The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 26, 1923, Page 1

i \ Probably shower: day a ‘Tempera: Maximum, 72. Today x ure WEATHER southerly winds, tonight and Fri ate to fresh (24 Hours Minimum, 48. , 63. Las noon, SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 16 Entered as Second Class Matter May 9, 1699, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 179, }CONDEMN CUSHMAN! | Citizens Outspoken in Criticism of Phone Injunction Per Year, by Mall, $8.50 ~The SeattleSta ! C4 tone a on 23, TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, Howdy, folks! The Duke of York marries today. In honor of the occasion, the Prince of Wales will abstain from falling off his horse, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon will have eight bridesmaids. The duke will stagger up the aisle with the aid of a few friends and-a couple of cocktails, The duke, according to the papers, will have only three supporters, Two gerters and a pair of suspenders? “ee The king of England must be dukes. se LONGEVITY NOTE Tho Waterhouse trial should be removed from Judge Calvin Hall's court to the federal court, Federal judges are appointed for life. has handled his . eee If lawyers, like authors, were paid by the word, the attorneys in the Waterhouse case would be richer than Henry Ford. eee What little things determine our destinies! Hugo Kelley is a poll- ticlan. If he had won in the pri- maries he would be a statesman. eee RIED-EGG’S OLLIES I love theater parties. They are so recherche. ‘This one was no exception, But a voluptuous bionde spoiled the evening for me. The men had eyes only for her. Men are such fools. During an intermission I leaned over and patted her on the shoulder. After that she was not so popular. ‘The men edged away from her side. She looked worrled, poor dear. Gropped a hunk of limburger cheese down her back? Women are so stupid. eee One of the great needs of this country is longer strings of spaghetti. eee makes her sore is the bird who tells because he felt so sorry for her. eee WELL, WHY BRAG ABOUT IT? “Philadelphia child, § years old, is credited with mentality of @ college freshman.”—The Star. |” If the Standard Oil and the Shell company start a gasoline war, we know who will lose. The public, soe Here rest her fect upon the Earth, a maid to vaudeville and the press unknown; Reporters never loud pro- claimed her worth; no non-stop rec- ord did she own. . The Western Confectioners’ asso- peanuts is to be increased. Another shell game, by heck! see BOYCOTT Owing to the increase in the cost of sugar, the price of lollypops is te be increased. Let's all start a boycott by swear- ing off lollypops for a week! oee price of gum. We'ye got enough eee Freckles McDargle is missing, ’tis . sald; He picked up @ rattlesnake, thinking it dead. . ‘The carwig stuck above the ground. his head up “So this is Paris HERE IS A DANDY Today, like yesterday, offers many. opportunities for the one who {s looking for a home. Here is another one that can be pur- chased exceptionally easy. Se cate A NEAT HOME 4-ROOM, NEAT COTTAGE; 2 bedrooms and fuil plumbing; on @ beautiful lot, commanding an UNOBSTRUCTIPLE VIEW of Elliott bay, mountains and almost entire ‘city; NO HILLS TO CLIME, and about 10 min- utes walk from Industrial cen- ter; graded streets, cement sidewalks and water mains all in and assessments all paid in full; no mortgages or other en- cumbrances; miso covered by firovinsuranes. For quick nale, 0; $300 cash, bal- | | | r month, including rent. A ‘| The Want Ad columns will tell || you whete this home can be veem. << | | parked under our desk to last a year. lp jstore at 1443 W, BIG DRIVE AGAINST. THE PORT |Railroads, Dock Companies and Others Making Expensive .Campaign to Prevent Land Purchase A DEFINITION devious methods and for secret or selfish ends, POWERFUL propaganda is at work against the Port It aims to defeat, at the election on May 8, quite a boxer. Look how well he/the plan for acquiring the United States shipping board of Seattle. Never in the whole history of the port has such certed and effective organization been at work to encom- The railroads, the private dock com- panies, a powerful San Francisco corporation, various steam- ship interests and other enemies of the general principle of public ownership of public utilities are banded together pass its destruction. at this time to control the May 8 election. They have a big money barrel. They are spending it lavishly. Modern propaganda costs heavily in cash. Tax-Limit League Is One of Many Disguises The organization known as the Tax Limit league is one of the disguises behind which these interests are working: inted a committee the port, is be- lieved to have merged its efforts also in this enterprise. The Tax Limit league has a well-paid, smooth-running Among its It will furnish a speaker for any meeting of citizens in King county, and it sends these speakers out morning, noon and night wherever These speakers The Chamber of Commerce, which ap} of five members to direct a fight aga’ staff, under the direction of Sherman Sawtelle. other activities is a speakers’ bureau. there is a chance for them to be heard. spread the propaganda that the league prepares. But the total number of citizens thus reached great, and the league tries by every means to get additional publicity. One of these methods is its press bureau. How was she to know that I had| press bureau prepares news stories in advance of the meet- ings and sends them out to the newspapers, quoting at length the supposed remarks of the speakers. As a matter of fact, the reports sent out seldom tally} But the fact that some Seattle citizen does appear before some King Li'l Gee Geo says the guy ‘that|}county meeting is made the pretext for emitting a lot of at all with what the speakers actually say. highly-colored anti-port propaganda. One Seattle his wife he kissed the pretty gitl/paper prints these alleged news stories regularly and solemnly in a prominent position as if they were legitimate news. Star Will Strip Issue Clean of Propaganda And, of course, the port’s opponents have many other propaganda methods which they are working overtime. Personal solicitation of voters, work thru established civic} and business organizations, a mail campaign and many other schemes are being utilized. The Star does not accuse these foes of the port with On the contrary, they are deadly sincere in their antagonism to the port’s plan for acquiring the ship-| ciation announces that the price of/Ping board site in the heart of the industrial district and} insincerity. improving it for the benefit of the whole public. But The Star does believe that they are looking at the question from their own viewpoint, and that viewpoint naturally is selfish. Railroads and dock companies are not spending large sums of money in this campaign without feeling that the investment is going to bring them dividends in the future. 3 The Star believes there are bigger, more important con- We don’t care if they raise the|siderations that should guide the voters when they pass upon this question on May 8. The Star believes that the ublie’s interest should out-weigh these private interests. In order that the voters may pass upon the question intelligently and on its merits, The Star is going to print, between now and election day, all the FACTS about the Skinner & Eddy No, 2 site (as it is commonly called) and We are going to strip all propaganda away from the issue and let you see it in To date the campaign has been filled with BUNK ARGUMENTS and HOKUM about the plans for improving it. its true light. BUNK FIGURES, CONCLUSIONS. Tomorrow we will give you some FACTS throwing light on the question, Is the Skinner & Eddy No, 2 tract a good investment at the price of $600,000? Ballard Grocer to Face Arson Charge} George G. Clements, Ballard gro- cer, went on trial Thursday morn- ing before Judge Everett 1B. Smith on a charge of arson. Clements is ncoused of having burned down his 65th st, on “De comber 28. The building was owned by Daisy M. Hall, Clements attracted attention some days later when he staggered into police headquarters with mysterious marks upon his arm and muttered that he had been assaulted by un- known parties, It developed he was perpotrating a hoax. Ho was tried on 9 charge of wilfully destroying | mortgaged property and acquitted, altho two youths had formerly con- fesved Clements gave each of them of salmon in Alaska, that lumber river districts, sald night, said ’he believed thp great present restrictive order, done, Magnolia bluff, Clements $25 to run. his insured Ford over|the insurance on tho car, PROPAGANDA: The scheme or plan for the propagation of a doctrine or system of principles; especially when conducted by 5 |Says Restriction of _ | Fishing Necessary | Unless the government had put in restrictive orders limiting the catch would soon suffer the fate of the salmon in the Puget sound and Co- before the Alaska committes of the Chamber of Commerce at a dinner held at the Rainier club Wednesday Bishop Nowe, vetoran of Alaska, of Alaskans were in favor of the congressional action, and sald they. realized that something had to be a con- is not The news-/ Industry speakers majority pending collected | lowed, became the. owe who ta shoten on we counsel Laube, trustee in bankruptcy for] Hibler, wealthy Seattle sugar dealer, | Sven today by a woman, restored Frank Waterhouse & Co., Waterhouse tho direct question: w that abandoned danger of bres The eternal triangle of reel life has been given the lie by a triangle in Chicago real life which not only includes “the other woman,” but a startling feature of which the movies never dreamed. Vanderloan, an engineer, left his wife in St. Paul and became acquainted with Elina Kinnan in Chicago. heard the truth and fainted, Vanderloan fled. The two women, in the melee that fol- tends. Now they are bath trying to get him out of jail. t, says she Moesn’t want Vanderloan. “T like his wife too she says. Mrs. Vanderloan is on the right, SURPRISE IN TAUBE TRIAL Efforts “Made to Impeach Story of Waterhouse: Efforts to impeach the testimony | of Frank Waterhouse in the $200,000 | El Aquarlo suit reached a climax granted Miss Gladys Meredith, New Thursday when John B. Hart, chief for the plaintift, W. T. asked “Do you wish to tell the jury that the bond of August 20,1917, was the first you ever signed as indemnitor for the McAteer Shipbuilding com:| jury yetired’ Wednesday night” and pany?" “I do,” Waterhouse declared. “Then,” Hart pursped, “Jan'tit true that, way before you were asked to get your company to aign th bond, ich you signed a personal bond refused by the government > Waterhouse replied, his voice, “It is absolutely false. Clarence L. Reames and F. Merritt, counsel for Waterhouse, made vehement protest against tho} sci0 Ntevedith, course which the cross-examination was taking, but Judge Calyin §. Hall permitted the questioning to proceed, after once sustaining an objection on the ground that the testimony (Turn to Va Column 5) Nosing her way thru a dense fog south of Coos Bay, Ore., early Thursday morning, the freighter Brush, of 3,124 gross tons, went ashore at Cape Arago at 4:20 a, m., according to har- bor radio advices received here. Advices from San Francisco state the captain and crew have the ship, which is in ne Up. The Brush carrie men and officers, according to radio operators in coast a The Brush is heavily loaded with lumber and general freight. She sailed from Seattle April 19 for San Vranciseo and is owned by the Pa- cific Steamship company. eee FEAR 300 ARE LOST AT SEA! LONDON, April 26-—The entire passenger list and crew of the Portu- guese mail boat Mossamedes, which went aground, on Cape Frio in Afri: ca, is missing in lifeboats, according to a Lioyd's dispateh today. ‘There was no align of life on board, the dispatch said, ond it is feared the passengers and crew were lost, ro were ‘between 200 and 300 persons on the Mossxamedes, crew of 40 og = T./ Here’s New Angle to the Old Story One day hig wife met the HEART BALM GIVEN GIRL |Sugar “Magnate’s Son Must Pay $13,900 BY JOHN W. NELSON A verdict for $13,900 damages was | York stenographer, by jury (in |euperior court Thursday, against | Lionel: BE. Hibler, son of Ross E. | Mise Meredith sued when young Hibler deserted her, and broke: off the wedding, last July, in Judge J. T. Ronald's court. ‘The reached a vetdict during the night. This was nealed and opened ‘Thum. day, Young. Hibler’ was (not) in |court, but his former fianceo greet- | 0 the verdict with a broad smile. “I am, the bapplest girl in. Seat. tle today," she said, “I have been under such a burden for so long.” Judge John S. Jurey, attorney for thanked the jurors as ‘they filed out of the box. The verdict was not unanimous, two of jthe jurors declaring they were op: | posed to it Lionel Hibler, the defendant; his father, mother and brother, were jail absent from the courtroom, Th four had attended the previous days of the trial, Miss Meredith in her testimony said she came to Seattle last May to wed young Hibler, He insiste: she reside at the family home, 16th ave. N,, altho the mother then in New York city. According to her testimony, young HHibler started taking her on a round of gay parties to Seattle rondhouses, She testified that hoe frequent nk to excess and went | to # oles or in the cars | IV) e, the young woman tes tified, folowing a swimming party, | (Turn to Page 9, Column 6) Son of Daugherty Is in Sanitarium STAMFORD, Conn., April 26.—-A man {dentified as Draper Daugh: lerty, son of the attorney general of the United States, is confined at Stamford Hall sanitarium here, on preliminary commitment papers, Dr, F. W. Roberts, declared that friends came with Daugherty, who was mentioned {n connection with the death of an artists’ modcl in New York | Papers for commitment probably will be sought in the probate court here today or tomorrow The reason for commitment was not made public, the engagement on the very day of | The case was triéd before a jury | “}on my bres | | | couple in @ restaurant, Elina DEAD WOMAN ALIVE AGAIN Powerful Drug Is Used to Restore Heart’s Action BY THOMAS W. INGOLDSBY (Copyright, 1923, by United Press) OMAHA, Neb,, April 26.—A graphic then awaken again in the flesh and blood instead of the spirit world, was | to life by science. Mrs, Rafaela Mercurio, 58, was re- stored to life after entering the shad- ows of death, by use of Adrenalin, injected into her heart by Dr. W. A. | Gerrie, when one physician had giv- en her up as dead. She gave no outward signs of breathing or heart action. Prayers for the dead were in progress in her bed chamber, HAD RESOLVED TO DIE BEAUTIFULLY « She had resigned herself to death, resolving to die “beautifully,” and became confused and puzzled upon Tegaining “consciousness when the powerful gland extract started her heart to beating again and sent blood pulsing thru her arteries. Mrs. Mercurio, wife of a well-to-do Italian, is the mother of 16 children, | She has 10 grandchildren and three | Great grandchildren, “IL could feel death pulling me,” she said. “I was slipping. I tried | to find something to hold to but could not. I felt far away and alone, yet it seemed there was something I must do before I slipped entirely away. te yes, that was it. I, had just few minutes. I must straighten out in bed. IT must cross my hands it. I-must smile. My |children must know that I died | peacefully |EROM FS |SHE HE “Once IT saw & woman who died suffering much pain, She was all (Turn to Page 9, Column 7) | OLLIES { TRIEDA’S They were ideally happy. Billed and cooed Ike turtle doves, A public display of private emo- tlons. It is 80 ill-bred, Of course I wasn't Jealous of their happiness. I could have had him myself, Tho he never asked me. Sho was quite a flirt. Innocent, of courre. | Sull, tongues wag. at the least provocation, Ho came to me to inquire, * | count of how it feels to die and! CRITICISM IS BITTER IN STATE Civic Leaders Declare Court’s Haste to Favor Corporation Is Flagrant Case of Injustice BY BOB BERMANN America must have a government of the people, for the people and by the people, and not a government of the people, for the corporations and by the courts. Such is the opinion of an outraged Seattle and state of Washington public, as expressed Thursday in response to The Star’s protest against Federal Judge E. E. Cushman’s action in throwing aside the mature decision of the board of public works and permitting the telephone company to put its increased schedule of rates in effect. On every hand was heard bitter criticism of the system which makes it possible for a judge, who is in no way respon- sible to the public that his decisions affect, to ignore state government and smash at one blow the fruits of months of arduous rate-fixing labor. Public Works Should Be Presumed Right Until It Is Proved Wrong Following are typical opinions on the subjeci, as ex- pressed by the civic leaders; Archie Taft, of Piper & Taft: “I hate to go on record as approving an attack on the courts, but 1 certainly ag with Star in its fight against the increased rates. phone company has a perfect right, of course, to court and try to prove that it should be permitted to cha higher rates. But, pending a decision on the merits. of the case, I think that the board of public works should be pre- sumed to be right instead of wrong—and the court’s action in granting a restraining order so that the company can puty its rates into effect before such a decision is reached cer- tainly constitutes a presumption that the board was wrong. I believe that the board should be upheld in its decision unt it is proved wrong—and I cannot see any emergency which justified the court’s action.” Says Star Expresses Sentiment of a Majority of the Citizens : P. N. Oos, of Browning, King & Co.: “The Star, T believe, has expressed the sentiment of a majority of the citizens of Seattle—businessmen, workingmen, all classes. It strikes © me as highly impertinent on the phone company’s part to” go into court and demand such an injunction in tlie face 0} the department of public works’ decision and have it over \thrown offhand. If there is any way of beating this moye it certainly ought to be done. We shouldn’t permit th courts to divest our state institutions of all their authority.’ Could People Get Same Kind of Favor From the Federal Court? Herbert Schoenfeld, Standard Yurniture company: ‘ haven’t made a study of the legal points, but it seems to me that the principle involved is all wrong. The department o public works should certainly have been given a h before any restraining order was issued. I don’t think the people should be forced to suffer thru a mere legal nicality, especially in such a case as this which ig so fi reaching in its effect. The injunction system doesn’t seem equitable to me—it’s not balanced fairly. The corporation can come into court.with its lawyers and set aside the decis- ion of the board of public works when that decision happens to be adverse—but, suppose the decision had been opposite; could the people have gone into court and enjoined the department against permitting the higher rates to go into effect?” Be Rates Should Remain the Same Until After Final Decision Roy Kinnear, of the Seattle Building Owners’ association “T agree with The Star's attitude in every way. The rates should stay as they are until the courts have had an oppo tunity to pass on the merits of the case—then, if it is held | that a higher rate is necessary, it is plenty of time to aside the decision of the department of public works. It | certainly a surprise to me when I saw that the high rate | was going to go into effect, in the face of the department's decision holding that the old schedule was just.” Could Workers Make Similar Showing and Get Same Kind of Snap Decision? | Mayor E. J. Brown—‘“Suppose 20,000,000 working pe | should go into federal court and show they were not ge an equitable return on the human energy invested, would th court, without argument from the opposing side—the em- ployers—issue an order raising the wages of those working people? It’s about time the people wakened to the situatior they are confronted with; it’s about time people who suffe as a result of federal court decisions had something to s about who makes them.” This Kind of Procedure Makes Bolshevists, Says Spokane Mayor Mayor Fleming of Spokane—‘“Unfortunately the has character of this proceeding tends to bring about what most. lof us are tring to prevent, the creation of more bolshevists. — |The average telephone user is a good citizen and believes in ja square deal, which is lacking in the dark lantern methods. of the telephone company, Public service corporations are al= ways telling us how they are trying to get the good will of Why should L defen; her. 1 didn't. their patrons, and in the face of this they launch this effort (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) ya