The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 14, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER »night and Thursday rain; not FORECAST 0. 304. snow or ry) Fotered as Second Matter Ma. 4, 1899, at the Postoffion at Seattle, W Se WASH., WEDNESDAY, ( as experienced in year: Transportation, both i tually paralyzed, acute danger of roofs cc of other accidents, And with more snow However, Seattle has Howdy, folks! cold? So is ours, sn't the groundhog that saw dow and retired into his hole until spring. It wag the janitor. cee Is your igloo We never anticipated this kind of weather when we decided not to give Gus a Christmas present! a e46 Married men have @ good excuse for staying af the club these nights { they went home, they might slip aud break their hip pocket. The Piblé says, “The just man falls seven times a day,” but Pales- tine was never like this. eee What This City Needs Sidewalks Softer eee FAMOUS SAYINGS “Come on down into the cellar and get warm.” bee Economy of motion ig now prac ticed by Father. Just one trip to the basement and he can fill both the furnace and himself. eee This ie St. Valentine's Day and the Flappers are saying to their Sheiks “Won't you bé my valentino?” cee Valentine Day was started 1,500 years before Washington's birthday, but it is only OUR VALENTINES To Mayor Brown— Doctor, doctor, A bull we'e send thee, But we fear he'd Die of envy To Gov. Hart — The Kind Words Club and Us We send to thee That simple song, “I hear You Coyling me!” To Count Du Barry- Oh, Georgie Dear, Our best regards, You're sure the best Of all the bards. see Councilman Lou Cohen proposes faw permitting physicians to exceed speed limit when going to very sick patients. Why not let the poor devils die a natural death? This is Lent, the season of re- Pentance, and in some homes the only thing that will get drunk will be water, ye All worldly amusements will be shunned during the Lenten season, but this doesn’t apply to listening to @fter-dinner speeches. TOUGH If you think it is hard to ab- stain from meat and candles dur- ing Lent, give a thought to Gov. Hart abstaining from his chew of tobacco, In some homes where Lent is rigorously observed by abstinence from meat, the boys eat so many eggs that they ca they see a hen, see kle every time ak We've eaten so many eges in our life that every time we see a malted milk we feel like jumping into it. & naeemenenys | ee One of the things we are going to swear off of is jests on King Tu tankhamen, Perhaps we are but we shall always suspect the edi- tors of Vanity Fair of trying to kid the public when they printed a pic- ture of Jack Dempsey posed at “The Thinker.” unduly cautious, CALL UP THE MORGOR MISSING—Hax anybody seen Pietro Puldizer? ‘The last heard of him he was staggering towneds Lewis Crossing, Bat- Urday evening, and was going in rection of the Aberdeen stills. Grace, Md., Democrat, ES sat We've often stopped to ponder On fate’s peculiar ways; For nearly all our famous men Were born on holidays. a eat All abord for the 4:15, BINUAPORE, Feb, 14.—M@&, Helene Chartram, a French widow, employs Houth Sea cannibals to work her rubber plantation in the Murua islands There is no use being unduly alarmed. be absurd to deny that the situation is serious. week before it now. | attle today is in the grip of the worst blizzard it 8. But it would n the city and outside All public utilities are operating under almost unsurmountable difficulties. There is ollapsing under the snow, and and continued cold predicted, the probabilities are that conditions will grow consid- erably worse before they y begin to improve. passed thru worse situations Irregularities in | Light Department Discovered When Probers Meet |} A shakeup in the c ment th may partm heads Wedne ¥. when a public hearing by the accountants of the state au diting department, held in Corpora- tion Counsel T. J. L. Kennedy's of. flow, revealed what were termed fla xht depart present de oreshadowed remov grant irregularities and bad prac tices in Hight department account- ing. “I have no comments to make as to what will be done with the present staff of the lighting department un til I have received a full report from the auditors,” Mayor Edwin J. Brown said. Brown was an interested listener jduring Wednesday morning's hear jing. | The Pacis | Possession Lamp Supply Co. held of more | 18 months, and did not return them j until the irregularities; were uncov. } ered by state auditors, it was revealed | Ross tentified that an agreement jexisted for the trading of obsolete }lamps for new ones. The accountants revealed that on June 11. 1921, the jetty delivered 1,000 globes the jlamp concern and three days later bought back from the firm 1.500 of the same type. All of the lamps de. livered to the company, it was re. vealed, were never paid for until a few weeks ago when State Examiner |F. G. Whaley conferred with Ross jon the transaction Ross testified |that he immediately directed Burton | Stare, president of the lamp concern, to return the globes. | Ross protested that he was work. ing for the beat interests of the city thruout and that he frequently bene. fited by exchanging obsolete lamps | |for new types. Stare gave the same | testimony, J. A. Perry, light department store- keeper, testified that Iamps to the Pacific Co. on orders from the city light department. He admitted that he had taken a num ber of automobile tires for his pri vate car from the city supply and had never paid for them, and that (Turn to Page 9, Column 7) WOULD REDUCE COUNTY WAGES Paul’s Economy Move Hits at Salaries of Men By John W. Nelson A carefully organized and powerful attempt to cut wages of county em- ployes Ja behind the so-called “econ- omy” program advanced by County | Commissioner |south district at Tuesday's necting of the board. This fact was established by The Star Wednesday, following an in- vestigation of procedure that 1s open to the three expert account. ants who will be named to make 4 survey of county offices. Commissioner Paul inmself con- |tirmed this, admitting that the only possible means by which the com- missioners can lower the payrolls of the various elective officers of the county is “by lopping a few dollars a month off the wages of their em: ployes. The “economy program,” it is as- serted, ia backed by powerful finan. cial and property-holding interests, among whom are the Associated In- dustries, the Building Owners’ asso- clation, the South District Industrial Improvement association and various tax bodies, whose membership is largely composed of heavy property holders, Should the program fail to effect an immediate reduction in wages of county employes, the present cam- naign will be used as a foundation make an attack upon them at the naxt meeting of the county budget board next fall, when funds for 1924 will he designated (Turn to Page 9, Column 7) than $10,000 | | Worth of electric bulbs for more than | he delivered | Storm Serious? Sure, It Is, but Smile and Show the Old NTORIAL) in the past—and will in the future. The only thing to reme mber is the old Seattle spirit 4“ combination of prompt action and patient toler ance. There's need for b The first city streets, so that stree can be resumed under something like tions This situation is nd most pressing neces. oth of these ity is to clear the et car and pedestrian traffic normal condi too urgent to depend upon the ordinary functions of the street cleaning depart ment. Mayor Brown and emergency town at work at action is taken t ably once » stree' t | | BY HORTENSE SAUNDER W YORK, Feb, 14.—Who will the be aptains of industry ation hence? Who will tles of Rockefeller, and Schwab? Answer—the Indien ‘or men are stepp @ gener don the man Gary, Morgan « out of the “white collar” field and the col! girl in replacing the gum-chewing I flapper in the stenographic world. | “Rut with a purpose,” warns Mr Helen Speir, placing manager of the | women’s urtment of the Ameri jcan Employment exchange. |} “Today I find jobs for more girls | with college degrees than without them,” : the college | sirl with her languages, her expen jsive training and her degrees isn't going out as a stenographer at $ a week just because she loves th click of the typewriter keys or be the say steps to place every WOMEN TO HOLD BIG JOBS the city council should take unemployed man Within 24 hours after suct ts would be at least son re } Mrs. Helen Spier ash. under the Act of Congress march 9, SBRUARY 14, 1923. I But the public shouldn't householder and every busi that the snow is cleared of immediately walk, if possible The greatest precaution accidents, Keep roofs cl tle builders rarely their plans 1019 Seattle Spi out in the str Per Year, by Ma The Seattle Star rit and We'll Every should see to it wait for this move. ness man f in front of his property eet as well as on the side- s should be taken to prevent ber eat ed of snow AUse take blizzards into consideration in As for the rest—just be a sport. Remember that conditions ¢ en't normal—and fret- ting and fuming won't help matters. If the phone girl doesn't 4 KILLED BY BLIZZARD: 4 HOMEN HURT Man Drops Dead on Car and 2 Oth- ers Perish; Acci- dent Toll Growing Four men were dead W |four women were sev ‘ednerday which has rag noe the first of the woek in Seattle ‘The lint of dead are: I. ¥, Ship man, 61, 1631 16th ave. W Frank P. Harrin, 49. 12 Maynard ave an unidentified man, who dropped dead on a Phinney ave. street car, and Willis B. Harder, 65, 2218 W Barrett st. Shipman collapsed at Sixth ave. W. and W. Blaine wt. He war teda when carried to the home of A. A Evans, 602 W. Haine st, at a. m. Wednesday, Shipman had been walting £ ate car with his son, A. W. Shipman A the Cold is believed to have affected his heart. The unide man boarded the Phinney « of Fremont and cause she’s looking for a rich hus-| collapsed In the blind nowstorm band j that rwept t tree The elty | “She's looking for a ce for her- | ambula wax called at Westlake welt in the business wortd. She | ave. and Pine e#t.. where the car was | knows there are as big opportunities | stalled, owing to a frozen switch for her to make a million aw for men| but the man had He had no if *he'll start quietly at the bottom | papers on him to show who he wa and make her place. Stenography ig| He wan dreaved in blue overalls, a the bottom rung in her career. brown overcoat, a soft black hat and You can get a first clase stenog-| wore canvan gloves. He was of me rapher with lege education to- | dium height wore a sandy mus $20 to $25 a|tache. The body is held by the coro cretary may | ner ‘ou can’t keep , E. Hardy, 65, of 2216 W onee the: made gc And going ahead women h men ure going to sta Krab off the big f or so from now it fun to make your million as it tunes. A ¢ will be a much to marry Parrett st., dropped dead in the shortly before noon Wednesday (Turn to Page 9, Column 6) HART MACHINE PROBE SOUGHT now near BRITISH BLOCK U.S, WARSHIPS Wenn ists ween FRENCH TRAINS Mounting Near Break United Press Summary France made another bid for Brit today Works Le Tro- against Germar Minister of Public to let f troops, p the Rhine Britain's refusal to permit troop: 1 trains i thru the British zone on {Ruhr from also will carry hostages up the Rhine to the Lorraine smelters, Premier Bonar Law he hia government opposes such trans port and may refuse the French re quest. In parliament! labor will cer tainly bring pressure to bear |the government for ‘Troquer’a demand Germany ¥ | (Turn to FRENCH FINE with fa Page 9, Commn 2) BASEN, Feb. 14.—The city of Gel nenkirchen today refused to fine of 100,000,000 marks levied by of two French officers Monday. immediately were arrested and ment of the fine, to Gen. De Goutte to demand release of the police force, which was arrest the 1| treaty of thelr own will if this ques tlon can be tested,” vaders were unable to diseover | identity of the persons who wound the officers. {ah assistance in the economic war| quer went to London to ask Britain | Stoddard narrowly guarded by French] accident in the manned trains to cross the Cologne| above th zone has seriously hampered the|manship saved the two ships from |! Frank Paul of the|French in their plan to cut off the/more serious injury unoceupied Germany, | stroyern seize coal at the pit heads and move | ft In heavily guarded trains, which | « indicated upon rejection of Le the| GERMAN CITY pay a the French becaure of the shooting Leading bankers of Gelsenkirchen the| French will attempt to enforce pay-|of war Citizens are planning a deputation | questic ed on masse yesterday when the in-| result IN COLLISION Tension in Seized Zone Is Destroyer Stoddard Ram- | | med on Maneuvers | ABOARD U. 8. 8. a 700 miles south of Point Loma, | ), Feb. 14.—Rammed the U. |8. 8. Paul Hamilton, the U. 8,8. by caped a serious ific feet maneu- lena bay | vers after leaving | A gaping hole Jout in the bow of the water line. was Stoddard Just Expert non~ Both are do- IRELAND TRUCE TS AGREED ON |De Valera Accepts Offer to Cease Fighting LONDON Feb. 14 monn De | Valera has accepted Willlam Cos: Krove's proposal that the revels cease fighting and leave th ree State or republic toa 4 according to the Dally Mail cor indent, eo State president advanced the suggestion in a recent Interview with the United Press, "Lat ngland remove and pledge hei ita of the of republic A replied, question of cite, | Dublin the threat elf to abide by on the State," | the re plebiscite Vale 6} De according Mail, ‘We are willing to a Irishmen will hey tablish the republic and accept the MELVILLE} Department Survey OLYMPIA, Feb. 14. —With the introduction Wednesday morning before the hor ‘a resolution calling for a sweeping Investiga- tion of the Hart code workings and the activities of lobbyists at the state eapitol, Representative Charles Heighton, of King coun- ty, for the se time in the | past (wo weeks exploded a bomb: shell in the party machine of the house The resolution is the result of the | failure on the part of to continue charges started Jagainst him last week because of a speoch made before the King County Democratic club in Seattle a week | Saturday | “Some of the members wanted an | investigation,” Helghton sald, “Now | they will have a to get be | hina \ real one tain mem. solution reads Now, Therefore, Be It the House of Ff Senate Concurring. Resolved, presentatives, That a joint { five repre inted by the to be ap by | the jcommittee consisting « nentatives to be apy Japeakur and five senators pointes by the president of the nd with trains running from all) | each political party In the) points despite bitter weather, no house and senate to have at least! ghortage of food supplies is ox one member from each house on | pected. uch committee; and it shalt be the} phere were no sertous delays in duty of said committee to present a) train very! All railroad com: bin to this legislature before the] panies reported doth freight and | fiftieth day of the session creating A survey or | whose dut it wehall be to make a comprehen in igation of the |rmatters herein set forth, and upon the completion of such investigation to make a report of ity findings and recommendations, which report shall ve be published and filed with the ooretary of state not later than June 1, 1924, and that such com linittee shall be given full power to employ experts, investigators, sub: poena witne records and docu ments, hold hearings and to provide for the payment of thely actual ex | ben: es and all actual expenses inet dental to such investieation investigating committee | answer your call promptly TRUCK DRIVERS MAY CARRY PEDESTRIANS FOR 10 CENTS EACH QPATTLE truck thar the after 1 Chief of Police William B eryns and Railway Superin tendent D, W. Henderson and George F. Ru of the public utilities department Failure of the to their way thru the ice and rriers compelled the au ‘or twe ride nference be wl wtreet cars sation, the To prevent truck and n profiteering, eryna declared that arrests would follow if any driver charged more than 10 cents @ ride. WIDE REGION STORM SWEPT ore fro Below Zero Gales | in Middle West; Trains Stalled | Heavy damage thruout the Northwest by t 1 of the ‘orm th northern was caused today Adie West and most severe biiz xa wi er nruout the was eathe central and ntates weeping eastward w Zero wa a wide area in the Ww snow, fr by y by th stock com: was damaged serious ing temperatures. LL suffered. Rajlroad and wire was tied up. temperatures come on of a gale that carried 40 to 80 miles an hour. The od degrees 60 w within 12 at atures orthw is fon Sub-zero the wings mn mercury dro} be to hours “Minton, to 2 Temper in the N The blizzard across the historic ot No Dakota. buck th gales awirled over tracks there Continued cold weather the week wus forecast MANY TOWNS ranged below reac Breck No and climax nridge flats trains could which thruout ARE CUT OFF} PORTLAND, Feb. Intense cold wave winter reached its crest between midnight last night and dawn this morning. | Snow and ice covered northern and eastern Oregon, and southern and eastern Washington, High winds raked the entire area, driving the 14.—The most of the snow into mountainous drifts, The weather prediction at 7:30 this morning was for continued cold and snow, At Portland thermome- tors registered 15 degrees above at that hour, PORTLAND SCHOOLS ORDERED CLOSED hools in Portland were yesterday and will continue today closed closed Street were clogged tracks with to free the rails of s drifts, ‘Thousands cars hampered by plows fighting ted lee and of persons tiving in of the city were obtain transportation to downtown busin section and s§ houses and factories ring to run on short |time thruout the day or close down | altogether + No shortage outlying sections unable the to of fuel was reported, | passenger trains a few minutes late. tern Oregon apy ared to have |borne the brunt of the storm, | ‘Temperatures in Kastern Oregon jand \astern Washington ranged | from”) degrees below zero to 8 de- | grees above. Astoria, Ore, reported heavy snow and a high northeast wind, The same conditions prevailed at and Contralia, in southwestern Washing- ton The Dalles, Ore. reported | snow falling with thermometers reg- Kelso istering 14 dogreos above zero, Ar. }lington, farther east, reported zero woather but no snow, At Hood Riy- (Puen ty a Column a Vent! sh don’t swear at that any one p naturally you'll b If you can't get a street car, department son down, are doing th and they If be ex And, last but not | automobile, will be the blizzard continues. it a whole lot easier for them ner. ion could be ir your lights go out—get ast, if STORM IS — Buck Our Way Thru Okeh doing three times the work uve to wait now and then. The workers there, from Dave Hender- utmost ll be gladder than you when they ean. sted to stand up under tons of snow. you hare it with others. forced to walk to and from work as long as and the “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. HM expected to perform, so don't blame the railway to give service— idle. Wires can’t a © still operating an Thousands of people motorists can make WORST IN | 7 YEARS Deaths, Accidents and Paralysis of — Business Follow Blinding Snow; Seattle and the North Pacific coast, chilled by icy blasus that have gripped the Northwest since Sunday, wakened Wednesday morning snowbound and completely at the merey of the Storm King. With four persons dead, | that it has seen since 1916. | And there was no relief in sight. The weather bureau : | dicted continual snow for afternoon and night—and possibly — longer. Seattle practically was jeolated as & result of the snow. Train nervice —both railway and interurban—was | badly demoralized, and there was se- | rious wire trouble. | All public utilities were operating under desperate difficulties. Practi- cally every car line in town was out of service, and the few that re- mained open were unable to keep traffic moving more than spasmodic- ally, As a result, all taxi and auto- mobile livery companies were wamped Most bus lines stopped operating entirely for the present, the roads outside the city being impassable. The phone company was capped by shortage of operators to such an extent that service was so slow that it became almost non-exist- ent at intervals, Both city light and Puget Sound Power & Light Co. subscribers suf-| fered inconvenience from wires that work Wednesday spite of this, all commercial houses morning—but, in downtown were | that business standstill, Business hours shortened considerably by | stores, and some said they might so short of practically was at were close ome schools opened in the morn- K, but closed shortly afterward, due to the inability of both teachers and pupils to get thru the snow. All high schools closed at 10 a, m. eee IN CASCADES Hundreds of men and women were |marooned somewhere in the Cas- Jeades Wednesday as a result of the jstorm, | The crack Chicago, Milwaukee & |St. Paul flyers, the Olympian and the }Columbian, were snowbound in the | ero | mountains, with no immediate pros. | | pect of being liberated. The wire situ- ation was so bad that the local rail- jroad office was unable to announce |the exact position of either train, but |the opinion was expressed that they would be able to resume their trips before nightfall, ‘The eastbound Mil- (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) STORM UNEQUAL TO ONE IN 1916 | Buildings Collapsed in Ter- | rific Blizzard BY STEVE ARNETY Seattleites who are forced to plow their way to work thru the drifts, Jand to battle their way thru ‘the | storm, will be consoled when they |remember that they need a | worse blizzard in Mebruary, 1916, Two feet of snow fell in a storm | that started Mebraury 2 and contin: | ued all the following da je storm food and milk supply was suddenly out off, and vesidonts had a hard | time to keep themselves frum going | hungry, All passenger trains were stalled, and traffic was completely paralyzed. On February $ all schoolx of the city were closed for practically week, As the storm took on udded sever: ity and the snowfall continued, the (Turn to Page % Column a four more severely hurt and dozens of others slightly injured as the result of the storm, the city was confronted by the most serious weather situation handi- | bor | some | took on genuine acuteness whe the | Icy Blasts and Schools Closed STORM RUNS 2 SHIPS ASHORE Motorship Are Beached on Sound |Liner and 2 * Two ships went ashore Wednesday in the storm and shipping all along © the Sound was generally delayed. The Canadian Pacific liner Prin= cess Alice went agrdund on Gussip | | Reet, but afterward floated and 4 managed to proceed to Victoria. The motorship Coolcha struck at Albert He nd is still ashore, The 94 Canadian salvage ship, Algerine, was standing by, ready to assist her. phen R. Jones has” Dungeness for the | last 36 hours, unable to move because) = lof the weather. | Leading of cargoes has been dis=) ontinued generally along the water oe ‘STREET CARS | ARE STALLED | Seattle street cars made a valiant ~ leffort Wednesi morning — and jthen, in most cases, gave up the ghost. | joradic service was maintained Jon the Eastlake, Phinne | Lake, lingford, Yesler way, |South Seattle and Fauntleroy lines, 7 | Elsewhere traffic was at an absolut | standstill. | veral cars were derailed, at jtempting to plough their way ft |the snow, but no serious accidents were reported. ‘STORM RAGES IN PENINSULA Practically the entire Olympi¢e Peninsula is in the grip of the worst” storm and blizeard in the history of the /Northwest. The mercury {8 ranging between zero and freezing all along the north coast, At Port Townsend shipping is at a standstill and the logging camps are closed. The temperature is ranging slightly above zero, At Everett the mercury shows a@ temperature in the neighborhood of 12 degrees above. Gales and heavy snow are reported, Anacortes schonls have been closed. due to the cold. Practically all mills are closed. The mercury stands at 8 degrees with slight var utions eee bal TWO FEET OF @ Eighteen inches of snow had fallen up to noon Wednesday and the weather bureau predicted that the fall would reach at least two feet, Southeast storm warnings were ordered displa North Pacific seaport stations, A | severe storm, the weather bureau ane | nounced, was moving slowly south: eastward over Vancouver island and Jonst gules with heavy snow Wednes: day atterndon and night, One gleam of hopo~-tl+ }yveather bureau said it MIGHT @und descrlpite 86 hours or so, in wi and iow snow may turn to re A A at 7:15 a, mon all 4 {would cause fresh to strong south: 77 —_ re maconerecnoeh ni