The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 26, 1923, Page 1

Sica OS gs ait NATIONAL GUARD—A GOOD PLACE TO SAVE $200,000 The two appropriations committees of the legislature are using good sense in cutting the National Guard allowance from $ $150,000 or $200,000, WEATHER Tonight an Temperature Maximum, 41 Today noon, 3%. s Home Brew Howdy, folks! Aren't you just worried sick thinking about what to happen to the traffic Yep, we feel fine, too, eee that he some Mayor Brown adm times gets hix friends off wher are arrested for breaking a traffic law, but so far Dr. Hawkins hasnt called him up. . sement Dr. Edwin J Positively Guar Against Pyorrhea and Arrest.” TODAY'S DE! ITION (By Brick Stilwell) Windshield: A piece of heavy glass covered with traffic slips. eee avery own Suggested Ad Patron of th Dental C ¥ inte Lieut. C. G. Carr, head of the traf fic division, says {t is wrong for mo- torists to disregard yellow traftic| slips. Gosh, we thou: were Christmas curd: departmen t those things | from the police | At that, nothing makes a motorist | so mad as to have the police plaster} so many stickers on his windshield that he can’t see thru it, one There, Uttle girl, Don't you cry Your case wil By end by. de dismissed Bin tntrodveed in the legislature would make tobacco dealers pay an annus! license fee of $50, but t farm bloc will oppose dineriminatory legislation against the cabbage grow: era. eee “The Flaming Hour,” at the Co- umbia, ts bilied a# « drama of mar ried life. ‘The flaming hour must refer to the time when hubby comes home all bly eee FINE! The state senate passed a law yesterday permitting court fines to be paid on the installment plan. Patronize Judge John B. Gor- don—Your Credit Is Good, eee Under the new Inw, a dollar a day will keep the sheriff away. eee But ft will be a long time before they hang murderers on the install ment plan. eee One of the unwritten laws vat Olympia {s that a legislator who ix/ unfriendly to corporation Interests ts compelled to pay for his own meals and buy his own cigara. ee SAY IT WITH FLOWERS The Kind Words clab holds its annual dinner tonight. We re erived an invitation and the kind words were “Admission $1.50.” eee The Kind Words club geta ite! name from the fact that alt kinds of | words are used at its dinners. eee At the hi Jinks tonight prominent | politicians will be thoroly roasted. | Some of them need it—they're pretty | raw. owe Little bits of parcets From the corner grocery Keep the average feller In @ state of poverty. eee There's many a slip betwixt the stick and the lip, comments Li'l Gee Gee, as she wipes off a faint red streak running from her mouth to the lobe of her left ear. cee FLYING FLIVVERS this is nothing. In King county automobiles without wings are continually trying to fly off bridges. We know child labor ts tmmoral but we just can’t help wishing we| could get Little Homer Brew, Jr., to} chop some kindling sometimes. eee Legislators from north and south Are now grinding their ares; However, we do not expect Any cutting down of taxes. eee soldiers stationed In the; Ruhr valley will be glad to get back | to Paris for a real meal after eating #0 much food in delicate Hesen. ee POPULAR SONG “I Hoye 1 Meet You When I Get Where You Told Me to Go.” . ° French | | | Talk of running W nin 1924 in a induce Altan &. a candidate? cee | Our Idea of a big week In Seattle! when Mary Picfftord'’s first hus-| nd is exhibiting at one theater and He Chaplin's first wife is show lam Jennings ight bat why} not arker to be come ts ha may keep saxophone — for Suppression of Saxbphone Capitol Hill Branch, 3 This state in past years J, rainy mod Last tt Mir UPROAR THRU RUHR REGION __ INCREASING! ‘Report Town Is i in| State of Siege After Riots by} Angry Germans} United Press Summary The French outlined the in- dustrial Rube with an are of steel today, past which no fuet for German sources may be moved, Extensive troop movements were reported along the new “border”; strategie points on east-bound railway lines were selzed; the customs barrier was strengthened with machine guns; field guns were trained on several cities where rebel- Vion seemed smouldering. Many arrests were made in Dusseldorf as a result of last night's disturbances in which crowds stoned French troops and two civilians were trampled in a cavalry charge. dectared in the Rhineland city. The British cabinet met to consider withdrawal of troops from the Khine, which Bonar Law was reported to favor, while at Paris the minister of public works Inid hefore Premier Poincare the possibilities of ex- tending oceupation of the Ruhr over an indefinite period of years. : By Carl D. Groat ESSEN, Jan. 26.— France today | ordered her steel’ ring around the! Ruhr hermitically sealed as punish ment for outbreaks of violence against French in various and tast night. The blockade line ran thru Dort mand, Castrop and Recklinghausen fn an are of bayonets past which no} coal was permitted to move. Troops | were moved up to reinforce the cus-| toms line; guards were pla rattway lines; all night long F cavalry clattered thru the streets of Kiasen; troop movements were partly | shielded by censorship; everything woe quiet at dawn. No fuel whatever ts to be per mitted to pase from the mines of the Ruhr valley to German soure ou! side, according to French reports. Simultaneously with this reported restriction, French guna, tanks machine guns struck warlike atti-| tud about aren and Dusseldorf. | cities whore people showed signs of physical resistance to the invasion. From passive sabotage, the Ruhr mood turned Thursday to petty violenes, searcely — re- strained, French cavalry was forced to charge a crowd at Dus- seldort and two Germans were trampled. At Essen last night there was a succession of rows between overheated civilians and French patrols, in which stones were hurled by the former. Bloodshed was averted only by (Turn to e 3, ,, Column 9 State of Sine Is Reported in Trier | BERLIN, Jan. 26.—A state of siege has been declared in Trier as a result of anti-French de- monstrations by the German population, according to an un- confirmed report today. as Treves, ix in the Rhineland | It is a city with a population of | about 40,000. | __———————— The Markets Want Your Business TOMORROW } Very ¢ made y patr The ii Just wh compare special induc vinced of their sincerity Turn to Pages 16 || and 17 in This Issue || REAL THE THE MARKET ADS IN |) STAR EVERY FRIDAY has spent far more petetettettiiiaiiaaa aaa The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its neare The Seattle Star | before mone 400,000 to The t days” a’ od Clase Matter May MAYOR BROWN ASKED TO FIND “REAL MEN” FOR LONELY GIRLS || Here's @ real chance for ‘eal men. Ma the followin Seranton, F “L've been in MEN. T ere who quan (white) b some r Brown has just recetved gActier from B. Floyd, told there are more than w > here na few young would like to ° some n 20 a men it It's REAL your men nyone quaint * not a a fow ra Matrimonial agency; Just lonesome girls POSSE HUNTS | HOLDUP PAIR Chase Bandits Who Rabbed Workers in Lumber Camp A pitched battle expected at any moment, an armed posse was closing in Friday morning on two desperate highwaymen who held up the Florence Log- ging Co."* camp near Monroe Thursday night. The denperacoes were believed to have been cornered shortly after the holtup, following @ wild chase im which more than a Gallen shots Were exchanged, but, knowing that it would only mean « useless sacrifice of human life, the man-hunters de cided not to try to capture them in the dark, but to content themselves with simply encircling them for the night. At daybreak the ponre started clos Ing in, and it was thought certain that they would have their quarry | by noon. The man-hunt was being conduct ¢4 with the utmost caution, becaus the possemen realize the desperate | character of the bandits and they were prepared to shoot to kill at the first show of resistance. The holdup was committed with uch deliberation and boldness that the possemen need they have professional desperadore to deal with The bandits prepared for the rob bery so carefully that they even cut 1 telephone wires in the vicinity tng are con ‘KEEP OUT THE JAP, IS PLEA | Oriental Immigration Scored by Author “We munt either keep the Japa and other nonassimilable races out of America or reconcile ourselves to the eventual disappearance of the Anglo-Saxon and other white races from the face of the earth. There ts no halfway mea open. There can be no compromise, Powerful ele mental forces that lay at the root of races are in a giant conflict the white race must win or surren der to « lower animal order.” So declared Lathrop Stoddard, In known author and atu nt of anthropology, who arrived tn Seattle Friday, to fulfill a speaking engagement under the auspices of the teachers’ lecture bu at Plymouth church, Fifth and University st., Friday night “Help ua of the East to hordes of low-easte South Europeans and away from our shores and we will help you k Jap oddard pl 1. “Each equally dangerous to the white race Saxon and h people who Inhabit America should let the Jap know that n't want him here,” Stoddard He's a foreigner, come to steal our country. Tet him know it.” | Northern Pacific Asiatic Ruro. pe Will Sell Bonds! WASHINGTON interstate comm jon to. day authorized the Northern Pacific ad to issue not exceeding $17 9,000 of refunding and mortgage er cent improvement bonds. Ten million dollars of the bonds sold at not Jes than t of par and accrued inte eds to be used for the p At of various organizations, The balance of the placed in the com Jan ‘ce commis 26.—The are to be the pro total insue is ‘a treasury CHELTENHAM, England, Jan 26 ‘To the greatest sport in r was the offered hunting by Capt, Walter ¥. will than an hour before was killed riding to hounds. the toast to ‘Toss: leas on militia than v aspect at Olympia reminis “| submitted and | keep the} to be| j ) its needs, duilding of armories for a ses t Washington. 2 wdor the Congress Maroh , tIDAY, JANU AR RY 26, 26, 1928. UPPRESSED! $10,000 N UM TAKEN | BY POLICE Two Men Caught in Raid After Many Shots Are Fired by Officers) Captured after a fusiliade of revolver shots, two men were held by the police Friday, charged with possession of a | , fargo of booze valued at near | ly $10,000, which was seized in | @ sensational raid en the Con. sumers’ Fuel vo. dock at the West Waterway. One man, said to be the ringleader of the largest rum smuggling ring in the Northwest, escaped thru « hail of bullets, minus hat, coat and shoes. The capture—the largest made tn | Beattie for years—was successfully | carried out at 5:45 a m. under covery of darkness, when Police 1 George H. Comstock and P Robert Kernan, Thomas Feek, H. Kimery, George Reynolds, 0. Redden and Guy Bowers, after an all night vigil on the dock, found in a garage a huge motor fe Pra with 129 cases of the whisky. The pats vee gta camouflaged with cordwood snd sawdust. The officers walted until two men Approached in the darkness, They had just left « «mali shack nearby, lA» drew near the office sprang forth with drawn guns snd | demanded “Hands upt One of the men, barefooted and bareheaded, leaped over a woodpile Jand dodged a hail of shots, managing |to climb up a wooden rallroad trestle, |@here a few moments later, he w [found and handcuffed. He gave the idward Gay, 26, truck =|BANKS AGREE TO ‘CASH WARRANTS: Clearing House Demands | Council Guarantee Municipal ratiway warrants issued | Thureday to meet the semi-monthly | Payroll will be cashed by the banks | of the Seattle Clearing House associ ation if the city council wil} guaran | tee that all rail funds will be devoted | to retiring the warrants, the associa tion decided shortly before noon Fri | day, after a conference with Coun ciimen EB, L. Blaine and C. B. Fite gerald and Rallway Superintendent D. W. Henderson. The provision that the $41,000 in the depreciation fund be turhed back | fund, hy other man, A. watchman for the fuel yard, to arrest quietly, He wan taken with Gay to the garage. Meanwhile, a third man who had been asleep in the shack, appeared in the doorway, hat fess, contiess and barefooted. He was instantly commanded to surrender, but Instead, leaped outside, raced to a ladder lead- ing under the dock, and made his escape underneath by run- ning along in the shallow water on the beach. This man, according to police, is believed to be Roy Olmstead, former police officer: His hat and papers found in the shack bore Olmstead’s initials and name, police declared. When grilled by Chief of Police W. B. Severyns, Friday noon, refused to answer questions, further |the warrants with mone: sferre: |than to admit he was the driver of ge ago pity eth aan ica the truck. Miller, however, told Sev eryns that the booze cargo belonged | |to Olmstead and Tom Clark, former Seattle policemen, who are accused | of being large wholesalers in liquor. | | Miller, Severyns said, confessed that six cargoes had recently | landed the dock, and that he re ceived $20 for each cargo he allowed (Turn to Page 7, Column 8) iS STRAY BULLET WOUNDS YOUTH whi night to the ratiway to be used tn ceipts of the line be applied for the same purpose was accepted by the councilmen present ‘The council was to’ meet at 2 o'clock ® proposal of the clearing house committee, Fitz | merald announced before the session Gay | that he was confident the agreement 34Y | will be approved tion fund was considered tmprac ticable by the council and It was re. jected when it was submitted Thurs- day afternoon. Expect Arrest in been SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jon diction that an indictment returned by the San grand jury tion Into the mysterious death of |Frit2t Mann, dancer, was made at |the courthouse here today. The proceedings of the grand jury were guarded with secrecy jand no official who is connected with the case would make tatement regarding the latest in the probe 26.—Pre will be Diego county 1 playing tn the woods near| hureday evening, 1 12, of 9012 18th ave. 8. W struck and seriously wounded stray bullet from a hunter's The boy was taken to the clty| hospital | The boy told police that with Billy | Morse, he had been looking for a |sling-shot when he heard a shot and felt a stinging pain in his abdomen. He ran to his home, and fell on the |floor, The boy's condition is causing physicians much concern. Legislature to Hark to Cry of Lowly Protozoa YMPIA, Jan, 26.—The trilobite, the plea of the ane: the protozoa and the crustacea have been heard in the legislature at last Their protection would be gus anteed in the future by a bill to be introduced in the by Rep. Capron, of San Juan asure will prohibit the ting of sea specimens on the es of the San Juan Islands, Pp excepted Phe bill ts pr University of Washi maintains a school for biologic study in the islands that h been hampered in research work by cimen school is destined to. be of the most import world, according to charge | Admiral Line Has | Vessel Allocated Advices rec shipp g notif, amst “ Hocat Admiral Oriental line, mak past month that 4 to the company vice to the Orient is the Bakerafield. an 1,800-ton fre 12 knots, She in to be pi on the Japan and {south China run and her acquisition by t business between the Seattle. The operates ery of th sea mone, ived from the United by the Pa Friday ny of an. morni | other st ed to the ing three within tl | have t tors ‘The p hav en alloca pted by the which al new liner Orient ¢ Admiral Oriental 13 and five combina ships. was made inereastr recently gatherers f and line eight frel passenger and freight necessar become one ant in the professors in | ion or two assumed a pork-barrel ent of the postoflice graft of “the good old retiring the bonds, and that daily re-| from the bond and interest redemp- | Fritzi Mann Case! following its investiga: | We don’t nee that we do neec quirements of e d much National Guard, and we don’t need the little 1 very greatly. A small sum will cover the actual re- nough organization to serve all requirements. True economy dictates that the rest be SLASHED. t competitor A grand jury is probing the mysterious whipping by @ masked mob at Goose Creek, |Tex., of Mrs. R. H. Harrison| |(above) and R. A, Armand) (right), The couple were kid- naped at night, taken to a} \lonely prairie and flogged so ‘severely both were confined to their beds for days. No flogging. FLASHES DRY MAN NOT GUILTY HELENA, Mont, Jon The first trial of O. H. P, Shelley, repub: ean national committeeman for Montana, and former prohibition di- rector of Montana, for bribery in connection with his activities whil holding the latter office, came to an end late yesterday. A jury found | Shelley not guilty. The se an indictment making ges, opened today eee CHICAGO MAYOR RESTS CHICAGO, Jan, 26. Thompson, for Jon cha t years republican », announced today he would not be a candidate for re election. In the statement announc ing his withdrawal from the re Thompson declared that eight years was “long enough to be and that needed a rest ENVOYS LEAVE JAPAN TOKYO, Jan, 26.—M. Hanthara |newly na Japanese ambassador |to Washington, will leave Tokyo for | hi January 27 on the li Shinyo Maru, it was announced her today. The following day American Ambassador Warren, recently re | signed Gee eland for for anyone mayor he the . | FORMER ENVOY DIES | SHANGHAI |Retnsch, former American a to China, died here early ter four months’ {lines United States, . today, Execute 3 More Irish Insurgents LONDON, Jan. ‘Three | rebels were execut at (Parsonstown), Kings land, according to the | Standard’s Dublin correspondent, Irish day 4 reason can be assigned for the| William Hale{ will leave on the President | Birr | HOME Til ~ TWO CENTS IN (N SEATTLE, Columbia Basin Facts Covered Up by Officials ‘Scott Refuses to Make Public Document Showing Grand Coulee Project to Be Superior BY BOB BERMANN Dan Scott, director of the state department of con jtion and development, is deliberately withholding vital i \formation on the Columbia basin project, to gather the state spent nearl 5,000 of public funds. | Willis T. Bateheller, Seattle consulting engineer, who retained by the state in 1921 to make a comprehensive jvey of the project, made this charge Friday, foll ott’s refusal to permit a representative of The Sta lexamine the Batcheller report, which is secretly on fil | Olympia. 4 According to Batcheller, this report shows that the gation project could be completed for about two-thirds cost of the plan now sponsored by the Hart admin |but that it has been ignored because of powerful which have brought pressure to bear against it. High’ in Batcheller’s charges are: yur Ivan E. Goodner, then chief engineer of the Basin survey, and now reclamation engineer for department of conservation and devi while he was preparing his report and attempted to to falsify it. HAT Director Scott misapplied public funds when he over $15,000 to Gen. G. W. Goethals as part payment for ing ® survey of the Basin project. HAT General Goethals was misled by Goodner and other kane men with private axes to grind, and that, as a result, report is warped and inaccurate, HAZ the Goethals plan for developing the project would almost immediate benefit to the town of Ritzville, Director Scott lives, whereas the town would not benefit later under Batcheller's more economical plan. Batcheller’s charges are considered so grave that # attle chapter of the American Association of Engin taken the matter up and letters are now on their Chairman Landon, of the senate appropriations commiti Chairman Dav of the house appropriations commi Chairman Morthland, of the senate committee of tion and irrigation, and Chairman Banker, of the house mittee of reclamation and irrigation, urging them to su a bill appropriating $7,000 for the publication of the g | pressed report. |Report Favors Pumping Plan Batcheller’s report favors what is known as the pum project, under which the Columbia river would be d near the head of the Grand Coulee and water pumped above this dam into the lake created in the Grand Coule whence it would flow to the Columbia basin area, }method would mean about equal benefits for Spokane on east side and Seattle and Tacoma on the west side. | Goethals’ plan, known as the gravity project, contemp diverting the flow of the Pend Oreille river above Newp east of the Idaho boundary, whence it would flow by grat | to the lands to be irrigated. This method would ca: project directly thru Spokane and would be of benefit ch to Spokane and Portland until the entire project had | practically completed. Says Goodner Urged Faked Findings ‘The chronological story of the sup- pr report, as related Friday to The Star by Batcheller at his home at 1848 N. 61st st., follows “The 1921 legislature appropriated 0,000 for the distinct purpose of investigating all angles of the Co: lumbia Basin project and publication of the report. I was retained to make. this investigation August 6, 1921. | dollars was needed and only was subscribed by private int Director Scott, ignoring the that the money had been a) ated for the distinct purpose making and publishing my | made up the difference by into the $50,000 appropriated made it¢ impossible for Scott publish the report as he been directed, Thus the report has been kept absolutely secret —in spite of the fact that $8iye (Turn to Page 7, Column §) er GUARD LEGATE DEATH SUSPEC Possible Murderer Is Kep Under Surveillance Close surveillance was being by the police Friday on a Seattle who is suspected of the murder: Patrolman Charles ©. Legate, tly afterward T was ap: proached by Goodner, who asked me to, turn down the pumping proposi on without making any further in. because 1 engi Spokane declared it ation, some | ne had ui TRIED TO PORT I replied, of course, that {t was impossible for me to prepare any kind of report without making the |necessary designs and estimates on ch to base my conclusions and| Jalso that, even if T were willing to| ‘ake a dishonest report, it would be of no avail because I woud be ked up by federal engineers, who would be sure to discover the dis “From that tlme on Goodner exert: lod every effort to stop the report If he had succeeded, the report would have been worthless and all the} body was found h 17, 192%, money would garage at 12th ave, and Maiti: | wasted, naturally Chief of Polide W. B. Severyns report is Worse than no report at all, nounced that several new clues report that the! been discovered Thursday night, {pumping project cost only| A new angle was given the m: jabout two-thirds much the! investigation when Immanuel We [gravity project, was finally com nferred with police’ officials | pleted, and I submitted it to the de.| tive to the murder, Weitz was a | partment of conservation and devel-| prominent witness before the grand: opment on February 10, 192 jury and coroner's inquest, Weits “Meanwhile, however, the agita-| recently arrived in Seattle from Oks | tion had arisen to bring Gen,|lahome, where he went immediately a hake a sur-| after the murder. He is in the Goethals out here te vey of the project, Twenty thousand business, showing would