The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 5, 1924, Page 1

UGLAS LAUNC ES NEW RESORT RAIDS: | Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 49. Today noon, Howdy, folks! March came like a lamb and is still acting quiet as a mutton stew The latest pledge of support for} Bungstarter came Wednesday trom} the Goldfish Growers’ league ees A new bet placed at the. cigar stores offers 60.000 German mar 160,000 Russian rubles that Bung @arter polls 90 per cent of the vote st by members Whisky Label Manufacturers dation. “The reason I.am voting for Joe Bungstarter for mayor,” declared » prominent bootlegger today, “Is be-[ cause I believe him to be a 100-proof American.” “A peep inte the boudoir of any much sought ater woman wil! tually reveal some Rigaud sear as the real seer of her power to fascinate weal—Rigaud the Perfumer. ‘Witt thie country needs: Non patie straws for malted milk« “Majthe old days 2 birthmark 0: 2 ghia cheek was considered a dis figurement. Nowadays it: would Merely ‘be considered an excess of And give me a quart of ol! Med the motoriat. — Giwan,” growled the gasoline sta fon attendant, “D'ye think I want Wsummoned before the senate co: mittee?” a AIN'T POSSIBLE, BUDDY “gigitar received by Seattle Jeweler) d find stone, which dyn nea into a man’s ring, engrave inscription Eternally | foe about 5 or 6 dollars. Was the man you were leading last night any relation of fes, a full cousin.” % Timon easy-going party. = Wa Pa like to take a knock f shoe clerk who exposes on foot with the frazzled sock. s oo. Numismatist says modern Paper | cong meersies in: China in the| cote Of it looks like tt. GRAPHIC SECTION | The original ‘wetaog ia Bilas cusp: the sage of ‘cote Holiow, doesn't think much Wiese here new-tangled sanitary | cups. ting so dern particular,” it pretty soon we'll have pon our hands with an eye- | i — | Pirae 1 know what I'm go- | ‘m going to stop pray- BNd begin advertising, eee Some of these days somebody is SOE t0 discover that the Gola Dust are Teally not twins at o} aNd fs going to nue false a * Sivertining, for fal YP. prany | ‘tarch 4) aa bit ling to Ve Pr: With He ne ween iil [sacsone Bil Gaines, the pent ae fen sgh fot ike » there being go im: sone Hopre s eak nape ney bah rm but the rater tebe agen He And Ads. | |Judgé Ronald and State yew ) | The N Minimum, 36 spaper W ith the B Sigg’ t Circulation i in Washi SEATTLE, at the ofticg at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, WASH., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 65, 1924, Moore’s Ambition He Wants to Carry On Good Work ‘of Oliver T. Erickson W villiom Hickman Moore, who knows Seattle and its needs, whose record is sound and who opens his heart to) |have a hand in city affairs, —Phote b: % Mi LOT: of people will tell you,” Hickman Moore, smiling over that grizzled white} He swung in his Jom in his office up in the Central | building and gazed off acros he asks to be allowed to add a few more. bricks of civic service. into the sunlight—until he was pretty much al much all I human side. side, “You know/' he said, whim-,—— The elected is to be loyal to my |frlend, Oliver Erickson, and Yer want to carry on the work crystallize their ideals.” —AND A DIPLO) More than 35 years. 950 zac Says Power Co. pockets were ‘$25. In hiscerip was| Part in: Politics a diploma from the University | . young head was a determination $0!p. Nichols’ assertion that private make good. power interests had notified him he| the law firm of Ronald & Pile*—| Washington because he had opposed Senator ‘them while a member. of the legis city attorney, and gave the YOUDB|represcntntive of Stone & Webster lawyer a job as his‘assistant. Thus | iitoreste, ed the following state- city bond crdinances in 1890. || am convinced that Mr. Nichols With that start he went up. |& circulating a ‘statement which is 1697, and seryed until Janu- jknow of no such ultimatum that 1901, ‘There followed & term | ever wa issued to Mr. Nichols, and! ind bial | the public y to tell them why he wants once more to| % % * | mustache of his, “that I haven’t any human side.” | helped build, the city a which he dreams and to which And, as he talked, the human side began to swing around sically, “the main reason I want to) p ve ie the council! | Purposeful men in so eae NICHOLS’ BAN |HE STARTED WITH $55 Taking No Moore stepped into Seattle. Michigan law school. And in HIS)" Commenting Wednesday on Ralph Young ‘Moore wént to work fOr could nivery hold office again in Samuel Piles, Piles was efeeted nature A. W. Léonard, Northwest it was that Moore. drew the first} ty wan elected superior judge 10 JADU abpoiutely untrue. Personally te senate. In Marchy't am witistied no other represent elected. mayor,’ serv of onr company knows of it |tive o years, In 1919 he CAM®) We do nol do business that w ) the city council, from pri} 922. e practice, retiring im Jaume, 1922.) jem SEES SUCCESS YOR {Avalos MUNICIPAL RAILWAY think In ths 90's Moore Jed the fight |neseliie for which resulted in gecuring the }a falro inaue (Turn to Page 4, Column 1) self.” taking no part in poli lew to defeating munic hip candidates, and. we it entirely unfair and unbusi any candidate to raise to try to elect him: rice & Carter, Btar A oa? Photographers | * the vistas of the city he! ‘LEONARD DENIES. Slush Funds in Schools! ACOrY of a letter signed ‘‘The Shor- rock Campaign Committee” has been sent to The Star. It asks for contributions to a fund that is being raised to aid the campaign of E. Shorrock, a candidate for re-election to the school board, next Tuesday. . While The Star realizes that the com- munity owes its thanks to Mr. Shorrock for his long years of public service, it does not believe it to be fitting or proper for his friends to take this-method of obtaining support for his candidacy. Unlike city, county and other public offices, the members of the school board serve without salary. Their only reward is the knowledge of having aided our children by proper guidance. And Se- attle mothers and fathers will feel that their children are secure only so long as such public-spirited, clean-minded men continue to make up the school board -amembership...... Don’t then, friends of Mr. Shorrock, open the way for politics to creep into our school board by setting a precedent and putting your O. K. on a “slush fund.” How do you know who may attempt to make use of it in the next election? How do you know what peril a finan- cially-backed candidate next term may bring? Let’s keep politics absolutely out of it! Mothers and fathers, with children in school, know very well what is going on in school affairs. We will do well to leave the issue in their hands! tee TRAIL ANSWERS SKAGIT $10,000 CHECK QUESTIONS Telegraphic Evidence Is Un- | Blackwell Says | Gorge Plant covered by Probers | to Be Complete May 1 ” mused Tune William | 300 MESSAGES ARE READ | |EXPLAINS RAILROAD pretty “Pony of the Dance Halls,” New Information Gained by High Water “May Interfere | | Oil Investigators | With Work City Bngineer Bu Blackwell turned over to the city council on Wednes-! iday his answers to questions put to |him by council members concerning | work done on the Skagit municipally- | owned power project. | Blackwell's pile BY PAUL R. MALLON | (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, March The senate oil committee today hit the trail of a $10,000 check which it believes may show a reason for the pointed interest displayed by Edward B, McLean he said, with the assistance of regarding developments in the oil 4¢ Fingineer Carl F..Uhden, and industry. ts self-described “cont: | of the Washington publisher, was recalled to the stand to explain a hypothetical question he put to McLean in one of the Palm] says, jt may take from 10 to 30 days Beach telegrams about the check. | of experimental work to get it into Senator Thomas J. ‘Welsh, chief | smooth operation. prosecutor, is firm In the opinion} That it will cost $842.000 to com- that this $10,000 slip of paper Pe aie the work that still remains to to the inquiry, because it was re-|be done. | ferred to in a telegram in which de-} That, if high water interferes, it | partment of justice code was used. may be impossible to complete tho In the message Major asked Mo-| timber dam, now started, but, “if we Lean if banks kept a record of ne-| have high water the dam may not be | gotiations on checks—for instance, a| completed this spring. This would notagjon that the cheek was "for the} not prevent operation of the plant, | purchase of a hou: jfor a soon as the tunnel is com: ;300 NEW TELEGRAMS | pleted, a rock-and-gravel fill can be |ARE READ TODAY placed in the river bed and this -will | Some 400 additional telegrams pe-| divert the water into the tunnel un- rused by the oll committee in exec: | ti] the next low water, at which time utive session today opened a trail|the dam can be completed.” that may lead to identification of} That no work of any kind upon the ‘the principal” mysterious person | development has been done without mentioned in an exchange of tele-; Proper authority from tha city grams bet on MeLean, in Palm | councll Beach, and ts here. Blackwell makes this explanation | Suspicions of Teapot Dome ine | for the building of the $1.700,000/ Uigators ag to the identity of ths railroad to haul supplies in place of| “principal” were said to hay the contemplated wagon road jstrongthened by the new messages EXPLAINS: at TG linspected. OF SKAGIT RATEWAY Two committhe members now “The possibility of the sale of this (Turn to Vage 4, Column 4) (Turn to Page 4. Column 5) answers were will be completed by May 1 That power from the Skngit can be obtained on that date, altho, he say com: | That the work on the Gorge plant} ngton The Seattle Star Botered as Second Class Matter May 2, 1579. Per Year, by Mali, TW “Polly With a Past” Future Is Bright for Girl Dazzled Into Two Weddings by the Bright Lights Innocent feet led pretty Trekka Brenner, “Polly of the, Dance Halls,” to the polished floors of Seattle pleasure pal- aces—and two husbands. Now the 17-year-old girl is | charged with bigamy. Officials who have heard her story! | say she is “more-to be pitied than blamed” and will work to’ | lighten her punishment. —Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff, Photographers BY JIM MARSHALL [took them to shows. FLASH and glitter of electric bril:! Once, in, a crowd, Polly. took a Hants, set in Seattle's crown o'l drink of. moonsbir “Abput that much," she demon- strated, holding two small fingers | No'more will Polly's slim-form glide |an -inch apart. Ground the polished floor in the:en:|\ ‘There. was another .wedding. that| [circling arma of strangers. ‘The se] gay, tefore a woman Justice of the| | wind'and’sunshine are golng to paint) peace, in. Port Orchard. Polly of roses Of her cheek#—after the/the dance halls became a criminal— | prison pallor has faded |but realization of it never entered | Polly swung a slim, slippered foot! ner curly bobbed head. jana: bit her lips until their carmine | “"sy "never loved Charlie,” she said. changed to white, as sho sat’ in} tied him—but. I'd only . been | Matron Hicks’ parlor at the city Jall| married to him a day when I knew Jand told kindly Bil Severyns, police|y giant love him. Ail I want now | chief, her troubles Wednesday. She] “(puen to Page 4, Column 2) is charged with bigamy on an: in- jformation filed by Deputy Prosecu- tor ugene Meacham. Friday she will plead to it and her case will go Jury Returns Verdict of Not Guilty to juvenile court. She is only 17, Barly last summer Polly, whose right. name is Trekka Brenner, left) |her hotne at Burnett, Wash, and John Savage, proprietor of the Butler’ hotel, was found not guilty of violating the Sunday dance law by a jury In Judge Calvin S. Hall's nights, lost their allure ;today ‘for Jame to Seattle, ‘There had been trouble at home, with a stepfather, she said. Sho had’ never heard of the pro- |fession of. “dance ‘hail girl” until {she came to Seattle, Polly told The Star. She wns lost, almost, in. the \big city. Then the lights beckoned | and - Polly fetes them. They led to a dance hall, At \the hall she met Ivor Westness, rugged|court Wednesday, |Norwegian fisherman, hey fell in| Savage has been arrested every Jove and were married, Suriday ‘night, except last Sunday, “1 love him more Tow than ever," |since the Iaw went Into effect, early |whispered Polly, "He is too good |in January. lfor. me—that’s what's the matter.| Savage admitted that he was op- But when I get out of this I'm|erating. his cafe dance hall Sunday going to him—if he't have. me—|Mlsht. Judge Hail informed the }and stay with’ him the rest, of my|/Juty that the Sunday — closini ltite, He's up in Alaska now, but/erdingiiee was in effect and applic [Pit go to him, some way or an-|*© the Butler cafe, but the acquittal other. verdiot was returned regardless of | One Saturday, after her marriage | ese ‘facts. to Ivor, Polly, was dancing at lage and to protectite him until the j erin Nes sito she met iiaw has been declared unconstitu: Charlies Mack, a; allo! tional by the state supreme court Then Polly and a girl chum went] or anti he closes. his, dance floot Charleston to work, Charlie! on -guinday nlghts,”, City his chum visited them.'Ray Dumett. sald, to Mack and “We will continue to arrest Say. | Attorney | Q CENTS IN SEATTLE. F LAYS MAYOR Declares City Wide Open; Mayor An- swers With Other Charges EDITORIAL This story, we decided, either was worth an eight-column head- line, or should be thrown out of the paper altogether. Maybe it's news, but it smells polities. Doc Brown, you remember, made a lot of news at the time the grand jury was in session. It's just as easy for those on tlre other side of the fence to make news around election time—if they so desire. But, after m ing it over, we decided that at least, was news for the own- ers and tenants of the abated places, so we flipped a coin and —well, here's the eight-colaumn headline. cee By John W. Nelson Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas Wednesday fired a broadside at Mayor Brown's administration and filed nine proceedings in abatement against various ho- tels and residences in the city, charging them with being nuisances. Mayor Brown promptly returned the fire with a salvo directed against law enforcement in King county outside of the city and. charged Douglas with failing to prosecute roadhouse proprietors after they had been arrested by Sheriff Matt Star wich. | “Illegal resorts have been more numerous and more flagrant under , the present city administration than jat any time since the days of | Wappenstein,” Douglas said. “On |the subject of law enforcement, | Mayor Brown is a vociferous talker, but a poor performer,” Douglas | charges. “The encouragement given to the lawless element by his com- | plaisant attitude does more to in- jure the fair name of Seattle than any other factor,” he contitfued. | “The mayor ought to be bringing us the evidence upon which to prose cute these cases, but we have to go | out and do the work he is supposed to jdo. Mayor Brown scems'to consider lit a matter to brag about that the prosécuting authorities haven't been able to “get together’ on him person- ally.” Douglas: filed abatement proceed- ings against-518 Washington st., Don- ald L. Pomeroy, Jessamine M,'Pom- eroy, Lawrence E, Lane and ‘Alice Lane, owners; 1016 Howell st., Em- ma Krug, owner; 918 Washington |st, Agnes E. Kraus, owner; Gordon hotel, Second ave. and Pine st., | Laura Allen, owner, Delta hotel, 80716 \Third ave., Kelly Investment Co. owner; 534 Washington st., May Cur- tis, owner; 811 Yesler way, Jennie 8. | Baker, owner; 724 Washington st., Annette M. Waite, owaer; 926% Main |st., May Howard, owner, “T invite the attention of Malcolm Douglas to a physical fact that every- one knows,” Mayor Brown said. “When I came into office, there were 11 resorts and joints outside of the city near Seattle. Now there are 33 such institu- tions, and seven more are being constructed,” the mayor said. “Some of those places have been raided by Sheriff Matt Starwich as many ag seven times, but never prosecuted, “A lot of people would like to know just why this condition ts per- (Turn to Page 4, Column 3) To Observe Lent— Join the other readers of The Star by reading daily the Fellowship of Prayer The Star will publish this feature each day in Lent as its contribution to the observance of the sacred season, | TURN TO EDITORIAL PAGE Soe: ge ed SS prerpeereene