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

ee apr WEDNESDAY BIRDMEN START WEDNESDAY Bhatt cruisers Slated for jump to Sitka, Alaska flyers were eched THE SEATT LE STAR New Cabinet Member Doesn’t Smoke, Motor — IS NOT GUILTY, | SAYS OL MAN Montana Operator Says Sen- | ator Victim of Circumstance ACCUSED ~) TWO GAMBLERS =" | FOUND GUILTY «. | Convict Pair Indicted by Re- TURN TO SILK HOSE— AND LAND IN JAIL! cent Grand Jury American w GREAT FALLS, Mont, Ag I ‘ ied to leave Prince Rupert, B.C, | Great Falls today echoed back t by t Kiser count ONE BY THE DOCTOR Wednesday more ¥ Or wee jnow sw » ‘ 5) found “Doctor, Mra. Reilly wants to fs prove. tm the region, Rs wee |*trameup.” Senator B. K, Wheele } ‘ Mg np angle pene tag to & . ea | | indicted by a federal ¢ F ‘ Mf Star “ sting two 4 y repairs were made to a ay on & * € ¢ 2 : 7 “gag Martin's flagship, the Seattle, | ng fees from oll interest ; . ; ' Bd teed oad jt the sbip and engine works at} | after he had become a United States —— a . spert a Douglas | | senator, 1 lottm of clroumstances SEN ae ‘Prince Rup Boe By nig | senator, 1s a victim of ctroumsta lerviser: was reported A | and is in no way at fault, Gc n gond lap of * : Ral | bell, geologist and oll cperator, i er Sitka, 300 miles red today | ce Rupert | Campbell was indicted at the same j ‘The flyers will reach American} | time on @ charge of using the mails | ge again 40 miles north of Prince} to defraud. He was also alieged to Rupert, when they reach Prince of jheve at two different times given Wales island. They will follow the Gnaide route over the islands, days and inlets and reach Sitka, Emer. | gency landings can be made at} j | ] Wheeler a total of $4,000 | tor Wheeler $4,000 or any to secure vileges in government permits: “any atement that I paid Sena other sum Ketchikan, Tongass Narrows, Metla-| jof money to sooure government per hata or Annette {sland mits is abs ly fi nd base —— —— ~~ — Sitka is a provisioning and supply | leas,” he sald. He declared his deal Paso and If the flyers reach there| ings with Senator Wheeler have guceessfully their planes will be! been “legitimate, open end at . thoroly inspected and repaired before «| board.” the next hop to Cordova, Alaska, | His statements were similar to YS a ] e a a O § a | the made in Washington, D. C, by i RK ON | Senator Wheeler, chief "prosecutor’’ for the senate Daugherty investi RUSH Wo gating committee, In denying that the bd e.@ | r had ever accepted fees or } | connection with Camp 5 oll } | ttereets, Campbell tssued state — ment late last night after consulting Will Be Submitted This| Week, Says Smoot | with his attorney, in which he de red there was “nothing « kind or character that can in any Senator Burton K. Wheel- | manner reflect’ on Senator Wheeler:| or named in a Montana in- Charges brought against Senator| 6” P | Wheeler allege violating technically|@ictment, charging the tech- 113 of the penal code, It pro-| nical violation of the law in|]| hibits senators, congressmen or rest-| accepting fees from oil inter-|}} dent commissioners from accepting] oot, He maintains that the | - fees or compensation for any services | , ; |rendered for persons tn connection | case is a republican frameup. NEW YORK, April %—Harlan with contracts or business with the F finance committee will take up the | onus tomorrow. He expects to re- | ts & leading lawyer, inspiring educe-| FINE AND PRISON F port it to the senate Friday and] |tor, apt fisherman, chummy father, | PENALTY PROVIDED | B get it up next Tuesday or Wednes-} fevoted husband—but best of all—| The law provides a fine of not ? | he finest son-inlaw in ell the| more than $10,000 and tmprisonment ’ Px, Indications were that pro-| | world.’* ot net more than two years on con- | gressives believe they have a better! So mys Mra. EB. N. viotion. | ‘chance to wield their balance et Johnson Behind 15,000 in} motneriniaw, who has Several. other olf operators beside| into the ofl scandal and Daugherty | : on the senate floor by com- |him for 18 years. Campbell were also dicted, including | tnvestigat y : Petes ‘cc cecasor aris thanj NOOMplete Returns pee ee eat time" she sayy, “11 Cn ne stevenson CN including |tnvestigations, Today I find myselt jhoff and 1. D, Dailey | iby attempting to put over any rate) BY PAUL R. MALLON (nites Press Staft Correspondent) WASHINGTUN, April 9.— The © goldier bonus bill w be reported to the senate this week and prob. pbly will get the right of way over tax reduction, Senator Sm indi- ated today. Smoot announced the 400 Women’s Percale Aprons, 49c Harlan Fiske Stone 600 Pairs of Women’s Stockings, 25c rs HERE’S MORE ABOUT WHEELER STARTS ON PAGE 1 Harvey, his lived with 600 Pairs of Women’s Stockings, 50c | mever have heard him utter a cross 4 | “The foreman of the grand fury | 7 were LINCOLN, Neb. April ®—Pre 4 | Bebedule of their own. + ene word or seen anything but @ smile.| charged with using the mails to de-| rs A The record of the executive hear-|dent Calvin Coolidge was leadin; “Some may Joke about the mother | traud. j Was one of my most bitter political of the committee on taxes will| Senator Hiram Johnson by 15,567 |tn.taw, but Harlan jokes with her. opponents, | Campbell and Stevenson were Joint | |@iscoverers of the Sunburst-Kelvin | ,, }oll fields in Montana. | These were the fields tn which -T.|* |S. Hogan attempted to interest Sen. | jator T. J, Walsh, B. L. Doheny and others for rompective development. | ‘The caso has caused tremendous! excitement here, and everyone was | Butto bewep, “The United States district attor. came tO Washington recently 4 urged me to have him appointed |}! federal distri age, 1 told him| fi that my Influence would welght with tho administra! Recently, Wheeler raid, citizens of Ined of the conduct of j fa Ist of the companies in| Votes in $65 precincts out of 1,936 In| Mrs. Harvey has known Stone Secretary of the Treasury | the Nebraska presidential primary of] since he was four months old. His [Mellon wes financially ipterested| Yesterday. The vote Im 865 precincts family and hers were neighbors in ) when it ls made public. | Feported was: | Chesterfield, NH. Both were farm. D> It was learned today that Mellon} Coolidge, 3 Johnson, 23,216. | ing folks, gave the committes a complete list| Senator Joo W. Norris, progres | “Quite naturally, Harlan and my lot his business connections at the sive republican, Gaughter, Agnes, a few years his was assured of re-| . ‘tlma he took office. nomination with vote of more than | Juslor, grew up together,"’ the beam. 900 Pairs of Children’s Stockings, 25c¢ 100 Women’s Small-Size Dresses in | The committee voted to include|two to one over his nearest opponent, | '9F_mother-in ergflnane doe waiting with Interset for the ‘ar.|the district attorney in office and ‘them in the record ‘The vote in 934 precincts stood: Nor| ean ax vant eothearts and 1) rest’ of the Junior senator of Mon. jasked to have him removed. . . ig j ris, 38,217; Charies H. Sloan, 17,538; area ‘ - | tana. | Wheeler sald when he first began F b 5 00 Fred W. Johnson, 8,410. | Young Stone went to Amberst,| “District Attorney John L, Sia! ry | the investigation of Attorney General Wt a Tvs, . BROWN WORRIES, bscending \t Naval Officer! Admits Identity | } MARE ISLAND NAVY YARD, “Cat, April 9—"“All I'm worrying} it is the kids,” was the main com- made today by Lieutenant Er. | R. Brown, navy pay corps of. | accused of abscoMing with of navy funds. was brought to the navy hosp!- for observation late yesterday, At- ints admitted they still were | tful as to his exact mental con- At times he appeared sane at other times seemed to be un-| *T haven't anything I can tell you,” | Once told an officer who was ques ing him. “But I hope the wife/ come up here. She ought to ly down in Los Angeles and take of the kids. They are the ones Worry about.” Then he guardedly | ted that he was Lieutenant own, but declared he had no mem- of having done anything out of pf Brown will be kept here for 10 days “under observation. Gas Fills Room; _ Man’s Body Found ~ Found dead in a gas-filled room of _S Tapanese lodging house at 710 Olive| at, an unidentified man, about 65 Years of age, was in the county Morgue Wednesday, while the coro- _ Ber was trying to identity him. The Tuesday night by I.| body was found ‘Kagam!, the hotel owner, who said | _ the did not know the man's name, altho the old fellow had lived there about three years. Whether {t is a ‘ease of suicide or accidental death | has not been determined. | A close race developed between A. N. Mathers and Adam McMullen for the republican nomination for gov: | ported. The vote was: McMullen, 13,463; Mathers, 11,888, But few democratic voters wrote tn gy * | ine iT] $9 Jernor.. McMullen had. lead of lem) hait exploits | x | than 2,000 votes in 626 precincts re | Rat it was not primarily ax an ath-| Agnes went to Vermont academy.| aig he didn't Still they kept close track of each Wheeler “can't be arrested, like any: other and their romance grew | body else."* : Proudly the girl heart of his foots! He became her hero. see why Senator) HERE’S MORE ABOUT LOW WATER || lete that Stone scholar, | He won a Phi Beta Kappa key and shone, but as a Daugherty reports came to him from Montana that the Burns detective agency and others were investigat- ing him, He was informed, he sald, that an alleged connection “between my- self and Gordon Campbell was be-| ing especially investigated.” 50 Attractive Trimmed Hats, $4.49 thelr choice for presidential nominee. | came on to New York to study law| William G. McAdoo received the at Columbia. largest number of voluntary votes. | In 1898 he was graduated and ad.| Governor Bryan apparently ts re-{ mitted to practice, “Just as soon v2 j attorney general a few minutes after | |ing. He joined the law offices of Sul- But he did not give up his ace-| Shows President Leading nominated by a two to one vote over | #5 I was able to make a living I went | arriving home to tell his wife and jand the young barrister proceeded td/ T0 COOLIDE | ivan & Cromwell and became an ex- demic work. His past scholarship STARTS ON PAGE 1 steam will have to be increased, at an additional outlay for fuel | oll, Ross declared that he ex- pects current from the Skagit by the middle of June, altho City Engineer J. D. Blackwell | and Skagit Engineer Cari F. | Uhden have both promised that the plant will be completed and in operation by the middie of May. Each day of delay in completion | of the Skagit now costa the city! | between $500 and $1,000, tn addition | |to the other costs. The Gorge plant was promised by the first of January of this| year, by Uhden and other city of- fictais, last summer, The city blames tho delay upon R. C. Storrte| Charles Graft. back home and married,"’ ‘said the mother-in-law of his appointment, | make a name for himself {n his call- n | pert in litigation. Incomplete Illinois Count) lwon him an appotntment an tn | structor in the achool where he had |been a student but a year before. CHICAGO, April 9. — President) In 1905 be became a professor and Coolldge's majority fn the Iilfnols! tive years later denn, a position he presidential preference race with! held until last fall, when ho resigned Senator Hiram Johnson grew today | to devote more of his time to private with more complete returns from! practice. |& Co., contractors digging the tun-| | Romination, McCormick {8 gradually | George Brennan, democratic boss of | | Albert 1. |Tuesday’s election, with a majority down state. | The count tn 8,044 precincts out ot} a total of 6,668 gave: Coolldge, 238,972;"Johnson, 212,422.| In the contest between Chariles 3.| Deneen and Senator Medill MeCor-| mick for'the republican senatorial cutting down the Cook county lead given Deneen. The count showed: Deneen, 191,597; McCormick, 180,- 321, Gov, Len Small maintained a lead) of approximately 50,000 over Furlow Essingtop in the race for the repubil- can nomination for governor. The count of 3,301 precincts gives: Small, 303,030; Essington, 258,858. It may take the official count to! determine the republican senatorial nominatjo: w McAdoo, overwhelmed in in 92 precincts democrat, was} his fight with) Milinots, for the delegation to the na- tonal democratic convention, returns show. McA4oo’s manager still hopes to secure 10 or 15 delegates in the southern section. President Leading in Michigan Count} DETROIT, Mich., April 9-—Preal- dent Coolidge’s majority over Senator Hiram Johnson {n Michigan's prest- | dential primary Tuesday Drobably | will total 120,000, returns from the accumulating precincts indicated to- day. Henry Ford slowly, increased his| margin over Senator W. N. Ferris, | later returns failing to show any trend against the automobile manu- facturer, Totals from 2,349 out of 2,894 pre- cincts’ gave: Coolidge, 191,627; John- son, $9,139, In the democratia pri- mary, 2,296 precincts gave: Ford, 35,- 572; Ferris, 22,269, G. O. P. Elects New Kansas City Mayor KANSAS CITY, Mo. April 9.— Beach, republican, was elected mayor of Kansas City in ot 4,194 over Frank H. Cromwell, democratic incumbent. The vote: HE IS PAL TO | HIS TWO SONS All these years he never let_his work interfere with his family rela | ns. He was the pal of his two sons, Marshall, now 21, and Lauson, | 19. And his greatest thrill always comes with thelr achlevements. Marshall became an expert in mathematics and was graduated from Harvard at 19, became an instructor | at 20, and expects to get his Ph. D. this year. Lauson fs m Harvard junior. He hopes to follow his father’s calling. “The boys and father make a great trio,’ says Mrs. Harvey, ‘‘when they get together and discuss things.’ For Dean Stone, as he's still called around Columbia, fundamentally 1s a scholar, Ho does not like golf, mo- toring and other diversions of the usual prpfessional man. His favorite outdoor sport 1s fish-| ing. His favorite indoor sport is} reading? Neither he nor his boys smoke, but | they ralse some smoke with their dis-| cussions. « When they aoh‘t spend summers} traveling abroad, they spend them on Isle Au Haut, Maine. But this sum-| mer Pa Stone probably will have to stay in Washington, for the job be- fore him will be the hardest he ever tackled. It will require all his skill as schol- ar, litigator and fisherman. Mrs. Stone may not be able to help her husband with his monotonous task. She has been in ill health the past fow. weeks. But Stone, under tension, fights hardest, of his strong, square chin indicates. . Officers Say He Carried Yenshee Lou Pung, said to be related to the well known Pungs of Mah Jongg fame, was arrested early Wednesday morning at 719% King st. by fed- eral narcotic officers. Hoe waa charged with the posseasion of a quantity of yenshee, Farm Implement , Maker Suicides PORTLAND, April 9--Henry W,. Mitchell, 69, preaident and general nel at the Gorge, and thelr contract provided for completion of the tun- nol last September. PENALTY CLAUSE HAS NOT BEEN ENFORCED | A penalty clause, attached to the contract, provides $500 damages for each day of delay after that date. | City officials have not yet decided whether or not to enforce this clause. “Just ag soon as the Skagit is in eperation, we can take the load off the steam plant, which ig costing us so heavily in fuel oll,” Ross sald, “I expect to visit the Skagit soon and make an Inspection of the work to determine as nearly as I can when the plant will be com- pleted, In the meantime woe will continue to use the water in the lake on the theory that the Skagit plant will) be finished in time to relieve the load now carried by Cedar Falls, which is producing 2,600 kilo- watts. | “The, city cannot afford to en-} danger ite water supply to co-oper- ato with the hydro-electric plant at Cedar Falla” Ross said that California cities are faced by a serious water short-| ago and have been forced, accord-| ing to reports, to suspend opera-| tion of their hydro-electric plants) two days each week, Movie Companies in Huge Merger! | NEW YORK, April 9.—Negotla-| tions will be completed here today for a gigantic merger of moving p! ture companies, which will make Marcus Loewe, preaident of Loewo's, Inc. and Metro Pictures Corpora- tion, the greatest film magnate In the world. Loewe will take over the Goldwyn Distributing Corporation and the Louls B. Mayer Productions, Ine., but these corporations will preserve thelr identities and continue opera tions subordinate to Metro, Goldwyn probably will merge with Metro into one large distributing corporation, Metro and Mayer stu- dios, at Hollywood, will be disman- tied, {t is reported, and future pro. ductions made at Culver City, at tho Goldwyn lot. manager of Mitchell, Lewis & Stayer Beach, 66,446; Cromwell, 61,662. Kian influence was generally credited with being an important factor in Beach's victory. Co., implement and automobile house, committed sulelde at his home lato last night, Prolonged, illness was given as tho cduse. Tho natural way of restoring your complexion is with herbs. Herb Medi- eine Co, Denny Bldg, Opp, Bon Marche,—Advertisement. Campbell was named as @ party to the alleged conspiracy in the grand jury indictment. | "I want to tell you exactly what my relations with Campbell were,” ho said, “This tndictment against me is a part of one of the most damnable conspiracies ¢ver started in the United States.” Former Congressman Stout of Montana, Wheeler said, told him in Butte before he came to Washing-| ton, that Gordon Campbell was be- ing robbed by the oll companies, Wheeler, chief prosecutor of the Daugherty committee, was indicted Inte yesterday by a federal grand jury at Great Falls, Mont., on a charge of illegally accepting a fee fn connection with ofl land cases for the Gordon Campbell interests since be became a member of the senate. | Wheeler was full of fight today us} he prepared to go back to Montana to demand an early trial. Ho de-| cided this was the best thing to do after a long conference last night with Senator Walsh, his colleague, and other democratic leaders. Meantime, bond for Wheeler's ap-| pear fn court is to be arranged | by wire today. ‘The senate committer, in a brief] executive seasion this morning, de-|f! clded to push its inquiry. Senator| Brookheart, tho chairman, drew} cheers from a, crowd of spectators when ho announced at the end of the executive session that “the investiga- tion will proceed with a force and de- termination that It never had before, EX-GOP TO FACE BOOZE CHARGE. Worsham to Have Hearing Before Commissioner® W. E. Worsham, former Seattle policeman, under charge of liquor |}| law violations, wag to have a pre-|{| Iminary hearing before United | States Commissioner H, 8. Filtott | Wednesday afternoon. Tho hearing | was to have been held Wednesday | morning, but was pstponed at the! request of Worsham's attorney. Worsham, together with C. ©. Conyerso and R. E. Delancy, bar. tenders, was arrested February 23, following a raid by federal prohibi- tion officers on a soft drink bar at | 800 Pike st, of which he was the| ‘oprietor. He was charged with! possession and sale of liquor, and released under $5,750 bonds Worsham was an Invostigator for | Mayor Brown fn the death of Pa trolman Charles ©. Legate, Inst year, He was dismissed trom the| force April 6, 1922, after which he} carried on an unsuccessful fight in the courts for reinstatement, which finally terminated against him last February LOB ANGELES, Cal, April 9.— Not ono tangible clew which might lead to the apprehension of the mur. dorer of Mrs. Vera Stone, pretty po- Itceman’s widow, has been discov, ered, according to Assistant Captain of Detectives Longuevan. Officers admit they are nearly agreed tho crime will take Its place among the unsolved tragedies. 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