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erg oe wn gl, SREISSOUMMINE Siac aca Books L V ill Be Open Until Midnight Tonight! Y our Last C hance to Regis ter! Seattle Gasoline Jumps Two Cents a Gallon The New ae aper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington WEATHER ii — The Seattle Sta Eotered as Close Ma\ler May 2, 1899, at (he P ffice at 5 *, Wash. under the Ac ongress March 4, 1579 VOL, SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1924. * TWO © Mayor Brown Backs Skagit Probe! rain eee LAIM Radio Will Herald |i": ws sees HIDDEN Rites for Wilson; ,,, head of cb cesttp ea Body to Rest in” °——_— fe com Core MEW WEN FACE So Probes BY LAWRENCE MARTIN : of “Hold- Out” in West lis mortal of Woodrow Wilson will be ror Stock Market Deals of mat Brant Raid Z cials Will Be Aired BY PAUL R. MALLON WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—The TS IN SEA TT LE anch of the| Home Brew | DIAL PHONES GLAD STAR ~ WILL CAUSE INSISTS ON RATE BOOST THE FACTS _'Private Exchange Doesn’t Want Uh- “« Patrons Will Be den to Spend xew Taxed 25 Cents) More if He Has ~ Per Phone Made Mistakes CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON ne f Mayor Brown Tuesday in. IVY CLUB dorsed The Star's plan for an in The gink who asks what date vestigation of the work done and Huckleberry Time It’s All the ‘Time in Seattle and Here’s a Picture to Prove It Howdy, folks! This is your last chance to register! goof who" w ‘One Hu Rabbit Show And by the t s there were 674! laid to rest tomorrow wh sentatives of the | Sensational evidence that three | police officers had taken 135 cases of bonded whiskies, wines | | and brandy from a rum runner, Neither at the home senate oil inquiry reached out turning in only 22 cases as evi- it is every morning. . Gah: agate the expenditures to date on the Dc taL Giere the thayiwrilt be for new sensational evidence to- decd, nnd ware later “spubewiEn en me Eu 4 aa n exchanges| Skagit power project. in @ crypt, will there be pomp or| day when it began tracing a list the original booze-runner of the The recent boost in gasoline prices nto midnight, Febru: I want to thank The Star," he Jostentation of grief f names of high government of- remaining 113 cases of liquor, fs due, it is announced, to Increased it was learned Tuesday said in a statement, “for the bust The radio will carry the words of| ficials reported to have “cleaned was being investigated by Chief consumption of crude oll . crease will be 26 centa for) neaslike attitude it haw taken with | gnd in| reference to the Skagit project, be bulldingd may | cause I believe it is doing the people $50 per month./® real service In bringing about an Estimates for the entire city place|tnderstanding of this. miunictpally | the increase at more than $10,009) owned enterprise.” f Polnting out that “we cannot hope | the final rites to 60,000 people, who} up” in stock transactions. of Police W. B, Severyns Tues- are expected to gather in a natural| — The list includes a former day. amphitheater on Mount St. Albans,| White House officials, a senator The names of the accused officers on the site of the imposing new| and at least two men high in | win not be made public until Ber- Episcopal cathedral of St. Peter and | government departments. leryns has further evidence in the ‘8t. Pau, | Senator Walsh, of Montana, chief | case, he sald. A few weeks ago the We've got to quit drinking that Stuff. A sweet little maid named Lucille Went skating on rollers of steel, -TWt her feet acted queer rer dere }_ It in tit the email Rethichem chapel | investigator, considers this the most trio were given a “tip” by a boot- ind he fh 6 REF ote ay Pym on has been started |t® advance the doctrine of munict-| of thin cathedral that Mr. Wilson's important phase of the case he is| iegger that a liquor cargo was being And wig-wagged for help with her) An. : 9 L.|Pal ownership. unless we proceed | body wilh rect temporarily. When | building up to prove “corruption and| brought in at a West Seattle Gock, neet. ©) ata — ; “with sound business methods” thet the cathedral is finished he will lie| fraud” in connection with leases on| it is alleged. oak Ke iy > termine w ee mayor announced that “our citizena jin the nave, If arrangements being | naval reserve lands Which former | have 4 right to know what the cost Me tie ee Interior Fall gave| When the boat had unloaded the Giscussed today are completed, the/ Secretary of the Interlor Fall gave! oso the officers rushed formard |nervices will be carried by radio to|to Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L.| (oY a ticea a teucklocd: it ans | mi¥ions in other cities Doheny. Following up this line of then early in the morning. They ar: | Mrs. Wilson today gave her ap-| inquiry the committee met today ‘| Tested one man, who was taken to |proval to the funeral program and| hear muel Ungerleiber, Clevelan - " ” | Jail, When asked for evidence in his jt the at of those invited to the broker, who has offices in Washing. | 724° 110% Bese tecnean brought ia services at the home. bye | 22 cases of liquor, according to the The small company, which will Aitho the plan was te conduct | story told Beveryzik. | Sather in the S st. homo for the only preliminary examination of |” whe other 118 cases of Iquor, vale Purely private services will include | Ungerieiber the committee desires to | ueq at $8,475 retail, were stored in a (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) ascertain how it will find exactly who | private garage. When the three = bought and sold Mammoth oll stock | went back to the cache, they found increased s ¢ charge violates the state departmént of public works’ ruling on rates cisions handed down by various federal and state courts. | According to C. O. Meyers, super. intendent of the telephone company, Little Homer Brew doesn't know very much about E. L. Doheny and Harry Sinclair, but he says if they are the men who Invented cas- tor oll they ought to be hung. NOTICE TO BANDITS: February the charge represents a rental for use Lincoln's i AN the jor the ee in the city will be closed abla a4 ch ex er bodies. He points also to what charge. “Where p Will Hays says he is out of poll-/phones wish dials that th may | has been accomplished in the Skagit tics. Ah, then, Hi Johnson has com-/connect directly with the outsire, nd what the future possi. are before we can intelligent. teipate the future.” aid ne personally has no © or graft will be found in the Skagit project, and de- } scribes how funds for the project da maintenance |are appropriated and checked up by various council committees and oth i the rate de. work under his administration |in Washington when the leases were | that it had been looted of every bot- pany.—Jack Raper the 26-cent rental ia charged," My-| “I have Juse signed an ordinance | made. tle, it is said. see ers said. “No additional charge is|selling 5,000 horsepower of Skagit Fall has been notified to be on| ‘The first information recelved by Courtship is a sort of coo- | x = %\made for private branch exchange! Juice that will bring about $150,000 9 sand next Friday. The senate is ex- | Chief Severyns was to the effect that | LI'L GE GEE, 7 TH OF FICE service phones not equipped with; yea he 1d. ‘This, with the; pected to pass on Thursday a reso-/ the original Nquor cargo was 160 VAMP, SEZ: is. $650,000 we are paying our competi lution continuing the power of the | cases tor now for The tariff giving not 5,000 horsepower to j investigating committee | Severyne expressed doubt as to | partnership. ie cask santil theses % run the ri gives an income of | whether concrete evidence could be . RAST the state board three $800,000 a year, and we have 20,000 | secured against the officers which geri Kennedy said, and no notice horsepower still to nell that is worth | woula be sufficient to cause their | discharge, altho he admitted he be- General Pershing recently reviewed at least $70,000, This will account} the entire army of Monaco, bd offi for a $1,500,000 income from the eve’ Far bowang’ WINTER STORM ever recelyed by the city of proposed rate. cers and men. It must minded him of the U. commanded before the war. one * MARDI GRAS OF Love is like a punctured tire, Skagit per year, and I want to tell the citizens of Seattle, thru The Star, that they must get ready to build the | second unit immediatety, because our | building record this TACOMA, Feb, 5.—Investiga- tions by the Tacoma police Tues- day into circumstances of the disappearance Monday afternoon ON EAST COAST Ueved the story which was told him. The accused policemen were called before Severyns and grilled at length. All three stoutly denied that they fe seized more than the 22 cases * of Rev. Arthur De Jacoby, for- mer pastor of the Roosevelt Heights Christian church, only Chicago Cut Off Off From New | termed in. ur is going to I’m ‘very sure of that; For after one big blowout BO to $30,000,000 and it will be $40, While kiddies Back East were shivering and tramping ooe.on9 next year, and we will need! thru snow today, little Miss Constance Wilson picked ripe She went and left me flat. this Skagit power to help build our celebrate the start of the ‘round-the world flight of American York by Gale’s Fury city.” : é huckleberries from a bush in the garden of J. E. Standley,| served to deepen the mystery Mots *N D + 8. that surrounds the case, | NEW YORK, Feb. 5.—Driving a age Mra. Miracle must be co Palm and California aves., in West Seattle. Constance, who ig ¥ ian for promotin nt ngratu naphtha Gua oakt Sarai bees ae eiantational pois fa to make stg | Will Mark Start Of World |:atea tor having introduced a reenu.| is just 3 years old, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Wil- PEA La ap sdaltine Blas Cerrone re erg peer wake Oe press body\speak Bagitsh. | Flight Here ie aie tor ‘the Investigation ot | son, 1202 Marion st. sighted in"The Natrows late Monday EeSiecte obits Ghigaas: tea OS Even Americans? j pet pee Marea’ tas maa es = Brad See er : Cae afternoon. He had been missing at} communication during the night, | huge army aerona Gemton- Ihefore 1 came into office ant cn that time since 11 o'clock in the| struck New York city early today. ear a SUGGESTION FOR THE G. 0. P.| stration will be staged in Seattle to | the time dae, to coftice and ait | Girl Leaves Wild Anatole France Is morning, when he hiad taken his wife} Wire communications with the| Standard Oil Raises Price 2 MICKEY NEKE: ACTUAIN ae i ction Mr to town and had lft her, saying he | Middle West were disrupted. ° President—Harry Sinclair. tickaon been chairm un of to Party Thru Window | Suddenly Stricken would take his auto to the garage| First reports from the West ina.| Cents; Crude Also Up Vice President—Alkali Al Fall. fle he PARIS, Feb. 5. — The famous iators, lic utilities commit In frenzied desire to put distance . gh and have it fixed ted that service between New York } previous to the “hop-off,” 1, | voted for the first bond issue on the . aoe a al ‘Treasurer— Delsey, | it wag announced Tuesday, morning he voted against the leat | between herself and police who en enh ne _ ‘ aroesanidys hee, who) When her husband did not return} and Chicago had not felt the full! Standard Oil service stations inith see by Col. A, H. Beebe, chairman of | bond issue, after we had-$5,000,000 | tered.a room where a wild party was | #8 been ill for several weeks, be-| home in the afternoon Mrs, de effects of the storm, Telegraph and {ated the second retail gasoline price notified the police and a) telephone lines were down in many |Jémp in less than a month Tuesday search was immediately star Po- parts of the Middle West, with tele- | morning, when the quotation was Nee found he had rented a boat at| graph companies maintaining a Iim-|raised 2 cents, to 21 cents a gallon, the Point Defiance pavilion shortly | ited service to some points | including state tax. Other distrib. came suddenly we being stagea at Oskiand hall. 703 | fessor Laubry, a h far early Tuesday morn| was summoned an unidentified girl leaped thru a| writer's bedside. today. Pro-! Jacoby t specinti urgently to th campaign slogan should be: | the military affairs committee of the |in the project and it was half built “Yes, we're a bunch of oileans, | Chamber of Commerce, upon receipt |and paid for. (It looked as tho hi But te have no oil today.” |of a telegram from J. J. Underwood, | wanted to stop ite being built and ose jthe chamber's Washington represen-|it now looks as tho .he nted to} : Z According to the wire, the|stop ita being bullt). He has fought | WiN@W to the ground, 40 feet below, | Later, however, France's house-| after noon. A little later the empty | Even radio companies were unable |utore were stil retailing at 19 cents, hose bandits who robbed Norton's | {Attys nakcation “will $idlice pomotiie | the from the start, but| ‘he officers reported. Apparently | hold stated that he had recevered| pont was sighted and a ¢ and hat} to in touch with Chicago during| they reported, but were awaiting mfeteria of $2,700 evidently belie r to Pass Cohun Q | hee ¥ she was not seriously injured by the}from severe inflammation of the| found in it we identified as belong-| the night confirmation of a general rise from the “help yourself’ signs they saw ‘urn to Page 7, umn 2) 7, Column 3) ling to the missing man. ‘ she immediately disappeared. | ¢ HOLD DOWN THE TENT, BOYS! You Think the Would-Be } Mayors’ Disputes a Cur BY JIM MARSHALL We're intelligent, enlightened, Honest persons, and was able to breakvust (urn to Page 7, Column 1) their San Francisco office: —— —_— Sales offices of the Associated Oil HERE COME THE CANDIDATES | Cos. reported that 110, word oF;the aie vance had reached them, but they e? Then Listen to Them Sweetened Up in Verse! on the wall. see Three men were captured yester- day making money out of lead It is rapidly getting to be almost as disgraceful to make money out of | lead as to make money out of oil. HOORAY! LETS WAIT UP! | The new telephone directory is now being delivered to subscriber ‘expected an advance to cents, equaling the Standard Oil quotation hére. General Petroleum, Shell Oil and Union Gil reported similar ex- pectancy, with declarations that the ‘advance of one tompany usually |means advances here by all others, on confirmation from thelr respec: r / i ea I love you truly, but you make me! Doc BROW: but subscribers are warned not to) HE scene is set in a sub- ‘or luainghvegtoy tbe | [Teamev MET. GET) |[ nett BE ay MAYBE | ery, (Agitato con amore) tive San Francisco offices. Aisa papa do apr libe | 3 Pw Miiat e6 AaB icsoe one HG: Soe Goat. \\wnen we GtT V4 T want to see tuous and dry,|Why didn't they tell me? Why | >>> ruary 16, at midnight. | * urban hall complete with| ‘that we almost look our role,| |Your voTE when, see you virtuous and dry, y| table, mayoralty |8° this evening we present you! with as much as you can bear | candidates, water bottle,/or etectioneoring speeches by the @reat Ambitions: To have a name | tumbler, gavel and chairman. ndidates for mayor We Aaron Aaronson and be first in! The water bottle is full of MRS. MIRACLE ¢ telephone book. water, the hall is full of lyons ihly a pas seul in a pink A number of prominent Egyptolo-| Voters, the candidates are) si ii ine te Mre Miracle, I plan to} gists doubt if old Tut was say ® «/ full of enthusiasm, and the be satirical, | king of Egypt. We, too, doubt it. A/ chairman is full of paper For I'm to talk on Lundin, and} man with so elaborate a tomb as! Erickson, and Brown, i j ance. Tut’s must have been Lote 9 | During a loud fanfare ‘a They shudder, being men, of course, bigger than a king. Maybe he was a sackbuts and psalteries the To think a woman should be boss, |1"lt clean you up, gal, tho you may didn't they TELL me? ? anes, They knew that things were wrong, | HERE Ss if you'll make me mayor, gal, just |BUt they let ‘em drift along: || ANOTHER HOME for one term. And instead of information all T get's || nat ts being offered in tonight's THE VOTERS: vituperation. Want Ad columns. Do you want He'll clean the town up, tho she may} When they find conditions feartul|| it? Why, they give The Star an earful!! And I never Jearn about it ‘til T hear the newsies shout it. | What a deucedly inconvenient | speakers’ hour! see ake him mayor, boys, just for one term! DOC BROWN (Sarcasticoso lente) —- May-hay-hay-beecee! re. = eee THE VOTE A WALLINGFORD HILL BARGA Modern 7-Room Prett Only $4,950; $1,000 This Sacrifica Goes This Week Owner leaves this week; posses- sion on short notice. This bungalow has a large 5-room floor plan on first floor, large hungalow C Then they blame me, their prattle tt For the scendals of Why didn’t they tell ME notlegger. , | ; = ro ardwoot q se | voters line up across the} B¥t when the voting’s over I'll be OLIVER T. ERICKSON | THE VOTERS; (Appealing to Doc Brown) oe voice mounts in a lono| UML RG, hart rooe ene YE DIARY | os 7 ida 3 mayoress of th town. | (Con vivace) }As for Brownie, what's the use We've heard from Mrs. Miracle, shrick, like a whistle) basement; dandy furnace; heat 4 | stage, andidates | ; 3 + (February 4) foe 4 with the candidat CHORUS OF VOTERS Who got all the Skagit cash? Skagit | Vote for O, T.—he'll produce! We've heard from Lundin, too. THE VOTERS in every” room. This. home Pee ah wiedag teas Sipe aebcest ee ¢ : | She's going to kid AI Lundin, and cash! Sgakit cash! DOC BROWN We've heard from Mister Kiger Zotnor Totratvd ieee day busy fahioning this japery, and so THE VOTERS’ CHORUS pat (Tiekled to death): rage, corner jot and a te humane for Gianet, edd then the Bricksoni atid Brown, | Who bold and doggoned rash} (largo furtoso) Now let us hear from you. teins (aa Aare rg tractive corner; good. view Metropolitan playhouse, and there saw) We're the voters of Seattle And when thé veting’s over she'll be| Pledging power by May? | May-hay-hny.beceeee! We'd like a lot of hotshot ail tas tk at inn Se ee __ Tineke That ever was wrotes and War:| ANd We're nwolled with sinful mayoress of the town! Make me mayor and I'l produce, I'lt| eee A specch emitting fire ths Br here pital Many more features to this home 1A eee W. MeMilians the. beaker; pride | Doc BROWN— produce, I'll produce! AL LUNDE $0 brand someone a voob, Doc, | Oh, what fun it is to bo ina redhot!! can he found by turning to the nee Millan, the banker: . (falsetto diminuendo) : May-hay liar lot fight! Mleeeececcease! (Curt for Brownie? What's the us (Apostrovhising the Spirit of Se-| A lunkhead, or rind, We Ear hay-becece! I'll be mayor somo day. attle): Aw!—Now others. And so to hom purdick jl At_ the compliments we're ments WanteAds NOW. Both explicit ard implied; Wont (EMA 6), BAC (nat NTO