlaradie of candidacy at the city comptroller’ 8 of fice forest and mountain trails in the Cah ay the strong box of the | 1 ; 1 F 5 att Phot era| districts involved ig questioned by | McDonald Shoe compan found t r the nogg his: ent mie: to. t c sunetl the “axuininar back in the city y morn- ° oer riday | fi cali ae nee, the report |iN& &t Seventh ave. Seneca St, x : > pect alipyay: Aes report | the police reported. a w of 102: o | if A a Soret: uqua ays called for, 28 re-! ‘phe car was badly battered on the F b Dor m: quired ur law, and in this/ingide and the knob of a safe Waal our copy in advance wit few whinutes after Coun e were rejected and) found on the floor. _ When first dis- done by day labor covered Runs Parking ' DROWNS IN SEA *.: Seattle police believed that z ff f I — er ¢ not the roads have | it had been used in some King coun- ( Li'l Gee G. ee bee ‘ Struck by an a satomobite as they were alighting from a Station Here spanep 7 , a nie Dt athe aie mathe be | her'a-d : tw t Ballard " street ear Friday seh ave M. A sia Fate of Crew on Lost Dirig- | « question tor nighw rs tol which’ was chi Tacoma t 6553 Sixth ave. N. W., and an unidentified man were hurlec , : le CH a re ye the examiner streets by a poli r shortly ' - M to the pavement and injured Live Business, but ible Is Still Unknown are censured, |after the shoe store safe had been | “ rt ’ fees Frank T. MeCar y, 43: Burk LN eck Maly nel La! Makes No Profit, BY WEBB MILLER ind ferened| “-Patrolman’ «ateGtipees: Gein et er aadiate ess ow buat policemen soon after the accident and charged with reckles apy: United Press Stati Correspondent) o that the| Tacoma force, was walking hin Beam The ¢ 1 1 re i ‘ ty | driving. He was released after posting $100 bail He Declares PARIS, Dec. 28.—The body urged to the| early I morning when he no- ind killed } a club; ; foots ed to: he I From of Capt. Du Plexis de Greneda, r road ticed the big car speed past him, He had ‘ tier’ tt ent .| commander of the ill-fated | \WorK ON ONE ROAD were aroysed and he The cr rian dub nitted| French naval dirigible Dixmude, | CHARGED TO ANOTHER pas speedster | The Re s 1 a hecat T was found by fishermen tas wth: tk A pursuit e driver of u dern by m : t f Mediterranean sea off the erable Weeks caren h he commandeered / And when we t re ¢ Le ! tt of Sicily, it was officially an ery dct cent 1 to get too close to the speed: { We'll doub by b i M nounced today A, wirlle, 10 Fan auto and in consequence the safe amet H. BL nail i ' t r ort narine f Lt ni: entirely crackers made good their escape | . J "i x i 4 ax pee he e battered safe was f as wide is 1 last |. lt Le fic | p Kurt coma ball park. T 4 t ed , wn pagel & Approximately Denim: g ERICKSON GETS READY 4 f lar prof ee ss } t ae WTITRS iia? ; f F tle at iu Veet utomobile was stolen in Se ee ‘ 1 1 Virat ave. N ft t they | neey tt ursday nig om V. L. Are ae Hit 2 city ¢ 1 hermen, , Boylston ave ¢ ; (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) ; Be hixd i ° a ae ; . tribution of tx Coolidge Accepts fi Autoists’ Victims j x : 3 aba South Dakota Okeh ; . in ec. 28.—President i '| Ask Heavy Damages : pen sea t of $189 pre oa tor- : I 1 C rf hy r c als that | mal acceptance of the ma- ; , oes j election for president. In his Turn to Page 9, Column 2 \ of ov of acceptance he adheres e republican platform aa? te — ' t the conventicr December 4, TIMELY TIPS FOR TINY TOTS ( Business and 1924 Uy. Celery should be chewed and “499 ; HIT ON HEAD, An Opportimst 1924 d th N T ‘ TINIAN 2 : : bson, busi back of the sky du uu own your own home f " : \ He Edward @. Port ‘ land site you want nt . view Lure sy W ACE RANCH ‘ busine W AW TIM I pe ah hich whe ’ ; inks t vill be, j : WEA’ THER | 1924, and why. It | | j < Bu Page j | } Lat Turn to it Temperature 1 1 Hour i GUSTAV BIFFEL DEAD 1 r Pro’ e W Ad columns | | h | Ve | \