The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 17, 1924, Page 1

N Temperature Maximum, 59. Today nd Tw Frost Tonight orthwest Winds. Last 44 Hour, Minimun noon, 50, NO. 19. In Howdy, folks! Th' Top o’ th’ * Mornin’ (o You! Doheny and Sincla ate the middjeman One girl we like Is Doris J. @ doesnt ch Her was aK thrown off his horse Saturday. ad had better be careful or he'll | im his feet and get hurt. * WHO! “In enacting thy role of Salome, J intend to wear only five veils instead of my cudtomary seven. on account of Se uttle's mild eenats "—Mary Garden. . MARY! cap i kaos, awake until they come in.| one 1 went to be a scofflaw And with the scofflaws From: Greenland’s icy To India’s coral strand. moun I want to de a scoffiawo And lap up gin and beer fias! My wife Drink even deer Sometimes it is difficult to tell whether our county commissioners are trying to make progress in rural development or in rural devilment. eee j Wabash college, at Crawfordsville, | 4., sends word out to the world that 95 per cent of its students do} wear garters. Good reason why!) nety-five per cent of Indianians do} t wear socks. j | Te ee | NOT BY THOMAS GRAY | ‘Fall many a pebble hides away unseen, And so gets eaten with the festive bean.” Otto H. Kahn says Wall Street has paid the principal cost of the war, We are going to write a letter to Wall, Street and ask it to pay our income tax. that a cargo of t gain to the fisher-| men? Thenx. eos | CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB Guy at the boarding house tab® who asks for the syrup by shouting: “Spill the shellac over here!” | Bi Boozer's taken hits last drink, He had hs share on arth, think, His end was sdd, alas, alack! The clove he swallowed was a tack oe we Four airplanes are to leave Los Angeles in a flight around the worl The journey be nearly half Over when they get to the city limits. eee SeRator Lenroot's efforts to hush 4p the off Investigation ino: ave made him sick. Me too. eee CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT Broker caught in Seattle and sceused of fleecing hundreds is taken back to Los Angeles, This should be punishment fnough and a lesson to those who will not carn an honest living. the body of Adam Larch~| He Sook iis heavies off tm March, Here ties The Woodland aut 1 Li G. amp her for out t YE ptany tay long in bed, n Mereury vd ever and drink of Yime fasting on fried walking far nfie to playing with e. L know not. thie | McLean’s Muma sald, according to Holdridgy, | “Behold | ridge testified. | o> iia Is Murdered | Seattle Death War! DEAL IS AIRED IN PROBE Detective Claims Cabinet Man at Head of Fight Movie Scheme WASHINGTO: March 17.— Attorney General Daugherty was identified as the man be hind the plan to exhibit Demp- sey-Carpentier fight films fn more than @ score of states by dap Mama, one of the promoters of the plan, G. C, Hokiridge, former agent of the department of justice, testified today before the senate committee invest! gating Daugherty, Holdridge said under oath th Muma told him Daugherty and William J. Burns, head of the de partment’s secret service, both Involved. He accused the attorney general with being “head of the nd Burns with and abet ting It," Holdridge testified. Holdridge declared flatly he thinks Daugherty and Burns are “crooks. He never reported to them the re | sult of his investigation of the fight film “conspiracy,” he sald, “because I had never heard of a precedent where an agent would have to tell his chief, the attorney general of the United States, Burns or any body else, that they were crooks.” “Do you think they are?” Senator were conspira | Ashurst asked Holdridge. “I certainly do,” he responded in | stantly, Holdridge also brought out the name of B. B. McLean and related |@ story Muma told him of the occa sion on which the fight pictures were given a private showing at house, {n Washington that at that time, in the presence of “cabin members," diplomats and congressmen, there was a gen eral discussion of the law. against shipping fight films in interstate commerce, and {t was agreed the law was almed primarily at plc tures of the Jeffries Johnson fight. Moma was warned, Holdridge said, by MeLan, that he was “headed straight for Atlanta penitentiary,” because of the ex- hibition of the fight pletures, and McLean took the matter up with Daugherty, according to witness, Daugherty, Hold {t up with Burns, and Muma to see Burns, who said, to Holdridge: “If you are tr to protect Rickard, are wasting ‘our time, because I am going to at him in Atlanta penitent! Muma raid he replied to Burns the master mind!” Hold went sald ing VANCOUVER, WASH., Pictures of the Dempsey.Gibbons fight at Shelby, Mont., have been advertised to be shown hero begin ning this afternoon. Department of justice would make no comment on the ex hibit, which has attracted particular interest because of the investigation n Washington of the Dempsey-Car pentier fight picture case. Monday and Back to Business Today's Want Ad columns carry home bargains that can be for small down pay some purchased ments AIN ttage on SPECIAL BAF , | council Monday afternoon, agents | The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington tered as pd Class Matter OOLIDGE EXPLAINS CUTTING INTERVIEW WITH FAMED PLAYERS JASHINGTON, March 17 The pres cannot re colve public addresses from peo. & foreign nation unless ed thru the usual nnela, President eclared today in a lang, the Christus of amous Oberammergau te players, The president's wns addressed to Lang In of th German embaary Washington, was in ex of the action Mr. eutt © audience which the Passion Players had White House on Saturday CONSIDER NEW HEALTHHEAD Council to ‘Pick Doctor to Succeed Hiram Read | SILENT ON CANDIDATE | ( COOLIDGE EXPLAINS — | Cc at dipte letter Pas letter, which at the ‘isrow Holds List of His Choices for Post | A [was new commissioner to be placed before of health the city and 3 to city hall rumors, Dr France would be nomin ated for council approval. Dr George N. McLaughlin also was mentioned for the post, Mayor Brown Monday called a meeting of the city council to con veno in his office at 115 p. m. to| Giscums the health commissioner | uation.” do not Rowe T. intend to submit the name of any physician who will be | turned down mayor sald. to the man, nor the council. confer with the council and place before them information I have gathered from various Seat tle physicians. “If the council approves my selec tion, I believe Seattle will have the best health department it has ev had.” 6 mayor refused to state whom he had in mind for the ponition. A committee of physicians, ing of Drs. U. C. by the council,” the I*will con. Pa. has in and report to Mayor will be sut the or Dawson nation suggestions hese report the ated the # thelr council, mi Hiram M. Read, who has held ition since 1919, will until bis successor is qua and takes the oath of office. 1 packed his belo A red to turn the of to his successor, {t is reported, dicating funcil member | support tho mayor's nominee. ARREST EIGHT AT DANCE Liquor Complaints Bulk Largely in Charges office fied Dr. F 8 prep ice over in will Mareh 17.! t men were arrested Sund. night in the Silver Lake dance ha on the Des Moines highway in a sheriff's office raid. They wore Ted Kronquist, Willlam Carlson and Manual Corey, charged. with | possession of lquor. | R. J. W. Mitchell, Floyd Krause, Henry J. Norman and Edgar Holmes, charged with being drunk. C. A. Haneman, charged with | having a punch board in his posses sion All 'Arrests Quartet in Robbery Case of were released on $25 bonds. robbing 8. Sunda used men, Fred Evans Adams and Anthony 1 in Jail Mond: t early Monday “It would not be fair | members | 1eged gangmen, the Postotticg at Beattie, SEATTLE, WASH., OUTBREAK IS FEARED | BY POLICE Nippon’s Body Is Found Riddled With Bullets; Sec-, ond in Week BY SAM GROFF Following the murder of T. Ono, 27, alleged Japanese guman, Monday morning, a heavy detail of police was assigned to patrol the Japanese colony in the viein- ity of Sixth ave. and Jackson st., to prevent any serious outbreaks of gunmen which is feared may result from thg two Japanese murders whi have occurred hore in the last six days. By « strange chain of clroum stances the polite, following the shooting, were seeking Ono as his own slayer, and had jailed as a sus ‘pect the friend who had posted ball for him, two hours before the shoot ing Ono's Itelens body, with three bul lets thru the chest and one thru the head, was found in the alley back of |the Shinpooken cafe, 615% Jackson jot, at 6295 a.m, by a night watch | |man who had heard six shots. Ono | jhad been slain in the kitchen of the |restaurant and his murderer had |dragged his body thru the doorway |into the alley, after which he made a determined effort to dentroy the evidence of the crime by mopping up jthe Dbloodstains. Police, however, found a pool of blood in a corner and a bullet lodged in a saw-handle, to- gether with several empty sheila from a large-calibered, foreign, auto matio pistol. Ono's glaxses were found tn the cafe. Ono had the case for the spec tacles in his pocket, together with six irdges for a .38 caliber gun The dead man was unidentified until 10:15 a.m, T. Tanaka and his wife, who own the cafe, ide tified Ono as a friend of theirs. ‘Tanaka said that ho had gone to the police station at 245 a. m, to post $100 for Ono, who had been arrested at midnight on sus- picion of being implicated in sev: eral Japanese shootings. Ono was carrying & .38 caliber pistol and was charged with carrying concealed weapons, Tanaka went home and Ono went to the cafe. Mrs. Tanaka said she closed the cafe and went home at 5 a. m., leaving Ono outside. The mur- der occurred at 5 a. m., accord. ing to the police, and both Tana- ka and his wife are held on open charges, The police believed at first that Ono might have been implicated in his own murder and were searching| tor him. Last Tuesday 11. Kamada, 38)} resuek ted killer another Jap- apenes, was shot and killed In a mysterious manner at Sixth ave. and Main st. His slayer never has been found. The polico believe that both killings are due to two rival bands of Japanese gunmen. Well-! reports come to the Jap colony concerning the activity of the al- in which they are }accused of extorting money from |Jap merchants and business men upon threat of death. It ts due to the fear of these societies that pre- j vents the average Japanese from) testifying or aiding the police In jany manner in solving the crimes, cording to the officers. Detectives 1H. M, Barton and C. Toms are work on the case the supervision of Detective Charles Tennant. informed have headquarters from L. under | capt Coolidge Backed to Beat Johnson D, March a fi petting today to win from Hiram Johnson inthe North P BISMAF nt Cooli D mary tomorrow the president is the for newspaper Wash ae under the Act ¢ MARCH 17, 1924, ngrese March 3, Year, by Mat, =, The Seattle Star * Story of a Photo That Failed Camera Man Wanted an Irishman Selling Green Flowers for St. Mary’s Dance Should Be run photogr t Ir “I'd n ualif Order of iber ture,” sald Syar glad to help ‘em ce St. Patrick me but all Seattle on the day whe Called ‘“‘Dance of Seven Brassieres,’’ Says Brew BY HOMER G. BREW (Famous Music Critic) Miss Mary Garden, Chicago Grand Opera Company, En Route, Dear Mary: Perhaps you didn't ses mo at your performance’ of Salome” Saturday afternoon, but I saw you. I was the little gink cross-oyed ears sitting in tion 3, Row H, Seat 4, The big fat woman who sat next to me was my wife. Sho was the one that gave you the dirty look when you did the Dance of the Seven Veils. It was the editor of this news. paper who sent me down to the Arena to review your perform. ance. Ever since it became known I played the harmonica, I have had to criticize all the high-brow musical shows that came to town 1 have almost Raymond Owens, critic, out of a job. Well, Mary, to get down to what I think of your show. Before the opera you an. nounced that owing to the mild climate of Seattle you were only foing to wear five veils, instead with run our Louise regular BEC AUSE HE “We've got to see that show,” I said to my wife, “I'm just crazy about music!" "Huh,” sald she, “If that woman dances in five hunks of cheese cloth in Seattle on ac count of the warm weather, what would she wear in Texas?” So we went down to the Arena The first thing we saw was two ps sitting in the very front t here to cen. sald my wite wish "They sor Mary's dance, I suppose their job. “No, were you you dearie I. answered, laughing heartily, would rbe a stage hand The first thing we noticed was John the Baptist. Belleve me. Mary, the fellow needed a hifireut worse than Doc Brown You wanted to Kiss -him poor but Being a figured At he probably | McLean, Sunday, {funeral serv! ‘ Lundin had been elected mayor ad closed up the town. NCE OF SEVEN VEILS WAS WRONG NAME Then you did your famous “Dance the Seven Vells" be-| fore Herod, the head alderman of the district. | I noticed all thru this dance that you wore not only the sev- en veils of Biblical history, but also a good old brand of Ameri- can underwear protect you from the Puget Sound mists. The dance should have been ern: to Page | Column 2) M'LEAN TO SEE YOUNG WIFE Tacoma Pair Home Pending Manslaughter Trial TACOMA, Maren |Ross McLean, returned to Tacoma :from Maine with his father, A. R. will call on his wife as her physical condition makes it possible for hir see her, the elder McLean announced today relative to manslaughter charges | preferred against the young couple for the death of their year-old babe at | Brunswick, Me., February 28. Mrs. McLean, who returned last week, 1s with her mother, Mrs. Oscar Volk Young McLean ts at liberty under | | $20, 000 bail, and his wife is free un- |der $10,000 bail to appear before a Maine court to answer to having smothered their baby to death. The! es were held Saturday | before arrival in Tacomh’ of the Me-| Leans The case ot to 17.—Kenneth as soon s the outgrowth of Mra MasLean’s trip east last month to visit her husband fn college. She took their year-old daughter with her to} surprise young MacLean, but found him displeased at her sudden appear ance Th ruary 28 baby died of smothering on et and the mother later made purr ed confession, which later refuted by defense attorney Mrs. MeLean is in a dazed condition as a result of her ot and no ¥ been permitted to see her. ors haye | ¥ ts a thi they turn out to do him honor.” -atrick—But, as You See, He Didn’t Get It topped inside the door of 4st. shop about him. flower was not a reflection 1 Isle ur name, please?” replied the salesman. h?" sald the photographer ed the salesman, he inqut er seen and, noting 4 the cause. Then Killarney became ic 1 ne 49 © member of the Ancient ns, but I'll pose for your pic “And you can tell ‘em that I'm lobrate, ns much to the Irish, of course, 1, and wishes them well, MAYOR HOME TO SETTLE ROW Brown Disturbed Over Labor | Controversy Alarmed at the disturbance tn the building trades industry, Mayor Brown returned from Vancouver Monday to obtain first hand knowl- edge of the controversy between Se- attle master builders and the Build- jing Trades council over a proposed wage iigreement, The mayor charged David Whit- comb, president of the Chamber of) Commerce, with having brought pressure from the National Associa. |be heard by the flyers themselves. 5) tion of Builders to bear upon the/ local contractors, causing them to re- pudiate the agreement. Tho proposed agreement was reached by the conference commit- tees of the contractors and the unions, after hearings lasting sev- eral] weeks. It provides that exist ng Wages shall remain tn force for | one year and that no strikes or lock- hall be resorted to. The Associated Industries, in ex- Plaining the repudiation of the com-| mittee’s report: by the building con- tractors, charged that the unions had | inserted a closed shop clause, while the union charge the Associated In.| dustries and “high officials of the| Chamber of Commerce” with at- | tempting to force the open shop pol- icy and of influencing the contract- ors to repudiate the agreement their representatives had entered ee President Whitcomb of the ber refused to take ‘the foasor's statement seriously Monday and ex- pressed hope for an early peg of the controver: WHITE AND se ineian| Posing As prospective customers, a white man and a negro Satur. day night held up and robbed G. A. Lincoln, Union Ol Co., service sta. tion operator, at 10th ave, 8, and | Jackson st., of $20, ANTI-DRUNK SERUM * ASSERTED SUCCESS ARIS, March 1 ‘A cure for drunkenness, with which he claims to have — successfully ted 16 patients, was an- nced today by a French Physician, Dr. C. L'Hospitaller. The doctor makes a serum from the patient’s own blood, injects it back Into the veins and ere= ates a distaste for alcohol tt 1s Inimed, TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, on Way to Seattle to Prepare for World Voyage FRESNO, Cal., March 17.~The army flyers passed over F¥esno at 12:23 p, m. today. oe WOODFORD, Cal., March 17. The “round-the-world” aviators sue cessfully crossed the first mountain barrier on their journey today. At 11 a. m. they passed over Woodford, which meant that they jhad crossed without incident the jsummit of the Tehachap! moune |tains. Thelr route now les up the jSan Joaquin valley. . CLOVER FIELD, geles, March 17.—America’s pre- liminary flight in an effort to girdle the globe by air is under way. Pointing their noses to the northward, three of the Doug- las world cruisers, in which flyers of the United States army air service will attempt to circle the world, headed into the skies _ here at 9:32 a. m. for Seatile, where the airmen will make their Jumpoff for the voyage — across the Pacific, The planes got away to a per- fest “take-off,” leaving behind the fourth craft, still untested. It will Join the others at Seat- tle, | |_ Heading his flyers, Maj. Frederick: | L. Martin, in ship No. 1, shot into jthe air at 9:32 a. m. The big air |crulser sped down tho field for 100 | yards, and on @ slight rise at the west end “took the air” witn assur- ance and steadiness, Close behind him was ship No. with Lieut. Leigh Wade at the “stick.” Last to leave was Lieut. | Lowell Smith, in ship No, 2. Bach jof the junior officers handled his jplane with all the certainty of hie commander. | MAJ. MARTIN'S | PLANE IN LEAD Flying in V-shaped formati with Maj. Martin's cruiser tn van, the trio of the army air jice's finest planes circled the | twice, turning to the south and b {again over thelr starting point. Then, gaining 500 fect elevation, jalr cavalcade was away, headed tt ward Sacramento, the first stop | place on its voyage. As they passed over the crowd, #) observers peered over the side | waved to the cheering multity |while the shouts from the Ww wishers below rose in such as if to almost penetrate the st | purr of the giant liberty motors @ Shortly after the world started, a score of escort — |manned by flyers from San | cisco, San Diego and the Toca! feld, {skimmed into the air and were at following Major Martin and his men, Some of the escort craft will acconi: pany the world-round voyagers as far as Seattle. , FLIGHT DELAYED | BY WEATHER Start of the flight was seerey more than two hours because of | settled weather conditions which Pe a time threatened to cause postpone ment of the “take off.” “It is either today or day after | tomorrow,” predicted Dr, Ford Ae |Carpenter, weather observer, report. | | ing to Major Martin the conditions a |the elements above, gleaned (Turn to ea te. Fase.) Ce 7, Column » 8 MR COLLISIO KILLS 2 MEN | Lieutenants Are Victims ro Crash Over Florida Field = | SACOLA, Fla., March ie | Two nayal lieutenants were killed here today when their airplanes cole lided in mid-air, 1,500 feet abet | Corry Flying field, | ‘The victims were Lieuts, Charles ‘ D. Porter and Olin Rainor. In jdition Lieuts, Henry M, Mullini |and T, ©. Fisher, occupants of the planes, Were ‘injured slightly. One of the wrecked airplanes tell on the roof of the Western Paper }Makers’ Climical Co. plant, located |near the landing field % | Porter's engagement to a young | Pensacola woman was to have bee! {smnounced this week, 4+ $