The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 28, 1924, Page 1

pdile . - & => -1S FALL THE GOAT? COOLIDGE AND HARDING AWARE OF TEAPOT DOME GRAB! Temperatures Maximum, 50. Today folks! A woman never Howdy talks in his sleep eee Some girls don't think they are Properly dressed until they're not ee Secretary Denby says the United States ought to have 1,000,000 square miles of Arctic territory, What for? A skating rink? eee | i 1 Dancing is fine exercise. It | | ts often done with dumb-belles. oe eee Gee Gee also says that just be cause you are a raving beauty, don't rave, eee MY SWEETIE says she wants to meet The man in this world of ours Who sits up nights Thinking of names For Arrow collars and Pullmen cars. ee 4 William H. Vanderbilt, helr to $20,000,000, has taken a job as office boy. A boy as rich as he is can't be blamed for wanting to take things easy. oe CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB The girl who is just learning to shimmy. eee A fool and his honey are soon parted. eee Old Silas Grump, the sage of Pumpkin Hollow, sm: “Every plugged nickel ts familiar with the collection plate.” ee It is all the same to a gas meter whether it's alr or gas. It registers onu as easily as the other. eee YE DIARY (January 27) fo home to supper and then to bed. It known in this world before. And a man | did tell teday that the reason why we are | having less rain every year is because the forests are being logged off, which it it be true by passing strange. This day my wife did make me take her to the theater, so that she could shew off new fur coat. eee ‘We are sorry to announce that our entry for the Bok peace prize did not meet with the approval of the judges. Our plan, which would have effectually stopped all wars, was simple: Don’t fight. see ‘The reason the stork was selected as a synonym for the doctor was because the stork’ is the bird with the biggest bill. sees Oh, lucky men, Were those old Roman gladiators, Who lived before The day of frozen radiators. eae Now that Henry Ford has declined | to run for president perhaps he will | give some attention to those shim- | mying fenders on his cars. soe | NAVIGATION NOTE We haven't heard anything from the warships that were dis- | patched to Mexico, which leads us to think that there can’t be any rocks down that way. eee Congres tax on nex Goody! has agreed to repeal the beer. Goody! eee Woman tn Chicago fed her hus- d ground gi: Now she can work him ov memorial church window. — ford Heraid. ing. eee “Alkali Al” Fall, former secretary of the Interior, is sick, it is report- ed. If we were in his place, we'd feel sick, too. ee. some candidate "Bfunny promise to municipal ownership e+ As Kipling “The female of the species iy more deadly than the mile see al | if | DETOUR HERE | | | —-% A.J. 8. listens to ber husband until he | M is and strychnine. | into al doesn’t | e bootiegging under | © Last M Hours Minimum, 44. noon, 50, Batered as Be: Nickel for the | Is for Disinterested Commission to Investigate and Publish Facts HERE must be a ac showdown immediately on the Skagit Mystery. The Star believes this is the only kind of showdown that wil! suffice: 1 Hold up any and all additional appropriations for e Skagit work. Appoint a commission of disinterested engineers e and accountants, not bound in any way by political or other affiliations, to go thoroly thru the work done to date on the Skagit project. This commission to as- certain exactly how the $11,000,000 appropriated to date has been spent; to learn exactly how much: of the work has been completed; to give us facts and figures, to show exactly what part of the project remains to be completed and just how much its completion will cost. AND TO MAKE ALL THOSE FACTS PUBLIC BEFORE MORE MONEY IS GIVEN TO THOSE NOW IN CHARGE OF THE PROJECT. The Star has no political ax to grind in this. It cares nothing about what political chips may fly from hewing to this policy. Its belief in public ownership remains unshaken. Because it knows that public owner- ship IS Yeasible with conscientious effort, it wants to see the Skagit Mystery cleared up. ‘The Star believes that the Skagit record of itself gives it justification for demanding such a showdown. Here it is: 1918—Grant Smith & Co. offer, for $4,988,080, to build the Gorge unit on the Skagit, for 50,000 horsepower, with diverting dam, and with steel and concrete tra mission line poles and substations. This entire project to be completed within two years. This bid was turned down. 1919—A. R. Dimock, city engineer, made public the report of Henny & Uhden, engineers, who investigated the Skagit possibilities, and recommended that the city begin the work at once. Henney & Uhden estimated the Gorge plant, with steel transmission line poles and concrete diversion dam would cost $6,700,000. It would be completed, they figured, in the fall of 1922. 1921—J. D. Ross, superintendent of the city light department, in a letter to the city council, estimates that the Gorge (first) unit of the Skagit will not be in operation before January, 1924. 1922—After Carl F. Uhden had been employed by the city as engineer in charge of the Skagit, he made a new estimate, announced by City Engineer Dimock. This estimate was $9,644,500 and provided for a TIM- BER CRIB DAM instead of concrete and for WOODEN INSTEAD OF STEEL POLES for the transmission line. 1924—T wo bond issues totaling $11, 006,000 have been issued for Skagit construction. The project has been under way for six years. Officials in charge do not agree on when it will be comple ted. They do not agree on how much money it will nec ate to complete it. The Skagit mystery still mystifies the people who | pay the bills. ‘ | Let’s be done with this mystery. nd Class Matter May 2 ~ Skagit Now! « The Only Showdown That Will Suffice 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, SEATTLE, WASH., and Steamer | ish was called to assist in pu | work went forward. DRAKE NAMED ON COUNCIL fore Final Selection Made Following a which “many ballots” were reported taken, A. T. Drake, one-time city councilman, was Monday morning heated session, at Oliver T, Erickson on the city coun cll. The formal council ballot elect him was to be taken Monday ernoon, at the resumption of an a adjourned meeting. Drake, who served on tho city council two years ago, is at the Riv erton sanatorium, suffering from uberculosis, according to informa: n in the council chambe The number of ba aken could | not be ascertained, but it wag stated that no one ow appeared certain of | the month t Drake | finally got majority, Others me tioned as having been voted for ¥ Mrs. rnhart and Messrs. Lee, Campbell, Barron and Kinnear. MONDAY, “Many” Ballots Taken Be-| elected to fill the unexpired term of | The Waansuay With the Biggest Circulation in Washington The Seattle Star Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1 JANUARY 28; 1924, * R888 888 SE. ATT TWO CENTS IN SINCLAIR IS SENTENCED! “Alkali Ike” SHIP IN SERIOUS PLIGHT) Water Rushes Into Open Porthole on Emma Alexander || Barely Escapes Sinking in Harbor "Shifting ballast and an open porthole combined Monday to list the Emma Alexander, of the Admiral line, to a dangerous angle in her berth at Pier D. The city fireboat Duwam- mping the water out of the liner. Crowds gathered as the —Star Btatt Photo eee § a result of carelessness on the part of workmen employed on the Admiral steamship Emma Alex ander, a large crew was (esperately working Monday to right the ves- |sel and pump out the water which filled one of the hold compartments, Tho water entered thru a port hole which was left open by accldent, ac- cording to Admiral line officials, Ballast, which was being loaded aboard the ship at Pier D, shifted, the company said, causing the side of the vessel, where the port had |been left open, to sink far enough to allow water to enter the hold. By the time the accident was dis- |covered, the Emma Alexander had a heavy list to port The STATE SENATOR Attorneys Announce No Ap- peal Will Be Made State Senator Percy L. Sinclair, convicted January 12,in Lewis cou ty superior court, on a charge of making a false bank report to the state bank examiner in connection with the failure of the Squthwest- ern bank at Ilwaco, last September, wus Monday sentenced to a term of 18 months to three years in the state penitentiary by Judge W. A. | Reynolds. Sinclair's attorneys following the sentence, case will not be appealed, watertight — compartments were immediately closed and the pumps of the ship put to work, forcing out the water. A diver was to be sent down to close the open announced, that the and Sin. clair will leave within a short time |port shortly before noon, and of-lto serve his term, He wae pean Ee ials announced that the vessel/gent of the defunct banking institu. would be free of water and righted |tion. His son, Myron Sinclair, who jby mid-afternoon. was secretary and treasurer, ts al- The mishap caused widespread) ready at Walla Walla, serving a excitement along the waterfront|term of three to 15 years on a during the morning and|charge of misappropriating funds of watchmen were hard tolthe bank. keep back swarms of curious spec- tators who believed the vessel in danger of sinking. Sinclair's trial lasted a week and was fought bitterly every step of the way. GETS 3 YEARS :|officer of the senate and must have known that suspicion Holds Sack, Says V Writer President Knew, Cabinet Knew and Senate Knew All About Odorous | Deal Exploiting Vast U.S. Wealth | HIGHLIGHTS IN OIL PROBE President Coolidge armounces that he will appoint special counsel from both parties to investigate and prosecute civil and criminal wrong in Teapot Dome scandal. House naval committee inquiry into Secretary Denby's responsibility in connection with the leases is suddenly postponed. Walsh-Caraway resolution for immediate cancellation of leases in Wyoming and California comes before senate, Secretary Denby and Attorney General Daugherty take steps to remove them from the investigation. Senator Walsh, conducting the senate inquiry, charges that the late President Harding and his entire cabinet knew of plans to lease the naval oil reserves. BY W. B. COLVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Behind the scenes the stage is being set to make Albert Fall the scapegoat for the “mo poe in government and more government in business? 1asco. We are told now that Fall alone put thru the naval oil — | reserve leases and that the rest of the cabinet knew noth- jing about them, except Secretary Denby and his assistant, | Mr. Roosevelt, who, presumably, will be said to have been | deceived. Aside from this, we are being told, the present cabinet and the present president knew nothing of the naval oil leases. This does not seem to agree with the public record. To begin with, on April 25, 1922, before the Teapot Doma lease had been made public, Senator La Follette introduced the resolution under which the present investigation is being made. While La Follette was addressing the senate on his resolution, the leases were given out. ,The old guard then controlled the public lands committee and it was nine long months before they even sent experts to examine the ground. That was in January, 1923. WHOLE SUBJECT BEFORE |SENATE AND COMMITTEES : Meantime, under another resolution, a sub-committee, headed by Senator La Follette, was examining into the cost of gasoline and the whole subject of oil and oil leases was constantly before the senate and its committees. During this time President Coolidge was the presiding — jhad been directed against these naval oil leases before the | fact of the making of those leases had been made publiq, Before the leases were made the question of transferring the naval oil resources from the navy department to the ~ interior department was the subject of cabinet discussions _ and the purpose pf the transfer—the only purpose—was that they might be leased. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, a former stockholder in ~ Sinclair’s company, his brother being a vice-president of one of the Sinclair companies, was the man who presented to President Harding for his signature the executive order transferring the naval oil reserves. So that all the present cabinet, except New, knew what was going on in the executive department and New and President Coolidge knew what was going on in the senate. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT Interior departments were in on the KNEW ABOUT IT drawing of the leases and it is in The department of justice knew conceivable that the executive order about it because assistant attorney | Of transfer was not submitted to the generals assigned to the navy and| attorney general himself for his opins rtleles teiling the wide of the fight the big tent. All the people at that of the women faint. You see at- tendants rushing | foward the dis. Hinton D. lof the American paper believes its readers want Lap fis Shel tant ring. You ‘n big inate can't make out ential enmp what {t's all] in an intere about until you| te! lone Tet see the crowd tant subject, telling se n what the ‘Legion men want, why around the ring they want It, and how they got into scatter. You see the fight. Start the series wary: the strong man Mh a of the — etreus| break about him. In a fidsh you see the body of | BY DK, HINTON D. JONEZ | State Commander of the American 1Y°%. Legion | are sitting not any too com on the long slats that man fiying serve as seats at the circus, It is a thru the air, to | fine show—nomething going on every |fall, limp and still, against one of the lminute in every one of the threa|tent poles, You see a woman near lrings. You are enjoying it becaure|by knocked down with a blow of the you are a spectator; you paid your| giant's fist. You see a little child | way in and you came in expecting to rying from the seats and that | be amused. ickly caught up and mutilat Suddenly there is a commotion in| ed by the great hulk of a mad map end stand up; children scream; some | thru those | tion, It dawns upon you that the strong | man of the circus has unaccountably }run amuck; he's stark crazy and he's knocking {nr bystanders | aside with heavy blows whenever one chance to get in his path, Someone should stop him; he's killing human beings. What can you do? What can anyone do? Why can't the attendants stop him? Where are the police? Can't they do anything? | CIRCUS STRONG MAN LIKE STRON TION All the world is a circus. Pages of its strong men—those who per-| participate in stopping the crazed | fighting men could bo ready, to do | vided he U. S. government with} the Teapot Dome scandal today, formed great feats of strength and| strong of Europe. hes share, They did all they were | all iin te necessities and ali the) when Senator Walsh, Montana, valor, and those who ran amuck:| The selective service law was the | called upon to do. |Spending money they were likely to) rend to the senate two letters | Caesar, on, Kalser Wilhelm—| nation’s solution. Let us say that! Ne, it was not a piente. Many |need immediately, But those who} which disclosed: When the strong men of the world/all American spectators of the trou-|were killed; many were maimed, | Stayed at home hgd for the greater That President Harding had © circus run amuck, the police alone| pie in the European ring were willing | many contracted diseases that cost|Part helped in git industrial way at! complete knowledee of the plans q can't always do tho stopping, It/to help; yet the government was to | them their lives after the strong man | Civilian trades they had been paid] of Secretary of the Interior Fall 4 sometimes means that the spectators have to come down out of their seats and help. | The memory of it all is too fresh of history are filled with the deeds} Jonez Gives Veterans’ Side of Compensatio Starting today, The Star will pub- one of the rings at the far end ot | Who is steadily coming in your direc-} in our own minds to require any rough—he may hurt somebody. It recital here of what happened when|warn’t going to be © a picnic Burope's latest strong man ran| for tiicse who would have to face the amuck. It took very nearly all the| st-cng man. [spectators to stop him. Everyone! a imerica drew Inco service of prep: had to help in some way or anoth.| | eg NA “/aration for fighting service some- er, whether he wanted to or not;/thing like 4,500,000 of its best men, | whether he liked It or not. ita atiocedt. mah cok: the eninge But it wasn’t everyone who got) years of maturity, Of these, more right up in frént of him and struck|than 2,000,000 were placed within at him, Only some of the spectators] striking distance of the strong man had to do that. Others stood back)and about 800,000 came to actual and passed up weapons to be used! blows with him, That all of them against him. Still others merely|were not sooner or later exposed to looked on. his violence in the process of subdu- ‘This situation confronted the Unit-|ing him was due to headwork of the ed States in 1917—the problem of|leadere. The others were ready as picking those who should actively) {far os untrained or partly trained |determine who shoula help in some | had been subdued because of the con- less hazardous way. Only the physic- | ditions uhder which they had to fight jully fit should enter the fight, be-|or work. | cause the strong maa may get pretty! The men—the boys who had been n Battle! Not only that, but the Doheny em lease in California was granted bee amy cause it was said that the Standard taken from thetr homes, from thelr schcols, from their trades, from their professions to do the fixhting—those (Turn to Last Page, Column 2) who were left of them—c:me homes. The spectators who ad stayed in their seats were gratecul; they weve F D | enthusiastic; they were proud of “their boys.” There wasn't anything Walsh Charges Late Presi- dent Aware of Leases too goed for them, The excitement nad been more than they had bar- gained for, but they had seen the strong man put out cf the way; the show could go on without fear of him. The women and children were | safe. There need be no more morry. The boys had been paid a nominal wage while in service, They were away from home under training. pro- BY PAUL R, MALLON (United Press Staff Correspaneaaa GTON, Jan. 28.—The |more than standard wages for skilled civilian work, many of ordinary in- comes had suddenly become well-to- | urn to Last Paxe, Column 4) to lease naval oil reserves to pti- vate oil interests, and that this policy had his indorsement and ‘ (Turn to Last Page, Cohwmn 3) yy