The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 23, 1924, Page 14

MYSTERY NOTE CLEARS HIM Paroled Ex-Convict Claims Bottle Message Authentic AKI in San a crumpled ted March 14, brother near Hayward, PROBE 3 DEATHS. Americans Not Blamed for) Fatalities to Japs LOS ANGELES, June 23—Sudden! death of three Japanese near Los} Angeles last week was not tho| outgrowth of any lll-feeling between Orientals and Americans, police be-! Neved today. Frank C. Murayama, real estate broker, whose body was found Saturday beneath the Colo- rado st. bridge tn Pasadena, com-| mitted suicide by leaping 150 foet from the bridge Into the arroyo, ac: cording to opinion of local author- thes, Tago Irarasht and Thomas Yosh- foka, shot to death and their corpses left on Point Firmin, San Pedro, | were victims of a gamblers’ quarrel, probably killed by their own coun trymen, It is belleved. THE SEATTLE STAR 2,500 Tons of Cakes Seattle Makes Them Seattle Buys Fr Every Year, and Still om Other Cities Making cookies is almost as pleasant as eating them, the | Expo. Girl of the Merchants’ Japanese} When she helped turn out the factories make —Photo » cookies Seattle JOKIES and cakes—Seattic makes ons of them every year,| tion Gti investigate: was toki today the Jocal more, ¢ Let’s Have ik = Flowers on Factories Window Boxes Brighten up Industrial and Business Houses in ‘Seattle BY G. LUCILLE BUTLER What so irresistibly attracts the eye, a3 % window box filled with colorful blossoms? And what easier thing could a city do to leave a never-to-be-for- gotten impression on the visiting stranger, than with boxes of flow- ers to brighten up the industrial| buildings, and the downtown stores} and offices? Very well, then. Have you ever noticed, while driving out Fourth ave. S, one of our great arterial highways over which so much traf- fic flows—the big, modern building} of the Matchett-Macklem Co., whole- sale grocers? Sure you have, but the building! would have been only a building | if your vagrant attention had not} been intrigued at once by tho red| and pink geraniums, big white daisies, and graceful trailing foliage) depending from the big green win- dow boxes. Consciously or sub-consclously it) gave you pleasure; made you gilad,| formed a sort of warm little oasis| of idealism amidst the hustle and) bustle of cold-hearted commercial- ism. I drive by that highway twice a day, and twice a day my tired spirit) is refreshed by those flower-filled window boxes. I wondered who was responsible for them—so I inquired, and Clalr| Macklem, secretary and treasurer of the company, ‘fessed up. Said I: “I want to tell Seattle bout your window boxes. Do they cost much—is their upkeep high?” And Mr. Macklem told me that the initial cost is practically the only cost, and that his particular TRAIN TO PARK Milwaukee R.R. Puts on New Schedule to Rainier Seattle and sea level to the snow| banks of Paradise inn, 5,557 feet in altitude, and return to Seattle tn less than 12 hours. The definite linking up of a great transcontinental road with the ex- politation of Rainier National park by providing a de luxe daily train service from Seattle and Tacoma. ‘These events were signalized Sun- day when the Milwaukee railroad in- augurated its Rainier National park tourist train, which will be in serv- fee every day this surnmer. The train is a Imited. stopping only at Tacoma, leaving here at 7:80 a. m, reaching Ashford, the end of the rail line, at 10:45, when buses are boarded for the trip into the park and to Longmire Springs, reached at 11:45 a.m, The visitors) have lunch there and then proceed} to Paradise inn. After a short visit there they drive back to the train at Ashford, leaving at 4 p. m., riving in Seattle at 7:15 p, m. Milwaukee demons! fast schedule, making the Paradise valley trip a 12-hour affair from ~-Farmers in the upper 6 planning to at which crops of general farming will be exhibited, This district ts a promising com. munity beyond, the frult crowing belt. A study ts being made there| of general farm crops, with empha fis on the fundamentals of sol] im. provement and the adaptabyity of varlous crops, boxes cost him $5 aplece to make,! and fill with flowers. “And up-| keep?” Ho laughed. “Our night} watchman takes caro of them—and that is all there fs to it.” j “But how come,” I persisted, “that you put them in?" “Well,” ho said,! “We have so much traffic going past here—especially from out-of- town—that we thought it would add & little to Seattle's beauty by har-| ing some flowers—so we put the boxes in.” And that's about all—except that nobody can compute the pleasure it} gives countless travelers to seo the} bright flowers—and if every plant In the industrial district would fling its floral banner to the breeze, we! wouldn't be surprised to have Seat- tle known far and near as “The City of Flowering Window Sills.” Exposition discovered today, 2,500 tons of cakes and every year. y Vrank Jacobs, Star Btatt | On inves oP Merchants that there bakeries in cakes and were a Seattle he Pa Mt Biscuit ¢ the Superior and the the plant of the nhe tried her i Among of machinery saw a long counter with a moving top, which carried cakes | covered with soft icing to dozens of grils who were busy putting other cakes on top of them, to complete | those delectable cookies of the | double-decked variety, This was the job she chose. With her mind filled with various cakes and crackers manufactured tn distant parts of the country, but sold by Seattle grocers and bought by Seattle people, she asked if it is necessary to go away from home for such things “Absolutely not various fous sho was told. firma are mak- every type of commercial cookie is made anywhere. And, fur- thermore, the quality of the local prod ‘© favorably with anyth anywhere in the Unite Here, said, is a wonderful opportunity for Seattle housewives to increaso Seattle’s payroll and keep thousands of dollars at by supporting industries wh rectly or indirectly, them. T hose ‘Little ih | for Every Home Serving Trays 98c Mahogany- finished trays with glass bottoms, Flour Cans 98c 25-Ib. atyle, white Japanned. Galvanized Tubs 89c Large No. 2 size galvan- ized iron tubs. Papee 6 for 25¢ Good-sized rolia of crepe paper, None delivered at thia price. be) Parlor Broom 69¢ Good quality; stoutly made and well finished, Mixing Bowls 5 for $1.25 Nest of yellow mixing bowls, Best quality. Bread Boxes $1.35 -top ' style, white Japanned, Roll stand. | | | Rolling Pins 24c Hardwood Tolling pina; full size; very smooth finish. Clothes Pins 2 Doz. 5e Common Wooden clothes ell Wash Boilers $1.95 Galvanized fron; complete with fit-in covers. New Style O'Cedar Mops 79¢ Good quality polishing mops. Cold Drink Set 69c A good-looking seven-plece set, in Colonial atyle. Garbage Pails 89c Kitchen pail size; complete with ball and | Jar Rubbers Doz. 8¢ Fruit jor rub- bers in all sizes for Mason ae Thest quality, DUALS 69e Imported chinn, decor- ated with blue. 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