The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 27, 1925, Page 1

) / oe ee The Newspaper Kotered as Be nd Clase Matter May % 189% at (he Postoffiog at Beattie, W asi, under the Act of Congress March 4, TLE, WASH., THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 With the Biggest Circulation in W ashington ‘The Seattle Star il weer a 1NT#, Per Year, by Mail, $2.00 ME] EDIT IN SEATTLE. TWO CENTS |DEATH HOSTESS COLLAPSES AT INQUEST &iome Bre | to Escape Jail Sentence! Reporter Finds “Medium” Alters| ao os Cruel Fate Easily—at a Price! spring for th SET FOR © 459 tors Note—The Star semt Mins! Ac us as « inte t lated 0 be “duped” by the ao- ‘aa alled mediums and fortune tellers jywhe ply « trade on gullible vietims Ar n a ad | te ra of elty and t who id for the role of te Inwe, This is the second im- r Mee kind grandmother iment of her experionces.) é | - except t eyes are far too BY MARGARET BUNDY ss * nm your planet,” Madame ex ; . r ‘ ur planet, for only $ their brand of ad ap Seattle Man Prefers) jisin 0 san ne many things 80! TRANS OF ORATITCD! thee bee ee avin, . Peri Death to Possible pass, ‘This here| -OR KIND MEDIUM CUT PRICES FOR ill hardly i pass, This here| ‘Trying desperately to summon a! sos VICTIMS 7 | Incarceration one ies imew at re f fr atitude to my eyes , dollar hank the Ma ‘ Td Uke to Brink | torent he Tae t 1 fu ed up a dollar—| : WERT WELLS, a your spirita to-| 4), sna in} tre can't afford that much gether. While * Pian 11 awa bachelor, was to stand trial To BO aed PRE en : before Justice Dalton Thursday ss can take your| ‘'.” § eit ; Fy é on @ criminal charge, it from You. the love sin of Raver Asia t and 1 can take { rn rn must Wells ror of ja n 1 Ur fn ¥ elt A m 7 : told Rather than = io spirit, and) free 7 di udéep t n without before the bar of justice, Wells laid 1 can b t) \ Ww “ : o nis cawe at the feet of the Sx them = toget ne trouble that’ othering 1 Arbitrator of human frailties by and it will mean | ¢ ne!” make first question as gen means of a bullet thru his head. happivess to Anna Bell, Read an possible He was dead when the coroner ar-| rou. + r forth from a “There's a tleman concerned. rived at his home, $315 29th ave, Miss Bundy And I could| tween Seventh and Eigh says Anna, “Little sy be N. Ww 1 at 4 fix it s0's your jon—another window | tween yous?” family and friends will be glad to| jmp, grayiah white ell, it amounts to more than Wells operated the Pastime Drink | & jmp, grayish white ci ed i = an 3 Re 2 The gentleman W see OM YOUT/ bor at Bullard. He was arrested | "*® YOU, and so's they'll believe that Curious eyes of easing men ogie! (Tarn to Page ‘olumn folks, is Ji well. right, a nposocnat ‘Sec. | 20™* weeks ago on complaint of Gus Anewn banker, driving home on Sec- |p rixins, husband of Mrx, Martha yond ave. behind his dappled sray! Elkins, who had’ been his house- ATl NS NITE U. S. Drys Say Ontario’ Ss mare, Rickets. Seattle is justly fa) osner He was to be tried before for its fine trotting horses, The tleman on the sidewalk, with the mbrelia, is Jott Perry, owner of ae Jacksonville Weetly Clarion, and former resident of this beautiful ty. We are now approaching, dies and gentlemen, Bill's Mug. The Fr will stop for five minutes so that u can refresh yourself with some e Billy’s justly famous brew. The ont tee 2 Fa ‘our-point-four Bade vos Ge ike wad: fer 8 CANADA “TO AID Ui Silene os. ca Ai ou i ce CANTON SEIZED Washington Agreement to aca “ein ot Dalton Thursday Earty Thursday he A A T R Ballard at his place of business “It never go to jai he told | friends. His body was found in the bathroom of hia house by W. a.| Seizure of American Boats Comer, 2440 Market st. who called to take him to court. Opens Final Drive was seen in 4.4 Beer Law Failure Say Mild Beverage Has Not From Hard Stuff cs sanada,’ out for Investigators Weaned Dr inkers ‘was to find truth of the ng made by Ontario's Hudson said, the beer ournelven tare: be bee fail-| statementa t certain congressmen that dinne Bachelor Commits Suicide DROWNING STORY IS , RELATED Fiance Admits Booze Served at House- boat Party By H. F. Kretschman \W EPING hysterically as| she related details of | the drowning of Miss Edith EDITC AD Patrolman Ralph ¢ 8 likely that the shington, in which M drowned, might never have 8 a result of th at hand as ¢ eryns member of t will ask tl ays he swimme a step. In a city like Seattle, wi every policeman on the f know how to swim. No non-swimmers ming cl O'Connell, pretty young bride-to-be of Stanford Keller, in Lake Washington early Wednesday, Mrs. Betty Me friend of the dead girl and hostess of the tragic party, collapsed on the wit- stand at the inquest morning. | Testimony of Keller and William Gray, at whose houseboat at 422 Lakeside ave. S. the girl was drowned, revealed that liquor had been consumed at the party. Their statements contradicted Mrs. Mely’s testimony that “no one on the party had any- thing to drink.” ith, IT and Gray had several #,° Keller admitted. "But there wasn't enough of the Scotch there | SWISLER COUP PLANNED Property Transfer Shows Carefully Laid Scheme SIGNED AWAY FURNITURE Bench Warrant Issued for ibition beer regulation was the solution of Ricury officers the average ; ‘ pee . ‘ 2 Boe a. dotiar bill ix only 18 months BY CADETS Work, Says Hazeltine ates, Bro Weneane Two; Bonds Doubled d hearing this, Li'l Gee Gee went tuadtyth beer weaned! —— } st night and spent. all her ined ig American rum| “0 SUCYnE the delerat quor awa That L. H. Swisler, who, with his t Ja : | The personnel of the deleg e joney 20 none of it would die on Ber Communist — Symnathizers # on Disco island and the! included Frank M. Hudson, more mc wife, Florence, are sought on berch nds : : urrest. of three alleged smugglers | man of the United States congress warrants issued Wednesday by Fed- psi Are in Control of Cit trot boate Wednes. | onal committee, e usual answer WAS) 64) Judge Jeremiah Neterer, con 3 the pumpkin Canadian ol boats We vey a th® frost tx ov . bee pathetic aration © denn Wiieelech 061. 6 Matas «/templated flight for some time batore And the corn ts in shock, | WASHINGTON, Aug. 47—(By. U.| %#Y marks the ‘inauguration of ounsel for the od .the aig i finally making their nd @ur watch we'll have ¢ Whampoa cadets, communist sympa-| United States and Canad: allowed ® foc pabasorta’ in’ tiie bia: balla the border Li P : neg thizers of tho old Sun Yat Sen party. | tien th 4 won ong the |0" July 17, a week before the re ' ng will PFE | who have arrested over 100 govern-| ¢ ace oDetcolt river aml see, (cording of a bill of sale wherein id Horse Mes The arrests were made on the con-| chief, who returned id i t ything | onal Surety Co, here. jase authors down in Hollywood tention that the officials were impll-| Washington, said that $50 Reward Is Offered by) ona aecying tem to do anyth ty coctpany ‘appears cn the ret gton, a alhen ; “4 ry day ed in the rece Lamas ion o t ly ot abou ords as bondsmen for the Swislers tting din the recent assassination of | ment was recently reached b Renton Owners in ag bondsmen for the Swislers.| isan Finance Mi Lino Chung Hol.| representatives of the two ile they are record bondsmen, — “| The fighting is understood to be be-| ments at Washington, D. ¢ ; 7 Ree lis believed they merely acted for on “red* . 1 : A rew of 50 wa ffored 1 Turne 4d Sk un, who mL GEE GEE, TH OFFICE so-called “red” factions and “There is as much bootlegging tr Thureday by Byron ‘Hobbs of Ren | 1. Turn ¥ i eee ali i VAMP, SEZ | so-called “pinks,” with the initial) Ganoda ag on this side of the line a ; d lreally furnished the § ail, beauty of some of these ntage strongly in favor of the| pinay 1. “This may seem | tM for Information leading to con cording to agenta of the surety com- ‘ | " azeltine sald a ‘i od | t 0 dog polsoner ho has that sou " 3 weet pap viction of a dog p , cg ESE Theat In. =: telephone No Americans have been injured | “Tange £0 people in this slate, Whe | caused the death, Hobbs says, of Sacramento Men Injured)"*y*\cstigation has discolsed that athe in the evil war, according to: carty | OMOee BET tc on tlewor nearly 100 dogs in Renton in. the When Truck Hits Car Swisler made efforts for several oth. in the civil war, a ne Y\ There is = high duty on liquor ex- | ee weeks en truce tS haya before his departure to arrange — reports to the 1 depa t Sacmite 0 orted | PS days before his depa 0 arra 4 ies beth alt th , hageolees Ported “SrOnr comma. OF | UEPOr smo of the animals killed wan ia SA Aa WER a. Aes THREES Waewine the) oigae last, oonth and sold there. By having Wauor oni have been pedigreed hounds,| SACRAMENTO, Aug bondsmen would not suffer finan: | ee inin the golf | American Consul General Jen to Canada, then smug ; ‘Ae Bread ws tiathat ou ¢ : nt “ worth considerable m read, P.)—Four city firemen ally1¢ Mie’ aiid’ hig wits ‘falled: to ise are just about the | for Americans to leave Canton, most out of the country and | ee a with strych haa wean. oe Prana latte rit ps irs thin Nope os open places that free from {of them departed to Hongkong un in, St can be bootlegged and | Parone Bat arte and open|tate Sahat appear Lidge pra a voard; der British protection. duty evaded spaces where children easily could | chic collided w " Rae Sen ath Taotaro laa? counta ls 4 etait - It ia believed that American rum! cot at jt, Hobbs reports. Dog own- | tr while answeri an pipaber baie: 1 joint c ¢ Biidicd axrium: Woman's place il Attend runners, finding nes tightening | ¢r4 in th city are “ready to hang|Assistant Chief Terrence Mulligun against Swisler and jn s es ee eee, {eee Councilmen en up in this country, are turing 0 the poisoner if they catch hhim,”the /sustained injuries to his back and | Wer the narcotic laws against both Pin the ph . | Abed wister and his wife a total o a a | Olympia Tax Case) (turn to Page 7, Column 6)“ hentonite reported hips when his created’ with the | Bvosler send Tis wile > acuteee| sae Gee mmr Niet oer ee lt an bela ylg ‘eseaion oF ihe’ ooiniell | eer z fosoranice Mie ppan oor eet In the action Wednesday by Judge! eight-hour shifts. | ‘ ' nl Wanderly, a fireman assigne ip tomer ce: ch: Comuinlinen: Nghols, P Zz WwW Ito the chemical truck, wax the most | doubled BIGAIL, APPLESAUCE SAYS Olympte, attending a hearing on the rant ; | produce the defendants, it is. prob: ; } a ‘oady yosted will be city of Seattle's appeal to the state t B N d S t d Y ble bonds already post Ih’ toughest value, for tax purposes, of the Met : Forest Fire Burns Tt is. declared’ that at the time 4 ropolitan Building Co. leaschold on yy) pe ara 97 Per sak: Many Shan Syvinsees qa atten penue 740) ickens some l Mate university downtown property. | Family of Three Liv es on $7 E er ba i Near Idaho Town)" Swister was attempting to (Ai ea + \ ata y SPOKANE, Waah., Aug. 21—(By 3 ‘ ould r arde 4 ze ie getaway, he claimed they cou aps wear 1h’ | \xclude Garden Costs From Budge |U, PA serious forest fire, burned | OtAway. he. cuimen NOY or feattiers.” a} A i age of all letters received In the |, three sides of the town of] itiey at $0 cents on the dollar, if st feathers | EDITOR'S NOTE—The Star's average of a } tte Priest River, Idaho, during the) {tts at SO cents on the dalary oO ew food. peice conteat, styes. nine: cents as. the average price for ce ater | TURK, threatening a sawmill and the| iq his wife failed to appear in | for one person. This figure was published a day or two a ate) | anties a his 4): 999 | letters confirmed it. Another fire burned on the shores ‘ 5 f | . was published, half a dozen writers have disputed ee ee 2 Whether this alleged arrangemen Jentist finds that the haltbut} R ad Since the figure p ») of Liberty lake, near here, yester- | Shitue ean Cae to be Ha 200 46600 years, old e ers. One unsigned communication Thursday said “it is impossible to feed | TA ye oon threatening. to wipe fially proved an attractive ventur Sp cotistient Jx\ppetaurantac | THE hundreds of new read a family of five for a day on nine cent he Star never said it was. elohy to Turner and Brun could not be Coe ee eter I abe ote Whole ate Another letter sald th “You can't feed a person for a day on | ——. | learned, but federal officials declare eee | ra of The ho rther | that, oven if the hope of a bargain cre Ue the bones o; eading ‘ootloo Beatrice ine cents. The Star never said that, either, | ! i My tj ; M ua ae! | Bui Aon fa frsting quel to " The Star's statement is that the experiences of more than 200 ome: For Good settlement v ne by ssryeady, ib) ‘jah McFife urto ‘ascinating § ‘or one person in aw will prove to be vain, and that th who show that the avernge cost of one meal for one person He told the neighbors j| “The wlapper Wife,” but who || mal sa Mite GUM Git at ning obula! Real Estate Values || tytic0 amount of the bonds probably The age of hia wifd. did not read the story of “Glo family in Se nee Tae iet ine tle f Gill ber eeanted If the Bwlblare aie CN ee || ria, the Flapper Wife,” The Star Comparisons of scores of food) ee ee a Consult ‘the Want Ad Columns of |] Wil XRCie bench warrant | ad ‘oMP | compilation. ero is a special list- || Not found s Nid Settee tilas: ber tat rang eee ea we oe budgets were being made Thursday white nome contestants show al real Legendia | M booties whisky than by being told|| grory, published in 16-page |) . 3 s { | " ic 0 Jat The Star office in order to de | most unbelievably nal bidgots, it | that they look like Tho elghia ¥ vor fo You did not || at The Star | ’ | hat look like Thomas M: ‘ee newer e form, If fou la ermine whol is Heattle's ‘theittiost | was found, that, in'thoro casas, the RT TE | Tong Leaders Seek q nid read the story that all Senttle ts || te § | ' ai a eieisha RS s DIAIY talking about, call at The Star |} housewife eed pe bem pitt ORE aT ROD Be Senn ee a | to Avert Trouble (Aug y circulation department and you |! ope star offered to pay a week's | Malsed garden, but ¢ | WITH ATTIC | Ruta: Ps ke betimes, a dismal rain falling || cit ily iain staid kd | Ml NIL. for the home-maker| UP anything to these Homa. In-|] ONLY $3, NAW YORK, Aug. 27.—(By U. P)| eer Paar bir a Atoll hi { mrogary. i} luding a charge for garden labor || Owned by large Another conference tomorrow be to sleep, ntending T o charge. rod her family best and moat | cluding # Ld ir the way soll, RE Se | m, Th is 1 s jo fed bh . s . to hn moment's respite, ides idbaling: .thalr),, odby fj and chicken feed would bring thotr TUR inodak eater aoe. tee tween Chinese tong leaders and po: | Hd waken, it mighty Inte did Thor ken wat lo ee budget totals, about up to the av largo Hving room, corner dine |! lice In an. effort to bring about a the ‘early boate, and ta lounging || mailed are ha 38 8 co a writ, |) Due to the variaty of monus aun aa PBnitha ot {ng room, cabinet Kitchen | nationwide peace compact between | Sabin tonestor iP ALE Dashing ke cont of mail. || mitted and tho varying nixon OF The winner of the contest will | _ vedrooms | warring tongs is scheduled as a re: | AS? bad dee © || families fed, the decision Is proving i. announced in Saturday's Home | === |] wut of w promise by Chinose yoster: | Be i eter misos [|W faed teak. eT HY SUGRAR (BLO BORE!) Cyc aes aseny cof the: lattora Turn to the Want Ad columns |] day to "try" to obtain a cossation of | inet Hivered to your@iome by || ine in mind that tho cheapest menu | 47) i isband, Geyent-old son and|! and wee who In offering this dandy || hontilities , | Ruthorined carrier, to avold miss. || # Mot necessarily the best myself lived very nicely on an av-/| HOM to you. REAL ESTATE |} Should more Killings occur, the | MNO re enaplor of the thril. || Tabulation of all thé totters| orago of $7 a week for more than|| IRM OFFER THMIR BEST H government and city. officials aro by hauling cont from the ba ing bs id} oF ‘otloone.” Phone || Thursday leaves the former average | a yent BUYS IN THE WANT AD COL nnitig to arrest the tong loaders | ble pox o hm housewife ing sequel, of nine cents a meal for each per “Get quality in r conspiracy and call upon fiers quantit te our UMNS OF THE AN 7, Column 6) iL } gon in the family as correct. Almost! = (Turn to Page i] MAin-0600 now! | ica atten Nr) authorities to deport them, < Jof good qualit { not perfectly at home in t houseboat tragedy on Lake iss Edythe O'Connell was occurred, drowning, with a patrolr to require all future applicants for the This would be a step in the right direction, but only portion to population than any should be ses should be formed immediately for instruction of those men now on the force who are Make ’Em All Swim JRIAL Jzura been able to swim, it an near Chief Se commission force to be he party, Police e civil service th more waterfront in pro- city in the country, orce should be required to swim- the taken on, and he water. ig to get even one of us intoxica Mra. Mely wan the first witness called to the stand. Before she col- lapse told the story of the fatal ending to the gay pre-wedding party Her last conversation with Edith was about new phonograph records and some new clothes, Mrs. Mely ai. ith asked me fo the keys to my he boat. I didn't give them to her. That was all she said to me. Mra, Mely testified. “T I " Edith go out on the he self. “Mr. Keller was inside, playing the phonograph. Then I went over to one ride of the room to kick b: we could dance. I saw jth sitting out on the railing. I stooped n to fix the rug @ rug so and | h jw rd a splash. I looked out of the jow but couldn't see Edith dashed out on the porch and into the lake to see if I ey jumped could find her, but 1 couldn't see any trace of her at all— Here Mrs. Mely broke down, When she recovered Eugene Meach- am, deputy prosecutor, asked her: Did you see an the p “To the best of my the had signs of liquor on knowledge no part anything to melied no liquor and I know there $ none in the house.” There was no scream when Edith fell into the water, Mrs. Mely tes tiffed. The party was planned just Tues- day afternoon, Mrs. Mely said, as @ (Turn to Page 7, Column 7) re TROUBLES ARRIVE IN TRIPLETS FOR SOL KREMS, DRIVER Troubles never come singly, according to Sol Krems, 1516 E. Jefferson xt., who will vouch for the truth of the old saying. Krems was arrested Wednes- day on 4 charge of reckless driy- ing after a motor accident at ird aye. and Washington st. He was reelased on $250 bail. Thursday morning he was re- arrested on a charge and posted $23 bail He was again arrested Thurs- | day on another charge, that of violating traffic ordinances and Cac ain posted bail of $11 a, SHUNT ANGLER Camp Deserted, Fear Man Has Been Drowned speeding A fisherm camp, equipped, but apparently as discovered on Deer Cre s from Oso, and report completely deserted about n Snohomish Wednesday to the sheriffs of King and Snohomish The camp had not been scoupled for several days, and Ks were obliterated by recent rains, but the discovery is taken as mute evi- jdence that the occupant may have Hjost his life in the stream nearby. Jack MacDonald and Ken McLeod, noth of Seattle, made the Tuesday morning. Food, matches and the remains of found. A coffee pot hung over an extinguished fire. The outfit was and complete, and it is the belief of the discoverers that It was the camp of a sportsman a meal Young Couple to Convert Heathens The Rey. P. J, McLean and Mrs McLean will sail for China Monday aboard the President Madison, They were married two months ago, in South Carolina. Mr. McLean and his bride will spend five years as mi discovery | blankets, | Jonaries in the interior of China, | DENTIST SLAYER CHEATS LAW Scientific Murderer Ends Life in Cell WAS IN MIDST OF TRIAL Prosecution Says Action Proves His Guilt OS ANGELES, Aug. 27.—Dr. Thomas W. Young, the “al- chemist of death,” cheated the gallows today by strangling him- self in his cell, Confronting almost certain conyie- tion for the “scientific slaying” of his wealthy society wife, Mrs. Grace Grogan Young, the pale little dentist brought a premature end to one of California's most sensational murder {eases by wringing his own neck with Sa plece of copper coil “Fate's against me,” er told his jai card game last hang me sure—I' the slay mates during a ight. “They'll going to beat them to it by committing sui- cide.” }_ At 6 o'clock this morning Dr. | Young was awakened by the jailer and ordered to make ready for the next session of his trial. “AN right, I'm getting up,” he re- plied Half an hour later he was found lin his cell, iller” {had tied « pie aerial to ;@ short stick and twisted the wire {band d into his neck. jelutched the stick. That proves he was guilty,” de- clared District Attorney Asa Keys, jwho personally was prosecuting the case, “The state was saved the ex- ense of a long trial and a hanging.” “It merely proves our original contention that Dr. Young was insane,” asserted John S. Cooper, chief defender, | Dr. Young's body the county jail which has been his home for the last three months, [after deputy sheriffs had made a (Turn to Page 7 7, Cohumn 5) One hand was taken from Aunt Abas of Corn Fame Joins Hunt for Prehistoric Animals! BY JIM MARSHALL UNT AGNES from Sedro Woolley—she predicts rain again for this week, by th way—Jjumped right into Tho Star's great prehistoric animal hunt ‘Thursday, with both fect When you reatie what tt costs auntie to jump with both ot, on account of the famous weather-predicting corns, you realize what an exciting thing the hunt is going to be. Those of you who listened to tho radio Wednesday evening Instead of reading The Star thoroly will haye to be told all over about this hunt, we sup pose, ‘That's what disheartens & newspaper man. Oh, very well: Millions of lived there large, years ago millions of great, big, gigantic, leviathanic, gar- gantuan animals, like the bron- tosaurus, the allosaurus, the | pterodactyle and a Jot of others with funny names, ANIMAL HL IS REAL THING Some time ago printed “The Lost rial story by Sir Arthur | Conan \Doylo, This story was about outh American jungle ‘The Star World,” a where soma of theso antinals | still lived. A purty of explor- | ers got into the Jungle and felt Charlio Dawes ts going to i in the senate in a few | weeks | Now @ moving picture has been made of this sto It will bo shown at the Strand theater, starting Saturday. But (Turn to Page 7, Column 8) b