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

‘WEATHER FORECAST Boycott (EDITORIAL) v4 Housewives: u anning sei l hand to mout { to def the the speculators who : prices skyward EATTLE from one way HOT BATTLE Fear Uprising in Utah Growing; Utes May Join SALT LAKE CITY, March —Much anxiety was felt her little thru to Howdy, folks! Spring is here, but the weather hasn't rd of it yet. to had battle day, as information come regarding a Lup t supposed be in progress be. * Magnolia Bl tween the tlers Indians and white set near Blanding ed Ver g man’s fan Fear that the Uttes may join the Piutes in the been uprising has expressed by certain citi zens of Blanding who are now in Salt Lak STYLE NOTE Norma Talmadge, writing for The Star, says that men’s jew elry should be conservative; never brilliant or garish. In other words, if you use a gold toothpick, never have it set with diamonds, Prof. night “Th E. at J. Saunders the Seatth Glacial Age lectures to- Labor® college doubt the apart arned last night vn the Acroms the t an ., Wiseacres GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE VAMP, SEZ: An old flame makes many a man. LIL whil Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash WASH., " ssisssssttisttessitsstissiiciistritssetiiissiitt the With that the country process being empl egins. you each + over, as The Star yu actually P : ” it rapidly will be, the “corner is soon going to collapse. week than in 8 are vulnerable. Their | HUSBAND IS KILLED, SON DISAPPEARS AND BABY SLAIN BY JAP! I n $500,000,000 SUGAR GRAB! President Harding Urged to Probe Price Juggling BY JOUN CARSON WASHINGTON, D. ©, Mareh ~Official Inquiry into the half billion dollar ap ulmost inevitable here to- he of Basil director of the I who sugar gonge peared day M following Manly, Leg wired P: Harding urg a grand jury investigation of the “sugar conspiracy action ple’s ative Service, sident ME Mal au | tunatea Stung | for Huge Sum in Store Raid MAY DOUBLE HUGE Wished that I ha asle a day worth while Grouchy, sullen And I Only when I cast Is the ae eee New vewwoe Tratfie Cop Takes Place of Man | When Chase Starts Here's the feat—just toss g comin hope ca” on might get Doc Matth HALLUCINATION “Seattle F ard Totem Pole In Pioneer Sau Moved 20 South. Star Gosh, do the park board see Orders re The In Feet members of the that thing, too? Th doomed ants rajlw them | bonds fran-| economist w One astute clty to turn municipal back to Stone & Webster, allow to retain the $15,000,000 In and re! them of all future chise obligation Sure then let th fares to nt em raise the} tzhugh, the da the onl fellow J. in, " for an ahead these days | Dar mans hieigh F ubout-town un tlous young to get to marty a bootlegger’s daughter, POEMS FOR YOUR ASH CAN She looked as innocent as w young girl ans But sho danced at ‘the Butler with « traveling man, Mrs. J. E. Briggs —Photo by Price & Carter Btar Staff Photographers Afternoon shopping crowds stared in amazement Wedndsday at a wom jan calmly standing in the middle - ty | Second at Union st I? | traffic, as tho sho had been at it all life The polie Henry Ford has bought white collie. That’ run for t ready p Laddle directing a sure sign he fs ¢ presidenc cked out the snece oman we hen Traff to Police) loa Jim Bys it is dented, AItho that Willian Hi bs I Wrigley has boug 6 post and Join Detec Keattle bascball club, We Unk he is| the pursuit of tv after the partly-used gum stuck The mix-up when Mr der the bleacher seata at the Itainler| Brigus waw in the crowd ono of two ball parle (Turn to Vago Li, Column 3) bi the prin jin Wa Jin the | trict will PROFIT If t c be in . s of Manly put before the president some of the information publish ed about the sugar gouge. He said already taken 08,000 from sugar consumers nd would take $30,000,000 if not halted, and that if their entire plan had been successful, they would “rob the American people of $500,000,000 for the benefit of sugar gamblers and profiteers.” It is kn his tims | to nders’ financial coup pal tople of co: treet today. It wen als of the financial her famous a as still} ation | t down | dis. | s of an with ot n he « have been worrled b ome full details of th ed, but t iba the x to | t fer in ecadad iis well known. on expe aut man ome ence in ¢ un | January and Febru firnt plunge in sugar, 1s c ext subtle pr umblers came to ght when the recelyed mysterious state. yan. ART ea TRADERS ‘T TO POST” ir vt rs’ announcement that pre of a com. | canner y ments to “console them because (Curn to Page 11, Column 5) | the She Seiode they “wobiet have ttc ~\ | pay for sugar this ye ments came from the gamblers and CLOSE TO | intended to cause canners to A SCHOOL y sugar now. They are } never be ident wero bu uméra, By buying they would bol ter up the market Now Announce Cut in Price of Sugar today. || NEW YORK, Mareh A fur ther reduction in ‘the prico of | fined was notable today. Ar. |buckle reduced from nine cents to eight and three-quarters for prompt |shipment, Futures market opened firm, oloking for a chool their .¢ appear for the hildren that FURNISHED BUNGALOW a /Accuse Mrs. Buzzi in Homicide Case ww YC Mareh 22——Mrs. An Russ tod today on a re of olor the ago Frederick. Selineider thy x contractor, Her brother was Held ag a material witness He admitted, according to the po Nee, that he gave Mra, Busal 9 ree te homicide conn we Today's Want tell homes Ad Column, who will show you ou this v believes © that Hoover and| paganda from | of | ‘Tho state- | under the Act ef Consre by Mail, 68. The Seattle Star gar and Smash the Gamblers oyed and their the If the pl fear and credulit ten- specula dency house- flock like s agar hort Keep you as possible, gamblers. BROADWAY BEAU t death of beautiful Dorothy fa She is thieves who ¢ y Raffles” to so King, Broadway thought-to have been slain by with her jewels valued at police in an attempt ue white lig New ¥ $0,000. ork caped Jay that behind the King, police trailed to’ have and held n to her en Mi have powerful enov 1 the model's wrist joreform soaked cott il sho ded. ef today was that King’s friendship for certain nroused t furlous anger Acq tance and that ve to have been an, Miss men ° of the th “Heiress,’’ Home Again, Insists She’s Innocent iFather, Here to Meet Her, ] Lets Girl Wanted | for Forgery Remain i in Police Custody BY BOB BERMANN 1! It's to explain | Ber } Mrs | cuting she was still allve—but s died since then and left mney to Catherine.” Mortiboy told Deputy Prose- Attorney Robert Maclarlane, with whom ent into conference immediately after being brought from jthe station Thursday, that “some |man” had called her up and toid hor | that she had inhertled the fortune, . and that she would have to go to huraday to face charges of a her | Utah “to excape tho inheritance tax." van met at the station by her! sy) said'that sberdldn't*know who Cramer, a wealthy farmer | 8 hat I Lathbilige, ‘Canada, and’ én | her informant was—but that she left immediately. obe A 0 ttor- | bert O'Hara, Montana alto)" Mrs, Mortiboy matntained to Mano- Farlano that the charge that she was $800 short In her accounts at her for- mor place of employment, the Denth- x nnbing was “all a but she admitted that she )uld had no trouble with the firm and that she could give no motive for ich a plot, /STODY OF POLICEWOMAN Whilo she was being interrogated Thursday, Mrs. Mortiboy was placed in the custody of Mrs, Minnie Daba- ken, Seattle policewoman, who brought her to Seattle from Salt Lake, Sho was arrested two wooks Cramer, altho entirely ablo to Post! ago on a fugitive warrant. She got }the $1,500 bond whieh ts dema anded } out of Jail on habeas corpus procesd- [for his daughter, has deotded to let) ines, wut was later Hher remain for the present} extradited in January maybe she I'll be able I'm not all a fr everything.” ameu only explanation of Catherine Mortiboy pretty and 24, who claims to hay fallen heir to a $700,000 estate in England, when she was brought back to Beat from Salt Lake City was the " sho ¥ by Mrs. fathe from | | uncle, who came here as her sel father, ble mark more distre I don't: know 1 Aum | ned, wrin | “Tought to be up in © tending | my crops—and instead I'm here. Of course, this is my place—one of my children’s dono wrong and I've got to seo her thru t I hope the papers don't hear about it back home," THER LETS HER STAY IN JAIL Nttle man of Mortibo: at: frameup, what i of in nada i re-arrested and Jal ire cleared up. didn't kr until thing : He raid bout th Mortiboy but he “ponatble y. wife's cousln, who lives England, 19 very wealthy,” he Berlin’s Former Governor Is Dead WIERLIN, March 2 Count Cuno Von Moltke, former aide to tho, kal: ser, and formar governor, hed Berlin, dlod hora to inl that insisted stoutly it was In do i the} tales and refuse to ep, then the game {s ators’ up. Buy as little sugar will smash the r head, And ORDER SURVEY you |Council, Chamber Sessi ZLSON BY JOHN W.N ittes was 8 of op present 1, The to a se ib ill report ence of the council when | ts work, LICKSON TO OPPOSE RAISE Oliver 1 car s before | low can CARMEN FACE WAGE REDUCTION r s, who advo. th a dollar said that the tem, be given immedi-| re expensive to let the tem drift under the present 5-cent nd to become involved in court action than it }lem fairly and fearlessly now,” she | The attack upon the present 5-cent | carfare, it was.learned two wide a in heavy property holders fear referendum may be submitted to the people, which would result in an in | va al fund. car employes fear that tho situation will result in a reduction | of their wages. This is under con- sideration by the special committee us one of the measures of economy. comes from separate erests. The JUDGE WARNS “OPPOSITION” HARRISON, Ark, March “The fight has just begun, unless the | strikers and others who oppose th Joperation of the Missouri & Nort | Arkansas railroad let us alone,” County Judge 8. W. Wood warned, in testimony before the legislative | committee investigating rule by vigl- lantes here. Judge Wood, | yesterday, sald Jleaders in the |which ruled when “citizens vent alle) depradations paralyzing the railroad. in his testimony late he w Northern tee of-.13"" Arkansa: Secretary Weeks’ Wife Is Stricken SAVANNAH, Ga, March 2 John W. Weeks, wifo of the sec tary of war, is seriously {11 at Bruns wick, near here, according to ro- ports received hero today. Mrs, Weeks, who was aboard the {yacht Bvergreen with Secretary Weeks und Colonel and Mrs. R. M. | Johnson, was taken {ll this morning jand removed to Bransw on ad | vice of physicians, reports said statement on her iliness, It is un. derstood efforts aro being made to charter private car to rush her to Washington. Tho Evergreen was returning to Washington from Morida, where tho party had been vacationing with phil oh Harding, BANDITS ROB PHILADELPHIA 9. maaked and heavily armed bandits {held up a fast freight-of the Phila delphia & Reading between Oreland and Camp Hil, Pay, last night, un. coupled the engino, looted a oar and jescaped with a truck load of mor hearmeauehorsieh sc ta police todays, March Six OF MUAY LINE in Star}: 10, | Talks Some More} is to meet the prob-| t a} one of the} zed control to pre- | Her physician refused to make a} FAST FREIGHT STORE CHAIN HEAD PASSES ABOARD TRAIN Chauffeur Missing After Removing Man’s Body From N. Y. Central ont ch 22,—Leone , of Getzville, of the L. Be ores, Inc, died Central train hortly after TOLEDO, ab en laid rom pre Henseler said | was due to | but said he would | t mortem examination to] ® positively the cause of had been accompanied by irnest Martey, Who | 6 room with his told before and porters had tried giving got off the train at Tos the body and registered at the Secor hotel at 3 a, m q | At 8 a. m. he checked out and could not be located, Business associates of Steel sald jt he had been having financial \a , but expressed the belief | eel would have been able to his interests thru the present A few days ago he had sold his | jones rguerite Manor,” in Getz” for $20,000 to provide funds \for the payment of the first install: 1922 income tax, Steel formerly was head of seve 4 eral companies operating in the) 4 Jnited States and Canada. He | ably best known for the hain of department stores his name that he established in this | country and Canada. . with | |ment on p «Receiver Is Namieal for Steel’s Stores BUFFALO, N.. Y., March 22.—Afe |fairs of the L. R, Steel chain stores | |have been under investigation for” some time. Recelvers were appoints jed a fortnight ago. ‘ who was 42 years ly at Getzville, Ny » near here, gave up active control | of the enterp: that bore his name some weeks He was reported to be suffering from: hages following a severe ate |tack of grippe. Carl rman, state's attorney general erday asked the consent re to have accountants n the state comptroller’s office go r the L. R. Steel books and aos” counts, Guy B. Moore, district ate tor stated today no evidence of any criminal procedure had thus a been disclosed, | eee SEEK FORMER — KLAN WIZARD ATLANTA, Ga, March 22.—=A nas! |tion-wide search was instigated oe day by federal authorities for Bde ward Young Clarke, former imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, under | indictment here for using the mails to defraud, The United States marshals office today was in possession of a bench warrant for the arrest of Clarke to bring him back to Atlanta to face the charges. According to physicians’ aftidayite introduced in federal district court when Clarke failed to appear to ans er the ch he was ordered” physicians on a four month# for his health, ers rges, by | tour Tacoma Officers Ed Engdal, well known in Seattle "wet" circles, was arrested by Sherifé *| Matt Starwich and deputies, Wedness: “|day night at the Elliott hotel and ts hold for the officers at Tacoma, Engs dal’'s home, just across the Pierce bh county line near Des Moines, was) | jraided by Tacoma ofthe Wednes+ day night and 26 liquor were seized, ed the Hquor from his Seattle home! jon W. Toth st, two hours befoke! | Sheriff Matt Starwich and deputies! raided it early Wednesday, Eyiden jof the liquor having been bah there was found, Starwich sald, ‘ Would Have Drivers . Pass Examinations Passage of a law compelling apple” cunts for auto Moenses to pass an examining board of at least thres persons, so a® to maintain a stands ard of physical and mental fitness to drive nutos, was recommended by ) coroner's Jury Wednesday whon it returned a verdict blaming Theovald Thompson, 2006 Ingersoll place, for tho death of Honry Didlake, 808 By 7 42nd st. Didlako was run down Sat. ur by Thompson's truck. Thi jury held Thompson was incompes tent to drive an auto and ureedt iia Uconse be revoked,