The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 17, 1923, Page 1

E im HARDING TURNS — — — — pes! Spo EPRI» tt Aad TT ‘Thumbs Down on Alaska’s Ho Botered as Beoond Clase Matler May 8. WEATHER wd ond wneettiod and cloudy Wed aeaday Temperature Last 1 Hours Maxtmuns, 70. VOL. NO. 122. 25. probably showers Moderate winds. » foles! year when young fel. on thelr cibskine and and ge down te the their Evin- Every week cod the Sound ts dotted They call ‘em >rcause everybody on. craft pleasure cra joys the pleasure except the guy whe | has to crank the engine, oe Nothing so werprivcs the otener of | 4 second-Mand motor beat ae whens Me ter engine starts right ewoy. "ee The best thing about yachting te that you don’t have to repair any panctares. On the othe een adie to exp always dies when 2 miles from hon see On SUCH PAINFUL MEM ORIES! Whe remembers the days when ne yachting party was complete unless a half deren betties of Badweiser were being dragged behind in the water te cool? band, nobedy has a why the wind on One of the real pele SAE, “mare LM Gee Gee, te that you don't have te wer goifing clothes. cee Another good way to learn to awim | fe te get im the way of the boom) when the bout te sibing. ee Vecationiat: “When I get the limit, “TT bring home some trout’ Uniecky Guy: “When you get the Hemis, TH come down end bail you owt.” see ‘This bas been & wonderful month over the flywheet and the} your salibeat is/ Ot the widest spread. | Most ruthless band of | Oriental outlaws in tie | tion, ChatHung, arch: | fend, stalks trough | the pages of “The Yellow Seven” Edmund Snell's great novel of adven-| ture an almost incred./ ely sinister, terrible} figure. “Chinese” Pennington, | the white man, matches | ' wite and courage with this monster and the} story of their strogete | te the death forme an beple of the thrill the mystery of tite tm strange, tropics! North Borneo. Peosington’s woetng of the beau tiful widow, Moniea Viney, furnishes the love motive, Beginning in The Star Next Thursday pa Mae 8 ——— | ‘La Follette | Gains Power 'Rebellion Against G. | O. P. Rule Growing | BY FRASER EDWARDS WASHINGTON, July 17. —'The [election of Magnus Johnson, farmer |tabortie, to the Minneseta seat in the senate will make La Potlette the biggest single power In the next congress and strenethen the rebel} on againat the Harding administra. | tion on the eve of the presidential sleetion. ‘This te the tnterpretation placed [tration fell SEMIE CHOICE /Magnus Johnson Is Election Winner by Landslide in’ 199, Bt the Postoffies at Seattic, SE ATL. W ASL, | Food Wash TU ESDAY, JU LY 17, 1928. under thh Act of Ow Per Tear, by Mail, 04 ! Sense (EDITORIAL) EXICO is luc governor. His x ky today to have a sane ne is Hinkle. He has shown his good sense in volunteering complete | NEW M pardons for Carl C, “libeled” age all some p Magee, the editor who had 4 supreme court judge and been of a superior court judge by telling ain facts about their crookedness. “in @ Hinkle rightly declares the Magee case a fla- grant example state's integrity. @ Here's f persecution and a blot on the hoping that Magee, thus saved from the pe nitentiary, will run the two ag tyrants off. the be mch and perhaps’ behind the bars. # * * * » * Minnesota Race Convicted Editor Is | Pardoned by Governor ST. PAUL, dent Minn. Jub Harding's y 11.—Preat repubtioan adminis before a revolt® in Minnesota te Election of Ma: mer tabor Mates JA nee overnat an net indorsed by President Marv ongreestonal ob guard th the La The plurality of Johnsen grew inte & “landelide™ at neon today, The farmertaber victors mar: cin passed the 55,000 mark and ® final plurality of mere than T0008 over Gov. J. A. 0. Drews was predheted. With 2472 precineta out of TST counted, the vote stood; R6202; Preas, 11, | COMPLETES TKHM OF KNUTR NELSON Johnson will (0 out the unexpired eon, who died April T4, and will be a candidate jxlay to the section of b for picnic suppers—for the meequt | on the victory of Johnson by the |in Meeker county to help w toes. . . “Lightning Strikes Butcher With | Headtine tn The Star, fome | body ought to pase a law prohibiting lightning from carrying « kaife. 1h DIARY ely i Cp, and plenced mightily thet my poor wits, with her own harde, dif babe in crmem for my breskfest, aad on to sities and at some writing. And to the ‘evening to the courte to gley ewe temnie, bat C. Ment 414 trounce me three sete, whieh I took very badly, aed did bide my poor playing va the creamed bebeter I tad eaten, the Indewd 1 would have boot anyway. And o to heme and te rounding “High Prides.” tn the Setevepest, tow farcical for my taste, albeit the bagte ie merry ome. “Dearest, answer me,” “Tam on the rack.” “So is your hat.” Yoiee from he pleaded. came a harsh head of the stairs, “ee Summer is a pleasant time of the year, bat not to a girl with the hives, poison try, mosquil Sammatory rheymatism. —o OBITUARY NOTICE | o———___—_ ——— 9 You may say what you like about the municipal railway, but the fact remains that we paid Jack for junk coe The battle between Dempsey and Gibtons was only a 1S-round affair, but the battle between Montana banks and Kearns was a fight to « tiniah—the banks’ finish. see A 9008 way to make nice lettuce sandwiches {4 to take out the lettuce and insert ham. see Wonder if these typewriter supply Stores keep gun? ee THE SEVEN AGES OF WOMEN | Safety pins. Hairpins. Lingerie pins. Fraternity pins Pins, Clothespins. Rolling pir: ary Another law that should be pa: Would prohibit ico-men from setting fee on the kitchen floor while they Open the refi # door. cee It's hard to tell theae days whether some of these pr della have been hit by a cyclone or @ phenie party sae "T feet jus Fones,” he sai “Thone ares “Those are corns.” ike T was dancing on romes,” she nal, ° Goodbye, officet ty little woodland | }furm bloc tn the senate and hows | | today, H | Beaten down by the republican party during the war until he stood | jaw a lone flewre against the work | Senator La Fotlette, individualist and Progreasive, now has bulked himeeif a virtual polities! empire in Wash ington, where be will hold the bal ance of power between the opposing } groups. The farm bloc chieftains) claim Johnson was elected on a La} Potlette program. This means a derve will be inauau-| rated In the December congress to | Repeal the ExchCummins law so that lower freight rates will be pro-| vided for the farmer | Revises the Fordney-McCumber high tarit?. | Guarantee to the farmer « living | wage thru government marketing of | | toodatutta. | | Revise the federal reserve system. | Extend control of the packers. Abolish supreme court decisions "| by « majority | It tw doubtful, of course, whether | | La Follette wilt be able to force any Jot his bile on these subjects thru | congress, but he Is now strong/ enough to make a greater fight than | he Hrookhart, Shipstead and/ Peake Johnaon squarely with him in the senate—and many other pro- gressive republicans flke Frazier Ladd, Norris, Borah and others fa voring at least half of his program he ia certain to accomplieh a jot | Frazier heads the Nonpartisan league and recently elected senator from North Dakota hen, with hia Influence over cer tain delegations in the house, La | Folfette controls a strong group there | With this new strength and the |help of all progressives and demo- | crate the little fighter from Wiscon afh can play havoc with any admin | fate: ation program in the upper houne. Governor Preus, if he had been would have joined the re publican regulars. He was needed to give them a bare majority in | the 68th congress, | Now that Johnson Ia elected, senate will be cotmposed of St publticans, 43 democrata and | farmerlabor senatorn. | | “oe 'Farmer Senators Won't Be Stylish #T. PAUL, Minn. July 17-—Minne |rota’s nenatorint delegation in the |next congress will not wear drens suite. | Magnus Johnson and Henrik Ship. . farmerdabor enemies of ‘sour and fish,’ affirmed intentions of let ting the social bloe flutter without thern the re two they'll never get me into a trick drone mult,’ mald Magnus, fan ning hin biuenhirted, blueallused girth with a big, black felt fedora eee MADISON, Win, July 17-—Klee tion of Magnus Johnson an United States senator from Minnesota, wan denerihed by Henator Mobert M. La Follette here today an a “magnifl- cent victory for the people,’ i jonty a | Bhipstead, | Frank B. ing. With typical Johnson said he the ‘chores’ around the farm.” Gov. J. A. O. Prous, who decided resigning have himself wd to the vacgney, tasted his Just 44, and the peak of a promising politica! career, he was caught in the miscl strom of farmer unrest In the state It was the dust |within a year for Governor Preus and Sesator Johnson. Laat Nover ber they fought it out for the gov ernorship. & harrow margin Sta! the deme Swedie ; tked to help with against apport! first po at eal defeat. second political notmines, He received Hegtizible vote yesterday JOUNSON'S VICTORY 18 NOT A SURPRISE s victory waa not a sur ome prise. If was presaged by the elec-| tion last November of Dr. Henryck farmer-iaborite can “old guard” in the senate With the two farmer tora from Minnesot the senate hold a balance of power. Hoth were elected on platforms that grew out of the Nonpartisan league} | prograth In the Northwest Johngon will f labor rena | Review of the Fech-Cummina rail road law; revision of the McCumber ta OV storage to assure the turmer ng wae” lopment of waterpower rerources the Norris-sinet national farm marketing corporation of the federnt Fo ernmen a liv national location and de emp reserve bank vote; a nol revenue from nalen an tax excesm profits tax restriction of the not ot court Injunctions in Jabor disputes © stringent regulation of the packing industry: complete equality for men and women politically and industrially; a new child labor law As soon aa things nlacken up on the farm near Kimball, Johnaon plans to “visit around” with bis (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) COLLAPSE OF WHEAT PRICES PROVED AID TO MAGNUS JOHNSON IT, PAUL, July 17-—Collapae of wheat prices on the Chleago board of trade coming at the pay chological moment waa greatly responsible for the “farmer re voit" that elected Magnus John. son United Btates senator The campalgn between Johnson and Gov, J, A. O. Prous way about even when news came lant woek that wheat had dropped below $1 on the Chleago mart. Quiek o grasp hie advantage. Johnson hammered his “farmer relief” platform all the harder "Vell, I beat Yoke,” he roared in hin “foxhorn voles,” today “i'm United Staten senator, Hy yimminy, what duo you think of that?” Jobnaon in back on his farm helping eut the hay erop. ernor Preus won by | Senator James A. Carley was} over | Kellogg, out of the republt- | . progresatves in| rain lete re} reme court} New Mexico Executive Says Magee is “Persecution, Not Prosecution” Mf, July 17. of h Cart Magee Judge David & and a $100,000 the editor of the ate Trt emiied He hat just been a of ae James F. Hin complete pardon, releasing him trom jell and penitentiary oo ke gregating two and 4 years, the ment of fines = $000 Against hie paper, minor personal ALE au ERQUE, N. fith charge canantty lower oe eentess {ited pardon, | Lanny eee me Hehe Syhy EF: t A Sppreciative, tha to Governor IWinkia ‘The cost Gf Appeal was ltee much for me Ag# mow I can say what I need to gay about the fan Miguel court @itheut fear’ of wer contempt citations.” tpt by the court to * Magee immediately to jell, at» be convicted om the new cha: ree, is unt! Judge: the editer Magee tangtin mig’ and his remarked gvverpor have to a pardon Governor Hinkle characterized the a wae a eTace and « bict New Mexico, when he ere o pardon. Judes Han chiet Magee, goes on trial July 20 for di feet contempt. A mass meeting has been called In Banta Fe tonight by Magee, Hanna a tomertow In hin declaration that Leahy’s court was following me lof persecution rather thas presecu tot, Governor Hinkle practically re- peeféd the words that brought upon Magee his citations for contempt That there be t difference Ma- gee “talked™ while hie own case wa progres ‘The governor “talk the case has teft Judge Leahy fo Governor Hinkle cannot, te bose for conten counsel for Famous Writer Calmly Answers De John K. Siddall Began athSummons Months Ago His Plans for Continuation of Life Work On Magazine NEW YORK 11,—Told | by doctors that he had but a few months to live, John K. Siddall, editor of the American magazine guarded the from his friends and made plans, before keeping his rendexvous with Death, for the ation he lowed and made famous to carry on hie ideals Biddall died at hie Ardestyon. Hudson home Monday afternoon of cancer His most intimate | friends had known for weeks that the end was pear, but ‘MILK REPORT IS COMPLETED July serret | pubite Committee Refers Subject) to Chamber Board HUNT affalre com ot pletion TER M of the civic nyt Members mit of the Seattle Chamber Commerce co announced on the milk situation deliv report which wan to be of their in the clty ered to the board of trustoss 6f the chamber at ite meeting Tuesday aft ernoon. The fow an inv tion of charges of monopoly leve Dietributers’ amendment of to compel report wn at the Seattle which expouned the elty milk ordinance pasteurization of all milk gold in the] city At the request of Dr. H. J. David kon, chairman of the logisiative com: mittes of the King County Medical woctety, the chamber committee took up the Investigation and ‘considered Dr. Davidson's report, in which he charged that the patteurizing nen «ht compulsory pasteurization be tion came of the them. He teurzation. not efficient, pasteurization mikht lower atandard of the milk supply. ‘The committes report deals with the economle side of the situation, in well the relentifie side, and the nection of the board of trusteer in expec to determine the come of the proponed amendment to that pam re, wan charged also practiced bh and that the the ordingnee: The matter war reforred to King Cowity Modical noolety by Hiram M, Tewd, shealth oifioer the Phamber committee the Dr will be ing of the medical noclety. npulaory | The) the editor bad kept hin grim seormt locked Behind a chiverful, enerectic exterior since early April GAVE IS LIFE FOR MAGAZINE At the end of a long, distin: guished career in Journaliem and the magazine field, Siddall iter enve his life for his maga ine; his days were shortened by his tremendous labors to have everything in onter at the Amert s) magazine when he passed. Siddall's ambition was to pro duce a magazine in which every subscriber would read a “bit of the editers dominant makeup.” author of the Says.” An increase in crew Jation from 400,000 2,000,000 under his editorial guidance ts a teatimontal of success In April a council of doctors met to discuss the malady that was undermining hia health. “I | want the truth about this mat | ter," he sald, just as tho he was | ordering a reporter out on an | Importatit story | And they told him. He had nix months to live—providing he gave up all work and reated; re Heved himself of editorial bur | dena and went outdoors. With the calmness of an editor out the details of an | important story, he closeted him self for severnl days, He did not tell a living soul of the tryst he (Turn to Page 9, Column 6) Convicts Take to | Sea in Motorboat | NEWPORT NEWS, Va. July 17, The man hunt for six convicts! @ ped from Eastern penitentiary Saturday, turned to, the high seas today with the services of the Unit Jed States navy and all ships at sea enlisted In the ehase, Radio mensnges wore | He wan ennays, | } working broadest, |the exeaped band are believed to be headed out nea ina rful motor boat stolen from a Maryland to |police chief. Girl Wife Waits 3 | KANSAS CITY, July 17—Mra,| |Henwie Murphy, I6yoanold bride, [abandoned by her hush |teurant, was entrusted by authori | ea today to the care of hor slater und brother-in-law sought the husband for three days, without reault, with the girl wife ‘walting: at the police station, Besalo finally gave up hope of his return. Case Against} nd in a ren: | LAUNCH SCHOOL Will Train Pupils Who Rank Just: Above the seme normal” Class By Wanda Von Kettler “Give them & chance.” Tesidents of Beattie and the state) of Washington now working in be- half of the estatlishment of « scfoot lfor children whose “intelligence quo. | tient iv not quite up to par have no adopted a slogan. It they bad, this) possibly would be it: “Give them « or four months ago chairman of iment of the Women's clubs, ght her in con: three ration pas bro tact with children of all classes and ltypea, concetved the idea of a school j for those little people who do not! quite mea adarde | set for “normal” In the schools of Heattle special Intelligence tests are given those} |children who, 1{ seems, are continual |ty tbetind in thetr work. If found to drop below “To per cent” ayerage they are termed “deficient”, State | inetitutions for the mentally deficient, | however, sdmit.onty those who fall below 60 per cent There in there- fore, a 10 per cent ctass for which little provision ts made. And in the words of Mra Tlarnhart, “In this 10 per cent are the little fellows who! most of all need the special work— for they have a fighting chance Rometimes thore youngsters who measure up to—my, 6T or 68 per cent—need just a bit ef paych analysis and a little asdstance wit? Jeertain associations The way to |normaicy, ith a little effort, can of- ten be cleared.” CITY HAS FOUR SPECIAL SCHOOLS j True, Beattie four special schools conducted under the au plees of the school board for sub jnormal children, It ix maid, how (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) | whoee work ure up to the children. has Canadians Injured | in France Accident | « NIM France, July 11.—Six members of a Canadian delegation, |neveral of them from Montreal, |were injured here today in an auto mobile accident. ‘ The injured persone were marl jot a Canadian delegation comprised | of 25 priests and prominent profes | sors and wives, The party was on} route to place a memorial in the/ jchurch where Montealm was bap: | | tited. They were riding fn an automo- bile bus which hit a tree, many of/ the occupants being hurted into a/ ditch. The Canadian high commis sioner here has no details an to! injured or the extent of lwho was | Weenan Ridvesed by “ |Thugs in Oklahoma | OKMULG Okla, July 17] Mrs, George Petipol reported to po- Hee here today that she was kid naped off the streets of Tulea last night, forced to accompany her ab. |ductore to Okmulgee, where she tortured. Four men and a woman seized her. Mra, Pet!pol, |American wife of a Greek restau rant proprietor in Tulsa, sald the | kidnaping party poured carbolic acid over her body and cut her hair off “We are going to mall your hair |to your husband, He'will know the | |meaning of it,” she quoted one of | jthe kidnapern as saying | | Fate Strikes Grim | Blow at Aged Pair ee LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 17.— After he had worked 30 years to} earn enough to spend the remainder | was monopoly it would give|giving warning that at least four of of his Hfe in retirement with his wife in Boston, Mass, thelr old yhome, Arthur EH. Abell, 65, wax xtruck and killed by an automobile in a downtown street here, In his | ifeless hands were found the two Jong green railroad tickets that would have started him and his ‘Husband of Irene | Castle Leaves Paris| PARIS, July 17.-Robere Treman, Ther friends are ati the status of th on behalf for London, in doubt aa to J divorce case fled here ‘ot Mra, Treman, WOMEN | }eance at the |delegation of boys. The Seattle Star | | | | Jaf Here's George rerpryaag 12, one of the thousands of boys who will be at the Elks’ » (Copyright, GLOOMY FUTURE FEARED), President | Believes | Chance to E Northern Spacer BY LAWRENCE MARTIN 1923, by United | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 17— temple at 7:30 Monday night | Having studied the Alaskan railroad when one lad will be chosen |over its entire length and observed | to introduce President Hard-|clom!y the pomsibilitios of growth ing at the Elks’ Big Brother picnic at Woodland park,| July 27. best,” say. He is a student at the} Central school and lives at 716 Madison st. When the kids of this state get out of bed Tuesday morning, the | proudest among them may be | George Brighton. Boys Flock to Seattle All Eager to Greet) the President BY STEVE ARNETT and development, Presi¢ent Harding | committed to maintenance gf the + | road.in the most economical “TU just do my fashion until a broader program is was all George had to | warranted. . He believes the present and the immediate fu- ture promise nothing in the way of development — of the vast stretches rie country thru which the line runs from Seward to Fairbanks, Even develogiment of the ponsibilities of the southern | Cepends on furnishing adequ water ‘transportation, which is nae now existing in a way to [travel northbound attractive, URGES LOWEST - | POSSIBLE DEFICIT Mr, Harding probably will sak congrens to pay the ceficit of the: jAlaskan railroad this year, but he” jurges here that the detectts be kept jat the lowest possible Cure, The deficit ts extimated at about 1 boy who can do the prettiest | $1,500,000 this year. Officials pointed dive, lad who can pitch the best game of horseshoes, hoppin'” will all fade into Insignif. Elks | night, A real boy hero, a real conqueror, fellow kids and claim the highest honor that can be conferred on a lad} from this state. welcome and introduce tle and Washington at the great Elke’ Big Brother picnic at Wood- jand the boy wi» can «pit the far | | therest thru his teeth without “crow | | will step out from the ranks of his | great The boy who is to/| by President | stru ignoee to the boys and girls of ANCHORAGE WOULD } out to him the largeat Bs the boy who section from Fairbanks to |has the longest range bean shooter | bridge has just been finished. Mr. Harding, upon his return, have to deride between Anchorage | and Seward as the ocean terminus ” temple Monday /of the road. Seward ts on Resurrec tion bay and has a fine harbor. Am horage is not as good, but shows — possibilities of development. — The growth of Anchorage was mage — to onter. engineers wih wanted to com — t the raflroad in two sections, BE CAPITAL Seward was the terminal of the old land park on July 27 will be chosen | Alaska Northern, Guggenhelm and_ Monday night at the Elks’ temple. A veritable army of, kids invaded | the city Monday to be on hand for the selection at 7:30 at the Eiks’ tem- ple. From Monroe, 250 boys under the leadership of Mayor C. L. Bar low were to arrive for the big selec- tion. One of these boys may be the winner, ANY BOY IN STATE CAN TRY FOR HONOR Elmer Vaughn, 11, walked from La Conner to be at the Elks’ temple for a chance at the great honor. A more 100 miles’ walk was nothing in his young life when the honor of shaking hands with and introducing him to thousands of joe boys and girls was a possibil. ying. boy in the state, no matter where his home may be, ts eligible for the honor, Only his intelligence, ability to speak before an audience, physical appearance and character | will be taken into consideration, ac: | cording to Charles A. Reynolds of the Elks, in charge Woodland park pienie. In addition to the troducing the president thousands at the plenic, boy will be given @ new sult clothes and a complete outfit, cording to Reynolds. of the big honor of in- to the of ac tho: president | | } juntil shortly before the presidential 7 the lucky | Every city in Washington win be | represented at the plenic with a Every exalted ruler of the Elks lodge in Washing. (Turn to Yage 9, Column 1) Japs Threaten to Act Against China HONOLULU, July 11.—The Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and other civic organizations In Japan have taken a definite stand against antiJapaneso agitation in China, ac- cording to Tokyo dispateh JUi, Japanese language here. “Unless the Chineso government Newspaper | Days for Her Mate *'* on the Journey of thelr dreams. |and people act quickly to check |this agitation and prevent gravation of the situation,” resolu: tions quoted in the dispateh as paaxed by. these organizations de: clare, “Japan will be compelled to an ag: Aftor police had | husband of Ireme Cnatle, today Jeft/take proper steps as selfdefensive modaures, ;. “The responsibility, however, lew entirely with China,” the resolutions are quoted as saying, von { to the | | | \ | Morgan property, which was takes over as a speculative proposition and the government was induced to buy. it when it decided to build the rai road. Everyone now admits that the SOW ~ (Turn to Page La Column 3) ¥ MRS, HARDING — IS EXHAUSTED ¥ There Is Scant q It 1s a railroad town, built 7 Three Persons Prostrated. | by Heat at Fairbanks — FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 1%— Mra, Warren G. Harding, wife of the president, {s suffering from exhatie jtion, but is not seriously ill, Brigadier” Gemeral Sawyer declared today, ‘Tho presidert's physician said the” *) un! l exertions of Alaskan t Me: | chairman of the Big Brother branch | Wii" ag) with long days and no nights has tired her, She remained in bed here train left at 5 p. m. + Three heat prostrations marked up here as President Handa a ing addressed a crowd at the ball park, while the temperature waa 96 | degrees, The president changed his plans several times during the day” and after abandoning the Richards ~ son Trail trip, decided to see @ “clean-up” at a placer mine, ANOTHER HOME FOR SOMEONE Here ts a nice little home with everything to make a home comfortable, at @ reasonable price, MOVE RIGHT IN A 3-room cottage (doubly cons structed); bath Inj new capacity teks and 600 4 frult trees and sh) tx140, with good ar k ‘The Want Ads will tell you who is welling this little home,