The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 24, 1922, Page 1

eee ee EL | ON aa le eset apeenie at atiane tepeiatnmensenee. Dionne OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST ST HAVE ELECTED THE STAR THEIR FAVORITE SEATTLE NEWSPAPER — BY 15,000 | PLURALITY — nnn APTAIN ACCUSED Charge Master of H. F. Alexander Negligent in Navigation WEATHER Tonight and Friday, continued warm; moderate north. easterly wind. Temperature Last 4 Hours Maximum, 25 Minimum, 60, Today noon, 73, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered Hecond C Matter May F 24. ‘NO. 155. 2 SUICIDES IN ONE NIGHT of Violent Deaths Here; Man| Drops Dead at Prize Fight; Another May Die two suicides, one man perhaps fatally in- murders, Tee and one man dropped dead while a pistol encounter, a prize fight. i was the toll of violence in Seattle and King county} night and Thursday, making an unprecedented | uch deaths in the state's history. ! fice and Coroner W. H. Corson were busily » on the victims of the “crime revel” Thursday ‘The dead: John Nelson, seaman, for whose murder William De Graff, railroad employe, ls held by po | Til King st., crushed out by a raving madman in the King county bespital. Daniet Taylor, Northern Pa- cific switchman, vietim of his own gun after perhaps fatally wounding Grover Stacy, yard master. C.D. Smith, who fired a bullet Into his beain after failing to see his, wife, who ix seeking a di voree, William A. Pinney, photogra- pher, 1436 Orange pl, who suc cumbed to heart failure while watching boxing bouts in the Arena. Stacy was reported by phys at the Taylor-Locey hospital, burn, to be ne Au TO PERFORM Marion Claire Miss Marton Claire ia one of the Revue and dance to be given at the Arena Thursday night by Seattio | post, No, 18, American Legion, Practically every theater in the| city has chartered its beading act for + the Arena showing. Mins Claire iw appearing at the Pantages this week, ‘The American Legion band also is; a feature of the entertainment, giv ing an elaborate program of music| | during the Revue and providing mu sie for the dancing that will follow large evening of scintillating. 4, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie SEATTLE, WASH., THU RSDAY, AUG 3US Wash, under the Act of Congress March 1922, The Seattle Star 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, #5 \REBEL SHOOTS DURING RITES FOR COLLINS Crack of Sniper’s R ifle Shocks Throngs of Praying Mourners in Line of Hero’ DUBLIN, Aug. 24.- John Collins, slain Irish leader, was Rele: sed later, Collins declared the insurgents were 's Funeral Collins, brother of Michael kidnaped by rebels toda, gloat- ing over the death of his brother, DUBLIN, Aug. 2 draped coffin borne on a gun . . ~The body of Michael Collins, in a flag- carriage, was being carried be- tween throngs of praying Irish to the city hall today in the first phase of state funeral ceremonies for the dead hero when sniper’s rifle. The rebellion against the 4 Collins gave his the slain favori le charger of the] der, walked. On} jeither side troops with re-| many headliners at the Midwummer versed arms marched to the/ rythm of muffled drums. Many in the vast throng) were on their knees bebe | and mu! rifle shot sent a shiver of hor-} ror thru their ranks. An endiess ling of mourners, men, women and children from all walks of Irish Ife, passed by the raised, flowerstrewn bier. oring the late. commander in-chief. All ay long inking Thoreday. SUgHt | narkting amusement is offered, with | the line moved slowly thro the hail rross the River Liffey was heard the crack of a Free State, which the life to suppress, was on again. ut short his life, it was learned to. da y The Free State chieftain had fre quently postponed culmination of his wartime romance with the herolc | Irish girl who once raved his life. They had decided they must wait “until the fight wan won.” Colling.and Mise Kiernan had. wall the bryce od Apaeust ge the day, Budden death of Arthur Griffith, throwing double reaponsibility upon | Co again caused postponement, |but the wedding was to have taken place within « fortnight. TALE TOLD OF : |Pacific ocean, Auguat 6, who [HOME i TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE SHIP SPEEDED ALTHO WATER WAS SHALLOW Chief Officer Testifies at Trial That Soundings Showed Danger But Were Unheeded By Sam Apparently bearing out the charge of negli against Capt. E. P. Bartlett, B. Groff mee lodged master of the Admiral Line’s | palatial steamer H. F. Alexander, in connection with the Lareting of that vessel on Cake Rock, August 7, Chief Of- ficer Robert Marquard took the witness stand Thursday and | told the federal board of inquiry that is now investigating Capt. E. P. Bartlett, master the accident, that the soundings taken aboard the vessel were of the H. F. Alexander, which| made when the ship was proceeding at full speed, and disre- crashed into a rock in the| garding the fact that shallow water was being found. The inquiry, conducted by the U. S. Steamboat Inspection gallant /ig accused of negligence in| service, began its hearings Thursday morning in the trial of |testimony ata hearing before| Capt. Bartlett for the accident that put the lives of 300 Beside the gun carriage, led by a trooper with bowed head, \the U. S,ateamboat inspectors | passengers in imminent peril. jin attle Thursday. | Bartlett is said to have disre- garded warnings given when soundings showed shallow jwater. He has not yet been called to the stand to answer the teatimony. COMMISSIONER FIGHT IS WARM / | Capt. | The board, consisting of Capt. Don. ald 8, Ames, Capt. Harry Lord, Wi | Ham Fisher, supervisor, and Capt. J. 's. Gibson, master mariner and ad- viser to the board, put Marquard on the stand as the first witness. Capt, Ames quoted from the H. F. Alefander's tog of previous periods to show that it was the accustomed rule of the ship's officers to slow or stop the veasel when making sound- ing, even in clear weather, as the rush of the ship often prevented an accurate sounding. “Why was the ship going at full speed when the soundings |; CANDIDATES STANDING PAT Efforts to eliminate ali but one of the progressive republican anti-Poin- ) dexter candidates met with little suc- | coms Wednesday night. George B. Lamping repeated his | offer to enter into a conference which should eliminate by vote all but one | candidate. Judge Austin E. Griffiths stood pat lon his decision not to agree to any compromise, and Mrs. Frances C. Ax- tell insisted that she had been “drafted” into the race, and that she hope was held for his recovery, heat wave and the per-jattempts to conquer persistent in jternal hemorrhages were unsucces | arge and ‘Counter-Charge Made in n South End Many stopped to fall on theis knew | jand pray, or to lay a wreath benide | }genuine top-notchers scheduled to | ainuse the public. were made before the crash?" asked Ames. could not consent to an elimination conference without conferring with SLAIN LEADER“ M4. ful | Shortly before midnight Wed- nesday, Stacy had an altercation with Daniel Taylor, switchman, who he had ordered to move some freight cars in the yard. The quarrel culminated, investi gating officials were told, when Stacy struck Taylor in the face. ‘The latter went to his home in Aubarn, returning at 11:30 in an intexieated condition and bran- dishing « gun. According to witnesses, Taylor shouted, “I've got you now!” He fired twice, one bullet entering Stacy's chest and the other striking pir sia to Page 7, Column 2) 'S. P. PLANNING GREAT OUTLAY SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24. McCumber says the gov- plenty of money to pay s bonus. Dut we need that to pay have demolished the block and torn down the of Kane the Tailor. razed Kane. eee Fable: Once upon a time) circus press agent who | Bed to horses as horses and not) see QUERY if the council, when it to buy a new 130acre te near Fauntleroy, was by the city’s evident more sparking space? “ee A Sane I loathe, Ig Annie Burch: / “Whe talks in theaters, Bireet and church Bhe talks at home, the talks abroad, She talks in bed, In bath, tn Ford. Bhe talks tn shops, Cafes and stores; To traffic cops And other bores death with talk She will beguile, talk to Peter Yer wt improvements were made public here today by the Southern Pucifiec rail- road, thru F. L. Burekhalter, assist ant general manager. Items included in the plans are jew jocomotives, $4,500,000; rails, ties and ballast, $11,300,000; new cars and rolling stock, $12,500,00; plant | facilities, $700,000. Much of the emount set aside for | ocomotives will be used to purchase | heavy engiges for use in the Sierra | evade: mountains. \Worker Is Injured by Falling Steel) | Lenzlo, 25, Right hotel, was re- Tetra in the Seattle General hos |pital Thursday from injuries suffered between | Wednesday night when a large piece of steel fell from a scaffold, hitting | bir upon the cheat | ployed by the Todd dry docks as a ident occurred | HATE steel worker. The acctden vont at the dry dock while he was helping in the repairing of a boat. an % 4] of these marriages 8 appear to lack continu- oe living reome, | ec Reason for selling.”— morning paper. see Beer, No Work!” we swore min 191%. And, by heck, we've Sour word! Have You a Good Home to Sell? Many people who have been on wcations are starting to return to settle down for the winter. Some will have their own homes to come back to, while others will have to iook for a home that will be to their liking. These people are watching the STAR WANT ADS, and are venting and buying homes in which to be happy. ‘Telephone Main 0600 today*and Wet your home for sale in the WANT AD SECTION. THE COST 18 A TRIFLE. mia legislature enacts a law tt the California nuts. The (lass in Kasy Wheezes for Tiny fa hereby dierniseed. . PFIRE TRAVELOGUES Adeline, say you'll be mine, nm yonder in the old corn Sela, tarry me back to OV V! teginny, | m the road to Mandalay. home fires burning, upon the Suanee rive long way to Tipperary, "s Inkes and fells! Sar PRANAidate for the Poison to Page 7, Column 1) Plans | for the expenditure of $29,000,000 for | Lenzlo was em. | PEACE IN STATE. MINES ASSURED Big Results Expected From Conference Today By E. P. Chalcraft With an carly peace looked for, at least by the miners theny selves, officials of the Washing: ton Coal Operators’ association and of district No. 10, United Mine Workers of America, met in conference Thursday in the Lyon building. Confidenes that an agreement would be reached, perhaps be fore the day was over, wis ex pressed by Ben Farrimond, presi dent of the Mine Workers. “{ don't think it should take vers long reach an understanding.” Farrimond said, “If all goes the conference may be ended today John Ryck, president of the V lington Coal Operators’ assoc was noncommittal, “Your guess is as good as mine he said, when asked how the pros- pects for agreement were. If the conference successful, it pee: that between 200 and 2,300 miners will resume work in the mines of the Washington Coal Oper latorr’ association. These are the orthwest Improvement Co., tho Washington Union Coal Co., and the} Rosiyn Coal Co., and the Roslyn-Ca cade Coal Co. | The mines operated by these | companies are the only union mines left in the state, and are the only ones now closed. No coal has been taken from them since March 31, when the men walked out, ~ Farrimond union coal m! | unemployed. ‘duced by | | ash ation, estimated that 4,000 re in the state) are his number willbe re practically one-half, if |Thursday’s conference results in lagreement. The places of the rest of the union miners have been taken by non-union men in the mines that are | operating on an open shop basis. Bootlegger and U. S. Agent Shot | | | | | WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—A run- ining gun battle between revenue | | agents and bootieggers for 15 miles |\tlong Olney pike ended at the edge | lof Washington today, when one boot- legger and a revenue agent were | | shot, | | Villages along the road were ter \yorized as the speeding automobile, from which scores of shots were be- ing fired, dashed thru, i | Cork, | Free State | Sta | Ire | ford, | the coffin MULCAHY NAMED CHIEF OF ARMY A mittitary proces of the Irish Free 8 pace with na with soldiers te marching at reversed arma, to eity hall ught remains from here at half past 12 The body was carried Vincent's hos. stood toady the bere the arriv this morning from the pier to St pital while great a thong tly By “Piery Dick” Mul ny has been ap. pointed comma in-chief of the my to succeed Collins, it 8 understood here today, But the question of who was to replace the slain leader 4 of the Free te government was the real cause of concern A triumvirate grave looked to for t tomorrow cannot w an the b Mulcahy, Liam Cos » Gavan Duffy, is moment. The dail urday, i members before then, will tem- and Geor \ porarily decide. Stato, der nt of the Irish Free » the slain patriot never came In carried par from 4 his authorit ri am whi to being. on ruthless men who finally vented this. yerrifla warfare, killed Collins, pre Dublin cathedral will be the scene | of a solemn requiem mass on Mon day. Collins’ will be taken there Sunday, and interment will be at Glasnevin cemetery, where the dead leader will be accorded military honors. Th body Dublin brigade, loyal soldiers, will escort | their chieftain's remains to the come tery where Arthur Griffith and oth er patriots are buried. COLLINS KILLED ON WEDDI DATE Collins was to have been married to Kitty Kiernan, of County Long- on the very day 4 rebel bullet the pick of (FIVE NOTED MEN OF IRELAND HAVE DIED IN LAST 2 MONTHS! LONDON, Aug. %4.-—Five prominent figures in current Trish history have died suddenly within the past two months. June 22—Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, chief of Ulster de fense, assassinated in front of his here. home July De ot Free Charles Burgess, Valern’s ileutenant, died wounds received fighting State troops August 1—Harry Boland, former Sinn F envoy to the United States, died from wounds received resisting arrest August president died # Arthur Griffith, of the Dail Efreann, denly of heart failure August 22 —~ Michael Collins, head of the Free State pro visional government, killed, y and incessantly by the | CHICAGO, Aug. | Patrick Collins, older brother of the }alain Irish leader, was reminiscent today of the days m he and Mike! “growin’ kids” and went to the/ national school pear their home In Ireland Seated at hin desk jcago police station, Pat told of boyhood ambitions and their) desires to “amount to something.” Right well do I remember the time when I told Mike I was coming to Am We were sitting on the seashore watching the ships coming in and going out for America * ‘Mike,’ says 1, ‘I'm goin’ America and make a fortune ahead if you want,’ Mike ‘But you'll be nothin’ better than a street sweeper over there. I'm goin’ to stay right here in Ire land and enter politics.’ “Well, Mike kept his promise and entered politics, and a right good politician he was. Ten years ago he |was comin’ to America, but he changed hig mind and went Into poli tics deeper than ever.” WILL PROBE HERRIN RIOT WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—On the i request of District Attorney Brun- ) dage. Chicago, Attorney General Daugherty has given C, W. kauff leave of absence to act as spo cial prosecutor in mine war prosecutions, announced today been acting as special assistant to | Daugherty. The grand jury to investigate the j massacre convenes | Monday, Daugherty stated Middlekauff acted as prosecutor in | the East St, Louls riots. ‘BIG BUDGET SLASH MADE Approximately $100,000 was cut from the 1923) estimates of five city departments Wédnesday by the coun bu et committee. The health department was the. hardest hit, un: |dergoing a slash of $45,000 Roth the police and fire depart ment estimates were treated gently Despite protests by Me Brown and Chiet Severyns, the allowance for police secret service work was cut from $10,000 to $6,000. The park department's estimate of | $12 270,194 was allowed with practical |ly no change. Tunnel Thee Wall | Steal $50,000 Furs CLEVELAND, aug. 4.--Furs vak | ued at $50,000 were stolen here early today by thieves who tunneled their | Way thru the briek wall of an adjoin- |ing store into the Engel & Fitzer Fur | were in the South | their to nays Daugherty yor Sergeant | Middle: | the Herrin, Ml. ; Middiekauff has | in Herrin next | The campaign for county com: \minsioner in the south district, where & large field of candidates fur jnishing one of the hottest of the primary fights, took on added |warmth today with these develop: | | ments A vigorous onslaught by Frank HM. Paul on the county automo- bile situation. An attack by George McFar- lane on Paul, charging the latter with being the “Lafe Hamilton candidate” and with being him- self a parasite on the county payroll. Here are assertions Paul is making regarding automobile extravagance: ‘That King county, according to the best check possible to obtain, is maintaining about 70 automobiles That out of 26 departmen‘s in our county government, in depart [ments the county is maintaining from one to five automobiles. That there was paid out general funds for maintenance of au |tomoblies for 1921 the sum of $49,- T1749. That in the north and south com missioners’ districts out of the vari jous road funds in 1921 there was dis |bursed for maintenance of automo |biles and trucks $97,393.76. That the grand total maintenance for automobiles and trucks in 1921 was $147,171.26. ‘That the county purchased for the different departments in the court- house, five new autos at a cost of $5,990.78. Paul is the candidate who recent- ly launched « vigorous attack on the |14 O'Briens, who, he says, are on the payroll to the extent of $11,697, are similarly cumbering the payroll ial to ici 7, Column 3) EXTRA! PATRONS OF WOODLAND PARK ARE GROWING—IT’S A BOY! There's @ new arrival at Wood- land Park auto camp And he didn’t come in driving a machine, either, But he's the talk of the whole camp—everybody's excited about him. Old Doe Stork paid his first visit to the camp just before noon ‘Thursday. A son was born to Mr, and Mrs, B. J, Rafferty, Provi dence, R. 1, who are touring the Northwest Dr. I. H. Moore was summoned, and the youngster first saw the light in a tent. To commemorate the first birth in the park, the tourists camped there have followed the lead of Mr. and Mrs. Frank McKirby of Los Angeles, and are raising a fund for the new camping mate. The child probably will named Woodland. | be of the} “1 do not know,” quard. | The steamer's log was again re |ferred to. It showed that on the {night of the wreck four soundings bad been taken between 10:30 p. m. jand 1225ya, m. the moment of the crash, @fbrquard asserted that two | more seundings had been made, but | not entered in the log. He produced }® note which he claimed showed the |last two entries. The first sounding, at 10:30, | Showed 47 fathems, the log showed On the next sounding, at 11:5, 45 | fathoms were shown. Marquard cast | the lead at 11:30 and found a de crease to 33 fathoms, Again at 12, midnight, was cast over the side, and a depth lof only 20 fathoms was brought up. |Marquard communicated the news to the ship's bridge, he sald, and re jeeived a reply hastily cast the lead again at 12:05 a. m. and the lead line ran out 90 fathoms of wire in registering but 20 fathoms of water, owing to a poorly armed sounding tube. He again warned the bridge by ringing an alarm bell, but the ship did not slacken speed, altho the ship's officers were aware of their position, having just passed and recog- nized Destruction Ivtand, Marquard said he was not greatly alarmed, but knew the vessel was too far inshore. He said all his own (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) replied Mar- | FRANCE REJECTS GERMAN SCHEME Moratorium Plan Instantly BERLIN, Aug. 24.~-Germany sub- mitted plans for a five-month me } |instantly rejected by France. | ‘The German plan, which was |thought acceptable to the allies, was jfor deposits of gold guaranties jagainst a temporary moratorium on parations payments. The Frenchmen flatly refused to consider it. France demands a lien on German industry in exchange for |temporary relief from payments. eee \German Mark Again Takes Big Decline LONDON, Aug. 24.--The German mark crashed to 8,500 to the pound, or approximately 1,900 to the dol lar, today, following receipt of news that France has refused to accept Germany's latest suggestion for a moratorium of five | re the ‘ical y and her proposals were | her supportrs. | William Short, president of the State Federation of Labor, made a vigorous plea that the three candi- dates get together and agree on one | opponent to stand against Poindexter. |Vets Are Refunding Raffle Risk Money Every person who purchased tick- jets from veterans to the recent car- |nival and circus, staged at the |Arena by the Veterans of Foreign Wars during their national conven- |tion held here and who was disap- pointed when the advertised raffle of }touring autos failed to take place, may get his money refunded, accord- ing to Ira R. Ellis, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The organization wishes to make levery possible adjustment of the af. fair, Ellis said. Patrons may secure | their money from the salesman frong whom they bought their ticketa, These salesmen are now engaged ig tracing their former customers with |that end in view, it is said. '3 IN FLAMES LEAP IN SEA SAN PEDRO, Cal, Aug. 24— Three men were injured, two serious- ly and one slightly, in an explosion on board the fishing tender A. B., at a® point 10 miles off Point Vincent early today. A shower of burning distillal poured over the three men, who were trapped in the engine room. Flam. ing from head to foot, the trio leaped into the sea, The explosion occurred when the men were engaged in transferring distillate from one tank to another, some of the fluid Jeaking out and be- coming ignited. The victims were picked up by another fishing boat and brought to San Pedro, 1,000 KIDDIES ARE WANTED AT STADIUM FOR GREAT PROGRAM Oh, kids! Wanta wear a cos- tume 'n sing at the Stadium, Labor Day? If you do, call Friday at 3 p, m,, at 1915 First ave, and get your rehearsals started. One thousand kiddies, boys and girls, between the ages of 10 and 15 are wanted. They will form a living flag, dressed im costumes speciatly made for the occasion, and will hold their exercises on the huge Wayfarer stage, singing “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” and other patriotic songs. All will be furnished free tickets to the great celebration. Mrs, Theodore Den- field will drill the kiddies. months.