The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 6, 1923, Page 1

* to condition Uas T A = VOL, 25. NO. 87. WEATHER ) Clase Matter Ma 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, We ATTLE, WASH., WEDN sh. under the Act t¢ March 3, 18 ». Per Year, by Home Brew ava "A — F .| Japs Protest “Unfair Treatment” by U.S.A. TOKYO, June 6.—Appointment of an official high commission to investigate _and recommend a solution of the treatment of Japa- nese in America was urged téday by the Japanese-American re- lations committee. The committee includes Viscount Shibusawa, many important government officials and prominent Japanese in civil life. The ‘recommendations were in the form of a statement issued at a meeting Thursday. It was held by many attending the meeting that “unfair treat- Howdy, folks! Gosh, but it’s (Ment” of Japanese menaces friendly relations of American and gets much warmer, en's furs ought to do JL when summer janitor starts a put on trans ANNUAL HYMN OF HATE A thing 1 hate is A varnished chair; When I get up, My pants stick there, When Li'l G returned from visiting in Tacoma the other day, she said: “{ vacationed on Mount Rainier last summer, but this year [ am go- ing to climb that Mount Tacoma you bear so much about over there.” oS Some peopie go insane from } overwork and others try to in- | | } vent new color combinations for | women’s shoes, = aed ‘There's only one objection to living on a houseboat. You might walk in your sleep. eee HOME BREW'S DAILY SHORT STORY “And I thought you were a gen- tleman!” o’e+0 Mayor Brown « he saved the city $663,964.28 during the past yea The 28 cents, no doubt, represents the saving effected when he kicked all those political incurables out of the city hall. ofthese ‘This is the 34th anniversary of the Seattle fire. Song for the day: “Keep the Home Fires Burning.” ose The fire was started when a pot of boiling “glue overturned. Now- adays nobody ever uses glue for a mash. CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON: IVY CLUB The boss who holds his mail on his desk for a week and then hands it all in a buneh to his stenographer at 5 o'clock Satur- day afternoon. Henry Ford may run for president but we just dare him to enter the councilmanic race in Jerusalem, a6 I can understand everything but this, says Li'l Gee Gee. Who in the world has the patience to coax these little sardines into the cans before the tops are sealed? oe Jack Dempsey is training for the Fourth of July fracas by playing golf, but he should remember that in the ring it is not necessary to re- place divots. ose A Now that Dempsey is playing golf himself for the Shelby fight, Gibbons ought to gu him one better and take up croquet. oo AF ih sie % |. anyhow, reckon ez how | ; thet Frenchmhn who beat Kil- | bane must have been some scrap: | per, by Criqui. | ee one Kilbane was gray-headed and Cri- qui was a veterd it about time ing a come-back? eee : EMBARRASSING MOMENTS: When your high-toned neigh- hor spots several Pullman towels hanging from your clothes-line, see “pid notice her brogue?” “Notice it! 1 felt it" * you father's This {s the se when a young fe girl out riding at 7 o'clock, brings her home, at 1:30, and only burns 6 cents worth of gasoline on of the ye takes hia | i | 1 of Verdun, Isn't} ra Meeker wag stag-| -|den showe Japanese nations GIRL BANDIT Fine Police CHINA OUTLAWS MURDERS MAN Judge Five ROUT SOLDIERS |Insurance Adjuster Is Shot | Down at Side of Wife CHICAGO, June 6.—A insurance last midn was hunted t? igo snd adjacent towns by hundreds of policemen and ectives today The girl, extremely dressed, ‘Tesmer, ter be soa er i described by police as pretty and fashionab’ was accompanied young man of the “cak»-cater” type The couple accosted Teamer and his wife as the latter drove into their garage after an auto ride. ———-—--—---7 | “Hands up! Keep atili! We want} y." ordered the girl. She “covered” Mr. and Mrs. Ten- mer while her companion searched the vietinw. | Mrs. Tesmer became hysterical } when the “flapper bandit” demanded her wedding ring. | Tesmer started evidently to comfort her. shot without warning. few minutes later. fled. | The shooting was than a block from the home of Mayor Wm. E. Dever his wife, The girl He died « The robbers towa - CONFIRM FLEET PURCHASE PLAN | Admiral-Oriental Line Seeks | 14 U. S. Vessels Confirmation the report that the Admiral-Oriental line is seeking |to purchase a fleet of 14 shipping board vessels now operated by it, was given Wednesday by the Seat \tle cI ge of a.resolution by the board trustees Indorsing the proposi | tlon. | If completed, the transac expected to total cloke to $25,000,000. The resolution of the Chamber of Commerce set forth that the service now being gi | Pacific is satisfactory to the com munity and stated that the line has |becn an important factor in build- ling up the Pert of § ttle shipping. The action was telegraphed to the chairman of the shipping board Local shippers credit the Admiral line with diverting the enormous silk shipments from Vancouver, B }C., thru Seattle and across the con- jtinent on American railroads. This | business totaly $350,000,000 annually fon is senger steamers of the line Presidents Grant, Jackson, | Jefferson, Madison and McKinley | These, with nine freighters, are de jsired by the Admiral line. They ure the Bldridge, Edmore, West | Nilus, Wheatland Montana, Cross | Keys, Bakersfield, Cuprum and City of Spokane Headq \rase }-—t rters of the line are in which the Chamber of Com | merce indicated in approving its ef- forts to buy the fleet, the largest loperated by any line for the ship- ping board, Willamette Valley Relieved by Shower PORTLAND, June 6.—Bringing relief from the mounting tempera. ture of the past two days, the Wil lIamette valley was visited by a sud. today, | The storm, whieh lasted for only |a few moments, was accompanied by lightning finshes and loud peals fof thunder, the first of the season, according to the weather bureau res port World Court Split Danger Disappears WASHINGTON, June 6.—Danger of a serious split in the republican party over the world court 14 gone, Senator Watson, of Indiana, anid today, after a conference with Pres ident Harding at the White House, by al amber of Commerce thru the j morning by an officer who ¢ en by the line in the | and its} Silk shipments are handled by the | |Strange Cop Leads Jake to Jail Le ! Police Judge jwas “pinched” Kalina, who didn't know him and who was later led before a police jcaptain and compelled to dig \up $5 with which to buy the larresting officer a new hat. BY 8. B. GRO Acting Police Judge bh Kae lina received a jolt Wednesday, when the blindfolded lady hold- ing the scales of justice turned upon him and Knocked him for a string of tennis courts, And before that astute lady was thru with hizzoner, Kalina bad paid/when he saw Vivian at Fourth ave, |direction of the open shop.” Hed to her, | a $6 straw hat, which by 1 decree issued by Police Mason, was awarded to Patrolman George Fuller, who wrested Kalina when the judg alighted from his car near the police station, Wednesday morning. a fine virtte Captain Joo T Kalina car had just parked his tour. ing in the sacred ebnfines of the space allotted to police judges, | when the honor of the court receiv: led a severe jolt in the midsiff. Mul: lier, driver of the patrol wag the proceedingy and across the street “Hey, you you tin can out park there!’ is that so?” “and pray, served " he shouted, “get of here, You ‘Oh, hizzoner, your” “Vm a policeman,” sald Ful- ler, “and E said beat itl" “Well,” said Kalinga, | going to stay right here,” | A heavy hand renelfed out returned who are and jfastened itself firmly in the judge's} \coat collar, “We |The hand moved, gether with the Into police headquarters thé pair marched, fuming and sputtering.” “Hello?” said Captain Mason, “what's the matter, Jake? “I'm pinched for parking,” Kalina jared. 1 see about tha and the coat, to de Maxon listened to both sldes of| |the argument, and the judge to Fuller. “This ia a He ridus offense, your ‘honot!! he 4 }nounced, “You are finéd a straw }hat for Fuller, And there ts no appeal from the decision,” “But 1 was right,” Kalina (Tarn to Page 6, Cotumn 4) ine laborers escaped by fleeing. judge, followed it. | then intradueed Six Are Slain and 20 La- borers Captured in Battle PEKIN, dune 6.—Chinese ban dits ved aggressive operations on the Korean border. Brigands and troop ave rest met in battle to di at Krehitaoku ac ording patches received here. killed and a score kidnaped After dispersing the the troops, | outlaws kidnaped 30 laborers had been at work under protection of the woldiers, The rest of the) towne along the border, eee | The object of the bandits, who r¢. cently kidnaped many foreigners, in cluding Americans, was to force the government to reinstate them in the army. This exploit may be in fur therance of that scheme. ‘The suc jceas of the Shantung bandits who seized the Americans has probably encouraged others to take a more aggressive attitude. GIRL IS CHASED THRU STREETS Leads Policeman Merry | Race of Many Blocks | LABOR UNIONS “HIT BLOW BY | ~ STATE COURT Decision of High Tribunal Would Bar Sympathetic Strikes OLYMPIA, organizatios June 6.—Labor of this state were facing today the most sweeping anthunion decision handed down by the state supreme court since 1918, when picketing was pro- hibited. The court day afternc nt Pacific T against wupren ruled yester the Typo: graphical union and its officers, that r firms not partici pating a suffer damage strikes, they and offi trike, hold, ho aged to the trikers International when The that trikes court did non-participar both parti the might sue nduatrial Only CASE GREW OUT (OF PRINTER STRIKE w out of the the 44-hour wetting Co, a for week Pacifle T shop do: ing work for the printing trac hed typs all for where the strike was in foree. printers of the Pacific Typese Co, objected and fir trike shops he y walked who}Then the company brought sult f $26,000 against the union and its of- ficers and Agont Philo Howard | ethat the International Typo} graphical union could not be held liable for the acts of Howard and| dismiased the case. The company appealed, The state supreme court reversed the trailcourt, ‘The supremo} court ruled that Floward, as an agent for the unién, did represent it, and denied that the Pacific Type setting Co, was an ally of the print ing establishments where the strike! was in progress. The court desig nated the plaintiff company as a “non-combatant,” This sweeping decision was writ- ten by Judge Kenneth Mackintosh, formerly of the superior court of King county, and was signed by| seven judges. JUDGE WILLIAM P DISSENTS FROM OPI Judge William Pemberton, new member of the supreme bench from Bellingham, dissented, He declared that the Pacific Typesetting Co. was in fact a participant in the printers’ MBERTON | strike and should not be held to be late theater crowds in the down town district Tuesday night were| treated to an astonishing spectacle, | when for more than eight blocks! Vivian Tayle 7, le Police Sergt. | Wednesday |©- ©. Grittin a merry footrace which | case was heard, Attorney ended in her capture, only after | the dru iffin had pursued her thru Columbia the: r, the Owl store and other buildings. The girl, who disappeared from bér home the first of the week, because she said, she “had bobbed her hair and was afraid to go home,” slept in the woods gunda night, but returned to Seattlé Mon- day, where she was arrested and re-} jturned to her home. She again fled, howewr, police were notified to her. Sergt. Griffin, who had alded in her first capture, wae returning home from a theater Tuesday night and the watch for and University st. He and she ran. Down University st. te Second the pair ran, dodging autos street cars. The girl darted into the Columbia theater and es. caped by a side door. Down an} alley to Pike st. Griffith chased her, nd into the Owl drug store, Finally the officer overhauled the girl and called the patrol wagon | “My parents,” sobbed ave, and the girl, ouldn'’t let me bob my hatr.” But, | It ccording to tho poll Vivian's A} [parents are reconetied 0 bobbed providing Vivian will stay at | home in the future, Today’s Want Ad Bargain Another home iq being offered for anie today because something has happened and Jt is necessary to sacrifice. wW BUNGALOW MUST. BE SOLD $4,100; ANY OLD TERMS Owner J# forced to realize on this beautiful bungalow at once, and you ean make your own terms, Theyprice has beon cut, giving you the benefit of his possible profit and his labor, It's simply a cane of realizing something. It's brand now and very attrac- tive. Large living room across the front, 26 feet long) unusual- antel; best of hard- os ; old’ ivory ename | Hghting fixtures; bedrooms, THIS. NI ML ree airy {| farm to the Want Ads NOW | and the many more fen |] tures to this home and who will show you this property, | court & “non-combatant.” Homer T. Bone Clay Allen, of the union in this peal to the suprem: of Tacoma, and attle, represented se. In his ap- ourt when the Bone warned the judges that if they upset the decision of the King county they would “deal a death to the labor unions of this state and cause untold confusion.” | ‘UNIONS WILL | KEEP FIGHTING “We are licked shot.” said Clay Allen in referring to the action supreme court, “However, we are disappointed at the action of the court, which is a long step in the low not by a long Wednesday, of the Allen said that he had not seen| |the decision and that until he did |he could not comment definitely upon it or outline positively the course of action of the unfon at-| | torneys. | He indicated that they might ask |for a rehearing, which he ~ said | might not be granted, as the court| }stood eight to one, | NO GROUNDS FOR | FEDERAL ACTION | ix belleved that there is no} ground to refer the case to the! United States supreme court, \ Under the terms of the decision} an employer doing work for non-| unton shops could force his union Jemployes to remain at work under’ |penalty of suit for damages, de. | clare attorneys, | Homer 'T, Bone of Tacoma, the} other attorney for fhe unions, de | Glated that the action of the su-| uled the decision | of the lower court upholding the} demurrer of the untons to the com: | plaint of the Pacific ‘Typesetting Co, | preme court ove | ‘Phe union men in the employ of the company left their work when | they found that their employer was | taking work for shops were the | printers were on strike for the 44. |hour week, and after the Pacific! | Typesetting Co. had refused to cedse! {accepting this work, | Union men claim that the com. | pany was not picketed or boyeotted and that no move was mage to injure the business of the cotcern The decision is charheterized as the most sweeping anthunion ruling | in the history of the West, and will) résult in strangulation of the unions if it stands, according to local labor leaders, | tenor, TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. Theo Karle Comes Home ye 3 PROMOTERS SENT.UP FOR _ TEXAS FRAUD Theo Karle is glad to be home again. Here he is as he _| ‘The King county superior courtde- looked Wednesday morning in front of The Siar build- iy. He is telling Wanda von Kettler of the pleasure he anticipates in helping to popularize Stadium concerts under the auspices of the Associated Students of the University of Washington. Photo by Plice & Carter, Star Staff Photographers He'll Sing Popular Songs and You Can Help Select His Program; Tell The Star What You Want BY WANDA VON KETTLER He's home to sing for the home- |phone tolls chree,"" “Come Back to-Erin” and Theo. Seattle's own lyric|“From the Land of. the § out just eight| Water.” He will sing these or any years ago upon a vocal career and| others desired, ghtway rose to national proml-| returned from the Bast jconcert, to be held under the aus- © his concert tours, forthe most |pices of the Associated Students of art, have been conducted—returned |the University of Washington in + the interest of the city's first open |the interest of further clearing the alt condert. stadium debt, proves a ‘success, still with Mrs. Karle, formerly jother noted artists will be brought Yora Christoff of Seattle, arriv-|to Seattle during the summer. This ed Tuesday. He is to be presented|is the word of Darwit: Meisne: in concert on the night of June 18|graduate manager of the A. S. U. in the University of Washington|W., who first conceived the idea of s(adium, where he plang to sing the /4 concert of this type for the city. songs the people want. How will he} But about Karle: He is at pres- know just what they want? This is/ent busy inspecting the haunts of ow: He'll let them suggest before-|his youth—visiting suck places as and. PEAK UP, FOLKS, jschool. ‘Wednesday noo: WHAT DO YOU WA) group of friends, he 1 the city Karle's concert will consist of four|by auto for Index, where a “picnic” groups of songs and an aria. The|Was to be held. first two groups wil be made of se- /HAD 10-CENT lections of his own choice. The last/OFFER FROM the aria will be those chosen} Karle says he's glad to be back talo people. in Seattle, despite the fact that he rhey will be chosen in this way:|might right now be a millionaire in The Seattle Star will receive the |Germany. + pleas on the part of we populace} “I had for the rendering of favorite songs. | Wednesday A few days prior to the concert |auto started off, “to fill a couple of these will be counted, « la votes, |engagements in Germany this’ sum. the most popular to be placed|mer, According to the number of straightway upon the program. ks I was to get, within two days Karle promised Wednesday morn-|I'd have been more than a mile ing<that he would siar “popular |iionaire. 1 figured it up. songs” for his, hometown friend ‘as well as operatic selections. Among |cents, 1 decided, the former, which his voice hasito make the trip. | aided in making popular en grapho- records are “Mother Ma- Ka who started two an by an offer,” he explained just before the picnic Mermaids Here Cannot Wear One-Piece Suits Park Board Demands Skirt Effect; Other Cities Leave It to the Swimmer One-piece” bathing suits will not get by the! eagle eye of the bathing beach censor in Seattle this summer, as the park board will enforce the ruling of last year, which provides: that gil swimming suits must have the short skirt effect, dropping a down oyer the hips: board of health, < Flosh-colorod suits also will be Binge on the “index, and water SAN FRANCISCO, June 6.— nymphs owning such outfits From Portland to San !iego and might Just as well throw them including Los Angeles and San away and buy something more Francisco, the one-piece bathing conservative. quit will rule unhampered by Outside of these two regu censorship on the Poe!fic coast tions, the park board will hav aguin this year, little to say in the style and While shrrounded by a few color of sults, according to Lew obvious regulations, m the main Evans, superintendent of bath. each bather will judge for her. ing beaches, nelf how large the one-piece wa 4 shall be, Southern the lake front. Qne-piece suits will be allowed if ‘not used for vamping pur- poses. On two-piece ruits the trunks will be as short as possible so as not to interfere with swimming, Stockings are banned by the CHICAGO, June 6. sults built for swinriine'’ will he the order on Chie Denches this year, Ralph Wright, beach supervisor; announced today as warm Weather gent bathers to “Bathing California beaches require that bathers window- shopping In the business dis. Iriets Wear bath robes. But no one hus goay so far (Turn to Mage 6, Column 5) | “brains” “General” Lee and Two Others Ave Given Terms in Penitentiary FORT “Gen. WORTH, * Robert A. Lee, win and Harry H. Sct 92 Texas oil promoters to be tried for alleged mail frauds, faced im- prisonment today for their “wild rat” activities Sherwin and Schwartz, alleged of the Gen. Lee Develop- ment Co., sald to have fleeced hun- dreds of gullible investors, each ¢ 10 years in prison and $15,000 June 6.— en.” Lee, aged “imposter,” who 7 & month for use of his hame in firm advertising, was given }two years and a fine of $,000. Aceording to testimory disclosed at the trial, the convicted men dis. posed of worthless oil stocks which |netted them more than $260,000. -~GITY EMPLOYES | | CHARGE FRAUD \Claim Stock Bought in Oi! Syndicate Worthless. BY JOHN W. NELSON oe With more than $40,000 of thele savings and salaries invested, Seat. tle firemen and policemen Wednes- day are seeking the prosecution on fraud charges of Leroy E. Bigelow, 35, @ promoter and stock salesman; jC. J. Rasmussen, former fireman jand building contractor, and Leste+ W. Thayer, painting contractor, ar- rested late Tuesday by Sheriff Matt Starwich on charges of false adver- tising. fi The three men are officers of the “66” Oll Syndicate, which represent- | ed it owned producing wells in Ken- | tucky, The trio was active in pro- moting the concern and selling stock last summer, fall ana winter. HELD IN JAIL iy Provided that the Karle open air|IN LIEU OF BAIL All three are held in the county jail in Meu of $750 bonds each, — pending further investigation of © thelr company by Deputy Prosecu- tor Ralph Hammer, who filed th complaint late Tuesday before . tice C. C. Dalton.. Bigelow, accord ing to Hammer, is under a fed indictment in Portland for fi stock promotions thru the mails. , Arrest of the three followed an in- vestigation of the affairs of the company by T. J. Gallagher, a Seat-— tle fireman, who made a trip to |Lincoln high, where he went to|Kentucky and obtained ineriminat: with a|ing evidence against the former of. ficers of the syndicaté from the Eastern representatives of the con- cern. o The promotion of the company was pushed last fall, when between 200 and 300 firemen and policemen invested sums ranging from $25\to © $300 in the concern. Sales of stock were made on thi promise that ail of the money in: vested in stock was to be used to develop the property held by the concern in the East, aqcording t Hammer. INVESTIGATOR TS {GIVEN TELEGRAMS | In Amer. | \ican money I'd have had about 10 | tly this stason, not i ¥ | grams and letters received from — | results, Lester Bache, Eastern “represen: of the firm at Bowling Green, Ky., turned over the tele Bigelow, to Gallagher, the firemen’s — investigator, These instructed Bache to send wires on the 10th and 26th) = of the month, “reporting off had (Turn to Page 6, Column 4) & able question of fact or informa: tion by writing to The Star’ Washington bureau, 1322 New| York ave. Washington, D. C., in: closing 2 cents in stamps,. © gal, medical and marital adviv can not be given nor cin tended research be undertaken, Unsigned letters cannot be al swered. All letters are confiden: | tial. oe by Q. Why does a moth fly into the light? A, A moth, in flying past a can: dle (for example), has the eye next | o the ght more iNumined than ‘the other; « physiological inequilibriun affecting nerve-cells ani mMuscle-cells; the outcome {ts that the moth automatically adjusts its flight: so that both eyes become equally ik 4 |lumined; in doing so it often flies int O74 [the eandle. 3 jtificial item in the envirenment 6 Flame is an utterly ai the moth to which it ean not be pected to be adapted.