The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 21, 1925, Page 1

i _MR. FIXIT, W HO SETTLES EVE RYONI 8 TROUBLE S, GIVE iS A TENA NT ADVICE! PAGE & SMASH SEATTLE FOOD TRUST | WEATHER Ail FORECAST | - _ <b» Eatered os fecond Clase Matter Mary ?. | $1,500,000 Year ie = | aeted Profit stir, ger seine cone tone Star Reveals Method of Operation; The clock in the steeple hag . pre Dealers Hide Machines; Brown Talks If you try to shoot crops with toys who knote ho Lsreedl You to cleaners again! LOT MACHINES, cperated in Seattle in open defiance | CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON of the law and patronized largely by school children, | IVY CLUB are netting their owners the handsome sum of $1,500,000 a The boro who believes that he Is an accomplished musician just be cause he knows how to change needles on a phonograph. year, it was revealed § The slot machine grocery store aturday. “privilege” is enjoyed by cigar stores, , markets and soft drink places: profit, split between the merchant and the company owning the apparatus. There are said to be nearly 500 machines in Seattle. At this rate the “profits,” which are really gambling winnings, amount to more than a milion and a half yearly. There is “a 75 per cent profit in operating the machines,” one storekeeper told The Star Saturday. They are placed in the stores ona 50-50 basis by the companies owning them. | In some stores the machines were hurriedly hustled into storerooms Friday evening, following The Star’s expose of their workings. Owners said they would stop using them “until things have quieted down again.” They have gone thru the same motions sev- eral times, upon occasions when Police Chief Severyns has issued an “order,” asking removal of the gambling Here lies the body j Of Hermann MeStrouse; | He once tea often Tracked raed in the house. ee | devices. | Old Silas Grump, the sage of} Such orders usually were in effect two or three days. Pumpkin Hollow, says: “My idea} Then the machines broke out like a rash all over again. of no sort of a job is that of being! Mi husband to a lady cop.” a xed in with the machine ~ BROWN EXPLAINS et Says He’s Making Survey of Situation their owner vay, dodge it up In the Malamute saloon The kid who handles the radio Was a-dialin’ out a tune. They ast him to get ‘em KFOA, But he got 'em of KGO, So they riddled his carcass full o° lead And dumped him out In the snow. BROWN pros that hi all gambling machines clgar, dru and wou the mach stores not frequen’ acores of th Now I ain't so wise as these radio guys, But strictly between us tro, The reason they shot, the song that he got ie ke h Was one called, “Dootle Doo-Doo!” | hope of winr Sad hea i he slot mac ostotfice department is go- |'"S T rdf es rf ' Zt Math a half-cent stamp this | the Ia 4 Sales com-|T reported to him Saturday with ns Ags r is pany, of which choen is lis lists of machines which the 0 ile r ; ght objectionable, The mayor got change for & penny? tad ag) cirdeldad A. R. Scho . : sa adage a , \{s secretary, treasurer and gene he sent them out again w wit tie a 8: my concern does bual- {Orders to the machines operat AIL APPLESAUCE SAYS: |™nager. This rn Goes. bust: |! anne ness at 1626 Broadway. Tho con-|!ng at once lcern claims ita business 4s legitl:| “One of the piaces complained mate because the machines actually jof in The Star Friday wan at the return something for the nickel (Turn to Page 8, Column 3) Spring Fever! between poetry and verse is that % person can un- derstand verse.” Dialogue between two Sn oe wee re || dim Marshall Gets It Bad; Plans Trip, “Wha’ time ‘sit?” but Wife and Woodpile Win “Tuesday—hic—afternoon.” “Well, this is where I get off,| then.” | —/ eee BY JIM MARSHALL, , wine of Ife has gone from my | ood % HE T° DAY ‘or, | blood ra gee aR ects: | I'm off—as soon aa I fini | Vamp: A pielepocket. that | | BE RINGr: SAUL ee | this sto for the country | works with her eyes. } | thru! spaces and the sea spaces, whero —_—_—_—_—_ S| ‘The spring is in my blood, | it’s clean and fresh and tho trol eae } and I’m off, to wander, caro- | leys’ don’t go clanging by every Li'l Gee Gee's idea of cleaning a} free, down the leafy highways, | minute. There's room out there, room consists in disturbing the dust} where the yernal sunshine | in the silences, and you don't teacher's down on making it settle in a new place. paints white patterns on the have to barge around in a crowd- y Saree winding road ahead. I'm go ed street and swing on a strap ast night's meeting of the Ea-| ing tramping thrut the high | /n a shriking street car twice a gies’ lodge was “Canned Goods’| hills, where the rivers rush mu day, They're men out there and ve Pid pede eal ib | you don't have to listen to pea- At the lodge meeting wo attended,| and the peaks tower white in | nut politicians talking out of the It was ‘Bottled Goods” night. the allver moonlight. I'm going | Cormers of thelr mouths, dhs Se) | out where the rain falls softly | oe EVERYDAY | thu the pines and the wind | Wigeee VERE SON ste, CBs WE | | waterfront, Where the smell “ gan »| comes soughing over the scarps waterfront, where t 1 woulda passed, Ma, but th’) a MATHARaes “oe the dub | of the sea grips you and ship | tat aboard a slabsided tramp bound me. Hones’, airs ma, for anywhere, somewhere, no- J_work like ev. [f .As.soon ax ve written thie where, and never coming back. erything. But that | my last story—I'm going to toll That's the life Out on tho oV teacher's got | the editor; “I'm thru | ocean, with the green seas heavy it in for me.» I'm sick and tired of writing | ine nor thru to far lands, where Hones’, mat’ Y| about meetings of the Rotdry | jp powa people live, Out of the ees | club and how somebody got ar- FAC IADS the: Wauee Binoad, liars The modest pussy tiller rested for being drunk. That's the seas smash and the long Noda by the babbling brook; all behind me now—all tho | combers roll, flooding soapsuds We write this for a filler meanness and boredom of the over long golden beaches in We haven't been down to book, city, I'm thru with telephones | oonlight Pie and messenger boys and all the Tat EH Voiet ike ‘aor aul drab, dull round of business, All finish this I'm editor . 4 ng to tell the the crooks can go shooting and around in thelr tedi Ii they want to, for all arly up, and to the my serivening, writ flor, where robbi ST DAY OF SPRING, n HB. ‘ IRE I care, They think it's adven ae Featetin, itelachone ture | het dy juat rung. My wife. Advenutre? Blah! Sho sald “Don't forget, dear, Ai ibd to bring home that steak--and dinner. nd I'm thru | get homo early, The wood how Pat S00 WD with piling dandstok | fuat ec and I want you to Next week is ‘'Courte throw it into the basement before ing the furnace, I’m thru with Beatle, Motorists munt way, “P tinkering and slaving to pay for it gets rained on." fon me,” when running over podes-| a home I'll never get paid for And . 6's T mucss 5 «6 Ulons, until I’m old and gray ond the Im not . «+. thru. «6 \ The Newspape er W ith A machine in a fairly busy store will average $10 a day | the siggest fo ireuls ation 1899, at the Postoffion at Meattle. 5 SAT TLE, WASH., SATURDAY, Vash, under the Act of ¢ MARCH 8 Kids Fatten Gamblers’ | * * % * * +# * # # ' How children “play” gambling machines scattered all over the city is shown in this picture, posed by a Seattle boy for The Star Saturday. The boy is not gambling with the machine; merely illustrating how it is done. Children, actually working the machines, are common sights in con- fectionery and grocery stores in various sections of the city. Photo by Carter & Braaiey, Btar Staff Photog rs TEN ARE SAVED SEEKS RELEASE Plane Shepherd Asks for Bail; To) , Into Sea Know Answer Monday Naval Bombing Crashes | | SAN PEDRO, ¢ arch 21—| CHICAGO, March 21—Motion for Forced into the sea 20 miles off shore} bail was made today for Willlam D. | by a broken propeller, three | naval Shepherd, eh ere ed men of . the naval bombing plane 8-2-3 themselves from drowning tod. 1 with the murder McClintock nd seven en “mil: y by | the pontoons of| Willlam Scott saling water from Btewart, attorney ‘ for Shepherd, told Judge Hopkins | pa angerous leaks (Of the criminal court that the. bur. jon of suff when was not lent to struck the water, nec itating considerable baling to keep | hold Shepherd without bond her afloat milled by a second State's Attorney Robe: B. Crowe | ., motor, she wa ruided to a nding h the declaration Jon the rocks ’olnt San Juan a8 a eapital crime” and Those tho craft were|tested ‘against allowing Shepherd | Lie H. R, Hall and D, C. Mitchell, | his freedom, |Aviation Pilot D, E, Nelson, Chief| Several witnesses were summoned | |Carpenter A. Nelsc H. H. Henser,|to testify regarding the extent of P. ns0n, D, wland, Ham- | the proof, Court adjourned to Mon. | Effinton com 1 mer, ( thout acting on the plea for |Daughter Dying as | | Mother Enters Home, |Saunders Prepares | No one answered the door when | | xtrey Geotiea | Limnoh ranted At thie.) i More Forest Bills) | home of her daughter, Mra, Edith Representative Charles W. Saun- Marie Hughes, 422 Smith st, Friday as . Whose forest protection The elder woman broke in and found |?" was done to death by | Gov » Will try again at the Mrs. Hughes dying. The young woman waa unconscious and before medical ald could be obtained Charles D. Hu the husband, had left for Tac a Wriday morning and said his wife was in apparent good health when he departed, An autopsy of the coroner's office indi ented death was due to natural Next session of the legislature with| two more bills designed to feguard the stato's standing timber. Hartley Killed the Shaw-Saunders bill b it would hi forced timbermen to! protect forests from fire, One of aunde new substitute a died bills wt | catises, ent state syntem, and will ene urn ge | / ca Rr S Ta TEI ae | private planting of new forests. ‘The || You Can Buy other will relieve lands upon which | timber is immature from tasadl| || a Good Used Car placing these levies on "mature" | land |] at a reasonable price, ty waten: |] Ont | ing Star Want Ads, Here is a y | 1 one and deserve to be | Druggist Bacicnihs | $55,000 to Schools ‘ed at immedintel 1922 DURANT SHDAN Thin beautiful, well-balanced car PORTLAND, Maren 21.—John 1. has all the refinements one druggist, for whom Vestal, 73, funeral services Jday, bequeath may uipmer tingul | wikh tore Manoon’ tre [I It cannot be dis | held dan estate were yoster- | whieh $125 down bayw Mt, balance In |] will approximate $55,000 ta the Port te mp ritha low interest rato. tl iand school district. Mo left a small! \ amount to some distant relatives |] Turn to the Want Ad Columna {| who survive him, and the remainder; and neo who is offering this || was dosisnated for use in whatever! (anne car to you, manner the school board would de. / | sire. Washington The Seattle Sta | Japanese Premier pao HOME RULING OF _epiTion | GOURT IS [SUED Neterer’s Order Restrains 35 Se- attle Firms Per Year, by Mall, $9.06 * TWO CENTS IN to 10 Years in Pen for Soudas ... “Be Merciful,” Whispers Prisoner Be- fore Court for Breaking Jail SEATTLE, rmer and woman slayer, paroled Pye merciful, Mr. Judge,” and | vision of t pee SOUDAS, life whispered a husky plea of “Be : 10 years in the Walle from six to i urday morning when he came befor ry a received a sentence of Walla penitentiar. es Judge Austin E. Griffiths, after a jury ony iction of leading}... a sensational jailbreak here on Mare mg 4, 1917. The court denied the prisoner's reque st that he be de ported }so that he could visit his aged parents in Greece. Btarting in a thre 5 PRICE-FIXING COMBINE CHARGED hi Soudan’ ssuance of unl- distributl members, amodi me God!” he help then launched into tion of the Jail delivery in whieh | jo. four others escaped an explana it Judge Gr ithe explained to him that he 1 foregone his opport to tentify the tria e “I am sorry,” Soudas said. |, “Please excuse me, Be merciful, | 5, Mr. Judge. I have old parents : in Greece, My father is 60. 1 : have brothers, » and Jin, ead tsa A ; here. Let me be deported to see sa my my father and mother before essa: WANTS $40,000 behalf, and the announced the b] a cbonplete viewers sentenoe. after declaring for t nt, according to C. Every commur ; 18 al assistant United lowed to punteh Injured Employe Sues Com- | © } page | This court ec ae pany for Damages ’ members, tence In this case for n of t is of the court rul- the term he s to ser he Thimhe Wi aeahi \ m0 be brought into court escaped.” actin ait ia and fined and imprisoined for .con- ATTORNEYS WIL Pataotteg betaine tempt, Hughes said, APPEAL SENTE, Raliway Co. f iding Hu prosecution of A h » case were Henry Defenne counsel will appeut tot supreme court, charging that statutes fix the minimem pena five, instead of six ears Judge Grit en by county offi reprimand of ex-( sled Soudas in, him from where he was tence for the A. Guyler, of assistant at antl- » Bru- an istant attorney for inj piece See “GIMME A GLASS OF BEER,” NOW HEARD Blanche Coleman Hage abd eet IN VANCOUVER BARS Carrixa | crushed left toot’ and leg, s i AVES: ; “R, B. C, March jas in the mt én’. the 4. shoulders and back y-one Vancouver a ed Se a hospita votels opened beer parlors today ‘creating ind at 1 double ¢ number will terest in the case.” . operating within a Weinir spoke for the 4 by the glass is be- SAYS SOUDAS DIDN Murderer, Reprieved cents of the nickle “schooner” has evidently gone forever. Hard liquor may still be bought at government liquor _ stores, where beer is also on sale. But there beer can only be purchased in bottles and carried home for private consumption. The , brewers argued that the store System alone caused more drinking of whisky and less of beer. So the beer bars have been inaugurated for the sale of the milder beverage. There will be no brass rails in MURDER WO: never wo 2 Years, Must Hang going under the| SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March the name of a|21-—Pedro Cano, citizen of Mexico, Motectives of Ea. | ust pay the death penalty for mur. Carrieaae hit der of June St. Clair, a woman of always been Sou fas’ contention it | the underworld of Park City, tro, wan Coleman who killed he | years ago. This was determined Fri “A woman willed In British aha pehen! ths’; bonsG ar Daraess ire esis fused to extend his reprieve, The ate of execution will be reset by | the court at Coaly Cano charges | that his sweetheart, Refugio Ala: | Expresses Sorrow, meda, said to be in California, was| killed Blanche Grover, name of ¢ former chief of mont sal MAN, has Akira Kato, premier of Japan, to | tailed. ‘ ‘ will drink at little tables. Sand- | gave exclusively to the United Press | |a message of sympathy to victims |of the middle-west tornado. “I wish to be permitted to express | wiches are not served and neither rreN are si s. In the be are DRUGS TAKEN FROM CHINESE |] ee ye eee et bear, Morphine and valued at ik itt 7,000 wag not seized in the engine cocaine my deep and sincero grief in the stupendous disaster caused by the|room of the President McKinley | Jeyclone in the middlewest. We|as reported lay, but in the Chi- \friends at the time of the Tokio | ment, fording.'to “intormastlont ‘ré [ceived Owner Can’t Remember Where He Lost Gem BITS OF LIFE Theft of a diamond ring valued in four figures was reported, t O08 ANGEL! March 21 UBURN, Cal. March 21,-One || Proxy, to the Seattle police Sat- Chaxdauo WW, Hainly haa 6 of the strangest court tangles || Urday by Capt. J. F. Blaine, retired “memory expert” who traveled ayer recorded here was up for || %@ captain, formerly with the Ad- about the country teaching others trial today | miral line nd once superintendent how to remember thelr telephone ae jof the district United States ship- numbers, appointments and other Davis S. Will, Henry Worth |! ping board. ttems. But. according to his wife, and M, H. Anderson, placer min- Frank W. Hull, assistant manager he entirely forgot about her once, ers, are charged with killing |} of The Olympic Hotel, reported the and sho nearly starved as a re: ‘Thomas Carl in a mining claim || theft for Blaine, who left Seattle for sult ; F | San Francisco Tues: “He left mo stranded in Mon dispute. Will and Worth say they Hrpsiglsr, TuSaeAy tana and forgot to send me any willed : Cael: money,’ Mrs. Esther A. shot: thru tho eva, told Judge Gates, Judge Gates granted Mrs, Ham ly a divore According to Hull, Blaine had been Visiting friends at the hotel and had j been to several other places during | the evening early in the week and 80 he did not know |was stolen, The ring was set fired the Hamly pho shot that man was but his glasses ~ were not broken. where the ring with o bullets of different calibre were found In his head. IX CITY r roh 2 a very largo diamond, surrounded by ee aneaatitioeg tei iH A. K. Robinson, 75, has been |} smaller diamonds. Captain Blaine is reached the peak here when $2 PPolnted special prosecutor, XK. || a member of the Rainier club and is was stolen from a woman juror D. Robinson, his son, is defending || widely known in shipping circles, at the court house, Tho thie¢ ‘the three men, r ai TAR tenis nel 1" yeh pea i vd vies abe \Kennady Will Test ‘i Hebe: anv a oon hespians, 150 in OA re ere ac larceny, _RUIHber, today were | wondering City Workers’ Tax eee whether art is really worth the || Council finaneo committeemen OS AN 8, March 21 price Friday granted Corporation Counsel L Abandoned by their father, One of the matin characters |) Kennedy full authority to prosecute a fugitive from the law on a — !0 a home sehedul a test case as far as the U, S. sit bad check charge, Freddie and for out” at |i preme court if necessary to deter: George Stribling, 5 and 8 years — the minuto with the small |/mine if city utilities employes are of age, respectively, were found POX, A brave understudy was |/labte for income taxes by polige at their home here on rushed in and the production They recently were compelled to tho verge of starvation Went off aa scheduled, with an || pay the tax under an order of the The lads were taken to a hoa equally daring audience attend. |} internal revenue dep ment, when pital where it was said Freddie ing j Judge Jeremiah Neterer held against would probably die. George was The stricken actor Is in quar them in federal district court, Now in & serous condition, but iis ex antine and others of the cast {/sennedy plans to statt action to res cover the amount of thelr tax pays ments. pected to recover are being vaccinated, ee 4 ‘ ; % weeny