The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 18, 1923, Page 1

QUSE ATTORNEYS NEAR BLOW’ Wag { weaTHer — ¢ Last 4 Hours ‘THER showrrs: mod Minimum, 44, Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, We under the Act of Congress Merch 8, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $8.60 The Seattle star | HOME, 25. VOL, Howdy, foils! jotta leave here shortly irandmother’s funeral is at 245 and we have to be there to bear the minister say, “PLAY BALLI” Mayor Brown will throw tho first bull--beg pardon, typographical er- ror—ball. eee Ciief Severyns will catch the ball. Gosh, where did they get the idea that a Seattle copper could catch anything! see Matt Starwich will umpire the first Play. This is the easiest fob on rec- ord. All he has to do is close his eyes and yell, “Ball!” eee Batteries for today’s game: Seattle: Harry Gardner and Frank Tobin. Los Angeles: George Lyons, Tom Hughes, Bob Wallace, Doc Crandall and Tom Daly. . e- SIGNS OF SPRING Score-cards fer today’s game! Wow! Siide, you son of a gun, slide! Yow-yow-yow! Kill him! Robber! Oh, baby! Take him out! cee For the next five months it will be useless for any person who only knows the English language to try and read the sports page. Aa American girl has broken the work's non-stop. @ancing record. Other Americans hold the record tor— Eating oysters, Eating ple Eating quail. ro Eating soft-boiled eggs. HURRAH, FOR AMERICA! eee Li'l Gee Gee says she would at- tempt to break the non-stop dancing record If it weren't for her bunions. eee PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENT Home Brew’s annual award of a reinforced concrete cream-puff for the worst pun of the year 4 goes to Phil Hindley, U. of W. paregrapher, who declared that an appropriate motto for the Fi varsity crew would be: “They Shell Not Pass.” eee It was this same youth who de- clared that oarsmen are cot nuts just because they aro in a shell. one Frank Munsey 1s going to establ- lish a newspaper in New York that can be read in 10 minutes, We'd like to work on a paper that could be written in 10 minutes, one Eastern philanthropist announces he will give $10,000,000 to ald poor young musicians in the United States, That’s about two-bits aplece, eee TODAY'S AMBITION Gosh, we wish some Irate sub- * seriber would suc us for $25,000 libel damag «° Be that as it may, William Storck is a doctor in Chicago. ee President Harding and Al Jolson as partners played a game of golf in Washington last week. ought to sign this team for the Or- pheum circuit. ee 3 The beef of Merrie England That pocts hold so dear, ’ The nodle meat that Britons eat Geincs from the Texas steer. Chicago Herald-Ezaminer. +e President Harding {s coming West to “feel the pulse of the people,” ac- cording to a political writer, Will we also have to stick out our tongues? MORE SIGNS OF SPRING We thought we heard the frogs croaking last night, but on investi- gation found it was just some new squeaks in the flivver. see ig Noah—Dern it! I just knew I'd forgotten something! Mrs. Noah—What is it? “Po‘son bait for the earwigs.” so Oh, winter came with ita icy “breeze Apd found me here with my BVD's; Now summer comes with its heat and burning, And I in my old red flannels am atill u sojourning. see Frequently you read in the public prints: ‘This is a case for the coro- ner.” The cordner must have an aw- ful thirst,—Screenland. Perhaps it is only a cage of em- balming fluid, tae LEGAL, NOTE Jn the Waterhouse trial, first the plaintiff wins an important point and then the defendant. It is the plaintiff's turn today, o2 8 Senator elect C. C, Dill says th preme conrt pe “humanian at leant “de-ocdwizing.” su- Or Carl Reiter | ~ SEA’ TL E, W ASIL, WE DNESDAY, APRIL 1 , 192% Hitting the home trail for the first time this season, the ‘Seattle Indians were “gs make their Coast league bassball debut at the Rainier Valley battlegrounds this afternoon with the Los Angeles Angela. Gray Wolf Wolverton, the new chief of the Redskins, and on the lower right is Harry Gardner, selected to hurl the first game. Shown above are the Indian regulars as they were to face the Angel pitcher. From left to right they are: Lane, left field; Johnston, first base; Rohwer, right field; Eldred, center field; Orr, shortstop; Janvrin, second base; sd third base; Yaryan, ‘CHRISTIANS ARE FLEEING TURKS! Fear Outbreak | Over Dispute With France CONSTANTINGPLE, April 18.— Christians are fleeing from Alex- andretti owing to strained relations between France and Turkey, accord- ing to the official Anatolian news agency. Five bundred Armenian families already have departed from the city. of recent disagreements, Including that over the Chester concesaion to the United States, against which the French have protested to Turkey. A band of 50 Armenians from Syria attacked a Turkish village called Aghzibozkale, in the Adana ldistrict, according to the news jagency. Turkish detachments rush- ed up and destroyed the attackers, the report states. The Turks at Angora were In a mood of restrained bellicerency as the time for resumption of the Lau- sanne conference draws near, Is- met Pasha arrived here today for 4 conference with the allies on the subject of the Chester scheme be- fore going to Lausanne. The Angora assembly adjourned until May 21, so it will not be in ses- sion when the conferees meet in Switzerland to resume the Greco- Turkish peace conference. Mustapha Kemal, Turkish war lord, who has appeared in a somewhat tamed role since his marriage, made a speech to.the army in which he declared that if the reports of Lau- sanne necessitated resumption of hoatilities, he felt sure the army was prepared to do its duty In the sacred struggle. ANOTHER HOME FOR SOMEONE Perhaps you haven't found just the home you want and aro jooking for a nice new one, To- vday’s Want Ad Columns will help you. UNI VERSITY RAVENNA PAR’ Niet NEW BUNGALOW DON’? PAY RENT Tet us put you in this nifty now bungaloy of 5 rooms; every new feature—tile bath, tile sink, rds in kitchen, 2 nice bed- in a district of now No ndvance in price on Will Heil at rock bottom, $500 down, balance like ‘Take Cowen Park car to fF office, Turn to the Want Ad Columns NOW and seo who will show you this property, An outbreak is feared os a. result | catcher, and Tobin, catcher. Old Horseshoe By Leo H. Lassen | Altho old Jupe Pluvius threatened | to turn on the waterworks just be fore game-time today. the Seattle | and Los Angeles Coast leagu ball clubs were planning to ahead with the opening of the son on the local diamond orchard} this aftrnoon. Play was to start at} base: | go! sea-| In spite of the threatening weath er a record-breaking crowd was ex- pected to crash the turnstiles for the opener. Eyvery reserved seat in the stands had been sold last night. Between 15,000 and 16,000 fang were expected, After a downtown parade, ‘:eaded by Bert Swezea, the players of the rival clubs were motored to the! Rainier valley park where they | went thru the usual batting and flelding practice. Then the officials staged the usual’ opening-day festivities, Mayor Brown pitching the first ball. Lieut, Gov. Wee Coyle was the first hitter, Chief of Police Severyna the catcher, and Sheriff Matt Starwich the umpire. Flag raising exercises were to complete the preliminaries, Harry Gardner went into the bull pen to warm up for Seattle and George Lyons got set to take up the pitching burden for Los An- gelos, Hither Frank Tobin or Everett Yaryan wan to catch Gardner's spitter, and Tom Daly was slated to work behind the plate for the visitors. The Seattle Indians were making thelr home debut this season under new management—Harry Wolverton, more familiarly known as the Gray | Wolf of baseball, He has ansem- |bled a good team for Senttle, and he was introducing a lot of new faces to the fans. League of Nations * Recognizes Ireland GENEVA, April 18—Tho govern. ment of Ireland was granted recog- jnition as an international entity for the first time by action of the coun cll af the league of nations, The council decided to send an invitation to Ireland os well as the United States and Gerfhany to attend the international customs conference, which i# to be held here October 15, Franco made the motion which constituted Ireland's: first offical in. ternational recognition as a separate state, Other nommembers of the league wore invited, Photo by Seattle Turns Out to Help Hang Little| Around Neck of the Gray ” Wolf HALF HOLIDAY FOR GAME |S’ DECLARED Dectaring that as \asebnll is re- garded as America’s great nation- al pastime, and urging the citl- zens of Seattle to attend the open game of the season between Scat- tle and Los Angeles today Mayor gE. Brown declared a half holi- day for Wed! afternoon. enday Wolverton was to be presented with a floral horseshoe by a group lof Seattle fans just before the In dians were to take the field.” Funds for the flowers were collected by the Seattle Daily Wireless. Los Angeles was also make its bow under a new pilot. Marty Krug, second sacker, is at the helm. Ho succeeds Wade Killefor, who ts now secretary of the Seattle club. The following neups were ex- pected to take the field Los Angeles— Seattle Twombly, rt. Lane, If. McCabe, If. Johnston, 1b, to Deal, 3b. Rohwer, rf. Griggs, 1b. Eldred, of. Hood, ef. Orr, #8. Janyrin, 2b Baldwin, 3b. Yaryan, Tobin, c. Gardner, p. Krug, 2b, Lyons, De TWO IN JAIL ADMIT GUILT After several women had identi- fied clothing, jewelry and household Articles Tuesday afternoon, which had been found in possession of 1, ©. Johnston, Fred R. Lee ind J. C. Spencer when the trio fell into the hands of the police last Saturday, Lieutenant W, G, Witzke announced that several recent robber'es had been cleared up with tho three arrests, , Lee and Johnston admitted thelr wullt, Witzke sald. Spencer, alleged ringleader of tho gang, ‘maintains his innocence. A large “mount of loot. found was identifi be the police as belonging to C. R. Cheney, Hollywood apartments; Mrs. Charles Denby, 1802 19th ave. v. Carscadden, 1726 16th ave; Gua Bachman, 1800 Minor /ve.; Ge Mur- ray, Vega apartments, and Miss Bello Weaver, 321 Bro&dway N, HARRY GALBER of Soattle Is a member of the class at Washington Stato collogo that will receive the degroe of bachelor of science in chemistry this June, | On the lower left is pictured bbe ok Cx tographers { SUGAR SHOOTS "TO NEW LEVEL |Wholesalers Say It Will! | | Reach 15 Cents Here | aaa , Star State P Sugar will cost the consumer 15 |cents a pound in Seattle within a | short time, according to the state- jments made Wednesday by whole- j salers and retailers. Substantial Jumps in sugar. prices |.wero reported from all parts of the] country Wednesday aad the rise wil| continue, say the refiners gnd Pro-| ducers. San Francisco reports state that sugar will Increase 20 cents per 100 pounds there Thursday and will be sold to dealers at $9.80 per 100 pounds, This means that it will be} sold to retailers hero at $10.20 per! 100.\. The California-Hawalian Sugar |Co,, one of the largest refining con- cerns on tke Coast, announced the raise, | From New York a report was re- colyed which stated that raw sugar had reached a new peak for the year| when it was sold Wednesday at 6% cents per pound to refiners. The price boosts are caused, ac- cording to Senator Wadsworth, who recently returned to Washington, D. C. trom Cuba, by the fact that a shortage of 1,000,000 tons in the Cuban crop {s reported this year. Seattle merchants who have a} large supply of sugar on hand may be able to sell under 12 cents a pound for a short timo, but will be forced to raise the price to 15 cents before long, according to Seattle wholesale dealers. Grand 1 Jury Indicts Four in Ship Fraud SAN FRANCISCO, April 18.—Six Indictments were voted last night by the federal grand jury in soa. sion here, charging three Junie deal- ers and three government employes with fraud in connection with the sale of government material from shipyards at Oakland, Cal. It was understood that the amount involved was $12,000, and that other indictments may fellow, involving still larger sums, | The men are charged with hay- Ing eliminated competitive bidding for the purchase of materials by ar- anging private sales, contrary to government order: Find No Trace of Hammer Murderess SAN SALVADOR, April 18.—Po- lice have beén unable to find any trace here of Clara Phillips, escaped Los Angelou hammer murderess, ‘Seattle | Commerce qu commission to sus | They | Wednesd lay Ball! Season Is Open UNITE SET ASIDE REIGHT RATE Leads Effort to Overcome Ruling Vital to Coast By Steve Arnett m of action to the of terstate commiss! which permits shippers in Mid West cities to transport their prod ucts to citien east of the mountains jat a lower fate per mile than that allowed Pacific cox ities, is being | prepared by the Seattle Chamber of thru {ts transportation department, it was announced Wed: nesday Discrimination affecting | Const cities In eight rate established by transcontinental iiroads on structural steel, for in- », fu $1 per 100 pounds Chicago and Spokane. e rate e 1 Seattle shippers ts from 42) cents, according to members of the transportation bureau of the chamber distance is Jess than one-fourth the haul from Chicago, nd the charge Is more than one- the submission of new | allroads, * propor sles by tt nd t for 20 days, pendin estiga- tion into the situat ‘The com mission, it became mn Wednes- day, hag refused to do this and the conditions remain. unchanged. As the situation now stands, Pa- cifie coast citlos are required to buy thelr products tn Eastern factories, ship them thru the Panama canal, and then transport them acrost the maintains to Spokane, Yakima, Salt Lake City and other inland clties. are unable to meet the com- petition put up by Great Lakes cit fea, which have much cheaper freight rates, per mile, than - have Seattle, Portland, Tacoma and oth- er Pacific coast points, Joint protests of the Portland, Se. attle and Tacoma traffic bureaus have been denied, ccording to pri- vate wires received at Portland An entire jury panel was exhausted by attorneys seeking to sit a jury in the trial of Joe Joffery, Seattle ta- male store proprietor, which opened in superior court Tuesday. When court adjourned for the day, 11 jurors had been accepted, and the defense still had one peremptory challenge remaining to it. ‘The Jury was completed Wednesday morning, and the state's opening statement was presented. Joffery is charged with a statutory offense against a minor girl. Attor- ney William A, Gilmore, defending | Joffery, forced numerous veniremen to disqualify themselves Tiesday by | admitting they had well established | opinions of the defendant's guilt from nowspaper articlés, Joffery was tried ‘early in February, and the jury failed to agree. Urges. Party Thr Throw Three Members Out WASHINGTON, April 18.—Sena- tors Borah, Johnson and La Follette should be “kicked out" of the repub- Mean party, Nathaniel A, president of the National Republican club, said here today in a speech. “Throw them over to the democrats where they belong,” he said, amid cheers of club members. PHONE SERVICE BAD, DOCTOR LOSES CASE, COMPANY PAYS $120 B CAUSE he lost a patient as a result of bad telephone service, Dr. Willlam Douglas, of Port Angeles, collected $120 from the Pacific Telephone and Tel- egraph Co. in Seattle, Tuesday. Dr. Douglas instituted suit in superior court, asking $500 dam. ages, and the case was settled out of court on a compromise basis, the telephone company ad mitting its liability, In part, for the doctor's loss, Dr. Douglas was practicing in Enumclaw, in October, 1922. In hig complaint he stated one of his patients was an elderly man whom he had been treating for ‘& number of months. Before leaving the patient, the doctor instruéted attendants to call him phone in ease he took a turn the worse, for No calls camo for three days, and in the meantime another doctor was called, ‘The patient was operated on by the sub- atituie physician and died with in a brief period of time, At. tempts to reach Dr. Douglas failed because the telephone was out of order, he alleged. between | Chamber '| i | fornia rulings | Justi Esberg, | [jae sate $46,000,000 PROGRAM BY TWO RAIL SYSTEMS ANNOUNCED FOR YEAR \T, PAUL, April 18—The ex WJ penditure of $30,000,000 for improvements on the Great Northern railway system was an nounced here today wy Ralph Budd, president of the ime. Halt of the amount will be spent in equipment and the other half on fixed property. Improvements Ml incl thousands of new cars, aditional locomotives, track age betterment and terminal ex pansion eee PORTLAND, Ore., April 18 Direct expenditure of more than $16,000,0 vill be made in and Oregon by the & St. Paul ston Chicago, Mil comp Appre be devot 00,00--for lumber purchases yroU this year will be ately $6,700,000, as com 00,000 last year Taxes to be paid by the line will be approximately $2,500,000. and $1,000,- LARA SKARIN ON WAY SOUTH Leaves Seattle Tuesday on H. F Alexander Clara Skarin, who was absolved of blame three months ago for killing aged great-uncle, Ferdinand Hochbrunn, has decided to return to the friends that she made in Call ile she was a fugitive from there. She was a passenger on the H. F. Alexander when she sailed for California ports from Seat- tle Tuesday. At the time of her acquittal of the murder charge, Clara said she would stay in Seattle under her own name and Ive down the scandal which re- sulted from her tral. But when, last week, newspapers published the news that she was acting as “host- ess” at a lively roadhouse on B. Mar ginal way, she changed her mind. She said she had no definite plans, but it was supposed that she would turn to some of the friends who flocked to her defense when she was arrested in California and when they first learned that she was wanted on a murder charge. PAYS UP DEBTS. 20 YEARS OLD “Mysterious Host” Surprises 14 Cincinnati Men CINCINNATI, 0, April 18.—The “mysterious host" who royally ban- queted 14 Cincinnati business men ata club last night was identified today as Foster Butner, their long- lost debtor. Twenty years ago Butner, then a produce merchant {n ‘Lexington, Ky., went broke. Coming to Cincin- nati, he borrowed his limit and skip- ped out. Yesterday 14 Cincinnatians - re- ceived mysterious telegrams from Roseburg, Ore., inviting them to a dinner at the Business Men's club here, Gathering In the clubrooms, they found a strange host awaiting their arrival. Tho dinner cleared away and cigars lighted, the host arose and silently gave each guest an en- velope marked for. opehing the. fol- lowing morning. Then, bidding his guests goodnight, ho departed. When the envelopes were opened today, they were found to contain checks, with Interest, for the money they had loaned Butner 20 years ago. Then the creditors recognized thelr host of the night before, but Butner could not be found. eee ROSEBURG, Ore., April 18.—Fos- ter Butner, who acted as “mysterious host” to his former creditors at Cin- cinnati last night, paying them every cent he owed them, with interest, Is well known in Roseburg. He came bere eight years ago and started to develop the broccoli indus- try. He has been eminently success- ful, ‘putting Roseburg on the map"’ in tho marketing of that pungent vegetable, Butner left here recently for east- ern produce centers where he intend- ed to study conditions affecting the broccoli crop, it is understood, He has a wife and two children ving here. BELIEVE MAN IS DROWNED Police patrol boats were searching Lake Washington Wednesday in hopes of recovering the body of an. unidentified man who is belicved to have drowned when a high tide upset {his fishing boat shortly before noon. Mrs, B, J. Sperry, $21 Lakeside ave,, reported that she had seen the man fishing in a skiff. A high wave comme up and when she looked agaln the man was missing and the boat was waterlogged. The harbor patrol boats were immediately notified and started dragging operations to re- cover the body, COURT STEPS |Effort to Impeach IN 10 BLOCK HOT WRANGLE Waterhouse Star Witness Leads to Bitter Fight Opposing attorneys In the $200,000 sult which is being brought against Frank Water- house by W. T. Laube, as trustee in bankruptey for Frank Waterhouse & Co, engaged Wednesday morning before | Waterhous:, Judge Calvin 8. Hall in a series of altercations which waxed so violent that it seemed for a time that the lawyers might re- sort to blows. Clarence 1 net, attorney for accused John B, Hart, Laube's counsel, of deliberately mis quoting from records ‘a the course of a cross-examination, and Hart re- plied with equally acrimonious charges. This came ag the climax of a morning of bickering which was practically incessant from the mo- ment that court reconvened, in spite of efforts by Judge Hall to quiet the attorneys and expedite the trial TRY TO IMPEACH DEFENSE WITNESS Most of the arguments grew out of efforts by Hart to impeach the: testimony of Paul Iseman, one of Waterhouse’s principal witnesses, who was called to the stand to tell of a meeting of the board of trustees of Waterhouse & Co. at which, the defense, contends, Waterhouse was authorized to become indemnitor for the McAteer Shipbuilding company on the latter contract to build the steamer E] Aquario, and not as a corporate act, and funds to pay losses arising from the transaction. Quoting from Iseman’s testimony before the referee in bankruptcy © year ago, Hart brought out the fact, under cross-examination, that at that time the witness had told a slightly different story of tho meeting in 7 question, “Is your memory better now than — it was then?” Hart demanded in sar- donic tones, “It is," Iseman firmly mafntained. ~ Objections were made to every question put to Iseman by both de (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) JAP CHARGED WITH MURDER A charge of first degree murder was filed Wednesday against Kakuzo Yanal, alias Kumanosike Inouye, lo- © cal Japanese, who shot and mortally wounded Kaganojeo Kanazawa In @ Japanese pool hall at 406 Matin st. April 14. The victim died two days later In the city hospital. Yanai quarreled with the pool You proprietor Friday, April 13, over som change. He left the place, muttering threats that “you will remember this." The following day he returned and again opened his quarrel. When — an attempt was made to eject him, Yanat drew his gun and shot the poo! hall man, inflicting a mortal in= jury. Kanazawa's death was the sixth by” violent means, either from murder or ” slaying in self defense, in the local week. Miles Poindexter Welcomed to Peru ~ LIMA, Peru, April 18.—A rousing welcome was accorded Miles Poin- dexter, newly appointed American 9 ambassador to Peru, when he ar- rived here yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Poindexter and his secre. tary. The ambassador was greeted by members of the American embassy, the Peruvian foreign office and the American Society of Peru when he Eliza at Callao. RIEDA’S ‘Went to the movies the other nigh Women are such fools The way they fall for the hero ~ It simply disgusts me ; is The woman on my right swoontng Tt was at the sight of his unadorh neck All I could see was his Adam's apple Sho just reveled In her clandes: . tine romancing ‘The kind she never could have in real life Nothing but a picture would tok at her T waited for the final love sceno» “Isn't it wonderfull” she gasped “Not to me,” T answered ERECT “He is my husband." It amused mo to soo her wilt Z haven't any husband,