Show Seattle's Woman Mayor Loses to to Dark Horse Borse A Despite Big Support t Badly Defeated 4 MRS BERTHA BRTHA THA K LANDES LAP a Man Can Gan Be Only Satisfactory Satisfactory Satisfactory Satis- Satis factory Mayor MayorIs Is Edwards Edwards' Edwards Edwards' Ed Ed- wards' wards Slogan SEATTLE Wash March 14 AP AP Mrs Bertha Brtha K K Landes first woman mayor of a metropolitan city in the United States was overwhelmingly over over- beaten for reelection by Frank Edwards Edwardl a dark horse whose whole ammunition included the shot that the mayoralty could be satisfactorily filled only by a man Edwards won his decisive victory ry In the face of a a. campaign In which the newspapers supported Mrs Landes and urged the women to rally to her aid ald He concluded an Intensive campaign but refused to meet the woman mayor maor on the same platform You know Its It's useless to argue with a woman woman he ha explained when asked to debate campaign issues with her Another feature of ot Edwards Edwards' platform was his Insistence that Seattle should be made cosmopolitan cosmopoli tan and that as such its Us moral and spiritual f welfare will not be In danger k The election bro brought more Thore than p persons to th the polls a polls a record record record rec rec- ord In municipal history Edwards received a majority of about Edwards rapped the police administration ad- ad ministration calling attention t to the tr frequent quent raids raid within the city limits pt pf Sheriff Sherif Claude G G. G Bannick a 0 former police poUce chief While 1 Sirs Landes as 1 president of oC the the city council w was acting mayor during the ab absence nce from S Seattle of or Mayor Brown Dron several severa years years ago she re removed removed removed re- re moved VV W. B B. B as chief 01 police poUce and appointed Bannick Brown Drown rushed back and reinstated When Mrs Landes was elected mayor mayor she appointed W. W H H. Searing chief of oC police poUce and Bannick entered the race for tor sheriff winning winning win win- ning fling from froni a field of ot a half dozen candidates The mayor met Edwards Edwards' charges of oC lax administration with I do donot donot donot not hesitate to say that the city has l been cleaner than for tor a good many years e rs and cleaner too than I anticipate It will be In years to come Declaring that Edwards was an unknown quantity both bolh In Industrial and civic affairs Mrs Landes based her campaign on her six 81 years of ot service In the city council and success of oC her administration es especially es- es the development of its municipally municipally municipally mu mu- owned public utilities I a. a |