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PAGE 4 STARTS WORK Another Reparations Meet | Being Staged in London BY LLOYD ALLEN gathere hoe table ror st n of reparatior and means allied m A t lett;! Ministers Detafant and Benava, | of Ltaly; Premier Theunis and & ; nd M. Hayashi, of Jap nd dignitar Outside the foreign office a great tourists stood all morning, watching the delegates arrive. The Japanese statesmen were the | first to drive up, and after them representatives of the various na- tions came in quick succession. GROCERS’ PICNIC DRAWS CROWD Woodland Park Scene of 22-Event Affair Today Thousands attended the 2th an- nual picnic of the Seattle Retail Grocers’ association at Woodland “ park today, to take part in various contests, a bal! game and compete for stunt prizes, Scores of children were entered in the parade, scheduled for 4 o'clock in the afternoon, while other scores gathered around mothers offered to the mether, with the largest afmily. A community boat race on Green lake, with $100 worth of prizes, was a feature. There were 22 events, altogether, on the program. Bar News Services under $0, BUENOS AIRES, July 16.—The rights of the United Press and the Associated Press to function dn Brazil have been revoked by gov- ernment order, Charles Kinsolving, United Press manager in Rio De Janeiro cabled the Buenos Aires United Press headquarters today. An army rebellion {s underway in Brazil. SAFETY PIN IS CAUGHT IN THROAT OF INFANT ILEVELAND, Ohio, July 16.— The life of seven-month-old Edward Dorjorski depended today on whether an open safety pin lodged in his throat will work its way into the infant’s stomach without scratching the throat membranes. Nothing can be done to re- lieve the infant. Physicians said an operation is inadvisable. Once in the stomach, however, the pin may be removed. lomestic science. inating subscribers, 1308 Fourth Avenue 20 dhe USAN |slans on July J crowd of Londoners and American | ag: competing for $38 werth of groceries | During Brazil War | This scientific invention Appreciating fully the liberal patr ALLIED PARLEY Tourists Learn About Us at Sports Exhibit SHOT DEAD | SEVEN TOWNS Thousands Visit Show and Dis Our Hunting and F 3 are seeing eo and sports rismen's as 1 Blanchard Wednesday ne passed the hours, Tuesday e day's attend people from the Bust ex appreciation pres and wonder at the exhibits,” Henry said. “The certainly is proving an education to te . and game pos This official city day, and] THE ABSGONDER 18 SEATT roy Chase by Airplanes Ends in over Wyoming Tragedy ishing Possibilities ROCK SPRINGS, Wyoming July *16.—€ ty off nd empl t have ab ed show guests, Mayor here with the » , rod of the Gunn-Quealy sued a proclamatior Coal compa shot to dew aside and has wr pasy, was shot to death : while resisting arrest at Gunn, department heads, v Wyo. this morning, according attend to word received here At 8 o'cloc) Fisher, who was cashier for wane © sone | the coal company, had been on “a y| Pursued for nearly 24 hours hdl ete cr-| With airplanes and by posses in dale, on pe automobiles, horseback and The invalids will be cared for and! Sfoot. ; bs nty of time to seo every-|. Funds taken by Fisher from a bank in Rock Springs amounted t =F —|more than $6,000. th = RUSSIANS COME MUST FACE OLD: President Grant Bringing First Quota Here | The Admiral-Oriental Pres! dent Grant, due in Seattle July 21,/ will be the first passenger ship to reach this port with Russian im-| migrants. The President Grant sailed from Yokohama on July 11.| The bars were lifted to the Rus and the President | Grant iv the first passenger ship | to sail from the Orient since that te, Local immigration authorities say Russian immigration this year will| be considerably lighter than last year, The quota ts 4,000, as com- pared with 25,000 in 1923, No advices have as yet been re ceived at the Admiral-Oriental lino joffice regarding the President Grant's passenger list, and the num: | | ber of Russians on the big Pacific iner is unknown here. HERE’S MORE ABOUT U. S. FLYERS STARTS ON PAGE1 |) companions, Officials of the alr ministry, tn cluding General Branckner, air commander, extended official wel- Jcome to the aviators. | A score of mechanics were walt ling to groom the world flight ma chines, the first thought of the flyers after they had landed. , The crowds made a rush for the |spot where the planes cames to earth, but were held back by a thin blue line of London “Bobbies, specially picked for the occasion. The sleepy little neighboring vil- ge of Waddon was in a state of excitement since dawn and tho |single track trolley connecting it |with Croydon was kept busy bring |ing,as many as it could hold to the | atrdrome. | After the first welcome here the jairmen were to go to London by} | automobile, The Americans took off from Lebourget, on the outskirts of Paris, at 11:06 a. m. and were ef corted by five French planes as far as the channel. There, an air express plane, carrying 14 passen- gers, who had paid huge sums for the privilege, guided the world fly- ers to England. . . - Maj. MacLaren Is Continuing Flight) LONDON, July 16.—Wireless re-| | porta to Tokyo today said that Maj | }A. S.C. MacLaren, lone British| | flyer, who is battling his way across the dangerous northern Pacific route | |to Alaska, has left the island of Yetorofu for Paramashiru. Wan and Son Are Drowned Together OKANOGAN, July 18.—C. W. Sor- réls and his son John were drowned in the Okanogan river, three miles below Malott, yesterday afternoon. The supremacy of the Lorain Automatic Heat Controlled Gas Range is an established fact. (The Gas Company) json, of Pike county, Kentucky, came }the West Virginia side of the Big} marks the greatest achievement of modern atronage of so many of its discrim- the Seattle Lighting Company announces close of the most satisfactory thirty-day period of gas range merchan- dising it has ever enjoyed. SEATTLE LIGHTING CO. Fisher was observed at 1 o’clo orning at one of the mine junn-Quealy company by J mine foreman, Walker Jordered him to put up his hands | Fisher raised one hand slowly and | Walker, noticing that he held some jthing in his hand, opened fire, send ing one bullet thru the body, A water, bottle was found in Fisher's CHARGES Lewis County Man Arrested for 22-Year-Old Murder need of a gun, as Walker ected 7 es r died in a hospital at Gunn Pe rey coger edi z tl a! hours after the shooting. 4 ig Pocondagy rk amie All the stolen money was recov ne A, rea Jered, in addition to $70 belonging being taken to Kentucky to face @ «| t 2") . There waa more than charge of murder, committed 22/t@ Misher al a “| $6,000 in the loot | Tra rte tivied bentatuity aba Mine employes had been on tho| fully for @ score of years, the long| kout for the fugitive near where ann of the law reached out tr hey was eg _ ‘deed preg ry the Blue Grass state and collarod|/% # cache of food and pla Steele to face an almost forgotten |Which he had apparently ten charge. Deputy Sheriff J. M. Joha- | bery. out and arrested Steele. According to Johnson, 22 years) Asks Divorce From ago a drunken man appeared on/ Sundy river and shot at Steele Steele got his rifle and returned the fire, slaying the man, accc to the charge. Johnson recognized Steelo recently LOS ANGELES, July 16—James C? Odom wants a divorce, but not from his wife. He wants one from his mother-in-law |plaint to hia wife's divorce action, when he came to Chehalle to at| on, tie today,- Odom denied the rest Roland Wallace, of Morton,| i intitrs allegation that he desert also wanted in Pikeville op @ mur+los yo. Rather he wan ejected from der charge. Ho said he did notii. house by his wife's mot believe Steele would go to trial, Odom declares. He therefore rc sae EF | tions: In a cross-com petl o ° | “That the court make an order di- Seattle Librarian recting that’ the complainant ¢. Dre © a home his wife and Is Returning Home! ii)". ) jeeinie In bala onder a Seattle's It Amer. Judson T, Jennings, brarian and president of th can Library association, ret matte Ws the | ing said crons-co bd sab ‘0 | from his mothe nnual convention of the associ | One Dead, One Hurt ation in the East. The 1925 meeting in Oregon Accident will be held in. Seattle, AMITY, Ore., July 16.—W. A Loveland, 61, was 4 and Mra, O, G. Coffee, his daughter, seriounly in jured when their car went thru the raf! of the West Amity bridge yes- terday, stipulation that. sald mother-in-law make herself cons tol her absence the Carpenter Held as a Drunken Driver J. J. Harilick, 43, a carpenter, was held in the city jail Wednesday on a charge of driving while drunk. Ho | eae was orrested at 1:35 a. m. by Pa trolman Edward T. Hunt at w4th Barnyard Golfers ave, 8. W. and. W, Spokane st. Slate Tournament PASADENA, Cal., July 16.—Th fourth anndal tournament of tt California State Horseshoe F association wil held here Aug }27, 28 and 29. Cash prizes and trophies will be awarded. THURSDAY WIRELESS _ BILLS OFFER MANY MUSICAL FEATURES (Copyright, 1924, by United Press) GY, Schenectady (380 meters), 8 p.m., E. 8. T.—The Liberty Bell chorus KPO, San Francisco (423 me- ters), 7 to 10 p.m, P. C. 8. T— Orchestra, organ recital, soprano solos. CKAC, Montreal (425 meters), 8 p.m, E. 8 T.—Special pro. gram of vocal and instrumental music. WSB, Atlanta (429 meters). 1045 p.m, C. 8. T.—Dr, Charles A. Sheldon, municipal organist. WE. New York (492 meters), 9p. m., E. 8. T.—Vincent Lopez and his orchestra. Dobanllee Eight Fires in Entiat Valley WENATCHEE, July 16.—Fight jf are burning over tho a lriver valley, one of which ¢: ia Jovér: more Yhan 100 acres,, accord: jing to reports from emergency fire lfighters who wero rushed to the |¥eene from here Tuesday, eee ‘Smoked in Forest; | Gets 22 Days’ Term | PORTLAND, July 16.—Smoking a jclgaret in a national forest reserve Tuesday «cost Thomas Carey, con- Istruotion gang workman, 22 days in fail. Because of the forest fire danger, all smoking “was forbidden in ter. ritory on the Salt creek watershed jin the Cascade national forest, Carey was arrested and sen: tenced when he pleaded guilty be fore Federal Judge Bean Tuesday, | Waren TICE | Water will be @hut off | | Thursday from § a. m. to | | 12, noon, on 43rd ave. N., from | | E, Garfield to E. Madison sts, | | It will be shut off from 8 a, | | m. to 4 p. m., Thursday, on: | | Broadway from | Madison sts. | Cherry from Minor to Broad. | way. Minor gve. | | Broadway. RESET TEES RTE SO Jefferson to | from Cherry to Plan to Release ' Eammon de Valera | LONDON, July 16.—The Irish Free State has made plans for the release |in the near future of Eamonn De Valera, Who {8 in prison at Dublin, according to information received | here, GIRL REALTOR IS GUEST Miss $M. Dillard, former attle girl, who is now a realtor at Long Beach, Cal., will be the honor guest at the meeting of the Seattle Real Estate board Thursday noon in the Hotel Butler banquet room, HERE ARE THE FIVE | BEST CONCERTS ON WEDNESDAY PROGRAM (Copyright, 1924, by United Press) DKA—Pitts meters, 8 p m, E, T.—Musical ram, soprano, tenor, Davenport, 484 meters, § , 8. T.—Organ recital by Irwin Swindell. KYW—Chicago, 636 meters, 8 to 11 p. m, C. T. —~ Musical program and Hidnight Revue.” WJZ, New York, 455 meters, 7:30 p.m. B, 8. 'T.—New York Philharm orehe KHJ, Los Angel 6 meters, 8 to 10 p. m, P. C, 8—De Luxe musical program, the MA in-6767 jin. the hills shortly before the rob-| they y| showing slides which call fdr volun: t | near Nelson, B. C., still were missing LE ST FLAMES MENACE: AR Territory on East Side Still Threatened by Fires —Seven oma Lost Creek Ss” KANE, J 16 Or Diamond City er, lone ¢, Cusick and Blue nder threat of 4 4 be omes be © gathered eir know whether tand. wand ecres of timber been burned over and de three“ranches bave Homeless Families Escape Fire Death KELLOGG, Idaho, July 16—Home 8 refugees, who have in trails, pursued forest fire in arrived tod Many of them take refuge In r the devouring swept by | The experience of W. O. Dillon and family, of Trapper creck, is typical of the escape of many others, When the flames approached his home} Dillon and his wife took thelr four | children, with a supply of food and| water, into a mine tunnel, There) remained for 18 hours, while| the fire, raging about the entrance, | destroyed thelr home. When the dan} wer had passed Mr, and Mrs. Dillon | | with their children made their way| ied over rock ares SPO His Mother-in-Law | over the blackened ridges to Bt. Joe. | | The Pine Creek fire, which started last week, is now estimated to have done $1,000,000 worth of damage to | Mine and timber properties and to| jTanches, has split into two sections, one of which in eating its way up the ridges toward Bt. Joo, while the | other encircles Kellogg Peak and is | blazing fiercely within three miles of this city, Fire Warden Patrick Roff has | weneral direction of the battle against the fumes and ts receiving assistance | from the Idaho Timber Owners’ Pro- | tective association, Moving picture | theaters in Kellogg, Wallace, Coeur | d'Alene, St. Joe and St. Maries are} | teers, j | Tho Constitution mine, which has | been in Jeopardy for two days, was! still safe on Wednesday morning. oie: © 24 Persons Lost . * | in Forest Fires N FRANCISCO, July 16—Fires « thru the forests of the Pa-| Je coast centered thelr fury in | northern California and northern/ | Idaho today, with at least 24 persons | missing and two injured | Fires in northern Idaho have de-| | stroyed 250 homes in the Pine creek | jeanyon country, razed the buildings jof the Nabob mine, with a loss of| 000, and today were reported tening the Constitution mine. | venty employes of the Nabob| mine were reported to have fled back into the hills for safety and their present whereabouts are unknown, Several families fought their way thru the belt of fire yesterday and reached safety. Four members of the Doukhober| colony, living on Porcupine creek, tr |today, after the fire had raged be- tween them and the villages where! | other members of the colony* had taken refuge. In Northern California, the Kiam- ath national forest was apparently the scene of tho most serious fires today. Two fires there, one on Humbug mountain and the other in the Gooseneck district, have burned over 10,000,000 feet of standing, ma- tured timber and were racing on today, defying the fire crews, before a 46-mile gale. Two hundred men were “conscripted” to fight fire at Yreka, 40 miles from the Klamath forest, last night, ‘Two men were in- jured by falling trees, In the Tahoe forest the situation still was described as “dangerous” altho somewhat improved as com- pared with yesterday morning. The fire in the Santa Barbara forest, which for two days was the worst on the Coast, now has been temporarily checked, reports here indicated, but the situation still is critical. Fires Beaten Down in Southern: Woods LOS ANGELES, July 16—The for- est fire situation in southern Calli- fornia was reported less hazardous today, On several fronts the blazes are under control, while firefighters in other sections were hopeful of hav- ing the flames well in hand within a few hours. The new fire in the Pine canyon district of the Santa Barbara Na- tional forest is the most active at present, according to word received by local forestry service officials to- day. There, a 10-mile wall of flame is sweeping a pathway towards King’s canyon, threatening to reach the Tweedy Gun club and numerous small resorts in King's canyon un- less it is halted, see Showers Beat Out Woods Fires Here One-seventh of an inch of rain fell in Seattle Tuesday, It put out all the small fires near Seattle and brought the more menacing forest blazes in Mason and Skagit counties under control. There was no indication of further showers here Wednesday but confinued cool and cloudy weather would prevent new out. breaks west of the Cascades, it was believed, ‘Tuesday's showers totaled .14 of an inch of rain in Seattle, the heaviest of any place between Brit. ish Columbia and Portland, report: ing to the Seattle federal weather bureau office, according to Meteor ologist M. B. Summers, It brought the total for the first half of July to .27 of an Inch which {s .05 of an inch below the average for the half. month for $4 years, Courtesy FASHION’S these days, in Sport Coats even better values ard—and - still Sat oriced at only , they style authenticity. Sport Coats, new mod- els; some fur trimmed. WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 tty (We Tell It With VALUES} LATEST UTTERANCES —effectively developed into creations of Summertime Beauty, now presented by “Sweet Sixteen” As Fashion-correct models they reveal all the smartness that New York approves for Chic Suits and Frocks | Attuned to the mode, en- riched by their fine fabrics and distinctively improved in workmanship, they are than “Sweet Sixteen” insistently maintained must be stand- are To see these garments, fresh from the minds and artistic fingers of designers and makers, heartens lovers of the beautiful and modish when contrasted with gar- ments whose only appeal is in the “reduced price” be- cause they have lost their NEW SUMMER HAT at a price that will save you a lot of money BEFORE ALTERATIONS ARE MADE Three Groups, Now $1.95 $3.95 New York Los Angeles Street Car and Auto Collide, Woman Hurt In a collision with a street car at the north end of the Untversity bridge, about 1 o'clock Wednesday morning, automobile driven by P. W. Studeman, 2251 W. 64th st., was badly damaged and Marie Mallory was severely cut on the head and face. Studeman was driving south on|watching Star Want Ad columns. N, E. and tried to cross the street car, which crashed into the auto, demolishing one side of it. The girl was taken to the city hospital and given treatment. Stude- man was not injured. I’ AN underground telephone cable scarcely thicker than a man’s wrist there are 2400 threadlike copper wires, cach pair providing a path fot instant speech, These highways of the spo- ken word, buried beneath many an American city, are carrying thousands of voices simultane- ously from office to factory and , some from coast to coast. If released from their copper carriers, these messages would sound a Babel, in which none BELL SYSTEM $5.85 Rialto Block, Second Ave. at Spring St. Metal Workers * A Strike in Se A strike ‘of sheet metal for $1 a day pay & called Tuesday. union members have quit’ NTR Wid DEER: | cording to reports. The wa Local Stocks and Bonds are adver. |troversy has been in pie tised in Star Want Ads every Wed-|several months, The p nesday and Friday. Keep posted by |!s $8.50 a day, $9.50. strands, were voiced aloud. Anaverageof 54,000,000 tele phone conversations speed daily over the wires of the Bell Sytem. By hundreds in cables, by dozent in the open wires, they travel it silence side by side, to find voice again only at their journey'sents Muted as they pass from tele phone to telephone, they weavé the pattern of the nation’s Y The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co am ~ an ,