The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1922, Page 7

PROSECUTORS IN MAYOR CENTER ANTI-DOPE FIGHT Committee to Call on Gov.;Two Deaths Charged to Hart for Support The legistative committee of the State Prosecuting Attorneys’ association went record Thursday in favor of the enact ment of a drastle antinarcotic law by the next legisiature, The Beeler anti narctole bill, passed by the last legisiature but vetoed by Gov. Louis F. Hart, was not definitely indorsed, but the pros ecutors decided that there was urgent need for some legislation of this sort, and took steps to override Gov. Hart's objections, Attorney General L. L. Thompson ani Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Chester A, Batchelor, of King coun. ty, were appointed a committee of two to wait upon the governor, with @Uch other associates as they care to @elect, and urge his support of anti. Narcotic legisiation, They were tn structed that the prosecutors did not | Insist upon the Beeler bill, but they Want some action, and they want to get the governor's views on the sub. ject, vo that a new bill can be drawn, if neessary, to conform to them, Attorney eral ‘Thompson de clared at the meeting that he was confident that Hart was not op- Posed to the principle of narcotic. trafficsuppression, but that he be Weved the governor, mistakenly otherwise, had merely taken excep-| tien to certain unessential provisions | aligned themselves with the reform Of the Beeler bill when he vetoed it.| element, Thompson brought out the fact that the legislature has the right to enact a state law of ® far more stringent character than the federal Harrison anti favor of urging such action— which would mean the ping of the Beeler bill, as it is Practically a replica of the Har- risen art. The meeting was held tn the af.) McKoin, fice of Deputy Prosecuting Attorney | Rouge, La, arrested and held here Howard A. Hanson. Those present, |" the charge of Gov. John M. Par im addition to Hanson, Thompson and Batchelor, were; J. E. Hall, Clarke county; Prosecuting Attor- Rey Samuei R. Buck, San Juan founty; Samuel R. Sumner, We- Ratchee; Sydney Livesey, A. E. Graham, Grays Harbor, Warren J. Gilbert, Skagit. and HERE’S MORE ABOUT U, S.--ALLIES STARTS ON PAGE ONE the capitulations sti exist.” Likewise, he sald, those American citizens who went to Turkey and es tablished property and invested capt taP under the capitulations have a continued right to guarantecs, ‘The Turks seek abolttion of capttu- lations because of their victory over |On® veteran white huntaman and the Greeks and refuse guarantees de | to Indian guides were killed by the tmanded by the allies. ‘The conference was considered Wkety to break up at any time. eee HERE’S MORE ABOUT TURK CRISIS STARTS ON PAGE ONE | prophets of the British victory in the in 1918, {t was occupied a bloody uprising of the na- which ultimately forced the British to evacuate it, and to with- draw their Moxey to southern fee: potamia. losul is nSw part Mesopotamian kingdom of England’ vassal, King Feisal or Irak. While the city of Mowul ts Arabic, the entire territory of which it Is the center, and which now ts the subject of the discussions at Lausanne, ts in- hhabited by the Kurds, who clatm alle- giance to Turkey. This regions is one of the richest ofl territories of the world, and it ts believed that, once exploited, tt will yield a production equaling, or porst- bly surpassing, the output of the Mexican fields. ‘The richest among the —_ of the region is at Gayra, immedi 1 oi to the south of the city of M but there is quite a series of tones ly abundant of! wells in the neighbor hood, ‘The Pritish claim to the ofl fields fs based upon negotiations which took place before the world war be the Turkish government and Turk- ish Potroleum Co., a British con- trolled concern. The Turks refute the British claims, declaring that these conversations had led to no agreement of any description because the outbreak of the war interrupted the conversations before any conces- sions had been granted. This state- ments has so far not been disproved by the British Examiners Disbar Seattle Attorney TACOMA, Dec. 28.— Permanent disbarment of Walter H. Harvey, Ta- coma. and Heattle attorney, is recorm- mended to the supreme court by the state board of law examiners, whic filed its report at Olympia yesterday. Harvey wan recently tried before the board in Tacoma on four charges alleging fraudulent and unprofes- gional conduct. The jaw examiners, Howard M. Findley, Dix H. Rowland and Thomas Grady, found that three of the charges were sustained ‘The matter now resta with the su- court. Harvey has 30 days in ‘te file exceptions to the re- | two lives sacrificed on the altar | try —_— ] HE’S BETTER a | OF KLAN FEUD Age-Old Fight MER ROUGE, La. Deo, 28.—With of a feud between reformers ® elements in Me attracted national terrorism, and lawles parish today Federal and state operatives in a] sensational attempt to rid the coun of rival of terrorists, Preaching their goxpels with force and fear, declared today the age-old house attention bands |ftxbt between right and wrong was | of; Yakima; | Old Testament had} serted. |responsible for the brutal murders of Watt Daniels and Thomas Rich ants The fatal feud has centered about | Dr. B, M, MeKoin, former mayor, under arrest in Baltimore, charged with the murders, federal agents de clared MoKotn's fight began with his elec tion as mayor and culminated tn out: | law characters terrorizing him until | he fled the communtty last August. | The kidnapings and murders of Daniela and Richards followed, add: | ing fire to the flame in the commu: | nity | If you don’t put down the lawlens | ment we'll swoop down on the city jand do the job right,” a threatening | letter advised the mayor. | Fifty-three {Iicit stills were oper | ated in one ward in the partsh, with | law-enforcement officers powerless to cope with the situation when the Woodrow Wilson WILSON HAPPY OF) warfare began, citizens declared Ku Klux Klan members have sweeping down In full re! galia on the underworld characters to stop tilegal practices, They tnter- | ested themselves in the dynamiting of cattle dipping vats and other out breaks. DOCTOR CAN'T OBTAIN BAI BALTIMORE, Dec, 28. jon bail today was denied Dr former mayor of President Years Today | | sail | BY HARRY HUNT | WASHINGTON, 28. | 66th birthday anniversary ber 28, 1932 — Release | again the edge of B. M Mer Former Dee, Decerm. in the political spotlight. Whether that spotlight again wil! |swing to put the former president ker, of Loulsiana, that he had part/in the center of its radiance ts to in the murder of two men by a) many the most engaging question be. mashed mob at Mer Rouge last Aug: | ¥ eng 4 fore America today ha ‘Cnet Judge Gorter and Judges! There seems little doubt tnat Wt. Bond and Stein, sitting to hear ha- | json today fs physically be beas corpux proceedings, started BY! a+ any | Attorney Robert H. Carman and Dr. | 919 j Hugh H. Young, remanded Dr, Mo-| {Koln to the custody af the police; Tho his bett partly until the Louisiana authorities might | paralyzed, Wil now i= able to have an opportunity to present ex-|stand without his cane and he even tradition papers walks a few steps in his garden A telegram from Governor Parker | without ita ald, His color is better ‘to State Attorney Robert F. Leach | He has taken on weight jtoday asked that such action be; And there are evidences that hin | taken stronger physical condition is per WOLF P ACK mimi KILLS THREE) Wilson has been writing letters on public questions—notably on the Iats elections. Also hia Armistice day FORT WILLIAMS, Ont. Dec. 28.—-|sPteCh to admirers gathered at his A man-bunting wolf pack is terror | Ome revealed he does not yet con- ‘zing trappers and Indian guides 70 miles north of Ignace, according to reporta brought here by courjers. © than time since his collapse in side still te» cede defeat in the cause In which he sacrificed his health, and indicated his expectation that American par tietpation in world affairs would be come the dominating Issue tn 1924. Wilson unquestionably is the lender of the democratic party today. His hold on the minds and hearts of the rank and file of his party has been strengthened by his tlIness and by the difficulties tn which the world has found Iteelf the last two years. pack since Christmas day. They were out-mancuvered and trapped by the leader of the vicious pack. MORE ABOUT PASTOR : STARTS ON PAGE ONE down the lines on which the demo- ingtess words,” the pastor as cratic party will attempt its come back in 1924 and that his Influence If the city and police officials show |on the choice of candidates will te no such inclination, the churchmen| most powerful. “will use their evidence and use it) “But for his remaining seated,” hard, but we will give you @ cleaner|said Georges Clemencean after kis city than we have today,” Dr, Haw-|recent call on the ex-preaident, “he kins said was the same Wilson I knew in “Since the earliest days on the/Paris. Slightly fatter, nothing else. coast this city has been covered with | tH» showed himself thoroly abreast of a certain type of politician who tells | a¢fairs.” the people how he loves the city, but) Of Wilson's famous 14 points—his who then proceeds to suck out !t#| creed for establishing world’s peace life that he may lino his pockets with |__Cremenceau said: gold or to win political preferment.”| ‘yes 1 mentioned them. And Hawkins declared in opening his at-\ wrigon'’s face lit up. He was a firm tack. “Buch politicians are Uke|tetever in their ultimate triumph.” Seren oat SEATTLE MAN DEAD IN CRASH said, before plunging into an attack on Mayor Brown. 2 Die, 1 Dying, 12 Injured in Train Wreck DRUNKEN MAN WOUNDS COP Stabbed tn the arm by an Intoxt- cated man whom he was attempting to put under arrest at First ave, 8. and Main st. Wednesday night. De- |tective Mark Hubbard failed to no- | tlee that he had been wounded until | he had subdued his prisoner. Hub- bard then noticed a atream of blood | oozing down his shirt sleeve and walked to the city hospital. Hub- bard was given medical treatment. The wound was not serious. Joe Hanley, 65, who is allegged to have stabbed Hubbard, was treated at the hospital for several bumps on the face and « discolored optic, given him by Hubbard. Hanley was then taken to jafl. Fellowship Folks ‘ Service Sunday “International Sunday, a Fore cast,” will be the subject of a talk jby Dr. Robert Whitaker to the Fel- lowship Folks at 1923 First av VANCOUVER, B. C,, Deo. 28.— | Two men are dead, a woman will die and 12 other persons are still in the hospital, followin collision last night between @ Vancouver street car and a Great Northern train at a crossing at Venablog st., in the east end of the elty. The two dead are: | RJ. F. Duthte, a chartered ao countant, of 406 20th ave. N., Seattle, Alexander MacDonald, of Vanoou- ver. The accident occurred at 10:20 Inst night, when a freight train was be ing switched toa Vancouver elevator. The police have two whisky bottles, which were found alongside the smashed street oar, and which may explain the tragedy. It is clear that John Standon, the motorman, stopped his car in re Sunday at 8 p. mg sponse to a signal from the Great The regular monthly social dinner! Northern trainman. ‘The train then of the Fellowship Folks will be held) tegan to move forward. It was un- Saturday evening at Bartmall's res-| der way when the street car sudden- taurant. W. D. Lane will aot a8/iy started, and a moment later was chairman and the subject for dis-| ground to pieces, Witnesses havo in- cuasion will be “What of 19237") formed the police that a scuffle oc- The public is invited, |curred at the front entrance of the seer ae | street car Just before it started on Father of Dead |its fatal move forward. The motor. man t# 80 badly hurt that he cannot Man Sought Here | taik yet. but tho thoory is that when Mayor Brown appealed to The) the car first came to a standstill two Star Thursday for aid in locating drunken men went out to the front the father of Paul Denslow Carpen-| platform to allght and there got into ter, who died recently in Camden,| an altercation with the motorman. N. J. They are said to have tried to force Carpenter's family is destitute and| him to take a yr When he de- wrote to Mayor Brown for the ad-| clined they souffied with him and the Gress of the father of the dead man.| car was started by the control lever Carpenter's father, who ts be-| being accidentally pulled forward, Meved to be In Seattle, Is requested San to write to Mrs, Walters, 611 Chest- nut st,, Camden, N. J. THE KING COUNTY Holiness aa- BIBLE STUDIES on Christ will the life of be held Tuesdays, 7:45 p. m., and Sundays, 6 p, m, room 216 in the McDermott build soclation will hold an all-day meet-|ing. Street service will be held at ing in the Madison st, Methodist |corner of Third and Pike, Sunday church, Tuesday, January 2, begin |at 7 p,m. Rev, Wm. ¥. Clark will ning at 10 a m. lead. ON BIRTHDAY Is 66! Hie | finds Woodrow Wilson | inj THE AT COP’S HOME: Hen Robber Suspects Held After Roundup Ten bandit | and pects were } | burglar sus in a general late rly One of the men was » the net of burglar of P Lieut. © block from the station, and round-up Wedn Dense three boys, ear. ore othor were arrest | Another burglar Was captured at th gun, while | in ® wom’ \ | While driving a polioe oar thru |the north end of town, Patrolman |. J. Swanson and J. A, Collier noticed @ man on the roof of Lieut |Hasg’s home, A ladder extended |from the ground to the roof, The |two policemen drew their revolvers Jand forced the man to descend, He | gave the name of John MokKay, 20 McKay was searched and found to jbe In possession of an auto li receipt with a $20 bill which | been stolen earlier in the evening from 6. KR Mitchell, 1205 Allen j plac *, McKay in suspected of being the burgiar who has committed scores of robberies in the same dis | trict recently A few hours after @ bandit had robbed Olaf Bru, 21023 Gixth ave. near his home, the police arre Jack Sigmund and J. C. Bridges, at Bixth ave, and University st Both | men were in possession of pistols, | Bridges is suspected of robbing R. L. | Warren, of the Denny Way phar-| macy, of $60 Tuesday night Bru | |was robbed of a small amount of | | cash when he went to ald the bandit, | da fake faint on the side | bandit recovered as Bru | beat over him and pulled a pistol on hime. Claude Glenn was arrested tn Bal }lard by Patrolmen F. W. Spler and O. N, Young, after he Is alleged to have robbed a cigar store John Dougias was held, | his identification as the bandit who | took $120 from J. Hanley, Grand} Central hotel, near a poolroom at 217 i Jocidental ave, Wednesday night. James O'Brien, 16; Thomas Lucas, | 16, and H. Westhalif, 14, were found in a stolen automobile late Wednes day night by Patrolmen J. A. Collier | and ©. J. Fortson. The three boys were turned over to the juvenile au- thorities following Keaponding to @ call from Mrs. B Herman, 412% Broadw that a burglar was in her home, Patroimen | G. ©. Jensen and HM. D, Newell} nearched the houm and found George Taylor, 23, hiding beneath a bed They foreed him to come out, and] after searching him, found he was in possession of a stolen watch. A. Jobnaon was arrested at West Inke ave. and Virginia at. by Patrol- men Pat Dorian and J. E. Prince as & burglar suspect. Johnson was un- able to explain his actions, according to the police, and was prowling In the rear of an apartment house, HERE’S MORE ABOUT AUTO BOMBED STARTS ON PAGE ONE IT wanted the thing fought out in the court and would not negotiate with them before the court finally passed on the case. “With reference to my trouble with the Musicians’ union, which is not a question of wages, as I always paid the union scale and more, and am practically doing so now. The union men walked out without any notice because I would not put in a certain number of additional musicians — more than were necessary—four days prior to the time it was ponsible for mo to make the addition they de manded. Before this there never wae any trouble. All the trouble has started since then, which la proof in itnelf who ts causing it. “The Musicians’ union ts ae each member that works $1 a week, which it calls a de- fense fund. The janitors and operators also are paying assess ments, the amount of which I do not know, What Is this as sessment monty used for?” A thoro investigation of the mat- ter is being made by Chief of Police W. B. Severyns, at whore orders Capt. Charles Tennant has detailed two detectives to run down every) clue. The explosion occurred at 6:30 Wednesday night, while the machine was standing In front of the Dana) homo at 962 22nd ave. N. No one} was injured, as the car was unoceu- pied at the timo, but the entire ma- chino wan demolished. The exact nature of the bomb used has not been determined yet, as only minute fragmenta of it were) obtainable, so great was the force) of the explosion, It may have been a time bomb, placed in the car| while it was standing in front of the! Colonial theater at about 6:30 p. m.,| an hour before the explosion, or it} may have been tossed into the ma- chine after it arrived in front of the home. Mr. and Mrs. Dans and their three children had all been In the car with- in a comparatively few minutes of the explosion, Mra, Danz and the children had been using the machine all afternoon, calling at the Colonial | theater just before dinner to pick up} the movie owner. The lives of dozens of people in the exclusive Capitol Hill residential district were endangered by the blast, as fragments were blown several) hundred feet, the street being littered | with debris for a considerable dis- tance. Danz, n reporting the matter to the police, explained that he had been having labor trouble at his theaters | ever since last June, He charged that union men had been placing) “stink bombs” in his theaters in an) effort to make him come to terme. President Short, of the labor fed-| eration, however, intimated he thought the explosion had been staged by anti-union forces for pub- Ne effect. | “The use of bombs and other forma of violence are not tolerated,” he said “Such outrages are frequently per petrated to discredit labor unions ‘The muscians and operators, with whom Danz ts having trouble, are highly conservative and certainly would not resort to any form of vio~ lence.” SEATTL | west and California were 1G. ter, D. A.V. W. OW. | shown E STAR | BANDIT NABBED FIANCEE AIDS FORGER SEARCH Police Trail Karl Larkin to California Aided by @ Sacramento, Cal, no: cloty girl, sald to be the fiances of Karl Larkin, alleged bad check artint and ex-convict, police of the North said Thurs to be in ponsession of accurate data regarding Larkin’s nt move ments, and this information is ex pected to lead to his a wt within the next fow days, Larkin, an employe of the Admiral In acoused of day Oriental steamship line, | defrauding a score or more of Seattle merchants last Saturday with bogus checks of the Admiral tine to which ‘he had forged the signatures of com pany officials, The total amount tn- volved is sald to be mounting above the $10,000 mark When last een, Larkin was tn Oakland, Seattle police declare, His movements since his departure trom Beattie Saturday afternoon hi been closely cheoked, and the California |‘ police are belleved to be almost with- in range of him, Thursday. Investigation of Larkin's record has revealed that Larkin, under the name of K, Libeliea, was arrested for grand larceny in San Francisco, 11 years ago, and was only released from San Quentin pentitentiary Sept 18, 1922, after serving nearly three years for forgery Larkin's real name ts said to be Liberatus, and his home Balti. more. ASK INSURANCE FOR INDUSTRY Unemployment and Old Age. Pensions Sought CHICAGO, 28.—A drive to ob. tain legisiation for unemployment in- nurance wan opened here today at the annual convention of the American Association of Labor Legislation. Wesley C. Mitchell, director of the national bureau of economic re- search, New York, recommended | methods of stabilizing production to void over-expansion in time of great tivity and finding markets in times of depression Women workers are especially hard hit during the periods of de pression, and special meang for their relie¢ were urged by Mins Mary An derson, director of the woman's bu- reau of the department of Iabor, Other measures recommended olf age pension laws, Henry R. Seager, ‘ow York, retiring president, de clared that federal legislation which will absolutely prevent strikes is in- ovitable, SIX TRAINMEN HURT IN WRECK Freight Trains in Head-on Collision QUINCY, Cal, Deo. 98.—Stx men were reported Injured, two seriously, An & result of @ head-on collision be- tween two Western Pacific freight trains one-half mile west of Quincy Junction early today. The injured were members of the train crews. They were brought to ® horpital here. 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Berry, adjutant; Theodore Lunde! treasurer; John Lundegard, sergeant | tt arma; John 8 McDonald and Fred trustees, The chapter adopted a resolution for the indorsement of the adjusted |compensation bill with @ sales tax as a rider for the means of payment. Plane have been completed for a New Year's frolic to be held Decem-| ber 80 at the Masonic Temple, under the auspices of the Bremerton chap- the American Teeion and the Veterans of Foreign Wara. \Fine Sailor $250 on Liquor Charge Oscar Moore, 26, an employe tn the pantry room of a Pactfio Steam. ship Go, boat, pleaded guilty to a | charge of possession of liquor Thurs- | day morning, in Federal Judge Jere- miah Neterer's court, and was fined $250, Moore was arrested one month ago, when carrying ’® bottle of whis- ky off the boat, LONDON, Dec, 28.—-Famous Seot- ‘land Yard ts slated for the greatest | shake-up failures crimes. MYSTERY Paris police are investigating tho death of Miss Rose Shannessey, here, of Minneapolis, Minn, in the apartments of a bachelor, in the French capital, Butclde was the verdict, but on the request of Davis Crotty of Minneapolis, un- in its history, owing to to solve several serious thoro ton HERE’S MORE ABOUT BORAH STARTS ON PAGE ONE | because of the wrong impression it | conveys to our own people.” His position was reveaied tn a let. ter to Senator Lodge, adrainistration leader in the senate, which Lodge read to the senate when it met to- day. It would be futile to call euch a lconference as is proposed by Borah |until the executive had learned whether such a move would be wel- comed by other nations, Harting sald, If congrong desires to be helpful in the present eituation, he said, it should modify the laws which pre vent American representation on the reparations commission and prohibit the American debt commission from granting more libera) funding terms to America’s world war debtors, In the letter, which attacked the backers of the Borah resolu- tion. rather pointedly, the presi- dent indicated that he resented the Idaho senator's move, on the ground that it seemed to assume the executive branch of the gov- ernment was “not fully alive to a world situation which is of deep concern to the United States, Senator Lodge, in the course of |his speech, stated that President Harding 1s carrying on negotiations with a view to assisting in Buropean \rehabiiitation, but declared he did {not Khow the nature of the negotia- tions. “We have an army on the Rhine now, four years after the war,” Borah said. “Why its the army there?” “The fact is that we are doing— iby having our solders guarding the \bridgeheads on the Rhine—exactly what the treaty France proposed | would have bound us to do and that ‘is to guarantee the territorial integ- lrity of France, | “Phe French ambassador protested to the secretary of state against withdrawal of the troops, which the —Beoond Floor In DOWNSTAIRS STORE: Pairs Women’s High-Grade Boots (From Some of the Best Bootmakers) 9 Pair ‘HIS offering will interest women who can wear high-cut Shoes of full Louis heel pattern, in sizes and widths as set forth below. 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Borah repeated his war warning. “I venture to say that if pree- ent conditions continue for an “The conflict is sure to drew in the larger nations of Europe, and I do not believe we could long remain out of any such dis- turbance, “It is now recognized that we are experiencing a grave world economic crisis, “The United States is being drawn further and further into the complications of Europe. 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