The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 19, 1922, Page 7

% Bs * RDER List Two INDIAN RHINOCERI Indication Is for Biggest Year in| History of Great Mountain Mt. Rainier National park is of- ficlally and thorely “opened” for the 1922 season, And every indi. ention is for the biggest year in the mountain's history, Following the auto parade thru 8 Attle streets on Saturday, a Seattle mravan left for Tacoma, It tnelud: | Md several of the floats that were fea: | tured here, and passed thru the val: | ey towns, attracting great interest. | At Auburn a lengthy procession of | autos joined the caravan and escort. | ed ft southward for a number of | miles, | At Tacoma a second parade was) held early im the afternoon, follow ing a luncheon for the Seattleites ‘Tacomans had entered some beaut! fully decorated machines. Then the combined parties set off for the mountain, arriving in time for dinner. After dinner a speaking pro gram formally inaugurated the park Season and this in turn was followed by a dance. } Sunday was given over to climbing and recreation A snow battle at Narada falls be tween two armies commanded re spectively by Gen. George B. Duncan and Gov. Hart provided lots of fun for many of the party. Other groups climbed to Paradise, Eagle park, the Ramparts and other scenic points. RAIL AND MINE PARLEY IS DUE Union Chiefs Gather for! Conference BY LAWRENCE MARTIN CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 19.— Rai! union and mime workers’ union chiefs here today approached their conference on joint strike action with confidence that it would develop practical measures of co-operative action helpful to beth groups. While Bert M. Jewell, head of the rail union executive board, and John | L. Lewis, miners’ chief, declined to discuss specific measures that ma‘ be adopted, both said there were number of practical things that could be done.” HE oe TRUST WILD A SOONER THAN MOST BY GENE COHN animals? Better burry! strange business, ai will take them thru the Indian jun layas. other things, the following: Two Indian rhinoceri, menagerie for the city of Texas. Mrs. Buck, probably the only wom Dalia wom Mrs. Frank Buck ‘you put in your winter order for wild | For Mr. and Mrs. Frank Buck, who |a bit of philosophy: have won fortune and fame in this to about to depart have on their annual trip, which this time sooner gles to the shadows of the Hima.| On thelr orier book are, among his pretty wife a good lure, Few of very rare | the and possibly extinct, to be delivered natives from hundreds of miles. to the New York 200; two pairs of snow leopards, very rare; four mark: adventures and hairbreadth escapes, hor goats (curly-horned variety) for none of which has had a deterrent |the Philadelphia zoo, and an entire effect upon her enthusiasm. an collector of wild animals in the | street of almost any lar; ‘world, finds beth pieasuradie and | city.” NIMALS EN ~ PIKE SELL! GGS OR SpUss, |Profitable the business of populating SAN FRANCISCO, June 19.—Have | zoos and menageries. “There is really no reason for fear ing wild animale,” wh ». adding “I prefer them the company of most people I met and I would trust them I would trust most women In dealing with natives tn the Jun- |e]e interior Buck anys he has found them have seen a white woman and news that one is about brings Mra. Buck has had many pertlous “What of It? she philosophizes. “3 | might be knocked down by an auto mobile or a bandit on the main American ‘The first formal conference wil! oc- cur Tuesday night. It will be follow. ed by a public statement, which it | ‘was predicted today will leave no/| doubt as to the intention of the rail road union leaders’ determination to “go thru” with the strike if the 1../ 200,000 workers affected by wage! cuts vote for ft. ‘The rail leaders last night formally Notified the labor board that the re- HERE’S MORE ABOUT DR. MILLER STARTS ON PAGE ONE factory and that union sanction | Lewis, discussing the situation, sald the workers are being driven to oh aoragite on in sett tape, ter business bureau, ec e striking coal miners ‘ would never compromise and said the | Phase of the report in particular rail workers have now no alternative | When Miller went to the bureau, last “but to fight.” The miners and rail| week, and demanded an “invest)a- workers together are “fighting for all| tion” of his affairs to “hush the! of organized labor,” Lewis said, “and | newspapers,” Kahin asked him thelr joint action will have a tre " mendous moral effect in stopping | Where he had received his Ph. D. de the drive agninst organized labor.” | Tee. That a $25,000-a-year-job was of-| “He hesitated for some time,” Ka fered him to get out of the fight to | bin said Monday, “and finally toid preserve the Ohio workmen's com-|me ‘Ruskin university,’ an institu: pensation law, Thomas J. Duffy, | tion entirely unknown to members of chairman of the Ohio industrial com. | the University of Washington facul: mission, told American Federation of | ty. No wonder.” Labor convention here today in a/ QUOTES ON speech on workmen's compensa: | NEXT VENTURE tion. He then quoted the “I am not worth $25,000 @ year to| from “Noatruma and Quackery”: anybody,” said Duffy, “but possibly| “Miller's next venture was a com it would have been worth that much | pination of ‘university’ and ‘sanitart to get me out of the fight. God for-| um,’ which he floated at Glen n bid that I should ever sell out the|a suburb of Chicago, This ins interests of the workers for any | tion was known as the ‘Ruskin unt amount!" | versity * * * On unfeeling town {council finally got after Miller, and. SAYS HE SL EW “ the papers stated at the time | fined him $100 and gave bim 10 da TO ROB {in which to leave town.” DENVER, Colo., June 19.—Orvitle | tion cur” which J. Turley was being held here today | til he deserted it for “psychology, for the murder of Mrs. Emma Wise, | the report cites the cases of 62 con wealthy rooming house proprietress, | Sumptives who fell into the clutches whose mutilated body was found in| °f the quack. No information could the furnace of the house Turley had | >¢ obtained about 12 of the patients rented. | but of the remaining 50 re dead A complete confeasion, notice say, | 804 the other seven were in “the ter was made by Turley after the dis | ™inal stage of the disea covery of the body Saturday. after-| “What the ‘treatment’ actually noon, Turley, it was said, planned | seems to accomplish,” says “Nos the murder in order to rob the|trums and Quackery,” “ts to hasten woman. Luring Mrs. Wise to the|the dissolution of the unfortunate house, Turley, according to the con. | Victim taking it fession, obtained a check from her,| “A# the reports pegan coming in best her to death and forced the | regarding the cases under investiga bedy down the airshaft of the fur-|tion, it was common to find such nace. statements as: ‘I believe the “treat ment" marked the beginning of his rapid decline,’ or ‘her decline was rapid afterward.’ This indicates that the ‘cure’ which has been foisted on the public by a man whose only claim to medical knowledge is that he was once an advertising quack in the ‘rupture cure’ business, is not only worthless but dangerous.” The “consumption cur sank Into obscurity after {t had been denounced by the Chicago health department American Citizen Slain in Mexico WASHINGTON, June 19. War- ren D. Harvey, an American eitizen, Was murdered near Tampico by Mext. can bandits on June 17, the state de- partment was advised today by the American consul at Tampic Representations have been made to the Mexican foreign office and the and after members of the medical consul at Tampico has been ordered |i ourg of the Metropolitan hospital to investignie. New York, had defeated an attempt The murdered American was pay master for an oil company and it Is thought rotbery was the motive. to introduce the “treatment” in that institution Incidentally, Mille charges for his “consumption cure” were just as exorbitant as the fee for his “pay chology lectures” here—which, altho they came at $10 per, were described by the Better Business bureau ag be: ing nothing but “eighth grade physi ology.” “‘'Dr! Miller asked un to investi gate him, saying the newspapers were ‘persecuting’ him,” said H Jacobsen, manager of the Better Business bureau. “As a rule we don’t Investigate such persons un jens there is a complaint to us from one of his victims. But waived our rule in this particular in stance, just to please the ‘doctor,’ ‘This completes our report—and I hope he’s pleesed with it” Fire on Speedway Causes Huge Loss SAN FRANCISCO, June 19—The Francisco speedway, built at ‘arlos, near here, less than a year ago, and said to be the fastest track in the country, was about 50 per cent destroyed by fire yesterday. Damage was eatimat at $200,000, NEW YORK.— Eleven-year-old Rosle Reeve, child prodigy, to enter law school of Columbia university in the fall we have YAKIMA.—John Hammer, 76, dies here of heart trouble. m George Kahin, counsel for the bet: | enjoyed one! following, Miller exploited un- | HERE’S MORE ABOUT MRS. REID STARTS ON PAGE ONE j find expression, and he established a| was a wonderful opportunity, so I ac- | ° cent wage decisions were unsatis-| Sunday, school of which he wag the | cepted. | “I was taken right Into the ‘tam. | fy.’ and everything weat along fine until Miller was warned against “The warning came too late, the. Of course I'd have liked to have had a chance to stay with the party longer—but I have | enough evidence to ruin him right now.” Mrs. Feld declared that moral con ditions in the party-——despite the fact that Miller appeared here under the * of the most fash jonable women's clubs—were shock jog, and that she had first-hand evi dence to this effect. She also charged that Miller made a practice of misappropriating funds taken tn at his “free lectu for the “Inter | national Society of Applied Paychol josy. | “That soctety,” she asserted, “ts Just as much the bunk as all the rest of Miller's stuff ciety, all by himself, and I've sat in his own room at the Washington ho. tel and watched him taking the dol. lars out of the envelopes that had been turned in for ‘memberships’ in the society.” Mrs. Reid, a large, well propor- tioned woman with fiery red hair and a vehement ma d as much ag ease in jail as if sho had been entertaining in her own drawing room. Her white serge gown and patent leather pumps would have seemed entirely im place in the most fashionable salon, and her bearing was as nposed as her costume, Oc. casionally she wept — but tears seemed mor f anger than fear or mortification, and she quickly regained control of her- self, She laughed at a telegram recetved by The Star from Portland, signed L. Burnbamr, F. C, On said she didn't know anyone of that name, but that the meswage had evidently been went by some member of the Miller party. This telegram sald that the writer knew Mrs, Reid international |that she was “to be involved in criminal ah recently aneuve A stool 5 Jeon in a blackmail case instigated |by a wealthy San Francisco physi clan,” and that “she blackmatled last |year two very prominent Canadian officials and more recently the pay. chologist, Bush, who paid her heavy |sums In Vancouver.” | ‘ve never even met Bush in my | life,” Mrs. Reid declared. “As for |the Canadian affatr—I1 forced a cer tain official to resign becuuse of his |scandaloug actions, but I never got, * | said He's the whole so- | THE SEATTLE STAR BONDED BOOZE New Prize waht TGHTENS in Wedding Jump-Off ! Warehouses Two WASHINGTON, June 19.-Orders for the concentration in a few ware houses of all Mquors now held in 904 More Entrants in warehouses thruout the country were tasued today by phibitio ; + i | Comtatastonar Taaynes.” Big Matrimonial Haynes’ order was the first move Sweepstakes to carry out legislation ently panned by congress to make the na tion really bone dry. Other drastic By June d’Amour orters and regulations are to follow. | WO more entries Haynes acted under authority re: ST". te oracolved cently ed by the treasury de. | a ne Ny Monday in The partment appropriation bill i ee, No Star-Herb Scho Regulations permitting the hot | 3 1 ented June tling In bond of liquors before their S wedding cen: concentration in order to have more caee neem | males by cases instead of barrels, and comes to & el |thux making it more difficult to max Friday “tap” Hauer shipments also were ‘ made, A bond of $100,000 for the a See the winning ouple and safety and protection of the liquors will be m: and « be gallon, the present tax rate, must be other contest given before the transfer can be pane A ay made. married: Sa: he model bunga- low on the fifth ““ floor of the Standard Furniture Co, Also, there's an additional prix “A concentration order events in expected t to th 1 | each Ny result Ina high saving government, Out of 204 ware-| 2 in which liquor is now stored, | 4 contain jew than 2,000 gallons | and “in many instances the government Ix paying $360 a month |to guard and gauge the spirits tn | he Grady studio announces that It will take a ploture of the |these small warehousds,” said) Newlyweds who win the contest | Haynes. by writing the best exsay of 300 Approximately 49,000,000 gations| Words or less on “Why We Want | of iiquor are affected by the order “The concentration warehouses, fald Haynes, “must be of large capa | | elty with good raliroad facilities available and backed by men of un.|th@ Prizes already announced—e sub- questioned Integrity, so that the |#antlal present from the Standard @wners of the epirite will in every | PUrniture Co, a wedding supper at | way be protected.” |the Bungalow Inn at Stiver lake, and Unusually strong guard forces, |® Wedding cake from the Dickens “armed to the teeth,” will be placed |Home-Made Cake Co., for the win | around these warehouses. jners. and a $i0 bill trom George | ae North for the couple finishing last. } | Today's letters follow | “The reasons we want to wet mar. ried are: We lave each other and | to Get Married,” and present to »| them an 11 by 14 print, valued at $25, This ts an important addition to HERE’S MORE ABOUT | _M’CORMICK STARTS ON PAGE ONE |for happiness and success, and share |the troubles, sorrows and cares of | life, so we can comfort and take care jof each other in sickness and grief; |no we will have someone to look for }such as have been published in the|*?4 expect when the day's work is Sreas. ‘She knows aheotutely nothing over: and 80 we can have a home of | rout tin ilinese or his personal af [our own and plan, scheme and strive jfor better things; someone to adv ‘ine | faire except what ate haa road in the|4.4 sympathise, work for, love, honor and adore. “We have known each other for nd we find that when to Imave to follow life whims, life is dreary and lonesome and the weeks pass like years, and since one of us must leave to another town where we will not see each Walaka i# not engaged to} and has no anyone, plans of marrying Mr. McCormick or anyone cise.” one Gland Selling Is Moral Question CHICAGO, June 19.—Difference of | et married and go thru life together. lopinion over the moral rectitude of )~~Al and Az.” [buying and selling of life-giving “I want to get married because glands was expressed today by| I have found a girl like my dear church and medical authorities, old dad found 28 years ago. Also Dr. Ben & Reitman, noted physt-| because I want « home with clan and poor man’s friend, declared:| someone in it to care for me and | “Thru all ages men bave fold their| 8% near as possible to replace my | virtue, their bodies and personalities.| dear old mother. [1 believe it Is no worse for a man to| “I love little children and nothing leell whatever else he possesses as Would be dearer to my heart than to hit own. A man sella bin health, vi /bear the patter of little feet and to {tality and vigor working in a coal|be called daddy and to have an en |mine or sweatshop.” jcouraging word or two from my wife | Rev. Herbert C. Noonan, president }4uring forme hard trial or blue period Marquette university, Milwaukee, !% my life. | “L want to be married because I “loth parties to a transaction of have received one of God's greatest that character are guilty of a grave |sifts—true love. Ww. violation of moral law.” | It has been decided to close the a bitter opponent of [contest next Saturday and announce |birth control,” clashed with medical the winner the following Monday, #0 authorities several years ago when ,** to allow the lucky couple plenty he upheld the contention that alOf time to arrange for their mar. {physician had no right to take the |Tiage. In order to win the couple jlife of an unborn baby to save the Writing the best essay will have to | mother. be married on the date set, and no eee prizes will be presented until after |\Says Gland Transfer |"y200n een | Is Out of Date Remember, every couple entering, whether they win or not, will be en titled to a free wedding at the same | NEW Yor June 19—It Is not . lilegal 40 transfer glands from one person's body to the body of another Rev. Noon: j time as the winners. But, tn order to win, essays must be in this office by Saturday night but ft ts decidedly out of date, ac-| Addrens them to June d'Amour, ‘ording to medical authorities today. The Star. | | “There is nothing in the hippo. | cratic oath that forbids a doctor are want to atart out together, to look | other for months we have decided to} ‘AUTOS CLAIM An Unusually Low Price on White Sports Satins $1.45 Yard may be fashioned a lustrous fiber weaves— In 36- and 39-inch widths $1.45 yard. | STORE en lines of several vogues, among them: Soft Crushable Straws pastel colorings. Arranged in three $3.95 and $4.75, | To Sell at $5 Sizes 24, to 8 Widths AA to C | are ART sports skirts little cost from these silk | Exceptional value at THE DOWNSTAIRS 100 Pairs of These Patent Strap Pumps Featured at $5.95 pair. 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Sizes 4 to 8, exceptional values at $6.95 pair. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE the practice and so far ax I know clared that any transference was|| j nee wasil, W. W. to Be Arrested if jach method,” sald Dr. Silkman. “In | arrested if the testify to the effect | additional members, {t is said. Small Maine Vote the understanding that they are do-| today from making the transfer of glands,” said Dr. Frank J, Monoghan, acting | commissioner of health. “There in| there is nothing in the moral law.” | Dr. Aaron Silkman, chief veterinar. | perfectly legal, but that it n lup to date medical practice | They Testify stead of transferring glands, a few}, SACRAMENTO, June 19.—Warn.| corda tied and changes made with jthat they are members of the organ. | | ization will not result in lack of com. | 2 Volunteer witnesses are under. USTA, Me, June 19 stood to be on hand for the purpose weather all over the state Ind ling #0 at their own risk The center of interest ts the re | nothing in the common law against} ‘RED! MEMBERS. lian of the department of health, de} { “A much better way ts the Stein Ing that I. W. W. witnesses will be! better results.” Weather Cause of petent witnesses in the trial of 10 of testifying for the defense, with| & light vote in the Maine primaries | Members of the district attorney's Dee ea eee nt eterick Hale tn’ om | office stated they did not belleve the ‘n K f . men would risk prison terms by ad- posed by « ra Vis |posed by Howard Devis of Year| iting membership tn the I. Ww. W | mouth. EB. 8. Smith, attorney for the de. | Davis has added a great deal of », Interest to th pampalgn by appeal ing to the voters on the ground that, better nse, declared that he doos not an- ticipate the arrest of witnesses in the nt trial, which was resumed to- being a family man, he ts qualified than Hale, a bachelor. — Did sabauuh ; Wale. “anitaamabi eas “pe months ngo In the trial of J. A. Cas- to “blackmail” Wilson, Miler’s | gore and Earl Firey, tried for “oriml manager. This also was denied | no} «yndicalism” here, and convicted it the not by Mrs. Reid, who said th reporters in question ha The men were called by the de fense to give expert testimony as to been near her home while Wik | the character of the I. W. W. organi son was there, zation. “Recently divulged fac the “Are you a member of the I. W telegram concludes, “show she | W.?" each witness was asked by the has attempted to draw Miller state, and h witness replied af. firmatively. Whereupon arrests on and his entire staff into a din bolicnt net thru her press con: charge of nections and her unsavory ‘as- | “ertminal syndicaliam” was made tm. sociate. mediately as each witness left the I shall furnish Prosecuting At-| stand. | torney Malcolm Douglas with a full] > a . en | Ut of authenticated facts on my| ] Regarding the $25,000 heart balm sult which she recently NEARS CLOSE brought against Horace Tarbox, IMinois attorney who is visiting Seattle, Keld said that it was the of another WAUKEGAN, June 19, — The prosecution today completed its case against Gov. Len Small, on trial on |charges of conspiracy to defraud the |state of large sums of money. | Attorneys for the governor an- nounced that outside of presenting a irs. outcome part to expost “The matrimonial ad which T tn serted and which resulted in this nor tried to get, any money out of it The ‘biackmall ca in San Francisco waa pro! ay one of my jexposure of another “paychalo ogiat.’ ‘Tho telegram charged that Mrw. Reid “came to Seattle on Miller's arrival at the request of several members of the medical board.” ‘This was flatly contradicted by Mrs. Reid and also by J. W. Gil | bert, secretary of the Public Health | League of Washington, who said he was in a position to say that no organization of physicla was mM any way interested in Dr, Miller. Two Seattle newspaper men were accused in the telegram of abetting Mrs. Keid in « plot few documents in evidence they suit,” Mrs, Reid declared, “was in would offer no defense. tended to catch such men as Dr-| No witnesses will be placed on the Miller. Tarbox answered it, and I stand to testify for the governor, C. really was attracted by him enough ©, Leforge, his attorn ‘announced. to consent vo his proposal of mar- ‘The defense is expected to ask riage, When he went back on his Judge Edwards to take the case from word I brought suit” the hands of the jury, |B. Pike FOUR VICTIMS Boy Dead, Woman Dying, Two Others Hurt Coroner Willis H, Corson and city police were probing three auto acct. dents Monday, in which a boy was killed outright, fatally hurt, her daughter badly in. jured and a grocer received a broken leg. The accidents occurred Sunday a@ woman probably William, A. Gross, 14, of Train, Wash. was killed by the auto of Rui R. Farrell, Seattle lawyer Mrs, Nels Nordquist, 31, received a broken back and her daughter, Ros Nordquist, sustained a fractured col. lar bone when Nordquist's auto over- turned. Dominic Bresse, 30, grocer, Rainier ave, was struck by an auto driven by C. BE. Morris, 88 Le. nora st., at Dearborn st. and Rain- ler ave. The fatal accident In which young Gross was killed occurred as he stepped from in front of @ car in which his sister was sitting with two friends near Enumclaw, Farrell's machine struck him, fracturing his skull, The boy died soon after, Nordquist was driving his auto on st. when, upon coming to 12th ave., the auto's wheels caught in the street car tracks, The ma- chine upset, pinning the occupants beneath It Nordquist was bruised The two women were taken to Swed. ish hospital. Save Eagle Boat on Rocks Twenty Hours) After being on the rocks at Cattle Point, San Juan island, for than 20 hours, naval eagle boat No. 67, with 14 naval militiamen from Seattle and 10 from Tacoma aboard, was safe Monday, While on a week- end cruise she went ashore at 2 a, m. Sunday. She was floated under her own power at 10:30 p. m, more | LAUNCH SEIZED IN BOOZE RAID |4 Men Arrested and Large Rum Capture Made | PORT ORCHARD. June 19.—Pat , Kelly, of Seattle; B. Taylor, Herman | Schaefer and H. H. Hammon were Jin the Kitsap county jail here to- | aay following their arrest yester- | day at Blake {sland, six miles south- west of Alki point, and the selzure of the Seattle launch Bly, loaded | with 14 barrels and 400 bottles of | beer, 27 sacks of whisky and beer and two cases of Canadian Club whisky. | Sheriff John Stanioch and two jdeputies lay in ambush for 30 jhours before making the arrest. |'They had found the liquor buried jin the sand and waited for some jone to call for it $ Seattle principal bootlegging ring is said to have been involved in the | selzure. ISEEK CLUE TO GIRL SLAYER | SACRAMENTO, June 19.—North- Jern California officers today are without a clue to the murder of a young Chinese woman whose body was found yesterday on a highway three miles north of Roseville, Places county Chinese viewed the body and were unable to identify the girl, Sheriff Elmer Gum, of Placer county, has wired San Francisco po- lice for aid, believing the girl was kidnaped from there and taken in an body was found, Tho body was wrapped in a night gown and quilt and tied with ropes. None of the Chinese colonies has reported a girl missing, | automobile to the spot where the} FRISCO CROOKS TAKE HOLIDA Crime Convention of Cops Scares Criminals ; SAN FRANCISCO, June 18 Crooks declared a holiday in Sam Francisco today, They considered the time tnoppon tune for extensive operations : cause police chiefs from most of the leading leading cities and many of the smaller ones in the United — States had gathered here for thé opening session of the annual com vention of the Police Chiefs asso clation. Two major problems were on ih program for discussion, First ad tention was to be given traffie control, auto thefts and kindred subjects. New methods of identifk — cation were to come next and after that an array of topics in erimh — nology were on the program, “Crime waves" were to get seriout consideration. “Since the beginning of the world war in 1914," said Major Richard Sylvester, former police suj : tendent of the District of Columbia, “a new generation of crime hat sprung up tp the United States” He attributed this condition te lavish display of wealth, psycho — logical reaction from war excite ment, Joy riding, closing of saloont and the flooding of the markete with firearms following the war Will Aid Shut-ins at Pupils’ Program For the benefit of the radio fund being raised for shutins by Frank R. Loope a collection will be taken Monday evening at Montelius hall, following a program to bt given by pupils in Vera Daytos Cook’s class in expression,