The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 25, 1922, Page 1

Tonight fresh southy ‘Temperature Maximum, 58, | Howdy, folks! Steinmetz, the electrical wisard, says four hours is a day's work. The dern slave- driver! It Fords continue to get cheaper ft won't be long before any kiddie can secure one by obtaining two sub- | scriptions to The Star. eee Come all ye lads and tassies, too, Raise up your voices hearty ; No longer will the ‘skeeter spoil A first-class petting party! eee The Seattle Art club will give its Qnnual masquerade Saturday night. A lot of the members will go dis | guised as artists. | eee CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB The goof who prevents Wash- Ingten coeds from giving the University yells along with the men, . . “U. of W. students dignified cheer leading. te against — Newspa- per. A dignified cheer leader is about) as much use as a contortionist, with Tumbago. Sarah Bernhardt, 77, will make her 10th farewell tour of Amer- | fea next spring. Which reminds | us of spending a pleasant after- | | ‘noon listening to Harry W. Car- | | roll say good-bye. 4 “Don't shake bees.” advises B. A. Slocum, state bee inépector. Wel et that, we'd much rather shal Pacific coast hockey season opens November 13. Until that time, how- ever, assault and battery will be con-| sidered a crime. { eee Henry Ford ls thinking of runsing | for president. Why doesn't he r state senator and spend the diff core? —Screeniand. eee Lil Gee Gee, who is only five feet) tall, says nobody can accuse her of | cheek-to-cheek dancing. eee HELP WANTED Now that Mayor Brown has re- lieved Cari Gassman of the duties of superintendent of streets, he might ask the Com | manity Fund to look after bis | friend for a while, | eee The city council and Mayor Brown | are now even, Doc has named 14 men a# superintendent of streets and the council has rejected 14. oes Irene Bordon!, stage beauty, advo- cates the establishment of kins clin- fes to solve the divorce problem. May we not offer ourselves as al laboratory subject? one Irene says a woman should kiss | with her whole soul, and along comes | Ambassador Harvey, who says a has no soul. ‘Things are aw-| fully muddled. eee RECALL! RECALL! Colonel Harvey declares the 10 commandments apply only to men. Well, so far as we are con- cerned, they can repeal the whole lot. A grandson of Karl Marx is com- ing to the United States next month. | If he knows what is good for him | he wil! keep away from Seattle. The socialists here would talk him to @eath. see Another candidate for the Polson | Ivy club is the assertive gink who | thinks that a 10-cent tip gives him the right to call a waitress “sister” Or “girlie.” eee Mayor Brown, when he appeared on the Orpheum stage, did not sing the “Railway Blues.” And that’s, as | ts, thi . IT'S AN IL Winn THAT BLOWS NO #i L GOOD San Francioce on & strike. . -" | counts, this fellow Siki, ttler, {9 seldom in the Pink of Condition “-* An effort in being made to make Mexico ar Let us hope the idea} oean't spread to the United States. see Steady, men! Ladies and children Miratt WEATHER and Thursday, Today noon, 54. | which contracts were let in 20 large lGeorge E. Orr Accused of | with $100,000 of the company’s stock RR YAR A SORE RRR a " mes settee Sore ee Pe inn Renee rain ; westerly pale. Last M4 Hours Minimum, 52, 9, at the Postoffice at # ‘W ash, und the Act of Congress March 8, sini bins ais en ha an ii titan eH tC ALAN LACE LAAT The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star Rntered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1 1879, Por Year, by Mall, $5 to 99 SEATTLE, WASH., WE DN DAY, OCTOBER 25, 1 o22. _Two CENTS IN SEATTLE i ‘Great Building Boom _Is On Thruout Nation U.S. MOVES TO PREVENT 5 Sets of NEW RECORD [S HERALDED BY SEATTLE Hammers Busy Allj Over Country as! Construction! Work Is Rushed Paralleling the building boom | which is sweeping the nation, Seattle has in the first eight | months of 1922 invested more Ashbell, money in buildings than ly any | Previous year of its history, ex- cepting 1909, the fair y and the war period of 1919, according to a statement issued by Super: | intendent of Buildings Robert L. Proctor, | Up to October 1 building per- mits in Seattle have represented $14,482,505. The total for the en- tire year of 1919 was $15,615,010, while in the first eight months of that year permits to the value of $12,180,495 were granted. It | is expected that the total for 1922 will easily exeet that of 1919. In the world's fair year of 1909 the extensive construction of large exhibit structures brought Permit values to the peak of $19,- 044,335; but even in that period of feverish building, the first eight months tepped the first three-quarters of 1922 by less than one million—$15,309,993. eee BY EDWARD C. DERR CHICAGO, Oct. 23-The est building boom in the history of the United States is now in according to figures ob- Triplets, 2 of Twins} WARSAW, Ind., Oct. 25.—Iive sets of triplets and two sets of twing have been born to Mr, and Mrs. Frank Scott in 10 years of married life. ‘The Scotts, parents and 13 liv ing children, boarded a westbound train in search of enough land to provided sustenance and employ- ment for the whole family “We can't carry a Sunday school class, madame,” remarked the conductor to the mother as she offered one fare. “But they're my children,” Mrs. Scott replied. The family Bible disclosed the was produced and |] record. There were: Archer and Austin, Allen, Almon and Albion, each 2h. Alfred, Albert and Adolph, each months. Abel and Abner, each 6 months. ‘The mother tg 30 and the father They lived near South Whit- The father humorously re- marked that they started the first children's names with the letter “A.” intefding to go thru the alphabet later. CITY OFFICIALS IN WORD FIGHT Carroll and Russell Hold Spirited Debate Clashing with several city depart- bare ches \t tained today by the United Press. — —. Bs nang al ‘The rush to build ts limited to no| Mayor Brown Wednesday, City one city, state or section. Thruout|Comptroiier H. W. Carroll declared the country, carpenters’ hammers /|that hie office cannot function with are pounding, the figures show. full efficiency unless the account- “A new city—larger by far than) ants of the various departments are any in the world—would spring UP/ brought under the control of his almost overnight if all building con- | o¢tice, | tracted for during 1922 were concen |trated in one place,” declared B. J. Brunner, editor of the American |posed, chief spokesman for the de. Partments, Superintendent of Pub-| Contractor. He Utilities Geo. F. Russell, debating “Building records are being broken | so spiritediy with Carroll that the in practically afl the large citle®|mayor suggested that a referee,| Contractors report a shortage of/timekeeper and seconds be ap- |nkilled construction workers to meet | pointed the unprecedented demand,” Brun-) Russell interpreted the move a» ner said. an attempt by the comptroller to obtain autocratic control over mat- ters not within his proper sphere. “It the accountant of public utili “Residential buildings, factories and business buildings lead the Mist. Schools are being built in greater numbers and at greater expense than at any time in re- cent years.” ‘The total valuation of bulldings for troller’s office. by the comptroller, because the ac- | etties during the first nine months of |countant handling the conductors'| } 1922 is $2,213,210,943, compared with | reports will be of the comptrolier's }$1.085,099,040 for the entire 12/ offi Russell said. Carroll claimed that the proposed move would not only conserve space, {but eliminate some duplication, and enable him to have all records at hand at all times. A plan to move outside depart. ments into the county-city building was also discussed, with a majority of the department heads and coun ciimen present in favor of change. BAILIFF HURT months of 1921. The cities included | in these figures are New York, Chicago, Philadel- (Turn ¢ te ) Page bad Colama 3) MINE OFFICIAL, SHORT, IS HELD Embezzling $152,000 CHICAGO, Oct. 25.— Charles Havenor, president of the Colo- rado-Utah mine holding corpora- tion of Denver and Kansas Cit caused the arrest of his financial secretary, George E. Orr, here today on a charge of embezzling $152,000 of the company’s funds, Havenor alleges he entrusted Orr War Veteran’s Foot} Badly Mangled Civil |floor of the county-cjty building at noon Wednesday, Edward C. Wilcox, bailiff in department No, 1, Jen to the city hospital In a serious | and $52,000 In judgment notes, which | conaition. Orr has refused to give up. Wilcox, according to witnesses, Orr's attorneys denied the embez-|way a little Inte in trying to board zlement charges and said they were|an upbound elevator, As the oper: holding the papers pending outcome | ator saw Wilcox make a dive to of a breach of contract suit brought | catch the car he brought the ele- against Havenor by Orr. vator to a stop. In some manner In this suit Orr charges his ¢m-|the pailiff’s left foot became caught |ployer with falling to live up to thelr |henoath the car and was nearly sev. leontract, which he sald called for | oraq $1,000 a month salary for his serv-| wiicox is a white-haired veteran ices as Havenor's secretary. lof the civil war. As he lay watting Another suit against Havenor for | toy the arrival of an ambulance he $100,000 damages in connection with |mtied at a newspaper reporter and hig stock promotion activities was|)omarked, “Well, I guess I won't} brought recently by Mrs. Annie Har-|pother you any more for a little | |minghaus, of Gary, Ind while,” Mellon Holds Up Ship Orders WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Issuance of enforcement regulations putting into effect the Daugherty ruling | prohibiting Mquor on all American) vessels and on foreign vexsels in American waters was further de- layed today by order of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, pending the working out of further problems, Until the new regulations are ta: sued, prohibition enforcement will continue as heretofore. Wileox 1s a widower and lives at 4908 43048 ave. 8. Move to Foreclose Action to foreclose a mortgage for $56,000 wan filed in oy gl court | Wednesday by James ‘anchion, Alaska mining man, against Peter V, Cerini and others a loan of $56,000, made by Fanchton to Cerint and his wife, @n March 1, 1921, It is secured by valuable min- nig lands at Black rive His proposition was vigorously op-| tles becomes a member of the comp-| I suppose the next} move will be to have the conductors| on the municipal ratlroads appointed | the) BY ELEVATOR, Crushed by an elevator on the third | was tak-| $56,000 Mortgage| The mortgage was gtven to secure | CLAINC. PR. ‘STIRS CHINESE ~ AGAINST CITY, |Hughes Tries to} Clear Situation European Crash BY A BRADFORD Lobby Works Thru} «i it ane USOffice, Head) azz, sarin is tions ta determine what can be done by the United States to pre- | vent « final crash in Europe, of Immigration Is Told: Fiore: |, seen oomeel monen o | state department in Washington and BY ROBERT B. BERMANN | Kmerican smbusnndors abroad, while Charging that the Canadian (conversations are ensuing here be Pacific lobby in Washington, [tween Secretary D. ©, is responsible for the threatened Chinese boycott of Seattle, a delegation from the | China club called on Commis | sloner General of Immigration | W. W. Husbands and Assistant Secretary of Labor E. J. Hen- ning Wednesday morning in an | effort to bring about federal in- | tervention. | Seattle's entire trade with China— running into millions of dollars an- nually—will be permanently cut off | unless immediate steps are taken to |throw off the hold which the for-|ference here of five Central Amert-| jelgn rafiroad interests neem to have|can countries to consider reduction obtained over certain of the federal |of their land forces, is opening the | \eeminaoate the China club men/way for future concerted action by | told the officials, all nations for extensive land dis- | It was charged that the C. P. R./"rmament. was responsible for the rigid inter-| Following adoption of « land arm- pretation which is put in Seattle on|ament limitation agreement by the immigration laws as they apply to five Central American republics, the Chinese visitors and that this inter. | second step will be ite extension to pretation is go onerous that Chinese | all of South America. business men are now refusing to go| This step taken, it would then be thru thin port and are taking Ue | up to the United States to join with business away with them. Virtually|th South American and Central all Chinese business men who would | American governments in a general hormally come thru Seattle, it was| disarmament treaty, which would said, are now landing at Vancouver | be placed before the nations of Bu- Instead and taking the C. P. KR, to | rope as an example of what might Montreal, from which point they can|be accomplished toward world-wide enter the United States with less | disarmament. difficulty and humiliation. | In view of the natural hesitancy | The delegation went into de- (of this government to cut down its tail on the treatment whieh Chi- (land forces until some assurance tw nese visitors to Seattle now re (given of European reduction, the | celve at the hands of the immi- | probable course, it is gration authorities—it being (here, would be a tentative agree- pointed out that the fanit lies | ment with South America based on net with the local authorities, European acceptance of a general but with the bureau in Wash- | conference. ington, which accepts the Cana- | Thin government may decide to dian Pacific's interpretation of | keep “hands off” of the European immigration laws. situation for some time yet. There A Chinese professor, it was | are indications, however, that should | deciared, receives no more con- (the American government sideration than a coolle when he | move, such as the calling of a world | enters this port. Instead of un- | economic conference, it would insist | dergoing « medical examination | on means for limiting the huge mili- aboard the ship—such as the na- (tary establishments in Europe as tionals of every other country | preliminary to any agreement for a under the sun are given, he ts relief of the economic situation. | taken to the detention station | The German government, the) and confined with the lowest [United Press is in @ position to classes of Orientals for 24 hours ate, takes the official attitude that or more, to await the pleasure | reparations payments, even thore in| | of the examiners who are “too | kind, may have to be suspended un- busy” to take up his case at (leas France can be made to realize once. | the seriousness of Germany's situa In spite of this, {t was charged,| tion. In other words, Germany is the United States is paying medical | considering becoming a bankrupt be- |examiners to go to Vancouver to| fore the world. ‘examine Chinese disembarking there! ~ oe Wage their passage over th England Interested in New Arms Parley Two solutions were suggested by| LONDON, Oct. 26.—The British |the China club men, First, a leas | severe interpretation of the law, #o| ernment, it was authoritatively that Chinese could be examinea|Sovermment, it saggy ng | stated today, is viewing with the aboard their ships and permitted to Y : 3 keenest interest the forthcoming land land without de Becond, the| ’ » |disarmament conference to which erection of @ more suitable {mml- ay President Harding invited five Cen- gration station, #0 that when it ts absolutely essential to hold a first. |*Ta! American republics, le " | In official circles it is hoped that cabin passenger he can be given bet- the’ parley will result in a Hmitation ter accommodations. ; ~ of armament, inasmuch as England The conference was held at thé! roves and supports any step like | Frye hotel, where both Husbands|,/ "+, create a sentiment toward and Henning are staying, The dele. gation comprised A. F. rtaynes, 1. {Peet L, Kirby and Judge Thomas Burke | lof the China club, and W. B, Hen- SHIPPING IS derson, representiny tne foreign| trade bureau of the Chamber of Commerce. | Husbands and Henning, who are |making a swing around the coun- try inspecting immigration stations jand studying variuws immigration | problems, are due to leave for tho | "they. declared thar the Japanese | indications are that there will be no |immigration problem is on the wane| hevy losses to producers of perish. land that they had not. deemed it, ble crops, officials of the car service |necessary to devote particular at.| ‘vision of the federal railroad ad. | Gentian beeen pees ministration reported today, Londings for the week ended Octo- ber 14, it was said, will show a “ma. terial increase” over figures for the previous week, when 96,000 cars were loaded, Fruit growers in New York, | Ohio, Michigan, California and other | states are being well supplied with cara, ous situation in Europe, in which the old world apparently is looking to this country ax a last hope It is known that the question of the possibility and advisability of a world conference on eco nomic rehabilitation and a reduc- tion of land armaments, to be sponsored by the United States and to be held in Washington, for the purpose of settling this vast problem, is figuring in these discussions, WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—-With ear loadings continuing to show a steady increase, problem is rapidly improving in all \Manslaughter Case Is Now Before Jury Evidence in the case of Jamos Cameron, charged with manslaugh- | ter, was given to the Jury in Superior | Judge A. W. Frater's court Wednes. | day morning, Cameron's automobile truck and killed Charles W. Le Riche, USED CAR BARGAINS IN TODAY’S CLASSIFIED COLUMNS \McAdoo III and His Speeches Canceled | DODGH CITY, Kan,, Oct, 26,— | Willlam G. McAdoo, former secre. |tary of the treasury, J# suffering from an attack of stomach trouble Jand speaking engagements have been temporarily canceled, a reception committee was informed by Mo Adoo's physician here today, \ MORE WARS and Avert Final of State Hughes | and foreign ambassadors on the sert- | ‘The United States, in calling a com | considered | make a! GIVEN RELIEF | the transportation | sections of the country, and present | Andrew Bonar Law, unionist lento, who succeeds David | was born in New Brunswick, life in Scotland, KING APPROVES LAW'S CABINET Conservative e Government Is Started Today LONDON, Oct. 25.—The regime of Premier Bonar Law and his con- servative government starts today. Great Britain is to pass formally} lout of the control of the Lioyd George coalition government when | King George welcomes the new |untonist ministers in office and turns over their seals to them. This will take place this afternoon. ‘The king, before this, is to receive | Lioyd George and his repudiated cabinet and bid them Godspeed. The new government will reign Jat least until November 15, when |the general elections will be the! first real test of strength between |Premier Bonar Law and Lioyd George, the former prime minister. | The new cabinet ts undoubtedly a disappointment | faction of the unionist party, whose | maneuvers were directly responsible for the overthrow of the Lioyd George government. Bonar Law last night announced the personnel of his cabinet. It has been approved by King [George and is as follows: | Bonar Law, premier and first lord |of the treasury. | Marquis of Salisbury, dent of the council, Viscount Cave, lord high cellor, Stanley Baldwin, chancellor of tho exchequer. William C. Bridgeman, of home affairs, Marquis Curzon, foreign affairs. The duke of Devonshire, secretary Viscount Peel, Earl of Derby, Lieutenant Colonel llord of the admiralty. Sir Phillip Lioyd Greame, dent of the board of trade. Sir Arthur Griffith Boscawen, minister of health, Sir Robert A. Sanders, minister of agriculture. Viscount Novar, Scotland, Douglas McG. Hogg, attorney gen- eral. lord prest- chan- secretary secretary of colonial secretary for Indla, war secretary. Amery, first prest secretary for . A. Watson, lord advocate. Edward F. Wood, president of the board of education, LW. W. SHUNS CHICAGO HELP PORTLAND, Oct, 25.-—Vehement denial was made here today that the executive council of «the In@uatrial | Workers of the World, In Chicago, had tasued orders yesterday urging all “foot-loose” I. W, W, pickets to come here at once and ald in the waterfront strike now In progress, B, A, Green, attorney and coun. sellor for the I, W, W. Portland lo- eal, declared thet the organization has local autonomy and that the Portland local had not requested the | order, t6 the “die-hard”| Lloyd George as prime minister of Great Britain, is the first man born outside of the British isles to become premier. He Canada, but lived most of his Bonar Law was government leader in commons from 1916 until he retired from politics last year owing to poor health. | He was chancellor of the exchequer the last two years of the war in Lloyd George's coalition cabinet. LLOYD GEC TALKS aN DEST In Stump Speech He Says England Must Pay | TONDON, Oct. 25-—Great Britain must pay all of her debt to Ameri- lea, Lloyd George declared today in |a speech at a meeting of national Uberals. | It ts imperative that America and j Gres Britain work together, the |former premier asserted. It wae Lioyd George's first real [stump speech of bis campaign. He entered the hall in Hotel Vic- toria with his wife and daughter walking on elther side, There was & great roar of applause. |. (Untted Press dispatches from |London yesterday said Bonar Law and Curzon had agreed on a policy |of Britain paying her debt to Amert- jca. No official announcement was |made, however, and Lloyd George lin his speech today “beat Bonar Law to it”) Lioyd George approved the league of nations, but said it would be crip- pled until the United States and all |great and small European nations have joined. BETS EVEN ON N. Y. CONTEST | (Copyright, 1922, by United Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.— Wall Street is betting even money on New York's spectacular governorship fight—a fight that may make a presidential nominee in 1924. * One bet of $20,000 and numerous smaller but sizeable wagers have been made on the chances of Al Smith, democrat, and Nathan L, Miller, republican incumbent. In demecratic circles here this trend in the betting presaged as favoring Smith, whose chance of coming back against Miller was not too highly regarded in the earlier stages of the campaign, D’Annunzio Is II From Work Strain BRESCIA, Italy, Oct. 25,—~Ga- |brielle @’Annunzio, the famous poet and aviator, was stricken with a light fever, due to overwork, today. His physician, Signor Duse, issued ;& bujletin requesting politicians and others to suspend their visits to @’Annunzio so that he may have a complete rest. D'Annunzlo has been reported in very ill health ever since he fell from 4 window in his villa several months ago. /Harvey Speech Is Cause of Uproar LONPON, Oct. 25.—The speech of Col. Harvey, American ambassador to the Court of St. James on “Have ‘Women Souls?” caused an uproar in the London press today. Harvey, in an address to the Authors’ club, said he found nothing in the Bible indicating that women have souls, The Morning Post insists that Harvey and the British people are mutually the best of friends, yet general council to Issue any such|sometimes the ambassador ts a dis-| cording to a message received at the turbing friend, MOVE AGAINST ‘YELLOW MEN. HOLDING LAND. “To Kick Out All Illegal Owners in County,” Says Prosecutor Opening a fight which, he says, he will continue to push until the last Japanese has been driv. en from illegally held King coun- ty land, Chief Deputy Proseeut- ing Attorney Ewing D, Colvin in- stituted criminal proceedings Wednesday against Kichlo Aral state anti-alien land law. The two Japanese are accused — of holding a 21%-acre farm the southern end of Vashon ie — Jand in violation of the land set. In the information filed them in superior court, ft ts eh that Okubo acquired title to the which is valued at ap $5,000, April 5, 1921, about month after the land law had passed, but two months before went into effect. On April 12, 1921, ae information, Okubo, for the of evading the law, transferred t to the land to Aral, It is expected that in their defense the Japanese will maintain that Aral was born in the United States and therefore an American citizen, en- titled to hold land, but in the infor- mation both he and Okubo are scribed as Japanese subjects. If this case can be established Prosecution will have no diffi in winning the case, as it Two Convicts Escape From State Prison ; WALLA WALLA, Oct. 25.—Althe the whole countryside has joined tm the man hunt, William Holly Fred Carlson, who escaped from penitentiary here yesterday, still at large today. No trace been found of them since last when they were sighted near W man ion, on the north side the Walla Walla river. Several were fired at them, but ap) without effect. The men escaped from the potato ids where they were working by king away while their guards’ backs were turned. They both wore prison clothing. Holly was serving one to five years for criminal syndicalism and Carson had a sentence of one to 15 years for second degree burglary. SCHOOL LOST; FIREMAN DIES PORTLAND, Ore., fireman was killed, several slightly injured, and damage estimated at $750,000 done here at 2 o'clock this morning when Washington high school, one of Portiand’s oldest educational institutions, was raged by fire of mysterious origin, The fire broke out at 12:20 this morning. In half an hour every available piece of fire-fighting ap- paratus and some 25,000 persons had massed about the structure, Several explosions occurred when chemicals in the school laboratory were affected by the intense heat. D. B. Gabriel, hose man of Com- pany 26, was instantly killed when a portion of the south wall top pled and struck him down, Disabled Cutter Under Way Again WASHINGTON, Oct. coast guard cutter Saseen is was recently disabled near the island of Guam, with a party of govern: ment officials aboard, is now 900 miles west of Honolulu, proceeding’ on her own power to that port, ac treasury department today,