The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 11, 1924, Page 1

- ‘Doc Brown Promises Reform What’s This Boy Worth: | ‘His Mother Says Ten Million! ThesS Seattle Star ewspaper With the Biggest Circulation in W ashington SE ATTLE E, WASH,, The VOL. 26. NO. 41. Home Brew Howdy, folks! We don't care how the spring suits are going te be cut this year. We're tn terested in how the prices will be cut, Li'l Gee Gee says the best way to bell an egg ts to fry It. eee 08 Silas Grump is @ very cov- tious man. He carries his plug to. dacce on his key ring. . The roars of wild animals in a New York menagerie were broad. casted by station WJZ last night, according to the newspapers. Gosh, we thought it was Mayor ft 8 “Automobile Driven by Student Breaks Ankle.”—Headline. They ought to make these auto inkles stronger, comments C.! Gon.: os The descdall fan of heaven dreamed, -Up week for the poll oe The maid was certainly neat, Just to see her was really a treat; Her cyes fairly shone, | And her hair was her own— | We know it because we saw the re- ceipt. . A statesman is a man who can wear a silk hat and frock coat with- out looking as tho he were going to & wedding. o- ‘What has become of the old-fash- foned man who used to put his spec- tacles in the Bible and not find them again for three months? ee Sign om the Back hed = Fora: HELD TOGETHER BY Bi In tha spring a young man’s fancy LOVE tagtord Herald. lightly turns to a seat in the bleach- era. *—-) A Ddlot of ink makes millions think When written out on paper; But blotted on the table-spread It makes the good wife caper, see The new revenue tax on auto ac- cessories includes a flat tire tax of 6 per cent. Why tax flat tires! see | Little Homer Brew, Jr—Mamma, | is hiser going to motor? Mrs. Brew—No, my dear. | is going to fuss and fume. eee The pony ballet is no longer popu- lar, but a lot of musical shows still ave a Percheron leading lady and a Gig: storie. OLD SILAS Gru MP, THE SAGE | OF PUMPKIN HOLLOW, SAYS: There’s only three or four gits & great deal o' mail at th’ Pumpkin Hollow postoffus, an’ th’ inference is that they're on some sucker list. Father |“ . ““who was the best man at the wedding?” don't know. They didn't fight."’ eae “there ‘eas a young maid who sald} why Can't I look in my car with my) | ever rr] If give my mind to 4, | I'm sure I can do it; You never can tell till you try.” * cee Epithet—What ts applied to a man before he is dead, Epitaph--What man afterwards, see | NIGHTIE NIGHT! A | i 1s applied to a J, 8, FRIDAY, APRIL 1 1924 * AUTOS KIL Bride Crushed in Auto Accident Also Succumbs While OF DIES JURY Husband Is Held in Jail; Coroner Is Holding Inquests in Cases With two more women suc- cumbing to injuries growing out of automobile accidents, the total deaths from such| occurrences in Seattle since January 1 reached nine Fri day. The deaths due to gun- shots in the same period are 17. WOMAN IS HELD FOR SLAYING Is Unmoved Aft After Shooting | Down Landlady at Portland PORTLAND, Ore, April 11— Nora Hollis, author-slayer, who yes- terday killed her landlady, today remained firm in her faith that ond “Living God is Sata Undismayed by the consequences of her deed, she arose this morning and ate breakfast hurriedly, willing | and anxious to be at work at her| “publicity scheme.” ‘The slayer’s brother, Arthur Hol Ms, of Olympia, Wash., who arrived during the night, went to the jail early today and sought to arrange | matters for her defense. She admitted she shot Mrs. Eva! | Bradley, her friend and companion, | |n0 that people would read her ro- |ligious views, contained in her book. HERE IS A BARGAIN in a standard automobile that can be bought for small pay- ment down, and regular monthly payments: 20 BUICK TOURING $545 Thin ia the popular little light six 6b-passenger touring; has heavy steel spring bum motometer, automatic rain swipe, newly painted, and al- most new top, spotlight, ete. This one won't Iast long, so don't delay. Kasy terms, The Want Ad columns will tell you where this cnr ts located. Death Friday had claimed the lives of two Seattle women who were victims of auto accidents cartier In the week. One was injared when she was crushed under an overturned automobile, while the other succumbed to in- Juries received when a rock, dis- lodged by a runaway car, rolied down @ bank and struck her on the head. Mrs. Anna Wardrip, of D. V. Wardrip, 25, of 1513% W. | Dravus at. died in the ctty hospital | at 140 a.m. Friday. She was in jured when her husband's automo- | | bile turned over near Fort Lawton | | early Wednesday morning. | Miss Ellen Munson, De La Mar! j apartments, victim of a freak acci-| | dent when a boulder, dislodged by | an automobile, rolled down an em | jbankment and hit her at First ave. | |and Roy st, Wednesday night, died | in the Seattle General hospital at | [10:29 Thursday night from a frac-| tured skull | The accident In which Mra. Ward. rip was hurt occurred after a dance while the husband and wife were re-| turning home. Wardrip had been | drinking, the police say, and a bottle | of wine was found in the demolished Jauto. Mrs. Wardrip's akull was frac |tured. Wardrip himself has been | held in the city jail on an Scone | charge since the accident. Miss Munson wag descending a flight of steps at the bottom of the | embankment on her way to a church | |servico when an automobile, parked | ‘on top, ran away and struck a big |stone, which was dislodged and fell | jon the girl's head. The auto had} lheen lett at the cirb by Mrs. Fred | | | | 20, the bride | Baxter, 1104 First ave. N., who was erty, brother of the former attorney |!s waiting in enthusiastic anticipa- | hospital. | preparing to go to the same service. ‘ALLIES AGGEPT DAWES PLAN Sudden Action | Is Taken on| German Reparation Program | } tee PARIS, April 11—The reparations ommission today accepted the Dawes report of the committeo, of experts and recommended its ac-| |ceptance by the allied governments, } provided Germany agrees to its | terms. | Action! of the reparations commis. | sion upon the report came today! |with unexpected suddenness after | the various members had reported on the attitude of thelr governments. Louls Barthou, French member Jand president of the commission, an- |nounced France's acceptance, after talking with Premier Poincare this morning. Sir John Bradbury, British mem- \ber, informed his colleagues that | Ramsay MacDonald and the British labor cabinet had approved the plan. | ‘The Belgian and Italian members }fell into line and shortly after 6 o'clock this afternoon acceptance of the proposals was announced with the provision that Germany must ac- copt them as a whole, ‘The United States also. will be given an opportunity to study the experts’ findings, altho the part played In its production by the lo ‘Mah Jongg Sets Take Big Spill | public, = | ington. “Pung! Chow! a Longshoremen at Pier 41 | held a thanksgiving meeting | Friday, raising suitable sho- sannas that they had not fallen for the temptations of Jonge Fourteen Chinese boys aboard the President Madison, of the Admiral Oriental line, at the same time were doing their best traditional Or mab . } to preserve the lental calm—and not succeed ing very well All this was because « sling. transferring cargo from the liner. to the dock, broke 40 feet in the air and dumped 2,000 mah jonggt sets to smithereens Thursday, The boxes broke and the tiles scattered for yards | around. The Jongshoremen shoveled them up. It was the idea of D. J. Hanscom, of the line, that the | longsboremen might be em- | ployed in sorting out the tiles | This plot, however, failed when it became known that the av- erage longshoreman doesn't | know the four characters from the east wind. | $0 the 14 calmest-looking Chi- nese on the liner were as- sembled and told, {f you want | to be slangy, that they were “it.” Sunday morning they will start reassembling the tiles. The liner brought 200 tons of game sets for shipment to New York. U. S. Peacemaker for Revolution | WASHINGTON,, April 11.—The United States has assumed the role of mediator to end revolutions in Honduras, it was learned at the state! department today Acting on the request of Central) Américan powers, the jovernment ordered Sumner Welles, American commissioner to the Dominican re to proceed immediately to} Tegucigalpa to act as mediator. |Senators May See Daugherty at Home} WASHINGTON COURTHOUSE, O., | April 11-—-Senators Brookhart and Wheeler, delegated to examine the | books of the Midland National bank | here, of which Malcolm §. Daugh-/ general, is president, arrived here | this morning. ‘They proposed also | to take testimony from Harry} Daugherty, retired United States at-| torney general, who refused to an- swer a subpoena to come to Wash. |Hold’er B. the | Former Congressman Humphrey, speaking Young Men's Re: publican club Thrusday, cut loose with theg best light fiction of the season. > While some smiled aa and some «aped in open mouthed astonishment, Bill made the follow. ing declarations; 1—That the Teapot Dome leases were entered into in fear of aseri- ously threatened war with Japan. 2—That there was existent at the time (spring of 1921) a secret treaty between Japan and England, well known in Washington, 3—That the American navy was quietly moved from the Atlantic to | the Pacific coast, 4—That the question immediately arone, where to find the ofl for the nayal of! burners, and there was not Americans, General Dawes, Owen D, Young and Harry Robinson, was un- official. a barrel of oll to be had by the navy west of San Francisco, $—That Hawai was the logical | TWO CENTS IN ; tion She’s a Rearin! will before | with Doheny Edition SEATTI 4 PLANES — DELAY AT SI Brewing Storm Is Holding Up Next : Jump of World) Flight Airmen BITKA, Al ea “Apa 1.—Unfa Vorable weather today, which in- cluded e¥idences of an approaching | storm, caubed Maj. Frederick L. Mar- | tin, commanding the American round-the-world airplane flight, to express doubt early today as to| whether it would be possible to hop oft this morning for Cordova, Alaska Cordova is the next stop north of Sitka, The planes arrived at Sitka yesterday afternoon at 12:43, Sitka | time “It raining when we left Princo Rupert yesterday morning,” | Major Martin told the United Press. “The rain continued until we/ reached Baronoff island “Lieutenant Smith led the forma. The visibility wan exceedingly Door and the going was tough. The ships were forced to fly near the water and many times the leading | ship was not visible to the last ship in the pointed formation. “We found Sitka a lovely harbor, was | surrounded with snow-capped moun- tains, and landing conditions were excellent “It was the first flight of the trip thus far in which all been able to land toget The planes were ready for the filght to Cordova to day, but unfavorable weather made itéprobable that they would be de- layed here another day or two. Cor. dova lies approximately 475 miles jfrom Sitka, her.” assed” and Japan Prepares to Greet World Flyers! BY MOTO TAKATA (United Press Btaft Correspondent) OSAKA, Japan, April 11 tion for the arrival in imperial waters of the four United States army planes attempting a flight Jaround the world. Army and navy officers, muni. elpal and prefectural authorities and __{Turn to Page 6, Column 6) Ball, mid-Pacific tected. 6—That the contract entered into nayal base to be pro was the result of secret bidding; that open bidding of petroleum com: panies was protested against by the secretaries of war and navy, for fear of the international menace and complications, 7—That five of the leading oil companies did bid, competitively, and that Doheny and Sinclair were the lowest. 8—That the federal government, by virtue of the Doheny and sin clair bids, is now recelving ofl for Hawall at 41 cents a barrel less than the market price for the same, and that tho federal government has been saved not less than $3: 000,000 in the cost of the ofl that has alrendy been purchased under the Doheny-Sinclair contracta Humphrey said that he had been surprised that no newspapers in America had yet printed the facts he disclosed. Bo are we, Bul, |who died in Butte ships have | and Sinclair interests | Because her son, Alfred, died in Butte while he was guarding rich mining property during the war, Mrs. Ida Hoiby, his mother, is asking the government to make She says that her boy, student at Broadway high mine owners pay her $10,000, to her, and that, while he was jand later at the university, was worth | forced to aid the mine owners make their millions, she lost ev: —Photos by Frank Jacobe, Btar Staff Photographer eee l BY i MARSHALL tS. IDA HOIBY, a war moth who in an apartment house at 1909 Minor ave, asked the United Strtea government for $10, 000,000 today. She maid that her boy, | while on | lives yard | over the mines during the war, w aa | |worth much more than that.* From his earliest years, Mrs. Holby worked and planned for her| future. She waa confident ch and powerful hat he would be rt that he would provide her, in her ad t ancing years with comfort el jand reasonable luxuries. All her and plans were centered hopes {mee Luke, on this. |. That her boy should become preni- |dent tn his later years was not below | |the bortzon of her thoughts. . |FIXHIEN the war came and took the boy. If he had died on the bat |tlefield tt might have been different; Jeasier to tear. But he died guard. |ing private property, the owners of | | which made millions from the war. Becnuse her loss, proportionally, was far greater than the mine owners’ gain, Mrs. Holby thinks they should | jpay her the millions she asks—the| |millions' she is confident her boy | Would have accumulated had he lived If mothers generally suceeed in |forcing adoption of Mrs. Hoiby's theory, wars, of course, would end They would become | |too expensive. First Mra. Holby went to Seattle attorneys with her claim. fused, she to take Then she went to District Thomas P. Revelle. Att He told her he could not take a claim against the ney government. So she wrote to the adjutant general of the army, at) Washington, D. C., filing her claim |for the $10,000,000, | UNDREDS of Seattle men knew Alfred Holby, son of sturdy Nor- wegian-American parents. He went to the Cascade school, graduating at | 18 to Broadway high. From there| he graduated at 17 and went to the| university, taking a general course. | The United States declared war on | April 6, and a day or two inter Al- fred enlisted in the Seventh com-| | pany of the Coast Artillery corps. He later went to Fort Worden, and was promoted corporal. In September his | company was sent to guard the mines at Butte, Alfred caught cold thru eee | JQARLY In December Mrs. Holby | was summoned to Butte by a |telegram, She arrived to find her| boy had been operated on, but could | not discover why. The lad died a few hours after her arrival, His body was brought back and buried| in Lakeview cemetery. “They said he died from a cold Holby, wiping tearful eyes, “Why would they operate for a cold? | Since Fred died he has come to me | in spirit and said: ‘Mother, they| killed me!’ He said that he was ac- cused of something he didn't do, I believe he was shot—but they hid It from me.” | TAR six years Mrs. Hoiby has been | trying to get the government to! ept her theory, but without suc:| But Um going to keep trying," she said, “My boy and I planned wonderful things together—trips to | Honolulu, an automobile and serv- ants for me I worked and planned for him for 20 years. ‘Then he died while he was guarding mines from which the owners made mil. lions during the war. Why shouldn't they give me a few of those millions? “When a government takes boys from their mothers and sets them to guarding property, so that the own. ers can become rich thru the trag- ody of war, the government ought to {make those rich men compensate mothers if thelr boys are killed. “Ten million dollars?) Why, that's nothing. My boy was worth untold millions to me.”" Greck chronology was reckoned in | contemplated for some weeks. cycles of four years, corresponding with the periodic Olymple games, held on the plain of Olympia, 000. “untold millions” erything in his death. “SEATTLE TO GO STRAIGHT FROM NOW ON” ATTLE is going to mend Seattle is going straight from now on. Seattle, weary of headaches a new leaf, From now on there will be a general “tightening up.” Liquor will not be so plentiful. Promiscuous bootlegging will be eliminated. re Petty police graft, admittedly widespread thru the de- | partment, will be wiped out. These are promises made Friday by Mayor Brown. : “IT would much prefer to act first and talk about it after- ward, but since you have asked me, I am going to tell you,” the mayor said to The Star. “I am well aware of the fact that some folks will not take this warning seriously. It doesn't make much dif- ference to me whether they do or not, but I promise you here and now they will know we mean business before we are thru. I've been fooled a lot. But T’ve learned a lot, too. Things have been revealed to me during the past few days that I never believed existed before, I'm go- ing to admit that the police de- partment has been in deplor- able shape. i'm going to make no secret of the fact that men on *whom I have relied have double- crossed me and lied. I'm going to admit that they're a tough lot, but I'm also going to remind some of these tough boys that while I'm 60 years old I still have all my teeth and I’m going to use them plenty. Asked if he referred to Chief Sey- | eryns as one of those who had disap- pointed him, the mayor hastened to reply that he had implicit confidence in Severyns’ integrity; that he be- lieved Severyns had profited by his experience and that he wants to see —Japan | lack of proper shelter and went to a| Severyns make good and will keep | him on the job. DISAPPONITED IN HARRY O'BRIEN “It isn’t Billy Severyns who is the thorn in my side," the mayor said. “I've had a right to expect more from Harry O'Brien as inspector than I ever got in the way of police discipline. Harry hasn’t been a well man and he is in no shape to come back to his job as inspector. If he’s able to come back at all he will come back as a captain in some outlying district where he can sit down and take things easy. “Bill Severyns has had the entire load to carry. He's had to do his work and hold down the inspector's job at the same time.”’ Asked how he expected to accom. plish the reformation he promises Brown said it would come about largely thru a general shake-up as “It will really be more than a shake-up,” hoe said, .“It will be a system that will keep men on their beats only a short time be- fore they are switched. No pa- trolman will have an opportunity to get so well acquainted with his beat that those on it think they can buy him for $10 a month, or whatever the price is, “There will be several of those boys around ‘every month on the same beat. If the man who makes gtafters out of policemen by offering them money wants to buy the entire department to get protection he'll Just about have that opportunity because he'll look into a new face every few days and it will cost him plenty before he gets thru tak- ing care of everybody. “T know T can't expect to stop pollen grafting entirely. ‘t's a growth, brought on by a. eyntem its way. iy and remorse, has turned over — built up over a long period of years. “Nearly every mayor Seattle ever had has gone out of office reproved and all but repudiated as a result of crooked citizens who have made crooked police- men out of our officers. “Tam not so bigoted as to think I can put a stop to it all, but cdl goelir teal ayses i that may surprise some folks. I know I can stop some of it. “I know I can’t stop all the liquor that is coming into this city, but I ean stop a lot of itand I'm going to. You walt and see, — “We're being criticized by a lot of folks about this state. Sometimes people stay so close to their jobs that they don't get the perspecive: they ought to. «I think maybe # have committed that error. “As a result of some work I ree cently had done outside of Seattle I have been acquainted with of the internal rotteness that ists in my own department, Chief Severyns and I believe we — have a way to get rid of 1 : The mayor refused. to specify just what “internal rotteness” he re- ferred to. It was unearthed in Vancouver, B. C., he sald. COOLIDGE HITS MELLON PROBE Tells Senate It Is Beyond Bounds of Legitimate Action — * WASHINGTON, April 11—The at- tack being made on Secretary Mel- lon’s administration of the treasury department In the senate investi tion of the bureau of internal reve- nue, “goes beyond any . . . legite imate requirement,” President, Cool= idge declared in a message to i senate today. The appointment of Francis Heney to act as prosecutor of the In+ vestigating committee at the expense of Senator Couzens, Michigan, was described by the presidént as being “In conflict with the spirit of the re. vised’ statutes and the act of March 3, 1917." p “Against the continuation of such 7 a condition,” the president declared, in dealing with methods of the sen ate in the investigation, “I enter my solemn protest and give notice that, in my opinion, the departments ought not to be required to participate init.” President Coolidge forwanied with: his message a letter from Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, In which the treasury head stated that, from the course followed by Senator Cor in the Investigation, “it is now | sole pu fs to some personal grievance against me,