The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 16, 1924, Page 1

Lax Payment Refused, County Plans to POWER CO. PLANT!) RAP PAPA PPAPAP PP PAP PR aca an (az erate wi VOL. . Home Brew Howdy, folkst Another fellow whe has a swell time at littl or no expense is the chap who has acquired the mumps, cee the nent wave . . 26. NO, 71. We hope . perm present heat wave President Coolidge has vetoed the benus bill, All together, Who won the war? WALL o- LET'S CALL It MOUNT LOULE HART If Tacoma succeeds in chang- ing the name of Mount Rainier because it was named after an English navel officer, we ought to be consistent and likewise change the names of 3 Mount Baker . Puget sound Hood canal Vashon island Port Townsend Whidby island Gull of Georgia Bainbridge island Point Wilson Bellingham, ete., ete. | reg aR | “Dollar a Year men have been| Gropped from the department of fus-| Guess the new attorney. gen- eral figured they weren't worth it. | o. Seattle girl has part of rib trans-| a atte to nose. Nose will now be} {We ticklish she won't be able to wear | Aslasses. Siem on THE IRON MULE WEATHER Fair tonight an northu FORECAST SEIZE urday; mod- sterly aaah bc Mike eenainee WEAN ike ae Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington Circulation in Washington Pro-Jap Plea -by Church Hit Anti-Jap League Head Says It Was Drawn by Japs’ Attorney WASHINGTON, May 16.—The immigration bill, containing the Japanese exclusion provision, was sent to the White House to- day for final action. see The AntiJapanese league Friday sent a telegram to President Cool- idge protesting against the measage condemning Japanese exclusion that |was sent Thursday to «Washington by the Western, Washington Baptist | convention, meeting at Centralia Miller Freeman, president of the league, charged that the churchmen's | telegram was not only sponsored, | | but was prepared by C. 8. Shank jan attorney and counsel for eral | lof the large Japanese commercial | houses in Seattle, Shank is preat-| dent of the Northern Baptist conven | tion of America. |. “In our telegram,” said Freeman, we challenged the telegram nent by | the Baptist ting as being inspired | by, an agent of the Japanese, and | we charged hat this same situation is found In every other case | ing the Japs_are mun dawn.” protests of this kind against exclud | + hiv a sess =" HOUSE WILL SWEEP intellectual beverage.” |Action Due Saturday; Senate to Vote on Measure First of Week Sure, it’s oe a beer A | | Whatever oui Adem hed, | His wife was not a boob; 1 She never left the doggone top From off the toothpaste tude! eee Streptococcus homolyticus {s cur- je by an injection of mercuro-| chrome, it is announced. Goody! Goody! eee CANDIDATES FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB People who just don’t know what the younger generation is coming to, eee Some whisky sold in Seattle ts bottled in bond, but most of it ts bottled in the basement. You can say this for some moon- shiners—they use the finest labels | obtainable. . “Kearns Silent; Denles Charges.”— Star headline. It takes a pretty good man to do this trick, LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ OF FICE VAMP, SEZ: Lawyers carry brief cases. Why don’t they try ‘em that | way? ———— ee “had Play Now Favorite to Win} Kentucky Derby.”"—Headiine. What in heck’s a Kentucky derby? | eo 6 Massachusetts checker champ with- drew from the national tournament on account of exhaustion. Probably | got winded making a long jump to his opponent's king row, | 8 e Tread softly on the grave of Wiliam Joncs ; He ate two quarts of cherries and Forgot to remove the stones, ee What's become of the old-fashioned | father who used to tell his son that) cigarets would stunt his growth? | Oh, is that him borrowing a Lucky | Strike from the kid? | * * YE DIARY | (May 15) Up, and at the office all the day: then ome to dinner, where a spoiled leg of ition, the weather being very wet and ot 10 keep ment in, or so my wife do! libl. I very melancholy under the fear that my hay fever is coming back; for I do dread watking down the street, | weeping in broad daylight, tike @ zany. | Judging from the smell, all ‘the old-time stogi¢ factories have been changed into cigaret manufacturing plants. ee Young Rossman, champion welter- weight tire changer of the Pacific coust, reports that he has discovered Mayor Brown's nationality. He's a} Bullgarian. Note to the printer: “If this aluit nough to fill the column, Ralph, 2 ‘me know, and Wil send out the wheeze about a ‘corn on the cob be- A. J. 8. pastasaseiinommenncoe nsec LONDON, May 16,—Tho house of rommons today rejected a private members bill for nationalization of mines by a voto of 264 to 168. The labor government had an- nounced forntally it was Pet backing the bill. dng worth two on the toc. placa STA sii lg SMES WASHINGTON, May 16—The outcome of the president's clash with | | do not approve of the tombstone/ bonus bill, which he vetoed, I want }a cash bonus. But the president) at the Postottios SEATTL E, WASH., ft Heaitin Wash, under the Act of Congress March FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1924 2 MORE COPS MAY GO! A Doorstep Baby || What Does Its Mother oP as She Reads $250,000 LIQUOR BRIBERY (Millionaire Now in | Prison Says He Paid Big Sum for Protection WASHINGTON, May 16, —fieorge ke mu millionaire bootlesger, of Cincinnadi, now forving @ sentence in Atlanta penitentiary, told the senate in- vestigating committee today that i eget = and pacanelt yd juor from prosecution. Smith, who committed suicide, was a friend ot former Attorney General Daugherty. In addition to the $260,000 paid to Smith, Remus said they had an agree. ment whereby each was to get “about $1,60 to $2.60 @ case’ on all Nquor released. The first payment to Smith, Remus said, “was $50,000 in $1,000 bills.” The payment was made in the congress over the bonus depends) wowed himself opposed to all bonus | Commodore hotel in New York, he upon how his veto message affects some wavering members of the sen- ate. The house wit sweep the veto aside | jin a vote tomorrow and the senate | weit take up the question early next week. Today both bonus advocates | and administration leaders were con-|ni11 depends upon what attitude the him that he could have the de-! centrating pressure upon a little group of undecided senators whose | votes are needed to override the veto if It is to be overridden. The result in the senate probably will not be [known very far in advance of the/ jactual voting. Bonus advocates in the house be-| |lleve they have a 60-vote margin. Senate bonus leaders are wary be-| |cause of the recent reversal of form | dent's disappro on the Bursum pension bill, which was planned to carry nicely. The views of various senate groups | | follow: Senator Copeland, New York, demo- crat, and cash bonus advocate: “The president has shown himself as being against all human beings. I Good? The A of you folks know ing stream? Why? The boys out there wi the garden. she’s slumped in hitting. newspapers in town. And the editor—he’s goi See you Monday, folks! KnowW here Fishing’s Boys Stole Our Jobs! Please call The Star. The staff's going to take a vacation Saturday, turn- ing over the paper for a day to the students of the school of journalism at the university. an editor to the office boys. to them were: Let your conscience be your guide! Vacations around the shop are so infrequent—you can't stop news from happening, you know—that we were interested in finding out how it was going to be observed. A canvass showed: Most of the reporters are going fishing. Two copyreaders are going to play golf (stopping at the 18th hole); another is going to pull weeds in The society editor isn’t sure. The sporting editor’s going to sacrifice—he figures on crawling under the old bus and finding out why The city editor says he’s going out and buy all the Wants to see what it feels like to get hig first knowledge of what's happening || around town from the papers themselves, The telegraph editor decided he’d come down and watch the other fellow work on his job. plans, I will vote to pass the meas- {re over his veto and I thirtk all cash bonus men will.” | | Senator Brookhart, acting progres- sive leader: | “The progressives will vote to pass | the bill over the veto. Success of the administration senators take. If they | stick by the votes the bill will pass.” Senator Curtis, republican whip/ and author of the bill: | “We will take it up.as soon as It| Passes the house. Whether we can/ | pas it over a veto is another ques. | tion upon which I would not attempt jat this time to hazard a guess. | The strong language of the presi-| 1 awakened no no- | tiesable response in the house among | | members who voted originally for the | oldier bonus. | | "The voice was tne voice of Cool | idge, but the hand was that of “Mel. lon," commented Representative Nel: | son, leader of tho insurgent republl- cans. University | | | where there is a good fish- | | ll supply everything from Our only instructions ng to sleep! | said. | fluence jat i him, | while intoxicated, |} good men Remus sald he did not know | with whom Smith “split the money. “Wo did not discuss that point,” he said. After he was convicted for viola- tion of the Volstead act in 1932, Remus said that Smith assured| cision reversed because of his in- with Remus said he entered the Mquor} | business immediately after the Vol-| stead act went into effect, Janu- ary, 1919, purchasing his first dis- tillery. Explaining bis method of oper ating, Remus said that he organ- ized a chain of drug companies and wholesale lquor companies. He would then get purmits to sell legal- ly under the provisions of the Vol- stead act permitting sale for medic. inal purposes, Remus said James Linton, special assistant to the attorney-general de- fended him in his prone 3 ARRESTED FOR DRUNK DRIVING Police Halt Autos and Hold Trio on Booze Charges Three alleged’ drunken drivers were jailed by the police Friday morning. M. G. Mock, 32, was driving a car 28th st, and Wallingford ave,, when Sergt. Walter Tracker stopped Mock was taken to jail and charged with driving an automobile A passenger in Mock's machine, J. H, Hoppe, 28 also was arrested on a charge of be- ing drunk, W. R. Alexander, 33, was arrested at First ave, and Yesler way on a charge of drunken driving, A bot- tle of whisky in his automobile was confiscated. C. B. Lewis, 31, was arrested at Rainler ave. and Dear- born st. on a charge of drunken driving and released on. $200 bail. The other men were held. 62-Year Flapper Engaged to Wed HOLLYWOOD, Cal, May” 16.—- Keeping his identity a secret, Edna Wallace Hopper, the 62-year-old flapper, has a man all picked out and will be married next month, she ways. “T'll not tell his name until we are married, I've lost a couple of that way. I'm to meet him next morth in China, and wo ure to be married there,” the vet. eran ingenue declared, \, the attorney-general.! The Seattle Star (i Batered as Second Class Matter May 2, 181), Per Yoor, by Mail, | think about it? | evening. | eee AST night Mrs. A. J. Mutienberg found a baby on her doorstep at 6735 Fourth ave. N. W., and today all the newspapers will tell how she's going to keep It. Everybody will say how fine it is that the baby's going |to get a good home. All the writers will write how the doorstep baby is golng to be loved by Mr. and Mrs. Mullenberg. Well, how about the baby’s real mother? How about her, eh? Walk- ing up and down the pavements, tramping over the hard pavemonts in a sort of daze, buying the papers telling about how Mrs, Mullenberg loves her baby. How about her? Of course Mrs, Mullenberg loves the baby. and there's no story in that. If somebody would refuse to take in a |doorstep baby that would be a story, | But nobody ever does and the news: papers always tell how the people | j who get the baby love it and raise it. HOW DOES THE REAL MOTHER FEEL ABOUT IT? The baby's mother walks streets and tramps over the walks and thinks about her baby. Crowds chatter at her, About the weather and straw hats and the sale up the street and Milly's coming over to dinner Sunday, It all slides off the mother's brain because her heart is pounding; “Baby, baby!” to the rhythm of the carwheels and the limousines. The women know how the mother feels. They know, bécause they've cried over Jackie's yellow curls and Kissed the dimple on baby Dorothy's rounded chin. Ask the women how a mother feels when she has to lay her baby on a doorstep and go away. The women know—but they won't tell, Some things a woman can't tell becnuse they're too deep, too for down inside the well of mother-love, where the soul beats. Can't do anything for the baby's mother, tramping the hard streets, How It Is Being Loved? Everybody loves babies; the) hustle her along and fling shreds of | While Mrs. A. J. Mullenberg, 6735 Fourth ave. N. W., mothers a tiny foundling Friday, what does the real mother Here is Mrs. Mullenberg with the little wisp of humanity that was left on her doorstep Thursday The Mullenbergs, who have lost three babies of | their own, will keep the newcomer, they said. —Photo by Frank Jacobs, Star Staff Photographer listening to the chatter of the crowds, with her head in a daze and her heart pounding: “Baby, my baby!" Only tell her, in a newspaper story, that her baby is loved, that's all. Tell her how the Mullegbergs lost three babies of their own. “God took them,” says Mrs. Mullenber; now He's given us this one. Can't do anything for the baby’s mother except that. Tell her the baby's happy and being looked after and Mrs. Mullenberg’s going to stop spring housecleaning and make knitted boots and warm clothes for the baby. All the newspapers print stories about the doorstep baby and how the Mullenbergs love it. But how about the mother? How about her, eh? “and TW MAYOR - TAKES HAND! Brown Says Police Who Shielded) Wise Must Go if; Facts Warrant It Brown Friday took s hand in the police case xrow- ing out of charges that Frank « A, Wise, traffic officer, had up- set an ‘automobile and injured two persons while driving in an The mayor was incensed not only because Wise had caused the col- lision, but because the affair had been kept secret by brother officers who knew what had happened Brown said he would investigate the case, and !f his findings proved the charges made by witnesses thru The Star, he would demand the suspension of Patrolmen Mail and A. W. Van Stone. These two of- ficers, drivers of the police patrol car, questioned Wise and the in- jured persons, Mr. and Mrs. 8. W. Barish, 4032 424 ave. 5S. W., at the tme of the accident. The crowd that gathered threatened violence when they hesitated to take action, according to witnesses. They made no report. When Lieut. C G, Carr, in charge of West Seattle station, de- manded a report Thursday, after he had been informed by The Star of the occurrence, Mail and Van Stone admitted the traffic officer, Wise, had been drinking prior to the ac- eldent, but, they said, he did not appear to be drunk. PROTECTORS EQUALLY GUILTY, SAYS MAYOR Wise was suspended Thursday by Chief Severyns after he learned of the happenings. Severyns imme- diately started an investigation but early Friday expressed the opinion that it would be difficult to establish sufficient grounds for the dismissal of Wise. He would await the re port of two investigators, he said, before making up his mind, “The officers who protected Wise in this matter are just as guilty as he is if the story that comes to me is correct,” said Mayor Brown Friday. “I have not gone into the case thoroly as yet and no official report of the matter has been ‘laid before me. But I surely will not stand for this kind of secrecy, “It is bad enough for a traffic officer—a man supposed to safe- guard the lives of motorists and| (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) “Y oung Fellow”, 89, to Quit Halls of Congress; Can’t Save His Money| BY FRASER EDWARDS (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, May 16.—Con- vinced after a 50-year ‘trial’ that congress hold no future for a “young fellow,” Gen. Isaac R. Sherwood, 89-year-old representa: tive from Ohio, announced today that he is going to quit and go into journalism to earn enough money to keep him out ef a sol- diers’ home when he gets ‘‘old,"* “I'm thru with the free seed artists forever this time,'’ said the general, who has been in and out of congress since 1878, sery- ing over a longer period than any man in history, “T can't save money in con: gress, so I'm going back into Journalism," he continued, “I know that I can make more writing special articles because I did a few years ago. I have a horror of ending up in a soldiers’ home when I get old. “How long will it take me tn Journalism to save enough to be- come independent? “T should say 10 years. ‘Then T' be a youngster or 80 years: with a long life of leisure before me," The sole surviving Union sol- dier in the house who fought in 40 battles in the olvil war was in his “den” in the basement of the Capitol turning out a piece of “copy” with a stubby pencil. Up to date in other ways, the general said he had never been able to master “these newfangled writing machin |the company ithe tax bill Sa 2 CENTS IN SEATTLE. MONDAY "IS DAY. TO PAY Treasurer Issues Ultimatum After Leonard Co. Tries Its Bluff A restraining order tleing up the property of the Puget Sound Power & Light Co., will be secured unless pays the 1919 street railway tax by 6 o'clock Monday afternoon, W. W. Shields, county treasurer, declared Friday. Shields’ ultimatum was in answer to what he called a bluff on the bart of the company. He received 4 letter Thursday threatening to hold him personally. responsible if & restraining order is issued. 9 Upon recelying the Jetter, Shields conferred with Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas, and decided to is- sue the warning. The tax, with ine — terest, totals $619,000. Shields’ ultimatum was directed at A. W. Leonard, president of the company, after he had received an offer from Leonard to pay one fourth of the amount of the tax, which fs the only sum the company admits liability for. SHIELDS ACTS ON’ KENNEDY RULING 3 Shields is acting on a ruling by Corporation Counsel T. J. L. Ken- nedy that the city is not legally responsible for any portion of the taxes and that Shields must collect _ the tax from the company. The company contents Shields has not the legal right to collect the Cs from it. Leonard proposed that the com=- pany immediately pay one-fourth the amount of the tax either to the county treasurer or to the city, where, the offer S could be held pending the city decision to pay the balance of the sum. Shields declared the agreement with the city has no 2 bearing on his duty, which the United States supreme court has held is to collect the full amount of the tax from th® power com- pany. SHERIFF TO ACT IF LEONARD BALKS i Unless the tax is paid by May 19, Shields informed Leonard, Sheriff Matt Starwich will serve distraint — papers upon the company and seize encneh property to meet the obliga- tion. Shields sald that Deputy Prosecu: tor Howard Hanson {s preparing distraint papers covering s-1fficlent property of the power company to pay the tax if sold at auction. t The tax bill has betn approved by the United. States supreme court, which has held that the county must collect the taxes. The street |rallway was transferred to the city March $1, 1919 and under an agree- ment in the contract of purchase, the company was to pay one-fourth and the city three — fourths, Corporation Counsel Kennedy tn a recent ruling held that the obliga- tion against the city is veld. Shields, therefore, must look to the company for the money, and the company must be reinibursed by the city. — Home Bargains Tonight Here are two of the home bar gains that appear in tonne Want Ad columns: EN PARK Owner ae’ ah California: mus! sell home here, Six rooms, in | best. location of Sawen Park} i eo living, an Saree, Pe kitchen on first floor, fine bedrooms on second floor; finé lot to an alloy, $500 cash, H CAPITOL HILL j-room hanes with concrete basement, furnace, laundry heater; large lot $3.6 Price Sto) Se aying rent and buy this hom beautiful location, Rea-~ sonable terms, Turn to them NO’ the home you want, and find |