The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 15, 1924, Page 1

BROWN Starts Two New City Probes jand Charges $100 000 WASTE! BI annnnannnn name annnnannannninnnnnnn aA AAAAAnARAAAARAARAAAARARR ACS : The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in We Hoe \i(ll shington The Seattle Star Batered as Second Class Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at & WEATHER tonight and Wednesday; slightly warmer Wednesday Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 635 Minimum, 53, day noon, 63. le, Wash. um f the Act of Coi Per Year, by Mall, $2.60 "VOL. 26. NO. 121. cape : SEATTLE, WASH. TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1924. Fags TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. t| Home Brew . 4 % Seeking “Big Family’ Honors M4 MAYOR 5 Herts. fit Bare ren me Seattle Mother of ra Se for Prize at Grocers’ Le t S H ang Someb O y | TRE ADIN ( (EDITORIAL) “0 a oens | The Star Monday evening car- ried a news story announcing that |, Seattle was without a mayor. A lot of folks, we imagine, leaned é “taughalot” and “! are . oe . ~ P favorite names, but the common: st ‘you see above summer cottages Die “For Sale.” mer camp should be with er some, but it really ought to} E pital offense to name a| 3 | =i | back and heaved a sigh of relief. | Because a lot of folks have been |'Only Death Can Stop She newest © hang a copper | + ine 4 Sete eis doorway, seattying || wondering for a long time why we have to have a mayor. Ps ye th Me, He Crie 8, 5 . But what is one to | t 10 g H a A eens ee <it \| ly, that any of our recent maycrs has accomplished has added much to While Heavy Mys- our peace of mind or our prosperity. tan So the news that Mayor Brown had left the city, and that Mrs. Landes, oa Surrounds president of the outed had refused to sit in his place while he was_ || away, was gratifying. But— Just as we settle back and think we're going to get thru the day without ges ie some silly “popping off” from the city hall, along comes the news that || city emptove amcinuces on ant the council is conducting an inquiry into the management of the civil @ remarkably short time, a service commission. So once again our hopes are blasted, and.we prepare Edwin J. Brown announced with a once more to listen to the swish of the old-time fireworks. We’re in the flourish Tuesday, midst of another family fight. | The mayor got back from an ir- All right. If we must fight let’s have a good one. Let’s have a reg- || DRuNOn meeting at Pasco, which =f has always been our suspicion the household which supports Dene of those little all-wolly dogs is on other kinds of towels, tr: way Gee Gee pronounces it, funcheon every day consists ‘of ebbipy. 4 Kade city departments will be In- vestigated, a mysterious $100,000 (Mi Chicago Chariie, our laundry 7 wanted to know’ yesterday vat this here game of Mah Jongg was —_—___—__—3| SAYINGS OF THE GREAT David: “The bigger they are the harder they fall.” see | ‘The way some of these surgeons | you would think they were| ; fancy sewing. “* |Was reported still functioning with '| ular old-time knock-down-and-drag-out and see if we can discover why reasonable || it is that Mayor Brown can’t get along with the council or why the |} council can’t get along with Mayor Brown. Let’s find out if all these stories of police graft, police rum-running, success after his aban- donment of it | | Inspection of the mayor's office | disclosed that no solled linen. or | clear stubs had been used to cpn- || council inefficiency and all the other things that make a joke out of ||vey any impressions this time, || popular government, are true. | When the mayor got back from | If Brown is the crook his enemies say he is, it’s about time Seattle || New York recently such stage prop- || finds it out before we are charged with further responsibility for the ||{"i"" vrs, used fo “convey, the || troubles of this state. The mayor has other political ambitions. He as (eh, pene iae - . | Puget Sound streams are so dry| that fishermen are not using tackle files any more—they're killing with croquet bats. eee FAMOUS LIES J don't think you're = day t | before. he arrived.” If the members of the council are as yile as the mayor says they are, || MYSTERY, MysTERY for mercy’s sake, let’s.get,rid.of them, too. ALL Ie ae Mee Rica taithow tout, aa oe rt Russell soma 28, and bv Ca ee tne rene es 04 coe Seattle is getting downright tired of being the laughing stock of the || te inow all about the big. probes é eattie rocers association prentc contest at ‘Woodlan park re nesday, or he | " ; it? a coe and the $100,000 and the cit - Me hack nto thestream- It 8) cungest Seattle mother with-the largest family. Left to right, they are: Mra. Dah-|| Country. It 18 too big, it’s people are too busy to be annoyed by a never- || pioye who ix trying to undermine ly suffering from the hook-| /® e : 5 . > tr = line with baby Arlene, 5 months old; Russell, fr., 9; Yvonne, 8; Lorraine, 6; Edna, 5;| ending season of rabies. |the administration, aren't you? 1 nanaind Vincent,-3, and Donald, 2. Photo by Frank Jacobs, Star statt Photorrapher ates eRe ee Lecturer says it is wonderful that cee phi rahe ai ve ¢ mayor informed a waiting world va oe : yt : ° S | i e ° e that there was a $100,000 “leakage” Bhd Gaeta |p nt ate mead ceo ; PLAN SPAN AT/Direct Air Mail for 9 2zicZ2S% ; ea. ccthine!: ‘The bootleg: HEN the Seattle Retail Grocers u tarts am ai n a wis. golag to ataritwo! pobeeo an fre would never allow it! association decided to help cele- 3 Se. 4 brate its big picnic at Woodland} Tuesday a veil of triple-X mystery Sesto ats for Park With a Bang SMITH COVE City Promised Soon)" Sat feet high, for grave. Cost abest | o¢ 325 worth of groceries to the) (©) The $100,000, and Be etttu cise atte. ts |'yourgtet Seattle taother under $6, P Rush Erection of Bridge at’ ‘ (The einploye wit tke soing'th be weit once. "| Young Business Men Meet Hearty) Montlake-University Site Seattle Link to Be Closed Shortly, |i: eee ny aman os 4 ai) ~~ Herald. | A wife i a woman whose biscuits | started something. | Wh ’ * Mitr ; a a . te Te ——. | en Money’s Available only-death-ean-stopme” stuff, It eee cet eres ere Never. dreamed there were x0 Response on First Day 5 Drive The: conitrustion. of w trides wail y y waa karate! an Sar y J ilies with young ‘ : mises ahi eas Ponte conmsoting “the port... commission, BY W. B, FRANCE ing Salt Lake City at 215 p. m, jaar et As Twenty teams of solicitors, under your dollars and the park will fill | bridge on W. Garfield st, witn IRECT alr mail connections be-|and Cheyenne at 7:15 p. m SAY, IS RIFE 1026. Green bldg, who 's the MAN/ine generaiship of Dr. Frank Wood|its coffers,” urged Carroll Collin of] Magnolia bluff, has been recom-| 1) «16, geattie and the East may| fom Cheyenne the mail is tak-| ,The Mayor arraigned an employe to’ Net your -faneity; with. started in Tuesday on thelr second|the club's park publicity committee] mended by City Engineer C. D.| ” “¥en over the new night flying route |°f the legislative department, un- famp: A salesman whose hours! «cre star representative dropped Tuesday. “If you don't the park e j be ordered in the near future, It wa8|to Chicago, where it arrives at 7:35|Damed, as “a propagandist who is to be from 10 to 3. Blackwell. The structure will Te) announced at the Chamber of Com-|in the morning. Almost the entire|™40asing somebody's campaign 355 ° ture: The taste for more compll- salads, hig downtown office building drive) oct is lable to fill a coffin,” et Cut 10 see Me ine, gt? Complete Reattle’s $10,000 quota| sna sugt becatise you don't hap-| Place the W. Wheeler St. bridge,/ merce Tuesday. distance ig traveled in the dark,|@4¥s of the year.” aN aristocrat who once had| Ninth ave, 8. W., who Is 2%, andifo, purchase of the Salt Water| pen to be approached by our teama”| burned recently. The Seattle postoffice has an appll-|guided by the newly installed air) ‘This man," Brown said, ‘is on Carriage, had his mother] has eight healthy, happy youngsters)... 4 community-atate enterprise! adds “Doc” Wood, campaign gener-| The new bridge will span Smith| cation before the postal department traffic lights that can be seen for|the city payroll in a clerical capacity, to her credit. aie : saitan "4a Ae redion A es f |at Washington for the establishment! distance of 25 miles. Arriving at |but he spends all his time propagand. see Papa ‘Dahiide ie a-stevedire, and|fr.M- tract: of waterfront land be ; son for not get-| cove and will be one of three bridges 6° such a service, and has recelved|Chicago, the mail fies to New York|ing. Any time any one else aske for : 5“: a,{ting behind the ‘poor man's park’ | Mania) Debiine “ies: Jittle “Mit, of|tween Des ‘Moines aga © Tacoma.) en ne Autorachile ten ot| Uitimately to be erected to connect the promise that the service will be/by day, reaching there at 5:05 in|information they can get {t, but if I the} everything, but thru her crowded,|Monday's results showed enthusia® |W. nington in still accepting volun-| Magnolia Bluff district with Seattle, | installed as soon as funds are avail: the evening. ask him for anything he is too busy. ) “I aim to! busy days and nights she wears|tic support from business and Vie. tary offoringy—and {t's getting many| Blackwell said. Plans and speciti-| able. The night flying is the new fea-|I believe most of the obstruction that the smile that won't come off. fessional men, but it will take the] oo then to," cations for. the new bridge are be-| The route proposed ia from Seattle jture of the air service which dif-|has arisen recently emanated from “No especial rules and regulations| united support of everybody in’ Se- to Portland, from there to Boise, and|ferentiates it from the hit-or-miss | him.” around this home,” she says. “I just/attle to gain the needed purchase) The park, you may already know,|ing compiled this week by Black-| thence to the connecting point at/jair mail that has been carried for| It is believed in city council circles is a 90-acre tract on salt water,| well and will be submitted to the , 1d} several year: viously. ‘Thi: Y et up mornings and keep busy un-|money. . | Salt Lake City. This route is held|several years _ previously. is|that the mayor referred to Lenhart it 1 A to bed nights. Monday night's performance of|half way between Seattle and Ta-| board of public works at Its next/t, be feasible, as landing places are/early service consisted of about fif-|0, Shrader, clerk of the city council, ee gs ge © children are all #0 sweet and|“Why Men Leave Home," by tho| coma. The state has enthusiastically | meeting. jalready available or can be estab-jteen daylight jumps, keeping a little) yusT THINK! HE'S 2. ing evens up in the end.| good-tempered that it makes it easy Seattle Theatet guild players at| Supported the movement with $3,000] The approximate cost of the proj-|jisnea readily at Httle cost. th advance of the trains. The WORKED WHOLE YEAR! We feed on cows, and mosquitoes| tor me. There is one rule, by the|the Metropolitan, didn't bring out| of the $18,000 required, Tacoma has|ect has not been established yet,| “When congress again convenes J.|present service cuts at least 56 ws. way, that is strictly kept, and that|any record crowd, but Tuesday | taken @ $5,000 block and Seattio will) ho said J. Underwood, Washington repre-|hours from the time of mail that nee sen secs ene mayor fe is bedtime sharp at $ p. m. Right's performance, at which Miss) False the $10,000 remainder. Blackwell described the project 48) sentative of the Seattle chamber, will} goes by train. the city light department. 1. E it comes to washing the din- “They need sleep to keep them Cecil Kern will also turn over all| HERE'S LIST OF an emergency construction, but Jt) resume his work with the Washing- Pasa STR i Mie The fosger Woeteee uae na they get It tendent's position in this department, dishes, Li'l Gee Gee doesn’t be- but operating expenses to the} TEAM CAPTAINS will be built on a permanent basis. toffice de- ‘ * well, and Mrs. Dahline sees that A NS ton delegation and the postoffice de council to create an assista1 to start to commence, Four quarts of mifk|Young Men's Business club spon-| Wood's team captains, who are|A steel span will be erected from| partment to secure the completion nt super. ienetne a day—and they could use more—)Sring the park campaign, 18 ¢X-| making a snappy one-week's drive|the Smith Cove terminal, along W.| o¢ the Seattle alr route. When this } Brown said that when his investl- D IDATE FOR THE POISON and lots of mush and fruit and pected to show a big total for the thru the downtown section, gaily Garfield st., and will start ascend- is accémplished Seattle will have gation of the two departments is S IVY CLUB vegetables—and plenty of fresh ajr| fund. EAE decorated with big red solicitors'|ing from the end of the present] made a new conquest of Time. made it will’be open to the public. The driver on the dusty road out on the little acre the Dahlins| ty Abe, peices ie ic tags, receipt books, et cetera, are: | trestle. The approach to tho bridge | ote MAIL CONNECTS “1 have bean WoRRIAg OAT EEE fpr that he wants to | are buying out beyond White Center| *0t# Monda ae ee J, Gressner, George Newet!, Dr, b.| Will ae-zag up the hill on the Mag-| an gatm LAKE CITY more than a year,” he said. to a curtain call and was present- “Peaeepedd a Er rapt be ie oetrd taining ed by the clubmen, attending in a|A- Bishop, H. 'T. Bove R,. Ed-| Holla bluff side, Blackwell sald, tol” Ai mail now from Seattle is Councilman W.'T. Campbell said 3 “T simply never get thru ba Seni. body, with @ huge basket of flow.|V@rds. M. W. Denny, H. R. Bean, R. connect with the boulevard system) i.ion py train to Salt Lake city,/ Greatest Spectacle Will Be | that the mayor should ask assistance them,” says busy mama, “and as|70°Y A. Stewart, Dr. Frank Wood, G. A. | ®bove. s cts with the flyers. of the city council if there 1 ‘ i r where it connects with the fly is any * Rownd.the world aviators are| tor washing day—well, that is every|fr% A eee aa fee miesare ae Hughbank, C, A. Nutley, George} When completed this route willl i icaves the postoffice, at 0 Staged by Navy Here leakage in any department. aging Well, that’s as far day at our house.” esac Cinsbaies b Flood, Jack Bachman, W, A. Lind-| Shorten the distance from the bluffs m. daily, reaching New York site! “There are three committees of the pe aaa ‘The Dahlins were 16 and 21, re-|A PE Me Ne tte old salt| Man, Gene Murray, Grover Burke, | Seattle approximately two miles) i sag 4g hours earller than mail| ‘The biggest aerial demonstration | clty council which have authority to Star's pet parade was a grand spectively, when they married, and) Water park treasury and drop inj ® Stanley, W. M. Mason, H. 1, Sib: The plan was given tentative ap- by train. The United States is divid-|the Pacific Northwest has ever wit: | call and swear witnesses,” Campbell Every kind of pet was en- % their greatest pride 1s that all the _| ley, Fred Peterson. Proval by the beard of public works) 4 iniy three zones for the estab-[Nessed Is to be held af Sand Point] said. “Any of these would bo glad to Mayor Brovn’s but, | children are well and strong. Fern, ce biotdigs if vara ees bs eit al gh big a hoe pein con lishment of postal rates, and 8 cents|Saturday afternoon, it was an- aparece Mien Lag making me. PASE weer, and the reet ot EED Kora wrulintte for Gheceliciea ion: | talléd data: Tor thé board’a. coustaer: Us. cturmed, for, tach sone: a latter | nounced tondyaby Chol: Stantord Wh) Bis ee aa ee ae Bt el thom rai her grandmother, and the rest of peakers available for the edification, | tall 8 consider-| Foie Moses, commander of the air forces |SAYS MRS. LANDE: jm fave, then, litem are Here. entertainment and use of any civic or | ation. Chegenne marks the end of the|of the United States fleet. Invitation | “DONE HIM WRON Schaps whose ulves abuse ‘em; ‘And tomorrow daddy is going to| --~ fraternal organization in the city| Construction on the new Mont-|,Cirrenne Mics that of the|to the citizens of Seattle to come to] And you remember, of course, he 9008 Lord gave men Joad them all into the family Ford/Ggroner’s Jury Exonerates Dns tHa Gekd ooaenlstrlneease lake bridge. has alrendy started, he| contrat, and New York that of the|Sand Point to witness the event was} what Mrs. Bertha E, Landes did to fo amess ‘om, ; Materlals are being. collected] " : s | yor's mach 1 om. and take them to the grocers’ plc- ry ‘ : x 4 Atlantle. extended Tuesday thru the Seattle|the mayor's machine, as some call it, ae Rie aoe ie eeeat, bie basket tunch| Him of Meath Shooting — |asked to xet behind, Frank Gatey has| and equipment for the construction ea work hax been done by the|Chamber of Commerce. while’ ‘the mayor: wae 4H aNew Wore rr rr you in the hos-| strapped onthe running board—bo- turned over the ehaltmanship of this crew aro belng placed at the bridge| tin" Crormper of commerce, Post.| ‘The alr show will begin at 2 otlock |trying to straighten out the demo. fellow unconscious, committee. ene in the afternoon. ‘The Lake Wash. | cratic convention. cause there's no room Inside, you) prison Guard A. Lechner, 65, stood) Adolph Cahan of the Cahan Print:| ‘The board of public works has| Master C, M, Perkins and W. C. ington ferry system will run special Well, Mrs. Landes ‘‘done him you pay for gas at a sta a - 4 be they'll win thatleconesated Tuesday ‘ : : pantie : 1. makes you the same way. Be Adittonatien one ated Tuesday se tat] ns Co., has donated the solicitors'| directed the contractor to lose no SN an Penna rine isa ont ving Madisorf park at 1:30| Wrong," Brown said Tuesday. f : linotitig late. Sides ; : ; : oy t : way mail, at Seattle, 5 5 Me . : ; eee “we certainly would know what) Warn Walla state prison of Edward (Turn to Page 7, Column 2 time in completing the span, healt berviok. for the Sand Point base, returning} He save out a statement which in- hey ratgh Near Kelso were at- after the event. Special traffic po-| cluded a conversation he had with Mountain devils.” But to do with it,” Jaughy mother—and) Meath, 63, former state treasurer, wes ; lice and deputy sheriffs will be posted | Mrs. Landes the day he left Seattle Work has already been started ot ects that the children would a ranma Rute Me | Saari ale 4 Sate i I s ta epee Kind of ht Sevils that live whol ts do with St, too. | enitantaty. Puceth wha’ caltaiet| Me S Pda ek Lert Ne puch aie along the roadways to the base to|for New York. This quoted Mrs. Meet when they come ym 4 | tween Seattle anc s nat TGs ea hars Landes as saying: , y —_—_ |for 4 prowler while he was walking | a S$ Im |tinental route, which may reach] care Al Ree eee eee eerie Mayors we may go {to New Mt ¢) 66 4 . outside the wally from his offices to| | fruition in the near future pL he Nay ap Ca York and forget about things here. als the man who in| LO Enlist Boys in | [ne nome noaryy. Ol s G: E [HOW TO. USE «At tonat 17 atfles seouting and teai/ Ti juat going t® attempt outing Wat the tne pelt Anti-Fire Battalion... at 2 p.m, Monday at which it] yinnpic AMES vents “Deposit Air Mail Here,” is the| Stratton. They will fly in full forma. eine Til ot AUTEN Gay. Rt SE tee The Junior Forest Patrol,” an or+| was decided that Lechner had mis:| new sight that grects Seattle citi-| Hons, execute maneuvers and’ do | Ne Tionte of departtientees AIS ganization of boys between 12 and/taken Meath's upraised hand signal) xons, Who go to the central post-|Stunts. Chie! suena attractions |= 'since Re got bible the mayor haa a 8. 146 years of age, will start work In|in the dim light for an attempt to| pans July The Ameri auite a successful day for tho Joftice to matt their letters, It is { fOr visitors will be the Gannet and!) on iooking up ‘disturb’ in the dics eged Bi i Seattle Wednerday afternoon when a| throw some object over the wall near| can crew won; the Ameri U, 8. A. at the Olymple games. placed in. bold black letters below|the Aroostook, moored off Sand! tionary, with.surprising results igamist membershiy drive will be begun by|the women's quarters, He did not! can girl swimmers took the first Helen Wills’ victory over Mra, {the slot that atill rotaine the time. | Point in attendance upon. the planes. |” song city council efficiency commit. ? uets Theft T. | Mr. Wolfe, of San Francisco |know until after Menth was wound:| three places In the 400-matora Batterthwaite, of England, in the |worn inscription "Special Delivery,” | ADMIRAL COONTZ teo\Tuesday resumed its probe of the NEW ORLEANS erm toys wishing to Join, according to|ed whe#his victim was, | swim; Helen Wills seored an im second round of the women's |And thereby hangs a tale of the} WILL BE THERE civil sérvice commission, Hearings Halas Dr. aay 16—R. B.| Mr, Wolfe, are asked to visit the citement among the guards over) pressive and important victory singles was particularly pleasing [latest conquest of Man in his bat-| In addition to the officers of the} were held in the commission quar- MAN abc crn, ce | cumerncly room of the iaenteal police | the carlier Bunday of a con:} on the courts, whore all the because of the brilliant form |tle with Time air foreo, Admiral Robert FE. Coonta| ters, Records of the department fa tamobile thief and| station between. 2 and 4 p, m.lvict, Jamen Moore, of Yakima, wi) Amorieans except Francia shown by the California girl, who The new air mall eervice wasland his staff will be present, to-| were being gone over, bl eape ig in Wednesday and ask for Mr sVyplte: a Leib adele cuUse, i tabbiey peeks Hunter won thelr matehes; and liked the hard courts and won in put into effect July 1, between San {gether with a number of other high} Chairman Ralph Nichols, of the in An today to| The main purpose of the organiz Clarence KE. Long, of ne prison, de | American boxers started knock stright sets, 6-41, 6 Jooking | Francisco ar Now York, Mall|naval officers, The field will pre-| committee, sald that the investigation ants pent!tion iy to promote methods of fire|clared, Moore hus not yot been cap-| ing thelr opponents in the Vola much better than she did in Hng: |leaves San Francisco by airplane} sent a spectacto of martial activity,|stitl was engaged in studying meth. protection of the state'y forests, tured, drome d' Hiver—altogether it was lane at 6 o'clock in the morning, reach (Turn to Page 7, Column $) ods and practices of the commission,