The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 6, 1924, Page 1

Colvin th t, Ch probed a of ‘or tes aty on hav. “gy 18 ET OTL LLU LLU LULL LLU Le LLM LLL LL Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 54. Toglay VOL. 26. NO. 10. Seattle Interests for Wickersha PDA nnn Keep S eat tle’s Utilities Safe! V ote for Nichols, Moore, Carroll, Campbell! Ask Probe ° The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington rains ny; mod esterly winds. Mu noon inum, 36, a. <a President's Telegrams frome Brew Howdy, folks! Vote for Joe Bungstarter, the Friend of the Common Peop' for mayor,” 4 Thursday, ‘my ways go back to taking In e suit was filed During the child of an in fiuentia! woman v on Queen Anne Hill, ‘Three days later the taby broke out with the measles. eee Ailert J. Prune, chairman of the Aisa for Discovery of Where Sea- 1 mills Go at Night, predicts that Babestartor will poll 110 per cent of a, ama vote. i a t © Fi am against slot machines,” J.| ter declared today, “ut least @ilatter tie election.” ; oe STYLE NOTE Are derby hats coming back iu style or is it merely on ace | ‘tout of the prevalence of wood- peers that they are being worn? Filling station in Rainier Valley laa this sign: “Space reserved for/ Ale” the parking problem must We eecte down there! E soe Bélentists from the Field Museum, have found two eggs which MIE said to be 60,000,000 years old. Perhaps they just smelied that way. z ee TLL GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE VAMP, SEZ To an engaged couple, life is | | | one long petting party; to a | married couple, one long fret- | fing party. | —% eee No doubt a gold fish gets an aw-/ fal Kick out of watching all the fun- Ry animals on the other side of the| wiass. The Germans have devised a new| Solson gas that will go thru any) ‘Mask, says news dispatch. [Bet it is made cut of limberger | thetse. YE DIARY (March 5) see “West of film whieh doth are steadily im- Proving, for albeit the theme be an old be scenes of surpassing beauty @ good book, t little . Jr, did say, * ‘4 Ben Tarpin any time!” And Of the main reasons we are in fa¥or of the so bonus is be} need the money to exter. great-grand-children MYSTERY VICTIM | Aged Man, Dripping Wet, | Cross Roads! | Seattle Must | Choose Wa (Editorial) é | IRAE Sap ras SEATTLE has reached a cross- roads, The time has come when we must decide whether we are going to be a commercialized metropolis, with our eye set only on the dollar, or whether we are | going to grow artistically as well as industrially. Grand opera‘is being brought to Seattle-thissmonth —for the first time on a large scale. Sponsored b 56 public-spirited business houses of the city, the Chi- cago Civic Opera company begins a three-day per- formance at the Arena, March 13. There will be 250 people numbered among the art- ists, orchestra, ballet and chorus, There will be six carloads of scenery. There will be such nationally known stars as Mary Garden, Feodor Chaliapin, Edith Mason, Rosa Raisa, Forrest Lamont and Charles Mar- shall, conducted by Gregorio Polacco, world. re- nowned. The net proceeds are to be turned over to the Orthopedic hospital in Seattle. Sale of tickets is going badly. Unless Seattle comes quickly to its support, the Chicago Civic Opera com- pany will not pay expenses. That means that grand opera for Seattle will never be again. It means that the Orthopedic hospital will get nothing. The Star knows there are thousands of music- lovers in Seattle, and it believes that these people owe it to their families, even tho it entails a considerable sacrifice, to help make this a. success. that future operas for Seattle may be assured. Portland bought far more than enough tickets to cover its guarantee. So did every other city where the company has appeared. Cleveland set a world’s record in attendance. Is Seattle, then, to throw away its chances for opera, to take its place among American cities as a me- tropolis without an artistic soul, or will the people of Seattle come to bat and save the day? We are at the cross-roads! We know Seattle will do what is right! was started today for MW in Hospital $10,000 bond following ‘ment on @ . t | Now Being Hunted |"! 04 Mike Fujii, a Japanese, | LOS ANGELES, March 6.—Search| ¥®" ®trested, when federal prohi Grant Me-| bition agents swooped down on two} Cartney, wealthy realty broker, un-| Indict-} to McLean Are Found! 2 Messages Are Read by Probers White House Explanation Says One! Referred to District Business and the Other to Denby Resignation (United Press Summary) Two telegrams from President Coolidge at the White! House to E. B. McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, | at Palm Beach, were read into the records by the senate oil investigating committee today. | A terse statement from the White House explained that one of them related to a conference the president wished +to hold.with Samuel J. Prescott, city chairman’ jin Washington, regarding District of Columbia appoint- ments. A second explained the other telegram was purely personal, having to do with his Lincoln day address, | The explanation of the second telegram was later declared | to be an error and an examination of the White House files, | the president’s secretary said, showed that the telegram! | was in answer to one from McLean congratulating the presi- dent on his statement with respect to the senate resolution jealling for the resignation of Edwin Denby | Reading of the telegrams followed hdd |the statement of Senator Heflin in WASHINGTON, March 6.—A the senate yesterday that he! telegram signed “Calvin Cool- thought “the principal” referred bea | idge” and addressed to Edward in other McLean telegrams Ki, McLean, publisher of the President Coolidge. | Washington Post, was read into pmmittoe members said the sig-| the oil scandal record as the nificance of the Coolidge telegrams» | foremost sensation in the com- i merely In the evidence they mittee’s developments today. guve that Mr; Coolidge and McLean The telegram was sent from were apparently on fairly Intimate| Washington to Palm Beach, terms, | while McLean was there with | While the committee was resum former Secretary of Interior ing its search of clues in the new! Fall as his guest. telegrams, President Qoolldge’s coun-| It read sel began the first court action} “January 12; aimed to regain the leased oil lands | * B. McLean, Paim Beach, Fia. and announced a criminal grand} “Prescott is away. Advise Slemp juty wilt.be impaneled Aprilu 1 to | with whom I shall confer. consider’ any” prosecutions which | “CALVIN COOLIDGE.” may be found necessary as a result) C. Bascom Slemp, secretary to the log the oll probe. | (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) Rum Runners’ Cargo | Is Seized by Agents Sischo, Free on Bail in Dope Charge,| on One of Speed Boats | Seventy-five cases of liquor and{to her «moorings on the West Jan automobile ler were | Waterway. Prohibition Agent Whitney stated |that he believes they seized all of the liquor the boats contained. Fujii was in charge of trucks and at |the liquor at the dock, according to the prohibition officers. and a tra speed boats Luna park morning. unloading liquor at 3 o'clock Thursday digging at his home in West Seattle. bell, back in Minnesota in the’ early ’90’s, “but——’ | happily ever after. That was at Waseca, Minn., | romance. grew and blossomed at the normal school in Man-! kato. founded—because young Will Campbell now is William Campbell, one of the largest property owners in. Seattle. The SeattleSta Boveted as Becond Clas» Matier May 3, 149%, at (he Postoffice at Meattie. Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1372. Per Year, ty Mail, $1.60 TWO CED S IN SEATTLE. LAWYER ‘ ° oe 9 Campbell ‘Digs in Arrived Here With Nothing, But “Dig- ging” Finally Spelled Success Assert Ex-Cabinet Member Tries to Nullify the Alien Land Law Here Washington labor leaders, Averican Legion heads and the State AntiJdapanese league ‘Thursday asked an investiga- | tion of George W. Wickersham's | activities in opposing the ex | sion clause in the Johnson \) immigration bill now before j congress. | In a letter to the immigration | committee of the Unfted States ser | ate, representatives of these organi- zations virtually accuse Wickersham lor being in the pay of the Japan- {ese government because” of Wicker- sham's connection with Mitsul & |Co,, the mikado’s representatives in jthe United States. Wickersham was attorney general under the Taft administration. | The clause in the immigration bill over which the fight is raging } would: bar from entry all aliens in- Jeligible to eftizenship. DEFEAT OF CLAUSE WOULD UNLOCK GATES It is claimed by Miller Freeman, |president of the Washington Anti- Japanese league, that if the barring j clause is killed the state Gepart- ment plans to negotiate with Japan a treaty which will open Paciffle | Ports to unlimited Japanese immi- gration and finally render nuit and |void Washington and — California antialien land laws. The letter sent to the immigration committee say: “George W. Wickersham hos. ad- | dressed to your committee a letter in | which he proteds against the clause ‘in the immigration bill barring all | peoples ineligible to citizenship, on the ground that it would “be resented joy dapan as a gratuitous.act of an unfriendly character.’ “Is it not a fact that, shortly after jretiring from the cabinet, Mr. Wick- jersham became attorney for Mitsul |& Co, and that ever since he has been that corporation's: representa- tive at the national capital? Is it not also a fact that Mitsul & Co. are practically a Japanese government | institution? ,Camp | “In the spring sof 1922 Congress. rc uInn e.-eal s | man Woodruff made some very seri- “But I've faith in you, Will,” said Jennie Bennett. ous charges against Mitsui & Co. in And so, as the stories say, they were married and lived ean with the airplane ques- in "Ou {tion. He showed that the Standard in '94. The Aircraft corporation and the Stand ard Aero Co. were controlled by Mit- | sui & Co, and maintained that thesq Jennie Bennett’s faith in her young husband proved well-|twe firms were overpaid millions of rp, | dollars, presumably thru misrepre- ‘| sentation and fraud. He stated that among the attorneys handling their W. 7. Campbell, candidate for city council, doing some real —Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers BY JIM MARSHALL “T haven't any money, Jennie,” said young Will | Twenty-four years of thrifty digging, with Jennie Bennett! negotiations with the government Campbell to smooth the rough places, did it. | Was former Attorney General George Campbell ‘was “born 54 years ago | W; Wickersham. on a Minnesota farm, miles from aj up as a bad job. |. “We recommend that the activi- town or schoo Sickness came to the| But young Campbell wasn't that | tles of Mr. Wickersham be carefully family, Then the grasshoppers rav-|kind. He figured around with a pen. | S¢rutinized with: respect to any rep- aged the farm for several years run-|cil and a scrap of paper. Then he! Tesentations he may make regarding ning. Young Will Campbell wanted | went to his father and said: “Look |*# immigration bill. It is believed that if an investigation be instituted Dripping wet and completely ex: hausted, Viticll Wenzel, 73; 1110) Allen place, near Fremont, In oe mone ht home with us in charge of obtaining) sroed'boat M-z66, under the com under false pretenses. |mand of Wesley 1. Sischo, who! McCartney left the city Saturday! ssongay was granted a new trial by " after announcing he was going to|the San Francisco court of appeals GAS STATION the Norwegian’ hospital, 38th st. N lin fhe recent conviction in the feat \and Woodland Park ave., after hay {tig federal court on a dope charge. Get $9, but Overlook $100 see Think of ail the homes whisky L But then, on the o' Nand, think of ali the st: ips Yas wrecked! Spokane to “ has water |ing crawled to its doors on his |condition, but ff ds thought by Dens-|for which he was sentenced to hands and knees Wednesday morn-| more station police that he fell into} seven years in the penitentiary, He {# tinable to explain his| Lake Union land Sischo were detained after the “I'd rather be a : maid than a movie star,” says Kitty is wearing herself out Of nervous exhaustion, in an easy chair with & box of candy. 11, Seenes that I work,” The Star. to the point I um sitting @ novel and 's only between ‘Movie note in Cable from 11, Siki is delirious. exerts can tell whe ¢ délirious. bio te The cavitux, employs ligh of color, is . ‘Week at the Corr Tazz music on ¢ foubt, Made by a or thrown from building. an instrument whict Produce a x; sh school hia instrn went DUI resemble the the top of the smith ATs, j Mayoralty Campaign Signs Ordered Down AY campaign banners flapping in the wind, in- forming the passerby to vote for this or that can- didate vanished suddenly Thursday. Upon official order issued by Police Chief Severyns, all of the ban- ners were taken from the streets. “Complaints from business men and citizens that the signs ‘didn’t look well to visitors in the city’ caused the removal of the banners,” Severyns said. des, the whole thing was becoming more or less of a joke, and it is 4 fact that every sign including even Mayor Brown’s were hung in violation of city ordinance.” The order will not apply to council candidate signs, Severyns said. st guard cutter Scout overhaul. | led the craft, Sischo was allowed | [tq proceed with his boat when no} liquor was found aboard. | Cash in Building | Driving ‘up to the Pioneer service | ; .., | Station, $00 First ave. 8., early Thurs- | Acting on @ ttp recelved late Wed: | aay morning, two men held up John |nesday night, that rum runners! Kneeland, attendant, and escaped | would unload two loads of liquor at! with $9.58 in cash. ; | |to go to school, but insuperable OF ere Dad, I want to hire you a man ficulties seemed in the way. summer—and he had to work on the farm. Then they were open in win ter—and were too far away for the| days; youngster to plow thru the drifts. by your committee it would be found His fa. | that the influences now bringing Pressure in opposition to the above mentioned clause in the. immigration bill are directly or indirectly em, ployed by Japanese interests. If such an investigation were made it would |for a. while. He'll take my° place | while I’m going to school.” ther agreed. Hired men got $20 a month in those Young Campbell got a job as |Janitor for a school at $5.a month, | A lot of boys would have given it| (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) First the schools were open only in the park, Whitney notified the coast| Kneeland was alone when the pair | | guard and went to the park at 11:30) drove tho car in front of the gas/ |p. m., where he-and his men con-| pump and asked him to sell’ them cealed themselves. | some gas. He unscrewed the cap on! At 2240 \in the morning two the tank and found the tank was| launches, which were identified as| fun the M. 775 and M. 226, approached) Looking up to remark about the \the dock, the former staying off| fact, Kneeland gazed down the bar- shore while the latter proceeded to/ rel of a big revolver, and out of the the pavilion, where it docked and be-| corner of his eye saw another one| gan unloading. After the 226 had | trained on him. H untonded its cargo, the M came} “Screw that cap back on and take! to the landing and began unloading. | a look at this,” one of the two hold- | The prohibition agents then (ups said. “Then hustle out your turned a searchlight on the seene can ” of activities, and both boats sud- Kneeland opened the cash register denly pulled away. The officers and handed over all the change that fired several shots at the M. 226 | was in it. More than $100 In cash to attract the attention of the | that was socreted in the station was | revenue cutter, which succeeded | overlooked by the thugs, who made | in catching the boat, careless search of the place before} The M. 776 escaped and proceeded hastily drivag away. Motorist Fights Bee; Car Hits Phone Pole ISS ALICE HELD, 5903 12th ave. N. E., was driving home in her automobile along Eastlake ave. Wednesday afternoon when a bumble bee flew into the tonneau and struck her in the face. She thought the bee was going to sting her and took her hands off the steering wheel to brush the bee away. While she was engaged in fighting the bumble bee the car crashed into the curb, struck a telephone pole 15 inches thick, broke it off and carried it sev- eral feet on her fender. Neither the bumble bee nor Miss Held was hurt. | be found that a situation exists over- } (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) Private Ownership Paper for Lundin HE WASHINGTON STATE WEEKLY, organ of the power trust and spokesman for anti-municipal interest forces for years, came out this week with big headlines indorsing the can- didacy of Alfred H. Lundin for mayor. The Washington State Weekly is published and edited by Jay Thomas, Thomas has fought municipal ownership of utilities for years and is known thruout the state as a lobbyist for the power in- terests and other corporations.