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FOREST FLAMES CONTINUE ONWARD SWEEP! FEAR SO PERISH IN FIRE NDREDS OF HOMELESS VICTIMS IN WANT! RRR RIA WEATHER Tonight and Friday, fair; moderate westerly winds. Temperature Last 4 Hours Maximum, 89. Minimum, Teday noon, 63. The Se attle Star im - " za || ronast ne scenes ar GEDARFALS "RD CROSS TRAIN Dentist; Body Is) Smith Called s Found by Mother Ferries _ Death Toll May Mount as High as 33; Seattle Hose Company Keeps Blaze From City 1 Power Plant that she would have to lose all lou . jan “ | Smith before the county grand ee a aid 5 fa, fondle hy oh aggre ed Grave fears were expressed Thursday for the lives of 30 employes of the West Fork Logging Co., who were reported trapped by forest fires raging along the Tacoma- Eastern railway, between Eatonville and Buckley, in Pierce county. Be. Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE NO. 83. / VOLUME 24. SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1922. 1922, by The Seattle Star) . of W. student was shot : nage pee Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm rank last 1 ij ounced ae neo spots in neo mother, who broke into the house} ped seg werermmnne (@) Belfast, (2) Hollywood,| Wednesday when she became) will be an investigation into the jalarmed over her failure to hear from } falinre of the Scandinavian |ner daughter for three days, fmnepaceaey. of Seattie, last Bee sds boty were found thres| During the selection of the grand [bottles two of which had contained | jury, certain questions asked by Dep lebloroform and the other strych:/ uty Prosecuting Attorney T. H. Pi sink, * | tervon indicated that the sensational bank fatlure would be made the sub The coroner's effice DFO | sect of an investigation, but. until Thureday no definite announcement to this effect wae forthcoming. Prosecutor Douglas is of It was at first reported that the men had found i als & to or pales refuge in oobi ag 3 but pc 5 rching (fire which, wiped out parties sent out by L. T. Murray, ident lage Wednesday night and f is continuing its destructive Of the company, have been unable to locate course apsliy ape Logging them. ;camps in its path arenow no} ‘Two other men are reported missing, and there is more, hundreds | of | persons| one known dead in fires in other sections. j ee) ‘ed homeless | With hundreds of h 1 * ener son eater Psi ee a hey ————<<<—= land millions of dollars worth Re Sun 8 OF persons homeless and destitute, of property lost. The lower|and with property loss mounting high into the mil- lions, the forest fires, practically surrounding Seattle, were raging with unabated ferocity. picture was taken at night. The city’s $2,500,000 power plant at Cedar Falls has been saved—altho the town proper has been wiped out—but in received evidence ‘Upper picture shows a sec- prac charges thet tg oo ition of the woods near Cedar dinavian American bank of Se attle was deliberately looted, Ad- ditional evidence is said to have been uncovered recently. sinee the dentist had told her that she had pyerrhes and must Jose all her teeth. She was tak ing vocal lessons and the extrac- tions would have forced her to It has been charged that as a re give this up. sult of the bank's failure, several mil Miss Valen had also been grieving] lions of dollars bave been wtihdrawn over the loss of several relatives; from other local banks and have lately. j been deposited in California instita She leaves, besides her mother, a) tions lvrother, William Valen, with whom| While County Commissioner Smith [her mother makes her home at 316 | was testifying before the grand Jury, es 53rd et | Commi Claude C. Ramaay tax collections will be much this year."—County Treasurer; Gaines. ; JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE "Is it hot enough for you?” He said. Then laughed uproariously— He's dead. EGii Costelio leaped into fame over- / when he wag the first man in ners land Tom Dobson were waiting to be called. The county commissioners had re-| quested that they be allowed to tell |Frantic Refugees 4 ack Dempney ‘COUNCIL WONT | cowe--| PAY CITY BILLS isi owen a \Spite Work Against Him, | Sagat | Declares Mayor | | plump guys has a fat chance / p cool thew But youse;| guys has only a slim chance to appear in white flannel | Time for Radio it headline ouncil i refusing tle merchants f ity by That the city pay scores of 8 supplies delivered to the |eharge made Thursday Hugh M. Caldwell “Purely to spite m | said, “the members of th fused Wednesday p nance pay supply first half of May | Caldwell declared himse at © an ordinance for | diate payment of bills due jeh it McGregor & arson may, * the mayor council re “8 an ordi bills for the t @ garage in } Mich. Where's Lizzie? . POEM ipologies to Gilbert & Sullivan) & battered typewriter a col- é sat, Meaning: “Darn goldarn it!” And 1 said to tnd do you sit ‘Darn it, goldarn it, gol- If ready to the imme to mer it, goldarn it, nts “For the first time in history pply bi th with weil in “Colyumist, | council lumped the the semi-monthly ayroll,” explained. “As I had 2 | the council that T w eae the colyn sighed: Tun out of idea Thin't had a new one for twenty: odd years— like to forty-odd beers rhs) it, goldarn it, “I've yroll ordinance if they did not he municipal railway ‘pay it re of exp I was forced to veto also the ordinance appropri |ating money to pay tor goods bought |by the cl geldarn “1 wa y then | now, to sign an emergency ordinan {for the Payment of theve bill FRESHMAN SHOT PLAYING PRANK RADIO RABIES lu. of W. Student Taken for oa ech ne greene nate Burglar in Class Raid | at the mouth and snap at ¢ tector, Generally eased | rial wire cutting in when the | is listening to sentimental bal-— in MeClormnck. nw engulf about 8 re as I am ready The American Legion is going to the prettiest girl in Seattle for tole of Miss Liberty. We wish we were a girl! the California K. K. K. kleagles | Weren't koo koo} fi, a8 we understand it. Shot thru the fleshy part of the lleft leg when he was mistaken for a jburglar, Wedn night, James Retry Yord is thinking of running |Harms, 19, Uni freghman, was | PMtident. Hope he doesn’t have |"ecovering at hi Thurs out Harms and a companion, also a ltreshman, were attempting to gain éntrance by way of @ ladder thru an back with &/upper window of the home of Mr Willard couldn't!1, N. Glenn, 473 . a pair of field | told police, when neighbor and called the police | Sergt. Scott White sims he invented the | Jennings and D. W veata before Bell, 1) the scene, and comm of him to take youths to halt, as they fled across the lawn. Neither stopped, and | White opened fire. One of his bullets | pierced Harms’ leg. ‘The entry to the house was |ned, Harms said, to capture the lxophomores’ valued siren, in retalia- | ition for the sophomores’ refusal to! let the freshmen burn the hated| . rsity home is came le, but back with and Officers 8. | Morris rushed nded the two | “7. 8.0. Burp hone wore lal kport the “-¢ BUT NOT NECESSARY Lady Astor has sailed for And, we suppose, has Lord Astor with her, A id is a handy sort of thing plan their story directly to the grand jury before any indictment or no true bills were returned WEEKS REJECTS SHOALS OFFER | Says Ford’s Bid Is Unsatis- | factory Sect told the WASHINGTON of War Weeks today senate agricultural committee that he does not consider Henry Ford's offer for the Muscle Shoals nitrate project satinfactor Henry Ford's refusal to accept all the modifications in his offer for t Mu nitrate project was considered by the house military af, fairs committee today without dis cussion Almost a majority of the raid to favor recom ding of the Ford offer with plant included mert again to: was read to. June 1 ommit acceptance the The morrow day Weeks objected particularly to the long term le absence {guarantee clause which would assure continuous manufacture of fertilizer during t +m of the contract and the provision which involves the building of dam No. 3 FRAUD PROBE KNOCKED OUT Gorges steam committee will Ford's letter se, the House Gives Grafter Inquiry | Death Blow SHINGTON, June 1 The jruff-Johnson resolution provid. igation of laxity of the department of justice and the war department in prose cuting war grafters was given its death blow today ty a vote of 7 to 4 the house rules committee revoked its action of May when it ordered reported the reso- he house the committee voted 6 # the investigation grand jury impanelled to consider ence in war fraud cases and the “fraud cabinet” of lawyers which the attorney gen eral formed to prosecute w Wo ing for an invest lution te Originally to 5 to pr The spe alleged | IN | } s jin ¥ From Cedar Falls Flee Forest Flame}| By Wanda von Kettler Like refugees from Belgium, I saw the people coming into orth Bend from the fire-ridden Cedar Falls country Wednesday afternoon. They had come seven miles from the south, some walking, me in carts, some in automobiles, their bundles and cloth- ng strapped to thcir Lacks or piled on the seats beside them. Jomen with babies in their arms; men, hot, perspiring, their snirts rolled down at the neck and up at the sleeves; children jerying. yond the smoke clouds of gray and black. the skies themselves brightened to an angr a | range, b r Fi ™ 3end lay almost hidden be- Low in the w red. In the east sallow yellow overhung the mountains of the ¢ fleeced strangely, it seemed, on this hot, reathless day with 9 soft white snow. Men hurried about the streets of North Bend preparing, nost of them, to fight their way past Camp 12 into Cedar alls, with ¢ and water to bring out thru the flames those nen, women and children who still remained imprisoned in A blood-red sun above North \the settlement. of al They called to each other the latest reports from the coun- try round. | | IN th | pe ble fe |bla jla the cases | {29 miles east of Seattle, eral attitude allow yellow sky overhung when the Falls and bundle Wednesday left satchels “Upper Preston's gone,” they'd afternoon say. 1 Camp 18 is nothing now but char, Camp 12 is afire. We've got the worst job between the two-—at Cedar Falls. Five hundred men and women and children up there, with their homes burning to the ground, | They glowed with a m1 jreflection of the sky The school house is down no 1 peor a Wal atta ne dale We'd better take water, We [passed the red fire wagon from 8 might need it in breaking thru tie, puffing ita way toward Cedar lay at North B Falls and the burning hills. wher The sky still was red and black Ad and gray, three miles we { The air was heavy and thick. of | | A sign within the bus read “ wand gen | Smoking hed a little at that, bus Snoqualmie people } jwith boarded for Seattle. | the They were tired | Even } i that rivulets of the nd a cooling and str country aspect to the muddy ove si | yellow nd, the | This was th hardest yalmie Falls, tend, the atmosphere was similar orth redness like that on a pi smudged here and t From the hills in the distance ne etnoke curled up in funnels both ack and gray. A flame sometimes | pped toward the sky hundred and fifty em- ployes of the Weyerhaueser mill at the Falls prepared to join the workers in the hills, All talked fire, looked fire—almost ate fire. People declared that — their throats, from the soot and the dust and the heat, were rivers . The eyes ached from the ulette, ck PRE DERE AEN Pe oA PLANS COMPLETE FOR BROWN INAUGURATION Plans for the public inaugural of Dr, B. J. Brown as mayor were completed Thursday v xercines will be held in ‘ity Hall park at 12 9’clock noon next Mon Mayor Caldwell will introduce his suceessor, after which Dr. Brown will make a short inaugu- 1 speech. ‘2 RECORDS SET ~ BYLAST MONTH | Warmest May Day for Ten Years, Coldest for 32 The warmest May day in 10 years and the coldest in jthe month of May for 1 Beattle the heat Of Wednesday The mer cury climbed to 89 degrees at 3 p. m. gistering the warmest day of the ‘ot since May 14 of 1912 has ury during the fifth month attained that height. Then {t reac |90 de grees. The month's first record was e» tablished, however, on the 7th, when the temperature sank to 36 at one hour, and averaged 42 thruout the day. This was said to be the coldest May day since the opening of the weather station, 82 years ago. Accerding to the weather man, the mperature of May 31 will not be repeated for several days. At 11:30 a. m. Thursday the thermometer 32 is the record of | registered 60 degrees, and gave prom- | ise not to rise over 85 at any time of }th |12 Entries Now on Way in Contest Flight MILWAUK June 1 Twelve balloons th: sfully took off in |the Ameri elimination for the three entries in the Swiss interna- jtional race were still believed to be jsoaring over the Middle West today. Thirteen siant bags left late 'terday. One, piloted by Roy Don: ‘son, fell shortly after the start. ee sui ex CHICAGO, June 1.— Three bal loons, believed to have been entries lin the American elimination contest, {were reported over Chicago at an early hour today. Reports from |Gary, Ind., said the “U. 8. 12" was seen there, Two balloons were re |ported over Area, Ill, and another at |Pana, 1. eee ST. Lou jballoon, beli Milwaukee start lespie, Ill, 60 miley northes June 1.—A silver gray d to be one of the , passed over Gil peeds no introduction to} FLIGHT BALLOON FALLS IN START ast of Bt} other sections fire-fighters have not been so successful and the fire menace was still nearly, if not quite, as great jas on Wednesday. A new fire sprang up Thursday near Snoqualmie, im- periling millions of dollars’ worth of property. In Pierce county, between Eatonville and Buckley, the jsituation is even more serious. Hundreds of men are fighting forest fires’ along the Tacoma-Eastern railway. | Thousands of acres of green timber have been swept by flames ix Buckley Logging Co. bridges have burned and }thousands of dollars’ worth of apparatus has been de- B,C. TOWN IS FIRE MENACED } * cal ow . : |150 Miles of Territory in Flames VANCOUVER, RB. C., June 1— | Northern British Columbia, a section of the lower mainland in the Chilli- wack valley, and much of northern being swept by forest elton is threatened along line of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway, bush fires sweeping toward and the cluster of small houses which will form the from two sides, road | Westward from Hazelton to Prince | George, 150 miles of territory is more jor less under fire, The damage is not expected to be extensive because most of the burn- ing areas are covered with stunted srowth of jack pine and spruce, Here and there settlements are in danger. In Chilliwack a fire has been rag- ing in the Parson's Hill region, not far from the international boundary ‘line, since last Sunday. A shingle jmill was saved by heroic firefighters, jled by government rangers. In northern Alberta, hundreds of |miles of timber limits are threat- jened. Rangers have issued calls to jall the ranchers in the entire area |to get out and fight the flames, | stroyed. A Red Cross relief caravan in charge of Dr. James E. Crichton vice president of the Seattle chapter, is hurrying to the aid of hundreds of citizens of Cedar de homeless by the fire. The refugees are living in box cars for the present. The Chi- cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail- vi ished a string of boarding cars to the ruined town during the night, altho difficulty was experienced in keeping the cars from catching fire from the | flames that swept the right-of- | way | ‘The Milwaukee reported there was ‘no immediate food shortage, but ac cepted Crichton’s offer of aid. | “We are sending a few men to 4 erta are jtermine the actual of the peo: |ple at Cedar Falls,” said Crichton, “and before many hours have passed a fleet of motor trucks will be carry fires, the to the s town, co-operate with the Milwaukee }in.the relief work?” i Altho the forest fire in the vi- cinity of Cedar Falls has been put under control, the town is still an inferno as the result of a giant blaze in the Milwaukee's 150,000-gallon oil tank there, The tank Is expected to tinue | burning for several days, Several | | fire on | | | bedding | coal cars which caught the railroad tracks were also still blazing Thursday. No word has t received from |the two men reported missing. Both were employes of the Kent nber Co., but it has been npossible to ascertain their names, One, a cook, known as “Bill,” was reported to have been asleep in the lumber camp just before the fire sw: down on the build- ings and wiped them out, No trace has been seen of him, The other, & truck driver, drove into the ravine in which Cedar Falls is located a few hours before th anyon was swept by flames from east and west. Leo McDonald was killed Wednes- ia | June First Renter Whitens Cheyenne CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 1—Ali | local weather bureau records were broken when snow began falling late yesterday, and g# Cheyenne its first “white June first.” The snow was general thruout the state, re both started to function today, strict (Tura to Page 7, Column 5) saffron smoke, nnn (L9Uli, shortly ufter # a m, | J ports said, + We around the home, green cap, which they desired lo do, | ly, in secret,