The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 27, 1923, Page 11

yor 4 TUESDAY, MARCH LINE LOSING ——~ $5,026 A DAY Blaine Favors Buying Up Bonds if Possible Seattle's str ning behind $5 ta 02¢ a day necessary to operate for and ma n the lines and pay de preciat nterest and bond redemp ut Russell. ting to a repor ndent Geor Fr Receipts for the first operation show a daily ave or $11,956. The income needed to meet all obligations of the line ts $16,982, the report shows, This figure is ap proximately $1,000 a day higher than uw the figures approved by th counell | Former Follies Beauty, Now a Star) sanitarium, But t instead of $20,000, The © would show actual short approximately $4,000 a day man EB. L. Blaine, chair nell tinar my indorsed thi 000,000 street railway revenue t if they car ob. tained on the open market at any between 49 and 60. ine declares, ts be at however ts not on the markt, that it ts held by the Old Colony and the Con’ k & Trust Co., of New Y eral fo $13.000,0 & Webster Co. “I would be willing to pay $250,000 commission to a bond firm that could buy these bonds for us at 60." Blaine said, “I am ht however, that they cannot chased, 60 FOOT FALL MAY BE FATAL Painter in "Hospital With Possible Broken Back around formed be pur Crashing 60 feet to the rround when two old and rotten ropes sup porting @ scaffolding on a building 1907 Nob Hill ave. broke Mon- @ay afternoon, Cari Hammerstrom, 41, painter, living #t Bellevue, Wash., received probably fatal injuries, He was in the Seattle General hospital Tuesday near death. Hammestrom was painting the eaves of the building when the ropes gave way. After he struck the ground he was still conscious, how. ever, and told Dr. P. F. Guy, of the elty hospital, that the ropes were al- most 20 years old and had been| patched and mended a dozen times or | more, but fn spite of thelr age and yottenness he had attempted to use them in his work. Hammerstrom re- eetved a probable fracture of the spine, a broken wrist and internal injuries which will probably result fatally, tt was declared Tuesday, Indictments Asked in Jury Bribe Case WAUKEGAN, Ill, March 27.— Grand furors investigating reported attempts to bribe the jury which ac quitted Gov. Len Small were asked to vote two new indictments today. Late Monday, after hearing testi mony of six witnesses, the grand jury Yoted indictments against Eddie Courtney and Eddie Kauffman, two Chicago gangsters. Courtn and Kauffman are al- leged to have done the actual fixing. ‘The indictments asked today were | reported to hit at the “higher-ups.” the men who are alleged to have paid | Courtney and Kauffman. Miners Discuss Wage Increases LONDON, March 27.—Labor condl tlons under which the miners of the United States are working were out- Uned to the Miners’ Federation con- ference here today by John L. Lew! president of the United Mine Work- era of America, The conference, rep- resentatives of approximately a mil. lion miners, discussed taking action for wage increases, Rob Blind Soldiers in English Factory LONDON, March 27.—Thieves en- tered a factory where blind soldile: are employed and stole the workers’ | personal possessions, Opening Swimming Pool at Luna Park, March 21st,—Advertisement. CORNS Lift Off with Fingers Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a lithe “Wreezone” on an aching corn, in- stently that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with fin gers, Truly! Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of “ “Freezone” for a fow cents, suffi- clent to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the calluses, without soreness or irri. tation, et car system is run-| based on! a Issued by days of | that the} bank | 1923, | Ke G bas been of artists as (h eirt | us | many girlie, unable to the attracts the way White Way ed, turn nly t | fate of all m: we curtosity | them to the flame * why Kay Laurell can write thie © the girle of America adway. “a e~ BY KAY LAUR 4 meet the leads | on Broadway | NEW YORK, Mareh In the | shadows of the shimmering lights of | | Broadway are enacted daily hundreds Jot tragedies of which the Dorothy King murder was just one of the jmany closing chapters. Por among the thousands attracted by the White Way lights—some just | to watch and look on, some to feel the | warmth of the glow, ir wings singed ik the easiest way And find It—the hardest. nh, on the other side of Broad. they fall lower ahd lower, until. letely engulfed in the mael they give tn Victims of drugs are many who my strom drink and other vi at sap until the very end, On B these train jme mada. tragedies. since I know of Luckily my home ng and natural reserve spared from temptation, But many other girls weren't so fortunate, ney fell into the pitfalls—some voluntarily—but mostly victims of reumstances or the connivance of scoundrels, These are to be found in all guises from the fatherly old r jealled “daddtes’ the slick-haired jlounge lizards man parasites, | When a young man, not listed in jthe social register, has no visible} | means of support, and yet seems al | ways amply supplied with money, !t’s| | time for a girl to be careful. But not all of them are. eee Elsie Lee Hilair was well known along Broadway. She lived uptown, but loved the glitter of the cabarets. Ste used to sneak off afternoons and come down to the popular “tea dan sants.” Amiable dancing made her life pleasant until she was found murdered in a hotel, several years ago. Several thousand dollars’ worth of | her Jewels were missing. The police | investigated, rounded up a gang of “lounge lizards,” mystery. | It stil remains a closed book, sembling, in many ways, the murder {of Dorothy King, the model, whose real name was Anna Keenon; she formed, and $10,000 worth of jewels were missing Both women tried to blaze a path along the W ake no: tee, Both women finally suce —in death, . But the deepest tragedies | when young, natve girls, untutored in the ways of the Broadway world. | become innocent victims of another's | perversity. A young chorus girl I knew had |been raised in a convent, She was One night, after a long rehearnal, || HERE’S MORE ABOUT G. W. FISCHER | STARTS ON PAGE 1 and then came West 21, reaching Seattle tn 1887 } With his brother-in-law, James A. sale grocery firm of Fischer & Mac- Donald and soon arose to a position lof pre-eminence in his chosen field Mr. MacDonald died many. years ago, and Mr. Fischer then changed |the firm name to Fischer Brothers, |taking im his brother, Frederick T. Fischer, with whom he was asso- ciated at the time of his death. He had been president of the Western Washington Wholesale Gro- cors’ association for 12 years. Ho was an enthusiastic golfer and had been a member of the Seattle Golf and Country club for 26 years. He also belonged to the University jand Rainier clubs. In addition to leaves a widow, Mrs. Ligzie F. Fischer, and five ahildren, Mrs. George A. Kribs, the Misses Doris, Florence and Barbara Fischer, and Alden Jackson Fischer. No funeral arrangements been made as yet. HUMPHREY IS CLUB SPEAKER “Former Congressman Will E. Humphrey, special assistant attorney general, explained how the 18 arnend. ments had been adopted, in a talk Monday at the bi-monthly meeting of the Women's Republican club at Meves' cafeteria. Mra. J. M. Thatch. er, prosident of the club, presided over the meeting, which was attend. ed by more than 100 persons, a num- ber of whom were men. Speecheg were made by Sam Rath- bun, candidute for the city council, and Bert A. Northrop, of the Young Men’s Republican club, Mrs. Harry John Miller, legistator, will be the principal speaker at the next meeting of the club. City, port and school candidates will also tn introduced. his brother, he have City Manager Job Is Taken by Woman WARRENTON, Ore. March 27,~ This city will have a woman for boss after April 16. Mrs. R. EB, Barrett, ono of the Jeading busineas women of Oregon, late Monday announced that ashe would accept the post of city man- ager, the firat woman, it is claimed \here, ever to hold such a post in |the United States, | Other women have been mayors, jit wad pointed out, but none have aspired to the strictly business role of manager, Mrs, Barrett had tho matter under consideration for sev: eral weeks before finally making her decision, She haw outlined an ambitious program for tho olty, some to have| all partners | STINNES MEETS at the age of| etraight | | | | but never solved the | re | Negotiations on Reparations was found dead, mysteriously chloro. | would | {have resulted in a plan fo ded | tion of reparation difficulties: | | come |r | | | | | | Ing to |the French of the other girls gave her a sniff of powder, saying it would brace hef up. The the got Before rea dicted to she did next night nov She liked it he had become drug, the name of whic 1 to break herself of the Hut it had made her ite slave. went to another theater, The leading man there became enamored of her, The money she received from him, she used only to purchase dope from a chorus man who was @ ven dor on the sie, To cast off the curs She tri habit She sho went to habit gripped even after she had taken Finally there was but one She took tt—by her agali the ¢ way out ting suicide. Another girl, refined and ev who once played in the pany with me, b an ured, same ¢ ame friendly with m apparently charming old gentle “daddy.” passion was gambling Not many weeks elapsed bef younger companion contracted hia fondness for watching the wheel fo round, With bated b id stand for hours to see whether red of man known as His ruling cath whe we black ¢ It was not x before she wanted to spend all her time dens. Even old ddy" couldn't keep up with her, He finally dropped her as most “daddies do. Then she had to go it a It's amazing how many for all s of victima, When the girl couldn't get into the more fashionable resorts, the scale. Down, down, down, until) now She's at the very bottom n the gambil were she went down But the the cho shows. all. ‘The sumptuous real ge of th the » York’ are not ns New apartments supported by They are known i at large u 1 comes Mid in the Kin Then the focus of the public's eye is turned on their affair for a while Only to be dimmed by the gittter of the bright lights which keep shining on Broadway, ‘dazzling, drawing on aingeing and throwing aside ge mont just off men of to the | Broadway wealth. wor an it FINANCIAL MEN May Result ROME, betwee! h al and lors United 28 German m are sald authoritative 27.—Conferences industria Stat nd mas today to negotia finar | lex of | eu the Stinnes, who discussed the ques age Elbert H. Gary, also points of agree oth, of the president of the of Com tion w ment » F Guaranty Trust Co. Ir fonal Chambers me | commit: | | ore hin | Ing we dives there | | har | | theater, These tentative agreements maybe! ubmitted ax agenda for subsequent barely 16 whep she got her first job. | meetings of the International Cham one} bers of Commerce, and while they bear little official significance, | looked upon with favor by interests here In German circles {t is said that Stinnes is entirely satisfied with the result of his Rome mission, which he | made unexpectedly In an effort to got a close-up view of American opinion. Judge Gary salled today from Na- plea on the Mauretania, eee are business MacDonald, he formed the whole. |French Threaten “Severe Measures” LONDON, March 27.—A new warn. military commander at Dusseldorf, recived here. German nationalists’ propaganda has resulted In various attacks on French troops, a proclamation stated. Uniess the attacks cease, French officials will be ‘obliged to Institute “very severe measures” it added. RUSS SENTENCE PRIEST TO DIE Stay of Execution ls Tem- porarily Ordered MOSCOW, March 27. execution temporarily has been or- dered by the all-Russian executive committee in the case of Archbishop Zepliak, hend of the Roman Catholic church of Russla, condemned to die for opposing the soviet government. Five priests were sentenced to 10 ra’ imprisonment, olght to three years, and ono prisoner, a choir boy, was acquitted. They were pardled. All sentences were held in abey: ance, and {t 1s consldered likely they will not be executed, Tho condemned were charged with opposing the soviet requisitioning of sacred property in churches, as well as Pith, “ choi revolutionarts sm,” Will ‘Repeat “The Rosary” Monday Because of popular demand, the Anadel Players will repeat the tu- mous four-nct drama, “The Rowary,” in which they recently scored a tre. mendous success, at the Metropolitan theater, Monday night, April 2. The cast, aw played in the previous production, will be seen at the Metro- politan, headed by George Pingry as Father Brian Kelly, and ineluding Helena Casey, Leona Butler, Madge English, Phil Miller, George Dreany, JHn Courtney and Robert Melver, The proceeds from this perform anve will be devoted to the benefit of a number of Catholic parinhen. ota on now be had at 1122 Third ave WASHINGTON, March 27. Charles $, Albert, for many years Washington corresondént of the Now York World, died in a hospital here today, -A stay of Kaufer's, yany was issued today by | according to divpatches | Tiek. | | | | THE SEATTLE STAR in Oregon Wilds HEPPNER March moonshiners guarded a sti Ore. the in canyon Lexington, and were beliey at the law Sheriff Ge e McbDuffee ty, this morning @ n effort would be Morrow ed to of Mor row « that made tod to dislodge the men and capture th still Monday afternoon Deputy Sheriff Chidsey and District Attorney Not son, of Morrow county, attempted to reach the still, but when within 60 yards of tho spot were forced to cov ae tea fniitinda ue shale treme che canyon, Responding to Notson’s call for help, City Marshal Devin and Walter Canon, formerly a member of the elt police, joined Notson and Chidsey with @ plentiful supply of tion and provisions, in readiness for ammunl inding t ricaded a noonshiners strongly howing fight, N won and De urned to Heppner early today ving Chidsey Cason guarding the Wi and low creek crossing to pre ard. vent men encap Ar ganized north apture erift Mol ng that the morn known vu MORE ABOUT BERNH ARDT STARTS ON PAGE 1 state, where guished admire T and poor; distin rich rr 6, friends and and unfo ry may view @ re had purchased the wish that she might be buried in It, Was br . from of the house, It ts being white sili. In it she posed f 23 years ago. GREAT SINCERITY IS EMPHASIZED On nubw ‘Barta’: tf gathered gk eng readin, morning new sized her France ergy and her love ntry The Was an courageous « hours ahe fought the poison, stealth ike a drug. Armed which had en: 7k yearn, But the prevailed Inst the Bernhardt ded playing prior to her was ntopped in th first act and the audien an the « The prin her 1 abol of modern tressed her rvelous ¢n ce death of t her life off the effe creeping of thre her body witt the great her to , stage, dexpite fought strength died at 8 performance her Bi off death. finally o'clock greater and night "Y Algion” bad The at where in Idie of the 0 left Hundreds cf cablegrams and me: aagea of condolences the residence. Ilaca—the flows decorated the walls Mourners passed into the sign the register of fri she had always kept The firnt Americans to sign were Arthur Ainsworth and hin wife, of Grand Rapid Mich K Hackett, the actor, A short time before Bern hart sent to the ple, ahe most of the which James also called. her death, American peo- ru the United Press, her last pays “I am deeply touched by the sym. | | pathy and Interest of my beloved | American public tn my hour of pa Bernhardt dictated this fee her secretary, Mme. Normand, sum moning up all her energy for the ef fort. Billion-Dollar Mark Is Telephone Goal NEW’ YORK, March 27—The American Telephone and Telegraph Co. moved another step toward be coming a billion-dollar corporation when stock Increases were voted ata sptcial meeting of stockholders hero today, It wag decided to increase the authorized capital stock $760, 000, 000 to $1, 000,000, 000. Home Brew (Starts on Page 1) son."—From the Pullman Herald. Woe take it that Sinclair Lewis Is not a graduate of our state college. beh (Wash.) There are three reasons why Henry Ford could never be elected president: He does not play golf, was not born in Ohio and does not own a dog. : eee Now that spring ts here, people can no longer play “Zitz” by spotting empty bird nests in the trees, eee | OUR PET WALL MOTTOES | Be a Gentloman—No Matter How Painful. * “Volstead May Be Judge, line, Mebbe so, but we know one thing that he'll never be judge of. eee . Head. Noah had one advantage while sailing the ark, He didn't have to atop to monkey with any radio ap: paratus, Yorn ———- $f GEN GEE, TH OFFICE | VAMP, SEZ | Hurrah! We've got a new of- | | fice towel! ‘The old one fell on | | the conerete floor last week and | broke into three pic Te mM aie 6 Chauffeur; Say, Bud, how far fs It to Kent? Boy: Well, Mister, the way you are going It is just 24,085 miles, but if you turn around it ls only four miles, y Laurell Warns Girls Against Pitfalls on| Posse Forms to Raid Men| Will reat White Way; Innocent Trapped rounced+ Be Questioned in Mod- el’s Death Inquiry - | NEW YORK, March ant rict Attorney F be Ansint Pecora tated tod fficw, in ox vestigation of othy King n of Harry y general “My Mr with preas,” duy i summon to ht the in murder of Dor Draper M. Daugherty M. Daugherty of the United inrormation the on Ww ator States only Draper the concerning Daugherty’s connection comes from the Peoe “put if I can lo Mr. Daugherty today I shall most certainly ask him to come to my office for a conference.” INTEREST IN CASE NOW WIDENING At Elks’ clut Daeugherty’s New York addrens, the attorney gen vral's non could not be found came a nald, cate the Interest clung in about the person of J ley Mitchell, Philadelphia friend and patron of the artiste’ Jel, widened today meeting between the district attorney gang of blackmailers Miss King Is reported to cane, nurdered ta in clude the Daugh: | orty The that kil name ed Jone |lar plan, |the fact that the | organiza | Spinning. \Model’s Murder Just One 4 MOQONSHINERS DAUGHERTY, JR., MANY OPPOSE ot Broadway’s Tragedies DEFY OFFICERS | Would Leave C., M. & St. P. Alone in Field, Claim Oppos Burlington, Northern Pa 1920 transportat interstate commerce Monday The oppo! aring in the fede nts did x against the prin of amalgam but merely tion, against this partic which would leave th Milwaukee & against the field CARO, St. Paul alone Witnesses strensed Northwest shou lines from and the Gulf of er and trans f the Adi have thru rail to the Atlantic Rw ah ttle both presentatives ping commercta rtation Nn o were pres and, in Kuykendal partment of public ent n, there were B. V of the works, F ecto tate d unk BB transport trafti rvinor tion, and O. nead, commission consists of Henry Hall B. Cam; commis mine He He The hearing v attle Tue Portiar chairman, and J bell Thomas f jay and Thursday ut 1 to him in New York papers } QUOTED AS SAY for their common] Daughe thing rty, denying he had defi the autho any d them, and of, ay ir 1 to give ties ar no official know! Beal y was even acquainted All he has to go on} # and a purport that their fri proper m every respect, and t he would be glad (6 tell the authorities anything that would help them When had ndahip was en | qua, o he intima rty’s name it sufti-| n Netty here, te fed that jepartm phon 8 allege 1 fr with the “ butterf! Tdentific man, it fs ‘i the gang down" J ladelphia milion Mins King t as the bait this to hake ation of toad roformed when wed to SEARCHING FOR JADE. BRACELET | A search has been instituted for] jn and a $1,000 Liberty to have nhe was by eved the bond may not found police be the apartment a is t thru number Discovery of these facts ened a robbery theory, » igators believe. Another whfeh are fol the mystery angio te t on wing is the of Albert EF. “l of Miss Kin; has tswued offering to pre ttorney a frie mares mal announcemen t him to he is wanted attorney | Jack Mitchel Is | | |photographers away from from | |bury, | | on Way Eastward |: WASHINGTON, March 27.—The| t meeting of Mr, and Mra. Jack myster Us ir. in the Dorothy King murder case, occurred in the private car of E. T. Stotes. | Philadelphia milifonatre, at the union station here today, Elaborate preparations were made keep newspaper men and the pri-| vate car, which was attached to a fast train of the Atlantic coast line. to Mitchell boarded the train a few | minutes after it arrived. Prepara. tions were immediately made to transfer the private car to a north bound train, indicating that the party planned to leave shortly for Baltimore or Philadelphia, Big, burly detectives were at all to | wrapped fr entrances to the private car. A spe cial cordon of railroad police guard ed the entrance to the train sheds, | soeking to keep out newspaper mea, | who eluded them, however, by | hasty scramble thru the baggage room of the station. Mite porters car. pll succeeded in evading re- “in getting on the private nee HERE’S MORE ABOUT SEATTLE MAIL TARTS ON PAGE 1 M. Perkins, “We havee Iminated all non-essen- tials and our men are working eight hours; we intend to continue the service without any cuts in collec tions or distribution,” said Superin- tendont of aMils George Williams Tuesday. | The main cause for theo uts In tho Bast Is due, according to post: office officials, to the fact that most of the larger offices have been working their men overtime in order to keep up with the business, A recent order issued by tho post: office department states that the employes shall work only eight hours, which has left the eastern offices In difficultios, The postoffice department is short | of funds and congress has falled | to come its aasistance with an} emergency appropriation, according | to Porleins, | “As a consequence, some of the| cities are handicapped and have to eliminate some of thair collec tions,” sald Perkins, ‘“Iortunatoly, Seattlo will not be affected by the order,” ho stated Tuesday, COUNCIL PASSES ELEVATOR BILL All Lifts to Be Inspected Quarterly in Future e new which is patrons rdinance t elevate fective equipment ator equipment, under the nee, will be inspected rts on submitted ndent stem of inspe but b «ned to pre nat de new ordir and rep f the lifts th 1 6 cond tlor to the n was ill be iv w make periodic the elevators. al examinatic frht and in: passenger ele to be Inspected under the HERE’S MORE ABOUT DIVERS STARTS ON PAGE 1 nts of the police. man K. B ¢ bund ond rked for Lake Union for t rt ho months dra ing © Mahoney murder trunk, ¥ upon to don the diving suit A crowd quickly collected on the blocking traf ¢ fora time, Moving picture oper. Ators also rushed to the scene and filmed the operations | Af ing been under the sur. face for several hours, Colby located tha missing dope scales and brought | them to the top. NARCOTICS ARE NOT FOUND Tho missing narcotics, su reet car pposedly paper and weighted with js, Were not found. It was pointed out that the action of the water would probably have destroyed paper and dope allke, and tho lead | would have sank into the mud. In the houseboat next door, ever, the police found paper 1 bands used for wrapping dope, | | together with a spoon in which mor- | phine was cooked before being placed | in hypodermic needles. “The recovery of the dope scales, Chief Severyns amnounced Tuesda “is sufficient reward for our efforts. | The prosecuting attorney has inform- ed me that the scales will strengthen leaden ¥ how Jour case against Mra, Sanborn and Curtis greatly.” For Piles It Is Pyramid Prranild Plle Suppositories Have | Brought Hellef to Thousands Who Had. Suffered Severely For Years. You will quickly realize that! Pyramid Pile Suppositories are | Glmply wonderful to ease pain, re~ > Jleve Itching, allay that negravate | Ing 8 pressure and enable you to rest nnd sleep with comfort. 'Tho fact that almoat every drug- | iat in tho U, A Canada carries | 'yramid in s at 60 cents a box | shows how highly these Supposi- | torlos are regarded. 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