The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 15, 1924, Page 1

Sees Ly Chinese, A Bit of New China Seattle Girl Got Hers Land of the Celestials Bobbed Over in the girls don't have to come to America to have their Ente: “VOL. 26. NO. 146. a as Becond Matter May 2, 1599, t Beattie, Wash., u the Act of Congress March 3, 1878 SEATTLE, WASH, FRIDAY, AUGUS 15, 1924. _ THROWN 0U Apartment House Orders Instruments Removed Because of High Rate ELEPHONE switchboard and telephones were ordered out of the Martinique apartments, Eighth ave. and Union t., Friday, ic Telegraph & aeer| P, Milligan, manager of the | japartment house, declared that he de- | cided to do without phone service | rather than pay the excessive rates) asked by the company. He ordered | hair bobbed any more, says Miss Daisy Kw an, Seattle Chi- company officials to immediately re- | nese-American girl, who had her's bobbed in the Celestial|™°v? ®'s phones. Now she'll study in Seattle. republic during a trip. Greetings: Did you smile when you paid your telephone bill? eee Definition: Telephone bill is the) Woney you pay. tor wrong numbers. UR CHECK It's easy to smile when Life's al while, everything's great; But the man worth while {s the boa who can smile, When he pays the new falechoas. rate. a chipper ey | and! Dumbell | y { | 1 “Chips That Pass in the Night": Ve | . Women can never be on an eq plane with men until some men ob Ject to being hugged. eer HERE ARE SOME DUMBELLS Dumbell Dud thinks: Vessel movements are instructions for a new dance step—Grant Wood. A necktie is a spooner’s embrace. —I. P. Tomlinson. . And Elva Patterson thinks Dum- bell is so dumb he thinks: Castle nuts aré members of the Royal family. A gin rickey is a two-wheeled conveyance, BVD and TNT are radio broad- casting stations. aes It Elva wilt call she can collect $1 for the following: Dumbell Dud is so dumb he thinks ‘‘Ships That Pass in the Night’ was written by a rum-; runner. . Fred Filien of Port Angeles writes us about the teacher who asked her class to use the word, ‘‘gruesome,"’ in a sentence. “I ain't growed much, but I grew some,” the boy wrote. HOORAY! GOOD NEWS! o. Word comes from Homer Brew, who ig on his vacation. couver, 1, C. uy uver Sun, and Much talk of this and that, but’ little xaid. And xo at @ late hour to the vi ferry, but did mins it, thin making the fourth time I did ¢ bout, but back to the merry sh ond content enough, heaven inowee And #0 to bed. —H, BREW. Old-fashioned married, customs; Staying eee QUITE TRUE Photo by Groff. The smait boy with hie Kad stopped at the entrance university grounds to mother admire George Washington's statue, Just then a traffic policeman passed by. “What big feet he’s got,’ re- marked the urchin, looking at the statue, “Hush, my son," replied the mother, “don't you ace he's a police. man.” Li'l grain of éorn, Don't you ery, You'll be seoteh, Bye und bye. of the| | | bullet hole Photo by A. C . Girard alr, they’ re bobbing over in| China now. look at attractive Miss Daisy Kwan, who came in on the President McKinley after two years of study in Pekin and Canton. Miss Kwan, daughter of wealthy Chinese-American parents, will take courses at Broadway high school thix fall and later at the university, She'll study economics and teaching, paratory to returning to China and engaging in educational work The girl was born tn Butte, Mont | A brother, with whom she will make her home, lives in Seattle. She went to China two years ago |to study the language and conditions over there. SHOOTING UP OF TOWN CALLED | NEEDLESS Wild Atfray at Carnation Draws Criticism “RECALL SIMILAR “JOB” Bandits Captured at Bank in Ballard Without Shot Sentiment in Seattle Friday char- acterized as “a botched job’ the wild west shooting b& staged by| Sheriff Matt Starwich at the Sno- qualmie State bank at Carnation ‘Wednesday, in which a deputy sher- iff was shot by bis fellow officers, an informer who had been promised protection was sacrificed, bank win- dows were riddled with bullets and the Hf of « girl bank employe need- lessiy impertied. Those who criticized the sheriff called attention to almost an iden- tieal affair, staged at the Ballard branch of the Scandinavian-Ameri- | can bank on January. 23, 1917. In this case sheriff's deputies arrested | Frank Wilson, a longshoreman, and Floyd Mathews, a shingleweaver, in the bank, without firing a shot or shedding blood. Frank Jacobs, Star staff photo- | of} . fired the only “shots” duy, operating a motion picture camera with one hand and ao still camera with the other. W. F. Heppenstall, 819 Third ave. then with the Burns agency, com: mented Friday on the contrast be- tween the two affairs. He was pre ent at the Ballard roundup. A charge of attempted robbery was filed Friday against Jack Bench, who drove the car in which Malone and Ted Lashe, both now dead, went to Carnation to stage the robbery. His bail was set at $5,000. William Sant, brother-in-law of Bench, whose car is sald to have been used on the trip, was accused of being an accessory to the affair, He is held in leu of $2,500 bab. Confessions are sald to have been extracted from both men by Prose- cutor Bert Ross. Lashe, who had tipped off the sheriff to the raid and had been promised protection in consequence, was sent into the bank svith Malone, Who shot him down. Deputies, firing wildly, wounded Virgil Mur- phy, who js in the hospital with a in his leg. COPS HOLD GIRL. 19-Year-Old Betty Shea Is Alleged Check Artist Cold steel bars marred Betty Shea's vision of life Thursday morning she to have started out with is alleged $600 worth of checks. Many of these she cushed at department stores, Her plans were cut short before night, however, and city de Ives landed her in jail, The girl had no account, it is charged. pre-| | Milligan declared his bill had tn-| creased under the new rate from | |$60 to $111 a month. There are 46 |phones in the apartment house. Other apartment houses in Seattle | | are expected to follow the Martinique | in having their phones removed. Sev eral have already so. Hun | dreds of private telephone subscrib- | }ers are also prepared to have thelr | service discontinued if the rates re-| main In effect. they have told the city legal department done Many have called the corporation | counsel's office and have declared |that if the city did not win tts caso inst. the phone company they would be without telephones. see Mayor Brown Friday was prepar- jing ao letter to the city council re-} | questing them to take the neces-| }eary steps to Institute a city-owned | | telephone system. | His letter will ask that an ord-! {nance be drawn to; authorize such | eon an will be necessary, Before the city can own erate @ telephone system it must! | first be authorized by the state le«- j islature to do so. Provisions In the! elty charter provide that the city can oWn and operate a ayster Es sccoeiin to Coporation Couns | » Kennedy, this provision {s| acs “without state action, The mayor suggests to the coun- cil that the corporation counsel be immediately asked to advise it on| the legal steps necessary. The letter is expected to go to the coun- cil Friday afternoon, or op-| it because of the incres | {nto effect the first of this month by | the United Prens. | Richard e of telephone rates put) YOUNG SLAYERS WOULD HANDLE OWN CASE With Leopold as Examiner |Loeb Wants to Take Stand WANT VIGOROUS POLICY ‘Babe’ and Dick Think They Are Better Than Darrow BY EDWARD C. DERR RIMINAL COURT ROOM, cago, Aug. 16.—Richard and Nathan Leopold have thelr chief defense attorney, Clar- ence Durrow, to be permitted to take a hand in thelr murder hearing be- fore Justice John R. Caverly—Loeb to take the stand and Leopold examine him and also to cross examine state witness Loeb and Leopold are not fully satisfied with the manner in which Darrow and the Bachrach brothers are carrying on the defenso. The youths favor a more vigorous policy. | Loeb said he wanted to “go on} the stand to tell the ‘real story’,” a member of the defense revealed to| Chi Loeb asked “Of course, Loeb han already told} about the case, and I doubt whether | he has anything to add to his} story,” this person sald | Dr. James Whitney Hall, chiet defense alientist, corroborated the| story of the request by Nathan and (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) Reprieve That SAN QUEN TIN PE: ITENTIARY, ) 1 Cal. Aug. 15.—A. F. Champion, of Texas, went to his death on the gallows here today for the murder of James Goldy in Los Angeles on January 10, 1922, Champion went to his ceath bravely, with protestations of inno- |cence on his lps. He walked the few steps from the death cell to the chamber where the gallows had been erected, with- out a tremor, the prison chaplain and Warden James A. Johnston at his side. Champion merely smiled the \black cap and shackles were ad- justed and snapped into eternity “ike a man," attendants said. | as a Mother Waits in Jail _ Office as Son Hangs Hopes Against | Hope for Last-Minute Fails to Come Bie tab Was sprung at 10:13 a, m. and at 10:28% Champion was pro- nounced dead. In the warden's office, hoping | against hopo that a reprieve would come to rave the life of her boy, sat Mrs. Idella Champion, his inother. Yesterday she told her soon good- bye, and with words of cheer and| hopo left him to face the great ad-| venture alone. The body of the Texas plainsman, who left home to see what life in far parts might hold for him and met only disgrace and death, will be taken back to the family home in Texas by the mother. PROBE ‘PARTIES’ AT HOSPITAL Vet Patients “Complain of Women and Doctors DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 15.—Charges that attendants of the veterans’ hos- pital here partic!p: ties at which imported women from Cincinnati danced scanty attire weré before the congre mittee when it reconvened today to ted in Mquor par: in jonal com- investigate the affairs of the Dayton Soldiers’ hom Raymond T. Tooley, Dayton, a dis: | abled veteran, testifying before the named several physicians attended the pi | was held the night of St. Patrick's} day | | id to have rty which | | | | committee, | | | Tooley gave testimony intended to | show that aged patients were beaten | by attendants, that Jobs in the Insti tution were sold and that patients were forced to surrender all their when they entered. probe here started a nation | wide inventigntion ordered by con | areas after inmates made c¢ ‘gon [about treatment they were recely ing. FLYERS TO HOP SATURDAY West Greenland Coast Now Is Objective WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.— American world flyers will hop off from Iceland tomorrow for a new base just south of Angmagaalik on the west coast of Greenland, it was announced at the war department to day. Knowledge of the plan was con tained in mensagex received from Lieutenants Smith, flight command er, and Bizzell, advunce officer. Establishment of the new base “will reduce the hazard.” the mes: sage stated. “Destroyers Berry and Cohalen sailed from Indian harbor | August 13 to take positions off Ang: | magaalik, Clear weather Ingide tcc | and at Angmagaallk, Hoquiam Firm Gets City’s Sewer Job) Hoquiam, Aug, 16. for| Jaying sewors in a large residence istrict In the west end of this clty today was in the hands of If, A, Keas al co, of Hoquiam, Their bid was $31,222.80 for contract pipe and was the lowest of five bids submitted, Contract Rates Went ee | LD Chief Seattle took direct action, on the bird who owned and operated the signal fire, according to this old Indian legend, discovered only today hidden in a war canoe near Seventh and Union. Translation by Jim Marshall - - - Etchings by Sam Groff with a tomahawk HEY had no phones in the olden days when the redskin owned the Bound, And Indian folks used signal smokes when they had to chat around, A brave with a blanket owned tha fire and he ran the whole affair, Hia simple plan for success thus ran: Charge all that the trade will bear, we hls fellow awey They'd mosey ‘round to the signal ground and ask: How much today? The signal guy would size them up and figure around a while, Then he'd raise the rates on his tribal mates, with a low, deceptive amile, o 'pp'6 braves had a call to make just a mile or Qucx! or ME CHcaco HE trideamen paid, for the blanket brave was a bold monopolist, Hia signal graft he backed with craft—and an ax in his horny fist, Until one day there came a chief with a rush long-distance call And the signal guy made the price too high, but the chief refused to fall. 8 MEY argued there for an hour or #0, with never an instant's siop, Til they both got sore and the chieftain swore that the rates were to drop, The signal man said He stopped the talk No, by gosh! and the chief let his temper fly, with Ms tomahawk and beaned the signal guy. ries he put more wood on the signal fire and watched the rising amoke, Then he took the road with the signal code and the scalp of the signal bloke, told the tribes he had taken charge and that rates’d be fair and just, And the tribes would own the amokaphone He (He sure had an awful crust!) Pha. eee | H, THEY had no phones in the olden days, but monopolista of sorta, Rut, glory be! they'd no P. 8. C., nor appeals to the federal courts, When rates went up on the smokaphone they filed no legal briefa, They just beaned the guy who made rates too high, did those turrible Injun chiefs. pe LING MYSELF ' Mars Moves This Way; Maybe WeWill Be Able to Find Mr. Skyjack BY MILTON MACKAYE ! dena, Cal, will concentrate its Ween ITON, Aug. 15.— study on the planet's tempera- fars and the moons of | ture with the aid of a 100-inch Mars—planets 000,000 miles reflector telescope—the largest away from the arth—-must in the world. yleld up their celestial secrets Other well known observa- during the next days, tories which make special suay Beginning tonis),, powerful and photographs of the visiting telescopes thru the civilized solar body are the Yerkes at world will be trained nightly up- Williams Bay, Wis.; Lick, on the ruddy sky of the South. Mount Hamilton, Cal. and the eost. And the reason js that Harvard observatory at Mande- Mars will be closer to earth Ville, Jamaica. during tho next week than it Mars will be nearest the earth has been {n 100, years. the night of August 22, when it There aro scores of American will be approximately 34,600,000 astronomers who will attempt to miles away. solve the mysteries of their nearest planetary neighbors rae phaten senor | Being Bricklayers, hope to learn whether the They Can Afford It ale’ of Mars are really cana BEND, Ore, Aug, 16.— Nu: |The host to the bricklayers and plas: showing the direction of a man intelligence and thus set: | torers of Oregon and Washington Ue, Indirectly and once for all {next month, and already nearly the question of its habitation 1'$1/000; han Beet (aubseribedi tar the There are questions which | ontertainment of the visiting crafts: may be answered during tho | imen who will attend the bi-state con brief season of astronomical | vention, ‘The meeting will be held grace—questions that are of Jon september 3, 4, 6 and 6, and en paramount Interest to the sel- | tertainment ures will include an entific world, experts at the | ali day outing at some one of the naval observatory here sald |many lake resorts within easy reach today. of Bend, und a banquet, The most intensive American sky survey will take place at MO 1 : Wagstaff, Ariz., where the Low- ULES KILLED; pt centrating on Martian questions FROST, Tex., Auk. 15,—Lighting wince 1894 killed a team of mules during a It was there that the “canals” were first sighted, The Mount Wilson observatory at Pasa- thunder storm here, Atha Norris, who was standing between the ant: mals, escaped injury Bond will) QUAKE ROCKS JAPAN! RRA te APP OOP LAA APA Pa an The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington = The Seattle Sta at the Postoftice w Year, by Mall, $3.60 __WEATHER Saturday; ge in Temperature Last 24 Hours Maxinium, 64 Minimum, 57. Today noon, * COMING, FEAR Whole Nation Prays, Asking Cessation | of Continued Temblors OKYO, Aug. is —rakee earthquake disaster of last ina high state of tension today asa " LOVE NOTE IN ~W'COY CASE 1S TRACED New Yorker Admits He May | Have Written It |WAS VICTIM’S FRIEND \“Darling Theresa” Held by Police LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15.— | Sam Schapp. of New York city, | one of the persons wounded by Norman Selby (Kid McCoy) when the former pugilist went “on a rampage” Wednesday following the death of Mrs, Theresa Mors, today admitted that he “might have written” the endearing let- ters signed “Sam,” found among Mrs. Mors possessions, “She was a wonderful friend,” Schapp said, when questioned at a | bospital-where he is recovering from j Sunshot wounds allegedly inflicted {by McCoy. “I would not have hesitated to call her darling.” The letter in question, which ts in the possession of the police, was ad- dressed to “Darling Theresa” and was signed “Sam.” Schapp came here from New York | several days ago with his wife, and | |spent most of Monday and Tuesday | | with Mrs, Mors, he said “We talked most of the time with McCoy,” Schapp said. “Finally she agreed to break with him, but she expressed a (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) | hotel, Letter | | about Mrs. Mors’ breaking off | | with the anniversary of the September drawing near, was result of a severe shake which visited the city and was gene eral thruout eastern and northern Japan at 12:30 a. m. The shock was one of the most severe since the destructive earths quake of September 1, 1923. In many sections of Tokyo the people were panic-stricken. The in- habitants of the poorer sections of the city rushed into the streets shouting and screaming. About one- third of the guests of the Imperial headquarters for foreign vise itors, fled. Investigation showed that broken china and crockery was the main item of damage done. ROYAL CROCKERY IS SMASHED Immediately after the shock, of- ficial inquiries were flashed to the palace of the prince regent and to the royal household to learn whether the rulers of Japan were safe. Clocks and crockery in the royal residences suffered just like similiar household articles In humbler homes, crashing to the floor as the buildings rocked to the force of the shake but no other damage was done. The shock was the longest in dure ation as well as the most severe to be felt since last September. The seia- meter record in Fukushima observa- tory is broken to a width of half an inch, Reports. from Kashima bay said second shock had been felt there there was only one tremor in Tokion — TO PRAY FOR TEMBLOR CESSATION Under the urge of appeals from the superstitious, preparations for the | great religious demonstration and — memorial service to be held by all © | creeds September 1, were hastened, The Japanese, particularly in the larger cities, apparently have cast | aside all other thought in the face of | what they believe to be the certainty of more and severer quakes and are centering thelr attention on the an- niversary preparations. Even foreigners have felt the cone tagion and Christian bodies are take ing an actvie part in the plans for the event. for Salt EATTLE'S quota of the purchase fund for the state salt water park was swelled by between §200 and $300 ‘Thursday night when the ex- Montanans’ benefit dance brought out 600 persons for a “big time" sec- jond only to the Young Men's Busi- |ness club benefit at Leschi three weeks ago. Glen McLeod, president of tho} Montana society, was generalissimo IN BLAST Firemen Battle Garage Fire as Gasoline Explodes Lives of many firemen were im: periled and one man was badly burned about the face and hands jearly Friday, after a 50-gallon drum of distillate, stored in the basement of the Prefontaine building, Fourth and Main, exploded. Martin, proprietor of the Sappho aurant, was burned when the blast happened, will recover, Heavy black smoke poured from line basement, making fire fighting |dangerous, ‘The menace of large quantities of gasoline and oil, stored in the place, added to the peril. Damage to automobiles stored in the garage is about $4,000; damage to the building will be about $1,000, The fire was placed under control |before the gasoline exploded, Con: Jerete walls of the gurage kept the | Dlaze from spreading. Origin of the jfire is unknown, IRMAN LANDS IN STABLE; NABBED | GARDEN CITY, Kans., Aug, When Clyde Horehen, airman ¢ Reusom, Kansas, landed in a farm en's burn yard here, the constable, Horchen was ar rested, charged with “operating a vehicle” while intoxicated, neighbors paged 600 Dance at Benefit Glen McLeod and Ex-Montanans Score “Assist” for Community “Paradise” CAFEMAN HURT, He was treated und; Water. Park in charge, and staged a well man- aged and enjoyable affafr with ere aid of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Carney, Prominent members of the socit hailing from Burts, gee: Roy ‘wileene OWEN'S me orchestra. had offered to donate its serv= ices and expected up to Thi morning to play free for the dance, but was ruled out by the | union musicians at noon when it be- came known that they are not” trades union organization. Wat Anderson brought out eight mush clans of his orchestra as a result, eee NCLUDED. in the list of i who aided in making the dance a success were Miss Cheasty Mathie. son, who gave her services in a Rus: sian dance; litle Norma Silver, hula dancer, accompanied by her mother, and Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, ex-Mon+ tanans and banjo artists, Mrs. Colia Garcia, Seattle polices woman, was in attendance thruout the evening, as were Police Sergt. J. Sears and Patrolmen J. Smith, A, Wolf, I. Martin and Pat Dorian, who gave their services to helping the dance. see ANKS were expressed by Montana society and the Ye Men's Business club, sponsoring: the Salt Water park, to the Seattle Moose lodge for donating: its hall, — and to Henry Morgan, florist, for” decorating the place, Perkins Gla Co. and the Heiden Mailing bureaw aided in making the dance success« ful, as did Mrs, Francis Coole, who, assisted in registering the former Montanans present. o HE Young Men's Business club members, most of whom have j been giving most of their time to the campaign for the community “poor man's paradise” since it’ was | initiated several weeks ago by The eattle Star, will continue efforts [for the Seattle quota of $10,000 which ts still a few thousand shy of completion, | Here are the latest entries on. the common folks’ outing Po i (Turn to Puge 9, Column