The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 31, 1923, Page 14

CHARGES GRAFT Says U. S. Men Conspire With Fur Dealers RY W. PORTERFIELD WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 hearing today before merce Jones, chairman former Smithsonian Assistant Speech at “grossly untru Tepresented facts" the government is making a profit Of & million a year net out of the furbearing seal trade. Eliott further charges collusion Detween government agents and so walled experts from St. Louls fur houses who go to Pribiloff island . every year under government per mission. He said that the increase Si damaged skins from 10 per cent Winder old native and government Agents arrangenrent increased to 50 per cent in 1922 and this tremendous increase ts only accountable by the theory of collusion. He says further tho present Plan inaugurated by Secretary Red. Meld, requiring the government to Sell skins dressed and dyed instead of in salt, as provided for by London Classification, opens way for endless graft tn letting out contracts for dressing and dyeing and that the gov @rnment in this way Is being robbed @f miltions. He also declared that, mstead of the government making a Profit of @ million it actually made But a few thousands last year, also that Hoover and Huston knew it ‘and that they have resisted all ap- Peals to correct the situation. Elliott does not charge officials or @epartment with anything but care lessness and inefficiency, but says they are permitting the government to be robbed and are not raising a committes, r Heary W scientific expert institute, Hu last June Secretary wattle was pful und utterly mis. when he said that hand to stop it. The committee evi: | Gently is favorable to the bill and will proventy ret repert i a {t out soon. SHOW MOVIES IN DAYLIGHT Mercer Island Perfect New Machine Backing the'r Small model that demonstrates the Principal, G. W, Lightfoot and Mar- _¥in Cohn, Mercer Island inventors, Snnounced Thursday they had per fected a new daylight motion pic ture machine. The model is said to be a radical Geparture from other inventions de- signed to show motion pictures by @aylight, in that it requires no Screen to reflect rays from the 5 Projector. Pending advice from thelr patent “Attorneys, Lightfoot and Cohn de- lined to reveal details of the model, ‘but the principle eliminates the ‘@feen and the necessity for semi- The rays from the film © Machine are projected thru absolute @aricness in a small box built behind | iie-screen, and the picture shines Inventors | assertion with aj Te ee es ES ee ee a Oe ee es ee ee ee ee ee ee 2 2 5 67 ee THE SEATTLE STAR Mother Searches for Girl = Mrs. Lily Neimi Gorton and her mother, Mrs. Amanda | Neimi, of Aberdeen, who are in Seattle determined to find | some clue to the fate of Elma Joffray, girl bride, whose dis- appearance mystifizs Seattle police. Photo by Price & Carter, Star Btaff Photographers BY JOHN W. NELSON | to visit a sister there, She never Grief-stricken and haunted by | Visited the sister, Complaint was the spectre of a murdered made to Deputy Prosecuting At- daughter, Mrs. Amanda Neimi | torney Ralph Hammer three of Aberdeen returned to Seat- days later by Mrs. Nelmi, who tle Tuesday to renew the search camo to Seattle to see her for: pratiy 1t-yenneid. Bima daughter and husband. Neimi Jolfray, who disappeared Jotfray was arrested on a charge here December 28, five days |0f contributing to the delinquency of after her marriage to Markus |® minor. Thin girl Inter proved to Joffray, local tamale manu. |bave been married two ye Jot opel k |fray posted $1,000 bail, but was re | arrested a few days later when Elma With Mra, Neimi was Mrs Sihoa Re mar Ste akterented to Wola. Gce B Sacome : om ain release on bail again, but his pane; xeskies, ine Aberdeen attorneys were told that he would he be rearrested. A second and more was filed against him implicating Joe Are. Liny hter, at 160 Tuesday afternoon the two were present in superior court when Markus Joffray entered a plea of not |guilty to a statuatory charge on| This which the police are holding him | which pending a full Investigation of the | baffled disappearance of his girl wife. |ty girt Joe Joffery, associated with | manufy |Markus in the tamale business, also} “My daughter would have written entered a not guilty plea when|'0 me If she was allve.” Mr brought to court to plead Tuesday. | Neimi, mother of the girl Joe in free under $3,000 ball, | Wednenday. = Bs “My sister would have told me Elma Neimi Joffray completely! what sho is doing and where she mystified police when, on December! i. hiding if she ix still. alive,” 38, she disappeared. Five days! Lilly Neimi Gorton d¢clared. earlier, Elma and another girl wan- “We have been pals, Police say dered Into the tamale parlor operated| she Is hiding 40 she will not have by Joffray at 1324 Old Fifth ave. to return to the Everett deten- Police say this resort has been used) tion home. I would not tell on as a “girl trap.” | her, and she would not be afraid For three days the girls were given | to write to me if she could.” food and iodging by Joffray, then} ‘The sister of Elma who realdes In Joffray and Elma were married by | ‘ Portland never received any com jJudse John B. Wright. Two days/ munication from the girl. No one later Elma remained away from} who formerly knew her, none of her jhome all night. A bitter quarrel | friends, none of her family, bas re- broke out between Joffray and his| ceived « lino. Detectives who worked th Joftery, his partner is the history of the case, Hammer admits, has him What happened to the pret wife of the Mexican tamale ie protected | Girl Hypnotizes Thief in Store 7 learned FIGHT BREWS ON ROAD B ILL| OLYMPIA, J PARIS, leur from he ber Jan Mile who Hortense hypnotiam father while @ ehild, turned ‘in an odd way who attempted to hold up her in the Rue de la Paix the thief was holding his revolver in her mly brought all her ar upon him s eye until she abso lied him, she told him lower the weapon and 1 him to the street turned over to the face whe ¢ will force to steadily tn b cont Gazing lute ot $8 te highway anuary, February Minority sniper Ited the wooeeded he wa Thief Ransacks 4 Relief Fund 3ox tThe| A. cold-hearted thief Tuesday in.| Bight entered the home of I. Schepp nut, 176 1th ave, and after ransack Ing the place, broke open box con taining $15 cash for the Jewish Re ef fund, The thug escaped with the March temporarily in having discussion ne bill postponed untt! today barbwire thrown up by in the for questions « portion of the $300, expended In pureh hipyard ite he wanted to know hould be nceded of truc ported to be comir be distributed recently urgenta Wa m of very pointed to why a large 00 was to be the They why storage space | within a short time here for large | which are re | kill s ned which about the at axing Sloan re also ceiaes fendi ete number the ct an but much gravel into its to in crank measure intend ane an is pos Prof. Russell to Ww While |, ) fir fore S Ww v elt House insurgents do not hope tol ing for Seattle via the Bothell high-| ing to the ne night Tell of Russia William Russ r of bus (mete and There “BRIAR BUSH” ORPHEUM HIT s adm pn at Pi < . ed We y he , the club Mansfield. lent Warre V J een, the uton elve al instructions from the club be notion at Winnipeg and int at Milwauke John 8. Booth ts Tarkington earch for Two Everett Bandits were Tarkington, die ‘ednesday for two bandits held up an E d rubbed him of $65, rge touring car, head: | searching who late erett ter Harding between Ch pts job and tzen o Arica protoce eaping ine - Lord Arthur pioneer Y London fol wife a One of the mei powed an a lisplaying a star, sheriff at Piverett man, accord AT THE BON MARCHE HAI OY gina c= I ptation destre forts of and troops. father of arbitrator Peru on Tacna Fitzgerald Risgaira, | Ci ae a of of the ft p off Cape hip Cap P American Fountainbleau-Avon, bre ed ple v. Hende ompany, has the ed t of Li firemen, Flore fax Allen plays the daughter Marguerite part indian Arthur Allard {# Lord Don Flora Hay | little village ts centered. “Postie.” ards is “Kate” of the “€ finds herself in love with Rev rmichael, played by Vaughn 3 James Aden, Kathryn Northeutt i prominently cast upon whom the trouble Fr van ts cast @ asties,” 9 dies tn bss gan. 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Using a 250-watt electric lamp, the ‘inventors demonstrated with a news ‘Teel. The picture stood out with Startling clearness, altho daylight _ Atl several shades of artificial light _Were played upon {t. E. G. Lightfoot, prother of the in- ventor, is credited with niding in Perfecting mechanical details of the model. ‘The inventors believe the machine can be marketed and will prove of incalculable benefit in the hands of salesmen who wish to give first hand | Views of their products, in schools, open air amusement places and, @ventually, in theaters. METROPOLITAN ae THIS WEEK on the case two weeks failed to find leave. He agreed. Late on the/|a single clue as to the girl's where jafternoon of December 28 the two | abouts. Went for an automobile ride. Elma} But the mother and sister have |has not been geen since. not given up hope. They will con Joffray claims that be took his | tinue t arch until Bima ts found, child wife to the train and | or pre is unearthed that she is bought her a ticket to Portland | dead. ‘Big Interests Attempt | to Defeat Power Bill BY FIELDING LEMMON OLYMPIA, Jan. 31.—Seattle bore the brunt of an attack Tuesday) night by representatives of private} power interests In an effort, It is |charged, to arouse animosities and Prejudices of the cow counties, to defeat the power billy before the | legisiature. Charges that the Seattle ing to arouse sectional feeling. “IT resent Judge Post,” Alien said, “and I believe it was a deliberate attempt to get over a little venom on the cow countios against Seattle.” Judge Post declared that the bill Was nothing more than a socialistic move and added, “I am forced to believe that about 75 per cent of tion, thru the force of its Jarge|geattle must be sockalistic.* representation, is trying to cram|of questions were fired down the throats of the people alwhen he had finished bill they do not want, were made by Judge F. T. Post, attorney for the Washington Water Power Co., ot Spokane. delega- at the judge frost,” Post said in answer to a | question of Thomas Murphine, “Is ‘this going to be the stato’), Then why are, of Washington or the state of Se. |{riehten “} abont it? attle?” the judge shouted at the) “°% # him. crowd that packed the house cham-| Ww ; fear the principle of social ber for the open hearing on the|!#™,” Post declared. |power question. Charles Heighton jumped to his | Representative Pliny Allen jump. | feet snd asked, “Judge, do you mean ed to his feet when the judge had|t? tell us that you are down here finished, with the counter charge|‘T¥ing to protect tho legislature from that the Spokane man was attempt. | %cialiam? you fellows so Murphitig shot y using Golden est patiee you too can have the same pleasing cup fee as those who daily serve Tho judge refused to answer, “It is almost unbellevable anyone, even Seattle, would the nerve to ask for this power bill, the judge said at one place. When he declared that ho believed | the bill could not be passed if put to a vote, Mark Reed arose and ask, “How many counties gave a ma- Jority vote to the certificate of neces. aity bill last election?” Post said that he didn’t know, but added: “The certificate of necesaity was o good thing and it was foolish of the people to turn it dow: Chief Engineer Uhden of the | Skagit project took the floor after Judge Post and refuted certain state ment# made by the Judge concerning the Skagit project. He also expoued Inconsiatencies in the arguments of Norwood Brockett, Puget Sound Electric attorney, who preceded Judge Post. that tor county, took the floor and further tion as designing, “It a King county member says | he will help you, look at him with | suspicion Bishop declared. Brings Suit for Andrio = ‘Traverso Wednesday against B. Antonio for $5,450, charging that Antonio an. sauited him with a plece of pipe at Seventh ave, and Prospect st, No. vember 28, 1922, Inflilcting grievous personal injuries, A bone was brok on in Traverso's right arm and an other La ils right log, it le alleged, brought guilt the remarks made by! Dozens | | “I believe the Skagit project is a| | have! As a olnax to the hearing, Sena. | William Bishop, of Jefferson | denounced the King county delega. | Alleged Attack 1,596 Pairs Men’s Wool and 9 WoolMixed Socks—Pair 49C Imported and domestic, gray, Oxford and fancy heather mix- Black, natural, Sizes 9% to 12. On the Main Aisle, Upper Main Floor—The Bon Marche medium heavy ribbed style. tures, 106 Pairs of Silk and Fiber Stockingy—a Pair 950 Semi! 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Armour’s Star Eastern Hams, half or whole, Ib, 31¢, Ripe Olives, pint 19¢, Creamery Butter, churned, th. 54¢, Delicatessen Upper Main Floor— The Bon Marche Del Monte Tomatoos, sctid pack, 16¢. Paul's Skookum lid Packed Blackberries, 11¢ can. Sour, Sweet or Chow Chow Pickles, 9¢ bottle, Del Monte Grated Pineapple, No, 2 can, 18¢; 2 for 35¢. Upper Main Floor— The Bon Marche freshly Genuine Orange Pekoo Tea, Black, 'b, 40¢; 2 Ibs, 75¢. Bulk Cocoa, special, lb, 10¢; 2 Ibs. 19¢. Puyallup Red Cherries, regular 650; special B6¢. Capitol Blend Coffee, Ib, 80¢; 2 lbs, GG. Upper Main Floor The Bon Marche Bon Marche Bread; large, fresh loaves, 10¢; 2 for 19¢. Butterhorns, 2 for 16¢; 5 for 25¢. Devil's 750. Oat Meal Cookies, 15¢; 2 for 25. Food Cakes, — special Upper Main Floor— The Bon Marche School Under State Dr. Lectur $2.95 A veritable garden of slim, soft Pet- ticoats! Every color and every good color combination that our buyer in New York could find! 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