The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 23, 1924, Page 1

Her Clothes Weigh Just 24 Ounces No Wonder Girls Keep Cool! ", City Starts Fight to HALT PHONE BOOST | Howdy, folks! So many air | planes are flying over Seattle | these days that the police de partment iy seriously considering | placing « traffic cop on top of | The world moves fast | the L. C, Smith building. does one get a nice gzrage completed than he is forced to tear build a hangar it down and No trick at all to keep cool} in Seattle and still be de- murely and mo ly gowned, | says Miss Grace Allen, 3504 Hudson. Her entire oufit, from hat to slippers, weighs only 24 ounces. Anybody beat | that? And, over in the last column— It is only we have have tou & question of time until airplane tot They'll a big advantag flivve nts ey'll se sides billboards GRAPHIC SECTION BY G. LUCILLE BUTLER WENTY-FOUR ounces weight attle nowada man must hang upon nds | ightest calcu! N of six and a alr, men get a afte: raw deal in watching the The above photograph shows Li'l, Gee Gee in her high-powered racing | | "plane before she was arrested by an aircraft cop for ruunning down Lit- tle Homer Brew, Jr, in his goplane. trip streets, wonder if they are i to walk abroad they not ¢ Ha! Haf ? Did 1 hear can't be That's just part of it, It CAN and 118 being done every day in our town, and sometimes unier’24-onntes. To prove our assertion, we went down to Fraser-Paterson's and out-| fitted the charming young woman) in the left-hand column from head) to foot in 24 ounces of clothing Now, if you don't mind, we'll tell | how we did { | Glove-silk | ounces. | Brassiere of lace and net, % ounce. | Costume shadow proof slip of ra-} dium silk, 3 ounces. j Chiffon hose, 1 ounce. | Kid pumps, 11 ounces Gown, printed crepe de chine with | lace, 3 ounces. Hat, silk and Leghorn, 2 ounces, Silk gloves, ounce—there you} Li'l Gee Gee went up for a flight | the sexes? at Sand Point this morning. She said the only trouble she experienced was that everything she ate went A. W,. OL, oun o* Whatever troubles Adam had | In Eden's land of Bliss He never in a navy plane came spinning down like thie vest and step-ins, 2% . Scofflaws are anxiously waiting for the day when big floating breweries are established above the three-mile limit. They'll take a flying taxi up, and, if broke, a parachute down. Ae STYLE NOTE Derby hats are said to be com- ing into fashion again. The man . who wears a derby can’t get hurt | “7—24 ounces Ht | it's monkey wrench fails from an | Ad If the lady could go barefoot airplane and hits him on the |*b¢ could be completely costumed rrdeng |for the mere trifle of 13 ounces. | _ Unbelievable, almost—isn't it? And Modern scofflaws and aviators both | !f you can't quite credit 1t, Fraser take considerable risks. Either one| Paterson will be glad to weigh the| Ia apt to be killed by a little drop. ete before your incredulous But the poor man? ‘The best| Cheasty’s could do for him was six| and a half pounds, without exciting | the interest of the police depurt- ment, fen et tae Baek ota Beds | Listen in with me: — flee 4g | wear, “brief: | HITTING ON ALL ONE | 1% ounces; garters, 1 ounce; shirt, 2 | English broadcloth, 81% ounces; | leather belt, 3% ounces; tie of fou- lard silk, 1 ounce; leather shoes, 29 ounces; straw hat, 6% ounces. Bet it goes to one's head. And 4 regular summer-weight | . . | business suit—coat, 26 ounces; vest | Li'l Gee Gee, who has just returned | 644 ounces; pants, 16 ounc There from a trip to Yakima, is thinking | You are—104 ounces, and we do not | of changing her name to Pullman|count the cane. to correspond with her new towels. His outfit totaled $90. : whe ——_—_—_—__— Ravel utioesey forces are still fight- ing in Brazil. The war will continue until the last correspondent gets| writer's cramp. e456 Linen under. 5 ounces; silk socks, bi eie Hair tonic is popular as a drink, according to prohibition officers. TODAY'S DEFINITION | ‘ Statesman: A politician out of a job. | Deschutes River He | Fishing Is Banned PORTLAND, Ore., July 23.—As a result of petitions from Central Ore. gon sportsmen a large area on the | upper Deschutes river is closed to janglers today. | Capt. A Burghduff, state game | warden, issued the closing order, | which involves the area between} Sheep bridge and the mouth of Snow creek, as a protective measure to save fish from extermination, save Sportsmen's associations and indi- é; viduals in Bend represented to the POLITICAL NOTE game worden that the water was so No doubt the stogan of the third | arm that thé fish weet finfit for party adherents will be: “LaFollette, | se, and the scarcity of food made We Are Here!” them easy victims of anglers, Barkley Head of ‘ Retail Clothiers BELLINGHAM, July 23.—A, W. Barkley of Aberdeen was elected p: ident of the Washington and Idaho | Retain Clothers’ association at the Dear Homer: What is the best wa ay | concluding session of the annual con- to stop hives from tickling | vention here last night. Ah, there's the rub! | Other officers were elected as fol . . lows: We shall always hold a grudge} ?' against Noah for harboring those Baia sate tre mosquitoes. Gee Gee got Italy on her radio last | night, It came over so strong, she! said, that the room was filled with the smell of garlic and the aerial/ wags covered with strings of spa- ghettl. So far as can be judged, Los Angeles holds the same position in the Pacific coast league as the Island of Yap does in the league of na- tions. Critics say that Firpo cannot use his left hand. Then how does he| type those syndicate articles? | puree General Pershing is finishing his history of the world war. Suggested Utle: Be peupeck, | | | | Manheimer John Dodson of F ailing: Mills of Wenatchee, H, ” Moos of ham, Harve ve LGN | 2 y Nell of July | Beattle, directors, This evening’ to Che bull park, where | ————— did have great difficulty in getting editor of The Daily Wireless, and doth | phtuin one for me, And did watel the Valr tonight and Thursday; || bout between D, Bercot and M. Wlores moderate winds, mostly. caateriy | ture Last 24 Hours Minimum, noon, 78. with great interest, t falling out of the dpper. grands with excitement, and did dream all night of the fight, puriching and kicking my wife in my deep, which she did resent, tho heaven | knows little arm done, Tempel Maximum, 78. Today Ad, 8 fan effort. So intent was he that we |another probably fatally mangled in |Jorle Watts, of Tweedy Road, struck | detonate the powerful explosive with. ntered ne Be VOL. 26, AMILY DEFENDS | CONNER ‘Rallies to Aid Boy It Adopted Years Ago; Real Name Is Pd Clase Maite NO, 128. | (Plotures 5) TACOMA, July 23.—Richard Conner, 33, Fern Mill's alleged wifemurderer, ix really Richard Goodwin, it became known here when his father, D. J. Goodwin of Tahola, Wash, announced that the family Wednesday was organizing for the defense of Conner by pooling the family on resources, The talo the tale ¢ homstead tion fina of Conner’s in hardships youth of and king up the win family when Richard adopted 26 years ago by his uncle and foster father, J. F. Conner of| Fern Hill. “My bi son is innocent,” Goodwin announced after visiting the pris held in the federal ward at ree county jail for the mur der of Peart Conner, his wife, on or about May 1% oman abandoned | farm ear “the Roy-Tenino paved | highway. Yone of us is wealthy, but we} jwill Join all our finances in an et: | |fort to prove his innocence. see | ACOMA, July 23.—Richard Conne 33-year-old alleged slayer of his | | young wife, Mrs. Pearl Conner, broke | }down and wept Tuesday morning when county officers took him to} view the remains of his wife at the | Buckley-King mortuary. He remained silent thru the ordeal. “Conner was visibly moved and was apparently suffering from a great strain when he saw the bod; declared Prosecuting Attorney J. W. Seldon, “He stood immoyable and gazed hard and long at the remains "Great tears coursed down his face. Then he drew himself together with had to speak several times to him| and to finally touch him before we | could draw him from the scene.” Conner was mesmerized by the | (Turn to Page 4, Column 3) | WOMAN'S COUPE CAUSES BLAST \Car Hits Valise; Nitroglycer- ine Explodes on Street 08 ANGEL) man ES, Cal., July 23—One was blown to bits and an explosion at Vernon avenue and Long Beach boulevard today when an automobile driven by Mrs. Mar- | a suitcase believed to have contained nitro-glycerine. Victims of the explosion had not been identified some time after the| blast. One of the men carrying the | suitcase stepped in front of the light | coupe piloted by Mra, Watts. The car | bumped’ the pedestrian and caused | him to drop the valise rific roar, the explosion was set off, scattering the man's body in small} pieces all over the highway. His com panion was blown several feet and terribly mangled. Mrs. Watts was not injured, altho her machine was badly damaged. The windshield was hurled 50 feet. The two men were believed to be Signal Hill oll workers, carrying | nitro-glycerine to the oll fields for use in “shooting” wells. ‘They had| Jumped from a local street car and darted across the road to catch a Long Bench interurban when they ran in front of Mrs, Watts’ machine, Altho spectators said the motorist wos driving slowly, the compara tively slight impact of the automo: bile striking the suitcase and hurl ing it to the street was sufficient to in. ‘The injured man was rushed to the University hospital, Ho is not ex pected to recover Richard Scholz Dead in Portland PORTLAND, Ore. July 24—Dr. \Richard I, Scholz, president of Reed cologe here, and an educator of na (ional repute, died at St. Vincent's hospital today, after a critienl itl newy which followed an operation performed lust Iriday, | Tuesday. With a ter} § The Newspaper With the SEATTLE, WASH., sigg est WEDN Circulatic ler the Act ESDAY, JULY 23, ym in 1924, Trapper and Trapped Mrs. Ione Holt Tells Why An y Other Woman Would Have Done What She Did How she trapped Richard Conner into disclosing where| the body of his wife was hidden in an old well was told by} Mrs. Ione Holt, friend of Mrs. Pearl Conner, of Fern Hilt, She is back in Tacoma Wednesday. Richard Conner, aatuied of killing his wife, still maine | His family has gathered together its| Photos by mre tains his innocence. resources to aid him. Back in Her Kitehen, Young Wife Who) Jacobs Star Staff Photographer | Trapped Conner, Talks for Star BY LEL HOw many sert their kitchen broom for the role of au tective, turn a family the authorities for possible penalty—and when the was completed return to their duties with a smi “Every wom Holt, pretty 26-year-old ford woman, Is most-talked-of woman Vashington today as curing the purported conte: Conner which Mtv Httle who in a result Richard ND HANNL M housewives could de sink friend over to grim task probably Western | of Kern | Waws | wion from resulted 1 filin | him and|SA ur de death the mur | mer Jone | ner) Ash the | home M in| fune discovery of hiv wife's body and the} CMR "Every says, « of murder barge ANY WOMAN woman we “if the task avenging of a dor, It's hard t family friend, ) but now that 4 glad.” rs. Holt, as she Hi fri urd Prettyman, attend Wedne ral services for (Lurn to Page dy nds, | WOL LD HAVE DONE 1) 0 deoelve a Hike Dick (Con t's all over, sat in the Mr. and while lay Mrs, Conner, Column 1) Mra ngrese Maren against | to me, girlhood chum's I'm | the home preparing | Juanes afternoon | you'll did} on Clothes Weigh 1-2 Pounds Washington The Seattle Star 2 CENTS IN S SEATTLE SPRINGS SURPRIS ATTACK! Seeks to Enforce Franchise Rate in| State Court by) | not Telephone rates may be | boosted August 1, after all. Executing a s 6 attack | poration Coun L. Ker | Wednesday filed sult in the sup } court to compel the Pacific e “raph © to fulf phtigaticns, which pr the existing tariff charges. Cor edy she | Kennedy's action compels tne| phone monopoly to show cause Sat |urday why {t should not be perman. jently prohibited from raising rates It also rescues the telehone Iitiga tion from the federal courts and puts |it before the superior bench for deci. sion. ASSIGNMENT 18 | HELD ILL | Judge Jan alternative | Wednesday, company, Smith writ of directed at Charles O. Myers, man- jager, and William J, Phillipa, di ‘Yisiona] commercial superintendent [The basiis"for the action jon the alleged illegal assignment of the telephone franchise granted by the city of Seattle to John 8. Mo- Groarty and George C. Blanker, December 31, 1900, for a period of {25 years, subsequently purchased by | the Pacific Co., to one F. H. Crosby of San Francisco, a year ago. This assignment, the com- plaint charges, was in viola- tion of the state constitution and has never been consented to by the city and is “a color- able transfer, made only with intent of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co, to escape its contractural obligations.” Crosby, the complaint charges, pretends to hold said franchise, but is in reality an agent pf the Pa- cific Co., and is holding it in trust | |for the phone company. ND COMPANY JLFILL OBLIGATIONS As a groundwork for the legal action, Mayor Edwin J. Brown at the request of Kennedy, demand upon the telephone com- pany to fulfill its franchise obliga tions within three hours of time the demand was served upon officers of the trust. “You have been for sometime past unlawfully failing and refusing | to comply with your obligations | under the franchise and refusing to accord the city of Seattle its rights,” the demand stated. “In violation of the terms of your franchise you are threatening to raise telephone rates in the city of Seattle and threatening to dis continue phone service to its. citi- zens who fail or refuse to pay such | increased rates.” The transfer of the old franchise, which does not expire for 18 months, was made solely to benefit the phone (Turn to Page 4, Column 2) Get Your issued mandate the phone Going to Be a LL YOU folks who like to shake the light fantastic Especially you who like to have Ja judge ( a terpsichorean judge, we }mean) put bis hand on your shoul der and say: “Well, you wir Wor you are invited to come land bring your friends to the best Jdance of a season that’s been full] lof good dances in Seattle. The time: Monday night, August }4, ‘The place: Leschi park pavilion, ‘And the girk Sulit yourself! | The dance boing arranged by | jthe Young Business club, {the “gogetting’ organization is putt campaign fer $10,000 help buy «a salt) water park for the state. very of proceeds of the dance Ko jtoward the park fund. And if you know anything of th in which the Y¥, M, B,C up its entertainment affairs, know that the Lesehi dance August 4 Is one that you just can't afford to m across. the to cent will | | way naturally is laid | served a} the) Good Shape, Folks For This Salt Water Park Dance Is that | DEMANDS DEATH OF ~ SLAYERS | Leopold and ‘Loeb Hear Denunciation ba we see the reason why ant} can’t keep as cool. Evar Chil-| | berg, 301 Kinnear place,| tried and tried, but the best he could do was to array | hims elf in siz and a half| l pounds of clothing, full 80. of Prosecutor as ounces more ¢ than Mis 38 Allen. | pes "| Murder Case Begins “STEEL PRIGE IS C°: “ORDERED DOWN Trust’s “Pittsburg Plus” System Banned by Court NAL COURT ROOM, Chica. July 23.—The state will not fied unless Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, millionaire youths, hang for the murder of Robert | Franks, school boy, State's Attorney Crowe declared today as the trial of th murder case got under wi bizarre here toi Justice Caverly first rearraigned the boys, asking whether they wanted to change their pleas after two days of consideration. The de- fendants replied they had not changed thelr minds. is no jury, for the boys d guilty to the crime, and thig is to determine whether there are any “mitigating circumstances® to save them from the gallows, Arrayed against Leopold and Loeb in the role of nemesis is state’s At- torney Robert E. Crowe, a heavy jawed, grim faced-man, who is intent on sending them to the jangman’s noose. Promptly at 10 o'clock Judge Cave erly mounted the bench and the cours WASHINGTON, 000,000 July —A $10, annual saving in the cost of steel to farmers in 11 Western states is promised by the federal trade com-| mission in a sweeping decision or-| ering the United States Steel cor. poration to abandon the “Pittsburg | pluw’ system of fixing the price of | ateel. The system, which the decision of the federal trade commission out-| laws, is that by which the steel cor- | poration and each of its subsidiary | plants fixes prices for steel outside | the vitthbute district. | was called to order. The two youths 1 dete: wei took The rica forme: See eri leone cerns i in and price a’ "ittsburg, p! a ars 1 4 Tc ling what the freight charges from | CROWE BEGINS lthat city would be. This meant that | HIS ADDRESS |wwherever a steel purchase was made| CTowe asked that the indletments the buyer ‘would have to pay the|° fini visa nee fs ee be price at Pittsburg, plus freight rates} fontinne’ and that ine trial be oe from Pittsburg, even if the product) paoneach and Darrow of the. | were delivered from a point nearer ‘object fense objected and a wordy wrangle IE the purchager, ensued, with Justice Caverly finally | The reasons given by the commis-| ruling that the trial should be held | sion for its decisions are: | tirst on the murder indictments, That the system is an mapa Crowe then commended his open- |method of competition; is a viola-|{ng address. He said: |tion of the federal trade commission| “The state intends to present the Jact; is a price discrimination in vio-| evidence and at the conclusion }lation of the Clayton act; is con-|the extreme penalty to be imposed tréry to the public interest; is not|on these defendants. Nathan F. Leos based on the law of supply and de-|Pold and Richard Loeb were young mand; is a price-fixing system suc-|Men who had every advantage of : pools” and| education and home training. ‘The evidence will further show that along and eliminates| in October or November last year, business in all| these two defendants entered into a Pittsburg; adds | conspiracy, the purpose of which was © to the cost of steel, and, finally, is | t? sain money and to accomplish this |made possible thru’ the domination | ¢®4 they committed murder. jof the steel industry by the United | KIDN4 PING PLAN | States Steel corporation. j18 OUTLINED se Seem | “During the months of Novem+ |ber, December and January, these |defendants planned and schemed SCAPES IN NIGHT SHIRT |hever woud: te Srotent to the oe | Attired only in @ nightshirt and jof justice," Crowe said. la pair of slippers, John Bright, aj] Crowe said he would show that atient at the King county hospi-|Leopold and Loeb “practiced”? |tal escaped from his room there |throwing a bundle from a moying learly Wednesday morning and was|Michigan Central train, planning to being sought by the police. Bright|have Robert Franks father board waited until opportunity presented|the same train and throw off @ itself and then quietly fled the place. No trace had found of him at noon. Feet in “steel it decreases competition; hinders steel centers except | | | been |som for kidnaping young Franks, would prove that Loeb and Leopold registered at a downtown hotel un- |der assumed names—a plan intend- Jed to hide their identity and aid |their escape. He said the prosecus jtion would show how the young — |murderers rented an automobil from the rent-a-car company, the automobile in which Robert Franks was kidnaped and slain, { Crowe spoke easily and delib- erately, folding his arms and occasionally striking the palm of his hand with his fist for emphasis. The court room, filk ed to every nook and corner, was silent |\YOUNG LOEB Is MORE INTERESTED Leopold, sitting at the attorneys* table, looked off into space, oc lAugust 4 for Leschi.” casiohally glancing toward Crowe, | (Turn to Page 4, Column 3) Young Loeb seemed more interested, | eerenen a at Rares ssing his legs and gazing stedds HERP’ S A REAL |fastly at the state's attorney. | Crowe told how the young sla; J yers 100 PERCENTER } | went to Peoria, Ii, registered at HIS letter, with a check for] /notel and attempted to establish $4 arrived today trom M. G. || themselves as prosperous business Johanson, secretary of “The Mil: | / men | ROL iS ma O8 BOAiny ats At this point, Benjamin Bachrach: ere is a check for $4 for the |) tummed and whispered in Loeb's eats Cael Santa dollar 1) Loeb nodded and passed some word niitnehic a Bae der ae ‘along to Leopold, who also nodded, aither, 6, ‘or Ben ay ie 80¢, for Kathortde, smiled a bit wisttully, and then “Buby Jou 1 turned away, little ‘girl Crowe then called for the original Haatien copy the $10,000 ransom letter Anyway We. nl waa sent Jacob Franks, the slain |] in and boost for the thing || boy's father, shortly after the mur. |] that ever happened between Se- || der IHiattie? and y Leopold, for the first time, | Tacoma | SOCRATES SC RETIN SSIS RRS” ff (Turn to Page 4, Column 8) “Hum-Dinger” The committee in charge ha |some wonderful ideas up its sleev |We've heard about some of er &nd can tell you candidly: "You're foolish if you don't save |} Sait || goes for for jamin | 60¢ |} "We call our |] ‘Baby Jo' just | 6 for waith ee to g to best from |bundle of $10,000 cash—their rans | Crowe announced that the state>