The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 22, 1923, Page 1

eeececceccose COCO OOOS OOH COEOEOO OE SOOTOSEE SESE OOO SES SEOSOOOS ere You Arrested? No Matter (EDITORIAL) The enforcement of traffic laws in Seattle h become a joke. ized. Did you break the s) And were you arrestec EATHER northea: east winds. FORECAST NO. 284 VOLUME 24 ~ RUSS The tr veeding law this morning > affic division is demoral- No matter. See one of rain: mod south sday st and AID GERMANS Coal Miners in Ruhr V alley Are on} Strike to Defy French; Soviet Army Is Being Reorganized for Action United Press Summary The heart of Germany's rich est fuel region was stilled today in passive protest against French invasion. A test of Premier Poincare's reparations policy was on. Mines of the Ruhr valley were idle in protest against France's occupation; against ar rest of state officials; against the presence of poilus with bayonetted rifles at the shaft- heads, and against the severing of all the artesys connecting the Ruhr with the rest of Ger many. The strike started on sche @ule; besides the state m seven Thyssen holdings other private pits ceased oper Miners low about, Freneh branch of the reiehbank But in Paris, Foch and the French cabinet met and planned new military and — economic movements to overcome Ger many’s passive resistance. There was also a rail strike on in the Ruhr today; French troops at South Dortmund with drew from the station, however, and of the workmen re turned to the tral Reports jerman troop movements near the Ruhr and of secret uprisings again were in active circulation. Gen. Ludendorft was reported at Muenster. The French war of. fice Incked confirmation of these rumors, and discredited them The test of wills in the Rubr was sald to depen endurance of Germany trial leaders—Stinnes, Thyssen and others—who held the key son Bolsheviki Threaten France LONDON, Jan. 22.—Numerous bolshevik agents are active tn the Ruhr advising the workers to be patient until the Russian army, whieh is being hurriediy reorganized, is ready for war against France to liberate T the higher-ups in the police department, and if you possess a little pull you need never appear i tions as parking reguls , or, n court, tions y, a little money, And such ques- pouf! What’s a parking regulation among friends? That's the way the enforcement of the traffic eeccccccecvccce The paper with a 15,000 daily circulati he Seattle St Wnterea ENGAGED ] The engagement of the duke of York, second son of many, expected early thie summer, according to The Times’ Berlin cor. King George and Queen Mary, respondent * * 4 * Germany Plans Conscription LONDON, Jan. 22.—Germany ts on the eve of instituting military con scription, which the Versailles treaty forbids, according to the Daily Mail's Mayence correspondent. * By Carl D. Groat / ESSEN, Jan. 22, — German miners thruout the Ruhr today carried out their strike threat and refused to work. Mines that supply a consider able part of all Germany's fuel supplies were idle. Grimy Westphalian workers jounged about the pita with folded arms. They vppeared at the shaft heads at the usual hour this morning and were lcwered into the pits. French troops with bayonetted rifles | were at some of the mines. No work was Gone at any of the state mines, | however, the men urlanimousiy join- ing in passive resistance as a demon. stration against arrest and imprison ment of Prusstan mine offict: Ruhr railroad men are > etrik ing; a meeting of union officials to- day was to decide whether tie-up of | lines thru the Ruhr would be made/ | * Ruhr Workers F' old Their Arms complete. Work Ras stopped on sev eral lines—notably on the Parts. Ber- lin route that passes thru Dortmund. Prominent railroad officials were ar. rested, causing thin strike. Germans today declared that Fritz Thyssen and other coal barons imprisoned at Mayence have been thrown into cells “like ordinary jail birds.” They are to be court martialed, together with 20 or 30 other prominent German industrial leaders of the Ruhr, for refusal to obey French orders. The French are hopeful they can break down Germany's paastve re sistance. The United Preas was in. formed that no attempt will be made at first to enforce labor at the Rubr mines. The French high command |depends on hunger and privation to drive the Westphaliang to work. The latter, however, have the backing of (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) HOME Howdy, folks! Have you a little income tax exemption In your home? | Bootleggers, when making their In-| come tax return, generally fall to| report their liquid assets. Howe allowed wf tor stock. er, they're 50 pero water A bili is going to be introduced in the legislature taxing all bachelors. And Dan Landon is still sewing on his own buttons! . And Phil Tindall still buys his own neckties TIMES CHANGE Another legislator proposes to change the name of Mount Rain- ler to Mount Tacoma. This ix a good idea. nts to have a mountair after a near-beer? ‘Tacoma we've heard t And wants the year. That man’s ishment. another state representative ure to meet every @ glutton for pun- log one IAttle drops of water On Uttle grains of sand Make a heluva di In the price of land. Perhaps the firet thing that turnal green in the pring is Christma jewelry ference TH OLE HECK Thrift Week is over, Hot | be BREW Puppy! Now we've got 51 weeks to throw our money away at rummy! Real thrift is when you look over the top of your spectacles for fear of wearing out the lenses, vee Mark Reed, speaker of the lower house at Olympia, turns back to the state treasury $600 of his salary Who sid that man had all qualifications for governor? see the We took down the “Do It Now” sign above our desk when the bill collector looked at It queerly when we told him to call again tomorrow. soe Li'l Gee Gee says that love grown cold Is like @ last year’s bird nest in « heavy rain THIS MUST BE THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE PLASTER A minor operation was performed on Mrx. Bi. W. Seed at the Arthur Yates Memorial hospital this mern- Ing. Dr. Mustard reports the patient is nicely.—Ketehikan Daily News. Bergdoll, the draftevader, haw just married. We knew he'd get was coming to him sooner or n hat later . Down in the barnyard, a fresh young peat Slipped in an ostrich egg Biddy left the nest ; old hen cocked her eye yelled, “I nay! | am getting better cach and every day!” Contrib. wohen The and Sign near Olympia Slow (Tura to Page 9, Column 1) ‘Go to Lady Elizabeth Bowea- Lyon, youngest daughter of the earl and countess of Strathmore, has been finally announced. Above are shown the duke and his fiancee. [ASKS FUNDS TO | Denby Urges ‘Modernizing” | of Warships WASHINGTON tary of the urged before | mittee the immediate appropriation of $6,500,000 to “modernize” the 18 capital ships to be retained under the treaty of Washington Next year the navy will ask for jan additional $23,500,000 to complete the “modernization” program and to keep with the navies of Great Britain and Japan, he said Denby sald “modernizing” ships would be “perfectly proper’ under the disarmament treaty. Great Britain and Japan, he said, began to modernize their navies before the | Washington conference Denby stated approximately | 000,000 a year was being saved by [the United as a result of abandonment of the 1916 naval pro | gram | | Sacre today com: Jan Navy Denby the house naval pace $200 ‘CALIFORNIA IS ~QUAKE-ROCKED Sharp Shock Shakes Towns in Northern Part SAN FRANCISCO, Cul, Jan —Most of California, from Francisco north, wae shaken early \today by the sharpest earthquake shock reported in month: It stopped clocks, slammed doors, rattled dishes and awakened sleep orm in many towns but did no dam- age and caused no panics. | ‘The shake seen | heaviest in the vicinity of Ri lin the northern end of the |mento valley was particularly Istrong at ber, Orland, Marys | ville, Willows and Chico, all in the same vicinity, reports to the United Press showed. It was felt Francisco The seismograph readings at the Mount Hamilton observatory of the University of California set the time of the first shock at 1:05 a, m. The readings registered a shake over @ period of three hours and indi cated the center of the about 1,000 miles north northwest of Mount Hamilton, which is near flan Jose. The Santa Clara versity selamograph readings tailed with those of Mount Hamilton, an ding, and very slightly, In San | REMODEL NAVY! disturbance | unt. 3H., MONDAY, J POSSE HOUNDS FLEEING MAN Sheriffs Pursue Suspect Wanted in Taxi Murder Twenty-f hours Horace Wa with ATTL w nection the Mark J. Crowder. taxi driver, had led of several ntles Monday the coal mining district in the Skookumehuck valley, near Cen tralia. Crowder f murder ”, was found head. thru diteh Bluff Sumner ing, when farmer | hearing a shot thrown from his timou not been robbed Pteree county fled Crowder and of Dete authorities ident Captain tive t ar Immediately | Detectives KR. KR. Herbert and P. P. McNamee left for Tneoma, where they took up the trail with the Pierce county sheriffs. Moanwhile Hendricks’ desertption and that of| the automobile had been wired to all | cities north of Portland and a state | Wide man-hunt had been organized. | Hendricks’ trail was found. to lead. te the Fairview cafe in South Tn | description, driving # large Iimou. |sine, ordered a sandwich and failed | to conceal a pair of bloody hands: |. Shortly afterward the detectives found that a car of the same de seription had pansed thru oy, head ed for Olympia, where the car wai jeeen again. At Forbes Prairie the |automobile apparently had been dis. |carded, but a man thought to be | Hendricks produced a book of gas tickets which he sold to an oll sta tion for $7. The man had been trav \eling by stage. | According to Tennant the gan book | waa probably stolen from Crowder. Yo trace of Hendricks was found after the time he left Forbes Prairie | until late Sunday night, when he Is waid to have been surprised near Centralia, on the P: highway, | and fled into the brush | Crowder’s partner, Lester Sonville, | |909 Fairview bivd., told the police! |that he had driven Hendricks most | | of Baturday night and up to 3 o'¢ tock | |Sunday morning in a tour houses, and that Hendricks had quar |reied with him violently when asked | |to pay fare of $11. Sonville, Hen-| ldricks and Crowder were in the San (Turn to Page 9, Comumn 5) ‘FRAUD CHARGES _ WILL BE FILED, /Alleged Victims Seek Avoid Publicity With additional daily from alleged victims |Lester-Kalven Co. to be from the light of publicity, Deputy Prosecutor T. H. Patterson Monday preparing to file charges direct in superior court accusing Lester enstein and Isador Kalven of |#rand larceny of the youth ful sal n have t Alleged victims stock oT Patterson to keep their names out of the papers the nowe of the arrest of the two spread jearly last week. The charge of grand larceny under which they were ar rested was filed in Justice John B. Gordon's court Bail of $7,500 was posted Monday 1.3 ney was road | to pouring In of the shiwlded pleas continuously sinc }for Isador Kalb his attorne | Sullivan, ‘The m | furnished by wealthy relatives of the Chicago relatives of Lester Ruben stein are arranging bail for him, Sul livan said Attorney John F, Dore, chief coun. sel in the Skarin trial, will be assoot ated with Sullivan in defending the two youthful promoters, Sullivan waid Monday, Sullivan assisted Dore in the Skarin trial "t n serv | dozen copies of subp ing civil sflits growing out of the op. jerations of my clients here,” Sullivan | weld, t isn necessary to obtain legal assistance, so I have asked Mr, Dore | to ald me in handling the cases 'T two youths are not as bad as ithey have been painted. They sold jatock that is paying 2 per cent a month dividends. 1 am informed that a ttle bunker thought #o well of their proposition that he invested | heavily himself.” | Sullivan expects to demur to the complaints against his two clients, alleging insufficiency of evidence to charge a crime. announced i with half a} nag announce. have l jot | trom The laws goes today. mayor's friends, the chief's friends, the captain's friends, the inspec- tor’ of these friends, etc. judge. Ten per cent more likely PIP) on lead over its nearest competitor of the arrests now made in Se friends, other officers’ friends and friends their cases never get to the 20 per cent-— maybe attle for by Matt, 6 to such infringements are har ly, secretly, If you aren’t that’s quite different. Th a fine; perhaps even go to Just what the condition 1 idled quietly, private- a friend, of course, en, maybe, you'll pay jail. of the traffic division and just what is necessary to remedy it, The Star will discuss tomorrow. ar ANUARY QUEEN OF PARIS MANNEQUINS } Competition among the famous costumiers of Paris for the services of Mule. Bineur, most beautiful of ‘mannequins, has sent her salary higher than WOULD ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY Heighton Plans to Introduce New Bill OLYMPIA, Jan, 22 iahment would be abolished in state of Washington under the of a bill which will be in in the house Monday or Tuesday by Representative Charles H. Heighton, of King county. The present law will be amended to read life imprisonment where it now reads death the terms troduced DANCER DEATH! SUSPECT FREE SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 22—Dr. Louts Jacobs, captain in the army medical corps, held for three days for in connection with the death of Frits! Mann, dancer, wan released today by police. “The police are unable to get any evidence to connect Dr. Jacobs with the alleged murder of Fritzl Mann,” was the formal stavement issued by Chief of Police Patrick just before the doctor was released. Detectives Sears and Chadwick remained Los Angeles today working the cane, They will also interview Miss Bernice Edwards, of Long Beach, who the dancer and who recetved letters from her shortly before her death. In some of these letters before her said to have protested vigorously at the way arrangements for the operation she expected to submit to, had been handled. who had been investigation in on Harding Is Still Confined to Bed WASHINGTON, Jan — Presi. dent Harding remained in his room at the White House today, abandon- ing his intention to return to his desk in the executive offices. 16 president's condition 4s much improved, Dr, Sawyer said, after a call at the White House, vised the president to stay away hix office for another day in that he may make a complete before assuming his duties: BIG CHAMBER VOTE POLLED Following the polling of the largest of votes ever cast in a of Commerce election, Frank Waterhouse has been re ected president of the Chamber of Commerce. Official figures announced Saturday show W. L. Rhodes and BE. H, Hatch have been selected as vice presidents and Worrall Wilson as treasurer, together with 12 trustees chosen from a list of 22, The board will meet this week. order recovery Capital pun:| was a friend | but he ad. | coma, where a man anmwering nix! theatrical stars on the French stage. ‘WAGING FINAL PARISH FIGHT |Terror Town Details Given in Bastrop Probe BY E. A. SHELNUTT COURTHOUSE Bastrop, La, Jan. 22. entered upon the final chapter of its attack on the forces of lawlessness that have ruled Morehouse parish, and are held responsible for the bar: |barous murders of Watt Daniel and | Thomas F. Richards W. C, Wagster, called as the first conversations reported to have oc: curred after the Daniel-Richards murders, He told of being in the poker game at the Daniel home with Richards and Watt Daniel on the night an alleged attempt was made to assassinate Dr. B. M. McKoin. jthe Southern Carbon company, was the next witness. He told of return- ing from a trip the day after Harold ‘Teegerstrom, missing witness, disap- peared. He also described a visit to T. Jeff Burnett, a former Carbon plant employe, while the latter was in the Bastrop Jail. Bonnett was shown a key assistant attorney general, believed [to be from a bunch found on the |banks of Lake La Fourctie the day | following the mysterious dynamite | explosion. Hoe said the key was similar to the master meter house keys. He said the |key shown him was not now being uned. Bennett told of notifying the sheriff Jabout Teegerstrom’s disappearance, but declared he knew nothing about |the matter, \Mus: olini Socking U. S. Co-operation PARIS, Jan, 32.—Premier Musso- {ni has instructed the Italian am- bassador at Washington to propose mediation regarding reparations, hoping the United States can be per suaded to call a world conference, the Eclair’s Rome correspondent tele. |graphed today | by the || Automobiles and Where to Find | Them || Today many good buys in auto |] mobiles can be found by watch ing STAR WANT ADS, You will find these dealers willing to dem- onstrate cars to your liking. | | | $40 DOWN Balance, $110, may be paid month- ly, buys #1918 Maxwell, in good shape, Rattery guaranteed, 1921 OAKLAND, $5 like new, and ‘has 4 new cord tires and a good spare, |] snubbers, ete. Make your own terms, Turn to the Want Ad Columns and look over the bargains in '] used cars that appear there. ‘The state of Louisiana today | witness today, was questioned about» 8. I. Bennett, general manager of | C “TWO CED HILD DIES ‘TS IN SEATTLE. IN FLAM ‘Boy, 4 Years Old, Perishes Effort to Save His Mother, Who Jumps 16 Feet | Four-year-old Philip Morgar Monday morning when he tri flames that destroyed the | wood ave. | |Philip. He is in the city hog The mother escaped unhurt in Bray n was burned to death ed to save his mother fi forgan home at 1645 His father was severely burned when he tried to pital. when she leaped 16 feet the ground, after dropping another child, Dorothy, 8, the arms of a neighbor. The father lorraine, 1 Morgan, who i been out of work for some time, had started a fire in the kitchen range at 6:30 a m., after which he went back to bed. He awoke again 20 m iter to hear the ominous flames Hastily leaping threw pen the kit great sheet of fame in his face. He called to his wife, asieep in an- | other bedroom with her daughter rescued and; Verna, ‘ and smob rst | | | with an impenetrable | wall of fire. Several times he tried |to push thru—tried unti! his hair |was burned from his head and his |tnee, back and arms were burned to ja crisp before he gave up. Then Morgan dashed around to the back of the building and hammered | vainly at an unresisting door. He dropped exhausted and was carried to safety, with his dying child's screams ringing in his ears. Meanwhile, Mrs. Morgan had taken | Dorothy to the front porch. A pass: ing workman caught the girl in his arms as the mother dropped her 16 feet to the ground, and then leaped to the earth herself. Both were un- burt At ‘the first outbreak of the fire Mrs, James Kelly, 1712 Edge- wood ave., « neighbor, attempted to call the fire department, Four times she tried, the police were told, and each time the telephone central replied, “The line is busy,” In spite ef Mrs, Kelly's pleas that the call was for an | emergency. At length she obtained the number nd William Carmichael, in com: mand of the first battalion, dashed | to the scene with t fire companies. By that time, howevegitittle was left of the house but a smouldering ruin, 80 quickly had the blaze swept thru the bullding. The Little family was taken to the home of Mrs, P. Morgan, 6213 4ist S. W., the grandmother. The/| bog? of Philip was discovered in the} bedroom, where the little fellow had | hidden under the blankets of the bed. | Tt was taken to the West Seattle undertaking parlors. Coroner W. H Corson investigated the case in co. operation with the fire department BRUTAL DEATHS SHOCK SOCIETY’ FI ave. Battered Bodies Found in Blazing Cottage NEWPOR? nent society R. 1, Jan, 22.—Promi- folk of Newport today assisted in search for the murderer of Mr, and Mrs. J. A. Frazier Mo- Leish, whose bodies were found by firemen in a blazing gardener’s cot- tage Sunday McLeish was head gardener on the estate of Paul Fitzsimmons, and his | wife formerly was Mrs, Elsie French Vanderbilt, ‘The itzsimmonses were in New York over Saturday | night, and no inkling of the double murder came until smoke w: ob. served curling from the McLeish lodge, yesterday morning. When firemen arrived, and windows were firmly secured, Flames had gained considerable | headway. When the firemen burst | in, they found Mrs, McLeish’s char red body across a burning bed, Her skull had been fractured as if with | a hammer. Near by the body of her | husband, untouched by flames, lay in & pool of blood. The gardener's skul! also was crushed. A negro seen the Pitasim. | mons estate was seized, but later re: | Teused, \ all doors fly im | craft | about $: FLASHES GIRL SHOOTS EDITOR © PARIS, Jan Marius Pia editor of the Action Francaise, shot to death im hig editorial fices this afternoon by G Berton, well known girl an Mile. Berton then attempted to mit suicide and wounded Motive for the shooting been ascertained. eee AUTO RUNS OVER: Se ot eet eee Jail, facing possible laug charges, depending upon the Fe ery of 3-year-old Arthur Sanne, 3 was run down by Bellandi's is omy | Sunday and his thigh broken, 4 | baby ts suffering from shock. nesses charge Bellandi was 5 BURN TO DEATH _ HOMESTEAD, Pa, Jan. 21 persons were burned to death today in a fire which 4 smal! hotel owned by Thomas Davies on Dockson st. 3 FALLS TO DEATH TACOMA, Jan. 22.—~ Glpatrick, employe of the flour mill, pluriged three floors: a man-lift elevator shaft at the at 7 o'clock this morning and & fered a fractured skull, which eatist his death in a local hospital hours later. DR. REINSCH SINKI WASHINGTON, Jan. Paul 8. Reinsch, former States minister to China, is ert at Shanghal and is not pected to live, a cable received day by Mrs, Reinsch from the ‘an consul there stated. He | suffering from a tumor on @ brain and an operation will performed by the surgeons of Rockefeller institute in China. eee COMA FATAL TO FOUR PORTLAND, Jan. 22. deaths have occurred here sleeping sickness since January the city health bureau annowi today. There are nine cases | coma in Portland now, with | mysterious malady taking the portions almost of an epidemic, cording to health officers. eee NAVAL BILL IS SIGNED” WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, — naval appropriation bill, carrying congressional suggestion that other international conference be called to limit submarines, nd auxiliary ships, was sigt sident Harding today in at the White House, calls for appropriations .000,000. ‘The president signed a deficiency bill . . by Pi room measur’ . CAR MANGLES WOMAN TACOMA, Jan, 22.—Run down a street car Sunday evening, Tony Sigilli, $7, had her right severed. She is in a local ho suffering from shock and fears her recovery are expressed. te RECESS FOR JURISTS — WASHINGTON, Jan. preme court today anne recess from January 29 to ary 19, Crowell Enters 4 Not Guilty Plea” WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—B dict Crowell, Cleveland, secretary of ar during the Wil administration, today pleaded guilty ‘n the district court to of conspiracy to defraud the ment in connection with the struction of war camps.