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ed Work Relief com or tts fy It of & Md Heidel tudent Nt Martir mance, ie nd the ate} hs directed ain Hits southwesterly F ORECAST . 200. Howdy, folks! Thi Driving week. But it difference to us. No matter how careful we drive, we always top the ball. Driv ing es who drive from ly Seatth rreced is south and north, But generally ‘up end doron, eee town, Children’s week opened most aus piclous!: the Brew home, Homer Brew, Jr ‘owing @ rotten temato at the janitor, HOLD 'IM, KENNY, HE'S A’REARD “K. C. B. recalled the time 22 years ago, when he worked a9 a police re potter in Seattle for $17 a week. ‘If Leould go back to ‘contented as when I lived there,’ "— Newspaper item. eae When the frost is on the pumpkin, And the corn is in the shock, When you fecl the wind o-nippin’, Then your overcoat’s in hock! tee Sign on Pike st.: UNCALLED FOR HATS FOR SALE. That's our opinion of some Mrs. Homer Brew buys—uncalied for. Bootleggers their customers to Angeles. The cards contain only neatly lithographed pictures, which explain themselves. For instance Portrait of King George. Photograph of an old crow. Photograph of a squirrel. Photograph of a goat's head. see It's dangerous to get spiffed in Los Angeles, however. If you fall asleep in a gu they arrest you for parking too near the curb, eee COMMERCE NOTE Spain has concluded a trade agreement with Iceland whereby they will swap wine for codfish. How'd you like a litttle Puget Sound salmon, Alfonso? Electric sign on a theater: WILLIAM DUNCAN I BARRIERS 'TERTAINERS Smash a dozen for us, Bill. s+ Says Gee Gee: “I aon't care for style, In fact, amy hostery’s Tiste. But my face ts quite fair, Bo why should 1 care, Is the shape, not the socks, that’s the wile!” eee The University of Southern’ Call fornia is preparing for an aerial at- tack next Saturday, says the sports Page, but Coach Bagshaw has taken for his motto: “They shall Not Pass!" cee Dear Yomer: ton soldier ike tious, A. They both make up th oy p their own Why is a Fort Law- Doe Brown?—Cu. - PERFUME DEP; Mary Garden Metropolitan last night, Gee way She though hear Djer prano, Geo greatly disappointed, it she was going t Kiss, the French s0- sae Beginning November 1, ispaee Money orders can be sent to erma where they will be changed into marks, But don’t send more than lar, as the Mmited capac United ' a dol- Jerman presses have a ity. eee Women are bra Than men Did you ever hear Of a man pluck plucking out His whiskers: ver ny in the Cellar!” Yaya & furnace advertisement in the Natevepout, Yep, most of the time these dauyat e+e Boy, 90 out ana pave our fiuvert A. J, 8 Little} ond Class Matter May 2, and = California Grid yak, week is chiefly | | | | Above are the boys from the University of Southern! California who arrived in Seattle Tuesday morning and who will battle the University of Washington football eleven in the Stadium next Saturday afternoon. At the right is “Cot” Rice, son of L. M. Rice, 1818 15th ave., a member of the Trojan team, who will fight “tooth and nail” to carry a victory away, while the inset is “Cot’s” sister, Miriam, a student at the University of Washington, who is going to | root for her alma mater in spite of the fact that her brother} on the other team. Photo b a | | | | | Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers Seattle Boy Plays. With California; Sister Raves The University of Southern | California football team, headed | by Coach Elmer Henderson, ar- | rived in Seattle early Tuesday from Los Angeles, Henderson brought two squads of players sand hungry unemployed storm- with him for the game with the ed the main city hall near | University of Washington at the Alexanderplatz today in one of | stadium Saturday. The Trojans | the most menacing demonstra- were resting up Tuesday from tions since the food shortage the long trip, Henderson holding | became #0 acute. a blackboard lecture for his men At least 10 are known to have ai, the Washington hotel in the. been wounded in the rush when They will practice at | police cordons advanced on the n every morning the mob and drove the most dar- rest of the week. ing of the demonstrators back oe five blocks from the building. BY JACK HOHENBERG Still determined, the crowds rushed| There's going to be more than one |to the bourse, where” brokers were| battle when the University of seen hurriediy leaving the bullding | Washington faces the University of land seeking refuge in leas conspicu. | Southern California at the stadium ous places, Wilhelmstrasse was | Saturday cloned to 4 a precautionar, L. M, Rice, 1818 | measure. Disturbances are reported | have a son playing for in Nukoelin, where three, were wounded in food riots. [BAKERIES LOOTED | BY HUNGRY MOBS Food riots brought clashes between mot thruout the country fired over the h hungry unemp-.o: of Berlin without bloodshed. HUNGRY MOBS RIOT IN BERLIN Bakeries Looted for Food; | Ten Persons Hurt BERLIN, Oct. 16.—Five thou- | | | Sth avi mach hter in the Unt rooting section, and, accord- ing to indications, there will be frequent | little peace in the household until and police | the fight ts settle today. Shote| | Carleton of a hundred | Seattleites ax * in the northern | ftom Broadway high school here, dispersed them | 1926. Last year he journey In the wuburty of |South and enrolled at the Los Schoenber police fixed their bayonets | Angeles institution as a freshman, | | when 600 unem-{chiefly to play under his old coach, ed the city hall in their | Henderson } ance payments of t Rice had played with Center col nployment dole. liege previousl: And now he's broke into bakeries in| buck in Seattle as a member of the | Wiewenstrasse, Thomasxtrasse and|eleven which has set out to conquer Hermanstranse and looted them for| Coach Enoch Bagahaw's team. Cen) food ter Is hiv position, and “Cot” vows | |} Police in Hardt, to dis-|that the U. of W. athletes will know! (Turn to Page 9, Column 7) (Turn to Page 9, Column 6) | dau ington tter was known to graduated in section seeording jthe Adams hotel about At the Postoffics at Beattie. CLUES FOUND Astrologer May Be, Man Who Slew Movie Director Possibility that Arthur Covell, crippled Bandon, Oré., astrologer, and crime plotter, may have some connection with the mys- terious murder of William De mond Taylor, Los Angeles mo- tion pleture director, was ad- mitted here Tuesday by Luke 8, May, criminologist and president of the Revelare International Se- cret Service, who Is decoding and investigating copies of boro. ve been sent members of athern California movie “There is nothing that I have yet found definitely connecting Covell | with the Taylor murder, but further progress in decoding originals of horoscopes sent his Los Angeles and Hollywood followers: may, I bel} shed some light on this myste: May told The Star. Deciphering of copies of Coveil's notes on plotted crimes Mon night showed May, he said Tues , that the aged nationally famous star reader” wrote and had. planned several ofher warning and blackmail letters to Bandon citizens, signed "KK. K At least two of th to be addressed. to Cashier Ban (Turn to ¢ 9, Colunin 4) HIRES TAXI TO MOVE PLUNDER Patrolman Grabs Driver, but Buralar Escapes neveral 6 were Corson, Captured in the act of looting the ¥ ding Co, at May rly T day morning, Fred Mitchell, colored, told a story to Lieut, W, G. Witzke a few hours later that has the police tumped” whether to believe disbelieve {t Mitchell said he had been called to m, by a colored man. Mitchell drove his taxi to the spot and the other man ret about calmly loading it with to- baceo. Previously, Mitchell had asked Patrolman R. N. Wilson where to find the hotel Wilson appeared at the scene asked the other man where the t b TKO wi g. The burg replied, “Auburn,” continue almly to pile boxe es and cnr tons of tobacco into the car. When the lond was finished, the burglar willed for another auto away the rest of th nte ‘The officer then at Mitchell to atop the auto, and placed him un. dor arrest. The burglar, seeing this, dashed into the office and fled by a rear door, which he had opened by boring holes in the door previously, made good hia esenyy Mitchel! told a straightforward story. He had never been arrested before. He declared he aid not know the other man, but said he thought it looked kind of “funny” to h'm, He profemed his complete innocence. Chief of Police W. Bt and Capt. J Hang gating Mitchell's story Tuesday, pre. paratory to taking fection Wilson for allowing (he burg exeune forthco: nard aye against | termined whipped Lake Washington to an an-| | ery froth; chill of stormy weather—| | Tuesday his so-called curative miracles at the! Wash SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1928. Men “STOP ‘HEALER Isaiah. Has Crowd at Kirkland i Spite of Storm Rain, which pounded down all Tuonday morning, driving the leas de to shelter; wind, which all failed to deter the scores who sought Brother Isaiah and | Kirkland auto park, The simply curt. ous were in less numbers as a result }of the inclement weather, but the | thrones of afflicted were not notice ably smaller, ‘The “healer” was tn great demand Tuenday, after a day's “vacation, during which his “messenger, George Shafer, of Kirkland, who brought the ancient man from Biloxi, Mins, here, declared Brother Isaiah bieased the approximately 7,000 hand. kerehiefa left by enthusiastic disci. plex of the faith healer. Nearly every state in the Union ts represented in the bags and bags of handkerchief with. their selfiad- Arexsed envelopes and. five cents postage left-in the huge tent daily for blessing, Shafer said Monday Many, hearing thru newspapers of the arrival and works .here of the healer voluntarily sent there bits of linen for blessing, believing jin the alléged curat and consoling powers of the handkerchiefs when so blessed. Others are purchasing hand kerchiefs here and having them blessed for friends end relatives all over the United States. And each o must separately and individ added. Another of the Kirkland dis ciples, a woman who tellx you she is suffering from the’ results of four told briefly what of the method« of Teatah in operations, knew blesxing the bits of cloth for the be-| Nevers “Brother ‘Tsatah on in} ‘she. ax: “He pastes them thru bie (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) each oné Posses Search for Wood Fire Victims MARQUE Mich., Oct. 16. Daring attempts to penetrate in fense heat and smoke near Birch, Mich. caused by prolonged forest fires in this section, were made to. jay in an. effort to reseues the bodies of five men believed to e died in the fires late yestor HERE IS A NICE LITTLE HOME That ts being offered today that will make a comfy heme for A WONDERFUL VIEW Home of'4 good sized roomay cob- Inet Kkitehen; full plumbing Woll butlt fireplace; fur- niture; large lot, ‘nicely im= proved with shrubs, frult, ete. wale, $2,900; per month to the Want Ad and sce who is selling this. prop: Turn columns. erty, under the Act of Congress March 4, 1179. she | Young Wom Per Year, by Mail, $1.60 The Seattle Star ST.CARS ID UP ‘BY GALE ‘Are Halted When | Power Line Is Damaged; Ships’ Escape Storm Street traffic in Seattle was tied up for an hour Tuesday between 7:32 and 8:32 a m. by a wind and rain storm which swept the city and the Northwest coast and temporarily put White river out of commissio: All of the munictpat lin xception of the Dexter a Laké Burien routes, were halted and Seattleltes were forced to scurry thru the driving rain to work. Oblig. ing motorists came to the rescue of many an unfortunate pedestrian, who was battling hin way against | the elements, and saved him from} ja bad soaking ery was jammed to cap on the way. to towh and the condition recalled the daya.of the.general xtrike in Seattle | when automobiles came to the rescue \in the same manner, | | The storm whipped the city all | Monday night, but little damage was ‘done until the peak of the gale,| |whortly after daylight Tuesday: car severe the power line at with the and auto | Trouble men adjusted the difficul Pi ty in the power line ‘break and cars were running again an hour after the break occurred. | The storm had its effect on telephone service in the city also, more than 1,000 of the city sta- tons of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co,, being out of com- | mision for the most of the morn- | i Shipping further storm posstbilit day, as the storm center, iginated off Vancouyer Island, reported to be traveling inland. One radio mesvage picked up at the lo- cal station from a ship at sea told] of a wind velocity of 50 miles an | hour, | | No distress signals |here and it is believed | ships came thru unscathed The , wind velocity in Seattle jreached a maximum of 46 mile: |during the early morning. It was} believed PROBE DEATH OF PRISONER | men were not worrled s Tues-| which or was by were recelved| that all] Jury Says Man Was Hurt) Before He Went to Jail | | A coroner's Jury, after delib- erating 30 minutes, returned a verdict at noow Tuesday in which they declared that J. H. Miner of Selleck, Wash., came to his death Thorsday night from an intiiry received ino fall fram a sidewalk to the pavement st Fiest, ave, and Washington st. The cause of the fall was known, the jury said, | There was a lively dispute nmong the six jurymen before the verdict was Four of the jurors wanted verdict, but they refused to sign it when the other two balked. They refused to tell what recommendation was about. Two doctors of the city hospital, W. Fleishavey and H. J ers, testified tha to. be sick when to the hospital and that they found |no injuries to his head. He was| ken to the jail and bonk unk. was found in a later, suffering tured skull. He Lee MeMillan, told the jury he Pirst ave. and Woshington st. and w Miner fall into the street knocking his head en the pave. ment Cc, Olson, a logger, said he picked up Miner and found him} to be Weeding from a cut on the! head at that time | Dr. Witham J. Jones took stand wnd told the jury he held postmortem on tho body, | finding a skull fracture on the |right side of the head, Miner's |death resulted from this injury | Dr. {or ws sald the fricture was probably caused either by stelking a curbstone or by a blow on the their u no then t He hour coll a from a frac soon after 5648 26th ave. as driving |of Washington and ts calculated to | ma, that the storm may have} OME EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, DRAGGED puiaiitesibarnchadctaeieipnmaacmn WASHINGTON LEADS ENTIR2 COUNTRY IN LUMBER PRODUCTION DY W. UL PORTERFIELD states supplied nt a of the total lumber production of the country year principal lumber pr f the country Ala country | Rivera Thompson, taaho and Sourh Csro-1/ 17 of Riverton, last other ates we bama. Carolina lina TREAT KIDS FOR GOITER Doctors Advance Hears Too Late | Struck by a Tacoma inter- jurban train at Riverton |Heights Tuesday morni | Miss Rivera Thompson, p |17-year-old employe of the {Bon Marche, was instantly killed and her body dragged 70 FEET | |70 feet before the train could — on City Schools; | ie stopped by the motorman, 5 | David Dav rt, of Kent. to Ask Board | aie sict ts asurtter'oe aia pas Mrs. Ote C. Thompson, of Riverton, | was walking across the tracks in a | heavy rainstorm. She carried an um- brella- which hid her face and ob scured the approaching train, She did not hear the whistle until too late. - She hesitatedblinded: drove in her face, became Seattle doctors school children cents a year A committee, D. Cc want for to goiter treat at 60 consisting of Dr, Hall, of the U. of W., Dr. H. Ofrichter, and Dr. Geo, J. Mohr, appointed Tuesday, by the King County Medical society, 4s to appear before the Seattle schol board at an early meeting, to place ed before it the advantages of a course| and in an instant was ma of treatment for goiter, both cur-]dev the. wheels of the speeding” ative and preventive, to be admin- Coroner W. H. Corson ut istered to every child between the ed the tragedy and said that from wes of 6 and 16, attending thelSonearances the acsldent scemed Pabile achools.of Seattle. unavoidable. ‘The girl is survived pclveakers, have been appearing | by the. parerite and.one sister: before the various units of the “ 1 from Parent-Teachers’ association» to] ne on vo pothen eaoeeees aatline. ‘acoma and passed thru Rf the move, | sein The proposed treatment 9 the| Heishts at 9:30 a. m. outgrowth of a statewide campaign PSE Sec Put on by the Public Health League | Secretary Testifies prevent the spread of goiter, which! im Probe of Walton is prevalent in certain rections. | OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Octoi6 Treatment will be administered/—State employes, including George by the school nurse and children| Simpson, private secretary to Gay- receiving it will have to present the|ernor J. C. Walton, today appeared written consent of their parents,| before the legislative committee in- and will then recelve each week) vestigating the state administration — one chocolate fodine tablet contatn-| with a view of impeaching the gov. ing 10 millograms of iodine, dur-| ernor. ing the 40 weeks included in the} At the same time, a county grand school year, when the treatment] jury was probing acts of the gov. will be complete, |ernor in connection with the forma- ‘The fodine used ts in salt form, | tion of a special state police force: which fs calculated to meet a defi- i clency in the thyroid gland. ‘Taco- ‘ ia, Everett and al other cities already have adopted the treatment, it was announced. Some officials'of the Seattle Par- ent-Teacher association and of the various units thruout the cit: Tuesday spoke favorably of the idea Mrs, John G, Matthews, president of the P.-T. however, that no ction had yet been taken; and she was therefore not in a position to make a positive stato. | ment. Geology Professor — Will Give Lecture Prof. B.J. Saunders; department geology, U. of W., will deliver ture, entitled, “How the Earth Spent ts Childhood,” Wednesday night o'clock in the Labor ‘Temple, ave, and University.st. The. will be illustrated with? lege, and free to the public, s. 1 n, president of West A. expressed herself as being decidedly In favor of the treatment, and that the sub. Ject would be discussed at their next meeting. H. L. Hillman, of Broadway A., said thé matter had been st meeting and favorable considera: nion being for it, the other hand, Hurricane Blo on Florida Ce PENSACOLA, Fia., Oct. 16—2 gulf hurricane, which has ‘been brewing for two days, struck along the Loutsiana-Florida coast today. At Pensacola. the wind was blow: ing from 54 to 60 miles an hour this morning and there was an 0} various circles, | unusually high tide in the harbor, — and the subject promises to hold|No damage to shipping has deen the ettention of school patrons for | reported, however, and, no further weeks to come. uneasiness was felt as the batom- jon, René Opposition, on in recommendation put in the | F aoe: is a Seattle paper which counts its circulation in the 30-thousands, one which fluctuates up and down in the 50-thousands, another in the 60- thousands. But The Star, which leads the state, numbers its circulation in the. 70-thousands — AND IS STILL GOING UP! La]

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