The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 1, 1923, Page 13

ESDAY, M 1, i rH TAR LUMBER PLANT CLARA SUSPECT SWEPT BY FIRE ESCAPE FOILED Duwamish Waterway Mill Romantic Hondurans Fail in District Menaced by Fire | Attempt to Free Woman it OREGON RAILWAY DRYS FIGHTING °( IS IN DIFFICULTY WET SHIP RULE (_ added commerce that Seattle attracts could not live here if this businesa did there would not be work to support u During the war, when an unprecedented rush of tran pacific shipping suddenly began, it found Seattle prepared, « 1 wind, ect and the whole maritime world knows how, for a consider t able period, this port ranked second New among the American ports. During that time the port, in addition to doing a great patriotic service and spreading the fame of the city to the four corners of the world, earned a big profit. The levy on the taxpayers was entirely eliminated and much money laid aside for paying off bonds. | quo | When the big slump came after the armistice, of course, t the pened the} the profits disappeared in the port’s business, just as they ‘!did in many private businesses. But it is to be noted that instead have had only a 1-mill levy. AND YET, IN FACE OF THIS HISTORY OF PORT AND IN FACE OF THE MAGNIFICENT SHOW- ae cee pesahes | ee ING IT HAS MADE, THE PROPAGANDISTS ARE AT- 12 minutes after alarm! 9 TACKING IT ON JUST ONE GROUND, NAMELY, THAT | bad been turned in, b min .,|IT IS “LOSING MONEY” AND THAT IT IS A GRIEVOUS |", more had lx advanced to) 4X BURDEN. Wise; tiem [itarted It isn’t losing money; on the other hand, it is bringing ction of the firemen into Seattle right now at least $15,000,000 worth of busi- herolc action in battling of the three-|ness a year. houses on th undoubted): aved the mills of mile limit hich d be exmential : ’, : }the Duwamish Lumber ¢ and the a hear shine and|. It isn’t a grievous tax burden, to stock bars on out = Biewell Lumber Co, ad . | cits and the failu! the bond | to recelve liquor supplies from in-| factor on the tax rolls. areas ey Sie the: tine to iad bese rye vetion ot Portland Pays Nine Times as Much | ‘og « "as Seattle Pays aR the next congress in pas jaio receivership Volstead } These carping critics sometimes cite Portland as a place 1 with a lows ae king the leak in the which permitted the supreme | ' Congress | where port management is efficient and port conditions} four 32.000 "| wer iH} dry, |ideal, Well, look at Portland for a minute. three FEARED SLAIN! to make its rul ne way ot} Portland this year is taxing its people FOUR mills in- pinhgepPresn ye Hap EY s floating ware-istead of one. It is taking out of the pockets of taxpayers ‘ Murder Clues Are Being Followed by Police ! Mice , | $750,000 for deficits incurred in unremunerative operation exhibi | Ameriean newspaper checking sta in ADDITION TO ALL BOND INTEREST AND REDEMP- iexaree a o ty 7 7 TION PAYMENTS. resemblance between the wom Portland, to state it another way, is furnishing its docks ss who murde Mrn, Alberta Meadow ives rare and furnishing operating service at LESS | with * hammer ins fi of mae ee ie ¢ AN COST in order to attract new business, And the ss CR = wea Par na Bae ap apres 5 hr A deitiating” the al akg td | Oregon taxpayers are cheerfully paying for it, because they HERE'S MORE ABOUT we pearance of Warren J. Lincoln, at | believe it is worth while, That is the competition Seattle PHONES toraey, and distant relative of Abra ‘is forced to meet from that quarter. STARTS ON PAGE 1 res Wack from her, she h fam Lincoln, today announced they It is interesting to look at the figures for all the North-|(_ °° 6'9 VN * AM Daa ae eaateptad st tok Abatroy | CaRaee of the very low summer excursion fares on the are working on a theory of murder west port Here is what each of them levied from the} fae’ pias "| Northern Pacific. " Tickets sold daily from May 15 to Following the lawyer's disappear taxpayers for the last five years: | argument, was not touched on in the)! _ case September 15. Final return limit. October 31. Liberal Falbed club was found in a nearby Portland ‘ pennwtch 95 «Nios ert rance Seer stopover peiile es. We will gladly give you the fares to es nave piove ware Astoria .. HERE'S MORE ABOUT | any city in the United States if you will ask. clothing and a woman's glove were As ws a well near a road “along eas were scattered letters and other personal effects of the PACTS ON PORT DON’T MISS IT! STARTS ON PAGE 1 Wenatchee Apple Blossom Festival AY 4th and 5th Amid Revelry” of u because Thousand not Willamette Valley Electric} American Vessels May Not Can’t Pay Interest Carry Liquor Stores come, May 1 BY WILLIAM J WASHINC Ma PORTLAND, 10s Biect ra pertland into the Jamette va tntere pond In presider “We are ma) Ma from jail th Phillip murdereas, ba BY HERMAN ROBL N y Unite wa. M i Valley Blooms THGUCIGALPA, Hondur L~An only to York PARADES, PAGEANTS, SPECIAL CURSION RATES FARE AND ONE-HALF FROM ALL POINTS $8.90 From Seattle » MAY waterway, ear ttor © free ENTERTAINMENT woman he Lo been disco. and menaced here aa Clare » hamm jumt Import stat ry of the U; place and Ger. whereas fn hold tho first 4,000 worth of and the United place with near & Me © mill the st under contro! ered by police fire was x firemen A seul h ship group of romantic young men nt offic rtments ha ping or The cou way to making st fly als tro offere attempt The be ubadour thelr a fire 0 and $60,000, ‘The istance to her in the com n the ¢ and | municating wit by notes sent nigine kiln: Flame room to the The ot Mr pread t main building and jail in orange Tickets on 45 Li hot dr it, May 8 JOIN THE SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EXCURSION, leaving 9 P. M. Friday Night sued di period allowed under ait hip w woman held under the name what course 2 ing tho 60-day on the intere terms of tb The Oregon chased in } Portland & 8 2 a 2 of mill levy, we to wit Jeste Ca offered money ~ to her guards 4 to dash En bs pany 26, Chief . i that ine Company ng mortgage 1 dou! | was Spokane 19 and Hose Com attalion OUR in charge from tho prison gates at 2 o'clock tn orning and ex was discovered b he full plan NG WAREHOUSES ARE NOT APPROVED said | Two of the competition | support s and privately 1. “Too mueh taining the sv the director of police however Its more CITY TICKET OFFICE KING STREET STATION not 4 great amount of schome, believing nations of attach ‘hi importance to the and | it only at G5 the macl movie film lovers perpetrated in spit and romance Strict watch is being maintained on the three prisoners, Carson, M R. M. Young, “of Poughkeépale 1¥.,"" and Jesse won, wt oftice |!" & promoter of American capi in | bate. vol.| Since the 1403 Fourth Avenue oating Main 6601 . 3rd and King St. Main 6601 | the | fire ware it of adventure has been thought ts would refuse stant deft For some time it that the Hi the Na It is scarcely a noticeable «to August Toe nessed the entire affair jumped to the mish Lumber the firemen s could do, almost certain Co. of the plot ve been instructe to use the utmost ~sawaen. * Excursion -¢ a Fares Eastbound LAN your vacation | said nothing trip between May “When the news men attempted to 15 and October 31 so net the ires back from her ehe that you can take ad- Vielt Heme This Sammer al prison attaches bh ‘asi overy law und co court has man the fire T not es in t be exp! watchman, Ww | the maintenance | houses re being on duty, fa’ t Vir Products p fire broke out in the en The Washington Vir} is an export concern, | Hawai) and Oriental were ushington en the cine room Products Co, These inctude om! {of maintaining such tions,” Including personnel fense measures against pirates the little known cost of stopping st ntic ners on the high rienced seamen place th ch stops at thomsands of dollars | VOLSTEAD BREACH IS POINTED OUT The supreme the way to dry forces to stop the only remaining breach’ In the Vol stead law, Pointing out that it ruled aa it did solely. because the Volstead failed to expressly state tha’ American ships on the high seas fell | under the general ban, the court} continued “in so saying we don't mean to imply that congress is with Out power to regulate the conduct of domestic merchant vesels when on| the high seas, for it a | settled that congress does have power over them." | Rallying on this ground, the drys. who are overwhelmingly in the m “ra with alou AURORA, 1 She . but court itself pointed | PHONE COMP: y HAS |) TWO OTHER RECOURSES | Tacoma. RUSSIA Round Trip Fares From Seattle to rays Harbor .. STARTS ON PAGE 1 Atlanta, Ga..... wavees $117.55 ‘The telephone company now has two other recourses, one the appeal to| In other words, Portland spent nine times as much as did Parca ae 4 ros eles the superior courts under the writ of | review filed last week in Thurston | county courts by Corporation Coun- Seattle of taxpayers’ money! ing before Boston, M. Tiny Astoria spent nearly double what big Seattle did—| public works Buffalo, NY ee: ioe jand yet specially interested persons have the nerve here to ™’ Chicago, Ill... .. : - 86.00 d in fear of death, that he told a *on, John, that he was being trailed by a gamdy-haired stranger, and tha neighbors sw an automobile occu- long sel Kennedy, and the other a rehear-/ revolution for 1923, but met with de department of | lay rate nchedule such under th compe board last Saturd not Russia or Ht are h the down to pied’ by @ woman and twe men dash ing along an adjacent road about the time he disappeared, were the principal clues to the mystery. Hints that fire may have been used | to cover many traces of the sup- posed crime were made when Dr. ‘W. P, Sherman, a surgeon, declared jority in the house and have a safe margin In the senate, will early in the new congress press for a law ex pressly including American ships in the provisions of the Volstead act. State department officials today turned their attention to the interna. | tlonal complications of the decision. raise the taxation issue! The Star showed yesterday burden on the tax rolls; for itself. quired by the port, will unquestionably y that the Moran NEVER be ANY that from the start it will pay|' Enemies of the port are trying to show to the contrary ite, if ac} « Rupp, for the telephoi the entire mor court in presenti + his company and con led after the court convened in e afternoon. Attorney G: jenerat John Dunbar| ing it a pol, simply bec best pre ed for demon ments. Its people and therefore reypond to th tional appeal of the soviet les “Ag for America—you are overrun Only you don’t rec pe pe Detroit, Mich emo. ers Cincinnati, Ohio... Cleveland, Ohio.... Duluth-Superior, Minn Indianapolis, Ind...... Kansas City, Mo.....-. - 106.30 108.56 - 105.62 72.00 99.24 72.00 he saw a fire Sunday midnight in a field near the Lincoln home. A man and woman were declared been standing about the hile an automobile was out- the light from the flames. Was estranged from his had considerable domestic said, was last seen Satur- by the son, John, who left The Star says today that even if this contention were true, |° it would be no valid argument. ~The port is worth while, } ten times over, for what it costs in added business it brings | to Seattle. And it must be permitted to develop if Seattle is to expand into a great world trade center. ford, assistant attorney general; P.|FIND IT POSSIBLE | MAN KILLED AS C, Sullivan, corporation counsel of] Mme. Ponifidine and her family | Washington, D. C.. | Tacoma; T. J. L. Kennedy, corpora-| were among the aristocrats of Rus-| } § | 4shty, corporation counsel of Spo- | sia who in 1919 and 1920 were driven | Every Passenger a Guest kane, and Scott Z, Henderson, rep-| Hearoaly 0 par centiec wnoae ob E. E. Nelson, A. G. P. A. iy r | 200 L. C. Smith Bldg. resenting the Hotel Owners’ associa-| tion, Ponifidine, stil remain in the terror-/ e's case shortly after | with bolshevik: allure in the lognize them. ‘They are working daily, morning n, calling| quietly and cleverly, to prepare the for the dissolution of the temporary| country for sovietism. The leaders restraining order, granted by the|of the movement, practically all of court, them, are well educated individuals. BASE ARGUMENTS They are busy among both the high ON JURISDICTION and lower classes of people. | Following Dunbar were Ray cut-| ALL ESCAPE WHO | Milwaukee, Wis................. Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. Montreal, Que. ... New York, N. Y.... Omaha, Neb Philadelphia, P: Pittsburgh, Pa. . St. Louis, Mo 84.85 72.00 132.75 BRITISH REQUIRE MEDICINAL LIQUOR Great Britain has a law as strict as American prohibition Jaws requir. ing alt vemsels touching at its ports to have on beard a certain amount of medicinal liquor, If British ships are prevented from entering Ameri- can ports with thix liquor, Britain can prohibit American ships from entering a motion picture | entering its porta without it. Was discovered missing} The decision is also interpreted as attempt was made to sum-} weakening the department's negotia- to the greenhouse which | tions with Great Britain as to her lco-operating in suppressing rum " i £ 72.00 144.92 119.76 81.50 -- 141.56 Hy i} HERE’S MORE ABOUT KIDNAPING STARTS ON PAGE 1 2 ee On i 5 Ps trude, 7, another sister, also was able | to tell something of the man who/ i so victimized, according to Mme. —————$—$______. : HERE’S MORE ABOUT | smuggling off the Atlantic coast in | British registered ships. | With the court holding that haar | Haden vessely may legally hover off | | had stopped several times during the | last few days to talk with Verner and his sisters. Two Hit by 500-Pound Bar- ‘The state's case was based largely on the contention that the. federal j court has no jurisdiction in the mat- stricken country. “All who have found ft. possible | v0 to do," she explained Tuesday, | E. L. Carey, Gen. Agent 1407 Fourth Ave., Seattle, Wash. Phone Elliott 5580 Repeatedly he told them he would While working on the | officials said, can no longer maintain | eet them some rabbits. lschooner Davenport at its contention that all British rum-} Yesterday he stopped again and in-/Ol1 Co. dock Monday | aden vensela are off United States | formed the children that the “bun|‘Thomax McCarthy |coasts with the express purpose of | niex” were ready. f conspiracy to defeat our laws. Great} “You little giris go and fetch a box te : “have escaped. Those whom fate has | the three-mile limit, this government, | er of granting the injunction. x - bees ve Dunbar’s argument on this phase| detained are worn out and starved. | of the question was to the effect) They have lost all ambition and that according to other cases of| think only of getting bread for to. jsimilar nature, federal action was | MOFrow not allowed until all opportunitic: a steam INDIANS _ STARTS ON PAGE 1 | Whether it was on a string. He said: Northern Pacific Railway the Union evening, 28, was killed and a fellow worker, Fred Walters, think I can get this." The next night he got up and tried to break light shone up quickly people woke up. “Is Mink “Yes, the poor old man is floor,” some one an- Mink had jumped back fourth night Mink got je he broke the string © sun was fastened ati ti BE: begs? Britain will probably maintain that }it cannot interfere with tho legiti- | mate activities of its subjects. TAX! MURDER jfor the bunnies," he said. “Verner| |and I will go down the street and| get them,”* | Edith and Gertrude went for the} box. The last they saw. of their) brother he was ‘marching away,| | band in hand with the man. | | The father, as soon as he was no- tified, made preparations to have the Wireless used in the hunt. Last night radio fans in many cities heard | was possibly fatally injured when a 500-pound asphalt barrel slipped from & hoisting sling and fell upon them. | McCarthy was terribly mangled | and instantly killed. Walters dodged | just as the barrel fell. He received | & broken Jeg and tmternal injurtes and was taken to the .city hospital. | Beth men were inexporienced and had just started on the job Monday. McCarthy lived at the Puget Sound hotel. Walters’ jof legislative appeal had been ex hausted this end he showed that the phone company has the right of a rehearing before the board of public | SUSPECT BAGK D. Emerson Corrigan Lodged in Tacoma Jail home ts at McCartiry has rela- . Mo. | the description of the lad and his} I$ | abductor coming thru the ether. MANY CLUES PHONED TO POLICE 104 Battery at. tives In St. Lou! N/ | works, which it has not asked for, | QUESTIONS STATUS j OF COURT ORDER Dunbar, algo questioned the status | ; ws of the temporary injunction fxsued, | fé ys declaring that in most respects it | did not comply with statutes, t “Tho temporary injunction whs a ‘ double affair,” he said. “It not only Was the most direct cae enjoins the public works board from teri] FHLEts g Hy F i Tan on with it. intry around Pu- parents of Mink and to see light and children are bringing will be reat for us.” rom the country of the TACOMA, May 1.—D, Emerson Corrigan, alleged slayer of George Marsh, Seattle for hire car driver, near here, April 3, waa in the county jail Tuesday awaiting arraignment on a murder charge. He arrived from El Paso, Texas, at midnight, in’ the custody of Deputy Sheriffs Fred Ewen and Glenn Bar- ton, who drove back the Cadillac which Corrigan is illeged to have stolen from Marsh. Corrigan was arrested in El Paso 10 days after the alleged murder on a charge | green | ‘The first response came from a | Woman who telephoned police she had seen 4 man and a boy answering | the description of Verner and his} kidnaper, walking thru the streets of | Schenectady. This woman refused to give her name, The next clus came from W. E. Smith, who declared he saw a man and a boy answering the descriptions boarding a downtown bound street car a few minutes after the kidnap- ing occurred. |. Another clue led to Albany, Har old Bruchel told police he saw a man | RUSSIA SEEKS JAPAN TRADE. BY CLARENCE DUBOSE | TOKYO, May 1—Ruasia has for. mally requested resumption of nego- tiations for recognition and a trade agreement with Japan, M. Joffe, soviet envoy, submitted the formal request, which is in a conciliatory tone. Joffe said that his government | was willing to assumo responsibility for the massacre of Japanese at enforcing the present schedule of rates, but it enjoins it from interfer. ing with the schedules which the | phone company wishes to put into effect, “{ maintain that because of this, | the injunction is a rate-fixing one, and I also maintain that this court a8 no power to fix rates." Scott Henderson attacked the granting of the permanent injunc- tion on the grounds that the court was taking from the hands of the} public works department a matter | on which it had been given no op- continental route when it was blazed—and IS NOW But it’s easier to “negotiate” now than then, and the REDUCED round trip SUMMER EXCURSION FARES | portunity to a | “This new schedule of rates which in effect daily between of trying to pass a worthless check | and a boy alight from a Schenectady | Nickolaivsk—one of the points upon ton saage for Mink and) igas station. He was driving the|taxicab In front. of the Union sta-| which the original negotiations broke too fast for them. Mink and Raven got home, le said: “Our children sun, our country will be ft were not tor our chil- this country would still be night when the light ining old Raven called to “Where is the light? Why it shine?” Old Mink in his honse because was carrying it when Teached home. Old Raven light but old Mink would sun shine when he to have it light. a" —That's all. eee next story will be “The cannibal woman stole and how a little saved them, ‘ 2 ay nF HS E Hi B2¢ nt # Cal, May 1—W. Myers, of Philadelphia, 67 President of the Tailroad system, died at teat here today. He has some months, having to ee three years ago ole _ KON SisTER's YOUNG MAN J eltther—Are you sure that thie E ane man You are going with is Coedna— sit igh? Why, my jE would trust him jn Holly. in Sour Owl, Cadillac at the time. The deputies changed their route several times on the trip to Tacoma to avold any possible ambush along the road. Corrigan was handcuffed} all the way and made no effort to, escape. HERE’S MORE ABOUT WATERHOUSE STARTS ON PAGE 1 duty to furnish the burden of proot | that Waterhouse, and not Frank | Waterhouse & Co. must be respon. ible for the loss sustained in build. ing the El Aquario. “{ must disagree with you there, Mr, Reams,” Judge Hall said, “and for the benefit of both sides, I want to say that since the Introduction of the contract between Mr, Water. house and the sureties, the burden will be upon the defense, I shall so instruct the jury.” CONTINUE EFFORT TO IMPEACH WITNESS Continued efforts to impeach the testimony of Frank Waterhouse marked the day's trial. Otto Ramm, former secretary-treasurer of the McAteer Shipbuilding Co., and Har. vey Jenkins were caled ay rebuttal witnesses for this purpose. Jonkina testified that he conferred with Waterhouse about the condi. tion of the firm in November, 1920, whereas Waterhouse had textified carlier in the trial that he (Water. | tion, Albany, at 2:10 a. m. today.) ‘They entered the station but emerged | jin a few minutes and got into the} |taxi again, He heard the man tell) the driver to go to an address on Hamilton st. He failed to catch the exact number IN WHEAT PIT) CHICAGO, May 1.—Amid_ wild} scenes in the pit, grain prices broke | sharply on the Chicago board of| trade today, chiefly as a result of| Secretary of Commerce Hoover's ap- proval of a boycott on sugar, Trade was active and the drop rapid, May wheat selling off four and a half cents from the day's high at 11:20 and still dropping. The decline was further induced by heavy deliveries of grains at ail markets; reports that some of the recent advances might be investi gated and favorable crop reports. Noted Bishop Dies of Heart Trouble dignitaries of the Protestant Episco: | pal eburch will attend the funeral | here of Bishop Alfred Harding, head | of the Washington dioceso and one| of the best known churchmen of the country. house) had taken @ strong dislike to Jenkins and never talked to him, Bishop Harding died suddenly last night from heart trovhie WASHINGTON, May 1.—Highest |; up. It was considered here that Japan may grant the request for resump- tion of negotiations, but possibility of reaching an agreement was looked upon as decidedly uncertain. Bellingham Bread Prices Advanced BELLINGHAM, May 1,—Baker! here advanced the price of b yesterday one and two cents « loaf, depending on the size. The raise in price was started Saturday when several 4 raised their pric and were followed Monday by many Jother dealers. The price will stand| at 10 cents for small toa 15 cents for large, it was es and nhounced. Oieaniee Seattle Life-Saving Club In an effort to make Seattle lakes and bathing beaches safer for swim- mers this summer, the Seattle Life. saving club Wax organized’ Monday, it was announced by Sack West of the Red Cross, All candidates for memiership must be expert swim. mers and be thoroly conversant with ue work, 01 best for that lunch basket luhill 3 saanennns non ad | jthe company asks was filed with | the board of public works last Sat: | urday,” he sald, Now today it asks | that the board be restrained from | interfering with the putting into effect of these rates, Should not the board be first allowed to pass on this matter before there is court ac: tion? KENNEIY AND RUPP CLASH | “This new schedule which is asked | as never been before the board. It | | recommended by Director Clel- | land in his minority report in the | former hearing, but it has never come before the board in an | official way to be passed upon,” The only heated argumonts of the | Jentire hearing came late Monday | afternoon when Attorney 0. B. |Rupp took exceptions to certain statements made by Corporation Counsel Konnedy regarding tho in- terstate commerce commission's rul- ing on classing storm damage as de: preciation. Kennedy, however, showed Rupp his authority for his remarks and Rupp decided to let the matter drop with but a casual ex- planation, Assistant Attorney General Ray Clifford attacked the principle of the Pacific Telephone & ‘Telegraph Co. | paying 4% per cent of its gross reve: |nue receipts to the American ‘Tele- phone & Telegraph Co., a parent or: | ganization, under contract for serv |1ee and equipment. In his rebuttal Rupp compliment: jed Clifford in the way in which he j handled his argument by saying: “The only argument presented whieh I consider worth refuting is that presented by Mr, Clifford.” May 15 and September 15 over the UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM © will make it very attractive. Study this table: $ 69.00 | Buffalo 72.00 | Pittsburgh 72.00 | Washington 81,50 | Philadelphia 86.00 | New York - 105.62 | Boston. 106.30 | Atlanta 113.75 | Montreat Denver Omaha Kansas City Louis Chicago Detroit Cincinnati Toronto = $120.62 119.76 141.54 144,92 147.40 +153.50 127.55 182.75 ee Sidbresigtp rn fares to other important centers, Final return A side trip to Yellowstone at small additional cost wil afford the experience of a lifetime. uo Call us by phone arid let ke all your arrangemen| more and will ssve you much Lae tas: TE conte ne, st. Liberal stop-over privileges going or returning. worry, H. A. LAWRENCE, G. A, P. D.| W. H. OLIN, A.G.F.&P. 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