The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 3, 1923, Page 1

“ CRARY Maximum, 66. WEATHER © Last 3 Hours Today noon, Minimum, 44. 66. Howdy, folks! The Duke of York and Lady Betty have set- tied down to housekeeping. Well, that’s a load off our mind, | D. EB. Skinner is but Oriental and Inter coastal Tr TRADE CLIMBING ades ina Gaining Fast; Big Steamship Line Leasing Whole Pier A great, new era of ocean commerce is a a snoco opening. | Gas, ahead e eline| Seattle's Oriental passenger business has cgi . greatly increased in recent months. The ‘This is Bicycle Week In case your transpacific bicycle is in the reps p, You can put on your roller ar It seems pe that ‘The Wheel playing here during Bicyele ene HORTICULTURAL ‘The first annual spring Mower show of the Seattle Garden club | opens today. We do hope Superintendent J. D. Ross exhibits bis light piant. eee Vv We'd like to pick some currents off it, if it wouldn't be too shocking. hould be | Week. | 1 speak to nod pbody, nobody, And nobody sptaks'to me; For how can you know what kind of | foiks, These city stic era be? They might be oi sharks, or thieves and crooks, Whose business ia burglarce; Sol speak fowabody, nohody, nobody, And nobody speaks to me. ~—Barte Ferris. wee It may be only a coincidence, but @ dog store on Pine st. is right next to a frankfurter stand. ‘The city election is next Tuesday, sargo trade is booming. Japan \is now starting to buy wheat (our grain ex-| ePhacsasts ‘ports formerly went to Europe). Water shipments to and from the Atlantic! ports, thru the Panama canal, are growing} |by leaps and bounds. Today, as an example, the American-Ha- |waiian line, which handles the largest single olume of this intercoastal trade, is on the point of closing at San Francisco a contract) |with the Pott of Seattle for the use of the) entire Stacy-Lander terminal! This ata figure which will put the whole big pier on a paying basis and insure its ca-| \pacity use for a three-year period. The com-| pany wants a 10-year contract, but the port nee is wisely insisting on the.briefer'| erm. Shipments to and from South America ahd) Europe are gaining every month. en eleraspabastrmgic «Greatness Just Ahead &s unexciting as trial. the Waterhouse} see Only five more days and a lot of politicians will be complicating the unemployment situation. | INTERESTING STATISTICS Of the 12,H6574 passengers carried on the Seatile municipal railway during the month of April, 12,346,573 tried to enter by the wrong door. eee One interesting thing about Mayor 's speeches ix that you never | know beforehand what he intends to gay and afterwards you don't know just what he did say. see 4 requiem sing for old Doodles Me- 8 hwope, A balloon he climbed into, and then cut the rope. soe | ‘Trousers are more important than Wives. A man can go anywhere with out his wife. : sae This here Frieda, who writes about all the men she knows, is what we would call a real he-girl. see FIFTY-FIFTY Under the auspices of the Se- attle Dahlia society an antiear- wig meeting will be held at the Chamber of Commerce tonight. a mi interests of fair play, who will organize a pro-eai pro-earwig constructive thinking. \SEVEN-LEAGUE IDEAS. | It distinctly is not the time to harken to| There is every reason to believe that Se-| jattle now can, if it grasps its opportunity, become in a few years the center of a great) ;world trade which its far-seeing founders always predicted. Puget Sound, focusing point of five trans- It is a time for optimism. For faith. For For progress. FOR stand in the way of big community advance-| ment. It is no time to be led by the whiner} and the calamity-howler. A Constructive “Yes” That is why the Port of Seattle’s plan for | taking over the Skinner & Eddy site from| : SE ATTLE, 800, ot the Poetetfien ai Beattie, Was VIL! the Act of Congress March 8, 1 819, Por Year, by Mul The Seattle Star W SH., | | | the the girls selling b selling boutannieres ‘SUGAR BOYCOTT 1S SUCCEEDING | Housewives “Refuse to Buy; Gamblers Alarmed BY FLORA G. ORR continental railroads, and two and a half yocvivs' sume tovest in wore jsteaming days nearer the Orient than San |Franciseo, is certain to become one of the |tey wore a year ago, nccording to | ing. Sugar mies at retail groceries are already 30 per cent less than/| survey reaching several |dominating ports of the Seven Seas—IF WE |tioimina grocers the nation over LET IT. |conducted from Washington. ‘That means, according to commod- | ity experts, that an enormous sur- plus of sugar will be built up in jthe country, if the housewives con- jtinue the use of sugar substitutes |for another month or #0, Reports from New York to gov- ernment officials indicate that the sugar gamblers are thoroly alarmed \the obstructionist in our midst. To the in-|(ver tie prospect of being caught dividual who would let his selfish interests) jwith huge sugar stock on a falling | market. Department of commerce officials |eacribe tim housewives’ sugar boy: joatt as one of the most amazing economic developments war, learned during the war, when food conservation was first practiced ef- |ficlently, gives consumers a weapon against combines and monopolies more effective than laws. No, gentle ‘Tecien, the mame(the U. 8. shipping board should be eped SEATTLE BAN tournament just conducted by The Star was not for gents who trump) thelr partner's ace. | eee The two leading actors in the unt- wersity play to be produced tomor-| iby the voters at next Tuesday’s election. That is why every registered citizen of | King county should be at the polls to cast a’ roie night at Meany hall are namea constructive, forward-looking YES vote. Green and Brown. It ought to bg a) colorful play, ‘This much can be said in favor of | the cigar-store slot machines. They're the only places in town where you can invest $1 and get back 40 cents in merchandise, wae YES, AND THINK WHAT THEY'D BE WORTH IN NEW YORK (Advt. in Hollevue Reflector) That is why this key-acreage of the entire! harbor should pass permanently into Port of) |Seattle hands, to be leased at once for indus- at the University way clubhouse, the | trial development and made ready to help jhandle the lucrative intercoastal business ithat is offering. : “For Sale—Five acres on Hood Canal, | — near Brinnon, $100. If located here! $1,500." would be worth $1 see Teams at the university are play- ing for the horseshoe throwing championship, Bet there are a lot of ringers. see Jack Dempsey \s going to battle ‘Tom Gibbons at Shelby, Mont., which will give Seattle fans a chance to wee three minutes of fighting for $200, soe We hereby offer $5,000,000 for the bootlegging conceusion at the fight. soe SPORT NOTH Jess Willard must be in won- derful condition. When he tight- ens up his belt you can still » fee it, tee Wo lost $3.26 last night shooting craps. Who said this wax Cleanup eet hula ta 206, rales pouth, of Mote HERE'S PRICE OF GAS ANOTHER ONE Today in the Want Ad columns you will find a good, comfy home over in West Seattle. Per here today. The new price is 16% AGAIN LOWER KANSAS CITY, Mo.® May 3,— The Standard Oil company cut the retail price of gasoline another cent | IS INCREASING Joining with other clubs and fra: | ternal orders in a concerted drive to reduce the price of su@r by staging |a clty-wide boycott, | the | Civic league was to hold a special | meeting at the ¥, W. C. A. Thurs | day to outline a plan of action com- batting recent sugar price boosts. | Friday, at a meeting of The Coterie sugar boycott movement will be pre sented by Mrs. H. A. M. president. Thruout Seattle fraternal orders, are faking steps to make the sugar jban complete. A adopted by the League of Women Voters Wednesday indorsing the na- tlon-wide protest against advanced prices. All members of the league have agreed tb cut down thelr, con sumption. of sugar. Mrs, Henry Landes, olty councllwoman, is lead: ing the move among women’s orgun- hapa it is just the one you |/cents at filling stations, ‘The reduc- | ’Mion« in outlining a plan of action, have been waiting for, ’ tion today was the third in a (Furn to Page 9, Column 8) month, bab vets OUR BEST BARGAIN Late style large house; fireplace: 100 ARE DEAD beat view In| West Seal fruit trees; all kinds of berries; Jot 70x100: wewer: close to car and beach. You'll be proud of this home; see it, $1,600; terms, explosion of an ammunition depot at Tula, Ruevia, in an unconfirmed div patch from Moscow today. General Melinikoff in among the dead, You will find the seller of this property by turning to the Want Ad Pages NOW. reported IN EXPLOSION HELSINGFORS, May 3.—One hun- dred persons were reported killed by |conspiracy Boycott Surprises Dealers in Sugar sugar boycott “comes near being a in restraint of trade,” sugar dealers declared here today, Commorce Hoover shonld approve the proposed sugar boycott,” Presl dent Post of the Nationa’ Sugar Re- me palae Coy waid. THU RSDAY, M AY since the; They declare that the lessons | Women’s | Bonnar, | 4, civie. clubs and other organizations | jnejuding resolution Was | Mrs, Wheadon arrived from Kh NEW YORK, May 3.—Action of prominent mon enoouraging a “Tam surprised that Secretary of |neres is in “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. Flower Show Is Scented Fairyland The Seattle Garden club's flower show ¢ opened Phureday wh with act ied all. over |the Northwest on display... Here ie Miss Elizabeth Folsom, a Seattle sub-deb, looking over a display hedge with a mass of the blooms in her arms. ng the Fi rench 10% flower booth. ‘Masses of Blooms! Greet Visitors at Exhibit BY WANDA VON KETTLER GARDEN under cover. ‘That is the first annual spring flower show of the Seattle Garden club, which opened Thursday on the | University st. Outside, a French | flower doothp arrayed-with foliage and many-hued bouquets and bou tonnieres, atid a flowered lattice, hint | of the display within. More than 200 flower and foliage lovers have contributed to the inside | picture, designed’ by {Theodore Par: | sons, of the Associated Artists, with | the help of the committee, to repre- |went an artistic garden of both new and old-fashioned flowers, plants and | shrubs. |GREEN HEDGE RUNS AROUND THE ROOM sides of the room. pergola and a fountain. Baskets, above, hold great bouquets of ivory | iacs and yellow dorolicum. Small individual displays of model gardens are to be found snuggled in many of the moss embankments. All by three fect. day js attracting considerable atten- tion is the model forest, designed by Artilla Norman, ‘The forest, accord: ing to Norman, contains 45 varieties of Northwest forest and meadow plants. pe Ng COME FROM TSIDE THE CITY Others: whowe displays. were at. tracting attention were those of Mra. George I reas and Mrs. Perey Wheadon. flowers and plan jcause of their beauty jalso of the distance t Mrs. Andreas arrived in Seattle Thursday morning from La Conner, Wash... with more than £000 blooms, nareigsi, yellow. doro- licum, tulips tind lilies of the valley land with enough tulips of prac: front window of any goousized cor: ner florist shop. | ‘The show is to continue for three days, opening always at 12 a, m. and closing at 10 p.m. Some five or, six of the flower clubs’ 65 mem: (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) WASHINGTON, May 3 than 200,000 acres of public were opened today to entry by service men by the interior depart: ment. Coos and counties, west Oregon, Most .of it is covered with a watered. northwest corner of Fifth ave. and | of these are of regulation size—two| ping its work. only were the | tically all tulip shades to fill the Oregon Land Opened to Ex-Service Men: ‘More eal Buln of the proposed _ purchase Hight growth of timber and is well | Ocean Shipping Boom Begins’ ear 68 on ge Structure as an May Mean Early to 11-Story Representing what was day announced the sale of It is understood that as a r Crary building, the Washingt | begin the construction of another unit of the 11-story Se |curities building, on the Fourth ave. and Stewart st. side The Washington Securities will be one of several similar pany in that block. Ce curities compe concern had n for additional units for the & urities building, but he admitted |wuch an undertaking is in prospect. The Crary building is six stor es in height and a frontage of feet on Fifth a by 120 fe Union st. It has 95 offices upstairs and seven stores on the ground floor. The property is legally described as the south 17% feet of lot 10 and all of lot 11 in block 20 of A. A. Denny's addition, In the nogtiations the Washington Securities company was represented by Mr. ft. Holmes handle the deal for Henry Broderick, Inc. The building was erected in 1908 by the Securities company. ‘Thq transfer of title of the Crary building js a sharp manifestation of the renewed interest in Seattle real estate. “Mattis, the purchaser, who is iss Folsom 1s one of TAUBE DEALT | TELLING BLOW Witness Admits | Mortgage Is one of the most prominent fish men in the Northwest, has not hitherto been interested in real estate, but feela that Seattle property, rightly selected, now represents attractive investment, due to the fact that liqui- dation has brought values down to unwarranted low levels. The new Community hotel, situ- ated one block south of the Crary building, is undoubtedly exerting considerable influence in this vicin- ity among realty purchasers, Held by Bank Attorney | By John W. Nelson A smashing blow at the efforts to |impeach the testimony of Frank |Waterhouse in the $188,000 El | Aquarfo suit brought by William T. |Laube, trustee in bankruptcy, was |delivered by defense — attorneys *° | ‘Thursday, when Neal H, Begley, |former vice president of the Frank Waterhouse Co. and one of the chief Laube witnesses, admitted on the stand that Judge Fred Bausman, chief counsel for the Seattle Na: tional bank, holds a $5,000 mortgage jon Begley’s home. Begley was recalled Thursday to on hedge extends about the|testify as to a payment of $10,000 Ser hc ae Within are moss |made by the Frank Waterhouse Co. embankments, tall and small flowers |to the National Stcel Construction growing in «mooth, grassy plots, a|Co, the firm which completed the construction of the El Aquario when resting on stands and hung from|the McAteer Shipbuilding Co. failed. Evidence was introduced to show white narciasi, white and lavender | that the stcel concern made demand upon the Waterhouse Co. for $10,- 000 and that this sum was paid over by the Waterhouse company to prevent the steel company stop- Begley failed to re- member any of the alleged conver One exhibit that on this opening | sation made at the time the money was paid over by the Waterhouse Co. BE eY AT FIRST DENIES CHARGE At the conclusion of his cross examination, Attorney Clarence TL. | Reames for Waterhouse, asked Beg- ley if any attorney for Laube own- joa. mortzare on his home, * Begley answered, in a sup- | pressed voice, ! exclaimed Reames. “Do an to say that none of the AUS opposing attorneys own a mortgage | had travel- | on your home? Do you know Judge man?” never moet him,” said | | “Doesn't Judgo Bausman, who: is +|the head of the legal firm. repre- * | sented here, own A $5,000 mort | gaze on your homey “Yor,” | “This mortgage was bought dy Bausman shortly after you left the Page 9 Column 2) CHAMBER TO TALK TO PORT Tho meeting of the — members" | council of the Chamber of Commerce at the Masonic clubrooms Mriday hoon will be given over to a dis- (tore ¢ $9) P -jof the old Moran shipyard site by the Port of Seattle, upon which The land comprising 220,569 | the people will vote at the election Douglas | May % W. 8 Tincoln, president of {tha port commission, will present the armiment. in favor of the purchase and J. Hf. Kune will speak in op: position, * } FIVE DEAD IN TRAIN WRECK Three Feared Dying and 34 Injured in Crash GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. May 3. —Five persons were killed, three per- haps injured fatally, and 34 others hurt when Denver & Rio Ses ‘Western passenger train-Ner tion, Albert Anderson, ¥ Arthur Hoken, Gi Training station, Ch! rate of speed wher it struck an open switch, Both \locomotives of |the double-header, tw@ baggage cars, the smoker and a chair car were overturned, LW. W. KILLED IN ABERDEEN ABERDEEN, May 8.—William McKay, 40, 1. W. W. striker, was shot and killed here las) night by H. I. Green, watchman af the Bay \City mill, ‘The shooting fallowed ait attempt by a crowd of 1. W. W. strikers to persuade mill workers to walk out, McKay was ohe of the strikers’ pick Portland Is Ask for More PORTLAND, May 3.— headquarters here today said that a request for more pickets to be sent to Aberdeen had been received this morning, when the report was re- ceived here that “a picket fiad been murdered in cold blood by a gun: man’ Church Dethrones ~ Russian Patriarch (Copyright, 1923, by United Press) MOSCOV jay 8,—~The all-Russian. church congress today by unanimous yote, dethroned the Metropolitan Tik, hon, patriarch of Russia, who is fac ing trial on a charge of resisting the soviet government, Tikhon was denounced as a traitor in resolutions adopted by the con. eress. His patriarchate was ordered abolished. y 300, 0001S SALE PRICEIN DEAL! Fisheries Company pany Head Buys Big | Securities Building § aid to be ‘the largest transaction of the year in Seattle realty, Henry Broderick, Inc., Thurs- northwest corner of Fifth ave. eoste president of the Haines Packing Co., P. E. Harris »., and other large fish packing concerns. ne property was bought from the Washington Securi- | ties Co, and the purchase price was $300,000. bounded by Third, Fourth, Stewart and Virginia, in which |the Securities building is located. Clise, secretary of the Se-) “AVIATORS MAKE. Clise, and John | g, Investment; Deal Addition of Units | the Crary building, at the and Union st., to P. EL esult of the disposition of the on Securities Co. will shortly Co. owns the entire block, — The addition, it was said, units to be built by the com- — NON-STOP TRIP. Giant Plane Lands in San Diego at 12:27 SAN DIEGO, May 3.—Lieuts. John — MacReady and Oakley Kelly; TU, , landed at North Island alr tion, San Diego, at 12:27 p. m. today, having completed history’s first non- stop airplane flight from Atlantic to) Pacific. ‘The feat wag a new record tor : longest airplane flight. ‘The two aviators had been in ti alr approximately 26 hours and minutes between Mitchell field, N York, and North Island, San D The airline ‘distance between Ne York and San Diego is ay ne ly 2,403 miles. The best ‘pre flight by an’ airplane was-from Diego to Indianapolis, by Kellys MacReady, a distance of 2,060 m The flight they completed ine ternoon probably will exceed in tance 2,750 miles when the mileage is computed from struments which were carried. As the monoplane came into over the outskirts/of San Die din of sirens cut loose with from scores of factories in Diego, shipping in the harbor government craft at the naval tion. ‘ Throngs—altho to San Diegans planes are an accustomed s poured into the streets, shouting: waving handkerchiefs as the roared above. : At the field another throng iota ited the landing. Sbeai+ | greeters to welcome the two a tory. Girl in Fort Worth FORT WORTH, Texas, Mies Helen 1, Satterwhyt Worth, and Horace W. Keller, erton, Wash., were distance telephone at 10:15 a, day. Miss Satterwhyte was in Worth and Keller in Bret Justice Hal P, Hughes, of Worth, and Judge James W. Bremerton, officiated, ‘They ea cut in on an extensi telephone line, _ : The ceremony started and was completed at 1 Wood, manager of the j company at Bremerton, ceremony in his office and the cennections. on three occasions, bi convalescing at the His recovery is now I offered Ne watoh it, She was receiving her gue ‘Ym such a poor hand “At burned,