The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 1, 1923, Page 1

/ i f loaded garda; Maximum, 50. , ieee} VOL. 25 —_—- Bi opie Win Phone F ight! Howdy, folky The Board of Public Works has recommend. ed that Legierg of autos be pro- hibited on all fowntown streets. Tt will soon by ag: park one’s kidd kar Or to park onés gun’ regts. fee park] one’s-self Or to neighbor's cory an TRAPIC NOTE One Seatth man drove down town yesterdy in order to find parking spa@ for tomorrow. - it is perfecth Brew wagon y rn “Oh. od he ot obite al covered with ¢ Little Hom te in eattle is how automobite. ‘The death aout two my home, my wife still ey with ber hand- . fond woman. see sue an ow Ww. ing “smito”)piints whieh the potict permit to rin? eee Alter temporaries: of the the hofrible condition condition” of traffic here, we fel like the man who read the medical book and then thought he’ was sifffeting from all known div- | eases. see LITERARY NOTE. ecb Erma Gunther Spier, an- says that the to- tn pole in Pioneer Place re- fates an Indian story. but we've never deen araiee follow the plot. soe Some pedple think the totem pole Was carved by a Siwash sculptor suf- fering vay D, Tis. “48 LS Gee i had her inte bobbed and permagently waved. Now that! the wave has grown out, shé says| that woman's halr is her crowning | worry, one Beattle husband accuses his wife o hitting him with an ico. pick... Wha he expéet her to hit him with- a toothpick? Poor Wittle wall-flower, * Dowt you cry, You'll be a chaperone By and By, Prof. Delton Howard of Northwest- | ern university, says brains. are Io-| _@ated in the fect. If that iw true, “we've got seouple of massive brains, bre. “SQUADS Wrrre General Pershing hay ordered | that army reports be made out | a ble ir style, thing we know he'll be trying to beautity the shores of those military channels, Or putting an extra daub of crim: | #on on the army red tape. They do those things better in the imarine-corph ‘Think of the beautify eae cornpowed by the men who! ite the ‘eting Posters! What has as ome of the old-faxh- man Who wanted a wite whol how Pak, a coy? 27) LARG st Beene IN AMERICA le, pelt articles for news: wo ¢ cat't play fon our ‘apha,, Witim Ore n, Nie Brithen | ay Is dite to find uw} bh worth painting, — | they painting their logs! Why doe@'t Judge Qushman tx oe ses against the 1 ining them from rald-|> mission, the terrible | tangle of the municipal railway and | deplorable jone purpose of supplying water to its citizens. ‘car system for the purpose of furnishing its people trans- Y KIDNAPED: RADIO AIDS CHASE Teniperature at 3 Hours ~~ The Seattle Star Eutered as Recond Clase Matter May 8 8 ATTLE, 1699, at the Postoffice a) Beattie, Wash. under the Act of © gras March & 1878, Per Teer, by Mali, $1.54 W ASI, SDAY, M AY 1, TUE | SANE! RIGHT! (EDITORIAL) FEDERAL JUDGES GILBERT, @ NETERER AND CUSHMAN are entitled to public commendation for promptly dismissing the telephone company’s injunction suit. The company failed to make any showing that its property was being “confiscated” by the present rates it is permitted to charge. As a result of the decision, the peo- ple of this state will be saved from paying out a million dollars in added phone tolls this coming year. In reaching its decision it is likely that the three judges harkened to the rising roar of public protest against the system of government by federal injunction. Judge Cushman’s restrain- ing order and the manner of its grant- ing had been arbitrary and unjusti- fied; the refusal of the en banc court to go ahead in that autocratic course is | commendable and reassuring. ot mantel P t Bringing Immense Benefits to All Seattle = \Keey FACTS of the Situation in Mind When | You Hear Special Interest Propaganda a pt andists—the steamship companies, railroads and pi vate dock concerns—which are desperately attack- ing th¢ Port of Seattle development program, have injected uch ufalse issue into their campaign against the purchase | of the|Moran site that it seems necessary today, in genfral and the purpose of our own port in particular. Wh a publ their minds. Now the propagand that big idea by a false clamor. Some public utilities are constructed as ends in them-| selves, ‘For instance, a city builds a water aay oe the buys a ists are trying to obscure) fe people of King county built their publie port terminak, not simply in order to move so many thousand tons of freight onto a certain number of ocean liners and so many other thousands of tons of freight off those ocean mportatt ends. It wad4to bring to Seattle a great commerce which other- wise tle could not handle and thus would not attract— that the Port of Seattle was conceived. The Panama canal was approaching completion; a new era in oean traffic was to open; other ports were prepar- | ng to handle the new business; Seattle's privately-operatee | concerns were marking time and doing nothing. Immerse Benefits Have Resulted to |WholeCity From Very Start A statélaw was passed permitting the creation of a port ‘district ind authorizing it to use the public credit to the extent of 3 per cent of its assessed valuation (in our case about $9,000,000) and to levy annually a tax of 2 \mills, whith would be sufficient to carry the interest and |sinking ftmd charges. The theary of the law and the idea in the ‘public mind | yas that great benefits would come to Seattle thru attract- ing the additional business here, and that it was only |proper and just for the general taxpaying public to pay, to he extent of 2 mills a y ir, for those benefits. The port was built, efficiently and economically. It was well plannéd and, despite all the “knocking” of special in- terest enemies, it has been efficiently operated. Great benefits have, from the first, flowed into this com- jmunity as 4 result. The Smith Cove terminal alone (where the ae cargoes are handled) each year bring to Seattle a révenue of $7,500,000 in wages and for merchan- dise and sérvices. The grain terminals, the cold storage plant, the other piers each pour into this city every month’ a great stream of wealth, The ter service for the apple growers of the East Side, for the fish- ermen of the Inland Empire-—and every one of those and other in- dustries injturn pays Seattle men and Seattle business houses for the services rendered. All of this is business which otherwise would go to other ports, which Seattle otherwise would lose. Only Paying One Mill of Taxation Even in “Slump” Period And the benefits ripple out into our whole business fabric. Every one of us in Seattle benefits because of the (Turn to Page 13, Column 3) liners in the course of a year, but to achieve other more) nals perform a high | the North Pacific, for the grain farmers of | fh Corporation Counsel T. J. 1. a in. the} signed by three Judges, Cireult Judge | fbx in one of our cone interests of the truth, to reeall a few FACTS about ports| William Gittert, of Portland, and King county people decided to invest millions in) on wo « port they did so with a big, constructive idea in) [pany will next take is not known. | ena jlitle activity In the refined sugar : _|market at the opening today. May | | tee motions made. by Attorney | opened at ide aaked, the figure ECOURT HALTS HARDING FOR ¢ TIGHER RATE BAN ON SUGAR Refuses to Grant Believes “Boycott an Injunction to, Will Help End Company High Price Plot WASHINGTON, May 1.— Presi BY FLELDING LEMMON Jent Hi believes the. house jo of |wives' sugar boycott vholly con in jaistent™ and that {ft will b con. e' structive aod helpful in remedying | o|the present high price situation, tt wan stated at the White House to- | in the decis day on highest adthority j BH court Secretary of Commerce Hoover to- r 2 \day also approved the sugar boycott ry organized by American women as i h nt of |the most effective meapr of break: | public oka from interfe i with ling the mar gouge th rate increase planned b: th "The women aw on right trick.” said Hoover, “Te way to} the |control prices. is thru spontaneous | | wuld |control of consumption.” i Ken-| Hoover's statement was made just | TC “1 believe |before the cabinet meeting, at which | state's victory Monday fore-| were to be considered ay outcome future |}women'’sa clubs, ed of § day. of any the to bring down prices. | =" BOYCOTT MOVE! e's HERE GROWING |. Preparations for carrying the sugar | |boyeott “afore every ¢lvic, women's and improvement club in the ely were being made Tuosday by Frank} Kannair, peoretary of jthe Total Groaew armoctation-and instigator of Bad Leyeott me of ‘Tacoma vo the londay af when they declared that a vict federni court would té the most im BB portant step in the matter. May telephone bills quoting the néw rate allowed bees: Judge Cushman bye pe gps Dey ‘compan: the Tacoma hearing, They did not Bet to the postoffice: In thelr stoad will go bill# at the old rate, it wan announced at the company’s Beattie offices Tuesday. What action the telephone com. on 01 Myre. Eva 8. Godfrey, president of the League of Women Voters, On Tuesday Kannair wax to speak “i before the 100 Per Cent club in an effort to enlist the ald of the mem: bere in the fight “Wé'are getting wonderful re wponse in thin fight" Kinnair de- Attorney ©. B. Rupr gaid Ty eaday | that no decision on the mattér would! be made for at leant a week. He declared that tie did not look for fur- | ther federal court proceedings in the | Mfed Tuesday. “From every part matter, however | of the city we are getting encourage: | | ment and I feel sure that the result | The memorandum decision, decid-| Ing in favor of the ntate’s case, wax] Uf Move In Boing to he fell.” Little Activity on Sugar Market) NEW YORK, May 1.—There was) District Judges BE. E. Jeremiah Ni Cushman and} erer, who rat en bane shortly after the con: clusion of the hearing Monday after- John Dunbar, one to dis- solve the temporary rentraining or der issued last Tuesday by Judge &. E. Cushman, and the other deny- ing the permanent order asked by the telephone company, were unani- mously granted hy the three Suidges | jatter a brief conference following} the conclusion of the hearing Mone| day afternoon, { A third motion, asking that the cane be dismissed entirely from tho| federal court, and upon whith Dun- bar spent considerable time in his (Tura to Faro 13, Column bo] quoted by refiners yesterday and 16) points under quotations by other re-| finers. i Raw sugar opened strong. July $6.32 at $6.38; September, $6.40. at December, $5.89 at 5.90. BOILER-MAKER STRIKE LOOMS Will Vote on Wednesday on Walkout Question | A strike of 5,000 ballermakers and | sheet metal workers in end around | A SUR ISED hinges upon the result of; ja vote to be taken at the Labor Escape With $200 From Pt. tempie Wednesday evening when it Townsénd Postotfice will be definitely decided whether or not the workmen will abide by the + Sea decision of céntrotors, who shave | Surprised in the act of robbing failed to grant a fint raise of 10 the vault at the Port Townsend pestoffice at $a, m, Tuesday, four dyanmiters escaped thru open | window and gained their cents an hour asked by the Metal | Trades council April 23, The raise was asked by the coun- sheet metal an liberay, according to word received in Seat- cil and effected all | workers in contract shi tle shortly, after the robbery. The |yard# in Seattle and v bandits escaped with $200 ,in cash | wage Increase Was not granted by and quantity of atimps, according |the employers and unless the mon | to the. reports, jvote to retract on their request for The men ‘ure said to have forced |a raise, a strike will be :mmediately an entrance ‘into the building by | put into effect, wocordl 55 to E, prying out a rear window, They | Cooper, | then dynamited the vault and. we : in the act of vobbing it when a HERE’S A NEW ONE A nice, new home, just being completed, is being offered for sale at a small*down payment. STAR WANT ADS help you find these bargains every day, ( Only $200 Cash You May Own This Brand New _ Bungalow iG COMET PRICED ONLY. § Thin cory new bungalow has hard, watchman discovered them. ‘They | fled, leaving thelr toolx in tho vault. { GIRL, FATHER, — DIE TOGETHER VORT SASKATCHEWAN, Cana da, May tA father and daughter will be hanged from the same scat. fold here tomorrow. | Emil Mivariilo and the dayghte Mrs, Florence Lassandra, will be ¢ ecutod simultaneously | Sheriff John Av Rea of Edmonton today completed drrangements for} the double hang Mather and! daughter will he Jed to the siffold | at the same timo, Tt wan declared. that the purpose | of making the executions) simulta | neously is to be as merciful as pow | sible to the pair and save one of thom thé horror ef waiting watt! the other fey i Piearillo and hin daughter wero Turn ‘to the Want Ad pagi« NOW abd see Where, yonscan see vonyieted of the murder of & polive man. this property. HOME | tay EDITION) AM T Mine! Pierre Ponafidine; who, escaped froni Russia one vear ago, and who now asserts America has more bolsheviks than the country of her former home. Mme. Ponafidine, a present, is in Seattle, Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers Soviet Ideas Gaining More Headway | in America Than in Russia, Declares Fee 4 t Wife of Former Diplomat BY WANDA VON KETTLER can, but whose life has been spent America hak moro bolsheviks than | for the most part in Dastern Europe Russia, At least, Mme. Pierre Ponk fidine, widow of a Russian diplomat, whose death was. hastened in 1919 by the soviet. réign’ of terror, says it has. Mme. Ponifidine, with her two sons, escaped from her husband's country in February of 1922, to make her home in America. She is now touring the states, and is at present in’ Sea where,” Tuesday night, she is to speak on her experi. ences in Russia at the Women’s University club. “Russia,” the little, gray-haired and Asia, exclaimed at. the club Tuesday morning: — “Russia—the land of bolsheviks? Well, yes; you might say that, But at the same time you might say, ‘America—the land of bolsheviks.’ ‘Your reason would be just as good—and better.” \T Mme. Ponifidine went on to say, a world movement— not a Russian movement. It is plan- ning a world-wide communistic em- pire that must be established as the result of world-wide revolution. The soviets had hoped to promote the woman whose parentage was Ameri- (Turn to Page 13, Column 6) Editor's Note.—This the first of a series of folk tales of Puget sound Indi- ans, as written for The Stir by Erna Gunther (Mrs, Lestie Spier, wife of | the assistant anthropologist at the state university, and is herself an anthropologist). | This tale used to be | told by the Indians | along the, Skagit —riv- ye er. Tt was related to the writer by Charlie and Mar- guret Jules, of Tulalip res- ervation. Margaret Jules is a Skagit and she told it to her hushand, who isa Sno: homish Indian, Chartio re: lated the story; his wifels English was hardly suffi. cient for “Boston language” expression, Allof the stories follow inthis series | ‘ere obtained by the writ- rin her mitny visits to Northwest tribes, BY ERNA GUNTHER ink and Raven each had a son. | They lived in houses’ close to ah other, ‘They trained thelr boys to be good funtiors, Rvery day | they sent them out to bathe in the cold waters of Puget Sound and to yu along the beaeli, ‘They. did this | fot they had heard of the sun that was held captive by a great ohtet who lived in the Bast and as thelt country was still dark at that time, Indian Folk Tales How Light Came to Sound Country Mink and Raven Serid Their Sons And Old Mink Is Very Selfish they wanted thelr sons to go and steal the daylight, One day they said: “Well, let us see how fast you can run, boys.” The boys ran, but they did not do 80 very well at first, so their fa- thers sent them out to train again, | Scon young Mink could run almost as fast as young Raven flew. f “Well, sons, now you can run fast enough,” said their fathers, “now you can go and steal the sun.” So the boys started out, and after walking many days they came to a country where it was a little light and as they walked it becamo lighter and lighter, ‘hen young Mink sald to young Raven; “You keep quiet right here and LN go and make mys self an old man.” Hoe disguised himselt people, “Oh, Jet me stay in your house, I Will wet as your slave." So they Jet him stay tnd made a bed for him by the fire, He was tremb- ling like air ald man, as he s ane down onthe bed and he 1 (0 fall nstoop, but. he Kept open to see what was. He stayed for several nights, | Every ovening when the sin went to the down ii eame into the house and tho ehlef put tt wp on the ragters ti the night. “Mink, watehed alt this, Whon everybody was in bed he got} Jap and looked at the sua as it hung from. the rafters and. felt to see (Purn to Page 13, Colwnn 1) children, pity me, | wo CF, NTS. IN S PATTLE, -OF CHILD If BROADCASTED Lad Is Stolen by Stranger While Playing With | Two Sisters SCHENECTADY, N; Y., May 1— Kidnaped by a man who lured him away by offering to give him a rabbit, Verner Alexanderson, son of E. F. W. Alexanderson, chief en- gineer of the Radio Corporation of | America, ig being sought by wire. jlens all over the Eastern part of the United States today. The child disappeared from in front of his home, where he was playing with hig two sisters yes terday, He where he is has been traced to Albany, been believed to have taken to a house on Ha: The police are making of that district for him. Meanwhile the radio, in the de- velopment of which the boy’s father has played a prominent part for years, 1s broadcasting his descrip- tion and asking those who hear the call to help rescue Verner from hix_ kidnapers, DESCRIPTION IS GIVEN RY SISTER Alexanderson was unable today to advance a single theory to account for the kidnaping. He said so far as he knew he had no enemies, He has received no threats. ‘The kidnaping evidently was care- fully planned. The dbductor’s de- scription was given: in detail’ by Edith Alexanderson, 11, one of the boy's sisters, with whom he was COURT DECISION Waterhouse De Dealt Telling Blow by Judge Hall Marking one of the strongest, vic- tories for Wiliam T. Laube during his trial for $188,000 damages against Frank Waterhouse, Judge Calvin S. Hall in a ruling Tuesday declared that the burden of proving he was not responsible for the loss must be accepted by Waterhouse, not the plaintiff. This completely reverses the assumption that the plaintiff , must furnish the burden of proof by @ preponderance of the evidence and places Laube in a favorable position in his suit. The ruling came following another of the squabbles between the oppos- ing counsels, John B. Hart and Clar- ence L, Reames, and sustained ef- forts by Hart to impeach the testi- mony of Waterhouse thru questions to Harvey Jenkins, auditor of the Se- attle National bank. PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE OF HIS LIABILITY Judge Hall ruled that the intro- duction as evidence of a contract be- tween Frank Waterhouse and the surety company made a “prima facie case of the liability of Mr. Water- house and the burden of proof will be upon Mr. Waterhouse to show that the underwriting of the Mc- Ateer Shipbuilding Co. was a com. pany undertaking, not a personal Judge Hall formally stated that for the benefit of both attorneys he wished them to know that he will instruct the jury to so consider the {evidence when they retire to delib- erate, Close followers of the trial de- clared the decision of Judge Hall is the biggest gain that Laube has made since the case started and strongly inclines the balance in his favor. COURT MAKES RULING PLAIN Judge Hall's ruling came after Att torney Reams, chief counsel for Wa- terhouso, had objected to a question asked Jenkins by Attorney Hart, ar Suing that since Laube had brought suit against Waterhouse, it was his (Turn to Page, 13, Column 2) RIEDA’S OLLIES Had an exeiting eyening, With a friend, Close on to forty. She had just received a real, Pron) posal. We were thrilled to tho ears. OF course we sought: the Ontjn, Marringo is such a serious stop, Besides 1 thought T was better auited to him than she. She nover Went coxtrary to its ine | struetions, Tho Ouija 1 so. fascinating, Paseinating and reliable. She asked about his past. Iayon old maids dave scruples, It told her everything, 1 knew it would, I pushed i tas oe