The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 5, 1924, Page 1

eS | Thrills y Mod Maximum, 51 Toxtay Howdy, folks! an’ kiddies? How's the wife eee A labor of love: When the catcher and pitcher help to dig a basebal out of the umpire's eye. Old friends are the Dest. rave usually borrowed the end stopped. They Times eee Li'l Gee Gee says that her father ts so full of importance that when | he goes to a funeral he wants to be the corpse. agin CALF’S SWAN SONG A kick, A squeal, And then I'm veal! “ee “What's the bearded lady chasing the tattoced man for “Wants to see the tures, I guess.” . moving ple ington Bureau for information con. cerning the largest dam im the world. We don't know about the largest dam, but the loudest is when our flivwer battery suddenly goes on the | fritz. see “Thirteenth Victim of Orgy Dies. Headline, We've allus maintained that thir. teen is an unlucky number. “e-* CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB ‘The gink who splits his kind- ling at 530 every morning and wakes up everybody in the neighborhood. ete The army mule, will not be curried hereafter with an old-fashioned comb and brush, but will be vacuum cleaned. Yeh, and after the mule skinner mule, his comrades can the} vacuum cleaner on him! see use of the newly organized Rootleggers’ Commercial ctub. air YE DIARY (April 4) Up betimes, and to the garage, where I did find = fist tire, there being = nail therein. And did change tires, and did take the bad tire to be fixed, and KR. Hossman would have sold me s set of balloon tires, but that I did have no money, . . . In the evening to the Bine Mouse pias howse to see Lillian Gish, and she very the best actress, methinks, 4 a8 ‘The worst kind of an autcmobils tz radiator and another one at wheel. eae She knocks ‘em dead, does Mary Lit, With glances warm as gruel— The gentle sighing flapper ts More deadly than the mule. eee “Very talkative, isn’t she?” “Yes; her father was a barber and her mother was a woman.” see dictionary {s one that always has the word ‘you want to look up omitted. oe "No" cried a speed bug named) Cook, At this critical juncture— BANG went a puncture! "Ten days,” wrote the judge in the book. eee Cleanup, Week starts tomorrow. Bank robbers are already busy or- ganizing 2 drive, see A new coffee substitute has been discovered in Venezuela, Bet Paper yet.” se OLD SILAS GRUMP, THE SA OF PUMPKIN HOLLOW, BAYS A crowd at th’ store got to ar. guin’ which man had th’ most keys on his ring. Th’ winner woz Jerry Grasshooker an’ he lives in a tent! ey The latest issue of World's Work | rs to the junior senator from | Washington as Senator Dill of South | Carolina, They probably figured democrat ever lived north Mason and Dixon line oe that of Li'l Geo Gee Is getting high-brow Yesterday sho submitted an ensay to! the editor on “The Aesthetic Aspect of the Hen as a Songbird.” sae SATURDAY I8 here! HOORAY! HOORAY! BCHOOL'S OUT! Temperature Last 24 Subscriber asks The Star's Wash-| {t is announced, | “Booziness as usual,” is the slogan | that the sereen has prodaced. And so to, home. Lil Gee Gee saya that an abridged | “By no cop shall I be overtook!”) it's! what we've bean drinking for years!| | ® “Can you namo the members of] the president | “No; I haven't read today's news-| no} the fonigat and ler fresh Sun ours Minimum. noon, 51 The Ne ed as Becond Class M M COAST 10 CURTAIL OUTPUT! | } |Eastern Attempts | to Force Prices) and Wages Down |: Resisted Here | | Bes | Pacific Northwest tumbermen | Saturday Mung defiance to Eastern | |and California buyers who are at- tempting to starve the North Coast) country Into marketing its lumber} | below the cost of production. slope found themselves faced with | “buyers’ strike” |of the country: | (1). Curtailment of output | (2). Wage cuta | | It appeared probable, as far as| could be learned by The Log they |the former course will fand that lumbermen will pully with | thelr workers the temporary hard-| ship, rather than cut wages In the woods and mills JAPANESE QUAKE STARTED TROUBLE The trouble started when Japan,| needing {t was said, two billion feet| in other section: jot lumber for reconstruction, got lout of the market. F | Undoubtedly, Japan needs huge of the market demoralized the yen| the imperial government wasn't | pleased. | In addition, rail trade has not been good, and the usual spring| | buying has not had a good start. | | This {s partly due to inclement weather prevailing everywhere ex- cept In the Pacific Northwest, Cali-| fornia, for instance, is in a period] of hard times, duo to drought. | ATLANTIC COAST SEEKS TO DICTATE PRICES ‘The Atlantic Coast market, with| a hugo building program ahead,| leeks to dominate Northwest mar-| i kets, and set the price. Back East) they hold to the idea that the coast) HAS TO sell at any price the East] is willing to pay. To this challenge | Seattle and Northwest concerns| have replied by refusing’ to cut prices to a point that would mean| wage cuts Some mills already have curtailed East Fough Lumber Battle W ay 3, 189%, at the Post TTLE, ition at Meattis, WASH., SATL tin WASHINGTON, April 6—Deciar ing that even without tmmigration the population of the United States will be 200,000,000 tn 60 years, Hep: jresentative Johnson, Washington. chairman of the house immigration committee, today called on the house to pass the new immigration ne which came’ up for debate to- much a conservation meas- nd as any dealing with natural resources” There are 600,000 Russtans, 300,- jee? Italians and 70,000 Poles who! |have already applied for passports! and are endeavoring to reach the United States, he declared. Johnson's measure would | quotas to 2 per cent, based on the census of 1890. Vigorous oppo: representations to the state depart- has used the vacuum cleaner on the) two ajternatives, as the result of a| Ment by foreign countries which drafted the bill, to lighten| many of tts restrictive provisions. but In @ sharply worded report the committee laid the bill before the house without material changes in the provisions against which Hughes had protested. | The Johnson measure abrogates |the “gentleman's agreement" with | jJapan and expressly excludes all |‘ ey immigrants, The change to & quota based on | |1890 almost auts off tmmigration | from southern and routheastern Europe, Italy, for example, is re | duced from a quota of 43,057 to one! lof 8,224, Both countries have laid department | On the other hand the 1890 quota | would run his own department, said | fon to the bill has | basis greatly increases the propor. |out of courtesy to Brown ho would | |been expressed, not only by various|tion of tmmigranta allowed to enter /not make the changes effective un. | | Lumbermen of the North Pacific| elements in this country, but thru|from Germany, Great Britain, Ire land, Denmark, Norway and Sweden The committees supported this pro-| Wash, and More Thrills—The Beacon Hill M ystery—Turn to Page 7 Ii i 1 3 wader the Act of Congress Marc IRDAY, APRIL 5, 1924, naper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington e SeattleStar by Mall, $3.6 FLYERS START AND THEN STOP: TWO CENTS IN DECLARES HE'LL BE WN BOSS 200,000,000 Persons in Shakeup Plan May 50 Years Seen for U.S. ‘Rep. J ohnson Starts Immigration Fight to Keep Down F oreign List Be Announced Before Day's Over That Chief of Police W. B. Severyna is still the controlling {actor in the destinies of Seat- thy’s threatened police “shake up” was admitted by Mayor E. 4. Brown Saturday, who de. clared that “Chief Severyns has power to make any changes he wishes in the personnel of the police department.” “That's just what I expect to dof’ declared Beveryns when told what the mayor said. A tentative diate of 25 changes In personnel submitted to the mayor by Chief Beveryns late Friday “han not been disposed of,” the mayor maid. These changes, it is under. | stood, cdntemplate several important Heit | strentiotas protests before the state |reassignments of police captains. Oblef Severyns, while insisting he til he and the mayor had discussed | them at a noon meeting Saturday. Reports that the shakeup program | Secretary of State Hughes strong: | vision of racial elements in this coun jmubmitted by Chief Severyns had | ly urged the immigration committee, try. Headaches Scarce as G.O.P. Meeting Opens ‘Boom On to Get Gov. Hart in Race for Re-election This Fall WENATCHEE, Wash., April the one that has a crank below the| supplies, but she is holding off for| With not more than a dozen head the |lower prices. The chaotic condition| aches in the crowd, most of the 981} delogates to thin, Srieut republi- exchange rate not so long ago, and can state convention tn the memory |done, it means the national commit: | of tho oldest inhabitant, met at 10) |o’clock this morning in the Liberty theater with these things in pros- pect: Declaring the country “is safe with Coolidge,” John Gallatly, acting as temporary etate chairman, indi cated the Intentions of Washington republicans to indorse Coolidge for the presidential candidacy, in his address opening the state conven Hon today. He praised Governor Hart's code and lauded tho highway state de partment, At noon the convention divided into five meetings of delegates from the various congressional districts) to pick delegates to the national convention. As the convention opened after a wild night of secret caucuses, pro- posed trades, and a few of the well- Known double crosses, it became ap- (Turn to Page 3, Column 4) { | management, circulation, paid circulation of | } Circulation Facts: Elsewhere in this issue appears the official re- port to the government of The Star’s ownership, during the past six months had an average daily 75,035 keeping it well in the lead of its Washington com- petitors and proving once more that The Star is Washington’s Most Popular Daily etc. It shows The Star | parent that the leaders of the state | republican convention would try to |keep the Kelly-Richards fight off the | floor of the convention. If this in |teemen will be chosen by the dele- |gation to the Cleveland convention. This would give Kelly the inside track and St is exactly what King | county doesn’t want.’ |CHARGE PERKINS |BEHIND RICHARDS | Tho Gey. Hart, who ts very much here, and who wants to be a dele- | | gate to the national convention, has not personally sounded the clarion call to his standard for re-election, jfoes of Roland H, Hartley, of Ever- | jett, and of George Lamping, of Se attle, were doing their pest last night to build a bonfire for the gov- lernor. This in spite of the fact | |that he announced several weeks | jago he would not be a candidate for | re-election. Tho fight between Kelly and Richards became intensely | bitter | last night. It was openly charged | |that $. A.. Perkins, former national | | committeeman, who wax unseated } |by Kelly four years ago, is the real | *) |figure behind the Richards fight. |The fact that Perkins and Richards |were seen together at dinnor last | Inight gave color to the charges, | {Perkins arrived Friday morning Jand has been much in evidence ever | since. Barly this morning, after a! {neries of caucuses, it was apparent |that Richards and Kelly are neck | Jand neck, ana tho state leaders fear | lif the row goes on the floor of the jeonvention, it wiil split the party | jwide open. Expert power trust lobbyists often leon at Olympia during legislative | sessions are taking a big hand in the affairs of the convention. ‘They early made ft a cinch that no Bone. power plant bill would get be- fore the convention, Roy Lyle, federal prohibition dl- rector, Bill Whitney, his visor, and almost the entire staff of | jdry sleuths, are here, Rumored booze parties failed to tnateriallze, ‘There wasn't enough booze for even a small | party, some delegates complained, Mayor Clifford Chase of Wenatchee was slated to welcoma tha delegates to the convention, and John Gollatly of thia city, former candidate for governor, was acholuled to be the tomporary chairman, and deliver the keynote speech, legal ad- |” been disapproved by the mayor were denied by Mayor Brown Saturday. “Bill Severyns ts chief of po- Hee, and I do not usually inter. fere with the managenient of his department,” the mayor sald. “However, Seatile ts to have many visitors this summer; the fleet Is coming, and after election I believed we would in- crease the efficiency of the de- partment. We are still working on that program and are work- Ing harmoniously.” Severyns’ attitude Saturday hard. ly confirmed the mayor's “har. mony” assertion. He seemed hap- py, but still belligerent, suggested by Severyns are the fol- lowing: Transfor of Capt. J. J. Haag from jheadquarters to Densmore precinet; ltransfer of Capt. Claude H. Bannick }from Densmore statioh to Ballard precinct and transfer of Capt. B. C. | |Colller from. special detail work to | a headquarters patrol. ‘The tentative list of changes, Sev- | erynn sald, waa agreed to by Sever. yns In conference with Capt. Mason and taken to Mayor Brown late Friday. The changes, Severyns sald, had been approved in part by | Mayor Brown rome time ago, GALLS EX-CHIEF “Nothing Significant,” Mayor’s Explanation While Joel T, Warren, former chief of police, was in private confer- ence with Mayor B. J. Brown late “riday afternoon, Mayor Brown de- clared Saturday that his talk with Warren had no bearing upon. the present police shakeup, r. Warren is doing some work for me,” the mayor said, “He op- erates a private detective agency and it was on a personal matter that I consulted him.” Warren also declared ho had not been approached in any way with n offer to participate in the police j}mixup and said no overtures had |been made to him offering the pos!- tion of police chief in the event of the resignation of Chief W. B. Sev- ls e Soveryns declared that he consid. ered the conference between the mayor and Warren “as having no} significance." ‘Warren supported Al Lundin fn the last election,” Severyns said, “T do not think the mayor would turn to him for advice," QUAKE SHAKES DERBY DERBY, England, April 6.—A se. vere earth tremor centerl ¢ around Alfreton, shook the county today, Tho oscillations were accompanied by a dal! noise, Nottingham also felt the tremors, There was apparently no damage, Joe T. | SEVERYNS DEFIES MAYOR Better Luck Next Time Maj. Martin Sure Third Attempt to Hop Off on World Flight Will Succeed | } Maj. Frederick L. Martin, commander of the round-the-| world flyers, had time to smile Saturday morning in spite | of the fact that a pontoon on caused a minor accident that resulted in the delay of the} his plane sprung a leak and world flight hop-off until Sunday morning. The command- Included in the list of changes|er’s plane got quite damp in trying to get off the lake, but! Martin's spirit was not affected. “We'll make it next time,” he smiled, —Photo by Frank Jacobs, Star Staff Photographer | position on the lake far to the north | EWARE the dictaphone! Since the publication of the story of Pollce Chief W. B. Sev- eryns' digtaphane in his office, al- most every visitor who enters to interview the chief asks him to disconnect’ it before they start talking, and Severyns shows them the empty hole in his desk from where it was removed. Bill’s Dictaphone Has Caused Some Worry Several prominent people, in- cluding one minister, who inter. viewed the chief on delicate sub- jects a month or more ago, have called on Severyns to determine whether or not “he had someone listening in” on their conversation at the time. After explaining that their fears are ungrounded, the chief laughs long and silently. FINDS SUICIDE Wife Makes Gruesome Dis- covery Inside House With a builet in his head and a small rifle lying beside his body, Warren Dunn, ‘hy is found dead In hig home at ‘kJand Saturday morning. Deputy Coroner George Davis at Kirkland pronounced the case one of suicide. Dunn was a distributor, employed at the postoffice in Seattle, where ho has worked since 1916, Mrs, Ann Dunn, his wife, was milking the cow and returned to the house at 7:30 a, m, Saturday, finding her PN Lage! body on the = floor, Unhappy Wife i in Suicide Attempt OAKLAND, Cal, April 6.—"My | husband wouldn't let me go to dances.” walled Mrs, Margaret Wit tle, 21, at the Oakland — receiving hospital today, as physilcans fourht to save the life she tried to forfelt by swallqwing poison, “Hoe wouldn't Jet me have pretty dresyes-—or anything.” Ex-President of China Is Coming TOKYO, April 5.—Li Yuan Huang, former president of China, is thru with politics, and is planning to vis- it America, The Chinese leader, who {ts now in Japan, declared that he plans to leave the Orient in May and prob- ably will tour the United States and Europe. HERE IS ANOTHER home that can be purchased on the easy payment plan. © Has just been renovated thruout, BEAUTIFUL INTERLAKE $4,200—Bungalo of 5 rooms, good as new. Renovated thru- out, Has oak floors, 2 fine cor- ner bedrooms; bath between: cabinet kitchen, Wired for electric rang gem it base~ ment, furnace, ot fine lot, south front, foxt io. Nice Jawn and shrubs. Beautiful district. Can be Had on easy terms, This, will make a dandy home for someone, You can look at this home by finding the address in the Want Ad> columns, spenecrone eee SEATTLE. HOP OFF ‘ONE DAY | Propeller Tip Is Broken; Pontoon Leaking; Will Be Repaired A broken propeller tip and a leaky Pontoon Saturday morning again de- layed the scheduled start of the four army world cruisers from Lake Washington at the Sand Point aire drome, Now they expect to start Sunday morning—uniess weather ‘conditions are adverse, any more me chanical imperfections are discovered, ” jor the great god Jinx takes a hand | again. Eis Heading the squadron of four great jay Douglas airplanes, equipped — |with pontoons and large fuel stor jages full, Maj. F. L. Martin taxied jdown the lake several times but failed to develop enough power to lift his web-footed plane from the | Waves’ crests. He returned to his | mooring and discovered that flying \spray had damaged his The little leak was also found and the slated take-off was canceled. = Martin's plane was to ‘be’ lift |from the water, the propeller | placed and the leak stopped—a that would take several hours to complete, Late weather reports on jhad not been favorable, and the jerowd that gathered at the Sand Point wharf Saturday morning was only a small fraction of the number _ that had been on hand Friday morn- ing for the expected hop.off. Army jofficers, active and reserve; news |Papermen and a dozen or two of the © |women folk composed the bulk of the crowd. NOT AFRAID OF BAD WEATHER Shortly after 6 o'clock Major Mar | tin received the final weather report. | Tho It did not forecast ideal. weather, jhe announced that the start would | be made. “We have to have a little hed weather some time,” he commented, At 6:30 o'clock the’ world flyers were rowed to thelr planes, moored at intervals near the wharf. At” o'clock Lieut. Erik Nelson taxied his plane, the New Orleans, out into the lake. He was followed by Lieut, Lowell Smith in the Chicago, and a few moments Lieut. Leigh Wi in the Boston and Major Martin the Seattle started simultaneously, The crowd watched expectantly while the planes maneuvered int Si AANA RRR ORION | of the wharf, where they were oft barely visible against the backgroun | of trees on the opposite shore. || Major Martin's plane, which lay (Turn to Page 3, Column 2) ROSS IS STILL ~ UNAPPOINTED Mayor's Reasea: for Failure to Do So Are Vague J, D. Ross, superintendent of the” city light department, is still hold: ing office without reappointment by Mayor Brown. . Ross’ term as superintendent of the city lght department expired December $1, and the mayor has neglected to reappoint him to the. important position he holds as head: of the city's $15,000,000 lighting business, The mayor's reasons for not re appointing Ross continue to be — vague. He declares. he wants to have a conference with Hoss and go over the city’s light business, The mayor says he wants the posi- tion of an assistant superintendent jereated to relieve Ross of detail ” aa jwork in the office, = The mayor also has announced jthat he wishes to increase |salary to $7,500 a year, It was de jereased two years ago at the rec: ‘ommendation of Mayor Brown, | from $7,500 to $6,000, who said he i 7 |belleved all city department heads, |should be paid the same amounts; — |The water department superintend: ency sat that time was incre’ from $5,000 a year to $6,000 a year Supt. Ross said Saturday that Mayor Brown has Informed him he wished a conference with him, “T am anxious to co-operate the mayor and make bis adminis: tration a success in every respect,” Ross said, “We have been working harmoniously, and T seo no pie tion of a break in our friendly ne lations.”