The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 18, 1924, Page 1

DOG SAVES MASTER’S fe ediately jump to . 2 t the wife made wus do it. “ee It must be like the drinking water ‘¢ had at our camp last summer. WEATHER VOL. 26. NO. 99, | Howdy, folks! Only three days until payday Migosh, why haven't we a more elastic cur. | rency? | When dau nhons tor supper, fat can have | the porch swing f The old horse-trader didn't have so many things to lie about as the} modern auto-swapper eee Solomon, who married 700 times, Has the record by far Rut we can’t see how he did it Without sope kind of car. Pee | The crew race on the Poughkeepsie | ts over, and now the members can spend all their time at Writing for} the newspapers and won't be both. ered by practice Da fe | Bainbridge island woman grows strawberries which are six inches around. We suppose it only takes 3 or 4 to make @ dozen. eee You can always tell when summer arrives. Newspapers start to print| res of bathing girls on the front * TH OFFICE EZ: MP, flappers walk down A lot of Second ave. with nothing on for. | the afternoon. | x | ————k “ee We wouldn't mind helping fhe missis with her flower beds once in @ while if the’ neighbors didn't im- the conclusion It's a wise wothan who lets her husband do what she wants to do. ; eee EXTRAD Sancouver boat lands in “Seat- tle without any booze! Pa vee You flay sing of June and sing of the bride, | 80 sceet and lovely looking: We change the tune and sing of the groom, Who has to eat her cooking. j “fe | Old Silas Grump, the ‘Pumpkin Hollow, says: “Ev i his price and every woman has} her figure. The summer season is opening | slowly. Nobody drowned yet from going in swimming after a heavy| meal 56 e 5 LI'L GEE GEE, TH" VAMP SEZ AGAL It's a long lane that has no spooners. | FFICE | t x| | i | ca se t is said that a fool is born every minute, but when you notice some of the canoeists on Lake Washing. ton, it does seem as if the average must be higher. oes “Man married seven times is sought in Seattle for failure to pay his room rent."’—Héading. With seven alimony checks, we don’t sve how he could ever pay his room rent. see James Russell Lowell once asked, “What is so rare as a day In June?” We give up, altho we have seen some awfully raw things in June. ae YE DIARY (dune 17) 1p betimes, and to the office, and did | T. Quayle and M, Fox and others, | so to work, but many people here learn about the Her agriay og race, kitehen, where I did learn how ire cooked in cream, whieh M. us, and which, methinks, Mfe, with a leer of “Rainier Salesgirl says Star headline. also heard about the man who sold the Brooklyn bridge. oe Sells Peak, Yes, and we've . Animals are thick in Northern waters, according to the newspapers. eee By 1960 all that men will have to} do to disguise themselves as women will be to get a shave. eR They're dyige of heat in the Kast, and we're dying of thirst in the West. soe aGe ry ee 7 Gotta go home and work on our) radio now ~A. J. 8. $125, 000 Fire in Box, Lumber Mill WENATCHEE, June 18-—Loss of $125,000 was suffered yesterday when fire destroyed the mill of the Yellow Pine Box & Lumber Co. and w store weven miles west of Wine- sap. | Tuesday at jer of the Vanderbilt newspapers 1n| Darwin Meisnes st Describes Crew Race for Star Readers. SEATTL. dimy ta Sealllis Fist Line of Defense ®\ CAR arp a Rid sy i m ELEPHANT’S ATTACK, FATAL TO TRAINER; YEAR-OLD INJURIES Hotz woop, Cal, June 18 Succumbing to Injuries he received nearly a year ago when attacked by. am elephant, -Alger- non= Curley” » Stecker;" 32, well Known animal trainer, died early today in the Hollywood hospital Stecker was hurt when “Charley,” a huge beast, turned on him in a fierce attack. The trainer was rescued but not be- fore he was severely injured He has been In the hospital most of the time since. “Charley” was executed some months ago after it was agreed he would never be safe to handle. Stecker was nationally known in circus quarters as one of the most expert animal trainers in the ‘hazardous business. CASE DELAYED; MAN DYING — Eight Others. Recovering. From Sunday Smashup i Isaac J. Hounshell, one of nine vic-} tims of an automobile crash at First | ave. 8. and Spokane st., day morning, was still in a critical) condition at the Seattle General hos- pital Wednesday morning with skull fracture. Aw a result, the ing of the two drivers involved, F. L. | Childs and L, R. Raines, was set for July 1, when it came up in nelle court late Tuesd: Another victim, Mrs, Lila Pease of | Kent, first thought to have been| dying, is reported. improvihg at her home after being treated Monday and | the city hospital, All other victims will recover. Bath cars were completely demol- ished. early Sun 4 2 Vanderbilt Bickers for P.-I., Is Story Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., publish. San Francisco and Los Angeles, an- nounced today that he had wired William Randolph Hearst, asking if the latter would name price for the sale to him of the Seattle Post. Intelligencer. , At the same time Vanderbilt re- vealed that experts had been mak- ing a survey for him of tho Seattle newspaper field, and declarcd that if Hearst do@s not-care to well, he “will have another plan to offer.” Good News: Plan New Buildings. Permits Soar Again. | One Day: $350,000. Building permits Tuesday were the highest of any day of the month. The total for the day reached $350,000. One of the permits was for con. struction of the $235,000 Alfred H Anderson memorial hall for the col-| lege of forestry at the University of Washington. A second permit was to the ‘Hofius Steel Equipment Co., for a two-story garage at 612-622 Vourth ave, C, 1, Morris obtained a permit for a bung. wlow court to cont $14,000, and Dr. H Thompson, a permit for a $13,000 residence at Hust Laurelhurst drive, jand lock, | =") The Seattle tt . Was Wer the A 2, W ASH., WE DNES SDAY, JUNE With the Biggest ( ‘ireulation in Wailiiieton Star iii ‘ a7 18, 1924 oi Mall, § : hs ce HOME EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. Page 12 iste RSS Be BUT IS KILLED LLIED with the great arm? of business along Seattle’ Hound Shows Boys prosperous waterfront ar¢ thousands of grain elevators and mills, them. hordes of invading rats. The rats do of foodstuffs damage Sut large in a year. great as it would be if the cat army wasn’t in battle for-| H mation 24 hours a Ther big mills and warehouses. M the ranks of the army of de’ Marshalled they fight day and night against| Get Doctor, but | s| “Shep” Is Dead generally a welcome for fense fly in of and ing battalions cats docks, storehouse and eat the enormous quantitie damage isn’t a tenth a: any a stray tabby and spends the its life battling the rodent invaders. Down along the docks some folks call the cat army attle’s first line of defense.” The men in the ware- houses and mills know how valuable the battalions are. At noontime they pet and fe with them. Both cats and men are working for the port STORE IS | How Bone Bill Wil BODY 1S FIRED; 60 GOWNS Go A rrest Expected in| Mysterious Blaze Downtown; Origin! of Fire Probed RREST of a firebug was expect- ed Wednesday, following police and fire department 1 ‘o's women’s 23 Pine st clothing store, about § o'clock Tuesday orning. Sixty dre: were stolen the loss from the blaze range around $500 — police report Convinced that the flames were of y origin, but not satisfied the burglar theories already advanced, Fire Marshal Laing and policemen were probing the mysteri- ous reported robbery and resulting fire, The fire was extinguished after! |considerable damage to the interior | jof the store Mrg. Karo told detectives that the | |place had by Dp. m., Mond At had been “jimmied’ the establishment, {had teft. en entered after 6:30 hroom window in the rear of after DISCOVER BODY sal big Student Canoe- Victim Taken From Canal Norman R Strickland, 22, Univer: sity of Washington student, who was drowned with Miss Wilma Talmadge, 21, on June 9,,when their canoe over: turned in Lake Washington, was found dead Wednesday morning. Strickland’s body was floating in the eastern entrance of the and was found by R. B. Doucett, who was passing thru on a tug boat. Miss Talmadge's body was found # few hours after the drowning, Judge Wanamaker Jumps to Death COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 18.—~ Judge R. M. Wanamaker of the Ohio supreme court committed suicide to- day by leaping from the fourth floor of McCarme! hospital, where he hud been confined with a nervous break- down. While his nurse was out of the room, Wanamaker went into the bath room, turned the key in the started the water running in the bath tub and then raised the win- dow and leaped out. 3 Face Charges An {information charging posses sion and manufacture of 110 gal lona of Moonshine, was filed in fed- eral court Tuesday against Mrs. Kevah MeConaughty, Tom Wanless and Roy Itchikawa, Mrs, MeCon: wughty, when arrested several months ago, sald that she had t advised by « mysterious “moonshi medium! to go into the liquor bust news, canal | | | | | stigation of | y cttexed robbery and firing of Sarah at wit! all employes f' ‘effort to obtuin signatures for Help Small Towns (EDITORIAL) HE BONE Power bill is not a measure that will benefit only Seattle and Tacoma. Charges that such is the case are being made in the country dis- tricts by the power trust agents. These charges are but a “smokescreen” thrown out in the rural districts in an effort to beat the bill. The bill will benefit every ‘district within reasonable distance from a city owning a munici- pal power plant. This means that almost every commupity west of the mountains will reap the benefits of lower power immediately. Eventually, every section in the state will be benefited. Let us take Everett as an example and compare rates to show how that city will be benefited: 10 kilowatts $3.00 Everett pays Seattle pays . 60 kilowatts 178 kilowatts $5.83 $7.59 2.60 4,96 Everett is near the power line from Seattle's Skagit project. The Bone bill provides that cities owning municipal power plants may sell power outside their corporate limits tax-free. would be able to sell power to Everett. If the bill passes, Seattle And Seattle could and would sell power to Everett at such a price that the same rates could prevail in Everett as do in Seattle. Everett would reap a great saving in light bills. What applies to Everett also applies to Mount Vernon, Stanwood and scores of other communities north of Seattle. Puyallup offers another Moa comparison. If the Bone bill passes, Tacoma could sell power to Puyallup at such a rate that the Puyallup rate could be lowered to where the Tacoma rate now is, The table following shows what this reduction, brought about by the passage of the Bone bill, would mean to Puyallup: 40 kilowatts Puyollup pays .......- $3.20 Tacoma pays 20 60 kilowatts $4.80 140 178 kilowatts 34 2.00 There is no truth to the statement that the Bone bill benefits only Seattle and Tacoma. In fact, it bene- fits the rest of the state more than these two cities. Signatures Roll In as ‘Power Day’ Opens Here With volunteer workers circulating petitions thruout the residential sec: tions of the city and others stationed at vantage points in down town stores and on street corners, “Public Power Day” opened in Seattle Wednesday morning, the beginning of an inten sive drive to obtain tho remaining signatures necessary to insure the Bone Power bill being placed on the ballot in the fall election. Early reports sfrom the workers thruout the city indicated that sev- eral thousand signatures would be obtained before night, Encouraging results were obtained at the tables on downtown corners during the morning. “Public Power Day" was officially wot avide last week by: Acting Mayor Mrs. Bertha Landes as a time for volunteer workers to make special tho Bone bill. A mass meeting of Bone bill boost. ers was held Tuesday evening in tho council chambers and workers were, ned up at that time for the drive Wednesday, Circulation thruout the elty day by the power trust of a attacking the Bone power bill brought a crowd to the meeting and resulted in many persons offering assistance for the remainder of tho Volunteers have been secured to take care of all the downtown tables for the remainder of the time, it Is sald. Chairman J. D, Ross Wednesday declared that more workers could still be used and urged everyone who can devote a few hours’ time to get in touch with headquarters at 402 Ruliway WUxehango bullding and be estar to duty, The telephone number is IL lot-8916, FOUND BY 2 GIRLS | —— ‘Frank B. Trader Is. Name on Papers; | | Police Probing) Suicide Here | Grief over the recent death of his} daughter, Frances, caused Frank B.| Trader, erator, to take his own life Tuesday slashing his throat with aj on the University of] 55-year-old lumber mill op- j | | night by | pocket knife | Washington campus. That was the jcoroner's office | following. identification by M Wednesday morning | students at the summer school. The | throat was slashed from ear to ear,| Jand tho knife was still clutched in| decision of the! Wednesday noon, Attorney of the body, found two girl] Farmer by the man’s hand. Trader M. lived with his wife, Lot- ue Trader, at 615 Melrose ave. N. The body, found by the girls while strolling thru the shrubbery below the Mines building and about |100 yards north of the railroad ltracks, was lying face downward on a little footpath. Horrified, the students rushed to |the infirmary and gave the alarm, | Attaches at the campus refused to {make public their names. Letters and legal papers bearing Trader's name led to the partial iden- tification and persons at that address were to view the body at noon to try to determine the man’s name. | ‘The man had evidently walked up the little path near Rainier Vista ave,, some time Tuesday night and |slashed his throat, falling forward | on his face in a semi-recumbent position, the coroners and police be- Neve, His watch was still running, indicating that death had come within tho past 12 hours. No suicide note was discovered, and no reason has yet been assign- ed for the doed. USED CAR BARGAINS ARE OFFERED EVERY DAY to buyers looking for good uged cars, Here $s one that is reudy for you. LATE OAKLAND SEDAN, $645 ‘This beautiful sedan is practical- ly new, because elderly couple who owned it only drove on Sundays and cortainly took wonderful care of car, The up= © just like holstery and paint new; mechanically periect and carries nearly tire, dome step our guarantee. Has new cord tires, extra motometer, — rathawipe, Nicht, nickel radiator, plates, etc, Very casy ‘urn to the Want Ad o and see who ts offering this gain, ed the cats, making friends Seattle Man Kills Self on U Campus DIDN’T LIKE HOME; SET FIRE FATAL TO 24 IN L. A. SCHOOL June 18.— jartholomew, 15- year-old inmate of the Hope De- pees vt school, which burned the night of May 31, causing the death of 23 children and one woman, today confessed that she started the fire. Weeping, the to the district girl was brought attorney's office today by W. H. Prescott, head of the juvenile department. “I set the fire because I didn't like things at the home,” the girl said between sobs, “They didn't treat me right.” SUSPECT SHOT BY OFFICER | Patrolman Saves Life; Loses Man in Running Battle Bae SE he drew his gun quicker than a burglar early Wednesday morning, Patrolman J, E. Prince was alive téday. Prince fired four shots at the man at Sixth ave, and Lenora st. after the thug had attempted to shoot the officer, The man escaped, but is be- |leved to have been wounded, ‘The patrolman said he saw the man slinking across Lenora st. at 3:10 a. m, and ordered him to stop. Quick ag a flash the man dropped to one knee and drew a gun. Prince was quicker and his revolver barked in rapid succession. The suspect staggered to his feet, ran a short distance and tried to climb a fence. Ho fell to the other side and when Prince reached the spot had disappeared, Two witnesses, ¥. Webb, taxi driv- er, and Axel Sjolen, 2214 Seventh ave. said they heard the man groan after Prince had fired and they be- lieved he was wounded. The man lost his hat in the flight. rest of | Dying Man; They i his the of his own, was related to society officials Wednesday by Ira Shepherd, 223 Thomas st. . indirec at | expense a feline recruit at the enlists in bum | Not Io % ago Shepherd lay in his small cottage, critically ill, His only frend was his dog, who stuck |by him, altho food was scarce. progressed, Shep- the hand licked grew whiter and Too weak to summon help, merely lay and resigned his iline grew less; that y the dog grew desperate. 1 to tell his master that he was going for help. Then, with a final short bark, he jumped thru a | window of his master’s bedroom and dashed out into the street. TELLS THREE BOYS OF MASTER'S TROUBLE Three neighborhood boys were playing there. ‘The dog, barking, whining and tugging at their clothes, finally led them to his dying master’s bedside. The boys saw what was neces- sary and told their parents, who got medical attention for Shepherd. Then the dog disappeared. Shep- |herd, under the doctor's care, made a slow, recovery, his winning back of health hampered by worry over jthe dog. Finally, he was told that @ neighbor had taken “Shep” to the | Humane barns on the waterfront. What really happened, however, was that somebody had taken the dog out into Rainler Valley and, tried to lose him. Tuesday Shepherd, just out of his |home for the first time, walked | Slowly to the Humane barns and asked for his dog. But all there was for him wag old | Shep’s collar, lying on the counter. | FAITHFUL HOUND KILLED IN STREET “What happened to him?” asked Shepherd, brokenly, realizing the tragedy. “He was run over a few days ago by a reckless motorist, out in Rai- nier Valley,” said the attendant. “Oh!” said Shepherd. That was all. He walked out, carrying the collar with him. “He was just like a wife and chil- dren to me,” he said, brokenly, when he had recovered a little. Humane officials, touched by the tragedy, said they would start a campaign against wanton drivers who willfully destroy cats and dogs that happen to be in their path. FLIGHT DELAYED Maughan Postpones Coast- to-Coast Flight; Storming MINEOLA, L. I, June 18.—Lieut. Russell L. Maughan will not at- tempt his dawn-to-dusk flight to San Francisco tomorrow because of storms in the Mississippi valley and may not start until Saturday. M. C. McDaniel, mechanic, report- ed from St. Joseph, Mo., that the flying field there is so soggy it would be dangerous to attempt a landing. Maughan will fly a new plane and expects to make the trip to San Francisco in 17 hours, starting about 3 a. m, Donors E JUST couldn’t help a letter that arrived this Your Name Here? to Park! from starting off the story about the state salt water park today, folks, with morning from Mrs. May Avery Wilkins, acting president of the board of park commissioners. You'd expect to find just a little jealousy, possibly, on the part of those who ar e in charge of our city parks over the idea of establishing a playground for Seattle and Tacoma out along the But Mrs. Wilkins writes: “My Dear Sir: I have Sound, been reading the stories in The Star, with the wonderful plan outlined by you, by which we can secure an ideal play, ground for Seattle and Tacoma. I know the spot and it is made to order for such a purpose, and your plan to finance it cannot be beat. There should be “Such a playground, half no trouble to put this over, way between the two cities should do more to cement friendship, so that we could work in co-operation for the good of the state, than anything I know of, for when we play together we soon (Turn to Pago 3, Column 4) ig aR Fi