The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 26, 1924, Page 1

_WEA ) The New THER |. WwW oman Will Smile— spaper STS TLE tint With the Biggest Circulation e Seattle Star tonight and Sunday, aeknisanirs Last 34 Hours Maximum, 7@. Mininvum, 47. Today noon, 65. ee eee Matered as Gecond Class Matter May 4, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattia VOL. 26. NO. 54. Gi SATTLE. WAS VOL. SEATTLE, WASH., MARTIN Howdy, 4 without an “r” will soon be bere. Anybody got a suggestion for a summrer job for an oyster? eee Witt the bivalves banned from the ment, a light occupation for a well- trained oyster would be a job as Watchdog for a Piggly Wiggty store. ; eee | course, out here in the Wid Spaces, Where Men are Mee, Ye piaRy th CHIGNIK, Alaska, April 26.— ‘ Goole pp i Maj. Frederick L. Martin, com- | ) ag oe j erapeenath gl the American roupd- | y the-world airplane flight, who ar- 5 sp Ei farcee so grdbeppaitan iPi| rived here from Kanatak last | i Gee sarcastically. | night, hoped to hop off again to #4 | day, with Duteh Harbor, Una- | in ms and found him well i to fractions, ntheit he did persist argueing that 6 times 7 is 58, whereas /1Gid tell bim that It is 35, but we did perp lle | Wease us much. . We wouldn't give a darn about the | hoof and mouth quarantine if state | “eficials would only assure us that | B parsnips will be smuggled across the line. . zB CLAttie Willie. Joncas | Ate some dynamite ; Willie’s mother spanked him, Willie yelled, “Goodnight!” eee Scientists say that the isotrope Is ‘infinitely more infinitesimal than the which ought to make {t about Size of our weekly pay check. see i is ¢ Sign on the back of = Ford: + “ALKI POINT OR BUST | “a cee _ Another victim of the foot-and- “Mouth disease is father. He foots all bills and talks about them for- eee Mother, mother, may I 90 shop? Yes, my darling daughter ; Shop as much as ever you Uke, | «But don't exceed a quarter. see | Another candidate for the Poison J rc one about all the grocery stores WM California being closed for fear Sees crackers will get the foot Mouth disease. see | NEWS OF THE SHOPPERS By Guinevere the Shoplitter ed up something very stunning -“morning—olleloth chest protectors in Doheny biwe, itive you seen. the how paris green face aot It is considered very smart for “ie het ono. oe If the worst comes to the worst, BM we have war with Japan, we Dapermen stand ready to fight! ht thru to the final edition. oes Here ties the body of Minnie Waite, died the first of May; ined crab is what poor Minnie ate, : That's how she got that way. ‘04 4 mud-siinging contest. It is only} PSatiestion of time until thoxe fellows i'run out of ammunition and be| d to borrow their wives’ com- ion clay. f oe The reason you don't see any more} Wib-houner in because they are now | Pn used for telephorie booths. see ethaps the most effective reduc- Apparatus ever devised Is a tele-| booth on a hot day. q cee Why is it that a man will walk] @ miles on a golf course and then like a steer when he has to Yalk one block to where his car 1s é o* Ths ts the day we get even with sa for working all week, Ba) aS 8 IN SNOW GALE |Air Flagship Wins fy club is the gink who springs the | oectior a Aistinctive Js attained at the | The waitresses put Indy | County officials are again engaged | , FLIES ESCAPES DISASTER Perilous Flight From Kanatak to! laska, his destination. The weather was exceedingly cold, His three companion flyers are awaiting his arrival at Duteh Harbor. so CHIGNIK, Alaska, Apri! 26. jbave finally escaped from Kanatak | the cauldron of the winds,” was the mensage of Maj. Frederick L. Martin given to the United Press today, fol lowing his arrival by airplane from | Kanatak last night: He stopped here en route to Dutch Harbor to join the other three members of the! American round-the-world airplane | fight. | The flight from Kanatak to Chig nik was made after storms endan | gered the plane and rendered it tm. possible for Martin to remain | Kanatak. He took off and made most of the flight in the teeth of a blinding snowstorm. The flight ‘wah the most remark able of the globe-circling adventures %G | to date. | “L arose at 3 a. m. yesterday and 4% | found the morning calm but the tide insufficient to float the plane from its retreat in Pearl creek, where it N had been moored,”. Major Martin i a aa said, x. “We constructed a drag and a i af pulled the plane out into the bay withthe aid of a Standard O11 com- pany’s tractor. “At 11 a. m, a strong southeast wind came up and by 12:30 p. m. it had whipped up the sea so as to en danger the plane. “We could not get back to Pearl (Tern to Page 3, Column 2) i" iy Slayer of Couple Hanged in Prison | CANYON CITY, Colo., April 26— Joe McGonigal, convicted of slaying Wilbur Ferguson, young student at |the Colorado School of Mines, and {iss Ella Centers, in June. 1922, at | beaches from these three pict he Royal mine, near Trinidad, was | tle, hanged today at 5 a. m. | He had twice received a reprieve | from Gov. Sweet, once to permit to avoid Holy week, execution during jis clean and commodious. pate Park Improvement club. ‘OT Kills Self, Three Lend Children With Gas| land insnittary, DENVER, April 26—Despondent | over the worrlea of caring for an | ever-increasing family on a small} income, Mrs. Mabel Ward, 30, turned |" on the gas in her apartment here| A Star reporter Friday afternoon and ended her own life late yester. | allied up the board offices me asked | he vo are municipal dirty, but the park board, only beach | unpainted] which has charge of them, doesn’t even know where “some of them} day, those of her three small chil- |where Lincoln beach is, |dren, all. under.6, and that of her |on the other end of tho wire didn't unborn babe. | know. | | “Well, the park board’ owns it, | {doesn’t it?” HERE IS | “I don't know. Maybo it does." and I'll ask Which Bathhouse Do You Prefer? Top and Center Picture Offer Direct Contrast to Neat and Com- modious Facilities ures. SATURDAY, APRIL 26, at Madison Park Maybe; Re porter Wash. under the Act of Congress March 1924. Seattle folks can readily pick the kind of t bathhouses hee. sah for their bathing At the top is the shack at Lincoln beach, West Seat- It is located between a muddy creek and an open drain. with-long benches are the accommodations for the bathers. the dirty stalls in the interior of the Madrona bathhouse. examination by allenists and again |attractive bathhouse at Madison park, a decided contrast to the others. It was secured by hard work on the part of the Madison Two small empty rooms The center picture shows Below is shown the neat and This building —Photo by Frank Jacobs, Star Staff Photographer where is it?” Wait a minute the office.” Three minutes’ wait, “Hello! Well, we think it's some- where out in West Seattle. Go out to Alki and inquire. Try Schmitz park,” When covered shack two “Well, “I don't know. in was dis. unpainted Inside, it was found tt to be a small, of rough boards, small, open-to-the-sky rooms were found, Rough benches lined |the walls, On one side of the place a muddy creek flowed. On the other an open concrete drain gaped. In front the driftwood was piled in tumbled heaps, Madrona bathhouse the same, only larger, Stalls of unpainted lumber were ranged around the walls and notices ap- pealed to bathers to “return sacks to office." Dead leaves and dirt {swirled around in the wind inside. The Madisosn Park building is attractive, neat and clean. It was locked up, ‘however, and will be Wprened later inthe season. was much A BARGAIN Perhaps just you have City Officials to | Get Bigger Salary in a Used. Car. the make and model been wanting: \eity officials under an emergency or $185 { BROS. TOURING CAR an honest to goodness bar- gain; will be sold to the first person who really wants a real good car at a real bargain price. [finance committee. The three re coived salary increases of from $270 a month to $310 a month, ‘They are } — = Ss = \M H. Strouse, auditor of appropria- You will find many Used Car tions; L. A, Comenux, accountant in || bargains im today’s Want Ad ||the city comptroller’s office, and G B, Schunke, accountant in the water department, columns. | Salary increases were granted three | \dinance approved by the city counel sit | Seattle Veterans | Boost for MacNider Hanford MacNider was launched a boomlet Friday night that his friends in Seattle hope will carry him to the vice presidency in Washington. MacNider, former national comman- der of the American Legion, was a Kuest of the Veterans’ Republican jelub, where Col.:W, M. Inglis sald |that he, as a delegate to Cleveland, | would vote for MacNider as a vice presidential candidate, Jon Animal Contagion May Affect Camps SALEM, Ore., April 26.~- Unless the hoof and mouth disease in Call- fornia is under control within two weeks Governor Pierce will ask Adju- |tant General White to change his | plans for holding the state encamp- | ments of National Guards in Califor. | nla, 18 was reported today from his office ‘ i] HELD IN POISON CANDY P in Washington _ a, 1879. Per Year, by Mall LATEST FLASHES Gets a G ar—P age 3 tol TWO CENTS VANDAL IN SE CAPED PRISONER CAPTURED LEADVILLE, Colo. April 26—A man answering the de Frank Cameron, Omaha. of 12 escaped prisoners from arrested here today by Sheriff Harry Schroeder when ‘ teal $60 from a filling station. The man, ¥ es he not armed, Four other suspects, fle cross the ec a stolen automobile, were seen a few miles west of thiv | being organized to start in pursul * 6 6 TACOMA BANK BUILDING SOLD. TACOMA, April 26—The Scandinavian-American bank buflding and property were sold for $538,000 8 to the only bidder, D. ¥ v Metzger, of the law firm of Hay horne & Metzger. This firm representa the MeClintick-Marshall compar which furnished the tee for the skeleton, and is understood to represent Herbert Fieischacker —- San Francisco. Tri os ries to Cover Up LANGLEY NAMED IN BOOZE DEAL PHILADELPHIA, April 26.—Representative John W. Langley, of Ke Identity by Tak- tucky, faced accusations here today that he participated in getting p rf os mission for the alleged withdrawal of 14,000 cases of liquor from a Ker ing Hotel Regis- tucky distillery. He is also said to have attended a conference in Kentucky after which $3,000 is declared to have been paid over for the permits. The Ad charges against Langley were made by Thomas J. Finn, of Columbus, / ter With Name Ohio, in court. | , : ss fe ae oe | Following a fire of mys- STEAMER CITY OF SEATTLE IN PERIL | terious origi yhich_ brok ASBURY PARK, WN. J., April 26.—The steamer City of Seattle is in} bus origin. which broke distress six miles south of Barnegat, announced. relief, Tho ship carries freight and passengers between Atlantic Cit New York OAKLAND, April 26—Development indy plot aimed at the life of Othe! | Fresno county, resulted today in the inger, of Oakland, “‘Gwearinger wiy wr AG Unsatisfactory account of hieasetf<: | $15,000 GEM THEFT AT PORTLAND PORTLAND, April 26.—At the po! | Miller, Jeweler, was today forced to | stock and hand them over to a lone | police by Miller. The loot amounted t ** | BOILER EXPLOSION BURNS SIX WHITTIER, Cal. fleld were terribly burned at [of the accident flashed here did not or further details. Two of the numt April 26.—-Six of | Hit by the fender of a Madison st } | afternoon, Mra, M. Moline, 76, of Bryn received severe injuries about the hea * * DESPONDENT MAN ENDS IL Distress whistles are blowing and coast guards have sent out Pp. m, today when a boller exploded. AGED WOMAN HIT BY CAR 40 miles south of here, coast guards| out in a third floor room of the Diller hotel, First ave. jand University st. early Sat- urday morning, which threat- + in the investigation of the poison|@ned to destroy the building Il Sloan, 19-year-old girl of Fowler,)and sent a score of guests Oakland police holding F. R. Swear-| gy. ; : ehaked carly alin after he given fleeing in terror to the street, jfire department. officials and bd the police were searching Sat- urday for F. F. Crowe, in whose room the fire. broke | out. Fire Marshal Robert Laing was personally investigating the fire Saturday, with two fire inspectors. It is Laing’s belief that Crowe may have been smoking in bed and set and LOT int of an automatic pistol Fred pick out the cholcest gems of his bandit, according to the story told © $15,000 in value, * 1} workers in the Santa Fe Springs Word | fire to the room accidentally, and give the memes of Ape injured men} io. the register to keep the police cee ny reports ving from learning his identity “and forcing him to pay for the damage. The fire had gained great head- way when discovered after 3:30 a. m. by the night clerk, J. B. Noll. rday She eable car at Second ave. 8 Mawr, narrowly escaped dea 4 ‘ A fire alarm was sent in and-the firemen experienced great difficulty FE in’ preventing the spread ‘of the flames to other parts of the hotel LOS ANGELES, April 26—Despondent because of loneliness, George |! Stewart, 60, took his life by swallowing poison in his room here today,|The room was completely wrecked, | Stewart was a carpenter and camo here from Vancouver, B. ©. the damage amounting to about OTs $400. Many of the guests of the hotel, awakened by the roar of the : le | NATIONAL LEAGUE * fire and the smoke and noise of the Cincinnatt ce rey Pore es ; "4 | firemen, fled to the street in, panic. [Ac Pittsburg: 20 00 0-0 0 x- 5 2] The police were given a descrip- riee—Mays ‘Sheehan and Hare: e: Kremer and Schti 12 2| tion of Crowe, but up until noon ork vane 9 2 bee Ge a Ba 10 -0| he had. not been located. Crowe ries—Gearin and Gowdy: ‘Henry, Long, Dickerman and Taylor | registered as a Seattle man, accord- | Iphia . ; 60.04 006 9 9 a 8 3 ing to. Noll. Boston 00 0 01/0 031-5 7 “ fi ‘ | Batteries—Ring and Henline; Marquard, Benton and Smith. While Fire: Marshal Laing ts in- St. Louls-Chicago game postponed; rain clined to believe that the fire was . * © set accidentally, he admits that there is a possibility that the fire AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington . 0008 0 0 0.00 5 prod have been incendiary, in the At Philadelphia . ey 10 060 0.0.1 06 0 x—2 6 0} absence of evidence tending to sup- Batteries—Zahniz Ruel; Rommell and Bruggy. port either’ theory. With at least two serious forest fires out of control in different parts of the state and many smaller blazes threatening green timber, Fred Pape, state supervisor of forestry, at Olympia, was Saturday mobilizing ad- fitional forces to combat the’ dan- gers to Washington’s leading indus. try, he told The Star. ‘The conditions are the worst, from the point of early season confligrations and extreme humidity of the alr, in the history of Democratic Attacking what he teaned “flagrant violation of law" in county road building, L. B. Schwellenbach, keynote speaker at the King county democratic convention, Saturday morning, told the delegates that the finest thing that could be done in this county would be to clean out the “county ring, lock, stock and barrel.” “Conditions in the county commis: sioners’ office are a disgrace to the comnty and state” he declared, This Farm Homes Destroyed in Early Forest Fires Two Regions in State Swept by Flames Out of Control; Other Places Hit -| were destroyed Flays “County Ring” Schwellenbach Says “Clean Them Out”; Urges Bone Bill MAL DAUGHERTY FACES ARREST No Record Vote on Senate Contempt Order BY FRASER EDWARDS (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, April 26.—With- out debate or record vote, the senate today ordered the arrest of M. 8. Daugherty, Washington Courthouse, Ohio, banker, for contempt of the senate. An effort to get a record vote on the resolution was made by Senator Oddie, Nevada, but he withdrew his request and no opposition was of: fered. ‘The resolution orders Senator Cum, mins, president of the senate, to is: sue @ warrant commanding the ser- geant at arms of the senate to arrest Daugherty, brother of the former at- torney general, and bring him before the bar of the senate. Daugherty, the resolution further provides, shall be held until he answers questions regarding the sen- ate investigation of the department of justice. the forest fire prevention work here, he declared, Several farm homes and barns in a large flame- swept area on Wind river, Saturday, north of Stevenson, Wash. Pape said he would send forces to aid local firefighters in that region. He an- nounced another dangerous blaze in the southeastern part of Cowlitz county on the 20-year-old Lewis (Turn to Page 3, Column 4) Keynoter peers weoeesn nerceeemanemmin = SNEAK THIEF GETS $130 WHILE OWNER SLEEPS IN HOTEL! P' ETER ODELL, Sunriss night after locking his doc ‘party could do a great work in clean: ing out the bunch.” Schwellenbach was interrupted | time and again by cheers from the audience and demonstrations of ap- proval. tel, slept soundly To back up his statements of al-|] ting his mone y—$130—in loged law violations in road building, !| jeather grip and securely lock- the speaker quoted from state re-|] ing that also, Novertheless, a ports, He reviewed at length, ex-|] purglar used a passkey to un- tracts from the report of the depart ment of examination on general road and bridge funds for King county (urn to Page 3, Column 1) Jock the door, and failing to open the bag, cut it open and escaped with the cash.