The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 31, 1924, Page 7

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Order Release in Kidnaping Case CLEVELAND, @ today requested Buffalo arreste. rhe release was widow ey had been! 0: m SAY MAYOR I BLACKWELL 06 figure ¢ jcently reversed DHAHDHDAH }lineal foot 1 TLEANS ately $100,000. TEETH man were W. 25c' THE RIGHT) Iie STORIE LOSE estes) CEMENT SUM. ofc" ALLIED HEADS | to | Charges that City Blackweil was influe [Brown in recommer claim be paid committee r educed to s igures | Fire ago, Blackwe opinion that the increase hin cement strength to the | partment ly used in order to up to his contract }point, it was said } It was shown that the bid of R C, Storrie & Co work of the tunnel ment | to Puget Sou: Bridge Ss Co. and $10 higher Smith & Co, Letters were also in co LG ATE S troduced from COLGATE’S contracting firms and engineers holding the interpretation upon the specifications ciiman Phil Tindall the contractors had up to what the contract and were not entitled to any tional pay. Had allowed the total added cement cost would have amounted to approxim- This was that Attending the meeting with Cole A. Ernst. ‘There {s an earthquake about once a week in the city of Lima, Peru DOLLARS Substitutes never satisfy, Look for the name Sapolio, Blue band— Silver wrapper, TURRELL'S HALF-YEARLY SHOE CLEARANCE NOW IN PROGRESS SECOND AND MADISON ONLY $7.90 Comprising a very choice selection of America’s Fin- est Footwear in a wide array of timely new styles, patterns and materials—and including such famous makes as “The Town Topic;” Laird, Schober & Co., and Church & Co.’s English Footwear. $5.90—$7.90—$9.90 THE SAVINGS AMOUNT TO SEVERAL ON EACH PAIR All Materials and Sizes Are Represented in the Lot Men’s Oxfords—Shoes All fine quality, and in the various famous makes. For final clearance, at $5.90—$7.90—$10.90 erro SECOND AND MADISON ST. ONLY MAIN FLOOR cleo" LUMINUM r, brass, agateware are all eas! ept sweet and clean bySAPOLIO. LARGE CAKE~NO WASTE ENOCH MORGAN'S SONS CO, Sele Manufacturers WEW YORK USA, JESCORT FLYERS '|'15 Planes May Greet World Footwear |that there be no change In the prea. "| Annual Cruise, LATTI PAGE 7 Send $76.000 0. FRANGE AMAZES Spurns Higher Salary to /~%,875" FLAMES SWEEP 90,000 BACKING: =" BAY BOOSTS ieee et Firemen and Police Gather ‘ Names on Petitions ns containing 20,000 names will be taken fficlals next Tuesday in support of wage increases asked t Seattle police and firemen. Those in charge of the petitions inclu F. X. Plouf, president of the Police-| 44) en's association; K. L, Webb,/ of police committee; an |Gallagher, of the fire fighters, a Ernest H. Davey, of the pollee de A statement given out by Galla-| reday said partment increase, acc to the} |figures submitted to the city coun-| cll by Chief Geo. M. Mantor, would] $178,800, while the police in-| Frer cr of office to grant the increase re-| quested for the next several years. | {n the police department in 1922, a 1 of $150,781.81 net from police urt fines was turned in to the} eral fund. In 1 & total of $216,401.70 was recelved from the same source and turned in to the) general fund. INSURANCE SAVING | DUE TO EFFICIENCY | “Chief Mantor made the state-| ment before the council at the bud-; get soasion Tuesday that next year| | Seattle will no doubt be subject to & reclassification survey by national insurance organftations, result of the efficiency of t tle fire department, the city will be rated as second-class instead of | third from an insurance standpoint. “This will mean a saving of a | vast sum in fnsurance charges, and/ as Chief Mantor stated: ‘The city] can well afford to spend money on the department which will come back again. many times over in the form of low insurance rates.’ | “A few months ago a national jcommission investigating police de- partments thruout the nation in jspected the personnel of Seattle's) police department, and their report| was that Seattle's force ranked with/ the best in the land. “In view of the above facts It can | readily be seen that the increases | sought, Instead of raising taxes, will |result in further promoting the ef- ficiency of the two departments, and ultimately reeult in saving thousands of dollars to Seattle home-owners and taxpayers.” Airmen Here Request was made by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce of the Unit- ed States navy today that an escort | jot 15 aval planes now on Puget| jsound with the Pacific fleet, be de. | tailed to escort the round-the-world | \flyers for the last 200 miles of their lepoch-making flight to the landing field at Seattle, David Whitcom, president of the {Chamber of Commerce, today re. |cetved notice that the Spokane and Portland chambers of commerce had wired to the war department, urging ent itinerary, which calls for the conclusion of the filght in Seattle, The planes left Seattle on their round-the-world filght April 7, and it was here that they were fitted with pontoons for their hop across the Pacific. Okeh Approval of Judicial Entries The action of the State Federa- tion of Labor in indorsing Judge W. H. Pemberton, Bellingham; Judge Bruce Blake, Spokane and W. D. Lane of Seattle as candidates for |the state supreme court, was ap- |proved Wednesday night by the Seattle Central Labor council. A resolution to this effect was passed at the council meeting and @ copy was sent to all local unions with the request that they alo concur with this indorsement, lallior Federation to Decide Policy WASHINGTON, July 81,—A de- cision of far-reaching importance to the American labor movement and fee La Follette independent can- didacy today was being approached by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor. Eleven members of the council will meet at Atlantic City Friday in the most significant session since the war, They must decide whether the federation will go along with Robert M, La Follette or remain politically nonpartisan, Samuel Gompers, president of tho federation, who has been ill In New York for six weeks, ia already jn Atlantic City and will preside, TIMBERLAND {S BOUGHT EVERETT, July 31.—Aaron F. Anderson, Seattle Lumberman, has just completed negotiations for the purchase of timber lands in Snq- homish county valued at $175,000. Tho timber was purchased from the Gold Bar Lumber Co. THEN DAD QUITS “Son, have you been smoking?” > Sut your breath smells of tobac. co," “Mother just kissed me good-by: “But your mother doenp't smo} "I know, but the butler does, the British and Amert and his ec 1 pr eo fire de-|, disputants agreein would be $165,000. Approxi-|sumably agreed 1 her than that of the/ mately a mill and one-tenth would| were be added to the city budget by the | express | proposed revision. However, Chief Mantor has been/ co PromiNeAt i adie to turn back to the general fund enough money during his term | Ve abark alone on another KR agreed, especial would frustrate which must be be upon sincere effectuation of the ex.) your The French plan filled fe 5 to successive formu: | of whe las offered. by States and Belgium, been expected of him when dead: | unanime ubject | to a se Serve in Public Office iss cs.'s%2 WOODLANDS . re last rn 7 t ‘ t on >} ae ; aK . ate ® ~ Pa " . a ia? of acter the Kidnaping of Dorothy |COUNCI! Digallows $47,000 |, 2° trcks will be taia Reparations Proposal is Rid-/ School Head Seeks forefront of prog meas-| Boles, was arrested by deputy eher-/19 Blazes in Californias See ener por.| ‘F Skagit Construction [Wert Alaska st. New dled, Ridiculed by Leaders | Office of pao gl His re ides three year ie was atl being held Thure| Rancher Killed by Tree Margaret Bian-| o sytem were authorie Superintendent ed fig Clery ig Bae yr asccage ANIM a0 on by|Negro Is Accused of Shot] Seattle, "i, invade Lone - That Killed Comer Yreka ra ing tree | fire burned ant of Progress,” cele-|in the immed v | brating the opening of the largest |ton, Tahoe national forest. Floriston part in the s of first degree murder |iumber milis the world and the| was reported ringed with today fled = Thuretay — MOrINS | fret annive of Longview's ex-|and at least 500 m arting the b nat 1. E. Mosley, negro, who listence as a ¢ rate city. Mayor|third day of their restless fight to Patrolma: A. J. Comer, at a ting Attorney Malcolm Doug , s being held in the ty Jail, where Ke was taken, fob in Tacoma, a week | urda with @ Unit-|save the town, Two Southern Pa- cific fire fighting trains are on the scene The transcontinental line is not endangered, company officials | here claim. » carrying the officla! greet-| Carl Rosel, paper mill foreman of ings of Seattle | Floriston, was killed in this fire zone At the same time as these planes | when caught under an avalanche of Pala’ tee: the uaavievienn descend upon Longview, 12:30 p. m.,|rock loosened by the fire. So far andidate, That's | : @ special train from Seattle and an|Rosel and Clyburn are the only automobile caravan, carrying hun- | fatalities reported during this second nt of the Enum-| SEES GOOD TIMES HERE dreds of citizens from the Queen | great outburst of fire this season. = } City, will be arriving to join with —_———-- —— recelven $3,600 4) If. Dickstein, who t# president of | practic every city and town of % nine oF 10 months. /the House of Bargains department |Western Washington and Oregon in|Cut Time on Air five days in the week, us most! store, at 1419 First ave. is expected cort of five Stanford E. Moses, of the U k, will fly to Longview Sat 5, fail recover from the wound in ¢ greatest celebration of the kind py the | School teachers do, As state super-|in Seattle September 1, from a buy: © held tee , | “4 ay nd work all the year around./he making heavy purchases, in con-|_,* "pecial train will leave the King| oGpgNn, Utah, July 31—A time is daddy five bustling|templation of a prosperous winter |"* Station at 8 o'clock Saturday | saving on Pacific Northwest mail of s, boy arriving on the! season in Seattle morning. The Chamber of Com-|¢rom 15 to 40 hours has been effected day he filed for office Juat two weeks aeaheneiantey pry eed Sead gre Ppa Aiea for | thru changes in the schedule of the 0. ° 5 be ade. du 5 ewe vl h repo ‘ < | sundial adtator tial seernadtalnt | HE'D HELP Ithat tremendous interest is being| = Mal! planes, Luther K. Bell, traf: manager, announced yester ‘. A big darky was being registered |evinced in the Longview pageant. | "°,™sna# segghb~tioch hall decide whether Germany| during the draft, “Ah can't go t’|The hundreds expected to go by rail Sek ps head Ce hous Be United /defaults in payments under the! wah,” he answered, in exemption. | wit be organized by coaches sup-|Cricace roail nd 40 hout naa 3 and much had) Dawes McKenna plan and what shall| "for dey ain'tn obody t’ look after! plied with Seattle insignia, and, rege, - Seba it waa|be done about it mah wife.”* \headed by the Scotch Pipers’ band, | *°™ : announced the French would present! France proposes that if the rep-| A dapper little undersized colored | wil} lead the Seattle section of the arations ¢ mission does not agres| brother stepped briskly up ano in-|Longview parade. Bert Swezea nas ve shall be appeal | quired: “What kind of a lookin’ lady | been appointed grand marshal of the nd arbitration bedy am yo wife?"—8miles. A single crow is known to have eaten 86 beetles, 72 wireworms, or 123 Sea‘tie nection. graxshoppers within an hour. FREDERICK@NELSONS [3 Semi Aamal Begins Tomorrow Mornin: Te SEMI-ANNUAL CLEARANCE, at decisive reductions, of odd Suites and Pieces from our regular lines of high-grade furniture, to- gether with important special offerings.of good furniture from some of the best Eastern sources, at prices which provide correspondingly unusual savings. Furniture for every room in the home is included. It is necessary to require that delivery of furniture purchased in this Sale be accepted by our customers within the month, at Frederick & Nelson’s convenience. : (FOURTH FLOOR)

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