The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 22, 1922, Page 1

a8a8 RRRAPES & ts; ant args eh 31 [a3% & Shis & urday, fair ; wester Maximum, 64. Today lex i: VOLUME 24. NO. 180. petitioning the supreme co’ siding Judge Griffiths. He tells the high court t the judge did—what? It ease, in which the judge Howdy, folks! How would you like to be a fish on a day «Hike this? ee ° Cecile Sorel, famous French beau- is coming to the U. S. with §3 Bet we know what kind of they are. eee Today's candidate for the Polson yy club is the goof who meets you you have and asks: “Aren't you get- @ littie heavy?” The guy who said “Talk Is Cheap” | figure on the telephone com- rates. eee ‘The Turks massacred 10,000 Ar- fans last week, but just wait j cee One news service reports 150,000 nlans slaughtered during the 1 month. if all the Armenian Massacre reports are true, that na [tion must be wiped out regularly every three months. ove THE GAS IN GASSMAN want to be superintend- only, 1 consented.”— Mayor Brown says he will pay Gassman’s salary out of his own pocket. Bet Gassman is thinking about | campaign promises of Doc's. eee We bought a sundae today called | 1S “Seattle Surprise.” We got the /Warprise with the check. ie ee “James A. Duncan Will Stay in | Senatorial Race.”—Headline. | He may stay, but bardly in the face. eee AUTOMOBULL Every farmer should own an Butomobile so that he can get away from home on Sunday be- fore town friends can motor in on him. ee Why don't they try paving First | lave. with the tyory at the city hall? . ° HM It is tough enough for the business | men, And hard on their wives at home, p But think of the bard with the pep less pen— The poet without a pome! see The proposal of the telephone com- f Pany to increase its rates 31 per cent Meets with our approval. People| two or three hours every day trying Yo get ao telephone number. . * WE NOMINATE. HIM FOR THE NEXT OLYMP TEAM : Mr. Chester, when the lightning struck the barn, jumped over the ] tow he was milking, and is resting i Yery easy this afternvou.—Valpa- Taino (Ind.) Messenger. _* 6 New York's fue! administrator says phe will depend on the coal dealers’ Ebonor tor fair prices Somebody in that state is going to be wtuns. . We assume that you understand What the road = atrike bout and 1 understand per terma. Neither do w eee Peat here the sad otory Of Jamen Henry McForth. He stood to the southward Of @ mule headed north, ~ * WEATHER Tonight, showers and cooler; Sat- Temperature Last 244 Hours The side of the defendant? just gained 63) il the hunting season opens here. | Wught to be penalized for wasting | was all! moderate south- ty winds, Minimum, 54. noon, 59. ih om am el i ai iti gem aie i Na Atle AN te OLCOTT The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor Batered as second Clase Matter Mey 6, 1499, at the Postoffice at Seattin Wash, under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879, Per Year, by Mall $5 to $0 SEATTLE, WASH., F RIDAY, urt to save him from Pre- hat the judge is personally prejudiced against him and his pe iy and asks that the judge be forbidden hearing any cases in which the prosecutor is interested. This unusual request arises from a case in which arises from the Chilberg took the side of—whom? NO! The reverse. Is Still Lost in Argonaut Shaft JACKSON, Cal, Sept. 22.— The funeral of the 46 miners whose bodies were recovered from the Argonaut mine today interrupted the search for the bedy of the 47th miner, William Fessel, While loving hands lowered the bedies of the 46 into graves and friends piled flowers high around. each grave, one bedy lay unfound In @ recess in the mine, Neo further effort will be made to locate it until after the funeral. There is no doubt In the minds of mine officials that the missing body is that of Fessel, the man who is credited by townsfolk with being the hero of the underground trag- edy—the man who townsfolk firmly believe was the leader of the trap: ped men when they constructed |Dulkheads on, the 4,35¢foot level }within two or three hours after | they realized they were shut off from escape by a fire in the main shaft. Yet, behind the bulkhead | were located the 46 bodies, Feswsel’s |was not found. | MISSING BODY PROVES MYSTERY Townsfolk doubt that the missing | body is that of thelr hero. They be- Heve that his was identified as an- other's body. is further complicated by the theory that Feasel may not have written the jonly mresange left by the men and | that he, while his comrades were | bulkheading themselves in from gas poisoning, made = daring attempt to reach the Muldoon shaft, where he had a slight change of adjusting ven. Ulation gates which would have ad-| mitted fresh air into the mine. If he| [aid this, he knowingly went to his (Turn to Page 20, Column 4) CITY UNFAIR T0 Work for Foreigners Only in Garbage Department Charges that the major por- tion of $350,000 a year spent for garbage collection in Seattle is paid to foreigners, while Amer- jean citizens are unable to secure employment, are contained in an affidavit filed with the city council by Philip Tworoger, local attorney. Parks, [number of horses and wagons. | For the last |states, he haw applied to Charles L. Murray, in charge of the garbage col lection division of the department of health and sanitation, to be allowed to put a number of teams in this work, fused. During the winter of 1921-22, the affidavit alleges, while sev- eral thousand ex-service men (Turn to Page 20, plum » The mystery of the miasing body | CITIZENS, CLAIM but has been consistently re LAID 10 REST ‘Body of 47th Man) | | |taxpayer of Seattle for more than | mechanics, 26 years, who Is the owner of a large | repaired its radiator. |tons of coal eattle Pupt | Our Malcolm Cries “Halp!” (EDITORIAL) Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas has gone to Olympia The judge interfered in ecutor sought to dismiss the grand jury indictment. The judge told the prosec tried. The judge then and at other times intimated that in various recent cases the prosecution had not been sufficiently stiff, and volunteered to co-operate with the prosecutor in seeing that justice was done. That doesn't sound like fendants, like prejudice ag: For that reason it is with amazement the people of this county are watching Douglas’ newest activity— his appeal to the supreme MANDAMUS HEARING IS SET FOR OCT. 6 Hearing upon the affidavit of prejudice filed Thursday by Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas against Judge Austin E. Griffiths will be held Oct, 6 be fore the state supreme court, as & result of a writ of mandamus iewued by Friday. Judge Griffiths declined to grant a change of venue asked by Douglas in the habeus oe pus hearing of J, W. Pidzionka, or to recognize the affidavit, Thurs day, Because of this tact Doug- las sought his mandamus the supreme court, BRITISH ARMY READY 10 HIT Machines of War Assembled for Turkish Attack SMYRNA, Sept, 22—Greeks are massacring Moslems in Thrace in retaliation for the alleged atrocities in Smyrna, Turkish officials reported here today, CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 23.— Aircraft attacks on a large scale probably will mark outbreak of ac tual hostilities between the British and Turks. With the Turks reported bringing up heavy artillery, and hurrying | their shock troops from Smyrna! toward the new front, the British have assembled powerful aircraft squadrons behind their lines and are ready to loose them the minute Mustapha Kemal's forces cross the “dead line"—the border of the neu. tral zone, violation of which means war. Tanks, armored cars and other fighting machines developed ia the world war are being rushed to the Near East. The Moslems are assembling In| great strength along the dead-line, according to reports filtering back But the British troops, backed by | the guns of the fleet, are ready for any eventuality. The British (fern to Pa ef Prohibition Agents streneth has been 20, Column 1) Plan to Seize Ship) NEW YORK, Sept. that the liner Korona, at Cadiz, Spain, smuggle millions of dollars’ worth of liquor into United States, fed eraf authorities today prepared to take ones. to seize the veanel. Giant Dirigible Is Again Under Way PASO, Texas, Sept now tied up EL The affidavit ts that of Edgur C. |siant dirigible C-2, on its transcontl described as a resident and | nenta}l flight, left here today after working all night, had The great air boat was expected five years, Parks |to Jump to Yuma, Ariz, with a brief stop at Nogales, Aris Coal Plentiful; _ Ford Plants Open DETROIT, Sept. |from Kentucky operators to supply the Ford Motor company indefinitely with 40,000 daily, | Ford workers back to work today. 22.—Charging | has been used to! 22.—The | 22.—Contracts! and West Virginia| brought 70,000) that case when the pros- utor the case ought to be prejudice in favor of de- ainst prosecution, court. CITY PUSHES Demands — of $1,500,000 to Patrons Return | | | } By Seaburn Brown In the opening counter at tack on the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co."s fight for a new tariff authorizing an In crease of approximately 31 per cent in phone rates thruout the | state, the city of Seattle will press a demand for a blanket reparation for Seattle patrons from the compady, totaling $1,- $00,000, according to the office of ooo aang Counsel Walter F. Binee December, 1919, the tele phone company In the case at tseue has overébarged Seattle patrons at an average rate of 75 cents a phone, according to T. J. L. Kennedy, assiat- ant corporation counsel, as the Bur. ieson rates, temporarily established during the war, were automatically | discontinued at that time, and the | Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. has maintained the emergency rates since. No new rate tariff, Kennedy said, has been Issued fo the com pany since 1916. Burleson war rates, | rate of 75 cents a phone, went inte effect. In August, 1919, the government announced that the war rates were discontinued, and that individual | rates by private companies were again legal. However, four months |—or until December, i919—were al- liowed telephone companies at the | Burleson rates, to provide time for | the fixing of new tariffs, | The Pacific Telephone and Tele graph Co., Kennedy said Thursday, id not apply for nor receive a new tariff at that time, and consequently | | the rates should have reverted to the e. Rates have since continued at the Burleson scale, and the city of Seat tle is seeking to recover the over. | charge for its citizens thru the blan | ket reparation Action by the City of Seattle to reduce the present rate Is also pending, Kennedy sald. That a statewide fight to prevent the issuing of the tariff now asked for by the Pacific Telephone and | Telegraph company will soon be un: der way is indicated by the action of the corporation counsel's office in written requests for co-operation, mailed to the city attorneys of Ta- coma, Bellingham, Spokane, Everett, | Wenatchee, Yakima, Aberdeen and | other Washington cities. Request also has been made of the state department of public works for & copy of the tariff in question To secure evidence to present tn | {ts pending action to force a lowering | of phone rates in Seattle, the city has employed Thomas Phipps as special investigator of the value of local |property of the dompany. In January, 1922, the state depart. ment of public works declared that the telephone tolls thruout the state appeared to be excessive, and began an exhaustive investigation of company's business with the public for the purpose of deciding upon a | fair rate, according to G. F. Russell, head of the city department of public | utilities A report upon this investigation, | which has not been arrived at, is ex: pected to throw additional light upon the protiem, according to Russell, PHONE CLAIM the | SEPTEMBER 22, 1922. Breaks Neck!) fal The Seattle Star [2 thinlpeteesitmep angi niente: eR RAN ROT ~ TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE SLAYER OF BOY CHOOSES HIS OWN PLACE TO HANG ‘EPH. RATA MURDERER IS BOASTFUL OF HIS CRIME) ane RNIN RET ¢ A TELL PLANS FOR STATE'S PORTS Bellingham ‘and Blaine Are Discussed in Publication Comprehensive plans for the de velopment of the ports of Bellingham and Blaine are set forth in a lengthy article in the September issue of The Dock and Harbor Authority, a Brit- ish engineering publication. The article is written by Taggart Aston, terminal engineer, who was called in to prepare a scheme of port | development for the two harbors. A two-page supplemental map is printed to show the proposed im- provements, and the importance of | the two harbors to national shipping |is pointed out by the writer, “Bellingham Bay has long been recognized by naval and merchant marine officers as one of the best | protected and extensive anchorage [harbors on the Pacific coast,” the author declares. “Blaine has many posaibilities for a first-class port, |which can readily be developed as industrial requirements demand.” Roth the harbors at Bellingham and Blaine are included in the same port district. By E. P. Chalcraft lcolored employes of the city pound, |will have to jmore fast friendg—by court order. On the witness stand in Justice of Lenair of threatening to shoot him, | make canine arrests | facts he called you,” Miss “Cordelia Thiel, IW. tin and James Lenair, the |deputy prosecuting attorney, admon- ished Abel, “the court wants all the minus the authority of thelr revoly-| “Never mind the name,” Judge ‘ers for the next 30 days. | Dalton interposed, “I've a wide Also Abel and Lenair are ones experience in such things and can use my imagination.” “Well, judge,” said “he Abel, shoot,’ I said to him, ‘Why don’t you “He called me « vile name, a Very | shoot?’” vile name,” Abel said, It developed that instead of shoot- “Tell the court what the name was ling, Lenair and Abel enguged ln a |verbal fray over the fact that Abel |had left the motor of his car run- |ning too long at the end of a day's work. Lenalr on the stand explained that he had the friendliest feeling |toward Abel, had been a friend of his for 13 years and certainly did not the Peace C, C. Dalton'’s courtroom | pointed his gun at me and sald he want any hard feeling to arise be- Thursday afternoon Abel accused|was going to shoot me. ‘Go ahead, |tween them. “I was just fooling, Judge,” Lenalr explained easily, “I did point my gun at him, but I won't fool no more,” Judge Dalton considered the evi ‘Mr. Abel Shakes Hands With Mr. Lenair dence for a few moments. “The court does not see why you men should not be friends,” he said. “Mr, Abel shake hands with Mr, Lenair."” Two hands clasped. “Now to be on the safe side,” said the judge, “I am going to request Chief of Police Severyns to take your guns away from you for 30 days for conduct unbecoming officers and gentlemen.” “Thank you, judge, thank you," said Abel and Lenair as they walked from the courtroom arm in arm to pay the clerk $3.67 each, EPHRATA, Sept. 22. in this state?” Paul Staren (above), confessed slayer of August Bonjiorni during \fiorni ranch near Wilson creek Tuesday evening. Below, Sheriff Mark Deycous, of Grant county, who took Staren in custody after his capture. * * * #* By Ralph J. Benjamin —‘“Say, where do they hang a fellow a raid on the Bon- * + * This was the first question Paul Staren, 40, who pleaded ilty yesterday afternoon to the brutal murder of August onjiorni, 19, near Wilson Creek, Tuesday evening, Daniel T. Cross, whom Superior Jud, defend him, took him aside in the little to question him, when Hill had appo inted to white courthouse here “They'll hang you in Walla Walla if the jury finds you are guilty,” Attorney Cross told him. “I don’t want to hang in Walla Walla,” Staren insisted. “I'd like to hang in Olympia.” “They'll have to find you gull- ty first,” he was told, “Oh, I'm guilty, all right. shot them. Sure I did. I made a pretty good job of it.” When arraigned before Judge Hill, | Staren was completely unconcerned. The judge told him that he had the right to employ an attorney if he had the money, and if he had no money, the court would appoint one to see that he got a fair trial, “What do I want of a lawyer?” Staren asked the court, “I am gull. ty. I shot them,” “Have you money to employ an asked the judge. “Sure I have money, but I don't want any lawyer,” Staren replied. The court then named Cross as defense attorney. Tho he claims that he killed the Ronjiorn{ boy and badly wounded the boy's uncle simply to get re. venge for a three-year-old debt of $10, the officers here do not believe that was the real motive for the crime, They point out that Staren had nearly $2,000 in Medical Lake and Spokane banks, The man's queer request that he be banged in Olympia also caused considerable speculation, Staren does not closely answer the |description of the fiend who com- mitted the horrible attack on Mra. Harry O'Hare and her daughters at Schneider's Prairie, near Olympta, Sept. 7, but Sheriff Deycous is today making finger prints of Staren’s hands and sending them to Luke 8. May, Seattle detective in charge of the search for the Olympia fiend, If the Olympia fiend limped, due to @ badly injured right foot, the two men might tally better. However, the finger prints will decide whether or not the fiend of Wilson Creek is the fiend of Schneider's Prairie. Officers here are not sure that Staren did not contemplate a crime similar to that committed against the O'Hare family when he opened fire on the Bonjiornis, It has been learned that he watched the two Bonjiorni girls, 13 and 15, during the two days he loitered about the neighbor. hood before the shooting, and approached one of the giris the day before the tragedy and at- tempted to drag her with him into the fields, Questioned about this, Staren declared that he simply wanted to take the girl out into the field to her father, Swift justice is to be meted out to Staren. Within two hours from the time of his arrival at the county jail here, Prosecuting Attorney N. W. (Turn to Page mm, Coluran Bb] CHALLENGES POINDEXTER Charging that Miles Poindexter, re- publiean candidate for re-election to the U. 8, senate, is not a progressive, ;48 claimed, that Poindexter's cam- paign for the presidential nomination in 1920 was financed Jargely by Wall St. bankers, and that the senator was ‘wrong in casting his vote as he did in the Newberry tasue, C. C. Dill, detnocratic opponent of Poindexter for tho senate. bas challenged him to @ debate, FOOT FALL ’ OFF STEPS IS FATAL T0 BOY Joe Desimon, 7, Is Victim of Trick of Chance While at School Roxbury st. and Fourth ave. lay dead at his home Friday, Joe had left home at § day to attend school. He arrived the Concord grade school soon after and started playing on the low steps at the entrance. Losing his balance, Joe fell six feet. In his fall he twisted SEATTLE BABY, YEAR OLD, DROWNS IN TUB Climbing {nto a tub while hia parents were absent for a few mo- ments, Baby Edward Charles Hal- vack, 1 year old, son of Mrs. H. C. Halvack, 307 First ave. W., drowned Thursday evening. The child was found by hig brother, John, Physicians from the city hospital were called, but efforts to revive the boy failed. { from a backward position so ee ee hance Gee The lad’s neck was in- pan broken, rendering him Joe's playmates rushed to He is sw i eee See ‘. Coroner W. H. Coroner H. B. Kaulely are gating the case. ARREST 3 FOR DENVER, Sept. 22.—Three pet sons were arrested here today if connection with the $150,000 mall — robbery at the Santa Fe railway station in Trinidad, Colo., May 1, MAIL ROBBERY, g They are Ray Miller and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hicks. lived in Trinidad. When arrested Miller formerty” he had $8,000 in cash and approxis =~ mately $3,000 in checks on hig per Gon, detectives said. Eight pouches of west bound _— were taken from the station Trinidad the night of May 21, = all efforts of postal inspectors and detectives to find a clew to the robbers’ identity fatled, Clara Skarin Will Enter Plea Today Clara Skarin was scheduled to ene ter her plea Friday afternoon to the first degree murder charge filed against her in connection with the death of Ferdinand Hochbrunn. Her attorney, John F. Dore, has ine timated that her plea will be that of “not guilty.” Wine and Beer Is Proposed in Bill WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Repe resentative Brennan, republicam, Michigan, today introduced a resor lution proposing a constitutional amendment permitting manufacture and sale of five per cent beer tq pay a soldier vonus. : f Anti-Gouge Bill ' 4 Signed by Hi WASHINGTON, Sept 23.— The fuel anttprofiteering bill and Borah bill, providing for a compli investigation of the coal industry, were signed by President Harding toe day, ’ Coal Wage Parley Date Is Awa CLEVELAND, Sept. 22—Bitum’ nous coal operators and representas tives of the United Mine Workers will meet here October 2 to open negotiations for a 1923 wage scale, Better Bargains Are to Be Found in The Star Want Ad Columns