The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 4, 1924, Page 1

VICE DRIVE RENEWED! The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington i The Seattle Star Watered as Second Clans Matter May 2, 1499, it the Postotticn at Sei Wash, under the Act of Congr is March 9, 1879, Per Year, by Mail, $3,560 SEATTLE, WASH, FRU FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1924. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, MAY BAR MABEL HERE! Censors (#8 os oat to Hold i Meeting fires burnt: oe ‘The height of affluence is pouring prewar Scotch in your radiator to ‘Keep. it from freezing. Pouring alcohol in the radiator In “your apartment, however, will not inecessarily keep it from freezing. eee Why ts it that we elways have warm weather in the summer when we don't need it? eee This is the time of the year when strong men break down and weep at the thought of a Tom and Jerry. eae Some apartments are chilly and the | eecupants shiver so much they find! It impossible to use a dial telephone. | eee Councilman C. B, Fitzgerald ts go-| fag to resign. This !s the first tn-| sance on record of an office-holder quitting bis job In order to work for n living. ‘Rooming Houses Caught in Grip of Campaign to Wipe Out Vice| By Jack Nelson Continuing his drive on al- Ieged vice, opened last month, | Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm 1% | Chairman Says | Case Is Worse | Than Arbuckle’s; | | | | | . | Await Facts By Seaburn Brown : | Wil” Mabel Normand follow Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle into oblivion? Can her popularity and undoubted histrionic abill | ty withstand the odium of her being connected, for the second time, with an unsavory shoot ing? | Already the wheels of public opin |ion are moving. At a meeting to be lheld Monday evening, the & tle board of theater censors will invest! pade which has Douglas Friday filed abatement sults against eight additional hotels and rooming houses. porary restraining orders closing the institutions pending outcome of the suits were | i b erior J Ever- ji on sake ae tant Judge Ever- | Mayor Brown as he emerged from the grand jury roony Altogether 22 suite haye been pre.| After testifying regarding police affairs in Seattle. —Photo by Price & Carter, Btar Sta TH OFFICE LZ: Curfew shall not ring tonight! ‘The young men are hanging on Photogr pared and filed according to Deputy ate the latest i Prosecutor A brought Min \ nea tothe ster ur Schramm, who gestae etirssseeanie ee) Melone Pree (in, Soar neds Grand Jury Listens to “How are the springs on your| rkin, arr | “Simply wonderful! You don't no-| Mie 6 child, and even when you run} frown man, It's no discom- ~The Spotlight. ment, in the presence of Miss jeage 8 and Edna Purviance, anc ‘epclle A Raps “cm;c, Mayor's Police Story [hed toa lh azz Dance... "yt ta Dells Probers His Men Do Good Work, celts Miakiiaaiea dla Het Bat his Seas but Lack Co-operation = rooming hauses, all of which are Assued this week. P the board, who called tha meeting, | alleged to dens of vice hyt Goh flee must be putting up a| . “Altho. Miss Normand is-an artist of rare ability, thé) ciy-in an announcement Friday - Si Rairens tne: cake tae Mant Mayor Brown, resumed his tostl-) work but where the prosteuting at. Tot of new gatoline stations! public must be protected from her pictures if her name can-| says QUICK ACTION The Interview, NOt ssaitst the owners ‘of the proper: eforé the King county grand torney and federal. prohibition agents Eats ® not bé cleared of the odium that has béen cast upon it in| NECESSARY HERE Hex, altho” in most instances the lrg ahnpi per ty ices saaiiaineyapcbirn Nagy gudan fb i yo ks op} s 5 ig res | c ae 1 7 athe tok ate i deplor ve e lla ‘yeaa 408) the shooting of the Denver oil man and the recent Desmond |. *Quic Dances, Took Place |pinces aro teased to tenants before the grand jury late Thursday, |a deplorable condition has result ictory in the drive it returned against Mabel Norma ~— 3 aggregating in ‘value more than $2. 000, 000, hare been | ci Se Sas ate | They a Jat his own request, and returned| “I have not been fooled one bit b ar Yeany's in the tailor shop Taylor scandal,” Mrs. Edith Gattis, Seattle club woman ant}? ltt There, We Mean Friday to complete his story of po-|the prosecuting attorney's. offi Getting overhauled. | member ie the Seattle = sage i de clared Friday. nia in eyes nis stewardship, | Mayor Brown sald. “The grand jury ormand fs han tha % ected to spend the) has not done a single thing yet that ore the} the prosecutor's office could not er appoint-| have done, unaided, had they offered eer of 1 of - BY JIM MARSHALL ‘“Owing to the pins of job work} ieee cer 120 Traffic Violators owned by Mr. rd; Columbus ho. and cancelled all o! ‘ 4 1k for Friday morr No other| the city police the least bit of co- a d and Vic es had been subpoented by | operatio: <a Boston hotel jury up to Friday noon. | Mayor Brown declared that he had =”... ~~“ Jump Bail Here inWeek|=ss2F2 ors re oa ain ee, wai Take Law So Lightly They Don’t Even is of law enforcement, com-| gone before the grand jury at his Ind hotel, tements of the work of|own request, and that he had been 1 by Maynard artment during his ad-| notified Thursday that the jurors Main | ministration compared with previous | were ready to hear from him. rations, records from the po-| « wrote the jury a letter a week aftic office and newspaper | ag5 asking to be heard,” the mayor ; room. own River valley is flooded, so that the Ps ‘ T h whatever pRiaehs) sity » and | cli - were taken into the JUry| sala sriday, “Yesterday they phoned firs under'a lot of sills wit be put APPear; In 178 Arrests, None Go to Jail,” ‘rirn'te tase 9, ‘Cotumn pawn Li eeerod ere. Sy cwned | rate By neigh ele oe Reece out, ‘plied i : baat br in its me hated of the thot am| soreness, aepuity cas! Mayor |Ccuter Jn charge of the grand jury's 4Y0r |investigations, also declared that going to lay before the Ma tives - “es a J | Brown s: “They will show that) Mayor Brown had appeared at his my officers have received c0-!own request.“ ayer wi The mayor wrote us Se One hundred and twenty. of the 178 traffic law violators 5 Nergard actos Be Reged ai tas a arrested this week held the law so lightly’ in their opinion tendants and mw f aa stick ;| that they failed even to go to court. d but halt Christm 6 alk y is a operation from other enforcement} q 16 80! ee et Foutnts | Bail in the cases of these 120 was forfeited. 4 ¢ could poi pay SA Sgt marvelous & letter some weeks ago and yester 3 ae “ an, or giv nchi mn lay, the jury not having any other a Of the 178 arrests made, only 31 were fined. And none! tut s : | matter before it, notified the mayor mother way is to grow a mus nt to jail. Many of the remaining cases were postponed. fache and stick it ful! of chewing rs POLICE FLAYS jit bey Ls dy to hear him,” ‘Colvin stick ull of chewin ‘ te ich these {ft t dates and one was i H very well.” agreed he |said. “His appea “0 ely =. peidge nae snureiaos:| tiers a nd one wad Greer yer tO} tay, Sou shan we it one recsa| Insurance Murderer Pay s his “Gwal retest! lo crit tania g with: nd ask qubst 1 ma will testimony Frid ares fe ae aes Ost, 910, cigs org for Crime on Gallows | CITY HOSPITAL samme fact tha Mayor Brown. ap According to a Patch, the democr for the 1924 « doing? p from dr PENITENTIAR request, automatically cance the Reis, limmunity g awarded grand inte r, was hanged at A m «| Neglect Alleged in Care. of |Jury witnesses under the state Jaw. Sometime: anes hore’) ADVISES SEATTLEITES i Kel gan ‘10 the |Had he been summoned by the jury Prpaa es aa urd read for|ng PAKE LIFE EASILY dataral 18% the:k on Fire Victims he would have been immune from pialace » mies the 1 eh - 8 indictment " you | mur ich ator | “ Hees, qainstint : p wal ng, and in 10 min-| ¢ ency and care. William M. Whitney, acting’ pro- tinued 1 four speeders forfeited) Th « mar faces 14 ‘onds the prison physi. | le tréaitinent td our 4 aition director of th te during 2 x ba ¢ , P im dead. at the home: of | the , absence ot Roy ¢ A lot uy men who were Just THIRTY SEVEN WERE AR tM k tolld incom. | A Eighth ave. 8. pl the ju dying for a drink on New Year's - ; RESTED FOR STANDING WITH: uP : Ay eee Aim Eve are just dyir h n whieh | OUT LIGHTS ore nigned 1 H his death with hin 1 with Po. — - we | raft tion ca ‘ Ba reget: ess of having commit rane Pal i . t SEVEN CASES OF RECKLESS! Gree iid not produ ot the moatt eph wards of the ‘ re tion of| SEVEN CASES OF DRIVING) DRIVING ontinued. Ht ae Turn to Page 4, Column 5) Calife nt Ge town precinct station. Seyer. I P | WHILE DRUNK. Six were con-| One w Lagek it ‘i : pares? } comment on the * seeeees) - FIFTY-ONE ARRESTS FOR} | t for a week from toda | Rallows room. ' a deh d PARKING, PASSING STREET Leave me al ay th aut. he mounte ie st f the officers who a t forte 4 thelr ba around. hin Sivatarerprobaihy rath Ve Albke t 40 men where tobe \ appeared to Riva al rashile itzhugh, ¢ ee i CASES OF) folict that the kin nterest Menieratire Last 34 Hours toh the legalized slaying of athe injured man’and one child, bo pos ad low-br He pre DRIVING WITH ONE LAGHT.| and regard Miss Normand showe slistetunc asp eee manintnn $e aman bely of whom later died, and to the wife| fers Hans to 1 Was ae 1 i inrest tet ha, aieeen = Bi AR Ke hanged for the murder baby, both still in a| Railroad Heads Announce tad Lee Congressman Makes More ‘mats te. ge. 9, Columa 7) (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) = } | of Ba M VM GOHDAE Labor ee tion | New Publicity Program Drastic Anti-Selling Measure shat ‘the oblld wt expla Y } = bef Edwards came in view,’ ac A special $100,000 ign to Give the bill to a statement ibuted to|draw tourist ff Pacific , . }Ed Leonard of Georgetown, in} Northwest in tho tomobile M Petinicei | 19 largest wo children wero taken to|ing the mont June,’ This enger traffic m t “Northern, Nort} and C, B.'& Q, railre 70 ELAND, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 19 MOM. EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS a th eben by mal of we Se <5 DAMM IS PIGKED | FEWER PERSONS ca! for amnulanco an ii anystem Ws In effect unte AS NEXT CHT | A Holiday | Letter From a an Ol Boy Back Eas to Another Out Wet ARE STRUCLBY eee te to € ey A r Dd of ew bill, Introduced following TREASURER MOTORISTS nag nea infos fellitanar la prohibits tt eriminate sor - ae . . " |necords lor Two Weeks Show a f 1 t Coolidge at aA LE . t a na of firearms acroea state bor (CLEVELAND, Ohio, too, has a traffic problem ffic) See hould do the same tit, Piolitanes dd.? Thek- te ae b 0 cor ere injuries! Traffic deaths! ince Monday 178 traffic violators have faced the court.|the peor already ar t restriction tt ie But these injuries and deaths are now on the decrease.| NONE HAS BEEN SENT TO JAIL! ot ll treks . , aie The newspaper headline above, ¢ ipped from the Cleve le of mone r ie eans nothing to the average ; the 1 9 ee kiN this Jail! etic } tic y ® sadde A et bn) post ride [all who drive with wanton recklessness to the workhouse.| The Star suggests: FEWER FINES; MORW STOCKADE!| | (urn to Page 9, Column 6) g ty ERT