The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 4, 1924, Page 1

When the Boy Shouts“ Star!’ Tonight He'll Hav ipa ST AR, tonight, as in the past, will provide Seattle with fast, accurate returns on the national and state elections. Arrangements have been made to “cover” every nook and corner of the United States. The Star will follow its well-known policy of refusing to put out extras before there is cause for them. Star extras are informative and reliable. When the boy shouts “Star!” you may be assured he has BIG NEWS for 3 DEAD IN ELECTION FIGHTS! WEATHER Rain tonight; Wednesday fair Temperature Last 11 Hours Maximum, 52 Minmum, 45. Today noon, 45. ——$———— | The Newspape W ith the Biggest Circuiation in Washington The Seattle Star , At the Postettion at Beailia Wash. wader the Act of Congress March & 341%, Per Tear, by Mall # Botered as tecond Class Matier May 2%, 1 BOP ae NY, SIG: ; —_ “SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1924. ea TWO C INTS IN SEATTLE SEATTLE POLLS SWAMPED!Nation Casting HUNTING. THUGS THOUSANDS. ARE WHO HELD UP | na gn op cat 4 cult Cast Ballot. | UWED WP 10 Record Ballot! ROY BANK ies aie Lacan erable edhesai . st a any CAST VOTE IVote Expected to Reach 30,000,000; = TWO Heavily Armed Robbers | Machines Prove Inadequate’ Disorders Mar Election Day; Odds nt tree | Are Believed Cornered onhraretoal domed Bye Betting Favor Coolidge to Win |REPORT LITTLE TROUBLE | 5 NDICATIONS are today” s wate: will reach 30,000,000. {Many on Hand Tuesday Weather generally is fair, except on the Pacific Coast. Home Bre President © solide reiterates ais}GOT $3,500 IN CASH confidence in the outcome of the ele tion, but we'll bet he postponed buy- | ing new rugs for the White House | Forced Woman to Drive until tomorrow j . | Two i i xi ssee, y eee Them 6 Miles Into Country | When Voting Places Open setae men killed in Lexington, Tennessee, by election On behalf of their candidacies, . some of the candidates advanced WO heavily anned bank robbers BY JOHN W. NELSON | One man killed, seven gunmen arrested and precinct elec- very sound arguments—99 per cent are believed cornered ina dense GUSTY, wet day fatled to | tion booth and its ballots burned in Chicago election riots. pened. ornare speed waren = x. i = dai ~aag ty ardor be Se Martial law declared in Las Vegas, N. M., after wrangle ote a pep m ond of Tacoma and attle voters, bent upon perform , a By midnight some of those cam-|# crew of Pierce county deputies | ins ake severe iasietel "tanks, ‘in sheriff's office threatened to ee voters.” paign posters on the telephone poles | _The two men rifled the cash boxes Tuesday. Long lines of voters, Armed guards at polling places in Marion and Herrin, | waiting at the polling booths, in. IIL, scenes of recent riots. dicated the keenest interest in the and fences ur ing to look as cheer- | Of the Roy State bank of $3,500, late fut as a cold boiled potato M lay, locking Mra > the bank vault May Crowley st complete returns—eight votes from Somerset, Vt.— mae 9 \ elections in many years. : x ce F ppaligpiecy Ao ? ACROBATICS Emerging from the institution, the Daphty Auditor Richaré Farts pre all w ent for ( oolidge. _New Ashford, Mass., with 24 votes, Some of the candidates quali. | 8ndits terrorized the town by flour liicted a record vote in both the city ave Coolidge 20, Davis 4. od * + * : and country precincts Old age and youth cast P i Reports from precincts scattered | TH fair weather general thruout the nation, except their ballots in Seattle Tues- shail Shes Poa elbaen ser in Pacific Coast states, a vote reaching 30,000,000 fied as contortionists by per. ishing their weapons. Mrs. H. L forming the difficult feat of | Wolf was entering her car after at sitting on the fence while keep tending @ meeting of the church par sonage nearby | ing their ear to the ground. | "Tbe ‘handle, fofved tear! to. erin day. At the left is aged Dan- 7 : |the voters were waiting for the polls| Was indicated Tuesday when America trekked its way to Lit Gee Gee said she was so rat.|*h¢m stx miles west, where they: left | iel M. Elrod, who hag lived 3 to. open at 8 o'clock. In the atts the polls to elect its president and other public —_ tied when she first entered the yoting | ‘tM machine. Mrs. Wolf quoted| in Seattle nearly 35 years, | Precincts the voting machines proved) Calvin Coolidge ruled a favorite for president. New Yor! Scriptures to the bandits as she | woefully inadequate, compelling long | . A * booth that she worked five minutes | OTA ion « ‘and as the deapern working the ‘newfangled lines of voters to form at the booths. | Was Bre! 11. to 1 on him, with one bet of 15 to 1 tld te got epaien EFOA defore | iett the machine. ‘éslo-enide ae di apa: ie vote down etn q A number of busy yoters, ‘unable | reco! she'real ate “Thanks, Mrs. I hope we meet 2 iH South Side precinct near Tim ile erty opeperrmepres pip repent got little comfort from today’s headline carried 3 uk 1 | anerie Se Corson ave, At the right is Mie make their astemP' by the New York World, which has been one of Davis’ big- ee bcs stare tonk cena up ent Desmond and pty tok Mias Lillian Pinkham, San Some doubts were expressed at ‘gest beosters. The readline read: “Coolidge Victory Fore- ht writing implement In the world. [two bandits were cornered Tuesday | Telmo apartments, voting in samo of the larger precincts | cast, Tho Upset Is Possible.” ut he’s mistaken. We're using | at daybreak Precinct 162. It was her first where only one serine repo was conceded generally that the oldest writing implement in the! William T. Perkins, of Seattle, te} trip to the polls, “Of course that the vote could be polles e ey Follette would not get the world right now President of the bank. | Y Goted:for,-LasFollatta,” she vg tr totems ican a jelectoral vote that was won by ~ pS voted for La Follette,” she | to be open. | Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 when he | | { ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SAYS: “No home is complete without | : said. “I was born in Wiscon- | An average of 30 to 40 voters an | yan ‘moons 40: Woodrow" ‘Wrisdda’ Selle as iy hour were being accommodated | | $8 votes In the electoral college, but ‘ ‘ Phote by F Jacobs, 4 the various precincts. Each voter | | there was great interest in obsery- Biar Btaft Photographer jconsumes nearly two minutes in set) |ing whether La Follette would’ poll ing a ballot. Very few straigh jthe popular vote of over 4,000,000 Pose on Trail of Man Want- ’ |tickets were reported. Tennessee Man Wounds) potted tor Roosevelt in that elec- | MUCH CONFUSION "ScPokenars nse: MRS, HARDING IS’ Member Jim Ham Somneron te'rouuerre | Third in Fight at Pols wavs w wre ya Considerable confusion arose in Ley oe ny eee | DAYTON, Wash, Nov. 4—A BETTER | 7 soeigiabice + eh posse Is believed to have sur: iT ae | a few highbrow books around to make people FA think you read “4 them.” casting La Follette presidentia EXINGTON, Tenn. Nov. 4— | the number of electoral votes each . ts, Voters wishing to vote for La - ie , and Hi S S ats ? Potiate, Seipods 4 the ce Foliette Dan G. Powers, lection {candidate would get. Some money bas straight ticket lever, which auto-| Judge shot and killed two elec- | WAS Placed on ability to name four 1 out of other| ed Darrell Thurston. wanted for the murder of Patrolman Gordon Har tion officers and perhaps fatally | States that La Follette would carry. oe a i | matically locked the as ji He-"ister oll: deer, wren te)". MOE Lewiston, Idaho, October Widow of Former President preres ioe cast La Follette votes,| Wounded a third, following an pbs; whe Seat ihe: ae on SS : rm 4 31, following the robbery of the ¢ : OSSI a O A ah eves altercatibel over x ballot bax here> |e0!et isconsin, North and South comes to Christmas presents, it's the | ta'ny at Cratgmont, Idaho accordine Ill in Ohio Home pine ‘vapors iwere. wert: Oh or | denight Cat maaae | Dakota and Minnesota, with some spirit that counts.” | de: fepldle feel Mul) Sb tales tram (Turn to Page 4, Column 2 ©. W. Bartholomew, 70; W. W. | favoring Nebraska and Montana as She—"What are you trying to do) 14.4 | iaseions, ici sov 4 oe Rodgers. Pi Denga st Uk among the possibilities. spare me for ef the ee an thre acerng to |W tAtiON, ome. Xr. “| MeGlynn’s Drink |And-—the Weather Har I eee Eee Cnctotmets cords | word to Sheriff Green, who left! Oak farm here with a recurrence of ()LD-TIMERS were telling HE nasty ‘weather prevailing one ot ‘the: men’ killed) was |*) wm Conservative republicas | immediately for Mull with a posse. |the malady which brought her to the day about the time Jim Ham] Tuesday would hurt La Follette| | wounded: i | Spokesmen forecast not: less than An educated man is one who cam |1 ate yesterday more mencand KUN| brink of death In 1921 in the White| Lewis and his crowd got John Paul{among the farmers and Coolidge pesaa {300 for. Coolidge, while optimistic Keep his seven-year-old son from | and ammunition were called for and! Howse, is. very much improved to-|McGlynn, of La Conner “in bad."|among the women, according to| rea NI HT | pecepcratis, spokenet Laur ea thinking he is a dumbbell }a dozen Dayton men responded day,’ Dr. Carl Sawyer, her physi-|They were ~pposing candidates for| spokesmen for both sides, | jto win with between 280 and 200: ER Ry } cian, sald, In a bulletin issued at jsanitarium here toda Sign on the Beck of = Ferd WILLIES NIGHT “Capt. Stetson of i 2 halk Many believe the 3,000,000 to 6.- | ‘The booze question n issue} women voters, according to clalma 000,000 new voters this year wilt was | really decide the issue. Mra, Harding stithen as now. McGlynn was dry.|of republican leaders. ‘The rain Thousands Expected Down TWO CANDIDATES salt cbe ht.” Dr. Sawy and this wis was supposed to be we «| would tend to keep the women at poe Spe Trae *| Port Angeles Dead tnsrine she « Bar idet Deonk: aes ee mmneee, te baat, HEL ares sriset senenee cee[) FOWN 10 uMear RECUrns AT CHICAGO Letitia able to eat for} rticularly | Se + For.the first time in history, how- " > ; ' Follette, who is The reason Charlie Bryan, vice} Capt. W. L. Stetson, of Port An |with his pink whiskers and spate.| La ; 3 presidential candidate, word skull | Seles, son of the late Warren Stet.) “yerml Kali : _ _{Me@lynn came down to Sei on strong among farmers, would loso| TWO SPECIAL SHOWS ON ever, the campaign was closed with $ a vn = | fon of the Stetson-Post Mill Co., died Sho is cheerful and is taking 9). boat. Enroute he got an awful| Votes’ “because of the — inclement satis | Fusillade of SI Shots Is Fired |@ radio address by the two major €4p, says the American Mercury, & ke Det need tal fy | keen interest in election day devel Wh t weather, his eupporters feared party banner bearers, millions from because {vory chips so easily. in the Port Angeles hospital early | sents in Ohio and the nation.’ tomach ache. When the boat tied r ; j j -Mi # ene a nhc pice Si A ; \ Tuesday. ‘He was captain of the tux|°P™ent# !n Ohio and the nation.” | TONES) BSR tele dock, ho allpped |Star Will Give Last-Minute | Into Polling Booth coast to coast hearing Mr. Coolidge’s last appeal, and those with sets at- tuned from Rhode Island to Minne yonder, and was stricken with voat sunday. Bad Weather Is on | et a ii waterfront XE DIARY - saloon to Remember Old News in Extras , : poplexy aboard hi blackberry cordial. HIC ov, 4.—One man Uk, and. to playing the harmonies. | fe was born in 1 und came to lnopine. It would “telleve’ the pals |DIQVSe. leas NOV: sota hearing Mr. Dayis make his at home with my wyfe. It being +1. puget Sound country year Bill Election Day | ae 1 tile’'bal his piers. ay. a Tonight will be’a gala night in was killed “and tw | final demand for “honesty in gavern- one ng waa leds lad bo lore 4 K glace rand ME Fe 3 ; It did relieve the pain in h LD-TIMERS — gathered _ around! geattic were seriously wounded ment," which has been his campaign ot a leg of mutton, Thence to reading “£0. He leaves a wife and two chi pate A eeea rs’ carl | ach, but it gave him a worse pain| the voting machines in Seattle Thousands of persons are expected! as election bitterness blazed into slogan from the outset. omapo mighty naughty, the first 1 | dren, one of them a baby, born Mon Hay forec oe Falnea 1 Inclem-lin the head and heart when Jim Tuesday and wagged sage heads!to swarm the downtown streets to| war. Davis’ managers felt it Was a ¢ tend in five years, and astonished 4... a 0: c icken, | ent her election day in Seattle ‘ 7 é ‘ord | . TEE we ¢ + ts to! . vis gers ras a see how far they now go, of ela hath | OY: Ae a rip oie ait eg bien ad tha: akowht. oft: the. Or |Ham's bunch passed the word] concerning the “contraptions.” They | take part in the election celebration | John Mackey, 32, was shot to}waste of effort to attempt to have aa eae eatnlan nes = brsep donee? cee hlrsags | renpocattte the reir jaround that he had been in a water-| chewed tobacco or smoked long elec-| Theaters, restaurants, cigar stores|death and Claude Maddox, alias|the radio hookup for his speech ex Aavght bat the ashean, where, when I | ed to be breaking. It is the fiftn| {ot saloon “setting them up” t@) tion day cigars and mourned the|and radio stations are planning to| John Moore, was wounded in a tun-{tended to the west coast as it did Kd finished, 1 did put it. iWorld Flyers Are storm which has lashed the coastline Me Bakay camer ge : EN Es] passing - of the golden days’ of pol- | give election returns to their patrons, ning fight between two auto leeds for Coolldge's’ addre: Davis did . in the past week Ered pere ery Beri @ul'en | ities, when Mar! anna was’ king,! and special editions of The Star will| of men near noon. Earlier in the (Turn to Page 4, Column 3) Califoraia and Stantord have se W. to Dayt | Rainfall up to Tuesday morning |the carpet the next day and when) when “Tippecanoe and ‘Tyler, too,"| give the last-minute news on the|day one man was perhaps fatally : €red athletic relations with U. $. C., on ay tO Vayton | os exceeded last year’s total for the |he couldn't satisfy them that hel and “the full dinner pail”. were war} local and national situations. wounded when five men poured a} Which is located in Los Ange! DIE Cal, Nov. 4 samo period by nearly an inch, Thix|actually had the colic and that! cries to warm the cockles: of one’s A spontaneous spirit of fun and|fusillade of bullets into an election | Los Angeles ought to retaliate by | world flyers hopped off at year’s total, however, is an inch| blackberry cordial was necessary to| heart, when the Plumed Knight! frolic which will rival the annuat | booth. | annexing San Francisco and Palo (a. m. for vad oak Sunde r the average precipitation, | relieve it. They went out and voted) rode. forth to battle, and when’ free |New Year's and Armistice night cel-| The Seventh precinct booth of the Alto. — against him and Jim Ham won| silver turned neighbor against] ebrations will pervade the city. Tho} 16th ward was burned during the sae |hands down neighbor ‘aw tho ‘flowing oratory of/ days of the victorious torchlight pa-| ght Pye e the Rene eS Coolid e and ‘Hartle Are young mun from the Platte|rades are gone, but the interest In aaa g y “Everybody's Mean” aroused the nation election returns is still keen, and] Forecast Million Pra even the weather {s not expected to 3 ‘ Las Vegas, N. M., Citizens i (CV ES,” agreed another, this time] Vote “Clattered Up” |deter the crowds Votes in Chicago gas, in 0 a e in up on the North Hill, “and) cer tay i Special night shows are sched- CHICAGO, Nov. 4—Approximate Vigorously Protest i everybody's so mean these days. ee mia nd itis oe don't} uled at the Liberty and Orpheum | 699,000 persons had cast. ballots Why, if you got a dollar everybody so hearty nowadays,” sald) with special wire service on elec- | ¢o 1 o'ctock, the election commission-| LAS VEGAS, N. My. Nov. 4 thinks you're. a blankety-biank| One of them, puffing'on a stogie out} tion returns offered patrons. The | or, said this afternon. By 4 o'clock, !Atmed guardsmen early today took ‘Even Money on on Large State Major- hlankeblank and. tries to. take 4t|!% Montlake. “There's no one thing| Liberty performance will stat at when the booths in Chicago close, charge of each of San Miguel coun: j they can argify about. Politics is so 11 o'clock and the Orpheum spe- away from you. Nobody trusts more than 1,000,000 ballots. will have ,ty’s 59 precincts with instructions “ye 5 | eluttored up with ideas that'« foller|. cial show is billed to follow the | : ‘ a lo Pw : s aE ities; Douglas Also Big Favorite Pea als 4 mt averyiioy. waste ta] has’ no’ more’'n sat his mind’ to’ one| regular night performance. | been cast, officials forecast. eae Bea ag their guns eis real, Jife ix earnest, a [incstee iahtascne Hameo iain "te of them than nine more comes along| Numerous other show houses will ‘TRiiote. CHAE BO Ge states itd thls fact is not a Joke, KMBUMRA ware aative: Iii:mmke| Prosecutor, Malcoc Douylaw ‘wa ie ticee tant anes Petepapem edd craves decision. And a’ feller| give telegraphic and telephone serv: | Big Voter Rush EK Re hsb ire ‘hen you're going to pay your coal ing wagers in the closing hou heavy favorite of the sambiors| yoay w y nigh satisfies | Just nacherally gets plumb disgust-| {ce at the regular night perform. | duty, ins-Laal, Vela: Canine Sactainee bilt betoregglection, acco@ng to geports|in his race for superior court berich| inv Whe tne eld deck ed-and don't vote.” ances, including the Heilig, Metro- at Los Angeles : te) be ell “tbe dudtaanter And a “dip” extracts your poke. Son ¢ fous cigar stores actthg as|against Boyd J. Taliman, According} " Ae ey eee politan, Palace Hip and Pantages,| LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4—Addition- |). adsutant dettere eit. we Skip. thy rhs encles. to the bookmakers, there was’ an where performances will be stopped|al ballot boxes and booths were | : ema reel Sed A pempinds ee .0/, 6 280% ecoolldge was a heavy favorite abundance of Douglas money win|Woted 70 Years Ago Each Votes for Self Sere taeraeaind Loe Rint cater dope | rushed to many local precincts ath iteting ios Saiki: bgtinetcac: ave 4 carry. the state and tho mae lea backers behind ‘Tallman, WZHA® MBMKER ’ waa up eady, VI ro Con es | Of | Walla, trom che adding nianiae front. hoon to care for the unexpected rush} At noon today no disorders had Wipe, (eee: Bets of 8 to 1 that he would bo] Odds of 10 to eight were made EK esday morning und was one Col. Roland “H. Hartley,’ of] The Butler Hotel cafo will entertain | of voters, who formed lines before |heen reported, altho Las Vegas citl- Ween gyou get your Armour} tad were plated/ Bven money|that the Polleemen-Piremen’s pay |or : 4 | his precinct, |E¥erett, Bob Oman, of Tacoma, and | {ts patrons from 6 p,m. on thru the | scores of polling places. It was pre-| 2008 were vicorboalye pretest (ne: 26a round NAB ahe’s Bwcift.” Pata ‘ toolldge woul| Increase measure would ye ote | eth ee at te vote in Bis. Precinct: Iw “A,” Gilmore, of Seattls, ‘oach| evening with spectal radio service.| dicted that the vote here and in js a SIE tat bia he ie ea oars jwas offered that Coolidge wou nerease meas! ould carry, our) tis yote was for Coolidge, j fl The orchestra will cease playing ary vill be one-third t: declaration of martial Jaw. ia : . learry Washington by 40,000 major-|to one was offered that the school| Hin first vote was cast. just 70/sPent the day in his home town, bana | nearby cities w © one-third grea uriatian: Citeh who's tatoned a CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON |"! Dill “would: be dofeated mblore|yeava ago thin fall, in a local elec. |All of them’ yoted—and each voted| When the loud speaker beg! ns, and ler than the total at the last general sive up the sheriff's office to Lor IVY CLUB | Nine to 10 wan wagered he would| were also betting heavily that the|tion at Steilacoom, Plerce county, | for himself Dement oF thar tavoriteg | moon enzo Delgado and who was removed Candidates whe litter the street jo the tate by 50,000. |Hone bill would carry in the ptate.| “Have you voted in. every. elec: "Dinde “ptoved cand (canta cOUNeIne y |by Judge D. J, Leahy and later re: with thelr campaign literature, Hartley ‘wan the next favorite.|, La. Follett wan. ‘choice of 1f4| tion since theri?”” he was aaked It’s Half-Holida rooms promised to play to capacity | 9iX Arrested for instated by the supreme court, Vi0 oR | Bet nine to 10 were offered hel|gamblers for second pince Svery time,” the @3-year-old plo- s 3 \Y Jhouses, with telephone and smail F d . El . Unued in command of the city The fine edge of the honeymoon im|would carry the state by 60,000 and|were laid that he would beat Davis|neor said with great emphasis TORS DAY. was regarded os. lexal | radio outfits bringing In the Intest raud In Election | strengthening his position t FNL when first the bride must «wal-layen money that he would win by|by 60,000 votes. A freak bet war! ‘Tho firet time he ever voted for holiday. in some quarters, but | totats, and several other cafes and| MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov. 4—Six ar-|utiing and arming assistants, few’ Hird ana Framer 40,000, A few bets were placed|made at one popular agency that | president was:in 1888, aftor Wash. [Stores and schools remained open. | restaurants promised special service | rests for alleged election frauds were} In the ‘heantime, Sxipwith hart ° that he would run ahead of Coolidge | Coolidge would poll more votus thun}ington had been admitted to the}. Banks of the city were closed, as'yq qiners thruout the evening and | ricce this afternoon as Memphis | barricaded the armory, intending —A. J, & in Washington, La Volletto aud Davis combined, Union as a state, ho ould, (furn to Page 4, Column §) early part of the night. voters stormed the polls, to use tt as a jail if necessary, y 4 ae BIG NEWS for You | | a 5 a