The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 3, 1924, Page 1

APUSES FERS - Dictaphone Traps Cops Quarreling Over Spell or, Howdy, folks! The age of dis cretion is reached when a man’s too young to die and too old to have any fun. © 0m Kicking on the street car service is one of the oldest forms of « ment in this country see “How old are you, little boy? somebody asked Homer Brew, Jr “I'm five, and mamma says if I'm good an’ eat lots of oatmeal I'll be six next birthday,” cee A proud father {s one who’ will spend two hours trying to imagine how his 6-yearold silk hat. The Seattle baseball team, it ts veraciously reported, has one pitcher who throws such a moist spitball that the audience clamors for rain checks every time he ts put tn. ee DON'T REPINE OVER YOUR LOT Let the nids play ball on it! “ee Sometimes we think that automo- bile manufacturers got the idea of balloon tires from seeing college «boys in their balloon trousers. eee Oh, tol the dell for Johnnte Barr, They fours the lad in section, He drove his car not very fa! But drove in tro direction. see Mrs. A.— Your dresses so quietly. Mrs. B.—He does not. to hear him when he loses a collar button. eee YE DIARY (April 2) After dinner, with my wife, to Palace Hip, and did there see the Will King company for the first time, and it surprise me vastly, so good it was, con did hear J, Ellard sing “Mandalay,” written, did the pinces, And so, mightily pleased, to home. | eee A new attorney general has been named by President Coolidge. His name {is Stone. Bet he’s a hard guy. eee The per capita wealth of Ameri can citizens is $2,918, the department of commerce announces. Somebody's been cheating ust o- The American nation, ft is de- clared, !s worth $320,803,862,000. We'll trade our equity for a 1916 Chevrolet. see “And did your wife dle a natural death?” “Oh, yes. She was talking when the end came.” Help stamp out crime. Buy a Nick Harris lice whistle—Ad- vertisement. Mr, signed. Daugherty has at No doubt he has been read- ing some of the caustic things we have been saying about him. see last re- A queer old fish ts the octopus, Indeed he ta a funny cuss; Instead of ears and nose and neck, He's just got head and legs, by! Heck, eee Only 20 years’ oll supply teft, say the experts. No wond#r all the boys are trying to get theirs now.—Jac! Raper. see Today's Definition: A wife is n ayoman whe asks you to shake the oe: fust as you are about to fix Wour fishing tackle, SOMETHING TO WORRY ABOUT Whether the mayor and chief really had a row. z A COMMUTER PAPO Indy wants shataber. | home nights, Maia 9060—Want Adv, Scientist says there a 92,894, 672 germs in a euble inch of water. Well, everything x so folly over. crowded nowadays, Isn't it? University of Washington student has discovered a new species of crab @e Friday Harbor. Gosh, and: after ive years in a new mper office, we! thought we had me every crab in the state! ees "Is your wife entertaining this winter?” ¢ Mot very ' oe Come, come, Lisabelle; change| Hie needle, A. J, &. WEATHER | Punperiere Last Maximum, 53 Today on will look in a husband always | You ought | | | Minimum, 39. noon, ie ee) ered a8 Second Class Matter M Oil Millionaire Once Slaved for 50 Cents a Day in Beet Fields | | | This Is the first chapter of “How I Made My Millions,” the life story | of E. Doheny, millionaire and leading figure in the vestigation, (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) BY Shen O be a Doheny is to be used to trouble. It has been that way for generations. My grand-| father, Michael Doheny, was embroiled in the Irish revo- {lution of 48. My father, Patrick Doheny, became a political ‘refugee. And now I find myself facing trouble of another kind. |But I shall get out of it just as honorably as did they. My dad was only 16 when he was forced to flee. He went ito Canada and became a seal fisher in Baffin’s bay. It was %|arduous work, but my father stuck to it for 10 years. | After his marriage to a St. Johns school teacher, he went {to Wisconsin. | He lost an eye, suffered other injuries, and had to settle down to peaceful gardening. I was born in 1856 at Fond du Lac, a sawmill town in those days. There were seven children in the family, but there ig only one left now. | When I heard that my brother, a year and a half my senior, was to go to school, I wanted to go, too. At first there was some objections, but then*my father said I could learn to talk there—if nothing else—and, at any rate, I | would be out of the way at home. So they let me go, altho I was only three years and four !months old. | “Red Squirrel” the teacher called me, for I was a little ‘shaver with a sorrel top, and kept hopping around most of the time. } es The teachers said J was poetically inclined, had a good memory, was good at mathematics, but poor at chemistry— | |altho a knowledge of the last became of the greatest im- !portance in my later work. After school hours I always found something to do. jdad saw to that. { got a job in a sawmill during the summer vacation when} I was 13. My special work was running a knot-saw, for | | which service I got 65 cents a day--and a sear on my right (Turn to Page 9, Column 2%) My ay petoffice at Beattie, SEATTLE, WASH., THI Wife Returns $75,000 Stolen by Husband! PLEADS ‘SPOUSE INSANE SAN DIEGO, Cal, April 3— Mrs. Ervine KR. Brown, wife of Lieut. Brown, naval supply offi- cer, alleged to have deserted his ship in a Gulf of Mexico port after taking $120,000 tn govern- ment money, last night turned over $75,820 to local naval au- thorities. She came here by auto from Los Angeles after taking a grip with the money in it from her husband while he was unaware, she said, Mrs, Brown said her husband ad. mitted having taken $120,000 from his ship. Mrt. Brown's return of the money followed a night of pleading with her husband to give himself up to au thorities, When Wednesday morn ing came, however, Brown persisted in his intention to flee and ho dis. | appeare¢ immediately, Mrs. Brown arrived in San bias jIate yesterday and sought out naval officers here. |SAYS SHE “JUST HAD TO DO IT” It was not unth this morning| that {t was revealed that she had| handed over to them more than half of the money her husband is alleged to have taken. “I just had to do it," Mrs. Brown quietly told Licutanant Commander J, R. Morrison, U. 8. N., at the trict here, explaining her act. “He was insane.” She and Brown's mother drove! to San Diego, from their home at j Azusa, Cal., a distance of about 130 | miles, alone in an automobile, with lthe suitcase containing the fortune |Callfornia hoof and mouth disease.|companies and one truck company: jin $20 bills, |_‘Tho suitcase was locked and | Brown had the key. Navy officers | brokd it open and out tumbled the | flood of bills. “I took it from him,” Mrs. Brown explained. “He never knew I took \it. I don't think he knew it was gone, PLEADS WITH HIM wrong with him. He never would | mind. “But hé persisted that (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) An Opportunity Is Offered in a nice home that can be pur chased for a small payment down, with easy monthly pay: ments, | | R LEAVING CITY MONDAY, WILL NOT REFUS SONABLE 0 90M HOUSE IRNISHED ANO 800, MAKE YOU N TERMS This home is sitvated on large ; paved street; full base- | t, ete, In really a real bar- ‘The Want Ad columns will tell you where thls homo Is located, Turn to them NOW. Fortune in Bills, Part of $120,000, Is Brought Back; Lieutenant Flees, have done such a thing in his right) the best) JRSDAY, APRIL 8, 1924 Firemen B Kiln Flames Send Out Suffocating Smoke to Hinder Three Engine Companies | | | | | | property. SWEEPING RULE ON EPIDEMIC Hart Signs “Prevention Act| Intense Heat Forces Fire Fighters to Against Animal Ailment [FRUITS AR E BARRED! Hoof and Mouth Disease-Is Feared Thru Shipping One of the most stringent ship- senate oll in-| headquarters of the 11th naval dis | ping quarantine measures ever at-|Ave., in Washington went into} signing Louis | tempted | effect Thursday with the of Quarantine No. 40 by Gov, |F. Hart, a state department of agriculture measure, aimed to pre- vent possible infection from the |1t now includes all fruits and vege- tables and all products in which} dairy products are used, as well as livestock and poultry, straw and \hay, animal products, hides, hair and. fertilizer, covered !n Quaran- tino Measure No. 89, which it | supersedes, The Seattle Milk Shippers’ asso- Jeiation Thursday urged all of its | members to do everything possible ‘to co-operate with the state depart- “Tuesday night I met him at ®| mont of health in its efforts to hotel in Los Angeles and he told! prevent the spread of the foot and |me about belng short in his ac-| mouth disease to Washington, jcounts and then that he had the) Milk shippers are asked not to }money in tho suitcase that was) pire any milkers or farm hands un- sitting in the room, less they have absolute proof that “] pleaded with hin all night|they did not come from the Infect- long to give himself up. ed areas in California, and not to “[ knew that something was! allow any strangers on thelr prem- ises. farm hands are migrating North, | MAY EXTEND EMBARGO |T0 PHILIPPINES | As an added precaution, Dr. L, C. | Pelton, state veterinarian, announced (Turn to Page 9, gun 5) DRIVER JAILED ‘Gets Six Months for Run- ning Auto While Drunk | Charles Monohan, dairy worker at | carnation, was sentenced by Judge Cc, C. Dalton Wednesday to serve Inix months in the county Jail on con: | vietion of a charge of driving while drunk. Judge Dalton scored torlat# who endanger the lives of others by violation of the traffic laws. Monohan “burnt up the road’ | between Tolt and Duvall, Marshal W, |1. Collins of Falls City testified. mo: extra caution must be taken in hiring help at this time of the} year, {t is said, as many of the The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington The Seattle Star §: ar, by Ma * attle Shingle Mill Blaze Work of At the left firemen are laying a hose line into the interior of the Sobey shingle kiln, jin Ballard, which was devastated by flames Thursday forenoon, while at the right two} | fire fighters tear out bundles of charred shingles to prevent further spread and loss of —Photos by Frank Jacobs, Star Staff Photographer * £* & * S$ * $+ Stubborn Flames Sweep Ballard Shingle Kiln! Wear Face Masks in Battle Flames, which blazed stubbornly | before they could get In close enough in the faces of four companies of | Proximity to lay their hose lines effi: |firemen, «wept the huge dry kiin— |lently. They appeared at disadvant- 2 Jone of the largest in the Northwest | n50, fr 8m hour and a half as thex | | labored against the ris —of the Sobey shingle mill, at 26th |the curing abinalea Avrone whe te N. W. and 8Shilshole ave., | jured, according to reports. Thursday morning. ‘The fire, orlg-|| At 9:30 the fire was still raging inating among the 750,000 shingles | in the center of the kiln, which has stored on the place, threatened for a|a capacity of 3,000,000 shingles, Then time to destroy the entire plant, /the efforts of the firemen began to valued at about $100,000. tell and the flames were subdued Fire fighters from three engine | and finally extinguished by 11 o'clock | after one of the most spectacular | who arrived on the scene soon after fires of the year from the standpoint | the first flames were discovered by |of flames and the pall of smoke, George Hale, night watchman, were | which overspread Ballard. forced to mask their facts from the} ‘The loss is estimated to be be- intense heat and suffocating smoke {tween $3,000 and $5,000, VOTES GROW UNDER AUTO MILWAUKE A Wis, “Apri ae Mrs, Hare Hautsch, 45, of 4317 | Senator Robert M. La Follette today |inoreased his lead over President| ©? Sve. N. W. was in the city hog: | more than 80,000 in the returns from | internal injuries’ recelved when she 1,192 of the 2,574 precincts, |was dragged 20 feet by an automo- The count for each slate of dele- | | bite driven by E. R, Newell, 37, of gates stood: Sphere ene 1429 N, 48th st., at Third and Pine, 69,983. Newell took the woman to the city In the democratic returns Gov. Al| hospital and after making his report |Smith had a lead of approximately| was charged with rec ' 11,000 over William Gibbs McAdoo| “** Charged with reckless. driving, |in the count from 971 precincts, The | The accident occurred as the woman sant |started across the street, Newell's __ Smith, 98, 34 auto turned the corner and hit her, 150,109; Coolldge, McAdoo, 24,93: Women Bosses of Town Warn All Lawbreakers | | | | COLUMBUS. CITY, Iowa. fell to the women. ‘Two other April 8.—-Eva Bretz, school teachers, Miss Mary Moore and teacher-mayor of Columbus City, Miss Nellie Moore, occupy the and her cabinet of women, to- posts of treasurer and assessor day served notice on all law: respectively. breakers here to come into the “We shall endeavor to show fold or get out of town, how a city should be run," “We shall not tolerate boot. Mayor Bretz told the United legging or any other form of Press today. "We don't want lawbreaking,” she declared. bootloggers, petting parties, the Mayor Bretz ta also against mixing of gin with automobiles bobbed hair and cigarets for and I am opposed to women women, smoking cigaretg or bobbing Byery elective office in town their hair, LA FOLLETTE’S WOMAN DRAGGED |Gootidge in the Wisconsin primary |Pltal on ‘Thursday recovering from | Severyns Listens in Basement as | Officers Above | “Bawl Him Out” | eee | While policemen used his private office as a meeting | place, where they quarreled over graft money and re- ferred to him as a “bone- | head,” Police Chief W. B. Severyns “listened in” at the receiving end of a privately- jinstalled distaphone in the basement of the public safety building. As a result of the “low- down” he was thus enabled to obtain on the department and his men, Severyns has @ pretty fair idea of what he wants to do in the pending shake-up, he told The Star Thursday. “They discussed me up one side and down the other,” said Severyns Thursday, “They called me a ‘bonehead,’ ‘numbskull’ and lots of other | things for letting a certain ‘gold-braid’ man hold his job at headquarters. “They said he was ‘getting all the big money’ and they were sore because they were not in on it.” | Severyns also said he | learned that one officer was being paid for his failure to enforce the order to remove | slot machines. Chief Severyns refused to Alsctose the name of the “gold-braid” man the quarreling cops referred to. | “I'M mention none of the men whom I overheard in my office. But jthey know who were in the party. |As for that ‘gold-braid,’—well, he's not working for me any more.” SAW LIGHT IN OFFICE; THEN HE GOT BUSY Some time ago, Severyns said | Wednesday, he wished to determine jthe attitude of many of his Meuten- jants, captains and sergeants toward jhim, thelr work, and ufso of condi- |tions that existed about town. Be- jing aware of the fact that at night his office was being made a meeting: |place for a certain clique’ of offi- cers, he had a dictaphone secretly installed there, and connected to a jroom below. Often downtown at night, Sev- eryns would see a light in his | office window. Quiecly ap- proaching the station, he woald let himself In by a side door “into the deserted corridor by the police court and enter the tiny room where his receiving set was located. Almost invariably a meeting (Turn to i Se>t % Column 4) BANNICK TO BE SHIFTED Slated for Ballard One of the most important changes which will be made in the police de- |partment in the next few days, ac- jcording to city hall and police sta: tion information, will be the shift. ling of Capt. C, G. Bannick from his Jcommand at Densmore precinct. to iad precinct and the transfer of Capt. BE. L, Hedges from headquar: ters 3. “the command of Densmore precinct This report, altho denied by Mayor | Brown, was not refuted by Police Chief W, B. Severyns on Thursday. It is understood that Mayor Brown is much in favor of the transfer. Chief Severyns refused to comment on the report other than to say he would make no announcement of any changes at this time. Severyns also declared that stories that he would either be forced to quit or resign Were false and without any foundation Report Has It That He Is. ose) eee