The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 17, 1924, Page 1

d Blame Mexican Rebels for U. S. Naval nies NINN lit tonight « ing Friday; + Rein Temperature Maxi 43 Today Howdy, folks! (Can you see the headlines from where you are? Aren’t they cute? e+e A headline is supposed to adver- tise the most important event of the day. But why Mayor Brown calling Malcolm Dougias a liar is an {mpor-! tant event, we don’t know. ere! 8 Our idea of an important news story would be: “Janitor Reforms; Promises Apurtment Heat! = ee We hereby tssue a challenge to the editors of Sunday newspapers Fee. ‘ublish a rotograyure section with. t a picture of a bathing beauty! M. Coue is back in the United States. Ha! good joke He doesn't know his place has been taken by Ma Jongg! ee LULLING THE VOTERS TO SLEEP Politicians rent the alr With heroic; ha! him! ‘But yor the smoke has cleared) {time |night. One driver was Satled after | | his machine had rin down a giri) |and narrowty missed seweral other It's toning ‘paregoric. —Vaughn Woodhouse. oe Apple growers in Eastern Wash- ‘ington are going to co-operate, ac tording to a news item. The first Co-operation between apple growers ended dismalty, both of them being fired out of Paradise. - ee The United States cruiser Tacoma, @n raute to Mexico, has gone on the rocks. Nobody can sy the navy isn’t doing its bit to carry out the terms of the disarmament treaty. cee We hope the chamber of commerce the “City of Destiny” is alive to {ts responsibilities. They ought to stop these newspapers from printing the headline, “Tacoma on the Rocks.” se. ‘There {s only one way to save our ships. Move the coast line three miles Inland. aoe Wall Street has figured out that Henry Ford makes $67 on each car. Now let Wall Street try to figure | out what the garage men make on each car. a oe —_—______& LI'L GER GEE, TH’ OFFICE | VAMP, SEZ: Fook Some people's idea of raising | a baby is to teach it never to, swallow a safety pin without | first closing it. The latest genius to be locked in a padded cell is the fellow who invent- ed a motometer for Franklin cars. ee Here lies Mary Jane—but not alive, Bhe made her Ford do forty-five. eee Among those also violently op- posed to this roadside petting in parked cara is the gasoline trust. oe After observing a few Woodland park petting parties, we have de- vised a new name for the scenery it there. Obscenery. ees ‘Papers claim # San Francisco mu- sician lived 60 hours with a portion of his brain gone. That's nothing; look at our janmitor—he's nearly 40: years old. “oe Seattle girl sues railroad for $25,- 600 damages for the loss of thr» toes. That's more than $8,000 for each toe, Toe much! eee CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB _ The slick fetter who still says, “23-—Skiddoo!” . The Star js running a series on “How I Made My First Dollar.” We have no hesitancy in relating how we made our first dollar. We stole it. “* Malcolm Dougias says the grand jury will soon adjourn. Gooa! we can again risk the chance of dropping a raisin in a bottle of grape juice. oe -~ ee MY SWEETIE lere’s to MY SWEKTSU, her neck is sv long use it to hook my radio on. Her eyes are pale green, her nose) full of crooks, But she’s got money—so with her looks! “os to heck There {8 only one reason why we disbelieve that these champion prize- fighters wrte the newspaper syndl- cave articles credited to them. The spelling is too good. A. J, 8 WEATHER Then | t Fr < ee to fresh y winds last UI Minimurns noon, 39. 36. AUTOIST INJURES WOMAN!) ° Man Arrested as) Reckless Driver After Hitting | Pedestrian F the 72 traffid cases on the police court calender Thum Judge John ined fous - drivers, ases and d bail, No drunken drivers were tried as they wero scheduled for Thursday after. noon. Two men, charged with reckless driving, were gtven con- tinuances. 0 were called. Gorton continued six 40 to forfeit Two women aod a man were vic- of attcmobiies Wednesday | pedestrians on crowded Second ave. | Miss Laura Erickson, 940 N. s0th | was crossing Union st. at Sec» | ond ave. with a girl friend when ® large auto, sald to Bave been driven by J. W. Dantes, under. taker, of 4441 California ave., struck her and carried her 25 feet on the fender. The other girl amd a young | man, H. E. Renwick, Rexmer hotel, who was passing, jumpect aside just fn time to avoid the auto, Th girl was taken to the hospital, where her bruises and other in- Juries were attended. | Patrolman G. C. Jensen arrested | Daniels and drove his car to the} station. The brakes om the auto} were absolutely weless and Jensen |had great dofficulty in driving the jear, he reported. Daniels was sid | jby* the police to have been drink: | jing. He was charged with reckless | \driving and later posted $100 ball. | Mrs. Harriet Starkey, 7601 16th} lave. N. E., was knocked tenconscious jwhen she feil from a motor stage at | |B. 80th st. and Bothell way, strik' her head on the pavement. Sho was | |taken to her home by the driver, H. | E. Barton, 3705 W. Austin. Barton |reported that the woman opened the door of the car before it came to a} stop and fell out. Pete Manugin, a logger, was} knocked down and brulsed at Fourth | ave. and Washington st. by a car driven by G. L. Falrbanics, 706 N.| 63rd st. Fairbanks failed to get! Manugin's address, i FLEEING POSSE THRU BLIZZARD Alleged Murderer of Two Pursued by Bloodhounds | | PUEBLO, Colo, Jan, 17.-—Confi-| pent that they will capture Louie | 4 Donati "dead or alive’ before night. | jfall, a large force of officers from Walsenburg and Pueblo, led by a tpack of bloodhounds, pushed their jsearch far into the hills of San Isabel today. | With the mercury at Pueblo reg. jistering 8 degrees below zero this jmorning, Sheriff Hom Thomas ex- jpressed belief that unless Donat! was well supplied with clothing he may have frozen to death. Primo Bertogii, captured in| Pueblo early yesterday afternoon, has confessed his part: in getting Donati, alleged murderer of Chief of Police Jack Rose and State Pro. hibition Officer H. BE, Robart away from Walsenburg, Donatt is wanted for shooting the two officers when they conducted a raid on his shack in Walsenburg |Tuesday night in gearch of Illicit liquor. “Poases are well supplied with clothing and food and won't return | without their man,” was Thomas’ confident prediction, “We are pow itive we are ox the right trail as it} was picked up by the bloodhounds | at the point where Bertogll con. |feased he let Donati out of his ma chine.” No further word \s expected from the mountains until this afternoon as posses have wandered far from the beaten path. Wherever Donat! may be cap. tured he will not be returned to Walsenburg, at leant at this timo, officers said, ax a lynehing tn feared, ‘the rallroads for putting plenty oi The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington Entered as Second Clase Matier A Gull’s-Eye View of Seattle: £4) wouctey! May 2, 1899, at (he Postoffice at Seattle, SEATTLE, W SH., AM GROFF, of The Star staff, was asked to draw his conception of how downtown Seattle looked to the circling sea-gulls, Sam proved gull-able enough, as this drawing that he turned in indicates. Says Sam: “If THURSDAY, JANUARY Wash. 17, 1924, under the Act of Congress March §, 1679. The Seattle Star Ver Year, vy Mall, _ ByS. B. Groff S. B. Groff 300 WEN Sie TB: Grover i'm to believe all the wise cracks that the politicians and would-be politicians make and the tips that the cops and the crooks hand out, and the headlines I read in the papers, this is it HOLDS UP HELP FOR APPLE MEN Banker Refuses to Bare Re- lief Plan Except to Growers | BY JIM MARSHALL, YAKIMA, Jan. 11,—Isaac D, Hunt, Portland banker, threw a bombshell smto the convertion of apple growers and bankers, assembled here, when ee refused te) make known tho so- called “Hunt plan" for the relief of! growers. He called fora “convention of growers With no one admitted ex- leept one presentation of their cre dentials at the door.” Hunt flayed the delegates as “only sellers and their representatives, “If I had a plan, I wouldn't pre- sent it at this meeting,’ he said. The upshot is that probably noth. ing will be accomplished and that a growers’ convention will be called at some future time. The advertising committee lald out a plan today fora general North. west advertising campaign for boxed apples, the expense to be met by a box assessment. The transportation |cornmitte backed the carriers’ re. |auest for fourth-section relief now before the interstate commerce com- mission and declared that tariffs on fruit are now higher than the indus- try can bear. A reduction in west- bound freight “Iso is asked. A resolution was passed praising cars at the disposal of the shippers this season, DEMAND THAT FRENCH QUIT YAKIMA, Wash, Jan. 17.—E. L. Trench, state director of agriculture, refused to take seriously Thursday the demands of the Clarke County Prune Growers’ association that he resign. They accuse him of fight ing co-operative organizations when they conflicted with private busi- nees deals. Wrench ls here attend: ing the apple growers’ convention, | He is an avowed candidate for lleu- tenant governor and probably a gubernatorial candidate, He mid, "I refuse to join my fel: low prune growers of Clark county |because they are organized under the Sapiro plan, which im not cov operative. £ presume this jy the cause of the trouble, I am in favor of cooperation.” Governor Hart, who t# also at- tending the convention, did not take the demand se paeuny LONDON, Jan, 17.—Delegates representing 626,000 coul minors voted today to terminate the exist ings wage agreement with the own- ers. 1 BY JIM MARSHALL YAKIMA, Jan. 17.—"If Wash: ington produces a ten miliion box crop of apples in a year and sells it for $1.25 a box, While Oreron produces 1,250,000 boxes at $1.68 a box, how much more profit does Washington make than Oregon?” Questions ke that are going to be incorporated into school textbooks in the state within a few months, Governor Loula F. Hart told The Star here today. ‘The governor, when he gets thru with his governing in a few months, is going to rewrite the ntate's school textbooks, he sald. And he is golng to make every textbook a piece of booster liter. ature. “It we can't sell the state to its present people,” he said, “then by thunder we'll sell it to thelr children!” California. schoo] textbooks are full of state propaganda, the MEXICAN ARMY READY T0 MOVE: Cerrano Announces Advance of All Units Soon BY ALFRED G. B. HART (United Proas Staff Correspondent) MEXICO CITY, Jan, 17.—"A sim: ultaneous offensive on all fronts will go forward in a few days. You will see immediately tho overwhelming strength of the government,” Gen- eral Serrano, minister of war in the Obregon government, informed the United Press today, President Obregon today tele graphed to the United Press from the east front: “Thousands of 458 bought from the United States arrived today, By tomorrow we will have eight fight: ing pluncs ready for action, We have gas but we will not use It, “T have no fear for the outeome, We have munitions, Joyal troops, all the neceawary funds and a@ righteous cause," The Mexican foreign ministry ex: pressed satisfaction at the American warning to Adolfo De La Huerta that the embargo at Tampico must not interfere with legitimate com. merce and added that Mexican offi claldom “never Was so appreciative as now of the United States’ con structive Mexican policy,” § i " Pan Hart to Write School Texts When Term’s Up | governor said, and recited in- stances where arithmetic prob- lems were stated in terms of booster statistics. He declared the effect on young minds was immensely beneficial. In his geography primer the governor is going to incorpor- Ate questions like these: Q. “Where ia the greatest naval base in the world?” A. “Bremerton, Wash." Q. “Where are the finest ap- ples on earth grown?” A, “East of the Cascade mountains, in Washington.” Q. “What state has the best climate A. “Washington.” And so on and so forth. ‘Phe governor put his prospec- tive job before many bankers and apple growers gathered here at the Pacific Northwest Con- gress on Apple Marketing and was promised backing. Ambassador Child Says He’ll Retire ROME, Jan. i7,—Amertcan Am- bassador to italy Richard Washburn Child announced today that he is definitely retiring, In accordance with arrangements made with Pres. ident Coolidge. Child will sail for New York from Cherbourg, January 26. PANAMA CANAL PROVES VULNERABLE TO HEAVY CALIBER NAVAL GUNS ITH THE ATLANTIC FLEET, COLON, Panama, Jan, 17.--Two main developments stood out today after the first day of maneuvers in the great naval war games now under way here to test the defenses of the Atlan. tic entrance to the Panama canal, These are: First, an enemy fleet, lying 15 or 20 miles off Colon, armed with \Gineh guns, would be able to which arg seven without danger from the shore de- fenses, the largest guns of which are 14-inch rifles, which would be outranged 10 miles, miles inland, Second, enemy naval sircratt could only work at a great disad. vantage since they would be forced to find a base for opera- tions and at the same time have to face the attacks of defending alr squadrons, | FIRE ON SHIP IS CONTROLLED Silverado Will Put Into Astoria for Repairs PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 17.—The steamer Silverado, which sent out SOS calls for help early this morn- ing when a fire broke out in her hold, reported by wireless to the Fed- eral Telegraph company here that the fire was under control at day- light. The vessel arrived at the mouth of the Columbia river at 8 a. m, The tug Swallow, from Astoria, which went out to the relief of the vesnel, was standing by. The Silverado was en route to Se- attle from San Francisco, but will check over her damage at Astoria before proceeding, according to the message. STORM RAGES ON ATLANTIC NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—A 70-mile- an-hour southeast gale, the worst January storm in the 62 years’ his- tery of the weather bureau here, raging for six hours last night and early today, caused six deaths, in- jured more than 30 and did much property damage. Distress radios were recelved from three steamers off the Atlantic coast. One man died of burns he received when he stepped on a live wire which had blown down in Leonia, N, J. Automobiles killed three men. A Sal- vation Army worker was crushed to death when a wagon upset on him in Manhattan, Early today the storm had abated entirely and the weather showed a gradual chang’, to fair and colder, ar) THREE PERISH IN COLD WAVE CHICAGO, Jan. 17.—Three persons were killed by street cars here in a} blinding snowstorm that —aceom-| panied the second extreme cold wave of the season in the Middle West. The mercury stood at five below zero early today in Chfcago, while in re- gions untempered by the Great Lakes, temperatures of 10 to 30 below were recorded, Practically every train in the bliz- zard-struck area was running behind schedule, Snow and sleet covered tho tracks. George S. Castle, 40. John Green- lin, 70, and Malick Haughton, 28, were killed in different parts of Chi- cago when they walked directly in the path of streot cars, In each case the victim was blinded by. heavy snOW, Cause of Acci- den to Warship | GALVESTON, Tex., Jan, 17. | —Orders of the Mexican rebel authorities to extinguish all light- houses and lightships in the vi- cinity of Vera Cruz to hinder trade with the Obregon govern: ment were today believed re- sponsible for the wreck of the United States light cruiser Ta- coma, which was still fast | ashore. | In the dense blackness of the | storm-swept night early Wednesday | it {s believed the vessel strayed from }the main channel of Vera Cruz har- dor and crashed onto the jagged rocks of Blanquilia reef. The Tacoma, hard aground, was being lashed today by heavy waves, according to. radiograms picked up |by the Fort Brown wireless station {at Point Isabel and relayed here. | A tug from Vera Cruz, prevented from reaching the vessel by the mountainous waves, is standing by. The steamship Allegheny has been ordered to the vessel's ald from Pensacola and the United States cruiser Richmond was plowing thru the guif to her assistance from New Orleans. The Tacoma carries a crew of 300 men. She was dispatched from this port several days ago to protect American interests in the rebel head- | quarters of Adolfo de la Huerta, eee WASHINGTON, Jan. 17,—Navy jofficiais fear that the cruiser Ta- jcoma, aground near Vera Cruz, Mexico, is a tctal loss. A dispatch received by the navy Gepartment early today said the cruiser was yvirtually’on its side with three of {ts four compartments flooded with water. No information as to the crew has | been received, PORT ARTHUR, Texas, Jan. 17. A tug was working alongside the Uv. the position of the vessel, which was rejorted filling in advices picked up by the Port Arthur wireless station today, The ship is on the Banquilla reefy near Vera Cruz. TACOMA WOMAN SHOT IN HOME TACOMA, Jan. 17.—Police were searching today for a man who at- tempted to murder Mrs. Hylma |Sturhing, 32, in her home here shortly after midnight last night. ‘The unidentified man fired a shot thru the glass window in the door, the bullet entering her left shoul- der, Mrs. Sturhing was conscious when Police officers arrived, and did not appear to be suffering great pain. Docks Lost Thru A ° Devastating Fire ASHLAND, Wis., Jan. 17,—Fire which swept the Northwestern docks here last night, causing dam- age estimated at between one and two million dollars, was under con- trol today and all danger of further spread of the flames 1s believed passed, More than 250 persons assisted in battling the flames. Firemen la- bored under great difficulty due to the severe coid weather, Want Ad Car Bargains Here is one of a number of good used cars that are being of- fered in tonight's Want Ads: enn 1923 DODGE TOURING Almost brand new; driven 3,206 miles; original cord tires like new; not a mar or serateh on car; equipped with bumper, $20 motometer and bar cap, spare tire, shock absorbers and spe- clal easy riding s prings. Rides like a Packard, §745, Turn to the Used Car columns and see who is selling this little car. TWO CENTS. IN \Bttadkeg talsts, okt Coast Held as) 8, 8S. Tacoma in an effori to ease N SE ATTLE, SUDDEN SWITCH 1S SEEN ‘Prosecutor’s Pro- gram Apparent- | ly Upset; More Evidence Sought | By Jack Nelson Plans to return sweeping indictments against members of a so-called Seattle liquor ring went astray Thursday when the King county grand jury failed to make its ex- pected report and began sub- poenaing witnesses again. Altho according to au- thoritative court house re- ports the indictments had been all outlined and the ma- chinery for returning them was held in readiness late Wednesday, a sudden switch of tactics on the part of the jurors completely. upset the program planned by Prose- cutor Malcolm Douglas. The jurors adjourned until Thurs- day morning when preparations to perform the indictment routine was again made by Prosecutor Douglas. | Both Deputy Prosecutor E. D. Col- vin, who is directing the grand |Jury, and Court Reporter Arthur | Royse were dismissed from the jury |room while the jurors took up con- | sideration of the contemplated in- dictments. For more than an hour the jurors debated the proposed indictments with no one present from the prose- cutor’s office. Colvin spent the time in conference with Prosecutor Douglas. Foreman James McCabo finally called Colvin into the jury room, Then suddenly the indictment plans were apparently dropped and the jury resumed its work of in- vestigating liquor cases. A num- ber of subpoenas were issued and turned over to Sheriff Matt Star- wich to serve. Three witnesses were called and one was admitted to the jury room. Dougias refused to comment upon the sudden switch in grand jury plans. It was rumored that no indictments would be returned at all Thursday, and possibly none Friday altho it is understood that j Several, far less than had _pre- viously been indicted, were ready to be returned. Lack of evidence to warrant re- |turning the indictments, it "is be- | Heved, upset the plans, tho Douglas refused to ci TEST LEGALITY OF GRAND JURY Demurrer to First Indict- ments Is Argued Whether the entire work of the present King county grand jury will be wiped out thru legal technicality and all of the 77 indictments, as well as others te support which evi- dence has been gathered, invalidated, depends upon the outcome of a de- murrer to be argued before Judge Otis W. Brinker Friday. The demurrer attacking the valid. ity of the indictments was filed. by y W. A. Gilmore on behalf of C. P. McCormick and Sam Gen- dron, indicted for being common j Samblers, More than a week ago. Gilmore charges that the indict- ments are invalid because Arthur Royse, a court reporter, was present in the room during consideration of | the evidgnce. Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas maintains that the indict-— ments will stand, as Royse is a regu. larly appointed deputy prosecutor, who ts in the jury room to take notes of the proceedings for the prose. cutor’s office, Attorney Gilmore claims that the case already has been decided by the state supreme court when a decision refusing to pay the salary of a ro. porter who served on a King er! grand jury some years ago was hes handed down. The two casey are , Adentical, Glimore claims, a