The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 2, 1924, Page 1

If You Missed Starting “Nameless River” Yest terday, Turn to It Now; Page Twelve | WEATHER dably with rain to. derate Minknum, 54 noon, 56. { Meeker’ s Plane on C'Wakcto Omatea to Oia Here is Exra Meeker as he started two different trips across the continent, following, in the old Oregon trail, In like he did in 1858 when he crossed the plains with his In the other he ts shown wat des he started back over the trail by with Lieut. Oakley G.| Howdy, folks! Another good | Kelly, bound for Dayton, O., where thing about gum chewing is that you can learn it in a few'easy | M¢ “Wl witness the Pulitzer alr races lessons at home. and a, shake hands with the| das Yother Hubtaid re My, x9 peda rth Int Wun 4a the rd to Seatlle for The Star Sunday. | himaclf a drink; Wearing a fiyer’'s helmet, jacket,! > But when he got there, goggles and parachute, the veteran | The cupboard was bare, adventures is all set for the trip, Be Re took one from the eink. | 14 wading forewell to Mre.' Kelly, wife of his pilot. FAMOUS INVENTORS ‘ Phineas J, Halibut, who has just patented an explosive coin that will blow up the telephone-box after the fifth wrong number. | is an unlucky day for get married, says a university pro-| feasor Why pick on Frid es CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB Husband who wipes off his shoes on his wife's new silk stockings. o- A guy we wish Oregon Trail Blazer Forsakes Oxeri TOY) sometaay a muse | Lieut. Kelly’s. Airship A cross word puzzle. | oie 6 { CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. ajhours of flying time. Meeker, veteran trail maker of the|and his aged 5 ‘The airman enger will arrive SUE EN. = SAS =" ; ~ ; West, and Lieut. Oakley Kelly de-|at Daytcn Saturday if thelr achedule LG » “ICE " “J Isn't is “wéndorfal to: think at 30 a. m. today, after spending | Cheyenne, Wyo., this morning, an | that Hiram Johnson will at Iast | | 55 minutes here. go on to North Platte, Neb., this | get a chance to pitch in a World | | Meeker and Kelly are en route|afternoon. The next stop will be| from Portland, Ore., * — | at Dayton, Ohio. rs see POCATELLO, Ida., route to the international to the air races | Rantoul, Ill. and then Dayton. Lieut. Kelly will returg from Day ton next week, but Meeker hopes to obtain from President Coolidge per | mission to ride on to Washington Oct. 2. Roland Pothier is being tried in Tacoma for a murder committed six alr races years ago. When this case is ffm.|at Dayton, O., Ezra Meeker, 93-year * ished, David, it is expected, will be|old Seattle pioneer, was to depart | ¢—@———————————— indicted on charges of killing Go-|from here today on the second lap Vath 1o¢ his flight across the continent as || MEEKER, REPORTED Sign on the Back of = Ford: "THE ONE HORS! Y passenger with Lieut. Onkiey G. | <elly, famed transcontinental flyer. | Meeker is following back over the | trail he traversed by ox team and covered wagon in 1852, with the first | | group of Oregon \settlers. He began | | his journey Wednesday, at 9:57 a. m., DYING A YEAR AGO, NOW FLYING EAST! UST a year ago, Ezra Meeker, 93-year-old pioneer, was re ported to be dying. Today he ts’ somewhere between Rose M - ned} ‘omi: to the * Metropsiitan Bunday te called “Lls-|**, Vancouver barracks. Pocatello, Idaho, and Cheyenne, tk Jens Jame: ‘0, Hortense, the} Lieut. Kelly, commander of the|| wyo, making « cross-country Taian 9 Ps poy mm ’ coat | 2¥iation field at the barracks, circled }} ¢r45 in an airplane with Lieut. ‘ease ra J his plane over the city once, then || Oakley G. Kelly, transcontinental oe: headed straight up the Columbia | yop . ae Ee | river. They made the flight to THE HUNTER Bolxe, Idaho, in 3 hours and 16 min- | I'd love to go hunting, j utes, averaging 120 miles an hour Says Reginald Meggs, miles a day was fast progress || on, For several days the old iis only the quail would Meeker first covered the dis-|) ¢raitpiazer was very low, but on Stop biting my legs. | ance October 25 he was up and “doing Meeker was stricken II! the mid- dle of last October with a cold, which later developed into influ hen OLMSTED SENT TO BALLARD Severyns Shakes Up Depart- ment With Charges ECHO OF OLD TROUBLE | 'Chief Says Changes Are but |.) Routine Shifts CHOES of the conflict which shook the police department last spring were revived Thurs- day at headquarters when it be- | came known that Chief of Potice |W. B. Severyns had started an- | other shake-up, — transferring Capt. Ralph W, Olmsted to Bal- | tard precinct, Capt. Claude G. | Bannick to West Seattle, Lieu. €. Carr to Ballard and Lieut. D, J. Drew to West Seattle, to the contrary, Severyn jup a rumors persist that action was taken to break | certain clique of officers at }of Olmsted from headquarters js the! final chapter of a victory won last In spite of emphatic official denial | The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington TTATHER OF BOY'S. PAL GETS BOND Says Green Should | Not Be Held Re- sponsible in Fatal Auto Cras INN GREEN, 18-year-old cripple boy, arrested | Tuesday on a manslaughter charge as a result of the auto aecident last Sunday which cost the life of his friend, Harley Wylie, was out of jail Thursday. | Green was freed Wednes y after |noon on $1,600 bond furnished by Peter Larson, 223 Taylor ave., father of Harry Larson, who suffered a broken leg in the same accident tr | which Wylie lost his life. | Green was driving the truck on | which the three werg riding when it | struck a street car at Second ave. and W. Roy st. “I couldn't have slept a wink if I hadn't got that boy out of jail,” Larson said Thursday. “1 know he shouldn't be driving a car, but I also know he shouldn't be in jail. “Harley Wylie and my boy were pals. They were together Sunc | morning at my place and then went over to Wylie’s. The next thing I heard about was the accident. Groen! may be to blame for my boy'x in- Juries and Harley's death, but It's an injustice to arrest him for it.” Larson has retained Smith & Mc Cullough to fight the boy's case. “Everybody's sere about the way the prosecuting attorney's office acted in this case,” Lar son sald. “Several lawyers of fered to take the case and all said it wouldn't cost a cent They didn’t want to see a crip plo boy used as an example when others go free in similar canes.” Green holds a driver's lcense in npite of the fact that he ts crippled His father got him the blank, ne Tit hin youth the boy suffered from }{nfantile paralysis, leaving his back slightly deformed and one leg shorter | than the other. Harry Larson, the injured boy in | the hospital, substantiates Green's story that he was only traveling 18 miles an hour when the accident | happened, Larson, Sr., declared. La Follette Looses Guns Monday Night | WASHINGTON, Oct. 3,—Senator Robert M. La Follette, independent candidate, will open his nation-wide jxpeaking tour Monday night, Octo ber 6, at an Eastern city as yet| | unannounced. Loses Artificial - | leave, headquarters and that the removal | | RELEASE BOY CRIPPLE | SEATTLE Jury Hears Story of Cronkhite Shooting! ACOMA, Oct. 2.— “Impressions and recollections” of George Root, Jr., and Charles F. Wuthenow, former members of the 213th Engineers of events surrounding the shooting of Maj. Alex- ander Cronkhite, entertained a capacity crowd in Judge E. E. Cush- man’s court Thursday. Former Sergeant Bugler Roland Pothier is on trial on a federal charge, accused of shoote ing the major on October 25, 1918, during a halt in a practice hike. Special Prosecutor James W. Osborne, of New York, assigned to the case by former Attorney General Harry Daugherty, was nonplused by Root, a Seattle man, when he asked, “Why do you recollect some things and not others TWO CENTS IN “That strikes me as being a silly} Handed 45 Colt by the prose | of sight of the company. Rosen- question,” shot back Root. cutor, Ri sald the gun he nee was about 20 feet behind w w won a series of laughs “ them. Then came three shots, from the crowd with his answers ent Major Cronkhite hed «easier about a second apart. Hoe argued at length with the prose: | P “Considerably easier,” he #up-| “4 minute later Capt. Rosenbluth cutor ¢ the difference between | Plemented came down the road shouting loudly impressions and recollections. Dur-| Starting to lay the foundation for|for Lieut. Seaburg, the medical of- i poems a bailiff opened | the tion that) ficer. They went up together and dow the o dy was under|soon the captain came back and “Will the court please order | federal jurisdiction at the time of| asked for two men who could give them close asked the former [the shooting, Osborne estioned | artificial respiration I went up bugler. “I am under the care n the aid of a large Cap-| with my friend, Mr. Root.” of six dectors. R. White of the quarter: At that time, Wuthenow sald, Root » to impress on | master corps Camp Lewis. Seaburg said that Maj. Cronkhite the jury th t I'm giving you} Attorney L. L, Thompson, repre d had a heart attack. Seaburg, up here is impressions. senting Rosenbluth, objected. The Rosenbluth’s orders, injected There was no, ill feeling between ere over-ruled. Os-| strychnine and Wuthenow and Roob Captain F nbluth, Sergeant Poth were designed to/| tried respiration. fer and Major Cronkhite prior t at the government was us Wuthenuw said that, remem- the shooting, Root testified. He sald 4 as an army post and bering the shots, he searched the that when he lent Cronkhite his | therefore had jurisdiction in the| body for a wound and found one revolver just before the hike, it was | present case. in the right breast. cltan. After the shooting, the gun Wuthenow testified that dur- | “1 heard somebody say they had appeared to have been fired and| ing a halt on the hike, Cronk- | een shooting at a can” said the two empty shells were lying on| hite and Pothier, his orderly, | witness, ‘ but sald he could not ree Peay who aes the eer * Cronkhite Case Stirs Nation! Herbert Hoover Has Personal Interest; Pothier Made Five Separate Confessions BY JIM MARSHALL ID Roland Pothier, former sergeant-bugler of the First battalion, 213th engi- | neers, shoot down his commanding officer, Maj. Alexander Cronkhite, ac- cidentally, on the rope of fod oe De! Or did he fire the fatal shot in response to a command from Ca obe osenbluth, of Or did Maj. Cronkhite accidentally shoot himself? ‘eieune oa A solution to that puzzle is being The defense view is supported the ritcne Pigg into Hy small hag weregt out in various relief missions in ~ cullar individual faced, listens—ahead of him his own trial for murder. jurisdittion, Selden would refuse to charge Rosenbluth wit The case presents, not only several eine nae, manding officer over Captain Rosen- unusual legal angles, but those ele-| And the question of Jurisdiction | Muth, describes Rosenbluth, in an ments which have made it of na-/nas been by no means settled. 1t|*ffidavit, as “a conscientious officers tional interest, discussed pro and) probably will be fought out in the earnest and honest.” The same offi: con in magazines, commented on by| supreme court of the United States | °°" Sescribes Pothier as a theft stim Henry Ford and other publicists/pefore the trial is over. A verdict |Pect with a bad reputation for truth bitterly fought on both sides tolagainst the government would auto-|°"4 honesty. whatever Its outcome, Inef-| matically free Pothier because, ha facable scars of hatred. | tiigvonoe. been! placed itn Meobatdy) he cannot again be accused of the OTHIER made five “confeksions,> according to department of juss | After a short stop at Boise they || nis daily dozen.” seine navi : | FJERE. are some of the curious! ome offense. tice agents. All differ, and President Ccolldge will attend the | took the air and arrived at Pocatello !| " mogay he displays all the apry Sen ceak hitemage te Rest te Ear Drum, He Says |14 features marking the case: see range from attributing the fatal opening game of the World Serles./ an hour or two later. ness of youth. His alr trip was || the mayor to place Olmsted in a posi-| ‘Theft of an artificial ear drunr| The whole case hinges’ on rea. | NOT a single woman is involved, |to an accident to Pothier's reputed While the president is opposed to the | Meeker withstood the rigors of the |] taken him as an every-day |) tion of power and his brother, Sergt.| 48 reported to tho police by J. F. question of jurisdiction. The fed. | far as can be ascertained | admission that he shot Cronkhite “at League of Nations, It is evident that ir journey we He was slightly || matter of course. He is on his | Frank Olmst in charge of the|Stey 510 N, 40th st., Wednesday j¢fal government assumes that the) 14 motive for the shooting ever the instigation of Captain Rosen- he is in favor of American | fatigued, but determin carry On|) way to the alr exhibition and |) oninatown district |night. Tho appliance was left in a|Shooting took place on government] nas heen shown, nor has one been |bluth.” League to the end of his journey. The 2400-1] oes at Dayton, Ohio, | oeohattly after election, when Brown {house where Stevens was working, |Property—a military: reservation. — | discovered Pothier who. bie, ceounue Aas gle mile trip will be made in about 26 _ | was a in elected mayor, a quarrel |and was stolen after ho left. | | The defense contends that Captain Rosenbluth and Major} his “confessions,” yolks they ABIGAIL APPLESAUC™ SAY developed between the mayor and! Bn as | transfer of the land from Pleree {Cronkhite, while not “the best of} were made under the influence I never pass Leading Financier France to Refund the chief over a list of $2 changes) We May Lose Cuban | county Ag oe aareet arn | friends,” were friendly and had had) of the third degree. In this con- thru one of these In the police di ment, sponsored WSS. NOS COMPING, ._ BI tat, |no quarrels, according to affidavits| nection it is interesting to read newfangled re of Canada Killed Her Debt to U S. | by tie +, and which Severyns| Business to Europe therefore, stale. courts ‘nave | ty fellow otticete, neetlen tle lulecoatiag aaa QUEBEC, Que, Oct. 2—Sir Wil-| WASHINGTON, Oct, 2 ce |ix sald to have refused to put in| ATLANTA, Oct. 2—European | Jurisdiction and federal courts Herbert Hoover, secretary of Lee, of Providence, R. I., made volving doors thet Mam Price, leading Canadian finan: | plans soon to refund her dave to the | effect » two Olmstead brothers | nations will outbid the United States| None. commerce, is on record in a let- to his superior, that “I think a 1 do net wish that cer, was killed in a landslide today | United States and take ‘advantage |were on the list for changes in/in Cuban markets unless the Amer-| Federal courts, according to the| ter to former Attorney General would help ; tear Kenogami, Chicoutimi county, |of an eight to 12-year moratorium | work, it was admitted at the time, |ican tariff on exports to the island |statute, have jurisdiction in murder! Harry Daugherty, as fearing Whether © Twas equipped j saoording to a message received here. [which has been offered informally] Severyns Thursday vigorously de- |ts reduced, Cuban representatives to|cases when the crime is committed} “there is a great miscarriage of this “rough treatment” was used with a rear bump. %, Price was buried under # great fall|by official American representatives, | nied that the present change had|the Pan-American congress, in ses-| "on lands under the exc lusive juris:| justice in the whole process.”” to obtain the next “confession” is” % of earth, according to the mei the United States learned today | (Turn to Page 2, Column 5) sion here, declared today. diction” of the United States Rosenbluth worked with Hoover not down in the record. Z er. ae s z - - _ ~—— - ———_—— — — _ — >a Se | The whole case, the outpouring of $68 |money, the accusations, the bittér Joacph Hergeahei , in his latest | ness on both sides, the nation-wide novel, has his hero drink a quart | controversy stirred up, the interest of peach brandy, a decanter of An jof Henry Ford, Herbert Hoover, tigua rum, a bowl of toddy and a second decanter of rum all in one Sure sounds like a best cellar. STYLE NOTE | “Prince of Wales Sets New Fash- fon by Wearing Blue Shirt."—News Item. Heck, the mai to it by 40 years Bribe Attempt by Giants rent | Bared and 2 Men Fired Wili-tice rip Davis EW YORK, Oct.2 Washington 8 , champions of He was one of those fellas Ne “were peak the aa Under” A cone | ;; / oe f handicap. ew ieiie ye EE Who wouldn't believe Szettdineni here tod Aaah: {ELL CONFESS | W YORK, Oct. 2.—A awistful,) won a place for himself in the af- That a husband gets jealous ment-that Jimmy O'Conn DURING INQUIRY boyish figure, Jimmy O'Connell,| fections of Glant rooters, told how HM. L. K. \er, and * Dolan, oor Pe “i Landis’ action followed’ a two-|@lnt outfielder, who was thrown|he tried to bribe Heine Sand, Phi oe ants, have been placed on the in ane uctio joliowed | out of organized baseball b ‘om: | lies! 3! stop, to 0 st Sat Giant Pike ting to bribe | day Invest jon ending with O'Con- ut of reanized b mall by Com: | lies! shortstop, t “thr last Sat. | YH DIARY eligible list fo! eee a phlla.|nelt'«, confession, which charged | missioner Landis for offering a bribe| urday's game, by winning which ) ortetop Heine do} ve Phil * s player o} \e Philadeiphis | McGraw’ c eo Na Up hetimes, nd sick at heurt when 1) Shortstop Haine Ban ev vub to| that Dolan instigated the plan and to player. Oris the ERIRASIp RES | AoG Das rene conc ea: cena do consider the bills that will urrive this delphia National league wougnt to implicate Geor Kelly, | tea showed up at the club house} fonal league pennant. He insisted how to pay them, 1 knew throw a game JH ete in which | first baseman; Frank Frisch, cap. [at the Polo grounds today, deciar ent he thought the entire Giant The beta Al Mat Gat ‘ ‘ Y Jing he had been “made tho goat] team “in on the deal inched the National | tain of the nts, and Ross Young, | !0e % mea A ate, : STIL liebe y outfielder, These players, however, |!n this business,” [NOW AN OUTCAST Hea eae erent of the action. was| were cleared O'Connell sald he was reporting| AND DISGRACED A Houscerien fey ‘ Tye | Pie coniinisuionan’ ieaiel ‘tite, fot |for work as usual because he had| Now he finds himself an outcast, ade by ait “aand J offered | lowing statement recelved no official or unoffictal| disgraced and left behind while his} a Vere thn dain { | “Player O'Connell and Coach Do-|notice that he and Coach Cozy|teammates go down to Washington $900 to ha Gane io bie «\lan, of the New York National|Dolan had been placed on the in-|for the world’s series, in which he ancball.critios here league baseball club, have today | eligible |had hoped to star. |proundal wil cause the Giants to go|been placed on the ineligible lst.) A forlorn figure, the youngster “TL came out here today be: 4.5.8, ‘into the world’s weries against the (furn to Page 4, Column 4) from the Pucific coast, who had (Turn to Page 4, Column 3) | “Pm the Goat,” Says O’Connell; “I | Thought Allthe Boys Were!non It” ==" Bans Are Excited by Pre-Series Scandal Senators Eager for Start | Harry Daugherty and other national figures, hinges on three letters, im scribed on a grave marker in the national cemtery at Arlington. What these letters are and what they mean will be told in a further story in The Star. ANARCHY REIGNS. Mecca Ravaged by Robbery _ and Violence LONDON, Oct. of Contest With NewY ork WastiNanon, Oct. 2.—After a lapse of three years the to go out and win without ‘wanting anyone to He down for them,” world’s series has become something | the general comment around the city more than @ bunch of ball games. today. Washington, fondling © pennant) REGARD BRIBE OFFER with all the joy and fervor of a|/AS FOOLISH STUNT was With the de- first-born, “has put life into the} ‘The announcement that Landis/parture of Lewa Rushdy Pasha, mil- series that has been Jacking since} had barred Jimmy O' ell, the|itary commander, and the eévacua- _ New York turned the baseball] former 000 beauty from the Pa-|tion of the shrine city by King Hus+ classic into a drab and colorless! cific Coast, and C Dolan, Me-/sein's troops, anerchy has broken city series. Graw's second tleutenant, for offer-|Out in Mecca, according to advices en the bit of scandal that/ing Heine Sand, the Philadelphia|from the Cairo correspondent of the cropped up when Commissioner] shortstop, $500 to throw a game,| Daily Mail. Landis declared t# members of} ‘The inhabitants are terror-strick: the Giant squad ineligible on account of a shady {ransaction, failed to take | being more foolish than crooked, be-/!¥ increasing, according to the com _ any of the joy out of Washington's | cause the Giants had the pennant] respondent. Ute. as good as cinched and the Phillies} Indecisive skirmishes between the “The Giants did that. Our boys! certainly could not have been re+/Wahabi tribesmen and Mecea’s: de: wouldn't do it, They had the class (Turn to Page 4, Column 4) fenders are reported near Zeyma, 0 miles from the holy olty. was not regarded as a great sen- sation here. | sought by a jury in Federal Judge] by Prosecutor Selden, of Pierce Europe, then in South Russia, E. E. Cushman’s court in Tacoma,| county, who, In a sworn state- and later in Sibert |as Pothier sits, apparently emotion-| ment, declares his belief in Pothier is a bed i les, on trial for his liberty, accused! Rosenbluth's innocence. This | o¢ just is described by department of the sHooting, and as, not 10 feet} means, of course, that should | hing ne Reich hp the from him, Capt. Rosenbluth, stern-| the federal court finally lose of a small boy,” and as “a pe= 7 It was looked upon as|e% with robbery and vielence rapid secon oer aN ET RT NOT RE ‘ * Major Robert S, Thomas, onee com- a