The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 21, 1924, Page 1

& ta Pie om i ) | | ee 7 c) bi» Soe Mayor Brown Hits at Probers in SLAYS The Newsp With the I yaper ry tha VOL, 26 SEATTLE, WASH., Howdy, folks! What the world needs is a home vulcanizing set for rubber collars. Be that as it may, no woman , is quite as wonderful as she ex pects her son's wife to be ble Th ng! a Hor m is ABOUT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR “Yes, we put on a couple of shovelfuls in the morning and # couple more at night, and, the house is really TOO warm.”— Any married couple. Ed is telling the council efficiency committee all about the | mystery office inthe White building, next to that oceupied by Bob Whiting, Puget Sound Light & Power Co. employe | Ed is the mayor's son and his campaign manager during the last election. He was snapped just before he started to tes- tify Tuesday. 0 by Frank Jacobs, Star Staft 'Bodimer Charges Mayor Planned to Split $2,000,000 for Evidence of | Purchase Fraud Here jidren never enjoy a ways worried that #0 h comp 4 News Boston Old Lady—That’s a nice dull you have. Little Homer bull nuthin’! Brew, Jr.—Boston That dorg was born ttle! right here in testimony involving dence for himself and that it now js +s. 4 wn with t 6 3 va H z rome ests, a There was = young man named Gabriel) ¢> 900 000 among memb unt hat the small group for obti cold and ® horrible sufficient to aided in the may- | ication were to split | nt of the saving to the | Id the contract be rewrit ten, Bodimer testified. He ex plained that, if the city could show fraud in the contract and force the Stone & Webster peo ple to refund $8,000,000, the in- Vestigators would split $2,000, and the city get the re. maining $6,000,000, Whiting agai 8 involved by s' Couldn't eat greens Nor pork and beans, t got on nicely with tonst and So he cough he —J. D. Choate. n employe concern, afterward « charge of Mayor Br fon campaign headquarters, a romoter and real estate agent, according, to. his own description |rocked back and forth in the wit |neas chair and replied to Chairman bail teams playing the “little world! Ruiph Nichols’ questions with | Bodimer ‘atte involved series” here the last week in October, | story that started to raise the ld pic ee tha’ carer rad ae ha & movement is on foot to stage the | from the whole street car purchase gy loco ag: Mal inverts Washington-California game on the | meas dence concerning the street. “gt. Paul to Piay Here Saturday.” headline does he play? SPORTING NOTE With the St. Paul and Seattle base gators street car Fourth of duly. testified that tho mys-| deal at Al! vate ini ‘2 a “Whiting wanted $25,000 for cor William W as gi 7" 4 room 56 : ap uild- | pobat lence showing fraud in to the Coo campaign fund v nee bee err, rigs the said Bodimer “ gum! toe TOG, ENG |. MYOF,” WES! nea his job when it to get evidence to expose th eet car deal.” This. office wa 2 Don't drop washers in the next door to that of Bob Whiting, Was the conductor's plea in agent of the Puget und Light “A washer's not a token, and r Co., from w the cit x , Fperesralb dimegi oh ft Coven Ys) since asked, “Why did the p pe “ I have ‘my suspicions,” sal CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON That the mayor had rented Bodimer, but aid net iiay sat IVY CLUB the office for this purpose was | , s they are. “Was the made of the gathered?” asked Nich E. B. Minich had it, Whiting had it, and The absent-minded gink who, when he goes to bed, throws his clothes on the bed and carefully lays himself over the back of a chair. tted earlier in Tuesday's aring by Edwin J. Brown, dr., son of the mayor and his cam paign manager in the last elec tion wn said that ev lenl was obtair ked up in his Young Bro the stret car |that ft is now deposit vault dent of the Puget it Co. He ré atement in regard Up betimes, the fox sui trtpping from the trees, and to Hooch, the pooch, and so did try ¢ mushrooms, but he wor them, and did nanght manks, barking fer the ¢ chase chip which fright hit, they fo home, ro Md t I did mien three by = quarter of an inch, the sheils being defective. Anon to town. Busy? ‘Sure! Ed Was On | an me vente oar when he discharged Ed policeman, ar D BROWN, son and cam low, fornter muward surety, manager We pe, you bet; ¥pid tigating com- | rested for drunke sand reck ¢ ked the cradle, | a that he | less driving, on “th day that Now rolls a cigaret lieremendin'tite then — that Judge Gordon chose to ay: | was just leaving town on bus bunting ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SAYS: bei | Possibly Bill was investigating \ | do you suppose but you never can tell about tr Bill, A police chief's duties ¢ About th’ only iG (G @ he wert Fe a er p luties ar ¥ deve i nday that he } 4 4 difference is that It ip 5 shanitciavertie. | Ed, probably, wan investigating | by’ old-fashioned the situation at's alwaye w. | Sen handy thing to investig ou peddler sold tine yay ack know ) nd th’ new J And 1x © conte wee in it." ] haven't any notion in the world | one rides why the mayor should be up there investigating with all his ’ | co-inventigators right at thi | time. Have you | We'll be mightily interested in | Jake seeing, and printing the official | | a Foport.¢ investigators when® | Mooray! Selvol is over! gating to determi we ‘ py Sr Da | pot justice was admin ' it is mode public. | RL siggest Circulation in Washington TUESDAY, ar 1 Line Deal Probe Brown Denies Connection With Power Co.; | en Abo Monday, in a IP | that there was a ars n himself t & Pe WEATHER OCTOBER 21, 1924 TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. There Is Only One Issue! EDITORIAL FN THIS campaign, as in all campaigns, political manipulators are seeking to get the voters off the main track. They build up false issues and submerge the real ones. Old party bosses tell you “Bob La Follette is the issue.” That’s untrue. He is not. Neither is Coolidge the issue, nor Davis. These men are merely heads—figureheads. The only issue in the campaign is a big, vital, political principle. Saat % BOUT half the people of this state, and abdut half the people in the nation, as a whole, are progressively inclined. They are entitled to a decent, aggressive political party. These are the folks who voted for Roosevelt in 1912, the peo- ple who voted for Wilson in 1916. The old political parties this year forced these progressives to form a party of defense. La Follette didn’t create these progressives—he happened to be the only available candidate at this time. Those progressives who are progressive. because of principle are supporting La Follette, not because they like him, especially, but be- cause they are fighting for their principle. * * % al HESE progressives are not socialists. They are not radicals, In a true progressive party, the outright socialist will find no more comfort than he will in the republican party. Some socialists may be in the progressive party this year, but they cannot remain long among real progressives. The real socialist will fight the pro- gressive party with greater vehemence than he will fight a stand-pat party. Coolidge makes few friends. It always has been difficult for him to get acquainted. Yet no real republican, you may rest assured, will desert the republican party because he does not like Coolidge personally. And no real progressive should desert the progressive ca just because he does not like La Follette personally. * * 4& OTH republic and democrats are trying to make La Follette the issue. They would make you believe, if they could, that the millions of progressives in this country were created by La Follette. They would make you believe, if they could, that these millions can be manipulated and controlled by La Follette. As a matter of fact, La Follette has had no more to do with the creation of a progressive party than Coolidge has had to do with the creation of the republican party. And if the progressive party is to be lasting and successful, it must be independent of La Follette or any other man. If the progressive party becomes merely a La Follette party, then it is a dead party. The Star is not interested in a man, it is not interested in La Follette, but The Star is vitally interested in the formation and perpetuation of a vigorous, honest progressive party. to Block Garbage Probe FATAL 10 SIX Also Chinese Campaign Funds ton Are Victims © investigation have been rumors of p00:| opeore vy : | 1 ef. protection for operating} NORFOLK, a. Oct .—The rah stitutions, If those who|™ounting death toll caused by the hwart aleither pay or receive graft money |¢XPlasion in the forward gun mount of the U. S. 8, Trenton, reached six today and four others of the scout | cruiser’s crew who were burned in |the blast during target practice off Cape Henry yesterday were said at the naval hospital to be in “desperate | condition. jured stigation of the Mayor ¥ nt, ¢ |can be tocated they can go to the n,| penitentiary, where they belong. nied (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) connection be ~ Puget Sounc Foo oe sie po. | Another || Dandy Today ¢ department and Chief W. B ryns’ administration, saying The explosion occurred d just a few | |miles off folk, Va. after the] had been more arrest and WILI ACRIFICH stricter law enforcement than ever Pare ace T nton had ta n up her pos ition | before in the history of the elty MONTHS OLD, at the target practice drill grounds. The office in the White building LY $5,800. The dead and injured were taken | established in connection with TO SUIT off thi enton at Norfolk The owner of this beautiful home dd boats from the nited in the forward twin mount | Five of the dead are workers not enbinet two eon but rat political rs, who, like bar Iensign Henry Clay Drexler ex Bench, La | Sus: | Begins! Seventeen men were in-} night | ing in the Welch apartment at 1526} al hos: | Belmont ave Statemen Madeline Running, dead victim of “Silent r gun in his room at the Larned hotel. her and then killed himself, Sam” Erick. Erick- en shot * Alaskan Shoots Woman and Self \y “Silent Sam” Pays Price for Wild Orgy; Another Woman at Point of Death BY G. LUCILLE BUTLER ILENTLY he came and went—always silently, room in the Larned hotel, 2041 Westlake ave. morning he left that room’ for the last time—silently! But not alone. The body of a murdered woman followed his, down the stairs and into the wagon. For silent Sam Ericksen, grizzled and wealthy Alaskan, had taken with him, into the unknown, she who had helped him spend the last few hours of his earthly span. “= * HREE shots that broke the silence shortly before 8 o'clock Tuesday morning wrote the epitaph. Appear- ances indicate that the woman, Madeline Running, a divorcee, who accompanied Ericksen to his room during the early hours of Tuesday morning, slept heavily—her silken gar- ments: scattered about the room. A whisky bottle in the waste basket pointed to recent drinking. A shot! The woman never stirred. No moan escaped her lips. A second shot. It tore thru the walls of two adjoining ropms, narrowly missing the wife of the proprietor, A. T. Barnett, whose bed was against the same from his T uesday partition as that of Ericksen’s on the other side. A third (eee The heavy gun dropped to Ericksen’s breast. It was: all over. v8: @ | NOTHING is known of the man who registered at tho hotel last February, his dresser. “Madeline.” Two photos were signed at a except that he came from Alsska, If he had relatives. he}, Dewpietithe :morgns, lie hei néver named thom: he. had. few| {3 of silent Sam Erickeen and prets jty, blueeyed, bobbed-haired Made- friends. Always he drank—silently. line Running. She recently was di- | Yorced from John Marks, a for-hire car driver. A little child and & grief-stricken mother survive. What impulse lay back of Erick- sen’s determination to snuff out | their lives, who can say? Perhaps. \she portrayed for him, as she lay there sleeping heavily after the night's debauch, the utter hopeless- ness of their love. Unobtrusively he came and went leaving his room in late afternoon, returning usually fn the early morn ing. He was quiet and polite. None| around the hotel pierced the wall of his reserye. | Neat in appearance and of about 155, he was prompt with his rent and |never lacked moncy. He did not |work. The only friends he appeared to have, aside from some men, were | }a man and his wife and child. ‘They {brought him to the hotel one night |recently and were heard to entreat |him to quit drinking so hard. He was a silent man, who turned his thoughts within. Perhaps he w, for himself, the future, a drab uecession of such nights—perhaps years of wasted en- earching for happk y out. se Perhaps, out, of a great weariness, That suicide and murder were ap- [parently unpremeditated was de duced from the fact that a few days| he killed her because he feared to go ago Ericksen had his trunk removed) 9/0" from storage and brought to the hotel. After that, samples of ore| Silently—down at the morgue— and quartz and several photographs) they lie. They made their lives. [of women made thelr appearance on They shaped their hereafter. «we WIFE 1S DYING; HUSBAND JAILED Woman Is Victim of Razor Attack During Quarrel in Apartment RS, DANIEL WELCH was in a) Pierce, Dan Hogan and B, A, critical condition in the city|Sands. When taken to tho station hospital and her husband was held} Welch declared he did not know in the city jail on an open charge| What ho was doing when he slash: ™ | Tuesday as the result of a quarrel|¢d his wife, He said they hat and a knife-play early in the morn-{been quarreling over the childrens He accused his wife of starving them and spanking them, un investigation of the purchase of his ful | reet railway heh the iavor| mpleting @ larger or pital there and the injured were | Welch attacked his wife with a| Welch is 63 years old and his |rushed to the hospital, some so ser} razor while thelr threo children,| Wife is about 38. The wife, on the Charged that Chittese tonsly burned that further death’! pantel, 4; Cecilia, 3 a {other hand, declared that they had contribut the m were fe at the hospital today, a) Surnonthe | \tund are dismissed with a gesture Ar on the accident from Ad:| yfeg, Welch was slashed across the | "LT divected omy — campaign miral MoCully said that powder ig-! throat, receiving a pro! fatat{ Welch away from her. The other sir and| Woman had made trouble for Mrs, | Weleli over a small grocery bill, as |she operates a store near the apart: the injured woman said. wound, She freed} crawled down the corridor on her hands and knees and managed to reach a lower floor, leaving a trail/ ment, es on a ship, wriggle their it has all, ete Rowland Philip Hamson, seaman| of blood behind her | Mrs, Weleh and her son by a way into a campaign for the pur lowa She fell fainting on the floor as! former marriage, Jack Bowers, kinailing someone You will find about this Alfred Walker, seaman|other residents of the house came! Ellis hotel, both charged Wel ign funds whieh home in the Want Ads, Turn to || first class to her ald and called the police. [ts a narcotic addict. ‘Lhe th ey pul In their own pocket, |} (nem NOW @ | Bernard Beverly Bryan. eaman | Welch was taken into custo y|small children are boing cared for crept into my organization, Pgh es ae Rag eR tl 0 ) (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) Patrolmen R. F, Barman, Franky the juvenile detention home i