The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 16, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER Tonight and Truraday, fair; gentle northwesterly winds, ‘Temperature Last M4 Hours Maximum, 67, Minimum, 54. Today noon, 67. NO. 148. JME 24. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The SeattleStar fat the Postoffice at Meattia Wash, under the Act of Congress March §, 1678, vette, raid ssa nea ool madeline = OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST HAVE ELECTED THE STAR THEIR FAVORITE SEATTLE NEWSPAPER — ~ BY 15,000 eens, Per Your, by Mall, $6 to #8 (EDITORIAL) Today's news dispatches contain the information that some enterprising congressmen have a scheme to save Uncle Sam money. They are exercised over the large sums which the ng board is spending in England to stock the yooms aboard its liners. ied not,” they suggest, “make some arrange- > MAYOR HURIS DEFIANCE AT COUNCIL Says He Can’t Be) Kept Away From Hearings to Fix Budget — “All the men on the city coun- ell can’t kemp me out of the bud- hearings: | hk mother, come home me now, im the steeple strikes lai are burning, the waak= | | eee Haig has been elect of a distillery. They Ge te reward their heroen in This was Mayer Brown's an- swer Wednesday to the council's action in refusing to invite him to “sit in” on the budget confer. ences. ‘When the people of Seattle elect- ed me mayor, they give me a stand. ing invitation to attend to the city’s Dusiness,” the mayor added, “I'm going to attend the hearings on the} budget from now on.” Brown scored the council's ac- tlon in refusing his requests for “If the council] wishes to block my plans for cleaning the city of dope runners and booze peddlers,” he said, “I will ask private citizens to raise money to buy a fast boat. If neces sary, t can even plaster a mortgage jon my own property.” Brown announced Wednesday that he was not going to remove J. Y. C. ef my ‘The mayor predicted that hé woul | ‘cut more than $15,000 off next year's | expenditures by the civil service de: | ' t ‘The world ia getting better. May- i Brown refuses to debate with the one ge thing about the conven- are ta Veterans of Foreign} le the total absence of top Ind loots, buglers and LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16.—Grand fury investigation of the disappear. | jAnce from his office of evidence in [the trial of 36 alleged kiansmen ac cused of participating in a masked faid at Ingiewood in April, will be/ asked by Chief Deputy District At torney Doran as soon an the trial is completed, he said today. | Meantime the state will hasten tol wind up the evidence which r od its most sensational climax at yes terday geasion. Outstanding was the picture drawn lby state witnesses of the shooting affray which terminated the Ingte-| wood raid. Frank Woerner, young | officer who engaged in a battle with the raiders, and Clyde Vanatta, who} drove him to the scene, were the} chief witnesses. Woerner’s account, largely cor-! roborated by Vanatta’s testimony pictured masked men with flash: lights who sought to stop him on the road and who fired on him after he informed them he was ap officer hundred candidates are going |of the law. Initiated into the Military Or- a gpenrorl Farmer Is Killed by Lightning Bolt! There ie « limit even to of @ cootie. Dn POMEROY, Wash., Aug. 16.—Hu CE BULL-ETIN bert Armstrong, 21, a farmer, is dead and his brother was recovering from shock today from the effects of ja lightning bolt which struck them | while hauling grain. Four horses hitched to the farm wagon were killed. Every bone in Armstrong’s lhody was broken and his clothing goa from his body “We've Paid Limit,’ 2 Is German Message BERLIN, Aug. 16—"We've paid {all we can,” Chancellor Wirth said |} today, announcing that 500,000 gold tmarks had been deposited fn the/| {| Bank of England. This is one-fourth \ of the amount due on the present in Btrested in Seattle for steal-|stallment of pre-war commercial | “A SNARE MRC OMRON MGR 3 )Will believe that Prosperity ffeturned when there are not than 167 candidates for the @ constable in King county— pays $100 a month. ot the city council, points out that verry feven city fathers and two} eee Mary had a Uttle flask, Bhe kept it on her hip; every now and then Bhe'd take a little nip. eee from a girl. That kind of | debts. Must be grand Marks today slumped to 4,700 for a ling pound sterling, or over 1,000 to $1 GEE GEE, TH’ OFFI VAMP, SEZ: the prig is bent, so Js the | | inclined. Small Farms Around Seattle Acreage and farm land can be purchased at very low and easy Walden, the Caruso of res! a has solved the mystery ae Polson-pie deaths. The pie|| terms in and around Seattle wy Merely mixed up his var-|| Your choice of poultry, dairy and || Me strong. || fruit ranches can be found in With reguiars 1 b Bet they'r. a || the Want Ads. nave captured || - buoyant crowd!! oe GOOD ACREAGE It t# not something for nothing, | STUFF | but $25 per acre for good, level ae Frsien Calvin Coolidge || and te next to it. It's on good a f Vb: | roads, near town, and in &# fra! “ i Gamma || thickly settled district. 1 alse ternity, || have fine tmproved places at Midn't know that Mrs. bargain prices - n Kappa. | Learn more about these places by turning to the WANT AD SECTION Myo iow any place where we MA straw hat in for a rain “Sure, a Bar in Postoffice Would Boom Stamp Business ment with the prohibition enforcement people, to turn over the liquor seized in raids? That wouldn't cost anything.” Excellent idea! Only Why stop at the ships? A modest blind pig in the postoffice, for instance, ought to strike popular fancy. No doubt there are many patriotic citizens who would rather patronize Uncle Sam than a private bootlegger. SRAIL CRISIS SUBSIDES IN ~CALFORNA! Trains “Beginning| to Roll Again) After Long Halt; Fruit Men Meet BY M. D. TRACY SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16.— Belief that the crisis in the Weat- ern rall strike situation has passed was expressed by many raliroad men and shippers today. Lifting of the embargo on fruit, tive stock and perishables by the Southern Pacific; operation of pas: senger trains over the Basta Pe, and announcements by the Union Pacific and Western Pucific that they ex- it doesn’t go far enough. ‘Breaks World’s Record; Then | Kills Himself! CHICAGO, Aug, 16.—Terrence Rows Kepler, 25, « radio oper. ater of Canton, 0., died today from « bullet wound in his head, Notes found in his pocket stated | he was about to commit suicide 1 Kepler yesterday broke the | world’s champlonship record for | reeelving the Morse code on a telegraph set at the Pageant of Progress, He received 319 words | in twe minutes and 53 steonds, | According to police, Kepler was in. | fatuated with Olga Stobbe, telephone | Operator, of Canton. Miss Stobbs | Wag Visiting friends fn the apartment | | | Uullding where Kepler wan found. A note In Kepler's pocket sald “Dear Olga: Life is empty without you, and ff 1 cannot have you, I de not want Ife, 1 have called you again and again, and if you do not say yeu love me I will ki) myself, ROSS.” COOLIDGE DUE IN CITY TODA On a flying trip thru Wash Ington while on his way back to the national capital, after at- tending the National Bar asso ciation convention in San Fran- cisco, Calvin S. Coolidge, vieo- president of the United States, was scheduled to make a public address at 8:39 p. m. Mabon od iy the Woodward theater, Third ave. and Madison st. In the vice-preaident's party, which was due vin the Great Northern at 440 p. m, are Mre. Coolidge, their sone, John and Calvin, Mr. and Mew. Frank W. Stearns, of Boston, and a federn! secret service agent. Immediately upon arrival the dis tinguixhed guests were to be encort led to the New Washington hotel by line Chamber of Commerce reception | committee. pected to move trains within 24 hours were the reassuring features of the day Brotherhood leaders at several points were werking with the railway officials in an effort to bring conditions back to normal. Fruit growers. facing loms of their $50,000,000 crop, gathered In san | Pranciseo uring the morning to div | louse what steps they should take. | Courses favored by them included: | : } } WASHINGTON, Aux. Skeptical of an carly pon of the rail strike at the new peace conferences of executives and brotherhood leaders in New York ‘Thursday, President Harding to- day prepared to place the critical transportation situation before congress in a special message to- norrew, Harding expected to spend most At T p.m. the Chamber of Com-|of today in conference with con Merce has arranged a formal dinner | gressional leaders and other advisers in honor of Vice-President Coolidge! He realized thar the situation in at the Rainier club. Mra. Coolidge charged with political dynamite, and the same hour will be the guest|is secking advice from all quarters of the Sunset club. before finally deciding upon the text An informal reception by the! of hin strike message. oung Men's Republican club, In the! Administration. leaders are inclined | lobby of the Washing’ 1 startito the view that the disputanta, in | Thor ‘ns entertainment " of the |agreeing to the Thursday meeting in | vice-president. At noon he will be’ New York, simply are jockeying for | the guest of the Phi Gamma Delta] puptic favor. There can be no set-| fraternity at the College club, while itiement untess one aide or the other | Mrs. Coolidge will be honored at the Seattle Yacht Phi sorority. At 2 p. m, Thursday the party will leave Seattle for Tacoma, where they will be entertained (Turn to P in prepared to make radical conces sions. RAIL STRIKERS SEE FRAME-UP | ~- TACOMA, Aug. 16.—Charges that the attack Monday night upon KE. ©, Carnine as he was on his way home from work in the club by the Pi Beta | under the aus 7. Column 5) I New Geyser Spouts Near Old Faithful | } | WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont..| Northern Pacific shops was made Aug. 16.—A new geyser, rivaling! by men employed by the rail- ‘Old Faithful,” has erupted in Ypl| roads in an effort to influence lowstone park. Masses of rock and| the hearing now being held in dirt were hurled into the alr yes | federal court upen the continua. | terday is the new “gusher” came in| thon of the injunction against , | near aring mountain | the strikers, were made today by This is the md new geyser to the striking sho ven, |spout in the park thia year | The carmen denied that any of | their members were implicated tn the } We expected this to happen,” one ‘or such a thing to handle the situation just and were abl We have in- | Latest; May Replace Glands LONDON power key glands as 4 restorer of youth, leading men of the acientific world believed today Discovery of the latest Invig. tor, which is said to prolong human life beyond 160 years, was made by Dr. Henri Spahtinger, Swiss scientist, who originated a serum and vaccine treatment for | formation 8 to who was responsible | | for the attack on Carnine, and a soon as We can prove our charges we are golng to expone this thing. EXECUTIVES PESSIMISTIC, | CHICAGO, Aug. “16.—Rall | tives here expressed pessimism today lover the outcome of the conference | with brotherhood leaders to be held | |in New York tomorrow “AN of the executives I have seen Aug. Horan serum has aS ced mon execu. | | tuberculosis: agreed with me that if the brother: | It requires from ons to four | hoods wanted another conference, | years to produce the life pro. the roads should accept the sugges-« longer and seven horses are need. | tion,” Hale Holden, president of the e4 for the manufacture of one | Chicago, Burlington & Quinoy, de complete treatment. clared. “However, the consensus of A business associate of Dr. | opinion was there seemed. little Spahlinger writes this testimonial |#round to believe that adjustment ] of the longevity lotion could be reached | “The injectiong made me feel In the meantime, service over | strong as a lion. They gave me |transcontinental lines was slightly | an abundance of stimulation and improved | a maryeloug fund of energy. 1 have never felt the faintest reac tion from the treatment.” According to other associates TWO HURT AS TRAINS CRASH of Spahilinger, who have also un dergone treatment, the horsepow LOUIS, Aug. 16.4-A fireman er serum imparts the look of By engineer were injured when two | youth to the face as well as giv- | Frisco trains met in a head-on col. ing the throb and vigor of youth |iision at Horine, Mo., near here, to- | to the body. They say that the [day lines and creases of age are Bota engines and mail cars were smoothed out so marvelously that |derailed but the other coaches re death seemy “& ridiculous impos [mained on the track. No passen sibility.” gers were injured, FALL IN LINE. Start HAKEUP w Inspector Named "CARNIVAL" STIRS IRE! Blocks Downtown Streets, Altho No Authority Is Apparent girile-girtle shows, chance and gambling tables is in full blast every night of this week, and city officials are searching vainly for the carni- val's license to operate on Seat- tle streets. damming Fifth ave. in front of the Arena, University st. from , Fifth ave. to Seventh ave., and © covering a large portion of Sixth .mear the Labor Temple, the Searching inquiry at the city hall Wednesday failed to show that the owners of the carnival had ever ob- tained a permit to operate in Seattie. A permit was granted to a carnival company to operate this week on private property at Fourth ave, and Lenore st., but no ordinance was passed by the council for the misce!- laneous collection of side shows around the Arena. Both the Hippodrome and the Arena are being used by the Veterans of Foreign Wars as amusement cen. ters, but the burlesque shows, the merry-go-rounds and varions side- shows are owned and operated by the Brown, Leavitt & Huggms Co.-—a private concern. Councilman R. B. Hesketh, chair- man of the council license committee, declared that he knew of no permit to the carnival company. E. L. Marsh, chief license clerk, was in- vestigating the case Wednesday. The majority of the booths are given over to various forms of gambling devices, the wheel of chance predominating. Se eral of the booths display highly- colored posters of “queens of the harem,” “Oriental dancers” and “the dancing girls—girls— girs.” Traffic is entirely blocked on the streets._and wide detours are neces- eary before vehicles can reach the downtown section, ‘CHALLENGES POINDEXTER Harry O'Brien, new inspector of police ~—Photo by Price &« Harry O’Brien ‘Succeeds Hans Damm! as Inspector, Commissioned to Make Radical Changes By Sam B. Groff Commissioned to take charge of Mayor E. J. Brown's rter, Star Staff Photographers STRIKE IS OVER IN SIX STATES |Men Actually ly Going Back to Work in Mines A great army of sila, seat. ponies og cing | promised sweeping reorganization of. the Seattle police de-|W. H. Short Wants to Have todey. partment, Lieut. Harry G. O’Brien stepped into the police} Public Debate inspectorship at noon Wednesday, following his appoint- |ment Tuesday night by Chief of Police W..B. Severyns. | Actual production of bitumin ous coal was resumed after a bit- Charging that Senator Poindexter ter wage war that extended over O'Brien relieved Inspector Hans; That many changes in the per. {is not a friend of labor, but is the 137 days. Damm, who served as assixtant to| sonnel of the department are | champion of powerful vested inter- Agreement unanimousty signed at|ex-Chief W. H. Searing under the| coming was. indicated by Sey- |csts, William Short, president of the Washington State Federation of labor, has challenged the Eastern Washington man to a debate on his qualifications as senator. “Clever as you are, senator,” Short's challenge reads, “I hold that eryns, altho he refused to state the extent to which the Legate murder case has influenced bim or Mayor Brown in the contem- plated shakeup. It is freely. rumors Cleveland late yesterday by operators | regime of Hugh Caldwell as mayor. and miners gave the signal for re-| A war hero and veteran of many | sumption of mining by nearly 20 per | over battles, cited for bravery cent of all miners on strike. jon the battlefield, O'Brien at 41 has The old wage ncnie and the old|set a precedent in local police an working agreements will be effective He is the first man below the nals, so that the until a joint conference appoints alrank of captain to be appointed in-| vice charges made Rev. Phil. | you cannot serve the selfish purposes (Turn to Page 7, Column 4 | Spector jip EB. Bauer have ne effect, on |of corporate interests and at the ‘O'Brien will have charge of [the city’s admin n of police | same time truly represent the mass further changes in the depart- /affaits. In copnection with this, it}of the common people of the state OPERATORS TO) ment.” Severyns sald, “as he jis admitted by Severyns that Sergt.|and nation.” | knows the department much /|J, L. Zimmerman, who has charge} Short expressed a wish that the (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) —_|debate be held in Seattle at a dato not later than one week in advance of the coming primary election. VOTE IS CLOSE ON VARDAMAN more thoroly than I do.” WASHINGTON, ‘Aug. . 16,—-Scores ofopertors wie ai not ators ts LAKE STATES ARE SIZZLING fied their intention of joining in the! CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—No relief LAID TO REST DUBLIN, Aug, 16.—Thousands strike settlement, Secretary of Labor | Davis announced today. | Davis estimated that operators) was In sight today from the heat prsons frot re who signed the ngreement represent| wave which held the Lake states | pf persons from all over Ireland | yacison, Miss, Aug. 16.— an output of 2,000,000 tons of a1| in its grip, the weather bureau sd sr * Former Senator James K. Vardaman, weakly | announced. Arthur Griffith in Glasnovin | pitter toe of Woodrow Wilson, today Representatives ‘of the labor de-| One death from heat prostra- cemetery. Griffith, president of | was leading in the Mississippi sena- partment, he said, inform him that| tion was reported here yesterday, the Dail Eireann and foremost | torial primary by fewer than 200 votes on returns from 71 out of 82 counties, Backers of Hubert D. Stephens, when the thermometer climbed to producers of another 2,000,000 tons 90, weekly, who were not represented at the conference, will adhere to the Irish statesman, of a heart attack. died Saturday agreement reached there within ©) G4 04) Wo a Then| _—_—_ running on ® pro-Wilson platform, few days. 00 ' were confident he would nose out An anthracite settlement is tmmi |Mayor Brown Givda | Wercaisat ered compan Secorts Himself, Both Dead) nent, Davis said. This would add e in, but it was admitted that a 1,760,000 tons to the output and bring| CASPER, Wyo., Aug. 16.—Jealousy Talk at Graduation run off” primary probably would be the total production up to 11,000,000/ is believed to have caused Frank Mayor Edwin J, Brown was the | necessary because of the state law re- Luella a nominee must get a tons @ week, as against an average | Weaver to shoot and kill Mrs. principal speaker at the graduation | quiring that weekly output of less than 10,000,000 | Randolph, and then turn the gun! exercises of the Northwest College of | majority of the votes gross tons last year, provided that|}on himself here yesterday, Both | Optometry, in the Masonic club, at 8 Miss Belle Kearney, the woman transportation facilities are ayall.|bedies were found in Mra, Ran-|p. m, Tuesday, There were 16 grad,'candidate in the senatorial race, able, dolph's bedrovr | uates, polled about 15,000 votes