The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 18, 1924, Page 1

}} Inside Story of Roosevelt’s African Hunt! Starts on Page Six Today ‘Police Never Waste Best Liquor, Charges Nichols! ~ Nn ¢ The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington ( WEATHER ee ay oy & ii! —- The Seattle Star [ome Botered as Lecood Clase Maier May 2, 1699, at the Postoffice at Geatti, Wash, under the Act of Congress March Per Year, by Mail, VOL, 26, NO. 175 <a SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1924. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, _ | ad. S. Warships Tr ain ‘Obergs Win $200 “Empty Hands” Wager STOCK NOT. _ Guns on Shanghai! Now They’ Mt Be Busy Eating for Week DESTROYED |Good Whisky Goes to “Hospitals,” Council Probers Find HOUSANDS of bottles of liquor, seized by police during the past two years and ordered destroyed by the court, have never been destroyed, according to testimony of Lieut. George Comstock in the city council probe of the police de- partment, it was revealed Thursday. No record of what disposition was made of the liquor has ever been kept, Comstock testified. Not a single bottle of “good” liquor has found its way into the sewers of Seattle, as the law contemplates, Chairman Ralph Nichols of the efficiency committee said. HANGHAI, Sept. 18.—United States marines and other| international troops were mobilized for defense of their countrymen in the foreign settlements, with a panicky rush of Chinese from the war zone expected any moment, The anticipated crushing blow against Gen. Lu Yung Hsiang’s army before Shanghai was struck this afternoon. The Chekiang forces were routed and victorious Chi Li troops broke thru the lines and advanced on the city AMERICAN GUNS TRAINED ON FORTS Three American destroyers, their guns saa on the forts, were stripped for action and standing by. General Lu’s forces were retreating in disorder | Conditions in the foreign settlements were extremely pre- j carious. > Howdy, folks! The Chinese Gen. Chi Hsieh Yuan launched an irresistible attack today army at the battlefront has been after artillery preparations and the Chekiang lines crumbled, utenant Comstock testified that fiscated booze it given to and physicians, but admit COOLIDGE LEADING IN ted ths record has been kept of furnished with umbrellas. A mob 8 % FR | A that no Fe an WaacWA sat apumeientic Hak of retreating soldiers and civilians bore back upon LITERARY DIGEST POLL || t% amount given Nichols de ing, however, until their galoshes Shanghai and it was feared they would overrun the thin clared. arrive. . : line | of settlement guards. OF VOTES IN 5 STATES |, “Apparently potice officers, at . iio e More than a million refugees 2W YORK, Sept. 18—First their pleasure, have taken the Ove top, with the dest of IN returns in the Literary Di- || Mquor out of the vault, osten- tack Sri Ghtaces’ deughba stoner, Rats compet. shelter ‘be Fee eee coo oso cotera || sibly to be delivered to hospitals lnc cn cos eyrscs Me Mees ‘and hind the barricades where the | Perea. Up. 5 apa hlce. and physicians. Mth hie trusty silk umbrelia. marines, with machine guns and aa in the leads Benatnr La Fol. ||. “Whether or not the liquor reached " +e 6 | WING WAY TO armored cars stand ready to put 1} ite macend tna Noten Wi Davia them unknown,” Comstock ad: IN CHINA down any concerted attempt of | 1] democrat, thisd. Ta ee “I'm making 200 yen a day.” SAYS DEPARTMENT IS Chinese to rush the barriers. The returns numbered over | GUILTY OF CONTEMPT ive ciate | Panios were general among the na. | 26,000 votes from California, Illl- |! Chairman Nichols charged that the oi im 0 { ' tives. | nola, New York, Ohio and Penn- || seattle police department is guilty of sylvania. |contempt of court in not destroying I eo die More thi yo : | Ghe ONincte ‘seldser reeset te 26, | Mor fy he 0 megs Wa a Tho first returns; confiscated booxe, Over the top yesterday. He cow rines and sailors were ordered to the Coolidge, 16,071 ‘i a vo ects ong Planes Arrive Okeh in Easy |""% 4 "wllers were erderea to th Daye ai tater toeey ned toes La Follette, cattered, 307 destroyed by the court, it was marked “Destroyed” and then stored Gili casks Vices 6 win vinckew Trip From Omaha The victorious Chi Li troops head If THEY'D BEEN CHINESE ° ¢ for the Woo Sung forts. Napoleon: “Every soldier carries in his est the sector guarded by Ameri | The same votes in 1920: in the vault Kramck = marshaly mbeelia™ MUSKOGEE. AWAITS WHEM | con rabsines || Harding, 16,112 When the committee resumes its we are, here | 4 i “ | Cox, 4,364. ;probe Friday, an effort will be made | Lu Yung Halang’s ally, General Pet | u ‘Umbrallas will win the war.” ts 5 as: ceresndered wit! pais | Debs, 147. jto determine just how much of the jEaeragat: “Damn the embeellas! Go Crowd of 10,000 Greets In be - pope d asia sheet eh mao | sea Scattered or not voting, 5,143 uor, if any, was received by the Dewey: “You may raise the ombretia| trepid Aerial Adventurers | chuan rang < Bargin lige when ready ley.” pai : <a A list of 300 places in the city Rhdulaons “her dese tenvele on Vs The civil governor of Hang Chow BULLETIN proclaimed his indepen Lisp R' SCRANS FLYING FIELD,|and fied to 8 St. Joseph, Mo., Sept. 18.—The The only Ci larmy round-the-world flyers took the Napole on the 3 Jp Nevsioon: PP BP alr at 1:24 p.m, t for thelr 300 4 - 2 ‘* \ Sherman: “War is hell—wh i twat eve has been sold since |Nov. 1, 1923, was turned over te {Pp cnice. c mee W. B. Severyns and Were, the Obergs hungry when they returned from their week's stay in the northern) | Lieut. Comstock, of the dry squad, woods? Just take a look at this picture and see. The only trouble was they couldn’t| CONNER HOME | Thur Nica Coomwell: “Put sour faith in ed, tut {Mile hop to Muskogee, Okla eat fast enough. They're having the time of their lives here hiding steaks, bread, pota-| | ' . your uniforms dry.” immediately 7 if, ; : C ‘IL b | fo ‘orm gives the addresses of all -T shail fight it out along this Capture of Shanghai by Chi Helen | f2¢8 and coffee. “We'll make nothing,” Oberg claims. “The $200 prize money will be |places where liquor is sold from Perr las ‘aos FLYING FIE iy, | spent before the week is out.” The picture bears out the statement. _—Photo by Price & Cart tnam: “Don't shoot, men, dee the whites of their ambrell loo ked fi Flee With $1, 200 Loot as First ave. to Eighth ave, and om St. Joseph, Mo. Sept. 18.—The = _ . oe Maid Returns Home j intersecting streets. . Zs ~ ia ee eee eee le ior Mees round-the-world flyers landed a It 2sekiy obere and kts tte: Numerous hotels and cafes, card: a ee fae * here at 12:29 p.m. The planes left cH AF | couple who went a week ago — Fe mee te renee Hang soit fel'lOmaha at 10:36 a.m. After a briet| ollce 0 othe woods near Mount e S @ | Borgiars entered the home of Mrs rooms and soft drink places are ker to show the Northwest }L. A. Conner, 934 21st ave. listed. their umbrellas into ploughsharcs foregteag bee 5 Ape omer ne |] that one can live a week with | Wednesday night, and stole valuables | up by responsible persons. He re- bead x | loon. ‘ : | W A t |} only a jackknife to get food 8 Z; i 0 io approximately $1,200 while|fused to divulge who obtained the oman Auto | 7 ey mome This list, Nichols said, was drawn ou GEE. GEE. Tir Orricet Ceuta a Sain» Plight soces and shelter, were awarded Mrs. Conner and other members of | evidence Seles the various places. dew Lowell Smit thelr $200 prize Wednesday VAMP, SEZ |mander, was the first to land, fol-| | If you don't think an umbrella | |jowed by Lieuta. Wade and Nelson | Pekin Declares War Against night at the Strand theater, D i lee the eit ing at the home of Senator W. W. euts. | he couple bet the Strand \ | Conner, | er opaetan corn has | |*84, M6 tome seme vasee. || Manchurian Dictator river Drunk } sive ais Wed Anyway 2 Sammaitcterona tome wote| QAIEP HAS LIST the family were spending the even- As the big air cruisers landed on a week. Chief of Police Sever- | the thieves were systematically ran- j | of a lady on » crowded street, | nosschai field a crowd of 10,000! roxnon, sept. 18-—A fleet ot AX spare ATED woman ariver| yns gave She the money. The | ‘ORFOLK, Va., Sept. 18.—After| sacking the rooms. They fled when | a os ee oa i areee Lieut NDON, 4 spread terror among a crowd o} Obergs will appear at the b diet sihvelabe Ween ; $e . . | Persons swarmed out to greet Lieut. /1305 Chang Tso Lin's airplanes SeMeGRM ak eouanny Gad aladl Pc Pend agpe Friday cing refused a marriag they heard the, maid enter the hopse | Says Names Are Are All on Po- Lal Gee Gee will only allo J,| Smith, Wade and Nelson. early today started bombing the Chi | ton et rebnitaAne cieenlne:-whett at arena it 808) and 848 |by Norfolk authorities owing to the trance was gained by breaking | 5g Dashicigh Fitshugh to, kiss her on| Tho aviators were escorted to 11 army post of Chang Hal Kwan. |iost control of her auto, dashed|{ pcm. 2 "| [vast difference in their ages, Jack /® Siass at the side of the front door} lice Blotter Now Friday night. jPlatform by Adjt. Gen. Willlam A. /according to a dispatch to the Cen-| across the intersection, jumped the Mrs. Oberg, here, tells in her Griffith, 29, motion picture theater in turning the latch from the in | “That's amateur night,” she ¢z-|Raupp, of Missouri, and Carl H./tral News curb and plunged into a doorway of own words the story of the / |organist, and Mrs, Sarah Elizabeth |"TT aoa in the loot of jewelry, |;, Witt few exceptions, every boot: plains. Woofley, president of the St. Joseph| The attack was an attempt to|ih, wenttion Fe rH ne : 56 Taha ORE thas neluded in the loot of jewelry. |jegging joint mentioned in Council Ly 4 the Scottish Rite templ | \ week in the wilderness. Fray, 82, widow of John Fray. | cothing and Oriental rugs was < sees cnapiber! Wenner ce: [ee ee en trolmen ©. D. Folirich and B.! a 88 wealthy Washington and Raleigh, Valued keepsake. a. pendant aur. {™4" Ralph Nichols’ list of 300 joints A i eported r e dan es were atFOlne ‘ bes . . . ts valued eepsake, a pendant sur- b side uspntrr's Soldiers guarded the big planes|!* rr orted that the damay rt i Madr took tie Wetoan to ‘Minot BY MRS. EARL OBERG C, broker, will be married in a] YO UG0 ty peace bt photo on | °*” be found on the book of arrests T as the crowd milled mbout them. ["0* heavy, soxpital for medical attention, after} TN ALL my life I never had as| Portsmouth Va., church today elther peeaione ens pcre i fer 2 boys arveted Yor smashing The flyers were met 30 miles out CAes ¢ which she was taken to jail. She if many thrilling experiences as) Griffith announced that he and} phe pendant {s worth millions fe (gee ies been raided times without September 16 and 1 only did my of St. Joseph by four planes from; PEKIN, Sept, 18.—(4:50 p. m)—A| refused to give her name when Capt jmy husband and T had during the | the aged widow would take no honey-| mother in sentiment, but not a cent | 2 ta i Chief of Police W. B. He wa ovarged: "—News Item.| Rosecrans field and escorted over presidential mandate, issued by Tsao E. L. Hedges quest d her The|one week that we spent in the moon. to the men who stole it,” said Sena- |S aD winse te bebe, ‘a ass oh : |the gpity. |Kun today, formally declared war) womap was then held on an open) woods near Mount Baker, “empty| The organist sald he met Mrs. Fray} tor Conner, Thursday. “Mother| Sevens, Comment Thursday when, The price of milk in Seattle has} The weather, which had been| against Chang Tso Lin, Manchurtan | charge thanaed . ¢ mA i hist ie te ark hes anal would be very WHAAtRI tor ay ei jhe received the long typewritten list dropped to 9 cents a quart. Milk, threatening early this morning, had| war lord, whose forces are engaging : Fee | tae - AN at oN ah: thei: | Y 7 of alleged vice resorts from Nichols, ad you Keates da: 'the ake), ae reatening early > Mes fy: tebe Chi Ld troope north. ot; tt ays | Doctors and police sald the woman The week was just one round of|/ would marry her because of their | turn.” | who, as chairman of the council com: = q he 4 | cle > hat when the fly-|the Chi oop: n of the Cap | was bad toxicated hritls y tho hard « oney Was no! J gut tn scaler to make i white bane ie somew: {ita + j was badly intoxicated thrills and it was only tho hard/jove, Griffith said money was not | | iniftes ‘od'ethtolenty:. Ja conductingie 1 | t - |work we had to do to keep alive|the object iearchine® probe into. condiiaena | Whistles and bells gave the air-| Chang declared war against the : 4 ' : gE Di STINGY! STI ae makin wei as the planes |Pekin, government last week | ONE THOUSAND BOTTI ot| that kept s8y nerves ‘ steadied the police department, “I am telling you now that there ‘ | Wu Pei Fu, most powerful leader | home-brewed beer and gallons| Hungry? I should say we were; A bandit Thursday was raporiee | le circled over the business district. sae man living who can get confis-|” ‘45 soonas they stepped from their |of the Chi Li faction, was appointed| ready for bottling were seized by | At Himes. Several times I got pretty | to have held ‘up Frank Milter, | ited whisky from me whenever he |.) e ed up while a/generalissimo, to conduct an imme: | federal raiders Thursday morn-| Weak and the berries didn’t seem to|o7th ave, N., near his home, robbing wants It."—Mayor Brown, address. |Danes, the flyers lined up wile Nldiate punitive campaign against |ing at 312 Pine st.. where Mae Con-|fill up the empty spot in my|him of a gold watch and $1.50 in Wiss Tribesmen Die in Bat- ing city council {ideas : Iway and Willis Thorp were arrested! (Turn to Page %, Column 5) change | tle With Royalist Forces see Then they were given mail which campaign biography its 3, | +H z tid trees’ and were ALLAHABAD, India, Sept. 18—/} Man Alleged to Have Signed called “Dawes, the Doer.” [bad been forwarded her |Thirteen hundred rebel. tribesmen Welly sou ‘Racin! Uibices! te, @ Doers | "Peer tne task cing énal | were killed in two main battles with| Another's Name to Check the only question ts, who le he €0-|_ ote been & tong, hard grind an¢ Jroyalist forces at Jajima Idan and ne ; |we'll be glad when it's over,” com | Lor. according ‘Wy Afwbal news: |8°4. gnécen ide’ caaeaeeet een bod mented Lieut, Smith. * | eee papers, which describe severe fight-| was filed in superior court Thursday 01 ‘om Omaha s Yr DIARY | ane, Ceci ae as rie sient 4% % % E") | ing today against W. E. Mulcahy, alias W. Be RE oe (grt BALA BIEN FL: Se re eT McKay, by Malcolm Douglas, pros® ‘There, sa toeab se “ ” cutor. or indeed ined that itht ssp is at ees sm CHILD MALADY IS NOT ALARMING, DOCTORS DECLARE “At” HeRenies Si... rs von commater doth gauge his time to tha ON? Peres OU anes forged the name of E. K. Sato to a fraetic fees rin! C whi the: will * | ‘wien the boas ith at tae the eee Men nar (6FPHERE is no feason for | months of the disease. “It ‘it “The thing to do is to sce that | splration, sore throat, nausea and to Liquor Charge | check drawn by Jones & Grossman, ba bets Diy, Danae od eyo Oe ame the child does not take cold or marked desire to be left alone, “That's a adie," exclaimed Dewey | Seattle commission merchants, and Tt doth throw out the landing line, | Seti alarm over the Infantile runs true to form,” sald the | ee emi . ig are hae wo |, Gilman in federal court when As-| to have cashed the check at Puller ‘1 erred vite as he oe tg Ba _MUSKOGEE, Okla, Sept Bed iF paralysis situation,” Dr, Paul A. Aoétot, October will see the end get wet feo—and when they are or not to move or be touched, in- | sistant District Attorney Frater read | @ Campbell's cigar store, 101 Second We bec Gesiecds Anhge, ta | payernte Warr a te" the or Turner, state health director, sald ot the eetole playing hard and get into a per- tonse nervousness, as shrugging |an indictment charging sales of dis-| ave. Bail was set at $2,500. | tod fe rm: y 7 j Fr $ today for the ay Sa ot bed Oule-|.. Thursday, SAYS PARENTS HAVE spiration, don't have them. sit of shoulders and rapid breath. | tilled spirits last March. The indict- ee |world encircling flyers over Ma NO ¢ USE FOR WORRY down th cool thempelven 4a the ing, and glazing of the cornea of | Ment, consisting of five counts, also Rome eminent sculptor should |homa. Dr. Turner further stated : AUR the eye, charged sal@ of beer from the first make 4 statue of a pedestrian be-| All atores in Muskogee remained) tore were a total of but 26 | “As in every Instance there is disease is more apt to attack a th thin connection, he remina. {of the Year to March, and the main- fore the species becomes entirely | closed under proclamation by bid cases reported thruout the state always a very mild type of the child if he has any inflamma. ed parinte that the majority of |t@#!ning of a public nuisance at 1829 hips te ah idl op ecdaogtd bro ite the city was In Bila) ‘tor the week ending September | diseaso which often goes un- tory conditions, such as cold or infantile paralysis cases develop Bence euilt tad wit be isied the few weeks —Grantla e ole a 9 of no and will be tried the . igglee eee i Ath Vaile tod to Muskogee, They} 18th, with only two deaths. | recognized. Dr. Brown urges | bronchitis, because the mem- in children under 6 years old, | acy of September 22 sie "Turkish Armenia Swept by re 9 J Fs or the current week worry he f th 4 back + who are consequently not of *. DIZZY DITTIES were thronged with thousands of| Figures for parents not to worry about thi branes of the nose and back part neat Little drops of water lOkiahoman@ to join this city's 30,-| will not Be completed and avail- |° situation, but advises them to | of the throat, when inflamed, of- school age. Earthquake Disaster Mixed in with the milk 000 inhabitants in welcoming the| able eak next Fiat ina F | watch thelr chilaren carefully fer less resistance to the disaase Dr. Brown and his staff of 16 President Grant. i r huni Keep the milkman's daughter airmen when they alight on Camp Coinciding with Dr. Turner's | with a view to avolding colds, germs, } nurses are using every effort LONDO! . 18.—One hun Ciad In swishing sil. ap Dix flying field. report were the views of Dr. and also have them blow the | URGES CHILDREN Known to sclenee to keep the dis. | Day Ahead of Time |and fourteen persons have been . . E | ba —- Ira C. Brown, school medical in- | nose hard, several times a day, BE KEPT IN SCHOOL, ease from spreading in the One day ahead of schedule, the Ad- | killed and scores injured in recent 1 ; i ” pector for King county, The ing, if they wish, a solution Dr. Brown urged parents to schools, and with the children . i resident Grant {earthquake shocks In the Erzerum Old Bilas Grump, the sag | ISSESSION of intoxicants was| "P using, iey h ju ‘Red Pp 5 i h miral-Oriental liner President Gran’ Pumpkin Hollow pit td Fintetty |suntoed Thursday against Mrs, Les. so-called epidemic comes every of salt and water to cleanse the keep their children in school un under the care of 2,000 intelli is due to dock at Smith cove here | district of Turkish Armenia, accord: led @ cat, rome women we know | lle Covery as the result of a federal) five to seven years, according to nose and throat—juat the ordin- Jess they showed any combina. gent people the doctor believes | some time Thursday evening. Mrs. B.| ing to dispatches here today. ive enough to qualify as big game | prohibition raid on an establishment| Dr. Brown, and July, August ary gargle and snuffing up the tion of three or four of the fol the children are safer in school | P. Jonos of Seattle is one of the pass-! Twenty-two villages have been de junters. at 329 First ave. and September are the peak Nose, jowing symptoms: Profuse per: than outside engers. stroyed, | < » vier ge a oR