The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 8, 1923, Page 1

-“FREE CAPTIVES AT ONC: Powers Send Dr and Drastic Ultimatum W Temper Maximum, ii {ijl EATHER Last 21 Hours Minimum, he SEATTLE, WASH., TUE Howdy, folks! Only one more until a lot of politicians will have to go to work ugain, There's no truth to the rum Everett 7 will run as a sth candidate for the city count date’s plat Th 3 been! very 3 no deaths ha from smoking campiat WELL SAY THEYRE AGIN MUNICIPAL, OWNERSHIP! Our adored ever content porary, at the top its edi torial column, prints it< state ment of principles, which in cludes the following: “Disposal of all property now publicly owned and operated at & loss.” Property now pu and operated at a sewers, schools, partment and city owned Streets, ly parks. fire de hall, © says she doesn’t use sugar in her coffee, and if sh feels the need of something sweet, she can always eat candy We're giad to see the approac! a season when we shall hav heat that we don't have to pay for eee TODAY'S DEFINITION An optimist is a man xho tries to fool earwigs by paint. | Ing his grass a paris green. | | It’s a great d bert, when the Bo: one. The Underpa ciety will now's Ia Heavy Enoug QUESTIONS WE CAN'T ANSW Dear Homer: I have just be | come the father of triplets and | of the event my friends have presented me with a loving cup. Do T have to | win it three times in order to gain permanent possession? — Harold. . The Church of England has fixed up the Commandments so that now tt has 12. But we'll have to disregard the new rules, We can't even obey the Ten. oe There was a young girl from La Con- ner, The limit she was. on my honor. She sheared off her tresses And shortened her dresses, | ‘TU scarcely a thing was left on her. —Guemen Beachcomber. Our idea of a Venus de Milo. . hard dame tg the} You can eay this in favor of people | who stick their gum under tables; they might stick It on top. cee MIRACLE, We were in a doctor's office Waiting to have our tongue looked at When a woman Reside us Shrieked and fainted. She had found A magazine In the doctor's office That wasn't Six months old. . The big problem in Seattle to not more parking sparking space. . ay is space—it’s more | . | It doesn’t do any good to point out/ fo a lovesick youth that last yearts bridegrooms are now paying the first | installment on a baby carriage. | ae YE DIARY May 75 | To the thenter to nee “Struttin’ Along,’ a revue put on by an all-eolored enst, and very enjoyable it wis, especially Mamie Smith, singing: “You gotta see mamma every night — | Or you can't see manima at all; } 1 treat her right, | when you call.” But my wife did call me a low-brow | for liking such stuff, tho heaven knows the Jazz song of today Is the claasic of tomorrow, as the fellow nays, and may: | hap = hundred years from now our nit- tional anthem will be a “Mammy” song, whieh will be highly patriotic as anxhody who hears a “Mammy” song wants to fight somebody Immediately, ee | Candidate for the Poison Ivy club: Gink who cast his ballot today for Andrew Jackson, because he thought! he was the guy who built Jackson wt. vee Chinese bandits have abducted: «| dozen Americany. do these Celestials think they are—Ku Klux} Klanemen? | Quick, Bloise,my hat and cane, 1 hear your husband's footsteps on the, soindow sill, + i | ment and prosperity of this city and) CHICAGO, May §—A snowstorm, |sumed by Res |port that have confronted the body | assuming the pr fons of a bilz | (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) politic in many years. ward in some locali vept over | with a rush when an jnaidious and/crop planting. | £ | comprehensive campaign developed| At noon several inches of snow| RESCUES GIRL} in Opposition to the all-important had fallen in Central Wisconsin H a SEE NEW LINE OF STEAMERS g FORTHISPORT |Panama-Pacific Is | Preparing to E tend Intercoastal Service to Seattle » 64 ES’ HOW the old Seattle spirit today—the go-ahead spirit, the spirit of city building, of commercial advancement, of working together. Vote YES on the port [inc propositions. say at Poke the Gloom boys in the ribs, give “"" "" the anti-Seattle Propaganda family a y by A big grin. Vote YES. The Pana It would be a commercial disaster for (fi. }ae! Seattle if the port did not obtain the 26- Na i acre central tract that it needs for the | ; : great oncoming ocean shipping boom. |, iia davenored ‘tet thd Vote YES. “ag pied Also, the whole town needs the Mont- lake-stadium bridge. And the additional — seccartny ‘rice = school buildings. We aren’t going to ; biped progress by wailing over what progress : Lasigbeotiy ht costs. Vote YES. ren lh coor Seattle Voters Decide : oe be maintained ¥ York for Vital Questions Today *'»0"' Vote of 60 Per Cent of Registration Predicted |WATERHOUSE IS in the City CALLED A LIAR i that dire tions may leaving Britiah was announce, and con it ses * 1d-}the voters are called upon to settle ived by County rguson at noon” Tues | is the fawuance of $500,000 bonds for of indicated that probably 60 per |the construction the Montinke * ed vote would | Stadium bri « project has, Defendant Bitterly Scored precin jmet with little ¢ jon from the é, ‘aoe where |so-called tax tioniats who! Dy Laube’s Attorney pansion program and|have so nttacked § e ret aly | port exp bridge t# con, BY JOHN W. NELSON at sidere > the’ proper dé] Charging that Frank Waterhouse ions were | velopre north end of the }deliberately tied while on the ‘wit he rural precincts for an | ci! amul it should carry. | Deay stand, Attorney Robert P. Old- | 100 per cent vote | Compared to the p school and|ham read from the transcript of Bettin the eo and | pric he public considers | testimony Tuesday showing that! {around the hotel | bred the ithe elect candidates to Tice | Wate denied writ three ineumbent councilmen. Sent | o¢ secondary importance. H +} te concerning his indem: ment seemed pronounced in favor | sinc several candidates have made in McAteer Shipbuilding of Rathbun as the next in line, and of the port and other municl-|Co. a en read the letter which a few prognosticators were of the entures, interest in the contests | Waterh ad written, opinion that he would nose in Oldbam threatened ty break all] the tine ‘ THREE COUNCILMEN i distance rdx in to. | Smati hope held TED cal judicsal when Claire $. Colegrove or J. A. Steven-| OF the preatest Importance ty thelafter eight hours of talking he was] son by dopesters, and od Were | selection of three councilmen for the | still going strong He opened his} being offered they would not be} thir The three incum 8 to the jury early Monday, | elected. : i ben’ ‘, Erickson ort B.| talked all Monday afternoon and re Fed age | Hesketh and Philip 1 Nt are|sumed hin address Tuesday morn. BY JOHN W. NELSON | (Purn to Page 9, Column 4) | ing Seattle voters were going to th “ } When Oldham finishes, which will] , polls bri nd early Tuesday to} jrobably be some tin T esa | Bri caee A (fa ada sila ation |Heavy Snowstorm afternoon, Waterhouse attorneys will | boom. 4 [present their arguments. It is prob- tions concerning the future dev in North States |i that a full day wil be co slop to Chinese DAY, MAY 8, 192 Yea Mall, # seattle Star Government, Demanding Releas? OOOO TTT = {iil eo Rex Beach, author of “Flowing Gold” The Star has bought Seattle publication rights for Rex Beach’s great new novel, “Flow- ng Rex It begins in Thursday's Star. F Gold.” As the name suggests, the story deals with oil in Texas during the post-war i Beach has done for the picturesque Southern district, filled with derricks and ad- mes and Merritt, ana| Venturers, what he and Jack London previously did for Alaska. You will relish the story. TV VO CENTS IN SEATTLE, the Northwestern hamperin Following an apathetic primary ste election, interest in the finals revived seriously and other BOY SWIMMER spring wheat project of acquiring th inner &/The storm was lashed by a high| When Misx Mary Frances Guppy | Eddy waterfront property, a tract of snow reported from St. / Overturned her canoe, * 200 yards the utmost strategic value in promot-| Paul and Bismarck, N, D. from Thomps landing, near Mer: | ing Senttle’s publicly owned port. The storm reached as far south as| cers! Scholl, Garfield | * promised Weathe ver | He had been playing tennis near the | clothes [been slowly growing SUGAR PRICE JUMPS AGAIN Second in importance to the port| Waterloo, Ia high xchoot student, saw her peril | | project and involving three times a: one and plunged into the water to the| hi much money is the launching of the | reacve | Hundred Within 48 Hours Greater Seattle school building pro-, Northwest Is Not When he dtd theta ap te cram, which involves the expendi . where Miss Guppy, who is 16, was! Sugar prices jumped 40 a2 pe of approximately $1,500 300 as Due for a Shiver hanging to the frail craft, he found |hundred pounds on the New York an Initial expense. No private in-| There'll be no slop-over of the cold | her n paralyzed from the cold,|Market Tueway, accogling to a terests being affected, this matter e in the Middle West and East—|He eeized her and held her until hig| Wire received by Frank Kannair, has met with no opposition, while all least not in this direction, ac-| playmates arrived, several minutes |Secretary of the Retail Grocers’ as- | the power of selfixt monopolistic or-| cording 40 the Seattle weather em-|later, with a rowboat, and rescued |$ociation, and will be back to’ its and has been turned loose to defeat | porlum Tuc both high price of $10.90 a Lundreal the port proposal. “Go ahead and pull your ¢traw Luther is the son of Louis ,| Pounds in the Seattle market within A third matter of business that|hat day; we won't need eartabs in| Schol, who resides on Mercer island, |48 hours The increase comes in the face of ott thut has during the past “1 activities boycolt movement Kannair urges inerea 1 Seattle in th alisbury. “Any cold waye | water when he heard Miss Guppy |the nationwide 1 in 1 or the Dakotas—and | scream. Un hig te {i COLD WAVE SWEEPING |i ituis where ic is today won't back | he wore his bathing alt, 2544 doff. |two weeks. up on u ing the former, he plunged into the | OUT OF ALASKA WILL |i iit up the ico. chest and tet| water: which if Mil hee ‘around | CHILL MIDDLE WEST! ASHINGTON, May 8. A W spring cold wave, sweeping t of Alaska, will have the entire Kastern and Middle Western half of the United States in its grip by Wednend , United States weath- er forecasters here predicted to- || day. Frosts will be general as far }| south as Kentucky and Tenn- eusee, The storm was general over the lake region and adjacent terrl- || tory, with freezing temperature || kn 6 eported from Minncap. : atid “24 (6) with the old felts and fedoras. | On with the cow fodder kelly: olix, St. Paul, La Crosse, Wis. and points in Mlinols and lowa, | Thursday is straw hat day and no- body in Serittle will think of appear: the old furnace rest till fall ithe island, Bring onthe Hay K alleus | unassuming, pale, to the bronze ere around the edge be in the disc grass-colored lid n with saw teeth The derby hat will rd wong with ‘caps and the other turbans worn in win The storm area ix moving ward rapldly, and colder weather will Dit the Kast tonight. | While the weathes bureau de. || ie in any other kind of a id ter. clined to state whether the cola || M Brown has annour that} Ch the winter skimmers; it's in Seattle, "Thursday be darned," sald one of The Star's office boys Tuesday, | ax he hunted » parking space for his cap and flaunted the first straw lid of the season, “Why wait until Thursday?” shore and mounted traffic | cops will be presented with hay bon netx and will blossom out Thursday lin new models, | Every tyne of the newest style will jbe on display in Seattle hat store windows, They will range from the au wove would be severe enough In the Hast to damage fruit and other crops, it was stated that the temperaure will be ‘‘unseason- ably’’ low for this time of the year, nd deels orate that everyone must eo- the price wil! be main- or ruined at ity present level. ANOTHER GOOD OFFER TODAY For just a small payment down and small monthly: payments fol- lowing, you can buy this little herie to which ts being of- fered in Star Want Ad Columns, ONLY $800 DOWN COMPLETBLY FURNISHED RIGHT. JL ror \ ALL FAMIBY PRICK ONLY $2,150 Thin is sure a cozy Hitle bunga- low, In a nie neighborhood; very nico lot, all in lawn and shrubbery; hous good p is y to start k, only i per month, Here stop paying rent, ete, You will find the seller of this property by turning to the Want Ad pages NOW, pte. If Firing Is (Copyright. by United Press) PEKIN, May 8.—Foreign” prison: | ers of the Chinese bandits in Shan: | |tung will be killed after three days | overnment troops cease fir-| ding to a message brought the: outlaws’ camp by Miss Min- Fadden, one of the women| ym Miss MacFadden, and from | jothers who were captured and later | freed, Robert P. Scripps, Amer n newspaper publisher, obtained the first description of what occurred | j after the hostages had been removed | from the wrecked Pekin express and) hustled away into the hills, | WORE CHINESE | WOMAN'S DRESS Miss MacFadden, companion to Miss Lucy Aldrich, sister-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr, made her |Way back from the camp with great difficulty, after being turned loose, wearing a Chinese woman's costume, Refugees reported they were not harmed by the bandits, and that altho Oring was heard, no bullets BY JACK HALL Vio you remember when you were a kid and you were walking home from sehool and you met “foughey" Jones and he was on your side of the street and neither of you would step out of the way and you stood there for half an hour “daring” each, Outlaws to Kill Victims Not Stopped Freed American Woman Tells Robert Scripps of Death Order Issued by Brigand Chief “*Dast, Dasn’t, Dast!’’ and Then the Cop Came struck near where the prisoners were kept. Scripps’ dispatch wa . BY ROBERT P, SCRIPPS (Written for the United Press) (Copyright, 1923, by United Press) PEKIN, May 8.—(11:30 a, m)—‘I was awakened by a crash, followed by a volley of bullets against the steel coaches, The -bandits smashed | the windows with their pistols and crawled thru into the staterooms and corridors. “I rushed to Miss Aldrich’s room and brought her to my cabin. Then the bandits entered, rifled our bag- gage and ordered us away ffom the train, Miss Minnie MacFadden, com: panton to Miss Lucy Aldrich, gave this description of the attack by brigands on the Pekin express early Sunday morning, She was one of the prisoners carried away by the outlaws, but was later released to. (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) other to take one step forward? And do you remember how the gang came up and saw you standing there, like two bristling bulldogs, and egsed you on to battle with eries of “Go on, Eddie, knock him off the sidewalk” and “Soul him, Toughey, STERN ORDER BY LEGATIONS DISPATCHED “Don’t Care What Method Is Used, But Free Them,” China Is Told | PEKING, May 8—6 p. m, Peking time)}—The foreign le | gations have sent an ultimatum: to the Chinese government, de manding the immediate release of all prisoners held by the Shantung bandits, | “Free all foreigners immedi ately, alive. We don’t care what — methods are used, but free them,” is the message sent to the government. The Chinese government has © dered the governor of Shantung al accede to the demands of the bans dits and obtain the immediate tlease of all foreigners who were ped, The governor is ordered y the ransom, if necessary. wee BY A. L. BRADFORD SHINGTON, May 8, — ta! id other leading pows ers have demanded that the Chi government ransom the Améric# and other foreigners held captive the Chinese bandits; the state d partment announced today. This demand was made by An can Minister Schurman and other foreign diplomats. in who decided at a meeting on fl and other steps The ransom demanded by the b dits is reported to be $1,000,000. Schurman and the other dip are also. making. strongest po representations ‘to the Chinese ernment, demanding immediate d patch of punitive forces against tf bandits to'rescue the foreigners and punish the outlaws, i The state department today Officially advised of the |reached by the diplomatic co There was no recommendat use of American or other fo troops in co-operation with Chin soldiers, State department officials be! the Pekin government should be gf n an opportunity to meet the st | tion. 3 President Harding today called jeabinet at 10 a.m., an hour earligs |than usual. Whether this action ha anything to do with the Chinese sit ation was not disclosed. a | STATE DEPARTMENT ISSUES STATEMENT The state department today n public the following statement of situation based on the latest from Minister Schurman and American representatives in Chit “The department has received. formation to the effect that Miss. rich, Miss MacFadden and 1 Schonberg are now safe in Tsit Fu. T. H. Day, of Ringwood, | (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) United THE STAR'S ADVISORY BALLOT | PORT PROPOSITION NO, 1 To inclide Skinner & Eddy 2 tract in comprehensive of harbor improvement. PORT PROPOSITION NO, Shi acquiring improving above site CITY PROPOSITION A” For $600,000 Montlake-Stad! bridge bond issue, g Yes . +X) | SCHOOL PROPOSITION B For $750,000 hond issue for ne buildings, r Yes SCHOOL PROPOSITION © For special three-mill_ tax raise $706,000 additional school buildings, Yes Colegrove . Stevenson .....405 ore CORPORATION COUNS Kennedy .. PORT COMMISSIONER Lincoln. Toollner . SCHOOL DIRECTOR Toellner (urn to Page 9, Column 1)