The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 19, 1923, Page 1

|EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, Entered as Second Clase Matter May 3, 1999, at the Pontoffice at Seattle, Wash der the Act of Congress March 1, Der The Seattle TUESDAY, Jt NB 100,000 Victims in Flight From cano’ S Fury ullifies Most of Wenatchee’s Fate Rests | District’s Work 10 TOWNSHI on Rail Body’s Decision ...” a oe BURIED INDE City Awaits Action of Interstate Commerce port or seuue, aay mon of the Commission on New Road piesa tien Ps LAVA STREAM Ww ‘ATCHE “ North Central would opera: Tuesday BY LESTER M, HUNT June 19.—Wenatchee and Washington are waiting in tense expectancy for July That date will mark either the birth of a greater ci y the fight $850,000 Skinner & y' the blasting of its hope for capacity expansion. | Houses Cr umbling On July 23 the interstate commerce commi raters and Yeur, by Star | WEATHER At and Vi ednesday Tempe 4 Hou Maximun: ature Last Today ATTLE, WASH., 19, YAKIMA JUDGE STRIKES INTO CITY'S VITALS Bond Decision Is Far-Reaching and ‘hru Air Howdy, — folks! where a Californi: is now possibl n thoughts? Did'ya scientist says » phe aph Jolin W. Nelson uppose ta bridge party, and when dey d the We'd like to print ink’s reactions Poll Gazette, a pic when readin, but this is a family THE THINKERS More than 800 seniors gradu ated from the university yester - day, They spent four tough as C ars studying the wisdom of the es, but they're glad learned it. handed down by Gilbert, of Yakima ist the legality of ing that the autho under the ated it to operate ine either by itself of ue to the supreme decision on { sion will sit in judgment on Wenatchee’s future. It will decide whether the district is adequately served by the railway or whether the district will be allowed to build for itself a new railroad running south to Kennewick and con- necting Wenatchee with three transcontinental railway bystems. y port has Great Northern j ia dustrial thru to which cre they plants, Quakes Shatter Sicilian Region Arrival and coer schedules were defied Tuesday in Seattle by C. F. Se armies tata a < ‘| Chicago and C. §. Atwood of Seattle. The former stepped from his train at & job naming Pullman cars, “oment that the yer? r sailed from Smith Cove for the Orient. C. F. man with an A. B. degree can| Jumped into a seaplane at Madison t park, flew the Presi » his shoes s 4 in the original | ““Hellos” at the Atwood family on board the ship. rian. rece” PARLEY ON GAR. YES, PRESTON BONDS PLANNED ing in City 1E and walt for no man. Fitzgerald Has Bill Provid- He’s Got a New Suit for) 4.tGta. siaation hare in: \urcnt Muledae torgioy Sik cnc: ing Funds for Trip East Trip Back East tragic and desperate. The lava lence between Vaughn Clearman, hor do transpacific boats delay jt cir sailing time for sentimental | | reasons, or do transcontinental bratne: speel up and afrive ahead | is only 125 feet away. secretary of the Wenatchee Com of schedules so that a brother, com: aga ant ne Houses ace. crumbling, the | mercial club, and Benton M. Bangs, < BY WANDA) VON-HHPTLER héat from the Yaya ts unbearable” | chairman of the growers’ commattes os committee} Ono. more day and repeated earth tremors | of tho club. weit Ber Neg oeeng Aen shake buildings from their foun. “If Seattle, ie station Atweod of the Atwood and his wife Madi shouted ling to officials, jor acti of the ne lared illegal thru dia not | sior id future e ng of industria one of port has the decl- pansion by the 1 sites and by de- ustrial plants is come off if ni a is port same vities over ident son, and Lingua Glossa, Sicilian town, directly in the path of the lava flow from Mount Bina, which esterday was reported destroyed, hourly destruction, with white-hot stream 40 yards from the city gates. The following brief report was sent by a special correspondent to ne § ; ; y the United Press from the very ancl uy | Oral © atgumente “by attorneys, 1 edge: of, the Java, i i Washington, D. ©. on January 10. iar wr b North | The petition of the district for a certificate of convenience and neces: sity was denied following the rep: resentation of the Great Northern that it was competent and willing |to handle the crops without loss to the growers, A rehearing was granted and the date set July’ 25, when the in- terstate commerce commissioners LAST HEARING WAS HELD A YEAR AGO upheld. INDUSTRIAL WORK 18 BIG FEATU RE ces the molten, mmereial clubs ception, has tiviti Port Commissioner George Lamping said. “This de- cision declares; that all the many ctivities of the port in this line illegal. It says that we have vice lated the law probably 100 times since the port's creation, We have leased probably. that many sites to industriai plants, including snip- yards, factories and eyery line of industry that applied. “That is the only reas school his friends how he Succeeding in the doughnut business, while the man who graduted “mag num cum laude” was unable to be present because his straw boss would not let him leave his longshoring job. was tide jing up Central Washington LINGUA GIASSA, — Sicily, | This plan of action was decided The most successful graduate sent word th hat rod pwowla be > eae to at- An onlinance appropriating funds tend, i 3 : rn across , the’ lines OB SARSAPARILLA The left fielder of the Wester- man baseball team of Seattle is named Whiskey. In view of prohibition, we saz- gest that he change his name to Near Beer. jwith which to fi officials to n and 2 a.m, a tr is js Tacoma, Portland, Spo- Tuesday morn- |». me no today mmittec So?’’ said we. er up Sates to greet each goodbye tho it ing from the’ East, may bid goodbye This was tho case en Ae sd Ba Asim r dations. Many Inhabitants have || kane, Vancouver, B. C., and the| will personally come to Wenatchec| DOrt exists, to. encourage Madison at the same insta in the “Gihy Gochell nat Mtonidaye by working desperately in the hope | mission cannot doubt the import-|lisher of the Wenatehce World, it} stowth, We have always done with his from the st | the: two ne misenbécs of tha city cous One of the richest and most /at the last hearing a year ago was! business under the staggering Josses | DECISION MADE IN two b were given a that narhae 4 | . wo bri a ¢ given an oppor. and the te w | PP and beat memorandum decision handed down even yments, F abel, the path of fi oblitera ; ments in a friendly suit to test the to @ brother that ling for the Orient, jing with C. Atwood, who hie bare pena reficl nate Seattle's marble fled. Soldiers have come in the state are rep-| to hear the argunients try and provide facilities and trom Smith Cove on the Pre: {lity bonds, will be introduced | ; erred with trenching tools and are | resented at this hearing, com. According to Rufuy Woods, pub- Sites for their development and j his brother, C. F. Atwood, stepped | Gounciimen C. B. Fitzgerald and E. ba of diverting the lava from the | ance of the new road to the state,"|{s impossible for North Central| it and we shall continue to/do off a fn the Seattle station! y, wigine. ‘The action is taken. by city proper, jSaid Bangs. “One objection raised) Washington growers to continue in| it unless they put ts in jail.” tut the Atwoods defied arrival! cil street allway & ow} fertile districts of all ily lies tho action: represented a few (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) | FRIENDLY SUIT Ho's /40d departure schedules and the| «ave must bX : beneath an expanse of molten : } ie Babe, hops tinea! The ruling came in the form of a other and say | } levised & in consent! «+ pout t . ’ A out the xame a ei $ ih fter a thoro study of authorities was at a dis n reduction he annual bone ; CATANIA r June 19.—From Dp Uy + sd a | to: a reduct or 1 bond beamed. enthy on . : . a 0 0 0 ers and the delivery of extensive argue As soon aC. F. Atwood got. off he committee 'o have valanc of | thousa train, he wife wer fleeing ¥ legality of the saction. personnel wig own, or a rep Sicilian farmers are a chief dept named “A. ‘acoma e ‘tax collec GLAD ITS NOT A Case or Passengers CEMBER, MARKYING MAY A marringe license was issued yeater- day to Koss May and Alien April, both of Seattle. e urful April After tho first quar the te bride, no doubt, learn that show May flow Drag the lake for Alfred Quinner nt in awcimming ter dinner. “There two mahy giggies in America,” says E. 8. Agnew, director of Punch, famous English weekly, ‘It requires too little to make Ameri- ¢ans laugh.” Mr. Agnew evidently has been feading reports of Mayor Brown's so- lution of the street car probiem. “There's something crooked about this picture,” said the prosecuting at- torney “Sure there is,” said Att Page. “It's been framed.” POEMS FOR YOUR ASH-CAN 1 know a lady who is * On a diet; She says, “If you think this is fan Just try it.” orney Tom The 50th anniversary of the type- writer is soon tojbe held in New York and thé backers of the celebration are secking for the oldest typewriter im existence. lorry, but can't Grops in Eastern Washifgton are going to be alittle late this year, says a newspaper report, But we'll wager, than the railroad cars that are sent to ‘aul it away. es x CANDIDATE FOR THE POL | SON IVY CLUB j The girl who says to the post- | x apare it Is that all?’ fuggested sign to be hung in. the ing room of a hosp PLEASE REPLACE DIVOTS, ordi e, ation for city The zonin n in prepa passed by the council ye some of these boot outside Now just let leggers try to operate own zone! the Well, thie ought to satiety maddie crowd for tho none aA SB no later, | ab and rushed to! here I. Hurber o-hia plane, “The} d off into the} vustied into a tax: Madison park, ¥ M them ir and hop; Then he circled nd and dropped down President Madison. dropped y out over the | gside Th ne two great bundles of flowers the ship's decks and then, as they’ circled the ship, waved a greeting to the that was aboard the vessel, The party on the ship was posed of Mr. and Mrs. C. 8. of Seattle; Mr. and Mra. T. J | of Seattic, and Tom Clarke, will be in the Orient for » months and C. F. Atwood and hi wife, who come from Chicazo, will not be in the city when the party returns. We had expected to here before we sailed, 4 Atwood said Tuesday before the Madi son left the doc “Then I found out brother's train would not time to allow us to sec so I arranged with Huber to bring them out over the ship. where we could at least get a glimpse of them and shout a greeting After circling the ship times Huber piloted his plane and his wengers back to the hangars ut Madison park and the Atwoods proceeded to the city. |POSSE HUNTS FOR 2 BOYS A pe of Seattle Tuesday youths who have been missing Saturday and for whose life fears are entertaine The are Eugene Vester, son of C. E Vester, 610 Summit ave, Benni Joddrell, an ¢ aged 18 years The two youtly the Echo Lak last Saturday by to meet them ning at 8 of onto party com meet President that my arrive in gach athe several deputy sheriffs 1¢ to search for two An grave boys and phan, both were taken to trail at 2 p, m. Vester and he was} there Sunday eve-} wk Hi aited until | 8:30 o'clock, then returned to se-| jattle. When the boys did not make | |their appearance Monday the fam fly grew alarmed and Tuesday! morning reported their absence to Sheriff Starwich, A crew of deputy sheriffg was gent to for them. search pi » 9) (Bucket Shop” Men | Get Prison Terms | NEW YORK, June 19.-—-Kdward M. Fuller and ¥, ¥, McGee of the tank rupt “bucket shop” firm of ui, M Fuller and company, were sentenced today by Judge Nott in general ses | #ions court to state's prison for, a year and three monthy to four years, | tend | the University | daughters, [the will be Mayor E. J. Br resentative; time Fitzgerald and Blaine, and Corporation Counsel T. J. In Kennedy, It is estimated hat $2,000 will pay the ¢ nses of the committee to Boston MAYOR EXPECTED TO MAKE FLAT OFFER In conjunction with the b< tension proposal, Mayor Brown is ex pected to make a flat’ offer bondholders for the <Recetitly he wert worth Cou: 1 ex ntstand. the: bo | declared 40 cont would make 10,000 for the y ing. not lar, but that he flat cash offer of $7 00,000. insrac tzgerald’s plan. is to pay $250,000 semtannually Principal and the full int cutting the p ncipal payment to $500,000 yearly an exte 10% amt in the maturity bonds would be required. 7 16 annual payments of $ due on the bend: Councilman E. L, Blain he will p delaying all, pay- ments of principal next year to en- able the street railway to tal an dperauog fund, Las fund is hampering the operation the railway at all times and is cau ing much of the financial embatraks ment, Blaine contends, He will also | strive to obtain un agreement to pay $1,000,000 annually, principal and intéfest, until the entire bonde indebtedness is rétirdd. Under th plan the railways would pay for | themselves in 22 years. Mayor Brown has reyeatedly de clared he will not be a party to ending a delegation to Toston, but considers that such negotiation conducted in Seattle offer to on est 000 now must be here STRICKEN DEAD! AT GRADUATION | Stricken with apoplexy he} stood in line at Sclence hall to ar-| the graduation exercises at of Washington, Mon: day afternoon, Wilburn Lee Howell, 0, of Portland, Ore. died a ew | minutes later. had come to the graduation Miss Emma ell and Miss Bilene Howell he was stricken, he into Selence hall and Dr, John W. Bailey, to save hig life failed. Howell is survived by hig two daughters, and daughters, Howell witness Seattle to] of his two Louise How-| When was carried attended by but efforts his widow, three m ried German Marks Now 155,000 to Dollar | LONDON, June 1%—-German marks were quoted at 710,000. to pound sterling this morming, ap proximately 165,000 to the dollar } ty-thre | bridge | the ‘mainland own-up Pre s ry Is brown On top of the Wed morning will be hung tho g dal, to be awanted by The just before train time to tts cl Meanwhile~only one more browness Star BOYS TO HAVE GREAT TIMES ATEANTIC ite N. J., June 19. Mayo: vk 1 Lader | the key to tn Senlenions Ne ‘ceort all up: for of oars the 40 city who coming — here June 24 to play for the tional marble ch: The was boys the marble king pions week of cham: the na are nplonship. mayor usked to te Hi the when what they here, what they h he “Atianti Welcomes tlic ble kings of America to ‘the play grounds of the world,” and assure them ery best time this fa mic easide resort can géve them “After « long day of play, riding the eeplech innumerable time: fishing window-shoppiti (Turn to Page 9, Column 6) BOY SCOUTS ARE ISOLATED June 19. expect and here ts City mar Neb. Twen from 10 to 18 were marooned on Front southwest of here, when a connecting ‘the island with wept away by couts years old island, wa floods The boys’ food supply 4 be meager and attempts made to establish with the camp, said te are being communication SENT E 7 OE ANOTHER HOME TODAY It you home hunting this will buy a house perhaps are and here help planning to have been nd there, you. $40 LUDING See this homes southern exponure view of University district! near car line and paved street! good Jot; driveway; cement basement, furnace, coils, aun dry traya: cabinet kitehen homey Hving voom with fires place, built In features, etc Ad columns give imi of this little home, | will pe leomo to their hold gooda, violent ha ons Aire been animals whilo families eruptions of rendered nea the devastating flow of m xpeed gains in shoulders » farr the thousands of feet t high, carryin ent re blistering heat p rushing lava sible within a mile wround have dried tion is withering PANICKY THONG CLOGS ROADWAY Still farther like a shroud over the wrought by the flery teady downfall of ders, nd lava spreading a gaseous re eC up up the entre din. . As the panicky threate their ¢ burden, thing they homes before the the fields and bed: The hay des clog ttle pon whose horses down inhabitants "of not yet felt the nding masses, but uninterrupted c of giant flrework is plainly visible, terror, At Piedi spent populace square, huddled tatue of St. Anthony out the night, Chureh incessantly, booming voices raised in prayer, and thon thunder tain top shook the iy ‘Ts FOR NEW With th Lingua © Glossa, held a religious as possible to the of lava that thre ment to engulf Against the apparently advance, they held up Saint Egidius, the p eredited with havin: f lava that reached tho city in 1873. The lieve implicitly that repeated. Viur and have cues work dawn) in flery tens Pope King manuel in the ve Catania this news from 4 (Turn to Page 9, hips oblivion ten me as fresh 1 carth tremors shake aa they flee, udvanc wide long weigh codes Human life Wells for miles the mountain, destruction streams, a ashes fragnients is blanket mountain as far throng towns grows UY andsitacmiore drive beasty backs Is every: | is from their |will not accept, or and could remove lava swept across act drying town. heat whence the indescent from the the around praying thru: bells Monte, camped out .in together from the yilla abitants believed procession 40-foot wall their irresistable statue of ron stor the ed a flow he iglous be Victor & themaviye King will} evening if devastated Column 2) interested The 5 and Etna per Waterhouse Warns Snr Smaller Hotel Possible Liquidation of Corporation have z beneath} Apathy displayed by holders of, Kerry, 2 member of committee, id thet Hotel spected to conditions the original $2,800,000 bond issue of | executive the Community Hotel threatens the entire project to build a tourist and community hotel of the highest type in § it was explained Monday by Frank Water-| president, and members of committee of the} Hotel tion at a meeting) Judge called by President Waterhouse, | that if the Holders of only about $1,400,000 of |be a ca y to the original issue of bonds had re-|©f which the city has not turned their writt@f consent to the| Since the great fire. Seattle, plan proposed for another bond ts-| fils, he said, will be the sue of $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 to stock of the country. meet the increased cost of a larger| President Waterhou and finer hotel than first contem-|the conditions that had | plated, he said. Holders of an equal (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) rectors ¢ could not under proxdt if the bondbol do make it possible to the enterprise, they pected to corporation ant not sf continue may be lnva 30 to eat | BOUSE, the resign say ph executive the on Thomas hot Burke is not built Seattle, the vex ,ia| And unless the subscribers to the {nal issue do return their for. mal consent tothe plan for fi nancing the larger hotel, said | Waterhouse, is nothing to do but build an inferior hotel, which will not be agreeable to the com. of}pany to which the Hotel Olympic leased and which they probably abandon — the and Hquidate: the Hotel. cor ion, with the loss of the mone thus far expended After the plained by carried and ei the over | orig us Glar from the volume, Protected, Police Say river erincreasing numbers of accidents caused by driv ne 1 by driy abitually a loading st that of the situation had Waterhouse, 0 that the division other original sale been mot was com display na’ top night of entire public wander wo! wholire of police officials conduc shoull be orgent » call diately on bondholders who have Fetirned — thelr and deavor to secure Agee imme not en- ment | penalty | iner ‘ed to | offer and a jail sentence for ond offense. | Traffic Ofticer |was detailed by |O'Brien Tue for this offense consent their George C. Tpspector y to the spe tolled LEVIATHAN IS | READY TO GO BOSTON, June The liner Leviathin will sail this afternoon | dressed in civilian clothes, of/on- her? five-day trial voyage: Shel that drivers may not know doomed, | will carry nearly 600 Invi guests, “In the first’ few how fs close ity whom A, D, Lasker, retiring |rode on the cars," Collins sald, chairman of “the shipping board, | eaught 150 drivers in’ the |will be host, The trip is a test, breaking this bne ordinance, preparatory to the liner's entrance | not fair to the street car into transatlantic passenger service | dash past on July 4 as “queen” of the Amer! and limb,” int, [ican merehant marine, “There are a lot of trip started undee a cloud of who have , become has n called this practice,” O'Brien million dollar joy ‘and they ar) going to be that such an! buneh if they don’t stop it. eat ex:|pereentage of our for passenge street cars at all hours of the mo: homes. Katey of | eriticlam. It “junket” and a miracle | ri¢ on the ground extensive test, entailing ¢ | pense, ‘| the vessel President Harding finully yened and told Lasker he never torgive him" if he the trip under eritic acellents wae fitness. j sot to stop, inter “would /a Jail sentence will, abandoned |. Gordon is in with our new polley areas at entive < Threatens Hotel Project and house continu: Mount 100,000 Means corporition gonts with declared it will like | the known | been treating her ughing | explained made the STOP FOR CARS ‘Trolley Passengers Will Be| sh"past loading and un: | cars has aroused the | x Tuesday | of bonds | morning it was announced that thie }oRd conviction onthe! Ghatas. would $50.ccash: bail: for tet | a night session of court and returned Collins | ° Harry duty Jof running down drivers guilty passing street cars with gates open Colling will ride the | of | in evted him, that Lipen to a loading car, risking life reckless driv. aceustomed declare & sorry A large | day’ ure 1,/3 According to port attorney, ames E, Bradford, the epitome of the decision is contained in the pata graph which says “the act whieh Cory to Page 9, Column 3) FEAR WOMAN — DROWNED SELF Fearing that she has drowned her self in Lake Washington, the police.” {were searching Tuesday for Mrs. Hy | T. Spiger, 60, who loft her home at 3503 E. 45th st. Tuesday morning. The disappearance of Mrs. Spiger was reported by Dr. H. J. Knott Cobb building. Dr. Knott hag for a mental dis- order’, hs For some time Mrs. Spiger is sald” to have been acting queerly and told |neighbors recently that “she would: be found in the lake soon. Spiger is said to have a daughter confined in a hospital, suffering from a mental derangement similar to her own trouble, Police detectives began a search” for the woman, but have so far failed to locate her. She is described as” being about five feet seven inches in height, weighing about 175 pounds,” | fair complexioned, with blue eyes, JOE JOFFERY wo! FOUND GUILTY Joe Joffery was found guilty of contributing td the delinquency of a minor by a jury in Judge J. T. Rone |ald’s court Tuesday, It was his see: The | jury retired at 10 p,m, Monday after” Jits verdict at 11 a, m. Tuesday. : “| Attorney W. A. Gilmore will file” motion for a new trial and wil | appeal the case if this is denied, he {| #khounced, Joffery is proprietor of a tamale parlor on Sixth ave, He was tried twice before, the first trial » sultine jin a jury: disagreement, oa | SEVEN KILLED act z IN HEAT WAVE CHICAGO; June 19.—A” heat wave taking toll of — ‘seven deaths in Chicago it § hours swept the Middle West today. After yester= s high of 91, the mereur: not necessary to prove feaused in this manner, and it haw/ again today started climbing sending thousands to the “If ®% $50 fine doesn't stop them, bathing beaches for relief, and Judge John syrnpathy’ | There were dozens of prog: rations,