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

CS NS 3 Week™” ational istven at Pd at ¢ ter day je Chris. oms ™ will A sant - Tues Hub wilt er dis. P come, re will orkers, jonary ursday Young at the y even. ioe will people he ser A li el Radiogram to N, ¥ and A. Service and Seattle Star. Copyright, 1923, by N. KE. A. Service, Ine, in United States all forvign countries having copyright laws. Reproduction is probiblied BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS B ERLIN, April 2.—In an exclusive interview given the writer in Wilhelm- strasse, Chancellor Cuno of Germany openly charged France aims at the dismemberment of Ge rmany and the ruin of the German people. If France ac- complishes her purposes, according to Cuno, it will mean disaster and peace- lessness for Europe and unrest for the whole world, The German chancellor clearly made a bid for international mediation. authorized the following statement: ‘Thruout the months of the Ruhr invasion, Germany and the whole world have been waiting for France to show the ultimate aims of her “That she is not bent on re parations is shown by the unive opinion shared by the allies—that the invasion diminishes the means to get reparations. “But at last one of France's most astute politicians, M. L. Loucheur (whose work as minister for the liberated canitores has engaged universal atten- tion), in a public speech has given a hint of the French motives, “He proposed to tear the Rhenish zone definitely from Prussia, He He further WEATHER er we sday Temperaty Maximum, re gre, ces — RATTLE, WASH Howdy, sen foot folks! Did your small you yesterday? So'd AND THEN SHE CROWNED US “Here is that $15 for a new spring suit,” we shouted at Mrs. Homer Brew yesterday. “April Fool!” en “Americanus,” the successor. of} “The Wayfarer will be produced | Stadium this summer. | right, There will be a-seane | © showing George Washington at Val ley. Forge. | “Americanus” in a patriotic grant. We hope there is 4 showing war being fenced to ail the on chance the pu convicted. pa- scene profiteers That's tic has of seeing The t oarsmen @ going to tr good crew this year, if t ., exert every bit of pull they've got. CANDIDATES | No. 2 This ‘s William Hickman Moore, as he looked at the age of 7, when he was earning his first dollar, skin fs } ning mules in Mis souri. If elect Judge Moore’ early train should assure } the leadership of the mule-gskinner bloc in the city council. | ee Judge Moore, candidate the| Council, was ones mayor of Seattle, | 1 for but Gon’t hold this aga nim. Hereafter we're going treat Mayor Brown swith silent contempt, By hia unmanly silence the past} month he has robbed ua of five wheezes « day. | Wises | Every third man nowadays is Wearing a golf suit. The great dan ger of wearing a golf suit is that somebody might challenge you to a| Found of golf. to | LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ OF FICE | VAMP, SEZ: | Th* nearest some men in golf | dlothes come to playing golf is Ft beating th’ carpets for th’ wife Golf {s an Inebrinted game, Even} PP the golf balls get teed up Homer: Up here on Queen Anne Hill we have a man tn the coal buat-| hess whose mame js Klinker. He ought to do well, don't you think? B.V.D. But we'll wager hi “Kiinker Sells Kiinkers TODAY'S DEFINITION Intuition is that sixth sense Which enables one's wife to smell thru a package of Sen-Sen and feven cloves and tenry, you've heen drinking again!” logan in r Speaking of gilding the palnting the re the pussywilto: lily how about ¢ A diplomat ts a girl who smiles weotle steps on her pet rarer Gee Ge | dee has a unique distine She's one of the fo ive who 1) ft pells her name pelled {t fg in her parents t the « ing , hri fen Nt Et € \rioN man is educated when te Can misquote Shakespeare, mig. (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) too vast |: | economic There are 20,000.00 ore females) Dr, | than males in Europ y¥ because |}tam's of the vagaries of the birth rate, the | m | and wages, | women number 2,000,000. } tered thruout the other coun | mates for these [threats of new wars. | IN MORALS | thefr morals. +|as many men as women. | paid male escort. CHINESE TO ARE HANES QUT WIT JAP. Host of European Women Doomed Youngest Colleg ge Py resident in World to Die Old Maids Describes Movement in Orient BY MILTON BRONNE R A. Her earl BY BOB BERMANN ‘sa situation without precedent It’s the biggest human story In the world. ernments close t amen and politicians ignore orters and authors avold it. It's all its aapects—political, and moral—for them to| rapple with. BIRTH RATE VAGARIES PARTLY TO BLAME an of eyes leader Union, moveme . rep vt gs the we ay in | United States tn the Interest of his| collage and the anti Japanese move | | ment, Liu, at 26, ts president.of Wil girt infants than 1 the decima survival of boy infant more famine millions of so-called fluous women are creating questions involving everything of fundamental importance: the sanctity and preser vation of the home, the social and political equality of women, work| COLLEGE TEACHES d the next generation's |ANTIJAP MOVE heritage of good or evil. | "The In the British Inles the superfuous|Dr. 1 In Russia, |* | me under way 8,000,000 Their 10,000,000 sinters are scat-| em. me are there no legitimate|of them by 20,000,000 wuperftu- ous women, but eligible young men devel are deterred from marrying by lack of work, cuts In wages, scarcity of|goods manufactured jn houses, higher cost of necessities end | sold in Ch ‘Twen used at home and Not ont weap ud economle Seventy-cleht per cent of all the Japan ne remdint MORE LAX per cen t "Destroy \per cent for this will Japan bo? and v the The result is that a spirit of after- | ere the-war recklessness pervades Eu-| Certainly effect will be far rope. Men and women alike spend} than anything that more of their wages, they are keener | could be accomplished in a military lin pursuing pleasure, they are more | way defiant of the conventions and lax in| Dr. Liu explained | college had been immediately after more disastrous that William's! founded in 1916,| ‘The male is supreme. At dances he the | has six girls to plek from, where| ernment presented thei formerly he had to compete for ajto China partner. rywhere you see many | pacp ON girls dancing together; hostesses lv. DISGRACE, ing balls have a hard time getting} ui.) yw Japanese gov 21 demands DAY ams | Dr. Lin naid, “we observe the | | A new type has developed: the! vormary of the day on which the in In Paria, In Nice, | ramous demands were preaented even in Monte Carlo, you'll seo him dancing with well-to-do women of (Turn to Page 9, Column un middle age while charming girls are) * & wall flowers. in every class of society girls will| put up with almost any sort of a man for the sake of haying him to go out with. More children are being born out) of wedlock than ever before. In Eng land the increase has engaged par- | | Hament’s attention, but the latest of- ficial figures show England least (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) Dr. William Liu Photo by Price & Carter, % * % % Japanese Problem I $s N ot as Caueasian People BY BOB BERMANN | still, Yakima Indian some white men. It was over on the | reservation last week. I had gone to Wapato for the American Legion's mass meetin called to protest against evasion of| Klux Klan. the interior department's ruling bar-| And, all th | ring Japanese from the reservation, ne way in Arriving early in the morning, | found I had a whole day on my hands] are | before the meetin: #0 I got an mu-| work Itomobile and drove over the reserva-| Yes, it tlon. Jenco—and rather horrible, It wan o highly enlightening ride, | A sinister tinge — se I witnessed dozens of Japanos| into the warm spring sunshine | working in the fields from which the | A@uire #k to darken, overnment has barred them. wrtalked with Indians—heard thotr| started back ovanive anawers—and saw, all too| that many of them had been | |won over by Japanese gold. | was yet to come. Tmet American farmers, who cited| 1 was only about half a mile out. | dozens of specific instances of gross side of V 0 at the time, evasions by the Japs and told me} |how various Japane and, worse Star Want Ad Columns against the government. I heard dark rect action" threats—talk of “dl- ¢ while, the Japanese work today offer you attractive folds. bargains in— walking the City Real Estate Suburban Acreage Automobiles to town. oe Turn to the Want Ad Pages NOW and let them help you. ‘ap (Turn to Page 9, Column 8) Friend Indeed (to Phone Co.) Is Nir Cleland; Overlooked Nothing Yo why don't you fire all your # in Hance H, Cleland, ipparently have array of paid te (AN OPEN LVTTEND ‘Telephone & Telegraph Co Gentlemen: Thin ia just a friendly suggestion. | You are, L know, always glad to cut down expensox-for the altruistic | reason that such reductions mean lower telephone rates for Beattie, ‘To the Pacific Jeonune Hl counsel ape er tnee re wernetyetia athe Ayana MONDAY Mt Photographers for Yakima va Valley Alone Menace of the Brown Rac Race Threatens All| had tried to} bribe them to enter into a conspiracy | i} whispers about the Ku the fields rally belong to Americans, who | streets for lack of |the elty to the elty's own ship, | was an impronstye experi-| nod to creep The} And 1 was oddly depressed as rjeluding singing, a Yet the most algnificant occurrence |G School had let out possibly half an William Philip Simms NCELLOR CHARGES FRANCE WOULD CUT UP GEI proposed to ‘emancipate’ these volttic al body of them. “T am grateful to Loucheur. He bitter experience has known for centuri¢ memberment of Germany. “There's but one answer to this French « remain an integral part of Prussia. “We cannot permit France to interfere with 0) country “The dismemberment of Germany wot German people, whole world. “For this reason the French policy of political sanction, can no longer be regarded as a Franco-Germz “French intentions of the dismemberment of German provinces anc pec Frenc allenge: Id mean not but disaster and peace lessness to Eurc proclaimed aggression, Germany RIMANY 1 to make an artificial what Germany namely, by h polic dix: Rhenish zone must vereign rights of this he ruination of the ype and unrest for the with an matter. become more and so-called more an international danger, and concern the peaceful development of the entire world,” APRIL 1923. 25 ARE ACCUSED OF O AINA CHA OF STEPPERS Saves the Country, Sut Wears Out 5 Boys and Band NEW YORK, April 2.—Deter mined to keep the flag to the fore, Alma Cummings, of San Ant Texus, vd nonstop record that threw forts of French, British South American aspirants com pletely into the shade, winning another champion for the United States. And I can go longer | Alma naid today. “If my stockings and pi re had: out, I'd be wal Mins Cummings one | | brass band, three phonographa, many |dance records and five young men |who, before meeting Alma, ie [ered themselves steppers extraordi- mary. It all and than that,” shoes and ‘t worn > wore out started when Alma heard non-stop dancing record by virtue having kept to hin feet 1 dance hall for 24 hours jutes. Sect | permit her to dan land the permiasion of a started di This for of the 4 men who promised to dance with her (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) GALA DAY HERE City to Welcome Its Very | Own Namesake Tuesday it welcome the new ates navy, attic, when the gal lant cruiser es Tuesday morn ling to be feted and honored by her | mother city | Chosen Jones, commander fighting forces of the his sea home, the Seattle has been recommissioned and will fy the ad miral’s flag, a distinct honor to both lthe vessel and the city whose >t Hilary P. the naval by Admiral of lay the Seattle will drop or in Ellioft bay, coming from | Bremerton 3he will be boarded by Mayor Edwin J. Brown and a re ption committee headed by Capt. \5 §. Gibson, chairman. Capt. G, L. Jones, commander of the vessel, |will receive them and in return for the keys of the city he will open the ship to inspection and place |naval launches at the disposal of |sightseers thruout the day, the |launches leaving the Washington st. dock. Shore leave will many of tho crew of 1,000 sailors Jon board the vessel and they will |recelve bronze medals and souvenir |ntreot car tokens PARADE TO {START AT 3:50 At 3:30 p. ma |Jackets will, form Washington at., \st. and return to City Hall pi | where Mayor Brown wi'l pre: the crew of the vessel with a beau. tiful engraved silver set, a gift from be granted to parade of blue at te foot of march to. A luncheon for the officers and |their wives will be held at the Rain Hier club and a combination grand ball and revue will close the day's | foxtivition at the Hippodrome ‘Tues day night An eéntertainment, in viludeville revue Jand motion pictures, will form part jof the evenin MMISSIONE ‘IRST IN 1906 | ‘The Seattle was missioned the cruiser Washington In i Sho waa then of thy (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) originally com one ttorneys In (his state eupervisor of public utilities, you i more enthusiastic advocate than any of your brilliant In the ininority opinion filed by Cleland, he not only defends the rate that Ceuare Lone claimed the world | FOR FLAGSHIP ! country for] name | *| Francis Hodgkins “ The Seattle Star 20") ii “TWO Ck NTS IN TATTLE, can | pray for best then “TD? the you and luck.” This is the advice of Dr. E. B. Calvert (at right), chief of the fore- cast division of the tional weather bureau, George N, tle observe’ | | | GETS SPECIAL _ WEATHER HERE Storm King Goes When Chief Forecaster Arrives BANDITS LOOT 2 MAIL TRUCKS Daring Holdups Occur. in Eastern Cities lo. Apri heavily armed bandits early to- day held up a government mail truck and escaped with nine sacks of registered mail, The robbers intercepted the truck, covered the driver and armed guard with revolvers, seized the mail sacks and dashed away in an automobile. No estimate of the amount of} money contained In the sacks had| been made. | Somebody must haye tipped off the Storm King That'a what chief of the for weather bure 2.—Six Calvert Dr here mmented t been a speck of r ed the Pacific coast been acting as if It w sow me Just how good It could "In Sacramento the mercury rose to 90—especially my honor, It | seemed. Portland, last week, while I was there, the thermometer |climbed to 82, the highest mark ever : we Ing the heay reashed in March in the history of| i200 1uc™ was Cenyinw: the, heavy, the station there | Easter week end mall from the main tw Ia 1 in postoffice to the bridge branch post a change. office, In the heart of the commissioin Seattle 1 There ery indication ¢ world of ry indication in the world of | ,5use district, near the water front, a rainy ter, But the storm veered lott. fvery other station In the} Federal officials, investigating the| Northwest had rain, but Seattle and] holdup, worked on the theory it was| Tacoma as sunshiny as pos-| carried out by the same gang which |© alble. robbed a mail truck at Springfield, Sunday morning. One of the sus- pects captured at Springfield was a well known St. Louls police char. acter, ‘The St, Louis holdup was car | ried out in regulation “Wild , Was | y hope that the same luck holds out when I’m In Alaska,” Dr. Calvert is making an inspeo- tion trip, in the course of which he is | visiting every weather bureau on {the Pactfic const, He will leayo| West" methods, as was done in Wednesday for Juneau and then re-| Springfield robbe turn to Seattle to complete his work} Bringing thelr auto to a stop di-| |here, which will bring his tour to a/|Tectly in front of the truck, the ban: | | close. dits leaped out, five of them holding | | Seattle, Dr. Calvert sald, le one of | Sawed-off guns and the sixth leveling the most difficult cities in the coun- | two heavy caliber revolvers at the} try for the weather forecaster, |driver and guards of the truck. "The topographical irregularity of| All of the bandits were masked with | the region, together with its geo-| large handkerchiefs, | graphical position, makes it extreme-| Working deliberately, three of the ly difficult to tell what's coming,” he|Tobbers transferred the mail sacks| declared. “The only thing possible ts |from the truck to the rear seat of to do the best one can, and then pray | thelr automobile. for luck The other bandits forced the chauf- Dr, Calvert and Dr. G, N. Salis-|feur and guard from the seat of the} bury, head of tho local weather bu-|truck and locked them in the !ron| reau, were in conference Monday | cage from which they had taken the | with representatives of the Mer-/mail. They drove the truck down a chants’ Exchange and the Chamber | narrow alley before driving away in of Commerce, thelr own automobile. The tmpris- eee oned men called vainly from their Lightning Kilis cage for half an hour before they wore rescued by a passerby, Man on Golf Links aS STOCKTON, Cal, April 2- walter| Six Men in Raid 3, Hunter, well known engineer at Springfield Jand sportsman, was killed and SPRINGFI » i, April and Jack Pond, of Stockton, were confined to their|Six unmasked men, who seimd homes today, severely injured as ajeacks of mail at the Chieugo & result of lightning striking mear/Alton railroad here yesterday and while they were playing golf on tho|staged a running gun tle with Stockton links yesterday afternoon, |police in making a getaway, were sought thru threo states today, | Hunter's death was instantaneous, Police claimed to have informa tion that the raid was made by |Rain Ballows Sun gangaters known as “Egan's Rapa.” on Portland Easter having ramifications in Chicago and St. Louis, Haunts in these cities, PORTLAND, April Tho}as well as in Minois, were being weather .man predicted rain for| watched, Easter, but didn't say at what hour] ‘The robbers, suddenly descending Jit was to start, The sun shonolon tho station with revolvers and brightly until everybody had ©] sawedoff shotguns, obtained little If Jchance to go to church and got}any valuable loot, postal authoritios |back home again, and then rain|said today, They missed ck of fell In torrente, registered mail, It was declared increates that you plannod—but he oven goes to the length of proposing Increases that you failed to mention, With #0 able a representative In the department of public works of the Hurt administration, it seems a waste of money for you to pay aiy retainer fees to private counsel PHD STAR, | A. Tomlinson, | Interior Work o jthe Mount Rainier National park in Ld FRAUDS! FAKE STOCK DRIVE IS ON Charge Promoters Used Mails to Swindle Public FORT WORTH, Texas, April 2.—The government today struck its first blow against stock pro- moters, alleged to have swindled hundreds of peopke in all sections ot the country thru alleged fraudulent oil deals. Twenty-five promoters were charged with using the mails to defraud, in warrants placed in the hands of federal marshals, The first man arrested was B. 5. Henninger, of the Petroleum Pro- ducers’ association, which 1s headed by “Doctor” Frederick A. Cook, for: mer Arctic explorer, Others arrested were J. C. Verser and A. H. Sheppard, trustees of the Revere Oil. company; William G. Meresner and John G. Gueri mer employes of the Revere” harles DB. Spann, of the as-Mexia Drilling syndicate, and J. Frank Heard, of the Doredo Oli sym: te, government action today fol a campaign against alleged conducted by the de- e and postal inves: lowed The evidence gathered by the fed» jeral operatives was presented to & grand Jury in session here last week: The alleged swindiers, govern- ment agents claimed, have cost investors of the country hundreds of thousands of dollars. An organized “swindle ring” operate ing with “sucker lists” which were! passed around by various promoters, cperated in the Southwest, with | headquarters in Fort Worth, the feds | eral agents claimed. ‘The complaints were lodged by fed- eral authorities in order that the men might be arrested and held until @ | federal grand jury now investigating alleged oil frauds had a chance to rer turn indictments. Authorities would not make public the names of those against whom/ complaints had been filed until th had been arrested. MAN ATTACKE BY KIDNAPERS TAYLOR, Texas, April 2—R, Wy Burleson, of Wear, Texas, today told authorities of being severely flogged: |and otherwise mistreated during the night by a band of kidnapers. Burleson, after being beaten until he was nearly unconscious, was taken to a spot near the business qj district here, where a chain was) placed about his neck and he was beaten over the head with revolvers, — he told police. Before he was te leased buckets of creosote were poured over his head, Burleson sald; The man was in a serious condi: tion in a hospital here, Tomlinsen Is Named. Rainier Park Chie WASHINGTON, April 2.—Owen superintendent of the mail service at Reno, Ney. was appointed by Secret: of the superintendent of alr toda Washington, FLIES IN PLANE WITH 10 H. P. MOTOR| TOULOUSE, France, April {= Barbet, famous French aviator, made four flights here today it an airplane driven by a motor of only ten horsepower, On one flight he remained aloft at @ height of 160 feet for 15 minutes. Tn an Interview after his flights Barbot declared he used only halt the power of his motor part of the time, and that he could fly with a five horsepower motor, “L foresea: dn era of light aire planes that will cost: only a few hundred dollars,” the French alr. man sald, “With development of para: chutes, these planes will be ag safe and easy to run as a bioyelo,’* set ekienpasrempmiochanpti ag