The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 4, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER rly wi Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 68 ee Ww he SeattleS SATTLE, W Howdy, folks! We've } stalled a new shower bath, and, by gosh, we can hardly wait un tit Saturday wight! nd in day to en More than Oregon were try by ex-servic What's the mat building breaks year. we had se t es Blevater in for third time xfices there ape. LITERARY DEPARTMENT For the purpose of marketing her fiction, Mary Roberts Kine hart has just incorporated her- self under the laws of Delaware, wit! listed capital of $500,000, ‘We'd like to buy stock in the company, but we're afraid Mary might get writer's cramp. see We hope Robert W. Chambers in- corporates himself. If he doos, we're ging to persuade a group of phil- dathropists to purchase the entire stock and shut down the factory. ee Authors who incorporate them- selees can issue preferred and com- mon shock. Jat imdgine how common the common stock in Herold Belt Wright would det eee Wf Peter B. Kyne orgunizes him- self inte a literary company, would “Cappy Ricks" be considered wat- ered stock? : see _ ANCIENT HISTORY ey general says Lamp- the $502.06 for lobbying ‘The 6 cents, no doubt, buying: jelly beans for the Appropriations committee. eee e can't influence a legisiator for 6 No, sir! They won't do a fi ‘for less than a dimet § fe Our guess is that Col, Lamping ‘the $502.06 for board. He at the Olympian for two days, 't he? ; <won ‘CHOOSE YOUR COLOR, GENTS New taxicabs in iile are brown and white. Other cab tompanies paint their vehicles 5 white, black and white ixicab company’s tele- is Main 3333. How be in an awful and have to listen ‘phone, operator repeat. that ad Perhaps the reaxon there are 96 any different colored taxicabs is so t milady can always find one to ‘arn with her gown, tazicad, can say without braggin' fastest in town— ‘8 the patrot wagon. eee xing Smokers’are now held in Avena. The promoters had to & bigger auditoriam #0 nded cops there are in Seattle! ; see fatermeions are due to + their y loca) market invest in any. re watered stock. bs : ee erton man married a girl in Worth yesterday by telephone. wave her a wedding ring. eee YE DIARY (ay 3) Prteman’s lee house on Vifth Janch and th * at CARFARE 10 ~BE KEPT AT FIVE CENTS No Change Will Be Made Until Bond Holder Parley Is Completed | Retention of the |for Seattle street. car lines |gotiations haye by altering the contract and permitting smailer redemption payments, was pract jly asqured Friday as tho @ conferen Ki and the mayor late Thur Several councilmen expressed th | belief that a speedy consummation cent fare ne completed of purchase annual be teal result of etween oc of the negotiations will make an in-/ | crease in carfare unnecessary as it jis pointed out that it would be use t less to increase the fare to 814 cents | for a bri meet the | ogreement 'BLAINE WILL OPPose TRIP TO BOSTON Coincident with this development was the announcement Friday by jCounciiman FE. L. Blaine as chair Iman of the finance committee that [he will oppose any appropriation to | pay the expenses of a committee to jeonfer with the bondholders at Bow ton. Blaine says that negotiations can be conducted letter the time for final ion, would be a almple matter to send one man to consummate the deal of to bring the bond holders’ trustee to Seattle. At the conference of the council quirements of the new by members, George F. Russell, utili-|!0W under option from the United | modern ties superintendent, and D, W, Hen-| States shipping board may be de. | Paved derson, street railwaya superintend- ent, With Mayor Brown late Thurs- day, a telegram wax framed and sent to A. W. Leonard in Boston, thanking the bondholders for the [spirit of co-operation shown In agree. ing to enter negotiations. NAME COMMITTEE TO FRAME OFFER A committee consisting of Russel. Henderson, Counc}! President C. B. Fitzgerald, Councilman Blaine and | Mayor Brown was namea to frame an offer to the bondholders. This offer, prepared by Councilman Blaine, provides for an cxtension of 20 years in redeeming the bonds and reduction of interest to 4 per cent, This plan would require the annual payment of $645,000 for the next 33 years. City councilmen are confident that a 6%-cent carfare will readily pay off the interest and bond re- jdemption if the agreement is ac- cepted by the bondholderr. Several councilmen accepted the jattitude of Mayor Brown that to increase carfares now would put the city under a handicap in conducting its negotiations, altho Councilmen A. Lou Cohen and Blaine both favor immediate return to the 8 1-3- cent fare. HIGHER FARE BILL. STILL IN COMMITTEE Councilman Oliver T. Erickson, chairman of the utilities committee, did not report the higher fare bill out of committee and it was conaid ered certain Friday that no vffort will be made to pass the higher fare measure over the mayor's veto, unless there are new developments, unul the negotiations have been completed. RADIO RESCUES KIDNAPED BOY Tells Mother Over Phone That He Is All Right SCHENECTADY, N. ¥.. May 4— ‘The wireless, which his father, chief engineer of the Radio Corporation of America, helped to perfect, found 6- year-old Verner Alexanderson, kid- naped last Monday afternoon. Dencriptions of the child, stories of his abduction, appeals by his par. ents and offers of reward were sent broadcast into the air by the family, which bore up bravely in the knowl edge that the invisible waves were reaching wherever the thief of their son tight be. For 48 hours, radio fans from coast to coast heard the pleas and lent their sympathy and whatever aid possible to the search for Verner, who bad been lured from home by a promise of rabbits. Thurnday, Bert ‘And | Jarvis, a boatman of ‘Theresa, recog: ition of corset fitters ends ‘foday, Of corset does. } se corsety on a fat woman Idea of a soft jon. j sae n & fancy swimmer lands on ¥, hiv dive falls fiat, eee HOUSEHOLD HINGs Keeping a bottle of ink om ean use a fountain like any other pen— ail the trouble of fill nized in men with @ small boy as» the kidnapers and the Alexanderson boy of whom he heard thru the wireless and newspapers. A report to the police and within a few hours a happy, childish treble was piping over the telephone to u tearfully relieved “mamma” here; “tm all right. I'm all right and you ought to see my doggie.” ‘The kidnapers, two men, who have fled to Canada, had. promised him some “bunnies,” he said, but gave him instead a “wonderful dog.” Fearful of discovery, with the knowledge that the radio was reach: ing ever clover on thelr trail, the (Turn to Page 10, Column 3) period, then reduce it to) until | when it! Development Possibilities of Moran-Skinner & Eddy Site H., FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1 92% e } Conmecricer ar Cmantenr | | | RAR OAD AVENUcL Was fony - LE above sketch, prepared by Star, shows graphically King how the county 2éacre votem nite a8 a gteat port of Seattio terminal for Intercoastal business, Tn tho right-hand corner t# inctud- 0d a block which does not bélong to the site. On it stands the Crescent Manufacturing Co.’ magnificent, new, three-story concrete plant, the Seattle Transfer Co.'s four-story building, ‘smaller brick building and with space still remaining for another large plant. ROOM PROVIDED VOR NINE BIG FACTORIES The plan, os drafted for the port property, contain three similar sized blocks, on solid ground, each of which could be subdivided into three plots to accommodate planta as big as the Creseent’s, The Unit- ed States immigration station is ten- tatively located on half of one of these subdivisions, tho it is more likely to be erected at Smith cove, Each such tract would have the best of road-and rail facilities, port comm fs as sured that if it acquires this property it can lease these infdus- trial sites for 30-year periods at rentals sufficient to the purehase price of the entire 26 acres at 5 or 6 per cent, ‘This would leave it as “vel- vet" the entire remaining water- front holdings for development, The plan of development is indi- cated on the map, Two great dou- the port commission for The|either side of a new 1 it ah » | | + forme” 38e Map Shows Effective ‘Use Port Can Make of Tidelands Acreage ble transit sheds would be built on waterway to be dredged into the tract The would give berthing space for eight freightera at ond time. roadways, with depressed tracks, Would give direct train and truck connections dawn the center of each shed. ‘Those would be one atory only. Then in a space from the dotted ina, croseing tach of the aheds buck to the Moran place line, would be erected over the tranait shed and covering the depressed roadways two Stent warehouses of four or moro stories in helght, ONE PIER CAN BE BUILT RIGHT AWAY These would be so arranged that goodn might be loaded and unloaded direct from their levels to or from the beats, Also the plan cally for making the factory floors level with these waterhouse floors so that, by means of overhead structures, goods might be moyed directly between from the factories and tho ware- house, This feature would be a great convenience for plants requiring ad: ditional storage space for raw ma- terials or finished products, expecia ly such firms ax are engaged in in- jtercoustal business, If the voters approve the port propositions at next Tuesday's elec tion there will be money available for carrying out this plan in part. For carrying it out, in fact, to a point where the commission will be equipped right away with one good terminal for this lucrative and fast- growing traffic. Majesty, Bummingham Czah, Arrests 3 Editors They Printed Official News Regarding Murder Trial; Jailed for Contempt BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May 4— Charged with contempt of court, KB. T. Leech, editor; Jack Bethea, manag~ ing editor, and Lawey Robinson, a reporter for the Birmingham Post, will face trial tomorrow in criminal court here. The hetion, which is unique, grew out of a story published jin the Birmingham Post regarding the case of W. M. Yerby, who was to be brought to trial that day on charges of murdering Arline C. King. The story, in addition to telling of the charge against Yerby, recited that he had recently been indicted on charges of participating in the flogging of Dr. J. D. Dowling, city and county health officer, and with kidnaping Ed Herman Daniels, negro jitney driver, in an alleged at- tempt to flor him. Altho indictments had previously been returned in both these cases, Judge H. P. Heflin, brother of Sen- ator Tom Heflin, of Alabama, held the Dowling and Daniels cases were not pertinent to the murder trial and that reading of the story would tend to prejudice the jury. He therefore postponed the trial and ordered the state to prepare citations against tho three newspaper mon. The Post announced today that it considered the story a legitimate item of news, reciting matters contained in public records and would fight the case to a finish. The cases out of which the story grew have been among the most sensational in Birmingham's his tory. The flogging of Dr, J. Dy Dowling, after he had been tured from his home, caused a wave of excitement, during which thousands jof dollars in rewards were “offered jand a jawandorder league was or: | sanized. | The King killing followed some months later, after Which came the ‘illeged kidnaping of Daniels, who broke away from his captors, seized a gun and opened fire. Tater that night Yerby was brought to hospital wounded, claiming he had been shot acci- dentally, He ‘was indicted later. During the grand jury probe of the kidnaping an alleged connec. tion with the Dowling case was discovered and Yerby, with seven other men, was indicted in that case, Yerby is a dairyman, as are most of tho others, and the state charges that the Dowling flogging grew out of anger ot the health officer's strict enforcement of the pure milk laws. ‘The contempt citations ordered by Judge Heflin hold that publication of facts other than the King mur- der prejudiced the defendant's chances in that trial. Are You Ready to Build? In every district in and around Seattle building is going on full speed. Many lots that have long been vacant are now comfy homes. Here are a few more that will soon be gone, WORTH WHILY LOTS Just a couple of blocks from the Junction. Good level lots, 60x i ini graded ssments paid: insurance. 1 must «el thon lot#. NOW, Will take $25 down and $5 per month, Bee me today. The Want Ad Columns today will tell you more about these Jot, ‘Turn to them Now, | ! wv Seattle Pays One Mill, Portland Four and Half |And There Is One Coast Port Pays None; | Read Thru and See Which It Is | ee : | One of the most interesting features of the controversy over the Port of Seattle's plan to acquire and develop the Skinner & Eddy tideland acreage is OPPOSITION. When the commission was trying to~obtain-an-option on the property from the United States shipping more in Washington, the opposition consisted of Robert: , San Francisco shipping magnate, who wanted the property for himself. It was frankly a fight between a private corpora- tion and a municipal unit for the possession of a very valu- ‘able and highly desirable key-tract of waterfront. It was frankly a contest between a San Francisco concern and a \Seattle municipality for control of a Seattle property. | In that contest, as secondary figures, the privately owned San Francisco concern had the backing of two in- dividuals—Frank Waterhouse, president of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and himself a big figure in the shipping world, and the owner of a “Seattle” newspaper {which invariably, when the test comes, takes sides against |veal interests of all Seattle and for some clique. Now, with the issue before the voters, the opposition is identically the same, with some additions. Robert Dollar and his powerful San Francisco shipping syndicate is trying to block Seattle's public port develop- jment. He has helping him other private steamship lines, various interested railroads, other enemies of public owner- |ship of every form and type, and the mercenary paper jabove referred to. : But this opposition is not now open and candid. It is masking itself as the “Tax Limit League” and other especial- ly organized propaganda organizations with high-sounding titles, designed to indicate that they are trying to do a public service. | These organizations have conducted a campaign of propa- ganda that never has been equaled in Seattle for devious- ness, lack of candor, dodging of the real issues, throwing out of smoke screens and the trotting forth of irrelevant matters. : The whole campaign has centered around the charge that the proposed development would increase taxes and that the port taxes already are extravagantly high. Both of these statements are entirely without foundation. The Star has shown conclusively that not only will taxes positively NOT be increased a penny, but that the develop- ment will tend rather to DECREASE port taxes imme- diately. The Skinner & Eddy tract will pay from the start. It will give the port a property of inestimable future value and earning possibilities. The bonds proposed to be used for the purpose already have been approved and are to be issued and sold in any case. It is equally true that Seattle's port taxes are NOT high. On the contrary, they are the LOWEST—with one excep- tion—on the coast. Seattle pays one mill for port purposes. Bellingham pays one and a fraction. Tacoma and Grays Harbor pays two mills. PORTLAND, OUR PRINCIPAL NORTHWEST COMPETITOR, PAYS FOUR AND. ONE- HALF MILLS. ASTORIA PAYS FIVE AND NINE- | TENTHS MILLS. There is, however, one Pacific coast port that pays less than Seattle, which in fact pays no tax. That is our big competitor, San Francisco. And San Francisco is a 100 per cent publicly-owned and publicly-operated port. Ponder that. |The Judge Is Going |Phone Robberies | to Have Hard Time Show a Decrease OAKLAND, Cal, May 4e-Pity the| Robberies of pay telephone boxes, poor Judge, Judge J. J. Trabuco of totaling over $3,000 from May 1, }Oukland, today was to decide tho} 1921, to May 1, 1922, have dropped question of whether a husband ix/over 50 per cent in the same period permitted to bestow platonic kisses | ending May 1, 1923, it was announced upon u friendly lady when friend} by the police Friday, wifo offers no open objections. Upon the answer to the question depends the success or failure of Mrs. Marion Curtiss Mooney's peti. tion for divorce from William 8, | Mooney, mining than and heir to a} | $7,000,000 estate. In tho petition, Mooney | allesed to have favored Mrs. Hstella Loney, young soctety matron, with his brotherly uffec: tlons, phone company, declared that during the last year, the robberies averaged 11 per month, with u total of $708 being stolen. Tho robberies for the preceding year averaged 25 por month, Dope addicts commit 90 por cent of the robbertes, Gabourel said, The number of addicts arrested and given jail sentences is responsible for the crime reduction, he declared, i 6 a ! tar * pagina CO-ED CHORUS QUEENS OUTSHINE STRUTTERS OF BROADWAY ROOFS YTANFORD UNIVERSITY, OO itorr ’ 4.—Flo ng bis fem lege o a amp s with the superior qu to satinty a “F ording to M who 4 two er never attain, ure both intelll- gent anc rding to Mins Me . hag had a profession nee Fol r can Modern co-edg is in @ posi what Broadway front row boys fror auditor, how. critical, say that a chorus of picked college beauties lacks any of the eye-opening at- tributes which draw the evening crowds to the roofs of Manhat- tan skyscrapers,” Miss McGov- ern maintains tion know must s the ever co WORLD FLIGHT |Army Birdmen to | Seek New Laurels During Summer BY A. L. BRADFORD WASHINGTON, May 4—The American army alr service, some time this summer, will attempt a Sight around the world, Big. Gen. William Mitchell, assistant. chief of the air service, announced today. The non-stop transcontinental Dight just completed, was accepted asa “great accomplishment,” Gen- eral Mitchell said, in telling of the future plans of the army air sery- |ice, but this country’s pioneers of the air wil not rest on the laurels thes cotablished. | The next attempt at a record by the air service, Mitchell declared in an exclusive interview with the Unit- ed Press, will be a non-stop flight across the continent “from day to (Turn to Page Column 1) LAUBE’S TRIAL NEARS ITS END Last Evidence Introduced Thursday Night After three weeks of arguing, the attorneys in the suit of William T. Laube against Frank Waterhouse was, practically ended Thursday night, when the last of the evidence was introduced by either side and the final witness called to the stand and dismissed. The windup of the cise, one of the longest in recent judicial history, will come Monday and Tuesday, when the opposing attorneys will make their addresses to the jury, All that remained in the court- room of the ponderous books and records Friday were a few law books that had not yet been returned to the county law library. The win- dows of the courtroom were thrown wide open to the fresh air and tho sunshine. Judge Hall had not come down Friday at noon, Monday Judge Hall will give his ruling as to whether certain records and documents should be admitted and he will give his instructions to the jury Monday. John Sparling, chief defense wit- ness, was the last witness on the stand, Attorney John B. Hart, chief counsel for Laube, sought to tangle him up in a cross examination to impeach the testimony of Water. house and his attorney, Judge Will- jam H. Bogle. Sparling was pre- ceded on the stand by Waterhouse, who was asked to identify certain telegrams and communications rela- tive to the E} Aquario job, the loss on which is based the present suit by Laube as trustee in bankruptcy. FINE OFFICER FOR ASSULT Finding that Patrolman Bernard T. Hunt was guilty of assaulting Captain Moys of the Salvation Army during a parade by that organiza. tion at Second ave. und Yesler way, April 15, Police Judge John B. Gor. don fined Hunt $25 in a decision handed down Friday, Hunt was tried before Gordon on | } | J, Ci Gabourel, agent of the tole-4 Monday and Judge Gordom took the ease under advisement, The trial was originally set for Justice ©. ©. Dalton’s court, but Hunt obtatned a change of venue, : Hunt, who is under indefinite sus: pension wt the present time, has not jappealed Chief of Police We By Sev- eryns announced that he would take no further action in the cise until ho had conferred with Inspector Harry C'Brien. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. OME | it EDITION Mik ARREST FOUR, 3 CLERKS AND ~ONE DEALER! Stewart & Holm Co. Is Victim of Own Employes; Two Confess BY JOHN W, NELSON An alleged plot to system- atically rob the Stewart & Holmes Co., leading Seattle wholesale druggists, was uncov- ered Thursday night with the arrest of three employes, clerks at the firm's wholesaie house, Occidental ave. and King st. and Friday of Earl Gunther, proprietor of the Phinney Av- enue pharmacy, 5901 Phinney ave. Informations charging grand lar- ceny were filed against the four men Friday in the superior court here. George Thomas, Walter Phair fand William D. MeKay are the clerks implicated. Thomas and Phair have confessed, according to the prosecuting attorney. Gunther is charged with being the receiver of stolen goods. City De- jtective R. R. Herbert, who traced jthe stolen property amd made the jarrests, followed. 4 shipment of |drugs and sundry articles to Gunth- jer’s pharmacy Wednesday night, he j said. The plan operated by the men was carefully laid out, officers sald. Having made an agreement with Gunther to purchase the stuff at 50 per cent off the whoiesale price, the clerks would ‘prepare the ship- ment and forward it te him. Dummy order slips were made out jand the driver of one ef the com. — pany’s delivery automobiles deliver- ed the order and returned the slip, it Is alleged. 2t was then destroyed. Thomas is assistant. sh/pping clerk of the firm; Phair is packing clerk, and McKay is order clerk. Thomas is married and has three children; Phair is married and has three jehildren and lives at 1732 25th ave. and MeKay is single cond resides at 2923 E. Harrison st. Officials say Thomas and Phair admit the plot and the robbery of two shipments, one Wednesday night valued at $76 and another a week ago valued at $70, Bail for ‘each was set at $2,000, JAP DRIVER IS Failed to Stop After He Hit Auburn Youth B. Itabashi, wealthy Japanese dairy farmer, must spend 90 days in the county jail for failing to stop his truck after it had hit Melbryne Wi- ley, 17-year-old Auburn high school boy, April 5. Because he did not stop, but sped away from the scene of the accident, the truck dragged Wiley, whose clothing had caught on the crank, for a mile and a half, the boy escaping death by a miracle. Itabashi was tried before Justice Cc. C. Dalton late Thursday, Tho testimony against him was conclu: , sive, Mrs. E. H, Montgomery and Mrs. €. F, Montgomery testifying that they heard the crash of the impact and young Wiley's cries 200 yards from the scene of the accident. James Allerdice, who was walking on the roadway near Auburn with Wiley when the latter was hit, told of the wild chase after Itabashi’s machine, how it twisted and turned, and finally stopped only when it ran into a blind alley. The victim is still in the Auburn hospital, where his recovery is pro- Bressing slowly, He sustained a fractured skull, a broken leg and nu- merous cuts and bruises. His at+ tending physicians hope he will re- cover permanently, | ORDER JELLY HERE SEIZED Twenty thousand pounds of East- ern apple jelly, stored in Seattle Warehouses and ready for distribu. tion to retail stores, was declared unfit for human food in a telerram received Thursday by the United States marshal, and was ordered | seized, Deputy marshals were sent out Friday morning and began the seiz- ures, The jelly, according to the government wire, is artificially col- ored, acidified and adulterated in violation of national pure food and drug act, and will be heid by the fed. eral authorities, The jelly was shipped to Seattle from Kansas City, Mo, in’ February of this year by a New York concern and was consigned to a number of wholesale — grocers, The — product would have been sold to consumers, had the government not seized it, ac. cording to United States attorneys, GIVEN 90 DAYS S22 gowere Spee