The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 25, 1923, Page 1

——— il. be emperatur um, 68. Today WEATHER Fair tonight and hursday winds. re Last M noon, 6L The SeattleStar py ATERHOUSE AT SAA PLLA APPA PPP PAPA PPAR AAPA PREP P PP PAEP PPP PDP PP PPP DPR RARER ADD APPAR DRADER DDS AAD RAPA AR AAD ARRARAAA Darr enon Eorered as Second Clase Matior May 8, 1899, at the Pretofticn af Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congreis March %, 1879, Fer Yea by Matl, 71.60 HOME EDITION mi VOL, 25, NO. 61. ATTLE, WwW ASH, WEDNE SDAY, APR IL 25, 923. hundred pounds yesterday, other profiteer’s son will wl @ new chorus girl. . The price of raw sugar is going up) The price is now as raw every day. @s the sugar, . Writer in T gasoline price-cutting hope the league of n stop it. Star ns doesn't eae DON'T DESPAIR . Phone rates, the price of sugar and street car fares are all going vp. But you can still buy a pet earwig for next to nothing, Perhaps the politiclans are boost- ing the railway fare to 8 1.3 cents that they can promise us a nic fare again at the next election. ove Mayor Brown says he Is going to | Dert. get the bondholders to re-write the | Court But perhaps the rallway contract, bondholders hav: . writer's cramp. . AND THE GREEN GRASS GREW ALL AROUND “There is no need for the coun- Lit Gee Geo is again thinking of buying an automobile. She says she "Modern etvitization' ts a wonderful thing, but In the old days you could drive down to your office, tie your) horse to the hitching post and not be afraid of getting a yellow slip. eee LIGHTNING EARWIG EX- TERMINATOR @. W. Myers, Inventor) Take two small blocks of wood. Place earwig on block No. 1. Press him hard on the back with block No. 2. Repeat until earwigs are all exterminated, oes The Puget Sound swimming season fn now open. But bring along your lee pick. cee We don’t mind these non-stop dances; what We hate are non-step cances. eee Billy Sunday says that one of his favorite books is the dictionary. Why doesn’t he read it occasionally. oes DO YOU WANT A FAMILY? oe ens for tore yous mans $10 sock. or Sunday. 5220 12th N. | eee Mrs. Gertrude Atherton, famous novelist, says a man should always get up when his mother-in-law en- ters the room. “So she can knock him down? queries a Brownsville cynic. see An optimist is a man who falls off the top of the Smith building and re- marks at the fourth floor, “Well, Tmo still all right.” cee A modest girt In Lizete Fishes; Bhe won't even Wash the dishes. eee There Is this much to be said in favor of dance endurance contests: Some of these greasy-haired lounge Wizards may dance themselves to death. — LIL GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE | AMP, SEZ Vanity Lass are now being | used as flasks. Before long the | men will be powdering re | noses in public. Men may come And men may £0, But the lawyers in the Waterhouse go on forever. . Sign of spring No. 4,568: When lou discover that last summer's | w hat hag been chewed up by | he dog. 1 tit ded Speaking of the election returns, hoy weemed to have knocked the L it of Kelley. . ONE RESULT OF THE ELECTION “That's all there is—there isn’t any Moore.” oe . Hesketh and Bolton Colegrove, three former chef»—were in the councilmanic race, but too many Sugar prices advanced as car a8 a rset says a big ar looms. We| mediate ¢ | ADVANCED BY May Bills to Be 2 cory bas Howdy, folks! Did all = candidates win? Neliher ours. ‘| | er; Company Asks pmetty By Bob Bermann Seattle telephone subscribers will bills next month run 50 ce igher than have been pa rs t of » Federal temporarily onder Tuesday Judg | | Cushman, | by from interfering with a ni: of phone rates for Seattle, and Spokane, and also an ame jachedule of long distance tolls. | There is a joker, however | The question of whether a tem |porary injunction shall be granted continuing this restraint upon the tp in federal court tea wee} been killed thru this vicious encroachment. ling, before Judge William 8. presiding judge of the circ of appeals; Judge Jeremiah Neterer and Judge B. E. sitting en bane, |DEPEND ON PUBLICS GOOD NATURE Should to the phone company, and should {t |be rendéred tn the tmmediate future those phone subscribers who have |not yet pald their bills at the time that it is handed down, will have to pay the new schedule, may continue on the old schedule, | Such, at any rate, opinion given Wednesday by offi. clals of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. “The company fs dependent upon the good will of ‘the public,” de. clared O, B. Rupp, counsel for the phone people. “Of course, we're going to antagonize the people over the question of the new rate, because nobody Hkes to pay more for any- thing than he paid the dey before | But we don’t want to antagonize tn lany other way, and wo certainly will make an tmmediate refund of jexceas rates In case the court rules | against us.” | To Instre this, Rupp posted $225,. |000 bond with the clerk of the feder. al court Wednerday morning, No completa achedule of the new rates has yet been prepared, but | they will genérally be in conformity |with those proposed in a minority |report submitted by Hance H. Cle |land, state supervisor of public util |tles, at the time that the depart. ment of pubjic works declined to grant the Increass for which the company was asking. According to phone company officials, four-party line subserib- ers will pay $2.73 for wall phones and $3 for desk instrn- ments, against $2.50 and $2.75 at present; two-party lines will be assessed §3.50 and $3.75, as against $3 and $3 and one- cate rates will be $4.50 and ,» as against $4 and $4.25. che DOWN TIME ON LONG-DISTANCE TOLLS ‘The long-distance ‘tolls are not technically increased, but the pri- mary perfod is reduced, which actu- ally amounts to an Increase. That lis, on a call where the stibscriber jpays a given amount for the first | three minutes of conversation, | will be compelled to pay the same amount for the first two minutes. ‘Thus, if he can say what he wants to say in two minutes, he will pay the old rate, but a three-minute < leonversation will bring an extra charge. Attorney Rupp sald that the (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) RUM BANDITS ST. LOUIS, April 25.—Seven | policeman, ment warehouse here and escaped with 50 barrels of bonded whisky worth $100,000. The “hijackers” bound and gag: |ged Herman Diekhoner and John | Rosenthal, guards. A truck backed |up to the door and barrels were |at_high speed. PRICE OF PEANUTS IS UP; ALL-DAY-SUCK- ERS GOING SAME WAY AN FRANCISCO, April 25,— Every time some financier gets a bright idea about getting rich on sugas, the kiddies seem to suffer. The Western Confectioners’ aa- sociation met here and = an- nounced that “it would do its beat” to keep prices of all-day suckers from going up, but the outlook wasn't hopeful, High sugar prices were blamed and the suckers were hit hardest because glucose has gone up, too, And there's more trouble-—pea- nuts, both single and double. cooky ‘polled the broth, cee Timel jointed, have Increased in price. Ho it looks like a tough spring for the youngsters. a COURT ORDER to 50 Cents High. ng his is the tm-| the state department of public works schedule Cushman, } their deciston be adverse not | but fs the offhand | he | IN BIG RAID) bandits, their leader disguised as a| today raided a govern-| rolled aboard and it rumbled away | Time to Trim Courts’ Claws (EDITORIAL) It is time to trim the claws of the courts. Time to abolish the arbi- trary, sudden injunction system by which special interests may set aside local government and vest the supreme power in the hands of a few judges who are not responsible to the people affected by their decisions. In recent months the American people have seen our growing govern- ment-by-the-courts smash some of the greatest hu- manitarian legislation of our generation. The child labor law and then the minimum wage laws have | Today the amazed citizens of Washington awak- en to find a federal court taking a step which ob- viously would lead to the destruction of all effective state regulation of public utilities, Judge Cushman’s order restraining the depart- ment of public works from halting the telephone companies in their program of sharply increasing rates was a GLARING EXAMPLE OF THE WORST TYPE OF THIS GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION. | Seattle people will begin May 1 paying in hard cash for his action unless he is reversed. Judge Cushman acted in the interests of the tele- phone companies. He autocratically refused time for due notice to be served on the state board. He overturned in a minute the calm, de- liberate decision which the state authorities had reached after months of hearings and consideration. - Whether Judge Cushman went further along this tory line than some of the other czars of the bench have gone, or whether he merely regis- tered a typical example of the evil, with plenty of precedent to back him, The Star does not know or care. The Star does know, however, that several of Judge Cushman’s recent reactionary decisions have been over-ruled by the higher courts. IN THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS STATE AND OF OUR AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS, THE STAR HOPES THAT IN THIS MATTER, TOO, HIS ACTION WILL BE PROMPTLY SET ASIDE. WANTS ACTION | JURORS IN JAP ON ORDINANCE May Call “Special Meeting | on Fare Question It probable Wednesday {that a special meeting of the city counell will be calied to consider the higher fare street railway ordinance, being prepared by Corporation Coun. {sel Tom Kennedy. Judge Cushman How Taft Picked One “Sacred” Judge Taft wanted to grant the |Attorney Objects to Race Attitude of Many Veniremen In tho trial of R. Ito, Japanese, charged with manslaugh- ter for having caused the death of 6-year-old Norris De Lane, were rig- fdly questioned on their attitude to- wands Japanese as @ race during the opening hours of the trial Wednes- Federal Judge FH. EB, Cushman, lstar performer in the little one- act telephone play staged by corpo- interests in federal court | Tuesday afternoon, was one of the | “sacred” Judges appointed by Pre ident Taft 11 years ago. The Star gave a history of the judge then, things. favor, But the Bar association here pro: tested vigofously. Ed Cushman had little practice, even as an attorney. | He had been an assistant district at- torney,,and done some special work for the attorney general's ‘office, resigning suddenly. | seemed | ration C. B. Fitzgerald, president of the | tolling how the political powers then| A compromise was reached, day. }councll, said that there is need for|on the throne managed to boost him George Donworth, of Seattle, wax| Walter Metzenbaum, attorney for qui¢k action since it will probably |t0 the bench following the resigna-/named and Cushman went to !to, made an exhaustive examtnation of the attitude of each juror towards the invasion of the Pacific coast by Japanese and whether they had prejudice against the race, |tion of Judge Georgo Donworth. tako six weeks to put the ordinance | ty the tight of Judge Cushman’s rec- thru over Mayor Edwin J. Brown's | org and his most recent action in af i connection with the telephone issue, Alaska as United States Judge, Now Cushman comes back to suc: ceed Donworth, resigned. How did it happen? “The council does not want tol what ‘Tho Star said in 1912, when| ‘There were threo enndidactes, Several times during the morning |runh matters, but it i# essential that|Cushman's appointment was con-| Appears at Tacoma Elmer Hayden, {h® asked the court to dismiss the we take action as soon as possible,’ | riemed, is of Interest. Here it 4s:|Ho was a clean, harmless, rather |JUrors when they testified that they | Fitzgerald said, ‘If there is a spe- clal meeting of the council the or- |dinanee will be introduced.” Mayor Brown sald Wednesday that hia position had not changed on the atreet car problem, He believes the council acted hastily in secking a higher fare. ‘4 opposed the Japanese penetration, but would give the defendant every benefit of the law, Judge Mitchel) Gilliam, who ‘s- conducting the trial, refused to sustain his motions on the basis of racial prejudice, ITO WILL OFFER DEFENSE ALIBI Ito sat at the table with his attor- ney thruout the morning and im passively watched the proceedings. He will offer an alibi for his princi pal defense and will claim that ho was visiting at the home of another Japanese during the time the aecl- dent occurred at Wifth ave. and Cherry #t, when the Do Lane boy was struck and killed, ‘The state's case is besed completes ly on circumstantial evidence, Depu- ty Prosecutors Bert Ross and Ghes ter A, Batgholor explained. No one (Turn ( Page 9, Column 4) ard President Taft says judges are sacred. How do they become sacred? How do they change from being Jast ordinary men? Well, here's the whole story of the Hon, Edw, ©, Cushman, newly named United States district judge. Cowboy, section man, knot sawyer, stenographer, Iaw clerk, attorney, JUDGE, is the summary, Threo years ago a new fudiclal district was created, ‘The Bar as- SAN FRANCISCO, April 25,—| sociation of Tacoma indorsed R. G. | Theodore Gier, millionaire vineyard. | Hudson, progressive, and the ablest Hist of Sonoma and Napa counties, attorney in the district, | was sentenced to serve thres montha| But Frank Cushman, congress: lin the Alameda county Jall and fined |man, now deceased, wanted tho job ($1,600 in the United States dixtvict |for his own brother, court here when he entered pleay of| Cushman, sent to Washington guilty to three violations of the|first as a rip-roaring insurgent, had liquor Jaws, His nephew, Henry been converted a while before to the Gier, was fined $2,600.» AldrichGannon way of looking at colorless young man, with not much ability—-but a man with nothing much to be sald against him. From Seattle came the candidacy of Congressman W. E. Humphrey, who had read the hand writing on the ‘progressive wall, He had been a® faithful’ and subservient worker for the Aldrich-Cannon group in con- gress, He had a strong claim, From Seattle also came the can: didacy of United States Senator ‘esley Jones. There was a story behind this also. Join L, Wilson, ex-senator, with: drew from tho senatorinl race a year ago almost at the command of the administration, to help Judge Burke try to defeat Poindexter, pro- gressive. Wilson “owned” half interest in the governor, Hay, and his political (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) |Millionaire Guilty of Liquor Charges TRIAL GRILLED * TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, $15 for You First Prize—$10 Second Prize—$5 IESE for the best two » of “Frieda's Fol are sent in by Star readers before May 1 s Follies” ja a little ature that appears in the lower right-hand corner of 1 The Star. It's btle and funny You'll enjoy reading it. We thought maybe you'd enjoy also taking a hand at it. Hence the pr your entry Frieda, Beattle. writ Mail to care The Star, OUI mk Admits He Knew Narcotics Stored on Vessel David J, Taylor, star witnems for the government, took the stand Wednesday morning {n the Colren- Spellman drug conspiracy case, which is being tried in federal court Judge E. E. Cushman, Taylor reviewed the meeting be een himself, Cohen, Spellman and | before id Cole, a federal narcotic i at First ave. ana Pine st. rtly before February 14, 1923. ylor said he Introduced Cole to Cohen and that later Cohen asked jhim if Cole was “all right.” Taylor assured Cohen that Cole all right, and Cohen agreed to | accept him as one of “them.” Tay- lor testified that Cohen had agreed | to allow Cole $5 per ounce for all |drugs which he could dispose of for} him. Taylor was then cross-exam- |ined by defense attorneys. He ap-| |peared very nervous on the stand {and chose his words carefully, ‘W NARCOTICS SHIP Attorney Frank Kelly forced: Tay- jlor to admit that he had been deck |hand on the liner President Madison jand had known that the narcotics |which were later found by federal agents in the safe deposit box own- 1 by Cohen had been slung ashore under his direction. Defense attorneys were attempt- {ing Wednesday morning to show |that Taylor had been vitally. tntey- | jested in the deal and used this as- sumption in an effort to impeach | tle witness’ testimony. District At- torney John Frater leaped to his |fect a number of times and objected to Kelly's cross examination. His instance by Judge Cushman, On several occasions Taylor was instructed by Judge Cushman that he must answer the questions put to him. Taylor's neryousness tn- creased and he delayed his answers for several seconds. Several sharp exchanges between counsel marked the close of the morning’ session. SUGAR TAKES New Price of $10.95 Will Be Effective Thursday Sugar prices in Seattle will jump 40 cents. a hundred pounds Thursday, due to the price boost |in San Franctsco Wednesday, ac- jcording to Frank Kannair, secretary of the Seattle Retail*Grocers’ asso- elation, Increases of 45 cents a hundred pounds were reported from San Francisco Wednesday, bringing the wholesale price to $10.45. Adding the freight and handling charges to Seattle, the price here Thursday [will be $10.95 a hundred. “This is the third boost since the government started suit against sugar gamblers,” “Let's hope no more suits are start. ed or we may be paying war-time peak. sugar bell . \Boost Is 45 Cents in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, April 25.—The California-Hawalian Sugar Co, an- nounced an increase of 45 cents per 100 pounds in the price cf sugar to- day. The new price is effective tomor- row, It brings the price asked by that company, which is one of the largest refiners, to $10.45 per 100 pounds to wholesalers at the refinery, Other California companies today were charging from $10 to $10.05 per 100, but were expected to follow the California-Hawailan Increase, National and Revere advanced re. fined to $10.25, while National Ar. buckle quoted it at 100, eee Raw Sugar Up on New York Market NEW YORK, Aprii 25-—-Raw and refined sugar advanced to new heights for the year, Cuban raw |sugar sold at 69%, Yo above the pro- vious high, A New Orleans refiner IN DOPE CASE objections were overruled in every) 40 CENT JUMP jeven charged some of the loss said Kannair.} FINANCIER IS SUBJECTED 10 SEVERE GRILL Opposing Counsel Attempts to Im- peach Testimony | of Defendant A boxer at bay—badly punished jbut still fighting back with both | fists—now clinging to his adversary, now countering with head-rocking [Jabs and “uppercuts, Buch was the picture presented | jin Judge Calvin 8. Hall's depart ment in superior court Wednesday jwhen Frank Waterhouse was sub — |Jected to a gruelling crose-examina- | jtion by-John B. Hart, chief counsel for W. T. Laubs, trustes in bank. rEstey. for Frank Waterhouse @ , Who Is suing to recover some | F 00,000 which Waterhouse fs al- leged to have abstracted from com- pany funds to pay personal losses incurred in building the steamer El Aquario, Documentary evidence that Water house personally accepted more than | $60,000 of the El Aquario loss was. | introduced during the morning. Under cross-examination, Water hosue identified a letter which was written over his signature on June |9, 1921, to Price, Waterhouse & Co. accountants, in which the statement: appeared: “The portion of the El |Aquario account has been jby me.” Clarence L, Reames, chief ‘counsel \for the witness, made a 4 effort to persuade Judge Cs |Hall to permit Waterhouse to : |plain this letter—Waterhouse's ex- planation being that it was pi an accounting device, to which he consented. on the advice of John Sparling, comptroller for the pany—but the court ruled explanation could not be made the cross-examination was over, — | This bit of evidence wae the high |light of a morning which was ed thruout by bitter clashes between _ Waterhouse and his inquisitor, Johi B, Hart, chief counsel for the plain- tft. Hart not enly sought to imp Waterhouse’s testimony, but, thra him, he also endeavored to impe: the testimony of Judge W. | Bogle, Waterhouse’s personal ney, as well as a former trustee ithe bankruptcy company, who h declared on the stand that the | Aquario deal was a company tra action from start to finish, in © fthe fact that his client pei signed the $116,000 bond as i nitor for the McAteer Shipbuilding Co, to insure completion of the Aquario. A new phase of the situation came out during the cross-examini n when Defense Attorney Reames nounced that the defendant had e tered into a stipulation with trustee in bankruptcy by which ff was agreed that the claim the government for $125,000, ing out of the El Aquario deal, one of the assets of Frank Wat house & Co. and not of Wate! personally, Reames declared would put ‘Trustees Laube on stand to establish this, TRY TO IMPEACH HIS TESTIMONY Hart, by his questions, attem to Impeach practically alt of Wi house's previous testimony. tried to show that Waterhouse gone on the bond of the MoAtee Shipbuilding Co. to insure comple tion of the El Aquario as a purely personal matter, in consideration of $5,000 to be paid from the profits; that Waterhouse had always sidered tt a personal matter and h his personal account; that he when he learned that the loss to be of monumental proporti and at a time when his vas already beginning to totter, that he had then either dest himself or caused to be destro; all records of the deal. Hart dealt a number of tell! blows, but Waterhouse came plies were just as caustic as attorney's queries, “T can’t read your mind,” he (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) © I adore spiritualistic seances, They make one feel so creepy, — I was particularly thrilled on day last. A man I knew was there. His flance had dragged him tn, It really wasn't his fault, bi T feel sorry for people with some. thing to hide, They are such slaves to fear, He. posed as a bachelor. I alone knew him to be a ve The mediuns was ® friend of n T love to be helpful, Ho asked for a message from mother, purchased 160,000 pounds at 6%. He got one from his wife,