The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 6, 1923, Page 1

‘DOUGLAS CHARGES | JURY TAMPERING! racts, res of ito en- sts. WEATHER Fair ton Moderate winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 54 Te ‘Vv OL. 26. aNd. Home ane Howdy, folks! This much can be said for tho Seattle man who drank « bottle of perfume yester- day, He didn’t have to chew cloves afterwards, eae should spaghetti be cooked?” asks a correspondent. Abqut 27 inches, we think. “How long A prim young man deyond compare) Ts Archidaldus Carter; He merely says, “Well, I declare!” Whene'er he dusts a garter. PPAR i Wednestay. tat to southeast Minimum, 41. noon, & Batered as Second Clase Matter Mi SE |DANCE HALLS ARE DEFENDED ‘Mrs. Harris Tells! Dancer Tells Man University of Washington git are| Why Girls Are. |. -How to “Get It taking up arch: Well, they ought to be good. They're all experts with beaux. eee THEATRICAL NOTE Tho revue at the Metroplitan this | week is entitled “The Original Dumb- bells.” No, it was not named after the city council, ays the human 000,000,000,000 | Perhaps this explains why men are #0 frequently {iuminated. ‘We're nothing more than a group/ of electric batteries, and most of us| indictment are always belng over-charged. see Senator Medill McCormick says the Cvolidge administration 1s com-/ posed of a bunch of lotophagol. ‘Well, our. city administration ts; pretty doggone lotophagolsh, too, o. ‘The wrestling gamé has been! started again in New York. No sense | in the oll stock salesmen getting all | the money. eee CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB The neighbor who returns the garden trowel he borrowed last | May. | eee | “We have no beer in Chicago, says an American league official in| that city. Yes, they have no beer in Chicago. they have Scotch, rye, bour- bon, brandy, gin, champagne, port, chiant!, sherry and all kinds of cor- Gials, But they have no beer in Chi- cago, they have no beer in Chicago} today—Jack Roper. ee Film studios at Hollywood are closing. This may give Angeles divorce courts a chance to catch up. soe Whree-quarters of a man’s energy, says Dr. Mayo, is spent without his knowing it. And the same Is true of his salary, | if he’s a married man, “0. TODAY'S DEFINITION . . ‘An apartment is a place you can’t] get into without first taking off your | wrist watch, AXIOMS: People who houses are generally ADDLED live in glass florists. eee When you come right down to it, the cheapest and best car for general »burposes is the water wagon. oe. The dittere difference between lunch @ j ee and luncheon is that the first Is | something to eat and the second | is @ salad. % Latest Income tax figures show only 21 men in United States with an income of $1,000,000 or more. The lawyers evidently are beginning to understand the income tax law, one Church notice in the Manchester Géngland) Guardian: Services at 10:30 a. m. Subject: “The Three Great Fail- ures.” Chotr, Sermon. Pipe organ offertory. rE he Statistical Sam estimates that 98 | per cent of the useless conversa- tions begin with the query, “Gotta match?” eee St. Louis baby, two days old, has her hair bobbed, Probably when she is a for 25 bucks to get a permanent wave, @ otis YE Diany (November 5) Waked this morning between 6 and by iy canury, which whistles as well m ever I heard any; only it begins ma: tunes very well, but there leaves (he nnd gore ip further. And so to the of fier, wheré I did find » clear sent mo from the sheriff's office, and It Is two feet long, and made, 1 think, of hemp. ‘Thence home to supper, where « little, angry with my wife for minding nothing but the movien, she having attended two this afternoon, which iw folly. Ad. Be the Los | ie j | | arin, week old she will bone daddy | With a Kick” By Jack Hall So Thirsty By Fielding Lemmon IRLS who work in the dance HREE In and three sailors sit halls below Yesler way, Sun- | at a cheap round table, A day night dancing, and the prac | few fect away a girl and a man oo- tice of policemen “making money | cupy one on the side” were defended Mon- | A smug, day night by Mrs. Elizabeth aches tho Harris, supervisor of dance hall brothe matrons, in an address before of trying the Commonwealth club at Dart | sor 3, Bo a sport aid nall's cafeteria. 'f jolt on that tray. Insistent questions by the audi | “It can't be done,” is the walter’s | ence, fotl-wing her address, reaulted| Answer, Ho leaves the pair and in Mrs. Harris returning a sweeping | Waits on the sailors and their against public play- | friends | The girl sburp-eyed waiter lois couple, says the man. whispers In the man's ear: “Ask him for wine —don't say anything about wanting a stiff drink. Ho has beer with # kick In It some- times, but not tonight. But the wine Is okey. One night he sold stuff that gave mo a real party on one bottle.” ‘The walter returns, “Made up jyour mind yet?" he anys, eyeing | hia prospective customer wartly. | of |. “How about a bottle of wine?’ | : | Ventures tho man, winking. The | | walter procures a small bottle. ‘The | }man paid the waiter $2.50 for 11 | fluid ounces which the container | | held "Not much punch tn th the man’s verdict. |GOTTA BUY MORE ||TO GET THE “KICK” “There Is {f we drink a couple of | | bottles,” the girl says. | The beverage disposed of, the j Walter returns and offers to bring Jancther. ‘The man declines, with jthe remark that the alcohol per- centage in low. | “Of courne, it Isn't whisky," the| jwalter retorts, “Hut it's a good with more alcohel in {t than | - ed | this'§ per cent tuft you get In oth. Mrs. Elizabeth Harri s,|er, places.” supervisor of Seattle dance}, 7%, timo and place? That hall matron. doesn't matter much; for the scene . described was énacted under the | Supervision of tho city government, grounds and the movies, declaring | With a policeman at the door and |that ‘both were more dangerous’ to|® matron, officially appointed, |the morals of young people than the |!ne that nothing amiss might be- | denen bikie: fall the girl or her companions. ; However, In case anyone {a inter- Reee Garice bale end. the 64067! sre: the: walter’ and the’ girl are| girls ‘below the line’ are both misun-| é |numbered among the workers in | derstood and misquoted,” Mra. Harris) thy Troamiand dance hall, om Fifth jdeclared. “I agree that possibly the | £ pr i ave. 8, and the man in the question | surroundings are not the most destr- I uate the place shortly bef 11 able. Personally I do not approve|” e bagel Aaah olock Monday night—the same jof such p but they exist, and! night sre. Blisabeth Harta, dance |the situation must be met in the Samide ae [hall supervisor, best manne yossible.” ee. tnall’s cafeteria of the Mrs, Harris spoke of-all classes ot yk the gases alle” ase dance halls in the clty, but confined} plishing | the most of her remarks: to eet After making a date to meet the qeelow, te ney: | girl, he drank with after the dance, | tere we haye a situation that {s! the’ man left. lentirely different from any other| At the door, where the police- j class of dance halls,” she said. “The! man stood guard and took tickets, | sitls do not dance for amusement, | two saflors, obviously drunk, wero but to make a living. And they are! “outside looking in” and berating able to make a fair wage, possibly4 (Tarn to | 10 Page 9, Column nd) $25 or $30 a week, amheonons POWER STATION that she is not a good girl. That | is a wrong idea. Of course there are | girls down there of the underworld, but’ the dance hall {s a means to keep them from a worse life, MANY ARE MARRIED AND HAVE CHILDREN ae “Many of the dancers in theso| Eastlake Plant Suffers Loss halls below Yesler way are married ate hak ; of $15,000 | to support a family; others to help — thelr husbands along. I know one| Fire, which was caused by a of those women who has two adopted| short circult in a 10,000-kilowatt babies and is working there to sup-| generator, created great excitement | port them. She is always afraid that| in the city light plant at Eastlake people will find out the babies are|ave. and Nelson place early Tues- adopted. She wants that to be her|day morning. secret. {almost totally destroyed with a loss are stranded in the city and find that te extinguished by employes of thy | the dance hall is a salvation for they| plant and four companies of city can make a living in a respectable manner,” The generator Mrs, Harris declared that girls who! smoothly when, | work In these places are not of the| suddenly short highest mental type. hu, | “We have a few high school tecently 1 took a census of the girls, inquiring as to*their age, place of birth, education and religion. | The girl who works in the lower dance halls gets half of the ‘money | she takes in for dancing and 40 per ent on the soft drinks she persuades (urn to Page 9, Column 4) —Photo by Grady sne-| uplift accom wis running at 4:05 a, m,, It cireuited and the mployes of the plant turned in genera] alarm and then seized fire extinguishers which they used in a vain effort to save the expen sive plece of machinery which, how: ever, was a total loss, The burning of the generator partly crippled the big plant, but did not interrupt the clty light service, The fire did not spread and no ono was injured, women. Some of them are working “Then there are some girls wholof $15,000 before the blaze could aduates, but not many," she sald.| a aide of a amaller square to down your| arry) told an audience at | The generator was, firemen, } ny 2, 1899, JATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, HOMO BARBARENSIS IS QUITE AN OLD TIMER YANTA BARBARA, Cal, Nov. \6.—Homo Barbarensis, the ata Barbara r skull wan discovered recently by Prof. J. P. Harrington, lived 8,000 years ago, in the unanimous opinion of Harrington; Dr. Ralph Arnold, formerly with the United States ke cal survey; Dr. CRester tock, of the ontology depart: mentment of the University of California, and Dr. Wilson Meade, An anatomist of Yale college. Further excavations will be started immediately In a search for further similar relics, accord Ing to Professor Harrington KLAN OFFICER Atlanta Attorney] Is Shot Dead by Faction Leader ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 6— Capt, William 8. Coburn, chief counsel for the Ku Klax Kian forces headed by Willian Joseph Simmons, was shot and killed here late yesterday afternoon by Phil B, Fox, The murder took place in Coburn's office, Fox was arrested and beld for the crime, Fox, a publicity man for the Klan and editor of the “Night Hawk,” jofficial Kian organ, was a leader of the faction headed by Hiram W. Evans, impertal wizard. Authorities were informed today |that Fox had planned to kill other leaders of the insurgent forces of the Klan organization, peror Simmons. Dr. Fred B. jot staff for the Simmons faction, said when Fox called at Simmons’ |home Sunday gl ho said: | “You, Simmons, Y Clarke and Bill Coburn are tiated to go.” Simmons was not at home at the | time, Johnston said, and he backed “He tried to kill sald. Fox shot Coburn to death while |the latter was in his office dincuss- Jing a ctyil sult with Mrs, Oscar Hey- man, Cleveland, Ohio, Last week | coburn appeared as attorney for the insurgent faction, endeavoring to have a receiver appointed for the Klan because of alleged mismanage- ment by the Eyans organization. | TWO WOMEN | WITNESS CRIME |. Mrs. Heyman and Mra, W. A. Hol |brook, Captain Coburn's stenograph- ler, were the only eye-witneases to the |shooting. Fox entered the office and asked to speak with Coburn on a personal matter for a few minutes, the two women said in statements to police, Coburn asked him to re- turn in 30 minutes, | Then Fox walked out, but imme: jdiately reopened the door and, lean. |Ing against the jamb, leveled a re- | volver and began firing, police sald, | The first shot struck near Mra, | Heyman’s elbow, glanced on the desk land struck Captain Coburn in the jface. He screamed and attempted to rise, A second shot struck him, knocking him back in his chair, and in rapid succession two other shota were fired into his body. slumped down in his ¢hair and rolled over on the floor, dead, Office attaches and persons passing the office, attracted by (furn to Page 9, Column 4) me,” Johnston Mrs. Wanamaker Is Granted a Divorce PARIS, Nov. 6.—A decree of di- vorce has been granted to Mrs. Vio- let Kruger Wanamaker against Rod- man Wanamaker, it was learned here last night. Guts NEW YORK, Nov. 6,.—‘That's news to mo,” Mrs, J. Frederick Tams, mother of Mrs. Wanamaker, sald when ‘informed of dispatches from Paris announcing her daugh- ter had been granted a divorce from Rodman Wanamaker, Friends f the couple, however, were not surprised and said they had been living apirt for some time, were married In London In casing was enveloped In flame. | \Thanksgiving Day | Fixed by Coolidge WASHINGTON, Nov. 6,—:Presl Jdent Coolidge — te issuet his Thanksgiving proclamation, dealg- nating Thursday, mber 23, a the national day thattkigiving at the Postoffios at Seattle, Wash,, MURDERED! including Em.) Johnston, once chief) | Fox into a corner and disarmed him. | Coburn | under the Act of Congress March 3. NOVEMBER 6, 1923. 42 MEN BURIED | | Blast Shatters W. Virginia Shaft;! Bring Up De ad’ | | ‘Twelve bodies have been recoy- | ered from the pit of the Raleigh- | Wyoming Coal company, Glen- rogers mine, near here, which | was wrecked by an explosion | this morning, according to a statement issued at noon today by company. officials, ‘Thirty men are believed still entombed, the statement said, Sixty-five workers went down | the main shaft of the mine at | dawn, | ‘Twenty-three mado their way to the surface soon after the blast. They were uninjured, Mine officials expressed graye | fedra for the fate of the 30 men who have not come up. Ftescue squads wers making head- way thru the debris in the mine at {noon and weveral more bodies wero being extracted, the mine officials | said. The cause of the blast has not |been determined definitely, but it ix believed to have resulted from a pocket of gas collecting far back in the mine, | Wives and children of the | men who earn their living far | below the earth's surface pre- sented a scene of decpest trag- edly as they gathered around the mine shaft. Showing plainly signs of the privations which have been their lot, due to the irregular operation of the mine, they bore up bravely under their gricf. The 12 bodies, many of them bad- |ly mangled, were brought one at a time to the little group at thé top of the shaft, . Lift Falls; Three Coal Miners Killed MIAMI, Okla, Nov. 6—Three coal miners were killed today when a lift-in the “Lucky Bill" mine, nine miles north of here, dropped. A fourth man was {njured. The dead: Emmett Gillian, Al- bert Marney, Walter Wallace, Mechanical defects in hoisting ap- paratus Caused tl the accident. JEWS FLEEING FROM BERLIN! Refugees Torn and Bleeding | From Riot Attacks BY GUSTAV M. 0OEHM (United Press Staff Correspondent) BERLIN, Nov. — 6.—-Anti-Jewish riots which at times threatened to develop into an actual raged in Berlin thruout the night and continued today in many parts of the city. At noon a police report sald that there had been 100 individual cases of plundering during the night, ond that such outrages were still going on in a greater or lese degree, Hundreds of Jews, many of them with bloody wounds and torn gar: ments to testify to thelr mistrent. ment, fled In panie from Berlin this morning, These refugees, stumbling and tot. toring, many wailing and others evi: denly dazed at what had happened. Joined in a great exodus, spurred on py the distant yelling of mobs. Jewish “money bootlegeers” were caught in the Tauengzienstrasse and when forced to undress, American dollars and English pounds were found hidden In their underwear, col lors and hatbands, At 3 p,m, police estimated the number of shops looted in the city at 1,000, Jews were held up in tho (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) |YEGGS BLOW | IN MINE pogrom, | The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington he Seattle Star 1879, Per Your, by Mall, $3.6 BANK VAULT| Frightened jthe outer away after doors of th men early Tue tempted to blow ope the Edison bank, blasting vault, four y morning at- | the vault of 12 miles north of |Mount Vernon, according to word reaching here. ‘The men departed in an automobile in the direction of | Seattle. | Descriptions of the robbers are sue. The report to the King county Jailers at 3 a, m. Tuend said that the nitroglycerine charge |had only blasted the outer doors of the strongtox, and it Is not be. Heved that the monetary loss of the 2dison bank is great. LEGION PLANS | | TO SUE PAPER | Claim ‘Editorial in Sumner Publication Libelous Louls B. Schwellenbach, past com- mander and present legal counsel | jfor the department of Washington, American Legion, Tuesday declared |he was considering the feasibility of filing @ civil libel suit against a Sum. her newspaper, following a conter- ence over a recent editorial which told of 400 legionnaires at the San | Francisco convention in hospitals from, the effects of alcoholic poison- ing. Department Commander Hinton D. Jones, to whom the matter was com- municated by the members of Louls Gill post, American Legion, of Sum. ner, Tuesday issued a scathing de- nunclation of the editorial, alleged to have been printed during the lat- ter part of October. He character jized it as false, dotrimental and a| malicious attack on the world wat | Veterans’ organiaztion. | Whether or not the American Le- sion convention can bring suit is the |!emal question bothering Schwellen- jbach. He was Tuesday endeavoring | to determine the legal status of the organization and its ability, as an unincorporated body, to be a party to such an action. The editorial, challenged by the | Sumner legionnaires, declared, Le- gion members say, that “from letters | | recelved from San Francisco” it was | |learned that 400 visiting legionnalres | Were in hospitals, 200 were blind and} one dead as the result of “bad! booze.” The editérial also wondered why the news had not been included in press dispatches. A wired inquiry sent to the chief of police by the Sumner post was janswered, according to departmental |{nformation, with the assertion that not a single Legion convention dele gate had been taken to a hospital suffering from drunkenness or pol soning during the progress of the meeting. Report jae Girl Missing From Home Sylvie Dedow, 17, was reported missing by her parents Monday. The girl left home Saturday night and bas not returned. She lives at 3300 E, 65th st Policewoman A. Sorenson Monday found Lena Bristle, 17, who escaped from the state school for girls a week azo. {Geraldine Farrar Is Seriously Ill EMPORIA, Kan. Nov. 6,—Ger- aldine Farrar is seriously i with » Jcold and 1s confined in her private cay here, She hay canceled dates to appear in concert since the mid. dle of last week, including engage: nts at Topeka, Kansas City and | Emporia. \criminal cases had been ap- |was probable that he will dismiss Two CEN! TS IN SHATILE, SHANNON CASE IS PROBED BY PROSECUTORS Veniremen Visited by Mysterious Man; Frame-up, Declares Attorney for Doctor, in Statement BY JOHN W. NELSON Evidence that members of jury panels summoned for the November calendar of proached by interested per- sons before reporting for jury service was uncovered Tuesday by Prosecuting At- torney Malcolm Douglas. As a result, Judge Calvin S. Hall has petitioned Presiding; Judge Everett Smith to lay the matter before the coming grand jury for a thoro in- vestigation. Prosecutor Douglas, following his investigations Tuesday, declared it the entire calendar of important cases for November and have them reset at a later date. Amorg cases of importance, Douglas saya, whicb were to have been. tried by jury panels are the Dr. W. A. Shannon narcotic charge and the trial of Winifred Gibbons for manslaughter. Deputy Prosecutor T. H. Patter-| son, selecting the jury for the case of the state versus Floyd Scanto, questioned the jurors on whether they had been approached by any- one concerning cases to come up before the November term of court. It soon developed, Patterson sald, Tuesday, that at least half of the jurors had been so approached. Ten out of the 20 who were ques- tioned admitted having been talked to by a man giving the name of Whalen and were questioned con- cerning their family physician, their religious belief and thelr knowledge of the Dr. W. A. Shannon case. C. W. Jewell, one of the jurors, said that a man named Whalen called at his home on the pretense of buying soem property, and then inquired if he knew anything about the Shannon case, Patterson charges. The man ts then alleged to have declared that the doctor was a victim of a “police frame-u Eloise Llebes, a woman Juror, de- clgred that a man named Whalen had called on her and requested the name of her family physician. He | said, the woman declared, that he/| was representing the King County Medical society and was trying to find who was the most popular doc- tor in the city. Then he told her| that Dr. Shahnon had been the vic- tim of his own generous spirit. SAID HE WAS CITY EMPLOYE ‘To still another juror the man Whalen represented himself as being employed by the city and in another case as being employed by the state, according to Prosecutor Douglas, Douglas (declared Tuesday that he had received information several days ago that efforts to tamper with the prospective jurors were being Boasts of Paid La By John Carson WASHINGTON, Noy, ‘Tele: phone rates have, gone up year att- er year, Folks have protested, but almost invariably the Bell company has appeared before some commis sion and got authority to Increase the rates thru a showing of smalt earnings on the Investments, Now we have a little different story, ag told to the associated bankers of the country, by David iF, Houston, president of the Bell ot prayer and! streets and their clothing ripped from Telephone Co, “There is, practically speak- Tells Bankers of 11 Per Cent Dividends Phone Company Head Big Profits st Year Ing, no competition. It is, in ef- fect, a nation-wide monopoly,” he said, “Tt has always pursued a sound and conservative business policy. It has always retained a considerable part of its earn: ings in the business—in 1922, 20 per cent of the associated earn ings of the associated compa. nies, “These companies — earned them, 5.6 per cent on their in- vestments, and they would have hod to earn only 4,7 per cent to (Turn to Page 14, Column 8) jcase of made. He immediately began an tn vestigation, he said, and gave In- structions to all of his deputies to make inquiries of the jurors them selves. The present jury panel re ~ pored for service Monday, and the Scanto was the first criminal matter to come before them. Scanto fs be- ing tried on a grand larceny charge. Douglas declared that some siight evidence has been uncovered that efforts to tamper with the grand jury panel were under way, He said one of the grand jurors had called him up land reported a telephone conversa- tion with an unknown person upon the Shannon case, and Dougias is in- vestigating the theory that the grand jury may also have been approached, JUDGE HALL’S LETTER FOLLOWS Judge Hall's letter to Judge Smith af follows: & “This morning, while selecting Jury to try the case of the State vs. Scanto, several of the jurors stated that they had been approached and talked with concerning a certain criminal case that will come up for trial this month. “This matter should be given the fullest investigation and if there has been an attempt to influence jurors, those guilty should be prosecuted and punished. I have asked Major Douglas to make such an investiga- tion and, with your approval, Dring the matter to the attention of the grand jury, which will convene shortly. He has promised to do so. I resvectfully request that you call the attention of the grand jurors to this in your instruction to them, Attorney John F. Dore, counsel for Dr. W. A. Shannon,) Tuesday — declared that. Prosecutor Douglas was attempting to evade trial of the Shannon case this month, “He doesn’t want to try the Shan- non case this month or any month,” Attorney Dore sald, “Dr, Shannon doesn't need any assistance from the jurors, He was acquitted in the minds of the public the day aft. er his arrest. The whole communi ty was incensed at the frame-up: that the state first arranged, and for all I know this may be another frame-up of the same kind. Any this importance causes” much conversation in the communi- ty, and it seems natural that the jurors talked to people concerning the Shannon case.” “I know nothing of this matter,” _ Dr. W. A. Shannon declared Tues- day, when informed of Douglas’ charges, “I know of no one by the namo — of Whalen and this is the first that I have heard of any of this matter.” READY TO SELL POWER TACOMA, Novy. 6.—With arrange _ ments completed for the purchase of — additional power from Seattte cyer — the inter-tie line as soon as the Skagit project is finished, the Ta- coma city light department will be able to serve all outside commi unities: with electric lights starting In March of 1924, Light and Water ts sioner Ira H, Davisson anné today, 3 Look These Over! Tonight's Want Ad columns of- fer many opportunities for the people who are looking for homes, SNAP—COUNTR 2% acres, near ee 1 partly furniah ood place ie os B Ct finish