The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 1, 1924, Page 1

rr anor | AS Views of the ‘amous rade Held S SEATTLE SAW WILSON - “War R resident” During the Mammoth P: His Honor in 1919 President Wilson is shown here as he appeared when he was a visitor to Seattle in| 1919. He is riding in the parade, held in his honor, with Governor Louis F. Hart and Mrs. Wilson. The inset shows another picture of the ex-president greeting the crowds. —Photos by Cress-Dale Studio Howdy, folks! Did'ya read the YE DIARY UP SKAGIT CASH Grand Jury’s report? Yep, we got a big laugh out of it, too, The grand fey eet 30 “true Dills,” not including the one that the public will get. see There te no Yyith in the rumor that Mayor Broxén broke down and wept Dditterly when he read the grand jury's report. eee Now that the grand jury Is no longer in session, the boys can go down in the basement and bring up the slot machines—or do they have to wait until after tlectione? vee ‘The grand jury:. A mountain that adored and brought forth a mouse. eee SOUNDS LIKE DOC BROWN'S BULL “While there Was a fable rumor of po- lice grafting, no tangible evidence duced.” — King county grand jury. f 7 E. H. Doheny loaned “Alkali Al” Fali $100,000 with which to buy stock for his ranch. Arent there any farmers across Lake Washington who would like to borrow this @mount to improve thelr ranches? cee Roel e Y., has put lodine tn the city water supply to prevent goiter. But it is unlikely that this expedient will ever be adopted in/ Seattle. The iodine nullifies the ac- tion of yeast germs and prevents the manufacture of home brew. work done on the eine! in Decem.| attorney, where Fall ts confined to| state gtarwich expected to hav Seah Ghat cea a | ness tn the. See Se. Se Open bed. |of the 38 men indicted by the King| a. Sees ¥ SONG THEY G AT THE | Corporation Counsel T. J. L. Ken-| 4 gubpoenn was tasued imme-|county grand jury in euntedy be ote for $100,000. CABINET MEETING | nedy that to do so would preclude] qistely by Chairman Lenroot de-|nightfall” Attornens for nccornl ad 30, 1921, Fel “Hail, Hail, the Oil Gang’s he council's chance of collecting ®) manding Fall's appearance tomor-| ditional indicted men were arrang I. fe os shee beat T Prontlse Here.” sets delay penalty from the ©on-} row at 19 a. m. |ing to post bail for their clfnts Fri-|°°, Pay EB. L. Doheny, value re- wu ce | tractors | ate | celved, with Interest. viene | “HIGHLY NERVOUS” day morning, while deputy sheriffs, (Unsigned) Fant wo on somisemen ONLY TROUBLE meee With’ the $8 ireraaining «Wat | sain mia he tore the note some} 000 from two oil compantes. | |the office of prime minister, Ram-| "7" siclana told the commit-|Fants were scouring the city for the noid Dt lam H. Anderson, superio-/ rants Recognition to Soviet |sax | Macbonala "had consiatentty |. .0"t, “executive. session that Fall| balance rei fines Anposgehinenia eras tendent of the New York Antt-Saloon stood for real recognition by Great} in. nigtiy nervous stato| The 1th man arrested by Star- heme eigh gig tt hatitetea Ducane penne cree ertene Sree eee Government Britain of the present regime in| "mt 1m A MRD svidonce of any|Wich’s men was Stanley McCluskey, |Nélp Mr. Fall if the note was found, ter stranger”? | x |Moscow. Action had been post. Put there was | |indicted as a bootleg Hie Wl rine gabihar “Aiterney” Gendeal ss LONDON, Feb. t.—Great Britain} poned for a time, hor + Aue to | OF avyelclans’ statement follows: /Cbarsed with having sold one of the Shae ing Ee is ae ~ a The war Gepartment has issued a| b si ear [ieee biisheg | ‘The physicians’ statemen secret Investigators of the provecut. |GTC8ory, one of the special counsel today recognized the soviet govern-|the wi “Mr. Fall shows the effect of se. |selected by President Coolidg ew and snappy uniform to buck labor government here not to appear} "> ing attorney liquor on December 31. | ie privates, Can't let the elevator boys | ment of Russia. * hha be [vere nervous strain but his general wan released on $2,500 bail, post. |CUFe canéellation of the leases. 7 e Dona abl met to-| hasty. ; eu ebm lea 5 wil, post. | Cure se and bell hops run away with all the| | The Maebonald citar ‘The foreign office communique | 4Ppearan: y good. He 18/04 py Attorney Jack Gallagher. OPERATOR DE day, and after its conference, recog- hy ‘orelg: omewhat looking and his y > LOAN LA Bley. | * ced in|said that the Moscow government m While Prosecutor Malcolin Doug-|LOAN TO LA "4 eee [nition of Russia was announc Pe thet’ de’ ave 146 are flabby, The radials are|iay deciaren the vice and graft cloan:| tenroot asked if Dot na §——_______________1/a foreign office communique. hind been notified that de jure rec the puise.02 to the minute and|up ctmpeign hae only: fest started, | ,24mmee, jake ; era ‘ VAMP, SEZ: i olie and 90 diastol! |who directed the and jury's work, |e had not ~§ Kissing a pretty girl thra a | | “The h {s normai as to siz0)} was proudly pointing to the 106 in-| .. ees 3 a os © bese dl 7 it Jand The lungs are ap-|dictments against gamblers, bootler: | 7, 94 tk Gays sala ab sso | ander » shower ~mAES aat Ss re parently normal. abdomen is!gers and jointists that were re. |) [08° Gregory an ped etre Ey. tg tagiliecs | Caeritl 3 tive sears permits,” Doheny said. —e ppestive. except for ende urned b: e jury. ohe: oO \< t ~” i ji “| in the gail bladder region. “The jury certainty cannot be iP heny also said he had employ RD eee eatain om icectinct Nn ome“ “Wo are told by attending physt-| Fegarded as a failure when It in- |¢4 former Secretary of the ‘Trea filling station operator put laughing | le that there is no evidence of| dicted more than 75 law vio. |UrY McAdoo to handle some Mexi- gas in the gasoline he sells so that| Sy digseap ot tad Laaerve lators,” Colvin. said. Jean matters about a year after his the patrons won't feel that raise of es Te inca’ wthte ot duniety wut| ” Prommeniton Douglas raid that te | elrecnent from the Wilson cabinet. two cents per? | Broke, Too Proud to to Ask Aid, She , Cheese TAT avibinbh® ot! Oba (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) (Turn to Page 7, “Cataee 2) o- ero in no evidence of organic | ‘ous disease and no phychotic An epidemic of measles has broken H D Wi h h Cl nervous di an y | out here this year. Well, a person | Spent er Vays ith the assics | symptoms can't do too much for the starving | our opinion Mr ts In| a or xX ains re ion measles. | BY SAM GROFF Mary Slusser to “shadow” the girl | condition to appear before the com gs | ser Snadaiced, the sha, find out about her. mittee There is only one way to stop the| Ragged, dirty and rainsoaked, {rx Siuaser followed the girl one| (Signed) first catch your measle, see measies- | FALLS; KILLED (January 21) This day my wife did determine to hang a curtain on the back window of | our coach, bat I did tell her it would look like = Pullman washroom, and did ire sarcastically if she did not want knit = red wool muffler for the radi- Accuses Uhden and Black- well of Concealing Facts I Accusing Engineer Blackwell and Skagit cogent oan F. Uhden with concealing facts con cerning the Skagit, Councilman Phil Tindall, new chairman of the coun art work mt once, and so to the office, greatly depressed. 4,4. 8. HOTEL WORKER | utilities committee, held up sporevn| of an ordinance appropriating $979, | 000 at Thursday's meeting | The $974,000 represosite the last of t 0 Hkagit Vond fund poe 000 of thin amount bas been pledged by contracts and ex penditures already made, The bat ance is all that remains with at to complete tho Skagit, which, ac- cording to estimates, will cast ‘ally |g $1,000,000 more than is now on hand | ‘According to the original contract, | this fund was to complete the Skagit, buy five street car sub-stations al Jerect three substations in the city Carr, a steel worker, was working | for distribution of the power. on the first floor among a pile of| Chairman Tindall told committee: | steel girders, according to reports;men he had asked Blackwell and/ of eyo witnesses. A heavy girder|Uhden for a statement of Skagit had just been hoisted to the second | facts several weeks ago and none floor, when {t slipped irom the| had been furnished, “Until we know | Ph chains and {ell, striking the beams|Sust where we are In this Skagit | th among which Carr wat working.| matter I oppose voting additional |to Carr was thrown 30 feet into the | funds,” Tindall said. | basement, striking his head on a| The proposal was to go before a /| ol Jack Carr Crushed by Huge Steei Girder Seattle's new community hotel, the Olympic, now under construc on at Fourth ave. and University st., claimed ita first victim Friday, | when Jack Carr, 1828 23rd ave.,| was fatally injured. | no | be NOT T00 SICK, Secretary tigating the naval oll leases. WILSON'S DOCTOR SAYS HE IS DYING The Newspaper With the Bigg est Circulation in Washington Bntered as Second Class Matter May &, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 879, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 NO. 290. << TTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1924, my ~ TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. “T Am Ready’—Wilson WASHINGTON, _ Feb. When informed by his physician, Admiral Cary T. Grayson, t end was near, Woodrow replied: “T am ready.” Admiral Grayson made hi ment to Mr. Wilson after a tation with two other physicians, in which all three doctors nothing could stay the hand of death, “T am a piece of broken machin- ” Mr. Wi ery,’ son said, in a voice, when Grayson told him. “When the machinery ken—” his voice trailed off. 1.— “T am ready,” he repeated. With tears streaming down his face, Admiral Grayson himself told the story of this scene today. Mr. Wilson put his hand on Grayson’s arm and said: “You have been good to me. You have done everything you could.” Grayson wept like a child. He could not tell his story of the tragic scene at the bedside of his friend for his tears, I’m sorry to choke up this way, boys; but I’ve been with him so long,” said Grayson. “He has been such a fine friend.” hat the Wilson state- consul- agreed feeble is bro- FALL MUST TALK! "STATE DOCTORS ubpoena ‘Tesued Calling Him Before Committee WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-—Former of the Interior Fall t# ot too Ill to prevent him testifying} fore the senate committee inves-| ne of he or th ot WHEN PARENTS PLAN DEAD” BABY CRIES FALL NOTE IS FOR FUNERAL RITES |! ‘OACUM, Tox., Feb. f—Four hours after life had been pro: punced extinct the 1-year-old son Edyard Canek, of Wallis, near re, opened his eyes and began per Torn for “Safety” ying 2 teat. ea titce cater cag ||. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. — The| ie last time, la ‘es called an¢ arson Hy house today, without debate, adopted her funeral arrangements made. The babe has a chance to live. }|the Walsh resolution directing Presi. | dent Coolidge to begin action for can: jon of the naval ol] leases. The This was the report of saree hysicians who were was 120 to 4. © eenate public lands eee determine the exact phys WASHINGTON, Feb. 1—B, L. Jor. of Fall, central fi | scandal. nN | Doheny, who leased two naval oll reserves from Former Secretary of concrete pier, |Joint meeting of the utilities and} The report was handed to ed tiie ‘Iniacle’. RIGA’ Veilt,.tock the He was taken to the Seattle Gen.| finance committees of the council| committee today by Doctors Thomas — | cond’ atbed the vkndly seni eral hospital, unconscious, and died | Friday. jA- Clayton, Daniel D. V. Stuart) Sheriff Expects to Round 3g i at noon. His akull yas fractured. | At ® spectal council meeting Fri-|and Sterling Ruffin, capital phyal-/ é inve ing the Teapot Dome o Carr = married and was employed | day the council passed an uppropri-|cians, who yerterday made a com-| Up All by Evening | ventures, and produced a torn note oy mrick & Gerrick, a contract-|ating ordinance for $40,000 with/pieto examination of Fall the Friday, which he sald ho received ing company. | which to pay R. C. Storrie & Co. for! home of James W. Zevely, Sinclal w of the Seattle public “mystery girl” library for three months was a puz- nig as she went thru alleys and stopped at several ash cans, and se- Dr. George Sparling, county health |... 19 jjprary attendants. Friday,| lected bits of unspoiled food, which officer, says that n outbreak of | |, as on her way home, | she ate ravenously ee ee vane 7 the girl arrived at measles comes regularly every 10 py, clean and beautiful, to hi Finally, the girl arr at 3 | wealthy parents at Ritzville, Wash. | ave. 3. Madison st., where sh the calendar and fool the measles? |" Tike the pages of Alexandre Du-| disappeared in the darkness PT) THEY HAV! FIGURE THIS OUT Dear Homer—It must take a lot of brains to figure out the schedule on the Fauntleroy line so that the car arrives just ex- actly one minute after the bus is gone. Oh, yes, and the bus arrives just one minute after the car is gone. It's a poor schedule that doesn’t work both ways, isn't it?—H. EB. Man. ee |. no doubt tickled to earn that congress has re. moved the tax on ( for footmen. If the manufacturers of street cars would remove the seats In the cars they could get a lot more passengers on during the @Wsh hours. A STATISTICIAN TO| cinaring story of the girl unfolded| overhanging embankment, i] | [was notified. He told Policewoman | back, under an huddled mid a pile of old rags and gunny The girl, startled at first, Then she broke lmas, which she pored over, the} Mrs. Slusser found her bit by bit under the Investigation of Police Chief W. B. Severyns, until | sacks the identity and the details of the! refused to talk a derous report upon the eity | judg: pletely | a jd her sto the homes that || ny slanderous repor strange affair had been completely | down and told her story Here is one of 7 eebA hk nalition! |" Progesites cataioy ice. seule arated She had been working asa house-|| appears in tonight's Want Ads: || by the grand tury te fulfill political) | Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas vert: unraveled BS OT gg reg Maisie Tack costae wishes of Prosecutor Malcolm Doug Fess the mayor @ contentions that Last Novem a! b, + | maid & Erste home, she said, las,” Mayor Brown said Y. | Srand) juries hav’ no authority to bby girl, entered epbltednty and had lost her job. Hoping to $200 CASH when asked why he had ¢ ¢ reports on individuais or con- wlhege Shahin brie raters OE lac elma ania | Ise THAN F with the jury foreman immediately |ditions, aside from reporting on very day she continued faving 2S nouse until her money was Cx MIGHT 1 eceding the filing of its report,|county institutions, such as the | in the morning, and seh gone. She tramped the streets, t “ "Thursday | jails hospitals, ete, until the lights were Lente Pree: looking for work, but found none. ve Mayor Brown conferred with Me-| “I had deduced from newspaper Duma | She would have sturved, she said, achoc Cabe in the grand jury corri¢ors an|reports that Douglas intended. to Hugo. row shabbler,|fthéF than to go home like the 208i hour or so before the jury veported | have the jury make a report revil-| Day by day she = 4 ‘Attend. | Prodigal daughter | Price 82 to Judge Everett Smith. He cit-|ing this administration and denounce. more ragged and unkempt. | Mrs. Sluaser took the girl to her paving ed supreme court cases which re-|ing moral conditions in this city, t ticed that her dress was usu- \ | oe 4 umpled,|home, bath her and gave her aig moved from court records, on twoland I went to McCabe to head off ally Dciehy emery i "lelothing. She notified the girl pure’ to. the Real ¥ previous occasions, reports made by {such a report,” the mayor sald. cq Love ioumy refused help of Parents and they joyfully wired the|| cr and see who is aclling ¢ King county grand juries, based on| The mayor denied that he had ne proud . aMNns An “ juries’ investigation. r ie! veryna|girl money with whici to oome} comfy little home. jthe furl any sort. Finaily, Chief. Severy - | Immediately following the confer-'grand jury, “THOMAS ith 11 men under arrest, Sheriff | for the $100,000 he loaned Fall, NIEL RLIN COZY HOME Says on Grand Jury Report He Wanted to Head Off De- nouncement; Denies He Wrote It “1 wont to Foreman James Me-Jence, McCabe returned to the jury FOR SALE Cabe to tell him the law regarding | room, and an hour later the jury's grand jury reports and to head off | re was in the hands of the "SHOWN PROBERS, Iboneny Says s Unsigned Pa- | The Seattle Star FAMILY TO HS U.S. Capital Is Shocked by Sad News That Nation’s War Leader Is Near Death in His Home at Washington BY LAWRE)} danger of death. spond to treatment, and last | son, to announce today that After announcing @ bulletin earl- Jer in the day that Wilson's death is inevitable within a few hours, Grayson left the house shortly ir. Wilson is. sleeping now,” said yson. “He has no temperature. If he can get a few hours’ sleep he may gain some strength. 1 feel Just a trifle more hopeful,” Grayeon sald he was going to get @ Mttle air and that when Mr, Wil- son awoke there would be another consultation of physicians. Mrs. Wilson, he said, was display- Ing wonderful fortitude. “She is | very brave," said Grayson. Mr, Wilson {s in “a very serious condition,” Grayson said. | Three doctors and two nurses are in constant’ atténdance on the for- mer president. The next few hours may tell definitely whether ‘he will pass safely thru this attack or will succumb to it, because his weakened body {s unable to fight it off. ONE DAUGHTER Is NOW L AM All members of Mr. Wilson's fam- ily have been notified of his condi- tion, Miss Margaret Wilson and Mrs. William G. McAdoo are ex- pected to come to Washington in [response to messages sent them by Mrs, Wilson today on advice of Dr. Grayson. Mrs. Francis Sayre, Mr. Wilson’: other daughter, is in Slam, whe |her husband {s adviser to the presi- dent | His face pale and drawn and |bearing signs of deep anxiety, Dr. |Grayson this morning told news: paper men assembled in front of |the Wilson home that Mr. Wilson's condition is developing much along the same lines as when he was [stricken in 1919, “|GROWS WEAKER DURING NIGHT Grayson was up all night with! the patient. During the night, Mr.| | Wilson, who forced to go to! bed yesterday by weakness and dis- comfort occasioned by the digestive symptoms, was restless and un- comfortable and obviously weaker. ‘The symptoms were so alarming} jthat early today Dr. Grayson called | |Dr. Sterling Ruffin and Dr. H. A.| | Fowler, specialists who attended Mr. Wilson when he was ill in the White House. The three doctors will remain constantly in the Wil |son home. President and Mrs, Coolidge sent }a note of sympathy to Mrs. Wil-! (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) see | McAdoos to Leave for Washington) LOS ANGELES, Feb, 1.—“Mr. and Mrs. McAdoo wili leave for Washing. |ton on the first train available.” ‘This was the announcement from |McAdoo's office this morning, fol- jowing receipt of advices from the East telling them of the condition of | Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. y will go today if they can ssibly secure reservations and hope to reach Washington in time,” It was said, McAdoo remained with his wife) |this moyning, She was grief-stricken ‘Newton D. Baker Cancels Speech | CELVELAND, Ohio, Feb, 1—New- ton D, Raker, secretary of ‘ear in the Wilson cabinet, canceled a speak: jing engagement before the Women's Civie club here tonight and prepared j written the report returned by the for a hurried trip to the bedside ofa $23,000 surplus to spend for various improvement (Woodrow Wilson, AAPL PLP LPP PL PPL LPP OPP EX-PRESIDENT’S (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Woodrow Wilson is in gravé | The former president, stricken suddenly by what at first. | appeared to be a slight digestive disorder, has failed to rex | the worse, which caused his doctor, Admiral Care T. Gray- pared for some sudden happening.” grew) McAdoo's | "| possessed a greater power of appeal nome Edition CALLED BEDSIDE ‘CE MARTIN night took a sudden turn for’ it was necessary to “be pres 7 Seattle, from the biggest p leaders to the commonest citzen, shocked at the tragic news of Wood: row Wilson's critical illness Thurs day morning. Expressions of a and of tribute to the vaceing aaa were the topic of multitudes of cons — versations and telegraphic communi cations of sorrow were being Mrs. Wilson at her'S st."home, the fallen leader lay dying. Party and wartime diff, were laid aside and all | rowed. seg! Among eulogies and tributes prominent members of his own p here were the following: REY. DR. M. A, MATTHE personal friend of the Wilson fi —‘He is one of the greatest ch ters the country ever produced, has shown more practical Chi work than perhaps any other I public character. He was a tion to the whole world.” MISS AMY B, GARDNER, p dent of the Women's Wilson league of Seattle—“They say Woodrow Wik son is dying. I say he will live with us for a long time. He | always be in our hearts.” OLIVER T. ERICKSON—“wi was a president who lived |worked for his country during its {most trying period in a ee | have no doubt that his trials worrles during this period impaired his strength to such a degree jhe couldn't carry the load anyr | longer, or DAVID J, WILLIAMS — “The news of the critical illness of Woody ~ row Wilson, while not entirely unexe pected, is received by the nation” and the world as a blow. If at times, in the heat of contention, — contemporaries have appeared |kind and unjust, there is no ques |tion but that posterity will prope erly appraise his great work and assess his true value.” MAYOR EDWIN J. BROWN— Woodrow Wilson's name will down in history as the first man to. bring before the people of the worlds the interests and considerations ots the working people—the producerss He planned the world’s greatest — court, the league of nations, ae greatest single achievement, ag torical document, whereby all nas tions may sit around a table and / talk» over peace and the val \ other problems.”* H. M. WESTFALL, chairman é the democratic county central com | mittee: “I am very sorry to hear |the news. My greatest wish that he could have lived to ME: even a partial working out of his” plans.” “3 STEPHEN J. CHADWICK—"Ex. President Wilson will command @ = high place in history. He had the rare gift of phrasing our national 3 ideals in clear anu enduring t | An intellectual, yet no mind to the hearts of men. His ideal | were in some ways beyond his time: and the “temper of his people, but that he will rank as one of the) four or five really great presidents: — ” no one can doubt.” Si es MONTREAL HAS A SURPLUS 44 MONTREAL, Que—This city has municipal its in 1924,