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The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-07

buying and selling moonshine regard less of law He sees stills in his home We have no chance Our work is un- done'
 Other witnesses gave statistics showing increase in drunkenness, in crease i'll arrests, in crime and all out growths of alcoholism since prohbf- ton. Charles Windle of Chicago gave figures to show that where drys claim credit for great business booms, there have been more failures per week un- der prohibition than before.
 The testimony was delayed consid- erabiy through repeated interruptions from Congressmen Yates, Larsen, Eos ter (Rep., O., and Hersey (Rep., Me.) whcih caused charges of "heck1ing' and resulted i'll a statement from the Association Against Prohibition de nouncing these members for trying to block evidence" Yates particularly was censured. The committee ad- journed until a week from tomorrow.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-07
LABOR TREATY WITH ITALY

During the emigration conference in Switzerland, the Swiss delegation will discuss with the Italian government the conclusion of a labor treaty.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-07
WHAT GOMPERS REALLY SAID ON BEER AND WINES BILL UP BEFORE
 CONGRESS LEFT HIM THE VICTOR
A. F. of l.. Head Taken to Task By Dry Adherents for His Liberal Views Put the Latter to ROut With His Ready Repartee and Some Pertinent Facts.

| There have been many garbled re- ports about exactly what President Gompers said at the hearing on the beer and wines bill now pending be- fore Congress. Here is an official ac- count of 1t from a Washington paper that tells the story:
 A hot battle is going on down in Washington before the House Judici- ary Committee considering 59 different bills to modify the Volstead law enough to make MT. Volstead's ears burn back in his little law office in Granite Falls, Minn. Some of the | brightest men of the country are cross l ing swords i'll this forensic struggle battle of vets against a comreittee purposely made up mostly of "drys." The big odds against the vets has brought forward some of their bright est sharpest men. The first witness, Samuel Gompers, carried off the hon. ors in verbal clash that left him mas ter of the field. Here is the report of the encounter with this leader of four
 
 American Federation of Labor: T am factory boy he began. "I tell you that so you may know 1 know whereof I speak You ask me what in fuence legalization of 2.75 per cent. beer would have on general prohibition enforcement I answer in one sen tence: Tt would transform the people of the United States from a whiskey drinking to beer drinking nation
 That brought an outburst of applause and noticeably from some of the many women in the audience of 500, though others of their sex gazed at the hand clappers i'll austere and offended surprise.
 Can't Legislate Sobriety.
 Throwing away sheets of notes pen ciled Ill letters two inches high that his dimmed sight might discern them, MT. Gompers' his voice rising from low roughness to reverberating resonance, turned this fire on the committee: l You can't make men sober by law. You can't make men good by law.
 The dissatisfied man is the one who becomes the drunkard. The satisfied man becomes the good citizen. And I say that this prohibition of today has caused the utmost i'll dissatisfaction. | No one wants the saloon. No one will be foolish enough to try to repeal | Fl, o: who plead for 2.75 per cent beer want to do is to get the good that lies in temperance and rid ourselves of the evils of the present prohibition.
 Would Avoid Calamity.
 Two years ago. I stated: Bound by every tie of principle, hope, and aspira- ton for my country's welfare and progress, for the first time in my life am apprehensive as to the future. And state now that my apprehension has been fully realized.
 1 Tt Is to avoid a great calamity that have joined the effort to modify the Volstead law.
 Understand clearly that 1t has been the much misrepresenetd labor move ment of America that has done more for true temperance that all of the goody-goody, welfare, uplift organiza- tions all. over the country"
 Again came the applause in which the insistent rapping of the gavel was unheard, as were shouts of Chairman Graham (Rep., Pal for order Like an Old Time Tournament in
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-07-22
READY TO FIGHT
PHONE BOOST
Effect of Injunction Here Is
Studied

Effects of the injunction decis.
ion handed down by tho federal
court in Tacoma Monday, which
dealt staggering blow to tho
phone users defense Of increased
tolls, were being carefully studied
by Corporation Counsel II. J. l..
Kennedy and his aides, Tuesday.
1--WE are going over every phase
Of the telephone fight" Kennedy
said, ITO learn Just what was done
TO us by Mondays decision"
The decision, handed down by
Federal Judges Rudkin, Netorer and
Gilbert, sitting en- banc, cnjolned
the state department of public
works from interfering with tho
new phone tariff TO be put into
effect by the Pacific Telegraph &
Telephone CO.. August 4.
Tho new tariff provides an In.
crease OF 81 per month on business
phones, 80 cents per month on one.
party lines and two.party lines. and
25 cents per month on four.pnrty
lines. The rates will DO $1,000,
1925, $3.50 and 1915 per month for
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High Grain Prices Aid
Spectator, Not Farmer
This Year: High Price and No Crop Is
the Rule for the Northwest

none OF It is ready for the market
now. while high prices prevail.
Before II 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, II anybody
In Washington does.
He is one of tho best known and
best posted farmers In the state. He
is a native of Pomeroy. He owns
and operates 1,40o.acre farm in
Garfield county, and is owner OF a
quarter OF a section in Whitman
county.
He is former grain warehouse.
man. former state legislator, former
president of the Farmers union, col.
laborator with tho U. s. department
OF agriculture, one Of nine u. S. del.
cgates last May to the International
Institute of Agriculture In Rome, and
Is being put forward as n possible
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new RECRADE IS
OUTLINED
Will Provide Thru Route and
Cut Out Profanity Hill"

City councilmen Tuesday were
given preliminary data on plan to
extend Sixth ave. from jefferson ST..
where 1t now ends. around ''Profan.
ity HILL" TO connect with 18th ave.
and Main St. by City Engineer ]. 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. IL also includes tho re.
grading of Washington st. to con
meet the new thorofare which would
encircle Profanity HILL"
City Engineer ]. d. Blackwell has
not completed his studies of the prof.
ect, and was given an extension of
time TO make complete report on
the project. John e. Carroll. chair.
man Of tho streets and sewers com.
mittee. said.
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big Doin's" , Folks! Be
Sure to Keep Date Open
We Can't Tell You What 1t Is Just Yet,
but You Won't Want to Miss This
Salt Water Park Affair

The club needs a subscription
from EVERY man. woman and
child Of AT LEAST 81.
Five Seattle sportsmen "camo
thru" Tuesday with 81 subscrip.
tions. They were c. w. III.
Hcideman, the naturalist; John
c. Beck. Elizabeth Beck and
their two children, Koren and
Milo Beck. Rnh for the Beck
family Officials OF the Seattle
Sportsmen's association say that
every one OF the 1000 members
are behind tho park campaign.
The printer got to rending so
fast on copy" for tho park
story yesterday that he over.
looked entirely n paragraph tell.
ing about "a s25 check for the
park received from the General
Petroleum corporation. We hope
this one isn't overlooked, because
we like to tell tho world about
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Home Brew
Howdy, folks. Nice autumn
were having. wots

Howdy, folks. Nice autumn
were having. wots
The Northwest association OF sher.
IFS and Police is holding its annual
convention here
Today's dumbsll: The bootlegger
who tries 10 sell hooch 10 a dele.
gate.
The official badges OF the conven-
ton are made out OF copper. This
Is a delicate compliment. no doubt.
10 our policemen.
The telephone rate has been
boosted again. But well fool 'em.
by heck. Wen refuse 10 dial their
telephonel
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VnIRT Farmer Makes s2,ooo,oo'
- in Wheat" says recent head

VnIRT Farmer Makes $2,o0o,0oO
~ in Wheat" says n recent head.
line.
Wheat Prices Soar; Farmers
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 $4,000, 900 In
Paper Wheat"
wheat Prices Soar; Farmers
Smile Sadly and Sardoncally."
The only money being mnde 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 SPECTATORS
ARE MAKING MONEY
Spectators are waking wealthy on
$3.50 a bushcl futures" but tho Pa.
clfIc Northwest crop is about so per
cent off generally, and is not 10 per
cent OF crop In some placcs--and
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-07-22
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
Building supt Robert Proctor. Tues
day.
To construct a bridge across the
east and west waterways and
trestle over Harbor Island. making
a continuous structure from Florida
81. and Z. Marginal Way TO Faunt-
leroy ST.. on the west side OF Elliott
bay.
This structure not only would re-
duce the distance TO Aiki and the
north end OF West Seattle by two
miles or so. but would afford trans
portation facilities TO the Harbor
Island industrial area and encour-
age the utilization OF this large
manufacturing area by Industrial
plants. the mayor claims.
SURPLUS BURNS
HOLE IN POCKET
The cost Well. asks the mayor.
why not use that $500. 900 left over
or the Spokane ST. bridge constitute
ton Job as a starter?
The money Is now burning hole
in the city's pocketbook and crying
70 be spent for an addition TO the Spo-
kane ST. bridge TO accommodate
street car traffic.
Mayor Brown and Proctor adj
vanced their ideas at n conference
with City Engineer J. d. Blackwell
at which council members of the
streets and sewers committee were
present Tuesday morning.
NO. 30 not oppose the addition
to th. ESane street bridge" Mayor
Brown sid systematically.
Il want to give West Seattle all the
bridge facilities she's entitled to. But
/ learn that the new Spokane street
bridge is the same type OF bridge that
Fremont and the University distric..
have. There is nothing wrong with
that bridge and West Seattle win
have equal accommodations with the
north end without the proposed add
ton.
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Is There a Judge
Who Has Courage?
(EDITORIAL)

GAIN Seattle finds itself in the grip Of the telephone and its faith
full friend the federal Backed by the millions of the
full trust the world the lawyers of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
have at last succeeded the
only in Seattle but in Tacoma and Spokane we'll.
The fight Washington part of nationwide the telephone
trust has started deeply into the flesh already
public The trust has been successful few other And the gn
feature of the the fact that always the federal
called and hardly without exception has the federal failed
good-for the trust
shewd and eeg realize that danger sometimes turks
peror courts where the judges elected by the Do they
chance there? By
they sleepy hdebound federal Judges who long ago de-
interests not disturbed.
TELEPHONE lawyers always They
modate them
public that May 1929 the Pacific Telephone Te-
graph Co., which owned the old Sunset and Independent franchises
the Independent franchise Crosby of San Francisco for sO What
Crosby wanted of this franchise nobody has found But plain
isee why the telephone wished him to have it.
That Independent franchise contained certain spons and
phone trust wanted drop and did, couldn't go into federal court
with contract because accommodating federal judges there
tain constitutional provisions that limit their corporate brai
The federal would
fled by the franchise contract
So with the Independent Crosby
could go the federal and set claim of ncaon that
would bring the issue within the provisions of the 18th amendment
UTsDE probably greater extravaganza
the United States than that be found within the organization of
American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Cumbersome and nwd its great
on stretch everywhere caring little how much wasted be-
the always has been able get back times by little
frmer
It's of poverty would mheeded the child The
ownership and eockng decoraes of the parent the Western
who wish to be deceived.
Straightforward high
higher rates and make plain that the Pacific TELEPHONE Co. can
ratesi in title and still make
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MONT make any engagement.
~ folks, for Monday night.

~ folks, for Monday night,
August 4!
You'll regret It II you do.
For that's the night of the
"bIg doins" that's 20 be staged
by the Young Mems Business
club in connection with their
drive 20 put over" tho state
Salt Water park campaign In
Seattle.
What's II all about? Just walt
day or 80 and wen toll you all
about II. Meanwhlle-keep that
date openl
The Y. NJ. -. G. "go.getters'
arc raising $4,000 as Seattlcs
share OF an $4,000 fund to buy
a 90.acro park on salt winter,
midway between Seattle and Ia.
coma, 10 be turned over to tho
state as u state park TacomnB
rnlslng $4,000. Tho state Is CIV.
Ing $4,000.
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SAYINGS or THE GREAT
Mabel Normand: ats all
blah."

Scientist says he has discovered
some new sun spots. SO has LII Geo
Gec-only she calls 'em freckles.
~ 70 slav a he
Ia. homicide,
Is 10 slav 4 her
HsfpicidCF
Strange that the 1895 automobiles
do not come equipped with parking
Professionalism.
They may not be equipped with
parking places. but you can't deny
that tho rear seat affords a good
sparkling place.
Sign on the BACK Of Fords
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the respective services.
In addition long distance tolls will
be increased and pay boxes raised
from Is cents per day TO 20 cents
per day.
WILL TRY CASE
ON ITS MERITS
With every avenue OF delay In the
phone fight cut off by the action OF
the federal judges in Tacoma Mon.
day. Corporation Counsel t. j. l.
Kennedy Tuesday said he expected
to DO called into conference by At.
torney General John A. Dunbar
within a few days.
To offset the claims OF tho tcle.
phone company the state attorney
generals office and the three cities
involved have employed telephone
engineers. who will assemble data to
oppose the evidence Of the phone
company when the case goes to trial.
Judge u. II. Cushman, OF Tacoma,
will hear the arguments. probably
within month.
when the United States supreme
court reversed our previous victories
II cut off our last avenue of delay
and makes IN immediate trial of the
case on It's merits the best possible
defense against the unjust rate"
Kennedy said.
Otto y. Rupp, attorney for tho
phone company, also wants an early
trial OF the coso.
I'VE are anxious TO have our oaso
determined" Rupp said. 1--WE nre
ready to 20 to trial tomorrow"
But tho cities involved and the
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CONNER
CHARGES
FRANIEUP
Says Betrayal" Is
Responsible for His
Plight; Back in Ia
coma Now

TACOMA, July 22.-Removed 10
l. 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 muir.
der Of his wife, Pearl. Tuesday
still refused 10 believe his friend,
lone Holt. had betrayed his con-
fldence.
Conner WINS taken from the Van
couver Jail shortly after midnight by
deputies and brought 10 Tacoma
early this morning. He was uncom
municativc about the case and the OF
ficers made no attempt 10 draw him
out.
Shown newspaper stories about
how Mrs. Holt had worked out OF hin
Information ms 10 where tho body Of
Mrs. Conner had been buried in ar
Abandoned well, Conner in jail CRIED
out:
ITS all bunk: Just big frame.
up. that's all. There's nothing 10
H."
mo attempt will be made by off
GERS 10 get statement from Con
ner." Sheriff Desmond declared. THE
states case has been completed
against the accused man." he added
and nothing would be gained by in
tcrroEating Conner" Desmond de
clarcd.
Another character in the Conner
tragedy walked onto tho stage today
when u was revealed by County At
torney j. W. Sheldon that Mrs. Rich
ard Macarthur. %, widow OF Eas,
Larchmont and formerly employed
in the II. s. coblentz grocery at Fern
Hill. was the "other woman" in an
alleged triangle that Sheldon declares
resulted in the staying OF Mrs. Pearl
Conner.
SAYS CONNER ASKED
HER TO MARRY
Mrs. Macarthur. when interviewed
admitted that Richard Conner
charged with the murder OF his wife
on May 10. had proposed marriage to
her shortly h>s>-- - wifc's ''dlsap
pearance." but that she had coun
sclcd him TO walt until he was In q
position honorably TO do So"
Conner. she c---,'-i-es had told her
that he and his wife had agreed /,
was impossible for them TO live to.
gether longer and their divorce was
but matter of time.
Mrs. Macarthur, who. with her
little child, left her husband In Vic
torla three years ago 10 make her
home with her mother here, OBJ
tanned her final decree OF divorce
June 6.
"It's q lie 10 say Richard Conner
was In my mind when obtained
divorce" declared Mrs. Macarthur
This Is the charge made by the
county attorney.
The state expects Mrs. Macarthur
however. to be an important wit
ness in the welding OF the chain,
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PARENTS AGREED
. TO GUILT PLEA
Leopold Loeb Families Rec
onCiIed to Life Sentence
CONFER WITH LAWYERS
Slayers of Boy Watched to
Prevent Suicide Effort

| CHICAGO, July 22.-The Million
~ aire parents of Nathan Leopold
and Richard. Loeb. super-intellec-
tuals, who pleaded guilty to the muir
der Of Robert Franks. IA, are recon-
ciled TO having the boys jailed for
life. Clarence barrow. 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-
Tense attorneys want to see the
boys freed" barrow said. ''but we
do not want them to hang. BY
pleading guilty. these boys forfeited
all hopes of being freed" barrow
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 tho
gallows-we would be satisfied il
they received life imprisonment. OF
course. we would welcome a lighter
sentence.
DEFENDANTS ARE
CLOSELY GUARDED
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 n
chance" Leopold and Loeb. down.
cast for few hours yesterday af.
ter their pleas of guilty, seem to
have regained their composure.
They profess to believe Justice Cav.
erly will not impose the extreme
penalty.
THROW SONS FATE
ON MERCY OF COURT
barrow told of the agonlzed scene
when parents of the youthful STAY.
ers agreed to throw their sons fate
upon the mercy OF the court.
I'VE went into the matter very
thoroly" barrow said, 1--WE argued
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ear can make 80 miles an hour, and
then tells the Judge IL Is n physical
impossiblity for his bus to 90 over Is.
II took LII Gee Gee almost 10 min.
utes this morning to get into style.
She cut the sleeves off all her
dresses.
Mosquitoes are lifting high these
dnvs IN tho great open spaces.
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.
YE DIARY
duly I'D
Al my office my wife comes and tells
me that she hath hired kitchen maybe.
one Of the prettiest maydes that ever
she saw I'm her life, and she says more
over that she is jealous Of me for her.
but hath ventured to hire the wencli
month to month, but Z think she means
merriiy and Is bat kidding me. albeit
do hope the maybe be pretty, poor.
fond fool that ! am. So to supper and
to bed.
Seattle is alleged TO have food
trust. We don't believe II. We've
never gotten them TO trust US.
a Seattle firm is preparing to put
on the market cute little stick
that can be used for dialing u tele.
phone number.
LII Gee Gee. however. will con.
tinue TO use toothpick.
He rocked the boat,
Did Ezra Shank;
These bubbles mark
o.
Where Ezra sank.
Little Homer Brew Jr. Is growing
more fastidluos every day. II is get.
ting so that he won't let his mother
lick him with the hair brush until
II has first been sterilized.
Telephone rates in Seattle will be
boosted at least so cents beginning
August I.
Who said talk was cheap?
The telephone company has lots
Of nerve. They not only charge q
higher rate for their telephone, but
they make w crank the darn thlngl
a. j. q.
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SAYS COURTS HAVE
LOST THEIR DIGNITY

The minister scoffcd 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 drawn
sword and announced opening OF
the court with forccful dignity"
He said: They respected the
courts in those days great deal
more than they do now. More dig.
nifty and sternness are needed in
our courtrooms IL any fear or re.
spect can be hoped for"
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REPORTER SIZES
up CANDIDATES

Well. this reporter put down the
names OF the candidates, and against
each namo wrote few pithy re.
marks. CONNIE ca:
ADAM BEELER - He did
something about dope, or
sumpln'. didn't he?
CHARLIE HEIGHToN-They
call him "Fightin' leighton
and there's too much fightin'
already. What We want Is
peace.
w. LON JoHNSoN-Huml
or Colfax. or Colvilie. or some
where. What did he ever do?
FRED REMANN--Used to be
prosecutor over at Tacoma.
He's L. l.. French's running
mate. Enthusiasm inspiration
record: Class @ 6.
After putting down these thoughts
the reporter sighed heavily and
went back TO sleep.
AT this point the second reporter
came along in n somnambulistic-
soshl that's n hard ons-manner.
and saw the list. Right away he
was overcome with another idea.
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BY JIM MARSHALL

BY JIM MARSHALL
THERE was tremendous excite.
J. ment up here at The Star to-
day when two OF our reporters Jet
Il be known they were about 10
give birth TO ideas.
At first II was hoped that the
IDEAS would be poetical. but both
OF them turned out 10 be merely
political.
Lifo is full OF disappoIntments
like that. But we must not be dis
couraged. Let us all read the Amer.
lean magazines and perk up at the
inspiring record Of John @. Bunk.
who started 81 yeas ago as a shoe
sinner and now controls five esthetc
bootblacking boudolrs.
Allons!
when tho first little idea came
10 one OF the reporters he cried.
TO one OF the office boys: Get
me the names OF all the candidates
for the lieutenant goyernacY at
oncer'
tof course, he meant the lieu.
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