The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 20, 1925, Page 1

| Pike's Peak is the latest acquisition Laugh! to the Pacific Northwest playground, ‘lease send me information about Seattle, Pike’s Peak and other nearby points of in terest,” wrote a San Antonio, Texa: Chamber of Coffimerce, in a letter receiver Friday, “We want to lear more country about that ps schoolboy to the of the Mrs. Bonnie Plautz, of 811 Fifth ave. N., CAL! ssked a divorce Friday that her husband may marry the new woman of his choice, She says she married Plautz in 192% 1924 at Everett, where he is employed, and now, after her husband told hey Action! left him in f his lové for another, was stopped only a divorc@sto clear the way for him, marily adjourned, PARIS, March 20,—-A riot, in which 12 deputies of the right and left wings engaged in a fierce fist fight, broke out in the chamber of deputies today, It o¢ curred while Premier Herriot was answering a que school strike manifesto, The when the session was sum Thursday? one-cent a gallon drop in gas prices put General and Associated, and | Grief! into effect our tank Wednesday and ou didn’t you lose the tept the Standard, vent back to 20. cents rub! Nobody Kieu Maximum, 52 Temperature Last 24 Hours Today noon, 49, SS LEY, is Minimum, 42 Under the spreading che Head a man’s bride will boss him as wise- ly as they have.” SHome \ ae) Howdy, folks! March came in like a Hien, but now look at the quadruped! pound on the EXTRA! EXTRA! SALLY'S BROTHER ALSO MISSING! 1 wonder what's become of Halley, That old pal of mine? moonshine’s vanished from our alley, that night that they d him away; MeNeil’s or county jail, Wherever he may be, If he can't get vway, Please send his recipe. There's others here that long for Hailey, That oid pai of mine! —N. N, D, remem conundrum. answer t “What is the difference between free silver and f. Answer: Free silver is 16 to 1} and free lunch is 12 to t nels The village smithy stands The smith, @ wealthy man is he, He owns three het dog stands. are to be p Why not THEATRICAL NOTE Li'l Gee Gee says that “Sancho | the play in which Otis Skinner comes to the Metropolitan Monday, is a dramatization of the famous novel, “Don Coyote.” “Plumber -Sues for Lost Love.”— Maybe he left it at the shop Lives of flappers oft remind us Btyles are brief and getting briefer ; Short skirts are revealing drum- sticks Chothed in silk hose thin as cther.| —M. Brickert. Li'l Gee Gee's sweetie says that | face powder never tastes as good as it smelis ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SAYS: ple who wonder if Old Silas Grump, the sage of Pumpkin Hollow, says: ‘Prohibi tion has broken me of one bad! habit. Not since th went into effect ha Volstead act hanging on a T hate the dream I often have I clotheless strut Down Second ave. 6. man imagines he has pretty | food education until he bey in school who wants him to p him with his arithmetic prob- | 8 a small AnY 19) Up betimes, and t too, albeit some ily abo bet I. Byington did try accident, ae addicted this hath been @ pleasant The difference tween a sign painte id an artist that th ign-painter eat There was a young man named McoMisky Whe made } whisky ef diet corn But "Tuas wood alcohol sad to recall leas frisky! ame JB, aos i School look the other w § gambling devices are in/oper- ation in Seattle stores, luring school children into gambling habits and their pennies into hthe pockets of the un- vices are ‘openly operated ‘in srant violation of city: statutes and Kambling laws tomers, but in man have been investigated by The Star boys of school the boy's parents compl e had been spending ngs from selling papers in a gam Street Public Market annex, also is permitted to punch bo: | which the prize is a box of cigars Another board has candy ply a flourishing tr | pootr legend to return a pr for every 5-cent piece v eryns said. If the customer is lucky the machine returns him a “bonw of trade chi 1 forgotten | resent that by giving every pla plece of gum for his money, the gambling feature is eliminated, and ooking an omelet | tm the waffle tron, as my wyfe doth, nnd did do it ti of it did sticke. So and greatly surprize a ulmerity. rly to the office, | me by my And would have finished early, sell me in- when he as we take ‘em out, they | ones. I would like to see them all! barred. yen school children have | been gambling on them, if what I | hear is true.” | A \Thugs Crack Safe in Renton Agency with violent deaths, at- race, and hard to to playing Tiddle- n two games, and ao early | jobtain the money not discovered until after they had disappeared. : <a> AT BY COPS Star Reporter Watches as Slot Machines Spin *KIDS HAVE NO CHANCE | Chief Says Mayoralty Sanc- tion Causes Grief By John W. Nelsen HILE Seattle police wink slyly as they pass, or ‘ores of | scrupulous operators. 8 machines, punch boards, so dd ‘trade be ln, and othe ie Such operators are not content ply thelr trade with men cu neces ¢ selling papers the devices of the gambler One case Ho is small for his and looks like a lad of 11. Not s Herbert encouraged machine in a Jap dd market stall in the The Japanese operator gambling devices encourages the boys to spend their money by buying back the trade checks, three for a dime. “But he won't sell us three (Turn to Page 13, Column 1) Chief Blames It to Mayoralty Sanction While slot machines continue to de in ttle oms. soft drink parlors, gro- nd other places, the police are an to cope with the gambling . Chief of Police W. B. Sev eryns declared Friday Official mayoralty sanction he been given to a certain type of ma chine that is supposed by popular kage of gum 1, § s in addition to the gum. Mayor Brown was away from hi office Friday and could not be reach- ed for a statement Manufacturers of the machine re the “bonus” of trade chips is an ifeidental feature. he fact remains,’”’ said Bevery “that the machines are causing much trouble. © Hardly a but that someone comes in and com, plain& of losing heavily on the de vices, Last night two men came ip and said they had lost nearly $20 in as many minutes y Koos by “We ha seized a score of ma hine ately in different raids arly y amusement place in the city has two of them. As fast get ne Yeggmen Thursday night crack the safe of the Clark Brothers \Ford agency on the outskirts of North Renton and eseaped with sbout $100, according to a message from Police Chief Peter Dullihant to the King county sheriff's office The agency opened for businees last Saturday night Dullihant told Deputy Sheriff Harry Ajax that the yesgs had partly wrecked the safe with an lexplosive and then had hammered And the “whisky” made McMisky| the combination from the doors to The robbery was! would separ ficers. “We quarreled, and then tried to polson me, I didn’t like came in from work and she sald she on them. I threw the food to the dog, | TOOK WOMAN TO Crry JAIL a The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in WasKington eS Entered as Second Class Matier Mey 2, 18 Children Victi DROP GASH INTO WOMAN HANGS (oer rie sronw TRAPS WINKED — HERSELE IN JAIL CELL Is Arrested After Man Be- comes Suspicious of Poison DOG KILLED BY FOOD Rancher Tells of Events at Home Leading to Tragedy M DELLA HANNAH BUOYE 40-year-old divorcee, said to| Prosecutors“: ‘of Wheeler ©: NotWelcome . 40, Kent poultry ) 4 herself in the Kent cit jail late Thursday, shortly after her Sill’s co after for Sill, » led Sill to take bh 4 she w shal F turn She tore stripy of canvan from her cell cot and Danged: herself white} Deputy Sheriffs Joe Hill and Fal Hughes were questioning Sill, whol urned too his home, on thy Black Diamond road, nix milet evst of Kent Deputy Coroner Chittenden will hold nquent in the case SILL TELUS STORY TO DEPUTIES Si told the dep Buoye at old Dreamland noven years ago. on the %0-aer arm four years ago, and an agreement that. whenever one or both became dissatisfied, they “But we were unable to agreo on a property division,” he told the of taste, and refused to eat it “Wednesday she went to Kent and tried to raive an $860 loan on the place. { refused to akree. When I she had already eaten. ‘There were some potatoes and m arming oven, They tasted queer, had spilled salt and he died after eating It.” Sill immodiately) brought Mrs. Buoye to the Kent jail, where she hanged hersolf with canvas torn from & cell cot shortly after a farewell | (Turn to Page 13, Column 1) FAKE ADMITTED Boy Says Murder Confes- | sion Not True LOS ANGELES, Cal., Mareh 20 Mrs. Margaret Willis will leave the ntiary tonight to serve a life entence for the murder of Dr. Ben-} jamin Baldwin Her son, Harold, who admitted | he faked a confession that he and not his mother, committed — the ne, was detained in juvenile hail pending further investigation of his | se by a grand jury The boy told the grand jury that he alone conceived the idea of con feasir win, ‘The grand jury will meet again Tuesday and continue probe of the boy's story County prosecutors claim “perjury was put in the boy's mouth.” a patottion at Meattte eS 3,8 Ver Your, by Mall, $4.00 SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1925. f Congress Ma mized! DEFENSE TO END ARGUMENT IN. To OIL TRIAL Latimer’s Testimony Closes Case This Afternoon DERBY,” IS CRY OF POOR SELL COURTROOM DESERTED be too. 2s 00 Government's \'erreines Suit Dies Out Gorham *Car either bring Phe Great Falls ¢ ‘ommerce has on spectators of the technic rage facilities what the Teapot | Mammoth Oi! ACTRESS EXPECTS STORK HOLLY Woop, eduled to visit tt Announcement was made to - | at noon Thurs-| t in the| (Pretty Visttor Is Due }\ 20 eet mete in City at 7:15 Tonight; She Will Be Welcomed | BY JIM MARSHALL, RINCOURAG the high cost of equato {I ing on the curb ¢ when the truck struc | him Into the hole. He was bruised. of attacks on the Spring's coming this Spring wills preparations He consulted th he said, a min, who was one of the first to learn of her coming o's a lot earlier than usual ty jail here for San Quentin} In't called up, been looking for delegations down Union depot and so forth found no one outhern tour to the murder of Dr. Bald-| Some of the more weather bureaus have it the equator ¢ longer than the Toll of Cyclone BY UNITED PRESS Royaltor wise j 0 Alte ‘3 Annapolis, Mo Roe 75 Biehle r HUNGER IN STORM yx § {ill EDITION 641 KN 4\ today than previousl; ° dead in “Little Egyp | require hospital treatment. Carbondale, a relie! General Black at Springfield. mi. 1) & ~~ 3g} Rumber in Tilinoi. | would range well above 900. The property damage will reach $10,000,000. The storm reached down into Alabama, struck with its 25 | main force first in Missouri, devastated southern Illinois, TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. WAKE! OWN DEAD: 333 ARE MISSING! ‘Relatives Sear ching Morgues to Iden~ tify Victims of Tornado | Y UNITED PRE HE NUMBER of known dead in > As amaai— | disaster which ever visited the United States crept past 169 100 690|the 600 mark today as workers searched the ruins of towns 10 40 -0|and hamlets in six states. ’| The United Press’ big zo | approximate recapitulation shows 641 known dead, ,000 injured, between 5,000 and 7,000 home- t unaccounted for. : Food shortage in many of the death areas was adding to < : H ™° the suffering of the victims and the general horror of the Other estimates of the casualties, while somewhat lower continued high, ranging up to 800 t,” and 4,000 sufficiently injured to The latter estimate was made by Colonel 8. O. Tripp, of the Illinois national guard at center in southern Illinois, to Adjutant If the dead reached this . the total cyclone toll in the six states Lexington ... 5 me 6|sped into Kentucky and Tennessee and Indiana, where it Bridgeport indlana— is 60 2504 Owe ; 15 terest! Poneyvilie 5 nnensee Sumner county 7 Shelbyville . Wartrace .. Knoxville ... 1 Kirkland 1 Alabama in-|TAttleville ...., 06. 1 0 T| thru erect tals *Died in hospitals. FREAKS HURT 2 Peculiar Accidents Injure| |showed great fury. The tornado crumpled all or part of a score of towns and 200 | Villages. The loss of life in many rural districts and on farms has t yet been fully determined. The quick work of the Red Cross and other organizations, aided by the militia in stricken southern Illinois, where jthe tornado wreaked its greatest havoc, has resulted in ‘orderly processes of relief and reconstruction. Care has been taken to prevent the outbreak of disease. |The best possible housing is being accorded the sufferers ion of tents in the devastated towns and hamlets. f Food Adds _ to Horror of Disaster — o9 | nO Shortage ) Foreman and Autoist | Relief Workers Hindered in Aid Cam- men suffered painful iAjur- day iel Boyte, 4415 W. Findlay st., foreman of a construction crew| building a wall at Railroad ave. and Beil st. was knocked from the curb into ven-foot pit filled with loyd Transfer Co. He was stand him, tossing H. F. Jones, 4818 Holly st, es- caped with bruises to the hip and| (0°. shoulder when his car was crowded | | workers in the storm-rocked village. precautionary taken this morning was the request {into the curb, striking a telephone pole and overturning. The accident occurred at Rainier ave. and a cross street, Jones said a car a) D, Bridge, 2520 34th ave. S., tried to pass him and cut in sharply] d, forcing him to hit the tele- |Canada Associations | Fighting Orientals «: : VANCOUVER, B. C., March 20. While the Native Sons of Canada} and many allied organizations are lining up to exclude Orientals from th dominion, nizin apanese also are to retain their holding und right to work in Cani Sons claim to have eking them. 70 other cr Ever Get Paid for Being Courteous? i week is “Courtesy Nave proclaimed so by the The sever or etting aside of these @ays is supposed to put the nank, You Ma‘am’ and “Exeuse It, Please" into the minds of everybody, in the of regular business ‘ourtesy Week" gave The Star an iden Publie employes for years ave been frowned upon and berated and ridiculed for the belief 1 exisits, that. n of them are discourteous, The conductor is made the butt of many a story The unbending policeman comes in for many an uncharitable tale, ‘The in dolent clerk at city Nall gets many @ mental scolding. end of the week to the men and these letters words in length. They must be The judges will bo Major J I’, Douglas of the Metropolitan tuilding Co, Frank Hull, as: sistant manager of The Olym. pic Hotel, and Leroy V. John son, manager of the Liberty theater Keep your eye open during #ourtesy Week for courteow: on the part of public em ployes, It may win you a prize And, public employes, watch YOUR step during Courtesy Week, You don't know what prizeuspirant’s eye may be on you, And YOU may get the $15 capital prize as a result of the letter the aspirant write Holl your letters to 60 words, And mail them to ihe || this place. Fiberty theater, This morning relief workers called & meeting of the various relief or- j. | Senizations in an effort to alleviate Gov. Len Small, rector Reeder of the Red Cross and | others will be a truck owned by tho} cting the work | able roads handicap towns to get efforts of nearby iven by | | until reconstruction work is well un- This was done to prevent reports, no dis-| broken: out here. rum has been brought autionary measure This town is a hole of destruction. Fully one-half of the city has been | which burned for than 24 hours. da. , The | Orientals are circulating literature jin support of their position Natiy organizations t 1) Business buildings are in heaps. tor cars are tangled bits of iron and} It is into this mess that rescue. D 2. A. R, CARTER of Murphys: BY boro lost his. medicine kit and when they were blown from @ |patient’s home Wednesday, ‘They |were recovered 10 miles away. [ters and pamphlets from Murphys- | boro have been picked up 65 miles away | TODAY’S WANT ADS eer 4 NORTH BROADWAY $6,500 buys a jroof of a g! | scenes at Mur N It has @ large pay) Rarage on paved street Want Ad Col paign; Roads Impassable BY ROBERT T. LOUGHR. RPHYSBORO, Iil., March A foodgshortage has developed workers are plunging on, attempting to locate bodies of the hundreds who were killed when the. windy horror swept over “Little Egypt.” Everywhere there is suffering. It lis almost a bandaged town. One lit- tle girl seems to describe the thing— | lock of flaxen hair droops beneath a stained bandage around her head. She ts seeking her parents—and no one knows the answer to her ; for “Mamma.” Tents spot the charred landscape, | In these tents the injured are treated by scores of nurses and doctors who jhastened here from Chicago, Louis and the adjoining territory. when word of the disaster was spread. Provisions tents have been started | where hot steaming coffee and soup is passed out to a line of hungry and | homele: The res A supply | fed survivors of the storm, at these provision tents. Winged relief whirrs overhead. t is in the form of planes from ch are carry: t field, Mlinois, wh (Turn to Page 13, Column 6) Sidelights on Cyclone BY UNITED PRESS A motor car protruding thru the is one of the freak hysboro. West Fr Altho badiy wrecked, St. Andrews al handled half of the injured Murphysboro. Pationts — were cared for in the boiler room, stock | feed store rooms, halls, wash {rooms and on the stairways. At De Soto a church was de |molished while the rectory closely adjoining, escaped (Turn to Page 13, Colunm 6) erin 1} — the greatest tornado sobs ue workers also are being kfort a two-bys four was blown thru a thick tree } trunk