The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 28, 1924, Page 1

A Bed- Time Story “With a Kick in It” Turnt to Editori NEW BRIBERY CHARGE IN CITY HALL PROBE! nnn nnnnee Home 209. No. | _ VOL Rome Brew | Brew es ee folkst Seattle is play ing St. Paul for the minor Weague championship this week, but if it doesn’t quit raining the players will have to be equipped with water.wing The grounds were so wet yester | day that the came was called off The managers didn't want to take aay chances on their men being Miten by a dogtish see Brery cloud has @ silver lining Wf the grounds ere too wet for Dasebal!, the people in the grand Wands can fisk for salmon. Of course, if there is clear weather forthe rest of the week, Sammy Crane may abandon his project of | gevering short-stop in an Evinrude. | Our Own Cross-Word Puzzle ge HORIZONTAL 1. A wienerwurst designer. 2. Hetball signal. 3. A removed pea A The square root of refo. bog end of a square” blanket. PARALLEL waffle, train oo. A gefus. 18. A form of idiocy onty | Mtained by cross word purzie fans. | B. Bulgarian word for sauerkraut. | LA non-skid slass eye. 23. O14 8 Gump, the sage of Pump- | Hin Hollow, says “One of th’ ha ft jobs some people have is to k their yellow streak from spreadin’. rd P| Mever hear of a fellow working on A small salary crushing a woman’s| Beart and being sued for breach promise? O26 0 QUESTIONS WE CAN'T ANSWER Dear Homer: If a policeman takes | % moonshining, w{ll he be a copper | sim—L. i. Met. LY Gee Gee says she is attending | the University this semester, taking} the advanced course in cosmetics. cee Kam Jones was quite penurious; For bargains he was curious; Three-dollar booze caused Sam to laugh, 4nd also wrote his epitaph. A real diplomat is a man who can} Jermuade his wife that she looks just | Well in cotton stockings 6 45% t LL 6! GEE, TH’ OFFICE } MP, SEZ Kissing is a dangerous habit; | eo it grand {f you live thru | — -*°-? San Francisco man proposes to --———-# tnd himself cast by air mail. Won. Gr if he will ship himself as third | ass matter? Don't forbid your tife Fatimas and such; If you let her smoke | Bhe can't talk so much! | Children's book week is coming. | Ute Homer Brew, Jr, says the ‘ly book that interests him is book of fish hooks: YE DIARY 7 ig Fi 2 i Jock, waked by a kingfisher and ly after we were up being fetl ox what it was. And so to on my harmonies till breakfast, I have not done these many bat flo find grent jally in “The whieh T do mean to mi Be tit three ‘notes of my harmenien ings, EECA with Copenhagen snuff, 9 to work. if it Fist ras 5 ¥ | The latest fad at the university 1s Wearing of yellow slickers, which} lly useful at breakfast as | ¥ 40 not show egg stains. | Yellow slickers at the university M8 g00d for keeping out the rain; Mit a lot of yellow fown aren't 5 for anything—not | | | Bae ko home now and put | “och, the pooch, thru the de | lourer, 1 ADB 5. The| | Monday to his Golgotha—‘the place of the skull”—and {never twitched an eyelash. thee teed | ss ing out the folds of the newspaper. al Page! The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington SE. ATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, The Seattle Star - 1924. Alleged Killer Calm Sees Wife’s Skull {7 . and Never Flinches Expert Witness ‘Testifies Shot Did Not, Come From Kind of Gun Carried by Accused Man BY JIM MARSHALL | - The place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, |the ‘place of a skull.”—St. Mark's sospel, XV-22, IGHTING for his life in a Tacoma courtroom Dick Con- ner, charged with the murder of his wife, came late Western sun poured thru the swinging windows and |glinted over the polished oak. Its beams shone full in the |face of Judge Cushman, glinting blood-red from his spec- |tacles as the polished lenses quivered and shifted. Thru! jthe windows came the whimper of the fall wind and a |patter of rain thru the sunbeams. White-haired Judge Gordon, defense attorney, walked jover to the table and picked up a package. The package! | Was wrapped up in the pink edition of a Tacoma newspaper. | 'Slowly the judge unwrapped the parcel—gingerly, smooth- Minutes dragged out. |Then there was a glim of something golden brown in jon while the skull that once jthe sunlight. The judge lifted it up and, holding it bal-| anced on his fingers, stepped back. | A sigh from the watching women |the hair curjing over her rounded the packed courtroom; a scrib bling of pencils at the press table; | and from the lenses of Judge Cush- [man’s spectacles tye sunbeams shot back, blood red, into the twilight. | 1 would ask you,” sald Judge rdon, stepping to the witness | air, “to examine this skull.” William Duboise, firearms expert, jtook it gingerly and looked at it— ifiret at the bullet hole in its fore. head, then at the gaping hole in its back. | Dick Conner never twitched an eyelash. His breast rose and | fell regularly under its neat navy-blue suit and trim necktie, | His clear face never shaded, either to ghastly white or the red rush of emotion. He sat motionless, listening. | Not a man in the courtroom but thought: “If I should hare to look was | the smiling face of my wife wus handed around in a courtroom. . I can see her now, as once she w Good N ews, | head, the laukh-on her red lips, the | }love-gieam in her eyes anid now, just a golden-brown skull . . if it should be me .. .” “The holes.in this skull | Mr. Dubolse, profeasionally, “seem to indicate a shot with a soft-nosed bullet, rather than’ a shot from a} Luger, with a steel-jacketed bullet, | such a& belonged to Mr. Conner.” | Judge Gordon had him say it again. This is important, and the jury must not miss it. He | points to the holes in the gold. | en-brown skull and Mr. Dubelse | explains once more about the | soft-nosed bullet and the steele | jacketed. bullet. } The skull is laid aside on the | pink edition of the Tacoma news paper. “It lies there, silent witness, and the lawyers argue | The sun fades as black storm} clouds march athwart its beams Cold rain slants against the win }dows and a wind with the nip of st (furs to Page 7, Column 4) M otorists! | Gasoliae. Prices Down /Reduction of Three Cents a Gallon in Effect’ in Seattle Tuesday Gasoline prices dropped 3 cents a, galion in Seattle Tuesday morning. ‘The new price is 18 cents a gal- lon, tax included. The réduction {s a result of a similar decline in the California |market, local representatives of oll| companies in Seattle declared. Standard OM! officials sald that 1 cent of the decrease in their product is due to a reduction in transporta- tion costs between California and here. The company js hauling ‘ts own supplies, It wan sald. Lower transportation costs are given as the reason for the California reduction. The reduction {s the first change slickers around{in gasoline prices since last spring} today in Portland poo WANT AD BARGAINS fivery day many sacrifices being made in some form Look at this one: $250 Owner will take $260 cash for neat little four rooms and bath located within one block of Ravenna blvd, Price $2,200 | | are or anther, Turn to the Want Ads and learn more about this home. ef | that when 4 boost of 1 was recorded. | The actual cost of gas here is now but 16 cents a gallon. The; extra 2 cents is the state tax. All service stations in the city| Tuesday were selling the auto. fuel| at the new price No change in the price of ofls has | been made. Gas Is Down Three | Cents in Portland| PORTLAND, Ore. Oct. 28,—Ro-| ductions of 3 cents per gallon in the | price of gasoline became effective | following the an: | nouncement of a cut in distributing | headquarters in California | The cut affected Standard Oil sta- | tions only, but it was believed tikely other companies would meet the new price during the day vent a gallon Bank Deposits in Seattle Increase Bank deposits increases during in Seattle showed the perlod from June 80 to October 10, according to figures published in the Pacific Dunker. Tho Seattle deposits in: creased 5,3 per cont to $176,966,195, } He Meets Big Test! La Follette’s War Record The Stir did not agree with LaWollette’s course during the war. Few newspapers, and few citizens, did agree with him. However, LaFollette says today he would not change one word or one act of his war record, Senator Wheeler, in his Seattle speech, said, “We're proud of Senator LaFollette’s war record." What was that record? Has the passage of time made it appear more favorable than it did during the white heat of the war period? Here it Is—the first of two installments, Draw your own conclusions.—The Editor, BY FRED L. BOALT UNDREDS of inguiries have come to us from peo- ple who believe in the principles of the progressive patty and who would vote for Robert M. LaFollette if they could be satisfied that his war record was not treasonable. For the benefit of these inquirers and others who may be in doubt as to the quality of LaFollette’s pa- triotism, The Star today prints the true story of the progressive candidate's war record. Take it or leave it. * It you believe in the principles of the progressive party and if LaFollette’s war record satisfies you, you will vote for him for president of the United States. Otherwise you will not. 65: 6 HEN the war broke out in Europe in August, 1914, Robert M. LaFollette was serving his second term as senator from Wisconsin. . He had previously represented a Wisconsin district for three terms in the house of representatives and has served three terms as governor of Wisconsin. During the early stages of the war, and while the United States was a neutral, LaFollette took an ag- gressive stand for. American neutrality and warmly in- dorsed President Wilson’s proclamation in favor of the maintenance of that policy. y Later he differed sharply with the administration as to the best means of maintaining neutrality. Right up to the declaration of war by the United States LaFollette was consistent in his contention that congress be given the right to participate with the president in determining American foreign policy. BELIEVED PEOPLE SHOULD GET CHANCE TO VOTE ON DECLARATION OF WAR He believed then, and he believes now, that the American people should be permitted to pass upon the question of war or peace by a referendum vote, except in the case of invasion, before congress should at any time adopt a declaration of war. President Wilson convened congress in extraordinary session on April 2, 1917. He asked for a declaration of war. He summarized his position as follows: “Had the plain principle of international law announced by Jefferson been followed by us, we would not be called on today to declare war upon any of the belligerents. The failure to treat the bel- ligerent nations of Europe alike, the failure to reject the unlawful ‘war zones’ of both Germany and Great Britain, is wholly accountable for our present dilem- ma. We should not seek to hide our blunder behind the smoke of battle, to inflame the mind of our peo- ple by half truths into the frenzy of war, in order that they may never appreciate the real cause of it until it is too late. I do not believe that our national honor is served by such a course. The right way is the honorable way.” (Congressional Record, April 4, 1917, page 234.) But, war declared, La Follette bowed to the will of the majority and aided in the prosecution of the war against Germany with as much zeal and patriotism as any man in or out of congress. Phil La Follette, son of Senator La Follette, was a student in the University of Wisconsin when war broke out, He enlisted and was trained at the offi- cers’ training camp at Fort Sheridan, Ill. During the war he was stationed at different places giving training to others in machine gun practice and had been commissioned a second lieutenant before the war closed. Of 65 important war measures, La Follette voted for 60 and against five. VOTED AGAINST CONSCRIPTION AND OFFERED CANADIAN VOLUNTEER PLAN He yoted and spoke against the conscription act, offer- ing a substitute measure calling for the volunteer sys- tem then in force in Canada and Australia. He voted against the espionage act, on the ground (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) Rae TWO. CEN' TS IN WEATHER ain tonight and Wednesday ure; atrong Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 54. Minimum, 47 Today noon, 49. SE. ‘ATT E. BROWN IS IS INVOLVED & | } IN REPORT City Hall Hears of Another Effort to Extort Money From Ross Watson EW b bery charges, involv + ing members of the civil service commission and the | mayor in the case of Ross ¢ | Watson, former city detective, may come before the commis. | sion tonight, it was said in city hall circles this morning | ‘The details of the case are said to| The at ar to those which arose in the case of John F. Majewski Two men, one a former Seattic j Patrolman and well-known charac jter, and another man, whose iden tity wha not learned, are involved, it te snid. Thene men are ‘sald to have ap- | proached Watson with the ate. ment that he could get his job back on the detective force by paying ' $1,000. The two men went to Watson's home and informed him that the civil service c.mmission was under| the control of Mayor Brown. could be “fixed” if the money { paid, it in said Watson ts reported to have gone Mra. Donna Baker, civil servic commissioner, with the offer. Mra. Baker been investigating | charges. | Tuesday she refuxed to reveal the nature of her Investigation. and was she has| bribery has atated alleged an account of) Is This Girl a Ba 9) ndit : | ask oe. | 1 | Here is Mrs. Viola McKee, 22, held in jail on an open charge in connection with the holdup and robbery Sunday night of Fred Jones of Renton. Captain Tennant says he be- lieves the girl aided the holdups. “You're way off,” the girl tells the captain. } | i I’ THIS g accomplice “of ) Captain Tepns the girl ad Fp e 4 f ; }mits she knows Cheatam ‘and that } Captain of Detectives Charles) sie nas heen living in an-apactmes Tennant says he believes that she) *”* ” 1 living in an apartment next to his at the Perry hotel. She |! and is holding her incommunicado Jin the city. jail | denies, hr wever, that she was impli- ; “You're way off,” the girl coolly! cated }~/the robbery. tells Captain Tennant. “I'm no such) Jore, has been. unable to identify | thing.” | 'Newertheless, here are the de-|"Y of the three men held. but |tails given by the police |says he is sure Knowell one of | Sunday night Tom Jones of Ren-|the bandits. He recognizes the voice, ton was held up at Westlake and; ye | Seventh aves, by four masked men| who escaped in an auto. He was in jthe ‘company of Mrs Viola Moke) says Tennan says he is certain the men held in jail committed the rob- at the tian He lost. $90 and bis| ery at the Inetiketion, bf thie girl al In the meantime the four are Monday night police arrested Paul] 4 on open charges. No decision Cheatam, 2: 0. L. Githooley, 21,|ha8 yet been reached about filing and W Knowell, 90, as suspects in| °D@°ses against the prisoners Later they arrested Mrs. -, BODY |S. FOUND | Uni identified ‘Man Washed i Ashore at Pier 14 | ti IT'S OFF AGAIN /Rain Cancels Second Game | of Junior Series Again | tne soay of an unldentiriea man | | was found in the water at the foot Jupiter Pluvius did his stuff again} of pier 14 Tuesday morning by at noon and the downpour of rain! Courtney Hunt. Tho initial C was “Did Ross Watson report the al. | leged bribery attempt to you?” Mra | Baker was asked 1 “I have lout on Mra. caused the cancellation of the second| on his cuff links. Kame of the junior world's series . He was between 35 and 50 years {here this afternoon. old, dressed in di ee ‘al jold, dresse¢ a dark suit and Ag ncnlases ys aes Only one game of the series has| black kid shoes A laundry mark, se anes been played, and unless the weather| “876,” was in red ink on his collar | cdl that the faa you waked definitely clears within a day or s0 m dagger was tatooed on his left See See rascetag ) a! abl t the | Pe dedtidiidaod Gtk aba SE Wad | is ae able that the series will be} arm and a butterfly on his right | cancelled His pockets were full of rocks. Then Came the White Eagle— “I am not giving any asia! out at all, I have nothing to say,” Mrs. Baker declared. Mrs. Watson also refused to dis: | cuss the case, directing the reporter | to make his inquires of Watson | (Turn to bp. Column 3) 1,400 CONVICTS IN. RIOT Refuse to Do. Extra Work | in West Virginia Pen OUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Oct. 28.— Machine guns were mounted on the walls of the state penitentiary here today, follow- ing a strike of 1,400 convicts, who refused to do extra work, Special and volunteer police as- sisted authoritles in patroling the prison, | ‘The prisoners, including 100 wom: en, kept up a terrific din thruout the night, beating on their cell doors, | cursing and screaming and threaten: | ing guards who attempted to qaiet| them | | Threats of force to restore order| were met with curses and screams. Searchiights played on the cell! houses until daybreak. ‘The nolse died down this morning, | the prisoners quieting from sheer ex-| haustion, Warden Smith returned to| the prison from an out-of-tow: visit} and announced he had put the “strik.} ers’ on a meager diet. . The “strike” followed an attempt | ILTING music . . . gossamer gowns . . . the on the part of prison authorities to | put a longer working day into effect in the garment factory, it was sald, |and the convicts rebelled. clink of glasses... and then a hush— “She gripped my arm and pointed to a tall, white-haired man on the other side of the floor. “His nose was a great, curved beak. ““The White Eagle, monsieur—!’” The White Eagle—master of crooks—arch foe of society! 247 st) At last a match for the ‘wit and cunning of | || John Ainsley! “John Ainsley, Master Thief,” by Arthur Somers Roche, starts November 1 in The Star,