The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 5, 1924, Page 1

: i ‘ ' TOL. 26. NO. i oe ‘and the Frage business. good cg about tity Workers Ask Million Pa fi ne ion folks! All's f air being in Jou always know where your meal : pather be a liltle fish ‘Tre always envied him; Uys matter what is going on. Hes always in the swim. ore fs coming from. eee biushiig June brides ure now Bs over a hot stove. fax: please, for the maid. who [0 peeved begins ; YS DEFINITION ‘The first filling station. x a8 pout She fhe Uist of women we can live wei to Lend me ye will you? 5 | ‘wE,were on trial for our “Lend me yo permit, will yo! . our base uur Van- ut who eats onions and | s confidential. « to the defendant's Ir-| “I know where you stand on this, Fi fenaaoe, apeones 1 kpomehen you, stood on matter ing The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in W ashington The Seattle Sta tered TTLE, HUGE INCREASES | ARE ASKED BY EMPLOYES Police and Firemen Start Council Arguments NICHOLS IN BATTLE {All City Departments Ask for Salary Boosts NCREASES in wagés totaling more than $300,000 a year were jasked by city firemen and police |men Tueslay morning at an open [hearing before the city council budget committee on the question jot raising the salaries of city em |ployes. | Hundreds of city workers crowd. Jed the council chambers to over flowing. Windows on the Fourth ave. side of the building were open, and many of the men who could not get inside, watched the pro ceeCings from the sidewalk Attorneys George Custer, | Meagher and Adam Beeler p for the firemen ted se a po Heemern: | Sharp words Ge Meagher and Ralph ¢ when clare t if he were passed between Councilman Meeker de a policeman incentive for ing an arrest because a police man does not get paid for the time he spends in police court as ja witness. HIS SMILE DRAWS PERSONAL ATTACK | Nichols amiled at this remark. and ols whl have no 4% | Meagher launched intoa personal at- tack on the councilman, saying: pay Meagher is assistant | counse! | The argument was stopped by Chairman E. L. Blaine, of the budget show plain nervousness, | committee, who warned everyone pre pen the Back of a Ford: in the Days of haired Women $0 back to wor! Kk if her gills in a strike-breaker. eee # finding good cooks. complain over the dif- up looking f Res- for them GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE | VAMP, SEZ: tis it that the big guys ee, Pe ee | ad the little shrimps ‘French fried potatoes insist M edition of “Who's Who” ‘We look in vain ‘hame. Who” would be if volume for Li'l @ much if it would ‘Spécial supplement of boot- ° OF THE GREAT | Standish: “You tell her, st ‘ou tel sa 4 cf 8 % submits Found the world fiyer Gent’ wonder what the Will be a crash in an ena?" Tommy; you'd better im. Ng, or they'i} ma eee it that most fathe to knock rs, when someti:ing into | 4, always hit him on the | McGREED ife Said Sh Was Fat, , le Agreed ~ ° eanididate for the Polson the auto driver who sends | out to br i, fall light. uy some NO fury like the woman brings to ene Monda % MLAny must 4) poi mu 3 feunted athe out 841 And biesse ‘an/unexpected ay night, accounts, made at whieh heaven, | were sent not to indulge in personalities. Practically every department of city government fs asking for an in- crease in wages. The firemen and | Policemen ask for $25 a month fat | | Taise. Street railway trainmen ask an in crease that averages about 12 cents an hour. Their minimum ts now 56 cents an hour aud their maximum & 156 cents an hour. | TOTAL INCREASE |MORE THAN MILLION !way department are asking 50 cents ‘a day increase. They are now get jting $4.50, $4.75 and $5. The shop men ask for a nominal} increase and have left the matter up to the council. $7, and declare they should have the }union scale of $9. Other city departments are asking increases proportionate to those al- ready proposed to the city council. ag requested to the council amount) to-more than a million dollars a year, it is estimated. The entire morning hearing of the budget hearing was taken up in pre- senting the claims of the police and/| fire departments. Comparative fig- ures were introduced to show that) Seattle is toward the bottom of the list.in cities of her size in regard to} wages paid to firemen and police-| men. The hearing was to continue all | Tuesday afternoon Ross’ Pay Raise On Illegal; Opinion the grounds that no appoin-; tive officers’ salary can be in- creased during his term of office, \the. corporation counsel's |Tuesday ruled that the ralse in ipay granted J. D. Ross, superinten- dent of light department, is Sllegal. | City Comptroller Harry Carroll was advised that he cannot legally leign and issue a warrant for the jincreased figure. The council boosted Ross’ salary becuse of added duties placed, on him thru fhe work on_the gorge project of the Skagit. TWO INJURED N STREET RIOT 1,000 in Purported Klan, Battle in Ohio NILES, 0, Aug. 5.—With two persons seriously Injured, several beaten and six under arrest, police today began an investiggtion © of what is reported to have been an open clash between Knights of the Flaming Circle, an antlklan organ: \ization, und members of the Ku |Klux Klan here last night. One thousand persons are sald to have participated in the melee, | The fight resulted, police sald, vhen hundreds of the opposing or: inizations met in the streets, Deyuth from Warren, near here, called in and assisted Niles police inn breaking up the riot, . George | The trackmen of the street rail-| Total increases in all departments} office | stoftice at Beattie WASH., TUESDAY, Al IGUST 5, 1 92M y ra TV Boost WEATHER FORECAST VO CENTS IN SEATTLE AT REYKJAVIK AUTO; THEN IS CAPTURED Chased by Officers, He Is Taken Downtown HE HELD UP GARAGE )Says It Was First Crime, Blaming Poverty Hane up the night watch: man of the Kinnear garage, | 403 Queen Anne ave., early Tues | day morning, a lone bandit, es- caping with S11, was pursued by | two policemen in a chase thru downtown streets. He was cap tured at the point of a gun. | ‘The suspect, who gave | mame as Charles Johnson, | was held in the city jail after he {| had been identified by Maurice | Galpin, 509 First ave, W., who | was the holdup victim. | Galpin says he was in the garage about 6:20 a. m. when Johnson en tered and asked for a headlight bulb. Ipin went to get it and when he turned around again he looket into the muzzle of an automatic pistol The bandit k all the money from the register and fer warning Galpin to st marage jumped int dashed away | Galpin obtained the license number and gave the police a description of the car, | Motoreyele Officers M. A. Coons and J. Kokesh picked up the bandit’s trail and chaxed him thru town. hits he thé » his auto and | The fugitive deserted his automo: | bile near First ave, and \ Spring nt. ‘and dashed into an alley with the two officers at his heels ‘Theyoraced “three blocky-afoot. Coons then went one way and Ko- kesh another and in the alley at Post) corporation | st. and Western ave. Johnson wa alked | into the arms of Kokesh Seeing that trained on Johnson, the suspect threw up his hands and told him not to shoot Johnson ts alleged |femsed the robbery, jwas his first crime. *I was out of Work and hungry,” lhe in reported to have sald, “so I ‘gos Lamar TO CHALLENGE PHONE RAISE -| The Star’s Suit Will Be Filed | Wednesday to have con stating that 4) They are getting} | Attorneys for The Star were busy Tuesday Wednesday by this paper against the [telephone company in the rate in- | crease litigation. The Star, in the interest,of clear- ing up the phone muddle so that sub- seribers will know whether they are legally bound now to pay the higher | rates, will make a test case. | Contending that the telephone | company is stil! operating under the |ola Independent franchise, altho the lecmpany clainis this franchine was assigned more than a year ago, a | mandate will be asked compelling the | | company to show cause as to why! it does not operate under this fran- chise and bill this paper for tele- phone service under the rates pro- vided in. the city ordinance und cov- ered in this franchise, When Corporation Counsel Tom | Kennedy recently began mandamus | proceedings in superior court, seek- ing to have the status of the com- pany's independent franchise cleared up, the case was transferred to fed- eral court at the request of com- pany attorneys It is in federal court that the fight to sce whether the rates, now iin effect, will remain, permanently, | will be fought out this fall, unless the company gets its case continued, It was-to prevent putting the in- | creases into effect now. and collect- ag tho federal court decides the case that Kennedy started ‘his recent mandamus, action. It is inorder to straighten out phone usgrs,on the question of whether or not, the company can collect the higher rates’ during this interim that The Star 44 -bringing its action, Assistant Corporation Counsel | Walter Beals, sald Tuesday that he has been kept busy for the past two days answering queries from tele: phone subscribers as to what action they whould. take in paying increased telephone bills. Beals urges every subscriber to write; ‘Paid under protest’ acroms the bill or cheek, Should the city win the cwse the subscriber then will be as- sured of a rebate. President Accepts | Warren Resignation WASHINGTON, Aug. Presi. dent Coolidge has formally opted the resignation of Charles 1, War ron, of Michigan, as ambasyador to Mexico, the White House announced today., BANDIT CRASHES Kokesh had his gun} it} ing the Righer rates until such time} His Nerves Were Gone— So He— Held up an au- tomobile load of armed men- Laughed in the face of the worst bad man in Montana- Licked the bully of the ranch single- * handed- Defied a sher- iff’s posse to catch him- And won The Girl! “The Nervous Wreck” BY E. J. RATH Starts Tomorrow in The Star 800 Dance-for. Salt. Water Camp Grounds’ You Missed Good Time, but the Mon-| tana Benefit Comes Next Week ° | hee should have been there. } Eight hundred Seattle . sup-, porters of the state salt water park | Revered and dance enthusiasts were and they had a big fime, and the community park fund must have in ergased by $1,000 aa a resuit of the | Monday evening affair. | Warren Anderson had his 15-piece jorchestra playing free-gratis-for-noth ing, and everyone who could dance & step waa on the floor of the Les- |ehi pavilion. The Young Men's Business club jeertainly knaws how to stago an| enjoyable soclety affair, as well as preparing thelr brief for how to netiyely support and develop | and social | halt @ community enterprise like the |“poor man’s park." | Mayor BE. J. Brown, who had. oar. lier In ‘the: day subscribed: a $604 \check to the fund, danced a couple of numbers and congratulated the | |club men managers of the social. | |financial “fanetion.”* CLUB CONGRATULATES GENEROUS MUSICIANS “It was the best music ever |nished a Seattie dance,” |F. EB. Wood, who is general com. jmanding the ¥. M. B. C, drive com: | jmittees soliciting Seattle's $10,000 fquota. “We wit know Thursday | jjust how much the big dance took | in for the park fund.” | Members of the Anderson orches- tra, which donated the musical. pro- gram, are: Barney Goodman, piano; Bertha Lamotte and Kenneth Gove, violina; Ray Matheson, Edwin Sheldon and| Esther Pegg, banjos; Gene Paul and Gretchen Fengler, alto saxophones; Walter Hawkins, tenor saxaphone; Burnis Munson and Frank Bradley, trumpets; Matt Mijler and Bill Mer- jriweather, trombones, and Frank | Door, sousaphone, with Warren An. derson directing. E. B,- Churehill, fur. declared Dr. | | 403 Ninth aye., ihe | announcement | out. | representatives of the Russain gov. sent in his check for $5 and H.C. Strassburger for $2. -MONTANANS ( ER DAY » TOO The state park board’ members} by telegram delivered at the Monday night affair, were sorry that they could not present and wished | the park fund seekers ali the suc- cess in the world. Well, here's their chance, according to a last-minute of Glen McLeod, barber and former Montanan. Ex-Montana residents now in! Seattle will stage their big dance gathering at the Moose next week. The dance music jx donated and so is the hall, so these Montana-Seattle folk have done the handsome thing by offering the proceeds of the big dance to the park fund, too. 18 So here's a second chance to step" literally, and figuratively, for} | the park, anf “when Montana folks) {start out to do a thing, they do It! up brown,” McLod declares. The exact date will be announced later. | British Break With | Russians in Parley LONDON, Aug. 5.—The British for. eign office issued a communique to.| day stating that “negotiations be tween his majesty’s government and Tuesday, | signed his be ernment have broken down, and the proposed commercial treaty will not be signed.” BELLINGHAM, Aug. 6.—Edward Parker, 4-yeor-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Merwin Parker, of Geneva. on Lake Whatcom, drowned in the Inke | when he slipped from a float, it was learned today. BY AVRIDGE MANN EATTLE, Monday afternoon, was turning out for cireus day, It welcomed Childhood's geatest boon with gala crowds that blocked the way, Aa near as years can well be gaged, the tent was one gigantic hive com- posed of buzzing youngsters aged from seven years to eighty: five. At Fourth and Harrison the streets were lined with decorated stands. They sold balioons and drinks and eats, In line with clr cusday demands. And all along the entrance way, there was, to quote the words they use, “the most remarkable array" of side. shows with their ballyhoos, A host of animals were there, fe anyone can tell who goes; you just inhale the scented alr, and, us Le written. “Your none Kids Needed Six Eyes, Avridge Mann Declares knows.” The kind ‘that every youngster loves, of many sizes, Kinds and shapes—the hippo- potamuases, doves, gorillas, ele- phants and apes, The “big top," where the show was held, was crowded to its can- vas wall, At 2p, m. the barker yelled his, “Hear ye! Hear yet Hear ye all!" And then the big parade began, and reached a quite gigantic size. The children watched the cara. van, and longed for half a dozen eyes, And soon the whole three rings were filled with animals with stunts to do, The young- asters sat completely thrilled to seo the big performing zoo. The show, however, got in dutch, in one respect, the kids | shortly jents, ANOTHER LAP IN WORLD FLIGHT IS SUCCESS Crowd in Far North Country Cheers as Planes Arrive WADE IS ON WARSHIP| Everybody Regrets Acciden That Sent Craft Down EYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. ; Lieuts. Smith and} Nelson flew their American world flight planes from Hornafjord to Reykjavik,! capital of Island, today, land- ing here safely at 3:20 p. m., Greenwich mean time. | The army planes settled In the bay here their 310-mile Night after along the coast of Iceland, with men | and machines in good condition and ready to go on to Greenland. They wil) make the next hop as soon as the d and cruiser convoy 1 is ready and the few difficulties flight nat on shore and path of tod: there was great ct among the >was among naval officers of the voy They had been worrying over the unfortunate accident that put Lieut Leigh Wade out of the race Lieutenant Wade had to come along as a passenger aboard one of the cruisers. He is the ob- ject of general sympathy. The slight engine trouble whieh forced his plane into heavy seas, where it had to be al how slight.a thing ean imperil the world Might, now drawing to a close, The two remaining world planes landed in. a sheltered harbor behind the breakwater here ction cr \London Pevatch Reports O. K. Flight | LONDON, Aug. -A dispatch received in London before 7 p. m. sald the} American flyers, Lieutenants Smith | and Nelson, arrived at Reykjavik, | Iceland They flew along the (Turn to Page 7, Colum. 4) Central today All But One. Horse Saved in in McMinnville Fire | | Aug. 5.—| MILLE, Ore, be Fire loss estimated at $100,000 re. sulted here today from flames which swept a block in the down. | town section. The city transfer! barn and the old Armory were de-| stroyed, while the United States Na-| tional Bank bul'ding and the Lark | heater were saved, altho occupants | suffered fire dam: A large num. | ber of horses were in the stables of | |the transfer barn, Rescue of all but one was effected, Salem and New: \berg departments assisted in fight. ing the flam OBSERVE TEST | Organized Labor Neutral in National Defense Issue ATLANTIC CITY, N, J., Aug. 5./ The American Federation of Labor today addressed its workers to ob- serve national defense day in uc. cordance with the desires of Presi- dent Coolidge. Again asserting its non-partisan- ism, the executive council refused to take an official recognition of the issue being fought out by the re- publicans, democrats and independ-| but authorized issuance -of a! statement declaring Defense day is a matter of law, The statement was issued by Matthew Woll, acting as spokesman for Samuel Gompers. FLAMES. RAGING High Winds Fan Forest Fire in Oregon Counties MARSHFIELD, Ore, Aug. Fanned by high winds and contin- ued dry winds, forest fires in Coos and Curry counties today have all available forces fighting desperate- ly to control a situation which W. C. Shultz, field inspector of the fire patrol association characterized as “tho most precarious this sen- son," In the Bush prairie district flames have now driven the fighters back three miles and a six-mile front is ablaze, Several fires near have burned nearly 109 acres of MeMIN Myrtle Point agree; Three rings,” they sald, “are much too mMuch--it's more * than any kid can see!" ‘ logged land and are forcing fire crews backward) toward green timber, ¢ | him?" JUDGE C HICAGO, Aug. Leopold- Loeb Judge Sends 5 to Gallows Within Three Years AVERLY ).—Out of 12 death verdicts returned and sentences, pronounced in the criminal court here in the last three years, five have been before Judge John R. Caverly. This record may or may not be significant as the world waits for Judge Caverly to gi ve his verdict in the case of Richard A. Loeb and Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., confessed slayers of Robert Franks. think about. defense drew, Out of the half dozen ju Judge Caverly has uttered t treme sentence more than twice as often Under the turning it Illinois Jaw, the j But it is at least something to This is the sort of “friendly judge” the dges in the criminal court, he fatal formula of the ex- as any other. ury fixes the penalty in re- verdict, but by coincidence or otherwise, juries in Judge Caverly’s court have tended toward hanging. In 1922 he pronounced the only death sentence imposed. In 1923 he sentenced two.of the nine men condemned. This year he has already sentenced two, the only death verdicts returned. Back in his old days in municipal court Judge Caverly was known for his rigid impartiality and severe sentences. “Fifty dollars and cgsts” was a tag phrase with him. ‘The judge was born in England in 1861) “His was ‘fio pampered childhood. He worked for what he received and was not graduated from night law school until he was 36 years old. He has been in public office almost con- tinuously since then, as assistant city attorney, city at- torney, police magistrate and - judge. * Demands Jury Trial for Loeb and Leopold ‘STABLES RAZED State’s Attorney Takes Action After Statements by Alienists RIMINAL’ COURTROOM, | Chic: go, Aug. 6.—At this atfernoon’s, session of the Leopold*Loeb murder hearing. State's. Attorney Crowe asked Dr. William Healy, Boston alienist, whethér a person with a itremendously abnormal inner. men- tat life’ was insan Upon the doc- tor’s reply of * Crowe immedi. jately demanded that, Justice Cayerly, limpane} a jury to pass onthe san- |ity of the boys. Crowe contended that the altien- ist’s testimony showed "thatthe boys came. under ‘that characterization. Justice Caverly, however, overru’ed the demand, stating that he would consider only the definition. of legal insantly as. laid down by the su- preme court of Tlinois. Doey the defendant, Nathan Leo- pold, or the defendant, Richard Loeb know the difference between right and wrong?’ Crowe asked, starting from a new,angle. “I think—yes— they know the dif. ference,” Dr. Healy responded. “Now, doctor, granting they know the difference between right and wrong, did they have the power to choose: between’ right and doing wrong?” “Perhaps, but only in a measure.” } “Now, let's be — specific. Did Nathan: Leopold on May 21, 1924, have the power to choose between, killing Robert Franks or not killing} Defense counsel Bachrach objected to this question on the ground that it involved legal insanity “as laid down by the Illinois supreme court. The court sustained Bachrach and then ordered a brief recess. SAYS LOEB HAS DISEASED MIND Richard Loeb has a “thoroly dis- eased mind," Dr. . William Healy; Boston phychiatrist, testified at the | judicial hearing of Loeb and Na- than Leopold, Jr, for the murder of Robert Franks, when it was ‘re- sumed today. “That js the conclusion I have reached after a thoro examination of Loeb," the psychiatrist said, This conclusion, Dr. Healy said, was based on the following reasons; 1, His abnormal mental life. 2. His twisted emotions, 8. His Jack of sympathy others. 4, His lack of feeling for his own misconduct 5, His vivid phantasies. 6, His pathological split ity, HEINOUS CRIME, IS POINTED OUT "The fact that vivid phantasy over for personal he curried his into every day jrain, untitinkable that “a> mentally | nor- mal. person would) commit such a heinous crime, I am even more convinced that my conclusions aro correct,” Dr. Healy . said. “I ‘have. watched ; their actions, in the courtroom and they only tend to confirm my. opinion.” The ‘crime is a direct result’ of diseased motivation of Loeb's mental life, Dr. Healy said. Loeb's. twisted emotional life and Loeb's: coming together. with. “another abnormal personality’ in the person of Leo- pold caused the consummation ‘of the crime, the witness, said. “The most remarkable affair was caused by the.coming together of these two boys, each’ with abnor- mal characteristics,’ "the doctor said. Chief Defense Attorney Clarence Darrow personally, brought out the fact that the doctor is receiving 60a day, and then he turned him over to State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe fgr corss examination. : INSANITY QUESTION IS BLOCKED Crowe asked the witness to look thru his notes and tell whether either of the boys teld him who actually planned the kidnaping and ‘murder (Tern to Page 7, Column 6) 4 DIE IN CRASH Pennsylvania Ex Express Train Smashes Automobile PHILADELPHIA, Aug, 5.—Four persons were instantly killed today when « Pennsylvania express from Long Branch, Ny J.,° to Camden, struck, an, automobile at a grade crossing at New Lisbon, N. J., ac- cording to a report received at the headquartens of the railroad, CATTLE KILLED Storm in Ohio Destroys Property and Crops . KENTON, 0, Aug. 5.—-Crops were levelod, 10 barns were burned and hundreds of cattle were killed in a wind und ectrical storm which cut a fivemile swath thea Hardin county. during the night, Telephone tines were down tn many places ‘Trees were uprooted and damage to the onlon crop was estimated at hundreds of thousands life of uctivity and > becwuse it Is of dollire