The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 13, 1923, Page 1

mM 1- and on uo 7 fers Lee Les ot WEATHER and We castert Temperature Maximum, 26. “VOLUME ednesday fair, con- derate north Last 3 Hour Minimum, 15. 1 red as 8 ane Matter May ®, 18 tla ceea a eea eo OTTO 99, at the Postofticn at Beattie, Wash under the Act of Congress March §, 1879 Oregon More snow began falling giving Old Man Winter a and the Washington and Oregon coasts. which had been raging over. Northwe y Tuesday morning. x | Home Brew Howdy, folks! After this we will disregard Mr, Salisbury and take the greundhog’s word for it. Satisbury for Sunday storm. Her diizard. We again. predicted fair weather @hd there was a snow ‘s hoping he predicts a want to get warm The man who discarded “heavier” the first warm day February is expected to recover. nis in Well, it’s only alcoho! to spring « quart of radiator ECONOMY NOTE Sleigh-riding across street car tracks is one way for a flapper tw get her hair bobbed. Any day t thi now we may expect to Chamber of Commerce ng Tutankhamen to He stood beside the allevs, His face war full of glee, He couldn't lose, he filled the ball Pull up with T. N. T. see Bob Bermann, Star reporter, haa returned from a trip to Mount Rob- son, British Columbia. Hls account of his experiences is very interesting eee : if he were to be ma Tooned for the rest of his life on « overt island, Billy Sunday chose the Congreesiona] Record. Sunday evidently doesn't want to take any chances on suffering from insomnia. one TEN BOOKS WE WOULD CHOOSE Ir ESERT ISLAND MAROONED ON A DP 1. Complete Speeches of Edwin J. Brown. Hooks. Hew to Take Off 20 Pounds Without Dieting. Modern Needlework. Every Man His Own Bartender. cee 2 1. When Li’ Gee Gee in taken to lunch by her Sweetie she always pays the check. She wouldn't do tt if ft wasn't for the fact that ladies must eat. oe Whenever her Sweetie wants to stage a real rough party, Li'l Gee Gee says, he takes her riding In a one-man car. eae Last Minute News: Mayor Brown charges Almighty caused blizzard in order to discredit the city hall ad- Ministration Conditions in the movies really are not right ; Young Coogan makes a fortune eer he retires each night; But take the Sennett bathing girl, you see her in the distance Without much on and shivering to carn @ bare existence. eee INACCURACY ‘The sporting editor fired his New assistant today because he Wrote a story in which he re- ferred to Jess Willard as a prize- fighter. ’ What This Country Needs:. A gov- ¢mment school for moonshinera. one Wonder if “The Stranger’s Ban- quet” at the Strand has its locale in & cafeteria? see The pocket billiard player who is Mtehing to win is apt to scratch. see CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB . Barber who shaves himself and then tries to talk himself into giving himself a face massage. eee One of our largest industries is lighted at the Northwest Products exhibit at the Bon Marche. Not a bottle of home brow {« on display one Landlords are doubtless a hard lot, ut at that not many of them keep their tenants in hot water. 6" 9 HIAWATHA (From the Want Ads) BY the shores of Cuticura, BY the sparkling Pluto Water, Taved the prophylactic Chic! Danterine, tair Buick’y daughter. Was loved by Instant Postum; Of Bunkint and Victrola; rapparent to the Mazda; Of the tribe of Coca-Coln M the Taniac strolled the lovern— Thru the Shredded Wheat they wan der ree’, ittle Wrigley @ the Voiry words of Postum AO Pyrene can quenets the fire BMY Appirin still the heartache: MY Prestolite desire Py, Uttle Dyer Kins.” 2 Baumol Chiclet Storm Shifts to Washington and Seattle Shivers; Mishaps Many | in Seattle, | on Seattle The snowstorm, t Oregon, shifted this Ww more had not been Predicted in the published forecast, Weather Observer George Salisbury said Tuesday Tuesday morning real nglehold 8 snow he had rather anticl- pated it. His forecast for Monday night and Tuesday was fair and con- tinued cold. The same prediction was made early Tuesday for Tues day night and Wednesday. Salis. bury sald he believed Seattle would have at least one more day of real | winter before the break-up comes | Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock the mercury dropped to 16 degr | above. It refused to yield much dur. | tug the day | While city utilities struggled thru | the storm, icy pavements exacted al | toll in broken limbs of unfortunate | pedestrians, and the number of auto ccldents due to them mounted steadily. Seattle motordom is driv | Ing carefully these days and Seattle Pedestrians are walking with minc- ing steps, but, despite caution, acct dents happen. Mrs. Alva Larkin, 1825 Nagle pl, suffered a fractured arm Monday when she stipped and fell on the {ee at Broadway and Pine st. Police Chief Severyns warned all motorists | to use extreme caution and citizens were urged to clean the pavements tn front of their homes. There are scores of idie men seeking such | work Bus Ines were running on time In all directions Tuesday, the drifts having been removed from roads Monday. Some trouble was encountered with fey rails when the street care took the tracks Tuesday morning, but the rage wae being over: come by, colt were it increas ‘ingly to keep Up their sched ules, due to high snow banks In the mountains and whatry conéitions east (if them. At the Cancade tunnel, on the Great Northern, the snow is reported 98 Inches deep and the temperature 10 dogrees below zero. Repairs were being made Tuesday | to telephone and telegraph lines to| districts xouth of Seattle, where Sun: | day's storm snapped off 75 telephone poles and severed communication with the southwestern part of the state | Several street Mehting ctrouits were out in residential districts Mon- day night, but lighting circuits sup- plying the residences themselves | were unaffected, the city light de-| partment reported. Street lights are | considered of least importance and are not repaired untf} all other ctr. | cults are in good order. The city} system is remarkably free from trou- dle, officials sald Tuesday. eee |Low Temperatures Thruout Northwest | PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 12—The “spring blizzard” continued in the | Pacific Northwest today. Snow was | falling heavily west of the Cascades, | | with weather bureau predictions of | | continued fall for several hours. | | No reports bad come in regarding | wire conditions, but it war believed | that they are uniformly better than | | yesterday. Trains were having no |trouble maintaining thelr schedules. Low temperatures were roported| | from many points. ‘ ‘The reading at Portland at 3:30 fA. m. was 18 above zero; § degrees | below zero at Spokane, Wash.; and 16 above at Baker, Ore., indicating | that the storm is moving southward. eee Coast Storm Is | Broken Tuesday SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13.—The storm which swept the Pacific slope Sunday and Monday was broken to- day, according to the weather bureau. With the exception of Idaho and Oregon all of the coast states were promised fair weather, altho possibly cold. Heavy snowfall which accompanied | the storm resulted In annulment of | all western Pacific trains out of| Reno, over the Sierras, yesterday, but nervice was to be restored today. Snowfall was general thruout the | coant. WEATHER FANS BOO || WHEN GR@UNDHOG |) GEORGE LOSES OUT | BY HOMER BREW OR the second consecutive F time this week, George (“Old Groundhog”) Sailsbury has fan ned dismally, Pinch-hitting for Frisco Fred, the Sand-lot Horror, George pro: || dicted fair and cold weather for |] Tuesday. |] Thousands of tans booed when || they saw @ miniature blizzard lope over the hom» plate, retiring || jeorgo and the ‘eattle weather |] team. | George \m at with the prediction colder for tomorrow. The rocters jor the home woather bureau team are hoping that he will knock the aesrono. |] metar for a goal, but #0 far it Jooka aa If George iv due for an: |} other tat again today of fair and }} vo in his batting average, | | ate. | ave. la ehange Rep. Charles Heighton, who today will demand of his traducers at Olympia that they go thru with their attack on him or foot the bill incurred for the printing of his speech, which they had circulated in the hope of creating opposition to Heighton, and which has proved a boomerang which the old crowd is trying hard to dodge. Olympia Awaits Demand “down Between Young for Show- and Political Machine OLYMPIA, Feb. 13.—Representa- tive Charles (“Fightin’”) Helghton anounced Tuesday morning he would demand, before the day is over, that Representative John Hanks ether continue the attack made on him last week for a speech Helxhton made before the King County Democratic club, in Seattle, a week ago Satur- day, or pay the state for the expense of having Heighton’s xpeech mimoo- graphed and circulated, Heighton’s traducers, who were ac tive last week before they began to hear from home, are today sllent. Not a murmur could be heard at Olympla Tuesday morning, excopt from those persons who have rallied to Helghton's ald and are ready to support him the moment the affair is brought up again. Heighton expects opposition to any attempt he may make now to force the lasue. The house is in for @ busy day, and tt Is likely, Helghton says, | that Hanks, Sims and the others who were loud last week in their threats first to impeach him and then to “spank” him, will now seek to | ground that there ts not sufficient | time to devote to the subject. | Meantime, Heighton’s mall is get- | ting heavier and heavier with con- | gratulatory letters from various seo tionn of the «tate, The mennages began coming when The Star printed the Heighton speech in full, pubtish- Ing for the first time the charges | Heighton made that whisky and ex- pensive meals were playing a big part in influencing the votes of many lawmakers on bills sought by apectal interests, STOVE BURSTS; WOMAN IS HURT Frozen Water Pipes Cause Severe Injuries The first casuaity of the cold wave was recorded Tuesday when Mra. Ellie B. Sadler, 28, was severely tn- jured in an explosion of a coal range that completely wrecked the Lunch Box cafe, $7 Lander st., at 8:30 a. m. Tuesday. Mrs, Sadler had just started a fire in the stove when the explosion oc- curred. She was thrown violently to the floor, her clothing torn from her by the force of the blast. Pieces of stove iron «truck her body, in- fileting severe bruises, ‘The interior of the restaurant was demolished. Investigation by the police disclosed that the explosion was due, apparently, to frozen water pipes in the water tank and stove. Mrs. Sadler was taken to the city hospital, suffering from burns which extend over her entire body, She has a chance for recovery, physicians sald. Mrs, Sadler lives at 1414 Spring with her husband and two chil- dren, She ia the proprietor of the cate. THUG FIRES. _ AT OFFICERS| Surprised while prowling near the Oakland automobile agency, at Minor and Pike st, early Tuesday morning, a thug fired one shot point | blank at A. BE. Long, merchant pa- trolman, according to Long. ‘The officer then drew his own weapon, and as the man turned and fled, fired five shots at him, nono of them taking effect. A police squad was detailed to search the district, but failed to locate the thug, who is suspected of an attempt to rob the nuto agency. DR. FREDERICK PADELFORD | will address the King County Alum. ni association luncheon in the L. C, Smith Building restaurant, Wednes day noon, when it will be decided tf in the regular meeting date ja advienble, GERMAN RAIL LINES SEIZED All Roads Are Taken Over by Invaders DUSSELDORF, Fwb. 13.—All the railroads of the Ruhr were taken over today by the French and Bel- gians. A proclimation was Issued = an- will be under orders of the occupying forces, German railway workers will be employed if they agree to obey orders, ‘Trains passing thru ocoupled terri+ tory will carry a German as a@ hos- tage in the cab with the engineer to prevent sabotage. The railways are to be run chiefly for the benefit of the French and Bel- glans, Traffic to meet the needs of German civilians will be resumed, however, as fast as German railway men return to work under military orders. Wenel and Emmerich, cites on the Holland border of the Rhineland, where important erman customs station, vere occupied by and Belgians, acting in unison today, At the former city, which has a population of about 26,000, the allied troops selzed the customs offices and the city hall, but found the raflway station de: verted and all rolling stock and ma: terial removed. At Emmerich the customs house was occupied by troops, some little trouble there, and finally several German policemon, who re- funed to palute the invade arrested, Realstance of inhabltanty of the occupled districts has increased with each new measure and # half a dozen citlow are declared in a state of slege. At Eawen the French today took over two of the largest hotels, discharg: ing the help when the latter refused to serve French officers, Hexen ahopkeepers and restaurant proprietors put partially into effect thelr ban against the invaders and trouble resulted, the Irench clearing the Kaiserhof hotel at the bayonet poirt when they could not. obtatr (Puen to Page 7, Colunin 6) aqueich his counter attack, on the| nouncing that henceforth the roads| There was) i, were | Per Tear, by Mall, 91.60 The Seattle Star RUARY GOES FREE IN MURDER CASE jAlleged Slayer of| Major Cronkhite} Wins Long, Bit-| ter Fight Captain Robert Rosenbluth, former engineer officer at Camp Lewis, won his long fight Tues day to avold trial for the alleged murder of Major Alexander P. Cronkhite during maneuvers at the camp in October. , when he was ordered reles from custody in New York by United States Commissioner Hiteheock, The comminaioner, the hearing on an application for Rosenbluth's extradition, din. missed the removal complaint and | @irected that the $40,000 bai! money | be restored to those who fur ninhed it Hitehcock court in Tacoma, Jurisdiction over the because the camp where Cronkhite was killed was not at that time govern- ment property. Owing to the announced decision of Prosecuting Attorney J. W. Sel- den, of Tacoma, that Rosenbluth would not be tried in Pterce county who presided at + ruted that the federal Wash. had no ‘cane courts, he probably will never be brought to trial for the alleged murder, the New York decision pre-| venting any effort to bring Rosen-| biuth to trial in a federal court Again, Conflicting testimony has featuerd the case thruout. The known facts are as follows: Maj, Alexander P. Cronkhite, 24, One October morning tn 191%, the (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) ‘SURVEY COUNTY OFFICE COSTS Taxpayers to Name Board to Probe Expense A commission of expert account- Ants, who will survey all county of. ficen to test efficiency of employes and recommend staff reductions, will |be named by the Chamber of Com |merce, the Rotary club and the Tax- | payers’ league. A resolution providing for this action was passed by the board of county commiasioners Tuesday with- out a disenting vote after repre- sentatives of the Taxpayers’ league, the Tax Reduction council, various | real estate dealers and citizens had | Appeared tn favor of such a move. * | The resolution wax introduced by |Commiasioner Frank Paul of the | South district, who said that he had | pledged his supporters to make an ef. | j\fort to cut county expense: The Yat survey of county bust |ness by @ committeeof experts, held | several years ago, cost the county | $10,000, ft 1s mid. Nothing of a |tangible nature was gained by its | efforts, An & second part of hia efficiency and economy program, heralded thru the press last week, Paul introduced | resolution requiring that all county | offices open at 8 a, m. and remain jopen until 5 p, m. and that eight |hours’ work be required of all em- ployes. This resolution was referred to Promouting Attorney Malcolm Douglas for a deciston on its validity. William A. Gaines, chairman of the board of commissioners, bitterly denounced a cartoon in a Seattle paper picturing the county employes sitting on a bench smoking and watching the clock. “That ix the most unjust eritictsm of a group of public employes who for the paxt four years have worked hard and faithfully that I have ever seen,” Gaines sald. Gaines declared that he wav elected on an economy platform and planned and originated the economies put Into effect by the hoard which have saved the county (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) Your Home Should Be Comfy There is nothing #0 uncomfort- able as having to live in a home that Is cold and baro, Why shouldn't you have a good home when they are so easy to find with the help of a WANT AD? et $250 CASH f-room bungalow, located tn North Mind. Wxeeptionally well bullt, also attractive, and ready. to move into; full cement bane- mont; Indirect Highting; fresh white finish in kitehen and bath, A home to be proud of at $2,500, on eaay terme Turn to the Want Ad Columns NOW and take advantage of this comfy home [stage doors with a ——— “TWO C +BOMB PLOTS CHARGED 10 DETECTIVES! INTS IN SEATTLE. SLEUTHS ARE ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY! Witness in Probe of Wall Street Blast Charges Grim Trickery CHICAGO, Feb. 13—Ripping the veil from an alleged gigantic conspiracy of private detecti agencies to extort money from business men for investigation of radical activities, Albert 4. Ballin today told of the probe into the Wall Street bomb explo- m in the autumn of 1920, Testifying for depositions to be | used at the trial of William Z. Fou arrested in a raid on commit nists at Bridgeman, Mich., Bailin, @ former investigator for private de tective agencies, claimed: , 1. A representative of the Burns detective agency had offered to fur- nish him with a bomb which he was |to baye thrown at ficial. No, that isn’t a chrysanthemum that Miss Vivian Russell ts wearing. Merry Widow” company. —Pat's portratt by BY BOB BERMANN The wicked clubman, who haunts pocketful of Umousines, lavallieres and lingerte, fa the bane of the existence of [chorus girla in the novel—but not | week they charged him four bits in real life, according to Miss Vivian Rusrell, one of the "Maxine girls” in the revivai of “The Merry Widow,” now being played at the Motropolitan theater. “The villain in my plece,” sald Miss Russell Tuesday, “is the hotel | clerk. Honest, if there weren't any hotel clerks, life would be just one grand little dream for me.” All of which serves to introduce Pat, Miss Russell's pet Angora Poodie—and the reason for her antipathy for the ubiquitous hotel clerk. Pat ia as tnoffensive looking a pup as ever chewed a satin slipper —yot he is responsible for the sin- ister shadow that casts gloom over Miss Russell's entire existence. Because, you see, Mixx Russell loves Pat, and insists upon taking him with her wherever “The Merry Widow” company goes. And, as most hotels have a heartless preju- dice against permitting dogs in their rooms, that furnishes her with trouble with a capital T in just about every town she visits, “And it's no soft job,” Miss Russell declared. “It's a whole lot easier— so I've been told—to bring a couple of quarts down from Vancouver than it ts to smuggle Pat into a hotel bed- room. “Once I thought I had the system. 1 used to drape him around my neck, going thru the lobby-—he looka sort of like a, monkey-fur throw, don’t you think? But the darn purp wouldn't let me get away with It, Just as T would be ready to step into the elevator he'd start yapping— and who ever heard of a set of furs that barked? “Since then I've been taking him in In a knitting bag-——and if he barks then I just pretend that it's me, and FIRE WRECKS FIVE GARAGES Bursting Gas Tanks imperil Firemen in Storm In the midst of a snowstorm Tues: day, fire of unknown origin broke out in a string of five private gar- Ages at Queen Anne ave. and Harrk son at, destroying the buildings and four automobiles, The flames threat- ened for a time to destroy the Strath: more apartments, No, 7 Harrison st., and a small apartment house at 315% First ave, N,, owned by John H. Hirst, Hirst also owned the garages and two of the automobiles which were destroyed, Iiremen were ham- pered in their efforts to cheek the flames by the intense cold and snow, They were also menaced by the dan ger of exploding gasoline tanks, The lons ts expected to run high Into the thousands of dollars. Acting Mire Marshal Robert L. Laing is invest wating the cause of the flanes, t It's just her pet pooch, Pat, mascot of “The Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers that I've got @ bad cold. “Sometimes we get away with it~ and sometimes we don't, In New Orleans they threw us out of the | Grunwald, and down in Portland last | day room rent. | don’t you, bat?” | Incidentatiy, Pat got his name not from bis nationality, but from the fact that he was born on St. Patrick's day, two years ago. You lead @ dog’s life, ‘UNIVERSITY TO GET $500,000 Big Sum Is Assured for Buildings OLYMPIA, Feb. 13.—That the University of Washington will re ceive a building fund of approximate- ly a half a million dollars for the next two years was the statement made Tuesday morning by Senator Dan Landon, chairman of the senate appropriation committee, “The statement that the university was allowed nothing for buildings is absolutely false,” Landon declared. “First they will get close to $250,000 from fees; then there will be over $100,000 from rentals of university lands. Supplementing this is the in- terest on the university bank de- posits, “These items were intentionally left out of the budget bill when it was drafted, by friends of the uni- versity," Landon said. It will be put in the bill, however, before it cdémes up for passage. “We did not match the amount raised by the university in fees,” Landon said. “This has been custo- mary in the past, but this year we did not do it. It was because of this that It has been broadcasted that the Appropriations committee provided no money for buildings.” Besides the half million dollars that will result from these sources, an appropriation of $265,218 for capi. tn} outlay was in the budget, Landon declares, “Too much politics has featured the university's fight for funds this session,” Landon said, “Friends of the university have tried to arouse public opinion against the legislature in & hope of getting everything they asked for, They have been unsuo- cessful, however.” MERCHANT HELD ON CHARGE OF SELLING CIGARETS TO GIRLS Je" KLEMOVITCH, a store: Keeper at 1214 Harrison st., was arrested by Sheriff Matt Starwich Monday, charged with selling clgarets to minor school girls, ‘The arrest followed inves: tigation of Klemoviteh’s activities by operatives working for the Se Aittle Achool board. Fix bail. was nlaced at $250. recarmencgratarancemarmecenesin sisinin acted! 2. T. J. Cooney, an official of the Thiel detective agency, sug- gested that he arrange to have 4 bomb thrown in the New York financial district, “or at Mor gan.” Ballin told of the battle between the two agencies to obtain control of the investigation into the Wall Street bomb plot, in order to get the financial benefit of the probe. T# |read @ letter which he received from Cooney, in which it was suggested that Bailin get in touch with “some Jews tn Philadel. phia or Germans in New York with whom you (Bailin) are connected” and Investigate their connection with parties, . ‘This, Baftin said, would have givet the Thiel agency an opportunity ft take control of the investigation obtain money provided for the p At the time he received the Bajlin was also in the employ the Burns agency. THIEL AGENCY DENIES CHARGES The Thiel agency today denied lies,” the statement declared. Burns to have him arrested for if what he said was untrue. . Bailin read letters from mat sources In which he was declared (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) Flashes} | FIRE INJURES SCORES jman is dead, one dying, two missins | and scores are in hospitals as the | sult of a fire which swept the Ba | ble theater and two other busin districts here last night. pat” | eee i | SIDETRACK SUBSIDY WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. administration subsidy bill wag tracked in the senate today in fas of the British debt settlement This action was taken after pat leaders had conferred with dent Harding and had then vamped the program announced y terday of considering the two mei ures concurrently. _ eee ESCAPE FROM TRAIN PARSONS, Kan., Feb. 13.—Thi three soldiers guarding Private Franklin Wheeles on his trip to Sheridan, Wyo., for treatment in government sanitarium, made ni move to capture their prisoner when: {dow near here today and escaped, with him thru the window, see LITTLE CHILD DEAD PORTLAND, Feb, 13.—The littl body of Violet Nassilla, 8 months old, was in the city morgue today. He aunt made the fatal mistake of giv. ing the child a dose of disinfectant a mild poison, instead of some med cine “in the same kind of « bottle, ‘The corner returned a verdict of ace’ cidental death, eee FRANKLIN, N. H,, Feb, 18.—Tw hundred children, inmates of thi New Hampshire home for orphans, were led tognfety before fire, whiel the home today, . . LOS ANGELES, Feb, 13.—A lone bandit this morning held up Sol Cor $1,000 worth of gold. that followed, the bandit was fore his escape with the wold, He carpied fo guns, one with a Maxim silence: some high of said he had |charges made by Ballin and d : | the man had never worked for them, — “All of his testimony is « tissue Of | on the stand Bailin defied William J, oe SYRACUSE, N. Y., Feb. 13 —One AS aad he jumped thru a Pullman car wins i Wheeles’ took his guards’ trousers: 200 FLEE FROM FIRE - broke out In the nurwery, destroyed: hen, proprietor of a jewelry store In | the center of the olty, and escaped | with $55,000 worth of diamonds and Tn the pursuit) 9 < to drop thodiamonds, but made ond 8 = 2 an npn ec ~ sed oh