The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 18, 1924, Page 1

—EE or } | LSCOURGE TRAPS TOURISTS! 1,600 Autoists Stranded on California Bordert| Toudy and slightly cold > moMt; Baturdey fair; wes | winds, diminishing Sature l NO. 26. Howdy, folks! heat! tT now principal ys ts that you can the bawl. e- wonderful . Ss radio. thurch in his pajamas! eee ence is @ee another fish residence @ tin of sardines. *- * Pumpkin Hollow, Old Silas Grump, times an’ none uv times.” . thad guitar. eee J. Dashleigh Fitzhugh medal of valor. was as follows: ® out. ® LI'L GEE 4 VAMP, SI Don’t interrupt me. vr WEATHER ~ ay Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 82. Today Home Brew | Spring is here. The janitor has turned on the beauty of motoring drive your Mliivver almost anywhere on a ferry.| Dear Homer: Can you please tell me why hens are always scratching dn my gurden?—Farmerette. Perhaps they have hives, BASEBALL NOTE Never attempt to steal home if she is waiting for you with Leok at It enables a man to ge to ‘A rich man, in his years of tou, Burnt barrels and Darvies of wid-| night of; His son now keeps Ais memory) oreen By burning midnight gasoline, The famous Fish residence on} Fitth ave., New York, {s to be torn} down, it is announced, * However, Gothamites can always by buying the sage of says: ' nacherally an optimist. That's why you hear lots uv talk uv th’ good old th” hard ‘old “Man's 2 INTERESTING FACTS An old awning would make a nice bib for a baby elephant. Most ukulele music sounds as tf it has been ‘recommended for the congressional His achievement With no hope of lassistance, he struck a match. When| ft opened fire on him, one blow put A fortune awalts the man who fn- ‘wents a telephone that doesn't ring| while you're tn the bath tub. or) EE, TH’ OFFICE I'm try- j ing to think of something that | { congress won't investigate this | ADDLED AXIOM: He fare. eee No artist ts months. error for three minutes? eee Li'l Gee Gee just will Old Hiram Peck; But you should see Him draw a check. * who spits @aainst the wind spits in his own ‘ghe United States treasury depart- Ment announces that the average life | of a one dollar bill is only three Isn't this a typographical have her} fim. Today she asked us !f we knew the Berger boys—Ham and Lim, NOTICE! Home Brew's NOTI efficiency expert, Joseph J. Bungstarter, reports that| the combined newspapers of Seattle can save $2,895,098.67 per week in ‘wear and tear on typewriter ribbons If the following biank forms are dis- f tributed chants; ‘0 be filled out promptly and malled to city prrand (| Minimum, 41 noon, 43. <> | | ora garage, Thursday mornin | gen says he trailed a truc jarrest the booze runners. Fred Aber, who, since Janu- ary, this year, has addressed about’ a score of meetings in Washington in the interest of the “butter substitute bill” and who is held in Portland, Ore., as the confessed slayer, more than a year ago, of Earl Kem- ington, Los Angeles clubman, | Friday was sald to have admit- ted that he fs a former inmate of 13 asylums and five peniten- tiaries. The bill, forbidding the use of vegetable ofla in butter substitutes, was backed by dairy interests, and |pased by the last seasion of the leg- |{slature. It was referred by petition and will be voted on by the people in November. Meanwhile, the Untt- ed Datry association of Washington has conducted an active campaign Jin the bill's favor. J. A. Scollard, |prestdent of the nssoctation, jbeen In charge. |SAID HE KNEW ALL ABOUT COPRA Aber, some months ago, answer- ed an advertinement for man “with knowledge of the copra fn- dustry.” Copra Is the meat of the |cocoanut. Of {s expressed from It | This is Patrolman G. C. Jensen, whom Chief W. B. Sev-| eryn questioned Friday, relative to his presence in the Len- two trucks, 81-cases of eguer and arrested siz men. to the garage and was there to has | The Newspaper With the Biggest Circul ation in ‘Wa 2shington Watered as Becond Clase Matter Ma, 1g, when federal raiders seized Jen- Dairy Promoter Held! butter substitutes. | Aber told, Scoliard that he was “a Philippine planter” and knew ail about the industry. He was | hired as a lecturer at $25 a week. | He went about Western Washing- ton, painting the copra industry as conducted under filthy conditions The object was to turn sentiment) against butter substitutes and in favor of the bill which would bar them, The campaign, however, develop- ed opposition from other sources, |notably stock feed manufacturers, who use the copra residue in mak- ing feed, from mayonnaise makers, | who use the of], and from soap | manufacturers, who use the oll tn shampoos, |mook, Ore, on March 18, Shortly after he was falled Portland and made his confosston to the murder. there fs that his mind !s unhinged. He 1s an ex-servioe man and bitter against the veterans’ bureau, | which, he says, didn’t give him a square deal. At one time he was an inmate of Sawtelle hospital. CORDOVA, Alaska, April 18.— ——% i with early weather indications [ | favorable, three American army Today's daring bank holdup oc- | curred at ‘clock at the | | branch of the | bank, The bandits, displaying unusual daring, escaped with $....... high powered motor eur. - Sometimes We wonder {f the city| councilmen don’t all wear gas masks. | Arguing with a woman Ing to fold a newspaper wind. It can't he done! ere ig like try-| in a high I saw him drinking sdy with A blonde sténog, Estella, "What flavor, pleasc?” quired, Young’ Blinks replied, o-* the clerk in- “Vanella.” Gotta go home and celebrate Clean-Up and Paint-Up week! Ad, 8. | round-the-world airplanes, now at Chignik, Alaska, expected to get l|away some time today for Dutch | Harbor, Unalaska, aocording to radio advices received here from them, ‘Their proposed hop- off yesterday was prevented by snowstorms be- tween Chignik and Dutch Harbor. ‘The three planes, commanded by Lieuts. Lowell Smith, Eric Nelson and Leigh Wade, will remain at Dutch Harbor until Maj. Frederick L. Martin, whose disabled plane is at Kanatke, Alaska, can completo repairs and join them once more. Repair parts for Maj. Martin's plane were dispatched today from Dutch Harbor aboard the revenue cutter Haida, which should reach Kanatak tomorrow, eee SEWARD, Alaska, April 18.—The story of the rescue of Major Freder- ick L. Martin and Sergeant A, Har- vey, his mechaniclan, when their round-the-world airplane Seattle was forced down at Portage bay Tuesday, was told today by officers of the de- stroyer Hull, the rescue ship. The Hull was in port here today for sup- plies. They revealed that Martin and Harvey had spent all Tuesday night on thelr plane, drifting dangerously Planes Ready to Go! among downtown mer-| near to shore In shallow water, with out food, and suffering intensely! from cold. The destroyers Hull and Corry, with boilers under forced draft, had averaged 20 knots an hour thru the night in their heroic dash to the rescus. “About 7:30 p. m. Tuesday,” the (Turn to Page 12, Column 2) JACK KEARNS IS UNDER ARREST Dempsey Manager Held as Drunk and Disorderly LOS ANGELES, April 18.—Plead. ing gullty to a charge of drunken. ness, Jack Kearns, managor of Jack Dempsey, heayywelght champlon, today paid a $25 fine in police court in preference to the alternative of spending the next 10 days in jail, merrymaking, the flash of powder an cameras were snapped, posing of shaking hand for the photograprers, and a general good time wus “had by all.” und largely used in the making of] +. tain west on Third ave, and| | Aber made his last talk tn Tilia | 1924. in| The supposition | The hearing wan acocmpanied by | Kearns and Police Judge Crawford | ¥ 3 2899, Ot the Postoffion at Beattie, SEI TTLE, WASH., op in Booze Quiz!. IN GARAGE RAIDED BY Declares He Was There to Seize Liquor and Men; | Probe His ory | White icsbinis In the stor. ies of Patrolman Gordon ©. Jen- sen and Assistant Prohibition Di rector William M. Whitney over the presence of Jensen in the Lenora garage, 2110 First ave, when Whitney raided the place and arrested seven members of the “Olmsted gang’ of rum run- ners, and seized a large consign- ment of liquor Thursday morn ing, were being Investigated Fri- day by Chief of Police W. B. Sev- eryns, Jensen was closely questioned Fri. day by Severyns as to why he made nO report of the case, and had paid |nothing of {ft at headquarters. Ber. | driving his atito on his way to lunch \to @ restaurant only three blocks from headquarters when he accident |ly saw the motor truck and followed it to the garage. | COP SAYS HE TRAILED AUTO According to Whitney, Jensen sald |but when Severyns talked to him, the officer stated he arrived at thi garage about 6:30 a. m. To straighten out this tangle, would ask Whitney to make a report jof the case to him. Jensen's story to the chief was to the effect that he was on his way to the cafe for breakfast shortly after 6 & m, when he saw a big motor | go down to Firat ave, on Yesler way, with an auto following It. He turned on Second ave, and kept pace with | sections, | When he came to Lenora #t., Jen |sen parked hin car and looked for the truck, finding {t In the Lenora gar. age, He had just entered the place said, and started to talk to a me Whitney showed up. “Throw up your hands,” Whitney told Jensen, the latter said. Jensen refused, telling Whitney bei “throw up your own.” At this point, the alleged rum run- | ners entered the garage and Whitney arrested them and selzed a truck load of booze. The truck which Jensen | followed was not the one which con |tained the liquor, Whitney sald. CHIEF SAYS HE 18 NOT SATISFIED WITH STORY ‘There's not much I can do on the case,” said Severyns on Friday. he should have arrested him. I'm not entirely satisfied with the story, but |I have no evidence that Jensen's story is untrue.” Jensen {s a motorcycle officer, | working mornings under command of |Capt, Charles BE, Dolphin. Jensen has been in other mixups, according to the chief, but his record also has its good points, The officer over a year ago single handed rescued nin persons, a whole family, from death | in an apartment house fire, | Some time ago Severyns had Jen- (Pun to Page 12, Column 8) WORKMAN DIES UNDER WALL Falling Concrete Fatal to! 55-Year-Old Man 65, Wan, instantly killed ming when a_ concrete B. Friday m 27th ave, hed him. Snow was employed by D. son, owner of the place, ing the concrete wall to gave away and make a |A lurge portion of the wall fell on him, about 10 a, m. and he was dead when released, Ho was om: [ployed on the job Thursday thru the city employment office, to: gether with Gust Sather. Sather lwas unhurt by the cavedin, The coroner was unable to find Snow's address |eryns also naked Jensen why he was | he wes at the garage about 4 a. m./ Beveryns aid he| the car watching it at street inter-| info working under an auto, when | "If Whitney had anything on Jensen, | wall on which he was working at! 28 Erick- | in remov-| space for a garage under the house. | Wasn FRIDAY, APRIL 18 DRY MEN! | | | | | | | | | | The Seattle Star wider the Act of Congress March 2, 1878, Per ¥ by Mau, 1924. HOM |EDITION| i TW From Laundry to Cap Esther Brumbaugh to Leave A at Bryn Mawr Thru Schol and Gown 1 for Class Rooms arship baugh at short ¥ That gleams fact it Intense satinfaction apparent of the ing be and enter course ys | in Seo “It nee —only ey, I other go to You ily etri NOW. higher much The steam press hisses, and Esther Brumbaugh laughs. hands are done for her, for Miss Brumbaugh was recently laundry girls, to receive the Bryn “Mawr (Pa.) Women’s Columbia Basin Let’s Drop It! (EDITORIAL) MUST be, by this tim& apparent to every citizen . that there is small chance of obtaining $250,000,000 from congress to build the Columbia Basin project. Even the most optimistic leaders of the plan now admit that postponement is inevitable. Then let’s forget it for a few years and get after something we CAN put across. It’s no earthly use wasting time, energy and money on a scheme that has such limited opportunity of success and is, at best, of doubtful utility to the state at this time. Look at the facts: Farmers and fruit growers now are unable to sell their product at a profit. In many seasons they are unable to sell all they raise. Why, then, irrigate 1,750,000 more acres to produce more sur- plus and further depress prices? There are thou- sands of unused irrigated acres in the state now. There are thousands of acres of good land that doesn’t need irrigation to produce the world’s finest crops. There are more than 80 similar projects to the Columbia scheme in the United States. Congressmen from Mid-West and Eastern states, where farming is a main industry, certainly are not going to vote $250,- 000,000 to Washington in order that this state may produce a surplus to compete with the farm products of their own states. The Columbia scheme, if not dead, is dormant for at least 10 years. Let it lie. Some day it will be needed. Then it will go over of its own weight. Forcing it won't do anybody any good and the reaction will hurt Washington. Let us get busy on something we can put over NOW. Instead of trying to irrigate more land, let’ us spend our Columbia Basin energy in an effort to make profit- able the land we already have, SYDNEY, “April 18.—The highest price ever paid for a race horse in Australia has just been given for the stallion Valis, He was sold for 14,400 guineas, ABERDEEN, ‘April 18,—Aberdeen | will spend $25,000 this summer to The city council pave Arnold st. voted the project Thursday night. he f z m ¢ history, nelecter of five children, and Es BY G. LUCILE BUTLER Tint,” weottly hisses asing machine, down at the ne uffs and colla: bands of Seattle's expert ¢ Brum will the hissing capable hands with t fo h-b-h,” softly the preaser—"six more I'll be done with you! accoy for the happy light that in the girl's blue-gray In goes further, and accounts for the in the women workers in the big, anement, for Esther is the eeks « first launéry worker in the land to be signally honored leaves Seat 4 with a Bryn Mawr scholarship, jo the first of June that time-honored institution for a in modern industrial society, social erature, art and music t tell you how I felt when I was 4 as one of the two working girl to go,” said Esther happily med I had inherited a small fortune better—because if it had been mon would probably have felt I had things to do with it rather than college.” nee attle sther ix the 21-year-eldest and dad is a teamster, ther has visions for the little fam ying along out at 8911 Fourth ave. Bhe feels this opportunity for education is going to mean 0 for all of.them later on, Each year @ number of working girls from all over the country are sent to The days of steam-blistered| selected out of all Seattle's college scholarship. [Bryn Mawr, Pa., Seattle's allotment |betng two, one union and one non- union girl. This year {t was decided by the committee that one laundry worker should go and local laundries were lasked to each submit their cand!- | dates, based on a certain basic educa- |tion, personality and general fitness |for the honor. And out of 15 girls who entered the preliminary examin- ‘ation, Miss Esther Brumbaugh was | selected. Esther can hardly believe it her. | self, as yet. And all expenses will be pald—'‘even spending money’’ she jsaid happily. ‘And what I learn there I am golng to reinvest right in the working girl," she added. “I am | going to do everything in my power to better conditions and to make the | girl who labors with her hands feel | that her work can be just as fine and | uplifting as any other line of achieye- | ment." BOY DISCOVERS MAN’S BODY Boast Company Employe Is Found Hanged; Suicide The body of Bernard A. Wick- lund, 2837 W, 68rd st., was found hanging in the basement of the Wicklund home Friday noon by 7- year-old Richard Hansen, 2615 W. 59th st. Tho Hansen boy had gone to the |house to play with Chester Wick- lund, 11, and accidentally saw body hanging by a rope in the basement. He ran back to his own home and told his mother, and she notified the Ballard police, Wicklund was employed by the ‘Tregoning Boat Co. His wife, Mrs, Josephine Wicklund, also worked, and was employed on Queen Anno hill as a domestic, according to the police. They have two boys, Chester and Clarence. “Wicklund had been in ill health, | \Milwaukee Railway Official to Come F. H, Hicks, new assistant traffic manager of the Milwaukee. railroad, Will be guest of honor of the Seattle Transportation club at {ts meeting Monday noon, President Rae ©, Johnstun announced Friday, the} O CENTS IN SEATTLE. FEAR PANIC RUSH Arizona Troops to Block Stampede of Cars Fleeing Disease Area LOS ANGELES, Cal,, April 18— Ww two new outbreaks of the foot-and-mouth disease discovered within the past 24 hours; 1,600 mo torists reported stranded at Needles because of the Arizona ban on autor mobile®, and with that state plan- [ning to call out the National Guard |to keep California tourists from | crossing the river, the epidemic sit- |mation in Southern California was admittedly serious today State department of health authori ties, who the first of the week were |given occasion to hope the plague | had been checked are again forced |to admit there ts little cause for op- timism. Every day this week there has been from one to three new outbreaks | of the epidemic found in dalry herds |in this county, within which confines |the disease hag thus far been re | tained since ite inception in Southern California. The situation at Needles, where 1,600 motorists are reported stranded, has reached a critical stage, according to word received in state offices here and by the board of su- pervisors at San Bernardino. Traveling in nearly 600 automo biles, the Eastern bound tourists have found their passage across the Colorado river blocked by the strin- gent Arizona ruling, which prohibits all motor travel into that state from California. Many of them have been at Needles for a week and are running short of funds, according to advices | telegraphed by Mayor C. E. Stauter, of Needles. Word from Phoenix was to the effect that Governor Hunt had de- clded to order National Guard troops: to Yuma and possibly to other | bridgeheads along the Colorado to prevent possible efforts of marooned tourists to cross the stream. The order was issued after it was reported that some stranded at Yuma had held a mass meeting and warned the guards that they were “coming thru” soon. SEVEN VICTIMS DEAD IN FIRE Explosion of Gas in Kitchen Wrecks One Home S, ‘MOTHER AND 3 PERISH Families Wiped Out in Texas and Pennsylvania JOHNSTCWN, Pa., April 18—The entire family of Anthony Prackgo is | dead or dying following an explosion of gas in their home today. Someone struck a match in the Kitchen. A terrific blast followed and flames swept the bedroom where the family slept. Mrs. Anna Pracko, the mother, was so badly burned that she died in Mercy hospital. Leo Pracko, 13, was killed outright. A baby, Rosy, 18 months old, died shortly after its mother, Prackgo and four other children, all under 14, were reported dying. eee COPEVILLE, Texas, April 18.— [Mrs. William McShadden, widow, and three of her four children, were burned to death in a fire which de- stroyed their home here today. 25 HOMES RAZED Cyclone and | Hail Sweep New Orleans District NEW ORLEANS; April 18.— A ey~ jclone, hail and rain storm swept over a section of New Orleans near Lake Pontchartrain last night, destroying and doing damage estimated at $500, 000. None of the injured were serfously | hur leg. Observers at the weather bureau said hailstones were as large as goose were broken, 600 motorists small homes, injuring 60 persons — One woman suffered a broken — eges. Many windows and skylights