The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 9, 1925, Page 9

THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1925 CORSON READY Fire Truck Hits Street @ FOR PROBE Car; Five Firemen Hurt Will Order Another Inquest Men Hurled From Speeding Auto in Crash FIFTH FREDERICK & NELSON AVEN UE—PINE STREET—SIXTH AVENUE FRIDAY in the DOWNSTAIRS STORE if There Is Cause With Green Lake Street Car + A seat will be called to Pb deafening crash that wa ner the rear wheels the © f ft there is | '% ~ We ay after thrown a f 30 f af ack ape to wer @ Batt ng ~ st at Fourth ave. and Vir-| saw the a t . + “ ginta throwing the crew of five! street car was bla : 2 White has | rem 1 all directions at eral fire sirens we ow that the | "eet r f . we will go As @ result, three of the fire a} n the "i Emory Holman, James Kennedy | SAYS FIRE BELL 1 ember at the time’ there Lockhart, were in the WORKING PRO! wa talk, about such a tal Thursday, cut The fireme ge toa fi w uest whic suffering from shock.|at M and I way, @ ~ was not the slighte injured internally | the time . ° nted to support such al ¢ I talked to t atehma It seems Jike a perfectly ed at the . he told me that the fire Misses case. Her body was foun n McCloud, who was/ bell on the corne scan ary “oe Sizes en the bed in her room y of the truck, squad! workt n good ord and that t 1 entered her right temple, emerg- | was painfully cut a An of t street car did r 14-16-18 < from the left temple c he should ha We are st ® The shot had ruse fired at very | CAR KNOCKED | investigating this accident and 20 cle se. The jury brought in| FROM TRACKS als of the street railway re a that. the gun had been| Dashing north on Fourth av to may who fired by her own hand, while ahe| between 25 and 30 miles an hour was to blame for the crash rom 4 species of men. | @2d with its siren shrieking in al nan C. I man reported that piercing alarm, the heavy truck ¢ bell on the corner was not accord. | Ploughed like | front also showed a juggernaut into the | Working and that he heard no wa to Dr, Wilitam J. Jones, deputy end of the westbound ca i of the fire truck's approach. coroner, that Mra. White's home lite | ‘*rowing the strect car from the| Several witnesses, it was said, had > 5 After her death | tT8cks and shattering the win-| reported that the fire bell did not mors afloat she | dows work Rallw officials 4 ; have killed herself, but | _ Holman was thrown straight into| they we » invest « was found to show that the |th® air as tho shot from a gun, ere only three or four pas ¢ was not a suicide rising 20 feet and crashing to the} seng the car, and none was ears Pavement on his shoulders. Twe fire bell rt of the other firemen were rescued from| fir tment's alarm cystem. Captured Convict Tells e of Thrilling Jail Break Faia was followed, the next day.!OQne Drowned, Another Shot in Dash for Lib- ent from Daniel A. John-} n ‘ ‘ erty From Monroe, Third Man Says . & mechanic, and former husband of the dead woman, that ha would ——- support relatives in a further probe ce HERE’S MORE ABOUT MRS. WHITE STARTS ON PAGE ONE | gunshot wound inflicted by her the thrilling tale of t the atte pt to escape of the death. a 2 » | was not planned. From that time until the Astoria | &. break for liberty by three NWe. were. all working when one court order relatives have been| Convicts at the Monroe reform- iggested that we make a working on various theories, What| ak for the open,” Buchanan said | atory, during which he says one youth was drowned and another covered is unknown, fields to the settle to her home in| bet Ray Buchanan, 22, was [river and jumped in. The current Astoria, September 2, 1923, fay | eer engee NN CURMOAY, PURMES SU rive along way and: Steal) vaetnteg Top cacmpe Medi: a He was to be returned to the y y ar SISTER'S TESTIMONY reformatory Thursday. ATION Buchana companions in the Little credence was given at the | 74h for were Ed Reeves time to the vague accusations of |@2d Don Ps ke is the man Mrs. White's sisters, both in their| "ho ts be to have drowned aya that Reeves wa teens. They were Alice Hegman and 4 . ae Turpa, Alice being 17 and of | ** 4 * “romantic’’ nat } » at the reforma w current Alice told the jury th; id to Mrs. Wh Mrs, Markey e: “If you ever | Parke’s d caught ape, was shot.” A pose a is ¢ STYLES Mire Macias centen o ‘sic ves was shot, but PRISON AUTHORITIES of Jabot ing her recital of what she } as the trio worked in the! “That was the last t hin $ . was at the Inquest that 117.yea the aie ; lovely s and there are several times found in the more expensive | Smart straight-line effects; vartous styles MATERIALS: Silk flat crepes in plain colors and prints, and a few two-plece frocks; sleeveless, lave Georgette crepe in plain colors. Many of the prints are of the | Georgette frocks for afternoon and informat Jrewss-pattern type. \ and embroidered dot Georgette street TRIMMINGS: Plain and plaited jabots, long ties of contrasting $11.50 color, panels and Jace. Unusually attractive value, all at $11.50. ‘ (DOWNSTAIRS STORE) UNUSUAL VALUE RESSES for sports wear, wear, for afternoon and informal even- ing wear are included in a new shipment of Eight Representative Styles Are Shown 200 Mid-Summer Silk Frocks for street ilk Frocks just unpacked. as many to choose from. These are decidedly unusual in value, because they are of the better quality materials, and the patterns that are usually ines. Women’s Sizes 36 to 42 something terrible will hap-/& constant search of th rinks ording to Assistant Superir tiver has falled to locate the body Johnson at the reformatory Alice Hegman testified that her) BUCHANAN WAS Reeves was not wounded, and has Ar rister had been “‘very happy” just | ARRESTED HERE been returned to work at the prior to het death at prospects of| Buchanan, with another youth,|prison, Reeves was serving a sen moving away from the Markey home. | was arrested at First ave. andjtence for having a stolen car in his She quoted her dead sister as say-| Cherry st. by es Dan Mc- | possession, as was Bu n. Pi Lennan He t d the | was convicted of burglary in Tacoma. | “Daddy, all I want is you and the Attractively Priced Art Needlework Scalloped-edge Crinkle Bed- baby and a little home. I'd be happy ing | | | in a boxcar with | you.” asked if the home occupied by Whites and the Markeys was big | enough for both families. | She flashed back: “No house ts | big enough to hold two women who | love the same man.” | COULDN'T GIVE HIM UP, SISTER SAID | At another point she quoted Mrs. | Markey as saying to Mrs. White: “I can't give him up after 20 years. You can wait until I'm thru) with him. You're young.” | Mra. Markey's affection for White, ghe testified, was of the maternal| order. | It was brought out that Markey | himself did not live in the home,| and was something of a pecullar| character. He took his meals and| slept in a shed, it was testified. | Following the inquest, Seattle au-} thorities took no further action in/ the case, allowing the record to| yest on the suicide verdict of the! dary. Mrs. Markey still lives at 1542 30th ave. S. which also is the ad dress of Mr. White. She said Thurs-| day she knew nothing of the or-| dered autopsy at Astoria, that she | considered the case a closed incident end would make no comment on it. SPEED RESCUE TO LOST MEN Try to Save Six Marooned) on Sands of Death Valley | TRONA, Cal, July 9-—(United | News.)—Six miners; fighting desper- | btely for freedom over the trackless, | heat-tortured wastes of Death Valley, will dle undess the relief expedition, Jeaving here Wednesday night, Yeaches them by Friday. | The men, who were employed at | fhe Chesamac mines, were forced to| Jeave when a cloudburst demolished | their shacks and a band of desert) Indians stole their burrows and food. The relief expedition, teaving here, was headed by Donald C. McDonald, | wner of the mines. The party will | fitempt to traverse Death Valley at f point never before traveled by man Or beast in their search for the lost miners. “An attempt to escape on heros the desert means death the alkaline sands of the sin) Donald said, ‘Their food supply can only last them until Friday.” | A desert death, it is pointed out by Inhabitants of this village, ix a terrible one of swollen throats and blackened tongues—the victima lured slong strange and devious trails, end ing by mirage-engendered illusions The only two loading out of Death Valley fompletely obliterated at the point by th cloudburst The ficDonald jearned from foot nowhere, trails were | 1m ™ traveraible eupplied by an Indian, set blindly out on foot acronn the heart of the valley with only afew days’ food supply. for Summer Hours spreads Low-Priced at $4.95 Bob Hesketh, Broke, Giv lthe outer fringe of Death Valiey’s information | Learns at Mrs. Landes’ Dinner That. ‘“No- Host” Affair Is Dutch Treat of Old Days | priced at | THREE . PIECE STAMPED STAMPED DRESSER OR STAMPED PILLOW i 2 The taby was little Dorothy John. | en VANITY SETS of Indian Head TABLE SCARFS {n 14 pretty de- | CASES, hemstitched for 3 ideal Summer bedspread because they bed soa, anette of Mra, White: and) 5 m |]/ cloth. Stamped in 12 attractive | nigns. Stamped on firmly-woven | cfechet. Of good quality ; Bees weight and of a special kind of crinkie D. A Johnson. She was at Holy Le S l Ch Hematitched for crochet | ian Head cloth, Basket, flora) pillow tubing. Outline, clo at requires no ironing. Unbleached finish, Names academy at the time. | sson in oclta arm Lazy daisy, French knot | bird designs, Scarfs measure | French knot and wheat with gold, blue and rose stripes. Large si : Alice created sensations all thru ae 18x45 inches, and are | stitch patterns | g0x108 i *, sk : ge size— the hearing. At one point she was . 39c | 50c | $1.35 | x108 inches, The pair DOWNSTAIRS STORE An attractive value at $4.95. DOWNSTAIRS STORE By JOHN W. NELSON ‘T takes a deep student of oti. quit and social customs to | | Dean Henry Landes, won't | | keep up with doings in the city i | | #0 that’s why it's called ’ dinner,” mused Bob. the speak and the for malities and the dinner, the Wil- lent and women poli- | sonian yund to ticlans, according to Councilman collect a da half f Robtrt B — for Bruce — Hesketh, h of those present as payment A rather painful lesson in so- for the food WOMAN CHASES TWO BANDITS council these days, what with a lady pres! waiters ca cial practices was given to Coun- \nd Bob, having been invited | Thugs Knock Her Down and cilman Hesketh recently at an to a dinner, h left affair given by Mrs. Landes at home. After a hurried confer Tear Purse From Hand the Wilsonian shortly after her | re-election, according to stories | told on “Bob” at the eity-county building these days. Hesketh, with other council members and various department heads, was invited by Mrs. Lan. | des to a “no-host™ dinner. yuncilman Campbell Suddenly attacked by two bandits Wednesday night at Ninth ave. and Stewart st., Mr Fred Walter, 7841 Stroud ave., was slugged on the head jand robbed of $22.65, but put her ) assailants to flight after a chase and his purse | | with Cou: Tindall, Bob final! aise from Councilman man made a Erickson It may be a ‘no-host’ dinner now, but in the good old da Hesketh, while slightly in Hesketh is reported to have co doubt about the “no-host’” idea, plained to his Scotch associates, |* scuffle. went. “they used to call ft a Dutch Mrs. Walter operates Fred's Gro- “It might be that her hus- treat.” |cery at the corner of Stewart st. and Urges More Prayer as Ban Against Divorce BY REUEL 8. MOORE (United Press Staff Correspondent) | re the store She car- hand Terry ave. She closed |about 9:30 and started home. was walking down Stewart st., rying a shopping bag in one land her purse In tee other. | Without warning she was hit over | the head and fell to her knees. Her |hat and hair saved her from being 1\knocked unconscious. Mrs. Walter ‘ds hit OF | kept a death grip on her purse, but No married person could sh feelings to | Dashed Seep Ore., July 9.—"If| her mate if they both kneel togeth-|hoth men grabbed it. They were people would pray more, there|er in prayer.” | unable to get her fingers locee fron would be" less divorce,” A.J.Shartie,| Shartle was one of the speakers| i per aien Boston, told the International Chris-| at ¢he thd the handle, tian Endeavor convention here f0-| last serio | i general today 8 day of the session. | The assembly will pass on a num. ‘amilies in homes where praying | of resolutions which have been {s done—real, old-fashioned family | approved for consideration, and will prayer—there are no misunderstand. | tonight adjourn for tomorrow's out: ing that lead to the divorce court. | ing trips to surrounding scenic spota “Christian standards for family | —Mount Hood, the Columbia River life call for mutual love and under-| highway and the beaches, pile goby She fought them savagely, but the {men were too strong. The purse broke and she was left holding the Jhandle. She chased the thugs as they ran down an alleyway and called for help, No one appeared to Jaid her and the bandits, after a sprint, reached their automobile and drove away Mrs, Walter was suffering Thurs- sink, is a land of lonely, corroded | aah day from a severe head Injury at | her home ane | WON'T LE AVE if HERE'S MORE ABOUT | ~\ ‘Trees, little, stunted oaks, writhe | close to the ground as if to hide BOILERS from the relentiess sun, Huge boulders, red, green and yellow and charred and wrinkled ike corks, | Delays Action on Withdraw- STARTS ON PAGE ONE ia ct spill high on each other. ‘There are) al From General Body terrible distances where nothing} | tion the paymént of 60 to 70 per may be seen except sand, baked cent more money than necessary hard and cracked, and great alluv-| PORTLAND, Ore, July 9.—(py|and send that money to concerns fal stonen of a gummy purple hue,|U. P.)—The Third Baptist church| Which pay no taxes In the state, ‘It eye ¢ |of Portland today was still unde-| takes all the kick out of his ‘econ. ‘termined whether to leave the! omy’ talks.’ Rescue Leader Is | Northern Baptist convention because} J. H. Fox, of the Commercial it showed modernistic tendencies, Roller Works, low bidder in the | | | third competition, had a story which Father of Twins now The country the c lly le only struggling thru, which r The pastor, Rey, W. G. Jones, Inst Los ANGELES, April %—Mra.! night sought to have the church| agreed with that of Mr. Garrett Donald C. McDonald, wife of the|ieave the convention, but he with First they tried to make compe: Jeader of the relief expedition brav-|drew his resolution from conalder-| tition a joke by specifying G, & W. ing the terrors of Death Valley to)ation by his congregation, and| boilers, which could be obtained reacue fix miners lost there, became | agreed to wait until the Oregon| from only once concern,” ho sald. the mother of twin boys Wednesday. | state convention will meet After those specifications . were McDonald has not heard the| His résolution concluded amended under protest, they jugled news yet “Brethren, 1 am thru with the! around until they made local com Mra. N. J. Lee, Mrs. McDonald's | tight A mule cannot kick and| petition a joke any Almost as moth said her son-indaw would) pull at the same time, and as my| big a joke as Hartley's pretensions have met the same fate as the Kiet | Lord commissioned mo to pull andjgo an economy program for state miner if he had not left the mine| not to kick, 1, from this night, will) expenditures: a day before cloudbursts isolafed| either come out clean from the| “Our bid would have saved the the camp and forced his men\to| Northern Baptist convention or line state more than $7,000 and kept the seek escape to the world. yup with it” money in Washington,” HERE’S MORE ABOUT SEWERS ARTS ON PAGE ONE Bale Sse a eS OAS RSIS ering odor of the most sickening in- 1 tensfty when the wind blows in off |the lake. Tho Alaska street tank has been | constructed in midst of a beau tiful colony of residents at Alaska} st. and Lakeside ave. 8, It was con- structed on park board property and | ix an eyesore as well as a nuisance. 4 It fronts on beautiful Lake Wash. | ington boulevard and empties onto one of the finest, sandy and shallow | | i | bathing beaches in the city. | | | “We never swim here any more,” |said F. E. Franklin, 4667 Lakeside ave. S., whose property adjoins the} jtank. ‘This beach was ideal for | | | | children as the sand extends far out | and the water Is shallow and warm. | {It has been ruined.” | | Dr. W. H. Corson, of the Madison | Park Improvement club, says that! club members are unanimously op- | powed to sewage and septic tanka emptying into Lake Washington, He lives at 814 McGilvra blvd., the north end of the lake where tanks have not | yet been constructed. | ‘I will resort to court action if} necessary to check this nuisance,’ | Dr. Corson said, “My neighbors feel | the same way,” MT. BAKER RESIDENTS TO FIGHT FOR SEWER Norman Dickison of the Mount Baker Park Improvement club said that sentiment in the Mount Baker district is unanimous against the sewage nuisance. An intercepting | Seattle's greatness to come, as well| |S present necessity, is the sensible] and only solution of the problem,""| | sewer, built for Dickison said. ‘The Star's editorial is the most constructive suggestion that has been made on tho question. “Mount Baker residents will fight these smell nutsances with every legal and political weapon at our command,” According to Engineer Blackwell's report to the olty council of May §, this year, Seattle is confronted with the necessity eventually of building the Hanford street tunnel newer at a| cost of $1,666,500, the Dunlap oan. | | yon connecting sewer at a cost of} $175,000 and the Duwamish disposal | works at a cost of $700,00, to re. | Hove the Rainier valley ayatem and carty @vay the flood waters in the rainy searon ‘The cost of these items, with the |Intercepting sewer along Lake Waahe Jington, and the pumping | Blackwell plants, eatimaten, would be | $4,056,468. ‘The cost ot these projects with the 16 septic tanks would be $4,296,100, The difference ia only $761,068, Tim atl Rae al kGd ee AL Pree | | Five Thousand Autos Needed to Take Care of Visiting Templ l ng £emplars . URTESY cars for visiting Knights Templar are being offered slowly. Five thousand automobiles are needed to insure every Knight a comfortable ride around Seattle. It is imperative that car owners vol- unteer conveyances at the earliest possible moment. This is a duty to which citizens of Seattle must rise. If you can spare your car for an hour, a day, or a week, part time or all time during the conclave, fill out the coupon below and mail to Harold H. Stewart, 408 Collins building, or call MAin-5530. SEATTLE HOSPITALITY I volunteer the use of my car for the time indicated below to the hospitality committee for hospitality pur- poses to the visiting members of the Knights Templar conclave, Upon advance notice I will be on hand to perform such services as may be required. Name.. Address, . Phone.. Make.......... *Closed.. *Open.. Seating Cap. Time Offered —July* 26... 27... 28... 29... 30... No. of Hours — *Morning.. *Afternoon,. *Evening. . (Place check mark on information desired.) BRITON REALIZES CITY'S WORTH Library Delegate Says Em-| pire Needs Office Here “propaganda bureau.” the Pacific. And, back of that, have out here a real America, pled by real Americans, great interests in the Pacific, The British Empire discovered of th itis cons Thursday that Seattle is the gate: | pi ppeobibse nt wide way to the Pacific ocean ment Following this discovery, the em. | pire probably will establish at Seattle a branch of the British Library of/H, Moore and Willie Dilworth, Information, an official government | Marshfield, were sentenced to activity, now centered in New York. / days in Curry county jail and mus This was the prediction of Angus] pay Somerville Fletcher, assistant direc-| conviction in Port Orford yestorday tor of the Nbrary trip west As a delegate to the Ameri:| river on March can Library association here | ‘Moore 4 "Ho Veitish pprary ts a trade-etimu:| business man lator for the émpire, Tt supplies in: | formation on any and all subjects| concerning British affairs to Amert~ MARSHFIELD, Ore, July 9.—M q to the supreme court and were re lensed under bonds, cans, but is not, Mr. Fletcher said, a | Causes $75,000 Fire “T never realized, until I came out | here,”” “he sald, ‘Seattle's command- ing position for the trade center of You | docks peo- “Britain, as well ax America, has|* The two nations must work side by side.’* If the library's branch is located in Seattle, {t will work under direction It is supported and operated by the British govern. of 40 a fine of $600 each, following Ho ix on his first) on ehargea of dynamiting In Elie | tion & prominent Marshfield | Both men sorved notice of appeal “ARE DEAD |Rains Relieve Swelterin | East; Mid-West Still Hot : | NEW YORK, July 9.— Cooling |rains broke the heat spell here night after four persons were jand eight overcome from the swek | tering blasts of heat. : eer ary 3 | COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 9.—Per Isistent showers of the last five days |have finally broken the heat wave in Ohio, the United States weather forecaster here said today. Temper atures dropped into the 70's over night. | eee : | KANSAS CITY, July 9.—Scattered” | showers brought only slight relief to Sweltering Kansas and Western Mis: souri today. Yesterday the mereury | Soared to 106 in some places in Kan | Sas and to 100 in Kansas City, Heat prostrations were reported from Kansas towns and several were overcome here. The corn crop in Kansas is fest burning up under the blazing sun, : ene i | DALLAS, Tex. July 9.— Partly | cloudy weather in some sections of the state, with promise of clearing skies during the day, held out little | Prospects of relief from the heat | wave of the last 26 hours, today, | Temperatures ranged high thruout |the state Wednesday, reaching the | peak at Fort Worth, where the mer | cury climbed to 102, | Launch in Flames } PORTLAND, broken gas Ore, July 9A line on the launch Vision last night caused a fire |which swept thru the Union Oif at Willbridge and caused age estimated at approximately 000. The launch was approaching the dock to fuel when the pipe burat _ and the craft caught fire. John Ke |Larson and Frank Espel were }forced to jump Into the waster from: j the boat, and it drifted into the off | soaked docks, setting thom afire, | a | SWAMPSCOTT, Mass, July 9—! (By U. P)—Sparkling weather, with @ sea smooth as glass, inspired the | president today to plan an afternoon’ erulso on the Mayflower, his first since coming north for his yacad Accompanied by Mrs, Coolidge and all members of his party, the presi- j dent planned to inspect the forts guarding Boston harbor and to ta turn to White Court in time for dine ner,