The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 6, 1925, Page 1

|x § || Gee W FOR ECAST ROA Sets EATHER eat winds , } \ VOL. 27. NO, 112, } 1 . Bre BY 7 BY Howdy, folks! 4 Fourth of July is now over, 5 Nothing to look forward to ex cept Arbor day, se. | The only reason. little Homer Brew, Jr, is here today ts because we gave him animal crackers in-/ stead of firecrackers | Wwe | Leader of New York dry forces says, “Vote es You Drink And get pinched as a “repeater?” | ‘There are many matrimonial bu Freaus in this country, but the height pf efficiency will be reached when a! Person can get a divorce by mail. | eee joup thru the fly-swatter, ' Well, the | CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB The cook who strains eee President C ing in Massachusetts. Bet h ried because he forgot to tel man not to leave any ice at the | XY White House while he was . William Jennings hat man is related @nd he’s right. pay $10,000 for a Florida real estate to a No monke: that ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE “Many a man who is a wonder- ful after-dinner speaker Is a horrible —before- breakfast — talk- er. eee “Gosh, but I saw a lot of beaut!-| an ful girls in swimming at Alki yes | terday,” said Joo Bun “What a fool a man is chances on bootleg hooch!” Agr ae" Lecturer says Vice President|in Seattle Sunday night. Dawes has a hard lot. i F ators, no doubt. . Coolidge is now vacation- Bryan quarter-acre of} » can’t reached except by submarine. . The hard lot being the U. Li’) Gee Gee never drinks water. | \ he's. wor 1 the tce | Nike gore. | denies monkey Yy would be He SAYS: gstarter. | to take B. sen- | way. WORK IS HIS NAME—Dr. Hubert. name, but it would fit him anywhere. }extended tour, Dr. Work, secretary of the interior, arrived! The Newspaper With ‘the Biggest Circulation in Washington Entered as Seoc "Work is his last} Fatigued by an of the Alaska rail- , Star Staff Photograbhers | nd Clase Matier May 2, 1 9, at the Postoffice at Beattie, SEATTLE, WASIL, Work- Hartley Parley Scheduled for Today KITTITAS’ FATE -IN HANDS. OF "EXECUTIVES Secretary of Interior Here Ready to Talk Is MONDAY, JULY 6. GOVERNOR HARTLEY DUE. Friends of Irrigation Expect Favorable Results BY ALVARO SHOEMAKER UBERT WORK, secretary of the interior, in Seattle Monday hold a conference with Gov, Hartley, at which it 1s understood develop ment of the Kittitas irrigation unit Yakima project will be principal subject of discuasion When seen Monday morning Dr Work said the hour of the confer ence was at the governor's pleasu Hartley wan expected at n While final decision may 1 ¢ jmade public at once, It known I from interviews with Dr. Wark and 1 Mead, commissioner of also the of the the Gov on party ting the Yakima valley week, as well as from their J pressed inp | Work and Dr. Mead going ahead with y tas am KOON Am a pera tion in w als of of Washing’ LIKELY TO POSITION | In Yakima last Thursday Dr jMead said he believed Governor }Hartiey would in some measure change his attitude against state ald in the aettioment at the conference larranged for Monday in | Thome clone to Governor Hartley ad- {mit the ‘Washington executive may [tind It poasiiie to reach a compro- mise agreement with the bureau of reclamation. Dr. Mead, Work, said Seattle. speaking for ne BA one of three {plans could be made to Governor Hartley, he believed, with out necessitating any change in the basic principles which actuated the governor in arriving two or acceptable at his decision But early Monday morning The}to keep tho state out of the Kitt: Star cameraman caught him as he left the Bell st. terminal, tas where he had inspected the headquarter: —Photo by Carter & Bradley These plans will not be made pub |ilc, it ts said, unless one of them |is finally agreed upon. It ts believed certain the confer- Wash, under the Act of Congress March 1925. The Seattle Star 3, 1878. by Mall, $3.00 Per Year, ORTLAND, July 6,—(By the line of Christianity i is the problem which thousa ered here for the Interna- tional Christian Endeavor convention set about to solve today Sunday sports, dancing, petting parties, bathing suits and card playing will be held up for scrutiny at a mass meeting this after- noon, What the old folks think will not count, for every- one over 80 years of age will be excluded from the meeting. Here is a list of some of the questions that will oc- cupy the young people's minds: Is it necessary to be fundamentalist to be Christian Does dancing indicate a a a serious defect in moral fiber? Is it immodest and un- womanly for a young girl to appear in public in a one-piece bathing suit? Should Sunday be used She's never deen -Keged, shes for playing golf and tak- | "ct" deen on-@ Jov ride, and playing golf and tak- | she’s never even had what you ing part in other sports? | reully call a date. She's Gertrude | Can a Christian Endea- | Mamsev. 18. of Toledo, 0., and Bhan bes | she aays she's going to maintain vor girl wear rolled stoc this record until Prince. Charm- ings and use lip sticks? ing, or somebody, comes along. What can be done to curb the use of cigarets by eee men and women? (Petting Parties, Rolled Stockings Discussed in Christian Endeavor Meet U. P.)—Just where to draw n the matter of amusements ands of young persons gath- | | She believes her record should be of interest to Christian Endeavor societies now discussing problema || of youth, Holiday Traffic Takes ~ | | almost r She says she’s got an es constitu- Wi f Be ence will reveal that vernor 4 tion and is afraid it will rust. | e t t rath: Hartley's uncompromising attitude =" Wife Beaten to Dea Haran women a vy = SL * i extent that will permit co-operation a | TODAY'S DEFINITION | between state and nation in Srrigat Old-timer: One who remem- | H sba d [ d A st n stato and nation in trrigat-| 4 he Chal heathiosee wat wer | Uu Nn n er we cog 70,000 acren in the Kittitas 4 | cle clips on women’s skirts. | PERKINS @ sal HOST 7. | a ‘ sfothers used ts sey “ttusn, eni-| SedLO-Woolley Woman, 63, Cripple, Is|"be worm ana tw party accom arent” by the kiddies at night. say: night to be coming in!” Today's Fable: N Bee Hive.” owe Li'l Gee Gee says her idea of the height of affiuence is to be able to buy a car on just one payment. 4 eee Y TODAY'S “Yes, sir, I've been running this summer, re- sort for 15 years now, and I've never yet seen a ‘3 mosquito here!” . Joe didn't “listen,” “look” or “sto; flivver to oer 4 They magnet his It only eB. a week or two q To make his car as good as But tho they hunted high and low, They found no extra parts ~—Health League Messenger, oe when they were awakened “This is a fine time of the! Once upon a time there was a department store in a! small town that wasn't called “The jow they | ‘OUNT VERNON, July 6.—Coro- ner H. D. Dunham this morn- ing ordered an inquest over the body ot” Mrs, Nellio O'Neil, 63-year-old crip- ple, found beaten to death In her home near Sedro-Woolley Sunday morning. Her husband, William, is in the Skagit county jail here under guard of Sheriff C. R. (Tip) Conn. Full investigation of circum- stances surrounding the death will be made at 1:30 Tuesday, when the inquest {s held. At noon Monday Coroner Dunham told The Star that no facta had been developed in pre- liminary work. The body was discovered by Mr. and Mrs. Elliott. McRae about 10 a. m. Sunday. They found the body of the aged woman lying in bed, her skull crushed and a spatter of blood Found Murdered in Her Home Jon the bedroom floor and the blan- kets thrown about her body soaked in blood. McRae visited the O'Neil home on business about 7 a, m. He talked with the husband and departed, | bringing his wife and neighbors back about 10 o'clock. O'Neil wan not at home and they forced their way in side, finding the lifeless form of his | wife O'Neil was picked up by Marshal | George Stevenson Moore st., in Se dro-Woolley, an hour later. He was carrying a package containing a bottle of liquor and a can of beef stew, Sheriff Conn said. Ho has steadfastly refused to talk | since his arrest. Mr. and Mrs. O'Neil | have lived in Sedro-Woolley for the | past three years. They are said to have come fromm New York state. new. for Joe. SLIEVING, he says, that tho city administration is the butt of an B a A seamstress 19 a necessity in| attempt to frighten it out of com: iat most families, Without her, mother | Pleting the Lake Youngs city water gould never know what was going| hd power project, Councilman ‘Tin j on in the neighborhood. | dail Monday morning was to ask an} or ee authorization for an immediate sur- 4 te BEA Bee | vey of the lake reservoir plans, q | HOW TO COMBAT HAY || Tindall was to introduce a. resolu q "EVER | }tion asking the city engineer for ‘Wear a gas mask. | | more speed in surveying the water , Las ST 6 | nqueduct between the south end of q , se ioe sa the lake and Landsburg. Re. Se ats a ‘Tindall said ho believes recent eriti- Hamburger? clams directed at Superintendent Rees ete George Russell's department to be the first move in a campaign to 0 ; The press has too much freedom, compel the city to immediately re- There gags give you a hint Of the Uberties allowed a guy Whose stuff geta into print. o-° build the old wooden feed lines which the Lake Youngs project would ollminate, ‘The old feed ines recently broke, One place where talk Isn't cheap y 4 causing a threatened water short- eli deed re talking back to @! io. if the Lake Youngs project q tk Bice had been completed, Tindall sald, | YE pIAKY the old feed Mines would not bo used (July 6) as the sole supply of Seattle's wa- ay long abed, mighty glad that Tittle | ter. ‘mighty glad, He believes the engineer's report the house yester-| will show that the aqueduct brings en there all the dave.|ing water into Lake Youngs at the PAL oak oes try y|south end will erente a continuon “ that It be 12 of clreulation of water inside the take J tr gone, but Ald | permitting un excellent quality o y bay, may rounde t of gowt, dine on mt neh or mutton, freah water to be piped into the and play sweet musiiue on the har-|new steol linow into Seattle, monten. ‘Thus pred this days, ingreatel rye report, ho said, will forestall en and sloth, and i pitied 4 withal, And #0 to bed, by sdelh hccs hed any attempts to compel Seattle to Would Rush Water Project desert the Imke Youngs project now, when {t is only six months from completion Opposition to the Lake Youngs | project, it is believed, ia the result of the proposal to develop a large amount of power there, in addition to the added water supply. BOY NEAR DEATH Is Mysteriously Shot While Near Shooting Gallery EVERETT, July gs Police Cap- tain W. 1. Craw Is directing the in- vestigation into the mysterious shooting of Arthur Johnson, 15, who was shot thru the intestines py a 422 caliber rifle bullet while standing near his homo here fuly Fourth, Altho his Intestines are punctured the youth diem ‘ine umes, physicians attending the|the property for youth say he has a fair chance to pull thru. Capt. Craw belleves the bullet! came from a shooting gallery hal a block from the Johnson home, aa the youth was in line with the tar got tango and facing tho gallery when wounded. A charge may be filed against the gallery owner ff |panying him |day night from Tacoma aboard El Primero, private yacht of 8 A. Per | kins. Fatigued by the ardors of his lextended trip, the secretary of the interior retired at once at The ‘Olympic, where ho registered. | Monday morning hoe made an in- spection of the headquarters of tho| Graham, 1 | Alaska railroad in the Bell st. minal. | Dr. Work will be a guest at a | Chamber of Commerce dinner Mon. j aay night. ter- | ON LEASEHOLD | Charge Metropolitan Com- pany’ s Valuation Low Climaxing many years’ “contro- vorsy, the King county tax equaliza. tion board Monday summoned the Metropolitan Building Co. to show ause July 14 why the valuation on its state Iand leasehold should not he increased for taxation purposes. | County Assessor Melvin Wooster raised the asvessment for tax pur- | poses ‘from $500,000 to $600,000 this year. Councilmen Nichols and Campbell, members of the equaliza- tion board, declare this is too low, and moyed Monday for a hearing at which tax and leanchold exports on both sides could submit figures to xottlo the tax squabble of long stand- ing. Wooster told the board that the $600,000 valuation Is figured as 60 per cont of the total valuation of the state land leased by the com pany and belonging to the Univer- \alty of Washington, John 1. Savage’ potitioned the board for a hearing on valuation of tho Butler hotel, which he bought recently. ‘The assessor's figures | show a total valuation of $226,170 on the building, land and Improvements Savado told the board he purchased 20,000, and that jon would be {a 60 por cent valui equalization board this will sit but two instead of weeks, It must give at lo | days’ notice to any taxpayer's hear ing for an equalization question, The hoard consists of county commission ors and Counelilmen Campbell, Nich- ols and Moore, bh came to Seattle Sun-| Tragic Toll in Seattle Girl and Woman in Killed; Twenty-One | Others Injured in Auto Crashes ‘TOMOBILE A July bearing Fourth merrymakers and sib a neekers, proved to be agents of death, injury and destruc tlon over the week end, taking ter rifle toll Two persons were killed, six men, six women and three children were severely injured and six other per sons were critically, perhaps fa tally, hurt Mixa Catherine Meehan, 15, w instantly killed when a ci 18, driven by John McAllister, E. 68th at., |way near Greenwater, Saturday aft- | when | injured. ernoon. Mrs. George R. Pratt, fayette st. was killed her husband's machine was ditched near Centralia, Mrs, Pratt's | nister, Opal Tyhurst, and Mrs. Cora 3 Horton st., were badly | tralia hospital. MAY RAISE. TAX | Miss Meehan was killed, | was fn which McAllister . trying to pass another car on In the first accident, ¥ overturned on the high- | | | y |and Mrs. Otto Anderson, 216 W. 67th | | ‘They were taken to a Cen: | a narrow of car, dirt road, As | another auto! toward him. McAllister tried | stop, his car skidded in soft F and rolled over down a bank McAllister and his mother, Mrs. E. A. McAllister, received fractured skulls. Mr. McAllister, father of the driver, was also injured, as was James Meehan, 12, brother of the| dead girl. HEAD-ON CRASH INJURES FOUR In a head-on crash between two autos Sunday morning at Third ave. y. and Leary ave. Ray Anderson, |327 N. Broadway; his wife, and Mr. he drew abreast shot to the st., were Injured. The driver of the other car, W, T. Paugh, Oxford hotel, | wan arrested, charged with driving | while drunk. William Cohn, 406 28th ave., his |wife and son Bennie, 3, were badly {cut by broken glass Saturday night | when another machine ahead sud-} Gare to Page 7, Column 5) Mysterious Witness to Be at Foy Death Probe Calls Coroner on Phone, Pre Promising to Attend Inquest Tuesday; Refuses to Give Name NOTHER element of mystery was injected Monday into the much. muddled death mystery of the Des Moines highway in which Gilbert Foy, mail contractor, was fatally injured last Tue Calling the morgue on tho tele. phono, an unidentified man who re- fused to give his name, told Deputy Coroner H. W. Johnson that he had valuable information to disclose at the inquest into Foy's death Tues- day, Ho sald he would be at the inquest and would testify, He hung up the telephone after refusing his name, Koy was injured when an automo- bile left the highway and rolled over) in a ditch, He died at Providence | hospital Thursday night. The car was driven by George ¥. Schnurle, who was demonstrating a machine and trying to sell it Foy. Other ocoupants of tho car were: Miss Jacqueline Meyer, 1016 Union st., and ‘Thomas Warren. ACCIDENT WAS NOT REPORTED o report was made of the accel dent to the shoriff. Miss Moyer told a sensational [story of liquor and speed to Deputy | year | three | st. fivo|the story Kenneth She Corson Sunday | | completely contradicted | she told Saturday, accord | jing to Corson. The statement son was as follows; Miss Moyers had known Coroner night made Sunday to Co Warren Tuesday and invited her to go for a ride. She accepted the invitation. Foy, Schnurle, Warren and the girl went to a bootlegger’s house on Union st. and the three men wént inside, Miss’ Meyer tefused to} drink, Warren came out followed by the other two mon and said they had taken some “rotten booze,” ASKED FOR BOOZE, WOMAN ALLEGES They next drove up auto row and stopped a bootlegger on the stroet | and asked him for liquor, Me had| none and they drove on, Schnurle was driving the ca demonstrating its #eed and perform: ance to Foy, ‘They drove out the Des Moines highway. At a bend in tho road the car skidded, plunged over a bank and was wrecked, Miss “Meyer told Corson; ho sald, that they all then planned to make 4 report, blaming tho accident on an- other automobile, ‘This story they Were to tell if questioned. ‘The other Automobile was entirely fictitious, sho ‘sald, Tho inquest will be held Tuesday morning at 10 a.m, The coroner has witnesses: Warren Meyer, Grove Hamilton, 6008 60th ave, ‘a truck driver, and the mys terious man who called Deputy John son on the phono Monday morning. Wuneral services for Moy were held at 2 p,m, Sunday at the Bon found only five} Schnurlo, Miss} only a day, He called her Inst noy- Watson chapel, 4 were in yain |found his e |the INNER’S YACHT WRECKED IN PACIFIC BE DLE — Lt: Two Men Arrested for Carrying Guns and Lafferty Jack DIES TRYING 10 RESCUE WIFE FROM FIRE TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, Husband Perishes When He) Plunges Into Flames SHE’S ALREADY SAVED Children Also Safe When Blaze Destroys Home IATALLY burned in an attempt to rescue his wife from their burn’ ing home, John Young, 44, 114 W.| 50th st., died early Sunday morning | not knowing that’ Mrs. Young had escaped Young's heroic sacrifice followed outbreak of a fire that destros home. He was ened crackle of flames by midnight. | the He soon realized t He went out into the street and found the children there, jbut Mrs. Young was missing. No one 1 seen b I d with fear, Young drew a coat over his head and rushed into the blazing house stairs into the second floor bedroom his wife had occupied. Her bed was empt Blinded by smoke and burned} from head to foot by the flames, Young staggered into the hallway, pe cut off by a wall of fire on the starway and turned to window, Ho leaped thru the glass, falling to the concrete walk. He was found there unconscious a few minutes later by a motorist, H V. Brederode, 3832 Evanston ave. Brederode also found Mrs, Young un- conscious, lying on the parking strip, where she had collapsed after estap- |ing from the home. Brederode took both Young and his wife to the city hospital. Young died soon after. Mrs. Young not seriously | burned, but husband's became hysterical and was reported to be in fondition Monday. ‘The fire is be- lieved to have ‘started from defective wiring. was death BEATS MOTHER; GIRL IN JAIL Arrested With Five Com- panions in Portland PORTLAND, July 6, —(United Press.)—Because she beat her mother following a reprimand, pretty Nellie Upton, 17-year-old “jazz girl,” was under arrest here today: “There's not going to be any Dor- othy Ellingson stuff here,” Police Captain Inskeep declared‘as he or- dered her and her five companions taken into custody last night. According to the captain, Nellie had been in the habit of remaining out at nights. Her mother chided her for this and the daughter set on the mother and gave her a severe thrashing, he said. Sunday night he learned she left home with her old crowd again. He detailed a policeman to await her return. Thre young men who gave their names as L. D, Chariton, B, Flem- ming and L, Templeton, ages rang- ing from 22 to 26 years of age, were held on charges of contributing to the delinquency of minors. One girl more than 18 years old was held on a similar charge. Bridge Fire Halts Army of Workers NEW YORK, July 6,—Police re- sorves were called out today to as sist in getting 100,000 workers from Brooklyn to Manhattan after rapid. transit trains were stopped on the Williamsburg bridge, A giant girder beneath the bridge had been burned off by a short circuit, making the bridge unsafe for trains, | three or d his | ‘He aroused his wife and three chil dren, Winifred, 20; , 18, and| Jack, and then tried to put out the fi | his efforts | He ran up the| about the yacht as about the safety 8) Marginal way §|They and the company had been | | tract with the Admiral line and has 'Seattle Craft Pounds | Red Top companies, when she learned of her | |drivers and of Samuel W. Taggart, serious | “= AGROUND | ~ ON WA NORTH to Pieces on Rock: Passengers Safe OUND ford Seattle the 100- foot yacht Nenaha is pound- ing to pleces in Shelter cove, 100 miles north of the Golden Gate, according to wires to The Star Monday. She is owned by G. W. Skin- ner, president of the Washington Bakeries corporation, of this city. He is the son of D. Skinner, president of the Skinner & Eddy corporation. Mr. Skinner purchased the yacht, which is registered in New York, four months ago. He said/ @ he did not know who the guests were aboard, but that they are from the Sast coast The wires said that all aboard are safe and that two tugs are going to bring them off before the yacht pounds to pieces on the sharp rocks of the co Id care about the yacht. Are those a ‘d her safe?” asked D. By Skinner, when. The Star informed him of the wreck “Well, that’s good news,” said his son, also informed by The Star. He too, said he didn't care so much of those on board, The Nehaha left San Friday nigh Seattle; ashore in the Franciseo she ran junday evening. [ARRESTS CLIMAX TAXICAB WAR Rival Companies Battle for Ship Passenger Trade Taxicab warfare in Seattle, which has centered around the Yellow and climaxed over” the week-end in arrest of five taxk president of the Red Top Co. They are charged with violation of traffic ordinances. “The drivers were arrested,"* | Chiet Severyns said Monday, “be | cause they insisted in standing on in a restricted area, warned. “The Yellow Cab Co. has a con- reserved space outside the docks. Other companies want the same privilege. “The department is taking no sides in the controversy—it fs mere- ly enforcing city ordinances against ~ taxicabs that insist on using pro- hibited areas,” “There is a move on foot to pre- vent us from doing business, not only at the docks, but all over the city,” President Taggart - charged. He ascribed, Inbor conditions as cause of the trouble. The Yellow Cab Co. operates on the open shop (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) Girl Is Injured in Tunnel Blaze — SAN RAFAEL, Cal., July 6,—Miss: Myrtle Rolls of San Francisco was seriously burned and tho lives of many passengers were endangered today when a fuse blew out on @ Northwest Pacific passenger train | while passing thru the Corte Mas | dera tunnel, The timbers of the tunnel were set afire, but the flames were con- troled by fire departments from Corte Madera and other towns, Bandits Blow Open Safes; Get $20,000 CINCINNATI, July 6. — Seven bandits chained five employes, blew the safes. with five charges of nitro- glycerine and*escaped from Cincin= nati’s-z00 clubhouse today with $20,- 000 of loot. Club officials said $18,000 of the loét was cash, receipts of two of the biggest days In the club's his< tory. 1 yitakahe rt is talking about it, what is it? A young teacher taught it, in Tennessee Tat what Js all the argument, about it. Thoy have been prepared by Dr. mit The Star to tho views WHAT IS EVOLUTION? ‘Tho recent Baptist convention was nearly split in two over the ques. tion of whether or not the theory is true or false. the trials, ‘The Seattle Star is going to present tho facts about evolution to you in a series of easily understandable sketches and articles explaining all Perey W. Cobb of Cleveland, an ave thority on the subject, and will be run daily on the editorial page. It is, of course, merely an exposition of the theory and does not com: t forth by Dr. Cobb, READ THE FIRST ARTICLE TODAY On the Editorial Page Sverybody is interested in it, But, is under indictment for having the furore, about?