The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 2, 1923, Page 1

re tubs, ge was th, The -aper With a 17,000 Lead Over Its Afternoon eee PUPS TISTSTS Competitor; There’s a Reason; You Know What It Is BAR IN RAINIER VALLEY! ee eee reeeees RRR. WEATHER Tonight « “r Tesnperatiore Last 3 Hours Maximum, 43, Minimum, 30. ¢ Today noor tered as Second Class Matter May 9, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of *. Per Year, by The Seattle Star [eOME | SEATTLE, WASH,, F tIDAY, MARCH 2 , 1923, MONOPOLY FOR BANKS School “Thrift” Campaign Stripped of) Its Mask; Teachers Act as Assistant Teller BY BOB BERMANN Two Seattle banks have been granted a monopoly on all grade schoo! children’s savings accounts. ‘This, in effect, is all there is to the “thrift campaign” ' Pwhich will be inaugurated in the Seattle schools on March 13. idan coma ae Under the pls } , every grade school in the city will be converted into a branch say'ngs bank—deposits from Home Brew the University Heights and Ravenna Wa Howdy, folks! When you drop Savings bank will take Mutual a nickel into the conductor's ji box, don’t you feel like you are charge of all other savings. Something over on the Every teacher will be a receiving ‘street car qompanyt So do we.” | teller and, one day each week, will ‘Last Miiitite’News: Theophilus T. ‘conductor orf Seattle street car,|°!™** of ber pupils and turn them ‘dead Thursday when passenger |°V6F to the ‘principal who will, in ‘fails to make humorous remark ay deliver them to a bank mos fivecent carfare. aenee -* | interest in the “ca: She was » 9 and pretty. F will BS pre . He wns dashing and bold. oe mcnon: Whi Whew he tried out his stuff t ° She knocked him cold. ” The nickel be back hed p< of into polite y, agi ) ugninet anyth until you can drop one w " t lection box without Pr giv |p ' ut It ing you the parent a THE ANSWER IS Y PROMOTED BY “Will You Be Shot This NEW YORK CONCERN Year?” queries a headline in The ns Well, if two halves whole, we will. make @ The Chinese opera cor sap pearing . c 1 this Week, and it is queer that the thea ter is not more dr considering how many Chink re int building. ry ® I Prac 4 ow much car for men y can cal is ha dates Canadian Club « e.6 > | ; are WILL IT COME TO THIS? =| ready come in ay a result of th “] was sent to the reform |campaign—to both 1 Rapes school when I was 13 years of |the school t fige.” he said, “for giving my | Here's a typical conversation at teacher a poisoned apple many a Senttle brea table “Before { was 21 DAD BUMPED my grandfather's fa |FOR MORE MONEY poisoned the well on the old |, Bis nl 4 homestead and scalped my child- | 00) Gin T have a qua hood sweetheart. Pie at do you want with a qua “1 have been in jail 16 times, cit s tried for murder in seven differ- We re going to have a sa ngs bank ool, an’ teacher #a ent countries and ace bing blind newsboys in Se Chicago, Omaha, Newport everybody to deposit thing.” and Syracuse. | “But, Johnny, you've already got “I have done all of these |® Stvings account.” things, but there is one » | “Tt know n’ I told teacher, but and I say it with pride, that no- he said: ‘We w ant to get that flag body can accuse me of: for our room. You're not going to “I was never a member of the |e the only boy In the room who pane up the pennies, nickels and |rinreday EXODUS FROM. YAKIMA IS ON ‘Many Headed for! Logging Camps| on Puget Sound | YAKIMA, March 2.—The vast main body of Japanese farmers began leaving here today, joining in the general exodus to Puget Sound logging camps and the ranches of Montana, which is ex pected to continue until not one Japanese Is left in the Yakima } valley, owing to the ruling of Secretary Fall that they cannot hold leases on Indian agency land. More than 350 lenses held by the Japs expifed Thursday and in most inmediately vac ted the A their dings | and waited here | where }100 LEAS! UP THURSDAY Four hundred leases in all expired Don M. Carr, Indian agent, reporta, however, that the ma jority will be taken up shortly. by lwhite farmers. New rentals will be mewhat’ lower, but Carr t thin is not to the de Japanese, b claims t. to the de 6 of the T diay ha n , ont 1 until nex time the last c ent of Japs will leave he LEAVE BY TRAIN AND FLIVVER t|China Would Null Pact With Japan | HONOLULU, March 2.—China has presented to the Japanese foreign of. fice a form: © prope abrog tween the two countries, according [to a Tokyo dispatch to the Nippu Jil, Japanese language paper her | Japan, the dispate id ex |press unwillingness to abro; the | Teemment, which has been the t of much diplomatic dis cussion, is alleged to give Japan ex. | eee ary Pp | 2 Die in Powder Mill Explosion | NEWC LE, Pa. March 2.—| Two men were killed t explosion d the the Co., 4 in China press mill, a plant of the near here, te explosion wa Cause of the un The dead state legislature an account, are you?’ lore John Lyons, George PEM 1001 everybody was kid-| », 26 aid we didn't have any| ai "Read ‘em and weep!” money.” als fort the Bxploni on was #0 Chinese crap-shooter last night.) pounen J ecretary of the| eral bide i Ss _ iy ville, st when the police thre chool board, admitted Friday that} hows Breuee a eeeeey A0d win bomb into a room at t.|ne had received echoes frony such |GoW® broken. Oat ia. ations "4 “ 7 IP NTAITO Fritz Leiber, who will appear a a big thing,” he explained MOKE” KNOCKS the Met next week in “Hamlet,”|"There'x bound to be o lot of talno | EM UNCONSCIOUS “Othello,” “The Taming of the|rumor NuW YORK) Moreh fetanone Shrew" and “Macbeth, be re-| Ut who's responsible for these] ine latest prohibition arinie deseribeg membered as King in the] false report he was asked, alcohol and water, knocked t William Fox film, Queen of} “Well,” he admitted, “I guess the | tween 20 and hpancin pat ve Sheba.’ : jteachers started some of them,’ The judge gives them the chole be After playing under Fox, jt must! President Frazier, of the Washing-| tween the pledge and fall edge and ja Pops he quite a comedown to have to) (Turn to Page 17, Column 5) | chose the pledge. 4 hakenpeare. Ls ea “Your dinner will be up in a mo- 9 i ’ si At ’Em, Vall BI iecite tsene ver the m, Valleyites! rail; “Bo will my breakfast," 1 muttered,| As my face grew ashen and pale. (EDITORIAL) in We Tho Rainier Valley folks have Be that as it may, Colonel Nutt 16) another fight on their hands, Pinnee pt the internal revenue bu | nis time ‘to obtain on the reau’sé nareotic section A . * privately owned carline — that SCIENCE NOTE serves their district the same Ht isn't so diffientt fo drink rate of fare that prevails on moonshine if you first put a Kad dothespin over your nose, the municipal system, A rubber tire that ix too hard The Rainier Valleyites are (furn to Page 17, Column 1) ued to having 0 fight for —/ their rights, 1 without Koes saying they will put up a good battle, ‘The Tt believes Star is with them Seattle as » whole | Will be with them, We hope | they bring the managers of the lines to fine, even if they abt have to vide in autos foe a time fo accomplish that end A) Quaker |f Che City of Seattle Mashin gton Departurent of Parks ditor Seattle Star, Seattle, Washington. dear Sir: Your letter of recé containing the suggestion, that the Park Department, t ground Division, assist in the Seattle sion PARK BOARD AIDS MARBLE TOURNEY JRESIDENTS FIGHT FOR — LOW FARE Refuse to Pay More Than Nickel and’ Defy Company to Collect More; Police Co-operate BY JOHN W. NELSON Practical confiscation of the management of the Rainier Valley street car lines is proposed by irate residents of the | district, who declare that they will flood the city’s jails | jrather than pay more than 5 cents to ride to town, Hugo |Kelley, secretary to Mayor Edwin J. Brown, announced Friday. Kelley declared there would be no police inter- ference. | Patrons of the line will offer con-) ductors nickels for their fares. Fail-| of the National Marble Tournament, meets with the pig range gy aay ‘CHAMBER VOTE deter them from riding, Kelley in- approval of this offices sists. Force will be met by force if street car men attempt to eject This Department 4s alway glad to sponsor and especially spo sports for sport's sake, engaged in by. the ehtldren of the city. Yours trul ESSE’ A. JURY HEARING — ELTINGE CASE # acted on the jutely by calling a m Star Ye Zz ““@ Playground Department, under Mr. . 1] co-operate with you in every make this tournament a successes CKSON of the rble a week in a let fro’ rintend- the full- ting of : 2 e ph ‘ound instructors so that the Air Liquor Charges Before | can ta: ves with ules of beat rs Federal Probers | Ghosen. for thie national marble: tou pam . In which the ner of the Julian Eltic . tamous female im. t championship will take personator nd «four other oore | part Orpheum vaudeville ayers we to Official rules for the to hament ave their cases presented before the printedon page 18 of this issue federal grand Ju Friday afternoon | ¢ e r i uor violation, ac) Clip ‘em out, study ‘em—and start t Attorne Char practicing now Play In the tourna I ment Is only a little over a week] The party, wh | away—so ther not any too much Mr Ed Donagan time to famillarize yourselves with | da and W. G urker, will not be | the game. red to appear before the grand | Remember, every ih parson, sald ssa¥elle |the city, under the age actors were halted by customs | etiginio to enter the contest 1 prohibition agents as they! Play in the pretimin be divided into thr ers less than 13, thos land those than 15, Thus will be from the F te incess Victoria of liquor in with 16 quart their posse ‘The party re District Commins sion was scheduled to appear joners A, ¢ there tournament—at a da mains to be ittle, Tacoma and will take part | west Dr. Jacobs to Face p Trial on March 26)! classes: three boy and girl in of 15, is ‘ound will play: than 14, cham. | Bowman and R, W. McClelland, but|Plons in each of the five playfields | the plans wer i” It was later |in whieh the preliminaries are to be stated that information would be|held, These champions, in turn, will | fled direct. against them in federal) Play for the championship of each court playfield, and then the five playfield Thi a dropped, ind it was|champions will play for the city | finally dec to sul evidence | title against the part Ur grand} A brona medal will be awarded jury |the champion of each class in each | In case an indictment is returned | pla 1, Silver medals will be against them all will be required to|given to the all-classes champions of | appear publicly In court to answer |the playfields and a gold medal goes | |the charg of liquor violation, T hus |to the city champion | far they have escaped any public] Affer the city championship has | court appearance : |been decided, there will be a North: | te whieh n whieh | and Port: | ; The winner of this tournament, | BAN DIEGO, Cal, March 2-—Dr. lang either his father or mother, will Touln 11 Jacoby, Camp Kearny /pe yont to Atlantle City, N, J, for | physician, will go to trial before St- ling national tourns . to be held perior Judge M, Marsh here | on March 10 a. m., for the alleged murder of Fritzl Mann, danoer, it was decided today | Dr, Jacobs, a captain {i the public | health service at Camp Kearny, {| held in the county jail here without | bull (EDITORIAL) 1-5 Ab dati lias ‘wartanied'a. coins Transport Ciub | pensation bill has heen jammed thru the lower house of the @ ; to Hear Che mist | logislature, and with amend amutied at the Monday nooa lunch.{. ments which bring ts schedules con of the ‘Transportation club,| of awards up to decent propor Mareh 5, Dt, Th Ke Benson, head) tions, This was accomplished of the chemistry department of the by Speaker M kK eed's will speak on to Business,” universll @ Chaileni “Helene; PUNCH ND AE WV ah te VA deli taking the floor and leading the fight. , i rts west Champ’s Crown such passengers from the cars, Fail- ure to continue their trips may re-| | sult in the passengers operating the s themselves, | This program was adopted, said, following a mass Hillman City Thursda an organ tion was formed wo fight the present 8-1-3: cent car fare rate | ) OUt at’ memberstiip eg more than — | on the lines of the Seattle & Rainier | 3,000, referendum returns on the Valley Raitway Co., which serves | tion of the trustees in indorsing’ Rainier valley, Rainier Beach and|!easing of the Skinner & Eddy sh Renton. yard site to private interests show ACCEPT NICKEL only 3 members voting, ~ OR NOTHING The vote, according to figures an- “I will tender the conductor a/nounced by the chamber balloting nickel for my fare when I come| Committee, shows a four to one mas down to work aturday morning,” jority sustaining the trustees, The Kelley said. “Ho will either take| Vote was 1,022 for and 251 against PROVES SMALL Less Than Third of Mem- ; bers Sustain Trustees j eaves gs it or put me off. If he puts me| The percenjage is 803-40 for aud | Superintendent of Parks. Jott he will have to have two or| 197-10 against | three ssistants, Wh this policy| Chamber icials during the past | Maj. . Jackson, park superintendent, (upper|'s adopted universally, each car will baba ar nt Vleet ones aaa Hight) and: hi r to The Star offering his aid to the| Ot think the monte nan ant| referendum meastire, altho thelial marble tourney and the assistance of Ben Evans, playfield) tinue to ‘Spark those tac-| figures show only one in three Of supervisor (lower left). on a Scent | the members balloting. Voters wets | } re i to their namo and ad- | ers | district. are de-| “res the ballots. i ‘ The controversy was closed qian City Marble Experts to Try for North-| to the ald. ausurate ing by the action of the Approxin members | United States shipping board in leas= signed the a ing the tract to the Seattle port com- | lat the meeting at Hillman mission. The effect of the vote de volved into the question of support) + school closes in June. ‘The | ThUrsday night and paid $1 each a a apie Arve a4 : : i . r Ph | THOUSANDS ARE ig or repudiating the action of the | ed by The Star and its associated | E CTED TO JOIN apers. usands of members ar ies for the prelin will the organization. “The TRUAX | TANGLE bhein. next’Swaek’ Regtatration. Ae uined will be u ‘0 pus tals wi) ‘Be announced Jlater campaign, defend any residents So that out tania arrested for failure to pay full fares, 6 hit ws,” marble| PAY for auto buses to carry pas COMPENSATION FORCED THRU | Reed Leaves Chair to Fight! for Measure | OLYMPIA, ing his gavel to of King Reet re ntative act to a victory Fifteen amendments proposed to the industrial bill which ESS admin stration March ounty Thursday night got on the floor of the house, and aided by Rep- | Thomas rs, and start practicing up! red the workmens’ compensation of 64-1 | insurance was being considered by | house, changed it so t ibles, in most every respect, the bill Representative Murphine. amendments proposed increase sengers free, to and from work, he finance other activities ecome necessary, In addition, automobile owners of| he valley will be asked to pick up (Turn to Page 17, Column 4) LEGISLATORS and they GOES TO JURY | Duty to Employer Stressed — in Banker’s Plea Perry B. Truax, vice of the Seattle National bank, must go to the state peniten- | itary for what his counsel, Walter S. | Fulton, termed “a high sense of duty © % his employers,” or be freed of the arge of grand larceny brought START UPROAR ose | Near Riot Is Staged in| was to be deciaed by a jury Friday | : | afternoon. Bitter House Wrangle Attorney Fulton, In an impassioned x appeal to the jury for acquittal, Fri | OLYMPIA, Mareh 2 nde- | day morning, brought to a close one 4 monium broke out in the house | of the most interesting trials in court today when Representative | 2nals. involving, as it did, some of | Chiartes Roth, of: Whalcons the leading figures in Seattle finan: nounced Speaker Mark Reed as | cial and industrial lite, a peddler of political bunk, after Deputy Prosecutor Ewing D, Cole Reed had stated that he wished | vin closed the state's argument Pri at it now] to disown the Reed power bill, |4ay noon in an address Which | due to the fact that it had been summed up the state's evidence and” | so disfigured by senate amend- | ments. fet 2.—Surrender- | ntative peaker Mark | Murphine, committee | introduced by device, trick and bunko game, stole | charged that Truax deliberately, by Cow bells $18,474.01 from R. H. Rodolph, eash- clanged, the galleries the amount to be paid to orphan mped and hooted, and the repre: | !er of nk Waterhouse & Co, om children from $16.25 to $25; the com- ls entatives hissed and shouted at | August 24, 192 pensation to unmarried men from $30] Roth, He pald no attention and} Attorne Fulton told the jury that” to $4 and the a raised his voice above the tumult, | the case was “a private prosecution, | ried men from Representative Charles Moran | by Frank Waterhouse, ak Increases are of lke proportion, leaped hig feet and shouted, “If we | eged bitter financial enemy of the Presentative F. B. Danskin, of | are going to make this place a rough | Seattle National bank, thru the couns Spokane, was the only man who cast| house, let's make it areal one.” His| ty stand jur; 4 A negative vote, voice was drowned in the noise, BROS ey a a Not a hint of opposition sugee: sted| Representative Tom Murphine| HOUSE TILL NO. 61, increasing Itself during any of the discussion, | drew a large cow bell from his desk | COMPensation for injured workmen, | the party machine working with the/and rang it with all his might, ‘The| has been indorsed by the Master utmost smoothness thrugyt, {roar was deafening for a period of | Painters' and Decorators’ association ¥ five minutes, of Seattle, ] RIPLETS’ MOTHER WEIGHS 97 POUNDS| ROTH ‘STAGES NOW liam Car the mothe in Bronx he pital YORK, March 2 welghing but 97 pounds, Ia} of the first triplets born Mrs, Wi. WHY NOTA BUSINESS OF YOUR OWN? | A COMEBACK) | OLYMPIA, March 2.—Representa:| |tive Charles Roth of Whateom coun: | ty, who served notice on the house Wednesday afternoon that he would resign, staged a comeback on. the Star readers have proven acs house Thursday night. tive BUYERS for real estate Aftor the passage of the compensa and automobiles,\and no doubt Jsation bill, Representative Hanks ‘ i \ i Da Shika torte thc, lame | sored for reconsideration of the vote|4 Will want an opportunity to BUY y which lost house bill No, 84, the/] a working business. somewhere Speaker, Do it on behalf of tax i measure which places municipal] | that is heihe offered at a sacri rk barrel slashes, on |property on the tax rolls, “'Phey Fa behalf of blue sky and other jcan't pull that stuff,” Roth declared N TR much needed legistatio and [When he heard the motion while Every ‘day 75,000 Star Want > |standing In the back of the house 2 ‘ott " against some of the — graft miahea te Wie Ad’ Readers carefully read STAR Measures now session ‘nity success, pending yet from a dreary failure to a fair I seat and shouted , and the | "Mr, Speaker, T move the motion|| WAN'T AD COLUMNS who ate converted [be laid on the table," Roth's motion |] prospects for businesses belng: carried almost unanimously, Roth |] sold everywhere, expected to be on hand Mriday when 4 the house convenos