The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 9, 1924, Page 1

ae | | e Give Her the Gift She I i i hoa ‘ , patie bullding of roads an aude ilatieatea Mircea ‘The g t tretched out o: the trails in the ational forest The tecelvi oupital hie! ve The garter stretched out on the \M ounded Marshal ‘SETIN _ WEATHER | VOL. 2¢ NO, 245. ee Sia SEATTLE, WASH., BHIBEAY CHARGES The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Ws ashington The SeattleStar ii £0". TUESDAY, HOM EDITIO SE _S Ver Year, vy Mail, $4.09 DECEMBER 9, 1924. TWO CENTS IN * Home P mY US’ | Christmas Crowds Invade Seattle Shops OFFICERS Bre | MURDER "DEFENSE Pastor and Woman So're ours Now Facing Jury; t Are Accused of Killing 2 Mates How are your t CANDIDATE FOR THE POLS - ash wit ON IVY CLUB Goof who ls going to give his wife a mew set of false teeth for Christmas. typical street scene ii streams, We press without at | The F oH the. Bestia home EDITORIAL wath. death and HE of Sweetin STAR on’ November 14 called the attention of city officials and the public to the rotting condi- tion of Railroad ave., where disaster looms in gaping holes and insecure underpinning of the shaky wooden trestlework built out over the Sound. City officials promised immediate relief. t was, and put another the back seat? CHRISTMAS, 1 A new ed to sui! he k ow they loudly : i COY JURY is On Tuesday—25 days later—a Star reporter went i Ticsco tins Mime ni-tnclatall down to Railroad ave. to see what had been accom- : plished. nk!’ rhapsodizes Doro SHAPING UP | Conditions were just as they had always been. The wasn Sigel: ~ gc oa a The oe shaky bridgework. The same ate aeeean® uci aanaiote danger of autos crashing thru into the water. pe . cae LAM 12 May Be Selected by At the city-county building the reporter tried to 6 End of Today’s Session | learn why. This is what he found c t gh ge ne | JOHN CARROLL, chairman council streets commit- ; HieeGiiieer ite LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9.—Before tee: I don’t know what the status of the matter is. ce close ve today's ¢ gh the Let's find out. aka! idly Se" def = CITY UTILITIES DEPARTMENT: Better see the ted streets department. ante ten Way ea STREETS DEPARTME The matter is in'the fe hands of the board of public works and the city engi- how s few challenges left neer, sacl re y unsuccessful in its CITY ENGINEER'S OFFICE: The plans are ready SEZ: Se ee for approval Friday by the board of public works. If ie sesidlgrsits Fo Amt rag approved, public hearings will be set for the middle nd. Well, a glass dress would of January. I right so long as a girl didn’t fall down and break it. M NTIME, while the city is thus dashing madly . about its busihess of getting $30,000 together for emergency repair work to give the “immediate relief” that was promised, heavily loaded trucks con- tinue to rumble all day long over the quaking struct- ure of n . dent Th Ve commented LAT Gee Gee, ma n't want women nless action is taken promptly, something is going “1 surely wouldn't be cook at the|to decide his fat to happen. Olympic hotet ‘ na irs os Hot bea he apy The reporters then won't have to make the rounds Glekas |‘ apter dasaae fi le aha tehc eal of city offices to find out what it was. re . a out 12 and let the trial They will go direct to the county morgue Austin E, Griffiths suggest If Kid McCoy doesn’t hang, the we ve only one county com-) Bits havel ios Fethiete “edoe missioner. Heck, that’s too’ many! | PCP’ ; x 4 ‘ = -* Dist t Attorney Saa Seyer told bi 150 Million Okehed for Rural Roads JOB, BUNGSTARTER SAYS: me The marine room at the Olym- pic ought to be a good place for CROSS-WORD = PUZZL E | League Armament FAN DISLOCATES HIS | HINGTON, Dec. 9.— Appro a wet party. ee Parley Postponed | pristion of 150,000,000 to provise | JAW WHILE PUZZLING With some of the new radio sets| ROME, Dec. 9.—The league of na deral aid in the cor ction of ru | O8 ANGELES, Dec, 9.—W, E. | getting #0 intricate nly a mat-|tfons council today unanimously | ra) post rouds 4 Srcndviy y 4 Carruthers, n ¢ ate | ter of time until t require | accepted England's request that dis-| | te Rather : a ha losir | a special chauffeur to run them. | cus he protocol of arbitration | °Y e ** PR Ce nus to think of word ° ecuri id Uisarment and of the|!n a bill recommended t hi met | “Yes, I've quit the holdup game, urmament conference proposed at| for immediate pu ; | Ti hang around joints no more,” Ge a be por ed until the March The bill carrie a claw nut z nderi pa sigh and a faint little} m of the council ing additional expendi $ hard. one, ( the yest y 000,000 for appropriation would b over a period of two ye: distributed | jtaced 4 floor, \. PF PPLP PLL LAL PLAPP LAD AS of Kent Improving | How to Keep Bill Collectors from shot — Seattle as Christmas shopping throngs gaze on attractive show windows and move in and out of Christmas morning holds much in store for Seattle kiddies and for all the es and Mas, too. RAISE BURGLARY. 'Holiday Shopping Promises to Break |Rates*Go Up Here Due tOlaver made in all his cheery career promise brighter than } a ) ARE PUT ON GRILL Chief Running Down Stories of Exam Questions Sale; Board Will Act | TTEMPTS to get concrete | evidence in the charges of bribery in connection with the civil service examination for po- lice sergeant last Saturday were being made Tuesday. 1 service commissioners Tues day night were to start a probe in an effort to obtain evidence to sub- itiate the charges of Commission: er Boyle that he had been offered $1,000 for an © copy of the questions by a Seattle lawyer. Chief of Police ryns, at the same time, was qui mer fron the Wallingford station in connection with the story of one officer that he had been offered # copy of the questions for $250. Chief Severyns Tuesday question- ed Sergt. L. L. Norton and Patrol- man C. O, Myers of the Walling: ford precinct, as well as Capt. J. J Haag, who first reported the affair The officers all denied they had been approached by anyone con- cernfng purchase of the questions. Later ‘Tuesday the chief was to talk with Officers Dan Griffin, who is sick in Vi ia Mason hospital, and Seattle is in the thick of it and no plans Santa Claus) }; c Saree anon nore the shops in endless All Records; Many Novelties INSURANCE rae IT just the grandest time—this Christmas season? The set of questions In evidence Suocess of Lawless ithose of the 1924 season. ix one of a number of such sets sear | Beginning right after Thanksgiving, Christmas crowds|™imeographed by Report Clerk Phil Gear merchants and in- {begun flooding the streets and the shops and merchants for eS aves pages Seve Beets: double ition fee ix thats un |the most part unite in declaring this year's holiday business) ation, legitimately, and to help pa which daylight bandits and safe |Will eclipse all former ones. trolman-candidates In thelr examin- blowers have operated in’ King Wise shoppers are getting out early in the day. The after-|#tion. Across the top of these ty during the past year. noon crowds, always big, make it difficult for shoppers to bar taigphage Behe? beavis : . eet sentg ctl! Uaggeh obtain the individual attention they desire, so the early! re a peste officials sald, that t Underwriters of the Pacific /Dirds have a distinct advantage over the late comers. | somebody may have cut off this Coast; accor: > advices received| Stattle kiddies, if ations hold European hand{work. The new play-|tine and tried to peddle the ques- é nee write good, will hav t things are proving highly educational | tions | as those to be asked in last The nh bank messengers and | crammed full this, entertaining | week's tests. ncreased by | chants shopping has been ing should find Se-| Chief Severyns said Tuesday that rea. notable fo {es of toys pur s if material bless-| an the knowledge he has is pure afe ch ve This may be acc eo for s. i jhearsay and that there appears ny reason of the exceptionally large some Seattle mer-|iittle chance of’ getting at the bot- fornia and varied offerings of novel! ‘ up the situation |tom of the affair. MeL. te as apparently new shops have come into RADFORD, OF THE been . more as well as the BON Mis will be the | COUNTY BRIBERY ful down th ditones,” have} Bon nea CHARGE DROPPED Christmas. | Boyle has refused to name the business has/ lawyer whom he says approached is 'no’sign of |h1m put it is possible the man. may r of Christmas seen in Se ‘Under the new rate Les An geles jumps to high place along pepped up sas City on house bur ny dep here. Wome . vib fins aa hae Peres) omen Are | ie called before the commissioners both cities sur. Mes and thelr pare are’ held | heavy, buyérs offtoye afdimen tac] T 1 d jfor an explanation. The new rate ound by the great showing of | nishings. There will be’ fewer last-|"°y." 4p time,» the’ bribe 33 per $1,000, compared to (Turn to Page 9 Column 2 n the. meantime, the bribery | charges in county government, 50 per $1,000 in Chicago. i BALTIMORE SUIT IS . jhurled last week, have evidently | County Commissioner Dobson said { Main Street | he is offered $10,000 to defeat Ewing: Colvin for prosecuting attor- UP Dobson refused to name the saying r $1,000 to $40, or ney. man who offered the money, An increase equal to that in Seat aL Sontag ont | STANLEY GRIFFITHS, ‘the | it was a lifelong friend. ae snbahenae = Second Tax Publicity Case) snipping man, doa utomo- Colvin says he will attempt action | adh Eoeathdt Oke x if he learns the identity of the man, : | Opened:by Government | Diles crossing ‘Union at Fourth. “| ut" nothing further than this has Former Justice of H. KAMP, of the Lloyd Trans- | heen done. Ss re t Di | BALTIMOE Md, Dec fer Co., collec bills ae upreme Cour NES | cccond step in the governt on Western a ee . WASHINGTON, Deo. 9Former| forts to. determine legally w) SHIELDS, «i Girl at. Astorme Associate Justice Mahion Pitney of| the public can!-be Informed of in-! Co., amaking d Ends Life in Park © United supreme ® court| come t thru’ th W. D. LANE, er, carrying ASTORIA, Ore., Dec. 9.—The dead at his home here carly today | Papers here today t brief case along First ave. /nody of Miss La Verne Heilburn, 21 a Jong {Made the te ainst the Baltimore) JAMES A. HAIGHT, * wearing | stenographer at the Astoria cham: Post came to trial his Des sm! i. Pane a LA ber of commerce, was found slumped soe AN th idence being conceded) Second ave. to Pike. A. ‘ do one’ of . vilions The Fishing Must {All sth eyidetige bet Node ae ae Jown in one’ of the pavilions. in * ids there rema i only ray: fae ele Pe; MH the Astoria city park, a.tiny nick- Be Good in Texas |‘? ‘on:luse the legal arguments of 4 thd bee "FR D BERT eled revolver in her hand and a ‘ . |opposing cotinsel on the constitu § iy a nl pulle t e spell ntly they expect. fishing to] | ean iadars ance man, walking slowly |PU!! pale Ho hep bedtt( Sona be 1 down in Texas the coming Morris A,| UP Third ave. ©. BE, BAASOH, |SUlcide uwon. Down at Pier & there is on Nakane. Get restaurant man, looking at pic eae Fatlond|of baribco ‘iphi voles. wil trea ia out “at” te, uaa. 119 More Solénb: st came in 1 Japanese boat t news-| ALEX. MYERS, insuran a Datlag, Texas, | BADeTs | pvernment| | ippraisals, in’ fre Coolidge Breakfast v ure 60 to a bundle, each | for Publica ae omes taxes pald) putiding. JIM FE WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—President 16 feet long Meely trimmed and/ citizens Anion dMas bh Ay mobile dealer, talkir Cox today had 19 house mem r the Hi | Kansws City Journal-Post is now be-| front. of Olympl bers with him at breakfast at the that pile will make just ajin& carried to a hig faye after! CHICK, real estate | White House, continuing his prac aid the mar of the|® verdict dismis the indictment on Westlake tice of getting personally acquainted And that ts majl{ i the district court FE NBAUGH, reti with republican legislators over the hipment. Often that} The third case—against the New ng up Second |coffee cups. He y had en- Tian) y points! York Herald-Tribune—is to come SUI the paint | tertained all republican senators, wher fish hook| up in the New York district court who hurrying Representative Sinnott, of Oregon und | Lite Third was among those present. hal Fred Grant, of Kent, oying You: Hang a piece of , lain Kent bank | eons the door the first of every A ‘eontiiied to ° ° 9 e e Near Show improvement at the Taylor-| ign on the radiator of @ Ford a bullet wound in his intestines and . z ager oe one in his left shoulder. | - | oe a REL | HOW DRY I AM ——————— | BY JIM MARSHALT Ms eb a r i ans nd Arned salesman about ‘em last week, Hoe ‘depot and signed up Just th’ same as time. Wouldn't never allow no such jroom? But this young feller just 5 | SC) SEEN what t eit « : era then vA HWE oP | st ‘If you want mountains) back in th’ Harris house, [put down | goin’s on in the Harris house." laff nee anyway,” sac nele Box NT T LIKE ‘, . H P| mo a A Look at nyway, 3 ai linia TAG ae ighta see the Olymple range. So) my grip and somebody says: “Front! | WENT. 'TO. MARINE /GOOD PLACE FOR at aR | This Offer! Toy, CBOE eae Beer pions fini I come down here and puty up at} lke a sergeant In the urmy, T-dia/ROOM FOR CLAMS LEAGUE OF NATIONS 1s . Vere boots out over one of the Tain't like the Harris house up i ‘ tits s Kus Aonteat ta ctht “lL. Canela. Boney “Mnuddaren trent “Well,” 1 Unele Bosley, rising Ancient A beer in the close to Seattle is alwa Olymple's Irak rm nd leaned back | at Oosle,” he aid, ebelliously if ies ae bse! Ls td poodle rae FON ey Sate , abe 7 Oa a eel Spite wiry and stuffing the hand t i heTaiehi wourlly in a carved chalr ain't go home-like, Vetlor ognal YUNe feller, “I want 9 sgo the} one eye T seen a boy grab that grip, | cently bine bandanna back into his pocket, Busch. Fi caliswiait AAT RT RLLEe ui $ j Olympic range 1 figgoved it stall, ‘This kid] “An? tho places they got to eat/"T guess the station bus'l be up int ‘ | LVM MMA URGIHA SITE DIRE THON re eee oe ee ene. FeBt ere! “Dawgone, Bud, 1 that young | beats it for a tle Ti the wall 4nd Tlaround here,” he said. “Tate once!/@ minute, Gotta cateh the 5:05 back The intentions of nome men are 1 LEY FARMS Ain't no place to chuck a dead! feller don't take me down ; to Oosic. You got a fine hotel hore ne Ht r " heavy odor of warm luxury drifte follors him, Nabs him In-a-corner, lin the Hikiv tye peerioativibra Conus Be t ore, Mgnest, and others insist 4 ntan on the Cedar | sowslly thru tho air, Unele Bosley |inatch, And soinebody's took out| to the Ketel and stow by Neck, mpd dunt ‘then another Yag [ cg ree, Cemintbecence: POON Site Rom miata mt at: SURE ne yon) thelr ais inall farm buy in || pulled a charred ¢orncob and a blue | the woodbox and hid the bar'l stoy 1 door and the hole in the wait |{Nt enee In the marine room. Felt! spantards and Ttalians and: mariners é widedild | un old idanna from his pocket, applied | How's a feller going to gitarid of e stys. Looked sume's tarts moving up. Nke mess of steamed clams and/and gonerous tippers.’ YH DAY | finder fore- H) ov4 to his mouth and the other to| his Ashes? ‘Yell me that | range to ome, only Walic Mat ss back my grip | {sured that's whore 1d likely What do you mean—rooms for Fils evening to the Met ich tract |{ his nose, From the first he evoked!) “But I seen what T come down to and by and by we stopped going up, {2% out, tho, 1 had a mixup, | generous tippe' houne, to wee Mita! Hajon te; ote the blue smoke of cut plug, from see,” he sald, answering # question.) ‘The heavy air pressed down the door opened agin and we all) Told one ot the young fellers 1} Uuyols Bosley grabbed his grip x.” and it fall of me fie second a foghorn trumpotin “Hoon up in Ooslc 27 yearn now.| Unelo Bosley's eyelids, He droned on | iyébied out. ‘Then tc ered that Wanted a feed and he says, ‘Havel fromthe stretched hand of a bell: Pretty wenches, and i Lp) ode E ever Lwaw her, And ¢ ; A bellvoy coughed asthmatically, | Ain't nover been ont. Good enough| sleeplly, the blue bandanga drooping | iho yoy who'd tried to grab my grip )YoU. tied the Juntor banquet room [be and started for homo, 1. Calvert, .G. Skinne The Want Ad Columns will tell tlie toutey looked uround reproy. | fr me, Always liked the mount-| from his brown hand, | had got aholt of my room-koy, Young |} don't want no junior banquets,’ ‘Ain't you soem the Palm room, Bi gad ea ae "saltora’ dent RM Sd able Pett Jingly, sniffed onve, tapped out Its) ings, Llved tn the dio of the} | “irunniest hotel T ever did s ol rdaontt T took (teaway eum him and LE Me ‘T want a square meal, }young man? he cackled aa the Bee rellow comehes. /jpipe on Wie aim of bie chur | Curades fr years, Told a (rayeling’ sighvd, 1 come inh here from the} found my room all right, Turr'ble | Where the grownup binauet volving door swung behind dim, ‘ » bo x — ,