The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 18, 1923, Page 1

lg” : vol NO, 12 Maxintnim, 6x Today noon, aw) WEATHER Veddiperature Last 24. Bhours HARD! ane Matter Me SE ING VISIT A GREAT EATTLE, WASH, e Seattle St; WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1923. TWO CENTS IN SE ATILE. atoverpotr DISAPPOINTMENT | Estimates outeite, » is not lacking from the thrill- ing adventure tale of “The BLAINE SAYS WEIRD STORY isi s Without Constructive, TAXES NOT TO. BE INREASED Will Be Pruned to Total Levied for 1923, He Predicts Heattio’s tax till for 1924 will be itt. aecorling to ‘estimates Blaine, ¢ n of th mittee « e Nnanes com At the je mith ey comts ( econ r ting es @ budget committer on Old Man Ext en & Yellow Seven,” by Edmund Snell, of the desperate strug- gle waged by the white man, “Chinese” Pennington, to save British North Borneo from the clutch of Chai-Hung, the arch-criminal, and his. terri- ble organization of Oriental robbers and assassins. The conflict furnishes a continuous thrill from start to finish, but the novel would not be complete without the romantic touch of Penning- » beautiful widow, Monica Viney. ded into 12 episodes of three install- € fs n't afford to miss one of them. } Beginning in The Star tomorrow. ; |Home B Howdy, folks! Seattle club nen afe planning to establish a school for pupils whe are sab- normal Members of the city council will be adenitted without examination. MASHIES FOR THE MASSES Speaking of the muastie shot, Gene Saran says that when you hh the top of the tack swing and rivet is complete, the weight id be on the side of the lett big Yep, but supposing you have a corn on that toe? gontent 6 cont “1p moder r MILITARISM NOTE The United the smallest bat in case ways mobilize agents tates has one of view in the world, attack it could ab the prohibition » | BREAD PRICES ARE UNCHANGED ‘Big Flour Reduction Needed to Lower Baking Cost tho flour has el in’ Seattle, there can be ao dropped 40 cents the ptice of bread at the of $71.49, according |; of the Sun », Wednesday morn sient * maid Asin. wety consti nse. There ¥ drop in‘ flour can. invmediate We e¢ 46 suger and je price of y be down 40 conta Three weeks aco echt wumar at $10.40. The flour we are weing now we was $8 a barrel. dropped, it may be bought when it | Altho wheat has |not te avaliable to us November the price will will in flour until and then erned by wheat ¢ December be ov 4, and 7 cents for un. The retail prices with the the re Flour men announced Wednesday that flour went down a fortnight ago and that within 10 dayn or two weeks there would Im another| either up wr down, depend ‘The pros. | change, ing upon érop conditions ent price ia as low aa it has been for five or six years 28 Drown Seeking Relief From Heat BERLIN, July 1%—The morgue « filled with bodies of 6 drowned in the River Oder, | while seeking relief from the terrific ent thin week Tuenty-claht were drowned WOW, July 14.—Nikolal Yord neki haw been appointed plenipoten to Italy, committee was given assurance by Mayor EB. J. Mer | fegtelation Meat will meet with PREDICTS £250,000 WILL Br SLASHED Before Wednesday night the entt mated expenses for 1924 government wit have bee reduced between $200,000 and 066, Waine predict hie approval } | $44,490 for the upkeep and im + | nance of the antiqasted horse-drawn ‘This items pr | | ment of 198 adit officers on t hope that t Pottee W. B. approva} Wika, (rere to Page 6, Coteme ® a BODY OF MAN IS NOT FOUND r na, which have ing Unic near viay to b ot Chark Senttie wned Monday e hedy oo dealer, night with Vi faughter of Dr 6227 Stanley The t ed Tuesday to the But featthe. Fu not yet been made Flora sve., Snyder, 12 s ¢. ave of the sirt morning and brought f and tion trip to had heen fishing mave France Has Plenty of Grain This Year| PAnIS, July 18 nee may not need to purchase wheat abroad this yong, Le ‘Temps estimated this after 5,000,000 colonies in nomthern Africa, a total sufficient for t {A quintal ts HOW ABOUT THIS ONE? Verhgps your hon Hetter took bargain ONLY $2,800 $400 MODERN 5-H Lar Thin home i ex full cement trays, fine § Jawn all in repainted tin show you a real bargain « Want Ad Columna will tefl ho ta selling this home Snyder, was recover: | French | | peated efforts to locate bh TOLD IN SUIT FOR DIVORCE: Wife Charges She Was Compelled to Acquire the Opium Habit By John W. Nelson clutches of an | To tall inte the um Ane to be forced a threat me & vietim dnesday by Mra former ot | Adam 1 declared tod of the me r expe ite or fiction. Property valued at) soproximetely $15.000 sccumulated by Usetoo, Je sought tn the put The woman asks leo her makien leume Virginia White WOMAN HAS BROKEN HARIT OF TEN YEARS John FP. Sheehan i named sa * defendant to the remarkable won her way sunshine and diately thereafter locked the door and then informed the plaintiff? for the first ¢ would be foreed to stay there until she had acquired the opium habi the complaint ntasted COMPELLED BECOME A After resolutely refusing manda, the girl was forced to submit when angry and half erared, struck her and thr er, the complaint states deadly fear “of her laintife did become a ni fict."* the complaint weeks later the (Turn to Pag the de Sheehan kil "GIRL FEUDIST ~ | SHOOTS AUNT SPRING Mo, July 18.— The Hick ‘ock family feud, which has amouldere t nty, blazed years in old school teacher, of hor aunt, 3 John Hicks. The girl, in jail at Ava, on a charge of shooting with tn. tent to kill. A charge from a shot: | gun tore off Mra, Hicks’ left arm, and her condition ts surious. Hertha said her aunt had been running down her character for | some time, and witnesses said be fore the shooting she told Mrs. | Hicks, “You'll have to eat thone | words.” Bride of 18 Found Slain by Bullet PITTSBURG, Pa, July 18.—shot! to death in her honeymoon cottage at Port Berry, near Braddock, Pa, the body of Mra, Julia Coyne, 18-| De yearold bride, was found under the} & log toda jth y was made by John} fier ro} nd in t both | in in held Conroy, form her that her, busty liege in m railroad accident during | peak was caused by a’ thians a contain some salt the night Death wound thru the left temple peak of Cath feet and Dense white smoke is pouring up from the debris, ening of a century-old voleano, casualties, Mount Ca nia It iw Sdentified with the Weat Car pathian group, which ix remarkable r Even Optimistic, Ideas hee (EDITORIAL) President Harding’s western tour is becoming a Great Frost. Before he left the East he was hailed as an enthusiastic con- vert to the principle of reclamation. He was going to see our western desert acres which are crying for water and arrange to tap the mountain streams that should irrigate and make fruitful our undeveloped spaces. 6.6. 3 ae He and his secretaries looked casually over our Columbia Basin empire, and passed on. The word leaked out that their enthusiasm was dwindling, that the Columbia Basin project “might,” in 50 years or so, be undertaken, but not at present. ey eee ae The president was given thousands of columns ,of advance newspaper publicity in which he posed as an ardent Alaska de- veloper. Now he has been a few days in the territory and has ridden over the government railroad. News comes back over the United Press wires that: “He believes the present and the immediate future promise nothing in the way of development of the vast stretches of country thru which the line runs from Seward to Fairbanks.” He “probably will ask congress to pay the deficit of the Alaskan railroad this year, but he urges that the deficits be kept at the lowest possible figure.” He says it would be a mistake to try to give Alaska pros- perity by “artificial means,” including the use of government money, and adds that the people should be allowed “to work out their own destiny.” ’ * * * * Charles Evan Hughes, then a candidate for president, once rode this way “around the circle’ and in the eyes of the West became immediately a Great Disappointment. That was be- cause he failed completely to understand the political ideas that were in the minds of us Pacific Coast folks. He just didn’t think in the same wave length as we did. Washington and Cali- fornia voted against him, and he lost the presidency. President Harding is today a similar Great Disappoint- ment. A Great Chill is following in the wake of his expedition. ee tas He and his official family ride thru the Columbia basin. It is a desert. It is unlike the comfortable Eastern scenery, with its old cultivated farms, to which they are accustomed. It is unlike Ohio; it is unlike Maryland; it is unlike Florida. And the vast Alaska interior is still more unlike the familiar panoramas. (Vier Saree aren, A Roosevelt could see behind the sage brush or the tundra the possibilities of making Western deserts into gardens. But Harding is not a Roosevelt. He is a visionless, complacent man from Main Street—a citizen we can all like for his friend- ship with Laddie Boy and his other human qualities. But as a constructive statesman he is a Great Disappointment. The West long has felt this. Now | it knows it for sure. % MOUNTAIN PEAK \z7arding Thinks Alaska IS SHATTERED Must Make Her OwnWay [Century -Old Volcano Is Be- Slow Development With People Working Out lieved to Be Awakening Own Salvation, Is ] President's Attitude BUCHAREST, July 18.— The MARTIN mountain, 5,000 | BY LAWRENCE (Copyright, 1928, by ed Press) suddenly collapsed | ABOARD PRESIDENT HARD: inward today, | 1ING'S TRAIN, En Route to Seward, Alaska, July 18.-Prealdent Harding a cablnet meeting on je has very convictions rej sult of his pe high, coast and in the interior, tumbled speech, Among his convictions in the Seattle speech Harding will In. clude that Alaska's future is a matter of gradual and probably slow development for the com ing decade at least, that it would be a mistake to try to “bull” Alaska or give it prosperity. by artifielal ww , Including the use of government money; that the people here should be al lowed to work Out their own destinies without too much inter: ference from Washington; and that Alaska should be given a directing voice in Washington tn the bureau's dealing with Alas: (Turn to Page 9, Column % jin to have | Alaskan problems soon after board. jing the transport Honderson for the | |return trip to the United States Secretaries Work, Wallace and | y studies railroad and gen Jeral mining with hearings at An chorage and Seward.) ‘The data wilt be assembled and discussed in a cab Inet conference with these officinis and with newspaper men who have studied Alaskan conditions as search. | ingly and painstakingly as the offi: | Ve tnetude uty ot) ola, ‘ Mount Geriador The Carpa:| The president will work out a rich in all metals and] general plan for his Alaskan speech, depowita, to be delivered at Soatile, July 27. It is believed to be the awak So far there have been no non iy a smaller mem of the Carpathian range, whic nde for a 260mih ler of Hungar nh nlong and Rum that 8,000 Alaska and the West ¢ impressions and, ing Alaska as @re. | ‘sonal contact on the These he | intends to express frankly in his} WHISKY SHIP SHUGGLES IN 24,000 CASES British Columbia ~ | Vessel Unloads | Wet Goods for | Californians SAN FRANCIBCO, July 18; eral prohibition and Const is here today prepared their vigilance against land ing of Squor on the coust of Cale }fornia by vessels from British Col umbia, following the shuggling i of a large quantity of whisky om ng to reports to prohibir uarters here today, the Matasat, which cle from Vancow B.C. « few days ago with & cargo of iumber and whisky for’ Austraila, placed aboand firhing boats off Montara, |Crux county, the largest cargo jsmuggied into dhe state. j The “shipment” totaled 24,008 | cases and is said to total $2,000 | 900 in value, these officiaix daim. Tardy reports from | coastwise wessels sald that the — ing smacks by tricks while standing In close to shore in daylight. Coast guard officials because they are net provided & sufficient fleet to patrol | Coast and indicate that an official request will be made for more and faster patrol boats. LINE TO BUILD NEW TERMIN Pacific Steamship Co. Wilt Spend Millions Here | A great building program wil & commenced within a short time | the Skinner & Eddy shipyard site 1 by the Pacific Steamship Co, |cording to an announcement m | Wednesday by H. F. Alexander, Mdent of the line. It is reported that between 0 000 and $4,000,000 will be expended by the company in the erection three huge piers, a number of wart: houses of large capacity and af |fice building. ‘The building program) will cover a period of three years) Jaccording to Alexander. Negotiations for the taking over, | from the owners, the Skinner & Eddy | site are now completed and the prope jerty, including 25% acres of will soon pass into the hands of shipping line, General offices will & ted in the new buildings. , and these leas j within the next tiree years. ‘The |line anticipates having the new wai houses and piers completed before the expiration of that time and wil transfer their shipping to their owly property rather than renew ff | leases. | A great Dusiness and indust jcommunity, which follows the ships ping business, will spring up around: the new piers and warehouses, it is believed by shipping men: | Following close on the heels of the jannouncement that the Pacifigy Steamship Co. is to erect the shipping center, came word that th | General Elect o€ Sohent | N.Y, will also enter the Northt | field, Negotiations for the securing (Turn to > Page % Column » MAD EMPRESS DYING; alt a century, ked in solitary grany || deur in her chateau at Bochout, i dying King Albert, of Belgium, her nophew, Has gone td her bedside, i] The ex-empress went insane in 1867, when Maximillian was exe: cuted, She believes she stilt is Mexico When the Germans in Velgium the former German ser ordered that every precautio be iuken to gunnd the a | woman,