The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 28, 1915, Page 1

Prettiest Girl in Seattle Interviews Homeliest Man IGHT State Senator Dan Landon, who holds the title of “homeliest man In Seattie,” and Miss Gertrude Fonda, recently selected as the Prettiest girl in the state of Wash- Ington, who interviews him. What Can Woman See in a Man Like | Senator Landon? SI 18th ave. N., has, for The Star, interviewed the “hometiest” man in 4 moat benbtiful girt in the state of the stale at Washington, Misa Gertrude Fonda, of Wher Senator Dan Landon. to be sure. Where is there = hometier cuss? Mise Fonda is one of those chosen as the most beantifal In each state by the Universal Film Co. of California for = trip to the San Francisco expo. She was selected by a commition of competent Jadgas. Being the most beautiful girl in Washington has its advantages. some of them Miss Yonda has beew cougratnl: She has been songht by Mayor the grand march at the Movie Operators’ ball st the Hipped: ueeday night She hae received a heantifnl set of totlet requisites from Colgate & Co. Magesines and books have been sent her by nearly every publisher in Americ: She has Teen made s handsome traveling suit for her trip from Seattle to Chicags, and thence to Friseo and Universal City, Cnt. by an Bastern tailor And on the trip East she will be the special guest of the Milwaukee railroad Tie garianded auto will take her from her doorstep June 2 and escort her to her sperial compartment im the erark train, “Olympian.” In the observation car she will be the honored guest at informal receptions Gaily till she reaches Chicago ‘On the way from that elty to California she and the girs will he chaperoned by Mrs. lark, wife of the irs. Frances Wayne, » Denver an; Myre. Pauli club woman; Mrs. ©. B. Brran o' ) & Southern social Anne Cummina Frye. a Boston writer The Star induced Mie« Fonda to interview the “homelieat” he'd stand for it, and here's the Interview By Gertrude Fonda | not a single feature stood the ar Here are man Dan said tistic test The mouth is much Senator Dan Landon too large, the jaw too heavy There {* hardly any regularity was introduced to me to in the other features, and the day as “the homeliest. | whole is crowned by a ridiculous sabes toi tel LHe ad- | "hock of short, stubborn hair man” in Seattle e ac which, evidently, no amount of mitted, laughingly, that he brushing and combing will put deserved the disanction ln order The senator's broad shoulders are hunched. are too long. I saw, and shook hands with, a big man, somewhat His arms and legs ‘ viving The features, I say, will not loosely built, but giving ae a sntite withal a_ suggestion of But the ensemble is fine! power. My hand seemed 1 cannot tell you why it is fine, swallowed up in his big but I know that most womer r Poets like and admire the Dan Landon palm. He gave me a quick, type of men and let go. It was the hand-shake handsome men. We like them of a man of decision | big, strong, brainy, gently mas He could have crushed and | erful, protective, loving—and broken my hand with ease; but | —omel L, bis grip was gently firm. He laughed as he greeted me, and | knew by his handshake, his smiling mouth and his eyes which went almost shut when he VOLUME 18, NO. 80. SEATT LE, _WASH., TUCSON, Ariz., May 28.—Another brief lease of |life was gained by the five men awaiting the hangman's ieee in Florence prison when Attorney Struckmeyer, |Fepresenting them, asked Federal Judge Sawtelle to |grant an appeal to the United States supreme court |from his decision refusing writs of habeas corpus. Judge Sawtelle said he would give answer to the request at 1:30 p. m. / FLORENCE, Ariz., May 28.—Warden Sims of the state prison said this afternoon he would start executing , the five men doomed to die today as soon as the state board of pardons gives the word. The pardon board, which has been in constant ses- sion since early morning, is awaiting news of Federal Judge Sawtelle’s decision. While a crowd of witnesses was assembling in the death towers of the stat> prison today to see the sched- juled executions, the prison guards drew lots to decide |who would spring the trap. Secretary to the Warden Wormsley entered the |condemned cells a few minutes before the hour fixed ’ lfor the first hanging and obtained ante-mortem state- ments from the men. | All the condemned men had likewise drawn up |their wills. These were handed over to Wormsley. Three priests were busy giving extreme unction. | The men donned their death clothes, which left their throats exposed for the noose, and waited. The condemned men ate hearty PARDON BOARD MEETS dinners, being permitted t order} FLORENCE, Ariz, May 2&—The whatever they pleased. All appear | state board of pardons will meet at 64 woical he penitentiary this morning to titer = consider the cases of the five Mex ce +s stage 3 feans acheduled to be hanged today be egurunpeuds |Last night the board ignored the “We know the big governor will| cases, altho {t was eapposed that one of the con never let us die.” the meeting was held to consider Meanwhile bebind closed doors} them. the state board of pardona held ite! i. PPE | | final session, considering the many } lappeals that have been made for | Feprioves Secretary Pryan’s request that lfavor to Gen. Villa was also con 9 | dered, The meeting was secret, but loud CLOSE SALOONS Stalking could be heard outside the | barred doors | A few minutes before the time the sus “of fixed for the first killing, Throats are parching tn Aubu | pense was mirrored in the fa r ve pe bd sa ies town today Jall. People spoke in whispers ; | It te dry—awfully dry a umored that, if th ha ad It was rumored that, he HADS | “wariy Friday morning. Deputy ings took place, Mexicans across the border would attack Americans as reprisals for the death of their heriff Spaight left Seattle with or ders to lock every saloon door and bring the proprietors k with him leount q eof yep He took a bundle of “John Ix | LEGISLATORS DENY APPEAL warrants for their arrest along with | PHOENIX, May 28.—After a hot | him | debate the Arizona house of repre Police Judge Gordon tssued the Jeentatives refused the request of| Warrants on the complaint of a bevy v. Hunt to take action to halt|of indignant mothers and peevist five executions scheduled for | dads from Auburn that their minor Florence, The request|sons were being sold whisky and 11:15 a. m m. __ other exhi larating beverage beverages, jer today in was denied at 11:16 1 WOMAN DECLARES NEGRO | TOOK HER INTO OPIUM DENS Idenoe that a wide-open traffic; drinks of whisky. He kept repeat ing that her husband would surely in pikes is betng carried on by pasenger boys a cen in de-| “get her” unless she kept out of fiance of the law, for-| sight bidding its sale given Friday | Then they went to the Milwankee rtha Kawata, who is on hotel, thence to an opium a jury in Judge Frater's | where he urged her to smoke and court, charged with killing George forget her troubles, She smoked yrasty, a negro. all night with a room full of oth-| The young woman told of having | ers, she said | been frightened by Grasty into| A messenger boy furnished the staying out of reach of her hus-|opium, she testified band, whom Grasty said w ok In a drugged stupor, she allowed ing for her with a gun herself to be led thru the same She said she accepted Grasty’s| routine in different “dens” the offer to hide her overnight, bellev-| next night, the next—and the next ling him to be a white man Finally regaining her senses, she | He had blue eyes and was very said she learned that Grasty had | light for a negro, she said. He re-/taken her diamonds, worth $1,000, minded her that he had known her/and had caused her to issue a} in fillings, Mont., where he tended | check for $50, and pawn a ring for horses she used to ride $80, turning all the money over to | Grasty took her to the home of | him | she said. They had many! Crazed, she said, she shot_him.| laughed, that he was a kind! WHAT WAS MR HiGéINs man who found much pleasure in life and who would not use TELLING You THAT WAS OM JUST A wer crueliy 30 FUNNY ‘ro . You ) thy do women ike: “homely Percia te mes LITTLE STORY 400 SAID ov WOULD ok: air ms | HAT We'o VoL Tew iT I do not know why. I only HEARD | WE GoT HOME know that we do Le 5 When I analyzed Senator Lun ee face I had to admit that Friday Viled Prosecutor Lundin information against Joe Galvatno and Engene Calieno, * charging them with receiving earnings of Billie Bernard, alleged to be ar moral woman. Charles Atking was accused of forging 4 $37 check on the Sean pavian-American bank May 22, and Geo. M. Moore was charged with burgtary of a how ay on May 24 at 3306 Denny ( Yes Bur Iwanr To |} encore | WEAR IT-WHaT is ir? | | WeLL-aA~WeLe FRIDAY, , MAY 28, 1915. ON THAIN ONE _CENT If Kaiser Says “No” What Is President WilsonGoing to Do: It was just two weeks | ago today that President | Wilson's note, protesting tives of German n the Staten The main effect of such » policy would e between t of non-intercourse }) stop page of commerce two countries. against the destruction of || {t this course certainly would American lives on the tor- he cause Germany to worry, since * ‘ {Great tain has already practic pedoed liner Lusitania, } aiiy ent off commer: and making certain de- “Consequent'y there remains : fs but the first course suggested mands, was delivered in —to call congress together— Berlin. No answer has FOR THE SUMMONING OF CONGRESS BY PRESIDENT WILSON WOULD IMPRESS GERMANY A& NOTHING ELSE COULD, WITH THE SERIOUS SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.” GET EVIDENCE come from the kaiser’s government yet. BY HARRY P. BURTON NEW YORK, May 28—If the re ply to President Wilson's note, nent to Germany, a note which protested with admirable firmness against the taking of Amertean Itves on the Lusitania, begets from the kaiser an unfavorable reply that shall f to promise the conservation of the rights, WHAT COURSES OF aA¢ TION WILL BE OPEN TO PRESI DENT WILSON? This vital question I took Prof. Ellery ©. Stowell, professor of International law and diplomacy in Columbia universtty “There are three courses open to President Wilson! That is, aseum |ing (as we have a right to do, of to SCATTERERS J. F. Holeroft, president of the Seattie Auto Transit Asso- clation, expects to reveal the course, ONLY FOR THE BAKE OF) jdentity of the tack cowards ARGUMENT) that the German re who have been waging war on ply will be adverse, and not con i ciliatory in tone,” declared Prof.) the Jitneymen at Friday night's Stowell | meeting of the sociation. Prof. Stowell then explained the Holcroft declares he has evi- three courses OUR -COUNTRY dence which establishes the source from which the tacks come He says his will create a seni MIGHT TAKE IN DEALING WITH GERMANY as follows Our First Course The beautiful words uttered by President Wilson in his recent apeeches have struck a responsive chord tn American hearts; but we CANNOT take the determined pot he intimated against Germany the protection of American lives and| , property unless we have adequate nnouncement tion, A new cretary to suc ceed A. M. Prather, resigned, will be elected, and two vacancies on the board of trustees filled To Keep 'Em on Routes planned to compel all driv Press club. armament ers to run the full length of their vt ie time, therefore, to cor. | Toutes. imposing some nort of pen rect our errors (if we are |fity for violation of the rule. By REALLY going to demand |this plan starters would be placed ‘strict accountability’ and ‘not | “* the extremities of every run omit any word or act necessary | A Detter and more profitable to safeguard the rights of our | Cquallzation of buses on the various citizens’) and time to CALL runs is also propos a k CONGRESS AT ONCE Cases against 15 jitmen charged “UNTIL THIS 1S DONE with violation of the new bonding} THERE CAN BE NO ADE. |!"¥¥ dismissed by the prosecut QUATE PREPARATION AND |!DK attorney's office Thursday a | defendants each promised to com NO FOREIGN POWER CAN BE CERTAIN OUR WoRDS |P!Y With the law if proceedings MEAN ANYTHING MORE | ere dropped THAN THEY DID IN THE | Union vimaymen Meet CASE OF MEXICO. | We want it understood that “Congress could decide | there no affiliation between our whether or not an Immediate | Union and the Auto Transit associa Gealaentien et wer wes.d |tion,” said President Gates of the able or whether the country | Auto Drivers’ union, local No. 234 ought simply to be put upon a Friday A statement has been war basis and the manufacture | S!ven out to that effect, but it is of munitions and the construc not true The jitneymen who are members tion of ships begun and the army and navy rosters greatly ently untonized group will of the rec augmented. hold an important meeting Friday| night in room 319 Labor temple Our Second Course The union now has a membership The second course President wii-|0f 205. It is affiliated with the son might take would be the break,| American Federation of Labor ing off of diplomatic relations or the adoption of a policy of complete SHIPS GO TO AID OF TORPEDOED VESSEL| LIVERPOOL, gow steamer non-Intercourse. “This would be a perfectly itt mate course, but It would also be a perfectly futile one. |Our Third Course The president’s third ¢ourse is May 28.—The Glas Arglyeshire was dam the poliey of non-intercourse. aged by being torpedoed by a Ger This would tnvolve the recalling} man submarine today lof our ambassador and our consuls Distress signals sent out by the Jin Germany and the handing of| ship were received here and vessels their passports to the representa-! have put out to her ald | (tom DUFF, HOW DARE NEMS STANDS, AGAINST TACK The meeting will be held at the| EDITION WEATHER FORECAST—Fair 11Dhe AL me Adib High low ANE 1:55 a. m., 14.2 ft. 10:10 «. m., —O8 tt 5:57 pom, OTT 1012 pm, OR ht F IGHT TO CHEAT GALLOWS THUS YOU SEE YOUR — MONEY GO| King county is going to have two fine, nice, ex- pensive roads to the Seattle Golf and Country club. The commssioners have said so—after the golf enthusiasts declared for it and the limousine crowd brought sufficient pressure to bear. On Monday last, the commissioners awarded a con- tract for concrete paving of the Greenwood ave. road to the golf links, three and a half miles) TO COST, WHEN FINALLY SURFACED, THE SUM OF $77,000. This expenditure will be made in spite of the fact that there is now the North Trunk road from the north limits of the city, brick-surfaced, and costing $30,000 a |mile, leading within half a mile of the Golf club and ~ connecting with it by means of the Conover road. The two roads run parallel, half a mile from each “TWO WARSHIPS: now a macadam road that has been bulit at a cost of $14,000 a mile A few hundred dollars for re- pairs would have made this an excellent road for all purposes, | but, of course, it wouldn't be quite | fancy enough for high-priced lim- ousines, and, besides, |T WOULD BE LOVELY TO RIDE TO THE GOLF CLUB ONE WAY AND | COME BACK ANOTHER WAY. The two roads, when complet- ed, will represent a total cost of | $231,000 for three and a half miles, or $66,000 a mile. And, while money is plentiful for golf club roads, many places in King county, greatly in need of any kind of roads, will remain with- out for “lack of funds.” The plea was made before the | county commissioners that the new paving and surfacing of the | Greenwood road would be just | fine to “show off” to the visitors | who will be here thie summer for LONDON, May 28.—Despite the loss of the British warships Tri- |umph and Majestic in the Darda- |nelles within two days, the allied fleet is again bombarding Turkish fortifications both from in- | of Saros, reports announced today. Under German direction the Turks have converted the Gallipoli | peninsula into a maze of entangle- | ments and entrenchments. Every Turkish position is also guarded by land mines, which have resulted in severe losses to ot and French troops the Shriners’, Bankers’ and | . | The admiralty today had no turd Pe ea of Columbus conven: | iner details regarding the sinking of the Majestic statement of last night, declarin she had been torpedoed off Sedd- El-Babr and that a majority of the jcrew had been saved, CLAIM RUSS VICTORY — But even that is only a dream. Experts on road work are prac- tically unanimous In saying the | road will not be completed in that | time, and the golfists will have to content themselves with the | North Trunk route alone during the very height of Seattie’s en- PETROGRAD, May 28.—The? | tertainment of the visitors. Austro-German forces have been STILL SOME FOLKS WON. | DER WHY TAXES KEEP PIL- ING UP. MOTHER SEES HER BABY SON ~ BURIED IN SLIDE OF EARTH 301 White building, surround Przemysl, statement declares. an official Buried under a ton of earth which] baum, attorney, suddenly gave way on Courthouse; and two city firemen hill, near his home, where was! They started to dig the boy out play Tommie Templeton, 3-year- An emergency call was sent to the ‘ld son of Mr. and Mrs, T. Temple- fire department lton, C12 Terrace st., died of suffoca It took 10 minutes to bring up the tion while on his way to the city unconscious form }hospital at 10 a. m. Friday The boy was carried to the city | Mrs. Templeton was just return. hospital, but died before it was ling from the hospital, where she|Teached. The pulmotor was applied, iden treated for a minor injury, PeVertheless, for an hour, in a vain Jwhen the accident occurred, and, hope of reviving him witnessed it The boy's father runs a tailor | the boy wai paging under tnalene in the rear of the wh aised sidewalk { Pleasanton hotel na huge slat of the hanging bank gave and his mother saw him buried without a moment's warnin Her screams and of other children with whom he ha laying attracted Walter Metzen way CYCLONES AND FLOOD SNUFF OUT TEN LIVES CITY, May 28. KANSAS With four lives ing been claimed al- ready in Kansas and Missouri and Sd six in Oklahoma, as the result of ~ floods, residents of towns between Kansas City and Lexington, Mo, were warned today that the Mis- sourt river would reach the flood stage today Railway thru the stricken region is paralyzed The Arkansas river is rising rap- idly at Muskogee and no relief is in sight in any of the districts visited by high water To add to the destruction a cy- clone early today wrecked a num- ber of houses at Cleora, Okla. So far as is known, however, there no fatalities traffic were THE HAGUE, May 28.—Holland has forwarded a vigorous protest to Germany as a sult of aerial attack made on the Dutch trawler Agravenhage May 21 IN TWO DAYS. the side the straits and from the Gulf” since the original — | decisively beaten in the attempt to”