Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-06-27 | Page 4 | Acting Mayoress Cleans Housel Fires Police Chief; Cops Next

- . . Acting Mayoress Cleans House; ' Fires Police Chief; Cops Next mayor whsn Brown left for .Vew York to attend th Democratic convention. Maintaining a "reasonable "rea-sonable trend f lawful conduct." la the duty of th poJIc department depart-ment and th rliy government, according to tm theories of th woman mayor, announced la bar letter to Mevryna. , NKW YORK. June 17 (By I'. P) -Mayor Kdwln J. Brown of Seattle, Seat-tle, an alternate to the lemojratla national convention, left thle morning, morn-ing, U having been reported that the acting msyures had , otlstvd th chief of pollc and was threatening threat-ening to dlamiBs about IttO members mem-bers of the police department. Th mayor said he waa not wor-rWd, wor-rWd, but waa In a hurry. hir.ATTLK, Wash, Jun ST Hy t. H I When Mayor K. J. Brown of ttattle geta 1-ack home he will hav a new -chief of polic l appoint and no on know how many pollc of fleer a Mrs, Henry landea. 'acting mayor.' has already removed W. B. Mevryna as rhlef of not Ice and the department la tn charge of- Captain Cap-tain J. V. Mason a acting chief. "Your fore has not shown til proper ial In suppressing th liquor traffic." waa what Mrs. Land told Chief Hvr its In a latter removing him. Thus far site ha not carried ouh r directly confirmed reports that upwards of lot) "-police officers would be removed, but It wss gensrally expected Ih at would begin to fall today. Mra. La n ties berime acting