The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 1, 1922, Page 1

de 3 J PEOPLE | OF THE OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST HAVE ELECTED THE STAR THEIR FAVORITE SEATTLE NEWSPAPER — BY 15,000 PLUR PLURALITY" ’ WEATHER Tonight and Saturday, generally fair; moderate westerly winds Temperature Last 34 Hours Maximum, 63. Minimum, 57, fany windows of the big structure wi USE SCISSORS EAN OPERATION SSLIFE 1 SAVE) — ste I Remarkable Story seed it? of Achievement on Seattle Ship Is Narrated Operated upen two days ago aboard the Admiral liner, Ruth Alexander, under emergency con: ditions rivalling those on the fleld of battle, Third Officer W. 5. Hoare was resting comfortably in Providence hospital, Friday, minus his appendix. ‘The story of the operation, which stands alone in Pacific coast ship- ping circles, was told by Dr. J. A Ghent, King county jail physician, | Upon the vessel's arrival in Seattle | from San Francisco, Friday morning. Third Officer Hoare, Dr. Ghent Howdy, folks: Jove this Puget today’s dirth aitioes Mr, and | Grubb are credited with a baby ought to be able to keep the | from the door as long as they | 4 little Grubb in the house | “Pacoma sheriff accused Of selling He should have sold moon: | Dead men tell no tales. o- } 1 bit President Harding vetoes th bonus dill. we're going to can- ‘our subscription to the Marion m., Wednesday, but did not report the trouble until 9 p. m. “De. E. 8, Hall. of Victoria, BC. only physicians ‘'e saw at once that an immediate q operation was necessary to save the ‘s fe. And we would have to Q board ship, because it would have been too late by the time we lcould reach Astoria, Ore, 18 hours away, or Seattle, 30 hours ahead. “So we searched the ship for the necessary ees and in- ig Me the ee : trouble with playing horse- is that there so many ring: im the mesa j two old forceps, and a pair of scissors. These we cleaned up as best we could, likewise two darn- ing needles that we borrowed from 2 woman passenger.” A part of a can of ether and some Chief il ge says he is going to| patroimen every 90 days. Huh, wd like to nee him find the cop on Renton Hill beat in 90 days! surgeons. Miss Emma Anderson, a medi- cal student from Spokane, who graduates next year from the Stanford University Medical was called upon to admin- the anaesthetic. | “We improvised an jtable by taking a stateroom door joff its hinges and laying it across | two chairs,” Dr. Ghent said. “Then with the scissors, the two forceps oar plans ‘are dierupted. and the darning needles we removed the appendix, sewed up the inci- Eddie Hubba: across Praages perbais? casita Hikes. |Sions, and 15 minutes later the pa- on ty tack ot sirvice with « Tstle | tient was returning to conscious- y back ou! ens Crow. ” & don't see why Bill wants to the policemen—the bootlesgers ys treated hears well. } . - arations Island for our vacation comes the news that the price of liquor has dropped in Vancouver and . . An ambulance was waiting at the cancelled her | dock when the Ruth Alexander oane Coat ta because she| docked and Hoare was taken to e her shoulder, Gosh, when d@id| Providence hospital to speed his re-/ start using their shoulders in | covery “ i e HOW TIME FLIES! Doe Brown has only 4 days AYOR RAPS Para": | CITY COUNCIL he Mayor Brown launched an attack, K ‘ ™® Scent carfare in 90 days. | Friday, on the city council, which, he | Now he is singing, “Turn | ov ined, has utterly failed to reduce | ward, Turn Backward, }itw expenses, altho it has cut the + in Thy Flight! | mayor's secretarial staff almost in | two. You can't expect a man t carry “There's always two or three the promises he makes before he | piers gitting around the council married or Cwrsart | chambers, doing nothing,” the mayor | aid. “I am glad to cut down the ex | penses of my department, and counciimen were glad to do it for| me. Why don’t they slash thelr own padde:’ payrol?” {Brown pointed out that the streets | | ana sewers committee has a special Jelerk, and declared that thie job Here lies ‘par aus He's gone to Zion; He tried to pet A mountain lion, e.e ‘Candidates for Seattle postmaster Bite to he examined soon. Aibility to ead postcards will be one of the im- pt qualifications. * |whould be performed by one of the regular clorks in the street depart ment. Thomas Jordan, 41, of Tacoma, died in the city hospital Friday from linjuries received on July. 20 when he lwas struck by an auto driven by/ R, | Loyd Davis, of $09 16th ave, Jor ’\dan's skull and hip were fractured \w ne ay car struck him. The ac STEAM ROLLER. |~isene occurred on Juckwon st. te HE DIDN’T SEE |tween Fourth and Witth, aves An} THE E START |inauest will be held Saturday by D so. THE ROLLER | Crees WH Come. BROKE His HEART. . Now that Pare fs decreed the re- Turn of the tong skirt, somebody 19 | ind to remark that the new gar-| te will a multitude of ins, THEN THENX! All citizens of the city owe a Profound debt of gratitude to the superintendent of streets and | sewers who has stledivey | stopped auto speeding on several — downtown streets by tearing up | 4 the streets. HERE IS THE GRAVE | OF WILLIAM BOWLER 4 WHO STOOD BEFORE 1G ea i\Everett Mayor to Welcome Singers EVERETT, sept.1 Mayor W.H. Clay will extend the formal welcome of the city to the singers gathered here for the seventh annual sanger- fest of the Pacifie Coast Norwegian Singers’ association, Saturday morn- cover The'end of the summer comes just 4 time, Cr white flannel trousers Red cleani: NION = OLYMPIC—That was the name for Seattle’s! $3,000,000 community hotel which was selected by the orporation directors at a meeting held Friday forenoon. he mountain range from which the name is derived. lcatgut sutures saved the day for the | operation | the | RAIL CHIEFS On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Hecond C SE ATTLI os WASH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1922. ill afford a view of| MILLIONS IN FRUIT CROPS BEING LOST! Lack of Markets! | and High Freight Rates Blamed in| | Big Food Crisis} CHICAGO, Sept. 1—A Michigan shipper of a carload of peaches to the Chicago market was notified |] by the commission house that aft- er selling the fruit, he stil! owed |] $3.45 toward paying the freight charges, the sale price having failed to cover the costs, “I am sending you another car of peaches in payment of the bill,” the grower replied. CHICAGO, Sept. 1—Amertca, with Its greatest fruit and vege table crop, is losing millions of dollars in apples, peaches, plums and potatoes daily because of lack of markets. ‘Ah Wivedtigation at Chicage, the nation’s market center, today showed commission houses accept only th ! felect or fancy grades which are often sold ax ordinary to get them) on the market before they perish. Greht quantities of fruit are rot-} j { | ting on the ground, due to high freight rates, combined with a bumper crop in every section of the leountry, } | The American Fruit Growers, Inc., which until this season did a large | jPational business, has been forced to} jturn back hundreds of cars on the| jshippers, H. A. Clure, an official of | |the organization, told the United | Press. | An example of the loss cited | | by Clure was 30 carloads of pota- | | toes on track here today from | | Idaho. | These potatoes sell for from | $1.40 to $1.50. The cost of get- | ting them to the market is | about $1.45. The grower is lucky | if they are not sold at an actual | Apples from Nebraska cost one shipper of five cars from 4 to 10} jeents per bushel. The were @ fancy grade, but commission men lotaim they would not sell above 65 jcents per bushel, which was below the freight and picking costs. Michigan crops are enormous. Sev. jeral commission houses admitted sending growers checks for sums; lranging from 1 cent to $1 in pay ment for carloads of frult after; freight and brokers’ charges were! deducted | Canning factories in Michigan and | Wisconsin are working at top speed trying to presérve large fruit crops of those states. . FRUIT HERE Is| NOT AFFECTED, | ‘Transportation conditions —_ for | Washington's fruft crop are in no-| | wise comparable to those In the Mid: | | die West and East, where serious | lowses are being sustained by grow. | ers, due to high freight rates and | lack of transportation facilities, | | Washington's big outlet is water | transportation. This year there 4s | | available three times the ship refrig \erator space that was to be had last season, according to the Merchants’ | Exchange, and many more shippers | jare turning to water transportation | |to send thelr fruit to the Eastern | markets | | “If growers can get thelr fruit to | Seattle, their transportation difficul- j | tes are solved," said one member of | Steps have heen taken by Eastern | Washington growers to assure ample | | their produc ts to the seaboard. | | ‘ | | | TOKYO, Sept. 1,—Roscoe ratty) | | Arbuckle, American film comedian, to Japan, and has asked that hos-! pital reservations be made for him | A radiogram wns received from his | secretary today saying Arbuckle was to arrange for his admittance to a| hospital immediately on arrival Ai | the exchange. | | freight 1efrigerator space to bring | | REPORTED ILL {fm ill aboard a steamer bringing him | in Tokyo. i and asking representatives here his ship in Yokohama tomorrow, | sumption | cents | the following allotments. This is Laurene Louise Lindgren, the youngest stenographer in captivity. She does every- iI am compelled to institute ithing that a grownup typist can—except that she doesn’t chew gum. (Nice little girls, she | this proceeding on pent fA 21 Months Old, She Can Run Seattle Infant Plays the Piano and ‘Sings Per Year, by Mall, ENJOINED! The Seattle Star Matter May @, 1899, at the “ostoffies at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March a, 167 how TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Typewriter | | SWEEPING ORDER IS GRANTED Daugherty Says National Disaster Is Near; Government Takes Stepsto Aid in Breaking Rail Strike By Charles R. took CHICAGO, Sept. 1.—-A sweeping temporary injunction preventing union heads from conducting the strike of rail- road shopmen, was granted today by Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson. September 11 was set as the date for a hear- ing on making the injunction permanent. The petition for a restraining order was presented to the court by Harry M. Daugherty, United States attorney gen- era!, who made a lengthy personal argument in support of the action. Daugherty declared the transportation systems of the country were near a complete breakdown and that a national disaster was near unless immediate steps were taken to aid railroads in breaking the strike. Daugherty cited recent numerous acts of violence which he attributed to the strike, cies that more than 40,000 ap- peals had reached his off: for aid in controlling the| BOMBS, WRECKS has been told, don’t chew gum.) Below is shown a specimen of her typew riting—written|the government,” Daugh especially for The Star. her and then she copied it, line by line. compose their own letters as ‘ELECTRICITY 10 GO LOWER HERE Reduction of 20 Per Cent Coming in Year and Half Electric current for industrial ant home use will be reduced 20 per cent within the next year and » half, it was stated aw. thorifatively at the city hall Friday. With the arrival of power from the city’s hydro-electric pliant, engineers estimate that Seattle will have the cheapest electric current in the world. Plans are now being prepared to sell the vast flood of electric power that will be developed on the Skhgit. | The present rate for home con. fs now 6 cents for the! 45. kilowatt hours, and 2% for succeeding loads. This already comparatively cheap, first rate, will be reduced to 6 cents for the) first 46 kilowatts. and 2 cents for The first Installment power—60,000 horse-power—will be ready to deliver here by the end of 1923. It will supplement the 60,000 horse power of the Lake Unton steam } plant and the 20,060 horse-power gen erated at Cedar river With this amount of energy, a gen eral reduction in rates will be posst (Turn to Page 7, Column 5) BLAZE AGAIN IS RAGING IN MINE Rescue of 47 Imprisoned in Shaft Is Halted AT THE ARGONAUT GOLD MINE, Jackson, Cal. Sept. 1.—KFire, which was gradually being checked | in the main shaft of the Argonaut mine, where 47 miners are imprison. ed, broke out again today. lazing, after having only smouldered for many hours at a point below the 2,500-foot level, A crew fighting the fire established a hase on the 2,500-foot level, where, was announced, “effective meas. ures have been employed to check tho flames again.” CALDWELL BRINGING ALASKA PORCUPINE TO WOODLAND PARK Quilled and bleeding, but vie- tortious, Former Mayor Hugh M. Caldwell, pilgrimaging in Alaskiu with Nile Temple officials, has caught a porcupine at Fairbanks, He will bring it to Seattle Sept. 9 and present St to authorities at Woodland park, according to in- formation gleaned in an account of Culdwell’s bloody combat with the animal which reached Seattle Friday. Caldwell's propensity for bring. ing animals to Woodland park is well established. He contributed a camel recently on his return from the Orient, of Skagit | But, @ ride, so ee Unless the ‘grand opera or the concert stage claims her before that time, ‘s going to have a stenographer when Laurene Louise Lindgren grows up. Laurene, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Berthold Lind. grem, Haddon Hall, 1921 Third ave., is just tl months old—but she's already a typist of no mean ability, and by the time she's five or six her parents expect to sce her breaking ree- ords in the national speed con- tests. compliahment. | fexstonat ain—-and, of course, reada with ease books stump” many 4 first, ond grader, But typing ts able achievernent [her parents, or even #¢ her most in the remar! eyes Not that typing ts her only ac Sho plays the piano, wings and dances with a really pro ashe that would| Other babies of her ——$ Are Unfit for Cunningham, of Cen message yesterday to vention opening here, service. | Guard has become “t Lemuel L. Bolles, WENATCHEE, Sept Commander Cunningham also de- | glared that the Washington National } of the politician and job hunter.” She didn’t compose the message herself. Her father wrote it for) said. then, neither do grown-up stenographers | — Photo by Price & Carter, Btar state Photographers patvadGoih ate at Ntansdanbiedinscaca ae FLAYS NATIONAL GUARD OFFICERS Legion Chief Charges They Service 1—C. D. tralia, Wash., | commander of the American Legion, | protection and the preservation of |department of Washington, in his | the state con: | charged that | officers of the Washington National |!f they Guard are unfit for active military | C&M be performed in lawful America. he rendezvous | national adju- jage may have read, sung, danced|iant of the Lesion, is representing or played the plano—but they &F°) National Commander Hanford Mac: | quite sure that she ts, by several’ Niger at the convention, which, while | years, the world Of course, she isn't exactly « | finished typist—yet, The effort of striking the keys on a stand- ard machine is a little too much for her baby fingers, and her father usually holds her in his lap, with an arm under each elbow to steady her. But she is rapidly learning to write en- tirely without assistance, and | her parents expect that she will be able to write wholly “on ber by the *time her second birthday next De- own" she passes ton, the child has the to a complete psychological examin tion next month. | the fact, “We never tried to push her,’ father, Blue day. Mouse theater, “She didn’t start reading un- til a few months ago. Then it was entirely Ly accldent that I learned, while she was lying be- side me as T read, that she could distinguish different —_ letters. First the ’ then the ‘e,’ then the ‘o,’) and so on until she finally had the entire alphabet. “Then J bought her a first reader—and she went thru that in four weeks, a book with a vocabulary of 112 words, She's now on her second book, und I figure that she’s got about (Turn to Page 7, Column 5) the youngest stenographer in) a He says that her remarkable progress hi been in no way in-| | Jurious—and, indeed, her |cheeks and plump little body attest ‘ her who Js tho organist at the} he said explained Fri “Sho just naturally seemed to j She | Will have to enforce the law.” in nesston, will decide upon plans for | erecting a memorial to Legion men | killed at Centralia by I. W. W. mem-} | bers on Armistice day, 1919 | | Charles H. Paul, Seattle, has de: | jelined to become a candidate for the | | office of state comi tioned for the post, has been interested in the child for months and plans to subject rer MAYOR WON’T “PASS BUC No committee of business men will | glowing | he appointed to investigate the traf. | sabotage the fic wituation it) Seattle, Mayor Brown | covered the lock of the switch had |not been broken. |announced Friday, | of tie nw rel take an interest in things, ' r fae rin first started saying words—what|, }mpounding automobiles and Jail-| most people would call talking \aene meaner vy se ved ge ey he when she was about six months} aga gpipnne | driving maniacs who have exacted a old, but she was 11 months old be-| 1 fore she really began expressing | NCAvY 0! of death on Mleait | during the last few weeks, court, it is so gave notice of appeal, » 8 “Lam not going to pass the buck, “Certain city delighted to carry out the provisions | Wreck was an accident, ting to speeding, They | } except the Pullmans were derailed. JAIL TERM Is GIVEN DRIVER} Convicted of driving while drunk, | |F. 8. Graham, 19, machinist, was | nentenced Friday by Acting Police Judge Jacob Kalina to serve 80 days | in jail and pay a fine of $100 Graham, arrested at Rainier ave. jand 66th st. S., tried to forfeit $200 bail Thursday rather than appear in but was rearrested Friday on « bench warrant, Graham of the Trades Union Educational der, and Joo | | Kindall, of Bellingham, is being men. | 'BABE RUTH SUSPENDED | CHICAGO, Sept. 1.—Babe Ruth, cember, jhome run king, again fell in disre According to Prof, Stevenson! pyte with baseball authorities to- Smith, of the psychology” depart-| day. ment at the University of Washing-| president Ban Johnson of the | mentality) American league suspended Ruth for of a yearold in most things, and / three days as a result of “vicious and! of a 6-year-old in reading and writ-|yuigar” language used by the Y nk } ing. player in Wednesday's game at New Prof. Smith, by the way, was) York. using Laurene Friday as an ex-| Ruth used the disrespectful lan- ample of precocious childhood in a! guage, Johnson said, in protesting a} lecture before county school teach | decision fon Umpire Conaclly. ers at Broadway high school. He! ” officials are | Seattle streets 1 | | strike situation. “It is with great regret that ” iCameaion Launches to inet BY JAMES “Considering existing cénditions and the welfare of the people of Ametica there ig no other course, and under the circumstances I have not the slightest fear or doubt of the gov- ‘ernment’s position.” Daugherty then outlined the fail- ure of the efforts made by President Harding to bring a settlement of the strike, and quoted from the presi dent's speech of August 15. “Tomorrow it will be said by some persons more malicious than truthful that this proceed- ing is intended a death blow to the unions,” Daugherty con- tinued. This was learned officially here to day following the action of Attorney — General Daugherty in appearing be- — “Let me today start the truth on jfore a federal court in Chicago and. its way in advance—that in my judg. |@8king an injunction to prevent the ment this move js necessary for the |strikers from interfering in any manner with the employment of new, the unions themselves workers by the railroads. “The government of the United States ix not opposed to labor unions perform such functions as other parts of the country, prosecu- tions will be pushed against all those charged with perpetrating vio- lence and comprehensive investiga-— tions will be made by federal agents: to determine whether the strikers’ — leaders or the railroad executives: have violated federal laws against conspiracies to restrain interstate commerce. Dispatches to the United Press told of many new outh An alleged nation-wide plot to dy- namite, burn and otherwise destroy railroad property was uncovered by federal agents. Presidents of three railroads, the New York Central, the Pennsylvania — and the Rock Island, were said to have been threatened with death or kidnaping. “But it may be understood that so long and to the extent that I can speak for the govern- ment of the United States, I will use the power of the government within my control to prevent the labor unions of the country from destroying the open shop. “There are many who believe that on account of the arrogance of certain officials of labor un- ions, that the unions themselves should be destroyed. “I do not think they should, but I (Turn to i Page 7, Column 4) 2 DIE; 30 HURT TRAIN CRASH | CAMP GIRARDEAU, Mo., Sept. 1. —-Two were killed and probably 30 separa when Frisco passenger train | No. 805, St. Louis to Memphis, |arnabed thru'a trestle near Witten! | berg, Mo., near here, today. Two coaches went thru the bridge, high-powered bombs was unearthed by authorities at Albuquerque, N. ML | Officers seized eight bombs and dis+ the manufacture of otbers. ‘Two men were artested. Scores of bombs were reported to have been hurled at trains, placed in shops and under rail- which collapsed under the pressure| road bridges. lof water from a cloudburst last Trains have been wrecked Pe night. alleged radicals, Federal thorities shadowed a man the. believed wag the “brains” of the (Turn to Page 7, Column 5) WRECK TAKES LIVES OF 400 SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept, 1.— Checkup of the passenger list of the Chilean steamer Itata, which sunk — when it hit the rocks off Choros islands, today showed that 400 had perished. There were but 27 sur. vivors who were saved in lifeboats, The government has instituted a tions were the passenger train had |rigia investigation into charges that “split” the switch and that the\tne ship was overladen. TRAIN PLOWS INTO FREIGHT INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 1.— Eleven persons were injured when a Big Four passenger train ran thru an open switch and plowed | into the rear end of a freight train 1< a siding near Brownsburg early | today Railroad officials discounted a when it was dis- They said indica. All cars in the passenger train Here Is Just a New One Every day in the WANT AD COLUMNS many homes are ad Plot to Dynamite Shop Men Revealed | ATLANTA, Ga. Sept. 1,—Locat | federal authorities were confident to. || Vertised at very attractive prices, day that they had nipped in the/}| You can find just the home you bud a plot to dynamite raiiroad|| want by watching the STAR WANT ADS, BW 5-ROOM BUNGALOW N UNIVERSITY DISTRICT Strictly modern in every detail, including full cement basement, shops ‘here, ‘This plot, according to | the agents, also including blowing up | sleeping quarters of the men now | employed in the shops, | aE: eames “Bye | furnace, fireplace, tile bat! Will Send F built-in tub, breakfast nook i@hth feat an A A j@hting features, garage, | Back to Michigan | ‘ogyeer paved Aer SPRINGFIELD, Il, Sept, 1—|]| sible part as Gov. Len Small has honored a . requisition for the return to Michi- Turn to the WANT AD SEC- gan of William Z, Foster, president || TION and ‘see where you can find this home, league, More injunctions will be asked in A complete plant to manufacture | | covered quantities of materials for i a ta i as Se eae earn eee near a cena