The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 27, 1923, Page 1

HIST! HIST! National Guard Propaganda Spree aders Are Seeing Wild Bogie Men (EDITORIAL) A funny (tho he doesn’t know it) shadow-dodger who fears bogie men is sending a very, very secret, confidential, hist-hist letter to editors of newspapers in this state warning them of the dire consequences that are going to ensue if the legislature doesn’t pro- vide for $400,000 worth of National Guard this ses- sion instead of the $200,000 worth or less that the appropriations committees have agreed upon. This very, very secret letter contains a lot of highly-seasoned guff about desperate nests of wild radicals which are going to spring to arms overnight and overwhelm a peaceful commonwealth, ete., ete., unless we continue to spend heaps of coin on militia uniforms and salaries and armories. Where are these tens of thousands wild radicals? What has the National Guard ever in the past? How are we going to cut taxes unless we cut ex- penses ? How can we better cut expenses than to lop off some of the strut and gold braid of the National Guard? Surely $200,000 will provide sinews of war for the real workers in the organization. We have Camp Lewis to defend us against great emergencies; why continue in this day of necessary tax reduction the old pork barrel N. G. system? DAUGHERTY ag The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star iil | Ae ‘ontoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $6 to $9 heads jomach More ts for ative- _ VOL 1 ME 24. LE, V W ASH., SATUR IDAY, JANUARY 27, “1923. IN SEATTLE, Eight “Hurt by City Ambulance US, OFFICIAL SWITCH CARR, Legislature May Air N OLLI desperate, saved us from pay hig writing 0, Dat ant te ‘id, and SPEEDING Ch SMASHES IN CROWD OF Rush Victims t Hospital Afte Crowd Threa’ Driver Running full tit thru the at an estimated rate of 40 hour, a city ambulance crashed | a crowd of 40 or 60 people | board a Rainier Valley street ear | 9:30 Friday night, serio , two of them und stightly eral others before it had come halt. Driven by William Befder, the 4 bulance was on its way to 6919 8., the home of Mrs. , late Friday by @ jealous the car approached the Rainier ave. and Winthrop st, from 40 to 60 people were |from the Franklin high @ Boy Scout rally, the ear | slow down, and witnesses Columbia Basin Case IS DECISION OF SEVERYNS xccssetion Against’ Goodner, Yet Chief Considers) 100k no Action, Says Engineer | \Soldiers Charge, Traffic Head Is| BY BOB BERMANN Defiant Crowds Dan Seott, director of conservation and development, was Unfit; Auto C ‘lub informed more than a year ago that his lieutenant, Ivan in Hot Ba tt ] e \E. Goodner, had attempted to persuade Willis T. Batcheller 4 ay Protests had falsify his report on the Columbia Basin irrigation With Citizens | 6 United Press Summary . project, and paid no attention to the accusation. Ctarence G: This was Batcheller’s reply Saturday to a statement issued from Olympia by Scott, denying Batcheller’s charge Many cities of the Ruhr were that the conservation director had deliberately suppressed] under virtual martial law today 7 ‘ and the situation, after a fort- tors by police officials, wil! be trans: ur? pea tigre a the chan f Scott’ tatement,| Msht, of occupation by the ferred to a wuburhan precinct. | AS soon as he was informed of Scott's statement,| French, still was tense, with pos This haw virtually been decided Batcheller brought The Star a copy of a letter that he had| sibility of trouble. jupon by Chief of Police W. B.) written the former on January 18, 1922, in which the fol- More troops are marching | Severyns, who stated poles jay ov lowing statement appears: toward the newly occupied arena th til another)", - ‘ 0 Le el han’ eos “at boona to| “* * ® Everything went along smoothly for about Sia eee eee tone take charge of the traffic bureau.|@ month after my arrival, until it was seen that I was] around the entire Ruhr. Beveryn's sqeotnersiens fot reson making a real engineering study of the problem, when it nig ae a Vom & meeting of the ‘Ing county es ” was in an ug! i, following lrectors of the Automobile Club ot! Cen bi to me by Mr. Goodner ie as the pecdees banishment of 10 elty officials | Washington Friday afternoon, at) (Known as the “pumping project”) had been pronounce by the French, and a charge of which time a resolution was adopt-|infeasible, it would be unnecessary for me to prepare fur- ed declaring it was evident to the|ther figures but just write up a report turning it down. | ateceeensceteteetteaettetat ‘Daugherty Victim of Stroke, Which May Prove to Be Serious IIIness Palmer, of King, Introduces New cine lof the police traffic bureau ——— Measure ; |centar"ot the controversy over th alleged dinminsals of traffic viola Lieutenapt head and Howdy, folks! We see by tie papers that the Rubr valley is again in an uprabr LYMPIA the right jan. 3 wit? of or pursue lawful employment, use of abusive, indecent, profane or obscene when the crowd in| 4nguage in an attempt to intimidate began to sing |80y person from working, or to in- ‘Alles’ and ‘Die/timidate any member of the person's family, is prohibited In senate bill anyone | No. 84, Introduced Saturday by Sen. ‘ator Palmer of King county H ‘The bi is practically a new “anti. | picketing” and has a section | which prohibits the picketing, walk- ing by, or surrounding of premis Interference son to work, “There a news dispatch, the Koenigsaliee ‘Deutschland Uber Wacht am Rhine." " Some music would drive wild. was furtous rioting.” says The German bankers ought to be careful about the mark. Look at what happened to the Russian ruble | pe and the Austrian crown! SHAME: SHAME! Just as rioting and fighting breaks out in the Grasse Dels- platz and the Koenigsallee, the state legislature cuts the Nation- al Guard appropriation in half. eee If the National Guard ts abolished What This Country Needs: More licorice jellybeans in jellybean bags. "ee WARNING A local theater “more laughs than the nage net ‘way from if you don’t joae “es die from hysterical laughter. eee “There is no doubt that some of this local hooch is imported,” writes Brick Stilwell. “You can even smell the ocean.” eee Brick evidently hasn't heard that the bootlegwers have driven the milk men away from the pump. ef At Olympia: Snore and the world enores with you; Legislate and you tale alone, Now they talking of corset for men. Se nien will go to any lengths to get tight *e are ANCIENT HISTORY An Indian tribe 150. miles north of Fort Yukon is still praying for the health and happi- ness of Queen V ‘And we'll het they're still vot- ing for Brya eee ‘These Indians may be ungniight- ened, but down South they're train. ing the 1922 draft for the civil war. «oe “Heavy Frost Hits New York.”— Headline. Referring to Jess Willard? ose ‘The gink who said that a homely woman looks much better than a pretty man said a mouthful. eee At stingy men we wish to scof!, For instance, Relby Horter ; He shaves his flowing whiskers off To smoke Ms stogics shorter. cee ‘The legislature 1s going to protect the trilobite, the protozoa, the anem- one and the crustacea in the San Juan islands. How about the goeducks? rear TODAY'S EASIEST JOB Tending the flowers at Winter Garden. * the o-* After viewing a session of the city council, Lt’) Gee Gee says the council charpbers should be called “The Mess Hall.” “se The Coue treatment depends upon the triumph of the tmagination over | And s0, sometimes, does a poker. o-* short, the will. winning hand tn ¢ * The days are the nights are long, A chill t# often 4 But still the ladies, Appear with arma bare. n the air; ing strong, and shoulders oes THE RETORT COURTEOUS “You are beautiful but dumb,” we told Mrs, Homer Brew the other night. “You aren't she retorted, even beautiful,” No matter what opinion the folks on the 19th line may have of the street cars, they stand up for them every night The Cidest Inbabitont save he can (Turn to Page 4, Column 3) [with the intent to keep some person Or persons from working. ‘The bill was one of three intro duced at the morning session which adjourned 10 minutes after ft wi calied to order. ‘That the Saturday seaston is un- popular with a majority of the mem- bers was evidenced by the fact that it waa necessary to walt 10 minutes for a quorum, Senator bills 85 and for the establishment tion for feeble-minded tn Western Washington, No. 86 establishes an extensive budget system for the) state. ‘The senate will convene at o'clock next Henday « ateeneen. ERICKSON HAS NEW FARE BILL. | Fare and Transfer Tokens | in New Plan j 4 An ordinance to amend the Erick son five-cent carfare ordinance will be presented to the council Monday jby Councilman Oliver T. Erickson, | ;}on the recommendation of Railway | Superintendent D. W. Henderson, it} | was announced Saturday | The bill, which was being drawn| up Saturday by Corporation Counsel Thomas J. L. Kennedy, suggests the following minor changes: Substitution of transfer selling at four for 25 cents, to in-| clude the regular fare, instead of four for a nickel tokens to be addition to the cash fare. Sale of school children’s tokens at schools, the city hall, cated stores, ete, uting them thru « orn. Redemption of the eight and one third-cent token now in use in cash instead of accepting them as fare| under the new ordinance. Use of tokens selling at th: for 25 cents on the Lake Burien line outside of the city ‘limit« (not sug gested by Henderson). Acceptance of transfers from school fare of school children riding on the Seattle and Rainier Valley Jine, | tokens | CITY CARMEN GET THEIR PAY Warrants Cashed Following | Council’s Guarantee | Employes of way department the municipal rail were cashing pay warrants at banks of the Scattle| | Clearing House association Saturday | morning, followihg a delay of two| days while the city council and Rallway Superintendent D. W. Hen- derson were engaged in convincing Jassociation officials that the war rants can be retired within « reason able time The solution came noon, when, at the request of a} committee of bankers, the council in special session adopted a resolu tion agreeing to appropriate no money from the railway fund after! January 29, except for the purpose of liquidating outstanding allway warrants, until the warrants are re- tired. The council will alvo ergency ordinance to t 900 cash from the railway [tion reserve fund the |fund for the retirement of warrant The warr insured | Phursday, included the semi-monthly | payroll and other misewtt Deneer, und totaled $224.199.19 Both thin amount 9 a addi (Quen to Page 4, Column @) | Friday after. | an em to in question, OU OX an institu: Sawyer, | physician. | Sawyer to be threatened with « con-| | serou used in | re |who ye Mdirectors that arronts had been made | Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, who was stricken sy Tralange WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Attor- j ney Harry M. Daugherty, stricken with a “dangerous condi | ton of high blood pressure, with complications,” was orfered to his bed at his apartments in the Ward: man Park hotel Daugherty is under the care of! Brigadier General Sawyer, President | Harding's physician. Sawyer has | | prescribed a “state of complete rest | lest. graver complications ue ape | |plexy and possibly paralysis come.” The attorney general was-said by | General dition similar to that which af-| flicted ¢x-President Wilson while fighting for the league of nations. Daugherty has been ordered to re- linquinh all contact with the affairs | of his office Sawyer, however regime.of rest he bh abate. the attack scribed . and will enable the general to resume his duties “The attorney believes that the prescribed will dan attorney | eral hax been| laboring under a strain in connection | with official duties and has hed a dangerous condition of | }high blood pressure,” Sawyer said. “I ordered him ed Thursday for) @ complete re When asked whether Ncotbh Wees' a igitin ae dave or ae, BRIDE ROWS WITH KAISER?) DOORN, Jan. 27.—Relatives of the| ex-kaiser gathered at Doorn today In| celebration of Wilhelm's 64th birth. day, as reports from Dutch sources told of marital difficulties in the nee royal household. | No confirmation could ve obtained of pefsistent rumors that the former emperor and the Princess Becring, whom he married last fall with pon and ceremony, are living apart wil. helm and the princess were seen strolling in the garden yesterday The former crown prince among thove who arrived to celebrate | his father’s birthday his | Sawyer replied was Fear Contilinntinns in Chinese Tangle SHANGHAI, China, Jan Sun | Yat Sen, head of the Canton, or| South China, government of China, | rday announced he would leave Shanghal immediately for Can ton in another effort to unify China, | today suddenly canceled his plans. | reason for this was given, but it | was understood that he had received word from Canton, which may have jtold of a break in negotiations with ‘Teen Chun Heuan, les of the Kwang So faction, and that Tsen haa refused to agree to the visit of Sun Yat Sen to Canton. Serious complications were sel WEATHER _|| Tonight and Sunday, rain or snow; moderate perature Last 24 Maximum, 40. Mini a2. || Today noo jot Pu | the highway and disposed of without any official record. The resolution deplored the interference which Carr complained ot. Severyns intimated that he beld Carr guilty of violating the ctvil tervice rules governing the pollce de partment, in making public charges that reflected upon his superior of- pres,|"°r* Carr bas had command of the "Gen | wou bureau since it wan first created by Chief W. HL. Searing, three years ago. In refuting Carrés charges thet speeding and other traffic law viola- tion arrests had been dismimed by |the wholesale, Severyns quoted of fietal figures to show that traffic cases actunily tried in court for the |taxt nix months Increased 40 per cent over the name period in the preced- ing year. Following ts the resolution adopted ‘Thursday afternoon by the Club of Washington “Whereas, from all information be fore this orgunization it appears that many arrents for speeding and other violations of traffic regulations have been made and disposed of without any official record being m thereof. “Therefore, be it resolved, that the Automobile Club of Washington urge | upon Seattle authorities the enforce. ment of traffic laws and re “From expertence in Seattle other cities we believe th vision within the pec department is a necessity and that treff can only be properly enforced by the traffic division being free side interference and in a ma that recerd is made of all tions.” “ DRY NAVY FOR PUGET SOUND | Armed Speed _ Boat Fleet to Patrol Waters ations and viola. A squadron of six mosquito-like little » id-fire guns, and manned by two or three, soon will be maintain ing a constant patrol of the waters et sound, in an effort to make as & quart of Mumm’s ording to telegraphic Francisco Satur Seattle as dr champagne, & Avices from San | day George Hurlburt, acting divisional prohibition director, sad he had not beon informed that a definite deck ston had been reached in this matter but that had known for some scheme was under con I that the only thing back. was lack of | funds, ‘The squadron vording to Hurl- burt, probably will be up of | very «mall and very fast boats, high ly unilke the cumbe “Bagle boats” now in use in Southern wa | ters, which require a crew of a do: or so men and are capable of making only about eight miles an hour. mosquito squadre o dispatches said, are at established at San Far and made en Franel to and Po ‘Charged With Manslaughter | TACOMA, Jan. Manslaughter | charges will be preferred against George Schnettze who morning shot and killed W, V. Van Meter, Ta insurance agent, at [the former’s home on the Pacific highway, near Sumner Van Meter's auto wa wreeked on und when he sought ald from Sehneitw abusive, ! er ew him ‘with @ shotgun ended the argument, | King | county directors of the Automobile) ‘Discrepancies Found in City Light D Depar Ement |The scandinavian American traffic pro- | n out peed boats, equipped with rap- | rews of | “| Friday | 1 then explained to him that ft, would be impossible for me to pre pare any report unti! I had made the necessary computations. I de not understand, and perhaps you can 6 lighten me, aa to the reason why M Goodner does not want the facts ascertained.” To this, according to Batcheller, Beott made absolutely no answer. “This silence in the face of this ereye charge,” Rateheller “strikes me am proof conclusive that my acousations are sbsolutely true.” SCOTT MAKES A BLANKET DENIAL Scott's blanket denial, as made Saturday to a representative of The Star in Olympia, follows “Rateheller’y charges are absolute: ly false, and he knows this as well Jas I do, Every word of his report wan turned over to General Goethals wlien he made his investigation of {the project. Beside this, he actually talked over the matter with General hale and had every opportunity to explain to him any feature that we had held up, if such had been the case. I have no pervonal interest tn which project ta selected, but tried to put both matters fairly before the general, in order to let him make a sotentifie selection. These charges are ridiculous. I cannot them, I have neither sald, | full report te be published, nor of any other engineer who made an Investigation.” In reply to this, Batcheller said that Scott was trying to befog the towne. “He lays stress on the fact that he tnal did—so T explained in my ortg- statement to The Star. But the general was so surrounded by men who, for ulterlor motives, wished to push the gravity project, (Turn to Page 4, Column 6) Superintendent Ross Has Been Admits That Probe Fruitful 1 aeemenpens } Vague charges of money irregularities in the Seattle As the case stands, their | ship than it does as sincere | In either case, the facts. | eis The state hoard of account ancy’s investigation of the Se attle city light department has assumed such seri pro t that State Auditor ©. W. Clausen is planning to make a special trip to this city to take charge of the matte ke public the} findings, that he attle in and et , olty light While refusing to of hi admitted Saturday natur rs’ Clausen probably examir would come to 5 tion with the same time J uperintendent, ber of discre | | ri | of The Star | aturday, 1 ae will probably matter, but 1 do not | when. We are merely attempt | ing to get this matter straight | ened out, and, owing to present | Tecan give fi | information now.” | “Auditor Cla me of his intenth " Ross sald, true I will be glad to sec am ready to co-operate with the fullest extent in clearing | unpleasant matter,” | deck d that the dt | broug it to his attention thus far in-} clude several snall items that might be constr State shown me counts, ¢ years and ran of $15 to $ laddition to “but if the him and | him to up. this pancies ed as cash lo: | xaminers have thus far where several minor a vering a period of five ng in size from sums do not In these balance there is a concerns { $2,500. id ies claim no cash toy hown, but the method of handling | the transaction f tioned, ‘The Ught department head declared ' a claiin of appre In this 4 sto the wit ment are made from time to time by It is time for the vagueness ! Either the state examiners should dig out the facts and make their accusations explicit and un? able or else they should CLOSE THEIR MOUTHS. DITORIAL ) shortage and bookkeeping municipal lighting depart- state officials. to van rstand- mumbling impresses a by- stander more as propaganda against municipal owner- intention to right a wrong. the city of Seattle is entitled to have himself anxious to co-operate with state officials who are still working on the investigation “I have done everything to give them a free hand,” Ross stated. “Even to placing thelr man on the takin, » yearly inventory and pl n the payroll I know there are no cash losses, unless several of the maller items that fail to balance are later proven to be dishonest. There have been various rumors, the clear- ing up of whtel I will welcome, for the object of continual at- tacks, rumors that do not help the department's progress. Tam anxious that all errors, intentional we are rected,” Ros |Two Irish Rebels Face Execution DUBLIN, Jan, 27.—Two Irish reb els, convicted of carrying arms, were executed today at Maryborough jail. conchided, DO YOU KNOW THAT— You many when of a HOME THE AD tan save miles. of you are yourself walking in want USED CAR or by turning to STAR'S WANT COLUMNS FIRST. (0, Messenger, unin. | be brought to light and cor- | were Injured. was proclaimed, A state of siege MAYENCE, Jan. 27.—French soldiers and German civilians (Turn to Page 4, Column 1) DEPOSITORS TO RECOUP LOSSES May Pay Full Amount With the payment of an additional 10 per cent dividend, February 26, depositors of the Scandinavian American bank, under liquidation by John P. Duk state supervisor of banking, will have received 50 per cent of their deposits. yments on general claims against the bank will have reached 42 per cent, according to Robert Younger, auditor for the defunct bank, A total of $3,378,931.05 has been paid to depositors. The 10 per cent dividend next month will total ap- proximately $900,000, Younger said. ‘Total claims filed against the bank are $8,535,36.11, “The depositors of the bank ‘will receive almost the full amount of their claims,” Younger said dation expenses have been paid out of the income from bank invest- ments. About half of the assets of |the bank are still out and they are practically all good. “In addition the Hquidator is jbringing civil suits to collect from stockholders of the bank under the 100 per cent penalty clause. Only @ small part of this money has been collected to date and we expect to obtain almost the entire $1,000,000 stockholders are Mable for under the banking Jaws. General claims filed against’ the bank total $463,484.99, Of this sum Ja total of $1 or 32 per cent, has been paid. An additional 10 per cent will be paid February 26, The state bank gua tee fund has paid 8 per cent of the deposits received by depositors, a sum total QUAKE SHOCK REGISTERED CHICAGO, Jan, 27.—-An earth. quake of sharp intensity was istered on the seismograph of ‘the United States aweather bureau here today. . + 3 The shoo artes 2:07 a. m.| 4 he shocks started at 2:07 a m.| titive Strong, of F and lasted unti) 8:10, reaching maxi- mum intensity at 2:11 Weather bureau forecasters esti- mated the quake center as approxi- mately 1,155 miles southwest of Chi- cago. . »ASADENA, Jan. 2 tremor was felt in the southeastern part of this city about 11:10 last night. No dan ge ha ta the police. —A_ slight iddle-aged lad ‘wanted; on snd help me find Lightfritz, Mineral, with all her teeth my 9 POR Ohie Athens, 4 “Liqut: | reg: | s been reported | | gol who will pateh my pants! | not even sound its siren as i | near the mass of people the street car steps. Horror-stricken by the rushing ambulance, the after their injuries were Indignation ran high members of the throng rounded the ambulance the driver quaveringly that he thought the mass of pe would part to let him thru, plained that he threw on his: too late and had skidded crowd. Only the necessity for the more seriously ple prevented possible the driver, members of the 4 told The Star. No investigation of the has been ordered by traffic or the health department noon, but the growing of those in the imperiled Friday night is expected to the driver's suspension and @ ous investigation into the of the ambulance. Van Nice ts an employe of city water department, INSANE, KILLS MO OSKALOOSA, Ia., Jan. 27. fit of insanity, ag a result of shock, Lester Martin, 26, veteran, choked his mother to: here last night. “I've overcome. devil and killed my mother,” Mal declared, as he was led away to see PRISONER ESCAPES LOS ANGELES, Jan, 27.—Wi Hollingsworth, booked at the hospital on a charge of high bery in San Francisco, broke his leg chaing early this morning 7 caped. FIVE KILLED. IN auto CUMBERLAND, Md, Jan, Five persons, two men and women, were killed today, when | automobile plunged over creek bridge and dropped 35 feet, WOULD AID FARMERS. WASHINGTON, Jan, 27.—1 ers would be able to borrow up: $16,000 from the federal land and in special instances the centr “a j board could authorize loans up 25,000, under the bill by: reported today by the house and currency committee, BOSS FLEES TO CUBA, CHICAGO, Jan, 27.—Fred political “boss,” has fled to wag learned today, following his t dictment on charges of fraud corruption by the county grand which investigated the | board, Twenty others in the indictment, Born, 1o Roy Kenyon and wife, a baby ginh to Bart Kennody and wife a girl; te Willian Dunn, a girl ‘rain, Ohio, Tunes-Herald, included