The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 2, 1923, Page 1

7 ASK RECEIVER FOR NITROGEN FIRM Temper Maximum Today 4 Hours Mininium, noon, 52 Howdy, folks! Sometimes we think an earwig is merely a poli- teian that got stunted in his earty youth. Satttle I. strike aga’ there will be a oe Ww. ! deoxe, lot Despite the I. W. W.'s war on hooch, they haven't been invited to doin the W.C. T. U. yet. w, ave We whit ollar lads, who the crumbs from the ta’ Money barons, ought to declaration of independence mWear off cubebs. “America should share with Eng: | land St. George's day, Britannia and Columbia clasping hands across the sea, gratefully and gladly doing hom. age to their com- motherland, it is to Old Katy. fand that Amer. fea owes her very being—Old England, stately queenly mother of us all."—From Ambassador Harvey's latest speech. | | Today's candidate for the Poison Ivy club is tho bird who prefaces every explanation by saying, “Now dat Igoe tho po eres Mow Phincas Seakes (s dead of lock- jaw He tried to out-argue his inatheri-| lou. . We hereby offer our home made | central intercoastal terminal whick the S erolx de guerre to the university stadeht who resigned from chemistry class because the professor refused 4e give him a good formula for gin. SECRETS OF SUCCESS No, 1 @@ign in Glenn Meleod’s Harder hey 2 “Never Permitting the Hair to come Ragged Is One of Stan's Greatest Assets.” Sotered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1699, St the Postoffics af Ceattio, Ww ASH., Port Buy to Reames “EVRRETT 10. Not I Taves TEAR DOWN z vate AXES PHONE POLE Shown to Be Entirely False When Examined in Light of Facts Camouflage! That Masquerade! is the whe keynote Disguise! rof the fight which is being | Waged against the Port of Seattle. he enemjes of the port w people from acquiring the tral terminal to their sole plea. But it is camouflage, pure jare directing the fight are private dock companies ar the spread of public por’ Francisco shipping concern ownership. Their Her propos In the first place, for the erty off the tax-rolls, campaign orator: Skinner handle intercoastal in the name of “tax reduction”; ho are seeking to prevent the Eddy site for a cen business are doing it that is their one argument, & and simple. The people who which ts, the railroads, a great San and other enemies of public |’ They are fighting it for obvious selfish reasons. ation argument is PURE the FACTS about t ed purchase of the Skinne HOKUM. tion as it relates to the & Eddy tract: Port of Seattle to acquire the|° Skinner & Eddy tract will NOT result in “taking the prop- |b: as has been reiterated so often by The land is not now on the tax-rolls, and | Provided the it has not been on the tax-rolls since the government took it over in 1918, Likely in Any Event to Remain | Off the, Tax-Rolls If the port should fail to acquire the land and the offer of the San Francisco by the United States shippin: off the tax-rolls for many years to come. terests did not offer cash fo buy it under contract and | United States government. The proposition on which t jto vote of bonds already voted by th provements and apply them Skinner & Eddy tract. These are not new bonds. mship company to buy it be accepted g@ board, it would still remain The Dollar in- they proposed to in the r the tract; leave the title vested he people of King county are on May 8 is to authorize the transfer of $850,000 poe. e people for Smith’s Cove im- in buying and improving the If the transfer should not be okehed by the voters, they will be issued and sold and the money be devoted to the completton of the transpacific terminals as originally designed. There is a great boom in Oriental last year transpacifie shipments | 66 2-3 per cent. business under way. have inereased about But so great is the port’s need for the nner & Eddy tract ; would accommodate that the commission felt justified in seizing that strategic opportunity if possible and letting the | fall development of the Oriental terminals wait. Effect Will Be to Reduce, |Not Increase, Taxes There is, too, another angle {s! to the question. If the people hould turn down the plan and permit the Dollar interests} | to acquire the site, the port would lose its biggest trans-| \ ednesday by T. J. | Pacific user, and that, of course, would mean a loss of he aes Rcbagironceses Why not devote a day to weeping | revenue and an addition to the tax burden. the poor dock owners who will | hurt if the port commission buys s| the Skinner & Eddy tract? eee The man who danced 107 hours} Must have a pretty fair idea now of how much leg work it takes to sell gm insurance policy on a Ford. cee ’ OFFICE | , SE ‘There will never be a war be- | tween the United States and | Canada. The bovtleggers would | \ - not allow it. — Now that spring is here, para- graphers will have to start looking for signs of summer. ——* What has become of the old-tash-| joned girl who used to boast that her hair bung down to her waist? ose The subject is really bencath My notice, but still I'M remark That women with pretty tecth | But seldom smile in the dark. ; . } EXTRA! U i ssc bolt: by bulls during the past 2i hours has re.| fulted in a rive of 2% mills in the} price of hip oil. rd ‘ TODAY'S MAIL Is Frieda, the girl in of the jack that goes with @ white-collar job. . eae over Mabel,” said! a girl with a| pimpled face went by. | Uhiversity authorities are invpsti- gating case of frater boy whose initiation stunt was to spend ull night in a cemetery, Sounds like a grave matter, ~ s. YE. DIARY (May 1) | ‘yee ve ‘egend erent at ye Arens, here I did see Dandy Dillon, ye pride | tSioneapolis, Knock “Callfornin’® Joe for w row of weeping wil but Jo referee, did call Mt 1 draw. icthougi it « goodly thing Dandy [not knock his opponent out or else “would have lost ye decision, suel bells thene referees be. And ye editors not much better, Goa} And so home, much disgusted, | lost 50 cents on the Wattle, | ease, collup Mix, Homer Brew | / and toll ber J have an important wonference and will be wate iw] dinmer! Bey, wing my golf clubs! } 129,401.14 from the In the} ity Is Disregarded; Trouble Result of Old Fight M Ic | KVERETT or ny me t n 1 to remov m Nortor inton pl protection workers whilk all im to be re diately, Po! moving the po sett r were to go afternoon to co ion of the pre intimated by and to Wintds remove the cll’s orde for | council, The resolution i* another step in the war between the city of Everett and the phone company (hat has bean waging for the past year. The} private phones of nearly all of the} jelty ofifclals have been removed by the company alnoa the disputes started, SAYS RATE IS NOT ON FILE That the Pacific Telephone & rel-| egraph Co. bas not regularly filed | the state department of public | works the néw telephono rate, corre: [sponding to the recommendation made by H, H. Clela they attempted to put in effect on May 1, was the charge made i, Kennedy to come The schedule which the company nt to Olympia for {Hing was of. And, as has been previously pointed out, the Skinner &/ flclally stamped “presented but re In a short time it For the leasing of indus- trial sites on the Railroad ave. frontage will alone carry the costs, and money which will be available for improve- ments of the bay side will give the port a pier at which ~%/it can handle its share of th intercoastal business which it Hence, the FACTS as to ta: he lucrative and fast-growing is not now equipped to touch. xation are exactly the reverse of the propaganda which is being spread. The development by the port of the Skinner & Eddy tract will REDUCE) , | taxes, not increase them. War Millions Denied by Skinner & Eddy in Suit Corporation Asks $9, 129,401 Damages and) Declares It Did No Cost-Plus Work Refuting a long-standing, popular) reputation as a firm that made mil- lions on cost-plus war contracts the Skinner & Eddy shipbuilding cor- poration went into superior court Tuesday with a suit to recover $9,- United States shipping board, emergency fleet cor- poration. ‘The corporation claims its loas was sustained when ship contracts were} neeled in the spring of 191% D. E. Skinner, president of the corpora tion, said the action is In answer | charges that the firm realized hugo profits. Not a single cost-plus con- tract was held by the firm, he de-| clared, and every one had its element Another Want Ad Bargain Another day filled with many op- portunities is before ua. Are you making the most of thowe that apply to you? Star Want Ads every day offer opportunities in various ways. 10 ACRES, IMPROVED Ranch close to Seattle, Owner 80” veats old, and haa lost his fam- ; Is compelled to sacrifice alt M4 value, Wall Look at this bar- worth having. gain. It's ‘Turn 10 the Want Ad” pages NOW and see who Ww selling ‘thir property. of risk. | One of the principal losses listed is $1,605,060.22, which the firm claims was spent to im- prove Skinner & Eddy yard No. | 3, in the belief that the prop- | erty would revert to the parent corporation when th» shipbuild- ing contract @was completed, ‘This site was recently offered to the port of Seattle for about one-third of that sum, by the United States government, Application also is made for return of $77,447.65 in wage’ in- Joreases granted order of the government in compliance with the | so-called Macey award, | The balance of the loss was due to the failure of the gov- ernment to pay its bonuses on ships delivered; loss on material and ad 4 to subcontractors; nore than half a million loss in rentals, and $166, insur. ance and taxes, “Appended .t0 the complaint Is @ copy of a eémtract between the cor piration and the goyernment, in which it is ptipulated that the gov- ernment would -negotlate for the part the site from tho’ Seat tle Drydobk: and Construction Co, and in turh pass It oyer to the Skin nor & Eddy corporation, the |Senator’s Funeral Held in Minnesota | 8ST. PAUL: Minn, & 2—The body of Senator Knute json, who died on a train Saturduy, was re moved to Alexandria, Minn. after rp arriving here. yesterday afternoon, | Eddy tract, if acquired, will never be a burden on the port. | tured filing because of writ in state jcursed th \It will break even from the beginning. will be a great revenue producer. | court The writ referred to is the one se cured last week by Kennedy ia Thurston county superior court which prohibits the telephone com. pany from filing and the board from jaccepting any tariff making a {change In tho existing schedules LAUBE'S CASE |Claims Filed by Banks Are Introduced in Case Wednesday marked another of success for William T, Lawbe, jwho as trustee in bankruptcy for |the Frank Waterhouse Co., ix suing | Frank Waterhouse for a of $188,000, alleged to have been evad- ed by the shipping man when the MeAteer Shipbuilding Co, built tho El Aquario for the United States government. After Attorney Clarence 1. Reames, chief counsel for Water house, had. made numerous objec |tions, Attorney Robert P. Oldham, |for Laube, succ evidence claims filed by seve |banks against ‘tle Waterhouse Co,, with the reference in bankruptey. | These claims total more than. $600, |600 and Were filed by the Hanuver |National bank of New York, «the |Continental Bank and Trust Co, of Chicago, the Seattle National, bank and the’ United States government, REAMES FIGHTS OF EVIDENC Attorneys for claims ag evidence that prior to the Hous of the $188,000 on the Bl Aquarlo account, the Frank’ Waters house Co. owed the ks tho claims listed above and payment of these claims Was Obligatory before the El) Aauario tox, which’, was paid out of ‘the.funds of the com: pany. iMfarney Reamnon bitterly’ protested tho Introduction of the claims, mains taining that they had not been prop: erly \dentitied. C. R, Hawkins, vefereo in bank. mpley. wax placed on the stand to identify tho claims ay being dential with those filed against the defunet shipping concern. Tk Hf. Rodolph, former cashier of the rank Water: house Con also way recalled to the stand for Laube, to further identity tho claims. day los Wan. d and which | STRENGTHENED) in introducing | FLIGHT STARTS Laube offered the under the Act of Congress March 8, 1 #19, Per Year, by Mall, $5.69 The Seattle Star bene DITION ‘Two CENTS IN SEATTLE. See Cars Are Gone; me Glad APPEAL MADE Ultimatum | o- The main business corner t coachés” «(Street at this corner. torn up. = WOMAN AND MAN « DIE ON GALLOWS ‘| Are Executed in Canada for | Murder 6f Officer FORT SASKATCHEWAN, Al- | berta, May For the tint | time in years, in Canada, a | woman was hanged today. Ut- terty collapsed after harrowing days when she expected a par don, Mrs. Florence Lassandra | Was hanged at 5:14 today on | the same gallows where ber lover, Emilio Picariello, was pot to death half an hour cartier for the same crime, The woman made a final dramat- ie confession that it was she who fired the first shota which killed |Constable 8. 0. Lawson last Sep- | tember, | Preceded by Warden Griggs and Sheriff Rea with three guards and laccompanied by ther Fidelis, priest of tho little parish church jhere, Picariello walked with unfal- prs stops to the scaffold Ax Hangman Wakefield stepped |up to him to put black cap on Im, Picariello suid, “Take that ac- away, L can fac |what’s ahead with my open. eyes. It was explained that the law in. |nisted that the black cap must be | worn. | “You man, upon t are hanging innocent Picariello’ ax he stepped trap. ‘Ten minutes later the body was removed. Mrs, Lassandra followed Pica- riello to the scaffold within the hour. It has been a series of tragic followings for Florence Lassandra, She followed Pica- riello into the lucrative paths of whisky running across the British Columbia — border; she had followed Picariello into the death car when they made their mad dash of revenge into Coleman, ending in the slaying of Constable Lawson; she had followed him into” the hands of the law; and now she had followed ‘him into eternity. ‘The little procession formed again, time, with the Father Fidelis, prisoner. Mrs. Lassandra had spent night in prayer with the priest. She ate no breakfast, eontfasting (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) th accompanying th the COAST NON-STOP. MoReady and. Kelly Start Across Continent MITCHEL FIELD, N. ¥.. May —The giant inonoplane T-2 sfarted on its y.coust nonstop flight,| from Curtiss field today, The ship, pileted by Army |yohn McReady. and Oakley Kelly, {rose “slowly and pointed its nose west for its flight to Rockwell field, | San Diego; Cal. On a preylous flight they came eastward to Fort Benjamin from San Diego without a stop. The ship's courke Bas ‘been laid out straight today to Ohio, then via st, Louis, southwest to Tucumcari, N. M. Lieut, /two gallons of coffee were stored in the hold of the plane. The machine lag been especially fitted to carry 737 gallons of gavoline in a huge jtank and provides other facilities for the nonstop transcontinental dash, The weathor ln the path was re [ported ‘clear, ‘ crossing the intersection. matron as well | Cooked rations for two days and |™ n Everett, Hewitt and Colby, Motor Buses Have Taken Place of Street Ca BY TOM OLSEN © street car gongs Orns, motor bu yatom ¥ regularly across from smelter on the Snohomish riyer sovth to the ont Pulp & Paper Co. plant at} town Everett Is now practically a trol- |eylons and city. motor buses, y couches,” they are cal n inaugur- ated by the F Northwest Trie- [ton Co. on all of the runy except the Smelter-Lowell line The traction company, which put jon tho first "“xafety coach” jwinter, ix thoroughly satisfied with the performances of tho big, easy- jriding buses and is now proceeding jt tear up the tracks on all of the main thorofares. |STREETS UNMARRED \BY CAR TRACKS } The track spaces are being filled | jin and Hewitt ave., the principal | Iwtrect, will soon be unmarred by tracks or overhead trolleys. Colby ave, another {mportant thofofore, | |will next be cleared of track and trolley. Only as the Seattle-JEverett interurban cars & Carter, Btar Stat TAX MURDERER PLEADS GUILTY Sentenced to 20 Years to, Life in Penitentiary With a spirit of er qualled a minute during the pro- ceedings, D. Emerson Corrigan late| panned Tuesday admitted the murder on | bankruptcy April 3 of George Marsh, Seattle for-}the g | hire car driver “and was sentenced | to serve from 20 in the Walla. Walla penitentiary by ty superior court. Corrigan was charged with having | Manufacturing TO PRESERVE PROPERTIES! Manager Insists Business Solvent and That Row Is Started by Rival y John W. Nelson of the American Nitro- a concern in which » Blaine js an offt- nnounced Wednesday they are ng forces in an effort to save uxsets of the concern by appeal- to the courts for the appoint- t of a receiver. Included among editors are a large number iding labor claims. H. P, Ev erett, assistant supervisor ;0f industries for the state of Wash- ington, has joined with the smaller stockholders and creditors, including Big | Judge K. M. Card in the Pierce coun- | s | arleg A. Newhall, Seattle chemist ana vil 0 of the big ‘ ‘safety | and Christian Tjoseveig, 912 15th The coaches stop at the curb on the far side of the| ve. N., to protect the claims of 4 All of the tracks shown here have been abandoned and ae soon be| —Photo by Prie « number of employes of the concern, ie rett said Wednesday, MENTS ATTERED STOCK pa ation for a receiver to ase sume complete control of the assets Of the firm, will be made Thursday 48 soon as Newhall, who is in Wee tchee, and Tjoseveig, who is in Everett, return to Seattle. The two men are seeking assignments of stock ffom the scattered stockhold- ors ofthe firm, which is headed by . F, Graff,/manager of the Nitro- patiy. Councilman Blaine has tong been prominently: identified bravado that nev-| with the concern, Charges that Blaine and Graff to throw the firm into Thursday and obtain ppointment of a friendly re- ceiver “are made by Newhall anid ears to life} Everett. The pian ulso contentplatee jthe purchase of large claims thru another concern, owned by Blaimy 7 and Graff, known as the La Grande Co., which would struck Marsh over the heal with| give the Blalne-Graff faction com: {an iron coupling pin, inflicting a plete control of the American Nit to have Marsh's automobile | | mortal wound, and southward with last | after the crime. Corrigan missed escape into Mex | co by a few minutes only; as he was apprehended at El Paso, Tex. as he | Was about to drive the big Cadillac | limousine across the border. His ar- | rest came when he attempted to [Pass a bogus check for $2.40 at a gasoline filling station in the Texas jeity. | CONFESSION PROVES | GREAT SURPRISE No prévious announcement was! | mat that Corrigan might plead | guilty and when he was arraigned | simple answer “guilty,” means of permitting | before Judge Card late , Tuesday his| by forcing a side window, fled | gen Products concern and result (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) SAFE DRILLERS GET S117 LOOT Break Combination With ang Sledge Hammer’, After guining entrance to’ the ia * to the read-| euriy Wednesday used a sledge ham- |to get from their depot on Colby jing of the second degree murder) mer and drills to open the safe jto their shops and Riverside disteict is the Smelter. | |Lowell route still surviving. s sre built by (Tum to Page. a Column in 2). BERLIN OFFERS FRENCH TREATY Marks. Reparations BY CARL D, GROAT BERLIN, May 2.—Germany made t actual offer for solution jot. the Ruhr difficulties in a noté} to be dixpatehed to the allies tod Under, her proposal, announced of- ficinily here, Germany would pay?a | her as reparations due the allits, under the treaty of Versailles. If France accepts,” German: would expect evacuation of the} Ruhr valley and a resumption {the p ry em of pi The German note, a copy of which Julso will be dispatched to Washing: ton, agrees that if this proves un- acceptable an internattonal commis: jsion such os suggested by Secretary Hughes several months ago, could bo empowered | to determine. how much Germany is capable of paying. made in the proposal which was drafted by Chancellor Cuno and vs governmental, and party agents, ‘conferences since last Saturday, ‘There is no absolute pledge the, rallroads and other |properties will be offered as pledges, | This Officials heretofore Preliminary tained ¢this provision, atricken ott. There was Ylso stricken out the proposal that Germany «guarantee France against aggression for 99 have Insisted, draft of the note con. but it was The note was framed after care- ful study, and officials here regard it as the maximum offer. It was ‘hoped, at least, that the note wonld induce France: to -negotiote over points which might not prove sutit factory. to her so that the present Htrained “Ruhr osithation could be cused, 5 , Would Pay "30 ‘Billion Gold. basic sum of 30 billion gold marks | Several last-minute changes were) that | national | « one point upon which French | barns in the} | charge came with dramatic surprise. the Wainwri; ight & McLeod Coal Co, A few minutes later he entered | 2901 Elliott ave., and escaped |his cell at the jail, debonair, confi- | $117.91. {dent and smiling, and bandied words | jwith the newspaper men - present. jAn air of ery concerning the Jactual slaying of: Marsh was «main. {tained by Corrigan. On the night jof the slaying he admitted Naving | | been with Marsh a few’ minutes he- fore’ the blow. was’ delivered, .and confessed *the plot to’ steal the ma- |chino was hatched in Seattle, der was not intended, he claims, | . That there are others involved in the affair was broadly: hinted by thé |prisoner, who declined to give any CHECKS ROUTE Tho story, of his flight was pieced from clues picked up ‘on the route jand from Corrigan’s statements. | Marsh was hit with the iron bar jabout 11 p,m. Apriji2. The car Jerossed over the Columbia bridge’ with Corrigan and another mysterious occupant at 7 a, m., April y was found by Cass at 6 that morning, | and by 8:80 a watch set at the Vancouver end of the bridge. He had a traffic accident at Cot- |tago Grove, Ore, and narrowly missed arrest for speeding: Near Oregon City he picked up three wom- jen hikers and took them to Yreka, Cal., and at Sacramento-he passed a bogus check for $19.01 at a gas sta- |tion. Numerous checks were passed along the rout* all signed with the name “George Marsh.” Corrigan will go to prison and hope |for a pardon, he said, He said he | bas a wife and child at Mason City, | Towa, | Harding Declares WASHINGTON, May 2.—Preal dent. Harding was told today tha’ the first actual: test of sentiment.on| his world court proposal was; ing in a two-to-one victory. for plan, The president was notified results of a special election in| | i i i i river / fornia yesterdoys to til the seat inf the house Representat v Jobn D. 1 { Osborne, showed dorielt, vepublichn can. included strong Indorsement of the court, was leading his nearesc op: poner six candidates in th ed oy. the’ deatit. of by two to one. There were. didate, running on a platform Which | wearing, The thieves broke off the com [nation “wfthe door with the h mer and then drilied thru the d to open it. The work showed cations of much skill and p the police declared, The robbery is the latest of series of a half dozen safe crackin that have occurred in Seattle dur Mur-| the past two months. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., May Wireless waves called vainly together by Sheriff Thomas Desmond | Ut the night for news of Gye Verner Alexanderson, kidnaped of the chief engineer of the Corporation of America. The chubby little victim of “radio kidnaping,’* which has enli ed wireless amateurs thruout | eastern part of North Ameri the search, was not found, al father, who did much in the 4 ment of wireless telegraphy, casted descriptions of the appeals for assistance. reaching police headqu this morning said a chil seen trudging the ro N. Y., erying bitterly, o'clock this moi verified, nor had been found since t confidently with a: it afternoon to get | His Plan Winning|| Te T won't. she tad ped nay 1 had a needle hema { ottored 4 Hae: My *