The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 19, 1924, Page 1

fi iWhites Arming for Rescue as SAVAGES KIDNAP TWO WOMEN ann i VOL. 26. NO. ———— HOME ti The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington RES PEE whee WEATHER mon Lhe SeattleSta Botered as Bec 4 Clans Matior May 2, 1899, at the Postotfice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Cor March 3, 1819. Per Year, by Mall, $3.60 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1924. ok TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. |, Pats Ove” Her Dad Fight fo Reduce TWO HELD i | \Finish Battle Promised by Revelle in | Suit Against Produce Men IN WILDS | | FINISH fight in the govern-|violation of the Sherman | ; i | ment's suit for the dissolution! law. lof the Seattle Produce association| “We have received complaints from Volunteers Called | was promised Saturday by United}many sources as to the procedure of | States Attorney Thomas P. Revelle.|the association,” Revelle declared} For to Save Duo | On the other hand, Maj. E. 8.) Saturday. Held: & Bush | Gill, secretary of the association,| “The farmer feels that he has not| e€ vy ushmen '}) TOHN FRED KADEN, German immigrant, and his family, were happy, | hard-working mining town people back in 1912. They lived at Clal- hin some timbers fell on John and crushed his spine and his right hip. He’s been permanently crippled since. The state legislature increased accident compensation last year to for a man and wife and one child. But because John was crippled prior to March 15, 1919, and because he took a needed lump sum in war- time, he and his family are starving on $12.54 a month. | His homestead is dry; his overworked wife is sick in bed. His 12-year- WC HEr A z was equally strong in his statement|received fair treatment, while many} 4 H i | old son is undernourished and suffering from “bad teeth.” that the government's bomb would| consumers feel that they have been| 22 Polynesia i ] . * : . prove to be a “dud.” | |forced to pay prices that are too| His own county pleads its own poverty as reason for not helping him. Res ee andl gi Raped ppg, 9 De (Copyri by United Press) ; So John started hobbling 275 miles to Seattle. |government Friday, is attracting| “We hope by this action to bring | ]\/PELP! Australia, July 19. fi wide interest both from the farm-|about a situation that will be of ben A native boatman, tacki ling element, which supplies the|fit to the people as a whole, regard-| his coasting skiff into the harbor at Shall thees simple folk starve in the midst of plenty? t d John's sgl Page 3. produce, and from the city citizens,| lems of {ts effect upon the dealers in| Punt Darwin, tela ot (hve: Wanaplok t ait | who have to buy ft. | question.”” 2 he kidnapit | Filing of the sult was responstble| SAYS COMPLAINT of white women by blacks, which 3 ti |for # hasty return to the city by|IS “ABSURD” blanched the faces of his he | both Revelle and Gill. The former} “The whole complaint of the sult! drove Au |came in from a vacation in East-|4s absurd,” Maj. Gill declared, “to| cue expec }ern Washington when Informed that} anyone familiar with conditions on | took plac |papers in the sult were ready for| ‘the street.’ There isn't a time when| The gover filing. ‘The latter hurried back to| prices won't vary among the differ-|the admin ans to arms an¢ Chicago Slayers str thern | Seattle Friday night on reading|ent dealers. While the dealers often) territory to enlist ~ volunteers and | about {t in the Seattle papers. |confer with euch other regarding|/arm a strong relief foree to go into | INVESTIGATION ON prices being asked and paid, there) the fearsome, unexplored islands ad- { | SEVERAL MONTHS | never was. any concerted action by| joining the rugged north coast in | |}. The ansociation has been quietly j the association or by the dealers @5) search of Mrs. James Willetts and | | |investigated by the United States de-|a whole.” her daughter, who were carried off partment of justice for several] aj. Gill emphatically denied that) py aborigines after the entire crew months, Revelle declared, before the| the nssociation did any buying of| and the male passengers of tho s if {| Prosecution Cannot Prove Just Where! . present sult was started produce, as the government charges.| steamer Douglas Mawson had been Franks Murder Was Committed | : |.Phe government charges that price.| He stated that the association,| speared to death on the sands of tho jfixing and buying by agents of the | which has been in existence for 18! Guif of Carpentaria ou association have been carried on in Sia) Copyright, 1924, ‘by United Pres)/full confession of their crime, at no Doc Winning- ‘HICAGO, July 19.—Where i> have told Just where theie, Hogan held a was Robert Franks killed] yirentevoucnr ey rem ene Giukent 64 the oe Pads defense counsel suid. As a matter Tat teotettas, |—Illinois or Indiana? of fact, Darrow said, the defendants | Nobody knows, not even/|do not know just when and where} A see | Nathan Leopold and Richard/ths Franks boy died. Pasingham won the first round. Loeb, youthful millionaires| | There were ne witnesses to the) ithe Of his flapjacks was played | y, Me . | murder. state has only the} . aia caseralieeg vec who confessed. to the KiMing, | signes onfessions of the slayers as | 7 Stele | the defense holds. |testimony of when and where they But Hogan evened things up rhen| And the foregoing is the|killed their victim. According to MM ercected a flapjack that could! reason why the defense be-|*%!" confessions, this is what hap: tued 03 @ Ford bumper. rcén ea cast | pened } a chee jlieves the boys will never} They met Robert Franks and took Barringer of Chicago, ors.| hang for the crime, it was re-|nim for an automobile ride thru| Green and J. W. Kinney, act-| Vealed today. jthe exclusive residential sections of - js , ‘ tigas jodges, sampled each flapjack. | univer-|Chleago's South Side | Because Miss Betty Lindsley, aged five, shows signs al- (Turn to Page 2, Column 6) AND GIRL OF BLACKS aD Tho last seen of the unfortunats mother and daughter, who, it is be lieved, may long sinve have died, was as they disappeared into the bush e Surrounded. by their black captors | who shook spears-and threatened to } | nesses to the tragedy attempted res- cue. gout! 7 | The steamer Douglas “Mawson dis. ‘New West Seattle Bridge Too Narrow smi U2 oot for Trolleys and Autos Both Soe wen wulienn neue te eee pion —the native crew of a small coast- | ‘ ME Ww s * , | ing boat recently visited some islands OME day West Seattle folks are going to have a new edinoiat to thie wilhta nest Gaba ee To convict the youthful f; ° > > stee! i ¥ i } [Up to time of going to press, little|.i+y graduates and to send them to| Within a few minutes after Rob- |ready of wanting to follow in her father’s footsteps, Judge|~, steel and, concrete bridge. ? That's the promise from the |itea coast of the northern territory. tepewas held out for their recovery. | eg : ert got into the car one of tho boys| Joseph B. Lindsley brought her along from Spokane when|CitY engineer's office. It’s going to be a great convenience) The island regions of these islands : eee eee gallows, the state must prove struck him over the head with a he came to the ‘ud es’ conventi ° s ttl H > 4 \for those who drive automobiles. j never ave been penetrated, but are ‘Amectator at the contest was se-|that they killed the Franks boy| cloth-bound chisel Mae ae ON IN EAU, i268. JOMg| | believed to consist of practically wa- : F Wrcsectas iocon ita the. Yalta of Cook eousty,| Then’ thay érvge ‘bree the. Cul back as president of the Washington State Judges associa-| But the fellow who rides in a street car won't know much terless desert Fa faplack in the air. but it missed the defense points out. ‘This, thelcago limits, acrosd the county and|tion and Miss Lindsley claims all the credit, as his cam-|about the new bridge, except what he can see of it from a| From blacks who live on the shore ; ; aileteie’ tes ; i still will ri se hada near Cape Wilberforce, the native We trying pan coming down, and |deferise claims, can never be proved.|state line into Indiana. | paign manager. distance. Because he still will ride over the shaky, creaky | eer Cane ere ee ate ‘Oh'the spectetor’s right foot.; If the state falls to prove that| They had prepared gags and —Photo by Frank Jecoha, Star State Photographer/ Old wooden swing bridge. “Eee Pi - story of the end of the Douglas Maw: Franks wi killed in Cook int b! it ydrochior id with them | ' ~ . : oe mgithe case tha ie longer? wader. tod eae ithe lite. ot there ne tig. | YVHEN Judge Joseph B. Lindsley, | Lindsley believe it | That's the program as mapped out Saturday by Council-|*0". The. smear: sroseres er MMYINGS “OF THE GREAT | | jurisdiction of Chicago courts and|When they reached a quiet point| '' Who fs known as Joo to every:| | Betty said today she was going to)man William T, Campbell. Campbell announced that ap- ton thee ee ee Neal: “Ft floats.” if the case goes to another Iilinois|atong the county road near Hess-|body in Spokane, came to Seattle tor | {ol “ia piso ri be scan ry Joe. | plication had been made to the United States government} ie shipwrecked party made their sae pena ratte’ wanominas’ toe a ee, pied Red big an pit: |the annual meeting of the Washing \uput daddy over,” “"*/for use of the old structure for street cars. way to the beach in a small boat, s ress Robert and put the finishing | ton State Judges’ association, he) 1; don’t know if she's goin, ¥ " j if , ° 7 jt | BLACK ABORIGINES i Drove. Ww = 5 ba : ing tobe! The new steel bridge will have str 2 ; 3 “An onion diet is the secret of my | prosecution to prove where Robert|touches on their crime. brought little Miss Betty Lindsley,| judge when she grows up,” Judge Bs eet car tracks laid on it) cppack SURVIVORS Franks met death, the defense| Here it was, according to thelr/his eldest daughter, with him as ‘for ornamental or emergency purposes, either way you : | {Lindsley told The Star, | “but 1 ‘ ° Subsequently a large force of lad Xou can't keep an’ onion | claims. rae ee sang tContensions, that they found for the] campaign manager, |thought st would do her good to) Want to look at it. But no cars will run there because the| piack aborigines, « fierce tribe from seeret.’ cages Leopold and. Loeb, altho making (Turn to Page 2, Column 1) He's leaving for home sasitey | site with state judges and see| bridge will be only 40 feet wide and the operation of street| the bush, of which the blacks that : | ———— | night with the presidency of the as-| how they work.” i lived: along: the ‘shore ‘were justitied= Settle has had 9 different police 3 a . sociation tucked in his pocket. Of] The judge was prosecuting attor- be na acts en ie eee structure would cause ly afraid, rushed upon the ‘sur- inthe past month. Guess the| |course, if Betty hadn't been to ail/ney of Spokane county before his traffic jams similar to those now experienced, Campbell | vivors, on is trying to confuse} |the meetings and along on all the/ election to the bench. The jump ts | thinks. The males, putting up what. re+ bootleggers. | > trips here he might still have been| supposed to be the hardest of any| $o the man in the street car, in )better service than if the cars were | sistance they could, were impaled eee “4 , president—but you can't make Miss|in state offices. spite of the fact that he probably |/royted over the bascule structure,”| on the sands with huge spears and ieee tie! fashion’ Sealgners| cas in Acisone, Julyis<-Mex!”. ‘Whebindiis escaped with tbe an ig eer ee |is a propérty owner and paying the|said Councilman Campbell, Friday. | later buried. The two women, wife pe ot ppd bed ats | igan ;troops . from). Mazatlan | tire payroll after thoroly plundering | famé_pro. rata and possibly more) ‘To operate cars on the new 40-|&nd daughter: of James’ Willetts, = they/ designed the balloon ‘ th rf vho rides in a re y who had boarded th ? i t uth of the 3 | than the fellow who rides in an} foot bridge would délay traffic and| Passenger ad ne ; | foarpnea i nih emeay wratin4e the the. wrecked train; according to'word rop our e e S In |automobile, will swing around over | cause jams on both sides. The city| Steamer at Normanton, were care- abd of rebels believed responsible for the recelved'here. Two of the band were the old huik that everybody 13} council expects to provide bridge fa-| fully spared. When the slaughter ; sie POISON | vrecking of a Southern’ Pacific of| captured. The remainder, of un ° Jafraid of and watch his brother] cilities that will permit the traffic| Was over the blacks .moved off The 3 wv Mexico train south of here late yes/| known strength, rode away to the j#coot across the nice, new bridge) to pass across the waterway with-|into the bush, taking the women. | moron that brings his car to! terday. hills. jhe pas dug down into his jeans to} out @ criss-cross of vehicles and| Once, when a ‘search’ party of On the cross-walk, while! two men were killed and nearly a|* Many’ of the injured passengers |help pay for. street railway lines.” natives would have Intervened, the sant of people are trying to get! hundred injured‘in the wreck, and| may die, according to reports from| ‘Tho old bridge, !t Js announced,| A lot of West Seattle folks, and| aborigines made signs they would one guard was slain and four wound-| physicians who were rushed to the Street Corner Campaign Saturday to will be repaired in such a way as/a Jot of folks from all over the| Spear their captives to death if a | “um hd ed defending a payroll being taken to|scene from Nogales and Mazatlan | 7 to insure Its safety city, thought’ the West Spokane! rescue were attempted or if the Sullapin is going to sing the lead-| $a Diemas. with medical supplies last night. | Aid Salt Water Pro ject “While It seems unfair to street| st. bridge was going to be wide] women made ‘any effort to‘ signal foe in an opera written around J car riders to compel them to use} enough to accommodate all traffic.| their plight to possible passing ves- Me ot John L. Sullivan. It’s too the old bridge, while motorists use But probably that was too much| selt : ‘ Bett Williams |g dead! Think to $1,000, in $1 subscrip-) Seattle's share of the purchase price/the new one, they really will get! for a city engineer to think about.| Representative Nelson, from the * * a in | (Los he could sing an opera written IC tions, were reported by the/ of $18,000 for a “poor man's pura-| * northern territory, yesterday urged Mont Yack Johnson! Young Men's Business club drive} dive,” half way hetween Seattlo and| Premier Bruce to send armed men . s s Jsolicitors for the state salt water) 1 to search for Mrs. Willetts*and her 45 ° . ‘acoma, on the Sound. e e e FE prigetighters’ lives \park fund for the past two days| Now that th tor] daughter in the hope they may yet ed ages tobe é ; ¥ wg | park r inys} 3 at the “common folks,” for 1m e e Att material for comic operas, EHERAN, Persia, July 19— |United States government prepared | suiuraay, |whom the park is planned, havel | be rescued: The » government: au~ thorized the enlistment of volun- : y da for Y yet hear Ww! Maj. Robert W. Imbrie, | vigorous action to secure amen right “Piece, Pecks Taner American vice consul, was beat. |the murder. s ‘ . en to death by a native mob Confiri TNE ie Ce: Back ot 0 ore here Friday. ‘The ‘Persians, re-, | brie arrived at the state department ek of a Ford: A big. street-corner drlye, with| been “sold” on. the idea, it's time to women presiding at sidewalk tables,| make it unanimous, With the wives M4 teers and the reinforcement) of tho ot Young Men's Business club mem- on Yac Ss eaning ess northern police, for a strong force ers ering today to take in| will be necessary. sented an atteript by Maj. Im- |from the American Iegation at To Paty Nolanteerthg, today); to), take ini NET Cetvot e TaGehGak deoeinee brie. to photograph a sacealled | eran, aes to see which- firm's personnel will| and Including as much ag you want , and a Malay crew recently were magic ‘fousitala”, of. whieh’ the subscribe the largest amount to|to give, and Charlie Frisbie and That S One Reason Why West Seattle murdered In the same locality. | i} natives stand jn awe. Robert Whitney Imbrie was born] «ttte’s $10,000 quota, Jack Edwards “all dolled up" to put An American’ who was with the|in Washington, D.C. April 22, 1881" senait outlying communities were| across the enterprise on. the streets, | Bridge and Other Jobs Drag SEEK FIREBUG fon of the killing of Im. , o 5 of In| was to be staged all day Saturda Employes of big business hous were engaged in a friendly rivalry| contributions, from a nickel up. tol bali lee teh oS S| cL peter ig a Hig| pledging support, moral and finan-|it looks like a record-breaking day | ney has 0 shortened the yas ersity 9 Fegitired for making a motion | '",% hospital. br VU ASEAN bah lb clal, to the campaign. |for the club’s community campaign. | " . . | was 5 P t yract a forcen every other picture) UTe4 & ge Rapa a a eS | ences Aes . urday in the campaign to vol (Turn to Page 2, Column 2) er picture ‘a mob made fanatical] French army in 1915 and served un 3 Oty atte every picture, | DotPetrated by | Numerous extensions of time] construction projects. Out of the | granted to contractors by the board | number it granted 86 extensions to} | of public works, have created a gen:| contractors who failed to finish their| Police. Discover Flames in by the recent agitation against for-,til 1917, Appointed vice consul eral impression that no public work] jobs on time, the records show. Sok os cigners. [Petrograd August 24, 1917, he Inter ® | need be completed on schedule if an | NOTHING UNUSUAL" Apartment | House yas assigned fee consul at Vi extra effort or expense is required,| SAYS THE MEMBER _ Ye DIARY Pirin’ Wes assigned as ree 0a S 0 a es Ips xtra effor i 4 MEMBE! (July a | LONDON, . July 19—-The Amerl-}borg December 22, 1919. He was} clty records indicate, “There's nothing unusual about] Firemen and police Saturday, were . hy coach to the and European colonies are.jn a| sent to Constantinople as vice con-| ‘This, West Seattle residents be- | granting time extensions—it has been | in search of a firebug who early in Lang! two sets of lawn tennis, | state Aid play tho better game, | the of time, sul October 13, 1920. Major Imbrie was married lesa lieve, is one re: made by the contractors to, hasten|a member of the bos n no effort has been | done ever sinee contracts were let,” | the morning imperiled the liv heran, said, a score of tenants of the St of constérnation. in Persian capital, following the | Run By Navy From Pier 1 strlp- | death of Maj, Imbrie, United States \than two years ago to Miss Kather B' AUSK many. visttors and The for-hire boats mostly run || work on the Sest Spokane St. bridge.) While City Engineer J. D, Black-| apartments, 1 Ninth ave. He set » Lewis, |CCatn ar é Pasta ww cfitidla aul sined | {10 Gillespie, of New Rochett tizens do not know that from the harbor patrol stip, far. Contractors, anxious to keey sever- | well claims that he invariably urges | fire to two rooms ‘dn the ‘second y Bteart | VICE’ COnsal, . | ¥., when she was directing the Neu the navy is running free bonts to | ther north, A sign: “To the Bat. || a Jobs going at a time, start one Job, | that penalties be collected from dila- | floor mt . | 7 i a vinie p04 lake, fon at the hands of a mob which beat \ mast rellet ornt oiithabtornise then pull mon off of it for another, | tory contractors but that he has only| The fire was discovered by & po- and from naval vessels anchored | Ueships," lures many touristy in: | P, " him to. death. Another a oeitad, | Turk h capital. ii MLE Harbor, many use | to the belief that the free boats || This ties up not one Job but several. | one voto on the board. and frequently | licoman at-2:12 a.m. Due to quick 2%, \Ceptaty, se |1s werlounly: wounde ro 4 in Pee ba — é forced to pay 50 cents for the | leave from the same slip, | It is usually profitable to the con: | is overruled, other board members de- | work by the firemen, the flames wore ag 2a 0), NE: aKa er ace ng ne tie e ee ot the DAVIS ON VACATION round trip in privately owned A big sign (0 acquaint, visitors || tractor because he has not been pen- | clare that the practice of the hoard is | prevented from spreading the the Trt have 1 He off the seas, \which lacks full particu WOOLWICH, Me., July 19.-~After || pouts, with the locat of navy || alyzed to grant the extension when recom. | wooden building. ‘The loss was no! DAN Tmo tc, MocMnas — \attalr a Jong sleep, the quiet of which was Navy launches run from the | launches apparently is needed. Out of 88 contracts granted since | mended by the city engineer, | Breat [a I freese my knees! ere /*: perlodicnily disturbed by cheering) | navy landing, Pler 1, foot of Many who would otherwise visit |] the firet of the year, 28 time exten: “The city engineer is in charge of| One of the rooms had an occupant SOE pei thd WASHINGTON, “July 19-—Upon| crowds that mot his train, John W.|] Washington st, from 130 to 4 | the ships feel they cannot afford || sions have been allowed by the board. | all construction,” « board member | until Mriday; the other was acme " Seattle giriy, tought tolrecelving official confirmation todjy | Davis arrived here at breakfast time) | p.m. every day, and there Is no the haifdotlers, especlaily those During the year 1923, the board of | said, "He is reeponsible and the board | Fire Marshal Robert T. Laing be- q Den (se Municipal peaches, |of the willing of Robert W. Imbfie, thin morning “feeling great’ in ane! | charge, with famil public works Jet 218 contracts for] follows his ommendations in| lieves: he has a good clew te the Page 3, Column ® Atnorican vice consul at Teheran, the! ticipation of his 10 days vacation. sewers, grading, paving and other (Turn to Page 2, Colum 1) identity of the firebug.