The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 1, 1924, Page 9

THE SEATT TA PLAGUE PERIL4 STATES ARE TORN ‘COOLIDGE LEAD FLEEING MAN IS IS LESSENED ' BY CYCLONE’S FURY IN OHIO 6-1 Hoof-Mouth Situation in Cal- ifornia More Encouraging SAN FRANCIO‘ , ging” was th designa mi mouth 4 a rma Ste 5, devoting themselves @ & ag the “hystefia” over which threats heavy Californ juatries, and als, who form the active forces” engaged in stamp ‘ agreéd that sat factory progress ts beisg made. The losses this far, however, have been heavy More than 50,000 bead of sheep, |) cattle, goats and hogy have been de oyed in the six veeks since th r or bave had in lr limite and are bed as comprising These are Los An where the disease serious; Contra | where the epi San Joaquin, San Bernar des “infected areas. jes and Merced, the moat Alameda 4, and San Diego, is now Stanisiaus. dino and Kern counties, where there | have been cases, but where the epi demic has not been serious. Losses to live stock owners are small in comparison to the havoc the epidemic threatons to work on other| industries. | Butchers complain people are not | buying meat Embargoes by various states have | eut heavily into shipment of farm produce and a continuation of em Dargoes will cause losses estimated | in millions when the height of the fruit shipping season is reached TRAIL IS LOST Bloodhounds Fail to Find Missing Rancher Bioodhounds in charge of lesaiuty | sheriffs failed to solve the mystery | of the disappearance of Gustav C.) Stoll, young Green river rancher, who disappeared two days ago, when | they were taken to the farm late} Wednesday, Sheriff Starwich an-| nounced Thursday. The dogs picked | up the trail of Stoll and led the deputies to the county highway, | where apparently the trail ended. | Stoll rented the farm this spring} and, with his mother, was operating | it. He milked six cows Tuesday morning and put away his utensils. ‘Then he disappeared, no one having; seen him since. The young man was not dissatisfied with his lot, relatives | say, had his own automobile and bank account and was free to go and come at his will. They are com- Pletely mystified by his disappear. ance, Former School Man Is Guilty of Theft LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 1.— Joseph R. Abernathy, former super- intendent of schools of Anaheim, Cal, was today found guilty of five counts of an indictment charging theft of $22,050 in registered mail from the Anaheim postoffice. Charles R. Wheeler, registry clerk in the Anaheim postoffice, was found Rot guilty in a sealed verdict re- turned last night and opened this morning in the court of Federal Judge Benjamin F. Bledsoe. Bergdoll Not on | German Steamer NEW YORK, May 1.—Despite ru- mors and official notification from the war department, Grover Cleve- land Bergdo'l was not aboard the Columbus, North German Lloyd Iner, which arrived from Germany. ‘The ship was met by officers upon arrival in quarantine. Every passen- Ser was ordered presented. Government agents searched the Yessel, They had an official notifi- cation from the United States army | intelligence service which sald Berg- oll was aboard. After a search lasting almost an hour Col. John L, Bond, in charge of the search, announced he was certain Bergdoll was not aboard. Women Make Plea for World Peace WASHINGTON, May 1--Women Of the nation today made their pleas to congress tor world peace. Delegations representing various Women's organizations appeared be- fore the special senate foreign rela- tions committee to get this govern- Ment to enter the world court of Sustice at The Hasse for tho first mep, They were backed by Dr. Hudson of Harvard and Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, who wish to accomplish the sams end, Dempsey and Wills Are Due for Fight NEW YORK, May 1.—Jack Demp- Sey, heavyweight champion, and Harry Wills, colored contender, will b@ matched to meet for the cham- Dionship in Jersey City on Saturday afternoon, September 6, Tex Rickard anounced this afternoon. Rickard said that he had aban- all negotiations with Luis Firpo, South American champion, for & fight with Wills and that he had e convinced Firpo is afraid of the negro hea’ ‘weight. Scores Are Dead and Hundreds Hurt in South; Wide Territory Wrecked ATLANTA, Ga May L—-The death jfive were hurt in BR Mount toll from the storm which swept a/three killed and eight } at Dur 1,000 miles long thru feur|/han and four ex jured with erm states mounted steadily to: property loss estimated at $20,006 ds eperts of casualties in com nh Richmond, Va munities isolated by the tornado One house at Opelika, Ala. came trickling in was blown to splinters, but its =e ma | Seabee ot teed is es five occupants escaped injury pocted.te A. ; 100 me Two women were seated talking wane see - et ” on the porch of another house « Ars short distance away. One of them was picked up, carried 300 feet, and her body dashed against ® building, The other remained seated In her chair, unseratehed, Reliet work was going ahead rap under direction of the Red Cross headouarters. Ninety-nine are known dead . yy he northern part The ewisling winds reached | .,'7, Macon, Ga. the northern part the height ef their fury in South | 2° {0 SHY was untouched. but i Carolina, having gained headway | 5°" eee, Son pees, Sees followed one main stre wrecking in their advances from the Mis. verything in sight. Telephone poles sisslppi valley states. REE teal Gara Sawa down. nnd The death list in that state to-| houses and busineas buildings leveled. t a 46 a uid € bled y oy cae cig sere? me aled 46. Large buildings crumb Crops in southern Georgia were before the gule Men and women were picked off the street, carried 200 yards and dashed to the ground Alabama had 11 dead; North Caro lina, 3; Georgia, 4, and scattered deaths were reported from Tennes ruined. Tobac where h h orchards the } had just reached a would injure it were also damaged all stones, Nine children were killed when the Horrell at Columbia, 3, C. school caved In before Ser TRUE tne bowls the force of the gale At some places entire settle Fhe wind, ween ine one ments were wrecked, every | ™0Fe than half an } pence house and public bullding ia |*Pot® In some places it uprooted everythnig in its path, Then it small villages being leveled Sweeping « path about half a mile wide, the storm within half an hour would shift @ short distance onjy and then swoop dow Its velocity was ruined the richest te c bre heat agricultural s0c!75 mites ar hour upward tion of South Carolina. ‘Timber, truit | ‘* Nee @ re ae trees, regular crops, old colonial hx ed say ae eS bembbataverdthng GOA dome te che lowed by a down pour of trail of the twister Seventeen were killed vicinity of Camden, 8, C. looda were Imminent in parts of Alabama and Georgia and reports from states farther to the east stated thi ere have overflowed their Seven negro women and children |, banks and caused considerable addi met death six houses on 4/ tional damage plantation near Camden were blown! greats in many to splinters. with d@bris, When the storm reached North Carolina, altho it had abated some-| what, it still had power to do con siderable damage. Two children were hurt in Charlotte; twenty in the when town were clogged In Huntsville, Ala, the tered and the wind whipped the frag ments about to such an extent that inhabitants were forced to flee to near-by mountains to escape its fury MISSING LAD 1S| STILL SOUGHT ‘Kidnaping The- Continue to Draw Lake “YOU MAY FIRE WHEN READY, GRIDLEY,” 1S 26 YEARS OLD TODAY TY-SIX years ago Th y the battle of Manila and won Adn Dewey, commanding squadron Run Down ory; The police missing persons bureau Thursday was leading the search for 4-year-old Arthur Mace, who was reported Wednesday to have been seen with an “elderly” woman Rear the Fremont bridge the day| by an an the nd jand ba nish loss was the practl. out of its fi of 167 and w The American tous slightly wounded hips Reina Christina, rien. t and unding 214 mer s seven Spanish after he mysteriously disappeared,|| Castilla and Don Antonio de March 25. Ullen were sunk and others No further evidence has been dis-| covered to support the kidnapping theory. On the other hand, harbor patrol officials have not yet given) up starch for the hoy's body, as) they believe that he drowned in Lake Union near the foot of Stone- way. ba | Dragging operations failed to lo- cate the body, and the only rematn- Dewey made no effort to cap. ing possibility is that if the boy||ture the city of Manila, having was drowned his body may have! no troops to hold it. He took come to the surface lodging under! | possession of Cavite arsenal and @ houseboat or log boom where it! | biockaded the port escaped detection. | John Carson, $6 Aurora aye.,| identified Di if | “J Esc the oy. whom he dad acon wits CO-Ed Would Escape the white-haired woman on March|“‘Highbrow” Husband oe eee st ie fiven the) BERKELEY, Cal, May 1—Suit MT N. B6th st, renewed hope ungt|for divorce, charging. her husband, burned Two famous phrases emerged from the battle. fore the guna started was: “You may fire when ready, Gridley.” The other, after the enemy's leet was sinking and burning, “Don't fire, boys; the poor devils are dying. | / a University of California senior, ie fort iad with neglect, non-support and cig leruelty, has been filed here by |Mrs, Florence Stewart, university ait sophomore. | Ellsworth Stewart, the husband, lis editor of the Occident, university literary magazine, and is prominent }in dramatic circles. Seattle shut-ins are going to be} 19 her complaint Mra, Stewart the guests of Manager Inverarity |Tecited conversations with her hus- and the Pantages theater, Friday|band in which he declared she afternoon, and Dr. Frank Rk. }moves on a lower intellectual plane Loope, president of the Sunshin@ |than himeelf and he wanted to be Smiles club, composed of shut-ins all over the city, wants the glad|like."" They were married in San news broadcast to every shut-in, |Franciseo in 1920, A wonderful time is promised— all the entertainers on the Pan- tages bill this week are eagerly planning on the special party. Au- tomobiles will call for and return Edward B. Mellen, Merchant, Passes Edward B, Melles, who for the the sufferers, and Chief of Police|past few years has been promi- Severyns will detail some of his|nentiy {dentified with Manning's handsomest officers to assist the sick ones into the theater. If anyone bona fide shut-in wants to go—regardless of belonging to the Sunshine Smiles club—commu- nicate with Dr. Loope at CA ptl- Tea and Coffee Co., Wednesday night month's illness. Mellen was born, in 1864, at Cape |Porpoise, Me., and came to Seattle in 1909 to attend the A-Y.P. expo- Ine, died following a 4626. If anyone has the use of an automobile to donate for a couple ay Hie Mis lived here. evec Se ee ere err: | aie deceased, tn. survived ‘by a Remember the date, Friday, May vife, Mrs. May Bell Mellen, and 2, and to be ready for the big|™ * th 5 } a sister, Mrs. Mary Wilson, of doings promptly at 1 o'clock |Pasadend, Cal, Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon at the University Undertaking parlors. Bellingham Tulip Festival Is Open BELLINGHAM, May 1.—Belling- ham is decked with tullp blossoms for the opening of the fifth annual tulfp festival Thursday. The fete will Jast until Sunday. The blossom then George Cooper of Seattle will judge the displays, A glorious pageant depicting pio- neer days will end with the crown- ing of Miss Marjorie McIntyre, ruler of the festival. show will be opened early Thursday, Brazilians Now Seek Japanese Exclusion RIO DE JANEIRO, May 1.—Pending legislation in the United States to exclude Japanese immigration has caused widespread agitation in Brazil for similar action in this country. 4 Many newspapers are urging exclusion of Japanese, and the National Academy of Medicine has adopted a resolu- tion urging amendment of the present immigration laws to restrict the Japanese quota annually to 5 per cent of the present Japanese population of Brazil. The resolution declares the Japanese are a race that cannot be assimilated and that Japanese immigration threatens the economic stability of the country. The agitation follows extensive efforts by Japanese to increase immigration to this country following establish- ment of Japanese rural colonies in the state of Sao Paulo, where the Japanese already have become prosperous rice few houses blown down were so shat: | free to “see what other women are| -| date President Piling Up Big Mar-|Escaped Reformatory mate Recaptured at Tacoma gin Over Senator Johnsen ator Hir J x ‘ the primary election when ret toda Jame was: leading Wi Ham ( r to 3 ing as many votes as ¢ mer Attorney Gen eral Daugherty has scored a swe ing victory in his fight for } te-at-large, altho he is running Ut 60,000 votes behind Coolldge Every Coolidge and Cox delegate The returns in ¢ main cor teats were Coolidge, 1 jon, 26,183.) James M. ¢ William G. McAdoo, 25,711 Marry M. for dele gate- at-large, Frank Car pentier, 27,507 BERLIN. POLICE BATTLE REDS | May Day Demonstrators | Chased by Armed Forces BY CARL D. GROAT (United Press Staff Correspondent) BERLIN, May 1.—-Pollce broke up 4n extensive gath of communist May day demonstrators here today Heavily armed mounted and fo tachments ewarmed thru the garten, near the former k Lust ace, chasing the redx before them| | when an outbreak seemed imminent The demonstration followed threats by communists that “Red May ¢ would be observed by widespread a | tivity, despite the police ban on all agitation | Detachments of police, armed with rifles, began patrolling the principal | thorofares shortly after dawn and threw up barricades at points where rioting was feared. The regular police co wan re laforced heavily ? | In a clash between communists and police at Koenigsberg, one of the May day demonstrators in r v ed to have been killed » e eral wounded. ATHENS, May 1.—One soldie nd three workmen were here today when tre monstrators they disperse | STRIKE IN PARIS \brated by Stopping All Work | | PARIS, May 1.—-Europe's labor! day—May 1—was recognizet by an extensive cessation of work here today. | Several hundred thousand ein- ployes of factories and shops obeyed | the order of the General Confeder-| Jation of Labor for a May Day | strike to demonstrate the polidarity and power of their organizations § | Taxi users planned a reprisal! strike tomorrow and agreed to re-/ fuse tips to cabmon. | Argentine Police Guarding Streets BUENOS AIRES, May 1.—With thousands of laborers milling in the streets, police watched anxiously to day to see whether the city faced a general strike or the normal May | day celebration. A general strike has been precidted, because of the government order to deduct 5 per| cent from all wages, to provide} funds to make effective the labor | Pension laws, Today the cooks walked out and restaurants and hotel dininz rooms closed. The master bakers voted not to accept April wages, but to continue working, so the country | would not be wtthout bread. They will continue working until affairs are threshed out in court, JAPAN PROBLEM IS UNSOLVED Coolidge Delay Plan Meeting New Difficulties BY DALE (United Pr WASHING ds May Preai- dent Coolidge's proposal to solve the Japanese exclusion problem thru the! negotiation of a treaty with Japan today was facing new difficulties.| To gain time to negotinte, the ad- ministration has urged that the ef- fective date of Japanese exclusion be postponed. Presuming the house and senate conferees are willing, no later than July 1 can be | Agreed upon under the rules of con- | gress, In order to accomplish the pur- | Powe, the treaty must be ratified |by the senate, which Probably will j adjourn early in June, Therefore, the only recourse seen by adminis. | tration advisers is the introduction of a joint resolution in both house | and senate specifically postponing the effective date until a treaty can be negotiated and ratified, eee | Senator Johnson Flays Ban Delay! WASHINGTON, May = 1,—Presi- dent Coolidge should accept without further? delay the measure Passed by congress, providing for Japanese exclusion, was the statement here today by Sen, Hiram Johnson, The plan. of the president and | Secretary Hughes to dolay the ef. fective date of the ban and attempt fo negotiate an ngreement with Japan relative to immigration woule thwart the desire of the American the senator declared, ‘ planters. in’ and result in new problem, he was taken int HURT IN FALL In- ¢ ‘ a He w arrested 1 Wash. Tuesday, and ¢ from A police officer who wa: « him Breaking from the officer, he r acrons the street and leaped ¢ fence and down @ 40-f ment. H neor " op ash I up. Miller, a former Camp Lewin s« dier, was sentenced t ate re formatory jast De « he had stolen an au here and ad driven it to I ‘ where FAVOR M’ADOO Washington Democrats Will Open Session Friday Almost sure to instruct the Wash ington delegation f Iam Gibbs | MoAd ratle com nation wi n morning at the Man t Pine and Marva, ey will be temp. Lewis B. Bchwe permanent chairman. The delegation will be instructed to vote as @ unit for McAdoo until two-thirds its members decide that his cha of nomination for the presidency has gone. The national delegation is sched tled to include Cc. Dit, and the following from Seattle Robert P. Oldham, Mra, Hugh C. Todd, William Pigott and Frank B. Wilson, From Tacoma it is prob. able that Mra Everett G, Griggs and Maurice Langhorne will go. Oldham probably will be chairman of the delegation BLAST KILLS 5 in Oil Explosion KANSAS CITY men were } rm perk nk at t exploded today ‘The cause of the determined. Fire followed the blast time threatened an entire manufac turing district, May 1.—Five d 10 burned, sev when an oil refinery here explosion was un HERE'S MORE ABOUT CATTLE STARTS ON PAGE 1 and for a Segis. and Rosamaines Korndyke.| were killed TILLIE ALKATRA FORMER CHAMPION Tillie Alkatra former world's champion milk producer, chalked up & total production of 156,776 pounds of milk and 6,141 pounds of butter in six consecutive years, Her world’s record for one year's production was 33,425 pounds of milk and 1,323 pounds of butter, made when she Was 9 years old. Sir Aagie de Kol Meade was ap: praised at $27,500, one example of the herd’s worth. “For 100 head of the dairy cattle {neluded in the number I paid from $1,000 to $8,500 apiece,” Hartsook told the United Press. “With the herd I took year before last over 93 per cent of all the Holstein awards in California. My animals hold more state and national records than any herd in California “Naturally, 1 am a bit downheart ed about the necessity but I realize they had to be killed. But thero is one cheering circumstance, On my ranch up in Kern county I have 138 head of young stock, offspring of the animals slain today.” Ex-Governor Now at Atlanta’Pen ATLANTA, Ga, May 1.—Warren T. McCray, former governor of In- diana, under 10-year sentence at Atlanta federal penitentiary for using the mails to defraud, arrived here with two guards shortly after noon today, He was taken Into the station restaurant and ordered a hearty meal—hix Inst meal before entering the penitentiary. The former governor was not handouffed and walked along with FREDERICK & NELSON These Special Groups of Full-Fashioned SILK STOCKINGS OFFER EXCEPTIONAL VALUES $1.35 $1.95 LL are of regular Frederick & Nelson quality, meeting a rigid standard of ex- cellence. 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Kalina Is Marked Man for Thieves For the third time Judge Jacob Kalina was the victim of auto thieves Wednesday night. Kalina’s Kissel touring car was stolen from his home, 813 2ist ave. Tho judge appealed to the police to aid him in recovering the car, HE LEARNED TO COOK IN THE ARMY; THAT’S WHY HE’S ALIVE NOW F ORVIN W. LEVITT had not learned to cook in the army, he would have starved during the past year and a half, ho tes. tified in divorce court Thurs. day, Mildred K. Levitt, 23, his young bride, did not know how to cook, wouldn't learn and wouldn't even attempt to cook, Levitt sald, Finally she went back to her mother, at 1316 10 Mercer st., where she would not ave to keep house. Judge Litchell Gillam gave Levitt an \terlocutory doeree. ‘The young wn is employed at the Paeifie Yood and Product Co,, and re ides at 2221 W, 66th, | | FREDERICK & NELSON Just Unpacked 300 Pairs of WOMEN’S “SAMPLE” SHOES SPECIALLY BOUGHT! SPECIALLY PRICED! SIZE 3 9 5 SIZE 4 41, =) $3. 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