The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 30, 1923, Page 1

TFOUR HURT IN RACE CRASH + been night Mtn in te ent etn te inte tn nnn tr Petr fr rfl Pan PPPS PALL APA PRP PALA PPA RAP PAPPRPPAPPAPAPPPPPPPPPPAPPR Main 0-600 Get the Habit Wash f Congress March 2. TTLE, W. ASH, ‘WE DN Oh, girts! is in town. thrill to shiver! Rudolph Va Aren't you death? Oh, just shiver, jes. Me they had to ba appeared on would And ch the the owing gum c GRAPHIC SECTION wallow This is a photo graph of Rudolph Valentino, the man who made hair-oil famous. The beard was especially grown for this picture. And now's at remain: alert contemporary, The cover a 30-year-old gra: is a leper. Star, to dis- dmother who a have Harding a ey have been talked about, and call on hitn to protect their “good name.” You have to say this for Jesse James: He never squealed. see Sugar my President sent a protest to t the way Heaven, says Stanley Baldwin's chose her husband for premier y let's see how long it will be * Heaven cans him. ther candidate for the Poison Ivy club is the mother of the littl sirl who Is going to be a great act ress. . Fd hate to be a horse fly, And with the horse flies The picking for a horse fly Ain't what it used to was. buz with a lot of leading tle is that they haven't anyone to le vat Clara Phillips, hammer murderess, is again ih a U. 8. jail. Which ought to prove to some of these local calam- ity howlers that it never pays to knock. C & hammer. self by saying she didn’t know loaded. atal mistake was in using She couldn't defend her- it was “Your tecth ore like pear He said with @ sigh; The maiden replied: “They oughter be great got the best molars That money could buy paid fire hundred In cash for this plate.” . Newspapers used to publish cag-| ualty lists on July 56. Now they pitb-} lish ther every Monday morning. aay Great City | Bows Head Cheers and Weeps as Veterans March By BY STEVE AKNETT ind 1) Day me armies by the had ma Sherman with G. Stars and §' Crowds th. ks midst ing, thousands i by and es of other ad. wept led veterar autos wagons foltowea th: and mar s from F ity of W the sides of the ot y passe Tr martial music person. naval organiza bodies and tr thru the str mmand of € vens post, Beginning at 7 American war veterans gathered at Roosevelt hall, where they were as signed the graves they should deco- rate during the morning. A military program at Fort Lawton was held }an hour later. Standing at “prese arms,” the soldiers of the Fourth in fontry saluted their brothers in arma who have died in the service, Taps was sounded over the graves of the men who have died at the post CIVIL, WAR VETERANS RIDE IN AUTOMOBILES ‘The greatest Memorial Day parade ver witnessed in the city moved off First ave. and Stéwart st. and ried the main streets of the business section. Confederate veter: ans and Union army men rode in is, escorted by soldiers from F ard troops, Uni- hington R. O. T. C., | Spanien war veterans, American Le |sion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and | fraternal orders. | | Following the parade, Memoriat | Day services were held at the Metro. |politan theater, where the original order, setting aside May 20 as a na }tional holiday for the remembrance of the dead, issued by Gen. John A.} | Logan in 1868, was read. ELKS GI LUNCHEON | FOR OLD COMRADES Following the services at the thea }ter, a luncheon for G. A. R. and Confederate veterans was to be given j the Elks at the Good Eats cafe repres milita veterans paraded m,, under Hastie, m.. Spanish be | | The entire afternoon was to (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) |Claude Kitchin Is Said to Be Dying WASHINGTON, May 30.—Tele | graphic advices to friends of Claude | | Kitchin, former, democratic leader in the house, today said Kitchin's | in the republi | feat in the ERTY'S GNATION DISCUSSED «| Attorney ‘General Sick Man; Anxious’ to Quit Office and) Recuperate ny MARTIN Press) Attor LAW RE: NCE would re if could He will likelihood | own if there aw He had « Columbus, Ohio, deciding to preaider {th Hard! White tems it from Daugh physic hay f he works he will not WANTS SEYMOUR TO BE ATTORNEY GENERAL Ho has wanted for some time to} get back to private business and make some money for his family. Seymour, whom Daugherty took | awity from his Obie law practice to be actual head of the department of | Justice, has the department so well} organized, and stands so high in the eatimation, not only of administration | officials, but of the American bar, | that Daugherty wants him made at- torney keneral. Political friends of Guy Wisconsi general, have put in vigorous fashion, have given n « have Goff named if Dav Daugherty is the an pd been trying to unhe position he holds clo: Harding. This group does no! Daugherty to hay about the manage campaign warned his former t long at ension D. Goff, | . former assist however, and will fight to erty quite. they © him for the to President want nything to say} pent of the 1924 And Daugherty is equal-| | ly determined not to be forced out by | that group. If Daugherty addition to hi tige that w had to give up, in cabinet post, the pres J go along witha de} ‘eymour-Goff matter, he his political enemies over him. Rather than risk that, he will hold on and let Seymour be, in fact, if not -in| name, the attorney general. jdt w jin would feel th had triumphed |Memorial Day Is Marred by Tragedy AURORA, Ore, May 20.—Death brought to a tragic and sudden finish Au: sentimental vance of Memorial day. While patriotic residents watched | cr the lowering of the flag in the|t park to half mast, part of |ed day's program, the cable in; G ones to whom Memorial ds special atched the pa day manifested by blue lows in the modern O, D.'s, n& court, obset:| United States na DAY, ‘MAY Marie Pedersen Isom, one tof «group| war veterans for gainful occupa ¥ that has tong | yeomanette during the war and contracted acutc pleufisy. noto by of the few women to receive training provided by the government to fit disabled world ns. Mrs. Isom was a Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers Marie Pedersen Isom Participates in Memorial Day Observances With Grizzled Veterans of Battlefields tZLED veterans and seasoned. campaigners are not the only | As sabled veteran of the world dé and. participated the various observances. of tho with. all the patriotic fervor the elderly béys. in and tho young fel- appeal, and gray Mrs. Marie wore Pedersen Isom, Caroli- the uniform of the and served. due: ig the war oy a yeomanet at the narieston navy yard, She con- sted acute pleurisy, and the Unit- States veterans’ bureau is giving to| her’ a course in costume designing n y bap al ttle woman, a| lather in th Cooney 1 Seattle district ie Miss Aaland, formerly a Base Hospital in Sho served at Blois, and jthe rigors of overseas service left {ts imprint on her: health, Aw a consequence, she, cannot fol- low nursing and is belng trained in art needlework’ at the ‘university, The girls are among 200° students taking special courses’ at’ fhie"univer- |sity under the auspices ‘of/thé vet- erans’ bireau, ’ During the summer more ;than 600° men will finish thelr? training jand will be ready to start life anew jin the commercial world. ‘The goy- ernors of Washington,” Oregon® and Idaho are co-operating. with the vet- jerans’ bureau in calling attention to at ance, LL PHONE 0. HIS 1 HIGH COURT People Must Pay | on Basis of Cost| | of Reproducing | | Public Utilities | | BY JOW CAT oN WASHINGTON, You pay telephone rates which will the telephone company a fair |return—not on the money invested; by the corporation, but on the esti-| |mated cost of reconstructing the} company’s plant. The supreme court of the united | Staten bas just said so in another ‘unimportant decision,’ which may, | nevertheless, become of the utmost | importance. | You must pay street car rates, gas rates, electric rates on the | | 1 | the government decides to pur- | the. railroads, the court prob-| | catublished a precedent | | whereby rovernment will have | {to ay—not what the railroad cor- | poration» prudently and honestly in-| | vested—but what { 11d cost to re lconstruct the: entire railroad ms | tem» This decision | Justices Brandeis and Holmes jxented on the ground that u utility is entitled to a fair return only on j what it ‘prudently and honestly in-! ek, ably has w was noven to two. dis: ATION” CLAUSE he case was that of the state of Midwourt against the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. The state de-| manded lower telephone rates, The company contended for « ‘'fair re- turn’ on the cost of “reconstruct: | ing’' the telophone plant. The tele- phone company said the l6wer rates Were “‘confiscatory’’ and violated the j constitutional provision against tak. Ing property “without due process of law."* The state courts approved | the lower rates. The supreme court now reverses the lower court. Bwenty-five years ago the su- preme court held in the case of Smyth vs. Ames that a utility was} entitled to “the cost of reconstruct. ing its plant.” That was a prece- dent. Conditions have changed since, | j but the supreme court restates the gid precedent, In opposing this decision Justice Brandeis said: “The thing devoted by the investor to the public use is not specific prop | erty, tangible and intangible, but cap. (Tura to Page 9, Cotumn 3) TRY FOR MORE FUND MEMBERS Women to Hold Mass Meet- ing Thursday Afternoon An organized campaign to swell | the membership in the Music and jArt Foundation fund of Seattle to! 50,000. will be outlined Thursday afternoon at a mass eoting at the Metropolitan theater, called by the jofficors of the fund who were ekct- jed last Saturday at the meeting held jat the home of Mrs. A. S, Kerry, president, } — ee | the | general. INTS IN SEATTLE, Big Quake Kills 4,000 Six Villages Lost in Persian Horror ALLAHABAD, Four thousand now reported May persons to have per- ished in an earthquake which | jdevastated the about Jastern region Turbati-Haidari, in | Persia. Advices received jday indicated villages were wiped out. The shocks were said to be continuing. “RED” GRIP ON here to- RUHR SLIPPING :::: Men Desert Communists and Return to Work BY CARL D. GROAT BERLIN, May 30—The grip of communists on the Ruhr ap- peared to be broken today, when men returned to their jobs in large num- bers, abandoning the terror cam- paign against prices and wages. General ° Kr | miners by the industrialists and the workers went back to the pits. A miners’ meeting at Gelsenkirch: en, considered the center of commy nist disorder in the Ruhr, voted to| resume work. The attendants at the meeting included many communists, who seemed at least temporarily pacified. Only -a few minor attempts at plundering shops were reported and movement for peace appears A mob in Dortmund this morning threatened disorders for a time, but finally was dispersed by police. ‘The serious situation now appeats to bein’ Bochum, whero telegraph and telephone communication has beech suspended since the French oc- cupation, Entrance of additional police upon the scene evidently was largely in- strumental in enientog the:at the situation. LINEMAN DIES IN POLE FALL A rusty guywire spelled death Tuesday, afternoon for John W. Smith, 46, telephone lineman, living alvin. Smith, while working jon a pole, had climbed to the top to make repairs when the guywire snapped and a second later the pole broke squarely across the base and crashed to the ground, 50 fest below. Smith, who was strapped to the pole with a heavy belt, was crushed underneath it. He lived but a few minutes when taken to the Nor- weglan hospital. His body was re- moved to the Johnson & Hamilton undertaking parlors. Big Loss Cnged by Flood Waters OKLAHOMA CITY, Muy 30.— Damage resulting from flood waters here was placed at $300,000 by c: engineers today. ‘The North Canadian river, which jowed its banks as a result of heavy rains, flooding homes and business places, steadily veced- “Babe” Gis ‘Gala bombs the arent ot TOR PLOT. AND 3 OTHERS ARE VICTINS Speedway Auto Goes Thru Fence; Fear Tom Alley Fatally Hurt INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 30. | entries in the 500-mile automobile sweep= kes are: ar H, ©. Darant Special Packard Special Bugatti De Viscaya Corum Wileox Murphy Durant De Palma Warner Miller Special Durant Special | De ti yetera | Beganti j sen By Gerald Overton DIANAPOLIS MOTOR — , May 30. — With Tom Alley at the wheel of Bart Cooper's Durant Special, the ear went thru the fence on the turn and struck three men spectators: auto’ racers here today in the Mth annual 500-mile tional sweepstakes race. ‘The three men were injured and Alley was fatally hurt. Physicians he had a fighting chance recovery. | A huge throng of nearly 350, | fans crowded their way into the | stands and roared their approval of the thrilling spectacle. IN LEAD WAY MARK Tommy Milton, driving his H: C. 8, | Special ai terrific pace, was in the lead at the half-way mark. His tim was 2:39:36.84, or an average 0 93.98 miles an hour. Harry Hart, of the Durant ct |was letting his car loose and up on Milton, less than a mile sep- arating them. On the 104th lap Milton his car into the pits for gas and change of tires. Hartz slipped into the lead and the stands went wild. — | Milton got a big hand when he | drew up in front of the pits. | Christian Worner with his Mere |cedes Special, was hammering ay {at a steady, grinding pace, which | him in third place. Dario Resta added ‘his Packard | Special to the list of withdrawals on | the 88th lap. This conipletely elimin- ated all the Packards and strips the field down to 14 Leaders at end of 250 milés: Tommy Milton Harry Hartz Christian Worner Frank Elliott die Hearne Time, 2:39:36:84. Average, 93.98 [4 CARS STARTED | BY RICKENBACKER With a roar of exhausts and a blast armada of racing” cars, blue, yellow, white and o1 which the colors were attached|at the untyersity to fit swung against a powerful electric! gainful occupation. line. Henry Wunder, 15, who was Mrs. ‘Isom has since been |loWering the w instantly | ried, byt she plans to follow he ‘or ajthe need fi i ent, y | -, her’ for" [thie Heed ton, amaployereotsand many | svery woman in. seattle. who de in: employers are giving the disabled | mb’ praserence: jterested in the betterment. wo Inasmuch as tho yotcrang are |Musical Aart and Literary endeavors | killed, courte thru and qualify jtraining in 57 trades, und’ profes. be me eae to be present George tume design : slong, veterans’ bureaw officials say |"" hm perant ap oa vt Sho jv one of the few women who|they” can fill any. vacancy listed |... mempership feo of $1 is to be © listed’ ax disabled veterans, One lwith them. : Fee igto alae. MONEY death is near, Kitchin, is i His 10th Home Run |i their numbers painted in on YASHINGTON, May 30.—Babe| Car figures, leaped forward at Ruth: nt aes eg this | Signal of Eddie Rickenbacker, officis morning in the first inning of| Starter, in the 11th annual soosmile the first game between the Yankees | international sweepstakes race at thi and the Senators. Johnson was | Stroke of 10, pitching. ‘There was no one on| Harry Hartz fn a Durant special THE GOOD TIME COMING An official of the weather bue rea says it will soon be possible to foretell the weather for a month, and we have no doubt that the time will come when we can know for a certainty in Jan- | a hospital at Wil-| json, N. C, He has been critically ill for several weeks with stomach }trouble. At his office here it wa stated that Kitchin’s family haa | |been to.d by physiclans that the mar. her } as a cou olors, was Worster, aiding in the task, Was seriously burned but will | ‘over, nd would probably come within a (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) few hours. “The Sheik’’ Is Coming! | Tremble, Little Shebas Home Brew Reviews Life cf Goose-Greased | Idol of the Silver Screen BY HOMER BREW (Famous Sereen Star) editor has persuaded me to something on the life, habits oil of Guillame Erysipelas Roccocoo, more familiarly known to our Ballard circulation as Rodolph Val- T can Va “With this bond between. ux, write sympathetically of Senor entino, as both of us have rec notes from “the fair ones.” “THOSE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES DRESS IN DARK” The reason why this famous film star was forced to change his name| I shall pass over in silence. A lot of | our prominent citizens like to go un- entino, |der a different name occasionally, at Senor Valentino | jeast until the indictment ts quashed. | dances in Seattle| personally, I have often used a this evening, #0) different name when registering at ft was thought! the city Jail or other temporary domi-| desirable to. give cite. our readers a full! senor The write and hair Valentino, lowever, merely account of this! changed his name because his origl-| nal handle sounded like a one-man car on the Summit line, At first he| was going to assume the name of} Jones, but his friends cautioned him} that the Jones family in America| might sue him for infringement of | copyright, as they are yery ex clusive, Now 1 will toll. you something about his rive to fame, One of his (Turn to Page 9, Colum Ht. G. Brew little-known artist. The reavon they picked on me to write this article Is because Iam the only man in the office who ever re- erlved what we movie people call a “mash” 10! signed mys- terlounly nameled-Toothed Sheba,” and went like this: “Alt year a wilk You've gotta face like tana” bandanna, Dull Mon- | bolle physicians said Attempted Suicide Will Not Tell Why Found in her room early Wednes- day, suffering from poison, self ad- ministered, Miss Duckie Sheldon hotel, was remoy city hospital, where she refused to | tell police officers her attempted suicide, “Tl bought acid,” it home she deciared, and drank it “and took |your business why I dran‘s it.” Hos pital pliysicians say recover, thst she will TODAY’S WANT ADS you l¢ room another the you satisfactory, will help or one ite A spare apartment if are now in isn't By watching daily, you touch with of real os over, the Want Ads are uble to keep in venting and moying te and general turn. If you are not Want Ady every a habit, You will be surprised at the many savings you can make thru those who are sacri. ficing. following the lay, make that reasong for | 15 cents worth of car. Declares Coast Should ; Expense Should Not Be Spared in Protecting West, Says North Carolinan BY LESTER M. HUNT Expense should not deter the Unit- ed States from fortifying its Pacific] Those reaching Seattle include rep- const and islands possessions which | resentatives of the house and senate will probably be the objective of the |rilitary, naval, territories, ways and next war, declared Representative C. | me and appropriations commit- L. Abernethy of North Carolina, a . member of the house territories com. mittee, Wednesday morning follow-| coast is of vital importance to the ing the arrival of the U. 8. army nation,” said Mr, Abernethy, “The | transport Cambrai with 27 prominent | cost of such defense should not be members of congress, tlie prime factor in ineréasing the ‘The senators and representatives strength of the coast inasmuch as the fare on a trip of inspection of coast| next war will probably be fought in |defenses and territories to obtain | the Pacific. |first-hand information which will gov-) “I believe wo should have a strong Jern the policies of the next congress] air base on Puget Sound. The Pana in dealing with matters of vital im-|ma eanal, San Francisco and Hawaii |portance to the Pacific: coast and | should also be strongly fortified in | Alaska, this and other Yespects, | PARTY NEW | RECOMMENDS. NAVAL YORK ON APRIL 27 BASE FOR HAWAILL | ‘They left New York on April 27,| “Hawail should haven naval. base touching at Porto Rico, the Panama} to support our first line of defense canal, San Diego, Los Angeles, San] in the event of hostilities In the Pa. | Francisco and Seattle, The journey | citiy, will continue to Alaska Iriday evé-| "I am deeply interested in the ex. ning, the party returning on June 17] pansion of Alaska and will closely to Seattle, study. the affairs of the torritory. It Several members of the group left (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) the. Cambrat in the South to visit! Hawall, dequate defense of the Pacific Be Strongly Fortified to carry on the work of the or. ganization, It is hoped that the membership mark of 50,000 set will be reached in quick time so as to insure immediate funds for the work outlined, The organization of the society was completed at the Saturday meet- ing. Officers elected were: Kerry, president; Mrs. Tyle, recording secretary; Mrs. C, {Ds Stimson, treasurer; Mrs, George . Myers, Mrs, H. T. Ostrander and Mra. Edgar Ames, vice presidents, POLISH DEATH PLOT EXPOSED COPENHAGEN, May 30.—A_ plot to exterminate the Polish govern. ment by simultaneous assassination of its highest members has been dis. Lcovered in Warsaw, according to dis. patches from that eity. An arsenal of bombs has ‘been found. The discoveries were made in connection with investigation of recent bomb outrages in a newspa- per offices and at the university, Documents establishing a connec. tion between Warsaw and Berlin anarehists were confiseaed by police, European Plague of Bubonic Origin LONDON, May 30.—Cases of | plague, reported at Oran, Algerid, and Malaga, Spain, avo of bubonic origin, Ht waa stated in dispatches from Gibraltar today, Mrs. A. 8. Vrank Van base. Maybe Mrs. (Turn to Page 9, Column 6) Poindexter Wasn’t Very Far Wrong Women in Congressional Party Seem Think She Had Right “Dope” RS, POINDEXTER'S agile pen did not travel beyond the limits of truth in tracing the initials of John Barleycorn across the face of Washington, D. C. high society, in the opin. fon of many of the women aboard the United States army transport Cambrai, with its cargo of national legislators, “T will not say a word if you are going to quote me," said Mrs, from the bone dry state of - “OF course, you understand that T have not been in clreles where Hquor is used, but from what IT have heard, Mrs, Poindexter probably had grounds on which to base hor remarks, “LT am well acquainted with Mrs, Poindexter, and like her, and T know. that she has inti mate knowledge of what goes on in) Washington, This; if noth. ing else, would Jond weight to what She says, “Occasionally T have been, at functions sas something was served, but I vsually turn my glass upside down.” Mrs, BE, F, Ladd, of North Da. Kota, wife of Senator Ladd, ad- mitted that some cireles in Washington society might re- gard the convictions of Mr. Vole stead rather lightly, as in othe cities of the count ¢ Asked if she believed the pub- leity, given conditions by Mrs. Poindexter was a good thing, she shook her head and smiled? Neither will, Mrs, Poindexter's. charges and theln wide disse nation have any effect on We recting ‘conditions, she repli in ansaver to a question, Fs “T think they will do abqut — as they have always done,” she remarked, First mention of Mrs. Poins dexter's letter to the people, for a. slight. financial consideration from their publishers, brought | siniies and sidelong glinceg from the legislators’ wives, Few would speuk for publiom » ton, but all had. their ideas om (Turn to Page 9, Column 9 ‘