The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 25, 1924, Page 1

? Yep, I i You ; Are Living Straw Hats in Seattle! J. A. Wilson George W. Cattanach P. Kolstad LD MAN WINTER is having a hard | sleeves, it only remained for a group of time to retain his standing in Seattle | Seattle business men Friday to don the this January. With robins digging worms | first straw hats of the season to make the in Seattle backyards, pussy willows in | approach of spring seem a reality. The bloom and folks going about in shirt- ! straw hat brigade attracted no little atten- W, C. Hobrock James R, Boldt Henry McConaughy Frank Jacobs W. D. Cady the Seattle map this year. And if the park morning rush hours. Unless Old Man | board will ope bed Pecado the band Bea eee Se aes » nacictanca ha je | concerts and the lawn sprinklers, we’ll for- Winter allies a lot of assistance he is | get there ever was such a place as Palm going to find himself backed entirely off | Beach. —Photos by Price & Cartes Star Staff Phote tion on Second avenue during the early W dy, EATHER ably rain Entered as Bevo VOL. 25. NO. 284. aa ¢ <> jase Matter May 2, SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1924 Home | @ Howdy, folks! by many sardines. oe. Science may soon be able to de velop human giants, according to Dr. R. C. Hoskins, famous gland special- ist. But who wants to be a human giant? Coupes aren't large enough) as it is, | cee | ‘We don't care what Congress does if it would only pass a law compel-| ling the Pullman company to make} their sheets longer. see SALUTATIONS This is the anniversary of the birthday of Robert Burns and the correct salutation is “Hoot, mon!” On the other 364 days of the year the salutation of a lot of people fs “Hooch, man?” Another reaton why Health Com-| missioner H. M. Read doésn't want | his internes to examine drunk pris-| oners Is because they go tempora- rily tmsane from listening to “The/| Shooting of Dan McGraw,” and “Gun. | ga Din.” | eee | Fish, caught unlawfully in the wa-| ters of Puget S\und, are now being booitegged in Suttle, But don't buy | any. They may be synthetic. | cee | Fiah that were being sold by one bootleggér were easily detected be- cause they were smelt, Ci al RADIO PROGRAM i R. 8. V. P—“Answer Me” | (Selo.) | Cc, 0. D—“The Woman Pays.” | F. 0. B—“My Sweetie Went | | —"Carolina in the Morn- Ing. B. V. D.—"Spring Song.” eee Dr. Emile Coue is back in this country, and will be surprised to learn that his famous formula, “Yes, We Have No Bananas,” is already | forgotten by the great mass of the| people. | soe Old Silas Grump, the sage of} Pumpkin Hollow, says that using the} dial telephone has so strengthened) his forefinger that his bowling has improved 100 per cent. see | SIGN ON A FORD BUG: | (eo * CAPACITY \| One papa, two mamas I] ) pai nectitoseaeie sreermat + Se Paris dispatch says French boxing federation has ordered discontinuance of the practice of fighters exchang- ing kisses after a bout. ‘This {tem should be of interest to all married couples. see MY SWEETIE says that peg-top pants Are coming into vogue again, 60 a quart on cach hip unseen to the eve Is the bootlegger’s fashion fi men. —H. | see A movie magnate declares the day of the million-dollar film $s over. Not while the -pressagents are alive! see TODAY'S DEFINITION Nail—A small, slender piece of | at while ham- | a = 5 i = ski is coming to Seattle then we can find out if lowed the prevailing styles and had it bobbed. see ine police aro absolutely right In automobiles show a light at If an auto isn't lighted up, nm you tell whether or not it nate to hit it? to Page 10, Column 3) “JAIL BROKER DRUNKEN DRIVER Three Sentenced for Traffic and The Star ET’S get this straight! In any investigation of the Skagit power project at this time there are bound to be smoke screens thrown out. i The city administration will cry “Politics.” The mouthpieces of the private power interests will shout: “Another failure for muny ownership.” Here are the facts: The Star doesn’t give a rap about the political re- sults of an investigation in the Skagit. It hasn’t even thought about it. Political horseplay is so relatively un- important compared’ with the great good that an air- ing of the Skagit would be for the taxpayers that it can well be relegated to the discard. The Star is just as firm a believer in municipal ownership as it was before work on the Skagit project was started. Because of that, it wants to see the pres- ent mess cleared up. With conscientious effort the Skagit municipal power plant will be a boon to Seattle. Now it is a millstone, The delay, expense and apparent inefficiency that has been displayed in the Skagit to date give private utilities the best ammunition they could want in their campaign against municipal ownership. As originally planned, the Skagit plant was to cost $4,839,000, and the specifications provided for a con- crete dam and steel transmission poles for the line to Seattle. To date bonds have been issued for $11,000,000 and the specifications now provide for a rock-filled log dam and for wooden poles to carry the power transmission line. Before even this inferior plant can be finished, those in charge say they must have more money. j In 1918, when work started, Seattle was promised Skagit power in 1920. It is now 1924, and the power is not yet. - j Before any additional public money is poured into the Skagit, The Star insists that those in charge make a complete report, showing exactly what has been accom- plished with the $11,000,000 spent to date showing the exact reason for the four years of delay and the in- crease of millions in the cost. Is insists that those in charge lay their cards on the table and tell Seattle exactly where the Skagit project stands today—how much money it will take to com- plete it, and how long it will take. There is something radically wrong. Seattle wants to ‘mow what it is. RUSSELL, superintend- GEORGE | ter department 2 AS Violations Mother-in-Law; To Pay WOMAN FACING DEATH PENALTY Convicted of Slaying Her | | Bank Three drivers were sent to jail vy Police Judge John B. Gordon Thurs- day afternoon, Another mar, prominent Seattle broker, was held in jail for driving while drunk, and four people were injured in an auto smash, k. Pione Glasscock, 34, head of the 3rokerage Co. 218 Peoples’ bujlding, wan» arrested by ‘Traffic Officer J. B. Smith at Fifth Glasscock was according to when he ock was e, and Pine st. y intoxicated, h, and was put in failed to post ball. G still held Friday morning. C. Hayes was convicted of driving while drunk Tivursday, and was sent to jail for 60 days and fined $200. John Manti was also convicted of drunken driving, and was given 30 days in jail and fined $100. R, Foun tain pleaded guilty to speeding 35 miles an hour, and was fined $30. “| der Jan, 25.—Mra y was sentenced to be executed March 14 for the mur- of her motherin-law. Sen- tence was pronounced ‘by Judge G. H. Howard, after a jury in superior court had found the young woman gullty of murder in the first de- gree. ATLANTA, Ida Hughes tod 10 days in Jail. A collision between two autos, Thursday evening, at N, 87th st. and Woodlawn ave,, resulted in injuries to Edwin hiberg, 18, 4509 11th ave; Wallace E. Bretz, 14, and a man and woman who refused to give thelr names. Dahlberg was driving 1 small roadster when it struck a car driven by T. R. Widger, of Tone. Roth cars were wrecked in the ditch. The woman and Widger refused to go to the hospital and departed, altho both seemed to be injured. Bretz and Dahlberg were taken to the hos- Fountain couldn't pay, and was given pital, severely hurt. | | J. D. ROSS, superintendent city light department | These are the present me public works, in whose hands | rests. The Skagit Project Is in These Men’s Hands ROBERT PROCTOR, superintendent of buildings W. D, BARKH of streets ', superintendent HE photo of J. D. Blackwell, gineer, and board mem- ber, belongs here. “'d rather Blackwell told’ a Star photographer Friday. mbers of the city’s board of the Skagit power project now Jap Prince Seeks | ‘oKYo, Jan. 25.—Prince Tokusa- lwa, ono of the foremost. figures in lthe Japanese nobility, today pledged |himself to work for retirement of \the peers from politics, He declared he would neck to persuade the min- jutry of Premier Klyoura, attacked because of the number of peers in- cluded in it, to resign, Many members of the peerage have Joined in disapproval of polict- cal activities of the nobility. Removal of Peers | Truck Driver Runs Over His Own Boy VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan, 25. When William Pratt, truck driver, used to take his S-year-old boy for a arive around the block’ before he returned to. work, Yesterday after. noon the lad wag missing and the father started up his truck as he looked up the street for him, Pratt had gone only 20 feet. when he heard a cry and felt a bump, He had run over his own boy and killed him, city en- | not,” || dropped in at home for tunch, he | The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington The Seattle Star 189%, at the Postofticn at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1819, Per Year, by Mall, $3.60 doubt it. ok NEW FALL CHARGE BRIBERY | Mr. Doheny is a wealthy | man, which proves conclus- | ively that he has not been | making $100,000 loans to per- | sonal friends without secur- ity unless the personal friends happened to be in a position | which would make such a TW HOM ait HEDITION 1 /0 CENTS IN SEATTLE. Doheny. If Fall heney’s eral thi straight to keep Member Fall Bribery SKAGIT COSTS SOARING BY JOHN NELSON | Additional appropriations, var- | fously estimated at from $300,000 j-¢ 000,000, will be asked by | the board of public works and Skagit. Engineer Carl F, Uhden from the city council before the | Skagit power project—Gorge unit | —can be completed. Engineer Uhden estimates the ad | ditional appropriations at 10 per cent | Of the estimated cost, which was $11,- 000,000. City Engineer J. D. |8tted positively Thursday that the Blackwell | What Fall Is Facing ASHINGTON, Jan. — 25.— Here's the statement’ Albert B. Fall will be called on Monday to explain to the senate commit- tee investigating Teapot Dome. It is taken from testimony Fall gave before the committee De- cember 22: “It should be needless for me to say that in the purchase of the Harris ranch or in any other purchase or expenditures I have never approached E. L. Doheny or anyone connected with him or any of his corporations, or Mr. H. F. Sinclair or anyone connected with him or any of his corporations, nor have I ever received from either of said Parties one cent on account of any oil lease or upon any other account whatsoever.” Portland Jeweler Faces Grand Jury PORTLAND, Ore. Jan, 25,—Fred- erick L. Miller, Portland jeweler, | outside work on the Skagit, including | was last night held for a grand jury |the plant and transmission lines to the city limits, can be completed for the $11,000,000. Engineer Uhden’s original estimate for this work was $9,700,000. Blackwell estimates the expendl- tures for the balance of the plant at $300,000, ALL STATEMENTS, CONTRADICTORY Uhden failed to estimate the cost of the Skagit outside the city, but | said all work can be completed with an additional appropriation of 10 per cent of the estimates. ‘This would | Place inside construction costs at $1,- 100,000, ‘These statements, contradictory as they are, are the best Information that can be obtained on the muddled con- dition of the Skagit project. While Supt. J, D. Roas of the city Nght department, in an address be- (Turn to Page 10, Column 1) investigation by a. coroner's «jury, who investigated the death of Mrs. Alma Hall, killed by Miller's car. German Leader Is Reported Killed LONDON, Jan. 25.—Herr Schlicht, noted separatist leade assas- inated today at Adeniu, in the Rhineland. according a Crateal News Berlin dispatch. Fifteen Slain in Explosion of Tank LEIPZIG, Jan, 25.—Fifteen pers sons were killed and several mor- tally wounded today by ‘the oxplo sion of an air tank at the Leuna works, loan good business for Mr. We dare say that Mr. Do- He undoubtedly knows the value of.a checking account and of ledger sheets in order expenditures. Yet this loan to Cabinet the Doheny check book. The money was delivered to Mr, in Is an Ugly Word Oil Magnate Doheny says he lent that $100,000 to Sec- retary Fall because Fall is his personal friend. had not been secretary of the interior, having to do with government oil leases, would Doheny have lent him $100,- | 000 or his personal note? We business, as a gen- ng, is conducted on business principles. tab on receipts and Fall didn’t go thru _ currency. Why? is an ugly word. ANOTHER: LOAN IS WASHINGTON, Jan. 25,— In further ‘amazing dis- | closures of former Secretary of the Interior Fall’s dealing, J. W. Zevely, counsel to Har- ry F. Sinclair, told today the senate committee investigat- ing Teapot Dome that Sin- clair, advanced Fall $25,000 in June, 1923, Zevely said Fall had been hired by Sinclair to go to Russia for him and neéded the money before he went. 3 Sinclair ordered $25,000 in bonds ~ cashed and had the money sent to Fall, Zevely said, Fall, Zevely said, that he must go to Washington and consult “the administration” about entering Sinclair's employ. Fall conferred with Sinclair in New York and Sinclair offered him a position and suggested he go to Russia to investigate oll possibilities there, Zevely sald Fall told about need- ing_money to “clean up a few things" before he left. Sinclair, Zevely said, told Fall he would let him have whatever he needed and so instructed someone in the office to cash the Liberty bonds and advance the money to Fall. From his sick bed Fall today sent word that. a supposed. “interview” (Turn to Page 10, Column @ BARED! told Sinclair |