The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 21, 1924, Page 1

Widen West Seattle ; WEATHER Temperature Maximum, 69. Today vy noon eer noe a Last M4 Hours Minimum, 50. VOI NO. 126 Howdy, folks! Giddap, writer, do your stuff! type won their fight but a lot of are stil] our night.| Workingmen have for an eight-hour day gilded youths in figh for an ing Now that | se jal nomi- y stop the Lit- rom polling a straw | Help! Help! Help! the convent lected their nees, can ne ery Digest | vote? 1] 1) } What this country needs is more} Ford families in Pierce-Arrow cars. eee | When the psalmist sang “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust” what he Probably had in mind was a po-/ Mtical job in the street cleaning de-| partment. i] VAMP, SEZ A fool and his money are soon 8 ora | —s District Attorney Tom Revelle charges that Seattle produce men have combined to boost. prices. | You bet they have! One of them last night boosted the price high we didn't have enough to feed the kitty. 80 SAYINGS OF THE GREAT Salome: “I'm getting ahead.” —Johnny Carr. | . Trust the U. 8. sailors to be right} in style. Almost all of them are| wearing balloon apemngney, . When the phonograph manufac-) Loeb families and hundreds of mor-|ready today 6F tomorrow. turers ceased using horns, their de-/ signer got mad and invented the/ admission despite the efforts of a! ¢ bell-shaped pant: . | CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB } | plea for the boys. } The room-mate who has night- mares about being run over by a fliv- yer, and who wakes you up by yelling “Jump!” j Success has turned many a man's head, but it hasn't anything on the; one-piece bathing suit in that re-) spect. | mal & = | Not Roy Lyle and ail his pro- | | hibition hounds can stop the | thermometer in Seattle from | taking a drop occasionally. | | | % eee We don't know why the West Seattle folks are kicking against the Barton packing plant. Other/ communities have their social scenters. Sign on the Back of # Ford: | “Loco” Mobile 1} Eddie Rivers. Perhaps those “wild men” that| have been discovered near Kelso are husbands who have just re- celyed the bill for their wife's new fall hat. .Fashionable Frenchinen are 50- ing without socks now. We cer- tainly have a bunch of buck-toothed, | red-haired kids up this way who are right in style—Lynden Tribune. eee POLITICAL NOTE General Dawes, the v! presiden- tial nominee, ‘is a famous musician. He plays notes on his violin and also cashes them at his bank. ee The republicans were wise in picking violinist for their nominee. Suppose they had selected a saxo- phonist! The next governor of Alaska, says a news dispatch, will prob- ably be Cash Cole. He has the backing undoubt- edly of the fuel dealers’ assocta- tion, * The revolution in Brazil may re- sult in a coffee shortage, according to experts. It may also result in a coffin shortage, oe YE DIARY (uly 20) (Lord's day.) Up betimes, and break- fasting on sweetbreads, did look forwn . which do grow most Anon to play- ing lawn ten Wiley, but forced to stop when we did knock all the balls into the bmy, and so to home, reading « life of Cesare Borg’ to bed. plentiful in Li'l Gee restaurants charge for cheese, they must price at 10 cents a whiff, Geo ways that the way camembert the stuff —A. Se Be | bench | for Puramushiru, | early Sunday, stated that Major Mac ee The Newspaper With the Biggs st Cc freulation in Washington Botered as Second Clase Matte EATTLE, WASH, MONDAY, JULY The Seattle St Was der the areas March ar Bridge! |EDITI TW * ME EDITION| O CENTS IN § EATTLE. Leopold and Loeb Plead Murder Guilt! ‘2 YOUTHS | - FACE COURT IN CHICAGO Pale and Nervous, Killers of Franks| Boy Admit Crime; | State Is Surprised! RIMINAL / July 21.—Dicing with the gallows, Nathan Leopold, Jr. and Richard A, Loeb, million: aire youths and super-intellect uals, today pleaded guilty te the murder of Robert Franks, 14 year-old schoolboy, also the son | of a millionaire. Justice Caverly can sentence | them to be hanged. The prosecution immediately manded the gallows. The action of the boys came like COURT, Chicago, de filled to overflowing by a huge staff | fence, members of the Leopold and | bidly curious spectators who gained | corps of 25 uniformed policemen and sheriff's deputies, Clarence Darrow, sphynxlike, dean | of criminal attorneys, who is 67 years old and has been practicing law for| 37 years in Chicago, entered the first | He stood erect, | throwing His shoulders back, his voice increasing in yolume as hel spoke until he fairly shouted that| the defendants pleaded gulity. | Judge Caverly, after -consulting| State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe| |and Jarrow, announced that hearing | of evidence in the case would begin} Wednesday morning, July 23. The! hearing will be held by Judge Cav-| erly and without a jury | Young Leopold was and himself Loeb followed him and did likewise. | “Is it your.understanding that if you plead guilty to murder In this court, the court may sentence you! to death or to the penitentiary for the period of your natural life or for &@ period of not less than 14 years?! Judge Caverly asked. | “I understand,” Leopold ans- wered, his lips quivering, his eyes dropping to the floor, “Yes, I understand,” Loeb answered, looking directly at the judge. “With this understanding, do you still wish to plead guilty? the judge asked. “TE do," Leopold answered, “I do,” Loeb answered. | DEATH SENTENCE OR LIFE IMPRISONMENT? The court, under the law of Iill-| nois, may sentence the young col- lege graduates to death. Other sen- tences which he may pass afo life imprisonment or imprisonment for any number of years over 14. Crowe, dumfounded and taken entirely by surprise at the plea of guilty, made no attempt to, contest the action, but announced he would call every state's witness to the stand, “so that the court may hear all the evidence in this case.” “We will not allow the defense to shut out any evidence by plead- ing guilt Crowe said. “These boys, both of them sane, and entire- ly responsible, have committed the direst murder in the history of Chi- (Turn to Page 4 Cotucm 5) FLYER DELAYED British Round- ind-World Pilot, Is Still Fog-Bound TOKYO, July 21.—Fog prevented Major A. Stuagt MacLaren, British round-the-world flyer, from hopping off from Tokotan bay, Uruppu island, northermost of the Kurile islands, according to a wire- less message received here from the Japanese destroyer Ivakaze, Colonel Broome, advance officer of the world encircling attempt, who is now with MacLaren, is recovering from a slight illness, the wireless message said alled to the| SAN FRANCISCO, July 21-—A mesage received here from Cordova Laren hnd left Tokotan bay for Para- mushiru The dispatch quoted radiogram ad- vices received by the naval wireless station at Cordova. pleaded gullty.| an | soclation | filed Friday, NE RATE UP Raise Granted for August Ist Federal Court Restrains State From Interfering With Schedule Of Telephone Trust Telephone rates in Seattle will be boosted at least $1 per month for business phones an id 2 5 cents per month for resi- dence phones, beginning August 1. Sitting en terer, at Tacoma Monday they had banc, Federal becoming effective at once. The temporary injunction will] take effect as soon as the phone! companies put up $175,000 bond in each case for refunding of in creased charges to patrons, should hunder to the crowded court room,|fipal jadgment on the merits of tho| rate case be decided adversely to | ofmttorneya for both itate and de-|the telephone companies, ‘The bonds are. expected to be It Is believed the so-called Cleland riff, worked out by Hance Cleland of the state board of public works, will be put into effect. This tariff calls for a $10.50! monthly rate on business phones. | The present rate is $8.50, The resi dence line rate, now $4, is set at $4.50 In the Cleland schedule. Monday's decision was on the re-| quest of the telephone company for an injunction preventing the state from interfering with the new sched. ule, ‘The injunction was granted, ‘The company, however, asked for rates set in what is known as “the ptember tariff.” which sets busi. ness rates at $12.50 a month | home lines at $6 a month. Tt is belleved the court will order increase limited to the Cleland tariff. FIGHT PRODUCE PRICE SUIT It was just a regular weekly meeting of the Seattle Produce as- that assembled Monday the Masonic club rooms, drew @ record attendance to the government's sult, to dissolve the asso- ciation. Informal conversation ro- garding the suit was all that was contemplated at the meeting, cording to Maj: E. 8. Gill, secro- tary of the association. Guile &- Halverstadt, Seattle at- torneys, have been retained by tho| association to defond the sult. It ts understood that their first move will be to file a demurrer to the government's complaint, on the| noon In but it owing ground that the federal courts are | without jurisdiction, as the asso- ciation operates wholly within the|! state. Cornelius E. Hughes, retained by the. government as special assist- ant United States attorney in the sult, declared Monday that nothing new was contemplated by the pros- ecution, “It is their next move,” he said. and} ac-| Judges Rudkin, Gilbert and thru the last named, announced in federal court granted the application of the | Pacific Telephone company in Tacoma and Seattle and the | Home Telephone company in Spokane for a temporary injunc- | tion restraining the state from preventing increased rates | HUGE REGRADE PLANNED Engineers Figure on Wash- ing Down “Profanity” EXTEND TWO AVENUES |Fifth, Sixth, , Main, Wash- | | ington Affected | “Profanity Hill" may soon be washed away. The high hill that has caused more cuss words per foot than any lother obstacle in the city will be discussed at a meeting of city en- gineers and councilmen in Engi- neer J, D, Blackwell's office Tues | day, Residents property by the yearly slides or the steep ades, are wail to be back of a project that calls for regarding the entire region. Several plans are being consld- ered by the engineering staff of | Blackwell's office. All of these in- volve large expenditures of funds and are too expensive to be finan- ced by local improvement district assessments. If adopted, the re. grade plan will have to be financed in part by general fund levies, it is belleved. | WOULD EXTEND TWO AVENUES One plan that iy favored calls for the regrading of Main and Washing: ton streets to 12th or 13th ave., and the regrading of all avenues between Fourth aye. and the top of the hill jand between Yesler way and James st. and Jackson st. Dirt washed away from the hill would be used to extend Fifth and | Sixth aves, thru the industrial tide |flat area south of the King st. sta- jtions, It is planned to sluice all the | sliding portions of the hill away, ex tablish moderate grades on the | streets In the district and open the |property to. developmont os a bust neas center. of the district, whose Worsham, former Seattle police detective, pleaded not gulity in Federal Judge William H. Saw: telle's court Monday to charges of jconspiracy to violate national pro- |hibition laws. He was arrested May 1 by federal prohibition officers. Oil Company Checks Come Today to Swell Park Fund CHECK for $50 from the Stand- ard Oll Co, arrived Monday to swell the total for the state salt wa- ter park And W. A. Reanier, local agent for tho Aasoclated Olt Co., has ad- vised his home office that the state park for Seattle and Tacoma is « worthy cause and merits a company contribution, That's the way three Seattle con éerns have “come thru.” How about YOUR concern? Good-natured rivalry between Se attle stores and industrial ocncerns over which would contribute largest amount of donations from its employes was growing Monday, Employs’ organizations were mak- ing thelr own campaigns, and sev. eral requests for receipts books to tho | acknowledge the contributions had been made at the Young Men's Busi. ness club headquarters. YOUR con. cern can have one, too, The Young Men's Business club ts the or ization that is “putting the park across,” AUTO CLUB 18 RECEIVING COIN The Automobile Club of Washing. ton is the collection station for funds. Ifa ¥. M. B, ‘RO-metter” over. looks you in his solicitation, send in | your ¢ heck voluntarily, add sed to | the Auto club at 416 University st Don't wait to be asked personally. It's going to be YOUR park, you know. Ninety acres of it, two miles south of Des Moines, and on the salt water. (Lurn to Page 4, Column 7) haw been made worthless | SECOND SPAN IS PLANNED $400,000 Is Available to Construct New Bridge Alongside One Building N ADDITION to the W. Spo kane st. bridge, to subldivide street car and automobile traffic | and end the traffic tangle. That's the project that will come up before the city council, probably | Monday afternoon, in an ordinance | prepared and submitted to Council- man John Carroll, chairman of the streets and sewers committee. A draft of the ordinance, author. |tzing the board of public works to | draw up plans and specifications of an udditfon {6 he new bridge, or. separate structure, was prepared by City Engineer J. D. Blackwell and | handed to Carroll Monday. | Councilman W, T, Campbell, of | West Seattle, is backing the project | MONEY 18 READY |TO WIDEN SPAN Funds for the structure are al- jready available in the unused por {tions of the $1,500,000 W. Spokane at. project than $400,000 of the bond |issue remains unused and theso| |bonds are ample to finance struction of the second Campbell believer. | The More ordinance, which Council! |“for the construction of additional | bridge facilities on W. Spokane st., | over west waterway, and appropriat- ing money from the Spoken st. bridge bond issue, which has twice |recelved the approval of the voters.” | “It now develops that the enorm- jously increased travel to and from | West Seattle requires additional bridge facilities,” the ordinance sets | forth. construct the bridge addition.” “Therefore, be it resolved, that the board be authorized to proceed with| | Preparation of plana and specifica- | tlons by widening the present bridge, jor by & separate structure, or by | both, providing that the addition be | not less than 18 feet in width.” SAYS PLAN WILL SOLVE PROBLEM | favorably of the project, “It will solve the traffic tangle and be more practicable than the sald. “It will keep automobile and street car traffic separate and provent jams occurring at the approaches.” When the new bridge addition ts finished street cars and other traffic will parallel each other from B, Marginal way to Admiral and Avalon ways, according to plans, D. W, Mc- Morris, assistant olty engineer said. All curves and crossings of the pavement and ‘street ‘car tracks wil! be eliminated. PROBE SLAYING U. S. Withholds Action in Persian Tragedy WASHINGTON, July 21—A fur- ther report from the American min- Istor at Teheran, Joseph 8, Korn feld, on tho killing of Robert Ww. Imbrie, American vice consul, was recelved at the state department today. Officials indicated no action will be taken by this government today, however, and that more complete Information regarding the situation | in Persia will be awaited, beforo | the United amends from ment, the Persion govern. Accuse Two Youths of Stealing Auto Caught as they were stripping a stolen car of its accessories near the Jefferson golf links, Sunday night, ‘Tom MeDougal and Roy Samson were arrested. and Jailed on open charges. The police say the youths confessed to stealing the machine, con: | bridge, | |man Carroll will introduce, provides | ufficient funds remain to! Councilman W. 'T. Campbell spoke 80-foot bridge originally planned,” ho} Statos movey to secure |“ Northwest’s Finest Horses Come Seattle Horse Shows In Years own, 4 the Ses Hes shown in’ | winners that wi ‘Highland Andy.” LAW ENFORCERS ~~ MEET HERE | Northwest “Association Annual Gathering |CAPT. DAMN SPEAKS Feature of Talk Over 109 members of the North- west Association of Sheriffs and Po- }lice were told of the importance of |co-operation among themselves by Hans Damm, of the Seattle po- jlice department, in the opening ses- sion of the annual Anti-Crime con- Elks’ club Monday | Capt ference at the | morning. Capt. Damm pointed out that crim- {nals were active in all parts of the official delegate badges, of the annual anti-crime con- ference of the Northwest Asso- clation ‘of Sheriffs and Police, are made of copper from moon- shine stills confiscated by the Seattle sheriff's office and ‘po- lice, President Luke A. May told the delegates Monday morning. The badges were made by the Pacific Coast. Stamp Works. country at this time, and that it was up to the law-enforcement officers to baffle them, A message from President Cool- idge, received here Sunday, was read at the opening session. The presi- dent sent his greetings, and com- mended the association on its estab- lishment of the Northwest College of Criminology for the study of scien- |tifle crime: investigation | WIRE PHOTOGRAPHS OF CRIMINALS SOON Among the measures it is expected will be recommended for speedy punishment of crime, the most mod- ern will be the transmission of photo- (Turn to Page 4, Column 6) MINER KILLED AT NEWCASTLE Instantly killed jcoat in the Pacific |mine at Neweastle, early Monday, —. Anderson, 95, miner, was found buried in a shaft by fellow. workers Monday morning a cavedn of t Coal Co, by C Anderson was working on, the night shift and was supposed to come off duty early in the morning When ho falled to appear, search was started and the eMe-in found, The miners dug frantically and |found the body, Anderson lived in Seattle with his mother, according to officials of the company, The coroner accldent, is investigating the To Be in} Value of Co-operation Is} -ageant Surpas: —Opens Thursday at U EATTLE'S first Horse show in 15 years will open Thursday, at the Univeristy of Washington stadium. It will close late Saturday. The entry list closed with 147, booked from 48 stables, Seattle, Ev. erett, Camp Lewis, Vancouver, B. C., and. Carnation, Wash. are repre | sented, | There will be 11 different events Jat each of the night shows and 14 events at the Saturday matinee, The entries are made up of 67 three-gaited horses, six five-gaited, 17 harness horses, 26-bunters and jumpers, and 10 polo ponies. | “The purpose of the show !s to | stimulate interest in horses among} citizens of Seattle and vicinity and) to provide a civic attraction that Will be of interest’ to tourists to the Northwest’ as well as the people re- siding in'the Puget Sound country,” says David Whitcomb, president of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. The horse show committee of the Seattle CHamber of Commerce, han- ee all details of this show, are A, Lauer, chairman; Raymond “ Frazier, David Whitcomb, J. D. Farrell, Dr, Walter Moore, E. H. Stuart, Dr. N. A, Johanson, George Miller, Donald Barnes, Walter Net- | Ueton, Harry G. Stibbs, B. N. Reed, Cebert Baillargeon and W, G. Her- ron, secretary. The entry list follows: |. From Seattle—Miss Alma May Ral- linger, Mrs. Donald Barnes, Mayor 3. J. Brown, Dr. and Mrs. C. R: Cast- len, R. 8, Fulton, Robert P. Greer, Albert Hansen, Mis Joyce Hawley, Miss Eleanor Henry, Horace “R. Henry, Chapin Henry, Col. F, P, Hol- comb, Dr. A. Johanson, Helen Keeney, Loyal LaMont, G. L, A. Lauer, Doris R. Cox, A. L. Duncan, Mrs. W. L, Eaton, Mis Jasmine Eddy, Frank Emerick, J. D. Farrell, Jessio B. Ferris, Jemes W. Frazier, Raymond R. Frazier, George E. Mil: ler, National Guard of Washington, Loyde Nelson, Barbara and Ruth Nettleton, Mrs. Richard W. Perry, Mrs. F. C, Stanford, ,C. T. Rickey, Seattle Riding academy, Dr, Harry A. Shaw, Lieut. V. F, Shaw, Harry G. Stone, B. A. Stuart, U. S. govern. ment, Miss Bessie Warner and David Whitcomb, From Everett—H. J. Clough, Mrs. J. Clough, Miss Jane Clough, From Camp Lewis—Lieut. J. G. and Mrs. Fuller, First Lieut, J, B. Matlack, Lieut. R. 'T. Strode and the United States government. From Vancouyer, B. C.—Miss Gladys McKay, Miss Donalda Ma. han, Miss Lucille McRae, 'T, T. Nix and the Vancouver pasties cademy. From Victoria, B. C,—Capt. W, C. Proby. H. Flames Eat Into” Hecla Mine Shaft WALLACE, Idaho, July 21.—A force of fire fighters, working under the direction of K. T, Starke, super: intendent of rescue cars, today is en- deavoring to hold within bounds a fire between the 600- and 900-foot fevels in the famous Hecla copper mine. Bocause there 1s no timbered con. nection betweon the present location of the fire and other workings of the mine, it is hoped the blaze will be extinguished or burn itself out before doing very great damage, sing Any Seen Here . Stadium Mayor Brown, who is interested, among other things, in horses, will have two of his eattle Horse show, which openg here Thursday at the University stadium. the picture with “Queen Mary” and “Sylvia,” be exihibited at the show. two promising blue ribbon The mayor's horses are “Andy Gump” and TRAPS MAN FOR REVENGE Woman Tricks Tacoman and. Locates Wife’s Body BURIED IN OLD WASd) Search for Mrs. Conne? Is Ended by Discovery “I did it to-avenge my friend. 2” am glad now that it is all ove: Thrusting behind her a half-forme@ ~ pang of remorse, Mrs. Ione Holt, 26, Sunday morning viewed the remains — of her girlhood chum, ‘Mrs. Pearl Conner, and expressed pleasure that she had been able to wring a pure ~ ported confession from Richard Cone ner, alleged wife-slayer. Mrs. Holt. disappeared Sunday evening and was in hiding Monday ~ to evade newspaper men and the morbidly curious crowd who sure rounded her. Mrs. Holt worked on the asta thy of Conner, who is held in the county jail at Vancouver, Wash.,.tin- til she had induced him to reveal — the spot where he is alleged to have buried his wife body, May 19. Discovery of the body of Mrs, Conner, 34, at the bottom of a 40 foot well on an abandoned ‘farm three miles north of Greendale early Sunday morning, dramatically concluded a two months’ search, and, according to county authors ities, cinched the — state's case — against Richard Conner, her hiise 4 band, who is charged with first des gree murder, . Finding of the body, covered by four feet of earth in the abans doned well, was the final event in the series that culminated in the solution of a murder mystery uns paralleled in Pierce county crime inal history. WOMAN BREAKS DOWN FROM ORDEAL Prosecuting Attorney Selde Sheriff Thomas Desmond and Mrs, Holt, early Sunday morning fole lowed Conner’s directions and uns — covered the body at the bottom of (Turn to Page 4, Column 1) 5 CHILDREN BURN. Tots Die in Farmhouse as Mother Looks On MERCER, July 21—Five children were burned to death in a farm house near here today while thelr mother looked on, ‘The dead, ranging in age from 9 months to 9 years, were childten of Mr, and Mrs. Red Hedgelin, living near Sandy Tako. The bodies were taken from the ruins, They had huddled together in a corner, driven back from escaping thru the windows by the smoke and flames,