The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 14, 1924, Page 1

NE ] j Howdy, folks! Do you remem 4 ber when you were a kid and sent your paw a comic valen And how you laughed? did your young son send you} m impertiz « vie put hav both an a democrat as tors in e oil case, is that rties can take credit fi the acquittal LI'L GER GEE, TH’ OFFICE VAMP, SEZ 3 Every man should have a ; home where he can fight in q | peace. i a x —--~- oe x Los Ange overs that Dc iMegally leased a city pier there. 3 Leave it.to that town to get in on ie everything in the way of publicity Next to getting ketchup out ketchup bottle, the most thing in the world iy to get cre from a bootlegger + TROUBLES + ANYWAY : A column conductor felt jolly | nd turned out a pome in his folly, Ls } The editor swore And showed him the door, And now he's conducting a trolley. Princeton professors ing to decide w! important words langauge. Li'l Gee Gee ave been try. he six most he English s the six most im “I love you, I time the Skagit pro} the “1s finished too. taxpayers | =, In the flood distr : remote regions of Skagi is reported that numerous stills have been inundated and that the ducks and chickens are dying by the thous- ands of delirium tremens. TODAY'S FABLE Once upon a time there was a car which crossed the Spokane street bridge without its trolley coming off. s in the more it county, It Srresan', Two youths were fined $5 in De- troit yesterday for reading movie loud ter? Haven't they capital punishment in Michigan? . ed chairman of central committee that a man cap—even a He tried to kiss Helen And helt ensued, Bo then he quit Helen And Iiclen sued. . Cecil B. Fitzgerald has been elect the republican state thereby proving an overcome any handi- like Cevil. Eastern scientist has invented a device with which he photographs sounds. We wish he'd take a photo-| graph of a cam would look like ign speech. Bet it limburger cheese * CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IV¥ CLUB Minnie Giggle who thinks Val- entino is just too sweet for words. jer tees Al Lundin, candidate for mayor, says if elected he will close all the Chinese lotteries. to playing golf . Pomona is shocked by a’ “strip gut no doubt Los Angeles will use the incident to show the mildness of a weather down there, YE DIARY (February 14) Up_betimes, and to the offi in the evening to Milord Keiter’s p! house, where I did see C, Sales, comique, who doth characters, and n great concourse of ple present, K. Stacy, D. Whiteomb and M4 | WEATHER pees aang ter a Vol = 801 What? Drive them | ! Cops Advertise Lundin; Chief Severyns Wrathv poker” party resulting in 22 arrests. | y= the impersonate rural | Entered as Se Class Brown SAYS VICE IS RAMPANT, BUT “DOC” LAUGHS Churchmen Enter Fight With At- tack on Moral Conditions By John W. Nelson Seattle churches plunged Into the city politeal campaign Tharsday with a scathing attack upon moral conditions under the administration of Mayor Brown und an appeal to their member- ship to Vote at the primaries February May Br at the * Thursda rmed of ort ned at a meet committee of hurches at noon, when a ve report of correspond ween officials of the church ublic he report was designed to show an utter indifference and Chiet Sev nds by the against broth ath end of town. porated is a report from the surgeon a! of the United States, plac ing the blame for a huge increase in Brown ted de rehmen: for action els in the Seattle police department. A report from Dr, Hiram M. Read is included, showing an’ in- crease of more than 50 per cent in the number of social disease cases handled by hix department | during the regime of Mayor | Brown and Chief Severyns, com- pared with the last year of the Mayor Caldwell-Chief Searing regime. “Mayor Brown has frequently stated that he knew of no places} where and urging that such places be re ported to the chief of police,” report states. “The following data Chief Severyns and Mayor Brown || have had repeated notice in writing of ‘the open and persistent solicita- tion of vice in the Bailey Gatzert school, schools and churches. AFFIDAVITS ON FILE, REPORT DECLARES “The correspondence five Sunday represents only a part’of the efforts made by! friends of public health, decency and morality to get his chief of pol e to do their plain duty,” the report continues. here are many affidavits of reputable and responsible citizens on Carn: to Page 9, Ce FLOOD WATERS _INUNDATE TOWN | Home Aores Des Deserted; Dyke | Broken by River Current jumn 3) Swollen streams in the Snohom ish valley east of Everett, broke ladditional stretches of river dykes |Thursday morning, forced residents of Home Acres, a small-farm nelgh- |borhood, to flee their homes during |the night and cut off motor com- munication from Everett north. The Snohomish river watera cut the dykes and flooded the area be- tween that city and Cavalero's Cor- |ners, where Snohomish, Everett and |Mt. Vernon roads intersect. Water in Cedar river is still high tho not threatening Seattle's city | water plant, according to word re~ |ceived by George F. Russell, super- | (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) EATTLE, r Brown and Chief of 8 concerning alleged | tions In the city was on the part of } Incor- | eal diseases upon the laxRy of the Iaw was being violated} the} shows that} area near the} Mayor Brown and) Matter May 2, 1899, at under the WASH., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1924 Church Report Did Nothin , but Got the Cash! ASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—John C. Shaffer, publisher of a string of newspapers, told the senate oil lease com- mittee today he received $92,000 “for services” in connection with Harry F. Sin- clair’s payment to the Pioneer Oil com- pany of $1,000,000 for claims to Teapot Dome. Shaffer said he had one-eighth interest nerese Ma ar W 392,000 OIL GIFT Home Edition EATTLE The Newapater W ith the I slag cat C freulation in We shington - The Seattle Sta by Mall TWO CEN' IN *: in the Pioneer but had performed no ser- vices and had put up no money. “They simply made you a present of your one-eighth interest?”’ Senator Walsh asked. “Yes, sir.’”’ “What did you give up to interest?” “Nothing.” get this Here’s Seattle’s 1924 BAKERY TRUST Valentine “Grow Up With Seattle!” is the valentine | jing in “Wonderful Western Washington.” Yes, sir, it’s (BROWN LEADING| BANDIT DIES in Straw Vote HE of The | result | | straw ‘ote on the may oily enastion vate is 'Grocer’s Shot “Ends Life of | Fawin J: Picken’... st |% Young. Desperado Alfred J. Lundin .,. uM pers If YOU havent’ yet cast a || Paul Russell, 22-year-old bandit, {] ballot, VOTE TODAY. You'll paid with his life, Thursday morn || find the ballot on page 9 ing, for the attempted holdup of a = = | grocery store last Monday night. H E FOUND died at 10:30. BOOZ Russell, with another man, en IN POOL ROOM |tered a store at 15th ave. W., and, drawing a pistol, commanded C. 8. Lundberg, proprietor of a pool | Dan Lyppes, 61, the grocer, to hold was arrested by and deputies room at Redmond, Sheriff Matt Starwich Jup his hands. Lyppes jumped hind a stack of boxes, secured his Wednesday and released under jown gun na dfired one shot The bail on a charge of possession of li-| bullet struck Russell, penetrating quor with intent to sell. his head, The other bandit escaped. a Gh NDIN for mayor!" roared with laughter Wednesday above inscription on the windshi wagon dashing down the stre It had been supposed the police } cl “Somebody put the sign there Afternoon crowds on Second ave, stared in amazement and lef Severyna, however, laid it to a practical joker. he started out on a call,” he declared, would be a hot time coming for the guilty cop. The coroner has been unable to locate any relatives of the dead | man, Italy Fears Oil | Investigation Due} ROM ts se “Teapot” in Italy's and is demanding that | Mussolini government publish the full text of the convention by which | Harry I. Sinclair obtained a monop- oly in the survey and exploitation of Italian of! resources. ‘Thus far the agreement with the Sinclair company has been kept #e- when they saw the sign with the old and side of the police patrol department was for Mayor Brown, and the driver didn't see it until The chief intimated there Miss Hazel Stewart, Commerce publicity staff, is sending to pro spective tourists and settlers back East. The Star co-operates with a flock of headlines, telling some of the advantages of liv-|retaiters FROM WOUNDS ON WATERFRONT | REACHES PORT) Feb, 14—The Rome Press | oil | her hull. badly. the | |from Oriental porta. | the crew did not expect the vessel to ROBS NATION; SENATE HEARS Big Steal Charged Thru Price Boost Over Country; To Ask Investigation ombine Bread shou! centa for a po caf, Instead of nine certs, Manly maid, basing his statement on the present. price of * report was based on an jon made request of ve congre: who de Dp know wh ad pri: re tually war level, at went below pre-war Bread made from American fiour at4 He bakers and re tallers are making enormous profits on flour and bread Manly cited the General Baking Co, which, he declared, in 1922 117 cer cent on each share of k before the declaration of two stock dividends of 100 and 300 per cent in the same year. Profits for 1923 were even greater, he asserted. As a result of these ed prot Ite and stock div . $1 invested ir General Baking stock, com: mon, in 1916, is w worth $309, Manly Bread prices in American cities were declared by ly to be “arbi. and artifi and violating 1 economic cents | and Houston, T the Bread cost. oO away ew . far wheat and flour from milling states, than in Chicago, Omaha, Butte and St. Paul, all in the heart of the wheat belt, he said | Boston, Bridgeport, New Haven and other New England citles pay leas for bread than any city in the grain belt, except Kansas City, - Manly reported. of the Chamber of|” pero “artificial and excessive And | prices are fixed and maintained bs supported by the lar; Ee sale bakers, elther volur under threat of boycott, the port charged, SEAMEN ROBBED Bread Prices Not Compulsory, Claim PORTLAND, Feb. 14.—People pay | 10 cents for bread now only because ily re Vi alentine’ 's Day again! | they want to. Lone Bandit Escapes With "rans, hanagee at ob atthe |leading bakeries of Portland, grain |center of the Pacific Cash in Daring Holdup ent | “More than 60 per of the In a daylight holdup on the wat-|bread in Portland is sold at 10 Jerfront, near the Hartford st. | cents," he declared, . “People learn dock, a bandit robbed two mento like the flavor of certain brands, and eseaped with a small amount|or know the conditions under which f cash and some personal papers |the bread is made, and are willing jon Thursday morning. |to pay more t Balagains, of the stcamer | Creasterhall, and his. friend, L. |Shortner, were walking near the | dock when @ bandit stepped from a doorway and drew a pistol on them, Bulagains lost a few dollars in cash and his discharge papers. . Short: |ner was robbed of a small amount of change. The bandit then backed away a| short distance, turned and ran, | |Franc Slumps t to 22.40 to Dollar PARIS, Feb. 14.—The French frane wes weaker today, being quoted at} 2.40 to the dollar and 96.40 to the | pound sterling. Another Good Car Buy Today Here is a standard model that will give someone pleasure for the season. DAMAGED SHIP car real VICTORIA, B. C., Feb wrenched the Japa- nese freighter Toshin Maru {s in port here today after a perilous voyage 14,—With | LIGHT SIX STUDEBAKER ROADSTER = | Bumpers front and rear good While off the tires, and in excellent mechani- Aleutian islands the vessel was eal condition, pounded by a terrific typhoon, and |} = 2s the gigantic waves cracked the vessel || Turn to the Want: Ad columns and broke several plates. For atime || and see who is selling this little bargain, reach port, they sald, | One More Publisher Is “Cared for” Frank Vanderlip’s Appearance Is De- layed; Teapot Dome Lease Kept Secret by Order of Secretary Fall, Committee Learns WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—-Postponing until tomorrow the juestioning of Frank A. Vanderlip, New York financier, regarding his statement that the late President Harding’s ale of the Marion Star ought.to be investigated, the sentae Teapot Dome committee today got testimony which showed: Th Attorney General Daugherty gave “informal and verbal” approval to the naval oil leases and contracts for exchanging oil for storage, under which Doheny and Sin- clair got the oil leases. . That Daugherty’s opinion was given in the face of a written opinion from a Standard Oil lawyer tnat the pro- Capital Rumor Mad! BY LAWRENCE MARTIN- (Copyright, 1924, by the United Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Washington is rumor mad and politicians are literally hysterical with fright. Every man in public life who ever bought a share of oil stock is afraid his name will be dragged into the Tea- pot Dome scandal. Men who had more damaging con- nections with the leading figures in the case are waiting ort of numb terror for the blow to fall on them. 1e result is that the whole 1924 presidential cam- paign has been turned topsy-turvy. posed leasing plan was “absurd” and illegal. That Fall knew of the Standard Oil lawyer’s opinion, but did not think it necessary to ask a formal opinion from Daugherty. That under instructions from former Secretary Fall the leasing of Teapot Dome was kept secret, orders being is- sued to all in the interior department to give out no in- formation. "hat Fall promised to see that Sinclair “took care” of John Shaffer, owner of several newspapers, who claimed un interest in the Pioneer Oil company’s rights to Tea- pot Dome. That Shaffer has oBtained $92,000 from Slinclair under an agreement growing out of his claim. Assistant Secretary of the Inter- hi for Finney testified that he was | present when arguments were |heard by Fall concerning dismissal jot a suit egainst the Standard Oil company of California relating to the title of section 36, rich section of naval reserve No. 1._ Finney said no one was heard |by Fall except Oscar Sutro, Stan- dard Oil attorney, and that Fall thereuponh dismissed the govern- ment proceedings and permitted |the Standard to retain the section, | Finney said he now disagrees with the ruling of Fall, but that he |put forward no protest when the {decision was made. Finney's testimony was marked lby the suggestion from Senator | Walsh, Montana, that Finney was | not telling the committee all he | knew. “I want the record to show," said Finney as he concluded his testi- mony, “that I am not consciously |concealing anything from this com- mittee.”* Walsh repeated that he could not “resist the conclusion that Mr. Finney has not done all he could {to help the committee get at the facts.” Walsh's statement was caused by Finney’s inability to explain defi- nitely why a formal opinion was not obtained from Daugherty and his statement that he could not re- member sending out the order for secrecy regarding the Teapot Dome lease. NEWS MAN GETS SINCLAIR CASH FRANK A, VANDERLIP EVELOPMENTS in the oil fraud mess in the last 24 hours show clearly the need for drastic action along two lines. The name of Warren G. Harding has been drawn into the Teapot Dome dis- cussion. Harding is dead— unable to defend himself. Those who have cast insinu- ations against him must be made to reveal their hands at once and forced to show adequate cause for state- ments they haye published. We commend the commit- tee for its promptness in calling Frank Vanderlip, the banker, before it to ex- plain. A publisher, testifying before the committee, tells en Valuable Oil Interests” WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—John C. Shaffer, publisher of a string of newspapers, told the senate oil lease committee today he received $92,000 “for services” in connection with Harry F. Sinclair's’ payment ww to the Pioneer Oil company af of taking money from Har- |) 1 990,000 for claims to. Teapot ry Sinclair, the oil magnate, | Dome. and can’t explain why this money was offered to him: Another newspaper pub- lisher, recently, told of a deal by which he and a partner were to get a mil- dion. It is just as vital to the interest of the country for the investigators to round ‘up all newspaper publishers whe have been dipping their hands into the oily mess as it is for them to round up all the politicians. Amerjca. must have a] government that is above suspicion, And it must have a press in which the public can repose confi- dence. Shaffer said he had one-eighth tn- terest in the Pioneer but had per formed no services and had put up no money. Senator Walgh the Pioneer company showing that Shaffer was given one-eighth inter: est. Shaffer said he never saw the minutes and did rot attend the meeting of the Pioneer directors. “They simply made you a pres- ent of your one-eighth interest?” Walsh asked, “Yes, sir.” “What did you give up to get }this Interest?” “Nothing.” Walsh produced @ letter written by Shaffer to Judge Finney, assist. ant secretary of the interior, “Mr. Fall had arranged with Mr, Sinclair for some acreage in the Teapot Dome for me personally,” the letter said. Shaffer said ho had a claim, be- cause he had spent $115,000 In dev (Turn to Page 9, Column ® Publisher Says He Was Giv- read minutes of ~