The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 8, 1924, Page 1

, Aged Man, Mistaken for Another, Victim in Well, Girls, Doug's Here—M ‘LOVE FIGHT HERE , Home Batered as Second Class Matter May 8, es _ VOL. 26. NO, 140, - ie Home Brew F Howdy, folks! Many steno graphers these days are 50 swift they write faster than they spell In a small town there is always tome citizen worth $6,000 who is will ing to tell y men the secret ot success An eid timer is a mar ters the summer of ‘6 who remem: when it was | The New apaper With the Biggest Circulation in Wi ishington um The Seattle Star, FRIDAY, Cheap Gas 1899, at the Postoffies at Seattle, SEATTLE, WASH., AUGL , under the Act of Congress March 4, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, 16 to 69 TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, _ t Fails] 8 ,1924. * ‘igh Loeb Drank ITY LOSES IN Hey !WhoGot ATTACKED HERE § Heavily, Is Testimony eo éry they had to haul water to| kecp the ferry running. eee CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB (Thenx to T. P.) The goof who comes to your hotel room to take a before-din- ner drink, soaks up $7 worth and then phones his wife 65 cents worth of lies at your expense, eee The Arena, where hockey players | were wont to disport, down. Now is the time for some energetic young feller to tow Nis- qually glacier to Seattle and convert it into a skating rink "An auto saves you so much time,”| Says hustling Billy Clark, Who spends about an hour a day In finding spois to park He knew mosquitoes, did the gent who wrote: “Every little bit added | to the places you've already been bit make life just a little bit bitter.” eee “AND WRAP EVERY UOPY IN A NICE BLUE RIBBON” “We will get out a pink edition today,” declared the young girl editor, “and let it be a nice baby pink. I'm tired of that old rose color, It's really not the thing this year.” o2e The council committee, which ts making up the city’s 1925 budget, | wants an efficiency clerk. What it | needs is four-wheel brakes. see Old Silas .Gétimp, the sage 6! Pumpkin Hollow, says “Girla and bil: liard balls kies each other with about th’ same degree of feeling.” . . L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE VAMP, SEZ What has become of the old-fash- ioned, girt who used to pickle some- thing besides herself? ee And then there's the absent-minded doctor, who, returning to the Cobb building and seeing nis.sign, “Back at 1 p. m.," sat down and waited for himself. obE Whatever troubles Adam had, And he had many a trimmin,’ A-picnicking he never went With an auto-boad, of women. M. Vv. W. Be that as it may, Ed Kelly says that balloon tires are not all that they are blown up to be. PO ERE De ES SE * TODAY'S FABLE | Once upon a time there was a | Seattle society girl who did not | marty an ensign. . . Old Silas Grump, the sage’ of Pumpkin Hollow, says: ‘‘About th’ only exercise a cake-eater gets fy th’ coughing between cigarets. ogee x— A queer, queer man Is H. C, Rolph; He wears no cycshade When he plays golf. ©, One A married man wants a “den” al- most as soon as he realizes he has a keeper. . YE DIAnY (August 7) bay, and an to lunch, hot biscuit Diackberry jelly, creamed eggs and tea, and many people playing golf, but Lord could not summon energy even to pick huckleberries, so warm the day. In the Jate afternoon to the city, which did ap- pear mean and sordid, ax always it doth after the country, but indeed it hath its good points, for without cities, the coun- try would be full of people. work. one The father of a 16-year-old who \s always calling up his sweetie in telephone rates. It gives him a out his ‘phone * * eattie woman asking for a div ys her husband beats her e This ig too often With the uticker craze still grow ing, it Is only a question of time nn ti] some bootlegger smears his wind da shield with all of his favorite la bela, A fortune ay crosved a sitk-worm snake and produces ity the man who first with a wilk garters Boy, call a cop. racked ve, is being pulled | Up betimes, and by boat across the And #0 to boy doesn’t worry about the recent raise | | good excuse to yank | grater | We're alt out of! |the Leopold.Locb murder hearing to. day sprang a surpise when it shelved jtemporarily its lay witness and| placed Dr, Robert Bruce Armstrong, family physician of the millionaire Loeb family in the stand physician Charlevoix, Mich., here from where the parents of Richard Loeb, co-defendant with | Nathan Leopold, Jr., have their pa latial summer home THINKS LOEB IS SLIGHTLY “ABNORMAL” Young Loeb, came the doctor said, dis. | played nervous symptoms which led | him to believe he was | normal."* | Leonard Lewy ot |Micbigan graduate and fraternity Ibrother of Loeb, told of seeing Loeb faint on two occasions. Loeb, he sald, frothed at the mouth and be came rigid Loeb was nervous and rather child. jish, Lewy testified. On crossexamination Crowe em. |phasized the fact that Lewy's est! | mate of Loeb way based almost whol }ly on the fact that Dickie was young er than other students at the unl. versity Crowe also drew from the witness an admission that when Dick frothed at the mouth he was intoxicated. (“dUST CHILDISH |OR PLAIN DRUNK?” ‘Theodore ‘Schimberg, graduate of the University of Chicago, said Loeb was Very nervous and under a ten- sion, and that he smoked constantly, |Schimberg also sald that Loeb was |drunk *0 much of the.time that he |never knew whether Loeb was just \ childish or plain drunk. | Wallace Brockway, graduate of the University of Chicago, said that dur ling the four years of his acquaint ance with Leopold he had heard the |latter enunciate his superman phil- osophy. Leopold, he sald, was an htly “ab: intense admirer of the superman phil- | esophy and determined to pattern | himself after him LEOPOLD HELD MURDER OKEH Harry Booth, 'Lsopold at the University of Ch!- cago, quoted Leopold as stating that la person who committed murder {should not be hela responsible by | (Turn to Page ce Column 2 FIVE STATES ‘Five Dead and $3,000,000 | Property Damage Inflicted CHICAGO, Aug. §.—Five are dead, at least a score injured and property |damage estimated to exceed $3,000.- 000 inflicted in two violent | which swept Nebraska, lowa, Wis. tconsin and parts of Minnesota Thurs. |day night and early Friday. |. One storm swept northwestward from Tomah, Wis. to Bloomer, Wis., Thursday night. Another storm swept out of Cen- tral Nebraska early Friday, and hit Des Moines at daybreak. While the Nebraska-lowa storm ap- parently was the most extensive, no casualties have been reported so far. Two persons were killed at Black ra Thursday night |and additional deaths were reported from Bloomer, Osseo and New Au burn, Wis, President Wheeler? President Dawes? President Bryan? Ma ‘There's more chance of one of the vice presidential candidates being the next president than there has been since the modern method. of electing a president was put in force. Why? | If you want the detalled ex- planation of how this might hap. pen, with the biographies of the three vice presidential candidate: nd mail fill out the coupon below to our Washington bur EDITOR, Washing: u, The Seattle Star, York Ave. Washing POLITICAL ton Bur | bulletin BIOGRA- * THE VICK DENTIAL CANDIDATE incloxe herewith 6 cents In loose |] postage stamps for Name St. and No, or ft Stato. who studied law with | STORM SWEEPS. storms | | us of t the ver! eit an © that 19 rst cent are | com redt ga. Th | publ ‘s | the whil | tervi | son, jar fire Aug! ol state board past spring, and the board took the matter under advisement, The decision brings the matter to in its report, de clared that it found the company's valuation The rate July Four drov |deer The deer season Maximum, 7 RATE CUT FIGHT 10 GET IMINAL COURT ROOM, Chi |Complaint Is Dismissed by Public Works Board state department works. The war on gas rates began No- | ber 4, 1922, when the ¢ rates were too high. The complaint was heard by the/| works this of public nd. ‘The board, to be $11,476,2 basis the company 5.18 per cent, and, six’ months of 1923, not unreasonable. sult is the pany in four years. uce the “B. T. U, he city fought this mov 26 of thix year ic works © the per cuble 28, Ore. Jones, hed for his ha blew from his DAL c. rea wind ‘e it over internal Mrs. Elizabeth ile, received injuries Herbert, bone, while another s SALEM, | fore {the | susp Ore, Aug. stry board today pension of the season, hazard, of ust 20 west the 4 WEATHER loudy «tonight and with littl change temperature. ‘Temperature Last 24 1 Today noon, 61. Company's “Earnings “Not it 67.11. earned | warmth was immedi during the| The board held that these returns) third suit} which the city has had against the In 1920 the company attempted to! * quality of its the board o! allowed the company to | reduction from 600 B. T. foot to 500 and 630 B. T. U.'s per cubic foot. It was only after the “B. T. U."| ‘tight started that the city sought to lcompel the gas company to improve | facilities: This suit was dropped when the company made Improve-| | ments, Aug. 8.— Centerville, ut head, Host controi of his automobile and | a 30-foot embankment on the highway near here. Jones received injuries | Marquis, t ‘back which may prove fatal, suffered a broken col- on, }neth, received cuts and bruises, May Suspend Deer Season; Fear Fire; 8.—The state will consider advisability of recommending a opening of the because of the forest normally opens Ca land September 1 east of the moun: | tains, 'Banff’s Altitude Fatal to Yankee Saturday in Minimum, 54. FIGHT ON FOUR YEARS|nien “ana eropine. avout in the rates are too high was entered and signed Thursday by the members of of public | instead ecun: passed an ordinance appropriat ing $12,600 for an investigation of are so warm that you think you're On 6.07 per} but on | which he Cen- her | Her o Ken- scades, surveillance. | WANTS 3 MEMBERS ONLY |Advisory Board of 60 May HURT IN CRASH Injured “When Auto | | Goes Over 30-Foot Bank THE | When Wash., jtion the revamping i taking place. Those Excess DOWNTOWN BY 317 Degrees HUSBAND Crs up, dare oa | Assailant Thought He Was ‘Thin te for those ot Seattle's eit-| With Missing Wife Pah who have been shivering all VICTIM IS INNOCENT Police Clear Up Mystery of clothes press for that extra blanket and suffering from goose pimples while waiting for the morning street ” cars. Unreasonable | Actually you are warm when you “Love Knockout” |think you're chilly The United SATTLE'S two-year fight for a/ States weather bureau office, down ISTAKING . prominent reduction of gas rates ended/in the Hoge building, says #0 | merchant of Carney, Ne- iday, with victory for the Seuttle} The Star called the bureau Fri-| braska, and his deughter for ape Ke , i ae ¢] ay morning with a complaint that his wife and her lover, W. H. An order dismissing the complaint |the weather man was turning out ) he city of Seattle, charging gas/a poor brand of summer weather | “Greeley, 58 walked up to them at Fifth ave, and Pine st., and smashed the Nebraskan in the Jaw, knocking him unconscious, it was revealed in police court Friday, where Greeley pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct and paid a fine of §25. According to the story told by jand that what the tourists and the! hometown boys want is a little | sunshine and warmth for August, | of this coolness But it appears that this year has piled up 317 degrees of heat above normal. As a matter of fact, bend tho rate of the company, cold. | Oreaiey and the victim of the re | ‘Thomas Pipes, ens engineering}: Immediately The Siar got busy |Arkable episode to C S jexpert, was hired to make the in-|trying to locate those 517 excess | Hedges, Greeley had traced his run vestigation for the city. | degrees of warmth away wife from New York to Se |. He concluded his work and filed/ GOSH! MORE Jattle. He maid she bad run away Ihis report with the council October | pROBES jin company with an elderly, white PROBES COMING 20, 1923 Police Chief W. B. Severyns has | haired man. His work was disappointing to the| nis pawnshop brigade searching the| The Nebraskan, whose name was jelty, ax his reports contained lttle! nuriieus (whatever that is) of our |not revealed by the police, was} jdasis for a sult against the gas com! fair city in the belief that tho fa-|waiking down Pine st, with his | pany. - mous 317 are cached somewhere | daughter, followed by his wife and] 7. 3. Te, Sanney, commeraton agar Sala. ke her, had not been counsel, however, followed. Gus che! Mayor E. J. Brown wes éxpeoted |in Seattle long, thay were taliing Instructions of the ordinance anti; call in the city council afficlency |and laughing sally, cadmiring the filed 4 complaint against the Seat: |committes (8 wtart another probe, (And 'ushing. ally, Ne Lighting Co. charaimg that the this time of the system whereby |"™ te ™ | ENRAGED MAN |DASHES THRU CROWD Greeley, from behind saw them, and mistook the girl for Seattle's weather ts transported to its environs and all suspiciously adipowe gentlemen were under strict By noon, ‘it was actually danger | as “she had on the same kind of a/ ous to pick up a palmleat fan or|cont and hat, and looked exactly | to wipe even a single bead of per-|like Mr, Greeley.” The Nebraska| man was white-haired, which to | Greeley’s mind, completed the plc-| | ture. The enraged husband dashed thru spiration from your brow, as every jperson who showed signs of undue ely placed un- der guard, suspected of harboring the unnoticed 317 degrees of un-j|the crowd and swung a territie| | usual warmth right hook to the Nebraskan's jaw, So really you're hot when you're| knocking him down. Then to his cold, in Seattle—which is something | horror, he realized his mistake and which even Los Angeles climate | dashed into the crowd, where two] | boosters: haven't thought of. navy men captured and held him, | Patrolman W. H. Pendergast took the entire party to the station, The victim of the pugilistic hus- |band was still groggy when taken | before Capt. Hedges for questioning. | He protested mildly that he did not wish to prosecute the offender, but his wife insisted that he be punish- ed, and Greeley was duly booked on & charge of disorderly conduct, post- ing $100 ball. When brought Into court, Greeley pleaded guilty and was fined $25 JUGGLE CENSOR BOARD HERE Mayor Plans to Make Profit From Moral Uplift left town for California, after re- fusing to give their names to the police. Be Appointed = | wife of his own. by Police Judgo Jacob Kalina. The} prosecuting witnesses, however, had| ( aaa and May Movie Star Make Ne Picture U and His Wife Looki ag ied tainier arn Ove p MacLean is not an actress. NEW ROUTE 10 | GREENLAND IS _ PLANNED U.S. Flyers Seek Open Har- bor in Order to Continue |AIRMEN ARE ANXIOUS | Winter Ice Will ‘Soon Come ,|and Would Stop Air Voyage j EYKJAVIK, his wife, | Iceland, Aug. 8. — Temporarily from beaten, the American ‘round- |the-world flight expedition leaders held a council of war aboard the scout crulser Richmond today to plan thelr campaign for the real battle with the frozen North. |} Lieut; Lowell Smith, Rear Ad- |miral Thomas Magruder and Maj. Clarence EE. Crumrine discussed } what should be done about getting the flight under way once more. A wireless from Angmagsalik de- Jolaring that the Danish — steamer, jthe Gertrude Rask,. with needed | supplies aboard, still was frozen in the ice, was discussed. “Unless the ice spreads the Rask }will be unable to astist the flight,” tho message sald, | The cruiser Ralelgh will leave to- } morrow on a scouting’ expedition EORGANIZATION of the city jalong the coast of Greenland to re- censorship board, with three port on the weather and observe members, instead of 15, as at pres ent, is under way, it became known Friday, despite efforts of Mra, Mary Green Lewiy to keep the matter a| secret. Mra. Lewis is secretary of the present board, at $25 ® month, yor Brown, under whose direc- Commonwealth Club Calls a Massmeeting Here A telephone protest meeting will be held Monday, August 11, at Dart. nell's cafeteria, under the auspices of the Commonwealth club, Dinner will be served at 6 p. m, and the business meeting will begin at 6:45 promptly. ‘The entire city is invited said he had told Mrs, Lewis to go ahead and “work out something.” The mayor sald, further, that he| planned to make a profit for the! city out of the board's operations, by |charging film exchanges a fee for} loenborinie. THe plotures to attend, particularly those who It ly proposed in the draft of the {Contemplate removing thelr tele. ordinance to charge distributors $1 |phones us a protest. The club has a reel for “Inspection.” If the reel |teauested T. J. 1. Kennedy, the cor. muster, the distributor is to | poration counsel, to attend and ex- get a “certificate.” If It doesn’t, he | Plain the status of pending telephone gets no certificate and can't show |Tte litigation, and give a review of the reel, But the board gets his|tate Increases during tho past 15 dollar, just the same. years. Other prominent speakers The profit each year, the mayor | Will address the meeting. sald, would be “two or three thou.| Resolutions of censure and protest wana dotass.! against the telephone company will Announcement of the be presented for adoption, made by Mrs. Green before the ate SaaS 1%) Women's City club, after the mem.| b had been asked to “keep it a} secret.” | DENIES MRS. GREEN | GETS OFFICIAL JOB Women at the meeting said that the idea was to appoint three members | to the board and employ a #e plan was Main Street, Seattle Peterson, pregident Young dO, ering up their sleeves ut it pt corner Unger, prot It Is understood that an “advisory ‘ing to friend about new telephone board" of 60 is to help the newlrates. Paul V. Knudsen, executive jboard in its deliberations—ift the |secretary Merchant Exposition, Jeouncil passes an ordinance con:| working in shirtsleeves at Bell st atituting three persons guardians of | dock, the city's morals, latter Is considered, in couneil circles, ay unlikely, J. 1, MeCauley, architect, en: tering Alaska building, Sam Barnes, cement dealer, strolling down Fourth AVG, (Turn to Page 7, Column 5) BROWN REPLIES TO NICHOLS And Maybe You Understand What It’s All About Mayor Brown. Friday wrote to Coufteliman Ralph D. Nichols in an- swer to Nichols’ letter to Chief Sev- orkns of August 5, in which the councilman asked the chief for In- formation as to whether or not | Lieut. Comstock was in charge of the Hquor seized by the police de- partment. Nichols called the attention of the chief to the fact that the city ordi- {shall be p'aced in the custody of the |property clerk, and asked if it were \true that Lieut. Comstock had been jgiven this charge instead. |The mayor, in his letter called at- tention to the fact that “there {not been a liquor scandal in the po- |lice department in Seattle since my olection, in 1922 The ordinace quoted by Mr. | VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug, §—|@t $165 a month, under civil se Business club, “selling’’ Peo: | oj wax approved November 9, 1909, | Willlam Mitt American tourist,|rules. ‘They got the Imprei Salt Water park, When lquor: selzurey nmounted to died of heart failure while in charge] they added, that Mrv. Green was Westinghouse » hurrying nothing,’ the mayor wrote lor & Swiss guide near Banff. |ing to be the secretary out to lunch, David Whitcomb, prest "It Is different now, and the re- They were crossing a glacier and|, Mayor Brown, however, states |dent Chamber of Commerce, carry-|xponsibility for the care ofl ique altitude affected his heart. The} tat this was “all bunk," After that |ing newly pressed palr of trousers |is an important matter, I therefore sed ia a brother of ‘Thomaa| Ne sald It wax a “— Ie." Jover arm. Frank Rippo running {deemed it ne ary that but one head of the Philadelphia] After that, again, he sald that the|away from business to get to ball}man have the key to the storeroom, way sacetar present censorship board was “a}game, L, L Ballau, dentist, with }hut he is not necessarily the custo. | jo) and conveyed the Impresslon | Mower in his buttonhole, Tom Page |dian. If there ix any question about that 4 lot of other cities were snick-jarguing with mouth and cane on|the disposition of Hquor, 1 can very easily request him to account for the custodian." The mayor also charged that Councilman Nichols’ action was that of 4 private individual, and not the action of the city council or of any committee, He said that the city council committees “are out ¢ fishing expedition for publicity. i he baffled, but far} {nance provides that all liquor seized | has | cid | | Seattle girls who had fallen in love with Douglas MacLean, the film actor, got the shock of their young lives Friday when MacLean arrived in Seattle with a perfectly good They came on the Emma Alexander and will tour Rainier park. Mee —Photo by Frank Jacobs, Star Staff Photographer BY DAISY HENRY ITH his overcoat, on his arm, his pretty brown-eyed wife by his side and broadcasting his fa- mous smile, Douglas MacLean ar- rived in Seattle Friday morning at 7 o'clock aboard the Emma Alex- ander. My mistake—I should have sald | the Alexander arrived at 7 o'clock and Doug and the Mrs. at 8 o'clock. Newspapermen, cameramen, Paul R. Aust, of the Associated Exhib- ftors, Miss Hazel Stuart, Chamber of Commerce official greeter, and a |Fepresentative of Rainier National park were on hand to greet Mac- Lean. One by one passengers filed off the boat, but no Doug MacLean. as passed around Macleans were still sleep- Right here Jake, The Star's | proved himself the Jake volunteered “awakening act.” And | ing. cameraman, hero of the day. to do he did. MAY USE RAINIER the |AS BEST “LOCATION” At ten minutes to eight, panied by MacLean’s congenial di- rector, George Crone, we all as- sembied on the top deck. At 8 o'clock the famous star and his wife ap- peared, Maybe Mrs, MacLean is a beauty sleep advocator—I forgot to ask her anyway if sleep is what makes her as pretty as she is well I'm gure none of the reporters or cameramen could object to waiting an hour or so for her to put in an appearance. MacLean is en route to, Rainier National park to look over our fa- mous mountain for “location” for his next picture, which is a mountain accom- jstory, but has not yet been titled. He Is accompanied only by his wife and director and will be with us for four or five days, after which he will return to California and make prep- ations to return with a company of from 25 to 30 people. Glancing over the boat railing I could not resist the temptation to | josh MacLean about his last picture, “The Yankee Consul." Those who saw this picture will recall that Doug was a very sick young man aboard the big liner. |Police. and Nay Heads te (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) COP-GOB FEUD COOLS; BOTH ARE WARNED 12a Stop Rough Action NAVY HEADS SEE CHIEF Shore-Leave May Be Shut Off if Trouble Lasts” OLICE and navy heads were 0+ | operating Friday with a view to” settling the feud between cops and: gobs, : Policemen, as a result of a cone] ference Thursday afternoon’ between Chief Severyns and representatiy of the navy, will not interfere the sailors onshore leave except. | a case of a felony or when they called in by the navy shore Navy shore patrolmen have Tee doubled their efforts and expect to be able to handle any disturbances among the men. If they are noty the police will be called on. Determined efforts are being n to prevent a general uprising the sailors against the police as result of alleged brutal treatment some of their number on the of police officers. Navy heads said Friday might become necessary to off shore liberty if the feud tinued. They will take pro action if any attempt is m on the part of the men “gang” the police, it was nounced. At they have insisted and have re- ceived assurances from Sey- eryns that the police ref from using their positions as of. ficers to vent personal grudges _ against the gobs. Severyns declared again Ingalls Says: “Navy Accuses Cops’ Should Be: “Cops Accuse Navy” HE STAR'S headline of Thurs- day, in which the navy ac- cused Seattle police of brutalit: should have read “Cops Accuse Navy," according to George FE. Ingalls, of 680 University st. Ingalls said ne was “willing to face any sailor and express my opinion.” A letter from part “It is high time, in the opinion of the writer, that the admiral or commander of the navy yard at Bremerton or from the bat- tleships that visit our harbor should issue an ultimatum that sailors that cannot havo shore leave without becoming a nuis- ance by a drunken spree day and night and Sunday should re- main aboard ship, Ingalls said, in * "We will say from actual ob- servation that a large number (not all, we are happy to say,) both day and night in open pub- Ne meet women of questionable (Turn to Page 7, Column 2)_ RONG 3 | SRawE character and flappers y gen: E eral around public blocks, at post office and cabarets, out hotels, soft drink parlors and. pool halls where they can load up with moonshine or whisky and then start out to make all the trouble they can for the police and the pablic in general, setting an example and influence that 18 a disgrace to the city of Soattle. : “They drink in alleyways, leays ing their broken bottles and thé marks of their drunken debauch for decent folks to clean up after them, i “They have become worse than 4 the beasts of the field, and are ® disgrace to the U. 8 nayy, and it's high time to call a halt on the money expended for ent tertainment. for such a crowd by the citizens Of Seattle and vartous soclety folks and use the funds to bring decent people to Sent; tle.”