The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 27, 1924, Page 1

- 1s It fd a ! ; Ss ; V0 4: eee \ en a oe ~ ie — enon and sday ; clea ot we tn per | Temperature Last 24 Hours | Maximum, 61 Minimum, 47, | Today noon, 53. ee Katerea as Secoad Ch NO, 208 Se ape Home “VOL. 26 I | Supreme Court Denies Review! Howdy, It's a wise woman ¥ er laughs at her own husband be breakfast. These bootleggers who are at — = aR aa\patior Former Policeman Faces Two Years in somebody will them re Leavenworth; Case Most Bitter BE IT MOVED AND SECONDED Ever Fought Here THAT THE NAME BE | CHANGED TO— t WARENCE H. SHIVELY, must serve his two-year x G iaenay Seattle policeman, J : term in the Leavenworth penitenti for violation of the national prohibition act, the United States supreme court decided Monday. rstanded The court denied the petition of Shively for a review of with the spark his conviction, ending one if the most bitter protibition || cases ever fought in federal court here. ~The Cuss Word Puzzle Shively was arrested on Fe FAMOUS AFTER-DINNER ~ ECHES ey violate the natio: he penitentiary on July bat Shively com the fail The committee in @reet car deal has been in for two weeks now, but it ae took his sentence, yet announced when sleepers will) Watson, Majewski Before | menced « fight to be put on the Ballard line term ret aside. Paes |Civil Service Body Tuesday} ‘rn circuit court ot appeais tant STOCKYARD NOTE jepring affirmed the sentence and “If ever 1 can i MAY POSTPONE ACTION |S?!" then carried the fight to have the United States supreme courte} ‘ Paros = iB jHe has fatled In his last mpt ne ae freedom me. I will be more ridges’ Case Also Due to! Shively was dismissed from ie than glad to do Come Before Commission |roice force on August § od | charged with conduct hy bE oS awit / Jan officer, It was alleged he « With one former city detective in jail and Captain of Detectives Charles Tennant clatming a sec. ond should be arrested, the civil He—I should say I have. I've} service commission Tuesday will Genced with at Ieast 20 of them | resume its investigations In the Pin? n& | bribery charges against John F. HOME BREW BARES | Majewski and Ross C. Watson INCOME TAXES OF The two former officers are appeal FAMOUS CITIZENS} ing to the board for rel She—Have you noticed what a bot, |98 cases of whisky which he did not of simple little things there are in} gowns this year? h Mrs. Ray 24 on a charg’ ecth with the 000 by on on Sept Jot larceny in alleged doe Bungstarter, $00.00. he department. Chairm: n Bh a ’ Af one on recor¢ fornia law Novem sg Mlorppanetage or diteenent <0 Sises ‘ With them Hunter and Mra Dur Bootlegger, $456,980.23, ate of Majewsk ' ‘ a Our Landlord, $235,892. al of Watson. o Pai es om b chaiclé he Z a ody and re each} Eddie, the hat check boy, $18,900, , Mrs. Donna K. Baker said | tody | Gerth ae ea ada that she. has not yet concluded her | 9% Witnesses: Th bilcans held a. torchitght | P7202 investigation she is making} Shively was releared the following @ republicans held a torchligh in the cases of the two men. Mrs. Baker said she will ask the commis. sion to continue consideration of the| former dayy both the torches andj the marchers were {!luminated. Maes for one week more. | egg | “TE cannot reveal any of the facts} |I have gatuered, a» yet,” Mrs. Bak: | AUTUMN RHAPSODY er said. “TI will ask the commission Mail to fall, so crinp and sere, to continue the cases for another wre’s the coin for coal thle year?) | week, pending developments.” f ills, teks” a aread those, Chitetesae bills! »| The two were dismissed some weeks ago, when chargey were | made that Watson had attempted to | Saints and indians to Clash’ | otipiat tne Sentectioa ta the bon | IN Spite of Wet Grounds. | a copy of the confession in the Bon Friday on $10,000 bail parade here Saturday night. It was fust like old times, except that in New for salmon we ean troll, {Stoke the turn: ‘And for pheasan (ell that plamber I’m no “plate | | Macs wi ats seded level Marche robbery case, and Majowsk! | y the kids some shoes, my dove!) | Wa dismissed on a charge that et They may have to provide the that glints the rosy cheek, jhad approached Deputy Prosecutor | Gutrieiders with rowboats, but the a etre ott 2 wey T. H. Patterson for a copy of thé/g¢ paul and Seattle baseball clut : ,.| ame confession, Will dtugeithelr ‘second game of the With campaign speeches coming |” Watson arrested Jay On| suntor world's series at the local| there ta. ctavtutely mo cacase taz|® charge of complicity in the rob-| batt park today in spite of the wet| here is absolutely no excuse for}ior itue't, Majewak! has main | field. | fter the cleared this in his ne.| After th leared thi | forenoon the officials of the two anyone to suffer from insomnia. ae ained that he was seeking to effuct of the robbers captul weather PATHETIC FIGURE a oe LESSE- | 77) WHAT-ER- | tectis tions with Patterson. ; ither Harry Bolton nor Boyle | clubs decided to go thru with th be loc 1 Mo to deter. second contest of the de-| The outfield fa in bad shape due disposed of |to the heavy rains, but the infield ton |is in pretty fair shape | Cliff Markle will take the hill for| hether the c: ‘ould be find at Tuesday's meeting, but B |Supported Mrs. Haker when she |asked for a continuance at the last | meeting of the commission. | The commission also will take up |the case of Patrolman Robert | ¢ | Bridges, who was dismissed on tho! phe for Seattle. | St. Paul routed Seattle in the} game Sunday, 12 to 4 contest was to start at 2 The quarterback whose mind has given way under the strain of too many cross-word puzzles, | Turn | to ate 4, Column Ll p. m. | H ere’s Watson’ S - Story | of Charge Against Him | Says He’s Too Trustful and That He'll Prove, His Innocence at the Trial A pretty girt Is Arabella Stout, ! And will be tilt | Her rouge gives out. | at se UW'L GEE GEE, TH OFFICE | VAMP, SE’ | Yes, 3 come of old-fashioned | parents; my mother had only one | husband. Editor's Note—The Star, in Reith pummad look On hin tos: | oe ‘a Uttar; Seay line with its policy of printing Ross Wataon, former detetcive ser tiles both sides of a controversy, | ant, sat in the office of his at-| Our latest song hit: “She Had\ sent dim Marshal to see for. A" { orney, George H. Crandell, Mon-} Plenty of Backbone, iW Her ttead." VE DIARY (October 26) (Lord's ) Up. betin Mightily pleased with the dinner I Ri the night herore at M. Ht, MeMiek of the duck, raspberry cordial, d “rrant jeliy we did have, and of the BY JIM MARSHALL, Merrie company there, Kado 1 “T guess I'm too trustful. fearry and others, and of the musiane | nas caused me tobe in my 6 did snake on the pianoforte. cP hagt 0 ae BF Aton comes, by early boat, Cynthia Grey, trouble I've lived mont of lieve she could find | tife out in. the and moun- and we did sit before the fire) 441, nd I always figured the oth: sand later my wyfe doth cook ab CH thé square, when T | put It was All| mer Detective Roxs Watson | | | Monday, #0 that Watson might have an opportunity to answer day and told his side of. the accu ation under which he is charged | charges that he was an accom. | with complicity in the 900 Bon | plice in the Bon Marche rob- | Marche holdup hery. Here is Watson's story “If I never say another as he fold it to Mr, Marshall, word,” he said earnestly, “I want to say that I'm absolutely innocent of this. And I'll prove | | Thatis| it at the triat, Im not going preseht to tell just now what the de my | fense will be. What's the use of exposing your defense to the other side? But when it's all over I'll be exonerated and back on the foree,” woods i, and we do ¢ A inzy, pleasant | er fellow Gy, and we mighty content. 1 figured that way, too, eg leame to Seattle after the war and| Watson said his family were plo- AU right, feet moving. joined the police force—but T|neera in Whitman county and told . should have n looking out for | how, for three years, he worked and { —A, J. 8. intrigue, instead,” (Turn to Page 4, Column 4) we Matier May 2, 1 at the Postoffice at TTLE, WASH., MON FD IN ACCIDE The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington The Seattle Sta the Act of Congress March & 287, Wash. w DAY, OCTOBER 27, 1924 Prison for Shively * Out Right After the EDITION! * TWO CE} WGIRL HIT = BY STREET re © tr, by Mal, 6 TS IN SEATTLE. Your Vote On Forty Mill Bill a u going to vote for ‘ against Initiative No. 40-Mill Tax Limita haven't Chances are u aren't thor nversant with the pros cons of the meaoure ta you vitally in mn of taxon. Heginni Ra St. Paul, with Fred Fussell pitching | | | committed GRAFT PROBE IS TO RESUME ON WEDNESDAY Up by Committee NICHOLS IS COMMENDED <)Source of Mayor’s Bank Roll Still Big Mystery ot Mayor ment, the Ska ditions and the car purchase deal um morn Press of business efficiency comm! cl! getting: to. Chairman tr before. that ph Nic Nichols a commended St passed by in a resolution the congregation of Grace M. E. church. The pastor, Rev, E W. Erickson, asked his ‘lock to sup. port Nichols and the co.amittee’s ac } tivities, The committes has several points me “Hh ey air.” whic is expect » Page 4, Column 1) SIFE CRACKERS MAKE HAUL Fhe Valuable Jewelry at! P. E. Harris Co. Entering the office ris Co., 1207 Dexter Horton bldg safe-crackers broke the strong box and stole Jewelry and xtock certificates valued at between $1,000 and $2,000, of P. E. Har according to the police been open with a sledge hammer Among the loot were three stock | certificates of 100 shares each, in| the Alaska Petroleum & Coal Co.;| stones, a diamond pendant, a dia mond necklace and some platinum | Jewelry. Police belleve the Saturday and Sunday nig In The Star on Tuesday you will find a fac- simile of the vot- ing machine, with an explanation of how you vote for the vari- ous initiative measures and other added is- sues that will be on the November ballot. It is important, in this election especially, that you acquaint yourself with ALL the ues and their location on the voting maghine. That's why you should be sure to study the facsimile IN THE STAR TUESDAY. gation were broken | wo diamond rings with very large | | SeTVET MOP EPH EE \(vation Pays Homage to Navy Today CAR DIES | Many Points to Be sel Today is ‘observed thruout t battleship bucking a heavy dp CONNER TO 60 ON STAND j|Aged Mother and Father in| Court With Him /DENIES WOMAN’S STORY robbery was | night | {Case Is Expected to Go to the Jury Today Tp Ago Oct, 27.—While his aged j + mother and father pray silently for him, “Dick” Conner is scheduled to take the stand either late today or Tuesday, as the climax of his jdefense against the accusation that jhe murdered his wife, Pearl, Jast ind hid her bod, yvernment reservation at Camp A healthy over whose has not yet spread its mask, Conner sits attentively behind’ his attorne: B. W, Goiner and Judge Gordon, looking oceasionally, with a smile, toward his parents,. sea 10. feet away. His mother, her gray Nair pulled neatly back, glances around the courtroom or peers intently at witnesses thru goli-rimmed glastes as she smooths out, with. bronzed, wrinkled fingers, a froshly-laundored shirtwaist, sad, is @ typical country farmer, in sober, brusned black—solemn with the portent of the occasion. Hoth the old people ward and lstened “with all their ears" when Mrs, Mary Tvans, of Spanaway, who had known Conner (Turn to Page 4, Column 1) looking young fellow, leaned for: | in a well on | face tho’ pfison® pallor | Conner’s father, his face Youth Smashes Into Bus; Five Held on Auto Charges Over Week-End | | | | GIRL and a youth were dead | and two other victims of traffic accidents were near death | Monday. Rain which sweept the | city Sunday and Monday morn | Ing caused heavy toll of auto crashes. Five drivers were jailed for reckless and drunken driving. | Miss, Elizabeth monds, 19-yea Falls City 1, instant! killed about 8:05 a. m., Monday when an inbound Rainier valley street crushed her at Rainier ave. and Wal- den st The ng the track during y min and fafled to sev car. At the timé she w to attend classe Metro. n Business colleg Miss Ed Mrs. David Her mother | son. of Falls City | MESSENGER BOY JIS AUTO VICTIM | Max McCleneghan, 19. messenger for thé Postal Télegraph Co., was fatally injured at 8:45 a, m. when his | motorcycle crashed into the side of ja Richmond Beach-Edmonds stage coach on Virginit st,, between Third and Fourth aves. Le died before reaching the hospital Fred J. Bacon, driver of the stage, was arrested and held for action by the coroner. Police say Bacon was turning his stage in the middle of the block, caus- ing the boy to run into the bus. McCleneghan lived at 4106 Eighth ave. S., with his parents. While John Boyle, Grand hotel was lying at the point of death in the city hospital with a fractured skull, police are searching for the | driver of the r whieh struck him and knocked him unconscious , on Rainier ave. Sunday night. Boyle | was unable to tell how he was hit or by whom. GIRL NEAR DEATH IN CITY HOSPITAL ie L. Troxell, while walking with her mother, Mrs. Hy B. Troxell, of Ferncliff, Wash,, was fatally injured Sunday night when a r driven by A. Daugherty knocked her down at Western ave. and Madi- json st, The girl has a fractured | skull, according to city hospital phy siclans, and may die. | RB. Patton, driving a borrowed | car, crashed into a light post at Fourth ave. and dames st., early Monday. Police allege that Pat- ton had been drinking and charged him with reekless driv. ing. Gust Rask was stopped by Patrol man William Walsh at First ave. and Madison st., and arrested on a charge The picture shows a great American |ot driving a car while drunk. | F. R. John was also arrested for jreckless driving, after a collision at } Empire way and Eddy st.. No one national’ week | was injured in the smash observance of the na a " | Roosevelt ‘Ts Also! whan Chara and. ethers! addrchn eno | "te @ meueantyepabiecentceeiiea etn Seattle both drivers, & Lettich, -19, and A | Honor ed; Ho ld “Open house" will be held thruout |D. Taylor, 41, were arrested for Teck: the week at Programs Here jradio ‘station, the navy Keyport torpedo and |less driving Sunday night. The yard and|crash happened at E. Marginal w aboard ali vessels now at Bremerton. /and Ellis st. Two witnesses, A ; These include the dreadnaught | Johnson and Gus Baker, were booked Mississippi, the cruiser Omaha, and| by the police. several destroyers. Several pedestrians were injured in Programs for Seattle's observance |auto accidents, but none very cer of navy activities are under the chair: |jously. Oyer. three score accidents University of | manship of Ralph Hall, were reported Sunday mb Bast a City M ourns for Heroine Who Died to Save Niece Husband Killed in Crash; Wife, Injured, Slashed Wrists to Aid Girl; ; Passes Away AN BERNARDINO, Cal, Oct. Jand two days until they were found Wood, assistant navy yard command- ‘The passing of a heroine whose |by Tom Kelty, a son. ant,.was.also to speak for radio fans, |bravery surpassed’ the strangest |. Weakened by her injuries and the Wednesday Seattle will continue its | tales of fiction, was mourned today |loss of blood, Mrs. Kelty failed to ——— ‘by the entire elty. lrally. Her arms were liverated re she had dug Into them with a brorch until the he nation as Navy day. Kiwanis elub. BAR ADMIRAL J. VY. CHASE, hew commandant at the Bremer ton’ navy addressed students and faculty of the yard, | Washington at a special a a ES Monday morning, ushering in nation- al Navy di of the birthday of former President | | Theodore Roosevelt and the co-observance At-noon he. was schoduled to ad-| dress the Seattle Lions’ club and in the evening will. speak over radio! station KFOA with Congressman John F. Miller | Navy bands from Bremerton were | to 1 at the luncheon and at the} radio station. Commander D. M,| Just one week from the hour her | WM husband died, following a mountain |® sharp stone an | A COUPE automobile accident, Mra, 'T. G,|blood came, which sit fed to the | Kelty, 65, fell into silent sleep at {irl to keep her alive. FOR YOU o'clock last night, her death| The sacrifice was ¢. success, The used by injuries and her sacrifice | child will recover,\ but her aunt's | , ater in slashing the veins‘in her arms |life is the forfeit. L4-PASS COUPE ||so her G-year-old niece might drink | Plans were being completed today buy for some one. Car || her blood for a double funeral for the Keltys, in'as good as the day ti left the || hile there! by the factory, Our Maxwells ||| Little Meredith Waterbury, who | “hile tho city, stirred by the ¢ are reconditioned and prope edy, mourned their death: started with them for a day's outing iy thorough serviced in ich frannamehwawa can elvny tae Jin the mountains a week ago yos- tory guarantee withcaen car [|terday morning, is the only one of | Workers in Italy This guaranteo f om a Tellable |the trio alive, She is well on the ‘rond to recovery, but unable to tell |the details of the tragic aceldent in which the automobile rolled over and over 100 feet down the canyon ele May Go to Canada ROMP, Oct. 27.—The Italian com missioner of emigration is eng in drafting a covenant which will be negotiated, having for its His wife | purpose a considerable flow of Ttat three nights |ian agricultural workers to Canuda, If you are interested in this cloved car you can find ‘the dealer address in tonight's Want Ads Kelty died the same day. and the girl lay. for perhaps