The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 23, 1925, Page 1

ITY MANAGER PLAN GOES ON BALLOT we ii The SeattleStar "ms" Mayor Has Promised to ; ATTLE | Sign Measure Today Entered as Second Clase Matter Ma 1999, at Postoffice at Beattin Was Act of Congress M ' ' SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JANUARY ELECTION BOARD READY ‘Brown Will Take Stump t Against Plan NO, 284 TWO CENTS IN SEZ Fo. 26 AOTC Bre B = Graft Witness’ Car I ) REVELLE OOS ec a ae, eet 7a pict a Stolen, he Se :¥ HOW EVIDENCE Doc tor Matthews Ha ard to Handle vei :. | Lonely Spotand Barnid WAS BOUGHT Church Raises Money for His Vacation; He Spends It on if bed Mission, but New Scheme Worke a ter en er * ee. W emems, ancl thous TEALING the touring car of H. G. Behneman from in = BS at ———S | bron . — ef | front of his home on E. Denny way at 7:30 p, m Whitney Purchased Infor- a8 sere . I saervers sy the | Thursday, thieves took it to a lonely spot on Lake Wash- |; mation From Outsider Seis hile ‘Ien oakingtas leg conftict betw Nola tt ington bivd., applied gasoline to it and burned it, Behne- | tensive study of the city manager \ i | , ts t Pat n, and is preparing a series o is i) mer te man reported Friday || TAPPER'S STORY GOT 90 : i » rag cain Behneman was one of the witnesses who testified before || rticles and public speec against Whe ¢ the measure to a series of public la ppp eee ‘ the council efficiency committee in its probe of vice and fue Bartley asked the leg ure reported graft in Seattle. He Sold to Dry Agents and aes Fron 1 Web “The fact that no effort was made to strip the car by Then to Booze Ring Ba cata 40 CR beet celebrate St. Valent » thieves indicates that it was not stolen and destroyed |} |. couneit Thursiay ar hur Schramm, erry. with peeves motive than that of revenge,” said Wil- Evidence which resulted in [assistant corporation counsel, wrote ae liam Park, attorney for Behneman, the indictment of 90 for con-| "We are not unmindful of s ) r y for ea a ae Half a can of gasoline was found near the ruins of spiracy as members of the barage of publicity laid down by e car when it was discovered. The thieves had placed . i some member of the city man- Aeegedeg pia Olmsted liquor ring cost gov- ager committee with the evident purpose of ‘bulldozing’ city offi- clas into an unauthorized con- struction of the law. This barage is obviously intended to elicit public sympathy on the uawar- ranted contention that city offi- clals are placing barriers in the way of the committee. In truth and fact, all city officials have | been endeavoring to expedite the committee's program and to smooth its w The ordinance was slightly modi. | tied by vote of council Thursday, placing the name “city manager’ in : (other cans under the hood and in the body ernment dry agents $1,000,| according to reports received jby United States Attorney} st vives «to E S D Rf Y S |Tom Revelle. | Jaarpen pencils Later, someone sold out ah their hus. r © fh ” Lyle’s office to the liquor ring anor | 1 oe ; for a like sum, Revelle was a told. The evidence, Revelle called ¥ repre said Friday, was obtained by ence owes Brown Asserts Sleuth Dogged Him someone outside the pronivi- the rumor that mag the bu | “ » tion agents’ office, accordin, eee | tate; ‘Gush, ? Says Lyle ito h i! f a . the first sentence of the title instead ‘ 04 Hes Grump, the sage of | aN “Si Le ORR ano | | of at the last, on the ground that the j Femptia E says « INDERCOVE pe , Wire tapping has been dropped aa ‘original title might be construed to ; iy wy the Wes o-deesn't | DERCOVER men, believed | Federal Pr fon Director &@-means of dence.on sub | direct the minds of voters against ia Fifa i to be from the federal prohibi- © Lyle said the statements pected ors le positivel: hi t | = dettin: stud poker | thon office here, trailed Mayor | mayor were too silly to comm Seabed nnd . as es the proposition. } ym: ATR Brown every mile of his recent | “I don’t know anyth about it Tt fs no more wire tapping | i swing thru the eastern part of | Lyle said. “It's the mayor's usual ete KYRW. Olympia, ls broad: t! ia yeceasdings pret laele: he state, the mayor charged Fri- gusty Mought to make a good bed: | 4 story for the kiddies. is going on,” Roevelle sald, “There | won't be, The agents obtained tn-| 4 formation from only one or two} | as dry « making elaborate|to admit it, do yout said the|centra) offices of the Mquor Bea |Drecautions to hide his identity, left| mayor, “If they had found a pop! whe : _ g [Seattle the day after, Mayen: Srown | bottle in ‘rot grin tf would “have Whe panes he wires I am unable departed, and gotnsfivs®-to Yakima, | been. heralded. ‘STATE VOTE ON CHILD LABOR ‘ou don't expect the dry agents OTICE ’ Fe voring irrigation | |™otored to WerttiteRee, the mayor| While they In trailed ma & tres Were tapped by & man for is must check chewing | | aid. sleuthed me ever since I was elect-| merly in the employ of Mayor Buck Is Passed Up to People | but I do not know who he i 1 understand that this informa. | |tlon was turned over to Mr. Whit | ney. of Roy Lyles office. I also have heard that Whitney paid $1,000 for the Information, and that | ed, they have not found anything | reown, || “He was a very smooth gentleman Mland he was making a flank atta: bat can use to blaghéa my ehat- [chuckled the mayor. “Then he w Brown said he is making another going to follow me from Wenatchee | aemand upon dry agente at Waah- oie gia and from there tO/ington to release the report on W. vacseaenens | M. Whitney, on file in the govern “I sent word ahead of him to meet|ment’s records there pigs Pn by 4g A pec baad ’ me at the ranch and we would have} “That report is a public docu-| not 7 cannot give details or do! les ¢ tax on mzophones! j% nice chicken dinner.” ment," the mayor declared. “SeN-| no: even know whether there in ar ee “But he never caught up with|ator Jones has prevented ita re . | . truth to the rumors.” | Ul Ger. Hartiey’s program for|Mme. I was always two jumps ahead | lease, but I am going to Insist ie weston eaole Wiibky diced ses| tertening the session is iT jot pam It, be paltienes that the federal agents are| of the legislature will ; eae plans to tap the phone wires ted to introduce their | | of every known bootlegger In Seattle My them. | The apparent wholesale tapping of 7 } wires has caused alarm to many THE AFTERNOON OF A Seattle citizens, since there appears LEGISLATOR | to be no means of prosecuting those | Wiking from the hotel to the | | | who cut in on private phone lines, | Building. | Complaints have been made to Re ‘4 1 Cla wondering eat] oe os i ‘ - yelle by substantial citizens who fear el gover Attorney Scores| Daylight Robber Escapes the nractice may spread to private| x ICet ” ‘ | business interference. Waking back nee Nei | Frisco “Jazz” Slayer With No Loot | “1 know of .no plane to continue| oe ig oman lobby: | mee pid |the wire tapping as a means of en | ? SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23—Doro-} Surprised by a girl clerk after he| forcing the prohibition laws," Lyle} Rea ster chew of tobae-|. ny Ellingson settled down in her|had broken into the Middleton Phar. |*ald. “I do not think there will bo! Wiking back to the Capitol Build. |! cell today for a week's wait until| macy, 2409 10th ave. N., at § a. m./ ANY more of it.” | by Our Legislators i BALLOT IS ; DEMANDED kK Bill Referring Ratification Is Expected to Pass LYMPIA, Jan. 23.—The child labor amendment will be re- ferred to the voters for “advice” in November, 1926, according to plang made today, following a sec- ond publig hearing on the subject } s and in the senate chamber last night. Senator Wray, of King county, member of the federal relations committee, claims to have 25 votes lined up to put over the Westfall plan for an adyisory ballot at the general election. This. plan ends discussion of the question, temporarily, at least, If the amendment was rejected, it 7 . c Here is one of the most familiar faces and probably the best known piece of head- penis TRU Tesh" counialy she again appears in court. P y, a do dict burglar drew! That bootleggers who have fled to ; BL vtec with the satel he sic ag be homcsll ot shat verte ouruhe bees ere 4a may bo gently but firmly} gear in Seattle. Dr. Mark A. Matthews and his famous Dixie hat. Dr. Matthews, pas-| moro embarrassment. The Westfall i oapfleey Ing her mother to death, will come! iy. &, Warren and Cecil Bader, who | Put back across the international bor- | tor of the First Presbyterian church in Seattle, the largest of its denomination in the! plan obviates this. ; Wileg “Nor and wondering what | Defore the juvenile court next Thurs-| same to her aid, and managed to |4*F 48 undesirable citizens loomed as| world, will leave Monday on an extended trip to the Holy Land. His church has been A final vote 1s scheduled for i ming about. |day for a formal hearing and in the| make her escape. |4 probable development Friday trying 23 years to make him stop for a breathing spell eh acre | an te ‘tho fasted, | meantime arrangements for her de-| Miss Louise Adamson, clerk at the| Close co-operation between govern tht : Z Last nignt's meeting failed to | Waleiog where he can get a fense are In progress. pharmacy, opened the store for busi. | Ment officials and Canadian officials| Photo by Price & Carter. Star Staff Photographers | change a vote on the last of Gv. q Alexander Moonlin, her lawyer, #4i4| ness Friday morning and found the |!" the past led Revelle to expect) 7 YOU were boss and had a man, Finally the church decided it would, S° DR. MATTHEWS promised and | Hartley's “ten commandments” to |he was still searching for a high) burglar, She ran into the Tenth ave reciprocal treatment in the present] working for you, say 20 yeurs,|insist on the doctor taking a trip. set out to complete his plans, j the legislature. The 10th command- it. |class criminal attorney to associate) sfarket, 2407 10th ave. N., next door, | “@%* even tho there are no laws to| without a vacation and you decided | Money—a big purse—was raised for| which now have matured. He and| ment was: “Thou shalt not ratify Mewing from 2 woman lobbyist, | with him in the defense land called Warren and Bader [Permit extradition of bootlegers. |he needed a rest anid handed him|the purpose. ‘They gave it to the| Mrs. Matthews and thelr two chil-|the 20th amenment” All the meet- Milig back to the Capitol Build-| District Attorney Matthew Brady |” phey ¢ound the thug in a rear room | eeu, bape a i Sas were made) pienty of money to take it and he| doctor and told him what it was for.| dren, Grace Gladys and Mark A.,| ing did was to give representatives red tho delay in the case, Wa8|yeauty parlor. The man drew a gun | Pray morning, pe it Confusion | took the money and spent it for| But he didn't go. Couldn't get away |Jr.. will leave Monday on the Mil-|of* a few more organizations “a Al i jan “outrage land ran to the back of the place. Pees ner named) something else and didn't. get the} just then, he . but would after a| waukee for New York, from which} chance to be heard.” Gimpia Definition in| “This constant coddling of a git!|-the two butchers went around to| suqeq Ne ako ie fo mds lent rest, what would you do? bit. Then someboc ‘overed he| port they will sail January 30 on} Proponents of ratification ran Who doesn’t ook | Who killed her own mother ts out-lthe rear door, outside, but the thug| nore were three indictments emainet| Probably you'd be more careful/had taken the vacation money and/| the steamship Laconia for the Holy |away with the honors at’ the meet: ; {t.|rageous,” he said. “The idea of teav-| an Gut the front way. a ee i ree oen esi about handing him the cash noxt| Pent it on a Presbyterian mission in| Land, jing, William Short, state labor presi- € jing the case fn the Juvenlic courts 18) "rte probably took some narcotics, | im One o! 8 and time. Seattle. They will land at Madeira, Portu-|dent, and Mrs. Wallace T. Perham r Cy ply thin le. ties ‘3 | br ca Ci o ‘i for the|simply unthinkal detectives believe, Waiter Justi, prohibition agent, en|. ‘Thats what the iret Preatyterian gal, and call at Cant, Bevitle, joe 2 Naslepal i ew gtk as- ibraltar, Algiers and then on to | sociation, flinging in the teeth of op- keep| “Murder isn't any juvenile role — tablished B: "# identit be.|church decided to do—to t HE church t Maling laws passed by previ-|It’s too serious a thing to be pun- ablished Brown's identity as not be- ch decided to do—to be more 2 chureh tri “ * . by previ- ing the man wanted on the Olmsted| careful how they passed out money doctor used the money for an Athens, thru the Dardenelles to Con- | ponents the “socialistic, revolution- ed it again and the tors, by probatli ven ¥ in x y fn . ; vik” a ished by = ation or seven years ates. 16. Des Mark A; Matthew wien ¢ other branch of church exterision | *@0Unople, thru the Bosphorus tojary and bolshevik” charges hurled a reform schoo Gag: Soe ts RGN WEREDE REC Lo take. al vndac | Wark the Black Sea, then back to Constan-|at friends of the measure. Short, th ny f wa at] ar tinople, from which point they will| referring to opponents’ charges that tion. | A few weeks ago another attempt who ts \Ragsdale “Trial Is Wiley Heads Phone| eee was made and a church officer ap. ests is y into the -Holy|‘‘congress cannot .be trusted with * accused them of the journ nd by easy stages. They will be| child legislation, | meals Set for February 6) Methodist Book Company Work A WENTY-THREE years ago Dr,|Pfoached Dr. Matthews like this away about two and one-half}"trying to destroy faith of the ; orkers’ Association) [Oy oethe, Viet of : « 3 ars Thomas Ragsdale, who resigned Cashier Accused ‘ i | Matthews came to Seattle from ctor, the church is it would | months. people” and branded them as ef January 1 as under-cover investi-| uF Mins toa Pca Saeed fe A bec ne pene of the Poe : ry be having you per — a “friends of anarch: ator for the prosecutor after his j chairman of the Pacific Telephone | Firs yytetian church here. He! form a little errand in foly Land. } < Mira’: Portia ieee 4 bey ia sage vo; will fe | KANSAS CITY, Kan., and Telegraph aleti as kept himself lean and lank by close|It won't take you long and onco|German Mine “te wrocten Live pre ea fiat stside my window, and suk charge of driving while drunk Charges of embezzlement were flied| Benefit organization. He was for-|attention to the job, Prominent| more we have raised a sum sufficient - e : a % : tyeeit a Otpsnntel eat oh ties Me Wimuary: 6 eaten Fred A. Day, cashier of the|merly stationed in Spokane. jchurchmen urged him to let go once| to defray all expenses of yourself Disaster Kills 7) SMiGe in tnabeae Geary aN ae breakfasting in C. Ross, former deputy prosecutor, | local branch of the Methodist Book) Other members of the new execu-|in awhile and rest. But he was hard) 4nd family, but 23.—Seven miners| ged the legislature to “make the enting Ragsdale, obtained Co., here today. | tive committee are G. W. Benedict, |to manage. He wouldn't slacken his} “You don’t get the money until as a result of an explosion | world as safe for other folks’ chil- it be surprising how few continuance from Friday because of! Day, who ts iil in bed, is charged| A I. Launder, D. 8. V. Hill and R. | which, as a lot of folks around) you're all set to go. No more mis- | of damp gas in a mine near Bochum, |dren as we have made it for our hei and anon to the Capl- q press of other legal matters. Rags-| with embezzling $38,633 of the con-| 1. Pace, all of Seattle, was plenty fast [appropriation of funds.” miles northeast of Dusseldort, own.” and " S Seder lentine about the dain was arrested by Deputy Sheriff |cern’s funds. The proceeds of the Joe Harraban on the Bothell high-| company for which Day is cashier . way, after his car had smashed into! are used to care for indigent pastors and thelr families. \Crude Oil Price | |Jumped by Standard Maurice Langhorne, Tacoma, re- peated charges that frieads of child | labor prohibition are “communistic, | socialistic and revolutio.ary” and ] r | referred to a child labo. ‘aw as 1 “stupid vice legislation.” Other speakers «included Lady Willie Forbus, Seattle; Mrs. B. F. | Westmore of Spokane, representing % Harrahan's auto. he mysterio the iiss: be: ian” anatoos d TODAY’S WANT ADS 4 Moran and Ralph Dougla Cnty, ivdudads a. ef HRIFT letters keep pouring in. believe in the budget system for our! less we buy one thing e— J anc boring bill, it tt names || Have @ very good variety of good || SHEVEPORT, La. Jan. 33—An) 1 ‘he majority of them carry the| household capansta,: but 8 5: tot [asmnetaini ary hssaesasecogatscoet: [ts Pile fa the red? Wer ha 2 arranged {3000 000 members of Federated Wo. be walling ar homes. Here is a dandy. advance of 26 cents a barrel on crude| refrain; “Buy right—pay cash.” belleve in buying in small quant! ing more than one has ready cash |our budget system and find it works] RS clubs, John McIntosh of Fed- 8 stone bins tan an joll from pee ig ee and! gome husbands stop leaks by buy: | ties ter. y cash| fine. I can easily save $25 a month|erted Industries and Tom Fisk of ag tad washing of teeth} ‘Ginw pune poiton valley. et Mihackover fields {128 cobblers’ outfits and mending the “We buy corn, tomatoes, pens, I give my wife an allowance, so| from my $87.50. My wife has to| Kelso. boxers. ieee FL dP, $56 per month will |lwas announced, effective today, by | family shoes—a big saving. One Se tuna fish, salmon, ete, by the (she knows exactly how much to/| have well-planned meals and make 2 a ° 1] "give you Immediate posseasion |the standard Of company. E= truck driver stopped leaks i case, sugar and potatoes by the | pian on each month, 1 pay the | most of her clothes and the youns-/ Oklahoma Reject: @ taz on band modes ungalow in | 5 5 - | half of the salary; also keep up the | baking, to be able to save fr er . Sn OTE ‘money than a “etd | pie Cee ith Pay dp lYoung Ma Robber tho, until faced by need of an neuen | tables in season and out fer . clothe myself and Bah ag pad $87.50, $20 or even $15 a Sohriy ‘ Child Amendment salad at least three times a concrete basement, laundry || gency operation on his little son tor bilis, The wife should have} Letters postmarked up to midnight) OKLOHOMA CITY, Okla., Jan. 28. a ass i] eee furnace: garage: lok 48x | Gets 25-Year Term and lacked $100 with only three days'| week. Carrots and onlons are | half the money where there are two Saturday will be accepted in the|—The Oklahoma house of represen: a Mt Session the ¢ 108, Ry. at. the of und and || BROOKLYN, Jan. 23. pay coming. Now he saves 26 per| sometimes cheaper to buy in (jor three children. Her atiowance | Thrift contest, telling how you| [tatives voted down the proposed me caiicunes In a Fo fal ey James Watt chdoo, who turned |cent of his salary | «maller quantities, being rather should cover groceries, foodstuffs, |stopped the leaks in your household | child labor amendment, 81 to 24, HOw moved to Ins || train robber to impress his young| A family that prefers to remain| hard to keep. clothing for herself and children, |expenses. Ten dollars for the best |late yesterday, ‘The vote was taken Commend Quarters tele re bride with his ability to make good, | unnamed writes the following ty pieal | “Our sack of sugar in the fall is! doctor bills and laundry expe «, |letter, $5 for the second best. Try | ‘ter five hours of bitter debate. The Phone booth ' was sentenced today to 26 yearu in| letter, which reflects the g Lout-| used canning. We pay cash, The|New house furnishings should bejand keep them within 300 words.|state senate will consider the meas Atlanta penitentiary. line of many others. They say: “We | installment plan is poor policy, um-' paid for a halg from each allow-' Winners announced early next week. | ure Monday, Now turn to the Want Ad page and see who Is offering this one. a J. 8.