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

PLOT MURDER OF GERMAN LEADER ASSASSINS THREATEN PPI I LLLP PLP PDD D PPL nipn pine ppeuppeptut « Temperature Maximum, 86, Today Entered as Second Class Matter May $, 1899, at the Postoffice at Mpattio, Was: h to southwest inds. _- M Hours neon, 70. T h. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Ter Year, by Mall, $1.60 he seattle Star | on » 20. NO. 149. 2ATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, AU GUS’ 17, 1923, i TW - EXPLOSION N DUE “SAVE LIFE OF FIEND T ~TINEST BABY 10 KIL SF WOMAN rR Dismissal of Mrs. Without Her Story Only Adds Fuel to Fire; Grave Charges Preferred Against Police Depatment BY JACK HALL reed ofa charge of disorderly conduct which she claims | against her by police officers, Mrs. Maude} state legislator, was at liberty Friday, while the was “framed” Sweetman, status of the affair seemed ho Mrs. : | Home Brew Political aspects. Full of his homemade bug-) Joe Bungstarter thinks he fs a sal. mon trout and is trying to swim to Australia. Man the lifeboats! Full speed astern! Throw him a life-preserver, body! Great heavens! Will help never . as we do,} ar for his able gstarter little f is pretty, nts when she FIFTY-FIFTY After all, the burdens of city government are equally distrib- uted. Mayor Brown furnishes the bull, and the rest of us do the beefing. Li'l Gee Ge Work som 0 across and bring hopes to who will © cream cone. | There was a young dumb. home-| brewer Who proposed But he b dh Bhe finally said 80, for breach of to a girl ‘cause he A heeds bulletins. r of the Co! y pot draft the ed Sional Record?—Th CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON | IVY CLUB The gink who, when he wants to take a day off, has his wife call up the office and tell the boss he is sick. oes Sometimes Whether a girl dress or a bathing r difficult to tell evening A mortgage to have somett & on the the neighbors can’t It’s nice premises borrow . rts have come in, aken at thelr face YOU Up yome Split tome out the put up the t rubbish I'm on! Your busbanar Turn to p; a hobo; I ain't ‘age 9, Column 1) | | office is nov tex Suicide of Man| Who Burned en ACRAMENTO, I Aside Months Too Soon BY WIL prright, 1 FINDLAY, marka was JAM BROWN 24, by United Press) Ohio, Aug A je story of how Infant ly sustained coming’ into the world nearly age, 3 previous to the date for| normal birth, was revealed today by authorities of Findlay hospital Tho caye is that of Rosé Ma Rileen, * hild without a chance. and is believed to set a record £ | premature babies Rose Mary—a living triumph modern obstetrics months head start | Caesarian operation, necessary to save her mot Mra. O. E. Jelley.| Hig faite The operation was directed by Dr.] he will b Dan B. Biggs, and he and his assist } ante held slight hope that the infant would 1 taced bator, Cal um. 17. dialla, firebug, who setting fires that and hun. * dam- in his} Fortunado has fen have cost at reds of thousands of do tried hang hin here today. v Jail deed, In a blanket neat, to was when life mii after acul a Sweetman’s Case four to | prevented the} Padialla tore and braided a strong rope. Ho fastened it barred ceiling of his cell and « over his head fail porter 4 him.} be kept with the tly in the future. dialla is convinced | i for murder | t ° porter the night in strip © ot & noone was given a four in life thru a) A guard deserter, to the months 10 has con Buddhist ago, in Japanese army urly to become more involved : Sweetman was tried before | Judge Jacob Kalina in police | Pt" | court Thursday afternoon. |},.- beth, The case was dismissed. Keen political observers at the city hall freely predicted Friday that a grand political 1% explosion by follow soon, | in with Mayor J. Brown and | wouk Police Chief WW. B. Severyns |, et. playing prominent roles in| tained at 90 dogrees nnd Rene Mary| $500,000. the catastrophe. As a result | took food thru a silver tube. Her| 4 of the trial, Mra. Sweetman, | ™other has recovered from the op-| sror Iai whose political strength has | enigecged Ref yes t9 care for] the stoma grown rather than dimin-/ tne incubator Ha. bes. made ished thru the police charge,| According to authori ee, ee stands arrayed in battle for-}* rere mation against both men. COMSTOCK MAY PACE BIG LIBEL SUIT At the same time. in however, a steam-heated life the approx had it been ni. felane anno abe crime w us rdey, accord et indicted on such ted enpe i have fitted comfortabl ubato’ the confexsion © had hit him De denial of his} Pelatéa” 16° "Baera-| fires. He took the scene of had lcers > and been politician some oT and The threatened display of pyrotechnics did not start at the trial, which was carried out smoothly and without a hitch, when only Lieutenant Comstock wus allowed to testify, giving testimony of a damaging charac- Charge Printers Unite oe eee to Gouge School Dist. Comstock’s testimony being sup- | tmiry Into the apartment wher |D0ard Likely to Reject All Bids and Call for| Out of Town Offers | the arrest was alleged to have bten made. MRS, SWEETMAN j the contract m of plumbery at was le an Ev great sav when piamb exces: [RS CHARGES was built, 4 believe PLUMBERS HIRE. : CARL E, CROSON ..” School Board President to Defend Alleged Trust part of it at the t ne was House all bids Friday's will proba fireworks after the police court charges made by! to newspapermen meeting and new bids will be ad vertised for. It is the inten’ the school t according to F dent Carl to invite in of est Mrs par were That crossed Sweetman double who had been the that be absent, try the that no one would be aliowed to testify unless she took the (Turn to Page 9, Cotamu 4 TO BAR USE OF ~ FAMOUS NAMES City to Stop Commerciali- 0 . i zation of Presidents | | number of use of} board must have. The j.| Year is more than three 922 price. The bid on 6 | Bram cards las “$17 | this year’s figure is $440 for A comparison of the bids submitted shows practically the same propor she y ee oson refused to make fix he d are so far In 3 figures the board rse open to protect hool district de towns to bid on the bids for printin: ands of dol-| Wh 7 red that the exce fee th s the onl: terest invite ow The tota into thous A Jefe the Univer of th is elaborate plans for against the brought by y Plumbing & Heat |company, and the Courtney & jertson company, the Master Pi fomb.| ers association of Seattle, has ployed Carl E the ul | printing: | supplies run ye em 0H BIDS SENT He A BAT Crowe ance re for 410, 47.50 for that he had accepted the joyment after making ation of the case understanding that the Master Plumt sociation to fully, frankly and fairly present thé purposes, aims and objects and| methods of functioning of the asso-| ciation without restraint conceal. | ment, and have the facts made pub. lic," Croson. said | "So far, the publicity that been given this controversy has been ided,’’ Croson said. ‘IT hope the public will withhold its judgment until the sult can be heard in an orderly way, before the court Croson wald that there will be no need for a grand jury investigation after the case has been tried, as he Aled | expects to bring out all the facts in the plumbing business and the work. | ing of the advisory committes, which | was restrained by from alleged price-fixing m al of exhaus These figures are typlc articles that school this times the 000. pros . while 5,000. ‘ price “It is ion to prevent the ‘eg and names of our pres dents in the exploitation of commer- cial and profit enterprises will be passed by the city couneil just as the ordinance {s prepare on Counsel T. J. L. predicted Friday desire year w oon a Corpor nedy, was has council Att C member 16 request of Councilman John ‘oll, counsel FOR FOREIGN BIDS As a comparison of the year compared with figures on 44 in the schools ¢ a tot of $1,334 for compared with a $4,246 bid for ticles this year. Over lforms are used in the “T will recommend to the ac board that new bids be advertised |for and out of town printing firm: invited to bid on the work,” ” said one ine last, EB the corporation ea drawing the ord ¢ sy iiendered’tiy Ken at Carroll's request, | upheld the right, under its police powers, to pass laws | prohibiting the of pictures and nation's great men referred | emorial Third ave cording to the items ul total An opinion 1 opinion iad ‘Thursda which Kenned x cost in the same 80 5 use school names of the opinion specifically Lincoln court order activitle clinie, on Pike st, near This institution, which interested in th ot has taken the| There is ample precedent for such | More than 200 lumbermen aro here of the Great Emanctpator and n by the school board, a study | today for the meeting of the West his. photograph, Carroll|of the records show. In 1916, whe Lumbermen's fon, in| in {tw business. The ordi-|the plumbing contracts on the Bal-|seggion at the new Hotel Montécello. ohibit the use of former |lard high school were thought ex-|R. A, Long, president of the Long this or other|ceswive, the school board invited] Bell Lumber company, will speakeat outside bidders with the result that the banquet tonight. the letter, § correc LONGVIEW, Wash, Aug. 17 iia actio’ a using points out vance will 5 presidents’ names for objectionable purposes, CHAN CELLOR 0 ‘CENTS IN SEATTLE, PREDICT With France; DEATH OF NEW HEAD IN FATHERLAND Stresemann Accused of Friendship | Communists Warn Him That Life Is in Danger; Hostile | Reports Alarm London LONDON, Aug: 17.—The communists and extreme radio \cals continue their attacks on predicting the same fate for Chancellor Stresemann today, him that befell the assassi- jnated leaders, Mathias Erzberger and Walter Rathenau, | according to a Central News dispatch from Berlin. Pan-Germans accused the new chancellor of friendliness said, and did not hesitate to ~ |to France, the correspondent foretell his murder. The nationalist Deutsche Zeitung had been suspended for ™ three da These rep London with considerable to indicate the | beginning of strong opposition to the | Stresemann regime, just as light had | |begun to appear in the clouds of | German trouble. | ‘They followed dispatches last night |saying a rumor bad been circulated thruout Germany declaring the chan- cellor had been assassinated. This rumor presumably was circulated by extremists, who hoped it would re- act in disturbances to their advan- | tage. | The rumor was denied immediatel as soon as it reached London. ‘FOOD CRISIS IS ALARMING! BY CARL D. GROAT | RERLIN, Aug. 11—As the polit! jeal situation continued stable to- | day, despite efforts of enemies of |the new cabinet to cause trouble by dissemination of a rumor that Chan-/ cellor Stresemanh had been as: sinated, the government turned its attention to the critical food situa tion, which seemed the chief ot stacle to the restoration of int order. In tors ernment ts were received a ar | were t en possible Miss Helen Stryker, month to appear on Belasto's th “The August 25 with her parents, Seattle girl, who Broadway as a Merchant Dr, i—— GUNMAN SLAIN. East this member of David of Venice.” She leaves and Mrs Hi. M. Stryker by Albee | goes cast Wayne Wayn a | Realizes Ambition and Will Star in Belasco Cast Miss Helen News Brauenschwelg, food demon- inti ed the local gov nd forced inguguration of ja food control commission of” 30) |workers. The government already had pledged itself to seize food on | its own account, if stocks were not obtainable otherwise, but the dem-/} ek: of Sheriff Meets | onstratora insisted on creation of ope Death in Fight One eting | a feat | ee TO LEAVE RESORTS | ST. PAUL, Aug —Edwin J.) yt was understood the govern-| Rust, gunman slayer of Sheriff I. C.| ments of Thuringia and Saxony | might selze food, unless the central | | Bover: nment consented to adopt their) |food demands. Thuringian mountain resorts are advising foreigners to leave within three days, on account of the food shortage, and some hotels had post- | jed placa 7 } + “Win d 2 In the Ruhr, dispatches said, la- bor officials threatened a strike, be- | cause of the food shortage and un-| satisfactory wage conditions. Meantime, the new French re- pressive measures in the Ruhr had| train | caused renewed indignation here. Dispatches from Dusseldorf an- nounced the French had decided the frontier between occupied and un- occupled Germany would continue closed until August 31. In the Belgian occupied zone, other dispatches advised, the military au- | thorities had started imposing fine: in dollars and had imposed a fine of siday | $187,500, or more than 560,000,000, | a BOTHELL FARMER IS Rust faced the two in Doolin 000 marks on the city of Duisberg. | TAKEN TO HOSPITAL |/ 00 citer banat sule: Me packed Ey COMMUNISTS - TWICE IN ONE WEEK days A communist outbreak was report- His fire! eq from Russelsheim, where 25 gen- Four Fred H. Hay- slumped to! darmes, reinforcing the law and or ward, Bothell farmer, was |der committee of citizens, arrested slugged by two b to whom the local communist leader. In re- he, had offered a ride in_ his taliation communist unemployed auto. ward was taken to He| swept thru the town, plundering hospital, badly injured in Idaho,!shops and manhandling citizens. about the head. Ho lost $40 to concerns; Twelve citizens were taken as host- the two thug |ages and held until the communist | Hayward was sed Ti | |leader was released. nd returned } ed He) tn a conflict yesterday near Reck- ght ho went to his chick: || We tor| lenhausen food rioters disarmed the with an oil lantern. || he was captured at Forks, | Policey including reinforcements, and exploded, burning |] 9 # ‘ ong | WOUNded 28 of them. ay) bane tthe |N- Dy from, where he was. being} "At Bauch, near Berlin, a watobman Tho ex. || Feturned when he killed Fulker, thicken |] to the fe an imp for whom back t to pla Merchant way mbith Fuller, of Aberdeen, 8. D., her have police been bec last two months, was k rly today declared to n the of on Broad. | tectives here ord” in other Western states, killed Fulker on a Great rain being jgurned to Aberdeen for robbery sheriff's skull | and shooting | received at the studied fa while re he 1 After crushing the yker will Seattle with her parents, Dr and Mrs, H, M. Stryker, to join the peagreerera AEA eee a eae | Serbo hing tor him": thruout the} led to open | Northwest been going on for! IX Weeks’ run, After escaping from police he was cornered today in Dayton leave with his handcuffs him, Rust from tho | and. escaped. leaped {on tober the show has weeks. will reac (Turn to F n February, m on , Column 1) ave and Detec. Cas- by Tom Brown Dan | agains wall they entered. returned and ho | the floor, dying. | Rust was recently California the and twe shots as it Prosecuted in for automobile theft, j | was | He at also under parole robbed Aberdeen here five business after driving 9 stolen from Los wrested, Angeles, jail, 1 day The lantern Hayward ft arms and plosion set fire which n but broke Grand Iaitea a thief, caught robbing a grain No trace was found of him until) field, after a running fight in which last night. Rust then| Several shots were exchanged. of “Poter A slight change in tho cabinet was last night. Dr, Inton was riding in @ stolen car with] Hoefle was appointed minister of Miss Sigfried Carson. On| posts and telegraphs in place of Herr the way to the police station Rust,|Giesberg, who originally was slated handcuffed, made a desperate break | for the post. and escaped again, Tho girl aided | 7 the search that resulted in his} CARDIFR, Aug. 17.—William Cur- being found and shot to death.’ thwin beat his wife nearly. to death | Rust wag shot thru the neck and because their new baby was a girl heart instead of @ boy, dy to the house burned ground, A pa Hayward his second visit of the In spite of the doub Hayward 1 Friday rtune satd, not {the arrest Carson.”| the name } announced He a girl, brought hospital, week misfor was not dis he lay on his hever com His burns are serious, motorist the city ing he painful, but aah aye Ny | the scene. jor danger of the blaze has not yet |Public assembla |Klansmen, | mond, |plans for securing the ys for attacking ied gids FIRES SWEEP OIL PROPERTY $4,000,000 Damage Is Threatened by Flames HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 17.—More than $200,000 damage had resulted |at noon today from fire started lightning, In the huge tank farm [ot the Humble Oil company heres | Officials of the company said $4,- 000,000 worth of oil threat- the flames. was ened by . SAN PEDRO, Cal, Aug. 17.—Am oil fire believed to have started im & sump hole, today menaced the Gens Petroleum tank farm on Point rmin. e re fighters have been rushed to | An estimate of extent been made ee company officials, (OHIO TOWN UNDER BAN STEUBENVILLE, 0., Aug. 17.— ge was under the ban in Steubenville today as elty and county authorities probed the: rioting here 3,000 citizens and in which two were killed, a score of and several autos wrecked. The order banning public meet. ings was made by Mayor Frank Hawkins to prevent a recurrence of |the fighting, which ts have been an outgrowth of Tues: |day's city primary. One thousand klansmen from Eastern Qhio, Western Pennsylvania, and West Ohio, last night to make release of ix of their members held in Stete benville in connection with the riot others wounded believed to — Virginia met at Rich: | SCOUT LEADER’ ON LONG WALK Mecting bears in the road if , Sleeping in a shack near at wag narrowly missed | a fire ot that resulted In the death Several negroes In Georgia, were |some of the adventures experienced by Fred Ringens, leader, who arrived day, after hiking Florida, in 17 days, He was fortunate enough to get }a number of rides, which speeded |him on tho trip. Ho pack and wore no hat during the 23, boy scout in Seattle Frise from entire journey, which he says cost him $20. EASY TO BUY THIS ONE Now is the time to buy your homo and get settled. Here | a good offer, JUST LISTED Owner says sell quick, 4-room modern ott 0 feet from 3 car gines; good location; lot S3x115" feet. Price $1,800; $200 cash, $25 a month, ineludli interest. No mortgage. Straigh contract, The Want Ad columns will tell | you who is selling this property. | Miami, carried a heavy © : falling airplane and witnessing 9%