The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 19, 1921, Page 12

May BeTied Up by Big Strike LOS ANGELBS, Cal., July 19. A general strike of skilled work men in Los Angeles motion pic ture studios, threatening almost total paralysis to the industry, will develop in a few days unless the producers’ association cancels wage cut program, union offt clals asserted here today, ‘Thursday was set as the tenta- tive date for the tie-up, Forty two studios, members of the asso elation, are affected by the strike threat, The walkout of carpenters, painters and electricians, which took place Monday morning when certain studios issued notification of a wage cut of $1 a day, spread rapidly during the day. The Hal Roach studios at Culver City, engaged in making Harold _ ISTHOUGHT MURDERED! Believed to Have Been Put Out of the Way by | His Accomplices } Ome of the bandits who held up two bank messengers last | Thursday morning, escaping with $25,000, is believed to have | been murdered by his compan. | fons. According to a statement made to/ the sheriff's office, by a woman to whom one of the bandits gave a $50|| Lioyd and other comedies, were Dill, the man told her, “We couldn't! ] shut down com ely today. Pro duction was reported curtailed at trust this fellow so we got rid of him in a hurry.” | The bandit took pride in boasting | to the woman of the exploits of the gang. | One man who was going down: | town shortly after the robbers had other studios. At the William Fox studios, 13 of the 14 companies at work were forced to make exterior stuff ex clusively, because of a walkout of 100 skilled stage technical men. Union officials claimed that 400 men were On Mtrike today at the Famous Pia¥ers-Lasky studios, al- tho Jesse Le Lasky, president, as serted that production had not yet been seriously interferred with. ‘The Metro studios were hamper- ed by a walkout of mechanicians. Universal City claimed that all its 16 companies were at work with conditions normal. ond ave. and Spring st., Bandits in their car, speeding south | on 14th ave., near Madison st. He} recognized them by the license num: | ber of the stolen auto, No. 111508. } At the time, he says, the four men | were quarreling violently. One man! drove the car, He was in the front) seat, while the other three men were in the tonneau. | ‘Two of the bandits In the rear seat T ‘IRELAND PEACE _ NEARING CRISIS |Veil of Secrecy Shrouds Sit- | uation BY CHARLES M, M’'CANN LONDON, July 19.-Jan c Smuts, premier of South Africa, was again called Into the imperiled Irish negotiations today. Smuts conferred with the British cabinet today obviously discussing the Irish situation, altho no offt |elal statement was Issued. | It was learned Smuts may go to | Belfast today to remain for several days, probably to discuss with Ulster | officials peace terms which would be agreeable to the six northern counties, Smuts’ ability as a media | tor, it waa believed, may be called jupon to bring Premier Sir James |Craig back to London, with pro | posais which may satisfy the Sinn Fein delegation. | ‘The situation, so hopefully regard: | Jed last week, was 80 grave today | | that even the newspapers refused to | loffer conjectures as to what may appen when the present fog of se Srecy lutts. ULSTER DELEGATION LEAVES LONDON ‘The crisis in the negotiations ap- parently arose from the fact that Sir \James Craig contends (ister is en [titled to its own government and |parllament and Eamonn de Valera holds that there must be a united Ireland before peace can be con | cluded. | The Ulster delegation has left Lon- |don, Sir James Craig, premier for |the northern counties, was back tn ‘Were beating the other unmereifully. | ~ This tncident strengthens police the ory that the man was murdered by his companions, who were evidently afraid he would “squeal.” Chase for the bandits has centered about the city for the time. Trails Yeading into British Columbia are also being checked. FIRE DESTROYS 34 OIL TANKS LINDEN, N. J., July 19.—A flam- ing flood of burning of] which swept over the Jersey meadows and spilled into Staten island sound, blowing up oi] tanks and causing nearly | HERE’S MORE ABOUT ROSS’ CHARGE STARTS ON PAGE ONE part of their business, Some of the tenants fn their buildings. SAYS ORGANIZATIONS WERE HAND-PICKED That the who .have jointd $2,000,000 damage, was brought un-/ jby Ross, der control today, after @ 14-hour) ganizations long since defunct. suppressing the true facts concer ing the Skagit. project.” SAYS SKAGIT WILL LOWER RATES HERE Ross emphatically asverted that the Skagit will lower rates for light and power in Seattlan He declared that all the current produced by the Gorge creek unit can be sold. The lighting superintendent scored opponents for offering only Skagit destructive criticism, ° ° side, nm and what household effects ‘were portable. JAP CAPTURES. ALLEGED THIEF velopment. “One of your pamphlets entith been brought to my attention,” sa: force an entrance to Cato’s gro- cery at 81744 Eighth ave, at 3:30 a. m. Cato heard Millican prowling round on the back porch. When he came out, Millican, he says, point- | ed a tevolver at Cato and told him to keep quiet. Cato then leaped at Millican and threw him inside of a warrant, ‘unfriendly’ to the Skagit project. unbiased business analysis. Twel tions in Seattle do likewise, Skagit development is a good bu: that his brother was wanted in Yak. pamphlet to connect the Chamber ima: for burglary, but lar. He is hel F Game Was Rough; d for investigation, worthy of you and your position a city official, It also should condemned as an endeavor to fome EUGENE, Ore., July Mone today, received during a game | “lal interest as of “Ruth and Jacob” at a church pic-|°f this communif¥ as a whole, ts state a falsehood which the chamb’ nie near Cottage Grove. Blindfolded he attempted to capture Fllena Shortridge, but hit her on the tem- ple. Ellena was unconscious for an hour, salted beef known as xarq An Episode While shepherds wateh their flocks at night on the plains of a Judea, word comes to them of a the birth of the Messiah. This is ne of the powerful epi- sides of “The Wayfarer,” which opens Saturday evening in the University of Washington sta dium. And the flocks will be more in The Wayfare The queen of Sheba, instead will come riding an elephant. of American life and history, t once-familier prairie schooner wi its oxen as motive power will seen. real fifty of them. sists on having reailem in every Piss on Friday evening scene of the great pageant, That's | cagles on Thursday evening. the reason the vast audiences will | wee a flock of live sheep on the the cast, singers and musicians w their dogs. ing at 7 o'clock. This rehearsal w' animals that will take part in the| Production. There will dogs, parrots, geese, Mr. Lynch announced today thi be goats, |every person who will take chickens, | must be in his or her place tonig’ domestic animals and birds. Joan of Arc, impersonated |duction when the by ances take place. actual out of the 38 take city light in any chamber trustees, Ross charged, had barred the munict- pal lighting company from serving 13 civic organizations in fighting the | Skagit were hand-picked was charged | of principles. who also asserted that} many of the delegates at Chamber of Commerce meetings represented or Ross accused the paper and the Chamber of Commerce trustees with "Opponents of the Skagit have had lots of time in the last four years |for a hundred Investigations,” Ross | added, “but they watted until all ma- chinery for the 50,000 horsepower Skagit plant was purchased and $3,900,000 had been expended on the Denies Ross Charge Mention of the Chamber of Com- merce as one of the destructive agen- cles fighting the Skagit Is denounced by Christy Thomas, executive secre- tary of the Chamber of Commerce, in a letter sent today to J. D. Ross, superintendent of lighting, in an- swer to the charges made by Ross in the circular he is issulng and cir- culated in defense of the Skagit de- ‘Facts About the Skagit,” has just Thomas, “Your attack on the Charn- “|ber of Commerce is without founda- tion in fact, improper and without “The Chamber of Commerce is not does stand, however, for aAhoro and other civic and commercial organiza- If the detectives | Commerce, by innuendo, with sinis- think Millican himself is the burs-|ter influences which you say are trying to destroy the Skagit ts un. Boy and Girl Hurt) ci natrea. To say or to infer that 19.—Ratph |the Chamber of Commerce 1s domi Chestnut is suffering from a broken | nated by, or seems to advance, a spe ainet the welfare will pot permit to go unchallenged. Brazil exports to Cuba a dried and | Shepherds Guarding Flocks; having a high-powered motor car, In the depiction of various phases Drill teams from the Moose lodge, No. 211, will take part in the march Montgomery Lynch, producer, in.|°f tions on Tuesday evening, the and the The first big dress rehearsal of all stage, guarded by real shepherds and “ke place in the stadium this even. But the sheep are not the only |b¢ with the lights and scenic effects, part | horses, cows—-in fact, all sorts of |or they will be barred from the pro- perform. D. K, Adams, wil lappear rid-| The public is not admitted to the steed, rehearsaly Belfast after a farewell statement in which he declared that Ulster is en- | Utled to a separate government in| | Ireland, } Meanwhile, ft was not known | whether Sir James returned to Bet tast for further conferences with Ul-| sterite leaders, or whether he La withdrawing. The latter seemed fin- probable and general belief was that most of his statements wey for Uk ster consumption. It was understood today that the Dé Valera-Lioyd George conferences at first dealt with exalted questions | of principle. : THEY CAME OUT OF CLOUDS re Yesterday, the talk tena ses | the two descended from the clo to practical politics and interpretations De Valera’s statements regarding |the conference were guarded but it | was understood the Sinn Fein dele gation is ready to concede Ulater all rights possessed under the home rule act and Is willing to extend her pre- rogutives, if Ulster will recognize Irtwh unity. All Ireland continued peaceful to | day, awaiting resumption of negotia- t Thursda: FAR EAST IS IN LIMELIGHT Return of Shantung to China One Phase BY A. L. WASHINGTON, July 19—Im- portant developments in connection with the forthcoming disarmament and Pacific affairs conference in Washington came to light today. The developments involve Yap and Shantung, and apparently the addi- tional light on Japan's hesitancy to unreservedly to enter the conference | So far as the Pacific discussions are | concerned. The developments are: 1—There is an impression tn au- thoritative quarters here that the | American government contemplates bripging up the question of the re- t of Shantung to China by Japan in the conference. 2—The Japanese government is un- derstood to have presented a note or “communication” to Secretary of | State Hughes, suggesting a com-| promise for settlement of the ques tion of the American protest against Japan’s mandate over the island of Yap. In her acceptance of the pro- | posal to discuss armaments, Japan asked whether only broad principles or policies, or specific questions were | to be taken up in connection with the | Far East. Shantung would be re- ed ys It ve st TIRED OF LIFE: TRIES SUICIDE Girl Wife Takes Poison at Party “I was—and am—tired of liv- ing; that's all!” Pretty 1)-yearold Mra. “Billie” McDonald of 1009 Stewart st. made this brief explanation at city hospital Tuesday to a Star man for a dramatic attempt to end her life Monday night. While a party was in progrens at the home of Ray Foote, 616 W Blewett st, Mra, MeDonald, who had been out of the room ment, suddenly reappeared and ex claimed to the horrified guests “Well, it’s all over now—I've taken Polson! ‘Then she collapsed. A hurry call was sent to the city hospital and prompt action by city hospital doc tors probably saved her life, She had swallowed todine, Lying on a city hospital cot Tues day, Mra, McDonald, who is striking ly pretty, intimated that ehe had had trouble with her husband, with whom she hag not been living for several months, So far as known she has no rela tives here. Her father, M. 1. Rice, was in California when ghe last heard from him, a year ago. 2 BOYS ESCAPE DEATH PENALTY SACRAMENTO, July 19.—Califor- } nia‘s @ntlboy hanging bill saved the lives of Wiliam Henry Norris, alias Arthur Owen Davis, and Walter Lee Smith, Gov, William D, Stephens an nounced thru his office here in com: muting the death sentences of both last night to life imprisonment , Both were under the age of 18 years when they committed murder. A bill introduced by Assembly woman Anna Saylor at the last legis- lative session prohibited the hanging ef boys under the age of 18 years. The measure was passed and signed by the governor, It becomes effective July 29, William HL. Norris was convicted of the murder of Marshal John Rieves, of Redding, on January 9, of this year. Walter Smith was convicted of beating his victim over the head with @ stick untilde died. His motive was robbery. EUGENE, Ore, July 19.—Com- Plaint has been ismmued by the Lane county district attorney against ©. L. Nichols, city engineer of Cottage Grove, on a charge of manufactur. ing moonshine, @ mo} DENTIST ELUDES | headed for Silver Lake, on the cen tral Oregon highway leading toward Klamath Falls and the California | | line. | Brumfield, or the man answering | his description, was also seen in| Redmond, north of Bend, Sunday| afternoon, where he obtained infor mation from a deputy sheriff us! |to the proper road to follow to) Bend. He was driving a cheap| automobile and was with another man. Should the man actually be Brum. | field, and should he realize that) he ts being purued,/ authorities | here fear the chances for his cap: | ture in the wildly wooded country | around La Pine would be small, or at least that @ capture would re quire a large posse and several days | in which to work. | Theosophists Meet Next Year at K. C.! Theosophints will meet in their an nual convention next year in Kansas | City, Mo. it was decided at Monday's |neanion of the American section of the Theosophical society at the Hotel | Washington Annex. This afternoon the convention will hold an open forum on the subject, “Theosophy | |and the Public.” | 1 Girl of 12Saves | Sister From Death TACOMA, July 19.—Little 12-year: |old Mary George rescued her sister, | Mildred, aged 8, from drowning in| | the Stuck river, near Sumner, Satur day, after the little girl had been! caught in the whirlpools of the rap. | ida. Forest Fire Is Sweeping Timber) EUGENE, Ore, July 19.—Seven |hundred acres of green timber are | being destroyed by the forest fire | near Vesper, on the lower Columbia | river, according to airplane observ. | jers of the Oregon and Washington | jair forest patrol, with headquarters here. Saturday, when the conflagration was firet reported, it was only 100 acres in extent f THE BON RGAIN BASEME sport colors as jade, wh sand, dium large and small choose, —ETXRA butter closet on the porch and |ness proposition at this time, such an | garded as a “specific” problem. locked the door. analysis as now is proposed will dis-| It was also learned for the first When Patrolmen J. T. Rudd, C.|close that fact. If, on the other) time today what the attitude of the| D. Folirich and J. A. Haguewood ar (hand, it is not good business, the| United States government is on the rived they found Millican sitting in| people of this city are entitled to| point whether only principles and the closet with a partly empty bot-|that information. - policies, or specific matters are to be | tle of moonshine. Millican stated! Th» effort you make in this |t#ken up. | Secretary Hughes ta believed to! have made {t plain to Japan that the American government feels that not only should “principles and policies" lin the Far Bast be taken up, but | also the-application of these princt | | ples and policies to specific questions | | which concern international relations | between more than two powers, eee Japan Deputy Asks Triple Alliance! LONDON, July 19.—A combination, | of Japan, Great Britain and the| United States will end war, Take! | Tanaka, a Japanese deputy, declared on his arrival here today. Tanaka headed a parilamentry committee | visiting here. | “I hope conferences between the | three nations will lead to an alliance | of | as be nt to |which will cause all our present T | problems to vanish,” Tanaka said. “Let the three nations combine of |and keep faith pnd there will be no more great wars.” 9 Harding Proposal ‘:| Pleases W. J. 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