The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 15, 1923, Page 9

LUMRSVAY, MAY 15, 19 THE SEA'T'L _—7~ TWO ARE HELD ¢ eee to Acquaint Seattle Folks - 5 IN FRAUD CASE. Charge Embezzlement of $200,000 Sum May 1 A L. Hepler, a l. M. Whit is under arrest of Martin's Fe Ohio, in November At that tin Auto was fou n th ver and his wife reported State ha n Hepler’s arrest, When to his home at Crot th resort, and be 8 effects he dashed n inte an orange iT ra halted him th shots that pattered dust ove hh leet. He turned at bay and attempt ed » disarr them Aft being subd: i> was taken to the county Pr n liv ng h aming n in Phoenix rer) > his alleged authorit they under 00 reward had been of-| © fered f Canadian Is Held on Swindle Charge LOS A LES, May Police Hepler’s arrest were checking up the trail of James M. Clark, asserted {nternational swindler, today, following his arrest here on charges of victimizing scores of investors in this country and Canada by selling illegal land con. tracts in the Peace river district of Clark, who ts 4 Canadian of aris- ticratic appearance, is said to h netted over $100,000 by his as operations in Duluth and Superior, Wis.; Bellingham, Wash.; San Fran. cisco; New Westminster, B. C.; Kan- ve sas City, Spokane and anal Angeles HERE’S MORE ABOUT “UNCLE JOE” STARTS ON PAGE 1 that." Uncle Joe paused. He appeared tired. He raised his eyes to the faded ceiling of the room and a feeble hand stroked his white beard. Suddenly he smiled and his eyes! flashed with amusement. “I used to make a little money in odd ways, tho,” he said, turn- ing bis bead. .“E shot the tail off of every pig in town. I made a bet of 50 cents each time and 1 used my “Old man Yesler had 75 pigs and I shot the tail off every owe of them, sometimes two oc three times. They never grew out again but if I wasn't foolish and shot the whole tail off at once, there was always enough left for another bet later on. The pigs never missed their tails, but they were surprised a bit at first, until they got used to it.” Uncle Joe was born in Madison county, Indiana, in 1834, and cromsed| He ‘58 with the gold} urned to Seattle the the plans to California in 14: in came north seekers and next year. and then ran across Frank Mathias. He seemed to like me and took me over to Tom Russell and George Barker, the two carpenters in town, and got them to give me a job. I worked there until I became night watchman and chief of police.” Again Uncle Joe paused. He was tired but he still smiled reflectively. The smile passed and he turned his head, a bit wistfully. “If you sec any of the old boys, tell them run out to see me. I miss them I want to talk over the old days with them. Please tell them. Men were honest in those days.” And Uncle Joe fell asleep. Protest Closing © of Park Entrance A special meeting of the Phinney Ridge Improvement club will be held at the John Allan school, 67th at. and Phinney ave. on Wednes- day night to protest against the closing of the Phinney entrance to Woodiand park. Protests against the erecting of a merry-go-round in the park will aJso be taken up at the meeting. jin onmeoie come MURDERER OF PARK SWAN GIVEN TERM OF 1 TO 14 YEARS AN FRANCISCO, May 15.— John Raymond, underworld character, was sentenced yester day by Judge Harold Louderback to serve one to 14 years in San Quentin penitentiary for wanton. ly killing “Mr. Dooley,” glant Stow lake swan, Last February, according to evidence submitted at the trial, Raymond, with a companion, drove into Golden Gate park and there on the placid bosom of Stow lake beheld “Mr. Dooley” and “Miss Biddy,” a duck, taking their evening constitutional, Raymond shot them both. Park policemen hearing the shots, rushed to the secen and arrested both men. The bodies of the two birds were found in Raymond's automobile, Several charges were laid against the men, but the prose. cution selected grand larceny and the trial was on that phase of the felony, Raymond's com: panion, who was held as an ac cessory, Jumped bail and escaped sentence, to} | BY JOHN GILL, MATTHEWS, Jn joyd 8) We want in conta’ of inter t ty they may OUTLINES PLAN OF CAMPAIGN 1 wha th own y will make of them better citizens and produce a morale which will tend toward a bigger and ist appreciate the ist to our elty, for sus h wh trad he goes awa rat tive forma of ad STARTS allroad dis ay said. Wa q streets May s tramped th ad n search of ved to have ses who Orm-swept h urea persons 1 been d but were unable to give estimates No bodies had been received at the morgues The rescue parties were made up f staffs from the army and navy hospitals and business men and other townspeople were comman a d to ald. Property dame will exceed $1,500,000, men estima as t ma way thru t torn and bi lings and vie ited two of city’s most popular hotels, which were lowing the flood and tornkdo The night of terro uret short streets ha ich = dis car and began w in the bus o raging rivers, wh ried frame buildings before it toaxed automobiles and other imp | ments about like chaff. SWIRLING TORRENT RACES THRU TOWN The waters poured down from the mountain sides and the crest stood | {10 feet high in the main rection of | the town. Fronts of stores wero | crushed in as the swirling torrent raced thru. the town. Asphalt pay ing was upturned and considerable other damage done by the water. trict | As the terror of the flood began | |to pass, fire, caused by lightning. burst from the Grand Rapids Furnt-| The fire fighting equip-| vater | }ture Co. | ment battled in the mud and against flames, with but little sue- cess, and the blaze ate its way into |the main business buildings, | The red flames flickered on | water In the darkness of the night, jeasting weird thadows and addi to the fear of women and children, |who cowered in thelr homes. Wealthy guests from Eastern cit. fes, the vanguard of tourists, re: | mained in’ their rooms, The electric light plant then went out of commission, adding farther to} the confusion of the night. | The flames spread, taking in the American Express company and the Rosenthal store. The steady downpour of rain which continued thru the night! finally conquered the flames and rescue workers, headed by army and navy staffs and police officials, be- |gan the task of saving the injured and caring for victims who may be dead or homeless. At least 15 persons are missing, further reports of the rescue, work- ers sald. At the same time | companies began rebuilding the dam. age caused to thelr lines by the wind and floods. Wrecking crewa were scattered thru the storm-swept area, while all train service was at a standstill, Telephone and telegraph wires rip- ped away by the tornado at 7 o'clock last night were still badly |paralyzed. The Western Union was the first to establish communication with the stricken district and this one thin strand of wire, r ing as far as Little Rock, the details of the disaster were sent | FOUR RESCUED IN [NICK OF TIME In one instance in the flood a man were caught stranded In an mobile by the torrent. The was rescued by ropes just car was carried away, A few minutes later another auto- mobile was battered and broken ag it was tossed about by the high the height of and three children auto- party the as waters, Two men manager to ex tricate themselves and swam to safety. Mrs, Katie Hopkins, trapped in her automobile by the fast-rising waters, was nearly drowned before assjatance reached her and cut ber hair loose from the tangled wrock- age. She is in a hospital in a so- rious condition. Seattle Is Fifth in Postal Savings Seattle retained her pluce as fifth among the cities of the country in point of postal savings deposits for April with a total of $3,014,522. This is a decreane of 000 under the deposits of March, scecording to postoffice records The only cities Wading Seattle are New York, Brooklyn, Boston and Chicago. HERE’S MORE ABOUT TORNADO WRECKAGE ON PAGE 1 swept by fire foi | ths} shortly before daybreak the army of | the railroad | REY BE MAGEE WILL MAIN SPRAKER h mt ‘ Brow 1 uded ¢ progran The I s band and the Char of ¢ nore holr will f hom Ar ot plans to » th ampaign along to be shown at 60 Seattle eh und elvio of the t H mot ita H nd t t hou t a st arn WOMAN MAKES HEROIC Te Scur e of he t t ht b 1 th « od her h knees a hundred y against driving wind and rain to find he baby buried in the mud at the edge of a creek Altho hurled thru the by the swift winds, the child was un scratched. Another ! of the Hambrys, Louise, 6, is lying at the point of death with a severe wound in her head Sixteen-month-old Valise Shelton of the most pitiful of the wur 1 hours, her helton, clans sald he w A prob ably Her |nisters Ife nwathed in bar Ja cot beaide her CONSIDER SAFE) BLOWING CAS Evidence centering about tho re- |eent robbery of the postoffice safo jat Port Townsend by four yeesn was being presented before the fed: feral grand jury Tuesday, the sec- ond day of the session. Capt. L. A, Lonsdale, of the coast guard who waa responsible ture of the four |are said to have and attempted | Strat boat with their loot, was swalting jeall by the grand jury as a material } witness in the case. All four men jare under arrest charged with the |robbery. Several members of the three bro! cutter for yeses aft to escape into the favo in fear of|crew of the Arcata were also wait-| . WANTS TO SEE SOME jthe fury of the elements jing to be called as witnesses by the OF THE OLD BOYS | The fire spread to the Dixie cafes | grand jury “I hit Seattle at 10 o'clock on the| the Oliver-Finney Grocery company,| It is expected that the jury will morning of May 12. I walked up| and then ate its way up the walls of! report late Tuesday afternoon and to a slab pile and saw George|the Marquette hotel. The hotel, a|that indictments will be returned Frye and T. D. Hinckley running} $750,000 structure, was totally de-|{n several petty drug cases which a circular saw. 1 talked to them|stroyed. |will have been disposed of. | A number of federal prohibition night destro A the gasoline ser station of FE. C, Lucas, on B. [st. Lucag has been selling gasoline jfor 22% cents a gallon, 2 cents wu der the price prevailing at other at | tions, The fire, long, Ix believed to be the \the price war. I ONE FOR GRANDPA “What's the differencs between an old man and a worm?” No difference. Chickens get them "Mie higad Gergey, le, bot is said to be the one at Timmins, Canada. STATE SHOULD CARE FOR CHILDREN, SAYS JUDGE BEN LINDSEY pe May 15.—Marrlage is primarily the love of one man for one woman and of one woman for one man, and when that con dition ceases it may be a very good thing that there should be divorce, because many of them marry. This was the statement today of Judge Ben B. Lindsey, famous juvenile jurist, in commenting on Chicago figures showing one dl. vorce .to every five marriages there during tho first three months of 1924, Judge Lindsey sees in this ratio ® great improvement over last yenr, “The great difficulty about mod- ern marriage is the problem of the property and the child,” he sald, “This {8 becoming so ner ous that I predict the time will come, as indeed it has already partly arrived, when the state must take care of the ehild and guarantee its right under the aslo- gun we have adopted in Colorado that ‘No child shall be permitted to suffer becaune of the sin, pov erty or ignorance of the parent,’” commander | Arcata, dynamited the safe | of Juan de Fuca in a speed} which caused a $12,000} result of | Greatest gold mino in the world| Vith Their City Opens Next Monday HOW MANY OF THESE QUESTIONS CAN YOU ANSWER CORRECTLY? D", 1, RAI MAGES tt » ha cipal pu ‘ 1 bank park Where and v re our pr : | EAST IS DUE FOR A SHIVER WASHINGTON, May 15.—Anoth. "ler cold wave of marked intensity in | s down on the country out northwest, trailing in {ts wako snow and freezing temper atures, the weather bureau an r ay t the Ohio valley state will be in its grip and tomorrow night the Atlantic coast will shiver from low, if not frees No Need to Keep on Woolens Here cold wave wo ow lisbury’s weather staff. Altho this is a dark day and showers are forecast for night and Wednesday no wintry | blasts will hit this coast—not now, At least—tho wenther bureau as jaerta. And besides that we're a bit behind the rain echedule. Since January 13.75 inches have fallen 7 The average for that period is 14.80.| The weather bureau folks point out | that Seattio and Western Washing-| | ton have enjoyed a lot of special! | fine weather this spring. ro a | bit proud of their achievement | | HERE’S MORE ABOUT CARFARE ||_STARTS ON PAGE 1 the dollara-week pass system be by | inaugurated was supported or Mra, Kathryn Miracle and John E,|tee hearings, in cooperation with| | Carroll at Monday's meeting, several| Delegates Dan Sutherland and At-| other counciimen indicate they are|torney neral John Rustgard of} ne to the pass play and state} am in a position to say that they are now ready to con. impression it created on aider It the minds of the committee, and} Councilman Philip Tindall, wholon the minds of other high officials | j voted against the pass plan Mon-/in Washington, was that it consti- day, said after the meeting that he|tuted an attempt at legislated au-} {did not want to consider any com- | thority for graft on the most gi} plicating iswue until the higher car | fare ordinance had been pa prevent the abuse of the pass plan | would use the street cars for deliv. jery purposes, The coupon idea would eliminate this, Cohen believes. Mra, Miracle and John . Carroll both strongly in- |dorse the pass idea, Superintendent of Street Rallv ‘8 David Henderson says that his opposition is based on the fear that the plan will not re. turn sufficient revenue, "A trial may show that I am wrong,” Hen- derson said Councilman Hesketh is not op- posed to the pass plan, as he has been a consistent advocate of a }lower carfare. His yo! was the first for a higher fare since he has been in the council, Mrs. Bertha Landes and Council men E. L. Blaine and C. B, Fitz gerald oppose the past becnuse they do not want to counter the recom mendations of the utilities ment, which opposes the pass, Mayor Brown supports the theory t the street railways should give ‘the greatest possible service, but jobjects to the abuse of the pass by delivery Gompartieg | and stores /PRICE UP AS GAS WAR ENDS KANSAS CITY, Mo. May 15. | Gasoline was «dvanced two conta a gallon by several leading ofl com. |pantes here today following a con Iference to end the local price war. Other dealers are expected to fol- jlow suit, and end the deadlock which haa resulted in total deductions of five cents per gallon at service | stations. Motorists today paid 17% cents a |eallon for gasoline, Officlaly pre: | dicted the price would jump buck to }20 cents, where It stood befape the price LV petal sister HAY rH ANI HOD ‘T BEAU She (soulfully)-Our spirits are in harmony, J can senso an aura about you. | He—That tan't an aura, lady; -rinceton Tiger, that by delivery agencies and stores that | Councilman | yesterday | depart: | F LE ST eee HERE'S MORE ABOUT PORT STARTS ON PAGE YY 1 finay for t MIGHT PLACE FUNDS IN ESCROW Forenoelt 4 1 f the port expansion he comm in the to Chairman A, D. Laske t th board, suggested unable t n ear marketable title immediately, funda be placed receiving a reply from the ! mm will draw up & formal contract of sale to be that a pe representative may faturday the commiasion recelved ker stating that he ny modification of ouition asking ed of details by The 1 mm responded that the port would comply with the terms of the option granted Febru ary 24 and in prepared to execute 4 form ¢ , The com misaic ed to inwue $600,000 paid by taxation on the port district or the same amount in cash I event of t the com missioners said that it would not amount to more than half a mil HERE’S MORE ABOUT HARDING STARTS ON PAGE 1 route to Alaska, according to newspapers, APPOINTMENT WOULD EMBARKASS HARDING 1 have no word to say against Mr, Joslin personally, but I trust I may say with pro priety that his appointment on such a committee might natur- ally cause very grave misappre hensions and misunderstandings over the country generally, a innocently place the president in prejudicial light In his an nounced purpose to investigate conditions in Aluska impartially, Mr. Je an. nouncementa in the many in has been for years the lobbyist In Alaska and in Washington, D. C, for the Morgan heim interests in Alaska, in- ska Steamship com: of which ho is a director, or nd of thet! mpany, of or was at rings before n territories ago, it was proven that operating behind the ® Alaska bureau of the nber of Commerce, waa for the bill then pending known as the Alaska by which all public prop- in Alaska—gold, allver, copper, lead, timber, fisher- “, agricultural and grazing lands, the Alaska railroad, all inclusive- | wan to be transferred to this board, | the members to bo appointed by the president, but to be virtually im {mune from removal, with full and unrestricted nuthority to sell such | property at any pri in the board's cluding their Al pan: | reaponsibie jin congress, board bill, jerty of every kind 1 dixcretion APPOINTMENT IS UNFAIR TO CITY As ono who helped to defeat the pernicious measure in the commit | antic acale agents were to be called as witness. | 1t!! said that the pasa plan, which | name of the Alaska bureau of the es in Hquor violation Investigations | Eves pee ri bac a i car | Seattle Chamber of Commerce as | by the grand jury Tuesday patrons, but which will not decrease |iny ostensible ap r of that bill] Rpfeeae jFevenue, is desirable. . [inflicted an Injury on the standing | iota daa ot ih eat Vohed pr influence of the Seattle Cham: | : strongly favorable to a modified AE. Caen! : |Gas Abadia aca: ieee * : : ber of Commerce in Washington | pass plan or a coupon which would |rrom which it has not yet recovered How « certain number of rides, say, {G0 wich IE has not y! phan | Price War Blamed ere a umber of rides, way. lame fact that the Alnaka bureau | PORTLA May Fire bo. | 22, fo% $1, each week. Cohen says! was abolished in consequence of ory! may Fire be | that some action must be taken to | Heved to have been incendiary last | that incident, and a long list of others of like nature, does not im | prove conditions if the president of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce now appoints the author of that bill on a committee to entertain the | president. hin is but one of many instances fof Mr, Joslin's work in Alaska }and in Washington, D. C., which | make his appointment on such a committee unfair to the president, to Seattle and unfair to You may | taries recall that when Secre. Payne and Daniels, of the interior and the navy departments, |passed thru Seattle en route to ka in 1920, they declined to ac: the hospitality of the Seattle That action cept Chamber of Commerce. |by them might conceivably establish y truly, ja precedent. Yours BALLAINE, | JOHN F JOSLIN LAUGHS | AT THE ID Mr, Joslin laughed when informed | of the letter from Mr, Ballaine, and | remarked: “[ don't know anything Ballaine could say that would make very | much difference one way or anoth- er. He could not take me off the committee nor could he put meson. While I have no desire to be the cause of any dissenstion, I don't see nny special significance in his re« marks, I did not even know I was on the committee. “Possibly Mr, Ballaine does +not know what I think would be good for Alaska, I have never told him. And perhaps he may have other ideas, As a matter of fact, 1 did not support the Curry bill, because I was afraid it was not a wise meas- u I understand Mr, Ballaine was very much opposed to it, while I was more or legs neutral,” Mr, Waterhouse said ‘uesday noon that he had not received the letter from Mr, Ballaine, and that the Chamber of Commerce had had nothing to do with the appoint ment. Asked Jf ha would consider the communieation, he sald: "T will consider tho letter recelye fi, but until 1 4 nothing to way regarding | when 1 1 have known in many years. | 1. Tin: |The uso that was then made of the | FREDERICK & NELSON | IMPORT ANT PRICE REDUCTIONS Are Now Effective in Various Lines of Apparel Featured by the Second Floor Ready-to-Wear Sections. Women’ Garments Are Included A timely opportunit erick & Nelson's high quality. A number of fine Cc reduced-price offering- twill, with smart garn ed, embroidered or $65.00 and $95.00. Highly Indi hand garniture and be Pile-fabric Coats—bro’ with crepe lining—reduced to $45.00. Navy Twill Suits REDUCED TO $50.00 Jacquette and tailleur models in Navy Twill Suits, with braid and em- broidery garniture—reduced to $50.00. Separate Skirts REDUCED TO Coats for | | ai | | Plaited and plain Skirts, in light and dark woole: in two underpriced groups—$5.75 and $10.00. ings in buying outer garments that meet 3-Piece Costume Suits REDU $65.00 and $95.00 REDU $95.00 and $119.00 High-quality and individuality are emphasized in this underpriced group of Coats, Capes and Wraps—featuring pile fabrics and twills with 95.00 and $119.00. A Group of Smart Coats REDUCED TO $45.00 The popular wrap-around and belted modes in % Smart Tweed Suits REDUCED TO general wear, tweeds—reduced to $10.00, $5.75 and $10.00 Aus « 's and Misses’ | y to reap substantial sav- Fred- h standards of style and CED TO ostume Suits figure in this -in navy, sand and gray iture and bodices of print- plain crepe —reduced to vidual Wraps CED TO autiful linings—reduced to wn, deer-color and navy, $10.00 motoring, traveling and in plaid and herringbone ns and sports Satins, —Second Floor The utmost secrecy guards details of the suit filed by Lady Hyde (above) for an accounting of the $100,000,000 estate of the late Levi Z. Leiter, pioneer Chicago merchant. In her suit she names as defendants her. brother, Joseph Leiter, of Chicago, and her sister, Mrs. Nancy Carver Camp- Rush Work on Stockade for Los we 28 Prisoners total of 600 alleged I. W. W. others inyolved in the harbor ping strike were under arrest lodged in \various city jails y according to a statement sien oat at police headquarters. | Among those under arrest are. men said to be the leaders of thi strike activities, About a third of” the men arrested carried I. W. cards, police said, and many ¢ the others are believed to hai ecards, which they did not. carry 4 their clothes at the time of arrest. The shipowners announ 300 strikebreakers have been Bie work on the docks and that 400 more were expected to arrive te day. ‘ Ten asserted leaders cf the were charged with criminal dicalism. VIOLATE ORDERS OF POLICE CHIEF ‘The arrests were orderod after strikers had fgnored* Captain — Police Clyde Plummer’s ord: against street meetings and d tratioNs against strikebreakers. — I. W. W. have been gathering at San Pedro for the past month order to force a successful conch sion of the strike. Police documents were intercepted sho bell, of Santa Barbara, Cal. Cthers, high in British royalty, are said to be involved. “WORTH FE, SAYS CULPRIT Edwin Ford, recently of the United States navy, nursed a grudge against the entire service and its personnel, So when he saw M. Pevonak, chief quartermaster, walking up First ave, Monday he walked up to him and swatted him heftily behind the ear, That, according to the police, was what Ford told Police Judge John B, Gordon Tuesday in explanation of the affair “The navy gave me an undesirable discharge after L had only been in the outfit two months,” Ford said. “It made me sore, And so I just bitfed this fellow to get square with the blankety-blank outfit.” “I never saw him before in my life,” said Pevonak. “The first thing I knew he soaked m I held onto him until the cop’ came.” Peyonak is attached to the navy recruiting hureay here. ONE FOR THE TEACHER Johnny, in bed with the measles, requested that his teaches be asked to vome and see him. “You dear, good boy?" exclaimed his mother, “Do you really love her so much?” “It isn't t Johnny, . Mother,” replied “I want her to catch the measles so the other boys can stay away from school, Transcript, 1 DRINK, 3-DAY DRUNK CHICAGO, Mdy 15.—After taking one drink of adulterated whisky Si. mon Grower was unconscious for three days. SMASH 'THE WALL DETROIT, Mich, May 15.—Burg- lars robbed a tailor shop here by breaking thru a 9-Inch wall exactly 4 year after another robbery there, Occupation of Constantinople be ‘en days,” said Judge Gordon, tween April, 1919, and Mareh, 1928, that I. W. W. from all over country were ordered to “drift?” San Pedro, where it was plan to make a big drive against the G fornia criminal syndicalism Jaw. — Out in Griffith park, near city's golf links, a huge barbed stockade, with temporary shacks, f a bet) rushed to completion on orders _ will be used to house the “wobb as soon as completed. Addai police have been rushed to the h bor district, where Tepritala sabotage are feared, MANY SHIPS ARE NOW IN HARBOR Congestion at the harbor fs great that it will take several week work to clean it up, it was | More than 100 ships of varlot kinds are lying idle. Only 1,60 longshoremen are working, The majority under arrest will brought into court on vag ran. charges, As fast as the “vag are convicted they will be placed ine the stockade, according to police, — n Y The 1, W. W. are demanding revocation of the criminar syndi ist law, abolition of the central hi ing hall by employers and t ‘ai of all “fellow workers" new tn c “L's worth it,” Ford replied. cost England $100,000,000, fornia jails and penta :