The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER Tonight and F weather rain; fre FORECAST VOLUME 24. NO. 263. probably « ‘ridoy., wnsettled casionad sh wind. The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star Mntered as Beoond Clase Matter May WA British . the there are no reformers in hell. see i What has become of the old-fash- toned girl who wore so many pins in the vicinity of her waist line that} «You got your hand all scratched up? | ar Li'l Gee Gee, the office scamp, says | that Love may be blind but the Reighbers aren't. | . .* | been going on in the world for the | over America’s relations to the rest of the world. past year, buy “Our Review of 1922." to be published tn this space) Saturday. Order from your news| dealer néw.—Advt | eee | A SWEEPING PROBE Man Doomed to Hang in jewspaper. any rate, he won't suffer 1} | | starting the new year with # | | _| good laugh. } Seattle ministers, charges Mayor | Brown, told a reporter to use the; word “recall” as often as possible when writing about Hizzoner. please the clergy any, Or they might induce the vaude-/ yille tenors to sing, “I hear you re- calling me.” Most people’s idea of a park in a place to park things. eee ‘The hours I spent on thee, dear heart, ‘Are fraught with joy and bliss, altho | At times I'd like to kick apart My radio, my radto Each word a shrick, each song @ dlare, But still | tune and tune in vain— I Usten in until the end, and then You screech again eee When a man mutters to himself, | “Every day, in every way, I am get-| fing better and better,” wonld you cali it a sollioCous? vse CANDIDATY FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB Bimbo who says, “Well, I just know this is going to keep me awake all night,” and then passes his cup for a second pour. ing of coffee. . ° With the ministers protesting vig- orously against gambling In Seattle, it seems strange that Mayor Brown should give his enthusiastic approv al to a play called “Lulu Bett.” ee very aay, in every way, the Con mopolitan | Players ng Lulu and Bett-or - | Los Angeles police say there’ are | 600 dope peddlers in that town. Per-| haps that accounts for all those wild | stories about the wonderful Low An geles climate. . oe If Seattle folks had to put up| with the tourists and the publicity hounds who make up the bulk of the Los Angeles population they’d turn! to dope for relief, too. s'ee POST-CHRISTMAS HINT After a Christmas tree has been standing for a week, it can be improved by « heavy applica- tion of mange cure. cee Would it be proper to say that o fireman is @ hose supporter? | shows BORAH SAYS CONFLICT IS INEV Unless Reparations Question ls Settled, | Fleet Steams Full Spee ° ITABLE War Is Imminent, and U. S. in Peril, aaa WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—For the third time since the If you want to know what has| great war ended, the senate is today the arena of a conflict} With the opening of the fight yesterday on Senator} Borah’s proposal for an economic conference and a land and sea disarmament parley, the whole question of foreign pol-| icy, which was fought over in the league of nations’ debate reopened. Jand the discussion of the arms conference resolution, was Borah, in reply to Senator Lodge’s attack on his p ly told the senate that another year like this last would ring the world again to the brink of war, out of which the kept. Unless the reparations question is settled, and with it the limitation of armament confirmed and broadened, war is imminent, Borah declared. PASTOR HINTS DRASTIC STEP New Charges Are Hurled at “If the mayor and the police force will not clean up this city then there are other ways of cleaning it up, and IT 18 GOING TO BE CLEANED,” he declared. Dr. Hawkins’ appearance before the club followed that of Mayor Brown a week ago, at which time the mayor accused Dr. Hawkins and others aiding him in the anti-vice campaign, of insincerity “Wherever we have gone we have found « general feeling in the un derworld that they are safe from police interference. Whether they are justified or not we do not at- tempt to affirm,” the minister said A direct charge that policemen calmly walked their beats outside “where naked dancers were performing Christmas eve,” was made by Rey. Hawkins as an indi cation of the lack of police vigt- lance. “Mayor Brown has sought by vil ification, by scorn, ridicule and slander to befog the Imsue,” he con- tinued. That it {* not the Intention of Seattle ministers to institute a re call of Brown was Dr. Hawkins’ declaration. Evidence gathered by the church workers will not be turned over to the police depart- ment unless Mayor Brown and Police Chief Severyns show they “are determined to clean up this city and are not trying to dodge the issue In a multitude of mean- (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) NOTICE Effective Today The Closing Hours for “Want Ads” Will Be 10:30 A. M. “It in an American question, not an European one,” he sald. “Our prosperity, our safety, our future are all involved. That ix why we should meet and pettio tt.” He declared the United States is now more deeply Involved in European affairs than ever in its history and that to all prac- tical purposes this government is helping Kurope administer the Versailles treaty. President Harding today an-| nounced his opposition to the pass lage by the senate of the Borah reao- | lution. The president declared that the passage of the Borah resolution was | undesirable, “because of the false im- | pressions which may be conveyed to | Europe, and even more undesirable (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) JAMES WOOD NABBED AGAIN Former Internal Revenue Man Held in Tacoma dames Wood, 40, former in- ternal revenue officer and con- vieted bootlegger, whose trial in federal court attracted consid- erable attention six months ago, and whose case is now with the cireuit court of appeals in San Francisco, was arrested on ® second liquor charge in Taco- ma Wednesday night by local federal prohibition agents and others working under the direc- | tion of Divisional Prohibition | Director F. A, Hazeltine. | ‘The arrest of Wood resulted from | a raid on the Bay View hotel in ‘acoma, of which he is now pro |prietor, He went into business in Tacoma immediately after appealing | | his case, which six months ago was} tried in the Seattie federal courts, | | “SEATTLE | posing for artists. Woods was given a two months’! sentence when found guilty of un-| |lawfully selling intoxicating Mquor| | November 29, 1921, in a pharmacy | which he conducted tn the Northern \hotel, First ave, and Yesler way. | | As an outgrowth of Wood's trial |has come the perjury case now standing against Arvid Franzen, who | testified for the former, Franzen| was indicted by the federal grand jury last October, He is to be tried | | before Federal Judge Jeremiah Ne-/ |terer January 15. Wood ts now in the Pierce county | Jail at Tacoma, - |Aged Man, Caught by Belt, Is Hurt August Hensgen, 60, sustained se- vere body burises and possible inter. | nal injuries, Wednesday afternoon, when he was caught by a pulley belt at the plant of the Washington Stock Food Co. at Meadows, and hurled around a pulley. Three or four bones in the left hand were | | broken, and Hensgen was out about the head, face and on one knee Thursday he complained of internal pains at the county hospital, where it 1s said he will recover. Henagen | was removed to the county hospital following the accident by Harry | Fink, Hensgen owns the plant where he was hve* } | simply | by labor men in an abortive plot to 5, 1899, at the Poatoffios at memttte , WASH. H usban Model’s Rom “THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1922. under the Ac ‘ d in Strange Cult ance Is Over Maizie Mitchéll Ryerson DETROIT, Dee, 24.—Even tn De trott an artist's model can have ad- ventures that rival those of the Latin Quarter of Part The career of Mi Mitchel’ Ryerson proves tt Maizie’s romance began when she ay from her Purftanteal | parents in Canada to become a stage | dancer. This happened when she was only 16 Kighteen found her in Detroit, In « wtudio she met Albert W. Ryerson, a youth: fully groomed man of 61, who was introduced to ber as @ well-todo Patron of the arts. Ryerson took an immediate inter. est in the little dancer and model. “It was purely a fatherly interest,” says Maizie, “at lenet I thought ao. And when he asked me to go to live in his apartment as his ward, I) readily agreed and thought myself the’ most fortunate of girts.” | Maizie describes the apartment as an exotically furnished suite in an! | | | office building, where turbaned ser: vants of a Hindu cast of counte- nance trod soft Oriental rugs and Ughted tncense lamps. “I had lived there only two months,” she says, “when Mr. Ryer son proposed marriage. He argued that our orrangement would cause folks to talk. But I protested I wasn't in love with him. “Then he suggested we be mar. ried for a 30-day trial and that if |he hadn't taught me to love him by the end of that period, I would be free to leave him.” ‘The marringe took place tn the fall. It lasted 29 days. Then Maizie left her benefactor, complaining of his ideas of love rites, Now she is suing for divorce, She said she belteved Ryerson had formulated these ideas while con- nected with @ strange secret order. Ryerson had headed a book concern which tasued a volume setting forth this cult’s precepts. Ryerson denies all her charges. AUTO BOMBING TO BE PROBED Labor Federation Head Charges Movie Magnate Car Explosion Staged to Attract Sympathy in Strike War By Bob Bermann Repudiating charges that union men were responsible for the bombing of a limousine owned by John Danza, Seattle movie magnate, Wednesday night, William BR. Short, presi- dent of the State Federation of Labor, announced Thursday that he would urge the company in which the automobile was tn sured to make a thoro investl- gation of the explosion, “It is ridicuious to say that the union men who have been having trouble with Danz were responsible for the bombing,” Short declared “I have no question in my mind | but that the explosion was caused to advertise the Dana the-| aters and to attract public sym pathy | “You know & case is now pending | in police court, and is due to come | up January 11, In which two of} Danz’ own men are accused of hav: | ing placed ‘stink’ bombs in one of Dang’ theaters in an effort to dis credit the labor unions.” On the other hand, Dans Insists that the bomb was probably placed | kill him. He posted a reward of $600 Thursday for the arrest and | conviction of the men responsible, | “The only reason they didn’t get me,” suid Danz Thursday, start back w my office at the usual time, The union men know the time that I usually leave home after dinner, and, in my opinion, they timed their bomb so that it would explode a few minutes after 1 climbed in.” Danz refused to take seriously Short's charge that the bombing had been “staged” in order to gain pub- Ne sympathy or to attract attention to his theaters, “If 1 should be inclined to do such # preposterous thing as Short charges,” Danz said, “I certainly would be foolish to do it now during the holidays, when we are doing capacity business and when I need my machine so badly, When I get ready to stage a spectacular ad- vertising stunt like that I will plan it at a time when busi- ness is In the dumps and when 1 have a new car ready to use.” Danz said Short's reference to the “stink bomb" affair was hardly in |line with the facts, “It is news to me that the men were accused of throwing them in my houses,” he said, “They were arrested at the instance of union men for throwing them in other houses. It is well known that any- one can have another person a rested, Furthermore, Short prom- feed to drop the case if I would “wan because I didn’t get home until late and therefore didn’t ‘aa settle with the unions. I told him (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) nares March § N79, Per Your, by Mati, #6 to 99 LAUSANNE, Dec, 28.—Tu rich Mosu! oil lands. | In the face of threats by M PREDICTED U. S. SIDING WITH ALLIE TURKS UGL Mosul Oil Fields; Conference Is Nearing Breaking Point 7 rkey today chose a breakdown jof the Lausanne conference to letting Great Britain hold the arquis Curzon, British foreign vroap * ¢ HOME ih TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. — MARSHFIELD, Wis. Dee James A. Chapman and wife seriously injured last night by 6 explosion of @ bomb received # the maliis, wrapped as @ Ch gift. Chapman, chairmon of town of Cameron and head of Wood county board, received package late Wednesday. He Ul wrapped it, with his wife, eager see the contents, near by. The chine exploded when the paper was removed, releasing a ber band contrivance which set the blast. | SHIP Is LOST AT HAMBURG, Dec. 28.—The | ton steamer Hetnrich Kayser, | York to Bremen, with a crew has been given up for lost. last sighted December 6 off Foundland, where she r broken rudder. BERNHARDT UNCHA PARIS, Dec. 28—The co ye SG 500 9 | minister, that the conference will reach a breaking point) sarah Bernhardt, i for 10 | within a week, unless the Turks capitulate on half a dozen lowing a fainting spell, | points, Ismet Pasha, armed with “stand pat” orders from Angora, refused to give way. The United States supported the allies against the Turks today as the Lausanne conference neared the breaking point. Open defiance of Marquis Curzon’s warnin; efforts on the part of Tur! would lead to a breakdown of the parley was voiced by Ismet! ea that further to secure the Mosul oil 1. Pasha, when the conference opened. This wae by announce ment that the Turks would not give ground on capitulations and tha’ they refused to have judgos, appoint ed by The Hague court, sit with Turkish judges where foreign litige- tion was involved. France backed Britain in this mat ter, Minister Marrere declaring he was amazed at Ismet Pasha’s decia- ration that such mixed tribunals were worse than original capitulations. He warned the Turks they hed taken up position “on ground where the allies could not meet them.’ * Richard Wasburn Child, American jObserver, then voleed the United | Statew support of allied demands for proper guarantees, The American ambassador to Rome denied Turkey's | Tight to abolish capitulations of 1914 without consent of the signatories. “The United States,” Child sald, “considers her rights under (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) TURK ARMY T0 GRAB OIL LAND Ready to Pounce on Rich Mosul Fields BY EDWARD J. BING NEW YORK, Dee. 28.—While the Lausanne conference is fac- ing the possibility of its breakup, owing to disagreement over the Mosul oil question, a powerful Turkish army is assembled at Diarbekr, = strategic point of great importance, in the vicinity of the disputed area, ready to Pounce upon the oil fields. ‘When I left the Near Bast a few weeks ago, that force, which is under the command of Djevad Pasha, one of Turkey's ablest military leaders of Gallipoli fame, numbered about 60,000 fully equipped men. Mosul is one of the most ancient centers of human civilization, and has seen uncounted batties and con- testa, from Biblical days to the pres- ent. Just across the Tigris river, op- posite the city, is a hill which hides from view the remnants of the once glorious city of Ninevah, which passed from splendor to ruin, as the | (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) BANK PROBE Continuing its investigation of al leged irregularities committed by the Seattle National bank in its dealings with Frank Waterhouse & Co,, the county grand jury Thurs- mer treasurer of company, and A, N, Olson, chief deputy county clerk, Olson ap- peared at the grand jury toom with @ quantity of official records, pre- sumably relating to the Waterhouse company’s transactions with the bank, This is the third day that the | grand Jury has spent investigating |the bank affairs. The probe is the {result of a recent decision in a civil suit, in which the Seattle Na tional was accused of having prac: |ticed @ fraud in withholding ot lateral put up by the Waterhouse interests to secure an $18,000 prom- issory note, after the note had been paid in cash, IN THIRD DAY} day interrogated R, D. Smalley, for-| the Waterhouse | WARSHIPS ARE ON WAY AGAIN Greece Also Prepares to Fight Turks LONDON, Deo. 28.—Britain rushed a fleet to Constantinople teday to “Influence the Turks toward peace.” The admiralty announced that Admiral Brock's squadron was steaming from Malta, the Brit- ish naval base in the Mediter- ranean, full speed for Constan- This action was taken at a time when the Turks at the Lausanne conference were de- fying the British and demand- ing that-the rich Mosut ofl basin be surrendered. In announcing the fleet had been dispatched, the admiralty stated it was being sent as a precautionary measure, “a sort of moral influence toward peace.” . ATHENS, Dec, 28.—The Greek government today planned to rush 100,000 troops to Eastern Thrace to fight the Turks in event of a breakdown of the Lausanne conference. Gen, Plastiras is to be sent to the frontier next week. eee MALTA, Dec. 28.—A_ British fleet left here today and steamed full speed for Constantinople. The fleet included Admiral Brock’s flagship, a light cruiser squadron and a flotilla of destroy. ers. Other warships will follow to- day just a, rapidly as they can be prepared. The orders to the fleet surprised the commanders, who had planned to remain here at least three weeks. Shore leaves were canceled and smoke began pouring from the fun- nels of the men-of-war as the wire- less brought word to start for Con- stantinople at once. Led by the historic dreadnaught Ivon Duke as flagship, the fighting vessels steamed away to the East. Two other dreadnaughts followed the Tron Duke and then came three light crutsers, 11 destroyers, five submarines and a number of depot ships. |Wilson Cheered by Senate’s Message WASHINGTON, Dec, 28.—The sen- ate today passed a resolution in. structing Vice-President Coolidge to express to former President Wood- row Wilson "the great pleasure and joy with which the senate has heard the news of his recovery to good health.” Eight Men Killed as Bombs Explode TRENT, Dee, 28.—-Seven workers and one soldier were killed when a number of Austrian.made bombs be- ing transferred from the war zone biew up at Fort Lorachetta, near Mezzolomsardo, | nounced at 10 o'clock today @ eee MAKE OPIUM RAID optum and Patrolman & room the reom caped, \netzure indicated that the |Msed as both an opium ‘sort and a headquarters for peddlers. eee years. He is believed by Nannie 8. Brown, 4116 Atl to be speeding south in his ¢ the child, which he is believed stolen after dismissal of the case he brought against his cember 11. Mrs. Brown has divorce. | PATROLMAN WILL That Patrolman B. W. who was shot with a slug Sunday morning, and who an operation Wednesday for moval of the slugs, will | the report of Dr. F. 8 Wilt ris’ physician. Morris was by a brother officer when a was accidentally discharged in ce prowler car. eee NELL PICKERELL 0 Nell Pickerell, who }&s @ man for 20 years, and @ familiar figure in Seattle's world during all that time, Wednesday at Providence bringing to a close one of the mi remarkable careers in the . nals of the city, When not in hands of the police—she was arres for about everything, from ly conduct to highway robb drove a truck, worked in a tended bar and enguged in ¢ masculine pursuits, The i be cremated Saturday, after fi services at the Butterworth ary, at 4 p. m. . eee BIG BOOZE CASE Herbert B. Hatiowell, alleged legger, and Joe Czerny, said Hallowell's employe, appeared federal court Wednesday and $1,500 each. Hallowell and were arrested December 15, raid was made on their rooms Alexandria hotel, 2200% First # They were both secretly indicted the federal grand jury, eee CITY EMPLOYE IS DEA Fred B. Mitchell, 41, counter ¢ in the city treasurer's office, Wednesday. He is survived widow, Mrs. Florence Mitchell, father and mother, Mr. and MB John Mitchell, of Seattle, tars, Mrs. Florence Bohl, this city, and Mrs, Irene B Honolulu. eee FLEEING BANDIT SL CHICAGO, Dec, 28.-—An ul fied robber was shot and day by Policeman Maurice The man was fleeing with panion after breaking into shop, No mark of iden: found on the slain man. His panion escaped. The bandit tered an elevated station and } about to board a train bullet from the officers’ g jbim. *