The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 4, 1925, Page 1

_——— renee The New Entered as Se —— VOL 27. NO. 6. SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, <= ~ q | Home Drew TD Wewdy, folks! President Coot ‘ was inaugurated today That loud silence you hear Is de democrats cheering sit | War Whoop! Tyee! « «| “Indian Maidens” Are Invading Quiet of University Campus The cath of to Vi wil today Davis LONELY CHINAMAN | DIES ON WAY HOME men who vo the inaugural SPEED RECORD TO NATIONAL CAPITOL! Melphus Prunes, | | he , be shipped to. the st \ 3, 1STR Per Year, by Mall, * 192 ADMINISTERS THE OATH Bible Given President by Grandmother Used DAY BRIGHT AND CLEAR Executive Promises Busi- ness Administration BY PAUL BR. MALLON ft Correspondent) NAST PORTICO, The Cap 4 Washingt March 4.—In a brilliant \ ntlous pageant President Coc today renewed hin oath as thirt president of the United States ding ps of the cap! birth, according to the coroner oe ‘agri function, sell his mechan: | lili horse and co back to Northamip- fee the spring plowing. eee PXime that the king of Spain. in: 49 yastt California on his way from South America will be Interest to movie producers ; who are always on De NB atlek foe new typee | t : ‘Willie's gone to where | Ther’s trowblc never breicing,| { kntwn fo teke a dare, | He drank his mamma's biucing,| eee er te | Mamy a political orator will bow faplius: this summer when the | fs merely slapping mos-| TODAYS DEFINITION tomervative is a man who | | jtome to the age when he | | get into an upper berth | | & ladder. | eee Pocohontas knew her stuff, but it-takes the modern cam- of Belgium has bonded PUflage, so to speak, to put over real, big-time business. = Now King Albert wil! “Indian” lady book agents with real tepees on the Univers- We ordinary sinks suf-|ity of Washington campus are proving this in the sale of ochamhl ee queen's! the school annual, “Tyee.” Left to right, are Helen Forbes, ° om ake | Dorothy Thomas and Maybeth Flannery, three of the girls lin the book-selling drive. sts minetcen peas | BUTLER was the war cry Upon his knife. Breve | on the University of Washing campus Wédnesday ly says Ps garbed Indian maidens pitched thetr that Seattle's birth) toes on the campus and started hiniee oe thefr invasion of the calm realms of doing, than Pullman's berth | 11. studious collegiate. Bewildered | more. Copies of the annua | men students were quickly conquered | sale also in downtown I ders got under way Washington souvenir. This n maidens? They are not| annual, edited by Wayne Doty and Indian maidens. They just look that! hin staff, will show in elaborate de lway. In reality, they are book/| tail the agents of the deadliest type. They're | pus. WATCH OFFICER TO PROBE DEATH Test Lieut. Kennedy for r Traces of Insanity McClintock Case | selling the university annual, “Tyee.” And that's all the war whoops and the gaily the reason for A. Turner, state director maidens and their nifty little They have sold 1,800 and hope by Saturday to make it several hundred year's Bell, who has just been | {9 duty as Seattle's only top, is here shown patrol-| SAN FRANCISCO, Marth 4—| CHICA March 4.—The state's > His prowler car ix| Lieut. Frank E. Kennedy, U. 8. N..} attorney's office today started an W euipped with Ayvaad will be held under observation in| investigation of the circumstances Patrolman Bell's prin-| the state hospital for the insane) surrounding the death of William Se to prevent Puget | at Napa for three weeks, it was de-| sfeCtintock, the “millionaire orphan,” fam from making too much cided today Bet to act as hookey cop to| At the end of that time the of-| evidence at ig fish Keep in schools, | ficer, who claims he was’ “railrond-|ter to the nd to send the mat grand jury for murder eae ed” to the arylam because -he re- | indictment: ented “Prussian” tactics of his) opis action was started upon the this | superior officers, will be examined) personal order of State's Attofney patter! by a navy medical bo Robert Crowe, who directed his I you) “if he ts found sane he will be/ star assistant, John Sbarbaro, to court-martial for drunken- ness while on duty; if Insane, he will be committed to the federall jasylum at Washington, D. C. | tried by conduct the probe. Weachownds all remind us dimd the social trait, t Collars that do bind us | himselt sot oe te INSPECT PLANT stan attacks Young "| Members Tour, Girl in West Side Passen-| | Jumping from behind a tree at the edge of a forest path between White Center and * Burien, early .| Wednesday, a young man attacked and E. L.|@ 14-year-old girl who was on her ‘an all-day | way to the Lake Burien high school Falls | Deputies were unable to locate him The girl told officers that the fel low pounced upon her, threatened to go for the East, where some investigations he left Chic may make | Council Cedar Falls Project City councilmen, with n of Mra. Bertha Landi Wednesday made tour of the Cedur nd power project uled meetings of the council he made an outery and conference and public safety commit r if,s \ bi isie were candid d tearing at her clothes. she Be very pi tt Light Superintendent J. D. F screamed, freed herself. and started IB ¥inits Keattie next! accompanied the party on the inspec: | running. Her assailant, frightened, ye never bad ealltion tour, Counell members said | fled # altho nty|there was 9 particular reason for) The man. anawers the same de lthe trip at this time except to get|scripdon as the degenerate who has tacked several women in the dis first-hand Information on conditions | at Jct recently at the Falls. ns history on the cam-} to learn whether there ix sufficient] Crowe's order was insued just as] tol the prema: affirmed his pledge of office and then laid down a thr fold program for his adminiatration | economy, tax reduction and eo-opera tion with the nations of the world Barebeaded in the chill Maret breere, Chief Justice Taft, hin | welt 9 former president, now zt blwek robes of his atood beasite him and administen ¢ the oath The president place his right hand upon the Bible whieh his mother read to him as a child, and pledged himself again to defend the constitution and the nation. NN spaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington e Seattle Home Edition TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. oolidge Inaugurated! \EX- PRESIDENT! HEAD BY ~ ROBBER Loses $10 and Gun as He Runs Street Below to ng attempt to rob Mrs the Felicetti, landiady of 625 First aye, Wee ruing, wounded her encaped, Joaving behind him a pio Silver hotel, aay bill and i” gun as the clue to hia identity Mra. Folk was treated by physician, #he a probable cuasion of the brain from the . on the head with the pistol butt, | About 5 tho man entered the hotel, naked for a Thcent room land waa shown one by Mra. Fell Leathe Me mak e-em tee tt: He offered & $10 bill, She walked t own apartment to }get change. The thug followed her in. Ap she reached for the money in a bureau drawer he drew a gun “Hand over the cash and be quick Immediately after the oath, thelabout it order president be his inaugural ad ar Hin need words leaped follow. 8 was phone before him! k several blows over the head th n thru radiof with the gun butt and fell half For the first time in his- | dazed, bleeding from nealp we inaugure WAS’ The bandit snatched the bill adcast to millions of absent #pec-} ner hands and fled CROWDS JAMME! CAPTTOL SQUARE » to capitol of his From 7,0 jammed the 40,000 pe square, Ww have lawn administrations, ourands their f others panse of |the White House to th | Mr. Coolidge looked over the vast owd and back again at his manu lscript as he spoke. He frequently | used a sweeping geature of his right |arm to stresx some point | Every syllable of his words could be heard thruout the audience | When he called upon the govern- | ment to maintain itself “scrupulous American” in its foreign policy, crowd burst into its first ap lined the mii ex Pennsylvania from ave capitol. | plause, | By tion met his recommendations for further reduction of taxes, he neared the some mer both walked out licett! was al estate operator. bandit 25 yenrs old, weighing about 145 pounds, five feet, six inches in height, wore « {dark sult and cap and was light complexioned. dropped Then Mra. a and neoncernedly to bed husba money i was about CONGRESS QUITS DEADLOCKED tar the greatest demonstra-| Mass of Legislation Is Left /?'!2s°: | Unfinished by Lawmakers | ‘The president spoke for 41 min-| - | utes, concluding at 1:42 p.m WASHINGTON, March 4.—Dea | In places of hi upon the | locked to the last, the 68th congress | rostrum sat the Justices of the | United States supreme court, senators and congressmen, de- parting from the public life with | the expiration of the old con~ | gress at noon; new senators and | congressmen to herald the com- | ing of new Coolidge-republican | control of the national legisla. | ture; the cabinet, diplomats of | foreign nations, government of | ficials In silk hats, dignitaries of state, and women of fashion— the customary inaugural audi- | ence. | ‘The on the capitol steps followed the traditional ritual ceremonies In the se | Charles G. Dawes took the oath of office as vice president and delivered his inaugural address. Promptly at noon, when President | Pro Tem Cummins’ gavel fell for the last time and sent the 68th congress into history, Dawes mounted the rostrum for his pledge of office, Di rectly before the rostom sat the president The senate galleries were packed long before the time for the in- augural ceremonies to start, In the executive gallery were lCol. John Coolidge, father of the | president; Mrs. Goodhue, mother of | Mra. Coolldge; Will H. Hays, George Harvey, Owen D. Young, | Miss Ailsa Mellon, daughter of the secretary of the treasury, and young |John Coolidge, son of the presl- dent CROWDS CHEER WOMAN GOVERNOR | Nellie Taylor Ross of ‘oming came on the floor accom: panied by Senator Warren, while the entire senate applauded | Everyone im the galleries and |upon the floor arose when Mrs. Coolidge entered the executive gal Mrs. Da’ came in a short (Turn to Page 6, Column 4) tery. e chamber, where Gen. | Jconcluded today, leaving a masa of legislation unfinished. A little before noon Jof presiding officers in the jand the senate fell—ushering out jthe old divided congress and herald- ing the coming of straight out re- publigan rule Down to the last wire the strong |blocs which started off two years Jago in a tieup maintained. their Judamant positiong Farm relief, Muscle Shoals, prohibition enforce. |ment and other legislation were jcaught irretrievably, The deadioc! |was s0 hopeless that leaders even called off the night session usually |held just before inauguration day, the gavels PERSHING IS ILL ‘Confined to His Room at | Havana Hotel | HAVANA) March 4. soon after his arrival in this city, Gen, John J. Pershing, en route to the United States, following a tour his room in a hotel here today. Altho the exact extent of Per hing’s {lness not made known, |it was understood not to be seri ous. The former leader of the Ameri. can army reached Havana yoster- |day afternoon, from Santiago, Unacttled tonight and Wednes- day; fresh to strong south- | weat to west winds FORECAST STRUCK ON bandit | with pistol blows and | house | Taken in| jof South America, was confined to| The Truth About Cleveland and a Cify Manager oman Hotel Manager | unbiased, uncolored truth, | of the ablest and best-known editors of the (EDITORIAL) THAT'S the trut! Opponents of the citv r about Clevel day, have been using as one of their been unsuccessful in the Ohio cit hey draw their deduction from an article by ently. Shepherd found that Cleveland doing fairly we { der the new plan, but he quoted W. R. Hopkins, city anager, aying | that after only one year of experience with the plan in Cleveland, other | eriment ie Star wanted It went to two who are at the the Press, and Ex big cities are not yet justified in following Cleveland’s exy These are the f leveland politiciar We ts about the situation in ( It didn’t go to th Earle F head of two Cleveland newspapers || C. Hopwood, of the Plain Dealer. ] Here are the views of these two Cleveland civic aders: SAYS Mr, Hopwood SAYS Mr. Martin OO "The Plain Dealer was not favorable to the “The city manager plan is giving far better present charter beeause of the election by pro municipal service in Cleveland than did the old | portional representation, which we believed was federal system too complicated for the average voter, Today isa alle’ ta omtvathad Saat as éommensteniy we would favor going ahead with the city man city manager's immediate mayoralty prede | ager p nal representation and all anor “i to a policy of retrenchment that nistration Cleveland has had under jeopardized some municipal services, making an the elty manager plan the past I months has intettigent comparison of unit costs of * ery been materially better than the average under jco most difficult the old charte Ne have had several rathe me oid charter. We have bad : raed There is polities under the manager plan, but exceptional mayors In Cleveland in the last 25 | not, however, upon such a flourishing scale ax | years. They probably gave as good administra »btalned under the previous system. tlens as we have under the city manager plan, - but, as I have sald before, the average was not Cleveland's city manager is neither “despot is af ve to t standards, There has been MF “autocrat” in dealing with the people. H } 4 better Job of municipal housekeeping. We have |* 4 man possessed of extraordinary tact, vision ¢ | operated our municipal affairs more eco: and executive ability. Much of the success of rock best cance: of aammemtlo ‘syerst the plan must rightfully be attributed to the e, as citles go financially, present and first manager ar as a rule, we have “Interest in municipal problems is greater today than fore fidence in the for the dollars spent than most administrations ly. The people have more con present manager plan than they the case under iu the past, There is se politics in the gov. did in the old one ernment under the present scheme. 1 do nut There has been a substantial improvement in see how that can be evolded. On the whole, 1 the quality of municipal personnel, both elective think the experiment has been and is highty and appointive, since the advent of the eity man. continued ager plan worth while, and should HERE you have it! Cleveland gets far better municipal service under the manager plan! Im- provement in the municipal perscnnel! More confidence by the people in their government! More interest in city problems! Better value for the money spent! Better job of municipal housekeeping! The manager plan is highly worth while, and should be continued! If, in the minds of disinterested and knowing Clevelanders, the city man- ager plan has worked these improvements in the Ohio city, why won't it do the same for Seattle? The city manager plan has been a success in Cleveland! cess in Seattle. It will be a suc- VOTE FOR IT TUESDAY! a) 1925 ROAD WORK SUICIDE IS DEFENS PLANS SET IN MATTICE TRIAL! Mileage of 155 to Be Fixed Lawyers Say Ocaliict ee at This Year, Allen Says Tj f pees i" 44 MILES OF PAVING, =~ ° Death by Gun Wound . HF defense began Fae CE cane in the yman flesh. According, to Warren's ; : $30,000 Dr, Albert F. testimony in order to have made the Ten New Bridges Included | j....\nouicy vetore a sur ind of @ wound that, caused. the in Engineer’ 's Scheme Jeral Judge Jeremiah Ni death of Mattice, the gun must haye | Counsel for the Mary! Co., defendant firm whic surance policies on Dr. declared in an opening statemer work for the | that the defense will attempt t that Dr, Mattice jbe held more than 15 inches from the face. Warren demonstrated proper method of twirling” a pistol. Testimony had been introduced by Clarence Reeves, plaintiff's attorney. OLYMPIA, W March 3.— r the “only program for | was user of in 4 by Jame hisdes. SaksS Michtiek” eal toxicants; that his business was de-|that Dr. Mattice was also familiar ak number of miles | Uming: that he was practic pen-| ith fhe trick and frequently nileas at the time of his death and 4a gun in such manner. 155.77, of wh that he committed suicide by pushing} Attorneys J. H. Powell and paving, 48.90 miles | the pis gain his temple and pull-} Stephen B. Carey, attorneys for the 0 miles of grading and) ing the trigger | defense, intend to place Luke S. May, and six miles of D . Palmer, a tr of | criminologist, on the stand to con- On ee first wit-| tradict Warren's testimony. ie eae Pee NS Sis idee cal Dr, Mat.|__ At the request of the defense, Mra. the year’s Jule, the three larg: | toe ) during | Hazel Fiske was recalled to the stand gat Of which are: Uatneae: Thanksgiving day entertain.| Wednesday and questioned concern- the Puyallup siver within the home of Dr. T, B,|!"& two Stems entered in Dr. Mat- Timite of Tucosia. REHO: (Se ate tice’s cash book, showing that the eivuctuvé:’ thé. iain rren, former Seattle chief | Columbia Optical company, during bridge which is a 2,680 foot of police and veteran p. cor | Sepsember and October, had paid bigs bridge and the | of the north, was the last witness for | $317 on one occasion and $329 on ities 6. another, | the plaintiff [foot steel structure o: its. détenan Sin a HGaalbal nines? SHOWS TRICK OF FES Me oat OP in ae at } The en program follows TWIRLING PISTOL | The suit has been brought by Dr. | Warren testified that he had made| yf. BR. Mattice, father of tho dead State Road No. 1, (Pacific high jexperiments firing a revolver of the | man, when the insurance company Way} -Bellingham-Ferndale, — What-| same make and model ax that which | refused to pay a $30,000. pollcy on com county, seven miles paving; Killed Dr, Mattice, which showed the] the ground that the death was a sul- |Allen-Burlington, Skagit county, effects of powder burns on the hu-| cide and not an accident : |three m paving; Eby Slough ——— ne , dge, 695 fect; Steamboat Slough widge, 290 «feet; Union Slough 580 fect; ‘Snohomish river bridge, 2,680 feet, with 145 foot lift span; Everett north, Snohomish | Jcounty, nine miles paving; Puyallup | TRUCK Jbridge, Pierce county, 2,830 feet ateel_ bridge with approaches; Pon ders-Dupont, Pierce, 614 miles pav-| uur soutn, = mies cov Mian Is Scalded by Hot Oil; Reported ng y, 2.1 miles paving; Salmon creek: | neouver, Clarke county, 414 miles ad and 152 foot slab bridge State Road 2, (Sunset high-| PINNED beneath ~his overturned way}—North Bend-Tanner, King|+ truck in a collision with another lcounty, 2% miles grading and gra-|car at 17th ave. N. W. and W. 59th Near Death in Hospital scalding oil to trickle down on the injured man. A half dozen witnesses of the accident managed to lift the |veling: Tokul creck bridge, 221 feet. | et, Tuesday night, L. FE. Davrick,|'UCK enough to extricate Davrick T-beam; Spokane east, Spokane | 54 of Olympia, suffered from a scald. | *fter several minutes’ hard work. |county % mile paving | Ing stream of oi dripping on his legs An ambulance was called and Day- | State Road No. 3 (Inland Empire | from the engine until he was rescued | "CK Was taken to the hospital. |highway)—Yakima north, Yakima | py a crowd of spectators Physicians declared Wednesday Jeounty, one mile paving; Union| pai in the ety hospital) {tat Davrick stood some chance for recovery, altho the odds are against him. nbs) eras Gap-Parker, three miles grading and | graveling; Kennewick-Richland, Ben. ton county, six miles grading and | and a fractured skull Ha Way re vce Hevers was driving an ax| Speeding Autoists Wednesday, crushed chest, was near death from a several broken |graveling; Mill Creek-W | Walla Walla county, four miles pay- | rs cage 4 1, 1 obile north o 17 ave. N. W | Churn to Page 6, Column 1) | tomobin north oo ae came vat ot Shoot at Officer | la side street and struck Heyers’ car} Two men driving a big automo- bile and speeding at 40 or 50 miles The truck overturned and Both broadside rolled on top of its driver. | were wrecked. the intersection Union st. early Wednesday and fired two shots at cars |%" hour, » passed of 27th ave, and E Girl, Brother | Go to Prison. A broken crankcase allowed the! patrolman L. M. Norris, who was |standing on the corner.’ The auto NOW’S THE TIME TO BUY THAT HOME | did not stop. Norris belleves the men previous- ly had looted the home of Mrs. A. |Jackson, 2305% E. Pike st. and jfired at him thinking he intended A seattle girl and her brother start-| | ed for the state penitentiary at Walla Walla Wedggsday morning. Mrs. Hazel Bond, who pleaded! uuilty to grand larceny ox the result} ble corner, of a taxicab holdup, and her brother,|] Star Want Ads can help you to |/to stop them. The Jackson home Glenn Brandt, sentenced for robbery,|| secure the home you are looking || was robbed of a silver jewel casket, lw among 14 prisoners going up to|| for, Here is a dandy ja pair of gold earrings and a wed | serve terms in prison. They were in| ding ring, shortly before the shoot- chargé of Guard John Bucsko, who MT. BAKER BARGAIN Ing. | was met at Auburn by a Pierce coun-| seg ond Mrs Home ert | ——_$___—____— ty officer with six other prisoners. .800, on terms, buys a dandy || DEBATE CITY MANAGER Charles Fairchild, sentenced fc ed vcore he the murder of Patrolman L. Litsey| last August, was in the group of prisoners. He faces a term of 19} Corner lot, 10x120 va- cant; beautiful lawn. The bun- galow and one lot is worth the $4,300, it has a living room ‘on one lot | Stephen W. Brethorst and Tom Patterson will be the speakers on opposing sides in a debate on the | years and 11 months to 20 years, the; across the entire front, a nice || city manager plan of government at heaviest manslaughter sentence ever} dining room, kitchen, break- |{a meeting of the Green Lake M. BE. handed down in King county | ieee aputaintes bh gare jbrotherhood at the Green Lake Mra. Bond was sentenced to three|| Upstaire, full. basement, fur- ||Mt E. church, Friday evening, to 15 years for her share in the hold-|} nace |March 6th, Miss Idiviti, who was up of John Throckmorton, a taxicab ]| ———___________ an entertainer for the Australians driver. Her brother and her com-|] Turn to thé Classified page during the world war, will sing ‘panion, Harry Anderson, were sen-|] seo who ts offering this home, {|The meeitng will be opan to the public, tenced to five to 20 years,