The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 7, 1922, Page 1

; self and the Ford will do the put- ting.” | o———— First in News—First in Circulation (by 11,727 copies a day)—Call Main 0600 to Order The Star at Your Home--50 Cents a Month—Why Pay More? _ FMILLION-DOLLAR FRAUD PLOT Maximum, 45. VOLUME 24. NO, 9. Home Brew Greetings, folks! Did'yo go to the Men's Style Show last night? So'd we—in a 1914 suit. ee We're going to buy another suit when congress passes the soldiers’ bonus bill, so it looks like we will be wearing nothing but B. V. D.'s for the next few years. eee “Learn to play golf fn a Ford,” a4- vises our special correspondent tn White Bluffs. “Do the driving your- oes von GRE GEE, TH Orrice VAMP, SEZ: A lot ov girts st the university pte Ngai rear lal in cosmetics, eee We are going to instal a radio phone in our house so we won't have to play bridge with the wife's rela- “I have ae: rie EEN off m feet’ by any class, clique, committee or section.” — William Hickman merely inhale the fumes and become | intoxicated, according to federal pro- hibition agents. | Quick, Mathild and an atomizer! . Jug of molasses ———— ——— | Washington biue-lawers are up } [in arms against display of silk | | stockings on live models. | | | Shucks! We have that kind of | | display every day on Second ave. | and don't even turn away our heads! - eee F. 0. B. on railroad shipments does not mean “full of booze.” | “Stockyards Row Is Alred.”—Head. line. So that’s what we sniffed—we thought it was the tideflats. | eee | POEMS OF PASSION Young flapper, you're my soul's de- light; Antique flapper, fright! you're a heluva PYYTITITITITITIIT Tit We are anxiously waiting for some congressman to come forward with the suggestion that the war veter- ans be paid in rubles see Speaking of this agitation for light beer and wines, Jeff Powers is de manding a light wood alcohol. } . eee | There once was a fellow named Dent, | Who made it a point to keep Lent. | “The scales on the fishes,” | He eaid, “provide dishes } | Of well-balanced food for a gent.” Wonderful mot March Is seven! @ days old and has not furnished a @eeeee great murder mystery yet @. S. At this writing telegraph editor has hopes.) | Evidently the murderer in the Tay- | Tonight and Wednesday, fair; freak westerly winds, ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Today noon, 45. lge ™ * POSSE HUNTS Minimum, 37. Ceececccccccccccccccs If We Really Had “Truth Serum” — dispatches from Texas tell of the discovery ef = mar velous serum—s “truth serum,” one injection of which makes it impossible for the subject te tell a lie. Just suppose mow that The Star owned a tube ef the potent Muid. What » lot of fun we could have! The whole situation is, of course, entirely fanciful, but— EXPERIMENT NO. 1 A hy Robert B. Hesketh, chairman of the special committee to investigate the insane asylums of the state: “Bob, do you really believe that the Wash- ington insane asylums are as pleasant as your com mittee painted them in its report?” But this was a political matter and I had too much sense to do anything that would get me in Dutch. I’m thinking of running for mayor, you know.” EXPERIMENT NO. 2 6 Walter F. Meier, corporation counsel: why are you a candidate for mayor?” Answer: “Well, my wife wanted me to—and then the Union League club needed a good ‘safe’ man. So what was I going to do? I might have bucked one— “Walter, EXPERIMENT NO. 4 O. A. Piper, superintendent of streets and sewers: “Oscar, when are our streets going to be put into decent condition?” Answer: “I can’t say, definitely. as I'm in office, anyway.” EXPERIMENT NO. 5 D. H. Patterson, Paraffine Companies, Inc., San Francisco: “Pat, why do you work your men 12 hours a day—at $3.75 per—at your Port Angeles plant?” Answer: “Well, why shouldn’t I? Ive got ’em where I want ’em—they either have to work for me or starve—and the more work I can get out of ‘em for the least money, the better the stockholders’ll like me. I should worry.” EXPERIMENT NO. 6 Roy Lyle, federal prohibition director: “Roy, why did you appoint Bill Whitney as your assist- ant director?” Answer: “Shucks, that’s easy! The machine wanted to give Bill something—but they knew it would look too raw if he was appointed from Washington.. So they made me director—and the goat.” . ... . EXPERIMENT NO. 7 O Dan Scott, state reclamation department, Olympia: “Dan, do you think any soldiers will ever settle on the White Bluff-Hanford project?” Answer: “Soldiers? No. Where's a veteran going to get the $4,000 that a settler has to have to get in? But the people don’t know that—<o it’s fine campaign stuff.” But not so long EXPERIMENT NO. 8 Dan Landon: “Dan, why don’t you ever wear a vest?” Answer: “To be perfectly frank, I do wear one. But don’t ever tell anybody—or I might lose all the page one publicity that Homer Brew gives me.” EXPERIMENT NO. 9 A Va Governor Louis F. Hart, Olympia: “Louie, what do you think of your record as governor?” Answer: “Aw, go on! You know I can’t think.” | Young Girl’s Body GIRL ROBBER | lor case prefers to remain anony-| r3 SACRAMENTO, March 7 c Wash. March 7.—Lack | mous. |. TACOMA, ‘Wasi sag “0% | body of Miss Edna Daly, 22, who die eee ot provisions will compel the assall-| voy trom Sacramento three LIKE. WHEN WF BOUGHT THE , parre, Elgin school SKAGIT jant of Elsle Sparre, Elgin school | nth ago, was found in the Sac ‘The viadnet was pr kanaas side and the elty in ance is considered to have itself for its maintenance (Ark.) Texarkanian, Billion and a Half | ented to the Ar Ite accept. | obliterated | ed who are surrounding the strip of Paid Out by Berlin |Tinver whew the man is known to| 490 Was possible thra a peculiarly Id hewehs Germany has |be hiding are contenting themselves | pointed shoe which wag found on the paid cash and tn kind, from the| with , gradually drawing the net | body armiatice t December 21, 1921, the | tighter rather than risking an sum of 6,987,456.000 gold marks (ap-|ambuscade where the pursuers would |is thought to be an escaped inmate | retain $1,620,000,000) the repa-| be nounced today. proximate Fations commission an teacher, Texarkam”! open within the next three days, the sheriff's office here believes today. ! assailant is known to be armed and! who was robbed and assault | mento river, several miles north of Friday afternoon, Inst into the | here, late today, The body was identified today by Mr. and Mra, D. Coval, uncle The posse of sheriffs and citizens aunt of the missing girl, Identifica as the girl's |of the insane Sedro Woolley. at a disadvantage, asylum at Ceccccccccccccccccoee® On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise ' The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 18: SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1922, ASSAILS CONVICT LABOR! Defense of Plan Is Called Absurd by! President of Lo-, cal Plant TESTIMONY ISIN Mrs. Osborn Denies Killing Infant Helen | Wilson Both prosecution and defense rested shortly before noon Tuesday Is Found in River |?!" » ‘The | va and |as a wo enger, today and attempted to} | faoens fous satchel containing $15.-/] time by buying its reg- Lazaro, half blinded, managea to|| Ular needs thru the ads |nay, Statements by “John W. Pace, as sistant director of business control, that the proposed manufacture of automobile license plates at the state penitentiary would not affect the local labor market “because no Washington plant is equipped to compete with outside bidders” were fatly contradicted Tureday by W. One of the last witnesses for the J. Stevens, president and general! defense, Mra Osborn took the stand manager of the Pacific Coast Stamp/in her own behalf and related her works. in the case of Mra. Ivy Osborn, on trial before Superior Judge Mitchel! Gilliam, on a charge of mansiaugh- tor Mra. Osborn t charged with cae: | ing the death of infant Helen Marte October. “There are at least two plants Her testimony was gubstantialty in Seattle alone—my own and that which she gave at her former Joseph Mayer's,” Stevens de cared, “which have sll the In a low, tense volcan, hard equipment necessary for this | to xeep back recounted class of work, and we are ready | how, on thé fatal night, ahe was and willing to undertake it brushing oft @ pillow. “Pace’s statement is fallacious Inclesed in a it was this. om ita face, inasmuch as for | pittoer, she = maid, Norman three years the Pacific Coast « giorm, the state's star witnens, must pened my <p pemmniianae [have ‘seen thru the window and “It te true that the works wo| “alee tease now, with under different management but this in no way interferes | tomeed it ever Gf the bed. Gineus had our ability to do the work. testified that after striking the in- “We have two machines—o0ne! ont she had thrown it awa: on worth $1,500, the other $3,500—de- ).,. ad y tro signed for this very purpose, which} since the haven't turned a wheel first of the year. “We have the room, machinery and we it's absurd to aay meet outside competition Stevens, whe is one of the | | |afternoon with the testimony of Nor- ® the men) nat we can't “The state rests.” boat on Lake Union the evening of im the fight to f the [September 12 and observed Mrs. On. | state to abandon its plan, declared that the policy of using convict labor in com- petition with free labor was not only « menace to home indus tries, but that it was a direct attack at the American stand ard of living. “People talk of the menace of Oriental labor,” he said, “bat | this is far worse, Under the convict labor system, American work, men are asked to com pete ih prisoner laborers who get cents « day—a figure with which even the Japanese boat. “She was holding the baby up tn| jher left hand and striking it in the face with her right.” Storm said. (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) SEEK TO DISBAR | evitable, unless the state administra: | POINDEXTER'S \of three sénators to investigate. \Trial Being Conducted by Bar Examiners could never compete.” The anewer, be continued, in tn. tion changes its policy out of an industry, with the result the WIPINE | Joseph M. Glazgow, pioneer attor- “ id be given to |My: feed the state board of bar ant impetus that would be given to| ..aminers here today to answer unemployment yams 4 . charges looking to his disbarment “And, in addition,” he con- : from further practice in the state cluded, “you must take into con- . of Washington Judge Glasgow is accused of un | professional conduct, acts involving | mora! turpitude and dishonesty. The complaining witness is Doro: thy N. Mawson, of Chehalis, a for mer client. The transaction in |which #he alleges Judge Glasgow's |transgression occurred was a real estate deal in 1919. Judge Glasgow has been practic ing here since 1888, and has tried many famous criminal cases sideration the fact that we have a plant valued at from $80,000 to $90,000, Do you think It would induce foreign capital to come into the city if the news was spread abroad that the state gov- ernment was driving established industries out of business.” The bar examiners hearing the charges are Howard M. Findley, of attle; Bix Rowland, Tacoma, and | Judge ‘Thomas W. Grady, of Yakima. Senate to Investigate New- | berry ‘ Influence” | It Will Pay Big Dividends WASHINGTON, March 7.—A reso- lution for investigation by a speci: amittee of statements by vindexter relating to in | ence brought to bear on the sen. ate in the Newberry case was intro duced today by Senator Caraway, Arkan democrat | i The resolution was referred to the fF you will form the elections committee, It stated that 1 charged that malign influences were used to influe of senators in seating It provided for appoin I habit of reading the ads in The Star today and every day, and take advantage of the oppor- tunities to save which you will find in them, it will pay big dividends to you. The average family can save a_ surprising sum of money in a short e the New nent | berry “Amonia”’ Bandit Is Overpowered Li March 7 Dressed n, a bandit squirted an am. in the face of Charles National bank | PITT! monia gun Lazaro, Homewood his grip on the man, who| or gave his name as Joseph Lind- | aged 23, of Homewood, in The Star. |. at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 Wilson, waif left in her care, last) After brushing some mildew off) the pillow, Mra, Osborn said, she | ir. The state's case closed Monday! Storm said he was out tn a row.) bern thru a window of her sae) JUDGE GLASGOW TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Fate of Woman Accused of Slaying Babe About to Be Placed in Hands of Jury! J | —Photo of Mra Osborn by Price & Carter, Btar Staff Photographers Mrs. Ivy Osborn, charged with manslaughter, and (below) her attorney, Mis: Susan Hohmann BONUS BILLIS INTERESTS WIN NOW IN HOUSE IN PORT FIGHT| Measure Is Introduced by| inden River Project Is Chairman Fordney Shelved PORT ANGELES, March 7.— |The peninsula tip people lose, The The Clallam coun- | ty commissioners naa the deal, Old settlers of Western Clallam | county presented their petition here | yesterday for a special election to es- | WASHINGTON, March | President Harding “stands pat” against any method of provid: ing a soldier bonus except thru the sales tax, it was officially announced thru the White House today. | big interests win, Just before announcement of | tablish a port at the mouth of the Harding’s attitude, the house | Quillayute river ways and means committee ap- With such a port operating, they | proved a soldier bonus and it could send their logs from a million was introduced into the house | acres of forest down the river to the by Chairman Fordney. pet and to ships—-and get the mar- ‘The bill approved provides in sub price a bill appr y “The commissioners scowled and stance ' shelved the petition until ‘ash for me nose readjust 1,—-Cash for mi res Pai Just: ) "Then came the other interests with | jed pay runs under blogg their petition. They wanted a spe : 2. ramiranoe “ oe Ag a sai m election called to establish a port joan provision, oO eee aoe Port Ang s. The commissioners who can get 50 per cent advances roe as they were pidden They passed }at once from a bank + petition. 3.—Options in the way of voca wai did this notwithstanding the |tional training, farm land grants, | oiq settlers’ petition was born first, Jor home building aid circulated first, signed first by the Postponement is the only alterna-| required number of voters, and was tive to the sales tax which Pi filed before the interests’ petition. Jaent Harding will permit, it wi Lawyers had found a technicality |stated on highest authority in the law which permitted the com: The president has not even given! missioners legally to do this, plan serious} Now that the port of Port Angeles certificate the new an study, seeing insurmountable diffi-| petition has won, the old settlers as \eulties on the surface of the plan. the int ts will bottle up their \ "lt was emphatically stated that| timber indefinitely—-untit they are {the president has in no wise chang led the view set forth recently in| the Fordney letter and that he has| EVERETT.—Lining up 25 loggers {no intention of altering this stand/against the wall, two masked, armed jin the slightest, men relieve them of $200 willing to sell at the interests’ price. ty Alleged Fraud in Sale of Supplies * at CampKearney a men implicated had given Prat ten statements amounting to confes sions, They said the accused men ak ready are preparing their defense, the government of upward of $850,000 was hatched in a San Diego hotel, it was claimed. A dictaphone planted in a room occupied by the Jos Am | eles men was said to have transmil- ted every word to federal agents im an adjoining suite. 6 DIE; 40 HURT IN BIG STORM Tornado Sweeps Two S. C. Villages AIKEN, 8. C., March 7.—Stx per sons were killed and about 40 im jured by a tornado and rain storm which swept the western portion of the state early today, according to reports received here this afternoon. Six dead and 25 injured were re ported at Warrensville, Fiften injured were reported at Stiffleton. ? Property damage will run high. Both Warrensville and Stiffletom are cotton mill towns near here, | Twenty-five houses were reported destroyed at Warrensville and 10 at Stiffleton. Wire communication was demoral- tized. Relief workers, carrying medical and food supplies, have been dis- patched to the two towns. Several injured, rushed here from Warrensville, are being treated ia hospitals, \FOUR DEAD IN | TANK BLOWUP KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 7.— Four persons were killed and 12 in- jured when an air tank exploded, de- | stroying the street car barns at Ninth jand Brighton sts. here, today. The explosion in the compressing room of the barn, shook buildings for blocks. It blew between 30 and 40 |feet of the barn wall several yards into the street. The body of one man, decapitated, | was picked up Police reserves, all fire apparatus and ambulances were rushed to the scene. ‘The fire was practically out at 8:30 o'clock. Firemen were still searching | the ruins for victims. President Harding Going to Florida ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., March 7.—<« President Harding is expected te leave Washington tonight on a spe cial train for St, Augustine, accord. ing to information received here to day His train is scheduled to arrive | here at 10 o'clock tomorrow night, After a short stay here, Harding is expected to leave on a fishing trip and will return to St. Augustine for a yacailon of about 10 days at the Hotel Ponce de Leon, according & reports hera, Will Inquire into