The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 21, 1925, Page 1

tion after he @: isn't changed often enough his tombstone. | yards green F errr. Ad Men Work; Girls Go Shopping| TAKING THEIR OW just couldn't resist the Y ME gerhoff led them on a tour of just before starting out. of Los Angeles; Jane Culley, Look, of Seattle; ue, and Mrs. Don Thomas, of drawing power” So they went shopping Tuesday instead of In the of Seattl Frances Holmes, DICINE, the shops and markets. party, t Mrs. H, J. Halton, of Los Angeles; Helen Mc Angeles. Photo by Carter Los HOME BREW Howdy, folks! Who first thought of adding cement to | clam chowder to thicken it? | ee | The ar of the Pa-| cific Coast / ns is here. | If the these | Listerine ads port | | ys one reason a| ¢ much atten is dead is because the on Howard KR fellow doesn is one who remembers the days when no yachting party} was complete unless half a dozen bottles of Bi elser were being n the water to cool dragged behind ae PORTS NOTE If you would execute all the | shots as described by golf ex- perts, there is only one thing te do—become a contortionist. tt Watermelon season is coming, and foon we won't know whether !ts per- epiration or juice running down the center of our back eee Bootleggers are now receiving orders by radio.”——News item. Yep, and their call number is COD. eee HOW ABOUT A GLADIOLA? Dear Homer: The height of my ambition is to have a dahlia named after me. Mabel Surp. . Li'l Gee Gee says the ideal caddie is one who {s unable to count over 80. eee A strange summer cottage | Has Mey Flynn; The shack is not titled “Dew Drop Inn.”* eee “ “Youth will be served,” said the hootlegger, as he delivered a quart to the college boy. . o- CLINIC NOTE Postgraduate summer course for | doctors is being held at the univer-} sity. Papers which will not be read | are: Twenty-five new excuses for re moving tonsils. The life history of a measle. | Where to buy March 25, 1895, is- | sues of Harper’s Bazaar for the physician's waiting room. How to prescribe bread pills in Latin, Japan is trying to cut dow j alphabet from 45,000 to acters. Guess manufacturers of alphabet soup got tired making so many letters. e526 A very ignorant girt Is Miss Manett She calls a cabaret A cabaret, | J. Augustus | |Selentist, about to determine what | | | will happen when a month-old egg) Wiis tossed into an electric fan. Altho be went thru with the experiment, his friends declared afterwards that Spareribs, he was “yellow, But Mr. Spare- ribs declared that it was just » yoke | on himself, and that the eigen 0 turned out as he eggspected. eee Old Silas Grump, the Pumpkin Hollow, says tha thing about a flivver is tha get its tail over the reins. eee sige of one good t it can’t A‘tender heart Has Nellie Rook; She just can't put Worms on the hook. et It’a all very well to start at the bottom and work your way up, but don’t try it if you are a swimming | instructor, rr) YE DIARY Up betimes, a noble daye, and to town, my serivening, and too, there being little In » wave the trial of the. heretick in Bryaniand, which doth grow tiresome, albeit Milord Darrow do be w greate advocate and Will Bryan a greate publicist, and J Scopes, the defendant, | will be lucky, methinks, If he de eseape the hangman's noose or the pablick pi lory. Ai nd to rend “The € fas interesting tayle And so, afier @ beaker of sassafras tea, to bed. Today's Definition; An opportu-| nist is a business man who turned | his hairpin factory into a silver flask | plant. ALIS. | $60,000 LOSS IN MYSTERY FIRE Spokane and Vancouver, B. C., Districts Hit by Flames YAKIMA, July 21—Fire of aj mysterious origin swept thru Kiona in Benton county yesterday, de- stroying a hotel, a store, a pool hall and other structures valued at $60,000. Incendiaries ure suspected. | eee SPOKANE, July 21.—Logs valued} at $20,000 and logging machinery were destroyed by a forest fire which swept over Camp No. 4 of the Panhandle Lumber Co. holdings near Ruby yesterday. VANCOUVER, B. C, July 21— Seventeen fires are raging in the Vancouver district. Loss has totalled thousands of dollars. Conditions are extremely gra and unless rain comes, forestry officials fear new) blazes, To date there have been 260 separate fires in the district, oe WENATCHER, July 21—~¥lames| are raging on Blagg mountain, near Blewett pass. Fires near the pass are under control and traffic thru) the pasy js uninterrupted. ete SEDRO-WOOLLEY, July 21} ‘The fire which started In the Skagit Mill Co, camp has spread over thousands of acres of slashings and virgin timber, It in spredAing to-| highly. | timber yalued BAN JOBE, Cal, ily 21 men were dead near here from elactrocution when they bled into @ live wire while # brush fire, Three today otum. fighting WATCH YOUR STEP, AND ALSO THE NEW AUTOMATIC SIGNALS || Witct your step with the new electric signals. There are no left turns on Pine, or Union, except at First and at Third, and the traffic cops at the corners declare the rule will be enforced, } The rest of the way is simple, || if you watch the little signals hanging overhead at the intor- sections, This week will be devoted to educating the automobile drivers, and next week a course of inten- |) sive training will be given, the Jaywalkers. After that everything move with the signals, must DRY LAW OKEH Hesketh Only Opponent of Strict Booze Ordinance Opposed by one vote only—that of Councilman Hesketh — Councilman Moore's revision of the city liquor ordinance was passed Monday after. noon, It modernizes the city dry law by eliminating an old provision, con- flieting with state and federal laws, | which permitted possession of two| quarts of distilled liquor and a case of beer at one time, | ‘The new ordinance also interprets “concoctions which may be mixed | with water or other liquid to form | an intoxicant” as intoxicating liquor | and is aimed at those shops which | well powders, syrups and other con-| contrated forms of {egal beverages, Penalties are raised from 30 days! and $100 fine to 90 days and $300 fine, These feminine writers of the of their own ads nor listening to the speeches, Women Writer daring | ‘ | delegates “What | president | Consumer.” | Los | ‘Tacoma | Say *Frisco “Youths Admit | two weeks ago. | Martin, 16 | They implicated a third youth, whone Ad club convention the lure of Seattle stores. Anna Marie Brueg- They are shown consulting The Star sides Miss Bruegge: of rhoff, were Mrs. E. A. Street, Salt Lake City; Martha K. ster, of Seat- Staff Photographers Bee and Jane I & Bradley, Star Can’t Resist | Lure of Ads DVERTISE MENT Tuesday delegates t Pacific Ce Metropolitan All the girl ad writers went shop nate y fov eat tle nist. So the Brueggerhott them around to stores and specialty st mar kets. A. HEATH ONTHANK ADDRESS je this was going on, A. Heath Onthank, chief of the domestic com- merce division of the U. 8. depart ment of commerce, was telling male | Advertising Can Do; ein Marketing.” to Eliminate Wa Other. spenkers at morning Session included Eckstein “A Mer and H. J Utah, who explained the operative marketing pla First of the 30 trophies offered in various convention contests went ta Miss Alice Hankinson of Spokane. She made the best three-minute talk on “The Value of An Advertising Club to a Community.” Cities all up and down the Coast had speakers entered NEW PRESIDENT WILL BE CHOSEN Don E. Gilman. probably will be the f Advertising,” Halton of Salt Lake City, Zion co- Franciaco, association succeeding Lloyd Spencer, Seattle. Tom Jones Parry, Seattle, Js slated for vice president for West- ern Washington; Ray Kelley of Spokane, for the East Side; Paul Shaw, Portland, for Oregon; Tom Shore, San Diego, for Southern Call- | fornia; Dave Levison, Stockton, for | Northern California, and Miss Flor- ence Schindler, Lon Angeles, to rep-| resent women. | Delegates at noon Tucsday were luncheon guests of the Seattle Post- | Intelligencer in the Spanish ball- room. More competitive speeches were made, this time on “How Ad vertising Lowers the Cost to the Tuesday evening 1s stunts night| at the theater, with trophies for the! best. Clubs from San Francisco, Angeles, Fresno, Long Beach, and Portland, with the! Girls’ Junior and University of} Washington clubs having teams en- tered. BOYS ROB MAIL $200 Postoffice Theft SANTA CRUZ, Cal, July 21.—Two San Francisco boys, arrested here to- day, were said by postal inspectors to have confessed a $200 robbery of a San Francisco branch postoffice The boys in custody are Lewis and Adolph Noerth, 14, name was withheld, Tho boys live in the same block in which the sub-station is located and are said to haye told police they hid their loot near the scene of the robbery, 8 Sc LE REAL ESTATE FIRMS Are offering thelr best buys in today's Classified Columns, Here is a good Mating. $100 DOWN RBAD THIe IXTRAORDINARY PROPOBITION New 4-roo nial bungalow, UNIVERSITY diatrict Owner anys soll to reliable family on $100 down and $100 per month for 6 months, then ance to sult purcha aay thin in the bi bungalow you hi All hardwood ff) ‘Turn to the Want and who is dandy home to you WANT AD Ad Columns offering this RBAD THE COLUMNS For GOOD HUYS IN RWAL ESTATE, lof Murphy | Monday SCOPES FOUND GUILTY The } The Seatt Koterea NO, 125, oT VOL, 27. <a> SATTLE, the Postoffice at WASH.,, TUESDAY, JULY 1 1925. ewspaper With the Biggest Circulation fn Washington leStar ‘TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, x an, 83, Trapped in Well! ORKER IS) VICTIM OF AVE-IN Is Buried Under Tons of Earth; Curb- ing Falls LYMPIA, July 21.—Bur- ied under tons of earth at the bottom of a 52-foot well, at Rochester Prairie, Dennis Murphy, years old, being sought by a: crew of 15 men, working in relays in an attempt to rescue him. Murphy had gone down to clean out the well when the curbing caved in, burying him under 15 feet of earth. B, Ray, his companion, at once spread the alarm, but rescue work was delayed owing to the necessity of bringing up equipment. Little hope is entertained that Murphy will be reached alive. The whole country: aroused to feverish in the rescue attempts, women are serving ide is work, Mrs. Mary Evans, "a sister | , lives at Roches- ter Prairie. OREGON FIRE IS UNCONTROLLED Klamath Falls Blaze Sweep- ing Over Vast Area KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. July 21 ‘The worst forest fire experienced ia raging in the Diamond Lake area of the Umpqua National forest, according to reports from for. est rangers on the west side of Klamath lake, A slashing fire in out of control, and is approaching the Klamath county line over a wide front, “Many thousands of acres of thick timber will be destroyed,” the ranger station reported. The fire is confined to one huge blaze in y there ‘BOY Is “CRUSHED Youth Pinned Between two Trucks; Seriously Hurt Pinned between evening, Archie Simon- stead, 18, of 2906 18th ave. N., lies in Providence hospital Tuesday with a broken leg and possible internal injuries. His condition is serious, Simonstead was assisting Nelson Glithero to unload a double parked | between Mart: | truck on Fourth ave., on and Madison sts,, told. Another truck, driven by -Loulw Peterson, 1911 W. 65th st. crashed into the truck being unloaded, pint | ning and injuring the young man, police were |Woman Is Held ‘or Attempt at Suicide} Refusing to explain her alleged attempt at suicide, Mrs, Mary Cud nik, 20, was held in the clty Jail Tuesday. She wad brought to the city hospital at 240 a. m. Tuesday, from her home at 1466 Norman st, At that time the girl was suffer. ing intenosely from polsoning. After treatment had been given hor, Mra. Cudnik was placed in a cell, altho she was still il and suffering from throat burns, Swisler and Wife Plead Not Guilty Carl H. Swisler and his wife, Mor. ence Gwisler, pleaded not guilty to a charge of Sllcgully possessing nar. cotios when arraigned before Wed. eral Judge Neterer Monday, Swisler and George Rossman, indicted for violating the prohibition luws und the revenue laws by using dena: tured alcohol preparations in spurt: ous liquors, will plead to these churges ‘Tuesday. During a raid on the Swisler home, in Victory Nighway, narcotic figents found an oplum smoking out: fit near the home, 2X activity} and} hot | | lunches to the men while they | two automobiles | “TUESDAY, July 2 I Let us make If the factori let’s call it a half day off. on the job befor When inventory bands. Let's call it half-a-day water department sa: \| first call. end, paper take care of both city they deem it practicable. Cutting off their water matters at all. Water Dp tion. to live up to its contract. \. EDITORIAL Let the Workers See the Parade will be a great day in Seattle. it a greater day of the big parade of the Knights Templar, when 25,000 men will march with 40 or 50 bands. There are thousands working who will not be on the line of march, and yet these thousands would like to see the great parade. And everybody who wishes to see this wonderful sight and hear these matchless bands ought to be permitted to do so. s and shops can not call it a day off work with hands or brain that no one is to show up 1 o'clock on Tuesday. is taken at the end of the year the figures will not show that the works were shut down a half day in July, and there will be thousands of more leyal helpers who will still remember thar long line of Plumed Knights and the music of the users outside Seattle pa their water as do Seattle residents. ment is self-supporting and the fact that outsiders y no city taxes has nothing to do with the ques- The water department accepted their applica- tions for service and it is morally, if not legally, bound day. It is to be the Make it known to all who FORD OFFER FOR 200 SHIPS IS APPROVED Head of Emergency Fleet Recommends Sale FORD’S BID IS HIGHEST Would Pay $1,706,000 for| Idle U. S. Vessels July 21—(By U. Imer, president of flect corporation, to- day recommended to the shipping WwW P) the emergency > 5 board accep’ off on the 28th. * * EDITORIAL North Park Water Users Victims of Bad Politics they aevend Hever ‘Seattle aty water supply. have been so informed by the water der it has taken this action to conserve the supply so city dwellers may have the . outside the corporate sprinkle their lawns if They artment, The The real reason for this action is the fact that the other afternoon newspaper is jag and is determined to carry its campaign of abuse, coercion and interest-serving propaganda to the bitter ill on a mudslinging The latest agitation the other afternoon newspaper 1as worked out of its ugly force North Park territory called on George Russell, city water department, to cut off the supply out there on the pretense that there was not enough water to and outside poliically timid, yielded promptly. North Park residents and others outside the cor- poration will become parts of Seattle proper when stem is one designed to into the city limits. The superintendent of the needs. Russell, rations isn’t going to hasten If they are to be governed by such political cowards as George stay outside as long as they Russell they likely will can. twice as much for bid for the government's fleet of 200 idle vessels. Palmer's recommendation was taken under consideration when the board met this morning to make the ward to one of the 16 bidders, of Ford—with an offer of $1,- was highest, hom 706,000. FOUR BURNED TO, DEATH IN FIRE ‘Rats Gnawing Matches Be-| lieve Started Blaze DALLAS, Tex. July 21—Four persons were burned to death, seven injured and scantily clad, when fire swept thru a rooming house here early today. | Two of the bodies were burned al- | most beyond recognition. The iden- | tified dead: | T. 0, Yung, | Brown, 25. Bodies of two other men in under- taking parlors are believed to be ! Lloyd Short, 23, and Joe Dunaway, a score forced to flee, 23, and William Rats gnawing matches in the kitchen of the building started the | blaze, firemen said they believed. KILLS OWN BABY | Accidentally Crushes Her: | { | Head While Backing Car SAN JOSE, Cal, July 21.—(By U. P.)—Moving day was tragedy day for the Willis Snyder family | {here today. The water depart- |Church Members Seek Removal of Minister GE) July 21.—(By° Py as Frank Dyer, pastor of Wilshire Congregational church, | said today he would pay no at- tention to a resolution asking his removal, adopted at a moeting last night of approximately 100 dis- satisfied members of his congrega tion. During the meeting numerous |charges were made against Dr, Dyer, who was: not present. He was charged with misstatements, domineering tactics and with abus: ing officials and members of the | chureh, | Canadian Officers Arrest 2; Believed Rum Runners selzed as a Canadian ‘Tho gas boat “M-996, suspected rum-runner by customs officers, two ‘men, sup- pomdly of Seattle, were held by Canadian immigration authorities Tuesday for investigation The Canadian patrol boat Evelyn sighted the Seattle Jaunch lying alongside the Nellie B., a. fishing vessel, Monday night, and went to investigate, ‘The officers reported they fourd 60 cases of whisky in the hold of the ship. The operators of the M-996, whose names were not contained in the dispatch to local authorities, insisted that they had engine trouble and wero being aided by the Nellie 1B, According to Canadian law a ves- sel may not enter the country other than at a port of entry, except under “stress of” any other unavoidable, cause.” WEATHER Mostly cloudy tontane Wednesday; moderate temperature, Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 76 Minimum, 52 Today noon, 60 weather or and BOAT IS. SEIZED! The chairman of the meeting read Aked, Pastor,” in reasons for a letter from Rev. Charles F, former ‘Rockefeller New York, giving his resigning six weeks ago as asso- clate pastor of the fashionable church, Dr. Aked said today he had “lost faith and confidence in Dr. Dyer," but added that he was not personal- ly concerned in the present con- troversy. Dr, Dyer was formerly pastor of the ‘st Congregational church in ‘Tacoma, SHIP IS DOOMED Sugar Freighter Aground on Asia Coast; Breaking Up MANILA, P. I, aly 21.—The Brit- ish steamer Agremont Castle has run aground on the Tunbbataha reefs of the Sulu archipelago and is reported breaking up rapidly, A coast guard cutter is proceeding | the Basilian | from Zamboanga, strait, to ald in rescue work, Be- cause of the treachérous nature of the Tunbbataha reefs, authorities here hold little hope that the craft will be saved, The Agremont Castle, of the Dod- well Castle line, was en route from on Manila to New York with a cargo of | sugar, Rodeo in Ghavanne Thronged by 10,000 CHEY NE, Wyo, July vt With 16,000 people already here and more arriving, cow it to. day were grooming somo of worst buckers for the of the frontier days celebration. ‘The events this afternoon will in- clude all the usual rodeo feats roping, bull-dogging, riding and re- lays. the} second day | The father, backing his automo- bile out of the garage after the rest of the family possessions had left the premises, ran over his 18- months-old daughter, Florence. | ‘The child died instantly of a | crushed head. = | Baby Injured When | Three Autos Crash | Victim of a traffic | which three autos crashed, the in- {fant son of Mr. and Mrs. 8. | Burns, 2425 Piedmont place, was | undergoing surgical treatment Tues- day. The baby suffered head injuries, {his father told deputy sheriffs, | when his automobile was struck in |the rear by one driven by A. V. Miller, 8936 Seventh ave. S. W. Burn's car was thrown against a} third automobile parked at 136 Greenwod ave. Mr. and Mrs. Burns and two friend, who were with them, escapéd without a scratch, Little Traffic on Stevens Highway While the Stevens Pass road has been opened from Index, across the mountain to Leavenworth, the Auto- mobile club reports that most of the travel is yet going by way of Blew- ett pass, as that more settled road and there is not a great difference in the distance. || When You Go on 1 . || Your Vacation— there is no need to be without The Star. | Resides, you will not want to miss a single installment of “The Happer Wigs" | | + | Have The Star follow you on your vacation. By mall, to any America, only 50¢ including postage, place In a month, —— | accident in} Is the older and} Home Edition | | EVOLUTION TRIAL IS ~ ENDED Case Brought to an Abrupt Close; Jury Is Fast OURT ROOM, Dayton, Tenn., July 21. — John Thomas Scopes, 24-year-old {high school teacher of Day- | ton, Tenn., today was found | guilty of violating the Tennes- see anti-evolution law. The great evolution trial, which opened here on July 10. | with the eyes of the world on it, thus came to a dramatic jend. | The jury received the case at 11:20 a. m. and returned |the verdict at 11:27 a. m. Judge Raulston summoned | Scopes before the bar and im- posed a fine of $100. Scopes, jwhen asked if he had any- thing to say before judgment was imposed, said: “Your honor, I feel that I. |have been opposing an un- | Just law. I will continue to | support my ideas.” Bail for Scopes was fixed at $500, pending appeal of the case to the supreme court of ‘Tennessee at Knoxville. | Dudley Field Malone announced | that the Baltimore Evening Sun had offered to go on the bond and the offer had been accepted. MALONE PLEASED WITH HOSPITALITY Malone thanked the people of Tennessee for their hospitality. In permitting “this great case to be held here.” For purposes of the record, Hays asked for more than 30 days to pre |pare the case. | Hays sald he hopes that no | longer than 10 days would be needed but the defense wanted the time in case they needed it. Raulston sald 10 days would be enough. i “If you are not ready then, I may extend the time,” he said. “I want to get this case before the | supreme court which mects in Sep- | tember,” he added. | Hays then moved that judgment be arrested. Raulston overruled it. MOTION FOR NEW ; | TRIAL, OVERRULED He then. moved for a new trial, this also was overruled. The mor tions were for the purpose of Ge appellate record. Hays then asked for an aout This was granted. The crowded court room sat ; breathless as the last tense moments of the trial unfolded before them. Attorneys for both sides smiled kindly at each other and everybody was in’the best of good humor, Scopes, the defendant, before the bar without a sleeves rolled up. Darrow wore hig suspenders openly as usual. ta Bryan wielded his palm leaf (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) appeared LAND TAX RAISE _ 1S APPEALED Ask State Board to Consid er Leasehold Valuation An appeal to the state equalization board to raise the tax valuation of the Metropolitan Building Co, lease- hold gn downtown university land was voted by the city council Tues- jday morning, The special session, with eight members in attendance, unanimously authorized the appeal from the re- fusal of the county board to take action. Finance Chairman Blaine was ab- sent, In accepting the proposal, fathered by Councilman Campbell, the city will seek to override the county tax board's refusal to increase the lease: hold total valuation from $1,200,000 to $6,000,000. The three county commissioners on the board last week voted against the increase, which was favored by Councilmen Campbell, Nichols and Moore, representing the city, ‘The appeal will be made by Gor- poration Counsel Kennedy when the state equalization board meets next | month, Powder Plant Is Destroyed by Fire OLYMPIA, TWly 21,.—An accldens tal spark yesterday destroyed the {powder plant of the Dumor Chem: Jical company, ‘The striking o?2 & metal hoop on a chlorate cask against a galvanized vat ignited chlorate dust, starting a fire that entirely consumed the bullding, Wiye men and nine girls working in the plant escaped, r * x