The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 26, 1923, Page 1

REJECT MAYOR’S CASH Dance Hall Charity Declined With Thanks The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington : The SeattleStar Entered as Second Class Matier May ¢ WEATHER )_ Fair i end Soturdey Mod- Temperature Last 14 Oth Maximum, 61 Minimum, 42 Today noon, 1897, at the Postotfice at Seattl*, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1919. Per Year, by Mall, $2.50 VOL, 25. NO. 209. SEATTLE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1923. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Would Help His Parents WASH., izard Dead STRUCK Howdy, folks! A Better Film association has been formed in Seattle, Its first move, no doubt, will be to demand that Charlie Chaplin use a finer grade of cus- tard ple, | . ‘The association should launch « campaign for the electrocution of all movie actresses who kick one leg up hh b im the alr when their Sweetie kisses | morning, }lecture tour, his heart ceased them. All glycerine tears used by film ao- | tors should be first tested by a gov- ernment chemist. . And, of course, the Better Film as-| sociation should “demand the death | penalty for goofs who read subtitles | out loud. | eee ART FOR ART’S SAKE | News Reels the manufac: | ture of jelly beans, the daisy chain | at Vassar, Mayor Hylan laying the | cornerstone of the Swiss Yodler’s| club Ss Passaic, N. J. peng? be de- | clared public menaces and deported te Les Angeles. . Everything has tts use, says Tom Corns sell more autos than auto salesmen. Yes, and corn has wrecked more @utos than the junkman, eee Seashe: “What's that record? Ife) scratching 90 I can’t tell the mef-| ody.” Scaze: “That's the Barber's Itch Blues, 'Af's why it scratches.” eee “Nothing Ike # deep, comfortable | Gavenport to make the evening pass | succeasfully.”—Ad in U. of W. Dally. } Amen! echoes Li'l Gee Gee, eee Gee Gee calls her divan “the dav. enport of missing men.” ee If Henry Ford runs for president, | there {s littie doubt that he will get | the unqualified indorsement of the/ Paragraphers’ union. | es AN OPEN FIRE ‘There are two ways to heat your apartment this month. One _ ls by turning on steam. Better way is to burn a match. eee Some men want to make a million | dollars, others want to become presi. | dent, but our main ambition is some | day to eat Philadelphia scrapple. | ee Florens Ziegfeld is going to dis-| continue hig “Follies” after the - present season. We should worry. : walk up Becond av oe We can atit| any efternoon. Li'l Gee Geo rays she wants @ job where she can get her weekly pay check every night. o 8 Bo that as it may, A. eer was ar- rested in Cleveland for a liquor vio- lation. . SPORTING NOTE “Police Fire on Mobs in Rhine Ignd."—Headline. Probably thought they were in Se- | cattle. ‘ Husband (as wife shifts gears)— ‘That reminds me, I must stop at the Boller factory on the way home. see oe eee The girl who wiles in the movies Makes my heart feel contentest;) But tho her charms enthrall me muchly, I'd Uke to meet her dentist! eee “. . , And widows are supporting thelr orphan children,” says an edl- torial in the Chicago Tribune. Well, it's not every orphan that has « mother. < Formerly artists made very little) money, but times have changed. Im- agine the fortunes now being made by the men who draw the whisky la- bels for the boctieg fades Moonlight golf is the latest fad, And it has its merits, When you get bunkered, your partner can’t see you | taking 15 shots at the bail. | wee In order to find the ball, it may become necessary to sprinkle it with Bay Rum. And it's easier to hit a golf ball | when its teed up, | a ‘The diradvantage of scenting golf) balls with Bay Rum fa that {t might: grow halr on ‘om, \° eae) @ There in just one more thing wel ‘want to write . (The End), Ad 8 | |—Death today ended the career | Charles P. Steinmetz, | ning laboratory, | enused Man Who Produced Thunderbolts Is Called Suddenly BY PERCY SCOTT SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Oct. 26 of the electrical down light wizard, who snatched ining from the sky and made thun derbolta do his bidding. As Steinmetz lay in his bed at his home here, at § o'clock this recovering from a long to} deat. “I feel fine today,” he said to his nurse a minute before the end. “I | will econ be up and around again.” A few second later his soul slipped away, | | HAD BEEN ILL FOR TWO WEEKS “His heart just stopped beating,” jaaid Dr. H. T. Groebeck The brain whicn had devised means of harnessing the alements | and creating “toy thunderstorms” In | laboratories wag alert to the end, | but the body could mo longer stand the strain which #0 many years of | Griving mental force had pat} {upon jt. Steinmets had been under the care of a physician for about two weeks. Lant Monday it wae sncizunced | he was steadily improving. This morning, accofding to re- | ports from the death chamber at | his home, he told bis nurse a min | jute or so before he died that he was feeling fine. ‘Without warning or sign he ture. | ed over in bed and died. WAS WEARIED BY SPEAKING TOUR Steinmetz, the hunchbacked little Gerinan, who became chief consult: | ing engineer of the Goneral Elec tric Co., returned October 13 from ” speaking tour which had taken him to many. parta of the United States, | As in the case of the | - | dent Harding and of Wood: son, he had overtaxed his strength | endeavoring to eee nll the people he | ‘was called upon to see and make all | the speeches expected of him. | His body began to crack under the strain when he made an a's to 3,500 people at Denver, Colo. Ae had expected to talk to 900 or 409, | and the larger audience made the | effort much greater. Altho he was fully aware of the| | weakness of his heart, he went thru with his program. Upon his return |to Schenectady, the exhaustion from which he waa suffering forced him to give up his work temporarily and take to his bed. He seemed to be showing steady improvement, and physicians were Much encouraged. As he lay in bed, physleally too weak to rise, his brain continued | working and planning new electrical miracles. Workmen were busy constructing, | on top of one of the General Blec: tric Co. building, a Steinmetz light- where the “wizard” intended to make the elements per- form according to his whim HE PRODUCED | THUNDERBOLTS In this laboratory he expected to eqntinue experiments with the} thunderbolts with which he start- led the world a year or more ago.| At that time in the. presence of scientists and newspaper correspon- dents he produced a miniature| thunderstorm, The lightning flash- | ed and snapped. Bolts darted from an artificial heaven 4 struck toy houses in a little village which had| been built to give realism to the} demonstration. | This, it was understood, was only the beginning. The idea could be developed and Steinmetz began de-| veloping it. He was deeply Inter-| ested in the progress of construc- tion on his lightning laboratory, a-top the building. When death came he was pian- ining on getting out of bed in a few days and resuming hin experl~ ments. The end was totally unexpected, | much #0 that no doctor was when the great scientist | 0 present expired. | Word that Steinmetz way dead | deep sorrow among husi- dreds of General Electric workers |who regarded him as a superman and looked eagerly forward to more n the near future. | econ K IMENTS ARE IMPORTANT Altho Steilnmetz'n feats with thun derbolts attracted the widest popular attention. he had other achievements which wore really more Important in the history of sacle He discovered “law of hyn torewin” This in placed firet in his (Turn to Page 10, Column 2) | 6, R, FORBES IS | granted an interlocutory | tho care of his daughter, HE Community Fund committee has turned down the mayor’s offer of $500, to be raised by a_ special levy on the “below the line dance halls Sun- day, when dancing is illegal, and of the girls’ and other at- tendants’ pay for Mon- day. A few days ago it was given out that a woman victim of the policeman’s wild street shooting might decline a $200 offer from the same source. Lots of money available down there, it would seem. And some elements of the community T Money Must Go Somewhere which don’t care to share it. May be others not so particular. ail AM ior the school teachers. I am for pay- ing them well, and I like to see them hold their conventions in D 4 our halt ga cilman esket| to 0 ou The Sy today. ‘ \ “But I am not in fa- Agree With vor of their closing ep the schools at this Hesketh? time of the year for two days in order to conduct their conven- tion. They only work five days a week; they ought not to cut that time down. “they work only nine months a year. It is during the other three months, the vacation months, that these meetings should be held. Our children are entitled to the full time that the district is paying for—that’s my belief.” 7 . > QNE year ago The Star inaugurated a thrift campaign. In co-operation with the Seat- 2 tle National bank, the paper offered to give $30 000 50 cents to any one 7 and every one bin would put a like Grows to amount a a savings account Ten thou- $1 53 000 sand, four hundred accounts, totaling $30,000, were opened in 10 days. Friday J. H. Miner, assistant cashier of the bank, announced that the initial total had in- creased 426 per cent in the year, the $30,0000 owing to $153,000. Only 600 of the original fo, 400 accounts had dropped out. “The Star certainly is to be congratulated for having planted the seed,” said Mr. Miner. “Tts campaign brought home to many a boy and girl in this community and to many a man and woman, the urgency of acquiring a start, a nest egg. The results have exceeded all expecta- tions.” U.S, MAY HELP SAVE EUROPE America Is Ready; World Awaits French Reply DIVORCED HERE |Wife of Former Vet Bureau | Head Given Decree WASHING! Oct, 26.—TThe fate of American readiness fully to ald in bringing about a settlement of the European crisis today again rest- Col, Charles R. Forbes, former dl- IN, rector of the United States Veter- who has been facing sensational charges of graft and} treachery at Whshington, D. C., sustained another blow to his stand. ing in superior court here a fort: night ago when his wife obtained @ divorce decree on charges of in human cruelty, it was learned Thursday. Mrs, Kate ans’ bureau, ed upon the disposition of France, | government, it was the sincere hope of high offiolals and diplomats here that a world: economic conference, participated in by the United Staten, noon would be o sincere effert at solving the repara- tions problem. The Hughes Britain Maréia Forbes was decree by Superior Judge Mitchell Gilliam. Forbes was directed to pay $76 a month alimony and $75 © month for who was huic ot Beoretary of to the government of Great definitely setting awarded to Mra, Forbes, Utmost care to Keep the identity of the people involved a secret was used by attorneys on both aides, (Turn to Page 10, Column 4) “CAPTAIN || BLOOD” to ald In a repafations solution, was hailed today as a great step forward in the long history of the repara tions controversy. ‘ This communication was regarded as ranking with the Hughes’ pro. (Lurn to Page 10, Colunin 1) POST? MARSH i SLAYER TRIAL LD, Ore, Oct, 26. the trial of pleted, Arthur Covell, Jorippled astrologernlayer, was post ‘TA crippled astrolor , pow PAGE 17 |poned here today until Moriday | Announcement of the delay was }made following a night conference Jof attorneys with District Attorney TODAY Wisher, who agreed to the postpone: 4 ment, Ati a Ay a As all eyes turned on the Paris! State | forth | America's willingness and readiness | With the defense case not yet com. | AL NCA ALAR ie DEAD BY VOLTAGE Boulder, Seizes Deadly Wire Instant death by electrocution resulted Friday to L. EB. Eng lish, employed In the Pacific Coast Co.'s mine Black Diamond, when he grasped a low yolt trolley wire on the ‘Miner in Effort to Dodge Crushing eighth level in a tragic effort to avold death from a falling boulder. | English was working | below the earth's surface | roof preciplt | |ward. The worker saw the rock | coming, and in a superhuman ef. | |fort to escape what seemed like| sure death, he leaped the | | sengwey. In his haste he grasped the trolley | wire to steady himerif ond was! |thrown to the ground, dead. | Othet workers on the level at-| tempted to give English. first. ald, | but thelr efforts were fruitiens, Al-| tho the trolley wire carried but }450 volts, death was instantaneous, | | ‘The dead man's fellow workers| [believe that English feared a cave. |{n when he saw the roof break and | the boulder start his way. He| | Jumped instinctively, they said, in} | his effort to escape. | An investigation of the circum- | j stances surrounding English's death | |was to be conducted Friday after. | jnoon by a deputy from the King| | county coroner's office, English im said to have been at- tended by Dr. H. L. Botts soon) after the accident, but the phy- |sician pronounced him dead. | The dead man ts survived by his | | mother, Mrs. George Hunter, and a |half-brother, Ray C. Swan, both of | Black Diamond. ‘START WAR ON VICE HOUSES! Prosecutor “and sagas Get Abatement Orders A campaign to permanently abated numerous hotels nnd rooming houses | thruout the city operated as vice | dens has been begun by the prose. | | cuting attorney's office with various | uplift organizations co-operating, ac- | cording to Deputy oe | | Schramm Friday | A permanent injunction closing a | large franve structure at 925 Wash. ington st., and declaring it to be & nuisance, was iasued by Judg Walter French in superior court |Thursday, Three other temporary | | !ajunetions closing similar places have been iesued, pending the final hearing of the cases. | temporary injunction against ay Yellowstone hotel, 12124 First jave., in the heart of the puble market district, ts in effect, accord. | ing to Schramm, Others are in. ef lfect closing the Menton hotel, enth ave. 8, and Weller st., structure at 1030 King st > |has been gathered on a nun similar Institutions, sald to dens, by Schrarom, and court action will be taken as soon as it can be prepared In closing on Washing ton at, Judge neh ordered that it stand Idle for six months and that a $3,800 bond be posted there: | ter to guarantee respect for the} 3,500 feet | A broken ed a boulder down- down | the pluce vened to make a} Today’s Want Ad |, Offer Star Want Ad many opportunities you want this one? offer Do columns dally | A NICH HOMID ONLY. $100 CARH and $45 monthly thereafter placiig people in hy time, because I gly I have on Tam all the terme, pom cottage and W-ncte, no cash, just $)h monthly, Better grab this it you want a home of your own \ ore tracts with each house; f room for garden and nj splendid Toeation | | More details about this home in (he Real Estate For Sale col umns, WAN SIDR | Sensational murder trial fusiness man, YOUTH FACES Russell Thaw, 12 BY BOB DORMAN ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Oct. 26— ‘There's a 12-year-old boy hare whd | doesn't tike to play. Gamer don't | interest’ im. Youth -telds» little jeharm: for him.” He is impatient "to grow up. He wants to make up for the suf- | fering of his parents, by the happl-} ness of his success. i Ho wants the world to think of Evelyn Nesbit and Harry K. Thaw, not as the principals of the. most of more) than a decade ago, but as’ the father) nd mother of Russell Thaw, re-| nowned surgeon. | . Young Thaw is living here in a ‘small apartment with his mother. “It js the first time in many,! many years,’ she says smiling hap-| pily, “that I've been able to have) ‘him all to myself. For most of his! |time has been spent at my mother’s jm upstate New: York, “But now at last I'm in position to} take good care of him. And I hope we'll never, never again be parted.’ sone they. won't—if Russell has his | y. Hix mother’s unhappiness | seems to have made his love for her the greater, and her attachment to ‘him the closer. oe Each night. before she Jenves for TAXI DRIVER IS | UNDER ARREST « Charged With Robbing Pass- enger of $1,000 Captured by three detectives after he had been accused of robbing a passenger of $1,000 cag) and a check for $135, A. E. White, 50, a taxi griver, was taken to the elty jail at 3:30 a. m, Friday and held for inves- tigation, Erie Lavine, 43, an out-of-town declared that he had taken the taxi and was going to- ward West Seattle, when White sud- after threw him out at} denly stopped the car, and, | taking his purse, Fi and Spokane et detectives, R. C. Wat L. Williams and T, G. Mont.) arrested White half-hour | later, at Occidental ave, and Wash: ington st, ‘They. sald they found La. | vine's empty pocketbook on. tho rear | seat of the taxi, Lavine also was | held in jail, ax a witness against | White, rst o ‘The thre son, J | gomer | | PRISON TERM PORTLAND, Oct, 26,—Sentenced to three years’ imprisonment at Mo- Noll island, Frank Laws, 2l-yearold Sodro-Woolley youth, was awaiting transfer to the federal prison from, Portland today | Sinoe he was 13 years of age Laws hax stolen 14 machines, bis operd: tions extending from Britieh Colum: | Ma to Los Angeles, officers declare, In September of thin your he excaned from the Skagit county Jull at Mt! Vernon and topped his previous rec: ord by riding away in the #horif?'s auto, his record discloses, |crash of glass and ran s | Tipp, owner ofthe store, her work as hostess in, cabaret, Evelyn Nesbit oe) over her son's lessons. “He's Lead Of hip claga,’* ate ‘ayn, proudly, “aud the tenhers tell ime he is, one’ of ‘the’ Brightest pupils they ever “has,”” When she Ys sure that bis work is complete, she, puts him to bed, en- thusts his care toa maid, and goes to her work. “But l never let my work interfere with his bringing up,” she says. “He comes first, above everything else. In, the afternoons, while most children are playing, Russell waits ‘on the physicians of a hospital. They jet him watch some of their opera- jtons. It's his greatest joy. “He Keeps on dreaming,’* says his }mother, ‘of the time when he will be able to go: to .médicd] school” arid become a great surgeon. Perhaps | | by his: alleviation of. pain, he will! | make up for the suffering of human. it © small brunt of which I have borne, THROWS BRICK, TAKES JEWELS: Thief Gets Away With $3,000 Loot on 2nd Ave. Throwing a brick thru the plate glass window of the Ben Tipp jewelry store, 1408 Second ave. early Friday morning, an unidentified yegg hastily cleaned out the window, taking jewelry which may total as high as $3,- 000, and made his escape. Patrolman E, H. Daye: ral blocks to the scene, but arrived too late to prevent the thief from escaping, Ben was called and, after an inyestigation, said that his loss might run into four figures, He was unable to make a com. plete check of the missing articles until later in the day, The robbery, which occurred in the heart of the downtown district, took place at a.m. heard the} 2:55 | C RESORT. MONEY Against Spirit of | Work, Is ; Brown Says Ae * confi Funds collected. from the Sun- day night dances south of Yesler way are not suitable for use Be! the great , humanitarian . moral work that the pple ; Fund is doing, sccording to the unanimous opinion of the Big — Givers’ committee of the organ- ization. | A resolution gently but firmly | Jecting a contribution proposed Mayor Brown from the dance | girls was unanimously passed by committee Thuredsy evening. | fund offered by the mayor has b collected from the dance halls’ Sunday nights. The resolution ed by the committee follows: “Inasmuch as Mayor in his commendable desire assist the Community Fund a liberal gift from taken at Sunday evening halls, “Therefore, pe i © eA the general co our bs mayor's. interest, the gift be not Nt this action ‘be t of harmony with the spirit uplift of citizenship. for this fund exists.” x lL. M. Colman, one of active business men in the ¢ drive, is chairman of thé gen committee. The committee of between 35 and 50 of the’¢ most representative busines®) 2 civic leaders. Particular objection to the 4 sion was voiced on the jeround thet the fund was {thru operati‘on of the danes [illegally on Sanday nights, the Mtee said, Mayor Brown said Jtnat the action of the committee’ (Turn to Page 10, basics AUTO CRASH IS FATAL TO MA Car Overturns: Dies Later in H Peter Keller, 58, injured auto accident at Ninth aye. 8. | Massachusetts st., Thursday: noon, died in the city hospital o'clock Thursday night, as @ of the crash. Keller was riding with his W and George Ostapchuck. Mrs. was bad.y bruised and cut, but Ost chuck, who was driving the car, ¥ unhurt. The driver declared |noticed something was wrong Wi | the car and when he started to si |to investigate, the auto o | injuring two of the occupants are investigating. Ruth Hardy, riding with’ Peggy Kremer, 137 32nd aye, Jout about the face by broken | Thursday, when Miss Kremer’ | chine collided with a truck driven) *. A. 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