The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 15, 1923, Page 1

—iiceipennnmeriniapiiania tipster ‘ment to us. __ WEA rs tonig ” ferate Temperature Last Mi Hours Maximum, 5 Minimum, Today noon, 57 ght a THER i Wedr ait fo ad. uthe aL. Entered as Second Matter May 2, 1899, at the P toffies at Beattie, Wash der the Act ef Congress March 3, 18 9. Por Year, Ly Mail, $3.60 The Seattle Star AOR TO OUST FIRE CHIEF! , MAY “15, "192: y, folks! Mother's day. This day. Sunday is was Ironing Photoplay now sh ts called “Adam's Rib wasn't © out of Ad: was 2 out of Why no’ rease fares Mon- and Fridays, days, Wednesday lower fares Tuesday Trip No. I—Take street car to Third and James and wa ccuncil raising for street car fares. Very tive for the kiddies. Trip No. 2—Drive to top of Queen Anne hill. Father can amuse himself for hours trying to find his way down again. Trip No. 3—Why not an ear- wig hunt—right in the middle of the city? Trip No. 4—Visit the city jail. How to get there: Tap a cop gently on the dome with a brick. (Or cobblestone, if preferred) instruc: New comic strip in The Star relates the adventures of Tempus Todd. Wonder if this gentleman is any re- lation to Tempus Fugit? “I'm beginning to miss my hus- band,” sald Mrs. Murphy as the roll- ing pin grazed her husband's head and hit the wall PEPER Ava LITTLE GEE EE, TH’ OF- FICE VAMP, SEZ: . I don’t believe these young | | fellas are worth th’ hairnets we » Waste upon them. = Now is the time to begin resting up for your summer vacation. ee 8 Cleveland Associated Charities are out with a family budget which pro- vides for a $17 sult for father every two years. It would be tough luck if father should get out in the rain on} the first day he wears that $17 suit, “* None of these scientific budgets ever seem to carry any provision for a breach-of-promise suit for father. eee STYLE NOTE Purple, green, red, yellow, blue and pink shoes are now ithe fashion. Some Seattle woman will go erazy trying to get a taxicab to harmonize with the color of her shoes. o* With women wearing shoes of vari- ous colors, a color-blind bootblack might as well resign. - Important Jobs: Inventing names for Pullman cars and colors for Se- attle taxicabs. . Another Style Note: The Kentucky Derby, dear Alice, is run, not worn. ee The list of the 12 greatest Amert-| can women selected by the League of Women Voters is a great disappoint-| Eva Tanguay ween even mentioned. ANOTHER ONE OF THEM WEEKS | The week of June 25 is to be Meat Economy week. Every week is Meat Economy week for the restaurants. “ee The way Babe Ruth socks a base- ball, no wonder it makes ‘em soar. *-* “Oh, I just love art,” said the soulful maid, And she heaved a soulful sigh. “Art who?” asked Li'l Gee Gee, “1 don't believe I ever met the guy. “ee A woman's work is never done, be- cause when she has nothing else to do she has her hair marcelled. ee * Eve induced Adam to eat, but he took a drink of his own accord. . o- YE DIARY (May 14) ‘Took ye family night to dinner at ye Butler coffee house on ye Mlalto, as ye heme being enlsomined. Ard « pet parrot, which perched In a cage above our table, did keep up @ running fire of comment on ye pretty chorus Savage, yo proprietor, and get it » job as dramatic eritie on ye paper, for it do have ye true vooabulary and heain of a eritie, tho, heaven help me, L mean wo slander to yo parrot. —% | PEOPLE DIFFERENT THEN, |_aaaR Re alls Times He| Shot Tails Off By Lester M. Hunt NCLE JOE SURBER, Seat 8 first chief of pblice, imy | when men were and at times with great ef counted experiences of th officers before Seatt police was a city | “ Joe” he ts slowly that the stre left his wi ered limbs, that his ey nce that | of one of the greatest markamen in ithe Northwest, is dimming, and that J bis ve does not ring as it did when he went North with the stur dy seekers after fortune in the Fra zer river gold rush, t hig mind is clear and his of humor as keen as it was when he received his salary four does not re He on rs’ faithful service as —$6. MILY SMILES | THRU TEARS | Doctors told members of the y Tuesday that “Uncle Joe not be with them long. brought tears to the who have loved the jovial p t they emiled that he might not the ow in their hearts. Sut there was no sorrow of the old farmh: Joe is preparing the greatest adventure of all. smiled as a anger entered, greeted him warm He and | 's first chief of | he remarked with a amile.| 47 “I may not look like it, lying here |on my back, but I was.” Technically, ho was also Seattle’ «| dition and tells about the money he made in the old days first fire department, Ho obtained the| when job of nigh} watchman for fires and/| held that place during the time he Wag chief of poilce, “I was the whole police depart-| ment and the fire department, too,| you might say,” he continued. “I had to work on other jobs on the} side to make any money, tho. In| 1866, when I was chief of police,| they only paid mo for arresting men} who were later fined. I got $3 for each and made two during the four | years I was chief. | THEY WERE HONEST | “People were different in those days, They were honest. There was not much work to do except keep jthe peace. I arrested lots of fel- |lows and kept them in. jail over. night, but turned them loose the next morning. I didn't get paid for to Page 9, Cotamn 1) tained Vote Anti-Alien Memorial Measure SACRAMENTO, Cal, May 15.— Senator Will R. Sharkey’s memorial to congress favoring absolute exclu. sion from admittance into the Unit- ed States of ali aliens who are j ineligible to become citizens, was carried by a unanimous vote of the assembly here yesterday. Someone Has Been Waiting for This One Perhaps you haven't found of Mow trary that it* the BUSINE 38 OFFERS HIS HOT WAT HEATED HOME IN NORTH |h | | room home, if deal can be made early this week. Large living and dining rooms, with built-in features, fireplace, fall cabinet kitchen, extra toilet and lava- sory downstairs; cement base- ment with Arco hot water heat ing plant; 3 g00d bedrooms up- stairs and ‘abundant. storage apace, y ate. ete. Turn to the’ Want Ad colemne Now and see more about this home. | said he ON PAVED | STR ET, FOR $3, mann, ¥ $560-CASH avid thi Fn MONTHLY || Including interest, buys this ¢- || youth Here's “Unele Joe” who, in spite of the fact that physicians tell the family | he is not.long for this life, makes light of his enfeebled con-| THE END AP PROAC HES Surber, first chief of police of Seat-| he won 50-cent bets ” whee the tails off of Henry CHICAGO, in a nt, under a pier nearly a year disappearance, Crowe, the grand jary ing theory will continue. Henry Warren, the 12-year-old boy | who found the bones, said that con- ly, expert on mental questions, Mount was the type of a might secrete and then commit suicide. In the meantime, however, Conklin Fitch, roommate of Mount, was held in custody pending further } questioning. at who | Yesler’s pigs. STUDENT DEATH |VACCINATION IS MAY BE SUICIDE But Slaying Theory Is Still | Being Investigated May of the death of Leighton Mount has strength Northwestern committed suicide, state's attorne d the University In the investigation Crowe ques- tfoned Intimate friends and advisers whose skeleton was found Lake» Michigan and a half after his however, sald probe of the slay- in to police reports, were piled upon the skeleton and s‘lying on the surface. Steinborn, a Christian practitioner whom Mount home you have been looking for eaiur Well, this one should suggest || *°Pc? |] = real home for you. consulted, said the boy upset and was brooding previous to * disappearance. Dr, Clarence Fitch, uous questioning for three days, Evidence . ob. secret theory Robert E. Crowe, announced today. who at “knew all about the Mount | case,” later retracted his story. | Fitch has now been under contin- |Health Departinent Forces Action in School Compulsory vaccination in “Leach Was en- probe | forced school Tuesday. that the/ freshman were told they must submit to it or to be sent home, there in for 21 Many |falled to return for the afternoon | teasion. remafh quarantine days, the city board of health which sup- plied each pupil with a mineograph- @d notice to parents making known its purpose to insist on vaccination. Tho notice bore a rubber stamp jsignature of M. E. Durham, the |principal, Mr. Durham sald he let |the board frame the notice because hg had no stenographer. 1t follows: ‘o the Parent or Guardian; The city board of health has ordered that all children attending this |achool be vaccinated. If you refuse jto bave your child vaccinated the |board of health will put the child in jauarantine for 21 days. If you con- |sent to vaccination, please sign be- | low. “M. E, DURHAM, | ‘inoipal.”* The city board of hea’th's action followed the discovery of an ailment in'one of the Lescht grades which way called smallpox. There was one cane. Children’ whore parente elect not have them vaccinated will be | | kept at home under quarantine with & warning sign on the house ind. cating that t have been exposed to a disease, Parents and others of the houscholl may come and go in spite of the restrictions applying to the children, the atty health de- partment said, no rocks had been A. New: himself | Roscoe +5 first BOARD'S ORDER Pupils who had not been vaccinated | This follows action on the part of | F irs Seattle Police Chie Dying 36 KILLED IN [A Spe URBER MAKE : ME RRY AS STORM AREA; 100 MISSING |Two States Swept | by Tornadoes; Rushing Help to Sufferers ST. LOUIS, Mo. May Seventeen are known dead an undetermined number, mated between 50 and 100, are | missing in the storm-swept re- | gion around Hot Spri Ark., according to informat re ceived at headquarters of the Missouri Pacific railroad A relief expedition was dis patched from here today, but railroad officials feared wash- outs ong the right-of-way would prevent the train from reaching Hot Springs. o 19 KILLED IN TEXAS STORM BY REMY M. COX COLORADO, Texas, May 15. —With a known death toll of | 19 and with 78 seriously injured, | Including a score of little chil- stricken little town spent a night of horror, A cyclone, which swept south and, east of here yesterday, filled the local sanitarium with injured and dying until it was necessary to make temporary hospitals out of the Baptist and Methodist churebes and all thru the night in these three scenes of death Colorado's peo- ple_worked to save their neigh- bors. Fifty-one of thr most seriously | ane are belng cared for at the Baptist church. At least 10 of theve may die. The, improvised hospitals contain- ed pitiful evidence of the tragedy wrought by tho storm, | Two Mexican babies, unhurt, slept |side by side on an improvised cot jin. the Baptist church, unaware jthey were unidentified and un- claimed. | Another Mexican babe, born when (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) ‘FLOOD TRAPS | MANY VICTIMS LITTLE ROCK, Ark. May 15. —A report from Benton today said that railway repair crews | which had reached the edge of a washout near Hot Springs brought back a story of 17 deaths in the storm, They said there were four feet of water in the railway station at Hot Springs. No trains have arrived hero from Hot Springs since the flood. ‘The little resort city Hes in three | valleys, formed by as many moun- tains. When the cloudburst came, it spilt the city in three sections. Wafer in torrents swept along the three main boulevards thru the heart of the town. Store buildings collapsed from the foree of the raging torrents in the streets and thousands of dollars of j Merchandise was swept away. Motorists who stuck to their automobiles were tossed into the swirling waters. Several of these are believed to have drowned. Frantic appeals for aid were dispatched from Hot Springs be- fore the wire service had been completely knocked out last night. One of these reports stated that ‘description was impos- sib Shortly afterwards it was impos: sible to communicate with the city. Van Buren, Ark. near Fort Smith, (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) 4. cial Me ssage From Chief Seattle TO SEATTLE Dear Sirs: HOTEL MEN The civic committees which-are working on the entertainment of tourists tell me that there are certain desk clerks in certain leading Se who if true, at on the offending abitually hotels, unnecessary. discourteous to strangers. is a public shame, and ought to be corrected I'm going to begin printing the nam if the practice § and if that doesn’t promptly bring results, the names of the offending individuals. hotels This, ttle of doesn’t ce: Please m CHIE ake these steps tATTLE, Protests Personnel of | Harding Committee Here : \Ballaine Intimates. Joslin J May Keep Presi- | ery. dent From Sailing From Seattle | WASHINGTON, May 16. Presi dent Harding will leave Warhington for his Alaskan trip on June 20, it was offictally oun at the Wh House today. Tho official spokeseman said it had been “defi nitely settled” that the president would make the trip. Note Sent Chamber A letter of ¥ the y mitte | Alaska be house, of the Seattle Commerce, for the Harding party was voiced in a letter nent to Mr | Waterhouse Tuesd John B.! “| Ballaine, leading ing in Seattle. Mr. Ballaine’s letter carries an in. timation that Seattle might not be selected ax the port of departure for ause of intrigue in which Mr. Joslin had figured, Following is the letter: Seattle, May 44, 1923. nk Waterhouse, President, tle Chamber of Commerce, Se Wash, Sir: Mr, Faleon Jo: mong the men appointed by a8 a reception committee tain the presid nd party on their : (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) Alaskan now liv in you to enter. nis financing the port of Seattle expan- sion program, if necessary, declared |members of the port commission Tuesday morning in outlining thelr plan of action for the acquisition of the Skinner & Eddy site No. 2. The announcement followed: that of the port commissioner's offer of $600,000 in bonds or cash to the United States shipping board and the guarantee to build an immigra- tion station costing between $200,000 and $250,000. Port officials listed five or six | ways in which the money could be} raised, based upon the advice of at- torneys who have studied the ques- on, They declined to specify any particular plan as the one to be foi- | 1 | | While the city council by a vote of seven to two, passed the 81-3 cent carfare ordinance Monday, the action was not considered a final {solution of Seattle's vexing traffic | problem, according to city council the ordinance. The passage of the an emergency act to stop the huge deficit that is being piled up under the Scent fare plan, : Altho a clause was attached mak- ing the ordinance an emergency one, to become effective as soon as signed by the mayor, Mayor Edwin J. Brown hag announced that he would veto any higher carfare leg- fslation. He refused to comment on the ordinance Tuesday, other than to say he has not yet signed the or- | dinance. Mayor Brown maintains that a | members who voted for and against) ordinance is more in the nature of} ‘Port Has Million for Purchase of New Site Commission Makes Known Plans to Push Completion of Skinner & Eddy Deal One Million dollars ts available for ; lowed, declaring that the decision would depend upon developments, They emphasized, however, that it was their intention to finance the Proposition with the least possible | burden on Seattle. If the port did) not act promptly in accepting the offer, Seattle would ‘never obtain the property, they. sald. The commission has the authority, according to advices from its attor- neys, to issue bonds up to 1 per cent of the assessed valuation of the port property. This would make available $1,000,000. Incase the government should re- quest! $600,000 in cash, rather than bonds, the commissioners declared | hat @ substantial percentage of the sum could be drawn from the gen- eral fund and a loan negotiated from (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) High Carfare Not Final, | Says Member of Council Ordinance Passed Monday to Take Care of Emergency; Pass Plan Gains Friends refurn to the §1-3 cent and 10 cent fare at this time will seriously ham- | per any negotiations seeking a re-| duction of the annual principal pa: ments on the street railway bonds. The mayor's attitude has been that the bondholders will not negotiate as long as they are getting the full amount of money due under the “impossible” contract. SAYS CITY MUST MAINTAIN INTEREST Council members take the stand that the city must maintain its credit on utility tssu gram by A, W. Boston conferring with the bond-| holders, before the city can expect any consideration, While ‘the recommendation Councilman Oliver T, Erickson that (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) TEMPUS TODD $0 SHE 00, Tempus Makes His Bow GOOD MAWNIN, MISS CARAMEL, WATCH ME STRUT. MY STUFF AND LIMINATE HIM. HOW 1S YOU FEELING THIS MORNING? Illustrations by Story by Octavus Roy Cohen wi Weton taylor I 1S FEELIN’ LIKE NOT BEING ANNOYED WHEN I WALKS OUT WITH MY FRIEND MISTUH BUNION. CAN MAKE A FELLER FEEL UNNECES. | WOULD HAVE SWORE | WAS SUFFERING TRIPE! THAT GAL SURELY SARY fficial | and show} good faith as suggested in the tele- Leonard, who {s in} of} ~HANTOR rive BE REPLACED BY W.HLCCARK Report Follows _ Thoro Probe of Department by- Chief Executive By John W. Nelson 4 Fire Chief George M. Mantor wile emoved by Mayor Edwin Jeu Brown, according to city hall neg ports which seem to be authentien| |Mantor, according to gossip Tues will be succeeded by one Off battalion chiefs, H. Clark,” Thomas E, Nunan or George Mare | lowe Clark is favored by the mayor to) j fill the shoes of Mantor, according | to the report. Credence {is loaned to the rumor |by the appointment of 8. F. Laing: as fire marshal. Laing was appoint. | | ed by the mayor only after a thoro | investigation of the department. It is reported that his investigations) | revealed many things which did not) please him. Several unforunate ac) | cidents have occurred to the depart-= ment lately including the collision] of a fire truck with a street car the bursting of several lines of hose at a small fire recently and wrecking of a truck the other night when it went over a bank wh | answering an alarm, Fire Chief Mantor said he hag Ro } intention of resigning his, ti “I have been with the fire dep | ment practically all my life,” chief said. “I know nothing else, Mantor was appointed fire chi¢ | by Hugh M. Caldwell when he | mayor three years ago and is holdover appointee. Manter that there had been rumors o rémoval for a long time, but # he had no reason to think | were reliable. S Clark, who it ts reported fs | | vored for the Job now held by Mai tor, is acting as assistant fire ‘OPPOSES PHONE C0, FRANCHISE Would Compel Organizatio Under Washington La A Sesominen Anti: that the | cific Telephone and Telegraph | be compelled to organize a Wi n | ton corporation to manage the attle branch was made by tion Coursel Thomas J. L. ‘Tuesday. Kennedy believes franchise should be denied the ent company, which is organized California, and {fs not a locas cern. f Spokane has followed this p and as a result has shut off the of federal courts by the phone co | pany in its injunction fights. | By granting a franchise to Washington corporation, the of guarding against rates would be simplified, believes. \The books of the would be kept here, instead of San Francisco, where the now maintains its main office. It also would prevent the pho [company from rushing into feder court to obtain injunctions the rulings of the state dep of public works, which oc when the department recently ¥ fused to grant increases asked | the concern. Kennedy is strongly opposed renewing the franchise of the pany, which expires July 19, the present condition,-when th is engaged in three legal conts with the city of Seattle. While’ leity has authority to order out # | phone service, and- the franch permits condemnation and pureli jot the property, the state law bl |such action, Kennedy says, 3 The supreme court has ruled the city cannot operate a uti without express authorization o state legislature, but the city ample authority to refuse to gra a new franchise to the compat unless it offers satisfactory gs n Kennedy declares. CHINA OUTLAWS HOLD GAPTIV PEKIN, May 15—Chinese bat still holding prisoners captured the wreck of Shanghai express, 6, agreed to submit full dete their demand for ransom curity today. ny pass WASHINGTON, demanding that immediate st 3b taken to reinforce the protection 4 ihe principal government rains in China to prevent recurrence ‘kidnaping by bandits has ¢ handed to the Chinese governme by the diplomatic corps in k the state department was, today by daria Minis