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

Sn Ee OTE ; ‘ : 4 es WEATHER Tonight and Tuesday, fair; moderate southwesterly winds ‘emperature Last 34 Hours aeeen, 7m Tm id ‘eday neon, 60. Minimum, 53. VOLUME 24. NO. 140, RE Why This Nuisance? W versity bridge? The most important artery to the north end residence section (and one of only two possible routes) is torn up right in the height of the tourist season! was, to some degree, even during Way- farer week, with its heavy travel to and from the stadium. HAT mental processes were used by city officials in picking this par- ticular time for re-surfacing the Uni- And Why can’t ordinary common sense be used in municipal matters like these? ae NN ee ee ee SN rE ‘ALLIED CHIEFS | fa) > able bath Watch Out! eee neral water. cee How dye do?—hare a chair?— oh, you want to sell me a port- tubt—well, come around Saturday night. eee “Family Fats Polson Meat.— Headiine. Hamburger? ee Alice Lord in running for state senator from the 35th District. ‘We suggest for her campaign slo- wan; “Lord Help Us!” eee Mary ate a little pla Like mother used to bake, Then got in a speeding car— Now she rats angel cake. cee You are selling what kind of magazines? — The American? — No, thanks! no captain of in- dustry can tell me how to be come = success—I haven't made much money, but I have alway? been faithful to my IDEALS!— No, no, I don't want to describe to the Police Gazette. “ee We wish winter would hurry up| and’come so we can use this crack “Apartment House Fire.""—Headiine. Maybe the janitor | pade it by mistake. eee ‘Today's Good Aa- view: Keep your one brew in the can. Then you in be sure nobody i take it eA . Flowers play gam: noted naturalist. Sure, polson ivy! played tag with us Sunday. Now we're it! ove No, no, no! I don't buy jokes —Do they sound like they cost me money?—please go ‘way, I've em to get to the ball-game— Sorry, but the postry market ts overstocked at pregent—a job as Janitor?—well, see the business manager. cee I thowld not have won from Bally Ann That last game of tennis, 1 was “Charlie dear” Now, my name is Dennis. —G. H. B. ‘Grab him, Officer, o- A Brattle man told the court that {iis wife drove him to drink. ‘That's the kind of a wife we want! oof You want to see the sporting tditor?—That's him over there— mo, not the tough-looking mutt —that's the city editor—the oth- one, ‘o doing t4! ee Here He the remains of Reed Hartley Bight, Who trusted his bootlegger— Lead, Kindly Light! eee Ob, heck!—all this rush for urn to Page 7, Column 6) according to a) when we began, | | | { Damaged by | hassador George Harvey | Financial Situation Seen in} Europe as Critical LONDON, Aug. T.—Europa, etrick- hen with financia! and political tls, went on the operating table at No. 10 Downing Street today. The con- ference opened at 11 a. m. Allied leaders, face to face with the most critical situation, met at the call of Licyd George. The con- ference of the premiers is regarded as the most important since the Versaliies conference. It tv the 13th ‘the Germans signed |the peace. treaty. Fraught with dangers to the suc-| Rvery time we have a forest fire, | cess of the conference is the situation | He faucets pour out stuff that! ts like some of this expensive | Poincare in atarting reprisals in Al-| caused by mace-Lorraine because the Germans refused to promise payment of $10. | 000.000 in pre-war debts. Franee, In taking this step, acts tn- dependently of the alites. Lieyd George and Poincare stand directly opposed to each other In the matter of dealing with the German problem. Eng- land tx willing and thinks it ab- solutely necessary, for the stabil- ity of Europe, to be lenient with Germany and to grant a morato rium on reparations payments. France's attitude is one of se verity toward Germany. The best she will concede, it waa be Heved, was a very short morato- rium, which, in the British view, would not remedy the situation to any great extent. ‘The discussion of war debts ts an | other subject which will engage the O14 World statesmen Airing of the proposal of Great} Britain that its allied debtors make | partial payments of war obligations, | go that England ma the United observers pa States, is bound to come, | believed Altho the United States ts not to | participate in the deliberatio: the conference. Japan also will have an observer. It was understood that Lloyd George would advocate a mora- torium for Germany until 1974, but it ts likely that he would ac- cept a compromise of » moratort. um until the pnd of the year, if he can persuade Poincare to abandon, temporarily, reprisals started against Germany. [MISHAPS KILL 3 IN TACOMA. TACOMA, Aug. 7.—Three persons were killed and three in jured in automobile and other acci dents in the vicinity of Tacoma over the week-end, Richard Bradley, 19, of Sumner was killed when the motorcycle which he was riding collided’ with a machine driven by J, O. Johnson Jobnaon and Graydon Gibson, riding with him, are in the Sumner hospital | with severe cuts and bruises. Walter Frace, Jr., 16, of Tacoma, was drowned tn the slough near the Long Bell Lumber Co. plant at Kelso. John Vogel, of Tanwax, was killed instantly when he was struck over the beart by @ root thrown by a steel logging cable. M. E. Porter, a berry picker from Everett, in in the Sumner hospital suffering from injuries he received when he was run down on the Sum- ner road by an automobile driven by A. C. Raig, of Beattie. severely WHITE SWAN.—Indians search for “Columbia Dick,” member Yak- ima tribe, wanted in The Dalles face murder charge. IN CONFERENCE, the action of Premier! is to watch | “4 On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Clase Matter May §, 1 The Seattle Star St the Postoffics at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 8, 18 Per Year, by Mall, #6 to 4 SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1922. Borah Figures as Involuntary Head of | New Organization; Republicans and Democrats Denounced i BY LAWRENCE MARTIN WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—Senator Borah, of Idaho, {s becoming the involuntary center of a third party move- ment which is beginning to be marked by the insistence of its demands that Borah step out and lead a political revolt. Letters are pouring into Borah's office from men and women of almost every shade of political opinion announcing |the United States under a new organization's banner. ‘The one respect In which all these - SS PARLEY BEGINS ON COAL STRIKE bor the democrats are jonger capa ble of leaderehip. oe Mines F Represented to Bring Peace ] Borah vw consider seriousty the at- “Politica! bankrupte” and etmaar | tempt No unite all the tberals and) CLEVELAND, Aug. 1—Suffictent phrases are employed by Borah's | correspondents to describe es ot the tinfied republicgns and tonnage le represented here to make democrats in @ New party. |the coal peace conference, which of the two major parties, Astute leaders of experience are also considering the third party idea. One of the beat known progressives of the 1980 revolt has already urged jand political leaders alike, Borah has|K. Maher, one of the most powerful | declined thus far an answer that|of the Ohio conservative operators, commits him. told the United Press. In urging « new party those who! The big question has bean whether write Borah give these among other |¢nough operators would attend to reasons make any Dissatisfaction with congress, particularly with the leadership | ine strike. there. | Mine owners and unton leaders! Apparent inability of the tw | were fovial and greeted each other | | old parties to formulate definite policies based on the good of the |ine At 2:30 p. m. of the pence confer en whole which was calied by John” 1. High taxes, | Lewis, president of the United Mine The tariff bill. | Workers. SUGAR PROBE | | | hie et ame | ] | 15 HORSES DIE IN STABLE FIRE WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—Senator PORTLAND, Aug. 7.—Three fire.|'8! probe of Senator Harrison's | men were injured, 15 horses and a |harges that a scheme ix under: w number of rabbits were consumed |'° Profiteer in sugar thru a high tariff and restriction of Cuban pro | roperty lows estimated at $25. and property loss § duction wan blocked temporarily to- 000 waa dione early today, when fire | deestroyed the Hawthorne stables. | Three frame houses adjacent to te} stables also were consumed Utah, objected to tmmediate consid eration of the resolution Senator Nicholson, republican, @e clared he would ask for the “ayes jand noes” later in the day, since he | believed the charges made by Sena- ‘Man and Wife Are Robbed by Bandits before the sugar schedules of the Stopped by two men Sunday night | pending tariff are brought up for who drove up to the curb in @ large | debate. touring car, Mg and Mra S| NORTHC cE. | Miller, 7448 14th ave. N. W., were lrobbed of $60 and a diamond atick pin valued at $50 | their dissatisfaction with the two official parties and urging | Borah to take the lead in uniting the politically restless in| To the calle of individual citizens | opens here today, complete, Thomas | IS THWARTED, day when Senator Smoot, republican, | tor Harrison @hould be investiguted | agreement signed realy | | effective in hastening the end of the Society dot | building fomances | cordially as they awalted the open |come the most ¢ligible young woman | The holdup occurred at W. 70th at | | jand Division ave. N. W. , SINKS RAPIDLY ‘The men carried a smali automatic LONDON, Aug. 7.— Viscount pistol. | Northeliffe, famous British pub- | Hes ‘ x lisher, was sinking rapidly today. 5 Weohiese of the publisher, who ‘ ~ suffers from a strange compll- Point Defiance Is -" | cation of maindies, had increased Threatened by Fire) over night, it was stated. North- | TACOMA, Aug. 7——-Nearly 100| ¢liffe's condition was pronounced }acres of brush near Point Defiance, ®® Very grave. | park, one of the natural beauty | were burned over a fire believed to spots of the West late yesterday by IRISH WRECK have been caused by a careless CABLE OFFI camper, Consistent work of the| CE! fire apparatus) LONDON, Aug. 7.—Irish tnaur park rangers and city | kept the blaze from the animal pens. | |Forest Fires Are Growing in State station at Waterville, Ireland, today, putting five American cables out of commission, The Commercial Cable Co, in New By Robert B. Bermann stories and, In the course of his LOYD SPENCER, Seattle's remarks, sprang the old one a eaiad about the American millionaire | most celebrated bon vivant | who was watching a boat race on and raconteur, is in disgrace at the ‘Thetees, Seaton. Waey arte the auto tourists’ Woodland park ‘Tpis is the way tt came about. camp out at king of England. You probably the millionaire, remember tt-— who had been 1 dropped out to the park amusing himself by tossing pen- the r day to amuse the tour nies Into the river for youngster! inta, & few allegedly funny to dive after, ran out of coppers j area is more than half as large as all | Rhode Island. } las the wealthiest man Anne Burnett, granddaughter of Texas’ richest man, and) Tom Burnett, his son. FONT WORTH, Tex. And he cut off his only sur Burnett,’ with Aug. 1.— | estate. gers of Texas are busily | Yiving son, Tom 1. $25,000 a year for “Miss ABDC)... prowidion of the will. was. that} For she has suddenly be Tom, himself a wealthy rancher, will | xet nothing if he tries to break the will, Administrators say there will be no contest Tom was recently divorced from his wife, formerly Lucille Mulhall, who with her father took part in rodeo shows Capt. Burnett was a Texas cowboy who fought Indians and hunted buf- falo, When he died at 74 he wan a banker, rancher and capitalist, He started on borrowed money and built up his holdings until he owned three ranches covering 500,000 acres, stocked with high-bred cattle, Some} of the biggest Teras oi] wells were drilled on his property. Burnett in the Southwest These are some of the things Miss | Burnett owns. Three great stock ranches whose Two skyscrapers in Fort Worth A home in Fort Worth that cost $100,000, Liberty bonds valued at $200,000. Stocks and bonds that bring her entire holdings to $15,000,000. It ts all hers because her grand. father, Capt. 8. B, Burnett, regarded in Texas, died of his | | 1 recently and left her the b CIVIL WAR IN ITALY RAGING | Five Provinces Now Under Martial Law BY HENRY Woop pp pelpnidipserimliinyaihonmag HOW HIGH IS 14-FT. FENCE? JUDGE QUITS BENCH TO FIND OUT How high tn & 14-foot fence? Superior Judge Mitchell Gilliam decided Monday that he would have to visit the premises to find out Rachel against and wife, seeking to restrain them Schoen Robert C brought suit Montgomery ROME, Avg. 1--Wih five from erecting a fence on the mu Provinces under martial law, the {] tual boundary line between their government moved today to || homes. stamp out civil war that has The plaintiffs declared that the been raging between the Fascisti | and socialists since an uprising of the former Friday. fence was to be 14 feet high, spite.” Montgomery “for claimed it was to Premier Facta planned to estab-|| be but four feet high: |Ilish the fron rule of the military in other towns where fighting between | ~ nationalists and radicals threatened fever cities were inthe erp ot/ BLAME DRIVER gents wrecked the Commercial Cable | If the King Had Jumped In—My | Fascist! Saturday night Fearing the Fascisti may attempt} to seize Rome, the government took | That the crossing bell was ringing all neceanary precautionary measures, Armed troops with machine | both before and after the accident in guns are on guard at the cham: | which several persons wera injured ber of deputies in Rome, Fas when a Northern Pacific train struck an auto stage at Kent last week, was declared Monday by Robert Hesketh, |Jr., one of the passengers clat! lewlers have ordered their adherents to concentrate at the chamber on Wednesday, OLYMPIA, Aug, 7.—Forest fires, | York announced that wrecking of |, Police and military authorities to)" iit, cave his testimony to| whipped up by high winds, are worse | the cable station in Waterville haa | 8" were Un raph aioe » prevent | neputy Prosecuting Attorney B. f today, according to F. E. Pope, atate| cut Ireland, France, Germany and /Concentration of Fase | Joni In the meantime Deputy supervisor of forestry. Men are! Northern Europe off from communt | Prosecuting Attorney Ralph Ham fighting fires In Thurston county, at| cation with the United States, as far| VICTOR, Idaho.—Mary Miles Min-/mer was interviewing victims at the Fairfax, on the Carbon river, at|as its lines were concerned | ter es disfiguration in minor ac-|Taylor-Lacey hospital in Auburn | west Lindberg, and in Skagit coun: cident to train on which she and| Anthony BR. Crane, driver of the |ty, on the @outh fork of the Nook- PARIS.—Pierre Loti, writer, near’ others of her motion picture company |bus, is at liberty pending the out- jeack river death. __were riding. ome of the investigation Oh My! Commerce, received a formal pro- test from a Britisher who had been in Lloyd's audience "The positively ridiculous,” the trate visitor de The king diving and pulled out a $20 gold piece. He was just about to throw it in the water when an Englishman caught hid arm and exclaimed “Don't do that, old Do you want to have His Majesty story was bean. clared.’ “Fancy! diving in?” into the river! Why, my dear The story seemed to go over fellow, it's prepostrous—utterly all right—but the next day Mike preposterous. He'd spoil more Carrigan, of the Chamber of than $20 worth of clothes. THE NEWSPAPER HE NEWSPAPER WITH A 15,000 CIRCULATION LEAD OVER ITS NEAREST COMPETITOR <—@ FRESH PEACE MOVE ON IN STRIKE jARBITRATION IS URGED BY HARDING RA RRR RR rap * 6 HOME| TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE She Is Texas’ Richest Girl) GO B ACK 15 Millions Draw Rananees TO SHOP IS PLEA President Asks Railroad Men to Re- turn to Work While Labor Board Passes on Seniority Issue the seniority question—the chief obstacle to a settl be submitted to the railroad labor board for Acerminaeas FOR ACCIDENT} 1 The president appealed to Harding also asked that the on | executives agres to take the great: | ler part of the workers back, leaving the question of seniority to be di lelded by the tabor board. | Harding communicated his new | plan personally to Bert M. Jewell, [teader of the strikers, in @ confer- ence at the White House, and to ‘T. DeWitt Cuyler, chairman of the Association of Railroad Executives, in New York. Meantime, President Preparing @ statement to the coun- | try on the critical situation caused lby | menacing because of the mine strike. This information was given to sen- Harding 1s the rail strike and made more jate leaders today by Senator Cum- mins, Iowa, after a visit to the j White House. | Cummins dectined to reveal | exact nature of the president's state ment but it is understcod that the executive will attempt to place jeauarely before the country the i» sues in the railroad dispute. Announcement was made by Cum mins that he would call up tn the | senate today the resolution of Sen ator Harrison, Mississippi, a! on the Interstate commerce commis: sion to make public its report on j the condition of ratiway equipment at the present stage of the strike, ~~ TWO KILLED IN STRIKE RIOTING ' Shops Under Guard as ) Probe Is Started JOLIET, WL, Aug. 7—A lice cordon guarded’ the Elgin, doliet & Eastern shops here as | Investigation of riots which claimed two lives early today ot under way, Troops were held tn readiness at Springfield and Chicago. Btate in guardsmen were needed. | Mobs which stormed the home of |Fred Nelson, car painter, who re- fused to strike, had entirely disap. peared. The riot started when Sheriff Newkirk. started to arrest leaders of the mob which surrounded Nelson in his home. The sheriff, with Phillip Reitz, chief of the railroad de tectives, plunged into the crowd. | They were greeted with a fusil- lade of shots. Both fell, Reitz was killed instantly. Newkirk is in the hospital in a dangerous condition, As the mob closed tn after the | officers fell, Walter Tocard, a | deputy, opened fire, An uniden- titled Italian dropped, shot thru the heart. | Spectators put in a riot call for police, When the police arrived the mob was already dispersing First Deputy Sheriff Lindgren de. clded his force could not cope with the situation, He wired the gover- nor for troops Joliet police, on the other hand, declared the situation was well in hand and that troops were unneces- sary. Telégraphacs and Agents May Strike INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 7 strike vote among all ikeacaphors and station agents of the Big Four railroad started today, Edward J. Whelan, general chair: (Turn to Page 7, Column 6) the} vestigators arrived here to see if the! the striking railroad work |to return to work pending this decision. ‘SEATTLE LINER STRIKES ROCK! WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—President Harding, in a new © {move to end the nation-wide rail strike, today proposed that — lH. F. Alexander Floated, Due Here in Afternoon She was floated at 110 a. m., ao cording to her master, Capt. E. P. Bartlett, and her crew and 298 passengers were in no danger. The steamship Admiral Schley and the coast guard cutter Snohomish jrawhea to stand by upon receipt of the news here that the Alexander | was in danger. jattle from San eMchimmen ine MAYOR WILL BE GIRL’S LAWYE and Fight Narcotic Men Declaring open war on federal Monday that he would act as counsel for Mrs. Nellie Hartford, star witness in the Legate case, when she appears Wedn: before U. S. Commissioner R. W. McClelland, to answer dope charges, Federal officials denied the mayor the right to see the girl Saturday, but he talked with her thru the barred window of the county jail. “The gang at the federal building say that only Mrs. Hartford's attore imey can talk with her,” Brown de clared, “and from now on I will com duct her defense.” | The mayor said that he would ask the grand jury to investigate the {failure of officials here to enforce the anti-narcotic laws. “They show a lot of activity in picking up some poor, unfortunate addict,” he charged, “but they let the big fellows walk right off the Ori- j ental liners with valises full of dope.’* Mrs. Hartford is not released on bail, according to the mayor, because it ts feared an attempt will be made © “plant” dope on her, “There ‘s nothing that the gang will not do to discredit my adminis- tration,” the mayor repeated. “Mrs, Hartford told me that she had been beaten black and blue in an attempt to extort a confession from her.” MEIER WILL | QUIT JAN. 1 Corporation Counsel W. F. Meier will resign his office on January 1, he announced Monday, He has de- cided to re-enter the private practice of the law. He has been a member of the city legal department since 1916, His present term has two more years to run. Thomas J. L, Kenne- dy, first assistant corporation coun- sel, fg regarded as the most Ikely candidate to be appointed to the im- | pending vacancy by the counell, APPLICANTS FOR CITIZEN- SHIP papers were being examined Monday by Federal Examiner John Speed Smith before Superior Judge A. W. Frater, To Defend Legate Witness i The Alexander was en route to Se