The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 27, 1924, Page 1

y muld nd thia B how ach was hing my i Complete Tabulation ¢ of Primary ‘4 ote Will HER Thursday; moderate to freah southwest winds. Temperature Last 34 Hours Maxinwum, 54 Minimum, Today noon, 5% VOL. 26. NO. 3. i Howdy, folks! We told you so! Our idea of a really up-to-date! is the bloke who voted yester-| for Dan Landon. eee TN next dowt on th’ Iedecce an’ gent’mun, is between Gashousc Eddie Brown. th’ terror se Jomes st, and Walloping Al Tandin, th’ fighfing choir doy! 1 eee | prograin, ‘Our financial editor reports a sen- ational rise in the price of cabbage, | the manufacturers of campaign | @gars having, apparently, ene Be market. BUNGSTARTER TO RUN FOR MAYOR! sarge the tection returns, as} ited exclusively in The Seatile , foseph J. Bungstarter, well} manufacturcr of Seattle, an+) “ Ris determination to run, mayor. 03 an independent, atick-| eandidate.”—Nétes Item. | | TY FLEES! ee Capital Suddenly for Florida! The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington Batered as Second Class Matter May 2, ‘SE ATTL KEEPING OUR PROMISES NHE STAR made three prom: ises Tuesday in announcing its election extra, It pramined that It would be FIRST, that it would be FAIR, and that it wou'd be ACCURATE. The results show how these promises were kept 1, THE STAR WAS FIRST. Within 30 minutes after the polls closed, at § p. m, The Star extra Was on the streets with results from 50 PRECINCTS. its near- est competitor issued a paper 10 minutes LATER, with reports from 11 PRECINCTS. The Star's second extra carried the results from 127 PRECINCTS. Its near, est competitor, in ah edition out well about the same time, had results from 85 PRECINCTS. | *%. THE STAR WAS FAIR. |) Its first extra indicated that Oi!- |} | | ver Erickson wag losing: its sec- ond that he had lost. 3. THE STAR WAS ACCU- RATE, Basing its prediction on Partial returns, the second Star extra predicted this result of the election: BROWN y DIN 21,000, Complete tabulated return: BROWN 27.592, LUNDIN ERICKSON 17,341 BRACE CRUSHES : MAN'S HEAD - Rail Piledriver E Employe In- stantly Killed Anton Erickson, 45. of 4734 41st ave 5. W., mploye of the North. ern Pacific railroad, was instantly Killed Wednesday noon, when & heavy weight fell from a piledriver on which he was Working and Erickson was working for the maintenance department of the Northern Pacific. He wae wth a | gang of laborers engaged in driving 1599, at the Postotfies E, WASH., WEDNESDAY, F BROWN, "== ROBBER EXPECT LUNDIN MCT Erickson, ated, to Back Lundin; Vote Is Record One With Mayor Br Brown polling « majority of 4,551 votes over Al fred Lundin In the primary, both successful candidates Wednesday plunged into the final race, which will be decided at the polis March 11. To offset Mayor Brown's plural: | ty, is the support tendered Lundin by Oliver T. Erickson, the defeated candidate, throw his entire weight behind Lun- din and ask. his supperters to give) thelr votes to Lundin. Brown's total, vote was 27,592) ac- cording to unofficial returns. Lun- din, polled 23,041 votes and Erickson 17.344, making « total vote cast of 67,977, a new record for > ee primary and almast 73 per of the total registration. Lundin way confident of final vic tory Wednesday, while Mayor Brown said that he realizes be still has a ‘stiff fight ahead." “USED TO HARD SCRAPS," BROWN DECLARES “But T am used to hard scraps,” the mayor gaid, “and I do not think thot the people who voted for Oliver T. Erickson, because of lis long serv. | piling on the waterfront at Rajlroad|ice to the city and his support of! lave. ' —Phote by Price & Carter, it that he would ran for was printed in The Star ex- ly Wednesday. Mr. Bung. declares that he will run on! B platform of civic morality, effi. cy and lower taxes. eee A New York man says that as the ‘World has Alfred the Great, Charles ‘Ws Bold and a few others, Coolidge be known as Calvin the Just. @ Just what? ee Yukon Jake, who's as tough | as a steak, Bit off a chew and spit out | @ lake. | % “ee Matt Starwich says the most pop- Feading matter in the county pail is the calendar. YE DIARY (February 26) | This evening to the Stites, sateere. 3 aia | the siection returns, and 0. Exic! defented for Lord Mayor, which . Later to Kippe’s coffee ee, an did there see many people, ‘others Bon Stein and Alec Rose. ie golfers; €. Lockhart, the baschall == Jones a actors, And so at a late hour (2An anaesthetic manufactured by Abbott Laboratories of Chicago Bknown by the record-breaking Mime of Para amino gamadin buty- ino propanol sulphate. sounds Jike a flivver with three Plugs fouled. ‘ee D SILAS GRUMP, THE SAGE | PUMPKIN HOLLOW, SEZ kiss uy a pretty girl is ly relished among th’ young but, as a rule, after a man 50 he would rather have a uv Granger Twist, see ! jee mays she feels like a| € Coast baseball pitcher during 2eason—wiid and no control. see FEARLESS JOURNALISM ‘Woman who doesn’t like this paper! it is no good and never gets 1S right should tuek wp her un- Ht it hangs down and looks slop- ¢ editor of The Keo Osa] he Economy may how to run a newspaper right, knows how IS 18 the great day! Joe Bung. is a candidate for mayor. Rah! Hooray for Joe! WANT Joo Bungstarter! We it Joe Bungstarter! A.J. 8. Brights to the $500 per day delay} |etly’s right to collect the. penalty. and Pike st. Erickson was standing under the piledriver when a large brace broke loose at the top, jfell 30 feet and struck him down. | His body was taken to the morgue. Erickson leaves a widow and two children, PAY FOR SKAGIT Payment of $49,000 to the R. C. Storrie company for work done onj the Skagit tunnel in January was| authorized by the city auditing com- mittee Wednesday, after a rider had been attached to the warrant stat- ing the city did not surrender its penalty proyided in the contract. The committee met in the mayor's office Wednesday, where representa. tives of Storrie & Co. deciared fail. ure to pay the bill promptly would oceasion additional delay in the com. pletion of the tunn¢l. Corporation Counsel Kennedy rendered an infor. mal opinion that payment of the es. imate would not invalidate the |British Queen Is Confined by Cold LONDON, Feb. 27—Queen Mary is indisposed, suffering from a cold, ac- public ownership, will give their sup-| port to Lundin because he now is afflicted with an acute attack of ‘sour grapes.” “The issue still is; Shall Se- attle be safe place in which to raise boys and girls?’ Lundin sald Wednesday. “Mr. Erick- son's indorsement of my candi- dacy is immensely gratifying. Active Erickson workers have come to me and pledged their support. If TF am elected mayor 1 will see that the people get the facts on their $11,000,000 Skagit investment and the project will be completed a8 soon as sible for the sole benefit of the | people of Seattle.” j In the councilmanic fight, John| E. Carroll led the field by nearly| 10,000 votes and his present associate, | A. Lou Cohen, was second. Others orn to rage | 8 Colum b+] Wall Collapses; One Person Dies| DALLAS, Tex., Feb. 27.—One per- son was killed and several others in- jured when the front wall of a six. story building in the heart of the| business section here collapsed to. at Seattic, Wash. EBRUARY 27, 1924. who announced he will/ } } } | | Mayor E.J. Brown (above) and Alfred H. Lundin, Bile cessful candidates in the} mayoralty primaries Tu day. The final election will under the Act of Congress March 3, 189. |with their pistols, | MINISTER —/The Seattle Star Mall, $3.60 - Yer ¥ uy TW IS SH ATK Battle Is Fought Thru Streets as Officers Attack) Three Bandits An armed _ posse Wednesday was searching the countryside around Kent for three bandits, one of whom is known to be wounded, who at 240 a. m. aged a pitched battle on the Kent main street with two officers, ‘The three bandiis were sur prised by Night Marshal F. M Imboff as they were breaking into the Fashion pool hall, in the center of the town. Imhoff called Merchants’ Patrolman Walter Waller and. the two started close in. on the three men. Two of the men were using a crow- bar on tbe front door of the pont hall, while the third stood by as a lookout. The third bandit saw the officers |when they were about half a biock | jaway and opened fire on them. Im-/ hott Waller instantly re plied | The bandits took to thelr heels, running to the rail road tracks, whore they halted long and jenough to fire a volley of shots. Waller pursued one of the men {down an alleyway, but in the ex treme darkness lost him. Suddenty a | shot rang out near by and a bullet |aipped past Waller's head, The of-| ficer fired instinctvely at the flash, and saw the bandit stagger and spin on his heel, then fall to the! cau. | tfously and the man jumped to his | \feet, dodging between two buildings, ground, Waller approached where he succeeded in eluding his | pursuer. Imhoff, meanwhile, had been stalking another member of the gang toward the highway. The two men dodged from one tele- (Turn to Page Column 3) ESCHEATS LANDS OF JAPANESE Judge Hall Deals Blow at Alien Law Evasions IN COMBINE | Seize Tract Converted by “Dummy Corporation” be held March 11. day. ©. F. Dawson, one of the several laborers at work raising the build ing was instantly killed when an avalanche of stone and-brick carried Escheating 40 acres of rich agri- cultural lands in the White River | Gardens tract to the state, Superior Judge Calvin 8. Hall, Wednesday, in a memorandum decision, dealt a) THE VOTE cording to a bulletin from Bucking. ham palace, him from the top of the building to the street. 2 Mote Sets of Teeth on Hand; 3 Owners Shy N° ONE but this poor reporter ever realized how croo-el the world is, Seems as if every time a person opens his mouth these days he gets into trouble. Dental trouble! Y’remember the reporter was assigned to try to find the lost faise teeth of J. A. Anderson of Bremerton and— Then Mrs. B. Jeffries of the Barker hotel brought to The Star a set of false teeth that she thought might be ee but which turned out to be WOMEN’S teeth, and— Then the poor reporter got the additional job of trying to find a woman to fit the teeth— Well, now comes the. personal service department of the Bon Marche and says: “As long as your reporter is in the business of getting teeth and their owners together again, will you please find the owners for two sets of false teeth that have been picked up here in the store? One pair apparently be- longs to a woman; the other, a lower set, is that of a Complete returns of the 294'pre- _|cincts in Seattle give the following | caso of the. state | River Gardens, results for the primary election: FOR MAYOR (Two Highest Nominated) | Beown . 27,502 | Lundin £8,041 | | Brtckson «17,944 | FOR COR TRA TEN: councn, Kennedy. ......5 00 FOR COUNCHL, 3¥YEAR TERM (Six High Nommated) | Carroll : | Cohen |Moore | Conner | Shields Nichols Hardesty | Mrs. Barnhar Bundy .. Berens . Haynes Lofgren FOR COUNCIL, 2-YEAR TERM | (Two High Nominated) | campbell (White... Flage Corkery Veorley Leeter .. 29,868 14,728 staggering blow to attempts to/ evade tho anti-allen land law in the against Inc. and 8, suno and wife and daughter, The Jand, valued at $25,000, has been operated by the Japanese since 1919, when {t was purchased by tho corporation, a dummy concern, Judge Hall rules, completely under the control of Katsuno. ‘The corporation was formed with Rev, U. G. Mugphy and Alfred , White as trustees in 1919. Each of the trustees were given oné share (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) NEW HOME OFFERS Here are some nice new bunga- lows that have just been built, and ready to move in, Kat 28 OF Q’ LOOK! BRAND NEW BUNGALOWS Juat completed, your choles of five 4 and 6 rooms each. Weat Woodland and Phinney Ridge. Attractive and right up to the minute, with large living rooms, ok floors, fireplaces: enutiful cabinet kitchens, h breakfast nooks, etc., ete, The Want Ads will tell you more about the price and location of these new homes, White | - M’Adoo, Underwood Named | Be I ‘ound on Page Two J Eatin O CENTS IN SEATTL CABINET OUSTER Attorney General Rushes to Train and Makes Exit “on Business” BY A. L. BRADFORD (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Feb. Attorney General Daugherty to- day left Washington on a trip to Chicago and Florida. His office announced that the trip was taken on personal business, Shortly before the statement was given out by Warren F. Martin, Special Assistant Attorney Agent | Seymour was summoned to the of- | at Josephus Daniels a Presidential Candidate Copyright, Harris & Ewing Josephus Daniels NE figure emerges untainted from this oil mess. It is that of Josephus Daniels, for eight years secretary of the nz . Not oily is he untainted but when one considers all the circumstances of his secretaryship, the pressure that was brought to bear on him every day of those eight years to give away the navy's oil, Daniels looms as an heroic figure and one that should challenge the admiration of the people of the United States, irrespective of politics. jfice and immediately went tito con |ferenca with Martin, Paul’ How-| |iand, Daugherty’s attorney, rushed linto. the office, followed by Mrs.) | Mabel Willebrandt, assistant attor |ney general. The hall outside of Daugherty's office waa filled with! messengers and clerks who were kept running from one office janother, | Howland, a little later, was sum: | |moned. to the White House by the| |president and Senator Willis, Ohio was called from the senate. The |xenator went into conference with jthe president, It was said at |Daugherty'’s office that another statement would be forthcoming “If] |we hear from the White House |within half an hour.’ INo REASO GIVEN | FOR SUDDEN DASH Both at the White House and herty'a office all information oncerning the reasons for Daugh:- erty’s sudden dash out of town was |refused. } At the White House, however, it was said dn authority close to the} president ‘that Daugherty haw not! |resigned and that his resignation | jhas not been asked. | | No comment could be obtained at | jeither place on @ report that Daugh-| erty had been suspended pending | his hearing before a senate com-| mittee It was also reported without offi- | cial verification that Dangherty’s | withdrawal ag a Coolidgo delegate | from Ohio to the republican national | committee would be announced this | evening. | The only official business likely | to call Daugherty to Chicago, de-| partment of justice officials indl-| cated, is the grand jury investiga: | |tion there of the veterans’ bureau | scandal. Daugherty'’s unexpected departure (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) eee CANDIDATES IN OIL PROBE to in Secret Wires | BY PAUL R. MALLON United “Press Staff Correspondent | WASHINGTON, Feb, 27.—The| names of Oscar Underwocd and | William G. McAdoo, both candi. ates for the democratic nomination | for president, have been found in| telegrams submitted to the senate | oil investigating committee in secret and which wil! be made public to- morrow, & committee member told the United Press this afternoon, Underwood, the committee mem: (Turn to Page 2, Column 4) Forest Flames Are Now Under Control SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Feb, 27. —the forest fire in the Montecito foothills was definitely brought un | der control at noon today, accord-| ing to forestry ‘service officiats. | Five hundred men. are stil! kept} jon guard, protecting the five-mile fire line against possibility of eal other outbreak, With lessening of the flames, a survey of the damage done placed the estimate at more than $200,000. It will be remembered that during the entire eight years of Daniels’ regime, he was the object of a most vicious and malignant campaign to discredit him and drive him from office. He was pictured as a man unqualified for the position and held up ‘to publie ridicule by a certain section of the press. One New York humorous weekly with nation- wide circulation was unceasing in its efforts to make of him the great national joke. It was suspected then and is now certain that. this campaign of abuse against Daniels was an organized con- spiracy financed by the oil interests who were trying to steal the navy’s oil and knew they could not do it while it was in the custody of a man of honesty, courage and intelligence. And so the outrageous spectacle was presented of the attempt to ruin a man officially and. personally because he possessed the very qualities which preeminently fitted him for high public position. Nothing that Woodrow Wilson did as president of. the United States redounds more to his, credit than his inflex- ible and unwavering support of Daniels during the eight years of his presidency. When Daniels retired, his record for personal integrity’ was spotless, his record for official ‘efficiency had neveje been equaled in the navy department and: the oil graftey's had been kept at bay. Sixty-six days later, Denby, Daniels’. successor, was preparing to turn the navy oil over to: Albert’ Fall ‘and the first step had been taken in what has developed. into one of the greatest scandals in the nation’s history.’ On April 19,1922, Dantels wrote’ to Senator LaFollette, in response to a letter from:him, which ‘is of. spetial sig- nificance at this time. It was printed.in the Congres- sional Record of April 21, 1922, at the request of Senator LaFollette as part of the latter’s attempt to prevent and expose the conspiracy to steal the navy oil reserves. IT WAS WRITTEN NOT AFTER A TEAPOT DOME SCAN- DAL BUT TO PREVENT ONE. Listen to these excerpts from what ‘Daniels said two years before the oil scandal had been uncovered: Raleigh, N.C, April | 18, 1922, “Dear Senator: “e © © I devoted many hours while I was in office, and some of them very strenuous’ ones, in an effort to preserve intact the afl reserve that had been set aside for the navy. * * * “I, with the attorney general, fought, contested, and opposed the action of the land office in the Honolulu land question, which would have given oil lands worth many millions of dollars to a company which in my judgment had no shadow of right to them. “To the very last days of my administration I opposed all the suggestions toward the leasing of those oil reserves set apart hy President Taft and President Wilson, “During the war there was a hard drive by those who claimed ownership to these lands and the matter was so pressed then that the navy had to stand in the way of exploitattion of this oll reserve, Even then I opposed the proposal; I felt that this oil land had been set apart for the navy and that exploitations by those who claimed an_ interest was not necessary to win the war and the day would come when the navy must depend upon its own oil r s for a part of ita supply. “You may be interested in knowing that. when I first looked into this matter, when the first application was made, I found that the clagms on the navy oil reserves were asked for in the name of parties working in the stock yards’ in Chicago, who, upon inquiry, declared that they had never made application for the oil lands, and the applica. tions presented bearing their names were in fact signatures that they had made in Chicago, supposing that they were signing a petition for an election. Many of these applications were gross- ly fraudulent and nearly all of them were made after President Taft set the reserve apart for the use of the navy. “The hearings before the pub- lic lands committee of both the house and senate will give you the story as it came out and will show the position of the navy department while I was secre: tary of that department. “The ‘persistent attempts to lease these lands began in 1913 and were kept up until my term of office expired, It was a bat- tle during my entire term, and 1 was happy upon retirement to private life that the navy de- partment, aided by Attorney General Gregory and Secretary Payne, blocked the insidious propaganda to exploit these re-_ serves. “Sincerely yours, “JOSEPHUS DANIELS.”