The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 3, 1923, Page 1

¢ Kaiser Bill's Mighty Army Is Still Rulin a) @ L ts Slay Guard and Wound Three Others | WEATHER Rain tonight asin Temperature 69. Today Maximum, abety winds, Last M4 Hours Minimum, 56 noon, 66. a “VOL. 25. NO, 189, * ae Entered as & w aah. ingress March 3 he SeattleSta SI TITLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1923, g Europe! LOY That’s What Seattle School Books Tell Our Pupils WHAT THEY STUDY wwf AUS STRIA HUNGARY, ER ce Sea aee This map was reproduced from one of the pre-war edition. of Tarr & McMurry’'s geography, us tle’s public schools, do not appear. Home Brew Howdy, folks! This is Na tional Beauty week, All girls wearing red shoes will be de- ported. e eee ‘Mayor Brown Fires First Gun tn Campaign Against Vice.”—Headline. But perhaps it is just an air-gun. o8 President Suzzallo says too many young men of the wrong kind go to} college. Yep, a lot of them aren't heavy? enough to turn out for football eee ESSIEN i. LIL GEE GEE, TH OFFICE | VAMP, SEZ: | | Pleasures are like mushrooms | | —most of them turn out to be | | toadstools. ro British scientist says that terrify-| ing noises are golng to be the princl- pal weapons of t We should wo: mobilize Doc Brow Li'l Gee Gee left the office early | tod: She said she was going over | to Kirkland to see if Brother ‘Issath | would cure her hani OUR FAVORITE’ FILLING STATION Vancouver, B. €. We can always A father work out hi boy's arithmetic problem if he wasn't 80 doggone bus The Philadeiph in 12-hour shifts to me for small change. Well, somebody is mak. money. we're glad | ed by thousands of Seat- Note that Austria and Hungary are sfill shown as one country, that the Baltic states and Czecho- ch Slovakia are not shown, and that the changes in the Balkans | than ty HAUL OF $7,500 MADE BY BOYS, Western Union Men Robbed of Payroll Money Investigation of the holdup of two | ‘emptoyes of the Western Union Tol exraph Co. in the company's office on Cherry between First and Second Tues with the theft of $7,500, hi police to the belief W at, afternoon, 4 led the tha ayes, esday that | the robbery was staged with the ald with which 4 the intimate know! by the four bandits ly have been wn by men who had udied the plana of the bull habits of the worke to police. daring was pulled horoly # ng ans ording The two victims of the bandit quar tet, SM. Fowler, cashier, and 1. R Williams, the yroll office and were taking it to the traf-| fic department on the second floor. Williams was carrying a hich held $6,500 in currency Fowler had $1,000 in silver As the two men were in the hall way, Four men, armed with revolv ers, stepped out and, with a low spoken word, commanded them to put up their hands, Williams was struck on the head with a blackjack and knocked unconschous. Fowler was then forced down a stairway into the storage room. Wiltama was dragged | down to the same place and both men were locked in the vault after timekeeper, mon and . . The department of 1 dollar {s now worth only What's the difference? It » buy 30 cents worth of grocerie eae According to the t partment of agricultare, there five kind: of mules—draft mules, farm mules, su mules, cotton mules and mining mules. But they forget the most common kind of mule—the “||$%-&'0"X'& %$. [7s mule. ® ited States ar A man with false teeth ought to re- Joice during the hunting season, He doesn't have to pick birdshot out of his teeth after eating quail. He can use a magnet. o- + CANDIDATE: FOR THE POL | SON IVY CLUB | The bimbo who is supposed to | | give a 10-minute address over | the radio and then howls for an “hour and a halt, The New York Yankees are got ting into thelr world series stride says the sport page. Gosh, how aw. ful they must be playing! the only ‘6 About | Gee Ge | ing bet exercise Li'l sweetie gets in cough n cigaret pufts Ye DIARY (October 2) Up, and to the offi the di elall team talk with Killifer concerning pinying of the trap drums, tell me he was probably the drum player in the world, an promine to tench me the art, whieh a ne me greatly, So to home in W letzontaum’s conch, very lute, wand wife did meet me nt the door, but by an by pe stopped talking, And su to bed, the bandits had taken the money. THUGS ESCAPED \THRU REAR DOOR The four thugs escaped thru the rear door to Second ave., and walked across the aldewalk to an automobile nd escaped. They were seen there nk Groves, 19, 122 Taylor st dits had apparently been the rdbbery for a,long time, had even taken a lock from nd replaced it | pi a th the rear door another one. exactly to the second, when the hier and his assistant would’ pass thru hallway with the payroll ‘fic department 1 robbery juntil Fowler and Williams had broken the lock of the vault and had giyen the alarm upstairs, They were imprisoned for 20 minutes while Williams was being back to consciousness by | More than 60 persons were at work in the offices around the hallway when the robbery was committed and knew nothing of it until the |two men escaped from the storage | room, as not HERE IS A BARGAIN Look at this little hemo that is being sacrificed for other some feason or SACTINICH, 4 roome and bath ment; garage; H0x109; located near tiéwly pay main thorofare, 1 to $1,700 for aulck sal 4100 cash, and balanc month. SAL com fine, The Real Metate Kor Bale col umns will tell you who in welling thin propemy the} had obtained, from the main} satchel | with | They timed the holdup | discovered | Europe Confuse and Bewilder By John W. Nelson | ren are study » the ks make no refer anges in government at the great taclyamic ch and war brought about. For Austria-Hungary ie pictured as» a dual empire under the caption, “AustriaHungary are united to form a monarchy under the of Emperor instance lership I” rmany ts still an empire under Kaiser W Jents of Seattle schools if they are to believe their t helm to the at empire as pr ‘ vakia, no Jugoslavia . to may nothing of Es and Lithw power I ¢ em of lens interesting commentary on present the children order hold her present | |boundaries Germany must be pre pared to defend them at any time,” the book it |wome paragraphs to praise of the | Imperial Germany military machine, eso some of us thought w wreeked by a bunch of doughboys | in the Argonne. School officials admit the use of [these text books and offer the old | excuse, “lack of finances.” ography since the war |teen « difficult subject.” Worth Clure, assistant superintendent Ischools said by way of explanation. |“Things were changing 90 rapidly nt after the war that we didn't buy a book lest It be wrong it reached us. buying new states. has Me- Are | before In books, the text] that they must be used for five | years, and because of uncertain con- | ditions in Europe, wis make certain that the new we piles would stand for that period of time. “Then there was th finances. We have b buy the newer books, budget wouldn't the old Tarr & MoMurry’s geographies, first and second edi: tions, in the Fifth and Sixth grades [These books were written before the war, | CORRECT MAPS IN ADVANCED CLASSES “In our advanced geography, In |the Eighth grade, we teach from th |new McMurry & Parkins book which has correct maps and is up to date “Teachers do not follow the text lin the lower grades when studying ‘the European nations. We have sup plemental maps that are up to d |and five copies of the new Frye and Atwood geography in each room| for reference. It is modern and is | used in those grades that study Ger. many. It Is probable that a new ee: lection of g next year.” Tarr & McMurr out a new edition now, W ‘© a few copies in each room.” McClure pointed out that so fa |as the topogra y of Europe Is con. jcerned—the rivers, mountains, val Hleys, as well as the mining and agri cultural districts—there is no change, and the old geographies to: cate them. “Our teachers follow a course of study which eliminates the antiquat ed sections of the old books,” Mc Clure said. “We hope to have new set of modern geographies by | next year.” MERCY MONEY SWELLS FUND Workers Think It Will Be Oversubscribed ‘Team captains from various parts jot the city predicted Wednesday |that enthusiastic responve of the citizenry to the Community Mund may show their respective quotas over subscribed when the campaign ts closed, It is expected to clone the ldrive for the $776,000 budget Mon day, publicity headquarters for the |funa collectors announced, ama of workers were out In full again Wodnesday, and report Jing generally hearty support, ‘Their house-to-house carapaign of the va }rioum zonex of the city will be sup plymented Friday by 4 special ap: peal to Seattle's school children, Spdakers will address student bodles in euch of the elght high schools, and pledge cardy will be distributed among tho grammar school pupils n unable to because our permit. We sti | hav | ho then devotes | ot | problem of] graphies will be made | Frans This is a about by the I war. map of world rope delineating changes brought Tacoma Pastor Arrested | After Pursuit in Auto’ \Rev C. Osear Johnson ‘TACOMA, Oct. 3-—Rev. G. senha pantor of the First Bap t church and president of the Tuco Ministerial association, arrested while speeding 50) | mites an 29th and Junet ata. late last night With him was) Ww. W presl-| dent of the National | bank, | The chase and one-half the North End reside | Rev Pobnwon before Police hour at Newschwander, vice Puget Sound arreat followed a sensational one 4 thru rdgo aig’ Hackett ation from inside the office. | joo, commianion must bear in migd| today on a charge of breaking the the Job} awe. the 4 Frank Far. as a pugt-| fcQuire, bron: | the Western! Puyallup, will be Frank A.| pastor walting called, nent co bu Magi | But the charges tor wilt be me against his fellow law-breakers, in aald. His apeed wan greater than « and he had ass the nc reports. Farmer, the and MeQuire, the bronco accepted their notices with Seek Woman on nga nerioux than thore t the pas er two ca: nerity to cop,” boxer bust to Get Doctor for Child of Diphther f Girl Dies Charged With Speed-| ing After Exciting Race With Cops O'Bryan of the “doo Made by J. L. tate highway polfee th & tored” fiver. When the arresting officer's ma- chine drew slongaide Rey. John pons, he jumped to the running board of the ministerial automo-| bile. “Hey, doing.” halled tk will to the curb.” The minister explained that aid know he was “going fast.” The light above his speed. was broken, he explained. And I didn't want any little old rT tO pate UA,” he added. ed hix notice to appear qpurt, he warned he ever appears “at Sunday night sermons to a fare-theew tom the children copper, "Guys you Draw over in that of my razz You can raz me toface police court,” O'Br f any you w face. grinned rr yan. MeQuire, apecding 40 urrested road at buster, was an hour when Puyallup-Tacoma m. Farmer, was doing 45 miles an hour when ar on the same road at 8:15 according to O'Bryan, bronco miles the p. on 1 rested p.m, for Failing ia After Mother Re- fuses to Allow Medical Aid shorifts Mrs. 8. Weanesday Burke, of her Deputy were seeking Stella 4840 | | 48th wk ‘railing to provide me ltor do who diphtheria 21st | A warrant for the arrest of Mrs, | Burke was issued Tues after | |Chria Frasch, assistant city health |commissionor, had sworn to a com plaint charging her with the misde meanor, Mra. Burke js the mother ht children, and a member of | eventh Church of Isracl, a re-| Nigiou! ot that colony Ninth ave. N. W. and 73rd st Prosecuting — Attorn Douglas | made a full investigation of the case and declares that the prosecu:| ion of Mra, Burke ts to be made | ave to arrest for eal attention | 12-year-old Fay, | of her died ghter, Septomber t | has a on | | child au example, According to Doug: Mrs. Burke refused medical aid her daughter when Dr, William of the city health called on her September for O'Rourke. d partment, 20th REFUSED T0 ALLOW DOCTOR TO TREAT CHILD ‘The child took sick September 17th and, according to Mrs. Burke's statement to Douglas, diphtheria be me pronounced two days later September 20th Dr, O'Rourke called at the home on complaint of neigh: b . ana wanted to administer an] antitoxin, telling Mrs, Burke the would dio unless it was ad ministered. Mrs Burke refused to permit it. Asked why she did not wish med. (furn to Page 9% Column 5) BY HAROLD E. SWI 10k (United Press Staff Correspondent) PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 9.—-Sus pension of Immigration for a period of five years, recognition of soylet rule in Russia and further demands for a farmorlabor party were ins cluded in Fevolutions presented in the American eration of Labor convention here today, ‘The demandy were among thone contained In the’ 95 resolutions sub: mitted during the first two days of the convention, No moro may be introduced without unanimous eon wert of the delegates, Various com: Would Recognize Russ and Ban Immigration These Demands Included in 95 Resolutions Placed Before American Labor Convention mittees are considering tho differ: ent propositions, preceding debate on the convention floor, Tho immigration ban was request ed by Otto R. Hartwig, president of the Oregon State Labor Federation His resolution cally upon congress to suspend immigration for five years, “at the end of sald time a general naturalization day to take place for those who are fit to Be come citivens, and those who | are not fit to be deported at onc Resumption of trade relutions with Russia, lending to the “eventu: (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) he} O'Bryan rn} | | ER BARES CRIME Thief’s Love for Girl Prompts Him to Confess Loot- ing to Police S. B. Groff Because he was in love with » pretty Seattle woman, V. 1, El lott, 36, surrendered himself to the police Tutsdhy a9 a common burglar, revealed cache o' stolen goods and thereby ‘wiped his slate clean,"' according to po- lice detectives. EN 1 into detective head quia M Scrafford thief. Detective am a or ve amaze: Lack y him, and Eliott, Ja story prompted by. Witzke, told of midnight thefts of auto accessories, tools and such, over # Period of several months, while [working at a local mill as a me. | chante Then he met | been sepirated fron wevera) lyears. the girl, who had her husband for lott, -police...say, sent her expensive flowers and paid Oscar | out comment, “AM the arresta were | ardent-edert to her. ‘The woman was found by the po- lice and questioned. She appeared in| | Witzke's office ua soon an she had |heard of Eiifott's arrest, Sbe de }elared that she t would never ‘Then, marry him.’ according to police, Elliott | do you know what you're) decided to make a clean breast of his and accordingly surren © woman had known noth. his burglar career. “E have found the one great thing which makes life worth living,’ Elliott said Wednesday in his cell at the city jal. ‘The greatest thing in the world, love. It has changed my viewpoint, and has made honesty, sincerity, integrity, worth more than all else, “I have surrendered and will co }to jail In order that I will be able to myself, ‘I am an honest at, | | to nay man.’ "My past been cor. | ected, as far as it is in my power {to correct them. I am happy.” | Eliott probably will be charged jwith grand lareen but ¢ ives will make a plea for leniency in his behalf when his is tried | urt. errors have ‘SEATTLE AFTER Will Try to Beat Tacoma at Puyallup Fair Record-smashing | pected to Western W: lup Thurs are ex: s the turnstiles at the shington fair at Puyal- ‘Seattle day," when Seattle boosters will endeavor | to hang up n huge attendance tot |for the ‘Tacoma crowds to face on |their special day y. Rivalry for total admissions on the two | days Is keen between the two cities. Attendance figures Tuesday, Dert Jday, did not approach the record: | king total of Monday, when | the 83,000 paid admissions, | While Seatthe has always stood {solidly behind the fair, Thursday efforts will be doubled in view the challenge hurled by ‘Tacoma, whose Chamber. of Commerce is moving heaven and earth to eat" Seattle, Crowds will be augmented Phursday by a nearly 100 p attendance of the membe the Realtors’ asso and Seattle who have reserved pari hip of for @ luncheon at the ground Features of Tuesday's other than the Derby handi ning classic, were the mammoth livestock parade on the track and the “Battle of the Argonne,” a sham, program, American Legion posts of Puyallup and Tacoma with 100 soldiers from Camp Lewis, Fire Controlled Ship Is on Way In SAN PEDRO, Cal, Oct, 3.--Refus ing all offers of said and with the fire which ix reported to have de: stroyed $860,000 worth of the cargo, under control, the freighter Diana Dollar wag on its way to this port today, It Js expected to arrive here Sat urdays 4 told Elijott that “4 he wan the last man on earth she in} CROWD RECORD | thousands of school children swelled | ~ of | ing space and made arrangements | battle with fireworks, staged by the | * TV MARRIAGE DECREASES IN AMERICA; DIVORCE CONTINUING GROWTH! HI rt revealed, popul 136 per ainst 112 4 in 1900 and 53 Marriages this last inst 1,040,684 in noted, performed fr totaled 1 1916, The however, to the cor of several ae Divorces last 48,544, against WHEAT TARIFF VICTORY SEEN | Commission Passes “Buck” | to Railroads country 418, ag slight increase was not proporti iner year na responding 8.] tory for S@attle and other| Sound cities in their fight for wheat | tariffs from Eastern Washington | Pqual to those of Portland, seems certain now in spite.of the fact that the Interstate Commerce com- mission has denied the appeal of the |state department of pubtic woj }for a rehearing in tne case, it jclalmed bere Wednesday by i jin the fight. Altho the commission has denied} the appeal for a rehearing on the question, it has declared that the} arriers may reduce the Puget/ | Sound rate to a basis equal to that} of Portland. “This leaves the matter entirely | jup the Northern Pacific arfd| |Union Pacific railroads,” L, F. Me- | to | land, New IN SEATTLE. NO CENTS ESCAPE EFFORT FOILED Desperate Trio of Men Barricaded in Room, Hold- ing Off Guards KENTUCKY STATE PRISON, Eddyville, Ky., Oct. 3.—Barri- caded behind the prison dining room doors, following the slay- ing of one guard and wounding of three others in an unsuccess- ful dash for freedom, three con- viets held guards at bay here this afternoon. The convicts, armed with aztomat- ics, the guards. at 7:30. Hodge Cunningham, guard, was slain by the first volley, and Will Gilbert, E. B. Mattingly and Will Gillham, guards, were wounded. At the first outbreak the prison | was thrown into an uproar, Guards raced to the aid of their fellows and the three attacked up a steady fire. All attempts to dislodge the three from their citadel failed during the morning and the guards had to content eo selves with surrounding room and keeping a close Pog on all doors. Warden John Chilton kept huceoent | from attacking in order that no more | blood be shed. The three besieged convicts were all cited for murder, according the warden. They were Monte ters, Louisville, life; Lawrence G fith, Mayfield, life, arid Henry 2 rt, serving 16 years, jIntyre, of the Chamber of Com- merce traffic department, said Wed- | nesday. “We have had this matter |before the railroads for some time, | d we expect a decision from the | etn offices within a short time.” | Sound shippers believe that ie Touee will establish the same tar. iff to Sound cities as Portland now Jenjoys. ‘They do not believe the| roads, now that the matter is put| jup to them directly, would adopt a | |policy of discrimination against] | Northwestern cities. Uniess the railroads act on this} mattér, Portland will have a 10 per} dvantage in all grain ship- from the Columbia Basin dis- trict, ft Is sald, The decision of “the Interstate Commerce commission, which denies |the rehearing, is viewed in Seattle | with much interest, as the commis: sion states that it will allow the ilroads to make a parity of grain jrates between the Columbia Basin district and the Sound, but will not order suc! es @ part BANDIT GETS GARAGE CASH) An unmasked bandit held up and |robbed L. A. Goodman, manager of |a garage at 1527 Boren av day night, taking from him $: | cent ments 5 man heard him and investigated. ‘The bandit drew a pistol and forced him to put up his hands while he searched Goodm pockets. thug escaped in the darkness. "own “murder,” FOR INSURAN California Butcher Confesses Killing Aged Man Cal., Oct. 3—Alex Kels, wealthy butcher of Lodi, Cal, arrested Monday night, — three weeks after he was sup- posed to have been murdered, broke down under grilling early — today and confessed that he had murdered an aged man, substi- tuted the body for his own and fled from the state in an effort to collect an insurance policy of $100,000, according to officers ‘ho questioned him, Manacled, handcuffed and closely guarded, Keis was placed by officers from San Joaquin county aboard a train, and by midfight will be in the Stockton, Cal., jail. : According to the confession, related to Sheriff Riecks and Dep- uty District Attorney M. G. Wood- ward, of San Joaquin county, Kels said his business affairs had become so tangled that he decided to drop from sight, after accomplishing his so that the insurance Money might be paid to his wife and his creditors satisfied. He intended to desert his wife and flee to Mexico, Kels was. quoted as saying, and was en route there when he was ree ognized by an acquaintance at— (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) EUREKA Quake Deat nese government of jured and missing as was given in the following According to the latest || the dead in the whole deva number of people who left is about 1,068,000, making Tokyo 1,000,043. ent date. population in Yokohama is government is now proceedi eral industry, banking and injured are 125,000, the missing are 285,000, The people setting up shanties which number $2,000 at the pres- In Yokohama the number of Americans — and Europeans are coming back and their present ” commodations for living have been com; hs Are Set | at 103,000 by Japan cent ORD of the first official estimate by the Japa- the number of dead, in- result of the recent quake, telegram received Wednes- day by Cuichi Ohashi, Japanese consul in Seattle: accounting, the number of stated area is 108,000, the | The | houses burned down or destroyed number 584, 000, the — economic loss will amount to a few billion yens, The | Tokyo since the disaster the present population of | aying in Tokyo are | v i ace d and. the © ng to rehabilitate the insurance business.” 130. The emergency Onna convicts fortified them: — selves in the dining room, keeping ADMITS MURDER