The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 22, 1924, Page 1

The N The Star’s Phone Main 0-600 Get the Habit Entered as Se » Ma VOL, 26. NO. ae fers Fed Earwi vewspaper SE ATTLE, the sig ges With t Circulation in 1899, at ., WASH., FRIDAY, AUGUST Was nder the f Congress March 99 1924, Arcata’s Guns ‘Get’ Rumship Gunners on the Arcata, Dumbell DUD’S % crew, under Lonsdale, ‘shoot to kill from the one-pounder on the Capt. Well, folks, our grips are packed. Everyth is tn readiness for in etant fii, | And the reason? Here !t te. CABLEGRAM TO DUD BACK MONDAY STOP HAVE YOUR TRUNK Pac AND GET OUT STOF GE if PORTS THAT YoU { TEMPTED TO START A FLIRT. TION stor YOU | EXCLAMATION PO! ‘ RETURN COMMA I SHALL J | 4 IN YOUR JOLLY OLD 3 HEAD stor ' HOMER G. BREW VICTORIA, B. C. Nope, a woman can never keep a | secret. That is, unless you ask her to tell every one Lots of men have started at the bottom and worked to the top. And} most of them have sons that are do-| ing just the opposite. | z | "4 | Today is the last day to send in | | Dumbell Duds. The final prise | wit! be awarded Saturday. Send a4 | one in and try for a dollar. } x— ———a| ee | # DUMBELL DUD ISSO DUMB | HE THINKS: | Fleet week is a fast one—C. R. Eckland SieKe | An airplane is used to level clouds. { Joseph Gustafson. | ee ° Earwigs are adjustable side burns.—Ferris Updike, | eee “Wee” Coyle is the mainspring for %@ watch —Lura I. Cook, see There are traffic cops 1p Venice.— Joe Connely. eee That HOOCH is the chemical | formula for moonshine. — Malcolm | Rigby. eee | A hamlet Is @ part of a pig.— Cc. HN, eee | Dumbell Dud won't read the personal column on the society page because he thinks it is none of his business—Mrs, A. G. 8. . . A clond bank is a place where you | P I M n get a rain check.—Betty Brown. | on rey a 0 eee A ball fleid is a place to cry.—H. T. Thi k Th M A Bock. eee Tooth paste is used to stick fal: feeth together —V. Williams, Brem- | erton. AND HE ALSO THINKS: Wheeling West Virginia is im- od.drauin | gm and broken glass, Nine shots from| yerniple, waite Weradinig: Pentiey- POINT GREY, Vancouver, B. C..| a} 08 | the rum craft, was hit in three |' 3 oH vania would be a pleasant pas- if the one-pounder were fired and ; : | Aug. — With Mars and places, a one-pounder shell of these struck Shearer in the eres ee | the ca Betas bay pi a . striking him in the back. R. | back a wo planets will eve ; : An elephant’s trunk fs something |**_ the two Dp ‘ t the Hendricks, the other member} At least 25 direct nits in the huil P) R c come, wireless operators a 5 4 te pack clothes in—Ralph Rush-| point Grey station today were tun H of the rum crew, is being held|"nd cabin of the speed boat were| ‘worth, les ling in for a repetition of mysterious in the city jail. eee by the Arcata’s mark {signals “which might haye been i aim Ld Shoe horns produce the squeak in | ssnala | “wiih [acne TNoved ta be the An aho nay | Shearer and Hendricks were taken (eo | GC. W. Mellish and w. T. Buford,|Won’t Be So ( Close Again | }° cases of Scotch and Canadian {o board the Arcata and a wireless ; in a nior ope the powerful IHiquovs alsoard, altho her crew haa {Was went. to. Seattle to tiave fn eae Lebanese ee aad] p STE RA 4g waiting Till Year 2000 A. D. per 4 er overboard before |ambulance on hand when the ship “unearthly eee . sho, presdene cabinet In a rare|2e22u0, exxzuin0. They til T0Q SLOW FOR EARTH| piece of furniture. —Edith Kobe |etunk today Re bc anathe the A separator’ itn divorce court only means known to acientts for|We Are Gaining on Planet gudge—William D. McKenzie, Liew Msg ine es pe in Race Around: Sun _—__—___— peated in intervals of four. HERI THE sur distinct gre of » fou BY MAGNER WH “Beyond the Pa jdashes each came thru the air LOWELL OBSE: F * other side of the bucket —s |Mellish said, describing the oe Wake ile of Marly. thal — z 2M }audible sounds which heare Fo dorte GHG, dnd the: oe tbe Saeed aiditon weil F nok neck and neck in their race around ended sharpl. with Zipp. The os b signals were not a hoax, he declared, This constitutes the “opposition” in Official investigation by the l because it would be impossible for| which the sctentific world is so in ed States government of the Colum: any operator to manipulate # spark |terested. After tonight the earth be bia river basin irrigation project will| or wave transmitter to produce such xaining on the planet, which begin September 1, it was an-|a sound , | falls bet never: to come f nounced Friday. Two Seattle men| At the Dominion Astrophysicalyob: | the carth again until well a are to be on the government's en-| servatory on Little Saanich moun. | year 2000 A. D. gineering commission that will make|tain Dr. J. H. Plaskett expressed) —selent at Lowell observatory the survey, according to a telegram | doubt in the “Mars signals” theory. | hore, where special studies have been received by $. H. Hedges from Roy | More than 34 million miles separate | made of the planet since 1894, do not) of Spokane, chairman of the | the two planets, ho points out—thou-| anticipate seeing anything spectacu executive committee of the project. | sands of miles farther than a wire tonight A. J. Turner and Joseph Jacobs, | lex message has ever been known!” a. yianet will, however, be in a both of Seattle, have been named | to have been received by®n earthly | y441 tayorable position for stud. members of the commission by An- | radio station | Prevented to the Inquiring eye at sistant Secretary of the Interior] “Of course, you can never be eure |the giant télescopes will be the “des. Goodwin, together with Charles’ H.| of these thing’ engaged Bal Ae ert region,” at the center of whic Locher, of Hancock, Md, The ag reservation. | Ee a Ward hiro onlled Maolielaaa Gast ulturists named on the commission ¥ 4 ‘ " or lake of the sun, on thought to is O. L. Waller, vice president of LONDON Be HEARS 7 Brie dig Aapetanage Leh Mie as State college, and BE. Bt eee pub: raph ads | Nive: bags esiuae4) icheverry. nemesis of and brought a speed boat and 68 cases of proven in this picture. guard boat, sighting along the gun that did the business Friday a Message From Mars everal rum runners on the Sound in the past weeks, scored another victory early Friday when they wounded one man, captured another Arcata’s ell st. dock. That the of Commander F. G, Dodge to The arrow points to the result of a direct hit At the the whisky to the is following out the order rum runner’s craft left is a gunner on coast Photos by Frank Jacobs, Star Staff Photographer Battle Off Whisky Spit Ends With One Runner Wounded, Another Prisoner and Booze Cargo Captured Caught off Whisky Spit by th the guns of the U.S. S. Ar-} cata, early Friday, a rum boat was riddled with shots from | the cutter and two men aboard, one seriously wounded, were captured. rl Sherrer. boat was a mass of flying splinters engineer of, jthe guns Arcata brought the | docked. | boat to 4 She » wounds were dressed! | Sher a ete ked over!on board ship and hé w taken Ihim at the. city hospital, denied that |to the city hospital early the liquor or the boat belonged to/when the Arcata docked at 1 [him H fused to whom. jt / terminal M4 belong to. He said that he] Cart, ¥, G, Dodge, in conmnind| i” is a plumber by trad of coest guard iiquor operations in SOUNDING MACHINE this district, reports that the Msuo |AID IN CAPTURE Jix the third booze boat to be cap | ‘The’ Arcata was lying with lightslticd hy. the Arcata in the past out off Whisky Spit, near the enltwo moaths trance to Hoods canal, when the | |noise of the rum boat's engine ws picked up by the versel's sounding “Good-bye,” He Says apparatus. i he Areata lay perfectiy, aut) as Trap Is Sprung rap fig 7 "Good-bye, boys,” * were. tho only.’ ‘A bear of light from a search. {Words Martin Silzcovich, condemned light played over the startled | MUMMerer, uttered as he slipped thru | whisky runners, and three times the {tte gallows at Ifolsom state prison Areata whistled the boat down. Lat A SCe Se Nk IvOney Instend of stopping, the booze| Slizcovich was not pronounced boat turned at right angles and fis | dead until 15 minuites und 35 seconds| | powerful engines churned the water. | later. ‘This time ts aid to be the L. A. Lonsdale, commander of the| longest of any hangings ever oc Arcata, ordered a shot across the |curring at Folsom. prison bow of the speeding boat, but this| Ag. stizcovich emerged from. the falled to halt her |death cell he half smiled. His smile oF SHOT j changed to one of fear as he mount- | KS SPEED BOAT |ed the steps, but he did not falter. | Oponing fice with the coast guard] Two porrcns, witnesses to” the cutter’s one-pounder and mgchide| execution, fainted as the trap was |wun, in a few minutes the speed | sprung few | ness. Washington e SeattleStar a, 1879. Ma * 2.60 g Bait, Kinnair Charges EDITION TWO CENTS IN IRST CAN DIDATES IN Seattle Crash the Gate Into the ‘STAR'S HA Oye: DIDATES bench of present court. « |. The Star weeks, which | he No. 1 is r JAMES McCABE, attor and feandidate for Position Nc n Op |position to Judge Frater. He said [two weeks was enough for him, “it elected. Niche No, 2 goes to | CHARLES E, CLAYPOOL, atto |ney and former newspaperman, co’ teat with Malcolm Doug for Judge Boyd Tallman's p He says he adv ated two-we vaca tions for judges four years a BOYD J. TALLMAN, judge Dep ment No. 1, who Star to. look up |spection of the record she Judge Tallman was off a jmonths, under full pay LL OF FAME’ partme He r Dykem: he's to take 60 days ing doesn't ¢ why a is that long to t rest cure every year cupled by € HARLI ES i. "PAL L,: who 4 is try- ng to oust Judge Otis Brinker from No. He says the de- y occasioned by the long vacation i & Kreat source of injustice.” He | wants to keep the courts functioning all the time, with judges taking va- ti two-week ones shifts, Niche No. 6 has as a tenant MALCOLM DOUGLAS, prosecut attorney, and contender for De. 1. He says he's al- n favor of speeding up tx xo that po r it ings ants of their} speedy hea Cops Pass Buck and Citizen Is (Editorial) HIS !s why crooks laugh at the Seattle police depart ment. This is why the depart ment commands no respect from Seattle citizens. ‘This is why it absolutely falls to stop the liquor traffic, the dope traffic and th nightly array of burglaries and | holdups. Here are ns, three reputable citl. minding their own busi Pielow, ex-cop, drunk, they say, wrecks their cars Two cops come along, pass the time of day and walk off. No investigation, no report, no ar- rest—and the citizens may whistle for Gamages. Does Chief Severyns do any- thing? Not on your life. Noth ing serious, anyway. Twenty- four hours after he learns about it, thru the newspapers, the chief orders a citizen to swear out & warrant for Piclow. The cops will probably get medals. RREST of Ed Plelow, former po- | lice sergeant, on a charge of |recklons driving, was ordered Friday jin a warrant sworn to before Justic Jacob Kallma by J, J. Smith, 1 | Lakeview ave Pielow was arrested at released on $100 bond | Oppie | subs stantiate \the auté who lives former se 4 noon He gave Leo his claims in owners’ char at 1904 Seve ret Investig: J, Brown Severyns said. th a’ ‘or empl about a Oppi A year warrant follows accusations made against Plelow by Smith and John Stasulet, of San Francisco. They declared that Pielow, drunk rammed into their cars outside the Van Siclen apartment house Wed nesday night » Earwig Bait ' for Campai as the name of a witness to| fighting | Forced to Order Pielow’s Arrest Chilet ryns forced Smith to SEA’ TTLE. ‘AMERICANS SAFE BUT LOCATELLI IS MISSING Started From Iceland With Smith and Nelson ‘| CRUISERS MAKE SEARCH Yanks May Go on Today ‘if Aviator Is Found TH both an round-the- in Fredriksdal, Amer Gre els guarding the r efforts Fri- da Jeutenant Loca- te t, missing on the ght and to Greenland In th ce of any word from him and his four passengers, it ts | thought possible th |.was leading Nelso |have proceeded on | Greenland, which t Le tell, who Smith, may toward Ivigtut, Smith hoped to | reach if time and weather permitted. was } There London I [Italian was sa no confirmation of a Mail report that the ‘ec in enland. Vessels Out to Find Locatelli | ABOARD THE U. 8. §. MOND, Aug. 22.—Admiral Magruder |has ordered the American cruisers | Richmond, Raleigh and Barr to |wearch the east coast of Greenland, around Cape Farewell, for Lieut. Locatelli, the Italian pilot. RICH- Naval officers aboard the Rich- mond were inclined to the belief that Locatelli may have proceeded on past Frederiksdal and continued his flight to Ivigtut. It was pointed out that he was leading Smith and Nelson early in the afternoon and if he lost them he might have recalled that Smith Weg to go on to Ivigtutif weather and time permitted when they | reached Frederiksdal. rs ul Locatelli, riding a bigger ma- swear out a warrant, refusing to or-| #7) than ‘the: Americans, /okeaa der officérs who were at the scone | considerably more fuel, and could of the wrecks to take action. easily have reached Ivigtut. "I have made a preliminary in-| 8 vestigation of this matter,” the| | REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. chief said, “and believe that the| 22—Lieutenants Lowell Smith way to settle it is to get the| and Erle Nelson, after bucking matter into court, where the evi-| @ strong northerly gale all after- dence can be introduced.” noon, arrived at Frederiksdal. Pielo wis charged by Smith and, Greenland, last evening, having |Stasulet-with having erashed into| completed their 825-mile jump in |thelr cars and into one other, while| a little less than 12 hours of con- |trying to park on Eighth ave, | tinuous flying. Pielow did not make his report | until 11:30 p. m., Thursday. He} Jreported that he ran into Smith's mar as the: latter was backing out |trom the curb CITIZEN DENIES s that’ he was visit- t the apartment and heard the while inside. He ‘8, and found his car had been }knocked across the street. Smith declan jing | Stasulet and his companion, ‘Wal-| ter McKay, made affidavits about the details of the accident Thursday afternoon before the efficiency com- mittee of the city council. The two |charged they could get no satisfac. jtion from the police |when they insisted Pielow rested for the accident. Both auto owners reported that there were two broken whisky bot- tles in Pielow's and floor When the police came, be ar- car also the drivers Piclow went off with them nd another man, who was in Pie- low's car, walked up the hill with a suit that had been in his auto. mith declared Friday that he would probably swear out a warrant for arrest if the police did “nothing more about the matter Coin Used Pielow's on Expenses | “County Gang” Is Accused, t ut Dobsor and Gaines Deny Charges told’ twigs in Se why “now it-all ‘can. be we still have ¢ uttle—if the pollt 1 campaign | ch of Frank Kannair, candi date for cow *commisisoner from the North district, at Map'e Valley ursday night, is testimony in polities a wit ainly ys Kannair,.and hi his hear crs a list of seven persons Who, he |snys, got $1,004.48 e of the “county's beneficence” for earwig control during July, least. a} month after the earwig bait work was advised by the horticultural a partment to be u: Commisisoners Tom Dobson and William Gaines denied know edge of how the money was spent after it was turned over, they claim, to the city for administration “ta a te; that there’a not» word of truth in story," Gaines ex aimed. “He's es around like that If that money was spent as Kan- nair says, it was done by culse Clerk Meengs, of the city streets and sewers department, who, I be Neve, stil! draws up the earwig con trol payroll’ | HOUSE-T0-HOUS ye n spreading sto- came out, | department | that | was covered with whisky. | The fatigue of the flyers, coupled with the delay in their arrival, caused by the northeaster that fanned their hines, made {t inadvisable for them to continue to Ivigtut, the next stop on their journey, and the point Lieu. Smith wished to reach if | Weather conditions and flying time |had permitted. | There ts no definite word indi- | (Torn to Page & Column 1) DIES IN SHAFT OF | ELEVATOR | Nail | Business Man Killed When | ° He Is Trapped Caught between the elevator and the shaft wall, H. L. Koetter, 55, of 2330 Shoreland drive, was instantly killed Friday at 315 Occidental ave. Koetter was secretary and treasurer jof the redwell Products company, at the same address. There were no witnesses to the ac- cident. Koetter was last seen alive | shortly after 11 a. m., when he took ~|some stencils from the factory room jon the second floor and said he was going up to the third floor. His body was found at 11:30 by | ries W. Moore, 1048 Thistle way, an employe of the Acme Transfer company, which occupies the first floor of the buildin: The elevator was halted between the second and third floors. Moore tried to use’ the lift, when he’ di covered the elevator jammed, with the body hanging partly in and part- ly outside the cage. Koetter is survived end a married daughter Two Men Abe Hurt by a widow in Elevator Fall : Two men were injured Friday | when an clevator on the new Medi- ‘cal building, at Westlake and Olive, fell five stories. CANVASS EXPOSED Andrew W. Freeland, 662 W. &2nd Kannalr told lis attdience that; st., hoist engineer, is in the city hos- “the county gang candidates, who | pital with a wrenched back and have used every meangpand effort |druises about the head. G. V. Quist, to camouflage their confection with |19, of 7720 82nd ave. N. W.. has a |the present county ring, had every | broken ankle. road boss and every member of the| ‘The men saiil they didn’t know how | road ‘employes making house-to-|the accident happened. They had house canvass in their behalf." jstarted down, after having taken Kannair then called attention to| some material to the fifth floor, At the alleged misuse of a $7,500 fund! first they thought the lift was being voted at the request of the city und | lowered normally, but when it the city horticulturist, for wig | reached the bottom it failed te stop | baiting purposes, in addition to the { (Turn to Page 4, Column 2) and the men were thrown t® the floor,