The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 23, 1924, Page 1

«@ DOC SILENT ON CASH! Re eennnnnnnnnennnne WEATHER Roin tonight tonight q Maximum, 65. Teda, NO, 205, '* Home Bre Sean mn Le Ae et Howdy, folks! Did you get your split out of the street car deal? Neither did we. qT hat some eis a ft the un m: ond ave rs can't cross enly double-cross {t Ah, ha! Dirty work at the double-cross roads! After reading t person begins to } newspaper that the cit Lal! is firmly nailed ¢ Some men are bt mn rich some achieve riches, and others get jobs as special investigators. ANDIDATE FOR POISON IVY CLUB The gooly bird who tries to make & date with the dial tone. ous, © President Coolidge will speak over Station KFOA tonight. It will be a Washington, D. C,, to Seattle «ee Now is the chance for a good democrat to get revenge. When Coolidge’s speech comes over the radio, he can hiss. Joe Bungstarter, who has a two- volt irpin rece x intends to heckle the president on the tariff question. THEY'RE BOTH STRON MEN “If there is one counterpart of Calvin Coolidge produced by the American political system, Ole Han- son is the man."—Editorial in N.Y. World. SILENT If Coolidge and Hatison resemble each other, then Doc Brown and| amy i Chauncey Hawkins are twins, orgie neds let eay ei lang eas who took $8 from him | Oo's icky honey-bunch is 00?” She softty cooes. The car overturns in muddy goo; He murmurs, “Ooze!” Another candidate for the Poison Ivy club i# the father who tells his small bey that if he will saw some wood he will let him have the saw dust to play circus with. “Won't you come up to din- ner some time? dust any day. We'd love to have you. We won't fix a time, you just drop in when you can.” o ° Paved roads shotlld” fast .2 long time now that we ‘¢ billboards og each side to protect them from the weather. I answered the phone at daybreak, And thought I would surely freeze, Till a voice made me hot all By saying, “Excuse it, please.” The dentist lives a hand to mouth existence, the elevator boy hag his |} ups id downs, bu. then consider the barber. He just manages to| ecrape along. Yr DIARY Up. and to settling my ? mecounte, and by and by down comes my wyte to me, and we began calmly, that upon having money with which to porehase a Bar- berry greateoat, she would not ask for a squirrel-skin jacket this winter, which I, like a fool, thinking not enough, begun to except against, and made her fly out to very high terms and ery, which did vex me, so that I did speak sharply, and did tell her I would not buy the garment, so she did give in, sniffling, and my T was right, but by and by did give her money to Imy the cout, and so all very Kood friends as ever, bat 1 did deem it m great victory This i jetter Homes Week, it is announced. : Home? Home? Oh yes, a home is that building people stick in front of | their garages Leading Man the audtence scomed pleased tonight. Leading Lady—He looked please 4,| but | don't think she was. ‘Today's Definition: A good neigh porhood is one inhabited by people willing to pay more rent can afford. who than they —A, J, 8, ¥ winds Temperature Last 24 Hours long speech—exténding. in fact, from | says that | and Friday; ¢ paler Minimum, 59. uM y noon, | <=] = Seven Holdups in One Nigh ‘One Probe Enough (EDITORIAL) {CITY MOTORMAN (™ CAPTURES THUG Uses Transfer Punch as Gun and Holds Him at Bay SIX OTHER ROBBERIES | Two Men Believed to Blame for 3 Jobs in Night RMED only with his ticket 41 punch, C. R. Foster, motor man on a Ballard street car, captured a bandit who tried to hold him up at the end of the line on W, 85th st. and id ave. N. |W. early Thursday morning. The suspect -_ the name of Dan T. Brooks, 46, laborer, The betden Pp Was one of seven which urred during the night, setting « record for the year in the num same Shortly after mid. he saw Brooks walk » car. Brooks entered Foster waited until out a long club, made a rubber hose, He then drew ticket punch, which resembled @ pistol, trooks believed it was a gun and surrendered. Foster called the police from his car line telephone and | Brooks was taken to the station Cc. W. Sargent, attendant at the Standard Ot! station ave. and E. Republican st held up about 930 p, m. Wednesday by a bandit dressed in overalls. robbed him of $5 cash and $140 { gasoline spot ¢ rear door. oks drew was who coupons. Two x bandits, driving a smal! roadster, robbed J Sulll n, of aster, Wash., near Pier aking $25. Apparently the same men later robbed W. H. Smith in front of his partment, at 19 jave. Smith lost $5 and a | Two bandits who a same description and same kind of car held trude at 14th ave. and taking a watch and a valuable fob and $2 in change | Louls Singer, driving a Red Top taxicab, was held up at h ave. and Boyer watch. wered driving the up A. Mon Boyer ave. the N. A. Jardine, street railway em. ploye, was held up at the end of the Alki car line by a Middle-aged |robber shortly after midnight. Jar {dine was robbed of a small lof cash IDENTIFY NOTE AS FALL'S May Help Locate $100,000 of Doheny, Jr.’s | LOS ANGELES, Cat, |} Pursuing a relentless Oct, 24 trail in an effort to find what E. L. Doheny,} jJr., did » $100,000 he with. | drew ir and company's bank in New York in 1921, the gov lernment’s counsel today had identi |fied a note for that amount given jto Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior, to Doheny. The note, which exhibit in th t spring, K. Hill, lands probe a. handwriting. Hill identified the fact that the missing, stating that tiv it s written by Theodore Mack, a the land office at identified the handwriting formed an investiga was identified by acting secretary of the committee, senate fon during the in Fal enate being note despite th nature was Fall stenographer Washingtor former on a in also tary's voucher Ji E cashier of El F ing a $7 secre travel Benton, vice president and of the First Ni # questioned concern- 00 deposit Fall is said to jonal bank 192 Did You Find $5? n fost a $5 bill at Second Marion Wedne had pawned a pi to ioney for food. husband both out work, Now the a cont in the world The who found lthe bill will doan untold kindness | he or she will turn it in at Salvatl Army headquarters. A wor und She lave st noon | jewelry her She land are haven't person was held up two weeks ago -|source impressive | Er-| have made in his bank on December It’s Needed Badly | day | © of | “a The Nommesie With itis Biggest Cheilaien ie Biainaton Entered as Second Class Matter May & 1899, SE. TTLE, WASH., 23, , 1924. METHODIST BISHOP DEFENDS BOBS AND FLESH-COLOR HOSE ANSAS Ivy, M t. 33. AngUARe: years have th ¢ relath the passing and the c ions been a0 st ns between ming gen- erat uined.”* The songs of the present gen erati contrasted with those generation ago. The “Bana me of the present day in no worse than “Ph |] Daughter Moses in the ‘SHENANDOAH 10 TAKE ON GAS Due to Moor at Forth Worth at 4 P. M. Today FORT WORTH, Texax, Oct. 2 The naval dirigible Shenandoah on the Banks, L pamsed over El Paso, Texas, shortly after T a. m, today en route to Fort Worth. She expected to arrive here about 4 o'clock this afternoon, according to advices rece by Lieut. Z. W Wicks at the United States bh ere toda The big craft w end t night here, Wicks said, and take n about 200,000 cubic feet of h um before hoving off f it at 10 o’cl deah wax mak S miles an ET one investiga- tion of conditions in Seattle suffice. There is no need for a second investi- gating committee, as proposed by Mayor Brown today. The council effi- ciency committee, which has its investi- gation well under way, is adequately capable of getting re- sults if it is given and co-operation sympathetic proper Any additional in- commit- tee, trying to function at this ime, would serve only to compli- cate the situation, confuse the public as to what really is be- ing unearthed, and mix up the witnesses. The mayor, appear- ing before the coun- World Saviors. Demand Split Like --| Pershing, Adam and Noah Complain Because owee obody | “Emil Minich, secret inve: clared before the council effi hour with favorable flying weather in prospect, Wick's advices from Commander Lansdowne na Shipping of the addits he re-fueling of the nandoa) will under a8 800N AB Ind ing bas been mnade here, Wicks said. um supply, it was ex not necessary to com- | flight, but will be carried wlong and some may be transferred to the newly arrived ZR-3, which ts | tied up at Lakehurst alr for Lakehurst, to replace gen gas which ca the United 8 the hydre ried the ZR-3 to tes from Germany. TOWN BURNING Miami, Ariz., Copper Camp, | Is Swept by Flames amount MIAMI, |ness section Ariz., Oct. 23. of Miami, largest copper camp, today and town is feared | ‘The fire started from an unknown at 9:16 thruout the busines was in flam lestruction of the entire rapidly ry in fighting to save the residence dis« trict # section. able-bodied man in th |Davis Closes His Western Campaign ROUTE WITH DAVIS TO CLEVELAND, Oct. 23.—John W. Davis, attorne ped back ree Ohio from the at today with hi bigg ca, the jury The democratic nominee virtually in hands of the voter's’ | intended to obtain a $9,000,000 rebate on the street car deal, Several shipments of helium have| and that he would claim $2,500,000 of this for himself, at-| ady left the plant here by train | torneys and investigators.’ —The Star, ASHINGTON, By United eral Pershing. DLC 23, Cider Press)—Gen comniinder-in-chief of the American army, today an nounced that he would sue the United States government for $567, Oct. 987,000.23, which he alleges is due him as his split. for making the world safe for democracy. the 23 promised declared t he Pershing nts is the divvy at | the dollar-a-year-men for their work | the war. in Bra Oct. 23.—(By Researches just complet Prof. Heinz Otto Liverwurst in per Mesopotamia — indice that dam was cast out of the Garden Jen when ho claimed per commission for creating Eve. m, according to the records earthed, insisted that as Eve was out of one of his ribs, winning cable), entitled to a half inter In the} new invention. a UMPTULIPS, Wash., Oct. 23. Horatio K. Hamhocks, promt 3 MEN MISSING Believe Miners Killed Wrecked Coal Shaft in| closed his final argument in the Mid-West at Evansville, Ind., last night ¥ y in Cleveland | tonight before setting out for New York to remain until election day The Other Side of the Fence ington dairymen Nave to say about Referendum 16 (the butter bil) which you will be called to vote upon November 1 N the today Wash Jn Friday ou will @fid arguments on the other ide of the fence—the reason given by the folks who are urging that the referendum carry that the 1 will be removed from the statute teud BOTH these argu ments They will enlighten ou | MADISONVILLE, Ky., Oct. 23 Mine offic be ved today that [three men were Killed in the dust explosion which entombed 17 rk jers at the Hart Coal corporation's |mine here late yesterday | urteen men thru an abandoned entrar accounted fis the level for safe in one of thi | Three missing were at | where the blast centered. Relatives of the missing miners and other | workers form a crowd of 1,000 per sons about the mouth of the mine Portland May Have | Its “40 Thieves” PORTLAND. The {tions of Portland's ring of big | thieves, who soon may be “the 40 thieves” if arrest were revealed in greater proportions three fore momberw* of the were lodged In jail, More prop been recovered and the Oct. 23 tore wh as continue when gang erty ha he was | opera: | cil committee, refused to answer questions pertaining to his in- vestigation into the street car purchase, yet in a statement is- sued Thursday prom- ised to lay bare all his evidence before the committee that he, the mayor, named to vestigate. Yet the council committee is clothed with proper power— more power than a | committee of citizens would possess. | It should be al- lowed to proceed on its way unhampered. It has accomplished | results to date that |. are beneficial. And |. nothing should be al- | lowed, at this time, to be placed in the way to prevent the com- mittee from pushing its investigation to a successful conclusion. Doc Brown’s) tened the Kitty” tigator for Mayor Brown, de- ciency committee, that Brown nent attorney of this city, announced | jtoday that if his suit to obtain $3,000,000 rebate on the Alaska pur-| < sstul, he would de mand a $2,000,000 commission. Al 8 purchased for $7,000, | 000 b m H. Seward, then sec state, but Hamhocks de- res that he has evidence that the! Russian government bribed cabinot| officers with cases of caviar. Hamhocks denied that Stone &| Webster were at the bottom of the| plot SALEM, Oct. 22.—(By Colored steard)—Heirs of Abe Noah, well known navigator, hi entered suit against the league of nations for $250,000,000,000,000, principal and in-| terest on the commission due Noah) for saying mankind in 3450 B. C. They claim that Noah never re- ed the proper split on the deal, jand was not even recompensgd for| | money expended in building the Ark. | Mr. Noah has been dead for several years. DEATH LIST 14. Another Victim of Cruiser| Blast Dies in Night | | NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 23.— With | y another death during the night, th death toll of the powder blast aboard jthe U. 8. S. Trenton today stood at |14, with one more seaman reported | in a “dangerous condition.” | Richard Ellingsworth Benker, of | Port Chester, Staten island, die the naval hospital last night other seamen seriously burned tn th explosion was reported to be doing} nicely | wholesale grocery house of Wad.! Jhams & Kerr was added to the list | of looted institutions | ‘To date six arrests have been made jand articles stolen from nine firms j have been recovered and {dentified. | | | DE Augustu: of Colorad of Denver home here last night ‘VIER, Colo.,, Bechtel, and university, former hancellor emeritus | Menry | governor | died at his lasked to testify solely The SeattleStar #t the Portoffice at Seallin Wash. uuder the Act of Congress March 4, 147%, THURSDAY, OCTOBER Vor Your, by Mell, 62.00 T WO CENTS IN SEATILE. t! Refuses to sworr ormanos Fell Where NICHOLS GET NAMES ‘Says He Knows There Are “Crooks in Labor” WOULD RECALL MINICH Wants to Know Who Those “Hirelings” Were Declaring that he knows “there are r two crooks in the ir mo’ dent William Short o! ate Federation of Labor, served i, Thu on Nichol f the « committee, that dence naming Nichols these men. “I demand that you recall to the produce ev stand Emi! Minich, who testified that influence had been brought to bear on somo labor Ie » during Short deal “and 1 further de the street car purchase oa to Nichols, | mand that you force M these men.” Nichols, in a statement to the com: mittee Thursday, denied a statement appearing in local newspaper on Wednesday, to the effect that Short and Leo Flynn, another labor leader, were subpoenaed to tell.what they | knew about the street car deal “These labor chiefs have been concerning A | conference between them and Mayor | Brown during which they protested | against appointment of Harry Bolton to the civil commission,” | Nichols sald. | nich to name service HEAT ORDINANCE. POSTPONED Apartment Owners and Campbell Protest Change A lobby of apartment house. em: headed by Councilman T Campbell, packed the nang Wea: nesday on the proposed amendment in heat regulations in apartment) houses, drawn and introduced by Councilman Robert B, Hesketh. — | Councilman Campbell, the only] , oprfonent of the more heat measure) at the last meeting of the pubiic/ ors, | safety committee two weeks, pack-| ed tho meeting, Councilman Hes- keth charged. Councilman Campbell again re- sisted, the proposed measure, but agreed to vote for*a compromise.) |Tho matter went over for another | week, when Hesketh will expect tenants of apartment houses who favor the amended heating law to be present and back up his fight. Hesketh's amendment provides that heat of 68 degrees shall b | maintained between the hours of 7 a m. and 11 p,m. The present ordinance, which has been in ¢f- fect since 1909 and ts considered| antiquated, requires a temperature of 65 degrees between 9 a. m. and) 110 p.m. | France = Cohsidexs Occupation Success PARIS, Oct. 23.— Releasing her economic grip on the Ruhr and| Rhineland, France considers the. en- jtire venture to have been worth] while. Proponents of the Ruhr invaston| ssert that the Dawes-Mc Renna plan never would have been accept- jea had it not been for the presence} of French and Belgian troops in the | Ruhr | This car came to us from a de who went broke, and is 4 lutely brand new, We willsell for $150 less than our pres ent retail price give you r regular liberal new ey rantes. We will trade, ring in your car about this Want Ad For further automobile, Column. ne | details the He Got It! Brown Hurls Invectives at Nichols and Says He'll Appoint Committee to Conduct Probe — BY JIM MARSHALL HILE Mayor Brown tossed invectives at him, vilified Ralph in vain Thursday to discover where the 000 in currency which he admits “flashing” him and raked around in his past record, Chairman Nichols, of the city council efficiency committee, tried mayor got the $27,- before Bob Whiting, Stone and W ebster agent, at a crucial point in the street car pu that, during his election race, and didn’t know where to get Thursday he said that he spread the huge roll of cur- rency before Whiting to convince the latter He said also that he busines would “take care of him street car deal,” “I showed him §: mayor, “I 000," $23,000 more. And $10,000 more on top of that if necessary “Was it Puget und Money?” “If you'd asked me that question out in the hall you'd have got the worst beating you ever got in your life, Nichols.” “Well, money was it?” “That's my business, was mine,” whose “Hon much of it was yours?" won't tell you.’ Again and again Brown lodged questions or refused to answed with: “I won't tell you” or “You'd like to know, but I won't satisfy your curiosity.” Once he flashed a sheaf of type-| “Ive got|it.) I'm to give a copy of it to every writer pages and stormed your record here, Nichols, and | soing Some of it said the could have showed him | |statement that: {save this city hundreds of thousands chase investigation. In his testimony late Wednesday yor had said he was practically penniless campaign funds. that he meant member of the city councll.’* Nichols calmly came back to the 00. “What proportion of the money was raised by the police depart- ment?” “I don’t know—and wouldn't tell you.” Then the mayor volunteered the “Whiting helped me if I did Tt of dollars. Do you want to know o ahead.’ “Well, you might have been mayor. (Brown the other day accused Ni¢hols of asking Stone & Webster |support In a cz mpaign and of being Nichols denied refused by Whiting. Declaring that the efficiency com=-_ (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) * Mayor Names Committee to Make It’s Own Probe “Find Out What’s the Matter and Apply the Rod or Recall if Necessary,” He Says Mayor Brown named his own probe committee Thursday. The committee is made up of jprivate citizens, and was called upon by the mayor to “serve as a matter of civic duty” in invest! gating the situation that exists in Seattle. As Brown explains it: “Official inquiries, inquiries, great deal pressure, a situation here that is parallel in the city’s history.” And he ad No matter how the situation was produced, no matter who may be to blame, the situation calls for action rather than words, Let's get back to a fair and honest consideration of. Se- aitle, Let's try to find out what really is the matter; and when we do find out, let's apply the remedy—the rod or the re- call, if need be—regardless. of who may be hurt or helped. of conflicting semi-official personal sleuthing and a political | have combined to produce without The mayor's statement points out | jthat the of and hatred in the has become so he atmosphere A. S. Eldridge, Herman W. Spangler, D. F Gerald Frink, Otto F. Kegel, W MeMahon, Victor Hi. PH, Watt, 0. D, Fisher, J. Hardy, M. C. Henry, 0. BL Thor: grimson, Dr, Henry 8 Homer M, Hill, F William 'T, Laube, PW. Strang, Judge George Donworth, Fred H. Bigelow, Also, according to the latest of-|that it seriously affects the func: jficial figures, France and Belgium|tions of every branch collected during 1 from all] “The allegations and disputes sources 1,6 100 france against |haye been kept warm by political a total bill for occupation of ‘and personal prejudiees: and) now 0,000, In the first four months) seem to have reached the boiling of 1924 they collected 1,388,300,000/ point,” it adds. “In spilling ever franes against expenses of 70,400,-/they will. do Seattle irreparable | noe. ‘harm. ‘The situation must be taken = jout of politics.” Brown. then’ “calla. for, the! dis| interested service of these men who enjoy the confidence of the a Good Buy public’ in order to “clear the at mosphere” New Oakland Sport Judge Thomas Burke, Lau | “ rence J, Colman; W. L, Rhodes, Disgeint | Nathan Eckstein, William Pigott, suspicion | city’ government} The Star Thursday-declined to serve. vy and oppressive | him Baxter, Grosvenor Folsom, J. E. “Tex” Phillips, T. S. “Dad” Wagner and M. A. Griffin. He asked Judge Donworth to fix time soon and call the committee together, “What I ask these men to do,” the _ mayor says, “is simply to take the facts as they find them and to give Seattle the benefit of their best judg: ment as to what should be done te strengthen and improve our city gov’ ernment, to restore confidence among our people, and to bring back the good reputation of Seattle that is being sacrificed, piece-meal, day by day. “I pledge to these men every bil of evidence that has come into my possession. I will tell them all I know and will aid them in any way they ask.” FEW TO SERVE early all the men named by Mayor Brown on his “clean-up” committee who could be reached by Their reasons were that they had | no time to do the job justice. Most of them expressed approval of the idea. William Pigott said, “Yes, they can count on me.” W. L. Rhodes explained that press of business made it impossible for to’ give ‘the necessary time to it. 5 Dr., Henry Suzzallo, president of the university, said the same, D. Frederick explained that he was leaving for the East as soon as he could get away. “But T think it a good idea and wish T could serve sald. Nathan stein have to think it over do any good. I think would be willing to serve i he would “it it will everybody “he said. SAY, FOLKS! ATCH this corner tomor- row. You will find some- thing of interest to you. had promised Whiting he- if he told the truth about the peryemmnnes mes nnsseereetinesi Se SAS aT a