The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 25, 1922, Page 9

SATURDAY, MARCH 2m, MAN DYING R FALL OF 45 FEET Companions See Him Picked to Ships Deck which may prove fatal. He was in & critical condition Saturday in the Seattle General tHe had not regained CUNECHoUsNons. OF Johnson was working on the Con. (8 necticut st. pier, where the boat was tt ing lumber for the Orient, when Phe leaned against the cargo hook, D hanging motionless a few feet trom the deck. Johnson's clothing caught ‘oa the point of the hook, and when Mt started upward he was carried ‘with it In spite of the warning shouts of his companions, the oper. ‘ator of the hook did not see him. Johnaon hung in the air, 45 feet Pabore the deck, unable to reach the ‘peel hook which had caught in the back of his overalls, until they sud- deny ripped apart and he fell, EXPERT YECGS STEAL $20,000 Vault of Sequim State Bank Is Looted _ PORT ANGELES, March 25.—Ex- 4 yesgmen obtained more than worth of loot from the safety boxes of the State Bank of yesterday. Entry into the vault was made by ‘Attaching an electric drift to a light socket and then piercing a amal! hole ver the vault lock, The robbers went to work systematically, looting the safety deposit boxes of cash and securities. bonds and everything that could not be turned into cash — hotice waa left by the rob Se aphe o aes ‘The bank safe, of a heavy man- touctied by the yeesmen as being too @itfieult to crack. ‘The yeas escaped. RAIL MEN BACK MINERS’ STRIK imous CLEVELAND, March 25.-— Clore y Between the 4,000,000 rail feed workers of the country and the 008 coal miners during the min- strike called for midnight March $1 was apparent today. Action which will be taken by the Fafiroad unions during the mine strike was problematical. The general policy committee of Teterd as having unanimously ap- Proved the call for a strike of coal miners. ‘The railroad employes 2,500,000 members of the “big four” brotherhoods and thousands of rail- Pead shop craftsmen, and maintenance of way men Possibility of probable concerted section by rail and mine workers is based on the following significant de. Yelopments at the miners’ meeting here: ee et ee as Tees eee ee John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, obtained thd Promise of W. 8. Stone, chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engt- Beers, ag a “rail chief and citizen,” to support and assist the miners. Lewis remained in Cleveland today to confer with W. G. Lee, chief of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train. Men, and possibly officials of other . oad brotherhoods. enty thousand Norfolk & West. fn railroad shop crafts employes an- Bounced a sympathetic strike on the faliroad that is said to carry 40 per ent of the non-union coal mined in the United States. A resolution urging 290,000 non- Mion miners in the United States Qnd Canada to unite with the union Bhiners in the strike, was on its way to the mines. Reports clatmed to have been re- ttived by several members of the Beneral policy committee of the min @rs said employes of some railroads Were planning to refuse to handie fats carrying nonunion coal Sixty million tons of coal will be on |, Mostly at the mines, April 1, 4nd will not be available unless it can be distributed. More than 50,000 railroad telegra- Dhers already have ratified the “pro fective agreement.” in which they Saree to support the miners in any Wage controversy. ms low he, ER HARBOR, BR. C.—Dov- Harris, 52, fisherman, drowned When he falls overboard from his skiff. American fuel off i competing Muceeasfully with Vancouver coal HE’S JUST A REAL READIN’ HOUN’ AND | CAN’T BE STOPPED! City hall workers. fome of ‘em work and some of ‘em don’t. ‘Thin one doesn’t Every morning he mooches a newspaper, seeks a retired spot in the big office and spends a pleas. ant morning reading the world’s news, Last week someone hid the pa per and in ite place put a copy several months old, Every day Bgince this has been repeated. To May's paper waa that of July 2 And stil! the earnest worker grabs the paper and reads it. Aft |} er more than a week's reading of the old Issues he hasn't discovered the difference. Up by Crane and Dashed -| ctreular type, was left un-| Call for Coal Walkout Unan-| the United Mine Workers was on| Include | telegraphers | jetse Town Is in Grasp of Feminine Rule _ DES LACS, N. D., March This village of 600 was in the political grasp of eight women today. They took over the reins of city government at a town meeting Friday night and announced they would provide a “safe and sane government,” Mrs. F. P. Ward, who sported the town marshal’s star, ne Seugg the streets early today with not a law violator in sight, Mrs. Rebecca Varnes, justice of the peace, allowed that she wouldn't have much work to do unless the town grew worse. _ “And we cre going to make it better,” she added, “th is the platform on which we were elected.” The women were chosen at a recent election. They or- ganized a “booster club,” lined up the voters, and won by a big majority. At their first meeting the women agreed that they wouldn’t run the city affairs in a “high-handed manner” ——they will call the men into consultation on every im- portant step. on 25.- Pacific Coast Cities to Love One Another A “Treaty of Unity” to end forever , of our treaty and as a first principle | the petty jealousies of one city of an-|Of our aggregate loyalty and devo- jother, has been entered into by the | tion each to each other. | People of the Pacific Coast, as repre-| Therefore, we hereunto subscribe | mented by the Pacific Coast Advertis |our names, as individuals or as ing Clubs aasociation and their|representative of organisation member clubs, | pledging ourselves to these belie! ‘The treaty, in full, follows: and dedicating ourseives to the pro- Fully conscious of the splendor of | mulgation of this treaty among all the future that les before a united | the Pacific Coast peoples, Pacific “Coast. and recognizing, as| Pacific Coast Advertising Clubs’ citizens of the West, our stewardship Association and our responsibility, wa, the peo-| Rollin C. Ayres, president; C. ples of the Pacific Coast, thrujM. ¢. Rayniond, secretary; John Various organizations giving con-|Conden, Tom 1. Keane, R jerete voice to our sentiments, do) A. Chairland, Harry M. Folsom, hereby enter into this agreement,| EB. N. Strong, vice presidents; Helen ‘The Treaty of Unity, and declare that | Campbell Judson, director of worn it Is our purpose steadfastly to ad-|en's participation; Henry Shirley, here to the principles set forth in| president Fresno Advertiaing club; | this treaty as a document of purpose| Hugh A. Marti, president Long land progress for our great Western Beach Advertising club; Bert Butter empire. | worth, president Advertising club of And to this end we subscribe to/ Loa Angeles; L. B. Behele, president these beliefs: Women's Advertising club of Los An | The great stretch of country along | geles; R. A. Chairland, president Ad jthe Pacific Coast is a highway) vertising club of Modesto; 1. | bordered by neighborly people who Lund, president Oakland Advertising | should follow their pursuit of com-/| club; P A. Mitchell, president Sacra | munity development in amity and in,mento Advertising club; L. EB. Mills, peace. | president Advertising club of San The enormous undeveloped coun-| Diego; Fred H. Mantor, president San try and resources of thia wonderiand | Franeiaco Advertining club; Jamew |give room and opportunity for all who seek a bormeland along our “shore. ‘The present movement to proclaim the advantages and resources of all |communities in their ambitious pro- |gram of upbuilding and progress, |has our united support. ‘The community that sets Its house Im order and invites all newcomers to settle in that community and share |ite prosperity, is the community ex | pressing our united purpose and has | encouragement and sup | po age “ | will meet next Tuesday at the Wash- |ington Hotel Annex at 12:5 p. m. to }eomplete arrangements for the ob- |nervance of Pacific Coast “Unity Week.” ing club; George L. Rauch, preaident | Portiand Ad club; Beane F. Colwell, president Women's Advertising club of Portland: H Stibbs, president Seattle Advertising club; Marie C Rotoh, president Women's Advertis ing club of Seattle; A, 0. Loomia, | president Spokane Advertising club Paul T. Shaw, president Tacoma Ad vertining club; Gladys Hamilton Dickey, president Girls’ Junior Ad | vertiaing club of Tacoma. ‘The spirtt of cooperation between communities so often manifested tn | the interchange of information per | taining to this chonen land henide the |aea, is accepted an the spirit that shall dominate the activities of ay signatories to this treaty. | We express the hope that the day |witt come when the public press, chambers of commerce, commercial | bodies and corporate interests, buat. | TUG BOAT MEN Seaceerccorc| TO GET REWARD |doctrine of praising thelr own com-|Court Decides Mahoney i # without fleetit " j ther toraiity Im this golden empire] 1 FUNK Prize Dispute of the West. Woe bespeak the pnblishers of the| Three members of the crew of the preas (the mighty voice that spenks | tue Audrey will share equally in the to all and moulds the opinions of peo-| Mahoney reward, Superior Judge | ples) to discontinue the common prac | George D. Abel decided Friday Itiee of capitalizing in editorial or} Award Meagher, captain, Martin Irepertorial cotumn the apparent|Cammon, engineer, and George B weaknesses and frailties of a sister | Pailey, deckhand, are the lucky men. community. | They will mptit the $1,000 offered by We |the county commissioners for the | public and private, to refrain from | finding comparisons between communities | body of Mra. Kate Mahoney, mur- that are a subvernién of fact, and| dered wife of James FE, Mahoney |tend toward misunderstanding and| WhO is now awaiting the outcome ot 4 iiewitt | hia appeal from sentence of edath for We know that the eyes of the| the murder, | world are turned toward this western; Each man’s share of the reward is shore of America; we renlize that|*xpected ‘0 total $008.06, ae two many are lookime forward to the day | Mec" - when they shall seek this land of the | C4 ® $1,000 reward alno, and stated setting sun as their future home. | that they would pay it to whomever | Therefore, am friendly nelghborn of | the West, with room ‘for all who| come, ¥¥ shall not engage tn bick erings and evil speakingn in the be | Ilef that by so doing our community |shall be the place of favor to the neweomer selecting a home. We must stand onited for the West | with a full knowledge that the Inter. | ests of any one community of the! George H. | Pacific Coast are the interesta of| brother of Tom Revelle, federal dis every community; that the welfare of | trict attorney, has filed his candi |any one section, however small, is|dacy for the one-year term on the | the welfare of all, | school board. | We are inherently and justly proud lof our Western empire of states, our | | eounties, and our communities, and | the port commission. He is engaged | maintain this pride as a fundamental | in the real estate business. urge commercial interests, Tom Beeman, fourth member of the trunk and body, loses out simply because he failed to put fn a claim. | George Revelle Out for School Board {woe” 3-CENT-FARE DEBATE » 0° BY JACK HALL BY HAL ARMSTRONG 4 r) Mr. Rockefelier sells gas parent that the average man can yj oe EPO A 1t| Ot own his own home unless there Threecent fa mak | tx a radical cut in taxes, Last year approximately 4,000 pleces of real estate were allowed jto revert to the city because their owners could no longer bear the bur den of exorbitant taxes. |cheaper for Seattle motorists to ride lon street cars than to ride in their Rolls-Royces and Fords, and Mr Rockefeller wouldn't sell so much mas, MAYBE HE'S THINKING ee gfsenen he cuts the Anyone who anys that the city! price of gas considerably per gul tle can now treat every one jon carrides the year around} No wonder Mr. Rockefeller weeps.|—and that is what the Erickson | For eightand@third cents today|measure means—without br I can ride acroms the city in a|the back of all home owners—large slow, uncomfortable street car. For|and small—is sadly lacking in fore the same price in my flivver I can| sight. ride swiftly and comfortably twice! Monday I will endeavor to show as far. the effect of the Erickson bill on But for three cents I would keep|the small home owner—the man, | | my flivver parked in the garage and) who in the last analysis, must pay | ‘go back to the street car, and #o|the bill. |3-Cent Carfare Is Called Single Tax! | That the Erickson three-cent car fare bill is only expression | of the single tax which has been twice defeated by Seattle vot | would Ho—"Jack Hall.” I can sympathize with Mr. Rocke feller, poor old chap. I cannot eay as much for owners | of vacant lots, some Mving he or for other owners of improved prop some not living here, who aren't willing to belp bear the bur den of buying the street railway, but another y idea Barnes, president Stockton Advertis. | ‘The two Seattle advertiaing clubs | of the trunk containing the | murdered woman pont. | the court awarded the county reward. | the crew that is credited with finding | W. C. KEAN, Ballard, has filed for | IRELAND FACING | GRAVEST CRISIS: | Terrible Reprisals Expected to Follow Murders LONDON, March 25.—Fach of Ire land's two newly bern governments wan faced with the gravest orisia of ite brief existence today Sectarian murder In Belfast wag at ite height, with terrible reprisals threatened for the week-end, In Dublin, the southern proviatonal government fears open revolt of a seotion of the Irish republican army will result from tomorrow's upau |thoriaed convention of republican troops | Great Britain's intervention tn the crines which threaten Ireland today | met with cool response from the Ulater government at Belfast, where | the trouble is worst. Bir Jan Cc northern pre mier, ie understood to have tele | graphed Winston Churchill, minister for the colonies, that he would call Ja cabinet meeting Friday to consid er the British invitation to « confer. ence with southern leaders, Dublin telegrams today paid Mich- sel Collins, Arthur Griffith and l MAY PUT PAGT UP TO LEAGUE Ramonn Duggan, dail minister of affairs, would respond immediately to the British invitation and arrive in Londen Monday, No definite date for the proposed conference has been sent. Later, it was announced from Rel- fant that the Ulster cabinet would meet Monday to consider Charchill's j Invitation, Instead of Friday, as orig inally planned. Along the border between the two states sporadic gueriiia warfare and constant nfurders mem to presage, inevitable general conflict between forces of the north and nouth. ‘The Britith government views the situation with “Increasing alarm and [has sumenoned leaders of Ireland's |new governments to London for a conference tomorrow. The teat of | whether Sir James Craig and Michael |Colttnes can control thelr followers [has come. Relfaxt looket forward with anz lety to the week-end, when leivure from work tn the shipyards furnishes extremim factions with opportunity for outrage and reprisal | Ten persons were murdered tn TT) ster yesterday. | Extremist leaderw in the Irish re-| [publican army have brought matters | |to the “showdown” #tage with their [insistence upon tomorrow's conven: | tion, which Arthur Griffith terbade. | ‘The gathering of military leeders In Dubiin Sunday will determine the strength of Griffith, Collins and Free | State supporters. Talk of a “military | Alctatorship™ to replace the southern | provisional government i in the air. A = the Somile border pattie. front” Ulster constabulary and vol-| unteers stilt lay entrenched, re| pulsing occasional raids by Sinn Fein “flying sanadrons.” Three| killings were reported from contact} points slong the Tyrone frontier) {tant night. Destruction of property, as well an constant rife fire marked the activity of each side today. Barbed |wire has been used to fortify im portant sectors along the Tyrone, Fermanagh, Monaghan fronts. Fuim battle sone have been abandoned by the civilian population and great suffering has resulted. Inhabitants of this part of Ireland are prac tienlly dependent upen such inter course for their livelihood. ‘The Hritish government, f was said authoritatively teday, & anz- lous that the new Irish states shall atraighten out thene difficulties themeectves if paraible. To determine their ability, Collins and Craig have been requested to come to London | for tomorrow's conference. 997 gi \Irish Office in | London Is Raided TANDON, March 25.—The intellt * nection of the Irinh office in Queen Anne at. was raided and ran sacked by agents of Irish extrem iw last night Nothing of valne was obtained | Confidential documenta were recent jly removed from the Irish office, |which Is to cease many of its functions with establishment of the Free State. ONE-MAN CARS | FLAYED AGAIN) The central labor council called upon the city council and the head jof the stret railway department Sat jurday for a change in rules of oper-| lating one-man «treet care. | | In resoluitons adopted by the labor uncil, the of motormen | | ce practice are collected and transfers issued was condemned. | This practice, ft was pointed out, is & hazard to the traveling public and has resulted in some serious ac-| cidents, Agreement Seen on Near Eastern Issue PARIS, March 26.—The allied for. elgn ministers’ conference on Near Bastern matters was reported today as “nearing agreement” on a basis for a Graeco-Turkish peace treaty The prinefples laid down by the con. ference will consist of suggestions of | @ territorial and financial nature, it wag learned. will hold their annual dance at 9 p. m. Saturday at the Seattle Yacht club on Lake Union, MRS. MIRACLE GETS READY TO PERFORM ANOTHER MIRACLE! Wanted—A job the city hall. That might well be the slogan of Mrs, Kathryn Miracle, candi- sweeping out | || date for the city council, Mra, Miracle believes that eity politics needy a thoro houseclean- ing, and believes, further: more, that a woman is the man for the job. “An expert housewife and a successful business woman ts needed in the neil,” she de clared Saturday, “to represent the interests of the homes and to pro tect children. she ec le has been prevent aking before numer- ors, was the statement of A. H Wiseman, at a meeting of the Sash] and Door Manufacturers’ associa | tion Friday, who, when it is pald for by someone would loudest ery our nice “Look at railroad, We bought it. Now it belongs to ua” ous cold, but she will resume her ac tive candidacy Monday, organizations a wevere |world as a Believe Approval Would Si- lence Critics WASHINGTON, March 2—an| ,Seena Owen, left, screen effort to prevent the United states |St@7, has filed suit in Los becoming involved in a ponsible ais |Angeles for divorce from pute between Russia and Japan| George Walsh, jm star and over Sakhalin island, was made to Gthlete. She names Estelle day in the senate, when the supple | Taylor as co-respondent. The ment to the four-power Pacific | latter has just been selected to treaty was apres 4 play the part of vampire in a new screen version of “A WASHINGTON, March 3.— The | Foo] There Was.” f league of nations may be asked to . sive formal approval to the four- power Pacific treaty after the three other mignatory powers have followed the example set yesterday by the) senate In ratifying it | Direct approval by the league) would stamp the treaty before the | treaty for peace and would «silence crities who claim it i antagonistic to the epirit of the league, it was pointed out today by republican senators, to whom infor. “°4 both disappeared beneath the mation has come that one of the | ¥#¥6* signatory powers may ask the| Moore's almost incoherent story league’s action. | fave but a faint idea of the scene, as, It waa further intimated that the tortured by their thiret, drenched league would readily okeh the pact/with every wi clinging with os « “regional understanding for se | numbing fingers to the crippled fy- curing the maintenance of pence.” |ing boat, Ur husbands and wives Such arrangements are specifically watched each other fight off death indorsed by article 22 of the league|hour after hour. covenant. ‘They frequently searched * Opportunity for axting the leave | tine for nome pol vo tapserd a formally to stamp the pact as an in-|tho they were only 25 or 39 miles strument of peace will be given bY | from shore, no vessel came in sight the seawteetnent ot the teens mo during the dayn of their distress, ac- enant for the registering by member J nations of all treatin they make.|fomn Mocs, "at Spuld be learned Untii Great Britain, France and ‘ After one of the women had gone Japan—all leaghe members—have | overheard and another man, her hus- registered the treaty at Geneva, it » 4, had also - Si on buat coe an the and, had also disappeared in a vain pon = ge * 4 mm BOM) effort to save her, the others left on “~“ ps wl ade os oy ade | DOard had a mental picture of that a action yesterday made | tragedy to add to thelr distress, the United States the first of the four |" w,, two women grew rteadity powers to ratify. The other overt | weaxer, until every wave threatened HERE’S MORE ABOUT 9 DROWN STARTS ON PAGE ONE ANOTHER HOLLYWOOD TRIANGLE and markets in the vicinity of the) ments made no secret of the fact that they were awaiting the senate’s ver dict. Had It been adverse, they would have dropped, not only the lour-power treaty, but all the other conference treaties ax well, in the opinion of American officials. HERE’S MORE ABOUT | SCHOOL ROW STARTS ON PAGE ONE to wash them away from the flimsy wreckage to which they clung. | Moore aided them to held on, anti |finally one and then the other |alipped Into the sea. | The only passengers left, a man, aitho Moore could not say which of the men it was, managed to cling to the wreckage for many hours, but yesterday afternoon he weakened | and followed his fellow passengers to death, The flying trip from Bimtni te Bimini island is a very popular one with winter tourists to Florida and has been made frequently without mishap, The pasmengers whose air . DOLLY JOHNSON IS BACK IN CELL Jail Physician Refuses to Permit Operation Mrs. Dolores Johnson, sister of the wifemurderer, James EK. Ma honey, will not get out of jail and have a major surgical oper: ation performed at the expeme of King county. Slightly il, Mrs. Johnson was re moved from her cell to the county hospital a few days ago and Friday night a minor operation was per- formed by Dr. J. Tate Mason. Dr. Mason said his examination of Mra, Johnson convinced him she was suffering from a “malignant growth” |that would require a major opera tion to remove. | Mra. Johnson has been in custody |of the county since being convicted of forging the name of Mra. Kate Mahoney, her sister-in-law, whom her brother beat to death. | Saturday, Dr. J. A. Ghent, county Jail physician, ordered Mrs. Johnson back from the hospital to her cell. “There ts more the matter with her than there is with hundreds of people walk- ing the streets today not know- Ing there is anything wrong with them,” said Dr. Ghent. “Right new I have three pa tients who have the same af- Miction, but they don’t know it, Some time I expect to op- erate on them. “I make this explanation to let the public know why I have ordered Mrs. Johnson back to jail, There’s no hurry about her operation. It isn't neces sary now.” WOMAN LEADS NIGHT RIDERS Texas Rangers May Tum Out to End Outrages PAGE 9 MAN HELD ON ARSON CHARGE Accused of Trying to Burn Down Own Home Fotlowing a 24hour tnvestigation of an incendiary fire in a small house at 3021 Thistle st, Friday, D. Ae Bkeen, the occupant, was arrested Saturday on « charge of second de- gree arson and confined in the coum ty Jail, unable to raise $500 bail. Fire inspectors found that Skeen had recently purchased the house on the installment plan for the agreed price of $500, iis furniture, valued at $111, was moved from his home at 217 W. Republican at, to the new. residence a few days ago and insured for $1,000. His family of seven ebildren were left in the other building with the mother, who works for the Bayou Laundry company. Skeen In said to have slept in the house on Thistle st. two nights, Fri- day morning at 7:30 o'clock he left \for work; and shortly after neighbors called jeaw the Kitchen aflame and the fire department. ‘The coal oil lamp had been over. turned by means of a string led thru a keyhole in the front door, which was locked. A mattress had caught fire when the lamp fell upon it, but the fire was extinguished. 2 PLANES FOR AMUNDSEN TRIP | Explorer to Fly to Seattle in Month In addition to the big nine-pasmen- iwer J-L all-metal airplane he recent- ly purchased in the East, Capt. Roald Avoundsen wil) take a smalier plane on his next trip into the Far North, according to the Intest plans an+ /nounced by Haakon H. Hammer, the explorer’s representative in Seattle, Captain Amundsen is scheduled to arrive in New York from Norway next Tuesday. About three weeks will be spent in testing out the air- planes, and then Amundsen plans te fly to Seattle. Amundsen's schooner, Mande, is to be overhauled, and the party expects to cet away from Seattle about Jane 1 Semenoff Fails to Arrive in Seattle Gen, Ataman G. Semenoff, anti-bol- shevik leader of Russian Cossacks, was to have arrived in Seattle, en route to Washington, D. C., on the 7230 a m. Great Northern train from Vancouver, B. C., Saturday, accord ing to a schedule announced Friday night, but did not come. The conductor on the train said Gen. Semenoff had apparently been prepared to leave as scheduled, but for some unknown reason had sud- denly changed his mind, and, without explanation. canceled his reservation. Presumably Gen, Semenoff is in America trying to enlist ald for = sheviki, “Fixer” Is Found on Chicago Grand Jury CHICAGO, March 25—A “fixer™ found on the grand jury investigat- ing alleged fixing of juries trying la- bor leaders caused State's Attorney Robert Crowe to dismiss the investl gating body. The “fixer” had obtained a domi counter revolution against the bol- ery Information league, aroused jaunt ended so tragically started the Superintendent Cooper to a fiery do-| trip just as a lark, not even notify- nunciation of some of the reforms ing their friend of the proposed ex- advocated by the league, especially | oursion, to increasing of the pupil load for teachers “One thing T am proud of is that I have kept down the num- ber of pupils per teacher in this city,” Cooper declared. “> emy of the schools could plan more effectively to make the high schools an offense than this man and his associates are doing when they advocate increasing the number of pupils for cach tencher.” Prolonged applause followed when Cooper took hie eat, while several men and women were instantly on their feet shouting to be heard in reply. President Cart E. Croson de- clared that the question wan not up for debate at the present time, how- ever, and refused to grant the floor for that purpone. Homer M, Hill, secretary of the Tax Reduction council of Seattle, called attention in a communication Revelle, attorney, and) starting thetr cars before all fares | the stand taken last year by his} organization that a “young and virile uperintendent at a salary of not to xoeed $7,000" be selected. A letter from P. J, Zimmer, of Roise, Idaho, asking for details of | the vacancy here so that he might apply, was flled. Suit Is Brought to Halt Sale of Auto|! Claiming that the General Distrib uters’ corporation and the Inland Finance corporation attempted to have an Ace automobile sold by the sheriff, so the freighters could not collect pay for repair work, C. W. Avery and Frank Nielsen bronght suit in superior court Saturday. They ask a restraining order to prevent sale of the car, which was scheduled for today, Pair Are Accused of Selling Loot Alleged to have sold two electric motors, valued at $600, recently stol en from the Smith-Post Lum! pany, 1301 Io. Northlake ave, Davis, 35, mechanics, ¥ nd Charles Bushman, 82, » under arrest Satur. day. Detectives A. A. Brown and L. C. Harris made the arrests and recovered the motors. Auto Crash Victim Has Chance to Live Simon Schotens, 29, of Richmond Reach, was said to have a good chance for recovery in the eity hos pital Saturday, following an accident Vriday In which he was hurled to the pavement when his auto collided with a police phone pole at First ave. and Seneca st. POSSESSION of half a gallon of moonshine brought a fine of upon Mlvin Hulteren tn Justice of the Peace C, C, Dalton's court Saturday i Capt. Wachsmuth sald Moore tn- dicated August Bulte was the last of the pasrengere to cling to the wrock- age of the waterlogged craft. Bulte and Moore used the pump. |frantically, but exhaustion overtook |them. Finally on Friday the boat was overturned by a heavy wave. Bulte and Moore clung tc the wreckage for a while, Moore man- aged to fasten a rope around himself to avoid being washed off the over. turned boat, should he lose conscious- news, By this time both men were suffer. ing terribly for lack of food and water. Standing in water to his waist, Moore alternately waved a hand kerchiet and prayed, he told Capt. Wachsmuth, Bulte, finally realizing from his weakened condition that the end was near, took a roll of money, amount- | ing to $2,000, from his pocket and of- | fered it to Moore, saying: | “You are younger and may be able jto come thru; I cannot hold on any | longer.” Then he slowty std off the boat and disappeared. Nine vessels passed without seeing Moore's distress signal, he said later in his incoherent story. “It was only an act of Providence that Moore was rescued at all,” said tain Wachsmuth. “It was gathering dusk and T had just come out of my cabin for one |iast look before going below when far off I saw an object In the water, which, on using my glasses, I made Jout to be a man waving something. ‘The tanker was swung as close to |the object as possible and, altho a high sea was runnin, a small boat was lowered. Ans the satlors reached the over. turned flying boat Moore collapsed Into their arms and It was some time before he regained consciousness. On board the tanker, Moore was administered to by Mra. J, Stewart | Williams, wife of a consulting ensi- neer in the employ of the Pan-Ameri- n Petroleum company, owners of the William Greene. In his delirium Moore fancied that she was his mother. “Mother, you made me give up the racing game; please don't take my plane away,” he repeated over and over. Plans for a search for the bodies of the five passengers of the “Miss Miami" were being completed here this afternoon by airmen. W. J, ROBERTS, of Tacoma, wit! addre @ mass meeting at Kent at 8 p. m. Saturday on improving the White river. The Kent commercial club has called the meeting. JOSEPH FE. THOMAS, charged with grand larceny, was sentenced to six months to 15 years in the peniten- jary Saturday, by Superior Judge MUtchell Gilliam nating position on the jury. 3-Cent Fare Hurts George Loggie, Mill Vets, Says Carroll} Man, Dies at Home In a prepared interview given out| BELLINGHAM, March 25.—George today, Councilman John E. Carrol!| Loggie, prominent millman, died at attacks the Erickson street car plan his home here last night. He suf- as a measure which is keeping) fered a paralytic stroke some years American Legion men and hundreds ago, and had been an invalid ever of other citizens out of employment.| since. He was associated with Pat jHe says he is going to fight the|McCoy of Seattle in the McCoy~ | Erickson plan, declaring it is not a | Loggie Logging company, Political measure but an economic - Proposition “which will spell disae|(Cohen Seeks Light asst week on Cars Made Here “Last week there was a ‘Geta- Job-for-an-Ex-Service-Man” campaign| whether the cit: y council could If the Erickson plan did award a contract for construction in Seattle. not hold a club of an extra tax! o¢ 200 street cars to a local com- levy anywhere from 20 to 22 milis|/pany in event outside concerns 1 1923 over the heads of men who/ should submit lower bids was the believe in Seattle and want to put| question asked of the city legal de thelr money into circulatioin here, partment Friday by Councilman A. we would have fewer former service| Lou Cohen. men and other citizens walking the streets.” Missouri Pacific Loses 3-Year Fight | ,.,,P!ans Bond Issue * Against Pen Term) sissouri Pacific raiiroad applied to- After fighting thru the courts since Gay to the interstate commerce com- December 4, 1918, Allen H. Shears Mission for authority to issue $18,- will have to serve from one to 15 096,500 first and refunding mortgage years in the state reformatory at|§ per cent gold bonds to meet matur- Monroe. jing obligations, The state supreme court hag up-! held Shears’ conviction on a grand ~ larceny charge, according to notice received by Deputy Prosecuting At torney T. H. Patterson. | Shears was convicted of embezzling $3,500 from the Philadelphia Under- writers, for whom he was Seattle agent. Jap to Be Deported After Serving Term Picked up by immigration officials at Yakima, after he had served a 30- day jail sentnee for operating « house of II! repute, Torakichi Tomita, Japanese, is held here for deporta- tion by the authorities, ‘Tomita has been a resident of the United States for 28 year THOSE FEW eften get on “AMERICA” later. If you are set upon baw ing other make, we can probably give you a bar- gain, All makes in new and models traded In f MAIL THE FOLLOW- ING COUPON BlucBird APPLIANCE CO. ‘The Electric Store 1007 Ist Av. Eiltiett 2510 a> cuT ME ouT Bluebird Appliance Co. 1007 First Ave. Without obligation on my part, please show me an America. Name . H. H. Guth, attorney, under ait veillance while the murder of Daniel A. MacDonald ts being investigated was closeted with Sheriff Matt Star wich and Deputy Prosecutor John D. Carmody in a lengthy session in the sheriff's office Saturday, Several other persons connected with the case were called in. | VANCOUVER, B. C.—-Following a tip that Wong Lee, Chinese mer- chant, would get a shipment of nar coties from the steamship Empress of Russia, police find $10,000 worth of drugs in his basement. WASHINGTON. — Gov, Scott C. Bone, of Alaska, now in Washing- ton, will leave Seattle April 6 for the North, |