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est of the harao ppbell, hia hae Mint i rt of onaid im the Sullh Rich * whe . Joha Mon Card anch® 77 4 U 4 i tf a’ y en 7 a Tae oe q' The Star leads the other Sez Seattle afternoon paper by more than wi Aa and the 1 morning paper by more tnan 10,000 copies daily. WEATHER — ight and Friday. fair erate easterly winds Temperature Last 24 Hours Minioum, Today noon, 32 no. A = : Ratered a2 Second Cisse Matter May 8 _VOLUMB 2: UME 24 NO. SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1 189). at (he Postoffice at Meattie, Wash The Seattle star « under the Act of Congress March 3, 1819, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to 49 FLAMES KILL SUMNER GIRLI) AAA PLR AA PAILS PRAIA PRS A PN Pl “PRON ND REALLY DEAD Family Watching folks! This is Febru ary; you pay for 30 day rent | = BOY in Morgue} and only get 28. } what a, ; misidebeadwwal.:Vield- to, Word| ary is that the legislature can only} * be in session 98 days this month of Physicians Everybody wants the United States! | to keep out of War exc those] PHOENIX, Arte, Feb. 1—after a| who aspire to be second lieutenants] jong consultation with physicians, | pp ne next: National Guard company | members of the family and friends of | yee | hdcepd: Siaviedben:-wilese’ body’ wea] THE DANGER POINT guarded for nine days in hope that | Seattle boys will take over the | he would return to life, today an city administration Saturday. | ig We hepe they don’t prohibit | D0unced themacives reconciled to the themselves from takings bath |Pronouncement of death made by, oa tak ht. inty authorities, The latter last jnight broke into the morgue and] | Seized Stevenson's body % who make | autopsy showed that death was| ah ee ee yt king tt a|, A® Autopsy showed that death was | r due to tuberculosis of the right lung ; for anyone nkle 4 readies on the only good slide In the neigh bog Bie np i : and ¢ ximating tis life with re; a youthful vigor Bis fam:ly and friends believed he | had entered this state, as he had| predicted. After bein given a de tailed explanation of the cendition GINS of the bods they reluctantly accept ed the vertict that death had taken piace, up police departme to pit that his plate gins win-! dow how been broken by a baseball] he will probably be jailed by a squad } of boy coppers. “ar OUT WHERE THE \ EDITORIAL Remarkable case, you comment?! A jadge in York reprimanded | Yer Hudson, celebrated paychic in ey tor chewing gum In| a4 oy eae y fo hewing = | vestigntor, learned that there fs at 4 ever | 10ast one such case of suspended ant }mation each week No attorney in Seatt dream of chewing gum in, court—| TMU" in” the “United Granger Twist or nothing! : rye Tia Washington Irving Bishop, fa Day by day. in every way. We're getting sicker and sicker ; All we do ts rave and crave Beer, light wines and likker. see Bill to abolish capital punishment is defeated at the legislature. Little Homer Brew, Jr. is now seeking mous mind-reader, on several occa- | sions went tnto a cataleptic state and {dumbfounded physiciana by coming | out of his trance after they had pro- | nounced him dead. There is reason to belleve that an autopsy finally was performed on him during one of the abolition of corporeal punish | Ms trances. — <a corded this case: | | ee | “A Indy now at the head of one of | SEORTING NOTE |the largest orphan asylums in a “The Seattle fans,” says the sport page, “are hopeful.” They always are. That's why they're fans. . Western state has been twice pro [Bounced dead by attending phat fetans, twice prepared for ape Coico rostacdtalod ty bar hanes | It is now proposed to change the |9M the last occasion extraordinary | names of Seattle streets. Why not Prectutions were taken, in view of | her former experience. Vigorous! att bootle: See at Sees 18 | treatment restored her to consclous- | | ness. “Upon being restored, the indy de- |clared that #he had never for a mo- ment lost consciousness, that she knew all that went on around her, | perfectly comprehencod the signifi- cance of all the tests which were applied, but felt the ucmost indiffer- ence as to the result, and was neither surprised nor alarmed when |!t was decided that ehe was dead.” eee And the cross streets could de| named after moonshiners. see Ip addition to an automobile row and a real estate row, we ought to have @ grapo row. * . What many people would like to Know is whether all cow county leg- ee ee. | According to this, death may not | |be as unple: ¢ are be as unpleasant an experience as She was a modern layde, He, but a husbande meke, And he was layte a’coming hom Eych evenying in ye week. But, once in ye small houres, After a midnyghte date, He cam in throughe ve window; Now, he’s her husband, late. one | most of us fear. | eee Catalepsy has always been ameng the most baffling of medical mys-| teries, In the old days, many cata- léptics probably were buried altve That fate i» an extremely remote possibilty now, for science has made great strides in death tests This peculiar condition of sumpend- Jock Dempsey ts now a newspaper) ed animxtion, in which even the} writer, a movie actor and a. prize-| heart censes to function, im extreme: | fighter. And, incidentally, a ship-|iy rare. It may follow a long period bulider. of illness or nervoun exhaustion, as| a complete rest and recuperation for | “Fares Drop on March 1” says althe exhausted body. headline. Ours bave dropped in the| Again, catalepsy is a hypnotic phe- box twice a day for years. |nomenon, and it may be brought | Lapa ox |about by hypnotiem. It i» a weird) wubject, and The Star's purpose in | dixcuseing It is to emphasize the dan- \xera that overtake amateur | eee GEE, TH’ OFFICE VAMP, SEZ: LIL G may | There is 4 big difference be- | | dabbiers in hypnotism. The warning | | tween being as fit as a fiddle | | js timely, for a wave ef hypnotiem {| and as tight as a drum. | |apparently iv getting uSter way, as ——W the logical successor of interest In autosuggestion, | . “Is her leg broke?” “No, we found $1.49 in her sock.” see The only chance a henpecked man has of getting in the last word with | his wife ia when the operator breaks | the connection, | . Another Dandy Are you about ready to get out o* |} on that little garden tract and ‘Two old maids || start things agoing. Here is a || Went for miggesion that may find you the ; A tramp In the woods. place you have been looking for: | The tramp 7 : TapF, 0 Slee DARGATY NEARtA 5 acrnes, || ‘ rout atr crounin ADVICE TO DRIVERS Property; plenty) of water for | Don’t have your batteries all gardening purpose charged—pay cash. land for berrten, potat celery; ufficte chickens; fow from paved vent way; near If your piston rings—don’t an- swer, You may have the right of | way, but the trucks have the | right of weight. * store and was eation, with view || of Lake Washington. This in || areal buy. 25-minute auto ride from Becond ave. and Pike st. . Terme $100 down, 4 month, If you want to make a fortune invent m real cure for baldness that can't get pushed over the right ear when you take off your hat, ‘The Want Ad Cpiunans will direct you to the sell¢r of this property, |& Sunday school room. as Bring a Woman eappiness? What Do Women Think of Men Pete Nelson Has City’s Coldest Job Up where the cold blasts cut hi cuts to the very marrow of his b tiny platform in the center of the Hudson, writing 21 years ago, re |Fourth Church of Christ, Scientis Seattle. SHIVERS TWIXT EARTH AND SKY/ShapelyShin BY FAMILY ROW /But Riveter + Doesn't Care; He Has Top Position BY JOHN W. NELSON “"Lo, gang! How's the weather down there? Pete Nelson, who, during the past few days, has held Senttle’s chiiliest job, was in good spirits Thursday as he looked down thru a network of steel girders that supports his perch at the top of the dome of the new Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, being erected at Bighth ave. and Seneca st. Pete is rivet heater for the gang of riveters who are putting up the girders of the dome, which, when finished, will throw a burnished cop- per sheen far out over Puget sound and the lower parts of the city. And Pete is happy, despite his shivery job, for as far as Seattle jobs go, he's sitting atop o' the world. Of course it hasn't been no ter- ribly cold way up there—for Pete— because he is dreswed for the occa sion. He wears several pairs of trousers and underwear of heavy wool, and over all aro his khakt overalis. Then Pete keeps a blow furnaee going all day long which keeps the rivets piping hot He uses a pair of skinny tongs and with unerring aim heaves the sizzling white-hot rivets to all parts of the structure, The rivets are caught in a can and while still red, driven home with compressed air hammers. The new Selentiat church in one ‘of the finest structures of ite kind in the West. Facing on Kighth ave., it has three floors, and is finished in beautiful white terra cotta, The dome will be of bright burnished cop- per with a white glass vent and it towers above the great auditorium, which will be capable of seating 1,600 ‘people. The building Is 110 feet square and has three enormous win- dows, the largest in the West, each large enough to move a srnall house thru. These windows will be set with colored art glass, 20 by 24 feet in | nize, ‘The tasement floor will be ured as The foye check room, directors’ room, the church lbrary and other subdivisions are on the second floor, —Pnote by im from every direction, where the EAPO these caus ones, Pete Nelson, rivet slinger, works all day long on a big dome which ig being erected over the new edifice of the t, at Eighth ave. and Seneca st, Pete has the coldest job in HORE TROOPS | ARE SENT 10. = _RUIR REGION == be Zone Meee. | to Feel Pinch of, woman, I cann | women don’t get completely cut off from the rest of|— the country. Not an ounce of coal Was permitted to leave for German destinations. At the same time, German customs | stations which formerly had served for eolections on goods entering the country from Belgium, France and TAXembOtry, were tmken over en: tirely by the French. ‘The latter re Dineod with troops and French civil fans such employes"as quit, and pro. | | ceetied Immediately about the buat. | nesn of collecting. customs, { ” More and more French troops | Harbor moved into the Ruhr district today, | untit reports from certain districts | made it appear as tho the occupa tions had just begun. Among the} 'forces that were sent in | stars, one settle down? from the outside as far as rail | Wouldn't forget. or wire communication was concerned, the city even began fo feel the pinch of hunger. that; tion, deep one. Price & Carter, Star Matt Photographers \Sall y Shows Tongue Twister Edit- or Yells for Help BY TONGUE-TWISTER TED Help! Help! Help! ‘The tongue-twister editor Is buried | under a mountain of tricky tongue-| twisters! He's been reading them all morn- ing and his tongue ts an badly! snarled as grandmother's ball of| yarn. | contest is in full Everybody from Baby Bunting to/ Aunt Annie and from Uncle Uziah to} Brother Bob is tackling the tangled | tongue-teasera! All T. T's entered in this week's! contest must be in this office by) Saturday noon, The $25. prize-win- ner will be announced Monday. Seven little words, alt beginning with the same letter, which are diffi cult to pronounce and which are timely and amusing, may win you; the $25 prize. The tougher the tangle, the trick- fer the tongue-twistert Here are some of today’s arrivals: “Sally Snodgrass Surely Shows swing. | Some Shapely Shins.” — Melvin Jamen, 6052 48th ave. 8. W. “Ca Carr Cause Carr Collars Cars."—T. J. Lingwood, 724 26th ave, 8. “Slim Sidney Sut Sideways Singing Sunday Songs."—Gladys Chambers, 4234 Rainier ave, “Seattle's Sunshine Shames San Francisco's Signals, Salisbury Says.” “Mra, Susan M. Kane, University campus, “Bearcat Brown's Bully Blarney- ing Brews Bitter Bombshell."— Harry EB. Balch, 6648 22nd N. W. “Sam Snared Blickly Six Sickly Silky Snakes."—Mrs, John F. Daly, 7718 Aurora ave, Get your tongue around those, folks! Those arc just a few ex- amples of real tongue-twisters, Can you write one that is more difficult | to pronounce? | Remember, read rules religiously! Rules governing the contest will be found on page 7. Orders Prayers ROME, Web, The pope today} ordered prayer in all Rome churches for preservation of peuce, owing to | Thursday noon, while testifying in | Boothroyd is the son of Samuel L. to Prevent War} entire Ruhr was not without! a touch of this, in fact. With trans | port disrupted, distribution of food-| stuffs was seriously hindered. ‘The nch are buying out private | Stores, sending prices rocketin; . ments The German government is pre-| young person. ring to establish motor trucks to] was feminine. run foodstuffs in and out of the|wonder, when Ruhr should rail communication be| puzzle us. completely cut off. The shortage of milk is most se. vere, while meat grows scarcer daily in the occupied zones With all these difficulties, the fa COURT STIRRED well, never Mother-in- -Law | Accuses Son} of Professor “She must either choose me and I'm neither give him up, or choose him, and, @#) inhabitants of the Ruhr main. J 4 ft. And, far as I am concerned, go to her) tained a stubborn front and the | piay grave. French found it necessary to de- | way. Dramatically pointing her finger at her son-in-law, Mrs. Carrie Turner made this statement on the witness stand in Judge C. C, Dalton’s court port 15 more officials today, in- cluding the director of the Es- sen branch of the reichsbank, Following receipt of a joint| Franco-Belgian note finding her in default of January 31 payments and insisting upon a less recalcitrant at- titude toward the invasion, Germany dispatched to Paris a hotly worded note protesting against accusations of German breach of the Versailles treaty and demanding troops be with- | drawn from the Essen hospital, | A minor disturbance was reported at Aachen, where 25 students were | (Turn to Page 8, Column 2) the same. gent; the third-degree assault charges brought against Phillp FE. Boothroyd, Boothroyd, former professor of as tronomy at the University of Wash- ington, He was on trial Tuesday morning for striking his aged moth- {erin-law in the face during a family quarrel last Sunday, at his home, at 6007 Brooklyn ave. The quarrel started when Booth royd's wife swallowed a quantity of poison and, at the moment of the as- ‘ult, lay in @ semi-consctous state abt : Rockefeller Ill C. E. Turner, 1242 B. 62nd xt. . father of Men Boothroyd, told the at Florida Home PALM BEACH, Fla, Feb, 1,— John D. Rockefeller is suffering with 4 slight cold, members of his house: hold declared today. Word of his indisposition became known when it was noticed he had court that he had been summoned by a telephone call from his daugh ter, saying she had swallowed mer- cury. He ran to the Boothroyd (Turn to Page 5, Column 4) LUXOR, Montreal, Feb. who Tuesday night, failed to play his etistomary’ game | TUS) of olf at his estate here during the |") 1) past two days, 4 Re Gallons of Booze Dug Out of Yard DENV Colo, Feb. than 4,000 pints of moonshine whis- ky, two cases of bonded Iquor and 400 gallons of wine were unearthed by prohibition agents here late yes: BY GAS BLAST Rush Injured From Blazing Springfield Plant ists. neighborhood SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Feb. 1—! areh” have A terrttio explosion occurred thix| (rdiy in the back yard of a dwelling. it the Pirin mint Hae of the Spring-| “yrank Occioni, sald’ to tive at the|tion that ‘According to reporta to the police, | "adress, was arrested, Luxor, Ofsicers iterally dug up the entire yard in thelr search, Close Jury, Probe of Dancer’s Death! many persons are unaccounted for and scores are ‘njured. Every ambulance, police patrol} and many motor cars were rushed to the wcene to carry the wounded to hospitals, design, jed o huge crowd, y time What a jumble fife is? : the manicure parlor, my nurse the, distriet |S? cree Goint, Teseaoe Bridge and (014 brother joined in the A B C's, underground dancing rooms with purple ceilings spangled with where rough music lets flat |despair emerge from its jazzian jol- lity, bite, of -blue with wiles tees of eeprecer ois hours of effort to revive hedges, and in the middle, as the! {master of Juggernaut, Piccadilly Cir. | aushter of the late J.P. cus, the vortex of London. Am I sorry that I got out into Peace | T've settled down. ba How badly I've put all this! who can describe the picture that fs however, |Made of colored glass in a kaleido- Hunger Now dare, 1 mappon tel re the whit et oe: paper on which By Carl D. Groat este tear eer BERLIN, Feb. 1 Drastic and These have been good rs for severe’ repression of German resist: women, the years I remembe lam jance in the Rhineland | lucky to have been born in time to/ followed ¢ first see 4 great war, to see h ry made series o measures | obviow: Tam glad to ha nd to enforce rations toda to be living In days of and Fe Ruhr officials were | force when, as o looks for a meta- burgomaste { Herne and Cleve. ‘ising from the marsh and drawing Requls of coal way started | across a pallid sk elliptical curve by French troops at Bochum, Two | his fl my period is Ik offict who protested were arrest. /Cimema; t to blot o led. 7 lermenaie truck in |other out. And life is like a ground The wi ah the tiwad 1 look my latticed window at hee more severe than|‘8@ hollyhocks that p like ry hithert young girls that have grown too fast ‘The rich Ruhr valley, whence Ger |224 tel myself that ¢ ne 2s many ordinarily draws more than|"°™? Worth it all the pain and the half her entire fuel supply, was|UDcertainty, for Iwas tn tune with It all clots 1 got out. But can But jwere included many troops trained | cope? Yet I'm intelligent. Often I in raitroad work. jwish I'd been educated. It isn't} Essen, center of Rube fuel | 0ugh to be intelligent, and Fraufein industries, bore the brunt of the |used to say that tho I learned invasion. Completely isolated | easily there was no knowing what I She thought me a 1 the The latter have been warned by 1.—More /quthorities not to stray from the at night, the fabulous wealth being unéovered in the tomb of the 18th dynasty mon- attracted | from all parts of the world, as well as a rapidly growing tourist popula: has settled they queer child. Lots-of people have said they've called me a cure, a cau- A young man whose | name I have forgotten, with a pretty like a soap advertisement, and aj iden mustache like a fixatif adver- tisement, and neat little clothes... mind the other advertise- | - called me a singular] I suppose he meant I We puzzle them. I reflect But they confess their perplexity and we don't; strength, I suppose, Yes, I'm intelfigent. I'm also pretty. very No how they that's our vain nor very scheming nor untruthful if I can belp | which caused his dismissal, like ordinary people, 1 can with big emotions in a small | I've got small failings; I can) be petty, bad tempered, slack, unrea-| ory; sonable, and know it, and go on all ‘That's because I'm intelll- | Meier held that the rein ae but sometimes I wish I were | educated. Life seems so much easier | rieq his case to the superior |for the educated; their educated tmes and in the end | (fern to rm to Page 6, Column 6, Column 3) CANADIAN SLAIN [F Lashes BY TOMB THUGS: Egyptian Bandits Murder | speciat of the Seatoard Airtin Montreal Man trot along ‘Traverse Allen, visiting the val- ley of kings, where the tomb of Tut. | or four poseengers pgarpa? up ankh-amen is to be opened, was mu dered and robbed just out: de Lay authorities. di d the Canadian feij vi tim to a band of thieves or thugs from Cairo or Alexandria, heen attracted“here by the presence | of numerous wealthy groups of tour- who hav Stories of adventurers down upon The Work of excavation was speed: ed up Wednesda trophies recovered was a cat's head, fashioned of solid gold and of rare and among the Resumption of excavations attract- All the apparatus in Springfield] SAN DIEGO, Feb. 1—Taking of which was disap: as went to the gas plant, which) textifony dn tle investigation of the | Pointed when but a few small ob- Was & mans of flames. The firemen| death of Mritel Mann, dancer, has |Jects, including the cat's head, were fought desperately to keep the fire} been ended by tt And jury here, | brouwht to light from spreading, ‘The jury ts now considering the evi.| Three pottery vases, one with “a Many of the injured were out by! dence and if indictments are to be |CUrtous epout, not nnlike that of flying gloss from windows which returned they may be made tomor. | Modern coffee pot precurmrhl® used the ominous international situation. 4 were shattered by the concussion. ph it was sald. 2 EMME EEE I Ue er ich urn to Page 8, Goluin y <> any ae STOVE CAUSE “ OF TRAGEDY! Wht Members of Family Inj inAttempt te | Save Girl’s Life™ = 8 SUMNER, Feb. 1 1—In spite of frantic efforts of her family save her, Florence Wallace, years old, daughter of Mr, Mrs. E. G. Wallace, of S was dead today from burns 4 ceived when kerosene in kitchen range exploded, cove the girl's head and body flaming liquid. The victim died late last night a the Valley hospital at Puy where she was taken following tragic accident. girl was working alone in # kitchen. The fire proved slow she tried to speed it by pow sene in the range. The owed with a crash. clothing in flames, the ‘an screaming for help. Her who was at his work outside: caught her and endeave quench the flames by rolling the snow. The mother and | save her life. They were | burned, but their injuries 3 ous. | The suffering girl was tak the hospital, where death came ‘The victim of the fire | ploneer of the Puyallup “OFFICER LO COURT BA |Decision Hits Worsham: Civil Service | In a decision handed down |day morning by Superior | Judge Griffith, the civil serviee mission was declared to have | beyond its jurisdiction in refastat former Detective William EB. Wor am, who was dismissed n | police department In 1922 by of Police W. H. Searing. Worsham announced thru hi torney, Edward Kienstra, that | would appeal the decision to | | state ‘supreme: coutt; | The Worsham case has b jing since he was .einstated — {a rehearing December 14 |charges of dealing in j exonerated at the rehearing. am was then put to work | police department by Chief but he failed to draw Corporation Counsel Ws was not legal. Worsham ENGINEER KILLE NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 1- On was killed when the Flo road crashed into President | Warfield’s private car at Virginia, today. Warfield jin the car J.-M. Fields, jof the special, was killed andi $250,000 GEMS. STOLE | MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 1—A wide search was instituted by today for a peddler seen {palatial home here of Dal | Joyce, Chicago millionaire, | before the theft of $250,000 in Je late Tuesday, The theft i | discovered until last night, | Mrs, Joyce found two ‘large pearls, several di: nd ri jand other Jewelry misaing.: be | $25,000 SCHOOL BU | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Fire, believed of incendiary | shortly before dawn today | the Griffin intermediate s¢ & loss of $26,000, Over 600 enjoyed & vacation today sult, THREE KILLED IN BALTIMORE, Ma, Feb, William M. Philitps, an iny: two daughters, Hizabath, |Hsther, 10, died from suffooatio day. when fire swept their neighbor und a fireman who @ ed thru a Wall of flame in an @f to rescue them were injured,

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