The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 31, 1924, Page 1

Suit by U.S. Coming Against , WAR re ‘518,000,000 Seattle Firm Ove dill The Newspape - With the Biggest ‘Cireulation in Was shineton The Seattle Star | WEATHER » and Frid: FORECAST VOL. 26. NO. 134 ATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1924, * as Two CENTS IN SRATILE. , | CONTRACT Auction Cats for Park It’s a Pretty Tough P. roposition, but Boy Wants to “Da His Bit” FA URE iS New Campus Plan Proposed A0TH AVE, PLAN| Engineer Raps Skagit EASTERN STATE ALLEGED ! Harding’s Cousin to Conduct Suit Howdy, folks! The Mlivver has taken the place of a baby in many modern homes. een IS URGED FOR | Then Mayor Brown Raps IS SCENE OF Building Fea a eighteen million dollar suit is to be started by DISTRICT ee ee BITTER WAR gi A You Rave to change @ baby often. inet pod Sire ee | WATER hammer doesn't over hureday. He ner the United States government sate Parkway Scheme Too Cost- | it? bid a ks to make Five Men Shot and Score against the Skinner & Eddy The trouble with babies is that a r i trical engi sas follow ; Corporation here in August, ‘(i ee HAVE potentially that water ieee the bral. It ‘seas me : Thursday by acting Uni ‘Ah 1806 mode) boy teed to wear long * menace has been thoroly probed|any attention to a flea, would, you? eat ter. The suit is the outeome Plan for “Vista” to Cost Attle grains of sand, araviing at thesmate of 10 {eet curls and a roy sult. The| mastered If Mr. Gallant was an electrieat| Armed Motor Truck Leads of war shipbuilding contracts late models wear plus fours and drive ayor Brown says the report isjengincer he wouldn't be sellin: j ti 000. © wo " 7 9 000),- snappy kiddle ks $750,000, Is Charge ay nan: Scholarships” in a correspondence} Procession Thru Town aggregating over $162,000, i ae Gallant visited the Ska 000. Twer ars ago boys wore r = . SL aweaty a men of the Uni jas delegate of won Gallant's report AVERHILL, Mass, July 31. I don’t know any more than you father's cut-down pants; now they |‘) versity distriet. deeply indignar and We under low. head —Five men were shot and do,” D. E. Skinner told a reporter auaE teed teastole gale. nlckaee Thursday declared the proposed ap-!hin report { Pie agp hg rigging iieiithan oscars: lajered tat on The Star who called him on the ° 20 Proach to the University campus, | what he lsometime to come, there will be no| new fighting between cithrens phone Thursday to ask him about MAS THE WEINER BUSINESS Apereves ny ~ board of re ents, is | pe reiaten: teil mates tis’ wicee tans pedper i mbers of the Ku Klux the government's proposed sult Perma —A ; = gs s in ° the Skagit} the bottom is at an elevation of 83 Klan near here today against the Skinner & 20dy coals Dachshand | °* sssithedeng departed fro stand desig » int i " r 7 tion, of which he is president; q toe West oard| AS a substitute the business men! oe ag imate pa wy he intake elevation , it was the thet Kisn riet | “Well, * * * ! the reporter epum ) kat, Me evening Paper. jana residents propose to widen of hydraulic works for turbine op-| 776. in Massachusetts in a week and | : 3 4 gt 4th me. fete the Unit go] Station, dropping the outlet of the| “A Uttle learning is a dangerous| Stirred state authorities until | tered,’ “we have ito Sey. s aa Seattle was founded in 1850, so it |* the campus, some: five blocks, | S222! ne level of the water|thing,” chirpadn the mayor. “Gal | *¢tion was believed probable to my rye apraenee Skin- must have been the Indians who first | group street car traffic to the north|¥Dee!# instead of into the surge/lant has beggefighting the light| Prevent future outbreaks. Ome Leo te on ee started the West Spokane st. bridge. |side of the street and establish an{|t@8* os in generally done. The|plant, Ress! Gia Engineer Ubden| TD¢ fighting started shortly after anes Bay,” he replied, aA 2-8 uninterrupted driveway for vehicles | {ult Of this is a water column 20% [for many yeartjubut all he does is|™dnight when 3,000 Klansmen, who | Mery ele bani rane Little drops of water, le . |feet in diameter, 11,000 feet long| talk.” had been hol a meeting’ in a Sint cee een ee ps of hat will lead to the center of the tall fiold near Groveland, clashed with | it?” he added. And the, reporter campus, and to the Stadium aa well. A/SAYS GALLANT. party of young men who ‘had agreed that it aid. ¢ the juicy spinach | “That is the sensible, businempbiiems seco”? 1S ANICE BOY* \* “ ' AMNICE * bbe thins thas taneckae The missing words were lost thru tf that we cont stand. — |and practical plat,” sald Cie Finer |MAY ORG. SARCASTIC ape Re Maas “With the water! Thy alorea incinden maecavers of A soar -tahap hneeniaeciectioes so, ® |ilton, chairman of the citizens’ com- ABOUT MR. GALLANT standing to thik elevation in iHt#lyoth factions and scattered fight- 0. P. M. Brown, of the legal staff By Hobbs says that when It comes | mitee of the University Commercial ‘This is exceedingly dangerous!neck the surge tink is likely to Jing continued until dawn. Auto bf the shipping board, has been to beef a staughter house has nothing jelub. and your delegate is inclined tol give unsatiafaetory operation on the} mobiles in which the klansmen had | appointed as special assistant attor- on a penigini game. | “It will have to be done anyway, |agree with engineers outside those, two present units, thus necessitat-/comu to the meeting were damaged | ney general to co-operate with: Die omy. & so why waste a half million dollars | on the project that this in a matter|ing operation of the steam plant!ano many members of the hooded trict Attorney Thos, P Revelle in Sign on the Back of 0 =k ones menhetio vista. |that should be fully guhe into before/to take care of rapid fiuctuations|order had their robes torn from’| the prosecution of the action. He ; oa PANS POSE! water is turned into the tunnel for|in load prevent pressure rises |them. Police finally restored order | is scheduled to reach Seattle some P IN GoD WE Trust | PARKWAY SCHEME pevecntin of the plant.” on the turbines.” , and arrested 23 men, including Klan jtime in August, and the sult will we. “The proposed parkway or vista! Mayor Brown heard the report| (urn to Page &, Column 3) organizer named Hime, naid to be |be started shortly thereafter. would evict residents and business | ——_——_—— ence }fron Miami, Fila - e * Sich Redmond jumped into the breach | owners in its path, condemn $300,000 | More than 600 automobiles in| Over! = ea Seo tee Tuesday with Mayor William Brown Tih. of peivat ot ‘ | whieh tk 4 Eddy corporation, Frater said, filed taking ‘the role of Horatiug at the |wort® of private property an pr Which the “klansmen arrived. trom | a Wt aaeaiat eh Emergency Fleet Mayor Bill.”"—News Item jand roustabouts,” sa: milton. hee adlights” turned | alleged to be due on the government |towards the center, where the meet ing was belng held. An American | flag floated from a pole and a cross “Our plan, the widening of 40th is simple, effective and econom “We expect to carry Here are Step-A-Long and Ming, two of the three kittens that Ralph Warren will auction off for the benefit of the contracts. The sult was started in the United States court of claims This is the first intimation we've had that Horatius kept the bridge |** jieal,” he said. Is Held in Seattle Jail | largely overpald.” at Verdun, car igete #3 tna: ay OMe? [had been erected, but could not be | People's Salt Water park. Tad, the third one, already nt eee A strange, fantastic creature |" Hamilton declares that the busl : parks nage rege toed “oma bie the ways of auctioneers. When he saw the camera|’ yonowng tho. institution of the | We geen iterane pekird: |ness men of the district are 90 per| M M A h F d f d inten S 1 |he was going-going-gone. action, the government started The windshield of his flivver |cent for the E. 40th st. plan as| rs. cArt ur, rien 0 Accuse prevented berasie whaeut Aang Photo by Frank. Jaogbe Shek Byatt Photeerapher | Investigation: oC the contacas 19 Dt OL este SARS. se ap ce og ogee) Man, Is Federal Pri T tials from entering the field | BY FIELDING LEMMON full milk bowl for them. as a result it claims that the ship- cee (Turn to Page 8 Co'mun 5) | ’ a risoner, 100 Antiklansmen gathered at a safo|‘VHREE little kittens are going on| So Ralph is going to hold an| building firm owes the government Li'l Gee Gee is not much of an —_—— | ’ {distance, held back by police and| the auction block for the sake of} auction and sell the kittens to the br tos million dollars in excess of ~ athlete, but when it comes to swim- % } 5 {there was no disorde: t |the People’s Salt Water park at| highest bidder. There is only one} the eleven million alleged to be due RS. RICHARD ¥ UR, 35) denied athe > disorders until after | p Di i ming she can outstrip all the other | vont <a pa ce po sect Mebarulut denied this charge, 111.6 meeting, At the Haverhill | Zenith stipulation that’ Ralph and his|from the government. girls. hetsbae ive ilelaaied «Conner. 4 athe faring there was no such thing /pridge, however, a number of the| This was the decision Thursday| mother will make. That is that the| This enormous counter claim, it is ei i pastepiiha leged to have killed his wife, was|?nned- klan autos were attacked, a number |of Ralph Warren, 10 years old, of| kittens must get a good home and|alleged, arose from the failure. of SAYINGS OF THE GREAT |held in the King county jaih Thura-| “Richard and 1 were only friends,” |Of the klansmen firing with re. |6108 Latona ave, Ralph had read|be insured kind. treatment. They|the corporation to live up to the Solomon: “I love the ladies.” | lday. Gow. coder. Warthut ag A: rma: | (8° Womnaly “ealai volvers and shot guns, Elve in-|about the-park in The Star, but he] are used to no other kind, the pair|terms of the contracts as to the a ae terial witness in the Conner mur-| When Mra. McArthur refused to|Jufed were taken to hospitals. Citi: | didn't haye any money for a dona-| say: building and completion of the A Star reporter worked as a street arr der trial. Mrs, McArthur was ar-|work with him, Selden got Mrs, Irene |2°n* Were Particularly aroused be: | tion Tad at the present time Is rather/ ships. ps, cleaner yesterday. He scooped the) {J §. World Flyers Ordered jrestea Tuesday afternoon, She |Holt, of Ashford, close friend of Mra,|tus® ® motor truck, manned by| Skitsy, his cat, however, had three|indisposed. This kitten sufferéd a) The court of claims refused to town. ‘ f Jbeen held in leu of $500 cash|Conner, to try the scheme. Mra,|<i@28men armed with rifles, led the /iittie kittens —Step-a-Long, Ming|scratched eye in a quarrel, but as/ take jurisdiction of the government's + 5258 to Await Fair Weather | pona. | Holt, thru subterfuge, got Conner to |< Procession as it passed thru] and Tad. Skitsy, it seems, was will-| soon as the eye heals the kittens; claim against the corporation, neces- Here lies the body | pel Mrs. McArthur was employed in| disclose where his wife's body had|Daverhul. Scattered fighting con. ling to make the sacrifice. Ralph} will be sold. aitating the separate action in the Of Jabez McGee; BOARD U.S. 8. RICHMOND, |the Fern Hill Grocery store at the|been hidden jtinued along the highways until! decided’ he was, too. ‘And whoever buys the kittens will| local federal court. He was driving a car and Gcabpe. Flow, Orknéy Yslands,|same time Conner, worked. there| CONNER 18 ACCUSED the klan procession dispersed Step-a-Long, Ming and Tad de-| not only be getting a nice pet but| 0. P. M. Brown, who is to act as Was stung dy @ dec. TAY A “Woe. dalayad._ resacisitton.|andi-wad alleged by ‘Prosecating Av| OF SLAYING Vike ; clded—well, they didn’t much care] will be helping Ralph do his bit for a attorney, is a cousin of the . of the American world flight today.|torney James Selden to have been| ‘The information proved correct, just as long as there is always athe Salt Water park. Ge President Harding, and has This is No More War Week, but} 4+ noon it was announced thatthe third member of a “triangle.”|for the remaina of Mrs. Pearl Con oy ha Bad en connected with the. shipping as long as we have matrimony there | departure for Icckind was definite-| Selden declared at the time ot | ner ware found inal’ dldswell “Gaia board for a number of years will -abways be.wars ly postponed until tomorrow. |Conner's arrest that he had at-|tarm between the Roy and Mountain} ° U fe) “i i The airmen who spent the night|tempted to get Mrs, McArthur to|roada on Sunday, Jaly 20. Conn ew u scr 10ns (0) verpaym Hotel register, Just discovered, |aboard the Cruiser Richmond, flag-|play the role of detective and find|nt that time wan held in the Van | B ena an shows that General Grant ordered |ship of the United States naval fo-lout trom Conner where his wite's|couver, Wash, Jail, where he had | ‘ ‘ Contracts Charged up “1 qt. and 12 cigars.” tilla, that is to convoy them across |pody wes hidden, been’: take: i os WASHINGTON, J hai’e aor é ; " ; aken after bis arrest a few uly 31.— Over. ‘stemeatane fa VaROrTee Will thor? gg aeay Mens gree in teas REFUSED TO days before. Wounded Man Battles Rob- Payment of contracts with ithe Sik ja. m. ey d ov PLAY SPY ‘ ner & Eddy corporation for shij that: some Beattie fan order up “18 ie ai wired After he was returned to Tacoma Ds ats. and 1 elg cig cei Forcing tii Gy, Mrs, McArthur refused, he aaid,|his case was turned over to federal bers and Saves $50,000 ri jbuilt in Seattle in 1917 and 1918 ig a big Ry 645 a.m. however, a bright (Saying that she “would stick by |authorities, as it wax found the mur- But There Is Still Need for Your |sstet in a statement issued! by YE DIARY lean Gaeie away’ the sipmning. talate| chard.” der was committed on the Camp | FyAst ORANGE, N. J, July 31- ‘ Hi peered Sie igh its pro- E (July 30) | 6 eit Selden declared that Mrs. McAr.| Lewis military reservation Quick thinking and steady ai . ed sult against: the Seattle scones Up betimes, o town, a {that hung over Scapa and patches " ; aidy. alin {ait day, but’ brisk breete blowing, and lof gorgeous blue sky appeared here|thur had secured a divorce from| Conner was formally charged with |by &postoffice employe prevented a ollar, Vance hamlet ovaouie ot the shi ver ' aid wish for September and its gray land there, tho the gray fog still|her husband, and that Conner had|the murder of his wife in. federal | $60,000 mail robbery here today. jot the ships covered by) tae ya eed enerion ik, Petite horne om | clung to the tips of the hills of|Planned to divorce hix wife, so the|court in Tacoma Wwdnesday. One of two bandits, who Biempted | (SONTHISUAION , both volunteer] Anderson's 15-plece orchestra thrown |. Contracts were canceled after tha the mist, And to to work, banging on |Hoy, across the waters of the flow.|tW0 could be married. He found he| Mrs. McArthur is expected to be|the robbery in the Lackawanna rail-| ana solicited, continue to pour|!n free by courtesy of the Seattle ae and never built,” the state: B steel machine, when I would fain be| Squalling seagulls circled low | Would have to divide his property |returned to Tacoma when Conner in| station was shot and killed by héwdalart of the Auto: | Musicians’ association, and a bunch) Ment says. "The government mais hauling on s main sheet labout the three world flight planes| With Mrs. Conner if he divorced her, | arraigned. She was working in a|Bugene Stack, postal employe, dur. |{%t0 the headquarters 0 i of as yet unannounced feature | tains it has already paid Skinner pig roti apd ar “id tell hay wite ‘i ‘aia | riding at their anchors alongside;|®° dropped that ide Selden | Seattle cannery at the time of her|ing a battle on the station platform, | Mobile club, 416 Ralversity. St.!stunts for the evening, So Ratan Hcy eben $130,000,000 for the ships a Intend to become x se are eae the’ pikahines:\ were: ready: for the| Charged. arrest, it 18 said. Stock himselt was atruck twice by | Where the suvscriptions for the State oni with ss > Boskethool Som poh raere earaplatba, and owes the " Son beadhoosber fo the commer een {iane. den: to, Hornatjord,. dn the | wceMERRISY yi —— ~|bulleta, ‘The second bandit escaped, | Salt Water park project for “us| fortably filled, for there will be Dien. ye On th ad faring the winter nobody’ can drag you |foutheastern coast of Iceland. Five pouches containing about $60,.|Common folks” are being tabulated. | ty, of ways to spend, for the park, e contrary, after. an exasily away from « hot radiator.” So have de-| But altho the weather here 000 in registered mail and money| ‘The receipts signed up Thursday | And a good time will be had by all, pata of the claims, the boura de- aed Bet: te Nees Mameeceenmer.. [cleaved until flying was possible O e ense orders were on the platform as the| morning show a new addition of] The drive among big business men | clded that Skinner & Eddy had been A lecturer says we ought to cat more dried apples. That's one way to swell Seattle's population. see Gee Gee never sita on her lap. She says it makes neasick. He has water on the knee. her the x Well,” said Adam, when in- | formed that Cain had killed Abel, “hire all the | ists there are; | off yet.” of A alien- | ARATE The world filers will end filght in Seattle and not in Los Angeles, #0 the Cafeteria City will have to continue to depend murders for its publicity Ashes 0 ashes, Dust to dust, We're going to stop here, If the paper goes bust, AL 5, By just | | wel'll get the boy | | thelr | and span planes of brisk readine: be off, fog off Iceland. So the flyers real American bi and eggs and bi first time they latter since they an American dest in the Orient." The course of 500-mile hope lie the Richmond which once serve as Admiral Jeli tion and on over |to sea. Once over veasels will be o Billingsey at the on the nen betwe Jeeland, and the Jord. the Down below three American and our men—and evén the spick had an appearance ns—wore eager to the wireless told of heavy settled down to a reakfast of , bacon reakfast food, the have enjoyed the breakfasted aboard troyer “somewhere the airmen on this 5 due north from over Signal hill, d the British navy jcoe's lookout ata- Kirkwall and out only high seas upon {the trackless way of the old Vikings | land discoverers r | marks their course. war on the watch, the Faroes, the Reld| en the Faroes and Raleigh at Hornaf- RIMINAL COUF cago, July 31 today forecast the o! Leopold and Richars noose for the sla: Franks. This fore: on the tentative Justice John R. favors the defense ita medical testimon to protect his “per vw ROOM, Chi- Legal authorities scape of Nathan d Loeb from the ying of Robert cant was based ruling of Chief Caverly, whieh contention that ny {8 adminsible, Justice Caverly ruled with the de- fense when the state objected to In troduction of medical testimony to show “mitigating evidence,” but State's Attorney Crowe, determine ot hanging Wins by Court Ruling Judge to Hear “Medical Witnesses Escape From Gallows Forecast case," insisted on showing the court rulings against admission of the medical testimony and for several hours yesterday his assistants pour- ed out a veritable shower of pre- cedenta, Today Judge Caverly Indicated sev eral times he would permit the de fense to put its medical witnesses on the stand, and he made that very clear when he cited a ruling of the Ilinolx supreme court, ‘This ruling holds that avity and bandoned habits do not in them. nelven constitute Invantty.” 'Thiw, (Turn to Page 8, Coimun 5) gunmen approached. A sixth bag, filled with federal reserve currency from New York, which ordinarily is with the other five, did not arrive today, Stack approached the upper post- office platform to await arrival of a | matt train from New York at la. m. He was reading a newspaper na the bandits came up from the lother end of tho station, Without warning, one of the men drew an automatic pistol and opened |fire on Stack and a negro helper. The negro fled, but Stack, altho hit in the leg, drew his own revolver and fired six shots at the bandits, One of the men was shot thru the cheat and killed, ‘The other fled down a stairway and escaped. aking thru a skylight into the | Peterson Hardware company, 6311] Ballard ove, Wednesday — night, thieves aniashed open three eash reg inters, taking $60 cash, The burglars loft excellent fingerprints on some plate gla, according to detectiveny Of this sum, by the Young Me park Monday eyenin in $16.50 was sent day. And, by the way, who Ix pushing th the publicity angle, breezed in this $260.80 to Seattle's quota of $10,000. $245.80 was turned in ‘s Business club solicitors pushing the campaign, and thru printed in The Seattle Star Wednes- coupons Carroll Collins, campaign from for morning ood news that all is in re for the park benefit dance at L ne. the club, with the diness ehi ‘The county auditor's office staff of 30 is the first county-city building group to come thru 100 per cent for the fund. The System Sign Art service is painting a bunch of signs free for the Monday night dance, thru: the |courtesy, of Manager C. W. Fly and D, D. Olds, who handles th cossions at the park will give 10 per cent of his proce to the park fund The club, you remember, is stag ing the big “function” with Warren a pronounced list to port. si to Page 8, Column 8) Main Street, Seattle ‘Hugo Kelly, with mustache shaved, talking polities with group of old. time: Herb Shaw; county purchas. ing agent, hurrying down. street.— Percy Hunting, president of the Sons of the American Revolution, parading slowly up the avenue—George D, Grant, inty clerk, buying after. noon paper,—-Attorney James Me- Cabe, candidate for judge, carrying brief case—Willlam Russell. of Ce. dar Lake, sitting in automobile with friend.—Richard Mansfield White, rushing to budget hearing.—Mrs, Homer Brew and Homer Brew, Jr., waiting for wayward spouse on strest corneredohin Taylor, Munroe toy eT Two gobs w! 3 wal{rotypers! union, died here today, Scientific ( Chief to Run State Pen| MODESTO, Cal., July 31,—Au Vollmer, police chief of Berkeley, and for a year chief. of the Los Angeles police, has been chosen for _ the position of warden of San~ Quentin penitentiary by the state prison board, it was disclosed here today by Governor Richardson. “T think he {is the best man the state for the position,” said the governor. Vollmer is on his honey- moon and has not been notified of the action of the prison board for. the board has been unable to lovate him, in Stereotypers’ Head Dies in New Jersey CALDWELL, N. J, July 31-0 7, Freel, for 20 years president of the International, Stereotypers.and Elec