The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 10, 1924, Page 1

% 4 > ‘Maj |. Hoople, of Boarding House Fame, Attends the Conventi IE Cloudy and un Wednesday wor ster Howdy, folks! Bandits held up two messengers of Frederick & Nelson's on Second ave, yester day. Yep, they escaped in a high- powered car. Some time a pair of bandits are in a low-powered re will be a na Once child had hia kiddie car stolen, and} a time a reporter’ upon the reporter just na ly reported that the bandi ea d in a high powered car.” The repubti convention opens today at Cleve! but the big news gathering agen s have made a grievous mistake. They have failed to get either Babe Ruth or Jack Dempsey to cover the proceedings. Most of the delegates are pledged to Keep Cool With Coolidge, but We'll wager a lot of them will Keep Cool With Gin Fizzes rere OUR OWN OLYMPIC GAMES aes ‘This being Safety week, we have laid off wood alcohol until next week. eae Life (a filled with grief and sorrow, Life ig filled with yobs of sboe; Tho ‘tls werm today, tomorrow » It may be 13 below = Ae An honest heart and a bottle of hooch are oft concealed beneath a| , Fagged vest. Scie ve CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB (Thenx to R. L. K.) The goof’ in the 1909 flivver who passes you on a hill and then looks back and laughs. ee Chlorine gas is being used to cure colds. Ordinary gas will cure colds, too. Especially if you stuff up the| cracks in the door. “.* “What {s so rare as a day in June?” exclaims the poet. How about a new joke? o oie OR AS BROWNING SAID. FU N SHOULD ALL BE AS HARRY AS KING! “The lark’s on the wing, the snail’s on the thorn, God's In his heaven, all's right Altho Robert Louis Stevenson, famous poet and lover of the out-of-doors, was a stranger to the Puget Sound country, he could not have better deseribed it had he been a life-long resident —Afternoon paper. Li'l Gee Gee went Into a store yesterday and asked to see some pet- ticoats, The floorwalker directed her to the curio department. eee Silas Grump, the sage of Pumpkin Hollow, says: “I didn’t realize I wuz gittin’ old until I found myself think- in’ th’ younger generation wuz goin’ | to th’ dogs.” see Sign on the Back of a Ford: 4 Chicken, Here’s Your | oe Wonder what a hornet thinks when St tries to sting a buzz saw? he Ee Some old women are so anxious to be in fashion that they are even having their wigs bobbed. see SPORTING AMBITION Some long to be a mighty swatter Jike “Brick” Eldred; some wish to be a hurler like Vean Gregg; some crave to be greased lightning on the bases like Billy Lane, But as for dog concession! . give'us the hot The Star is offering a prize to the person who can apin the tallest yarn. Well, here's O. W. M., of Sedro- Woolley, who says he once saw a Ford wheel that didn't shimmy, one The maiden waa fair and petite, Had the voice of a dove, soft and autte ; But in a cafe His love died awe When’ he saw how the critter could ite, Cau Gasoline 4s selling at 16 cents n gallon in North Dakota, Drop round that way on your drive home and get a gallon, A. J. 8 WEATHER | Coop! }| settled tonight an moderate south rly winds FORECAST IN CANOE ACCIDENT Student and Girl Drown in Canal) When Boat Tips Over at Night Norn university student who was to have graduated in a few days, and Miss Wilma Talmadge, a girl friend] | who came to Seattle | September | from Spokan were drowned in the Lake Washington canal shortly be fore midnight Monday The body of” Mina Talmadge was found at 945 a. m. Tuesday by Na than Huey, caretaker in the bulld ings and § ds department of the ‘university, about 40 yards from the | canoe house at the upper end of the anal. It was taken to morgue. Harbor Patro} boat No. 1 started }to drag the canal for the student's | body. Workers broke two drags and | | the work halted for repairs. | CAPSIZED BOAT | TELLS OF TRAGEDY The first inkling of the tragedy came when an empty canoe, capsized, was found floating at the foot of the university campus Tuesday morning. Stricklan caught under a thwart, clew to the victims. The boy rented the cance from the university canoe house at 8:00 o'clock’ Monday evening. They paddled about the lake for some hours and = fast seen alive about 11:20, An hour later the overturned er) was found at a point 30 yards east | |of the north side wall of the canal, near the foot of the campus. brother of the student, R. A. Strick-| land, was notified, and the search be- | gan. | GIRL'S MOTHER 1S | | | double 1'n coat and vest gave the ROSLYN, B. C. Miss Taimadge’s mother liven In Roslyn, B. C. The girl, who was employed by the Carter Rich Whole- sale Paper company, at 1518 First ave. 8. was living with a Mrs, Lee, at the Darrell hotel, at Eighth }and Cherry. She was 21 Strickland lived with his folks at| 127 39th ave. N. He was a student | Jat the pre-medic school and a mem |ber of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fra-| ternity. He was 22 years old. | Pr Efforts to locate Miss Talmadge's sister, Mrs. Paul Warren, recently | |married here, failed, and {t ts be lieved that she is now living in Ketchikan, Alaska. Mrs. Warren, | formerly Miss Zora Talmadge, also| jcame here from Spokane, where she | was a stenographer for the North- | west Farm Trio, a newspaper cor- | poration. BRANCH PHONE FEE UPHELD Attorney General Declares | Dial Tariff Valid Twenty-five cents per month rental charge on dials on private branch exchange telephones has | been held valid, in an opinion by Attorney General John H. Dunbar. | Corporation Counsel T. J. L. Ken- nedy received a copy of Dunbar's jopinion Tuesday. The validity of the 25 cents monthly rental was attacked follow- ing the installation of dial phones) in the MAin and EL fot exchanges gome months ago, Building Super- intendent Robert Proctor protested) the rental, alleging that tariffs had) not been filed with the state depart- ment of public works, and that the charge was Mlegal. | Dunbar’s opinion reports that tar-| iffs were filed March 6, 1921, and had never been rescinded. Dunbar} points out that the only way the| tariffs can be eliminated is by com-| plaint that it is excessive. Corpora-| tion Counsel Kennedy said that un- | less directed by the city council by ordinance he will not take any action, as he is without authority, | The rental charge approximates about $10,000 per year on private branch exchange telephones, Resident of City for 45 Years Dies Mra. J. Shafford, ploneer Seattle resident, died at the Providence hos- pital Monday night at the age of 63 years, Mrs, Shafford 1s wur- vived by her husband, six daugh- tera and two sons, Sho has been a resident of Seattle for 45 years, The funeral will be held Thurs- day morning at’11 from Bonney- Watson's. ‘The Shafford's lived at 1314 1, Columbia st, s The Botered as Second Class " May eur, Mere Gore qweiR i7\ FINGERS, CROSSED / 1 WONTER IF The COMMITEE ON AGRANGMENTS WAS WIRED A A.CREMIST 4, 1899, at the Postoffics at SEATTLE, WASH., TU ewspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington The Seattle Star Wash, SDAY, JUNE under the Act of Cone 10, 1924 i IANA DELEGATE iwrRooUCING RESOLUTION DECLARING | LIne ORPKANT ANKIE” CAMPAIGN POEM se March 8, 0 OL REPUBLICAN DELEGATES FROM CEORGIA DEPUTIES MAY FACE CHARGE | Inquest Over Spokane Man to Be Held Here On the result of an Inquest be] held Wednesday morning over | body of Frank Martin, of Spokane, | will depend filing of laughter charges against Deputy Sheriffs Lee Sowers and Et Fitzgerald, Deputy | rosecutor D. Colvin said 1 Martin morning in a Ca was shot early Monday lac car which raced with the deputies’ car on E. Marginal way. He was not driving the machine, With him in’the car| were William McCauley and Lealie They are held tn the} but probably will be ro- Larrimore county Jail, leased, Colvin said, fartin, a restaurant proprietor of Spokane, had been hére about a week. He was seeking a location| for a waffle house, according to po- lice Information. Leonard Funk, works commts- sioner of Spokane and father-in- law of the dead man, is in Seat- tle conferring with the sheriff's of- fice concerning tho affair. Tho federal, prohibition office claims to have a record of McCauley as a former rum runner of Oka- hogan county. American Airmen Are at Haip Hong HONGKONG, June 10.—America’s round-the-world airmen took off from Hongkong and flew to Haiphong, in French Indo-China, today. The distance is approximately 500 miles. Safety (? Week Deaths and Injuries Pile Up Bandits Work Safely, Tho Accidents Show Increase . THE remaining four days of are as strenuous ae fis the first three, the Seattie police force and county coroner will se rlously consider asking for rein forcements, To date here e the outstand. Ing results of “Safety week'’ SUNDAY: Nine people. seriously hurt and over 100 machines in volved in auto wrecks. One girl killed in an auto crash at Snoqual- mie. Two persons drowned, one a sul- cide, the other an aceident. Four minor holdups, MONDAY: Policeman and fight thrilling gun battle, Deputy sheriffs shoot bandita and kill 1819, Per Year, by Matl, $3.60 A 5 SENSITIVE J ay 4 | ; OELecATe 2 A") FAINTING AT > STG DAT EION OF ADJOURNMENT AWO Co a or Hoople Attends G.O. P.Convention BET HE USES Mal MATCHES ! IMPOR TAT Looking Ae BY MAJOR HOOPLE ILEVELAND, June 10.—By Jove, the National G. O. P. convention comes at an oppor- tune time, The good wife has the house all torn up with hovse cleaning, and I do dread ‘\ mussy house, my word yes, with screens to put in place and all the other tommyrot—egad, it fair drives me mad! Before taking up my reserved space in the magnificent audi- torium, I lit’up a ‘perfecto and took a stroll about town. The hotel lobbies are as crowded as the bazaars of Persia, or better yet, I should say, tho Rue do Vino of Paris. 1 visited all the hotels before I finally found a seat at tho Hollenden. My + word, I was no more than com- fortably fixed when the bell captain informed mo that I was occupying double apace on Bah! the belihop’s bench. Frank C, Martin in auto chase. Frederick & Nelson store messen- gera robbed on Second ave, of $63,- 000. Union Oil Co, cashier held up on Western ave, three hours after first holdup, but bandits escapo att- er shooting at policeman James Hogan, 74, killed by rail: road train at O'Brien. Unusual number of dents, Over 860 head in stockyard fire. TUESDAY: Norman QR. Strick. land, 22, and Wilma Talmadge, 21, drowned in canoe accident on Lake Washington. Two men attacked and beaten by bandits, traffic neel of Iivestock dead Meeting no ono in the lobby who offered tq share the con- tents of a cheerlng flask, up in thelr room, I strolled leisurely out on Superior avenue and made my~way to the public square, Great Caesar! Every bench ‘a8 filled to capacity. Surely, there is work for these men to do. Water holds no great charm for me, but I whiled away a few moments reflecting on tho Public Square fountain. It is a pity there are only goldfish in it. On my next trip to the South Seas, I will collect some rare species of tropical fish and donate them to the city. While meditating, I was accosted by an uncouth stranger for the loan of a 10-cent plece, which nigh enraged me. He inter- rupted my talk on the virtue of thrift with harsh words and a command to visit a certain climate that has unbearable heat. Ahem. Taking up my walk, I direct- ed my steps toward the High Level bridge. While the bridge {s a marvelous piece of engincer- ing work, nevertheless the sight mado me feel most uncomfort- able, Any gigantic structure such as the bridge always makes me shudder when T think of the amount of labor involved to construct it. © shoes, which I had bor- rowed from Buster, without his knowledge, were starting to give me torment, and I was forced to stand on the curbing and hail the passing motor vehicles for a ride back to town. After an hour, a kindly soul driving a very popular and numerous au- tomobile, heeded my signal and offered to assist me back to the Square. Whilo crossing the Square we were detained by the traffic officer, and when the sema- pt bornly tooted (Lurn to Page 7, Column 4) re was turned for us to y the automobile very stub- refused to advance, Horns from impatient vehicles 'ANTI-RUM SHIPS |ington representative, J. J. | ORDERED New Fleet for Coast Guard | Is Coming Soon Bids for 26 coast guard boats to be used as rum chasers on the Atlantic and Pacific consts will be opened June 12, according ¢o a telegram re. ceived by the 8 mmerco Tuesday from its Wash Under. wood. Reports that the bids would not be opened until June 19 are un- founded, Underwood stated will The government also open | bids for 70 36-foot coast guanl boats | const, | | | | | on June 25th. Fifteen or 20-0f these boats will be built on the Pacific according to Underwood. “Addition of an adequate number of rum-chasing boats will pretty well solve the water rum-running prob- lem,” Prohibition Director Roy Lyle declared Tuesday. AYS INLAND EMPIRE ETS SEATTLE BOOZE The difficulty of coping with the smuggling of liquor by water ag com- pared with land routes has been {l- lustrated during the past few weeks when, owing to a close blockade | maintained by federal prohibition and customs authorities along the Ca- nadian border in Eastern Washing- ton, the booze supply of the Inland Empire has been practically shut off. This has led to shipments of liquor from Seattle to the arid area. “We haye known for some time that this movement of liquor has been going on, but we cannot as yet say definitely who has been’ doing it,” Lyle sald, He intimated that tho new liquor routes East were being closely watched, and that the authorities hoped to cope successfully with this new angle. ‘The destroyers and launches that are to be built to cope with the water Nquor traffic will not carry much’ armament, as nothing except small arms resistance from the rum run- nera is expected. All of the boats, however, will carry at least one small cannon and a machine gun, it is stated, Good News: Alaska Goes Ahead, Production Grows. Copper Is Leading. LASKA has exported approxt- mately a million dollars more in products so far this year than dur- ing the correspondiig periods last your, according to a statement ro- ceived in Seattle Tuesday from John C, MeBride, collector of cus- toms at Juneau. The total for the first five months of 1924 was $8,862,847, as compared with $7, 485 last year, Copper was the chief item of value for May, it# shipments for the month totaling $918,780, attie Chamber of} |EDITION| TW .0.P. CONVENTION SPLITS! OME ON ui O CENTS IN SE ATTLE. | _ Ir {As Cartoonist Storm Sees Republican Comet COOLIDGE DENOUNCED BY THE PROGRESSIVES. TRYING TO OUST LAFOLLETTE Definite Break in Party | Forecast in “Keynote” | NW’ BOB" HIT| “FIGHTIN |Convention Applauds Attack | | Liberals LEVELAND, Ohio, June 10.— The republican national con- | vention, called to nominate Cal- vin Coolidge for the presidency and lay down the policies with which the G. 0. P. will seek re- tention of power this fall, opened rman John T. 1 ce nmittee their guests who ¢ itness the event. The keynote speech of Repre- sentative Theodore Burton, who was elected temporary chairman, and the forecast a definite break between progressives, head- ed by Senator Robert M. La Fol- Jette, and “‘regular’’ republicans were the high lights of the ope: ing session. 3urtons' speech was Iberally pune- tuated with applause from the dele |gates and galleries, but the greatest joutburst of all—the loudest and most | prolonged demonstration of the open- jing convention—cheers and battle cries, culminating with a riotous roar from the Wisconsin delegation, oc- when Burton said: et us not forget the importance of a republican majority in the next |congress, made up of members tried and frue, who will stand united."* Cries of “La Follette! Throw him out!" cracked out from the galleries, Scarcely had this demonstration led down when another broke out Burton declared most people look 9 Coolidge rather than to congress for le y have lost their nerve —Calvin Coolidge has not lost his," he shouted, and the convention roared |its approval. Prolonged applause followed | conclusion of Burton's address. the He had talked forcefully and clearly for |more than an hour and a half. A arty loyalty pledge,” which would read La Follette and his followers out of the G O. P., has been prepared by Coolidge supporters. The pro- gressives’ plank in the platform denouncts the Coolidge adminis- tration. These two moves, the wise ones declare, point to a progressive exodus from G. 0. P. ranks and the launching of La Follette’s independent can- didacy, When Burton took the. platform, he received a warm welcome. His speech, delivered in a clear, strong voice, extraordinary for a man of his years, was listened to atten: tively. For the most part he adherred to the text he had prepared in ad- vance. During his discussion, how- ever, of the farm relief proposals that have been laid before congress, he digressed from his. manuscript (Lurn to Page 7, Column 1) ug to} | Ansdeeaiachadl Is | Called Tyranny in Plank Before Convention AND, June 10—The rée- lican progressives’ plank for th O. P, platform was made public today. As it includes a denunciation of the Coolidge administration, it will | be rejected by the resolutions com- | mittee of the convention here, and, serving as it does as a statement principles for Senator La Follette and his followers, it will mark the definite break in the republican ranks, and will be followed by the | launching of La Follette’s independ- jent candidacy here July 4. g the big issue as “the con- rol of government and industry by monopoly,” the statement said “the American people will no longer om the monopoly power they | It condemned the practice of fed- eral courts of nullifying laws enact- ess as a violation of the | ed by | constitution. It declared a grave agricultural emergency exists and says present policies spell ruin for agriculture and unlimited prosperity for great corporations. It pledges cleanup of government oll reserves. It pledges revision of thé Esch- ations on actual investment, denounces the Mellon tax plan. and abolition of the system of ad- of injunction. Great Lakes-to-the-sea water route, revision of the Treaty of Versailles “in accordance with the terms of the armistice.” Worker Injured; Amputation of Limb Necessary Injuries received Monday afternoon arm ht in a belt and pulley at | the West Coast Monument Co., made _ clans Tuesday declared he was in a serious condition. Mackie lives at 3849 22nd ave. S. w. later was removed to the Providence hospital. Cancer Serum Is Held Unreliable CHICAGO, June 10.—The ‘‘cancer serum" discovered by Dr, J. T. a “cure,” was denounced as “un- reliable and deceiving,” here today, by Dr. James Ewing of Cornell uni- versity medical college of New York, international authority on the treat. ment of cancer. What Wou Editor's Note: was about to take was the only w loved ones, his admirers, his discip! Did MacFarlane prove himself a Did he discard his faith in God? Will his memory linger as that but did not know it? What is the honorable way out i The Star invites you to answer . SAN FRANCISCO, June 10.—Un- able to face longer the prospect of gradually weakening powers, due to ill health, Peter Clarke MacFarlane, writer and lecturer, killed himself here last night, He walked to the door of the San Francisco morgue, hung his cane noncholantly over his arm, took a pistol from his pocket and shot him. self thru the temple, dying within} a fow minutes, “I tried to delude myself with the idea that the old power was. still) holding out,” he wrote in one of woveral notos he left, “but it wasn't, Peter Clarke MacFarlane Kills Self He Thought It Was Fair to His Family Did He Discard His Faith in God? Peter Clarke MacFarlane, widely known preacher and author, is dead by his own hand. Victim of a disease that tore down his physical and mental being, MacKarlane, before he took the fatal plunge into eternity, left a note saying he believed the step he Id You Do? ay out—the fair thing to do for his les. weakling? of a man who preached the truth in a case like MacFarlane's? What do you think you would have done? these questions after you have read MacFarlane's story. Condense your letters to 200 words, “It has been slipping for a year, Nothing remains but to dynamite the ruins.” The notes were written Sunday at MacFarlane's home at Carmel, For 10 years he had been in ill health, [LONG STRUGGLE |AGAINST. DISE: Ma arlane dressed to Dr, physician, He main letter was ad- Rufus. Rigdon, reviewed treatments had worked “wonderful. jly, as far as my body is concerned, — (furn to Page 7, Column 2) | departments and return of the naval J judicating labor disputes by means _ It declares for the © for direct presidential elections and | by Henry Mackie, 44, when his left 7 amputation of his arm necessary e Monday evening. Attending physi- | He was taken to the city hospi- — tal immediately after the injury and © Glover, New York, and heralded as nis — his long struggle against disease, saying that” Gunite ee te place railroad yalu= | It fromises rigid tax economy and | It favors drastic tariff reduction — erm tLe