The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 29, 1924, Page 1

‘Gr eatest Fictional Crook MAYOR ———— qenioupesiiliemosas a WEATHER Temperature Last 4 F Maximum, 57 Minimum, Today noon, 49. | Watered as Geoowd Clase Malier May 2, Eater) Vancouver, B.C. Train ® Blown Up Six Killed a BOMB SECRETED WW PULLMAN COACH Believed Aimed at Leader of Doukhobor Colony OL, 26. NO, 210, a ey WEI SATTLE, W ASH, Home Bre |Conner’s Left Kar--What Will Jury Do Wath It?) ° 1ou- wdy, folks! A good way t keep up with the best books is te read an old one every time a new one comes out Gaso’ oped 3 onda. Drink Heart 3 ee ae > | PETER VEREGIN KILLED Russia isin, we don't sce how any [Was One of Most Famous body recognise er. Immigration Colonizers E as VANCOUVER, B. Oct th ¢ rs 28.— Six people were killed HoT DOGS! and 11 badly, injured by om Litehfield, Til, Unt bomb explosion on a Canadian| REDALE PUPS FOR SAL Pacific train early today. The - eamall mamta train was en route from Nel-| hives ake Viitedten son to Vancouver. to otfect to the new “huddle” system Peter Veregin, head of the in foot At that, it is a good deal Doukhobor colony in itish better than th huddle” system | Columbia, was one of those Sony earn eee. | killed. He was known as one Hara ia ike vemelas ! of the greatest immigration Of Ferdinand Moore, | colonizers in the country. Tripped while in | The dead and injured were all in A revolving door. Jone sleeping car —U. of W. Daily | At first ft wan believed that the ° i | |acetylane tanks under the car bad Note to Star Readers: If a number | exploded and that this caused the ( mistakes of spelling occur in this | coident, but fnvestization showed} DICK aewspaper, plese don't blame the! >” {that both tamtor were intuet andthe} candidates om nomination day, an proof reader All their dictionaries (ONE oar had been wreeked by some hu-} ‘hey were unopposed ave been borrowed by the office | BY JIM MARSHALL man agency. One of the victima be ‘Thin leaves the status of the parties ross word puzzle fans j HE left ear of Richard D. Conner, a Tacoma grocery pee ee jin = Joba Mack . betore the final result today as fo ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SAYS: | clerk, isa well-shaped organ, protruding somewhat from) Forks, and one of the most promi-| Conservatives, 16; iabor, 9; liberals, the side of his-head. A jury of 12 expressionless business | ner al Br ‘oluni ndependents 1 men spent several hours yesterday and today looking at it. - : co bee ei “Th’ hones }It Rac Sol gat ie oe cheer 5 Connery le of > wy, hatlenged, ont tis | Many Injured in and slow of-thought, droned out his story on the witness | jeved the bomb war directed agalnet moon ends when aed 8 3 jo isan ate dhae wgeedbae «ol London Election she learns he can Mr. Conner is accused by the government of the United *"4 ae eee 20 yearn ago.| LONDON, Oct. 29 cuss.” States with having shot his wife, Pearl, to death and with'..., 5 ae | tumbling her body into a well. It is Mr. Conner’s contention’ orten s tiinel that the government has made a grave error and that, lov- Manitobe ° jing his wife whole-heartedly, he. saw. her. walk out. of his}, 7° ¢ a _ Knocks out | life on May 19 last. into the dusk toward her parents’ home np ye pea EAt a enet aaa ee al If the jurymen believe Mr. Conner’s story the’ left ear will | good thing he wasn’t using a driver. ese | remain much as it is, listening again to the gossip of Fern place The white of eggs form a wonder- | Hill, hearing the chatter of a small community. ful antigote for poiwon, which is the| But if the jurors decide that Mr. Conner is not telling the} tate faceg DY why people pvt ‘em) truth and that Ione Adams Holt is a veracious witness, the|t ‘4 left ear may be considerably disarranged. | He hi nour before w nome on a night t 0 his b In wan bh ain. ad Ke Since Raffles! In The Star’s New Serial Noi DAY, INE 0c’ oder Caterer FRIGHTENED® CAT HAS THRILLING RIDE ON HOOD OF AMBULANCE “D TOBER 29, parag 1 h ave., 4 } 1. 7 Dott hood, w deat tail flying t z Eve time the » shri Dotty” | " th t The f ed hung t tion @ rode back BRITISH VOTERS AT THE POLLS MacDonald Ministry Being Tested in Election LONDON, Oct. 29, —Twent 0 of Ramaa nme Nine n are womer lenders admitted that the Httle hope of obtaining a major ty of the 616 parliamentary seats | Nearly everyone else conceded the conservatives considerable gains. which will put them tnt the MacDonald government realgns. ‘Thame are 1,390 candidates contest 583 seats. The remaining 32 con atituencies automatically elected their and 10 in. ivertising the the Bi la peed. The left ear is that one under which the hangman’s knot} is carefully fitted at an appointed time. m he pleaded with her tc | One good thing about living in al. house-boat is that you always have some place to throw old safety razor tell him Gorgeous Time for Port blades. iB aS aie staotlsgs A mouth| where his wife was. gc oe shows it—or a cheek. Even a] “I thought she knew,” he said 5 ! sa | no’e may trace the storm going on|“I thought she knew more than she O P bl G I LIL GEE GEE, TH 1° OFFICE jin the brain behind it. But the ear|would tell me. She broke down OSSeS n Uu ac as de VAMP, SEZ jis dead, emotionless. Mr. Conner’s|nnd cried. I never told her ‘Pearl} — Delilah gave Samson a dirty || left car gave no hint whatsoever of/is 40 feet underground.’ I never BY .W. NELSON deal, but at least she didn’t try to || his feelings today as Tom Revelle,|toid her about the well—how could HREE i Y pon W. NELSON a tallc him into a shampoo or a ||0¥ernment prosecutor, fired verbal|i—it was impossible—I didn’t] members of eattle’s port commission “had a per-| massage. | shots into {t lknow.”* fectly gorgeous” time on their vacation in California. | | Conner says that Ione Holt is “a| They were alone in the room tor| The executive heads 6 wre : vamp." Folks who lived near her,|20 minutes. Then Iohe came out./were gone three weeks, and during their trip attended the; IB SCAUBE he has two boys in Tennant says Majownki cannot wo The greatest office sport ever in-|knew her for years, testify that|Both she and Conner know what! fivedav convention of the Ame A ¢ Pp Broadway high, school, who con-|in his department, the detective finite se word puzzles|her character was not of the best.|took place in those fateful 30 min : he American sociation 0: ort sider him just a little better than| says he will report for work. just nted is doing cross word puzzles | | p | Authorittestat Lok : j i on the firm's time |She is good-looking, vivacious, full | utes. Authorities at Los Angele | Sherigck Holmes as a detective and| as. soon» as the civil service com- * jot life One of them is a lar Of course, while they were away the business of Seattle's | {the equal of Gen. Pershing as. a/ mission officially notifies him of his Fitwver: Gite : ‘fone said she vamped the attor-| See ‘huge port investment ran along as smoothly as if the com- hero: Retecive Wuhoy Ai: Samara | hee ca : ; Rain—Rust ney: of Clarye county, down atiVan: + JURY +|missioners had been here That's ‘efficiency | Wednesday is glad of his vindication| « “I_will-return .to work,” Majew- Outdoors—No shed, couver, #0 that she could get to|/[‘HE JURYMEN ,have looked a gaa te @ in person, nat’s efficiency. | the civil service’ commission. . |.ski Says. “But I expect to resign eid plcpsinee ad iis in Hl the,” easd Cone | Mrs. Holt's white teeth, ash Two of the comm W. 8.) m the visit of the two commis Majewski, dismissea ‘several weeks| ftom the department just as soon as epee i eithoik -amntion ing in her spirited testimony; at her| Lincoln and George Cotterttt, | stoners In event | Seattle Players Vote to Let | ago on charges that he had sub-/ 1 can locate a new job.” T've been |. Prosecutor James: Selden: sent her |?ed ips, dripping accusations| showed rare jt t. by ‘combin-} “Commissioner Lamping was mo E | mitted a bribe offer. from — Bon| there for. 14°years@nnd- never had a However, there is no truth to the|ty vancouver to worm her vway|tsainst Conner; at her brown hair,|ing business with pleasure. They| prosaic, Ho left October fond ec | m Slide; Bosses Meet | Marche, rothery suspects to Deputy) Scratch or a blemish on my ch al ward has beenlinty Conner’s confidence and ° get|Waved back from a white forehead. |took their wives along and made lturned October 28, making the trip| | Prosecutor ‘T. H. \Patterson, was/acter. ‘This thing coming up has oom for cross |+“the inside” from him. Selden paid| And they are looking now at the/the trip in a port commission) ny hoat. ‘The commission when | The commission of five baseball| reinstated by the civil service com-| taken the hea” out of me for a nerGtoudy td doce Mr, Conner; at his | Studebaker mobile. The 1% traveling are allowed $10 a day ex-|men, in charge of the Junior world| mission Tuesday night Police work | Conner and’ Mrs. Holt met in a ' moving slowly in de-|allows the commissioners $10 a daY! henge money. Not much, but that's|Setes here, was in session at noon! «y gm gind that 1. have been} “I cannot. understand. Tonnant’s , “ADDL ED AXIOM — j{room, down at the Vancouver jail) nials; concave nose, sniffing |for traveling expense ; all the law allows | Wednesday regarding the possibility vindicated,” Majewski tld ‘The Star,| Position in my case. I should think | Soup “Should be seen and not ||—ANd on that mecting hinges Con-|occasionally; at his full tips, telling) And they avila It.) “My gosh!" exple Lamping, |°f Calling off the series because of | «tor the sake of @y boys. That| he would be glad to see me cleared joka “a neva fate [his stor - They left Seattle Cote 3, 04) when asked for the of the | Wet weather | means moreito me’ than the job."|2 have @the greatest respect ‘for 1 as ean %| Jone says that while she was there} But more particularly the jury.| “motored non the inside hig “You're not to hawi| The Seattle ball club called a] “ aitho Gee of Detectives Charles} Tennant's ability) and 1 always | cchilasasattanael, iheriwuate Wis| wes ase lookineiarane. lett. sat |way. ‘They vis ted Paso Robles the} out the by you? Go on; give {meeting of its players this mornin thought. of hit an broad minded 1° world . bette: | wife's body hidden in the well.! Th are trying to decide what|50.000-acre farm of Ignave Paderew-| me the ra . But lay oft. Cot. | 2" ne men decided to call the | man. acti n_ this case are The world isn ting: better, It | Wee nee * “ha Mind do with it |ski; Long Beach, San Pedro, Cata:| tors |series off. The St. Paul players are | inexplainable. We ner had a quar- just seems that because fower| Conner says that when she Ame they shall do with it, 1 pee ‘ barbers ask if i ie is re ascasctia —— | lina, island, where the glass-bot-| y with Seattle, A | Wing to abide by the decision of | rel of any kind and T know of no eee ae Peers mes et tomed boat reveals all the funny] fellos along and atrupgicn |{2@ commission, whichever way 8) grudge against me that he could enae’ by “ass ( fishes playing around, that Intrigu-| along to 6 this port business a bag}? Hct ag the boar think hold.” ashes to lashes, | ing. Hollywood and everything. | success, and—wham—first chitnce Advizable, to play theseries, the | Members of the civil: service ‘9 du | x 3 ee! pia rs . ll to cee ‘ | 5 Then coming back they stopped|that comes along, you get a kick eat as SEB Y 4a ne ii is| Says Majewski ‘Can't Work | commission made “an: investiga she puckers her ips, | | Il theg@principal cities, taking|in the o¢ cancelled, they are willing to dis-| tion” of th ew brib . é a 1 a #, taking ne ear 6 new ibery Aesee ger SRT Es Met | A WYER S GRI ING: the coast highway. At San Iran | “Of coruse, the public forgets Be et : in His Department | charges hurled against it, Tues- cisco. they were entertained with! about tho million dollars wo made| nine mn, Hicker Charl eS ag | day night, This “investigation” Some critics ask where our stand- ‘ "s t = e thir and the same hap-|for the port of Seattle In that @in. | me Sa ones + Sharies Nor) “He can't work for me,” Captain’ was followed by the reinstate- : ; ACOMA, Oct. 29.—Futlle efforts, grocery atore, and for whom, the| “everything” + I p f 1 | oe pert id (Chas . y is enemy a Wh wa in the | T° of District Attorney ‘Thomas| Prosecution alleged, he killed his|Pened at Portland, Tven Tacomalner & Keddy deal oe ards Baxter and Charles |of Detectives Charles, Tennant said|* ment of Detective John F. ‘Ma: Mreet cars i a ‘4 Conner, | wife — — “Here's something that hasn't |'@ck C3 , Wednesday, in commenting on the jewski in the department and the eee Revelle, to make Richard Conner, . P ee ee beon revealed before: On the day 1|__1n@ ns were that the series | ro-instatement. of Detective John (@. | i lalteged wife murdered, admit love| Asked if he had not made an en-} ‘Vieee ine ‘eontcaae’ tes AY TT would be off. Majewaki-by Whe clyil, aeeviow ‘bostd (Turn to Page 16, Column 1) ARY \affaira with other women while hin |Ssement, for an automobile ride rot the contract from the shipping} i a per 28) pattairs, with: of welt SRL aoa rthur cunue|| HERE IS A |board, a Seattle man, a milltonatre, | |Tuesday night. “He can't work for This evening by conch to a dinner giv-| wife was living, featured the Wed.| With | Mrs @ar BSE este 1 EROARY }called me into his room in the New jme—and that: is finahg onte. Blue jovle mime A aa of federal |before his 6 disappeared and| ? | ated higm 5 Metterhan 1.| nesday forenoon session of federal yma - A a eect wrod and) DANDY OFFER |Awitard hotel, at Washington, and Tennant refused to be uc on Calvert, Jack Sullivan, 1. Fotl istrict court. Progress of the caso|then called {t off on the excuse] raid ° |what he thought of the reinstate: | Od others, and Tolman 4 | indicated that it may be late Thurs. |that his nutomobile had broken)| = Heat George, that: Gobemeh: In “Wed ;ment, altho he said he iq—onvinced | Kinstein Theory of Relativit day or Friday forenoon before the|down, Conner replied that he had STUDEBAKER SPECIAL 6 || ad diese +! Mtee| 3 | thee Majewski, is guilty of attempt- Terannile, did talk ont Freede jury in KB. B, Cushman's court {not told her it broken until] } | but to you, npt she port of Beattie |Continued Wind and Raig,|s ing to bribe Deputy §sccutor T, H 99 Mow 1 Hrok takes Conner’s fate into ft# hands,’ |the next morning Praptloaily, jay.omlla Cor: naymentsob:9640,000../-2)11 F t for Si Patterson in the Bon Marche ‘rob- | en j Y, bouR Jive you my certified check for orecast for Seattle : | gh lll “Weren't you with a gigs. Barrett| Questions, In an effort to shake|| a vont million for it right now.’ | |bery case. Rare ext | the night before she AWS her hus-|hiy testimony on @p last ride with spilpment, Hewvinter top, 1170 i pea Chief of Police Wm. B. Sevegans | hed Legis SUMAA? “Havalle ‘shot atlhia wife, were antWered ‘tainly by PA ET SS So Om Ea: course, T turned him down.| ‘The storm which swopt the North-!decinred he:had heard nothing 7 mm car still new And he said he coule nke another | wes ci ere ‘Tuesday : y You can’t steal away a'man’s pride. | the unmoyed prisoner. {the defendant and ho failed to|} Call [Ana hi on the deal, "That's hour | West coast hero | Tuesday night, | iis) cade) Wedheuday. and thatthe! It he nothing else, he will brag) “Not alton: Conner responded jidentify a nail filo and eemb al laaeva th t's Ww val | brought wind reaching a maximum | officer had not reported for work. “I About how tough his beard | calmly. I iewed tstoe HaVees Balen ed 45 RACE |unble the property is velocity in Seattle of 44 miles an|won't put him back in the detective sar | Revell tactien followed — up | Conner i H] There are many bargains offered || "But the public soon forgets.|hour at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. ‘The|division if Tennant doesn’t want jigs womducbovihel thoaeMOF inte Musiday’ when H6|" “They are too. commondi he daily in Used Care, ‘The Want {About all the gratitude you get from | wind had died down later in the|him," said Severyns, “I don't know fl 1 &|thone of In yenday, when Whi ney common,’ he ani) cay will tell you who will dem: {| the public ly a ielck in the slats|day, being from 25 to 35 miles an{ just whateT will do. with, Majewald | thoes iv that she wants them large] queried Conner on his relatior |swered, “1 couldn't way positively 3 every now und then. Oh, well! Such! hour : i n ontattnta® CHUB TCRK Con’ yail 1 }) Well! Such| hour late in the morning, Continued if he comes back, but T expect him aide and mall outside with Mrs, Frances MeArthur, ¢o:|that they belonged to my wife ot L { life! Go on; lambast me, but lay|wind and rain was forecast at the|to resign for the good of the sor A. J. 8. worker with him in @ Vern HE /lInot J \oft the other boys, won't you," ‘weather bureau, vice." * of Seattle’s $10,000,000 port business Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Wasbington he Seattle Star 1899, St the Portoffics at Beaitin Wash. wader the Act of Congress March 4 147% 1924 office after | ton di /HOM EDITION| TWO Ci tit NTS IN SEATTLE. Per Year, by Mati, 6208 * He’ll Go Back on Job | Mayor Tells Dahlby He Does Too Much. Talking; Kennedy Upholds Witnes AYOR BROWN opened an attack on three Se- attle ministers at the council efficiency committee's probe of the city administration Wednesday morning, Ra Chairman hols, who is nvestigat 1 the n, tried i to head him off and ¢ with © probe, but the may nnisted his tirade against the the cle who re the Re G Mr ax a very enter record. It wo y this tee to look it I have n him for years and I have ver known him to do a day’s work | The Rev. HM. I. Chatterton, | secretary Seattle Council “of | Churches: “He gets’ $250 a month from the ministerial as- | sociation for correcting the evils | of mankind. If he can't find any | evil to correct, his salary stops.” | Phe Rev;-Je-W. Hannum; 1 have linformation to discredit anything Jever said by him in this world. 1 have an affidavit but I won't file it jwith this committee unless you get ‘a mew chairman. ‘This affidavit men. fons Y.M.C. A, attache who went around with Mr. Hannum. It dis credits him, too. SAYS HE HAS NO EVIDENCE ‘ eferring sarcastically to Mr. Chat | & month, the mayor give you more founda er on the city for $125 f a mo it” Haye you idence against these men?” asked Here is Detective John F. Majewski, reinstated on the “No, I'm just telling you their rec police force Tuesday night by the il service commission. ords,” said the mayor. :. f 5 7 Henry Dahlby, secretary to Mayor; Majyewski says he’s going back to work. Tennant says he Brown, and L. ©. Schrader, clerk of can’t come back in the detective department. Chief Sev- the clty council, nearly came to eryns says he expects him to resign. blows during the hearing. —Photo by Frank Jacobs, Star Staff Photograp! Shrader Invited Dahlby “outside” {and led the way from the room. Dahlby jumped from his chair and followed, while the audience in the council chamber applauded The two got into an anteroom se MAJEWSKI IS GLAD | and then Mayor Brown popped | Y s 9 in thru a doorway and separated , , | ; Will Go Back to Work for Sake of His Boys Who Think Him. Hero manded his aide. “You talk too much. You get me in trouble all the time.” The argument started over the! date of the letter from the Rev. U. | (Turn to Page 16, Column 4) |