The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 19, 1923, Page 1

' Sas 4 Clase Matter May 3, 1899, WEA THER ) | FORECAST 1a VOL. 25. NO. 46. SATTLE, WASH,, THI RADAY,: at the Postoffies ar Beattie, W ash. The SeattleSta under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, Per Year, vy Mail, $3.60 AP R IL 19, 1928, vas neutral—he didn’t give a darn 2 who killed the kaise Just at pre he also has suits pending againat th Kelleher natitution i Water Polar Flight to Start at Bremerton, is trustee in bankruptey for Water Says Washington Dispatch; Four | poth si Entries for Arctic Race Even if Roald Amundsen does not succeed in attempt to fly across the Nort Seattle w » honor of iis present still stand an excellent chance of having being the base f supplies for the first aer expan to conquer the “top of the world.” | This became known Wednesday, with the receipt by The| Star of advices from Washington, D. ¢ t et that the United States navy is planning a ht over the pole and that,” when the trip is made, Seattle—or, to be more exact, the Puget Sound navy rd—will be the point from which the start will be made. | The na bureau of aeronautics is now building two gigantic helium-filled dirigibles, the ZR-1 and the ZR-2,| and will enter them in the race to rgach the Arctic goal. | cn ee a This makes. four entries, told—and two of them ve Seattle as their base, the Amundsen exy now the navy flyer America, despite a dition and i { Home Brew Howdy, folks! Were you at rlier tt by Nor the game yesterday? Yep, we ler t by orway, 18 were soaked, too. now on an equal footing with ae fe: * her Seca ndinavian rival | oo Goose That clever | HOW. RACE ore get cimoat STANDS TODAY ara tian Aw thin, yw stand t neup is: s ese FOR NORWAY—Capt. Roald i Amundsen, P jecoverer, r short jerday it erer, Foro. .aort..\ime.. yesterday ti is sted ptiot metal looked as ifm lot of grandmothers would have to postpone their obse- quies. monoplane, tx at Walnwright, | Alaska, waiting to attempt a fight! ioe Point Barrow across the pole ita FAMOUS NINES [to Spitebergen | Quinine. | Col. Trygeve Gran, Norwegian | pec nobleman and British fiyer during| Nine pia, jthe war, in Spitzbergen, waiting to} The ; ry a flight to Point Barrow over ‘Entiam, the: pdle | But baseball. will’ never be the|’, FOR AMERICA—Cuapt. Robert] ides on the | n,and still | ae otek a sane ate Bartlett ae of Peary's » jo terme! un- | #==Cent ‘al anaes bg eg ha gatas aay old park |!atér w.th Vilhjalmur Stefansson, is | Decue cis seroce, [planning to take off from Cape Co- | pies lumbia, in Grant Land, and fly over the pole to Cape Chelyuskin, st. | beria, Uy 8. navy, tts ZR1 and ZR-4 entries, ready for a Nome-to- Be collencng PF |Spltzbergen cruise. We're waiting for somebody to call | Victor Pigg, Seattle's new pitcher, a “big ham.” } Foe of Both Sibi in Waterhouse Feud \WATERHOUSE. ‘CE ATTLE DEALERS PROTEST COUNSEL ARE ADMONISHED Hot Wor d Clashes! | Result as Hart Forward Letter to Grills Lawye t) He arding; “Short- Witness | age” Not Real , - | By Alice Campbell a utive in p to invoke the admin-| strative machtery of the natton rd | NO LEGITIMATE CAUSE FOR RISE | “To the Hon. Warren G. Harding, | UNABLE TO TRAP President of the United States of] LAWYER WITNESS America, | In pit f Sir: The Seattle Retail] ous th ng, nd the ation, in regular ses-| proceed ordinggt this 18th day of Judge counsel for the city of Seattle, | both Wat 4 his defunct and earnestly pe. ompany, was the ¢ ‘ tition you, hief executive of our to the ing recess, 4 ¢ administra oxsl z taken up with by John B. Hart, ch ¢ * f the plaintiff, to impeach his testt mon An adroit lawyer himself, Judge| “The Seattle Retafl Grocers’ asso- Bogie neatly evaded every trap Inid | clation feelw that there is no founda-| for him by Hart, but clashes were |tion, caused by the usual laws of frequent, pot only between Hart andj supply and demand, for the present Clarence L. Reames, chief counsel excessive price of sugar; that It 1s "| for Waterhouse, but aleo between the | working an unnecessary hatdship #}| witness and his inquisitor. {and burden upon the public gener. {| It was an Interesting duel of wits. | ally; that in working with you and Hart hax the reputation of belng one| thru you for a period of normalcy [of the most merciless cross-examiners | and stabilization, the misguided ef. jin the state. But Bogle isn't the kind | forts of this wildcat speculation is a lof witness who can be in ated, | detriment to this work, and a menace |and the reanit was a regular “Greek | to the generat peace of the nation. | meets Greek” tug-o! e believe the United States gov: | ss INTERRUPTS iotesde has the power to stop the} command to s of the present specu: | WITNESS CONSTANTLY |financing of Cuban and Hawalian ative shipments of sugar. We t constantly interrupted Judge | Bogle while the latter was in the ve that you, the honorable| middle of answers, and this brought |¢xecutive of this government, can im@ediately provide ways and means | | sharp protests from both Reames and sharp p thr’ which immediate relief can be Maj. Gen. John L. Le Jeune, head of| The present American navy the United States advertising .corpe, will sot {scheme calls for preparatory work Rateer meniahar im erecting portable mooring masts J ’ Miss Clara Skarin, © popular member! This announcement js made by sot, hae loft fer | LEXANDRIA, La. ihe steamship . delightful umtieas +f H. Koury, rt on a charge of April 19.— into police speeding niles an sald his move that fi miles an (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) ‘BOY FORGER ON WAY HOME Alexander. Many were given before her departure, espe- | Disappearance of Verne H. Millet Is Cleared cially noteworthy Mitchell Gilliam, wieh and Archie ushers. being that of judg at which Matt Star- Hutchinson acted as hour, aidn't will make 25 It i a | Drifting {n the Lake Union shi hour will you give it to me? Army officers have invented‘a| Acewsed by his relativer of cash-| canal. near the Fremont street Judge Hundley anked helicopter, a machine which will go|ing a $300 check to which he had), 000 (0%) 0" | UN a “1 “certainly because I straight up in the air just like Mayor |forged his mother’s name, Ruswel! | D#P* ‘he ody of Verne H. Millet. | oo it won't make Koury Brown jMeKenzie, 14, of Auburn, was on|%% scion of an old and socially fed a his way back to Seattia ‘Thursday | prominent Seattle family, was found The judge, with another car Love is the quality that keeps |“board the steamship Dorothy Alex: | at 7 your wife from day-dreaming about|2nder, following his apprehension in | De 0 Thursday morning, by E ringer, 143 N. 35th st., who A as a pacemaker, started on the test what she would do with the insur-/San Francisco. niking alo the k of th “It's * said Koury when ance money if you died. In & message recelved by the|canal, Millet had been missing since || the speedometer reached 20 miles Pater poliee from W. J. O'Brien, chief of |March 18 ast wie San Francisco police, the boy was| Prior to Miflet'a disappearance he SLOGAN SUGGESTION FOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Come to Seattle—Only Town on Earth Without a Dancing had been complaininng of severe in his head, his brother, F.-L. told Coroner W. H. 18 he left his home jsaid to have been steamer H. F. |veasel docked taken from the Alexander when that there and immediately | Millet |transferred to the other ship. ne | On Marct Corson 18 NAMED IN and : woteriace Caen. boy left Seattle after cashing the | rove to Fremont, where he p TERROR PROBE) 5 4 |eheck, which was indorsed by 0, P. | his car outside an unde We were t today to L1'1|© 1 20P. , ~Rtound- | Gee Gee pone ited pared Sovereign, 4234 Kenny st, cousin of und walked to the bridg ABTROE, 1eey, ADEs :18---Rounds | ass ar 2 Sore vase pane (4 lad The » tender reportal seeing 18 citizens of Morehouse Par- about a girl dancing 60 hours. Lookit| Sovereign declared the boy repre. | Millet s rege Sephi 7) inst whom bills of information the men—six-day bicycle races.” paces peppered Tarte fa ia ohicragcay te pope have bee filed cherging a retgn of| * said Li'l Gee Gee: ut— | needed the money to pay o a 4 abbey ah +1 terre néré: we ods “Th ii down all the time.” debt, whereupon he indorsed it. | eration ere conducted for several | terror h iB begin today : | ey sit down all the time. |About $173 cash was taken from |44¥8 but the body was not located.| Warrants for arrests of the men What has become of the absent.|the boy in San Francisco and re Thureday morning Deringer, an | will be given to the sheriff today, it ee Dad Recone OC ES, Abeeoe | cerned to’ hie rnotiier invalid, way walking before break-| was announced at the district court- minded profess 0 ew his fast on the canal. path y | hou: ‘ clothes on the bed and laid himself} Millet’s bi and dragged | Among those named in the bills are over the back of a ch Dearinger then notified the police ‘apt. J. K. Skipwith, exalted cyclops seg North Broadway He will receive $600 reward for |of the Ku Klux Klan, and Dr. B. Mt the sctlor must hove spenta night District finding Millet, which had been | McKoin, former mayor of Mer Rouge, Quite wild, to judge afar; | posted by Millet's brothers, 1. L.| and others who figured In the open He looks a wreck and so no doubt Homes to your own liking can be || Millet, 15 W. Prospect st., and Dr.| hearings here last January into ac- fe atruck a Madden dar. found daily In STAR WANT AD || J. L. Millet, 778 N. 73d st | tivitles by masked bands which cul- ghana Se! COLU) Millet nls a brother of Mre minated in the murder of Watt CANDIDATE FOR THE Jolin Thomas Cochran, 120 W. Pros. | Daniel and Thomas Richards. POISON IVY CLUB — pect st. At the time of his disap. a oy The gink who whistles the || peaurieuL YGALOW | | pearanc mployed hy the chorus of “Goodbye, My Dive se i vhodlaa ia | (amt Co, and was a, France Protests be way in from Alki on nme is located in |) member of thé Masc and other * the car. Promayny Gia ots || atonal” Seyaniantibn tie ieee} U. S. Oil Leases pias ce room, har vived by. his wide Mrs. Amelia PARIS, April 19-—The French spot Derapeay: got inte the: habit mane hap ‘The body was taken’ to the | government hax handed the Turkish of not fighting in 1917 and he's kept breakfast. nook Watson undertaking parlors. | represen in in an offictal it up ever since. finish thrauout neession of $575 beter ers CHINESE FOUND GUILTY hts in ‘Turkey to the Now that the girls have set the == A verdict of guilty on charges of| American syndicate headed by Ad- n of narcotics was return. ed Thursday inst Ah Chinese, in federal cour rred by Judge Monday. style for marathon dancing records, why not stage a nonstop carpet. beating contest for husbands? . jmiral Chester, Mong, | ‘The grants are considered by the Sentence | French unnecessuriiy favorable to 1. Cush-| American interests and detrimental ito France. Turn to the Want Ad Columns NOW and see who will show you this property, You can say this for hens: Th |the witness, Judge Hall being called jto rule u; such objections a num. ber of tim ‘The entire cross-examination cen around an effort to disprove Bosle 's testimony that t which involved the Waterhouse & Company | [in th Aquario case was approved | | by the board of trustees, of which tte! SAFE IS BLOWN [or the fact aon testi to] | Use Dynamite to to Open Post- at took place in reference to th: | , office Strong Box (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) AIRMAN SPEEDS. TO RESCUE TEN Woman, Nine ‘Men Starving on Isolated Island oe matter at a trustees’ meeting in| tn Let eta F 1917, the witness could not remem-| | » Mich» APT ta alzplane {B&F any of the details of any other! porT ANGELES, April 19—Att-| Lieut. E. C. Whitehead hopped oft|™eeting held that year. And he jer dynamiting the postoffice safe at aly today; for South: tor _|also tried to trap him into contra-| Dungeness, near here, late Wednes. Fh Nott herr ake Mi higan, where |tcting statements made before the |day night, safe crackers escaped in Northern Lake Michiga ere | “cting state : ; nine men and a woman are ma.|‘rustee in bankruptcy when Bogte | with the contents and “had eluded {was a witness in reference to the | sheriff's posses and police Thursday, same transaction according to word received here lat- | Altho the grilling was intensely jer in the day, rooned without food, The plane will stop at Northport, Mich., to t n supplies before oe oa eg severe, Sogle kept his poise to @| The safe was complctely demol- making its final dash to the storm- | awert island |remarkable degree, and feinted with |{shed, and approximately $200 in| The party has been on the bar-|all the agility of an expert fencer. /cash was taken, Several checks | “E don't understand your question—|also were included in the loot. No Reporter,” | stamps or registered mail was stol. “What are |en by the yeggs. ren Island fok several weeks, walt ing for the ico In Lake Michigan to | Please read it over, Mr break up. When provisions became |¥as one of his counters almost exhausted and in a last de- (Turn to Page 8, Cotumn 6) | The postoffice is located in a gen- be effort at life, three of the eral store owned by F, C. Knight most sturdy members launched « A large amount of groceries and cl ssage to the 1 akiff to attempt x Mark Plunges Down gars was. taken from the shelves of nland in heavy séas filled with 35,000 to Dollar the grocery by the robbers. #7 | B Postoffice special agents (that the bandits left absolutely no stoted | After battling the tee floes for two| BERLIN, April 19.—The question | hours the frail craft was crushed }of whether the reic ank will pour|¢lue upon which to work and had |and the men were forced to jump]|its gold into the market to halt the |™Ade good their escape, from block to block, sometimes only | decline of the mark was still unde- death in the icy waters by |clded today as the Pressure forced | ‘The men fought their way across|to 35,000 to the dollar during yes: the 15 miles of storm-swept wilder- | eran 's trading. The euvarnmiankt | nexs and reached Northport late last | seeks to stabilize It at 20,000 to the |night. Immediately Maj. Car) Spatz, | dollar. | United States chipping board, n|cofimanding officer at Selfridge| ‘The reichsbank wavered between | Central building, were opened |flela, was telephoned for assistance. | using its gold in an effort to stop|'Thursday by bu ‘8, who gained | |m “SAFE ROBBERY Two safes in the offices of the| | Inches | The men who reached the main-/the falling price and permitting the |entrance to the room with a pass land are Edward Horn, of Sutton’s| speculators to manipulate it at wWill.| key, and escaped with §239 in cas bay; Carl Cooper and Hills: Sayre | Previous experience of the bank | ctives rank Ducett and Lee | both ‘of Traverse City, Mich. ‘The party established a camp on | the northern side of the tsland last | fall, where the men engaged in cut-} * ting timber. ‘They had enough pro | Secret Wireless visions for several months, but did; not calculate such a long winter jin holding up the mark has proved | costly. Gordon, who investigated the rob. | bery found that both the office safes jhad been opened by the skillful] {manipulation of the combinations, | That the work is that of experts is Codes Disappear |"°™" the shadow of doubt, both | men claim, LONDON, April 19.—-Seven secret When the food began to run. short Lwek boxes in two of the office tho party moved south and set up a{wireless code books have mys-| desks also had been fored by the new camp, It is here that the party |terlously disappeared from tho war-|hurglars and $26 had been taken is now located. | office, A squadron of secret service | ¢rom one. Finger prints on the safe Horn collapsed from exhaustion|men have been sent into forelgn | were the only clue to the identity of when he reached Northport and was {districts in order to apprehend the| the thieves that was found. taken to a hospital, where it Is maid | thieve B. M. Warner, district auditor of he is suffering from frozen feet and | the shipping board, reported the loss exposure, |to the police. time, an entirely new offi [etal code is being drawn up, rarely lay a rotten egg. Henpecked John Goofua O'Phun, Looked in the end of an unloaded gun | see McBparren i HERE is no shortage in sugar. An immense surplus has been piled up. The price of sugar is not being boosted by your Seattle dealers, for they cannot help themselves, but by the Wall Street speculators and profiteers of the South and East! Wall Street is getting its money back on bad loans to Cuba; and the profiteers are going to take millions away from YOU — When i: bootlegger ia seized with | the grippe it keeps him indoors lon. ger than when he is seized with a sulicane (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) ier. BOYCOTT Wiese Sugar Gamblers; That’s the Spe:dy, Sure Way to Scotch Them UNLESS YOU CUT YOUR SUGAR BUYING TO A MINIMUM! You can break the sugar price if you refuse to buy any more than enough for your absolute needs. Remember this: Not one cent of the advanced price is going into higher wages or better living conditions for the folks who make the sugar! Every dollar goes into the pockets of the profiteers and specu- lators! ditions in the sugar mar-| © j nation j commerce | present, Charge Conspiracy of Big Firms to Defraud Public SAN FRANCISCO, Apri 1 Sugar went up 20 cents per 100 pounds here today in accordance with the an- nouncement made yesterday by the California-Hawaiian refinery. The new price is $9.80 to wholesalers at the refinery. eee WASHINGTON, April 19.— The department of justice today filed in the United States court q in New York a petition in equi- ty against the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, Ine., and the New York Coffee and Sugar Clearing Association, Inc. in which the court was asked to enjoin the defendants from “fur- ther engaging in and carrying out in the United States a com: bination and conspiracy in re straint of trade and commerce ed sugar.” action was an: Acting Attorney arged that as a tious transactions: ear defendants, the-price: this country and e of refined sugar to the has been increased, singe on an average of more hundzed pounds, er charges that “th speculati®é operations,” carried on™ for the purpose and with the the tent of unduly enhancing the price: of both raw and refined sugar, and |which have ‘omplished that obs | Ject, constitute an unlawful combin | 1 conspiracy in restraint ate and fo! sugar in onsume of inter e petition asks that the defend | ants be perpetually enjoined from en= tering into or Permitting to be en: tered into any tr c exchange or elsewhere the person purporting ‘to stich sale has in his possession or under his control a supply of | sugar adequate to meet the requine- ments of such transaction. Tt further asks that the exchange and the association be perpetually enjoined from lishing or making public any of sugar established by transactions jon the exchange. The government informed the court that the exchange and the as" sociation ed no legitiraate useful purpose in the marketing, raw and refined sugar. They exist” only as a means cf contracting and | speaking in reference to supplies of © sugar which in many cases do not | exist and for the purpose of manipu: lating the price of raw and refined | sugar without regard to conditions | actually obtaining in the industry © and regardless of the law of supply and demand and’ solely for illegitix — mate gambling, speculative profits and the enrichment of the parties to)” such operations and frequently to” the injury and detriment of those” actually engaged in the business producing and refining sugar and at” all times to the serious injury of the conmumnig eas : NO Rl N FOR SUDDI BOOST Reciting figures, of sugar produc tion during the last year and sum: 7 marizing actual sugar trade condi tions between February 1 and the — the petition stated “there” existed during this period no” economic justification for a sudden © or appreciable increase in the price” of raw or refined sugar or for any increase." 5 Since February 7, the petition — (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) RIEDA’S OLLIES Played bridge the other night, ~ A set game. We were the stronger team. But our opponents were ahead, Poor players are so nit with good cards. It's disconcerting. Why shouldn't they be good tured and smiling? It’s hard to lose gracefully with bystanders against you. It was the last rubber. pat hs ‘Tho largest of the evening by ter Y Something had done, all night, Besides f had over bid and we be set tremendously if a finesse ald not work. People hold thelr cards so lessly. I hate to lose, ‘We didn't.