The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 9, 1923, Page 1

[WHO SHOULD BE I YOUTHFUL, new Seattle representative has startled and dis- | ate machine by charging it, home folks, with corruption and wi concerted the s' Maxin in a probably rain or h unfaithfulness to the public in- At first the angered “organization” threatened him with im- | WEATHER dy tonight; w Saturday; cold, ‘Temperature Last 4. speech to his ton’ red as Second Clas peachment. This isa significs speech (The S May 3, Now with censure. nt episode an 1899, at the Poatott episode to watch. Read r is printing it in full today) and you will be ina position to form an opinion for yourself who should 8 to ched or censured, if discipline Then write The Star your verdict write another letter to the state machine, Heigh- be im- ides The Seattle Star is to be It might be giving BNAL ered, good id engineers your admini 1 SEATTL WASH., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 192% TWO C S IN SEATTLE, NEW LAW WOULD BAR ALL JAPS FROM U.S. eatile Mountain TO SCALE ICY Party Will Attempt Midwinter Climb of Mt. Robson, Achievement That Has Never Yet Been Undertaken _BY BOB BERMANN The ascent, in dead of winter, of a mountain at the , a mountain which no one has ever before even tried to climb in winter, and which , has only been scaled twice in the summer time—this is| the death-defying enterprise on which four Seattle | foot of the Arctic slop men have just embarked. The peak is Mount Robson, the highest mountain in | the Canadian Rockies, lying on the Columbia and Alberta, some 400 miles to the north of | {the American boundary— | Howdy, fotks! Infant son of Princess Mary has been named the Prince of Wails. se It ts announced that ex-Katser Wil- heim will not be invited to the christening of his little grand Rephew. eee A bulletin announced the arrtval of the royal infant; ordinary babies @nsounce their own arrival. oe ‘We do hope that English cows are kept in pastures, Pasteurized milk fs so much better. j eae PARTICULAR ‘We were greatly surprised to hear that a baby had been born to the royal family. Generally the stork only visits homes: where the rent is overdue, eee It ts now proposed to Institute {m- Peachment proceedings against Rep- Tesentative Charles Helghton be- cause of derogatory remarks ho made against the legislators. Well, what kind of remarks could he make? eee It doesn't give tnuch comfort to a motorist to tell him hia punctured tire is flat only on the bottom side. cee SHORT STORY Paw, the rent’s due, eee Li'l Gee Gee says that lots of fel- lows are willing to die for the girt before they marry her, but luck is agin them. oe She never powders up her face— For this I love my Sadie; UN see her when the cireus comes, For she's the bearded lady. eae Dispatch says Russian students have to go barefoot on account of the famine, What? Have they eat- €n their shoes? see ‘The punishment should’ fit! the crime. Men who buy new derbies that have feather in the back should be compelled by law to wear them on the street. one A CIVIC PROJECT Fditorializing on the need for legislative economy, The Star says that the representatives at band need every voter's ad- ell, why not start an Advice Drive, then? | H. B. Cunningham, Instructor at} the Garfield high school, hax forbid. den hin students to eat garlic, A breathtaking innovation, surely! sae It's all right for the boys to eat wurlle, but they shouldn't breathe it to A woul, [Be Every normal kia wants to be urn ‘pyramid of white snow, green lice and black rock, towering: \more than 10,000 feet above: ithe point from which the | Mount Rainiér inst winter—the first | one other. | Landry, distinguished French Alpin:| |taineer, and Charles R. Perryman, PEAK rder of British lvast citadel of a-mountain, al climb ‘starts. ‘The party of mountaineers com. Prises three of the men who climbed time the mountain had ever been sealed except in the summer—and The Mount Rainier men are Jean ist; Jacques Bergues, Swiss moun- motion picture cameraman. Tho fourth man Is Lambert Sternbergh. | Northwest champion. swimmer, and an ardent disciple of all forms of outdoor sport, hunting and hiking in particular, T have just returned from their permanent base of supplies, har- Ing had the honor of being the only newspaper man taken’ on the expedition, and will keep in constant tovely with them — by snowshoe runner, train and tele graph—and The Star will thus be in @ position to publish the first accounts of their progress and their success or failure. Here in Seattle, sitting in a warm office and pounding away at a type- writer, ft In hard to visualize the perils which this intrepid quartet must face-—-whether they succeed or | fail. But a week ago, when I wi climbing Robson glacier with them, ft was all clear enough—too clear for my peace of mind. A climate in which 40 below zero fe rated as “warm weather”; a te perature that sometimes drops to $0 and 90 below; vast Ice fields which are cut up here and there by un- suspected and bottomless crevasses: thousands of feet of almost perpe: dicular {co that must be scaled— these are just a few of the condi. tions which the mountaineers find confronting them. ‘The enterprise, however, has its compensation, The trip ts bein made in a land which, for stark scenic grandeur, rivals anything to be found In the European Alps; life thers, provided the weather is good, fs ideal, and the quartet will have the satisfaction of knowing, if they succeed, that they have achieved something which hag rarely been equalled, and never nurpassed, in all the history of mountain-allmbing, If they should perish in thelr valiant attemy id there is more than a possibility that they may—their end will be a truly glorious one, and their final resting place will be among tho immortals, For it Is truly a country of the gods into which they haye ventured—a country (Turn to Page 16, Column 3) PRICES ON PRODUCTS will be low in the markets tomorrow. Just bring your market bag and see. what you save. Turn to pages 19 20 of this issue, and cut out the Ads—Take stem with you to buy. Read the Market Ads in The Star Each Friday | legislature, | sought Mount Robson, the giant peak which four Seattle men are attempting to climb, \from the north. Clouds obscure the top of the mountain, which és the highest peak in the fermann, Star reporter, who accompanied the exped | tion to the summit, from which the ascent is to be made, arid who has just returned to Seat- |tle with the first news of the trip. Below are the actual mountain climbers, left to right: |Canadian Rockies. The inset is Bob ers Try Hazardous Feat iewed Jean Landry, Lambert Sternbergh, Charles R. Perryman and Jacques Bergues. All five of the men are wearing the silk duck parkas which are necessitated by the extreme cold of.the region. . Photos by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers BUILDING FUND PACT VIOLATED a Alumni Head Charges Bad Faith at Olympia Charging that ths state legislature has been guilty of a grows breach of faith, A. R. Hilen, president of the University of Washington Alumnt association, announced Fri- day that a fight to the finish wottld be made in Olympia to force the lawmakers to live up! to their agreement to match, dollar for dol- lar, all student fees paid into the university's building funds. “Dan Landon, chairman of He senate appropriations committee, threw us down,” Hilen said.‘ fight was so clone in tho senate minittes that we would have won if Dan had stuck with us, But he didn't—and wa lost out.” Hilen pointed out that the 1915 legislature had made an agreoment, at the time that the fee system was {naugurated, to match all student feen paid into the institution's build- ing fund and that every succeeding until the present one, had lived up to this. ‘The appropriations committees of the two houses of (he present legis: lature, however, have thrown out the $205,000 appropriation which is thin year on the basis of student feos for the last two years. “We're not going to give. up the ship, tho,” Hila asserted. “We Ine tend to carry the fight to the floor of the legislature and see if the Indi. vidual lawmukéra are ax willing to yiolate thel* agreoment ae are the committees, Hilen pointed out that the congen- tion at tho university in worse now than at any previous time In history, ASK AID FOR RIVER BASIN OLYMPIA, Feb. 9.—Congress will be urged to take Immediate steps to pass logisaltion containing appropri: ations for the work on the Columbia basin project In a memorial which will be Introduceé before the House Friday morning by Representative A, Otilson, of Pierce county, “We want to show congress that the people in Washington are inter. ested enough in this bg project to at least request the passage of the basin bill," Ohlson said. = ‘The passage by the legislature of such @ memorial waa urged by Sen- ator-elect C. C, Dill when he spoke before the joint session of the house ‘and senate, Wednesday afternoon. ‘The bill which Is now before con gress, pertaining to moneys for the Columbia basin work, has been tied up, and Ohison believes that an ex. pression by the legislature will do much towards getting more consid: eration for this measure from the national body. Husband Shot to Death; Wife Held CHICAGO, Feb, 9—P. H, Kava- nagh, secretary of the National Athy Jetic club, who was shot by his wife, died today, ‘Mra, Kavanagh, who declared the revolver was discharged during a struggle for the weapon, was held by police. She will provably be ar. raigned todo 4 library situation Ig so bad, he said, that all the university's valu: ab books are stored in concrete vaults, where they are innegesible to the student body until a suitable building if erected, Should the logis Jature uphold the eemmittoes’ actior of course, the untyersity’s building program would have to be abridged considerably, CLARA PHILLIPS HELD IN PRISON Officers Say Tiger Woman Arrested in Mexico HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 9.— Clara Phillips, escaped hammer murderess, Is In the state peril: tentiary at Chihuahua, Mexico, according to Lee Manning, fed- eral Immigration officer, who re- turned Phil Alguin, Pacific Coast fugitive, to America from Mexico, “As soon as the Alguin case is off my hands I will return to Chihuahua and arrange for her deportation as well,” Manning declared today, Mrs, Phillips flea to Chihuahua as plans were being completed to rush her across the border from Juurex, Where she sought refuge after her sensational escape trom a Los An: geles jail, Chihuahua after an overland jour- ney by mule train, Mannign said, Mexican officials had been warned of her conting, and she was ident: fied and locked up & few minutes att. er her arrival “We have assurances that she will be detalied there until the state department acts," Manning declared, ‘The arrest of Alguin was bolieved the key to the apprehension of Clava Catherine Uribe, a Mexican | hax heen active to secure the deportation of both fugitives to ob: tain the release of her husband and ey inlaw, held in jail in Los An ‘The woman went into SOUG PORT OFFIC | ‘New Harbor Bill | Called Move to) | Take Water Front) From Public | ‘That certain sinister Interests are, Jconspiring , with mermby | legislature to perpetu which will cut hun |of dollars a year from the | revenues was the cha | day by Port Commission otterill, following the action of the } |ntate senate harbor and waterways committee in approving a bill which | would take from the p mins all authority in re Ing state-owned harbor put {t in the hands of a single dividual Cotterill declared that passage of the bill, which was {ntroduced tn the | fe Thursday, would mean ar jturn of the “good old day te Interesta were able to lease water- it Froperty worth milifons {forse | tenentatives of the Pacific Coast Co, which hax a jlease-on the waterfront property be~| |tweew" Washington and Jackson sts.,| of acting in bad faith with the Seat- areas [legislature who are behind the con-| | spiracy. } | Cotteri!! commented bitterly on the| fact that two Seattle inen on the! harbors and watertrays committee | | voted in favor @f the bill. They are! Chairman Paul Houser and H. 8. |Conner. The other proponents of the | | measure in the committee were Oll- | |ver 8, Morris, Grays’ Harbor, and | | George McCoy, of Vancouver. The | Jonly member ‘who opposed it was | J, B. Oman, Tacoma, vote being 4 to t in favor of the bill |" The port commissioner ‘saw some ground for hope in the fact that |Senator Fred Hastings had the bill |re-referred Thursday to his commit: tee on state and granted lands, which | may provide an opportunity for real hearings on the subject. |. The bit which is under fire re peals the present law of 1913, which gives the various port commissions jot the state full authority to act as} jagents for the state In the leasing | of state-owned tidelands within their) Prospective areas, and puts the full power in the hands of the state com. missioner of public lands, Cotterill pointed out that the pro- posed bill placed millions of dollars’ worth of property owned by the pub- Iie at the absolute mercy of an tndi- vidual—as the language of the meas: jure is so broad that he would be jable to charge any rate of rental that he pleased, no matter how low or how high, and could thus discrimt- nate at will against his enemies and in favor of his frien “As a matter of fact," ald Cot- terill, “passage of the bill would simply mean a return to the land grabs of 1897 and 1899, It ts highly significant that the language of (Turn to Page 16, Column 4) CONSIDER NEW VETS’ BONUS WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The Bur. sum soldier bonus bill was taken up by the senato military affairs com- mittee today and arrangements were made to begin hearings on the meas: ure tomorrow. ‘The bill was Introduced by Senator Bursum after President Harding had vetoed the last bonus measure passed by congress. It would allot $20 for each month's service of more jthan 60 days during the war. War | veterans’ organizations have jndorsed the measure. It Is expected tho committee prob: ably will take adverse action GIRL CLAIMS WEIRD ATTACK | CHICAGO, Feb. §.—A warrant for | the ‘arrest of Mildred Eric, who claimed she was kidnapped and slaslied by three masked men, was iwsued by police today on request of the girl's father. Disowlerly conduct was charged. ‘he Kir, Whowe body was marked | by. 10 crosses, apparently made with A penknife, had disappeared when. police sought her at a eae house, ‘Phe father sail Mildred recently had gotten beyond his contro! and he thought by taking court action he would be able to regain direct contro! over the girl Mildred, in her story to physicians, sald sho was threatened by a Secret [organization for giving wp the ro , ligion ja which she was moat | LAND GRABIS. | VERY SAYS LATEST IMMIGRATION BAN IN HOUSE WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. | —Japanese immigration would be strictly prohibit- ed under a bill reported by the house immigration committee today. The measure prohibits the en- trance into the country of persons ineligible to citi- zenship. Japanese were re- cently held ineligible by decision of the supreme court. ‘The measure also restricts tm- migration of all other countries to 2 per cent of the nationals of these countries to the United States in 1890. The present rate is 3 per cent, based on the num- ber of, aliens in the country in 1990 and the mew measure is ex- pected to further restrict immi- gration. | Seattle Cop Is Held in Canada Chief.of Police W, B, Severyns, late Friday afternoon wax 1 Vestigating tho arrest of Police Sergeant Edward W. Pislow, of Seattlo ,and another man sup- posed to be Ed Hagen, by Cana- dian customs officials Wednes. day night at White Rock, just across the United States border. Severyns received word from Canada to the effect that cus- toms officials there were holding two automobiles in which the two men were riding. Pielow and his companion, who gave his name as Summers, were checked out of Canada late at night and) then reentered deross the boundary, according officials. . Nothing was found In the automobites, however, when the Canadian offi- cialy searched them on a longly road, Pielow had obtained a leave of absence for a da ing he wanted to vit Friends there, Jones Starts Fight to Save Subsidy WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—An ultimatum was delivered to the foes of the ship Subsidy’ bill in the senate late today by Senator Jones, of Washington in charge of thp bill. He announced that the bill, so strongly advocated by President Harding, would be kept before the senate continuously from now on, until a vote is obtained. Jones told those sen- ators who have been: fighting the measure by a filibuster that he will not allow the senate to consider any’ other legislation, including the British debt s¢t- tlement until a subsidy vote is obtained, . Debt Fund Bill Passed by Houge WASHINGTON, Feb, 9.—Tho administration bill sanctioning the bill negotiated by the Amer- tean debt commission for repay: ment of Great Britain's $4,600, 000,000 war debt to the United States, passed the house late to- day by a large majority. Demo- crutic Leader Garrett supported the measure and carried a large number of democratic members with him, Tho measure, now goes to the senate, where some delay is expected. Crowder Named Envoy to Cuba WASHINGTON, Feb: 9.— President, Harding today nomi nated Maj. Gen, Enoch H. Crow: der to be ambassador to Cuba. Gen, Crowder has been in Cuba for some time as personal repte- sentative of President Harding, straightening out the financial affairs of the island government. He was sent at the request of the Cuban government. « eee Slayer Insane MOUNT HOLLY, N, J... Feb. §.—Charles M. Powell, confessed slayer of John 't, Brunen, cirevrs man, and under sentence of from 20 10 30 years In state prison, wad’ adjudged insane and sent to the state asylum: at Trenton, according to an announcement today. eae Princess Okeh LONDON, Feb, 9-Princess Mary and her son ato both doing Well, Hhyslclany announced today. HEIGHTONS ~ FOES WOULD BACK DOWN!) Run for Cover as) Boomerang Flies His Friends Ask for Showdown By Fielding Lemmon OLYMPIA, Feb. 9.—Ct vindication of Rep Charles (‘Fightin’) will be demanded of the of representatives by his ft was declared Friday ing when it became evident Representatives Ed Sims John Hanks were trying back down on the ch made against him in tion with the speech deli before the King County eratic club at Seattle last urday. The charges made by |and the subsequent attempt | |part of Sims to “get him has torn the first real rift republican party this session. Friday Representative Sims, leader of the house, i tion where he wat Hot ey how many. of the would be behind him if he finish the fight he “has against Helghton. and sims Both Hanks foimd that when they have the mimeograph cop Heigtiton’s speech placed on: jesk in the house, they pi 4 red hot coal. Friday they looking around for some dark to drop it before they burned ingers too badly. | Influential republicans tn jhouse are doing their utr get the entire matter hushed jover with, Hanks’ move to have the made public has brought sponke from every part of the § |Heighton and other memb |the house have been flooded requests for copies of the Newspapers and indivjduals ” asked not only for one for dozens of them. The matter has created terest about the state than jother feature of the present and the wave of popular s jis strongly behind the yout county representative so further action against him detrimental to those The admission before the the part of Ed Sims that the stenographer to take Heighton’s speech did more, to line popular opinion behin ton than anything else in c with the address, It's up to these men who s this to make the next mo (Turn to Page 16, C 155 TRAPPED I} TWODISASTI Explosions Wreck Mine « B. C. and New Mexi VANCOUVER, B. ©, Fel According to an official ment given out this im by Canadian collieries muir) Limited, in the compan berland is only 33. were at work in the vi the accident and 24 brought out dead and — alive, It is believed there nine more bodies in the which rescue parties hay yet been wale vy Tenchi « * DAWSON, x. Mi Feb, a Candali and Finlt Muitanl, two known survivors of the jsion in the Dawson Noo 1 min near here yesterday, were” .to the surface shortly bet {today by rescue squads. © Both men were overcome haustion and could not give ” ‘information as to the fate of tl [others except to say that thera Wer six other miners ina shatt tp them whom they thought had eseay ed death, Candali and Maitani were # remote part of the mine) the blast occurred. — We thelr sweaters: with Cottey their linch kits, they: tho sweaters about thelr and crawled over {Turn to Page 16, ous