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

rain: mode souther Temperature Maximum, 53, Tonight and Friday, occasionally rate to fresh ty winds, Last 44 Hours VOLUME 24. NO. 203. Beloved Brethren! Many are cold, but few are frozen. ee ; Chicago spiritualist says Jullus Caesar and Alexander the Great are radio fans. It's no use for them to tune in on the Seattle broadcasting stations; they don't understand English. eee Little Homer ts taking a hot bath every night, He says he is trying to get hardbolled. . HO-HU: HO-HUM! “Chief Severyns Orders Vice Cleanup. eae What? . Useless Information: The Chinese, it Is estimated, eat 5,000,000 dogs an- Ee nually. eee If it wasn't for the asterisk, few heroines in modern fiction would have a shred of reputation left. eee SONGS FOR YOUR SCRAPBOOK Bip oy ~ = ~ rane lalate sage rally ro Now is the ‘tte | for all dern fools to rally round— Now is the time for alt dern fools to rally ry Rally round whet, you dern fool? Oh, just a-round. is corner of Education of Wash- ‘The statue, however, would be/ more to life if there was a bulge in cheek, denoting a chaw of | is eee If this craze for local statuary is to continue, why not build a frieze around the city hall composed of teeth Doc Brown has pulled? 4 eee And speaking of handsome carv. Yeas, where can you beat the berg buildigg? ing the sound of a frying porter- bouse steak. . A Chicago chorus girl suing for divorce says she doesn’t want any alimony, as she can make her own| living. That girl ought to make somebody a good wife. It fs considered unlikely that when | Hindenburg guns for president of Germany he will adopt the slogan,| “He Kept Us Out of War.” | 3 ee | BET THEY ricHT over waicn | SLEEPS IN THE TUR SLEEPING ROOM wanted by couple on bathroom floor—Advertisement in Cleveland Press. - Remember the days when you could sit in front of a fire and see nil kinds of figures in the flames? And now the only figure you can| see in the flames ts $15 a ton “i } | “Turkish ands a Menace."—~Head. | ine. | Especially when they play “The; Shick.” | eee REFERRED TO WASHINGTON Secretary Hughes wants the threemile limit extended nine miles. Why not move the shore back? / eee | Now 1s the time to think up easy things to swear oft on New Year's. | eee is not Ar. | ; | urkey, it appears, | meniablg to reason, p Nawrsrcats . Asa Candler, the Coca Cola king, ia | being sued by fo marry. We always knew trouble if 4 woman he promised | he'd get into he didn’t quit drinking that stuff. tolse seema to ua to be noat complacent gent ; wey vet has figured out way to raise his rent. ee g- 'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE VAMP, SEZ: Many « pensive little girl turns out to be an expensive little girl. ee Cheer. up f you wore better bt mistake you for me: E. C. Tierney, worker in an automobile here, who, overnight, found his wealth was somewhere be- tween $600,000 and $900,000. Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor Batered as Second Class Matter May at the Postoffics at Beattie, W Seattle Mechanic Suddenly Finds He Is Possessor of Vast Sum of Money BY ROBERT B. BERMANN What would you do, if you ‘were just a plain, hind of fellow, and you suddenly awoke to find yourself a million- aire? Some folks probably would make a| beeline for the waterfront to buy «| private yacht for a trip to Victoria. [Others might think of that fur coat | } | that the wife had been yearning for. | And still others would be likely to d away. But “Irish” ‘Tierney, nstnenctds| mechanic, did none of these. | “A millionatre I am,‘then?” | “Irish “ solilequized. “Faith, and | there's lots of things a million- } aire can do. But first—first, 1 | am going down to the kennels and buy me » good dog. Not having had a home since I went | out on my own, I've never had a | chance to keep « dog since Twas | } | aw bit of a lad. But now—well, a dog I must have.” And a dog he did have—the finest! pit bull he could find—within half an | hour after he received the news ‘The news came in the form of a| telegram from the legal firm of Springer, Clarey & Condon, of Du | buque, Ia. | “Your uncle, P. HK. Tierney, | who died last week,” it ran, “left an estate of from $600,000 to $900,000. As far as we can learn, you are sole heir, We are wiring | $25,000 as an advance for neces- sary expenses. Dubuque at once.” “Irish” couldn't betteve his eyes | n he first read the wire. He| that his uncle had been a} w kn | wealthy man, a retired saloonkeeper,|He went who had speculated successfully in| | Mexican oll and wif had put practi. | |cally his entire fortune into Liberty |bond« during the war. But he hadn't | expected to be heir, | “IL always thought,” “Irish” said Thursday, “that the old man had a| brother somewhere or other, But| even if he didn't, I never figured on | being his heir, The last time I saw him—'twae just after the war, when | I dropped in to eee him, he says to! Nephew, you're my own broth 1’ won, and they say blood Is thick: | er'n water, But I have very little | HAVE YOU PLACED A WANT AD IN THE NEW || SWAP COLUMN? | foreign country, In connection with the husband, was shot while in bed, Mrs, Ivy Gib-|'T erson was sentenced to life imprison ment here Wednesday, use for you.’ “Well, I came back at him in the same spirit. ‘Unele,’ I'says, ‘you're my own father’s brother, and, as you say, blood ta thicker’n water. But, while we're exchanging confi dences, I don't mind telling you that I have even less use for you.’ And so it was we parted. Seems queer that bed be making me a} | miljonaieg“pew.” But, upon making inquiries, ho found out that his uncle had died suddenly of heart disease and had left no will It wasn't until “Irish” had Jearned these details that he was willing to accept himself as ® millionaire. He hadn't even cashed the §25,000 draft that had been sent for his ex- penses—being afraid that he might have to refund it. And he had come dangerously close to spending his last cent for the dog. But now— “Now,” he sala Thursday, going to run down to tho store and see if I can get cashed, And next I am going to start out for France or some other where they've nev or heard of Voistead. “Tm cigar “Not,” he added with a grin that spread clear across his map of Ire land, “not that I care particularly for liquor-—but I like a country where & man can get a drink when he wants to,” Tierney, who bears the Initials of C., if you want to be formal, { 2 years old, is a native of Chicago. into railroading when a youth, but la‘er turned to automobile work and is an expert mechanic. During the war he served overseas, in company D, 839th machine gun battalion, He came here about two years ago, and worked for the Ace Motor Car company. Two months ago he ventured Into business for himeelf, with Frank | Nielsen, and opened an automobile oil station, “The Grease Spot,” at 2025 Fifth ave, And he was on the job at “The se Spot” Thursday, greasing the springs of a flivver—and spilling not a little on himself, “Sure I'm on the job,” he said, “And why not? Just because I came Into some money is no rea son I should throw my partner down, and here I stay until he gets somebody eee led help him.” ltieieaen Who Killed Husband Sentenced TOMS RIVER, N. J., Oct. 19 Found guilty of first degree murder ath of her Giberson, who William F, SEATTLE, station this | ® WASH., THURSD Millionaire Over Night DRIVE ON 10 END EVASION OF JAP LAW Many Orientals to Lose as Result of Decision by Supreme Court Spurred on by his office's vie- tory last Saturday, when the state supreme court held that “trust titles” to land actually held by Japanese constitute a clear evasion of the state antl alien land law, Chief Deputy Prosecutor Ewing D. Colvin an- nounced Thursday that he was Preparing to institute imme diate legal action to evict hun- dreds of Jap farmers from King county land. “The supreme court's decision,” Capt. Colvin declared, “waa the most important event, act is concerned, that has occurred since the law went into effect. It opens the way for us to bring sults against every trust title of this char- acter in the county, and thus is @ big step toward our ultimate end— ridding the county of the Jap eo & number of cases now era tn the superior court, but Rot nearly ag many as there will be. immediately after the law went into offect." Colvin ex- plained, “Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas began an inves- tigation, and learned that, tween the tine the law was passed by the legislature, in 1981, and when it went inte effect June 10, 1921, hun- a “Thene ver, of couree, for the most part, 2 of the law—but nothing could he done in the way of ‘criminal prosecution, because the ac- tions took place before the law went into effect. However, civil suits have been instituted in many cases, and, where the evasion occurred aft- er the law went Into effect, we will ite criminally. Seattle lawyers have de- viae®. various schemes whereby, they contend, Japanese can hold, occupy and cultivate land without violation of the law—but this office takes an opposite view, and we're going to fight each case as a law evasion. “As & matter of fact, wo have been unable to find « single plece of land | in this county that is standing in the | name of an alien Japanese—but that is merely because they have been so clever in covering up. “The schemes, cooked up by | American lawyers, are a credit to their ingenulty—but not to their patriotism. “A favorite trick Is to have an | American former owner or an alien Japanese transfer land to the minor child of a the child having been born in this country and therefore eligible to cithzenship. years or months old, and an Amerl- can guardian ig appointed for him, while the real owner continues to operate the farm. “In other cases American-born Japs, who have reached the age of 21, are given title to land owned by aliens. They retain title until the alien owner has a child born in this country, ‘ed to him. “The trust title, which 1s permit. ted under an old common law, is an- (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) Man Sentenced to Hang, Gets Reprieve DES MOT . lowa, Oct. Orrie Cross, sentenced to Rect October 27 at Fort Madison peni- tentiary, won a reprieve today until wember 24, Governor N. E. Kendall, in granting tho reprieve, declared ho had new evidence as to Cross’ com» plicity in the slaying of George Fosdick, Des Moines grocer. The governor said he intended to make a thoro investigation of the evi- dence. Anna Dunphy Dies Suddenly in London LONDON, Oct, 19.—The Countess Bremont, formerly Anna Dunphy, of Philadelphia, died suddenly here to- day. “The child is frequently only a few | and then the title is trans | w the Act of Congress March 2, AY, OCTOBER 19, 1922. POSES AS JUDGE BALLINGER; GETS | GASOLINE CREDIT After impersonating the late Judge BR, A. Ballinger of Beattie in thin elty and others on the coast, Roy Thompson, alias Roy Bailey, has been captured in Los Angeles, according to word reach ing Seattle police Thursday Thompson i» alleged to have swindled seywral gasoline stations here by posing as “Judge Ballinger,” several months ago. MELLON EASY ON OIL MELON WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, —~Secre- tary of the Treasury Mellon will rule that stock dividends of the Standard Oll company of New Jerney are not taxable, it wan indicated today at the treasury department. Mellon feels that “there is nothing to say," he was quoted, He takes the view that the 4 per cont stock dividend declared by the) company is in reality a splitting up of the shares and will not add to their value, it was stated. He foels that the accumulated profits of the company have been taxed and there fore there i nothing to tax In this cane, as it shall not be held as a jdixtribution of aecumulated profite. Mellon expects to write a letter to-/ as far ax the land |morrow to Representative Frear, of | in reply to « letter from | ¢ Wisconsin, the congressman asking for an ex pression of dpinion from the secre- tary on the stock dividend ALLEGED RUM RUNNERS HELD Captured at a dock near Fremont | in Lake Union early Thursday, two alleged liquor runners giving their names an O. Thompson, 23, and H. Stump, 19, were held in the city jail) by Prohibition Agent Leonard Reagan, after a search of the men's | wpeed boat had disclowed two cases of Canadian beer and some silk. and Stump are alleged to have run tn a cargo of whisky from Victoria Wednesday night, pass- ing thru the Ballard locks. The cargo was unloaded at some point, it ts alleged, and the beer was taken to the dock, where Reagan nabbed distancing most Puget Sound boats. Spurned by One She | Loved, Woman Dies CINCINNATI, Obto, Oct. 19.— Scorned by theaman she loved, Mrs. Angelita Pool, L4s Angeles, Span- ish wife of Karl Pool, star jockey of Latenia track, potsoned herself to death today. She left the following note: “I loved another man and he has turned me down.” Tho Pools had been separated five months, Mra. Pool followed her husband here from the Pacific const. Her final note did not name the “other man.” CARGO AFIRE ABOARD LINER} PROVIDENCE, R. 1. Oct, 19.— Passengers aboard the Concord, Colo- nial line steamer, New York to Prov- idence, were roused from their berths early today, when the cargo caught fire as the ship was approaching this port. ‘The passengers wore transferred tm- mediately to the freighter Monaghen, [in small boats, and brought here. The damage to the cargo was slight. Harding Likely to Be Candidate Again WASHINGTON, Oct. 19—In a |}eading article in yesterday's edition, the Washington Post, owned by Bd political friend of President Hard- jing, states that “in all probability” | President Harding will be a candi- } date in 194 to suc sonnel himeelt. LEGION AFTER SAWYER SCALP NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 19.—-Revolt against the conciliatory attitude of the rehabilitation committee of the | American Legion toward Brig. Gen. | Sawyer broke out in convention here | today, G. 8. Barrow, state commander of Minnesota, introduced a resolution demanding removal of Sawyer, New York seconded the motion. Sawyer Is at the head of the fed- era} hospitalization organization, Babe Ruth’s Wife 4 Hurt in Race Car NEW YORK, Oct. 19.--Mrs, Helen Ruth, wife of the swatting Babe, was injured today when the racing car of her husband skidded and crashed into a tree. She suf. fered abrasions of the left hand. ward B, McLean, close personal and | The Seattle Star |, 1819, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to 99 "RESIGNATION IS ACCEPTED Premier Quits His) Office as Split in| TLOYD GEORGE HOME EDITION TWO CENTS IN IN SEATTLE Government Fol- lows Caucus | i] j BY LLOYD ALLEN IANDON, Oct. 19.—David Lioyd George resigned as prime minister of Great Britain this afternoon, He presented his res- ignation to King George, at | Buckingham palace, after the unionist caucus which met at the Cariton club repudiated his min- istry. This marks the end of the pe itlon government, comprised of the Ieral and unionist parties, which came into being during the war. It was officially announced at 6:30 p. m. that Lioyd George had re- | |signed and that the premier had ad- | vised King George to summon Bonar |law and invoke him to form @ cabinet, Bonar Law wan the active } |of the unionist party until Regs a year ago, when his health broke | down, At that time the reine of leadership | passed to Austen Chamberlain, the parliamentary leader of the coalition and keeper of the privy seal. However, Chamberlain was never | formally invested with the leadership of the party, The statesman whom the king Probably will ask to form a govern- ment hag been more active in poll- ties recently. It has been sald that he has been the real power behind Chamberlain, Law was the leader of the oppost- tion in the house of commons be tween 1911 and 1915. He waa Lioyd . | George's strongest conservative sup- porter from the time of the reforma- tion of the coalition tn the midst of the war and anti! 1971, when Bonar Law took his physician's advice and went into retirement. It was considered tmprobable by nome observers that Bonar Law will be able to form a ministry because to be successful he would have to command a majority in the house of commons, ‘This would mean that many lib. erals would have to vote in favor of Bonar Law, a conservative. Lloyd George Is to meet his Mberal supporters in a caucus at 10 Downing st. at 6 p.m. Austen Chamberlain also has called a caucus of the conserva- tive supporters of the premier. At these conferences it will be de- cided what attitude ts to be taken toward a successor to Lioyd George. In case Bonar Law ix unable to bring the various factions together |to form a ministry, it Is possible that | King George might summon Lloyd George to ah & new government. 'PASSED THRU PERIL PERIOD DY J. W. T. MASON (Written for the United Press) Resignation of Lloyd George |brings to an end the most critical and perilous administration in the thousand years of Great Britain's history. Lloyd George has held the premler- ship continuously since 1916, He was m: prime minister in the midst of the world conflict, as a re sult of the allies’ fallures during the first two years of the fighting. On ‘the outbreak of the war Herbert As-| quith was British prime minister at} the head of a liberal ministry, with | Lioyd George as chancellor of the ex- chequer. Asquith allowed Lord Kitchener to direct the war without interference, The latter proved a } failure thruout, thru lack of adapta- ‘bility to the changing methods of modern combat. Shortage of proper artillery at the front was made the excuse for As- quith's overthrow. Tho British public demanded a non-partisan war ministry and Lloyd George was chosen to head a coali- | tion cabinet of liberals, conserva-! tives and laborites, The choice fell! on him before the success and ener- gy he had shown as minister of mu- nitions during the previous year, and because of his optimism and fearless- ness, Upon the conclusion of the war an attack on Lloyd George was begun similar to that recently started by his political enemies. Lioyd George accepted the challenge and appealed to the country at a general election held December 14, 1918, He was supported by the conservative voters (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) { Capt. Robert Rosenbluth, who gave himself up Thurs- day in New York on hearing of his having been indicted for the murder of Major Alexander Cronkhite. PORTLAND RAIDS ‘| ARMY OF |. W, W, “| 350 Arrested in in Big Dock Strikel Aid Coming PORTLAND, Oct. 19. — City The recent strike of the Marine Transport and Industrial Workers’ union, which threatened to tie up Portland docks in a strike similar to that of last spring, was said by county and city authorities to have been the cause for the gathering here. Information in the hands of local authorities showed that members of the I. W. W. all over the nation, from Washington state to Maine, have heard of the strike of the I. W. W. dock organization here. The news of the influx of I. W. W. fell Uke a bombshell on Portland last | night, and Mayor George L. Baker summoned city and county authori- ties in special joint session of the two governments, Money was hastily appropriated, and a force of special officers sworn in, Then the great round-up began, The North End and dock districts were combed from Terminal Four to Burnside st. Every vagrant was miven a free trip to jail, Ail will be held for trial on charges of vagrancy, it was announced. There was no rioting, those arrest- ed seeming to have been taken by surprise at the suddenness of the official coup. The docks were quiet this morning, and regular union and non-union dock workers were load- ing ‘vessels as usual. RAIL MERGER IS DISCUSSED NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—Bxecu- tives of three of the nation’s lead ing railroads, having a combinetl | capital of $1,700,000,000 and aggre- gate trackage of 34,000 miles, dis- cussed merger here today. ‘The carriers which may combine follow: Great Northern, Northern Pacific. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, THE LADIES’ MISSION society of the St. Paul’s English Lutheran church, at Fremont, Thursday opened its rummage sale at the West- lake market, ‘The sale will continue three days, By Homer Brew Well, folks, at last I have been persuaded to give my indorsement to ihe radio craze, as I have called tt, and now I guess there will be an other rush to the stores where they well Aunt Enny's and crystal detect ives. When “Lioyd Spencer, who runs he Star's radio concerts, asked me te appear on the wireless, I was un- degided whether to do # few sleight. of-hand tricks or dance, Lioyd said it was too bad I was not a contortionist because radio fans are nuts about contortionists, Then I thought I would sing, but Lioyd said the Rhodes broad- casting set was a delicate instru- | ment and couldn't stand no hig class music, so 1 compromised on telling a few bedtime stories for to bed on acct. of the nightmare. I was going to call up my boot- leggers just for fun, but Lloyd says you can't get hooch by radio, so I compromised by tailing to the con- sumers. And when I got fintshed with my little talk, the guy at the phone says there will be a six-minute in. termission and everybody said they bet it would be the finest inter. the Kiddies, which if the kiddies heard they would be afraid to go mission they ever listened to. H. Brew Works on Radio; Bedtime Stories Give Nightmare; But I ain’t never going to ap- pear on no radio again, because when I got home and asked thd little woman what she thought of my talk she said, what talk? And I said, didn't you hear me tell some funny stories? And she sald, Oh shucks, was you trying to tell a funny story? 1 thought you was giving an imi- tation of a section hand eating soup. And thep the fight began. ROSENBLUTH AND POTHIER ARE ACCUSED ‘Issue Warrants in New York for 2 Indicted by Jury — in Tacoma NEW YORK, Oct. 19—Robert Rosenbluth, charged with the” murder of Maj. Alexander P. Cronkhite st Camp Lewis on October 25, 1918, today voluntar-— ily surrendered himself to f officers and is being held Both Rosenbluth and his attor-’ arrest is an attempt by Attorney — General Daugherty to rai i him to prison. eee NEW YORK, Oct. 1» bad States Commissioner Hitcheoek today issued warrants for bape DOUGLAS MINS IN HIGH COL Affidavits of f Prejudice § Be Recognized” Affidavits ot. pees prejudice dit against him by Prosecuting Malcolm Douglas must be {by Superior Judge Austin EB. |fiths, according to.a decision. {known Thursday by the state preme court, Word of the decision, which ts outcome of a long and bitter {fight between Judge Griffiths Prosecutor Douglas, was recetves, jthe latter's office by Capt. E Colvin, who is in charge Douglas’ absence from the city. Judge Griffiths no comment ;Make when informed of the su] court edict. “I have nothing to say at p Judge Griffiths said. “I have seen my attorney and have No official word of the supreme finding. fal counsel in the proceedings, from Olympia Thursday but could not be located. The ruling of the supreme was to be tested, Thursday noon, when a demurrer and Prejudice had been filed, were s¢ juled to come up before Judge G |fiths, Captain Colvin was |graphic confirmation of the lwhich was made by long telephone. Olympla state i the court's decision means that Judge” Griffiths must transfer to some other department of superior court action in which an affidavit of preja dice is filed against him. ‘ DRUNK DRIVER oe ee SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1% Charles Bulkley, of San Fran and his wife were held today o charges of driving an at while intoxicated and of into respectively, as a result of the of Marion Newton, aged 4 here last night. Bulkley is alleged to have jhis car into a crowd standing | Newton, father and mother of Man jon, and Mrs. Robert Rainey and Ww, H. Redding were injured. “Too bad my machine’s smashed,” Police claimed Bulkley told them when he was arrested. BURNED MAN IN BAD SHAPE Vincent Campagna, critically burn ed in heroically rescuing his dog from a fire hole in a peat bog near Renton Tuesday, may be operated upon in Providence hospital, it was announced Thursday, Campagna may have to submit to a skin grafting process, as his arms and body were severely ‘burned. Paddy, the dog, is in the Yates Veter. jinary hospital, also critically burned, ‘The accident occurred when Camp ugna shot a pheasant. The dog in retrieving the bird fell thru a crust of earth into the fire pit, Camp- agna's clothes were burned from his, body, but he rescued the suffering animal and carried it two miles to shelter,