The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 14, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER rtly cloudy tonight and neaday Wed oderate north winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 54, Minimum, 41 Today noon, 54, AA nmrage The Ne wspaper With the Biggest Circulation iu Washington he Seattle Sta SE Pious Is Hero; Rescues ©| Neighbors From Fire} Howdy, folks! There is this to be said in favor of sarsaparilla you can take it or leave it alone, ‘Odd pa! $2.50," saya a sign on First Ave must be odd BYSITLIKETHIS ; t very soon | id Will dee bei-k-c t-h-ia, | j Cheer up! In the city you are run tb down by the autos, and in the country you're run down by the gos- : sips. | When it was announced last year| a by fashion experts that the long/ z skirts must § 5 a period of 2 general anxiety, was allayed | this spring, when ft was found in which direc they were going RADIO LIMERICK ‘The announcer at CFAC Is British as British can be, His pronuncyation is “Rydio Stytion” And his call sounds like “CFIC Henry Ford launched his first ai e yesterday. We always knew] zie could fly if she had wings. | rarer { Divorced are Mr And Mrs. Breew He placed some glue in Her be cream Piaintive cry In the U. of W. Daily university needs is SPRING POME In the spring = young wife's fancy Lightly turns to winter’s muss, for weeks she ralses Hades — Iso fifty kinds of dust! What the world needs most at the} present time ts larger chips of butter| ~ in restaurants. | * | A girl I fate ' Is Gertie Stroud At weddings she Sobs right out loud. Kallen, morning, and “ Henry Ford is going to ralse his own rubber in Florida, it ts an- nounced. This is a good idea. When a filvver made of rubber hits a stone wall, it will bounce right back. ee |fire department. When the Kallen family, cons Mrs. [was still | eacaped asleep Here lies the body of Harry J. Kant, ah Who smoked a pipe in a dynamite} ventors was organized in Seattle last week, Needed inventions that might claim the attention of the associa- tion: Machine to recover coat-sleeve tal- cum powder. Devise for retrieving gum stuck ler restaurant tables, achine for splitting peas for spllt- soup. A windshield rimmed glasses. Rubber fenders for Fords, arr swipe for horn- what you get when you are looking for something elec, o | driving slips. T Careful auto! To be properly welghed in the so- ofal scale, says Abigail Applesauce, it is necessary to have a cash bal- ease: Sergt. Frank DEEP STUFF Prospective umpires in the Tim- her league this year will attend a school for umpires, according to word from Longview Will they study Braille reading? eee @... fellow who first proved that n straight line is the shortest dis- tance between two points wasn't a taxicab driver. the rambunctiov and considerate The number headquarters. Today's Fable: Once upon a time} elong are & radio fan got a station and didn't | Bers by by immediately try to get some other etation, a ETHEL MARIE KALLEN who were saved from a fire in their home Tuesday which aroused his | and the street rallway company held} {master, C. C. Eddy, and caused the rescue of the Kallens. firemen Kallen and little Ethet their ing and took refuge in a neighbor's They Pack a‘ Brand New Traffic Slips Have a Punch in ’Em; Careful Auto Drivers Will Get Their Reward; Eight Best Ones Will Be theater will co-operate to reward them, to be chosen by traffic squad officers,every day. the eight will get two theat , Generally, the careful driver has been made the goat for have “the last laugh” on them will write slips for eight of them who are seen to be careful columns of The Star. % % and her mother, Mrs. 0. Big Ben,” the hero-dog, oto by Carter & Bradley, Star Staff Photographers pide Wetec cathode tae wien | A large Chesapeake dog owned by blaze nearly set fire to a large hent i le Nalohdaes hy bt icit'a Bot oF naw | C. C. Eddy, 4817 W. Findlay] house nearby, but timely work of shrubbery next spring. st., saved the family of M. K. Kallen,! the firemen kept the flames from] erieiie 15632 49th ave. S. W., from a fire| spreading og: pera [that broke out in their home at 246) The Chesapeake dog. whose In ledken lovely’ oh ja. m. Tuesday. The dog, Ben Frank: | tellixence was responsible for saving you, Madame! lin, driven frantic by the smeli of | the lives of the family, won several It's a true Paris. 4 smoke and the roar of flames, clawed | prizes in the recent dog show in miacae pam ee Jat the door of his master's bedroom | the city, according to neighbors chic! juntil he awakened Eddy, who, upon pp: |secing the fire next door, called the BRIAND FAILS! Unable to Form Cabinet, He Tells President arrived the isting of Kallen, Marie, hastily cloth. They nigh plant; |home. ‘The fire had originated from) PARIS, April 14.—Aristide Briand | A careless spark, a hiss, and zounds! [Some unknown cause in @ lean-to| went to the Elysee palace this eve The inquest was held in seven|sbed built onto the rear of the Kallen | ning and informed President Dou towns, home. It wan just catching the 7 apse! “ee , [house when the dog diowuvered it. Mersue that he could no! under “Woll,” said Li'l Gee Gee, looking |The loss is estimated at about $200 take the task of forming a ‘cabinet at a Saratoga chip, “this potato cer.| Had the dog not aroused Eddy in| to succeed that of Edouard’ Her tainly was succeasful in its effort to|time to give the alarm, firemen say | riot reduce.” [the Kaifen home might have become! Refusal of the socalists to join oceie a death trap. a government with Briand as pre. SCIENCE DEPARTMENT One hundred baby chicka were mier caused the latter to give up| The National Association of Im} burned to death in the fire The? his attempts to form a ministry. Kick” Candidate for the Poison Ivy club: Chosen Each Day and They Will Be The girl who Is still trying to decid * j whether wip should get her hale|| Given Tickets to T heater bobbed, } ——— bedi, RAFFIC slips with a brand new “kick” in them are Today's Definition: Eapertence is| making their appearance in Seattle today. Careful hey’re worth working for. Read on— mobile drivers, who have hitherto had to take some of the blame given their careless brethren, are to meet their reward in Seattle. Fuqua, The Seattle Star and the Columbia Hight of them are Hach of ticke usness of reckless pilots. Now he“is going to Hach day traffic officers of the safety of others. of cars chosen will be turned into traffic Then they will be printed in the classified Those motorists to whom the num- to call at The Star's classified ad desk, 1807 Seventh ave., prove their identity and get the tickets, The first eight numbers will be published Wednesday, TTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, AI Brea City Hit Ha -RIL 14, rd! 1925, Must Pay Tax on | Street Railway! ‘San Francisco Court Passes on Point, Not at Issue, Says Neterer AE im city of Seattle again lost an ortant case before the U. 8 court of appeals at San Franciaco Monday when the Stone & Webster Co. appeal from the tax ame before | The San } n ntreet car de ui neo court, in a Fran on Judge held that the city mu 1919 # The court Rudkin, hree-fourths ¢ of eet ral In here federa in Jeremiah Neterer George and E E. Cushman so after the p The case ar hase in federal court to compel the city to pay three-fourths of the bill Kennedy moved to strike or dis mins the complaint, alleging that it was not based upon legal grounds. by by the In a decision written Judge Neterer and concurred in Judges Bourquin and Cushma pany’s bill was dismissed “The question of whether waa obliged under {ts contract pay the tax bill was not before thir Judge Neterer said Monday court es TTLE’S g here. Judge Jeremiah Neterer of cases settled by him. Rudkin at San Francisco, off the reservation, decide against Seattle. The case is handed back ther proceedings,” but the shall be. Off the Reservation EDITORIAL experiences with Judge Frank H, Rudkin and California associates on the appelate court bench at San Francisco have been enlightening, if costly. First the telephone rate case, then the Stone & Webster tax suit have been decided unfavorably to this city over the decisions of federal court judges ing his decisions, and sound as to law in a majority important cases that involve large corporate interests, they frequently fail to stand the scrutiny of Judge And in this particular case it is evident that the San Francisco. judge went out of his. course—got away He and his associates, according to press dispatches, went outside their jurisdiction to dictated what Judge Neterer’s subsequent decision has proved fearless in writ- But when he passes upon to Judge Neterer “for fur- circuit court has virtually aS? | of the street ri | Webster interests, The purchase was/ consumated March 31 j that no taxes were due King county under municipal ownership the lines, but the U. 8, supreme court on of King county ruled the levy appeal | lea! \K EDY HOLDS CITY | NOT OBLIGATED The traction com: offered I pay one-fourth of the taxes, but City Counciiman EB. L. Blaine, inquiring whether the city was obligated, was linformed in an opinion by Corpora |tion Counsel T. J. L. Kennedy that the city could not legally pay the tax claim Tho Puget Sound Light & Power |Co., former owners of tho rail and a Stone & Webster subsidiary, then paid the tax and brought suit TEXAS CLUES IN GERM MURDER Detectives Probe Into Death There of Mrs. McClintock CHICAGO, April 14 is being searched for clews | | | | | | Texas, that may throw light on the death! of Mrs. MocClintock, it revealed today by the state's attor- neys office. Mra. McClintock, who died 16 years ago, was taken ill In Bayview, Tex,, | while she was assisted by Willlam Emma D, Shepherd in building a summer home. State's Attorney Robert BR. Crowe hopes to recelyo a report on the analysia of the vital organs of Dr. Oscar Olson, Coroner Ononr Wolff already has reported that dichloride of mercury was found in Mra, Mc- Clintock’s body, Just as soon an a definite report Is made on the ex. amination of the doctor's body, the [Inquest into the death of Billy Me- Clintock, ‘milonalre orphan,” will bo resumed. Lighted Pipe Causes Gasoline Explosion Recause the driver of a truck, filling up with gas at the station at 24th and Jackson, lit a pipe, aw cording to police, C. A. MeDorman, 34, 917% Spruce st, serviceman, was taken to the city hospital, sut- fering from severe burns to his left arm and side, Monday @fter- noon. An explosign followed the flare of the match and MeDorman, pull ing the hose out of the tank in hin excitement, splashed the gas on himself and waa ignited. A fire extinguisher put out the blaze, The nome of the truck driver tw un known, j ‘ays from Stone &| 1919. The city | Galveston, | was| in commenting on the cireult court decision | “From what I have seen in the papers, it appears that the circuit court passed upon that point, whieh was not Involved in the case. I informed the litigants that I could transfer the case to the legal side of the court and proceed with it, but the company preferred to ap- peal the decision. Monday that he {s unable to state |what course will be followed in jPushing the suit further, until he seen the full opinion. | “It appears that the decision goes into matters that were not at Is sue before the federal court here,” | Kennedy said. “The question of the validity of the contract and whether the city must fulfill its obligations was not raised.” $6,000 LOST IN BUNCO GAME Invests Big Sum in “Cheese Factory”; Strangers Gone Monday afternoon Ernest Pfacffie, |lately of Wisconsin, “Invested”? $6,000 |in a “cheese factory.” A few hours jlater he walked into the police sta- tion and told Detective W. B. Kent he had beon buncoed. His $6,000 had disappeared; so had two men to whom he intrusted the money. | Pfaeffle, a cheese maker, recently. jsold out in Wisconsin and came to Seattle: Ho was evidently discovered by the bunco men and marked down as thelr prey. They managed to meet him and put before him the |choeso factory scheme. He ac: quiesced. While the Wisconsonite deposited his $6,000 in bills in a cash box, one of the bunco men did the same. At Kighth and Pike one of the crooks feigned iliness. ‘Tho other gave Pfaeffie $5 and told him to go and |buy some medicine in a drugstore. |'Thé cheese maker complied, That was the last he saw of the crooks or his money. Paulhamus Still Unchanged Today There ia still no change in the condition of W. H, Paulhamus, vet- eran Western Washington fair man- home in Sumner Ho has been confined to his bed alnce the close of the fair last October, He in belloved to bo dying Tuesday morning. LEGISLATORS TO ME King county Jggislators will moot | Wednesday noom, ‘They will dine lat the Chamber of Commerce and talk afterward, George I. Meacham jis chairman of the club, Proposed legislation will be discussed, ager, according to reports from his} Motered as Hecond Class Matior May 3, 1699, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March %, 187%, : \ | com | | views his finger on which a $1,500 ring once shone resplen-| A robber in the Druxman cigar store Monday took | | | | | Corporation Counsel Kennedy said | | | 1) |‘The Doggone Crook! | Says Robbery Victim) 1 YOUTH ~ ROBS Per Your, by Mall, $4.08 iil HOME EDITI T “THE DOGG dently. Y WO CENTS IN SEATTLE. NERVOUS Harry Druxman Loses $2,500 in | Cash and Ring A NERVOUS into Druxma 1425 Fifth day morning, liked store, 930 Harry youth of 20 wa 's cigar at ave., about ‘Tues- stuck Drux- up 38 gun and walked out #1 man with a with about $1,000 and a $1,500 dia- mond ring. Altho » l men ran after him, For away. he into which | The trail a ped waiting | coupe sped rapidly was lost waitress, serv- Ed Finnegan, of Charlotte Price, the cook, was in the kitchen, mid Ed Wyatt, the attendant, was going his work, and Druxman was the front of the place Gay Glennan, was | ing breakfast |the Union: Oil Co. | | way to the rear. card table about waiting Jon trade SHOVES LONG GUN |IN OWNER’S FACE | The Ford drove up and the boy ntered. He asked for a package of cigarets and laid down a quarter Without waiting for his change, he jdrew a long blue gun, shoved it in- jto Druxman’s face and forced the cigar store proprietor behind the |counter,* Then he followed, slam- | med open the cash register, scooped lout its contents and edged nervous. hy toward. the doors... Before he NE CROOK!” says Care Druxman as he! went he tugged at 3%g-carat dia- |mond ring from Druxman’s: fincer. The police were told the coupe carried a California license. The about $1,000 in cash from Harry and also the valuable ring. |loss is covered by insurance. The Photos by Cart & Bradley, Star Stati Photog: Eight Lost Years They Were Sperititn Prob in Praae by Man of 27 and Now He Asks Chance to Make Good; Tells Whole Story to Chief Sev- eryns; the Chief Straight BY 8. B. GRO! GUGHT years of the 27 he had lived—or rather existed—he has spent in prison. For many years before that he had lived under a sunless shadow of iron bars. Bight he had soulleas nonentity, a number, body without a name. He walked into the office of Chief of Police Severyns, Tues day, and asked for a job. He was thru, he said, with crime. He had tried everything, bur. slary, forgery and counterfeit ing included, Severyns had heard the story shadow—the been a a years before. Thero was nothing new about it, He looked up with a cynical look in his eye, but a warm spot began to glow in his heart, as he took in the details, ragged clothes, unkempt hair, the prison mannerisms, and steady blue eyes. i Two years in Missouri state ‘pen’ for burglary,” the CRASH KILLS 2 Aberdeen Auto Collision Is Fatal; 1 Badly Hurt ABERDEEN, April 14.—Two were killed and one seriously Injured in an auto crash near here early today, Mrs, Creeb and a Mr, Wallace were killed, and a man said to be namod Strayer, seriously injured, Identiti cation is not complete. TODAY’S WANT ADS Will help you to find the partic: ular home you are looking for. Here is one of today's listings. i CUTS PRIC $9,200 takes this dandy 6-ROOM bungalow, located short dia- tance from ROOSEVELT HI close to grade schools, 2 bic from car lines; level lot to al- y} warage; coment basement; ace; living room; dining room; cabinet Kitchen; 2 bed rooms and bath; house newly painted and decorated Inside and in good condition, Wine vesidential district. #850 down, $15 a month gives you the kéys, Ketter SER THIS if you want a RAL HOME, Open evenings: ‘urn to the Want Ad Columns nt and see who is offering this one to you, Will Help Him Go young man was saying, “two years in Salem, Oregon ‘pen’ for n’ I just got out of Leavenworth after four years for counterfeiting.” “It's time,” Severyns replied, “that society w doing some. thing for you. You are young You still have time to change You have a good eye, and I be. lieve what you say. We'll see if you CAN go straight. We will see if there is someone in Seat tle, who after knowing your rec. ord, will give you the chance to make good.” Bight years of his life, Arthur Everhart had spent in dreary routine of the gray stone prisons, During that time he had become a baker and cook. But he will work at anything, “just to be honest. Just to show the world that IT can come back.” If anybody wants to help give Everhart another chance Chief Severyns will be glad to hear about it HE’LL AID PORT Senator Dill Friendly to Se- attle Naval Interests Seattle's naval interests have another friend in the person of Senator C. C. Dill, the senator sald visiting in Seattle prior to his departure Tuesday ovening for California, He was recently appointed to the powerful naval af- fairs committee of the senate. “I wanted at first to get onto Senator Borah's foreign affairs com- mittee,” DIN said. “But Ir remem- bered how important naval affairs were to Seattle and the west side of the state, and decided I could do good work on the nayal affairs beay. Th summer Senator Dill will travel to Alaska, going probably from Seward to the coast guard boat, Reports Holdup and Theft of His Truck Frank Alvan, 194 27th ave. told tho sheriff's office Monday, that rot bors held him up at Mage Grove, near Cedar mountain, Sunday, ted him to a tree and stole a. truck he was driving, The sheriff has similar reports of other holdups in the vicinity, It took Alvau half an hour to free himself, he said, Priblloffs in a} |store is well known as a rendezvous |for sporting and newspaper men. | SECOND ROBBERY LIN THIS STORE This makes the second time that the Druxman cigar store has been robbed in a little more than a year. | In February of 1924, the place was | entered and the safe robbed of $1,600 | in cash and checks. The yeggs were | never captured. |; In December, 1923, a few months | before, two burglars were surprised jas they were attempting to break into the store early in the morning, by C. L. Fryant, special officer. He shot one and, after a struggle, cap- tured both of them. Their names are Earl Roberts and John Royce, ac- cording to Harry Druxman, and they are now in Monroe reformatory. KILLS HUSBAND OF EX-WIFE Divorced Aberdeen Man, Then Shoots Self in Tacoma TACOMA, April 14.—H, A. Win- ston of Aberdeen came to the home of his former wife here last night, on the eve of her first wedding an- niversary, and shot her husband, Fred B, Arnold, then turned the gun on himself, A suicide note, setting forth his intentions, was found on him by the coroner. Arnold and Winston met in front of the house. A fight started, which ended when Winston pulled his gun and shot Arnold. He then ran into the kitchen of the house and shot himself in the head. Henry, 14, and Ywanna, 15, his son and daughter, witnessed the fight and shooting. They were living with their mother and stepfather. NAB 4 YOUTHS Police Find 14 Gallons of Moonshine in Their Auto Evidence that young boys are in- volved in the liquor traffic was un- covered by police early , Tuesday when Patrolman BE. M. Playford and J, C, Wilson stopped a Hudson automobile at 12 ave. and Jackson st, and arrested Martin Martinson, 15, Orville Lowry, 16, Melvin Low- ry, 28, and Archle Wisdom, 29, and confiscated 14 gallons of moonshine, and the automobile, ‘The two young boys were charged jwith being delinquent and were sent to the juvenile detention home. Wis: dom and the elder Lowry were hold in the city Jail on a Hquor law charge. Playford and ‘Wilson declarod they stopped the automobile when they grew suspleious of its occu. pants, On searching the car they found the tonneau with a full cargo of moonshine, Detectives and dry squad officials wore Investigating the caso Tuesday to determine what part the two juveniles wore taking in the case,