The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 17, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER and Sunday. rain warmer Sund Br southeasterly perature Last M4 Ten Maximum, 51 i Rotered as Beoond ¢ w Matter May 4, inne, Poastotting at Be ot the FOLUME 24. NO. 307. seam, SEATTL Wash. wi 4, 1878, Per Te 160 the Act of Congress Mai by Mati == The Seattle Star TU Condolences RDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1 Chamber of Com —_— _ flewdy, folks! Sqush, Sqush, Sqush, the Sqush is Squshing! They used to call Puget Sounders Hebteet,” but after slush has pene qin one’s shoes all day, squirting Sumiously between one's toes, one | Siclined to believe that we still} fare open-work feet . | | fe date, nobody has thought to june the snow on the legisioture. Telay we start our great “Annoy- ty Phrase” contest. A free pass to fediand park will be given to the ean who submits the most an ging phrase he has ever heard. ANNOYING PHRASE “ohn, can 1 have another gas is getting Members of the legislature say the me a thank one, involving fog hours, sharp criticism and pe- emiary loss. Bat they stil) keep on making the jplant sacrifice year after year see Teumuch as turtles live to be 900 eld, why don’t some of these ns try turtle glands? eee @ young girt statue is over nine feet in heig at snow sculpture. It is locat wer named Minnie, fearfully skinny coe! LAWS SOUGHT Eight Representatives Ask the human voice can be photo- but we'd like to see the that could snap one of Dan janden's speeches. exchange or the possession of cigar- Adign on a Georgetown building ae ets, papers, or claret tobacco ts pro- Baby Clinic hibieea under the terms of a bill in- Mer ee Over the letter slot, AD-| troduced before the house Saturday. sien abso sitet Evidently believing that there in rood eae safety In numbers, eight members of Dalers who were accused of sell- Rore wood than the law allows at finally been freed of charges. the clty officials should get those fellows who have been extra jeliybeans into jelly- bill, including Representatives Mra. Frank Reeves, Grant E. Hunt, H. A. Mount, H. E. Reynolds, John D. Basmtt, Charles M. Baldwin, J. D. Phillips and H. F. Kennedy. The bill further provides, however, Se Sas that premises cannot be searched for “Seat Foul Play in Death of Man | rant, designating the place and the eee eeeed and Hanged.”—Head- | - sone suspected of having the con- traband. Fines collected from the vio- sped lations of this act, after the cost of enforcing it have been paid, will go Into the common school fund Any store found willing cigarets is lable to have its furniture and fix |tures seized by the peace officers and sold, the money to Ko into the name fund. Fines for violation will range from $25 to $254. look kind of sus see Tey will soon be exhuming the ¥ of King Tutankhamen, and jt no doubt we will learn if he infected tonsils. see We don't know why they want to # the corpse of Old Tut, un- Somebody suspects that he ts Sty who invented the Egyptian WEALTH FOUND IN KING'S TOMB j ER | WL GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE i VAMP, SEZ: | Give a giri a string of pearls | pid a pair of jade earrings and ere End of Cigarette PALL THE POLICE! “Siteens to Eliaaberh Marks) OLYMPIA, Feb. 17.—8ale, barter, | the house fixed thelr names to the | clgarets without a proper search war-/ ht and was carefully moulded ed at 1505 E, Pine st. —Photo by Price Carves Gibson Girl TOA Snow Bark | SEE SINIST 4 May Crane, Seattle artist, at work Saturday on her snow statue of a Gibson girl. The in the artist's maiden attempt rier, Gitar Haff Photographers TOBACCO BLUE Mountaineers’ Fate in | Doubt; Face Grave Peril /Death-Defying Ascent of Mt. Robson Is Already Under Way By Béb Bermann The three Seattle men—Jean Lan- ary, Jacquea Bergues and Charles R. Perryman—who left Seattle last | month to try to scale Mount Robson, | highest peak in the Cansdian | Rockies, have already made thelr deathdefying dash for the ice-capped | summit. So much ts known from « tele- gram reotived by The Star from Jacques Bergues.” But whether the | attempt wae succe¢eeful or not ls an other matter, Thr region is #0 Iso. lated—it took nearly a week for the telegram to get thru, via snowshoe runner—that it may be days before the outcome of the trip is known. FEDERAL GRAND JURY 1S CALLED |Alleges Dope King’s Arrest Thought Responsible | The arrest and arraignment of Da- vid J. Taylor, soldier of fortune and |alleged “higher up". of a narcotlc ring here, on charges of having dope in his porseasion, and the sensational He feels all isice Some preachers don't figure they touched their congregation's Unleas the collection plate is soe at a bow-legged beau, pat the was a knock-kneed swatn— Went to a pigeon-toed preacher, ™ qMickly made them twain. pe children grew up together, eoked as could be— Went with a club-footed sheriff te penitentiary. 4 eee The latest style faa is tor flappers Near a Persian handkerchief b thelr necks, and what with ld weather and wet feet and waiting, it ought to come ti COLOR NO OnJHOT Fated: “Girt for ght housework | Sotitction to green or colored girl. tied ad in Hartford Times eee Ret Ascouraged. It's gener. the last key of the bunch that # the door, eee The state Senate has passed the \. ‘ law, and Li'l Gee Gee suye because she thinks the have wonderful pommt- see is & big tight on now an to ‘ own the Seattle water- Py sot turn 1 over to the boot- they are the people who i Mont use of it. LUXOR, Feb. 17.—In the Valley | coupling of high officials with the of the Kings, where 3,500*years ag0| ring by Taylor, \s belleved reaponal- the royal funeral cortege of Pharaoh | pis for the calling of the members of Tutankhamen marched in solemn | the old federal grand jury by Federal state, the men of a new ctvilization | Judge Jeremiah Neterer to report for today made preparations for fetching | quty February 27 the ancient monarch out of tho| ‘Taylor was remanded for trial and tomb where he has slumbered for| hig bail get at $16,000 when he was 46 centurtes. |arraigned before United States Com The aperture knocked thru the| missioner A. C. Bowman, Friday, on sealed door to the inner mausoleum | charges of having approximately has been closed up until all is ‘n/ $20,000 worth of morphine and oplum readiness for the official ceremonial |{n his possession when arrested. opening on Sunday | Hearing of his case has been set for UNDREAMED-OF March 7. ‘Tuylor’s trial is expected to re sult in many startling revelations, WEALTH FOUND When Howard Carter and the other excavators entered the inner tomb yesterdiy they found an un- as in statements that he has already made he haw involved several gov- lernment officials and it is hinted ture, fdols and other objects of in.|that further exposes are in order calculable historical value. | Michael Cohen, proprietor of the The doorway from the outer room| Pioneer Safety Deposit Vaulta, and —now cleared of everything save|Thomax Spellman, who were ar. two lifesize statues of the king'|rested this week on narcotic which have been boxed up to prevent | charges, are both mentioned in Tay- damage—led to a room hewn in the|lor’a confession. solid rock and almost entirely taken| According to Taylor, the dope up with an immense sarcophagus. |ring has been working under such ‘The sides of this sarcophagus, ap-|perfect protection in Seattle that parently made of wood, came within |a certain official has been notified two feet of the walls to the cell,|every time that a cargo of dope ‘There was barely room to pass} came in and made arrangements (Turn to Page 4, Column 1) for ita unloading dreamed.of wealth of Egyptian furnt Either the men have succeeded in their attempt; they have encountered insurmountable obstacles and have been forced to return to prepare for & second trial—or else they have perished. Tt will be Impossible to nay which of thene tutes has overtaken the in trepid party until the next telegram arrives—and that may be days. Detalln of the expedition’s adven. tures since The Stars representa tained in Bergues’ telegram. They include several thrilling adventures and one escape from death, The mountaineers were snow. Berg lake, some 8,000 feet below the summit, until Thursday of last week, necording to the telegram. On Fri day, however, the thermometer be gaa to drop and the weather cleared up in the afternoon, #0 the party started to make preparations for their daxh to the summit. With the thermometer at 90 de grees below and falling rapidly, the three men set out early Saturday. Half way up Robson glacier—a vast field of snow-covered ice, which ex: tends eight miles up the mountain- side—Landry, who ts chief guide of the expedition, attempted to take a short cut thru the crevaanes, The party made a valiant offort to get thru—but in vain. The canyon in the ice was so steep and narrow that there waa no way to get out ex cept by returning. LANDRY HAS NARROW ESCAPE On the way back, Landry nearly lont his life. Crossing a crevasse on a snow bridge, the snow gave way under him, and, but for the fact that ho was on akis, he would have crashed thru and gone down into the almost bottomless pit. As it was, he (Turn to Page 4, Column 6) Free Seed Funds Not Appropriated WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, — The agricultural appropriation bill, car rying $69,500,000, was finally sanc- tioned by the house today and now goes to the president for his signa- ture, The usual appropriation of $360,000 for distribution of free seed was not carried, Wife of Former Premier Is Dead PARIS, Feb, 17.-—Madame Viviani, night. PILE EM HIGH, WOOD DEALERS; (EDITORIAL) nance under which the men were ‘The longstanding controversy | sFrested was — constittuional, but— over what constitutes 4 load of “The ordinance,” he sald, “was wood in Seattle is settled at Inst, passed with a view to preventing Passing upon the cases of six fraud. Obviously, no fraud wan fuel dealers who were charged committed in these oases, aa all with the heinous offense of sell- the customers got more than ing too much wood per joad to they paid for, So there can be their patrons, Police Judge Jacob no conviction.” Kalina ruled that the city ordi- In other words, the ordinance JUDGE’ OKEHS IT in stilt yalid—ns far as short- measure dealers are concerned— but the wood men can continue solling Just as large loads as they please, Good law, judge, and common sense, The Star hopes that the fuel denlers will take full adva me of It and gell illegally large loads to thelr hearts’ content, tive returned from’ the trip are con-| bound In their cabin at the head of | wife of former Premier Vivinni of | France, died here suddenly Inte last | ‘HAND IN PORT “CONTROVERSY New Development Points to Plot to Block Growth of Shipping (EDIT« to the Chamber manner, % By Bob Bermann Are the Seattle Chamber of ( meron, the Admiral-Oriental line and the United States shipping board be ing uned as cat's-pawn by the Rob: jert Dollar shipping interests of Ban Riles replay: norsasing teresa |” gram to’ the United States | ther development here? board stated. | ‘This was the question which arose Saturday as the result of the latent | developments in the controversy be. |tween the port commission and the | Chamber of Commerce over the for mer’s plan to acquire the Skinner & Eddy shipyard site. The whole matter in ¢ nyatery—but ever bigs cals. 18 ESE De |.. Oberdction, over to the local Admiral-Oriental | tine, | The foundation for this presump-| tion i to be found tn the following highly significant and closely con pected tucts: Q) Stanley Dollar, president of the Oriental line, has NOT made any * offer for the Skinner & Eddy prop- erty, In spite of repented published reporta to the contrary. A. ¥, Waynes) vice president and general manager of the Ad- | mira! Ca, announced at the lunch. con of the advisory committee. of | |the Chamber of Commerce Friday | that neither the Admiral line, the Pacific Steamship Co, nor any of their mubsidiary interests had made or would make any offer for the | property, (3) In the face of the fact that Stanley Dollar has made no offer| for the property, the shipping board | ix holding up all negotiations “in the| hope” that he will make an offer. | (4) Chairman Albert Lasker of the shipping board ha» placed dixposition | of tho alte entirely in the hands of | Meyer Lissner, fan Francisco xhip-| | ping man, who is generally reputed | | to be connected more or lens di with the Robert Dollar ins] | rectly | terest Cloasly interwoven with the whos} fingers are painful cane is the fact that a certain Se usefulness. Jattle afternoon paper i» placed in the position of having conducted a | widespread campaign of fulsification jover a pertod of weeks, in an ef. fort to make It seem that the Ad jmiral line was trying to get the! disputed alte. | The statements by Dollar and Haynes are in absolute contradic. (Turn to Page 4, Column 5) BRITISH DEBT BILL PASSED WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Settle. ment of the British war debt to the United States waa virtually effected today as a result of the paxsge by the senate last night of the bill ap * But it is not too wrong. itself in a” position bor development. In the first place, because its resolution of opposition to the port board represented two dozen, and not “3,000 members,” as its tele- JRIAL) The Star today extends its condolences of again has burned its fingers in painful Commerce, which Burned its fingers while being steered by a little group of men with selfish mo- tives into an indefensible position. * * # CAUGHT LYING; shipping In the second place, by being FUN- DAMENTALLY WRONG; Chamber of Commerce ought to be lined up enthusiastically WITH the Port of Seattle in its harbor development on Plans instead of being the ring-leader in the for In the third place, by being used as the INSTRUMENT OF PRIVATE IN- TERESTS in opposition to the public welfare. Used like a $15-a-day lobbyist. * The 3,000 members of the chamber ought, and The Star hopes they will, re- pudiate the action of the two dozen of- fenders who misrepresented them. Cham- bers of commerce ought to be powerful, constructive influences in their commu- nities. The reason they seldom are such influences is that they periodically are led into false positions. Seattle’s chamber has a history of such occasional blunders. Recently the chamber has been sincere in its efforts and unusually well guided. The Star regrets this lapse; hence our condolences to the membership. Singed and they handicap * * late to remedy the The chamber can reinstate of leadership if it will bravely admit its trustees’ error, repudiate their position on the shipping board deal and align itself stanchly with the Port of Seattle for a great, con- structive, aggressive campaign of har- What do the 3,000 members say? proving the terms of the British re. funding plan. The bill went back to the house today for agreement on amendments, but these, it was believed, will not greatly delay it and within a few days the final “signing up” of the refunding plan can be accomplished. ARMY MAN HELD IN GIRL DEATH Dr. Louis Jacobs Is Arrested Refuse to Yield on Murder Charge DUBLIN, Feb, 17.-The Free State ome government's amnesty offer to Irish SAN DIEGO, Feb. 17.—Dr. Louis irregulars expires tomorrow and/1, Jacobs, 30, dashing, debonair preparations are being rushed to|young captain in the United States public health service, was today ar- Crush Rebels Who crush the rebels if they do not lay down their arms before the time|rested on a charge of having mur Umit, dered Fritzi Mann, dancer. The republicans have put forth| Dr, Jacobs’ ar followed his se: feelers to nee whether they could not|cret indictment by thé San Diego make pence on terms other than sur-|county grand jury after an investi | render, gation of Miss Mann's mysterious death that covered over two weeks. The arrest of the young offic took place at Camp Kearney, where ho has been stationed, early today. Tt came lke a bolt of lightning from a clear sky, following ay in which the case was app dropped by the investigating ties, Miss Mann, who was a favorite of the citizens in Southern California she had gained a reputation was found dead on the beach at Torrey Pines, near here, a month ago. || Now Is the Time to Find that car waiting to buy || very day in |] Columns bargains used have been some time. Want Ad find many Nght car. you for Star will ithort you Here is a 1920 Dodge; new cord titer: nood || ‘The slender body of the young top and side curt a ohakeondhy 44 Atorinie extra: Rood? 6 dancer wag found on Monday, Jan Car isa good buy at uary 16, on the beach at Torry Pines cash, balance monthly. grade, north of this city, It was almost nude, being covered only by thin silken underwear and the Turn to the Want Ad Columns |] kimono, On the beach near by were NOW and see where you can |] her suitcase, nightgown ond several articles of clothing. It wan at firet believed the girl had (Turn to Page 4, Column 4) neo this little car shat aah RESCUE CREW ON SHIPWRECK Safely Transferred The Tusean Princ the big Brit- ish freighter which ran on the rocks “somewhere” on the west coast Of Vancouver island last lay night, nas been found . Smashed bow foremost on 8 of Village point, Barkley sound, inany, miles south of Estevan point, where she was first reported to have piled up. very member of her crew of 43 is alive and well. Wireless messages to the harbor radio here today stated that the coast guard cutter Snohomish, after taking part of the Tuscan’s crew aboard ntly | during the night, had completed the rescue Work this morning he crew of the Tuscan Prince ana the 23 survivors of the Santa Rita will be landed in Seattle shortly be p midnight tonight, it was report ed by the harbor radio at noon The crew of the Santa Rita, ma rooned ashore near Carmanah Point was transferred to the coast guarc cutter Algonquin this morning, the Bamfield assisting Pe men will be taken on board the Snohomish which will land both crew at Port Angeles in time for the 5:15 train to Port Townsend. The rescued men Will then come to Seattle aboand the Kitsap 11, According to the wirelese message, (Turn to Page 4, Column 2) All Hands of Tuscan Prince | CHIEF SEVERYNS REOPENS PIELOW CASE! |EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. merce FR | The Star Is Sincerely Sorry That You Have Burned Your Finger ED HAGEN ON TRIP 10 8B. C. WITH OFFICER Report Sent to Chief Tells of Protection for Rum Runners By S. B. Groff Secret investigation on the dian border into the arrest attle Police Sergeant Ed ward W, Pielow, a noted witness in the Legate death mystery, has brought to light evidence that Pielow was accompanied by Edward E former police of ficer and ex-convict, Chief of Po | tee W Severyns announced | Saturday, Hagen served a term in the federal penitentiary at MeNeil's island for liquor run ning I ru with the in vest ns said. “In fact t opened. But earned, it is nd Pielow we were nabbed in » February officers, who from an agent in w customs men were ting American 1 ers, The ted bility 1 two men h med men and Hagen the border had been reporter er officials, ea 10 high who demanded their ar- rest. The report, Severyns said, stated that no booze was found in the two autos at the time of the seizure, Plelow gave his name to the Cana- dian men, but the other man, who is said to be Ed Hagen, declared his name was “Sommers.” The informa tion received by Severyns identifies “Sommers” us the former police off oer. Several prominent whisky run- ners were mentioned the re- | port, together with dates and places where liquor is alleged to have been run across the border | and secreted caches on the United States side of the bound- | ary near Blaine and Lynden. Severyns declared that he would continue with the investi- | gation until all the facts were at hand, | “As the case stands at present, I can take no action until definite proof is received of guilt. So far I have not recetyed it. But within a few days I will know a lot more,” he added “The Canadian and American cus: toms and immigration officials on the international boundary are the hardest people in the world to get +o talk.” | When Pielow returned to Seat- | “tte after bis’ arrest he was ques- tioned by Severyns and In- spector Harry O'Brien, but as- serted that he was merely visit- ing a sick farmer friend on the border and strayed across the | line in the darkness, The re- | port received Friday by Sev- eryns, however, states that Ple- low has been on the border be- fore. ARREST LICHT DEPT. OFFICIAL Charge Accountant Stole Funds From City Charged with the theft of $452.02 D. W. Lamb, chief accountant of the city lighting department, was arrest- ed by riff Matt Starwich Saturday morning after an information accus- ing him of grand larceny had been filed direct in superior urt by Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Doug- las, Douglas said Saturday that f is possible there will be additional ar- rests as the entire affair will be care- fully udied by Deputy Prosecutor | John D, Carmody when the state ex- }aminers’ report ts filed | Lamh posted bail of $1,500 immedi- | ately and was not taken to the coun- ty jall | The information char; that Lamb, on September 1, 1922, while Jan agent and trustee of the city, ap- propriated $452.02 of city funds ex trusted to him, with the intent to de- | fraud the city. | The alleged crime for which Lamb was arrested was uncovered by a | probe of light department uecounts by State Examiners FP. W. Whaley and L. 1, Hopkins at « public hear: ing held by John MH Dunbar, agsist J ant attorney a Complete ry zation of the de. | partment, with wakeup that may Jalter almost the entire personnel, is | presaged whon Mayor win J. Brown, who iastig the probe, re- coives the report of the® examiners 3rown hax said that the department needs a general reorganization and cleanup, Mayor n said that | Lamb would prabet mimediatel suspended from his duties as chlet accountant of the Hxht department, pending the outcome of his came,