The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 13, 1924, Page 1

UN strike. ily Out sed and WIFE MAIMED, DYING! Husband Seized in Attack on 3 Other Women! WEATHER udy tonight and Prt +» variable winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 49. Minimum, 44, Today noon, 49. Eat The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Wash he Seattle ington Star SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1924. The Pretty TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. IS HELD. * This Is Tough World; | Gamblers on Doc Brown O, SEE Have you re for the Howdy, folks! seat yet The Chicago Grand Opera will fem here on the same day as the ‘Dag Show. Don't confuse ‘em! eee ‘The grand opera company will ap. per at the Arena, where the hockey have been showing al! win ter, he principal difference between grand opera and hockey is that In} Qeekey the performers only yell! whens they are hurt. { SPRIG SONG sprig, beaudiful spri da birds begid to sig, Tr dey god nudding bedder to do, Egguse be while I zneeze, a-a-choo! * i Sar fall the words of tongue or pen, ‘The saddest are these: We wert you a statement on the! fast'ef the month, calling attention Palance somewhat past due, and @e have not yet been favored | your remittance we renew our! i-for payment. Very truly} > o ie - IVY CLUB “We gink who invented the in tax blank. see Tecent, mayoralty campaign} plete with scandal. The only the candidates did not charge other with was connection with jmaral off leases. J ee rend the newspapers very Hy. Almost any reader of The for instance, will tell you that Bijer Hoople is the American Olym-| a for the running broad) i it. A successful restaurant is one ee the tomato bottle is al- i empty. ‘ see a styles for women decree Mannish tailored suit and boyish | a The next style, no doubt, will | wing tobacco for women rary = here seized thing !f a lot of us fellows Wilary had to pay income tax OR what we earn—Jack Raper. eee \ | NATURAL HISTORY NOTE gnu is an animal living in where, strange to say, was appointed. 2 New Orleans ts C. Dubble. Ought to make keys for the bo: who come late at night | 10M Silas Grump, th’ sage of Pum s P- Mi Hollow, says: “The grocery man| Rays comes for th’ dally order and how and then he brings what {0 Kippe's cotter house, where did a 1 ad Hetfernan, and did make several | ‘were funn, Contrary to ® Contrib, Barted ail of Eden, a id not think She 100 12 quite as so 3 e ul-sati: ac" of lineman for a joo nd : see allgeded some men a-humping to pi their home a Tunning and to = y. eat SENATORS TOLD | DEATH STORY fe Fs pen Widow of Daugherty’s Friend Tells of Intrigue ces EVIDENCE SENSATIONAL eden, is dead in the} Sores: lained in the sign on 4 Qereet cars: “KEEP YOUR | White House Conference Re- | a port Is Under Probe YR DIARY } pbex 53 ening with Te. Bermann to ¢,| WASHINGTON, March 12—A re jor dinner, and did thers Ported White House conference, at +H. Caldwell, J. Campbell, te y Attorney General Daugh: any » T. Mesdag, W. erty, 5. L. Doheny, Harry F. Sin and the late President Harding was being investigated today by the| senate committee investigating the | department of Justice. | According to the story told the committee, Daugherty, Sinclair and/ [Doherry spent the night preceding Jesse Smith's death at the White | the current rumor, | House. | it wis not am apple! Daugherty, it was recalled today. ll the trouble in the|was at the White House eating) 2 sreen pair, | breakfast when tho news of his} |friend, Smith's, suicide was broken to him. | Pending the clearing up of this/ report, the committee prepared to-| day to continue questioning of Mrs. Smith-Stinson, who yesterday began her teatimony. Senator Wheeler said | | Mra. Stinson had “not begun to tell | jher full story.” She desires, 05 far) |as possible, to shield Smith's name | She was prepared to tell, one com- | mitt member said, that Smith when he died had $65,000 in Liberty |bonds, The man who gave Smith |the bonds was said to be known to) |the committee and to be prepared to | | tentity Representative. Upabaw, Georsin A58, | Craen'to Page § eaten Mj off lower Fifth ave. and some. intersecting streets. If you can’t park your car in the street try Mr. Fuqua’s auto park. auto park. Lower, anothér one of numerous private parks that have been established since the traffic commission dpought a lease on his lot to secom. They have dropped out and left him Auto Parks RE es Frank Fuqua, head of the police traffic department, also heads a traffic commission which is trying to force cars Incidentally he owns a handy auto park in the neighborhood. Picture above shows Fuqua and a section of his | —Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers * Traffic Head Goes In HERE'S JOKE ON on Business Venture! POC" BROWN Fuqua Runs Private Parking Place and Shoos Cars Off Streets ERGT. FRANK FUQUA, head of the police traffic de- partment and head of the special Seattle traffic com- mittee which drew up the proposed city-wide traffic clause, is also running an open-air garage business. The new traffic code, drawn up by Fuqua and C., A, Mitch- ell, head of the street department traffic division, and | W. Bollong, head of the traffic division of the utilities de- partment, has a provision eliminating parking on Fifth ave. and Terrace Fuqua has rented a lot at Fifth and Washington, where parking is rented at the rate of 25 cents a day. The lot will hold approximately 40 cars. Fuqua pays $60 a month for the lot, he says, but has been losing money on it. This ordin: if passed, will | ——— -- —— drive between 250 and 200 privately owned automobiles off Fifth. ave. | GooD ACREAGE OFFER TODAY that are now parked in the center! of the street between Madison at Here are some choice acres lo- sated close to Lake Washington, and Washington st | right on the paved highway: Since the traffic code was drawn Up over & year ago, three other pri vately owned parking lots have been opened on Fifth aye, one at Fifth ave. and Marton, and two at Fifth ave. and Cherry st, None of these lots is now doing n profitable busi: ness. Fuqua he originally CLOSE IN VIEW ACREAGE Located close to Lake Washin: on, on paved highway. Ald Values of land fronting highways a adily 1 tracts. as on termes saya pil modate some were to pay 0 police employes, who mat 1 ‘ increas! $ ® month for it iow in price as $775 with the lot on his hands, he rays, and he is steadily losing money on it now, he asserts Under the parking on (Tury bo Page 9, Column 1) * interested in to the Want BeO this Aa if you yroperty turn olumns NOW and olling these lots are new code i Hiram Read’s Term of Office Expired Last Year MAYOR JUST FINDS OUT Says He Only Wishes He’d Known. It Before city Mayor The entire laughing Thursday, For the hall staff BE. J, Brown was at year Brown has been the subject for bitter attacks launched by Dr. Hiram Read, health officer, Brown has retaliated and hus charged Read with ineffi- cleney in the operation of his partment. Some weeks ago Brown threaten- ed to fire Read just as soon as his term of office was up, which is Mareh 17. Thursday Corporation Counsel. T. J. I. Kennedy wrote an opinion which shows that Read has been holding office and drawing pay for the entire year because Brown did not appoint a new health depart. ment head. TERM EXPIRED IN MARCH, 1923 term expired Kennedy held. T've got say in that it mighty fortunate for Read I didn't know about it before, would have been out a Mayor Brown said de- March © 23, ‘All was that or hi age year The condition was brought about} veral years ago. The office of health commissioner was established (Turn to Page 9, Colum 2) city | folks orld this isa W ably The gamblers lop headac arned from night that would 4,000, ‘The mayors major nomething run ove but lived in fused to p Auditor they hopes a re bets until they the from count unt D, E ons office Escapes Death in Fire Trap! Lose by Just Two Votes When Tho Star ao that Doc little would 000 mark counters thought s0, ttl made their and learned a chance. ‘The official coun’ Thur al count wasn’t wl morning office, gives Doc a of 4,998 —Just two enough to make the 000 bets good auditor's Tells Police He Was Tied in Bed; House Fired; Found in Yard After Jumping: From Window Jumping from » second-story window of his burning home, carly Thursday morning, M, An- derson, 4127 24th ave. 8. W., was rescued and taken to the city hospital, where he told detectives that he had been attacked by armed men and tied to his bed, after which the house was fired, Fire Marshal Robert L. Laing is investigating the case. Laing de clared that the fire was set by an Incendiary in three different places about the house, The police found an off can in the house which had been used to start the fire. They also found a rope around the bed which had been cut with a knife Anderson was lodged in a padded lcell temporarily while the police are Investigating his story At 4:30 a, m. John Ireland, living |next doof to Anderson, discovered the houge in flames and found An- derson lying in the yard where he had fallen from the window. The fire department put out the blaze quickly. Anderson, altho not badly hurt, refused to give the police a description of his alleged assailants or to give them any other data on the case, other than to’say that he had been tied up and left to burn to death. He failed to explain how he had cut himself loose from tho rope and the police and fire mar- shal are inclined to discount his story. Anderson's insurance on the building had been renewed a few days ago, according to the police. The loss of the building was about 1 $400. Slayer of Kelso Bride Now Believed Insane PILOT ROCK, March 13.—On a lonely grave in the litte cem- etery out of Pilot Rock, Ore., are the words, “God Bless You,” formed with pebbles, | At night, while he prayed over the body of the girl-wife whom he confessed he slew at Kelso, February 4, Elden Huteh-** inson arranged the ilttle stones in token of his heart-torn re | morse oyer the terrible deed. | Today these few stones and | a nearfresh grave are the only reminders of a high school ro- mance which budded and flow- ered here, and then withered in the Kelso tragedy. At Pendleton authorities were arranging today to take Hutch- | inson back to Kelso, providing he will waive extradition, As more facts of the crime were told by the husband-slayer, persons who knew him in his youth become more. convinced that the boy was crazed, | “It was not the real | that did it,” they sald, after Hutchinson told how he com- mitted the act, barely realizing what he was doing, while all l@the time he struggled with the sensation of “walls falling in on him." No normal-minded man would | | | Elden drive nails into the head of the person he already had~ mur- dered, they belleved, after re- calling the scene of the strange killing No evasive technicalities, legal defense whatsoever, be made for the boy. The father, who gave his son up to the law when the boy came home, said: “I told him he would have to tell them the truth and then take the punish- ment.” no will Nadie Sued fobs. : | Death of Child | HOLLYWOOD, March 13.—A $3,000 |Judgment against the Famous Play -Lasky film corporation was on | file today, secured by Ernest Stump, whose $-year-old daughter, Velma, was killed when she crawled into a jbear cage on the Lasky studio lot. ‘Snowstorm Rages | Across Colorado DENVER, March 1.—Following a 48-hour snowstorm in. which Denver |had a fall of approximately two feet and points south into New Mexico recorded heavy precipitation, weath- er bureau forecast today was for an- other snow tonight. ‘| Another Seattle W REALLY hate to bother you again with this, but the false teeth in Seattle apparently just won't stay down—or in—or wherever it is false teeth are supposed to st Y'remember we had such an awful time a couple of weeks ago trying to find a Bremerton man’s false teeth? And we dug up more false teeth that folks had picked upon the streets than we could find owners for? And the poor “teeth reporter” got so discouraged that he was ready to quit? '|More Agony for “Teeth Reporter”; Man Has Lost ’Em Well, today in walked Wright Ashton, of 1400 Western ave. with the story of how his false set of upper teeth had dropped out aA week ago near Seventh ave. and Westlake and of how he couldn't Jocate them any- where. “I understand ‘The Star can find ‘em for me,” said Ashton. The “teeth reporter” groxned in agony. For he could foreses what was coming. But he was game. “We'll try.” he promised, So that's that. And this} ON OPEN CHARGE Woman Is Beaten on Head With Auto Crank and Badly Choked BY SAM GROFF So badly injured that it is im- possible to move her to a hos- pital, Mrs, Jack Harney was dying Thursday at the home of Mrs. J. F. Reynolds, 2709 17th ave. S., following a murderous attack which she declares was | made upon her Wednesday night | by her husband, Jack Harney, | who is held in the city jail on an open charge, Mrs. Harney is suffering from {skull injuries inflicted by an auto- mobile crank, and from internal in- |juries resulting from being beaten and maltreated with a. stick..of lumber, | Harney was arrested Wednesdoy evening at Westlake ave. and Vii |ginia st, after he had insulted and struck three different women who were waiting there for a strect car, Harney was lodged in jail by Pa trolman Bob Hagen, Later the po- lice Jearned of the attack on Mrs. Hamey and began at search for her husband. He was located i jhis cell under a charge of being drunk and disorderly. This wan changed to an opem charge and hp was held without. bail. Further charges will be filed against Harney if his wife dies, | police say. | The reason for the murderous attack is unknown, Harney was drunk when arrested, police in- vestigators declare. Harney drove his car to the Reynolds home after the attack and drag- sed his wife's unconscious body to the goorstep, where Mrs. Reynolds rescued her. Harney’s mother works at the Reynolds home. % WOMAN TOO ILL TO BE MOVED | When the injured woman recoy+ ered consciousness she told of her husband beating her with the auto crank, choking her and of maltreat: jing her. Mrs. Reynolds called a |doctor and notified the police. | Thursday morning physiclans de- jclared they would take the woman to the hospital for an X-ray exam: jination but she grew worse during the morning and was in too serious a condition to be moved. | Harney was arrested for bother- ing the women on Westlake: after his alleged attack on his wife. Po- lice declare that he evidently went directly down town after the as- ‘sault, | Harney tried to escape from Pa |trolman Hagen after he was placed junder arrest and offered to fight. | Hagen was forced to knock his pris- | oner down twice. ‘The Harneys live at 702 Bell st. SAILORS LOST Fail to Locate Missing Members of Crew NORFOLK, Va., March 13.—The coast guard cutter Manning prowled the waters off Cape Hatteras today searehing for survivors of the Ward liner Santiago, which sank yester- faay. = The Manning reported no success and it is believed the Norwegian |steamer Cissy, which picked up 11 members of the Santiago crew, has all those saved. Twenty-four mem bers of the crew are still missing. ‘The Cissy is expected to put into Baltimore around noon. Senator Ladd Will Get Lenroot Post WASHINGTON, March 13.—Sena \tor Ladd, North Dakota, was today | unanimously approved by the senate |as chairman of the public lands com: mittee. He will succeed Senator Irv ing L. Lenroot, republican, Wiscon- sin, who gave up the post because of ill health, |