The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 13, 1924, Page 1

‘Have Y ou Cast Y our Ballot Yet in the Star’s Straw Vote? Do It Today! | DYKE IS WASHED i | aan Senator Dill’s Probe of World Oil Deals Open The Newspaper With the Bigg est Circulation in Washington i! The SeattleStar ane M cress Ma EATTLE, WEDN re 13, “Louise Comes Home” FOLLOW Texans Mourn Girl Murdered at Height of WASH., DAY, 1924. * SEND THIS BACK EAST! eattle Boys Start the “Barefut’” Season Early, While Their East- ern Brothers Still Wear Woolens High Life Among White Lights _ me * * i b. ay Eastern boys will = y Howdy, folks! Many towns Me 4 |some weeks before they ap- supe sabi — under water Pp E } | ne al to mother: “Say, ma, ; as the result of | ood. } s kin I go barfut?” But in| Farmers In the region are provid-| - : Seattle two boys have found pe ‘ | ing thelr flivvers with Ayvad water ° ° * “a” that it is not too early in the é 4 wings, te Foreign Oil Pacts “ M | middle of February, even thoiSk a git Destroys | co 1 Be Se j ‘, |some re. & linging .to q Thr id fish are reported 7 some are still clinging eee See eri Sought; Daugh- 4 Se ticir overcoats. The eamera-| 100 Feet of Em 2 8 | : man caught George Sheridan, | ‘e | Ae are thinking of doing erty Inquiry Is 9, and his brother, Bertrand,| bankment; City thelr spring planting with sub-| ® 8, of 5020 Grayson ave.,| sree Again Asked playing in the sandbank near, Plant Cut Off Now LET'S HEAR FROM THE FOLKS Admiral way, West Se attle, | % Leon Pitser found a large fish, = =, Bx . Bul e. bo eed Fe minus shoes and stockings. Giving way under pressure of ee gy Fg ae Mgnt WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. — \“It feels great,” they both| the Skagit river, swollen by the high water and was so large It could The ate today broadened its declared. heavy rains and a warm Chinook “beetle gg oli pe hoy | olf investigation to cover inter Photo by carter.) wind in the Cascades of the past beer es ag eal 0) 10 inches national dealings of big Ameri Star Btaft P | two days, a strip of dyke 100 feet ead. —George' (0.) News- | can oil interests. | length gave way at Fisher's ree Tho resolution of Senator Dill, | slough, a tributary to the Skagit, 2 1 Washington, was adopted, call- early Wednesday, and the water In some of the towns the rea | Ing on the state department for began rapidly spreading over an | estate men are advertising “homes/ | fuformation concerning interna. for rent, all modern improvements, | including running water.” v. Li'l Gee Gee has just bought three} gold fish. She says she wants them around at night as protection against | burglars. | tlonal activities of American oil men, It tf» almed particularly et Harry | F. Sinclair, lessee of ‘Teapot Dome, | whb recently made off leages In Por | sia and who fs reported to have been negotiating with German and Rus interests, and Edward L. Do y., who has Mexlean oi. | multaneously, Senator Wheeler Montana, introduced a re. reaolution ng for investi n of the activities of Attorney Daugh in connection with the oll leases, war frauds prose- cutions and other matters. This was a substitute for the and the highland, roughly_meas- Be wing a mile and a quarter by a three-quarters of a mile, It is feared that the flood might | Inundate the entire district between | Milltown and Mt. Vernon, as the | dyke break occurred at a point about a mile south of Conway, seven miles it south of Mt. Vernon, | Residents of the affected district reported ‘shortly before noon Wed- jnesday that the flood, while it had covered the highway and was im- peding motor traffic, they hoped it | | would not prove serious because the | peak of the flood had passed and | the Skagit was at that hour steadily | | aren between the railway tracks | | | alee | THEY MIGHT, AT LEAST, HAVE) DONE SOMETHING } We wish Malcolm Douglas hadn't | dismissed the grand jury so soon. We would like them to look into this Santa Claus business. It sounds @e= to us. And while they were at it, they might alse have investigated that stork stuff. sian democrat cal | General | The “home folks” in Alvaredo, Tex., refused Wednesday to believe the tales of Louise Lawson's gay night life in New) “Jobn Cort, famous theatrical mag-| York as they followed her body to the little church for final Wheeler resolution express réoeAlian nate, remembers shoo deer on/ Services, following her murder in her luxurious New York ay : ot 90 pee that Daugh At Mt. Vernon the Skagit dropped S erty should resign. wi —The p : 2 inches V : Westlak The $ sr : apartment. OLL POLICY PROBE lin iGitiwar at ther tine tac ee : That's nothing. We remember | e920 18 DILL’S OBJECT | Baca ths anger eter’ ‘ 4 shooting cra mS er ALVAREDO, Tex. Feb. 13 Dill's resolution covers the entire Stanwood, it itieg “south of Mt. F There used to be lots of deer oak pcr tac Tateon cuits CERMANS DIE IN IN hebatindars rg svar venthepatihor | Vernon, which was seriously threat- around, Seventh and Pine, sags Cort.| home to Main Street today to be cae reining tora,” jened Tuesday night, was out of dan- Times haven't changed much. About | laid at rest ; Dill wants to find out, he sald Ty iid! eee er RE Petes 17,000 Eagles have their home there| The “roadway Butterfly,” wh pila Crovveyicntapscchiend worn heaps going iNlaguamish a! no’ {strange slaying still puzzles the po. ign oli pallies |® rapid rate. The Clough Lumber | wee |Iice, will be buried simply this 1A ‘ |Co. mill will probably remain idle —§ statement today. comme (Turn to Ee ane 2, Column 3) WOULD EY ——_—_$_$__—__—— BET 1T WAS OLD MAN YESLER’S | afternoon, in BULLI | grandparents “See that eight- Hon story building on her er Texans—lic |for the remainder of the week, as the flood carried away all of the logs jon hand during the peak Tuesday. No word has been received ¢ same plot where pio eds of home folks, who dis s of her vivid career in Separatist Leader Lynched; Others Burned ay rev 4 } * . ft sory balding 08 Lee ee es So Re» we cAMLD. GnoaT Baby Killed in ee oe shot ah c re pide ¥ | United Prees St att Correspondent ‘ce P f G p? ’ Elevator Shaft oR to Riagtt Engineer Carl pe ET sine ici nits ex taal BRLDG, A 18nd Be eae rice of Gas! sroxaige ve ise rater bel Oe tee oe ore on has broken out bet HARDING NAME ee |p nd ambitious little girl of a rigs i vad the tween the walls and door of an ele-| with a bridge across the river : lfew years ago, who left home to|atists and Germans loyal to the d Le G | vator shaft last night, $-year-old Clar-| between Rockport and Burling- “Battling” Siki tried to kis8/ study music in w York, They Teich in Pirmasens, Bavarian Pala Deman WO overnors | ence Bius was killed in the Fairmont| ton. Roads have been blocked % awe rane in ihe ring tn wil not Iletan to Atle stories of tinate, according to dispatches here} Vanderlip Wants Washing- | hotel. He was the son of Mr. and} and the stoppage of railroad Chicago the other evening. Ha luxurious life on Broadway, which | today M iddl W t ht\: | Mrs. H. Bius. (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) ‘ Chicago a boxing commission? catmtahted tte ber Panes heathy Herr Schwan, separatist leader,, ton Rumors Cleared Up in U e es i g eee Tomorrow afternoon these faithful was lynched by a mob of infuriated There was a young gtrl from Berlin) triends loyal Germans. ill gather with the sorrow- WASHINGTON, F Ln ° ? Who was terribly, terribly thin; icken relatives in the little Bap-| Twenty of Schwab's followers| Frank A. Vanderlip, New York TANS AI TaN Nees cg 18 i AURtD ERG DUR Ole Behe ropbed ‘Lundin | akes Lead In She shunned lemonade, \tist church, where Louise used to| were burned to death in the city| financier, was today subpoenaed “Lower the price of gasoline or of millions of dollars and No. Hor. she swas afraid sing and play the organ. They will | hall by tho senate Teapot Dome | We'll fight to nationglize the ofl | braskans are going to have pro- Bhe'd slip thru the straw and fall in.) hear Dr. ¥ Groher, the kindly| Dispatches recelved here up to| committee to appear before it | industry,” was the. ultimatum | tection | 4 Naoto pastor who baptised her 11 years|noon said a total of 49 were known| tomorrow - Galfverpc: todsy by Gove Chats Both governors have appealed irs ay s raw O e Adam was a real inventor because | ago, rend her funeral serytce, to be 4 at that hour t called Van. | W. Bryan, of Nebraska, in an to President Coolidge for fed. | he made a ae — out of his) Louise Lawson didn’t come home| The separatists had lost 28 killed| derlip because of the latter's Interview with the United Press: eral action. | 3 spare parts.—fcreenland. as she had planned, had often|and the citiz statement regarding need for a The militant governor, who “If, the government won't act ik 7 E >] B ll ots Ind dic t R Will @ is neat | Yisioned her own return, hailed by| The separatists had taken refuge| congressional investigation of | smashed down coal prices in Ne- | wo will phys to” arouse” | ew al y a ots nalcate ace - (Rebruary 12) jher proud family and friends as an|in the building which w stormed the sale of the Marion braska by purchasing huge quan- | yubiie sentiment,” Bryan said | B Cl 4 Th E ti d i ie ieee ak ius whee | Boara ater: Iby the 1 Germans and set on| owned by the late President | tities of fuel and selling it tothe | Crpnatically. “There can. be e ULl0oser an Kxpecte : thie and that,/ But no greater homage could| fire Harding. | people at cost, charges the exist: | tut one result—abolition of» | ——— tee the boxing. matches, and several ro.| '2¥e been paid her than will be| Mobs of infurlated citizens contin ae os ence of a nation-wide conspirac private oll interests and conse The few scattering votes that had tor of The Star."* ust fellows did flail each other, to |shown tomorrow by the simple folk | ued to hunt down separatists thru NEW YORK, Feb. 13—A con-| to gouge the public by pushing quent government regulation |arrived at The Star office up tonoon| The total votes received will be did labor the di but little done, and so in the and did see there G.| who still believe in her. out Pirmasens today gressional investigation to clear} up the price of oll to “unreasn and price fixing.” | Mone the opening day of The|printed daily until the close of the ‘ x All the stores in Alvaredo will be Wherever ferreted out these sep-| president Harding's good name of| able’ heights. e 5 Coker ‘i Sta straw vote on the mayoralty| vote at midnight Saturday, February 4 { ¢ceuk; Capt. & Bartiagton and N. closed, and from miles around will | aratists were killed or badly beaten.) Washington rumors regarding the Bryan has joined Gov. W. TH. When gasoline prices were | contest, indicated that the race may|23. This will permit publication of 9 ] who doth sefl coals. And so to home in| come sympathetic, bigshearted ‘Tex-| Trouble began yesterday when citi of his newspaper, the Marion | ster, of South Dakota, Ina | hoisted last summer Bryan and 11. tortor than somo of the candi jthe final vote om Monday, February | be A Ar spec as folk who remember Louise as a|7ens of Pirmasens, reinforced by the| star, was urged today by Frank A.| campaiga against what they | atiarak agree bakes: lots | dates have led their friends to bo-| 25, the day before the primaries, “curly-haired little type,” w favorite | fire department, started a concerted | yanderlip, in an interview with| termed “a nation-wide oil trust, and sold it at cos! Htieve. | “ : 4 There is only one thing in the|«ia* around town. ae attack upon the separatists. Provid Bee ‘ men at his office here. | composed of the Standard Oil “We can’t do that now,” ths wail the Manaing? neqy whupoe be ie Foren Gel 3 a world that smells worse than the| ‘rhe honest triblute of these sim-|ed with plentiful supplies of ammu-| Yanderlip thus explained his| éompany, independent concerns | Bryan declared. “Oil producing Alfred H, Lundin in WhAtsis' golie! to “happencih: tae Teapot Dore oll lease—a campaign} p16 mourners will seem like jrony in| Nition, the ists rallied and] «peech on the same subject deliv-| and d interests.” | agencies have combined outside T. Erickso | general election, So are all the other ‘ Care haat the wake of her New York traged (Turn to Page 7, Column 7) ered last night before the Ossining | “We'r to bust thistrust | the state. They regulate the | 1 J. Brown. . 21 | voters. But they cannot feel the po- } “My good man, you ‘had better} ooo” friends will pay her the same - | Rotary club, during a banquet at} wide open," Bryan declared: | price of oil shipments to Ne- | ery man and cori in Seattle | litical pulso of the pilblic generally TREE treet vac Lerner "F/measure of tribute in cold death ‘accorded when the warmth of life|Briarclift lodge, =~ “Prices are increased at will. braska and begin with increases | is eligible to vote. All that is neces-| unless YOU get in and do YOUR “Sh! no ushe! My wite wouldn't|t2%t her Say Broadway. companions suffused her body. | ___ (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) Last week's increase was un- (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) y is to fill out the attached ballot | part in casting YOUR ballot, ES and to mail it to the ‘Straw Vote So be sure to VOTE TODAY, let me—hic—keep it in the house. (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) ngs a —. HERE IS ONE Romance, as the Sea Queen’s Stewardess Found It { mw ayoralty Ballot j BY JIM MARSHALL, When the Sea Queen used to jmance was a terror, I've knowed all. the mash notes from furrin, With all that, said the captain, In The S le Star’s S! Vv t FOR YOU HIS romance stuff, sald Cap. | be on the Honolulu run she was |hor to sit and ery salt tears over|counts and dooks and whatnots. [sho was a good stewardess and 1 n e Seattle Star’s Straw Vote ohacl P ‘lar nest o' honeymooners, |some flapper’s frock that she was! No matter vo were|Was sorry to lose her, Her last A nice little home with plenty of tain Michael Phelan, of the | @ reg'lar n Dr No matter what port we were sorry ‘ aT. room for garden, Nidibne vie steamer Sea Queen, is like an- and the way Lucy would moon fixing up for the ship's ball and). oo. seattle to’ Bombay, that |Stunt ruined her. She run ore of ie cea de bese eeceue Cale 6 Ng Ree US nL VITD au ete. f i yi e chovies. A little is all right, but around and wish some handsome’ | thinking, between gulps, how mebbe |!” i r ads in tho papers and thought} (Name i 3 as a steady diet it pails consid- young lero would be smitten the frock would get all crushed up| Woman always put ads in the local lthese here’ “object matrimony” E erable. Yet some folks spend with’ her was a caution. She used Jin some heman's brawny arms in|papers, describing herself and ask-|maybe she'd get some rol|,,. PGE ONE: ee cast my vote for HOME OF 6 ROOMS thelr lives hunting romance. And | to sit and dream for hours about | dark corner of tho promenade] ing for some romantic. job, like|mance outa that. The ad brought| (Addrens) 1 nere of land; fruit trees; chick- they: Tee Eanes todo | tes ee Patathcn teenth) pair deck after the dance. being companion to a womun ex-|9l/replies and ono of them sounded | en house; garage; has ‘sightly with it {¢ they found it. Chey Saentally, | AbG Sine some | ie ; rearilh” rats oF ake snt|s0 good she fell for it an t ° nate location. ‘Small payment down. You take Mrs. Taicy Crofoot, way to get’‘om’ together, I'l | Wcy ‘vas always dreamin’ that)plorer,’ or nurse aboard a yacht a i a i pats : aS 2 | OCS ncn nono n tenn enr ence nnn for mayor of Seattle, | — : 4 If you are looking for a bar. that sid (405 be: tewardéan:'on bet you Lucy has been respon. |80Me wealthy old feller wonld come} goin’ on’ a world cruise, But she | bac o South Bend, Indiana, tb (Candidate) F Fy gain, seo this today. this here boat, said the captain. | sible for a hundred weddings. Jaboard the Sea Queen for his heuith|never seemed to have no luck at|marry the feller 3 I guews she'd been pretty near | | And mobbe half that many land be nursed back to where he|it, The last time we was in Sydney| ‘The captain sat up and slapped These are the three men who have filed for the § * , , Ts y, # n e i " not cock: | she ost had a young millionaire * y wl e vi . x ever happened to her that she'¢ captain, # ging up Oo hh ¥ dd mé sold o1 a s 4? he asked ‘s = x . a . boone mies cia brent ataed Gail totonntis, “Bik wid: Ail’ the herth and filling his pipe. out of gratitude. Or that some|lot of South Sea Islands, with her|feller that writes up railroad time|| EJ. Brown Alfred H. Lundin Oliver T. Erickson’ ‘f time hunting romance and 1 | ALWAYS DREAMED netorine, with a world reputation|as stewardess on his yacht, but|tables for some astern road. Mail to Straw Vote Editor of The Star and Watch the Paper f (era OA guess that's why she got the job |OF FAIRY PRINCE and a wandering foot, would hire| somebody told him tho fsiands were} Can y' imagine Lucy getting Dally Totals.) M ja the first place, The way that woman chased ro- her as socrotary and let her answer|malarious, and he called it off, ‘romance outa thatt,