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WEA Cloudy toni wodrmer cemabbatar Maximum, 58 Today 27. NO. 85, Home Brew T. BY HOMER G. Our Motto “Three Hours for Lunch!" eee Howdy, folks! Speaking of horrible sensations, did you ever get up in the dark and step on a hot-water bottle? A hole in ascreen door has one ad vantage. When all the files tin the neighborhood craw! thru it into the/ kitchen, you can close the door, go | out on the back porch and cat your | dinner in peace. ] see } Man is somewhat of @ sausage—| Very smooth upon the skin; | But you can't tell just exactly | i How much hog there is within, eee Cheer up! In the winter the gas company gets your money, and in the summer the gas station, “ee DERN VERSATILE GOATS “For Sale—Milk from registered milk ts, also summer Ince hats. Phone, Sunset Park."—Ad in Siekersoa | Argosy. see Little Homer Brew Jr. good at arithmetic. Ho says he simply can't learn the “Gozintas.” He ex- plains that the “Gozintas” are where they teach “Two gozinta four’ and} “four gozinta eight.” | vee “As ye sow ye shall also rea; 8o runs the prophet’s tune; And many @ gardener’s April deans} Are hag-beens long ere June. | isn't very} | —Mcow. | oe | C. G. C, says he nevet uses Ivory | seap for a shampoo, as you can't | wash ivory with lvory.. 4 | ser ig THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE | CAR HOOCH \\ CORONER OBSEQUIES “Oo's icky honey bunch is 007" she ly cooed. @ he turned to gather her Into} te arms, the car plunged into a} ditch. Crawling out and digging the mud from his eyes, he gurgled: “Ooxel* The leaves frit, And so do I only difference een the leaves and me, Is that I fall harder And more frequently. —J. HH. eee More than fifty billion cigarets are made in the United States annually, so the flivvers can't be the most numerous things in this country, after all. ae) ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SAYS: “The trouble with a large fam- | ily Is that by th’ time th’ last child has been driven to bed at night, it’s almost time to club th’ first one out in th’ morning.” se. After a pair of flannel trousers have been washed a few times, the owner has no room to criticize short skirts. see | The curfew tolls the knelt of part-| ing day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his| weary way, He'll worl upon his radio after tea.) This is a fine season for amateur baseball, says the man who puts in new window panes. PSL hn D. Rockefeller Jr. says he @:: the passing of the old-fash- 1 woodpile. What.worries us is the passing of the old-fashioned coal pile. ee xB DIARY. (June 4) Up very betin and Dame Brew mighty urgent that I do eat = new breakfast foode, \t containing many pro- ltamines good for it did taate tke it, for his health’s . Bo to the of- fice, where talking to A. Kyan, and he tells me many curious tayles of Australia and Mexico, did also see A. Norinnd, who hath invented a new alphabet, and doth wish people to ase it, but great heavens, said 1, what ase ean it be to me, f cannot spell with the one we have now! And so to home, The Washington State Bankers’ as- nociation is holding its annual con- vention here today, I'l Geo Geo is going to ask the checks come ciation why her 6: from the bank Tficlent Fud®e,” when marked “ the bank vertises it has millions in capital and surplus, sae | To be to borrow where In a gift; js also aw git able money any. to lend it agywhere ee Aad Be | fired three bullets into Monica, THER - Friday, foir and ntle west ads Last M neon, MM Hours The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington mcg Is She This— WOMAN AND ARE SLAIN ‘Tacoma Dancer’s Admirers Fight With 2 MEN Guns Over Girl ACOMA, June 4.—A_ young French girl dancer and two youths were dead here today, following n love triangle shoot- ing here yesterday afternoon in an apartment studio, The victims of the murders and suicide are Poinette Quinot; Elmer Harold Monica, recently discharg from the U. 8. 8. Tennesweo, and V tor Hugo Dale, a farming youth from Oregon. It was\ Dale's handler pistol that | nd killed Mise Quinot and Monica, then was turned with fatal effect on himself as the aftermath of a quar. rel. Rivals for the love of the girl, the men apparently sought to fight @ gun duel in the little room as the object of their attention looked on in terror, Both were armed and both started to fire, according to the police. Dale reached his weapon first and who slumped over dead, his own pistol half way out 6% his pocket. Dale then shot the girl in the head. She died instantly, The slayer then turned the weapon on himself. Ho wan stilt alive |tered, but died soot a hospital. | Hefore shooting himself Dalo a short note It rea "C. M, Mitchell, Elma, I have goes to them. Ashland, Oregon.” —« | Dule came here two }and the: girl, studio apartment from Mrs. C. W, harp in left disposing of his prop: J erty. Orchard at Sago. He rooming house at 1133 . telling her they were Yesterday after- and the shoot- | was the son} Monica, noon Monica appe ing followed. Montc of Mr. and Mrs. Jack South J st., Keystone hotel. The girl was known also as La §. La Flourette married name of Loretta Denberry, papers being found tending to show a divorce action at Portland, In Dale's pockets were two telegrams asking for money for the girl. They wero signed “Morris.” Bankers of Washington | Are Guests of Seattle Financiers of State Gather in Annual Convention BY J. R. JUSTICE IECAUSE there are 300 or 400 out-of-town bankers in Seattle is no reason why anyone should get nervous or go out of town, They come to attend the 13th annual state bankers’ convention being held at The Olymple Hotel, and Ralph Par- lette, author and lecturer of Chicago, who 14 here to talk to the bankers, nays that behind the frozen face and flinsy eye, every banker has a warm heart and is @ good fellow when he gets away from home with his fun- day clothes on, Parlette goes further, and says that they are an easy lot, and offers as evidence the fact that they brought him out last year to lecture before thelr convention and are now pay- ing him money to do It a n, After a number of selections by an orchestra the convention was opened with a prayer by the Rey. Ambrose M., Halley, Thursday morning. W. 1. Parsons, president of the Horton National bank, delivered tho address of welcome, and the rexponse was by Morbes Y, Haskell, Jr., press dent of the Vuget Bound National bank, of Tacoma, Dexter | The address of J. K, of Palouse, president of the organ: |ization, and “A Message From the | Middle West,” by W. J. Batley, for: mer governor of Kansas, were tho of ‘Thursday's session. McCormack, With the completion of the various committees, Thursday afternoon, the convention will adjourn until Iriday morning to permit all those who play golf to engage in the contest for the grand prize of the Clearing House assoclatiog. The annual ball will be held in the Thursday night. Kr seasion will tak up with the addresses, ‘The principal ones will be by Dean H, Te Lowln, of the University of Wash: who will speak on ‘Tho » and Minanee In the Orient; [a talk on @{nternational Relations,” |by Chief Justice Murphy, of the su preme court of British Columbia, and a be watting | the Parlotts, of Chicago. Friday afternoon will bo largely (Tin to Page 9, Column 5) y dixcourse on ke," by Wash. All| police say, rented the! and apparently by tho} Spanish room at The Olymple Hotel) | be largely | . SEATTLE, WASI What IS the real Seat ander the Act of Congress March 4, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1925. tle flapper wife? The girl at the left, interested in men, lobster palaces and cocktails? bands and babies? wife! west. Seattle girl who married to live extravagantly. But there's side. —flappers would follow Hundreds of flappers ioving little wife. The Star wants themselves to mail these st Editor of The Star, Seattle clubwomen. your letter in today. 1 | Agent, Stops ‘ManWithGun | | PoHina as a federal prohibition |* officer, J. A. Grinsteiner, 46, at ithe point of a gun early Thursday jmorning stopped an |driven by Mike Pinto, of 2432 Bay st. and forced Pinto to take him to Pi later captured by the police | sald he s home, where Grinsteiner was Pinto was passing Fifth ye. and King about 2 a. m., [when Grinsteiner ran into the str lana stopped him with a gun. “I'm a federal officer and going home with you for the night.” I'm Grinsteiner sald, according to Pinto, | Tho bogus officer was shown to a {bedroom in to the Pinto home and |retired. Pinto then telephoned the | 1209 |polico and Patrolmen N. P, Ander- | hours, while the mercury. has and had been living at |non and B. M. Playford responded. | soared to new heights, shat- |They broke into Grinsteiner’s room | and found him sitting up in bed, pointing a pistol at them. They | jdrew thelr own guns and made him surrender Police were mystified by |xteiner’s actions, The case will be Investigated further. | $30,000 Fire Ruins Homes in Ketchikan KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Juno 4 Another destructive fire swept part of the south end of the clty, doing damage estimated at $30,000, No one was hurt, as dar as is known, Three apartment houses, a boat shop and neven homes were burned. 7 SAO Ta EY Buy Your Home 7} || Now— Hore is a very good Usting and should be given careful considera tion 8 N&ETS SOUND beautiful UNOB- Make up. PANORAMIC tho STRUCTINLB of thin CLASSY HONOR WONDERE LAND P. LAving: rc hardwood fl mantel and bath with he Inet Kitchen with yange canopy, tle Large SUN ROOM used for first fl bedroom Two fine, large bedrooms on xecond floor, ull coment |] basement tub, Ca Tehed nook, drain, ete that can be |] Turn to the Sant Ad Columns and see who Je offering this dandy RWAD THE KY DAY Wor view home to you. || WANT ADS 1 OOM BUYS IN IT It follows citing period, to her downfall. another side to flapperism—the good automobile Grin. | Or the girl at the right, partial to homes, hus- The Star wants to pick Seattle's ideal flapper It will give her $50 in cash! On June 9 this paper will print the greatest heart-interest serial ever published in the North- Called “The Flapper Wife,” it tells of a for money, for the chance her thru an ex- Lest readers get the idea that all—or even many in the path of Gloria Gor- don, The Star wishes to present the other side. marr, Nearly every one of them turns out to be a fine, home each year in Seattle. to tell the stories of some of these ideally-happy flapper wives. It wants the flapper wives ories at once to The Flapper He will turn them over to a jury of For the letter they select .as the best, The Star will. pay $50. Contest closes at midnight Monday. But get The Seattle Star | iii Belered as Becond Clare Malier May %, 1899, at (he Postoffice at Seattia Was! asta, Tear, by Mall, $1.00 * T eattle’s Best-Marnied Flapper to Get $50 —Or This? CENTS IN SEATTLE, ‘HIGDON IS ‘DECLARED “GUILTY! Jury Recommends | Life for Man Who Killed Three LAYING Mayor Brown and Po- lice Chief Severy: ing dens of vice to flourish in | Thursday noon “for allow- and bootlegging Seattle". a jury recommended life limprisonment for Lawrence Higdon, |60, convicted of murdering bis com- jpanion, Mrs. Nora Reynolds, 36. | The jury's special report, | was voluntarily signed by all mem- bers, “condemned the spirit of law- « existing in Seattle and the number of bootleggers and re- which sr sorts of vice existing.” “We believe,” “in view that the mayor and chief of police are re- miss in their duties in allowing such, places to flourish notoriously and openly.” Higdon admitted, in the ‘trial, that he was intoxicated at the time of the slaying, He said he had they said, of testimony in this case, Poses as Dry EASTERN HEAT IN DUEL WAVE DEATH TOLL NOW 68 Suffering Area Faces Another Day of Torture, Predict ons Show BY UNITED PRESS IR the fourth consecutive | day a fiery sun flamed out of the east this morning,| threatening to increase the} death toll of the current heat} wave, which already has killed | 68 persons and caused num- |berless prostrations over a rge section of the country. Twenty-five more deaths attributable to the heat have occurred during.the past 24 I | tering all records for the date in many cities. | Forty-three persons died di-| rectl¥ or indirectly as a result | of the intense heat during the} first three days of the week. | Crazed by the heat, according to police, Floyd Russell shot and killed elght persons in Hamilton, Ohio. Detroit reported four deaths with four other victims in hospitals. Four deaths and a score of pro: trations occurred in Philadelphia, whore the 24-hour maximum was 96 At 8 a. m, today the temperature was 78 and climbing rapidly, Chicago had three more deaths, bringing its total for the week to nine. In Pittsburg, where the maxi- |} mum was 93, two persons died | and several prostrations oc. curred, Two persons died and 19 were | prostrated in New York, where the temperature was 80 at 10 a, m, and gradually ascending. Boston reported two deaths, many prostrations and a maximum of 100, One death and six prostrations re sulted from the heat in Washington, D. C, There the maxigium was 99 and unofficially 107. Atlanta, Ga, Is facing a shortage |of water as result of the scorching Motorboat Voyagers Beaten by Columbia THE DALINS, Ore, June 4 Discouraged because of slow prog yous Mado Against the freshet-swol- Jon rapids of the Columbia. riv John Kdwin Hoag, Frank 8, Wil- son and Val Woodbury, who are Jattempting to croxs the continent | by motorboat, have decided. to led the river at The Dalles and ship |thely boat by freight tomorrow to Wort Henton, Mont, ‘There the voyagers will ombark on tho Miss sourl river with New York as their eventual destination, weaifr and residents may on rations to preserve the supply. That city’s maximum was 92 with similar temperatures today. A devastating cloudburst Western Iowa and Eastern Nebras- ka in the wake of the storm. Dam age estimated at upwards of $ 000,000 was done to crops farm bulldings, Many towns, including Sioux City, Towa, and Blair, Neb., were partially flooded, At Necla, Ia., the cloudburst was followed by a small tor- nado. Approximately $100,000 (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) . ColdHerels Unusual, but and It Quits Soon VERCOATS and furs were popu- lar in Seattle Wednesday and Thursday, Seattle weather, cool for this time of the year, js “a little unusual," the weather bureau said Thursday, “General barometric conditions— nothing “special,” was given as the reason, Wednesday temperatures were 8 degrees below the normal of 57 for this time of the year, Tuesday showed 7 degrees of usual heat miss- ing. The forecast is fatr and warmer. Incidentally, the cool weather 1s proving a boon to radio fans. Sta- tions in California, which have been inaudible in Seattle for some weeks, are booming into Seatle radio sets, ‘The weather bureau takes no stock in predictions of Mastern sclentists, made some weeks ago, that this would be an unusually cold sum: mer, the Seattle Horgoaster: « sald. Dry Forces ‘Start Drive in Nippon TOKYO, June 4.—The “drys” are reaching for Japan, The Japanese National Temperance league held a convention recently and took up the proposition to form a national “dry” party, with the purpose of electing “dry” members to the imperial diet, With the advent of virtually unt versal manhood suffrage, this move mont ta expected to have more ine fluence than previous efforts have had. The national league has chap- tors all over Japan, be put) forecast for | struck | ‘SHOUTS “LIAR!” <=: ~~ 10 JUDGE Then Woman. Faints as Her! Brother Is Given Life VERCOME when her brother was found guilty of being an habitual criminal ad recom: mended for a life sentence, Mrs. Agnes McDonald, 27, leaped to | her feet, shouted “You are a liar,” at Superior Judge Smith, and fell in a faint in his court- room Thursday. Mrs. MeDonald has been in con- ant attendance in the trial of Floyd | G. Richardson, 26, convicted last -| winter, with two others, of the man- | slaughter of Patrolman R. | Her actions, caused by heavy mental strain and worry over her brother, | created a sensation. Attorney H. C, Agnew, who rep- {resented her brother, helped court |to a rest room, where she was re- covering Thursday noon. Judge Smith, having received the jury's verdict of “guilty” was lectur- ing them on Richardson's record (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) L, Litsey. | attaches pick her up and carry her} been infatuated with Mrs. Reynolds and had been living with her in New Royal hotel. Higdon also shot Robert Fulton, found in her room, |May 1. He fatally wounded Eddie IMundorn, who came up the hall ;fo investigate the disturbance. Higdon will not be prosecuted for killing the two men. Elmon Wiener, his attorney, will jask a new trial when Higdon comes ‘up before Judge Mitchell Gilliam, who tried the case, for formal sen- jtence Friday. “Jury Foreman John Slatter |and other members of the murder | jury were engaged in pretty small | polities when they put King coun. | ty to the probable expense of a new trial for Higdon,” said Mayor | Brown, when apprised of the jury’ | special report. “That report is perfectly good | ground for a’ new trial for the con- | victed murderer. ‘I'll put every one of those jur- jors to work tonight, if they think |they can clean up Seattle better | than my officers.” Accuse Negro of Selling Narcotic John Love, 28, colored, was arrest. ed in the act of making a sale of smoking opium to Agents J. V. Close and W, J. Patterson, at Chere ry st. and Minor, ave., Wednesday, the agents said. minedly to Ke BY ©, A. CLAY HALL the people of the state of Washington dig down into their treasuries and pay out yearly mil- lions of dollars in inereased tele- phone rates? ‘Tho battle over this {mportant question continued politely but in- tensely Thursday before Dean John T. Condon, special master in chan: cery for the federal district cqurt, hearing the case of the phone companies, involved in the legal drive to force the high rates on all who talk over tho wires, A scene of vivid intellectual con: trast and contest in the sparso lit tle courtroom as the determined and opposing sides wago thelr fight ean Condon, ruddy-faced, positive in his ects! ag presides with a mass of past “Qart ruling as his bulwark, The attorneys for the phone com. panies, Wellkgroomed men, There ts a small army of them, They @pter the court room laugh: ing over carly morning pleasantries, Heeling pretty good, ‘The court has ruled in thelr favor on the first point up for decision. Subsidiary companies of the American Telephone & Tele. graph, it was brought out, pay fo the parent concern an, an: ual feo of 444 per cent on cer fain revenues, The attorneys Telephone Lawyers Are Jubilant Over Victory Attorneys for People Battle Deter- ep Rates Down for the people claim this is too high « “tribute” and demand to know the cost to the parent concern of this service. ‘The court over-rules this demand, sustaining tho objection of the telephone attorneys. Round One for the companies, The attorneys for the cities of the state—Spokahe, Tacoma and Se- attle--are not at all depressed, They too, enter smilingly. Friendly sal- Hes of wit between tho opposing camps, Cheerful enough. The 10th floor room seems bright and big+ ger. Everybody feeling good and the scant audience smiling also, but et exactly Were oenalne Aika it is all about,” . ‘Tho seasion starts &na the frend. ly sallies cease abruptly, The at- mosphere changes. —- Excessively polite, but alert and wary, t@oebat- tlers battle with legal thrusts and parry. Counsel Kennedy desires to at~ tack the court ruling on the feo, but the court does not desire to hear him, Kennedy sits down shak+ ing an aggressive mane. City Attorney Alex Winston of Spokane suavely begins cross-exam. ination of Fy TL. Rhodes, mighty phone engineer from New York, and Otto B. Rupp, phone attorney, outs in with keen objections. The obs (Turn to Page 9, Column 4)