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

A | i RAGOUUEMREMRALAGILSUSUESERENLSALOSEOLOUIN ER THAT RANKS FIRST TESST TERETE sROAGELESAAULEUGULGULSUUGuaSuituuguaHOecteSueSUtOUEMMUSULSUISNASUASIGEINEUGEUOHEGESLaIES I TEED TEESE PE TERRE TATE THE TETRA} FEET HEE FOIL DAYLIGHT 201, THOME ERETION,| Phtered as Ap: Se Class Matter May SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, The Seattle Star at the Postofticn at Seattle, Wash der the Act of Congress March 3 OCTOBER 17, 1923. * TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. Sf Alaska Canneries Censured | by Special U.S. Grand Jury Howdy, folks! the head eddyhow. Dab a cold id This Gost day to Dr we can wait run ove ardly r somebody! driver whe greater att . but the i will pay | approac e radiator, may expect be tofore, on cr ngs, it has to @aw out now want to treat siter, Little Homer | e ny 50 @ lot of warts that n n. | "TIS AN ILL WIND | On account of a 4-mile gale, street cars were unable to run | early yesterday morning. There's no use talking, we've got to equip those ears with sails! For a time it looked like the schoo! authori would have to suspend all} classes. When Littl Homer Brew, | dr. learned that car service was re- stored about $:30, he exclaimed, | “There Ain't No God You never can Co out with Gert That she don't get Her feelings hurt. —Cincinnati Enquirer. We never like To go with Because —Charleston News and Courier. We never do Go out with That she don't, dan With another fella! The main cause for divorce has never been used as a plea in a cour ot law. It is: Leaving the top off the toothpaste tube. we like about baseball There is always ng EE, TH’ OFFICE VAMP, SE { Automobiles don’t need non- | | le@kid tires so much as non-kid | —s new passenger 2 operating between Seattle and Victoria, you can be sure of one thing. If anything happens, the cap- thin will go down with the ship. ar The me this we ut 1,000 marks in the = THUG TIED UP BY PAIR SPIRIT 8 Masked Man Given | Rough Reception When Demand- ing Payroll By S. B. Groff The bravery of J. H. Manik editor of the Wallingford News, | and H. V. Didrickson, manager of the Metropolitan laundry, | 244 Pontius ave. in battling a masked bandit who field up | Didrickson in the laundry office at noon Wednesday resulted in the capture of the bandit and saving the laundry payroll of $1,500, bandit, Arthur C. Raymond. 2 shoemaker, entered the offic shortly noon and pulled a pi tol from h pocket, which he level ed at Didrickson ui Manis, w at the aaa Ray white handkerchief ur hands and hand Raymond snap; were astonishe t, thought he was bandit repeated the command, and, under the menace of | the pistol, Didrickson reached the cash drawer and handed out a} box containing the payroll money. Manis suddenly lashed out with hig fist, knocking the box | from the bandi hand and | sending the gun clattering to | the floor, Didrickson and Man- iy followed up the attack with a savage assault on the bandit. A desperate fight took place, in which the two men finally over- powered Raymond, who fought with the ferocity of a tiger. The thug was tied hand and foot, and the door was locked, while Did-| rickson called the Raymond a squad two men plice taken motoreycle He was to the city refused ta} meeting | publication's $2,500 award for a gen.| unless conditions there ahow.an ime) uine, proved demonatration ‘of such | medinte improvement, it was learned | jmaychic phenomena | Mrs. today, | mentally TESTS IN DAYLIGHT! | cientists Are} “Impressed, but! Not Convinced” | | Oct clentints “impres but not apparent production phenomena by | yastor of the} at Cleve-| YORK, by ° paychtc H. Stewart, pendent chureh, im Bird, ate © lentific assoc American, con periments tainly fore mag tw. consider “mpirit. writing requirements . of ht ld be necessary be would Stewart's the as the Stewart was in “seclusion” | Bird sald, keeping heraoit | receptive for additiorn! | ja to be held thin week, probably tomorrow | Bird indicated the committee of|!f necessary | distinguished lot of convincing before it would |rioters if repetition in | ing: aclentista which 4 Mrs. Stewart. produce mes pparently written by the; 4 of another world, still needed willing to believe the medium ac. in touch ge the dead. | STAI wa sta were made in daylight, | garden at the home of Mra. | 1 Wayburn, Bayside, Long Is-| They came after several un-| comstul attempts indoors, Writ included messages from the| te William James, who was a not ed into | | Secretary Davis Is | c |from here by alrplane for Chicago |this mornin: |Lake City | Pilot Bishop to Rock Springs, and from there took the train last| | nig Weather have been perfect thus far and Davis expects \time after an uneventful | more th tinent ologist, of Harvard untver- | ‘(rurn to Page 9, Column 5) Flying to Chicago| HEY E, Wyo, Oct. 17.—See. ry of Labor Davis was to depart yavia made the flight from § yesterday with Air Wyo.,| ht for Cheyenne. and flying conditions to reach Chicago in good alr cruise half way across the con. ‘WOMEN, GIRLS *| Commerce -| | HUNGER MOBS ARE MENACING Clashes Continue as Leaders Are! Seized by Police|Dope, Disease, Insufficient Inspection, | Poor Food, Low Earnings of Men and) SANITATION BAD, MANNHEIM, Germany, Oct. 17.—One man was killed and sey. | eral injured in nevere rioting be- | tween police and demonstrators here last night. Police fired on the demonstra tors when they refused to obey an order to disperse Patrols passed thru the streets today forbidding all gathering». BY CARL D. 1 Press Staff BERLIN, Oct, 1 German foderal government Is preparing to Use drastic meanurey aghinnt Saxony fy Star’s “Hell Ship” Articles BY LELAND HANNUM salmon cannery owners, contractors, workers and federal inspectors are involved in sensational and criminal charges of the fall grand jury at Valdez, Alaska, included in a special report which may come up for action at the next jsession.of the grand jury, sitting October 25 at Valdez. The report, submitted to Judge E. B. Ritchie, deals prin- ‘cipally with-canneries to the*westwardeinethe third judicial OAT otrexpondent) today ‘The military dictator atready has} been ordered to proceed with dissolu- | tion of the so-called “red hundred” | ‘ IN SPECIAL REPORT 0} companies aur Tt te indicated he wil use soldiern|| © NNERIE! | That many drug addicts e and large amounts of nar- coties find their way to the can- neries and become a grave men- ace to the health of the public . ALASKA, GRAND JURY BRISTOL BAY SALMON CHARGES OF VALDEZ unloading undesirables on Alas- WILL ARREST ka. Berlin officials were ordered today | use sharper measures against ot yesterday's | {demonstrations are attempted in de- fiance of the provisions of the lim:| [ited state of siege. Arrests of some of the ringleaders yesterday's demonstrations are eding and authorities ordered ce today to arrest women and girls if they lead the way in the riots. City authorities must pre- serve order by force, it was directed |if they are unable to prevent distur: | bances by providing bread. ? Government reports from the oc (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) That there seems to be no * provision made for prevent: bringing in firearms into the country, That cannery employes « were forced to supplement their rations with purchases sold them from the commissary (“slop chest”) at exorbitant rates, resulting in many being indebted to the companies when the sea- n Was over, That the contracts the 1 ¢ Workers must sign before leaving the States puts them at the complete mercy of the Ori- ental contractors and that slight infractions of the rules result in penalties whieh consume the wages of the men, That there never bas supervision to insure cleantines: purity and wholesomeness of the canned product exeept in the ers in Pacific coast cities to work rare cases of decayed fish being in the canneries, resulting in condemned. PUM ESOS EP EE, SAE SPREE AE LS and reports similar condi- |tions to those described by Max Stern in The Star a year} ago, in a series of articles about life aboard a “hell ship.” to That men make a business 2 Of visiting the canneries and indulging in loathsome prac tees, = That workers infected with « social and other dread dis- eases pack the fish in cans v the hands protected only by cot- ton gloves. That there seems to be no « provision for the inspection of bodily health of men who handle the fish with their hands. That food of poor quality and Insufficient amount is furnished the workers by the canning companies. ‘That food strikes, resulting Gs cam ta praclicn havare sulted in the killing of one man and wounding of two others, That there is a common « practice of releasing prison: Col. Roosevelt Is | Invited to Seattle Theodore Roosevelt, assistant | of navy, who is now at tending the Americ an Legion con- | vention at San ncisco, has been invited by the Seatth Chamber of | to visit Seattle on his| return trip East | Roosevelt guest of | about three eyears ago and made a host of friends in this city | who will be glad to have him come | division, particularly Bristol bay here again. Col secretary was a Seven Defendants | Other Findings of Investigators Veri- Et IS CHARGE MADE HE STAR is going to print, as its next fie- tion serial, another best seller, “Captain Blood,” by Rafael Sabatini. Peter Blood is a redoubtable buccaneer, ca) tain of the great ship Arabella, terror of Spaniard and undisputed master of the waters of the Spanish main. In reading of his conviction on a high trea- son charge and sentence to slavery in Barbados, his eseape on a pirate ship, and of his sea fights. and desperate adventures as a freebooter, the most seasoned novel reader will feel’a thrill hes has not experienced since boyhood dreams -of> * pirate ships, Spanish gold and piéces of eight. YOU WILL LIKE PETER BLOOD’ FOR HIS FIGHTING SPIRIT AND FOR THE KINDNESS SHOWN THE OPPRESSED. WHAT WAS HIS REWARD? Next Monday the story will begin to onfoldes in The Star. STREET CARS CRASH HERE! COUNTY BOARD Two Men Seriously Hurt in Accident on Elevated Lafe Hamilton's Ss Job Causes New Turn in Road Row By John W. Nelson Action to enjoin the board of * county commissioners from con- tinuing the expenditure of. pub- lic funds on the construction of the rge R, Peck ‘road, be- tween Kent and Des Moines, on the grounds that it js illegal and a waste of county’ money, was started in. superior court Wed- nesday by John” Downey, a farmer of the Kent district. The Two men were severely in- Jured and dozens of passengers thrown into @ panic Wednesday morning, in a spectacular street. car smash on the elevated rail way at the foot of Dearborn st, A dozen passengers were. more or fess bruised and shaken’ by the collision. Both of the cars, one an Alki, other a the ‘auntleroy,, were traveling Prev alence of narcotics and narcotic addicts among the |ciose together, londed with the early to Be Witnesses | cann , Widespread epidemics of sex d ses and| morning rush of passengers’ to the FORT. WORTH, .Tex. Oct |bad séuial practices, lack of health and purity inspections | “tY- cn a anaes 7 alveac 6a stop ven defendants who pleaded gull |to safeguard the internationally-used products, and contract |; Wapiti lad Be Fo uN suit was filed by Attorney John F, Murphy. Accorditig ‘to the complaint, tn which a temporary restraining order basket in |Draft Indictment a Ballard church, 1 eS a} R ‘ Oden: tigueraidehite, ‘REPORT SIX for Gov. Walton Rye liquor’s red, A shot of either Puts you in bed. o- velop many heroes, no doubt, but hone more worthy of praise than the cheer leader who carries on when he gets a stiff neck see CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB The gink who is disappointed when no name of an acquaintance appears in the list of victims, see “Did you read that editorial in the | e writer didn’t say.” oe has resigned as British | You can send those knee breeches out to us, George. We've got to look snappy when we play golf with Gene Hatton | see POLITICAL NOTE The Prince of Wales may come king of Canada, says a London newspaper. Gosh, you can't keep these dirt rs from running for of- | ceive this rd can become king of Ii we care—so long as he of British Colum Canada fc makes us bia viceroy The av He “For ‘ator’s passenger, a shout; ered, “you ~ gave a joyou once,” he sce a man “Who's glad he's down jar sits §8 a ae eA Rh ede etme Se ete A I SEES AR ENG SET LORE IE INU REY t football season will de-| leal energies w MEN KILLED) { LAKE CITY. Oct. 17 reported to have in a cave-in, Utah-Apex mine, Six lost ate the ¢ The against Gov. J. C, drafted JOktahoma. legislature today YKLAHOMA CITY, Okta impeachment — indictment Walton was being today by two members of house of representatives of the Oct. 17 |defraud in ty to charges of using the mo nection with oil will be used as governm: witnesses in the trial of Dr ick A. Cook, Harry Zwelfel, prosecutor, announced today x | nt r federu sales Folks more Vv YORK, to Oct aren't | F sleep any and ing | pretty soon man’s going to find eight | hours on his hands that he Arthur won't know what to do with. Cot ntor, has tell ton, 24-year-old English in over to these shores to Americans 80. “All life Is electri “and sleep is merely a time the body is generating new ith whieh to earry on sible to come he says when its work. Soon it will be work all day, take a shot of electric: ity—and go right on, just as persia as tho you'd had a whole night of} refreshii slum! Beds will come obsolete,” | The gloom with which bed spring and. mattress manufactur will re announcement can well be r, | imagined. For Mr would like to 8 he pala} Mountbat and #0 spect) Is] Cotton (one call him Arthur, but it see with Lord Louis Prince of Wal to be treated with re orking on his invention right now. « that, nobody around ten and the certain is he of it ; the (ime when will sleep any more, he hart made phonograph attachment that'll play a dance record without sucee anticipatt wlread, }to his alarm clock | | | | | | ited 's to/and food conditions of workers at the Bristol bay plants eae ‘are all set forth, and in many respects condemned. | ince Many members of the pres ent panel will perhaps not be ent when the grand Jury assembles |(ctoner 25) “the 11 men and il Asan n of the Alaska district form: the September grand jury, beg Inventor Is Working to Abolish Sleep | stopping. dancers. That, however, is only one of the Ittle trifles This to please all-nigh with which England's foremost mechanical genius When he was 16 and a boy at Eton he m: an attachment so that when the waked him shut the window and stopped itself, At night it pulled | the shade, lit the light, lit the fire | and opened the tea cupboard. Then he invented device. for | dropping bombs from airplanes and | England promptly took the 16-year. old boy from school and put him in} the service of the admiralty. After | the war he went to Cambridge. jusiness houses have offered him| salaries varying from $3,000 to $150, clock went off pulled the blind, it | 000 a year to turn his uneanny gen Arthur Cotton | FS to their account to play ius tere tions “The hody,"" But Cotton pre around with his inven he says, “is surround hy the same sort of aura that | from a magnet | ‘The body Is continually giving off} electrical energy. As this | foct Ix taken into account we will be able to dispense with sl vent disease and prolong WW means of electricity.” soon aK all by « rea uannarteaaeeeis: pre: | e to submit this special report upon certain matters ‘set forth, which we believe require tead the findings Conditions in Bristol Bay clal sport found “appalling, and on ccount of the character of labor mployed and the conditions exist. in many of the canneries, the ) government is put to the expense of | many thousands of dollars, which, in (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) (HIRRY o— (98 wes mise (ia axe Pee ee eae DAY 2 ‘ 5 (ciiadce i cous Tet | Dace Foareen bitceay “CALL ME ANYTHING ER </\ 0) | BUT AN EX-COP,” IS i ee |\ THIS MAN'S DEMAND T mind being called a r, but I'm doggoned if 1 want to be referred to as a former policeman.” It was A, L. Dickey, one of a trio bound over for investigation by the federal grand Jury, spe ing. Dickey. with | Mrs Bronlow and Marvin Rode “ 1M GETTING SLEEPY MY BATTER must Dk Run ooWwN } f prohibition a charge of pos ealled The Star test because he had been men tioned as having at one time | served on the police force ay cnything else you want to, but don’t cull me an ex-police- man,” was Dickey’s parting shot, officers: ing liquor ‘Tuesday He to pro: No More Yawns ee action,” | the spe. | rhead stations:, The Fauntleroy plowed héayily into the rear crushing its front and wreck: d*ot the other, car. pussen, 36, of the Co, and Harry Alki ave., an nt, who were standing on the rear platform of the Alki ar, were pinned between the end of the con: ductor’s cage. to the city hospital, | possible in | ena, Wilkins 1 pal. injuries, while Rassmussen's foot-was hurt. | Street tw offic and, the police started an’ irivestigution’ of the accident immediately, The two dam: | aged street: cans -were takeh to the | Georgetown warns, ©, J. Christoferson, motorman. of the Alki car, w An h was struck by the other, was absolved of any blamo| Wednesday by D..W. Henderson, su- perintendent. of the municipal rail: way. Henderson, after.an investiga- tion, said that Frank Ff. Van Dusen, motorman on the Fauntleroy. car, Was running too close to the rear of the oth trolley Henderson declared that he must probe the matter farther before tak ng any action in the Van Dusen: lives aye. Business Men of Pendleton Killed | ore. und thelr overturned on the highway Wes and Athena yestor: | Bentley and Wifred Davis, | business men, were almost instantly | kitted, Oct. auto li when it between 8.) was asked, the road ‘and a’ bridgo are being constructed according to the. ideas. of ‘Lafé. Hamilton, road ‘upervisor in the South district for Commissioner Paul.» County Engh nee Thomas R. Beeman said that no- plans for the bridge have been ara os by his office, - hearing on the application ‘for a ambien order was set for oad ja. m., ‘Friday. | Construction work on the bridges {and sapproaches was started in Sep- |tember without the job being itd. |Vertised for bids The work is being done by Commissioner Paul — jand Lafe Hamilton on force ac j count, the same plan followed "in {Tura to Page 9, Column. 4)) || DO. YOU WANT ONE OF THESE. This ts one of the, Want Ads | that appear in tonight's | Ad columns Boren | They h | y latest style of decorations | fixtures, and differ on | floor plan, size and price, ‘The location Ix ideal, with wonder fal viow of Mt Rainier and t |} Olymptes, and ont: walk to ‘Woodland park, oné= half block lo Phinney car. If | you will calh— Many more bargains found in the Want Ads, can be