The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1924, Page 1

v Howdy, follist Gosh, great to be back at Lykell! Lykellt but it's | the office, Lykell! We simply can't go on with this| colyum, Here 3 o'clock and the offic b ly refuses to} bring us a cup of t | There is only one thing wrong with | Vancouver Island. The dc place persists in revolving a and around. ee . RECORD CLAIMED! Homer G. Brew, who has just returned froma tour of Vancou ver island, tod nt inthe fol. | be filed with Tourists four the ed being as f 1, Driving 700 miles without ac quiring a single sticker on his wind. | shield. 2. Flivvering for two weeks with. out wearing a green eyeshade. 3. Building « camp fire in 35 min- utes flat. { 4. Driving past one (1) government | liquor store without stopping. asyociation. |} ch record: ows The women’s auxiliary of the Fliv- ver Tourists’ association is thinking action against Mra, Homer She refused to wear the of-| ficial insignia of the order—a lace boudoir cap. . Boy! Boy! Where's’ my cup of tea? . One of the popular Canadian cig arets is named the Stroller. They « *em that because you'd stroll a mile for one of ’e wot? } C06 GRAPHIC SECTION Exclusive photo- graph of H. G. Brow, famous world tourist, rub- bing arnica on gi) gantic blisters which were raised in British Colum- bia hoisting heavy | goblets of sarsparilia. ‘The problem of windshield stick- | ers has been ingeniously solved by | one flivverist. His windshield being completely covered with stickers, he uses a periscope while driving. | cee = | To the Boss: How in heck can you expect me to work |} without my cup of tea? If a | cup of tea is not brought to me | within the next five minutes, | | 1 just know I shalt scream. | | | —H. Brew'| | % —x! 7. | Well, anyway, as soon as we get our vacation bills paid, we'll start | some new ones for Christmas. | one YE DIARY (August 24) 1 (Lord's day.) Up betimes, and aid | call loudly for cracked ice and ‘phon, | and did mix = cooling drink of parsnip | wine, the last I shall see for many months, alas! And so did leave Vic- toria, and did drive to Sydney, and there | by ferry to Anacortes, and so to home, weeping and wailing that I needs must | return to work, but my wife did sny,| “Why, worry about something you know | nothing about?” And so high words between us, and anon did arrive home, and did find that my wife did leave the | gas burning during our absence, and so more high words between as. But by and by friendly enough, and she did even) refrain from words when she did find | I had left the ent a can of condensed milk, which was foolish enough, heaven | knows, but the neighbors did feed it, #0 no hrm done. Anon to bed. | ra If the summer only lasts a few weeks longer, or white flannel} trousers can be used as our dark winter suit. . Boy, hurry up with that cup of) teal How do you expect me to work| without my afternoon teaf And bel @ good chapple, and run down and buy me a copy of “Punch.” That's} the old pep-pep, a8 you say down in tho States. | . ‘winter 1s fast approaching, and apartment house janitors are already practicing throwing blocks of ice into the furnace, see After returning from one’s vaca- tion, one feels fine physically, but weak financially. eee WELL, WELL, well! Back again and nothing has changed! THE SMITH brothers need a LI'L GUE Gee Ss sneaking her hourly smoke in the cloak room. THE LITTLE buil 's contentedly chewing om @ few of Doc’s latest eches. “ND OLD Joo Bangstarter {s still oe It’s a quiet world, Binet Cay he. tonight Temperature Last Maximum, 77 The Noachener With the Bigg est Circulation ir Minion ~The Seattle M1 Hours Wash od as ase Matter ATTLE, To Wed Atop the World Young Seattle SaEee, With Pastor, Climb Rainier for Wedding Ceremony WASH., MONDAY, AUGUST 1924, 1 Washing Star DOLLAR PHONES URGED!\ rton PrinceShy :| Girls Sigh lWales Doesn't Dance on Way to America ae cena , CHARLES W # ~—- MEASURED TALK I$ PROPOSED IN BROWN PLAN Telechronometer Official | Mayor’s Engineer ers |OUTLINES SERVICE COST |Mayor Asks for $25,000 to 4 Make Complete Survey | OP Nenhe its own telephone system and far | nish users with service for Sl a | month, Garrison Babcock, tele phone engineer and rate expert, told city officials in an anti phone trust conference Monday tabcock, who has furnished Ma. Brown with on telephone iceet a 7 hone com > fe ameter SUTTON these strc the 5 t ald hin data stand so as nd mpa t an posit He rat : , 1 cars’ expe from th telephone ¢ ments. pan Measured service, or metered | uy phones, can be provided much ’ more cheaply than the present b ‘unlimited service” system, Bab- There cock said, . t I P t He nald a measured phone sys tem, fully standardized, can be constructed at a 40 per cent low er cost than replacement of the present system would cost. “In the construction of a munic ant, Seattle money will remain |Meattle, and the Nort [dollar will buy what $1 of which goes t nd New York,” Bat | ‘The Kilbourne and Cl | Manufacturing Co., of §& | cock wtruction a p ng depart:| th pecial nu: be in addit on deck been ¢ nge suit so far wearing it he gave dis th p, even at when an by owded ball r ng without dane! now is . niment San ite | ASK $25 A MONTH) 'Tell Citizens City Refused (SHE SOLD HER BABY | FOR $300 BECAUSE | SHE WAS DESTITUTE © COPS, FIREMEN REFUSE PAY RAISES Won't Accept Council Offer Committee Says Request for Increase HOME ON EDIT! ) x § Mil * 7 Flyers Saved From Deat N BOARD . 8. RICH «Adrift in WO CENTS IN SEATTLE, Found Ice. h by U.S. Warship After Motor Forces Sea Landing Ss MOND, Aug. Lieut Loca- telli, the missing Italian a ator, ead his three flying ipanions, were rescued by the Richmond at 11:30 o'clock last night. The American cruiser came upon the airmen 125 miles east of Cape Farewell, Greenland, and all were very fatigued from their harrowing experiences in the icy sea. “Motor trouble forced us down,” Locatelli explained. “We made desperate efforts to mak do it. We have drifted, I figu Secause he did not wish to i the American vessels, destroyed. Locate Lieut. Loca the plane rise, but it wouldn’t re, at least a hundred mile: mpose any further trouble upon li ordered his great machine MAYOR TAKES A HAND IN CASE } nted them by the com H —- 2 eof the. ally Locatelli carried rockets in But Discovers Nothing and ne 2 he used in attractin . . : Drops Investigation policemen de WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Lieu-| TRY EX-COP TUESDAY i of $26 peritenant Locatell Italian aviator, will who has been miss since TI " e ter of $ has been picked up by the v.|Police Prober Tells Brown wv th nond, off the coast of ‘ the arniy ald eertiok sea What He Knows official): here today A L naval reead A! HETHER or not four Seattle pe Soe gh stated policemen were guilty of un- the Picked up jgue leniency in their failure to ar- on st night. rest former-policeman Ed Pielow 1 pa whatey ch read: last week, will be brought out at Saisie 5 the cedar c “Locatelli found lat long.|Pielow’s trial Tuesday, Mayor T have heen rmed that tax-|39:48. Sighted 2324 (11:24 p. m)/Brown said Monday. : a hava teen told firemen Embarked passengers. 1 well.” After police had failed to arrest polices « the initiative) The latitude and longitude stated|Pielow for driving his car into petit for signatures on the |in the message is just off the west|three other machines, near Eighth jrequirements that the city o }|Coast of Greenland, according to ni nd University, a warrant was is- hadt 4 down requests for higher] Val of: s. ued for Pielow by Police Judge yy" irman Blaine said. | The finding of the Italian flyer,| Jacob Kalina. Pielow is accused of said, is prepared furnk telephone equipm: ery respect an satisfac produ in | Chicago or New York = | MAYOR WANTS Ice on Mount Shasta Again | $25,000 SURVEY ithe eonference . was attended “by Goes on Rampage |the mayor, the board of bli | works, members of the city council, xfcCLOUD, Cal, Aug t the mayor's advisory board and ghasta’s east or in Corporation Counsel T. J. L. Ken-/again, pouring a torrent of mud and | nedy. ashes thru Mud canyon, smearing | The mayor told the conference|the flats with a n coating of ae that favored appropriation of) slime darkenin; the water of It! U be quite a come-down for Harrey Buumanatetn and ” 000 is Rey ms ceenaate at oe tia ad, Pitt and Sacramento | eattle’s telephone need | rivers Miss L. Maude McConnell of Seattle, after they're married |* oe cost of constructing ‘a.municipal|’ The Moclou3 River raliroad was | this week. They're going to say “I do” atop of Mount) piant blocked today. ‘Traffic was | Rainier. They left Monday, taking the minister along, and| Councilman Ralph Nichols ques-| paralyzed quantities of silt | will return, married, later in the week, after a short honey-| tioned the authority of the city|/have slid down upon the Bartle | council to appropriate the money. road, | moon at Paradise Inn. | | | reports, Jin saying that no Increase had been| "I do not believe that we can eee 66XJOTHING like starting married; Blumenstein fs a rallway. mall sot aaiGe is oeeay £0) server 2) Marcon Skeptical life with a downhill pull,”! clerk, running on the Great North-| business from which we are x agreed Harvey R. Blumenstein and|ern fast mail between here and Beret from engaging,” Nichols About Mars Radio | “ s ™ mk LISBON, Portugal, Aug. 25 Miss L. Maude McConnell Monday.| Spokane. Miss McConnell 1s em-| *#! i They set out for Paradiso inn| ployed by the G. J. Bauer Co, 1329} The question was put up to Ken-|signor Marconi, inventor of wire with the object of climbing, to the| Fourth ave.. Her home is in Well-|N0dy, who answered that the money |icay telegraphy, refused to “listen | |top of Mount Rainier. There, one|man, Iowa. The couple met there| Could be spent onty Indirectly, such} iny on Mars, because, ho sald “| pra thia week, the Rev. J. W. Han-|four years ago. ‘Two years ago|®# “to furnish tnformation to fight/ dont believe the planet is habit eet of 7514 Orin court, will marry | Miss McConnell came west (Turn to Page 4, Column 1) able.” them. They took Mr. Hannum along | MOU Yet Pie with them for that purpose, and| GAVE THEM ID) A : Mr. Hannum’s 14-year-old daughter; Tho young couple went up the | mountain in June. as Camp Muir. It was there they got the idea of climbing to the {tip of the peak and being married PR ox of the world.” | The Rainier National Park Co.| helped them with the plans. They ‘Tuesday and be back in Seattle, as Mr. and Mrs. Blumenstein, later in the week. Coroner Investigates Crash at Newcastle Shaft The young couple will make their ‘ONE DEAD, ), ONE HURT home, temporarily, at 126 Second aye. N. THOMAS P. REVELLE United States district attorney and candidate for ‘Men Buried | Under Shower of Rocks and Coal Re attendant: ascending as far will_ be the be the bride's Tom Revelle Crashes Gate And Wins First Place Monday in The Star’s Hall of Fame ICHE No. 7 in The Star’s Hall of day the bust of 3 fame received Mon- the | Neer | PRISON BREAK || republican nomination for the governorship. s | Saturday The Star threw open the hall to any gover- Two Convicts Swim Thru} ship candidate who would answer these questions: Fiume to Freedom Just how much in dollars and cents, will you re- duce taxes? SALEM, Ore., Aug. 25.—Priso! ft t, P ot eaniies ‘adey iware tacking How will you accomplish this? ‘The coroner's cues regis cave-in| traces of Tom Murray, Florence When will you accomplish it—that is: On what Oh en ee esatl Coat Car ne(bank robber, and Eugene Kidder, | date will taxes have been reduced by a_ certain at the Pacific Coast Coal Co's mine) iteves sentenced to 10 years, who| at Newcastle Saturday night whic hee sped from ‘the: penltentlary.yes,|| , amount? eae Sea ay vit. Brea|terday by swimming thru a power Mr. Revelle wins an extra bay wreath by not being | pers, 46 AER, aeaihentant rok ber tang extravagant in his estimates. He promises merely to ‘The men wero at work in thelswam under water where the stream || SVE $7,000. mine when coal and rocks from the wall and root fell, Mattico was buried under the debris and instant- ly killed. Berg was hit by smaller rocks and badly bruised. Under the direction of M. A. Mor-|and Ed Davis, gan, mine superintendent, the other| Friday night. The Star regards this as being more hopeful than large promises by others to “save millions.” Here’s what Revelle says: I will reduce the cost of state government. 1, By example, I will insist upon eliminating from the executive |] budget every item of cost unnecessary. 1 will drive the same charac- workers immediately began to dig - || ter of car as governor that I have been accustomed to drive, costing a ® | 0 2, » $7,000 saved thus, could be used toward ictim out. It was necessary not to exceed $2,000, The $7, 8, 2 to, construct ‘a. protection for’ the Cyclone Kills 8 reopening the Women's Industrial home. rescuers to guard against further in Little Church)] 2. 1 wit consolidate all overlapping offices and remove from the ST. PATRICKS, La. Aug. 26 state payroll all unnecessary or useless officials and employes. Sweeping down from a calm aky iate|} 3. 1 will cut @nt all favoritism and patronage in the purchase of yesterday, a cyclone demolished St. supplies and work done for the state. Philip's hail in which a church en 4, Lowill veto every measure and every part of # bill that has the tertainment and dance was being|| smell of pork or that is not actually needed for the advancement of held, killed eight persons and injured]| the interest of all. more than @ score, CTE CARICOM eC ER REA O went#under the prison walls Murray was one of tHo six pris- oners who made a sensational es- cape last March, Two other convicts, Guy White have escaped since more than an hour's work. He wan) single and lived at Newcastle. Berg's injuries were not serious. Tho victim's body was at the King county morgue Monday. §_ jra | sald their | Officers actual situation. uncil raised the minimum pay of firemen and policemen from $135 to $150 per month. Other grades re- celved a $10 per month increase. of both departments were raised $5 per month. However, if the firemen and policemen are not satisfied with the council's action, I am ready to introduce an initiative dinance putting the entire ques- on up to the voters. Gallagher, when informed said the petition circulators from their standpoint correct ix not the were granted. “We asked the council for h as a minimum an equitable wage,” said. “We asked that we the full amount or noth per to mi wage provide Gallag be given ing. We anything loss. That 1s why the boys made the statement that we had not| been granted any pay increase. Wel told the council we would take our petition to the voters if quests wero refused. we are doing.” When informed that Blaine would] introduce an Initiative ordinance} putting tho question of the $25 up to the voters, he believed the committee of firemen and policemen would be satisfied with that and withdraw] petition. House Is Engulfed by Bog in Ireland} LONDON, Aug. 25.—A moving hog in North Cork thas engulfed a} farm house and threatens to merge an entire village, A man named Michael Collins, re. gardiess of his own safety, ran across the moving mass and warned sub. }a family in sufficient time for them |to flee. He carried an inyalid girl in his arms for severat miles. |Passenger Missing When Liner Docks NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—Johann Braun, retired merchant of Port- land, Ore, was missing when the Albert Balling arrived yester- day from Germany. Boat offic said his disappearance was August 14 Braun, with his wife| and son, visited Germany where it! was hoped the man might recover| from fits of melancholia, He had often hinted at taking his own life, his wife said, of the|* Gallagher | noted | |who became lost while accompany ing the American world flyers in a perilous hop from Iceland to Green- land Thursday afternoon, |pursued by United airplanes and than three days. | The cruisers were running short of fuel oil Just as Locatelli was found. It was feared by the offi- cials here the hunt might have to bandoned by most of the cruis- before many hours. The Americans probably will 0 Indian Harbpr, Labrador, td- night and the Richmond, rescued castaways, should t the Labrador coast about time States cruisers, morrow with her arrive the & The tim is taken to |time which is ef American ated be in the dispatch Greenwich mean considerably ahead time. Greenwhich are not ready to accept |time has been used in previous dis-| the patches. “WORLD FLYERS AT IWIGTUT ‘One More Flight and Ameri- | cans Will Be on Continent | HALIFAX, N. s, Aug ica’s round-the-world just one hop from the North Amer- ican contnent today as they pause to change motors at Ivigtut, Green }land, The next flight will take them to Indian Harbor, Labrador. The two flyers—Lieut. Lowell Smith and Lieut. Eric Nelson—ar. rived at Ivigtut yesterday, after a speedy, uneventful trip from Fred. jeriksdal. The flyers hopped off 1:50 p. m,, T., and arrived at Ivigtut at 4:09 p.m, G, M. T. From Ivigtut they will sail to In- (Turn to Page 4, Column 3) 5.—Amer irmen are Japan May Change TOKYO, 25.—Rumors to the effect that the United States im |migration law may causo a re- orientation of Japan's entire foreign policy were discredited today by Herr Solf, German ambassador to Japan, in an interview with the United Press Ambassador Solf sail he believed the effect of the law would be super- ficial and would not dooply affect Japanese policies abroad, Aug had been | metorboats for more | ac | get | at} Her Foreign Policy| |reckless driving. | Mayor Brown called K. L. Webb, |chatrman of the police" and fires “investigating committee” n is making a probe of the dent, before him Monday to learn what the committee had found | “I learned that the jhad not discovered any new facts in the affair,” the mayor said. “An investigation is being made by Po lice Chief Severyns and I believe at all the facts will be brought Jout when Pielow is brought to trial, committee “I think the incident has been fover-rated. All that was found was some broken glass in Pielow's car Janda thet is not evidence of law vio- latior | Following the conference, Webb refused to make any statement |whatever. He declined to discuss voluntary investigation of the Piclow affair, | “Let the mayor give out any ement,” Webb. said "KID" RESPITED McCoy Wins Delay; Mother Reported Dying | | | Aug. 25,—Kid the layer of his ninth love, LOS ANGELES, |acCoy, accused as Mrs. Theresa Mors, today escaped for another few day jthe necessity of pleading to the |charge against him. | Continuance of the argument, jasked by Defense Attorneys Knick- Jerbocker and Davin, wag granted by Superior Judge Crail, and Thurs- day, at 9:30 a. m., was designated as the hour when McCoy must plead. Some time during the day McCoy may be taken to the bedside of his mother, Mrs, Mary E. Selby, 6, who is reported dying of heart trou- ble, brought on by her son's difficul. The “Kid” was despondent and apparently crushed in his cell to. day, his own predicament, added td his mother’s condition, proving dis: heartening. He pleaded for a chance to see her, and authorities |were arranging to take him to her |bedside this afternoon, under heayy | guard, ie her physicians permit, CASH AND CLOCK TAKEN Thieves Sunday night broke into the home of Mrs. W. R, Morgan, stealing $12 In cash and @ check, Entrance was gained thru a window, | 1]