The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 21, 1924, Page 1

What! Ole a “Hoss Temperature Last 04 Hours m Th Minimum Today noon, 66 VOL. 26. NO, 75. <p Howdy, folks! One good thing about being a baseball umpire You don't mind it so much w your wife bawls you out ts F sudurd Puts in his seeds And aparrows < t bi er towch the we Lovers ma arre as kisses, i CANDIDATES FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB Spring Poets What pecome of th old-fash- | loned or who used to sa Well, if I pull out this tooth, I'l have to charge you two-bits extra There's a large pile of slag just outside the mouth of the Renton coal mine. We're willir to do the fair thing and call this Mount Tacoma reenland. Stenographers who don't know how to spell « new. Consider the girl who down dictation from Chaucer! Another candidate for the Poison Ivy club is the bobbed-hair flapper who only gets he: ck shaved every two months see WE DON'T KNOW WEAT THIS MEANS, EITHE! If our symbol was “K” instead of “A,” And we used it up to nine, In using the symbol on a wire, Would you sign it “Dog” or “K.9"? —aberpieaeds Stenos, Lil Gee Gee says that whenever she wants a Turkish bath she just gets into her coupe flivver und lets the engine get overheated oe. Balloonatic: Owner of a new set of balloon tires. eee One of the most interesting indoor | sports fs trying to read the name of a Victrola record while it is plzying. | eee Sige oo the Back « ts “ONE OF THE 10,000, 000 | Aol et a Ford: see So far, President Coolidge has re frained from insisting that congress change the name of Mount Rainier to Fujiyama. 2 A prehistoric squaladont haa been discovered in California. We don't know what a squaladont is, but we) have to give you the news. eee What makes a wife madder than to find her husband testing his favor. ite rod in the parlor, casting files at the goldfish? | You've got to hand it to drug stores. They sell everything from | | a girlish blush to a pair of coral || t \u REVOKE DRIVER Endangers Lives of Children in School Bus; Is Facing Cell Severely reprimanding Walter Stokely, driv a school bus a Kanasket, near Enumclaw, for en dangering the Irves of more than a score of school children when he failed to stop at « railroad crossing Judge C. C. Dalton Wednesday re Months. Hoe also fined Stokely $50 and gave him a 90-day suspended jail sentence. Stokely was affested by State! ighway Patrolman W. J. Clark as he drove the school bus, loaded with children, across a dangerous railroad crossing. near Kanasket, without "| stopping as required by law. Taage Yatton told Stokely that he Vshould be sent to jail for a year and be made an example that would deter other drivers from such careless prac ties. By revoking Stokely’s driver's license, the man is prohibited trom driving any kind of an automobile for the next six months “I haven't jurisdiction to give the| year in jail, however,” Daiton ex-| clainsa to The Star, “and I felt that. since this is the first of such schoo! bus cases, that the withdrawal of his| license for six months would be more of a penalty to this particular man than six months in jail would be.” | busy streets intersect The Newspaper With the Postoffice at Seattia SEATTLE, WASH the Biggest Circulation he Seattle Star !° Metered as Second Clase Matier May 4, WEDNESDAY, Wash, under the Act of Congress Marck MAY 21, 1924 Scouts Enforce New Traffic Law Their “Good Turn Da Orders at oa wiat's op "Lelone fie code. eee RMED with a whistle word of advice, 60 Boy Scouts Wednesday opened a campaign to educate Seattle motorists to the new traffic code tn effect in the city The Scouts were to be stationed at 60 polnts thruout the city, where with arterial highways. The boys were instruct. ed to stop every car that entered | the highway from these streets and MARTIN. OUT OF WORLD TRIP. | WASHINGTON, May 21.—Maj, Frederick L. Martin will not rejoin | the army world flyers, it was learned here today. Original plans to have Martin re sume command of the flight. at some point in Europe or Asia Minor have virtually been abandoned, upon ad |vice of staff officers. it Instead, it is sald, Martin will be retained in Washington by the chief ff the alr service to serve in an ad. visory capacity In directing the Inat | few laps of the world journey. = x “ee Sheriff Starwich is preparing to seize the property of the Puget Sound Power & Light Co. This is a matter of current inter-| ent. | eee The song of a nightingale was | broadcasted in England yesterday. | That's nothing. Mayor Brown’s bull| has been broadcasted many times in| Seattle. see | There was an old fellow named} Sydney | Who drank till he ruined a kidney,| It shriveled and As he sat there and drank, But he had a good didney? oe In the national checker tourna-| ment in New York one of the play. ers collapsed from exhaustion. $0 did the three spectators. shrank, \ WHY DINERS GET cROSs-EYED | Restaurants have signs up | cautioning diners to watch their | hats and coats. The trouble is | that while you are watching your hat and coat somebody ts liable to steal your chop. eee Another reanon for the high cost of Iiving is that too many people! have garages where the chicken coop used to be. are 6 After reading some of the newn- paper headlines one Is apt to con clude that this ta “the land of the/| spree and the home of the knave.” | . 20) i This day my wife did lay plans for | spending the bonus the parliament did fately grant us, but when I did tell her no monies would be forthcoming for a she did say, “Well, when | T cot cheated. 1 thought | 1 wonta get the 810,000 war ris anes, and you heat me out of t ‘t jernment’s early popularity was wan. ‘Baldwin to Launch War on Laborites LONDON, May 21.—"We have got to break this government,” ex-Pre- |mier Stanley Baldwin declared in a| speech here today in which he se verely criticized the labor govern. ment’s policies. He admitted it was difficult to see} how the breaking of the MacDonald regime was to be accomplished, but expreased belief that the labor gov. ing. }from 4 to 6:30 p. m. Wednesda | ne {explain to them the provision in the new code which requires that the auto must be brought to a stop before entering the highwa: Scout Executive Stewart Walsh has selected the boys for the work and has picked only experienced Scouta. The boys wili be on duty Thursday and Friday and all Saturday. They will work under the supervision of Sergt, Frank Fuqua of the traffic division BOYS WILL ADVISE BUT NOT ARREST No arrests will be made by the boys. They will merely stop the motorists and explain to them that hereafter the auto must be brought to a complete stop. before entering an arterial highway. Altho only 60 boys will be each day, 150 boys will take part! in the work “In the four days that the boys will be working they will have a | chance to impress on the ‘minds of thousands of motorists the nece: sity of obeying this particular sec- tion of the law,” Walsh said Wed- HIGHY AYS MARKED WITH “STOP” SIGNS With several crews of sign paint. ers at work marking the intersec- tions of Weatinke, Eastlake, Stone way, Woodland park and other ar teria) highways named in the new (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) “™*«|Woman Mayor of Union Gap Spoils Campaign for Cement Sidewalks \ Zoe May 21,—Union Gap today has board side- walks but no speed cop. Two years ago the town had « very busy speed cop and am- bitions for no board sidewalks. But the ambition was not tem- pered with logic or reasoning and it fell at the hands of a woman. The entire Yakima valley knows the story. The town wanted cement sidewalks. So a motorcycle was purchased and a speed cop was hired. Then an open season was declared on motorists. Few cars ever eagle eye of Union cop. Some motorists declared they faced charges they had never heard of, Soon the place was a “marked” town, Tourists ned to steer clear of place, Yakima put up a on the elty lmits which read: "This 19 Union Gap. Look Out for the Speed Cop.” But the Unton Gap sidewalk boost- escaped the ’4 speed ign ers went out at night and paint. ed the signs black. Duncan Dunn, member of the last legislature, is sald to be thie only man. who ever cheated the town's coffers. Dunn and his brother were arrested for speeding. Dunn refused to pay the fine and demanded he be put in jail to serve out the sentence. Dunn knew there was no jail in Union Gap. The judge also knew it and dismissed the cane Then one day a monkey wrench was thrown in the plans for the new cement. sidewalks. A woman—Mrs. C, B. Barrett wan elected mayor of the town. Her first official act was to sell Union Gap's motorcycle. With out the motorcycle the speed cop was useless and s0 he was fired. Soon the “quarantine” on the place was lifted and mo- torists again drove thru the place without fear of sure ar- rest, Mrs, Barrett resigned as mayor two months ago, and 4) ' used ily” I to Help Seattle ulering ar terial highways, Phetoe Motorists Obey Stop Arterial Highway Crossings Scout Ted Lewis, 1126 83rd ave.,| warns D. M. Roderick, district manager of the Hoover Suction Sweeping Co. Lewis is one of 60 Scouts that went on duty Wednesday to aid in explaining Seattle's new traf- Uy Prank Jacobs, Star Staff Photographer Will Doheny Grease His Way to Heaven? R. EDWARD L, DOHENY has just given $600,000 to a Los Angeles church. The gift is in Mrs. Doheny’s name, but it is Doheny oi] money—out of the same pot that Albert Fall got $100,000 for giving Doheny’s concern the oil national scandal. The idea in the back of leases which resulted in a Doheny’s head seems to be that the money may help some years hence, when he di “Here’s $600,000. many grease spots you can It is as if he said to the Recording Angel: Get some whitewash and see how cover up.” People who work hard and honestly for thelr money |} give dimes and quarters, ings, to the church. savings sometimes go into | Some of us up here have evolved the theory that, because a lot of the wealth amassed by oil magnates comes from the hard savings of the poor, the Record- | /}) | leader, We have the idea he’s spreading the $600,000 out || ing Angel isn’t writing in pinched from meager say- oil companies. | the Doheny ledger at all. over a lot of poor. folks’ ledgers, instead. SHOALS OFFER TURNED DOWN Ford Must Now Bring Fight to Floor of Senate | | Bilt | WASHINGTON, May 21—By a vote of 10 to 6, the senate agricul- ture committee today rejected Henry Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals nitrate and power project. The yote on the bid came in executive session shortly after the committee had announced {t would lond all hearings on disposition of jthe project next Monday and con- |sider its recommendation to the sen: jate beginning Tuesday. | Details of the committee's action |were not available because of the secrecy in which the vote was |taken, Ford's offer was indorsed by tho house by an overwhelming vote last month. The committee's action forces supporters of the auto magnate’s bid to fight to bring it up on the floor of the senato for [final action Alien Smuggling Charge in Court | ‘The second trial of Conrad ©. Lar- sen and Ingarl Larsen, charged with with unlawfully bringing acro#s the Canadian border four alleny, hogan in Federal Judge Goorge M. Bour- quin’s court Wednesday, ‘The first trial of the case resulted in a dis agreement of the jury. “The Bellingham Ki jointly with the Larsens, has not aw yet been found by government au. ithorities, charged ARREST 15 IN NEW DRIVE 26 Warrants Still Are to Be Served Here Fifteen arresta had been made up to noon Wednesday by Sheirff Matt Starwich and his deputies in Prose cuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas’ drive against the open violation of the prohibition law. Starwich expected to have most of the 41 persons, charged with being Jointists in the complaints filed by) Douglas Tuesday, under arrest be- fore night. ‘Those arrested posted $750 cash | |ball each ‘They are: George and John Samac, |609 Weller st.; Jaems Jewett, Pete | Brady and Frank O'Neil, 216 Jefter- son st.; Vito Fiorl, alias F, Murphy, |517 Jackson st; Charles Romo, Ro- meo Tronko and Charles Rossi, Fifth ave. 8.; 404 M. Shimada and wife, . $; August Slons!, 625 Adie Baker, alias Bachi- Weller st; Barton Messeng ‘al jand Bert Pelligrini, 123 Sixth ave. 8, the warrant for August Sloss! was served on Slossi in the county Jail, \nwhere. be,,la. 98 ving a term on a Maquor conviction, British End “Trip, | Calcutta to Burma LONDON, May 2%1.—A_ dispatch! from Akyab, Burma, says that} Maj. MacLaren, British ‘round the world flyer, arrived there today. He flew from Calcutta, | school. Other portions of their meager || jana |horse in Washington 4, 187%, Per Year, by Mall, 1150 ACCUSE FORMER MAYOR x: amous Old Nag Is | Involved Now in Pasadena Charge’ Against Hanson BY HOMER G. BREW Hugh Caldwell, when mayor of Se attle, once refused to answer @ diatribe of Ole Hanson's by remark- ing: “You can't fight a pole-cat.” A pole-cat, you will remember, ts a mail halitosis, (“She wondered why she was not more popular.”) Pole-cat was only one of the minor epithets applied to o Ole when he was in Seattle. The majority of his be printed in this journal, titles could not great family But j to apply the final descriptive term to the ebullient Mr. Hanson. “Horse thief!" The exmmayor of Seattle, reputed millionalre realty speculator of Los Onglalz, and erstwhile candidate for United States senator, will face a justice of the peace in Pasadena! Thursday, charged with stealing « light roan, half-breed cayuse named | Golden. Subtitle: “That thar stranger from Se le always done act suspicious. Reckon he's our man, pards!” But Seattleites who remember Ole’s dizay verbal gymnastics know there | s little danger of the Terror of the Bolaheviks being strung up to a tree, Rather, they expect him to sell the jury a few $175 lots for $1,500. THE OLD ROAN HOSS, SHE WUZ WUNST HERE The nag in dispute, according to Hanson, is the same noble creature that was wont, in tho day of Ole’s glory, to lead the parades down Sec- ond ave The equine used to prance at the head of the column, side by side with Joe Warren's equally famous | white horse. Hanson took the horse South, for his son to ride while attending prep One day It disappeared. ‘That was a year and a half ago. The other day, says Our Ole, he his son spotted the missing in a corral, explained their pregrity of ownership, and were al- to retake the famed parade The new owner now comes forth, jhowever, and deposes and says that [Ole has not proved ownership yet. |And there the caso stands. But a lot of Ole’s political enemies in Seattle are saying today: “Well, I always knew he was a horse thief, but I never thought they would charge him with it!” | Hold Youth After Motor Car Fatality PORTLAND, Ore., May 21,—Po- lice today were holding Paul W. Hartman to face charges of man- slaughter, growing out of the death, yosterda of Peter Green, street workman, who was fatally Injured by Hartman's automobile. Hartman was arrested in an al- leged drunken condition after the mishap, Oil Tanks Burned in Electric Storm 5 CITY, Tex., May 21.— 55,000-barrel tanks of the Hum- li Four {ble Ol| and Refining Co. here were struck by lightning today Fire fol- lowed, The loss was estimated at $500,000, Firemen fought desperately to prevent the flames spreading. HEIFERS SET MARK FOR BOVINE SWIM; PADDLE NINE MILES PPP eraey Ore, May 21— Sam Carlson's four heifers hold the Jersey record fur long- distance swimmers. The animals, grazing near Her- miston, fell into a concrete.lined irrigation canal, The water was too deep for them to wade and the sides too steep to permit the animals to climb out, A rancher found them nino miles away and hauled them out of the canal with ropes. Two other heifers are missing, and {t Is thought they were drowned, nima! suffering from general | remained for Los Angeles | |EDIT I TWO CENTS IN EDITION| SE ATTLE. | hiof? 7472 Million Less o Pay Next Year Congress Cuts In come Levy One- fourth; Publicity of Returns, How- ever, Is Killed Once More | WASHINGTON, will reduce the nation’s lev | sarees upon unanimously by OTe action practically measure in both houses by th assures 21.—A compromise tax bill that y $472,620,000 in 1925 was senate and house conferees final adoption of the e end of the week and admin- istration republicans feel that the president will make it a law with his signature. This first effect of the bill, if approved, will be a 25 per cent reduction in all taxes on 1923 incomes, payable this year. ‘actions in both |peace upon adoption of the meas lure in conference and both repub licans and democrats stated they be lieved the compromise would un doubtedly be made a law before |scheduled adjournment two weeks |from Saturday. DEMOS WIN ON | NORMAL, SURTAX | The compromise agreement gives the democrats a victory for their |normal and surtax levy upon in comes. In return for this democrats receded from their radi- cal estate, gift and corporation lev- fes and the publicity feature against which President Coolidge has lodged his objection “I think and hope th will affix bis signature, | Smoot said. “I belie that bust- ness will be stimulated because thi jis a fairly good tax reduction bill Senator Simmons, democrat, North |Carolina, leading minority tax ex- pert, sald “While most of the Melion admin. istrative provisions are retained, the provisions prepared by the mi. |nority for norma] and income taxes jmake {t the democratic measure we claim it to be. “We receded on points objected to |by the president, and still retained the heart of the democratic plan— the income rates.” Smoot announced he would bring the conference report before the senate on Friday. Smoot notified President Coolidge jof the conferees’ agreement. White House officials familiar with Mr. Coolidge’s views seemed satisfied with it, and Indicated they believed he would sign it,-tho they authorized no statements to that effect. Here is what the conferees did: president \Last Attempt Made to Soften Blow to Orientals as Ban Draws Near BY A. L. BRADFORD (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, May 21.—Despite his futile efforts to modify the Ja anese exclusion provision of the immigration bill, President Coolidge, |instead of signing the measure | without comment, will take some final step designed to mitigate the affront to Japan in the proposed law, informed observers believed to- day. Meanwhile, the two countries are }facing a situation where neither may be represented by an ambas- sador in the other's capital. The resignation of Cyrus Woods, Amert- can ambassador to Tokyo, having been accepted by the president, no official and diplomatic explanations seem able to down the impression that one of the causes of Woods’ retirement is the proposed exclusion law. Ambassador Hanthara, the Japa- nese envoy here, reported to be on the verge of resigning, today told the United Preas that he could not comment on the subject. All the ambassador would say was that he had no present plan of resign- ing and that he was “awaiting de- velopments.”” Secretary of State Hughes ts holding frequent conferences with President Coolidge on the Japanese situation. It ts believed that |Hughes would feel much of his | work in the state department to have been in vain should an ex: clusion law result in a return of the delicate relations existing be- tween the two powers before ‘the Washington disarmament confer. jence, | In the midst of this situation, Mr, Coolidge {ts casting around for ta suitable man to take Woods’ place. The name of John Hays Hammond, noted mining engineer and chairman of the coal commis: sion during its brief life, is being mentioned. Hammond at one time was offered the Tokyo post by Prosi- dent Harding houses declared ; the | Chairman | Income taxes—Adopted the demo- |cratic plan, providing a 2 per cent tax on incomes of less than $4,000; {4 per cent for the next $000; 6 per cent over that amount Adopt- ed the democratic surtax schedule running up to a maximum of 40 per cent on incomes of $500,000 and over. |ADOPT PRESENT LAW ON CORPORATIONS | Corporations tax— Adopted the present law, providing a flat cor- poration tax of 12% per cent and |$1 per $1,000 issuance of capital stock. (This will cut $19,000,000 |from revenues expected under the senate scheme which provided a | staduated scale up to 40 per cent jon big undivided profits with a flat 9 per cent tax and elimination of the capital stock tax.) Earned income—Adopted the sen- ate provisions permitting all in- comes under $10,000 to be taxed as jearned income. Estate and gift taxes—Adopted the house provision which provides ® graduated scale on estate and gifts, up to 40 per cent om $5,000,- 000. WILL KEEP INCOME FIGURES SECRET Publicity—Killed the provision for complete publicity on all returns and that the name of every (axpaver and the amount of tax paid, is open to public inspection. Also provided that decisions of the board of tax appeals be made public and that public hearings be held in all cases involving a tax of $10,000 or more. Tax exemptions—Killed the senate provision which would limit deduc- tions for nonbusiness capital losses to less than the amount of income (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) COOLIDGE TRIES TO — SAVE JAPAN’S FACE Not What the U. Ss. Does but Way It Does It, Hurts, Avers Consul BY JOHN W. NELSON Japan does not want to colonize the Pacific coast states of America. It does not even want its immi- grants to come to this country, where they are not welcome. But t wants them to be excluded by treaty, such as the “gentlemen's agreement,” not by the harsh voice of the law-making body of the American government, That is the official view of the imperial Japanese government on the question of Jap exclusion. Chutchi Ohashi, consul of Japan, in his elaborate and commodious suite of offices, on the sixth floor of the Central building, voiced them to a Star reporter Tuesday, in his most suave and diplomatic manner. American press of a rush of Japa- nese to reach America before the exclusion act {fs effective are grossly exaggerated. They are not true. Travel to Japan on Admiral Orten- tal line and other boats {s not above normal, Ohashi says. They are Japanese who formerly lived in America, but who returned to visit relatives and their homeland, who now wish to rejoin their wives and children in America, DISCRIMINATION, t CONSUL DECLARES Back of Ohashi the bright ate (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) Harry Thaw Misses New York Saloons NEW YORK, May 21.—Harry Thaw had just one fleeting look at jthe city that knew him a genera. tlon ago as gay-hearted spendthrift from Pittsburg, and his one com: ment was; “There aren't as many saloons now as there used to be,’" ‘Then, after arranging $10,000 bail for two Indictments that have been held against him for the seven years of his incarceration in a mad: house, Thaw left town and spent the night at a country place in |New Jersey. j adopted the house provision, stating 2 Also the stories appearing in the noon sun poured. The polished com scot ng lah ai inten