The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1924, Page 4

2 ayia a Ne BURGLARS TAKE STRONG 30x Loss in Downtown Theft Is Hundreds of Dolla: DRUG STORE HELD UP Three Other Burglars Flee in Hail of Bullets REAKING into th tee Union st carted strong and $1,000 that in it. The money | was half in cash and half tn check: v fe robbery was the first of fits kind in several weeks and is be lieved to bh game gang timised the Piggy here some time ago. The burglars gained entra the station by removin; one of the wind then unlocked an out ‘There was evider had every facility J Job, it was declared, as there Mo evidences of confusion place Nothing b Dy the burgiar Broken open Tered around. was re Ported found on Sind av near the city | 1 S ing. Police Beene to investigate Just before midnight 8 & lone bandit walked into the Hil ¢rest pharmacy, 480 Olive way, and Geolly commanded W. E. Moore tc turn over his cash. Moore gave him $45 and the bandit backed out of th the dark ¢ McKale serv station hth ave. safe robbers early Mon away the and | ay | box was mimitted by the | 80 consistently vie. Wiggly stores © been oe e safe was tou thees MAKES THREE FLEE Discovered while they were looting the Howell Bonness & Co., on Ninth Ave. and Howell st, at 4 o'clock Blonday morning, three burglars made thelr escape from a rain of bullets fired at them by Lacky Miller, watch Man at the Austin & Salt gymnas fum in the rear of the auto com pany. The burglars were lowering Automobile tires from the rear win. dow of the store to the alley when |“ Miller saw them. He called to them | to stop and began to fire. One man in the alley immediately started to/ Tun and the one in the building dis- | appeared. Miller called the police immediate. | Ty, but when the officers arrived no trace of the burglars could be found. ‘Three tires that were lowered to ‘the alley had been left there when the men fied. Much other stuff was 4m readiness in the store above to be Towered to the alley. Miller's dis-| covery is believed to have frustrated @ wholesale looting of the place. Desperadoes Kill surpassed the state's record ballot of Watchdog; Escape ipyroximately | GREEN CASTLE, Ind., Aug. 25. tial primary July 26. Bevyen prisoners from the Indiana State penal farm, being held here|Son @ for return to that institution, broke! Upon her Jail here this afternoon and escaped, |!ater in the day j The prisoners killed the sheriff's Gog for fear it would give the alarm. |#bide by the dictates of the people.” All seven, according to the sheriff, @re desperate characters and a battle | 4s expected if the posse overtakes them. | pn than words HERE’S MORE ABOUT | ‘have had an opportunity to observe from what other soon as STARTS ON PAGE 1 the telephone gouge There already has been appr Priated $25,000 for this purpose, Councilma: William Hickman Moore sald. Not all of it has been used.) APPROPRIATION } MOTION LOSES t Phil Tindall moved that the $25,-| form 000 be appropriated but this motion |, also lost. {i Unless the city council appropri-|t tes $25,000, Mayor Brown said that | success will be increased manifo! the will ask the voters to do it. | The mayor's statement ended the} fonference. Counciiman Ralph Nichols and W.| T. Campbell said that they would ‘vote any funds needed by Corpor-| ation Counsel T. J. L. Kennedy to considered the survey useless at this time. Councliman John E. Carroll moved that all city departments cut their Phone service 30 per cent. George Russell, superintendent of the water | department, offered an amendment that all service of the city be dis- continued. The motion lost. A committee consisting of E. L. Blaine, finance committee chairma Phil Tindall, utilities committee chairman, Corporation Coun-el Ken- Nedy and a few members of the board ©f public works will be appointed by the mayor to recommend course to pursue. HOW SAVING WOULD BE EFFECTED Babcock’s report charged that | there has been a huge amount of “dual expense” in construction of the | Present phone system. He declared | that the present plant ts a consolida- | tion of two separate systems and that | it embodies “uneconomic construc. | tion.” This sum amounts to $2 a station what | g Induction colls, receivers and trans mitters would be produced by a Se-| attle firm to eliminate the rental per petually paid for them to the trust | “#ldwell, T. Harry Gowman and R. | first |G. Emerson. by the local company. Babcock said that modern tele- Phone exchange equipment, semi-| @utomatic, is sold on the open mar-| Ket at $50 a line, which is about one- | sixth of the cost charged up by the privately-owned system. He also charged that the code. ringing, party-line system, naw used in Seattle, was “eliminated in the East 20 years ago.” This system only requires more supplies from the Western Electric Co., the manufac. turing department of the American | Telephone and Telegraph Co, ‘Auburn Holdups Escape With $50 Seattle police and sheriff's depu- ties failed to arrest the two ban. dite who held up and robbed Reed's Rasoline station at Auburn Sunday night. The bandits obtained be- tweon $49 and $60 cash. When last seen, the bandits were Feporied speeding toward Seattle. kept her tr Mrs, Ferguson Wins Texas D. Robertson of Dalla Miriam Ferguson of Temple, Texas. for nomination upon the basis of returns from Saturday's run-off pri | mary state's gave Mrs.’Ferguson a lea: 80,000 votes over the Klan candidate, according to tabulatt Texas election bureau at Sund Robertson 324,297, | reau officials today predicted a total vote of 850,000 when home at T said: | Search for Thieves | which the police, Monday, Push the phone fight, but that they !ns to so store, |broken in over the week end and | }large quantity of cookies and cakes were stolen ' boys the | weeks that the store has been robbed. |$12,000,000 More | American adjudged during August in negotia |tions between the United States and| Locatelli | German agent commission. of claims settled to $100,000,000. 35 Kiwanians to Monday evening for Walla Walla for ach year. the annual convention of the Pacific Northwest Kiwanis clubs, August JEAN FINALLY JOINS “BOBS” } Jean Marrey, famous i. ench movie the latest the ever-growing “bobbed-haired army.” Jean for a long time, but finally gave way to the This ix her first picture since she had t actre is recruit to barber's scissor her hair bobbe WOMAN DEFEATS GET READY FOR WELCOME Pershing and MacLaren Not to Come, They Wire KLAN'S CHOICE Governor Nomination 25.—Felix Klan candi conceded defeat by Mrs DALLAS, Texas, Aug. Two of the most noted of its ex ted gueats, John Pershing tiring commander of the United States army, and Maj. Stuart Mac Laren, wrecked British ‘round-the world flyer, wil! be unable to as Seat! welcoming Yankee world flyers. when they arrive bere next month. General Pershing on Monday sent his regrets and jed attentions to a speaking engagement in Ohio, made by the tember 31, and the n 10 o'clock | returning immediately ton, D. Maj. MacLaren, date, the gubernatorial artial democratic in Returns from 223 counti 252, Inctuding 67 out of the complete, of nearly Ser to Washing ight Mrs, Ferguson's vote, according to he latest tabulation, was 403,060 and | 'n Esquimalt, B.C, wired his ina Texas election bu- bility to attend Monday, stating that he has been called home to Engiand immediately. He regreted that he would be unable to congratulate his liow adventurers as he had hoped. Chamber of Commerce sponsor have raised $1,700 of the necessary $4,000 to provide the world flight monument at Sand Po! and the valuable finger ring» to be presented to the flyers when they 7s hare The Building and Managers’ association is the latest or now belug feted I returns are fn. Available returns have already 2,000 set in the ini Judge Robertson sent Mra. Fergu message of congratulation nomination Sunday and issued a statement he declared ‘1 will arriv here in which Seattle Owners In a ement issued Mrs. ganization to tu its assessed quota ir th 4. General subscriptions are also being received from individuals, The monument’s bronze wings and globe are being cast and the ¢ estal and base are being set up at th end of the Sand Point road Tentative arrangements look t September 1 ax the date on whict orld flyers may arrive here, but this date will proba have her states have time to|!ater in the month, it was announced learn the real purposes of the Kian, | Monday. ill do as Texas did Saturday} z and repudiate it keable. If it can be made to appear to he nation that the edmocratic p! condemning religious intoler ance means what everybody knows it does mean, emphatic opposition o the Klan, chances for democratic from Ferguson er n 100 per cent on mple, “The verdict Saturdey tells plainer what the people think Klux Klan after they of the Ku its workings and ‘Texas opportunity, more about Klan means than any : be in the Union, and as to net in terms unmis. HERE’S MORE ABOUT FLYERS STARTS ON PAGE 1 dian Harbor, then down the east coast of North America, with stops at Hawkes b Pictou bay, and then the arrival in Boston. At Pictou the two airman will be |joined by Lieut. Leigh Wade, third member of the globe-circling party were the clews with . . ve" Planning Base for | Yankees at St. John 8T. JOHN, N. B., Aug. 25.—Offi cers of the United States cruiser De. troit today were here making plans for the arrival of the American fly ers from Pictou. N. 8. Both st John and Hawkabury, N. F., } been added to the list of stops for |the flyers. Seamen expressed belief that the airmen would reach here before August 29. Locatelli Was Héld Austrian Prisoner BERGAMO, Italy, Aug. 26,—LAeut. had full confidence he of the mixed claims} would be able to complete his fight This brings the totai|t® America, according to a letter received b his mother here. | Locatelli was lost once before this when he overflew Fiume. He was officially reported missing when he suddenly showed up as a prisoner of the Austrians. IVERSON TO EAST SIDE Pe With Stomach Aches Stomach ach ve one robbery Grandma Cookie compan: at 1207 Dearborn st, was The The work is believed to be that of in the neighborhood. This is second time in the last three ve not in Claims Settled BERLIN, Aug. Two hundred claims against Germany, aggregating $12,000,000, have been Walla Walla Meet) Thirty-five Seattle Kiwanians leave 26 candidate for gov. to Iverson, }ernor, left Bremerton campaign the eastern part of the state, going to Yakima, Wenatchee, Spo | kane and Walla Walla. nd 26. The elected delegates are Hugh M Just What Does Happiness Mean to You! APPINESS—An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good of any kind. That's the way Mr. Webster describes the word. What is happiness to you? It takes #0 little to make some people happy and so much to make others happy. “Happiness” in the title and theme of a feature photoplay showing at the Pantages this week. It stars the former Seattle actress, Laur- ette Taylor. J. Hartley Manners is famous as a writer of Pollyanna stories. “Peg o' My Heart” was his story, and, of course, you know Laurette Taylor is his wife. We couldn't overlook this opportunity for a contest, so Manager Bostick of the Pantages and The Star have arranged a list of prizes. $50 in cash and a number of theater tickets—for letters on happiness. Come on, folks, let's board the Happiness Limited Keep your letters within 100 words and send them in right away to The Star Happiness Editor q Contest clones Friday, August 29, at 5 Dp. More about “Happin m. * tomorrow. easity of his| anite ped JUST GELUDED CHILDREN Such Is Darrow’s Plea for Lives of Killers BY EDWARD ¢ CKIMINAL Aug. 26 DERR COURTROOM ¢ cago, Two children, wan dering around in a nightmare world, | the sport of blind forces—this was up by defense at the lives of the picture conjured chief his plea for Nathan Leopold and Richard confessed stayerw of 14-year-old ert Franks. They are just two imperfect chines, lacking the ance thelr superior intellects, com mitting various crimes with the mur der of Bobby because today ence Darrow torney, in Loeb, Rob ma emotions to bal nature fatled fectly, Darrow told Chief Jobn R, Cayerly in his final argu ment to save the boys from the gal lows to build per Justic one can conclude, after a f this case on the act itself. that diseased intellect ponsible for this terrible act,” row began Loeb, Darrow said, was given too [much opportunity by wealth Dickie's governness, Darrow said drove him along the line of learn jing, forcing him to books be yond his years, Due to her severity eb forced practice subterfuge. secret study exe is re Dar- and restraint, 1 was to In he detective stories, This diet of crime stories made a profound easion on his life. Childhood is filled with de sions imy declared Y childhood Darrow had ave I ur ho out trend |take ts not caused by the boy if but t things that Betore neck honor ha and #0 h But, ye that t nor, T want to point people influ I'd hang a of a boy, I'd my of ch nced b the try to member days dhood.”* | Driver Rushes Victim to Hospital, Already Dead | 69, wh Buchmann 1016 was killed nm Mra. Lissette Bixth ave. N auto of Charles C th Gowman ho | Sixth ave Bunday Pierce drove his car at |speed thru the city’s atreets to th Mrs. cr ar released on his Inquiry lent by | breakneck Buchmann ompital, bt was ad when he | Pleree p> ce had was per after an made into the a He « became c med fused |the coroner's office. |Mrs. Buchmann when she saw his car a caching. Witnesses of the dent, how way Pierce wan driving at exceasive rate of speed Mrs. Bu is husban ac eve an survived by Buchman: Kren he daughte Firat 16 W {Fourth ave Three Aocnaiel as Drunken Drivers held jail charges while drunk his automobile at Westlake Sunday night was answering a } 7 were | Monday in f ba lot driving automobile: C. R. Stables drove into # police patrol and Virginia, sta, |while the patrol ree men in call Officers, E. F. Hawkinson G. R. Arnold placed Stables arrest and took him to the J. ¢ Wolf was ed and Pine . by Sea and and J.C. The same officers Bergstead at Ninth lon a similar charge. ‘TO PROBE DEATH Killing of Woman in Queen | Anne investigated and nder arre: Sergea Patrolman Edgar Wilson Al at arrested and Olive are Inquest into the death Sat jurday night of Mrs, August Buch jmann, 59, 1016 Sixth ave. N., who struck by an auto on Queen J Anne hill, will be held |morning at 10 o'clock, it nounced Monday by the coroner Mrs. Buchanan was crossing Tay }tor st. at Aloha ave, when she was I struck by an auto driven by Charles S. Pierce, clerk at the Hotel mann Witnesses declared that jwas traveling about 30 miles |hour when the accident occurred He says he was going but 23 miles an hour. Pierce was booked for thé acci dent to the coroner. was was an Gow and released Dabney Hampton: Family Wants You xtously waiting in Farmington, New Mexico, for Dabney A. Hampton, an e@x-service man, who said last April |that he was coming home to see them. The Red Cross chapters in Se: attle is making an effort to locate Hampton. During April he had made state ment to different people, once that he was going to the state of Wash ington, another that he was going to | mother on April 2nd, he would go to | Farmington. His suitcase arrived a few days after the letter but no word has been received from him Hampton was stationed on the Panama Canal during the war. He is 41 years old. Any information con cerning him can be sent to the Red Cross, EL jot-2432. France Asks Loan of $150,000,000 Aug rance wants 000,000 from America its equivalent in credits [ing to the diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph It is the correspondent's standing that American tives are already b on the subject, under representa- Ne approached hi | Franks as the cimax, | WOMAN KILLED Wednesday | | Two kiddies and a mother are an-| Something Different | Why Can’t Bandits Be Original Once in a While and Give Us a Chance to Print a Story Like This? EE) | BY JIM MARSHALL mwo ble band! to th " bank a bollerful of raspbe Hghtfully, over i ate ald th | r of Parin | the ashie jam with some There is safe but of taking it? ¥ in on some tom I wish what 4 just ines it y'd be more If vd I'd t of guns ) as persuaders this thought y t ha ught nd ammuniti bre bandits are Wow! le the street | "You ¢ guard that delusions | Forty-two Paintings pleaded the Upponed up in arms mmy y ippore ha pea give © car me years. I've 1915 Lin ng time Aw, what's wered car wr Aw Mit, fu right ea dlffere by American Artists Will Be Seen at Exhibit bee 4 the contractor pects to hay building inclor witht On the will be 3 the te of the aisie, which and feet found Power and show electrically kitchens at 170 Puget Co. will od bedroome, living banements ms, dair BANK OPENS IN NEW HOME Imposing Structure Ready for Business The agsociation. Monday new Second and t 10 o'clock, vi " that nk of California, N opened for bi jon: wines 816 m 7 1 be re in tts ome at night fre rs Ww ave until elved they tr spect the hh appol nveniences which bave been installed for the accommoda of customers and to fac the handling of the work | The new building ts. located in jthe heart of the financial district of the city in the block where the Bank of California has maintained its place of business for the past 20 years | Architecturally, it is remarkably imposing and attractive while in ita arrangement many of the jatest | developments in banking equipment |have been provided | The bank's capital, surplus and undivided profits are more than $17,000,000 and its total resources exceed $10,000,000 The officers of the Seattle branch are 8. White, manager; Godfrey L. Wakeman, Leon F. Macklem, Jo. C. Glass, Robert B. Snowd Walter A. Heath, assistant: managers Civil War Veteran Topples Over Dead Cyrus Miller, 80-year-old clvil war veteran, dropped dead at his home near Green lake Saturday noon while eating a light funch. Mr, Miller had | never a doctor until last year when he had the “flu.” He took a long walk Saturday morning and re ttirned home hungry, Death from heart failure came instantly as he raised a piece of toast to hie mouth He has lived at Green lake 19 years | Mr, Miller was born at Smithville, Ohio. He served as a prison guard in Company C, 128 Ohio Volunteers, |during the civil war. He came here jfrom Dixon, Ill, He" had lived at 2 N. 64th st. 19 years, and w 1 member of Stephens Post, G. A. f Mr. and Mrs, Miller celebrated their golden wedding anniversary May 12, |last. ‘Three children, Aris L. Miller, and many « tion same on, and | Long Beach; he had also written his} Arthur P. Miller, and Mrs. Mary L.| | Deeter survive he funeral was to be o'clock this afternoon Libel Dismissed, | | Butter Given Back | Re-examination of 280 pounds of | butter seized by the United States | marshal's office aa deficient in milk {fat show that “it is now not de | ficient” it 18 set forth in a federal j court motion to turn over the un. |Iabeled butter to the claimant, the | Spring Creamery Co. The action was taken, the motion | added, recommendation of L. D, Elliott, acting chief of the Seattle |station, U. 8. Hureau of Chemistry | Neterer dismissed the libel against | tho butter and ordered It surrender- led to the claimant, held at 3 barnes | ngs. The build lighted by mminated by « Ughts, A and will be con when one and most at unds for the had the Interstate fair, Oregon State of thene art ex But this gers of the other two to spend more ng nd lost yeu ¢ f the at fal Spokane, and the in bringing or hibits into the > year the mar dectd orthwest fairs money a nts and less on art (CHICAGO SCOURGED WITH MILLIONS OF PESKY MOSQUITOES IC, Ave ~Measures were being prepared today to combat the scourge of mosqui toes which descended on Chicago uburbs following re cent heavy rains City officlais of several suburbs have kerom Go, north marshalled which 1 be covered. yesterday were denerted humans or Jed by occasional players who walked nervously with mos- quito netting hanging from their hats and constantly waved hand. kerchiefs before them. YOUTHS CLEARED Robbery Suspects Victims | of Mistaken Identity | shore supplies of stagnant waters w If links by | Fred Larson and Ray Miller, two youths arrested Friday night 2: Jsuspects in the robbery of a gro- cery store at 422 Broadway, in| which M. A. Thomas proprietor, | shot in the leg, were exoner. ted Monday and released from the} city jail | T was vomas and Mrs, Margaret Saun Broadway, who was in e at the time of the hold. declared Friday night they were live that the suspects were the robber, 1. of Detectives Charles Ten. | and Deputy Prosecutor Bert said Monday that it was a of mistaken identity, and that boys had clearly proved their innocence Both youths Fourth and Jackson, the eftair Man Takes Blame for Having Dope Williams | ee cane Ithe were captured © at shortly after Gu co-defendant has ple guilty and assumed all responsibility for the purchase of a package of morphine, it was pointed jout in a motion of the district at torney offlee Monday, for dismis sal of charges ninst Laura Davis. The motion was granted by Federal |Judge Jeremiah Neterer | The charged under four allases—Laura Williams, Mar giret Kelso, C. R. Kelso and Ethel Wilcox, VALLEY CLUB TO MEET | The Rainier Valley Commercial jelub will hold its regular meeting at |the Columbia branch library Tues day, August 26, at § p.m. All| members are urged to attend, as everal pressing problems will be discussed woman was GRUNBAUMS HOME . Grunbaum, treasurer of the| Grunbaum Bros. irniture Co., and) femily have returned from a} | month's tour of California M Leading American brands of ex.! port patent flour are welleatabiisted | on the German market, at Western State Fair’ | welcoming demonstrat thal park will | shine whiskey WIND FREAK |KANNAIR RAPS OPPONENT Shows Large Sums P Brown by County d aid JAP 1S INJURED Crushed Against Truck by Runaway Automobile 1 wa mile half a windstorm barrel when a came along, picked it up and whirled it thru the The barrel lit, open-side down, on top of the pole A strange\s prank of nature, but if you'* : have doubts about it, go to|,. Rye Beach, N. H., and see for yourself. The away was air He v t DENBY 10 SEE voung to Accent SHIPS HERE : Navy Secretary Coming for Inspection Trip fir his F part of a x ships. Most next steatn H of t of nations. ure of host ac Jay and their be the of Commerce vitles. | 145 officers of the wives | be taken ursion on Mount of the & series of ,Complains ‘Against Customs Officials off av eane — rabbit a sight-seeing ex Rainier, ¥r Navy Denby’ a coma. Secretar pine ves for * at 5 Point wi ficers spe f ts and fowls reached § navy the nigh the s says that he was nd customs officials to re them 1 9 a. m. Monday ock was without food or water time, as had not said able enlisted men The New Mexico, A. Wiley’s fags see and Maryland wi thruout the week, w n¢ ma, Nevada which Mond. ws of the lease The s during anticipated the delay that he he nsylvania Tacoma and moved over om Local Woman Dies at Brainbridge Island Seattle Aw Cc. Cla: to Taco. week's entertainment Aroostoo! plane mother ship, now leaves for the South. It to sail for the § about September to E. J. Friedlander. farewell to steamed over and Idaho bad Sunday and ma for a the plane Byer 48,. for many attie, died at home at land, weeks and air at Camp the fleet six ts scheduled d a1 two hern rendezvous | daug & by a former marriage, to 3, according |Edna and Cisley Muir. Two sisters, of m-|Mrs. Margaret Allen, Seattle, and ber's f) committee Mrs. Bessie Clay, Alberta, Canada, After a two-day stay In San Fran. /and a brother, Jamcs Rowbottom, of cisco bay, the battleships will pro. | Manchester, England, also are liv ceed south to Los Angeles ing. The funeral wil] be held at 10 -_—- a. m. Wednesday, at the Butt h u ‘ Use Marked Money fitrmrus Pat conny to Trap Citizen Marked money proved the down. | fall of Ralph Smothers, proprieter of | the Bothell garage at Bothell, late | Watch Sons Drown Sunday, according to William Whit TACOMA, Aug. —Drowned as ney, assistant federal prohibition |their parents looked on helpless, was director, when agents arrested him | the tragedy enacted here late Sun- after purchasing one pint of moon.|4ay afternoon when two boys, Billy nes, 8, and Frank Jones, 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jones of this Smothers, who is lodged at the im-/city, overturned in a canoe on Lake migration station pending arraign-|/Spanaway Mr. and Mrs. Jones ment, was found to have a cache of| watched their struggles from the liquor at his establishment and one/shore. Frank Jones, 18, a cousin and one-half gallons of the same I-|of the boy s, in the canoe quor was found, it is charged | with them, wa wim to shore. he ch in Parents, Helpless, sons After the purchase, they claim, who was On the Trail Rainier National reached via Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. New National Park Limited leaves 7:30 a.m. Carries Cafe-Observation and Parlor Cars through to Ashford, Another train at 12:15 p.m. with Dining Car to Tacoma. Seattle - Paradise and returf $10.00 City Ticket Office 2nd and Madison Phone: Elliott 6800