The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 9, 1924, Page 1

Lx de WEATHER 2 Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 73 Staion v4 Today no NO. Entered as Second < ane Matter 2, 1899, at the Postotfice at Seatti« VOL sH., 26. 91 SEATTLE, W MONI Be W: as shington under the Act of Congress March §, JAY, JUNE 1924 181%, Per Year, by Mall, $3.60 The Seattle Star MAb CENTS IN SE SATTLE. 2 Deputies Slay Man in Speeding Car Here GUNMEN “Mystery Girl” Puzzle Solved “Safety Week” Victim Victim Reckless Driver Crashes Into Motorcycle, Then Speeds Callously On ARREST 3 AFTER KILLING County Officers) Fire Fusillade as Auto Speeds Along Highway PRANK ©. MARTIN, Spokane restaurant manager and member of the Spokane Elks’ lodge, was shot Jed at 2:30 a. m. Monday when Deputy Sheriffs Ed P. Fitzgerald and Leo Sowers fired a volley of bullets into a fleeing automobile on E. Mar ginal way. As a result, three men, sald to have been compan jons of Martin, are held in the city jall. They are William Lart more, 29 salesman; Wesley Me- Cauley, 23, mechanie, and Dan A. Nolan, 30, salesman. The circumstances of the shooting fre not clear. Coroner W. H. Cor won and Sheriff Matt Starwich are investigating the case, In all prob ability an inquest will be held Into | ayy os death was many hours old, Miss| According to the story told by and Mrs. John,| Fitzgerald and Sowers, they chased Cadillac car driven by Larimore Howdy, folks! ‘This is Safety week. Gosh, we can hardly walt until next week to have an acci dent! Pumpkin fellers Silas Hollow, says We kin remember when wuz delighted with a dish stew after th show That ger = in the near distance & story isherman with that got away GAMES | | biscus THROW — +. ¢%¢ We often wonder if esthetic danc-| Ing would still be as popular if tie! nseuse mackintosh and arctica. wore a More than 200 Seattle citizens vis. fted the Skagit project over the week-end just to see if the Skagit! dam wag a9 powerful as those used | ee on the municipal golf course } eee } | A FACE MASSAGE POR US, PLEASE . ' The class orator. Ferguson Martin, = i | soared into the heights and unfathomed on Before Seattle's “Safety Week” Olive Josephine Johnson, daughter of Mr. Congress adjourned Saturday for| #0", $15 20th ave. N., was lying in Snoqualmie hospital,| the summer. That profound silence} victim of a hit-and- run speeder. She died Monday morning,! Cauley and Martin, at terrific speed r hear Is the people cheering. while the sheriff's office ks to find the driver who ran|en Marginal way deputies pied |down the motorcycle on which she was riding with a boy! ° envied thelr pistols at the car ce when Larimore refused to | friend. sing Only one bullet hit the ma-| chine, the missile striking Martin in the head, killing him 166 ”9 GOING TO BEACHES | ON LIQUOR SEARCH a et ee We had Just had breakfast at? aN a. m.,” Fitzgerald said. —Rasselville (Ark.) Courier-Democrat. and pled himself and Mo Interesting Facts: When a con- gressman draws into his shell it is almost impossible to tel him from a peanut. * + During other sessions congressmen of both parties used to point with | pride. For the past five months they haven't been able to do any thing but view with alarm. see POLITICAL NOTE. The reason the capitol build- ing was erected was to house the members of congress and to keep the: squirrels from getting at them, | out tp oar "nthe pees ~ Near First | | ti: this car ant bi ines men sitting in| S Ya Ic es | the front seat. Martin sat in the mid. | | ss | dle and McCauley on the right, with | —_———_—___—_. L imore driving. Three Are Dead, Several Maimed, as ,.,.\%3, (274,01, !,lo0kea| City Starts Prevention Campaign 4 went south on Marginal way. bo ge ‘Safety Week” opened Sunday. we passed big be | Later they passed us at high speed What has become of the old-fash- | and we chased them. As we drew up foned poet who, used. to sing about | | his lady fair and the glorious little * 4 P tendrils at the nape of her neck? Result: One girl dead in an auto wreck; one man, in| iene ya speeding car killed by a deputy sheriff's bullet; at least! star to show them we were offi alongside, T pinned my star on my larm. Eastern professors are now tryin auto crashes; 0} n| cers, and yelled at them to stop. é gies sath ee dua ry baie six persons injured in Sunday crash: ne mal tiosay Idessanea iteix speed aie ns | drowned in a canoe accident. t troub t— they were running away from pest pels dance Ali of these tragedies could have been prevented by just “T turned my flashlight on the YE DIARY (Jane 8) (Lord's day.) Lay long abed, reading & book by Donn Byrne, and up anon and fo eating » breakfast of creamed sweet-_ noble dish und patistying. driving to Port Blakeley, the roads very bad, and to calling on J, Preston, and he did show me his 1 terriers, expecially Faithorne Pi Chartie. the entest puppy ever I saw, and related to many of Capt. Tennant’s dogs, so that he doth come of royal stock. Thence home, to supper, and to bed. eee x Dynamite is being used to extermi- nate yellow Jackets in Alaska. It is now up to Seattle to kill carwiga| with a French 1 see A girl I like is Posie Bough never says “Ws a wow see fay with a fellow when a cent | Recklessness Continues Una Unabated and Toll of A dog will he hasn't got And who 40 will a collecto! | car | direction lreported. A crashed into turning it Both Craine and the huried into a ditch, k A passing auto driven Harris, 2220 11th ave. out over avold the girl were “Do you take this woman for your us rapidly, I fired my revolver la little care. Insane desire for speed was the cause of most (Turn to Page 4, Column 6) destruction than any one thing. If only the maniacs were trips to Puget Sound’s wonderlands, now spend Sunday at HAT’S what you read- send photographs by telephone. But | q baby carriage. Gasoline ‘6 now selling for 16 cents} What's your hurry? P You want your facts un- * * Paar ee point. And you want them news hot-off-the-griddle, || sidecar in which she was riding] hospital, Miss Johnson received | the batter, and who have : 4 i d died in| W. Corson were estiating the . N., was fatally injured an ¥ ty, but had ne yl! ering agencies—the United | l rank Crain, 112 Fairview N.| Miss Johnson was a graduate of you may depend upon machine behind hin intending to climb Mt. Rainter ventions in story and pic- king both road and crashed headon into lasful wife?” in the air, Sowers also emptied f them his gun and'I reloaded it for him. o em. - z , “Then we started shooting at thelr The mad mania for rushing thru Sunday at 40 miles an hour: is responsible for more heartbreaks, more death and ——— killed or injured few would care. The sad thing is that, in| E acts! many cases, innocent people suffer. ; F t ! Thousand of people, who otherwise would take Sunday ac $! jhome, wisely unwilling to mingle on the highways with | FAC I Ss! | speed-mad morons and half-witted drivers, whose mental | They have now discovered how to| equipment isn’t sufficient to give them a rating as pilot on u ers are after in con- oar aie Bin estate! phon Whether you drive a car or walk: Take it easy. You'll get|| nection with the national ie at es |there just as soon and, what's better, you'll get there intact. || political conventions, 4 | a gallon in North Dakot varnished and uncolored. |, But {t's such a deuced long way | You want them written |} to drive for gas! Auto, Bullet and Canoe Kill from an unprejudiced view- || non the Back of a Ford: | fa DIZZIE LIZZIE | wo Men and a Girl Sunday The Star is peculiarly || —- oe well able to give you the . turned out by literary |) Dead and Injured Mounts chefs who will use no po- HROWN ‘from the motoreyele| W., was used to bring them to the litical coloring matter in || near North Hend, Sunday noon, Miss| fractured skull, and an oneration| | NO party ax to grind. Olive Josephine Johnson, 19, daugh-| failed to save her life | With the aid of The]| \ter of Josoph Johnson, 815 20th ave,| Sheriff Matt Starwich and Coronc r| 8 national news-gath- the Snoqualmie hospital at 4:40 a.m.|accident Monday, but had not. ob gout londaye tained the name of the driver Press, N. lf. A. Service, the Miss Johnson was riding with|struck Craine’s motorcycia || Seripps- Howard News- Craine driving the motorcycle, saw a) Broadway high school and wag. em: | paper Alliance, and others | approaching from the opposite | ployed by Frederick & Nelson. With || = : M ‘and turned out for it, helher fiance, Craine, *#he started|]| The Star to furnish you, || Hs Sebi: Buel Ko teen spat setae lids first as usual, with the Craine wung to the left to stor of both the big con- | hitting a machine arked in ture, WATCH THE STAR! -_ Did thie happen to you Sun dsy, too? another one coming in the (Lurn to Page 4, Colu unconscious ‘by Charles opposite 5) Ad B B. last At Least, Partly- Well, the mystery of the “I turns out to be a friend of managers of the see for herself just how many things Seattle We Don’t Know Her covered What She’s Going to Do for Mystery Girl” is from day to day in The Star. “BOMB” TO OPEN G.0,P, SESSION |La Follette Will Demand Re- pudiation of Two Men BY ROBERT J. BENDER (United Preas Staff Correspondent) CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 9.—Sen ator Robert M, La Follette has chal: langed the republican natfonal con lvention to condemn and |former Attorney Gene Daugherty and former 8 the Interior Albert B. Fall, Furthermore, he ¢ ypon the convention for a ballot approving! those republicans who voted for the recent tax reduction bill, asks a re repudiate Harry M |publican pledge not to support the and demands republicans in. rying on zecent vernmental irreg: Mellon applause for strumental in probes of alleged g ularities. tax. program CONGRESS SESSION Decision to toss this bomb into the calm and quiet of the convention proceedings was reached by the Wi sin delegation at a meeting held night, Wollowing the Gov, John J, Blaine, from Wisconsin, dol announced that the state's representative on the resolu tions committe would be Instructed to introduce and urge passage by the convention of these resolutions: That congres summoned traordi lon in July urn to Page 4, Column ho ye meeting | © at large | —Photo by eee THE “Exposition Girl” was in troduced to the public Monday when W. R Kenworth Mo- tor Truck Co., general chairman of the Pacific Northwest Merchants’ exposition, explained the mystery of | the young whose connection with exposition affairs been |kept a secret for | The mission of |Frame explained, position to tell Seattle people about |the wide variety of products that Jare being made in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. She will tell the |story of the making of home prod: ucts from actual experience. | “The object of the e |which is to be held in the Bell st, (erminat August 18 to 23," Framo |xaid, “is to build up Seattle ag an jindustrial and buying cen and to strengthen local |providing a place where they may meet not only with merchants thru (Fury, kad age 4, Column 1) SIGNWAGE SCALE PORTLAND, and publishers were to- Frame, lady is to help Ore, June 9. land pringe lday in agreement on a five-year soversl weeks whieh strike | wage contract, after of negotiations, in Was threatened, a The contract provides for a wage basis of $& for day work . nd » 45 hour week, the same whieh |prevailed before the ement |Publishers, however, u to a sliding rangement, printers receive inet cane cost living materlatly vances. soul d scale will of in ade partly solved, anyway. Merchants’ exposition and she’s going to manufactures. position, | whereby | I Name, but We Have Dis- a Few Weeks Here she is. Her adventures will be told pee Jacobs, Star Staff Photographer TO CHARGE FOUR WITH MURDER ee Barei, Shot by Gang, Dies at Renton ITH Louls Barei_ dead, charges of first degree murder were to be filed Monday against the two former policemen and two civilians who |made a hijacking raid on the Barel (Turn to Pago 1, Colunin 3) She} ESCAPE IN CAR Frederick-N elson Receipts Lost in Daring Robbery on Second Ave. UR armed _ bandits, working with the pre- lcision and skill of experts, held up and robbed two mes- sengers of the Frederick & Nelson Co. of bank deposits totaling nearly $20,000 short- ly before noon Monday, on the corner of Second ave. and Columbia st. The men escaped in an au- |tomobile which was standing within a few feet of the spot where the money was taken away from the men. Two men:took the money — bag from the messengers’ car while another stayed at the wheel of the automobile and another sat by his side with a gun ready for instant action. Noon crowds were passing up and down the street at the time the rob- bery occurred. Scores, attracted by) the boldness of the holdup men, stood” | dumbfounded as the bandits took the |money and then jumped into the waiting auto and sped away. The down Second ave. and stopped on | Columbia st., opposite the bank. Be- fore the men had time to get out of the auto they found themselves look- | ing into the guns of two bandits, | dits’ auto followed the messengers down Second ave. and that two men jumped out and covered the money carriers the minute the auto stopped. The police were notified a few |seconds after the robbery by sev- eral persons who witnessed the holdup, The bandits worked with such speed that none of the many spec- |tators was able to furnish police jwith accurate descriptions of the men. Police have a license number which is said to have been on the auto. y The police estimated the loss at between $20,000 and $26,000. Good Times: Prosperity Here List Huge Gains One 300 Per Cent EPORTS to the Manufacturers’ Association of Washington in- dicate not only a steady advance in the establishment of new industriés, but an unusual period of prosperity in existing factories, Woolen mills and allied industries report a 50 per cent gain over last year's sales. One concern reports more business in threo spring months this year than in tho whole of 1923. Other manufacturers report record business months, including the re: port of one factory that its 1924 business was 300 per cent greater than the same period in 1923, Ten Dollars industries by | W ating to Reward Biggest Liar HO can spin the tallest tale in Seattle? Who can draw tho| |longest bow in the Puget sound country? Port: | ar and the Metropoiitan| t out Monday to find the] Northwest's biggest romane For him (or her) there's $10. in h, For the next best there's a Ibox for six at the Metropolitan when | |Thomas Jefferson, noxt week, plays |Frank Bacon's old role in “Light }nin Wor the four next best there’ a palr of tickets apiece. | New York liked old “Lightnin' 31" Jone well that the play | established a record run of more than threo years, Manhattan's favorite Amusement was listening to the old In other words, who's our} fellow who “drove the herd of bees Across the plains '49" spin his stories, | He spun them so often, in the play, that he came to believe in them him. |sclf. You've met people like that. Star readers remember the stories | told of Paul Bunyan, the man who |dug Puget sound and built the Cas | cades with the help of Babe, the Big | Blue Ox. Well, stories like that are What we want—altho not necessarily about Paul and Babe. | What is YOUR prize yarn? Tell us jin 200 words or less. The contest loses Friday evening and to be eligt blo your letter must be in ‘The Star office by 8 p.m, that day. Don't forget to write your name and ad dress on your letter-—and dem't run. over the 200.word kimit messengens' auto had come | The police theory is that the ban-” a