The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 19, 1920, Page 1

Weather Tonight and Tuesday, rain; fresh southerly gales, Temperature Last 34 Hours Maximum, 58, Minimum, 40 Today noon, 44 Watered as Second Clase Matter May 3, AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH SUPPOSE I am an ordi TT] narily curious fellow, =q and I presume that py what interests me inter esta my fellows. And of the most interesting prob- me is the probable of and of its human in- id is the world, how long deen sentient life upon it, how long will it be before the world will again be uninhabitable? Maybe you didnt know that science has rather thoroly an Swered these questions, and that How old would you say the World is? Nobody knows, or can guess, but ‘we do know that it is more than 300,000,000—three hundred million --years old, and probably it has form and coherency for 50¢- ,000—five hundred —— ae jeneine Set mon Nevers, @r, at least, human habitation, has almost coexistent with the Papwine ereation Toasted, antenal life and human life are but a tiny speck in the earth cyclic. eee They are complicated, wv) A technical, Chemistry and geology, and other sciences, however, do give us ag definite data regarding the age of this ‘world of ours as they do about the food we eat, the former animal life of this state, or the reason for ur soll's fertility. When we say the world is more than 300,000,000 years old, we know what we are talking aboutas definitely as we know anything. And when we say the world will not come to an end next year, or a hundred years from now, nor a hundred thousand years from now, nor A HUNDRED MILLION YEARS FROM NOW, we also are buttressed by evidence almost as valid as when we foretell an eclipse a hundred years from now Of course, accidents do happen— or do they?—but for half a billion years this earth has been moving accomling to rule, and there is no apparent reason to presume that it will not keep going as it has. e. E NEED not go into the methods used to discover the age of the earth. OW long has man been on earth? Human history, of a recorded, definite, relat- ed sort, only goes back 7,000 years, Rumor, report, saga, occasional ing and relic, carry us back, maybe, 30,000 years, But we know that at least ONE MILLION YEARS have elapsed since our forbears started out. About 900,000 years ago the ne gro migrations occurred that into various regions like Australia, and founded certain races, As late as 40,000 years ago, a mere summer afternoon in the world’s history, a late Mongolian immigration, exodus, occurred. And the boasted white race— why, it only emerged from the red, or the olive yellow, a few minutes back, and it may easily return from Whence it came, and fifty thousand years hence be known no more. ND do you want a weather forecast—a real, long range prophecy? Here is a good one About 100,000 years from now the north temperate region will pass into another ice age, and civilizations will either perish or be greatly changed, tho man will doubtless survive, as he has many kee ages. Didnt know that either, did you? That already the race has gone thru several glacial epochs, and that this old world changes from ice pack to desert with great regu- larity? ‘The planets in their orbits do not move exactly, precisely. There is @ regular variation that causes cycles. Some of these cycles come every hundred thousand years, wome every million years; some every hundred million years; during these cycles climates change, conti nents rise and ebb, man moves, mi grates, dies. Today we are in the inter-glacial urn to Page 2, Column 3) HINESE "UPHEAV —* IN ANTE NOT A CHANCE TO TALK WITH MARS, SAY SCIENTISTS CHICAGO, April 19.—Talk of signaling Mare or trying to talk enor Forest R. Moulton, head of the astronom! cal department of ther University of Chicag Mars ¢ TENS ORIENT ‘Fighting Reported Over | Manchuria Railway; Stu- dents Oppose Negotiations BY CHARLES EDWARD HOGUE SHANGHAI, April 18—(De- layed)—Three million students thruout the 14 northern provinces of China went on strike today in protest against the teaching ad- vocating direct negotiations with Japan on the Shantung question, according te reports received here. The students, who are parading the | tart snows nase ess Ouija Fans | Will Try t | | Reach Mars iste. No action has yet been taken by the union workers. jover the China Eastern railroad | Aileen Claire Calle Upon All Japanese have occupied several cities | “Operators” to Concentrate Abrogation of all secret treaties is demanded by the striking students, to the north of Chang Chun. * Gen. Voltaehavaky, on 27th of April fora n't see us when we can noe at and vice versa,” said Professor Moulton Why, they couldn't even see the light from A searchlight a million times more powerful than anything now in 1 be the date when tthe earth. Professor Philip Fox, of North western, said conditions for ob servation will not be very good this month. « “In 1924 Mare wih! be nearer,” Professor Fox said Neither astronomer is very san guine about the success of the “moon-shooting” rocket planned by Professor R. H. Goddard, of Clark oth “It would take a pretty good marksman to hit the moon, only a quarter of a million miles away, much less bit Mars,” said Pro fesnor Fox much who have promised they will not mo- lest foreigners. . HARBIN, Manchuria, April 19.— with former Kolchak forces, is co-operating with Celestial Chat Japanese, supposedly to establish @ = new front against the reds. BY AILEEN CLAIRE Might it not be possible to com- municate with the people of Mars thru the medium of the ouija’ . | “Barely possible,” said a scientist SHANGHAI, Apri 19.—That Jap | friend of mine, “But don’t quote me lanese occupation of the Chinese |At any rate don’t mention my name Eastern railway, under pretext of |¥°U might try it and find out. The | protecting Chinese from the reds, is| Proof of the pudding, you know merely a move in a skilful plan| | Shall try. Moreover, I ask that whereby Japan hepes to eventually |°V¢TY Ulla operator in Seattle make acquire Manchuria and Mongolia, is|th¢ same attempt. If I fail, others Pee belief of observers in the East may succeed. | On April 27, the planet Mare will HOTEL FUND ‘wing within @ celestial stone's throw | jot the earth. Astronomers are pol ishing up their inetruments to get a Committee to Report on Campaign Plans close inspection of the earth's little brother, I am told HE'LL TRY TO SHOOT ROCKET TO MARS — | With several tentative subscrip- tlans of large denominations still to be heard from, the hotel fund at Prot. Robert H. Goddard, of Clarke ome, revived interest recently in Mars by announcing he will shortly noon today stood at $307,000 | A subcommittee of the Chamber of Commerce hotel committee has ‘been working Saturday and Sunday to complete plans for the perma {nent organization of a city-wide | committee to handle the hotel cam | paign. A report is to be made Mon. | day. If the report is adopted, | thing will be in readiness for | Gen. Pao suppressed railway em. ployes who attempted to take over the railroad . Ue planet Wireless experts declare they have received mysterious messagen of late, which some suggest came from folks on Mars. But, were the Martians able to communicate by wireless, who could Junderstand their language? How would we know what they were try ing to tell us? These are some of the questions that arise. AILEEN HAS A WILD IDEA On the other hand, if communica tion can be established thru the oulja las a medium, perhaps the thing that nimat the ouija, whatever it is, every a vig. lorous prosecution of the hotel proj lect at once may be able to translate Martian | That there are concerns in Se-| into English |attle who may subseribe as high as| 1 don't know, but I’m willing to} | $100,000 and others who will come in | ging out. with $50,000 subscriptions, is confi-| {dently believed by members of the committee. “But more essential,” declared one try the experiment with me? proposal in merely this: That at 8 o'clock in the evening. My | member,” is the man with the small! aprii 27, we sit down at our respec: contribution, that is, the man who |tive ouija boards and ask: “Can we |cannot make large contributions. He|/he placed in communication with is to be considered. The more of these th some person on Mars?” the | | have an idea some interesting re- contributors there are more | hotel will be a popular one in the| suits may be obtain What think real sense.” cnn? | W. Dwight Meade, the insurance |” man, subscribed $1,000 to ‘PIG. SHOULD HIS MAKE MUCH NOI Memorial Fund . BATAVIA, N. Y., April 19.—A pig for Lieut. Grimm | with three eves, two snouts, two The nucleus of a memorial atu mouths and two sengues was, torn dent loan fund, in honor of ||0P ® farm near here. | The pig cin || Lieut. Lieut, Warren 0. Grimm, || %@Uet! out of both ot ail, Me |] murdered in Centralia 1ast Armia. || “Ame “me and see out of all threc tice day, has been sent to Presi dent Suzzalio, of the University of Washington, by Dr. David P. Bar rows, head of the University of California, and @ former comrade of Lieut. Grimm in Siberia, Dr Barrows’ letter was accompanied by a check for $100, to start the loan fund for students who have been in the service. |Looks Like Rain, Says Salisbury Don't count on sunshine for at least 24 hours, It's going to rain, This was the ultima | the moisture by UL & Observer |tum delivered Salisbury today, attempt to shoot a rocket to the lit | How many people are willing to and southerly gales. will accompany | 1999, at the Postoffic Wash Mal at Beattie, under the Act of ¢ $ , MONDAY, AP R I 19, 1920, ANY DEAD IN WIND STOR “JAP STRIKE: ESTABLISH ESCAPES IDENTITY OF FIND. BRIDE SLAIN BRIDE Murder Victim Was;This Is Explanation of Sec- ond Flight of Prisoner From County Stockade | | Say Spokane Waitress Who Married Bluebeard | When Louls A. Hilton, alleged Bluebeard, sufficiently recovers from self-inflicted wounds at Los Angeles to answer questions, the For the second time in months John F. Dalton, convicted | moonshiner, chicken thief and rabbit poacher, made his escape from the county stockade Sunday night, Po Seattle police will request that | lice were asked Monday to aid the he be made to tell whether he [sheriff's office in the search for murdered Miss Elizabeth Pryor, | Dalton, one of his alleged many brides, It ts believed that Dalton ran buried ber a¢ Plum, near (away to return to his 19-yearold! Olympia, last June. wife, Killen Dalton, who has di Evidence telegraphed from Spo. kane, former bome of the missing | Uwice woman, indicated today that the) Dalton escaped the stockade De body unearthed at Plum in July,|/cember 6, 1919. probably a month after the killing, in Los Angeles, where he had re was that of Miss Pryor. | turned to the wife, who at that time | use positive Mdentificasian. eas | was divorced from him. The Dal in Spokane last night, it ise tons have a one-year-old child. Dal- |jua by means of @ chart of the | too was returned here, and on the | dead woman's mouth and bits of day he started anew to serve a year jelothing found on the body. Wait | sentence—remarried Ellen Dalton Feases who had worked with Mins | Pryor art said to have told Spokane STADIUM ae police the bite of clothing resembled | Bers. The chart showed dental el |Night-Shirt Parade Is Fea- ture of Week | similar to Mise Pryor’s. Hilton is supposed to have sarsial| Miss Pryor, March 26, 1919, using | With the sod already broken and $10,500 in precampaign sab- scriptions salted down, University voreed him ance and married him the name “Milton Lewis.” She and “Lewis” left that city immediately after the wedding. A man and woman showed up at Plum shortly after and occupied a cabin which mystefiously burned in’ June. The bedy waa found near the charred timbers of the cabin, July 9 one month after the fire. | Friends of Mins Pryor in Spokane are reported to have said they saw! of Washington students and a will whe had made just before the| Seattle business men snapped wedding in which she left $1,100! out together Monday for a state- cash and $700 in Liberty bonds to| wide drive to raise $600,000 to | build the University stadium. | A nightehirt parade T night, following a floral parade the afternoon, will be the high spot of the drive this week. Students and alumni, clad in night attire. will march downtown to jazz and blues” tunes It is planned by University dent salesmen, her husband. ‘TAKE PEP OUT OF HOSPITALITY Visitors calling upon John Hart, | 626 13th ave. N., will not be greeted in the future by the welcome mat on Hart front porch, Monday morning the indignant Mr. Hart re | ported the theft of his third consecu: the in charge of the cam |paign to raise the money neces: CHILD? five He was arrested | | *tul the front; the wife,\s0, beautiful and |#o seductive that she ‘numbers her The University Needs the Stadium—So D On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The seattle star b | } | | «day | BEATS MOST } tive door mat to build the finest stadium in the - West by the sale of plaques. Autos in Tangle; These will entitle the holder to re. * tain m reserved stadium seat for Woman Is Injured (0) or sive sears. ‘Twovear plagies| H. D. Walters and wife, of Au-|cost $60. The five-year variety cost burn, drove into Seattle Sunday and | $100. had no more than reached First ave.| It is hoped to have the stadium and Jackson st., when their machine | completed by November 27, when became entangled with another au-|the Dartmouth . football game is tomobile. Mra, Walters sustained a| scheduled to be played here. Con bruised wrist. URGLARS TAKE WRIGHT’S TIME | Complaint that burglars are taking |up too much of his time was made to police Monday by J. W. Wright,| 819% Yosler w ‘They got in Sunday night,” struction will begin about August 5 It will be a solid concrete structure and will seat 60,000 people, EAD, CITIZ AND LOOK SOLEMN YAKIMA, April 19.—Get out your hankies, taxpayers, sugar enters and ! 4 spud jnhilers. mented, “and stole my clock Gelleas tenchaid: wink atatte ae | per cent raise; beets will bring $15 a |Drops Her Purse, | fon this season; eull spuds are worth Loses $50 i in Bills |*""* a ton now, wholesale, Mi Bloor 2801% Jack t snaenaa cont Mander with @ bane Liquor in Auto Is Is | Violation of Law new puree. Inside the purse nestled he la $50 in bills, She dropped the purse,| eee bills and all, somewhere on Jackson| WASHINGTON, April 19.—The st., and at a late hour Monday no|*%UPreme court today decided that one had reported finding the purse, | Bverett L. Simpson, Denver, violat ed the Reed bone dry amendment he transported liquor from ’ SPOKANE’S MAYOR Wyo., into Colorado in bile for his own use. dissented. OT $26 “GRAFT” | HE’S FINED $25 Jone V. Renny, in Justice SAYS HE’LL WEAR HOLES IN PATCHES SPOKANE, Wash., April 19 Mayor Fleming today flatly fused to don overalls Of course, I won't,” he said “ re Otiy W. Brinker's ‘I'm not going to spend money || court Monday for fraud in ring on overalls when I have a suit || wages in advance. Benny was al doing duty. That would be fool || leged to have agreed to work as a fsh, I propose to wear out the || cannery hand in Alaska, received $26 advane g0 North, AKE A GUESS! RIGHT AGAIN clothes 1 hi When they gone—-when I have worn holes in them, patched aver the holes and worn out the patches-then may be I'll buy overalls. These overall clubs, to my mind, are defeating their own || George Wells, Clarington hotel, purpose. ‘They are boosting the | had $23 Sunday night. Prowlers overall market without cutting || worked his room while he slept. Guess how much he had when he alled Righto. the clothing cost “It is Just a fad.” the police Monday morning. Filipino, was fined | wages, and then refused to/ | was feared others might have been 4, 1879, Per Year, by Mail, $5 to 99 Two | Cc bs There Really ARE Vamps! England Believes It Now Mrs. Theima Dorothy. Bamberger BY MILTON BRONNER LONDON, England «By Mail) of; the military cross and the croix de guerre, tumbled into the divine THE CAST Passion when he was collaborating A pretty wife. with her in the writing of dramatic An ex-husband. aketches, . For this versatile beauty A husband away at the wars. | had been both dramatist and ‘actress. An. officer sweetheart, The very names that entered the Another officer sweetheart. case smacked of the love romances Two lovers. fiction writers pen, One of her«ad- Officials of the king’s divorce | mirers rented for her a home known | coutt.s |as “Sleeping Beauty Bungalow.” In there such a thing as a|_ Mrs. Bamberger wielded a pen that| “Vamp? was tipped with fire and flame. One Unfli the other day, an England|°® "et ardent love letters began: “Come to arms that really love > you better than life. Forget ev- erything unkind and forgive, and remember only that no | one could ever love you as your own baby, Come to her before, it is too late, and she is no more’ for you on this earth, but waiting for you in the next world.” | “ONE OF THE MEN DICTATED IT” Asked about this In court, the au- believed not. It believed the “Vamp” was @ creation of the Amer- ican movip factories. But since the case of Mra, Thelma Dorothy Iamberger has been heard Engliah sensation lovers have chang ed thelr minds. THROBBING MOVIE This now famous divorce case has all the ingredients of the most throb- | bing movie play! ever screened. Get nt in the case dictated it and made her write it, Here's another: “Man of my heart—oh, my are you going to shut the ine out of my life forever, both in this world and the next * to come, by not loving me?” Sopied half of that out of a book,” the lady's dry comment upon it. And here is the one she said she wrote to a man to keep him quiet, because she hated and feared him: “If I had all the money in the world given to me now, I could not even live with all the won- derful things it would buy me. 1 would rather just a cotton frock, ONLY ONE, and no hat, and a little cottage and YOU.” The final touch came when the learned head of the king's divorce court refused her a divorce, exoner: ated two gallant officers to whom |she was engaged of any wrong, |found misconduct with others in the |case, and sald of the fair lady: “She has shown herself a mistress of the art of fiction.” ARREST YOUTHS IN OPIUM RAID VANCOUVER, B. C., April 19.— | Lacarias and Martin Manigo, two San Francisco cabin boys from the tanker Lyman Stewart, were arrest- ed on a charge of having opium in |their possession and more than $1,000 worth of the alleged drug was seized by customs officers last night at the Canadian Pacific docks, No Decision on the Prohibition Test WASHINGTON, April 19.—No de- cision on constitutional prohibition was announced today by the supreme court. Next Monday is the earliest date on which a final decree on the ques- tion would be made public, A new French farm tractor Is nev- er turned around while at work. It The husband, an. officer, away at adorers by the number ot*men who | © can, have a chance to meet her and gaze | into her beautiful eyes or hear the tones of her dulcet voice. Why, one officer of the king's ar- mies fell in love with her when he saw her in tear: And when a wom- an has a red nose and wet eyes and can win a man, she is some winner. Some of these lovelorn swains did not know she was a married woman and had also been divorced from "No. 1.” They thought she was a single lass. Some knew her as Miss March- mont, others as Miss Manette, and so forth and so on. THOUGHT THE VILLAIN STILL PURSUED HER One gallant young colonial officer fell in love with her because he be Meved a cruel man was pursuing her and making her life miserable, The other gallant officer, winner) STEAMER AFIRE IN N. Y. HARBOR NEW YORK, | April 19.—The Nor- wegian steamer Halifried, 3,125 tons, registered at Bergen, was afire off the Bush terminal, Brooklyn, here today. Two fire boats were fighting the flames. The blaze broke out fol- lowing three violent explosions which shook the water front. The vessel was loaded with nitrates. Three men were injured and it wi hurt. For a time the great terminal it self was menaced but tugs succeeded in towing the Hallfried to mid stream, Thousands of persons watched the fire, one of the most spectacular ever seen gn the water front. Police reserves were called out to keep back the crowds. Firemen were hampered by the constant explosion Does Seattle TH LATE EDITION thoress calmly said one ofthe, men | st ARKAN DISTRICT [Cores Are Injured; Prop- erty Loss Runs Into Thousands LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April _ 19.—The death list in high wind which swept key valley and Hicke: Ark., last night was mated today at between and 20 persons, according advices reaching here demoralized wires. Scores were reported jured and thousands of lars worth of property aged. ‘BLIZZARD TIES UP RAILROA Heavy Livestock Loss ported in Middle West DENVER, Coto., April 19—A |day blizzard, which tapered off |this morning into a light after bringing all steam Colorado to a standstill, was to be sweeping Northwestern Nebrame |ka and Wyoming. A dozen passenger trains were stalled, some since Sature day afternoon. Milk deliveries in Denver have | been impossible for two days. ‘Thous ands of homes are short of food | stuffs. Heavy live stock losses are report- ed. Few trains moved in the storm area for three days. Snow succeeded in reaching some trains, which made for the stations and afforded passengers first chance to obtain food. train riders went foodless 24 to “a hours, The Union Pacific was still tied |today, with three stalled trains the Cheyenne branch. Not @ train letf Denver last night on any Falk road, Hundreds of persons slept im union station here for two nights, ~ “Fair and warmer,” predicted by the weather bureau, brought hope to railroad officials that the transportay tion tieup would end by tomorrow. |Parents Blamed for Boy’s Death “Carelessness of parents in allaw> ing their children to roam about thé streets at random” was the verdict of a coroner's jury at the inquest — Monday to place blame for the death | of Calvin Rosenberg, age 4, who | killed by an auto driven by T. Wright, at 27th ave. S, and E, Wash« ington st, last week. THINKS HE CAN GET NEW CLERK CHICAGO, April 19.—John Rado vicz told his chief clerk the danger of keeping money in banks. “I mine in this cigar box,” he Radovicz isn't worrying about, ting another clerk, but he can’t ae MN place the cigar box. Street Car Hits Auto; Man Hi Harry Blethen, R. F. D. No. had a cut over his right eye Monday at the city hospital ing a collision between his» aut bile and an Eastlake street car Fifth ave. and Union st. early day morning. Blethen told the f the accident occurred when he tempted to avoid striking machine and skidded, OW WHAT’LL HE — DO WITH THE $1? He was seedy-looking—, And he smell of grapo— He wandered into the mayor's | fice, Looked Herb Owen, the m secretary, in the eye— Ft dg a dollar on the counter, witere, boy, buy the mayor is a double-ender, The driver merely changes his seat and the machine proceeds in the other direction, of chemicals in the cargo. At 2:30 p. m. flames had spread to several oi] barges. drink!” The police were looking for man Monday.