The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 16, 1924, Page 1

If You Hav en’t Yet ‘FRAM EUP DECLARES me WEA ht and 8 Temperature Maximum, 48. Today ing caste THER rain to ‘ ; increas Hours rina noon, 45 aaiedeslaeiaeiaiemad rly Last 25 25. VOL. NO. 303, Howdy, folks! Of all the words of tengue or pen, the sweetest sre “Payday agai . Spring is just around the corner but she hasn't taken off her “heav-| | A lot of men who laugh at the! frequency with which the Prince of | es falls off his horse ought to mber how often they used to| fall off the water wagon. e+e The flood waters in Snohomish and Skagit counties are receding and thé farmers are now fishing their | tasements for spring trout see in Residents in the affected area are preparing to dig clams in their front yards as soon as the tide goes out. eee Vanderlip says, he was merely try: | ng to clear Harding’s name of scan- dalous rumors. Some men’s idea of clearing a} man’s name of scandalous rumors| seems to be to broadcast the scan-| éalous rumors. } eee TODAY'S FABLE Once upon « time there was a axophone player who did hot vender the William Tell overture as an encore, sae Now that The Star building has been enlarged, we are going to ask for an office in the basement. Where else should Home Brew be may: tured? . Just at present we are situated just abaft the sporting editor's cua- pidor. A perilous spot, mates! eee A traveler is a gink who visits foreign lands, lives in hotels which | haven‘t any “plumbing, gets fleeced | ‘by hotel porters, is eaten up by mos-| quitoes, but is perfectly happy be-| cause he can send picture posteards | back to the home folks. | cee CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB The norse who wakes up her patient in order to give him a sleeping powder. It begins to look as if we would| it from the stream, showing its’ crump have to have a congessional inves- tigation to determine the right name of Mah Jongg. e- The breach a promise suit against | Coca Cola Candler was lost by the) lady he addréssed as “sweetums,” | but Second ave. flappers are now | asking the soda water clerk for a/ “glass of sweetums.” eee Today's Definition: A cornet is an instrument you blow spit out of before you oy. The revolution in Mexico is over. Shux! That wasn’t a revolution!) That wasn’t even a haif-turn! ene AN OLD SONG RE-SUNG It’s easy enough to be pleasant, With a lass and a glass and a song; | But the man worth while is the guy | can smile | When e's got the old woman) ale ig. see The polar flight of the Shenandoah has been called off. The authorities probably figured that the North Pole wasn’t strong enough to act as a} mooriny st. is me: oe We don't know why the navy wanted to send the Shenandoah over the North Pole unless it was to prove that all the gas-bags belonging tu the government arent in the senate, a> Autoist Drowns! Above: The Dinca river bridge at 14th ave. S. taken by William J. O'Brien's automobile in his death plunge early Saturday morning. j tV oted in 1 The Star’s Mayoralty Vote, ‘the Ballot Is on Page 3—Do It | LUNDIN! The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in ‘Washing gton the 1899, at the Post attle, SEATTLE, WASH., dotted line showing the route | | The auto broke thru the semaphore barrier and dropped off the open bridge onto a pier ied then into 25 feet of water. Below: The O'Brien automobile after tow boats and police harbor boats had dragged pier and then into the water. CAR HURTLES INTO STREAM Rescue Body After Crash From Open Bridge | of William J, O'Brien, 40, 1506 Forrest st., who Friday night drove his automobile off the open draw- bridge over the Duwamish river at Mth ave. S., was recovered Saturday in shallow water near the river bank by L. N. Me- Tihaney, bridge tender. | John R. O'Brien, Ahe dead man's} brother, positively identified the body. Police discovered a bottle of moonshine in the coat pocket of the | aceident victim OBrien drove onto the bridge shortiy before midnight Fri The bridge was open to allow a tow of logs to pass up the river. Several cars were standing in line waiting for | the draw to close, but O'Brien drove past the entire lot and crashed into the guard rail, breaking it and plung- ing into the river. The ody ee SPEAKING OF POLITICIANS The reason the American peo- ple have “In God We Trust” on their coinage is because He is about the only one they can trust. . In the winter the baseball experts make a lot of wild guesses, but when the season is really on, they’ can’t go very far wrong with ‘No runs, no hits, no errors.” oe Since the Doneny scandal, a lot of republicans are figuring that the democratic candidate's real name is McAdieu. YE DIARY (February 15) My wife and I to my chamber, where tha the badness of my eyes, they hav- ing a sty therein, she was forced to rend to me, which she do very well, albeit she | doth lisp mightily, And by and by, the | chamber being warm, I did fall asleep, | price did irk her, and so hot words between us, but soon settled, and to Police immediately began dragging operations and recovered the auto before daylight. Later the body was found. G. T. Lamb, 403 Ninth ave., who was waiting in his car on the bridge when O'Brien drove into the river, said Saturday that the man eame up the incline at a fair rate of speed, passed the autos lined up and then at the last minute seemed to sense the danger and put on his brakes. The car could not stop soon enough, however, and smashed thru guard. O’Brien 1s believed to have been alone. Would Investigate Oklahoma Indians WASHINGTON, Feb, 16.—Con-| greasional investigation of the admin- istration of Indian affairs in Okla. homa would be authorized under a joint resolution introduced in the reading again. “ A. J, 8, senate today by Senator Harreld, Oklahoma, the | —Photos by led condition after hurtling from the bridge to the Price & Carter, Star Staft Photographers Lundin Takes Vote Lead ITH the ballots coming in more rapidly as the campaign progresses, Alfred H. Lundin went into the lead Saturday in The. Star's straw vote on the mayoralty candi- dates. The results of the bal- lots, up to noon today, were: Alfred H. Lundin... « 261 Edwin J. Brown. «255 Oliver T. Erickson. 168 Total . 679 If YOU haven't voted yet, be sure to cast YOUR ballot today. Unless EVERYBODY votes, it will be impossible to get the true pulse ‘of public opinion. The ballot ts on Page 3. Friends Forbidden to See Prisoners With exception of public officials and attorneys, no persons will be allowed to visit prisoners at the county jafl who ate defendants in narcotic cases without the permis. sion of Harry V. Williamson, head of the narcotics office, according to announcement by E. B. Benn, U. 8. marshal. The new ruling is an out- growth of the discovery that addicts outside of the jail have been smug- sling dope ‘to prisonérs thru the mesh netting of the jail, Williamson waid, ‘ BETTORS FAVOR - MAYOR ON ODDS Brown Slight Favorite; Wagers Are Jumbled Betting odds on the mayoralty cam- |paign’ present as jumbied and unset- |tled a condition as the status of the candidates, according to questions presented discreetly at various “bet- \ting quarters” Saturday. Mayor | Brown, however, rules a slight favor- | Ite. | Odds of one to four are wanted on the bet that Mayor Brown will obfain la majority of the votes in the prt- |mary. <The same odds are’ wanted |that he will be eiiminfited, | A well known attorney bet a city/ Jemploye $100 even that the mayor will obtain the primary majority, but | bet by | \this is considered a “poor” | alleged wise ones. ‘Three to two odds are offered that the mayor will be-nominated. Ohe. to two odds are offered that Erickson will be nominated, and the same figure prevails on Alfred Lun- din. ‘There are even money bets that Mayor. Brown will be reelected select elther of.the other two candi- dates for final erection. Reports are current that a betting concern with national ramifications {s taking a poll of public opinion and shortly will ‘make a book” on the facts obtained. Sen. Dill Flays Lodge ASHINGTON, Feb, 16—An attempt to have the nomina- tions of Owen J. Roberts, Phila- delphia, and Atlee Pomerene, Ohio, as presidential counsel to prosecute the oil cases considered by the senate in open sessoin to- day, started a bitter fight be- tween democrats and Republican Leader Lodge. Senator Dill, Washington, ask. ed open consideration of the two names and when Lodge objected, tried to move it. Lodge said he was out of order. Dil thereupon Lodge: “You may agal the doors of this senate, but you can never seal the shouted at lips of the American people.” SATURDAY, mayor, but odds bf three to one and | two to one are wanted when, betters | Wash FEBRUARY GLOOMY ae lad Off; Can’t Near New Boots 16, 1924 President ® Polar Flight. to| + Stop; United ws nation [Denby as a result of the abrupt | halting by Presid | dirigibie to be Denby, officers, he did the tion with th | opportunity to quit the unt Denby |that in compliance with ofders from | | | for ase of opp expenditure of that no furth | appropriation 8 |given |itself concerning the’ flight |. This jgreas for two reasons. jhas Mrs. B. H. Wyatt, suffers the greatest disap-| pointment over the cancella-| tion of the dirigible flight to} the North Pole. ANCELLATION Photo by Price & Carter, Bitar Staff Photographers "ee iC the dirigible Seattle to Ala | of | from | of the Shenandoah flight ka has-brotight gloom | to hundreds of scientific and naval| jmen in the but it compare in any measure to the dis- country cannot| appointment that it has caused Mrs, BH." Wyatt, wifo of Ideut. Wyatt, who, previous to stoping of the flight, was scheduled to leave for Alaska Saturday to prepare the way for the. venture Now that the flight 1s canceled, |Lieut. Wyatt will not go to Alaska. | ‘And consequentiy ~ Mrs. ~ Wyatt iivon't go to A And. as long as Mrs, Wyatt isn't going to Alaska she'll have no use| for her, Russian boots that she pyr. {chased ‘in Seattle, “especially for the trip.’* | Wyatt’ was out shopping afternoon, She called her husband and he told: her that the trip was off, “It's too bad," he said. “The expedition would have been of im- mense scientific value and it would have heightened the prestige of the American navy——” “Oh, those scientists can think of lsome other wild thing,” the wife interrupted him, “but now I'll never- |never-never-never have a chance to woar those Russign boots—and the stores have the cutest things these | |‘sourdough' girls wear, and ——* the + hed on, the hook. | So Saturday Mrs. Wyatt was busy canceling orders for clothes that she | |was going to take with her on her| | trip North. But the wosst of it all is the {act that she will not have an op: portunity to wear those "pretty lit- | tle Russian boots,” the stop | done, | cons eas to the fi: who| | The SeattleStar | ntered as Hecond Pisas Matter May 2, * TWO CENTS IN ‘SEATTLE. Wilson Offered | Sinclair Money! = DENBY ww PLANS BE WORKED! HALTED | g World to ecial Wash- ng that in firm of Wilson & Colby was appre Orders hed by Harry Sinclair’ to represent him in ent of.a threatened investt. on of his* naval reserve oil leases, The firm, ized by for. President Wilson and Bain Colby soon after Wilson's retirement from the While House, Sinclair's offer, ne World today, Declaring that Sinclair “fore saw * * * soon after he secured the big oil concession (Teapot Dome) * * * the storm clouds gathering on the horizon ‘as rumblings began to be heard in congress over the deal,” the World dispatch says Sinclair, according to well- informed persons in Washing- ton, first approached Bainbridge Golb: in’ New York in the spring of 1922 and made him an attractive proposition for the firm of Wilson & Colby to rep- resent the Sinclair oil interests in matters growing out of the Teapot Dome lease. The offer of legal ment to the former and his law partner went ficiently far for a formal propo- sition to be made to Colby. The latter took the matter up with ex-President Wilson in #Wash- ington, Woodrow Wilson, with characteristic sense of propriety, determined at once and without discussion that the firm of Wil- son & Colby could not accept any employment with Sinclair or with any other interests re- quiring representation before any of the government depart- ments or before congress.” Secretary or me BY FRASER EDWARDS Press Staff Correspondent | ASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Resig: ) of Secretary of the Navy | nt C h’s in of the North Pole | navy circles | Shena reported imminent it was said om felt this more k adoption of lution condemning kim in naval ofl reserves | nanding that he resign, er quarters it was in-| d that Mr. Coolidge may have was n this step to aff 1 Denby an| cabinet vol: | arily \ late yesterday announced employ- president uf. all preparatory work | had Ween summar ordered thk the flight ped. Mr Denby's stat sition to “tt $80,000." step: passed had to and an opportunity mystified members of First, there little opposition in sht, and such a Column 7) con: been very (Turn to Page 3, High School Morals (EDITORIAL) {FIVE Queen Anne high school students were in- definitely suspended and a sixth barred from school athletics by the board of education Friday night as a result of an investigation of drinking among students. The board announces it is not thru. are determined to find out what, if anything, is wrong in Seattle high schools, For this, it is to be commended. But in this as well as in al] other investigations Dame Rumor should play no part, unless back of this busybody lie facts that can be laid before the board in a way that will enable its members to take prompt and just action. Since the Queen Anne episode first came to the surface the air has been charged with wild stories of misconduct, bad morals and lax discipline in Seattle high schools. Anonymous letters and mysterious telephone calls have reached The Star about evils that are said to exist. If these things are true, those who know of thera should make themselves known and lay their information before the board at once. One member of the board admits he believes con- ditions are bad in the high schools—worse, he thinks, than they ever were befure. The Star is inclined to the belief that things are not greatly different today than they have been at other times. But it senses the seriousness of a situ- ation like this and feels that if the present condition is NOT dissimilar to others in the past, school patrons should be the more willing to co-operate with the school board and stamp it out now. If the in- vestigation hits students, they should go; if it should involve teachers, nothing short of immediate dismissal will suffice, Its members ‘Oil Magnate Saw | Storm Clouds and| Asked for Help INSISTS RUMORS: FALSE! Dédares Brows Is Spreading Slan- der, but Cannot Hurt Reputation By S. B. Groff “A dirty frameup,” was the way Alfred H. Lundin, mayoral- ty candidate, Saturday branded the charges against him that were made by Mayor Brown to , the Seattle Council of Churches. Lundin declared: “Dr. Brown, |ment and grafters, cannot frighten |me. The good people’ are'in the ma- jority, and no character assassina- tion can get by.” d Twelve ministers and business men conferred with Police Chief W. B. estigate certain charges of mise jconduct brought by Brown against 4 his. rival. | Lundin asserted Saturday that he | |had no fear of Brown's charges, be- | cause his conscience is clear and hig reputation spotless. He also sald that anonymous communications, at- tacking his reputation, were being put in the mail and sent to yoters, Rev. Ambrose M. Bailey, pastor of |the First Baptist church, and presix dent of the Seattle Council Of Churches, said Saturday that no ace tion would be taken by that body, as a result of the conference, until | next week. He added that, while he did not know the official opinion of the committee, his own personal ~ belief is that the charges are entire- ly without fact and unfeunded. He condemned strongly the “campaign of vilification which Mayor Brown — is waging,” and said that the two policemen, who were witnesses, con- except the main charge. | “I told the son of Mayor Brown," said Bailey, “that the best way to defeat his father and Lundin was | to keep on’ in that w | Senate Asks Probe | of Bread “Trusts” | WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—The sen- te today instructed the federal trade | | commi jon to investigate the price f bread and alleged activities of a | “bread trust," lette, progressive leader, calling for | a full inquiry, was adopted without |a record vote. | Widow Bequeathed Packer’s Estate Mrs. Sophie BE. Henry is the prin- ~ | cipal recipient of the estate of James will of the pioneer packer. She in- herits $245,000 of the $275,000 estate. and brothers in various parts. of tht United States. The will was admitted to probate by Judge King Dyke | Friday. 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