The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 14, 1924, Page 1

Back Chapters of ‘The Beacon Hill Mystery” Free at The Star Office Mayor Tells O’Brien to “Toe Mark or Get Out” es Maximum, . 26. NO. 43 tome Brew Howdy, folks! Here it is Mon day again. Goody! Goody! It will soon be time for the f low who has been bu! peat during the wir discover that It Is get it out of th Dear Homer: How are frank em furters cooked? Does im hot water?—Young Bride Yes, by all means, boil them in hot water. So many try to bo them in cold water, which only, eaves them in a raw state rte. HOUSEHOLD HINTS Se many requests have been received for our recipe for mak- ing parsnip wine that we give it herewith: 1. Add the juice of one par. saip to a gallon of prussic acid. 2. Stir in three heaping table spoons of iron filings. 3. Clear with one ounce un diluted dog soap. 4. Drink while standing on the edge of an open grave, to save relatives the trouble of burying 7 4 “Your hair today,” says an a vertieement, “is # important your clothes.” Hub, if we tried to come down form with mo more clothing than amedave hair we'd land in ja YB DIARY (April 18) long : £ i i eH g et i A i *. E By e if fi taling to us. Bet they're trying to learn how ‘ie Washington crew race came vat. see fANDIDATES FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB Vaudeville violinists who al- ways play “Traumerei” for an encore, see With gentle spring have now ar- rived The days of rapture, when We shed our winter underwear. And put it on again! . . LIL GEE Gi VAMP, SEZ: all right, but it doesn’t cost a | | 1 1 | Love at first sight may be | | cent to take two or three looks. | LR Sea aT a © Last M4 Hours Today noon, action of the Ameri can house of representatives in passing the immigration law ex as involving to Japan ter of honor and international prestige,” Baron Sakatani, for- mer finance minister and leader public opinion, United Press today in an ex elusive interview. wares on the pebbl: ot § prominent leader, added that Japan American public |the problem.” Both expressed French scientist says Mars \s sig-|the passage of the bill | ant!Japanese {measure by the American house of representatives is a most regrettable friendship of “To the United the question involves only of Japanese immigrants, it is a matter of international prestige. SAYS AMERICANS INJURING FEELINGS ‘We wonder why America firmly bent on injuring the feeling: jof this people who have done not American suscepti: | ——_— ee Ore | | “We appeal to the wisdom and judgment of | people, the senate and American| ciate of McArthur, hurried to Cen [statesmen for a happy solution of | tratia and brought MoArthur back to ‘The TheS Botered as Second Class Matter May EAL DIES IN HEARD CRASH! Statesmen Declare Seattle Capitalist’s | Exclusion Hits Wife Is Killed,’ at Prestige and) Husband Is In-, Honor of Nation jured Mrs. Mary J. McArthur we Killed, her husband, Fd. Me Arthur, prominent Seattle capi talist and business man, and Mrs JK. Richardson of Tacoma were seriously injured in an auto crash on the Pacific highway near Scatter Creek, south of Centralia Sunday, McArthur was reported to be rest ing comfortably at the Swedish hos pital, here, Monday, with good chances to recover. He spent a rest ful night, hospital attendinta re ported Arthur and his wife were en ute to California, having left Sunday morning. Nes k, north of Tenino, he started to drive around a team in the roa en he saw another car, driven b J. K. Richardson of Tacoma, ap proaching from the opposite dire tion. Ho attempted to put P brakes, but the car skidded sideways on the wet pavement and the ardson car struck {t head on. Mrs. McArthur was thrown against the front door of the sedan, the fore of the blow knocking the door from ita hinges and permitting her body to fall to the pavement. Hor injuries were fatal, death coming a few hours later. McArthur suffered a dislocated right shoulder and injuries to the head and body, with possible internal injuries, Mra. Richardson was ser fousty Injured and taken to a Taco ma hospital C. Kirk Hillman, business asso _—-3¢ | the problem on which depends great-|senttie to the Swedish hospital. Wonder if the round-the-world fly. €rs will send postcards home saying, “Am having a fine time, wish you | jations, | SAYS AMERICANS JUSTICE-LOVING | “For over half a the |has done everything to culti night dark sty and | the ten rhe Thinkiney sare Taina | friendship of the American peopl om toward his home, of the cheerful fire | W!09° that would greet him and the smile ¢ was here.” see A DRAMA IN ONE ACT: THE HUSBAND'S REVENGE with which he would be met. ‘Tiptoring up the steps he saw his wife sitting in the room on another man’s lap. and sneered: “I hope it rains! tid of it. He worked it off on his wife. If CHAUCER EVER HIT A/ FOGGY DAY IN SEATTLE And whan they woke, ‘twas such @ smoky fogge, You could not see a hors, nor cke a dogge, in myhe; 4 man might wonder if his wt hee kyst; And 40 in greete confucion, fear and doubte Some kyste on faith and som they | did withoute, see No child ever 5 without thinking to improve the wallpaper, . the ranch, Hy Japan's honor and prestige and| jthe amity between nations.” jand capitalist. Mrs. McAthur Viscount Shibusawa dwelt on the| prominent in club and social cir | past record of Japanese-American re fustice-loving spirit + pended upon for guidance and fur therance of her national destiny, fail to understand why) agitation wins support | there he took out his knife and slit the in the house of representatives when | i Japan has done her honest best to prove herself faithful to the ‘gentle: Old Silas Grump, the sage of|men’s agreement’ in spite of agita-| Pumpkin Hollow, got stuck with a | tion. $5 confederate bill the other day, | but he finally succeeded in getting anti Japanese House Approves Johnson| Immigration Measure gets to the age of | he knows how American. Japit- house swiftly adopted the provisions, supporters of jthe bill serving. noleg that they | would insist on its retention should’ Brooklyn ave. (furn to Page 7, Column 2) | consequences" Gotta go home and irrigate oA. J, 8, McArthur is a well known realto’ jof the clty; chairman of the board of hostesses of the Y. W. C, A., and chairman of the finance department of the First Presbtyerian church here. The funeral will be held Wed. |nesday from the church, with Rev. | Mark A. Matthews presiding HOLD THREE AS DRUNK DRIVERS |Fourth Is Alleged Reckless | “We never dreamed of such a re-) | sult and we still trust in the fairness | of American public opinion to solve} the problem.” JAP EXCLUSION ~ BILL: PASSED For every thynge tas shrouded up| Auto Pilot Three men were under arrest | \trq Monday on charges of driving autos while intoxicated, and a faced a charge of reckleas driving |Jail and awoke today |after wrecking one car and run-|ther questioning, following her con-|I are not fit to bring up the bo; at she killed Dr, Benjamin |he cried, gazing dully at the gr 3aldwir, 40, and kept his body Jn-a| walls of his cell in the city’ jail. 36|have no money—his mother 4s not | |fit to have him, and-T don't know | Police detectives, confronted with | where the kid will land—but he's’ a |ning down a woman pedestrian, Don Ward, 21, student, was held in the elty jail on an open charge |trunk |Monday, following a collision be tween his automobile and another | ewspaper Wit! iggest Circula eattleS Law Has Sepa rather than abandon him. KILLED DOCTOR 14.—Firm | of self-defense, | Los ANGEL fourth {soundly thru the night in the city to face fur | him a good home. tion in Washington ta f Congress Ma: ATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1924 . 5. Ban Alarms Japan * “So Much Good in the Worst of Us” Foster-Father Was a Fugitive, but He Didn’t De ited Them Now, Leaving the Boy Alone Here's little 5-year-old Bobby, whose bandit foster-father fled Montana with the boy} probe by council members, but that Photo by Frank Jacobs, Star Statt Photographer | they would be placed on public rec: | BY G. LUCILLE BUTLER Perhaps that’s whly Verne Day, | year-old fugitive from Justice, in joumbered his flight from the state where his crime was committed with | Bobby. | But the arm of the law fs long. way to Mohtana, in charge of a dep. uty |for highway robbery. Broken and resigned to his fate, Day's one prevailing thoughts is for Bobby. Before he was taken away, I talked with Day. | “Bobby must be cared for—oh, ‘some honest people will only give machine at Broadway and Pike &t.,/one of the most startling crimes inj|fine little fellow and deserves a jafter which Ward's ‘ar skidded and |ran down Mrs. A. Hoffmier, 2 |Nob Hill ave., injuring her so se WASHINGTON, April 14—-In the|verely that she was taken to her | face of a warning that efforts of the |home and placed under the care of |attack me. United States to maintain the “open|a physician. door” and other American policies in| Far Kant might be set at naught,| night, and it was only after three house late Saturday wrote the| hours’ search by the police that | anese exclusion provision into | Ward was located at his home, 45 s immigration bill and then passed | 18th ave. N. E., and arrested. bill, 322 to 71. peals of Secretary of|Cowen declared that Ward, when and|they found him, at 3 a. m,, was still Patrolmen A, Ploree and G. under the influence of liquor, They alvo allege that the accident was | due to reckless driving on the part of Ward. Robert EH, Downs, 95, attorney, 46th ont. and wan arrosted at 7. at 4:30 a m, Sun (furn to Page 7 Column 1) |chance of Mrs, Willis changing her “T Killed him because he tried to |was her explanation. The accident happened at mid-| pyysiCIAN HAD ‘SIVE, PRACTICE Willis lives in a She is plain of face and portly of figure, a real Dr. Baldwin was a Boy an extensive prac morning, according to Mrs (Turn to Page 7, Column A) chance.” About 10 days ago Day arrived In 807 Allon pl, he asked hor to take care of the boy, paying one week's Jboard in advance. Once he called land wept over the baby, according |to Mrs. Wilcox, and then his visits ceased, The law had reached out. (Turn to Page 7, Column 6) |Prince Bonaparte i A Passes in Paris PARIS, April 14.—Prince Roland Bonaparte, grandson of Lucien Bona- poleon, died here today, Ho was a noted geographer, and a momber of Hiho Academy of Sciences. art Bobby. The tached to Carr in the traff! Rough Going in North UNDAY NIGHT sheriff, to faco a prison term| Jump From Sitka and Omit|recommendation on tho rates the} Landing at Cordova SEWARD, Alaska, April 14.—The Yay Wag arrested in Seattle a fow | ys ago, and Monday was on his| ARRIVE S| | World flyers were here today, ready | |to take off on the next leg of their | IN BANK BARED His mother and | ambitious effort to be the first to circle the globe in the air. Peary rt y | T way into the Seward harbor at 6:45 after completing a| Seattle. Presenting himself at the} baby boarding house of Mrs. Wilcox, | Britain’s Flyers Will Start Again CORFU, April 14.—Britain's round. | thoworld amphiblan plane will get back in the race Tuesday or Wednes: chief | of the British expedition, sald here | cluded in his home. ‘The new motor for the big plane, which has been here for a month, | $260,000; was paid $100,000 by a bond. parte, a brother of the great Na-| will arrive during the day, and willing company and made up the loss bo installed at once, McLaren said, Tho aviators will fly from here to HOME Til Beach Censor 49 for the strenuous job of decidin ether a bathing suit ts or is not “When you ge Carr, “your judgm as this is apt to be a bit elu tie. What we need is an inspector without fear or fa And we're gonna have one, too,” Alki beach is no place for a cop cond childhood, agcording rr and Sever Neither t the place for a good-looking elk in uniform. It's gotta be a real man to hold down that job— one who can wield the measuring tape with impartial hand—and eye. Sergt. Larsen was a spec for the Great Northern railr fo ining the force, and wai sion a year or more ago. He w born {n Denmark and ts of portly revue roof garde or morie vamps. He lays no claim to being & sheik and doesn’t ha violet. perfume. In fa oll or Picks Discreet OFFICER Cop as Bathing i gbiveer= Inspector Handed Ultimatum; Says He Will Aid in Mayor’s Cleanup © By John W. Nelson The return of Harry G. O’Brien to the inspectorship be |Of the Seattle police depart- at-/ment depends upon his will- ingness to co-operate in the reform campaign ordered by Mayor Brown, ‘the mayor an- en doesn't care for midnight nounced Monday. I will confer with Inspector Srien and obtain his views on t, according |the anti-vice ctusade," Brown sald, to Carr, there fs only one man in|“also as to his physical ability to the department who can qualify for job of inspecting the bathing jperform the arduous duties that | wults of Seattle's fairest daughters, |the reform movement will require GAA that eknohe Laraens {of our police inspector. If his 4 Larsen will begin his duties at|health and strength are equal to | | ae within a week or two. jthe task he must display a spirit . —_ |that O’Brien would not return to Engineers Have Not Yet the inspectorship of police. The . bellef was prevalent at that time Agreed to Be Investigators |inat ovprien would not return to Seattle. He caused a crisis in’ the The ordinance calling for a probe reform program of Mayor Brown of the Skagit was threatened with de- |by appearing in lay Monday when Councilman Philly late Saturday. California for the past six weeks, jan |for his. health meisco with the acceptance of |»pyy KEELING FINE,” Engineers Baum and Galloway, who|qBRIEN DECLARES “I feel better than I have at any time in the past five years,” O'Brien said Monday, SSY | perform the duties of inspector, and If |intend to stay on the job. During my absence many reports were cir- _ | culated, but now I am here tn person |to fight for my rights, and no one has ever accused me of being afraid.’ The mayor declared that he had’ \tatked with O'Brien, Sunday, but the conversation wus of a social nature rather than business. He reiterated |his announcement made in The Star Tindall at noon announced he not received a telegram from have been asked to aid City M, M. O’Shaunessy, of San F in making the investigation, “I expect to hear from O'Shaunessy before 2 p. m.,” Tindall said. |the: telegram is received confirming | |the employment of the other two en- | jgineers, the ordinance will be placed before the council for action.” Tindall declared that some oppost: |tlon may develop to the proposed | ingineer ‘ancisco, ord. It is also expected that delay tactics may be adopted by opposing | believes, will favor the ordinance. The ordinance provides for the appro: priation of $25,000, which sum, it is | believed, will pay all expenses of a/ horo investigation into the Skagit a report be made on the expenditure of eleven million dollars) thus far appropriated for the gorge unit; the appropriation for additional funds to build the high dam at the gorge and Jat the Ruby site, and also for a} city should charge for power. $600,000 LOSS | in Kansas City House | —John M. Moore, leading banker of Kansas City, was today found $600,000 short In his accounts with the Fidelity National Bank Announcement of the short- age was made by Henry ©, Flow- er, chairman of the board of di- rectors, Moore was president of the bank and head of the Kansas*City Clear. ing House association, He left his office, Friday, due to illness, and did not return. He was reported se- securities belonging to Moore worth of $260,000 from its surplus, The bank is absolutely sound," Flower sald, \of harmony and co-operation with |the program, or some other man | will fill the inspector’s job,” | O'Brien Monday declared he was | willing to co-operate with the mayor SKAGIT PROBE *:::< =: Mayor Brown, in an interview joa The Star last Friday, snid attle will be pushed with the utmost | W 0 R LD AIRMEN the names of tho engineers sug. |'at the program of cleaning. up) Be: | gested. papeaect A majority of the council, ‘Tindall |“1#0r | “Tam not so much interested |the results that wo get from the of- fice," the mayor sald. Mayor Brown satd that his shake: up of the police department will go Los Angeles Woman Tells)%i» sma Syearoid fosterson,|Globe Flyers Encounter |proiect. ‘rhe ordiuance provides that |fF®ard Just as soon as he has eon: Police of Fight in Home “| WOULD DO IT AGAIN’ i Murdered Man’s Body Kept in Trunk 36 Hours |ferred with O'Brien. DRUG STORE MAN Daylight Bandits Fail to Get While downtown streets were be- ginning to fill up with the usual morning traffic, two bandits, armed Lee j with automatic pistols, stepped from The four army planes winged their | Officials Announce Shortage |an auto and held up J. P. Johnson, manager of the Bartell Drug com: _ | pany’s. warehouse, 1906 Boren ave. in — front of that building, Monday, at- Jump of more than 600 miles from) — KANSAS CITY, Mo, April 14. | 840 a. m. : |Sitka in bout nine hours, omitting a scheduled stop at Cordova, The weather was cold and frosty, and the aviators reported hard going. . Johnson to be a collector for the nur merous Bartell stores, and expected him to have a large amount of” money. When Johnson denied that he “had any cash, they turned his _ pockets inside out, but found John. The bank obtained possession of} son to be telling the truth, attle unexpected- He has been in I am fully able to rho will be inspector, as T am in 1S HELD UP Loot From Johnson Johnson had just arrived at the ~ warehouse, and, with his arms full of books and papers, stepped out of his car just as the two bandits and Trust company, |walked in front of him, ‘They ~ menaced him with the guns and in- sisted upon searching his papers and- pockets for money, Apparently the thugs believed ‘The bandits then turned, ran back to their auto afid drove away, John: — kon obtained tho Icense number, — which was Issued to Karl Stevens, | 1425 Harvard ave, Ny and which te believed to have beon a stolon aula, —