The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 19, 1924, Page 1

. Fair tonight wi ature 28 tner Temperatur Maximum, 45 okay i NO. 279. VOL. Home|)riy Howdy, folks! Going to drive | out in the country tomorrow end | look at the beautiful billboards? | So're we, | eee That Kansas City man who won | the spaghettl-eating championship yesterday says he is all wrapped up| in bis work. eee The new champion consumed 1 584 feet of spaghetti “Some feat we bow! with laughter, eee A new pretzel manufacturing com pany opened here today. Wonder if they had any trouble securing a force of professional pretzel-twisters? eee Wouldn't it be funny tf the grand jury, after being in session for two jonths, came out with a report that | pitting on sidewalks should be pro-} hibited? | eee | MY SWEETIE MY SWEETIE says she knows a) girl Who lives in a rented fiat Who still wears WEATHER lot th lowest temper rees Last 44 Hours Minnum, $1. noon, 38. The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington a Matter bd Vice Not Success Clash Between the Prosecutor and Jurors Upsets Program By Jack Nelson Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Dougias’ drive to clean up al- leged vice and lawlessness in Seattle and King county was at 8 practical standstill Saturday. A wide difference in the opinion grand and Douglas, as to reliable evidence of @ character that will result tn con-/ jurofa Prosecutor Vietiona, ;according to reports, has Geadjocked the heralded vice drive of the prosecutor’s office. Reports were current that three votes the jurors returned on “no | E. D. Céivin for approval. These e on | THE MOTHERS the stork made two trips |true bills" on indictments placed|in one Friday night when he t halr ins Psyche | before them by Deputy Prosecutor | brought a baby boy to Mra. Florence Lyons (above) at 6 May %, 1899, " SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1924. Dollars! Frying Pan and a Gas Stove Used by Duo to Make Spurious Money Caught tn the act of counterfeiting silver dollars and half dollars, Rob- ert Taylor, 24, and Dan Dearth, 24, wore arrested in a room at 411 Fifth Friday, by Deputy Shertffs Ajax and Charies Jarrett and are held for the federal authorities. ” The two men had six plaster paris molds in thelr possesnic which turned out exact reproductions of dollars and half dollars. They were pouring a composition babbitt-metal into the molds nm the deputies walked h ‘The ar of the two was connived by Sheriff Matt Starwich in co-opera | ton with W. R. Jarrell, local agen in charge of the U. 8. secret service here. A clue ottained by Jarrell's men led to the arrest of the two. ave, §:20 p.m, Harry Moulding At (he Postoffice at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 5, 18T% Year, by Mall, $3.50 The Seattle Star SICK SON SEEKS MISSING MOTHER A BOY walked The Star Saturday and hand ed the city editor a note. “Miblo wants you to print for him," be sald. “He in't ¢ His brother's It’ about his ma, She ain't home no more, The note, in scrawl, read “Dear Mother: "Your boy, Gordon, ts very sick and ta asking for you. “From your boy, “MILO.” into a boyish ‘FALL MAY TAKE TRIP ON OCEAN And He May Be Ordered Back | to Tell of Teapot Dome AWRENCE MARTIN (Copyright, 1934, by U ¥ WASHINGTON, Jan, 19—~Prest- dent Coolidge nees no reason at pres ent why he should take a hand or ask any other government official to act jin the Teapot Dome naval oil leasing | scandal. | For that reason, Attorney General | Daugherty will not be expected by the president to Investigate if the | senate public lands committee can de- velop facts which make it unmistak ably the duty of either the president jor the department of justice to inter- | vene. Tho Senator Carnway, Arkansas, ny =a) Husband | Refutes Charge! ‘Declares She Was. Sober; Three Others Arrested) Friday Night | 1 Four drivers, including a woman, | [were arrested Friday night for al- |leged reckless or drunken driving. Mrs. Ida McKay, wife of Capt. A.! W. McKay, 6620 17th ave. N, FE. was arrested by Patrolman C. 0, erry at the south end of the Uni- | versity bridge on a charge of driv. & her car while intoxicated. Sho examined by city hospital ph nicians after which the charge filed. Sho posted $100. | | Mrs. McKay denied Saturday that | sho had been drinking. | “I was with my husband and we were on our way home,” she de clared. “I was in a hurry and per. haps I might have been exceeding the speed limit, but I had not toch- jd & drop of liquor.” | Capt. Archibald McKay, husband HE’LL REVOKE TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. AUTO LICENSES of the woman, said that he had tak- a few drinks at a party where and his wife had been, but that knot Now what do you think of that? | results, according to reporta, have A number of the half dollars had| Starlight. | completely upset the program an- nounced by the prosecutor, p. m. and to Mrs. Lyons’ in oe already been passed at various Seat- | mother, Mrs. Ida Forcier,|te stores and the proprietor of a| | 80 his recent speech in the senate, | 4. se Daugherty for not Indicting |, eee ebody in connection with former @ the Pinafore performance, eee | One good thing you can say for radio stations. They never broad) cast reveille at 6 o'clock In the morn- ing. eee New York’s $20,000,000 heiress who | married Count Salim lost in love's) battle. At least she took the count. eee The Prince of Wales is said to have declared for “a studied carvless- ness in dress." We hope fhis doesn’t mean that he ts going to drop his} clothes everywhere for his mother to pick up afterwards. } ere LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE VAMP, SEZ: It’s almost imposs.ble for a girl to dress stylishly these days and wear a chest pro- | tector. A sailor has a girl in every forelgn | port and a college man has a girl on/| every davenport—U. of W. Daily. cee Girla may be awfully silly now- adays, but they don’t wear bustles. eee Scientist says there fs enough power in one glass of water to run all the machinery in the United States. Gosh, what could a glass of moonshine do? . The United States government has| decided to send more warships to Mexico. By heck, we'll lick those| rocks yet! OTE (From the Seattle Morning Jour- nal, Sept. 10, 1890, Thenx to Henry Granberg.) ‘The Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern will run special trains next Thursday and Saturday evenings to accommodate the }Srand Jury are largely responsible | conclude ‘That the character of the inves | Hgators employed by Douglas to gather evidence and the kind of} testimony they presented to the/| for the rift 1s rumored. Douglas refused to discuss the rumored break between hin office and the grand jury, Saturday. Foreman James McCabe, of the grand jury, also refused to discuss the rumor. “I can say absolutely | nothing on the subject,” McCabe said. McCabe said, however, that the grand jury was using {ts ut-| most diligence to complete its ia | bors at the earliest possible date. A strenuous effort will be made to the jury's investigations the coming week, when, It is be- Weved, the jury wilt take a recess and remain inactive for an Indefi- | nite pertod, but ready to resume its | sessions should occasion arise. Dr. Hiram N. Read was called be- fore the grand jury Saturday. He} refused to discuss the purpose of his | visit. “Casey” Jones, a musician at the Grove at the time of the shooting of | Harry Lacelle by Miss Winnifred | Gibbons, also was subpoenaed by| the jury, INDICTED MEN WILL BE TRIED Denwrrer Will Not Affect) Cases, Says Douglas Prosecution of the 77 men indicted by the county grand jury for gam-| bling will not be hindered Irrespective | of the outcome of the motion to kill the indictments now before Judge J.| T. Ronald, Prosecutor Malcolm Doug- | H Jas said Saturday. residents of Ballard who attend We also nos in the Journal that gave another of their popular halls at Armory Hall, at which the polka mazourka, aschottische, ewport, Saratoga lancers, plain quadrilie, | comus and waltz were danced. eee the There Them were days! wasn't a saxophone player in the\and that the weight of the authority | 119 «tuation among South Dakota | contra entire orchestra and the women “Two courses are open,” Douglas said. “I can either resubmit the cases to the grand jury with Mr. Royse not present, or I can file the! charges’ direct in superior court. | to do either, as Tam convinced the indictments will stand.” | Deptty Prosecutor Robert Macfar.| lane, who will argue the case, declar- | ed there is a sharp division of| ting a reporter in a grand jury room, | holds for a progressive, liberal inter. |the members of Mr. jand | (below) four hours later. Babes Reach Moth- er-and Daughter on Same Day BY LELAND HANNUM “ ‘CLE is four hours younger than his nephew." In years to come that is what and Mrs. F. Forcier’s family will say in speak- ing of two bahies, torn on the same day, at the same place, and of the same sex, to Mrs. Forcier, 5136 24th ave. N, and Mrs. Flor- ence Lyons, her daughter. Both the little huskies arrived at the Provi- dence hospital Friday night. Baby Forcier, whose father is a carpentier, with 10 other children, came on the scene at 10 o'clock Fri- day night to find that he had a brand new nephew in Baby Lyons, whose father is a barber. The Lyons live at 616 Warren ave. Saturday voon Fred Forcier, about 17 years old, was playing “father and mother” to his younger broth-/ ers and baby sister, while Forcier | was at work, and Mrs. Forcier was cuddling the newest addition to the family of 11. hospital and see little brother and little nephew. “There's a lot of us, all right,” was Fred's philosophy, “so the kids are trying to make it up to dad mother in being good while they are away.” ‘The newost little Forcier makes the eighth child at home now, since | Walter Lyons came along and mar- ried Florence. Two other brothers have also left the Forcier home And that's why Walt Lyons was smiling as he shampooed and cut hair and shayed chins and jaws Saturday and {t also probably ex- plained the smile and bit of worrt- ment in Father Forcler’s face as he pounded nails and sawed scantlings. | m ae You see, clothing and feeding eight | "The Rifles,” Company B., N. G. W..| However, I do not anticipate having | Y fe 4s is no joke. Passing out cigars fs all right for Walt; it's only his first. fan. 19.—A Dakota ban dele %, WASHING gation of South sident Coolidge discussed with Pr banks, several of which have closed wore lctc-necked gowna that almost| pretation of the common law per-| -oontly. exposed their Adam's apple. eee Cabaret dancing on Sunday even-| ings has been prohibited in Seattle. | But we doubt if this will drive many | cabaret hounds to Sunday evening | prayer meeting. 658 | CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON | IVY CLUB The goof who replies to every remark with: “Not bad, but then not good.” | “Washington. D. C, Jan, 18—| President Coolidge in getting staten-| men of all sorts and opinions lined up with him by the simple expedient | @: inviting them on a week-end voy- ‘age in the Mayflo Newepaper. | Oh, you weekend party! ee 1 Why doesn’t some newspaper start | a compaign for Jail Terms for Eurth-| quakes? i one | |neys George Olson and W. A. Gil- mitting the practice. “There are more than 200 opinions | upholding the practice,” Macfarlane said. “These opinions were written in states with exactly the same statutes as this state.” ‘The motion to quash the indict-| ments against P. C. McCormick and | Sam Hengren was made by Attor- more on the ground that it js il legal for Court Reporter Arthur | Royre to be present during the | jury’s investigations. ‘eu | ments in the case have been | tinued until Monda | $13,500 Payroll Is Stolen by Bandit KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 19—-A | negro bandit today held up and rob-| bed E.' M. Daniels, cashier for the} Irving-Pitt Manufacturing Co., of a| $13,500 payroll, This is the second} large haul obtained by negro Koldup Fred was pleased us| was young Paul and “Sister” and| they were ail anxious to get to tho| Becond ave. cigar store reported the [Occurrence to Jarrell. He was | Wartied to‘knep @ sharp lookout’ tuF |the man passing the money and to an officer when he located | hint. He notified Sheriff Starwich. Deputies Ajax and Jarrett were assigned to the case and shadowed the men to thelr rooming house. After waiting somo minutes the deputies walked in and covered, the jcounterfeiters. A loaded revolver |lay on the shelf near where the men were working. Tho metal was heated Ina frying pan on a gas stove and was poured |into the molds. Dearth admitted to the officers that ho has served one term for counterfeiting in California | They came to Seattle from Portland |three days ago. notify JAPAN RENEWS ALIEN BATTLE Nippon to Own Land 19.—Japan {is pla ning a new fight ngainst the Pa cific Const antialien land law. That became evident today when it was Jearned that plans are being formulated to modify Japan's |land laws so that foreigners will be permitted to own real property | within TOKYO, Jan. the empire. |blocks Japan has encountered in Jopposing California's antl.atien legis. lation has been the fact that some jot the same privileges California |denfes Japanese aré denied Ameri- jeans under Japaneso laws. | Japanese leaders, it was learned, feel that their position in regard to |the California and Washington laws | will be greatly etrengthened by mod- | ification of the Japanese laws. Great Interest has been attracted |{n Japan to the Pacific coast situa- tion by the recent United States su- |preme court decision, which practi |cally drives from the farming indus: |try Japanese now in Cal/fornia and | Washington, Under the law, as sus- tained by the American tribtinal, Japanese not only are prevented n jauthority over the matter of permit-|) v4eq by Senator Norbeck, today|from owning or leasing land. but nt till the soll under “cropping ts,” a plan which for years \has been a revalent method of plac- ing Japanese on land. Prohibition Condemned | by Veteran Teetotaler Aged General Flays Record of Dry Law, in Speech Before Congressmen WASHINGTON, Jan. 19-—Prohibl. tion has failed to show one moral or economic benefit fo society, to bust. ness or to the federal treasury,” Gen- eral Isaac Sherwood, of Ohio, told the house today in one of the bitterest at- tacks on the dry law ever heard in congress. General Sherwood, in his §9th yen has been a toetotaler 75 years. He is the only veteran of the Union | Sherwood said, “not one promise of the alluring program of the Ants: loon league for reforming the nation | has been kept. “Crime has increased 40 per cent, vorces in 30 cities have increased per cent, and murders have in- sed 40 per cent. And worse than amities 18 the federal rec jord of the dope fiends now number: jing nearly one millio: | May Permit Foreigners in} own | In tho past one of the stumbling | Secretary Fall's leasing of Tenpot Dome,to the Sinclair interests, sena- tora actually investigating the trans- }action have not stressed that of the matter, New steps are now In prospect to Ret the whole truth about Teapot Dome, Fall, who is in New Orleans and |who says he will shortly take a sea voyage, may now pe subpoenaed per- Jemptorily to appear before the sen- | ate investigating committes. A doctor who is understood to have given Fall a “prescription” for a trip to Bermuda may also be called to tell whether he did #o because Fall's health demanded {t or because Fall | requested It. Senator Walsh, Montana, who ts leading the effort to uncover hidden facts, including the source of $100,000 which Fall, in a letter to the com- mittee, sald he got to help buy a ranch In 1921, expects the full pub- lic lands committee to meet Monday be taken, American Killed in Mexico, Report WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Corla M, Underwood, believed to be an Amorican citizen, has been mur. dered near Panuco, in the Guilt Coast ol fields of Mextco, according to a dispatch to tho state depart: ment from American Consul James B, Stewart at Tampico. The receipt lof this report from the consul was made known at the state depart: mont today. The American embansy at Mexico City has been Instructed to investi- |gate the killing of Underwood, with |the purpose of determining those lresponsible. Details were not con tained in Stewart's dispatch to the department nor any further Infor- mation concerning Underwood him Iseif. The killing took place several days ago. |Perkins Has Plan to Boost Seattle Postmaster C. M. Perkins hes re- | quested Washington, D, C., authori | tles for permission to use the slogan, |"In the Pacific Northwest, the Charmed Land,” on the postal cancel lation machine in the Seattle office. If his petition is favorably considered, all letters from Seattle will carry this bit of advertising for this section. ‘Unloaded Torpedo Hits U. S. Warship CHERBOURG, Jan, —19.—The United States cruiser Colorado was struck today by an unloaded prac. tice torpedo launched by a French submarine, The damage was slight and the Colorado wax pble to sail, Today's Want Ad Columns | some attractive bargains in |] Usea ¢ Here is ofo the |] pears in tonight's ada, | | oa i |] rain «wipe, five tires, | uid sell for about $, ice for quick sale, $506 | |] Turn to the’ Want Ad columns and see who ts selling this Used to consider what further steps will | ‘bis wife had not been dritking. | “1 talked back to the motorcycle officer,” McKay said, “#o he took us to the ntation.”* | George” Smith, #7, was also chs-ged with drunken driving, Smith was arrested by the police traffic investigation squdd, acting upon a tip that he had collidea with another car at Sixth aye. and Union st. Tuesday, and had threat: | ened the driver with a knife. Smith dented the charge, and was held in| jail, when he falled to raise bail. | M. A. Overacker, 56, of 2435 2ist ave. 8. was charged with reckless driving, following a collision be- tween his and another car. He Posted $100 and was released. Louls | Adelstein, 2” also collided with an. | other machine at” Eighth ave. 8.; and Jackson st. He furnished $100) hall for reckless driving charges. L. B, Nilson, who was charged with reckless driving after his car | had injured Miss Alleen Kyllonen | ‘Thursday night, wan released by the | police from the charges, after in- vestigation had proven him inno- cent, they sald, Six cases of alleged drunken driv- ling were called in police court Fri- |day. Four of the defendants, Lou C. Allison, Fred Emch, N, Kenthen and Harry Spencer, were given con- tinuances, P. O. Peterson was dis- missed on a similar charge when it wns ascertained to be unfounded, jand one other man. Dave Ferruson, was ordered brought in on a bench warrant. The court also forfeited his bail of $100, . McGraw Arrested | on Crash Charges| M. T. McGraw, son pf ex-Governor | John Harte McGraw, who was ar-| rested last week on a charge of reck less driving after his machine had crashed into a police prowler car on the Des Moines road, was found guilty and fined $25 by Police Judge! John B, Gordon Friday. The caso had been under advisement. | Mrs, Gardner J. Gwinn, wife of the Seattle architect and builder, was also found guilty of passing a loading| street car a few weeks ago, and | fined $25. The case had been con-| tinued several times, H. D, Schiller} was found guilty of reckless driving | and injuring a small girl recently.! Schiller was fined $50 HELP SENT TO CLARK FAMILY Star Forwards Money Of- fered by Readers to Baby The Star Saturday sent $28.60 to Mr. and Mra. A. M, Clark of Yakima, the family that wanted to give away its unborn child because the mother said she could not support it with the two she already had, This amount was sent in by inter- ested Star readers, unsolicited, to be | forwarded to the family, which has | now decided that the shall be adopted into a Yakima home. The contributions: Brown, Co! M ee Argonaut Cafe Police Judge John B. Gordon f —Photo by Price & Carter, Star Btaff Photographers: A 7 : Judge Takes First Drastic Action in Star’s Campaign to Cut Down the Traffic Tragedy of Seattle Police Judge John B. Gordon ts the man who Saturday put the first real action into The Star's campaign to cut down the deaths and injuries In Seattle's traffic tragedy. Announcing that, henceforth, men who were convicted in his court of driving while drunk, would be sub- Jected to far more drastic sentences, | Judge Gordon also announced: 1—That police had been requested to book these men, in the future, under the state law, which in addi- tion to providing a heavy fine and 90 days in jail, gives the judge an op- portunity to revoke the driver's li. cense for a term of from 90 days to a year. That he will go before the state legislature at its next session and request a bill giving to his and other city courts the right to revoke driv. ers’ licenses, provided for now only in the state law. The stata law concerning forfelt- ure of licenses is mandatory, Judge Gordon’s announcement fs expected to have a marked effect in cutting down immediately’ the num- ber of drunken drivers arrested. This number has been increasing rapidly of Jate, and deaths and injuries un- der the wheels of their cars have increased as well. Fines and even jail terms for the drivers are easier to contemplate than the suspension for a year of a man’s right to drive a car, It is to Doctor Is Arrested for Diploma Fake SA FRANCISCO, Jan, 19.—Dr. William P. Buck, of San Francisco, was undér arrest here today, charged with selling for $200 diplon in the “vola-practice Institute” of Denver, Colo. The it institute, is alleged, has | been claged eight yeni Mrs, Hallie P, Young swore to the charge against Buck, allogipg she took his course ‘and received the dl- instill this fear of the consequences in the heads of those drivers of Seat. tle who run their cars while intoxi: cated that Judge Gordon sent along his request for bookings under the stato law. Up to the present the judge has been lenient with the motorists who — have been brought before him. Small fines, and often warnings and the dismissal of charges, together with the practice of allowing the motorist to forfeit his bail and not appear for’ trial in many of the cases, has ine creased disrespect for the law in Se+ attle, But the new method should com- mand respect. The state law pro- vides a $250 fine, 90 days in jail and says “that the judge shall require the defendant to surrender his oper= ator's license forthwith and shall sus- pend such license for not less than three months and not more than one year.” FIRE SWEEPS PAPER PLANT Loss of $13,000 Inflicted by Flames A spectacular fire starting from some mysterious cause swept the fourth floor of the Maritime bidg., 71 Madison st. Friday night, causing thousands ‘of dollars damage to the Standard Paper Box & Printing Co. The alarm was seut in at 8:30 p m. when the flames were seen shooting from windows on the north side of the building. Firemen arrived with- in a few minutes and fought the fire for hours before they finally succeed. od in controlling the blaze. Hundreds of people gathered on the streets to watch the fire, Dam: jage to the stock of the company will probably reach $10,000, while damage One of the evil influences of prohi | bition, he sald, was the large increase (Turn to Page 4, Column 5) Pay-day and Gosh, how we dread|men in Kan City ejarmy in the civil war now in the} ut robbers having obtained $44, house. i bank messenger holdup last week, | “After four years of prohibition, Car bargain. . Northam, 120 Fifth 8. on the building is estimated at $3,000, according to Batallion Chiet Q Hy Bbbinghouse. ry ploma supposedly licensing her to practice chiropractic, A. J, 8