The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 20, 1923, Page 1

The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its n The Seattl ™ SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1 earest competitor eStar 1st, by Mail, 16 too and Sunday, fat re Last 24 i Mininuy 38 ire 3, A899, at (he Pontoft bares Mareb 4, Yeo ATTLE, WA ROBE OIL CO. Stockholders Declare It’s < “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose’ —Air Grievances Os, SE sH., ome RINGER ASK P Brew jun BME OF {German Soldiers Reported on Way to Seized Zone PARIS, Jan, 20.—German reg ular (roops are reported moving from Kattowite in the direction of the Ruhr valley, which is oc cuped by the French | ‘The strength of this foree is unknown. ‘There was no official confirma. tion of the report. ‘The French high command has information that leads it to fear the Germans will attempt « coup in the Ruhr In a few days, ac cording to unofficial dispatehes from Dusseldorf today The dispatches said the French officials had been advised “im- portant quantities of arms and ammunition” have been secretly brought into the Ruhr by the Germans. ATTACKED “Committee of 1,000” Stages Reign 63 Terror; Victims Flogged and De- | ported; News Men Threatened ~ BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT HARRISON, Ark., Jan. 20.—(Via Springfield, Constitutional methods of maintaining law and ord [this region have been superseded by the Ku Klux which has set up a *terror” here. Y This iss plain statement fact, but no mon who values life would dare write the’ out of Harrison today. after investigating © in Harrison thoroly, I have to Springfield, Mo, to file telegraph dispatch, The “citizens’ committee of 4 which has taken the law inte hands, lynched one man, numbers, and has driven of town, is composed of klansmen from this and counties, The committee chairman head of the Klan in this d thousand klansmen, trom j tes, came into Harrison trains furnished by the |North Arkansas ratiroad and took charge of Harrison, remain supreme in authority, The hanging of E. C. MeG railroad striker, was as bad Mer Rouge outrages and evi except that the dead man's not mutilated. % They fastened MoGregor’s |Dehind his back, tled a rope his neck and kicked him off « i McGregor 4 crime was that | fused to talk to the “a mittee of 1,000,” defied tl a one man in the arm when ¢ came to his house and u i Case Olympia, Dec, 20. Howdy, folks! It doesn’t rain in Olympia all during the ses sion, but the goeducks havent worried much so far, “Heads | win, tails you lose. That, according to sentiment expressed at a meeting of |the stockholders of the Lucille Oil Co., at 1017 Third ave., Friday night, is the axiom the oil promoter—-and the} gullible public gets nothing but experience, no matter which! way the coin turn: Its « sayings: “Bring in the it looks as if the| Famous goeduck, Horte' sun might shine . recreation at the legisia-| | | } | p nvestors in off compantes that never discover but the Lucille meeting brought out a new situation. In this case o}| HAS been found, but still the stockholde: nm ene thing umped to $1f other Some time later an-| he T and the! onty eating and drinking—end eat one fat TODAY'S DEFINITIONS Lobbyisi—A man with a bottle, Legislator — A man whh @ thirst. jumped to $17.50 And thea—things wrong. The offic ing to the stock wan to got trouble at ed that One offi ing mal minay started to go| ped report | Rumors be of grave | was an-| could be! a lors nto ciroulat the field. 1 no dividend er wrote to all mtock: | them that their worthless, and that they'd | haven't received a pen. nour . paid . Dan Landon is head of the impor ant appropriations committee. No lobby: ne hasn't . were mixed at fg. There wan advining 20,—Allied au pathos in the Dat ist can bribe Dan b: in his vest pocket tie vest and wome any of them old. LONDON, Jan thorities have been informed tor of that German secret organize khoid. tions are preparing an attack on ‘he : 1. Hut there was, er ‘ take th | all allied troops occupying. the nedy in the 0 > tock off thelr hands and give Rubr, according to the Exchange | the fronical comedy of * them shares in» “dividend paying” » Trlegraph’s Paris correspondent | heads you company tn exchange today. The story related This last move speakers, in thin, in brief. suspicion that the prestd Grenk JUMPS Williams, « law w OWL FOUND = one lh ovat fe ) tire ple x ast we know he Dan vest. He followed the Olympia cus tom of legislators sleeping together in the same room. / eee | LADY NICOTINE Maude Sweetman comes against the cigaret bill Thatte stuff, Maude, we girls have got to stick ‘gether ls 1 win, aroused so much t—Loule ithe ed to a by various eee ESSEN, Ja Frits Thy» sen, industrial leader, and five German coal barons were arrest ed by the French today and transported under arnied guard, to Dusseldorf. This was done Decause they refused to meet the French terms and work the Ruhr mines for the benefit of France, eee LEAGUE MAY AID FRANCE LONDON, Jan. 20.—League of na out oeting EXPLANATIONS IN ORDER eusive ex me on} treas who is at the field as general manager, Smith, he said, had refused to make any re | Porte to him He had refused to |eend the books to Seattle. He has! spent ali the company’s money and there was rarely more than $6 in the treasury—in spite of the fact that, | according to his own figures, $116,000 bill has been ft a gross misdemeanor for more persons to gather together with painted, hooded or colored faces. | This seems to be a very round-| about way to abolish afternoon tea parties, 5 eee It’s a pity the diue sky law doesn’t apply to betting in stud poker games. eee troduced making c two or Ark.—prover Mie cal it. The stock cont without any particular excitement until word was brought tn that olf {had been «truck, Then the stock NEW EVIDENCE ‘ ‘Mme. Terpsichore,” motion picture instructor, in. one of her specially posed “still” pic- tures. She is registering contentment in this. ‘They call ‘em “cow county” repre sentatives because they are always throwing the bull. ee The difference county legislators and city lexis- Intors is that the cow county men chew Granger Twist and tions officials expect the league to ‘be called upon eventually te provide France with a “dignified way out” of the reparations and Ruhr situs tions, it was learned authoritatively here today. Proponents of this belief said that the last seasion of the league adopted {resolutions urging closest attention |to the reparations problem. A gen- had come in from oil males during (the Inst year, “Every day in every way,” in other words, “affaira got Wworrer and worser.” Wiliams got indignant when it} Was suggested that he might have! taken some action to remove smith - or force him to give punting 1 BY JOHN W. NELSON I won't be browbea outed. | OF BIG FRAUD | Prosecutor Learns of Ta- coma Operations ac he Registers Indignation When Better Business Bureau Probes Methods; Tearfully Explains It All leral belief prevails among many here | Direct evidence of fraudulent sale] «1 gidn't come here to be insulted SCHOOLS FIGHT CIGARET SALES ' | No one accuses MoGregor f mitting depredations Jof tock to Tacoma olfents of the! y¢ you don't understand my explan Board Submits Names to/™i\tins, depredations By Bob Bermann the face, sir," she sobbed. “I the city slickers chew Piper Heidsieck. Governor Hart is a diplomat—he| chews both. o- It's always easy to tell an expert- enced lawmaker —he never misses when he shoots a quid of tobacco behind the radiator eee A LA MODE ‘The governor's reception was held this week. Governor Hart appeared in a dress suit and » new plug of tobacco. eee Hart asked for an appropriation of $15,900 this year for entertainment purposes. After seeing the kind" of entertainment in vogue at the legis- lature, we're in favor of raising It to $50,000. eee nut, at that, Loule has to ha’ chewing tobacco. . Part of the $1 the go in heck doesn't b can steam roller? . o- 090 is to go to buy use the republi- MOTTO FOR A SOLON Veni, Vidi, Viehy! { la - * ; o— “6B . ‘The race horse bill will be brought up thia seasion, but ft hasn't dog's nee Lobbyists divide their time stand- ing in the tobby of the Olympian and the lobby of the eapitol. They stand around so much that some of them have developed cra foot — they stand on one foot and draw the other up under them. o- ‘Three or four men run the entire legislature—the rest might go home. BETWEEN LEGISLATIVE H10-CURS (Society Notes) W. Lon Johnson, senator from js mentioned ne the next Atates judge for the Eastern district, Johnson has the reputation of being the best lawyer, cae he Okanog- n and nortl Spokane. wg. 'W. Conners was candidate for Neutenant governor st the last clec- tion, tut the people decided he wna teo valuable = man to he retired from pablic life, Hervey Lindley and Vred Weil are in Olympia waiting for the house committee to take up the White Bluffs question, but s0 their hes been enlled. Col- tod far Once upon a time there, was a legislator who did not fall asleep when an important discussion was belng waged on the taxation problem RUSS VESSELS NEAR MANILA! MANILA, P. 1 20.—Fifteen Russian veasels, and of Ad- rniral Stark, arrived today at Linga yen gulf, 100 miles north of Manila. They me from Shanghai An American destroyer has been as signed to escort the fleet to the Mart yenes quarantine «tation, where it will be held pending word trom Washington. Jan. in con wernor a new automobile. Why | as well) that France will fail in her “forceful measures” in the Rubr and after this fajlure will turn to the league. | ‘The league can act to open the {payments tangle only upon petition lof interested powers. Nothing Is in cluded as to reparations in the ‘agenda of the council's next meeting, but the German-French sttuation and its effect upon the allies in general TWO SLAIN BY Runs Amuck With Gun on Southern Pacific TUCSON, Ariz, Jan. 20.—Two men were killed and one seriously In fured by shote fired by maniac, who ran amuck aboard Southern Pa cific train No, 1—the Californian westbound from El Paso to ‘Angeles, this morning. Harry Turner, traveling agent for the Southern Pacific, and an un identified man were killed and an unidentified man was injured. The maniac leaped from the train near Lanmark, N. M.,\near where the shooting took place. ‘The train immediately started [return to El Paso with the wounded man and the bodies, there being no hospital westward for a great dis tance. ‘The report was Southern Pacific offices he to received the by |Recaptured Convict Faces New Charges cow Eng., Jan. 20.—William | Mason, an escaped convict who was |recaptured, must stand trial for bur |glary committed while he was dodg- ing pursuers. TRUCKS AND AUTOMOBILES Now is the time to Invest in @ USED CAR or TRUCK. You will find many bargains here that will surprise you, |] KELLY 1%-ton. |] KE , 1%h-ton, i] | windshield. |] Ke 2%-ton, i] wh KELLY ton, worm, enb and windshield, wood and coal body KELLY %%-ton, chain, logging nks and trailer, complete, MAN 1%-ton, pneumatic worm drive, worm, cab and cab and wind- | HU tires. NASH 2-ton, cab and windshield, tric lights and starter, OX 4%-ton (4-wheel drive) IBLIC 2%-ton, cab and hield, coal and wood body 1 without) | |] You will find this dealer by turning to the Want Ad Columns. Will be discussed informally at least. | TRAIN MANIAG Los} | Lester Kalven company by Lester Rubenstein and Ieador Kalven, held in jall om a grand larceny charge, was found Saturday by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney T. H. ter son, who is conducting the probe, h announced. A number of Ta coma victimes of the two have com Plained to Patterson by letter, he wald. | The stock in the Beach Royalties Co. sold to the Tacoma clients was sold as B. R. stock and the Inves \tore were told the m wer a manufacturing company, making ol! machinery learned. Seattle victims of the two opera |torm, who took $20,000 from local business men, have besieged Patter. |son to keep their names out of the press. “Don't let it get to the papers,” Is the plea of the victims, many of whom are prominent pro: fexsional and business One jman said that ff his learned by his wife be an eruption in Checking over against the two youthful Patterson announced that obtained evidence which will him file several criminal plaints against th n ‘That this state in “easy pickings” for fake stock promotion schemes [and the mecca of #harpers from all parts of -the country revealed during Patterson's probe. Queation- ing Rubenstein | buying stock for 70 cents a share, }jumping the price to $1.50 a share few days later, then to $2.00 « share, the youthful operator aaid Why, t all right. This is an n state.” Lack of a blue sky law that will |protect investors is responsible for | the operations of such concerns here, | Patterson said, He alvo admitt jhe had no evidence against the two | which makes the sale of the Beach Royalties stock illegal, but that his evidence comes under the statute of | welling urities by false pretenses jand misrepresentation. BANK BANDIT IS SLAIN BY COP Cashier and Customer Shot in Robbery cone! men there fami evidence harpsters, he has “would the the to cor was ST. PAUL, 4 killed and ustomer shot Jan, 20. 4 bank cashler and a when three gunmer up the Payne Avenue State today kiund, eashter, and Charles | Carisor , were wounded }in a battle with the bandits. Police ot one of the robbers, other with One | man Oleson # while the $5,000. two eseaped CHICAGO, Jan, 20-—“Any other witnesses sked the court of Harry | Abraham, defendant, “Yes,” he re my mother-in-law, She has a | pliec jlot to way,” lonwee were) to the ethics of} 1 that | bandit | tion you won't ever understand any j thing. | Hoe eid it would have been impos. | sible to remove Smith You don't know the country,” (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) ‘DOLLY JOHNSON DENIED APPEAL } A | Prison Sentence | Dolly Johnson muat spend the/ next five to fifteen years in the! penitentiary her brother, | James Mahoney, hanged, De leember 1, for the murder of his aged wife. | | ‘The state supreme court Satur | |day denied the application for a| rehearing of her petition for a new trial for forgery, ending her at- tempts to aside the verdict of guilty returned by a jury here a| year ago. | Dolly's bondsman, Eric Ulverstad, | Friday withdrew his $10,000 prop-| erty bond, under which she was re- leased from the jail two} months ago, and was taken to jail—just a final decree was handed down. | When Ulverstad surrende his! protege, he said that ree sons compelled him down | his property bond The woman's forgery before a jury T. Ronald's court ch her with the honey. ‘The forgery the day prior to the aged bride, the court fo fraudulent power of attorney, Ing Mahoney the right of his wife's holdings, covered Just before Mra whore was county Dolly day before the od business to draw conviction of) in Judge J.! connected | of Mra, Ma- wns committed murder of the A giv: dispose ats. | { murder to was Mahoney hanged Issued | claiming for thi Mrs. Mab but the was not taken serfously. T. J. Caney, Mrs torney, said he would clemency wa John: a guilt ney Johnson's ask for ecutive City Officials Go | to Phone Hearing Counsel | Publie Utittties F. Russell | uring at. 8p0 Assistant |Walter E Superintendent will attend « public h ne Monday on the valuation of | ane property of the Pacific phone and Telegraph company, | before representatives of the state} department of public works hearing will be one of @ series the state body is holding in an in vestigation of complaints by the cities of Seattle, Spokane and Ta coma that the proposed increase in phone rates asked by the company is unjustifiable, Corporation uls and George “Mme. Terpsichore,” whose activities a “motion-pleture instructor” are under investiga- tien by the Better Business Bureau, gave a demonstration Saturday morning to convince The Star that she is “on the level.” Her demonstration — fittingly enough—took the form of an his trionic exhibition. And, if {t didn’t Prove that she is capable of making every waitress a Mary Pickford and every bellhop a Rodolph Valentino, ft at least showed that “Mme. Terp Patterson said be) Mahoney’s Sister to Serve |sichore” herself Is an accomplished actress—either off or on. Her modest suite at 604-5 Pan tages bullding in confusion when @ reporter for The Star called there and asked if the Madame had any statement to make in re ward to charges filed against her with the Better Business Bureau. The anteroom was crowded with men and women—movie pupils, all of whom were registering alarm in & manner that might have made Pola Negri jealoun, An elderly and tearful wured the reporter that Terpsichore” would see him in minute, and, true to her word, quickly ushered him into the adjoin ing room, where he confronted the Madame herself. “Mme. Terpsichore,” truthful, didn't look very much Ike one of the Muses. She ix a short stout little woman, who speaks with 4 slightly foreign accent. She may not be unprepossessing ordinartly: t she was certainly not at her best Saturday. Her eyes were red from t her light, bobbed halr was in disarray, and her dark, onepie dress gaped open} and there However, all actresses aren't beauti ful ‘The demonstration started at once Taking two steps to the left and clasping her hands beneath her chin, the madame proceeded to reg ister grief with true art—real tears, no glycerine, glittered In her eyes “i'm ashi to look ye was woman “Mme to be brutally LINDEBERG Is HIT IN SUIT for $1,600,000 against Jatet Lindeberg, millionaire San Francisco mining man, was filed late Friday in the superior court hereby James Val entine, Lindeberg, formerly connect ed with the Scandinavian American bank, was indicted at Tacoma by a grand jury for conspiracy in connec: tion with the failure of the bank there. Valentine alleges that 1915, an agreement was entered into with William Rhinehart of ttle as trustee, providing for the sale of 5 per cent gold debenture bonds, valued at $1,100,000, all indorsed by Lindeberg. The bonds were found among the assets of the Seattle and Tacoma banks when the defunct In stitutions ¢ into the hands of the examine! asks that the court of the Pioneer Mining k to pay the principal, interest and costs of the suit Suit March | look so awful. But you under- | stand how it ie—how I feel-—" (Business of looking heavenward and increasing grief register.) “As God is my master there | ain't any graft,” she continued, | striking ® new pose and regis- | tering indignation. “Here are | my puptis—just 10, out of 500 | applications. Wouldn't I have taken more if all I wanted was their money? But I've been training them all, and I'll get a contract for every one of them-—if I have to go to California | to do It! (Business of clenching right |hand and registering determination) | “I'l tet you just what I been | doing—I ain't got anything to hide. | “(furn to Page 7, Column 6) Harding’s Health Reported Better WASHINGTON, Jan, 20.—Presi- | dent Harding, feeling much better to- | day, hopes to go for a short drive! this afternoon, leaving his room for the first time since his confinement | | last Tuesday. The president's fever has abated and bis condition Is generally much |improved, Dr, Sawyer reported today. | However, his physician insisted that | he remain away from his office for a) day or two longer Flashes BONDED LIQUOR? =| Alfred Lepepe 41, merchant, was his hon night at when jarrested Friday |2114 jaquad officers allege they found « |quantity of moonshine and imported Scotch whisky Jackson &t., police dry | labels in his posses: The police declare Lepepe was | bottling the moonshine and labeling | it as bonded lquor eral ti capa were also setzed. Lepepe was held in the city jail Saturday in liew of $600 bond SUSPEND DRY CHIEF | WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—-Theo-| dore Schweitzer, prohibition chief | lof Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, | has been suspended, was made ‘known here today Officials refused to divulge the nature of the charges agninst Schweitzer INQUEST OVER HUNTER MEDFORD, Ore, Ja An in-| to be held here today over | of Ralph Teeple, 22, of | Ore. accidentally killed ‘Thursday afternoon near the head- of Foots creek, Jackson | while bunting deer with a] Hin, his father and brother The fatal shot fired by J. W. Harrison, who ad mis. taken Teeple deer and dis. charged his rifte accidentally just at the moment he realized his mistake, | it was reported. sion ‘oil | | quest |the body vortland, | waters: county party in was | youths to Prosecutor Vigorous war to punish store: keepers who sell cigarets and tobacco to Seattle school children was opened by the board of edu- cation at Friday night's mecting. Evidence collected by George R. Austin, principal of the Interlake school, naming a half score of storekeepers in the Interlake dis- ‘let who have sold cigarets to grammar school boys, will be turned over to the prosecuting attorney, who has promised Prompt prosecution. A special investigation conducted by Henry W. Pennock, school attor- ney, revenied at least a dozen boys at the Interlake school who have purchased cigarets from storekeepers | in the district, Pennock’s report said. Principal Austin selected six of the “testify to having pur- chased tobacco,” and their names will be given the prosecutor. Charges by Director F. F. Taylor that President Car! FE. Croson of the board was blocking the cigaret probe did not materialize at the board meeting. Taylor made no comment on the action of the board “Storekeepers who make a living selling cigarets and toba to our boys and girls of tender age should be prosecuted,” W. J. Santmyer, \ rd member, said. Phe practice must thruout the city,” President Carl E. ‘oson declared. “The prosecuting at- torney has promixed us effective sup- port Santmyer was equally strenuous in denouncing a 1 Seattle Parent-Te for use of sch to hold public dances of it," Santmyer said. be stopped cher associations buildings in whisk “1 not hear Other mem: |bers of the board were opposed to the idea, and it was the announced intention of the board to kt the re- quest “die in committee” to where it assigned at the last meeting IRISH EXECUTE 11 INSURGENTS els Are Executed by Free State Forces was Re DUBLIN, Jan, 20.21 gents w cuted in Ireland today for offenses against the Free State government, ve were executed at Athlone for carrying arms, it was officially an- nounced A dispatch from Limerick said two were executed there for train wreck ing and carrying arms Four were executed at T eee TRALEE, Jan, 20.—Four Irish in- surgents were executed this morning for carrying arms. ee posal advanced by | board | ' i | | | | \ ‘on insur- | correspondent. |come back, bloodshed ts ‘backed up the Missouri since the strike. The reign of terror is with blood, floggings and tions. About 30 men have tally horsewhipped, upon and beaten with fists, probably 400 strikers and families actually driven four towns along the Hungry, footsore and they fled 26 miles across Missourt state line for getting only such as could beg along the way. Men patrol the streets of | son with guns, To ask questions fs to bullet. censorship has Strictest clamped on and any attempted to file the cold of Harrison would be 13 A St. Louis had a gun stuck in his every few minutes vival. Two Kansas ers are denied leave town by “the Men drill in the sti an army preparing to invasion. There is a plan to send to Rock and kidnap J. P. V union leader, who escaped stories of outrages, and bring: back here to hang. The department of justice man in Harrison, but he cai catch strikers before the oceurred. There is no question about ¢ dations having been n Seven bridges were bu week, and union members cused. All union sympathizers been driven out or jailed they wear the white ribboned blem of the “committee.” If Nquor flows or the saci Mi certain result. 500 DEPOR' BY LEADERS MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan, 2 izens' committee" at Hi Ark., has controlled 200,000 with an iron hand for nearly a according to a staff correspondent the Memphis Press, who Nn Springfield, Mo., toda: “Rifles, shotguns, pistols, the and the hangman's noose dicts of the ¢ committee, which has establi [soviet in Harrison, altho nine 12 members are from other and counties,” according to the The work of the committee, marized, is this: “Rail striker hanged because pelled the invasion of his home, “Members of the ‘committee’ mitted 30 men have been tied up al lashed. “At least 500 men and women ha’ jbeen told to ‘light out for the hi and have been sent out of valley to find shelter. The nem neutral spot Is Branson, just agnor the Mississippi line, 40 mites thi