The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 2, 1923, Page 1

f NAVY YARD THEFT UNCOVERED! Tonight and & erate FORECAST aturday Zatered as Beocnd Class Matter May 8, ne aa ate a eae ea TOOT TE VOLUME 24. NO, 294. GERMANS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1923. At the Postotfice at Geatti, Wash, under the Ast of Congress March &, 2878. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to 69 The Seattle Star SEATTLE, WASH., ‘Two CENTS TO FIGHT! . Murderous Resent Invaded People; Rage and Urge Revenge BY CARL (Copyright, 1923, BERLIN, Feb. murderous resentment in thei The women are shedding tea they are urging their men to blue columns of Frenchmen streets of their towns, and bivouac in their public squares. | Home Brew Howdy, folks! Serge Essenin, husband of Isadora. Duncan, gives his wife a black eye. eras Serge is an artist. color, He works in eee Isadora merely shrugged her shoulders and sald, “Oh, Serge is so temperamental!” What she really meant was that Berge had @ heck of a temper. cee Serge is a free verse writer. That ts, he gets nothing for his verse. ®—_—_-__-_—______ .. -x LI'L GEE GEE, TH OFFICE VAMP, SEZ: If I had « busband and he hit | me ta the eye, I'd put moon- | shine In his coffee, —————— eee Two classes of people may wonder Berge hit his wife. 1. Those have never seen her dance. 2. Being @ toe-dancer, should Bile eistoret with hor tos laltoad merely « tiff,” said Isa- what would he have her If {t had been a fight! oes COGNOSCENTI ys, “Ob, you Ameri- You're re don’t know, a lot of on Saturday night, too. Isadora.saye she dances with her soul. In other words, she shakes a wicked soulle. . . ‘The famous dancer says she is go- ing back to Russia, Gosh, how she must hate the tolsheviki! eee “Yesterday,” writes Brick Stilwell, “the conductor on an Alki car re~ marked that he had been on the line for 10 years. He must have got on two blocks ahead of us.” Senator Borah says he is for James | Couzens for president in 1924. Borah probably knows that Couz- ens was born in Canada and is in- eligible for the presidency. see MORNING GREETING “Have you had breakfast yet?” ee @ drop.” ad Who will start a movement to pur- chase bullfrog glands for the Unt-/ versity of Washington basketball team? soe One thing is certain, If all Ford owners support Ford for president he'll be elected. ese > ‘We lamp an opinion that grape- nuts are those who drink grape fulce. soe SHORT STORY Seat! The reason Little Homer Brew, Jr., is always butting In is that when he was a baby he was fed on goat's eee Play a sazophone and grow fat is the advice of James Duffy, musician. We always thought that was the way to die young. ‘The eternal triangle ix a two-party line in the country—two people talk- Ing and one listening in. oes WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS’ Fewer Shelks, eee After the smoke of battle clears ‘away about the only cabinet Poin- dexter will be headed for is the medl- cine cabinet where he keeps his arnica. oo If the lcgisiature really wants to tax something why doesn’t tt place @ $10 tax on the sideburns these he- flappers are wearing? one A sign on Pike st. says, Pressed tor 60 Cents.” What's the charge for McPants? +o "O'Coats NOT 40 DOGGONE KHTIRING, AT THAT ‘E give my sincere thanks to those who o avesiooked mistakes or have at least told us they peseree, Bat to have acted w 2.—The people of the Ruhr valley *}one story: “There ment in Hearts of} Women Weep in’ D. GROAT by United Press) have r hearts, of rage—not grief. And rise against the long, horizon who swinging thru the! go * ‘The men are waiting grimly. They are about the same stamp as West | Virginia minere—just ag ready for battle, Something is holding them tack. Thero is no telling whether for when) this restraint will anap. I have been over the whole Ruhr industria} district. The French sol. iors are evorywhere, of course. The tramp of their hobnailed boots on the cobbles, or the jingle of their cavalry accoutrements are heard on all sides. The German people stand dumbly alongside the gutters, watch- ing them ride past. In those crowds there are many men who, a few years ago, wore the gmy garth of Germany’s army and marched deep into France, The French are fetching all the implements of war along with them — artillery, field kitchens, airplanes, | machine guns, tanks. In fact, the situ- ation presents every element of Wwar—exeept an enemy army. The strangling French blockade stirs the Westphalians, for they feel that even if it ts but partially effective, {t gradually will bring the mines to a standstill. This con- jures up to the workers a picture of early unemployment, followed by hunger. They see hunger, anyway, in the near future, because of the rapidity with which prices ara out- stripping wages. Over the whole invaded district in the past month, I heard only will be a blood bath here, sooner or later. When des- ‘peration sets in men and wom- en will risk their lives against bayonets and machine guns rather than starve wretchedly.” A few days ago in Essen, I saw & woman, whone husband had been arrested by the French, weeping. They were tears of rage, not of distress. She wanted the German men to take desperate reprisal, but they held back. It is stories such as hers that are making the Ruhr rabid. Arrests of German officials, de- portations and gradual strangula- {tion of business are not scaring the population, but revolutions have been started before upon anger and empty stomachs. see SABOTAGE IS IN NO DANGER BERLIN, Feb, 2.—The French to- | day were reported to be pianning # militarized rail route from the Rubr valley thru the old occupied areas | along which coal is to be moved into | F Requisitioning fuelWat the pit heads, even eventually mining It themselves if necessary, the French, under the plan, will load coal cara and move them under heavy guard along protected lines thru Coblenz, Trier, Uvkirchen, Dueren and Aachen. Germans in the invading zone, act- ing under orders from the minister of transport, put further sabotage measures into effect to prevent this. (Turn to Page 9, Column 6) | Australian Premier Resigns His Office MELBOURNE, Feb. 2.— Premier Hughes, of Australia, has resigned. S. M. Bruce, secretary of the treas- ury in the Hughes coalition cabinet of December 27, 1921, was invited to form a minist E HAS IT AND YET HE HASN'T CHICAGO, Feb, 2.—John Strysick, }13, newshoy, is a half dollar in and a half doliar out. He swallowed a four-bit piece while holding it in his mouth for safekeeping. KNOW YOUR : MARKETS Saving money on food products is simply know- ing where to buy. Turn to pages 16 and 17 in this ig*ue and tear out the market ads. Take them with you tomor- row on your marketing trip. Read the markets’ ads in The Seattle Star every Friday. PURE GALL! Pitt (EDITORIAL) Unadulterated gall! That ts the main characteristic of sen- ate bill No, 62, introduced by « group of lawyers and maneuver. ed thru the upper house by lawyers. . It In the hands of lawyer friends who hope ts steer It to successful final pass- age in the lower house, The measure would make it legal for anybody not a law: yer to fill out any legal paper, of even the simplest sort, Ines is now Bus mea, for instance, could not make out thelr own bills of sale, or notes, or similar documents. Tho they are ex- actly as competent to do it, they would have to call in » lawyer every time—and, course, pay him a fee. We already have 10 times as many lawyers in polities and government as the public good demands, This bill Avould give us an equal overdose of law- yers in business. Senate bill No. killed. TACOMA RAIL MAN IS SLAIN TACOMA, Feb. 2.—Shot down and fatally wounded in the ab- domen as he was passing thru an alley on his way home at 11:20 o'clock last might, Adam Cook, Northern Pacific railroad shopman, died at the railroad hospital here at 6 a. m. today, The name of Cook's assailant has not been learned by the pollos, who are working on the theory that la bor troubies lay back of the murder, Cook went on strike last July and recently returned to the Leen his old job. ~ GET COPS IN LIQUOR RAID SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 2—Nins men, including three San Francisco policemen, were arrested early today, when prohibition agents claimed they found them smuggling ashore six truck loads of Iiquor from a mystery schooner known to have been lying off Point Reyes, north of here, for six days, Several shots were fired when the prohibition agents swooped down on the party, but none was Injured. The three policemen, one of whom was a leutenant, denied they were implicated in the smuggling, but were held under $1,000 bail Raise Gold Couch of Long Dead King LUXOR, Egypt, Feb. 2-—The fa- mous golden couch of Tutankh- amon, from the antechamber of the ancient Pharoah’ tomb, in the Valley of Kings, satisfied to a certain degree today the curiosity and impatience of hundreds of American and European tourists here in hopes of witnessing the removal of tne bod} iteelf. Murmurs of wonderment mn thru the throng of visitors, sore of whom had waited at the mouth of the tomb since 6 a, m. yesterday, as the great couch was carried into the sunlight, after 3,000 years of darkness, Yep, He Saw = is Shadow 62 should be Some Seattle folks had a glimmer of hope for warmer weather Friday morning when a faint gleam of sun- shine pierced the murky cloud banks, but it didn't fool the groundhog.~ Ho emerged trom the warm re- cesses of his burrow Friday morning and shivered in the cold as he gazed for an instant at his shadow, Then he turned and fled back to his warm couch. Take the groundhog’s word for It, when he sees his shadow on Feb. ruary 3 we are in for six more woeks of cold weather, even if the weathér bureau did sniff scornfully Friday and declare “them is no basis for such @ bellef found in science,” rained with great difficulty | ear Gotta Have Clean Hands at Leschi School Gee, it’s tough to have a pretty girl find you with dirty mitts, And tougher still to h room you didn’t wash, and w with the approval of the teae! ave her tell the whole school vorse yet when she tells you, her, to go out and introduce yourself to the soap and water. Helen Sullivan, sixth grade “nurse” at Leschi school, is giving Frank Impala’s hands the once over in the picture. Frank looks kinda worried. —Photo by Price & Carter, Star Btatt Photographers x k Grade. Pupil Inspects Mitts of Com- panions and Sends Kiddies Out if They’ BY WANDA VON KETTLER Thirty -elehe of little mitts ap for inspection! ‘That's the every morning now in the Sixth grade room at Les- chi school, where, last semester, Miss Esther Lindquist, teacher, started a Juvenile nurse inspection system. So successful has the idea proved that scarcely more than two little,paire of | unwashed mitts are now detected in one week. The system? It is this: Some one Uttle girl ts appointed at the firat of each semester to #erve as nurse, It ja her duty each morning to say “Hands up!” to all the youngsters In the room, and to study thos hands for any: _ trans of dirt. Should the re Dirty j} ntter be found, the young Indy or yOUunK man #0 Shanahan to to come Into ‘the schootroom with the grit of the playground sti) upon his or her little paws ts nent out immediately to wash. It is most embarrassing, because no secret is made of the af- fair, According to M. E. Durham, prin- etpal of Lesch! school, the system is | Proving #0 successful in the Sixth grade room that simtlar methods are being tried out in other rooms. Helen Sullivan, 11 years old, is Sixth grade nurse this semester, having been appointed just last week. The nurse position, let It be known, ts considered most tmpor tant, and is more mought after than even that of blackboard monitor, | SALMON LABOR BILL REFERRED Proposed Legislation Hits Help on Farm OLYMPIA, Feb. 2.—Becauso it waa declared that in {ts present form it would work a hardship on Eastern Washington industries and farmers, senate bill No, 60, relating to sea- sonal labor, was re-referred to the Judiciary committee by the senate Thursday. The bill provides that any em- ployer who shall employ seasonal labor for out-of-the-state work must post a bond to insure the payment of these men. In the fishing Industry, Senator Paul Houser charged, the men are not hired by the canning companies, but by private contractors, who many times aré not responsible par- ties, and often flatly refuse to pay the men when they return after the season is over. Senator Harve Phipps, of Spokane, pointed out that under the bill aw it now stands, Idaho farmers could not hire men in Spokane without posting a bond, nor could Idaho and Montana mines come to Spokane for thelr la- borers. The seasonal labor bill was the only measure on Thursday's calendar that did not pas the senate. Senate bill No. 83, elvction of supreme court Judges; senate bill No. 75, amending certain electiontaws; No, 15, provid ing for county commission form of government; No. 73, prohibiting tray- eling carnivals, and No, 78, increas: ing the sentence on conspiracy charges, were all passed. Cosmopolitan Co. to Leave Seattle The Cosmopolitan Players, who have been showing stock dramag at the Orpheum theater, Third ave. nnd Madison st., company haw failed to penses, altho the theater has been given them free of rent the past week, The company will go to Van- couver, WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE Water will be shut off Satur. day on W. 76th st, from 11th ave, N, W. to 14th ave, N. from 9 a. m, to 3 p.m, will close Saturday. The | male ex: | TIGER WOMAN (Copyright, 1923, by United Press) EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 2.—Clara Phillips, escaped hammer murderess, was today in Chihuahua City, Slex- feo, according to private detectives who aro trailing hor. She has been identified there by these officers and former intimate frierids, and has openly boasted that sho is the “tiger woman” who sawed her way out of the Los Angeles Jail on December 6, after conviction on a charge of murdering Mrs. Al- berta Meadows. Headed toward the Mexican capi- tal, she and friends who are with her aro openly declaring chat they have enough influence with the unrecog- nized republic, with which the United States has no extraditjon dealings, to assure safety. HOLD TWO AS RUM SELLERS A rushing business {n disposing of “genuine” Scotch whisky, made in Seattle, was abruptly terminated late ‘Thursday night when federal agents arrested Dennis Connelly and George Riley as they sought to well a five gallon demijohn of liquor to another agent for $75. The agent had agreed to pay $175 for 1,000 forged Scotch Uquor labels. A Ford roadster, own- ed by the men, was confiscated. ARM BROKEN IN FIVE PLACES W. H. Giezentanner, engineer at the Roosevelt high school, was in the Seattle General hospital Friday | suffering from injuries which he re- |celved when he was caught in a huge ventilating fan in the engine, room of the school. One of his arms was broken in five places, REPAIR ROADS TO PREVENT: SMASHING OF HUGE EGG CROP LYMPIA, Feb, 2.—The ege- producing industry in tho district between Seattle and Ev. erett, which now ranks second in the country, will be given add- ed Impetus by a measure which is to be Introduced in the house within a short time, This bil provides for the re paving of tho Seattle-Mverett see. tion of the Pacific highway, The road is to be widened and will follow a new. route which will shorten the distance between the two cities by four miles and cut out the bumps, which last year cost the poullrymen $18,000 be cause sO Many egKs were broken, IS IN MEXICO) WOMAN HURT IN CAGE FALL ILL Suff ers Internal Injury; Others Recovering An @ remilt of an elevator accident in the Eitel bullding, Second ave. and Pike st. Thursday afternoon, in which the cage dropped four floors, ‘one woman was confined to her home ; Friday, critically tujured, while three other women were recovering from painful bruises and nervous shock. Dr. F. W. Winter, physician, with offices in the building, declared Fri- day that his wife was confined to her home suffering from internal tnjur- fes, which have not yet been fully determined, but which he classed as “very serious,” The other women {njured are Mrs. J. W. Goodspeed, wife of Dr. J. W. Goodspeed; Mrs. George Sherwood, 907 Boren ave, and Mrs. K. W. Holton, 802 Ravenna bivd. They are expected to recover, George B. Baker, agent for the building, declared that the elevator allpped when the brakes were applied to the cal When the‘accldent occurred, 10 passengers were In the car, GIRLS WILL BE YOUNGER OLYMPIA, Feb. 2.—Blushing maids of the state were made three years younger, at any rate, they ! were given three more years of girl- {hood Thursday in the house, when |house bill No, 85, by Guie of King, was passed by a majority of 82 to 1. This measure states that the ago of majority for women shall be 21 instead of 18. Any girl who gets married, however, with the consent of her parents shall automatically attain her majority, Responsibility for her actions then devolve upon her husband, Anti-Dope Parley Asked of Harding WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Secre- tary of Labor Davis, in behalf of the Loyal Order of Moose and a delega- tion representing the Elks, today pe- titioned President Harding to call an international conference to discuss the drug ‘menace, Davis presented-a petition algned by 600,000 memibers of the Moose, of which he 4s director general. EXECUTE MAN SECOND TIME LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb, 2.—F. G. Bullen, murderer, was taken from his coffin and electrocuted at the state penitentiary here today after physicians found the first electric charge had fatled to kill him, Bullen was one of four men acs. tenced to die at daybreak. After the high voltage had passed thru his body, Bullen was placed ina wooden box and preparation started for burial, Physicians making a second examination, however, found he was still alive, Bullen was taken from the coffin and again laced in the electric chair, Ho was pronounced dead three min- utes later. Bullen and Ben and Duncan Rich. ardson, brothers, were convicted of murdering Ira Culp, an aged recluse, Whose body was burned in his home after the Ieilling, The fourth man electrocuted today Was WH Debord, convicted of the ‘hatchet murders of HN, Sllesby and wite, IN § SEATTLE, STEWAR fae Goda BOs © PRISONER U. S. Attorney Charges Bremerton Officials Conspire With Japs to Defraud Government BY JOHN W. NE NELSON A conspiracy between Ja farmers of Bremerton, and o partment of the U. S. navy panese commission men and fficials of the commissary de- that has mulcted the govern- ment out of thousands of dollars’ worth of supplies, was uncovered Friday with the arrest of J. R. Pearson, com= missary steward on the receivi erton, according to the office of U, Thomas P. Revelle, Pearson ts held tn solitary confine-@ ment by navy officials, pending the completion of the investigation which led to hig arrest, now under way by department of justice agents work- ing in cooperation with the United Btates attorney's office Pearson was arrested Thursday night by an operative working under Capt. Darling, chief of the United States department of Justice here. He ts accused of having stolen thou- sands of dollars’ worth of supplies, by dealing with crooked Japanese merchants of Bremerton, according to Revelle. “Pearson was detected tn mahy thefts and irregularities,” Revelle sid Friday. “Hig dealings with white people have been closely checked and a number of cases of flagrant dishonesty discovered. In addition, he sent large quantities of supplies to vartous Bremerton people, among whom is Mra, H. C. Durgen, 339 W. Washington st, Charleston, who cares for Pearson’s son.” E. J. Fitzgibbons, W. 8. Shep- herd and H. B. Wheeler, chauffeurs at Bremerton, are under surveillance. These men, together with W, F. Montgomery, a navy yard laborer, admitted transporting government stores outside of the navy yard, claiming they acted under Pearson’s authority, according to Revelle. “It has been known for a long time that some men in the com- miseary branches of the government receive large rake-offs by dealings with merchants,” Capt. Darling said. “As an example, 10,- 000 pounds of meat was missing from one allotment last month.” Pearson, government officials believe, operated extensively with Japarese merchants at receiving bids for certain supplies and accepting only a fraction of the order and dividing the difference with the Japs. ‘ According to | Darling, Bremerton white merchants have made numerous complaints abont one Japsnese firm which seems able to underbid all com- petitors on supplies. In July, 1922, Pearson refused to fecept an order of cabbage from the Lucky Strike Fruit Co. of Brem- erton, After the truck had returned to the firm's warehouse with the cabbage, Pearson went to the offi- cers and said he had sent the order back because his chief officer was not present. “Now I'll just mark that order received and we can divide the pro- ceeds,” Pearson said, according to Revelle, The offer was rejected. BELIEVE SHIP IN NO DANGER ‘With the receipt of a wireless re- layed thru Kobe that the Bessie Dol- lar was rigging a temporary rudder while waiting for relief ships, Seat. tle marine men belleve the vessel is in no great danger as high seas have subsided and. the vessel will be reach- which is rushing to her assjstance. The ship ts adrift between’ Yoko- hama and Seattle, Durant Stock on Steady Increase NEW YORK, Feb, 2.—After two days of attacks by financial Inter- ests opposing W. C. Durant's oper- ations in Wall St., Durant Motors stock opened today at 44%, com- pared with a closing figure of 40% yesterday, By 11 o'clock the stock had risen to 47. SCHOOL KIDS TO GET MILK GLYMPIA, Fob, 2.—After Indef- initely postponing house bill No, 17, which provides that all school chil. dren in school districts of the first class under the age of 14 shall be supplied daily with a half pint of milk, the house reconsidered it ‘Thuraday and when brought up for final voting today it was passed, 49 to 89, House bill No. 60, which requires that persons dealing in) insurance must be qualified for the work, passed tho house, 7 to 18. Houso resolution No. 8, Inviting Senator C, C. Dill to address the legislature February 7, was passed, The house adjourned until 1 > ma ed some time Friday by the Pomona,’ ng ship Philadelphia, at Brem= S. District Attorney Per Cent OLYMPIA, Feb. 2—With an aver age cut of nearly 15 per cent under the appropriations of 1921, and per cent under sums asked for this” year, the appropriation bill, drafted pleted. The committee is now thru until they meet with the house tee to draft the joint bill that willl go before the legislature for p ; probably the first®of next. week. The militia and the state d ments were hit heavily and with the result that salaries of Senate bill No, 116, ment work, and No. 117, Aistrict bonds, were introiluced. illegal | William Bender, who injured eral people last Friday night he drove a city ambulance into crowd at Rainier ave, and Wint st., will be dismissed if chayges 0 reckless driving are substantiated witneases, Health Officer H. M. B | declared Friday, Dr. Read exonerated Bender Saturday after preliminary gation, but information presente Friday “puts the matter in Hght,” Read said. SMUGGLED PEARLS One hundred and ninety. strings of Japanese pearls, to be worth $8,960 at retail were seized by customs insp n board the steamship Wheatland tana late Thursday night. pearls, found hidden In a gas in the room of one of the ste: officers, had not been menti customs officials, and were intended to be smuggled in, 0 s assert. The name of the officer whose quarters they were found wa: withheld. Investigation of the sel's entire staff and crew are b made. Be OPEN GRAVE FOR GEMS WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—A fon order was issued by the treasury di partment today for the opening @ the grave of Seaman John Jones in the Brooklyn Naval cem said to contain Russian crown els, valued at $4.900,000. eee FIRE IN PORTLAND. PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 2. born flames, ignited by sparks fi & defective flue, destroyed the and attic of the Columbia ments here early today. AU ter escaped without Injury, altho: frightened. The damage was mated at $2,501 CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—Three d earthquakes were recorded on seismograph at the Chicago uniyel sity since 2 p. m. yesterday. first shock started at 2 and for one hour, The sécond shoc started at 7:30 and continued for hour and 10 minutes, The shock overlapping the second, : ing at 7:19 p. m. and lasting 50 a, m. today, The quakes w @ southwesterly «direction | about 4,660 miles distant, CONSIDER AUTO BIL! OLYMPIA, Feb. 2.—The committee on roads and brid, before it Friday the new prom the Automobile club of Washin The program includes: Thre tax on gasoline, straight $& let fee for automobiles, 6 per cont eornings tax on busses and tj that operate for hire, and recent of the road levy that ts repeated tm before the house, +e bil, now