The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 19, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER Tonight and Wednesday, fair; moderate weateriy winds MAYOR LAYS / iT. | ck se. } y. | He Leads Gassman y. Sewdy, folks! If wister comes | . aon wee one | Tito OLLI ce, in | . see | Defiance of Law. Mefeated candidates at the primar. | J my it ls going to be a long, eae Say Lawyers le. eee rk Dbry « man's wife drives the car| when ber husband is at the| desi Bi | of bp Gassman as superintend- ent streets and sewers was | Git FOR HOME, BRUNO the declaration Tuesday of promi- i have reached | nent Seattle lawyers, e limit of my Brown personally escorted F We the Gaseman to the office of tho ad in Tze of the street | the department. — 4 artment, I ‘The state law provides that any take him personally to the ef: | person who wilfully exercises any of | and install him myself as super: | tho functions of a public office, with- ] of streets and sewers."—/ont being duly qualified, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor, and | eee shall be sent to the county jail for | @rinks are on us: Deputy jone year, fined $1,000 or both. Wine of Wenatchee dropped}. The mayor, by placing Gassman on Deptity Sheriff Bul Coffey of |as superintendent of streets, would county today. be equally guilty of the violation of s | vee this law, it t# pointed out. | a to| The eclty council] has steadfastly Eee ee eeee esac, |refused to confirm Gasaman as head of the streets and sewers depart- BR tor pusisnment. = Ss a S | = agg so ment. “John E. Carroll is the council- E American women spent; man who has been h on hair Gassman's confirmation,” the we men awful? mayor Tuesday. “He can't ~ ae take" Gessmean” superintendent | Assman v3 ee. te of streets over the heads of the planning entire council!” 2, J dps oe ~ Brown's action is unprecedented. - iF girls out harem (so long as the councll refuses to. ae | ts ine confirm Gasaman, he is absolutely ty a without authority to act as a pud- The Turks are wonderful fighters, | lic officer of the city. 2 every one of them having The provisions of the state c or three wives law—the well-known “intrusion r. eee into public office” act—are as } a¢| follows: i “Ey who shall give Turkey the mandate ery... pereen | tos Anges! | oe cabs otficer, or who shall any OF * 1 ore wilfully exercise any of the How Would You Handi@ the Clara | Surg °C hottie without in Case?" asks the editor of The) Having duly qualified therefore . as required by law, shall be Ys'come to the right man. We) guilty of a.gross misdemeanor.” operated the delouser at Brest.) Frown sant Gasaman into the oe streets department for the avowed i HAHA [purpose, he said, of cleaning out j While we were away on our | the department. vacation, Doc Brown fooled us “I want him to prepare the by not reducing the carfare as (Charles st rage for a big munic he said he would. ipal garage.” he announced. “I mm) 44.0 jalso want him to put @ stop to the i a 9 pernicious Rabit of unbalanced bids, Weumn ta New York was sent 10), by unscrupulous pontractors I for 10 days for wearing trousers ; a ak ae wont have poe are setting the city of thousands be roe . aeek ont of doltars. et Ts ‘That legat action may be taken roe against Brown when the members on anitioet of the city council return from the “ee Skagit project, was indicated at the | city hall, * mays head-| | ‘npg gh ther like the! nistiniotiiongfacinocoemngreninnts Nexpected return of hubby. ee TODAY'S RADIO POGROM P. D. Q—Fairy stories for vot- . om * Maree one ; v. of yeast CUT SEEN FOR PORT TAX LEVY By E. P. Chalcraft A reduction of 10 per cent in the port tax levy for 1923 is aie \amaieeen C. 0. D—Special selections for the deaf and dumb. ee Kid McCoy's fiancee, who was to Phave been his ninth wife, has re-| Probable. urned home. We hope the Kid's! Wh the port commissioners et faith in womankind has not| meet the first week October, to take final action on the new _ eet budget, it will be within their power to reduce the tax levy from one mill, which was last year’s figure, to nine-tenths of a mill, She's pushing up the datates, This In the face of a serious de- Where once the toadstools grew— | preciation in King county's property Bhe thought that they were mush- | valuation | rooms Whether the cut will be made de- oe We Dumbbell Dud thought: “A councilman earns all} money the city pays him.” never | bet a SERS When she put them in the stew. | pends on the action taken in regard | oe |to a $20,000 item included in the pre Wonder if a restaurateur ever|liminary budget estimate for trade forgets the combination ‘of his com-| promotion and publicity. As yet, the bination salad? of the subject. Retention of the item | is urged by the foreign trade bureau | GEE GEE, a OFFICE lof the Chamber of Commerce, but q | VAMP, SI | | while it is admitted that the $30,000 some of |the tax-watching bodies are equally (Turn to Fase : F Peas ML 5 lwould be put to good use, | After readin’ about th’ thou- | | sands of Christians massacred | by th’ Turks, It is easy U' realize | how they can make Turkish | i cigarets. } ; eee = Today's candidate for the Poison! Bivy club is the gink who sits next| to you at the cafeteria and tries to| Bopen a bottle of milk with his} P thumb. eee THEY OUGHT 10 HEAR ELLAOTT BAY! They say the greatest boosters Are in Beattle found; That may not be authentic but It has a Puget Bound. —Hacramento Star, | eee Of course the pen js mightier than the sword, but it can't kill as many an the auto, You Can Find Many Good Home Bargains in The Star Want Ad Section see There is only one way In which to Grive down First ave., and that is in| an airplane, i soe Here we are at the end! e Murrah! ro commissioners are uncommitted on | Hoi i intemal pacha dba ds iid SL eile adsorp On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Gecond Class Matter May 0, 1499, at the Postoffice at Heattin Wash. under the Act of Congress March 6, 1078, Per Tear, by Mall 46 to 69 SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1922, ~ ‘Two ‘CENTS IN SEATTLE —— Autoist Blamed for Death REPORT TURK Inquest Jury Accuses Boy, ARMY STARTS Elvie Powell, 17 Photo by Elvie Powell, 17, was held gullty of |ell's statement that the headlights On | sone, it wan announced. negligence in connection with the | death of little Jack McGill, age 3, who was fatally hurt by Powell's car at Minor ave. N. and Mercer st | the night of September 11, according to @ report filed by a coroner's jury | when the child ran from behind an-| Monday evening. | After Investigating conflicting tes timony, the jury held that Powel! was driving without lights an hour contradicting Pow after sundow n. , 991, Inter @ e ry e eo e ie e e ° e e ous hatred of the Bolsheviki, ANDRE DUCHEMIN is summarily ordered to’leave the country at once. WERTHEIMER ary in his “Travels With a Donkey.” is ONE WALKS “A little place called Le Monastier, | in a pleasant highland valley oh miles from Le Puy notable | for the making of lace, for drunk- for freedom of language,| and for unparalleled political dix sension” was Mr, Stevenson's point of departure on his Travels} }with a Donkey. Monsieur Duche-| min made it his as well; and on the fourth morning of his hegira| from England set out from Le! | Monastier afoot, a volume of Mon-| taigne in his pocket, a stout stick} in his fist—the fat rucksack strapped to his shoulders enabling thin latterday traveler to dispense) with the society of another donkey. The weather was fine, his heart |high, he was happy to be out of harness and again his own man, More than once he laughed a little to think of the vain question of his whereabouts which was being moot- ed in the underworld of Europe, |where (as well he knew) men and |women spat when they named hign.| For hiy route from the channel coast to Le Monastier had been! sufficiently discreet and devious to} \persuade him that his escape had} |been as cleanly executed as it was timely instigated, Thus for upwards of a fortnight |he fared southward in the footsteps jof Mr. Stevenson. For it was his common practice to go to bed with | the birds and rise with the sun; and| more often than not he lodged in| the inn of the silver moon, with moss for a couch, leafy boughs for |a canopy and the stars for night- | lighte — accommodations infinitely more agreeable than those afforded |by the grubby and malodorous auberge of the wayside average, And between sun and sun he pun- ished his boots famously. Constant exercise tuned up mus- enness, living, upland winds cleansed the} man of the reek of cities and made his appetite a thing appalling, A (828 Minor ave. N Jilias the Lone Wolf oY, Louis Joseph Vance tional Magasine Company) the official who brings the handxome sum to be used on his travels best escape from the revengeful Bolsheviki by following Stevenson's itiner- | Mayor Edwin J. Brown of Sea’ ,and Tacoma, cles gone slack and soft with easy) Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers nis i" were burning at the Ume of | the crash. The youth, son of Alex T. Powell, of $20 Fairview ave, was driving the auto &t a moderate speed, he said, other auto standing at the curb, in-| jto the darkened street The auto struck the infant, crushing his skull, The baby was the son of J. McGill, has earned he murder- “dismissed” by the government and news, gives Duchemin a Duchemin decides that he can warmer glow than they had shown in many a year, and faded out the heavier lines with “hich Time had marked his counte: Moreover, (Turn to Page il, Column 1) EVERETT ASKS SEATTLE HELP| EVERETT, Sept. 19.—In a resolu tion introduced by City Commission- er C. A. Turner, the Everett city council Monday afternoon asked le to authorize the Seattle city supertn- tendent of lighting to make a survey of the light and power situation in Everett with a view to assisting in ducing rates, The resolution declared that elec tricity rates in Kverett, supplied by a private company, are “excessively high” compared to those in Seattle where lighting plants are municipally owned, The action is believed to be the first #tep in a fight here for a mu- nicipal plant. oe Everett Complains on High Gas Price EVERETT, Sept. 19,— Declaring |that gas rates have remained at the “war peak" while the cost of labor and matertals to produce ft has been greatly reduced, the city commission: ers of Everett Monday afternoon au- thorized the city attorney to file a complaint with the public utilities commission at Olympia, demanding lower rates. Arrange Funeral for Drowned Boy Funeral arrangements were being made at North Bend Tuesday for Will Claggett, 16, of Edgewick, who drowned Sunday afternoon in Derry keen gun darkened hin face and hands, brushed up in hia cheeks a lake, near there. ‘The lad was trying to swim when the tragedy gccurred. POR CAPITAL Prod Kema 1 Marching] ape ; on Dardanelles, | ALL FOR ita Balkees” | ONE, ONE FOR ALL CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 19. \Fought Intelligently, Coolly, Against —Mustapha Kemal’s march to- | ward the Dardanelles and Con- Deadly Odds stantinople is reported to have started. | The Turkish commander, ae cording to these reports, is mov- ing troops from Smyrna toward the Bosphorus (which lies be- t Constant and the Sie SSehen'tes tae ver | JACKSON, Cal., Sept, 19. —Jackson’s heart today is filled with pride for her 47) tion of these rumors, jbrave sons, Kemalist cavalry agent in the | Her men made a sediiee vicinity of Chanak, whic com- 7 ‘ mane the entrance-te the neuteul fal, gallant fight cond life. o xono of the Dardancties as the} They fought coolly, intelli-| Royal Sussex regiment landed to gently, all together and they reinforce the British, who are 4l-|faiied thru no fault of their! ready in the trenches, | own. ‘The Kemailsts have made no at- tempt aa yet to crow» over into! They fought like heroes, | the neutral sone. all for one and one for all. | That is what the mute evi-| Col, Shuttleworth, of the district, expressed confidence ; dence in the 4,350-foot level tells. lin his ablity to repulse any force Mustapha Kemal would be able to concentrate within the next few) when the fire broke out tn the Argonaut mine at midnight more} than three weeks ago, the 47 men | days. were scattered miles apart in the! different levels of the mine, Somehow, they managed to get to- gether, The ones who discovered the fire first notified their fellow workmen. They were cool, and they planned wisely. They came up from « lower level because they knew they would be flooded with water, They chose one level where their chances for life would be best. It] was not an easy thing to get 47) men, desperate with approaching danelles, where the British aro entrenched, There ts no official verifica in command | FRANCE WON’T FIGHT TURKS BY WEBB MILLER PARIS, Sept. 18.—The French gow ernment today decided to take no j military tion against the Kemalists |in the Near East Premier Poincare received the sol- i backing of his government in his policy of nonparticipation in military | moves to forestall Mustapha Kemal's threatened invasion of the neutral The French government, it was| death, together. It was a miracle | (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) jalmost that they stuck together, | . jfought together for the common j safety of all The first bulkhead the men built | wa an excellent piece of work nship, miners say, It was of| tombe m™ and clay, working under FEET T0 DEATH Kreatest difficulties, in tremendous | haste. The men were able to do Slipping on a natchway abourd|the right thing and do it well. the steamship President Jefferson} Not well enough, but the miracte at Pier B, Smith Cove, Tuesday,|'* that they did it as well as they g. J. Sorenson, 2401 43rd ave, N.,| «did, a longshoreman, plunged to his| Behind it they tried to build a sec death in the hold, 65 feet below, |ond bulkhead. Sorenson and several other long-| All this inside of three hours, for horemen were lifting the forward|the fire was first discovered at mid atch preparatory to loading, when |night, and the note found in the drift Sorenson's foot slipped and he fell| With the men was dated 3 a, m. thru the opening. His horrified] For their second bulkhead companions picked up the body, but| terial was running short. They did life was extinct. The body is at|the best they could. They tore off the morgue their clothe: to fill up the cracks But there was not enough. And the ‘CHILBERG CASE gus was getting into their aystems. Phey finished it, tho, and retired & little farther Into the drift. They gamely tried to start a third bulkhead. They got it half built of mud and clay they could get there in the drift, Denying that he had any And the end came, It must he knowledge of the transaction on |come to them all at about the same which the state's case is based, J. E. Chitherg, former president of the Scandinavian-American bank of Seattle took the witness stand in his own behalf Tues- day during his trial before Su- time, for they were lying together, | fallen across each other's bodies. perior Judge Everett Smith on a felony charge. ma-| One man, William Fessel, was able to scrawl a note. He wrote it on a piece of board. “8 a. m.,” it said, | “gas bad.” Then the figure “4" and| nothing else. That note is comfort: ing Jackson today. It proves that the men died only | Chilberg is accused in a grand jury indictment with borrowing/three hours after they were trapped. $747.13 from the bank while he|!t takes away forever the thoughts was president without having ob-| tained authorization by the board of directors as is required by law Both prosecution and defense had of horror, the fear that the men aut. | |fered, and they were the hardest of all the hard things to bear, “Thank God, way they died that nd woman say it rested before noon and the evidence of was meet this morn- scheduled to go to the jury in the| ! oe is one brig 4 sp most in every mind. They die (farn to Page 7, Column @ without suffering, Just went out easily and quietly to sleep, William Fessel’s note has comfort: ed broken hearts in every home to- Arraigned Today |fiy)“Atong the strect men are. te Clara Skarin was scheduled to] calling little things this morning, last make her first appearance in a local |small memories. courtroom Tuesday when she was to] “He said to me, the very night he be brought down from the county | went down for the last time, ‘God, I jail for arraignment on a charge of| hate this night duty, Next week I'll first degree murder in connection! be thru with it.” with the death of Ferdinand Hoch-| “He was so kind-hearted; why, I) brunn remember—" 5c-oOooo ny | And “I knew he would be brave | HARDING VETOES and cool-headed. He was that kind.” | Candles are burning this morning in the dim light of the church on the WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.— President Harding today com- hillside. Girl of 10 Rescues pleted a long message to congress vetoing the $4,000,000,000 soldier Drowning Army Man bonus bill, \Skarin Girl to Be PORTLAND, Sept. 19.—A 10-year. old girl was the heroine of this city Mr, Harding’s message was || ; described by senators who called | today. , Jhite House as “vigor: || Jeut. S. Dahl, of Newport, was = the. Wh - swopt away in the swift waters of a 8 fishing stream. Dorothy White, nus advocates today made a final drive to line up sufficient votes to override the veto, They daughter of Adjt. Gen, White, of Ore. gon, Dahl's host on the fishing trip, rushed into the current and dragged the unconscious form of Dahl to the shore, sdmitted they face almost certain defeat. Disaster Victlend Like Heroes Not Dead, but Risen— BY RUTH FINNEY (United Press Staff Correspondent) T THE ARGONAUT MINE, Jackson, Cal., Sept. 19.—Now upon the first day of the week very early in the morning they came unto the sepulchre. “And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. “And they entered in and found not the body. “And it came to pass—behold, two men stood by them in shining garments and they said unto them: “He is not here, but is risen.” * & & ERY early in the morning women of Jackson came to the shaft of the Kennedy mine, where their men were buried. And they found the stones cleared away from the shaft. And they waited while men entered the shaft, but found not their husbands and their brothers. And as they stood in grief and despair, the women —some of them—heard again that message— “They are not here, but are risen.” Poisonous Fumes Kill Men in Argonaut Mine BY RUTH FINNEY ~— AT THE ARGONAUT “MINE, Jackson, Cal.; Sept. ek ors 1 ide ‘ity: bre hwy hema f hopeful waiting e little city brought t weeks o! an end last night, and this morning was plunged deeper a deeper into gloom as the realization of tragedy grew upon it. “They got the 47,” was the word whispered among the |groups who remained on the street corners most of the night, It meant that the 47 miners, imprisoned by fire and cavein three weeks ago, had been found—all dead. ... eess So great was the weight of the tragedy; so cruel the blow to hope, that the town seemed stunned. It moved listlessly at its work; while in the honeycomb of mine shafts in the ground a mile beneath it, rescue work- jers still toiled—sewing 47 bodies of once strong men into 47 canvas shrouds.’ The 47 never will be seen in flesh again. They will be brought to the surface maybe tonight, maybe not for an- other day; sewed in caskets and buried—most of them in Jackson's cemetery—where coming generations will see their graves and say, “those are the men who gave their lives in the Argonaut.” As to the manner of death, it seemed clear. “Three a: m. Gas very bad,” read one note scrawled in a trembling hand on a bit of paper. And then was the single figure “4,” still more shaky in its outlines. It told its story—at 4 a. m. poison gas had choked into insensibility the man who wanted to leave behind him some record of his death. The end had come without suffering, Bryon O. Pickard, chief of the government rescue workers, believed. Pieced together from what the rude tomb on the 4,350- *| foot level of the mine told when the rescue crews broke into it at 9 o’clock last night, the story of the final fight for life was something like this: Three weeks ago Sunday night the 47 miners found them- selves cut off from the surface by fire and a cavein which closed the shaft. They gathered on the 4,350-foot level, selected a drift where the air seemed best; tore timbers from adjoining drifts; gathered material from most anywhere and began erection | of two massive bulkheads. They stripped themselves of clothing and crammed it into the holes and cracks to make the bulkhead tight. i ery in, they waited the result of their barrier against eat! But death had beaten it down. She had crept thru stealthily, in the form of poison vapors, which sucked gradually into the bulkhead. Stupor, then coma, came to the men and then death, That was probably not later than noon on Monday—the day after the fire started. Since then the bodies have lain there—awaiting the com- ing of rescuers. At 9 o’clock last night the federal searching party smashed down the barrier and flashed to the watchers at the mouth of the mine the words which dashed the last shred of hope: “We have counted 47 dead bodies.” Most of the bodies were nude. They lay strewn over the ground, ghastly, mildewed lumps of clay which once were humanity—but now the sacrifice on the altar of gold, the god of the mother lode, Red Cross workers carried the word to waiting wives, families and relatives. These were shielded from the pub- lic, none being allowed to intrude upon their sorrow. Miners, hardened to the life of the camps, sat silent. The town talked in whispers, time, in two hour shifts, pene ‘Today was Jackson's tragic hour.| trating the depths of what Search for the bodies had proved to be a chamber of been started In earnest at noon death, It was shortly after that yesterday. From that time on four government exploration parties had worked, two at a the word was sent to the surface that a rude bulkhead had been (Turn to Page 7, Column ‘i