The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 14, 1924, Page 7

MIND BLANK tor Unable to Remember Who Burned *K.K.K.’ on Him BATTLE CREEK Van Lee Berke ting somethi gare went [© fince his disappes at yy pounds and ? ned ‘ here in nite, He Les | - Toate of col exposure tack of nourt ss Yan Ion declared that he gad no enemies. HERE'S MORE ABOUT MEATH STARTS ON PAGE ? the prison in- Meath was carried to tague, prison sur t ald and sum femary. Dr. Mo gave him fir jened an ambulance in which he we rushed to St. Mary's hospital Where he died about midnight from foe of Mood, after having lost con wousness. SAYS BULLET ED Long believes that faished bis work and E pame, and then had d Tong at his home. After hesi Meath Meath ts believed to have started homeward, not hearing the gard’s challenge warden blames the death on tee state department which built and prison employes’ houses waiside the walls and near forbidden m. to be relieved at 10 o'clock, that he fired into the and that the bullet must fichocheted. The bullet mush fn Meath’s leg, broke the Tene into small pieces, severed two and tore out a large piece @ flesh, Dr. Montague said. Meath, who was & favorite with convicts as administrator Fentertainment. fund, days ago, after having taken f wife and one s6n to Tacoma, they were camped at Re- when he was killed. Mra. th another son, George B. ith, president of the Continental Co. and his father’s brother) Meath, Pierce county treas- Tacoma, went to Walla Walla SEA married daughter, residing in * Washington, also sur- who had been clerk at the ul for a year, was state for two terms, Pierce ty treasurer for two terms and Se county assessor for two terms . the escaped prisoner, was ed from Yakima, on two ts in 1915; for robbery five to and for burglary, five to me Weft the prison farm Sunday WM was traced by bloodhounds to a Rear the prison walls, where im scent was lost. Tower and wall were on the lookout for mall Sunday afternoon and night, said. MORE ABOUT . S. FLYERS ‘| STARTS ON PAGE 1 in the air, covering an average 76 miles an hour while fly- * them still stretches a route miles, divided into two from Parts to Boston, 4,466 % and from Boston to Santa Cal. their starting point, o128 fans-Atlantic hop will in- three opel water jumps— ma the Orkney islands to Iceland, to Greenland and from fland to Labrador. To the fly- ‘Who were buffeted by Alaskan And blizzards in negotiating one crossing, howeyer, these ed to present no terrors, b ‘ah pared is counted on, i rom Paris follows: London, 225 miles. _ Ser en. where land + changed for 4 15 mies is Ee Mitkwall, in the Orkneys, 355 Ho Horshaven, Faroe islands, 275 Hefn Hornafjogd, Iceland, 2 Reykjavik, Iceland, 339 miles. lik, Greenland, 500 Watt Greentana 500 miles. larbor, Labrador, the (rialaped Jump, 572 miles. wright harbor, Labrador, gnawkes Bay, New Found. miles, Bay, Nova Soctia, 420 4nd thence to Boston, 520 Boston the route lies to N. ¥., 175 miles, thence to fellas. and from dl tap hay is the continent to Bom haba by way of the usual 2 ipso Toute, thru Dayton, Mo.; Cheyenne, Silt Lake ci 7 ity and, finally, Monica, Cas, f J. Stewart Will Talk for Ad Club main speaker at the weekly Meeting of the, Sattle Ad. ing a, in the Masonic vil be 1. Gontac w Meton Retail ¢ wi cot Mere drocers’ as Will speak on the sub. handising wood Prod. peng of DeClal stunts in con- With the Membership drive B conducted by the club lure of the meeting, and lah eet of the Ad club had} started taf deciding that it was too late,| Lechner, who went on duty at 2} ot} returned | mn Stewart, of | be field in the near jf BRAND. VICTIM'S 2 SHOOT SELVES Ship Captain Commits Sui- cide in Hotel Room Reinhardt ay m e Withard } H ad t himself a the | and 6D 1, M. Cohr Reinhard | 5] locked. w e seeking ¢, they heard the Reinhardt had ardships when 4 schooner, On Australia to spring ricape threatened fleer the the in his effects Kenneth Corson L. 0. Miller thru the head at hew, I, Bourne, 7014 First Sunday. Ill health Bourns be fatal suffered aster of n 80-day tr San he faced a calm and with a hur mutinous crew t He German revolt was army of in war by Deputy Coroner 70, the shot ave. ELSO, July 1 Led by For. est Range C. Parker, an expedition started from here this morning into the heart of the Spirit lake country to search for the “mountain devils," a band of giant gorillas which have badly | frightened prospectors who said | they had chased them from the | woods after an intermittent | three-day battle | With Parker are Frank Heim and R. 8. Bailey, Tho men are armed for big | game, and also carry photo- Sraphic equipment The prospectors, all veterans | of this district, are Marion and Roy Smith, J. Peterson and Fred | Beck, According to their story, they were attacked several times by wierd beasts, succeeded in | killing one and wounding, sev eral and finally fled from the woods themselves after they had been held prisoner an entire night by a cordon of 30 gorillas. According to the men, their cabin was bombarded with heavy rocks thruout the night. More than 200 rocks crashed thru the roof to the floor they asserted, of the shack, i] | | HERE’S MORE ABOUT PET PARADE STARTS ON PAGE 1 Hill ave., Queen Anne, for the nut-/ jeating ohipmunk. } For the smaliest, largest and most ) unusual pets the awards were ay fol. lows: Smallest; $3. "Pest," the pet flea }Of Mildred Healy, 515 10th ave Most unusual: $3 to the “Russian Rubberneck” of Walter Butler, £805 Fifth ave. S., the bird consisting of | a cross between a turkey and « chick: len, with a red spotted neck resemb- ling the best kind of rubber garden | hose. | Largest—Tom Moore, 910 3ist ave. | The prizes will be mailed to the winners Monday. | Much interest was aroused by a |smali ant-eater, from South Amer. fea, entered by William Thornton, 1185 Boston st. | Honorable mention goes to a great many clever pets and floats, notice. the two little Hawaiian beauties; the tiny sulky with a chicken passenger. Sleepy Hollow farm, and the rain- jbow fish in their little glass bowl, Judges were R. H. Vivian, Mrs. Fred Markley and Miss Bertha Hues. ‘tis. QUARANTINE OFF Travel From “California Is Heavier Already The number of Culifornia cars en- tering Washington at Vancouver has substantially increased, follow. ing the removal of fumigation re- quirements, according to Harold Crary, assistant secretary of the Se. attle Chamber of Commerce. who re- turned Monday from a trip into Oregon. Crary, with Manager Hutchins, of [the Vancouver Chamber of Com. merce, representing the Automobile club of Washington, and George Brown, manager of the port of Van- couver, Wash. left Thursday by automobile for an inspection trip thru Oregon. the California line. Quarantine and fumigation rules were abandoned in Washington and Oregon Thursday, and Crary report- ¢d Monday that motorists can now drive from the California line into British Columbia without Inspection, A heavy influx of tourist travel al- ready has begun from California, Crary said. Page Hearing Is Set for Wednesday Hearing before U. $. Commissioner H. 8, Elliott of the liquor charge against Thomas D. Page, Seattle at torney, way postponed Monday until Wednesday morning. Page was charged with possession of liquor when Prohibition Chief F. A. Hazeltine, with whom he was conversing, spied two bottles in the rear of the car. bottles contained home brew. Page | declared they contained ginger ale. 'Arrest Motorist | G. ©. Garrison was arrested Sun- lday night by sheriff's deputies on a charge of driving an automobile white drunk. Garrison, according to Sheriff Stnrwich, broke a bottle of whisky on the highway when arrested, He }was doing 60 miles an tour In avy traffic, on the Bothell high way, according to Sheriff Starwich, severe a sailing p from Francisco last during An iron cross was found | himself home of his caused jably Little Bo-Peep with her sheep; | They went south to! Hazeltine claims the | as Drunk Driver | THE SEATTLE STAR ’arade, Stunts and D Over “Poor Man’s Playground” Y. M. B. C. Boosts Park owntown Drive to Put FOUR SHIPS DUE |Men 0° War Coming Here | | for Summer Stay With two battleships, the Pennay! Vania and the Okluhoma, already in the harbor, four more were scheduled to drop anchor in Puget Sound Mon. |day, The Missiasippt and the Idaho |were reported passing thru the | strats Monday morning, to be fol lowed by the California and the Tennessee. Two of those the Mississippl, e Bremerton navy yard, two were expected the Cy fornia and while the visit other Sound ports before the general man cuvers More than 1,000 men and officers ltrom the Pennsylvania and Okla |homa came ashore 8 ¥ and wer J entertained by t hospitality committee. A program for | the entertainment of men from the | battleships is planned from August 16 te Clubmen in Miss Cecil Kern SALTY LEGEND CROPS UP Crew Believes Spirit of Sail- or Comes Back SAN PEDRO, July 14.—Anold Ieg- end, with the salty flavor of a real deepwater belief, that the spirit of a sailorman who dies at sea returns to his ship in the form of a | bird | Without arguing one way or an- other, here's the yarn: When the intercostal liner Man- churia reached the local harbor after its run from New York, members of ithe crew stated that Cor us Van | Ree, assistant ship's baker; died of |the voyage and was buried at sea. That very night, they said, a flapping of wings on the after deck drew at |tention to a strange spectacle, a bird which even naturalists aboard could not classi Its feathers were green and purple, and its legs were yellow. <A _ body, eight inches across, was supported by pellican-like legs a foot long. A | ill, something like a seagull's, was | striped red, white and blue, It was a landbird, satlors s lthey caged it us a unique prize call it the ‘baker bird.” states id, and They /“Sales Campaign” | A for Davis Starts 1EW YORK, July 4.—Inspired by Jthe leadership of John W. Davie, leaders today set about “selling” | their candidate to the country with la view to winning the presidency and congress. Without waiting for the selection of a successor, Chairman Cordell | Hull, of the democratic national |committee, has already taken the | ground work for a smashing cam: paign that will carry Davis into levery segtion of the country. Mount Rainier National park hes only 30 miles of highway available for auto travel. A downtown parade Saturday brought attention of thou- sands to the new state park projec and the Young Men's Business club, of Seattle. paraders advertised the project is shown in this picture. | were to proceed to} ‘Seattle Thespians Join In an attractive and « of patterns and colorir comforter coverings and other useful purposes. sponsored by The Star| How the A finely-woven qualit HERE’S MORE ABOUT STATE PARK STARTS ON PAGE 1 warns all “prospects to make it] snappy. | Donations, large and «mall and| medium-sized, continue to arrive at the headquarters of the Automobile | Club of Washington, but more are | needed if Seattle is to meet its $10,000 | | obligation by August 1 | rare | Soft-finish, ‘Find Gun in Car; | Held as Speeder | ly desirable for children middy blouses and suits. well. A special offerin Tuesday. A 38 special revolver, fully load: | ed, wag found on the seat beside J H. Marshall when he was arrested on Eastinke ave., Sunday night, on | a charge of spe is. According to | deputy sheriffs, » all was doing | }45 miles an hour | | Marshall to:d Sheriff Starwich he was cart for his own protect igution is be | ing made. Park Project 1 |Everybody Invited| | to See Comedy, 39-inch Unbleached Muslin muslin suitable for pillow cases, aprons, curtains and fancy work. 36-inch Duretta Cloth A bleached twill cotton fabric especial- 42-inch Pillow Tubing evenly-woven pillow tubing that will launder and wear (DOWNSTAIRS STORE) 72x90-inch Dimity || Bedspreads ERY good value in these FREDERICK & NELSON DO Special Tuesday Offerings in COTTON FABRICS Idec 19c 25c 29c 36-inch Comforter Challies STARS STOR Dainty Step-Ins and Vests Of Imported Colored Voile 95c Each OOL, dainty Step-ins and Vests in the at- tractive style pictured. Made from fine quality imported voile in orchid, light green, peach and flesh color; lace trim- med. xtensive variety igs suitable foi 15c for number of . vf YARD y of unbleached »s for women and misses. Specially priced at 95¢ the garment. -DOWNSTAIT ‘ORE 33-inch Silk Pongee & 65¢ LOW price for this 12-momme Silk Pongee. A quality free from dressing or filler of any kind. Soft, even weave, 65¢ yard. Black Cliffou Tatteta «© $1.00 OFT, lustrous quality in black only. Width inches. A very good value at $1.00 yard. 40-in. Crepe de Chine 19c YARD 25c YARD ‘s wear, such as quality of 29c g of 500 yards, YARD 35 Aid Fund | novelty weave, riplette $ 95 | r} > -, . e - Py : : \AAEN, women and children of Se | Dimity Bedspreads in white. VER thirty (80) street and evening shades, in- M attle will leave their homes Neatly hemmed. Size 72x90 cluding navy blue, white and black, in this dress Monday and Tuesday evenings to seo | inches. DOWNSTAIRS STORE quality crepe de chine. Exceptional value at $1.65 |“Why Men Leave Home,” |help swell the coffers of the Young |Mon's Business club's Salt Water jpark treasury when Miss Cocil | Kern's Seattle theater guild players turn all proceeds except evenings’ expenses over to the club's enter. prise. | The park is a community enter. | j Prise, sponsored by the club and The | Seattle Star and for which contribu | tions are being received at the Uni-} versity st. offices of the Washington State Automobile club. | It will cost $18,000 to purcha |The state is putting up $2,000; jattle, $10,000, and Tacoma, $5,000, for and to jthe park which is located on the | yund between Des Moines and Ta: | | coma. | | Miss Kern has now given Seattle| lite first permanent repertoire com: | jpany since the days of the oldj{| Wilkes players. She wanted to turn back some of the proceeds to the} public and so whe invited the Young | Men's Business club to take charge lof the box office receipts for the yard. (DOWNSTAIRS STORE) Felt-Base Floor Covering | For Any Room in the House HE ten (10) attractive patterns make it possible to select 59 | C | for most any room in which one desires to use this Felt- base Floor Covering, This is an especially good grade ef felt-back covering and the colors in. the patterns are fresh and bright. Tile, wood parquetry and conventional patterns, 59c square yard. OLD SEAL CONGOLEUM FLOOR COVERING in a red- | 5 | green-and-brown carpet pattern, square yard, 59¢. SQUARE YARD | NOTE: It will facilitate selection if you bring exact room measurements, as we do not lay this floor covering. —DOWNSTAIRS STORE | itwo nights, And the Y. M. B, C. in vites all its friends and all Seattle to join in the park idea by attending the Metropolitan attraction on those two nights and seeing Avery Hop. wood's comedy of home life, and, in- cidentally give their admission money for the new cause, 1,200 AT MEET Pasco Entertains Delegates to Basin Project Confab PASCO, July 14.—Columbia Basin Irrigation league basin boosters were gathering here Bandit Trio Shot by Bank Cashier members and KANSAS CITY, Mo. July 14—jthls morning for the opening ses- | Three of five bandits who attempted [sion of the basin project conven jto hold up the Citizens’ Security |tion, Twelve hundred persons are | bank, at Englowood, 1 suburb, today | were shot and wounded by C. B./ Cole, cashier, The wounded men including Ezra Meeker, Oregon trail were dragged into a car by their|ptoneer; Dr. O, I. Waller, vice }eompanions and driven away. No/|president of Washington State col- igs purine’ shaky t liege; James, Kyle, ‘Stanfield, Ore. Sole, cf ‘ender! de. eouitel Genahe itviokeh, Copanel president of the Oregon Irrigation fire with a revojver. One bandit fell |congress, and Roy R. Gill, of Spo- inside the bank and two more top.| kane, chairman of the basin league's pled off the steps at the entrance, | board of trustees, k One of the bandits shot dropped| Doctor Elwood Mead, U. 8, com- the money. missioner of reclamation, will not Gees he able ts attend, {t was announced here today. BANK IS CLOSED William E. Sachs, Organizer, Is_ Indicted expected to be guests of the city, Songs by Request Over KFOA Tonight The Misses Myrtle Stewart and Florence Doty will sing popular songs and ballads, by requests, over KFOA broadcasting station (Rhodes | store) at 8:30 Monday evening. The girls are mombers of the telephone p company organization = Requesta) gn routs, July 14.—The Repub. should be made over MA in-8000, ican National bank, capitalized at Braga $1,000,000, with resources of 34,090 1972, was’ closed pormanently today [by ‘order of its board of Mirectors. |The institution wag losing money, a LIQUORISTS ARK JAIL Howard L, Bell and Jercy co-defendants under liquor charges, |xtatement sald. were sentenced to pay w fine of $1] quit payment of all deposits was and spend elght months tn the coun | euaranteed by member banks of the ty Jail each, by Federal Judge Will: | ciearing House association. fam H. Sawtelle, Monday. Herman | he bank was organized in 1921, Eldridge pleaded guilty to Nquor}iy William 1. Sachs, wealthy oll charges and was fined $500. Gperator,<wlio' 1a vow: Under jndlet Al Johnson, convicted of narcotic! ment by an Indianapolis federal charges, was sentenced by Judge | grand jury in connection with a na. Sawtelle ton year and a day at Mc-|tionwide investigation of housing Nall IMG span ven tiary, trusts and loan socletios, The drip pan needs cleaning every now and then, and a putty knife iq lespecially useful for the purpose, Did you ever talk to the boob who tried to beat the engineer to the crouslig?—Automoblle Digest. Home Town Gives | Bryan an Ovation PRINGE AT MEET LINCOLN, Neb, July 14.—Goy. a oe Charles W. Bryan, democratic vice Opens International Conven- tion of Ad Experts |presidential nominee, arrived home | just before noon today and was | LONDON, July 14.—In the pres DIES AT PARK Poetess Takes Poison While Zoo Visitors Watch Leaving greeted with a din from several au-} tomobile horns, many bands and fac- a note saying tory sirens. lost all in life she ever : ce of 3,500 advertising Mrs. Dimple Hollingsworth Hil.| A crowd estimated at 10,000 titled |ONC® Of #500 advertising men from ton, 20, 2412 Queen Anne ave., took |t¢ station platform. all parts of the world, the prince poison. Bunday-afteridon,” in ‘wood Rg a So ST of Wales formally opened the world nd park. She died a few hours} amine the electrical equipment | advertising convention at Wembly to make sure that the gencrator and ammeter are functioning properly, and that lighting circuit, starter and | Jlater in the Norwegian | Mrs hospital. wife of Ger- stadium today, Hilton was the In a brief speech, the prince de- ald Hilton, a salesman. He had been clared that the presence of dele- in California, following « separation, | HOM connections are secure. gates from North and South but apparently a reconciliation had reget REN America, Asia and the British em- been effected. There was, friends | pire demonstrated that the partici- sald, no trouble between ths two. | pants realized “the value of the While hundreds watched around | THE HANDS OF principle of each for all and all the elk pen at the park, Mrs, Hilton | {for each." DEATH! suddenly took from her vant }a seven-ounce bottle of poison and drank it, She sank, unconscious, to EVA STARR OUT ON BAIL the ground. While the crowd milled Eva Starr, arrested by, federal around, she was taken by J. W. prohibition agents Saturday night, Reidt, foreman of the zoo, to the | Mf at 1430 Clawford pl. was released on hospital. | $750 bail Monday, when urraigned before United States Commissioner | H. S. Elliott, on charges of liquor |law violations. RIDER DROWNED Boys Watch Man Fall Off of Pony in Newaukum River HERE ARE THE FIVE BEST PROGRAMS FOR RADIO ENTHUSIASTS | CHEHALIS, July i4.—The body TURES jof un unidentified young man,| § ght, 1924, by United 'Press) about. 29 years of age, Hes in the ‘OC—Davenport, 484 meters, 8 lay, after being re- | Ps My 0.8.7, the Newaukum river | Rock Island Kiwan: Program by club, morgue here t covered from late Sunday afternoon. “The moving finger writes,|| KDKA—Pittsburg, 326 meters, I, fe boys, playing oS the river | and having writ, moves on” | a pom, ; th i rhage: |bank, saw the man, who was rid “he $i chestra and the Davis Male line & pony, Attempt to fond the —and marke the passing of quartet. jriver, At first the horse retused| fo more lives from guns in|} wiw—cincinnati, niatere to attempt tho crossing, and when} Seattle, both suicides, Sun-|| 8 p.m, TY, — Cincinnati spurred on, stepped into a hole! day, The total deaths since|| municipal opera. !While the pony floundered in the} | WIJZ—New Yo! 455 meters, | the first of the year fron} gunshots is divided as fol-| lows: Suicides, 17; homi-| cides, 11; accidents, 3. Autos, | since January 1, have taken} toll of 22 lives in the city. Jeep water, the rider, unable to ex jtricate himself, called for help. Lawrence Woreh, 17, one of the| |boy# on the bank, plunged into tho jriver in an attempt to rescue the ider, but was unsuccesful and both man and horse, were drowned, p.m, 'rench pro: gram by the Goldman Concert band from Central park WDAFKansags City, ait meters, 8 p.m, GC. 8. TL—-WDAF Minstrels,