The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 8, 1923, Page 1

jonal lux com ies, Idec “uno eas ould s in man be the and y is ffer. vas ap. pur- 7 Fair tonight moderate south Temperature Maximum, 76 Today I[[l WEATHER and Saturday west win Last M4 Hours pimum, 54 no Entered as Second Clase Matter May 2, VOL. 25. NO» 89, 1899, at th Home Brew Howdy, folks! Did'ya see where Georges Barbot, French flier, says that flivver airplanes will soon be common? By heck, they'll never get us up in the air in a Ford! see When you ride in an automobile and something goes wrong, you can get out and fix it; but when an air Lizele stops, where are you? see Before air flivvers will really get to be popular, the government will have to fill up those “holes in the air" the aviators are always talking about. see ECONOMY NOTE Henry Ford ought to be tickled that the day of the air flivver is approaching. He can build his machines out of canvas instead of tin. eee When the sky is filled with winged Fords, everybody will have to carry cast-iron umbrellas to ward off fall- ing nuts and bolts. eee Religion necessary for army effi- ciency, says Pershing. Perhaps this explains why drill sergeants are always referring to characters in the Bible. see Religion is fine for an army, but in the A. E. F. some brands retailed their religion on the cost plus sys- tem. see The “blue sky” law went into ef-| fect Thursday, and we're glad to re- port that not a single cloud has ap- peared since then. oes AU REVOIR, FOLKS! George F. Russell, superintend- ent of public utilities, threatens to withdraw $9,000,000 of the city’s money from Seattle banks. Good work, George! Let's go up to Vancouver, . . Sign on cobbler’s shop, 12th and Jefferson: ‘Ladies’ Heels Changed and Built Up.” Well, why not? They have been able to get their faces changed and built up for many years. «ee Within a few days all the files will be in the house, and folks will put up screen doors so that they can’t get out again until winter. eee Nobody ever heard of a contented fly. They buzz like the deuce to get into the house and then keep buzzing against the windows trying to get out. oe 6 Bhelby town a wealthy place ts In the ventilated spaces; Full of he-men (kind to women); Men with honor over-brimmin’, Where the bad-guy fans the ham- mer— That's the Shelby panorammer! Ruled by siz-gun moral stricturca— You've seen Shelby in the pictures, oe It doesn’t make any difference how much nioney you have with which to build a house, the architect's plans always call for more, But you ought to be happy you're not building the new community hotel, where the es- timates call’for an added million or two. ee The.table knife is going out of fashion,‘ according to experts.. Gosh, how’ll we eat our potatoes then? eee CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB ‘The bird who comes to the house to play poker and then suggests bridge to make a hit with the ites ‘ . A woman was admitted to an in- stitution for the feeble-minded re- cently, She said that she belleved everything her hasan told her, * Anybody can write a novel, but it (Turn te Page 9, Column 2) Warships to Stage Great Naval Fete! Here on July 27 WASHINGTON, June 8.—The navy department ordered concentration of the United States battle fleet at He- attle, JWy 27, for review by Prent- dent Harding. The review will occur just follow- ing the president's retura from Alas- ka. The fleet will comprise 10 battle- ships, 31 destroyers, the repatr ship Prometheus and the hospital ship Reliet. FLEET PLANS TRIP NORTH SAN FRANCISCO, sune 8—Shitts| | tion of vessels of the battle fleet, an- | nounced the latter part of May, will] oceur during the period between June| 25 and July 9, it was said at the j headquarters of the 12th naval dis- | trict here today. On June 30 Admiral E. W. Eberle, commanding the battle fleet, former- ly known as the Pacific fleet, will be- come senior admiral of the United States navy, and chief of naval oper- ations. He will be relieved by Ad- miral 8. 8, Robinson. Admiral W. R. Shoemaker will re- port to the general naval board about June 30, Admiral C. F. Hughes will report to the naval war college at Newport, R. 1, June 25, and will be relieved by Admiral i. J. Pratt. Early in July, following the arrival here of the cruiser Seattle, flagship of the United States fleet, other transfers are expected to be an- nounced. On June 25 the first of the battle fleet will move northward. On that date the New Mexico, Idaho, Ten- nessee and Texas, will leave for Se- attle, and destroyer divisions 31 and 33 will leave San Pedro for San Fran- cisco, On June 28 the destroyer dl- visions 34 and 36 will leave San Pe- dro for San Francisco, and on July 9 the California, flagship of the bat- (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) TWO SHIPS ON U. S. Discoverer Not Badly Damaged in Crash Hidden rocks in the vicinity of Chirikof island, 100 miles south of the Alaska peninsula, claimed an- other vessel Tuesday night, when the mine sweeper Cardinal crashed on the sunken reefs and was wrecked, The radio apparatus of the Cardl- tial was damaged when the ship struck and she was untble to wire- less signals for help. By the time repairs had been made, the water in the hold had reached the generators and had put the spark set out of commission. She was not able to call for help until Thursday. The survey ship Discoverer, while proceeding to the ald of the Cardinal, in answer to her radio distress sig- nals, also piled un on the rocky coast, ‘The latter vexsel was not severely damaged and later was able to draw away, According to the advices the Dis- coverer, together with three sister ships, were engaged in mapping the ALASKA ROCKS MURDER 100 REVIEW FLEET FOUND HERE |Taylor Case May) Seattle Clues BY JOHN W. NELSON That part of the wealth of Wiltam Desmond Taylor, the murdered Los Angeles movie di- rector and actor, has found Its way to underworld life in Se attle was learned Friday, when it became known that Crawford E. White, Seattle attorney, re- cently refused to accept a dia mond ring and a bond, the prop- erty of Taylor, as a retainer in a criminal case, White refused to confirm the re- port or to divulge the names of the some other Seattle lawyer later ac- cepted the case, posted bafl that freed the men and now holds the valuables, is the theory of city de- tectives who are working on the case, under the direction of Capt. of tectives Charies Tennant, Police ihe nothing of the suspicion until after the men had been released on another charge. Inspector of Police Harry O’Brien Friday declared that Capt. Tennant had all the information available on the case in question, but Capt. Ten- nant could not be reached Friday, when the. mysterious information was obtained. The murder of William Desmond Taylor has baffled the police of the entire continent. The wealthy and temperamental motion picture di- rector was shot down in his Holly- wood bungalow over a year ago, apparently by someone who walked up behind him and shot him as he sat in his chair, Mabel Normand, Constance Talmadge and many other prom- inent movie stars were ques- tioned by the police as to thelr knowledge of ‘Taylor's death, Police clues Indicated that Tay- lor had been murdered by higher-ups. in the dope ring which: supplied the movie col- ony with narcotics, and several months after the murder, a but- ler was arrested in New York, but later was discharged. The discovery of part of tho loot | world circles has suddenly. drawn the attention of the police to Seat- tle and clues are being run down here, which, it Is believed, may lead to the arrest of the murderer or the solution of the mystery. Portland Fighting Earwig Invaders PORTLAND, Ore. battle isjon, quipped with $16,000 worth of ammunition authorized by city and county officials, 60 college students aro engaged in a great conflict here with the earwig army. Eight hundred blocks in Portland are now held by the little pests, it is estimated, and, strongly = en- trenched as they are, the fighting will be vigorous. The earwigs are making life mis. erable in some sections of the city, They destroy vegetation, enter houses and make themselves at home in the beds and clothing. Brussels Train Is Wrecked; Six Killed BRUSSELS, June 8.--Six persons were killed and 20 injured today Alaskn coast in the neighborhood of (Lurn to Page 9, Column 6) when the Brussels express was de railed near Vervieres, Be Solved Thru! from Taylor's possessions in under: | June §,—The} ||Go Get ’Em, Huskies BY the nationat on June Coach Hugh when they pian Friday at the depot bye. Yells, 000 drive to Several m tening with there to. bid bye DISTRIC versity Joy among popularity, 4700 block which will he has a |] he can wl mot the pr and the some tin, ASHINGTON'S the hopes now en route to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where they will endeavor to win 28, crews of the East. The varsity and frosh eights, with Russell Middieton and | tutes, were given a rousing sendoft graduato association, sponsible for putting over the $12, Admiring c ‘LIQUOR VOTE American People Will Decide Referendum on Change in Volstead Law! ee ee ne Postatfice at Seattle, Wash under the Act of Congress March 3, 19, Jer Year, by Mall, $8.69 The Seattle Sta N 1924 WASH., FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1928. x TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. if It was a sure ’nuf husky crowd that stood on the observa- in naval personnel and in the alloca.|two men who approached him. That| tn car platform of a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul train, eastbound, Friday morning. Varsity and frosh crews, at | left, are responding to the roar of well wishes coming from | students and old grads on the station platform at the right. | And Coach Russell Callow, at bottom, is smiling a grateful smile to those persons who helped make the Poughkeepsie | trip possible. Photos by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers Varsity Oarsmen Leave for Poughkeepsie Race \Crews Given Great Send-Off as Train Rolls Toward Eastern: Regattas TOM OLSEN rowing crews, of the West, are rowing championships against the greatest Manager five substl Callow, departed on the Olym- morning. A crowd of over 300 persons was to bid the crews good- led py members of the who were re send the men Hast, re- sounded thru the morning air, jothers, their eyes gis tears of pride, were their husky sons good- eds, envious stu: T MILK WAR FORCES PRODUCT TO EIGHT CENTS QUART IGHT-CENT milk ih the Unl- district 19 spreading housewives where the beverage Is increasing exeatly in in the KB, Two stores on i4th ave, N, are responsible for the situation continue indefinitely, necording to the manager of the Pigely Wisely store, who claims contract weder which | at the #cent figure for two yeara, Metenife's grocery, street from Pigely Wisely, has rice of +his competitor, University district ap: pears certain of cheujy milk for ncross the wn dents and old oarsmen, who learned the game under Hiram Conntbear, were sprinkled thru the crowd, The oarsmen who are making the long Jaunt to the Hudson are: Var- sity—Capt. Sam Shaw, Fred Spuhn, Dow Walling, Don Grant, Max Luft, Charles Dunn, Pat Tidmarsh, Ro- land France, Harry John Dutton, Virgil Murphy, Keith Enloe and Bill Walker. Frosh—Al —_Ulbrickson, “Tiny” Brown, Sanford, Kerns, Mat- thews, Hart, Gill, Tommy Bolles, Art Wuthenow, Johnson and Hy- land. On the sume train; in a special baggage car, the fragile shells Husky and Tyee are also riding, They will reach Madison, Wis, Monday morning, where the varsity ‘aces the University of Wisconsin on Lake Mendota on June 16, The Frosh has no race billed at Wiscon- aln, but. will go thru the samo strerfioug workout that the varsity must undergo, Immediately after the Wisconsin | race next Saturday, the Washing: |ton party will proceed to Pough. keepsie, where they will take up | headquarters on the Hudson for the big race June 28 They are to! jarrive in Poughkeepsie on June 18) and will have 11 days to work out! on the Hudson for the big classic. The varsity race at Wisconsin and at Poughkeepsie will be over a three-mile course, Tho frosh race two miles at Poughkeepsie, Grade School Work Is Put on Exhibit Exhibits of grade school work in home economics und art are demon: strating the ability of the puplis in the board of education room of tho Central building. The articles will be on display thru Friday and Satur. day. Mombers of the art department of the public schools are in charge of the exhibit. They gre Miss Mo- Lean, Clara P, Reynolds, Maude El mor and Frances Yeomans, ; Washington’s With You | SPEND MILLIONS} Gigantic Publicity Campaignto Precede Vote; to Decide Fate of Beer and Light Wines for U. S.; Will Test — National Sentiment on Booze ; (Copyright, 1923, by United Press.) WASHINGTON, June 8.—Millions of dollars will be spent in two gigantic compel of publicity and organization to line up all the voters in the country on one side or other of the new prohibition The result will be a national referendum in 1924 on the question of modifying the Vol- stead law to permit manufacture and sale of beer and light wines. U.S. Agents Listless! Say Booze Situation Grossly Overplayed BY WM. J. LOSH WASHINGTON, June 8. With bootleggers operating on the border of New York, bring- ing In thousands of gallons of liquor, federal prohibition offi- cials here treated the situation with apparent Indifference, de- claring that the gravity of the border situation “had been gross- ly, exaggerated.” ’ If the federal government has any plans for meeting the situa- tion — Prohibition Commissioner Haynes says he has _not—offi- clals are guarding them in strict- est secrecy, ILLINOIS DRY REPEAL ASKED SPRINGFIELD, I, June 8—A bill to repeal the state’ prohiibtion enforcement act was Introduced in the Illinois legislature early today by Representative O'Grady, Chicago, And was sent to committee to decide. ‘The measure providing for a refer- endum after its passage has no chance of passing, legislative lead- ers pointed out. Sufficient time does. not remain for its consideration, as the legislaturé adjourns next week, The legisiature has defeated sev- eral less important “wet” bills. Today’s Want Ad Bargain Here {s another offer of land that is worth your while to loc*. over, By watching the Want Ad columns daily you are able to find just what you want. FORCED TO SELL Sweeping view of Lake Washing- ton, Some tracts have fine stream; wonderful rich. garden soll, Acre tracts priced ax low as $400 cach, on long, easy termé, 6%. About 90 acres of this land is cleared me with natural woods, Drive out today and look them over, Go east on B. 96th to 42nd NB. aul for Mr. Hanoa, et: Turn to the Want Ads NOW and find more about the details of this land. BY LAWRENCE MARTIN struggle. Under the leadership of the Anti- | Saloon league, the drys will shortly. sound a rallying call to dry sup- porters everywhere to contribute a war chest and to revive all pro- hibition organizations to prevent amendment of the Volsteac law and to force congress, by a show of public opinion, to appropriate more money for enforcement. WETS PLANNING DETERMINED DRIVE Headed by the Association Against the . Prohibition Amehd¢ment, the wets: will make a similar organiza- tion drive, urging. all with wet sym- pathies to become open active ad- yocates of a more liberal. enforce- ment plan and of amendment of the Volstead. act to permit beer and wine. Congress will be too, busy. this winter to make any changes, in the Volstead law affecting the status of beer and wife. It is extremely un- likely that it will amend the enforce- tests of seven maritime powers against new American. re; barring ships’ stores liquor. ‘The whole matter is to be referred back directly to the people before the politicians in congress attempt any tinkering. The congress cte in 1924 may bring back. beer wine. The one that will convene December, 1923, will not even take step in that direction. 2 DRY LEADERS a NOT DISTURBED That is why dry leaders here not greatly disturbed by det ments in New York, Wisconsin, Ill nois and other states where repeal of state enforcement laws. has curred or is being considered. 3 declare the referendum will a “100 per cent ‘dry’ enforcement the Volstead act,” just as it The 1924 referendum will be the broadest test of public. sentiment on” prohibition this country has™ ro ment law even to clarify the inter- national. situation created by pro- afforded. Every candidate in 1914, from president down, will be meas . ured by the wet and dry vote. 7 BY C. K. McCALEB (British United »Press Correspondent) (Copyright, 1923, by United Press Associations) (Copyright in Canada) MALONE, N, ¥,, June. &.—Twen- ty-five ‘thousand gallons: of bottled. in-bond Canadian liquor has crossed the border into New York since Gov, Smith signed the state prohibi- tion law repealer a week ago, One hundred thousand dollars worth of booze is entering the United States every day in this area, This figure was given mo by the “boss" of a liquor srauggling -or- ganization as I entered one of his automobiles at a point near Dewitt- ville, Quebec, and made ready to run over the line with 15° cases of Scotch Intended for sale in’ the shadow of the Albany hill, where New York's laws are made and re- pealed. Three hundred or 400 motor cars are engaged in the traffic, my in- formant sald. | Trained packers placed the 16 dozen quarts in every available space in the car, The driver oven displayed an extra spring hidden under the floor to help carry the load, BOOZE RUNNERS ARB MAKING HUGE PROFIT This 26,000 gallons crossed the line between the Vermont border Liquor Floods New York Since Repeal of Dry Lai Twenty-five Thousand Gallons of Bond Booze Crosses Border in One Week and a point on the international, Bie frontier, a few miles north of Mi lone. The estimate docs not int the vast amount said to pe crossin the St. Lawrence from Ontario, de spite the province’s dry law; does not take in the cargoes wh enter Vermont. At existing bootleg . prices means a gross intake of $800, a week, The cost at the Canad sources—again quoting the present market—is half of that, Te about $400,000 a week to pay ti portation expenses and. other head and provide a profit for th engaged in thig highly organized,” legal smuggling traffic. ye There was nothing — pa thrilling about my, ride on the” leg car. Instead of foeling that was in company with outlaws ai buccaneers, It seemed more as if” an efficient, smooth-running portation business, . GET $75 A CASE FOR SHIPMENT IN NEW YORK “This Haquor cost us $562,560, the rate of $37.50 a case,” sald | chief bootlegger, as the © pat worked with the bottles in straw overcoats. “Wo will get | a case for the load, delivered, “We can get rye from our. of supply at $91:50 n case, Its” (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) ;