The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 18, 1924, Page 1

ORLD FLYERS SPEED TOWARD SEATTLE} folks Suffering fre re we We're sorry we spent all our hate on the income tax collector We'll need all of it in a ltth while for the umpires. based YE DIARY Up betimes, and (0 town, and did see » policeman on Western ave, wen bouquet of parsiey, and did realise i was St. Patrick's At noon to lanels and dia there see HM. Draxman wear ® shamrock, and later did moet Hamilton, and he also wearing @ bit of serum to cure inte Gosh, what & In the se wsed by the oil operators, as “Apple.” Now he's k There Fasoling left 1 Ss announced. We should worr is only x | LI'L GEE GEE mm OFFICE VAMP, EZ: Jot uv Seattle tothe are wor. rh rer a rumor that this country is goin’ to go dry. ¢ 7-7 The novice at hooked a small tro it In, until it § of hi Pupi I've fi Instruy stab it.’ trout fishing rod. “What do I do now that shed winding?” ‘or: “Climb up the rod ar see T always take @ street car Whene'er I go to market, "Cause when I take a street never have to park it! mony in the oil sear H. ©. Man, “don't ate commi what Ga. “Speaking 5 recent " comme you think the ee should ha on B. Means?” REI TODAY'S SONG “I Did Not Raise My Boy to Is y queried We gave It up. “Because it’s t answered, laughing fillings fell out * Gee Ge gold Gee Geo say balloon tires on he can fly uy mer. ANOTHER WIDE OPEN TOWN great che ga Caldwell (0.) The Prince of 4 horse o . otaicplaning SIGN ON THE BACK oF ~ DETOURING CAR > eb etadste eo A FORD Peta There are 13,789,000 registered an fomobiles in the United cording to @ recent compilation gosh, no wonder er find parking space! see Us voTERSs we can ne y cheered While the to the ‘rafters n the stage and box King an AND HURRY! WITNESS EXPOSES DEALINGS Says Higherups Gambled in Sin- clair and Doheny Stocks BY PAUL R, MALLON w ASHINGTON, March 18.—( Bascom ary to President Senator Charles Curtis, Tepublican whip in the senate, Attorney General Daugherty, Senator Davis Elkins and several present and former congressmen speculated in either Doheny or Sinclair oil stocks, Lewis D, Bond, accountant for the federal trade commission, tes. tified today before the senate oil committee, esamen named as count for a time was registered under the name of W. W. 8 Bond sald. Slemp speculated In. Sinclair Consolid d and Mexican Petro leurn; Curtis in Sinclair Consell. dated, od Elkins in Sinclair Consolidated and Mextean Petro seth leam. The congressmen bought and sold Mexican Petroleum anid Pan-American Petrol The Py American E. L. Doheny, leases of nl al reserves; ated ts controlled by n-American Petr made a profit of t $543.50, E about OWNS SOME STOCKS the period covered by Bon ers’ books, 2 as based. This still owns some ctions but outright purchase. 6 not been bought dated. old to Aate. 500 shares of Sin committee he had ks of 15 brokers besides P ction of Bond » had ake of Daugherty’s ator Walsh asked ‘t want his name That Is fre c. He never told me he didn't want to be Identified the matter,” Bond nid. MITH HANDLED H” STOCK DEALS indic fr found in the ds of Hibb: ¥ t } that Je the man 1 m rec & Co. 4 Smith wa tock under the name The com Tarn to directed to Bond ‘age 34, Column 6) -TEMBLOR HITS JAPAN AGAIN Island Cracked Asunder; Many Lives Are Lost TOKYO, March earthquake disaster the Japanese islands. This time Kashiku, « small Japanese colony Saghalien ist- and, has been the center of the shake, Menger reports reaching here said the shock occurred Saturday 18,—Another has visited ht Houses ¢ were many Great fissures opened in the the ons of thee shake ing Immediately shaken down and usualtios, were th, reach follow be her yori river 1 rising rapidl The felt. in the tremor were "Tokyo. both inmic center i quake ents and horizon believed to bottom of the sea near the showed In be in the of Kur eon started injured and measures have der aid to the sugghalion, home on jeu, | | films. | but disclosed that he ac | Boyce Thompson, th The Newspaper W ith the Biggest Circulation i in Washington he SeattleStar % NEW PLA FO EATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, MARCH 18 1924 * * gs *s * e(8 x IN OIL CLEANU TWO CEN Bonus Passed by House! | Takes Oath Dr. McLoughlin Is ew Health Head Lieut. T. J. Koenig Inspects the Balloon 20- Year Endow-| ment Insurance by Congressmen | WASHINGTON, March 18 Thd house today passed the sot dier bonus bill. The measure Is radically dif ferent from the bill President Harding y Ita p ylar’ et wi except those be issued t Tho vole waa 365 to 64 Tho bill now goes to the senate Will be entith where t faces « stormy. time, altho} sorpe form of a bonus bill probayly be pansed there ‘om now on bonus dichted they would center their tivities on getting President Coolidge wo over to oval of the insur anc bonus p failing to pasuring of enous advooa: or, th themselves vot@s to pans it over SENATORS HEAR OF RUM DEALS Witness Says Daugherty Friend Got Huge Sums WASHINGTON, March 1§.— Delving into transactions regard ing withdrawals of liquor, the Sefate committee investigating Attorney General Daugherty to. day heard from William Orr, of New York, a story of large pa ments, totaling sometimes $25, 000 at a time, to Howard Man nington, described as a close friend of Daugherty. These pay- ments, Orr sald, were in connec- tion with “liquor deals,” but he did not know what became of the money except that it was keep the cases out of court.” Development of thiw angle of the inquiry followed announcement that numbers of new subpoense been fasued, ing in the etarien Me . Prohibition Commi veral member staff at brother-in-la Harding. sald t gave him money ir withdrawn turned it arse had committee's dr lon and Weel aloner E of Day ment of H. H, Votaw, late President Orr, Neged‘liqu oun people incl cnet Se nes and se erty’s tice. 1 of the deais, art nection with that he always Mannington. § d him if the total did not reach $259,000, but Orr said he could not tell Provic his connection with the plan to dis tribute the Dempsey-Carpentier fight Ho added little to the {nformaion that das cam com mitteo’s on Ign fund collector for the republi thering In $10 000 before the 1920 cons ve Will Hays and Col. Witllam n chairman and of the repub. he treasurer, respectively, Hean national committees, THE TIME Here are some that can he amall down buy choice acre purchased payment Acreage. tracts for a on PAcIRIC. HicHw AY black soil; all ele yation; 3 miles f eash; balance tc cont and junt a little ' at cash, ten years cont Ad ec ibout Want more them r of the! the city’s new health officer, | Orr was asked about/t tion, which | Prepares to Greet World Flyers Tires Which He’ll Fly Wednesday to Welcome the Airmen on the Plane in Lieut. T. J. Koenig, commanding ofhoee at the Sand Point airdrome, "will fly into™ the louds Wednesday to greet the round-the-world airmen when they arrive in Seattle. | Owing to the condition of the Sand Point field, Koenig's plane is equipped with “super-bl- tires, which tak _many of the bumps out of landing. Neighbors Ask Aid for “Most Unfortunate Man” HE STAR received a letter this morning from R. M. Thomas, an agent for the Northern Pacific railroad at Bryant, Wash., asking for aid for Jacob Lilletvedt, whom he called “the most unfortunate man in the Northwest.” These, he says, are the chapters of misfortune that have given Lilletvedt the name: b bgeis suffered severe reverses during the period of farmer deflation in Montana, removing his family from necessity to Washington two or three years ago. —He supported his family by such teaming jobs as were available until one of his horses injured his leg and became useless. | loon” Dr. George N. McLoughlin, who took his oath of office | Tuesday morning. —Htar Staff Photograph MARSHALL | full work, BY HEERY his JM and of enthusiasm | |? tor Dr. |N. Met new George over | the | Tuesday took officer niin ho job of healtt for most healthful city in world He spent most of the morning talk ing over the routine and policies of the busy office in the public safety building with Dr. Kiran? M, Read, }who retires in his stead. | “Thin isn't exactly my first essay {nto public health sald the doctor. “I iasistant secretar to the Tenne sty health b uiong in ‘88 ), #0 T know some- thing about “Aro you ¢ changes in the personnel?” asked “well, no, I can’t say that T am yet. T want to get acquainted with the work and the men and women | who are doing it first And I have no policies’ to announce yet It's bad busi to theorize unless you know facts Before I make any chi policies personnel I want to be sure of my facts. I won't d anything until) Mayor Brown comes back and 1 have a ehance talk with him, | anyway.” McLoughlin Tenn, eomir fow George work,"* —He then started working as a laborer in a sawmill near Bryant, but last November was injured and ntomplating unable to work for months. he any | saad 4a he was able to go back to work, his family of six children became ill with whooping cough and measles, followed by the flu. —From one to four members of his family have been constantly under a doctor's care for the past year. —Twice he has had to bring his wife to Seattle specialists, and has had to sell such things as he ed to meet expenses, is wife broke under the st last Sunday. The six children, ranging from a girl 9 to a small 8 baby, now are separated and being care for by neighbors, “There is little work for Lilletvedt in this vicinity, and altho the neighbors are donating liberally, the amount they can raise is pitifully small,” writes Thomas, new your or nin and y found dead born in} Seattle graduat Uni-| two was years after Washington school, 1 th ing from versity’s medical erved with Patterson Then he entered yr (Yurn to Page 1, Column —Photo by Frank Jacobs, Ster Staff Photographer eee BY W. B. FRANCE 3UT. THECDORE J. KOENIG, commanding officer of the Sand | |Point airdrome, was Seattle's busiest man Tuesday, preparing to receive |the round-the-world flyers who are | jdue to. arrive shortly after noon | Wednesday. According to late ad- lvices, the flyers will leave Eugene, |Ore., approximately at § o'clock | Wednesday morning, making the |trip to Sand Point in from four to, five hours, As tho flyers reach the city, | Lieut. Koenig and two army reserve | officers will take the air to meet them and guide them to the landing |grounds, where they will be re- ceived by a committee which is to |be selected this afternoon. A de- tachment of troops from Fort Law- |ton wilt be on hand to meet the |flyers and act as guards. A clear day is the only hope | Seattle citizens will have for see- jing the flyers until they have land. ed, If the present weather contin- ues, the airmen will fly above the clouds, and their only visible land- marks will be the tops of Mount Rainier and Mount Baker, until they are niet and piloted down. ‘Three carloads of supplies for the | world airships were on thelr way |Tuesday morning by barges frotr the nment canal locks. They jinelude four sets of pontoons for re- | fitting the planes, new engines and | miscellaneous parts. Some idea of the size of the pontoons can be | gleaned from the fact that two ade constitute a cartond Lleut. Koeni, who is in of arrangements here, is an army flyer noted for his high flights, He entered the army at the outbrea of the world w and was com ioned in the infantry, ferred to the alr week later Pouring the war he (Turn to Pa charge | service three was a heat se 1, Column 4) being trans-| SEATTLE. STOP AT EUGENE TONIGHT 4th Plane Starts North; Three to Arrive Here on Wednesday REDDING, Cal, The three around the Redding at 5 IN March 18— army aviators flying world, passed over 1221 p. m. eee VANCOUVER, Wash., 18.—Definite advices were re ceived here today from Major Martin, leading the army round- the-world flight, saying the Douglas planes will stop tonight in Eugene, Ore. because of the length of the trip to Vancou- ver. March CLOVER FIELD, March 18.—Lieut the fourth he.world. aire ne, landed at Clover field at 925 a. m. today, coming here from Sam Diego, which place he left #6 a. m. % Los Angelers c Nelson, pligte ph _MATHER FIELD, Sacramentiy March 18—The second days of the army “around-the journey to Seattle started at 9:48 a. m, today At that time the three Douglas cruisers, headed by Maj. Frederick: Martin, making the flight, hopped off from Mather Field and,. aft circling the field for altitude, hi northward, bound for Eugeng, Ore, 4 and Vancouver Barracks, Wash. — | The flyers expected to encountel no unfavorable weather, all report being of clear skies and light winds. The flyers are due in Seattle, where the }ias air cruisers will be \pontoons to prepare for lover land and water to The three planes left the fei” in perfect triangular flying tan on, with Maj. Martin — slight ahead And Lieuts. Lowell and Leigh Wade slightly behind to the right and left. All |planes left the ground at almost |same moment. 4 | The aviators today will follow the” |route of the Southern Pacific rails |way up the Sacramento valley, over the Siskiyou mountains and into Oregon. | For the benefit of the press |the public, the raflroad com} jhas arranged for railroad ‘tele phers to report the progress of |f_ight, keeping particular wate |thru the sparsely populated = tain regions. START OV'T INTO | CLOUDLESS SKY The three expert pilots binges vered their huge crafts almost the grace of pursuit monoplane altho the Douglas sky cruisers ferryboats {n comparison. | ‘The flyers took off into a 2%. | "Hundreds of persons were at |fiying field to wish them bon age. | In the hours they were free fro | (Turn to Page 14, Column 4) — eee BRITISH ENTER a WORLD RACE pe LONDON, March 18.—Stirred the start of American airplanes, a world filght, Great Britain rushing plans to enter the race beat the Americans around. world, the Evening News dec today. The Britishers will fly east whereas the course of the Unit States army fliers is taking th westward, Three royal air force men, one at least using a Naple Vicker amphibian plane similar ithat which Sir Ross Smith flew Australia, are hurrying secret p tions for a start, the N states, It had been planned to start tl British flight April 15, but the date has been put ahead, The Britii aviators have a schedule calling & completing of the globe-girdlin flight in three months, which bring them home ahead of | Americans. TURN TO PAGE 6 For complete details of the e | round-the-world flight, ins cluding a complete map 0} the route to be taken and interesting facts about th men who will Undertake this daring feat. be i 2»