The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 15, 1924, Page 1

ANGRY MO (— WEATHER | Temperature Maximum, 61 Today noon, 60. Howdy, folks! University pro foser says Seattleites of 000, | i years age were shell fish, see mes haven't changed much We) Jarve @ lot of citizens who are | i ise everybody knows o few who! ‘Twenty million years ago Seattle | sat the bottom of a warm sea. me vas hot running water in| reom. see ; fattle was populated entirely by | fig yesnties days, and some | Dermacies are still trying to} ‘city’ eee FROM MISSOURI, TOO GLYMPIA, Wash. — Missouri of Gov. Louis F. Hart are Bis consent to start a boont | m for his: candi the Vies a a it was at the office this morning. It n whether the Gov- 9 formerly lived in Mis. accept.—News dispateh. | Hart is the cam; Coo! | be changed 10 Chew Granger Twist | ted with | Last M4 Minimum, The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington Batered as Geoone Class Matior May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle SEATTLE, WASH., Will Mr. Coolidge Listen? Proud Americans to Hear Japanese Boy Deliver Valedictory slogan will |: “Keep Franklin Hi School THURSDAY, MAY 15, at 1924. — SOLDIER BILL 1S VETOED “Economy” Plead- ed by President in Veto Message to Congressmen BY A. L. BRADFORD (United Press staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON May 15— President Coolidge today vetoed the soldier bonus insurance bill, on the ground that the measure would prove too great a drain on the nation's finances, Reports to this effect were made to the president by Sec y of the Treasury Mellon and Gen. Lord, dt, ofethe budget In a long’ veto message sent to congrens today, the president once more streaned the neceasity of gov. rhmental economy. under the Act of Congress March 8, 1878, house week ~The Seattle Sta Per Your, by Mall, 140 EDITI TWO CENTS lilsBonus MENACES COP ON IN SEATTLE. Measure Goes to Senate Tomorrow, and Then It’s Up to President WASHIN toda iTON, May Administration leaders in the house who opposed the July 1 date las when the report was sent ba conference, » it announcing that a vote for the today not arded an a eside The conference report n whieh is expected to ac pmorrow, whereupon the ure will go to the president for w goon to action Prenident Coo became ap: parent today his efforts tom 15.—By approved the immigration bill conference re- port making Japanese exclusion effective July stricting general immigration to approximately | the bil | a vote of 308 to 58, the 1 and re- 150,000. clau thru negotiation th congressional leaders In a he conferen: ¢ Johnson, W speech p report, Represents nt Coolidge nd exclusion approved of restriction and that hj recent effort pone the ¢ffective date was blow at the principle of exclus Johnson said he was sure nothing would now stand in the way of the bill becoming law, “either here or ewhere.” N suot oc, is Phone Cash Returned! OFFICER! Trafficman, Drunk in Car, Knocked Down Woman, Say Witnesses Charges that a drunken | police traffic officer, driv- ing an automobile Thursday night, crashed into another machine driven by S. W. Barish, 4032 42nd ave. S. W., | knocking Mrs. Barish uncon- */scious and badly damaging both machines on a West Se- ttle street crossing, were be- ling investigated by Chief of | Police W. B Severyns Thurs- | day. The traffic headqua 1B | Ciilef Fuqua, Wise waa. ord jsurpended indefinitely while the | vestigation js. under way by Chict officer ts stationed Frank A. W the under T | Everett tetephone subseribera were sugseribers: oll nottied. Thuraday by the Puget| ‘That it. discontinued © the “Tele Sound Telephone company that re. | chrones May 21, 1923, but dater rie | bates totaling $11,524.94 will be paid | covered that some of them had beon profit last year was Severyna. AFFAIR IS wad fosh, that fellow must concession or the Back of a Ford: chase me, and I'll _ chase you. = eee | ‘men were blocking traffic, | While they had an argu- | } | ia an altercation?” honor, they were in a eee is: Shaving the lawn eee forced resighation be! Cray, Forest Branch be- €xecutive of Indiana. ‘@ Rame like that, he ct 8 al timber, eee Favorite to Win Ken. “—Headline. eee FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB gue 2; PLANT REMOVAL hl ftiends—Screenland Pe : My Waves’ marceiled. ‘ee "There, little minnow, a t you ery, © You bea sardine by and by. iy. xe eta have attacked | yet. Guess they think hav halitoste, 4 dec has invented an Ap “will predict earth “Misiutes before they oc- it Is needed now is a serum | & chance, he never had to fear ‘Nee year the pants. age ‘Bee, government as- Mare Island navy yard, Waves. travel only @ Second and are slow “jal not stage a race Tadio wave and a beam of ae found in tea are said retin life-giving qualities. Belence wonderful? we Ik that those things were be ping fortunes, i piany (May 14) and to reading “The! ler und Viola | P pemimatiaue for my} rn an te emoking a rt Cen Tia have 2 at the office, = Gee thinks that Puget | Md would be better “vie if it} FAna St, Vin- | | Deputy Sheriff. Released on by the company to:subscribers over-| operating and that subscribers had/ Bail; Wife Unnerved Deputy Sheriff Ray Murphy re turned from Ellensburg with three| prisoners Wednesday and immediate ly became one himself when Sheriff | Matt Starwich served a warrant on him charging he maliciously shot a | pet dog bolonging to the children of } Mr, | Murphy had been ab: pe Speakers on the commencement day program of Franklin high school posed for The ‘tor fae ot cub putting a derby | Star’s cameraman Thursday. Top, left.to right, they are: and Bernice Parrish. Below are Stanley Brogren, Japanese, leader of the class and valedictorian. ORDERED Arrest of Packing ‘Company Officials Threatened IS CITED | Building Stiperintendent in Ultimatum to Firm Barton & Co.'s packing plant must) be removed from: its present location | jin the Duwamish waterway at Once |). sitution | ov officers of the company will be larrested daily until the plant is moved, Robert Proctor, superintend- Jent of buildings, announced ‘Thurs- | day. | Proctor said that he will ask Cor: | poration Counsel J. T. 1. Kennedy to \araw up a complaint charging the | concern with violation of the zoning | ordinance which will be filed at once and that similar complaints will. be filed against the compuny each day until the slaughter house is removed from the prohibited area. | Proctor’s decision brings to a clim: ax a fight of four’ years standing against the Barton & Co. plant, which has been waged vigorously and con. tinually for the past four years by residents of West Seattle. The plant exudes offerisives and nauseous odors which irritate residents of West Se- attle compelled to cross the Spokane st. bridge, by the thousands each day The odors are intensively of- fensive during the winter months and | when fogs prevail over the water way, Proctor says sRMIT | EXPIRED The company’s permit to conduct a slaughter+house.on the site expired in July, 1920, and has never been re- newed, Proctor Mid. Since that date (turn to Page 9, Colamn 4) mr | | | | \ ry 'GNORANT of the facts, unwilling to learn, President Coolidge coolly ignores the menace of the Japanese Invasion of, the: Pacific ‘coast, open. For years The Star has maintained | that te menace fs not in the future; that it is here now. This newspaper has pointed éut that, far from being ,| premature, closing of the door against future Oriental infiltration has been too long delayed. ‘Thursday The Star is proven right; President Coolidge proven wrong. JAPANESE TO INSTRUCT AMERICANS IN IDEALS On the evening of June 11. parents and friends of 211. seniors Franklin: high school. will the commencement exercises, Those exercises are’ typically an« American To them come — proud mothers, smiling fathers. Winsome American girls and sturdy American boys, in white gradtntion frocks and | ~ unaccustomed “best suita,’’ live thru what {s, to: many of them, the great- ent event of their lives, When these hundreds of Ameri. cans gather in Franklin high school auditorium have the @xperience of, listening 1 Taduo Kamura, 17-year-old subject of the Mikado. Nursed from his inherent) barbar. ism by American efueation, aping American custom in his © clothing, (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) VESEY Ei oe AR CAR KILLS GIRL Bellingham Boy. of 16 Years Is Held Under Arrest BELL INGHAM Stoney,” 16,,.auto arrest. today» following the © death lant night of 7 Marjofie» Sasse, %, daughtér” of. A. “H. Sasse; local in- surance) agent. Pho girl wo car” on “a ‘steep’ High ‘at, May, 15.—Kenest driver, is under _#tiuek by," Stoney’s hill from | meet for | that evening they will! Helen Boyd, Dorothy Baker | salutatorian, and Tadao Kamura, | deputy. —Photos by Frank Jacobs, Star Staff Photographer IN PERIL ing’Area on Columbi Fisheries Clash BY W. B. Whether or not my seize the ultima valmon industry — of | Northwest is. the in the fight Priest River power project, Freeman, representing the fi industries of Washington fan, declared Thursday, folk |the meeting of fishing and men in the Chamber of Com | Wednesday. | ‘The fight between the fishin: power interests arose over the cation by ie Washington Teri FRANCE power ites and erect the F principle being made permit to erect a 90-foot Priest ‘river rapids, of Yakima, on the Columbia (Turn to Page 9, Column Billy Sunday and nocy, %, Minn. May Billy Sunday and "Ma" arrived Memphis. in thelr — special early today and were taken dir the Kahler hotel by Dr. W a close. friend of the famous welist. Sunday is suffering kidney ae Mrs. Sunday, injured by an, mobile trick recently, . was from the car on a stretcher, on FISH INDUSTRY He} demands that the open door be kept | | Freeman Fears for Spawn- | ite a companies dams to destruction of the Paclti involve the Miller ishing and Ore- lowing power merce | and appli gation | & Development Co, for a permanent dam at 30 miles east river. 6) | “Ma” in Minnesota 16. from ur ect to J. Mayo, evans from Auto. taken “a and Mra. J. F. Brehm, 4042 Bighth ave. N. E. Murphy deponited | 50 bail and wag released immediate ly to continue hig duties. nt from the | city for three days since the wa: bing | |was {ssued on complaint of King| | County Humane society agents. On| his return he learned that the war rant had been issued, also that nu- | merous anonymous persons had been annoying his wife over the telephone making threats against him. Mrs, | | Murphy fn of a nervous temperament and on the verge of a breakdown, a cording to Murphy's associates, | Charges that he had wantonly shot the animal were denied by the| The dog, he said, had been | the habit of chasing him and on jthe day in question, had caused him |to be “ditched” from his motorcycle |Some months ago a dog barking at | be thrown to the pavement, ing. his leg permanent! | “I love dogs and have three of my laws the deputy said. “But they | never run into tho streets to chase | |automobiles or motorcycles, and any dog that does and endangers human | should be destroyed or kept oft| \the streets.” | injur. POWER paw seoraroy DEATH Is DENIED | |Priest Rapids Project and! pp, gun Yat ‘Sen, Leader o South China, Alive LONDON. y 15.—Canton offi- clals ridicule reports that I Sun Yat Sen, head of the "South China} republic! ig dead, the Hongkong} orrespondent of the Central News \telegraphed today, and attribute the report of his death to the fact he has been incommunteado because of a fortnight’s: illness. | ears ‘The foreign office in Pekin an- Jnounced Sun Yat Sen's death offi. clally yesterday, but it never has I been confirmed from Canton Reports of the death have been jeireulated for the last three days. AUTO BARGAINS USED CARS Every day Star Want Ads offer autos at exceptional prices. Here Is one today: HONEST VALUB ‘ord ‘Tourin Practically in fine now The Auto For Sale columns: will tell you more about it. of a showing by | reguiatory {tions and also a prohibitive Meense| ster’ institutions, |tain agreements with the city, barged under the telechronometer voluntarily admits itself at fault ‘The rebate is made on the strength state engineers that| many defective. A hearing on the entire matter is set for June, At that time repre nentatives of the telephone company, the Telechronometer of America, tho city | works will be present _The company in its r to of the telechronometers were | and the state board of public| been charged on this basis, It re- dependent investigation and proved i “From April 1 to October 1, when we were operating under te telechronometer schedule of rates |some of our patrons who paid for ex cess telechrones did so on a basis of |a questionable measurement of their and we are petitioning. the jdepartment of public works for per- Mission to refund such amounts a: service, may be found to have ee uusly collected.” Council Hits “Baths” Members of the city council pledged whole-hearted support Thurs: Monday providing stringent tion of Seattle “bath” massage parlors. The ordinance, Mrs. Henry Robert B. Hesketh, will provide strict measures of the institu. houses and to be introduced by designed to keep “vice dens” out of the logitimate field, Councilman EB. 1, Blaine, who has been working for a business license ordinange, said that he favors the proposed license because it regulates | Jand standardizes the places, and pro vides a revenue. These places are jlicensed in San Francisco, Los An- |geles, Cleveland and other cities, Blaine said CAMPAIGN INDORSED Counciiman Phil ‘Tindall also in. | dorsed The Star’s campaign and said f that he had heard frequent com:|the interest of decency and good | the central station. | plaints of the unsavory reputation of | morale than jmany of these institutions. ‘Tindall Landes and Councilman | jsaid he will vote for the ordinance. | Councilman A.*P. Drake announced | | day to the ordinanee to be introduced | | regula: | that he will yote for the measure, Councilmen C. B, Fitzgerald and A. Lou Cohen were not in their offices, |but both will vote for the ordinance. {it is believed. Mrs, Miracle was out on an official call, but she has stead- fastly supported moral legislation and is known to favor abolition of “‘shy- | Commendation of The Star's deter- | mination to wipe out vice dens of this ‘acter continued to reach The ar office Thursday by telephone nd letter. ‘Typleal of congratulatory letters received ‘Thursday was the | following from Louis BE. Scholl, chair- |man of the committee on publication Jof the Christian “Selence church in | Seattle: |< "No finer setvice has ever been performed by a Seattle newspaper in| as been done by The} (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) Phone Fig The Pacific Telephone & ‘Tele- graph Go, is not seeking to harass the city council or force it to grant a franchise, Manager ©. 0. Meyers, of the company, said Thurs: day. “The affair is an inconsequential routine rhatter,” said Meyers. “Our plant engineer. was informed by Chester Lynch of the city fire and police alarm system that a new pole} must be installed on Holgate street. We put in a job order for the work, calling for installation of a B5-foot pole, the length of the up- rights' that support our wires in that district. “Lynch insisted that we install a 40-foot pole to» accommodate some new fire alarm boxes, and our plant engineer opposed this demand, stat: ing it would throw the wires out of alignment. He also asked that the city pay for its share of the work if a 40-foot pole bo instalied. “Under the franchise we had eer: and these were fulfilled, We have no desire to harass the ity, and so far pus 1 know, we are continuing to ht Denied live up to our part of the fran- chise agreements. This whole thing is a political story without founda. tion.” Lynch Thursday denied .that |had made any such a request on the phone officials, and said he had ransferred the entire matter to Su- perintendent Clarke Jackson, of the utilities department, and Corporation Counsel T. J, L, Kennedy. “It's purely a franchise fight on the part of the phone company, and I do not: want to become involved in it,” pysch’t said. he Box Car, Tourists:i in Jail, Pending Probe ‘Two brothers, Clarence an} Elmer |Teltsort, ©32 and » respectively, jwere held in the city jail Thursday, \followdng their arrest in a “side-door railway ards. The unfortunate Pullman," in the Great Northern travelers declared they were “tour: ing the West,” but their auto broke siown’ in Montana and they had tak: en to the railroad, Police found a reyolver in thelr possession, ote KEPT SECRET The affair kept a secret. and Chief Severyns heard nothing of it system, .Thia ends a long battie over| ported the matter to the state foardt att informed by The Star after |the machines in which the company | of public works, which made an in- jcomplaints had been made by vest Seattle residents. The crash occurred on the corner of 42nd ave. S. W. and W. Alaska st., about 8 o'clock Tuesday nig Witnesses to the accident declared thtft Wise driving his car in zig-zag fashion up the street and plunged recklessly into the other car Mrs. Barish was knocked uncon |scious by the impact and was badly |cut about the head. Her small daughter, Clarissa, was in the ma- chine, but was unhurt. Barish also escaped injury A large crowd immediately .gath- Jered at the scene -of the accident, jand according to witnesses, threat. jened to mob the officer, who w in civilian clothes and was off duty. | OFFICER DRU | Among those who were in the crowd and who declared that Wise was badly intoxicated were Mr. and | Mrs. John Blasiel, 4009 W. Alaska st, and Mr. . and MeMinn, | 4546 424 ave. S W., and a gas | station attendant. Many other resi- ‘dents told The Star that the officer |was drunk, but refused permission jto use their names. A police prowler car arrived at |the scene of the crash within a |few minutes and the crowd demand- ed that Wise be arrested. Instead he was taken to the West Seattle police station and allowed to sober up, the witnesses said. Lieut. C. G. Carr is in charge of the West Seattle station. He was not on duty that night and no re- port of the affair was made to him. Patrolman Edward Geiser was in charge. No report was made to | Wise declared Thursday that he | was not intoxicated and had not jbeen drinking. He also said that latter the accident he went with |Barish to the West Seattle station |and accepted full blame for the ac- cident and paid *Barish $150. for | damages. Barish was’ questioned by. Sev- eryns Thursday and denied that the office was drunk. “He declared that jhe would not prosecute the officer. STORMS DELAY U. S. AIRMEN CORDOVA, Alaska, May 15.—The American round-the-world flyers failed to get away yesterday from the Island of Attu for their jump of 878 miles across the storm-swept Arctic waters for the Kurile islands, advices here indicated. Up to midnight no direct word had come from Attu, but all reports ‘indi- cated conditions were unfavorable. Maj. Frederick Martin and Sergt. Alva Harvey, who are returning to Washington, after being lost for 11 days on the Aleskan peninsula, are now en route to the United States on the cannery tender Catherine D Contrary to original plans, they will make but one stop en route, calling only at Squaw Harbor, Alaska, and going from there direct to Belling: baw wt nes at