The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 14, 1923, Page 1

Showers mo ¢ ‘Tompera' Maximum, 61, jonight ture Last 24 and Twesday, Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoftice at tle, Wash, The Seattle Star under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, vy Mail, $3.60 HO ME) Em HOME Ti 25 25. NO. 67, SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, MAY 14, 1923. * TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. “Svengali of Svengali? pell of this strange man Pil iit stints isi ssiieteLiitesasieesessttetssistii bests isisesieiiitstitssestestitiatistiessiscststetiiiecsttitititiecstitisstestestststresesrseretettetesetreeeeetertettt seesesssessssse Are Ruling Italy Eyes” BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS OME, May 14,—Is Benito Mussolini, prime minister of Italy, a strange, new kind 8 eyes? And is Italy playing the role of Trilby—an entire nation under the Tonight I interviewed Mussolini and I confess I am inclined to believe this more than half true. Affairs fore. From the moment I entered his amazing office in the new Foreign building here, I had this feeling—a sensation I remember having only once be- That was when I interviewed Mme, de Thebes, the celebrated sorcer Ss of Paris, now dead, in her mysterious room hung all ‘round with black velvet and lighted only by the glow from crystal globes used in her practice of Black Magic. I have interviewed kings and emperors, presidents and princes, premiers, dictators and all manner of men and women, bat Mussolini impressed me as none of these im- pressed me. HE'S “DIFFERENT” STATESMAN , I mean he is different from any statesman I ever saw, as different as night from I have talked with political leaders whose profundity impressed me more, whose ideas seemed to me to be fundamentally more sound and in, whose hands I would prefer to see placed the destiny of my own land. But I have seen none other like Mussolini, the man with the hypnotic eyes, “black magic” statesman of Italy, the man who stares at the citizens of his country, from king on down the line, and they all sing to his bidding—as Svengali made Trilby sing in the romance which everyone has read. Does Mussolini realize his | ypnotic power? He must Howdy, folks! Yesterday was Mother's day. Seattle mothers celebrated by off work at 1630 p. ut. . ‘A mother is a person who believes you are beautiful, even {f you have cross-eyes and freckles, eee A mother is also a person who thinks you ought to cat carrots be- cause they are good for the complez- ton. ‘The emblem of Mother's day was & carnation. Personally, we think itshould have been a brown johnny- cake—piping hot, eres THE GLORY OF MOTHERHOOD Qfother's day was celebrated in most Seattle homes, The morning program was as follows): 7:30—Ma, where's my clean shirt? 740—Ma, who's been using my toothbrush? $:00—Ma, will ya cook me some more pancakes? $:30—Ma, make Charlie stop pick- in’ on me. 9:00—Ma, where did you hide my overcoat 9:30—Ma, I'll be back late tonight; don’t stay up for me. eee Safe-crackers broke into The Star office last week, but could not get away with any money. We have a feflow feeling for those chaps: been trying the same thing for years. . There's been a boycott on Kosher meat, There's been a boycott on sugar so aweet: But the boycott that has me worried a lot , Is-the case of measles my little boy- cott, oe Who wil bo the first to enter his razor in Home Erew's great non- strop contest? . oe Gosh, the end of school is only a) month away, and we can hardly wait to hear those commencement speeches! eee CAPITALIST Mayor Brown, it is reported, controls thousands of acres of oll lands in Alaska. He also controls a large part of Seattle’s natural gas supply. eee It is said the Eskimos have no natural taste for sugar, Lucky Es- kimos! . Speaking of corn likker, it is sald that hell hath no fury like a woman corned, © GRAPHIC SECTION Pa $e | | | | ‘This is @ full-dength photograph Ed the sporting editor who, at the be- ginning of the baseball season, pre- dicted that Seattle would be well up in the first division. o-* Something tells us that all sport eds began their career ax weather observers. Otherwise, how they always guess wrong? nee 4nd what has become of all those (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) could | Grows for New Fare System By John W. Nelson On the verge of passing an ordl- nance providing for the return of street car fares to § 1-3 cents, sentl- ment was rapidly developing in the elty council Monday morning for the inauguration of a weekly pass plan of street railway financing, and it Seemed possible that the pass system might be adopted. Only the fear of Superintendent of |W. Henderson that the weekly pass | will not provide sufficient revenue to pay the obligations of the street rail way delay the immediate adoption of the weekly pass plan. TWO HOLD OUT FOR PASS PLAN Two council mombers insist that the weekly one dollar pass be adopt- jed immediately. They are Council- |man Oliver T. Erickson and Council- | woman Kathryn Miracle, and both jsald they would vote in favor of the | minority report of the utilities com mittee when !t came before the coun- cil Monday afternoon. This report, signed by Chairman Erickson of the | utilities committee, favors the instal- lation of the pass system simultane- ously with the return to the higher car fare. | Councitman A. Lou Cohen said that he believes the weekly pass plan can | be made to operate successfully and that /{t should be adopted after the street railway system has been put |back on a self-sustaining basis. | Cohen says that the first thing to do (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) Keep Your Eye on Bargains Every day in the Want Ad columns many articles are dis- posed of at sacrifice prices, due to quick changes, etc., etc. The wise shopper has been taught long ago that he can save money here. You, too, can share these little savings if you first look at the bargains that are listed there. Shop in the Want Ads be- fore you shop. RAILWAY PASS f Council Sentiment Utilities George F. Russell and Su-| perintendent of Street Raflways Dave | ! The first thing that met Whenever right for him much now ry “Flowing a gripping novel by Rex ach, based on the post-war oil boom in ‘Texas, is a-thrill with episodes in which the “bad man" meets his match. Turn to page 21 and read. WASTES MONEY, DIES IN JAIL Thomas Powers, Left For- tune, Spends All But 20c BY S. B. GROFF After wasting a fortune estimated at between $50,000 and $100,000, Thomas Powers, pout 50, scion of lan old and wealthy family of the | Northwest, was found dead in a |eell at the city jail Sunday morn- ing with but 20 cents left in his pockets, Death, according to the coroner, was due to actite alcohol ism. For tho p | t 10 years Powers had tel, according to 0. manager of the hotel. He had been jdrinking heavily for many years and was a familiar character to the police, Powers and his sister, Mrs. 5. F. Chary, at the death of their mother, Mra, Kelly, Seattio pioncer, 10 years ago, inherited her estate. valued at aver $100,000, Powers proceeded to waste his inheritance ‘n lavish fashion, culminating {n his death Sunday, Powers was arrested at Kirst ave. and Virginia st. Saturday night and was taken to the city hospital. He was in a violent condition at that time, according to hospl*al authorit- ies, and after treatment was taken to jail, as all the padded cells in tho hospital were full. Sunday morning when a jailor made the rounds he found Powers lying face downward on the floor of the cell dead, He nas no rela- |tives, except his brother-in-law, E. | F. Cleary of Vancouver, Wash. Mrs. [Cleary died recentl L. Anderson, FIVE PERSONS DEAD IN FIRE ALDEN, Minn, May 14.— persons, including four childre burned to death and two others were injured when finn destroyed the August Fethke farmhouse here today. re jbeen living at the Livingstone ho-| | | | | Try Out the | PLANE CRASH Pass System (EDITORIAL) HE city council, by. all means, should try out the pass plan on our municipal car system if and when it abandons the 5-cent fare. These passes, costing $1 each, would entitle the holder to unlimited riding on the municipal lines for one week. They would be freely transferable. The Star never has advocated the pass plan as a “solution” of Seattle’s street car problem. But The Star for more than a year has urgently presented the idea as a means of giving many Seattle car patrons a great deal of additional service for the same expenditure of money. If we are to go back to a three-for-a-quarter fare, the time will be most appropriate for testing out the pass system. Tacoma and in various Eastern cities. It has been used with fine results in Seattle street railway patrons are entitled to its benefits if it has benefits to. confer. British Note Makes German Marks Sink LONDON, 14.—German ‘marks dropped to 215,000 to the pound ste ling on the London exchange toda |in response to Great Britain's note to Germany regarding reparations ‘The note'advised tlie Cuno govern- ment that its latest proposals were inadequate and suggested a larger stim than 30,000,000,000 marks, with adequate guarantees be offered. Italy also sent a. supplementary eply tothe German, proposals and censured Germany for not making an offer that could be satisfactory sls for negotiation: Senator Johnson Travels in Ruhr PARIS, May 14.—Senator Hiram Johnson, of California, trayeled incog- nito thru the Ruhr but refused to dis- cuss what he saw upon arrival here, Johnson is going to London shortly. Pennsylvania Crude Oil Drops 25 Cents PITTSBURG, Pi ay 14.—Penn- sylyania crudo oil reduced 25 ceffts a barrel today, bringing the new price to $3.25. In addition to tho Pennsylyania re- duction, other eastern grades were reduced as follows: Corning, 15 cents a barrel; Somer- sét, Nght and medium, 20 cents; Rag- land, 10 cents, and Cabell, 26 cents. Tho Ohio Oil company announced a reduction in Zima, Indiana, Ill- nol, Princeton, Plymouth, Waterloo and Wooster grades of 10 cents, UYERS’ STRIKE ON CARNATIQNS NEW YORK, May 14.—-A “buy> ers' strike” resulted when profiteer- ing florists elevated the price of car- nations from a dime to 60 cents, be- eause of the Mother's day demand. my eyes as I came ashore at picture of the until I could make out what i scisti leader, a picture so extraordina: Whole Nation Feels the Hypnotism of Mussolini Brindis t was all about. The head w , way down in Southern Italy, was a billboard that it held me spellbound inclined forward just a trifle and from under beetling brows two enormous black eyes, the whites showing all around, hug exaggerated eyes that stared straight at you and into you and thru you precisely like the hypnotic stage pictures of Wilton Lackaye as Svengali. PICT’ URES SEEN EVERYWHERE All over Brindisi I kept finding myself sniped at from the ambush of every fence I could well imagine the effect this might have on the and wall by those two orbs. ignorant and less sophisticate ed peasants of the country. My sole object in coming to Italy was to see and talk with the remarkable owner of those the man who had turned Italy, almost over night, into an armed camp ready to do his bidding—the man who marched on Rome with a powerful army at his back and “took” it without firing a shot, took it and forced the king to do his will—the man who dissolved parliament and made his word supreme, For that is Mussolini himself. what Mussolini did and nobody is more keenly aware of this fact than He openly boasts that he has but to wave his hand and 160,000 “Black Shirts”— Fascisti soldiers—will snap into action and obey his slightest word. TOMORROW: In Svengali Mussolini's workshop. Simms will give you a “close- up” of this statesman with the hypnotic stare. London - to - Paris| Craft Catches} Fire in Midair AMIENS, France, May 11.— Six persons were burned to death when a London:to-Paris. passen- ker aeroplane caught fire.in mid- alr asul crashed to earth, today. eee The last serious accident on this air route, which is used by many | Americans traveling between the French and British capitals, occurred when two planes collided in midair and fell in flames. Tho. speed of the Journey, two hours and 15 minutes, has made the Jair lino increasingly popular, espe- Jelally with business men from the | United States, and an average of 10] a day take planes for Paris or Lon. don, The cost has been reduced and the luxury and safety of the ma- chines increased. Ono Ameri ras umong the pas- sengers, who were burned as the big plano fell flaming to the ground. He |was Laurence Schwab, of Oclrichs & Co, TAKE MONEY T0 CHINA OUTLAWS Will Conclude Negotiations for Freeing Victims SHANGHAI, May 14, —Pirates traveling as passengers attacked tho officers and crew of the Chinese steamer Tiassun, out of Hongkong for Shanghai, and secured: $6,000 in loot, after severely wounding the chief officer. s ee . BY RAY G. MARSHALL PEKIN, May 14.—G p, m)—An expedition of government officials, amply provided with money, is due in Lincheng tonight to conclude ne- gotiations with the bandits who kid- naped foreigners and natives from the Pekin express May 6. ‘Tho officials are heavily guarded, no chances being taken on other bandits seizing the ransom money. It {s learned from reliable author. ity that the bandits originally de- manded $50,000 ransom fcr eaeh for- eign captive and $5,000 for each Chihese, but because several of the (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) pt ‘ pA in ‘Comic’ Now The at the bot tom of pa: is the new feat “Tempus Todd,” which Octavus Roy Cohen, jaturday Evening Post humorist, and H. Weston Taylor, magazine illus- trator, have worked out for The Star and a selected list of news papers in other cities, It is going to bring in all the funny negro characters which the Cohen stories have made famous, and is itself going to tell a New Cohen story, one of the funniest and most intricate which that master of plot has ever evolved. You will want to follow this from day to day, never missing an installment. The adventures of Tempus’ taxi are going to make all Se- attle talk. Cohen's slang will soon be current everywhere in these parts. . “Comis strip one tod By the way, are you reading Rex Beach's “Flowing Gold"? ‘You're missing something good if you aren’t. RUSS REJECT BRITISH TERMS) Break Between | Two Coun- tries Is Now Feared LONDON, May 14.—Russia has rejected the terms of the British ultl- matum, in the view of Leonid Kras- sin, interviewed by the Daily Mall's Berlin correspondent. Krassin, head of the soviet trade delegation here, 1s coming to London to wind up affairs of that organiza. tion in anticipation of a break. The Russian reply to the British note, which demanded satisfaction on the subjects of seizure of British trawlers, expectations of the clergy and propaganda was handed to a representative of Great Britain Sat- urday. It is understood to propose a conference at which Russia-British difficulties can be ironed out. Alameda Merchants Join Sugar Boycott ALAMEDA, Cal, May 14.— Mer- chants of Alameda have joined with the City Housewives’ league in a fight against the high price of sugar, The merchants have agreed, ac- cording to Mrs. Kate Hoover, prest- dent of the league, not to use sugar “leads” in their advertisements and will abandon customary special in- ducements to buy sugar, f. VE! La) BUYS ME AN AUTOMOBILE AND TEMPUS TODD To Buy or Not to SEE THAT ADVERTISE MENT WHICH Buy 1 HAS BEEN WAITING SIX WEEKS FOR SOMEBODY TO ADVERTISE AUTOMOBILE FOR SALE FOR JUST HOW, MUCH MONEY I HAD Story by Octavus Roy Cohen AN Illustrations by H. Weston Taylor AND MY MOTTO WILL BE- "RIDE IN MY TAXICA! TIME AND YOU'LL NE’ ONE in Two Counti in Vast Storm SWEETWATER, Texas, 14.—Fire broke out at were not given in a call from the stricken town ask for all aid possibte, including tors and nurses. oe COLORADO, Tex., May 14- Twenty-five persons were estimated after a survey. The Colorado sanitarium filled with injured who are ing rushed here from the area, a Many of the injured are serious condition and are ey to die. The cyclone ripped thru and Howard counties in the panhandle, while residents were sti in thelr beds, leaving death ‘al destruction in its wake, The cyclone swept thru two ec Ues, cutting a wide swath, and on in a north E: reotlen, oe Dead and Injured were here and to other nearby Cooper declared a definite ch the casualties could not pleted for several hours, Many of the dead are child according to Cooper, who the cyclone cut a path one n (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) Coroner to Probe Death Man Found in Woods © A thoro investigation of the terious hanging of an fi man in a forest near Auburn W well under way Monday by Coro W. H. Corson, Chief Deputy Corone T. Frank Koepfli and Deputy Co oner H. B. Kennedy, followin discovery of the body Sunday noon by Charles Bischofberg: ranchei Bischofberger, with his daughter, followed a small had attracted their attention times in the last week by ‘The dog led them to the sp the man was swinging air from a tree bough. ger then notified tho coroner. Deputy Coroner H. B, vestigated Immediately, man's clothing had been eral places as tho to remo n cation marks, His ‘hat band been cut also, and the man's featu had been marred, ae While it was admitted that man could have removed the ma himself before hanging himself, oner W. H. Corson ordered tensive investiation into,the determine whether or not fot had been comraitted. The body not cut down Sunday, but was fully examined Monday, Appat ly the body had been hanging to th tree for at least three weeks, clothed In a work sult, blue brown hat and army shoes