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

| nner tes an — The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington me The SeattleStar ji ovs) Batered as Becond Clase Matier May f, 169%, at the Postotficn ot Seettia # the Act of Congres March #1418, Fer Year, by Mal oo VOL. 26. as SEATTL 2, WASH., MONDAY, DECEMB CR 22, 1924, te TWO CE Home Ever Wonder How Girls) This Man Was About to (RASHES re Can Keep Ankles Warm “Be Hanged; Disappointed 0) NiGiT | Convict Tells How He | AIR TRIP | Body of Victim Is Found by Brother Pilot Close to His | Plane F | > |e IN SEATTLE. Howdy, folks! Only three days until Christmas, There IS a Sante Claus! There IS a Santa Claus! Felt When About to Die SERENE eee ae He Was Led Out to the: ‘affold Before Reprieve Arrived GIFT SUGGESTIONS From Mayor Brown to Councilman Nichols: A toadstool sandwich, From Councilman Nichols to May- ww Brown: A prussic ackd cocktail. BY JIM MARSHALL “On the morning I was to be hanged,” said Jesse Webb, sitting up here in the office and speaking softly, as they do in prisons, “I sat in my cell and looked down the corridor at the guests, They came into a sort of auditorium to see me hanged by the neck until I v dead. I saw my wife and daughter come in. I told the warden I couldn't say good to them. I was all keyed up to be hanged and I couldn't stand any more. “Finally somebody said everything was ready. The warden and two deputies came for me, with the chaplain. I walked out between them toward the scaffold, where the guests were waiting. E KALB, UL, Dec. 22.-~The body of Charles Gilbert, air | mall flyer, missing since last night, was found 20 miles east : | of here today, according to the } local telephone office, The body wus » al hundred ds form the demolished air ane. ; Gilbert's plane was found one mile |north of Kanesvifle >y R. G. Page, another afr mai! pilot, who flew from Maywood field at dawn to look for it. : | 10,000 LETTERS IN AEROPLANE Mayor Brown spoke at the dedi ection of the West Spokane st.) bridge yesterday. Doc's an expert on dridge-work. see x} Ger, TH orrice | VAMP, SEZ Th’ man who can't take or- | | } ders shouldn't get married. “Then, just 12 minutes before I was to be hanged the | There were approximately 10,000 | governor commuted my sentence to life. tters in the wrecked plane, all of e—— Resa oa “It was like . . . well, in a way it was a sort of disap- ch were saved, Egge said. Indications are that Gilbert lost | control of his machine while several | hundred feet in the air and crashed into a field, sustaining serious in- | juries. Eddie to his wife: When I say pointment. A sort of collapse of my plans, and it hit me ‘0 hit you in the nose. pretty hard.’ On Jt ‘edd killed a Blows | | HE'LL NEVER GET OUT = | man “How does it happen that you're still in prison?” asked the sympa- thetic lady visitor. “I thought Gov. | Hart pardoned all you murderers.” “Oh, I'm not a murderer,” replied the meek little man in Cell 12, “I'm | just the gink who got 20 years for stealing « loaf of bread for his fam- ity.” There ts no truth to the rumor that | one man tying wied across bed, dead, with a cracked skull October the judge asked G Then there was a at knew hearing and another heaven for mercy on the » housing & ember 5, 191 ack and forth with a blackjack and have mercy on the soul of Jesse Webb. of execution, was to be jerked from its earthly Christmas to Cost Us More Cold Is Forcing | Exposure to the cold caused death, |it was indicated. | Gilbert apparently tried to make | his way to a farmhouses, but in his weakened condition he was unable to resist the paralyzing cold and succumbed. Gilbert was last seen about & o'clock last night by another flyer, jwho took off a few moments after | the ill-fated airman left for Omaha t i } | after Gov. Hart's term of office, the Walla Walla penitentiary will be! turned into a beet sugar factory, oe | with his packet of mail. | Gilbert's plane was observed fy- ing low over Kanesville, about 20 miles from here, and it was thought ft | “You want to know bow it felt . | | when they told me I wouldn't be Food Prices Up | hanged,” sald Jesse Webb, still | | speaking softly. “Well, you can Ts cold spell is costing || yet faint iden of lk. & m : * |} wen om ts Ma ot Fp | see tact tenet K Beopere tT seattio folks o pretty ba try anda br ai | York and planned to take in the penny. Along with frozen Gilbert apparently miscalculated the distance to the ground, probably [deceived by the covering of snow. DISGUISE big apple and then, suddenly, Just radiators and water pipes as You were getting on the train, | ry ills they told you you weren't to go. | and heavy fuel bills come i . i fain Too late, he realized his danger, and Something like that increases in all lines of indi ‘ Mrs. Church ch t : ‘ indications are that he leaped from : rs Croat! charged nat, Neaaes “You see, I lived with death foodstuffs. Quotations the machine tn the hope of landing jj ormand drank and swapped sorist Monday show th: h q alidotes with her kusbend”—Zc-| On and walked with death and slept Monday show that the {n a cushioning snow pile. erett News ¢ ns death for nearly a year, || Christmas dinner, if turkey || Gilbert did not have an opportun: P, . pty I had got to th int where , ‘ sive . f A wrist antidote, no doubt, deing I leaned Wie a sort of is used, will be an expensive Sentenced to be hanged and reprieved only a few seconds eaiieyethe eee Te chat you apply after somebody has nae 4 explorer, going into a strange affair, | before the trap was to be sprung was the experience of| - alapped you on the wrist. | | CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON | IVY CLUB | The goof who buys $50 worth of seratch paper because he has the seven-year itch. oe 4 . | Film at mbia is called oy * “The Wine of Youth.” Asha? oe j ; herh at Ne Werme tien a thing except milk since || the invitation to his hanging, one of his prized possessions. | tt tooth belng pulled. It's instan Thanksgiving. The cold has |) taneous. They've got it all fig forced the egg market up age rar seg = Father of Olympic Hotel ured out. They weigh you and two cents to the retailers. new country, I wondered what Price increases have been || Jesse Webb, of Seattle. How he looks today, after 12 years I'd see there. . . . quoted on almost every- ||in the penitentiary, is evident from this picture. Below is F W HULL FAD “No, 1 didn't figure it would \tn 1 -~Photos'by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers | 4 = as SET, hag | 2: Ss Executive Passes the Cc roa Ks rik. oe. ‘ue pote ae i Consumers now pay around S pencer Partly Frozen | Bee Se | 5 ty a right. Sometimes, of course, a 58 roe scat weet i K r Seattle friends of Frank W. Hull, , 29 t tho | Men huddle up in furs and heavy woolen clothing to keep| man comes down In two pleces grades. Turkeys increas F l T . W k first assistant manager of the Olym- ‘out .b © suspect it’s a lime O veep As s ? : 2 eng teeta ; ome | warm this weather—but Seattle girls go around, smiling, in| + * + But not often. again, They are now being |, in ata } ain rec ©. Bio hotel, _ were acieved <a low shoes, silk stockings, open-necked frocks—and seem to parce who che ted death and at 42 to 45 | tearn of the death of his father, F, W. isappointed about tt, || @oted at 42 to 45 cents per | Hull, at Los Angeles. thrive on it. Here's Miss Vivian Meade, 1609 14th ave.,| went into the prison printshop., in|| Pound to the retailer. Con- || Back Injured; Fingers Frozen as He Waited | “wr trun’ Air’ ae calted sua. cashier at the Strand theater, quite comfortable in a low-| his saind days he was a printer, the sumers must pay 50 cents | denty to the California city Wednes- necked dress, and apparently quite as comfortable in chiffon|» reporter. Ho combined the voea-|| or better. That isa 10-cent || 10% Help Atop Overturned Car in River | Gay niettiy 9 telberamnigaaeeaaaay hosiery and thin-soled pumps, even with inches of snow on|'o nthe Oregon state peniten- |} increase since November. | f : “Airplanes will soon be equipped with berths, Then |AJITH their 6 months’ ola ba é lary, There he composed, printed “ olis; Kenneth J. Henderson, Moose | Was accompanied by Mrs. Hull. the ground and the thermometer ’way down. How do they|ani bound « hook (3 Veal and hogs are up and girl, Barbara, dead and miss-|Jaw, Sask:; Mrs. Florence Higus,| Thursday night the elder Hut it will be easy to : } i sus, | oo it? Phot Price r, Star § Photographers | Prison System,” that ard f a Spence t ; ay ‘ BE cocaty it? 8 tr jF * th geese have advanced two Jing, Dean Mf. 1. Spencer, of ‘the | Minneapolis; Miss May Morrissey passed away. get Willie out of ” + % + + # & teforence work, Also he wrote The || cents a pound the past |\..™ a i > + Miss --May 2 ° ‘ aes LAsdstoerantee! “60 Four-'Time k a all t taht University of Washington, and Mrs.|stevens Point, Wis: Richard W. Local Séhools Out bed. Just loop the ] HEN {t comes to choosing | pounds of fur coat, a woolen Se ia week. All root vegetables ||... Se oY pate se ba} | Loe chools Ou ‘i I ” betwee: symmetry and muffler, fur-lined mitts and a |[l0set, “Prison Tours, The Ore. are higher. P tically all Spencer wero recovering Monday |sharp, Vancouver, B. C. One wom ; loop. Wiabelr ceeateie. site ous | chi with eartiapd and .cont Fon State Penitentiary," and other || are higher. Fractically all }/rrom injuries sustained in a train |an's body 4s unidentified Dec. 24 to Jan. 4 5 3 SS NaC haden ek the sat Apaieas cite i four mite | {stories fresh green or bunch stuff |) wreck near Chippewa Falls, W Tho Spencers were en route to| . ° The shades of wight were falling'| ter than on the former, casual utes SEES INVITATION produced locally has been | tate Saturd Dr. and Mrs. Spen-/the home of Mrs. Spencer's relatives | Seattle schools, both grade and "fast f hosrved sondas A. Seattle girt will n | TO OWN HANGING frozen and consumers must | /°er #8"? '" ph’s hospital at/in Appleton, Wis., where’ they were | high, have Christmas vacation from Wigh tack du alpine village passed|| rec iy tine with the cher ht a silk a || Ono of tho first things Webb naw!| i @ California || Chippewa Falls. ‘They aro not seri-/| to spend.the Christmas vacation. , |December 24 to January 4, Inclu- ™ Mean Sues sang “ted and Ber nce ae eat ee come etriehiteen stogkiniee and itwhindhes Meant thin fhe: circ epend on the California |) 9. Tho Spencers were in different |sive. That means that the young. ; - apy RS pee Beet tenant et, | eater nine d. gain “weight Ulede 0 we printed card of invite, |{-fatmers for their supplies, || wight persons were killed in the|parts of the car when it plumged |aters wil be thra with reading. seit i id. Sana GME toroage tacloa:\\ 55 eter on tion. It bade the recipient attend the Flour continued its up- |} wreck when part of a Soo line train |into the cold river water. ‘The dean |ing and ‘rithmetic Tuesday after. 4 4 : ‘ow do the hansine = ; 4 d hal fell into the river near tho falls, due|was holding tho baby. Tho child|noon until the first Monday after “A nine-letter beginning wit! ankles warm this ¢ H 4 || hanging of one Je Webb for the | Ward march Monday, being ‘ Faulty. aveitell.. Gtherk” wilted sal wilebohad Som ahiata hinglin the | New Werste over thelr eckn ut There's no que out murder of one Iter John © g oa ulty 8 en ers ed | was ichec mids ef hes age z | taned ase eta Sap tlaeye etna ictus es pes ean AF can dee hae | canteens ‘eel anne eapeg king || quoted at $10.10 a barrel. |! cro: Mra, Hurry Jones, Sioux City;| plunge and all. search. for her | Schools thruout King county will 1 abated aan (bey A. sof sae oh Pare iaie acatince os ‘ e wale | Leelee ; Hime ak | Al feeds for poultry and] town: c M. Pardoe, Minneap-! (Turn to Page 7, Colunn 3) | preserve tho same schedule, see Tut! Tut! Such a wicked worl and most people DO and, Jooking at {t « me, pon ‘ 3 Towa; p SUGGESTION ton't it? Star observers today asked dering. Hoe still has it, and he sti | livestock advanced a dollar Beato “A pair of twin boys were horn to| Looked at hygientcally—but girls if their ankles were cold. || hay the black cap they made for him|| or more a hundred. Alfalfa Mr. and Mrs. Bunker Monday.”"—|| who does?—ankles cove e i a | i of them id "3 0, of course |!to be hanged in ‘| hay went from $22 to $23 ! News Item. what the hosiery ads call kon otf” and one offered to ex Just two years ago tl or per ton and timothy f | Might call one of them Sand, and|| cobwebs ought to give their own plain it Saat Sear ye | Irgeon pardoned Webb. He came es to $28. thy from a { the other Divot. ers everything, from hay ‘fever “We why asked tho ‘ob. | a0 10 G20. attle, got a foothold, inve 1 H a || to chronic rheumatism. And | server 5 || his savings, prospered. Another turn About the only products EATTLY is due for another cold|his auto skidded near Coos bay and | injured as a result of the cold wave { Nominated for the Polson Ivy club|| feet in open-work low shoes ‘ Wel ‘ ud dia k bees ank of the wheel—and h 1s broke | that have shown no in- night Monday, Weather Obser | lett the pavement. Enos Burling-/in Ohio over the week end. \ by J. J. he pee Lip By one de be lat fea preres eed or yam may ee : ver yt nn yo : yo * : n. Het lax © me , crease are milk, cream and mmers announced at noon. The | ass 30, Ls Sale aalgie - at fot Three persons perished in Colum- seated on a@ crowded Washe i y do . MA m 7 am \, % Vhen he wer roke he ‘ot a job ‘ Py - y je | Beac! Aste . vhet Us cf i . man, remaining sea roiled ash rey do ; Pee See boos Gaae he © he butter. The milk war is re- || sunshine raised the mercury a little| Beach, near. Astoria, when he fell/pus from carbon monoxide fumes as | street car, who asks a tired lad neeks should result in bronchitis, J made ¢ igh to get t Then a de s ib! f rts 4 ng the niorning hours, but the/thru the ice while trying to save his j they attempted to shut out the cold, L $s standing, if he can hold her pack-|| pneumonia, sore throats and oth ||tective checked up on him. Now he | SPonsible for the Cond ON eee cetee wan uGb. exneatedh 15] 008 lwo deaths were teported vn Cheam ages. er doctors’ delights, But do ald the observer has no job. Verhaps nét the dick's | in the dairy market. Milk get above the freesing polit | Ice fofmed on the Willamette river] iand traffic accidents, caused by eee they? ; 1 ankles bre mostly bone, || fault maybe ust the 1 tem he is being sold far under At 7 a. m. Monday th mercury] Within the harbor lines of Portland | slippery streets, and a boy was killed —— A man will go out in four | too,” sald the anklette ordered to follow, apolog' ebb, fia then WARS e shai “adeiet sOve.? BH Sunday night. Northerly and east-} when he slid off a snowy roof in i “ ||| pairs of wool soc gum boots | ‘This ended research into the I'm not a criminal," said Jone | Prices that prevailed during || touch raked began eat Pe winds were predicted for Moh: | toledo. yee | EXTRA! EXTRA! ||| swathed in gunny sacks, 20 | matter. Webb, still speaking softly. r!| the favorable producing || before noon it ee the Meh mark{day night with continued cold in|.” ¢ Governor Hart refuses par- | | / | killed a man—but 90 per cent of || conditions in the summer, || ¥%* cxPected to be the high mark) Re a cae: NaO OA oaa don to murderer who has al- | | _ * Rie Fs Nit EP eal i murderers aren't criminals, We |X ___ J| tor the day | The thermometer was 11 betow.| New gland Sunday. Tenneets i ready served 27 days of his | | killed in the heat of passion, un ~ == | Sunday, tho shortest day of the) or at ‘The Dalles, 01 ust night. rates eaied aon Bs, RK sentence! i Wh thinkingly.”" ss year and the seventh day of the’ Columbia and Deschutes rivers | Colebrook, N. H., ¥ er | |Resume Bellingham Oh, a at a Costly |. The man who lived with death ag Rainier Stages Go {cold snap, brought thousands of|are frozen at that point. Livestock | N°W Haven, Conn. “— —_—+| Interurban Service| Mistake That Was! |year oni then found ho want t Wi persons outside to enjoy fee sports. {is suffering. Snow was falling in Pennsylyania S28.:% | Thru hourly sorvice on the Mt A dapper'stranger purchased sev-| 4% stuck his hands into his over: |. on Inter Schedule |}. temperature rose to 34 degrees} see today, teh NS OM op el 8 gi ghee Parrot ckets and prepare 0 no time, but only for a short/ x TEW YORK, Dec. 2 y el What we need now is a magazine| es run {eral articles from H. B, Smith, 2107|°@t Pockets and prepared to ge All aboard for Mt. Rainier winter | at one time, but only for a short] 7EW YORK, Dec. 22—Three men fontreal, Quebeo, " reports: the to publish an article showing how Vernon-Bellingham electric Interur Waatia) matuca te “Ag a matter of f he: saldy| trips! ‘The first auto st ho | tme | died of cold here and another | oldest Sunday tn years, the mer- 0 publish an a J a ,, | Westla ve,, Saturd afternoon |,” rips e first auto stage on the ning , fishoud sath tecaitis Cee? ban line was to be resumed ato een ee ney gd. tune [we're all under, sentence of death AGIA ohiRAAT GH "a Nid nthe | Four boys were injured Sunday in| perished in Newark, while hospitals aroppiay i u Pelow a be J , : and tendered a “$20 b a Free eas ;| Winter schedue left Saturday morr hans sak ; and to 27 below in. outlyin; $6.56 m, Monday, following @ suspension | gmith gave him $18.25 change and yan ewegnanereyee Tole t “aie ing for Longmire, and will arf Serer ramen PERA CT aS - lites oo , then erika wet - Bie te ; mere ve avi r ide necessary by chee ie me sh madly acro; 4 Y : Le + tee tik * ape ba ©} ward Cramer, 7054 11th ave, N, W.,| bitterest weather of the er, § “a Rey Rt de: 2! jot pth ys pas n a ae eer te IEE Ge Ty eee eetaaOnE wand 1 Meagcallready tor'| dally round tripe for thé. pekt of tho had Charen: RURGU THRERTTD. coal dled ie Ohip Clearing skies and rising temper- |the washing ay of a small section | stlake. trip. When they told me t| a by ” t 4 to| the trip. H it i atures brought relief to Central ; “Mus ” thoug' i tho season. The first passenger to| were brulsed in a bobsled crash.| Tho cold wave that “has been! 84 = MGA Meise eo Jars good sermon | Of track below Chuckanut mountain. | 7a vide Net et Wich Gia Rat te eet tik the only | buy a tloket was Miss 11. J, Hubbard, | Dale Higginbotham, 4883, W, ‘Tren-| moving steadily eastward for several | ten trom, the /c6}a wave, Of Dies epirit. A Smit? on ho lookee eleniyay Can daabelbe (tie that It wis \p added day, c Mihere did Steet Cor | Announcement of the resumption of | re pals go ect fot pason. | Tey Loan dowotibe it, ta that | the "Miss Moster"’ of Salt Lake City, |ton st, was cut In another sled days gripped the Atlantic seaboard |{* predicted Stal Robb and J. Ik of | weagvice was made by W. H. Sum i a & sort of disappointment » | “I havo been telling the tourists | crash. William Pearno, 109 18th|Sunday, and brought temperatur | kansas, Mibeolit SAA Southwest Alea ‘ Sis mers, traffic manager of the Puget rr #3 j Who ‘ask Mr, Foster’ in Salt Lake! ave, Ni, suffered cuts when he fell/ranging between 14 and 20 degre hatha aR : 5 ° ah ll i sail : | ‘ ibout th nders of Mt. Rainier, and | on the ice while ekating Sevoral early morning fires, forcing | “Chicago reports MidWest Soints passed this Sa Sound Power & Light Co, op rating Dope Sentence Is IN. Y. Poison Booze wanted to check up and seo if 1! rain played havoc with San Fran-|scantilyclad families to tho streats, | sieve hy ahkentie higher tonne ' bd |the Pacific Northwest Traction com: £7} A | was making It strong enough," she "s yements Sunk Mere | “ onsiderable suffert iy. . 33 ae [the Pacific Nor 1 con 2 Years at McNeil Toll 35 in Month |°™™" Fong enough," she |eisco'y amusements Sunday, Mere|entatled considerable suttering In| tasss ee tn ne Gk that anow-| pany. MEN | says hanatu’ attended — theaters Ti) Brooklyn, A fireman carried one} ytinnesota and northern states re hull, Uttle boy, I Send you to pris Lost lake, high on Chuckanut) William Fahey, found guilty of} mw YorK, Dec. Two addi H, L. Blanchard, manager of the| Northern California heavy snows) family of four down an extension | port continued cold. Tt was 19 to 18 i} on for 00 ears, and Fou 01 a a bo « 6 ola ie narco 1 wi one local office J ty ong 0 x cot ic yn and pow | ladd 6 a eC stroy! 30 " Jor d for 100 yea a t Hart| mountain, burst ite bounds and th |v! lating th narcotics law, was y D-| onal deathe from polvon liquor over |! | office, that from Longmire | fell, putting communication and ¢ ladder when flames destroyed a Sov-| polow in North Dakota and 16 below | rowt pardon vou, either flood cared out a portion of the in-|tenced to serve two years at Mc to Paradise the trips will be made|er lines out of commission onth ave. tenement at Duluth ) wae |terurban tracks and Chuckanut drive | Neil's federal penitentiary Monday|tho weok-end brought the month's! jy dog sledge or on snow shoes, as Charlo Kroger, 88, ot Myrtle} ix persons are known to have] Colorado weather was improving 3. 8. [on the Pacific high "by Judge Jeremiah Neterer, toll to 35, the traveler chooses, Point, Ore, was Killed Sunday when heen Killed and maiy others were after six deaths during the cold wave oy