The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 16, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER tonight Fair and Friday: ¢ Variable da. Temperature Last 24 E Maximum, Today win mn Minimum, noon, 73. 59. Entered as Second Class Matter May an at the Postofticn at Beattie, Wash, VoL. NO, 148, SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1923, Tempest at ~ City Hall Is Threatened Wiseacres, On Eve of Maude Sweet- come of Mayor, Police Chief and Police Judge; Clancy in Spotlight BY JACK HALL With Mrs. Maude Sweetman, state legislator, facing a ehurge of disorderly conduct in police court Thursday after- noon, in connection with her arrest in the Comet apartments at 1 July 22, wiseacres at the city Hall were com- menting upon This disappearance of Mayor E. Brown, disappearance of Chief of W. B. Severyns, The disappearance of Police 5 John B. Gordon. 4ll of the officials are reported on vacations. lice 4 AND JOHNNY'S PLACE WAS RAIDED ction with it was lea promised araday > was men Mra OLD JOE the rampage! QUICK, MYRTL Bungstarter’s agam on call the cops! wa GET GRANDFATHER cut of the ¢ house, and send baby over to Aunt o Mary's! t of police 5 ested r and more em clove, it was ad MKS. SWE FORD The Car Beautiful 0 « =— HAVE You A LITTLE LIZ Ta From IN YOUR HOME? —————— kid-re district Light Different Ways to 8c among her politic ble E ee eee nts. One of the men with | Send for Recipes. she had had trouble, it was —Ford Motor Co. | i tenant Com: *¥' follow ————0 Ob, Boy! I'd Walk a Mile For a Ford! Mr n countered with charges (Turn to Page 9, Co FUNERALS FOR MINE VICTIMS Sorrowful Ceremonies Un- der Way in Wyoming x BUY A FORD “A Tin You Love to Touch” <EMME 16 " of the YE DIARY 4 1 x Up betimes, and did practice with my ater b n this mors Rew mashie, perfecting the Sarazen back-! of nine bo Other fwing, but breaking the crystal chande Her. So to the of laughing heartily oe eer at my wife's high words, nnd did indite & few japeries, and so to playing wt pool Roberts, last of with H. Clay, but he did trounce me se Santy, recovered id s0 to home, wh re my wife had prepared corn-on-the. to test her t from the mine pew dental work. And so to bed, very ‘Tp n the numbe of dead to tired. af Th numb A if i hy ete ia 99 ful check of the Me iis ig of the | anit underground T d certain the American Le Mone Kirk: | no oth in the mir i this morning volunteer Honals, it 18) workers began tion of gr The only pr snal log-roliers we | 2t2 Which the bodies will be placed know are politicians, ¥€ | The mine jon obtained a tract of ground jn the little cemetery just out- aa ete ide of town. Lt Gee Gee has ed toan| One mile directly below the graves prorement | up ‘ar the Volunteer | of the mine ims are the tunnels Park reservoir because she says she\in which they met their fate wali ted tome in the Kemmerer ne me park 1 Inst tribute b : to nda a tives of the dead will A rd of a Van-| be ray gad he 37 brought out alive Fo r Bedy | Tuesday afternoon have fully reco : red from their “harrowing experi 0 yet ences and engaged in the search for Is -dech:s70 ly! Cynthia Grey | their dead comrades. The search will t pieces, and learn | gions of the labyrinth of tunnels as Bbout women from her! ell uu into the piles of debrix where A. J. 8 'the explosion did most damage, | | man’s Trial, Wonder What Has Be- Kabotchnick Becomes a Cabot and Cabots Are Gnashing Teeth HILADELPHIA, Aug. 1g.—A Kabotchnick today became a Cabot The courts having decided that there was no way in which the outraged Cabots of Boston and the Order of rs and’Patriots of Amiertea could prevent it, Harry H. Kabotchnick legally cut his name—Ruasian for saloonkeeper to the first two syllables a apelied it with a C. Francis Champan, attorney for the Founders and Patriots and the Cabots, who attempted vent Kabc ck from making the change, announced the fight he family husetts and * will go on nt or Polish 1 his path uence of the Back Bay. MOB ATTACKS KLAN MEMBERS ‘Man Wounded and °° 50 Are Injured in : Ohio Rioting STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Avg 16.—One man is near death and 50 are injured as a result of a spectacular battle in the streets of Steubenville last night be tween 3,000 citizens and 100 members of the Ku Kiux Klan. The fighting ix said to have been which four Klan fates we! ons! ¢ mob of citizens attacked the as they were co hall shortly bef Darwin iibson, maid to hare been w fg the melee, waa shot The K da stir when they 2 n of A crowd soon gathered outaide the hall and began heckling the Klansmen as they came out. members of the mob were said to have had firearms, but they were armed largely with stones and clubs. Police succeeded in rounding up the Kiansmen and escorting most of them across the river into West ginia. A few members were forced to men are held in connection with the shoe Pe said they were armed, PORT PICTURES AT STATE FAIRS Movies Will Be Shown at All Washington Fairs u the medium of the movies, th ilities of the port of ttle i he handling of all types of farm produce in the process of ship ment to all parts of the will be shown at c te fairs out nC ners 0 port former state now touring 6, 4 he t Ke perm from the how motion ple operation of cold ternimals of the port All of the basic industries are traced in t icture See to the tim whe t loaded 1 mers t Lumberin ng, datr farming and man ufacturing are included in the ple tures. All are designed to stimulate cheme is considered by commissian ers of the port to be one of the| best advertising meth yet at tempted. Pictures are being taken now by expert camera men and will be ready for projection within two weeks rding to port officials Favorable Trade Balance Reported WASHINGTON, Aug. t figures announce it the department fo commered showed 4 favorable trade balance fog the first tUme January Imports in July were $284,000,900 and exports $210,000,000,- favor balance of $26,000,000. 1. imports totaled $ 9.447 and exports $62 826, Silver Imports totaled $10,066, and exports $6,293,163, Imr today and expe aince in Waits Favor ofU.S. Mexico Is Soon to Get Recognition by Washington, Experts Believe BY A. L. BRADFORD WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 recognition of Mexico now | joan Amert ts only a matter of days, With ‘onferenc the socalled “recognition in Mexico City ended simultancous an 8 will be made soon in| ngton and the Mexican capl- of the results of the parley be- A the and Mexicag a expecte , at leant, to constitute recogal he final step to ‘of the Obregoa ward government MAIN POINTS OF recognition AGRE B MENT LISTED ety in its main points, agreement between the United and Mext rovides fi 1. A guarantee by Mexico pending ja ff and definite step by ite |congrens that the famous article 27 lof the Carranza constitution is not | to be interpreted retroactively av aa! to allow in any way for confirca tion of American properties in Mextov, | Thin has been one of the tradi-| utes between the Amert:| nd Mexican governments, The so-called Carranza constitution pro vided that ali subsoil rig’ are vested in the nation and on this jon Mexico has made several moves toward confiscating Ameri can ofl rtles. COMPENSATION FOR CONFISCATED LANDS 2. An agreement b ixfactorily to com American owners for agrarian lands confis under the policies of Pros! egon»for division of lands among | Mexico nat OW under the Act of Congress March #, 1878. Per Year, by Mail, $1.40 The SeattleStar |: ~BANK $290,000 SHORT CASHIER ARRESTED AS EMBEZZLE K * Driver Blamed Is- Not Yet| Found by Police Three men were injured and nar-| rowly escaped death in a spectacular the Mexican peons. Mexico heretofore has offered to poy for these lands with Mexican have no marketable bonds, val which Th setting up of two c¢ nixsions, one to settle American gainst. Mexico for damagos during = revolutions andy events, and the other to plan details of the methods of of American claims ims muftored nuch the aga |neer building, collision between two. autos at the intersection of. N, 50th st. and Gree Ivd. shartly before noon y. Luster, of Marysville, Wash. R. Pendergast, 406. N, 36th atten; The other victim, ng by a physictan. | T. 8. Hodson, Pio- has not been located by the police. Witnesses of the crash extricated the men from the wreckage. Pen-| dergast, who was riding with Lusier, received severe injuries to the hea and body. Lusier was badly cut about the eyes, cheeks and body and may have internal injuries r confiscation of agrarian) witnesses declared that Hodson hout Pee’ payment was driving a large touring car at \° terrific rate of speed along tho | MEXICO WAITS | BETTER TIMES BY FREDERICK G. NEUMEIER ICO CITY, Aug. 16.—So con. fident is Mexico that the recom men ns of the conference just ended here call for recognition of the Obregon government by the United a that they considering n to President Coolldge asking a levard and that bis pace was so bee: he lost control of*his car and it climbed onto the parking strip and plunged along for a hundred yards} or so, when it again took the road, | swerving from one side to the teil in a wild fashion. Lusier tried desperately to avoid the collision, but was unable to do 80. The cars came together with crash that was heard for blocks both rolled over and over. Both mi chines were reduced to wreckage. al nd | that Charles B. Warr American 3 commissioner, who played a leading | cP part in the negotiations, be appoint CARS CRASH: ed amba. dor to Mexico City , Warren is extremely popular here, THREE HURT! both with government officials and ° civilians, He knows Mexican law a A collision on the Lake Washing do Mexicans and his part in the|ton blvd. between two tourist cars lisctiesions just concluded is de-| Wednesday afternoon resulted in the scribed en?rous and unselfish. severe injuring of three person U. S. DELEGATE |Stws Margaret Williams of Santa ON WAY HOME crus, Cal, W. F. Williams and The American commissioners, War-|Joseph Dig 1 of the same ad. n and John B. Payne, are en route | dress. ‘or Laredo today, and tomorrow will Miss Williams was driving the (urn to Page 9, Column 1) Jauto, which was occupied by eight ‘ Indianapolis Mayor Ousts City Phones INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. 16 Mayor Lew Shank today ordered \el. ephones removed from the city hall in retaliation for increased rates. The rate increase was temporarily granted by a federal order which enjoined the Indiana public service commission from enforcing a on pending a hearing of before three federal court dec dispute the Judges. Telephones in several offices of the city hall removed today, and Mayor Shank declared he would all out to prove to the v that the not going any were ink. them Indiana Bell ple of Ind for shone Co. of are tand longer." The granted engo, It $1,000,000 UL BC napoll the outrage incrense ore Judy Chi. enjoined an increase of nnually granted by the nd placed in operation increase demunded by the temporary ra hy ieger |tourists from California when it was | struck and wrecked by the other ma {chine. ‘The remaining five persons | in the car, as well as the occupants| of the other auto, narrowly escaped injury, Miss Williams was Injured about the spine. Williams was cut on the jarm, and Digger received severe! bruises. Jurors Will Probe |. Shiek Death Case PORTLAND, Aug. 16.—Coroner's| jury over the remains of Harold trown, youth who died as the result of a fist fight with James Shepler, following Brown calling Shepler 1 “sheik,” will meet tomorrow to de: |termine the exact cause of the boy's | th. The coroner's physician, who per formed an autopsy, said death re- jkulted from cerebral hemorrhage. caused by Shepler’s blow with his | | fiat to the head. hepler ts being held in the ju venile department of the county jal! | He wilt later be released on ball, it In sald, {as comy |Freight to Travel | | (“New Parties Are Born—Not Made.”—Sen. THREE HURT AS |HEAT WAVE HAS HARDING AUTO AUTOS COLLIDE OREGON IN GRIP CAMPAIGN OFF Thermometer Re Registers oa Degrees Wednesday | PORTLAND, Aug. 16.—No break | {a the hot weather now prevailing | thruout Oregon may be expected for | several days, according to anno ment by the district weather office today. Altho early morning clouds hid the sun for a time, they soon disappeared with the possibility that yesterday's maximum of 94 degrees will be topped before the day is over. Yesterday's high mark was one de gree under the record for the season. | It wil bly stand, the weather | bureau advised, with the, merc nee |reaching around 90 degrees for the| next few days. | At Umatilla a high mark of 100 degrees waa reported yesterday. | Medford reported 98, Salem 97 and Albany 96. Other inland citles were sweltering under similar high tem peratures. Seattle Weather Becoming Cooler | At 10:30 a m. Thursday the tem-| perature In Seattle was 66 degre: | With Indications that it might rise to| during the day. The weather bu reau announced that the peak of the present hot spell was passed Wednes-| when the thermometer reached | legrees pier weather ay. The was 80. is predicted for] temperature Tuesday | ; Tacoma Reports It_ | “Fair and Warmer” TACOMA, Aug. 16.—Increases tn| temperature during the three days, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, brought the thermometer | here to a higher point than for the} same days in 1922, the weather man here announced today, Monda thermometer registered 71 degrees red to 67 degrees for Aug. | ust 13, 1922; while Wednesday's tem- perature-vf 85 was'17 degrees hotter than August 15, 1 | The highest temperature of the| year was on July 14, when the ther- | mometer registered $2 degrees, on Air Schedules DETROIT, Mich. Aug. 16. Air plane freight and express service be- | jtween Detroit and Cleveland will started about September 1, it wa: announced t y by the Interna. | tional Airways Co. | Three planes equipped with pon: | toons will be placed in the intercity | service, to make four regular trips Passengers will be carried by by the company special arrangement, 4 was announced, § Aug. RINGE ELD, IL, reduction in Chicago telephone rates 1A totalling $1,900,000 annually, dered today by the merce commission, was or: Illinois com. automobile used by |dent Harding during h ‘}of Washington, | 15th jof the 48 states will be held Septem. jon | | University Museum Hasn't Place for Noted Car Likelihood that the U1 ersity of Washington would refuse to accept} the car for its museum, and lack of} any other su it, ple place to paiearre n stopping the| npaisn to raise funds for the pur-} chase of the historic peart and gold the late Presi resulted TI ursda, attle visit. Members of the Automobile Club] who had initiated subscriptions to the} fund, said they had decided to call oft campaign and sums collected D. EB. lor, manager of the club, previously had investigated the situ- ation and instituted the proposition after being given reason to believe that the car would be acceptable | |to the regents as a historical exhibit | Response of the public indicated that there was a popular demand for preservation of the historic vehicle. | Judge George Donworth, chairman | of the committee on co-operation of the university regents, declared Thursday that without a meeting of |the board it would be impossible to aive its official attitude on the pro-| pos “However,” he added, | light of existing policies and precedents, it is unlikely y eats accept the proposed gift for such a purpose. The state museum at the university 1s a natural his. tory and fine arts museum, not a historical museum. At the present time the museum building ts closed, and fot lack of space, no new gifts! of large dimensions are being re ceived. the drive for the return all Governors’ Parley Due in September MADISON, Wis. Aug. 16.—The| annual conference of governors | including | tod: \a federal jing the list of those arrested was jmen alleged to hay | April were arrested today by Nav Robbery Charge Is Filed . Againsi Social Lion ix Dayton Failure DAYTON, 0. Aug. 16.—AL leged shortage in accounts of Fred W. Hecht, second vice president and cashier of the American National bavk, had mounted to $290,000 late today, according to federal bank ex- aminers. This sum may be Increased, it was indicated by the report. It was said by directors, exam- iners and by Hecht himself that the full amount was not known to any of them, Until all notes in the bank, total- ing $953,000, are investigated, the full amount of the alleged defalca- tion will not be known. Doors of the bank were not open- ed this morning, pending investiga- tion of an alleged defaication. & Hecht, who 1s prominent socially, was Jailed late yesterday when he failed to raise $50,000 bond. The bank's statement to the fed- eral comptroller of currency showed its resources to be $2,261,318.88, Hecht fs alleged to have covered the embezzlement with forged notes, PROMINENT MEN IN DRY ARREST |35 Held in 1 Savannah as Members of Liquor Ring SAVANNAH, Ga, Aug. 16— Thirty-five residents of Savannah, leaders in business and professional life, were under arrest in the roundup of an alleged sigantic ring of prohibition law vio~ lators. Thirty others, indicted by grand jury, were soucht by officials in connection with the iquor deals. Members of the alleged ring wers accused of conspiracy to import and distribute thousands of gallons of Uguor. Seventy-five federal agents, work: ing in this territory for several month, gathered evidence on which: the indictments were based. Head- John J. Powers, vice president and cashier of the Exchange bank. TWO ARRESTED AS FLOGGERS TULSA, Okla, Aug. 16—Two e been members of a “flogging party” which abduct. ed and whipped Walter Tuima last tiona] Guardsmen, enforcing martial, law here. Indications that martial law, pros mulgated by Gov. J. C. Walton, would be strictly enforced over @ long period were evident today. Attorney General Short, in- Tulsa, suggested to the state officials that all of the 300 Guardsmen now in the city were not needed, and some might be allowed to return to their homes. hort said he was informed by the governor's aides that he should sive his attention to the legal side jor the investigation into the whip- |pings, and the number of troops would not be reduced. ber 17, 18 and 19 at West Baden, Ind., Secretary Miles C. Riley an |nounced today About 35 governor be able to attend. Cox, Massachusetts; Harder orida, and Gov. Warren | McCray, Indiana, will meet shortly | with Riley to decide upon the agenda. Gov. McCray has wired Coolidge asking him to attend. Non-Stop Flight Is Postponed Awhile| SAN DIEGO, Aug, 16-—Naval air men who were to have started today | a non-stop flight from to St. Louis have postponed the at- mpt until later in the month, naval headquarters announced shortly after 9 o'clock this morning, the scheduled hour for the start. Lieutenant Commander R. A. Burg: and Lieut. B, H. Wyatt, who will fly the big naval plane, are engaged in making further test flights, are ex: Goy. Cary pected to | y. Channing President | n Diego | Another Opportunity Today || Perhaps you don't care to live |] in the city and would like to | be just outside, Here you are, | | | NORTH D Over an acre In Second Addition to Lake Forest Park; close to boulevard and school, — Will |} make an Ideal country home; 300 feet. of community beach, | Baay terms. Price $400, | The Want Ad columns will tell |] you who is disposing of this property.