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

P @ Edition Ee ae} TheS Entered os <> e seattle x 1924. VOL. 26. ‘NO. 95. Home Brew SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JUN Howdy, folks! n. Charles G. Dawes has been nominated for vice president. (Gosh, and he was such a nice fellow, too! y, but t all decline & time it looked as if the con es somebody labor. Perhaps that is why ar nominating him for the vice y y dent's job Inside Job Is Hinted in Greatest “Job” as Manhunt Is Staged The vice president's principal duty ts to preside over the senate, and no bedy likes the job of capping a gus EPITAPH HICAGO, June 13.—Hundreds | were warned Silly kid of heavily armed police, de The muzale of a revolver was held Car skid. teetives and sheriff's deputies at Waite's neck as the train aped on Glass lid. staged an old-fashioned man-hunt Two miles north of Rondou! at a today thruout Northern Illinois, in search of a band of between and 25 robbers who held up the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul special mail train 30 miles north of Chicago last night and escaped with 42 sacks of regic tered mail containing currency and securities valued at between ‘oss road, a red light flickered and Waite stopped the train BULLETS CRASH THRU WINDOWS The headlights of four automobiles lighted up the scene as men swarmed out of the gloom, Alarmed by the stopping of the train, members of the rew peered out, men running $1,000,000 and $2,500,000, toward them and slammed and ba ‘The robbery was consummated | ricaded the doors. They switehed out without the firing of a single shot in! the Man named Tom Allen was arrest ed yesterday for defuming the police department Why the favoritism? They didn’t pinch Bil! Severyns. . Lazy men are the fathers of prog Fred C. Kelly told the Execu Club of Ch Thursday ago. revolver x --—-- mm defense of the treasure by the 70| A crackle of rifle and CANDIDATE FOR THE Glia’ atari dak ctee 66: tax ’ ke out and bullets chugged POISON IVY CLUB lice could ascertain, One bandit | “salnet and thru the doors, and at SAYS: | (was shot down by a fellow bandit, | the sume time the bandits ordered “Come again.when you can't stay | | Jno mistook bis viet. for a mail | that the doors be thrown open. When | so long” and “Here's your hat guard. the guards and clerks failed to obe what's your hurry a shower of bullets crashed thru the suspected the bandits had some | doors and windows. The bandits con help from “the inside” and ques- | centrated on two cars carrying the tloned the clerks and guards who | bulk of mail and all the registered were taken to the federal build ing on arrival at St. Paul today Gas bombs, revolvers, shot gas bombs were hurled suns and rifles were used by the |‘ he shattered windows, Sputter bandits to intimidate the clerks | ine and coughing, clerks and and guards and drive them from | svards staggered to the ground. They s Postal inspectors sald they Lucien Perrot, well known French e: holar, cooks for his Blue Lantern javern in the morning and teaches was a momentary pause and French in the afternoon. This ts the kind of versatility w jove. Now if we can only get Henry Suzzallo.to take up longshoring and persuade Meany to go in for) their barricaded cars. | were quickly herded to one side and wethetic darting? | ‘The train, made up of 11 care, was| then one bandit shoved a gas mask eee roaring past Rondoul, Til, near mid.| at Louis Phillips, Milwaukeo, head of Rat probadiy Monsieur Perrot night, when two armed men crawled | the force of guards “Get in there cried and be quick!" the donning another over the tender and into the engine| cab. Werely teaches French so that his students can read the menus in his bandit c sk leaped into a car after Philips éstauront Stop when you see a red light or | ma: ay a ig cies see you are dead men,” 8. R. Waite, en-| “Hand out the ‘reds’! the bandit/ “My tace.is my fortune,” said Lii|sineer and E. J. Biddle, firemen,} (Turn to Page 6, Column 3) Gee Gee. “Bankrupt!” hissed the catty tele phéne operator. + Muscle Shoals in Alabam’ Without » Ford ain't worth a dam. eee Sign on the Back of a Ford: -| A Summer Estate | ¢ for Common Folks! (EDITORIAL) HERE will we go for that picnic Sunday? Hundreds of Seattle families are asking them- selves this question today. Where can we get some salt water bathing? Thousands of inland tourists, now in the Puget Sound country, are making this inquiry today. G. 0. P. HEAD =— . in The latest cure for diphtheria is called DimethyIp-dimethylamino- | methyl-acridinum chioride Mist have been named by some-| yody suffering from hay fever. th 6 Whatever troubles Adam had, He always had his joke; A fig leaf Eve demanded— He gave her poison oak. eos Has Cash Here 'Is Chosen at End of Tangl Session at Cleveland ‘The honeymoon {s over when the June bride first tries to open a can ature by an Eastern university. And, no doubt, as a Doctor of Literature he will practice most entirely as a heart special- face at practically every spot where nature has pro- || vided a beach. | Watchmen turn back the strangers and keep the the gas company, Dawes and his three than 1,000 feet over a city is that the aviator can always cinim that he was up 1,001 feet. . It’s a shame! j What this section needs is a summer estate for the common people. A playground on the salt water. A tivity here. The four |G., Rufus C,, brothers are: Cha Henry Ford has just turned out his | }selected former Gov bags. eel Shall we greet these tourists with “No Trespassing” || %F ‘tiinois, und. had been. forced yeh ed signs or shall we provide them with a place where |! pick another when Lowden reft |the nomination. they can frolic in the Sound and lie in the shade and ence more into the Willard, drink jeasily won the nomination. left in its primeval glory, within easy street car or bus travel from the city, where they could take “the folks” for a healthy and happy day. Seattle and Tacoma have had little from the state in the way of parks. And the need is great. Let’s have a summer estate for the common folks. nomination fight in. the | yesterday and perhaps still mor the private room conferences w! preceded the balloting. old-time republican leaders pol 40,000,000,000 niles in one part 6 orbit than in the opposite part a nemesis (Turn to Page 4, Column 5) wide ‘range of ‘choice cuss words. dig owners of the Beatile Lighting company. wonder whether he docan't pick up some of Ma choice phrases, that 40} amuse the country, from reading the letters of Seattle gas consumers, ROCKS GIRLS IN BOAT AND DAWES, SEATTLE AS OWNER, IS Vice Presidential Candidate NAMED WITH COOLIDGE| led If the republicans sweep Coolidge of beans with hubby's pet razor And where, indeed? and Dawes into ate Hee rae. © ‘ sions [vember clections, Seattle will have . NOTE High fences surround the mansions that dot the " LITERARY NOTE 3, i a particluar interest in the new Eddie Guest, the poet, has jst Sound coast line. : : : president of the senate, since Chas. been made » Doctor of Liter- “No Trespassing” signs stare the picnicker in the G. Dawes, nominee, is one of the owners of the Seattle Lighting Co brothers, j who sequired stock in the ullfity in | FIREBUG STARTS, ist. spacious beaches clear for those who have had the |/1904, own a controlling interest in If Eddie Guest a D. Litt., what wealth to buy homesites there. ea Sarperation, yas pe Sanat is Harold Bell Wright—a D. F.7 Waterfront property is practically gone. Only the |iti’tiy'in unity mattors, none of the . VIEW of Puget Sound is left for Mr. Avridge Citizen. | prothers ts actively interested in the The trouble with passing a lawi| And he gets THAT thru the tree tops from a road | seattle business, however, forbidding aviators from flying lesa!| 14 on the hill. Phe Beattie’ Lighting, Co: tn be ries Henry M., comptroller of currency, and B, G. Dawes, 10,000,000th flivver, according to the|| state park. s a a eguie newspapers. But it can't be correct. Washington now has 17 state parks—and none of ONVENTION “HALL, Cloveland, | There are more than that on the them is easily accessible for the citizens of Seattle June 13.—Republicans will seek | eottell, Hiway Aeaee PURER and Tacoma, the biggest cities in the state. The |/to elect Coolidge and Dawes in the A ; 5 | 1924 ca ign. “Didn't 1 hear the clock strike nearest is on Hoods canal, across the Solind. : 1 ayes nioeii nation; yestorday aft three when you came in this morn- Five hundred thousand tourists are coming this eriocn;: was as ‘sctoitidnal as he ing, Henry?” summer to Seattle and Tacoma. Most are from inland |} running mate's’ was’ calm’und fore. “Yes, dear. It started to strike in i J s 7 i jordained, and came only after the 11, but I stopped it, fearing your states -They-are) coming West, t0,,6ee,cur, mountains |nationaléconventian here, had once rest would be disturbed.” and get their feet in our salt water. Frank Lowden, d té used hee ok 1818 Ww bofding tis deconaiat Af hort ith Herbert 1 ling {ta decennin! Te: ter a short race wi @-..: far serous the country, and aid i| gaze at will across the water to the snow-clad || ,,Aver 4 snout mes with tether Dagan” Sake “again, “and pigeon | Olympics? jufter Lowden's dectination Dawes PFs as tke oe ee Isn't such a park worth the price, even if for no |joutdistanced the entire fold and ein Only at Shroemaker’s, eat oysters at Harvey’ greater reason than the good tidings that these folks Hei SVULGonA(A Ab oMAtiGH) | eueeTthe clo ap ertalevrg Fat N euaseny te will carry back home with them? lunder thé administration forces’ vies ‘ava tinod Consider the thousands of Seattle and Tacoma |/tories of Wedneaday and early BRE ih ; ; , j : \Thursday, interrupted moticns to Of all glad words we undertake, men, who, tied down by business, have not the time make the motion unanimous by ac. “We're nearing the end,” takes the to take their families to the mountains or to one of |) ciamation. woke the play spots across the Sound for a week-end outing. ROUGH HANDLING anne They would seize with gratitude upon such a tract, OV NOMINATION ‘1 | ‘There were many rough spots in the handling of the viee presidential) convention ein hich | Many of the inted to these as indicative of Chairman Let's have it this season. | William M, Butler's lack of ex- And now to square myself with Let’s have it on salt water. | Parisi in national political mats) ‘ve ball and chain! . avtat " Se; 1, | ter Thien, too, there was much} id Acs.s. | ie make it available for both Seattle and Tacoma NRRL GREE ee | people. ; i | should come into the pe tér Js neurer the sun by more Who has a suggestion for a location? (councils and attempt to establish a See Aah Ghe anat Hdictitorsiip over a domain long The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington leS tar x A48 Die in U. S. Navy Horror! Coolidge’s Mate Owns Seattle Gas : i “ } ve ; * 4 And there are some SEATTLE’S COOLIDGE AND DAWES EXCHANGE FELICITATIONS HERE 46 QONGRATULATIO: Mr. Coolidge.” “Same to you, Mr. Dawes." This the cheery greeting that passed around the King st station Friday as an aftermath of the republican nominations of Thursday A stranger at the station might think that Calvin Coolidge and Charlies Daw had sneaked tway to the West to celebrate their be: nominated as candi jates for president and vice president on the G. O. P. ticket But the old-timers at the sta tion Knew it wax just a little “kidding” directed at George Coolidge, commissary depart ment, and John Dawes, yardmas ter, hamesakes of the nominees, “Nothing doing on a picture," declared John Dawes. “There's nothing in names, Anywuy, this itentional; it is just a was was not coincidence. $18,000 FIRE Incendiary Blaze destroy $100,000, The owned property estimated balldings by tho housed water 20 to escape undetected after the attempting to find eluos ldentity of the firebuy. blo TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE {City Buildings Burned in! lieved to be their only financial ac: | |FOUR FAMILIES ROUTED| 20 Trucks Destroyed When set_afire a row of city light and water department buildings at Ninth ave. 8, and Lander st., which caused a loss of $18,000 and threatened to at trucks department, and the upstairs portions were oc- cupicd by employes of the city and erime A WEATHER Partly cloudy, t and & urday. Moderate westerly winds FORECAST SAILORS URN 10 | Blasts Melt Doors on Gun Turret; | Sailors Trapped in Flames AN PEDRO, Cal., June| S 13.— Riding calmly at anchor, the U. S. S. Missis- sippi rested in its accustom-| ed position in “battleship row” today, giving little evi-| dence of the tragedy within a turret which, a few hours be- fore, had snuffed out in an} instant the lives of 48 of- ficers and men. | Close by stood the hospital ship Relief, turned into a |morgue to receive the bodies | | comprising the toll of the navy’s greatest peace-time ——$—$——— Here te "Hell "4 Maria” Daves, whose visiting varda really read Charles | horror, or treat the burns of Gates and who has been selected ax running mate for President Coolidge.\the suffering men, many of Dawes is Knows primarily for Ma direct action mcthoda ond for his|whom prayed for death to f one of the ; Seattle knows him algo as one of ie lend their agony. A secret board of inquiry con: |yened this morning. Capt. Yates Sterling, commanding officer of the U. 8. 8. New Mexico, was in charge of the investigation, seeking to de- jtermine the cause of the explosion yesterday in the forward turret of the Mississippi while the dread. naught was in battle practice oft San Clemente islend, 60 miles at TWO BLASTS CLAIMED TOLL There were two blasts, each| [claiming its toll of life. The first | jwas the explosion of nearly two} tons of T. N. T. compound being | packed behind a shell in No. 4 gun, | as rivalry grew intense out in the | ocean target field, The second, four | hours later, when the dreadnaught had returned to the harbor, claimed four lives and threw San Pedio| into, a stir of wild excitement | More than a score of injured sail- | ard the hospital ship, Page 6, Column 4) | MT, VERNON WAR HERO KILLED Joseph Berg, Only Washing- ton Blast Victim Mount Vernon mourned Friday | when informed by The Star of the Jr., was one of the 48 victims of ex- plosions aboard the U. 8. S. abttle- ship Mississippi, while on target | where the boat was, and went aboard. news that its war hero, Joseph Berg, | Tragic Reckless Trick Detective’s Attempt to Scare Girls in Skiff Ends in His Point; Drinking Admitted i ITY DET STIVE JACK member of the police department, was drowned, and j two girls, his companions on escaped death in the waters of day morning. The girls, in statements Friday, admitted that members |of the party had been drinking, but denied that anyone declared that the accident occurred , to “give them a scare,” rocked the skiff |into which they had climbed after journeying around the | lake in the launch “Night Owl” for some hours. | D EAT H gw Eighth ave. Miss Williams i was intoxicated. because William They The girls are the Misses Blanche Schoenfeld and Vera Williams. They live at the officer. After } ing the “Night Owl” Wil-; lams decided to scare the girls, they uid, by rocking the boat. The boat had hardly tipped the first time be-| fore it went over. Both of the girls started to swim, but Williams never reappeared. Mins Schoenfeld managed to reach the shore with the ald of her life preserver. Her companion clung to the capsized skiff and screamed for aid The girl's cries were heard by David P. astman, living at Juanita Point. Eastman and his son, Fred, with Robert Boswick, jumped into a boat and went to the rescue of the girl. Police were notified at once and Williams’ body was found at 4 a. m. by his brother officers. Williams was an excellent swim. mer and It is supposed that his death was caused by heart failure, due to the shock of the icy water. The dead detective lived with his wife at 4541 35th Ave. 8. There are children. The bods worth’s mortuar arrangements. GIRLS TELL OF LAKE TRAGEDY Pallid and still shaken trom their harrowing experience, the girls told 4 Star reporter their story, { “Jack had called up and asked us to go on a little party on his motor. boat, the ‘Night Owl',"” recounted | Miss Schoenfeld. ‘He called for us! about §:30, He said he was to meet | some friends, and we waited in the! car downtown for them, but they| did not show up, so we drove to the, Bolcom Lumber company dock, ken to Butter- swalting funeral { \ “We went over near {Krkland, and all around, and about 1 o'clock we were near the shore near Juanita, I guess, and we got to talking about swimming. Vera said she could swim, and Williams said he would give us a swim, but I kept saying I couldnt’ swim a stroke. “Well, we thought we'd get into the little boat that was on the mo-| torboat, so we did, and I put on al life preserver, because I couldn't | swim, and we were near shore | e didn’t think the water was over our heads even, and Jack com- menced to rock the boat, and the} first thing we knew we were in the water. It was awful dark, and I started to paddle towards the shore, and if it badn't been for the life pre- server I wouldn't be here now. Miss Scheonfeld said that when she came up she started screaming, but seemed to be alone and started for the beach, where she was picked up in an exhausted condition later. “Jack Williams was a middle-aged man, and was just an acquaintance of ours,"’ she said. ‘We knew he/| was married, but we just went on a party and there were to be other people along." GIRLS ADMIT PARTY DRINKING “When we tipped over,” Miss Wil- jliams said, “I came up underneath the boat. 1 think I was stunned for practcle off Sun Pedro, Cal., Thurs- day, He was one of !he two Mount Vernon men who won distinguished service medals during the world war, and was twice wounded while serving in the A. BE. F. Pyromaniac Works Berg, who enlisted in the naval forces and had been promoted to Teas engineman at the time of his death, Firemen and police were co-jis the only child of Joseph and operating Friday in search of a| Katie Berg, who reside at Riverside, pyromaniac who Thursday» night|#00ut two miles from Mount Ver. non. He was 24 years old and came to this country when a child, when his parents removed from their na- tive home, Brussels, Belgium. Educated in Skagit county schools, the young hero enlisted May 9 1916, in tho United! States army and went overseas early in the war with Co. G, 167 infantry, 424 (Rainbow) division. In France he was pro- moted to sergeant and served in all tho major offensives, their families, The blaze started! After seeing service under fire in the north end of the buildings|on the Champaigno front, he took jand soon after a fire broke out if|part in the memorable Alsace and the south end. Aisne-Marne, Mihfel and Argonne The firebug had used oil freely |battles, and was wounded while in setting the blazes, It ts claimed, |Mehting at ChatoauPhiorry, and in | and had dug a holo under a fenoo| te Argonne in July and October of 1918. Berg won his medal for saving « |Several companies of firemen bat: } tlod tho flame for an hour before reehavetig nies unsee tire, 1a) the ting the blaz ct Ee prswin hd rine ewure nein oak After being mustered out of serv. , VOM) tog in 1919, Berg returned home, Sea be r ate et ay ha at where he aided his parents until a THeeAGSUIME NOE BO raaouied! Yel year ago, when he reoxtered serv. Wa ey: sy ico, this Ume wit hthe wea forces, Wire Marshal Robert Lb. Laing} where he met his death, and & corps of fire inspectors spent! Young Berg was widely known Wriday in investigating the fire und/thruout Skagit county, where his parenty are Known as poor but hard: working naturalized citizens ja minute, because when I got out I jcould see nobody. Then I screamed, }and Blanche answered me. I kept hold of the boat, but the wind came End to Death Near Sand L. WILLIAMS, a veteran a motorboat jaunt, narrowly Lake Washington early Fri- Jackson apartments, 1521 s not a relative of the dead — VICTIM Detective Jack Williams ARGUE TAX SUIT City’s Motion on Complaint in Federal Court The motion of the city of Seattle to dismiss the amended complaint of the Puget Sound Power and Light company in the municipal _ railway tax: fight, was to begin in federal court at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. The power company, following the failure of its recent injunction suit against Seattle and King county, was permitted to file an amended complaint against the city alone, in which it seeks to en- force the agreement of the city to pay three-quarters of the $655,000 tax in question, : The city has moved to dismiss this action, and hearing on the mo- © tion was to have been heard day morning, but was postponed agreement. At the morning sions of the federal court, the form of the orders in the original action — of the power company was upon in a hearing before Federal Judge Jeremiah Neterer, A similar hearing before Federal Judge FE. E Cushman was continued until Mon- day, after a short argument by at- torneys, 4 RESERVES CELL : NEW YORK.—A reservation was made by telegraph before the arrival at the Sing Sing death house of Frank Minnick, Buffalo slayer. Sher- riff Tyler of Erie county wanted to |up and drifted me out and out so (Turn to Page 6, Column 2) be sure that Minnick would have a bed in the prison. || It'll Aid Visitors, | | “City set in Fairyland, Where the Rainbow ends—” eee EATTLEITES, who much-do you know about your own city attrac- tions? How many interesting things to see, pleasant corners to explore? | How many little glimpses of “fairy jland’ ‘in Seattle have you discovered? If you were to have a visitor hero }trom the East whom you wished to impress with the joy of living In Seattle, where would you take him jand what would you show him? There are hundreds of interesting places in and close to Seattle, and there are thousands of visitors com. ing to Seattle this summer, These two groups must bo introduced to each other, and you and The Star and the Chamber of Commerce are going to do it! Here is tho plan: You are to write & short deseription of one of the in: teresting places that you know about Find Fairyland — | Then Tell Us Where It Is We'll Pay You Cash for. It Too in Seattle, Make it short—not more than 200 words—but tell where it ts, how to get there and the particular appeal it holds, { ‘The Star will publish ‘tsese Iettérs from day to day, that our city's vis- itors (and some of the rest of us, too) may learn about them. The Chamber of Commerce, just to prompt a spirit of gompetition, will award five prizes forgtho best letters; $26 for the fir 310 for the second, and three#§o prizes for ‘the three next best, Write legibly, on one side of tho paper only—or, better, typewrite it if you can—and mail it to the Know Seuttle Editor, The Star. Send in one or a thousand, it doesn't matter so long ag each one is on 4 separate sheet, Kverything ts set to go—who'll be tho first to tell us about somo interesting place in Seattle?