The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 22, 1924, Page 1

Foul Play and Graft | Charged in Des Moines Bridge rece Main 0-600 Get the Habit With the Biggest Cc irculation in Washington e Seattle Star The Newspaper ee LT tee VOL. 26. NO. 50. ai S23 ame SEATTLE, ee" Th ay i ez — paar: a __TWO CENTS IN SE ATTL ne . eee Punish Guilty, Says Coolidge! Paul and Gaines Howdy, folks! The baseball ! 9" (pen New Battle moe aire ae BLAMES How Paul Charges Des Moines Brid ge WasWrecked| south District Commissioner Says i ’ RAR ie Bridge Purposely Wrecked to Dis- wat es Semanng, sean Toy credit Him; Board Chairman Charges = |] ness man Wedne “Sorry, sir. M very important cc Graft Prompted Fill Project | esate ya pal William A, Gaines, | The charge was made eee . chairman of the board Tuesday by County Com- kf ee ies worked all of county commissioners, missioner Frank Paul j kfurter ¢ . " F that the wrecking of the Des Moines bridge, on the Seattle-Tacoma “high line road,” was a result of a deliberate and malicious hot declared Monday that Paul's charges in connec- tion with the wreck of the Des Moines bridge are ridiculous and with- out foundation. He as- serted Paul is the victim of his own blunder, and persuade ir skins. night trying to dogs to crawl into th = MONEY! ARS | by President in ‘rr cee TH OFFICE j VAMP, SE | “Sometimes a ‘girl gets th’ idea | she’s a little dear when she is | iH only a little bare. county credit him with the vot- eee further declared that he are Iti engineeta | at (Gaines) first opposed mn Onsulling ve fumiguied, secording tos se) Speech; “Amer-| the Des Moines fill be- Tuesday agreed that the order. | 4 | cause he was convinced job apparently was a . ” | — y hee 2 oF 1 won't Dae oe OP ica Sound } Paul and Lafe Hamilton, wanton attempt to make Chief Severyns has appoinied a cop | et to oversee the morals at Alki Beach | BY LAWRENCE MARTIN this summer. Wonder what he'll do|(United Press Staff Correspondent) the bridge impassable.” Th bridge, as a result of the cking as ordered closed to road supervisor in the south district, wanted to do the work themsely: Sunday. More than 2,000 mo- when a ships starts to hug the! \TEW YORK, April 22—President and “pocket the profits. = daily now must get around shore? { Coolidge today dedicated him “When this matter came up on} the gulch over which the bridge age self to the task of restoring to} nber 29th, Paul sald he could | crossed as best they can. € “It's been a trying day,” sighed | America its lost or forgotten {deals. | the work done for 30 cents a| Feeling is running high In Des Judge fees peng es he ene up the} He made the keynote of his com- maid Moines, where the detour takes travel courtroom for ye night. nes. “We asked hin any label on the box.” Testimony shows that Harry Thaw bit the pet rabbits he had while in the hospital. We hope he didn't do this during Week. see Li'l Gee Gee's right stocking gave out at the heel this morntt “Ha, ha!” she chortled, member of the Hole-In-One club!” one ; Some women, if they live to be a hundred, will never bob thefr hair. It will take them that long to make up their minds. oes CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON pers waling to gether The flapper, wait! io hair bobbed, who says: “Oh, look at that man getting a shave. Doesn't he look funny?” ep Henry Ford {s building a hospital fn Detroit. The flivver magnate is going to get ‘em coming and going. eee No doubt the hospital will be full of patients who believed that a Ford can beat a railroad train to the cross- ing. see Henry’s hospital won't be very popular unless he puts more springs in his beds than he does tn his cars. Free Advice to Mr. Ford: In order | to tell when a patient's fever ts get- ting past the danger point, place a motometer on all thermometers. s 4. YE DIARY (April 21) evening to the Metropolitan, nue did see “Whispering Wires,” a play which I did much enjoy, and did re- solve to write » drama in which » giant gorilla gets loose in a house mid- night, and kills all the actors, and thea imps off the stage, runs down the mi iia, and mardets everybody in the box offies, including Bill McCurry, the man- ager, a thrilling plot, met without mertt. J. Dashleigh Fitzhugh told Li Gee Gee he couldn't go to the masquer- ade with her because he stuttered too much. “Well, just make up like a soda fountain,” suggested Gee Gee. oes vas badly run down,” begins a medicine advertisement. We read no further. But We're vertain the man works for the mu- nicipal railway. ee “My system Scientist says spring “chronic fatigue intoxication.” Pass a law against it! It's a good thing Christmas came when it did. We'd hate to have Santa Claus’ reindeer qua hoofand-mouth disease. TODAY'S DEFINITION Automobile: 1924 for parlor, eee Los Angeles is building a fail to look like a private dwelling. Fifty. tty. A lot of private dwellings down here look like Jails. one ie it ever so humble there's no jail like home! ee Halt of the world doesn't how the ofher half lives—but it has ite suspicions fever is! nd not | know} [name of ntined for the|same change was voted for Mount The president, several hundred newspaper editors attending the luncheon here of the | Associated Press, epitomized his | platform in these words: Be - Kind -to- Animals| “One of the pre-eminent requtre- ments of our country at the present time is to establish and emphasize in the public mind this law of serv fee. in the direction of failure to main. tain {ts economic position, but in the direction of the failure to main | tain its ideals. Around that idge built uz thought Mr. Cool ® complete program, both domestic and foreign, of legis. | which he made | lation and pol clear he will atte elected. pt to carty out if MR. COOLIDGE this “law of service is not a sentimental phrase." He said emphatically “it was not to be confounded with a weak and impractical sentimental {sm.” And then, to illustrate his meaning, he applied his idea of serv. ice to the questions of taxation, gov ernment economy, the uprooting of iniquity in high places as disclosed by the scandal investigations and to America’s foreign relations. Taking up first the scandals, Mr. Coolidge said their genesis lay in the “easy money” area begotten of the war and declared {t was not surpris ing some government officials had been corrupted. “From all of this sordidness, the affairs of government, of course, suffered,” sald the presl- dent. “In some of it, a few pub- lie officers were guilty partici- pants. But the wonder Is not that this was s0 much or 60 many, rather that it has been so little and so few. The encour- aging thing at present is the evi- dence of a well nigh complete return to normal methods of ac- tion and a sane public opinion.” He pledged himself to “admin. ister punishment wherever com- petent evidence of guilt can be produced.” “That,” he said, “I am doing and} fares to Page 1, Column 2) MT. TACOMA IS APPROVED Mountain Name Resolution Passes Senate WASHINGTON, April 22,—The senate has adopted a resolution to substitute for Mount Rainier the “Mount Tacoma.” ‘The Rainier National park and Rainier jonal forest, Senator Clarence C, Dill told the desired the change. The resolution will now go to the house, where action will be taken as soon ag the immigration bill ts disposed of. Congressman Albert Joh the lower body. In an address to | The danger of America is not | / | lines show the true course of the fill. This picture shows how the dumping of dirt for the new county road fill at Des Moines has resulted in wrecking | | the Des Moines bridge so that it had to be condemned and closed. This, according to a charge made by County Com- missioner Frank Paul, Tuesday, was done deliberately by county officials in an attempt to discredit him, The truck in the picture (close-up “of which is dumping dirt up against, the bridge, and apparently outside the staked fill lines. —Photor’ by Frank Jacobs, Star Staff Photographer shown in lower corner) is | TWO MEN May Be Fractured ARRESTED AS DRUNKS Claim Men Admit Resisting ‘OFFICER SLUGS British Airmen Leading FIRE JENSEN IF. _ in Globe Circling Flight CHARGES HOLD of Americans, Held b WASHINGTON, April 22. — The) British round-the-world flyers have taken the lead in the globe circling} race with the American army avi- ing Jailed ore. Bei 9 Tho off to a later start and re- 4 _|tarded by a lengthy stop at the peiuseee Soe fhe be Boke | Island of Corfu, where they awaited | Patrolman a Other A” Kearney,|2, new engine, they have forged Leet et eerie cd Hintlarg|anend in tho past week, covering a i \siparranag elie The Boe Me ehian’ {total of 9,640 miles, to the 3,876 Shied ta" the ity hecpital carly | miles traveled by the Americans, | taken to ) 9 | le eve Tuesday morning. Kearney sub-| 0 ore now in Alaaks, | rnitted to an X-ray |few hours later to tured by the policemen’s weapon The two men were found at 1:10 and Thomas st. by Officer Swanson, who place them under arrest on a charge of Both | men showed fight as they were be- it In them, the a short leather la, m, at Westlake ave. heing drunk and disorderly. ing taken to the patrol box, claimed, and in subduing Swanson struck both men. on head with his “sap,” club carried by officers on duty. examination a determine whether or not his skull was frac Army alr service officials today | received the news that the British} had passed the American flyers without alarm. | They pointed out that the British | |have had the advantage of good) | weather nearly the whole distance 5 of their flight so far, while the American globe circumnavigators are traversing one of the stormiest areas in the world, They believe] |the Americans will gain tho tend |after leaving the Arctic regions, *| ‘Three of the American planes ace Jat Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, await- | {ng the arrival of the fourth plane, | Jones was attended at the hos-| the flagship of Maj. Martin, com- pital and then taken to Jail, after| onder of the fleet, which is being which he posted $26 bail. Kearney ritoa with a new engine at Kan-| was so badly injured, however, that| iit” Alaska, Ui dacapas ah cept pein agen When Martin joins them they proke! oth men. told ) ; ih will hop off for Nazan, a. tiny ham- pital physicians they had been] (en tne Aleutian islands drinking, and aro sald to have ad-| hate mitted having resisted the officer. Passage of Regrade | Meagure Is Probable} Fotlowifig « public hearing at 2 o’| British nate that the state of Washington | clock this afternoon the city counell | piloted by its final decision on the | proposal to extend Dexter ave. It Is votes sufficient to pass | will make believed tha the measure are assured, The public hearing on the proposl- son will sponsor the matter In | tion was agreed to by the city council oi ae Hast week British Birdmen Flying in Persia BUSHIRE, Persia, April 22.—The round-the-world airplane, | Maj. Stuart MacLaren, | arrived here today and took off im-| mediately for Bander-Abbas, | With the arrival here, the British} flyers had covered a total of 3,640) miles, | KANATAK, Alaska, April 22 | curely an@ was weathering the gale. {him over the head with a stick, The -latarting the blaze, Maj, Frederick L. Martin, command ing officer of America’s round-the-| world flying squadron, was prevent: ed by unfavorable weather condi-! tons from leaving here yesterday on the 550-mile flight to Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, where the three other/ pianes arrived Saturday. Major Martin's plane, which had a new engino installed here, after being forced down during the Seward to-Chignik flight, was moored se- The wind was from the northwest, with the temperature at 16 degrees above zero, and the barometer regis: | tering 30.02, BOY IS STABBED. Man Is Sought for Act; Screams Save Child’s Life An enraged man n murderously at: | tacked 12-year-old Andrew Bekmame- | deff, 911 Lakeview bivd., Monday night, in an alley near Boren ave, N.| and John st., stabbing him in the bank with a jack-knife and beating boy was rescued by neighbors, who heard his screams, His assailant fled. Andrew told the police that the man offered him a dollar to do some work for hin) and the boy became frightened and tried to escape, where: upon the man attacked him. He was taken to the city hospital and later removed to his home, ADRIAN, Mich, April 22.—John Hamden, 57, and his daughter, Iva, 10, lost their lives in a fire that de. stroyed their home here today. An oll stove is believed to have exploded, Engineer in - Hospital; Skull McLaren’s Plane Covers 3.6 3,640 Miles to 3,375) Severyns Says ( Cop Must Go! y Weather in Alaska | if He’s Guilty TWO STORIES ARE HEARD | Whitney’s Tale Doesn't Jibe With Officer's Patrolman Gordon C. Jensen, im- plicated by federal prohibition agents in the recent booze raid on the Lenora garage, where seven al- leged members of the “Olmstead gang” were captured and a truck| load of liquor seized, will be sum- marily disthissed from the police de- partment, provided Assistant Pro- hibition Director William M. Whit- jney will produce the agent who saw Jensen in the garage, and provided the agent will “stand pat"| on his story, Chief of Police W. B. Severyns said Tuesday, “If the man will tell me the same story that he is quoted telling in Whitney's report,” ald Severyns, “there is nothing else for me to do but to discharge Jensen. | The case is up to Whitney now. Severyns called at Whitney's of fico Tuesday, but Whitney was not in, The substance of the agent's report, as made to Severyns thru Whitney, was that he was posted as a “lookout” in a hotel room facing the Lenora garage just across the street the night of the raid. Bobbed Bandit and Husband Face Jury | NEW YORK, April 22.—Her spec: tacular bandit career at an end, Celia Cooney, New York bobbed-hair bandit, returned today, accompanied by two detectives, Captured at Jacksonville, yesterday, when the fron which she flaunted at New entire police department, ‘broke,’ the girl came back—In appearance an ordinary girl of 20, Fla, nerve, York's hy legit jcontractor was. He snid it was @ jman by the name of Sweet. When {Don Evans, bridge builder in the county engineer's office, went out jhe asked Lafe Hamilton who would 'do the work for 30 cents a yard. |Tate pointed to himself and sald “1 will’ | ‘There you have it Lafe would do the work and Sweet | would be the dummy. I was will-| jing that the fill be made. I voted |for it after the Des Moines Improve ment club and others had manifest ed a desire for the fill and after a| e contract had been award. | Paul and jing campaign for the presidency who would do it for that price. He|entirely around all the business oe tand the platform on which his ad. | Ira he didn't know the man’s name | houses: | FAMOUS LAST WORDS [minittration (to he" bullt if he t9 |but that Lafe knew. Paul has been the target for “I think these must be head [reciected, the “law of service,” both “after lunch he said he had| numerous attacks on. the.part of 5 ache tablets, altho there isn’t jdomestically and internatfonally learned from Lafe who the 30-cent| Some county officials, who openly boasted that they would “get him” he next election. The fight over a new bridge at Des Moines has been on for some time in the county commissioner's office. Paul’ wanted the bridge eliminated and the road carried across the gulch on a fill. Com- missioners Tom Dobson and W. A. Gaines held out for a new wooden bridge to replace the present struec- ture, Paul finally won his point, the other commissioners reluctantly giv- ing way to him last week, accord- ing to Paul. Dotted | |ed. But I was not going to stand—| The county engineer's office iald jand Tam not now—for Frank Paul|out a route for the fill, at an jand Lafe Hamilton doing the work| angle from the bridge so as to and getting the money cut off sharp corners at both ends SY FOR LAFE of the present structure which have GAINES made it a dangerous place for mo- | “Paul admitted they intended to/torists. A contract was let to Fo! jet the mysterious 30-cent contractor | restal & Coyle to haul 79,000 yards use the county steam shovel witti-| of dirt from the fill, which, accord- out charge. Of course it would be|ing to specifications, was to be 24 easy for Lafe to do the work for! feet wile on the surface. that price by using county ma-| The contractors, instead of filling terials without a cent of reimburse-|in line with the staked-out route ee to King county, jot the county engineer, began to Is because I have blocked |dump dirt, at the rate of 600 yards | Paul at every turn that he |a day, on a line almost parallel (Turn to Pace 7, 7, Column 3) BOBBED HAIR! Like It, Men? Star to Conduct Straw Ballot; Vote Today | S WE read the coiffure hintings in the magazines this spring, we learned bobbed hair was passe, and long {locks again the thing. So we wept a tear for bobbies, |thinking of the mental pain they would suffer as they waited for their hair to grow again. We visualized them slinking down the avenue at night, crying softly in their jhankies: “Gee! I sure look a sight! How I hate my shingled \skypiece! How I wish my hair would grow!” It seemed to us the streets would just be avenues of woe. But it seems to us, mere male folks, that instead of being jdead, each bobbette now is clipping even closer to her head. as|The bobs used to be curly and they hid the female ear, but the recent ones we've noticed Seem peculiarly sheer. (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) | IC\E course, it’s not our basinal just how close the bob- bettes clip. And we shrink from pointed queries that jthey may consider flip. But in our inner beings we admire them or condemn, for, after all, it’s men folks who haye to look at them. | So, men, mark up the coupon that you'll find due south jof this. Let's ballot on the bob, sirs, and tell the worrild jmiss just what kind of hair we like best, long or shingled, [French or Dutch. It will take you but a minute—and we jowe the girls that much. Bob Ballot (Mark coupon by striking out either “do” or “do not,” give reason, clip and mail at once to Bobbed Hair Editor, || Seattle Star, Seattle.) I, a male person, do do not hair. My reason is as follows: \| (State reason in 25 words:) like women to wear bobbed iBall ili