The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 8, 1924, Page 1

CE MOTHER SLA EDITION| The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington TWO CENTS IN re Last 6 Hours Minimum, 48. noon, 63 Temperat Masimom, 6 Today e SeattleStar Clase Matter May a,» ue WOMAN CENSOR THRU; “SMEARING PLOT” IN WHEELER INDICTMENT RAPS MAYOR’S IDEAS Charge Not Expected to “Stick,” Says Third Resignation on Board Seen as Prelude to Trouble Former Montana Official At the Pestoffice at Beatin Wash. under the Act of Congress March 8, 151%, Por Year, by Mail, SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1924. SEATTLE. WIFE IS Courage Won for Her Seattle Girl Battled All the Harder When i Misfortune Overtook Her—and Won Mrs, Mary signed from Holcomb, the city censor to houses. Howdy, folks! Spring is here. “investigate ‘We heard a bull frog last night “sunday {s 3 celebrate it by be ot work. | TA white carnation ffi for Mother's Day. On all the censorship board are likel resignations. Members alm mayor's attitude, Mrs. John the board for 18 months, res Gays. mother’s official emblem | "easons. to those of Mrs. Hol ithe wash rag cently quit as president of th <,#.-9 TIME TOO VALUABLE SULA Gee Gee was awfully mad this: TQ WASTE ON HALLS Merping. Her little brother used her) ype” Holeomb, commenting Nasity care for ; my time is too valuable in m spend it in investigating dar shows, superv the police department.” Mrs. Holeomb lives at 202 member for six years. “MAYOR IGNORED OVER SKAGIT th here busy all to lunch, m my wife wear did forbid ber cap, and so we friendly enough | “The nearest service is Ford serv amy the signboards. There are where you’ can obtain Public Works Board Decides | In California they sel! their “bull” ‘Ae the tourists, and their sick cows to the state. TODAY'S DEFINITION “wite: A candidate for the degree to Hold Up Payments | Storrie Must | Hurry; Then Draw His Tunnel Money Mayor Brown's stand on the Ska- & copy.of this to the Prince | git we comments Vaughn Wood- Albert of Belgium rides in care ordinary citizens, say: jthe city’s department heads Inte 4d ‘Wednesday, and the board of public | There fea rumor that Doe Mat-| "rk" indorsed on its motion to} ean walk in the rain without | withhold all future payments from wet. It is said that he walks | R. C. Storrie & Co. contractors the drops. pending completion of the oe . j tunnel. At the conference were the board | Rack of a Ford Ben the Peck of o Forts | members, Counciimen C. B. Fitzger laugh; I'm rattled |/a!¢, Phit Tindal! and F. 1. Blaine, | Yenough the way it is. | | S**s!t “ngineer Carl F. t ¢jporation Counsel T. J. L. Kennedy | ; ve. atid the mayor. e The officials, after discussing the Doe? councilmen leave on YACM-} . estion, advised that all payments Hens. First we heard of them re- [be held wp, pending completion of re fre Grid last one. Ithe job. ait "Say to R. C. ry! When you are thru and get your money!" said Chalr- He drove @ Ford and n=n George F. Russell, of the board Got oe sre (of public works. ., | This view was indorsed. The lawn tennis magnates won't} Om motion of Fitzgerald, the city Bill Tilden compete because he wii invite RC. Storrie, head of the | Yrites for newspapers. | firm, to confer on the matter. Stor- ‘The newspapers ought to retaliate! rie has ;Superseded R. D. Mulr as [Writing all their reporters who play | head of the work and has made bet- tennis. iter progress since taking hold of Storrie & Co., “Hur. Here wes the body Of Daniel Zrwicky ? Etlers te no'truth in the rumor that | decision, the April estimates for of soe Mason fears the hoot and $59,000, due May 25, will bo held attack his Se-!up, pending completion of the tun- | net. Corporation Counsel T. J. L. Ken- nedy advised that difficulty may be experienced in attempting to collect jthe $500 per day penalty for delay. | Time is not made the exsence of |the contract, Kennedy said. | Mayor Brown urged that no ac- ‘tion be taken that will result in ad- | Tight foot’s number seven, ile my left is number six!” eee ditional delay, The Gorge dam ishould be constructed at once, the perer said. Stone & Webster are “The Greek government wants to ‘adding to their plant and signing up| wad one of its most famous marble lcontracts, and the city must go for- 5, to this country, but we warnjward with the Skagit or lose out, om M@ they might never get it back. |the mayor predicted. |p det it a big league scout saw it. Sey ee Lil Gee Gee says ‘hat a husband ts @ ruined bachelor. oie ‘FORMER JUDGE }) Hair brushes?” ore, not Nas 1 sera talon teeth with EX-Mayor of of Oregon City! i SR __ , Hunted as $100,000 Forger WL GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE 1! VAMP, SEZ: {| OREGON CITY, May 8—Authort- |, t's gettin’ so that a flapper iss today were searching for Grant she’s pretty refined if di chew tharos balers B. Dimick, former county Judge and | who 1% wanted on forgery | But they were continuing alleged and | which latest estimates in- dicate will total more than $100,000. Examination of suspicious docu- iments haye reyealed, according to the district attorney's office, that Dimick forged mortgages, forged the county recorder's signature, and made up fake descriptions of prop- erty in deeds. He placed fictitious signatures at the bottom of large notes, it is alleged. Officials said Dimick had been at these activities for years. His high reputation put him beyond question, | bov,|and many persons entrusted him lwith placing investments, In re- —Gypsy.| turn for the funds they gave him, it is alleged, fake deeds, papers, Dimick {« now being sought by both county and federal authorities, He was last econ Thursday night on a train bound for Spokane, —___. ' mayor, ———- 9 charges. . to trace his forgeries now building motoreycles | jeculat{ons Wo and three gears, but we |) ‘ that they are not equipping | with a reverse, 4, Sear clan: A wind by wire Pullers. ° racy boy’ on wisdom oe “chicks Took intent. Z ty said, “Funny how ak that cogshell skin imier to me,” sald the “how they get in.” instrument new-hatched—hits they, K00d thing about these long other fraudulent They keep the fiappers’ shined, and arr) w0me restaurants you can read AY OM the Walter's coul front, civic ‘worker and theater censor, theater She commented that she didn't consider dance HITS AT CONTRACTOR) Gorge | den, Cor-} come in; the Job, As a result of the board's |" he returned forged notes. | re- censorship board Thursday. halls and all-night picture Plans of Mayor Brown to force these responsibilities on y, it was said, to cause other ost unanimously resent D, MePherson, who was on igned Wednesday, for similar lcomb. George Bouckaert re- e_ board, . on her action, said: “I find y hospital and home work to nce halls and all-night movie| sion of which properly should come under] 28rd ave. She was a board ‘6 DOOMED MEN COLLAPSE Italian Panic-Stricken as Fatal Day Nears |UNNERVED BY GALLOWS Little Louisiana Town Is Execution Scene AMITE, La, May here | Dating Friday for the Calmes, murder of in a state of the hour fof thelr execution neared, They critiged jon thelr prison cots, refusing to were collapse today ae it the duty of a} the} | | —Six Malians! repudiated at a meeting of|condemmed-to be hanged at “68H arise, partake of food or notice the! final preparations for their hang | ings. Hundreds of people poured into! the little town of Amite today for the execution. Altho only a few twill be allowed within sight of the gallows when the men are hanged, friends+ and relatives of the con demned men and scores of curious \flocked to the village. Autoa of many of the arrivals were heavily pvered with dust and showed signs of having been driven points far distant SENTRIES STAND GUARD AT JAIL DOORS No loitering was permitted around the jail. Brisk sentries from a na tional guard unit paced up and down on all sides of the prison and guards ere stationed at intervals of 10 ds. A machine gun was mounted im the jail yard to discourage any threatened attempt to liberate the | prisoners. 3 Sidewalks were jammed as a sec ond national guard unit swung from ja train and marched thru the streets |to the Jail to reinforce the company {which has been on constant duty since | |the men were taken from the New j Orleans Jail Wednesday morning and brought to the scene of the execu tions, The military cordon prepared to make a path for two black-robed nuns who entered the jail and urged! the murderers to pray and repent. The men gave little heed to the sis |ters’ plea and they spent but a short time in the gloomy jail corridor. They departed, leaving prayer books and other religious articles. Guards maintained a constant wateh over the six men, who lay still nd quiet on thelr cots as tho un- (Turn to Page 9, Col in 4) | Alaskan Cable Ship Anchors in Harbor | The 8. S. Delwood, carrying 1,100 miles of the new cable that is to be | laid between Seattle and Ké@tchikan, Alaska, | o'clock from Thursday | docked at Pier 11-B. The Delwood will lay the cable |that she carries and then will return to London to get the second stretch, jwrhiel will complete the link between Seattle and Ketchikan. Members of the military affaire committee of the Chamber of Com- morting and i merce met the cable ship on her ar- | ¢ rival here Thursday morning. The laying of the new cable is a direct result of agitatiog by the chamber here for the new wire connection with the Northland. The present cable has been in serv. joe for 20 years and has gone past the stage of usefulness. ‘Deer Stricken by | Strange Contagion LA GRANDE, Ore., May 8.—Doz- ons of deer, which suffered trom |xome strange malndy, th heon |tound dead in the vicinity of Enter: prixe, in Wallowa county, according to reports from forest rangers and jothers, | She stmply- worked all the harder—and won. | | | | arrived in Biliott bay at 10) Where most, people would have considered deafness a total bar to musical success, Misa Evelyn Plummer did not. |; How she has succeeded ig to be demonstrated next Wednesday, when the former Queen Anne schoolgirl will play a lengthy program here Suppose you were studying music because you had to but be cause you loved it. You have parsed the stage of scates and fin-} ger exercises pin open the flood gates of thelr melody. to you. . Friends applaud You appear in recitals. to lie just’ around the your young life, ‘Then, one day, you. fall is a splitting flash in your Dimly, you feel people pick up and carry you to a cool, bed. You see them. moving, but everything seems uncannily quiet.! There js no sound; Ups move, but no voices can be heard Suddenly you realize, clutch at’ the throat, that never .hear Beethoven's corner head. you you will] majestic} [she |it, telegraphed to her brain Beethoven and Cho-| lot allowing Fame seems} osreer, she ha of] to suecers. white | recital at the Y. W. GC. A will play @ program of | |tions of DeKoven, with | aki, jehords again. | THIS SEATTLE GIRL NEVER GAVE UP That, briefly, is. what to Misa Evelyn Plummer, girl and former . student | Queen Anne school In many cases, happened | stricken as she! Seattle | of West! could understand it, love it and produce it, thru the. vibrations thru her killed fingers Inatea doubl friends giving up, she re practice Again her applauded. Today, instead misfortune to halt her made it a means |TO BE PRESENTED There HIN RECITAL HERE Wednesday evening, May 14 Mis will be presented in a audi Plummer torlum, “She ntirely from memory. includes composi- Grieg, Moszkow- MacDowell and Mendelssohn, She ts a student of Harry Krinke, HOLD FIREMAN AFTER CHASE selections, The program was, people would have given up:|\Woman Companion Is Re- themselves to a iife o! forgotten their music, Evelyn Plummer didn't. She discovered that, altho she could never hear her playing again, resigned routine, DEMAND SEARCH |district when his car careened from FOR MARTIN Seattle Chamber Believes Flyer May Be Alive Requests from the Seattle Cham- ber of Commerce that the search for Maj, Frederick L. Martin, com: of the round-the-world continued in. the of Port Moller and Her- were to be laid before the authorities in Washington, D, , Thursday by the chamber's rep: resentative in that city, Wednesday the chamber wired J. J. Underwood, their representative, that it believes that, Maj, Martin is safe, and does not want the’ goy- ernment to quit the search, Parts of the telegram follow: “Press dispatches Indicate search for Maj, Martin may be abandoned mander ers, be the vicinity enden Bay, jon south side of Alaska peninsula, Fiease see officials of the proper district in | fly- | escapes | leased; Pedestrians Escape Woods, 22, clty fire. man, was being held ‘Thursday fol- lowing his arrest at 12th ave, and kwon st., Wednesday, after an exciting chase thru the business George P. late of the A woman was with Woods, but one aide street to the other, was hot arrested, police records show, Woods was taken to the cily jail by Motorcycle Officer O, K. Hok shumaker after he com- had persons alighting from several of whom had from injury Tho fireman's cary went thru the heart of the business district from ‘Third ave. at Seneca, to 12th and Jackson, where his arrest occurred, Arresting officers sald the man had been drinking. Woods was being held on an open charge Thursday. His caso was being investigated by Police In+ apector J.T, .Muson, Senator Norris Is Opposed to Ticket LINCOLN, Neb. May §—Senator teorge W. Norris. practically cut and his panion frightened pedestrians and cars, street narrow departments and urge that order | oxo from the republican party to- be given available vessels to con: linue search... . We understand Maj, Martin han two weeks’ pro- visions which should last until ho iv pleked up by government vessels or Alaska fishermen. Please exert every effort in thls matter," when he announced in a letter released here that he would not attempt to get friends to vete a straight ticket and wished to “abol- ish party responsibility and in’ tte 1 establish personal responsibil. | day WASHINGTON, mittee wanted to “smear Senator Thomas J. Walsh they were conducting, A. A torney general of Montana, te | Daugherty investigating Grorud said Blair Coan, whe in Montana admitted this, ade |the in indictment of Wheeler to ‘ARMED FANATIC RAIDS HOTEL ‘Carries Bible and Pistol; Is Slain in Police Duel ‘OPENS FIRE May 8 na com Demented Stranger Terrifies | Senators Object to Delay of |1!:30 a. m. Thurwaay, | Guests in Kansas City } KANSAS lobby CITY, Mo, May &— who walked into the of a downtown hotel here to- Bible in one hand and a revolver in the other, was sh and killed. in a battle with police 15 minutes Iater. Authorities be- he was a religious fanatic Papers found in his pocket indi- cated he was from Plerpont, Mich | Passengers at the Union Station | were astonished at 7 a. m., when }doors of the car of a train ar- riving from the North opened and ton, dressed in high leather | boots, corduroy trousers and wide- | brimmed cowboy hat, alighted, He ] had a cocked Tevolyer in one hand, a finger-trigger. In the other he |sjchae a Bible. | LOBBY EMPTIED | AT HIS ARRIVAL | He hurriedly left the station and | walked to the hotel. Four men were | He registered, | eve | seated in the lobby. changing his revolver to his left hand | as he penned his name. Ho placed hia Bible on the cigar counter. Then he turned to the guests tn the lobby and calmly asked: “All of you men believe in God?" Bell boys danhed for the elevator. The called the police.’ the Bible and your right your heart,” the fanatic continued The hotel clerk, seated at the switchboard, called George Fleischer, @ federal narcotic agent, who lives at the hotel. As the four men placed their hands on the Bible, Gaston turned |to one and demanded: | “Where is the girl you stole from | me a year ago at the North ho- hand on I'll go get her,” the guest re- | plied, anxious for an opportunity to leet away, At this point Fleischer, clad in a bath robe and carrying a revolver, appeared on the stair- way. Simultaneously a police car stopped in front of the hotel.) Noticing the patrolman’s uniform, | Gaston opened fire at Fleischer started shooting from the rear and killed the fanatic in stantly. The nator id discredit the The hotel guests mumbied a reply. | clerk dodged behind a counter and | “All of you put your left hand on} the officers. | natio’ con Wheeler and investigations istant at- senate republican Burton K Grorud, former as tified today bef mittee. » investigated Senator Wheeler ding that Coan never expected “stick. JAP BAN DELAY UNDER FIRE Congressmen Battle to Get |: Report Before House ore the New Ruling WASHINGTON, May % The conference report on the new im- migration bill, providing that Jap- nese exclusion shall not become effective until March 1, 1925, by which time the United States is to negotiate an immigration treaty with Japan, came under fire in both) houses today. UrMer Representative, Raker, Call- fornia, democratic members of the} conference organized man Johnston asked unanimous consent to file the ‘epyhe with the house before 11 p. Raker demanded ‘that be be per-| mitted te see the report before it was filed, and that {t be filed when} the house was in session, Repre- sentative Sabath, the other demo- tic member of the conference, | Joined with Raker and said he did | not wish to Jose an opportunity to raise a point | Protests that the report contained | new legilsiation barred under the | rules were made by many senators) j who particularly objected to the jfact that the report would give Uke other nations Japan a quota between July 1 next and March 1, 925. ear ee WASHINGTON, May §.—Charg ing President Coolidge used the im ation bill as a “political foot- nall,” Representative Sabath, Tili- nois, democrat, today announced his j determination to fight adoption of jthe conference report on the bill in |the house tomorrow, { Sabath refused ference report | to sign the con- He will demand in |the house the reason for the sudden lchange of front of house conferees, some of whom announced they had no intention of granting the post- ponement of Japanese exclusion sked by President Coolidge and then agreed to the postponement fter ‘talking with the president. abath today was preparing a state. |ment embodying his charges of poll- th WASHINGTON, May 8.—Ne- gotiations will be opened here -| and in Tokyo for a new immi- (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) Oppositon to efforts being mado to obtain a change in the name of Rainier National park and Mount Rainier to Tacoma National park and Mount Tacoma by political means, after the National Geograph- ic board has refused to approve the change, was further crystallized cities as a result of a boycott of Seat- tle* business houses put into effect several days ago by certain Tacoma firms and now publicly announced in om, Several Seattle merchants report- ed Thursday that Tacoma firms had notified salesmen that unless Seattle citizens withdrew all opposition to the change and assist Tacoma in lining up other cities in the state that the boycott will continue. Sev- eral Tacoma firms have shipped back supplios already received, Josiah Collins, chairman of the special Chamber of Commerce com: mittee which is opposing the change of the name, said: “Opposition to the change is state wide, Nowhere in the state, save in ‘Tacoma, is there any general demand for giving the park and peak another name, Ninety-four organizations in Seattle, with a combined membership of more than 100,000, have adopted resolutions opposing the change, ex: ‘erusive of the thousands who think wtrongly on this subject. ‘Thursday in Seattle and neighboring | Tacoma Boycotts City Over Mountain Fight Seattle Firms Have Goods Returned and They Are Told \ Why, Emphatically res of organizations over the » have taken a similar positon and chambers of commerce in Spo- kane, Walla Walla, Elma, Monte- sano, Aberdeen, Ellensburg, Olympia, Port Townsend and other cites have wired our representatives at the capt tal they are opposed to the change. Oppositon is not confined to a ‘few old-timers in Seattle,’ as Senator Dill a red in his series of misstate- ments to the senate. DILL'S CLERK LOBBIES FOR TACOMA “Tt is announced In Tacoma papers that John M, Coffee, a resident of Tacoma, and now chief clerk to Sena- tor Dill, will devote all his time to lobbying for the Mount Tacoma reso- lution in congress, Congressman’ Al- bert Johnson, of the Tacoma district, has been endeavoring to pledge votes for the bill, even in advance of any committee hearings to determine the merits of the controversy, Thus this matter has become, because of the frameup made by Senator Dill and Congressman Johnson with a group of Tacoma people, a matter of politi: cal trading, Irrespective of the merits. “So if Tacoma boyeotts every city j Whose chamber of commerce fs fight: \ing this change of name, it will be boycotting not only Seattle but a dozen other promiient cities.” Discussing the effects of th Ss (Turn to Page 9, Column when Chair-| of order against It.| SHOT BY LOGGER “I Love You,” Cries Woman, Dying at Feet of Enraged Camp Worker TACOMA, May 8 letters written by Informed by neighbors that .Wife was keeping company with his friend, Ben Koske jlogger, Mike Miler, 38, 5 longing camp near a one employed at Bhelton IN LOBBY |SEE NEW LEGISLATION | 2%! t0 nis home, two miler ean of Fern Hill, nd killed hi near wife here, an Kathryn. After the and shooting he called the surrendered. His three daughters, May, 8; Kathryn, 6, and Elsie, 4, witnes: the slaying their mother Miller, urMismayed by the of the midnight shooting, told pe lice Thursday that he had quarreled with his wife several times over the presence of his one-time friend at his home while Miller was absent and recently bought a 38-caliber re | volver. Wednesday a woman neiz |bor wrote him advising him to come home. He arrived shortly after midni and aroused his wife. She a and’ they quarreled. Then Mille: said he drew his pistol and shot jonce at his wife's feet to frighteo her, | ‘Don't shoot,” the woman sobbed Miller admitted that he shot onco more, the bullet penetrating 1 | wife's neck below the chin. As slic sank to the floor dying, Miller said Mrs, Miller cried, “I love him.” I told her then, ‘You're not good \gaougn to live,’ Miller explained Detabine ibs Satin, Miliee ok lup his wife's form and laid her thack on the bed, arranging a pil low beneath her head. Getting basin of water, he cleansed tl | wound below her chin and then or- deved his eldest daughter, May, to zc to a neighbor's home and tele. phone for ambulance. M | failed to get a response, Miller sai {so he left the children with the | body of their mother and called the | police himself. Tho the shooting occurred shortly Jafter midnight, the police were not jnotified: until 2 a, m., when, Miger |called them. Officers declare their beiict that the slaying ts the outcome of a lon’ series of quarrels over Koske, deputy sheriffs were called te the Miller home about a month ago, when, Miller alleged, he returned home unexpectedly and found Koske jin the house, “He got away .too quickly for me,” Miller explained, RESCUE WOMAN ON ISLAND | police results |Marooned by Tide, She Is Thought Rum Runner NEW YORK, May 8.—After being marooned all night on Fire island by the tide and confronted at 3 a. m. by six men who covered her with revolvers, Mrs. Maude Balling- ton Booth, the “Little Mother of the Volunteers of America,” was res- cued today by government agents, who assisted her to New York just as her husband, the general, askec police assistance to find her. Mrs, Booth had gone to seek soli- tude on the island to prepare an address for the forthcoming inter- national prison congress. Absorbed in her work she did not notice when the tide went out, leaving her boat high and dry. She hoisted a red signal and went to a little cdttage to spend the night. Government agents, suspecting the light was a signal to rum runners, surrounded the cottage. WOMAN IS HURT, DRIVER HELD John Pantages Booked After Downtown Accident John N. Pantages, a Greek, was booked at the police station on & reckless driving charge Thursday, following an accident in which Miss Susan Naismith, 1519 Second ave, was seriously hurt, The collision o¢: curred at Bighth ave. and Pine st. Miss Naismith is in the elty hospital, possibly with a skull fracture, sseyereere: