The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 10, 1924, Page 1

PS rains; mod Maximum, 65. Today WEATHER Generally cloudy with o Temperature Last 34 Hours asional derate southerly winds Minimum, 45. noon, 46. VOL. 26. NO, 40. ihe Saar | ome Brew | 2 Howdy, folks! This is Be-Kind. to-Animals week, Don't feed your husband spinach! Drop in frothing It ts also Raisin week three more, Lizzie, enou eee In some quarters Health week is also being celebrated. But not by us. We haven't been healthy enough to put a shovelful of coal on ‘the furnace fire since ‘9S. eee “Yes, I think the next lecture I shall give will be on Keats.” ‘Oh, professor, what are keats?” . YE DIARY (April 9) betimes, and to playing “Fux warey” on the talking machine, and to town, where I did purchase = chromatique harmonica, which will res- der sharps and fiats, by the mere shift- ing of & lever, the most ingenious engine ever I saw. In ¢ did play ping-pong with F. Lewis, and did defeat tm for the championship of Capitol Hill, albeit he played a stirring game, And so to home. ‘There's no excuse for throwing = @: Into fllvvers parked on Secon You'll find the regular tin cans on each street intersection —Screen- land. Hi Johnson, the most prominent of the Henry Cabot Lodge progress: fives, is still playing to the grand <> Seattle street car fares will not be cut this year. D. W. Hen- derson, superintend- ent of the system, made this statement Thursday. The street railway, however, will go on a cash basis about May 10. On that date the system will have paid off $250,000 of a The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington Wd as Becond Clase Mai No Carfare Cut This Y ear $500,000 deficit since last June 1. When the nickel fare trial ended, the system was half a million in debt. It still owes $235,000. The railway in May will make large ex- penditures in West eattle. New track will go in on Fauntle- roy ave., over the new Hell Sh Chinese Contractors | Get Warrants for 20 ‘How Men Are Held in Slavery by stand. But he doesn't seem to real. ize that somebody has moved the Orientals Disclosed in Court srandstand. 3 ‘Ape old-fashioned man who played) a 25<cent mouth organ when he was a boy now has to buy a $75 saxo. phone for his son. a ese Sign on the Back of « Ford: & BLUNDERBUSS | - Aaatoran aK The miltary intelligence section of the army, commonly known as 3-2, has adopted as its emblem the sphinx. The section of the army in which we served, commonly known as KP-1, has adopted as its insignia the potato peeler. eee An appropriate emblem for the buck privates’ section would be a goat. see “The children need something new every week. You have no children, hence you can’t understand.” “I understand, old chap. an automobile.” . I have | 44 LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE | VAMP, SEZ: Th’ trouble with a lot of mar- ried men Is that they try to be ex-bachelors instead of hus- | bands. eS eee Sometimes we wonder what the Newspapers would do for front-page art if it wasn't for bathing girls and beauty contest winners. see Little Homer Brew, Jr., was called up before the principal yesterday because he took an adding machine to school to help him in the solution of mathematical problems, sae BRING OUT THE GENTLEMAN COW AGAIN, SI “There is no one—be he priest, or Preacher, or rab- bi; be he poet or editorial writer— there is no one McCormick, Chicago Tribune, in dress to his advertising staff, Silas Grump says that having two wives {s called polygamy; having one wife is monotony. eee ‘The meanest man in the world Is the gink who marries his divor ‘ced wife so he can get the alimony he Days her. ey Little Homer Brew (who has an inquiring mind) — Mamma, “The Forty Thieves”. Mrs. Brow- ow, MY son, you are too young to talk politics, ‘- 6 G e jotta go home now, and help the wife celebrate | Clean. ip U AS 8. LEVEN hours a day in Three meals of ‘Mulligan’ jlike it and quit. | Forfeiture of {partner a drink. A fine of $50 if you fight STONE CRUSHES | GIRL'S SKULL Dislodged by Auto, Rolls Over Bank Dislodged by a runaway auto, a large boulder plunged 46 feet down a steep bluff at First ave. W. st, late Wednesday night, and crushed Miss Ellen Munson, 20, of the De La Mar apartments. The girl is in the city hospital in a dy- ing condition. Miss Munson had started to climb @ flight of steps up the side of the embankment, when an automobile parked on the edge of the bluff siip- | Ped Its brakes and coasted down the hill, It struck a big rock, which was precipitated over the edge and plunged down upon the girl. She |was found unconscious a few min- lin. the hospital had not regained |consclousness Thursday. The doc- tors say there is almost no hope for her recovery. She has a bad skull fracture and other injuries. The au- |tomobile was owned by Mrs. Fred | Baxter, 1104 Firat ave. N. WIFE IS DYING! 'Husband-Driver of Auto Is . Still Held by Police | | | Mrs. Anna Wardrip, 20, victim of an auto accident early Wednesday morning, wan still bravely fighting |for life at the city hospital Thurs- |day, but physicians report that her | vitality has been lowered by the | struggle, and death {s imminent. D. V. Wardrip, 1612% W. Dravus \st., husband of the injured woman, is held by the police to await the joutcome of her injuries. Wardrip |was driving the car when it over jturned on the Fort Lawton car tracks, pinning her beneath it, War- drip is said to have been drinking. FLYERS ON WAY Round-World Planes Hop | Off for Sitka Station PRINCE RUPERT, B. C,, April 10—The round the world flyers left Prince Rupert for Sitka at 9:22 this morning. rockpile a summer holiday. for Chinese bosses in Chinese style. A fine of 50 cents a day and 50 cents a meal if you don’t} ‘McNeil Prisoner | Makes Dash for Freedom; Guards |. Bunks that are able to crawl away with themselves. your entire wages if you should slip your and Roy | labor that would make the ” prepared by a Chinese cook} These are tho conditions under | which a score of men agreed to ship North on a cannery boat Apri) 9. |They fatled to show up when the boat belonging to Mar Dong & Co jsailed from on that date, jand as a result Mar Dong & Co., Chinese slave drivers, sought ald in Seattle, |Thursday morning, and got it. The prosecuting attorney's oftice | issued warrants for the arrest of | |the 20 who backed out of their con- |tract. Coples of the contrnet at. | tached to the complaints show the | workers were advanced |Yoat was to sal from $20 to $75. | The contract signed by the labor jers compélas them to place their| jlives in the hands of the labor con- tractor for a period of seven months, from April 1 to October 1. The men | agreed to work from 6 a. m. to 6} |p. m. They further agreed to work jon Sundays and holidays, or during other hours of the day, for 20 cents an hour. They are paid for the| |seven months a total of $240. | | Each man who signs a contract | assigned to him. | |SOAK ‘EM GOING | AND COMING, TOO | Should the cannery blow down or | 1899, at the Posteffice at seattle ~ SEATTLE, WASH., T! West Seattle bridge, on East Marginal way and on Harbor ave. After that new roll- ing stock will be bought. Lighter equipment, Hender- son said, is expected to save enough in op- erating expenses to pay for itself. ip Crew Balks! Patrol Island TACOMA, April 10.—Guards trom tho McNeil island federal peniten- Uary continued their search this morning for D. M. Lynch, 82-year. old Alaskan miner and prospector, jthe white man‘s court, in Seattle,| Who escaped from a wood crew a/ half mile from the terday afternoon. Lynch was received at tho federal prison on the island, December 27, 1 ing been sentenced to three years im- prison late yea- various | prisonment for shooting with intent | Prison launches patrolled the island thruout the night to prevent the es- caped prisoner from getting to the mainland, Authorities at the penttentlary ap- peared certain today that Lynch had not been able to leave the island, and his capture ts expected. Andrew Roddel and William Hil- dirger, prison guards who were in charge of the wood cutting party of 20 prisoners, believe that Lynch sneaked away just before the con- the Island for the prison at 3:30 o'clock. His absence was not discovered until the guards and their detail of Wash from Anchorage, Alaska, hav-| wider the Act of Cong IURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1924. (F ate Lies With Coolidge s in Her Behalf, Little Girl Must Return to China Unless President Act ———Z, ———— Oe | | | | | | | The Seattle Star 519, Per Year, by Mall, 63.00 Unlesa President Coolidge waives immigration restric- sums by Mar Dong & Co. before the |to kill, according to the records of | tions, Miss Yee Toy Yow, held in the Seattle immigration The sums ranged | Finch R. Archer, warden at McNeil.| station since December 380, of last year, must return to China instead of joining her sister in Chicago. —Photos by Frank Jacobs, Star Btaft Photographer eee BY W. B. FRANCE OD gives us our relatives, and wo ourselves cannot choose them, a popular saying declared. So, In effect, declare the immigra- |tlon regulations that have heen de- jtaining pretty Ilttle Miss Yee Toy |Yow in the Seattle immigration sta- lutes later, and after lying all night |ngrees to perform whatever labor | victs left the B. Hannam place on tion since December 30, 1923, and | |which may deport |April 14, | Wor it is an attempt to choose her to China burn, he can, at the pleasuro of his prisoners had reached the peniten-| between relatives, according to lo- employer, be transferred to another cannery or be discharged and paid only for the time he has been work- | work. | ‘The contract provides that the con. |tractor ig held blameless in tho event of death or Injury by accident | |during the entire term of the con- tract. It also provides that the con- tractor shall furnish three Chinese | meals per day. A Chinese meal con: | sista of a bowl of rice, with a few) chopped vegetables and meat in it STINNES DEAD! BERLIN, April 10.—Hugo Stinnes, richest man in Germany, died to- night. Double pneumonia and other com- plications set in after the financier had been greatly weakened by a ad. ries of operations for gallstones, Tho last operation was Saturday, after which the industrialist's physi. clans pronounced him well enough to leave the sanitarium where it took place and return homa, HASTINGS, Neb, April 10.—| Charles H, Dietrich, former governor | and former United States senator from Nebraska, died suddenly of apoplexy today, tlary gate. Qniy a few men have succeeded In escaping from the prison to the jand pay out of, his own stipend the |Gardner, train bandit, who fled dur-| year. wages of another hand to do his |iIng the progress of a baseball game |tus that would admit her entry un- at the prison on Labor day, 1921. JOHNSON ISN'T QUITTING Campaigns for New Jersey, His Manager Declares WASHINGTON, April 10.—"The campaign will continue,” sald George Henry Payne, Eastern campaign manager for Senator Hiram John- “on, on his arrival here today to confer with Johnson. “Tam here to confer with the senator about the New Jersey cam: paign, I arranged to come for this conference some time ago, There are no other of the Johnson man- agers here and none coming.” At Johnson's office, it was Intl. mated the senator might later make A statement regarding rumors that his defeats In Michigan, Tliinols and elsewhere would cause his carly withdrawal the presidential race. from jcal immigration authorities, that is japt to bar the little 12-year-old Chi- nese girl from entry into the United ling. Should he be discharged for|mainiand. The most sensational | States. |violating any of the rules, he must |escape in the history of the McNell| Miss Yeo Toy Yow arrived at Se. |pay his transportation both ways island institution was that of Roy |attle from China at the close of Inst She was able to show no sta |der the Chinese exclusion act, and |the local board of immigration in- spectors ordered her deportation. Affidavits were presented by her jsister, Yee Shee, and her sister's |husband, Ying Lee, both of Chicago, that she pad no relatives living in China, and that she was coming to America to. make her home with them. Immigration records were searched, and it appeared that there were relatives living in China, tho they may not be relatives with whom the little girl would choose to live. But relatives are relatives; in the eyes of the regulations, An appeal way taken to the secretary of Ia- bor at Washington, and he affirmed the deportation decision. Her fate 1s now in the hands of the president of the United Stat If President Coolidge ean be per: suaded to waive the strict letter of the law—which is oceasionally done for humanitarian reasons—she may yet atay in the land of her cholce But {f no further orders coma from Washington by April 14, the little Chinese girl, with the wonder ing eyes, will go back to her native land alone, ‘ARREST DRIVER Charge He Fled After Run- ning Man Down After running down H. C, Wilson, stationmaster at the | depot, |police. When Wilson the license number of Sundell’s ma- chine. jot a | gun, charge of reckless driving, their machine into the side of an automobile driven by Oliver Morri- son, 22, 819 22nd ave. Wednesday night and fled. The accident oc- curred at 18th ave. and Spring st. Morrison's mother, Mrs. C. A. Mor- rison, was taken to the Providence hospital, severely cut about the head, Her son was also given treatment at the hospital. BABY 1S BURNED Child Playing With Matches Escapes Death Painfully burned when his clothes were ignited from matches with which he was playing, the life of S-year-old Vincent Dahline was saved Wednesday afternoon by the prompt action of his mother, Mrs. Russell Dahline, 4147 20th ave. 8. W. Mrs. Dahline was attracted by the screams of the child and managed to extinguish the flames before they fatally injured him, WHEELER PLOT BARED Burns Tips Daugherty’s Hand in Montana COOLIDGE NOW STEPS IN * Into Indictment Leader of Attorney General Stone to Press learned today. If he finds the evidence action, Mr. Coolidge will ask quashed immediately. If, on TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. G.0.P. AIDE NOW IN GREAT FALLS, SLEUTH ADMITS | President Demands Immediate Inquiry _ WASHINGTON, April 10.—President Coolidge will ask into the indictment returned against Montana, by a Great Falls, Mont., grand jury, the United Brought Against — Investigation make an immediate inquiry Senator Wheeler, of insufficient to warrant court : Stone to have the indictment the other hand, the president finds that there are real grounds for the indictment, he Milwaukee in front of that building Wednesday night, Louls Sundell fled in his automobile to his home at 2100 16th ave, S, according to the recovered consciousness a witness gave him Wilson notified the police, and two officers went to Sundell's |home, where they broke in a door nd arrested Sundell at the point Sundell was jailed on a Three men in an automobile drove committee authorized by Daugherty committee today justice: sent to Montana to investiga was indicted. 2. That he, Burns, Daugherty. 8. That M. Blair Coan, national committee, mittee, talked with Coan at terday. ment of Wheeler was announ Senate Cummins. Borah, Idaho, chairman; South Dakota; Swanson, Arkansas. *. GREAT FALLS, Mont., April 10. —Indictment of Senator B. K. Wheeler was. based partly on a telegram from Washington to Gor don Campbell, ofl operator, stating that the senator had just appeared before the department of interior with reference to ofl matters, a fed- eral official declared today. He stated a letter along almilar lines was in possession of the prosecu- tion. These, he declared, were consid- ered important bits of evidence which purported to establish that the senator, as indicted, accepted fees illegally after he became sena- tor for services performed with matters relating to the government. Senator Wheeler, chief “prosecu- tor” of the Daugherty investigation committee, yesterday on the senate floor declared he represented Camp- bell oil interests in Montana state courts after his election, but that the representetion was no way in violation of section 113 of the penal code, as the indictment charged, Senator Wheeler said his agree- ment with Campbell provided that ho would not be required to appear be: fore the government departments, and that the entire charge was a frame-up, DISTRICT ATTORNEY DEFENDS CHARGE In answer to the frame-up charges, John L, Slattery, federal district at- torney, declared: “The indictment against Senator Wheeler ig based upon legal, compe: tent and sufficlent evidence presented to an intelligent and courageous [grand juxy." will demand immediate prosecution. « . * * . _ WASHINGTON, April 10.—Swinging into an investiga- tion of the indictment of Senator Wheeler, Montana, with- out waiting for the appointment of the special investigating the senate yesterday, the senate chief of the bureau of investigation of the department of 1. That three agents of the department of justice were had discussed the Wheeler case with _ Ce an employe of the republican is in Great Falls, Mont. From a telephone company employe the committee le: that George B. Lockwood, secretary of the national Appointment of the committee to inve The committee McLean, Connecticut; Sterling, West Virginia, and Caraway, | Political Enemies of Great Falls Officials Bolsterin Case; Say Charge Well-Founded heard from William J. Burns, ite the case in which Wheeler Great Falls by telephone yes+ z stigate the indict- ced today by President of the consists of Senators ee 2 g Up Charges by Senator Wheeler his bitter political enemies were pris roel! engaged in obtaining his in jetment appeared to be well founded here, Re ¢. Testimony upon which the Wh indictment was returned was furnish: _ jed partly by representatives of fit |Rancial interests, according to mem: bers bf the jury, One witness, Wik liam Glosser, field representative of — a large supply company, was former an employe of Gordon Campbell, Campbell and Glosser split over § misunderstanding, Much of Glosser's testimony reported to have been based on knowledge of Campbell's affairs dur. ing their former association, SAYS INTERESTS AFTER WHEELER N, T. Lease, foreman of the grand jury, whom Senator Wheeler called his “bitterest political foe,” was the man on the state council of de fense who, during the war, fough for the removal of Wheeler office as United States district torney. » Gordon Campbell, indicted at same time as Senator Wheeler, charged with using the mails to ~~ defraud, declared a number of bij oil Interests which have been seek: Ing to obtain oil holdings he repre sents, have threatened to crush him, and that they were active In doing their utmost to discredit him beforg the department of justice investi+ gators, ° ° The same Interests, he said, were bitterly opposed to Senator Wheeler because of the latter's aggressive: (Turn to Page 4, Column 4)