The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 27, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER Tonight and Saturday, rain; On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star iii Watered a Second Camm Matter May 1 1899, at the Postoffice at Meattia, Wash, unter the Act of Congress March §, 1879. Per Year, 7 Mall, bed ton First in News—First i ____first in News—First in Circulation (by 11,727 tion (by 11,727 copies a d day)—Call Main Main 0600 to Order The Star at Your Home—-50 Cents a Month—Why Pay More? Ten Years in Prison for Killing a Horse Thief ‘Ten years tn prison for killing a horse thief! That was the sentence given But ft didn’t break him. made it a rough, wild, money.ma ‘This is the story told by W Raine in his greatest novel, “Gunsight Pasa” It strengthened his determination and when he left the penitentiary behind he went back to the open prairies he loved, where he had ridden the range, Fate Drought him back to the girl he had decided to forget. The of! boom hit the cattle country and This novel has Dave Sanders. bark on." He his father is id cht, {tam ‘Macleod talature from NOVEL, ARY L will start February 1. he writes about, when ft war a land “with the Town Roundup, Man Four-Square.” & writer on one of the Seattle newspapers and SE ATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1922. been purchased by The Star and Raine lived in the country wrote “Oh, You Tex,” “Tho Hig " “The Yukon Trail* and “Thi Raine was once employed aa still a Hellevue resident. His brother was fgrmerty a representative in the leg here. REMEMBER THE DATE, FEBRU- WATCH FOR THE NEW Home Brew | Howdy, Folks! The present epidemic of la grippe proves that eee ‘We ove that this state is going to Bave an “agricultural bloc” in the Kinda chip off the oid tion at Bellingham, went to Vancouver, B. C., last night to be the guests of the Canadian constabulary. This ended the convention. eee Hat Ha! We see where the tele | * graph editor has started another revolution in Mexico eee Our friend Jacques Bergues, with a couple of his pals, is going to at tempt to ascend to the summit of} Mount Rainier. The boys have prob- | ably got tired of freezing In an a ment house and want to go some where warmer. eee ‘They may ot that oe . Jacques ts in the insurance buat ness. Perhaps he is just trying to demonstrate the value of a good ac dent policy. Re inet ae st wey. ° A GENTLE CUSS Sheriffs of the state are going to 114 « $25,000 school of criminology p Seattle. We suggest that they establish a @pecial course in Exoneration of Po Nice Officers, with Chief Searing as head instructor. eee ‘The chief of police never fails to exonerate any of his men when they are accused of steal- ing booze. This might be called “esprit de corpo.” . “Marriages are essential,” exys a French writer. Yep, no home is com plete without one. * oe The trouble with the city coun efi is the H.C. of L.—the High | Coat of Loafing. “— | attle citizens each 1 want ‘Three respectable living in three different hous visit three blind pigs, They to visit each of the three places, but on’t want anyone to see them, Each ‘of them has a private path that does | not croms the other. Can you figure this out? Use a pencil draw lines from houses to blind pigx | and Houses . Blind pigs Reaters of Home Brow solving this puzzle will be told where Sheriff Matt Starwich keeps his bocen, jemployers, three KENYON TO END STRIFE? Senator Has New) Plan for Board to Settle All Indus- try Breaks BY PAUL R. MALLON WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Cre stion of » national labor board te solve industrial disputes was reeommended to congreas today by Senator Kenyon, lows, in his report as chairman of the special senate committee which recently investigated conditions in the West Virginia coal mine war. To back up this new board, Ken- yon also would have congress pans | an industrial code, which would clear. ly outline the rights of capital, labor and the public in labor troubles, NO PENALTIES ARE PROVIDED Compulsory arbitration by the board is opposed by Kenyon. Using the proposed national industrial code as its basis, the board would make a set of findings in any dispute, which would be published broadcast and en. forced by public opinion. No penal ties or fines are provided. ‘The new board—somewhat atmilar | to the railroad board posed of three would be com: reprerentatives of | of workers and three of the public to be appoint ed by the president. Kenyon drew up this fst of tabor principles, which he said should be sanctioned by congress: Capital pru- dently and honestly invested in the lcoal industry should have an ade quate return. The rights of the operators and miners to organize and to bargain collectively thra representatives of their own choosing is recognized and affirmed. Human etandards should be tho! constraining influence in fixing the wages and working conditions of mine workers. Miners who are not members of the union have a right to work with out being harassed by their fellow workers who may belong to unions. Six days shall be the standard week, o! it hours a day. Punitive overtime shall be provid od tor hours worked in excess of the standard workday. When a dispute or controversy arises there should be no lockouts or strike, pending a conference or a hearing and determination of the facts and principles involved In his report, which delves Into the entire question of capital and labor and the as they affect each oth public, Kenyon charges: 1. The Kansas industrial court tn a complete failure and all courts of | compulsory arbitration alw (Turn to Page 7, Colamn s have Wanda Almost Hasa Flu Story By Wanda von Kettler Says a wild man on the phone this morning: “Hello, Star? Say, | all the pupils are coming out of Broadway high school and it's only a quarter to ten. Must be the flu Shut down, school on account of it everything closed up——" { Whereupon we get excited, with | our hair standing on end also—drop the receiver, grab another, and call Broadway high. “Wha's this?” we shout, “bout school shutting down on account of| the flu? How many ul? How QUAKE EL CENTRO, Cal, Jan. 27.—~ This section experienced a slight earthquake shock at midnight last night, No damage was done further than to disturb slumbers. Girl’s Body Is Svuned by Burglars' Maid in San Francisco} Apartment Subjected to Fiendish Torture SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. igi | burglars who Broke Into the home of George Cuesar and wife in a! fashionable apartment houne here early today, gagged Caroline Chinn, | maid, tore off her cotthing, scraped her skin with a potato peeler and rubbed salt Into the wounds, ac cording to a report to the police The burgiars began thelr tortare| when Misa Chinn refused to reveal the hiding place of jewels known to be in the apartment, police said} they were informed. The girl was nearty unconscious when found, and in great pain. | Burgiars ransacked the room but secured nothing of value. A police posse was immediately organized and started a search for the two men, The burglars were! |masked but Miss Chinn was abie| to give what the police sald wat| & good description. Mins Chinn came to San Francinco from Marynville, Cal, where, tt was understood here, her parents live. She was in a hysterical condition at a hospital during the morning and wan unable to give a dutailed recital | lof her experiences. The condition of the Cassar apart ment showed that she had wirueeiat| |desperately with her assailanta, | ‘COLLINS AND CRAIG AGREE! BELFAST, Jan. 27.—Ulster has recognized the southern provisional | | government, | Dery, but according | gang. |torney'’s office. which will become the|the importance of federal agents as James Craig, “isting in relieving unemployment. | YOUTHS (=== ADMIT THEFTS Held for Looting’ Pay Phones, Lads Tell of Band of ‘School Thieves Police were rounding up Friday a fang of 20 or more high school boys maid to be responsible for recent wholesale looting of pay telephones. John Ewart and Melvin Lytle, 17-| —Photo by Price & Carte: John Ewart (right) and Melvin Lytle (left), 17-year-old | high school students, who are alleged to have confessed rob- bing apartment } house Phone bores. “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE — MURDER CASHIER OF BANK Bandits Escape After Runni 1g) | Fight, but Loot Is) Recovered PITTSBURG, Pa, Jan. 27.— Five bandits who killed H. T. Moss, assistant cashier of the First National bank at Grafton, escaped today after beating off r, Star Staff Photographers yearold high school studenta, were arrested tn an alley near Harvard) ave and Pike «t., at an early hour for alleged robbery of the pay phone im the Boston apartmenta, 1425 Har- vard ave, Evart and Lytle are mid to have made a lengthy confession at police | Deadquartels, implicating nearly « score of other lads In recent rob berien. Patrolman BC. Stout captured | the two youths after a short chase from the apartment hous. They are mid to have admitted the rob-| to Stout they anew away the money during the YOUNG AND OLD GODS COMPETE Jazz to Vary ‘Chinese New) Year Celebration Gong Fay Fat Choy? Tonight, down tn Seattle's China- town, thie greeting will pass from lp | to Up—"Happy New Year and the| Greatest Prosperity? | But beneath the soft waflings of stringed instrumenta, the popping of | Canton firecrackers and the etately admonitions of Confuctus, uttered by the wrinkied grandfathers, will be heard a now, strange melody—provo- | | cative, elusive, barbarous, | It is the new generation of Chinese boys and girts, celebrat- ing the ancient festival of New Year's by shimyling to the lat Jazz musie. For more than 4,000 years the Chi- nese have observed the holiday of New Year's with the ceremonial gay. * of their ancestors, ‘The children have been given coins wrapped in red timsue paper, everybody has made & noble effort to pay his debts and obligations, young and old have feast. ed on dried nuts, pastry and «wal lows’ nests of the Flowery Kingdom. | And always the great cake has} been prepared—the cake that Is! dear to every Chinaman's heart. It is in 9 layers and yet only one Jeighth of an ‘inch in thickness.| Sweet, sticky «yrup ts poured over | |the cake, and {t is cut tn diamond-| shaped pleces—a piece to friend. The plum pudding of the Anglo- Saxon Yule is not more revered! than the Chinese New Year cake. Tonight the Old and the New wil! celebrate side by side, The old cus-| KX the Ind’s posseasion was found @ map of the Boston apartments, | showing the location ef the pay phone, hallways and means of escape. According to the alleged cohfeasion, the gang never attempted a robbery without first mapping the surround. ings. Many such maps of many | Apartment houses and other buildings | are said to be in possession of gang members. Nearly all the pay phone robberies @uring the last yoar, the police say, have been committed by the high school looters, Of these there have | been hundreda. Other alleged members of the it is anid, as soon as located, will be grilled by detectives and turned over to the prosecuting at-| |GET MEN JOBS | SAYS HARDING WASHINGTON, Jan 4ent Harding today called on axa the government depar'ments to un \dertake at once all work possible to |relieve unemployment. ‘The president today made public a letter sent to the secretaries of war, | navy, agriculture, treasury, interior | and commerce, calling attention to Irinth Freo State, Sir toms will be observed; the gods will northern premier, declared in a| Harding said altho remarkable re-| pe appeased by proper offerings; speech here today. Michael Collins, sults have been achieved tn relieving | due honor will be given to the an. as head of the south Irish govern |Unemployment, the mort difficult| castors whose bones now lie whiten similarly recognized the Ulster government, he said. This was what the agreement reached by the two premiers at Lon don amounted to, Craig declared. rocal recognition,” he ment, has said. The meeting between the premiers st the north and south of Ireland was the first time a leader of Ulster had met with a leader of a responst his authority. ‘Today's announcement by Craig does not point to any immediate union in Ireland. |Wage Scale Is Cut by Shipping Board A new lower wage scale, is being authorized Friday by the shipping |bourd In announcements to com | panies operating under ita direction The scale just received from | Washington, D, C, cuts all wages 25 per cent. | urdon,” speaks a voice mort lealinly at the other end of the wire Did you speak about the flu? Of ree we bave several cases, but “When do you suppose school will be openi up again?” we break in, becoming warme | “Monday,” replies the lady, still most calm, “Monday?” we shout, .“How do jyou know | “Why, because Monday.” she tells us, sweetly, “is the beginning of the new semester “What hi that,” we query, trying \to be polite, “got to do with fut” ble southern element and recognized | |period is just ahead and he urged! |the government departments to start at once all possible work, which might otherwise be delayed several ing across the Pacific But at the same time, the newer gode—Jarzz and Shimmy and Pep— will be honored by the younger] jmontha, ‘i generation. A big masquerade ball| rr eee ‘eh will be held itn Chinatown; the orchestra will play the latest synco- pations from Broadway; the dancers | will tread the newest steps the lobster palaces of Longacre Square. 15 Are Indicted in Narcotics Inquiry) Reporting 15 open indictments in| |narcotic cases, Thursday, four postal indictments and three secret indict-| For the dancing craze has hit |ments, the federal grand jury re-|China. Students from the United |mains in session Friday | States, returning home, have carried It is probable that most of the nar.|With them tales of the fascinating, cotic cases have been considered, and |Shivery dances of America. that the remaining cases will be the| Tonight will be the first time tn probing of liquor charges. the history of Seattle's Chinatown — that the New Year will be celebrated NE WOMA in the modern fashion. The old O TOO GOOD folk shake their heads sadly—but the CHICAGO—There whould be a lit from young people shake their shoulders Jand dance. Itle bit of bad in every good little! an It not good?” queried little |wife. Mrs, Grace Bella Schmuck |Chn } exerting 16 Sow Canty blamed her domestic woe on the fact |"t*Ps in her father's shop on King |st. “Let us have both the old and }she was too good. Divorce granted t, “Let us prado Areca the new customs—and extract the beet from both.” Which is the philosophy of Young China—vut not the philosophy of the wise Confucius, Ring out the old, ring tn the new! new! | \$18, 000 i in Gold Is Found in Laundry CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 27.—Po- Nee searching @ Chinese laundry for opium foun a thin wi becom “We'd like to know," we shout] again, “why all those students were coming out of Broadway high at 9:46 this morning.” And the lady replies: “Because this is the last day of tho first semester, and we held school only an hour. ‘Th new semester starts, ag before stated, Monday.” And then she hung up jand so did we. But we forgot about the receiver on that other phone, so we hang it up gently now. Maybe our friend is still jumping on the other end of the line, .” she replies. nraged, a battered trunk con taining $18,000 in gold, MISS B. OLSON, of the Waldon fotel, 605 Yesler way, was cut a bruised when struck Vriday, at Je ferson st. and Yesler way, by a driven by Homer Bissell, 5609 Fourty ave. & | sensational large red type, an article | take this means of informing you | tion would every | ¢ jot the state of Chiapas, Mexico, by ;tempting to capture former Presi-| jCHICAGO, Jan. 37.—Rev. Frank dent Herrera, Guatemala, who ts] nodnihwics 50, priest of the Saint |now with his supporters, taken|*lorence church, here, was shot in police in » gun battle They sped from the city in an automobile, pursued by 100 off cers. Police said one and possibly more SENATOR SAYS STORY 18 LIBEL , == = Poindexter Writes Denial aljaocons with blood when recovered. Newberry Motives The abandoned car wag riddied with bullets, H. B. Johnson, teller of the bank. Editor The Star: I notice on the front page of your) announced that a parttal check up edition of January 14th, in rather! revealed the theft of $0,000 in Lib- erty bonds, a registry ist and $15, 000 im cash. Loot found tm the antomobilc abandoned by the robbers was taken to detective headquarters, but was not counted, by W. EL Porterfield, in regard to my vote in the Newberry case, and | stating certain alleged conversations which I had with several parties | mentioned therein, Just as a matter of record, I) ‘ROBBERS GET HUGE AMOUNT HATTIFSBURG, Miss, Jan. 27.— Masked bandits egriy today forced the night watchmen of the E EL Girault Motor company into a closet and escaped with $180,000 in that the statement referred to ts entirely false from beginning to end, This article is plainly Ubelous. Very truly yours, MILES POINDEXTER, U. & Senate ‘The news tery to quention 64) tn and securitite. a New York millionaire who bag | Or te ean night contributed $25,000 to Poindexter’s| 114 Dottie ae Prey watchman, campaign fund had urged the sen-| ay that he beard as ator to vote for the seating of New-|Sutomobile drive up about 2:30 a. berry “out of regard for our friend-|™- Thinking the men wanted gas ship” and that Jonathan Bourne|°9¢ Bishop went to the front of had assured him the party organiza-|"® farage. As he stepped from “put him across” this|#¢ office two masked men pointed coming fall in Washington if he|"eYOlvers at him and forced him [back into the office jvone for Newber —Editor. aon The men first went thru the cash 'GUATEM. YANG [Sere tans setae DELAY STROKE. \office after he told the men he} did not know the combination of NOGALES, Sonora, Jan. 27.—The juatemala-Mexico situation along | the office me. Bishop escaped from the shortly after the bandits left and the Chiate river, boundary of the! found the combination on the outer two republics, threatened to reach|door had been knocked off and the| a climax today with an tnvasion| small inner door had been pried open. the Guatemalan army under com-| The two men had taken all the mand of Gen. Orellano. bonds and cash in the safe Advices received here during the ——- night indicated that Guatemalan/| forces were still marshaling ‘n "| PRIEST SHOT Peten and that no move had as yet been made to cross tho river. Gen. Orellano’s expedition ts at BY BANDITS the leg carly this morning when he surprised bandits in the church. ‘The bandits fled after the shooting | without any loot. MOTHER, BABE | DEAD IN FIRE | NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—Mrs, Em- ma Rundel, 43, and George Oben- |meier, a baby, were killed today when fire swept a four-story apart- ment house in Brooklyn. |Poison Stills Used | to Make Whisky | NEW YORK, Jan, 27.—Three | poison stills, where denatured alco- hol in barrels labelled with the red | asylum in Chiapas, The Public Markets To the tourist, we point with pardonable pride to our markets. They always excite favorable comment. And why shouldn’t they? skull and cross bones, was to be| They ar: et i |redistilled and sold as whisky, were | They are the best in the [iit tne hands of the police today world. The Friday Star is }|They are the first used exclusively for the n | which the | discovered. |_ The stills discovered themselves. | | Ignition of aleohol fumes by a gas jet | set fire to a four-story house on nufacture of poison Nquc yew York authorities have | generally recognized as the medium thru which the market men sell their pro- visions. Pages 14, 15 and |) Cherry st. 16 carry today’s market || nee ads. See what you should Grounded Transport pay for your food. | Is Floated by Tugs | SAN tIsco, Jan, 27.—The jer ansport Dix, which ran ashore on Alcatraz island in San Francisco bay yesterday, was anchored off Paradise cove, in the today, for inspe tion, ‘Tugs floated the transport at high tide last night, The best offerings of Seattle’s best stores appear in The Star. SLAYERS BATTLE POSSE! Gang of School-Boy Robbers Uncovered! lwe iF. | Editors Here —All photos by Price & Carter, Star Saft Photographers. mM ¢@. Foster, editor Grendview Herald and president State Press ae sociation; (2) E. L. Wheeler, editor Waitsburg Times; (3) Clarence Bla lington, editor Chehalis Bee-Nuggets (4) J. 0. Kaynor, editor Ellensburg closet | Record, and (5) 8. H. Lewis, editor | Lynden Tribune. All of them are im Seattle, attending the “Newspaper Week” celebration at the university, Journalists Nearing End of Sessions Rev. M. A Matthews of the Firsd Presbyterian church will address @ general assembly of university: stu dents and state newspaper men ad the opening sessions of the third di vision of “Newspaper Week,” Prb day, Lieut. Gov. William J. Coyle will preside at the assembly. « Dm Matthews will speak on “The Presa We Demand.” The sessions Friday and Saturday include weekly newspaper men fron all parts of Washington and con clude the sessions of “Newspaper Week.” ‘Thursday's sessions were designed to interest daily newspaper men and advertisers of the state, and closed with a banquet at the Faculty, club last night. Advertising in the daity paper waa discussed by the speakers in Thurs day's sessions, “What Makes a Good Ad Good,” was the topic of Robert Jones of the university facultyy Foreign advertising and local ade vertising were given attention by Fer Woodman and Lloyd Spencer of pattle, The extensive work of the Bettey Business Bureau in detecting fakt stock schemes, fraudulent land iy vestments and illegal substitutions te merchandise was told by Georgt Kahin, attorney for the bureau Following luncheon at the Waste ington Annex with the Seattle Ad club Roy D. Pinkerton, editor of the Seattle Star, outlined some princt ples of gaining and holding circula tion. J, G, Kelly of Walla Walla spoke on “Coordination of Daily .