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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-07
SURE COP KNOWS THE
PARKING LAW; BUT HE
FORGOT IT IN MOVIE

DATRoLMAN W, =. CHRIS.
l. TENsEN, traffic cop at
Wostlakc ave, and Pine 81, knows
tho parking laws.
hut ne failed TO observe 'em,
SO now he's suspended for fivo
days without pay for conduct
unbecomiug an officer"
According 90 Acting Police
Chief j, 4. Mason. Christensen
bought logo seat In theRtcr
and parked his hroguns on the
chair In front OF him. Its occu.
pant objected 20 christenson's
dogs" ON the scat.
The cop gave his No. las a
shove, aud seat and occupant fell
into the aisle
When Mason heard about IL. no
said, The parking laws have
been violated. Five daysr'
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-07
Reported Missing
Wife Returns Home

After reporting that his wife, Mrs.
Doris kluckhohn, was missing Mon
day night Emil b. Kluckhohn, Ora.
NADIA apartments, notified police
Tuesday morning that he was mis-.
taken in his fears. Mrs. Kluckhohn.
he said. had been visiting with
friends and had been delayed in re.
turning home.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-07
Lobby Wins Fight
With Dance Hall

UNFOLDING the contentious OF a
lobby OF 80 Des Moines residents
the county commissioners Tuesday
refused 10 grant FicL's dance hall
az Des Moines a new license. Men
and women appearing against the
dance hall charged that the sher.
iffs office IA unable 10 patrol the
area outside Of the dance hall prop
ertN
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-07
Government May Ask
New Oil Indictments

WASHINGTON. April New in
dIctmcnts OF Albert Il, Fail, Harry
T. Sinclair, Il. l.. Doheny and his
son may be sought by special gov
eminent counsel. owen j. Roberts
and Atlec pomerene 1t was said at
their offices here today. indicating
that new evidence had come into
their hands.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-07
Local Camera Club
to Exhibit Pictures

The first exhibition OF pictorial
photography held by tho Seattle
Camera club will open TO the public
next Saturday. Sunday and Monday,
April II. az and IL. from 10 u. m. TO
10 u. IN. The exhibition Is being
held at the Seattle Japanese Music
School 9iG Maynard ave,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-07

Three new stories have just been
purchased by First National for
screen production They arc: "Clar
issa and tho Post Road" short
story by Grace sartwell Mason, pub
lishcd in the . Saturday Evening
Post. Joseph Greer's Daughter" Il
novel by Henry Kitcholl Webster
and 'The Comeback by NJ. d
Crawford. The latter is intended as
a future vehicle for Milton Sills.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-07

Additional items not covered In the
original bill Of sale amounting to
1921 are stlll not paid for, the VIM
T. Patten Motor Co. alleges In its
suit against tho Wnshburn- Haines
Co, filed Tuesday. Tho Patten con.
Germ sold out to the other on Deccm
Der 20, 1924. Tor s25,62S, but claims
that other items, discovered later
were not paid for at the time tho
transfer was made.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-07

LONDON ylscount Taxa Akirn
Kat0. premier Of Japan. Is about 10
resign following the recent rralEna.
ton Of the ministers of commerce
and railways, according TO dispatch
from Toxic.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-07

EDMONTON. Alta Alberta has
Is rural crcdi, societieN all in a
iIourishing condition. according 20 a
report 10 the legislature by Provin.
eial Treasurer Il G, Reid, About
100000 Is outstanding in the way OF
loans under this scheme,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-07

BELFAST. Ireland Net results
Of Fridays preferential elections are
that the government lost seven seats
In the Ulster parliament. the union.
lists. natlonallsta and iaboritsn each
gained two and the farmers gained
one.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-07

BUENOs A1REs.--Tho Interim.
tionaI Motor company Of New York
has been awarded contract TO fur
nish Buenos Aires with 100000
worth Of motor trucks,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-07


Use Star Want Ads. The cost 10
!. less. the circulation is larger. and
hey bring results.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-04-07

Every day Tho star Want Al col.
umns are helping someone, "Tho
cost liz less" tho circulation Is
larger
The Washington times., 1925-09-22
TILTED BY DIVORCED
SPOUSE, SHE CLAIMS

CHICAGO, Sept. 22.-Wf1en should
a wife sue her husband for breach
of promise?
Mrs. Marguerite l.. Sofield, of
Oak Park, answers: After he has
been divorced, proposes remarriage
and then refuses to keep his word. "
That, she says, is just what hap
pened to her, so she has sued
Armand 4. Sofield, wealthy manu-
facturer, for SIS 200.
They were married, she declares,
June 20, 1914, and divorced five
years later, and less than a year
afterward he proposed remarriage.
He found a new love, though, she
asserts, and fitted her.
Armand loves me way down
deep in his heart" said the former
Mrs. Sofield, "but he is so proud
he won't admit it.. He has told
me plenty Of times was the only
one he ever really loved, but / have
had to sue to protect myself"
Sofield will contest the suit.
II am proud, all right he coun-
tered, that's the reason am
going to fight the charges. If /
proposed remarriage don't re-
member 1t, and am not suffering
from any loss of memory, either"
The Washington times., 1925-09-22
you KILLED MY MAMA!
SURE, 1 STABBED HERR

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-"You
killed my mama" Clutching a
policeman's hand, Thomas Wrinkle
son, seven, accused Frank Malone,
arrested in Brooklyn on suspicion
of stabbing Mrs. Annie Winkleson.
The boy burst into tears. The
man collapsed.
Sure, 1 did it!' he admitted.
Police said Malone explained he
met the woman nineteen years ago,
but they quarreled and She married
the senior W1nkleson.
But the couple separated after
'Tommys" birth and Mrs. Wrinkle
son had hard time ITO make a
living.
Then 1 met her again said
Malone, ''and asked her to live
with me. I hoped she would get
a divorce and marry me. We were
happy. But her relatives started
trouble. She decided to leave me
protested and she insisted.
stabbed her three times"
The Washington times., 1925-09-22
Goes
TOFLORIDA
POST
Former Dry Chief Here
Leaves for Tampa by Order
of General Andrews

Harry M. Luckett,N former divi-
sional chief of the Washington and
Maryland prohibition Aagents, sur
prised his associates late yesterday
afternoon when he bid them good
bye and boarded a train for Tampa,
Fla.
Luckett's transfer to Tampa as
administrator of the ninth field
division of the enforcement section
of the internal revenue bureau was
ordered directly by General An
dreWs.
Although the transfer was ordered
Saturday, 1t first became known
late yesterday afternoon.
1t is rumored that w. A. He'd
dens, who had been acting as as
sistant chief might be promoted.
and that Thomas Wheeler. in
charge of the field work in this
The Washington times., 1925-09-22
BY FAY KING

/ couldn't help thinking when l
watched a cOupIa moving men
hosting my overweight trunks
around as IL they were just bales
OF .pOwder puffs. what a differ
emce brass band and q spotlight
makes.
y If those guys had been dOlled
UP i'm green spangIed suits in
stead of the gray denim suits
they were wearing, and had been
hOIIering "aIle up" like the aero
bats in the vaudeville theater do,
/ would have burst into violent
applause.
As it was, did stand by watch.
ing their big bdlging muscles and
thinking that surely il these birds
went i'm for boxing the champion
ship might change hands as easily
as trunks do. When it comes to
the heavyweight class, baggage
men are sure there.
It's the same with these tel
lows that do the Charleston dur.
ing their noon rent out on the
end of a steel girder! 1t never
enters their heads to have a
double do the dangerous stuff.
The Washington times., 1925-09-22
Gets More Thrill From Guys Who Do
Charleston on Edge of Girder Than
From Reel Stars Doubles.

I've stood around, perfectly fas.
cinated, Watching workers pull
down building, taking all kinds
Of chances doing their stuff.
In this town most every JOB has
its gallery that hangs around and
watches the workers, and am
often one Of that gallery.
Real life has got just as much
romance and daring as reel life
ever figured out, and Or1 the regu-
lar Job every man does his own
stuff.
Maybe that's one. reason why
movie heroes don't hand mo much
Of q thrill.
/ can't kick up much sympathy
for 4 guy that works on q studio
order when, / can go UP TO the
corner and see window washer
working up thirty stories without
a net!
Even the final fade out is done
as well on top q buss on moon
light night.
There's no trick camera stuff
and stunt man 10 help the guys
that play the real game Of living
and working for the progress OF
the world.
The Washington times., 1925-09-22
SINGS FOR SIX HOURS;
WINS CHAMPION ship

GREENSBURG. Pa. Sept. 22.-
Joseph Katana, butcher, won an
endurance singing contest with An
gelo Costello. at Fools Paradise
camp.
The contest started at 6 D. M,
with both men going strong at IL
D. M, when Angelo dropped from
exhaustion. Katana kept up his sing
ing until midnight. when the club
secretary. Martin Cesare. stopped
the contest and announced he was
the endurance singing champion Of
the camp.
The Washington times., 1925-09-22
ART PATRON SAYS FUND
TO WIFE WAS "GRATUITY''

NEW YORK, Sept. William
G. Wilson, Of Cleveland, patron Of
arts and uplift leader, declares a
trust fund OF $4,000 in cash and
S75. 900 in insurance on his life held
for Mrs. Margaret b. Robinson, for
merry of Philadelphia, was a
'sgratuity" which he could revoke
at any time.
This was Wilson'S reply to g. suit
brought by Mrs. Robinson to re.
strain him from revoking the trust
fund. She alleges It was created In
1890 upon her promise not to sue
Wilson for breach OF promise.
The Washington times., 1925-09-22

boys have been able to tap the lake
water for irrigation purposes. In
some places the water Is within six
feet OF the surface.
The discovery interests scientists,
who are puzzled as to the manner in
which the thin crust of earth has
The Washington times., 1925-09-22
BIG UNDERGROUND LAKE
DISCOVERED IN GREECE

ATHENS, Greece. Sept. 22.-An
underground lake OF considerable
size has been discovered under the
surface Of 1000 acres Of land used
bv the Near East Relief at Oropos,
Greece. as an agricultural school for
900 refugee boys.
Working with crude tools, the
The Washington times., 1925-09-22

withstood collapse. Part Of the IN.
foreground lake Is apparently be.
meath the sea. although there is no
trace OF saline percolation in the
water. The lake makes an enor-
NOUS amount Of water available for
agricultural irrigation.
The Washington times., 1925-09-22

division, might be brought into the
office.
Luckett joined the prohibition
forces about four years ago. He
was appointed assistant chief under
Edgar N. Read. Following the
transfer of Read two years ago,
Luckett was rnade chief.
Evening star., 1925-08-14
RUM INCOME TAXES SOUGHT.
Liens for S2,700.000 Filed Against
Four Alleged BoOfIeggers.

NEW ORLEANS. August 1.-THE
Governments war on rum running
and bootlegging in New Orleans and
on the Gulf coast was extended from
the field to the Federal courtroom
here today. when liens aggregating
S2.f00,000 were filed against four al
legged bootleggers. all of whom are
facing charges resulting from the
campaign begun here Tuesday, under
direction of 4. c. Yellowley, chief of
prohibition agents.
Wives of three of the men were in
cluded in the petitions. which were
filed by DR.. D. c. Lines. collector of
revenue at New Orleans. and seek to
recover alleged unpaid income taxes
on wealth accrued from the illegal
sale of liquor.
William Walsingham and wife and
Anton Gravolet and wife were ac-
cused on two actions filed of having
failed to pay taxes of S1.l92,49S each.
Arthur Battistella and wife were
named in a petition seeking payment
of S201. $50. and the fourth action was
directed against Alonzo Patterson. who
has evaded payment, 1t is alleged. of
Sl68,4I. Agents seized money, bonds
and jewels to the value of $50 900 in a
raid on the Patterson home Tuesday.
Operations today included paddock
ing of the plant of the Standard Brew.
cry, where agents said they found
several hundred barrels of what was
believed to be beer. Samples were
taken to be analyzed
In marsh near Point a la Hache
1000 gallons of alcohol and 1000 gal
Ions of whisky were found hidden in
dense underbrush.
Evening star., 1925-08-14
DRIVER C0NFESSES
IN MAIL ROBBERY
Says He Knew Hold-Up Was Plan
ned-Loot Not Thought
Above $4,000
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KEWANEE. H.. August 14-Jos-
eph Jackson, % years old driver of a
Government mail truck. which was
robbed of a sack of registered mail
here yesterday, admitted today that
he had knowledge that a robbery was
to be staged. He is being held on a
and is to be questioned further.
jackson told Federal authorities
that he was approached two weeks
ago by a man who gave the name of
Phil Robinson, and at that time
learned that a robbery was planned
Jackson said Robinson was the man
who held him up yesterday Jack
son maintained that he was not i'm
plicated in the robbery.
1t is not believed that the value of
the loot will total more than $4,000.
Stepping up to the mail truck Just
after il had received the mail from
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train,
the robber. of youthful appearance
compelled the driver to give him the
pouch and convey him to a waiting
automobile, in which he escaped.
Federal Secret Service men from
Chicago today checked up to deter
mine the amount of the loot Money
from Chicago banks for kewanee fac
tory pay rolls frequently is contained
in the pouch.
The mail sacks had been trans
ferred to the truck from the train,
Chicago to Denver limited
Evening star., 1925-08-14
ALLIES GET REPLY
ON SECURITY TODAY
Will Go to Germany Early
Next Week if Final Ap-
pr0vaI Is Found.
By the Associated Press.


PARIS. August 1.-THE French
note on the proposed security pact.
which, with the approval of the allies.
will be sent to Germany early next
week already has been approved in
principle by the Belgian government,
to which it was communicated unoffi-
cially while the London negotiations
were in progress.
The note will be sent to Rome this
afternoon, and the approval of the
Mussolini government of the text is
expected TO be received in Paris in
time to forward the note to Berlin
Monday or Tuesday.
II is learned from members of For
eign Minister Brands party, who re-
turned from London last night, that
the original French text was used as
the basis for the final draft of the
note. II is stated that the changes
made at the request of Austen Cham
berlain, the British foreign secretary,
did not affect the main lines of policy.
The reply also is to be transmitted
TO Brussels, London and Prague and
at the same time a copy will be shown
TO Count Skrzynsky, who now is in
Paris
Newspaper men are anxious to
! know more about the interview which
| NJ. BRAND had with the American n
Amba ssador. Alanson B. Houghton
while in London. but they get no sat
I isfaction from him. He said last
night: 1T is quite true / saw the
American Ambassador. We lunched
together and all can tell you is that
the luncheon was excellent.
Evening star., 1925-08-14
GENERALS APOLOGY
TO INDIANA ASKED
Kentucky Adjutant General Re
ported as Insulting to
His Men.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associate Press.
CAMP KNOX, KY. August IL
A report requesting that Adjt. Gen.
a. j. Kehoe of Kentucky be dismissed
from office. and made to apologize to
the State of Indiana and To offended
enlisted men" at Camp Knox for "un-
gentlemanly conduct" was forwarded
to Gov. Fields, at Frankfort, today
by Grig Gen. f. w. Carter of the
63d Field Artillery Brigade, Kentucky
National Guard.
Adjt. Gen. Kehoe, the report stated,
is disqualified for the position of
adjutant general of Kentucky because
he has not had the service prescribed
as a necessary qualification under the
laws of the State
a man claiming to be an officer and
said to be Gen. Kehoe, the report con-
tinues. damaged a radio set belonging
to one of the enlisted men at Camp
Knox, treated enlisted men in an un-
warranted manner" and "humiliated
and insulted in a most ungentlemanly
manner" Il chaplain of the National
Guard.
'Such actions are most injurious to
the service and disgusting to the State
and cannot be overlooked or excused -
Brig. Gen. Carter wrote
II respectfully request an investi-
cation of these charges be made and
the necessary action taken to rid the
service of this officer and that due
apology be made to the State of In
diana for his ungentlemanly and un-
officerlike conduct
Indiana National Guardsmen are
here for a two-week encampment,
which ends Sunday.
Evening star., 1925-08-14
Starving Couple
Found Near Death
Amid Cay Diners
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, August 14.-Starv-
ing in the midst of plenty and
while others feasted in the gay
night clubs nearby, Joseph Martin
and his pretty 23-year-old wife,
Ethel, of Philadelphia, appealed to
police early today after they had
been without food for nearly three
days.
Mrs. Martin collapsed on the
steps of the Hippodrome in the
Roaring Forties. Both were
drenched by rain and said they had
slept in parks at night after vain
ly seeking work during the day.
Mrs. Martin was seized with vio-
lent cramps induced by starvation
after officers had fed her a small
quantity of milk.S She was taken
to a hospital Martin, after being
given stimulants, devoured ham
and eggs, his first real meal in a
week. Cab drivers took up a col
lection for the couple. Martin said
he recently lost a well paying job
as a mechanic.
Evening star., 1925-08-14
MEXICO WARNS STRIKERS
TO END TEXTILE DISPUTE
Red" Organizations Defy Govern
ment-Conservati Unions
Offer Strikebreakers.
BY the Associated Press.


MEXICO CITY, August 14.-The
government of the Federal District
announced last night that il had given
the General Confederation of Workers
"a hours to call off the strike in the
cotton goods factories in the district
and order a return to work. Other
wise the government will fully pro-
tect owners desirous of employing
strikebreakers.
The decision of the government was
taken after an investigation showed
that independent workers were in the
majority at the La Prefeccionada fac
tory, where police dispersed rioting
strikers on Monday
The Confederation of Workers de-
clares that it will order a general
Strike of red" organizations, paying
no heed TO the governmental decision
The regional Federation of Labor.
which for long time has been waging
war on the reds, will supply strike
breakers when the 24-hour term
expires.
The conflict is a new development
of the old quarrel between two labor
organizations. each of which claims
a majority of workers in the La Per-
feccionada factory.
Evening star., 1925-08-14
FINDS RREWER|ES
ARE FLOODING EAST
Scranton, Pa, and Lowell,
Mass, Called Source of
Huge Flow of Beer.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 14-Sup.
posedly defunct breweries in New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and
the Middle West are flooding the Eas
with thousands Of barrels Of real beer
to quench the parched throats OF those
whose hard liquor supply has been cut
off by the Government rum block
ade, which practically encircles the
country.
Divisional Prohibition Chief r. @.
Merrick declares that in the last 80
days more beer of illegal alcoholic con-
tent has been seized than in the pre-
ceding six months.
Three carloads of beer from Penn
sylvania seized here yesterday brought
the total for the last month up to
5000 barrels, with a value of about
800, 600 at the source and approx
mately twice that amount in the boot
leg market.
The shortage in hard liquors caused
by the dispersal of the rum fleets and
the Governments vigilance on the
Canadian border and on Gulf of Mex
leo. is given as one reason for the
sudden popularity of the brewed bev-
erage. Mr.. Merrick names Scranton
Pa, and Lowell, Mass, as cities from
which especially large quantities of
beer have been shipped here. Little is
coming from Canada.
Special investigators have been as.
signed TO mop up" the offending dis
/ tricts. Special attention will be direct
ed toward the scrutiny of freight cars.
Agents of the Federal narcotic squad
made their appearance as prohibition
enforcers here yesterday, participating
in several raids, which netted prison
ers, 500 cases of whisky. so barrels of
beer and 1000 gallons of alcohol
RUM INCOME TAXES SOUGHT.
Evening star., 1925-08-14
AMERICANS MOBBED
IN DISPUTE IN ROME
Students Saved by Police After
They Beat Hotel Porter-Ar-
rested for Assault.
Rv the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
FLORENCE. Italy, August IA
Two American students, Joseph
Donell q years old, and Walter
Metzger, %. both of Chicago. were
arrested here today. charged with
haYinG severely beaten Mario Sodi,
a porter of the Savoy Hotel, after a
dispute in the hotel corridor
Police who made the arrest saved
the Americans from an angry crowd
which invaded the hotel and at
tackled them.
After the alleged attack on the por-
ter. the crowd. incensed by reports
of it. entered the hotel and searched
the corridors until they found Donell
and Metzger. The crowd barred the
Americans escape from the hotel and
We're beginning 10 manhandle them
when the police arrived.
Donell and Metzger were impris
oned in the Murate prison and are
being held for trial on the charge of
assault. Court action is expected
speedily.
Evening star., 1925-08-14
PRIESTS DEATH PR0BED.
New York Hospital Chaplain. AS.
saulted, Authorities He&.

NEW YORK. August 14.-The
death today of Rev. Patrick Francis
Romayne, 50 years old, chaplain
of the Seton Hospital was followed
Immediately by an autopsy because
of reports that the chaplain had been
assaulted.
The medical examiner said II had
been reported to him Father Romayne
was the victim of an assault at the
Spuyten Duyvil Railroad Station.
Evening star., 1925-08-14
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, August IA city of
theaters and cabaretS, of highly
specialized trade and amusement
and inhabited by unmarried men
and women is being developed by
modern society, said Prof D. r.
Mckenzie, exchange professor of
sociology at the University of Chi
cago, from TIE University of
Washington, yesterday.
In Chicago, as we'll as in other
large cities of the Occident, mar
ried couples are moving away from
the center of city life out into the
fringes because the automobile and
Evening star., 1925-08-14
Army Planes Forced to Change Route
When McCarI Order HaIts Gas Buyino

open market. The Air Service had
let its contract to single indi-
vidual.
Until the controversy is adjust
ed, machines from the East have
been ordered to fly by way of Cum
berland, Md, and Columbus, Ohio.
and not to land at Langin Field
except in emergency. There is no
intention of abandoning Langin
Field, and Air Service officers hope
when the war with the control
Ter general ends 80 resume normal
use of the MoundSville station.
Evening star., 1925-08-14
GIRL, AFIRE, SAVES BABY,
Ten-Year-old Heroine May Die
From Her Battle With Flames.

ALAMEDA, Calf. August IA CP).-
Leona Southard, aged 10, was prob
ably fatally burned yesterday in saw
ing her infant brother from the flames
of their home.
Leona, who is the oldest of six
children, was tending house with the
baby when an oil stove exploded. She
arst rushed out of doors, then re-
turned to get the baby. Her clothing
was set afire, but she rescued the in
fant unharmed. Then she turned the
garden hose on herself and eXtin-
guished the flames and afterward
turned the hose on the house.