The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 11, 1923, Page 9

MONDAY, JUNE HI A I FIVE GERMANS; 2 FRENCH SLAIN Invaders Take | Revénge for Killing of Officers inet mans alt at ommand of & FRANCE FACES ~ BIGGEST CRISIS One False Step and She May Tumble to Ruin uh many, Kure WASHINGTON, D, C., Jur ot Fr t Ge the ba tne an showdown approache & question of w jermany £0 smash, but of how long F survive. Ger y is totter! yt the next yUS PRO. g during sg. of bovine vir idly increasing, ts bound the other hand, !s but stumble: inhabitants, he must crumbh. rt of her One the pa statesmen, and she will be given over to tourists interested in the beautiful ruins of a great past. Premier Poincare knows this and it makes him = grim hancellor Cuno knows it, and it makes him stubborn. He is thinking Germany might even throw herself to the ground ff in her fall she crushed France. France flattened out, Ger many would rise, wipe off the blood, brush off the dust, and go on. Two things are necessary to France if she is to keep First, she must have money bankrupt. Ruined by has borrowed and spen: still more rebuilding what Germany tore down. ‘Wecond, she must be secured agains’ another Prussian Invasion. Right there is the difficulty. A strong Germany, which could, pay, would be able, by a simple twist of | the wrist, to convert itself into a} Germany which could also fight. And Germany too weak to fight false s would also most likely be too weak | to pay. France's job fs to find a satis- factory compromise. Such a com- bination can only be found jn a strengthened league of nations or sonr international agreement, else in &@ strong entente with Britain and such other allied powers as France can rally to her side. France might go it alone for a time. She might even crush Ger- many temporarily, but Germany would wriggle out from under tn the end. And in crushing Germany, France would add England across} the channel to her ememies across | the Rhine. Germany's new reparations offer May not be to Frances liking, but it should be made the means of reuniting her with England and tie | rest of her allies. Only side by sido with her friends can France, in the long run, be made to pay adequately, and France obtain reasonable guarantees for her future safety ut the same time. BUCKLEY MAN STILL MISSING Citizens of Buckley and officials of King and Pierce counties are aid- ing the search of Miss Florence Keely for trace of Washington Morris, 51, a wealthy. bachelor, who disappeared last Monday on the eve of his marriage to Miss Keely. Morris suffered a collapse while working on his automobile several weeks ago and has been under a physician's care since. Posses hav drained the Puget Sound Power & Light Co. basin near Buckley and the woods and underbrush is being searched. Miss Keely formerly was a teacher in Seattle schools until she became} principal of the Buckley schools three years ago. Cruiser Seattle Now at Portland} PORTLAND, Ore., June 11 cruiser Seattle and six destroyers e in port here today, guests, of Portland for Rose Festival week. Admiral Hilary P. Jones, com. mander of the United States fleet, arrived aboard the Seattle and will also be here during the three days of the annual rose show. The vessels arrived off and ca ‘The Astoria me up the river d , & Port ye afternoon. They were greeted by hundreds eager to weldame the service men to the city. HIGHEST POINT EVER REACHED ¥ there ta anything you want to know (if it be a question of fact or information) write to The Star's information bureau, 1322 New York ave. W., Washings ton, D. stating your question. clearly, giving your name und ad- dress and incloving a two-cent stamp for return postage for a personal reply, Q. Whace is the highest altitude ever reached by a mountain climber? A, With the ald of oxygen, Capt, Finch and Capt. Goeffrey Bruce last year reached an altitude of 27,300 feet (over 4 miles), or 1,700 feet from the summit of Mount Hverest, Asla, the world's tallest mountain, woing. | or go} the war, she} hope to come out on top. | ‘That is the only way Germany can| GUARD SLUGCED BY GRACKSMEN |. Bandits Rob Shell Oil Co. Safe of $500 ked men making yard when from cred Two other 1 masked hadow of to throw the him men a Ma stepped forward and take into the refused and the and beat him with their was him to Atkin: trio Jumped upon him to the ground Atkinson bound his hands behind his back en into a hallway, F guarded by one of the men while the other t to blow them revolve with nd tak then w wo proceeded leisure After pleted the Atkins: own rough! ast to it bbery had been taken ou a@ fone with be wire labor but failed to locate the " « safe also was broken open by t w ered the the office cen, HERE’S MORE ABOUT DOYLE STARTS ON PAGE 1 will his ¢ to hig lecture of apologized to him tion of the directors and Sir was amused to hear that they had been censured for t ir action. Veo get so much censure and abuse that tt & Interesting to of one on tho other getting 1 * he remarked, a he laugh. | SPENDS MORNING ANSWERING CALLS ne hman aspen mo! tepping down et to mmodate . a rapher passersby |riously. In the st jin his room at the Wash ington, he would be distracted by janother knock at the door and an-| jother photographer. Ho was the |best customer of the elevator boy. Sherlock Holmes waa never en dowed with supernatural abilities to jaid him in solving his problems! | because his creator hesitated to us [his own belief ax of revenue. “It would be sacriligious for me to do this, believing as I do," he said “I am not engaged in this work for Profit and the profits from my lee | ture tours all go to societies engaged | | in spiritual research work." | At the suggestion that spiritualism | might be used in the solution of| crime, Sir Arthur voiced his opposl- tion. He declared it would be de-| basing and {yr from the high ideals} of spiritualism. “America gave this religion to the | world,” he added. “It is the great |religion of the West. It was first | discovered in New York in 1848 and has been the subject of world-wide study ever | BECAME INTERESTED | OVER %6 YEARS AGO “I first became interested in it 36 years ago when J waa a young physi-| | clan practicing in England. more than an agnostic. It first to my attention thru unexplicable phenomena involving my patients. I | started to study them and have been |doing it for 36 years. I fcel now that I have arrived at the trath and am anxious to give the result of | studies to the world.” He pointed out that confirmation of psychic phenomena had come} from leading scientists thruout the world after careful study to deter- mine their authenticity. “The enormous growth of spiritual ism is reflected in the attitude of your newspapers. They accept it seriously and discuss it with fairness ‘The day when it was held up to ridi- cule with talk of spooks is past. It} is the great religion of the western world and the people are accepting j it.” Sir Artie Mlgads | Seance in Portland | | PORTLAND, Ore., June 11.—That| |Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, noted| psychial research authority, attend- ed a seance in Portland Saturday night, following his lecture here the night previous, was revealed here} today. 7” who and continue onl members the # the a Arthur for hear sido with some a to phe atared cu of a letter] ing |the while & source medium was a‘local woman} nas gained much renown for |her revelations, it was stated. A} small and select crowd of seven people, including Sir Arthur, were in attendance dt the seance. The medium brought forth the es of Sir Arthur's son, killed in| | France, and his first wife. Among| lother things they told him was | the fact that no one in the spirit land reads the Bible. Hyverything| |}is an open book there, the sole | declared. Sir Arthur expressed entirely satistied with the results| of the seance, those in attendance at the demonstration reported. | himself as) HERE’S MORE ABOUT DANCE HALL STARTS ON PAGE 1 ky in hig possession, and had just filled four serving glasses, which also contained liquor, when the dep- uties arrived, they sald. J, C, Haynes and Henry ©. Flags were arrested, charged with possess ing Nquor, and Miss N, Brown was arrested on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, Miss Brown vaulted Deputy Harrahon when her companions were taken into custody, Dozens of bottles were thrown out the windows os the raid was in progress, Harrahan sald, A dance at Redondo beach stopped beause the proprietor of the place did not possess a tlcense, as required under the new slate law. an was jand it is a shame that HERE'S MORE ABOUT. T FLOODS STARTS ON PAGE the section estinat Many and ping lows inn Wintield million homes were principal streets rivers, advices here Other K towns wh Property und at a was dollars swept away, were Fr stated, et En Wichit t Lay each Western the flood water town, wpe and Oklahoma there had Tulsa A the worst rer caused City in row was ruined pre ts he u d Emp h farm Wichit small t ad tr tions were nina In the train with 200 sengers was reported marooned on the prairies near Winfield. Other trains which rumbled into ould go no furth account of washouts alead, ad: ding to the problems of relief workers there, Almost half of the city is under water, and every available place of refuge is crowded. The water, which struck th lowland houses wn suddenly nd inundated the sident swept away buat 1 we ness section. © rescued by and taken already crowded. Two bodies recovered from the flood stream at Arkansas City remained unidentified today, The bodie from upstream, and were unable to identify vic maroo immers and, boatsmen to places of refuge came local citizens them. I ands in the vicinity of Emp inundated over a wide area as the Neosho and Cottonwood rivers to record levels. The entire Cottonwood tween Dunlap and Har undated. Stafforiville was hit in this section. Wat every house and store | ‘The crest of the fl today-at Hartford a were rose valley be ed was in hard stood In the town. xd was dd Burlington Cloudburst Wreaks arm | expected | ESCAPES FROM BLAZING AUTO B.F. Summers Crawls From Under Car on Knees w margin DEPUTY SHERIFY ASA LEE INJURED Mii 144 hurt taken to t nnle is suf injuries to RUSS-BRITISH WAR AVERTED | Conciliatory Note Is Dis- | patched by Soviet Chiefs LONDON, 3 tain } Rui 11—Danger of between Damage in Georgia |: MACON, Ga. June 11.—Damage of approximately $100,000 was caused by a cloudburst which struck here, it was estimated teday Roada were washed ont and cel- lars flooded when the deluge of rain fall caused torrents to sweep thru | downtown streets Several Fersons from their homes tions of the city. Danger was belleved past the waters receded today HERE’S LARSON STARTS ON PAGE 1 were in rescued lowland sec. when | scit there. “t have mastered French | Investigation Would Include Financial Machinery and German during thia trouble and will take my Goethe and Anatole France to Walla Walla with me “My wife and six children need my help and I am hoping that pub- lic opinion will some day turn y favor. I am an innocent they should suffer with me “My three oldest children are at work now. Two are in school and the youngest is not yet old enough to attend. fight and my family have grown very tired of the worry. I have at last swung them around to the proper way of thinking and are resigned. My oldest boy is mak ing g00d and will continue to do xo LIFE HAS BEEN A SERIES OF MISFORTUNES “My life during the past ars has becn one tong series of | misfortunes. Beginning with the failure of the two banks, the halt- few jing of operations on the new build- ing in Tacoma, the ruling of the courts, and the death of my child last Fourth of July have all tended to sap my spirit. But I am still fighting. I will carry my fight to Walla Walla if I am sent there, and will do my best to settle this af. | fair.” Larson stated that he had been asked to take charge of the T: coma bank against his wishes and that he had accepted the office |of vice president after he had been | | assured that the Seattle bank would send $260,000 to Tacoma help clear up some of the |debts of the institution. This money was never given, according to Lar: son and resulted in the bank's fail- ure. The failure of the bank, according to Larson, was due to ownership In the Spiketon coal mine, which paid nothing on « $600,000 investment The $250,000 which the Seattle bank had promised, would have in-part cleaned up this | ability and saved the institution, SAYS HE HOLDS NO ANIMOSITY IN CAS "I was convicted on violation a statute which I did not know ex isted, I was charged with tho theft of $17,500 of the bank's funds when I signed my personal name}to the order transferring the fmoney. 1 signed for the bank and not for my: self, but I was charged with grand larceny. “tts slgnedly. there is nothing 1 can at it in the right light. I hold no animosity toward anyone, The men who tried me were doing what they considered thelr duty, 1 hold nothing against thom," all right," sald Larson re “TL have been convicted and do but look se California Banker Must Go to Prison SAN FRANCISCO, June 11 A. Schaofer, president of the Mirst Na- tional bank of Gridley, Cal, today was sentenced to nine are in Leawv enworth federal penitentiary, follow. ing his conviction at Sacramento on in | man This has been a long | they | to} bad | according to Larson, | of) tan note to with ever it is ged in any | Gahing vex | Araw | proved th 801 MORE ABOUT Berm Bloc to Ask for Probe of Wall Street | | ; | York BY LAWRE MARTIN June i force olution for reasional in Street", ever HINC block coming con: the most searching co vestigation “wall undertaken. farm th try rons A Tes ‘all Street" is the block’s name York's whole fi fal ma changes, brokerage houses and big financial institutions he investi |gation which the farm bloc faction | will demand will alm chiefly at spec- julative trading, but will include | well methods of the _|houses which are the chief of credit. Recent |New York brokerag |the governments’ |against the \for N {chinery, as the sources sensa fail of concerns and | essful suit ay Ex unsuc York change, in an effort lative activities which the justice de partment blamed for the sugar price | iner have rearoused the farm | bloc's hostility toward “Wall Street, | which many of its members blame |for the farmers’ troubles. | FARM BLOC ME | PLAN CONFERED | Western and Southern farm bidc members have been corresponding with a view to organizing the bloc }to put thru in the early days of the coming session a sweeping investi. gation resolution. At a gener ference of farm bloc members and house member to be held im Wash. ington later this summer, a definite | plan for bringing the inquiry about will be made. The inquiry | these points: 1, What re Jactivithes in New York } untry'’s money supplies; |does speculation tle up money lought be availa for |farmers and bus How does sp prices? 4% Can will stand ane, fy to be directed at culative ar to the that is, that jon do sp Ne nen? ulation affect laws the New Radio Station Awaits License O-watt radio station re. at the Rhodes Co. stom will be de ed and opened fag soon as the new class B lense larrives, It was previouy'y planned |to hold the dedication Monday: night jbut a delay in the arrival of the license caused a delay in the pro- gram. Music and speeches by city, county and state officials are being planned for the event when it takes place. congress the test pass of that courts, The ne cently installed charges of loaning bank money to rice companies in whieh he was in: terested, Judge W. ©. Van Moet pronounced sentence in the United States dis- trict court here, The | thru banking | to atop specu. | 1 con-| creditors for } eB he Kad [ L. B. YOUNG ~ One of the most ardent ad- vocates of municipal owner- ship in Seattle passed away Sunday with the death of L B. Youngs, superintendent of the city water department, HERE’S MORE ABOUT YOUNGS STARTS ON PAGE Monday motored in company iss Maude Youngs. arriyat at the Wor is death occurred. en was nted superin of the deartment in Mayor Byron Phelps and ved continuously ever since. He was 64 yearn ¢ ith ave. 8, his direc Youngs to Lamt You | appc nt water 1896 by has and resided Under Jepartm tion the city water nt has absorbed several pri vately owned water systems arid has to its present size. It has been the bulwark of public hip advocates in Seattle and to furnishing a water unequalled anywhere has the t rates of any big city. Edwin J, Brown tendent of Utilities G airman of the Monday to this body own poin be public act the b merly the man of works also directed by works ne held the trans Young | As chair. | doard, Russell | the mayor the affairs post to} conduct of riment erious task, require time to make tigation,” the mayor said. | Youngs has been in failing health for some months, and ler I ten |dered him his reappointment I sug-| | 1 that he take a long rest and | He told me he pre-| remain at hin post and die | nest, Hin wish has been but now he is on a long va mucesed and 1 thoro ounge ts will tl inves st | ferre in the } | grant {cation i All of New to com coffee and sim- as to stocks. percentage of Wall] uxiness is legitimate and) and how much of it is culative? the relations and ef. | fects of Wall Street's financial agencies and methods upon the af. |faira of the United States govern- | me nt? | QUESTIONS WILL OPEN |UP A VAST INQUIRY | ‘The questions will open a vast in- \quiry, so that. if the tnvestigation |is authorized as the bloc wants it, financial structure of the country will be searched, What the farm bloc members ex- |pect to accomplish by this is: 1. Revelation of the “secret” of |speculation, the causes of such fall. | as have recently occurred, Disclosure of the responsibility Imitation of credit to farmers which farm bloo spokesmen assert , either the government or Wall Street, or perhaps both, were to lame for, . 3. Remod to limit. sp | moditios’ 14 r Har articles 4, What Stre Us necessa | purely 5. What are jentire | tor | legislation the reformation by. the ithe South in concert Street, system, as the bloc call if, Such | strongly | ground In a word, West and the Wall members an investigation resisted, chiefly that it would be value, The fight over it to be carried into the 1 campaign. will on the of little is likely political be HERE’S MORE ABOUT BULGARIA STARTS ON PAGE 1 in a bloodiess coup d'etat early Sat- urday Irregular military assigned by national troops quietly arrested Jail members of the cabinet except the prime minister himself, who fled. King Boris, Bulgaria’s youthful ruler, received the leaders of revo lutionary regime and after the audi jence, at which ho heard their ex: planation of the coup, gave his ap: proval to the new government, Strict martial law was immediately imposed thruout the country, A to tal of 200 civilians, including many leaders of the peasant party, were arrested, An eyewitness, describing the coup d'etat of Saturday, said the are rests and troop movements were car- ried out quietly and with mechanical regularity, To look at the etreets, which hummed with customury traf. fie the morning after the revolution, one would not have realized that a wovernment had fallen; here and there an armed patrol moved unos: tentatiously along Scattered uprisings by peasants in outlying districts led to gueritia war fare, however, ond’ telephone lines northward of Sofia were out PAGE FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE a4 PINE STREET For Misses and Small Women: SMART DRESSES $9.85 HE tractive assortment of price. 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That's how it hap- pened.” | “The boy never was in trouble | before, and IT can't see how he camo | to do this, unless it was just a fool: | ish trick like he says {t was,” de-| clared the father. Doughty has served as physical | director in the Sacramento schools since leaving Stanford, a few months ago. ‘aise | Salvation Army Man Kills Wife and Self | PHOENIX. Ariz, Crazed by jealousy, F 41, a Salvation Army slashed the throat of his wife here yesterday, while their two children May,12, and Rebecca, 8, pleaded with him not to slay her. She died and MeNally then took poison. England once had a statute against kissing, but it wasn't intended as a biue law, having been passed in 1439, when the plague was raging, in the hope of preventing the dis- ease from If your men folks belong to what is known as the duffer class, the class whose way from the first tee to the 19th hole is a matter of 100 strokes or over, treat them with kind words and The Energy Spread for Brea Kind words will encour. age them to play a better game, and a better game means firmer strokes for which Nucoa will help to supply the energy. Cop Is Expensive Racing with motorcycle cops is an expensive pastime, especially when one's machine is equipped with im. | proper license plates, Fowles, Fred on lo Stewart in a Sunda: speedy , messenger, learned the truth of the statement | when he engaged Patrolman 0. K. contest uy. Fowles He was booked on two charges his | Of speeding and investigation in re- gards to the license plates. Strange Auto Theft ence of a ring of auto thieves j Whose specialty is stripping stolen jcars of vital parts. The parts disposed of thru unscrupulous di \ers, and the wrecked autos are left hidden in out of the way places. Several autos have been foi with axles, tires, rims, accessorit to the police. Detectives are the thieves. Sterling Silver FOR WEDDING GIFTS THE ONLY AUTHORIZED DEALER IN SEATTLE FOR TOWLE'S COLONIAL PATTERNS “LADY CONSTANCE” IRGINIA CARVEL” “MARY CHILTO} “LADY MARY” “VIRGINIA LEE” “PAUL REVERE” LAFAYETTE” ALBERT HANSEN JEWELER—SILVERSMITH 1518 Second Avenue Between Pike and Pine Established 1883 Oe Worth nes Almond—Peanut—Milk ‘Chocolate Bars vunapeiedie Roa Ring Is Admitted Police admitted Monday the exist- ~~ and engine parts missing, according = deavoring to locate headquarters of