The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 28, 1924, Page 1

PHONE 0. STEALS MARCH ITY IN RATE FIGHT! ON WEATHER Unsetttied tonigh moderate to fresh test. erly Temperature Maximum, 57. Today “VOL. 26. NO. ht; Friday fair; winds. Last 4 Hours Minimum, 40. noon, 47. The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington Eatered as Second C a dee) Home Brew Howdy, folks! Don't forget to yote for Old Joo Bungstarter for mayer! | eee | Bungstarter's platform is the most | sensational ever put forth by a can:| didate for office. t stand,” he says, and economy!” .. “} knew Doc Brown,” says Joe Bungstorter, “when he didn't have @ spap-dor to his name.” eee “for effictency | “tf I am elected mayor,” an-/ nounced Bungstarter today, “I will have the city council pass an ordi Rance permitting married men to stay out until 9 o'clock at night.” —__—_ ‘Bana # TODAY’S BETTING |} Retiing circles report that Joe} Bungstarter is showing . great; strength in the outlying districts. | Cigar, stores were posting today | the following quotations: Even money that Bungstarter ‘votes for himself. | ‘Three to one that Bungstarter neither wins nor loses. Ten to one that he will not lose by more than 120,000 votes. The Campfire Girls and the Moun- tainears are enthusiastia over the ecampalgn WERTiHEisued by Joe Bungstarter, “It makes the grand- est bonfires we ever had,”" members said Wednesday, enthusiastically. eee Miss Abagail The creditors of Joe Bungstarter » have organized solidiy to put him over. “If he is elected, we'll have a chance of collecting,” is their slogan. Pardon the digression, but is an at- forney employed to defend a man/ charged with violating the 18th amendment called a “scofflawyer”? CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB Pimply4aced youths who hang around the exits of big office buildings and department stores at closing time, fondly imagining that they are affording a treat to the young women who haye Just finished a real day's work. eee Dear Homer: If I invite a girl to the theater, send her flowers, hire a taxi and treat her to supper after the play, should I kiss her good Right?—D. 8. R. Dern it, no! You will already have done enough for her. eee A lot of modern business men can speak on their feet. The trouble is | that they don't confine themselves | to that subject. | PALMER BEFORE OL COMMITTE ri} ’m No Quitter!” Says Daugherty, Who Is Angered) by News Queries BY JOHN NIMICK (United Press Mtatf Correspondent) CHICAGO, Feb. 28—TI'm no quitter,” Atty. Gen. Harry M. Daugherty told the United Press when he arrived here today for a conference with federal offi. cials conducting the grand jury investigation of the United ‘States Veterans’ buread. Daugherty was greatly heartened by telegrams of confidence from al! | Darts ef the country. | “A winner never quits—a quite: | never wins,” one telegram tated, | | and Daugherty showed it with pride. { “That's ty position,” he sald. “I'm } No quitter.” | When Daugherty arrived in Chi jeago he went to the federal building for conferences with hie aldes. He put up at the Union League club, | where he probably will remain until | he leaves Chicago for Miami, Fla., to | visit his Invalid wife, | HE IS PEEVED BY | NEWSPAPER MEN | A small army of newspaper men | and photographers greated the attor: | ney genera! on his arrival here. He posed for a picture with John W. Crim, special prosecutor for the gov: jernment in the vetercns’ bureau case, Daugherty showed impatience with [the whirl of questions hurled at him | by the newspaper men. said. “I am here on government | business and therefore I cannot dis. | cuss it.” When asked whether he had an lappointment with Silas H. Strawn, Chicago attorney, who was selected and then rejected as government at.| torney in the Teapot Dome scandal, he replied sharply: examining me. I shall say what I have to say later.” Daugherty appeared in good hu- Mor when the United Press corre- spondent boarded the train at Mo- Keesport, Pa, last night. He re- celved the correspondent cordially | and jokingly referred to the “fuss and excitement” he was causing. Daugherty manifested impatience and only on the urging of Crim did he consent to pose for the | photographers. “I suppose you want to get me | while I'm still the attorney general,” Split-pea Leg of Flea Globule of Ice Cream see ‘The golf season will open shortly 4nd we big business executives will fon be telling our secretaries that We are “in conference and unable to ee anyone this afternoon.” one There was @ young man named Mose Who was one of his gal's, best bose ;| At a party of her mama's He went in his pajamas | Because they said, “Wear Evening clothes.” . More than £,000,000,000 bottles of | farbonated water were consumed in| the United States last year. Gee phizz! he laughingly commented. When Daugherty’s presence be- (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) “I will issue a statement tater,” he | “Gentlemen, there is no use cross-| CALLED SENATE Must Explain His’ Attempt to Help) McLean Evasion on Fall’s Note | | BY PAUL RB. MALLON | (United Press Staff | WASHINGTON, Feb. | } | Lean's dealings with Albert B. Fall. Palmer wii appear hefore | lcommittes tomorrow moriing, it | was decided after a conféréncs be-| |tween Senators Dill, Walsh, Lenroot| jand Palmer. { Palmer will be asked by. Dill, who| got the committe to request his ap| pearance, to expiain his participa: | tion in the affairn of McLean and | Fall as revealed in telegrams | | which the committee has. | The committee today decided. to| subpoena Palmer, whose name ap-| peared in telegrams exchanged be) tween McLean and his employes, which were submitted to the com: | mittee. Palmer, in some of these| telegrams, was reported to McLean | as preparing to ask Underwood to “work on’* Senator Walsh, leading | investigator of the committee, to get; him to refrain from questioning Mo: | Lean about a $100,000 loan to Fall. | Senator Walsh disclosed to the! committee this morning that Sena-| tor Oscar Underwood, presidential candidate, did mention McLean to| |nim just after the senate committee | had decided to send Walsh to Palm Beach to question McLean, Under. wood, in that conversation, asked | Walsh whether McLean would be) called. UNDERWOOD AGAIN i NAMED IN WIRE, Underwood was named again in a} telegram to Mclean from an em-| jploye on the Washington Post, Me-| |Lean’s paper, saying that Senators| [Curtis and Lenroct had advised that Underwood be seen in an ef- fort to have Walsh called off. In| this telegram it was added, how-| ever, that the effort thru Under- wood was not considered of any use. Production of this evidence thus definitely putting Underwood's name among those who were to be ap- proached in an effort to halt the ofl investigation at the very time tt was on the eye of disclosures which (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) | \ rt A Ray of Hope Appears for the Poor “Teeth Reporter” T LAST the poor “teeth reporter” thinks he be- gins to see a ray of hope ahead. He’s the unfortunate, assigned to try to find you_remember, who was the false teeth that J. A. Anderson of Bremerton said he lost. And, delving into the search, he dug up so many sets of lost false teeth and unfortunate persons who had lost their teeth, that he was swamped with the job of trying to get teeth and their owners together again. Well—today came a second letter from Mr. Ander- son at Bremerton, in which he said: “Please allow me to correct you in regard to my a lost only my lower teeth, which was a gold teeth. crown.’ ‘SEATTLE, he ti Wash., wader the Act of Congress March FEBRUARY 28, 1924. 1819, Per Year, by Mall, $3.50 Anns PASE PA A S2 etatt nelst ck econgbee oA oe The Seattle Star Matter May 3, 1999, at the Postotticn at Seattle, THURSDAY, TS IN SEATTLE. “Td Never Marry Any Woman” HASTEN ays Felix Dubois, Tacoma Peddler, Who Woman for Alleged Felix Dubois Is Being Sued for Breach of Promise $110,000 by a Tacoma NY man with money has to look out for women these days. Some of them will do their best to get it. You betcha!” Felix Dubois, wealthy ‘Tacoma money lender, who got his start in that city peddling vegetables 85 years ago, shook his head with emphasis as he made that statement. He is the defendant in a $110,000 breach of promise suit that was recently filed against him by Mrs. Anna Holtz, a Tacoma divorcee, and which will come up for trial in March. “T wouldn't marry any woman in the world,” Felix continued as he thrust his battered derby far back on his head, re- vealing his silver locks. “If you were a woman would you want me this way? No. No woman would want me unless I had money.” And the old man sur- veyed his tattered overcoat, his frayed trousers and his faded and stained vest. Felix has lived in Ta- coma 35 years. He never buys clothes. He boasts of the fact. When he first started in business, people gave him clothes. He still gets them that way. “There's nothing to this love suit,” Felix declares. “I'd never promise to marry a divorced woman if I did intend to get mar- ried. And I didn’t even know the woman very well. “No boy should ever marry a girl unless he knows the girl knows how to save money. When I married my first wife she had $2,000 and a nice home. She was a fine cook and made a fine home for me. It was quite a change from my habit of sleeping in the stable with my horse and eating bread and oat- meal for breakfast. “T worked hard for my money. Now I loan funds to peddlers who can’t make a go of the business. The trouble is that they stay in bed until 7 o'clock. If I had done that I'd be in the poorhouse today. “T've got enough money so no one will ever have to worry over keeping me, and when I die that money is going to a children’s home. No woman will ever get it. “People will say, ‘Felix Dubois was a good man, Look what he did for the poor children.’ ” And .Felix hobbled off, little concerned over the trial which comes up next month when Mrs. Anna Holtz will seek $110,000 because she alleges Felix Dubois failed to keep his promise to marry her. One-Time Seattle | DERRIC HITS MAN | LO8 ANGEL! Feb, CHECK ARTIST HELD PORTLAND, Feb. 28.—-Author!- Woman Strangled TARIFF APPEAL Case in Supreme Court Advanced; City, State Con- ference Called By John W. Nelson A surprise move by the tele phone company, which brings the rate increase fight of this state before the U. 8. supreme court April 14, caused conster- nation among attorneys oppos- ing the movement, Thursday. By some means the phone..com- pany has succeeded in having the U, 8. supreme court note the phone \compans*s appeal from the dismis- ‘sal decision of Judge B. E, Cush- man for hearing April 14. Ordi- \narfly such appeals, due to the |erowded condition of the supreme ‘court's docket, do not come up for from 12 to 18 months. | Attorney General John M. Dun- ‘bar Thursday called a conference \in Corporation Counsel T. J. L. Ken- \nedy’s office for next Monday to |discuss a counter to the unexpect- (ed rate thrust. | He has called in City Attorney J. M. Geraghty, of Spokane, B. J. Murray, city attorney of Tacoma, and E. Brodie, assistant attorney | general, | “Dunbar sald he had bee nnoti- [fied that the appeal had been ad- yanced on the superme court ealen- dar to April 14," Kennedy said. [That means we must complete our arguments against {t and. be in | Washington to argue the case on |that date. A decision may not be | handed down for some months there- | after.” | The appeal was taken by the |phone company from the decision of Judge Cushman ruling that the caeo must be carried thru the state courts before it can be brought into federal court. There fs no rule of law govern. jig th advancing of cases on the calendar of the United States su- preme court, according to Attorney |Otto B. Rupp, for the phone com- | pany. | Rupp moved for advancement of th e company's appeal, February 2. \He notified the state, and the argu- ments opposing were submitted and {heard on February 16, Sholud the appeal be denied when the case comes to trial, then nothing remains for tho | company but to carry its fight | thru the state courts. If it ts | granted, the case will be tried | in federal court. | “T stated to the court that If we {are entitled to claim the higher rates sought, we should have quick jaction on our appeal, as very day jof delay means that much actual Joss and no possibility of recovery,” |Rupp said. |Rumor Japanese Prince Is Dead TOKYO, Feb. 28.—Reports persist |in Tokyo that Prince Matsukata is |dead and that announcement of his |death is being withheld until the | prince regent can confer certain hon- | ors upon him. EASY TO BUY THIS ONE Here ts a comfy little home that is offered for sale. This ts a dandy for some one: $2,150—Nifty 3-room bungalow, 28.—County | And here’s the ray 0. hope: This seems to correspond with the description of one of the sets that is being held, awaiting owner- ship, at the personal service counter of The Bon |} Marche. Just in passing, this reporter wants to announce, for, the benefit of the public as well as his city editor, that if he ever gets another assignment to dig up someone’s false teeth, he is THRU! jn old ivory; large combination living and dining room with fireplace. beautiful — kitchen with lots of built-in features, breakfast nook, ¢ YE DIARY } (Pevraary 27) } This evening to the Coliseum playhouse 10 sen Cofleen Moore in “Painted People,” | Which was made from «story by Richard Connell, with whom did Girl Slays Self | NEW YORK, Feb. 28—Miss Bol- z |tles today were attempting to find | j Bullding Inapector, Robert more complaints against ‘Robert |waa casting his eagle eve over the| Maxwell, 29, who was arrested yes: | asco Martin, formerly. of Seattle, |new temple of Justice today, when |terday on a’ local bad check charge. | land said by the police to be a sec-ia cable aupport of the derrick |He is alleged to have operated ex. jond cousin of David Belasco, drank | snapped |tensively in Western cities. jned under an overturned automo | |iquid shoe polish in her Riverside| Barton was buried beneath the| He is alleged to have obtained the dott loday deat jdrive apartment and dled today be-|wreckage, badly bruised, and hur-| following sums at various places: | ble nd choked to death today near) fore the arrival of a physician, jried to the receiving hospital for} &: Francisco, $600; Los Angeles, here, when Dr. Albert Mount, aeth Miss Martin, 25, was an actress. |treatment. $400; Oklahoma City, $200. He is | whom she was riding, lost contro} of | She had a small part in “Very| “That derrick is defective,” the in-| wanted at Denver and Sacramento, | Good, Eddie,” in 1916, but more re- where extent of hig allege) activi |S machine on a hill. Dr. Mount |apector ruled, as hospital surgeons | cently she was unempioyed. ipatched him up, ties is not known, lwas only slightly injured, i in Motor Smash OREGON CITY, Ore, Feb, 28.-~ Mrs. Anna Howar, nurse, was Pin. | Barton | ago, and meth 6 followed his true voeation of prize-/ _ fighting, for indeed he did have » mighty | t And so at m jate hour,| Turn to the Want Ad columns and see who will show you this home.