The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 21, 1924, Page 12

PAGE 12 NO SUPPORTERS FOR CHARGES Sti Tohn N. Willys Says “Protest Committee” Silent on Ferguson THE Race Suicide and the Auto Big Families Are the the Automobile Industry Salvation of Tf the persons who selves anonyr Auditor are now emp office, they Smith s Judge Fited the writers of t posed as employes of mimunicate with Gauce, dy in person, wames of promised that who did so would b Kept a com But n single commu m from a ent employe of the auditor's of has been received, ho sald Frid “If the ¢ a made anonymous letter were true Surely would be someone t enough character and backbone to substantiate m over their sl ture, or in person,” Judge Smith said. “I have given assurance @ny such co nication woul regarded as confidential. But nor has been received. No action will controversy by any county official tun] Monday when n W ‘A. Gaines of the board of commis sioners at thelr regular meoting swill Introduce a resol the county attorney to delineate the @uthority of the board in delving Ito the conduct of the autitor’s of. tice. there be taken in th DILL REBUKES OIL LAWYER Says Littleton Is Fighting | All Investigations WASHINGTON, March 21.—Sena-| tor Dill, Washington, a member of the senate oll committee, today @harged in tho senate that Martin WW. Littleton, counsel for Harry F. Sinclair, was leading “a fight against al! congressional !nvestisa- tions that would be effective. Fight and jurisdiction of Committee in subpoenaing w Defore it and asking private ques-| tons.” “When Will Hays 1s about to “@ome before the committee and go “under cross examination relative to the receipt of 75,000 shares of Stn-| lair oi! stock to wipe out a deficit Im the treasury of the ‘republican Rational committee and when Harry Sinclair ts about to be questioned “About the Teapot lense, we find Lit. ‘Hleton here telling us we can't ask/ ‘private questions,’ sald Dill WATER SOURCE ENDANGERED Auto Parties Contaminate Springs of School going right back home. With the bridge to Mercer tsland| “Things move too fast in th Open for traffic, making the island |‘Y for me,” said John. “I was almont within easy reach of week-end auto | hanged before I knew what it was parties, W. J. Santmyer, former |#ll about. This Is a dangerous c school board member, Friday deity. I'm going back to Kittitas and ‘clared the water supply of the Boys’ | set my breath.” Parental school, on the Island, ts in| John was freed of the charge by anger of contamination. Judge C. Dalton in justice court the dohn Groger, 17-year-old farm hand from Ellensburg, got off a freight train at Auburn 10 days ago, was & murder be didn't Jabout when a mob |was taken to the jail, first degree murder by the state's at |torney, repudiated his confession, es- | tabits ed an alibi and was given his | freedom, Thursday. And John said Friday that he was know anything hreatened him, rged with “Ma” Willys travels around with John } vey trip to his dealers scattered all ov Dill said Littloton “challenged the) Knight factory owner is in t Seattle FB riday. oll ae arrested within an hour, confessed to | Bees r the Thursday, neighbors the moun fenae. He was « drath F a3 to “teatify in his de urged with shooting to Tillle, pool room ma: ager of Kent, March 8 March § ¢ was arrested. When deputies E4 xgerald and Leo Sowers came to take him to the county jai here, a 1 crowd gathered around here’ll we hang him?" shouted 8 loutish fellow “Where's the rope Fear gripped the boy. He co fensed, he testified, feeling it would save him from the mob. In ty fail he a lowing da Prosecutor Douglas concurred the motion of Attorney Ralph Horr to dismiss the case, Santmyer said he will appear be TR fore the school board and urge that ody to purchase a tract of land on} which are located several large Springs, from which the school ob- tains its water. ‘The land on which the springs are Tocaied belongs to the Schwabacher New Tailoring Shop to Open The American Gentleman Tallors |will open for business Saturday | March 22, at 1424 Third ave. In one estate, and tt has been offered to|of the largest premises devoted to ‘the board on practically the board's | this business in Seattle. own terms by Nathan Eckstein,|; A feature of the opening was to Santmyer sald. |be a reception to the public Friday “Uniess this water source, the| afternoon and evening with an or only one the school has, {s safe-|chestra providing the accompant Buarded, the land will be strewn | ment for dancing on the main floor. ‘with rubbish and the water con-| All clothing will be produced In taminated,” Santmyer said. “Tt will | the shops of the firm here, Urge the board to purchase the | ————— tract.” the Canadian government tn permit |ting colonization emissaries from VETS DON’T LIKE IT rmany to travel thru Western EDMONTON, Alberta. — Alberta | Canada, seeking op ortunities to place qar veterans are registering very|German settlers on prairie farm trong protests against the action of! lands. Chandler and Hahn Puritan Pumps Welt Soles $5 45 Black and Gray..... Sandals reed 89.00 Sandals priced Satin Pumps— *3.85 » °7.85 W. L. Douglas Shoes and Oxfords for Men; beautl- ful styles— *5.00 .. 8.00 We Specialize in Children’s Shoes Chandler and Hahn 103—Pike St.—_103 HERE’S MORE ABOUT NELSON STARTS ON PAGE 1 the more appreciated because It was | spontaneous. ‘The men, who tn 13 hours did what | ook their advance party two days! 9 accomplish, were thrice welcome They had achieved their purpose the first lap in the historic round-the world Might. And “the son of the Vikings,”* of medium height, ruddy complexion, graying temples and just a touch of the gutturals of his Northmen an. cestors In his speech, had taken his at the side of Eric the Red, Hardicanute, Laif Ericson rest of the seafaring gentry of the bold, old days, who made the early history of ths Western continent His leather cap takes the place of a ox-horned helmet—his ulrplano ts his venturesome bark and circumnaviation of the globe is his aim—with a post in Valhalla with his | ancestral heroes, place 'Secretary Wilbur on His Way East | SACRAMENTO, Cal., March 21 Secretary of Navy Curtis D. Wilbur and Mrs. Wilbur were speding East- ward today with a place at Presi- dent Colldge’s cabinet table awatt- Ing California's ex-chief justice, Secretary and Mrs Wilbur are go- ing to Washington by way of Chi-/ cago. ‘They left here late yesterday. HUGH BEDIENT ' SICK IN EAST Hugh Bedient, fomerly of the Bos- ton Red Sox, may not join the Port- land Beavers this year. He has had a nerious attack of scarlet fever in the East and ts just getting over it. TIRED OF DODGING MILWAUKEE, Wis—PFrank B: co has had to do all the cooking for himself, his wife and their two chil dren for eight years, he testified |here in a divorce complaint. He laileges that his wife bombu with pans, pots, dishes, flatirons and \ > | VILLAGES LIKE MOVIES | LONDON,—People in villages and small towns go to the movies at jleast as often aq t{nhabiiants of England's largo cities, according to figures given in the Kinematograph lyear book, 7 bh ? ead another. | wove, his | United States. | cnapcity, jana and the| | tropicat radio station at Tegucigalpa, |by American operators and guarded | 167 sailors, sent to Togucigal; ‘ded him | jresult b | plete retu: |to 49.941 for Underwood. . (Pa) Willys when he makes his annual sur- United States. ~Phote by Frank Jacobe, fi Confessed to Murder When Mob’s Noose Was Threatened; Is Freed The Overland and Willye- r Biatt Photograp o* BY 6. LUCILLE BUTLER Wholesale race suicide ts about | the only thing that could ) the future of the automobile bus was the opinion of John N. imper Inc., an he stepped trom vate coach tn the O-W. R & day morning, into sunshine which, bh was the first real secon on hin 30-day Meola trip from much discussed n the automotive industry ts ast of my troubles,” he stated, % & most igaging and expan. sive emile. With the wealth of the country increasing ten Umes as fast an the population—with young folke marrying and having children, the future of automobile 1s abso utely sccure—provided, of cour hese young folks don't get tred of raising families.” Mr. Willys, accompanied by Mra general jen manager, L. Peed, and Ward M. Canady, president of the United States Ad vertising corporation, director of Willys-Overland advertising, has J feted the northe: log of i" ual vialt to his deal numbering over 2,000, tn the His annual tour to important retail centers enablea him gauge accurately the trend of public demand and taste, and hav. brought hia organizauion from 14th to second place in the ry, and with a double dealer and the expectation. of Goubling his factory output for 1924, he looks forward to making “watu 6. this year the most proxperous of his | 7 career, Mr. Willys wil) address approxi mately 150 of his Washington deal era at the Hotel Washington today, | invitations have een {ssued | also to the banking fraternity. | Tho party, having spent 19 of the 20 nights of thelr tour “on the rails” and making 13 of the most important selling centors tn the country, expected to leave Seattle | Friday for the south and east. ward home, CAPTURE RADIO mammoth | IN HONDURAS | Washington ~ Hears Report Marines Are Fired On BY A. L. BRADFORD (United Prose State Corrospo: WASHIN Marcb U—the | capital of Honduras, Is now manned by American bluejackets, #0. that cpmmunications with this country | may be maintained, a dispatch from the commander of the United States cruiser Milwaukeo to the navy do partment sald today. Conditions in the Honduran capital | were quict early today. State department officials were closely watching the situation tn Honduras, where serious revolution. ary disorders threaien to embroil the United States, | Official confirmation of dispatches that the American landing pa been fired on by the Honduran gov. ernment troops, was awaited by Sec. retary of State Hughes before taking | any action. SMOKE SHORT ONES LONDC “igarets half the usual length are becoming popular here, especially among dancers, who aro continually throwing away a_ half. finished smoke at the call of tho! band. HIEF DIES IN FIRE, DANZIG.—A thief broke into the cellar of a chemist at Nakel and was burned to death In a fire which broke out while he was there, W’ADOO VICTORY : ily janyono of lesser rank than the head BATTLE STAR FRIDAY. MARCH 21, 1924, mas JOHNSON LOSES IN PRIMARY La Follette Runnerup to Coolidge in North Dakota L” igo Har hin be 4 of spectators an enacted here byearold Mal to the in UB neh ad's mother died he ut an { ave him to M Tay cata Recent or anded his. offepr legal # claim ng elmo I prenented pape can turn: | Fore: | Mra. | | | : toward the witness. count ing the court's dectator little, p ite jumped to her feet ay “Don't take the boy away; ing 1 char tle “e at ans clared early to Harrison 4 he's Judge W eeps as Child Is Tr aken F rom Woman w SUSPECT SEIZED IN CHASE Autoist Captured by Police” Held on Open Charge thas Captured after » thrilling the downtown triet Friday Walter Wallen, 29 auto thief, Jail on an open charge. KT teine chase thru dis moved toward Don't touch kill You at Sek early morning, suspected ou was held in © almost k ¢ ruined our home advanced, the city mary F vey was ale 9 ever had to do, “But thing I'v Archtald said t!me firnt “Then be left the bench, wiping his eyes. {age “ASKS PROBE. OF weve’ DRY OFFICES ut 14, © Tee | Would Search Out Bases of Malfeasance Charges bit the ehomen an ny an overwhe A. Kir wan beaten er, bls nearest more than | Latert nhowed Coolldge preference by @ turns from 1,846 out cts were ideo, 48,263. 4 14 La Follette, Johnson, # March of wes introduced esenta | WABSHINGTO? federal olution ay by mand Wins Two to One Over Un- at la derwood in Georgia Primary |tne od investi com ive members ATLANTA, Ga., March 21 fan G. McAdoo, “native son a 2tol victory over Kenator Oscar Alabam in Wedneew lal democratic resolution | day . © ad malfeasance in| mary tee on the part of certain of the federal prohibition burea) tet on’a large scale” votes, SOUTH DAKOTA owed. ns almost 4 93,046 com; popular McAdoo won for Underwood, contre 22 counties to 84 “The coun! waite the state cony wh HERE Johnson-La Follette War to Be Settled in Primary BY LAWRENCE MARTIN a od Press Staff Correspondent) for the) WASHINGTON, March 21.—South “but the) Dakota next week will provide an i over you are apt t©) other test between Hiram Johnson look up ang seo us flying away, The! ang Robert M. La Follette to deter frat time wo seo a sky that l00ks| ming which of them bas the actual | GOOd, we'll be off.” Gerahip of the liberal forces of the The round-the-world planes will be! worthwest. ipped with px here and will y as water planes unt!l they reach Caleutta, 1 they will re and put on land planes they will again become water planes. he first hop will be from Seattle to Prince Rupert, BC. Fy they will go to Attu, an the end of the Aleutian archipel cy will hop to Sh no extreme north of hers “ le Intanda, the Japanese en:-| #94 winner. ‘This will the longest non- But, to that the La Follette people stop Night of trip, a distance; bave a sufficient answer in this of over 80 tnlléa, that La Follette was not @ candidate “We are Inclined to look upon our! and that the 89,000 who voted for trip up the Alaskan coast and him had to ge to the trouble of across to Bh u as the critical sticking his mame on the ballot. division of t Maj. Martin! Johnson's group, refusing to yield,| sald. “It ts all new and untried) say they will win South Dakota if] territory, we aro expecting no| La Follette doesn't cut tn again. insurmountable difficulties, | But La Follette “stickers” are INDIA WEATHER there and if he makes a showing like | WILL BE TRYING |that in North Dakota his supporters "It will not be the only trying |'mtend to call on the Johnson eup-| part, however, When we strike the| Porters to abandon a hopeless cause Bay of Bengal we will have more|®P4 unite behind La Follette, on the/ or less of a ‘hot time, both Ilteral.| Found that such a coalition would "S MORE AROUT AIRMEN STARTS ON PAGE 1 the Stadium tn th “Of course show,” } moment it If South Dakota goes to Johnson's candidacy the way North Dakota di week, the effect will be well nigh > annihilate him as presidential pos sibility, political observers here bo- | eve. Johnsons’ defeat in North Da- kota waa a double one. Coolidge beat mand La Follette beat bim. His nds blame {t all on La Follette, pointing out that the votes cast for La Follette, had they gone to John- fon, would have returned him a to the STEAMER AFIRE Liner Korea Maru Racing | T Ku 21—A| mow her } ad | Shanghai. have been disp of the river to extinguish The passengers are in no danger, the | OW alth report stated. | and (guratively. It will be hot | eS La Follette could beat Cool: here en | | Sona th eet ‘ome | ‘That sort of argument is admit-| drops. And then there will be the |%edy carrying the case to extremes, - a er because almilar conditions do not monsoons to look out for: Thit| exist thruout the nation. But the t will not only be @ strani ra Follette backers claim that if on the personnel, but thi weather they can prove by popular vote La will be bard on the planes.” Follette’s right to Uberal leadership. Supplies of ofl and of ail of the! ne can beat anybody. parts most frequently needed for) replacement have been sent to eich} of the more than 60 at} which the planes are echeduled to} land. Parts for which they neldom | have need have been sent to the matin base of each division of thet world flight. | ho first complete change of en-| es ls wcheduled at Tokyo, and 25) new engines, in perfect condition. are scattered at various stopping | Places along the whole route. A complete change of pontoons wilt] jalso be made at Tokyo for the bal- | unce of tho water route to Calcutta. ample supply of pontoons will laws be scattered at stopping places along the divisions in which water landing gear will bo used. | Art Victrola. places Toy Monkeys to Travel in World Flight Curios to Travel Around Sphere “Stunt” This Victrola $300; terms ENUINB, “His Master's Voice” Victor Victroe las are best for Victor reo ords because they are made especially to Phy those fa- mous reecrds. There are more than twenty different types of genuine Victrolas here for you to choose from, Tho world alr crulser pilots stand to mako $50 apieco by their circum. navigation fiight—along with the honors and adulations of the nation, if their venture ts succoss little stuffed cloth monkey The monkeys, good were presented to } luck _ pieces jor FL. M tin and his brother pilots for carriage around the world, and if returned to | their original owners the pilota will | be paid $50 aptece for the stunt. The | owners expect to raffle off the little curios for several thousand dollars, Sherman, |Mlay & Co, "Everything in Music’” Third Ave. at Pine, Seattle PARIS—The Academy and Political Sclences, not wishing the seat vacated by the death of| Woodrow Wilson to be occupied by of Moral of a state, ts cor of the king of 5 assoclate member, dering the election | jum ag forelg machine board, ave. and At F Flames on Yangtse River |°*:'*4 ria paaty ~ ' reaten BAN FRANCISCO, Mar liner Korea Maru, of Kaisha, ts speeding ne Toyo toward the with aseasion of Yangtse river . 8 hold, on received fire * ® b according to private! here by way es Anderson, 19. utes after W ave Alder |J. D. 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Pick out your pattern and order early Saturday, BIG WINDOW DISPLAY All at $20 I will forfeit $100 cash if I fail to make you any suit in my big South window for $20, That’s fair enough, now, isn’t it? Louis Sidelsky IMPERIAL TAILORING CO.—SINCE 1890 1405 Third Ave. Between Pike and Union Streets Fire apparatus was reported to ched to the mouth the blaze machi; The cause of the fire was not