The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 2, 1924, Page 1

—_— Mayor and Chief Disagree Over Police Shake-Up and BOB KERNAN IS OUT! and Temperature Maximum, 60. Today WEATHER == The SeattleStar last Mi od an Be Howdy, folks! This is the kind of weather that persuades a young feller that two can live as cheaply as one, The round-the-world flyers scheduled to hop off at 5:30 the morning. Who said that trip} wasn't going to be full of hardships? Hatfield, “the rainmaker,” has pro duced two inches of rain for Ca fornia farmers. Probably rubbed clouds’ eyes. onions in the — — x E, TH’ OFFICE VAMP, SEZ: I have given’ up fishin’ for golf. You don't have to walt for a golf ball to bite. = . The fishing season opened yester day and we astonished Mrs. Brew) by bringing home 1,897,582 shad roe see What the republican party leaders are trying to do in Washington is to the boys out of the stenches by y ) Christmas, A short cut to the public eye shingle-bob on an old maid. see TODAY'S SPECIAL Sit boys equity in one of the cl it roadsters In town; owner selling on account of chronic ailment; Stude—H. G. Brew. eee A Some men embrace their oppor tunities—only they don't call ‘em by that name. ‘The worst of all is Mary Cass. | She cries, “Young feller, none oe} your sass; | Hurry up there— Water and air, A pint o' oll and a teacup of gas.” . The Month of Seattle weather dryest in years So were we! “- Sign on the back of a Ford: | March, says the] observer, was the * HENRY’S FIRST MISTAKE BY C00 | what Inter, | A $12,000 POSITION |that he was seeking a $100,000-a-y lcepting the post at a ChargeJap Fraud New Atty. General! DAUGHER The N } lewspaper With the Biggest Cc ireulation | in Washington aon Ma HEAVY RAIN HITS CALIFORNIA; MAY PAY “RAINMAKER” ANFORD, Cal, April 2 Nearly an inch of rain here ast night and a still heavier pre pitation in Lemoore and as far west ax Coa given Charles rain maker moisture, which wili the $8,000 prize held a Lemoore bank Hatfield has til make good, but checkup of the their respective about 2.30 inches on M Harlan F. Stone, Former Columbia Law School Dean, || fica" “ssn” rn Gets High Office WASHINGTON, April 2.—Harian Fiske Stone, New York, former dean of Columbia law school, has been » lected as attorney general of United States by President Coolidge. Official announcement of the se lection was jo today and Stone's nomination was sent to the senate for confirmation. an five locations A weowhs to have Hatfield, over two inc the ot insure him in escrow at April 15 to yuetielal rau at the ave if these figures are vert prize under YOUTH SHOT IN EYE; MAY DIE | | Hammers Cartridge; Explo-| He will (ake office as guccessor to| sion Maims Face Harry M. Daugherty as soon as the} om senate confirms him, He was Presi Taland Whitesld ™, 2907 «Mth dent Coolidge’s guest at breakfast at | ave, the White House this morning. tho Mr. Coolidge did not tefl any of | at them that Stone had been selected, they got the impression he was to be the new attorney general. The belief was confirmed some hia home. love General hospital, | ported Wednesday rondition. | The boy had found Jand screwed it up in to Stone was a classmate of Presi-| dent Coolidge at Amherst college an the two are old friends. $100,000 MAN FOR Btone, it was declared by White|what would happen.” House officials, is a man of the type| and ability that the president knows | will fit the high post of head of the department of justice. Mr. Coolidge had Stone when he made it known in mind yesterday | ar man to accept a $12,000 job with an} automobile thrown in. ‘The new attorney general ts ac tremendous | financial sacrifice, White House offi. | Stone is a member of a| jin the basement of his home. [he struck it with a hammer ~ Was possibly fatally injured Sev-|iate Tuesday night when he atruck eral senators were there also and|a revolver cartridge with a hammer | !otelligence officers purporting to! A blinding explosion | followed, tearing away part of the |*aid that it was belleved the aircraft boy's face and destroying his He was taken to the Beattle| where left he was re be in serious the cartridge a bench vise Then “to neo LA FOLLETTE IS EASY WINNER heres far ‘Ahead of Cool- idge in Wisconsin Returns Was crene Ma SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1924 Year, by Ma * These Men SAYSNIPPON GOT SECRETS ON AVIATION Sensational Tale of Conspiracy Is Told Senate Thru Testimony Given| BY FRAZ ch EDWARDS Riatt Correspondent) GTON, April Charges that the Standard Alr- craft Corporation, « Japanese: finaced firm, which built air planes for the United States during the war, communicated American aviation secrets to Japan, were made before the sen ate Daugherty investigating com. mittee today by Capt. 1 L. ermtet Wiprtenent of joa. Scaife submitted reporta by naval! | | corroborate his charges, one of which corporation sought its contract with the American government “got in on American aircraft secrets. | Scaife’s charge was made during his testimony alleging that the gov ¢rnment had overpaid Mitsut & Co. and the Standard Aircraft mors than $6,500,000 for airplane construction, | land that Daugherty had failed to re. | cover the money | SAYS DAUGHERTY JOT REPORT | Gaston B, Means recently told! the committee that he received 160 | $1,000 bills from a representative of |Mitsut & Co., for Jeas W. Smith | Daugherty’s clos personal friend. Schaife sald that Daugherty wan lgiven a personal report on the al |leged fraudulent transaction of the | Standard Aircraft company. “Who was present?” asked Whee! in Police Shake-Up Figure 436 The figures in the police | shakeup, reading from left to| right, are as follows: Top, Lieut. Ralph Olmsted dnd Roy Olmsted, his brother and former policeman, now | declared to be “king of the bootleggers.” Middle, Sergt. Frank Olmsted, another and Capt. E. L. Hedges. At the bottom is Chief Photo by Nowell eryns. 13th V Victim of Orgy Succumbs! TOLEDO, ©., April 2.—Harry ates, 13th victim of Toledo's canned heat, poison alcohol orgy, died today. Two other men are in a critical | drinking the new | condition from Chief's Submits His me ee H aeey Investigator for Severyns Steps Out Quietly and Nobody—Not Even the Chief—Knows Why; Ralph Olm- sted to Succeed The threatened resignation | Wednesday. Rumors of an open clash the announcement by Mayor |charged from the department | eral booze raid. |KERNAN’S LEAVIN i | scheduled to assume command times much coveted. Just what part. Bob Kernan’s sudden absence from poli¢ ‘duties plays in the grand shake-up, is a mystery. Ween, if Kernan had been fired, Chief Severyns he had resigned. |resigned,” said Severyns. “F teered the information that say later.” | Mayor Brown, earlier in the day, Sev-| Kernan had quit the department. he said. | Chief Severyns’ rumored th | was made, it was said, asa the mayor’s recommendations particularly is riled over the mayor's friendship for Olmstead brothers, it was said. The mayor and the chief were noon and that lin conference Wednesday Brown expressed the opinion their differences, if there were any, til TWO CENTS jeryns and, the sudden separation from the police payroll of his private investigator, Robert E. Kernan, notorious |character, stirred occupants of the public safety bulidinge Chief Severyns over a police shake-up inaugurated since the city election, were denied by both principals, tho | story of a disagreement as to policy was so well groundt that neither attempted to squelch it. One of the big surprises of the day’s developments wan Olmsted is slated to succeed Police Inspector Harry T, | O'Brien in the event that O’Brien, now in Arizona for his | health, is unable to resume his duties. | of Roy Olmsted, former’ police MYSTERY TO DEPARTMENT Sergt. Frank Olmsted, another one ‘of the brothers, | “He just came in to my office Monday and said he had N SEATTLE, Man Inspector O’Brien of Police Chief W. B. Seve policg between Mayor Brown andi Brown that Lieut, Ralph W. Olmsted is a brother lieutenant, who was dis= after he was caught in a fed-. GIS of the Chinatown beat, s le didn’t say why but volun- he might have something to said he understood He did not know why, reat to leave the departn result of his displeasure over concerning the shake-up. He “As for the Olmsted boy! mayor continued, “I want | say that the two who are now on the force have proved hens eee prominent. law! firte iWa New. York | ——— er | {form of poison alcohol. |would all be froned out. satisfac-|est, efficient officers. The fact thak | Corporation Counsel Tom Kennedy| and is on Jeave from the Columbia| MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 2 | ‘ess Smith.” fc ina weeene can —_—— — | torily. their brother may have engaged fi holds that the city is not Hable for| University law school Senator Robert M. La Follette| ‘Taking up the Roma dirigible dis “There has been a great deal|® business which @ lot of prominel a damages in the public library. Stone is understood to have gone| Maintained a big lead over Presi-| aster at Norfolk, Va. Scaife said he of criticism of the police depart-| business men of this town sup j Not even if a bookworm bites you?| back to New York, following the con.|dent Coolidge in the Wisconsin] considered this accident a good field |ment, as everyone knows,” said} 0 reason why they should be cons | see ference at breakfast presidential primary today on the/for investigation by the department | Mayor Brown Wednesday. “1| #emned. 4 “Will King Company in ‘Hot Dog’| Stone’s nomination Is expected to| basis of returns from 602 of the! og justice. Scaife then read an audit | promisea to see what could be} Included in the list of officers to a this week. You never SAU-SAGE|be approved by the senate immedi. | 2,574 precincts. which he said showed an overpay as on u it |done and I am now trying to ac-| be transferred is Capt. E. L. Hedges, es fun.—Advertisement. ately. Stone will return to Wash.| The count for the slates of dele-! ment of $5,000,000 to the Wright complish that very thing. I may| Who would be sent to Ballard pres | We've seen wurst ington after putting his personal af.| mates representing the contestants| Martin corporation } ‘ i make mistakes; Chief Severyns may|Cinct, according to the proj Ht eae la ings olga Sapte ees pica dias “1 think that we should have the | |make mistakes—but whatever we oman eng bees ES iste’ lover the duties of the department o' a Fojlette, 46,588. ‘dic * © pal e| ‘ , with the Olmst since he re! Pio, \soten p Tes Dag er men indicted by @ grand Jury," tala Auditor Refuses to “Check Pay: roll; do" we | aball ca WO VIE tO eee ene ee eet ae 'p betims jer breakfast loung- | ; N benefiting the city. ue Yn the living room in my bathrobe,| Stone ts known as a liberal in h William G. McAdoo was gradu-| ,,,,. ” S ie. latter was arrested by the f when Little Homer Tieew, J7., did lock | views. He opposed tho “red raids” |ally cutting down the lead of Gov.| (What Ment. asked Moses. | Paul Seeks Mandamus | “It some folks in the police de) agents, Sirs. tarown Sp Nn Pie Rewen conducted against radicals in this|Al Smith in the democratic race... "chases Hayden, president of| ae jpartment lose favored beats; If) ‘The entire police department lest she see me in dishabille, Litle|country by A. Mitchell Palmer, at-|Tho count was: the WrehEMArlin:dcoerany) Habry | HeantA shale Ata. HOMO) Mice the: cay i jothers have sore corns stepped D./in turmoil Wednesday over Homer did si ‘April Fool!” And |torney general under the Wilson ad-| Smith, 8,863; McAdoo, 7,192. ; 13. 5 ie s the only highway between /j¢ will not deter me in the least] threatened shakeup. wa oak, id laugh, and Little Homer naratin. The Fotnenis from railroad: centers M Daugherty, ex-attorney general of| County Auditor D, E. Ferguson |the two ports,” Paul said. Paul from: dbthé or recommending what ‘Sunday night, it was reported, et he President Coolldge's decision to | were heavily for McAdoo. pid Do chest tigen tape Puget, he Lid Lena Treas bate pal Informed Ferguson that the county )1 pelieve to be wise." patrol sheets were removed from p Bs ok ede appoint Stone came after a long | - Bealfa said that he had laid all of| stoner Frank Paul, who charges. larteriat Imghware,. toe, eee sct| MAYOR DENIES lice headquarters and a list of Governor Hart hax proclaimed the|study of many “possibilities.” | hie Teporte’. and charges: tefore| Pieeieon refused to audit. the. [fatten tee ee eee eee? | OLMETED STORY changes were made out secretly. week of ° . . _ 4 f | * ‘erguson © |refused to audit the payroll, totaling re Sra a ——. Be, - ee ee ees Gee arches ih, aid. He twee| Daugherty, who promised to prove) March’ road payroll “out of | g639 for the’ month |< lips. beadunater s oreen ere M i} +s 4 Lpaelt 4 cute he Vright-Mart company ¥ yr s " tivities | ayor Brow We're not going to observe it thin admitted to the bar in 1898 and ever | Fae Dalaba Hever kant hel one Lion es ores Aon Prosecutor’ Douglas reterred the| having nermitted Roy Olmstead, al- | 0 - F 0 OT F { “year. We haven't got a forest to pro.| since then has been a noted lecturer omit, In,promoting the c |application for a writ of mandamus | er, to dictate the ect. lon thé law, In September, 1990, he Ly sub hearing of toll charges. , jto Deputy Prosecutor Arthur ee cia to) piace his brothers and i ded hecame dean of the Columbia unl- ou Ferguson refused to audit. the! gchramm, who: took the matter] some of his. friends In. positions A 3 The Woodland park auto camp| versity law school. z ¥ Vesa ls Still [payroll for, the Becond district and | under advisement. Jadvantageous to his business, was opened for the season yesterday.|. His firm is Canfield, Satterlee &| 1,200 Passengers in Dan- ‘ {Paul petitioned Prosecutor Malcolm) pai) said the auditor's action was! hotly refuted by Brown Wednesday, ae q That's a good place for people who|Stone, and he 1s a director in a| ” Fi Craft Tied Up in Ice! jpovgias to start Mandamus Pro-lan effort to, obtain vengeance for| Ragdevicdsntars i i. that: Otteabeed i aap? 4 lve out in Bothell to park thelr cars| number of enterprises. | ger on Fiery Ura CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 2—|ceedings to, compel Kerguson (0lni, vote favoring a probe of toil| had prevailed upon Edwin J. Man Dying After Slipping 4 When they come into Seattle to do| Stone lives in Englewood, N. J. -—— Efforts were made today to free the |Mako the audit. jcharges existing in the auditor's! Brown, Jr, the mayor's eldest son Fi Wet Roof : : some shopping. | He married Agnes Harvey, of| LONDON, April 2—The British} steamer Progress, ico bound In the| ‘“The audit was not made because | perce, |and campaign Manaeeasis age Rie rom et ROO! : BES C Chesterfield, N. H., in 1899 steamer Frageston, out of Bombay} parpor here wince yesterday after. jtwo mployes who worked on a | father tbo abi to the proposed CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON - wat mee with 1,200 pilgrims for Jeddah, 18) 1 46n jroad, not an arterial highway, are beh bh Falling 16 feet down the basemer IVY CLUB i rushing for Port Sudan, while the listed for wages against the road | e : 4 v ¢ jee cakes, the tug | lis! 4 stairway of her daughter's home — 4 The gink who laughs teense | Klan Fight Splits crew fights desperately to check A) a nahuln nought to lear a. path | bridge fund," Ferguson Teer arte tin oftige tan: re: Mary Heary, 6<seonl vee am 6 ord rie eee mea | 12 Western Towns | roaring tire in the vessel's cargo of | aco ao that the Progress | “Only. employes working on arterial | | fnealately;” sald the mayor. ture on Tuesday afternoon ‘whl order to bad spe Tack, KANSAS CITY, Mo, April 2. ey according to a message to could land her cargo of autos from {highways can draw pay from SE MOkaaR Men to Meet With | bat ee, qathnions lies aa Shope ae lay afternoo! f Lioy¢ 1" | . espe vae, caused her deat Richards, the magician, ix at the| “!#% BEY hiscticen {a Mis.| ‘The Frageston has wirelensed that | Detrolt Mreiniinllonac Pade cediardd | the : ! Know how where these storied -|""rie aged woman resided with her Metropolitan this week. Somebody | MANY " reine the sea ia edlm, and that the captain lewo aman ware éiployed, on» the| Bone in Tacoma had their origin, daughter, Mrs. D. J. Williams, 314 ought to t sourl, Kansas and Oklahoma on [two y ‘Asked {¢ Bob Kernan might have| 9 7 Dersuade him to show his) muesday expects ito reach Hor: Sudan before} main. arterial highway between bias ae pon at tatermation,. the| W: 56th st., and had ostenstbly ata Decor ae ‘Tickets supported by the Klan were| the fire forces crew, and passengers) LOOK AT Davie asta “obbron! Gh: Voayiad | Mbmbern of the Webklngtoh supers feteeinere hata on : ed downstairs on an errand. WAS 2 | eect Joplin and Carthage, Mo,,|t0 abandon the stedmer, ‘The Clan} island, The employes are C, Peter-| power league, organized to back the | Yr HA » ming | She failed to return, Mrs. Williams. fed reubican” mate convention Ree ie ner and Lawrence, |Mactvor is steaming alongside ready THIS O ton and C. M.sRuhlen, of Dockton.| Initiation of the Krickson. supet-pow- ee bean Pec qwin-| sought and found her body lying Ab” will convene in Wenatchee o: awa, ind . ~~ ‘lin case of an in emergency. a gs a ‘f Sler. bill, w Tacs isterial associatio) the foot of the stairs with the sku day. D Satur’) icans., and Tulsa, Okla. Here in one of the homes that eae has $15 due him and Rub Sruieake ts i Mie in cee |xet of men dictate the shake-up ff/Or°cea at. the. function. with the Boys, boys! Remember the mean| _AN¢-Klan slates were victorious ir appear in. tonight's Want Ad ||/en han $7.60 organization of tho body to support | they can Insure police efflctency: | sping, things Doc Brow Iola und Humboldt, Kans,, and Lib: , \eoilie tse raat erent y to Mis Koad et see Chet convention said about your! (0% Poplar Bluff, Bunceton and An- columns. If you are i ; ‘Old G d Wins | the fight for the Bone power bill in 00. A: 5 It bo ah se s a home you will find some « uar the election this fall, \], mericans dental falls Tuesday. ee derson, Mo. John Halfmann, 59, @ widower, P OPEN LETTER TO MRS. HOMER BREW SETAMED KT TH OFFICE ae Lin m detained at the office, i Won't be home for dinner, i Borry, HOMER, Predicts Mellon to “Walk Plank” EMPORIA, Kans, April Bec-| retary of the Treasury Mellon will the next cabinet officer to|—Four bodies had |“walk the plank,” William Allen | and identified today, White, editor of the Emporia Gaz-| fire which ‘razed the ette and leading progressive repub- | Aton during the night. ican, sald sa his paper today. “If he stays aboard he will sink the ship.” White said, “and the ship does not deserve sinking for Mr, Mellon.” Identify Victims of Hotel, Fire in Michigan GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. been April 2 following Hotel the Living Six persons were seriously injured. | Some of them may die. Several are still missing and res) cue workers are frantically hearely | ing the ruins for them, recovered | attractive prices, New York Votes BCG PICKUP | ALBANY, N. Y¥. April 2.—-Organi- Beautiful 59000 ee Mjw, just ||zation forces were victorioous in ike new; corner lot with rock- || practically all sections of the state ery bulkhead: excellent view of primary. contests, ne: | ory; onk , % i lake; beautiiving and. dining |{cording to early returns here today rooms, double ret French doors, Theodore Roosevelt, assistant sec: guest clonet, furnace and all |) rary of the navy, Who Was ‘losis: nated as a delegate to the republi WALLINGFORD $3, lin yesterdays’ modern conveniences. — Listed |] exclusively with us for quick wale: can spring convention from the , bly district, won an Want Ad columna || First assembly See a MA i Nelting thin ||easy victory over Ruth Lett, an in Bb di elirss dependent, who opposed Roosevelt home, and his running mate. The meeting is to be held in the the Bone power bill, and recognized thruout the state as the leader of the municipal power forces, Brickson has withdrawn his meas: ure from the field, thereby eliminat- ing the necessity of the superpower jorganigation, and it is hoped that the same men will line up with the Bone forces in an effort to get the Tacoma man's bill across, Bone's measure gives cities tho right to sell power outside their cor: porate limits, tax free, offices of Homer T. Bone, author of | Caught by Edict EL PASO, Tex., April 2.-—More than 1,000 Americans returned from Juarez today, where they were | marooned for 12 hours as a result of the closing by Mexican authorit- fey last night of both international bridges, Backed by soldiers, Mexican cus- toms officials closed both spans of ‘| the bridge at § o'clock, Many vis- itors, excepting to return by 9 siding at 516 28th ave. N. is lieved to be dying at Providence pital after falling 15 feet from roof of his house Tuesday. |" Haifmann had climbed to the root ta do some amateur shingling repali and was at work when he stepped on a wet shingle. He slipped and his body, thrown off its balance, plunge down the angle of the roof anit to the ground, Halfmann sustained fractures | te o'clock, wete trapped as a result pf the edict four ribs, one of the broken ends ing also punctured a lung