The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 2, 1923, Page 1

Temperatul Maximus Last SM Hours Minimum, hoon, 52, 48, Howdy, folks! Th day, We seo our The Star says t Gosh, are those le for th pr the seventh p Be it moved an: and tru dar of Comine dats be permit qatil after the visi Harding. INTERESTL is must be pay wife coming r of Com SUGGESTION ‘Now that Rodolph Valentino fas a] would it “to Sheikattle? . People You Never here not be mark of our appreciation danse the name of person, pleasing te the city Meet: The gink OF CHINESE ARE FREED! Two Americans and Two For- | eigners Released | by Brigands J, A. Henie ork, and Edward Elias, Amer a two other foreign captives taken by Chinese banditx from t wreck of the Shanghaj-Pekin express and held for ransom, } today ‘The foreigners jchairs from th ntung — hills eaochuaa were released were carried In bandit camp in the st and arrived at ther two released were aphiere, the former a p: exican, The brigands are to be taken back jinto the Chinese army--one of the {stipulations upon which freedom for {the foreigners depended. Registra: | minent Ver Year, by Mail, $8 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JUNE 2, “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. CITY SCHOOL COUNT SHOWS BiG INCREASE Indicates Entire Population of Se- attle Is About| 341,190 | By John W. Nelson Seattle has a population of 341,190, based on the school census complet ed Saturda: which shows 6 children between the ages of 4 5 21 in the city, increase iy shown, compared to the 1 population last year, accord. ing to Reuben W, Jones, secretary | of the school board. The number} of school children this year ix the large the city has ever said. Marked shifta of population away from the central sections of the city towards tho suburbs are shown by the census, The movement of population from} seho had, Jones fe who went to seo Valentino and did) tion of the outlaws begun yesterday |the original Seattle townsite, com- Fat say afterwards th he kad to take his} tioned captives follow Books on etiquett I none of them iiere to park our didin’t are all the ra has yet told us prune pits should always sit on his host- But it doesn't ex- how the hostess is going to! right hand. PICTURB? E social Ofun ders are made in Me picture. Can you tell what they 4 i hits were submitted yesterday | @ the contract for tel Bew commu: approximated Of course, the really big bids will! fm when the boys start ne-| for the hat-check conces-| os ie prominent millionaires are| Angling for the position of head} J. Vashieigh Fitzh in his applicat clerk. An expert at windows,” ee | Fora ‘Went. Well F A Louisiana man favored strawberry. at large. 3 * | What the rcorld me to invent a . life ig getting My 4 Seattle man the construction nity hotel. The 00,000. ugh has already jon for the job POLITICAL NOTE is going to run for pres- 4 Lincoln made it. « has, perfected an He is . needs is for some- fagless grape. complicated. hailed a Wagon in the belief that it one of ti taxicabs, Agnes; We ar ; B Yes, we have fea family 1 "* GRE GEE, VAM TW meanest mar who hose new brown and read Jurgen. ewspaper, . —# j TH’ OFFICE, | SEZ i] nh in th’ world | proposes to a | ver th’ telephone and af- Aecepts, tells her he has number, Ignatz, an aspirin tablet t# hing you *-* write upon, . day a holdup gang will strike NOte In erin powered ¢ by exeaping in Pmortate have to swat and shoo Wes from dawn to dark, ise Noah didn’t Phat roasted in Francisco do i 0¢ FAFA machine tha When fH dige PMochey jt, tadlo isa ‘ound. bei ti Says that Perhay St law a Im the parks, Was the nay, Why maker the oe L con m ewat the two the Ark, ior has invented t will give out a axed person ap- Bivens off wquawks when flowers ys this iy why Kinet cutting who said, the moon- opening and} he says. leare lawr of a nation, ake jand release of the four above J. Four others jare expected to be freed soon, ‘STREET CAR MEN q | Sixteen Per Cent Raise Is HATS WRONG WITH THIS Sought by Union present dghest wage:war demanded ‘of thé: city ‘by ‘street railway om- ployes in letters to city officials and | [railway heads Friday. Tue demand | iy for the coming year, according: to | {E. C. Puller, business agent of the| Street Car Men's union. | The new wage demanded is: Train- | |men, $180 a month; gripmen, oper- jators, cable car conductors, 20 cents } hour additional. | ‘The prosent wage paid street car| employés is; Trainmen, $135 a} month the first year; $146 the second and $155 thereafter. Tim jand. one-half is giyen for alt over-| jtime over eight and onc half hours, | and gripmen, operators ond cable} jcar conductors receive 4 cents an jhour addjtional. Their pay schedule is the same as that of policemen and} firemen, | The demand was received by S perintendent of Utilities George Russell and D. W. Henderson, } | They will study the proposal and| jturn it over to the city couneil,| where the proposition will be given | consideration when the 1924 budget | is drawn up, after the increased fare becomes effective July 5. | In presenting their demand, the) leommunication of the car men stated that by granting the demand | the city will receive the continued | |co-operation of the employes and at- |tract a better grade of young men to the service. Street 1uilway em- ployes lave been left behind in the improvement of wages and working | conditions, the letter clnims. The higher carfare ordinance was | recommended for passage over the mayor's veto by the finance commit- tee of the council Friday. | BARS CLOSE ON GLARA PHILLIPS. Locked in ‘Prison Cell as} Clock Strikes 12 SAN QUENTIN, Cal., June Clara Phillips, the “tiger woman, was locked in her cage at noon to- day. Aw the clocks were striking 12 she stepped from an automobile and walked into the state penitentiary |here, bringing to an end her long | trip from Honduras. She wag kindly received by offi cers, who stood thoughtfully aside ag she sald a touching farewell to} Etta Mae Jackson, her sister, who | had accompanied her voluntarily and at her own expense from Los | Angeles thru her flight into Mexico | and Honduras, and then back again | to San Francisco, | jara and the party arrived in n Franeis¢o at 10:35 4. mn, on the) Sunset limited and, to avoid the ltirong of curious people and news papermen and photographers who} had assembled at the station to} meet her, was spirited trom the} n in the railroad yards, rush} ed into a waiting taxical, and dash- ed neroes the city to the ferry building, there to awalt departure! jot a ferry for San Quentin peniten- } tia Only « few had a fletting glimpse} lof Clara as, surrounded by police) land her guards, she and Etta Mae Jackson, her sister, were hurried from the train into a waiting auto, It was expected she would be (Turn to Vage 4, Column 4) en: | prising the districts bounde (feereeki |cepting in: test flights, | Pacific witl affect 2,000 men in thig|the gold and currency In sight. by the canal, Elliott bay, Lake Washington including the north end of the Mount Baker park district, began in 1904, when it reached aimont the peak in numbers, judging from the school censu: In 1904 there were 12,159 ehlt dren in this district, or 63 per cent of the school children of the city The number. of children decreased Slightly for a number of years, but) advanced again during tho war,! when the town Was flooded with! shipyard workers, until! in 1919 it| feached the maximum. In 1919) thera Were 12179 children im thin ich Way 18 per cent of Population of the city. 62 PER CENT ATTEND SCHOOLS | ‘The figures for 1922 will show les than 10,000 children inthis district, | or about 15 per cent of the school | population, Jones said. | Of the total of 68,258 children of (Turn to Page 4, Column 6) | AMUNDSEN MAY. BE ON HIS WAY Nome Thinks Explorer Might | Have Started Flight | Alaska, June looked upon tox as the first pos. Omdah! could “hop off’. on their} proposed airplane flight over the D of the world.” ‘0 word hax come fgom nen since he left Kotzeffie sound in} April for Wainwright inlet, where} the hop off is to be made, But before departure he indicated} that he expected to make the flight | early in June if possible and the weather conditions pointed to Juno 2 a8 a probable time for the start.) UR HUNDRED little people in Weeks of hard sledding over a} many-bued, colonial costumes— trail now at its worst would be| most of crepepaper, some of silk—~ required to get word from Amund-jdanced at an “old-fashioned ball" jn sen now and hence Nome may firat| the Marontc temple Friday night, hear of his start when news comes|while even more mothers and dads of his arrival at Spitzenbergen, his| watched proudly from. the ! balcony destination. Much of the uncer-|and side-lines. tainty regarding hig equipment,| The little people were the pupils which was reported from Berlin to, of he Douglas School of Dancing include a faulty airplane, has been|and their guests the 96 children of cleared up here. |the Ryther home, ‘The dances, in He brot two planes the] cluding the waltz, the schotti Arctic, it was learned. Ono is ajand the many old-time “square Curtis Oriole biplane, which was|were taught the young graces by tested at Deering, 200 miles north| Professor Hamilton Douglas, Jr., of of Nome, and then was returned| the school, ‘The’ coktumes, for both to the steamer Maud, Amundsen’s| their own children and those of the Arctic ship. The explorer hopes to| Ryther home, were made by the use it later when he rejoins the|mothers of the dance pupils, Maud and drifts with it across the| At 7 p.m. the program began Arctic ice fields {and continued until 10, Each little ‘The second plane is an all-metal|person had hit or her’ partner. JL monoplane with 185-horsepower| Bach little person knew just when engine, carrying capacity for 350/to dance, just when to strut, just gallons of gasoline afd a-speed of| when to seok -the sidelines and 100 miles per hour, It ia the plane|chat. And tho the participants, Amundsen and Omdaht took with] for the most part, were of the short- them to Wainwright for the flight} (Turn to Page 4, Column 1) acroas the pole. ne plane is} GRY, new and has never been used ex- 400 Tiny Dancers Make Merry at First Party BY WANDA VON KETTLER Amund-| to BANK BOBBED 3.000 NP. Men to | Oy ONE nae Get Pay Increase rover entered the Glendale Stave ‘ay inoreases granted mainte.| bank here today, leveled a reyolver Nance of way men of the Northern |at the clerka and, escaped with all state, officials of nounced Saturday, firmed by; day, g Officials of the bank. refused to re. Vent how much was taken until after news received here Satuy.| the funds were checked. 10,000 men $200,000 mora| After pocketing the money the annually Carpenters, — sections | man walked quietly from the bank, hands, trackmen, flagmen, watch.| down the street and disappeared in men and common laborers benefit | the hills. A posse was formed Immo- by the tncreayes, diately and took up the pursuit, the roa an The raises, con Dawn-to-Sunsee Flight on June 18) DAYTON, Olio, June 2 Liout, Ttusvell 1. Matighan will attempt hia dawh-tostnset transcontinental flight on June 18, MeCock field of. ficluly announced today, A Curtiss “bullet is being groom: Soldiers Peaactod to Arrive Saturday CHEHALIS, June battul Jon of the Seventh infantry, mareh ing from Vancouver, Wash, to Camp Lewis, Is due to reach here late today, The goldietw will spend the night in the new stock barns of Here are a few of the dancers who appeared at the “old-fashioned ball” at the Masoni: temple Friday night. Upper left: Lucile Volkey, 7,08 lady of Colonial days; center, Aus | tin Dubuque, 9, one of the quests from the Ryther home, ready to bow in an old-fashioned | "| “square,” and right, Helen Peterson, 4, and Ruth Morgenthal, 3, as they waltzed together.| [sible day on whieh Captain Roald Lower, a little group of belles and beaux. Left to right, Marjory Burns, Lorna Anderson, perintendent of the street railway.| Amundsen and Lieutenant Oskar) Patty Davis, Emily Kollenborn, Carot Blood and Dixie Fuller. Photos by Price & Carter, Great Men Like Babes in Woods With Loggers Congressmen Occupy Obscure Seats in Gal- lery While Lumberjacks Perform BY LESTER M. HUNT IKE “Babes in the Woods," Unit- @d States congressmen and na- tional political leaders followed the calked footsteps of lumberjacks into the woods above Snoqualmie Friday and stood silent and awed while the xons of the forest grappled with the wilderness. For the first time in their trans- ceeanic junket, they were not the center of attraction. They were un- noticed and lost in the towering rilence of the forest. The men bf the woods moved silent- ly about thelr work in the timber out- post, scarcely noticing the princes of filibuster herded together at a safe distance. The congressmen realized that theirs was ar unimportant role, but they were mastered by the spell of y gazed upward, heed- , and us nature wept to see hor forest kings dethroned. PARTY AWED AT THRILLING SIGHT Two hundred feet from the ground a high climber dangled about the limbless: trunk of a doomed giant, gnawing at the crown that was soon to topple. He swung a relentless ax and out deeper with his saw until the top swayed and pitched earthward. Farther into the timber a 800-foot tree stood stern and ereet, like a general bufore a firing squad, while death came closer with each move of the saw, For ten minutes the rain beat on 4 silent crowd until the giant fir trembled and tumbled downward, still in silence until it met the branches of smaller trees when @ staccato pro test, like a machine gun, broke the stillness preceding the finat roar as the tree hit the earth with the de tonation of an aerial bomb, | PAT MESS AND CHATTER WITH MEN It way not until then that the spell was broken and the congressmen chattered in exel) nt na they clam: the Southern Washington fair, ed for the flight. bored back on thelr special car, a | to emulate. PRORBITION “IS REPEALED. ~INNEW YORK State Enforcement | Bill Is Killed by | Governor’s Pen; U.S. to Send Men aw YORK Alfred | E. Smith signed the Culliver bill, re-! | pealing the Mullan ¢ state probl. | bition act last night at Albany { | An June 2.—Goy. rmy of federal probibition en: | forcement agents was mobilized to-| day, ready to be thrown into New | York if Smith's action in approving | repeal of the enforcement act results in « booze rebellion in this state. | Altho Smith, in signing the repeal- | jer, warned the wets that the Vol-! law waa sfill in effect and that | very citizen whould obey jt, thou-| sands of liquor vendors are believed | ready to take advantage of the situ-| ation and begin “wide open” booze | selling. President Harding, in a recent 1 ter to a citizen of Newburg! p stated that the consequenc be very serious if any | mitted violations of the law and strongly hinted that the fed: eral government would intercede in any such atate and take over controt of dry law enforcement if necessary. | POLICE WILL CEASE DRY ACTIVITIES Police, who have participated to gome slight extent in enforcing the| lary law, are now expected to desist | | from all such activities. There are| aiready in* New York ity scores ot} siloons and /cafes where liquor is sold, over the bar or over the table. \rhey will rbably increase-im num: | Myer and te if the potico main: | fain a “hands off" attitude, as the) normal federal forces are inade-| } jduate. Hen the necessity of | | bringing in federal reserves, Smith, in signing the repeal, made it clear that he was not acting inj} defiance of the constitutional amend- | ment, He emphasized that with) two prohibition laws in New York, | one state and ono natignal, citizens Were “subject to “double Jeopardy,” and were liable to be punished twice for the same offense. The state law was unnecessary and should be re-/ | Dealed in the interests of the rights j of the citizens, he said, in a long} | Statement explaining his action, — | DENIES PRESIDENT | | RIGHT TO INTERFERE | He replied to the letter of Presi- dent Harding to Dr, Wait, of New-| burgh, by pointing out in courteous! words that the chief executive had} no right to interfere with a sov- ereign state, Smith also gave an opinion that the Volstead law should be modi- fied so as to permit each state to fix the alcoholic content of intoxi- cating beverages within its jurisdic. tion, jet- | Y.,| 6 would state per Star Staff Photographer Harding to Decide Government Policy WASHINGTON, June 2.—The ad- ministration’s policy on prohibition enforcement in New York state will be decided by President Harding personally, other officials of the gov: ernment said today. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes and Secretary Mellon, under whose Jurisdiction Haynes comes, will put it directly up to the president to decide how to meet the added bur- den of federal enforcement put there by Gov. Smith's signing of the re- peal of the state enforcement code. Until the president makes the de- (Turn to Page 4 Be covered flat car on the logging rail- road. On their way back they paused to see tho electric donkey engines snake eight-foot logs from the undergrowth and swing them in a pile alongside the track, ready for the trip to the sawmill, At the luncheon preceding the trip to the woods, where the visitors messed with the loggers at Camps A and B of the Snoqualmie Falls Lum- ber company, they chatted genially with them and looked! forward with mild interest to seeing them at their work. Their attitude at the conclusion of. the demonstration wag that of men who had been admitted to the pres- ence of their peers and seen achieve- ments which they could never hope They had passed the frontiers of verbosity and, in a} strange land of monosylables and action, they appeared as they were— Babes in the Woods. , , Column 2) | Wisconsin Moves to Cancel Dry Law MADISON, Wis. June 2.—The Tucker bill to repeat the Wisconsin | state prohibition enforcement law was taken up today by the lower house of the Wiscons legislature | and made special order of business | for next Tuesday at 10 a. m, Assemblyman H. G, Tucker, Mil- waukee, socialist, author of the measure, which is a duplicate of the Cuvillier law just signed by Govern. or Smith in New York, asked that his measure be given consideration at that time, Portland Fireman Killed by Chimney PORTLAND, . Juno’ 25 — Lieut. Adolph W. Weel, 88, of the local fire department, is “dead here today as the result of a chimney of « burned residence toppling © upon bim Getting Money Jast night. ithe vital accident oecurred after For Your Car { the blaze was extinguished, Wefel was inspecting the ruins of the house when the chimney suddenly. gave way, burying the fireman beneath it Willamette River Expected to Rise PORTLAND, Juno Unusually | heavy raing in /Hastern Washington | and Idaho during the past 24 hours | are expected to cause an unusual rise in the Columbia river and the back waters of the Willamette dur ing the next few days, ‘The river stage here will reach 16. feet, or 1, feet above flood stage, it ls pre: dicted, || Bvery car on the street today is a “Used” c Some are “just off the floor’ while others have been run a few thousand miles, A cer in good running condi. tion Is never wanting for a pur: chaser when the price is right: If you are leaving the city, or || misfortune, has oyertaken | you, ind you find it necessary to dis || pose of your car, find a buyer |} thru The Stara “Auto” ads, la prohibition |, CITY WORKERS AT LIGHT DAM ARE DROWN Swept to Death in Roaring River as They Attempt Measurements Losing thelr balance depth of lake, above the t Camp 2, E. A. Brown, 6 timekeeper, and Ed Wilhite, an ectriclan, both employed by the light department, fell into the cur- rent and were swept by the flood waters over the dam. Roath were drow while water tak- ing in the city's crib dam accident occurred about 10 o'clock Saturday, Using a skiff that was moored to a float above the dam for the purpose of tak- ing the depth of the water, the two pushed out on the lake's surface Just above the dam. spillway. In some manner they lost their balance nd both’ fell overboard. and whirled the dam's ‘edge the roaring waters below were over into Due to the melting snow the water in Cedar riv ally high at thiy time outpour goes over the dam, The bodies of the two men had not been found at noon, but rain, is unusu- nd a heavy an au jtomobile with several men equipped with grappling hooks from the har- bor patrol department left for the camp an hour after the accident, prepared to search for the bodies. Brown is married and has worked for the city for several years, He is survived by his widow and five daughters, two of whom are mar- pried. The other three. live at the family home at the camp, which is 50 miles from Seattle, Wilhite was a widower, hut leaves a family of six or seven small chil- dren. He also lived at the dam. The city mointains 4 permanent camp at the dam, which stores water for the city’s power plant. GIRL IS SHOT DEAD IN AUTO Companion Is_ Seriously Wounded in Attack LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 2. —Miss Florence Wilcox was shot dead and Miss Dorothy Miller was seriously injured here to- day while riding in an automo- bile driven by Clarence Ogden, Ogden told the police a machine drove up beside his car and or- dered him to halt. He said he re- fused to obey and speeded up his car, The result, he said, was a fusillade from the other machine, Miss Wileox crumpled up dead in the rear seat of the car and Miss Miller fell to the floor of the ton- neau, perhaps fatally wounded. Three bullet holes in the back of the car were found. Ogden said two other men who were in his party fled after the shooting, “to avoid notoriety.” He refused to give their names, Sheriffs Expect to Pinch the President The Pacific Northwest Association of Sheriffs and Police has invited President Harding to be the guest of the organization at its annual convention, in Vancouver, B. C., on July 26, Luke §. May, president, announced Saturday, The president is scheduled to be in Vancouver on that day, on his return trip from Alaska, The association convention is from July 24 to 2 |THE COLOR OF SOAP BUBBLES F you have any question of fact or information you would like answered personally, send it to The Star's information service, 1322 New York ave. N, W., Wash- ington, D.C, with your name and address written plainly, inclosing a 2cent stamp for reply postage. Q. What gives. the soap bub ble its colors?) What makes the black spots? A. The different colors correspond to the different thicknesses of the surface, Part of the light whieh strikes these thin coatings is reflect- ed from the upper surface, but an: oher part penetrates the transparent coating and is reflected from the lower surface, It is the mixture of these two reflected rays, their ‘in. terference,’’ as it is called, which produces the colors observed, The “black spots’? on a soap bubble are [the places where the soapy film ts | thinnest, At these spots the thiek ness of the bubble Is about the three: millionth part of an inch, Tf ths whole bubble were as thin as thy it ould be completely invisible,