The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 22, 1923, Page 1

CHARGES CAR LINE FRAMEUP! Expert Says Deal Is Cooked to Slap Public Ownership! _ WEATHER © 66 Today Maxinu Entered as Second Clase Matter May’ 2, 1899, at the Postotfice at Seattle, tonight and | de south Last 34 Hours Minimum, noon, 59. Ps Wash under the Act of Congre reb 2, 1979, Der Year, by Mail, 13.58 The SeattleStar : 25 » 20. NO, 101, SE ATTL E, Ww ASH., FRID. AY, J JU? 29 192) Howdy, folks! day! So this ls Fri Politi¢al € economist says we should a more elast Yep, the payc from Saturday to § ha coinage ought to stretch aturday Irete hours likes his ¢ Father (in the wee sma’ ask your friend if he 8 wp or over, eee An invention which add avor to an old pastime. NATURALLY Man was arrested yesterday in Woodland park for making love: to his wife, The cops probably thought he Was crazy. Lipstick ed a new f On the other hand, been sparking too pse to the curb.} * | One of the doctors who spoke be-| fore the medical convention yester day said we should eat more vite: mines. We would, but the seeds al-/ Ways stick in our teeth. eee makes | Perhaps women au at Rest, says a beauty expert the hair. more beautiful this explains why so many rest thelr hair upon the b' night. . A git T like Ia drown-cyed Sue; She don’t say much, But when she dof | ie Few politicians leave footprints on} the sands of time because most of} them are always busy covering up) thelr tracks. | VAMP, SE | ) Th’ réasen some girls leave | | home is because they can't take | it with them. ve $666 a min ute for h Gibbons Sometimes it p 2 directory Monday, it issued Gosh, an ROOK REVIEW “Directory,” the Intest volume from the pen of the popular and prolific Mr.| Folk, is a stirring tale of the West, wh men are men. Mr. Polk exeells in character portrayal, | more than 139410 characters being Intro: | duced in the course of the narrat an example FC his splendid de ptive| powers, we oliowing vignette Ct Adeiphws J. Metioot “MeGoot, Adolphu {Clarabelle 1} Btigr. 13762 Mhabarb Ave. ‘The plot is s trifle hazy, but ta of exciting adventures and quaint chaty ters. Resembling the enormo Telephone Hook in some contains more color and is writ lighter vein. | It takes a book like this to make » man réalize what he misses in his every-day | life, a. . The only defect in the rectory is that it fails to list bootlegsers under one heading, where they could easily be found. soe new, di. A Louisiana man has produced a| plant bearing Irish potatoes on the| roots and tomatoes on the foliage. Now for a plant that will bear! beans and corn and bring down the price of succotash. | ee Or, for chickens that will lay bam} and eggs. + | e+e of the again. casualty oe last survivor massacre died makes a 578 per cent for the regiment. . That | list} .- The young couple living at Three Tree Point. who had triplets ought) to be glad that they weren't living} in the Thousand islands UNANIMOUS | The fee w: do w hotel commit: 000,000 more, So community nts § re to to} Vice President Coolidge turned from. Washington, D. C., his home in Northampton, Mass., continue his vacation . o-* The Leviathan has million dollar joy ride wish the congressional party any harm, but we hope some of those A. ¥:) F, cooties are atill passenger list started on its “ We don't on it HEL Li'l Ged Geo Jy #o hard-boiled she uses arsenic as a sandwich spread 4 chews \polson ivy instead ja Seattle | jerman Custer | 3 {rowed the car from a friend, |the road to avoid it.” the \t | ot LIQUOR RAIDERS DEMOLISH CACHE PLUG THIS HOLE! GAT SEIZED Practice of Calling in Outside Judges JN CHEEPING DRY CLEANUP Defeats Justice and “EDITORIAL rr T so long as there is a loophole thru which elected servants of the people can crawl, just so long will they evade the wishes of the people and the responsi- bilities of their offices. The recent decision of Judge H. B. Gilbert, of Yakima county, on the question of the validity of the Port of Seattle’s $850,000 bond issue to buy the Skinner & Eddy site, directs public attention upon one of these loopholes that must be plugged when the state legis- lature meets again. That loophole is the practice of some judges to shed their responsibility when questions of important public policy are to be settled. Judge Gilbert from Yakima county, a fruit growing and agricultural.district, a man with five months’ experience on the bench, an ap- pointee of Governor Hart, was called in to settle the port case, involving the future, not only of the Port of Seattle but of every other port district in W ashing- ton. The reform we has swept the American judiciary during the past 25 yeara, and which spread from state to state, eliminated the appointment of judges in the various stat except in emergency cases, like- wise their election by conventions. They now are elected by the body politic, the purpose being to make them responsive to the publie-will of the counties they serve and to interpret the law with a liberal leaning oward the sentiment of their constituencies. Because, after all, public opinion is the law, or should be. By calling in judges from outside districts to settle matters of policy the purposes of this reform are de- feated and the will of the people evaded. The next legislature should enact legislation prohibiting this prac- tice. Judges must be compelled to settle all questions of importance to their own communities in their own communities. If they are permitted to shift the respon- sibility to judges from other communities, they will do so. The practice should be discarded with the divine right theory that preceded it. ‘AUTO CRASH IS DEATH TOLL OF FATAL TO GIRL HEAT GROWING r| Three Others Are Injured in | Sweltering Fatal Joy-Ride Continuing Crashing {nto another car WASHINGTO; June No a wild plunge down the steep grade |further material relief from the} heat today and tomorrow ix prom ised by tho weather bureau in its high |official forecast today. completely} While the forecast yesterday promised the first break in the . heat today, the statement today Marian Egerman, daughter Of Mr. i514 that generally thruout the jand Mrs, Stephen Bgerman, 415 /northern part of the astern sec Wheeler st., and injuring two boys |tion of the country there would be Can 5 no change in temperature during Eg. [the next 48 hours. * | In several states in the South, 15, |however, thunder storms were prom- 15, ised tonight and tomorrow and ft} {s expected that this will mark the first relief from the heat in that part of the country COLUMBUS, ©0., June Ohio, esweltering in rangin from 90 to 95, taken death toll of waw ttle prospects wave abating early Findlay reported of 86 and clear /2 Limousines Federal Agents By Steve Arnett a caind aquor cache was demo day night by federal pr on agents in the most successful clean up of the city ever staged The deran Thursday after }moon when the officers dea maten on the Hotel Ottawa, £18 First ave }Myrtio Olson and Mildred White [were arrested in a room of } Rote And theieiquor cache, cleygr iy Ridden, was demolished. Several bottles of beer and whisk ore Peonfiacated, Charges were filed! | Seainat Rae Johnson, broprt ctor of }the plate, who was whea! the raid was hard I 00 bond ing on chargea of t of hin ar ansp opium t nlator with as were of whisky in the home of Mr Upton 1622 Melros agents declare arre: John they a iimousine and. Mra. John The © ar and used t confincated CATCH MAN AS HE 1S MAKI DELIVERY Arthur Freems his home at Boren ave, was raided ‘and Auarts of beer were (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) IS HELD FOR BEATING BOY PORTLAND, June Held in de fault of $500 bond, Dexter Cook, su burbdn potato farmer, {x in the coun | ty Jail here today charged with beat ing 2year-gld Billy Grossman, the son of Cook's housekeeper, Mrs. Jen nie Grosshan The infant is black result of its hurts. H have both been blackened, his jeft hand in swollen to twice its normal size and his head cut in several places. Cook was arrested last night by deputy sheriffs, while nejghbora out- side threatened lynching. The farmer declared ha the child, bht admitted that he ‘spanked’? him a little bit becau he couldn't hold his cup and drink | like a man, and refused to talk BOARD WISHES considerab The car King and Johnson was was taken when Temperatures in East after on Madrona drive Thursday night, small sedan, loaded with school . students, was wrecked, killing a 13-year-old girl, and blue as a eyes and a The party girl, ind ave.; of Lawrence Bishopp, Jack Kellogg, Ist ave.; Thor Romste 62nd st.; Dorothy Prin Pike st, and Alice Kellogg. To Coroner W, H. Corson and the police Lawrence Bishop related the | story of the accident. “I had bor: | Walter Johnson,” he said. “I drove to tho Prince home and picked up the other | hoyn and girls, Then we drove down | the Madrona hill, 1 found that the| brakes were bad and used both the foot brake and the emergen Then I threw the car inte low gear and, | when that failed to work, put the car into reverse, The auto just ran wild, We were going between 35 and 40 miles an hour when the other car came around the corner and I was unable to keep on the right side of consisted the never beot 1748 W. 22,— temperatures which haye 29 persons, | of the heat today a temperature t Assurandes of leniency wkles at 7 a.m: | with the. Seattle port commission were eve Friday by Col. Geo B. Lamping, president of the comm ion, from Meyer Lisner, United States shipping commissioner The | letter declared that the Beattle com mission might expect “all reasonable | latitude” In getting affairs in shape | © that the deal for purchase of the Skinner & Eddy site might be com pleted. Should the port commission nettle legal complications within the next | few months it will find the shipping board ready to do business on a mu tuntly satisfactory basis, LAVA STREAMS In dealin t go CHICAGO, June deaths from the heat ported over night, this week to 19, predicts turew, -Four more wave were re. bringing thé’ toll The weather bureau continued Ligh tempers KANSAS CITY City sweltered und temperatures today of Py o-. June 2 Kansas r continued high on the occasion | paldent Harding's visit. (Curr to Page 9, Cotumn 1) Five Hurt i in Big Smelter Explosion TACOMA, June William Jen. with serious burns about the driven by Dr. 1 The other machine, ft, C. Morne, of Puyallup, and oc pled by himaelf and Dorothy HMete ing of the Evangeline hotel, was struck broadside and wrecked. The Pyerman girl was thrown thru the » windshield of the sedan and in- |etantly killed, Lawrence Bishop. re: ceived cuts and bruises, Jack Kellogg |was also cut and bruised und Mins Hoteling was severely injured about] sen, Ben Sen Graduates of the Seattle school ot chiropratic will hold a banquet tonight Well, m Waly, well-trained chiro« prictor shouldn't have much diffl. culty in dietemboring a restaurant chicken Boy, my golclubat wd " | |neck, legs, face and eyes; Carl Jolin Following the ageldent, the party | son, Harry and J, Whelan of studenty were taken to police|with painful burns, and William \headauarters and questioned by the |Liden in a critical condition as a re- leoroner and police, Lawrence sult of his injuries, ts the toll of | Bishop admitted that he was driy.jan explosion in tw furnace room ing the car and had been driving |of the Tacoma smeller, Thursday two years, altho Iw had no driver's | afternoon, and was only 15 years of} It is feared that all save Whelan | ! will lowe their sight, physicians sald, The cause of the explosion could hot ke determined |the knees CATANIA, June 22.—-Etna’s lava flows are cooling and have siowed to a anail's pace Leas than aix yards an hour now covered by the! rivera Another hamlet, fanto, Is in danger of being however Mussolini is here and the refugees from the buried towns are encouraged by hie presence and eye comparatively calm, molten Monte engulfed, Premier further investigation of ‘crawh| was to be made Vriday, were | Carl D. Thompson, of Chicago, secretary of the Public Ownership League of America, | TO AID PORT ARE COOLING | ! | Large Amount of, | Booze Taken by, knew a lot about Seattle's public utility problems before he ing. After json (left), Mr. | Mayor Brown's office. reached the city Friday morn- «| Russell Rumored as New | Light Department Head * \Gossip Has It Is present Likely Step super , spec #’ successor wiit be | said that he concerning the would name utilitie Super Inted to the dent of the position of super cit ter to the mayor f the city’s “I have heard nothing of !t,” Russell said The city have as. publ wR. Ba. say w depart utilities railway Jidated, | house rep F hir street mup be according t cirel goasip in cou water and i ments been" notal Friday $4,000 conside $4,000, changes in the at rail and hug well z with extensive ey Hight, water mrtments Among the Brown zation and business railwa one d , considering the for the has been efficiency task of paying operating revenu |tounded tra things that Mayo! ask for in organi program ix the! creation of of assistant superintendents h the Nght and water! depart- with his enormous lines from We have as tion experts by actual results in economical operation. “We must train men to the responsibility of managing these institutions as incumbent heads re Ure or are retired by death,» I will present the entire problem, together with recommendations for men to iil the positions, to the council in the near future." The mayor said that sidered offering the ment superintendency man ‘Oliver ‘T. Erickson, but doned the. project when he learned that by the clty charter Erickson or any elective official is barred from death of Supt blow, and we to “take said. Youngs was have no one place,” have w nis “Neither could into t shoes as supgrintendent our $15,000,000 light department. shall ask tle city council. to create these pc at the same time I} make ommendations on the light superintendent.” trained mayor step sitions wh he light to T. J. L. Ken by the mayor to frame an opinion on how | soon he must make an appointment to fill the vacancy in the light de- | taking an appointive position during partment created by the death of/the term of office to which he | Youngs and this centered city hall 'elected.. Corporation Counsel ban- was requested was Youth of 1 9 Goes Calml; ye to His Death on Gallows ‘The Br avest Human Being Ever Hanged Here,” Say San Quentin Officials PENITEN SAN QUENTIN June years old, toi xeaffold the penalty Lesile Nichols, automobile m the California desert near | last year Campbell dropped thru Jat 10:13, Wifteen minutes was pronounced dead, Vather Carroll, a Cathollo accompanied the condemned to the scaffold Campbell went | bravely. he reached | ond of the corridor room where the s sprang from his ey Lawrence Campbell, | his cheeks, paid on the|’ Not a word escaped his lips, for murdering] which but an hour before had been N, on amiling In hope Nyland] doubtedly the bravest human being,. man or youth, that. ever trap] went to his death here,” prison offi he] clals declared after the hanging | Officials made no attempt to con al thelr, admiration for the youth who played ball In the prison yurd youterday, death} morning | death Campbell the door at the leading into the} taining the came, fold _atood, toars |Hundreds Hunting Little Boy. Gans Be Taken From City Escaped Convict Mrs. cannot] MSCANABA, Mich, June take hor three-year-old son, Buster, | Preparations for a concentrated at permanently from Sonttle, according |fack on the swamp stronghold of jto the ruling of Judge Otis W. Brink. | George Natchoff, exoaped conylet er in superior court Thursday, Mra. jand slayer, were made today by Shoemaker ts the divorced wite of J. TM Corgan, Marquotte |} Morris S, Brown, Seattle pollceman, warden, who is directing and was granted custody of the boy, |several hundred men but the court ruled that the father} Natehoft, pod from the prisd must be permitted fo wee him oceans jand fled Into the swamp after kill ‘glonally, ‘ing Deputy Sherit€ Frank Curran, and ran down cal, 9 the later priest, youth} to his while | pr ring for his never lost reprieve hope of :¢ | that never Nannie Choemaker PONHON of That “Consolidation of Ottices| President water départ: | assume | Council. and whistled merrily this | prison! HARDING IS IN | KANSAS CITY: Given Rousing | Welcome to Middle West Mo, 23.-— was given a rous Middle West. red @ tour off the city fol- rival fromSt. Louis, boulevards were crowd. ed to watch the presidential party. Beth the President and ‘Mrs. Hard- ppeared to be nding without unusual discomfort, Hardiags Endure Hottest Weather KANSAS CITY, June | 22.—Phesi- dent and Mrs. Harding came %o the; heart of America toi along with} the hottest weather the ‘sum: mer. While native Kansas City folks drooped and wilted underyva sun that scorched everything, the presi- dent and Mrs. Harding looked cool! and fresh, in spite of a day almost us hot as, in’ §t. Louis yesterda After a 13-milo drive over city boulevards that radiated the blister- ing heat, Mr. and. Mrs,. Harding kept up their strenuous pace» by shaking hands with several thou- sand Missourians in a downtown hotel, Then they relaxed for a few honis, before the president deli ered the -second formal’ speech his western’ tour, While a. woman's committee looked after Mr Harding's com: fort, the president, braving the’ sun went out for ‘around of KANSAS CITY, une President Hardt ing welcome to the The thousands c execut lowing hi Decorated eon of of After his speecn.on transportation here tonight the president will leavi for Hutchingon,\Kan., where he ‘will deliver his agricultural speech Sat- urday aunedy s the fair grounds, AWAIT CLAMOR AGAINST PLAN! BY LAWRE EN ROU" |ON BOAR NCE MARTIN by, United Press) TO KA S crry HARD. Tr President linto camp the enemies of his world | court plan or he has surrendered the | Proposal to their mercies, knowing that they will kill it ‘The president believes he has done ithe former; that hy -appearing to yield generously to their demand for reservations he has forced Lodge, } Watson and the other dissatistied re- publican senators to put on their reservations and then ratify the | court protocol or convict themselves the country of insincerity. ROBABLY 13Mit . BE VIOLENT | ‘Tho reaction | world court fo Mr, Harding's speech to an audience -| of 10,000 Jost night probably will be violent, The president will not be surprised if ft ts, | Ho expects, for example, | Irveconcilables will at once raise a clamor against his suggestion that tho court be made self-perpotuating, That suggestion, one of the | amauing over uttered by an Amorican. pregidont, was put into the speech (urn to Pago 9, Column 2) that the the chief | the | most | ‘1S SAMPLE OF BAD PRACTICE |Public Ownership | Head Asserts City | Victimized by a Shrewd Plot By Lester M. Hunt Seattle was the victim of an anti-public ownership plot wher it purchased the street car lines under a contract which was des- ignated to cripple the lines finan- cially, charged Carl D, Thomp- son, of Chicago, secretary of the Public Ownership League of America, Friday morning. “The city paid twice what the lines were worth and was bound to }a sinister contract, which provided jexhorbitant rates of power purchasa five or six times in excess of what jthe former owners were » paying,"? said ‘Thompson “The contract served the dual pure pose of unlo a white elephant | Upon the at a handsome price nd setting Seattle up as a ‘horrible xample’ of public ownership. | SAYS DEAL, FRAMEUP TO CHECK MOVE) ‘T ‘The deal was a frameup to check he arrived he learned a lot more. Picture shows Councilman Oliver T. Erick-|the spread of the public ownership » Thompson (center) and Mayor Brown discussing the Seattle situation in| Photo by Prico & Carter, Star Staf¢ Photographers | idea. You can't quote rongly on this matter.’’ | Thompson, who reached Seattle o1 | Friday, was brought West at the ree quest of league members of the seren | Colorado basin states, and on his \ es back to Chicago arranged his itinery to investigate (conditions here jfirst hand and to ‘renew an olde friendship with Mayor Brown. He | ¥as to speak Friday noon at Dart- | néll’s cafeteria under the auspices of the King County Democratic elub. Advised of the statement of | Thompson regarding the street ear jsituation, A. W. Leonard, manager of the Puget Sound Power & Light | Co., said: “If T told you what I thought — of this thing and the whole’ | buneh back of it they would take out the phone, so I won't say it. You can for me, however, that it is absurd and silly and absolutely without foundation.” |. The jiurpose of the league fs to” jextend the public ownership idem | Particularly thru hydro-electric and super-power development, “We are in the mi industrial revolution, jare entering the age of electricity and leaving behind us the age o |steam. Thru the building. up of big” publicly-owner power systems’ indus-. tries will be stimulated by cheap and. | plentiful power and the farm output | | increased thru complete electrifica- Ps at a nominal cost, The great power project in jcountry ts the Columbia’ basin wii ial horsepower of 21 million, WASHINGTON FAILS TO RE ALIZE OPPORTUNITY hington evidently fails to alize the possibilities there. BP \erly developed, the water which gates the millions of acres can be used in the production of- th }enormous power. It will gs cheap power to the average fi | decreasing the laber as it stimul | production. “To obtain public ownership, tha” | public must first be aroused to i | possibilities, This is what we ‘are | endeavoring to do now. The private |companies cannot. undertake — th vast projects which are possible he) public. | "In Ontario 274 cities and rural | communities are tied up in” ont (Turn t to ¥age 9, Column 2) me too | ‘Two Belgians Slain ; ey DUSSELDORF, June 22— Belgians were shot dead and a third | wounded by German civilians whom, they had halted on the road near, the village of Marl, between sten and Hecklinghausen, in Ruhr. A Nice One Offered Today } Here is another home. that inf being offered for sale in Want Ad columns. ‘This will certainly make somo one © a) vomty hon. 4 :] Completely modern acroon walow, very large Ivin: Handsome pressed bric place, oak floor, 2 nice bea rooms, buffet kiteher breakfast nook, splendid © block ‘to car; $2,600 ash, $40 a mont cludes fing gas range, iu n suites, dining room tabl ntel clock, chairs, plotur eto, OP Will sell wit i he Want Ad columns will t you more about this home and fy who will show you thie property. |