The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 12, 1924, Page 1

N SA LS FOR ~~ EATTLE TUESDAY! Howdy, folks! Do you remem. ber when you could buy a tall, cool one for a nickel? Market reporter raspberries on West yes up that r noted on the ball weeks. tes arrival es have be r the last town there Pp who seems never to 9 except sharpen an ar anythi The way eley Seattle office buildi rs work In some suggests that ep the eleva 4 OUT OF THE MOUTHS oF BABES “Hide your diamond carrings, ama; here comes the assessor!” x Note Mayor Brown vis last week to find out whether it is a river or a new brand ¢ washing powder Abe Mar ¢ the old-t mn asks What's become ne lover that used to lay nickel cigars on the mantel ne sat down on the sofy?” bumming his best girl's fore h He timas. WEIGH "EM YOURSELF These books are worth their weight tm gold. Bend for them at.the price named and we will send them to Leachville ( a by return Ark.) Cresset. Irving Berlin has written a “key- note song” for the democratic na-, fopal convention. An idea! The lemocrats should get him {o, write fieir” platform. Qhie may be the “mother of presi- dents,” but this year she seems to = practicing birth control. Me ADAM Whatever troubles Adam had, And he had some, I ‘spose, He never sat behind a hat } At moving picture shows. , Sera unset, Texas: “Todd's Ladies, Gents and Rall- In the “Beacon Hill Mystery” there is a tribe of wild women de- cribed aa wearing wo clothes other than their own long hair. It sure would be awful if the bobbed hair craze strnek that bunch. wee The months without an “r” are here, and we're stil] looking for that summer job for an oyster. Shouldn't the backbone of an ster qualify it for a political job? e986 j Bill Tilden and Vincent Richards may turn professional, but we can't imagine a hard-boiled bunch of sports cheering wildly when the um. pire calls “Thirty love!” evi rig ae CANDIDATES FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB Politicians who wear broad- brimmed hats, string ties and Prince Albert coats. see Two congressmen got into a fight} last week, but unfortunately neither was injuréd. oe If members of congress continue to wage fist fights, the Congressional | Record will have to issue a sporting supplement. . Aviator arrested in Los Angeles for flying while intoxicated. We dont know what kind of stuff he was drinking, but it sounds like “Old soe MILES eee Old Silag Grump, the Sage of Pumpkin Hollow, says: “Th’ Lord giveth—and th’ rest of us are pretty tight.” pe er YE DIARY (May 11) (Lord's day.) Wakened early by the san shining in the room, and the song of birds ‘outside the window. Thence up and to trimming the rose-bushes, and did note that the locust tree and the walnut tree are beginning to bud, but the quince do suffer from m strange dixease, And wild blackberry vines over-running the yard, do promise myself many galk of wine for fall days, with. planked steak: a low. lands beyond the hill, and rich, lascions peas from the garden, if the weeds do not become too arrogant, 7+ There is only one thing to do with a silk hat. Line it with copper and use It as a cuspidor, Ad, 8. WEATHER Vair tonight and Tuesday; con- tinued warin; moderate northeasterly winds. FORECAST : VOL. 26. NO. 67. asim, he seattle woond SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, MAY 12, 1924 ase Ma , rh © Pow ® *. Wash . CENTS IN SEATTLE * RESCUED FLYERS COMING TO Maj. Frederick L. Martin, who arrived afoot at Port Mol ler, Alaska, Saturday night with his mechanic, Sergt. Alva Harvey, after having been missing in the wilds the North since April 30, when his plane crashed into a moun tain in a fog, was to leave Port Moller Tuesday morning for Se attle, according to information contained in a wire received f WORLD'S CIT © of | the ship. at the Lith here Monday The message Maj. Martin to Washington, D. d by the statior follows Naval Heserve The @ bh did x name of the boat, but the ¢ pate tate t n coming on 6 was alr Cc & wire from headquarters tn n ared es’ Co, | however which told of hin having ed at Port Mol Martin Is Ordered Back to Washington WASHINGTON, May Maj rick, ehief of the (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) rrive furt s at Bellin Am: in. |he arrive Alt hattered. sham 1 | struction th BY ES ON TINY ALASKAN PORT EXCLUDE JAPS SOON AS POSSIBLE—JONES Wash Senator Wesley L. Jones favors datogtoen y ington Senator Tells Star He’s fe Against Coolidge Plan [become effective and that the ex Y! A message was received, | A week of thrills Thrills and Cash Await Girl Who'll Be “Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model” and Win Fame and Fortune in Week of Thrills Here? similar to those experienced by the famous “Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model,” together with $25 in cash, await a Seattle girl today. Claire Windsor, Se attle film star, who appears in the celluloid version of “Nellie,” challenged other girls here Monday to do the stunts she did in the filming. The film is to be Shown at the | Blue Mouse. Star verified it by wire. STEAL $229 IN STORE HOLDUP | Armed Bandit Pair Escape After Daylight Robbery POSED AS CUSTOMERS Young Men, Unmasked, Are Sought by Police Striding quietly into the terla at 6419 Ballard ave, about 10 o'clock Monday morning, two armed unmasked bandits held up. C. H. Groce- | | eee NWARD thundered the fast mail! Nearer! Nearer! The girl, [bound and gagged across the steel |twirtng his black mustachios furious. ly as he gazed greedily on the fair |and innocent face of his intended vic-| | tim, . scream: Down upon her helpless form roared the stee) monster... “at You scor-r-r-n muh! But you shall be mine! Bind her, men, and carry her to muh waiting limou- sine.” Thus snarled Harold de Vere, . | | Her golden curls spread upon the} |white pillow, the beautiful young! jcloak model slumbered, a smile upon | jer coral lips. Suddenly there was an | pus crackling. Wisps of smoke | filtered into the room. Angry red| flames flared at the window. The! stifling odor of smoke a: girl's nostrils. She starte | blue eyes wide with horror. up, her | “Fire! | | | track, felt the vibration-and tried to | TO PAY TAX 1 | w led the! Wien Manager John Hamrick told The Star of Claire’s challenge, The Now let’s show Claire that Seattle has plenty of girls nervy enough to go thru the stunts she did. CITY REFUSES Council Thinks $600,000 Is Not an Obligation LAWSUIT IS AHEAD Kennedy Rules Seattle Is Not Liable for Big Sum Finance Chairman” EB.) L. Blaine preparing Monday to present a resolution to the city council, in committee of the whole, setting forth |the intention of the city of Seattle and es-j Fire!’ came the cry from the excited} +, stand upon the Saturday opinion Holberg, store manager, making Japanese exclusion effective | clusion law should not become effect | the conference committee first be fixed as the d: as soon as possible. This was the substance of a wire | he sent to The Star Monday in re spohse to a query from this news- paper asking him if he intended to support President Coolidge in the president's effort to have the ex- clusion date postponed until March of next year. The immigration bill, containing the exclusion clause, was to be re ported back to the house today by the joint conference committee. When re turned the bill it provided, at Cool idge’s request, that March 25, 19 e exclusion sho effective July 1 of this year. 4 FIVE IMPRISONED IN IRON MINE Rescuers Talk to Victims 1,900 Feet Under Ground GILMAN, Col, May 12.—Cheer: fully résting and smoking and occa sionally holding conversation with a | rescuing party throu a two-inch tube that had been sunk to them, five min- ers were patlently waiting early to- and debris that have held them pris- oner on the 1,900-foot level! of the | Black Iron mine of the Empire Zino company here since late Saturday. Indications were that the men would ut by noon, Entombed late Saturday by a cave in, the men were thought almost cer sinly lost. Rescue crews working at lfeverish speed in 16-minute shifts, | ucceeded finally in establishing com. munication with them. Japan’s Premier Loses Election TOKYO, May 12.—The government of Premier Kiyoura appeared to have been defeated soundly in Saturday's tional elections on the basis of still incomplete returns today, Many newapapera predict resigna tion of the cabinet, but a government | spokesman Sunday night declared {this would not occur, even if the Seiyuhonto, or Kiyoura party, were beaten. be It provides for exclusion to become | day for the removal of fallen timbers | jive in case a treaty was entered into before that time between this nation and Japan. | house rejected this attempt by Coolidge and returned the bill for a new report. The measure, as resub. mitted, includes no mention of a treaty Whether the president, in case tho bill is passed, will veto the immigra. }tion measure to prevent exclusion |from becoming effective a ques! Here is Port Moller, Alaska, center of the world’s eyes tion that was puzzling Wakhington % bevae | Monday. It was to this small settlement that Major Fred Gultaenia: iesday wind-op te arms, | Martin and Sergeant Alva Harvey staggered Sunday, after | charging that the president lot tt be| having been wrecked and lost for more than a week. The understood, In advance of the Calt-/ wireless masts shown in the upper picture hold the aerials alt eth ae eden for boat from which the first news of the aviators’ safe ty was sent ai 4belviee Wah in he ones broadcast. Below: Major Martin and Sergeant Alva Har- ms —|vey, his mechanician. OVER STATE Dry Weather Starts Fires) rere A | Near Sequim and Clallam | Lose Money on Shaves, They Say, so Logically Ce | They Increase Trimming Costs VSAM SEaricL PHOTO. Panchot, 6715 20th ave. N. F., Senttle Barbers Find New Alibi ' as Haircut Prices Soar A forest fire was raging Monday in logged-off land near Sequim, 20, Master miles west of Port Angeles. Ac- the cording to word recelved In Seattle!50 cents to 65 cents’ Monday dis- {Monday, a large force of men was| covered an allbl at the same time trying to hold the flames in check.| They blamed patrons who. pur- The fire started Sunday afternoon. | chased shaves without. haircut. Another forest fire on the Olym-|'Thesa patrons, it became known, | pie peninsula started Sunday in thejaro referred to among barbers as dead timber felled by the big wind-|"squirrels,” or. “boxcars,"" | storm of 1922 south of Clallam bay.| Ana Phil Cook, | Two hundred men and six pumps! sister Barbers | Werp used to prevent its mread,|teq “squirrels” never. got rood and it was said to be completely! service in many barber. shops ax under control Mohday morning. {those patrons who played jt ‘across | Sunday “being a dangerous day/the poard for haircut, shave: and | Utther for forest fires, with a high tem-|tonjc, | | perature and . | Hoh Mp sa ore tee aed Barbers, Cook said, had been los- lation closely, but no further firea|{2® Money on each shave, when it of any importance had. been. re.|W#sn't. accompanied by a haircut, | ported at the Seattle office Monday|. Therefore, tho price of haircuts porte. had to be rained. (Oh, figure it out wt NE yourself! We never were good at logic.) As Cook figured including towels, barbers price ot of Seattle who} cut haircuts from | indul p # on luxuries, in only by Thus, ma .|ped from $1.26 generally well-to-do per- have drop- raised | sons. Several shops have introduced an 11 p. m. closing hour, with an additional dime charge after 6 p, m. Declaring 98 per cent of the men, women and children of Seattle were in favor of a reduction and not an | increase, Tom Pago, founder of the Whiskerino club, predicted an eariy reversal to the old rates and even a necretary to the| association, admit. as reduction “The people have not the money," Page said. “Ninety-elght per cont of the people are in favor of a reduc. tion and not an increase and will not countenance the barbers’ action,’ Page declared the increase would eliminate “tips” from patrons and that the shops would gain at the ex. pense of tho Individual barbers, Five Persons Die A * | in Blazing Home | cons the tarbor 26 cents, They | BANGOR, Maine, May 12.-Five| used to sell for two bits; now the | persons were burned fo death and|price, in some shops, is 25 cents, three others seriously injured when|That makes the present profit | fire destroyed the home of John Bro. | about per cent. | gan at Millinockett today, Some suburban shops and many Those burned to death were Mrs,|local shops not members of the as: Mary Brogan and her four children, | sociation have fixed the prices at Hrogan and two sons were Injured| minimums of 60 cents for hnircuta when they leaped from n second.!and 26 cents for shaves. story window to escape the flames, Association shops, however, have It, each shave, eam and One Dead, One Hurt ‘ ] in Auto Accident RENO, Nev. May 12.—F, Kk. An. derson of Denver, Colo., was killed and Mrs, M, Rogers of Reno seri- ously injured when an automobile in which they were riding and a Southern Paetfic train collided at a grade crossing seven miles w Reno late Sunday caped with $229.22. Holberg was forced to stand with his hands in the alr, while one of the bandits | kept a pistol trained on him and the other walked out with the money. had reported, Holberg just opened when the | walked in and asked for a purchase jof canned goods. Holberg turned to wait on them and one man push- ed. a gun into Holberg’s side, The jother bandit scooped up the money from the cash register and put it jin his pocket. The daylight holdup men also took a $49 check, but dropped it in the alleyway. The police have been unable to locate the bandits, both of whom were young, | dreseed. and unmasked. the store, he men BOOZE RAIDS |Two Men Also Arrested in | Federal Liquor Cases | Six persons, four of them women, | were under arrest Monday for liquor law violations as the result of what | Assistant Prohibition Director W. M. Whitney calls a “ladies’ night,” which began Saturday night and continued jover Sunday. Catherine. Beeman and Myrtle | Kafer were taken, with quantities of | whisky, moonshine and beer,.in a raid on a roadhouse at 2560 Elliott jave, The house, prohibition officers | say, has deen raided several times. Secret caches that had been over: looked in previous searches gave up their secrets, which consisted of one case of bonded liquor and other less- er Intoxicants, when federal officers arrrested Emma . Miles in her rooms at the Berkeley hotel, 140544 First ave. The secret hiding places Included a cupboard with a sliding panel, a trick baseboard and other devices. Anna Mack, 1811 FE. Madison st., completed the “ladies’ night” when she was arrested after prohibition officers claim to have purchased drinks with marked money, Two men, George W. Johnson, and Harry Kent, were taken in raids on a rooming house at 1626 Seventh we shabbily- | FOUR WOMEN IN crowds below. “Clang! Clang!" rang the bells upon the midnight air...! j eee | You remember “Nellie, the Beauti- | | ful Cloak Model,” don't you? Thrills | were duck soup to Nell. It was a {poor day for her when she wasn't kidnaped, saved from a blazing build. | jing, rescued from the clutches of aj} | designing villain and cut loose just as jthe buzzsaw started to slash her in | two. | Recently Claire Windsor, Seattle |girl and movie star, impersonated | Nellie for the movies. ‘The film is jcoming to the Blue Mouse next Sat- | urday, | ‘To a telegram of congratulation on | her performance Miss Windsor Mon- day wired The Star: “Thanks com-| ment, If any other Seattle girl wants/| thrills enough to last a lifetime she ought to go thru experiences T did| in making film. I dare one of thei | to do stunts I did. Claire Windsor.”’| You're not going to let Claire get away with that, are you? ‘The Star ts going to show 'em that | Seattle girls have the nerve. neces- sary to do all the stunts Claire does In “Nellie”—and then some. For the girl who will there's $25 in cash and an accident insurance policy. tiene Seattle's “Thrill-a-day Nellie’ will} be picked at noon Tuesday and given | her first thrill Tuesday afternoon, Any girl who wants a week of thrills and $25 in cash must apply before noon Tuesday to “the thrill man” at the Blue Mouse theater, on Fifth, be- tween Union and Pike. For their part The Star and the Blue Mouse management promise to return Seattle's Nellie safe and sound to her friends and relatives with enough tickets to the photoplay so that all of them may see that, when it comes to clean, cool nerve, Seattle girls are there with a bang! Funeral Services of Mrs. Work Held WASHINGTON, May 12.—Funeral services for Mrs. Hubert Work, wife of the secretary of the interior, were held today at the White House, and were attended by President and Mrs. Coolidge and other high officials, Burial was in Arlington national cemote! Holding of funeral services at the White House for persons other than members of the family is unusual, but there ure some precedents, Mrs. Work is being buried in Arlington of Corporation Counsel T. J. L. Ken- nedy, and refuse to pay $600,000 of 1919 county taxes on the Seattle street. rail: The resolution was to be addressed to A. W. Leonard, president of the Puget Sound Power & Light Co., from which the utility was purchased. Developments over Sunday point to a lawsuit as the method of set- tling whether the power company or the eity will pay the back taxes. The power company, thru its coun- sel, James B. Howe, Monday reiter- ated a last-week refusal to announce a_policy,, but city hall officials be- Tieve that, with the city refusing to pay the $653,000 principal and Inter- est, it will be sued by the utiltiy company. TO START ACTION TO SEIZE PROPERTY This seemed more apparent Mon- day, when W. W. Shields, county treasurer, declared he was prepar- ing, on advice of the prosecuting at- torney's office, to put the tax claims before Sheriff Matt Starwich, to start distraint and seizure proceed- ings against the Puget Sound Poweg & Light Co. Shields said action would not be taken for two or three days, Corporation Counsel Kennedy's opinion, handed down at the request of Councilman Blaine Saturday, de- clared that: “Where a general debt is to be incurred as a2 part of the purchase price of a municipal public utility, the amount of such indebtedness, and the terms thereof, must be in- cluded. in a plan or system ordi. nance, which must be submitted to the voters for their ratification or rejection.” This. was’ not ‘done in the traction deal, and. it therefore necessarily follows that these taxes cannot be paid by use of general money, he added. Use of street railway funds to pay the taxes also ts barred, Ken- nedy held. SEEK MOTORIST, Speeds Away After Knock- ing Man Unconscious Knocked down by a hit.and-ran driver, at Third ave. and Pike st., Monday morning, Terry Scanion, Right hotel, was taken to the eity hospital unconscious and suffering from severe bruises. The police are searching for the auto which struck because Secretary Work was an of: ficer In the army medical corps during the Scanlon was picked up him, wes Whittlx, 825 B, 78th st, ye