The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 1, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER »* f , a Dusit Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 31 Minimum, 38 Today noon, 46, _———_ VOL, 2. NO. 6, | Home B fone Bow) Howdy, folks! Vote for Joe Bangstarter! Vote for him twice! Vote for him three times! t mayor.” Bunz Saturday, “I wil Starwick veryns, Mf Dalion, I Sam Lamping end President Cohen, Gor ‘To insure t ne Skagit, that bi present head of the men t appoint Major Hoople in his place VAST CROWD CHEERS BUNGSTARTER! To be in the swim of Seat-} | tle boydom these days you! | must travel on wheels, like | grownups, With the coming ; bog Co hirshindgee’ his cam- of spring every conceivable | thoice for maser, held a. monster | kind of a wheeled vehicle has} mass mevting Saturday at the Arena. been brought out by the chil- A photograph of the vast assemblage | iren, Here are a few of is reproduced here. | them, demonstrating an aa- oat for Joo sia iniiaaeamnsynoriocenh of transportation. A] 3 Shin GRR eatiniar fe arte in in that straw| They were caught by the hate’ are now in eaeon? | camera Saturday. The boya, ve Pe eas ii per playthings, are: are cooter, James Ayer, 409 Higa to close next week at | Pastlake ave.; skates, Wile "S about time. Too many pet- | fred Gill, Grandview apart- ting parties were getting wrecked | ments; tricycle, Richard ent that Bothell reed. | Howard, O'Donnell building; | coasters, Marcel LePlat, 723 “When I was a baby I wes called| T.N.T. Explosion Shakes New York Towns: SEATTLE BOYS “ROLLING THEIR OWN” & little pet,” giggles Gee Gee, “but now I'm a little peter.” see ‘What has become of the old-tash- foned cop who would hold back a funeral procession to let the beer| wagon go by?—A. M. Paar (the sy Semege apemermg LIL GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE ‘ VAMP, SEZ: | . Th’ reason a lotta us girls | have ashen complexions is be- | cause we play with fire. Using Northwest products exciu- sively is all right so far as it goes, x _ égards Scotch whisky. 4 eee Vote for Joe Bungstarter. (Advt.) “ee _ Well, it will soon be time for the > S&turday Evening Post to run covers ) showing a freckled-faced boy goin’ immin’. . TODAY’S PUZZLE PICTURE hounds or lounge lizards with us, coupe cooers—Screenland. ee Not for its wit This verse we pinch, But it fille up At least one inch. o* Vote tor Soe c cee | BY Gostt, ir it ain't Saturday! YY! GoopYy! EARUICK, Mi lad, hide that pay- Peck! Here cemes your wife! A. J. 8, FRAUD. CHARGES | ARE FILED but it doesn’t work out very well as; | Prosecutor Chester A. Batchelor. |son, 2007 10th ave. N. i} —Photos by Price & Carter, Summit ave. N., and Frank Van Patten, 320 Summit ave. N.; auto, Stanley Hough, 1147 Federal ave. N.; bicycles, John Twitchell, 1132 10th lave. N., and Stanley Gustaf- Star Staff Photographers | W. G. Williams Arrested as Embezzler of $14,000 Alleging that W. G. Williams had} carried fraudulent names on the payroll of the Garrett & Shafer En gineering works for more than a year, an information charging him with grand larceny was filed in su perior court Saturday by Deputy Batchelor alleges that Williams, | thru manipulations of the firm's! payroll over a period of 13 months, embezzled approximately $14,000 from the firm. y | "The method employed by Witl-| | jams, according to Edward L. Gar rett, president of the firm, was to| use the names of former employes | of the firm and carry them on the! |payroli after they had left. He) would then collect their checks and) cash them at various stores about | town, Garrett charges. | Williams’ alleged peculations were discovered thru a check on the time account which he kept, according to Garrett. Williams was arrested Saturday and {is being held in the county jall in leu of $2,500 bonds. Williams had been separated from his wife, but last fall she returned and lived with him for a short period, according to Garrett. Later she returned to California. Did You Notice How Quickly That ungstarter.(Advt.y! 1 | Set of False Teeth Was Found and Returned to Its Owner in Bremer- ton? Star Want Ads do just this same service every day. Not only for terth, but any article it Ades will hayes you find a good used car, an nt, ete. “The Cont = Trifle” 4 |given a repeat order. The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation i in 1 Washington The Seattle Star | Rotered es Second Class Matter May 3, 1499, at the Potioffice at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, Per Year, by Mail, $3.60 , SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1924. REPORT 15 DEAD: 40 HURT for 30 Miles as Nitrate Factory Blows to Pieces | METUCHEN, N. J, March 1 —Fifteen persons are reported | killed and approximately 40 in: jJured in an explosion in the TNT building of the Nixon Ni. tration works adjoining Camp Raritan, today, One entire family, father, } mother, two sons and a daughter, by the name of Duman, was re- ported killed, Tho TNT building was destroy led by the blast and the only large | building of the plant was net afire. - | Twenty-five small buildings used to | house workmen were fired, it was re- ported. hay. The shock of the | felt in lower New York, {a Brooklyn jand as far away ax Mineola, Long! island. It was felt distinctly 30 miles away, while houses trembled and) windows were shattered in nearby | towns. | Bixteen injured had been account ed for up to 12:30, One had died after arriving at the hospital tn New Brunswick Hospitaix in Plainfield, New Bruns: | | wick, Elizabeth and other towns | were urged to rush ambulances to| | the scene | Automobile trucks were pressed | | Into service. | Telephone lines in the region of | Nixon were down as a result of the | explosion, and for half an hour after |{t occurred it could not be located. ‘There was a terrific shock that caused the thousands on streets in the nearby towns to pause tn terror |as the earth trembled beneath them. | An entire countryside knew a mighty fores of destruction had been | net loose somewhere, but frantic ef- forts to locate the scene were for a time utterly unavailing. | An hour after the explosion It was | still impossible to obtain’ any definite | estimate of the number of dead or in Jured. | The Nixon Nitration plant adjoins Camp Raritan. The explosion ts said to have occurred !n the TNT sec- tion of the plant. This building was completely demolished, and early re- ports were that other buildings with- in « radius of a half mile were wreck- ed. Tho Raritan arsenal apparently escaped because the hospital there was reported caring for injured. TACOMA DOCTOR ARRESTED Charges “Frameup” on Dope Sales Charged | TACOMA, March 1.—Declaring his arrest on narcotic charge is “a) policg frameup to gain newspaper | honor," Dr. C. P. Balabanoff, well | |known physician, prepared today to | fight accusations against him to the limit. He was arrested after an al leged “stoolpigeon” had bought sev jeral grains of morphine from him, jand later was released under $5,000 | bail. Walter Claussen, who was used by | police officers in a similar ‘attempt | |to trap Dr. W. A. Shannon, of Seat. | | 1 tle, recently, gave the doctor marked money in exchange for the drug. He \first represented himself ay In pain and was prescribed three grains of | morphine, being charged a $2 fee He returned later, saying his wife Here’s What Star Will Do HE STAR told you yesterday it would answer to- day the question that has been on everybody's tongue since the city campaign opened—“What Will The Star Do?” Well, here is the answer: With Seattle's millions already invested in a partially completed, enormous, publicly-owned power project, on which the eyes of the nation are focused, and with the private interests prepared to spend thousands, if necessary, to defeat this municipal proj- ect, The Star believes that the feature that domi- nates every other in this municipal campaign is that of getting into the city council the type of men who will best safeguard the interests of Seattle and the public ownership program. It believes that the importance of this overshadows even the mayoralty issue. ee 3g FTER a very thoro consideration of the candidates and their past performance in public and private life, The Star believes these men should be elected: For three-year terms: RALPH D. NICHOLS. WILLIAM HICKMAN MOORE. JOHN E. CARROLL. For two-year term: WILL) T. CAMPBELL. The fact that private power interests have assured Ralph Nichols that he can never hold public office again in this state, would be sufficient if there were no other reasons why he should be elected. William Hickman Moore stands in about the same position as does Mr. Nichols with respect to the in- fluences opposing him. John Carroll, as a member of the old council, has been tried and not found wanting. That’s a good bit to say about a city councilman. William T. Campbell has been in Seattl 28 yeRre’ ; He has been a banker and a real estate dealer i West ; Seattle for many years, but in spite of thé‘ trying responsibilities of those two jobs his West Side neigh: *: bors gave him a large majority over the combined :-’ yotes of all his opponents at the primary election. The Star will tell you more about these men later. Today we believe it is sufficient to say that they represent, in the judgment of The Star, the men in whom the public can place its trust. * « OW, as to the mayoralty. To be perfectly frank, The Star hasn’t been able to get much excited about either of the two candidates who are running for mayor. It doesn’t believe that either one measures up ideally to the type of man that The Star would like to see mayor of this city. But, according to the rules of the game, it will be one or the other. “Doc” Brown, the incumbent, has been in office two years. We've had better mayors—and we have had worse ones. “Doc” hasn’t wrecked the city; neither has he set the world afire with his good deeds. He’s the favorite of the liberal element. “Al” Lundin, who wants Brown’s job, has been out of politics for several years, since he served as prosecuting attorney. He’s campaigning on a “cleaner- town” basis. Most of the folks who think the lid has been tilted too far under the Brown administra- tion are backing Lundin. Brown promises staunch advocacy of public owner- ship. Lundin makes the same promise. What The Star will do, now, in view of its inabil- ity to conscientiously indorse the candidacy of. either man, is to dig into the facts about both men as it finds them and to lay them bare from day to day, thru its columns, so that the voters themselves can make the decision on election day. W. J. Burns Is Called siseal Oil Lease Inquiry Senators to Ask About Use of Code in Telegrams to Capital Publisher BY PAUL R. MALLON |__At the office of Senator Walsh, (United Press Statf Correspondent) | Montana, chief Investigator of the WASHINGTON, March 1.— Wil-|committes, it was stated this morn. |had destroyed the drug, and was|tiam J. Burns, chief of the depart:|ing that a subpoena for Burns prob- | He was an easy victim for dishonest | she said. | Friends of the physician also are! publisher, and his employes regard. | vestigator of the senate oil commit: | jrallying to hig ald, and investigation |ing the oil investigation |of the officers concerned in the ar ment of justice secret service, will! a subpoena In an effort to clear up hidden | | used in telegrams exchanged between | meanings in the McLean telegrams. | award B. McLean, Washington | Senator Thomas J. Walsh, chief in tee, called for the presence of 14 per Burns, according to transalations | sons before the committee today. | rest 1s threatened. of the messages submitted to the| Those summoned were mentioned ; The arresting officers, howéver, | committee today, was named in one|in the messages sent to Edward B. under observation for three years, able to “get anything on bim.” say that Dr. Balabanoff has been|of the secret messages as Paving | McLean, Publier of the Washington “tipped” McLean thru an employe | Post, and former Secretary of the In- but that hitherto they have béen un-|that the justice department was in. |terior Fall, velating to the efforts of | continued. to_progtess aswell as he vestigating McLean, i (Tum te Page 6, Column 5) hours. fi ably would be issued today or that} Mrs. Balabanoff is standing by her| be summoned before the senate ofl| he would be asked to appear without husband, declaring that “he is not| committee to explain whether the/| j |the sort of man who would sell dope. | department's confidential code was CONVICT 2 EX-COPS! RRNA AAAI Givens Also Faces Term; Brown Is Freed in Sealed Verdict / By W. B. France Former Policemen Edward J. Hagen and Edward W. Piclow, together with Charles A. Giy- ens, were convicted of viola- tions of the prohibition laws when a sealed verdict, reached at 1:15 o'clock Saturday morn- ing, was opened in Federal Judge Jeremiah Neterer’s court at 10 o'clock, The verdict ex- | onerated Christopher Brown, « codefendant, who was dis charged. Monday, March 8 was st by Judge Neterer as the date the con: j¥icted men are to appear to, re- ceive. sentence: The’ cotints “on which the men wero indicted in- | cluded; in addition to charges of Possession, transportation and sale | of liquor, that of conspiracy to vio- |late the prohibition act. This be- jing a felony, the minimum sentence | allowed by law is two years. Hagen, |who has been convicted of lquor law violations before, faces the pos- sibility pf,a.Jonger,term. gn Svgy tho result of 3% TaCl fe prbnmition officers, Veb- tuary 20, 1923, at 122 Broadway. Wherg'sg Assortment of liquor and i4otwplite set of ledgers, cash H bdokh’ dnd sales slips were seized. | These bookkeeping records formed |the center of the fight waged be- jtween Assistant United States At- jtorney C. 'T. McKinney and de- |fense attorney George F. Vander- | veer. | LAWYER ATTACKED WARRANT LEGALITY Vanderveer claimed that the offi- cers had no legal right to seize jthe books under a search warrant that specified merely the possession lof Uquor. His efforts to have the |caso dismissed and the books kept | trom the evidence were unsuccess- |ful, however, and they formed tho jo of the government's case at the trial. | Miss Anna Givens, sister of defend- jant Charles A. Givens, was the gov- ernment’s principal witness. Sho testified that she had made the en- jtries in the books from sales slips | handed her by Piclow. The books showed that the de- fendants were doing a business of approximately $1,000 a day. The items they recorded were “B,” | “S" and “G.” Miss Givens re- fused to admit that she knew the | letters to stand .for bourbon, | Scotch and gin. | These books, which were examined the jury in its deliberations, and S belief that they recorded a boot- jlegging business, places the former activities of the defendant in the |front ranks of bootlegging. activities, | The trial, which began: Thursday, was concluded at 6:30 Friday evening, George F. Vanderveer, attorney for | the defense, sprang a surprise when he rested his case without calling a witness, He relied on his argument to the jury, In which he stressed the circumstantial nature of the account | books, and stated that the fact that @ group of men had liquor in a house did not constitute a conspiracy to violate liquor laws. BAMBINO BETTER “Babe” Ruth Improved, Is Report of Physician * HOT SPRINGS, Ark., March 1-- “Babe” Ruth is a good deal better this morning, was the word passed out from the headquarters at tho Majestic hotel, where the mighty slugger of baseball is suffering from jan attack of the “fu." Dr. W. T. Wooton was an early caller at the room where Rabe is flat on his back, following contrant- ing a heavy cold during a night ride ‘in an open arto ‘Thursday, ‘The physician “kidded” Ruth back into a cheerfuj frame of mind and told him he might get out ‘of bod Sunday and go outside Monday, if he Ey has during the last 12 gous It b ae o are (ven