The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 6, 1924, Page 1

hb} * iF i Judge Tallman Dodges The Star's Phone Suit | 1 The News WEATHER Maximum, 78. Today dill per Temperature Last as Second VOL, 26, NO. 138. se ane Matior May SEAT! paper With the Bigge 1499, ot the P toftice at Beata TLE, WASH HUNDRED rIGH | |Home Drew | Brew MT —__ we wish golf! Howdy, folk we were out pl An optimist is a golfer who looks at Mount Rainier and says: “Watch me drive this ball over that little bunker!” see Disey I: rocked the Ddoat, Dizzy Izzy couldn't float, Funeral note, . I'l Gee Gee does all her spoontng | in the parlor, Her family calls it the mushroom. ROUGHING IT Li'l Gee Gee says she doesn’t see why they have fairways; nobody ever uses them. ‘This Is the time of the year when father says: “Of course, I don’t care | anything about circuses, but I've got | to take little Johnny.” ee The new edition of “Who's Who and Why" is out, but a lot of people are more interested in Bradstreet’s | “Who's He and What's He Got?” ee THE THREE GREAT THRILLS | The first kiss. | ‘The first pair of long pants. | The first royal flush, eee Li'l Gee Gee admits she paints and says: “No man ever saw an angel that wasn't painted.” .* Addied Axioms: Fools jaywalk in} where angels fear to tread. “ee Here lies the body of Ebenezer Black; Floodéd his carburctor, While crossing the track. “ee “Do you mean to say you don’t play golf?” “That's right. My legs are too skinny for me to wear golf knickers.” | eee CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB ‘The gink who puts perfume on his whiskers. . . One of Life’s Tragic Moments: ‘When you're going fishing, and baby swallows your only worm. ee ‘We wouldn't mind the flappers cut- ting their hair short if they would only cut the talk about it short. ee ees | TODAY'S DEFINITION | ! The Great Open Spaces: Where | “Brick” Eldred hits the ball. & Another candidate for the Polson Ivy club is the goof who buys an ice cream cone, eats the ice cream, and takes the cone back to the soda water clerk, saying: “Thanks for letting me use your vase, mister.” cee “I don't see why the folks in West | Seattle are kicking about the Spo- kane st. bridge,” postcards R. J. J. “It took 10 years to bulld the Brook- lyn bridge, too.” ove THE IGNORANT BULLDOG sy had a Pekinese, The purp was full of vim, It met a Boston pull one day— That “Peck” was Chow to him! see Ed Clifford, candidate for gover- nor, is attacking the cement trust, This is the right Idea, Somebody ought to stop those fellows from sell- ing their stuff to young brides as flour. . The supreme test of parental love 4s when baby wants a drink about 3 a.m ewe Short skirts are coming back, says fashion expert. Don't take any chances on blindness by drinking | moonshine whink YE DIARY | By conch to the clreus, with M Homer Brew and Little Homer Krew, Jr. and did eat peanuts, hot dogs and all the | good things in the world, And many | strange anim hlood-awenting | he Wild Kan- Ned goofus, And ing the amell of the why t And #0 to home, laughing ‘ADMITS BEING KILLER! | United |the death of Robert Franks, |the judicial hearing | Leopold, | chisel. |Dr. James Whitney Hall, chief of | Chafed up, |the defense alienists, said: % | is attacker of Robert bas been made LOEB SAYS HE STRUCK BLOW, KILLING BOY *to Halt Dangerous Nervous? Mienist Definitely Names ‘Whether You alti or Aren’ t, Him as Slayer of Child You Simply Youth Reveals Details of Crime to Defense Expert DERR Correspondent. | RIMINAL COURTROOM, Chi cago, Aug. 6.--Richard Loeb| struck the fatal blows that caused it was revealed for the first time today at the top rail of the corr of Nathan F./on his feet, Jr, and Richard Loeb. Bernard Glueck, paychaonalyst of |Which was good for kinks BY E. J. BY EDWARD ¢. Copyright, 1934 by Press Staff The san had a persuasive warmth Can’t Miss “The Nervous Wreck” RATH NEA Service, Inc. CHAPTER I Game but Nervous AD MORGAN stood with his shoulders against | al fence, apparently asleep | in the system. He never New York, an ailenist for the de|could decide whether it melted or baked the twinges fense, made the revelation today. . Up to this time each of the boys (CUt Of him; had blamed the other for the actual/ and virtue. attack upon Robert with the taped Hereofore, other doctors had said they “believed” Loeb had eyes Were half closed. dealt the blows. | Dr. Glueck, taking up his story/ eyes idle. of Loeb, was stopped by Benjamin Bachrach, a defense attorney, with the question: who struck the blow?” “Yes, Loeb told me he struck the) jknew who was coming. The peers ig corazeih Chie Seven aes land Dad knew the meaning o! to the incident by Dr. Gloscks but | ot ieee mtaned, “But bel put "This it on his nerves; see if he don't, | Nothin’ ever happens to him regular | and natural, except maybe swearin.'* es The riders were out upon a green known. Loeb cried out to US, ‘Il ievel, and the plebald horse broke in- |killed him; I killed him. He sal4/tq an easy lope. The sorrel followed, this not only one time but several | then checked and settled down to a times." reckless walk. The girl in front Dr. Glueck then went on to 4¢-|turned in her saddle, glanced buck: | scribe Loeb’s lack of emotion in| ward, brought her mount to a stop telling his own story of the crime. | and waited, When the sorrel had| “Dickie told me all of the grue-| come abreast, the two horses walked | some details of the Franks mur-|in the direction of the ranch. Dad the first time that the actual) but he knew it for an emollient of power | His figure dropped somnolently. pipe hung loosely from a corner of his mout His} His | But Dad Morgan was not asleep, nor were his half-closed They were watching two riders descend the slope on the far side of the wide coulee in which the ranch fgni \ings sprawled. There was a piebald horse ridden by a “Did you talk with Loeb about land a sorrel ridden by a yan. |distant for disclosure of these details, but Dad Morgan i of the riders was a walk, AGED MAN, RUN They were still somew! ae DOWN, DEAD /Driver Is Held After Fatal South End Accident Willlam A. Ketchum, 60, living der,” the doctor said. | Morgan grinned, shifted his position | a+ 2344 Ww. 72nd st pies almost LACK OF HUMAN fgainat the fence and began filling instantly killed Just before noon FEELING NOTED | his pipe. Wednesday when an automobile “He told {t all to me as a matter| He was smoking lazily when the! of incident, explaining how he and| riders came to a pause at the corral | Leopold stopped off in their auto| gate. The girl swung off with an| for a light lunch while Robert's body | easy sweep and waved a gauntleted | was lying in the attomobile. j hand. “1 was particularly interested in| ‘Hello, Dad.” the great disparity in his telilng of| “Howdy, Sally? Howdy, Wreck?" the crime and his utter lack of nor-| The man on the sorrel made no an- mal human feeling. I\have @Xam-/swer, for he was engaged in a task.| ined more than 2,000 criminajé and| With both hands gripping the pom- I have never seen such a femarkable| mel, he raised himself in the stirrup, | situation except in those cases where | tightened his lips and scowled. Then, | the criminal had a disorderéd mind.| very slowly, he fetched his right leg “T have been watching Dickie in| across the sorrel's back. As he did| court for a number of days jand I| this, he flattened himself forward | could not help but notice how he sat/ until the pommet burrowed {nto the| (Turn to rn to’ Page 12, Column 1) pit of the stomach and his arms gripped the sorrel’s neck In a tense BANDITS WOUND embrace. Then he slid crabwise to the ground. He stood there for sev- jerat seconds, looking at his legs, which had retained the posture necos- sary to enclose the barrel of a horse. } Slowly he straightened them, one Escape After Holding Up) Service Station |Four-Year-Old Boy Seeds Is Drowned in Lake| BELL SHAM, Aug. 6.—Edward | | Parker, 4-year-old son of Mr, and| right after another. There was o (Turn to Page 8, Colunin 2) Tacoma police and the King coun- | ty sheriff's deputies were still two gas station bandits who shot | yesterday at Geneva on Lake What- searching, ‘Wednesday morning, for | Mrs, Mervin W. Parker, was drowned |be disbanded or merged into oo BAIL MAN HERE | and seriously wounded Joe Fladek, | com, falling off a float in the rear of |n0 saved will be diverted to pur-| state highway patrolman, near Meek-|the family home into four feet of | er Junction Tuesday night. water. The body was recovered a Fladek, in the Puyallup hospital |few minutes after, but efforts to re- with a bullet.wound in his leg, was | vive the boy failed. jdriven by Henry Frick, 432 Dewey place, struck him down, fracturing his skull, at EB. Marginal way and | Holly st. Frick was arrested and held by the coroner, when he came to the police station to make a report, The police say Frick admitted he was driving about 26 miles an hour when he saw Jacroan the street. Frick, who was driving south on E. Marginal way, tried to avoid Ketchum but could not. The victim was dead before his arrival at the county hospital. He had been working in a wood |yard near the scene and was cross- ing the street to fill a can with gasoline when the accident hap- pened. | He is survived bed his widow, Merge 5 Divisions of Nipponese Army TOKYO, Aug. 6.—Five divisions of the Japanese standing army will | divisions and the maintenance funds | chase new equipment and to aid lin the further development of the air service, it was learned from| authoritative sources. here today. reported to have spent a restless) night, but it is not thought that his | wound fs fatal. Authorities here were notified of | the escape and deputies from the) county jail were stationed on the roads from the south, but failed to| find a trace of the men. | “ Fiadek was snot down and lost con- trol of his motorcycle, which went on New Sti Avridge Mann Gets Line cker Disease into the ditch when he nearly over: BY AVRIDGE MANN you thus: “Go Vollow the Birds took the fleeing car at Meeker Junc-| ¢érrHi pleasures of automobil- to Victoria,” “Los Angeles Plays tion, after it had broken past him ing,” said Cyrus O'Gumpus All The Year,” “See Memphis,” and two Puyallup policemen a few) of tynn, “is chiefly the wonder. “Let's, Meet in Peoria,” “Oh, minutes before, ful feeling in bragging of where Boy! Have You Seen Mount The bandits held up and robbed a] you have been, ‘Tho travel tH Rainier?” Tacoma gasoline service station at) hovar exacting, Tho scenery'’s “When all of the windshield is 9p. m., and were traced by Tacoma) cortuih to — ple However, stickered,” they asked him, “then police to the city limits, Telephono! thore’n rink of contracting the what will you do? Pa Upe ee Paes at ithe td terrible ‘sticker disease.’ “That's easy,” he scornfully Seattle-Tacoma highway and the ba ey oc tent ay snickered, “The body—I'll cover |holdup men were next sighted at} ree heal houe uy Bhai it, too! This buy will accomo Puyallup when they speeded past the) 1° a date nicely—not counting the waiting officers wheeli or the floor—a total of After shootings down Fladek the} His windshield was speckled fitickers precisely nine thousand bandit car disappeared completely, | and spotted with stickers from and seventy-four." 7 oa Angee (ee He stopped and he stared at | “It starts with a sticker hey the chaanin. Convulsions we Jumps From Auto, } hand you, It's fever begins in shaking his’ kn My Ayia he Killed by Another) 1 tiasi. Ana whon its detiriums | Came yslaring. tnd slaney-tho ASTORIA, Ore., Aug. 6.—Robert! land you, the windshield breaks symptoma of “sticker disease Lewis Kelly, age 11, was Killed al-| out In a rash.” | He started) his engine You |most instantly last night at Warren-| His windshiela, on careful in. | tell ‘em,” he yelled to the am ton. He jumped from the rear of an| spection, was stuck in a terrible bient air, “I've got to go up to automobile truck and ran directly in| muss It points you to every di Cle Elim havent! a sticker front of another machine, rection, with stickers informing from theret’’ ' , WEDNESDAY, WwW ashington est Circulation in --| The seattle sta Wash. under the Act of Congr AUGUST € 1924. FRANCHISE RATE. DEMANDED BY THE STAR This Newspaper Fights for | Lower (Charges Is DELAYED Hearing on Writ Is Set for Next Wednesday HE SEATTLE STAR started its legal action Wednesday against | the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph |Co, to try to prevent the Increase jin phone rates at this time, Cari Croson, The Star's attorney, | SUIT the old man step; from behind a street car and start) jasked for a court order forcing the | phone company to show cause why a writ of mandate should not be iswued to compel the phone com- pany to furnish service under the old rates, established by city ordin- ance and franchise in 1901 and consented to by the Public Service commission in 1019 The com- pany adopted these rates and fran. |chiso August 4, 1919. Tho action was started by The |Star as a private telephone user, | in norler that all telephone users of Seattle who are hit by the higher rates, may take the outcome of this action as a precedent in paying their bills, The current telephone bill of The Star increased from “$157.78 to $265.75, Attorney Croson requested that the court make the order returnable Friday, August $. Judge Boyd J. Tallman, before whom the request was made, read over the request then said: “I don't belleve, Mr. Croson, that two days Is sufficient time to give the telephone company to prepare {ts cane.” “But this is no new matter, your | honor,” Croson replied. “The phone | company was in court only a few days ago on an action that was |somewhat similar, and to defend |which they needed material along the same line that they will need in this action.” “But two days Is too short notice,” the judge insisted. | “The telephone company would jbe ready today to come into court on this,” Croson added. | “I cant’ possibly set it for the| |date you request,” the judge ruled. | “I will make {t returnable next Wed- nesday, August 13." In. accord with the custom of ro- tating the work of the pudges |week by week, Judge Tallman will not be sitting next week. Judges |Mitchell Gillam and Austin Grif. \tiths will be on the bench, and |Judge Tallman will not be obliged to pass on the case, on which the eye of every telephone user in Se- |attle is now focused. Wednesday's suit, altho theoret!- cally affecting only The Star, will definitely decide whether the present high rates are to continue, or whether the legal rate shall be re- stored for more than 70,000 tele- phones here. The public will be kept advised} |of every development in the trial of} | the case. 3 Attorney Carl Croson acted for this newspaper in the matter. | | Milwaukee President Says’ | Electricity Applied For | { Good biintnea for the last half of jthe year wasp rophesied Wednesday |by A. G. Byram, president of the | Milwaukee railroad, on his arrival in Seattle. | | Byram is here in the course of a| |trip over the Milwaukee line. | Byram declared that while busi- [ness had not been so good during [the first part of the year, it has | begun to pick up and the prospects jare good. | ‘This is particularly true, he said, | | regurding the farming territory | |tributary to the Milwaukde road, Nothing definite has been ar. ranged regarding the electrification Jof tho road betwee Othe.lo, Wash Jand Avery, Idaho, Byram said, Ar: rangement hag been made for pow-! er, but this is all thus far, “Main Street” to Be Paved by State| *. PAUL, Minn, Aug. 6.—Sin- : Lewis’ "Main Street’ Is to be paved The Minnesota highway depart- ment today awarded a contract for tho laying of asphaltic coneret on the main business street of Sauk Center, old home town of the j Author, made famous by his book, {tou harbor, jton and either Bar Harbor or jot the aceident. Per Year, by Mail, This is Superior Judge Boyd Tallman, who insisted Wednesday that a week’s time was necessary for notifying the phone company attorneys to come into court and defend themselves against The Star’s legal action. Instead of | granting the motion to have a hearing set for Friday, Judge Next week another} Tallman set it for next Wednesday. judge will be sitting in Judge Tallman’s place. New Plane for Wade, Flyers Are Held by Ice World Airman Will Rejoin Flight in America ASHINGTOD Facing Hardest Hop of Trip (By Wireless.)— The icebound coast of Greenland today repelled the Aug. 6.—Lieut. Liegh Wade, who was forced | out of the American world flight | when his plane was wrecked |U- 8. round-the-world flight, and between the Orkneys and Ice | Lieut. Lowell Smith, commanding land, will be given a new plane the expedition, announced he and Lieut. Erik Nelson will wait here a couple of days before proceeding. Smith and Nelson reached here yesterday after battling heavy winds at Pictou Harbor, Nova Scotia, and permitted to complete the flight, Major General Patrick, chief of the air service, decided in a flight from’ Hornafjord. today, Upon word from the Danish supply Wade will follow Liouts, Smith and | steamer Gertrude Rask, caught in Nelson across the North Atlantic on} the floes 15 miles off Angmagsalik, |board the cruiser Richmond to Pic: | where the new plane, now at Langley field, Va., will await| ‘phe fight to Angmagsalik, on the him and his mechanic, Sergeant Og- angen east coast of Greenland, is across a den, | 500-mile stretch of open water from The plane, which will be chirs- Reykjavik. tened the Boston IL, will be flown} ‘We will wait a few days and see from Langley field to Pictou har- | what the Rask reports,” Lieut, Smith bor, by way of Keyport, N. J., Bos-/sald, ‘We are advised she is ice- Rock. |botnd and unable to land supplies land, Lieuts. George C. McDonald |@nd spare parts. If the steamer can- land Victor ©, Bartrandis will pilot not make port, it will be imprac- it. Departure from Langley field de- ticable, but not impossible, to fly pends upon arrangements now being |!nto Angmagsalik. made, WILL CONTIN Pictou harbor is the last stop of | FLIGHT TO U. tho, flyers before reaching Boston.| Lieut, Smith added, “the situation Thé jump to Boston is 620 miles. now is indefinite, pending the out- Wade will nave lost’ about 2,900} come of a conference of ourselves miles out of the flight as the result |@nd the naval officers in charge of jthe flotilla, | “Under ony circumstances, we Douglas cruiser of the |most certainly will continue our samo type as the rest of the ‘round: | flight to the United States,” the.world planes, It was originally | Meanwhile, awsigned to Maj. Martin, first com-ling at. the mander of the flight, but mechan: | Thorsteinson, {eal troubles with It before the start | nd) | Who required the substitution of Another, | It was shipped to Langley field. depends the time of the start on the next lap. The plane harbor Is a being sent to Pictou the airmen are resid. home of Councilman “® prominent citizen of has placed a modern of red-roofed house, on a swept hilltop overlooking the jbay, at their disposal, | A * | Speaking of the successful flight Poison Booze Still latong the coast from Hornafjord, din O | Smith said: Captured in Oregon | «it wasn't aitticult, altho we ran BEND, Ore, Aug. 6—Just In time | into a number of dust storms, one revent distribution and further| of which was apparantly of vol- sture of probable poisonous | cante origin.’ Sheriff §. Roberts andj Such storms frequently sweep out Deputy George Stokoe swooped down | from the desert wastes of the ins Jon a still located some 20 miles up| terior of Iceland, The airmen also the Deachutes river from Rend ana | passed 40 glaciers solzed the entire equipment, includ.| Smith and Nelson found quiet {ng 200 gallons of mash and 30 gal| anchorage here in a sheltered har. TWO Smith and Nelson! HOME. EDITI ON CENTS IN SEATTLE FIRE ig ET atte och | Hear Phone Suit? Not Tallman! } 2,000 ACRES IN SOUTH END BURNED Small Boy Innocent Cause of Dangerous Blaze HOMES ARE PERILED Change of Wind Halts Fire at Critical Moment FIVE-YEAR-OLD boy, playing with matches in an orchard at White Center, Tuesday afternoon, was held responsible by firemen Wednesday for a blaze of tremend- ous proportions which up until noon Wednesday had menaced a dozen homes and swept over 2,000 acres of virgin timhber and logged-off Jand, and was still out of control, despite the heroic efforts of 100 citizen- volunteers and firemen. Buddy Forey, 5, according to neighbors and firemen, was the lad who accidentally caused the blaze. With several other children Buddy was trying to make a fire to bake some potatoes. The grass ignited and quickly spread into the woods along W. Roxbury st. White Center {is three or four’ miles south of West Seattle. Rox- \ bury st. is the city line and most of the community !s outside, the limits, and as the fire extends i it is rushing away from the os All afternoon and evening and citizens Tuesday fought the flames, but despite their labors, the red fire demon rushed thru the for- est, destroying everything in its path. When night came the fire had penetrated for half a mile and al- most to a little colony of eight homes in the middle of the woods. FIRE FIGHTERS DRIVEN BACK é The fire fighters were driven — back and the homes were given up for lost. Then the wind sud- denly changed, from the south to the east, and the blaze passed by the houses, One house on the eastern side of the fire happened to be in the pathway of the flames and was destroyed, according to the firte men. The name of the occupant was not learned, but is known to have escaped. ‘The fire Wednesday morning was still raging with terrific fury on the southern and western areas’ with two homes within 100 yards of — the fire. WOMEN AID IN FLAME BATTLE All the firemen, including 20 or more from nearby fire stations, di- rected every effort to save these two homes, by cutting paths thru the woods and underbrush and starting backfires. 3 Even the women of the-neighbor- | hood were being pressed into service ~ to carry water to the firemen, ig Tho fire started at First ave. S| and Olson place, near White Center, and extended to Fifth ave. S. W., and from Roxbury st., south to Greendale road, south of White Cen- ter, ‘The fire spread uncontrolled into. other heavily-wooded districts and was burning fiercely there, where the firemen were unable to get at it. Crops Damaged by Floods in Japan TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 6.—Floods caused by heavy rains have serious: _ ly damaged crops and other prop- erty in Northern Kyushu, according to meager advices received here Details are lacking because of wire communications being broken. — The rains followed a long period of drought. HERE’S WHAT THE +] CANDIDATES WERE | © DOING WEDNESDAY PRESIDENT COOLIDGE Se The president has about com: pleted a draft of his acceptance | speech and is now trimming it down, He had several engage. ments before noon and. then greeted a party of sightseers, eee SENATOR LA FOLLETTR ‘Tho independent candidate con: tinued his conferences with those planning his campaign, but other. wise remained in seclusion, aria & JOHN W. DAVIS Tho democratic candidate came | to New York today for a long list of conferences which have been scheduled by his campaign managers. ‘This will be his last} day of conferences before leaving lons of moonshine, The operators of | Dor after thelr arduous work in the still escaped, (Turn to Page 12, Column 4) for Clarksburg, W. Va. 1 pate ic ER yon = aes tenants