The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 12, 1923, Page 1

FET thert ach: panton- “Tiz* with 3 al ® ans ips of wm" feet wil rts Be Sure to Read Rex. Beach’s “Flowing Gold’’; It’s on Page 11 AAA RRA tat nt JESS WILLARD’ WINS FIGHT! Temper: Maximum, 60, Today The SeattleStar Clase Matter May 3, 1809, tottice at Beattie, Wash. F the Act of Congress March 2, Per Year, by Mail, $3.60 EXTRA SATTL E, WASH,, SATL RDAY, M/ AY. 2, 1 TW O CENTS IN SEATTLE. Tempus ( Coming Here! PASSPLAN 10 FAMOUS S NEGRO CHARACTER 2 FIGURE S IN “COMIC” Howdy, folks! ‘The Waterhouse trial ended yesterday. The law- yers won, als figured there would ured the at torneys would be hung. eee The case will be reargued before Octavus Roy “Cohen Creates News paper Feature for The Star Octavus Roy Cohen, whose a leading feature of the Sat developed a newspaper * characters all are to appear. upreme court at Olympia—but | n stand anything down there I lature. eee POLL OF THE JURY following Jury poll was taken by Home Brew’s special correspond: cut Juror No. 1—Waterhouse was clearly in the wrong. He should never have murdered the old man. Juror No. 2—I never could see no good in that Einstein theory Mr. Oldbam was talking about. Jurors Nos. 3, 7, 9 — Mr. Reames had the most books, but Mr, Hart yelled the loudest. Juror No, 4—1 don't believe Mr. Laube stole the dog, but then— Jurors Nos. 6, 8—We got sleepy or,we would have held out for life imprisonment for the law- yers. Juror No. 10—This is the first “case I've lost in years’ jury service. ‘ Juror No, 11—1 still believe in freedom for Ireland. Juror No, 12—Say, what in heck was it all about? after th Ten thousand ringside seats at the Dempsey-Gibbons fight at Shelby Mont., are quoted at $50 each. A food seat on Beacon Hill shouldn't cost more than $10. With 10,000 ringside seats, ginks in the cheaper locations will be | 20 far away that they won't Iearn| how the fight came out until the next day. It’s a good thing Me large state or they wow have to} build the bleachers in Idaho. eee POEM TO THE STREET CAR FARES There, little mekel, don’t you ery, You'll be 81% cents by and by. eee Peggy McClellan, the sole feminine | humorous writer at the universit, says the only poetry she ever reads is Captain Billy’s Whizbang. May we not recommend the Police Gazette? eee ‘Today's, candidate for the Poison Ivy club is the florist who raises the} price of carnations for Mothers’ Day. re “Why, you can't arrest me. never arrested heforg) Why, 1 wasn't going over six miles an hour. ‘The idea. Offi- cer, do you know who Iam?” I was see Gosh, we hope wé don't have to} carry this sugar boycott clear into strawberry shortcake season! see “Miss Aldrich Sleeps in Dog Ken- nel of Bandits.”—Headline, If she ever lived in an apartment she ought to feel right at home. eee Among your list of 10 favorite| books don't fail to mention Webster’s | old unabridged, which, in your in- fancy, enabled you to.reach the Jam on the top shelf. eee ea a | LI'L GEE ¢ cK, TE TH’ OFFICE } VAMP, SEZ: | at was th’ lawn mower that | | | figured first in public ownership. | & —o | ‘That fellow who climbed the Totem Pole yesterday has been eating ani. mal crackers again, see Raisin pickers in California are going to strike. This ought to be of currant interest, eee Little Willie Karwig, A greedy, naughty lad, Ate too much arsenic, And now he'a fecting bad, 4 President Harding says that if he was running The Marion Star to suit his own ideals, he would not have a police reporter on the paper. Who would he have to get him oft when he was pinched for speeding? by.The Star. | So there's The drawings. will be by comic” funny urday been has now famous negro stories have Evening Post, strip in which his H. Weston Taylor, foremost |magazine artist, who illustrated the Cohen stories for the | Saturday Evening Post. side-splitting strip. | Cohen is a master of plot, intrigue and funny situations, ‘and he has used his abflity to the limit in working out the} ‘new “comic.” “Tempus Tod id,” as it is entitled, unfolds, ‘Cohen writes’ The Star, one of the funniest and most con plicated stories he has eyer written. |get the beginning. Be sure n On Monday you'll ot ‘to miss it. ~ RAIL WORKERS GET MORE PAY teilog Workers, Boilermak- | ers, Mechanics Included CHICAGO, May endeayoring to hold workers during the summer, haye granted wage in- creases totaling approxim }000,000 yearly within the last few |weeks, according to figures com- piled here. fegbtiations now under way fn- volve advances of approximately $50,000,000 annually additional. The Great Northern the latest to Join ranks of lines in- creasing pay voluntarily. Announcement was made of in- |creases totaling $1,600,000 annually \for maintenance of way workers. Shop workers, jehanics, clerks and other such |classes of workers have been grant ed advances on other lines. Among | {railroads which had previously an- |nounced increases for certain work- men were the Santa Fe, Pennsyl- ania, Nashville, Chattanooga & |St. Louis and the Chicage & Alton. These increases were granted either voluntarily or thru negotla tions directly between union heads nd railroad officials without appeal |to the United States railroad labor board, see CHICAGO, “May 1 A’ wage ine crease of from 10 to 16 per cent for 5,000 and 96,000 clothing | o Was announced | nted diy an} |today. The award, g jarbitration committe unemployment insuranc to by employers he new scale and ingurance will be retroactive to May 1, The mini. mum wage of workers {» increased to $15 weekly. also 12, — Railroads, railroad fs} boilermakers, me: | carries | contributed | nd workers alike, | ROUNDING UP. Further Evidence Sought in |} Class Rush Death | CHICAGO, May 12.—Rtoundup of jal students who left Northwestern juniversity following the 1921 class y $20,-| rush in which Leighton Mount was | Withdrew*with prisoners they kid. |ldst seen, was started today by |deputies working under orders of Robert Crowe, state's attorney. Mount's body was recently found pier Into Michigan, @ short distance from the | university, Crowe Mho asked New |thorities to question Hotchkiss of that city under a reaching York au. regarding @ the freshman class in 1921, referring to his “terrible experience,” advising him to consult spiritial advisers and discouraged an apparent intention of suicide, SINK TRAP IS REAL TRAP FOR MAN WHO DUMPED HIS BOOZE W MALO. bartender at a soft rink sbop at 2217 , saw a bunch of polices 1k into the place Friday nd being’ a cautidus man, he dumped a stock of moonshine into the sink to pla cording to the offigers |] fooled him by disconnecting the |] sink ana captured encngh of the fluld i the trap to make a tent of its vontents, Malone ‘vay held in the city Jail gon an open charge Saturday a@uiting the re. port of the city chemist, io police | Al STUDENTS, Lake | Katherine} BE URGED ON CITY COUNCIL Will Be Considered by Body Monday; Erickson Says It {s Solution Jollar-weekly ns of settling a n problem, will upon the i} Mon puncilman Oliver he ann 1 Saturday This will be ing @ Jol don of the fir utilities ¢ two day One will favor the increase of street | rmer level of 10) tokens costing 8% cents, A second will favor the con tinuation of th and the third ts car fares to th cents cash, or nes an they are i urge a « 1) Tacoma entitled the riding thraout | week. The pass is transférable | TACOMA HAS HAD | PASS FOR 43 WEE ‘acoma is about to ter on os| | 42d week of the pass and recent fig |ures show that the salen reached 1 |500, Considering the difference in} |nizo between the two cities and ax |xaming that tho sama proportion of} jthe population ‘buy’. palieen, the }imles in Seattle should reach 40,000, | In addition there would t3 thé rev. enue of 10 cents cash from the tran- tient or the token at $14 cents from the infrequent car user, sald Erick non. | He pointed out that before the re- duction of street railway fares to 5 cents, the daily income waa $17,000 In round numbers, whereas now it has dropped to $12,000. | Erickson believes that the pass sys- tem will provide lower than 5-cent fares for those who use the cars to js largo extent, while those who do ‘not will bo no worse off than if the Seattle rights for this new comic have been purchased | pass-xystem was not adopted It will begin on Monday. an additional reason why you'll be saying _ |“That’s the fondest paper I'm of in this town! That’s the tno groator size of the b the Only paper I don’t want nothing else but.” He said that the paxs should have A greater appeal here than in Tacoma and Youngstown, Ohio, because of trict and the longer hauls necessi-| tated, MRS. MIRACLE TO SUPPORT PLAN |. Support for thé pasn ix expected | Tempus Todd, his girl Caramel and the Uppity Willie |from John Carrot and Mrs. Kath- na is | Bunion are some of the characters which witt appent in aa ryn Miracle, council members, Others (Tarn to Page 4, Getumn » TAKES FOOD T0 _ CHINA VICTIMS American, Released, Returns to Bandits’ Camp TIEN TSIN, May 12—2:10 p. m)—| J.-B. Henley, American from San Francisco, went back this afternoon | to the bandit camp in the Shantung | hills, whence he was released Friday, | carrying food for the forelgn captives } | stilt held, and terms on which the| |Chinese government proposes to né- gotlate with the brigands, Henley, permitted «to stronghold to leave the which the bundite naped “After the wrecking of the | Shanghal express Sunday morning, reported that the captives are in good | health. | High hopes are held out that he| will be able to negotiate successfully | for tho release of all prisoners by | Sunday at the latest | China’s military governors, consid- fering an ultimatum from the powers that they will exact accumulative in: | | demnities for each day the foreigners letter to J. Allen Mills, president of | are held, announce they are prepared | When employes of the circulation de-| won his case, and odds of two-to-one, \to pay whatever ransom the brig- jand« now. defhand. | At first the latter asked a million dollars, but after freeing their cap |tives in small groups or singly, they | |have considerably reduced their de: j mands, It is not known here what | amount {s placed on the heads of the | eight or ten foreign prisoners. i | Part of the brigand terms was | made known by Henley upon his ar-| rival at the nearest post outside the |hill country where the kidnaping horde rules, This is that the sloge which! is. being laid by government troops: about the brigand camp be lifted Immediately, | ‘The bandits also want the priviloge | of enlisting in the army or to receive the freedom of a 60-mile area in which they will be free from arrest or attack by troops. The Pinger and Allen were taken into the hills, |turned to their mothers herd, said they were well t not scared. They their expertences, boys, who! have re:| They ‘ed und were were proud of yusiness dis. |” | means—remembrance of mother.” | | tion Mothers’ day. | Austin E. | mother at the Griffiths’ ‘ho Margaret Ann Mere Ostentation, Deplored by the emessages from appreciati to by Price Observe Mothers” Fay ier opty In mere oxtentation, “artic one mms WATERHOUSE IS POISON LETTER clation, as the whole word prepares | to celebrate the beautiful new inter: | national holiday. Charges of profiteering by East- ern florists sncking to Jury Returns Verdict ‘avor- Mothers’ day have been met with a ing Shipping M. |response that doing something for mother’s Joy, nog mere flower Wear-} 4 verdict in ing, is the ob; The association | waterhouse * was is opposed to paying outrageous |) m Friday, in the sult of William prices for, carnations, ording tO | Taube, trustee in bankruptcy, its president, Anha Jarvis, founder yaingt the shipping than for $188,- 000 alieged to have been taken from of Mothers’ day. There in ‘only: one’ thing fmport- jeompany funds to pay for losses S¥8 Alls! sustained in the construction of the ant this daycof day remember | 1 Aquario. WINNER IN SUIT favor of: Frank returned at 3:20 Jarvis, "That is to mother, “Go home and see her if you are! away in? another town, Take her| Joy, If you can't do that,} ra breathless moment the crowded court, room was hushed as the clerk. paused after reading the ee | verdict. Then the restraint snapped, peseatinny peat ¢ rarethee ait |& spontaneous, but smothered cheer or spenk to her. by. telephone if’ thuit |"S™S out from the many friends of is posaible |the shipping man and his attor- “That. ts |neys. ‘There was a rush for the | exit to get outside in’ the corridors) where they. guye full vent to their enhusiasm, slapping’ each other on} to all parts of Europe and to Jap- an, China, Africa ang Palestine. Seay euler ys): i yciaeerg || REPT aI? | “Court what Mothers’ day Meanwhile, observance has spread | is still in session,” Judge! [ROBBERS RAID iii ce, COURT HAD RECESSED FOR HALF AN HOUR The climax of the case, the’ most important clyil action eariy Saturday morning heq in a Kix county court, came jor late Friday’ night and dragged a) with dramatic suddenness at 3:05) 760-pound safe from the circulation | p. m. ‘Thursday afternoon. Interest | containing $500, thru the | Among the one and followers} " ofthe case had lagged as it was Paper storeroom and dropped it ten | thought certain that a disagreement feet thru a trap door to the alley) would result. Judge Calvin 8, Hall level, where it was battered with | had left the court room shortly be- makeshift tools, including two or| fore 3 o'clock for a half hour's three flatirons, | ree The xafe, aside from being battered, ‘Then came the rap from the was not damaged, and the yeggmen | Jurors’ room and the announcement were unable to force the combina |that a yerdict had been reached. There was no evidence that|The news seemed to spread on the torches Had 't used or that a/Wings of tho alr as the crowds charge, of nitro-glycerine had been | Started coming from-all points of exploded. the compass. It is believed that the criminals) During the 15 minutes that inter: were frightened away by passersby |vened until Judge Hall returned, a before completing their work. crowd had gathered that packed the Entry was forced to the building | court room. Attorneys for Laube thru a rear door under the paper|were confident that the verdict had Storeroom and up into the room thru |been favorable to their side, and the a trap door, The safe had been |impression among the crowd all fa- dragged 75 feet to the spot where it] vored Laube's suit, It seemed gon: was found early Saturday morning | erally accepted that the plaintiff had STAR OFFICE, Safe crackers forced entry to ‘The | ar office department, partment missed it, | were offered orthat result with no Ch eon a RTO takers, After the verdict it was learned that since the start the majority of the jurors had favored Waterhouse. Tho first count stood eight to four for the defendant, Six ballots were taken, the vote alternating between (Turn to Page 4, Column ) Cruiser Omaha Is Now. Record Holder SAN FRANCISCO, May 12.—The scout cruiser Omaha today held the World's record for sustained speed for Vousels of ‘all types. ‘The lean battler came jauntily )thru the Golden Gate late Friday aft. ternoon from Pearl Harbor, Hawiall, and dropped anchor after setting a aunning mark from port to port of 75 hours, 40 minutes. Tho previous record for the same distances Was 100 hours, $1 minutes, sot by the H. I, Alexander, DO YOU WANT THIS ONE? Here is another home that some one has been waiting for, A all payment down and the bal- ance in small monthly pay: ments, ONLY 0 CASTE AND YOU MAY MOVE RIGHT IN BRAND NEW BUNGALOW large i coment garage r Turn to the WANT.AD. columns NOW and see who jis Offering this home. Here's a homey scene, typical Griffiths, is “saying it w ith flowers” fident of the Ameri EX-CHAMPION of the spirit that marks Griffiths, daughter of Judge to her Mrs. me, 801 22d. ave. N. Griffiths, the charming mother of five children, is one of | Day’ Ss Founder [ease Seattle, mothers who will be.houored tomorrow. by |! {low ve sons and daughters, Carter, Star Staff Photographers WRITER SOUGHT 'Has Terrorized New York’s Society Circles ‘EW YORK, X York’s inner social circles vided today as District Attdrney | Banton pushed investigation of pol- son pen letters that have wrecked | homes, caused insanity and driven recipients to suicide over a period | of 10 years. | Some of the victims, terrorized wives of tortured’ husbands, want to | follow the bold lead of Allan A.| Ryan, son of Thomas Fortune Ryan, and fight in the open. They would risk exposure of the’ “poison pen's” | falso charges rather than let the | perpetrator of the scheme escape. Others among those who have re- ceived letters telling horrible tales of friend or spouse wish to continue | to suffer in silence rather than hav: the pitiless spotlight of publfcity turned on their, lives. Banton, probing the sending of 150 of these “poisoned” letters, said |the publicity given the matter by | Indictment of Georga Maxwell, pres: | n Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, | on a charge of writing a scurrilous letter concerning Mrs, Allan A. Ryan, has hampered the authorities in their investigation. Persons who might furnish valu- able information now fear what they | tell will get into: the papers and many who are wanted as witnesses are leaving town. But Ryan, confident of his wife's innocence of “poison pen" charges, insisted on a fight to @ finish, de-| claring he would throw his entire | fortune into running down the| writer or writers, and started an in- | vestigation which Banton hopes will | end with the jailing of those guilty. | Maxwell, in Europe, has denied | thru his attorney, any guilt in con- rection with charges against him, 76 CASES OF | BEER SEIZED) Raiding a concrete gurage at the| rear of a house at 2916 Franklin ave,, Saturday morning, a police dry squad seized a large Packard. automobile and 76 cases of Canadian beer. ‘The owner of the auto was being hunted Saturday. The booze cache had been unload ed from a boat earlier in, the morn- ing, according to Chief of Police W. B, Severyns, and stored in the ga- rage. The garage had been rented some time ago by a man who posed. As a salesman. The garage was one of three, standing cide by side. Wenatchee Road Hearing Date Set WASHINGTON, May 12.—Hear- ings on application of tho Wenatchee Southern railroad to. construct a new line will be held July 22 at Wenatchee, Washington, — before Commissioner Aitchison, the inter: state commerce commission an nounced today. Hearings on adequacy of tran: portation facilities in the Northwest Pacific states will be held July 30 at Spokane, \fell on | aw and McAuliffe went down, bo BEATS 1OWAN IN COME-BACK Willard Is Winner in Big Ring Mix; Firpo Wins from McAuliffe Easily YANKEE STADIU May 12.—With primitive man, New York, the brute force of , Jess Willard, formor stopped Floyd young heavyweight, lth round in his 16-round here today. After world’s champion, } Johnson, Jat the | bout | | taking the worst beating |that ever had been seen since the days of Battling N n, Johnson his face when the gong llth round, and his see surrendered. ended the onds Charles Cook, manager and chief § second to Johnson, told Referee Ap pel that his game youngster waa | unable to continue, and the round was stopped. For eleven rounds, Johnson, show= ing almost superhuman gameness | under punishment that would have — withered anything but the heart of the most courageous lion, went down | to defeat, eee YANKEE STAD! York, May 12.—Luis ¢ South American ¢ young Jack McAuliffe ‘rp, the bout here this afternoon by the sheer force of his caveman right swing. It took the South American — two rounds and a third to ger away from the tantalizing left hand the clever McAuliffe kept in his face, Just before the second round ended, Firpo landed a right to the” |be saved by the bell, McAuliffe came back gamely ine the third but Firpo put over an: other right that floored him forthe count of three. Groggy and outs his feet, McAuliffe rose and staggered toward Firpo the American cut loose two terrific rights — to the jaw that sent McAuliffe the floor for the count. : Tirpo picked up his op: gathering him in his i1ms Ike 7 nile. He’ carried him to his ne |ana placed’ him, a limp mass, in his chair, Tex Rickard, atter the fight, thured over the showing of Fit "There is the net heavyweight twnpion, suco as anything. Soe renumber whir I say 4 Firpo was given a tremendou ovation when he left the ring as he walked thru.the dense cro he replied in Spanish tothe ovat McAuliffe was revived in his ¢ ner and was able to leave the unsupported, He and Firpo leaving the ring, and Firpo embt his defeated rival. ROUND 1 Firpo landed right to the body left hooks to the jaw. McAuliffe countered with hard right to the body. Firpo got over a_ terrific rigl swing to the body that made Auliffe gasp. Firpo, becoming raged, tore. into McAuliffe knocked him back on the ropes witl a right to the bod, ‘i McAuliffe kept carrying the fight to Firpo and enraging the Sout American with tantalizing left to the face. Firpo missed many of his | swings and clinched at close qua | ters. McAuliffe jabbed lefts to the m = and Firpo sent him back on his h with a right to the face. McAutiff rocked Firpo with hard lefts to face as the round ended. ROUND 2 Firpo rushed out of hig corner landed left ‘to McAuliffe's mou drawing blood. MoAuliffe — jabb Firpo four times with lefts to face. McAuliffe, boxing ‘like a Corbe had the South American at sea he kept looking at his corner. ~ McAuliffe missed a left swh Firpo nearly floored McAuliffe Re 3 a right to the chest, McAulitfo wat dancing away from Firpo and hi narrowly missed a terrific right uj pereut from the South American, — McAuliffe jabbed left twice to: face and Firpo sent him back” a hard right to the body. Firpo glared fiercely at the yor ster and tore him. ROUND 3 Firpo rushed out of his corner ai [missed a right swing for the hei MoAuliffo still seemed depressed a kept poking away with the leftay McAuliffe was floored for the coun ‘of two with a right swing to the Jay and went down from a left to the jand took the count. McAuliffe counted out in : (Turn to Page 4, Column 3)