The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 11, 1922, Page 1

i PHONE METERS FACE DEFEAT! EVERETT CO. HAS NO FRANCHISE, IS ADMISSION moderate Maximum, 58, | Ho, ho! says the man from Siam, For gheee soft drinks 1 don't give @ shots of white mule And I'm gay as a fool— They call me a drunkard—I am. —Voe 8. cee Elec travels 1,600,000 miles & mnsite. Youwould never guess it ran the Wallingford street cars. : cee National Hospital day will be | celebrated here temorrow. Drop into the hospital, What has become ef all those bis dulldings they were going to erect/ Just as soon as the Erickson three | cent carfare bill was defeated? cee Phinney Ridge women aay that the/| tty parks are not adequately lighted. | ‘This is queer when you recollect how | much sparking goes on in the parks.! eee Gosh, that is tough, Lady, Ob, Lady, Oh, "Tain't close enough! eee “The only reason we can sell goods) for less than cost is because we sell | #0 many."—Card in Pike st store window. eee “Innocent Man Held In Prison Six Years."—Star headline. Well, he didn't miss much. eee SPEED GETS "EM Valentino is engaged. | With this obstacle out of the | way, look out for us, giris! eee Prominent city officials of Vancou- | ver, B. C., were in Seattle yesterday. | They probably came down here to get a drink. | . ° American Legion men of Kirkland have converted one of the Lake) Union hulls tnto a clubhouse. What a lovely clubhouse ft will make —!f they tow it outside the| three-mile limit . Speaking of famous canine actors, | id you know that prince! role in Hamlet, to be presented at the Metropolitan Friday night, is that of a Great Dane? . Momma, Momma. more of this stuff: Laope’s Sunshine 80 let's not read any et's turn over to Dr. . WEATHER Tonight and Friday, showers; erly winds, Temperature Last 24 Hoare Today neon, 54. 300 ARRES | men | which men JURY MAY PROBE southeast- Minimum, 44. IN CHICAGO'S DEATH PROBE, Policemen Slayers) : | Sought in Herd! of Riot Suspects | CHICAGO, May 11.—Three hundred men, packing the city | connection with the labor war | Killing of two policemen. Three of the suspects lind been | partially identified as the slayers | {ficers. High union officials under errest will be prosecuted on charges of tn citing the riot and with having fos. tered a reign of terror that resulted and Bombers Are! jails, were in custedy today in of the two tn loms of life, under statutes similar ta the Inetigato: ¢f the sual dik. wor sonvigtea e of the telephone that 10 parties may be put on a single anarchy. \pline andphil may have service for the calls that are Authorities are convincel that the. ‘necessary,’ ” who did th Lean re) r ‘ab. merely histlings of hieverure whe|f On that word “necessary” hangs all the fallacy. the Landis are trying to defeat award } Rewards totalling $60,000 for the; arrest of the slayers spurred all Chi-/ cago to a gigantic manhymt. j The three men partially identified | as the slayers were: | Isadore Braverman, 28; named by! two park policemen as one of the! for the attack, which killed Lieutenant Terrance Lyons. Brayerman’s family advanc- ed an alibi. Max Glass, 23, member of the Glaziers’ union and suspected of having driven an auto from which Policeman Thomas Clark was killed. John Rafferty, notorious police character, was partly identified as, the thirt man in the car by an eyewitness. The policemen were killed when they tried to intercept an auto in who tried to bomb! buildings were riding. Efforts were made today to ob tain release of the “big three” in Chicago's building trades union who were taken into custody following the murder--Fred Madra, president } of the building tra council; Big Tim Murphy, the “power’ behind Mader, and Cornelius Shea, union official. ‘LIQUOR BONUSES T vu. : suige Expected to| FIVE, HURTS 20) IN TEXAS FLOOD, Send Charges to Douglas | That he will place before the BULL-ETIN county grand jury all evidence that | “My only aim in installing the de|may be brought to him in connec viee which meas ures telephone conversation is to -w. president of Ever ett Telephone Co. . Trixie Friganza, who is at the Moore this week, says bobbed hatr | | means liberty. Yep, but it also means washing the neck. eee when @ grocer ever goods is when he The only time knocks his own roasts his coffee. ore WEAKER AND WEAKER Some more weeks we might have: Bob Your Hair week. Hide Your Knees week. Wash Your Neck week. Scrape Off the Paint week, No Lip-Stick week. Smoke Your Own Clgarets week. eee Will Work lives | Bet he isn’t em- Be that an it ma atavia, Ohio. . rd is talking of matching 4 and Jack Dempney again. If Dempsey stays in Paris very long we'd pick Jim Jeffries to lick bir. see The lightning bug ts brilliant, But it hasn't any mind; It wanders thru creation With its headlight on behind, Immigration Law | Extended Two Years WASHINGTON, May 11. — Presl dent Harding signed the joint resolu tion extending the ent limita Under this s per restricted tion law for two ye law immigration is | per cent of the number of foreign. | ers listed in the United States in the | census of 1910. | vietion on Wood. evidence or not.” | [Quentin prison. tion with charges against police dry squad officers and others, which were made in federal court Tuesday by A. Franzen, an informer, was declared Thursday by Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas. “I have received nothing official | d in this connection yet,” said Doug: | las, “but I understand that I am to hi this is so. F Ben Berman, his wife and three chil THE STAR IS ELECTED SEATTLE’S MOST POPULAR NEWSPAPER BY 15,000 PLURALIT On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered ae Mecond Clase Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at feattia The Seattle Star Wash. under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, #5 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., THL JRSDAY, MAY 11, 1922. Telechronometer a Step Backward The telechronometer is a That fact is at the bottom of the dissatisfaction which reports show has been growing in Everett since the in- stallation a month ago of the speech-measuring device on all telephones. However deep may be the sincerity of those who are sponsoring the experiment and who hope to convince the public service commission, June 6, that it should be made a part of the permanent equipment of all tele- phones, they have, nevertheless, forgotten the chief ideal which should actuate a public corporation—service. The telechronometer curtails service, * * . The telechronometer is also expensive. Each instru- ment is rented to the telephone company at a rate of $3 a year. An additional $3, then, is obviously added to the overhead expense of the telephone company, and, under this head, may be collected from subscribers, by ruling of the public service commission. To this objection the telephone company answers: “By installing the telechronometer we will so reduce the use * 8 © The telephone in modern life is as much a convenience as it is a necessity. It is to the credit of civilization that True it may be, that many subscribers now hold unduly But the great step forward in tele- the only true gauge of a public service corporation's usefulness. That step would give real meaning to the words of President Winter of the Everett Telephone company: “My only aim is to serve the people.” * * For what is the telephone company saying when it backs the telechronometer? It is saying: “We can save big money if we serve you less.” It is saying, in effect, that the city of Seattle would be justified in solving its financial problem in con- nection with its railway by reducing the number of street cars until “ends meet.” Any corporation would like to solve its financial prob- lems by curtailing its service and at the same time keep- ing its income. But it has long been recognized that big, worth-while solutions cannot be attained in this way. That is why the telechronometer is a step backward and should not be tolerated. |Whole Family Wiped Out by Bodies Are Recovered From Storm in Nebraska LEXINGTON, Neb, May 11.— ive persons are believe’ dead and| persona were drowned | waters In South Texas Two small children Mra. Matt Noack were drowned at | Winches Woody Hanks an ren are missing and belleved dead.| Boss Patterson were drowned in struck in the|the Brazos, near Somerville, while Swollen River HOUSTON, Texas, May 11.—Four by flood 0 injured in a tornado which struck ¢ Mr. and alf a mile east of here last night, i¢ . A moond twister ive « transcript of the charges | "N'Y of Overton, destuoyme five) Ciiitcn of a Sante Fo railroad made by Franzen in open court. | Miles of telephone poles, bridge Until they are received there in| wa Sap. Hy All bodies were recovered. nothing I can do. Whether the eee matter spould be inveatigated Is up to the grand jury itself. 1 shall/ | piace before the jury any evidence | | that may be submitted to me, and lit the grand jury wishes to conduct nado swept the country east of Lex [thelr probe, I shall help In every | ington, Neb., last night, shortly after way 1 can.” , Franzen, who was a witness Tues- | day before Federal Judge Jeremiah Neterer in the case of James Wood | resulting in injuring five persons in on a liquor charge, declared that |the storm center, a strip about 300 lfeet wide and possibly extending 15 he was paid a bonus to get a con- He alleged tur. | ther that police dry squad officers | substituted grain alcohol for dena m h | Tornado Sweeps lings, all Unes of cormmunication an cording to meager reports reaching | Will Ask $500,000 for Flood Victims WASHINGTON, May 11.—A na tion-wide appeal for $500,000, to ald the homeless flood sufferers along the lower Mississipp! river was is: sued today by John Barton Payne, airman of the American Red Croass. The appeal was indorsed by Presl- dent Harding. CIRCUS MAN COMES TO Thru Nebraska KEARNEY, Neb., May 11.--A tor o'clock, laying to whate outbulld: siles north from the Platte river, ac ere this morning tured alcohol which he purchased| Only one person fs ga hed from Wood, in an effort to get ovi.|have been weriusly jajurol, « seni) TOWN HERALDING THE dence upon which to convict “Franzen, with other informers, ts | hirea by my office,” eaid Prosecutor |” Ithe storm in a section house. AL G. BARNES SHOW “Bigger and better than ever; The and | | 100 feat | uilding wa» thrown “ wrecked, He suffered broken arms * — Dougian, “but work entirely under | WTeCiwe A ss eaid to be in a seri-|| TU*k% largest elephant on earth, the direction of the police. I know | cAltion right with us; new animal acts ous condition. that no bonuses are paid by un in an effort to get convictions under the liquor law. We pay euch men $5 2 day whether they obtain any The grand jury Thursday appar | ently was continuing an Investiaa tion of the lease by which the coun ty in |e r ferries were placed in the hand Colorado, Wyoming that'll thrill you; more people; new costumes; more than 100 dens in tho street parade; Al G. is out- doing all previous efforts.” You're right, gentle reader; It's circus time again, Al G, Barnes will appear three days next week, and the remarks above are a few of the many chants of praises Deing sung by that true harbinger eee Swept by Blizzard DENVER, May 11.—Weatern Colo ado and Wyoming today were re overing from the worst spring bliz ard in years, according .o reports of Capt. John L. Anderson for op | % * eration |to the local weather office, A heavy || of springtime, “Rex” Rosalia. ad |xnowfall, accompanied by # Dish | | vance man for the Barnes cireus UKIAH, Cal--Pleading guilty to{wind, swept Southwestern Colorado, |] ‘phe circus will show in Seattle emberziement, J Weller, former | demoralizing transportation and wire || May 18, 19 and 20 at the Repub. president First National bank of | communication, ican and Fourth ave, circul Pirage. sentenced to 10 years in San | large losses as a result of the storm. Frultgrowers and sheepmen fear! | grounds, \ RNADO KILLS (FOUR DROWNED trying to give warning of weakened | MEASURING OF SPEECH IS FLAYED! iEverett Citizens Strongly Oppose New Device; Few) Are Favorable | By S. B. Groff EVERETT, May 11—TDbat the Puget Sound Telephone Co. may lose its fight to force acceptance of the telechronometer on phone users of this city because the | company lacks @ franchise, was | admitted today by William Neal | Winter, president. | “1 understand tnat City Attor- ney K. J. Paussett will use that point heavily against me at the hearing before the state beard of public works, Jane 6," Winter sald. “However, I believe we shall be able to convince the board that the telechronometer fa not only popular but just.” Winter, who volunteered the state- SeBe He HURST, of Seat- tle, author of “THE COLOR OF HER SOUL,” which is to oper: in The Star in four v4 e ow installments, beginning to- | eeu Ve bareanedians te morrow. Mr. Hurst has come proposed adoption by Beattie, Tacomalinto national prominence in and other coast cities, anid ke recent months thru the Pope, Soest: Teeobeng > phenomenal success. of. his never owned @ franchise, novel," “Ali, which ia Coomer t rn TELECHKONOMETER DOWNFALL SEEN ‘This, according to Favenett, te ex: pected to mean the downfall of the telechronometer, inasrauch as company has nét @ legal right to change phone rates, unless an amendment ix made to the franchise, Which does not exist | When Winter engineered a Aeal be- tween the Pacific Taiephone & Tele- #raph Co., popularly. known as the Sunset Telephone Go., and the Farm. | form. @ra’ Independent Exchange, in 4916, " ; Ps whereby both were merged into the| “LINDA LEE, INC.,” by present company, with an alleged! Louis Joseph Vance. which Senta. ot $0,000 ares wees | rivals “Coomer Ali” for popu- ame e : ; ‘ the Puget Sound Telephune Co. | larity, is to be published in ‘The old franchise of the Warmers’ | Serial form by The Star, be- Exchange {s still tn effect, according | ginning Monday. to Faussett, The other expired about | WATCH FOR BOTH @ year ago. r of | the public library. He select- \ed “THE COLOR OF HER |SOUL” for publication in | The Star because he considers it one of his best early short | stories, a number of which are soon to be published in book That Winter ts seeking to mulct|S TORIES. YOU DON’T! Everett citisene of approximately| WANT TO MISS EITHER. | $16,000 additional yearly, thru “rent of the telechronometers, is the| charge made by Attorney Faussett | who also declared that Seattle citi | xens would be forced to pay the enor- | | mous sum of $150,000 per annum if | the device ts installed here. | |, “There are billions in the invention | |for its controllers, if it is installed | in the big cities. It is no wonder | that Winter and his crowd are try-| ing no desperately to make the ett experiment a success,” said sett Coming to Everett with the de termination to write impartially both sides of the phone contro- versy, I was literally ewamped with bitter denunciations of the telechronometer, from all siden, Business men and housewives are taking sides against the de vice which they declare has both Increased their phone bills and (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) 10,000 SLAIN BY CHINESE REBELS Leader of the Massacre Is Executed SHANGHAI, May 11.—Ten thousand inhabitants of Cheng Chow, city in the Honan prov- ince, were slaughtered by troops of Chao Chieh in two days’ fighting before the insur rection against Wu Pel Fu was crushed, according to advices from Kal Feng Fu. A Christian general, Feng Yuh Siang, commanding the Seventh division of Wu's great } central China army, quelled the uprising and executed Chao Chieh because of his ruthless cruelty, The rebeliton of the Honan prov- Ince had ita foundation in the super stitious beliefs of the Chinese. Gen. Chao Chieh was told by a necro: mancer that stars of destiny pointed to him sitting on the throne of China, He was to assist the stars by aiding Chang Tso Lin defeat 3 was filed against} Wu Pel Fu. It developed that n American bank of|Chang, the Manchurian war lord, Seattle and three state banking offi-| had bribed the necromancer. |cials in superior court Thursday by| Chao Chieh was slow in starting | the Oriental Navigation Co., of Seat-/the insurrection in Honan province tle Jand Wu Pei Fu defeated Chang and The navigation company bases fts] nent his Seventh division, made up suit on the failure of the Anderson |jargely of Christians, to restore or: Shipbuilding Co., of Seattle, to deliv:| ger at Cheng Chow, where Chao er the steamer Gen. Pau according to} Cyieh had begun his. rebellion the terms of the contract under characteristically by murdering the which it was built, ‘The Scandina-| inhabitants by thousands, vian American bank, it was contend. Shed re ad We ed, guaranteed that the shipbuilding Detroit Will Take plant would fulfill the terms of the Over Car System contract. The navigation company, accord DETROIT, May 11,—Street rail | way officials here believe that mu- ing to its complaint, contracted to sell the Gen, Pau to the French gov- jnicipal ownership will have a fair jchance for the first time in history FOR BIG SUM $167,363 Is Sought From! Scandanivian American | Bult for $16 the Scandinav ernment, and suffered large dam. ages when it could not make delivery on time, The complaint also charges|when Detroit takes over its entire that the steamer was in bad shape |system Monday, May 15, when finally delivered, neceasitating| The Detroit United Ratlways city more than $116,769 for repairs, system, in the estimation of experts, The state officiala named as de-|has a market value of $40,000,000 fendants are B, L.Farnsworth, direc |The elty purchased this for $19,850, tor of taxation; John P, Duke, state }000, It had already built 90 miles banking supervisor, and R, A, Lang-|of its own trackage at an approxi- ley, #pecial supervisor in charge of|mate cost of $14,000,000. The entire Mquidating the assets of the Seattle/system has 363 miles of track and Scandinavian American bank, 1,460 cars, 1 ikl Wear atl dtd in Providence hospital trot , Angeles sanitarium ame TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ee Two Mothers of Baby Weep Over Casket iTiny Tot Dies of Pneumonia A Poverty-Stricken Parent Placed It in Home of Child-Hungry Woman By Wanda von Kettler Two mothers shed tears of sorrow over the casket of ono little baby in a Seattle funeral chapel this morning. 7 The two women stood together—holding to poy oth arms. One was frail and plainly dressed. A dark veil hung fi her hat and hid her face. e One was youthful of face and manner, Her were fashion’s best. One was the baby’s own mother, One was the mother who had taken the baby for her two weeks ago. She wanted a baby, she said, because her life lacked something—she wanted something to love. 1 | baby’s own mother, a widow with more one bab |Support, had placed her tiny child in the arms of the woman—had given her something to love. That was t t! is weeks ago when the lonely yo woman first The Star to find her a baby chil age of one year and 22 days. One year and 22 days—yet such a little thing it seemed, it lay there in its tiny white casket this morn- ing. Little it seemed even for one year and 22 days. So tiny, yet so much in the lives of two people. The mothers, seated side by side in the small chapel, wept while the jwords of the baby prayer were read, Now I lay me down to sleep—" They rose at the close of the serv- foe, walked arm in arm toward the \tiny white casket on the altar. The jtwo women stooped low and kissed the lips of their baby, then turned to leave the chapel, the babe's own mother leaning a little on the arm of the foster parent. The service was so short, ao stil. No music, no crowd. Just a baby prayer. Yet the love buried today with the jtiny child in the Mt Pleasant grave jis surely two-fold One mother has lost her very own ehiid. One has lost a child—and some j thing to love. ‘GIRL OF SIXTEEN TAKES OWN LIFE Elizabeth Whitman Killed by Poison Sandwich Elizabeth Whitman, 16¢year Broadway high school girl, id daughter of the late Rev. B. L. Whitman, died in the home of her mother, 704 19th ave., early Thursday, after eating bread and jam on which had been sprinkled crystals of strychnine, The body of the girl was taken to |the county morgue, where relatives | | gave out a statement that her act | Was probably due to grief over the |death of her close friend, Miss Ber- |tha Brackett, who shot herself to} death while singing in the choir of | the First Baptist church, Sunday, {April 9, Dr. I. N. Gatea, who was called to the Whitman home, shortly after midnight by Mrs. Whitman, said Thursday that he, too, believed the girl had killed herself over the pass- ing of her friend j “She told her mother two or three times,” sald Dr. Gates, “that her sleep was troubled by visions of Miss Brackett, and had once or twice intimated that she might end her life.” Blizabeth was found in convulsions by her mother, after she had eaten the poison sandwich. Detectives Charles Humphrey and H. J, Weed- in and Motorcycle Policemen C. D, Follrich and BE. B, Oakes hastened | to the Whitman home from police | | headquarters and found Mrs. Mary | Whitman, the mother, trying vainly |to save her daughter's life. | George Walker, a brother-tnlaw jof the girl, was also there at the time. | | Coroner W. H, Corson was expect- Jed to investigate the case further Thursday. COUPLE HELD U IN OWN ROC Two Men and Woman Motorcycle Policemen nolds and R. R. Moulton ew two of the alleged bandits at ave. and Lenora st. and after @ encounter with fists, arrested Fr le, @ cook, and Ray Wilson, a barber. The third man, who said to have had a revolver, Cole had $50 in his “2 and Wilson $7. They told the ficers had been Reynolds found the photos of men fn the police gallery. Both been arrested previously suspected being room prowlers. ‘ The officers were unable, said, to find Dean after the cay of his alleged attackers, y Ten minutes after the alleged dits had been landed in jail : Fred Dore telephoned the from his office in the L. C, butlding, saying a client wanted - know what chargé -was p against the men. Thinking the third man had gone to Dore's office, police ried to the Smith bullding found, not a man, but a conversing with Dore, The an proved to be Vera Omaha Gets Seventh |nouncement was made by the war department today of transfe: of the. Seventh corps area headquarters from Fort Crook, Neb, to Rens EARWIGS OUT AT LAST After many delays and false starts, the 1922 crop of earwigs is at last making its bow to the pub: | lic, It was announced today by I. 8. Coyne, special deputy inspector J in the state department of ho culture, who is in charge of Seat tle's campaign against the pest. “Karwig bait should be put out the first dry evening this week,” al——Death of BAKERSFIELD, Coyne said. “The earwigs are Henry M. Calkins, editor of Kern} | now hatching out in all parts ef } County Progress, reported in Los/|| the city.”