The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 22, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER Generally tonight and Wed- nesday alig nesday Maximum, 67 Today noon, 65. The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington VOL. 26. Home Brew | oe te The Northwest association of Sher- | iffy and Police is holding its annual | convention here Today's dumbell: The bootlegger who tries to sell hooch to a dele gate. | «oe | The official badges of the conven- tion are made out of copper. This is a delicate compliment, no doubt, to our policemen. oe The telephone rate has been! boosted again. But we'll fool ‘em, | by heck! We'll refuse to dial thelr | telephone! bs AS ENE aS * Sayines OF THE GREAT | | Mabel Normand: “It's alt | blah.” _—__$_____________—___a “ee Scientist says he has discoyered some new sun spots. So has Li'l Gee | Gee—only she calls ‘em freckles. aa If to slay a he | 14, homicide, i . Is to slay « her Herpicide? Strange that the 1925 automobiles | do not come equipped with parking | places.—Screenland. | They may not be equipped with | parking places, but you can't deny | that the rear seat affords a good sparking piace. . * 3,000 JOLTS TO THE GALLO (enact "smc Dear Homer: What is the value of the-dime of 18917—Coin Collector. , Ans.—10 cents. “ee f Styles tn flappets’ clothes this sum- mer are like Thanksgiving turkeys. More white meat than dressing. eee According to the last census, there wre 4,267 persons in the United States who are over 100 years of age. Which means there are about 4,000 awful lars. 3 eee CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON | IVY CLUB $50 Axo costs ” TAKE THE | PR.Wd6R rr <a | The gink who tells his friends his éar can make 89 miles an hour, and) then tells the judge it is a pitysical | impossiblity for his bus to go over 18. eee It took Li'l Gee Gee almost 10 min- utes this morning to get into style. She cut the sleeves off all her dresses. see Mosquitoes are living high these days in the great open spaces. eee England is celebrating the 300th - anniversary of the first use of forks. ‘This will be news to a lot of people who didn’t know they’d been invented yet. +o YE DIARY aly £1) At my office my wife comes and tells me that she hath hired m kitchen mayde, one of the prettiest maydes she saw in her life, and she says over that she ts Jealous of me for her, but hath ventured to hire the wench month to month, but I think she means merrily and is bat kidding me, albeit I do hope the mayde be pretty, poor, fond fool that 1am. So to supper and to bed. Seattle is alleged to have a food trust. We don’t believe it, We've never gotten them to trust us. see A Seattle firm ts preparing to put on the market a cute little stick that can be used for dialing a tele- phone number. Li'l Gee Gee, however, will con- tinue to use a toothpick, eee He rocked the boat, Did Ezra Shank; These bubbles mark 0 0 0 0 0 0 Where Ezra sank. Little Homer Brew Jr. is growing more fastidiuos every day. It is get- ting #0 that he won't let his mother lick him with the hair brush until it has first been sterilized. 20-46 Telephone rates in Seattle will be boosted at least 60 cents beginning August 1 Who said talk was cheap? oi a570 The telephone company has lots of nerve. They not only charge a higher rate for their telephone, but they make us crank the darn thing! Ad, 8 4 FAILURE: MINISTER ASSERTS Also Accuses Some Bankers as Aides to Bootleggers in| Seattle ECLARING that women on Juries are largely responsi- ble for the non-enforcement of | the Iaw, the Rev, Mark A. | Matthews aroused a conyentiori of Northwest law enforcement officers Tuesday. Dr, Matthews made the principal | address before the conyentlon, which | is meeting at the Etks temple. He} [8 pastor of tho First Presbyterian church, Crime goes unpunished today be- cause Of “undue, unscientific sentl. mentalism,” Dr. Matthews said. “The placing of women on juries has militated against law enforcement.” “WOMEN HAVE NO PLACE ON JURIES” “Women are. entirely too sentl- mental “and are easily swayed by thelr emotions, hayo no place on juries, in my \opinion, and such important duties “should be taken care of by men, who are more stern and leas likely to be influenced by silver-tongued oratory and more sus ceptible to the actual truth,” he said, Dr. Matthews declared that sentt- Mentalism had no place in the ma-| chin ry of justice and that the facts of th case alone should be taken into consideration, But, he said, since women have been taken into juries the actual facts were oftentimes disregard ‘and a play for the emotions by cun- ning attorneys was used instead. SAYS COURTS HAVE LOST THEIR DIGNITY | The minister scoffed at the man | ner in which the courts are opened. He said that “bailiffs open them by | reciting something that sounds like Chinese, which no one can under-} stand,” and advocated a reversion to Southern customs of 100 years ago. In those days, he declared, courts were opened by the sheriff, who preceded the judge with a drawn sword and “announced opening of the court with forcefy? dignity.” He said: “They respected the courts in those days a great deal more than they do now. More dig nity and sternness are needed in Our courtrooms if any fear or re- spect can he hoped for.’ HIGHER-UPS GET RASPED BY PASTOR Turning to other crime-sidelights, Dr. Matthews said: “I would gladly see every peniten- tlary and fail of the country emptied its present prisoners, if their Places could be taken by a mere handful of the higher-ups, “At the present time, I think the most anker fhe kind of a criminal is the banker Yho finances the opera tlons of bootleggers.” Seattle was among the cities that he named which had bankers who The _ <a 5 |chance there? did this. “Big Doin’s” Sure to Keep Date Open We Can’t Tell You What It Is Just Yet, but You Won’t Want to Miss This Salt Water Park Affair ON’T make any engagement, folks, for Monday night, August 4! { You'll regret it if you do. For that’s the night of the “big doin‘’s” that’s to be staged by the Young Men's Business club in connection with their drive to “put over” tho State Salt Water park campaign In Seattle. What's it all about? Just walt a day or so and we'll tell you all about it, Meanwhile—keep that date open! 4 The Y. M. B. C. “go-getters” fre| raising $10,000 as Seattle's share of an $18,000 fund to buy a 90-acre park on salt water, midway between Seattle and ‘Ta. coma, to be turned over to the state ana state park. Tacoma’s raising $5,000, The state da giv. ing $3,000, 1899, at the ‘ATTLE, WASH, yea Class Matter May 2 C tle Wash DAY, JULY 22, 1924. Is There a Judge Who Has Courage? Jer the Act of Congress March 3 Year, by Mail, 1879, We (EDITORIAL) AGAIN Seattle finds itself in the grip of the telephone octopus and its faith- ful friend, the federal court. Backed by the millions of the most power- ful trust in the world, the lawyers of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. have at last sueceeded in paving the way for a stupendous rate increase, not only in Seattle, but in Tacoma and Spokane as well. The fight in Washington is part of a nation-wide movement the telephone trust has started to gouge more deeply into the flesh of an already persecuted |public. The trust has been successful in not a few other states, And the signif- icant feature of the story is the fact that it is always the federal court that is called upon, and hardly without exception has the federal court failed to make good—for the trust. is not difficult to understand the telephone trust’s reasoning. yers, shrewd and far-seeing, realize that danger sometimes lurks in su-| perior courts, where the judges are elected by the people. By no means. It law- Do they take a Instead, they seek out sleepy, hidebound federal judges, who long ago de- cided the law and the facts could be handled with abandon so long as corporate interests were not disturbed. ‘TELEPHONE lawyers always are courteous. They do not wish to embar- rass their federal court friends, willing as the federal judges are to accom- modate them. The public will remember that in May, 1928, the Pacific Telephone & Tele- graph ‘0., which owned the old Sunset and Independent franchises, assigned the Independent franchise to one Crosby of San Francisco for $10. at Crosby wanted of this franchise nobody ever has found out. But it is plain to see why the telephone company wished him to have it. That Independent franchise contained certain stipulations as to rates and obligations to be performed by the telephone company. It was a hot wire. The phone trust wanted to drop it and it did. It couldn’t go into federal court with a contract because, accommodating as federal judges are, there are cer- tain constitutional provisions that limit their corporate liberality. The federal court would refuse to pass on the reasonableness of rates speci- \fied by the franchise contract. So, with the Independent franchise in the hands of Crosby, the phone com- pany could go to the federal court and set up a claim of confiscation; that would bring the issue within the provisions of the 14th amendment. QUTSIDE the government itself, there probably is no greater extravagance in the United States than that to be found within the organization of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. talons stretch out eve’ Cumbersome and unwieldy, its great here, caring little how much is spent or wasted, be- cause the trust always has been able to get it back many times by just a little firmer squeeze. Its plea of poverty would go unheeded in the ears of a child. The common ownershi Electric and interlocking directorates of the parent company, the Western ‘0, and the Pacific Co., are such crude devices for the concealin of profits as to deceive no one—court, commission or layman—excepting those who wish to be deceived. Sleight-of-hand men of high finance have done their work well. It remains to be seen if there is a federal judge discerning enough and courageous enough to lay bare the deceit, the pyramided expense that the trust sets up as an excuse for higher rates, and make it plain that the Pacific Telephone Co. can actually reduce rates in Seattle and still make money. , Folks! Be The club needs a subscription from EVERY man, woman and child of AT LEAST $1. Five Seattle sportsmen “camo thru” Tuesday with $1 subscrip: fon handed court dealt a phone users’ in Tacoma staggering blow defense of increased tolls, were being carefully studied by Corporation Kennedy and his aldes, Tuesday, READY TO FIGHT PHONE BOOST Effect of Injunction Here Is down by Counsel T. J. the respective services. In addition long distance tolls will he increased and pay boxes raised from 15 cents per day to 20 cents per day. WILL TRY CASK ON ITS MERITS With every avenue of delay in the phone fight cut off by the action of Studied the federal judges in Tacoma Mon: day, Corporation Counsel 'T. J. L — Kennedy Tuosday said he expected Effects of the injunction decis-|to bo called into conference by At: torney General John A, Dunbar within a few days. To offset the claims of the tele phone company the state attorney general's office and the three cities involved have employed telephone engineers, who will assemble data to oppose the evidence of the phone the federal Monday, which to the L tions. They were C. W. H. “We are going over every phase | company when the case goes to trial. Heldeman, the naturalist; John of the telephone fight,” Kennedy| Judge 1, BE. Cushman, of Tacoma, C. Beck, Elizabeth Beck and sald, “to leatn just what was done] will hear the arguments, probably their two children, Koren and |to us by Monday's decision," within a month, Milo Beck. Rah for the Beck decision, handed down by “When the United States supremo family! Officials of the Seattle Federal Judges Rudkin, Neterer and | court reversed our previous victories Sportsmen's association say that | Gilbert, sitting en bane, enjoined] it cut off our last avenue of delay every one of the 1,000 members the state department of public|and makes an immediate trial of the are behind the park campaign. works from interferring with the] case on its merits the best possible The printer got to reading so new phone tariff to be put into} defense against the unjust rate,” fast on “copy” for the park jeffect by the Pacific Telegraph &| Konnedy sald. story yesterday that he over. | Telephone Co,, August 1, Otto B. Rupp, attorney for the looked entirely « paragraph tell- The new tariff provides an in«| phone company, also wants un early ing about a $26 check for the | crease of $2 per month on business | trial of the case. park received from the General phones, 50 cents per month on one-|* “We are anxious to have our gis Petroleum dorporation. We hope | party lines and two-party nes, and} determined,” Rupp sald, “We are this one isn't overlooked, because | 26 conta per month on four-party| ready to go to trial tomorrow.” we like to tell the world about. Ine The rates will be $10.50, But the cities involved and the (Turn to Page 7, Columu 4) $4.2 3.50 and $2.76 per month far (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) tar TWO CEN Rev. Mark A. Matthews, in Speech, PANS WOMEN JURORS! Home Edition 140 mr | os =] a2 | wa ~-FRAMEUP Says “Betrayal” Is Responsible for His Plight; Back in Ta- coma Now ACOMA, July 22.—Removed to the Pierce county Jail from Vancouver, where he has been held in the Clarke county jail since his arrest Thursday, Rich- ard Conner, accused of the mur- der of his wife, Pearl, Tuesday still refused to believe his friend, Tone Holt, had betrayed his con- fidence. Conner was taken from the Van- couver jail shortly after midnight by deputies and brought to Tacoma early this morning. He was uncom. jmunieative about the case and the of. | ficers made no attempt to draw him out, Shown newspaper stories about how Mrs. Holt had worked out of him information as to where the body of Mrs. Conner had been buried in an abondoned weil, Conner in jaji cried out: “It's all bunk; Just a big frame- up, that’s all. There's nothing to it.” “No attempt will be made by offi- cers to get a statement from Con- ner,” Sheriff Desmond declared. “The state's case has been completed against the accused man,” he added “and nothing wauid be gained by in- terrogating Conner,” Desmond de- clared. y Another character in the Conner tragedy walked onto the stage today when it was revealed by County At- torney J. W. Sheldon that Mrs. Rich- ard McArthur, 35, widow of East Larchmont and formerly employed in the H. 8. Coblentz grocery at Fern Hill, was the “other woman” in an alleged triangle that Sheldon declares resulted in the slaying of Mrs, Pearl Conner. SAYS CONNER ASKED HER TO MARRY Mrs. McArthur, when interviewed, admitted that Richard Conner, chiirged with the murder of his wife on May 19, had proposed marriage to her shortly he*--- *'- wife's “disap. pearance,” but that she had coun- seled him to wait until “he was ina position honorably to do so."” Conner, she e~~'s'=-" had told her that he and his wife had agreed it was impossible for them to live to- gether longer and their divorce was but a matter of time. Mrs. McArthur, who, with her little child, left her husband in Yio- torla three years ago to make her home with her mother here, ob- tained her final decree of divorce June 6. “It's a ie to say Richard Conner was in my mind when I obtained a divorce,” declared Mrs, McArthur, This is the charge mado by the county attorney. The state expects Mrs. McArthur, however, to be an important wit- ness in the welding of the chains (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) 4 For Lieutenant-Governor of Washington We N ominate Yt attain atiata ta tnccee OTTO Members of The Star staff the office of lieutenant-governor today on the theory that a lieutenant-governor is more decorative than useful, any- way. rative L.-G.? BY JIM MARSHALL HERE was tremendous excite ment up here at The Star to when two of our reporters let it be known about to sive birth day they were to ideas At first it was hoped that the ideas would be poetical, but both of them turned out to be merely political, Life is full of disappointments like that. But we must not be dis- |courag let u ll read the Amer- jican magazines and perk up at t |inspiring record of John G. Bunk, |who started 81 years ago as a shoe shiner and now controls five esthetic bootblacking boudoirs. Allons! When ‘the first little {dea came |to one of the reporters he cri jto one of the office boys: “Get |me the names of all the candidates |for the lieutenant-governacy, at once!” (Of course, he meant the “tieu- tenancy-governor.’ | REPORTER SIZ! |UP CANDIDATES Well, this reporter put down the jnames of the candidates, and against each name wrote a few pithy re- marks, Comme ca: ADAM BEELER — He did something about dope, or sumpin’, didn’t he? CHARLIE ‘HEIGHTON—They call him “Fightin' Heighton,” and -there's too, much. fightin’ already. What we want is ce. W. LON JOHNSON—Hum! Of Colfax, or Colville, or some- where. What did he ever do? FRED REMANN—Used to be Prosecutor over at Tacoma, He's E. L. French's running mate. inthusiasm inspiration record: Class G 6, After putting down these thoughts the reporter sighed heavily and went back to sleep. At this. point the second reporter came along in a somnambulistic— gosh! that’s a hard one—manner, and saw the lst. Right away he was overcome with another idea. (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) NEW REGRADE IS OUTLINED Will Provide Thru Route and Cut Out “Profanity Hill” City councilmen Tuesday . were given preliminary data on a plan to extend Sixth ave. from Jefferson st., where it now ends, around “Profan: ity Hill," to connect with 12th ave. and Main st., by City Engineer J. D. Blackwell, Tuesday. The plan is advanced as the most feasible solution of the slide problem on Jackson st. and Fifth ave., near Yesler way. It also includes the re- grading of Washington st. to con- nect the new thorofare which would encircle “Profanity Hill.” City Engineer J. D. Blackwell has not completed his studies of the proj- ect, and was given an extension of time to make a complete report on the project, John E. Carroll, chair. man of tho streets and sewers com- mittee, said. GP)\IRT Farmer Makes $2,000,000 in Wheat" says a recent head- line. “Wheat Prices Soar; Smile,” says another. But here's the way they should have read, according to Walter J. Robinson of Pomeroy, manager of the Washington State Wheat Grow: ers’ association: “Dirt Farmer’ Makes $2,000,000 in ‘Paper’ Wheat.” “Wheat Prices Soar; Farmers Smile Sadly and Sardonically,” The only money being made in wheat this year, Robinson declares, after a tour and survey of the whole Northwest, is in “paper wheat” on the Chicago Board of Trade. ONLY SPECULATORS ARE MAKING MONEY Speculators are waxing wealthy on $1.80 a bushel “futures,” but the Pa. clflo Northwest crop ts about 60 per cont off generally, and is not 10 per | controt a crop in same places—and Farmers High Grain Prices Aid Speculator, This Year: High Price and No Crop Is the Rule for the Northwest Not Farmer none of it is ready for the market now, while high price prevail, “Before it does reach the market," Robinson told The Star today, “the market will be down, and more spec- ulators will be making fortunes by playing the market on that sort of a margin.” Robinson should know, if anybody in Washington does, He, is one of the best known and best posted farmers in the state. He is a native of Pomeroy. He owns and operates a 1,400-acre farm in Garfield county, and is owner of a quarter of a section in Whitman county, , \ He is a former grain: warehouse- man, former state legislator, former president of the Farmers’ union, col- Jaborator with the U. 8. department of agriculture, one of nine U. 8, del- egates last May to the International Institute of Agriculture in Rome, and is being put forward as a possible (Turn to Page 7, Colunin 3) That being the case, why not have a REALLY deco- We haven't the woman is—but, hang it all!—we're for her, tf she'll run. eee | , | Building Supt. Robert Proctor, Tues nominated this young lady for slightest idea who the young HARBOR ISLAND ~ SPAN ASKED | | Mayor Has Scheme for New | West Side Bridge USE SURPLUS FUNDS |Claims Plan Would Cut Two Miles From Route Talking of bridges, here's a new idea advanced by Mayor Brown and day. To construct a bridge across the jeast and west waterways and @ |trestle over Harbor Island, making |@ continuous structure from Florida |st. and E. Marginal Way to Faunt lleroy st., on the west side of Elliott | bay. | This structure not only would re= duce the distance to Alki and the north end of West Seattle by two |miles or so, but would afford trans- Dortation facilities to the Harbor Island industrial area and encour: | age the utilization of this large manufacturing area by industrial | plants, the mayor claims, Fes, | SURPLUS BURNS 4 HOLE IN POCKET Ry The cost-—? Well, asks the mayor, why not use that $400,000 left over on the Spokane st. bridge construc: tion job as a starter? The money is now burning a hole in the city’s pocketbook and crying to be spent for an addition to the Spo- kane st. bridge to accommodate street car traffic, Mayor Brown and Proctor ad- vanced their ideas at a conference with City Engineer J. D. Blackwell at which council members of -the-— streets and sewers committee were present Tuesday morning. “No, 3 @ not oppose the addition to the &S@ane street bridge,” Mayor Brown maid enigmatically. “I want to give West Seattle all the | bridge facilities she’s entitled to. But I learn that the new Spokane street bridge 1s the same type of bridge that Fremont and the University districts — have. There is nothing wrong with _ that bridge and West Seattle will have equal accommodations with the north end without the proposed addé tion. PARENTS AGREED TO GUILT PLEA Leopold-Loeb Families Rec- | onciled to Life Sentence CONFER WITH LAWYERS Slayers of Boy Watched to Prevent Suicide Effort (NHICAGO, July 22.—The million- aire parents of Nathan Leopold and Richard, Loeb, _super-intellec- tuals, who ‘pleaded guilty to the mur. — der of Robert Franks, 14, are recon. ciled to having the boys jailed for life, Clarence Darrow, chief defense attorney, declared today in reveal. ing the dramatic conference of at. torneys and relatives to decide on a line of action, “Neither the parents nor the de- fense attorneys want to see. the boys freed," Darrow said, “but we do not want) them to hang. By Pleading guilty, these boys forfeited — all hopes of bein freed,” Darrow said. “They cannot and they should not go free, They are not fit to mingle in society. Our only desire is to save them from the gallows—we would be satisfied if — they received life imprisonment. Of — course, we would welcome a lighter — sentence, DEFENDANTS ARE CLOSELY GUARDED 4 In the meantime, the defendants — are in the county jail under close guard to prevent possible attempts at suicide, Sheriff Hoffman said he does not want to “take a chance.” Leopold and Loeb, downs cast for a few hours yesterday af. ter their pleas of guilty, seem ta have regained their composure, They profess to believe Justice Cave erly will not impose tho extreme penalty, THROW SONS' FATE ON MERCY OF COURT Darrow told of the agonized scene when parents of the youthful slay. ers agreed to throw their sons’ fate upon the mercy of the court, “Wo went into the matter very thoroly,” Darrow sald, “We argued (Turn to Page 7, Column Q