The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 26, 1925, Page 11

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« FRIDAY, JUNE § THE SEA TTLE STAR STRIKE BREAKS IN SHANGHAI Banks and Shops Take Down Shutters and Open _BY EDMUND BUCKLEY « Pre tart pondent SHANGHAT, Jur W rs f els firr thereby reliev we whose troubles cent aggravated by, the inte ‘ only passengers and mails and are not moving freight Chinese ts opposed any re sumption of th rk, but the ad Vice of business men prevailed } ONGKONG, June 26.— The Cantonese government, ac cording to reports here today, has issued an ultimatum to Americ English and other foreigners to evacuate Shameen by today. Shameen's defenses were reported ready for eventualiti Three thousand sought to sail for Ca vented from. depart{t authoriti r ship. staged many Chinese alice and ve bay The nt urnal publish aed to emanate from 17 American teachers of Canton Christian colleges, placing the blamo for the Canton shooting upon the Shameen (foreign) authorities. In this connection, the pape states that the American consul a Canton is collecting evidence American eye witnesses with a view to sending a strong protest to President Coolidge. Boys Get Damages for Auto Injuries) Two boys, victims of auto acct dents, were given damage awards by | superior cou Roy St. Ch guardian, H from L. Was alleged from a bicy« Benjamin F Forbes, got $300 judg Chillinski for injuries collision last Novembe Aa Ta CT SURE HE’LL ATTEND BROTHER’S FUNERAL FOR $1,683 BEQUEST “ ME to funeral of your brother” was a telegram received last week by John M. Arnold, 313 32nd ave. from W. J. Hynes, pub trator at San Francisco, ant comé,” Arnold wired back. “You are heir to $1,683 if you attend funeral,” was Hynes’ next telegram. Arnold went The probate court of San Francisco wound up the estate ‘Thursday and, as a result, Ar nold is $1,683 richer. of | ‘Open Windows | Let Out Heat on Gems Too 2 their e dents vant Find) KB. 6 5 oads, handbag Mtaining and pearis, and $ glar, trying to ent Whittingtor N., was disoovere Whittington turned on | ther thief tried to enter the t EC. Ber 12th a N. but was fright 4d away ring and a gold watch om the home of Mrs. W. Stevens st 1 saxophor Jailed Wife Weeps; Spouse Near Death TACOMA, June (By United Press.) — Walter Wolhard, 35, an auto salesman, was In a local hos pital today fighting for his life. while his wife sat in and wept The woman fired a shot late yes. terday which passed thru’ her hus. j band’s body as he was leaving her patter a quarrel, to go and live with his sister, HERE’S MORE ABOUT WEATHER STARTS ON PAGE ONE || elsewhere back that way | | And, of course, there's California to think about | After wat the climatology par pent proceas of crack ntown Thursday to iced tea, « sult parties beaches. went out of fashion. | Ortental para. vogue. Fat men leaf fan ean men um Summer furs ought palm sar let the record bust. It was . thelr lives that other towns Oregon, and a id a | Brick paving on the Des Moines highway “blew up’ fn six places dur jing the hot spell, Thursday, between | | Sunnydale and Des Moines. Work | meni started to fix up the surface Friday. | SACRAMENTO, C June 26. |(By U. Pj}—Two unffentified men | suicide in Capitol park | when they lief from: the pred able depressing this section obtain heat whic | since: Mo The be park ja. m. £ thru the } One of th r h has ¢' SEATTLE’S of city firemen. th \the spouting flames. about 70 | total destruction. Pp was oot arently t approximate! CA You'll have lots of good use this summer for this prize-winning re- cipe book. It is crowded with prac- tical suggestions for cool but nout- ishing dishes which every member of your fami Yourcopyis waiting fogta: Just fill out the coupon will be sent to you Remember this is recipe book. It contains fifty choice recipes carefully 100,000 suggestions submitted by SHREDDED WHEAT Send for your copy now, book Full of summer s0estions w/w FIFTY WAYS OF SERVING will gy to below and it free, post haste. notanordinary selected from users. ‘Bloc k in China town Is CHINATOWN tion Thursday afternoon by the prompt and efficient efforts Upper photo shows the Miller house, where the fire started, after constant play of water had checked Lower, |water in successful efforts to save the Midway hotel from Carter & Bradle =i was saved from possible extinc- firemen training torrents of . Star Statf Photographers Rhubarb when been known t to ac enten ff excess hax 5 a polson. Seek Bodies i of Kansas Explosion Traps Scor Known Dead; K NSAS CITY, Mo., one. 4 Oné man is dead, several per: sons are missing and a score Injured jin an explosion and fire which de- stroyed the old Gillis theater here jtast night, Firemen were digting in the debris of the wrecked five-story building for jadditional bodies this morning. Esti- jmates of the probable number of dead jrange as high as 20, Tess than 100 |persons were in the audience when | jan explosion wrecked the interior of | |the theatet and adjoining stores. | Fire immediately followed the |blast, and swept rapidly thru the structure as those Jo the theater and | F Seeking Origin of Spec tacular Fire lame ‘Swept Fire Marshal Robert L. Laing wan pting dete origin of the disastrous fir breaking out in a rooming house ut Sixth 8. and King at. almost an entire city ave. awept waa controlled Thursde ‘The actual toms is not expected to exceed $16,000 or $12 mont of the b n destroy “id twoator 000, becaune structures which had recer Jem: The largent ted the entire k in a be wuceenstu the spread of the © rest of the district. A shops, two poured a volcano of flamo a hundred | o the air, | eat Was no intense that store fronts half a block away meme ered and broke into flames. These spo. radic fires were checked by fire-| men From King st. to Weller at Sixth ave. 8. the fire made a th the exception of the where the top were b A Fire wan told that a atill one of the had explod houses, caus the f nese woman and her the rooming houses ni: caped. Her name was not 1 Several firemen were partly over come with amoke. Fire Chief George Mantor was injured when a burning | plece of w boot In Debris _ sas City Theater Scores; One Man! Many Missing in other parts of the building battled | thru the narrow front exit John Hogan, 40, @ fireman, was killed when the fire truck he was riding overturned on the way to the fire, Reports to police this morning were that nearly a score of men were playing poker in the basement of the building when the explosion occurred. It was feared these men perished. The blast ocSurréd in a drug store | in the building, according to fire men. The whole front of the build | ing was blown Into the street and the walls and roof collapsed at the same time. Flames swept thru the | structure immediately after. CITY WILL GROW History Fates Seattle for Great Port, Whitcomb Says! | World history shows that the} greatest centers of commerce in| each age have been cities where |raw miateriala from the Orient moet) commercial products of the Occi- dent, David Whitcomb, Chamber of Commerce president, told delegates to the foreign trade council at noon Friday. Ho listed Seattle as such a meot- ing place and added: "Not long a it would have been heresy to pre- dict that the commercial erm of the Atlantic would in time, be su- | perseded by the Pacltic commercial era, | “But today our friends from the Atlantic are willing to admit that the next great commercial activity will be on the shores of the Pack: flc."” Pledging Seattle's aid to a mer: chant marine, President Whitcomb told of work the city ts doing to promote trade and friendship with the Orient Iowa Business Man Ends Life in South | SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, | Otis H. Harrod, 40, prominent | Sloux City, Ia, business man, died in & hospital hore ‘Thursday after: noon, after leaping from the fifth. story window of the Manx hotel, Accompanied by his wife and daughter, Harrod came to san Francisco In an effort to regain his i tat j from the window low, health, following a breakdown Sioux City. Thursday afternoon his wife re. turned from a shopping tour and found her husband slashing his throat with a razor, When she at tempted to prevent him, ho leaped to tho street be- in LOOK YouR. BEST | WHEN YOU GO ON YOUR VACATION = “TAKE A JAR OF § “MAGIG MUD” } = WITH YOUS |. oy. Don't miss “‘Mom'n Pop" While you are away on your vacation, ' Magic Mud {9 about to perform some new ood fell Inside his rubber FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE PINE STREE Depardable Goode Locanumy Fines bi vdernh & Ndsom Serva "DOWNSTAIRS STORF New Summer Frocks ELIGHTFULLY cool and attractive are Colorful, broadcloth. wi Vlasic) \u a} K ] these new too- Summer vivid yellow tones, orange and many other colors. Of Cool and Colorful Voile and Broadcloth $3.95 All-over eyelet Voile Frocks Plain Voiles, lace trimmed Frocks Mercerized Broadcloth Frocks Frocks of voile and Pretty, youthful styles, and some in dark blue flock-dot voile for women who re- quire the larger sizes. Some of the voile frocks are trimmed in Mis drawn work. and dainty Women's Sizes—16 to 50. SATURDAY SPECIAL CANDY Vanilla Caramel Cream “‘Kisses’”’ 25c pound | istic made in our kitchen. Containing ingredients. Special, Saturday, own daylight candy only the purest of 25¢ the pound. DOWNSTAIRS STORE Those Planning an Outing or Camping Trip can find extensive’selections of Outing Apparel —for women, men and children. ment in the form of Tents, Portable Furniture, Cooking Utensils and many other camp com- forts in the DOWNSTAIRS STORE. Camp equip- A Special Offering of Men’s Athletic Underwear Sleeveless Shirts——Athletic Drawers 45¢ Each COOL, comfortable Sleeveless, ers of durahle cotton twill at left. Shirt sizes 32 to 40. clally priced, Saturday, at 45¢ the garment. —Men's Section, DOWNSTAIRS STORE lace ; Attractive values at $3.95. REDUCED TO A regrouping of smart trimmed Hats from several line of many and st Some unusual! Reduced to $5.00. combination for summer buttonless, light-weight knit Shirt, and Draw- ~sprinters’ style, shown in sketch the broadcloth in hand- DOWNSTAIRS STORE $5.00 higher-priced 8. The model shown is typical imilar styles. In straw and silk combinations, y attractive values. Ww —DOWNSTAIRS STORE 3 FOR $1.15 wear. Drawers in sizes 30 to 38. Spe: HANG SHEPHERD, CROWE SHOUTS State’s Attorney Closes June -(By United Press.)—Re- iterating his demand that William) 1). Shepherd be hanged for the mur- der of Billy McClintock, State's At-| torney Robert KB, Crowe today de- livered the closing argument for the prosecution in Shepherd's murder trial. Ho scored Shepherd's lawyers | for “treating a serious murder case like a burlesque show." “You have heard the arguments of Shepherd's lawyers, Mr. Stewart and Mr, O'Brien,” Crowe sald, “They 26. evaded tho issue—they tried to transfer the murder charge from Shepherd to other shoulders, “That 19 evidence of Shepherd's gullt, ‘That shows they haven't a leg to stand on. ‘That's why they tried to laugh It off. “They accused Judge Harry Olson, the state attorney and various other people of a conspiracy to hang Shepherd so he wouldn't get the $1,000,000. If that is true, then! Judge Olson should be hanged for attempted murder; if that is true, should be hanged for dofiling iy responsible position and ater tine a murder. “But tho fact is, Shepherd ts the | defendant on a murder charge and| his lawyers have failed to offer | one single bit of evidence that ho| is innocent, “shophord, 1 tell you {x guilty, | and Shepherd should hang.” Shepherd turned his gray eyes | away from Crowe, He focused hi! gase on a corner of Judgo Lynch's bench, His massive body was ut torly motionless miracles, You'll Jaugh at this comic and tell your friends about it if you call MAIn-0600 and have The star went to your vacation oauene . Mrs. Shopherd, who broke down | with tears when Crowe's assistant dolivered the atate’y firat argument, did not attend court today, |Speeding Merchant Captured in Chase Chased along Rainier aye. at a | speed of between 45 and 60 miles an |hour at 8 a, m,, Friday, W. HH. Dug- gan, 30, merchant, was overhauled and captured at Holden st. by Ser- |geant H. C. Cinnamon and Patrol- Murder Case Argument |iman st. ciark in a police prowler CRIMINAL COURT, Chicago,| Dusan was taken direct to the city jail and held on a charge of speeding 45 miles an hour, His bail was set at ue. Robs Tuney Stand, Leaves Loaded Gun LOS ANGELES, June 26.—After |robbing John MeRoy, proprietor of @ covered wagon lunch stand here today of $27.10, a bandit laid his re. volver on the qounter and walked away. 3 McRoy made no move to pick up the gun until the bandit was well out of sight. When he did examine the weapon the lunchman found it was loaded with eight .38-caliber car- tridges. More than 15,000,000 telephone {n- struments are in use in the Untied States. ICED Northwest Clothiers’ Group to Meet Here Washington-Idaho Retail Clothiers? and Furnishers’ association will hold a “business building conference” at The Olympic Hotel, July 15 and 16. Speakers of Northwest and na- tional prominence are on the pro- gram, among them {is R. B. Bigelow of Seattle, national vice president of tho Retail Clothiers’ association. Clarence Klopfenstein of Seattle is in charge of an attractive entertain- ment program, Halifax Liberals Lose at Election HALIFAX, N. S&S, June 26.—(By United Press.)—After being continu- ously in power since the year 1882, the liberal government of Nova Scotia yesterday was overwhelm- ingly defeated by a conservative landslide that swept the province from top to bottom, Hon, EB, EB. Rhodes will head the conservatives and will be called upon to form a government. Last year was the healthlest ever known in the United States and Can- ada, according to public *health ree ords. "SALADA" Te A. is always delightfully refreshing. The coo ‘ness of the mountain top is in every glise, So e we My, ), COOK, MAIn-0000, HL1ot-0850, DISTNINY TONS ily made o-> Try it,

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