The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 7, 1924, Page 1

1 NAVY ACC air tonight warmer ii NO. VOL, 26, 139. Howdy, folks! The favorite game these days is, “Mosquito, Mosquito, Swat that Mosquito!” oar Mosquito golf ts all the rage. When a skeeter fs on the back of your neck, three strokes is par. If you kill it with one swat It's a “birdie,” . There is another good thing abou, summer. 1¢ ts that the butter will pread. . Li'l Gee Gee says: “Bachelors are unfortunate, They have no homes to stay away from.” TENNIS DEFINITION “His net game was unusually Dt ” weak. . ‘The man who started Habit lasts. life swinging a scythe all day, now swings a brassie all day, Dear Homer: My wife ran off to Tacoma. What shall I do?—Worried. Ans.—Let her stay there. see — SAYINGS OF THE GREAT | Adam: “I never kissed any | | other girl but you.” | x . Pegsy Joyce has divorced her fifth husband. Now her press agent will have to rig up another marriage. ee Nominated for vice-president of the Poison Ivy club; The shortstop, who, when he misses an easy bounder, inspects the ground and picks up a pebble as an alibi. LI'L GEE one TH OFFICE VAMP SEZ My racket may be weak, but it has lots of guts. . Soft jobs: Scrubbing the hurricane deck of a canoe. . New serial in The Star {s called “The Nervous Wreck.” Bet the hero is a gink who lets his wife drive the Blivver. Sign on the Front of = Ford: *\ DODGE, BROTHERS — | —Eddle Rivers. . Beauty parlor experts are now call- ing themselves “coameticians.”” Why not “exterior decorators?” ar ne One of the most useless things to know is how to cheat at solitaire. ee “Bundle Day,” for the Near East Relief, has been set for next Wednes- day. Li'l Gee Gee, whois very warm- hearted, is going to donate 15 hair- nets, . All sorts of clothes are needed by the refugees in the Near East. Now is the time to get rid of those neck- ties you wife gave you last Christ- mas! see GRAPHIC SECTION wei Brame iW of the Wives Stan Sateat . If this Chicago murder trial doesn’t move faster, Leopold and Loeb will die of senile decay before it is half over. Mary had a little Yord, Its looks were far from trim, pd everywhere that he'd come back on the rim. see One good thing about going on a noe trip. Your wife can't Invite mil her relatives to ride in the back eat. eee YE DIARY (August 6) ‘Up between six and seven, and after und dined at night at home, where a little angry with my wife for minding Hothing now but put! doth express the wish to place a dolly under the crankease, whieh in folly. see A movement ji now on foot to move Nisqually glacier, with {ts tons of cracked ice, to Vaficouyer, with {te gallons of sloe gin see And. Be Mary drove, 3 up enrtains on the couch, and indeed she erly winds FORECAST | ' Frid fair and west WEATHER The New Botered os signing up Edward Heslin. do you want? “Start the day right and join the American Legion” was the slogan adopted by 200 Legion- naires of Rainier-Noble post No. 1 for their one-day membership drive Thursday. And hundreds of Seattle's for- mer service men hastened to take their advice, according to reports of workers in tho field, | pouring into Legion headquar- ters at the New Arctic hotel. Augmented by 25 volunteers from the ladies’ auxiliary of the post, the Rainier-Noble men went “over the top” with the sunrise and were on the streets to gr early risers hurrying to their day's work. PEKIN MENACED 30,000 Soldiers Fight Floods Pouring Down on City PEKIN, Aug. 7.—Floods again to- day threatened the city of Pekin. The Yung Ting river burst its dykes west of the city and poured down upon the capital, reaching the south walls, where troops of the “Chris- tlan general,” Feng Yuh Siang, were endeavoring to stem the flood. Thirty thousand soldiers were de- tailed by Feng Yuh Siang to build temporary dykes around Nan Yuan village and across the lowlands be- —Photos by Frank Jacobs, Star Staff Photographer tween Nan Yuan and Pekin. (SIGNING UP WITH THE LEGION) PYRAMIDING OF | } When the American Legion started its Seattle meme | ship drive, Thursday, Miss Dorothy dde, county-city build-| ing employe and volunteer “for the cause, real ‘doughboy” for her first new member. Doughboy? for the Wickman Pie Co., 3305 Harris place. } ’ signed up a Here she is, Well, he works| What more! 200 Legionaires “Over the Top” in Drive Here Seek New Buddies Amor Among City’s 15,000) Ex-Soldiers, Sailors and Marines While “strong points” maned by veterans of tte organization were established on important corners of the business section, special workers invaded office buildings, industrial plants and business houses in a concerted effort to reach each of the city’s 15,000 former sailor, soldier und marine with personal invitations to join the order. A dinner meeting of the work- ers was held at the American Legion club rooms last night and a “workers’ luncheon” was held at the club at noon today, where the campaigners discussed tho events of the morning. They were jubilant over the excellent showing made. “Tho drive is an assured suc- cess now,” Commander Arthur I. Ellsworth, of the post, declared this afternoon. West Seattle Home Wrecked in Blaze Fire early Thursday totally de- stroyed a house at 6622 40th ave, 8. W. The place has been unoccupied for two weeks and incendiarism is suspected. The family of Mrs, Peterson, living next door in 662 abandoted its home and took to the street during the fire, but firemen under Battalion Chief A. C. Benefield saved the house. Nearly half a mile of hoxe was laid from California ave. to fight the fire. to Pioneer BY AVRIDGE MANN HE Commerce Chamber bunch will go, tomorrow, up the Sound. They'll stop and see Rowarlo, to eat and stroll around, They leave to spend a pleasant day—and there is where they can! But more than that, they go to pay respects to Bob Moran. Moran's a shipping whom many people know, He left New York, arriving here nome fifty years ago, He hardly had « single cent; machinist was ploneer hiy trade. He started out with firm intent, without a bit of ald, He worked a4 steamboat engl. neer @ dozen years or so, and Seattle Pays Respects Shipbuilder opened a machine shop here by saving up hiv dough. He had his business going fine, beyond a bit of doubt, and then, in 1889, the fire burnt him out, He built his shop again, say, In Just about a week, they His courage kept him on his way; he struck a winning streak, In 1898, the year Alaeka's rush began, they needed boate-—"We'll build them here," said Mr. Bob Moran, From such a humble start there grow our big shipbuilding trade—when. Robert saw a job to do, he met it unafraid, And now the people go to cheer a wreut Seattle man--shipbulding's Second Class Matter May 2, SE ATTLE, \COMPANIES | construction {its “actions in the evasion” yaper W ith ‘the Bigve 1899, at the Postoftice at WASH., THURSDAY, A PROFITS IS ONE CAUSE Outrageous Prices Charged | by Trust to Itself INTERLOCK | Four Prices Paid for Poles | Company Sells Itself PORT COMMISSION REFUSES TO PAY INCREASED BILLS IIE Seattle Fort commission Thursday refused to pay its telephone bill, showing a 70 per cent Increase over the July charge, and ordered its attor- neys, Bradford and Snyder, to be Prepared to bring contempt pro- ceedings against the telephone trust if any attempt is made to interfere with service. These steps were taken by Col. George Lamping, of the commission, with the approval of other commissioners. Lamping showed bills of the commission for servies at the main ph and at various docks. For July the total was $311.05; for August the amount asked is $525.65. The increase is not quite 70 per cent. “I have instructed our attor- ney to pay the old vate, and no more,” Col Lamping told The Star, “It service is refused, we shall regard it as an attempt on the part of the company to In- terfere with and hamper public business of the port and will ask contempt proceedings at once, “If it is necessary, we will put in our own intercommunicating system and use only what outside trunks we have to. We are not going to pay this increase, in any event.” ‘OW the telephone trust, of which the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. ts unit, Ig- nores federal laws and baffies state rateregulating bodies by an intricate system of fictitious operating costs, was explained ‘Thursday by persons familiar with its operations, Boiled down, it is a case of a father collecting two bits from a son for a five-cent top and giving him 20 cents for being a good boy. It's all the same, be- cause “the money stays in the family.” The complicated system of joint ownership and control of the various units comprising the telephone trust has been gone into by the public service commission of Oregon, which, RATE IS QUADRUPLED OCTORS in one suite of of- fices in the Cobb building are charged $83 for services that formerly cost them $20, under the new telephone rate incrense, Assistant Corporation Counsel W. M. Beals has been informed. Beals warned telephone patrons again to write across the face of that portion of the telephono bill returned to the télephone com- pany, “Illegal excess charges over the franchise rates are paid un- der protest In order to avoid dis- continuance of telephone service.” in effect, said the job was too big for any \wtate to handle, and was a probiem for the federal government. threw up its hands and Section 10 of the Clayton law, the commission pointed out, prohibits common carriers” from making or maintenance con. tracts of more than $50,000 with an- other corporation in which the first jcompany has any substantial inter- est. It called upon graph and Telephone the Pacifle ‘Tele: Co, to explain ot this Jaw. The phone company replied that this section did not apuly to tele phone companies. ‘The commission believes that it doew, and there the matter rests. Meanwhile, the trust goes on with its system of charging itself $3 for 26 cents’ worth of goods and pub'le pay in in makes the creased rates, These are the system: (Turn to Page 7, Column 6) Hold Two Women on Theft Charge Four men and two women wi held by the police Thursday on oy charges, following the alleged th of an auto spotlight and tire Wednes high lights of the} day night. Patrolman J, A, Hague-| wood made the arrests at Western} ave, and Bell st Those under arrest are Mr. and Mra. A. ‘I. MeGovern, Gladys Gr | ys A Lawrence Boldman, Howard Mec local ploneer, our Mr. Bob Moran, and George Jackson, Wash st ¢ irculs stion 1 Was under the Act of Co UGUST 19% March one Rates Went Up AND POINT FIELD, in being the final landing making voyageurs, why this city should have that rightfully belongs to Hart to send invitations to states, and has in the welcome. west to send delegations. come to all citizens, from will go down in history. Seattle wants you! ust 24th and help us celeb: SE. An Editorial for Out-of-TownFolks EDITORIAL the-world flight of the American airmen. The planes are expected here about August 24th, But Seattle is anxious that the entire Northwest shall have a part in welcoming home these history- Just because the field happens to lie in King county is no reason, Seattle figures, To that end, the Chamber of Commerce committee, which has the arrangements in charge, has asked Gov. asked Mayor Brown mayors of all Northwestern cities to come and help The chamber has asked all chambers in the North- And The Star is asked to broadcast an official wel- to Seattle and take an active part in this occasion that It feels that the occasion is too big to confine to a one-city affair. And so we ask you again, governors, mayors, cham- bers of commerce and citizens: Come to Seattle Aug- hington The Seattle Sta 4, 1579. Per (ear, by Mall, 62.40 Seattle, gets the honor of place of the official round- all the glory of an honor |} us all, | all governors of Northwest to invite the city and country, to come rate! OME |EDITION| ae CENTS IN SEATTLE, _ Witness Girl on Stand Loeb’s Defense in Lorraine Nathan, former | sweetheart of Richard Loeb who testified of the youth | time she knew him. SWEETHEART OF LOEB HELPING _ HIS DEFENSE Lorraine Nathan Testifies at Murder Hearing Cop and Wife Hurt in $ ashup DICKIE WAS. RECKLESS eT MAYBERC the Monroe hosp! veteran Seattle policeman, and his wife Were Ip at Monroe, Thursday, seriously injured as a renult of an auto accident which occurred Wednesday near that city when Mayborg’s car plunged from tho road over a steep embankment. Mayberg and Mrs. Mayberg were returning to Seattle after visiting Monroe, when the car hit an obstruction and crashed down the bank, turning over and pinning Mayberg his chest res ued him. underneath, with the car resting on Me lay there unconscious until other motorists came by and At the hospital {t was said that Mayberg would probably recover. His wife was less serious cuts, y hurt. Sho sustained severe bruises and Mayberg ‘s an official of the Juvenile department of police. Wenatchee Southern Okehed ‘DING a two-year-old fight of Wenatchee shipping interests with the Great Northern and Chi- cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad companies, the interstate commerce committee Thursday authorized the Wenatchee Southern Railway Co, to build a 132-mile independent line of railroad in Chelan, Kittitas and Benton counties. The action was sought by the in- dependent company in- order to make a connection between the Great Northern and the Milwaukee, to facilitate shipping by running a Une from Wenatchee south along the Columbia to Beverly, crossing, bite Milwaukee, and continuing on to/ Kennewick, touching the Great Northern and the Union Pacific lines. railroads when application was made and hearings given the matter last year and the year before, The Wenatcheo Southern road is & strictly Wenatchee enterprise. It has been promoted and financed by Wenatchee business interests and frultgrowers with a view to provid- ing the district with an outlet that would relieve congestion during the peak season. Has Your Friend Given to the Park Fund, Too? Make It Your Business to Aid This Community Recreation Project IVING your dollar to the State Salt Water park fund makes you an active supporter of the “poor man’s paradise" project. And it doesn't mean that you've doné your all for it, either. The Young Men's Business club campaigners, sponsoring the propost- tlon with The Seattle Star, ure giv ing most of their time, and have done so for seve weeks, to col- lecting the purchase fund, And they are making generous financial con- tributions in addition to their work. So that you, If you've already handed in your check to the fund, should constitute yourself a commit. tee of one to get at least another kubseription from a friend--for every- one will benefit from the free outing Pa FATHER SHOOTS AT STRAY CAT; KILLS BABY SON IN HOUSE iAL Ariz, Aug. T—Lit tle Howard Greason, 4-year old son of Mr, and Mrs, Ralph Greason, was sleeping peacefully in his erib, His parents were chatting on. thelr front poreh. A stray cat wandered by, In tending to shootthe cat, Groa son drew revolver, ‘he weapon was discharged prema turely. A bullet ploughed its way thru a wall, Hearing a fuint cry, Greason rushed into Howard's room—and found him dying. ‘The bullet, accidentally fired the father, had pone: child's heart, a by trated the and camp place, between Seattle and Tacoma, with accommodations for 10,000 auto parties and a long sweep ot beach on the Sound. eee | And if you haven't yet seen the |tract whien Seattle, Tacoma and the state park board will make inte a |family recreation ground for every: one in this section of the state and visiting tourists, hop into the old |bus or get your auto-owning friends to take you out, and look over the tract, It's located off the High Line road to Tacoma, and between that city ‘nd Des Moines. The entrance to the park 4s heralded by a roadside sign and ts at the northern end of a long highway bridge. Drive down the partly completed road, thru the tall timber, and look over the wonderful camp spots. Got out of the car and walk down to the (Turn to Page 2, Column 6) Man Kills Wife, Two Sons and Himself! NEW YORK, Aug. T.—After shooting his wife and two young |fons to death as they slept in their jfashionable Claremont ave. home arly today, Henry Hopkins Lyons, electrical engineer, retired to hia own room and ended his life with a bullet in his head, The cause of the tragedy fs a myaster’ Mrs, Lyons and the children re turned from a vacation visit with relatives Tuesday. The action was fought by both! Bragged of Being Drunk and Frightened Girls RIMINAL COURT’ ROOM, Chi- cago, Aug. 7.—Lorraine Nathan, 18, former sweetheart of Richard Loeb, took the stand today to pre- “mitigating — testi- mony” she could muster to save Loeb and Nathan Leopold from the gallows for the killing of young | Robert Franks. In a low but firm voice the girl told of her meeting with Loeb in jovember of 1921. SAYS SHE KNEW HIM “VERY WEL! “How well did you know him?" Chief Defense Attorney Darrow {asked the pretty witness. “Well, very well,” she replied. “Do you mean by that that you |went With him to parties “and | dances?” “Yes, sir.” The girl told of Loeb acting in a peculiar manner’ at her homie. She said at one time: she remarked: to her sister that . Loeb, who - had bragged of drinking, appeared to be acting very young. With an em: barrassed little laugh thé girl said: “My sister said, “That isn’t acting young; that's acting cuckoo.’ “Can you tell of some other time that you saw Dick?" “Yes, I saw him February 29, }1924. We had a date.” | "What did you do?" SAYS DICKIE DROVE sent whatever | VERY RECKLESSLY “We went out automobile rid- | ing.” “What did you notice about Dickie that night?” drove had very several recklessly—we nearly accidents, carefully but he laughed at me.” "I believe Dickie made a trip to rmingham?" “Yes, that was in June, 193: “Did you see him at that time?” “Yes, sir; he came home from | Ann Arbor and I saw him before he | went to Birmingham.” | CHICAGO STUDENT SAYS LOEB NERVOUS Max Schrayer, Chicago, a student of the University of Michigas, was a witness and sald he knew Rich- ard Loeb “very well, indeed.” He said he noticed Dickie was very nervous, but whes State's At- torney Robert E. Crowe objected to this as a conclusion, Schrayer told how Loeb fumbled with his |hands and jerked his head almost inceassantly, The witness: said that Loeb evi- denced extreme nervousness by twitching movemests and jerking of the fuce and mouth. Loeb fainted jseveral times during his stay at {the university, the witness testi fied. Also he drank a good deal and smoked a lot, Schrayer said, j BL ECOND _install- ment of ‘The Nervous Wreck”, || will be found on Page 10 today. I | pleaded with him to drive more! ] | | |BOYCOTT | the entire jon his body at the time of his are rest. {il} BRUTAL BEATING OF GOBS HERE IS CHARGED Sailors in Hospital After Seattle Affrays IS FRAMED Indignation at Treatment Runs High in Fleet HILE Seattle has spen® thousands of dollars and Beate tle men and women have giver up their time to make pleasant the visit here thousands of naval men, nayal officers Thursday were investigating serious charges Of f of brutality on the part of a few police here. investigations are the resulé a officers Th of repeat protests from gall who ac policemen of manhl ling fellow gobs. 8 1 sailors, now confined fi the base hospital at Bremerton, ore declared to be suffering from ite juries inflicted by arresting officers in ttle. accusations do not lie against police force, but against a few officers who, sailors say, abe parently have a grudge against the navy. ONE § SERIOL SL Y HURT One sailor, Arnold Lewis, 23, is img hospital suffering from several frags tured ribs, said to have been res ceived when a policeman jumped Th apenas se Sg SEE Se TTS IS TARE AR One rib has punctured the lung. Seaman Cross, of the supply ship » was beaten about the face kjacks and all his upper teeth knocked out. He charges that at the city jail he was denied medie cal attention for his hurts. Junior Lieut, Harry of the U. 8. 8. McCaul gating the Lewis case, Other n officers are probing the Cross ci It is admitted that the sometimes deserve arrest, but navé authorities say that the beating administered are not 4 Police, on the other hand, maintaim that the provocation sometimes i$ | great. q SEVERYNS GIVES HIS SIDE OF THE STORY “In any case where it is found that policemen have been guilty of brutality in handling navy pi P they will be suspended,” chiet Sa erns declared Thursday. q At least three cases have been ime | vestigated by Severyns recently, ie no actual brutality was proved: against the arresting officer, he said. In the Lewis case, Severyns de. clared, he had had no complaint filed — with him from navy officers and ha only heard of it from hearsay. Severyns said, however, that most cases which have come his notice the navy men were and disorderly and violent, in cases attacking the policemen out justification, and that there two sides to every question. The police are not kindly d toward the gobs, Severyns said, cause a month or two ago two po men were attacked and sey beaten by sailors. SAY SAILORS HAVE DECLARED BOYCOTT Gobs have maqe constant plaints to The Star about treatment received here ever the first battleship arrived in attle in July. Wednesday two boys declared that hi of sailors had declared a “boycott on Seattle, simply because the, lice were “inhuman in their ment.” i A group of sailors Wednesd protested to The Star about the a tions of the police. 4 “We know some sailors drink get noisy,” one of the gobs “In other cities, however, the licemen are men enough to with the gobs without using and blackjacks. t. “In San Francisco and othe Coast cities, the cops use their fist Here the cops beat a sailor's to pulp with clubs, if he even ti back. All we usk is fair play, The sailors also protest becay the policemen manhandle — gol when the latter push away the noyers who loaf around the landin dock where the sailors come AIRMEN FACING LONG DELAY Smith and Nelson May Sta Week at Reykjavik EYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug, 7— Ico binding the Greenland Coast probably will loosen within: 4 week and permit resumption of the American world flight, seamen. familiar with these waters adv Lieut. Lowell Smith an@ a conf ence of naval officers today. Meal while, the airmen are held here, They are tho center of attention, their visit being one ef the imports | ant events in Reykjavik’s history. ‘The planes were to be brought up on the beach and overhauled © today, after it was found that flys ing on to Angmagsalilk stl) impossib'>