The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 26, 1923, Page 1

| ig a 24 . as | 2 1 ~ “ . For Its ‘Sake We inne It Geis Right beach at Walkiki—if his wife will| Jet him. - oe ATTLE GIRL SLAIN BY KIDNAPER!) ally sowthwe FORECAST 4 yey SE ATTLE Ww ASIL, * * * | [Home Brew cry CARS TA This is Plant Howdy, folks! and Garden week, canned peas early Arbor your Was it week ded and vege! mistic week? ae. * ¥ Our idea of light fiction ts a seed Force Success of catalog - = : hips 5-Cent Fare Now King Tutankham tomb has been ransacked, w! doesn't Doc Brown proclaim this By John W. Nelson “Mummy Week"? | - “ee Automobiles pa: on First, & AT OLYMPIA ond, Third and Four Down where the Bich is a little! pubic nutsances longer, abated. Bown where the Bunk isa little) o. ony councli snould pass an stronger, ¥ That's where our laws are made. Mavis ordinance at PAY OWN WAY Schemes tol Down where the Truth has never its| parking day, £ i Merchants whose win t Down “ig the Coin holds absolute! 4. by parked cars be. Down where the Right is always at} > a move to eliminate it bay, Property owners who p. taxes That's where cur laws are made. | on street space and then have such ace hogged by car ‘Port Wins Desired Option on Harbor once prohibiting such | | | Misia where the men cre o Ut owners, should weaker, Where Truth a Virtue's strians w endan meeker, P3 by obseu: jon should That's where our laws are made. a oe : | Down where new trails are acldom|"*™ the movement. diaced, And if automobile parking on the | Down where the conscience ts often|four principal streets of Seattle ja glazed, prohibited, Seattle's $15,000,000 mu- on pipwanlg good men by boozeare| sina) street vases” ayolien: wettl That's where our laws cre made, |P&Y its own way on a bent fare “ee basis, We move that Old King Tut be signed by the Indians and sent South |? for a tryout. “- Speaking about hard ‘bout the income tax? *-. CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON 1V¥ CLUB The fellow who wonders what strange power it is that he has over women. The Ku Klux Kla tum in America.—Lite tacks, how }o} Who's Hood. ‘The baseball se here and then we c n resurrect the a, |fare,” the mayor said. owners of the lines sold them to the All this according to Mayor Edwin Brown, who Monday began an in- ensive drive to popularize the [sree raflway mystern with Seattle phar os & part of his optimism rmeating is entitled to a Scent car “The former ity on the basis that the lines were paying profits on an investment of | $15,000,000. Patronage has tncreased, | perating expenses ha © decreaned, and if the street railways will not | |Pay thelr way under the Scent fare | i plan 2 will soon be} *¥a% an impossible contract.” sald that operating costs | then the purchase of them Brown wheeze about the office boy and his | of the street railway have dropped Standmother’s funeral. "ee Stokes } a Millionaire of New York! | $500,000 the past year and will drop | mi “I w er $500,000 this coming year nt to know {f ft is possibl | names jfultitl the pure contract 0 effort to get orce from wife. |B-cent basis or whether It is Impo: Some day some bird will just file/Sible. I will never permit general the telephone directory as a list of |ftnds of the city to be used to pay co-respondents. for the: lines.” gS The change to a 5-cent car fare plan will become effective Thurs Anyway the snow obliterated those | day, ‘The railway fund is in good early spring robins that people were | condition to begin the experiment, | Seeing. But now that the snowbirds/|orticiais say. There ie enough cas are gone, the same spring robins will reappear, no doubt poy the payroll pplies as the bills warrants fall due. THE IMPOSSIBLE ART ares after Thursday will be 5 » “sre rithout tra ih eee Julian Eltinge ts back atthe |tovens for a quarter Tene Orpheum. Julian is a famous fe- | ciceie ride with 7 cents a but he can't Sait h transfer privileges. male impersonator, bu Meansters’ will entitle’ a satron’ cy Imitate the faces a woman makes | riay fom any given can ro when she fastens on her veil. millin the tegtiee halts, Which reminds us that no scientist |""Y Other given point has ever discovered why a man opens his mouth when he starts to shave. 2 oe Now, that butter substitutes are prohibited in this state, what will the restaurants do for thelr butter? A man in Seattle can now talk by | ¢ radio with the bronze maidens on the | si SNe og amano apprmummaress {LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFIC! ; VAMP, SEZ: “Pop won't let my Sweetie call | |b; ‘TWO DEAD IN ._ LEAP AT FIRE tW YORK, Feb. ~Two per |sons, a mother and her A month-old | hild, were killed and swept thru an apartment Mrs. John Hea y, the woman kil xy smoke-filled hallway: As and | four others that the people of the port district were inqured when fire of unknown | wil! yote overwhelmingly In f. origin the house here early today. | | De |found herself, with her husband and | her twin babies, cut off from escape | acre tract in the heart of tho indus- the | trial and comm |flames burst into her room she ran| worth at Jeast $1,000,000 more had accepted the port's terms. t % Tract; People Will Likely Ap- prove Purchase (EDITORIAL) Members of the Chamber of Commerce Monday re- ceived the referendum ballots for an expression of opin- ion on the trustees’ attempt to block the Port of Se- attle’s plans to acquire the Skinner & Eddy site. So greatly delayed was the mailing of these blanks that before they reached the members, the United States shipping board had taken action—action favor- able to the port. An option on the desired tract was given Saturday—a signal victory for this city. Hence, it is an academic rather than a practical question on which the Chamber of Commerce will now vote. Nevertheless, The Star believes the balloting should be carried out as per schedule, The Star urges every mber to fill his blank and mail it back to be counted. For the carrying out of the port’s plans is still a live issue in King county. It will be referred at the spring election for the vote of all the people. The trustses, by their ill-advised action, placed the chamber in the position of obstructing the port. Even when they decided upon the re ndum they did not withdraw their telegram to the shipping board stating the chamber’s attitude of opposition. The people, The Star believes, are FOR their public port; they always have so voted. The Star believes this spring they will strongly indorse the action taken by the commission and approve the further develop- ment that the commission propos: The Star believes they will do this regardless of what the Chamber of Commerce does or does not do, regardless of what its trustees think or do not think. The important thing, from the chamber’s standpoint, is to get in step with the rest of the community, to regain the confidence that the trustees’ action has shaken, to move away from the position of obstruc- tion in which it has been placed. Knowing the chamber’s many valuable possibilities for constructive public service and desiring that it re- tain its ability to realize upon them, The Star hopes the members will now vote to repudiate the ill-advised action of the trustees. That is the one way in which the ch amber can “get right” with the public. Port Commission Wins in Fight for Dock Site »44) Birthday \Shipping Board Grants Option Over Larger Offer by Ship Line Cot. fn were prepar: terill and V ission 8. Line Monday, for a vigorous cam: paign in favor of the coming refer endum on the acquisition by the port of Seattle of the old Skinner & Edd ships urd following the receipt of atches from Washington, that the shipping board t Comn s George F. to the shipping board “The option secured by Jofficials point out, merely that the voters of King count to have an opportunity to pass o jare its bonded Indebtedness.” Dispatches trom Washington, received over the week-end, an. nounce that the shipping board has given the port commission an option under which the port may acquire the property for nite, announcing “I am highly gratified," Commis- sioner Cotterill sald Monday, “that this great public resource—on which the federal government 1s forced to lose a million dollars or more—lg go-| $600,000, in return for which the ing to the people, instead of to a pri. commission agrees to erect a vate, competing interest new immigration station at a cost of $200,000, which the gov- ernment is to be permitted to rent on a 5 per cent basis, The whole deal, “I have no doubt in the world but ‘avor of because it is a tre- profitable deal for tho transaction, mendously ort, “For $600,000 we will acquire a 23- ot course, of the port district next May, they will be asked to sanction transaction at the polis, It Meved almost certain, whe th cial area which ts nh ner nnenne~~) MONDAY, | Chamber Must Go. on Record are | the question of whether or not they willing to have the port increase is con: tingent upon the verdict of the voters | is be.) however, that} FEBRUARY 26, 1923. SS ~ The Seattle Star “Two Cc ENTS IN SEATTLE, Here's Volume a copy of the mis this office. Eien * Aguinaldo was the “hot news’ jshows that Fitzsimmons and Jeffries were preparing for a boxfight. circulation director and oldest employe of The Star, is shown at the upper left. | picture is of Tom Bradley, press foreman, who joined the paper a few months after it * Anniversary Recalls the. Small Beginning and Marvelous How Star Looked 24 Years Ago Today 1, No. 2, of The Seattle Star, dated Monday, February 27, 1899. This is| the earliest edition on file at The Star, Volume 1, No. 1, having disappeared. If anyone has| ing edition he would confer a great favor on The Star by bringing it to| ’ of the day at that time—and an inside page| All Photos by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers * * BY BOB BERMANN s| The Monday. Star celebrated its nm} creasing strength, | Growth of Big Institution 24th birthday anniversary It was just exactly 24 years ago Sunday that The Star began to shine on Seattle—and it’s been shining, with in- ever since, until today it’s by far the |biggest planet in the newspaper firmament of the state. ‘There's a world of romance in the | Volume 1, No. 1, that appeared on |the streets of Seattle on Saturday, |February 25, 1899—not so much on ac- |count of what appeared in that mod- Jest first edition as because of what |has transpired since then, For the | history of Tho Star is strikingly sim- ilar to the history of Seattle. Seattle was little more than a village when |The Star made its debut, It's the ‘The Star, at that time, was more like | n|® handbill than the modern concep- (tion of a newspaper, and today it's | the acknowledged leader of its entire field. . The |the votera will approve, Inasmuch as| The history of The Star can best on me Saturday nights, because | | frantically to a window, dropped the| best way of computing the value of |the agreement given the port proper. | related by Howard W. Parish, he always carries the Sunday | |Pables to the sidewalk and leaped the site is by comparing it with thelty worth not lexs than $3,000,000 for | Present circulation director, aves se |-paper away with him. fed them, Her husband al 0 | Stacy-Lander site, half a mile to the} gross expenditure of only $800, 90, | Paper # oldest employe in point o! ash 7 nip south. Altho this tract Is a mile 0 | fc 2 Pee PJ Mrs. Healy and one child, Marion, | farther away fro rat itl hi Maly Meepireep return of $10,000 @|notGuT Rot TE, : : died a few minutes later in the hos-| city, it sold for $50,000 an acre, as}, : OM BILL McCURDY All the new styies are Egyptian-—| rita), Healy and the other Infant, | cociny ean cfor $80,000. re ts] It ia understood that, in accepting| “1 first joined ‘The Star on June the girls are even smoking Egyptian) nna are reported dying. "Jimore valuable property." + {the port commission's offer, the ship-|5, 1900," Parish reminisced Monday. eo bee Two others Injured are Albert| Officials of the Chamber of Coms| PINK Hoard rejected a considerably |y was 10 years old and 1 was in Fred Stone, at the Met this week,|2&UPPe% a neighbor, who alded in| merce announced at the samo time bea eeciag PER PAPUAN en ee leh the aN DU bomen a aeron fs “another candidate for the Hard| (sue Work, and Arthur Corey, @|that the’ chamber's referendum on| "ye ahipping board's decision wealby uving a route from. Bild fireman, the question would continue In spite K vf : ee (oy. wuying a route, trum | Bl 4 Guy association. ‘i “- “POEMS FOR YOUR ASH CAN I can’t make out without a doubt, Ale's just an oll ean to me, —Larle Ferris, . Vorty people who saw a man rob a} Ton Angeles bank didn't interfere. They thought it was the landlord collecting the rent. o- Today's Definition: A good carpet 4s one that won't break your pipe when you drop it. . A STAR WANT AD MEANS CASH IN YOUR CASH DRAWER “They point out that the option In| mterests. , » were just 31 customers on | |dependent upon se conuidera.| Col George B, Lamping, chairman |my route at first, but 1 knew that |tions: (1) Approval by the voters, |0f the port commission, has been In |iiy more customers I got the more who would have to authorize the| Washington for the lost fortnight 1 /money I'd make, so 1 worked hard. | port to well and issue the additional|*most daily conference with A. D.|1 got subseriptions in one day bonds required not only to buy but|lasker, chairman of the shipping | and In three’ months 1 had to improve the property as well; (2) and Commissioner Meyer LAs# |}§4 customers, 1 finally extended my |wubject to the ability of the emer.|Ner. His task was to persuade tho |territory all the way to Onk Lake, gency flect corporation to offer a|board that the bid from the port was |a distance of about three miles, that of the shipping t jan official stat de in marketable | the making of a formal contract, car. lrying out the terms of the proposal Jor option, which must be agreeable ard’s decision, In ment the chamber dd that this action In no way erfered with the position of the trustees against the deal, and added: in view of the fact tha pressure } brought to bear on the governmen to dispose of the property to privat |for the port, considerable title, and (3) subject to beeaum, (Turn to Page 6, Colunin 2) been worthy of more consideration than @ higher offer from private interests— inasmuch as the site was hailed in Seattle as a algnal victory |Gurdy, now manager of the Metro: tipolitan theater, My route |from ‘Tahoe station—now ave. N. E.—to what is now Mountain View station. extended t ry |1 had to cover after school, “After a little while I sold this Jroute and bought one on Westlake lave, extending down to Lake Union It ought to be passed—with liberal increa Fourth | and today | school. metropolis of a vast empire; | | | But I got held up white I was dis- tributing my papers und I was 80 scared I sold out and bought a route on Second ave, I got that route from Lowell Brown, now with the Seattle Electric Co, I had 132 cus- tomers at first, but built it up to 6. “All this time T had been going to But I finished at Broadway high school in 1907 and came to work Jin the circulation department of The |Star. I rented my route to F, W. Martin, now assistant cashier of the Metropolitan National bank. Shortly after this, Ed Chase, founder and general manager of The Star, asked me if I'd like to be his stenographer. I said 1 would—biit explained that I didn’t know ‘anything about stenography and hadn't got past the hunt and peck system on the type wri! HOWARD HAD A HARD-BOILED BOSS “That's all right,’ he asspred me, ‘if you'll go to night ae to Tees 6, Colunm 5) rhool,’ LEGISLATORS RUSH TO ENTER MEASURES INSIDE TIME LIMIT LYMPIA, Feb, 26.—Tho final rush to introduce bills was un der way Monday, No bills can te after today without Introduced special consent, In the house 14 new measures were receiwd while 20 new bills wore filed in the senate, More wore expected to come in before q The legislature up to date has done nothing for the maimed, the crippled and the slain in industry és in the allowance for men injured in accident th day. Is ovr. home, Howard W. Parish, The other | PICKING JURY Alleged Larceny Perry B. Truax, vice-president of |the Seattle National bank, went on trial Monday before Judge Mitchell Gilliam, charged with grand larceny. Itself recently Judge J. T. Ronald on a demurrer | that it was Impossible to enforce a larceny penalty upon a bank, under | the present state laws, Truax was indicted by a grand fury which returned a report Janu- ary 8. The indictment charges that | on August 28, 1921, ‘fruax connived to gain possession of two checks, to- taling $18,474.01, from agents of Frank Waterhouse & Co, Attorneys Walter 8, Fulton and} Robert P. Oldham for Truax care-| fully questioned prospective jurors | Monday. Questions searched the be-| Nefs of the veniremen on bankers’ duty to the public, on prejudice or} lack of it towards Frank Water- house & Co, and on the favorite newspapers of the jurors, Deputy Prosecutors Ewing D. Col- vin and Chester A. Batchelor, who| are conducting the ate's case, used equal care in questioning the jurors Due to the caution of the attorneys, slow progress was made, ‘Truax sat beside his attorneys and took a deep interest in the procedure of the court. was IN TRUAX CASE Banker Goes on Trial for’ A similar charge against the bank| dismissed by | THO SISTERS CAPTURED BY IN AUTO ‘Huge Posse Hunts for Child’s Body | as Armed Men | Guard Suspect | PHILADELPHIA, Feb, undred hundre 26. — Five detectives and 8 of civilians tox police and y are scour- the northeast section of Philadel- | phia for Lilhan Gilmore, 6, who was | kidnaped and ts believed to have been murdered late Saturday. The child, with her sister, Dorothy, 5, was lured into an automobile while playing in front of her home, and police have sought in vain for a clue that would lead to her whereabouts or the discovery of her body. Dorothy, who was found and re turned home after the abduction, told police that she saw the man | murder Lillian and throw her body on the foe. Wille F. Morgan ‘s under arrest in connection with the kidnaping. A crowd of children were playing in front of the Gilmore home when a man in an old model sedan drove up and‘invited the children to take a ride. Two little girls got into |the automobile and the man sped away ‘Three hours later Dorothy was found wandering in the neigh- borhood of her home, She was dazed and half-frozen, A nelgh- bor took her home and she told this story: j ‘A man took me and Lillian on a long ride. He hurt Lilllan — (Turn to Page 6, Column 1) 5 EXTRA RUTH GARRISON MAY BE FREED ‘New Bill Believed Framed for Her Release OLYMPIA, Feb. 26.—What ts be- | Heved to be an attepmt to secure the: |Telease of Ruth WGaitngs sentenced |to Walla Walla May 9, 1919, for de tention as a criminally insane per |son, after she had poisoned and killed Mrs, Douglas M. Storrs, wife of her lover, came to light here to- day with the introduction of house bill No, 188, which would permit the release of criminally insane persons on parole by the house committee on penal institutions, Altho J. Howard Shattuck, state parole officer and chairman of the penal institutions committee, denies this, the belief that the measure was framed particularly to obtain |the release of the Garrison girl | gains headway owing to the plea of | the defense at the time of her trial | that if she were sentenced to Walla | Walla she could never be pardoned. Shattuck admits, however, that an attempt is under way to secure an unconditional pardon for the girl, and declares the bill introduced to- day would give the parole board | supervision over her, while if she were granted an unconditional par don under the old law, she would be free from any penal regulation whatever, Douglas M. Storrs, former deputy sheriff, and the Garrison girl's lover, was released Noyember 14, by Lieut. Gov, Wee Coyle in the ab- sence of’ Gov, Hart. DRY FORCES NEED TWO-FISTED GENT TO LEAD ’EM HERE OES anyone know of a horny-handed, two-fisted he- man, whose nature is a queer mixture of the religious fanatic and the rip-snorting breed of the bootlegger’s ilk? If you do, there is a lucrative job awaiting him as chieftain of the federal dry forces here. So far, the job seems to have Federal Director gone begging. U. S. Embassy in Berlin on Fire} BERLIN, PF in the Ameri Slight second and ». 26.—Fire broke out n embassy today, — | damage was done to the floor, where Ambassador Mrs, Houston make their John Metcalf of Montana and ais brother in enforcement, Carl Jackson of Wyoming, have both qualied before the nomination, Director George Hurlburt is leay- ing here for Chicago, Even his strong constitution shows the ef+ fects of the rigors of chasing the boove runners of the great North: west, where, as the movie sub: titles have it, “Men are Men,’* Prohibition officials insist tha Hxeited crowds gathered outside therembassy and police lines were! established, as four fire companies | fought the blaze, numerous shakeups are all @ part of the game and that every: thing will be settled presently, The industrial insurance bill is to.come up soon, ‘ Washingvants present compensation schedule, as The Star has pointed out, is the lowest in America--a shame to our state. The bill will not increase taxes; only the reactionary employers will oppose it.