The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 13, 1924, Page 1

_ WEATHER tonight and derate south Temperature Last Maximum, 80. toee ane, Howdy, folks! fever started yet? £HOO!—ours Has your hay So has—ah. of weed w Jimps Almost any so! ay fever fivecent wire igars. Thursday an't we tdod. is Straw Hat one into he We owever breakfast wear our old celebrate Straw Hat day every are we going. to Derby day? YE DIARY M Indignation Rises Against Deputy Who Shot Puppy Before Kiddies BE Up betimes, and the day being warm, @id look im the attic for my old straw hat, bat could find it met, And finally fay wife did confess she did give it to the Salvation Army, and so great argu- ment between us, for todeed she doth give my pants fo the German Kellef fund, fy shirts to the Orphaned Armenian shildren, my shees to backdoor beggars and my overcoats to the heaten in Africa And so to the office in my old green Koox. Ray E. Murphy, « deputy sherif?, | in court within a few days and at tempt to explain why he callously| murdered thelr pet, Rip. A warrant is in the hands of Sher. it Matt Starwich, Tuesday, sworn to by Humane Officer Koy F. Mc-| Kenzie. It accuses Murphy of wan-| tonly “shooting the dog before the | fear-crazed children and with leaving | him to die. Murphy Golf experts are advocating the use of a larger golf ball. “Sno use. They'll be just as hard to find. . . LITTLE } HALITOSIS _ ye Liquor once put men In the gutter, | fs out of the city, The! against their willi; men now put|warrant will be served directly he} Nquor in the gutter, against their| returns, it was sald at the sheriff's! wits. J office Tuesday, | The dog was the pet of the neigh “Are your feet insured?” I asked) borhood in which his little master! The dancing girl from France. jand mistress, Irwin and Virginia! § No answer. Then she said at last | Brehen, live. ‘Their home ts at 4042) “Es not that kind of dance”. —£ighth ave: N. E.. They are the chil-| : Laren ie Mr, and Mrs... Brehm... | Sign on a Rockeratinass: “No |MANY OFFER NEW near beer here. No beer near here.” ‘DOG To CHILDREN bd |The story of the murder, told tn | The Star, has brought many offers joe ® new dog from various people. VAMP, SEZ: | In a letter to The Star, J. L. Barnier, | One look at th’ bathin’ sults at || ee Stccy calor at i328 inet ove | | Ald an’ you know why the | | says he will give the children a| | waves are wild. lbrand new Alredale or Collie puppy }and a collar to go with him. Other| i 2 ty People have offeréd dogs, too. here. Freckled beauties on shore and | dune chon Poti nd peer} speckled beauties In the water. For |" : which does father. 5° fishing? | played for two years still in flaining | ae up. A dozen grownups will testify as! witnesses at the trial, backing up the hildren’s story of the crime. Ono day last week the children were playing near 4048 Pasadena | place. Rip, the dog, was chasing a| @ quarter rubber hall which they threw to him. | even a fit; | The ball rolled over the sidewalk. Rip | The kale was off duty, the green-| chased it. Murphy on a motorcycle| backs had quit. was speeding up the street almost collided with him. Forward, turn forward, O Time, in| Jamming on his brakes with an| thy flight, oath, the deputy jumped from his} And make it tomorrow just for to-|machine, and before the panic-| night! stricken children, pulled his gun and | shot the dog twice. Tho children screamed with terror and sorrow. The | Oia Silas Grump, the sage * of | dow, still allve, dragged himself to- | Pumpkin Hollow, says: “Th’ nice | Ward his home | thing about havin’ a home is that it} The children begged Murphy to end | always gives you some place to wish. the dog's life and spare him mire | ‘ou were wh are away.” arr if Seto te Murphy laughed at them, | “Throw him in the ash can," he CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON | jeored. IVY CLUB Then he went away. Th The goof who believes that the later a humane officer en authorities in Hollywood blow a | dog’s life mercifully. whistle at 5 a. m., at which time Deputy Provecutor Ralph Hammer everyone is supposed to return to | issued the warrant for Murphy. Jus-| his or her bungalow. tiee CG. C. Dalton fixed his bail at’ “ee $250, | Anyway, you can't always tell how | popular a girl is by the number of hatrnets she buys a week. see Johr: Philip Sousa says prohibition Killed comic opera. Sure, it takes six cocktails to enable a man to sit thru one of those things. . — | LI'L GEEGEE, TH’ OFFICE ‘Twas the night before pay-day,| and all thru my jeans | 1 hunted in vain for the ways and} the means; Not was stirring, not —R. 0. L. "2s a "in| | } | DEN; GET3 | A Paria gambling den where men and women mingled at the gaming tables was raided by the} police speciat detail late Monday night. The establishment is located . We don’t know why this country is golng to exclude the Japs. They | never foisted mah jongg on us. eee at 421 Olive ‘st. Three men, J. J./ * TODAY'S FABLE |Goodman, Charles Freeman and| On th ie qi. | William Higginson, were arrested.) S nds chs te ot ‘The police squad declares that rector made a picture in which a husband and wife loved each other uninterrupted by a third Party. |the place is operated by Goodman las a whist club, but after 10) jo'clock at night gambling games| are brazenly played on the 15} tables by both men and women, | land that chips are sold openly at $1 for an 80-cent stack. Goodman posted $100 ball, and the other two men were released on| $10 each. The height of affluence ts to have | balloon tires on your lawn mower. Be oh: in, Conan Doyle claims dogs and cats will have a place in heaven. Well, {t| may be heaven for the dogs, but it) will be hell for the cats. one ADAM Whatever troubles Adam had, He had no cause for wrath; He didn't need to fix the blinds So Eve could take a bath, ee UIZ DE FORA, Brazil, May 13.—-Vicente Henrique Fer- reira, 118 years old and father of 48 children, ha: just an- nounced hig forthcoming mar- Small Gi “Mummy, how do angels get their nighties on over| thelr wings?” “88 . rage to Georglana Lourdes da a a Fie Silva, 2 Li'l Gee Geo mays that a lot of Widenté kiréaay. tad, outlived these bathing girl pictures should be barred from the males. e. 4,8 four wives, the Inst one of which presented him with two healthy offsprings a few years Gotta!) ago, und the young man says Gotta ve running along. date with a sirloin steak, A, J, B. he hopes to bring his immo: must face a dozen childish accusers | The dor| } 1808, at Postotfics st SE ATTLE, WASH., TUE a Seattin. Wash DAY, MAY 13, 1924. under ¢ 4 of Congr The Newspaper With ‘the Biggest Circulation in W ashington /The Seattle star Batered as Second Class Matter May §, one March #, 187%, Per Year, by Ma Here’s Harry and His Hay Hat Stevedore Crowd Ushered In ety aoa & Hat Opening day Tuesday. eco Harry got his picture on Page 1. Doe Brown Off Page Your AIRMEN READY FOR HOP OVER PACIFIC RAID 1D GAMBLING axa; Martin on Way South, En Route for Washington, to Rejoin Flight CORDOVA, Alaska, May 13.—MaJ. Frederick Martin and Sergt. Alva Harvey, round-the-world flyers, who miraculously escaped death when thelr plane was wrecked in the Aleu- tian mountains, will leave Port Mol- Yer, Alaska, some time today for Bell- ingham, Wash., aboard the cannery tender Catherine D., reports received here during the night sald. ‘They will stop on route at Ikatan, | Squaw Harbor and Ketchikan, Alas- . arriving at Bellingham the Iast of the month. Both were réported anxious to get | back to the United States and resume their places in the round-the-world flight at the earliest possible moment. Maj. Martin and Sergt, Harvey are Man 118 Years, Father of 48 Children, to Wed diate offspring up to 50 be- fore. he dies, Besides being the oldest cit: izen. of Juiz de Fora, Vicente is black as the ace of spades and served three masters be- fore slavery was abolished. Only six of Vicente’s chil dren are girls, He ceased counting grand children a few decndes ago. The new bride im pretty and fond of children, expected to rejoin the world flight In India, eee ABOARD U. 8, FISHERIES SHIP EIDER, ST. PAUL, Aleu- flan Islands, May 13.—Lieuts. Lowell Smith, Leigh Wade and Erik Nelson, America’s round- the-world aviators, expected to Jump off the edge of the west- ern hemisphere and into the eastern early this morning, Their flight, the most dan; ous of the entire globe-circling trip, will be made over 878 miles of open water which sep- arates the Aleutian from the Kurile islands. When they land at Paramushiru, Kurilo islands, they will be on the Asiatic side of the Pacific ocean. Today's flight ranks as probably the most hazardous advénturo ever undertahen by airmen in times of Peace, The country {s noted for Its violent windstorms, known as. "woolles" or “willie wahs," with which the avi. htors already have had experience. On arrival at the island of Attu, No. 4 plane, piicted by. 1 Nelson, was caught in a blown from its moorings into angry water, Skillful piloting by Nelson alone waved it from serious damage. Saturday the three flyers attempted to devote to work on thelr planes, but again the “woolles” came up, drenched all hands with rain and snow and forced them to take refuge 1; Straw Kelly Day Old One Ps. In spite of overcast skies, Harry Rogelet, stevedore at Pier No. 6, celebrated Straw) And because Frank Jacobs refused to take Mayor Brown's —Photo by Frank Jacobs, 8 Today ‘s Straw Hat Opening day. Early this morning Seattle men discarded their brown felts and black derbles and blossomed out in new hay lds. Then this afternoon they bought thelr newspaper, expect- ing to see Mayor Brown's pic- ure, as usual, on the front page, wearing a new straw hat. They gasped in amazement, The may- or’s picture was not there. And here {is the atory: “Go down and get a picture of Mayor Brown with a new straw hat. This is Straw Hat Opening day,” the city editor sald to Frank Jacobs, Tho Star's cam- eraman, Tuesday, , "No, sir.. Nothing doing, I'm thru taking Mayor Brown's pic- ture. I've taken it 662 times in the past five weeks and you've run it on every page in your paper except the comic section,” stormed Jake, “All right, then,” sald the olty editor, “you go get your own ple- ture for straw hat opening.” So Jako did- Down at Plor No. 6 he found his man. There on the dock was H, Rogolét, of 6402 Carleton ave., piling sacks of sugar. On the back of his head was a new straw hat. See you have a new straw sald Jake, “Yep. One of King Brothers’ . best. I gotta observe Straw Hat Opening day," said Rogolet. Then Juke “snapped” him. So that's how H. Rogelet, stevedore, crowded 1. J. Brown, mayor, off of page: tolay woday. Maltby Mill Is oe Razed by Flames EVERETT, May 18.—Fire whic broke out early Monday morning: the Halterman mill at Maltby, sout of here, destroying the mill, resulted in a lona of $25,000, it was estimated (Turn to Page 7, Column 6) Tucsday, r Staff Photographer VICE ‘BATHS’ EXPOSE Home Edition TWO CE NTS 3 IN SEATTLE. alls Reporter; Shoots Self! Lure Openly SUICIDE | BLAMES | LIQUOR ' Fatal Shot Heard in Newspaper’s | Office as Man Pulls Trigger Shortly before noon Tuesday EA it, who had ilved at 603 Fed- ‘al ave. for nearly 14 years, called up the editorial rooms of a local newspaper on the telephone. To a staff man who answered he sald: Tam going crazy. I can't stand it any longer, so I'm going to shoot myself, Listen . . .’ The staff man heard the crash of @ shot; then the thud of a body lence. Neighbors of Stoudt at his home, falling to the floor, Then si- They found his body, head. The police we: NOTE SAYS MOON: | WAS RESPONSIBLE A note on & bureau, in the dead |faan's Handwriting, sald that “moon- shine is getting the best of me.” Neighbors said that Stoudt was well liked in the district, and that shot thru the} * summoned. HINE many children there, He was about 55 years old, and divorced. He leaves two daughters, one in Paul and one in Los Angeles. son also Iives In Los Angeles. had been employed in a clerical sition at the Renton car barns. PLANT FINISH TERMS TOLD Gorge Project Ready July 1 if Conditions Met Completion of the Gorge hydro- electric power plant unit by July 1 and possibly by June 15 1s assured Seattle if the city pays R. C. |Storrie & Co. their April estimate of $58,000 and approximately $60,000 they claim due them on changed specifications. If it is not paid, Storrie cannot estimate the time necessary to complete the project, ho claims, “It seems to be up to the city council] again,” declared Councilman Philip Tindall Tuesday, following a meeting of the mayor, his advisory sommittee and the board of public |works with Mr. Storrie Monday. | afternoon. “The mayor's advisory commit- tee,” Tindall said, “suggested pay- ment of the claims and the board of works has agreed to pay Storrie if authorized by the city council. Personally, I am tired of the whole business and believe that if the council is forced to act it will okeh Storrie's claims.” The Gorgo unit will be operating within a few days after Storrie has the work completed, it was an- nounced. Storrie's promise was conditioned upon payment by the city of his April estimate of $58,000, held up by the board of public works, He also includes approximately —_- $60,000, which he claims is due him be- causo he was required to use a more expensive concrete mixture in the tunnel lining than the plans called for, under his Interpretation. The claim for an extra allowance on account of the concrete mixture has been the subject of controversy between the city and the tunnel contractor, In order to avold court litigation and further delay in the project it was thought best by the mayor's advisory committee to grant the concession. oa —— TIPPING HIS HAT COST POLICEMAN $35, HE REPORTS OLITENESS cast Robert R. Fields, employed on the Ad- miral liner H. F. Alexander, $36 early Tue&day. Fields boarded a Green Lake street car and encountering a woman friend, doffed his hat. The money, which he had secret: ed in his hat band, fell out, he reported, EO ooo h in h hearing the shot, went into his room. | for years he had been a friend of} Star Survey Shows Many — Reporter Tells Experiences in Second- rate “Baths” Where Vice Is Flaunted Unmolested ICE, open and unmolested, romps thru the heart of Se attle’s business district and in some residential sec- | |tions, under the cloak of legitimate professional practice. Under the guise of mas parlors and bath houses, immoral practices prevail while city and county authori- |ties say they have to look on helpless. Women attend- jants for men patrons do not leave the men in these second class places from the time they enter the bath until they leave. Chief of Police Severyns says he is unable to apprehend jthe guilty parties, except in instances where he is able j}to stage a raid and get actual, first-hand evidence. Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas says there is no \law against women serving as attendants to men in mas sage and bath houses. | | Following repeated complaints to The Star about the situation, The Star sent a reporter to investigate. | This is his story: | that everything was ready now for The reporter went to a downtown | the massage. office building to find one of the mas She called a girl from the rear and sage parlors named in a complaint |told her to get things ready. The made to The Star, The place was| girl ushered the reporter into the not listed in the bullding’s directory |“rub” room. She was perhaps in her but an obliging elevator man gave| twenties. Her hair was bobbed, her directions and with a sly wink added: | lips inted a bright vermillion and “Jist ask fer & massage.” her face was coated with powder, | A middle-aged woman greeted the| She wore a white dress somewhat on “patients” in the reception room. | the order of a nurse’s dress. “Have you Turkish baths?” the re-| “Just step in,” she sald, “and Til porter asked her. get things ready.” The room was “No,” she replied, “but we can give | furnished with a chair, a “rub” table you a massage,” jand « small stand. SCREEN OBSCURES “Do you have shower baths?” the! VIEW OF VISITOR reporter asked her. The place was divided into two| “No, we don't. If we did, a lot of separate rooms and a reception place. | curious folks would come’in just to Off to the side was the “rub” room. | get a shower bath and see the place. | It was occupied when the reporter}; What kind of a massage do you entered and he was given a chair be- | want?" hind a screen so that he was ob-| “Just a plain ‘massage,” the re scured from view when the “patient” | porter said. | departed. “Well, get up on the table,” she After waiting several minutes the | replied. | door to the “rub” room opened and) (Tomorow: Further adven- &{ MAN came out, A few seconds later | tures of the investigating xe- | h# Proprietréss came out and sald | porter.) Seattle’s “Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model,” chosen b The Star for a week of the’ thrills the Nellie of the mellerdrammer went thru, got her first Tuesday when tried on about a million dollars’ worth of new gowns. Bit, currrrrse her fair innercent young face, she'll be tied to the trrrrack this afternoon just before the fast mail is due. Meanwhile you have nine guesses who she is. Hold tight, folks! She's off! Seattle's ‘’Thrill-a-Day Nellie” started on her wild caréer’ of thrills, spills, chills and—maybe—hospital bills Tuesday afternoon. Whosit? Whosit? Well, that's where you get a thrill all to yourself. We're not going to tell you until Wednesday. But then —oh, boy! Wait until you see her picture, Monday we told you how Claire Windsor, Seattle film star, had chal- |lenged Seattle girls to do the stunts {she did in making “Nellie, the Beau. ‘titul Cloak Model,” ‘The Star and Manager John Hamrick, of the Blue Mouso theater, patrriotieally took up ‘the challenge. | “We will find a girl who. isn't afraid to be tled to the track: in front of tho Oriental Limited,” they said, “Werwill find a girl to monkey with a bukzsaw and be heaved off the end ofa dock, We will find a young woman to a Of course, it was easy for them. They didn't have to do the stunts: AN they had to do was put up $25 to recompense, in a slight way, the girl, Well, 86 girls applied over the tele- phone and personally for the job, They said that when’ it came nerve, they had as much as Clali Windsor or anybody else, including 58 the late Harry Daugherty. isi Ono of them was picked. She was picked because she is about Claire's: build, because she has that deter mined look that Nellie had, and bee cause—well, wait until you see her — pieture. Seattle's Nellie gets her first thrill Tuesday afternoon, accompanied by artists, cameramen, reporters, sob. sisters and an ambulance, togeth with @ patrol of Boy Scouts for fi ald work. Also a villain, For a week Nellio’s life is just ing to be one thrill after another, ‘Trail along with Nell in ‘The: i and have the time of your Young ie, : ue oe