The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 27, 1924, Page 1

oman Falid: Kic [WEATHER — Tearing * tonton cloudy; mod relnda Temperature asia Tod Beaten ked in The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington t; Friday erate 1 partly sterly Last M4 Hours Minimum, 38 Baterta as Heoond a VOL. 26. Train — Home Brew Howdy, foiks! Having trouble paying your bills? Gosh, what a coincidence! So are we! eee Li'l Gee Gee says baseball players | must overeat because so many of| them dic at the plate. eee Oh Yukon Jake, who's as tough as @ steak, And hard as a picnio egg, Yearned for a nip to give Aim rip, * and Danish the lonesome plague. He plonked down cash, for a thim Ble dash, From a women known os Neu; | The surgeon's knife may save} Jake's life, But he never will feet well. eee Pedestrians have the right of way at street intersections, court rules. Ha, ha! Try and get it! Sign on the Back of » Ford: a —————% FOUR WHEELS | NO BRAKES “China exported $1,505,000 worth of Mah Jongg sets last yea ows paper. Well, you can hardly blame them| for exporting the darn things. } o-* *- Little Boy Blue, oh, dow your horn! | A sheep's in the roedwey as sure ae you're born. What happens to prople who run) into sheep? ihe grice.ot the Jarmer 4s terribiy| steep. | ‘The round-the-world flyers are ad- justing pontoons on their planes. | ‘The next step will be to put chains ‘on the tires so that they won't skid. sae CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB ‘The perfect stranger who ad- dresses you as “Brother.” eee The senate had better hurry up and finish its investigation of the ofl | ecanda), or the opening of the base-} ball season will force it off the front page. Today's Definition: A husband ts a| man who looks thru his pockets! every time he passes a mail box. | | “ee } Who says punctuation marks can't | have a charitable disposition? Think | of al! the heroines whose reputations have been saved by the asteriek! eee The anttprohibitionista are shriek- ing for iberty or Geath. Well, they cant patronize a bootlegger and get/ both. ¥ = LIL GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE eis al tee are Jost crane. | a Assistant District Attorney Hill strikes Attorney Tom Page because | jhear from. Runs Awa LOGGER ‘.. DIES OF INJURY Sole Survivor Reigns Jumps Into Tree in Attempt to Save Life; 3 Es- cape Wreck { | Leaping from the cab of his locomotive, a logging engine, when his loaded train of logs ran away down s steep grade, Thursday morning, Hans Rude, 44, was lostantly killed when his head struck a tree. Tho acck dent occurred near the Cedar Grove camp of the Stetson-Fost Lumber Co. 10 miles up the Cedar river from Renton, Rude was the engineer of the log- train, Three other men, N Kehrer, Jim Butler and Jack Seldkirahner, were riding with him. The train. started down a. steep | grade and the brakes failed to work on the raila, which were wet from jthe rain. Rude opened the sandbox | and put eand on the rails, but 4 brakes slipped. His three compantons jumped for | thetr Uves when the train first got out of control. Rude walted too long, fn an effort to halt the train, and then jumped. His head struck a tree, killing him tnstantly. The other three men were uninjured. . The train proceeded about 200 yards and then stopped of ita own accord, undunaged. Rude would have escaped injury had he stayed ith tt. He was unma relatives can be located. JOHNSON LEAD IS SMALLER | election every two years. to Buy S. Dakota Election SIOUX FALLS, 8. D, March 27—~ Senator Hiram Johnson's lead over | President Coolidge in the South Da- kota presidential priamry was cut| down to 298 votes tn official returns | from 1,469 precincts tabulated at] noon today. The count: Johnson, | 26,585; Coolidge, 036,287. There are still 356 precincts TAKE ACTION ON PROBE FRIDAY | to ST. LOUIS, Mo, March 27—"‘Tt i win in South Dakota ft will be | Chance to Okeh Quiz Class Matter May 2, Page calls him an “impecunious| marvelous demonstration of how the be | people of the West feel toward Mr. Why didn’t Hill reply in kind and Coolidge, for if ever an attempt was call Tom an “impoverished earwig”? | made to buy an election, it has been ni tndiete |in that state,” Hiram Johnson of The slot machines, banished during | California declared today as he the grand jury session and Mayoralty campaign, are again in evidence. | campaign, Senator Johnson was rush- Intelligent machines, those! ‘They |ing into Tllinols for a campaign in slways know the right time to dis-|preparation for the state primary eppear. April 8. “Hired orators of both sexes, tn- numerable, have been conducting a \campaign in behalf of the president in South Dakota," he said. Ask Indictment of Daugherty’s Brother | WASHINGTON, March 27.—In- dictment of Mal Daugherty, brother of the attorney general, for con- Worn out from tite South Drikota The trouble with most defunct | companies (s that the only Hquid| assets they possess are about & case and a half. The Star's newspaper photogra- ler took a picture of Edna Wallace the 62-year-old flapper, in th-tub, pong M$ was ruined. There was too Much exposure. . records before the vestigating committee, was sought jin a motion today by Senator bad hesheny chief prosecutor. . Daugherty in- YE DIARY Ofarch 24) WANT To buy any land along the highway? Here is somo acreage Fifty years from now, Instead of || offered today asking if your tots cam: 6 over on the Mayflower, the xnobs witl ask if iF father was questioned in the , an Inquiy. We don't care much whether oll comes back of n: cate much Whether Harr Th ts Feleased OF not. Hut we hate to thi Hise g of both happening « at the same NORTH TRUNK HWAY ACREA @hoice sere tracts only north of city, Water, lights, telephone now available. Paved highway, bus and interurban lues of jand are se in this district to Everett $200 to $5 terms, You will find the seller of these properties in the Want Ads to- night. H 5 miles Berg. ot. And we don’t HOORAY! * |tempt because of failure to produce | 1409, at the Posioffice at Beattie, SEATTLE, WASH,, TH aoe BY JIM MARSHALL. Luck plays queer pranks with] towns, as with men. ay: “aval Northwest kn | iaday, on Camano Mite, as ed vigorous young city of 2,000—al [coming metropolis. And nobody had} jever heard of Seatte. Jon m map and a shady campground) lfor picnic parties. Population: 1.| | Sixty-five tall ships! years ago Wash., under the Act of Congress Murch URSDAY, MARCH 27, 1924. y; 1 Killed! Ed’s Mayor of a “Ghost City” Supreme in Utsaladdy, Once Bigger Than Infant Settlement at Seattle on Camano Island, Mayor Ed Clay, of U toca, if he has little honor, at least doesn’t have to run for He succeeded to the mayoralty last winter, when Henry Vin- Californian Charges Attempt) ing, pioneer of the “ghost town” on Camano island, burned to death. survivor of the once-flourishing lumber city. He makes a livi ing by crab-fishing. Bitar Btatt Photograph | Ed is the sole ITY LOTS SOLD OVER PROTEST Ferguson Is to. to Be Given al Today Utsataddy Is ust a name Council Lets Broderick in on Greenlake Tract |PAUL PUSHES MATTER} rote tnto the hartor: mwa screamed) NICE DEAL—FOR BROKER jin the busy mill; the hitching racks jon Main st. held Jogsing teams and | Gaines Says Auditor Should sick busey horses; in and out Objection of Public Works Not Fear Investigation the! stopped for an hour between trains. | County Auditor D. ¥. Fergu- | son will be given one more chance to submit bis official | conduct to ain investigation by | the board of county commisston- | ers, Chairman W. A. Gaines, of the board, announced Thursday, | before the board takes steps to | hold the investigation without | Ferguson's approval. | “Lf will go tp Mr. Ferguson and| |ask him to cocperate with us in an effort to cleat up these charges, made in anonytnous Jetters to Judge | Everett &. Snilth and the county/| |commiestoners,”’ Chairman Gaines said. “I feel that we owe the pub- lite a report on| this matter, and the fair way to d) it is for Ferguson |to co-operate with us and instruct his employes tp attend our hearing | and answer whatever questions we jask them. “That ie th only way we can Jobtain information on conditions that now exist in the office. 1 lhesitate to held an investigation from which all of Fergu: nt employes sro barred former-+employes of his office who dischargtad or who resigned an unbiased opinion were |will not hi |of Ferguson.” Gaines declhred |make every effort to obtain Fer- \guson’s consent to the proposed | probe. “If he|has nothing to hide, lhe has nothitg to Gaines jane Decision on whether missioners will conduct the in- formal Investiration they are au (Turn to age 9, Column 4) that he will fear,” | the com- |thru the swinging doors of the| |saloons caulked shoes tramped. At |night, thru the smoky yellow glare jof the off Iamps, Iumbermen swung |the girla to the tune of a: fiddle,| and fought for thelr smiles with} |tanned seamen from tho tall ships at anchor in the harbor. | | Today the mill is a heap of sun-| dried lumber. A rough stoop and [four log steps are all that remain of the dance hall. The saloons j have gone, Along the waterfront) are half a dozen log shacks, used| |uy fishermen. Back a little way ts |the home of the population. Next door is a heap of blackened ashes, where a home burned Inst winter. For. years Henry Vining and Ea! serch to Page 9, Column 2), PNEUMONIA HITS: LA FOLLETTE! | - | Progressive “Leader in Sen- | # jate Is Reported Seriously Ill’ WASHINGTON, March 27. tor La Follette, progressive Inader, | has developed pneumonia, tt was an nounced here today, } ment by La Follette’s doc- tors follows: “Senator La Follette has developed | pneumonia, His pr condition satisfactory “DR, “DR. T. 8. 1 “DR. B. R. RANDOLPH.” | Sena. | Cc, ©, MARBURY, on te |olty pald $24,786 for It, (Signed) \8 Board Is Ignored By John W. Nelson Against the recommendation of the board of public works, mem- hers of the city council have voted to sell unplated city prop- aty on } ith st., between Woodland Park ave. and Green Lake blvd., for $14,000, when the assessments for improvements on the property, already paid, to- tal $18,816.40, according to a let- tér of protest filed with the coun- cil by Superintendent of Build- ings Robert Proctor. The ordinance providing for sale | of the lots to Henry Broderick & Co., for a cash payment of $3,000 and the balance in semiannual payments, was passed by the council, with a | host. of minor resolutions covering routine business, at iast Monday’s |< meeting. The council pro- poses to sell the property for $271 plus a paving assessment of per lot, The board of public posing the transaction appraised the land at $800 per 40x102 foot lot. There are 39 lots In the tract, cording to the board’s estimate, are | | conservatively worth $31,200. The property was originally ac. quired by the city in the purchase of the street railway system from tho | -uget Sound Power & Light Co, a iperintendent Procior’s council The recording to P Tall to Page 9, Column 5) The Seattle Star |. 1), Per Year, by Mati, § NTS IN § OUNTY FLAYED | Judge Bead Case as Vicious One; pee Conditions Roadhouses~ SEATTLE. Patrolman’s Home Is Looted of Radio Set URGLARS looted the home of Patrolman A. J. Hill, Tuesday night, and Hill ys he won’t prosecute the thief or thieves, if only the bring back his radio et. In fact Hill will pay a $20 reward for the stuff! Hill, until lately a special detail man, and right-hand man of Police Chief W. B, Severyns, left his home at 1412 N. 60th st. for an hour Tuesday night. He returned to find his radio set stripped. The loot included a Tungar battery charger, a 6-volt, 120 amp. Perlin battery, a 48-volt Willard storage bat- tery, five amplifier tubes, a detector tube, two volt me- ters, a lady’s wrist watch and a man’s gold watch, as well as d diamond lavalliere. The Perlin battery had Hi!!’s name on it. ~ Hamon Gave Million to G.0.P., Says Jennings. Alleged debauchery in King county roadhouses was scored Thursday morning by Ex-Bandit Gives Names of Leaders to "alice Judge John 5. co . . in pronouncing a sentence 0! Whom Hamon Said He Paid Cash six months in the county jail to Win Place for Self in Cabinet |for Frank Rose, owner of an Italian restaurant on James AUL R MALLON 14 get behind me and I woul between Second and Third Press Staff Correspondent) | be ted. We took a fe kes : z lof Four Roses. I asked | hat |aves., who was found guilty was behind his min He said, ‘I'm f hav of having made a brutal at- tee to.|eolng to be the biggest in the Otol eevlted States” Her ead something (tack on Mrs. Dorothy Meyers about $190,000 for a campaign for|at the Lakeview Inn on the me. jnight of March 9. The sentence was the maximum which Judge Gordon could impose and, after addressing the prisoner, ald: “This is one of the most vicious |< and brutal cases that has ever coms jbefore me. I am surprised that» he wo! id > Al Landit clan, arged before the ofl comm that the late Jake Hamon put $1,000,000 to elect President nge for the secre ip of the intertor, | nings also charged that $250, 000 wag paid to the late Boles Pen- rone, republican senator from Penu-| mittee called Le Roy Baldwin, presi |wylvanta, in the same “deal.” | dent of the Empire Trust company of} | Involved with Hamon, Jennings | New York. said, he believed were certain big | BALDWIN TELLS OF joil men from Oklyhoma, including | $100,000 LOAN jsuch conditions could prevail in | Harry F. sinolatr, Baldwin. brought records of tran-/King county roadhouses that would | Jennings aid he got hig Informa. | sactions betwoen the republican na-|make such a thing possible,” |tion from Hamon himself. He and | tional committee and his bank. He| Mrs. Myers testified that she was Hamon were intimate friends. jsald the bank made a loan on Sep-| invited to the inn by a friend, a Hamon told him before the con. | tember 9, 1920, of $100,000. On Janu-) Mr Wilson, and she went. there | vention that Harding was to be|ary 9, 1921, $5,000 was paid. In April, | stone in a taxt for chicken dinner. |nominated and that he (Hamon)/ $10,000 was paid. On December 3,/ When sho arrived, she found « “would be the biggest man in the| 1923, the bank was paid $55,000. On| motley crowd of men and women, | United States,” | April 5, 1928, the bank again loaned | in intoxicated. She ate part elias | ‘The deal wan finally concluded tn | $166,620.45. That loan was paid on | dinner and then tried to get a taxi- | hotet room in Chicago the night | December 14, 1923. cab to escape from the advances “He mentioned Sinclair and some} |other of] men.” Before Jennings testified the com- | was before Harding was nominated, Jen- “What collateral was there for this/of the men. Rose, she says, smashed in the Telling of events just prior to the| entirely as collateral. They had a that she was unable to walk and night. He said he wanted moto come| “What else did he say?” . eattle Artist Ne | pings said. He mentioned the name| loan?” Walsh asked. Failing to do this she took refuse of Attorney General Daugherty as| Ye never had any colalteral tor | ia a@ room upstairs and locked and one of those present. jJany Dangherty pre-convention | ment bonds were delivered in the | jor and grabbed her. In the strug- |gle that followed, she was beaten im arding nomination, Jennings said: | par value of $75,000." ‘In Hamon's room at the hotel, [ Continuing exaniination of Jen. |¥as rescued by two men. She was struck and bruised about the face jback and run f governor. He said] (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) E FOUND himself on a tropical island with a beau- of these loans, Some govern: | barricaded the door. jcampaign manager for Harding. fen instance, altho {t was not used | so badly about the face and body Hiodged with him and we talked all|nings, Senator Walsh asked: (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) | And When the Ki nape woman bending over tiful him— An island ruled by women of superhuman- strength and works {n op. extraordinary beauty— An island where the men were doomed to death in the fires of a volcano. An island where it was the law that a man who made bold to marry one of the superwomen rulers should die on his wed- ding day in the fires of a nearby volcano. How came Floyd Clarke, the Seattle art- ist, to this island? The intriguing story of his remarkable ad- ventures with the |} superwomen, with his || native wife, with the \| white woman with whom he later falls in love, and the other extraordinary folks {| on the island of mys- tery form one cf the '| most weird and fas- cinating stories The Star has been able to print for a long time. Don’t miss it. which ac- | || “THE BEACON HILL MYSTERY” BY FRED V. WILLIAMS Illustrated by Clyde Ludwick, Seattle Artist IT STARTS MONDAY IN THE STAR