The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-01
LABOR'S COUNTY
SESSION PROBE
Starts SOUGHT
Brown Would In
vestigate; Com
missioners Re
fuse to Meet Him
BY John w. Nelson


King county is going to be
moral as well as Seattle, accord
ing 10 plans of Mayor Brown.
Monday the mayor addressed
letter TO the city council, ask
ing that a joint session be held
with the board of county commits
sioners TO appropriate sum
equal to the $1,000 appropriated
by the commissioners, TO investi-
gate vice conditions outside the
city OF Seattle.
AS the first step In his campaign
to force a full investigation OF vicSfs
conditions outside the city. equal to
the one being conducted by Prose-
cutting Attorney Malcolm Douglass
inside the city, the mayor invited
Douglas and the board Of county
commissioners to meet in his office
at p. m. Monday to hold a confer.
ence on vice and law enforcement.
The commissioners, by formal ac.
ton Monday. refused to confer with
the mayor
''Since coming into office we
have been making investigations
outside and inside the city and
II is reasonable 10 believe that
conditions prevailing outside the
city in King county result from
law enforcement inside the city,
the mayors letter to the council
states.
The mayor then asked that funds
be appropriated to make a thoro in
vestigation of conditions outside Sc
attic in King county with the view
to obtaining evidence to place before
the county grand jury when it meets
in November.
Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm
Douglas was not in the city Monday
and would not be back all day. his
office assistants said. Douglas is be-
lieved to be on a hunting expedition.
SHERIFF is ALSO
OUT HUNTING
His chief deputy and acting pros.
ecutor, Capt. Ewing d. Colvin, said.
however. that the prosecuting at.
torney's office was in complete re-
pose.
we are enjoying life. and every.
thing is running smoothly" Colvin
said. Colvin declared he could not
discuss the vice campaign in the
absence of his chief.
Sheriff Matt Starwich was shoot
ing pheasants and ducks on tho
fields and flats of Skagit county.
Monday. He left Seattle on a hunt
ing trip and is not expected back
until Monday night.
when Tom Dobson, the ex-
saloon keeper of Renton. asks
for AZ investigation of vice con.
ditions," the mayor said. that's
good. When Bill Gaines Joins
with him and asks for an in.
vestigation of moral conditions,
or of anything, that's funny. II
1t is intended as a joke II should
be regarded with amused toIera-
ton. But II 1t Is taken as hav.
ing been made with any serious
intention, then II becomes a
huge comedy. It's enough 10
make a person laugh until he
has the intercostal rheumatism"
Malcolm Douglas is only doing as
he is told TO do in the matter. the
mayor said Diminishing the sugges-
ion that Douglas started the in
with wave Of his hand.
People who live in glass houses
houldn't throw stones" the mayor
aid. Their houses haven't even
| beam to support them. The glass
$ glued together"
The mayor declared that his IN.
'estigations have revealed that vice
$ rampant in the roadhouses and
'ongregating places outside the city
limits. II understand that things
low pretty freely there and that
Tou can go out and net about any
hing you care to nanc." he said.