The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 7, 1924, Page 1

wit N Chief of Police Severyns told the story of his dictaphone and of how he hid in the basement under his office and heard subordi- nates quarreling over the division of graft spoils, he mentione da “certain gold- braid officer” (meaning one of high rank), whom the quarreling ere accused of “hogging” the graft. The chief wouldn’t say who the “gold-braid” was, but he did say that the officer no longer was with the department, meaning, we presume, that he had been discharged, and in- ferring that he had found the graft story true. Now, if that’s the deduction we are to make, that “gold-braid” ought to be known. It isn’t fair to the rest of the higher-ups of the department to have the finger of suspicion point- ed at them. We can’t think of any “gold-braid” who has been let out lately. Police Inspector Harry O’Brien isn’t doing active police duty these days, but he’s still on the payroll. He is in California for his Who Is the Grafting "Gold-Braid,” he ywn job Who chief? is this hief? | health and may go ahead with his regains his according to the chief. Bob Kernan, the chief's special in- vestigator, has been discharged, but he didn’t wear gold braid. gold-braid strength, fellow, YEGGS OUTRUN POLICE AUTO! Temperature Last 4 Hours Maximum, 61 Minimum, 46. Teday noon, 51 26. NO. 37. VOL. Home (ome Brew Howdy, folks! Spring is here. Give little Willie some boneset <=> tea and a ttle = sarsaparilla! Dear Homer: What kind of otutt lo you prefe print in your col yum? 2—Contrit and by heck. we'll give we have to clip it out of the . A lady from old Herc pet thru That men like a face On which there's wo tra Of enamel or scarlet geranium e086 A headline in The Star Sat * said: “Doheny Trims Hams ‘~ t And a few suckers once in a “! S eh, old kid? saa ee : YE DIARY tApril #) Waked im the collique, . thew e. weil enough, and so to did discover = “ Bala! Deaths of three from auto- | | mobile crashes and two sui- stomach empty. cides and the accidental um | shooting of a young boy by . “Are you .n favor of a minim wage” s la hunting companion Sunday € oP goal = ako evening, caused the “moving Der ard. < | finger” to write on Seattle's ot Wales | “death clock” a total Monday Ling | of 17 deaths from guns and seven from automobiles. “BOY IS KILLED BY PLAYMATE | Accidental Discharge of Gun Fatal to School Youth Why doesn’t the Prince join a circus and get paid £ onng? oe rocution really kills Elocution also has its bad effects. see Every dog may Have his dey; But every cat Has hia night. wee Why do they insist on making the sroom so useless at a wedding? Why not detail him to watch the ice cream freezer? eee z Scr LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE 1 VAMP, SEZ: Girls an’ billiard balls kiss | each other with about the same amount of real feeling. "/Robert McLaughlin Dies in County Hospital Robert 1. McLaughlin, 13, son of ary | Mr, and Mrs. William 8. McLaughlin, The hero of “The Het Hill Mys: | 10th ave, N. E. and E. s9th st., was| tery,’* The Star's latest serial, is now |Shot in the head and kflled Sunday | in the land where the men are killed | evening by a playmate while the boys | A$ soon as they are married. were shooting at targets on the shore The lucky stiffs! of Lake Washington, near Lake City eee The McLaughifn boy, a student at “in the spring a the Olympic View school, and Irving | fancy—" Newell, Thus the famous bard aid wwrlte.| velt high school, had taken a .22 fut, in sooth, he might have added ; caliber rifle to the lake, and were “A young woman's fancier, quite,” | shooting at sticks and cans. The eee Newell boy was holding the gun Lil Gee Gee says that one of her| when it accidentally went off, the friends has gone into the air service, | bullet striking his companion in the He's welling real’ estate, head. The injured lad died in the young man’s ae 2. {county hospital three hours later. CANDIDATE FOR ‘HE POISON |The Newell boy is the son ot + Aaron IVY CLUB | Newell, 8780 10th ar = comedian who ts still sing- ing parodies of “Mr. ( and ote aaa of, MF. Gallagher toe Hepresentative Johnson of this] state says that the po; pulation of the | United States will be 200,000,000 in 0 years, GUNSHOT! Gosh! where will they park all yg rt 2 z i tec |Fish Merchant Dies From asked Gee Gee OY evil?” | Suicide Attempt Sunday “Matrimony,” she replied, ‘You| Shooting himself in the head at his home, 1258 Thistle st., while his wife and son were absent from the city | |Sunday night, George 8. Minalos, fish | merchant, succum t the city hos- fan't get eon, without, it” “a an SAD WORDS F TONGUE OR PEN, pital Monday. forenoon. THE SADDEST Oe: THESE, Mrs, Sadie "Minalos and the young | DETOUR AGAIN.” son returned home Sunday night and found the husband and father lying y Old Silas esis, the sage of |!" the attic with a small bore pistol | ep Hollow, ‘says: "Trown |near his body. ey i Hickory Bludgeon is kept c,| He Was unconscious and could give ‘ant on aan th’ boys frum steati;, {© reason for his rash act. He was wiles that th’ \semng ,, in finaneial troubles and poor health. tani ood _ Tobbed regula | Leonard O. Brown, 36, of 307% Cherry st. was found with a bullet thru the heart on the muddy shore has known | of the Duwamish siver Sunday. A he neve | box of cartridges and a revolver from hy them who had the er ot which one snot had been fired were to the matinee while hee found beside him. Brown had been ter did the housework, "er | nissing since Saturday afternoon. é. (Turn He was found by 10-year-old Mury im te Page 8, Column 2) Colasindo, of 203 Fontonelle st. sae «014 Bilas ayn he 9,000 mothers, but ’ SHOOTING AT TARGETS. | serous the street in front of his auto, 13, a student at the Roose-| The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington ane Matior May 2, 1899, at the Postoffics tile’ w SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1924. ‘ash. vider the Act 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $3.60 The Seattle Star * 3 Killed 1 In Auto Crashes! VICTIM Knocked Down as He Ran Across Street; 2 Men Lose Lives Traffic deaths mount to seven since the first of the year when two men and a boy were killed by autos | and a motorcycle Sunday Edward Gaultier, 21, of 1420 24th ave. 8, was riding his motorcycle when he attempted to avoid a col lision at 26th ave. and King st. with an automobile driven by Henry Huhn, Jr, of Sunnyside. Gaultier’s | motorcycle crashed into a telephone | Pole, throwing him 20 feet. He struck on his head, and died In the city hos. pital an hour later with a fractured skull Lester Seliger, 7-year-old son of Elmer Seliger, 168 W. 84th st, was fatally hurt Saturday night near his | home by an auto driven by John T. Elmgren, 34, tallor, of 112 N. 101st st. The boy died in the Norwegian hospital. Elngren said the boy ran FLYERS HALTED FOR 2 WEEKS land that he was unable to stop be fore hitting the child, Elmgren was | booked by the police, and released to | the coroner. | Nigifi Tanaka, Japanese, was crons- |Damage to “Martin's Plane | tog Fourth ave. Bat Holgate. st. Will Delay Flight | when he became confused, and waa | struck by a car driven by vanes |LEAVE SEATTLE SUNDAY Baron, 45, of 3625 Bagley ave. Tanak was dragged 10 feet, A spectacular crash on the Bothell road near the Willard roadhouse jearly Sunday morning, resulted in severe injury to Ernest Peterson of Egion, Wash., and Ernest Tripp, 1928 Eighth ave. Tripp was driving the | jear, he said, when another machine | struck it, causing it to overturn in| the middle of the road, | | Both men were thrown out ana| | badly bruised. While several other | motorists were trying to ald the }men an automobile ran over Peter son as he lay |, badly [| eeetees and cu ROB MAIL BAGS | 420,000 Taken by Bandits in San Francisco |Land at Prince Rupert Dur- ing’Snow Storm PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., April 7.—That it will take from 10 days to two weeks to repair airplane No. 1, which was wrecked yes: terday by Major Martin on land- ing here, was intimated by the major today. The ship is being lifted out at the shipyard this morning, ar- tangements to this effect having been made last night. BY AND HANNUM That precocious little goa, Jinx, | still dogged theraerial trail of the} army world flyers Monday when) a. Frederick L. Martin reported an inite delay at Prince Rupett,| due to the accidental breakage of two | struts on his Douglas crulser when} lianding there at 4:54 p. m, Sunday | SAN FRANCISCO, April | Hight sacks of registered mail, sald) The planes left Seattle, from Lake to contain $20,000 worth of cash| Washington, Sunday morning, ap- and negotiable paper, were obtained | proximately eight hours before they here early today when two bandits|finished their first lap at |held up @ mail truck at Beale and | Rupert in a snow flurry with strong | Mission streets. gusts of wind. The bandits forced the truck jdriver to drive to First and Har- rison streets where they forced the driver and guard to open the com. he miscalculated location in landing, Jand the flight cannot be resumed until this damage is repaired, he re |left there by Lieut, Clayton Bissell, n for the flight encountered sped away. Smuts and Cabinet Resign in Africa LONDON, April 7—A_ Central News dispatch from Capetown says the government headed by Premier Jan Stnuts bas resianad, jadvance n The planes bright 650-mile trip, tho a change of course was necessitated once to avoid & heavy storm in the offing. Altho he left Sand Point air base (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) Prince | | Martin's plane was damaged when |partment door. After carefully se-| ports. It will probably be necessary lecting the eight sacks, the bandits|to ship the spare parts to Prince threw them into an automobile and| Rupert, tho certain supplies were weather for the most part of thelr) LEGISLATOR, * 8 %# The Trust Wins Power Greed Once More Dominates Republican State Politics HE Wenatchee convention of the republican party straddled pitifully on the most important question that will come before the voters at the next election— the public power bill. The self-annointed Solomons of the republicans put into the state party platform a power plank that possesses neither teeth nor stinger. It can mean most anything. It doesn’t mean anything at all. The republicans did not indorse the right of cities to sell power outside their corporate limits. Neither did the republicans go on record against this all-important question. * ELEGATES returning from the convention—leaders who are smart enough to see the way the wind is blowing—are not satisfied with the convention action. But they couldn’t help themselves. The private power interests which are desperately fighting the public power bill of Representative Homer T. Bone, of Tacoma, had sufficient control in the convention to block even the consideration of a real power plank. And the private power folks didn’t care a whoop about the plank that was adopted in the last few minutes of the meeting. * 2 | | | * * * HE convention's cowardly straddle on the power question doesn’t settle anything, however. The fight is still on. The special interests have not won; | they have simply blocked one play. Sentiment will grow for the Bone bill as the truth about it becomes known over the | state. Loses $25 When Attacked by Trio Claiming to have been attacked, beaten and robbed by three men In & soft drink parlor Sunday night, John Peterson, Yakima hotel, asked the police to ald him in recovering his purse and $25 which was taken from him, |Michigan Choosing Campaign Favorite DETROIT, April 7. Michigan, Hiram Johnson's stronghold in 1920, went to the polls today to choose be tween President Coolidge and the California senator In the republican | preferential primary, POLICE BATTLE THIS COW NEVER GETS HOOF AND MOUTH DISEASE IS OVER Severyns Says All Harmo- nious With Mayor Brown | Shakeup Called Off; Truce Finds Chief in Charge That minor changes will be made from time to time in the po- Mee. personnel, without, however, taking on the aspect of a» police shakeup, was announced by Chief of Police W. B. Severyns Monday, fol- | lowing the declaration that the pro- | posed general shakeup of the force had been abandoned by both Sev- eryns and Mayor E. J. Brown. “IT have no favorites among the police," Severyns suid. ut there Are a few men who must be trans ferred to other duty. It will be done gradually and without creating an uproar in the department. The mayor and myself have definitely decided that the general shakeup shall be discarded.” A week ago Severyns started a strong campaign against the pro- posed slate of 62 changes offered by the mayor, and the abandonment of the shakeup is 1 victory for Sev y politicians and police offielats, That complete harmo: exists between himself and the ma; the assertion of Severyns Monday. “There will be no further changes made in the department without the sanction of both the mayor and myself,” said Severyns, Escaped Officer May Be Suicide! LOS ANGELES, April 7,—Lieut. Ervine R. Brown, naval paymaster, short $120,000 in his accounts, has apparently dropped completely from sight, according to loca) department of Justice officials today, r was | TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. TESCAPE | | | | | A. Seavers, with Detective Franke | DuCett were investigating the theft) | ja. m., | speed past them and turn at Ware | pursued. WILL TRANSFER MEN\™ | | | ‘Three Safes Raid- |auto run by the gangsters. }safe was drilled and the combinas {drill and a hammer behind them: 2 G0 ON TRIAL | jointists. | missed on motion of Deputy Prose. IN BIG RACER! ed During Night; Gang Is Routed in One ie Attempt Closely pursued: at 65 miles — an hour by a police prowler car for a distance of five miles — thru the city, a gang of safe- crackers early Monday morning — successfully escaped, after steal ing one safe, attempting to steal another and cracking a third vault. Patrolmen G. C. Jensen and Gy of a safe from the Class A Cof fee house, 510 Olive st. at 4:30) when they saw a racing car ren ave. and John st. The policy ~ Thru the city both cars sped at terrific speed, until reaching Queen Anne Hill, The yeggmen turned on Dexter ave. and fled to Interbay, while the speedometer hovered be- tween 65 and 70 miles an hour, The police car, being lighter, was outdistanced by the specially-built The police found the deserted racer at Eleventh ave N. and Kine near pl, where the bandits had) left it. It contained a sledse-ham- mer, crowbar, jimmy, four stolen tires and some empty telephone pay boxes. It plainly showed where @ heavy safe had rested in it. The stolen safe contained no money, The Stutz anto had been stolen from the shop of the Parsons Mo tor Co. About 3:30 a. m. C. P. Hagen, of the Earl apartments, 717 Marion st., surprised three men attempting to steal the safe from the lobby. |The trio fled when discovered, and ade off in an auto. The A. Kristoferson, Inc. dairy, 1300 Rainier ave, was entered by safe crackers Sunday night. The “er FANE tion knocked off, but the yeggs fled before opening the vault, leaving # SRG RS FORTE: AS JOINTISTS Man Dismissed on One Case Is Arrested on Another Bajo Bolevich, alias Robert Bijiy, and Nick Myovich went on trial be fore Judge J. T. Ronald Monday as: The two were indicted by the recent King county grand jury ‘on two counts, One count, that of conducting gambling game, was tried in superior court last week. Myovich was dis. cutor BE. D, Colvin, when his conneo tion with the games could not be tablished. Bolevich was convicted. | The two men operate a soft parlor and card room at 116 Fourth” aye, S. They were indicted when @ large delegation of their countrymen called at the grand jury and testified as to liquor and gambling being con. ducted in the place. Eddie Shea, indicted for gambling in the Central cafe, 207 First ave, 8, was dismissed Monday. He was tm medaitely rearrested under itn infor. mation filed direct in superior cow on the same evidence produced before the grand jury, A technical fault in” the complaint which charged him with being the agent instead of the ” owner of the gambling game, caused: the dismissal of the case, he