The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 25, 1924, Page 1

“Ui WEATHER ir tonight, Saturday, increas sterly winds Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 67 Minimum, shel Ses Oe) noon, 67. Howdy, folks! bin? How's the coal Ly Gea Gee says that her favorite | h S ¢gES Senator Dill is trying to get con- gress to change the name of Mount Rainier to Mo Tacom As is accomplished, | he will roduce a bill to change the soon as th name of Heinz’ Pickles to Jones’ American Beauties. eee . Senator C. C. Dill ts not particular / what he calls Mount Rainier, so long as he garners a few votes, but we notice he never calls himself by ‘is true name—Clarence. THE HIEGHT OF HYPOORICY The lowest hypocrite in the world is the man who eats cloves to make his friends think he has Just had a drink. A little powder, @ little paint 4 Some hair that looks like hera but! ain't, H ¢3 A dress without a top, I ween, i Q grandma looks lke sweet ne sictecn. —U. of W. Daily. where Our idea of a really cautious man | is one who sleeps with a fire pags tinguisher under his pillow YE DIARY (Apel 24) Lay long abed. the day being fine, and did dream of sailing around Foulweather Biatf in a trig little sloop, with the lee rail awash and a white wake at the stern. And 90, with » heavy heart, to work. But later did have sapper with T. Page at his new houseboat, and he did offer to make me commodore of bis fleet of yachts, and forthwith happy again, And s0 to home. But, after the real issue next will be, will the democrats waste jore than the republicans will steal? ack Raper. Perhaps Hiram Johnson might get the presidential nomination if he would run under an alias L GEE G TH OFFICE VAMP, SEZ Housewives may be roughly divided into two classes—those who shoot their husbands and those who don’t. | ° ! t | j | i Chief Yellow Horse Is pitching here this week with Sacramento. The of fice seofflaw wonders if he is related to White Horse. “- Beneath the moon, he told his love. The color left her checks, But on the shoulder of his coat, It showed up plain for weeks. “eo “Mother of $9 Is Worrled as Boy Runs Away."—Star Headline. Why worry, 2 You've still 83 left. got “I don't | mother at Li'l Gee Gee has just bought al asked to pose with her new baby for a picture. the little shaver ig called, didn't know and was just a little bit suspicious of the strange equipment. tray on which she can serve cock- tails to 12 guests at once—God for- bid! | SCHOO care if I do,” the Woodland park zoo, Friday, when she was or | Batered as Stoo The Newspaper ond « remarked Jennie, what ii AMES “COUNTY RIN “Gone Are the Days’ Jennie Has Forgotten Her Wild, Free Life and Is Busy Mothering Dude the monkey- Dude, t was all about as ane Matter May 3, u At the Postotfics at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of ¢ SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, APRIL 1924. Alleged Traducers Powerful, He Says iapaces (uted 1i-C: Sentth Bobecn | { | Paul’s statement, | leaders of the inside circle, as follows: | ina the present road supervisor under Dobson. and Ferguson, Besides “Fixers,” Are Named in Commissioner’s Indictment OUNTY COMMISSIONE R- FRANK H, charges that he is being hounded by the ‘ | ernment ring that runs county affairs, }a war to exterminate’ “The Ring,” PAUL, who ‘invisible gov- and who has opened in a signed statement | Friday named the county officials who, he says, oppose him. He told also how “The Ring” operates: | ” | reads “I will name those that I consider the “To make the situation clear to the general pubiic, | “Thomas R. Beeman, county engineer, in whose private} office all political conferences are held. “William A. Gaines and Tom Dobson, a majority of the members of the board of county commissioners. “L. C. Smith, former county commissioner from the South Morgan O’Brien, former road supervisor. under Smith “This practically constitutes the circle. They are receiv- ing the hearty co-operation of County Auditor Ferguson, | who is one of those afflicted with ‘auto peeve’ as a result of losing his county auto thru action of the board about a} year ago. "In addition, these men have two|make It tmponsible to carry | politteal fixers, both using county | Deeded improvements, as he is now autos and drawing down salaries of op Bee Peg pee $250 and $200 a month, respectively | with first having the approval These men devote part of |of the nd the signatures county. time political | of least two members of the fences and to material of county commissioners. N with the hope wing me, for public improvements and thereby enching | (under section 183) can be let by he cirele in ual power ontract or wo! performed b “Other county officers and em-|force account until a plan of the * ployes of th ourthouse ax e an\county engineer is filed with, and attitude of quiet co-operation 4| approved by majority of the policy of hands off. board of county commissioners. Paul's statement goes into detail! “4 majority vote of the bon on the a county work done tranaacts il county bi oa, Un to ‘er te the taxp: *,” he (Turn to Py 9, Column 3) | on how comple this in Je controls all county bust oie 6 —Photo by Frank Jacobse, Star Staff Photographe SONG AUX HOMMES } BY SAM B. GROFF | aboard an oll tanker, DE L’ ETOIL) “ are the di when my| » the romantic wooing of Boob, We all agree and affirm with grace G heart was young and free.” | Jenny turned a willing ear. Boot Other newspapers may take pride of y+ iittie Jenny, the slant-eyed Chi | promised to pick the fleas out of place— nese monkey at Woodiand park zoo,|her thatch and steal peanuts for After ours. could sing, that’s the song that she|her for the rest of her life. We are the boys who never shirk, | oli wine Maid Seu: We simply dote upon our work— For Jenny has forgotten those wild| And so, amid the festivities of After hours. and delightful days of yore when sho|the whole monkey colony, Jenny "ee Se turned Seattle's police force upside ame Mrs. McNutt for better or | We hope the 8 er will hurry up s marine report nd buy that $25 down and stood cops tried desperately to ras the|for wo! yture her | BOOB it on its ¢ A CRIM 11INAL AND ear. We want him to drive us to) or yoo tops, telephone poles and|PICKPOCKET AT BEST Everett, so that our wife can collect | street cars. | Boob has not reformed. He ts a our life insurance. Jenny 1s a mother now, and|pickpocket and a criminal at heart, ie ais | motherhood has brought a new dig-|filching peanuts and popcorn from She—Oh, Jack, how your heart 18) ity and responsibility into her way-|his neighbors, and — occas{onally ing. I believe you really do love| wor ji¢e, She sits in her cage, lov-| grabbing a.sack of nuts from some a little after all | ingly caressing a tiny, helpless thing | young ‘6 hand, He (still grouchy) — Nonsense! | o¢ ur that clings to her breast, and| But motherhood Js the same the 4 That's a little knock in the engine} she perhaps ruminates upon the past.| world over. Jenny's love for her . you hear | Just seven years ago Jenny began|baby has seemingly erased from her A aR ae the series of adventures t cul: | memory od wor pfu but deli ? on 7? OK ——— ©| inated in her romantic marriage to| cious pranks of her youth | LI'L GEE GEE, FICE, | cob. McNutt,. a, giant Chinese| Jenny is proud of that baby, And ES : VAMP, SF Fhesus monk like herself, at the zoo./she wants the whole world to see 3 French dressing is better on | KB PAMPERED jand admire it. She gazes with in salads than on girls. | CIETY WOMAN terest at the mothers and babes on a i cee > & “l Sensivie life, as the-pampered pet | the outside of her cage, Nowadays the son who follows hia | of a society wornan, wouldn't trade, was palling on e started her But Jenny | for improving the beaches. What Gaines Says of Paul’s Charge of the seasion > fer section 183 laws of 192 reads his ement “the county engineer can ut County Comn ner Gaines Netate and control the acts of on Friday, aftér hearing Commis. county commissioners on all higt er Paul's statement concern. way expenditures ing “The Ri swore to ast t = a fidavit as to # connection wi 54X58 BEEMAN CAN my n seen or spoken to DEFEAT THE BUDGET Thomas Beeman, engineer of “He may even allow the con-|| icing county, for over one month ction of roads as provided in i “ truction of roads as provided n/1 ang on that occasion I said, ‘good 1924 budget to be carried out./| morning, major’ to him in the or may absolutely defeat the budget!| iacement of the courthouse," program, or he may allow the|| reads the affidavit. ‘That was budget program in one district and|| tne oniy conversation I have had defeat all progress in the other; or! | with the county engineer in that he may embarrass and thru red tape requirements and petty politics Seattle Bathhouses Disgraceful; Park Board Lacks Funds BY JOHN W. NELSON | Bath house accommodations at Seattle’s bathing beaches, soon to be the habitat of thousands of gleeful kiddies and other thousands of smiling and happy adults, are a disgrace and an affront to the public. With nine institutions maintained by the park department, only two are fit for use, a tour of the beaches revealéd Fri-| day. These are the new bath house at Madison park bea ach | and the commodious bath house at Alki beach. | Seattle swimmers would be better served if the torch were | put to the other seven ramshackle, insanitary and unsightly “pens.” Not even a new coat of paint—which they will not get this year--would make the places suitable for use, } Park officials admit that the bathing beach accommoda-} tions are “woefully inadequate.” Jackson time.” Only $15,000 is available for} |the employment of matrons and life guards at the varioys| Motherhood is the same the world| heaches and for the care of the bath houses, With the Biggest Circulation in Washington The Seattle Star Mati, $2.60 BOOTLEGGEE | Bobbed Hair Boosters Are Losing in The Star Straw V ote—See Page 24 - Speared in Battle Max Miller Attack in Sok Max Miller, former editor of the L a member of The Star staff, from the Solomon islands, wit and the effects of malaria in go back for more, he writes ITH a spear wound in his |} left leg and his body wasted by malaria, Max Miller, former” university student and later of | The Star staff, is en route to | attle Friday on the last lap of | @ trip ‘down under The spear wound was a sou venir of an expedition into the trople wilderness of the Solomon island jungles, Max went there to recruit black labor, with sev eral British companions. } Suddently approaching a na tive village, the white party was met by an ambushed war party of cannibalistic blacks. A flight of spears whizzed by their heads The fish-bone head of a spear buried itself deep in Miller's lett thigh, BUT, AFTER THAT, THEY WERE FRIENDLY After this introduction, how- ever, the blacks explained that | | | | | | | they had mistaken the white | U Student, Wounded in Native ymon Islands | J, of W. Daily and later is en route home to Seattle ha spear wound in his thigh his' frame. And he for a host and estab: ile relations tribe were lished. While his leg was mending Mil- ler was attacked by malaria. His companions carried him miles thru the forests to a British doc tor for treatment But he is not well yet, he writes to ‘The Star. The former university boy spent seven months in Australasia In Australia he worked on the Melbourne Herald and the Syd- ney Sun. His newspaper train- ing was received on the Univer. sity Daily, where he attention thru his caustic com- ment on collegiate’matters gener. ally, He later helped cover the Gibbons-Dempsey fight at Shel. by for The Star. Miller is “going back for more” experiences as soon as he is well enough, he says, He will go to the home of friends in Everett when he arrives In Seattle. “Boss” Murphy Dead! Charles F, hall,” NEW YORK, Murphy, “boss of {died at 9:20 a, m, Murphy's death occurred at 305 17th st., Manhattan, Coming as it does only two months | before the national democratic con-| April 25. ‘Tammany today. nt effect on the choice of the | democratic nominee next June, Acute indigestion was the cause | of the death, i porta | shocked" to 1 ernor was greatly affected and wept) when the reports were tonfirmed. Smith and Murphy were close friends Mayor Hylan was ‘'profoundly/room Murphy returned only a few days Park Superintendent Jesse | vention, the passing of the famous | ago from Hot Springs, Va, where’ he} id Friday that no funds are available this year | politician Is expected to have an Im) 1.09 conferred with Tom Tagiart and | other democratic leaders, \ With the wizard of Tammany hall | {doad, the dramatic career of no of the nation’s master politicians énded. Murphy leaped from an obscure driver of a horse-drawn street car to the position where the flick of his finger either made or broke political aspirants in New York city and New York state, And the widespread in fluence of the domineering machine which he built, carried its influence He was born in New York in 1858, the son of John M, Murphy. Wdueated for a period in New York whools, he was later a student in a parochial school, His first employ jent was in a wire factory, then he (urn to Page 11, Corumn 6) athe steps is likely to-wind| her nerves. Sh career 3 ro 9 the pith dba hie hehe Hose light-fingered Dipkpockst i ‘Median vf oil 3 “There is not kk eta money for new paint,” Superin-| | ater Abe NN oreo geecp tia : <8 liuxe. Her underworld activities end 4 i gon said Friday. e went to b Ic 2 The bodies of 16 prebistoric men, | ed suddenly one day when her mis. Ship Passengers | te ndent sack n a sae mio! wattifotaa’ agit tusteke cess Le eo ecm LAR ORR HORN, said to be 1,000,000 rs old, have|tres#, in fury, chased her out the F | Both of the aa ‘ a AN ehaiunti eh reef a ti he arose early and complained that dug up near Santa Barbara, | window. Dawn a pole she climbed, at San Francisco |r ideas for switnming.| small and entirely inadequate, ‘The | jo was feeling cold. He was put to s Poli ‘work i Gala oe by one a dozen cops took| #AN FRANCISCO, April 25.—Pas.|Both of the bath houses are wholly |tollet facilities are insanitary and ped and the family advised to watch | Police are rf bi ah the case. | and on: "it was'a frantic but de-|sengers transferred yesterday from|unfit. to. serve tho thousands of/antique. Since this ce is typleal | over him. He lost strength rapidly 4 f en tebabenr the disabled steamship Ruth Alex-| aquatic fans who will use them of the bath houses at East’ Green| and died shortly after 9 o'clock One of the peculiarities of restau:| ghtful chase so lander to the H. I, Alexander arrived| At West Green lake beach there is| lake, Madrona park, Mount Baker| Mfrs, Murphy, who was in Atlantic : Tant cantaloupes Iw that they seem) At last. ‘corte iy a handsomel|in San Francisco safely) und none|a beautiful little natural grove of} park and Seward park, a descrip-| city, wax notified by telephone that | into the democratic national machine, to have three halves. ea ee ae tsbmitted to arrest.{tho worse for thelr experience last |trees and some planted shrubbery, | tion of it will ‘portray all the bath-|ner husband was “sertously 111” ee SOT ett wo), Hood Mi Nutt | night |Some effort has been made to en:| houses named sho loft at once for New York. She + Beattie police have an interesting | She went to the oo 4 o¢| ‘The Ruth Alexander, leaking and| courage a lawn, but for the most part} ‘There is a small square room | was not told that Murphy was dead. | sidetine—policing, jwas in iid pen oo a roman li a Hist to port, Is still unchored |the willows and shrubs grow in wild | where the matrons and checkers AL Smith called at Tammany | Gotta yo home and. get arensea| he (ola hor stories of the raging main {at ‘Trinidad, Cal, where the transfor |and untrimmed profusion, ‘Thi take clothes and ¢ ok then an [Hall th potwon, refusing at frst, to } for the mail carriers’ ball as ho had ceon it on many trips be | was made, and probably will be towed | place easily could be made an entice whi re towels are era Wy one Hage see rated et ae ; a. J. Bhiwoen China, Mrivco and Seuttle, to San Krancisco, Ling beauty spot (furn to Page 11, Column 3) ing of the Tammany chief. BOY arn of Murphy's death. | HOM |EDITION| TWO CE. jand that under } another case of where the jury sy pro wants to Found t Guilty! ull YTS IN SEATTLE, (G;” YOUTHS BUY IN ROOMS Olive St. Apart- ment Occupant Is Found Guilty on Jointist Charge After deliberating 10 hours, a jury | im superior court Friday convieted F. Sundsby of being a jointist, Sundsby was accused of selling liquor to I room in t ments on Olive st Sundsby's case 2. o'clock attorney, W. h school boys from his St. Lawrence apart went Thursday R to the jury afternoon. Bell admitted at his client had sold liquor, but nied his client was guilty of op= erating « “joint.” The jury delibers ated on the case for 10 hours bringing in e@ verdict late Thurs- day, which was opened Friday, Deputy Prosecutor T. R. Patterson in his closing argument, ¢h that Stmdsby had sold liquor | several minors and high school b law a conviction or the system of would be ridiculed, aa trial by jury Judge J.T. Ronald, in commenting on the case at the time, said it was tem was itself on trial. Sundsby's attorney sald that his client was ready to plead guilty to a charge of selling liquor. The high school boys fied were attending Lincoln high school at the time of the liquor purchases, it was declared by the uting torney's idee SEATTLE QUAKE who testi- | Brisk Earth ‘Shock Is Felt in City During Night seven-second earthquake was tered on the University selsmo- aph at 12:03 a. m. Friday. No damage reported in the city, altho hundreds felt the quiver. The local disturbance is thought to be connected with earth move: ments in the Puna district of Ha- wall, was eee Hawaiian Natives |The Puna district, | most {history of the island, Flee Quake Region | HONOLULU, T. H., April 25— on the island of Hawaii, in the vicinity of Hilo, was deserted today, following one of the continuous upheavals in the Two hundred and fourteen shocks were felt in the comparatively brief space of four hours, Wednesday, the upheaval opening hundreds of new. Jeracks, some of them as much as |five feet wide and 10 feet deep. attracted | oo) a ST Ee Limb Fractured in Auto Smash Hit by an auto at Second ave, and Virginia st, Thursday night, Miss Grace Welr, 30, Rivoli apts, received a fractured leg. She wus taken to the city hospital. The car . J. Antonsen, 5718 Eighth ave. Ex-Judge Commits Suicide With Gun KANSAS CITY, Mo. April 25.— Herman Brumback, former judge of the circuit court here, killed him: self here today. He shot himself while In the bath pf his apartment. 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