The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 2, 1922, Page 1

Maximum, Today PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 3 IN AUTO KILLED BY TRAIN PAARARAR ARR AA LDAP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPPOE WEATHER Tontoht and Saturday, generally fair; moderate westerly winds. Temperature Last 34 Hours noon, 61, VOLUME 24. NO. 163. pe On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise e Seattle Star under the Act of Congress March &, Bntered as Heoond Class Matter May 4, 1499, at the Postofficn at Beattie, ‘Wash, ATURD. AY, SEPTEMBER 2, 192: 1819, Per Year, by Mall, #6 to 99 HAVE ELECTED THE STAR THEIR FAVORITF SEATTLE NEWSPAPER — BY 15,000 PLURALITY — Se eee request of U. S. Attorney $ In effect it orders that strike. Puyallup Frui not a‘dry throat in the courtroom when Joe was fined. eee He swam the English channe, "Round icebergs up at Nome, But kicked to beat the dickens When the bath was cold at home. eee Have the dry squad, narcotic squad and moral squad been abol- ished or just transferred to the In- furable squad? . EASY! 873 political incurables @ $175 per mo. is $1,203,300, or a reduc- tion in the tax levy of 4 mills. Attaboy, Doc! eee Ted Corbett, farnous oldtime ball player, is a candidate In Seattle for constable. Ten years from now we'll provably see Babe Ruth running for bailiff. cee J. D. Ross, superintendent of lght- ing, says that rates for electrical current will be reduced 20 per cent when the Skagit 1s developed. More power to him! WE WILL! WE WILL “We have the bootleggers on the run. It’s a hard Job to buy whiskey in Seattle now. ‘Try it if you don't think 50.” — In spector of Police Harry Cor respondent asks Qynthia Grey when Seattio will wet a b-cont carfare. And even Cynthia didn’t know! oe Jacob Aaronson, representing East- ern railroads, declares that the aver- age family in the United States con- sists of 4.4 persons. The fourtenths of a person, no Goubt, is a saxophone player, ee W. H. Anderson, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league, says America ‘will be dry by 1947. Gowh, we're tired of these prohibition jokes! oe ANATOMICALLY SPEAKING Tell us now, after reading some of this uptothe-minute slang that has been breaking into The Star lately, whieh would you rather be—the snake's hips, the bee’s knees, the gnat's nostrils, the alligator’s lip- stick or the well known mosqui- to's eyebrows? ° oe Whoever tx think whom the mayor n med for super (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) Conspiracy Is Charged Squeeze Out Small Creditors of it Co., Is Claim General Daugherty. railroad union officials may not participate in any manner in the direction of the They are specifically strikers or about the strike thru letters, telephone conversations or newspaper interviews. The terms of the injunction as they apply to the forbidden talking to SEATTLE, WASH., S rank and file are little different from other drastic federal court orders that cent years. have become common in re- It is in the terms laid down against the officials of the union that the astounding departure is found. The attorney general asks that the present national strike proceed from now whatever, suggestion, ' | ing to Strang, hundreds of credit- | ors, many of whom invested tir | life-savings in notes of tne com- | pany, stand to rose 90 cents on | the dollar, while some of the | banks, in the guise of preferred | creditors, may realize 50 per cent | or more of their claims. : banks and members of the company there are 202 creditors, with claim: ranging from 35 cents up to $7,-/ $57.55, to m total tune of $134,697.48 Saturday night's meeting has been called, specifically, to protest against confirmation of the recent sale of al! | the company's properties, at Puyal- This sale was made last week by Receiver Willlam May to G. H. Bradt, who, under the terms of the agreement, will pay $270,000 for prop erty recently appraised at $750,000. It ts also announced that tt ts plan- ned “to take legal steps to recover for unsecured creditors certain assets) In the form of manufactured products warehouse receipts, aggregating hun- dreds of thousands of dollars, alleged to be pledged illegally to certain banks.” ‘This has reference, Strang ¢x- Plains, to a warehouse receipt for $500,000 worth of products, held by 2 certain Tacoma bank, whose claims against the company total nearly $1,000,000. According to Strang this loan was made originally by the bank on an unsecured note, the ware- house receipt being given later as an “accommodation.” If the warehouse receipt is permitted to remain in the hands of the bank, that institution will recover more than half of its claim. On the other hand, if it is turned | back to the receiver for distribu. | tion among all the creditors, it | will increase their dividends three-fold or more, bringing them up to 30 cents on the doliai ‘The sale of the company’s pro. perties will come up before Federal Judge Cushman next Tureday for} confirmation. The creditors may de cide at their meeting to seek to en Join the sale. It {= said by some of the leading unsecured creditors that the affairs of the company are tnvalved in a dozen different directions and {t ts} believed that the whole matter will) eventually be threshed out tn court, in which event sensational charges] are expected. ‘The present scramble for the few remaining assets of the company marks the close of one of the most | of the northwest, Organized by W. H. Paulhamus tn | 1904, with a capitalization of $2,700, | the company grew by such leaps and| bounds that its 1920 capital was $1,-/ 000,000. ! That, however, was the peak | of the concern’s career, Paul- hamus made the mistake of bu; ing high and selling low—Just as thousands of other business men did at that time—and before long the whole company was virtually wiped out. A huge quantity of sugar had been bought at 2 cents a pound—and was sold at foer, bringing a net loss of some- thing like $1,250,000. Three hun- dred thousand dollars was spent on # new plant—which has never been used. And so it went, until the company was finally forced } into the hands of a receiver. Paulhamus 1s now entirely out of | the company and is devoting all of hig time to the Puyallup Fair asso- | ciation, of which he is president. AUSTRALIANS TAKE MATCH WEST SIDE TENNIS CLUB, For- jest Hills, N. ¥.,, & Australia | pulled a tremendous surprise by win |ning the third match of the Davis cup championships here this after- noon from the American team, | Gerald Patterson and Pat O'Hara | | Wood won the doubles match from | William A, Tilden and Vincent Ric! ards, 6-4, 6-0, 6-3, in a sensational bat- tle that lasted 54 minutes. Pat Wood was the outstanding hero of the day. spectacular enterprises in the history le | doned | der to make a final appeal to the) BY JAMES WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—The threat of widespread in- In Puyallup alone, outside of the) dustrial warfare hung over the country today as a result! of the sweeping injunction Daugherty against the striki Demands for a general sympathetic strike Samuel Gompers, president of the American Labor, from all parts of the The issue of a general strike will be placed before the gen- lup and Sumner and Loveland, Colo. eae council of the federation here next be ae: Gompers ote said he could not predict what action wil be taken by the council, but it was said that the council could only recom- mend, not call, a nationwide walkout of all organized labor. “The action of the department of justice will do more than ‘STRIKER KILLED IN GUN BATTLE ! One Dead, One One Injured, Toll} of Violence CLEVELAND, Sept ~A striking boilermaker was killed, and an em- ploye of the New York Central rail road was seriously {injured in an out | break of violence here carly today. Peter Schweisthal, cabinet maker | for the New York Central, saw three | rageoun pieces of business men loitering in front of his home be- fore daylight, He obtained hig re- volver and called to them. The answer was n funillade of | shots, two of which entered Schweis: | ganizations that's neck, He returned the fire. The body of Max Strazisar, striking bollermaker, was found a short dis tance away. Police found no trace of the other two men. BROTHERHOOD WORKERS QUIT : N. * hern railway was as the result of ASHEVILLE, C., Sept. ‘Traffic on the So! tied up here toda a wenn walkout of brotherhood employes. E' tire: trainmen and conductors quit after a deputy United neers, men, their States marshal, guarding the right of runs alleged to have beaten a i trainman The brotherhood men and raflway officials were holding « meeting to- day intended to bring about a settle STRIKERS TO DEFY ORDERS WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—Strikers from the local railway shops he meeting today, despite the injunction | ordered at the request of Attorney General Daugherty, curbing their power of assembl Charles H. Frazier, business agent union, announced meet- ntinue to be held. Across the river, at the Alexan dria, Va., shops, H. C. Chicester, gen- feral chairman of the district, an- nounced: “We will continue to hold meetings, injunction or no tnjune- tion, until every man ts in jail.” 7 PAY INCREASE FOR RAIL MEN CHICAGO, Sept. 2—An Increase of 3 cents an hour for the 800,000 maintenance of way men who aban their proposed strike in or United States railroad labor board, was practically assured today. Confirmation of the proposed in- crease came from an authoritative source. Action of the United States Steel corporation in granting its la- borers an increase of 6 cents an hour was largely responsible for the move, it was said, And the cour GENERAL STRIKE ORDER IS URGED Federal Injunction Against Unions Challenged by Gompers ld a} on without any leadership t undertakes to meet the Rail T. KOLBERT secured by Attorney General ing shopmen. Pg na in on ‘ederation of country. pany other thing to solidify the Ist riking and non-striking | workers of the country,” |Gempers said. “The American Federation of Labor will continue to give lits moral and other support to} ithe strikers. The action was} outrageous. It will encourage | ithe spread of bolshevistic | jteaching and violence.” Gompers and ot leaders of or. ganized labor here characterized the! | federal injunction restricting the] |atrikers and their tenders from in- {terfering in any way with roti | portation ine! luding giving out of! |interviews as “one of the most out-| in the! history of the country.” The attorney general asks that anarchy take the place of order within the ranks of the strikers. The court says it shall be done. For that is what this m eans. Any person who has ever had the slightest contact with industrial war- fare knows the most difficult job confronting any striking organization is the order within the organization. of labor leadership comes maintenance of good That is where the test in. It is leadership that INJUNCTION WILL NOT BRING PEACE _ What is probably the most amazing labor injunc- tion ever attempted by an American court was issued Friday in Chicago by a federal district judge at the prevents violence, been torn up or strikebreak that somewhere leadership When you read the story Ill, less action. For years it h that “what the unions need And now, by the word of ership is taken from the rai Dr. Emile Coue PARIS, Sept. 2.-—A. day at the jclinte of Dr. Emile Coue, the healer, | unwanted of eliminating | and replacing consists thoughts [suggestion William M. Jonnaton, president of of Nancy, would indicate that the | them with desirable thoughts. | the International Association of Ma- chinist of the shop craft's or on strike, declared that! would continue to exercise his| |consitutional rights, This, with the statement of Gompers that the strikers and their leaders would not | permit abridgement of the rights he was accepted as indicating that the} the injunction dealing with assembly and speech. The only thing that thé or- der does not forbid is the right for the men to stay out on striki Gompers said. Gompers announced that the | nomstriking unions would con- | tinue to assist the strikers in | every way possible, © will give them our moral and other assistance,” he de- clared. “The injunetion pro ceedings constitute a confession that the strikers are winning their fight,” he said. “Otherwise, why would the government, forced into it by roads, start injunction 4,” Gompers queried. labor leaders appear to Legally, be powerless to fight the Injunction, |Gompers stated. That a legal bat- be opened by labor, how- was indicated by Gompers and shopmen leaders here, “We will eet them on their own | grounds,” Gompers said. | Gompers stated that the confer. | (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) { * wi {t | | | tle will ever, There Are | Many Bargains Offered in Today’s Want Ad Columns | human mind ts the master of human dinease His fame as a healer has spread afar and people from ali parts of France are coming to him, Scientists are watching closely the work he is performing. Coue does not claim that his meth- guaranteed them by the constitution |Ods are a substitute for medicine or | vance. surgery. He does not claim to have |shopmen would defy those parts of |@ substitute for religion. But he does foot.” claim—and his successes substantiate | him—that auto-suggestion ts helpful in organic as well us in nervous and functional diseases. “Anyone can practice auto-sugges \tlon for himself, without seeking the {n auto-cuggestion by Dr. help of another person,” Coue. Stated simply, the practice of auto 2-ARE KILLED BY LIGHTNING, Man and Wite | Die in Elec- trical Storm says NOGALES, Ariz, Sept. 2.—Post- master Josiah Bond and his wife, Minnie, wero instantly killed by a single bolt of lightning late yester- day, according to advices from Alto, 30 miles north of here, Bond and his wife were riding | horseback in the Santa Rita moun- tains when overtaken by a fierce electrica! storm. Their horses were also killed. REBELS § START ‘DUBLIN ATTACK DUBLIN, Sept. 2.—Concerted drive | against the authority of the Free | States government was started here by insurgents today, Many were reported wounded when rebels attacked the Four Courts hotel and 4 Free State stronghold on Kevin street with machine guns. PORTLAND, Sept. Guy W. ‘Talbot, president of the Portland Gas & Coke company, announces today that effective on all meter readings after August 31 the price of gas in Portland will be reduced approx! mately 10 cents per thousand euble feet. For instance, have you a head- ache? Concentrate on a phrase such as “The pain is going away.” Re peat it so rapidly that your mind |Northern Pacific 334, from in the vicinity of Seattle. question. No matter who was at thinks about it. on a grade crossing at Auburn. The dead are: J. P. Sweeney, milk plant at Auburn, Miss Jessie Barnett, 20, wai The train, which had come from Tacoma to connect with! train No.) Seattle, at East Auburn, was not traveling at an excessive rate of speed, ac- cording to reports to Dr, M. J. Lacey, deputy coroner, but it carried the automobile 200 yards before it could be stopped. The motor car was rolled be- neath the wheels with such force | that it adhered to the baggage | car that struck ft, and it was necessary to chain it to the has no room for any other thought. The pain will leave Here is another experiment which advocates of auto-suggestion ad Put your foot on the floor. |Say to yourself, “I can't move my pA As long as you hold your mind| |steadily to the bellef that you can’t move your foot you will find that the foot is immovable Dr. Coue's patients become adept | constant prac tee. Their pains depart. Then, in |many cases, the fundamental causes | of their jilnessen disa LINER CRASHES ON CHINA COAST ia Cleveland Safe After Hitting Bar SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2.—The Pacific Mail liner President Cleve. jland, from San Francisco for Yoko: with is jashore at the mouth of the Yang Tse r, China, aceording to brief ca- pew received here today | able said the vessel was in| |no immediate danger and expected |to be floated at high tide today, A tender is standing by. hama, many passengers, eentrate on that thought. | 5 | failed to obey his warning, but this| +. Kennedy mine, tracks before the train could pull away from it. All three occupants were instantly | killed. According to M. A. Nelson, brake- man on the train, the automobile has not been verified by Dr, Lacey. Peterson, who was driving the au- tomobile, hud picked up Sweeney and Miss Barnett a few minutes ear- | lier and was carrying them to their| jrespective homes. Coroner W. H. Corson was to visit | the scene of the tragedy. Saturday | jafternoon and an inquest will prob- ably be held Monday. Dr. Lacey has not yet com- pleted his investigation, but he declares that the spot at which the accident took place is highly dangerous. It is the first street crossing south of the Auburn de- pot. Altho there are four sets of railroad tracks, there is no safeguard for the public except the ordinary street lamps. DROVE WHILE DRUNK; JAILED Acting Police Judge Jake Kalina Saturday sentenced P. O. Johnson to 30 days and $100 fine for driving his car while intoxicated. Johnson was arrested a few days ago following an auto collision at 11th ave. and Pine st. | Passengers have not been removed. | MAYOR WANTS | BUDGET SLASH, Mayor Brown will request the city | council to slash the — preliminary budget estimates from 10 to 20 per) cent, he announced Saturday, “Drastic cuts should be made in| the proposed expenditures of eve branch of the city government, cept the police and fire depart:| ments," he said. “If the tax levy is/ not held down to 26 milis—the pres: ent levy—it will not be my fault.” | For the next month the council) budget committee will devote its ate | tention to pruning the estimates al- ready submitted. No increases will be allowed, PARK’S FIRST BABY TO BE GIVEN SHOWER || SUNDAY FROM 3 TO 5 || Little Woodland Gates Raffer- » the first child born in the || yoodland park auto camp, will be “shower” and reception at park Sunday afternoon, be- tween the hours of 3 and 5, The Moose, Maccabees and Cc hamver of Commerce will all be the “receiving” line. Baby Woodland ts a bouncing boy, born a little over a week ago, He was named after Woodland |} park and after Frank Gates, su- perintendent of the auto camp. His parents are from Los An- geles, | 1 When you read that rails have in the coal strike, you r (EDITORIAL) Three more persons were ground to pieces Saturday ~~ in one of the death-trap grade-crossings which abound Ee It hasn’t yet been determined whether the trainmen were to blame—but that isn’t the most important have happened if the grade-crossing hadn’t been there. Other states have legislated against Maybe the Washington legislature ar follow suit next session. Ask your candidate what he- Two men and a girl were ground to death early Sat when a Northern Pacific train backed into their au J. H. Peterson, 35, proprietor of an Auburn garage. 24, bookkeeper for the Borden’s condensed \47 Men Now Im Imprisoned for” [closer to the main |for the ers shot down, you know has failed. of the horror of Herrin, ad an example of leader- as been a common saying is leadership.” a federal judge, all lead- lway shopmen. fault, tress at the Oak cafe, Auburn. RESCUE TASK IN” MINE CONTINUES Six Days Underground AT THE ARGONAUT GOLD ~| MINE, Jackson, Cal, Sept. 2——- © Rescue crews continued pressing shaft of the — Argonaut mine today,. where 47 = | miners have now been imprisoned— =} maybe dead and maybe alive—for six days. Progress was reported as satisfac tory as could be expected. The rescuers, working on the tun- nel leading into the Argonaut from were tired and worn. Fresh men were be: ing enlisted and a mine rescue team |from the mines of Western Nevada was expected to arrive today to bi ieee bere. PASS SENATOR | CASH MEASURE WASHINGTON, D. C,, Sept. 2—~ The Pomerene corrupt practices act passed the senate today without @ record vote. It limits expenditure of senatorial candidates in the general elections to $10,000 and candidates: for the house to $5,000. ‘The Edge amendment to the Pom erene bill, which would lift the bara on the amount of money which would be expended in newspaper advertis- ing, was voted down by the senate, FAMOUS ACE WILL MARRY SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2.—Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, former war ace, and now automobile manufac- turer, today announced his engage- ment to Mrs, R. C. Durant, db . vorced wife of the automobile man- a ufacturer. Mrs, Durant is now tn New York. She was formerly Adelaide Frost, Rickenbacker arrived here from Portland. He will stop here for |two days and then go on to Los Angeles and Detroit, No date has been set for the wedding. Boy Bandit Hanged for Holdup Murder ATLANTA, Ga,, Sept. 2.—With a smile on his lips, Frank Dupre, boy bandit, waved to the crowds he mounted the steps to the gallows here yesterday and paid with his lite murder of a jeweler, com- mitted in a holdup during which he wounded several men. His father, sweetheart and several friends sobbed as the trap was sprung.