The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 21, 1923, Page 1

SUGAR MARKET BREAKS; PRICES TUMBLING! : SAN FRANCISCO, March 21.—The sugar market broke sharply here today. Reduc-| hours later by announcement of a second reduction of 15 cents to $9.20 and the addi- tions totaling 40 cents a hundred pounds on the basic price of cane sugar at the refin- ery were announced during the morning. The first announcement was a cut of 25 cents to $9.35. This was followed a few| or een enn WEA t probabs Toni dey « erly wih Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, Minimum, 36. mlay noon, 45. Entered os Becond Class Matter May 3, 1999, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. tional word that the new price would’ be effective immediately instead of tomorrow as under the Act of Congress March 4, 1979 Per Year, by Mall, 1.60 he Seattle Star iginally announced, Beet sugar prices were expected to drop proportionately, 25 25. VOL. NO, 21 4 YAY, MARCH 21, 19 * “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. 5-CENT CARFARE DOOME POLICE STAR WAR AGAINST 7 Snohomish Prosecutor ( Starts Out to Enforce ALL of Our Statutes! United States Has Reached Critical Stage in Its History Due to Law Violations, Says Official BY BOB BERMANN EVERETT, March 21.—Snohomish county is about to become the most law-abiding county in the country is Prose- cuting .ittorney C, T. Roscoe succeeds in the campaign upon which he has just embarked. It is a campaign of absolute enforcement of every law on the statute books—every law to be observed with uni- form stringency, and without regard to personalities ot mitigating circumstances. Home Brew Howdy, folks! Jim Boldt, res taurant man, has soki the Seattle baseball club. . ambitious program—#pe even —t ned to go thre inter time is hotel keer and revolutionary, is determ: And an spect for booth a with sting in rm, card room owner: other wed to take of the failure of past admi to enforce every law)to the letter “The United says Roscoe “haa reach the most critical stage If the gate receipts fall off the/in its history, Law violation—par players won't be abie to get free eats| ticularly in the matter of prohibition hereafter. ho are disp States, eee Very civilization is threatened. Either But !¢ William Wrigley has pur-|we must enforce our laws, or chased the club they'll always be | ackpowledge the failure of the demo- @ure of thelr chewing gum. | Sratio form. ef: government. : lr | NOT FANATIC It's really too bad, however, that}ON PROMIBITION the cisb wasn't sold to a plug to] “7 believe that any conscientious bacco king. officer has it In his power to. keep | uls oath of office and really enforce | the laws of tne land, in #pite of the |fact that nobody, apparently, has | tried to do it in recent y ‘ | “Lam not actuated in my de- cision by ty views on the profi- bition question. They don’t ma! ter. Regardless of whether one considers prohibition good or bad, the Iaw should be enforced as long as it remains on the sta utes. If the people don’t want it, why, then, they can repeal it, but as long as it’s a law, it must be respected, *The same applies to other that are generally violated nowac |The man who runs a gambligg house, the| for instance, {s a distinct m luoctety, not because he wins John Jones’ hard-earned dollars and sends him home broke, but because he is | detying the laws upon which our ctv- ization js founded. On Kelley’s campaign cards is thé} “Of course, I'm aware that I can’t slogan: “You Know What He!accomplish very much single-handed, Stands For.” | but if they understand my position, Sure we know what he stands for,/1 believe the right-thinking people of but does Hugo know what the public|the county will line up behind me, will stand for? land I'll have hundreds of volunteer okatthshy | assistants.” AND TALKS LIKE THE MAJOR) conven 31 WARRANTS Another one of Hugo's battle | Tie FIRST DAY eries is: “You Don't Care What | Witte Roscoe has not got his cam- He Looks Tike” paign entirely under way, he has He looks like Major Hoople to | oe achieved some tangible _ bults. As soon aa he went into office, on | January 8, he handed 91 warrants to |Jim McCulloch, the new sheriff, and the rooming houses of Everett were treated to the most general shake. down that they've ever experienced | Next Roscoe and McCulloch started a ‘There was a young lady named Fitch,| series of trips to outlying towns Who heard a loud snoring, at which| where they conferred with local au She took off her hat and found that} thorities and served notice on them the rat |that winking at the law Had fallen asleep at longer be countenanced. The «ame Dae rie procedure Is to be followed in Ever Li'] Gee Gee has been decorated |ett, and then, when the people have with the Royal Order of B. V. D—|been duly warned, a series of whole- which means Beautiful but Very|sale raids will follow unless the vio- Dumb. lations cease, ‘f Moonshine traffie has been cut A FOUR-SECOND SPEAKER about in two by the eampaign, Mark Reed, speaker of the low- | No effect has been noticed so far er house, spoke before the Mu- in the bonded liquor market, nicipal league yesterday on “The however, and, indeed, Roscoe de- Accomplishments of the’ 18th (Turn to Page 4, Column 3) Legislature.” ri ‘ 1g Yes, it was speech, ae SPORTING NOTE One of the xrst promising rookies on the Seattle team is named Pigg. We're rooting for him to bring home the bacon, “Utah Indians on Warpath.” Headline in The Star. | Probubly ennulathsy the Seattle In-} dians. o- Now that the baseball season is drawing near the sporting wditor ts) again becoming popular with the} boys around the office. o- . laws Hugo Kelley, candidate for city counci, is doing an unusui amount of broadcasting these da Radio fans will remember he is send. ing from Station BULL. . . We understand that the city coun- cil is going to make another survey of the street car situation. Bet they find that an overcrowded | condition exists on the lines. . the switch. . a very. short Here Is Another Dandy A complete home, with pleasant surroundings, makes living more comfortable, Perhaps this will offer some one just what they have been waiting for: Warren Blue Ribbon Furnished bungalow—Listed Wednen: Should sell an right. b-room ruia bungalow, on large level Jot all in lawn, shrubs and flow- of 10th ave., reception ‘hall with en, with all built-ins; 2 bedrooms linen closet and oak floors; |] full cement basement, Jaundry and it odd that Uncle Joe Cannon, after ing curtains, drapes, rugs, rockers, 46 years in congress, could beat the || ilvrary table, davenport, ok dining home town boys at poker ream, set, writing desk, 2 bedroom Gosh, whaddathey think he loarned et Ome in congress? Jules Gersh, marine sergeant, ts arrested in Bremerton for imperson-| ating a major. He was probably sitting in a sw! chair with his feet on a desk Pane Now that the freshmen at ti.¢ versity of Washington are Httle gteen caps again the: something on thelr minds beside halr, | see ivel | CUTTING REMARKS Oh, Razorblades! . The latest fa | gowns is mummy cloth, It is said to have been a great favorite of King Tutankhamen, At least ho was all wrapped up In it see hionable cloth for bath There are more home in the W tonight, ill about cnis Ad Columns What Thir Country Noeda; (Lurn to Page 4, Column 6) nt § ye re-| would no} SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESI |—has become so general that our} x | BOSE cecent serieg of motor crimes. | WS MASSACRE IN ee 7 —sOTAH FEARED Painted Piutes Battle With Whites; 50 Braves Taken SALT LAKE March 21.—Fifty warriors of the | CITY, Utah, Upon testimony of Betty} Miller (above), police order- led Ben Bojarquez (below) held pending investigation of | the death of his sweetheart,| the tnaian cea: Eileen Zimmerley, movie} hey are held under guard in (bathing girl and artists’| Banding. Leaders of the malcon. model, Bojarquez says Miss|tents are said to be among the \Zimmerley committed sie | P eeecerate wien eben pga Miss Miller, chum of the dead| “pishop's Boy" was killed in yrs. girl, claims Bojarquez and|terday’s picturesque battle in the Miss Zimmerley , quarreled |*iiy and two other Indians were | epee sae | badly wounded. The battle followe the day before the latter was| 1). reseye of “Bishop's Boy and |found dead. }"Dutch's Boy” from Sherift Oliver jat Blanding, The young braves had jo m convicted of robbing a sheep camp. { battle, posses intercepted the Indians According j about 40 miles from Blanding yes- jtook place, during which “Bishop's | , | Boy” was shot thru the head, two P Indians wounded and two of the In- /Gray Wolf Will Lead Seattle |ainns horses shot trom under thelr + riders, No Whites were killed or Club This Year | wounded, tho there were many nar- row escapes, BY LEO H. LASSEN ‘However, anxiety is felt for a JOSE, Cal, March 21—at}| Posse of four riders who be- of a conference between| ¢@me separated from the main organization and who have not jthe new owners and the manage- returned to Blanding. It is ment of the Seattle baseball club, feared that they have been mas- it. was announced shortly before |noon today that Harry Wolverton | will be retained as manager of the |team for the 1928 season, Nick Will Jams will act aw business manager! gbie to handle the situation, and Wade Killifer will be secretary-| me tittle town of Blanding has }about 1,500 inhabitants, It is in the southeastern corner of the miles south of Monticello, c }of the trouble is in a wild, pletur- admiration of the players and fans] esque country, many miles from any of Beattle, would be removed railroad, ‘The Indians took to’ the mana in favor of Killifer. Killl-| canyons, with which they were very fer one of the new owners of familiar, followin, the attack on the club. Blanding and the rescue of the two Reports emanating from Los An-| youths, geles, where the interests that now The Ind control ‘the Seattle team are cen-| phone wire Piute Indian tribe captured by posses of armea men. from Blanding, Monticello and surrounding ranches, accord- ing to reports bronght by courier today from the scene of have been |, SAN the close United States marshal here had prepared to go to the scene, but sacred by the Plutes, believes that the settlers will be treasurer, The announcement to reports that already put an end Wolverton, who has won the sincere respect and ne the -tele- of 14 having out only tho reports |tered, to the effect that Wolverton | mounted couriers have come of tha| would be removed immediately from | battle, whteh Is paid to have rivaled [his position and be used os a scout,|any moving picture scene of Indian were declared to be unfounded and | campaigns \premature by Killifer upon hig ar. The Plutes were in full war rival today. paint regalia, heavily armed and That William Wrigley, Jr. is now) well mounted, Renegades from a part owner of the Indians was| Colorado and Arizona have denied emphatically by Killifer,| Joined the band recently, — * Charles. Lockhart and. Killifer, of| Tho malcontents of the tribe have ly An and Jack Sullivan, a|an organized gang of thelr own, r are the sole purchasers |'They have been under.the leadership of the interests of Jamey|of Old Polk and Old Posey. Both Boldt, stated |these Indians fought against tho " |whites In the early Indian wars, and "DIE IN WRECK In the band BE farch 21--8ey Jother Indian lyearw ago the trainmen were Idlled today when a freight train wan derailed near clashed in the same rogion and a lwhite wettior wan killed. ‘Tre Rochum, nceording to revorts reach+ [ing here, former Killiter ure disturbers from reservations, Several Indians ane sottlers ‘en Vrenel Gat led the uprising at that time, United States Marshal Aquolla “Turn to Page 4, Column 3) » No| AUTO-KILLERS Net Spread in 3 States for Jap Who Slew Boy and Then Ran Unremitting wartare on Seat- tle motorists who fall to report to the police tmmediately after any accident in which they have been involved. And particularly stringent measures against the hitand-run drivers, who do not even stop to see how badly their vietius have been hurt, This wan the edict Issued Wednes Iny by Chief of Police W. B. Sev Alarmed by ing in injur reck two the epidemic which cause the day has four on t too numer n of the to the traffic department to jaguinat all traffic | especially against excapo after they | trians, |. Severyns’ fre was aroused by the j unusually flagrant nature of . the divinl police action . and those who try to have t latorn, In of which re- silted fatally—the drivers deliberate ly attempted to evade punishment, Jone of them speeding away and the lother failing to report at headquar. ters after a verbal summons had been issued. In two more cases the driver had no operator's license and therefore was guilty of a law viola tion by driving at all vering three thrown out for one of exe drivers, © Japanese, who kill- ed Norris Delane, 6-yearold son of Mrs, Ada Delane, 612 Sixth ave., at Fifth ave. and Cherry st., Tuesday afternoon, Driving a Cadillac tour ing car, the Japanese ran the child down and saw his body tossed lfeet. He slowed up for » second, but then “stepped on her” and, with head bent low, speeded aw ‘The crash was witnessed by War. ren Dy ther of the slain boy, and orge Dupea, 3829 Menton both ‘of whorn agreed on the license number, ‘Traffic Policeman jJoo Czech ascertained that the ll. jcense had been issued to G. C, ” 1, 712 Sixth ave., but police were unable to find him at that address, (Turn to Page 4, Column 1) A. V. Williams, Seattle real es- tate man, went on trial Wednesday morning before a jury in Judge A. W. Frater’s department of superior court, charged with violation of the anti-alien land law. The prosecution of Williams Is the first of a series of criminal cases brought by Deputy Prosecutor E. D, Colvin against Seattle citizens who are alleged to have aided Jap- anese to violate the antialien land law. | The specific event charges against }Willlams {s that on February 2, |122, to May 16, 192%, he aided one | Muyagawa, Jap to lease a 70- jacre tract on Vashon island to Carl J, Engstrom. It is charged that Williams took the land from Muya- |gawa in the name of his company and was holding title for the bene- {tit of the Japanese. Under the arrangement, leged that Muyagaw ontroled the land jthe law, |the trial as a conviction will pave the for similar actions tn a Hlarge number of cases under investi. |gation, Colvin said. | | been si, NEKO, it Is al. managed and in violation of way SPRING TREATS US MORE FAIRLY THIS YEAR THAN IN 1922 | AV OUND SPRINC | rived at 7:29 this morning according to the calendar, treating Seattle with much more respect than did his brother, 19 A year ago today Seattleit puddied around in a steady down pour of rain, the total fall comput: ed at 65 of an inch, “There'll be nothing like || today," promises the || man Temperatures last slightly lower than th imum dropped to while the maximum green, The minintum Wednesday was e4 and the maximum was ted 10, pass 48 degroos, 1923, who ar. that weather 5 degrees, was 47 de: Importance is attached to | | states | Here's Alice Gentle, who, will tace an audience of home | folks when she appears Monday night in “La Tosca,” mark- |ing the opening of the grand opera season in Seattle. BY WANDA VON KETTLER LICE GENTLE {s coming home. Some 20 years ago Alice Gentle, then Alice True, was a popular Se- attle girl, whose gifted mezzo-soprano volee favored local choirs and music club assemblies. Today she is one of America’s best known operatic stars, And as such she is coming home. Monday night Miss Gentle, who was at one time a youngster attend- |ing Central school, will open the San Carlo grand opera season in Seattle with her interpretation of the title Jrole in Tosca.’ It was in this same | production a little more than a year ago that she was heard in this city |with Scott! Her rendering of “Vissi }a’ Arte’ at that timo recelved an ap- |plause that Seattle audiences have |not forgotten. | Miss Gentle ts the daughter of Mr, land Mrs. T. True, formerly of Seattle, jbut now of Santa Cruz, Cal, The True honte, at the time Alice was a Easter Buying Comes On With Rush All Over U.S. Seattle Shops Report Great Increase and| Old-Time Spending Prevails little girl, was at Seventh ave. and James st., the family having made their residence there immediately upon their arrival f Uinols, when the star was still a small child. A sister. of Miss Gentle, Mrs, Harry Cann is now a resident of Seattle— | that is, her home is nearby—on the Des Moines road. A wide circle of personal friends, as well as hundreds of music lovers, |await with pleasure the return of | Miss Gentle to the town she calls “home.” Here she will meet again those with whom she worked in ama- teur operatic productions. Here sho will meet again those who sang with | her in both the Plymouth church and St, Mark’s choirs. And here she will meet again her first vocal Instructor, Alfred Rollo, of Seattle. Needless to say, many social af- fairs have been planned for next week. For— Alice Gentle {s coming home. OMEN of America are spending approximately 15 per cent more on their Easter finery this year than last. In Seattle nearly every department store and shop spe- \cializing in Easter apparel reports a heavy increase over a | year ago and in some instances all records have been broken. {This applies both to women’s and men’s style establish- |ments. United Pross dispatches to The and the Egyptian craze is noticeable | Star from cities in all parts of the}in novelties, {country today told of an unusual] St. Louis sales are reported a little rush of spring shopping, heavier than last year, Modistes on Mifth ave, New York, | All leading loop stoi say that while Egyptian modes are| Port & substantial increase over available in abundance, and undoubdt. | @8t year, Marshall Fisid & Co, said edly will be worn by thousands, | >Uying is heavy despite cold weath many buyers aro swinging away |¢" 8nd early Easter increases ary: shot Cheniasety dai ostimated at 10 per cont, she sau’ { ihe In Philadelphia a 15 per cont ta The big New York stores are do:) crease is reported by the lurve tie ing “better than would be expected | partment stores, from the weather,” and nalen show |” Baster buying is 10 per cent great in increase of about 12 per cent over | or in Kansas City thom tact vere last year, Managers of the biggest stores in Cleveland put the inereuse there it 26 per cent above last year's Bastyr | buying, ta Despite Boston s winter weather slight Increase iy shown, In the mat: {ter of styles, Mgypt and the Secord Empire are running a close race, Sales ave hoavior in Bea Sranelsvo, b ow Orleans, this year's buying (Tura to Page 4, Column 2) eS in Chicago | CITY COUNCIL HOLDS SECRET RAIL SESSION Weekly Pass and Single Fares of 8 1-3 Cents to Be Urged Indications Wednesday were that Seattle's 5-cent street car fare fs have a hard time surviving the ‘. } With the public excluded, a special | Session of the city council was to be held Wednesday afternoon, at which 7 time a weekly dollar pass system, with single fares of 81-3 cents, was — to be advocated, At the star chamber session Couns jcilman Robert B, Hesketh was to ask that the council go inte executive seme | sion, and the vote to be seconded | by Mrs, Bertha Landes, yi Considerable mystery surrounds © the proposed action. That the execute | tive gession was resorted to so the | public might not hear the real opin fons expressed on the street railwal problem, councitmen were frank admit. While not all of the co men could be seen Wednesday n ing, after” it was learned that ‘conference had been called, two sai ~higher fares are an absol or i sity. I a Hi ms ie the weekly pass and the $ 1-3 fare, sald: P “Fares have got to come up.* E. L. Blaine, chairman of the |nance committee, said: “We hai got to raise fares or the street way will go on the rocks,” ¥ | Covneflman Oliver 7. Erickson jsaid that be would favor the : jsystem ti a higher fare is ‘adopi jbut that he had not made up jmind whether to vote for ach fare or not. He said, “I have ways favored a low fare and h wanted the people to vote upon the!” question.” cent BANKS THEY DON'T NEED ASSISTANCE L. BLAINE, chairman of th + city council finance comm tee, announced Wednesday Seattle banks will not be to cash’ the semi-monthiy warrants of the street railway partment March . There be enough cash in the city t ury to meet the payroll for Mi 27 and the payroll of April Blaine said, CLERK WHIPS WALL STREET “ BY H. BE. CAYLOR (United Press Staff Correspo NEW YORK, March 21.—Fortuny rose and fell in Wall Street, world's financial capital, today, as; former $4-a-week grocery clerk. over” his big idea and totally his enemies and those who speculate with it. Clarence A. Saunders, of At and Memphis, the former drumm and creator of the Piggly Wig self-service grocery stores, fo’ ithe interests whose operations detrimental to expansion of hi stores to a “standstill.” After. whipped them and they had ef “Enough!” Saunlers today adminige tered a spanking, a sort of reminder not to do it again, ae Altho suspended lexchange, “Piggly once called @ continued Its specticular skyrod ling of yesterday br advancing: idly again today in trading booker. offices, Starting at 75 of vd, 80 asked, at the opening, |witle a dazed Wall Street looked ony it shot to 100 offered, 150 asked, at) noon, and shortly atter neon at 100% With the ascension of the stocky |Seanders, an undis\inguished Tooke) ‘og Southerner, who “fought to put jover the ‘big dea’ wi ich he believed lin,” was almost overnight made most dominant figure in the grocery” from the sto Wiggly, Summon Doctors for Geo-ge Gould MENTONE, Fra:cc, Mareh Qiaue George J. Gould ts sorinusly il here, | jt Was announcec todiy, AO ape: clalixt has been suminoned from London, ,