The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 29, 1925, Page 1

Gov. Hartley School Attack Is Revealed in Lost Letter! EATHER | — 27 + Zi, NO. 80. vol <a | FORECAST T Nene The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington Botered as Becond Clare Me wn SATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, ome TL FE’S SIX QUESTIONS IN THE NEWS TODAY _ | Who— wants a live deer? Tho de } partment of agriculture has al! kinds of them for sale at $35 apiece, plus freight Practically every govern ment range in the coun EST. BY HOMER G, BREW try is overs v Het and cold running water in buffalo, deer and ¢ every room. Board by the day or e In one forest are \ week. Try our merchants’ lunch, deer, but feed enough for ae, No peddlers or agents allowed. | only 20,000. Predatory pply to the janitor, first door to wour test. Post no dills, Howdy, folks! The one time when father is boss in his own animals formerly kept down the herds, Sentiment stepped in | hunters killed off ‘the lions herds increased far beyond the country's resources By pstnces. home is when the rest of the family ke on their vacation, eee Today's Wandidate for the Polson | Ivy club is the happy picnicker who Now, eyery time the depart. ment proposes to open the for- | ests to hunting, sentiment pre- vents the operation of the plan ‘Travelers are fond of the ani borrows ‘your penknife to open a mals; like to see them in sum. ean of pineapples. mer, but have no thought of eee the hardships they must endure A soft answer turneth away} in the winter, when there isn't wrath, but it encourageth an imeur- ance salesman to hang around your desk all afternoon, ee Ge Mary of England ts wear. @ new dress with a long skirt that almost touches the ground. enough food. 'Where— | are all the “flivver.migrants” who are coming West with the Just like these queens—always : summer going to find trying to make themselves con- Sahat ceabne of nam ae pi ge are reported along the . fn | roads, from congented BABY'S WEAR DEPARTMENT Sanliciseuece headed Helen Igoe is suing Mr. and Mrs. for the Pacific Coast Lacy Hofius for $750, said to be Many of these folks duc on a Iayetiec they ordered. Migosh, they must have had their monogram embroidered on the dia- pers! One thing that Li'l Gee Gee can't understand fs why you can't blow square smoke rings “with cube-cut o. Seattle merchant ment blocks for sale. we've already got one. eee AW, SHUCKS, GIRLS, YOU'RE TOO MODEST! advertixes ce- Too bad, but e haye sold their homes and i belongings in the East and | every other Coast city, expect. | Ing to find work. Some of them | obtain temporary employment in harvest fields and fruit orch- } Stds en route, }s Charity and social workers | are worried over the invasion. The entire West will study it at «& conference in Denver, June 1. At present there seems to be no solution in sight. Unless some answer js found there will | be considerable unemployment in Coast cities next winter, It GF “Mame nod Vers Jenkins sang a de) | oe fal duet at the Methodiat saves ‘What— ls the solution of rising home. renta? Within ten years every city of any size will have * commission to reg rents and arbitrate dis pute between landlord and tenant, Oliver Metze a tt sald at Washington toda He is ch man of the District blu-rent commission of Colum ny are the y way to keep rents reason. able.” he said, "Building is spec ulative and risky, under present | methods. But if a commission | places a fair valuation on the property, fixes the amount of rent it in to yteld, the whole transaction is stabilized “Modern society has recog nized the propriety of fixing a fair return from a man's in- vestment; why not a fair return from his property?” When— witt all the border leaks plugged and prohibition enforced? M This was the asked by dry question officials to. They will moet tn El Paso, Texas, next week to find out how to plug Mexican and Canadian borders The East coast has been successfully blockaded, ac- cording to Lincoln C. Andrews, assistant secretary of the treas- ury. As moon as the El Paso. con- ference Is over officials will go pack to Washington. They wilt | try to frame a reciprocity treaty with Canada in the hope that somo Way may be found to close the 3,000-mile Canadian border to rum runners, Since the Atlantic coast was blockaded rum running along | the north and south borders has | inereased, according to reporta. y— shouldn't in schools and colleges, asks the | American Medical associa tion, in convention at At lantic City, Friday? it registers its disuppro ttempts to prevent that achin 8 After two days of dis cussion the association unanimously udopted a resolution offered by Dr. H. M Brown, of Milwaukee, condemn: | ing restrictions on the study of evolution and the attempt of the Tennessee legislature to “inhibit the dissemination of acientific knowledge 4 Strong condemnation of Wil liam Jennings Bryan's activities on the subject was voiced at the convention. How— . | —can the wheat market de cleaned up and gambling in grain pped? ‘Thin question } raked today by Wil liam M. Jardine, secretary of agriculture, who ia in | Chicago a tour of the | country | Jardine said that he ji sacle, cent “orl bane | of trade officials while here, but added that “such an organization as the beard of trade should not have anyone from outside attempt to clean it } 1 adie se } “When” theresa recent spread in prices on @ commodity in one day there is undoubtedly gambling going on,” he sald, “It has gotten so that a great many people believe that the board of trade is a nuleance becutse of the way it has been running wild, The gambling should be | eliminated.” + They composed the song them-/| selves, aod it was entitled ‘The Songs ‘We Sing Seem Awful Bare When With Angels’ Singing We Compare.’ "—Copper- ‘Ville (0.) Bugle. . . A young felloy in society has a choice of ma Professions, the most popular ji Seattle being that of son-in-law. { These days we don Our Beeveedees, And sneeze and sneeze, And sneeze and sneeze! eee 6 Tiirn backward; turn backward, O ‘Time, jn thy flight, and give us the days when subscribers wrote charges that he axked for « split in the receipts for the liquidation of heated to the newspapers fy . "i bank of Tacoma, ex-Gov. Louls F. STR Tee On OR veo inade an ofticlat ataternent bere today. The charges ad “EVEN THEN Old Noah sent a dove of peace Out from the stranded ark; At worked two days without surcease To find a place to park. were contained in Tacoma by Forbes P, Haskell, liquidator in charge, and Kelly, his attorney, ment follows: “For several months I had been endeavoring to have the Nquidation of the bank expedited, in order that the depositors might get their money and that the matter might | be closed during my. administration jand not left over for my successor, “Sometime during the early part of October, 1924, I called on Mr. Hart's state. It came home baffled, worn and ill And upon the deck; He piel it up, and in its bill He found a traffic check, —MecW. France will welcome any sugges- tion relative to her debt to the United States, it is announced. We suggest that she pay, eee jminutes when he brought up the 4matter of fees. Mr. thought they ought to have 6 per cent of all the money handied, in- cluding several hundreds of thou- jeands of dollars paid banks and bankers to release collateral secur- ity for money loaned the bank. "This would be about $210,000 to be divided between the liquidator and his lawyer. To this I tmme- diately protested, and sald, ‘My God, There 44 only one thing that can out-squeak a cheap radio set: the front door when you come in at 3 a.m. Two thieves stole an upright pi- ano Wednesday night -from the home of G. Brooks. Js the L. C, Smith building firmly nelled down? oie? 4 Kelly, with that a man could live ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SAYS: | for years and wouldn't have to (a 4 hunt a Job’ He proceeded to tell peioachat ddd DI |me of the amount of work he had give almost as done und that another attorney had received nearly $100,000 in fees in mech thought:to other Ines of litigation. choosing .& hus- SAYS. ie yay SPOKE OF SPL! band ag they do "{ called his attention to the ob: to choosing a Sect of the law to prevent the dissi- new hat” pation of assets of defunct institu: Itions by way of exorbitant fees for receiver and attorneys. | “some days later Mr, Hasiell and Mr. Kelly called at the governor's office to have me change my attitude regarding their fees, and Mr, Haskell said: ‘Mr, Kelly tells me that you want the bank's affairs closed up and that you desire a part of the fees! “To this I replied: ‘I want the business clored up, but you can can't pay me a damn cent.’ Afterwards, in interview, Mr, Haskoll . . More than %,000,000,000 tins of *ardines were packed in the United Stutes during 1924, uccording to the 0 of fisheries. One of which was successfully bpened With the attached key. oe XE DIAKY 5 Oday 44 Up very hetines, and so early at my pttice, hut there be little of consekwence in the day's intelligence, that Ofto'n ee be rnided by the Liwne the same chet wothinker in try a started to refer to the matter and I ateralen to 66 Lo Ant ty, Herc | interrupted bli and anid; ‘No more iat Newly returned trom California, and | of that, You can't pay me a cent. id watch Dole bor. paneh the bag And eorget, itt rope-skip, lord Kirgenermtar? to ble fie pine ‘ot| ‘iin my conversation with Mr, Has: ton, methinks, albeit tanned a dark kell in the Puget Sound National beat, to name, to dining of | bank, concerning the sale of tho of Veet, to reading M. Avien, and /oanl rr told. me of the. offer .of $160,000 by the Putnams, 1 agreed wl him that the offer was inade Tey aA, J, Be affidavits filed in court yesterday at | Jr, | uy EB.) | Kelly and we had talked but a few | Kelly sald he | Hart Says He Refused Bank Fee Split Offer SALE TODAY | Ex-Governor Accuses Haskell in Reply ' to Charge He Demanded “Cut” t a x i LYMPIA, May 29.—Replying to quate. He then told me that they were going to figure it over and } make another offer. 1 told him that [the defunct Scandinavian American|if they would take them at a sum! he deemed sufficient, to accept It and close the business. | “I have never had any communi jcation, directly or iydirectly, with any representative of the Putnama, and have heard nothing further of tho matter. [SAYS HE WANTED DEPOSITORS REPAID “Never at any time did I intimate jor Insinuato to the supervisor of jbanking what fees he should allow Nor did I in any way interfere with his duties. “Neither Mr, Haskell nor Mr. | Kelly ever had any reason to be lHeve that they could pay or give me anything for their appoint. | ments, “At all timon it has been my desire to see the depositors get ail that could be obtained for them out of the assets of the defunct bank and that was my reason for inslut- ing upon the affairs of the bank being closed at as early a date as possible.” PROSECUTOR 1S PROBING CASE TACOMA,” May 29. — Prosecutor Selden went thru law books to- day, trying to find some statute applicable to charges made against Louis Folwell Hart, ex-governor of Washington. Hart is accused in affidavits of asking for "a spilt” in fees paid by the state in Hquidation of the Seandinavian-American bank of Tacoma, The affidayits are filed with Selden, . The conspiracy statutes apparent~ ly cannot be applied, No one but Hart js accused, and tt {ts not charged that he entered into any conspiracy with anyone, The affidavits charge: That Hart told Guy Kolly, at- torney for the receiver, that Hart would make the bank fees lar.e enough to provide a “cut” for Hart. That Hart gave as his reason for desiring (his arrangement that he was getting old and going out of office poor,” The affidavits were made by Kelly and Vorbes P. Haskell, Jr, who was receiver, They relate dealing between themeelves and Hart con cerning the liquidation, FIGHT RAILW Citizens to Protest Puvchase of Line by City Split up into equally-dete factions over the proposed $1, city purchase of the Rainier | traction line, Seattle citizen: jexpected to overflow the chambers at 2 p,m. Friday public protest meeting on t fected deal. Utilities and ined 100,000 alley proj- finunce cor |men of the council have sland the session, which promises t be a j heatod one, in order to give Bitizens their “say” on the purchasal propo. sition, It comes up on a resoluti mak ing tho formal offer of $120,000 in 20-year 6 per cent specia’ bonds to the Seattle & Rain ley company. There is a big sentiment t sum offered is too much. There ‘x another big so} |that tho purchase should be to tho voters—if not of all valley, There is n big sentiment the purchase prico should tingent ‘upon the paving the tracks of about seven the valley line. Rainier val dents of one faction have sult pending in federal o to compel the company to 1 up to its franchise agreement, If it {s not compelled pave, it is sald that the propert# owners jin the valley will be assdixeq the cont. Some councilmen, howeva® helleve that the cash revenues ul nicipal ownership will be pave the questioned mile Asked by LOS ANGELES, May Riley, motion picture act suit in supertor court her@ today for $100,000 damages against) rtaymond Hf, Gardner, New York] producer, claiming slander. Gardner was formerly thanager for Miss Rftey, ‘The actresd claims he called her a rook andj cut-throat” and disparaged her ‘rofexsional standing,’ MW. — Jean as, filed Petersburg Sawmill Total Loss by Fire PRTERSBURG, Alustu, May The Petersburg sawmill was burned completely to the grourd today, The plant is a total Joss. Viluo of the mill is placod at Ot the Postoffice at Bealtis, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 8, 1679, MAY 29, 1925 e SeattleStar w May 2,1 Per Your, by Mall, $3.00 Houser, Thomas Picked wn ve wut But, as Senator Wrote Public Printer, “It’s Hard Job to OOR FISH, rabbits and “ These are the subjects W. Houser, state sen Paul printer, referring to an effort of Houser and Thomas to} for Job Fight Big Bertha” 3ig Bertha,” of a mysterious letter’ from} ator, to J ‘Thomas, public pick a new board of education for Washington. The letter, which evidently was lost by Thomas, was sent} |to The Star by some unknown party. | Thursday, in the mail, Baring what Seattle politicians say It reached this office |is a move to select prospective members of a new board| jof education who would be favorable to a fight against | |Mrs. J. C, Preston, state superintendent of public instruc- tion, the letter expresses disappointment over Houser’s | inability to find a man who would enter the fight. | | However, Houser sent Thomas a list of county superin-| | itendents “who would come nearer standing up against our | Big Bertha than anyone else,” |What Houser | Wrote Thomas In tho letter school superin- | | tendents are referred to as “rab. bits.” A mysterious person who | was to have been a “fixer” is called | a “poor fish." | Who “Big Bertha” {s is a matter of consecture Seattle politicians think it | refers | |to Mrs. Preston. S ATOR HOUSER’S letter to| WHY T MAS AND HOUSER Jay Thomas, in full, follows DO IT IS NOT EXPLAINED “Seattle, May 19 How mas and Houser hap: “Jay Thomas, Public Printer, Olym.| pened to be in the business of | pia, Wash selecting a new board of education | “Dear Jay: Am returning here-|is not revealed in the correspon. jwith list given to me yesterday, | dence. 4 jwith such information as 1 wan able; That Governor Hartley depefided | jo get from the poor fish I talked|on Jay Thomas to help pick the! jto here. You will know that the| new board is apparent however, be- | jman checked on the first list is the | cause, accompanying the Houser let-| present incumbent. Two only are|ter is one from Mra. Preston to the checked in the second Itt and two| governor, It transmits a lat of fonty tthe thtrd: tet: | School “stiperintendents ~ eligible “to “The rabbit that I talked to, when | appointment on the state board. 1 got down to urane tacks with him, This, the governor turned over refused to enter into this fight him-| to Thomas and he sent it to Houser, self, saying that in his opinion it} evidently with instructions to find wan idle and useless, and that the} someone who would help pick a de- few men checked on the lst would| sirable and “regular” set of men. | jcome nearer standing up against} When Houser failed in this, he! [_—— {i TW O CENTS IN SEATTLE, AST FALL the county to one vote, appointed This was in payment o former chef at the count. North district, and later w North End. Just a few days before by the commissioners, sui by a former waitress at attacked her. the commissioners to hold when Dupen was given th It was awarded $2,000 to t is not the man King cou County Home. \ support to William Brown Quit Now, or Be Fired, Mr. Dupen! | EDITORIAL commissioners, by a two James E. Dupen as super- intendent of the county home. f a political debt. y hospital, Dupen, had announced himself as a candidate for commissioner from the yas persuaded to throw his , who was elected in the this plum was voted him charged that while chef at the hospital Dupen had The Star suggested then that it might be well for suit was decided, but it raised no voice of protest A jury now has decided that Dupen was guilty, The way is clear. Dupen, guilty of such conduct, He should resign immediately! If he doesn’t resign, the couhty commissioners should fire him! t was filed against Dupen 4 the county hospital. She g the appointment until the e job. q he waitress as damages. nty wants as head of its H T° the friends and relatives of 14- year-old Milton Helmich, fresh- man at the Lincoln high school, his anging of School Boy Puzzles Family, Police Lad, Found Dead in Basement by, Father, Had No Cause for Suicide Students at Lincoln, with whont Milton had been intimate, were also four Bigs Bertha than anyone else, making the additional statement ~—~|that all school men are rabbits, et AY ther by reason of their vocation or that they are in that business by |reason of being rabbits, “This, of course, will be unsatin lfactory to you, as it is to me. so far as I know I got all the Infor mation out of the rabbit in question jthat is available. | “Am, of course, disappointed at such a result. He insists, however |that the few indicated are the only jones on the entire ls that can be expected to take the guff. | “With Kind personal regards, I « to remain, yours very truly But | referred to the prospective ‘fixer’ asa “poor fish.” H | superintendents were “rabbits Mrsi Preston's letter to the gov- |ernor wag received May 19, accord. jing to the stamp of the executive | office.” The Houser letter to Thomas was dated May Governor Hartley was en route to Everett Friday and could not be | reached. fice. Houser also could jreached Friday morning HART 3 D AMBITION TO BREAK PRESTON FORCES That Hartley had long cherishéd an xmbition to break down Mrs. not be sald all school | Thomas was not at his att “PAUL W. HOUSE (Turn to Page 2, Column 4) | death by hanging remained a deep mystery Friday, apparently defying | solution, The Jad was found dead, | Suspended by the neck from a base- } ment rafter at his home, 4432 Dayton ave. Thursday evening. Officials investigating the death mystery are inclined to believe that it is one of suicide, in the absence of any clues tending to show that | the boy's death was not caused by | himself. One by one, the theories advanced | by the police and coroner that the puzzled over the death of their classmate, NO ONE HOME AT TIME OF TRAGEDY No one was able to shed any light on the case. About 2 o'clock Friday Milton met his mother, Mrs. August E. Hel- mich, who works in a confectionery near the high school and walked home with her. He then went to a jgtocery on an errand, and upon red jturning to the home took his pa bag, intending to deliver papers, | boy's act might haye been due tota|!eft the house. | Youthful love affair, poor grades in | School, money worries or trouble j with other students were investi- gated and discarded. NOT WORRIED ABOUT GIRLS OR SCHOOL WORK As fur as the coroner could .de- ithe street. ; Mrs. Helmich left also, to atten © tea at the home of a friend acros# She was not gone more than an hour, Mr. Helmmich, fa+ jther of the boy, returned home from work about 6 o'clock. Entering the basement, he was horrified to see _ _| bit letter from Senator Houser. } Mr. tary, handed mo a list of accredited | ‘Thomas Can’t Remember — _ Getting “Rabbit” Letter Jay Thomas said Friday that he had never received the famous “rab- | “Don't remember ever having |celved such a letter ax you describe, ald Thomas. “T can’t imagine why Paul should write such a letter, I don't know what he means by Big Hertha, poor fish, rabbit, stand tho gaff, or anything else. Gardner, the governor's secre- superintendents the other day when I was going to Seattle, Ho asked me to check up with prominent educators with a view to finding ‘who would} out who among the various super- intendents would make suitable members of the state board, should| & vacancy develop. “Knowing that Senator Houser was deeply interested in educational affairs, I referred the letter to him. How The Star happened to get hold of the list, or how Houser’s letter | went to The Star before T saw it is Ja mystery to It must have been misdirected.” Seattle people who have seen the Houser letter say it is proof gon- clusive of the senator's deep interest in educational affairs. CRASH ON TRACK Auto Racer Narrowly Es- capes Death in Wreck INDIANAPOLIS, May 29—L. 1, Corum, driving one of Ralph Do Palma's Miller specials, had a nar- row escape from injury or death to- day in the first accident of the season at the Indianapolis motor speedway. Driving at a speed of more than 100 ‘miles an hour, Corum lost con- trol of his car when it skidded on no turn, The car smashed Into a concrete retaining wall and was so badly damaged it will be out of the race tomorrow, —, Corum crawled unhurt from the wrecked car, Leatrice Joy Gets ‘ . Divorce, Alimony |, May 29. Leatrice’ Joy, film star, had her ai. yoree today from John J, Gilbort, also a screen player, after testifying she had been mistreated by her for: mer mate, Misa Joy sald Gilbert started drink ing heavily shortly after their wed. ding on March %, 1928, Tho netross received a sottloment $100,000, two-thirds of which is cov. ered by insurance. Owners are Bhields & Salonka, | Of $15,000, payable at $860 por week, Mor baby, “Little Leatrice, is to PILOT 1S KILLED Passenger Also | Dead When Plane Falls 3,000 Feet ERID, Pa. May 29—Two men| were killed here shortly afternoon today when an airplane, piloted by Capt, W. F. Sullivan, a former army flyer, fell 3,000 feet. ; The plane landed in a ploughed field close to the landing place. Captain Sullivan and his. brother, Fred A. Sullivan, a5, a passenger, were both instantly killed, Sullivan has been flying at Wost Palm Beach during the winter months. He leaves a widow and two children in that city, Home You Want Is much easier if you watch The Star Want Ad Columns, Here is today's listing: HBAUTIFUL RUNGALOW, Almost completely furnished, lovely rooms: nice lawn; ansien and other rden; built-in features; Hock to Phinney car; every thing free and clear; $4,600, Good terms termine, young Helmich had not been particularly friéndly with any one girl He preferred to spend his time playing with boys of his own set, or at home. His teachers ut Lincoln high school declared that his grades’ were of the high- est. He was a’ freshman in his second quarter. Milton's brother, Howard, declar- ed that he knew of no trouble be- tween Milton and other boys, and was, unable to give any motive for suicide, The lad had been carrying papers on a route, and mude his own spending money, He seemed the dead body of his son hanging trom a rafter. BOY WAS DEAD * WHEN DISCOVERED A short piece of heavy cord was about the boy’s neck, Dr. 8, W. Case examined the boy and pronounced him dead. The body was then re moved to the Rafferty Undertaking parlors at Fremont. : Deputies from the coroner's office and police detectives found no traces of foul play, such as bruises on the body, No one had seen Milton enter the basement or anyone leaving the place. perfectly happy ut home and was looking forward to a trip with his parents to the Atlantic Coast. The funeral has been arranged for Sunday at 3 p. m, Interment will be In Evergreen cemetery. CHICAGO, May 29,-—In the most sweeping action of its kind ever taken, the May federal grand jury here today returned indictments against 263 furniture manufacturers on charges of violating the Sherman anti-trust act. ' The indictment charges price fix- ing and curtailing of production to maintain high prices and destroy competition. ) Besides indicting 26% individual manufacturers, the Jury also indicted tho six secretaries and assistant sec- rotaries of the National Refrigerator Manufacturers’ association, the Na. tonal Alliance of Vurniture Manu- facturers and the National Associa~ tion of Chair Manufacturers, Tho various organizations involved do an annual business of $110,000,000, the indictments point out. Investigation of the industry was started several months ago to de- terming why furniture prices are 100 to 260 per) cent higher than the pre-war levels, and how they Turn to the Want Ad jumns and seo who is offering this dandy little home to you, RAD receive $60 weekly, THE WANT ADS DAILY, doalors were culled before the grand have been kept up in the face of partial deflation of prices and other commodities, Approximately 2,000 furniture before help reached him, life whon he slipped from a log boo: where he was fishing, Indict 263 Furniture 7 Men on Trust Charges Government Charges Price-Fixing and Production Curtailment jury and books from scores of cons cerns were selzed In the hunt for evidence to support charges that a trust existed, that prices were fixed and competition stifled, . « Tho refrigerator and chair cons cerns are charged with unlawful price fixing, and the third group, manufacturers of caso goods, radio cabinets, clock cases, dining and bedroom furniture, are charged with: price fixing and curtailment of pro= duction, TWO DROWNED Accidents at Clatskanie, Oregon, Fatal CLATSKANIB, Ore, May 20\— ‘Two persons were drowned here dur. ing the last 24 hours in separate aceldents, John Seaman, 43, Wheeler, Ore., fell from a fishing boat and Was seized with cramps, He drowned Albert Brickson, seyen, lost Ri i t Mi