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

CITY MAY SAVE A WEATHER ] UM FORECAST | mod. VOL. 26. NO. 66 Howdy, folks! Do you know where there's a good creek with some trout in it? Why do you approve of the nude hb, I was born that way YE DIARY (May 9 Up betimes, and to looking over my wife's cash account, and she, poor wenet, was correct in her numbers for once, s0 that 1 was well pleased with ber, umtil 1 did see am item which crossed me mightily, and did say, “Look here, milady; you have spent 30 penee for Diaster, and $3 to have tw That's $3.50 you have spen! for your private pleasure! words bet a, and to the office, wearing mig! Article in The tar informs us that grasshoppers with halitosis will drive away earwigs. Why not try garter snakes with whits snow shoes?—Vaughn Woodhouse. News item states that the Banana fsong is considered immoral in Hun. wary Now, all together, boys, let's. boy: | cott the Goulash! re | Japanese scientist has discovered a cure for baldness. Our neighbor, Bill Klepper, owner of the Portland Beavers, should be informed that the recent exclusion act does not apply in this case. { “Who !s Doug Fairbanks?” asks the King of Denmark. Heek, don’t you know that, king? He’s the guy that mar- ried Owen Moore’s former wife. eee Wonder what, Secretary of State Hughes does with all the time he saves by not shaving? Today's Fable: Once upon a time} there was a man who could sing “The Star Spangled Banner" clear P. ~ VOTE HERE Letliirer, says the telephone is the most useful invention. | How about the diaper? a — ——- ee How to complete the Skagit proJ- ect on time: | 1. Capture all the hot air used by | city officials in discussing the | agit. delay. Henri Beraud and Jacques Riviere, | French sggesmen, fought a duel in| Paris yi week. Politicians fre- quently engage in duels in this country, also. But they use poison ADAM AND MADAM | Whatever troubles Adam missed, | This, must haye made him sore: tVhen ‘he and Mother Eve fell out, He couldn't slam the door, | eee ‘ Fishing is getting to be a haz-| ardous occupation since so many of the fellows began to make their own | balt ! George Washington, of Kent, was arrested for having in his possession a gallon of corn whisky. Sheriff, Ah cannot tella lle,” he said; “Ah done it with my little} etill.” H et OP | GRAPHIC SECTION | | This is H. Cholmondeley Waffle, | who yesterday broke a world’s ree- ord by folding a card table in 14) minutes, 23 seconds, The first speed cop to ride a motorcycle in Los A les has re- tired from the police de jot Attu, artment. | ee LD UP Traction Company to Face Suit on Collection of "The Siialiesk With the Biggest Circulation in Washington “AYOUTHS | PAYMENT HELD IN ROBBERY Boy Shot by Cops; Six Locked Up as) Police Raid Safe- $653,000 Amount cracking Duo Cunpasaltnn te Counsel T. J. Le Kennedy Saturday, in an opinion to Finance Chairman EB. L. Blaine, of the elty council, held that the city of Seattle is not legally bound to pay the 1919 street railway taxes and cannot legally pay the taxes, amounting to about $190,000, out of any fund whatever, Kennedy dt aganist the city is void her gen eral fund moneys nor street railway funds can be used to meet thi © claim obli. ¥ Treasurer W, W. Shields § ¥ declared that he will imme. diately in action to distrain suf. fi nt personal property and chat. tels of the Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power company to pay the entire 1919 tax bill, which ts $653, 909 in principal and interest James B. Howe, attorney for the Puget Sound company, sald Saturday that he is unable to announce a pol- fey that will be pursued ty the com> pany, ‘The validity of the county's tax claim against the properties has been upheld by the United States supreme court and the Judgment affirmed. Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas has informed Treasurer | Shields that there iw nothing left to do but for him to proceed to collect the tax, by distraint if necessary Shields announced tlmt Deputy Pros. ecutor Howard A, Hanson will con fer with him early next week and draw up distraint papers against suf- ficlent property of the power com pany to guarantee the tax bill and |that Sheriff Matt Starwich will be directed to seize the property | GIVES HISTORY OF | RAILWAY PURCHASE After pointing out that the city's possession was an optional one, Ken. nedy says that no m is of paying the tax bill was provided by the co cil by ordinance, as required by the city charter. The city is specifically prevented |by charter provisions from paying the money unless the levy against the general fund is voted upon as (Turn to Page 2, Column bu) Juat before noon the police, after an investigation, released the girls, |belfeving them Innocent of connec tion with the robbery. see Two girls and three young men were held in the city Jail Saturday on open charges, and Don Budnick was in the city hospital with a Net in his shoulder, following an t unsuccessful safe robbery at the McGrath Wholesale Candy Co, 2511 Western ave, 3:30 a. m. Satur day The prisoners are: Ethel Ray mond, and her brother, Edwin, 4 Leach, 18; Agnes Tor and Gerald Durning, 21 « is alleged by police to be brother of Jack Durning, shot and in & Critical condition at the city bh al as: the result of an attempted hollup in the Phinney ave. pharmacy a few days ago, BOYS HAD SAFE OUT ON SIDEWALK ‘Two policemen, in a prowler [came up Weatern ave. it bends re ported, when they saw two men with a 1,500 pound anfe in the {middle of the sidewalk in front of the McGrath plant. It contained only books of the company, accord ing t6 W. A. McGrath. When the bandits sighted the prowler car at least one of them jumped into a Hudson touring car nearby and fied. | The officers fired 17 shots at the Meeing car and it was riddied by the bullets when found tater, At 50 miles an hour the car and its pursuers sped thru town to the lice lost sight of the heavier au- tomobile. SEES FUGITIVE In the meantime M 1 Boat right, 2624 Western ave. had been aroused and had witnessed the chase. She sat at her window and saw several persons enter a rooming | finds house across the street It ia to. cated about a block away from the/ candy factory ceo oo acne RIOTING BREAKSIFIND: BODY OF {Turn to Page 2 2, Coun eee, S: Airmen Complete Flying in Northland ‘Three Planes Now at. Chicagoff Pre- paring for Jump Across Sea CORDOVA, Alaska, May 10— The American round the-world flyers have reached Chicagoff, island of Attu—the “jumping off place” for the flight which will lead them from the western te the eastern hemisphere. The three planes piloted by Lieut. | 4, Lowell Smith, in command, and Licuts, Leigh Wade and Erik Nelson, hopped off from Nazan, island of Atka, in the Aleutian group, at 10:10 a, m, yesterday. They arrived at Chicagoff, Island at 7p. m., covering the dis- tance of 530 miles in eight hours, 60 minutes. Advices received here today showed flight without incident, the |machines functioning perfectly and all arriving today. The planes will now be checked | for Chignik, Alaska, to establish his | land tuned up for the supreme test of the entire globe-circling project iclan, continued on the Bering sea coast, but without result. \Martin Searchers Are on Way Here| SAN FRANCISCO, May 10.- Lieut, Earle H. Tonkin, air officer | of the 91st division, and Sergt. I. O. Cooper, departed by airplane for Seattle today en route to Alaska to hunt for Maj. Frederick Martin, missing commander of the United States army's round-the-world expe: | dition. Lieut. Tonkin hopped off from Crissey field shortly after 8 a. m and expected to reach Seattle some time Sunday. On Monday he will embark on the revenue cutter Bear | [flying base and finch” sea t the “inch-by: ch for t From Chigagof the next jump | tor. ltakes the flyers across the head of | ocean, from the Ameri-|nik at noon on April 30 bound 18 | tion counsel |Dutch Harbor, His plane the Pac! can tq the Asiatic continent, and \trom the Western to the E al hemisphere. Maj. Martin hopped off from Chig- was last seen in the vicinity of Port Miller, northwest of Chignik, by a trapper, It Ix to be a flight of 878 miles|who reported that the big plane nerosa open, icy water, thru a|was headed for Behring sea, region known for its Arctic storms land thru whlch only whalers, trad-| ing ships and revenue cutters on | But think of the many times he | patrol visit. retired before! Apparently the only group that | has no lobby at congress Is the public, Tomorrow is Mother's day. Mother will celebrate it as usual by doing things for the rest ef the family. ie reat eternal triangle: Mother, dad and the youngsters, 2 ‘The destination will be Paramu- shiru, in the Kurile islands, Lieut. Doisy Now in Siam Capital PARIS, May 10.—France again} ‘The route will be protected by a| took the lead in long distance alr ef: patrol of Japanoxe and American |forts today when Lieut. Pellotier| destroyers. Doisy arrived in Bangkok, capital of It probably will be Monday or|Slam, according to a dispatch to | taken. While the three qvintors were} winging thelr way westward yester- day the earch for the missing com: mander, Maj, Wrederick Martin, and |muesday bofore this flight Is under. | L’Intransigeant, The French flyer, attempting a| record flight from France to Japan, | reached Bangkok, from Rangoon at 11 2, m,, the newspaper said, making the flight in flye hours, 2, WASH., 1899, at the Postotfice at Seattle Five nost B weder the Act of © SATURDAY, MAY WASHINGTON, What happened to Albert Johnson? » question that Wash- ington 1s asking Itself today, follow- ing Johnson's sudden switch yes- y on the immigration bill. at Northern docks, where the| sponsor of the immi- TOKYO, May Sergt. Alva Harvey, his mechan. | governor to call gendarmes to protect them, but he refused and disorders followed. » missing avin: | | chargea with forgery, George Zim- under arrest here, NAPLES, May the city ‘WHY DID JOHNSON SWITCH JAP VOTE? Sponsor of Japanese Bill Flops but Exclusionists Win D, C, May 10—) his Washington colleagues and re- garded with amusement . from the outset, their friondship for Japanese Inter- ests and’ made no secret of the fact jthat they had been swayed in one by Japanese staunch advocate y of Japanese exclu- completely and voted President Coolldgo's recommendation that the exclusion be postponed as to Its ef- fectiveness until March 1, 1926. Coolldge’s plan lost, and Johnson _Mmeelf today laughed at by THRUOUT JAPAN LOST BRIDE Trouble Starts as dain |17-Year- Old Wite’ 's Body Is, Found, Drowned HARRISBURG, Campaign Ends } 10—Rioting broke! out in several parts of the country | stystery as political parties wound up elections to be held to- was killed and 10) election riot at only the usual pre- cautions In effect. The weather was bright and}Mlan i in Jail Now, and a heavy vote was fore- Ex-Official ‘Held on Forgery Charge} railroad corpora- at Vancouver, B. C.,| ur omen were open in and another fluences in America, OTHER REP: ALL FOR E » other. Washing RESENTATIVES on representa . in opening the debate on (Turn to (Pamela was recovered late yester the Willamette Fukushima re-| yards from the ferry from which ani out! automobile plunged, carrying her to; her death December 5. { Robert Byers was eloping with the | Rioting also was reported in the) irl at the time of the tragedy. Morioka, prefecture of he remained in few hours after the mishap, failed to ‘The campaign was closing peace-| notify the girl's parents, and in the ably in Tokyo with many speakers} opinion of authorities otherwise acted in evidence and socialists working hard to gain a greater representa. | risburg only a suspiciously, whether Mrs. Byers was drowned in {the automobile, as reported. Bail Given Friday under indictment for alleged fradu- , ho was rearrested on a second Indictment, containing prac- ment was also fixed at $10, 000, Convict Man of Murdering Bride KELSO, May 10.—Jury in the trial of Albert Eldon Hutchinson, charged with slaying his girl wife here Feb. ruary 4, today found him guilty of murder in the first degree, ommended life imprisonment The Seattle Star Botered as Second Clans Matter May 4, matese March 8, 187% Per Year, by Mall, $260 * HOME [EDITION] $600,000 IN TAXES uid Sunday is “Mother's Day,” ul Hands and today a Seattle mother, | are J. W. Baker, of 4411 30th ave. W., helps The Star by jallowing us to picture a mother’s hands, among the most May, 10—| beautiful things in the world. of the disappearance of Mrs.| musician, is the mother of 14 children. If you will consider | a heated campaign for the pariia-|J°"¢Phine Dombeck Byers, 17-year-| the good works these hands have performed you will agree} was today written off the| that they must be beautiful—and so are your own mother’s the Lane county sheriff. | hands, Mrs. Baker, who is a gifted) —Photo by Frank Jacobs, Star Staff Photographer BY JIM MARSHALL DAY the reporter saw four hands on the purple velvet cloth of a jeweler’s showcase, Two of tho hands were slim and | white. Gemmed rings decorated them, The nails were long, polished and pointed. The palms resembled rose leaves, soft and pink. These hands were toying with a platinum lavalliiere. The other hands were tauned. There was one ring, @ thick gold band on the third finger of the left. When they were turned over it was seen that the palms were calloused. The nails were all short. One of | them was broken, These hands were examining baby ring! The second pair of hands, of course, ss »| was far more beautiful than the first, N. Y., was in jail Saturday in spite) ANGELES, May 10—|of the fact that his attorneys Fri- day announced that they had ralsed his $10,000 bail, The bail was posted Friday by will be returned) Attorneys Frank Reagan of Seat- to the Northern city to stand trial, tle and Glen Madison according to advices from Vancou- | ver authorities, Earthquake Shakes Naples; No Damage 10,—An undulatory |earthquake shock of 15 seconds dura- tion was recorded here early today, |The epicenter apparently was about i kilometers distant. It is not be- ‘ed there was any damage, May 1 were killed today when their auto- struck by a Chicago, |r Paul pasvenger| Units of Chi-| strangling his wife and driving a big nail into her head. They belonged to a mother, erie ne Ha hands in our picture today belong to Mra, J, W. Baker, a Seattle mother who lives at 4411 30th ave. W. They have raised 14 children—dressed 14 little bodies, tucked those little bodies into their beds at night. They have stroked the soft hair of many babies, They have baked, cooked, washed, tended “land spanked. That is why they are beautiful hands, All| mothers’ hands are beautiful, hecause they spend their years doing good works; because their strength and tenderness is given to the greatest work in the world, Many thousands of us, Sunday, will take mother’s work-worn hands in ours and think again of the won- dorful work they have done, eee A’ mother arranges the flowers you give her tomorrow notice how skillful they are, how deftly | they work. Afterward, when she is working in the kitchen, watch how | quickly and surely mother’s hands | perform their duties. You have heard about “the poetry of motion." .As mother’s hands move swiftly and tirelessly you will realize what the phrase means, ‘There are many thousands of beautiful hands in Seattle. Those that are slim and white, perfumed, are merely pretty. Those that are tanned and capable from raising babies are beautiful. Take mother’s hands in yours Sunday, which is “Mother's Day.” Look at them, admire them. Any mother's hands are among | the most beautiful things in the world, Senate Passes Tax Measure; in House WASHINGTON, May 10,—The sen- ate today passed the tax bill and sent it to conference with the house, As passed, the measure has virtually no resemblance to the bill as reported by the senate financial committee three weeks aro, All the important rate schedules in the Mellon plan were wiped out by the democrati tion and the democ tuted for them, rogressive coal: tic rates substi. Frighten Men F Fedih Apartment Windows Two burglars at an early hour Sat: urday morning held several families in terror while they tried unsuccoss: fully to enter the Warren apart: ments, 211 Warren ave, They were frightened away when the landlady suw them and screamed, soft and) TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. HOUNDS FOLLOW SLAYER Woman Shot Down _ During Quarrel; Posse Pursuing Man in Woods D, D. Swartwood, a farmer, living near Spoon lake, not far from Kent, shot and killed |his wife at 5:30 a. m. Sat- urday. The shooting ended |a quarrel of long standing be- ; tween the pair concerning the ' marriage of their 15-year-old daughter. Six children of the couple, | four boys and ‘two girisy ; were in the home at the time | of the shooting. Swartwood used a shotgun. After the deed he walked away into the | woods, shoeless and without a hat. Deputies under Sher- iff Matt Starwich, with |bloodhounds, are searching for him. The Swartwood home {s on the Jenkins Prairie road, south of the city, and is surrounded by woods. According to the stories told by the children to deputies Saturday, | their father had opposed the wedding | of his young daughter. The mother, on the other hand, favored it. ‘Ths argument led to high words and finally to the slaying. Swartwood is 53 years old; his wife | was 46, | DAUGHTER FINDS | MOTHER'S BODY | Mrs. Swartwood was shot thru the ack while she was opening the back door to go into the house. Her hus- band was standing a few feet away, ccording to the deductions of depu- y sheriffs, i | After she was shot, Mrs. Swart- | wood staggered into the house and jthen fell unconscious over a crate | of eggs in the bathroom. | Her body was discovered a few | minutes later by the youngest daugh- |ter, Una, 18, who was dressing up- | stairs at the time of the shooting, and rushed down to see what It was about. The child then called her brother, Earl, 22, who. was sleeping down- stairs, but did not hear the shot. The children said that their father and mother quarreled bitterly Friday |night over whether or not their daughter, May, should marry a neighbor, J E. Fisher, 28. Mary Miles Minter | and Doctor Sued LOS ANGELES, May 10.—Sult for $50,000 damages, charging false |arrest and imprisonment, was filed jin superior court here today by |Miss Katherine. Herlihy against | Mary Miles Minter, blonde screen actress, and Dr, Raymond B. Mix. sell, Pasadena physician. E Miss Herlihy was employed as a maid by Miss Minter. She alleged that when she accepted employment she understood her duties would consist of waiting upon Miss Minter, jonly, but that she found later she was expected to take orders from |Dr. Mixsell as well. | When she remonstrated, she al- leged, Miss Minter and Dr. Mixsell caused her arrest on charges of dis- | turbing the peace. Mining Engineer Found Murdered SAN. FRANCISCO, May 10.—No progress had been made today by detectives seeking the slayer of Harry Beechwood, 24, mining engi- neer, slain in ar apartment house Thursday night, presumably in “a bootleggers’ quarrel. Beechwood's body was not discov. ored until late -yesterday, It was lying face downward in the kitchen with his straw hat carefully placed in the middle of his back to conceal three bullet holes. Bandit Kills Man Protecting Home | DENVER. May 10.—Met by a hail of shots when ho surprised @ burglar in the, act of looting a. |earage In the rear of his home |here early today, Willlam BE. Carver, 65, sustained wounds that resulted in his death in a hospital morning.