The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 10, 1923, Page 1

ad QUITS UNDER FIRE A APPAR PAPA AAPRRAEAA PAPA PRPRIRSIRA APRA PARISI SPARRO AIAN A RANA fA ARIANA RANA ARRAN WEATHER and Sunday foir, Tonight tinwed cold; to nor ‘Tegetatare Last 4 Hours Maximum Today con- light northeast th winds. Minimum, 32, noon, 38, (B 24. NO. 301, etectives Hound Heighton!& , folks! Maybe in about 4897 A. D. archseolo- excitement will reign ot King Brown and find antechambers are filled graven images of the Sa ae aa ele “ae Scientist Invents ‘Mule."—Headline. ‘We got enough legislators is? ate it step in the publishing ‘be to issue Fourth of ons on Lincoln's birthday. a fe of happen that no papers on daylight saving time Woek? BERR RRR! Murphine has ine Mt providing for exami- ll grocers, Ha, ha! We ts to ask them if they between sand eee Mdate for the Polson flapper who goes to and persists in call- iparrows.” eee Dumbbell Dotty always Ford as a “Rolls-Ruft.”” Gite Gee says there is just ar that she wants—she's much about it—and eee Bt device for automobiles sight for pedestrians, ich way the pedestrian the instrument autornati- oe’ driver the correct flivvaes 200 shiver and shiver?” tod rayver what it oe at) rh 4 name? ) But Al Cham. Ebeen pineljed on a char, Okane. the scientists as they near! Me-| | James Malone, <> HIS RECORD Issues Ultimatum to His Enemies) in Legislature OLYMPIA, Feb. reaching Representative Charles |GMghtin’) Heighton Saturday morn- ling from friends in Seattle that pri- | vate detectives are checking up on his record caused him to ismue an ultimatum jthem until Tuesday morning to continue the action that they have started aguinst him because of his | Speech In Seattle last Saturday. | Heighton declared that unless |these men attempted to press their charges, he would take the floor j Tuesday and start a counterattack, | asking the legisiature to investigate, if possible, the reasons behind the move against him. What Helgnton wants to know Is: 3—Why Representative Ed Sims hired the stenographer to take FOR PROMOTER Boxing Laws Piqued at the failure of the Se attle boxing commission to give him a permit to stage a smoker, Seattle promoter, swore to ® complaint Saturday |charging Nate Druxinman with vio- lation of the state boxing inws Deputy sheriffs were seeking: Drux- Inman Saturday morning. If ar- rested, he will be placed under a peace bond to prevent the staging of Tuesday's smoker at the Crystal Pool. + ‘The complaint charges Druxinman with advertising a prize fight in which Helnie Schuman and Travie Davis are billed to box the main aix-round event. Elmo Jones, Dr. and Will H. the’ boxing commission. were to discuss the charge with Deputy Prosecutor John D. Carmody Sat- urday. “The commisstonery may lot Ma- Jone stage a smoker,” Jones said. “The eummission has refused him permits heretofore because we did not believe he staged attractive en- tertainments. Malone recently complained to the grand jury of the condition in boxing circles here but the jury found the sport clean and above criticism, Boxing in Seattle ts under the su- perviston of « non-official body. One member {s named by the mayor, an- other by the sheriff, and the third hy the prosecuting attorney ‘When & yaeancy recently occurred on the board, Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas | refused to fill It, holding himaelf aloot from entanglement in the squabbles which at regular intervals disturb boxing here. B. T. Hanley STAR WANT AD “RETURNS” Will Surprise You eS 1eeeeeeccceces Place Your Ad Today MAIN 0600 | | 10.— Newa| to hin enemies, giving} Morris, members of; Charge Violation of State|.. entered as fecond Class Matter May 4, 1099, at the Postoffiee at Seattle, Ww ash, under the Ast of ¢ ress March §, L979 Per Year, by Mall, 11.40 to 99 8. SATTLE, WASIL,, § ATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1923. The Seattle Star OMT T Has Somebody Got a Bear by the Tail? (EDITORIAL) Let's have that showdown. Representative Heighton charged the st e admin- istration and the state legislative machine with wrong- doing and corruption. The machine at once announced plans to impeach him. after him with sleuths. T' has been trying hard to d But the subject won’t down, belligerent. The public is Then only to censure him. Then it gumshoed hen it weakened again and rop the subject. Heighton continues interested. The reading of Heighton’s speech in The Star has aroused widespread comment. If there is somebody at Olympia deserving impeachment, let's not be con- tent with a mere censure, discipline, let’s not drop the subject. SHOWDOWN, Who ought to be censured? impeached? If censure is the proper Let's have that Who ought to be Who is going to cast the first stone? Writer Tells for Mt. Robson Ascent Seattle Party Given of Plans Royal Send-Ofi as They Leave Vancouver (Following is the second of 9 se By Bob Bermann Our expedition started out with aa Ittie ostentation as tho we were dound for a week-end junket to Vio- toria. For two woeks before, the four mountaineers had been busy, looking up all the available data on Mount Robson and collecting thetr | outfits, So bustling had they been that the departure came rather tn/ the nature of an antl-climax. ‘We met on Sunday evening, Janu- 28, aboard the Grand Trunk Pa- cific steamer Prince George. The only excitement that we aroused came ag the result of our costumes— mackinaw capa, flannel] shirts, rid. ing breeches and heavy boote—and even they were not unusual enough to attract more than passing atten- tion. Our first real adventure came in| Vancouver, the next day. Arriving at breakfast time, we put in a busy day completing our outfits—buying moccasins, various dried and con- densed foods and the like, Thus en- gaged, wo were so rushed that it was FISHER RAPS SALMON TRUST Says Fishermen Imperiled by Big Interests Under the pretense of protecting the salmon runs, fish trap interests are preparing to steal the salmon in- dustry of Washington and Oregon, F. H. Miner, a salmon troller of Sal- mon ‘ay, declared Saturday. Resolutions by the joint legislative committees of Washington and Ore- gon prohibiting fishing off the coasts of Oregon and Washington threaten more than 1,500 small fishermen, Miner charges. “The vig trap interests, typified by jMdward Sins, chairman of this state’ fisheries cortmittee, want to elimin- ate all competition to trap fishing,” Miner said. nese men did not recommend abolition of trap. that destroy all fish coming to spawa, but aimed their ‘protec * measures at the lone fish- ermen who go out on the ocean in thelr small boats and earn a hazard- ous livelihood by catching salmon with bait and hook,” he declared. “Whole communities along the coast Ine depen upon these fisher: men for their business. Not only does tho fish (rap trust want to bollah fishing yithin the three-mile limit but they seek to destroy It far out to sea by regulating and preventing the sale of such salmon. “Ths Indiana, wrder treaty rights, have the Inalienad’e right to fish, but the fish trop interests would take this tight awiy from them, which would cause starvation among fie coast tribes and soon eliminate chem entirely, or make them pub: ile wards,” Miner charges, Martin will cell upon Senator Dan Landon and Reyresentitives Adam Beslor and Charles Hetyhton to ald jin the fight to Wefeat the teh Yap Voduatry, he said. \ 5 o'clock In the afternoon before w called at the bootmakers’ where spe cial boots for the ascent had been or | dered by the four climbers, |. The boote—prodigious affairs, with jheavy soles especially shaped for kia and fostrons—were splendid. But imagine the consternation when we discovered that, thru rome cleri- cal error, soy three pairs had been inatead of four! It was after § o'clock ; the Canadian National railway train on which we had already arranged Pannage to Robson station wna to leave at 745. It looked an if we | would be forced to wait over for at | Teant a day. But the bootmaker was equal to the situation. With true Napoleonic decision, he announced that the boots would be (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) HOLD OPENING ~ OF AUTO SHOW Boy Scouts in Charge of Day’s Exhibition Housed in two mammoth tents at Fourth ave, and Blanchard at. Se attl’'s fourth annual Automebile | Show was to open at 2 o'clock Satur. | day afternoon with ceremontes under the direction of Mayor E. J, Brown, Lieut. Gov. W, J. Coylé and William 0. McKay, president of the automo- bile dealers’ division of the King County Automotive Trades | associa- tion. ‘Tho opening day of the show has | been expectally dedicated to the boys and girls of the city, and everyone under 15 years of ago wan to bo ad- mitted free during the afternoon, After brief, speeches by Mayor Brown and LAcut. Gov. Coyle, McKay was to turn the show over to John Moriarity, Boy Scout mayor of Se- attle, who, with the nasistance of a corps of other boys, was to “run the works” until evening. ‘The show will continue thruout the week, opening every day at 10 a. m, except on Saturday and Sunday, when {t won't start until 2 p. m, Additional details in regard to the show can bo found in the special Auto Section of today's Star, ARMY FLYERS DIE IN CRASH SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Feb, 10— Iseut. Harry Martin, 27, of New York, and Sergeant Walter 8, Grocke!, of the Third Attack group, wero killed here today when thelr airplane crashed to the ground dur- ing a bombing formation at Kelly field. The bombing formation was a part of the aerial review being staged for the benefit of Brigadier Gen, Wil- Nam Mitchell, assistant chief of the army air service, Lieut, Frank TT. Honstnger, of Fresno, Cal,, and Sergeant Kelly were Killed during manouvers yesterday when their airplane fell near Laredo. BELLINGHAM HAS BIG FIRE BELLINGHAM, Feb, 10.—At lenst ‘one person was burned to death hero oarly today when fire razed six bulld- ings near the state armory, including the home of John Orchard, etvil war veteran, Orchard in believed to have escaped the fire, but the body of a man, burned beyond recognition, was removed from the debris of one of the hulldings, ‘The police are seoking to entablint the names of missing persons in an endeavor to identify the man, 153 KILLED IN ~ MINE BLASTS ringing Bodies From Wreckage of Two Shafts VANCOUVER, B. ©., Feb. 10. Thirty-three dead, 31 bodies recovered and two still in the mine with all hope given up as to their i out late bi the Canadian Colilerles at Cumberland, following an explo- sion in thelr No. 4 mine, near Cumberland, Vancouver island, ‘Thursday. Only 14 white men were victims of the explosion, the remainder be- ing Orientals, ‘The cause of the explosion hax not yet been ascertained. eee DAWSON, N. M., Feb, 10— At 9 a. m. 46 bodies of miners entombed by the terrific explo- slon in Dawson mine No, 1 here, Thursday, had been recovered by rescue parties, Other bodies of the 120 victims have been located far back in the workings, they reported, and it was expected most of the dead would be removed by night. Hope for any more survivors was practically aban- doned. | finow fell during the night. cover-| ing Stag canon and the Dawson mine, but did not interfere with res- cur work Relatives of the men kept up thetr vigil near the mine entrance, hoping Against hope that thelr men might be Alive, but as additional bodies were ne out thelr hopes faded rap iy. ‘The genera! bellet prevailed among ‘Miners that the remaining % tn the mine could not possibly have wure vived the explosion, and even if they had, would have since died from pols sOnotM canes, Rencuera have not yet located any large number of bodies of victims in the mine, but instead are finding them along the passageway as they Denetrate farther back into the tun- nels, Little difficulty ts betng encoun. teret by rescue squads other than| digemg their way over pilen of debris, | which Indicate that the blast was of | terrific proportions, ‘Timbern and) large rocks blocked many of the tun-| Nels, but despite these obstacles, the teams have made rapid progress, they Teported at the surface, Shipments of caskets arrived today from Denver, and undertakers from | surrounding towns assisted local em: | balmers in caring for the dead as fast as tho bodies were removed. Tearful scenes will be enacted to- morrow when the joint funeral of the white victims of the blast will! be held at Cumberland, A coroner's jury at Cumberland viewed the bodies inte Friday and} adjourned until February 16, | Thomas Wilkinson, especially ap-| pointed by William Sloan, minister of mines, to hold a rigid inquiry, has begun hin task. The opinion is being expressed that not even tho special inquiry or the evidence at the inquest will divulge the cause of the mine dis- aster, which has remained a mys- tery thruout, 114-Year-Old Vet Dies of Wounds SAN MATEO, Cal, Feb. 10— Jacinto Floria, aged 114, was dead here today from wounds received while fighting with the Mexican army in the Mexican war with the United States, Ho was the oldest inmate of a county hospital in Callfornia, Husband Spanked Her, Wife Claims He spanked her, and in addition, abused and failed to support her, Hazel White charges in suit for a divorce from George White, express company employe, filed late Friday, SPRING IN A TACOMA PARK PRETTY ROUGH, THINKS SEATTLE MAN Tho call of spring drew J. Livy ingston, Hillcrest hotel, to a Ta- coma park while in that clty Friday, Livingston and a friend were admiring the deer, While Ughting his pipe, Livingston put his foot on the fence, A large buck deer, enraged at the liberties taken by a Seattle man, backed off 80 feet, and with antlered head bent low, charged at furtous speed. He atruck the fence with @ crash, and one of his, antlers plorced Livingston's foot, while another prong struck his shoulder, spinning him to tho ground. Livingston returned to Soattie, tind wan trented at the city hos. pital. He has decided that ‘Ta. coma “deer}' are too rough for him, be WO CENTS IN SEATTLE. Fred Rules Seattle His Majesty, King Fred Graetz, supreme ruler of the Seat- tle Y.M.C.A., who was chosen as a monarch for one day because of his activity in the recent membership cam- paign of the “Y.” Photos by Price & Carter, @tar Staff Photographers, IRED Graetz, 1210 N. 47th at, re- cently elected king of the city of Beattie by the boys of the ¥. M. C. A. in recognition of his services in the recent membership drive, was en- tertained at the Strand theater Sat- urday morning with all the pomp and splendor due a king. For Fred fa & king, even tho ft ts but for a | fleeting day. He was presented with & huge key to Seattle by Police Chiet W. B. Seve-yns. Nine hundred members of King Fred's court followed thelr leader to the Strand at 9:30 as the guests of the management. At noon the king and a few of his trusty henchmen “| were to be guests of Dr. Park Weed Willis at the Rainier club, The mem- | bers of his court who were selected | to accompany him were: Rex Mo- Adam, Kenneth Shields, Bill Berg strom, Durant da Porte, Preston Critcher and Billy Estep. In the afternoon the court wna to be entertained by the Everett Y. M. ©, A. before returning here to be guests at a banquet in the Seattle ¥. building. Flashes GIRL SLASHES SELF CHICAGO, Feb, 10—Miss Mildred Eric confessed to authorities today that she had branded herself with 10 crosses in an effort to show her father what a “bad organization the Ku Klux Klan ts" Miss Eric told a wild tale of having been kidnaped and slashed by two hooded men. Po- Hee investigation revealed she had cut herself with a safety razor blade, eee AUSTRIA MAY GET CASH VIENNA, Feb. 10.—A $10,000,000 loan will be floated in Wall Street for Austria, according to the Weiner Journal today, eee BOY KILLS PLAYMATE CHICAGO, Feb, 10—In a dispute over a card game Walter Mellowitz, 13, was shot and killed by Robert Rutkowski, 13, here today. Robert, who fled after the shooting, was captured in a railroad yard. eee $400,000 FIRE DAMAGE PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 10.—Fire swept thru six bulldings in the com: mercial district and for a time men- faced the historic Christ church and many nearby structures, Loss was estimated at $400,000. ¥ eee WARREN DUE IN PORT SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10, — Charles B, Warren, former Ameri- can ambassador to Japan, who has Just resigned, was to arrive here today aboard the Pacific Mafl liner President Cleveland from Tokyo. FRENCH BAR HIGH CHIEFS PARIS, Feb. 10.—Tho Fronch and Belgian governments today sent a Joint note to Germany, stating that officials fo that nation would be barred from the Ruhr valley hero: after, ‘Thin i¢ due, the note mld, to the fact that Chancellor Cuno's recent visit caused dangerous excitement in the occupied territory, ‘WOMEN FORCE CLINIC BILL Ask $1 50,000 Appropriation for Medical Lake OLYMPIA, Feb, 10—Convineed that they had been sold out in the legislature, Women's clubs of the en- Ure state entered @ protest in the house Friday, with the result that a bill to appropriate $150,000 for main- tenance of the industrial home and clinic at Medical Lake was tntro- duced in the house today by Repre- sentative Adam Beoler of King. Sufficient pressure was brought to bear on Speaker Reed that he advised Beeler to present the bill. Beeler agreed to do so and also stated that he would push the measure to the utmost. This may result in the re- vival of the clinio. SEATTLE COP ARRESTED IN B.C., LEAVES ‘Probe Continues; Chief Mystified but Determined to Know Facts As a result of his arrest by Canadian immigration officials last Wednesday morning for sur reptitious entry into the Dorin fon of Canada, and a resultant investigation of his activities at that time on the international border, Police Sergeant Edward W. Pielow, of Seattle, has de- cided to resign from the police department, according to Chief of Police W. B. Severyns. The probe into Plelow’s arrest was continued Saturday by Inspector Harry J. O'Brien, who has been given full authority to take action by Chief Severyns. “Plelow has told a pretty straight story of how he happened to be in Canada,” said Severyns Saturday, ut his decision to resign leads me to believe that there is something further behind the case which I have not yet fathomed. While I do not now believe that Plelow was en- gaged in running whisky, yet there Jare angles to the case which will warrant a yery thoro and exten- sive probe ofthe affair.” Pielow, who has been one of the principal figures in the investign- tions of the mystery of Patrolman’ Charles O. Legate's death in the ain St, garage, tzst March 17, de- jared that be had no companion when he was arrested early Wednas- day morning at Alder Grove, B. C, altho Canadian officials asserted they seized two men and two auto mobiles at the same time and place. One of the men gave his name as E. W. Plelow, Seattle police officer. His companion gave the name of Sommers. Reports which were tn. vestigated by Severyns to the effect that the other man was @ notorious whisky runner who served a prison term in state's prison and was re- Teased just before Legate’s death, (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) HAMMER PROBES ALLEGED FRAUD Perpetual Motion Machine President Held A chain of ee investors, extending thruout the country wherever he appears! was the scheme followed by F, L. Rawson, “M. 1, EB. EB. A. M., Ll. C. B..” said to be a noted British author and lecturer on psychology and one of the heads of the Power Generating Co., Deputy Prosecutor Ralph Hammer said Sat- urday. Hammer ts investigating Rawson's activities in the firm which is al leged to have sold stock fraudulently ‘to investors, claiming that it con- trolled the invention of a perpetual motion machine, William A. Faulk- ner, president of the firm, {s being held in the county jail on a charge of grand larceny for alleged fraudu- lent sales ta Seattle investors, Scores of dupes of the company, Hammer says, are besieging his of- fice asking for Information. Many of these firmly believe that the com- pany has discovered perpetual mo- tion, and that the Industry of the world will soon be revolutionized by the machine. Stock in the concern is selling In New York at §800 a share, Hammer has learned. It sells here for $30 a share. Hammer is tn communication with London officials to tip off the Brit- ish authorities to the promotion schemes of the company, which, ‘Hammer says, extend to all parts of this country, Great Britain and HE STAR is going to continue publishing its Saturday paper on Seattle time, just as it pub- lishes its Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri- day papers ‘on Seattle time. There is no more reason for publishing a Seattle Saturday paper on New York time than there is for publishing it on Timb uctoo time. The Star will now be left the only afternoon news- paper in the field to appear at an hour when it can possibly cover the news events of Saturday on Saturday. In other words, The Star is not going to join in the crazy pre-dating race which is being staged around the clock face, We believe it is because we PRINT THE NEWS that we have a 17,000 daily circulation lead over our afternoon competitor and our morning competitor. CONTINU nearly as big a lead over AND WE ARE GOING TO PRINTING TODAY’S NEWS TODAY. ganas: Sie