The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 17, 1924, Page 1

e Help Save a Piece of Waterfront fo r the Peo ple; Give to the State Park Fund! WEATHER udy and unsettled tonight and Friday; possidly with oc cesional light reins. Temperature Last 2 Maximum, 65. ™M Today noon, ci Hours pum, 53. “VoL. 26. NO. 123. | Rome Brew Howdy, folks! As we under- ‘ ‘ the West Spo- bridge is progressing Sir became far Gate pick: Sen hep Js broken. eee Gieost any day you can fo down fie Gpokane st. bridge and see ‘gutractors sitting on the tim. the west waterway busy watching the clams sy by. , aking the caissons for the} marci pillars, the engincers had) ‘gal wey of draining off the) They used an cye-dropper. - eee ae q fs Ro truth in the rumor, f, that one of the original con. rg ts dead, and that his place eS on Sent eres Here's the tangled traffic problem West Seattle resi- dents must solve twice each day in crossing the wooden | bridge at W. Spokane st. Dotted lines “shown new straight driveway that will |be open WHEN the bridge is completed. Motorists now must make several dangerous curves and pass under two elevated structures. SHOOT A NICKEL! | tehn D. Rockefeller celebrated | ‘Ws Sith birthday by giving the | on his estate a dime Geb, that man spends money fae a reckless Scotchman! a Speculators have made a} ge by cornering the oats crop, Met this dotin’t_mean that Se in make any money by cor- ithe wild oats crop. ; . RALPH OLMSTED. POLICE. CHIEF Roy’s Brother Runs Force Eight Hours a Day IEUTENANT RALPH OLMSTED was Seattle's chief of -police for eight, hours Thursday. By.a strange set of circumstances, the absence of Chie& Severyns, In spector Joe T. Mason and Captain E. C. Collier conspired Thursday to bring about the temporary elevation peed “ny. beet be | lor Lieutenant: Olmsted to the chief's| larger _____ x | office. Olmsted is a brother of Sergeant e Frank Olmsted and Roy Olmsted, tman is wearing a rented jtormer lieutenant of police, recently quite a difference | the cause of a furore among fed- rai prohibition agents in connec: | tion with the launching in Lake they have mapped the] Union of a 100-foot speed boat. is for airplanes, the next} Roy Olmsted also was the osten- hear of is patent medi-|sible cause, some weeks ago, of a ‘posted along the routes. |reputed tiff between Mayor Brown} fe and Chief Severyns. Store advertises: “Cast; Chief Severyns a week ago MY Well, we have al- eff color was the way ruck the social highbrows. wed her lipstick by mistake pencilling her eyebrows. —Boston Transcript. " oe y ought to be as excit- ‘Drigefight. ‘—John Mase- seen some prizefights at half as exciting as VAMP, SEZ: who flirts with th’ | May not be untrue to | eee left for Montreal, Canada, to attend th international convention of pol i} + What ts velocity, Johnny? " ity is what a fellow ‘Wasp with. eee has @ way to keep tor @ living. Chief Ralph Olmsted chiefs. Inspector Joe T. Mason, the acting chief of police, left Wednesday for Victoria, to attend the international police sames there. HAVE THREE CHIEFS IN SINGLE DAY Capt. BE. C. Collier, in charge of the morning shift at headquarters, left Seattle for Rhode Island Wed- nesday, where he will be a delegate to the national conclave of the Eagles’ lodge. From/noon to 8 p. m., Capt. C, BE. Dolphin was acting chief of police Wednesday, and Capt. B. 1. Hedges wag chief from 8 p.m, until 4 a. m. The same schedule will pr it until Mason's return from Victorta. Lieut, Olmsted, who is next in command of the morning shift un- der Collier, thus succeede’ to the command of the shift, and also the police department from 4 a. m. to 12 noon, Under the rules of the depart. ment, in’ the absenec of the chief and inspector, the captain In charge of the, shift.on duty Is acting chief of police, according to Lieut. Harvey | Michenor, secretary of pollen So Seattle is in the peculiar posl- tion of having had three chiefs of police in 24 hours, and will continue to do so until Mason or severyns wet back, show at Third and Ganer inns on the fee i now under wa 1 y to M tor the prchaye of a big 4 On salt water, Why : Seattle bootleggern 25 “tea Would just about 4nd move; the Ip for the CALL BRIDC ERLE EL SOE | W.SPOKANE ST, EAST APPROAC Douglas Aide, Arr Charges Police Plot! The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington Entered as Second Class Matter May 1699, at the Postoffice at seattle RIDGE c Wash EATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, JULY 17, CONCRETE RETAINING pues) under the Act of Congress March 3, 1924, E MEETING! Engineer Angry! a W.SPOKANE ST. | VIADUCT " a Blackwell Calls Contractors Together | to Have Them Pledge Completion | of West Seattle Job October1 | BY JOHN W. NELSON CONFERENCE of the four contractcrs engaged in constructing the W. Spokane st: bridge has called for 3 p. m., Thursday, by City Engineer J. D. Black- well. Aroused by charges that the bridge work is lagging and that men working on the job do not expect the big structure to be completed before early in 1925, Blackwell Thursday called in the contractors to obtain their pledges to finish the job on schedule time. K A This would throw the structure open to traffic early in October and Blackwell insists that it will be finished then. The four contractors who will meet in Blackwell's office Thursday with a representative of The Star are Hans Peder- son, who is constructing the retaining wall and concrete; viaduct; Gerrick & Gerrick, builders of the steel bascular | structure; Ramaglia & Ives, who will construct the east) approach, and J. L. Smith, who will grade and fill the east}! approach to the viaduct. “T am confident the bridge will be complete by October 4,” Blackwell reiterated Thursday. He was in an angry mood. “T expect the contractors to make their personal pledges that the work will be finished on that date when we meet today. “My professional standing as an engineer has been attacked in this matter and I will fight for that. That is all I have n this world.” While Engineer Blackwell insists the bridge will be fin- ished on schedule, men employed on the structure have no faith that it will be ready for use before January or February ARE CAPTURED AS FINISHING DATE One of the contractors said that 300 Cases of Whisky Seized in California Raid he thought the structure would be completed in January of 1925. The representative of another said that he did not believe it could be fin- ished before the middle of Febru: ary. Ramgalia and Ives began opera- tions on the east approach late Thursday. This contract was lot April 31 and was to be completed in 90 days, Only two weeks remain of the contract schedule and con- struction men assure Tho Star this work will take several months to finish. The contractors have begun assembling material to build the con- crete piles that will be used on this approach, the engineer's office announced. West Seattle residents who have patiently struggled with intolerable traffic conditions at the old swing bridge, were hopeful that resulta will follow the expose of conditions at the bridge. WANT POLICE TO REGULATE TRAFFIC One resident said that fre- quently he has spent 30 minutes driving his car from the junction of Avalon way and Admiral way to Kast Marginal way, due to the traffic jam actoss the bridge in the mornings. The distance should be covered in three or four minutes, Evenings the traf- fic jam frequently extends on Spokane street as far as the junction of First ave. 8. and Spo- kane st., or nearly a mile, anoth- er resident said. An iippeal for better police protec- tion to guard traffic at the bridge was made to The Star, “Not more than two street cars should be permitted on the swing bridge at the same time," a resident waid. “If traffic policemen were stationed at each end of the bridge to regulate the traffic flow we would all feel bet- ter about crossing the structure.” “the original blunder on the bridge was made when the plans (Turn to Page 5, Column 4) SANTA BARBARA, Cal., July 17. —Kight alleged rum runners and 10 automobiles, containing 200 cases of Scotch whisky, valued at many thou- sands of dollars, were selged early today, when Sheriff James Ross and four deputies surprised tho party transferring the liquor from a small launch to the shore along the Hope raneh, three miles west of hore, George Turner, a local man, was a member of the party. The seven others taken are belloved to be mem- bers of the Los Angeles bootlegging organization. The vessel, which had anchored 300 feet off shore, escaped in a halt of bullets fired by the officors, Turner, who has been under ar- rest. before for Volutead act viola. tions, refused to give the launch’s name. He merely said tha it was loaded at a Canadian port. Ho de- clared the liquor would have been on the way to Los Angeles within a few minutes had not the officers ay. peared. Turner stated that another vessel belonging to the same inter. mational gang of booze runners, aft- er unloading part of a liquor cargo here July 4, went down with 1,000 cases of wet goods aboard when it struck a reef off Santa Row island while attempting to dispose of the remainder of the cargo. Freighter Adrift, Aid Rushed to Her PORTLAND, July 17-—The United States coast guard cutter Haida and the freighter West Niger are going to the assiwiance of the freighter West Jena, reported drifting in the North Pacific with a broken tail shaft and no propeller. The West Jena is bound from Cebu for this port. CUT THRU PIGEON POINT Ms Si ts ay hdl \British World Flyer Disap- ; cAR Lint FIND NO. TRAGE OF MACLAREN: pears.in Kurile Islands. LONDON, duly 17—Japanese destroyers searching the region around the Kurile Islands for trace of Major A. 8. ©, Mac- Laren, British world flyer, who has beert missing 33 hoyrs, re- ported at 9 o'clock tonight that they had found no trace of the airman, acording to a Central News dispatch from Tokyo. Reports indicated that. bilzards, for which the Kurile islands, his des. tination, are famous, may have arisen and brought disastor. Japanese destroyers, searching for | the aviator, had found no trace of | him at any of the emergency land- ng points which have been visited. | Until this report was received of- ficiais felt confident that the aviator { would be located at ono of the emer- gency stations. The gloomy mes: sages increased the fears that the herolc flyer had met a disastrous fate in the grim wilderness of the Kuriles. MacLaren hopped off yesterday from Yetorofu island for Paramu- shira island in the Kurlile group. KURILE COUNTRY BLIZZARD TRAP Lieut. Col. A. E. Broom, command- er of H. M. §. Thiepval, which estab- lished Maj. MacLaren's basos in the Pacific, is with MacLaren, having joined him at Tokyo. The Thiepval, the only British vessel patrolling the course, is en route from Japan to British Columbia, where it will take on supplies and then go to the Aleu- tlan islands to meet MacLaren there. The country into which MacLaren headed when he left Yetorofu island, yesterday morning, in probably the most feared by mariners of any part of the Pacific. It ts noted for the sudden blizzards, which come up without warning, and the dense fogs, Which sometimes last for weeks. The islands are voleanic and are dotted with active craters. They are inhabited only by natives, who live in small grass huts, and are vis. {ted only at infrequent intervals by traders, FOG HANGING OVER ISLANDS The destroyers Isokaze and Ha- makaze were awaiting MacLaren’s arrival at Paramushira island when word came that he was missing, ‘There was an exceedingly dense fog hanging over the islands—fogs which some times last for week# and exceed in density anything known {in most inhabited portions of | the world—but the destfoyers put fo sea immediately to take up the search, They have now patrolled the route as far as Broughton bay, mid. way between Yetorofu and Para- mushira island, without finding trace of him, At Broughton bay a! base for MacLaren had been, established, but the destroyer found nothing to in- (Turn to Page Column 5) Claim Air Record Broken in France PARIS, July 17,.—The French avi- ators Drouhin and Coupet havo broken the duration record estab. lished by Lieut. Lowell Smith, U, 8. A. \t was announced this evening after the airmen had been up 38 hours, The aviators continued flying, de- spite a violent storm which threw them off their course last night. The Seattle Sta 4619, Per Year, by Mail, $3.60 * Bob Sets Pace for All er Business Men by ing Profits to Park Oth G wing Robert Harrison Here's 1717 E. Sammons, st., who has his own downtown busi-| ness —selling periodicals. Thursday, Friday and Satur- day he has agreed to, support the State Salt Water park with the proceeds of all “new business” he can pick up for the Young Men's Business club campaign. —Photo by Frank Jacobs, Btar Staff Photographer esied and gen‘imun, in- ng Robert Sammons, Seattle's youngest and one of its most troduc 8 years old, business man ardent boosters for the state salt water park project between Se attle and Tacoma Bobbie is too young yet to be. long to the Young Men's Bust ness club, which is sponsoring the “poor man’s" community park proposition, but he has come thru 100 per cent for the éampaign in a way that would put most “big” business men to the blush. This youngster is a born sales- man He has his own letter- heads and a regular and flour- ishing business selling a nation- ally known group of magazines in the Dexter-Horton, Alaska and other downtown office build- ings. TURNS HIS NEW BUSINESS TO FUND “I have been reading ahout the park and first I decided to give a dollar,” he told The Star this morning. “Then I read how other business men are giving big sums and doing free work for the park fund drive, so I'm going to give the money from all my new business Thursday, Friday and Saturday, to the Young Men's Business club for the park.” So the nickels and’ dimes he receives today and tomorrow and the next day, other than those he receives from deliveries to his regular clientele, will go, not to his own private bank account, but‘to the salt water park pur- chase fund. Bob is the son of Mr. Mrs, William B, Sammons, Harrison st. His father is a civil engineer with the city light de- partment, but his son has al- ready foresworn technical educa- tion for that of one of Seattle's future big business barons. Not all business men are re- (Turn to Page 7, Column 7) and OFFICER FREED Beating Given Sailor Held Necessary in Arrest The alleged beating of James Wal- Ince, 23-year-old sailor from the Uy 8. S. Newport News by policemen Tuesday night was entirely justified and took place only after Wallace had attacked two policemen, it was announced by the police Thursday. Capt. E. L. Hedges, who was on shift at the time of Wallace's arrest, Investigated the case, he said, and exonerated Patrolman Dan Hogan of all blame. Wallace was arrested as. ho was tampering with automobiles at Sev- enth ave. and Cherry st., by Offi- cer J, W. Collins, The seaman broke away from: Collins, by knocking him down, and. was captured after a fist fight with Officer Hogan, HELD AS THUGS Charge Trio Confessed Rob- bing Consulate Aide Said to have slugged and robbed I. Dulando, secretary to the Peru- vian consul to Seattle, June 18, three men, Arthur H. Day, 25, cl- wear clerk; R. E, Duel, 24, a car. nival wrestler, and Matt Wiseman, 23, taxi driver, were held in the elty jail ‘Thursday awaiting the fil- ing of a robbery charge. The trio are said to have con- fessed having thrown Dulando from a taxicab, robbing him of $100 and an overeoat, and slugging him un- conscious. The men were arrested at First ave, and Yesler Way by Soret. P. F. Keefe and Patrolman Charles Whiting, shortly before midnight. Famed Old ‘Bear’ May Go Down, Flag Flying, but Never Surrender HE BEAR may go down, but shell never surrender, i Written in maritime history ) as one of the most famous ships In the world, the staunch old coast guard cutter, Capt. €. 8. Cochran in command, came into the Nome, Alaska, roadstead late Wednesday from her latest encounter with Arctic storms, 'The gallant ship had been reported, disabled ) and perhaps lost--Isolated and wedged in’ by unusual ico) fields in) the far Boring. | Sheywas a bit battered and showed the offects of the adventure in the perilous waters of the North, But she came in under her own power, swaggering in spite of the bruises, The Bear may go down some day, flag flying, but it will be an epic battle, with an uncon- querable captain on the bridge and a hearty crew of. Uncle Sam’s lads in the fore of the fight. There are reports that the command in Washington {s plan- ning to serap the grand old craft and replace her with aa up-to-date seagoor. The men of the Bear laugh Capt. Cochran’ smiles, “They'll need the Bear to pull tho new ship out of the ice,” says the captain, Tho Bear left Seattle last May on hor 89th crulso into the Arctic, JENTS IN SEATTLE. RENEWAL OF FIGHT -[S SEEN! Arrested on Booze Count, Man Says He Was “Framed” by Officers hyo, of a frameup in the |" arrest of M, C. Strange, secret Investigator for Prosecuting Attor- Malcolm Douglas, was laid be- fore Douglas Thursday by Strange ney The investigator was arrested ‘Tuesday night by Patrolman Mike Buckley at Fourth ave. 8, and Main st., following an auto acci- jdent and. charged with reckless {driving. Strange's car was forced to the curb where two wheels were | smashed. Patrolman Buckley claims he was informed that Strange hurled a sult case containing bottles of beer over the viaduct into the railway tracks below, The sult case with all of the bottles broken and con- tents spilled, is held as evidence. George Garrett, 48, said by the po- lice to have been with Strange; was arrested for being drunk. Strange reported the acicdent to Prosecutor Douglas Thursday and claims that he is the victims of a frameup. GOT HIS BOOTLEG BOOK BACK The investigator has been work- ing secretly for several months and had a list of places where he had made purchases of liquor in a note book in his possession when ar- rested. This Was. returned to Strange by the police after it had been scanned, Strange denies that there was anyone with him when the acci- dent occurred. He told Douglas ho was alone, that another car forced him into the curb, breaking his two right wheels. He had no suit case and did not see Garrett, he informed Douglas. SAYS SUIT CASE NOT HIS The suit case was produced by the officer afterwards, Strange sald. Patrolman Buckley did not charge that he personally saw Strange hurl the suit case over a viaduct, according to Douglas, but was told so by a spectator, ‘The incident is believed to mark the renewal of the old feud between Prosecutor Douglas and Mayor Brown and the Seattle police de- partment. This started when the county grand jury was sitting last fall. Douglas at the time charged that there was evidence of graft in the Police department and that patrol- men openly encouraged law viol: tions, oma Douglas said he will take Rigs tion until after Strange has been tried on the reckless driving charge. “Strange will remain-in my em- ploy until I have evidence of his guilt of wrongdoing,” Douglas said. “The case looks mighty fishy to me.” SHELLS MENACE U. S. CONSULATE American Building Endan- gered in Brazilian Battle WASHINGTON, July 17,—Shells fell, within half a block of the American consulate at Sao Paulo when federal forces wero bombard- Ing the stronghold of the Brazilian revolt on July 12, the state depart- ment was advised today in a cable from Sao. Paulo, dated July 12. The consulate was undamaged, however, the message stated. Six persons were) in the Hotel d@Oeste when a shell struck tho building, the message said, The industrial center, Braz, is being bombed and is practically deserted. The city of Sao Paulo is sur- rounded by 15,000 foderal troops, who are bombarding rebel forces located there, tho state department cable from Santos stated ‘Three. thousand well equipped {government troops arrived in Santos July 16 and entrained in the direc. tion of Sao Paulo, the Santos cable declared, Government forces are bombard- ing Svo Paulo from Ypreanga and other places, according to the ad- vices from Sao Pauloy