The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 19, 1924, Page 3

a® | @ e y SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, WARSHIPS WAIT | ORDER TO MOVE overnment Shrouds Mexi- can Plans With Secrecy BY A. L, BRADFORD (United Press WASHINGTON nof s J heavy ¢ onter ¢ Mexican polley The decls h to Mexican waters warshit™ M on that be sary to prc ~ nes tect America Whether that earried out or wh: has been all high offict refused to Say | From Secretary Hughes town, of fictals said there nothing can give now omething h of the government was we od late yesterday ¢ the plan to Je of Tampl- with Amert send American warst he De la Huerta o causing interfe can commerce. The could be mentary others conce! oil Interests with heavy holdings in field of Mexico advised tate action. that frag officials and Americar only sort of explanatic ded i the wers of 4 was that thereat cerned recy immediately nment official adopted an attitude of strict s MEXICANS TO CROSS STATES AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 19.—Acting Gor. T. W. Davidson today re 4 decision not to permit Mexican} federal troops to cross Texas terrt-| tory and announced that 2,000 Mext-| can troops would ‘be perm‘tied to] cross from the New Mexican state] line to El Paso, a distance of 19] miles, | His announcement followed receipt | of a telegram from Secretary of} State Hughes, In which the latter} declared the government would ap-| preciate it if the Texas executive would grant permission for the} troops to enter Mexico via El Paso because of the of the ua tion. Secretary earlier request that the troops be llowed to proceed as far as Laredo. | The national government, Secro-| enc }Of course, was ¢ ton bank, and two years ago 192) — 1 4 Sam Rathbun, Dr. Lippy Mention BY J. R JUSTICE { eo NOW pronpective candidates the city council were discovered yesterday And that rood work, In try induce some of those to go down and three new ones were to leht. | I talking with a man who has tho matter of a big, well-round council very much at heart. We! had gone over a list of names and | had given it up, Just as I caving he said ‘Sam Rathbun to try it again was a going pretty about al day's 5 to eady discusne the pht was) might be Induced Ho ran two yee ago and made a good showing, tho he did not get there.” I had known of Samuel F, Rathbun | for many years, but had not met him. After trying for some time} to locate him, I began to Inquire among those who do know him. everybody who has been long knows that he was at one treasurer. Before that he nected with the Dexter Hor time city the council. ed tn other | now sted | a very good run f And he has been interes! public mat Me ts san Investor | CITIZENS AGREE | A GOOD MAN who knows him at Rathbun ts a} Very depend. is Man of the con | Servative order, and one liked by all] who know him same specifications, another, fre eral persons. then I learned that in one line, at least, he ts a specialist, Ho im sald » know more about the birds of} Washington than any other man. He knows their coming and gong, their! names and their habits. So that it has come about that any one who| well. I got these] in one form or And Wants information about birds con-| American legion. sults Sam Rathbun. | Let those who would have him| make the race, call him up and teil| Crew Prepar hree New Prospects for ‘City Council Discovered Beeler and T. S ed for the Job him so And you may him if he wants to learn more about birds, this fsa rare opportunity, Fe will find specimens of birda coming and joing at the elty hall, that never knew existed. A this: Tell Another new name that came up Was that of T. 8, Lippy, Mr, Lippy needed no introduction, but it t» al Ways interesting to hear what a man’s friends say of him. Well, they gave Lippy a good report, One man sald: “Tom Lippy mado a fino commissioner, and wa started, If ho had b it would have be the Port of Seatt Another of the fow against who brethren tion, He no port only getting on kept th n a good thing for sald that Lippy was one wealthy men of the city not even tho socialixtic had a word of condemna aid that was probably be ne could him of ving taken his wealth away from some one else. Ho got it out of a hole in the ground up in the K dyke, in the early rush. Mr. Lippy is tnvited to give some serious thought to the of running for the council. And please remember there timo to be lost OVERSEAS SURGEON ALSO SUGG! And the third up yester was Beeler. Fi has shown considerab municipal affairs, and opinion his friends that i¢ could arr his business to in with the work at elty he would lent ter isn’t any new one to show Dr. George W rs Dr.'E inte it many y hall make coun cilman Dr. Beeler went geon with one of and ts much oversees as sur the flying corps, Interested in the He in now com. man { the University post and THE SEATT (ES LE STAR NEW INDORSES days of the gold is said to be very popular with the veterans, es Dirigible for Flight Into Arctic Hughes moaitiea is! Men Firm in Belief That Shenandoah Will Cross Pole Without Disaster | Even under a Golden Rule administration it takes time to Mayor Yakima, shgwn here thinking up new ways to discourage | clean up a city, admits { HE'S GOLDEN RULE MAYOR _ ANTI-GUN BILL Postmaster - General Sug- gests Few Changes WASHINGTON, Pont master General Harry Y dorses the principle underlying Rep: John ¥, M for prohibiting transmission of firearms thru the in a letter recetved today by 2 The r a Jan, 19 resentative er’s bill mails, from neral sug New. ented vhich M at once mado, ew's chief suggestion was that re volvers be placed under the non |matlable classification rather t that separate legislation for bidding | mailing be passed He suggested one exception under which @ person wishing to receive a revolver by mail might secure a per mit from his local authurities, to be forwarded to the sender, and to be pasted on the outside of the package containing the revolver, Miller’s amended bill is now before the postoffice and post roads commit teo of the house, and with the en dorsement of the postmaster general Miller in exceedingly hopeful of fu vorable action, DU BARRY WILL LEAVE STATE Granted special permission to leave the stato by Federal Judge Je Neterer, Count George Hay du B: under federal indictment on bonds of $1,000, was to leave for California turday on a business stay of 60 days. Du Barry pleaded the urge of business as the motive for his pro posed trip, and promised to report to District Attornsy Thomas P. Revelle y two weeks in writing during his absence, and also agreed to re rm within the Umit of 60 days if Du Barry was indicted by the re cent grand jury for sending ob. scene literature thru the mails in connection with advertising a form of salts which he claimed would re- store vitality to run-down persons REGISTRATION GOES SLOWLY Precinet registration is progressing | slowly according to reports to City | Comptroller Harry W. Carroll. It is feared that not more than 20,000 names will be added to the registra tion list during the period the book are in the voting places. They were taken to the precincts Friday, and will be brought back Saturday night. Widespread doubt as to the neces- William B. Dudley, of| tary Hughes stated, will see to it) WASHINGTON, Jan. 19—In mak. that proper safeguards are taken tO/ing a filght to the North Pole the bootlegging. hurst, It will be Iate in May early in June, however, as June and or Batt Photo. sity for registering again this year|™ | exists among voters who regintered protect lives and property of Tex: | ans. | Hippodrome Will Close on Sunday In conformity with a decision of | Judge J. T. Ronald, in which he de-} clared Friday that his court had no Jurisdiction over the regulatory pow ers of the city im regard to dance halls and cabarets, the Hippodrome | dance hall will be closed hereafter on Sunday nights, officials of the Hippodrame Amusement Co. an- nounced Saturday. The Butler cafe, however, will re- main open, in spite of the city’s or- der to close Sunday nights, in ac- cordance with the ordinance forbid- ding Sunday dancing recently passed by the city council, John Savage, manager, announced. Police Chief Severyns declared hat police would close up any dance halls or cabarets which might attempt to operate in defiance of the law on Sunday. Seattle Chamber Electing Chiefs Robert 8. Walker and Casper W. Clarke, candidates for the office of treasurer of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, will provide the only | competition for office in the cham- ber's election that is being held| today. David Whitcomb is the only | nominee for president, while Wor- | rall Wilson and E. Rex Smith are) the only nominees for'the two vice- Presidential offices. Competition will exist, however, in the election for trustees, with 73 nomine: from whom 37 will be elected. The largest vote in the} history of the chamber is expected to be cast. Mrs. Scripps Sues to Keep Her Child DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 19—Cus- tody of her child and money for tts support were asked by Mrs. Ruth Scripps, formerly of St. Louis, in a supplementary bill filed in court here today against her husband, James Scripps Ill, member of the family of automobile and motorboat anufacturers. Mrs. Scripps’ separate maintenance suit has been taken under advise. ment by Judge D. H. Merriam. Democrats to Meet Members of the Democratic Po- litical Professional league, now af- fillated with the women’s national democratic organization, will meet at Meves’ cafeteria, Fourth ave. and Pine st., at noon next Friday. Speak- ers will discuss national and state political organizations. The public will be admitted. LOOK OUT FOR PNEUMONIA Every winter thousands of robuat, healthy persons are stricken with deadly pneumonia. This insidious scourge that can snuff out your life in a week often results from a neg- lected coid tedtke no chance! The minute you eel a cold comirg on, go to your druggist and obtain « tube or jar of e0," the famous Dennis’ Kucalyp- tus Ointment. Heat a spoonful in 4 tin plate and fill your lungs with the soothing, healing vapor, Do this two or three times daily and watch Your colé disappear “Deo” contains only the ptus ofl, combined with special oils that are noted for germ-destroying, healing proj Nothing like it for catarrh, croup, asthma, bronchitis by all good druggists Satisfactory results guarafiteed or money back. Dennis Mfg. Compan, Durest ther heir erties. coughs, ete. Rold rice 50c, | England and on around the globe, imade, here are the facts about the |pushed his campaign in Illinois for |W. A. Stevenson, new president of makers, Berkeley, Cal. e 4 Maske al —Advertia Shenandoah “would be safer than an automobile on a road,” Secretary | Denby said today before the hous naval affairs committee. | ‘The proposed flight, Denby sald, ts | @ nerious expedition and not “aero: | nautical acrobatics.” The objects} are: | 1. To discover and claim for America a vast unexplored continent believed by scientists to be in the Arctic clrel 2. To survey and map Alaska from the air. 3. To hang up a new aerial rec: ord for America by making a round the-world flight by dirigible. Denby revealed for the first timo that it Is the plan to have the Shen- andoah start on a round the-world flight immediately after co npleting the mapping of Alaska. Fesm Spitz. | bergen the dirigible would fly to} Denby sald. eee WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—"We'll| moor the Shenandoah to the old) north pole. “And feed hard tack to the little polar bears.” So runs the chorus of a song the “gobs are singing around naval aeronautics headquarters today as the whole force steps.out with re- newed spirit to make ready for the siant dirigible'’s polar flight’ next summer. They're all willing to bet today anything from a month's pay to the} gold in thelr teeth that the Shenan- doah files across the pole and writes another new chapter in navy flying exploits as she did Wednesday night when she rode out a 70-mile gale and came nosing back to the hangar, So far as the plans have been Shenandoah's coming flight: The time—No definite date has been fixed for the start from Lake- HIRAM SCORES MELLON PLAN CHICAGO, Jan. 19—Deseribing the Mellon tax reduction plan as “cuttlefish ink in the political w: ters” and “a beautiful mirage to blind our people,” Hiram Johnson the presidency in two speeches last night. Tho his language was, perhaps, more pointed than caustic, the trend of Johnson's Chicago speeches was virtually in line with his Cleveland address, which opened his Campaign. “A foreign policy which speaka against permanent political alliances | and then practically allies us with an existing power upon this hemis- phere (Mexico), constitutes a record of foreign policy which needs the obscuring sheen of a taxreduction scheme,” Johnson sald, ‘The reduction, he sald, fs not a political issue. He branded the sale of arms to the Mexican government as “im. moral, if not illegal.” College Seeks Cash Asking an annual fund of $40,- 000, Whitworth college at Spokane will be the beneficiary of a cam- paign started here Saturday by Presbyterian churchmen for expan- sion and support of the denomin- ational institution. A dinner was held at the First Presbyterian chureh Friday night at which Dr. the college, presided, WIVES OF LODGE members will] be the guests ef the Seattle aeric No, 1 Fraterne! Order of Eagles at| their hall at % o'clock Sunday eve ning. Music and comedy numbers| 1 feature the entertainment. D. A. McDonald will speak on “Eagles as Good Citizens.” |the coast to Seat |getting no July are windless months in the Are: tle The route route from Lake Texas, thence to ‘Tentative selection of a urat to Fort Worth, jan Diego and up . then to Seward, Alaska, and from there to the Pole, has been made. The .crew—Admiral William A. Moffatt, head of the navy flying corps, will command the Shenandoah. Captain Anton Heinen, Zeppelin vet eran, who helped bring the ship safely thru the night, also will go. Three full crews are being trained handle the dirigible. They are extraordinary physical training; the navy keeps its men fit. ‘These three crews, two of which may be sent overland ahead of the Shenandoah, one to Forth Worth or Seattle and another to Seward, prob- ably will alternate in handling the ship. Why trip Is made—Nobody knows what the Shenandoah will find when she gets to the pole or whether a landing will be possible, The object of the trip is observation for acien- tifle purposes. A fleet of airplanes probably will accompany the dirig- ible, to Will Remove Tack From Baby’s Lung PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 19—After a race of more miles against death. Cletas Moore, $month-old son of a St, Louis horer, arrived at the University ho: pital today for an operation to re- move a carpet tack from his hitig. The infant, huddled in the arms of Mrs. Leland A. Parris, assistant superintendent of nurses at the St. Louis hospital, was taken to the hospital, after a dash half-way across the continent on a fast ex press train. British Rail Men May Stay at Work LONDON, Jan. 19.—Prospects of an armistice to avert threatened eco. nomic disruption thru a national rail strike appeared suddenly today. Altho there was no break in the ranks of the engineers and firemen who stood firmly upon their original program to walk out tomorrow night, the trades union congress, which re- sumed its session today under the presidency of Miss Margaret Bond- field, seemed to have galned ground toward mediation. Coroner Denies He Conceals Evidence Coroner W. H. Corson Saturday denied that his office is concealing storm Wednesday | than a thousand | . |the police force. ‘Yakima Cops Must Not Swear, Is Command pyaxuea, Jan, 19.—"There should | be a birch rod hanging in ev- jery home, and under tt should be a |motto, saying, ‘I Need Theo Every Hour,’ Mayor William B, Dudley told a church meeting here, “No profanity! Be courteous at Remember, you are a public servant, not a public mas- all times. | |ter,” are nis instructions to every |Yakima cop. Dudley was elected here on a re- form ticket. Now he's trying to put the Golden Rule into effect in lgovernment. And Yakima has the |reputation for being the dryest town in the state, and one of the cleanest | But Dudley tan’t natisfied yet. |*It's till too wet, and the clean-up process will take a year yet, an way,” he says, CO-OPERATION INSTEAD OF THREATS Instead of threatening pool hall owners and roft drink parlor men, Dudley put the Golden Rule up to them and asked them to help. He is getting good results, too, he says. Members were or- dered to stop swearing and treat citizens as they themselves would be trented. "Too many towns make the mis- take of trying to be spectacular in heir clean-ups," Dudley says “We're doing it gradually, and Yak- |{ma won't be thoro! home months yet. But I belleve the Golden Rulo 1s going to do the trick.” STREET CAR MEN TAXED | & of the Seattle street railways are not classed as in- leome tax-exempt, and they must |make their returns, according to an opinion received from the bureau of | |internal revenue, based on the re port of ity solicitor general, Satur- day noon, by Corporation Counsel Thomas J. L. Kennedy. | The contention of the opinion is that the utility is operated as any other private business venture, and that ‘oyes of the organization must pay thelr income tax the same as an employe of any other busi- ness. €lty employes are, in general, usually exempt from income tax | payments The same rule was laid down for} renovated for | HERE’S MORE ABOUT jin 1922 and 1923, Tho state law pro vides for new registration this year, and every voter, to preserve his right of franchise, must again register, | The books will remain open for | registration at the office of Comp- troller Harry W. Carroll in the and young girls.” oa | that date may vote in the pri. STARTS ON PAGE 1 | | } PAGE 3 Donce BROTHERS USED Often you hear n they cared to money in this could get thousands of more miles out of th they don’t bothe in on a new car. make the repai. should WLEaton East Pine at Summit have made. a cars are good for thousands of more miles, just as they said. CARS nen say that if invest a little or that, they cars, But They trade And then we rs which they And _ the el r. EA st-0313 BY PAUL R. MALLON (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—A “non- partisan” tax program was today be-| the senate, Senator King, Utah, democrat, ts its author, King claims it will: Give more equitable distribution of reduction proposed Jon. Wipe out the income taxes of 5, pple with incomes of less fore | Cut $164,000,000 from athe income taxes on all earned incomes. Sweep away $136,000,000 in miscel- ous taxes. Cut surtaxes $90,000,000. Lower the $46,000,000 government cost of collecting taxes each year. King says the government collects only $60,000,000 from 6,000,000 in- come taxpayers whose incomes are }less than $3,000. W ould Kill ‘Taxation on Incomes Under $3,000 Senator King Introduces New Plan to Hase Burdens; Slashing Reductions Are Urged ‘The amount thus collected does not warrant the expenses, King said. He has changed the tax levy on incomes of less than $5,000 so that the entire levy will be reduced 90 per cent instead of 25 per cent, as Melion suggested. Mellon suggested that the normal tax on incomes over $5,000 be six per cent instead of eight per cent, as at present. King proposes to make it five per cent. By repeal of miscellaneous taxes on * promissory notes, deeds, telegraph and telephones, leased wires, candy, yachts, motor boats, theaters, (not admissions), circuses and King says he takes off $136,000,000 more. This, added to the slash of $164- 000,000 on all earned incomes, makes a total cut of $30,000,000. ‘The other $91,000,000, which Mellon would al low, King gives to surtaxes, taxicabs, 30 Boys Rounded Up in Portland Drive PORTLAND, Ore., Jan, 19—Thir- jty boys under 18 years of age were rounded up last night for the first jwersion of the new night juvenile | court. Portland's latest war on crime, in accordance with Mayor Baker's pol- icy, was launched with a round-up of all youngsters who ventured out after 9 p. m. | Plan Y. W. Session The Young Women's Christian As- sociation will hold {ts annual session next Tuesday in the Bible house on the second floor of its headquarters to elect eight new trustees. Young men who never indulged | aie, in liquor befgre are now carrying | flasks in hip pockets, loaded with | tnoonshlie or bootleg’ whisky, and || REWARD FOR COP WHO young girls are induced to drink the | parked along lonesome roads.” HILADELPHIA, Jan. 19.— Referring to the financial side of | The first policeman who kills prohibition, Sherwood estimated the|| a bandit in Philadetphia‘s “clean. American people last year spent|| up" campaign, which will con- $550,000,000 for imported Scotch || tinue over the week end, will be whisky alone, He estimated that at|| promoted, Brigadier General least $55,239,936 was spent last year || Smediey D. Butler, director of for the 11,268,614 liquor prescrip-|| public safety, announced. Tho | tions issued by doctors. second whirlwind 48-hour drive Sherwood said the government | against crime and vice in the | was loning $600,000,000 a year in|| Quaker city was under way today yevenue and could pay the national|| with Butler in personal command, jdebt in 10 years by a stiff tax on| ght wines and beer. While the people clamor for tax reduction, he said the administra. tion asks for $20,000,000 to build a “dry navy." Sherwood declared the shutting out of “ths best quality of imported liquors gives the bootleggers a larg: er demand for home-made “under- taker’s delight.’ ” Exhibiting patented whisky flank for which Sherwood sald there | was an Increased demand, he added | EVERYBODY |that it would never be filled while { he owned it, because he took a tem. perance pledge 76 years ago. New ApartmentIs | Leased to Company | A new lease on the Sealth apart ments on the northwest corner of Belmont ave. and Olive way for a| period of from five to 10 years wai concluded Saturday between Marks, owner, and the New Orleans | Hotel Co., lesee. Tho lease super. | cedes tho original three-year lense | given Inst November, | The Sealth was completed Novem. | ber, 1928, at a cost of approximate. | ly $150,000. It covers a tract 60 by 120 feet, and has 88 two- and threeroom apartments, equipped | | with electric ranges, built-in refrig- | rators and other latest apartment house features. Join the Schools Nurses to Seek Raise in Pay School nurses presented a request for Increased pay to the board of education at Friday's meeting. A sliding scale with salaries ranging from $125 to $175 a month Is sought by the nurs They now receive $125 a month. facts concerning the death by shoot-| ing of Dr. A. F. Mattico Christmas day, in regard to whether it was an acciental shooting or suicide, Cor- son's“statement was entered relative to allegations of insurance company representatives, he sald, that public records, including photographs, are being withheld from Inspection, Mattice was killed by a bullet from a pistol at the home of Dr, F. B. Whiting, 2812 Boylston ave. Wife Deserts Son; Divorce Is Filed “Here’'t a Christmas present for you, grandma,” said Mrs, Tennessee Aldridge when she visited the nome of her mother-in-law, January &. She left her 1%-year-old son. Since that time she has not returned home, according to the petition for divorce filed by Thomas CC, Al- dridge, city fireman, in superior court Friday, Violin Music Deadens Pain in Eye Operation CHICAGO, Jan. 19.—With only violin music for an an- aesthetic, Miss Irene Beasell, 47, former Chicago actress, underwent a major operation for an eye growth here yes- Ye. Henry Schireson, Chicago, performed the operation in the presence of newspapermen and announced terday. it a complete success. John Rubini, Los Angeles, Cal., a violinist, appearing at a Chicago theater, supplied the musical “anaesthetic.” “Strains of the violin completely deadened the pain,” Miss Beasell declared. “TI w. was being operated on, My music that only subconsciously did I realize that someone was moving about me.” Dr. Schireson explained th could be used because the eye would dilate with probably serious effects. as hardly aware that my eye mind was so absorbed by the at no anaesthetic of any kind ’S | COMING! Happy Throngs! OREGON DEPUTY — SLAIN IN HOME Wife States Masked Man Murders Husband KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Jan. 19. — —J. E. Bratton, 60, former deputy sheriff, was shot to death in his home here early this mprning. His — wife, who notified the authorities, declared the shots were fired by a masked man, who first killed her husband and fired at her when she — entered the room. z NOTHING CHANGED ° BUT THE PRICE!