The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 15, 1924, Page 9

THE SEATTLE STAR V LEGION MEN TO VISIT TRACT State Commander Heading Party to Colony THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1924 P-T. A. OPENS CONVENTION (@s36 Delegates Convene at! Centralia Parley sacar AUTOIST DROPS IN FOR BREAKFAST, IS HELD AS A DRUNK I AWN easter skins Washington, Thur Birds twittered } Somew her defiance the antia ffed th on, on the PUSH GUN BILL 11 FACE ARREST|KEARNS SILENT Miller Measure May Pass at | ON DRY LAW Denies Charges; Refuses to Present Session Discuss Complaint West Clamors for Tax Reduction, Says Hoge EW YORK, May 15.—Clamor for tax reduction along the lines suggested by Secretary Mellon is more in- sistent in the West than the East, James DP. Hoge, Seattle banker, said in an {nterview today, ® Headed by Hinton D. finance as he The Northwest is looking forward to one of its great- | denetebithie Wie’ tha Asmara acid { stasling ba est years, ~ ~ | Frank McLean of the Spanish-Ameri.| shine Shipping and lumber trade are returning to normal appealed | 224 prospects for a successful tourist season cause the oat view, Hoge says. ciations With 636 delegates from all seo-| tions of the participating, the convention opened yesterday morn: | Ing with an address of welcome by George I. Barner, mayor of Cen- tratia, Mra. Victor Malstrom, state president, presiding | Speakers at the sessions during the day included L. L. Linn, seere-| + tary of the Chamber of Commerce; C. L. Little, superintendent of the| Centralia public schools; Mra just breaking t Informations Are Filed by | U. S,. Attorney WASHINGTON are be Miller bill, barr from the mails, eft get the ye sence LOB ANGE 5 —Continu wed firearms Ma the ar mit > ho: Clara CENTRALIA. passag th Jonez, state odor © peamee t morning before congress would a adjoure The bill ging liq’ tions An auto roared along Boylst wrney N moment has been favorably reported out of | by Assistant United States was expected 1 in the the postoffice and p William J, Hoar Thu mittee. In the informations Jean War Veterans, L. C, Jesseph of |] aye homeward bound et roads com he fell pwoen, < at ¢ There is a that curb and act off at a brisk pace until the sidewalk and into the Want terd af °K in the fall manufacturing booze at 414 20th ave Hoyiston N The Miller bill would not bar trade |» shipments in bulk. It is aimed at| porn “mail order’ business a boanys 4 }| thugs and criminals ot mone 10 © to, || With eqse. ‘The penalty son's fo garden, after de- || t o49 pins Pyweactnd stroying much shrubber gd ae A Arouned from sleep, Gibson looked ry out to behold his early morning the car tn the garden eakfnnt the Veterans’ bureay and Dan Seott tated nnenieitie Mike Myot With the ste f Frances Mario the t state director of reclamation, with one left Seattle Thursday morning wt Bluffs Hanford land settle Judge Has a arcsec nna Cold, Edwin Is inW rong Jeand will be guests at a big banquet | His a party for} ok Fey seit he vieh is charged with liquor dealing the next con . who accused Kearns of alleged attack 4 and re-told. Je Emme — nal » t TIT Lane st.; Ray Everest with! veing involved in an 1 Congress of acroas Parent-Teacher asto- t to help defeat and last Gibson, 2007 upon her, t« Mothers the pros sad is anxious to confer with o ; Alfonso Belanger with operating at Bothell H with selling liquor at Darrington. stor It did not Benson | or yard uto atop? which |* still and C. two more witnesses before tak: a definite step. by in weape is set at ued thru the state snorting halt in Gib |to be held at Hanford | housewarming will be Perfumed Clothing Is Held in Evidence|y".imyjins smpens of. 18 Against Alleged Thief It was fast-moving plot, with action, thrills and all the other elements ¢ believed that he would either issue « complaint againet Kearns or brand the changes base lens some time during the day. 9% Union st.; Carl| Beyond reiterating his denials of Seventh ave, and T.|the truth of any of the charges Takahashi, charged | Kearns persisted today in his refusal ransportation of grape cider to discuss the affair. Others against whom informations \OprinOl | were filed include Antone Stahira, 000 Lith ave. 8.; Harry Meyers and Goldie 612% Third ave was ywer Friday, a big | held in the} fine red Meyers, The Miller bill was suggested and| james winters sponsored hy The Star in a campaign | wean 1920.4 against easy facilities provided mur-| . 7 And that’s were two me in obtaining “|Kaito and T death-deating | i+), cops # few minutes later found O. || weapons thru the mails th | L, Dramer, $17 Havenna blvd, a ; The land project was provided for | by the state legislature and gives the | | exsoldiers a chance to obtain a farm | |if he has no capital, The money for| \the purpose comes from the recla-| mation revolving fund and must ve caller sitfing awaiting orcycle derers a pursuit fied, Patrolman FE. F. Hawkinson Down an alley they man. George Dysart, president of the Centratia. Women’s Civic club; Mr J. B. Wood, president of the Cen tratia council of Parent-Teacher as soctations; Rev. Paul Reager, pas tor of the First Christian church of Tacoma; Misa Annabel Porter, head of the children’s department of the Tacoma public Nbrary and chair- man of the state literature depart: | arent-Teachers’ asso Mra. N, J. Irvine of Seat- of the state depart ment of thrift; Miss Clara Meisner of the State Normal schoot at Ellensburg; Mra Lena Schwartz, of the Tacoma P.-T. A.; Miss Mary Sutherland of Washington State col ciation; tle, chairman lege, chairman of the state depart-| ment on home economics; Mra. Jay Todd of Seattle, chairman of the state department on recreation; Mrs M. T. Holloman of Olympia, chairman of the state motion pic ture department. Patrol Boat for Lake Washington An appropriation of $4,500 for the purchase of a speed boat, to be used en Lake Washington to patrol the bathing beaches and to be kept at Lesehi park for rescue work over the entire lake, was made by the city counell Wednesday. The request for the appropriation was made by Maj. Paul Edwards, port warden, who said that he be eves it will save many lives of canocists and bathers. will be kept on the boat. The counch also appropriated $2,500 for decorating downtown treets on July 4. HERE'S MORE ABOUT BATHS € STARTS ON PAGE 1 ‘Star In exposing the so-called mas- sage and bath parlors in the city. “The real nature of these places has for a long time been « matter of common Knowledge to the authori- ties and to all those whovhave in- terested themselves in the moral con- dition of the city we all fova: yet we have been told nothing could be done as there was no law to govern this situation. The right kind of a city ordinance rigidly enforced will put an end to this evil. “Success to The Star. cerely, 6. | | Very sin- — ° WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE | The following waiter shut-off notices. were issued today for Friday between $ a. m. and 6! Dp. Mm: Fourteenth ave. N., BE, Prospect and E. Mercer sts. E. Roy st., between Malden ave. | and 14th ave. N.; E. 64th st., be- | tween Ravenna ave. and 27th | pave. N. E; 24th and 26th ates. | | between Blakesly and E. | 44th sts, and 25th ave. N. E., | between E. 54th and E. 60th ata: * Be ssheoa raahoaiorael arodaheinvear DAUGHERTY HIT $50,000 in Alien Funds in Brother’s Bank, Claim WASHINGTON, May 15.—Col. Thomas W. Miller, alien property Custodian, today toid the senate Daugherty investigating committee that he deposited $50,000 of alien funds in Mal Daugherty’s Wash- ington Courthouse, Ohio, bank at the recommendation of the former attorney general and Jesse Smith. Miller said Jesso Smith first came and asked him to deposit the money in Mal Daugherty's bank and then he (Miller) went to see the attor- Rey general to ask him if ft was his wish that he do so and was fold that it was, St. Louis Bank Is i between | Ordered Closed} EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill, May 15.— The Drovers’ National bank, one of the largest fn Southern Illinois, closed its doors today. A sign on the door announced the institution was in the hands of fed- eral bank examiners, President Dooley stated the bank's diffleutties were due to the failure of many Missouri banks this year. CAPTAIN TURNS DOWN PROPOSED DUEL WITH URUGUAY REPORTER INTEVIDEO, May i5.—The commander of the Italian trade exhibit ship, Italia, does not care to crons swords or mix re- |’ eget with 4 newspaperman, i & committee of five from the Press club. had challenged him for alleged brutality to five news. Paper photographers aboard the venael, “It is not up to me, but up to the Italian ambassador to settle thin affair,” te raid. 'y, three newspapermen were beaten, and yesterday two more were stabbed with bayonets by members of the ship's crew, They are in a hospital, A pulmotor | Edwin Conroy, 23, waiter police elmracter de luxe, played the principal role Conroy, known also as “Rullet.” hap- pened to be standing at Sixth ave, and Pike st. when a fire broke out on & nearby cafe root Wednesday afternoon. Bullet" seized the oppor. tunity to dart {nto a department store while everyone crowded outside to watch the fire. Ho snatched an expensive bottle of perfume from a and fled. Miss B. B, Whittington proved to be his Nemesis. She saw the theft and gave chase During the excitement of the fire, Conroy dashed thru the crowd with Mias Whittington In showcase was running thru the alley on his way to the fire. He saw the | chase and stopped Conroy, But “Bullet” had dis d the per fume bottle, Nevertheless, the fugitive was taken to head- quarters and interviewed by Capt, BL. Hedges Terrific waves of filled the police station “I didn’t steal nothin’, declared Conroy “The dope ts all against you,” said Hedges, “You are in bad odor, The cork came, out of the bottle evidently. Take bis clothes | off and keep ‘em for evidence." | Conroy, attired in a pair of | police overalls, will be tried im- | mediately before the perfume | odora desert his saturated suit perfume cap,” | Both the manufacturing and re- | tailing departments of what ts said to be the biggest moonshine busi- ness firm were closed Thursday morning, following two raids in quick succession by federal officers under | Assistant Prohibition Director W. M. Whitney late Monday night As a result of the raid, two auto mobiles, two 100gallon stills, 40 | mash barrels and other equipment are being held, and five men are in the coils of the law. They are John | Cummings, C. 0. E. Anderson, Verne | R. Neeley, Frank Keeler and Edwin Reed, | The men were taken in a raid on 1634 Terry ave., where they condect- ed the retatl selling end of their bua ness in an ciaborately furnished four-room apaitment. Here, it is stated, customers. could purchase anything from a drink to a gallon of moonshine. “Full-Blooded BY ALEXANDER HERMA (N. E. A. Service Staff Writer) NEW YORK, May 15—American suckers who swallowed nearly $2,- 000,000,000 worth of fake stock last year are biting again. But the bait has been changed. In- | stead of using gushing oll, the fakers now land their “fish” with figs, pe- jcan nuts, “full-blooded hares,” and | farms. “And the victims are biting more freely than ever,” declares Edward A. Schwab, chief investigator for the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World and its 40 Better Business Bu reaus, Schwab has just returned from a 10-weeks trip thru the sucker zone mopping up fakers in oil, tire, land and other frauds, \vicTims | BITING “For a short time after the con- | Schwab, “the sucker market tighten- |ed up, the public refused to bite and the fakers drew under cover. Now a | reaction has set in. | “The promoter approaches an old victim and says, ‘You have worthless stock. We will take {t from you and exchange for some good shares. You can’t lose anything. It will not cost you a cent.’ “The victim bites. Of course, there is a regi#tration fee, but that is to be expected. Then in a short time he begins to sec results. His stock appears to be worth something. He becomes a booster for the organiza- tlon—and a leader-on to other vic tims, His friends get soaked—and he, too, in time, “Where visionary oll wells once spouted visionary barrels of ofl in Texas for trusting stock-buyers, fig farms now flourish—on paper only. “Swamp lands, miles from no- where, are being sold for $600 an nore, on the promise of making $20, 000 in 90 days. COMBAT FAKERS “T set out to visit one of the larg- est of these new developments, but never saw it, for two and one-half miles off the main road on the way to the farm we got stuck In the mud, and had to get a tractor to tow us oN deatbdia fig growers in the Rio Grande country have organized a vigilance committee to combat these fakers. But they are finding the going hard, for foremost in the a- tivity is an old: promoter, who has been an expert at foreign trade, silk, and oll developments, He Js pro- ceeding on the theory that ‘once a sucker, Always a sucker,’ and Is us- ing the Ist of his old victims, These victims are drawn from every phase ene that ne is immune “Tt seams no 0} from their lure," says Schwab “Farmers, widows, children, busi- nesamen, teachers, the clergy—all can be found in the lists.”” Children have been among the vie- Two Cars, Whisky Plant Captured by Dry Raiders Manufacturing and Retailing Departments Are Put Out of Business Suckers Falling for New Stock Plan of Promoters Fakers Using Figs, Pecan Nuts, Farms and| National Vigilance committee of the | ‘ yictions of the Texas oll ring,” says| After raiding the Terry ave. apart ment the federai agents made a quick dash to a spacious twostory real. dence just south of the city limits and three-quarters of a milo east of | Duwamish. Here the officers found) and dismantled the moonshine manu- facturing equipment. Agents have been working on the! | case over 4 week, Whitney seerehb no an to get ample evidence to con neet the men with both branches o' the business. Facts in thelr posses. ] ston, he stated, show that the com- | bination was manufacturing and re- | tailing between 25 and 50 gallons of | moonshine a day, The men were to appear before) United States Commissioner H. 8./ Eillott Thursday for the fixing of| bail. Filing of charges of conspir- acy to violate liquor laws are being considered by the prohibition offi cers, it was stated. | Hares” as Bait | tims of a New York company selling rabbits at $15 to $25 a pair on the Promise of rebuying their numerous Progeny. Farmers seem ready to fall forany land proposals—either buying or aetl- ing. One of the simplest fakes was worked by a St. Louis company which sent out a Land Seller Guide| with an announcement: “Do not open. This sealed envelope contains @ list of 260 farm buyers, If inter. ented send $2, otherwise return.” Most of the receivers paid the $2—~ but few, if any, found « buyer for their farm. “Land always has the greatest lure,” says Schwab. “New develop- ments like Muscle Shoals are always a fertile field for the faker. “Professional persons, doctors and the like, have become victims of a collections scheme which is being operated in Ilinols and Texas. “But there are new stunts being pulled off continuously. Once it is oll, then land, then automobiles, “The courts are too lenient with these crooks. As a result, a faker, even after a conviction, is able to come back and work his game again. “I know one man, only 25 years old, who has been mixed up with 64 promotions!” SEATTLE CHILD KIDNAPED Two Women Spirit Away 5- Year-Old Boy After an all-night search for fiveyear-old Billy Cummings, supposed ‘victim of two women Kkdnapers, the police have found no trace of the youngster early Thursday, They have extended the search into California, The child, who was playing In the yard of Mrs, C. Worden, 714 B. Har- rison st., where he has been living, disappeared late Wednesday, Several of his playmates told Mra. Worden that two- women in an automobile had stopped at the curb and took the child with them, The women, when asked by the other children where they were taking Billy, replied: “To Californi The Cummings boy is the son of W. J, Cummings, assistant engineer on the Sound steamer Queen, Mrs. Margaret Cummings, 6308 San Pablo ave, Oakland, Cal, is the boy's mother, Cummings haa been divorced from his wife for the past three years. Ho has been caring for his son, leaving him in the custody of Mra, Worden. VERSAILLES, France, May 15.— The court today rejected Edith Kelly Gould's claim to half of the fortune of Frank Gould, her former hus- band, Edith must pay the costs of the trial, | knowledge that may, in due time, be paid hack by the settlers. More than | 60 tracts are now settled under this HERE'S MORE ABOUT PACKERS _ |, STARTS ON PAGE 1 it hag been operating thru sufferance of the city council The soning ordinance, which was passed more than & year ago, pro vided that the plant and other indus- | tries located outside the soning die tricts in which they were listed, be removed by December 31, 1923, | Officers of the concern were warned by Superintendent Proctor August 30, 1923, that they must va-/ cate the premises according to the provisions of the zoning ordinance, Proctor said, The company then promised to in stall devices to obliterate the stench from its plant. On December 24, Proctor again warned the company that it must move its property and comply with the zoning laws, Pat Burns, president of the com- pany, « Vancouver concern, and other officers of the company peti- tloned the’ city council for a permit to operate temporarily, pending the| erection of « new plant on the Wil lows. After several weeks, when no plans or other substantial proof that the program was being pushed in farnest were shawn, the council re fused the permit “I think this company ts stalling} ih an effort to evade its obligations in the matter,” Proctor said. “It has | had four years’ warnin, now and should be ready to take action, if it intends to obey the city building ordl- nance and zoning law. If ft doesn't intend to obey the law, then I intend to see that it is arrested every day it operates in ylolation of the law.” Previous efforts to oust the com- Pany from its present site have been halted by threats that it would taki ita entire business, running into sev-| ral millions of dollars a year, away | from Seattle. | HERE'S MORE ABOUT JAP BOY STARTS ON PAGE 1 | habits and s«peech, the young Oriental will deliver the valedictory address. We will tell American mothers, fathers,» boys and girls about “the Power of Education.” AN OBJECT LESSON FOR AMERICANS Those Americans who listen to Tadao Kamura will be interested, hot so much in what the boy saya, as in his visible proof of the power of American education, grafted upon | the morality, ideaig and ctviliza- tion of Japan. Not content with admitting Japa-| nese to this country, not content with allowing them, in our liberal American way, to live on the low standard of their native land—we take {t upon ourselves to educate them. In Kamura’s case we have edu- cated one of them to a point of excellence above that attained by 210 other students, nearly ali white Americans. This ts the reason today a Japa- nese boy beats his American rivals |in scholarship: Japan is determined to make western America a Japu- nese colony; every Japanese is de- termined, by hook or by crook, to put this program over. And to put it over, American {natitutions, Ameri- can progress, American facilities aro ‘to be used to the limit. Many have noted the sly, cynical smile of the Jap. Why shouldn't they smile? Are they not using the very things we have fought and worked for to gain strength and used t6 make us vassals of the heaven-ordained emperor —THEIR emperor, to whom they render hom. age? Japanese determination to conquer: That is the story of Tadao Kamura, valedictorian at Franklin high. There is only one answer to that, President Coolidge or no President Coolidge: Determination to keep this & white man’s country, to kéeep American ideals, to maintain Ameri- can standards, to keep the Stars and Stripes flying over a land owned and operated by and for the white race. COUPLE ROBBED Farmer and Wife Bound and Gagged in Automobile VANCOUVER, Wi May 15. Mr, and Mra. C. O, Darling were late Inst night bound and gagged by two armed highwaymen and robbed of more than $500. The couple were on the way to theft farm, when the two men Appeared in the road and asked for a ride, Darling complied, but soon found himself facing a gun. He was tied to a rear wheel of his auto truck, while his wife was lashed to the other, The thieves made off with the money which ‘Darling had just col lected for the wale of some Itve- stock. | George L. prominent Seattle busines: Dramer was charged with driving while drunk and spent the re mainder of the morning in the elty Jail before posting ball, COOLIDGE SURE OF OREGON State Will Hold Primaries Friday; McAdoo Runs PORTLAND, May 15. — Oregon politicians today were reaching out with thelr final thrusts at rivals in anticipation of tomorrow's primaries. Outcome of tomorrow's vote, ob- wervers declare, will without doubt add to President Coolldge's strength in the republican convention, His candidacy has been popular In the state, and Hiram Johnson supporters have given up hope of winning Ore gon since the latter took his big land. side in the Middle West and Call- fornia. Oregon, it will be recalled, went for Johnson in 1920, Willam G, democrat whose name appears on the ballot for presidential nomination. McAdoo supporters have counted on Oregon from the beginning of the campaign. An Interesting angle of the demo- cratic campaign is the candidacy of Berry, now head of the International Printing Pressmen's union, for nomination for vice pres! dent. Berry is unopposed on the ballot and Oregon in accordingly ex pected to express a preference for him, altho tt may be tn only per functory terms. Foley New Head of Tammany Hall | NEW YORK, May 15.—James A. Foley, son-in-law of tho late Charles F. Murphy, is the new chief of Tam- many Hall. Tho surrogate finally acceded to the demand of the organization that he accept the mantle of tho fallen [leader late yesterday and assumes his duties at ence. His resignation from his surrogateship is expected today. Foley was virtually drafted, many leaders admitted, and only ac: cepted the leadership after Gov. Al- fred EF. Smith had visited him per- sonally and asked him to accept.. U. W. Spring Play to Be Given Friday “The Dover Road.” a three-act’ | comedy by A. A. Milne, will be pre- sented Friday night as the spring quarter play of the University of Washington. Albert R. Lovejoy, head of the department of dram- aties, is directing the play. Includ- ed in the cast are Mary Greiner, Bert Barneet, Lorraine Casey, Dor- othy Simonds, Salem Nourse, Har- old Bassage, Joe Greenleaf, Jr., Paul Whipple, Bess Chambers and Jack Wright. Susquehanna River Floods Lowlands WILKES-BARRE, Pa., May 15,— The Susquehanna river went out of its banks early today, flooding sec- tions of the new $500,000 Kirk park and lowlands along the west side. Reports from up the river this morning indicate that a large volume of water is on its way down. The creeks and tributaries are swollen by the recent rains and it is believed the river will reach flood stage soon. Modification of Japan Ban Urged NEW YORK, May 15.—The Na- tional Council of the Protestant Episcopal church, at its quarterly meeting here yesterday, adopted reso. lutions requesting modification of the proposed immigration bill, so as to “relieve the Japanese people of cause for misunderstanding and our own government of reproach.” SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 15,— Roger Rahn, 28, a Chinese delegate to the Methodist Episcopal general conference, committed sulcldy today by drinking cyanide of potassium in a hotel room. BEAR THOUGHT MEN IN BOAT WANTED TO PLAY; BRUIN CAPSIZES CRAFT ‘AGE GROVE, Ore, May 15.-Lee Ross, camper at Lakeside, escaped from a bear, but left his boat behind, accord. ing to @ story told here today. Ross and his uncle chased @ bear into the lake. Thinking they could capture it by knocking It on the head while it was in the water, they gave pursuit in a rowboat. They succeeded in swatting the bear as planned. But Bruin mistook thelr intent, and, ap- parently thinking they wanted to play, climbed Into the boat, This was the cue for the men to leave, and they took the bear's place in the water. The men and the bear all got away without injury. MeAdoo is the only| ‘Tam.| Washington Water Power Co., and HERE'S MORE ABOUT SALMON STARTS ON PAGE 1 | Freeman pointed out that three- fifths of the spawning area of! Northwest salmon is above the site,| and that no means has as yet been| devised to get salmon above. such | an obstruction. As the matter now stands, Freeman says, the erection| of the dam would ruin the bulk of the salmon industries, which employ 50,000 men and bring $10,000,000 into the Northwest annually. Following the application of the company for a permanent permit fo erect the dam, salmon men met in Seattle last February and de- cided to hold @ conference with tl |power companies The meeting Wednesday was the result. i. J. Pierce of New York, preal- dent of the development company, jexplained that it proposed to spend & total of $100,000,000 in necessary industrial development to utilize the power, POOR BUSINESS SAYS FREEMAN He admitted that the company was @ subsidiary of the General Electric Co, of Schenectady, N. Y. [It was also pointed out that there |Was no present need for the pow but that new industries would jhave to be brought in. Pierce de- clared that an extensive survey for tho right type of industries had been made, and that the company planned their establishment. | “We believe it is a poor bargain,” Freeman declared, “for us to trade jen established industry of such magnitude for one in which we be- jlieve the benefits to be problematic for many years to come.” EVERY BRANCH OF | INDUSTRY HERE Practically -every branch of the fishing industry was represented at the conference, Henry O'Malley, United States fish commirsioner, Carl D. Shoemaker of the Oregon State fish comminsion, and the mem. bers of the Washington fish commis. sion were present. The power sido of the problem wan presented by Mr, Pierce and representatives of the| Puget Sound Light & Power Co.; the Portland Electric Power Co; the | | the Pacific Power & Light Co. Tho meeting resulted in the adop. Yon of a resolution that the federal Power commission, before whom the permit is pending, be requested to withhhold the granting of a Permit for construction of the dam until its effect on salmon fisheries can be definitely determined, showing that it will not prevent the passage of salmon between the sea and the spawning area. This fact, the resolution insists, must be established to the satisfac. tion of the United States department of commerce and the fisheries de- partments of Washington and Ore. gon. Secretary Hughes Denies Ship Sale WASHINGTON, May 15.—Secre- FREDERICK & NELSON New LINEN Frocks With Drawn-Work $8.95 TRIMMING is subordinated to good lines in these new Frocks, thereby achieving the smart tailored effect that is today’s expression | of good style. At left, White Linen with many rows of *drawn work is com- bined with gold, beige, green, coral or blue in this smart Frock, at $8.95. At right, Tailored Frock in Blue, Cocoa, Can-_ ary, Orchid, Coral or © Tan, cross-barred with rows of drawn work— $8.95. —Second Floor The “Scallop” Decoration Gives a Smart Line to the Vamp of New Campus Maid Pumps $12.50 The rounded toe and novel “cut-out and scallop design of this new Sandal-pump are very similar to the French — tary of State Hughes today Issued a formal and vigorous denial of charges made before the house ship- ping board committee that he had used his office to effect the sale of the steamer Martha Washington, selzed during the war from Aus. tria, to an Itallan firm after the bid. of an American firm had been turned down, “The statement that I had any. thing to do with thé sale of the Martha Washington 1s absolutely false,” Hughes said. “I have had Models, yet it provides all the comfort characteristic of Campus Maid* shoes. In black patent, with cut-out saddle terminating in a narrow instep strap, ' and Campus Maid* heel, $12.50. *Trade Mark Registered nothihg to do with this matter since I became secretary of state.” Hughes said he had been in- volved in the case before he took office. Withdraws Appeal, . Faces Execution PHOENIX, Ariz. May 15.—Wwill. jam B, Ward, Globe, Ariz., negro, convicted of killing Theodore Wilbur. Grosh, Arizona student, on the Apache trail near Miami, last De. cember, has withdrawn his appeal to the state supreme court. Ans a result the date of execution set in the district court at Flor. ence will stand, and the slayer will go to his death June 20. Counsel for the negro announced the appeal had been withdrawn because it was believed futile. Ward consented to the withdrawal, W. H. Grosh, Miami, father of the slain youth, still is hopeful he will be permitted to spring the trap, altho Goy, Hunt announced two days ago he would not be deputized so that he might legally he appointed executioner, Bethany Lutheran Church in Concert With a chorus of 50 voices and as: sisting artists, Bethany Lutheran church will present a sacred concert Wednesday night at the chureh, Fair- view ave, and John st Memor: al Day Plans Will Be Discussed The joint Memorial day commit- tee of the G. A. R. will meet Sat- For School and Outdoor Wear. Always comfortable and easily laundered, the Middy of white “Jean” well deserves its popularity among school girls and sportswomen. Two styles | are sketched. i Sizes 6.0 14, $1.75. Sizes 16 to 22, $1.95 Victor Records — Released Tomorrow Pilgrim's Song (Tolstoy-Tschaikowsky) Siberian Prisoner's Song * Um-Um-Da-Da (from “Topsy and Eva") Aunt Susie's Picnic Day The Duncan Sisters ‘The Duncan Sisters |] * Bring Back That Old-Fashioned Waltz—Walts Jack Chapman and his Drake Hotel Orchestra Adoration—Waltz * Forget-Me-Not—Fox-Trot ‘The Benson Orchestra of Chicago — You Can Take Me Away From Dixie—Fox-Trot (with vocal refrain) Jack Chapman and his Drake Hotel Orchestra * Never Again—Shimmy Fox-Trot My Sweetheart—Fox-Trot Paul Biese and his Orchestra Jean Goldkette and his Orchestra * Cinderelia Blues—Shimmy Fox-Trot Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra urday at 2p. m. in the library of the state armory to discuss plans for observing the annual services and exercises, Blue Evening Blues—¥ox-Trot Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra Phonograph “ection, Fifth Floor