The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 12, 1924, Page 1

bere lings et at i inne? WEATHER - n Last M Hours Minimum; 4 Today noon, 48 (os am aaa a oe SAS Temperature Maximum, 56 NO. 299, Howdy, folks! A whe makes a man forget a lot of troubles a bachelor never has. He borrowed five And paid it b The silent drama needs an audi-| ence that way. Y. ADDLED AXIOMS | A slap on the back is worth | two on the face. | | —* be awful if marri Wouldn't 1 ife was as awful as they pay OF Ez Peebles as a hard diled cig, He deaned his wife latg; She tremblud an’ dlusht a rosy red, “Don't be so derned affecshunit,” she 90 Children and radio sets are much alike. They never behave right when| there is company, e¢ OE ONE. COME ALL dendale. Wash, Bentine).) Services at 7:30 Sunday night, Subject: “Hell, © Place of Eternal Punishment,” All are welcome. Waller O'Hara, pester. oe The Los Angeles chamber of com- meres is sending out miniature phonograph records detailing the wonders of that city. These have one advantage as boosters over the native sons, They can be turned off. were The highly righteous indignation of the democratic politicians over the Teapot Dome scandal reminds us of} the democratic record in turning out | no alrplanes at an expense of $600,- 090,000 during the war. eee “T'ny an ofl magnet,” sald the me- chanid as he tried to scrub the dirt and grease from his hands and face. | owe TITLE FOR POPULAR SONG “She Had Plenty of Backbone, but It Was All in Her Head.” oe In France, automobiles are being operated on charcoal. In Seattle, we Fun ‘em on credit J. Peatletghs Fitzhugh yesterday called Li'l Gee Gee “A rag and a bone and a hank of hair,” but she back and sald he was “A a drone and a tank of al see So far‘as I can learn, no member of George Washington's cabinet ever acted as attorney for an oll com- nag pany after leaving office—Jack Hager. oe F Li'l Gee Gee says sha w hash doesn't know wh: mt eat it at , and she home because she sae CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB The barber who says: “Wash your hair, sir? It's a little dirty.” eee Scientist says that petroleum de- sits originate In decomposed fish. No wonder the Teapot Dome lease melis! cee After all, you can hardly blame one of these tresses who boasts of $1,000,000 legs from displaying 95 per cent pital stock every time tographe The Star, on § editorial page, Is D a list of qt whereby you can tell how dumb you are. If ou are married, you won't need the at. Your wife can tell without a| ter” in Philadel g bootleg booze has Nevertheless, it ult to find a man to he will not be ditt take his job, One good th: it ta?) with @ tadul) bout the recent} jo in the price of gasoline: It! Coolidge Saves Denby “The Newspaper With the The Seattle Sta Baterea Becond Ctase Matter May 2 1899, at the Post WaAsH., TU arded Philip Simmons, 18, Receives Medal From fei Foundation LATTLE, ISDA co at Seattle, * * * * & % Biggest Circulation in Washington . under the Act of Congress March 2 FEBRUARY 12, 1924, * Shot Deer on Westlake Pioneer Theatrical Man Re-Visits City Where He Made First Successes 1879, Per Year, by Atal » TW | | | } } | . Philip Simmons, Garfield high school boy, rounds out 18| years with three lifesaving exploits to his credit. He started | in when he was 10 years old, and has received the Carnegie | medal for his latest heroic action. In addition, Philip got a | four-year scholarship at the Colorado School of Mines. (MAN BEATEN BY COP SUES CITY Seeks $7,100 for Alleged | Manhandling | BY G. LUCILLE BUTLER ‘D greater love hath noj man—" le So reads the medal cast in bronze, | bearing in bas-relief the likeness of | Andrew Curnegie, and, turning !t, |We read further—"Philip W. Sim |mons, who saved Roland G, William: | son from drowning, East Seattle, | July 15th, 1920. Those familar with the story will [recall how this 14-year-old Soy, him-} 4. 1. outgrowth of the a ot [self covered with burns from the explosion of a gasoline launch, held|Jullus Daverso, 24, 863 20th ave. 8..| up a younger lad for 20 minutes in | last Wednesday morning by Patrol- the treacherous waters of | Lake | man George Fuller, a suit to recover Washington before a rescue was ef. | damages for personal injury, humilia-| | fected. tion and physician's fees, totaling | hey axe nok ell posted, how-|$7-100, was started in superior court | Lscecuaittuatiare ie tae oes iite | Tuesday, according to announcement | afterward—of the months on a hos. | Eimon L. Wienir, attorney for the |pital ett—of the months after that, | Plaintiff. The city of Beattle is wathed {n bandages—of the marks | "med as defendant will always bear mute testi.| The suit claims that Daverso sus- ny to the indomitable fighting | tained a broken nose, biackened eye heart of this handsome lad. But the | 274 lesser injuries when brutally as- hero fund commission |S@ulted by Fuller at Fifth ave. and 4 has not forgottent Pike st., on the morning of the a 4 Siasa.witn the rest, and that the young man gave| ale Pout f resareets Oe capo a the officer no provocation for such | proach of his graduation’ from enya | field high school, a quiet Investiga. F | tion was conducted from headquar- | ar ' “Daverso was driving ters of the commissfon at Washing. |!9 his car, with a young lady at the ton. D. t that Phil-|time, and was not exceeding the| ip was offered a four-year course at |*peed limit,” Wienir said Tuesday. “A police prowler car came along | ny college he might select, as the om 7 Pike st. at such an exceasive rate of concrete and substantial expression rt of the com ted the Col. | Day rso turned into Fifth ave, and| speed that both the police driver and \ssion, and he has se poep ig se: gh es, at Golden, | 24ftowly avoided a collision Colo, with the avowed intention of| “The police car stopped and Fuller Hleaped out and, in the presence of | (Turn to Page 3, Column a mining engineer. Cot mn 2) becoming (Turn to Page John Cort, pioneer Pacific Coast theatrical magnate, now of. New York, remembers shooting deer on Westlake ave., when aforementioned avenue was a forest trail. Cort and his wife are revisiting old scenes and old friends here. Photo by Price & Carter, Btar Staff Ph eee eee “See that elght-story bullding on. | Danish Prince Is Westlake—well, I shot a deer right} W. near there in 1888. All of this dis- edded to Heiress! OTTAWA, Ont, Feb. 12—One of trict up here north of Pike st. was] \ ; tall timber. Marty a timo I have| Canada’s most wealthy families was hunted—and killed—deer Jn here.” | Jolned to the royal house of Den. Re es ae mark Monday afternoon when Miss It was Jolin Cort, New York the-\toi9 Booth wed Prince Erik of Den- atrical n, speaking, He WAS) mark, first cousin of King Christian, looking north over the city from] here. Hundreds of guests from the 14th floor of the New Wash- ada, the United States and Europe, attended. According to Danish custom, Prince Viademar was best man to his son. ington hotel, and trying to pick out landmarks of the .days when he) owned and operated the Old Grand theater. Congratulatory mes were re. Cort, once the: biggest - theatrical] celved from the members of Danish man west of the Mississippi, with|and British royalty. Mrs. Cort, are visiting their ‘The bride is the granddaughter of home town.” which i Seattle From|John R. Booth, mititi-millionaire (Turn to Page Column 6) Jumber baron STAR today inaugurates a[mont one way or another, political | ue wised onfess that they are at one” o ye Seattle ma wises 8 conf a a straw vot on 58 t th pea as to the outcome. settle ou. y situation, to settle the Shot" So indecisive is the outlook that ¥ at are sard and one arguments that are! 11 setting gentry are laying going on daily in cigar stores, barber in corner conferences over rather low. and far between Among those that have been made | Political bets are few | shops an \these questions: Who will be Seattle's next mayor?) » 1 seems to be a slight favorite, | mi 4 peciasde some famiieg that B| Which of the three reer = las Brown money Js all that Js in run than a limousine didaten will be eliminated In the pri) 4+ Even money is offered that eee |maries February 26? | Brown wins, even money ts offered | que | Has Doc Brown made good? ; | that Erickson beats Lundin, and even Thie crentay EPOT 1). ciatem| » Not in years haa there been such| on other beta is offered that Seats an eee pacing ihe Sets\a variance Of political opinion as toi Lundin will not get past the pri house, to see the new film. « moarhe.” 9 rousing ptmy and interesting. And so to home, where did find several people, and mighty merry we were until abomt eleven or twelve at t, dancing anf singing and all the innocent fun in the world. Avd by and by they departed, and so to bed. A583 led “Seara- all things outeon of a campaign en there | maries. s this year among the men who are| Are the betting gentry upposed to be “in the know.”’ their predictions? With the women’s vote, with vari-| Only such a poll as The Star pro- ous things that have come up in mu. [poate to take will tell |nicipal affairs in past few| Every voting man and woman in! nonths ikely to swing public, senti | seattie is urged to cast a ballot in| right in Mayoralty Ballot In The Seattle Star’s Straw Vote (Name cast my vote for for mayor of Seattle. (Can These are the three men who have filed for the mayoralty race. Make your selection from among them: E. J. Brown Alfred H. Lundin — Oliver T. Erickson (Mail to Straw Vote Editor.of The Star and Watch the Paper for Daily Totals.) y's Scalp! .| Three persc iy 4 Home Edition dC NTS TORRENT WRECK BRIDGE! lens of Silvana! Under Water as River Overflows Its Banks Chinook winds and heavy rains of the past two days have brought down a flood of water | from melting snow in the Cas | cades and flooded a score or | more roads in Skagit, Snoho- mish, Chehalis, Grays Harbor | | and King counties, and partly | inundated two towns, shut off automobile travel and washed out several bridges, including a | bridge on the main line of the | Great Northern railway, near Index. IN waa interrupted over the Great |Northern when floody carried away an approach bridge on the Skyko- mish river, four miles south of In- dex, MOWiiay night. Great Northern are being routed over the orthern Pacific, pending repairs, which may bo completed by Tues |day night, officials belleve. | Silvana, tn the lowlands of the | sttiaguamteh river, 20 miles north of Everett, was a floating city. Wa- | {ter, overflowing the river banks, was four feet deep over the main highway, which is the town’s prin- clpal street Stanwood, protected by dyRes on the delta at the mouth of the river, was besieged by a high- water surge elght feet above nornial low water marks. The Hat slough dyke, west of the city, went out, and water flooded the meadows nearly ‘to | the town's edge, stopping auto travel over the highways. Tho Clough Lumber Co. plant was | forced to shut down when a log jam | formed. Efforts to break the jam | with dynamite were being made | Tuesday. A group of the firm's em- ployes, agranded at Birmingham, | across the main channel of the slough, had not been heard from Tuesday, but are believed safe. | Phone wires are down. | With water rising rapidly, the} roads at Fall City were submerged & foot Tuesday morning, The Ar- Iington road and the Acme-Deming road are ,both flooded. Motorists encountered a lake of shallow water on the Grand Mound and Elma road, and this highway also has been blocked. Mail wervice from and to the East} Rebuffs Senate Demand COOLIDGE REFUSAL A | indignation in the sei Coolidge for h demand resolution, THREE DYING VANCOUVER, B. GC, Feb. 1 have been fatally in-| with jured and 20 others suffer lesser hurts in an accident e |day on tho Canadian Nation pout 80 miles eas The train last night, ran onto a} |bridge across Popcum creek, which which left eastbound, ‘gave way, and the locomotive and two cars went down. terrible confusion resulted. }the poll. All that is necessary to do is to clip the ballot from the paper, fill it out and mail it to the Vote Editor of The Star. | YOUR NAME WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED, but it must be on the ballot | The total number of ballots re | ceived up to noon, daily, will be pub- lished in The Star of that date. The vote will close at midnight, Satur. lay, and the complete Straw Februar; nno' vote will be need on Monday, February the day before the pri-| maries Is there any int in the may oralty race? Are tle voters con. cetned over the political situation? The Star’s straw vote should tell. Filt out the ballot here today, and | watch The Star daily for the totals. | reld, AFTER CRASH . A scene of jagainst the resolution. j only Very Thin Ice, Mr.. President! ONDAY afternoon ithe United States senate adopted a resolution demanding the ousting of Secretary of the Navy Denby as a result of Denby’s connection with the Teapot Dome oil scandal—a greasy mess that has soiled the souls of the nation’s most trusted men and shaken the foundation of the republic itself. Four hours afterward, Calvin Coolidge, president of the United States, demonstrated what his friends had feared most in his makeup—a refusal to yield to majority rule, a stubbornness born of early New England training, accompanied by narrow, bigoted notions of his own importance and the sacredness of presidential premises. Coolidge, in spite of the emergency, in spite of the proof that Denby helped Fall and possibly other higher-ups in government to betray the people for Doheny dollars and in the face of consequent shat- tered confidence in American institutions, refused bluntly to even listen to the senate’s demands. Coolidge, in a public statement, said as soon as “special counsel” could advise him, he would take such action as seems essential for the protection of public interest. Coolidge has been rather unlucky with his “special counsel.” First he asked Mr. Gregory to go to Washington to act as special counsel. It developed soon afterward that Gregory had been accepting Doheny dollars. So Gregory was chucked. And today, according to the dispatche: H. Strawn, another of Coolidge’s oil lease “s counsel,” has been identified as a director of the First National Bank of Chicago, a Standard Oil bank, Coolidge, if he has the welfare of this nation at heart as he professes, had better look well ahead before he makes his next public utterance in defense of himself or Secretary Denby. The American public is in no mood to be trifled with just now. The public is determined to find out who else profited by Doheny dollars and it is going to take more than the cold indifference of a New England boss to whitewash the grease spots in official Wash- ington, to Oust Head of Navy Oil Lease Probers Angered by Presis : dent’s Curt Refusal BY PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Impeachment was being con= sidered today as the next step in the senate’s efforts to oust Secretary of the Navy Denby from the cabinet be~ cause of his connection with the naval oil leases, The senate late yesterday, by a vote of 47 to 34, called on President Coolidge to demand that Denby resign. . Four hours later Mr. Coolidge, in a statement, defied the upper house and refused emphatically to pay any attention to the senate demand. He said the senate had no right to make it. Denby himself had nothing to say when he was told of the senate’s vote, but previously he had stated he would not resign. . The best legal minds in the house Peery crat, of Michigan, from Denby’s home state, voted against Denby, and Senator Couzens, Michigan, yot- ed for him. Mr. Coolidge, In his formal states and senate will now consider! ment defying the senate, sald: whether impeachment proceedings | «xo official recognition can be give against Denby would be likely tol on to the passage of the senate succeed. If there is a probability | boa lution relative to their opinion con. cerning members of the cabinet of jother officers under executive cons | trol. “As soon as the special counsel cart jadvise me as to the legality of the endous | es and assemble the pertinent te against Mr./facts in the various transactions, T refusal to heed the|shall take action as seems essen couched in the Robinson |for the full protection of public ine | terest. Republicans who voted in favor of | “I shall not hesitate to call Seen Denby’s resignation were: resignation of any official whose con Brookhart, Capper, Frazier, duct in any way warrants such a¢ Johnson of Catife: jtion upon my part. The dismissal of that Denby would beat the {mpeach- | ment court, the action probably will not be taken. ATORS there was trey ERS 8S Meanwhile, Har. Ladd, La tte, McNary, Norbeck, Norris. | an officer of the government such Senator Bruce, Maryland, demo- | involved in this case, other than by rat, bolted his party and voted | impeachment,/is exclusively an execs —% | tive function. |“WON'T SACRIFICE \Y INNOCENT MAN” T regard this as a’ vital princkt | |ple of our government. In discuss. — jing this principle, Mr. Madison haa well said: = “It is laid down In most of |constitutions or bills of rights im | the republics of America, it is to ~~} found ir the political writings He was the |the most celebrated civilians and i= democrat to do it. everywhere held as essential to the Senator Ferris, Michigan, demo- (Turn to Page 7, Column 6) = + * % a % 8 8 8 Coolidge Man.Director of Standard Oil Bank ASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—The sena Teapot Dome oil lease investigating committee was today in’ possession of evi- dence connectigg Silas H. Strawn, republican, of Chicago, with a Standard Oil bank. Strawn is one of President Coolidge’s “special counsel” named to prose. cute oil leasing cases, Strawn told committee bers yesterday have nothing to sa This was Secretary Denby's only comment today on the pos- sibility of his resignation as a re- sult of the senate’s adoption of the Robinson resolution. asking President Coolidge to get rid of Denby. #4 Brown's testimony came while the committeerwas trying to es tablish some connection between Albert B. Fall, the Standard Oil company and the sale in May, 1922, of the Albuquerque, N. M., Journal, The deal, involving $200,000, was financed thru the Chicago bank. After a short hearing, the com> mittee went into executive ses- mem- in executive ses- sion, it was learned, he was a sion on the nominations of director the First National wn and Pomerene, but re bank of C cessed without making a deci- Edward . vice presi. sion. dent of the bank jay told the trawn's connection with the committee his bank handled fi- ndard Oil bank in Chicago nances of t? andard Oil com. was discussed and some demo pany of Indiana and was in fact cratic members of the committee known bank,” “the ndard Oil indicated they might oppose bis confirmation on that ground,