The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 20, 1924, Page 1

a Batered as Second Class Matter May %, 1899, at the Postoffice at VOL, 2 7 SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1924. 1 wo CENTS IN SEATTLE. E The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington —— The Seattle Star =" Mascot of Sanatorium Thing Thoroughly, { No Sun-Dodging Here ; | Beli in Doing ¢ — Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress Mar or Year, by Mati Will Rush Jap Brides Here = ays “Stacey,” one of the tube Camera Shows Howdy Ghraphix E 4 4 0 Pholehik Vexiryz Lhe! We know that hing, but it hely ‘The bonus 1 yesterday ove 0 BAN the p >, will be payat in cash Hoe that first set of false teeth é ate 38 Nipponese Go) on Seattle Liner rer ving to Return Here wer ac me 1: With Mae Wives CUSSED AND DISCUSSED A reader asks The Star's Washin ton bureau: What do ordinary sea ous isentn Ghae une te mee. on. the Pacific get the face of manifested con. It wouldn't do to answer this ques besa bese bpeet tion In this column. gressional objection, makes no Papas pretense of living up to the spirit of the gentlemen's agreement is seen in the de art uesday of 39 Japs m Seattle aboard the Presi dent Jefferson. They are ay! Just in time to pay fo The be ans wi L (EDITORIAL) NE more indication that ho Japanese government, An old saying has it, “The early bird catches the worm.” Weil, s'pose the worm’s alarm clock doesn't 60 off and he Vaughn Wood- — one golhg to Japan to got brides CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON They are rushing so they can IVY CLUB return with their brides before ‘The geek who writes, “Please || July 1, the date on which find cheek inclosed.” And then the Asiatic exclusion law be doesn’t inclose the check. comes effective. end Japan, in the gentleman's We suggest an improvement for|| agreement, promised to see mah jongs. The players should learn || that her subjects, except for to swear in Chinese as weil as in,| students and others who sim English. ilarly wanted to temporarily sheets at enjoy our advantages, stayed The Elks are going to hold their | out: of the country. ee convention in Boston this One hundred—at a single car. The Seattle delegates are goin: Pacific port—on @ single boat! to find out if it is really true that Aid’ Japan: stake of “4x they eat ple for breakfast. sultat" Pe des — | Golfer, look ig at Mt. Rainier: | “Gosh, what a swell | would make!” | |from Seattle aboard the Admiral-/ oS RET |Oriental liner President Jefferson Detroit girl hiking fo Hollywood| Tuesday for Japan to marry brides says she will ride back. It is oftenjand rush them back to this coun- the other way. ltry before the immigration see If Adam hadn't gone to slecp clamped down on July 1. This Cit; oe Ba (shown by the arrow). iid ts) traffic pohee euper ision. And lost hie gosh durn rib, It was the last chance for Seattle He never would have et the fruit|Japanese to leave this country and That meant one awful skid. lreturn with their mates before the eink T68 new ban goes into effect. These ‘cacher— 4 Teacher—Jobnny, give mes #eM| men, and those who have alreedy tence using the word “dladem. Johnny—People who drink moon-|Sone to their native land for this |purpose, must leave Yokohama not shine will diadem sight quicker than jit than June 18, when the Pres- | Despondent “Over Death of} those who don't. Die "OT sey | ident Jackson sails for America. WHAT THIS COUNTRY This ia the last ship leaving the Son, Mother May NEEDS lOrient on which the brides can A fortune awaifs the man who ldodge into the United States. Grieving over the death of first succeeds in breeding a hen ‘The President Jackson already that will lay golf balls. |has bookings for 200 Japanese men ne dg an land thelr brides and many more Mrs. Homer Brew shares all our|are expected before the ship leaves. | ;, joys and sorrows. We get the joys|An influx of several hundred wom and she gets the sorrows. en can’ be expected, shipping and he ss immigration men declare, as the tire contents, 30 tabl There was a young man from Mud) Japanese men have been returning | bichloride of mercury tablets her « Angeles ties us i H eport o; : vhic! a Non ee wane made patiiol Craft in Canton Landing ty, Febort of his committee, which | cases hundreds of feet into the air. recommended the exoneration, be pe Saat ate | Tuesday. just as a new traffic law| : may Adopted aa the sentiment of the sen.|., All the while lightning played over wasn't being enforced because, Sergt r May 20.—The daring |. |the mountain and rain fell about in Frank Fuqua declared, he had neither| ®d dramatic effort of Capt BE CSCS | torrents. y daughter, two months ago, Mrs. allaher, wife of Melvin B. , tried to commit suicide a . 7011 16th ave. N. day morning. She swallowed the on . of a box of|National Automobile Chamber of “at |to Japan in large numbers since the} Mrs. Gallaher then informed her Who was courting @ ofr! who wo4inew ban was passed, ‘family of what she had done. A fat, So greut has been the travel from| sian was called. Sho was taker He complained of her welght, | Japan to America, due to men and | Physician was called. Bhe was taken As the evening grew late, lbrides returning, that the Nippon|to the city hospital half an hour And she angrily gave him his hat.\yusen Kaisha line has placed an| later, where her condition was pro-| a lextra ship on this run, nounced critical Radio outfits for on the market. But when we areling docks Tuosd camping the only music we want (0) sar ‘an the Seattle | works slowly thru tt ewe Jeft Seattle for Japan inj will be several days befo mpers are NOW! geores of their countrymen lined| Tho polson js pecullar in that ystem it’ can 09 hear broadcasted is the sizzle of the) syest of wives. The men who stood | determined whether the woman will bacon in the frying pan. lat the rail of the ship, dressed in | live or die, according to physicians. YE DIARY ‘ 19) Up betimes a flee, where did find my mail several fashion. | be quips by ¥. Woodh who doth wield | Ai of those who have gone to| Mrs. Gallaher’ jerry pen. And did read in the lick Journals that parliament hath | sced the soldiers’ bonus bill, so that I, booked passage for themselves and | her sister sald, by who was worth but 4 worry alive, am become worth $1,000.35 i |Seattle, which has about the popu: |ended with his crash today. eae elon aie many to |S o gocurats check can be | raid, wan mld, and no lguor weston ot, Rochester, N.Y. should we Short Haul Bill, io Homer Brew, chiropo- ule s | Sel college when ho doth bocente of age: rrinde, it ta entimated that almost all | found * hav double the amount of trattic \ Japanese Cheer as Passed by Senate And #0, in high good humour, to home, of the 200 or 400 Japanese who have} Six.year-old Jeanne Gallaher, the [Socldents,” | | WASHINGTON, May 20, — The} r S lreturned to Japan during the past | dying woman's daughter, succumbed | BOY SCOUTS TO U.S. Aviators Land |cooding bit, carrying the first | Former Vice President Marshall| rive or six weeks will return with |to meningitis February 23. There is|AID MOTORISTS | MINATO, Jt n, May 20.—Braving {amendment to the present railroad | says; “I ne knew a president | wives, Janother child, Jimmy, aged 3. Gale} TO help motorists understand the |, ptigzard, Amorica’s round-the-world |law, Which would restrict railroads | who was happy after hecot into the! qe movement ts general all along | jahor is a for-hire car driver. new law concerning arterial high: |fiyers have reached the main island|from charging a higher rate for a| White House.” |the Const, with the figures several " ways, 60'boy scouts will work from jof Japan ~ |short than a long haul, was passed That's t st a different color. use their vives are al eA RAAB Os bd ld STEUBENVILLE, Olio, ‘© payroll robber: agine agony of a president’ imagine the ratty pes oe Woods’ Resignation |, fe who has to if the latest American fashions, will| The husband told city be back within a month with mates | nurses that his wife had been very | conch to the of-| dressed in the height of Oriental) degpondent since the death of their| over ng to make them paint It] ¢ . Cornered Robbers May hospital the her eee | Coolidge hesevis Shoot Themselves | 20. trailed constant. ‘ouse, when all her friends ure put-| WASHINGTON, May 20.—Presl-|1y for 10 months, were finally. cor: ng up the duckiest yellow stucco|dent Coolidge haa Instructed Secre-)nerod near here last night, but after ansions! tary of State Hughes to accept the|a battle with Pennsylvania state see resignation of Cyrus ‘1, Woods,|troopers, cheated thelr captors by Now that the round-the-world fly-| American ambaseador to Japan, it| shooting themselves with their last ers are at Yetorofu, it might be well| was made known at the White | bullets. |boys,” Walsh told The SI Because of the storm and a heavy|the Wabash flyer on tho Indiana fo give our readers the correct pro-| House today One of the men died instantly. The |will not arrest anybody, but merely |fo& farther south, the airmen | Service corporation interurban line nuneiation of the iniand, Mr. Coolidge has no one particu-jother way near denth today, Tho |inform drivers of the now rules.” up the idea of continuing thelr flight | crashed head-on into a two-car train Jt Is pronounced Yetorofu jurly In mind to take Woods’ place, | palr was sought for the holdup of the | -——— - |today, here That night: 1 aha hes altho he Has had a number of names} paymaster of the West And 90 to home. suggested to him, which he intends|company at Macaquar AJ& tostudy. , iJuly, when they took § cathe ane hpemtaostoteni sormserynrran nea rae er ss iar Nes anata Nae, Jind Pa, Coal lust Traffic Tangle seh While Report “ ares Needs More Officers to Halt Toll prog 0 i| Thirty-eight Japanese men sailed These | toa 0 pictures, made at a rush hour late Monday, show two of the reasons for) URGES STIGMA . the fact that Seattle has more traffic accidents than almost any other American city.| Eru tion At the top is Fifth and Pike, with automobiles running every way and a jaywalker | BE LIFTED Below is a jam at another downtown corner, with automobiles proceeding across the intersection in both directions. This corner is not protected by sufficient money nor men to make| lit work. to make the first international | pele, the Fire Goddess, credited by t COMPARATIVE TABLES | flight to Tokyo failed today | native legend with making her home | lly Kilauea’s on such a E., Tues- 0 [8 per cent, the larg E Pata , in the country; for Pekin. | tonal rescues were performed in the | - Jeity of ite their native land, and all who have|\death of her baby was accentuated, | a raid on 8 conte ths morn: | prides for the return, are traveling |home made by pollce last Saturday. i » | ' and his pet dog both take th Douglas Plans to Bt fs e BY WILLIAM J. LOSH ! Close Fuisiness| manense ae WASHINGTON, May 20,—Three| Section Joints by government departments today) started the prodigious task of prep- Arrests aration to pay the veterans the bonus congress gave them yesterday The war and navy departments be- Renewal of the drive to eliminate | can search of acres of records and open law violations in Seattle was ffected Tuesday with the filing of 23 informations, charging 41 alleged \bootleggers with being jointists, by Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas. Arrests in the new campaign are expected late Tuesday, when the warrants are turned over to Sheriff Matt Starwich for service. Douglas declared that evidence against disorderly houses is also being gathered and that additional [prosecutions -under the abatement| Of ail these,.{t ts estimated 3,4 nd jolntistn laws may be expected | 866 will. get some form of bonus. | later. | Based on an estimate of 30,000/ BUSINESS DISTRICT record applications handied in a day, JOINTS ARE HIT nine months wil] be necessary for the © places operated by the alleged | army to go thru its records. As the bootleggers include soft drink parlors |bonus is not effective until January in the heart of the business district, /1, payments should begin promptly hotels and lodging houses where on that y liquor fs alleged to have been sold,/ Arrangements have been made to as well as a number of the so-ca! distribute application blanks thru ‘smilo" joints in the south end of | Postoffices, the American Legion, the city, it was declared. rious, military headquarters and ‘The evidence against the law viola. | Civic societies. scrutiny of millions of papers, while the veterans’ bureau, which will is n to ue the bonus certificates, beg whip its admin into shape trative m The war department has by far th greatest task, with files of 5,250,000 possible claimants to go thru. The navy department fares more easily, with only 651,736 enlisted men, 11,- 880 women yeomen and 80,000 ma rines to cope with |thousands of éx-service right, if you do it at all,” reular children receiving the ium, north of the city. He cure, and the dog wears al- Photo by Peter Paul Dru Governmental ~ Department Starting | Huge Task Provided in New Law Fingerprints will be required om the blanks for checking against the inky smudges made at the time of enlistment The war department issued the following list of “don't” to’ veter ans, which it says, if followed, will speed up the work 1. Do not write for application blanks. They will be distributed a soon as prepared. 2. Read instructions carefully. Do not pay fees other than notary charges required in certain 4. Do not write the war depart- ment for information required on the blank. Do the best you can from memory 5. Mail applications in the envel- pes which will be distributed with the blanks. |War Insurance Is Still in Effect Passing of the insurance bonus bill does not affect in any way war risk government insurance by en of Sé attle and the state of Washington, according to information given out today by L. C. Jesseph, Pacifi¢ Northwest district manager of thé (Turn to Page 7, Column 6) ‘s was obtained by Douglas thru (Turn bad Page 7, Column 5) —Photos by Frank Jacobs, Star Staff Photographer. | Borah Wants Wheeler Given | Hawaiians Terrified by of Kilauea Famous Volcano Is Hurling Blasts of Lava; One Dead and Two Missing Wiad pee acide aneetoyee | Clean Bill, in n Senate | utomobile in Seattle is greater than | - | May 20.—] Ou! every 10,000 inhabitants {n Sonia cue meal today b glee \treated last night to the most spec- the city, 104 were injured by cars in |Borah, Idaho, go on record ex-|tacular demonstration staged in 146 1923. Figures for 1924 show an in- onera: Senator Burton K. Wheel-! years by Kilauea, the famous vol- [seat : ae ie Montana, from charges that he |canic crater on the Island of Hawail. Seattle has more traffic accidents, | iinteed his’ office, made-tn an: ta] ae | este to its size, than any other | by a Montana grand jury. | Thru the early evening the people American city, except Los Angeles. | Gallant Capt. Doisy Wrecks |“'{""" | stood in the streets watching the vol- orah de led that the : Borah demanded that the major-\cang hurl boulders, lava, ash and Pelletier Doisy, French man, Civilizgd man never saw Madame jin cauldron, h FACTS when he was virtually in sight of his goal, | rampage. Landing on the muddy race Sue: Stories handed down from genera- ‘Conhhetes show jat Shanghai, after a suc ‘Hote Blaze Soene of Heroic | |tlon to generation among the natives That Seattle, with about the same flight from Canton, Doisy’s machine) Measures by Firemen say that 146 years ago such an erup- | population as Rochester, N. ¥., has|P!Unged into « ditch and was com. | ion took place. twice as many. accidents; pletely wrecked | PORTLAND, May 20.—Several oc-|, ThUs as two missing and ee That we have three times as many | It was stated at the French lega cupants of the Rainier hotel areltie dead make up the casualty accident #s New Orleans, Columbus, | “on he list. T, A. Taylor, engineer on a © that the flight “undoubt-| alive today only because of the he St. Paul or Toledo; jedly would be abandoned.” ‘ Captain | role work of firemen, who carried |Sgar plantation, a brother of Mrs. R. W. Rouse of Area, Ill, was struck That accidents last year increased |Dolsy, after arranging for removal|them to safety from the burning st increase, but {of the wrecked plane, left by train| building last night. Several sensa, (0 & White-hot boulder thrown from SHOW STARTLIN' Comparative table published by the |OF KILAUE. the crater and killed. E. J, Hinman and H. J. Simmons, soldiers, are miss: ing. They were last seen near the volcano's pit. NATIVES IN TERROR 'S WRATH Volcanic ash thrown out from the great pit has covered an area 25 miles square. Sulphurous fumes already have killed vegetation within a wide ra- dius, but the destruction has not reached the sugar or coffee planta: tions, the island’s source of great prosperity. Many natives, still clinging to bits of their former legends and beliefs, are terror stricken. Much of the leg: Jendary lore of the island is woven jaround the volcano and Pele, thé goddess of Kilauea, was probably the most feared and the most ar: _ dently worshiped of any of the na- tive deities of the time before the coming of Christianity. Sacrifices were made to her—sac- rifices ranging from living persons (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) That Seattle has fewer men as- signed to tra e of old persons, who were car: PARIS, May 20.—The Interna-| ried down fire ladders and fire es: tional flight plane of Capt. Pelletier| capes. | Pela was smashed when he landed| For three-quarters of an hour HARDLY NECESSARY” today at Shanghai, the air ministry| dense, black smoke from the base- The ‘automobile chamber says, {announced this evening “| ment poured into the rooms and hall- commenting on the figures: | Another plane will be sent to| ways An effective house alarm sys- “It is for cities showing a high|Dolsy from Hanol, China, it was|tem prevented anyone being over-| ratlo of accidents to determine the | added, so that he at least can|come, Damage amounted to about | enson . f this high rating, It | start again for Tokyo, even tho his} $10,000. |would seem hardly necessary that |chances of beating the Americans EGU SERGE ffic duty than any other 208. | AYS TRA) © TOL 4 to 6:30 p. m. Wednesday, Thurs: | day and Friday, and all day Satu day of this week. Under the dire tion of Scout Executive Walsh and the traffic division, they will be sta tioned at arterial ways and will tell motorists of the new rule that | Tokyo and the prinel jempire-—a few minut ‘Tho three seaplanes, piloted hy [Yesterday by the senuto. Lieuts, Smith, Nelson and Wade, » voto was 64 to 23, The meas- landed in the water off Minato, on | Ure Was sponsored by the progress. |the northermost point of the tsland | !vedemocratle coalition of Hondo—on which are located} cities of the| Six Are Killed in | 8 before a tor: | | makes it compulsory to stop before * entering or crossing such a high. {tific storm, which had made their | Crash of Trains | way, Journey a perilous one, drove down) ROANOKE, Ind. May 20,— six! “We will use only expert out of the north, | were killed and a score injured when | Hnalieh officials test road material | ‘The next jump Is to take them to] ‘The flyer was westbound out of hy building a twotoot road and using | Kasumigaura, the naval base outside Mort Wayne, and carried about 30} a revolving muchine on it, | (furn to Page 7 Column 3) passengers. THE MODERN O. HENRY KAIN O’DARE has spent 15 of his 38 years behind prison ae s. Out of the drab- ness and grayness he emerges as one of the brightest figures in contemporary letters. Crities acclaim him as the only true pre- tender to 0. Henry’s crown as_ king of American short story writers. The Star to- day begins a series of stories by this re- markable writer, Turn to page 3 and read “The Quest for the Night Flower.” You'll read all of the stories to follow it. Panny