The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 8, 1923, Page 1

Entered as 6 1 Class Mattor May 8, 1899, at the Postoffios at Heattle, We under the Act of Congress Mare 3, 1879. WEATHER t and 7 » Last 24 Hours Min! noon, 64 Temperatu Maximum, 7 Today DAY, AUGL VOL, 25. NO. 141, TILE, WAS SH, WE DN 1928, HARDING RESTS Give These Gouging Plumbers Harsh WIFE aste of Their Own Rough Methods BEARS cw | ANSWER PRICE, THEY HAVE BEEN . yee | FIXING CHARGE DOUBLE-CROSSING Nation Pay ts AND ROBBING US Last Tribute toJ Revelle Says It Is But Move to Get Beloved Chief Cheap Publicity (EDITORIAL) It would appear that some been heartlessly gouging every person who erected a building. Aug Seattle" plumbers have WASHINGTON, husband today That means, in the long run, every one of us, Hard the w mour JOHN W. NELSON . 3 g BX 20 TINE eh for we all use buildings and we all help pay for them, would have broken a heart} agninat the officers of tho Master By a system of conspiracy and extortion these Prateek, Wreath c Oh rt patie ~ AD once Engineses’ | plumbers have been forcing their already high prices | \ uirney that will t her hu te faut Reyelle, attorney for .| Up to levels that make them rank as grand larceny and vse etal threnas: 6¢ “Svasiinatan ; Ara enya ‘tie charges ot| landlubber piracy. They have been double-crossing |" Srationn in tretceeeeeuatac ton how was Old Joe Bung: |price fixing as attempted by Court-| their home town and endangering its prosperity in {Un station last night upon the} t s wasn't an|ney & Robertson, Inc., and the Uni arm. of 9 Christian, Mr, Hard.{ . 1! com-|Yeraity Plumbing Co. to “get cheap! order to pile up for themselves profits to which honest ng’n necretary ins BF. Mean sah wg a ¢ zat business would not entitle them. bed wipes eh ee = = tbe ran Mietee aaitiee ana using bind Aside from legal steps, which are now under way, at ee hnal pe lls Mri net iways turn it Into @|cerns, which have joined forces in) and the merits of which The Star will not discuss at re ed from the * fine ait te oie tet ke ake ron poy present, there appears to be one other means of fight- erg hige ioe si icaiea wale sdactta ibs criminal charges against (he as’) ing this robber crew. That is by inviting Tacoma and | o¢' mournin Piva. tise, canoe ras ay eas Aaa eo “Tie aed at Bet - ns Everett and Spokane ‘plumbers, as well as local inde- | Pate ae pa: aa Seis sheohints See tiated, constitute tons of the pendent firms, to compete against them for our busi- | Which was wait ; nee ae af rade Jae crag i ness. In the case of big jobs, by inviting bids from Caw re — Sead t t by Loma Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, “i t ‘ 1 ton “te Chicago or anywhere else that lower prices might be keop kers up. Neca dati obtained, wa abies ie The & ye to |Hon.* While this plumbers’ trust probably extends further | night a eappeared bebind the sot ak Pe wo gig we. than our own city, there must be some limits beyond ae aes Atos os arti are paaura: tek. Colts As which it does not effectively operate. And if our citi- tare Ba, Byer gg cl ” teon for @ restraining order to zens who are building look far enough they doubtless ort 5 ent the Master Plumbers and rm oe RAIS *\Heaters from ejecting them from| Will find some Neal competition somewhere, mx a "BAL their association were opened be. md, + aah, e " : mu: | day Mra arding began her ° toca Judes Cok Wabhi'S0. a show Even if there is a pretty generally organized trust |part dn. the faneral program : taecene ause motion Wednesday and wit) the country over, it-can he broken by. a-determined. ({.0 pon sdom ot the White omen To the office all the afternoon, where robably Consumes the entire day y e e of the White House, I Suoniched mock besiauss to bay aremt revolt. Concerns which have such low moral standards | "** # veil thrown back, he (Turn to Page 4, Column 1) her lips comp: of the da content, io home in the evening. and there to sing and practice on the viel and such little sense that they will double-cross and with my wife, and that being dene, she : 4 i; loosed, would Sor ciotion nan att decline toes ear ial gouge their home town and will drain the heart's blood er awa and did say cloak on the mor: and grew to bet 1 fell to ch not have a thing to wear, she wor row, high reading Intion) was tire: hear from their own industry, will, with equal readiness, double-cross each other when dollars beckon. WILSON RIDES TAPS TO BLOW CANCEL MARK id promise she should have ENCIESS Drop | Brings Panic; - Money Thrown Away ¢ which seem eaven for str defii foo! the cloak when a pe 1 ne pers tu LONDON, Aug. §.—Tho Morning R room ¢ be n*e Po: y published an uncon-| cee n about! firmed rumor from Berlin that a few mi he lett German Finance Minister Hermes é“ capitol behin German Finance, Minutes Heemes| Again He Passes Along “the Bugle Call to Rest Will "0 yn" 1 nessa’ ¢ th 29 ; the long ; nesday that the rament in-| Street of Ambitions Conclude Memorial ne " ends to repudiate the mark and ol, no: is ore gold ¢ / | WASHINGTON, addeat, sweetest of all BERLIN, Aug. §&—Berlin and/row Wilson agai r s r his tim Ran acer ' many other cities, especially th ania ave., jen nya ieee faltering footstep, edie hs a ™ in the occupied areas, aro becom: Ambitions.” bs : : sine. Sadi the sag 1 would - ¥ panicky over the apparently enc The man whe self, cine dent Hard: itei) of immedi c unde bd drop of the mark. Stores are) more th two years ago, dr - the strain. But he wa in vain. , money | thronged with people trying to buy|the marttle of chief executive of the| Final details of the day srrow| Mrs. Harding entered the rotunda ? anything at all, to get rid of their/jand in an almost dying conc were announced W morning |from the north door, walking. with i uae | money, Stock: at low ebt took his place as a sorrower in the the memortfil slow, evel step and leaning some : : Ss! A spurious 1 per appeared ral for his successor, Presid fn what on Christian's great strength vat > apped anyone in Berlin yesterd: thrown from) Warren G. Harding aswel She: sat down: at head of the hag R We're glad | soeeding automobiles. Those who| When Woodrow Wilson ait-| of milita and civic organiza-| bier with Christian on her ria : jot one of these! Fivea up copies read that the|ing step, an igure, left the| tion memt Choirs from various (Turn to Page 4, Column 6) 1 Be 1 hitting ei 245) Cuno cabinet had been overthrown.| White Hou ago, he wag | churches naval and military! b Excitement ensued. ‘The govern-| supported on the strong arm of Pr ion Q : roe ,|ment is seeking the perpetrators. |{dent-elect Harding, who then seemed | from ar hymn. Miners Will Quit a ‘ me mis of rag ier in the best of health. | ‘The program at the Arena will be Work for Funeral : foul} ToONDON, Aug. 8—The Germar| Today Mr. Wilson ds better, a well! duplicated in detail at Armor PHIDADREPHIA/ Abe ; 2 mark whg quoted at 28,000,000 to|man' in comparison; Mr. Harding 4s| where services for military organiza-| ar. ot reanect ty. the ae ; os the pound sterling on the London | dead. tions will held. The Arena pro dent yard organi Ac re COM| exchange this afternoon, or more| The man about whom more m will a by, Chopin's T0-| i vvout the United sta hat HII} than 6,000,000 to the dollar pendous events have revolved ul ma band. Dr. | cena work Friday, 8 " rene ably than any other in Ame M. Bailey will the invoca ee , 9 “i pe 4 tory w mpanied and the Ahphion «c win |Dresident. of the Franc Also Falls Poe tGs the: KIMSAAT: Proce ‘Lend, Kitty Light.” Freak [cra of Amerlen, te Pann his faithful compa " On. | Waterhouse will make a few intro. trict president Me OUR OWN TRAVELOGUES to New Low Level 4 his personal friend | ductoey. remark aii be taken obs the natidhal Vani PARIS, Aug. 8—The frano fell| cian, Rear Adiwiral Cary Ons | wilt deli of mournin accordance A o the lowest point it yet| The ex-president and his 4r6| yrormain ¥ dears bendeiwohin' President Coolidge’s proclama Dear Homer: Extraordi ; Jay when quot eful for the many 8) “Hymn of Praise Dlace, this! The buildings 5 bourse were own them by the Hardin And| phd Cleveland, Klothauer will Turn to Page 4, Column 2 Mr. Wilson alwaya demgnds the lary ea nhlen fs L ; __ [MF Wilton alwayy demands the) giver the eulory aad the Amphion| Steel Magnate Is viecheciahs Pay attend pes net's band will play the Victim of Murder i vet that the la resider d Banner army bi "i 5 " -R Hard tood for different things, he ing: thi! Golove, V’then tenes Pa. Aug. 8.—Charles I Gas ana #tilid Mr, Wilson’a| © ‘© the Colors,” then | Laird, superintendent of the Home praaident 2 ugle will sound 7 which | stead steel milis and wealthy club. ‘ t d States? Do you know how tthe Armory a similar program! murdered on a lonely road near dent, here,” Mr tald| wilt be held, w military ers Br aes causes of their deaths and || thouk who « to his home and| Wl! be held, with military officers) North Girard this morning. Two ) w the names of the wives GBC t0" ort President in charge. Tho. Re Mark A.|pulet wounds and a stab wound th ¢ born? What do you know || 4, Matthews will pronounce the eulogy.| were the cause of death c pre Do you know what happens 8 President Harding Lutomoblle, ft re vice president die in office?’ Do you carrying only flowers, will be the| ———<—<——_——————. f y 9 jon! vehicle n the parade p jou {s of all the presidents? Do you kno AIA) [only. vehicle in the parade, All or LOOK! HERE of tt ts when they were Inaugurated, how long 125 MARINES FAINT ganizntions and individuals partic ey verved C re when they dlede FROM INTENSE HEAT || pit, ithe a Jon are urged IS A DANDY his information and much more {s contained in A special | fo be 4 beady ta. Prior (0.1145: Dell inoday's) Want, ads’ offer: 4. real let ju ared our ¥ sto ? Fillo 6 tr day. The procession mov Fee oUpOR baler eaiared by. our Washington, bureau. Fill out th OF FUNERAL PARADE} ™, Yee the 1 mOVeR || tome ‘ready. too ive Ih Clon W SHINGTON, Aug. 8.—One || marshal of the day, warns fo. sehisol and “All conveniences Mhateaeaaren eee C hundred and — twenty-five Seattle theaters will remain closed aT rrr ee : \ ma : , ig ONCE Seite 1 eyess } marines, 60 school children, five ||Friday until 6 p.m, it was an vou Sie fay) $ shington Bureau, The Seattle Star, § ind six civilians were || nounced Tuesday, Theaters thruout { 1822 New York Ave. Washington, D. C. prostrated “1, heat during |] the natiog are observing tho day a 5 President Harding's funeral pro- |) 4 holiday until 6 p.m ag I want a copy of the booklet, “The President,” and ‘oasion today FORMATION POINT This cory ig situated close } herewith four cents in postage Rpiet for same. All were so severely affected ||OF FIRST SE roland cari fine view: } , wn and shrubbe i } Name they required medical attention. || Following are the assignments of wn and) shrubbery) furs ; Gosia taken to hospitals position, where the various units nom ‘wot, pretty 1 Street and No nddition scores of civilians fj of ths first section of the» par } psed aa the sun beat down |} willl form $ CUP y ash isn eet ty eos sbvev's Foncbebguess SMA ea eee AeENN lewsly on their uncovered || Motorcycle police, mounted po: star State No accurate estimate of || lice, pilot ear, police patrol and Raia UT ht hee ede postop atom tea eset enema a the total could be made as moat || regular army troops from Camp} Want Ad Columns will give EES ot them. wore n to thetr || Lowle will form in the order named} the addreat where this ORE 'T homes tn private cas jon Hecond ave, fteing south, with!) house can he seen Column 3) ‘urn to Page 4, LY CPN AE TRD UIE. RP RRS care Pee] »; The SeattleStar (Ficus I Per Year Two CE NTS IN 8 8 EATTLE. IN STATE! BODY LIES UNDER THE} pic DOME!| ® Leaders of Nation Bow in Submission to Will of the Almighty While Thou- sands Look Upon Face for Last Time BY LAWRENCE MARTIN THE CAPITOL, Washington, Aug. 8.—Under the great gray dome of the capitol, with time honored ritual, the body of the late President Harding was placed today upon the historic catafalque of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and the Unknown Soldier. While the leaders of the nation bowed their heads in token of submission to the Almighty’s will, the funeral '] service was held in the great dome rotunda, whose lofty wi spaces echoed to the strains of hallowed hymns and the © prayers arising for the dead and those he left behind. With the departure of Mrs. Harding, the widow, President Cool- idge and other relatives and officials from the scene of © the funeral the doors of the capitol were thrown open and the thousands of men, women and children, waiting for a ~ last look at the face of the president, were permitted be) |file by the casket. A line of four along B Sapitol the eye c om 300ZE widow, came Woodrow Wilson, look- % ing old and gaunt as he slumped © | down in his open touring car in thie | heat. He was accompanied: his wife and by Admiral Grayson. As the strains of “Onward, Chris- 7 tian Soldiers” from the army band] ay beard, a veteran of the! died away down the avenue, glitter fought with Robert E.|ing in the bright sunshine, another is confederate hat and | band playing “Rock of Ages” swung: first to file| around the treasury corner. y hat crushed|” Company after company of infin snarled figure of|/try and artillery passed along, till] the old man ‘slump ed as he reached |the regular tramp of marching sek diers filled the avenue. Every offi- cer wore a band of black crepe on his left arm for his dead chief. = Looking from the treasury, at the ~ west end of Pennsylvania ave, to the capitol, the vast crowd had a | pink hue. treet Swelt ntly stood hushed. |b TOUCHING SCENES ON LINE OF MARCH |) A ing in the noonday eking the he q | button | by. t in silent prayer Under the conclave the rosewood casket rested the head of the dead preside is hair, well streaked with the virile black of youth when he entered Here's Rev. Joseph Pope,| new dtrector of the Washing-| ton and Idaho division of the | Anti-Saloon league, who ar- rived in Seattle to take uP) the White Hoyse but two anda | "irient’ summer dresses blendlig his new duties Tuesday. He| halt years ago, was silvery white. | with the predominant white tonéll was formerly in charge of| The death pallor lay upon his | down the flashing colors. 3 the Montana division and| features. But the peace that | Xo grand stands were erected, | lin} 7 : comes with rest was written |) 5 4) 1 eS 1 planted” the gunfighters in upon his paliid ips vut the crowd ‘pressed against ste ine old dase the cables guarding the streét. It wag bball Ae pees simple, | Silent thong, Even before th Star Siaft Pi aphers wore a|Precession started there was only: (Turn to Page 4. Column 4) lent. Coolidge, | <= TROOPS PATROL "FUNERAL TOWN Aug. > her features | he fol owever, r time. | he ceremony with others faces of Justice T strik Bootleggers Be STEY WASHINGTON, Sites TT 8.-—Warren | G. Harding today made his last sol-| 3,000 Ohio Guardsmen Di- sin Mon-}emn pro s down Pennsylvania/ Ie ter we. from the White House to the) fect Throngs in Marion ed natural) capitol, over the hallowed route t to death, rsed by so many | having much at in life and in which has been t of the nation’s gr death At bugle BY TOM WO GERBER 4 MARION, Ohio, Aug. 8.—Three thousand youths in khaki were gathering in Marion today, adding ja touch of military color to prep 10:19 this morning a marine} r, standing stiffly at attention dgeme nt of the Saloon League beneath the pilloried portico of the} arations for the last homecoming: oF Wasbinstoc Pay president's mansion, sounded a sharp | of Warren G. Harding. he office of Carl Jackson, | call-on his, trumpet. | ‘These soldiers did not come to 1 hibition chief of tt | Instantly from the marine band at| march in the procession or to fire west, and an old friend of Pc the gates came 4 rumble of drums / military salutes for their dead com: minister outlined his plans Wednes.{ #24 _&t that moment the doors of|mander in chief. aH : | the White House swung slowly opon| ‘Their duties are simply to patrol jand a flag-wrapped casket appeared, | 2 young soldiers | s leaving, for the} |the streets ment of and direct. the move the hundred thousand” civilians who are expected to come Saloon leag with the intends to federal force » le and Carl Jackson,""|, The Pr a Will endeavor to|#8t time, the place where for more | to Marion to pay their last respects Aifeiit nants austimentlerwacd prohi. | than two years he resided as chief|to the late president. bition and will attempt to bring |f the na starting back to the} Guardsmen were on duty at every at r co-operation on the | Capitol, where he served as senator, | street intersection downtown, ‘Thev peorte with the enforce.| thence to go on k to Marion, | directed traffic away from those * continued Pope | Ohio—home. streets over which the ‘procession. ho has been in chur The marine band crashed into the} will pass Thursday and Friday, and of Montana and Wyoming division) neral march as the coffin came} where crews were working night f the AntiSaloon league for many | !8to view of the thousands of citi-/and day to repair the pavements, ‘ coeds ( © Conger as di.|#€2S packed in dense ma They acted as ordetlies to Col. of Wast 1 and Idaho, He|#Tound the grounds, held back Frank P, n, President Cool x fect high and weighs well/¢rdons of police and troops, The} {dge's representative and to offi | er 200 pound: soldiers placed the casket upon aj/cers of the Ohio National Guard. 7] FIRST DUTY WAS dead black artillery caisson and fas-| Warren Harding's friends and TO BURY GUNMEN tened it tightly with straps in two] neighbors realized that this would “My first dutle hen T came to| Places be no, magnificent funeral with Montana minister were to bury |BAND. PLAYS “ONWARD, |marching troops, rumbling artiller, cattlorustlers and ‘hard’ men who| CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS” Jand ritual of fraternal organiza: eon shot. ‘The first year 1 was Coolid, Secretary | tions, Plans made to follow close: re in 1891, every man I buried had a other cabinet members, ly the de of Mrs, Harding. are — with his boots on senators and congressmen paced|for a funeral almost severe in it] The only man who was eve from the house where they had just] simplicity, yet which will give every red in thos # that I remember | looked for the last time upon the] friend of Marion’s most honored o & cowpuncher’ who shot {features of the dead and entered|citizen ample opportunity to pak red dog at Billing He was | their automobile pate. as rounded up and fined $25, 1} At the same time, blocks further] For periods totaling 12 hours ths think he was in jail for a while,|down Pennsylvs ave, where the| body of Warren G. Harding will Ne He nuld have been punished for} head of the procession waited, the|in state in the home of his fathel: the killin id Rey. Pope, ‘There | word of command was given to start.| Dr, George T. Harding, that every> were mighty few thorobred dogs in An army band struck up “Onward, | (Turn to Page 4, Column 5) a that country in those,days,"’ he con. |@bristian Soldiers.” With General | ewe SMa a cluded with @ loud and thunderous] Pershing in the 1 the: parade | ey ; ‘ |moved off, proceeding at a tairly!] BURIAL SERVICES FOR tev. Pope wi alled to the Nerv-| rapid p: ‘ ce of the "Antaaioon agus’ whe |Party wan viet and pae'ns ef] PRESIDENT. IN MARION & member of the state le iture|sat on at horse and Iqd the | fai of Montana, Hix work while at the| funeral progession of his command|{ PROGRAM ANNOUNCED} 1 attracted the. attention of| er-in-chief. 10.a.m, Thursday—Body arrives | eaxue home office and he was} Mrs, Harding rode in a closed car: and will be removed to ed the position of superinten-| riage with the curtains drawn,' just home of Dr. George T of the Montana division. He, behind the caisson, Harding, Sr. s been in active work since that he came from the White|] 2 p.m. to 10 p. m, Thursday and time, Hig offices while director of | to enter the car she looked 9 to 1 p.m, Friday— the Washington and Idaho division weak and leaned heavily for Body to lie in state at Will bo in Seattle, upport on the arms of General Saw: home of Dr, Harding, EMOH Hh a | ve tte president's piyatslan, ait 2pm. Friday—Funeral cortege “ARV. Poue ‘believes’ that"witnia stenpeac ise Ae. wut bite Mrs seetathe cane ae Oe : three years the prohibitien rbve- | Habit T Headatronped ant a Harding and proceedaaam ment will be well on its w to} was a faint rat an xt hea set te earien eens a n Bway, to}we bg At her request} gem) day-—Interment in pes perfection 1 ‘t WO conelugive| there Was.no attempt on the part of iving vault i athered thru years of » | photographers to take ‘picture: i jy, tht wl prove that prot.” Foltowng. Preaitent. Oastdgeepal [Onn Aataey: ae Mean (urn to Py leaves for Washington. 1, Column 4) Chief Justice Taft, just behind the