The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 7, 1924, Page 1

Slap the Powe r Trust-Support Big 4-Nichols, Moore, C arroll, Campbell WOMAN’S HOME FIRED a The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington WEATHER Year, by Mall, Temperature Last Maximum, 50. Minimum, 40, Today noon, 45, =| The SeattleS OFOG Gs Becond Class Matier May & 189%, at the Postoffiee at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, Per —— VOL. 26. NO. 1i. ee St SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1924. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. ar’s Candidates Meet Approval! FIREBUG : City Leaders SUSP ECT Indorse Four HUNTED MenSelected Nichols, Campbell, Attempt Made on Carroll, Mdore)| Woman’s Life 2 Backed by Rep-) Times in the Past resentative Men | Few Months By John W. Nelson — By S. B. Groff oo vt aga MS oroian Police and fire departinent of- the hands of the men in : ‘riday seare | Barricading himself in his cell uttering shouts and beating ; by The Star for election to the oe the gieptibe | Perey | =e Barejpar ge on — “4 hoes _ deer Police Captain Joan city council”* night made‘a second unsuccess- im ith ao steel bar, Carl | faag, himself a six-fi giant, From all walks of life these wor ful attempt on the life of Mrs. Peterson, 47, a maniac, for 12 | started to enter the cell, b when ot confidence in Ralph BD. Nichols,| J, Newman, by_ settin, hours fought off the attack of [a blow from the steer bar narrowly Hickman Moore, John E.| fer home at 4039 33rd. ave. half a dozen policemen why minsed splitting his head and clip. . . T and William T. Campbell! g w, tempted to disarm him in ped a egar from his mot he de 3 s s office oD! ~Poliqwing an investigation Fridey city jail, Thursday rotits ided to walt morning, Fire Marshal Laing and Peterson pe police deciared that the Games wore water bucket his of incendiary origin and were start straightened it The bail was} tatked to Peterson. olds plead: ed’ in the living room of the home made of steel h inch thick. | od with him for 30 minutes and final: Neighbors and Mrs. Newman di+ With this formid apon, two) ly got the bar away from him, Then vi “el covered the fire about the same x Jand a halt feet long, Peterson at-/he persuaded Peterson to lie down sen i erat expressed {tmeT10, o'clock, Thufaday night Going on recora to reduce carfares, |tacked the bars of his cell Thursday | and sleep. 5 aera hand SzDresse’|anid only the. speedy arrival of further announces that|evening. Several jatlors tried [0} phe steel bar which Peterson bad pacaptice seis fire-fighting ; unit. sayed. the , strue: ‘he ts Bhalterably opposed to the use /rake the weapon away from bit | straightened resisted the efforts of ‘ ' {Following are a few of the indorse-| ture andi possibly Mrs, Newman's octagonal car wheels on.our-mu- but failed. three policamen to bend, The mania : ments given the “Big Four” by Seat-|iife, -The firevug hed fled and had vallway. Peterson then took the mattress|was arrested Thursday noon by Pa-| Bias | Ue industrial, civic and: professional | apt. been located. Friday, moots re lfrom his bunk and fastened it to}trotman Dan Hogan, and is held tor | Flames had a good start when CROWDS CHEER _ 5% 222%! might long ho stood} an insanity commission. | Man Barricades Self in Cell and Battles Se- attle Policemen; Subdued After Twelve Hours’ Rampage They Used City’s First Phones Pioneers Delve Into Mystery of Dial Equipment on Anniversary of Telephone Installation Here in 1883 4 LOE SPECIAL EDITION! All about the big scandal in Hoth political camps! Does May- er Brown wear a wig? Does Al Lundin play the saxophone? Is it true that both of these men are in the pay of Doheny? Read Joe Bungstarter’s campaign statements and learn the truth! eee ee! |suard, Bangstarter bears no animus to {Doc Brown. “if 1 am elected mayor,” he de. cares, “I will appoint Brown assist ant custodian of the Woodland Park monkey house.” Campaign note: Joseph J. Bung- warter todoy jounced that he fad pat away his sti—until after ettion. leaders, wankers, business men alil tore from a About 6 a. m. Fridi cell and | George Reynolds went to Patrolman ceil and e join in ndidates, Seattle's and profess commending these four ca “Elect these men and business, attle’s prosperity, Pleree, president of | Washington Loan & Securities lclation, and vice president of Mrs. Newman had not retired for he |the firemen came’ atid ‘were burst- _BUNGSTARTER -|ing up thruout the: living room. I, POLICE HINDER His Advertising [BANNER TRUCK STOPPED TERM OUT IN DECEMBER |Declares Opponent Breaks Law With Handbills rges that Mayor Brown invoked the police department to put obstacles In the way of the | Lundia campaign for mayor, were | chm and letters of congrat-| made today by Iandin headquar- a dpa clerks Wuay for | tere. Violations of a city ordi- Gays at the Bungstarter for! nance forbidding the distribution o! eee menace. “3 | Bet evgn the arrival of several! oe the Brown pal threatening letters and writs| charged. hoe mapeed from bill collectors} ‘The day preceding the primary Bens, enthusiasm of Buns-| ctection a Lundin truck, placarded 25 rears |with signs urging voters to come to |the polls was sent thru. the resi- D dence districts, the Lundin state- || ment: says The placards sounded today marched thru Seat- iid’s downtown streets.) The dem- Msiration is said to have been "the most enthusiastic in this a political history —Seattic had was also forces ti ‘This coupon four cigar : ‘tubs (not leas than 2% inches in || when the truck reached the Queen ae you to ONE ()}| anne Hill district, it, was stopped, WIE for Bungstarter. He's for |! anq the driver, taken into custody ae fring the: wak- | laccording to Lundin workers. The vk ¢ ‘siceps @ lot. |) partolman who made the arrest ts Me Nant him ‘to. rua || said to have referred to the placards Mviiiet yoo cra ne a ee las “a scurrilous attack on Mayo: Elie dea’ care shat te clacny || Brown and the police depertment.” 1 }_ Lundt Ittee paid eta faet, he'll stand for any. || pe ane eat thing. ¥ || $95 for a street banner at Pioneer = |i Square. Brown forces, without tn- 4 terference by the police, strung an- + llother banner just beneath It; mak- ||ing both banners an appeal for || Maxor Brown. In violation of oity ordinance, || Brown forces strewed the downtown || sidewntks with throw-away handbills |advertising Mayor Brown's mass | meeting at the Hellig theater the |day before the primaries, it charged. Friday morning, to. adver. tise the mayor's second Heilig the- || ater. mass meeting, more “‘throw- | tributed. Permission for a Lundin automo — | bile to parade up and down Second le That $07 | Paterser's Address «00.4. How Much? Welt, went. [| Pt out caretulty, then throw ; in ash can) cee Oh teason vom: y ¢ fellers don’t = Hit became they Jest bear naturally hate | theater, trad "8a woman star theater, was at first refused to death. |it was learned that the words (Turn to Page 13, Column 6) or HERE IS A DANDY Today's Want Ads are filled with many homes that are offered for sale, Would you like this one? FER _ON THIS MAKF US AN ¢ A S AN OF! mt, WALLINGFORD BBA MUST BR SOLD REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED 6 ROOMS AND ATTIC STRICTLY MODERN FORCED, KALE—Thig wonderful home is located on Wallingford hill, close to Lincoln high; cor. ner jot, all In niece Jawn and shrubbery. It has every mod- sueh as beautiful on clonet. coment ba The Real Estate for Sale columns will tell you wheres this home is- | “throw-away” handbilis on the part! an alarm against vice and crime.| is} jave. advertising the Lundin meet-) jing Friday noon at the Metropolitan | TACOMA COUPLE _ REAPPOINTED Him in Light Job {Brown Says He Wants to Take His Time in Matter rp Ross, superintendent of the aid| city tight department and father of | fORTY-< the municipal light and power bust- nes of Se Mayor E. J. E day. “I haven't go for | Ross, will be reappointed, own announced Fri had the the time to ar- reappointment of the mayor sald. Ross’ term expired last Dec ber, altho he is still on the job “There are a number of things I nave in mind. I want to call Mr |Ross tn for a long conference on the city’s Nght and power busl- ness, with the city council attend ling. “I want to put the city light de- partment on a sound business basis, just as if it were my own private business, “There should be an assistant to Mr. Ross to relieve him of the de- tails that crowd his work now, that he may devote his time to the de velopment of the. city’s light bust- When the Skagit power fs de veloped, Mr. Ross should be free to properly dispose of this business. “Mr. Ross is too valuable a man |to spend his time on routine de- |tafis of the light department |would be a hard man to replace We should have an assistant under Ross to be trained in the, business. That's good sound bisiness tactics, Mr. Rosas cannot live forever and Beattle’ ight business must be buflt for future ness. thing and T will not aphazardly, WAIT HEARING | McLeans to Face Baby Death Probe PORTLAND, Me. , March 7.—Coun- ty Attorney Clement F, Robinson to: |day announced in connection with the investigation of the mysterious death of the year-old daughter of |Kenneth McLean, Tacoma, that the baby was suffering from measles be | fore its mother brought It acrons the country to Brunswick, where it died a week ago MeLean, a student loge, and hin wite tomorrow on ch ter, filed after Mrs the dead baby to an undertaking es- |tablishment. Sho said the infant had [been accidentally smothered to o#ath officers stated. . t Bowdoin col will be 8 of manstaugh MeLean brought He| But Ross will } rigned | LUNDIN CHARGES|ROSS WILL BE | Back in 1888, when the first phone system was installed in Seattle, Roland H. Denny, |r, and chairman of the joint legis | pioneer, and Laurence S. Booth, then deputy county auditor, were among the first 90 subscribers. Each could.talk only to 89 other folks. Today, each can talk almost to 89,- | 000,000 people, scattered over the United States, Mexico and Canada, from his office. Fri-|dorsea. They are my candidates and the} |Home Savings & Loan association: | }“A splendid. group of men, all of \whorn should be elected. Relph Nich- ols Was a loyal and efficient speaker for the government as a Four-Minut man during the w when I directed the org: zation. Charles R. Case, former presi jdent of the State Federation of La lative committee of farmers and or | ganized Inbor at Olympia. “I like the four candidates The Star has in- jday morning, on the anniversary of the installation of Seattle's first exchange, they gotwo- |! bope my friends will support them.” \gether and explored the mysteries of the dial phone in Mr. Denny's office in the Dexter- |Horton building. | BY JIM MARSHALL E ‘years ago~ Fr Seattle's first hello girl ga | the first wrong number. And apolo- gized for it. And was forgiven. The teleptone’ had gust tb town, and Sts 90 subscribers spent most of! the day talking to each other over the wires. Tho first exchange was opened ‘for business March 7, 1583. Surviving members of that early telephone ‘community —the first in Washington territory—gathered Fri-} day as guests of the telephone com- pany in the Telephone building, to! witness a special demonstration of the machine switching stem, at-) tend a luncheon and see the inner | workings ‘of the int mechan isms connecting thousands of Heat tle phones with millions of others all over the Unit | | NEW. BUILD) 1s | | WORLD'S MOST MODERN | W. J, Phint division commer-| clal superintendent of the company, | told the old subscribers that Seattle today has the large change north of San F west of Minneapo! in the northern | Uer of states. Enormous growth of} the business, he end, was evidenced | by the fact that Seattle today has) mote telephonés than New York) had in 1900. | The present home of the com: | pany, Mr. Phillips said, is one of | the most moderh phone centers in lthe world. It stands on a jot from which Clarence Bagiey, in early days, cut the come timber sot the hay might be deen from the campus of the frontior University of Wash, ington. It Also stands on the site of the second home of Dexter Hor- | plibneer. | om her home in Santa Barbara, | Cal. Mrs. Harriet Hangon-Fiall, | Seattle's first telephone girl, sent greetings to the old subscribers. She wrote: “I hope time has been | as kind to them as it has been 19.) me. ana if any of them have mado | mistakes I hope they have been as fredly forgiven as T was, When-T \fang. up wrong numbers.” to Five Ships Taken From Sea Service| PORTLAND, Ore. Mareh 7.—Five shipping board steamers in the trapspacific service out of Portland | will be temporarily withdrawn from owing to the slump in de Ww ship: |service mand for tranpacific space Fr. Retyén, dixtrict agent of the ping board, annuonced yesterday ‘Thin will Jeave vessels in the feet operated by the Columbia Pacific Shipping Co. h has been oper ating 17 government vessels for eev- | erat months. Announcement of the withdrawal of the Elkridge, another carrier, was made several days ago. whi Photo by Price & Cart A Wonderful Morning, but Not for Us! INE O'CLOCK! Ideal spring morning! tering! With a fresh shave and our lungs bulging with fresh air from the drive downtown, we're happy as can be and all set for a big d With one fell swoop, we shove all the trouble that’s hanging over from the day before into a desk drawer. Another day for that. This is a morning for action. All right, boy, bring ’em in! Mail first! . . Sun shining ! Birds twit- . Well, well, lots o’ lvtters, Let’s read a few: “The Star is to be congratulated for——” Stop my pape I can’t read a newspaper that will support Doc Brown, that old—— “T commend The Star for backing the candidacy of Edwin Brown. He is a staunch, etc., ete. “How in the world could you ever see your way clear to support Alfred Lundin——” “T think you have chosen the right course. .Neither man——” “What's the matter with The Star——” Not very conducive to helping in the issuance of a peppy, bright newspaper, so we'll just lay the rest of those aside until after the paper’s off the press. oe H, HERE'S a letter from Jay (2) I do not directl¥ or indirectly represent the “power trust.” Stone | marios: company now and ols never have been on the payroll of council. Thomas, editor of The Washing State Weekly and of Industry, The Star printed Thurs Thomas, long known as a private ownership advocate, had indorsed Lundin thru | Sent his. paper | Tat's seo what Jay has to say “As you have seen fit upon| numerous occasions to attack me, I ask that you be fair enough to publish the encloned statement.” | Sure, Jay, always want to be fair. Well, well, an) affidavit! “Jay Thoma: bein sworn, says: (1) 1 have onalty rt the columns of publication advo. cated the candidacy of either Alfred Landin or F. Brown for the rea-| His body was in tne morgu son that 1 do not consider either of | morning, and deputy coroners them big enough to ba mavor of |t his death was due to na Seattle. & Webster or on: earth, any power ton 44 and 1 am not Journal day a story saying that any power organization. (3) 1 do not in (Turn to Page 13, Column 4) Find Man’s Body 40, a washroom inva hy Mth S. He w mploye of Frye & y Bismark. N John Haas, wa tsday in 2101 Tw merly an ind Was an where he is said to have re ne my Star Stare Photographers any manner repre- any organization of employers in Hotel; Held * 8 for 4. I. Hardy, secretary-treasurer, Carpenters’ local No. 131: ‘Seattle's big utility business will be safe in the hands of Nichols, Moore, Carroll | and Campbell. I indorse their candi | dacy W. S. Lincom, Seattle port commis- sioner: “I think Ralph Nichols, Billy Moore, John Carroll and William T. Campbell should be elected to the elty council W. D, Lane, former councilman and progressive leader: “The’ Star has made the best possible selection in its slate for the city council. All {four men are of the finest type of citizenship and should be elected.” Jackson Silbaugh, president of the Veterans’ Republi np club: “Camp- bell is an unusually fine man; Wil Nam Hickman Moore always got re- sults when he was on, the council; John B, Carroll has made good." Oliver T. Erickson, former coun- |cilman and leading advocate of pub-| lic ownership: “I am doing all T can }to elect Ralph D. Nichols and W. T. |Campbell and I am = leaving my friends to choose from the rest of the field as they please.” | Charles Do; Central Labor. council; “A fine group of men. ‘They would all make | 00d counclimen, as would Crawford White. I do not hesitate to endorse the four men endorsed by The Star."* John T, Adams, president of the Seattle Real Estate board: “I have worked hard for William ,T. Camp- | bell and John E. Carroll. I hope they | will be elected.’ George F. Cotterill, port commis- sioner: ‘‘A wise selections All four andidates are unusually fine men. I wish Shields could go in |with Nichols, Moore, Carroll and Campbell.” Daniel Landon, state senator and attorney: “Ralph, D. Nichols op- | posed with all his might every cor. |rupt measure, both great and small, that. came before the legislature dur- jing his service there."* LATE OPPONENTS INDORSE NICHOLS The following endorsement of Ralph Nichols was sent to The Star |by his late opponents in the ‘pri. secret of the “Citizeng of Seattle: Ralph Nich. should be elected tO the city The city needs his services on account of his knowledge of pub: lic affairs, his experience and fight ing ability We who were candi. dates for nomination to the council in the primaries ask the voters to cas: their ballots for him.—R. J. Lot: \gren, Dr. R. N. Leezer, Mrs. Berta Barnhart and A. E. Flagg.” ‘Woman Possessor of Dope, Charge Federal charges of porsessing and yen shee were filed Thurs day ainst Lola Taylor, 211 Union st, whose “massage . parlor” was | raided Wednesday night by the police [narcotic squad, opty the night. In December, Mra. Newman tole police investigating the affair she was fired on three times while re turning from her work at the West Seattle laundry, The identity of this akenilant, believed to be the same who started) the Thursday nigh blaze, has not been definitely “es. | tablished. Mrs, Newman is divorced. ‘SENATOR NAMED ~IN-OIL WIRE | Curtis Is “the Principal” of | McLean Telegrams |EDITOR TELLS “PROBERS |Kansas Gets Message. From | Publisher in Florida | WASHINGTON, March 7.—Senator Curtis, Kansas, republican whip of the senate, today was identified as “the principal mentioned in’ mes- sages sent E, B. MeLean, Washing: ton publisher, at-Patm Beach,-by Ira |B. Bennett, editor of McLean's news- r, the Washington Post. | At the same time Bennett, testify. |ing before the senate oil committee, |revealéd that he had a conference | with Attorney General Daugherty on | February 14 about! the ‘oll investiga- { tion. Identification of “the principal” had been the cause of speculation ‘for some days. Senator Heflin, Ala |bama, said in the senate Thursday that he believed “the principal” was President Coolidge. | Theofirst. message in which Ben- |mett. mentioned “the princival” was |datedyJanuary 24, and said, ‘Saw principal, deliteted message. He sa | greatly appreciates and sends re- gards to.you and Mrs. McLean. There will be ‘no rockinggof boat and no resignatio’ He expects . reaction from unwarranted political attacks. (Signed) Bennett.” “Another méssage needs alittle (Turn to Page 13, Column 2) ‘2 CONGRESSMEN DENY CHARGE {Declare Gossip of Names in Booze Plot Untruc BY FRASER EDWARDS (United Prosa Staft Correspondent) | WASHINGTON, March Har rassed by knowledge that their names were being bandied about the hatls fot congress in sensational gossip, | Representatives: Frederick « Zihiman, Maryland, and John. Langley, Ken- ltucky. today came forward with statements denying they are the “two congressmen” Involved in evidence of bribery laid before a Chicago grand jury Both Zihtman and Langley de manded specific charges, saying they re prepared to answer in detail Their voluntary statements followed adoption of a resolution. calling on (Turn to Page 13, Column 9