The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 30, 1922, Page 1

beabisss 343 a& Cc SN EEE | ; SREASk! ORR WEATHER Tonight and Tuesday, ratn; in. creasing sowtheasteriy winds. FORECAST VOLUME 24. NO, 212, bs The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1922. The Seattle Star Motered ae Becond Class Mattor May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at teattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 8, 1878, Per Year, by Mall, tow “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ‘No Price War With Ford, Says Durant, However— 6 AND the locusts went up over the land... an coasts; very grievous were they; be- fore them there were no such locusts as they. ... For face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened every herb of the d rested in all the they covered the ; and they did eat land, and all the fruit of the trees—EXODUS X., | 14-15. Arorr of the Pacific-North- west—a story with a gripping human interest—a story with a warning! Watch for | “a Howdy, folks! This is the sea son when @& man tries his derndest to lose his over- shoes—and can’t, eee Those Seattle investors who thought silver could be obtained from lead proved that gold can be got from fvory. oe It's almost as difficult to get sil ver from lead as to get salt from & restaurant salt shaker. eee AIN'T NATURE GRAND On he little tail Whieh he ain’t got Almost hardly. °° From his business card: | “K. Steinburg. Highest prices paid | for cast off gents’ clothes and shoes.” | The world i# full of such gents. | . Seattle is to have a Brick Week | shortly. Pass us half a dozen. We! know where to throw them. } one QUERY With the sport eds tipping off daily the winning plays in foot- ball, how do any teams ever | lose? | eee | New York courts have decided Mmes Branch Cabell’s “Jurgen” ts not a vulgar book. Now the Seattle | bookleggers can’t get 50 cents aday rental for it, . According to the University of | Washington Dally, the most popular | song at the college these days ts, | “Don't Bring Me Posies When It's | Galoshies That I Need” oe Baid the old-fashioned bustle To the little short skirt: “You'll soon be so long You'll drag in the dirt.” Bald the little short akirt To the old-fashioned bustle: “If they tack you on me, There's going to be a tuatle.” oee “Will Hunt Pink Dunk.”"—The Star. Probably a member of the Wampus family. o- SUNSHINE SMILES Senator Poindexter now says he is for the Soldiers’ Bonus, What wonders of conversion are worked by an approaching elec- tion! | eee | | | se | | | Another of our “Greatest Mo-| Mente” was when Mayor Brown} fired the 575 political incurables, one | Ben Turpin, at the Pantages this | Week, is a good-natured guy, but he’s | got a cross look, * Some men clasp thelr hands s0| tight in prayer that they can’t get them open when the collection box | 18 passed. } see | Temperament ‘9 what makes the | stenographer want all the windows | (Turn to Pag Column 1) | —__—__— ITALY BOWS TO FASCISTI RULE Mussolini Demand Met by Victor Emmanuel tton. Mussolint hurried to the palace, where he was received by the king at 1125. Hoe conferred with regard ¢ Auto Magnate Forecasts Enormous Production; Gets No Salary BY EDWARD THIERRY NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—Would you take a salary of $100,- 000 to $150,000 a year if you could get it? man whose reply is “No!” _ He is W. C. Durant, pionee just skyrocketed into the pu W.C. Here is one r automobile builder, who has blic eye by entering the low- Durant priced car field on the same plane with Henry Ford. The startling fact that Durant refuses to take a salary, now known for the first time, is one thing that he will ‘not talk about. It can be stated, however, that he not only has not drawn a salary during the years that he has been a leading executive in the automobile industry—but he has to the personnel of the cabinet which |never turned in an expense account. Mussolini ts organizing, The demand of Musxolini that com-/that tn leas than two years he has | appointment | plete control of the government be | built up a group of motor companies | that have 105,181 common stockhold handed over to his organization was met wnen the king asked Mussoltn! | to form a new ministry. Back of Mussolini's demand was his army of $00,000 adherents ready) to act if the government was not handed over peaceably. The Fiscist! leader refused to nc- cept a compromise. His invitation to form a ministry only came after he had refused point blank to par. tietpate in any cabinet headed by former Premier Salandra. Mussolini was expected in Rome today. He had left Milan, where he has been in conference with leaders of his party. According to reliable | information the new premier stopped | off at Lake Garda to have an audi- ence with Gabriele d’Annunzio, Italy's poet-atrman. This is taken to mean that the hero.of Flume might become a power in Itallan politics. The Fascist! will rule Italy with- out the consent of parliament, the mafority of whose members are #o- cialists and bitterly opposed to the strong monarchistic tendencies of Mussolini. It ts believed that par-| ament will be dissolved no Nov. 7, when it convenes, and that Musso- lint will appeal to the country for support. ‘The bourse in Rome has been (Turn to Page 9, Cotumn 3) AMBASSADOR QUITS POST LONDON, Oct. 30-—-Charles Lau- rent, the French ambassador to Ger- many, bas resigned, according to a Central News dispa' MEIER SCHEDULED TO RESIGN OFFICE; || VOTES BY LETTER || Republicans claim that Corpo- || ration Counsel Walter F. Meler, || who has announced that he will resign his office and remove to Washington, D. C., is not only |} the first man to vote by ‘proxy but is |! straight for bull ele- for the coming election, ballot the big casting his the party of phgnt. It was expected Monday morn: || ing that Meler would present his resignation at the afternoon meeting of the city council, but the corporation counsel refused to confirm the rumor, while ad- mitting that his resignation is merely a matter of hours, Durant’s proudest achievement ts) association of New York urging the| ors. Only two corporat exered this number, the American Tele. phone and Telegraph Co. and the Pennsylvania Railroad Co, “That ts the sort of public ownership of industries that this country needs,” sald Durant, “Workers who make and use a product should own the produe- ing industry. It is the greatest possible educational factor, the only sure cure for labor ills and social troubles, “The day of sharp distinction be- tween the co-called capitalistic and working classes is passing. . The age earner’s greatest weapon fs tie ownership of stock in industries; It takes the danger out of capitaliem and spreads financla} independence among the masses of people.” Durant admitted that in somo re- spects he holds the same views as Henry Ford. The parallel is not tn wide distribution of stock ownership, for the Ford Industries are owned by the Ford family, but in a com- mon war against Wall st “The control of industry by a small financial group also Is paas- ing.” he said. “The fact that with- in less than two years more than 100,000 lions of financial backing for our new motor companies proves that industry can be independent of Wall st.” Durant says he has not declared war on Henry Ford in the low- priced automobile field. “We put the price of our new car at the Ford level because we found It could be done,” he said, .“But I have no thought of a price war. It wouldn't dis- turb me if Ford produced a car selling as cheaply as sewing machines, 1 will never cut into his business, He will sell more and more year by year—and so will we. “The automobile field ts so Mmit-| less that there {s room for both, even tho we will build, 215,000 low-| priced cars this coming year. “The one problem that must be solved is that of traffic. Highways are being built exactly parallel to railroad development; two, three and four road systems are already begin- ning, and I see in the future a net- | work of highways with separate sec tions for passenger cars and trucks, | each with one-way divisions. “Thus America can absorb many times the 10,000,000 machines that are now in use, The greater prob- lem is in the cities. Perhaps double. deck streets will be the solution.” Durant, following up this subject, has just written to the Merchants’ persons have supplied mil | of a commission to study the traffic problem. He warns merchants everywhere that unless a } solution ts found there will be such | munity center stores that downtown |xroups of mercantile shops will not | be able to survive competition killed by traffic congestion, DILL LEADING IN ‘PHONE CA |Anti-Poindexter Men Report Senate Poll SPOKANE, Oct, 30.—Spokane will go for C. C. Dill tn the U. 8. sena- torship race, according to a telephone | poll announced today by Dill sup- porters. The poll was undertaken by the democratic county committee, work- ing in collaboration with the Com- mon People's Progressive league. Members of the latter organization style themacives “antl-Potndexter re- publicans.” Results follow preference for Poindexter, according to this canvass, Less than 30 were for Duncan, The Newbery vote itself is not con- sidered an issue, according to the written report submitted to the dem- results of the vase. Only 6 per cent of the voters questioned consid- | ered tt an argument against Poindex- gression from the progressive ranks, “About one-fifth of the calls are |against the soldiers’ bonus and very |nearly the samo number in favor of the poll tax,” the report reads. “About 25 persons are against Dill Jon account of his vote against the | declaration of war. “Not more than five made the tar- iff an issue, “One phone tn about 600 refuses to discuss politics or hangs u Tho president of the Common Peo- ple's Progressive league is H. 8. Wood, 1214 Grace avenue. It was organized before the primary. This organization of republicans nivo has raised funds to support the Dill campaign, | rapid growth of suburban and com: | CANVASS) Dill .. 6,684 All others «+++ 5,033 Over 4,000 responses indicated aj} ocratle county committees with the | ter, except as it indicates his retro. | 900 ROOMS IN CITY'S HOTEL IS NEW PLAN |Architect for. Big Structure, Here Well Pleased Seattle's new hotel is to be & 900room structure, instead of 600, ax originally planned. This became known Monday with the arrival here of J, Otis Post, of George B. Post & Sons, the New York architects who have | been awarded the contract to design the giant building. “Post has already inspected the }hotel site and has decided on a jseheme which differs radically from the one originally prepared for the | Metropolitan Butldt company | This scheme ts, of course, subject to |the approval of the trustees of the |Community Hotel Co, but, am it is [in line with the most modern ideas |in hotel construction accepted thru- jout the country, it ts believed that lthe trustees will readily fall in with | the new plan, ‘The trustees are scheduled to meet Tuenday evening, and Post will lay his plans before them at that time. Only 600 rooms will be con- structed for the present, under Post's plan, but the lobby, din- Ing rooms, kitchen and service | Trooms will be made large | enough to accommodate a 900- | room house, and one wing will be left unfinished until such time as Seattle needs a larger hotel. Tho wing will probably be left out on the Fifth ave. side the structure being bullt up to a helght of only about 30 feet at this point. “Thia is much better,” Post de- Clared Monday, “than providing for an upward addition. Where floors are added to the atructure it ts Recessary to change the elevator | shafts, enlarge dining and service rooms and make other operations which are both difficult and ex pensive. If wo simply leave out a wing, It Js a very simple matter to make the addition whenever it la required, “This t* the plan which ts being adopted for all modern hotels—-beeause, you know, all hotel-builders figure nowadays on being compelled to enlarge their structures at a later dat Post said ho wan delighted with the site of the hotel. “The fact that it must be bullt fround the theater makes it a little more difficult than tt would be otherwise, but, compared with the lordinary lot, the site is splendid | “The more you analyze the situa- jtion, the better it seems. There's no question but what Seattle can have one of the finest hotels in the coun ! While he was unwilling to go {nto (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) 'NEW EVIDENCE INHALL CASE Grand Jury Awaits Indict- ment Request BY GERALD P. OVERTON NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct, 30—The grand jury con- vened at Somerville today, ready to receive a request from Prose cutor Mott for indictments in the Hall-Mills murder case, The prosecutor gave no Indl. cations of what move he would make. Further delay was con- sidered likely in view of the fol- lowing overnight developments: 1—Chalienge of Mrs. Jane Gibson to a prominent New Brunswick woman to prove the latter did not witness the murder, 2—Report that a new witness who heard Mrs. Mills’ dying screams has been discovered. 3—Discovery of two cartridges, | not discharged, near the spot where the bodies were found, 4—Alleged attempt by a negro to sell Dr. Hall's watch, which had been missing since the tragedy, A STAR WANT AD WILL HELP YOU SELL IT From New York,| This City Regarded By Jack Hall YAKIMA, Oct. 27.—6EVEN MILLION DOLLARS IN DRAFTS FOR SEATTLE were written here last year by one bank, And Yakima hag five strong banks. | Yet, in spite of the immense | volume of lucrative business for Seattle firms originating here, Seattle ix decidedly “in bad” with | this rich country cousin, | Talk to almost any business man | }and you will discover a strong re-| |wentment “complex. | They think that Seattle ts self. jcentered, selfish, narrow. They may | j be entirely wrong, but they believe }it deeply, firmly; and it is going to| | require re than a few Chamber of Commerce banquet speeches to elim. | |inate the trouble. | “There is only one large business | jestablishment in Seattle that sends | the head of its house here once in awhile to meet us and discuss our | | problems,” said an official of the local club to The Star. “That house |{9 Schwabacher’s; the man who comes is Nathan Eckstein. The rest of them send routine mleamen, We feel that Yakima is one of Seattle's biggest, best-paying customers. We feel that our trade relations ought to be sym- | pathetic and cordial. “We tried to get your firms to | show thelr Northwest products \Seattle’s Huge Trade With Yakima in Danger Selfish, Narrow, and Grasping by Some FEast-Siders as at our fair, Very few. “We believe in the Pucific-North- Did they come? ar and a strong committee of the Seattle chamber are pushing. We success, We want Seattle to co operate, This valley turned out $34,000,000 of Northwest products itself last year, “Water rans down hill. The Yakima flows into the Columbia, and the Columbia flows past Portland. Watch out! A new railroad was chartered the other day—the Yakima Southern. One of these days it may be built. And if it is, it will be carrying our apples and our hay and the rest of our tonnage in large vol- ume that way. Portland ts cultivating this region. I have made four trips, by Ford, there myself this season. I drive thru in a day. | struction at present @ new road thru | \ to} ae the Klickitat which is going shorten that time by three or four hours. “Yakima fs « loyal part of the Washington commonwealth and wants to see Seattle and Tacoma stow and prosper. But they can only do it thru alert, intelligent, unselfish, co-operative work. That's what we hope they will awaken to before it is too late.” ‘Sheep Seores Humbly Back at Al Jolson, Frank Tinney, Low of The Wayfarer flock—titerally to “knock ‘em out of their seats” at the Metropolitan Sunday night. | No comedian tn the history of Seat- | tle ever recelved such a terrific re- | | sponse from the audience as did Bel- sharzer—the playful mutton-—when he joined in the sentimental duet, “I Love You,” with a raucous “Maaa- weeh, MmA1aa-weh!" Belshazzer was brought on the stago merely as a “prop.” He was | wupposed to be seen and not heard. |The musical comedy, “The Mascot,” | called for a shepherd scene, A real, | ive wheep, It was thought, would add to the realism of the scene, 80 Bel-| jshazzer was requisitioned from the Woodland park 200, | All went well until the orchestra! struck up the tender strains of “T| Love You." The handsome tenor held | his hand to his heart and poured out his love to the sweet contralto | |across the stage. The audience set- \tled down to a mellow appreciation | Blocking Opera at Outnoises Tenor in Great Triumph; Now as Actor, Met Woodland Park piercing “Ma-a-wah! Ma-a-sahh- hh!” ‘The tenor tried to compete with his new rival, but the louder he sang, the more effort Belshazzar put into his quivering vocal chords. Th pathetic bleat was so much in ac. cord with the sentiment of the song that the listeners were captivated by the sheep's efforts and gave him their flattering attention. By the time the leading man had finished the first chorus, the audi- ence was howling with laughter, and even the actors on the stage turned their backs and were unable to con- tinue. Monday, Belshazzer was back in Woodland park with the rest of the Wayfarer k. But he is not the same humble sheep, Had he not scored the greatest triumph of any actor who had ever appeared in Seattle? After all, it is not every mut- ton that can “knock ‘em dead” with a sentimental ballad! While Eastern Washington felt the blight of its first heavy frost of the season Sunday morning, Seattle and King county still re- main unscathed by the chill fin- ger of winter. “We almost had a frost Sunday, too,”” Weather Prognosticator George Salisbury said, “but a good old fog) rolled in and saved our gardens. “It may have frosted a bit in some localities, but I saw none, and we have recorded none officially. Cer: jtainly there was no general frost.” Seattle market men, however, report: ed damage by frost to the vege- tables on their stands Saturday night Business Men Grasp Exposition’s To make the Pacific Northwest Fruit exposition a permanent annual feature in Seattle, that will repre sent in a big way the $10,000,000 fruit industry of the Northwest,’ ts the purpose of a large group of bus- iness men represented by the Cham, ber of Commerce. Within the last |10 days the leading business men of | Seattle have lined up solidly back of the project, and will co-operate to the | fullest extent with the fruit growing districts to make the exposition rep- resentative. Volunteer committees are working on every detail of the exposition, ‘Thirty-three commercial, civic and and fraternal organizations are co-operating to provide a big en- tertainment program every afternoon and evening. Entries in the community dis- plays have been made from Unofficial Frost Visits Seattle; Real One Near Eastern Washington Bitten Badly, But This City Nipped Only Wee Bit Tacoma had a light frost, Salisbury said, while at Spokane, Walla Walla and other Eastern Washington points a frost heavy enough to kill garden plants was recorded. Monday's rain, which came sud- denly on the heels of frost-favoring conditions, stayed the damage of frost for the present. “We are not really due for a kill- Ing frost yet, anyway,” Salisbury ex- plained, as he hastily thumbed thru his records, “Not just yet. “We generally get our first one some time in the early part of No- vember, Which {fs not so very far away. Seattle Determined to Make Fruit Show Solid Realization of the Significance every principal fruit growing. dis- trict in the Northwest, promis- ing » much larger display and closer competition for the sweep- stakes than was the cage last year. In addition to the com- munity contests, hundreds of firms and individuals in Wash- ington are making up displays. Several of the most pretentious of these will be from Western Washington, In the opinion of Mrs. Winnie Braden, exposition manager, and John M. Gellatly, of Wenatchee, president, the big project now has everything to insure its success, “We are asking the people of Se- attle and the Northwest to support the exposition not merely as a show place, but because it represents one (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) There is under con-! KILL SOLDIER O TRIES 10 - MAKE ESCAPE | weet Products campaign which The} Held as Deserter, d | want to co-operate in making !t | Camp Lewis Man | Is Shot Down in ~ | Attempted Dash — TACOMA, Oct. 30.—Wal- jter Samler, arrested here on September 1, as a deserter from the United States army, was ~~. and killed today while tr¥ing’ to effect an — escape from the military stockade at Camp Lewis. ‘ Samler was shot thru the ith a bullet from a 45. 1 the hands of Se! ‘A. Coombs of the 10th field artillery. Coombs was sergeant of |the guard on duty at the stockade, Coombs saw Samier escaping, cried “Halt!’ three times and, when the fleeing man failed to stop, he firea. = A board of officers was meeting this noon to Investigate the affair, Bn “LIVING WAGE” IS TURNED DOW. Rail Labor Board Says It Impractical } pris | wi ier | pistol, of his tion with the heads of the , Federation of Railway Employes other “outlaw unions,” for W% Danger of “outlaw strikes” as result of the decision was seen some union heads, Edward Haskins, president. of American Federation of Rail Employes, regarded as an union,” declared his o would back any movement to a @ reversal of the labor board's st: John Grandau, who led the strike which crippled railroad in 1920, was looked to by the insure gents to again take the leadership in the fight against the board's stand. — “The fact that the railroad does not accept the principle of a livs ing wage in making its decisions been apparent for some time,” Haskins. “Some men, under the board's sions, are now as low $000 « year, which fs neither a ing nor & decent wage.” The railroad labor board that the “living wage” proposition of railroad unions was “just, but {m= — practical,” and flatly rejected the dee mand that the “living wage" be made — the basis for a new wage scale. The majority opinion stated that, if carried out, the theory wreck every railroad in the j and if carried into other industries would “result in communistic ruin. The statement was the formal de. cision of the ruling issued 10 days: ago, granting a two-cent.an-hour ime crease in the minimum wage maintenance of way employes, The living wage as defined by raile road union representatives was which would support a family five. It was claimed that the est living wage fer common labor should range from 72 to 75 cents an hour. Under the)recent increase board granted a wage sie to a tenance men ranging from 36 to cents an hour, The majority opinion explained that the granting of a living wage — would bring the annual pay rol! up to $5,589,445,993, and that the rail. roads would have-an annual deficit of more than $2,000,000,000, SPLINTER HITS RACER IN EYE PETALUMA, Cal., Oct. 30.—Spe clalists today were fighting to save the sight of Tommy Milton's eye, which was pierced by bits of glass at the Cotati speedway, neat J here, yesterday, when a splinter flew from the track, breaking his gog gles. Milton, with the sight of one ey¢ already impaired, is in danger of becoming blind as a result of thé accident. Bennett Hill won the race yesten day, making the 100 miles at an average of 114 miles an hour, Frank Elliott was second, and Jimmy Murphy third, Girl Killer Dies ; in Electric Chair BELLEFONTE, Pa,, Oct. 30.4 Thomas Vernon Ryhal, Newcastle, convicted of the murder of Clara Lennox, 15-year-old girl, was electra: cuted in Rockview wenitentiary herd early today,