The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 24, 1923, Page 1

that heavy vessels off the United effect that ploneers, but of the the paxs Minots ti» js with her >I 300 000 CONTRACT LET WEATHER - i Tonight ond Thur “VOLUME Howdy, folks! w Peril, get a traffic slip? Speak did you ever Lieut. C. G. Curr, traftt his office has los Honest, lieut t's adot let the F Packards os LIL ¢ WEE, TH’ OFFICE AMP, SEZ: | If we are to believe what we | read in the news, vamp shooting is rapidly taking the place of | crap shooting. | oe + eee George Hurlburt has been named fede prohibition agent for th: Northwest div We notice in this week's copy of Sereenland an advertisement for “The Castle Inn,” in which specia rates are offered to musicians. H Well, musicians, expecially saxo-} phone players, ought to pay special | rates. | eee ‘The Mer Rouge murders have been | forced off the’ front page, but, by heck, It took France and Germany to Jo it! cee WEED "EM OR WEFP! give his sts gre eee Gee Gee, who has been reading | the papers again, thinks that Doc Brown's most detested book is “The Re-Call of the Wid.” eee The lad who loves a modern girl Bees much to set Mas head awhirl— Things we of the Victorian age Thought extated on the stage. But how Als heart must thump, by gosh, To see her trip on her golosh! O. Heck. | Just learned to spit thru Phin teeth . CANDIDATE FoR THe POISON IVY CLUB | Borzard who comes inte your | office and takes up all your | time, and then Is too busy to see you when you visit his office. eee One method of lowering taxen that han never been tried by the legia- lature ts to spend lens money. eee Ian't ft about time for Jackt Coogan to write an article on “How I Made My First Dollar’? } see Dante must have led a married life | —he describes the place so well o- A bird I hate Is Bodie Raeshun Because ha neck Needs Irrigation | oe. | “Dry Officers Make Journey to Vanco ‘s tar headline. But were they dry officers when they returned? eee SHORT STORY “I didn’t know St was loaded!” “aay Tee! A sclentist has discovered a way of showing movies in a lighted thea ter. Now, by hei we'll learn who eats those pe o- ptwithetanding {t has been dry cleaned, scrubbed, deodorized and perfumed, Governor Hart's civil ad ministrative code still smells as tho the wind was blowing from the .di rection of the glue factory. see POME TO DR. HAWKINS Se you think that the mayor lieth When he says that he does not knew OF places where yon ean bieth ease from your earthly wor. layhap that he was denieth— n't know how to ring the bell. SULLIVAN. “Avernge man can't love but one woman,” says a magazine writer. No, not on an average man's pay. It ts sometimes difficult to deter. mine which makes the most noise in the world—the jawbone or the trom bone. oe POLITICAL NOTE Most sehen for saving the taxpayers’ money seem to origi nate in $2,000,000 public build- ings. ‘The trouble with some people, anys Tillie, the redheaded phone oper ator, is that they seem to think it's a yellaphone But just think how long Methuse- lah might have lived if there had heen somebody to remove his tonsils and appendix! see TIME! 4 | lice department | Mayor Brown has become highly n- EES EE ESE EET wee Let the Judges Try the Cases (EDITORIAL) all laws—the speed “There are exceptions to law included.” It was Hizzoner the Mayor talking “For instance,” he continued, expansively, ‘the other day ¢ y prominent citizen had to go to Tacoma in a hurry. The train had left, and he had to make the trip by automobile. As I say, he was in a hurry—and he was on a straight road with no streets leading into it. He knew it was absolutely fe to speed a little—so he did—28 miles an hour. Then he got arrested. “Well, he came to me, and asked me if I couldn't get him off—and I did. I'd do it a, And Hizzoner folded his hands across his stomach and favored his auditors with a beatific smile. Sounds lovely, doesn’t it? But— If you take unto yourself the authority to dismiss any law-breaker without any process of law, Dr. Brown, in the name of heaven, where are we going to end? Following this same line of didn’t you interfere in the recent ase You could have just stepped in and said and sin no more you’re rather good at quot- ing the Scripture u know—and the county would have been saved all the trouble and ex- pense of a long trial. And then there are many other cases. Of course, there is a flaw in this theory The people elected you mayor—as you remind them, in a rather nasty way, every now and then—but they didn’t elect you a judge. And as long as you're not a judge you have no authority to interfere with the administration of justice—whether it be in the matter of mur- derers, speeders or parking regulation violators. Het n, too.” F AIA why Skarir thought Clara ™! Star Charges Are True, Declares Lieut. Carr iTraf fie Head Says His Position Is Impossible ; Mayor Defiant BY BOB BERMANN “There are exceptions to al] laws—the speed law included. I have asked for consideration for a few People who have | been arrested for speeding—and I'll do it again. The people | jelected me mayor—not Mr. Carr.” Mayor E. J. Brown. “It's very siktceflceite tha aide thing. It’s just a little interna] dissension. Lieutenant Carr wants to be given |authority over his superior officers—and I can’t permit it. Ho hum. Being chief’s just one darn thing after another.” —Chief of Police W. B. Severyns. “The traffic division of the police department was or- ganized three years ago under a general order which has never been amended. As long as this ordef stands, I feel it my duty to follow the policy that speeders be tried in the} courts for their first offense. I think it would be extremely dangerous to change this poli but if the chief wants! |to do it, I'll obey his orders. The only thing that I object to is for him to change the policy but still hold me respon- ible under it.”—Lieutenant C. G. Carr, head of the traffic jivision, police department. These three statements sum up| wrought up after the conference Wednesday's situation tn the contro. “Mr. Carr is not going to give the veray which is threatening to disrupt | chief any orders,” he declared vehe- the traffic division of the Seattle po- | mently “The chief's going to give him orders, and If he can't, I can. T Lieut. Carr has asked that he el-| think Severyns in a very competent ther be transferred or else be given | cb of police, and if I didn’t, he authority over the department for | wouldn't be there five minutes, which he ts held responsible. r hag @ very hard position—a Chief Severyns says he has taken | very hard position. The chief will go the matter under advisement, and into his c CLAIMS POWER ‘ RCISE DISC! mber isn't the first chief who has had this question up. ‘The people feel the ne executive-—otherwise they wouldn't have elected me mayor—and I have the power and authority to exercise discretion in matters of traffic law violation. You know, Carr could make a good many emies for the Brown administration if he were itted to run wild—but he's not going t I'm mayor—it may be wad, but it’s true. You know, when a no judicial disc recognizes no mitigating atances—then they call him a police. man, but I'm not « policeman. “However, as far as I'm person- ally concerned, consideration for more th two n 1 month Ideration for these 1 It to do over 0 CASH We've RENT by dignant because The Star has taken the matter up. And there you «@ Brown had a long confe day afternoon with Chief § Police Sergt. Frank Fuqu Carr accuses of overriding him in the matter of disminni traffic-law vio- lators—and Jacob Kalina lice judge. He seemed to be greatly pmepecientite omaha a Are You Ready to Move? acting po- judge exer retion—when h elroun help make a from the many that appear dal! Ad Column’ If so, let us few choice homes in Star Want you selection I've n one or and I'd ask con men if I Hous: VE ON MADRONA ItIDGH same again got to be human, A ma endanger lives — but rn to Page 8, Column 4) RANGE RMS AS LOW AND BALANCE $4,000 TO $8,000 LIK people bis ie one of the mort un offerings of chol privileg: houses are 6 CHECK EXPERT CAN INVESTIGATE ONE HE WROTE HIMSELF Herbert, expert in the police d partment, was slightly emba rassed Wednesday when offic of a Seattle bank notified the po lice department that one of Her rt's checks had been returned marked no funds ‘Ono houne at $8,000 is @ 7-room Colonial, with hot water heat, full cement bane- ment, laundry, fine plumbing, feeping porch, ete. The other houses at $4,000 and $4,500 are heated by—ete., ete,, etc Detective R. Ft on forged check Want about Ad Column the detail Turn to the and find more of these hom ———— ‘The paper with a 15, 000 daily c irculation lead over its nearest competitor | The Seattle Star TTLE, d of a chief | not asked for | WASH., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY ¢ vA, Ik “HEAVY FINES ASSESSED BY FRENCH ARMY German Industrial Leaders Punished by Court-Martial in Ruhr Region United Press Summary German industrial | trial before a French court were fined huge sums today disobedience of orders in the occupied Ruhr district, Herr Splndler was fined 471,700 franes, which at the present rate of ex change amounts to 360,000,000 marks. Other accused Germans were fined varying amounts, Strike of miners In the newly upied area spread somewhat, but the tension was cased when the Frenety h ted they would 1 imprison, the coal bar son Freneh tre several cities, nearby farms. American troops departed trom Coblens today and the Freneh took ever EKhrenbreits! ress and will man the bridgeliend next week. Germany, in a note to Italy, suggested as the best ps withdrew from being billeted at today. | Boy late co Americar ment might unite in calling Candidate Wants ARAKI AR AAR Annee HOME | Fr EDITION Mill Mr. Robert Paulur (left) and Mr. John Moriarty who aspire to be mayor of Seattle. jterest in their election has been aroused to fever heat. New Police p Officers to Watch Old Ones; Makes Stump Speeches This is a momentous day for Seattle. A new mayor and a new city council are to be elected. . A brand new regime thruout is promised and the city | will be placed in the hands of men with big ideas, | The campelen, which draws to « | clone inte this afternoon, when the judges count the ballots, has been a feveriah Inxuen are | sharpiy | Mr. Robert Paulux, mayoralty can |didate from the Capitol Hill district | promises radical reform. ti4e | week to rid Seuttle of vice by appoint |ing a new set of police officers to! one. now serving in that department, he | told The Star this morning. when many | FOLDS THE FLAG | Tho huge flag sank slowly to the foot, of the pole, where General Al len, commanding the last remnant of | the American army of occupation, caught it in his arms and folded it. | anthem came to an end, with| @ crash of cymbals and a great blare | French troops with bayoneted rifles guarded the courtroom, jand out. | ‘Thyssen, who was taken fil on the eve of the trial, stoutly main-| tained he would obey only the Ger- man law Dr, Grimm, attoruey for the de- fendants, opened the court imartiai | 9 a close late Tuesday night, | hearing by arguing that the French | h* — the last patent t 9 | sPeeches cane, He wan overrated ye) Mr, Paulun has given serious [thought to the street car problem. He in in favor of @ b-cent fare at the | YANKEES ARE present time, He declares it would be unfair to saddle aft the loud of ex: ON WAY HOME "oi “Personally.” he "raid today (Copyright, 192%, by United Press) | would be of great benefit to me. sty y 2, Germany, Jan. 24.—| property holdings are not great here an you Kee and a lower fare would, of course, be The ‘opening strains of the nation. | advantageous. However, when one al anthem from the smartest of views the subject from a broad, gen French military band» blared out| eral point of view, it will be seen | thru the packed square at Ehren-| that it ts manifestly unfair to force breitstein fortress, Coblenz, prompt-|a few people who are now paying ly at noon. taxes to stand al} the load resulting The Stars and Stripes on the tall from a heavy bonded Indebtedness flagpole fluttered an instant as two | that must be liquidated with only un- American machine gunners, honor | certain earnings to depend on j|men, who had come thru Chateau Paalus has as his opponent, Thierry, pulled gently on the ropes Mr, John Moriarity. Mr. Mor- | A French and American military) arity lives in the University dis | guard was rigid at attention the| triet. He has not made the flag came down. Crowds of r, active campaign that has marked mans and French, with wet Mr. Paul candidacy, but has pushed forward to witness the| the advantage of being some- ony what better known. He is some- what more conservative in his ideas and, while progress said to have played more of the old school type of politics, He is quiet and unassuming but his friends say he is a strong wire puller. Being an Irishman he ts inclined more toward a concilia- tory policy with respect to the of brasn. police department. He declares Our flag was no longer there. he will work hard to force the The ceremony signified the formal ° i heating of street cars, departure of the last of America’s never candidate is elected, “two millions” from the Rhine Se atte in assured of a new deal One thousand American doughboys | at least for a day, The new as- made up the last detachment that |pPirants for city office entrained from Coblenz this after-|of the Boy Scouts of America, One noon. The city took a holiday to pay | of them will actually serve as mayor them honor and see them off. A little of Seattle Anite 3, Bee mor, » 2 Scout city éouncil also will serve fo: Liialetapliion se) mitcoiae | day, The mayor will name own fire chief and police chief and NEAR EASTERN they in turn will name their subor- UPAR v isceiiandndembnainee PEACE SOUGHT w) BY HENRY WOOD | LAUSANNE, Jan, 24.—Great Brit-| ain will appeal to the league of na intervene in the allied dis with ‘Turkey and prevent wat Near E tions to pute in the | Lausanne | isis and | had 4 concessions demanded | announced the situa. world peace, and no time in eure. again refu by the allies tion threatened that Britain would lose taking {t before the 1 American Ambassad child, | | United States observer, presented to} the conference a note asking that| the “open door” principle be applied to oll concessions under dispute. | Such sions, he claimed, should not be monopolized by any single country Britain and Turkey, each striving | for possession of the Mosul oll fields, brought the parley to Ite pre | ent dea . so earlier? we all worked late and di hour 1 out of the way far earlier Then, too, transportation ean get to the theater or letter on the subject. agers drawn } ta werien of stump | members| These hours date back, of course, to the days work day is generally dinates. Tt will be @ great day for Seattle. Mr, Mortarity is a son of W. Morlarity, head of the College of Business, University of Washington. Mr. Paulus lives with bis mother at 431 14th ave, N. politics and the counsels between the young mayoralty candidate and | check up on the activities of the men | j bis mother have been long and earn: | @ Telegraph company’s request for a as Both candidates were nominated Mr. Paulus brought his campaign | by & committee without their knowl-|nut the hearing was enlivened by j edge Members of the various scout oops in Seattle have had opportu. nity to cast ballots for their favor. ites. The ballot boxes have been sealed and they will be opened at Scout headquarters, in the Arcade dullding, this afternoon, BANKS DEBATE _ PAY WARRANTS | Undecided on Status of| Street Car Paper | With officiats of the First Nation-| al, Union National and California bank still in conference, the ques tion of whether these banks, con- jnected with the Seattle clearing ‘ house, will honor the warrants to be | tasued by the pYunicipal street rail way at the semi-monthly pay day, | Thursday, was still undecided at noon Wednesday. ‘The conference was expected to re- port early in the afternoon, as a de- cision against cashing the warrants | would seriously hamper the financial | action of the railway department | A total of more than $224,000, drawn in wages by railway employes Jand for miscellaneous expenses, will (Turn to Page B, Oclamna 3) | Alaskan Bandits | — Get $30,000 Haul ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan, 24— While Mail Carrier Duffy was stop. {pin at Shermer’s roadhouse, mail robbers stole a bag containing « $30,00 rob ‘rep ery occurred on t said, January 7, At W hat Hour Should Dance or Theater Open? The usual theater performance or concert starts at 8:30 p. m., dances at 9 or 9:30. Wouldn’t you prefer to have them begin an hour or Why? when ined late. Now the eight- in vogue, and dinner is than in our mothers’ time. has been speeded up. People dance more promptly. Yet the same old late hours prevail. What are your ideas, folks? We'd like to hear from man- of entertainment and amusement enterprises as well as from thei’ patrons. Write The Star a brief Election returns will be available Hin mother, incl | He will dentally, ts a close student of city | of public works in the arsembly room payroll from him, according | his|to a report reaching here today, The | agents, the) ATTLE, CAMP LENIS "HOSPITAL 10 TWO CENTS IN Given Contrae for 28 Buildings at Cantonment | The veterans’ bure aware contract for a $1,500, 000 hospital at Camp Lewis, to consist of 28 perm in Seattle today. The Huriey-Mason of Tacoma, which built the G Lewis cantonment early in world war, is the successful der, Several Seatt! submitted proposals. The buildings are to be of forced concrete framework, walls and stucco exterior finitt ne hospital is fly tubercu! tal ¢ It is for the treatment veterans of the world war who under the care of the governn ‘The site selected is near the tonment on the shore of Lake, where the Boy Scout qj are now located. Construction, under the terms: the contract, is to begin within days Seeley In- & Co., which ts int in the bonding arrangements, of the Seattle firms informed tod of the award. The Hurley-Mas contract is said to call for the « | GROWS STORMY |""===== Hot Fight on Automatic Installation Cost Whether or not Seattle telephone mubscribers are to be compelied to pay for their service on the basis of| WASHINGTON, Jan. | Yorable report on the $1,009,000 worth of apparatus not yet! ("Simulate prices of farm In operation was the principal ques-| by creating a $250,000,000 ¢1 tion at Wednesday morning’s tel-/ foreign buyers, was ephone rate hearing before the board | unanimous vote of the senate cultural committee today. AD will be made to pass the bill session of congress by atts as an amendment to some legislation. FAVORS CREDIT jot the Chamber of Commerce. Testimony on the Pacific Telephone ‘31 per cent rate increase in Seattle was of @ largely technical nature, eth FARRAR’S MOTHER humorous verbal clashes between | Corporation Counsel Thomas J. L.|) NEW YORK, Jan. 24—G Kennedy and J, T. Shaw of San/Farrar’s mother died here Francisco, assistant vice president | Mrs. Sydney Farrar suc é and counsel for the phone company. | Pneumonia, The opera singer, In making its request for an in-| i on a concert tour in Canada, |creased rate, the phone company in-|Dotified by wire and is coming f jcluded in its valuation figures from|at once. Miss Farrar’s divoree § )sx to eight million dollars which has|@gainst Lou Tellegen was | been expended in preparation for the | today with submission of d \installation of automatic telephone|to Referee Thomas H. Mahoney. | Service in Seattle. The city objected si pe es 4 |to these figures, and it was around) MAN KILLED BY Al this objection that the principal fight TACOMA, Jan. 24.—Roy i made. Carden, 24, was dead Wednesday, tf T. KE. Phipps, rate engineer of the jelty, C. T. Blank, assistant plant en-| fifth person to be killed in traffic accidents here in @ per oor “for the phone company, and| J. Phillips, division commercial | 20 da: Carden; a city wo |superintendent of the phone com-|Was engaged in putting in pany, were the witnesses examined. | Planks on the east end of the | Most’ interesting point brought out, | bridge, late Tuesday a outside of actual rate figures, was| When he was struck and rut Superintendent Phillips’ prediction| ® truck driven by T. H. that Seattle would have a population | Carman suffered severe inte of 660,000 by 1939. Juries, which caused his death, H. H. Cleland is presiding over the| hours later, at the St, Joseph rate hearing, and is assisted by F. R. | Pital. 4 Spinning. In addition to Attorney Shaw, the phone company ts repre- |sented by H. D. Pillsbury, its vice president and general counsel, and |Otto Rupp, local counsel. Assistant Attorney General Ray Clifford is ap- | pearing for the state. | DOPE RUMORS EXAGGERATED | WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.— Holly. wood's drug evil has been officially pronounced “exaggerated” by Feder- | al Prohibition Commissioner Haynes, ‘reports to prohibition headquarters from Los Angeles today stated. weather would result in return @ |, Haynes and his lieutenant, Col. L. |the president's cold. G, Nutt, chief of federal narcotic ie who are touring the West, DYNAMITE ‘KILLS M yesterday made a survey of condi- tions at the movie colony PORTLAND, Ore, Jan, 245 |. They interviewed Douglas Fair} Salquist, 21, died here early |banks, Mary Pickford, Thomas J.| after being mangled Tuesday blasting stumps with dynamit | Ince and other actors und producers, | Thetr final pronouncement was that| his farm near Gresham, 10 from here. | there ts little foundation for reports | of magnified violations of prohibition | and narcotic laws here ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 24.-—ADpre mately $250,000 damage was by heavy wind and sleet which hé Georgia in its grip for the + hours. Public utilities thruout # state report heavy damage to plants and wires, : HARDING STILL ILL WASHINGTY Jan. 24. dent Harding was still confined 4 the executive mansion today orders from Brigadier General Sam yer, his personal physician, feared exposure to the in HOLLYWOOD, Cal. Jan, Damage estimated at $200,000 | caused by fire which early this mo ling destroyed the laboratory of # \Chester Bennett Productions. No tures were destroyed, as was at reported, altho a small amount film taken yesterday and in pro islature did this morning: | of de pment in the laboratory Senate—Introduced 17 bills, |was burned, according to @ Passed senate bill No, 16, estab: || Bennett, president of the company, Ushing a night court in al) cities over $00,000 population. Passed senate bill No, 24, relat | Better Pay for ing to the costs in partition su! Jud, ges Propo Passed substitute bill No, 84, |) relating to the certification of ag. || OLYMPIA, Jan, ~The sala riculture seed, of superior court judges in class Adjourned counties will be increased trom Thursday. to $6,000 by the terms of senate House--Introduced seven bills, . introduced by the committee Wednesday, BRIEF OUTLINE OF SOLONS’ ACTIVITY ON 24 NEW BILLS OLYMPIA, Jan. 24.--What leg: until 10 o'clock % has SLEET HITS GEORGIA : $200,000 STUDIO FIRE” BE BUILT NOW | Hurley-Mason Co. | firms tad i