The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 18, 1924, Page 1

Nn Ra gedhge jay Temperature Maximum, 3 Today —————_- — YY NO. 304. Last Mf Hours T he Newspaper With the Biggest Cireul ation in 1 Washington Miniewan noon, 46. Bavered as se DENBY QUITS! # me Brew Howdy, folks! Seems as if this Harding controversy could be fagnosed as too much Vander a $ vite The mayoralty campaign is rap iy developing into a mudslinging featest. And, of course, Old Doc hewn bas a decided edge. Isn't ho sGrt farmer? Mayor Brown says Al Lundin is « murderer or sumpthing. To things interesting, Al ought to back and charge Doc with Campaign stogan: Say It With <DIDATE FOR THE POISON | ae a he goof who forgets to take @ his wrist watch when taking eee Silas *Grump, the sage of| n Hollow, says: “Th’ game} ig becomin’ so dern demo-| Tot uy samloty folks: is Bety givin’ tt up.” } ore Bthat all the downtown ex- have started using dial tele-) @ffice workers will have beside the pepcil sharp-| Which to exercise ad arpener will de, axa form of} the visit to the} Toms to get a drink of water.) Bie ec | a nn K 'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE || VAMP, SEZ: 1} young couple agree to | and that's the last thing | they agree upon. | | a see Gee's sole possession is a} ie Every time she winds it, she) M laughing heartily) that she is up her estat! MEMBER RESIGNS DOOMED CABINET MELLON BER PLAN IS Says Usefulness 2-Hour Conference) Is Past; Denies) Fails to Break: “Oil” Guilt Is| Deadlock of Op-| Cause of Action) posing Leaders WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, — WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—The Secretary of the Navy Denby's administration tax program successor will “not be a man seemed doomed today when # from Michigan nor anyone com twehour tonferenee between nected with the navy,” it was | house republican and progress said by an official close to Presi- ive leaders failed to break tho dent Coolidge this afternoon. deadlock on income tax rates. This was taken as disposing | No further conference has been of the possibility that Charles pie and administration leaders | B.. Warren, Detroit, would be | concede defeat for thelr program un appointed, lesa a compromise is made before the Warren was believed to have | vote. the inside track as Denby’s suc- | Progressives stood pat for 50 per) teasor. |oent eut in the normal income tax |rate, but Republican Leader Long: | | Worth refused to budge from his po- } sition that the lower rate would be a fundamental change in the Mellon program. BY FRASER BDWARDS (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Feb, 18—See- retary of the Navy Denby today resigned from the cabinet: President Coolidge acepted his resignation. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt was reported to have resigned, but he later denied that he was quitting ROOSEVELT WILL NOT QUIT POST Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. is not re signing, he said, upon leaving the White House after a conference with the president. OIL CONFESSION GIVEN SENATORS, Subpoenas ‘for Brokerage | Firms Foretell Sensation yd Class Matter May 2 SEATTLE, 1899, at the nder the Act of Congress Ma WASH., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1924 The Seattle Star 0!" MID-‘WINTER’ DIP Alki Girls Gambol in uset Sound Surf, __.. Rain or'Shine, the Yeer Round «. .. } or Shine, the Y "Round ROBBED! Victim of Daylight Holdup * TWO CENTS IN SEATTL Two Bandits Get $12,000 in Bold Job! ? | Youthful Bank Em Raadeee Held Up in Leslie Chester, jand Arthur Wakefield, 19,| | Metropolitan National bank) | messengers, who were robbed | of $12,100 Monday morning | by two masked bandits. Photos hy. Price & Carter, 18, (above)i\ Rear of Federal Reserve Bank by Unmasked Pet Who Escape in Auto M enge: GROFF in the rear of the Fed- al Reserve bank of San Francisco in the National Bank of Commerce building, Second ave. and Seneca st., two unmasked bandits at 10 o'clock Monday morning secured $12,000 in currency and escaped in a waiting automobile. The two messengers, Arthur Wakefield, 19, 605 East | Denny way, and Leslie Chester, 18, 361 Wheeler st., em- ployed by the Metropolitan National bank, were carrying | the money from their bank to the Federal Reserve bank thru the alley between Second | They were on foot, unarmed and unguarded, and as they were about jto enter the rear door of the Re- jserve bank, the bandits confronted | them. | | One of the holdups, a tall, red-} faced man, approached: them from) the front. Another man closed in| on them from the rear. Both the men were armed and unmasked. |The man behind pushed the muzzle of his gun into Wakefield's ribs, jtaking the money satchel from him jwith the command, “Keep on walk jing or I'l shoot you.” Both the [bandits then. ran down the alley. Wakefield and Chester ‘kept on |walking and turned around just in |time to see a Maxwell auto leave the curb with the bandits in it, They} believe there were three of the men. | VICTIMS TELL HOW IT FEELS and Third aves. Vote Lead LFRED H. LUNDIN maintained Monday the lead he took Saturday in The Star’s straw vote on the may- oralty situation. The result of the vote, up to noon Mon- day, was: ALFRED H. LUND! EDWIN J. BROW: OLIVER T. ERICKSON. .228 Total vote ...........,.960 If YOU haven't yet cast your ballot, VOTE TODAY. You'll find the ballot on Page 14. Mail it to The Straw Vote Editor, The Star. LUNDIN RUMOR “Why go to California for sea bathing in the winter?) SE ee eerreners | Holdup:. Went ant Off as if It Was Rehearsed asks Mise Maxine Rogers, 2940 Alki ave. (right). “Why, n-| } y ase echoes her friend, Miss Genevieve Turner, 2820 2d TAKING SEAMEN BRANDED VILE ave. S.W. A Star cameraman came along Sunday after-| BY W. B. FRANCE noon and caught the girls just emerging after a dip in the| “It’s not bad. There's nothing to —_— E K except feeling cheap and tosing/Churchmen Find No Basis your money.” That is how L. K. Sound, Sea bathing winter and summer is a habit with) | Jation, it was learned today. many Alki beach residents. | ‘Chester, one of the two Metropolitan | for Attack, Report icasiaten® wiembers declined. a Photo by Price & Carter, Btar Staff Photographers reveal who made the confession Serer ‘oer “Saved After | memensers who were forcibly | separated from $14,000 this morning, | ot nr cae ra Well, Folks, We’ve if tea ts an intoxicant|; “I have just been to seo the ' BY PAUL 1 R MALLON |(United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—A sen- sational ‘confession’ has provided the senatorial investigators with |new evidence relating to oll specu Branding Mayor Edwin J. Brown's rumor of alleged mis- conduct on the part of his may- oralty election opponent, Alfred Rae cae leridencn Seve ait Crash on Coos Bay Rocks | described the experience of being held hi been 1 {up at the point of a gun. Ee Ape wicaoen,” Wale ‘phe whole thing was very quiet,” MARSHFIELD, Ore, Feb. 18—} * le for the Poison | chub fn oy politician who writes! wapaper beginning. is been called to an | CULTU RAL NOTE Fe E0t fo have a pull to milk a fre no longer respected young. says Evangeline! ee Sepp, the way things are BEM Present, exis will soon be| tk to hens. eee ‘S latest murder shows it| dangerous for a poor) Biri to own more than $50,900 | Jewelry. see | of Wales has again in horse. Somebody should Shetland pony so that he fe 90 far to fall. { eee THE BACK OF A FORD: FOUR WHEELS is. | all tural! that rouge looks it was your # BPRS the next thing to it.” it full of surprises AJ. 8. | cessor | his resignation, | brought to Washington immediate- MED WIN DENBY | president and I am not resigning,” | Roosevelt said. | in reply to other ques- with suc: | Roose- Roosevelt, tions, said he did not discuss the president any question of {o Secretary Denby velt appeared nervous ax he came | out of the White House and waited until all newspapermen were within earshot and then gave his state. ment, answering questions he as-| sumed would be asked, Roosevelt, it was learned, offered | wut Mr. Coolidge told him the question need not be discussed at this time. The assist- ant secretary is understood to have told tlhe president he was ready to step out if his connection with the| Denby regime tn the navy depart- ment had hurt his continued use- fulness. Formal announcement of Denby's resignation will be made at 4 p. m. He resigned on the ground that his usefulness as a cabinet member | had béen impaired but took the posi- tion that he was guiltless of any blame in connection with the leasing ; | of the Teapot Dome and other naval | oil reserves. Denby’s formal written resignation was placed in the president's hands shortly before noon after a telephon conversation eartier, in which Denby communicated his decision to the president. i The president, just after noon, sent (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) | committee had been called, names are being withheld for the present. ‘The subpoenas require, a senator \told the United Press, that books lof several brokerage firms be ly. Senator Wheeler, Montana, democrat, who is not a member of | the investigating committee, is di-| recting the investigation during the| absence of Senator Walsh of Mon tana. | Edward McLean, millionaire Washington publis who sub- | poenaed from Palm Beach, Fia., haa | arrived in Washington Senator Walsh previously said that Mclean was called to tell what he knew of reports regarding existence of a so. called $1,000,000 slush fund and other matters. The books of the brokers are ex pected to be in Lenroot’s hands Ly | tomorrow at the latest. aid no meeting of th but that the matter would be placed Informal. | Lenroot lly before committee members. ' Lenroot refused to confirm or deny that subpoenaes were fxsued for Harry Payne Whitney, associate of | Harry ¥F. Sinclair; Elmer EB. Smith: | ers, J. Philip Benkard, Harry B.| Benkard and also the order clerk | and office manager of J. P. Benkard; & Co., of New York. Twa: Girls Held in Raid by Dry Squad | A raid by the police dry squad on | a residence at 6312 B. Green Lake way was staged Saturday night, re sulting in the seizure of a quantity of liquor and beer and three arrests Jock Wagner, 40, was booked charge of liquor Jaw violation, and Mra. Mildred Havens, 21, and Veron jen Ferry, 19, were held for alleg disorderly conduct. Landed It! “Boots and Her Buddies” New.Star Comic Begins Tuesday He’ many times Have you aeked for an introduction to a pretty girl? without having to ask, to girls you've ever We're glad te introduce you here, four of the friendliest, pepplest and prettiest known: BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES They ard the main characters in Artist “Abe” Martin's new girl comic strip which The Star has obtained and which will start Tuesday That's Boots eh? She Cute little thing, who gets a kick long suit is a gym herself, on the extreme right a freshman in college. Next s Cora, out of teaching. Then comes Marg, whose suit. And on the left i¢ Ann, She's a steno—with lots of punch Boots and her Buddie a girl comic from the word go. If you don't like girls, Boots Marg and Ann won't appeal to you But if you do—oly, boy! t WATCH THE STAR TUESDAY! for “Boots” and for Another Surprise The tug Cleone, the coast guard cut- |ter Tamaroa and another vessel whose identity was not known on | shore have arrived by the wrecked steamer Columbia. Rigging of « line from the tug Cleone to the wrecked steamer was | successfully accomplished and sail ors from the vessel were being safe. | ly removed at the rate of one every | few minutes. sae MARSHFIELD, Ore., Feb. 18.— —On the same rocks which claimed the steamer ©, A. Smith and nine lives in December, the passenger steamer Columbia, with 27 members of her crew still on board, was a wreck today, only waiting for time and tide to batter her to pieces. ‘Thirty ‘passengers and eight mom- bers of the crew were taken from |the vessel in a breeches buoy Sun: day just before dark, after the ves. sel grounded on the submerged north jetty of Coos bay on Sunday morn. jing. A wireless message from the Col- umbia at 5:25 a, m. reported all on board for the time being are com. fortable and safe | Preparations were being made this | morning for the tug Cleone, which hauled the rescued to safety Sunday | to go out again in an effort to land | (Turn to Last Page, Colney 2 ‘Seattle Loses Its Power Injunction SHINGTON, Feb. 18.—The in m sought by the Puget Sound & Light and the Seattle nining King m collecting $401,017.16 company 1919 was |preme court t | Lower courts also refused the in junctiot ‘he declared an hour after the holdup,| Lundin, as “slanderous and vile jthe alley “It went off like clockwork. You might have thought it had been care- fully rehearsed in advance.” In this he was confirmed by Ar! thur Wakefield, the young man -whe | carried the satchel with the money. I didn't have time to get scared,” he declared. “We were going thru the alley in} the rear of the Federal Reserve bank, i when I heard a scuffling of feet and somebody poked me in the ribs, 1 thought it was some friends trying to! be funny, and turned around, to see a man poking me in the side with a big revolver. “Go on, go on? he said. walking stral With this he grabbed the satchel eut of my hand 1 turned around and saw her man at my other! side, He gave me a push and told me to keep on going, while another man did the same to Chester, Then they ran and jumped into a wait- ing automobile, and went to the ‘Keep | | Reserve bank and phoned.” “How many bandits were there?” he was asked Well," he replied, twor" / We think, however,” he explained, | “that there were three of them, | “we each saw Motorbike Officer | Just Missed Holdup) Two minutes Defore the messen- gers were held up and robbed, Motorcycle Patrolman Charles D. Folirich had left the alley Follrigh had escorted & messenger from the Bank of California with a} large consignment of currency and cash. TI the alleyway and went into the bank thru a back door. The policeman walked out o and had got only half : block away when the holdup oc-| curred. |The st in the extreme degree and an attempt to take away the good name of a fellow man of clean and untarnished reputation,” a committee of 12 investigators for the Seattle Council. of Churches wrote Mayor Brown that they wrote Mayor Brown Monday that they had found all his ad- ministration's charges unfound- ed and contradictory. ‘The committee met Thursday and examined witnésses furnished by the police departrhent to hear charges | outlined in an informative letter sent [it by the mayor. ‘The report in part follows: “Upon demand for witnesses, two officers were produced. Each was sworn and examined separately in the presence of the chief of police. mts made were, in the minds of the committee, so conflict- ing and contradictory as to be un worthy of credence, one officer deny- ing the truth of an important part of his own affidavit. “Each officer stated that he himself, without previous train- ing or education, and without in- fluence or suggestion, had pre- pared his own affidavit. Later, Chief Severyns admitted that in each instance the affdavits were prepared under bis persona! su- pervision and dictation.” * Regarding accusations mad> jagainst Lundin during the time he |was leading the Chamber of Com meree chorus, the committee says it is satisfied the entire episode never happened. The report ridicules the sugge on fu its entirety Another part of the lett your letter you gave the name of a ounty employe who would furnisi the name of a witness to the alleged misconduct (of Mr. Lun!n). The salt employe was intervie wed and stated (Turn to Last Page, Column 3) aoa Heb nln eae