Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-06
WALTER B. BEALS FILES FOR
JUDGE OF SUPERIOR COURT
Resigns Office as Chief Assistant
Corporation Counsel


Corporation Counsel
Colonel Walter B. Bcals for sew
eral years Chief Assistant Corpor-
alton Counsel Of the City Of Sc
attic, resigned his office today and
a few minutes later filed fol
Judge OF the Superior Coutt, De
partment No. 10, now occupied by
Judge Howard NJ. Findley.
Colonel Beals was born in st.
Paul Minnesota 10 years ago. He
is the grandson of 5. J. Il. MeAIil-
Ian, who was Chief justice IF q
nesota and for many years United
States Senator. After graduating
from the high school in st. Paul il
1895 Mr.. Beals came to the Pacific
Coast and for some years w5rke I
on the planning machine and late
as time keeper and shipping clerk
in the mill Of the late Michael
Earles at South Bellingham. When
THE law department of the Uniyer
sity was opened in 1899 by the late
John T. Condor, Mr.. Beals deter
mined to invest his savings in o
legal education and entered tho
first law class, of which he was
elected the first president lie was
admitted to the bar in 1901 and
except for several years during
which he served in the Army over
seas in l9l7-1S a. Judge Advocate
of the Slst Division with The rank
of Lieutenant Colonel, he has been
continuously engaged in the proc
tice of law in the City of Seattle,
He has also been Judge Advocate
Of the Washington National Guard
and while holding that position
prepared a code OF military laws
Of this state which was recon
mended by the War Department to
other states as d model Of it kind
In january 1923 he accepted oh,
position Of Chief Assistant Corpor
alton Counsel which he has just
resigned. While in that position
he won a large percentage Of the
gases which he tried for the city
including the application Of the
Strauss Basculc Bridge Company
for temporary injunction re.
siraining the building Of the Mont
lake bridge. He was also assoeit'
cd with Attorney General Dunbar
and Corporation Counsel T ;, l..
Kennedy III various phases Of the
litigation with the Pacific Tele
phone Company
Colonel Bcals is member Of the
Sons of the American Revolution
aud has been three times elected
President Of The Washington Si8ie
Society. lie likewise belongs 10
Rainier Noble Post OF the Am1i
can Legion and 10 The Milliw
Order of the loyal Legion OF
which he has served as state Com
maudcr. He also is q mtmhcr 81
the Scottish Rite Lodges and Of
Nile Temple, as wen as Of thu
Eagles.
when interviewed, Colonel
Beals stated ihai he desired to bc
come a judge Of the superior
Court to satisfy a personal npbt
lion. as Vel as because II offered
a larger opportunity for public
service lle believes that tAe uu
lportani place occupies 10 our 80
ernmental system by the judges
who administer iusfiu Hiwrt q
man and man, aud between mdi-
vidual aud his government ~
quire that The people elect mn
for the judicial position olely by
reason OF their integrity. abIlit
experience, courage, education and
temperament and that the contiu
uance OF our democratic mstiiu-
tions peculiarly require thar
Judges should be elected on their
merits alone, regardless of othcs
considerations lie stands for q
rigid enforcement OF the civil and
criminal laws.
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