The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 18, 1925, Page 1

a ee Se ee ’ WEATHER Temperature Last 24 Hours | Maximum, 73 Minimum, 57 Today noon, 66 ~ VOL. 27, NO. 149. One ennnnn errr errr The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Bntered as Gecond Class Matter May 2, 2, at the he JATTLE, W ASH., affice at Beartia Wash, TUESDAY, AUGUSI 18 under the Act of Con , 1925. Howdy, folks! A child believes | In fairy tales; a man believes in | statistics, Li'l Gee Gee has hay fever s0 bad that she sno to eat corn akes for breakfast | Diogenes, in search for ar honest man, carried a lantern if he wert © today, would he carry en X-ray machine TODAY'S NEWS FIC TURE | —__<—-§ = Miss Gertrude Ederle, as. she dove into the| English channel; this morning, on the start/of her swim across that body of water, Miss Ederie = is shown holding her passport) above her head, so that it will not be wet when ‘plane hops to s ABANDON POLAR Bad Weather Conditions Are HUNT OREGON CONVICTS HERE Washington The Seattle Star March 3. 1f79, Ber Year, by Mall, a ~ (Tune Giant Plane for Hawaii Flight FAILS IN THE SEATTLE-BUILT seaplane PB-1, snapped at Sand Point Tuesday. On Fri n Francisco, aon where it will try a non-stop flight to Hawaii. lp B-1, Built by Boeing, to ale Off Friday entered © water at Cape Gris filght. im the two & Nez z 710 2 m. brimming with raepower I k 1 motor sal Merchants’ Exposition Is fic flight te RECORD CROWDS CHANNEL SWIM! American Girl Suc- cumbs to Cold After Seven Hours BY GABRIAL COURTIAL United Press Staff Correspondent GRIS NEZ, 18.—Gertrude Ederle collapsed and abandoned her at tempt to swim the English inel shortly before 4 0 this afternoon. Franee, tions and a stiff wind witch up n the southwest after © had started, the young Amer an girl was forced to quit t tance from Cape ¢ abo tw A strong w came up from t) roughened the chan 200 _TWO CENTS: IN CONVICT TELLS HIS'OWN STORY | Home ESCAPED SLAYERS sam TRACED 10 SEATTLE -AND OFFICERS PROWL Father and Sister of Tom Murray Located at Port Blakeley and SEA’ rT. LE. (convicts. PLAN TO | KILL PURSUERS AND THEN SLAY SELVES! PORTLAND oO Aug u natu Sheriff Goes to Investigate | areresoiyed 45 Sale" than | BY JIM MARSHALL u SEATTLE is a steel trap today, waiting for Tom Murray, ss aaltace »|;*2 James Willos and Ellsworth Kelly, escaped murderers, | them to Portland from || to trip its trigger and clamp their bodies, dead or alive, in i" its jaws. 2 Murray, Willos and Kelly, blood-guilty desperadoes, escaped as || Jast week’ from the Oregon state penitentiary. Since then tor | they have left a grim trail of assault and panic in their wake. Constabulary of three states has hunted them in “| vain, More than 2,000 manhunters have trailed them thru howed t cities and over wild countrysides—without remark that pout catching sight of them. call nuit Tuesday, it is believed, they are in or pif ae remy near Seattle. They have, indeed, been re- N ecb ported seen from a dozen soure ) eattle police and the sheriff's office learned Tuesday that James Murray, father of Convict Tom Murray, and Anna Dowell, the convict’s sister, reside at Port Blakeley. Sheriff Stanioch, of Kitsap county, co-oper- ating with Matt Starwich, was on his way to Port Blakeley Tuesday forenoon. WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH Prowelr cars manned by armed crews patrol streets. Motorcycle men, revolvers IN BED y ready, jog up unfrequented highways. Every uniformed man and detective oF the force is Sheriff's deputies, numbering about 3 to keep watch. the word. The way of the c alert. ), have been notified Cigaret Fire Costs Mrs. Five hundred guns site ready to bark a Fanny Senge Life _|AWAKENED BY FLAMES). ming of the fugi- | « nuntry was this: | hosta ail was picked up was m. Moni atened to kill the if word of the exploit authorities. Chief of Police Jenkins of Port- Seattle "Definite | Monitor, Ore., she reaches Eng the *gruelling transpa outhweat and The three desperadoes appeared out-| land immedistely summoned in all Faille Custom Likely to End Expedition Hawati, were being given the U Drawing Thousands nel waters so that during the lat! Runs From Room With Her | pool hall. Four youths were | police available on duty when the officers are y's new Boeing-puillt t hours, she buffeted by Night Clothes Afire ding there. ‘They were Lawrence | affair was made known at 1 a. m, closely watching) WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—(By U.| plane PB-1 Tuesday, prer ai ptsadia hea ity pit progress or der Teen Wilde, Otto Lucht and} ‘Tuesday. ‘They were armed for Miss Ederle, to!) 9 MacMillan navy air expe. |b hop to San Franci t Alvin She had been in the cold water . ; ‘Themehtotii saree Acid hes | drive thru all hotels and Nort! see that she, dosm mot SUC BOY i in we io discoverea (2tttt ¥riday zor of the| eat * ater) Fatally burnediwhilé asleep Mons y pur were kidnaped by the/ end lodging houses in an effort to ae caband Bete p dition -In search: obdAdtiundiacoweryd | a iy aa mmtich e Northwent Merchant ene} about eight. hours and 48 minutes | any night, Mrs. Fannie Senge, $0, of [convicts anid; fn-a-ear, forced to-take| rout out the prisoners, * cat Aretie' continent, ceaselessly buttet.|,, Welshine 24.000 pounds nition, that therattendance thia cea | When, she wna taken aboard the! 219g Yesler way, died in the city |the fugitives toward Portland | Meanwhile day detectives worp Longview, Wash... is spending | ed by adverse clements, will be a record breaker é ha aera port pur ea aoc akblpag Be a a apa var apd At daylight | calted out and by daylight hundreds $100,000 a year to advertise itself, Pic at ia wale The « lon hall w rowd 1 a eee ae eee oke to find her the seven reach | of police were scouring the city. is announced. i to ind . to- Monday night, and the out-of-town! ‘7 Serie, who * a 2M Ss ot Murray and tiie Heck, why not stage an evolution | | tea! lnablateation ‘ + the | Smoulde + Newman, | other convicts trial and save the money? ciety ad the | fron a farmer, living talked ‘to Bee. Come, toll the delt for Mrs. Trade; Licutena >mmande ‘apy 1 duty Zi n apartments City, They took | the" cise: alae She went and told what hubby) of 1) fly co Pacift hae street with '¢ Ka Possession of the laughed heartily made. of t 1 At an Fran- | ste 1 Bed % mee ‘orced at stories of how 6 ae thn Ms es : ' f a oft her Bae & then ihe posnewen i be t ‘ blaxing garment 1 wrapped her ane ne entire blundered’ aban ‘An old-timer is who remembers | ay ether Byrd believ y b a ; Ne ; ni bag when he used to save the photo-| y to continue the at the ¢ it pene dd nent a the Waldo hills y hat ca Senge was t tay in the opintce graphs of actresses that came in} to 7 4c: | howpital. Her burns cov house all day vd i cigaret packages At t m me wa th 1 Sodas oe F ‘Then It was a terri- ese. (6 | received from Byrd, but not in. re-| will t ° ted. An immense bank of dat the w never hav G0; ab6" lapasa into" p. m., last ni dried Pied THE IRATE DINER TO ply to Wil radio, saying that | plane ; et ‘the! visitng dal thas santas eaten a tetany gg Bae a oumeitiy te Sp HIS LOV unless r te favored by| ‘The Seattle-built plane ix rea ahd Me ahadiowers P ution “Sta. shh. veteran ae rea goephe $010, desoriiiig 4° weather great with a motal bull @ t 1 a with vil k Lesile New how he-w I took her to a restaurant, y good weather condi-|a great b am 1°88 | sererten cahibites ave ser, who. was. dissatisfied Thies five Mone rtsiatle Willos mat 4 Sie ttt nite She was hungry ss » bear. PE an apeegend nd Ere y tugboats. A Passage larranged, and are grou Ederle's training methods, at the woman's friend of Newman as hostages | ‘te convict all But not a mouthful would she eat ed fligh the polar | way extends for 40 fect fore ar than at former expositic (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) as the wife of Henr sped toward Portland | aolly ny ventana ji he'd bed her hair. eas would haye bandoned. (Turn to Column 4) ti sp | day yesterday. Until she'd com’ i é . i DAY cB sia 6 ahiat is , utomobdile, ra nd No report of the affair was made| ‘They were all heavily armed and And then she scanned the bill-of-fare, pment; jection. . ey ade | til young Newman drove back | desp e. Th rived at daylight Of food to take her pick, ‘\ ape attention from the throng: to his home at Oregon City |and demanded a hiding place, say- But not a morsel passed her lips nats thru the « The reason for this was that the (Turn to Page 7, Column’ 3) Until she'd used her stick. . . Visiting siérchantevare belnee Pas he ‘Then I suggested to the gal, e un O a ur tertained at luncheon in the big tent With just a trace of wrath, ne rear by various clubs of the That she go on, complete the job, | y the Lions club had tte And finish with a bath! | ell and the Kiwanis club on - Mus! i furnished b: STH Man | tunic im furnished by Her-| Police Called In to Probe | ;Held in Rendezvous Two| ie a . | che | ‘Earl of Ypres’ Estate Goes to At feature for Tuesday night Mystery Message | Days, He Tells Police To Tom Murray, Ellsworth Kelly, James Willos, torney.’—Heading. Most of ‘em do will be the style show by the Mac Escaped Convicts from Oregon: spe Np Dougall-Southwick Co,, in whl hthe| “If you want to see your brothe WASATING: ThA he tind Hema GItA EWSPAPERS form the only | you will have left only memo. man has been found in the latest Eastern fashions will be ex-! co to a house on the Bothell hig eel st Be cee connecting link between you ries ae hibited. ‘There will also b jected | way about 400 feet beyond the d and held in a bandits’ rer | RPA ABO AOE © A Pneee, SNE IPOS vaudeville performance ye gt) 2 jdezvous near Camp Lewis since Sat the smanhuntera on your | mories of the murder of two war is over. Water’ trips: for visiling.. x ert ra Ree roast ght, BE. M. Belling, 64, of 5815 and you will scan them | men are not inviting He's got nothing on a lot of our chats have ‘besn® pladned\ itor | ; man’s relatives late ve, N. W., @ car em-| closely. This, then, is bound to | Memories sof the murder of food profiteers. Wednesday and friday noo! Rae ae heuintycelt ployed by the John Davis comp: ire vale rhs bad more would only add to your fee leaving Smith Cove dock at Cenvha noeathi was found n Tacoma about mid eer Star ho} you will reac co can ‘The International Brotherhood of pm id thru the go r hay ight Monday-Tuesday, and was re-| ! } You have told rlous per: Electrical Workers \s in convention ant loahusints: Gale: Washit earold John Cahay, turned. (to. his home beraiby Ballara'l You three men went to the Y bath aot ld varigua persons ore today aye | police early Tuesday morning | Penitentiary at Salem for burg who have come in contact: with ¥ £5 i note was stuffed under the : ; lay Ateeriotia ‘offehaer but ant you along the route of your We hope they make themselves} ‘ | Belling had been sought by his| at ’ f . rea é cae Pight:at! obm | | Chicago Man Is Kitchen door in a plain! nny since Sunday, when he was| @monstrous: one, ax penitentiary flight that you are determined brown envelope, sometime Saturday ud offens You broke the law to “shoot it out yith the law.’ oli y | Suicide by Gas) igh) “Canay” found to be missing SMA onbUeHAteCRake coef conekce ving a pt ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SAYS: | | 'y night. Cahay's two ‘sisters until! yy Bolling, 27, the son of the} Not men enough to take your ne of you is carrying a phial “Epi : | Martin Johnson, of Chicago, 35,| that time not unduly alarmed over | siiccod bandits’ vietin, and Mya, t2,{ medicine when. soclety called of poison “Before a man | Killed himself vie Humbialtos gas | thel brat Aiea AFaNGe, «80-4 Bolling, his wife, had been to] Upon you to pay the price, you | — It will do you no good, men, in a room at the Coast hotel, 504} companie Scott, 616 tried to escape to shoot down more officers of i Camp Mason, nea Imie, on rh Ape. rarciee ® with he Ninth ave, §., Monday. A note said! Bellevu arched the vicinity |e ine ia ng was{ In doing so YOU KILLED | ‘the law: You can't win. The says she is viva- ho was despondent because of pov | mentioned in the note Sunday, but iy, nave joined them there 2 TWO MEN. Overnight you be | card © stacked inst you. cious; after he erty and ill health, No relatives! failed to find a trace of young Ca-| iii | came MURI ORS! | When the show-down comes— i are known hay 13) Whenhe falled. to appeam thoy ro- | Just as surely as you are | and it is bound to come sooner marries her, he % a Mae ——— {turned to Seattle and rted a | how ading these lines, you | or later—there only two says she Is talk- 3 's earch, | will pay for THA'T crime with | to do, if you are men: that Saturday night he went to his| the manhunters today, but event. | your medicine. . “cc home prepurato: to leaving for ually justice will have {ts way Or, if you are determined to 2 Raa Be ) Maso s he unlocked the Then, locked in a cell and use your guns, use them on Again Take Drop."—News | O I H "dD p Mason, As he unlocked the | guns, item : | ver ron orse’ a Si door, he said, two armed men| awaiting the only sentence pos- yourselves. myliele aid thoy eet it? appeared inside the housc ible under the circumstances THE STAR, : pes They forced him, he said, to get x « ‘ ¢ Se ear Ke Nearly 200 Old Set-| EZRA MEEKER IS intovenn: dutsniublien bus: ROE ANU f he melancholy days are here, The kind that give us blues, The kid will soon be off to schvol, We have to buy him shoes. Li'l Gee Gee must } swell hotel. Sho sa ment changed the cement in the mat- tresses every 15 year YE, DIARY (August 17) Avake betimes, and to singing rilie, but did realize of m sudden t vaykation wes over, and not merrilie, but, mighty depressed offier, pretending that I cared Lord! 1 had liefer gone to jail. my stint. not forget ghostly Sanni Anon at but it vastly diffieutt, for could the red 1 Inlet, son sinking netoss the eoole whadows af the beer parlor kept by Milord Pater: con, the silver salmon flashing In 0 Cove, or the little blonde witeh at tricia Bay, Bot after a white, with « high-ho, to worke, and soon thru, and | ¢, where Dame Brew did fix | potion of parsnip wine, which 1 did living, If only, heaven help me, for Little Homer Drew's sake, And so to ner. her see tlers to Attend Liberty Show With the number of pioneers at) thy 190 mark thi motning and more Jikely to enter ‘ore the day is over, it looks ay tho about 200 of the Liberty's best seats will be occupied by old settlers Tuesday night | The Star and the Liberty are giv: | jing the party In order that pioneers Like a lingering, lasting lotus, the personality of May Seymour lures men, Even after she departs there who camo west between 1860 and remains a charm, It teases the mem@ry, it stings 1886 might rounito to view ‘The rye’ PSS. fet won react differently. You’l Iron Horse,” the big pieture whieh for gectuineet petal que case : 2 I tella of the buildin of the © first find why a transcontinental railroad ry The party haw aroused en neer Those early days have been brought back vividly to their minds ind practically all the old-timers, as they register, tell stories of covered | ; wagon adventures, Many of those registered helped Jay the actual rails on either the (Turn to Page 7, Column 6) Another Story of Seattle STARTS IN THE STAR TUESDAY, AUGUST 25 It’s a Sequel to “The Flapper Wife” bhatt ON a " ‘i Ne i ONLY TENDERFOOT, SAYS MARY BROWN 8 a plonecr who declare H™ ‘ that both B.A tes and Wara Meeker came West when the pretty well tamed Mills Brown, of n., caine over the prairie schooner 1847 country Mrs. Mary Jane Gate City, Was! plains in a drawn by oxen in When she moved to Washing ton at the age of 14 she was one of oniy 18 white women in Lewis and ‘Thurston counties, — Mrs Brown has lived in Thurston county ever since, over 74 yeat The pioneer girl married Robert Brown in 1852 In the first court house in wis county, on Jacl on Prairie, about 12 miles from where Chehalis now ts located And now Mrs, Brown, 87 years old, tells stories of harrowing ad ventures on the plains to her 16 children, 66 grandchildren and 47 great-grandehildren, J (well have it,” he had been robbed of $62 and } watch, ‘The in the stru watch-chain was broken lo and part of the chain Convict Tells Story was found in the yard Sunday ine of Fatal Jailbreak The older bandit 1 gray-haired Gieaealiain man, wanted to leave Belling at Brati Yark neuins vata ow “Didn't Want to Kill Guards,” He Says drove along, but his companion in % sistod on taking the carpenter far in Confession to Oregon Man |ther, as he Was afraid of pursuit, | The car passed thr) Tacoma and | LON Jalmost to Camp Lewls, where the| PORTRAND, Ore, Aug. 18 day under threats of death ff | two men stopped, Belling was place (By U. P)—""It was our tn they were eepossa in a shack, he said, and was kept ontlon to pullathe: brealeedtustTn eats there constantly under guard until] waa i a y a canicrene | VIURRAY. who dictated the Monday night. Ho was given only; \ distr) . i tement,. sald: Ithrea' nunidwichaw and \vatar suns from the turnkey, walk 1 tolling the God's truth, When Belling asked his captors} ahead and open the gate, or else T want my mother to 2 it why thoy were holding him they re:| go thru tho tower The story, from the convict's ited) /eValnl GHOW: doen ensceh, URE ahc Hs Jam uKeaito Rte dae ye nt ot AN sire told in detail, Monday night they put him into and to prove it was genuine, diet ok wd: Braye ato mn ‘to | behind by ‘Tom Murray, 12H they left their finger prints with ward Tacoma, ‘Then ho was puhod| Worth Kelly and James Will Niwa out of the machine and his captors; Aeseribing thelr escape from the beanie threw him a pistol which they had| Penitentiary SAB At Wate, TR Unt Ce re stolen from his home Tho statement was given to C. waiting with guns at the It's unloaded and you might as! Is Newman, living near Oregon | gate, ‘They were off regular was told, City, who sheltered them for a (Turn to Page 7, Column 5) 4 | eee cad —~ Tape RAISE sere