The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1925, Page 1

gg est Circulation in Washington . The Newspaper’ With the é | Weather } Tides } i-ii — The Seattle Star iil Koterea as 1 Clase Ma HOM EDITION “ SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1925 * TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE pres NORTH END BLOCKS ANNEXATION! | Talking Movies Are TONG WAR\ Jaitepr | Another Girl Fails HUNDREDS | eda | © Heard by Thousands OUTBREAK to Conquer Channel OPPOSE ely, telat ried _ onions | OS ANGELES, Aug. 25.—Talking movies were suc- ([TQOLKSTONE, Eng., Aug. 25.—(By U. P.)—The Eng- shi ye first radio communi cessfully demonstrated to 25,000 persons here last lish channel today defeated still another woman, aries night, | | . t t getting \ radio picture, synchronizing the voice with the pice | | better? Not a single as tured movements of the actors, was presented simul- | | a . taneously to audiences in 14 local theaters. 5 ve when Miss Mercedes Gleitz, a London typist, sought to swim it, Putting out in the dead of night on her surprise at- tack, Miss Gleitz chilled and abandoned her attempt at 5 | | a | Norma Shearer and Lew Cody were the principals in 6 o'clock this morning after four hours in the water. ae m ; er | last night’s experiment. The screen player thered in Soa She had made seven miles in her fight with the tides. ‘ ae } ) derling gaught i a broadcasting room and spoke their lines, taking their Four Slain in Eastern Meeting Called to | Hanoy ry ppg pes the film as it was flashed on a screen in the Cities Within Few DYNAMITE HOME SWISLER TR Al Boost Plan Draws @ it ne room, sage { ’ Special reception sets were installed in the 14 theaters ] Hours 700 Opponents ‘« and special hand-cranked cameras recorded simultane- - t rf , ow s ©, ously the movements of the players, Ni Ps ole pad ph “t Brother of Accused Official LEADS EAST pred ch "300 and Hurt in Blast 700 North End suburban re Airplane Booze Defendant; ters’ani majcriiy tte “honey fim Traced to Chicago night squashed the move to ex tend the northern boundary of the city of Seattle, he mecting was at North Park munity clubhouse, called by At- torney Fred C. Brown, spokesman for th nnexation supporters. The antis started the landslide cted members of their own faction as chairman and sec. pro tem, They continued it bitter attacks on Brown and ended it by a thunderous us of “ayes” to resolution nnexation and post- agitation for annex. Youths Captured on Fire Councilmen Say Proposal Is! ,,* lice conton had been throw SSE AINA NE AiR aR EO f the federa Escape After Chase Not for Real City Manager Mott 4 poison liquor d fled with his when t o held on a nar Efforta of Mayor Brov 1 1 the combined bail ntaled about $9,000 Leonard Regan, chief, Tues sler home Jcharter revision commiss! & fire escape | free-holders, met with defeat Monda First a: and gave thelr names as Grant Ta 1 Matt Holtean, 18, and C. Pot d Cherry, | ever ation indefinite H. H. Frantz, president of the Associated Improvement clubs of y deposit box wa%) the North End, was elected chair- r store. It) man and called on Brown for the to have! first speech. attorney made r annexation, er bills telephone rates; only a small ion to your tax bill, and a share in improvements which being in the city gets you.” Attorney J. A. Rokes, also of North Park, was the first anti- speaker. He said Brown's claims are a growing| were two-sided—"Should we be m nce It was learned they! annexed because we've been living had applied for. passports in the| on the bounty of the city, and also hite building on July 17 because we've been paying toll to a that they had been seen in| the city for years and should get Ko subsequent to this. Thelr| something more?’ passports would have to be granted! Ajten McDonald, retired, of North in Washington, D. C. |Park, was called to support the an- nexation proposal, and got as fat (Turn to Page 2, Column 3) App r miters sunpected the forme puncil had adjourned, Brown made ar nent member c The youths were lod, mal propos 4 in wed with taking a Ye Automobile belo had a tong mombe Cary mme Parents, awake! Your sons and ghters are in danger! Scenes uch as this are common in Seattle! Night after night witnesses bacchan lian orgies such as is here pictured! and James This photograph shows a group of | purs debutantes and young rakes dancing the “Charleston” at a Bothell road house. What will the younger gen eration do next? ed a large amount of cash Minister Loses Case Against Girl 1 ma erted that Sw so held ses on two Fifth ave. hotels, bot vered up by the en mmy leaseholder tho the greet minister of the F. Keefe and Patroim yment inter ® escape and, ‘the n to ¢ ve City Wants Many ign for nd Kinds of Workers “(Seren ager plan, and t il service examinations | suit neld at 603 county bulid-| Co rom Septembe 33, for posed of before the of the pi by fiv ailants, ¢ CHARLES E, DOWNS Cho tt h tal named | (above) and Joseph F. Fitz- patrick, councilmen of Los | Angeles, who were trapped in SaaS a plot to give their support to a moving sidewalk project tin exchange for $2,000. The Murpiy ion t,|men were both jailed, await-|,, cn erton to alvat ting grand jury action. ‘able places in that district | (Turn to Page 2, Column 3) RAK Ir whereabou ter ut ng was a be li le: 1 | men, clerks, | favored charter revision, if the peo-| . CHICAGO, Aug Stenographers and linemen. | ple wante Dut they aren’t sure | TOR” Warfare which may be obtained from A. H. \that the people of the city several Eastern citien necretar ‘ kind the may is after (Turn to Page ¥. Ho had walk U. Pd 4 4 The en of We hail it Our o ‘Are doggone near worn out? — | K has been active ute question-| If the Swislers receive passports Li'l Gee Gee i... Read It,“FOOTLOOSE” was ertrset Beare Beet x “PLEAS OMIT FLOWERS a— | \ oe NE wet and windy night, meat th ; pecial | ga 1 impudence. It was! and 1 the wall paper for! killed in his automobile or had died; She pounded the bed clothes in 4 3 6 : last September, Dick] mothe : bnner--older 2 moment of x oe sek is byes i vs her fury. x New| : | ed in ther D "Yo "He n't deserve to be hap-| Married you willingly, how. | Gloria leaned over and lald her nie a8 sieiniy s mp Y ng ar j York Satur Gregory br locking sitet the fsb rd Mee t know | PY!’ she said suddenly. “When 1| What he couldn't stand was the|hand over one of May's clenched ] We doh't ie mens) House, On Dis Way UpStAlrs | sien came from, but this I do| think of how he made love to me| disgrace and the scandal. after Dr. | fists. | ut we as an airia to bed. mE aat + into | fOr years, and then when I was|John shot himself... .” | “No, you won't!” she said. “Time i ‘ He turned out the light in pa xplea eet eabertens oe free to marry him ! Oh, I can't] “But T had to stand them!" May | will take care of that. People for- } wife 19 shedding ous “Wy a}, t thoy | P Tee ie ested oscar Kuig; |the hall and stood for a mo- cor re ik; about it broke in furiously, “I had to face | get things after a while. There are Best man at a wedding, ment listening to the stac- amp Or ihe ne “Jim was just a Gloria | them all alone. T'll always have | aiways new scandals to crowd the He went and lost the ring. cato music of the rain) “From ev 1 4 her tall h si said gently, “it Dr had been] to face them | old ones out.” cee against the windows. It was! — who in the ot May laughed bitterly. A copy of a Now Jersey newspape|then that he noticed some- at i | P eee Safrllig hort fea we 9 ane one mm "| thing odd about the pane of gris esengeesod Y Si S C M4 l | edt ONIOE NMRA WIRLERT ame feast : ‘ ay the pa Y | biamnna Outed ane onl t said after a pause, “a nice man— Gost carrier who threw | glass in the front door. Boy, Have ou Seen hat t Sa TAL wel Rens des es ir, am er ain y | middle-aged, well to do, quiet—you must have that paper ‘way up there There was a shadow on it, had a strong arm ‘2 6 against the light from the} “PF l S ” | ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE says: | street lamp outside. The oot oose trut ? | d | shadow moved and then stood still. It showed clearly tne slim outlines of a woman. : | know the type. And we became er to pu vor wax soa come | Ell for “Footloose?! |r Sit Pans | cverything—all about my silly af- | fair with Jim, and about my hus- band committing suicide. I even told him about the falk there had been—the rotten gossip.” She stopped for a moment, and then went on breathlessly. | "Please don’t bother about me. I'm | “Some men are | | going right back to the hotel so mean they'd But Gloria had gone May could ar her movitig lightly around up. She could hear iw sound of There came a light tapping on the pane As Dick went toward the joor, the tapping became louder, make their wives | | | water In the puneh a time 1 where (aster—a nervous appeal He opened the door, ar lamplight showed him the veiled face of the woman who stood there. “May!” he safd. “It's May She drowsed “And... do you know, he was going to marry me anyway! He said he was sorry for me. And I was so happy, thinking that at | last I'd have someone to look after |me ... be decent to me. | “Well, things were going along beautifully," she went on, “and clock if they the When she opened her eyes again dared.” {he was back in the room “You id |on business, nu’d come to see me he said, p his | long body against the chimney piece. His eyes questioned he | One advantage of balloon tires {s|mour! Isn't it?” that you hardly feel a bump when With only little throaty laugh ou run over a pedestrian for answer, May Seymour stepped | * | F928 into the warm darkness of the hall. | "T did—como to see you as my| |then our old friend, Myra Gall, ; ad 4 4 | lawyer," May Seymour answered happened to come down there for ee one te etagtt cased ¥l three MAME Oe ak val trp the |*L want to soll out. I'm going to arrest... It turned out that she'd mune 4s that the player always) threw back the 10 e loath avatoihttte’h’ have rthat’ led te known him, met him on shipboard ounds as if he were just beginning | pallor of her face laois Beate § | e ‘ 5 pe ‘0 Seattle. I've been away from lonce. And after she'd had one or Peper contre aie aeecmemiets ee veel eu ian ene LDN iere for more than a year now , two talks with him, he packed up Henry ocating the re nit ine ho tattedvealt, Dicks} jAnd if T can manage it, I'll stay) | und Jeft without even saying good- sd f sate: to dade BA bund away for the rest of my Ufe. 1] bye to me! ... Sent me a letter f > hate the town ahd T hate people | | few days later, full of polite noth, ee ors not t mr und looked around in itt : | pate fe’e Clorya” she’ nsked.’ | Her voice, shrill and bitter, stop: | ‘Oh, well,” Gloria comforted her, ~ YE PIARY “ipat baby his 10 | ped as Gloria camo downstairs. She | “his love wasn't worth much, oF . v hatteeaen estan a o'clock bottle,” the man answered, |knelt down before May and drew} |ne wouldn't have taken. the thing ip_very betimes, n colde ¢ a Monday wi ‘I'll run up and bring her down | that way. You're really better off | without him,” “Yes, but that's not the point,” May answered. “Tho point is that that's the thing that will keep hap: pening to mo over and over, No, I've made up my mind to sell out | . to take my money and go to po and stay all the rest of my |the drenched satin slippers ‘from | | het tect—pulled off the thin chif-| | fon stockings. | | “Take these into the kitchen and A baby!” The neryous laugh hook in May’s throat once more, and turned into a cough. “I hope I'm not catchin Ws hoe am oaked to the skin! Dick put his hand on her arm nd le her into the living room He drew up a chair for her near | put them under the water heater,” | she said, handing them to Dick. “Is | | that coffee ready When he ¢ coffee tray the room was empty me back with the ler high w eel better, Krom upstairs he could hear th | life, I can go to places like Monte task the wood fire that glowed in the ley murmur of the two women | | Carlo and Deauville, where nobody at voloes knows anything about anybody else oe g May peeled off her wet silk coat, May ‘saying her soul’ to Glory, | , where everybody's a little Suggestion to city editor: WhY/and the long gloves that were plas I suppose. Telling her all her] shady, And with the money from. i ot get an action pieture of the| tered to her arms, She held her| atoved man at the cirous for Your | qrenched hat in her hands and) mie Perey Pees | looked down at it ruefully | ates | From upstairs came a little, watl- | troubles,” he remarked to himself. | "They've doubtless forgotten all) about this stuff: And he carried | the coffee back to the kitchen all my stocks and bonds and things that John left me, T ought to be “ai rather a Merry Widow, I think nostys “Em reading It; are you?” as she sits on +... don't you?” it Evelyn Mari Divorced are Mr. » nound owing. f lg : re, among those who Ch Bi} ; AA ing ery, and the sound of a closing Betty Blossom (right) and Clara LaVerne, among t | oe of N Taggart's Red Top cabs. 4 fon ait And Mrs, Btroom | door demonstrate “The Footloose Strut” at the Palace Hip, | Upstatra th tho ‘guest room. un.| I, ae ea date toe Hf Rg He practiced golf in “\ baby!” May said again. “I ,der the dripping eaves, May Soy-| JOMEONE slipped Sam Taggart, who runs the Red Top Cab Pua abort Okt eh ay, } ye T'S the very latest thing —"The Vootloose Strut " . n fi | said I'm sure you're going about The sitting room can't imagine Glory with a baby 8 tH : mour was not "saying her soul” to company, an advance copy of “Footloose,” the amazing sequel |! , ‘+ “walt until you see her!” Dick Dewignéd by Ned Wayburn, originator of Follies ates: {ie only friend sho had on carth.|| to “The Mapper Wife,” that begins today in ‘The Star, Sam ordi This. thins he OR Wee ee { d the pedestrian, | answered, “you won't know her, . after ho had read “Iootloone,"” Boattice Burton's fascinatin nbtehd ahd: Was aking Hota auasell cc cuviie atcameres aatecnusas Marat bic tht at hin a "ho: nad | you ought to do is to come back here Pan ile ot iaeaett r7g Baar turned her face toward the equel to "The Flapper Wie tien ¥ a te Sint er hi) a) Math. L hs to Seattle and live the whole thing iobile im going in swimming.” | door ax there came a sound of light lust to show Senttleltes: how. it is done, tho chorum at the || «Whaty econo. of dim? . Jim Hverybody ought to read THAT," said Sam. “And Vil help abient yee YOUN eae ne a And immediately he was run down | steps on the stairs and Gloria Greg Palace Hip Js dancing ‘The Wootloone Strut" all this weeb | Carewo?” she suid. “Did he evor |¥® you make tom read it" was suddenly eager, ¥.16 Evinrude ory walked into the room And when they break thru the mammoth Seattle Star curtain marry that little flapper child | ‘That's why 35 of Sam's best Red Tops are carrying announce: “Not on yolr lpstick! I've had ; ‘ay could see, Glo A | 7 a P so tar May ti fag Ath ral] well | Gloria nodded, “Yes, and t hear|} monte of “Footloose” on tholr spare tires, And Sam saya if passen chough of this old town to last me Piet . 13 Pee tne Berne Sere ane ii Heo It! You'll like it! Seattle will be dancing tt soon! | thoy'ro very happy.’ sho. answored gers want them, he'll even furnish daily installments while they tho rest of my life!" May answered, C bTHE & DORN |! been, except for a new look in her ; , "its liv ‘ ony “Did Dick make that coffee? . . . } “ 4 ons in| At the Palace Hip this week! Next week—everywhere ) a4 naturally possible, They ride. fice as (it | eyes, There was a tenderness in| 4 y Havacat nate Galan I'd love some, It won't keep me oe them... a } oftness that had not Il A.J. 8. | boon there a yoar ago, ‘Tho look of Column $) May's cyes studied the love-knots ; (Turn to Page ee | LSE MTN GT PPL RO