The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1924, Page 1

Bi 2s MNES ove } D ncn ne ma tro al Facing a New Grilling, Four Bank | SUSPECTS WILL ASK FREEDOM | The Newspaper Maximum, Today ar aimee re ee owdy, folks! Work In your garden yesterday? So’d we. After much debate, we have decid in our garden. Af Ini without Mrs. Homer Brew wanted to ‘plant Bermuda onions. She must be fig uring om her Martini out @ pail Today's Definition: An optimist is | gink with « dry cellar who plants patch of mint in his back yard rar 1 DIZZY DITTIES © i Little bits of cardboard, | Leather, string and ghue, Make the pretty little Twenty dollar shoe, Advertisement on a bill board: Day In and Day Out i Dodge Bros. | Belonging to five lodges, that’s ull we do, durn it | eee 1 “What wit! the 1924 bathing girl wear?” asks a fashion expert in The Star. Don't make us blush. This Is the Only Skeleton | | In Our Family | | What hag become of the old-fash- foned golf links, where you teed up at the beginning of the course and at | the end? eee | Blessed are the slick for they| have inherited. the carth Mrs. Homer Brew wanted to name our new summuer cottage “Morning Dew,” but we told her “Mortgage | ue" would be more appropriate. oe westerly winds Temperature Last 24 Hours noon, 66. Min Bat Monday; Second Class Matte Mrs. Bertha Landes CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON TVY CLUB The ‘soda swisher who puts a | cold drink in a warm glass. eee | One thing about the old-fashioned | ure how many miles to the gallon. C048 Without a doubt the bitterest pill, With a dwindling stack to face, Is to draw another ace When you discarded one to fill. eee Pienics afford everyone a chance to get out of the city. Or out of /Pear and difficulty was experienced | satisfactory settlement is arrived humor. Or both < lin getting out the regular editions. | s eee | One hundred printers walked out, TODAY'S DEFINITION |making a 100 per cent strike in the A dentist isa man who jrme |S°Mbosing room. Thirty-seven non-|" o,: Dublisher of tho Post-Intelll his two hands into your mouth One hundred and thirty-two mem | and porch swing, is you never had to fig-! hers of three unions | unionists were employed in the strik (32 MEN STRIKE ON SEATTLE P.-I. Three Crafts Affected in Unions’ Controversy With Paper employed on| ing over the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, did not | union, at a lwork last night, vote taken by Seattle Typograpistcal | Union No. 202 mained at.work. The late morning edition of the newspaper failed to ap- | following a strike | to Three employes re union pursue strike to after further discussions, extend a peric meeting yesterday enforce a settlement ‘The vote (160 in favor, two against) id of five months, the voted 99, at the Postofficn at Beattie. Wash. under the Act of Congress March SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MAY 381, 1924 She Proves tative of Public’s Interests (EDITORIAL) "ONDAY the new city council will meet to organiz Among other select a president, a position that ¢ amount of responsibility, besides considerable honor. growth and prosperity. The council will have these problems to solve. The presi dent of the council can and does exercise a deal of power, largely by his ruling on various iss disposition. Seattle just now is interested in a big way in public owner. ship. It has invested millions in public utilities. Private ownership people are fearful. their own. They are losing no sleep. You can bet on that. Foes of law and order also are anxious. They sometim enjoy privileges that méan much to their prosperity an: bring on hell to the community. ‘mayor in the absence of the city’s chief) with a great dea of caution. A number of persons have been suggested. them are fit; others, we think, are not. The Star would like to suggest Mrs. Bertha Landes as a candidate possess. ing the qualities that seem to be needed just now, Mrs. Landes has made a good councilwoman. lcity government. She not only Igreat strength of character. Mrs. Landes is a friend of public ownership. \proved that to the satisfaction of all. A merger of law and order folks and those who will pro-| the H tect the city’s public utility projects would be a highly de-/ "4 the fourth member of the men sirable thing. The Star believes Mrs. Landes would represent both ele-| trip. ments and in doing that she would represent a majority} of Seattle. With the Biggest Circulation in Washington The Seattle Star EVIDENCE Her Ability Woman Member of Council seal aie rege things the council will do then is to| rries with it no small} Seattle has before it a number of problems which must be solved intelligently and honestly if it is to maintain its| Their toes may be 9 ) got into an argument with the ban stepped on. They are alive to the part the council can play} That’s why The Star thinks this is a time to select a, %¥" before the robbery presiding officer of the city council (who also serves as/ Some of |Fetaway She has! Mount Vernon Tuesday are: jstood for the things that right-thinking folks want in| - has stood for them; she |has fought for them and in doing so she has displayed) ginecr and She .has 1819, Per Year, by Mall TWO CENTS IN ty Council Picks President THREE SAY RICH YOUTHS hy Not Mrs. Landes? Nearly Every Seattle Cop _ on New Beat |) With a list fecting over "TOO WEAK wil Be Confronted by New Witnesses at Mount Vernon Next Week of changes four in duty Tacoma officers, 200 police busines men, arrested as sus Quarterly shift was prepared to| } Deets in connection with the |mo into effect Sunday morning | $18,000 Anacortes bank rob: | Neary every policeman on regular bery, will go to Mount Vernon Tuesday to request | rounding districts has been shifted Warren Gilbert 10 |15 other beats drop the charges against them pee sn Soeapbint gtiec ister on the ground that the state | wi be in charge of the afternoon has Insufficient evidence. bear This announcement was made Saturday by the Tacomans, duty In the downtown and sur- in person Prosecutor headquarters in place of 1 = ” | mornings, Capt. E. C, Collier drops| the afternoon to night ms.) “shakeup” or shifting of the! officers from their accustomed beats! to unfamiliar ones ts tn accord with} Mayor Brown's policy of acquaint-| hin| ing the cops with all the city beats. | |Star reporters he believed he could) The =|identify the bandits if he naw them n person, Wright, loading rock with m wagon on the narrow road. dits when he refused to draw in helping or hindering the public’s program as against|wagon aside, and was only perauad-| Several other changes have been| led when two of them drew guns made by Chief of Police W. B. Sev-| jand threatened to hoot. aiagitt doents’ define: alee wa }c"? ns, Including the following trans-| agit: county they could hawa.on band Tuesday |": Patrolman G. R. Arnold, from| |e Hidalgo Isinnd man with whom | headquarters to Georgetown; Pa-| & group of strangers talked a few) trotman L. P. Hemler, from head-} This man | Quarters to Georgetown; Patrolman} the strangers were inquiring | © roads leading to the place N. Johnson, from Georgetown to| headquarters, and Patrolman J. Ed- I where the bank robbers abandoned | Wards and 8. J, Jorgenson, from thelr stolen auto for a boat in the|G@orgetown:to the traffic squad. raya about | 1 S DECLINES TO reentrant SEATTLE, — ER BOY SLAYERS WANTED THRILLS! Millionaire Sons Confess Killing Kidnaped Boy to While at Mount Vernon the men|back from command of the night d =| will be confronted by dom Wright.) shitty to the morning shift, ana] Enjoy A venture ; aa tng ani mee Capt. E. UL Hedges will change} z | boulevan er na | “May 31—Nathan as they come up for} ortes robbers fled, and. who told| ‘fom CHICAGO May _31—Nat! Leopold and Richard Loeb, sons of millionaire Chicago families, and both law students at the University of Chicago, today con- fessed kidnaping and murdering Robert Franks, 14-year-old school boy. State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe announced the two had ad- mitted the crime. “We killed Robert Franks for the spirit of adventuré,” the wealthy col- liege students confessed. The story of the kidnaping and murder was a fantastic tale of longing for adven- ture. ‘i The crime, they admitted, was plot- ted more than nine months ago and all details were carefully planned to avoid detection. C1 i | “We had been reading of kidnaping ACCOMPANY OTHERS “a 99 || adventures and demands for ran- "| ‘The three suspects who an-| |som,"’ Leopold told authorities in ex- nounced thelr intention of going to David Naudeau, public accountant and secretary of the Lions’ club of Ta- Lawrence Lee, electrical en- worshipful master. of | Destiny lodge, A. F. & A. M., and Warren Ridley, employe of the| Walker Cut Stone Co. | | Russell E. Evans, president of Evans’ Self-Sealing Can Co. Bot amazing sequel to|| “The Beacon Hill Mys- starts in The Star today on Page 7. If you have been read- ing the remarkable adven- tures of Floyd Clark, the Seattle artist; Marian Page, the Seattle shipwreck || || victim, and Toba, the This followed the identification|| dusky-hued maiden of the Jot Evans by officials as the man|| mysterious South Seas || coma; | held as suspects, announced that he/ would not join the others tn the BRIBE ADMITTED|BOY 1S KILLED; [who hhad served time in Monroe re-|| j . 5 \formatory and in the Oregon pent-| island, you can’t afford to ,tentiary, the former for grand lar-|| Miss the story of what || cony and the latter for obtaining|| finally befalls them. lees under false pretenses. “Toba” is the same sort intriguing, compelling It wouldn't do me any good to| Evans said in Tacoma. “The|| Of |plenty of money. plaining the crime. ‘‘We had all the money we needed, of course, but we thought it would be a ripping good _ adventure to kidnap some youngster aad try to get some money for it. “At first, we didn’t plan the murder, but we decided it would be playing safe to put our vie tim out of the way. “We ‘bought all the equipment we needed and then our next task was |to select the victim, We wanted to get some boy whose father had We decided to look around the Harvard school where all the students were wealthy. We selected Roberts as our victim.” Crime Details |Are Related Leopold then recited the details jof the kidnaping and the slaying of has been taken by officers of the | ofticiats have got me sized up to amount to a lors’ places. gencer, in a statement Saturday, and then says, “Tell me if it | Of the staff of 16 in the stereotype | #4 : Burts! department 15 went out. A staff of In an effort to enforce wholly eee lyaeie-aniert aid “ine work. unjustifiable working conditions and Henry Ford has purchased @ 10.) teen of the 16 mailers em.|U8reasonably high rate of wages, 000 acre rubber plantation in Florida. | Probably he intends to make his |?! loyed by the paper did not work. A jthe momby of the Typographical mandate to the course adopted until fitvvers out of rubber so they hit a telephone pole they will| merely bounce bac Kk. |wkeleton crew was employed. that when | |the sanction of their | unions for the walkout Both stereotypers and printers had international union employed {n the composing room of the Post-Intelligencer struck yesterday. "This action was taken after re oe @ YE DIARY (May 19) 01 utta| UNION ‘When Hank makes cars of 9utta | ay OE UMENT A defense committee from Seattle iiiegrapiient union No, 202 ts com posed of Bug! and R. fy that the baby might get hold of it | Saturday gave out a statement say- percha, Hell guarantee that they won't hurtchat eee The trouble with a rubber flivver | and use it for a teetHing ring. eee Well, we made a hole in one yes- | Newspapers had been accepted by all | other newspapers except the morn- ing daily. no “The Post-Intelligencer, however,” says the statement, terday. Yes, tidest. In one hour. Up hetimes, and to work, albeit it wns | & holiday for others, but soon done, and in the evening to the Butler, and did | there meet many people, H. Steel, who, doth print Journal "in Alaska; J. ‘Thompson, L. Murray, C, Davis, and by and by did meet many more. 1. Rideon, B, Cochrane and K. Keynolds. And so ware owe Final preparations were being|Family Robinson begin {ts epoch-| blowing inohis face. rhe Star readers about some of the Bigamist: A crazy guy who thinks | made Saturday for the departure| making cruise, Adventure and danger will be the|Tomance of his undertaking he can manage more than one wom-| Monday noon of the American family) ‘The Seattle Advertising ¢1ub.| companions of the family during the| When winds are favorable Pentz_| an at a time. Late of Penta on tedblre dgl r iad pi which S# sponsoring the trip to show) journey north. The adventure wit| Wil augment his power plant beri’ anne weet e ne L006 OF ") that the trip between Seattle and! jo found hiding in. the numerous| Ht ine ba ected taco woah | At 12:80 Linden Pentz will shove | Skagway San Ba made tn smell inlets ‘and small harbors In which): “woe course there ts danger,” he off from the county dock below the | boat, Is arranging a wpecial program) they will rest at nights, white dan.) (i Coulis Tiare os dinken le ord auto plant, start the outboard |for the event he. ‘members will) ser lurks’ in the open spaces thay)) i 1°) ‘soaworthy outfit,” motor on his boat and head up Lake| be down to the dock to seo the| Must cross between the Sound and)! * have & seaworthy ot Union toward the locks, the sound | gers off and) will present Pentz| the Inside Passage _ Penta hasbeen salded by) various eae cAtateas limdttt: wevotingw cto the: ottiolala’ of| BAch/ night: by’ the. leht of hia |Heattte business men in outfitting | | In the boat will be Pentz, his wife,| Skagway. Anyone who wishes to|campfire Pents will write his log|for the trip. ‘The boat was fur | | Baby Jean Pentz, Seregro, the goat, | seo the start Is invited to be pres-|for the day and will mall or tele.|nished by Libby, MoeNell & Libby Sevan BO No’ farther? ‘the dog and’ cat, beaides food for the | ent 4 graph {t to Tho Star so that tho|thru the courtesy of D, W. Branch, | trip, a tent, bed, wall, typewriter, fuel} Pentz lias not yet named his boat| readers may watch the progress|Western manager, It Is a staunch Take 24 as Gamblers | ina water. Jand it will be chrintened before he|of this trip north. Pentz loves the|!{¥pe no longer built but used ox Four Chinene and a seore of white| Scores of persons, curious to seo| loaves Seattle. By night-time, Penty|life on the wator, tho tang of the|tensively in Alaskan waters. ‘The men aro held Saturday on gambling | how Montz will bo ablo to store ullloxpects to be woll up tho Sound|salt aly and the gurgle ef the wator)Moter ts an Outboard Lito furnished charges, following a police raid on a| thin in a 1W-foot bout, mre expected | With Seuttloe but a memory and the|un the prow of the beat plunges|bY 8. Ve Be Millen, Wito dealer, liouwe at 622 Sixth ave, [to be on hand to we leas Aeahosaidnehi burt iar cana tithe HIVES ITS paper to ¢ Atkins, J. P. Brady T. Thomas, This committee “proved obdurate tion, Beattie’ peated efforts on the union which protection to its members and’ pro: vide them with ono wage scaleg in the United States. “This action was taken in the face of an offer on the part of this paper part of this @ contract from the would afford complete obtain of the highest ing that a compromise agreement be-|to submit the issues to arbitraffon. |tween the union and Seattle daily) “The contract which the union insisted should be acceted wan of such an unreasonable character that newspaper could terms and retain control of produc: submit to {ts Swiss | (resh sult breeses Crom the strls BYU. S.AGENT DRIVER HELD Vice Consul at Vancouver | Another Victim of Auto Acci- Says He Aided Chinese | dent Dies in City Hospital WASHINGTON, May 31 David | Death claimed another auto vic C. Kerr, American vice consul gt|tic Friday night when Herbert Carl Vancouver, B.C, admitted he had) son, 4-year old son of Mr, and Mrs. accepted money to influence hig de- | Oscar 10067 65th ave. 8 cision in granting passports to| barred Chinese seeking admission in. to this country, it was brought out in the preliminary hearing before a| United States commissioner here to-| day, A written confession by Kerr to Carlson, been run over by home. Jacob H. Blank, 57, of 4707 Califor. nia ave., driver of the automobile, was held at the city jail after the| Consul General Norton that he was) accident and had not been released | “hard up” for funds and had ao cepted bribes in some cases, troduced in evidence. an auto near his | Saturday, was in | ‘The little boy was playing in the | street near the city Ilmits when he J, Fred Ganders, who said he was! was injured about 6:15 p.m. He was a notary public, but who evidence | taken to the city hospital and died showed was acting in the capacity|an hour after midnight. Blank de- of a labor agent, testified that he|clared that the boy darted in front | gave Kerr $50 at a secret meeting in| of his car so suddenly that he could a. Vancouver Chine eto get Kerr| not avold him. to issue passports to Chinn Jan | a Yuen, who was inadmissible, Kerr was refeased'on $5,000 bonds pending a grand jury investigation | of his case, He was arrested Thurs. | | day on charges of bribery and mal-| POF feasance in office, preferred by cual sul_Geners |Didn’t Know the LAND, know the pick May 31,—"I didn’t gun was loaded 1 it up and pointed it at George. Norton. into the wayew, MMe will try to tel] The Camp Lewig Wirelows Co, has died in the city hospital after he had| Gun Was Loaded| as an ex-convict and nothing I lair do or say now would make }them change that impression. “Had I been alone on that hunt- ling trip I might just as well have | | started today for Walla Walla, but ortunately I had three men with jie, and wo will easily, be able to prove our honesty and good inten- | tions, “So I will say nothing now, but 1 am confident that at the trial— Jif there is a trial—it can easily | ve proved that I was entirely in- | nocent.” S ADMITS HE RVED TWO TERMS confronted by statements of officials that they had identified | — him as having been twice convicted (Turn to Page 3, Column 5) | The trigger snapped and he screamed, That's all.” | Nine-yearold Robert Cassiby, his | eyes filled with tears, sobbed out this | story to police |father, George Kimball Cassiby, auto: mobile supply dealer, and told them |how he shot and killed his brother, | George, Jr, 11 years old, while the| I just/two were playing in their room yes: | 'terday, | made a tent, bed and sail to order |for the trip’ and gave Pentz an pak stove. Hardware fittings, life with | Preververs and oliskins were given/shine |by the Pacific Marine Supply Co, agents for the | Johnson brand |skins. ‘The boat is starting from tho} jcounty dock thru the courtesy of |the Wilburn Iuel Co, Pent ia storing hi ithe houseboat home of Marshall & |Sons, auto painters, next to the dock, Marshall, in addition, is doing somo painting on the boat, 2. W, Hall & Co, Corona portable + lessees, and} equipment at typewriter agents in Seattle, Satur. day supplied « Corona for Pentz to use on the trip machine x compact und ef and Penta be detectives and his | oll: start the now}! novel that you found in “The Mystery.” Don't fail to follow the trail of adventure and peril —first in Seattle and then again on the “Island of || || Womeh.” A telephone call to The || Star circulation depart- ment will place the paper on your doorstep every || evening. Then you'll be sure to get every chapter. MA in-0600. jthe youth, showing the remarkable |plans they had. laid, | “We rented an automobile and went to the Harvard school just as the boys were coming out. We jealled Robert and invited him to lees a ride. That part was easy. “When we got him in the car we hit him over the head with a chisel we had prepared. Tt was wrapped in tape so that it wouldn't make a sharp cut in the boy’s skull. “Our noxt move was to choke our victim. We stuffed rags in his mouth and then gave him some ether which | stole from the chemistry labora- |tory at college. “We drove out south to the city (Turn to Page 2, Column 6) Fans Crowd BY JAMES T,. KOLBERT (United Press Staft Correspondent) MICHIGAN, CITY, Ind, May 31.— |Banks of cotton like clouds and |damp breezes, carrying a threat of \yain, swept over the sky-blue arena here today as the timo for the 10. round no-decision bout betweén Georges Carpentier and ‘Tommy Gibbons drew near. Weak sun- plerced the. clouds, the fight plan to ‘arpenti¢r-Gibbons fight at 3 o'clock, Central standard time, if rain appears imminent.’ Other. wise, the regular program will. be followed. This alls for the Vertised program of four four-vound Promoters of advertised program thus bons into the arena between 4 and 4:30 p.m, Central standard time. to start at 3, Car pontle showed a flash of tem. Hilovew it Mout suited for iis worl, 4 HM por when Gibbons failed to appear for the official physical examine | unad: | bouts to start at 2 and the regular} bringing Carpentier and Gib.) ing Into Arena for Big Fight Carpentier and Gibbons Awaiting Gong in Indiana Ring Contest tion. Carpentier was examined and pronounced perfect. He refused to be weighed in without Gibbons, and when Gibbons failed to appear he stalked out. Francols Descamps, Carpentier's manager exploded with wrath and showered the promoters with a volley of French and then he, too, left. The physicians waited until 10:45, an hour and 45 minutes after the time appointed ‘for the examination, and then loft without having heard (Turn to Page 2, Column 1) pe TWO GLADIATORS ARE BOTH 30 YEARS OLD ICHIGAN CITY, Ind, May 81. ~—Hore's how Tommy Gib. bons and Georges Carpentier stack up physically in thelr battle this aftemoon: Gibbons: Ale eis 40 Height ..6ft. % In. Weight 178 | Carpentier 80 5 ft. 11% tins. 15 naa ART.