The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 4, 1924, Page 1

+ WORLD PLANE LOST AT * 2 Flyers Rescued Home Edition “VOL. 26. NO. 136, ae Home Brew Howdy, folks! Another week —ho-hum!—starts, 1 Gee Gee gets he sing * Home Brew an- nounces that be- aning with this will be personally Eisupervised by H. G, Brew, famous poet and chiropo- Fist. Mr. Brew will give his en- tire time to this work, and will in addition sweep out the office twice daily. | office has a man who is ! sorry the boss ts so ignorant. . . Residents of Alki Point are waging against crows, Why? Oh, men et } GIDDAP, DERN YE! (GL. B) When my Ford runs low on gas, I turn her ‘round in utter bliss, And while the wifie mutters “Ass, this! like hit the up her . t back One of the fountain special the Golden Cup Lunch ts called Gee loving cup.” ui s lovin’ cup, however, ts | | IVY CLUB | ‘The goof who tries to get | g | wholesale rates on two-cent | 2 | stany ' . SRE LST PRT Ue ee y Believe it or not, the town of As bestos, Md. has been nearly de- stroyed by fi ee & | Purl ne, college athlete, won the world’s log-roiling championship at Longview last week. Of course, he didn’t compete | against any of our state legislators— | they're professional Sign on the Back of a Ford: a SE SS RH SR eh RES CORPUS DELICTI | | There {s a taxi drivers’ strike on in Seattle. Bet the boys are striking for bigg@? and better color combina- tions. see Ye DIARY (Auguat 3) (Lord's day). Lay long abed. Anon to church: « good sermon. Presently by water to Bainbridge island, and did there pick many blackberries, for I am resolved | to make blackberry cordial, albeit the recipes do be vastly contradictory. Later to Fletcher's bay, and everybody did go in swimming, but I did not, for which, I saw them, shivering and shaking, glad. And so to home. S08 <eep Cool with Coolidge” 1s a good campaign slogan, but how about “Laugh with Laughollette?” eee ee | LY'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE | VAMP, SEZ: ; Grandfather doesn't have any | trouble cleanin’ his false teeth. | He just puts them under th’ | vacuum cleaner, Ph Nite ES VW oe | | 7 Experts say the new golf ball will curtail long drives in the links. But this won't affect us. longest drive is a putt. ets our I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago; 1 cannot sing the old songs— The janitor says “No!” Seattle banks have secured an and elude bandits. They'd better be careful bandits will steal the car. the or OIL UP the ol’ flivver, folks PUT THE kids to bed and drive out to Leach F' HEAVY xake, don’t mins the big dance for the salt water park, armored car to transport valuables | een Batered as Bcond Class Mattor May §, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle le | The Star Goe J JE YOU there! consi SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, AUGU Into Court! HE method in which the court battle over the tele- phone rate increases has been handed about from judge to judge reminds one greatly of the operations of aman trying to juggle red-hot coals. After the federal court allowed the telephone com- pany to put higher rates into effect thruout the state August 1 over the protests of the state board of public works, Tom Kennedy, corporation counsel, brought legal action to prevent the increases in Seattle, The telephone company insists that it is operating without a franchise in Seattle—that one of its fran- chises has expired and that the other has been assigned to a San Francisco man, Kennedy, in a mandamus action, charged that the second franchise is still effective; that the assignment never had been made in good faith and that the fran- chise was turned over to a “straw man” to allow the company to escape its restrictive limitations. The action was filed in superior court and a plea was made that it be decided promptly, one way or the other. Either the franchise still held, and the company should be guided by it, or the assignment was valid and the city had no case. Why was the case turned over to Judge King Dyke- man, ordinarily in charge of probate work and to whom not once in a hundred times such work would be as- signed? It couldn't possibly have been that it was because Judge Dykeman had no opposition this year in the elections, Why was it that Judge Dykeman allowed the plea of the telephone company attorneys and passed the case along to the federal court? Why was it that the federal court set September 2 as the date for the hearing? It couldn't possibly have been because the neces- sary red tape that must ensue before the hearing could come up, after that date, would set it just after the primary election in which many superior court judges are vitally interested. At any rate Corporation Counsel Kennedy's action is still awaiting decision. Meantime the phone company has raiséd its rates in the state in accordance with the federal court’s ruling. We still are in the dark as to whether we have a tele- phone franchise in Seattle. In view of that, we are uncertain whether the new rates, now, are legal in Seattle. Even tho the issue be a red-hot one to handle, with election approaching, The Star believes it should be de- cided at once. And so, that all Seattle phone users may know whether or not they must pay the increased rates, The Star will bring action against the phone com- pany, seeking an injunction to prevent the com- pany from putting the higher rates into effect pend- ing the decision of the case in the federal court. The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in We The Seattle Star Wash, under the Act of Congress March 4 1924. | Leopold and Loeb Start Crimes in Childhood Alienist Tells of Adventures in Wrong- doing by Boys Early in Life RIMINAL COURT ROOM, Chi- cago, Aug. 4.—Cheating at bridge was the start of the criminal part- nership of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr, Dr. William Healy, noted psychiatrist, of Boston, testi- fied today at the judicial hearing istic tendencies started long he met Leopold, Dr. Healy said. took up the practice of the millionaire youths for thw| boring houses and stole such things slaying of Robert Franks, school) ®% expensive vases--things he could boy. not use but which he stole just for Leopold and Loeb were not very successful in their bridge partner- ship, the doctor said. Another delinquency in which Leopold and Loeb participated was heavy drinking, the witness de- clared. $10,000 ROBBERY Jeweler Bound by Bandits, Who Flee With Loot OAKLAND, Aug. 4—Two bandits bound and gagged Simon Nankin, proprietor of the Oakland Jewelry company, as he opened his store to- day and escaped with more than $10,000 worth of cash and Jewels, away with it. money which another buried in his yard.” SAYS BOTH WOULD CONTINUE CRIME boy admitted. Leopold, the doctor said, criminal ca intellectual standpoint, a sort stability. inkin was unlocking the safe] makes numerous nervous gestures when the men need upon him|he talks and in every way from behind, trussed him up secure-} plain nervousness,” Dr. Healy said ly and then leisurely helped them-| “Regarding his mentality, selves. It was several minutes after} ducted many testa and found the men had escaped that Nankin| rated very high intelligently.” worked himself {reo and summoned| Crowe, at this point, demanded to the police. (Turn to Page 4, Column 7) ‘As for young Loeb, his criminal- before | When he was only 9 years old he of stealing whatever he could lay his hands on. He crawled thru windows of neigh- the satisfaction of being able to get “He also stole many articles from stores and shops about the city,” Dr. Healy sald. “Once he dug up some had Dr. Healy said that Loeb insisted to him that he knew of nothing with. in himself that would deter him from again committing the crimes he has stated that he probably would continue the eer, both more from an of means for satisfaction of his desires. Leopold, the doctor said, exhibited very plain symptoms of nervous in- “T found Leopold flushes readily, 6 shows I con. 1979. PHONE BATTLE IN SEATTLE | Adviée Still Is to Pay Old Telephone Rate HIGH CHARGE ILLEGAL Citizens Switch to Lower- | Priced Service | | | PQACKED by an opinion from Cor. | poration Counsel Tom Kennedy, | le citizens Monday paid rates for service and/ many Seat the fra chine noted the heavy overcharge on Aug: | ust bills. | Kennedy threatened Saturday to bring contempt proceedings against | company officers should they discon. | tinue service or attempt to take out | \telephones of those subscribers who | refused to pay the illegal increased | } city's position 1a that the com. | pany ignored a writ commanding it to charge f os or show | cause why they shor not be en-| forced, This was on July 26, when the case was transferred to federal court on tho order of Judge man. King Dyke: | On this theory, Kennedy says, fran. re legal. He does not advise residents to pay the lower rate, but promises to bring court proceedings in a resident's be | balg if the company Insists on charg- | ing the high rate, held by the city to | be itemal | VARIOUS MOVES ARE UNDER WAY | Meanwhile, some residents on one- | {party lines are switching to two- party service, Similarly, two-party | |line nutworiberw tre-taking fourpar: | ty Ine service, in an effort to re-| duce costs. | Mayor C. A. Fleming, in Spokane, ‘leader in the fight for years, has} switched to a two-party line rather than pay the increase. Glenn MacLeod, well-known bar- ber shop proprietor, said that in his district neighbors were getting to gether and proposed ordering out three phones from every four homes, | “chipping tn” to pay the cost of the lremaining phone and using one line | jonly, | | ‘The telephone company, as usual, |reported very little trouble and sald that the number of phones ordered out is “negligible.” Meanwhile, hundreas were marking thelr bills “Paid Under Protest,” tn | case the court holds present rates | IiMegal, and it becomes necessary to | rebate to subscribers. chise rates a specifically | WORKERS BACK LA FOLLETTE 3,000,000 of Them Will Aid! Gompers in Big Campaign ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 4.— A huge political organization with 30,000 campaign committees, hun: | dreds of speakers and 3,000,000 active | workers, will sweep the nation this fall in behalf of the presidential can- didacy of Robert M. La Follette, the independent, This unprecedented offensive was decided upon by the executive coun- cil of the American Federation of Labor here today in a session de- voted to arranging complete details of political organization, Samuel Gompers, veteran labor leader, will be in active control of the movement, which he belleves will prove the biggest political undertak- ing yet attempted by labor in this country. The council authorized creation of a speakers’ bureau, which Is instruct. ed to round up speaking talent and present labor's view in behalf of the independent ticket to every person that can be reached by the far flung power of the federation. A publicity committee will print and circulate from coast to coast lit- erature urging election of the La Fol- lette-Wheeler candidates, The $0,000 local units of the federa- tion will be authorized to create sep- arate campaign committees to govern activities in thelr local districts, Every possible facility of this mon- ster labor organization is pledged to the movement. It is labor's intention to make this campaign its biggest battle and distniss forever the idea that labor's vote is only mythical, TOR'S HOME Thieves who entered the home of the Ambrose Bailey, of the First Baptist church, took nothing the minister reported Monday to the TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, | RICHMOND RUSHES shington Per Year, by Mall, #8 to WADE'S MACHINE S| WARMING UP , FORCED DOWN; | WRECKED Smith Joins Nelson Safely in Flight to Iceland AIRMEN ON WARSHIP Tow Line Snaps and _ Ill-| Fated Craft Runs Adrift BOARD U. 8. 8. RICHMOND, off Iceland, August 4—(By wireless}—The Boston, U. 8. A. workd flight plane, piloted three- fourths of the way around the globe by Lieut. Leigh Wade, was abandoned today near Sumbae light off the island of Syderos, where it was forced down by en- gine trouble Sunday, The Richmond, flagship of the flotilla, which ts convoying the world flight, was towing the wrecked plane to land, having rescued Lieut. Wado and his mechanician. Sergt. Ogden. , The tow line parted and the plane was abandone | Standing on the deck of the Rich. mond as the scout cruiser proceeded cautiously thru whitecapped seas Northward to iceland where Lie Nelson and Smith were watting, | Lieut, Wade suffered the supreme! disappointment of the American sky | expedition when the sharp snap of the tow rope signaled the end of his plane. The Boston was left to its fate in the heavy seas and the Richmond picked up speed and made for Reyk: | Javik, Iceland. | ‘Trouble with an oll pump put the| plane's engine out of commébssion yestertuy ‘while Licut. Wade and Lieuty Smith were flying to Horna. fjord, Iceland, to catch up with Lieut. Nelson, who had gone on ahead suc: | cessfully on Saturday, The Boston hopped off with the plane piloted by Lieut. Smith from} Kirkwall at 9:18 Sunday. At 10:56] a. m. the U. 8. 8. Billingley, patroll-| ing the flyers’ route, received the) following message, dropped by Lieut. | Smith, who passed over the ship: “Wade forced to descend. Motor gone. Needs immediate help. One hundred and fifteen statute miles; off Birsay.” TO THE RESCUE } ‘There was also a request that both | the Billingsley anda the Richmond rush to the aid of the disabled flyer. A few minutes iater the radio room | of the steamer Richmond was in a buzz of activity. The Richmond was 95 miles from the spot where Lioutenant Wade was reported down. The captain ordered (Turn to Page 4, Column 4) Proudest Mothers in the World Their Sons Are Flying Around the Globe for Uncle Sam; They’re Best Boys Ever, Is Fond Verdict Mothers of the American ‘round-the-world flyers. Upper left—Mrs. Robert Harding, Los Angeles. Center—Mrs. Jasper G. Smith, Los Angeles. nold, Spokane. Christina Nelson, Sweden. HEY are the proudest mothers in America! And well they may be! The country —and for that m other countries, too ro singing the praises of their boys thelr sons are adding a apter to history r boys are circling the globe, thru the air, for Uncle Sam And now they are coming home. Fully aware of the dangers their sons would encounter, these mothers, like the Spartan mothers of old, went their boys away last March with smiles.on thelr Nps. SMITH’S MOTHER FLEW WITH HIM But let these women speak for themselves “I wouldn't have stopped Low- ell from flying around the world for anything,” says Mrs. G. Smith, of mother of Licut Lowell Smith, | who received command of the flight after Maj. Frederick Mar: tin hed into an Alaskan Mountain. “I'd go, too, if I were a man. I'd like to fly some more. “Yes, I flew with him a few weeks before he left, It was in San Diego. “He took me hour, so I could what it was like. And, oh, it was the most inspiring feeling! Now I understand why Lowell has been so absorbed by flying since the war. “Lowell was an instructor at (Turn to Page 4, Column 3) 100 miles an seo BY AVRIDGE MANN 464 RECORD crowd Is bound to go," said Chairman Robert Frame today, “to see the Northwest Merchants’ show, which now is just two weeks anvay.”” ‘The clared, exposition, Frame de- will bring Seattle wide renown, The Bell St. dock has been prepared for many men from out of town. The show will be a bigger thing than ex- positions held before; and Frame asserts it's bound to bring ten thousand merchants —maybe more, The booths around St. dock will show us what Seattle makes, with nearly everything in stock from auto trucks to ginger cakes. The wood and hardware builders use, the clothes that men and women wear, Seattle hats and coats and shoes, and other things will all be there. Our wives, said Frame, will want to seo Seattle's stock of food to eat. Tho show's display of foods will be a varied lot and quite complete, “The food displays will catch their eye,” he said, “no matter where they roam. The house- wives always like to try to keep Seattle's dollars home.” Nor is it Just Seattle goods the the Bell exposition's bringing fame, It's boosting other nelghborhoods— “Pacific Northwest,” that's its name. Tacoma shows its products, too, and firms from all around tho state, It aims to bring to public view the police, “It’s all Seattle's show,” said Frame. “Four hundred men have given time and work to spread Seattle's fame, and make our local products climb. Let's make a million stores display our local products on their shelves. Let's pull together! For, they say, the Lord helps them who help themselves!” Lower left—Mrs, William M. Wade, Cassopolis, Mich. Lower right—Mrs, Upper right—Mrs. Cora ATf- Do Your Stuff for the — _ Park at Monday’s Dance ‘Mayor Brown Backs the Salt Water Outing Place families ILE your friends and into the old bus and come on lout to Leschi pavilion tonight, It’s {the night of the big salt water. park |benefit “hop,” and the Young Men's | gaye park Is ‘3 | Business club, sponsoring the park | pROGRE! gn and the dance, promise a vening and a real run for your mp n the time that Warren An- ‘8 15-plece orchestra, playing thru the courtesy of the Seattle Mu- siclans’ association, tunes up and asks “Why Did You Kiss That Giri?” until it breaks up the “func tion” with “Home, Sweet Home,’ there is going to be something doing every minute. Approximately $2,000 worth of mechamtiise, donated by Seattle mer- | chants, will be given away during the evening—there wilt be stunts galore—and 10 per cent of what you pay for food and drink will be donated to the park fund by the cencessionaires, Project, Too I'm glad to join with Seattle's ‘common folks’ actively supporting the state salt water park pi , said Mayor Edwin J. Brown, * . ing In“a check for the fund 7 SIVE ACTION "I believe that it is one of the | most progressive actions recently ine itiated in Seattle toward solving the | problem of where the average fami: lly can spend « short outing and — where the tourist car influx can be (handled close to the city and yet im |close proximity to nature. | “I'm for the state salt water park. jAnd I am for the Seattle Young | Men's Business club, sponsoring the | park. Bie. “Let's get a united Seattle for a community recreation and outing | place, on salt water, in the great | trees and close to the city.” Official duties permitting, Mayor — Brown probably will step the con- ventional light fantastic at the big (Leschi dance this evening. KILL SPAN PLAN |Can’t Use Funds to Build Bob Frame Talks About Merchants’ Exposition Street Car Bridge No portion of the proceeds of the bridge bonds voted in March, 1924, for the erection of a bridge on W. Spokane st., across the West water- way, can be used for the construc- tion of additional bridge facilities on W. Spokane st., according to an opin- jon furnished Councilman E. L. Blaine Monday by the corporation counsel's office. Any surplus may be used to widen the present structure, the opinion holds, but cannot be applied to any other structure. This decision was based on the following extract from the W. Spokane st. bridge ordinance: “The money derived from the sale of said bonds shall bt applied and used only for constructing a bridge across the West waterway at W. Spokane st. and for no other purpose whatsoever.”” Found Lying Here on Street, Dying Found lying on Fourth ave. N,, at Harrison st., Sunda in a dazed condition, John Henry Polander, 75, was taken to the city hospital, where he told nurses that he had become dizzy while walking and fell. He remembered nothing of his address or relatives, Later he was found to bo suffering from heart trouble and {s In a critical condition. Two Injured in Motor Smashups HOQUIAM, Aug. 4.—Two persons were seriously injured in automobile accidents here Saturday night. Earle Flanders, truck driver, was pinned beneath his car when it turned over while making a turn, fracturing his collar bone. Shortly thereafter, Peto Bob Frame maglo word, “Co-operato!” Photo by Grady Jensen was injured when the car in which he was riding crashed into a telephone pole at the same placo AAA @ The Star recently began a search of the lists of current fiction for the funniest story on the market. The hunt didn’t last long. We found that everyone was carrying home copies of a remarkably comical book called “The Nervous Wreck” by HE. J. Rath. @ Libraries and bookstores were besieged for it; the critics were praising its fine, tent humor; theatrical producers were making a play of it; the whole country was holding its sides with laughter. ‘That was enough! The Star got the serial rights and will present it to Star readers, beginning Wednesday—the finest summer reading that we could find for you. @ Don’t miss the opening chapters. In The Star Wednesday. TRY NEW PLANT. Gorge Works Tested Out on Sunday, Run Well Water was turned into the tunnet at the Gorge unit of the Skagit proj. _ ect Saturday, and both machines: were run without mishap, Skagit En- |gineer Carl F. Uhden declared Mon- The machines were shut down — Sunday for minor adjustments, but Uhden said they would be ready to jStart again Monday night or Tues- }day morning. The generators must be run from | 10 days to two weeks, to be dried out, Uhden declared. At the end of that time the plant should be ready to furnish electricity. “There is absolutely no indication of the water-hammer danger set forth by an engineer who recently jmade an inspection of the project,"? Uhden said. : “The plant ran perfectly, and we are well satisfied with the test.” Befriend Service Men; Are Robbed Two Seattle visitors, Alex Green, — Seattle hotel, and L, Bouschor, of Yakima, stopping at the City hotel, befriended sailors to their sorrow Sunday. night, : Green took a marine to his room and then went out for some cigarets, When he came back the marine and Green's bankroll of $250 had disaps — peared. vs Buschor took a gob to his room for. the night and woke up a few hout later with a sense of loneliness, The gob had also departed with $2 from — Bouschor’s purse. bs WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Tues- day, with but little change in temperature, ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 63. nimum, 55, Today noon, 60. z