The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 31, 1924, Page 1

i | ! Maximum, 59. Today _ WEATHER Temperatures Last Batered as Becond Class Matter M NO. 289. Howdy, folks! Isn't it about time for somebody to take & FALL out of the republican party? sae Exsecretary Fall says that he did not recetve one cent from E. H. Doheny or H. F. Sinclair. No, it took a roll to talk to Alkali AL Pe Lil Gee Gee thinks this Teapot Dome ol} leave b with renting a § Wyoming. 4 something to do ine station in Shakespeare was the first writer to draw attention to the former sec retary of the interior. He wrote: “Oh, what a Fall was there, my countrymen!" . The Teapot Dome lease is the greatest political scandal since the tariff recently caused a lamentable shortage of—aw, shucks,.we prom- ised never to mention that song again. oe 8 CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB The youthful tonsorialist who waits until after the shave to inform you that he is a fresh- man at barber college. eee Selentist says that the alphabet should be enlarged. Sure, there aren't nearly enough letters in exist ence to name all the radio stations. “ee “The greatest thing in life,” Insists Old Yukon Jake, “Is @ plate of fried potatoes And @ nice thick julcy steak.” oe. The Star Is printing the picture of a beautiful Seattle giri every day. Li'l Gee Gee says that if her photo- graph does not appear in this series the editor’s wife is due to hear some | Very interesting gossip. rere ‘These modern lit'rary fellers are all right, but they can’t write inter- esting stuff like they used to print in McGuffey's Third Reader. THE PRETZEL TWIST “Most of the classieal dances,” says Old Silas Grump, the sage of Pumpkin Hollow, “remind me of trying to get inte a union suit in an upper berth.” eee You never hear the Seattle Gas company profesting about people who commit sui¢ide by- gas. - Perhaps the heirs pay for the extra-heavy meter reading. aye Comes the thought to one recurring In this here age-old dispute, If @ piccolo ts music Put down garlic as a fruit. —Detrott News. Comes another thought a-thinking Every bit as negligible; If @ sazophone is music Ice cream is a vegetable. Captain MacMillan, the famous Arctic explorer, reports that mem bers of his crew have a tendency to sleep ail the time | rnor Hart ship aboard AnY » came an invitation 10th reanion of my college believe it was so long a time since I drank beer at Shoomaker’s and ate cracked erab at Harvey's, but my wife did point out how gray my hair fs tarning and hew bald and fat 1 am ecume, and 1 did her she was get ting » little heavy would soon be we: nd high wi between us, and ¢ office, swearing and cursing | _ oe | From a diligent perusal of the ers Ot deduces the fact President Coolidge is about to g the big stick down on the Tea- t Dome. eee Pp fie oc ities can boast about mild winters if they want to, there is something to be said ut a countr © you ean dr undma’a in the cutter, ped up in a big buffalo robe, “Electrical De n Convention Here Headline in The Star. Bet t . dixew « current events eee Quick, Hortense, let's get out of here before somebody shoota ust ‘ A. J. 8. | | Phil Tindall will be the councilman who will take over former Councilman Oliver T. Erickson’s work as head of the public utilities committee, Tindall was nominated Thurs-| day by Councilman A, Lou Cohen. “Thar stalt Photogrepuers ra | | DENIES STORY TINDALL GETS "OF HYPNOTISM UTILITY POST Boos Says He Admitted Named to Succeed Erickson | Crime to Save His Life as Chairman SABL RN BROWN HAIRMAN IP of the public committee, | BY s ties considered Der that he made confession on | 11,4 most important committe chatr: | June 22, in the presence of several! manship in the city council, whic h| persons at the county jail, to the| was formerly held <8 | effect that he was hypnotized by A.| Erickson, went to Philip Tindall, | M. Bailey, mow on trial for the mur. | Thuresd: | der of Joseph C, Smith, into confess-| Councilman A. Lou Cohen, rank: | | in be killed Smith in order to|ing member on the utilities com- | protect Bniley, featured a gruelling) mittee since the resignation of | session op the tness stand Thurs Erickson, nominated Tindall for the Jay morn of Adolph Boos, star| position, at Thursday's mee witness for,the state. the committee. Tindall w Defense Attorney A. D. Martin Sato.Ohe position without opposit mf a stateme nt to the effect that Boos | come up for confirmation. No op declared he had confessed to killing eked is Pace in ine cour “8 Smith in self defense because of a| Cohen + that d f pest influence exervised over favor a deg! _ Hie Saalien, 1 nd will effort at the con necessarily campaigning: Beblat Defends the A GOOD HOME OFFER |] Let a Star Want Ad find you the king of « home 9" “usa|, Direct Primary Law ‘ can ve found, Here is|| Adam Beoler, attorney and mem - et ber of the last 1 lature, m . n ttack on e opponents of the direct primary law in a speech delivered Thursday noon before the Young Men‘s epublican club. direct primary is here | Jeents yt will not stand for any per or asonable cash per’ || oarty to tinker with it or try to kill it.” F hth He answered critics of the on previous occasions. ay 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, INDALL TO ACT! More Cash One of the first official acts of Coupneilman Phil Tindall as the new chairman of the council public utilities committee will be ®& move for a show-down on the Skagit hydro-electric power plant, and the methods em: ployed in its construction by Project Engineer Carl F. Uhden, Tindal! announced Thursday, up: on learning that he was to be made hairman of the utilities committee to succeed Oliver T. ickson, that ne would endeavor lock Uhden's > di request that the balance of the $11,-| 000,000 power bond tasues be appro- priated to finish the job. “This job has dragged on and on, and has cost millions more than was first contemplated, and stil! we are unable to find out how the money has been spent or when the job will be finished,” sald Tindall Thuraday “Some weeks ago I wrote Mr, Blackwell, city engt if he could give me some informa- tion about the Skagit, when it would be finished. how the balance of the money sought.waa to be uned, etc. He referred mo to Mr. Uhden “I then made the same request of Mr. Uhden. I wrote him a courte. ous letter, requesting that the thing we have all been in doubt about be cleared up. He paid absolutely no (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) Robbed of Quarter Million in Jewels CHICAGO, Jan. 31 Luis Radt salesman for the Albert Lolach Jew. elry house of New York. reported to | Police today that he had been robbed | of diamonds valued at between $210,.| ofter 060 and $260,000. Radt said that as he stepped from 4 St. Louis train today three bandits forced him to enter their automobile. Several blocks from the station they emptied his vallse of diamonds and threw him from the machine. eer, anking him | The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington | The Seattle Star $Y Wash., ORDERS BAN OF BY PAUL R. MALIAN | od Prean Stat? Correspondent) | N, Jan, 31—The | senate this afternoon adopted the | | Walsh resolution directing Pres- dent Coolidge to begin court ac- tlon thru special counsel to can- cel the leases of naval oil re- serves and to prosecute such other action, elvil or criminal, a& | may be warranted. After disposing of the Walsh | resolution the senate immediate- | ly proceeded to consider the Robinson resolution calling for the resignation of Secretary of the Navy Denby. Senator Howell, Nebraska, tered into, The senate defeated the How- el! amendment without a record vote. Howell was the only member who voted for it. ‘These are the Harry F, Sinclair and E. L. Do, Interior Albert B. the resolution charged cuted under circumstances cating fraud and corruption.” Action on the resolut two days of heated jwhich democratic senators their fire on Se Penby, seeking adoption of a reso- lution calling for his resignation. were “exe The vote was reached today only} : a 1 houbes” and “rural. Goniitunt nn great pressure had been | Interior Office a voted to retain land offices at) King county. |brought to bear to get the demo-| mee. Lamar and Stirling, Colo.; Lewiston,| One of the jurors, Julia By crata to delay their demand for a| Gets 262 Million) taano; Topexa, Kan; Great Falis|snethern, walked with the other voto on Denby until the ele} WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. — The|®"4 Kalispell, Mont.; Elko, Nev.:!jurors to Judge Smith's courtroom resolution could be put thru. Senators Robinson and Trammell | partment appropriation bill, carrying | “ima, notice that they would re Column 4) served (Turn to Page under the Act of Congress March 3, 1679, LEASES Demands Sho w- Coolidge Asked by down of Uhden| Senate toStart Before Voting| Prosecution and Cancel Contracts) had |introduced a last minute amendment which “would authorize seizure of }the mayat~ ofl reserves immediately.) jand require the lessees to return |to the government any oil extracted therefrom since the leases were én- leases granted to heny, thru former Secretary of the Fall and which indi- mn followed during centered cretary of the Navy| at the studio. The Star has asked Seattle studios to pick Per Year, by Mail, $3.60 “Beauty Flashes” Seattle’s Loveliness Is Told With|| Pictures Yl Yio De rus! Jury Scores Prac- — tice of Secret | Probes; One Member Rebels By John W. Nelson Following 11 weeks of in- vestigation, largely char- Y | acterized by dissensions and | quarrels between its mem= ; | bers, the King county grand | f | | | jury returned 30 secret in- | dictments and was recessed by Judge E. E, Smith subject | to future call at noon Thurs= day. Its report follows: An attack upon the prose- Es cuting attorney, Malcolm Doug- las, for using public fands for secret investigation. A recommendation that county and city governments be con- solidated and one set of of ficials serve for each of the = | city-county departments. Rae be An attack upon an alleged ex- Fi Be cess Of personnel in the various _ offices. * Repudiation of widespread — charges of police graft in one sentence, which says, “While there was a considerable rumor of police gratting, no tangible evidence thereof was produced.” A recommendation for closer co-operation between the prose- cuting attorney’s office, the sheriff's office, the police de- partment and the mayor's of- | | | fice. | ; “hn attack upon the evidence | Mrs. R. J. Weberg, 3 Florentia place, is picked by the| produced in the liquor and gambling investigation on the ground that it failed to reveal the “higherups.” The report made no reference to charges of lawlessness in the Toad: | Lothrop studio as the prettiest woman ever photographed Tet prettiest subjects, and one from each studio will be | used. ton, M., and ‘Vancouver and door and refused to go in. ce “I will not be a party to the ‘The postoffice and treasury appro-| return of such a report,” she passed the! priation bill was then taken up. (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) house today passed the interior de-| © |@ total of $262,000,000. Just before the bill six BUCKS: i} ‘Oe Mowe Less yore) Poe ERICKSON (3 oo 4 MY CHELD 1S DEAD Om WRT IN Sn . Gz ie ‘CAmPneN Gas CrGaRs | ys The Bill Changes: OUT GOES THE GRAND JURY; IN COME THE CANDIDATES By Groff | Down WITH DoUGLAs LUNDIN AND ERICKSON! an GRRE