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

} bite Peir ¢ . af r Temperature Last 24H Waximum, 61 Today Howdy, folks! It takes an awfully short-sighted mosqaito to be fooled by flesh-colored hos. ery. Experts are a larger cating the use of But this would be hey ought to make ‘em they'd teto the c golf ba! ma so go so for as she can eliminate never uses them Gee G ys that d, they ts the fariways. anyway. 118 Years te Man Une. He ought to get his father to act as best man. . . Sige on the back of @ Ferd: __ EXCUSE MY RUST | ° Wed."—Head. “After all, the dub at golf Is thi kbone of the game."—Walter ks, Walt. Today is Rural day. A lot of city folks will celebrate it by eat- ing canned spinach. e408; © Now that balloon tires have been devised with such good results, why not experiment with 1. Balloon golf balls, Balloon pies. Balloon cocktall shakers Didya hear ‘tint dull thud yester- day? “Pat was" the franc “dropping | again. 3. see ————— ° LI'L GEE GER, TH’ OFFICE VAMP, 5 It’s amusing to see an old baehelor holding a baby, espee- jally if she’s about 18. The Bimbo who Pathetic Figures: has hay fever so bad that he doesn't | teri dare to wear a straw hat. “I see where a Kirkland rancher | aised some tomatoes big as foot- valis.”* “That's nothing. attle policemen asleep on one bea Bhbmriehl noon, ! | } | | | Reckless drivers don’t always miss | the scenery. ADAM Whatewer troubles Adam had, To grind he had no axes; They didn’t load upon his home The burden of the taxes. Old Silas Grump, of Pumpkin Hollow, are good fishermen. others can't lie.” ees Sunday was Mother's day. Every day, according to some husbands, Is| Mother-in-law’s day. . Pad ONE OF WOMAN'S GREATEST TRAGEDIES All dressed up and nobody to look at her. I¢ Henry Ford gets Muscle Shoals, he will next want congress to give him the Pacific o¢ean. Well, why not? Congress has often tried to give a large section of the Pacific to the Japs, oe Li'l Gee Gee says that Major Mar- tin seems to be a sort of aerial Prince of Wales, . Major Martin hit a mountain. This took good deal better alm than was required by our torpedo boat destroyers. of North America. * Martin's plane was called the “! atte.” Seattle is always getting in- 9 trouble over a mountain. one LINGUISTIC LYRIC Maxwellton braes are bonnie, Und ruhig fleeced der Rhein; However, ja, je ne c'est pas, Manana, auld lang syne. see General Pershing Is writing a his- tory of the world war, We're go- ing to read it for just one reason. To find out who in heck Is to blame for that crerness cn The trouble with near beer Is that ft isn’t near enough. * Today's candidate for the Polson Ivy club, is the gink woh substitutes a rotten egg for your golf ball when you're not looking. ee YE DIARY (May 13) ‘This evening to the Patace Hip to nen the Will King players, w divertisement which doth mach amuse me, und did there meet J. Muller, the manager, and ne did take me behind the scenes, and) we did talk of this and that, and he did Jeave me form moment, and I did wan- Jer around alone, and pretty soon 1 saw «pretty scene, und walked out to look | at it, and turned mround, and waw a fanny blur and « spotlight, and some- | hody began to laogh, and then more people began to laugh, and I grew rev, hind walked right away from there, And 0 to home, They only hit the side} { i |by J. 1. Barnter, a p at 1928 First ave., who learned THREE HURT IN 4 Thuredoy uns Minimum, 36 53. “They'rs both so nice we hardly know which one to take,” in and Virginia Brehm, 4042 | they pick a new dog to take the place of Rip,’ shot last | week by Deputy Sheriff Ray Murphy while a crowd of frightened children looked on. | pet store at 1328 First ave., gave the children a new dog} I saw three Se-|and a new collar to go with him after he heard about their ay Ir sorrow thru The Star. —Photo by Frank Jacobs, Star Staff Photographer Irwin and Virginia Brehm, whose pet dog. Rip, was shot to death last week by a deputy sheriff, were hap-/ pier Wednesday. They ‘had an- other pet, a fluffy little pup, called } “Chubby.” Chubby was given. them stock dealer of | the children’s sorrow thru The Star. With the pup, Mr. Barnier gave the} kiddies a collar. Irwin is 11; his sister, 7. They live’ at 4042 Eighth’ ave, N. E. | Tuesday afternoon they learned of vEATH BLOW FOR | The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington Roteres as Beoone Class Matter Irwin and Virginia Brehm, Whose Dog Wa Shot, Are Happy Again Eighth ave. N. J.D. Barnier, who runs Mr. to the store to pick out a pet. Fi brand-new, curly-haired,}are very detrimental to the morals scrambling puppies were placed be-jof the city. fore them. Both children cried with delight Each picked. a pup. “I like this one,” said Irwin. We must keep such peril away froin “But I like THIS one," protested! our children, Virginia REV. AUNCE “White dogs are too hard tol pastor of Plymouth Cc clean,” objected Irwin, noticing. Vir-|Church—Go to it, Star! Correcting ginia’s choice. So finally they picked Chubby, black and white bull spaniel. E., as Barnier’s offer and went down new| been complained of to our office, and | At the Postoffion at Seattian WEDNES May a, 100 SEATTLE, WASH., SAY NEED FOR IT DRASTIC Thank Star for Pointing Out Peril and Getting Remedy Ww n and verbal commendation for Thé Star's campaign to close vice dens camouflaging as massage rlors was received Wednesday jfrom city leaders. It was gratifying, for The & had some hesitancy in bringing th nolesome condition into the cht. But the number of com about them became so nu erous and tnalstent thi always anxious to serve Seattle, ded there was no other remedying the abhorrent situation. Here is what some Seattle folks | say E. SHORROCK, Member of the Sphool Board—Administrators of ed fication deeply realize the impor. |tance of safeguarding against all much places. We find tt mont diff! cult to keep conditions in the city such as to help, instead of hinder, the young people of school age. The Star ts doing a good work for the city when It insists that these places that come under suspicion should be |put out of business, and that all | pace. of this character should be | no regulated as to remove all tens. tation to the young WILLIAM K. McKIBBON Founder of the White Cros: Society I hope The Star sees this matter thru. I believe that some of these “joints” are worse even than your paper pictured. We find the dope evil going hand in hand with most Aareputadle inetitutions.. } _ MES. FP. PUGSLEY, Chairman of the Legislative Committee of rhe Counctl of Parent-Teachers—Great good should come from pointing out the existence of these places of evil I believe that the necessary legisia tion to put the objectionable places | out of buainess can casily be ob tained. If brought before our asso ciation, there is no doubt In my mind but that {t would back it/ up. While these places do not af fect children in the grade schools, { in easy to see how they wouid be dat rimental to those in high schools apd the university H. 1. CHATTERTON, Executive Secretary of the Seattle Council of Churches—If The Star will nee thru} |to a finish the expose it has started, it will have rendered a valuable no- cial service. These places often have | The Star de of a | THOMAS R. COLE, Superintend:| ent of Schools—You can count on} us to back you up in the campaign. | | this evil will be a real civic accom. plishment. A year ago our church had an investigator Inspect these a Lilburn Merrill, chief proba- | ie officer for the juvenile was drowned while swimming in| Tuesday jnight. body was recovered by Deputy Sher iffs Herbert Beebe and Frank An- derson with grappling irons, at 8 a.-m. Wednesday, near the dock | where Dr. Merrill was last seen alive by his Chinese serving man. | Dr. Merrill went to the dock/ about 8 p. m., Tuesday, dressed in| a bathing suit, a bathrobe and house slippers. He carried a towel and his pipe. His China boy went with him. He sent the boy back into the house with the message he would be in soon, and sat on the edge of the dock smoking his pipe when he was last seen. Wednesday morning, Mrs. Mer rill, who had retired early, awoke about 4 o'clock and found her hus- Arts Village, AUTO CRASH Mother May Die as Result of Accident three personeotather, mother and son—were injured, one per- | haps fatally, when the. automo- Pitas | bile in which they were riding was] (J, S. Labor Board _|Believe Girl Bather. | struck by another machine | crashed into a telephone pole at] Discusses Wages Green Lake Victim 26th ave, & W. and» W. Spokane | CHICAGO, May 14.--The United Police Wednesday afternoon are st. shortly before noon Wednesday.| states railroad labor board wan to | {nvestigating the supposed drowning The injured are: D. B. Libby.) meet in executive sesmion here this |of a young woman, as yet unidentt 4909 W. Othello st, his wife and! afternoon, to discuss the wage con-| fled, in Green lake, Miss Ruth Miller her son, Vincent Bocker, 11, Mra. | troversy involving 60,000 engineers, | told them that in the brush between Libby was rushed to the Providence | | hospital by passing motorists suffer- ing from « broken hip, internal in- juries and both legs broken. Libby] and the boy w only slightly hurt Court Officer Drowns band had not occupied hin bed. and bathrobe on the dock. son went to the dock and dragging the lake. Dr. Merrill wus widely known for his work with juvenile delinquent He served as chief probation oft cer for Judge Ben Lindsay, of De ver, and went to the University Honolulu in 1922 subject. He was first with the juvenile court here in 191 He then served with from Denver went to China, whe he spent two years. He superintendent of the state cust dial scho¥l in December, 1920, tion officer here in June, 1923. He married Miss Gladys Meenac a university graduate, in Seatt five years ago. by his widow and a son, of age. The body wan charge by Deputy Koepfil, 3 yea taken Guards Are Hunting 5 Pri Fuciti CORDOVA, Alaska, May 14.— rison ugitives Thelr final tuning up completed, | McALESTER, Okla, May 14.—|the three American round-the-| Five of the nine prisoners whojworld flight planes at Chicagoff hroke away from the state peniten-|hoped to take off today for the tlary brickyard here —yesterday|Kurile islands, in Asia. were still at ing to Babi! ti liberty Key. and Aremen of 85 nagers py nt of the Western trunk line vail-{she found a woman's clothing, to- ro Negotiations for § per cent | gether with letters and a fishing rod. age iherenves are deadlocked and |The location is on the weat side of the que hiw beew placed infor. |the lake, not far from Woodland mally betore the labor board, She court, | began a search and found the towel She im. front of his summer home at Beaux | mediately notified the sheriffs of ‘The| fice and Deputies Beebe and Ander began to lecture on the associated Tindsay, and became and returned to his desk as chi@f proba- Merrill is survived Coroner Frank today, accord. places and he reported that condi- tlons were. most disreputable. COUNCLLWOMAN BERTHA) LANDES—1 have a full realiza-| tion of the menace The Star points out, It had been brought to my attention before by per-| sons who knew of the bold-| ness with which these. places have operated. Even before The Star revealed the situation, Mr, Hesketh | and I had been working ‘ward a measure that would put the illegit imate places out of business. I had | hoped we might find out how the| evil is handled in other cities, but we are going to introduce the ordi- nance immediately; if it needs amending later on, that can be at- tended’ to, When women of low l.Jeharacter begin calling up young men's clubs and leaving their tele- phone numbers it is high time that the public conscience was aroused, FLYERS WAITING ‘CHANCE TO 60 Planes Are All Set for Jump Attu to Kurile Islands 8. fi ot re o- h, le rs in Maj. Frederick Martin and Sergt. (Turn to Page 7, Cohan 2) er | Down's Janding and the boathouse park. under the Act of Congress Marck DAY, MAY 14, 1924. It Will Be Done! EDITORIAL ROMPTNESS of the c ordinance to legislate posing as legitimate massage parlors will be com- mended by every right-thinking man and woman in Seattle. Few realized the extent tures, newspaper, The Star much prefers not to print- stories of that But it realizes that if the public is to be aroused to corrective measures against this moral leprosy, the public must be given the facts to show type. that it actually exists. No ment to the jury before he introduced his evidence. The paper wants to see teeth—sharp teeth—put into the councilmanic measure, the second-rate fly-by-nighters who, under the cloak of being respectable busi corrupt our boys and young men and stain the name of Seattle in the minds of fall, unsuspectingly, It wants to see a provi restrictive license, low enc that are legitimate and dc to pay and prosper, pective law-breakers think It believes proprietors of legitimate places will wel- come such a licensé, carrying with it a stiff, qualify- ing examination, because it will drive out the unfair competition of those places for which massaging is a blind. ¢ Star wants to see a provision in the measure that women atteridants shall not*be kept in these places except for women. It wants to see the measure provide drastic regu- frequent inspection by city latory powers, with officials, It believes this will be done, with the drafting of the ordinance in the hands of Councilwoman Landés and Councilman Hesketh. of the public safety committee, and Bob Hesketh, chairman of the license committee, well know the peri] of these camouflaged ingly in their ordinance to e released from supervision by the repeal of a regulatory measure several their nefarious business ov were brought to light by into their clutches, sion in the measure for a but high enough to make pro: The Seattle Star 4, 187%, Per Tear, by Mall, $1.60 ity council in drafting an out of business vice dens to which these human vul- years ago, have spread er the city, until the facts an investigator for this lawyer ever made his argu- banning for all time ness houses, ensnare and thousands of tourists who ough to allow those places ying a respectable business twice before they open up. For Mrs. Landes, chairman places and will act accord- combat them. VICE DENS POLICE RAID “PARLOR Proprietors and operatives of second-rate massage parlors had flown to cover Wednesday morn- ing, following an expose in ‘The Star Tues » telling how vice had been flaunted under the guise of a legitimate business. At the same time that they were hauling in their window signs in small apartments and housekeeping rooms on the skirts of the downtown business section, a further scare was glv- on them with the teport of the arrtst of Mrs. Alice Smith, Mil ton apartments, a masseur, charged with being a disorderly person. Following her setzure ty the police on complaint of an un- named person, Mrs. Smith was being held for investigation. A morning survey, Wednesday, of nine such places, advertised as massage parlors and baths, “lady attendants,” showed five located in decrepit houses and flats to be closed, window plac: ards out of sight and the own. ers apparently not in business. No one answered knocks on the locked doors, “We found similar condi. tions,” Police Chief Severy: said, “and I belleve you have them scared out.” Of four alleged vice batlis and masseuse parlors in business and office buildings, visited Wednesday forenoon, only ono was open for business, The re- mainder still flaunted — thelr signs, tho the doors were locked CLOSE UP; and no one apparently “in.” That some of the worst of- fenders are masquerading, in placard and circular advertise. ments, as “legitimate cases only taken,” was declared by cigar store habitues Tuesday Miss Wallace Is Diplomat’s Bride WASHINGTON, | ternational romance {tn which the |daughter of an Iowa “dirt farmer” ma jand diplomatic set to the historic New York ave, Presbyterian church here this afternoon to witness the marriage of Mary Wallace, daughter of the secretary of agriculture and | Mra, Wallace, to Dr. Charles Burgg- man of the Swiss legation. |Hunt for Oregon Judge Is Renewed PORTLAND, Ore, May 14— Search for Grant Dimick, former Jcounty judge and mayor of Oregon |City, was renewed thruout the coun- \try today by the department of jus- | tice, following Indictment by a fed- Jeral grand jury on a charge of using the mails to defraud, Dimick 4s alleged for more than 10 years to have dealt in forged notes, deeds and mortgages, swin- dling @ large number of persons out of sums totaling more than $200, 000, Probe Prisoner Death An autopsy was to be performed upon the body of William MeMillan, 50, Wednesday, to determine the cause of MoMillan’s death in the city hospital Tuesday afternoon, aft: er the man had been held in the city jail ‘since Saturday night as a prisoner, From an examination made by the coroner Tuenday evening, it was be. Meved the man had a_ fractured skull. Hoe was also badly bruised abouc the body, MeMiltan ton. hatel, was found in the P. 2016 Virat ave, Saturday night, in an unconscious condition, by Patrolman J. J. Menton, who sent the man to Jail, where he was immediately attended by & physt clan, Fenton said that when he first saw MeMillan, the man smelled of liquor, but was unconscious, ‘The }man was taken from jail to *he hos: pital Monday noon and died.24 hours later. ‘The cause of death was not determined, MeMillan was shot in the head dur. ing a saloon brawl, on Jackson st., a few months ago, but the wound wax not a major one, and he recov. cred. Coroner W, Hf. Corson may hold un inquest into’ MeMillan’s death Wednesday, it was sald. May 14.—An in-} becomes the bride of a Swiss diplo- | attracted Washington's official | |EDIT I TWO Leaders Indorse Expose! Ordinance to Oust Dens of Vice Drafted Stiff Regulatory Provisions, Including License and Barring of Women Attendants, Proposed Introduction of an ordinance providing for strict regula tion of Seattle massage parlors and private bath houses wag promised Wednesday by members of the city council, follow- ing The Star’s expose Tuesday of immoral conditions that prevail in some of the city’s second class places of this char- acter. |and indecent resorts that jatid Hesketh is chairman of expressed gratification over | focused attention on an evil that had grown to huge propor- | tions. Until The Star’s revelations day it was not generally known that the massage operated entirely without police supervision, that they no license and have been permitted to open up wherever pe | whenever an opportunity presented itself. The thing had gone |so far that women in some of j tice of soliciting by telephone, it was revealed’ Wednesday. Councilman Hesketh recalled that the city at one time required mas sage parlors to first obtain licenses before beginning operations. | “When Joe Warren was appointed chief of police by-Hi Gill the council lrepealed the ordinance licensing them. This action was taken at the | request of Chief Warren,” said He: | keth. | It was agreed Wednesday that the | ordinance providing for the licensing | of the massage parlors would be pro- pared strictly with a view to obtain- ing police regulation and supervision, jrather than with the thought of revenue. “When a place of this character applies for and obtains a license the city has a record of the place and, | on recommendation of the license in- | Spector, such a licen may be re- | fused or canceled,” said Hesketh. * & & * | 5 | The girl attendant in the “massage parlor” that the reporter described yesterday—the first of those he in- vestigated following complaints that many of these places were vice dens —obviously was an amateur at the business, It was evident from the way she worked that she knew little about her job, and so the reporter ques- tioned her. “No,” she said, “I don't care much about giving massages, The work's new to me. I just came to town a short time ago.” She smiled—and wrinkles appear- ed thru the heavy rouge and powder on her cheeks. “But I don't do so bad, do you think?" she asked. The door of the anteroom opened and a customer entered. I could hear him talking with the elderly woman, who had greeted me when T went in, The girl attendant went on chat- tering noisily. Her talk was risque, Her implications were questionable, The general air of the whole place was nauseating. The reporter, who had asked for a plain massage got up to go. “Wouldn't you like an electric massage?” she asked. “It costs only a little more, and the vibrator is good for the muscles and {t braces you?" The reporter declined, “How about in alcohol rub?" ‘The reporter declined again, “Well, if that’s all you want then, I guess that’s all; I got another cus- tomer waiting," she sald, When the reporter went out, the other man was sitting behind the screen in the anteroom, This “massage parlor” was typical of several that the reporter found ATHS’ ME |_, Backed by Councilwoman Bertha Landes and Councilman Robert Hesketh, a measure aimed as a death blow to i improper have flourished unmolested in | business and residential districts, will be submitted for the | council's consideration Monday. Mrs, Landes is chairman of the public safety committes * Most Attendants Are — Amateurs, Investigator of ‘Bath’ Here Learns epition) Iif[h ) CENTS IN SEATTL shai the license committee. Both the fact that The Star had were given to the public Tues: ‘ these places had made a prac- The draft being prepared Wednes- day was to contain provision not* only for a license fee designed to make it possible for legitimate bath parlors to operate profitably in com pliance with the Jaw, but also for |the abolishment of conditions that | have made the legitimate places com: pete with hell holes. ‘ Applicants will be required te make proper showing as to the char: acter and size of place they intend to run. Women attendants, if the ordls |mance passes, are to be allowed for women patrons only. Furniture in the parlors is to be such as is required only for the legitimate conduct of the business. Regular inspection is to be mada — by the city license inspector and all applications for licenses are to be brag upon by the city council. % * in his tour. Some, like this, were in offices in downtown buildings. Some he found in apartment houses; others a by occupants of residential Bis els, Some of the places he visited ihe found were legitimate and honest — bath establishments. At others he found only perfunctory efforts made to pose as massage parlors and tht attendants chilly and uncivil when pressed for information about the places. “PARLOR” IN APARTMENT A middle-aged woman ‘ answered the reporter's bell at one of these “parlors” away from the business section of the city. He was shown into a two-room fiat in an apartment building. “Certainly,” said the woman, “we can fix you up with a massage right away,” Over her shoulder, as she scurried around the room, she said; “I don't believe I've ever seen you _ down here before, but we have lots — of young fellows come to see us, Couldn't you tell your friends about: us? Maybe they'd like to come downs too.” The equipment—a plain wood table and chairs in an otherwise bare room—was the sime as in the other establishments of the kind, And there was the same kind of coarse talk, the same Implications, the same lure. I finished the investigation, amazed at the boldness with which these peo ple flaunted their vice so openly the faces of the citizens, I couldn't but wonder why pubtte opinion would stand for having our boys and young men ensnared in those nets, so carelessly camouflaged that what is transpiring in them is apparent to every visitor,