The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 3, 1924, Page 9

THURSDAY, APRII 19 Se _— PAGE ® LEASE INQUIRY CABINET MAN IS ChicF TO START FISHER SAVED AIRMEN READY SPECIAL RADIOVICTIM SHOOTSCALLS FOR ROE NEARING END SUBPOENAED! OWN SHAKEUP FROM FIRE © FOR HOP-OFF Senate Investigators Pre-| Secretary of War Weeks Is Victor in Clash With Mayor Leaps From Flaming Craft New Storm Warning May pare to File Report BY PAUL BR. MALAOQN mendments probat prevent future dispositie ny part check by congress. Ing spirit now Two New Witnesses Summoned in Probe WASHINGTON A witnesses we appear t ore th gators Monda umbus Jour J LB of Oklahoma Cit Senator Walsh fn connection with cal “deals” at the national convention. Wolfe was a member Wood delegation to the convention. French is sald to have been a politi cal associate of the late Jake Hamon. VANDERLIP. NOW MERE AGENT" Financier Cuts Loose From Wall Street Connections rted polit! 920 republican he Ohb WASHINGTON, April 3% A. Vanderllp has cut loose from Wall Street. With stroke of Dis pen he severed all the ties that have bound him to the company of Frank the nation’s mightiest money men|of justice had done nothing to this} and, voicing regret that his former colleagues were blind to coniitions, bade them farewell @ Vanéorlip announced he had taken a step which he told friends here 10 days ago he had contemplated. He resigned from all boards of di Teetors of which he was a member. Bis cutting adrift from Wall Street, to be freer to go on, unannoyed by the criticisms of business asso- lates, with his “dry cleaning” of the government heré, was @ Rounced in a letter to E. P. Swen- gon, president of the Freeport, ‘Texas, company, New York. Swen- son had asked Vandertip to retire from that company’s board because of his activities here. Complying, he said: “I am quite willing to com- ply with your request. My one re- gret ts that men with whom I have long been associated in busi-| heag now are so blind to the present situation in t government at Washington. * * * “I would leave with you and my Other business friends one simple thought to ponder: “If this counrry were suddenly to be faced by a great crisis in which there was need for wise, vigorous and honest action to protect our na tional life, would you be satisfied to face the emergency mnder goverr mental conditions such as have been the rule for the last three years?” Vanderlip is the director in many concerns, including the Internaticnal Mercantile Marine, Union Pacific, estion Both Ordered to Appear in Probe immed I RECORDS TOLD OF WAR FRAUD CASES Lat hed t adinitted taking the papers siving them to Weeks, but med they “were official records artment. imitted he stay aw had ordered ay from the Daug Vestigating committee was suspend: u suspended told you he was coming bef * Wheel sald Volandt mmittee Yes, investigations. |floer ts merely ito « lo “respectfully invited pear The papers were records in inves: tigations by Lane tn connection with Reach Magneto, Standard Alreraft land Wright.M: war fraud cases. | Lane, in his testimony, assailed A | Mitchell Palmer, former alien pres lerty custodian, for sale of the Bosch Magneto property for $4,150,000 “It should not have been sold for j $12,000,000,” sald Lane Lane sald he took records in the Rosch case to Assistant Attorney General John W. Crim and Crim said it was the “rottenest™ case he ever saw Crim, he sald, promised immediate jaction “on this great fraud.” | The witness said the department {day so far as he knew | His Rosch Magneto records were among those taken from him by Captain Volandt, Lane said Going back tothe sale of $2,000,- 1000 of government securities by the |Bosch Magneto corporation, Lane lnaid they were thru. the [brokerage firm of Hornblower @ | Weeks. Secretary of War. Weeks }was a member of that firm. He | was not, however, seeretary of; war jat that time, according to Lane. sold BOOZE KILLS 18 ‘Canned Heat” T: akes Heavy Toll in Toledo Orgies |, TOLEDO, Ohio, April %—The ideath toll in Toledo's “canned heat” poison alcohol orgies rose to 18 to. day as police bent every effort to jround up druggists believed to be | selling the new form of death-dealing booze. | night from effects of the poison, 1,200 ARE SAVED LONDON, April 3.—ohammedan pilgrims, bou,:d from Bombay to Jed. dah, were transferred at sea when |the steamer Frangestan burned off Three more men died during the; Oregon Short Line, United States port Sudan. The steamer Clan Mac. Over Changes BROWN DENIES IE KNEW OLMSTED Brow eldest son of ed §=6Thureday ad promoted uned the ire to be t visible Chief Sever rt F resign on episode hich reflected upon his conduct 1 to have happetied some weeks Kerna asked to account an a“ ofti hial was made to reports that Kernan had resigned, due t pressure from Roy Olmated and asso clates. Kernan has been offered a position jam county, Beveryns said, and may aceept. Kernan could not be reached t his home Thursday EDWIN J. BROWN, JK. ISSUES STATEMENT Adding to his father's de that he had anything to do with Roy Olmated, whom public safety build ing attaches sald had mpted to dictate the police shakeup In a way [that would be advantageous to his Edwin J. Brown, Jr., th mayor's eldest son and campaign manager, issued the following ntate ment Thursday “I emphatically deny the tmputa tion that [ had any connection with the proposed department |changes. The fact of the matter ts that I do not know Olmsted—never }apoke to him in my life, and would not know him if I saw him. | “Most of the talk about the police |department. reorganization is, idle speculation and gossip. I am fat ptally interested in seeing my father give Seattlo the best police adminis tration it ever had business “Bome time ® reorganization | was decided upon. A police depart jment should be kept as far from |suapicion as pomsitile, As to the de jtails of the reorganization and the | changes In personnel, I have had ab- solutely no interest and have taken no part in that. I believe that the |mayor, the chief and the inspector all are convinced that a reorganiza tion should take place. 4. “It is not material who does the | reorganization work as long as it is | done along proper lines, and as all parties concerned have the same end in view-—that is, a general Improve- ment in the police work and in the |poliqg conditions—Seattle is sure to be the gainer. “Owing to my father's offivial con nection, and owing to the fact that | Chief Severyns and myself have been personal friends for many | years, I have consistently refused to handle any police court cases or try Any luweults or handle any legal | matters of @ crimjnal nature.” clone an a Meputy sherife of Clal-| Off Santa Monica Mean Another Delay mander, de avigating trip m Alaskan Duteh 1 ata eached Kodiak | ts eastward of 40 ps gern. ch spectators thru the flames t \ ‘ Wa e, the rn | test plan Thursday morn David Whitcomb, presider ttle Chamber of ( #, to e flyer Prisoners Dig Way Thru Wall of Eugene Prison c from i 4 will kitehen Several 1 accompany the world fly erty and rema James Palmer, wall with ra part on their first day's hop s to plans made Thursday nine or more planes will gompone ughtor, was | th the escaping prisoners. | Major Arnold t flyers o ee ieee and u ined behind ecor iting nontence a charge mong of ma eacort from fields, the Party will have three or four Seat Lone Convict Being |! Lieut. Theodore J Hunted in Oregon | Koenig, commanding officer of Sand . Point alrdrome, and one plane pilot #ALEM, Ore., April t.—Prison of- ‘ : * ‘ of | by Lieut old, alt ‘ Jones, the only convict still at large |” a a genes oe Jof the six who escaped Inst Friday | from the stato penitentiary, afte he awas sighted near Jefférson last night Tom Murray, Florence bank ban- | dit, who was with Jones, was « ap two national guariemen, surprised the two con } viets on a dark road. er | thing for tim to ae 10 pt away. He Tockwe! WIFE || tured. by STARTS ON PAGE 1 after they shortly a was to run| wouldn't yield. "Then Wednesday morning the paper came up to our room and |we read the whole story: how they jhad found his accounts were short} and were looking for him. Bie HERE'S MORE ABOUT }} POLICE ae ae STARTS ON PAGE 1 —_—_—______-_ would be {with the participants tains, lieutenants and sergeants | Robert EK. Kernan, the chief's inves. tigator, also was present meetingn GREAT INSTRUMENT, ADMITS THE CHIEF local |} “The dictaphone gave me the or jPortunity of learning just who were My friends and who were against me,” sald Severyns. “It showed Just who the officers were that were not exactly right. Oh, Tjat learned quite a lot thru the dicta-|San phone. It's a wonderful little Sn to Central America and the] strument. TI took it home finally, | Mexican Gulf waters with the Ra-| for fear someone would make away |cific destroyer fleet with st.” ago. ‘The officers who involuntarily He was last heard from by his! in this manner {nformed Sev- | snip at New Orleans March 15, Last eryns thra their own lips of xtonday he was posted as missing their aims, designs, likes and [o, orders from. Secret f tho dishkes, are expected to figure y Ww Fat aight 9 In the chief's own ‘plans for the |N&¥¥ Wilbur, His early appre: Le ¥ hension and of tho rest reorganization of the depart- : . * ipiant Ww prvinote éttidbency, ton. of the money was predicted today esty and public trust, he sald. by - woverninén’ secret aervion Robert H. Kernan, who reaignea |S8@nts here after they hud con- Monday as special investigator for |"etred with naval authorities. the chief, proved hig entire honesty | e PSATECDU TA ELT at the meetings by upholding sev-| yoo, cryns and refusing to enter {nto the || HERE'S MORE ABOUT Jones nen t #6 un: escaped from the guards | craw under a fence into | jwith it to Azusa the wh told Mr. Brown's mother story and we decided to } | | Mrs. Brown's band’s 4 on in the chief story of being cap. ieee Was borne out jthe mutteae, Instead of Jot bills in $100 wore when taken bundles as they at severa officers found them packages. Some of the packages were wet. Others were creased and crumpled Tho Browns had made their home Coronado, across the bay from | Diego, before the lieutenant] went recovery part In tion to} her hus: by the condition of the money inj packages | from the de-| ( oyer Somers, a month ago, the) : ‘ Jumbled. | Fewer than five bills were in some! badly j a few months |], {| Mayor to AT BANDITS Druggist Loses $300, ‘but Gets Robber’s Pistol ' 5 t Dance Program Arranged in Honor of Clubbers Investigate the Dismissal of Witness ™/; 2% lori Wresting a loaded gun from th hand of one of two bandits ho had just $300, F. ¢ of the robbed itm of Crawtord, prourietor othell Wed pharmacy nesday night chased one from the store ana opened fire on lim and his con s they es ide, Craw ford bet wounded ene Airmen Missing in Free Army Balloon i LE, 1 P - ELLEVI More cooking } surface on the Burcothtop. FREDERICK & NELSON 1 failed to communicate with | police discovered a deserted automo ott flying field bile with a broken windshield and © apprehension was to |blood stains on the at Wood r fate Both me « ‘ ave. and Kirkwood servations of the me from Byron G. FREDERICK & NELSON ~ | DOWMSIARS STORE 300 Pairs of | Women’s Smart Strap Pumps | UNUSUALLY LOW-PRICED pe SR HERE’S MORE ABOUT I took the suitcase: and ran away | I went as fast as 1 could) wear. |come here and regurn the money, | A SPECIAL purchase of women’s smart Pumps for street and dress Patent Leather trimmed in dull calfskin’ ‘ ~ ” Black Suede trimmed in dull calfskin : In the two styles pictured, with medium Spanish or block heels. '/47 Widths AA to C. Sizes 3 to 8. 77) _ Unusually good value, Friday, at $4.95. z (DOWNSTAIRS STORE) _ FREDERICK & NELSON Complete Homefurnishers—Interior Decorators EPEC PSR NERA Co MAM KANE Rubber, United States Realty, Ore-| Ivor stood by and took off 1,260 pas. achemes of the other officers Itho fon-Washington R. & N. and the Los! sengers und erew trom the Mranges'| keh New Engines _ 1 Aid nok. Siem. ct Lhe: dieanbone’e' QUARANTINE Angeles & San Pedro railroad. irae : Severyns declared STARTS ON PAGE 1 in U. S. Vesssels : + - } pat —_ WATER SHUTOFF Konic: °|, WA#HINGTON, April 3- meet CODE iS READY Thuraday to The Star, the state s \the Edmonds bill yesterday author. | | Sone E ee otmmig cooperative jo 1} City water will be shut off | with the United States govern es || on the following districts Friday 4 Arrested for Perjury Before the shipping board to expend a : i || from.9 a. m. to 2 p. m. 100,000 for the installation Epes ares opps adler The | On 22th ave, 8. from Norman er Jmportx from the Philippines | Late Grand Jury | Arthur Doran, sought. for inet TE, presence, ot + ; vi ‘ Ww : te ati ate: |the Diesel type of engine in shi | Council to Act on New Traf PS sete set npat yy Bean oa ip | ping board véssels: | i Wi on br i On the alley west of 12th || ‘The committee reported this type | fic Laws Monday | ea eran Ping depos Ls ere, and ave. 8, from Atidntic to Mansa. | -~ sens n to exist. |greatly increased the efficiency of , tee chusetts sts. ahipate The cost would be pees seate’s Sere teesnio, pds, cont], Fe Soe new Toline no sinks carn On Alantic and Massachusetts | |from the $66,000,000 shipping board | Pletely revising present traffic laws, (or ocean Rong Vessels are permitted Sage oan sk «agg aceon A Heim will como’ before the city council next |to discharge garbage inside or near. the ghee =: Ss The hill also authorizes the toan | Monday for final adoption. The code the state unless sealed in metal con-| ie alley. H ‘ , roved a mee of the arged at a proper Fi = Q {jor 50 per cent of the cost t p | was approved.at. o moecting -¢ : Gr ae hes ig and fai Be Arie wants 9 toe ee See city council! public safety committee This will prohibit din-| st, from Atlantic st. to | \ton of new types of. ships or the [om Wednesday afternoon ing cars throwing off garbage along | | tion of yp ps or the} the route, Dr. Pelton declared, ‘The only protest against the meas © Tedonditioning of existing ships. |, wan (he clause abolishing mid-| With the discovery that fruits! die-ofthe-road parking on Fifth ave, |and vegetables are also carriers of | It wag explained that this street fs) the dread live stock ailment, whieh | HERE’S MORE ABOUT Ito be paved and converted into an|is highly communteable to humans, | DOHENY’S STORY arterial highway and the objection |the state department of agriculture | | was dropped. jhas the horticultural inspectors STARTS ON PAGE 1 Months on a perjury indictment re tured by the late King county grand | Jury, was arrested in the corridors of the court touse om Wednesday by | Depity Prosecutor K. D, Colvin, who | reengnized him and called Deputy | Shtrst Harry Ajax to take Doran in} Ie Bg custody, 3 The charge against Dornn is that} he falsely testified before the grand Jury relative to playing blackjack at “Doherty's,” $16 Virst , when other evidence presented to the grand | Jury revealed he had participated in the games, | d { Stage Dinner : Jadies of the G. A. KR, George |fingers. ‘ ae (gg hthington circle, will give a din-| T surely was proud of my injury. Wrisceday ae halt at 6 p. m.\with the other boys of the town who had been hurt in) protest of taxi companies. ip m.- mat at their work—and there were many of them. | = . | The next summer one of the first sugar beet factories in} Two Women Burned America was opened at Fond du Lac. 1 got a job in the fields. The man in charge was like a real overseer, for he! yronGaNrowN, N. Cy April 2, |i the state ‘ drove us boys like so many slay Down the long rows of |rwo women lost their lives in a tu ar beets we went, 50 or 60 in a line, working our hoes, weeding. | fire in if private sanitarium fers | Legionnaires to ie i . 30 » Jaq i a ‘Two other persons were seriously i We had to work quickly; or else the lads behind would |, ined. Iplnivaie ,eataped: anhi: Stage Vaudeville close in and prod us with their hoes, ! |jured. Thére was no panic amonz| University post, American Legion, For all this each of us received 50 cents a day. | the patient, aa hey were, carti 4 with cidieedlay. evening iin i " nde i yey sifrom the burning bullding by BAR ae ay tat spoil it, We were all veri ’ a 8 NB) | tranaferred to the state hospital! ing witt be niaged. Proceeds will sania hol ‘din blue leather. The Suite fishing, getting into mischief. When we had a fence to} here, orcdrthe: galt hunda, chairs are upholstered in blue leather. e Suite paint, we invariably connived to make the other fellow do it. Many acts of herofam marked the ROVER : s a a iy : Hardly a month went by during the summer months work of the nutaos, | complete consists of 9 pieces. Separate pieces are ‘ ' ’ , —__ — | i ‘i priced as follows: without some boy drowning. The water was deep, and the Wi What’s in the Air : shitvanehar : sport | Will Reopen Seward A tee floating logs made it treacherous. But that made the sport P THURSDAY, APRIL 3 SIDEBOARD, $65.00 EXTENSION TABLE, $55.00 yre alluring. Wireless Station | cvsc—si0 10 4:90 p. ms 9 mie Sale Peltier was my side-kick in those days. I don’t] ‘rye navy department his ordered utp: m. ; SIDE TABLE, $39.50 5 SIDE CHAIRS, $11.50 EACH ARM CHAIR, $16.00 know what happened to him later, for soon came a parting] the reopening of tho wireloas sta- | KIT 4:60 to 6:80 p, ma 60 (Fourth Floor) tainers and dis incinerator Among other things, all parking | watching all incoming shipments |hag been abolished on Wirst, Second, | from California #nd «they aro only | Third and Fourth aves. and on | allowed to cross the line after a cer:| t ‘ * " ‘ veya} { Union, Pike and Pine sts, in the busi- | tified inspection and fumigation | hand. Only a bit of luck prevented me from losing several | Union, Head Gadar the more Ainee Ukowelene 5 Regulations governing taxicabs of the new contagion bars, circus, It put me in the class | were ollminated from the code on|and carnival stock and equipage| are classed as livestock and poultry, ' amd are subject to inspection and lfumigation with a certificate of |wuch precaution attached to the in Hospital Fire 0! of !cing before being atiowea Very Interesting Value Offered in This New Combination Walnut DINING-ROOM SUITE A Y exceptionally attractive Suite, of thoroughly good construction, at a very moderate price. The Table, 45x56 inches, extends to @ feet. The figured wood in the top is beautifully matched. The sideboard ig distinguished by fine hand-inlaid walnut beading on doors and drawer fronts, The MUSICAL PROGRAMS MARK FIVE RADIO PROGRAMS THURSDAY {Coperight, 1924, hy the United Prenny ‘TAX, leveland, 390 meters, 11 p. m, (E, 8, T.)—Special re. eltal on the municipal organ by Vincent H, Percy, direct from Cleveland auditorium, W. 0. 4. W., Omaha, fers, 9 p.m. (C, 8, 7? Program celebrating first, birthday. W. BAL P., For x 716 Meters, 9:30 p. i, c abi one cert by the For wor band, NINE PIECES $233.00 26 me. “Special WIAW's on Worth police mer. New York, 40% 49 p.m. (H. 8. TCI leat rectal, direct. troun tate College with iNlustrative lecture, KPO. Ban Francisco, 423 h fers, p.m. (PC. g, )—Pro- Bram by Cap and Bell club, meters, Hon at Seward, Alaska, according | to 8:30 p, m. of the ways. t - ' received by the KIR—6:30 to 6:15 p, my 7:80 T had a dream of going West! to $:80 p.m. (in the next article Doheny will tell how he spurned a career its priest to go West.) tolegram Seattle Chamber of Commerce) Vn-| | KHQ—8 to 9 p.m Thursday morning from Jy J, derwood, its Washington represent- atlye ki a KOA? p.m,