The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 23, 1923, Page 1

“TIEIRESS” ADMITS FORGERY eee Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 51, Mintinum, 40. Today noon, 46 REDSKIN Howdy, folks! There is no cause to worry over tho street railway situation, says Mayor Brown. ; God bless our little Polyann: Dee Brown !s cond esting experiment, He Coue treatment to make cars pay. ting an inter is using th the Street cers us horse; now £ to de p orun by bull. Ho-hum! way, the munic! debter and deb’ . ery day, in every al railway Is getting HE'S NOT WORRIED “Why should anybody worry over the street railway situation? I'm not worried. There's nothing really to worry about. My political future is at stake and I am not worried. Tam not a fickle politician.”—Mayor rh n. Doc says his politic: stake. Doc's political fu’ Entered as Second Clase Matter May e Seattle Star a1 Gt the Portoffice at Beattie, Wash under the Act of Congress March 8. SEATTLE, W/ DEFEATED IN F IGHT! |Utah Settlers’ Posse Surrounds Rebel Indians; Surrender of Band Is Forced; One Killed 4 dy| killed and 10 ¢ Utah, ptured in what SALT LAKE CITY, March 23.—One Indian y is perhaps the last battle of | the last Indian war in the United States. The engagement took place a southwe The Indians lay in ambush, sent out scouts and located the surrounded the band and at a PIGGLY WIGGLY | SENDS REPRIEVE Saunders Willing to Settle at $100 a Share | t Comb Wash t of Blanding, last night, but the white settle sir exact position. give rs’ posse The po: n signal opened fire. Phe Ind 1 the shots and there tn part of Utah, exactly the same as jeneral Custer and was foug if ithe ts of sagemen’ , about 20 miles} | firm stand n driv c Piute became en » band was ay Ho stood out | Mrs. H, Lawson, of ue. Per Tear, by Mail, $1.60 * EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, PPO poo pi Wer | truth, AYS TOL SHE kK TO UY VIOLIN Love for Music Her Undoing, Says Girl, Who Sobs Out Her Story to Parents and Prosecutor BY JOHN W. NELSON Love for music and a cor old violin—these were the Catherine Mortiboy, pretty 2: isuming desire to possess an motives which caused Mrs: 23-year-old Seattle matron, to forge more than 20 checks and misappropriate funds total ing approximately $400, according to a confession she made Thursday afternoon. In a pitiful scene in the woman's ward of the Jail late Thur day Mrs. Mortiboy, after undergoing a grilling third degree in Prosecutor colm Douglas’ office during the rly part of the broke and sobbingly conf: the crime of forger of Lethbri day had , Alberta, who to tell the tives, of ng as the ry of her young woman told the s 4 {i DISAPPEARANCE _ MYSTERY NOW Stop Dragging for Verne Millet’s Body 1616 Terry ave., agrees entirely with The Star's contention that ae be forced down if the housewives of the country will only get together Renae oitor Ww. H as book- Deatherage | peculations while working dd fire o the posse. sugar price A cowboy from one of the | ranges sighted his rifle and at the shot Charley waved his hands wildly in the air, gave a warery and pitched forward upon his face, dead, At last the Indians gave a sign of surrender and the 10 were surrounded. They were ordered to come out In single file and throw down thelr rifles, They came forward sulkily an¢ were made prisoners. Guarda then marched the Piutes in single tite to-| ward Blanding, where 60 other reno. gades are held In the school house, together with several squaws and papooses. Several of the posse aro scouring the mountains and canyons for such renegades ag may be cling ing together in an unorganized band. can So ation of dragging operations » Lake Union ship canal at Fremont to recover the body of Verne H. Millet, 28, som of an old and prominent Seattle fame riday, the mystery of his digs rance last Sunday was height | With the ce | NEW YORK, March 4 says that March is a bad|bears, caught short wh: Ss Be abicar patronage, as / Saunders, of Memphis, Tenn., trapped stay at home and dig in the | them in their raid on Piggly latter at $150 a share, E jford, counsel here for Saunders, | clared, Brokers said that shorts who re fused to pay that price would fight Saunders’ demands In court, ee MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 23.— Clarence Saunders announced today ho is willing to settle with the “shorts” on Plggiy Wiggly stock at $100 a shore. A telegram announcing the offer will be sent to the New York stock | exchange this morning, he said. AN app ened. At first believed to have drowned in the canal, young Millet was |the object of dragging operations |by the police harbor patrol for four | |days. The possibility that his bedy jis still in the canal has been re | jduced to the vanishing point, police | |declared Friday, No trace has been — found of the young man since Sun- day, aie ae Millet, son of Dr. and them. J, En Millet, 778 N. 73rd st., and « broth of Mrs. John Thomas Cochtan, 120. din April they stay w in the basement. . FY a home and Sugar Boycott Is | Started; Star’s Stand Indorsed And in the summer months they stay at home and pick dandelions. eee Bilt Jones no longer o1ons a farm— He tills another's soil; He specialized in fancy work— Not lrestock—his was oil. eee President Harding has designated April 22-28 as Save the Forest week. Epicanurh as this week has already Fraternity Boys Loan Mascot After He Tries to Help With Cooking BY WANDA VON KETTLER "Seg," thank is doing well Just because he no longer is seen jin a boycott. when she went down to the Pike Place market Friday morning she)\ Piumbing Co. bought the smallest quantity of sugar purchasable, instead of the cr tomary five- or 10-| SAW CHANC |pound sack, Price & Carter, Star staff photographers, caught her in the act. TO GET VIO | 1 cece : - pubes eae ba ° violin,” Mrs, Morti- boy & “It was beautifully j ° j toned instrument and such a bargain | that much money, | 3 | was only getting $27.50 a 0 Be LOOK S$ e COVE | week ana 1 was carning $10. My music lessons cost me $7 and w | hadn't saved a cent. Instead we i | | were in debt. So I gave away to BY BOB BERMANN j j temptation and raised some of Mr. Housewives of Seattle were rally. } Deatherage's checks. It was easy ing Friday tn response to The Star's} eisite ee i ae ah ge ip eaberl eo vs rot j + Nuletide gift-to men.trom their a ME Suggestion that they boycott sugar} | WITH FATHER in an effort to fraternity brother, John Segessen- man, formerly a student at the Unt you, defeat the sugar been set aside as Eat More Prunes week, we regret to inform the prest- dent that we must decline to save a forest. : YE DIARY At my stint most of the day, and in| for same to the the evening whee I was about to board tol Hill squirrel eage for home, Suerdan, the steel king of West Seaith did offer me x lift in his new car. And we did travel but a few block Belmont ave., when we did ram a Ford a few feet abaft the beam, knocking it for the well-known goal. And both driv- ers get out and neither did accuse the other of being at fault, which I did think most uunsual. And if the Lord ts on the side of the Right, He is with as, for | toda we were on the right. And so to hom . Residents of Thorp, Wash., are ex- cited by reports that a prospector has sighted gold in the mountains. Mebbe {t was just a Seattle prize- fighter with his mouth open that he saw. eee ‘Phone official says that only one fn 113 uses the new dial telephone | He means successfully. eee THE LAW OF COMPENSATION Speculators who attempted to kill Piggly-Wiggly stock will now have to trade at Piggly- Wiggly ores, : correctly. J. Dashleigh Fitzhugh, Li'l Gee Gee's fiance, says ho owes his suc-| cess in life to the fact that he never took a drink of whisky until he wa ears old. 9 years old. | The chief trouble with a good story fs that it always reminds somebody of a poor one, . In the spring a young man's fancy Shirts and socks begin to appear. one A Chicago man advocates naming street cars, like Pullmans, instead of numbering, them. We already have a name for the car that passes us up every morning. see DEFINITION Anybody who 2p. m, to TODAY" Executiv _ knocks off work at play golf. p Norma Taltmnadge’s articles in The Star *n social etiquet are very inter- estinn but Li'l Gee Gee wants to know what is the when your hostess insists on speak- ing to you just as you have taken a big bite out of your sandwich, see Henry Ford advocates a currency reform. He doesn’t want money to talk—he wants it to rattle, eee Baby born in Florida has been christened “Tutankhamen,” and already he is calling his mother “Mummy.” e* But {t doesn't make much differ. ence what they call a baby, When he gets to school ho is sure to be known as “Cotton-top” or “Fats” or “Seabby.!* o- Why Is tt that woman can never find her spectacles, but 2 man fever bas any trouble in iis pipe? locating Tide laat Vine is always the casicat to write. proper procedure | } | } | | sults and that he would be fair and} |S. Sanford’s Horse Saunders’ statement proposing set. tlement, as given here, follows “I proopse for a settlement today of all accounts of Plggly Wiggly Stores, Inc., class A stock, and I will | furnish this stock upon application | tional Bank of Commerce In New York and on pay- ment of $100 a # ” Quotations on Py brokers’ counters at the opening ranged from $119 to $135 » share.| Several trades in odd lots were re-| Ported at this figure. In explaining his compromise offer | Saunders said he wanted to} treat all the brokers alike, that he wanted to avoid the trouble of court Wissly over give them all the same basis a chance to settle on} am tn the grocery business,” aunders said. “I am not a stock|* trader, I have no intention of going to New York to fight any financial battles on Wall Street. Tam going to stay right here In Memphis and conduct my grocery business.” Saunders refused to discuss the matter further after the filing of hin telegram and said he would make no more statements until he had re- celved an answer to his wire. Tho president of Piggly Wiggly further declared that resources back- | ing his fight on Wall Street totaled | $100,000,000. i! The amount, Saunders t } jp jo explained, |" |was not Involyed in the pool used|°Ver, does not p to squeeze stock market shorts which |! amounted to $10,000,000. | Saunders termed as “welchers” the ket and are now called on to deliver |> Piggly Wiggly stock. lieved the 25,000 shares due him on|¢ contract expiring at 3 o'clock yester. day would be settled without court/|t action. Es “The failure of a broker to meet |! his clearings thru the stock exchange |t 's the same as a bank that would be | unable to meet {ts clearings and all of us know what would happen to a bank of that kind,” said Saunders. as the bank examiner would have a| sign stuck on the door with the word | ‘Closed.’ " le a r Wins Steeplechase | LIVERPOOL, March 23, An Americanowned horse, 8. Sanford's Sergt. Murphy, won the grand na- tlonal steeplechase today from a field of 28 starters. Shaun Spadah, winner two years ago, was second, and Conjuror IL, third. Army Officer Is Sued for $100,000 SAN ANTONIO, ‘Tex,; March 23,- Sult for $100,000 damages was on file here today against Col. Arthur % Conger, commander of the 20th Unit- ed States infantry, ‘Tho damage sult was filed by Capt. Edwaln H. Randle and his wife, Mrs. Agnos Kernos Randle, ‘The captain and hls wite chs tho commander made public | ments reflecting upon the character of Mrs, Randle and on sovernl ocen. | slong ordered Randle to divores his wife or keep out of army cles. soclal elr The officers ure stationed at Fort Bam Houston, |New Treatment way monia, hew treatme | Harry shorts who were trapped in the mar-| troduced at St, Mary's hospital, Ho. Ho said he be-| tes heat deep into the lung skin. ethod. treat conducted with a number of patients “There would not be a five-day walt,|so far and Ne apeak drawn, It is believed, however, that the rest of the gang has seat- tered. Some are hiding In the caves in the hills, while others have fled to other reservations ((Turn to Page 6, Colunm 3) ELECTRICITY TO KILL PNEUMONIA Promises Aid to Sufferers NEW YORK, Me alc mustard plast for a new treatment for pneu which promises to control hat disease. Electric plates are applied to the patient's chest and back in this t and the temperature lungs is raised. ‘This, ac to Dr. R. B, Nattrass of of the cording |Jersey City, who has experimented | ing jwith the device, is an improvement | less t and elaboration of the old mustard | certed manner plaster, “Mustard plasters have saved the ives of m&ny pneumonia patient he sald, hat Kind of heat, how- rate inside the lungs sufficiently,’ he néw method developed by Dr, art of Yale and in yoken, by Dr. H. V. Broewr, car. with. and without burning the he tric current flows hru the body and some experiments have shown the temperature of the ungs increased to 115 degrees hereby. The put pal experiments known ment—have with as the heen the diathermic successfully new in each case improve- |ment has resulted Development of this tr considered ext ant at this ges have York there have ases wo far thin year with §,794 during the w ment is rdinarily important. a8 pnoumonia’s In th been indreasing, “8 compared Ole of 19 ‘ADMIRAL SIMS IS DEFENDED BERKELEY, Cal, March 23, — While Rear Admiral William §. Sims remained entirely quiet, President David P, Barrows of the University of California today took up the de. fonse of the famed naval offleer, who was attacked in the state legislature at Sacramento as “pro-Britieh” and “un-American.” Sims will speak foday at the Unt versity Charter Day exercises, but ho reiterated that his speoch will contain no reference to the attacks which have been made upon him “Tam not of any Weldent in Admiral Simx' career which could be 10 Justify your Dr, Barrows 1 letter froin mem state legislature demand his invitation to Simu to tho university be with ware construed lan guage,” declared public reply bers of the Ing that at gamblers who are trying to force the price | unreasonab! The | cery of the comm up to! | els. effect wan noticeable in gro- stores the city, the |number of fal |olably and the few ss made being considerably smaller | than usual, | nen of the elty to follow The buy only what r until Apparent r ent a te y the wor ars | sugar | prices go dow T am ¥ Bta absolutely asary 4s ™ | president of the nm of Women's dd Frid Anything can be achleved thru co-operation and if the women of the country will simply get together in this matter I am| sure amash the gamblers.” } REAT INJUSTICE | TO THE PEOPLE "I feel a great injustice the common J. M, Cunningham, correspond tary of the federation, “Un how act con: | y are absolutely! of unscrupulous per-| late in the necessities I havo alr groceries. Maltby, Mrs. | » people," Jat the mere sons who sp |of life. Personally, |started buying and Jaugar in particular—in the smallest | quantities ponsible, because I refuse |to play into the hands of the gam- blers,” Similar sentiments were expressed |by Mrs. J, Herbert Ames, corre | sponding secretary of the federation | before Mrs, Cunningham. DO NOT BLAME | WHOLESALE “The women oug t together on this,” Mrs. Ames declared. “If | they do they can force prices back | to normal.” | The women are not inclined to place any blame on local dealers, as the Seattle market {s based entirely on California quotations, which are, in turn, regulated by astern pr It was explained by wholesale gro. cers Friday that tie wholesale price of sugar in ust 60 of the San Francisco figure, this 60 cents jincluding 21 cents freight charge, | cart insurance and handling costs, It was also explained that the price fluctuates regardless of what | the Seattlo dealer paid for tho sugar. | That is, {f he has 1,000 sacks of | sugar on hand when tho price drops | 40 conts—as it did Thursday—he au tomatically loses $400, MOST SUGAR COMES | FROM CALIFORNIA Inversely, if the price 40) cents, he Would make $400, This {9} called the speculative element and | {4 defended by dealers on the ground | that gain: just about offset by | loxnes, About 96 per cont of atl th | consumed In Seattle comes from Call fornia, the Western Sugar Refinery and the Californin & Mawatian being the principal firma supplying Northweat Most of thi Jeane sugar vn in Hawa fined in Call mall of beet u are | mount rp vod In & Hewliy ne of the sugar used here ta refined tn | Hawail, most of it being shipped to} [California in a raw state. flopping about tho front steps. of | the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity house near ors campus peed. Delt y from ® they loaned him ow most comfortably a univers Dr. J. }of both 4 8 well w knowing, since his type of personality {s not ery day in the North. | NT b in the words Allen, senior Alpha Delt, “is a very likable reptile who arrived, crated, | at the Alpha Delt house slightly t Christmas from Jacksor of George le, as a little} vorsity of Washington, and also a member of The Seattle Hence the name “Seg” ator. “Beg” caused the many Alpha things Delta happen at | t, a me was called—a at which a 14- bet on, was pledged fr A beautiful green h was tied significantly around # neck Second, appointed frosh eo that bath hapter mgeting ck all atern! to the ribb. t “frosh" was duty of this} to} hat he took —that he didn't vay. Boland Wilson was hon- with the office, Third, a house was bullt—a com- fortable, burlap-lined -house—out of packing case. This was set up| in the living room, And fourth, a week o1 jer meeting was called—an ex- cited, worried, hand.wringing affair, The alligator wasn't eating! He was (Turn to Page 6, Column 5) an alligator It to care was tho for the was fed | his regularly a two later, | MAYOR WIELDS HIS VETO PEN Hits Bill to Lease 100) One-Man Cars | | Mayor Edwin J. Brown's veto pen working in fine order Friday when he put the official disapproval upon two Important ordinances that | were brought before him to sign. Theso were the ordinances provid ing for leasing 100 one-man type street cars and the new ordinance! providing for tho appropriation of} $160,000 to purchase fire apparatus, Economy was the reason urged by the mayor, who said that the street car situation js too compli- cated and unsettled at thia time to enter Into new contracts, Tho speck. fications of the fire apparatus are not suitable for Seattle, the mayor sald, and th has been a di- vergence of opinion on the type of equipment that should be purchased, The veto opens the old ordinance for the purchase of apparatus, which is now involved in court Mitigation, Chairman FB. L, Blaine, of the city council finance committes, sald thrt the action of the mayor is unexplain- able, as he had approved both meas ures before thelr passage by the Argue Motion for New Trial Friday Whother A Sullivan, former police captain found gullty of grand lareeny will get a new trial was to| decided Friday aftergoon by Fudge J, T. Ra in superior court, Attorney W, Dore, for Sullivan, ane Prosecutor Bort Ross were the motion onvicted of for ton John Deputy preparing (6 argue Friday having $505 paid by the ment to the elly while Sullivan was | of police, The jury clemency when it verdict of guilty, Sullivan wa appropriated a euretary ro ommended a turned a LENIN ILLNESS IS DIAGNOSED : Founded on Diseased Con- dition of Blood Vessels BY JOHN ARAUDE Zz [OW, March 23, — Exactly what ails Premler Lenin, of Russi: | MOs | was made public today in an official bulletin issued by leading Russian| nd foreign physicians, It ts stated officially that the physicians agreed tho {lness $s cur. abl is | “Premier Lenin's illness, caused difficulty of snee: which and a weakening of tho right ar was founded upon a dise tion of the blood vessels, tin read. “Recognizing that previous moth. ods of treatment have been correct, | the consultants believe from the course of procedure that the illness | belongs in a category where com- pleto restoration of health 1s poss! ble.” The doctors who signed the state- ment included specialists from Ger- many and Sweden. They spent two studying the history of Lenin's "leg, condl- the bulle- Pajamas Are Clue in Girl’s Murder NEW YORK, Mareti 23.—An um. brelia, a pair of pajamas, a pair of] gloves and a comb are among the chief clues to the mysterious murde of Dorothy King, it became known} today. All the | articles are In the hands of police after being found in the slain givlis apartment, Some of them—the umbrella and gloves—said to be the property of a wealthy ad-} Were dincovered in places that indicated (hey had been hastily hids den from view, mirer | council | cording to Coun | They a | Mrs, Wilken: Mra, Mortiboy was to appear be- fore & superior court judge Friday fternoon and plead guilty to a [charge of forgery in the first de- gree. Deputy Prosecutor Robert Macfarlane, who handled the case for the state, after consulting with (Turn to rage 6, Column 2) CONSIDER THREE TROLLEY PLANS Councilmen May Raise Fare or Cut Wages Three sources are open to the spe- celal survey committee of the city med to recommend a solu tion of the street car problem, Iman EB, L. Blaine, n of the finance committee. ac. chairm 1, Raise the fare back to 81-3 cents. Raise the fare to 6% cents and invade the general fund for the bal- ance, 3. Effect economies in operation. Under the latter plan, councilmen will consider a reduction in wages for street car employes as one of the jargest economy steps, the leasing of 100 one-man type street cars and oth- er smaller savings that may be made. No council! member has yet defi- nitely favored any particular solu- tion, Councilman Blaine sald, Lawyer Passes On After Freeing Man SAN FRANCISCO, March 23,—At- torney Frank J. Murphy, who last week won acquittal for Henry Wil- kengon a charge of having murdered died suddenly at his home here yesterday, He had been lil since the day following the close of the Wilkens trial, but his condi- tion was not considered serious until yesterd GOOD SAMARITAN Is MADE THE GOAT, HE TESTIFIES IN COURT GAIN the good Samaritan gets his. orge Bluen was held up in a downtown hotel room Wednes- day, He knocked the gun out of the thug's hands, but instead of calling the police, preached a ser- mon and finally convinced his. assailant that tho straight and narrow path was best. Then, putting tho revolver in his pocket, he started to take his con. vert to lunch, That, at least, is the story that Bluen told Police Judge J, B. Gordon when ho was arraigned Thursday. On his way to lunch, It seoms, tho revolyer—which he sald «ho had planned to throw away at the first opportunity fell out of his pocket and he Was avrested for carrying con- cealed weapons, Bluen was out on bond Mriday, Judge Gordon having taken the caso under ad- vinemeont, W. Prospect st, drove to Fremont ~ last Sunday, attired in a work and dark cap. He left his Foi |sedan standing in front of an une |dertaking establishment. and Vane | ished. Some time later the Fremont bridgetender informed the. police jyoung man answering Millets - jdescription was seen acting in pe jpéedestrian a short time afterwards told detectives he had sgen a dark cap floating in the canal under the, bridge. Dragging operations were” then begun, Despite a four-day search, hows © ever, no trace of Millet’s body was: |been found. A search by the police: detective bureau has also proved” fruitless. Millet’s parents declared he had been complaining of severe: pearance, but little of this until B | Millet had been employed as @ clerk in a downtown store, * ™ HUNDREDS FLEE Four Men Marooned on Island Are Rescued 23.—Bombs dropped frém planes today failed to break the huge ice gorge jamming the — Missouri river, five miles south of here, and relieve the threat of a serious flood. Army aviators, soaring 1,000 feet above the icy packs, dropped powers the ice, but failed to break the jam. Tho river waters, backed up for miles, reached flood stage at 6 @ — m, One life has been lost and ‘vy property damage reported, No trace has been found of the body of C. K, Johnson, a farmer, Swept away when he attempted to_ rescue horses in the flooded area, Braving the treacherous waters on a raft, two deputy sheriffs® today — |rescued four men mgrooned on Duns can’s island, A fifth man refused to leave the jisland, deciding to take his chances with the flood threatening moment+ arily to inundate his place of refuge, rather than attempt the perilous’ trip thru the crashing ice gorge’, Hundreds of spectators lined the Towa side of the river watching the Jdepution as they dofied death im jreaching the island, Hundreds of families fled to safety from the islands, Many buildings at Sergeant's bluff were washed away and thou. sands of dollars’ worth of live: stock lost, Steal Body of Car But Leave Engine William Halpin, 1916 Ninti avey left his fllvver standing outside on the street ‘Thursday night, Briday he went to crank up the machine and _ found he had only four wheels and the engine remaining, 'hieves had carted the body eff ina motor tuck during the night, “ jculiar fashion on the bridge. Ay | E ful explosives which tore craters in |