The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 9, 1924, Page 1

The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington WEATHER aS | The Seattle Star 0"! Entered as Second Clase Ma NO. 116 ake 3 SEA . Howdy, folks! Oi! Ot TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. He’s the Nominee i i TTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1924 ‘| West Virginian Named Democrat | Standard Bearer Long Struggle Ends Soon After Smith| and McAdoo Release Delegates in New York—Former Ambassador! Wins on 103rd Ballot—Meet Adjourns. Famous Fiction Character From “C Bi Ricks” Visits Seattle i His $250,000 Floating Home Why didn't it rain yesterday? yesterday's ball have won if had been} As we dope out would tee-shots mame. Vean Greg's 1 Hy Jenger, Baldwin's punts a little surer, i Bi i | Brty's right hook harder, Crane's | a4 8 i alt Nelson stronger and Eldred| | _ | ri a a ti a Fert his éyes in boat } ADISON SQUARE GAR-|peopie say Walsh is the man they| a if Bt eens } DEN, New York, July} want | Ee ff i i They call the San Francisco —Out of the tangle of bal-| The Davis nomination came after | Hi nt i h ey ee ‘ as they aren't} lots, John W. Davis, of West! William Gibbs McAdoo had released te bea ba i ij mean y to¢ | q . y dept poor By ee | |‘Virginia, emerged today as! his delegates and Governor Al Smith i) i i| iki nial Wrimeinie. phisiee axel jthe democratic party’s presi-| #4 ssreed that seven states drop | Sek eal ee Pop feta ig ype dential nominee. him from the running. i: al ai Hi is view of their small ball park, to} On the 10%rd ballot this afternoon | Both McAdoo and Smjth had prac : Bue: He ag to the Salt Lake players as| | Davin went over after a deadlock | tica withdrawn as candidates be Ep aiton hts a i mafdines? 3 | jo had continued thru nine days fore the convention, altho no definite ahi i . | of “ballo s began to run " ; Seattle is in second place, but this 7 de. Their decisions vo! cr pie lene McAdoo had released the mate. TORK os in: conference} i f i i ql don't as bad as if it were a prizefight. | leaten* The Meaade with their followers immediately re-| ae Lah ie hi i + swung to Davin, The Smith fa . sip visi ¢" pag Sets | : Fa i tH ” ‘ vis on the 101st ballot and the tide | 4 ? Red" Killefer would have put in began to give Underwood a rut.) iver on tor him unc the success. | H ' if i Wore pitchers. but he ran out of ‘em, [tut it wan. soon learned they were | yer) 8 for tim unuil the success: | eau iat and didn't feel like drafting any | Jalso favorable to Davis that'l” ithe. stata. delephtlens \SacRaae't ite i i) i more the other Ie stfiea thighs ie, gs ate de io: paraded ee from the other leagues. their strategy wa get Mc | some of them in groups. Among | 1 us i “Prohibitio hi Ny | foorelcossacaks t the weet Vir the latter was the Maryland dele-| t y ic q ( ii nm has norol: o the We . ae Weaman tet are ' i i |ginian that they could not get away | FAton headed, by ‘Governor Ritchie} jenn | 1 eeaen shiek who himself was a dark horse can: | Bet | ida abs roe st the yreatest DROP UNDERWOOD aidate | i ea || Signe TO PLACE DAVIS BE. Meredith, of lowa, who ap-| ti ij tale of the Ameri- Then the play was to drop Under. |Ptared lkely for a time to inherit a tee ined potple today. wood and swing in behind Davis so|'he McAdoo votes, -stood at the ‘ tek] =President Nicholas Murra fast he would go over without a/Comer of his delegation... looking iss ii Columbia university. Goubt. The play worked perfectly |T#ther unhappy at the turn of it i i cal aan and there was started an immediate |™m!0¢ rorambit among the states to chaise | A(Dayig-tan stood on the speake thelr Votes and get on the band wag. |¢rs’ platform holding aloft a large on. The first of the dark-horne can-|picture of Davis, who, aside froin Aidates to. be withdrawn was Mere jhin reputation, is unknown to & aith.. Then cama Underwood after|vaat majority of the delegntes, the nominating vote had been cast.| For that feason the demonstration, Davig was notified of his impend-|perhaps waa not so everwhelmingly. ing nomination [spontaneous as might have been #x! | (On motion of Taggart of Indians! pected | the rules were suspended and Davis} The chair recognized Governor was made the nominee by acciama- | (Turn to Page 14, Column 3) tion, | oe A terrific shout rocked the ga Vinee deine..|Davis Informed Dr. Butler says that the dry law = the boys and girls of the States, No, Hgrtense, che was eaking before a convehtion of FOP: Th “Before prohibition it was unheard M for women to serve men a cock: Wl, Now the first thing your host- hagas is serve a drink."-——Dr. But- John. William “Davis, democrat- and 63rd Congresses, 1911-15, from i ic nominee for the presidency, : Gosh, we wish we had Doe's circle | the first West. Virginia district. } It be- [Bits to look as if his name will have fee spelled * "“Mendien.” gates. With the presidential nomination disposed of, Senator Thomas Walsh, Wonder how ‘Matt Peasley” of The Star's “Cappy Ricks” stories looks? Well, here he) is, with “Mrs. Matt’ up on the spotless foc'sle of the five-masted Vigilante, lying in the| “Matt's” has received reports of the ballot: ing there but has played very little in promoting his candi: nings & Russell, of New York the Kappa Psi and Mit Beta Kappa. He ‘was elected to 62nd fraternities. active part stream in Lake Union now. a tall, angular sea captain, originally from “Down yaa | dei: aha ine We was ae ip Clankeoirs, W Vas He ;resigned from. congress to i Pees I Saabs wasting the Wide: bts anal ’ . April 13,1873. He was,the son “become: solicitor ‘general. of the ; 3 = leita iothinn fae -t oan eel He’s Candidate) Sonn sand Anna Davis. He United “States, which office he “The Columbia president cites a Be ere ene ne | Stef) New. YORK, July 9—John- W.l "took his Ay Bed in. Wasb->” held | Cotati realest” dita. = HecRPaReAbaiGs oc the stockton (AN 0 ook his . degrees in. Was veld. until. 1918. "He- was then | i Pit fails +t iy |taunched into a parade about the Davis was informed of his nomina- ington and ‘Lee™ university in made ‘ambassader to Great Bri- ; Mt ates pone, flask of liquor | putdet. |. Iovery -wtate., standard. wes |*" today while staying at the 1892, and’his LL.B. in 1895, tain, holding that. post until 1921. 4 ali Pert fF ‘ame of town on immediately in line ‘The band play home of Frank Polk, former aasist On June 20, 1899, he married Davis “was cbunselior to the i } : Had |ant secretary. of state y F 7 3 r i Rite on ths Rack ot a Yeed. dreds of delegates sang and shout: | p, 2. 1922 ‘ 1 o | vis said, vary ‘2, 1932, he married again. ican delegation fora conference ER * ed. The gallerién looked on with] “Ay that time Davis was prepar:|”" THis second wife was Mim Ellen. ‘with ithe Germans,on the treat. ANOTH) RATTLE- j hardly a sound, tho a few handker-ii,- statement which would be! »G." Bangell., He has one daugh.: ruent/and-ekchange-of prisoners rs j SNAKE Lee ach io| aiven out” later ter, Julia. | of war at Berne, Switzerland, in | SS | Plans were immediately made 10) navis, whose home. is on Long Davis was admitted to the bar September, 191 i Bs nad bes invite Davis to appear before the) tyiand, has remained with Polk dur-| in’ 1895, and is now a member .°| Davis is a. 32nd degree Mason: 1 Fannie bas been slipping steadity convention and address the dele-ling rost of the convention. He! . of the lawfirm of Stetson, Jen-, “and is, ai member of the Phi ] democratic convention. . ; cow ” * . of Montana, chairman of the con-|dacy, This was left ulmost ‘entire ® are holding the frontline) East,” and the ship's registry lists him as Capt. Ralph Peasley. Mrs. Peasley has two} vention,’ appears as the likely nom-|ty in the hands of his friends in i i Gan nobods get the ath followers. | homes, one ashore inCalifornia, and one in the Vigilante’s cabin. She likes the sea-|inee tor vice president. ‘The Davis|ihe West Virginia “defegation. Robody get the boys out of the = goin’ home best. —Photo i Frank Jacob ‘Winches by Christmas? Star Staff Photographer All Set for. inal Pari ce mocrats are now looking ' ‘ y LELAND FH NNUS Bains E M S555 /HMMGE ROW (Ss HOLD EATH Can E2t" Mecker, STREET GAR TA hoof and mouth disease or ie. 94, in Battle | WAR STARTED for Congress county Fights City, State ley, as’ he lighted a stogte, “it's not every man who can,entertain his sister-in-law trom» New. York In’ a WL GEE GEE, TH RAGING AGAIN DRIVER giving county VAI OFFICE, i _ summer home ‘in’ Lake Union.” me a MP, SEZ: . _ nga . 4 ; : BS sa of. young’ men aro witiing | | UES “Moines. Fill? Money Is) ‘Not » $369.00 one, at any-rate, Manstaughter Charge Faces Ruts pate uaaeves a and Schools for $200,000 : : ae 8 : exal y olde , for . | ; a ; | r oa ir ae cee | Gone; Work» Halts Yes, sir, Peter B. Kyne's famous | Clarence Johnson |' lows: grab. the. votes,:it ‘was In City, school boafd and the state an t : e gi acorn — and most-trueto-lite “Cappy Ricks? a alent Weanenday when Bre La. fratal WarWand Wodacaeie ast Rn fe fiction character, Matt Peasley, Js Meeker, years young, ob. b t ; 4 ee —s/TALK EMERGENCY FUND in Senttle, aboard his: heautiful: five: DRINKING » IS ADMITTED | tained we ieahoriny Del and {county Wednesday for more: than} r < ‘The mice would mare ash masted sailing ship, the Vigilante Tor Be informally announced his inten | g200,000 held by. the county. treas- F the deadjdcked: democrats Beals, of 501 Haller _ building, \ just go crazy . é +! : , 7 oh ti [ o i i ‘| him.” But Ferguson Insists on/tresn from a South American’ tri | Chauffeur. Blamed for Death tlon i: eens ue eee afar!’ ke intaneit on: tkek Were Gar ever learned of the galaxy of who's been active in Legion af. | it yuh mean?” inj with Jumber, fM th aA taxes Ailver tongued orators assembled’ | fairs; and Herbert Evison, sec- | # much a big cheese.” Legal Opinion His real name ts Capt. Ralph of Mrs. Sara’ Howay gag haioer iadton meareeae ocd: | by Chairman Gates of the Salt \| etary: of the Washington N | Pedtley, but “he js “Matt to. his | tlhe BEG pioneer Puget Sound rancher County Prosecutor’ Malcolm Doug:| “PY " ural Park association, and Rob- i 1 r y Water Park campaign speakers : : t CRE GEE'S CAR Des Moines haw no bridge and it in| friends—and excusably proud of it.|° Ciarence Johnson, chautteur tor] SM’ exporter, author, Iaveler lias refused to turn over the.money| ‘committee, you asaape earner KAS ert’; Jones, executive secretary ' ‘ ‘ ; i A t © Public. Health League o ] _ WOULDN'T BUDGE; _ | wondering now if it is to have a dirt tga dal gH NG is bbe ecm the U. 8. Steel Products company,| Meeker hopes fo round out his’ {and will fight the demand in the! ‘dollar that Bill Bian Lrould Washington. | T SHE SAID fill. The fill is only. partially com- faced a manslaughter charge Wed.| varled experienées ani tong life. | courts. have a telegram for assistance ‘And-0.-1.*Davis, of 4136 Ar- ‘ der the nit spray. and sun of the| ¢ : ; nd 0, 1. Davis, 0 Ar WASN'T “FUDGE!” pleted and the money appropriated |seven sean, Peastey Inn typloal |nesday afternoon, His bail ts vef at| "vith a term dwn in Olympia | city Treasurer Ed Terry asked| Off\to Seattle, pronto. | | 1s | cade building, who landed in | The for it, Ja gone, it became known Wed: | “qown-Eastor,” /and the! one charac: | $2,500, cmong tha lawmakers Ff Me labout $148,000 for the city; Attorney| ‘ot them. a. bell-ringer-—are_ be» | Seattle a year ago, a motor tour. | Heiiooas ‘ , | nesday. ter of the “Cappy Ricks’, storles| “Johnson drove the car in. whict an ‘ ‘ : , ist from Chicago, and. who was hi) Pits! i its ten tae Peg ih Meunitine’ heavy. travel over the|who appears in the flesh most like |Mrs, Sita Howay” redeived injuries He “obtained a nomination |Henry” Pennock, “for “the * school | fag See Aer ack bo: “aold"-on: the dountry stheit! He i Geren this year,| Seattle-Tacoma highline road is' be | he appears in the Kyne stories run-| leading to her death on July 4, ‘The| Diank at the office of the coun: | hoard, demanded roughly $60,000" for) TONE Ne Soe ee Oe tiv stayed. He can tell you what it a hts lem, no doubt, will be|!« shunted around a temporary de-| ning in ‘The Seattle Star each week. | auto went off a bank on the Lake Rathore Ah eharrg peared school district No. 1; while the state] “iinutes or longer on the State parks like this will do for Se- Ve camel, tour whieh, it J9 feared, will not be] wanmg HIP 1s Washington ‘boulpvatd, near Beije.| Accepted an tneltutlon. te, spon | Toe abot $80,000, Mates oF tongs Gone avother, | attle, He KNOWS... From ex- Wil usable during the winter months. FRE nom PERL vue. Mins Essle Dixon, a visltor ihe y The’ case, whil \ perience. Bil Former ‘The old feud between county gov- | WERE ‘ : from Spokane, was slightly Injurea| Mfternoon, and made arrange he “chase, while Hot Unique, 18 Un.) Svea nee. Pap TESS ci ] Waa Walla residents will | piment factions is the cause of the| Just now he and Mrs. Poosiey are] in the wreck, $ ments for a business trip to usual. Numbered among them a ina i +3 oe a and oa AB | Deale next Sunday at the West|‘orry in the south Bnd, While the |éntertaining “Matt's” slater, Mes." 4 Coroner's jury Wednesday heard| Shokane. Thursday , morning. The three demands are made on} william A, Irwin, of the Puyet Bealy. Bisley GOT AYALy body Aa Ma beach, and O14] County commissioners ostensibly are|Van Atta, who lives In New Jersey; | ¢rom Johnson, who. liven at 1206 He gave his address as 1620 |tho theory that stroct car taxes are} ‘Nill Co., the:man who put éver Rowe ae “ i pe rter wants to know Sf] working together to complete the fill, {across the. river from New York| inion st., an admission chat he had| 26th ave. N. |Personal taxes, as distinct from tax-| the famous "Seven League | Abd Lie. Foung Melia BiRivoss x 11: card entities him to ad-| County auditor W. A. Ferguson |clty, and who miade the transcont:|eqn qriniclng on the wight of the Jation on real property. Boots’ campaign and who has | club, which has taken over ti | on shows signs of blocking a proposed |nental trip, experienced a devastat: | rita) wreck. ‘The fui werdict was | t The state code says that, on real| been for years working to make charge of the money raising | i ° YE DIARY attempt to make an emergency ap-|{ng hotel fire at Lake Louie, and) tiat the accident occurred Niet |property, all rebates shall be charged} the people of the Northwest AP- campaign, has eloquent speakers } \\ This mornin, eee) propriation to accomplish this result. |spent days In hot, sticky Pullmans) an excessive rate of. upeed, coupled against current expenses. and all] PRECIATH ‘the Northwest. -Ir- trom iy own membership on the a fikmerae, pt Allee, our! Phe fill is County Commissioner to be with her brother for & few) with the use of ilquor. by Johnson} LONDON, “duly 9 Dispatches | interest credited to that fund But] win ts meer and i ae eH | committee. a K i i : and did well tak a ‘s idea and Ferguson | weeks. and hi old teai'in’ tne ont: ‘ i ter.|ON personal property nothing ts sald|) Seattle-Tacoma par ea’ and At a meeting Tuesday night | Heslent servant ,@7, Diet, and she an| Frank Paul's idea al Mee aaah pat ioe HR CaRD Is associates in tne ca reaching here from Bagdad yeater: y ; sea adereds dei talp tit welilty od ee Gat reuRPMRtGRRR eae eat CRA Hal fon to14 of any ould not bear be- pp about the interest I doesn't like Paul. Johnson is a driver employed by | day stated that the Amer! faulte in ¢ 0 ro “Matt Vea i fi | ‘people. sw: 5 a | Ta the tie oment 84 | eT SHOW cere alata ieee beh the U. 8, Steel Products Co. Mra,| flyers have reached that city on an-|on taxes: bi nesteg pa Lag Taal nteHeNtstetteemeatont a if he And 8 vast concourse of people| REAL EMERGENCY 4 Pa (bE atygicen Howay was the wife of Edwin| other Jap of the round-the-world) A similar case in Tacoma, brought rt ae . 3 the greatest I ever saw at w tall eters Vigilante, an 1, K. Wood Lumber |troway, salen maroger of the wi ly tho school: district, was decided| of Seattle's pioneers, and the thusinsm which bas put it on } i ld s00 W. Laude, A. 8. Kerry,| County commissioners must show | co, vexael, cinimed to be one of the |aenariment of the eamé company. NL RE We anainat Pleree county’ by the state} man who periodically commutes the map as one of Seattle's i Neal | thers, : Henry, and many | clearly that there Is a real emergency | mont weautiful of that’ class of shiva | Fonnnon. said. he had e “ha | TAKES YEN | {ts ie ts eR, f nite between Seattle and New York most flourishing civic organiza i i ij we eeme, an hat we did lose! terare he will approve warrants for pearing, i fivermanted fore: |.” had kone to Ta) THIEF Pegereme: tours: /Tab.oouyy held shat "0; n, also is on the speak- tions. Committees were appoint- i Homer Ment! © to home, and Mrs, | Defor' Pp fast disappearing, i fi A toma , from ; Seattle, taki M { specific. law,| _0¥.0X team, P Pp 14, \ Get, Pew Aid ask who won and «| the additional expenditure, Ferguson |ang.att rigged aulling craft, i tattle he 3 AND LEAVES U. S. jin the absence of any specific Inw,) os committes. Meeker gives’a ed to do the work. The club } ead fer, vinarte, Franclaco,”” and she Aid| said Wednesday. It ts estimated it!" "rhe Vigilante arrived in Lake |siomny hy Herceneng) Mal HaNle eed the interest followed the taxes, That)’ tai that's worth any club's time. never does things in a halt. | Pil ” but did not 5744S 4 ys r | Dixon, of Spokane, to that city t 7 a ty 8 . '. . C i | nd pat T did not Me) with take $15,000 to complete, the Job. lirnion neveral day ago, in: ballast |) ery tne! Valtighing. “ofa idrnath MONEY UNTOUCHED isk is roltys or Ae HAG tae sh orto tteas Rte dete HE RN Aime oan es basi pas i| i} ae ead Py, ther or not an|from Peru, where she el a load | | ney 7 4 Beye Gr ene 4 named Tuesday night were ss Rotice that a terrapin haa been Pee atin ir otrnihalbnierd ot Northwestern, jumber Ipy mre’ Dont peed aia Raaeae ae crued interest goes to’ them, too. Nearer pect ote Mich aan picked because: of. their, known i } bee: hd y g rs " or vy ered o 7 1” < a gon ga ot Ait if ou sont Star's pet parade by | will hold a hearing Friday al 10.8. tm. | siR6, PRASLEY HAS \GIN WERECIN Cait |] poom of T. Mixhimoto, Pahamn ||. Gy Attorney ‘Thomas Ji Tn Kens? seth ave, and BF, Conner: of. |) qualities to DO THINGS. ‘The | ; tp In. the commisaionera\ room REAL, OCEAN HOME Aes Wei Nath it |] hotel, early Wednesday morning, || "0% | handling the city's: case 240 MeDonald building, and | committre — chairmen assign: i ] Mill now step forth and enter} When tne uppropriation was first; Mrs, Peasley, motherly and lovable, | They were returning from Tacoma) | i146 japanese reported, and stole || George Francis Burton of 316 ments follow ee Ke i TP carne? made it was for n bridge to cont $22..| is his mate—on the sea of matrimony | #Nd were near Bellevue on the high: |} 49 bite ftorn hia ‘oat. pocket, || SWAN ‘OUND GUILTY Lyon building and J, J, Burke of General committes, Dr. Frank \ H] i Goat, $i 100. Later, on the recommendation | and the Pacific. Her hard is notice. | Way on the. cant side of the lake!) vine he Iny asleep, At normal || Carl Swan, chargod with the viola Burke bullding and D. 1. Wood. W Herade Are to Le barred from the pet | of Commissioner Paul, the board de-| able in the cabin—it's no crude, man. | When (he ip Sas AN ls to take a! sate he got about $400, In the || ton of the national prohibition act,| Spaulding of 1616 B, 47th st. neakers' committee, Charles tit cana £287 Are too fond of eating | cided to go whead with the fill, This, | made living quarter, Thera are | curve and plunked 122 feet over An |} other coat pocket was. $40 In|] Was found qullty on two of three! ‘They're all on the speakers’ com Frinbeo. f in and Ford owners hava ob-| while more expensive, was considered | flowered curtains at the portholos, a /embankment, overturning and Killing || A erican money, which the thief || counts by n federal grand jury in| mittee, You know what they Advertising, Carroll Colina 10 Chiet Beveryn more permanent and was eald to be! Inco coves on the Ihrary table-and| Mri. Howky and injuring Johnion| | onawed up. Judge William H. Sawtelle’s court] can dot and. A, Strang ASS. (Turn to Page 44, Column 7) (Turn to Pare We Column 2 (Turn te Pare 14, Cohimn 2) ‘Tuesday afternoon And then there's Othilia G. C. (Turn to Page 14, Column 4) £ '