The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 14, 1924, Page 1

Beh tbh lh eimai ts init. as ha = 100s DAT ICE GR ArT —yane - i The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington WEATHER |) Ai Cloudy and unsettled tonioht and 1e ealt e t r Tuesday; moderate winds, a mostly southerly ‘Temperature Last 21 Hours Maximum, 40, pimum, 36, Toda 0, i Hecond Class Matter May 2% 1899, ot the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Conerses March #1979 Per Tear. vy Mall, $1.58 SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1924. det Doegies |The Btayor | Starwiclia Fires Aid BOOZE WANTS PLOTS PROBE — BARED MONEY ‘Deputy ‘Sheriff to ‘Prosecutor Says Face Federal Seattle “Power- Charge; WifeIm-| less Before Vice | plicated and Grafters” . By ehiatra Brown By Jack Nelson | _ On the heels of a sensation! | Charging that Seattle is | New Kevan MeConaugny, that |DoWerless before organized ld of the inity Hotel t every. the build. it go for. Dn he plume of England, thousand sendin; be invest. for them. ars they pons, re- box and is prob- er prin- SEN +e Deputy Sheriff Chas. P. Rollins | Vice because of a graft-ridden purposes and his wife were implicated in | police force and that Mayor the operation of a still found ; ‘i | last week on her ranch near the |Drown is responsible for 3 San A | county stockade, Rollins was |these conditions, Prosecuting gold im- i Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas, shown above, after laying |} | summarily dismissed from the | Attorney Malcolm Douglas total of evidence for. weeks before a grand jury that is investi- | county service by Sheriff Matt | Monday asked the board of % rating vice and crime in Seattl ukes the charge that Starwich Monday. as issi looks as gating and t sia at . 5 vi arse Rollins and his wife will face a | county commissioners for he meta? eattle is powerless before organized vice and a graft- ; 5 charge of complicity to violate the|$2,500 for secret investiga- As gold : ridden police department. it —- f national prohibition act, along with| tion purposes. E con » who, it is charged, was implicated in the operation of a Ar Pro i t Mrs. McConaughy, Carl F. Reins-| In the past four months the Howdy, folks! Some days it is ‘oday’s Fable: Onco upon a time, | MOonshine still. dorff, Fre Oscar F./hoard has voted Dougias $1,500, this in- 4 awfully hard to write this first Douglas asks for additional funds to investigate. Wanless, ess and| As a result of the investigations toy Ichikawa, according to n-|atready financed by the county, 77 ring of sentence, but it’s easy today. The Star believes that a thoro investigation, regardle another 6 etle here was a movie director who did houncement by. Carl Jackson, chief | ingictments - have been. returned, of ‘the ‘local general prohibition Of-|siatement cases have been filed | ot Indicate that the action of his tee Old Joe Bungstarter hax got a {Picture had changed by writing, “Ana|| Of expense, should be made of the entire matter. Stories || The traffic tragedy report on the police blotter Monday| "P|. .cament and atemiseal |AetiDst more than a score of houses lopment. erg ica cave havtarl naar bes thal the next Safiiaw,-. us” of graft, “protection” and other ugly things: have been || showed: é [cane Snowe erent ne clei hoe Mm repute, | the ‘mest flagrant Tecord. pictures of pretty girls when they're oie 6 too long’ current in Seattle. Five more drunken drivers. | officials, including Sheriff Starwich fiber pent coptaat. hake prvi Dene running b run inthe next column. He wantsto| ps, pteseg him as they parted, And where there’s smoke, there's bound to be some Three more persons in hospitals. Sad) Jaceeec wien Disreibt “Airoraay | 2 oa sar sidace aa a eee be furned around. Sis Nesit sabe’ fal of d0¥ fire. Five more autos \recked, waar in poteraion of a ieved state, [obtained against scores of bootleg- Investigate! Invest » thoroly! Investigate now! Four of the driv were released on bail. One—whose tight ; y, | @ers. A of for- ‘That's very true, Joe, but on the| And then away she darted te thoroly! Investigate now 8 ¢ ail. 10S€}ment given by Mrs. McConaughy, | ‘i be sold Mic MEOR veel sever wave to read v6 tab ‘eva: Ghee: iv auto ran down a university student and who then fled with-|ne said, but dectined to reveal the| Direct responsibility for the “wide figures. the? front.tage editorials be edi out halting—was reléased’ on his own recognizance. Chief |text until Jackson, who will bring /open” town is laid at the feet of wh chs o .|Mayor Brown by the prosecut: migra- Pore sar’ ; Sovervhe enalatnn ooh Asya hae ant, |the charge, had completed “his in-|Mayor Brown by prosecutor. Bed with , can| New York Judge retires trom the 2 Rote xplained Monday that “the man was prominent, |e Orie the centr | “One of the chief factors con- Europe. Joe hes, been gazing at that hd bench because hie cannot live on $17 ege run river iad influential friends and wouldn’t run away. _ | Phe story of Mrs. McConaughy,| tributing to the fnerease of st Diy, but for nigh on begs hod Tae wiice| Seeck srk! Tica. SoeabcAtoigtl In spite of this casualty list, Police Judge Gordon still in-j according to Sheriff Starwich, was] licit liquor traffic is the dis- aus, that ie wort ¥ ify fea tes t 4 op a ‘ set fn for ft t fel. | bd ey | sists: “Jail is too severe a penalty for most of them.” |to the effect that she had purchased ak hand personally handise. «eo 8 loo 3 The direct effect of Judge Gordon's leniency and the small|th ranch from Rollins, and that he) espoused by Mayor Brown him sit is : : r : y 5: lk he was operating a still and| self, of permitting bootleggers iil turn What hag become of the old-tash- | Se oy fines he imposes is shown in the startling increase in such mitted his wife to assist her in| who are arrested to forfeit bail foned man who thought he could get tragedies, and in the way in which the motor maniacs in |its opera’ in lieu of bein; ecuted; thus : 1S Pros 5 a kick by placing a raisin In a bottle “Laziness is a disease the acientitic Ip. y y . GY 4 attle laugh at the law. HT when to run the) in substance licensing their bus- of grape juice? name of which is erxophobia,"—Dr,, LVAD) pie U Iniv ers sity y out h; I our It is shown in the growing indifference of members of | Mash." the woman is quoted as say-| iness Instead of sending them to cee I York city hag poem 3 ; a Some Thatta ng. “Ein w d me, and we} jail," Douglas’ letter to the (danweny 38) | coal on the furnace fire, you can say a policeman endanger his life in the pursuit and capture of) uor -ach time we made a | Prior to September :1 there’ webs (Lord's Day.) By water to Bain-| “Get to work, you little ergophoblac!” | Roca r h fi t 1} & speeding maniac when he knows that the man will prob- He i a ee os he had [more than 60 gambling resorts bridge Island, where I did find my honse e's he Se oat ‘ Hiv. ba’ allowraditn fone eh "1 4 i sold the ranch to the woman | Uy '. g bond ¢old and damp, but a fire soon going and Erne er 1 ity of a hox-| ably be allowed to fe rfeit the small bail he puts up and not} 00 fee rated seen the still in (82 re hundreds of men were the blankets aired. And did _rejoice| HENRY SHOULD BUILD ‘EM HIGHER | ya), more, at 19th ave. | pit iH fs rged with| even appear in court? Or that, if he does appear, he will be i mulcted of thelr earnings, Dougias mightily that the pipes had not frosen| We predict that our roads in this / ' 1 { ¢ ‘ (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) | charges. When the commissioners ‘ax during the cold weather, and that neighborhood will be practically quy night, an ‘ nk. Berg s| let off with a fine so small that it makes even the offender bite etna voted. $1,000. for vice NvésiRenen the pooch, was still fat and there Is Viotet | slight ‘ chuckle? . 7 And in the « Tt Is imposible rik V f b muck 4 “ee these places closed. Complaints to teal before to get N.. J.C, AM v en, 4 Judge Gordc N’t seem to realize that ALL SEATTLE the chief of police brought no re RED aan fo bed, | eapecenty Jodhaon | Brig ionge a city wate ector, 1 s200 is back of this campaign to wipe out our “tragedy of traf- sult edb thd 1 failing to stor on a charge of drunken driving fic.” That the big majority of auto owners themselve Continuing, the totter, sald oe January 17, Benjamin } He 1 not/after his machin {ven on the| Who are sane and careful drivers, are in accord with the} IN BEEFPENDIM, bye “Page 1 conn 2) at y be Thrift da ; lay mort f sido of the stro move to have willful violators of the law, the murder Ree ee y tes. ” bt A i rs Bai . maniaes of our str locked up in jail where they cannot} Dern him, he’s copyin ot ‘ ir to by William Brownfield, 2 evonth ph aie sharps rs na : agen ' ; alk rea at longer do harm. The judge cannot see the hundreds of | Seattle Votes, 21/; 2 to 1, for URGES REMOVAL TRUTH IN ADVERTISING A nash two oth t ave, W Nicke t letters that have flooded The Star off | meee saw the | J. Bloomer ns} And so The Star is going to suggest this Co-operation With League not avoid it.| while Intoxicated, according to po-| ‘hat every auto owner in Seattle, who agrees that there| saatte votes Geo and onehalt to $s them mah at oF atte dene te baveccand: 3 t king the is no need for a repetition of the tragedy of 1923, when 50]... tor tne \ sceiiiatt i rte epention eee " mp post. Bloor 1 to post| victims were killed under the wheels of autos here, tell|° "nj, was the result of the refer sould ba fics ‘ ‘ takin: £3 Div Judge Gordon Bo" directly ‘es wwe eter Mayor Brown Says Douglas from ¢ : here his inj 4 ~ It wants you to write a letter to Judge Gor ad- ed Sunday Is Incompetent ; ee bm; Maslaon at, ea into (dress is John B. Gordon, Public Safety Bldg., i nig (delice set hag gh soy 43 2 8 r 1 t e ¢ t It wants you to telephone Judge Gordon. His office} The Bok plan, pre for co secuting Attorney Malcolm* ypewriter ie 7 r } is MA 6000 ; nog us should be removed," Mayor “Been out late, so now must fight| Historian has discovered that Paul ticen in 1 lumb MA in-6' : ,. [operation t country with the! rown said Monday, when inform. her!” Revere a dentist, N abt he | Vl . Nad: hae Bett till, it wants you to go to see the judge personally. | league of without, howev ed of the contents of the letter ini ig Hed his squad in the re nary : Nica hase wh, hol TTY | OU Will find him at police court in the Public Safety build-|:Pplving for or being admitted into| Douglas wrote to the board of As we understand the Bok peace | war hg be ey A ny Aye ania adira 5 3616 2dth 5 office room |<" hip, and g ople | county commissioners asking $2,500 plan the United States would be com rr aS aa rein ed by Capt. J i ARE YOU Ing We : nt addr is 3516 35th S. His office reom ity thes had ot for ‘pectet. -vicé’ investigation #ammn n a foreign ¢ ii LIL of esac! THINKING ri not they nted the) ‘Douglas has no conception of Tos Angeles. fled after the accident ; Kellogg Makes Bow |Open Small Strip to participate in the|the oath of office or of the duties ft ve Th’ honeymoon is over when | bath of Pele aol ¥ to: Britath’eiki a j f i of the league of his office. He is either ignor- rhe c that the ¥ sos || fie east’ to: dele tr144 Selene 1 Thompson, 4049 Nir o Britain's King of Land for T ferendur t The| ant or vicious and his incompetency n pr for dinner. E,, who ectgsed him ' ONIX J (.—Frank B.| WASHINGTON C r conducted { j warrants me in saying he should be nd his ” t } Pee icaaea referendum emoved." e'e 6 k Art t f J 1 3 I The mayor said Douglas ts play- ever ut up for i Kehe-c rab u a . I ti A ane:< bs and Aizat a part in a political conspir- 2 a.not ‘the Da c i 1 City, ¢ on th tt Al erd to defeat him. eee att ) od footwork 2 c 1 y Ame The letter was written by his fines 4 s I : the mayor said. He charges ery time Sindee r ted 1} E 1b f 1 ¢ The Star's lum Douglas with planning the grand ertain f ‘ heer There goes the whistle! Jett I ' of | 7 1 f 1 t ‘ For the pl 18; ag tigation at this time, and oat t ime there A. J. 8. f 5710 ¢ t ‘ cree’ “ —— | at nm for r Air the plan, 984. . (Turn to Page 7, Column 2» CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB } - S ft t } S t ie irl who says: “Don't you think 2 TB eg al Fire-] ong 3 Ue, by Sax R onmer, STATTS in The at f OmoOorrow dumb? SAPaga Nelo ay Telnaes th te ‘ a aed SEARS VE i — Sees