The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 15, 1922, Page 1

March 4, “SEATTL i, WASI , 1922. 19. Per Year, by Matl, $5 to $9 “TWO c ENTS IN HARDING WILL PUT STRIKE CRISIS UP TO CONGRESS The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor Dx ¢ The seattle Star iil Mil at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congrw HOME | EDITION SEATTL E MAYOR FANS COUNCIL FOR Says Rejection of Gassman Shows Up Opponents of| Clean City ‘That the city council is de- liberately blocking bis attempts | to give Seattle a cleaner and Physician Injects Deadly Drug Into Whole Household; Others May Die SYDNEY, N. 8. W., Aug, 15. —By means of injections of mor- phine, Dr, Cranston of Hamp- ton, Victoria, Killed his three children, aged 15, 10 and & his | more efficient administration | wif companion and himself, was charged Tuesday by Mayor His wife and two children, aged | jin, the crowd of veterans swarming thruout Seattle! 13 and 14, are very ill, but will | bagi hie the Veterans of Foreign Wars are in ses- recover, Crensten, who was a | : = sven pet ry Fagor r staff photographer picked «a typirat budd, < ict, was in financial y the council's re con: e Sta ff 9 oe y. His difficulties, Disarranged furni- fiem Carl 5S, Gassman as super- here printed to oe the thousands of him is glad'to wel ture shows that the eldest boy put up a terrible struggle for life + eth that = wife also fought intendent of streets, Gassman was Brown's righthand man in the campaign and a» personal friend. “The councilmen are not sstisfied j merely with their legislative func- PLAN T0 PUSH tions,” the mayor exclaimed, “but [they also want to assume my execu | tive duties.” | Brown announced that he would |meek an amendment to the city charter to prevent the council from i blocking his appointments. | “The storm signal ia flying from imy offices,” he added. “If thin in to be a fight to a finish, let us know it now! Gasaman’s confirmation was dr feated by a vote of 6 to 3, Oliver T. Erickson and Mre. Kathryn Miracle being the only members of the coun- cil to vote fn his favor, At the same tims the eogneil again slapped the mayor by requesting him to explain his dieminsal of Bert Northrup aa civil service commission- jer, They wave Brown five daa ft hes to explain bis action. Proposed Expenditure of | $500,000 from the Proceeds of bend sales now on hand to carry on work on the Skagit Project is proposed in a bill intro “The efforts of the council to block Counciiman Lou Cohen's ordinance! ine chief executive are nothing new to determine the cost of regrading |in the history of Seattle,” the mayor "| the Denny ‘hill “hump,” and to inl pemarked. ‘There seems always to ict. the board of eminent domain nave been a studious attempt on the to prepare a district to bear the cost part of the gentlemen of the council of the improvement of the section. /to interfere with the mayor and run the finance and/tne city to suit themacives.” a . Ps Gasaman’s qualifications for the po- | ‘ounctiman * ine Intro ‘aition of street superintendent were | part in both the world war and iN | duced an ordinance to prevent future | nighty praised by Brown, o | Spanien war, was frequently inter! construction of gasoline stations! rupted by projonged applause. [within 750 feet of public (DEATH LAID T0 He spoke of the national Le weet | srounds TROUBLE NEAR WHITE RIBBONER, | Woman Prohibitionist Held Ye an engineer in the street ent who does nothing cise chase earwigs.”—-Mayor Brown. and, peculiarity enough, the fame is Chase. Butrows Fontaine sues Cor- | Mayor Brown, the next speaker, eloquently told the vets of Seattle's deep sympathy with their cause, and) — united support for their pro) ington state bonus. BY FREDERICK NEUMEIER orn ‘ts my honor, of which I am ex- MEXICO CITY, Aug. 15.—With ‘Vanderbiit Whitney for $11 tremely proud, to welcome you to] partisan feeling running high, nol After Husband’s Murder thie city,” said Brown. ) “We want! diers and police of the Obregon gov-| ECS She} ou to feel that this city and this! ernment were held in readiness today | tate are undivided in our support t0/to quell any disturbance in connec you and your organization | tion with the opening of the chamber “We want you to feel that this Is | of deputies LAKEHURST, N. J., Aug. 15. —Betrayed by nervousness into disclosing the hiding place of = 1D ACTION / ” revolver with which her hus- | : ° | your home i Ans the final fight of deputies for| | tan” Saittnacd | Lleutenant-Governor W. J. | disputed seats was started, official! band, who was shot in his sleep, | to s public debate | Corte, who followed Brown, was | denial was ms the presides] ft ay ae petiey a. ave | Lg given a tremendous ovation by /ti«t palace of of a cabinet on slain, Mra, Ivy rxon, the crowd as he started bis ad | origin | prominent reformer and prohi bitionist, was under arrest in they're talking, the r P ‘" dress. Coyle himself is a mem Peder ner huuceicn, | ber of the Veterans ‘of Foreign |ment between Finance Minister de ia| Tom® River jail today. ° one Wars and the Sist division Pro | iuerta and American bankers de-|, 4, New York man, from whom This| longed applause greeted his ® | bends on who is piaced in the dis hundreds o ere i ere to the ase: sertion that “we are proud of our | Duted deputy poate. pees model wife and arden’ mountains, our state and—our church-goer were found, was sought Gringo the atanee of command | ‘ALLIED CHIEFS ” "Geisree Woe, thet thre the ON WAY HOME) Ratification of the financial agree. is coming. ptt we tha’n't fret about it; _— Mt gets too high for us— drink our ficx without it. erinChiet Robert G. back of the head as he lay asleep q | Price of milk has done gone up. | | / | | Pittsburg, who was called back to his | yesterday morning and his wife, | | [home on business at the start of his| who summoned aid by telephone eMome | Hee -C } with her wrists and U NEED trip West, Senior Vice Commander BY WILLIAM H. KUHNS i : = tae MORE | john Jones of Portiand, Ore. wat! LONDON, Aug. 15.— Allied pre pence Nap ge Ms a 7 | called to preside over the convention. | miers, split over the German repara ot him er 'y was } at petape | unquestioned until detectives no- | Woodside is expected in Seattle late | Tuesday night, it wae said, | ‘The veterans will attend the Elia’ tions question, went home today The allied conference broke up be cause of Lioyd George's opposition | plenic at Woodland park Tuesday |to taking over German forests and lafternoon, for the purpose of seeing | mines as a guarantee that repara-| 50,000 kiddies taking the allegiance |tions would be paid | Sentiment among the premiers and | Mrs, Giberson making re peated trips to a spot in the back yard, shaking with nervousness. | They dug in some rubbish, found a revolver and placed the reform: er under arrest. Mra. Giberson is 38 all we'll , all to do is 9p in the evening. a ¢ Harding has washed his | pledge to the flag Her hushand | | Woodward theater. Wednesday the | allied debt funding commission re | Women’s National auxiliary, F. V.!turns from Washington later in the} |W. will hold sessions at Roosevelt | year: j hall, 1616-‘Third ave Monday .evening a reception was| held at the Butler hotel, registration eee HOLLY WOULD Wit Will Ht. Hays Uf Blanche B. Sweet? if Tom B. Meighan copal church, \Masked Highwaymen |Recommend Cutting {Hold Up Tacoma Car} Wil Peter B. Kyne? cee headquarters, by the Women’s auxil City Hall Salaries) TAcoMA. Aug. 15.-stoppead by | ofthe Veterans of For-|\ t whieh national officers, dle | paquction of salaries of all city de. |t%? masked highwaymen savhe wan tS, did you ever hear a man |gutes and their wives were guests. | ie /sments is recommended in the re-| ‘I lving his car from Roy to Tacoma aged in the Boxer campaign | oe 0 port of a special committee of the |!@st night Dan ¢ hanningbaps,_9€ Ta. 7 converse in pidgeon English | Tax Reduction council, which will be|°O™, was robbed o! abel | MBs tougitoy ho insisted on| Wee Coyle to Lead | rrtened shortly to the city counci es titimee sitar Wea Uae tonne Ge holdup, but could 4 no trace of in frog? |the bandits | ele ee Veterans in March YOU REMEMBER WHEN— mead TACOMA, Ang. 15.~Lieut-Goy. | | and Fd drink vermouth- | wiitiam J. Coyle, president of the| Just the show, and parler | gig¢ division association, will: com: | at the Cafe sneak into Home for Mayor Rejects gs egy Challenge of — mamsetle | mand the division Sunday afternoon | lat Camp Lewis when it reassembles | \from civilian life for a to: pass | | | lin review over ite old parade ground.|| Large or small, furnished or | |] unfurnished. Anything you can vite ; x || wish for can be found in STAR SEWARD, “Alaska —Furs valued || wish for can be found in STAR || Cler. an for th, t at $500,000 from Siberia, and gold, | . ‘ me "aati le next war: Make| #1 oo, reported en route to feattle|| find your home. Here a dealer |) | $36 is offering @ small home that If the Rev. Philip Bauer will] orld mato for Prohibition! got the D. S. M. jon steamship Victoria, which left) net produce the man who said that he} Nome Monday . || had been accom 12 times in three! may be to your liking | pies Me A GOOD BUY eity blocks T will enter inw a con me oct the D. S. C. | A Teal good s-room bungalow. |! troveray with him—not before.” | got ms old " M. j EATHER Re age S ge Thin was Mayor Brown's reply to Was §. 2. . for me! 1] improvements except pav the challenge issued to him by the| Tonight and Wednesday, showers; ||| apa paid. For quick nals ireen Lake pastor to debate vice} 200 cash, balance Foe of thie campaign Itesature moderate southweaterly 1p Bene heey pmanes it |conditions in Seattle | as light summer fie winds. | | “IC don't belleve that there are! | Temperature Last 24 Hours |] Turn to the classified section || wild women roaming thru the streets * Maximum, 69. Minimum, 56. and learn more about of Seattle, aceosting — m: the Day is to be retchrated in ‘Today noon, 63, mayor added, “I want solid evi- dence—not just talk,” this home | to Page 7, Column 4) Who Is This Lady was born August 24, 1892, on a plan-| “How did you happen to choose! |tation near Vicksburg, Miss, of law for a career?” Miss Forbus was| which her father was overseer. She) asked, as the office phone jfingled. | | put herself thru bigh schoo! and. col | American consul 0 . L | va o postpone Mt the raliway strike. But| The Wild West post, v. F. W-, of finance ministers was to Postpons|had a monopoly of the taxi service |~ hope, with any of that Pull-| Tacoma, will stage an in ws sem ad Bets ph v= coe vel me ort the (at Lakehurst, while she ix a promt: | mony at the evening sension, at th me «i 5 ; |nent member of the Methodist Epis: | | tackled. | F sr lin for Spectacular Fight Lady Willie Forbus Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers By E. P. Chalcraft Who is Lady Willie Forbus? This virile, toreeful personal- ity, whose unflagging efforts re- sulted in the couny grand jury finding conelusively that Patrol- man Charles 0. Legate was mur- dered, when Detective Captain later working her way thru the Uni- | versity of Mississippi, taking her | degree In the college of liberal arts im 1915. Three years later she was grad. uated from the law school at Anne Arbor, Mich., conscious of a thrill! in the fact that her life-long am. bition had been realized, but equal Charles Tennant, Prosecuting [iy consciour of the verity that the Attorney Malcolm Douglas and ® | hardest work of all lay yet ahead coroner's jury united in calling | A short time later the newly it sulckde—who is she? | graduated lawyer got off a Even her name commands atten.| train in Seattle with $10 in her tion. Thruout the investigation in| pocket. She deposited $7.50 of the Legate case the influence of this| this for a week's room and unusual woman has, been felt) board and started out to look athwart the customarily ‘smooth cur-| for # Job. She found it, working rent of such affairs, and now she| #8 law clerk for » local firm of attorneys. In 1919 she start- challenges Prosecuting Attorney | Dougias in his campaign for re-| } dias to bulld up » practice for election. } ” 2 in being |__1t Wasn't easy for a woman to Men have long taken pride in bein®)| succeed where many men hav designated “self-made.” Miss Forbus tained, but the same qualities of! emphatically is a self-made woman. persistence and thoroness that | brains there is no sex,’ characterized her work in the| she says. “There is no sex diy | Legate case overcame all obstacles, tinction between men and women = [with the result that Miss Forbus who compete in the business and | jax ‘established a” clientele that professional worlds, That idea | would cause many a man to expand is in discard’ It is not a woman | his chest opposing a man in my race against Mr. Douglas, but simply | two persons seeking the same | office.” | ss Forbus has had to work for| ty everything she has obtained, She “1 do take pride that my clients are en,” Miss Forbus said, “and that my practice is about equal- divided between criminal and civil work.” in the fact not all wom- | “I don't kne she replied lege. The same is true of her five! ing up the receiver brothers and three sisters. One| to be a lawyer as far back as I can} brother, nple B. Forbus, an|remember—iong before I went to in Paris. |high school, even.” Miss Forbus finished high achovl) And she went into the reception at the age of 17, Then for a time! room, where awaited two clients—| she worked in the office of a judge,'a woman and a man hang. “T just wanted is By the Snores of the Duchess and the Duke He Interviewed Them By Seaburn Brown Sent to intreview M. Helic de Talleyrand Perigord of France, titth d duke of Talleyrand and 13th count of Grignots, and the Mrs. tinguished guests—are sleeping. They arrived in Seattle only yes- terday and are wearied with the strain of meeting social obliga- tions, They cannot be disturbed.” I waited for a quarter of an hour } —I mean, the Mme. la Duchesse |. grew into a half-ho full hour. | do Talleyrand, formerly Anna |" f°" 10 & ne ee Gould, and at one time Countess | “Sap out of it and show a ittle| the clty editor had barked Boni de Castellane (just two per- sons), at the Hotel Washington Tuesday morning, I felt down in the mouth and without hope, for |. | got nervous. The nervousness two reasons: |fathered an idea; and 1—inspired by I feared that they might not care|the vision of an trate city editor— to be bothered with a beastly report. |#howed wonderful esprit de corps, as er, in the first place; and that, if 1/the Duke would say, in sneaking by lghould gain an audience I should be|the cordon of attendants and arriv- | nt the story f the next edi-| |tion. Get it and tear back.” } | |helpless because I flunked out of /ing #t the royal bedchamber the only course in French 1 ever 1 knocked, with no result. I | craftily the Knob and y. The door stood as did the French at the Marne, Then, blushing, 1 | eavesdropped, 1 heard a noise a long-drawn gasp with rising in: 1| flection, ending in a guttural snort, Apparently it was of mas- (Turn to Page 5, Column 4) The former Miss Gould has been| a French noblewoman for quite a while, and I had little assurance that | she Is still using our polyglot Amert: | can tongue My fears were confirmed, missed the reason “M. Helle de Talley—er—dis- but today ROAD MAY B SEIZE President to Appear Personally Before Congress Within Next 48 Hours to Ask Aid WASHINGTON, ae 1b. —President Harding will appear’ before congress within the next 48 hours to deliver a mes- sage on the rail strike situation, it was announced at the | White House today. It was officially stated tha t the president plans to place. the ¢ entire strike sit. situation before congress. ACCEPT SCALE CLEVELAND, Aug. 15.—Oper- ators of the central competitive field and miners’ representatives today ratified & temporary wage agreement which marks the first step toward ending the nation- wide bituminous coal strike. The proposals as ratified by the Policy committees of both sides will be placed before the entire confer ence at 2:30 p. m. for final accept- ance, The agreement % 4 - Acceptance of the 1921 wage acale. Continuation of the check off No renewal clauses. A meeting in Cleveland, Octo- ber 2, at which a general scale committee of operators and min- ers will be appointed. Appointment of a committee of inquiry or « “fact-finding com- mission,” to be composed of one miner representative, one operat- or, and a representative of the general public, PresiGent Harding Is to name the third member if the miners and operators cannot agree, This committee will investigate min ing conditions and report for the benefit of all concerned. The scale committee will meet January 3 of next year to draft an- other wage scale to become effective at the expiration of the scale accept led by both sides today. Orders to soft coal miners to re- sume work immediately in mines in six states that have been idle for months were expected to be tssued }late today by John L. Lewis, miners chief. The operators accepted the agree- ment, following a brief caucus. The miners, among themselves over some provis fons, announced acceptance “We will urge that this agree- ment be accepted by the joint conference of miners and oper- ators later in the day,” Lewis said, cee PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 15.— An thracite operators and union mine leaders will gather here tomorrow to resume negotiations broken off near- ly three months ago An early settlement of differences is expected and it is believed the hard coal mines will within 10 days, ACTUAL WORK ON AT MINES if not sooner. W KENSINGTON, Pa. Aug. 15 tual mining of coal started in the Kimloch and Valley camp mines of the Valley Camp Coal | company Coal cutters were ordered into the |mines by officials of the company in anticipation of the signing of the agreement between the miners and operators in Cleveland 85 PER CENT READY TO SIGN TERRE HAUTE, Ind,, Aug. 16. District headquarters of the United| Mine Workers of America has of. ficially announced it had the assur- ance of operators representing 85 per cent of the tonnage in the state that they would sign the agreement reached at Cleveland today. PUEBLO MEN RESUME JOBS) PUEBLO, Colo, Aug. 15.—Striking firemen and hostlers of the Missouri Pacific railway here have agreed to return to work immediately, follow. ing announcement by the company that armed guards would be with (Lurn to Page 7, Column 0 after a lengthy fight} be reopened | -“® The president probably will go be-. fore congress on Thursday, address ing a joint seasion of both houses, At the same time it is expected that he will suggest the next move that must be made by the Just what recommendations the executive will make have’ not een determined upon, but it was appar- ent that he has few alternatives left other than to ask approval for seiz- ure in the event of a more serious: breakdown in the transportation. Harding will make his message tot congress in a stafement to the peo-/ ple outlining the principles involved. in the strike dispute and his efforts Announcement that the president would go to congress within 48 hours came shortly after the striking shop- j men made public their unanimous re- jection of Harding's latest proposal to end the rail strike, in which they j charged that the railroads have em- |barked on a great open shop drive and do not want to settle the dispute. It was indicated that while ‘the | president will not interfere with the |efforts of the Big Four brotherhood headers to mediate the strike, he has |planned no further peace moves be- \fore going to congress. Harding's plans for a vacation have been abandoned and he will re- main in Washington until the strike emergency is over. He has decided not to go to the convention to which {he has been invited at Brooklys- j Ind... on August 24. RELIEF NEAR | IN CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15.— | Relief seemed at hand in the transcontinental railroad tieup today. Announcement that a a ment had been reached at Bernardino, Cal., with Union i cific employes, other than shop- men, who were on strike there was followed by an announce- ment by the Southern Pacific at San Francisco that the brother. (Turn to eae on Column 2) (NIGHT BATTLE IN RAIL YARDS te BAY, Wis., Aug. 15.—~ ‘Guerilla warfare” broke out at the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail |road shops here and continued until an early hour today. The trouble started shortly before midnight, when a crowd of men fired upon a crew of workers who were repairing an engine. Armed guards returned the fire. Desultory shoot- ing continued thruout the night. No casualties were suffered by either side, according to reports. As a result of the “battle” more than 100 firemen, engineers and trainmen refused to go to work to day, according to reports here, STRIKE LOOMS IN SOUTHWEST MUSKOGER, Okla., Aug. 15 .— Walkouts of Big Four brotherhood members threatened to spread into the Southwest today. \ Brotherhood members of the Fris- |co, Midland Valley and Kansas, Okla. /homa & Gulf railroads here voted to walk out unless armed guards were from the railroad shop | removed area. eee PORTLAND, Aug. 15.—The South- ern Pacific railroad this morning j lifted the embargo on livestock and perishable freight shipments south- |bound, effective immediately, accord: | ing to an announcement by the com- pany’s office here. The embargo had been clamped en yesterday, ¥ ‘ i is § AEE