The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 17, 1924, Page 3

SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1924 s THE -ATT LE STAR PAGE 3 TWO INJURED IN ACCIDENTS B vivcr in Smashup Attempts Flight; Charged as Drunk King last . Hug > ™ ey ot te at i I charge of driving wh k of f % report from t . f the the Pr er moved to the city h B crushed foot Leo Neh 3 1 st He & the SIGNERS ASSURE REFERENDUM Boxley Canyon Claims Up at Next City Election That the Boxley canyon claims will be settled by a referendum vote at the coming spring election and not by the city council is made ¢ c dy the securing of the necessary 6,000 refer, signers. Oliver T. B harge of the drive, r morning. The petitions will be checked over liding on May the petition filed before 4, the final time Umit. tbe expected that a few of the signers | are ineligible, so the committee is making a special last-minute drive to secure an additional 2,000 signers to assure the success of the refer endum petition. NAME SCRAP 0 sider Mountain Dispute Soon The house committee on public lands probably will consider the | Nount Rainier-Mo Tacoma con. troversy within two weeks, it was Announced Saturday by Josiah Col. fins committee of the Chamber of Com merce, which has been active tn agi tating for reconsideration of the | roposition. Mr. Collins urges all present ‘Washington citizens who are op- posed to the change of name to write immediately to the congress-| men of their native Eastern states. This step haa been made necessary, he says, by the fact that within the | last month more than half a million school children and citizens of Ta- House Committee Will Con- | °* chairman of the Mount Rainier | Nellie’s Shanghaied Week of Thrills Aboard - & rates” | Seattle's for Seattle Oriental Shanghaied by assorted villains, aided by Chinese Girl Ended Liner coma have written to congresamen | from a wreck, toward the deep, dark dungeon of the hold. and Eastern papers in behalf of | taming the moun the mountain s sTnoeees. FORESTS BLAZE @arly Dry Season in Mon- tana Causes Many Fires BUTTE, Mont., May 17.—{U. P.}— Several forest fires in Western Mon- tana were reported under control to- day. No new blazes have broken | out, but weather conditions remained ¢ry and unfavorabie. Rain has not fallen for days and the high winds which continued yes- terday added to the danger. Highteen fires were still burning In the Kootenai forests, latest reports. forests are in such critical condition that arrangements are being made to send more emergency men there, 28-Story | Building to Replace Square | NEW YORK, May i7—VPians for ® 2%-story building to replace the his- | rden were} flied with the bureau cf bulldings| toric Madison Square G here today. The New York Life Insurance Co. | filed the plans and would call the new structure after their company. ‘Tex Rickard has a five-yedr lease on the Garden with a 30-day cancellation Motice. Attempt to Block Rail Legislation WASHINGTON, May 17.~Admin- {stration republicans attempted to- day to block the progressive rail leg- islation program. Senator Wadsworth, New York, raised a point of order against the Gooding “long-and-short- haul" bill. Wadsworth contended that the bill could not be attached to the ‘war department appropriation bill | under the rules of the senate, Frank W. Robinson, whose mother, rs. Mary E. Robinson, died sud- nly of heart failure May 14 at jer home in the Porter apartments, | will arrive in Seattle today with his brother, Paul T. Devison, Robinson ts freight traffic -man- ager of the Union Pacific system at Omaha, and Devison is traffic engineer for the Southern Pacific Failroad at Tucson, Ariz. Should interment take place in Seattle, funeral services will be held at Bonney-Watson’s at 4 p, m. Sun- day, Rev. F. L. Forbes officiating Wes ee May Study at O. A. C. CORVALLIS, Ore, May 17— Wesley “Freckles Barry, of movie fame, may be a student at the Oregon Agricultural college next year, according to a dispatch received by Sam Whiteside, local theater operator. ‘The dispatch said Barry was 17 years of age and was ready to go to college. Why he picked 0. A. C was not mentioned. according to! Perce and Clearwater | Seattle's “Nellie, the Cloak Model,” was shanghaled Friday afternoon, the Admiral Ori jental liner President Jefferson, It | was: the culmination of a week of | thrills for Netlie, who, tn real life, is | Miss Florence Tonkin. | Monday evening there will be a Star party at the Blue Mouse theater, where Claire Windsor, another Seat | tle girl, is appearing in tho film ver. |sion of Nellie. It was a challenze aboard —Photo by Frank Jacobs, Star 5 Beautiful | | rushing reached the bridge and the wheel, verse and app by Miss Windsor to Seattle girls to| duplicate some of her feats in the film that led to the thrilling, for a | week, of Miss ‘Tonkin. Nellie was strolling along Pier 41, hated her. L “lI wil herr’ fang-plank. ave up the 4 the brakes. Then four C villaina, rushed at “Well.” said Nellie, “it will be ove letters. Everybody J “pie aboard the President Jefferson of the Admiral line, lwas the fate, Friday afternoon, of Miss Florence Tonkin, Vellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model.” Here she is,| lbeing rushed down from the bridge, after saving the ship Photographer cried Neltte, She clutching at threw the ship into re ina boys, hired by the her and shang-| ‘They proposed to throw | her into the hold, onto the mail sacks. | all right if you can arrange it for me| to fall on some | sure to be soft? laughed fit to kill and| Lancaster, of the Admiral line They're | | | | | sible for the murder } ing, a |trated the | passed thru the be }Ku Klux |duty Jattacked by a mob of men who tore | Left to right they are: joff thelr robes and masks, according | [or riving for a SEATTLE LAUDED Flagship Carries Picture and Lines on City’s Progress The flagship of the United State navy, the cruiser Seattle today carryi adn ‘Beattle has her h day I y Accomplishments as they unfold Tireless tollers at the Triumphantly for posterity Loyalty to b is thus etched upon time's pages, Echoing down, thru asm” (Signed) creatin ut the future “A BEATTLEITE MoGrane of the Admiral Vernon I, Lucas of the & Lucas Co. ts the lines and the Coontz, thor donor to Flower Pickers Are Dead in Car MARYVILLE, Pa, May 17 single shot from a rifle was respon of Miss Leah Hollidaysburg. nberger, 19, of Pa., and Harry Ganater, 20, president of the graduating « of Marysville h school, authorities stigating deaths today di od. The two high ol seniors were killed from ambush, according to state police. The girl w ting at ering wheel and t) if about to step his head hanging over t A single steeljacket ye the stand to the car aide bullet pene body and Jen. ma: . ly of Miss EF ung Soraer C. of C. Pageant Will See Pageant Chamber of eponsering s delega Walla, May 28 and 29, ¢ civic’ pageant, Won.” ‘The pageant The commerce to Wi view the} “How the West Was| was first there last year, and was #0 success ful that it ts being repeated this year with 3,000 participants. An Jeffort ts being made to have the/| Seattle delegation large enough to require a special train. |Students Attack K. K. K. Sentries SOUTH BEND, May 17. anamen doing street corners here, nen on were | to Kian officials. was composed of students at Notre| Dame University. The sentries were stationed on downtown corners dl ing delegations of Klansmen ar conclave be held to here tonight L. 8 May, noted criminologist of Seattle, will address the Seattle Transportation club at its regul Monday noonday luncheon. May will talk on the modern asctentific application of his methods to bust: ness. produced | Ruler’s Who Will be Queen? Mere Male Is a Candidate for Beauties in Mad Race to Snare Vote Job; University 3efore Election When Bob Clark, rotund Washington football man, was proposed for queen of the SEALED VERDICT DUE TODAY Narcotic Smuggling Case in Hands of Jury BLIND MAN RICH Discovered After Staying 18 Months in City Hospital ar figure nga for s selling xth ave. 11 records. operation ero drew ded him a nd books from. Ju hos Ae jan orderly « | wallet cor $60 banks showing deposits to taining | various | total $6,000. Then gero was sent | to the Beattie General hospital, BIG SUM ASKED FOR LIGHT Ross Requests $445,000 for Extension Fund Because the city light department is taking on so many new contracts and has applications for so many others, J. D. Ross, superintendent |hos asked the city council to appropriations aggregating $445,000 from city light funds to take care of new bu: ess. | Ross asked $300,000 to build exten. sions to supply new customers in Junior week-end program at the university, the class roared. Clark, however, is going | the residence districts; $20,000 to en« to fight for the honor. E genia Relf, Frances Me ‘an Diz. Here he is, surrounded by six feminine candidates for the honor.| Above—Peggie Hoyt, Martha Uhlmann and M Carty, Kathryn Byrne. | The mob, according to Klansmen, |Chamber Members | Will Make Cruise | preached by a Na comm wh {¢ Commerce into pra that jat ular w |day noon | "The members will be taken aboard| & harbor patrol boat on a cruise jalong the waterfront and thru the Jeanal locks. The ts scheduled |to leave the foc the Washing- ton st. dock at your the of the Chamber will body [be pe by meeting Mon * kly LIFE OF CONDEMNED — MEASURED MUSEUM ‘University Building who was a sort of supernumerary | | villain, said he would let Nellie off| in company with the villains Friday | lafternoon. Suddenly, It that jbeen set adrift by some sub-villains. | “Save her! Save our ship!’ pleaded | A. C. Girard of the Admiral line. was seen | t that time, because of the wit. So that ended the week of thrilis. Now every Nellie in town is Invited the President Jefferson had|to The Star's party by Miss Tonkin Just fill out the coupon below and It's} |fungus rot has set in in the logs and it come down to the Blue Mouse. your admission ticket. the Beautiful Cloak Model.” || 1 live at. | | SEATTLE STAR’S NELLIE PARTY | Blue Mouse Theater, Monday Evening, May 19 | I am a guest of The Star, the Blue Mouse theater and Miss Florence Tonkin, to see Claire Windsor in ‘Nellie, My TAMNGIS NGC... ic cc ct cc dcucscccccsisctccevecs IF COMPANY PAYS, | TAX WILL BE CUT repubitean,| Will Collect Bill From Puget Sound Corporation, Says Hanson | If the city ean collect the delin jauent tax bill-of over $650,0900 fron the Puget Sound Power & Light C county taxes next year, according to ‘County Treasurer William Shieids, las the I-mill levy produces $300,000, which amount will be about King county's share of the sum to | be collected. Howard A. Hanson, civil deputy, who is in immediate charge of the litigation, after a con- ference with Col. Malcolm Douglas, declared that theré is no question but that the city will collect thé tax. | “The legality of by the |there will be a 1-mill reduction in| Puget Sound Power & Light Co, and | by the clty of Seattle, and has been Col. Hanson said. he tax was attacked both determined by both supreme court, to be a legal tax. “The law relating to the enforce |ment of personal taxes is the same chief | for corporations as for private indi. treasurer is | proceeding to collect this tax In the same manner as if a private indl- |viduals. ‘The county vidual was charged therewith.” |Diphtheria Scare Fails to Develop No recent developments in the outbreak of diphtheria that made jitself evident in the public schools jwere reported hy the city health | office today. ‘There were a few sick land carrier cases that received medical attention a week ago, but these were minor cases and prompt- ly segregated. Health officials emphasized the tact that parents of public school pupils need not feel alarmed for their safety, av the few cases at- ready reported are under full con- trol, GIRL ON PAROLE Released on Good Behavior |«ray-taired father, After Sentence for Theft |Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten, Dorothy Howard, 22, sentenced |dashing middle-aged Austrian, whose | yesterday to 90 days in the eity|M#rrlage to the New York heiress) jail for the thett of a auit ot /#%t January stunned her parents : and set tho tongues of society of clothes, shirt and grip, which sheltwo continents a-wag, took from the Doris apartments,| ‘I have nothing to say,” sud the Sixth aye, was released on |pale, little countess, but she could parole for good behavior today. |not force a smile. She is under the jurisdiction of} Adrian H, Larkin, Rogers’ ator: Miss Cordelia Thiel, deputy prose-|ney, shrugged and smiled when cuting attorney, | A dout ie threat of destruction hangs over the university museum, whose doors are now closed to both W. Elwell, superintend ent of campus bulldings and grounds. First, it is a fire-trap, and second, is only @ matter of time, at the most 110 years, before it collapses, he sald. The condemned building is official. ly the state museum, but since its closing, exhibits are being moved to the Ferry museum in Tacoma and the are now claimed to be the rightful state repositories, With the university short of class | room space, small hope is entertained for a new museum, the university | research students and visitors, ac-| | cording to F. Spokane museum, both of which | building program being tied up for years to come with other projects even more necessary. For the same reason that the legis lature cannot spend money on a new | museum, hibits In a warehouse is prohibitive, altho they would be much safer than in their present crumbling structure, |according to Elwell. the cost of storing the ex-| . canning Industry there was a great ‘Double Threat Hangs Over Closed jour “It will be a test of Seattle spirit | and civic pride to keep for Seattle what is rightfully hers,” declared) Lack of Poli cy Wasting Salmon Pack, Says Kent | Uneurbad Monopoly “Against Incoher- ent Competition Story of Industry Editor's fourth Note: This is the of six articles on the public domain, by William Kent, one of the nation's fore- most conservationists. He is a former congressman, reformer, philanthropist and Uberal re- publican statesman, and belongs to the old Roosevelt Pinchot band of anti-privilege and anti- graft crusaders, BY WI M KENT (Former U. 8. Congressman From} California) | salmon of Alaska is one of vanishing natural assets. A real policy must be formulated and enforced if we are not to lose one of our most valuable and cheapest supplies of food. From the early beginning of the The | hope that by artificial propagation & Vast saving could be made in the hatching and saving the life of the young fish. This seemed both piac-| tical, from the general situation, | and profitable to such Herbert .Condon, trotiek: jKnown that the salmon returned | Te exhibits which now occupy the |from the to spawn near the} iiaine “wae lod whish can pever| bites 06 origin, going up the |be replaced, are Vatiied at over $250,- 900, according to Condon structure was built in 1909 at an ex- A-Y-P. exhibit of the fair. ~ Newspapers TOKYO, Japan, May 17.—'The fol- fave message from the news agen- cles and newspapers of Tokyo was sent to the commander of tho Amer. | fean flyers today, at Paramashul, to bid the intrepid airmen welcome to the empire of Japan; “Commander American Round-the- World Flight: “More than 70 years ago a brave American naval officer, ships’ Into the Sea of Sagam{ and the state su-| Japanese territory. about |preme court and the United States | “Today you bravo American army identical rivers from which they set The los | forth. In the hope and belief that this| that the state legislature will provide | pense of $8,900 to house the forestry | artificial Propagation in the hatch- eries would restore the depletion, | |iittle or no attention was paid to} limitations of catch or natural of Tokyo | Congratulate U.S. Flyers the territorial waters of Japan, and deed will, without question, a goal toward which Japanese inter. Jested in aviation will strive, “Ag the great nation you repre- | partment, officers have sailed your ‘ships’ into|that the salmon of again into Japanese history, for your |treyed, and the Alaska supplies are | become | rapidly following in their sent was the first to win the honor | of crossing the Atlantic by air, so| now has it won the honor of being | which Commodore Perry, salled his ‘black |the first to traverse the Pacific by |a perpetual monopoly over the fish, and | with one in which the world joins you in |to a huge |that route—an honor, indeed, feeling justly proud of.” Without Da NEW YORK, May 17.—Millicent Rogers Salm came home today, pale, little girl, as if to keep from crying. Henry Huddleston Rogers, her was with her, smiling, but saying nothing. There was no word about Count asked if it were true the Rogers a} who bit her lps wife to return to the United States| permitted to be caught than can bs Countess Salm Returns shing Spouse fainily had settled count to $100,000 on the induce him to allow his without him. Father Rogers shrugged his shoul ders and smiled when asked if di yorce proceedings would be started at once to fr his daughter of .|the foreigner New York saw in ft all confirma. tion of the gossip that hys |flitting from mouth to mouth ev since Col. Rogers showed up sud denly in Paris last week, conferred with his daughter and son-insaw jand then took a boat for New York | ball | process ;but seemingly a necessary sequence, | | better been | breeding grounds, and now, year by year, the supply is steadily diminish- ing, and up to the present time} | there has been worked out no def-| inite plan for using, without destroy-| ing this untold wealth. | Methods of capture by weirs, nets! jand traps has become so successful | the Columbia | ly been de-} river have practic: wake. Under the administration of Sec-| retary Redfield of the commerce de a bill alleging ose the preservation of th as proposed in congress in effect would have aiven| in little regard to combination Including the packers of who at that time were} out for pructical gonial tuffs of the nation, This | Ixaten, but the monopoly | has, again shown its head| under the executive orders issued, with moro or less authoriiy, by the| present secretary of commore>. It is charged and admitted that under present “regulations” more fish are preservation, of satinon | | packers, Chicago, reaching of tho fo was caught, und vasuy mor be causht The story has been than should hard one, when an uncurbed, monopoly grows up something that, incoherent competition, There bas been continual strife tween these catching tho fish the canneries, The Pi union has claimed tho American citizens to cateh fish| where 4y choose in American} waters oud have not been modest unregulated and ermen's right of} while the count took a train for Vienna. New York saw the end cf Milly) have Rogers’ romance. iy dictating terms, Tho canneries endeavored to osuycrseds this fisang with thelr traps and freo |the result of preservation, | is the restriction of the caich thru |spawning beds and with sein Indians and white fisher. men have used gill nets in a spo radic and wasteful way, and the industry has seemed a tur with only on common object, il, the extermination cf the fish and making as much as possible during | the process. Out of the situation there emerges, the eycx of scientific men, but| method that will accomplish in one out the stream, n be sustained and increased in| ch breeding place. This must fol-| whole region, stream |low along with improvement of the} hope of} salvage when the hatchery process ie better unmerstood. | Train Wrecked on Italian Frontier | LONDON, May 17.—The famous Simplon express train was wrecked individuals | last midnight when it crashed into/| university comp-|# established hatcheries—as it WaS)a freight train at Adelsberg, near Laibach, on the Italian frontier, a | Central News dispatch from Vienna sald today. Four persons were killed and many injured, five of them so seriously | they may die. Four coaches of the train were smashed. A switchman committed suicide | with a pistol when accused of negli- gence {n connection with the accl- | dent. Protecting Robins to Conserve Cotton FALLING CR K, N. C, May 1,—Farmers in this. section, anticl- |pating their aid in fighting the boll weevil this summer are making plans to protect robins, which are coming here in greater numbers this spring than ever before. Growers will keep | game wardens informed of violations of the laws forbidding shooting of the jredbreasts by hunters. Already, | under the report ptan, 25 convictions have been obtained in Wayne county alone Be-| | to a point where the supply} rge the street lighting system; 75,000 for new underground c¢on- dults, and $50,000 to construct exten- sions to shops and stores in the busi- ness district Suit for $10,000 Damages Is Filed Suit for $10,000 damages for in- juries received when Alcinda J, Keyes was struck, February 2, by @ speeding automobile driven by Myr- jtle Forsyth, was filed today in the |superior court of King county by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Keyes against Mr. and Mrs. Otto J. Forsyth. RADIO PROGRAMS FOR MONDAY TO INCLUDE NUMEROUS FEATURES || (Copyright, 1924 by United Press) WEAF, New York, 492 meters, 7:15 p. m. (EB. 8. T.)—Program by | Frank La Forge, composer. plan- ist, and assisting artists. | CFCA, Toronto, 400 meters, § || p. m. E. 8. T)}—Program by the Toronto Rotary club. WOS, Jefferson nak 440.9 me- ters, 8 p. m. (C. T.)}—Missouri State Prison peter |] KSD, St. Louis, 546 meters, 8:30 p. m. (C. S. T.)—Program from the Grand Central theater, KGO, Oakland, Cal. 312 me ters 8 p. m. (P. C. S. T.}—-KGO's educational courses. |Georgian Annex Changes Owners The acaes ty Annex has severed connections with the Georgian hotel, and is now under new management, jit is reported. The names of the new managers have not been made public. As far as is known, the an- nex will-be under the same name, and no changes of any sort are expected to take place. Luminous Hose Will Brighten Evening Gloom LONDON, May 17.—Luminous legs for the ladies constitute the latest luxury of the elite, ‘The 1924 summer model femi nine hosiery is splashed with @ phosphorous substance that glows in the dark, so night-blooming calves and ankles have captured the fancy of fashion enthusiast® Only the wealthy, however, can | afford the new hose. They are very expensive—and after one night's wearing, they cease to throw off light. ie Bobbing Is Lucrative; Let Men Patrons Wait Although man conceded the right of woman to invade his formerly sacred haven—the barbershop—some time ago, it is doubtful if he reak ized the extent to which this concession would go. ‘A Several Seattle shops have posted bigns, “We Cater to Women Thus is man shoved completely from the hinter masculine stronghold. So man must realize that the barbers: have recognized the value of woman patronage. Dogs Win Gold Medal for Sheriff Starwich Women first, the men can wait! ‘Tacoma officers were so pleased with the quick work done by Matt Starwich’s dogs, Joe and Rambler, in | trailing Fritz Berning, after he shot Albertine Otto in her father's hotel in Tacoma, April 26, that they chipped in and presented Sheriff Starwich, Thursday, with a gold medal in recognition of his services. After the shooting, Berning hid in the dense growth of brush outside Tacoma, Officers searched for hours without success, Starwich's bloode — hounds were hurried over from Se- attle and put upon the scent. The fugitive was discovered and in the battle which followed he was killed by a shot from one of the posse din