The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 1, 1923, Page 1

abocatey ae _ WEATHER NO. 162. | Home Brew | Howdy, folks! Monday Labor day. They call it wae day because it is a day you don't labor. led tonight south nd ur Temperature Last Maximum, ae A ™ “4 Hours Mintnum, 50, noon, TL 25. VOL. aa aad the know style dic demanding «women With long > basque Back, next thir fators will t Wear corsets. Li'l Gee Gee says *0 40 broud-minded they @ key-hole with both “Greek Town Fired Upon.’ Hub, @nother one of those shell games! Waste of p¥oice over I Can ph you do can't anything sleep, or—Hold and Vi the wire (EDITK tion of s never HE down willful destru ag At f Star ha. leust im shape for my vacat! tanleh doth please me Thompson. t but he dh many Other fish men estimate th aitoten went to fertilizer his d tion of food fish of sta At might to the repairing of my and other gear, and did try en madn it was “o great of “my wife did fT was ereatiy vexed, but showed it not, Wiessy more. And so to bed. -* “Dearest, I must marry “Have you seen father?” “Otten, honey, but I love you just the same.” “The straw hat season ends today is are having their atraw | H\is made into campaign cigars. “ “ee eit ¥ ein the Northwest | glo Exhibit for 2 photograph of | fet Sound, but they say the thing framed. Many of them are plte la suddenly you= 1 unexpe lly seine boats the beginning, wer ir legitimate job of fh do not depend expectations they we find an to port their catches, Inste eee with and tied up. their boats cious fishermen whw, ug one nothe | in the face then put b 0 or 6,000 sal cad of fish . 4,0 . ODY! GOODY! SCHOOL OPENS! “School is no longer terror ay chil- dren. Modern ‘methods make study a real ro- me » would be punished, if the common gossip, is that the at a prison of offenses wore a group of voters migh ministration. When the next salmon run ¢ Is Public Disgrace Entered as Second Class Matter May #, 1899, at the Postoffics at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March §, 1879 The Seattle star “AT Salmon YRIAL) in b Ke part by traps and when th 1 these traps filled with plunging hey were not in the market 6 the seiners to blame, for y their mar According eager welcomo when they came ad, they found the bina piled high ishing to supp olely on traps. to al It ts certaim other. thoughtless or aver of these conditions, after destroy ack to the banks and brought in mon, who are to be condemned © whould be punished. Wo had an alert fish commission from one end of the salmon industry to the winked at for political reasons t not be offended with the state the omes to Puget Sound. state Per Year, by Moil, $3,60 ATTACKED e Now Facing Prospect o f New War TL E , WASIL, SATU RDAY, SE PTEMBE R 1, 192¢ ese Cities Razed by) FARTHQUAKE AGED WORKER YOKOHAMA If IS CAUGHT IN ON FIRE; MANY WELL CAVEAN VICTIMS DEAD Rescuers Dig Frantic Effort to Save Him; Is Kept Alive Sev.n men are feverishly noon Saturday, in an sive the life of Joe Hughe Lam's Corner, near Kenm at . of Hughes was digging a well ond was 21 feet below the surface of the Kround when the sides to the slnuiders for aid. A neighbor heard him and reac the scene just us another slide cov- in Tokyo Damaged; All Japan Shaken in a Disastrous Earth Upheaval (By United Press) A terrific earthquake} on | Shock, the Bothell highway, who was bur-/an hour last night, jarred the} ied tm a cayeln Saturday morning. | whole lasting for more than Ja un: ie | with a fold in many completely jrail and wire communication! cred_the imprisoned man's bead. thruout the empire. According to the story told the po | lice, who dispatched and ambulance into the well and Hughes" head, keeping the sand back while additional aid arrived & phyaiclan | the neighbor Jumped uncovered |!5 | if A that Tokyo. The report of the Yokohama co: lagration came in dispatches dispatch from Oxaka damage reported novere was suffered n re- apane: archipelago} Precedent arias pow os | the, Marre to causing. Bop tpl and he siete |sulting enemas and casualties | disrupting | Two CENTS IN SEATTLE. haar ATHENS, Sept, 1. — Italian forces toiay oceupied the island of Samo Greek bwarships are reported U pave withdrawn from the wa ters adjxcent to Italy and have taken refuge Xn the bay of Sa- lamis, Ramos Is an island ng the Ac- gean sea, off the Smyrna coast, and just off the sphere of fhe ence in Asia Minor, awarded to Italy after the world war ‘The island has a population of ne oe 70,000, and is 190 square ar chief exports are Pages and oil. ATHENS, Sept. 1.—Fall of the present Greek government ap- peared imminent today under pressure of the occupation of Corfu and killing of 15 Greek citizens by Italian shell fire. Former Premier Zamis is eX cted to be asked to form a new government The Greek public is wildly ex cited over the bombardment of Corfu. Several women were included among those killed by the Italian shell fire, They had taken ref- uge in the police station when the bardment opened. A #hell then hit the police station, kiMing and wounding many in the building oe LONDON, Sept. 1—Bight hips have been placed tor’ Wa transporta- Roma dispatch fo the Evening Star asserts. Premier Mussolini is said to be drafting an explanatory note de- signed for foreign powers and Greece, explaining Italy’s ac- tions with respect to Greece. C768 ATHENS, Sept. 1.—The Italians have extended the area of their occupied territory on tien of eats CORFU IS SHELLED BY ITALY ‘Another Island Seized; Women and . Children Killed; Balkans Excited and Britain May Send in Troops as. Aid to Deague of Nations Action ED L. KEEN LONDON, Sept. 1.—Europe today f. the most menacing situation since the preceding the world.war. | Italy has seized two |was occupied today. The tri-color flies over Corfi; fo! ng jbardment i in which 15 men and women refugees | killed as they sought shelter. The Balkans are stirring. |RUMANIANS AND JUGO-SLAVS |CALLING UP ARMY RESERVES ~ Queen Marie of Rumania is hurrying back to Bue f | eek islands. rom Paris. Jugo-Slav reservists who are on leave have been | back to their home countries, | Italy plans to call up two classes of reservists. Those | | London have been ordered to be prepared for a call to. | colors. | The Greek legation in London declares that Greece | regard the bombardment of Corfu as other than an | of war. |MUSSOLINI CONTINUES DEMANDS |AS CRISIS GROWS MORE SERIOUS While chancellories are bending every effort toy mance. Instead dreary rou: ‘school days now glowing adventures.”—The | Three hours later deputy sheriffs, |celved in Sun Francisco by who bad been dispatched to the! Radio Corporation of Americt. xeens, had been unable to extricate | The message to the company him due to continued slides of the| from its agent ‘at Tomloka, 144 loose dirt in the well miles. northeast of Tokyo, said must be prepared to patrol the stra 1 to keep closely in touch with every mile of the salmon's a from the straita to the river mouths, as well traps and the canneries. Meanwhile, there agitation for an order by the fish commissio ay close-down the ihe island of Corfu, it was re- linbly reported today, Their forces have been moved furiher to the northeast from the fortl- fications. progr as watching th * some undergrou to set September 6 to 15—< h neither be set that p 10 days to ‘A sure sign that your vacation has Jpat you in good shape is your abil- ity That ru hould be caught should be allowed spawning grounds. Undoubtedly is due directly to the 10-day clos. this iniportant industry is bound tection to the returning schools. 49 eat waffles and cabbage for | i | thre’s « man in | ts Howard Heater. ist his middle namo . Kent whose Do yout Is Over-! ken Not aimon on the banks unmolested, to the this year’s greatly increased run e-down of 1921, and the future of up with a similar degree of pro. make its way engineering wizard, | tts that fn 190 years electricity | No, Hortense, stripping the gears | your car will not help to cool | . Tollay’s definition: A digamist ts | b man who makes the same mistake ed NOur idea of a good fob is to 'be | grapher for the Police Gazette. % ore KDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB ‘fhe wife who won't permit "het husband to sit out on the potch in his shirt sleeves on a — day. AR Cannery BY THE EDITOR OF THE BELLINGHAM, 1 men here and all the way to the} | Sept Canadian boundary the asser tion of Everett and Anacortes pack. | jers that the present humpback run is of phenomenal size. It js a “good run, the men in this district say. Some of them class ; it as the best since 1913 (though not main trouble h ptenicking at all comparable to that year’s), but im fivver is that when you stop} at jeast one man of reai authority Tunch, you find that the milk in| says the 1923 run does not exceed e hamper has changed to butter.| that of 1915 ie But they all larger than the | And the reason, | assert, Is the 10 days" that w enforced in 1921 There was a big escapement of sal | mon during that period, it ts agrsad, and spawning conditions were excel lent fish mature in two yer Jellingham authorities say, and now | the 1921 crop is back in increased} | volume to prove the correctness of the theory behind the regulation, ° | EDICTION OF LARGE RUN | | CLAIMED PREMATURE | P. Deming, president of the} | pacific:American Fisheries Co, of | words are this city, who has been 42 years in| | we shall be Somewhere on| the salmon business, a majority of t sound, playing tig with the| that time as a packer, is emphatic , hunting goeduck» with our|on all these points. As one of the! airgun and leaping ‘rom ‘ough | pioneers in the industry and head of | bough with the other vquicrels. | Puget sound's largest cannery, he is | WEEKS’ vacation! Two} coniidered an authorit deny agree that {t is far one of two years ago. | they unanimously | close-down tough job is night rin Greenland. ° €: Headline wWe don't know. Have you tried ing it? Gosh, wut it's going to be tough Have to stay up to midnight in| to break the seal of the new hone directory. 4 o* The war wili wage between and Italy until the last cor. dent gets the writer's cramp. errr THESE few | proclaimed the 19 |have been uncommonly large, BellinghamPackers Deny Lyle and Party Battle Salmon Run Phenomenal Assert Statements of Anacortes and Everett Cannerymen Premature He says that the packer? who have| 3 run one of ex- ceptional « and that they have based their asser- tions on the fact t the offerings; of fish at their respective canneries rather than on any actual observation of marked increase of fish in the Sound waters The reason for e have been premature, the heavy offerings of fish is that there are far fewer canneries now operating than a few} years ago (14 this year as compared with 30 to 40). “And not only canneries greatly | Deming to me is the reduce umber of said Mr “but the capacity of | most of them is far less than it was in the old days. This one of ours, for jexample, x now operating five lines ‘of machinery, whereas used to have 16.” Mr, Deming likewise belleves there hag been a tendency to overestimate the size of the Sound pack this year He says the limit output of his. plant will be 50,000 cases, and he does not belleve the grand total will be more than 500,000. Contrary to the popular conception of a cannery magnate, Deming is an| outspoken conservationist And I always have been,’ serts, “I worked hard in 1905 to get thru a bill that would have resulted in a we ‘ he as thing of our mind | = our old felt hat! | “DUMBBELL, DUD, the next! imbest guy in the offices, is left in large of the colyum: BE CAREFUL, Dumisbell. Don't a the door to strangers; don't It ithe cat get the canary; tell the tet man we won't need any icc SPUT THE muzzie on our ittie ul. Don't feed him but Mweeches hy Doc Brown j LL THE smith Brother to phaye once in a while, kive LA") Gee Gee yood-bye ror us, nd for heaven's wake cop Joe Bungatarter sober. H00D-BYE, FOLKS! Be good, or at least be careful, A.J. A DUMBBELL DUD B UMBBELL dumbeat dub is back in Seattle DUD, in the creation, again, anything ‘ You remember Dumbell, dent you? He's the guy, that thinks Rex Beach fa a sum mer resort ind Baton Rouge fe a new cosmetic, 1 ‘urn t to Page 4, Column 2) ACK IN TOWN HE’LL SUB FOR HOMER G. BREW), Dumbbell will Homer Brew ter's vacation, He 1un a prize conte: dumbest sayings sent him. Watch Monday's Star for a full of Dumbbell Dud contest! "sub" for during the lat will also | for the In to ecourt and hi Hughes wan kept alive and dirt kept clear of his face all morning. His rescue in expected to be effected Saturday afternoon: MOONSHINER IS _ SHOT BY AGENT Skamania Wilds | A. gun battle between federal pro. hibition agents, under State tor Roy Lyle, of Seattle, and moon. jshiners wax waged in the wilds of |Skamania county, north of the vil |tag0 of Underwood, Saturday morn jing, im which one alleged whisky |manufacturer was seriously wound. ed by were captured. |men was injured, according to re |ports reaching here by long distance telephone Saturday morning. The agents, beating their |thru the dense woods and |brush, euddenly surprised the moon |shiners, who immediately opened | fire on them, according to Lyle. officers returned the fire, |George Walker, one of the dropped in his tracks, | wounded, | Two others of the band, seeing |their partner shot, turned and ran |for cover, with the agents follow |ing them, Onv other of the moon |shiners was captupred, but the third Jescaped. The arrested mon were to been taken to the jail. | under. and gang, severely | have county The mediate vicinity where Wilfred Ori. son, a deputy sheriff, and a moon- |shiner were killed in a pitched bat tle last August. According to Lyle, the men cap. jtured are desperate characters, who shoot to kill when attacked by fed. éral agents, They are believed to haye some connection with the gang which operated In the woods at the time Orlzon was killed, -/ TULSA RULED BY MILITARY TULSA, Okla, Sept. 1—The mill: tary ruled Tulsa with an fron hand| today. On orders of Governor J. C ‘Walton, reinforcements arrived here for guardsmen administering martial jaw In the city as a result of many whippings and floggings. The gov- ernor suspended all elvil procedure in the city, Including courts, and order. | } } Direc. | way} Tho | Skamania | | shooting occurred in the im the | in | way |tween Nagasaki revolver fire and two others |tal od all arms and ammunition turned] over to the troops immediately. Attempted flogging cf a Tulsa reasl- dent, Thursday night, under the eyes of the guardsmen, caused the gov- ornor to act. |quarters j@ that there had been many casu- alties in Yokohama and that practically the entire ety was in flames, This station out of touch | reported. The Commercial Cabie reported that its cable from ( m to Japan had been broken near Yokohama, but that it was making attempt to move dispatches con [taining detalla of the disaster of {ts cable connection and Shanghai Great anxiety is being felt for the safety of some 200 Americans in Yokohama, the center of Occidental trade and social activity In the Japanese empire. Yokohama is only 17 miles from Tokyo and js one of the principal seaports of the empire. It fs the official seaport for Tokyo, the capi city, Its population in 1920 tn the now with inland, company None of the federal | was haif a million Headquarters district tn San {t had had no egarding the are no Ame! Japanese waters, reported, The shock was so territig that selamographs in practically all the principal cities of the world record ed the tremor, all of them phasizing its strength and duration see OSAKA, Sept. all of Japan was shaken vii lently for more than an hour by earthquake shocks of almost unprecedented power, Severe damage was suffered in Tokyo. Railway and telegraph com- munications were disrupted. see SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. The Japanese city of Lokvhama is on fire, following a terrific earthquake crash, according to a wireless dispatch received here today by the Radio Corporation _@urn to Page 4, Solum » TRUCK OFFER TODAY "s Want Ad columns many bargains in Homos, Cars, Trucks, ete,, ete! a couple that appear Want Ada; of the 12th naval Franclaco said that word from Japan uation here. There n war vessyia in the naval 1.—Practically carry Used Here are in the LOGGERS, ATTENTLO READY TO GO— Slignal 3% ston, with Beton trai er and bunks, eom Mack St-ton, with S-ton trall= er and bunks, complete. to the Want selling t Turn Ads and see p trucks, se | completely | it] hy! head: } em: | “- | LONDON, Sept. L—Haly plans | te call out two classes of mili- tary reservists, according to ad- vices here. Italian reservists in London haye been ordered to hold themselves in readiness for service, . VIENNA, Sept. 1—Jugo-Slay army officials who are on leave outside of their country have been ordered to return. Orders have also gone out for members of the Rumanian mili- tary establishment to hold them- selves in readiness for call. eee ATHENS, Sept. 1.—An Italian submarine is reported to have fired on a Greek steamship off the coast of Epirus. No serious damage was done. Greek ships, it is understood, have deen forbidden to enter the Corfu channel. . PARIS, Sept. 1.— Parisian newspapers expressed alarm to- day at Italy’s seizure of Corfu. y fear it will be impossible ‘ovalize the conflict” despite re’s appeal for intervention the league of nations, cree ROME, Sept. 1—The Greek steamer Atromitos, carrying the | Greek correspondents expelled | from Italy, has been permitted to sail, At Genoa two Greek steamers have been placed un- der special guard. All Htalians holding Greek consular positions have resigned their posts, see | | WASHINGTON, — Sept. eece Will make a forma) pro- test to the United States and the other world powers against the drastic steps taken by Italy to enforce the latter's — uiti- matum, it was learned official. ly today. The Greek protest will be stt forth in & formal note to be delivered to the state depart. ment here, probably Monday of next week. The protest wilt be specifically against the occupa- tion by Italian forces of the island of Corfu. * ‘ACT OF WAR, | LONDON, Sept. 1—Greece consid. ers the bombardment of Corfu as an jact of war, a communiqué isgued by ‘the Greek legislation kere today de. | clared “Greece cannot Sut consider lbombardment of C: wht x flagrant violation of the } ue of nations Iract and the tr nf 1863, (andl also an act of war without provocation, committed by one league member against another,’’ the communique sal, the SAYS ATHENS, | easing off the situation, which hourly becomes more critic: | Premier Mussolini continues to carry forward his plans | humiliating Greece in retaliation for the murder of 1 | Italian commissioners. A new note was handed the | government today. It was unrelenting in its demands ;more than. $2,000,000 indemnity and other points set fo th in the original ultimaturh. The occupation of Greek territory was charactesaelt “peaceful” and the hope expressed that Greek inhabitan would do nothing that might render the ocr a@ mo | ser*ous matter. Allied authorities are becoming more concerned ‘hourly. The league of nations took up the Greco-Italian problem th afternoon, but Italian representatives are understood to bs | prepared to deny. the league’s jurisdiction. In this event) | the league can only back up such mandate as it may | with force, |BRITISH TROOPS IN THE NEAR E/ |MAY BE DIVERTED TO NEW FIELD | British authorities are now speculating on the po | of requesting that British troops and ships co-operate \the league in event forcible intervention should be ne A strong British fleet is in the Mediterranean. | In addition to the fleet, there are now app: | British troops with full war equipment of. | stores now stationed in the Near Bast. There are | war-strength battalions with stores and pelt p |the vicinity of Malta, en route home on transports, , ' troops might be diverted for necessary services, -{Turn to Page 4, Column 4) * * % + * & Orphans Und. Care of sin sion Are Victims of Italian Naval ¥ ATHENS, Sept. 1.—The Italian naval commander was informed that the Cora forts were ‘dis- mantled and occupied only by refugees and orphans, but despite this yesterday bombarded the fortifications and the town, it "| ation of international law. fi was announced here today, ‘A separate protest has also & ‘The orphans mentioned, Greek and forwarded to the allied gover: Armenian refugee children, are wat Tho international situation, Might be rendered by thes nations. It is understood that ‘thes protest, forwarded to the Geneva, declares that tlie bombardment was in compl Bast relief. fous, The drachma fell In the meantime, Italian Ambassa- dor Montagna notified the Greek foreign office todity. that the Italian occupation of Cortu will continue until Greece has met all conditions*of the ultimatum delivered by Premier Mussolini. It is reported here that the Italians plan to deport all Greeks: from Corfu, transporting them to Ital, The cabinet met with Premier Gonatas today, going over tho situa: tion in dotail, “‘Pkespremier declared der tho care of the American Near! while, is growing ine ie day, creating a near pan! a Greek t he Gree! stationed in ae Gere nf have been withdrawn to the terior, The prefect and G ficers who | in th were arrested Pay bint | fire from the Ttilian way @ squadron of aibplanes city with machine guns. aroused fresh resentment, nation in Athens.’ ae At 4 o'clock yoste a ; «Turn. to Page 4, © tit he would not reply to Italy's # second note, delivered yesterday, but would comply with any decision that