The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 22, 1923, Page 1

100 CHILDREN POISONED! and souther ale WEATHER Prid FORECAST ny, ly gate ~ VOLUME UME 2 ed as Second Class Mat May 4, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, W ash. wader the Act of Congress March 9, tet Per Your, by Mail, $1.50 The Seattle Star SEAT’ TLE, WASH., THURSDAY, FEBRU Howdy, fol niversary of ton’s birthday This as the an George Washing George never told a wh ts queer when you remamber that pe ran for office and married a widdw George was whipped fo: tt down a cherry tree, but maybe | was only knocking on wood ington was fortuna Ht won a war, but ¢ th t »collect an - “At who? A-ch to sn At wh choo!" A she satd Whe of the Th the price of a marr $3 to $5 the law isn’t on the sid in this me legisla or man rob coun in SECOND THE MOTION Dear Homer: While we are at | it, let's nominate for Kling Kleagle of the Poison Ivy elub the bimbo ywho- persists in using | the office waste-paper basket as | a cuspidor—JLeR. Religious Book week is approach ing. Don't forget to renew your sub. soription to the Police Gazette Half-wits ruin movie: r ter B. Kyne. | No doubt he Is referring to those! who read the titles out loud. ee Seattle bride charges tha band came home and beat b Teo much opine. r up. honeymoonahine, we . ANNOYING PHRASES (This One by Ireno Johnson) “Come and do the dishes.” | ° Maydr Brown bas designated next week as “Optimism Week.” and we} can hardly wait until Sunday so we | were found in the wrecked machine dry C. H. Cutter Meets Fatal Mishap as Car Plunges; Po- lice Find Booze nh the automo ere ridiig went 4d at Admiral down C4 ¢ 40 man, of 1323 Ward real estate sales at., is dead. other two occupant Mr 4 Mrs, Frank (ist ave, 8. W., are both eal condition, Mra, K ing from internal: { ures of the arm n West Side Gene her husbe ries and frac collar is hospital, while wl is being treated for in ternal inju and several broken ribs at Providence hospital Kalsaw blamed the accident on an unidentified motorist, who, he sald, was driving up Admiral way at a |rapld rate and forced him oft the stle. The police, however, say 6 that the came as the climax of a " A gallon jug of moon. & quart of bonded liquor one, en ¥ are inclined to be tragedy wild “par after the crash. This led them to squad policemen trolman Guy Béwers, to the Kalsaw home, where they found a still, 10 Jona of “moon,” a partly full quart ttle of whisky and a number of erving glasses, which had evidently been In use. Tho stil! and liquor were confis-| cated, but no charges have been filed against Kalsaw, pending the out: | come of his injuries. Coroner W. H. Corson, who took | charge of Cutter’s body, is investt-| gating the accident. Kaleaw, who ia a satlor on the steamship Victoria, ix the owner of) the wrecked machine. He denied} that there had been any liquor in end a detail headed by & ean be optimistic. | his car. a Ri } /The spot at which the accident Dee Brown niust have been cele-|took place is at the foot of a steep brating “Optimiam Week” when he) grade, and is known by moat motor. promised tc fire those 575 “political | ists as bet dangerous. incurable: | Whether you betleve in reincarna tion or not, you will be Interested to learn that a man by the name of} Back Soon, 62, 1253 King st., died} here the other day. | eee } { NO, BUT WE WILL Have you ever tried spelling the name of Major Hoople’s muinmy backwards in the ear- toon, “Our Boarding House,” now running in The Slar?—R. G. Calentine, Everett, President Harding the world eds another Lincoln. As a matter fact, the United States might be able to use one to good advantage. see We beg to announce a new Mc Cormick record for this month. Har- old married Ganna a second time in Chicago. As caren SAID, “DON'T GIVE Covi ston Lake Erie conqueror, they saw, they con- joopesion (Iil.) Chroni: ra The cold wave has passed, but not the coal wave. ° see ~ Laughing merri! Li'l Gee Gee asked us this riddle: “Why didn’t King Tutankhamen get hungry dur- ing his 3,000 years on the: desert?” And we said, “We don't know.” And she said, “Recause of the sand-which-is-there. Ha! Ha!” And then she laughtd so merrily, we didn’t have theheart to hit her with anything heavier than the Ice pick. Now\that butter substitutes havo been prohibited by the legislature, who will be the first man to start bootlegging oleomargarine? see CAMPAIGN NOTE Hugo Kelly, secretary to May- or Brown, announces that he will rut for the city council, In other words, Kelly has thrown his kelly into the ring. TONIGHT WE are-going to the newsboys' dance at Bagles’ hall— BECAUSE WE like the boys who sell the papera— AND BECAUSE the newsboys have developed more great men in this country than all the colleges combined— BUT PRINCIPALLY because we want to meet the lad who every Sunday— AT THREE o'clock in the morn. ing— WAKES US up with his sten- torian voice—~ WH WANT to offer him a job at the Alki Point light house— AS A fog-horn. Charged with pagsing 4 bad cheok for $21.75 on a Second ave, store, Kt, J. Weir, 28, was held on an open charge Thursday. When arrested! Wednesday he was at liberty on ap | peal from conviction of having pasied $4,000 in fraudulent checks, |a favorite to repeat his victory. ‘Dog Teams Start Raée Huskies Struggling for Championship | ASHTON, Idaho, Feb. Nine teams of stout-built and stout-heart ed “huskies” today plunged into the | snow trails of Idaho to determine| the 1923*dog team champion. j They composed the entrants in the | annual American dog derby, which | will be run this year amid the great- est ‘interest the event has yet at- tracted, Ashton was crowded with people attracted here by the sport—tourists from the are rubbing elbows | te with bronzed men from the forth} woods, the mountains and the}. y folk wondered at the dogs | and admired them; but the men trom the snow-clad reaches of the North: | west appraised them with knowing! ye and then. offered to bet their] last pennies on their own judg | of dogs. Wagers were many “big money.” Two women have teams entered One was Lydia Hutchison, a veteran of Jast year’s derby. Clara Colwell, | of Green Timber, Idaho, was the} second woman entrant. Tud Kent, winner of last year’s championship, with a veteran team trained to tha minute, seemed to be nd ran into John Reber, who halls from “Shot-| gun Valley," with as strong a look-| ing team 48 any, was drawing atten- tion, DOG DERBY OF NORTH IS ON; THE PAS, Manitoba, F The Pas dog race, classic the North, was on today. Eight of the best mushers in snow. clad Canada were ready for the trial! | of bone and muscle over the most D. derby of| gruelling course in the world—200 miles of wilderness, Clear, cold weather, with hard packed snow drifted high in pla faced the drivers and their mala- mutes, The drivers headed their teams down the Saskatchewan river, If the weather holds good the winner will be back some time between 10;30 and noon tomorrow, French Statesman Is Stricken Dead PARIS, Feb. 22.—Theophile Del- casse, twee foreign minister of France, was found lying dead in the gardens of the Bishop of Nice. lust | night, according to advices from the | Riviera today. Ho lias oeen taking a stroll in the moonlight after ate | tending & musicale and evidently was stricken with an emboliem, jable state unlesa the United States | cltizens were busier than if they had | | ness section, | Hankins, |the statue of Washington | were 9 Hatred, Love With masterly superlative skill, mystery OF novels, Phillips Oppenheim, writer of has woven the most con- flicting of human emotions and desires into the greatest detective stories since “Sher! These are not the Exploits of Sir ording Oppenheim in his memorable lock Holmes. ary narratives, Mr. of the crime recounting Norman Greyes Has departed from all set formulas in development of the story. There are no gre nausea over Romance, Sportsmanship, played upon to produce: stressed horrors Flight, stories wsome crimes described, but instead, Adventure, Pursuit are subtly u should read, no The series begins. tomorrow in THE STAR Chamber Port Action to Delay U. S. Structures demn Shipyard Site if Sold to Dollar By John W. Nelson Two vitally necessary institutions will be left In thelr present deplor- | Shipping hoard wells the Skinner & Eddy industrial site to the Port of Seattic instead of to the priv Robert Dollar interexts of San Fran. cinco, according to F sioner George F. Cotterill. the bulldings to house the immigra- tion station and the U. . Pubiic| Health station here Plana for housing these Institu- tions on @ part of the property in volved in the proposed purchase have m perfected by government ficials who recognize the crying for them here. The plans are ready | to be pe De: Ppenet to ae as soon} Commis: | There are | be o CITY HONORS FATHER GEORGE | Day Replete ‘With Observ- | ances Honoring Washington | If George Washihgton had been| alive Thursday he would have co brated his 19ist birthday. But he| n't, so Seattle celebrated it tor| | him, Wherefore the schools were closed, and so were banks, barber shops and other marts of finance, a4 well ax city, county and federal offices. But it wasn't exactly a holiday for anyone—because there were so |many ceYebrations, political, patriot- | § fe that most of ttle's | and s0cial, been working. Natfonal Guardsmen’ had to don field uniforms, including “tin hats,” and ade up and down the busl- The procession, under of Lieut. Col. Alvin H. 1éist infantry, comprised four batteries of field artillery, an Infantry company and a medical unit Patriotic command held at on the University campus in the morning. ‘The Sons of the American Revolu tion were to hold their state meeting at thi mber of Commerce at 2:30 Gen. James Shields assembly, fourth dégree, Knights of Columbus, to hold a .non-sectarian pa- triotic celebration at the Rainier club at 6:30, Walter Meler mond addressed lican club at noon, he Religion of Washington and Lincoln” was discussed at a confer. ence of religious educational workers at Dartnall’s cafeteria at noon, The life of Washington was to be dincussed at a meeting of the Swed- ish Business Men's nasociation at the New Washington at 6:30, Costume ‘parties were to be given in the evening by the Christiliian club in Christensen’s hall and by Fortson-Thygesen post, Spanish War Veterans, and the Ladies’ auxiliary in Rooyevelt hall. A dance for the efit of the Mooseheart (11,) orphanage was to be given at Moone temp) Friday afternoon at 2 the boys of Moran Lakeside school will give an indoor pageant depleting life in Washington's time and the King County Demoeratic elub will hold a exercises were and Thomas. Ham- the Young Men's at Wolfe's cafo- |buge government |to members of the C | ballot, patriotic lunchgon Saturday in the Masonic club, Arcade building. the tranafer is formally effected A summary of the reasons why the port of Seattle should be given this project, compiled by the commission¥rs for submiskion nber of Com merce as 4 fart was Commissioners Cotterill and W Lincoln. PORT 1 LOPMENT IS THREATENED That the scheme to turn over t property in question to the Dy interests will completely disrupt comprehensive scheme of develop: ment of Seattle's port; that it will take away two-thirds of the business , which is only oper. x at one-third capacity now; that it will congest the harbor industrial | and st district beyond capacity | are charged by the commissioners Even tho the sale should be made to the Dollar interests, the port pro- pones to place a measure before the people in May to determine whether condemnation proceedings should be opened against the owners of the property. “The price they pay the government will be fair value be fore a jury and we condemnation for a raise in by speculation,” the statement says. It i» further pointed out that the| property is not now on the tax rolls of the coynty as it belongs to the government; that half of the prop- erty when acquired will be leased to private industries which wil be tax- able, The port now has $800,000 ¢ nds previously approved — for mith's cove, which can be utilized in the purchase, tional bond issue unnecessary, statement points out. MORTGAGE CLAIMS OF NO CONSEQ CE Claims of Skinner & Eddy against the property or the alleged $1,260,000 mortgage held by the Morans not in any way affect the purchase from the government. ‘These claims | were assumed by the government when the property was purchased for a shipyard and must, be settled by it. The port will demand and re- colve a warranty deed from the gov- ernment and a guarantee of title: Claims against the property “will be claims against the federal treasury, hot the port of Seattle. An Interesting featube of the ae tion of the Chamber of Commerce trustees in favoring sale of the site to the Dollar interests devéloped Wednesday, when it was pointed out that not a word relative to the ac- tion wag contained in the official minutes of the meeting published in Seattle's Business, the official paper of the chamber, ‘The first announcement of the ac- ton of the chamber came in a tele the gram from Port. Commissioner George Lamping at Washington, From any organization excepting one of such standing as the Chamé ber of Commerce, the explanation that the trustees’ action was not published last Wednesday because it Was too late to get it set up for that issue, would appear untrust- worthy. Chamber officials explained, when the omixsion was enlled to thelr at: tention, that the notion of the trus tees would be fully covered in the following issue of the paper and asserted the practice of delaying publication of important actions of the trustees on such matters for one week was frequently followed, | tallerw and itinera Port. Commission Will “Ask Voters to Con-) | $5, shall not delay | value} making any addi-| 10 | do} MILLIONS | FALSE MONEY DISCOVERED Big Organization Sends Spurious Bills Thruout World Nations | W YORK, Feb, 22.—More than 1,000 persona, alleged to be connected with the tnte ona} counterfeiting ‘corporat expowed here yeater day with the arrest of 28 ringleaders, ught by federal agents thru with traveling | h—and parts of is reeponaible for manufac ture of between $2,000,000 and $3,-| 000,000 wort us money and millions, of th of fake enue st iquor labels, °ac cording t oral agents. Joe Palma and other fed: | Federal secret service operatives | revealed, also, that the Initial clue leading to exposure of the ring and | arrests was obtained from two ehil dren, $ and 10 years old, caught pass ing counterfeit $20 bills in a Detroit department store, last April. The children declared they had} been given the Dills to pass by their Mr, and Mra, Angelo Ronni, who were later arrested, Palma sald. Tho Rosris are now declared to be ng a federal prison term Sixty-four persons are already un. arrest in all parts of the coun in connection with the plot Ima The 26 taken in| us localities In addition to the} parents, aw anserted. ari - arres “smalier fe lors, it “shovers of the re queer,” In addition to for practically all being responsible of the counterfeit $10 and $20 bills and $2.59 and| |45 gold plocos passed in the United} | States last year the “ring” also fur-| ‘nished the bootleg trade with a ma-| jority of its liquor turn home made “hooch* Into “smuggled liquor,” the federal agents | charge. | Largé amounts of the “fake” money made by the ring in the “fao- turtles” seized yesterday was passed |in foreign quarters of larger cities and given to bootleggers and drug |peddiers who, because of their Jown {illicit trade, could not “al that they had been ¢ a * PROBE CHARGES | OFCRONKHITE : 'General Says Death Records Mutilated WASHINGTC An of ficial investigdtion will be started | by the war department tomorrow] in Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite’s ch ment that records of the depart- concerning the death of his son At Camp Lewis, Wash, in 1918, have been mutilated and falsi- fied, | The inquiry ordered by Secretary of War Weeks is considered here a virtual reopening of the cage as \the result of charges by the gene! that he has been forced on the army retirement list and that fed eral officials have been derelict in| prosecuting those alleged to be re. sponsible for his son's death, | Meanwhile, a- senatorial inquiry has been held in abeyance, pending the result of war department probe. Senators Glass, Virginia, and Reed, Pennsylvania, who have . made preliminary inquiry into Cronkhite’s charges, issued this statement: enators Glass and Reed do not lintend to institute an investigation jof the Cronkhite case until the out-| jcome of the investigation ordered by the secretary of war is known,” Should Cronkhite's charges: of mu- tilation and tampering of records be sustained, it is explained that a complete investigation will be made. BORAH WILL VISIT RUSSIA alten hi Feb. ator, Will- jam ©. Borah hae a Fats an inyk talon, ‘to Visit Ruswla, extended. him by ‘Litvinoff on behalf of the soviet Jkovernment, it was announced, to | day, WASHINGTON, Feb, 22,—Sonator Borah of Idaho has provisionally ac: cepted an invitation to visit Russia this spring as the guest of the soviet government Borah said today the invitation was extended to him in perion by a representative of the Russian govern ment whose name he had forgotten, It vas an unofficial invitation, but Borah’s understanding was that ‘t| would be extended later as an of. ficlal Invitation from the soviets if ho would indicate his acceptance, — | ae aa, | Caught taking a suit of clothes from an automobile parked at Witth ave, and Bino st, Wednesday night, Oucan Hunt, 29, was arrosted aftor | chase of several blocks, in which | four shots were fired, | easier., A Little Child Led Them Mary Reilly, 4 years old, who is the happiest kiddie in, Seattle today because she and her brother James were in- strumental in reuniting their —Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers By Cynthia Grey for better or for worse until death do un part” It was peven years ago that Helma and James Reilly strolled arm in arm jabels used to} out of the little chapel as the last | lecho of those divine words that made them of one fiexh died away. Of this world’s: goods they had none; but they had youth, had cour- Age, and, most of all, lo nd with these it would be easy enough of the golden bulid a Uttle nest But fate blocked turh—first sicktiess, then financial} reverse but love made the road One year later a son, Jame blessed thelr home—two years hence . Mary, T clouded by doct Work was scarce, to harvest them at every and} And was epital bills and at last 1ve » faded | ently fled Six years later Mrs, Reilly was granted a divorce, on the ground of incompatibility, in Judge Fra- ter’s court, Mr. Reilly went away. The little mother placed the kiddies in a home and a tempted to secure employment, but with little success, tach time she visited the babies they cried for their daddy, and she be- gan to miss him, too. Inher despair she consulted Mrs, Marion McDonnell, in the public wel- appar fare department, and begged der to try to find the father of her chil- dren. For the first timo in seven long BANK BILLS TO DIE THIS TERM Bankers Quake and Com- mittees Hold Guarantee Act OLYMPIA, Feb, 22.—Washington people will get no bank guarantee act from the present session of the logislature, it 1s apparent at, the present time with both Representa. Uve William Totten’s bill and the one proposed by Senator George Christenson tied up in committees, Neither bill will be reported out this session, it is declared, The majority of the bankers in the leg- islature appear to be strangely frightened when any discussion of a bank guarantee act comes up, and it is said that they are responsible for the death of these acts, A Joint committee from the bank- ing committees of both houses is at the present time working on a bill which will make small loans avail able to people of small salaries and will at the same time protect them from loan sharks, This will probably be the only }measure that in any way deals with bankirfg that will be passed. A STAR WANT AD WILL FLASH Your Measage to Thousands of Buyers gather | to | ir hap-| * TWO CE 'S IN SEATTLE, } divorced parents. years, fate was kind to her. Mr. Retlly was located in a Northwest city, and at Mrs.@McDonnell’s re- quest came to Seattle, It would take too long to fittingly | describe the happy scene of reunion this" fittle’ famity expertenced: Suffice tto say that in the office tof P. Monroe Smock, commissioner of public welfare, Mr. and Mrs. Reilly Were ‘retinited in marriage. Mr. Smock, who was formerly a astor, performed the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Reilly went out jarm in arm, smiling; but with a understanding of those words, new ‘For better or worse, for richer, for} | poorer, in. sickness and in health, }until death do us part.” | COMPENSATION FIGHT FRIDAY Substitute Bill Attacked by Labor Forces at Olympia OLYMPIA, Feb, 22.—The fight on the workmen's compensation meas- ures will be Before the houso Fri- day. The substitute committee bill, |drafted by the industrial insurance | committee of the house and carry- ing slight increases will be out with a majority committee report recom- mending that it do pass. The department bill, introduced by Representative Thomas Mur: phine, will be backed by a minority port recommending passage and signed by Representatives Homer 'T, Bone and Charles H, Voss, From ‘present indications the fight will be bitter as the friends of labor | in the house are prepared to go down | the line for the Murphine bill. | Thursday morning William) M. Short, in a statement to The Star relative to the substitute committee bill, declared that: “1. It is plainly an employer's bill, drafted for the benefit of the em ployer. “2. That the drafters of the bill have intentionally included a few of the good features of the administra. tion measure in hopes that these fea tures might pave the way to passage. “3. That labor has been given a fair compromise in the bill. “4. That the Jabor interests have not received fair consideration by the committee.” The substitute committee bill de- clares that $35 is. sufficient for a working man to live on while laid up from injuries; that the same amount is sufficient to pay the widow of a man killéd while at work, and that $5 a month is sufficient for each | child in the family, ‘The only appreciable. increases proposed by the committee bill is $6 additional to the man who is per manently injured and the same amount to the widow of a workman killed. The Beeler bill, calling for in. creases of approximately 75 per cent of the present amounts is dead in committee, It is also predicted that the bill introduced to throw the in. surance open to private companies and the one to place the cost of op: erating the department on the em- ployer will die natural deaths. 8, WH. IRWIN of the Puget Mill Co, will spenk Monday before the Transportation club on “Seattle's SCHOOL MILK BLAMED FOR NEW MALADY Probe Is ; Ordered After Pupils in California Are Stricken Down alleged tainted mi supply was started today following the discovery that more than 100 school children are ill from @ sudden and mys terious malady. The malady has the symptoms of ptomaine polsoni it is said, All of the children were seized with the illness following the drinking of the milk at a noon recess, City Sanitary Inspector Frank | Jordan attributed the delay in dig covering the source of the polsom to the fact that the children’s ile ness was not reported promptly by parents. Compelled to drink a sample of 7 the milk, a healthy rabbit suffered for a number of hours and died. SEN, MAYFIELD FACES CHARGE Is Accused of Conspiracy With Ku Klux Klan WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Charges | that Earle B. Mayfield, eenator-elect from Texas, and the Ku Klux Kiang of that state entered into a “con: splracy” to violate election laws of that state fn the senatorial cam- paign of 1922 were filed with the | senate today {n a petition demand- ing that Mayfield be denied his. seat, Mayfield jas elected last Novem ber to succeed Senator Culberson. The contest was filed by counsel |for George E>B. Peddy, whom Mays field defeated. Election frauds were also charged 4 jto Mayfield and. his associates, The petition specifically charges — “a criminal and fraudulent con= spirac by field, various state and county officials and the Texas Ku Klux Klan to keep Peddy’s name off the official ballot and to | miscount the votes cast for him. Peddy demanded that the senate | order a recount of the vites. He made the claim that if he were not entitied ‘to the seat, neither was Mayfield, because of the alleged come © spiracy thru which, Peddy's petition charged, the election laws were violated. 61 Rebels Taken | by Free Staters DUBLIN, Feb. 22.—Sixty-one rebel soldiers, fully equipped, were cape tured by Free State troops in North Galway. It is alleged they aré re jsponsible for many of the recent burnings perpetrated by the insur. gents, The daring attempt of De Valera. ites to effect a coup in Dublin yes. terday at the city's busiest hour and in the heart of the business dig- | trict failed. “Big Tim” Murphy le” Overdue at Prison CHICAGO, | Feb, —Bondsmen who pledged $180,000 for the tempor= ary freedom of “Big Tim" Murphy _ grew uneasy today as the Chicago labor leader was 24 hours overdue at: Leavenworth penitentiary, Murphy, under sentence to serve four years for conspiracy in the Dearborn station mail robbery, was sought by the entire force of deputy _ United States marshals thruout the night. He could not be located in | his old haunts “back of the yards _ or in his home, Parade Firewagon Washington Hauled — ALEXANDRIA, oe Feb. 22.—An ancient, ramshackle fire wagon, rumbling heavily thru the streets of this quiet, old-fashioned town, was the center of a birthday celebration | today th honor of tho first presidents It Is the fire wagon which George Washington once helped to hayl to neighborhood — conflagrations — the only equipment of a local fire com: pany formed in 1774, It was dragged out today for the | first time in 10 years to take its” place in the first large anniversary celebration that has been held here | since 1913. Kiss Is Fatal to Gallant Watchman LOS ANGELES, Feb, 22.—When ‘W. EB. McElroy, night. watchman, bent over to kiss Mrs, Nellie Lawes man early today, his gun exploded and the bullet struck him tn the stomach, Police surgeons performed & mas Jor operation in an attempt to sity Mis life, but he died an hour Tater, A police investigation exonerated _ Duty to the Newcomer," Mrs, Lawman, ‘Tho dead man {9 _ survived by a widow and a som, —