The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 29, 1924, Page 1

T he Newspaper With the Bigg est Circulation in W ashington |The Seattle Star (ome "WEATHER HOME ‘if | ‘| aie Vol ——E—=—=—————— at the Postoftice at Seattle Wash. under the Act ress March % 1879, Per Year, by Mail, $2.60 Botered as Second Class Matter May 2, 1699, TWO CE 26. ake SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1924 * IN SE ATTLE. W. Seattleite, Helpless, Watches as WIFE DIES IN FIRE! gene We Were So Happy!” “SLAYERS STORY OF lot of worries. For one thing he has to keep up on his rural dialect. \(-SEVEN HOMES BURN; SEVEN HOMES BURN; NO WATER TO FIGHT FIRE, IT’S CHARGED Summer boarders like to feel that | They | font mind . sardine tf they | are first assured that it is a brook | trout. RS. LEONA NASSER might | ane cf | not have burned to death | It’s lots of fun being a summer} M there been sufficient water | Boarder. Every evening you can} protection in the neighborhood, go out and hear the hired hand according to neighbors of the paging the cows. | dead woman ben In the past few months, seven houses in that district have One farmer explained the lack of fresh vegetables to his boarders by burned down because there was no water availab’e with which to a Tow z telling them his tractor had con- | tracted the hoof.and-mouth disease, SOUGHT ON STAND flight fir ording to Mra. J. B. ‘ors Glasgow, 6308 Beach drive, whose home was scorched by the fire F ae af ar ying ong in | 4 which snuffed out the Iife of a boarders He (oe teas Part-Owner Tells|\Darrow Considers | “Yi. disscow ana are. 7.» || Man Who Watched ee ey Yas oe ray Weird Story of} Move to Call Up|| thom, se Been arve wit) Wife's Agonies in dpa | Losing Part of His Chicago Youths for | 'y tere vax no water whatever || Flames Says Help| Sign on the Back of a Ford: | Vv. 1 ‘ to be had between 6 a. m, and 6 >| esse Testimony yim and that often reddents || Failed THIS CAN bl were forced to wait till after mid: || | of the —— HE mystery “Scotch ship RIMINAL COURT ROOM, Chi-|| night for bath water. j : North Pac seat ak take cago, July 2%.—Chief Dete At no time has the pressure | Scenes in the tragic death of Mrs. Leona Nasser, former “ as being t! "| I never was so — ked In is hunted in Seattle's harbor Tuesday | Attorney Clarence Darrow may been sufficient, and fire hydrants ced | dancing teacher, at the Nasser home, 6304 Beach drive, in life,” said the convicted man as b®|., members of the coast guard serv-| Pact Maw Leopold and Richard bara whe frantic with | West Seattle, Tuesday, are shown here. Top right: A gen- sat down in the ele chair.—Uni Loeb, slayers of Robert Franks, on | eut his story brokenly 1 Meraity: Jou lice, under direction of Capt. F. G./the stand in thelr own defense, he] Water S Not eet a sere, Weeniny ne yor tam eral scene of the remains of the burned home, reduced to ae kgs | Dodge indfeated today ater Service No! rip ou himself, mtter which We was jashes after firemen were handicapped by low water pres- J. K. Nasser, husband of the dead ‘sure. Bottom left: | teacher, as he appeared, crazed with grief, in the West Se- lattle police station, where he was taken to recover from his In hin determination to leave Hit by Dry Spell | stone unturned in the fight to freat Seattle's water department has ex-/ them from the gallows, Darrow #f4! perienced a most auccenmtul dry sea- no . ( Speaking about lightweight cham-| Information that a craft which is pions, how about the ice man? | supposed to have been hovering off ‘ BY J. K. NASSERK | saa: see the coast of Washington for several | HAD to leave her there to bo| Sunday: The day after the auto nc: | weeks, supplying smaller rum smug-| © was prepared to put on the wWit-| son, Supt. George. Ruasell declared eaten up by the flames, I could | acts: | glers with cargoes, fu in Seattle, was | Rees stand the boys themselves, as/ Tuesday, in spite of water short-|hear her screaming to me, but 1] aed Tap loftz: Mas, lage yes bs, Star Staff Photographer ee 's furnished by 4 man who clalmed to) Well as thelr parents and friends.| ages in certain localities: |couldn't help her, gg ee ee / Li'l Gee Gee says she could ‘be aj have been part owner of the boat. | a had been previously announced) Russell said there has not been a| She was the dearest woman in the tt H movie star if she were only a little| The ship, he said, sought refuge) tha the two prisoners would not) single break in the mains or water|world and something Just broke in-| Ww Se ] m I Se li I Yr gi pati ds }in Puget Sound when the coast | be called ee to testify unless some| tines during the summer that was| side my head when I went outside | | es a € ome Is ene 0 a co eee guard cutter Snohomish harassed it} UNexpected situation developed. It] of any consequence. A large amount| to leave her there. | ] W FE il d : SAYINGS OF THE GREAT off Grays Harbor. on Ah sd believed that the defense) of new construction and extension 1 had started a little fire with B aze as ater Pressure al S ani Columbus: “I don’t know where | LEFT SHIP ic ders the “unexpected situation”| will be started just as soon as wet|coal in the kitchen stove and we K E | di jhas developed and that it will be| weather sets in, Russell sald. had breakfast. Then she put up | erosene XP. odes |AFTER QUARREL | The informant declared that he} pint | had left the mystery ship here early | necessary for Loeb and Leopold to £9 on the stand The success of the department is|my lunch for me, aw sho always did, I'm going, but I'm on my way.” attributed to repair work completed | and just a little bit better than the RS. LEONA NASSER, 28, Olympia school teacher and | M An honest-to-gosh_philanthro} staat Sty | * {s a man who commits suicide and] Tuesday morning, after a quarrel | ot Male AND SLAVE | last spring. lother men's wives did. instructress of aesthetic dancing, burned to death in leaves a detailed report of same, in-| With his partner. He alleges that ho AENIST'’S THEORY | Aud then she kissed ‘me goodby /her home, 6804 Beach drive, at 6:30 Tuesd: cluding the last sensations, for the | signed away his interest in the ship} Then, when members of the fam- M * S I had started up the road intend. | nome, ’ lay morning. benefit of the newspapers. |to his partner, thinking he was sign-| ‘lies have told the court the in- ain Street jing to catch the street car at West Her husband, J. K. Nasser, an employe of the street rail- rau jing a manifest. | timate details of the two boys’ lives, |Seattle station. Then I heard her | way department, was a horrified witness of his wife's death. “The names of Beattle strects| Everything he had in the world is| tb? battery of defense allenists will) si crete 14, Bo 2 | OR ee , Nasser started a fire in the kitchen stove about 6 a. m., & surely are, mystifying,” writes W.| fone Now, he asserted. He lost even ie flopmratihtecr tay Hagen gu bullding, aren neuis Coe Boeihies: thle gmat eae , /and had breakfast with his wife. She packed his lunch Ls tine e ae Pl pas pone Bea a Tee Hurlburt, originator of the “king|POT! G. E. Miller, with ne wly| I suw the kitchen all afire and |he started to work, He was about 200 feet from the house rete spay asc rie ity with his cargo was blamed by four apie mld or Sade: a oun aan vagh Soop and j Stee etoneaner Lage oka aie ye nes HE ht ba site ae ered Nese ; ; a reliet for | CLAIMS SPEED OF ves 8_report, on which’ bel Sonuty count e; Harry 3 , {Kitchen floor. Her dreas- was on | ne openes the kite! on door, petrified | having aught at the Washi a see | The rum ship 1s described by the| “weakling,” will be introduced in aniw. 7 eien sonal proper ¥ ‘aa horas way. f IN A the walls and Mrs. Nasser was ly-| Sometime ago she resigned , PONE | man as a low rakish craft, 165 feet|#ttempt to show that the youths) giinkter Co., ion sa untae HRA that bee ce ancthes: J00K | ing half unconscious on the floor|start an aesthetic dancing sch { ME lone, with a speed near 40 miles an| reached only the climax of a ‘long| bite. Tom Olsen and’ Leo a iter her clothing ablaze. in-that city and was to have gon hour. The boat, he said, is powered | ries of crimes when they lured| |sports writers, Bald parere oe eden her by the foot and TERT Nasser. seized her and tried tojthere Tuesday morning. 4 BO oe HE treaconts eas Dolaet | Robert. Wranite: nko a! renten’ ahto-|p'a-" Noustst, whens: automate | wyhat>hanpened. (hen t.d {Workers Buried in Wreck | et her. outside. when a kerosene] The cause of the fire has not engines and can outrun anything in| ™obie and killed him “for a thrill.”| cub secretary, trying to find a pas cee. appa nigga ap nasa sus | of Mill Near Bomba tank, near the stove, exploded.|peen established, according to the the Northwest. STUMBLE MAY SEND |to park his auto; A. Lundberg, arti-|door. ‘Then. the pia ag Yj mocking him backwardand throw-|fire departnient, altho it 16 believed ' “The crew thinks itself perfectly | BOYS TO GALLOWS ficlal limb maker, sizing up the | blow up, Rete | Tey! Hk co SA Ae itmay have been due, to an ied wafo here bo St cannot be caught”| A stumble in the dark may send| weather; Jack ‘Mack, of Medina,ar-| I found myself outside ‘and they | jens depatch fhe A Central) WATER ER Bas Ure plosion of gas’ generated | by/-th@/ i n the alleged former partner sald. “I| tho two youths to the gallows. | guing with a friend on street cor-| took me away, but I could still peel Ba dedalbcgd>y cruise pimp (tle) Bd INSUFFICIENT coal used in the kitchen’ stove.) : ioe act tmEnt Io bee the crew get| 1 the,documents, containing: the|ner:. Morris Malakoff. candidate for |her’ calling for’ me to. come buck.| ct ae. Abwadabads: be a large oll | ‘The husband strugsled outside, ene ; into trouble, but I hate to see my| Confessions, the reading of which |legislature, hurrying down the street;| It doesn’t seom possible that she | mill at Ahmedabad, burying hun-| and, in a frenzy, started calling for] An accident, which nearly proved — property get out of my hands in| Waa being concluded today, Leopold | Ernest Graeff, collection department ts dead; that everything 1s. gone. dreds of workers in the ruins. ‘It ls| help... Nelghbors. sent in a fire/fatal, rulned the. vacation’ plabes aa Oh, for some worms, Gat nares? Hig quoted ae atating/ilat he believed tot “telephone > company, Mrenterine | vasa: Ute fatoraltig’ wre ears. ao aera ont ene aes OF lice ‘eda ‘heavy: | inven» Aid aeverel’: tice. Compenles) Raven eae sirl Pe rates ‘According to the story told by| (Turn to Page %, Column 2) | cafo— fe taney, Me dete responded. living with her widowed mother at And that oid tree the man, the boat was brought here | mene ansn i el a ees Deny eoemer Kaiser | Extremely rough roads held the} 2043 W. 60th st, Tuesday the girl was in the cl | fire-fighters back, and when they Is Fleeing Holland | aia artive, they wore forced to lay LONDON, July 29.—A report 18 in| hose up a sheer embankment for circulation in Berlin, says the Ex-/ several hundred feet. Water pressure change Telegraph, that the ex-} was insufficient. kalser now Is at sea aboard an At-| | Mcanwhile Nasser had gone al- lantic liner. most. insane, while listening to his sy fishin’ hole! from the east coast and has smug-| gled several cargoes. Its last ship-| Navy aviators are instructed, in| ment was, taken to Aberdeen, but) case of danger, to jump from their) the Snohomish arrived on the scene} ‘plane and count two before pulling | before it was all sold, so the boat | open their parachute. sped north to the Sound. But supposing a mah stuttered? Capt. Dodge declared Tuesday that | hospital, «suffering from painful burns all over her body. Alberta was preparing Monday: start on an outing trip to the Lio club camp at Five Lakes. As ae was cooking breakfast her dress caught fire. Her mother tried to = 808 the Snohomish was dispatched to oe wife's dying. screams. The Al Barnes circus, which will| Aberdeen at the time the man DOORN, July 2%—Reports’ that] ‘The fire was prevented with difti-| extinguish the flames, but the girl” be here shortly, advertises s world's | spoke of. | The Snohomish is now} former Kalser Wilhelm had left his| culty from spreading to houses on | brokeifrom her grasp and ran screams, e See ar dia gaint Losin tA otto retreat liere and was cruising aboard! both. side ing to the home of a netghbor, Mrs, an Atlante liner were refuted today | Mrs. Nasser’s body, charred be- George Thomas, Jet's match him against some of| ‘The search during the morning | Fi yond recognition, was recovered and} Mrs. Thomas and the mother by the presence of the ex-kaiser in rg the boys who eat at Druxman’s| failed to reveal the mystery ship,| g lunch. but Capt. Dodge sald he was ‘elie his usual haunts today and follow-| taken to the morgue two hours and nally, put, out the blaze and the git di Paid to either prove or disprove the rum ing his customary woodcutting exer-| a half after the blaze broke out, was rushed to.the clty hospital.” CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON | boat story cines. There are no children. Tart all fon, Alberta's. CDE Saas IVY CLUB Princess Hermine 1s enjoying a[ Previous to her marriage to Nas- burned off her body. ‘The burns were: Mrs. Nasser Ot deep, however, and the doctors vacation | ata Baltic seaside renort, ser three years ago, amie believe that she will live. Bi ig ‘Subscriptions Are (Thenx to “Cashmere Druggist’’) Bimbo who goes into a drug store, | buys a pocket book and asks to have | it charged. China Trade Chief | for Kiwanis Meet k Raga, registrar of the Pekin, will be the | Eastern Price on Oil Cut 25 Cents ERE’S an opportunity for immediate action two rows of trees with lawn F underneath and a wide walk .|China Trade er her | price of crude oils—Lima, Indiana, Speaking about aviation, 1. T, re.) ao | Le aaiteblhy cot that will 1 Phat tid ake gi |prineipal sp ed ny be-} w 3 i Y Y ‘ et eta aplle horse fly at the | Pre “Kelwanis clubmeoling at | ie ill mean a lot to Se- i between the trees, It would | Py FINDLAY, Ohio, July °9.—The Ping. {noon in the Hotel Gowman. Raga | e. ; mena i Y be a beauty feature which ou or a e ar Hindley OL Co a ee lig a connecting link between Ameri-|| |The University Commer- i Lee would advertise both Seat- reduction: 6526 conta & batts naa “The plane was about 200 feet! can merchants and the Chinese || ci ici Teanal : >|] cial club and the officials vOrR 1 from the ground when the crash oc: |market and will tell the Kiwanians || of the University of Wash tle and the university. i Time allotted to the common folks) Tyinois, Princeton, Plymouth | and cured,”"—Newspaper. Of fie work. ie; e versity 0: ash- The plan has the backing R d | J First was well spent, and the allotted two} Waterloo, A reduction of 18 cents Probably ran into 2 cloud bank, | || ington have proposed that of the Seattle Chamber of eamond 1s weeks’ drive has brought the total) ber harrel was announced on other oft | a five-block approach, 160 J "ce, »Kiwani ¢ : ; yea Dozens of alienists will be called} Y il feet wide, be conaestistd at Rennie page tik eink age mn Campaign nN REDMOND's MAYOR cranes: in the Leopold-Loeb murder trial to ou now } Sera stad y seit) SY li . 4 ane prove that the youths are insane. We | || the university to enter the Alumni association of the Small Towns Redmond jumped into the breach OLD LADY PRAYS AS hiope the court brings in'.a verdict| grounds in front of Meany university. Tuesday with Mayor William Brown H | hall and the site where th i taking tho role of Horatt finding “Leopold, Loch and all the| IT P all and the site where the mie land for tt ny must. 1, the date on| ‘king the role of Horatius at the t i i é he ap- ITH August. 1, th Q ni mlieniate crasy, his est--- || National History and Art proach must be Ranaarined | whieh the Young Men's Bue eT an " CANONS ae || museums are to be built. 1 itis estimated the |noss club expects to close its $10,-[ 5. Tey phall Rot pass—us,"’ quoth | A FORD car with a California If Leopold and Loeb are inuane,|| He's the guy who leaves 7 Shea nf Sa and it is estimated that the || 999 drive for th saltuwater| Maver Bile And | He: quoth $100 ik license came near destruc imagine the condition of the left his lawn sprinkler so || The approach is to start project will cost $806,000 }| hroject near, Dr. i W. Wood, cat orth at his own money, which was] tion Tuesday, when its driver lost handed pitchers in the Const league! puarthat glidewalle that || at 10th ave. N. E., midway — wodel of the campus and new en- complete. valgn general, Tucday was'to name|™ nenarome Shing to. do. contro! of it at about Fifth and A nee § a u between 40th and 41st sts., ‘rance, ax planned, in foreground. The aur s hefora || four committees of th men enc ‘ ot because Tum a candidate /1 Jamos, It sped down the hill, you get your shoes wet h ’ ne matter is now before Red i for county commissioner,” he ex-|] dodging heavy. traffle: Fe AY when you pass by “Well and is to extend to the edge of the campus the city council. The council should pass it. || t2,/anrronen” Seat Industrial pained, “I'm giving this money |} tween Sowond hah Mg! be a8 7, Well, . aM re han fyagr fe Mase ¢ M 8 1. | poor, hte ASE Y¥|] tween Second and ‘Third, it can: you olght to eo what (1100 15th ave. N, i. This is directly in front Seattle has a beautiful university, with ||" muita na Ngeh sitlkeia eet atil anion Holely hecuuse 1 heliove in the plan || noned into the sidewall, broke EVERETT TRUE does |)| ° Meany hall. The building plans of the an unusually artistic campus. The beauty }| oa for the park fund, because a lot Hy Redmond With feu ect und | ite. front wheels and stopped, inmane at being, ¢ $c, the boat Turn to |j| Unive sity call for the construction of a na- and artistry can be augmented by this pro-||of #1 bills added to what you'val th competition with dtr Gommuni: |] AATCC Ree oat eee ee we ge.te ‘ ! || tion history museum at one side of where posed street. Jot helps a lot, but the clubmen ties outlying from Seattle and ‘ta. || oY bi Mtl old to God ake rg k them fit ; | HAT aad ahaa 5 aa ‘ he / » [l campaigners realize that bigger sub-| coma." | was praying to God al WU aera heb ser Ane alk nee Tid || this approach would reach the grounds and Let's have it. For the benefit of the uni- eenladie aro. aldo needed ‘to ny ail ae heres’ the Hedmond excou. |] {me to spare us," sald the old aiease ae, to Yabsonver: at she did age |] an art museum on the other side. versity, the University district and the city |} the total quickly eo the Big Bust-| tive'y pre stone amend exeeus| | lady, necording to George Hi. reer aa have Gctennined neo Us The approach would have two roadways, at large. ness 400 are the objects of the im: Mpollevinng that. the campaign | [cancel attorney, Atate! Bea xo to Vancouver. | riadlate. dive Ohicu to, Begs) CHa Bes | CORO Ee aceldent,