The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 7, 1922, Page 10

‘ THURSDAY, DEC Woman and Five Children Are Victims BUGENE, Ore, Deo, 7.—Mrs. Ivor Johnsen and six children, the oldest aged 6 years, were burned to death here carly today Im an olf stove explosion at the Johnsen home. ‘Two other adults and two chi dren were severely injured, The dead are: Mrs. Ivor Johnson. William Chureh, 6 Orville Chureh, 5. Marvel Johnaon, 4. Ida Church, 3. Leroy Johnson, 2. Maze! Church, 4. ‘The injured Clifford Johnson, 1; Mrs. James Chureh, James Church and Ivor Johnson Leroy Johnson and Haxel Church * died at the hospital. Ivor Johnson, at the hospital, told the story of the tragedy. He said It all Rappened so @Qvickly that he and the three other grown people in the house had no time te save four of the chikiren, altho desperate efforts were made to reach them. Johnsen said they had two cans, one containing gasoline and the other kerosene. Mra. Johnson, in trying to enliven & fire in a heating stove tn the front oom, evidently picked up the gaso- Une can by mistake. As soon as the fluid touched the smouktering flames in the stove there was a terrific explosion, said Johnsen, and in a twinkling of an eye the whole room was aflame. eee Children Burned to Death in Home CHICAGO, Dec, 7.—-Four children Were burned to death here today when fire destroyed the cottage home ef Joseph Budak. Four others, seriously Were rushed to the hospital. HELD IN ALIEN LAND LAW CAS e aiding « Japanese to evade the #tate antialien land law. i 4 iH set fi in at Hit Hs i a JIU JITSU IN DIVORCE SUIT CHICAGO, Dec. 7—Charging cer- tain acts of “jiu jitsu.” Mra. William L. Rohrer, widow of Jake L. Har. on, Oklahoma of] millionaire and politician who was killed by his seo retary, Clara Smith Hamon, filed suit for divorcee here today. Mra. Rohrer asserted her husband was an expert at the Japanese Wrestling art and practiced on her, causing great pain, annoyance and physical discomfort. She charged also that despite claims to great wealth, Rohrér re- fused to support her in the “post- tion to which she was accustomed.” ‘They were married in 1921, a year after the death of Hamon. American Girl a Suicide in Paris PARIS, Dec. 7.—The American consul today asked for the complete Teopening of the case of Miss Rose Shaunnessy, the Minneapolis girl , found dying from bullet wounds in @D apartment house two weeks ago. Miss Shaunnessy was said to have toMi howpital attaches she shot her- self after hearing that the nephew of a leading Paris publisher was to wed another woman WASHINGTON. First payment of $5,000,000 on the $25,000,000 debt owed by this country to Colombia in connection with Panama canal con- struction work, now paid, according to state department injured, | “MBER 7, 1922. SIX BURNED TO TURKISH PEACE | DEATHIN HOME REPORTED NEAR Parley Confident of Settle- ment BY HENRY Woop LAUBANNE, Deo, T.—Peace with the Turks ts now considered almost at hand. Conference circles today confident. ly expected that the Issue of the Dar. danelies would be settled immediate ly, enabling the delegations to take \™p and expedite the remaining prin- cipal questions, tncluding the Otte man debt, Asiatio frontiers: and the capitulations, Turkish reactions to the allied pro- |Posals of yesterday developed no se ‘rious opposition and the intervention |of America, showing her complete solidarity with the allies, wae de clared to have helped greatly to se | cure Turkey's acquiescence. Optimism prevailed here today ae tho delegates were about to assemble to hear the Turkish and Russian re piles Continued opposition was expected from the Russians, but the allies had reason to think Turkey's objectives Were not insurmountable, ALLIED PARLEY _ DUEIN LONDON America Expected to Domi- | nate Meet (Copyright, 1922, by United Press) LONDON, Dee. T--Amerioa ts ex pected to dominate the conference lof allied premiers here next Satur- jday in much the same manner as the United States made its volce heard at Lausanne, according to be Nef in British offtctal circles, Ambassador Harvey's speech at the Lyceum club Monday night, in which he declared the fate of Bu- rope hung upon the forthcoming [week-end conference, was inade quately reported and diplomats here are just beginning to dincuns tt. | Considerable importance tn this leonnection i» attached to arrival | here of United States ministers to | Brussels and Berlin. Information is passed on from of- ficial quarters to the effect that Harvey, preparing hin speech for Monday night, intended to speak on some innocuous subject, but changed his plans at the last minute pre sumably upon information of in- structions from Washington. STUDENT GOES TO HIS HOME Richard Holbrook, Untversity of ‘Washington student, who was shot as to what actually happened when the patrolman accosted the students, but In the mix-up Kariberg’s gun was discharged and the bullet entered Holbrook’s body, entering thru the left shoulder and grazing his left tung. Kariberg wan ftmmediately sus from service and is still out, pending a thoro probe of the case, HERE’S MORE ABOUT GIRL THIEF STARTS ON PAGE ONE | have been patrolling the city day and night recently, no traces of the ban- dits who shot Patrolman J. F. Ste |vens on Thanksgiving day and the men who wounded Arthur De Fol | Monday night have been found. Stevens was reported to be consid. |erably improved Thursday, and rest- ling easily in Providence hospital. | De Fol, however, hag shown no im- provement, despite a strong fight for life in the city hospital. His condi- | tion Thursday wag atill critical, Both | De Fol and Stevens were shot thru the left lung. HERE’S MORE ABOUT CRIME WAVE || STARTS ON PAGE ONE |the city hospital that Arthur Deol, the third man to be shot down by bandits in less than a week, was be- leved to be dying. No trace has been found of any of the bandits who have been oper- ating in Seattle of Imte. It is be- ‘Meved that one or two organized | gangs are responsible for most of the oe After a furfous chase thru the length of the business district, late Wednesday night, in which several shots were fired, H. 1%. Biddleford, 24, and R. L. Smith, 22, were cap- tured at 14th ave. and 1. Jefferson st. by Police Sergt. C. F. Watson. The two men are accused of stealing fruit from a Japanese storekeeper. Watson saw the two men speeding past him in an automobile, closely pursued by the Japanese, who was on foot, Watson hailed a passing auto and gave chase. When his com- mands to halt were unheeded, Wat- son fired several shots at them, while the two cars rushed thru the streets at 40 miles an hour, The two men finally halted their car and submitted to arrest, They are held on open charges, HERE’S MORE ABOUT PHILLIPS STARTS ON PAGE ONE far south as Wnsenada, renport of Lower California, nearly 100 miles “below the line.” Hut nowhere has Clara been found While Interested tn every report that Clara may have nm neon in | this city or that, It was known that officers put more faith in Vincente Ignacio; in elghtoylinder automo. biles charging over things that pass for Mexican roads; horses galloping across barren wastes, than in the trained poltee of American cities, “Clara is no fool,” was the way one officer sized it up. "She ain't gettin’ ready to go into the movies. She don't want publicity, She wants to go free, She's down In Mexico and don't you forget it.” Another extraortinary }atance wan reported by Deputy Sheriff George Fellows, who ts guarding Mrs. Peggy Caffee, who fears for her life as long as Clara fs at Liberty, Fellows declared he saw Ola Weaver, Clara's sister, In @ Ford coupe passing the house where Peggy has been staying and) scrutinizing ft In a deeply anxious expression, clroum. ‘ellows and others who saw her believed Miss Weaver was keeping | & watch on the house to prevent! Mrs. Phillips from making an tn- vasion. CONDUCT VAIN COAST SEARCH CHICAGO, Deo. 1.-—The wildent woman hunt in the history of the country was on today a8 an army | of detectives searched madly for! {Clara Phillipe, escaped Lon Angeles | “hammer slayer.” Every eastbound train from the Pacific coast was searched by offi cers with “tips” that Clare was aboard, Landing fields were besieged by corps of officers with rumors that Clara was coming by air, Garages and filling stations tn Midwestern cities were oriered to keep an eye out for a flying motor oar bearing the notorious woman. | Tips were received from scores of cities that she had been seen. A score of detectives stormed the Northwestern's crack flyer when It arrived here carly today and appre- hended Miss Clara Hutchins and FUND'S SUCCESS NOW IN BALANCE If Seattle Has a Heart It Will Go Over BY DR. PARK WEED WILLIS President Community Fund. This isn’t a cry of “Wolf, wolf!” Tt Isn't an attempt to get those who have done thelr full share by the Community Mund to do the part of the other fellow, ‘This is a frank statement that there is danger—real danger— that the Community Fund will not be completed and cannot carry on unless you-all of you who haven't given—carry your share. had total subseriptions of $562,- 000. We have got to got $798, 000 If Si worthy welfare and charitable organizations are to operate next year for once they enter the fund they are barred from drives, tag days, bazaars, and any money-ralsing scheme, We are holding no subseriptions HERE'S COUPON—USE IT To the Seattle Community Fund, 3802 White Building, In consideration of gifts of others, 1 hereby pledge to the Seattle Community Fund $.... money I inclose herewith my cheek for quarterly Bo. cceeeess tte the first monthly or full payment, It ly understood that all 1923 contributors of $1 or more are enrolled as Red Cross members for the year, | Subscriber may pay all his pledge at one time, if he prefers, or may specify different terms |) from those above; and may also have the entire amount of his Pledge assigned to certain organ- izations if he so desires. back. To date 29,300 people have given more than two-thirds of the fund requirements. There are 60, Mins Elsie Coo of Baltimore, The girls immediately established their identity and were released with pro- fuse apologies. Ogden, Omaha and Belvidere M1., reported a woman who “looked like” the escaping prisoner. HERE’S MORE ABOUT MOSCOW STARTS ON PAGE ONE ished reguler “schools” tn vari- i i | 3 i iH A : i ‘Ti ‘Ht : i i i i authority whatever it,” Burne declared. ‘The raid several month ago on « communist meeting at Bridgeman, Mich., where 75 arrests were made, resulted, according to Burna, tn dis covery of a wellorganized plot for radical agents to get into the army and navy “so they could bore from within.” The Bridgeman meeting, Burna declared, was largely for the purpose of putting youthful reds thru an examination to see whether they could pass the army and navy examinations, Burns testified that 358 new radi- ‘eal publications have sprung up tn the United States in the last year, | Tho latest check, he said, showed that there are now 611 such publica. tions in cireulation thrueut the coun- j try. WORKERS HAVE SCHOOL HERE ‘The Workers’ college, which meets at the Labor temple, is the “radical school” in Seattle to which William J. Burns referred In Washington dispatches, ac- cording to R. A. Darling, in charge of the local office of the department of justice, “It's nothing but a school of communism,” Darling declared ‘Thursday. “I've had my men Mhore ever since it started and I've got s lot of dope on them. It’s run by Mark Litehman, a Russian attorney, and Dr, Robert Whitaker, pastor of the radical Fr church, who was ar- rested in Sas Francisco daring the war for violating the espion- age act. It’s made up of « gang of former 1. W. W., who found that American radicalism was too slow for them.” A number of University of Wash- ington professors lecture at the Workers’ college, but the university cannot be charged with any respons bility for the alleged communistic tendencies, according to Dean John C. Condon, Who spoke for the ineti- tution in the absence of Dr, Henry Suzzallo, the president. “J don't know anything atiout the political views of the workers’ col- lege,” aaid Dean Condon, “but T feel sure that the university instructors are. in no way responsible for them-— or in any way connected with them. The university Is a public institution and we feel that It Is our duty to give the public the results of our studies whenever we are called upon to do ao. 1 don’t see why the university should be concerned with the political views of the people to whom Its pro- fessors lecture.” Prof. Trevor Kincald, of the unt- versity, who ts giving a course of lec- tures on evolution at the college, antd he did not care to comment on the department of justice statement, “My lectures, of course,” he anid, “are not on economle topics so 1 really don’t know what the college's views are on such subjects, It tn true that T have heard lectures miven there which were frankly communta- tle—adoption of the Russian form of government was urged—but that has nothing to do with my work at the college.” tw i 000 others In Beattlo who haw got to sutmerthe $236,000 or the fund will fail. Perhaps you have left it to the other fellow to see that the fund shan’t fall short. But he has come through, 29,500 of him-—vat have you? On questions of the fund, Seattle in one big family, When success of our biggest family enterprise is threatened the executive committee believes that every soul in Beattie ought to know tt and ought to come right in and help, Your contribu tion Is needed and needed badly, Give it-—and give quickly. Karn the right to wear « subscriber's button, which is the emblem of helpfulness. You will get one as soon as your subseription ts made and be proud of it, for it means a lot. Or call up any of your friends whom you know to be workers and they will handle it for you. Remember not'one solicitor gets ® penny. ‘There in no simpler or easier way than signing the coupon. Can you enjoy your Christmas if you know that because you have not given a little of something you have that there are orphans, dependent old men and women, poverty stricken, blind, maimed and -wuffer- ing people cheated out of the very eusentials of life? The Community Fund means everything to them. HERE’S MORE ABOUT GRAFT CHARGE _STARTS ON PAGE ONE 116%. ‘The payments had actually | been, he declared, atthe rate of $3.50 an hour, the ordinary commer- cin! rate, | An interesting sideli¢ht on the controversy was cast by his defense) of the existing system, whereby the wages for as many ax 28 teams are paid to a single man. “1 don’t know,” he fdmitted, “whether the actual drivers ever got thelr money or not. But the system works out well, You nee, these Italians are all used to a king and they work better when they have someone to look up to, So we have established a sort of padrone system and it is highly successful, It's better to have Italians because they'll do work that an American won't —and I can rawhide them.” The committee refused to take any action on two proposals made im regard to the garbage contro- versy—Mayor Brown's request that the garbage collection division be transferred from the health depart- ment of streets and sewers and Mra, Landes’ suggestion that the division be motorized but kept under ite present head, It was promised, however, to come to a decision on both these matters at a later date, oe Offers to Save Big Amount on Garbage Ralph Douglas, who charged graft in the garbage collection division of the city health department at the meeting of the city council committee of public safety Wednesday, an- nounced Thursday that he would make a formal offer to the city coun- cil to save $132,000 a year on gai bage collection if he were given the contract for the entire city. He said he would be willing to start taking over the garbage-collec- tion system by January 1, and that he would post $100,000 bond, HERE’S MORE ABOUT CAR FARE STARTS ON PAGE ONE gtven scant consideration. Following @ statement by Ratlway Superintendent D, W. Henderson, that the transfer cost more to print and handle than do tokens, Counctl man Tindall voloed hin objection to the I%cent charge for transfer tokens and declared himself in favor of & straight Scent fare with token privileges. “The people of Seattle have de manded and are expecting a bcent fare, without the embellishment of any higher-priced transfers for tokens,” he declared. “I am for the 6-cont carfare, with nothing added or Totracted.” Tindall supported his argument with Henderson's figures that the handling of transfers entails an ex- pense of approximately $1,800 a month on the railway department Tindall was strongly opposed by Mayor Brown and Fitsgerald “To act on Councilman Tindal's suggestion would be going to ex- tremes,” Fitzgerald argued, “It will be burden enough to adopt the fare named in the ordina If we «o lower we may find Ives forced jto raise fares agnin.” The mayor asserted that the fare provided in the Fitzgerald ordinance would be satisfactory to the rallway patrons. “I have had many objec tions come to me in regard to all other changes suggested, but all per. sons who have expressed opinion to ne are for the Fitzgerald ordinance,” he suid, Suggestion that the fare for Ivory Pyralin—the Ideal Gift —It is Certainly —It is Useful WILL ERECT A NEW HOSPITAL | Completing the purchase of thé | Lakeside hospital on behalf of the | Norwegian Howpital nanoolation, | Mrs, Gunnar Lund announced Thurs day that the association will also build @ new Norwegian memorial hoapttal, to 1 de every feature of completenons nnd convenience found in the best hospitals on the Conant Leading members of the associn- tion, who have had the memortal | hompital under consideration tnolude Mrs, Andrew Torgerson, Mra. Leif Holte, Mrs, Leonard Soholt, Mrs, Anna Nordby, Mrs. B. Newhouse, Mrs. Knute Erland and Mra. Gunnar Lund. The Lakeside honpital and the new hospital site are at N. 86th at. and Woodland Park ave. Slight Earthquake BAN FRANCISCO, Deo. 1.—The sloments were doing their best to make things interesting in San Fran- elsco during the 24 hours.’ Heavy rain alternated with blue tering winds and at $40 p. m. yes terday «@ slight earthquake shock added to the general display The quake did no damage and many 41d not feel it NEW YORK. — Apartment of Frieda Hempel, operatic star, report o4 robbed here of between $§ and $60,000 worth of Jewels, furs apparel Patrons on the Lake Burien and other lines extending beyond the city limits be 10 cents cash or on tokens selling three for 26 cents was passed by a vote of seven to two—Fitzger aid and Tindall casting the negative votes, —It is Beautiful — A at San Francisco) WAHTAALN Chicago Chooses Ku Klux Probers CHICAGO, Deo, t-—-Chicago and other lake shore towns were aroused today over alleged activities of the Ku Klux Kian. A committes of five was appointed by the Chicago council to investi | mate the situation here, following charges of Alderman Robert Mulea- | hy that the organization wag using city buildings as meeting places | At Waukegan hand bills were dis- tributed on the streets, bearing the names of 100 prominent citizens al- | leged to be members of the klan. Hundreds Shivering in New York Cold NEW YORK, Deo. 71—Coal yards thruout New York were besieged by hundreds of shivering persons today as @ cold wave swept o the city Gov. Miller and Fuel Adm ra tor Woodin called a conference of fuel administrators of the state to | meet at Albany today in an attempt |to remedy the coal shortage which threatens suffering here. |Christmas Cheer Spread by Judge WALLA WALLA, Dec. 7—Im bued with the holiday spirit, Justice of the Peace C, M. Wilbur refused to hear an eviction suit Wednesday. “As far as I am concerned,” said the justice, “eviction and garnish. | tment proceedings must wait dntil after the holidays. Good cheer is not for the man whose wages are | garnished or who ts evicted. After | Christmas it 1s @ different matter.” NEW YORK.—J. C. Penney, of Penney corporation, takes out insur ance for $3,000,000. Annual prem. fums now $120,000. NOT —= The wonderful, time-tried toilet ware needs no introduction to the American public. It receives first consideration by many thousands of people as a gift for women. It is PAGE 9 ITALIANS FLEE SMOKING MOUNT |New Volcanic Disturbance Imperils Lives POTENZA, Italy, Dee, T—In habitants of San Feles fled in terror today following the ap- pearance of great smoking fix sures in the slopes of Mount Terretta, Denso clouds of furnes shot from the cracks as if projected by high pressure. The eruptions were ae companted by loud rumblings, adding to the fright of the hundreds of per- sons who took refuge in surrounding cities and mountains, | Scientists plan to visit the scene | immediately to ascertain whether the dinturbance Is a geological phenome non or marks the birth of a new vol eano. Old Leaders Are Hampering China | “Fighting under the same type of feudal leaders as Europe followed, China is now experiencing her @F@ lution thru the dark ages,” J. Layton Stuart, president of the University of Pekin, declared here today. He is enroute to New York to confer with the trustees of his institution, |which is under control of the Amer jean Interdenominational college, | JEFFERSON CITY, Mo,—High school students have right to jolp secret societies without interferenas from school boards is court decision in high school fraternity case hers Expensive intensely practical Du Barry Ivory Pyralin Perfume Bottles ........$3. 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