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THE SEATTLE STAR SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1920. va en aang penny A a NG HEA? i, il im hina Uy WY, ny PICTURES SHOWN | hay rh ONLY st) son TRL a GRADE FIRST RUN NOW PLAYING A remarkable dual role portrayal of how a driftwood human came up from the depths of a prison hell to put a heart in a crab-souled btother FRANK KEENAN AMERICA’S GREATEST CHARACTER ACTOR “BROTHERS DIVIDED” —OTHER FEATURES— “A Restaurant Riot” JOE ROBERTS Comedy BANJOIST Chuck Full of Laughs The Celebrated > ae | Banjo Artist PATHE REVIEW TOPICS OF THE CONCERT ORCHESTRA D AY LADY ARTISTES ~ |Stanwood Mecca j of Pretty Girls Government japan Wins in Elections TOKYO, May 10.—{(Delayed.—The| government scored a victory in the/ | are more of them here, in per cent of parliamentary elections, | population, than In any other town majority in the diet. Sn the iertdieet, abberding te travel Matches tn the hands of «mall chi} | '"& salesmen, who are the bast con dren are said to have been the cause | Polsseurs. of the fire which damaged the home | The reason ts the Carnation Milk ~~ gaining @ ‘i of O. G. Mandin, 7748 17th ave. S. W.,| Company, which owns most of the $1,600, and the home of F. T. Mc |%9Wn and which employs many Bican $500, Friday. young women. One of the empleo > ment réquirements, apparently, . Let's have lunch at Boldt's. that she must be beautiful ¥ - = a ¢ a 6 ; 3 The Biggest J , Musical Comedy “3 Hit of the t Season n . c - " PEOPLE The Last Word in Fun and Musical Excellence CONTINUOUS | “CUPID ROUNDUP” A lingering landslide of laughter A fantasy of-the Western plains with singing and dancing A modern musical comedy with sensational features 4 COMEDIANS 22 GIRLS nday and Evenings 40¢—Kiddies 20¢ cn ae SovifgOrPHEUM Ie THIRG aad ines 1 | STANWOOD, Wash, May 15.—This| is the town of beautiful giria. There | The Great American Home QF MoTHER, Kk GO ParEFooT Like The ove R pos? HARTLEY PUTS \Rabbit’s Foot MMM ISOM WHITE TO 0.K. ON LETTER) Wins Land for | GET HIS APPEAL } i Congratulates Luby for) Writing Judge Gary 1$.—pecial > EVERETT, May Roland H. governor, today made public a letter to H. E. Luby, of American Association of Craftamen and Work men, of Seattl, In which he com mends Luby and his aasoctates for their “manly stand for justices, right and Uberty” as portrayed in Lauby’s letter to FE. H. Gary, of the ted States steel corporation. Tt was this Gary letter wht David Rodgers, shipbuilder, declared | wus one of the obstacles thrown jout to prevent him reopening a Se Jattle sbipyard. Luby agked Gary to use hin influence to further the “open shop” in Seattle to belong to a labor union or any loner organtation which does not conflict with the lates of our coun- try.” myn Hartley tn his letter to Vauby. “But that gtvee us no right to say the other fellow must belong to our organtzation before he car work to sustain himself and de pendent, This ts one of the prin ciples guaranteed every citizen by the constitution of the United Staten, Any attempt to abridge thi« right t» tyranny of the eracter.” |Won’t Let Lawyer Get His Last Cent John Barman is going to mave his | money. Charged with grand larceny, the defendant told the court he was “broke” and Judge Frater appointed Louls T. Stlvain, lawyer, to defend him apd charge the costs to the state. |bank book showed $150 deposits, Sul vain was called off the job. “If you want a lawyer, hire one self,” Judge Frater a@vised. Can City Pay $500 Memorial Expense? Whether the city council has the right to appropriate $500 to | | lest |pay the expenses of Seattle's cele | bration of Memortal day was re | ferred Corporation Counsel Walter Meier for an opinion by the council finance committee Friday Girl, Hit by Truck; Condition Critical Tona Crandell, 12, who waa injured by a Schwabacher Grocery Co, truck in front of her home, at 810 Yale ave., Wednesday, is reported by Se jattle General hospttal attendants to be atill in a critical condition Satur- day R. Over, the driver, who was \arrested, in at liberty under $250 bail |. W. W. Defendants Plead Not Guilty | Alicia Rosenbaum and 12 men, all alleged 1. W. W., charged with crim. inal syndicalism, entered pleas of not guilty before Judge A. W. Frater Friday. They were arrested recently by the anti-red police squad. CHEHALIS.—Mueh damage done by forest fires, now under control, in Salkum, Lacamas and Ethel dis triets. “You and I have a perfect right| boldest | It developed tater than Rarman’s | | defend myself,” said the pris-| Happy Dalziels PORTLAND, May 15.—William | Cheater Dalziel can teatify to the ef flceacy of the rabbit's foot. He won |e plece of innd with It yesterday, | front ranks of the crowd that eager C. land grants at the United States land office. | They watched while the 73 en- |velopes bearing the names of the 73 applicants for the 18 different tracts of government tands were thoroly |shaken up and one by one drawn Jout Soon came the name which they wore waiting to hear. “Oh, boy! exclaimed Dalziel “Ian’t great!” whispered Mra | Dalziel, clinging to his arm. Dalziel’s hand went Into his pock- et. “It's done its work. “You ean have ft now.” He toned to one of the clerks the hind foot of & Belgian hare ‘MICHIGAN TOWNS NET BIG GAINS ‘Population Increase More Than 1,000 Per Cent WASHINGTON, May 15.—Gains lof over 1,000 per cent in population | were scored by several Michigan ett | ten, according to the 1920 census fig | urea announced by the census bu- | reau today. Among those announced are: | Hamtramck, Mich, 48,615; tm crease, 45,056, or 1,268 per cent, Highland Park, Mich, 46,599; tm crease, 42,479, or 1,031 per cont. Fooree, Mich., 4,294; increane, 3,331, Jor 213.4 per cent | Hamtramck «township, Mich. 49, } 287: increase since 1919, 42,165, or 592 per cent Kalispell, Mont, wince 1910, 402, or 6,417; decrease per cent, 3 BRUSH FIRES “UNDER CONTROL White Center Dwelling Is ‘Destroyed ‘Three brush fires, two near the northern end of Lake Washington and one near White Center, were re- ported under contro! Saturday after |ecausing damage amounting to sever. jal thousand dollars. The largest blaze, that which ter minated near Kenmore, was the mbst disastrous. Another tn that vicinity | may have been started by three men who drove a motor truck into the woods and set it afire, according to Deputy Sheriff Matt Starwich. | The thitd fire destroyed a fre ae | dwelling near White Center and was beaten out by volunteer fire fighters |Daughter Contests H. L. Pittock Will PORTLAND, May 16.—@harging |that C. A, Morden and 0. L. Price, trustees of the estate of the late H }L. Pittock, used fraud and persuasion upon the vénerablé pub- lisher of the Oregonian prior to the tUme of his making the will, putting | hie estate into a trust fund to run for 20 years, Mrs. Caroline Lead |better, Pittock’s daughter, has filed an amended petition, asking-that the | will be wet aside, This is a third attempt to break |the will, which left the management | of the $4,000,000 estate to Marden and Price as trustees and allowed to the heirs at law only a stated income, |Student Injured as He Rescues Girl Adrian McFarlane, 16, Lincoln |high school student, sustained a |broken collarbone when he was caught beneath the wheels of an au (le, Friday, driven by Charles yle, at 46th st, and Interlake , in an effort to save an uniden 4 girl who became confused upon |the approach of the machine, Me Farlane is being attended, Saturday, ia © private hospital, undue |Funds Raised to Give Him Another Chance EVERETT, May 15—Alded by Hartley, candidate for | Dalsiel and Mra. Dalziel were in the| funds furnished by antihanging ad | vocates thruout the state, Isom , IY awaited the drawings of the O. &| White, condemned 1%yearocid slayer, in the county jail here, ts assured to | day that his appeal will be carried to | the supreme court. White claims there was “some thing wrong” with his mentality when be shot Lee Linton, @ taxi driv: er, to death near here, last fall He | has no memory of the crime, he says. | Hits parents, at Stanwood, advance | the theory that a fal) from @ hay: |rick, when he was @ tot, injured his brain, His appeal, now being | by Senator Joseph Smith, his lawyer, | will state that the juryroom was en tered by the courthouse janitor and lother persons during the jury's de berations, The jury found White | guilty and recommended hanging. Wholly without funda, White would have been unable to appeal his cane bad it not been for liberality of many people, who sent him money from every part of the state, KIDNAP THREAT CAUSES ARREST Man in Spokane Is Seized by Waiting Officers SPOKANE, May 15.—Said to have confeased to an attempt to blackmail jA. L. Porter, secretary of the West ern Lumbermen's associat . out of $3,000 with threats to kidnap %year- old Lemoyne Porter, James D. New ville, employe of the Sunset Reading company, is in jail here today An electric bell captured Neaville. Ho had directed Porter to place the currency behind a mirror in a wash. room of @ local office building. Porter placed there an envelope filled with blank note paper. When Nea ville removed the envelope the bell rang in the office of the local Pink erton agency As the bell tinkled city and federal officers rushed to the lavatory. Nea- vijle was standing, dazed, with the {ncriminating envelope still clutched in his band. He is charged with using the mails to defraud. “L was desperate for money,” the | alleged blackmatler told the officers |" cannot support my wife and fam. lily on my earnings. My babies need. ed food and clothing, and $ had to get them for them.” Porter says he wt!) refuse to inter: cede for the accused man “He should have thought of the consequences before he undertook | such a despicable act,” said the lum- berman. Three threatening letters, ent to | Porter and allefed to have been writ lten by Neaville, are held in evidence, Allies Postpone Spa Conference HYTHE, England, May 15.—Prime Minister Lioyd George gnd Premier |Millerand, in conference here, have’ Jagreed to postpone the Spa confer. lence until June 21, it was reported Millerand, according to reports, has agreed to Lloyd George's plan |for a fixed sum for German repara- : Two Temporary Schools—$54,239 Two more temporary school build ings were under contract Saturday | for construction by the Western Con struction company, whose bid of $54,293 was accepted by the school board Friday evening. One is to be built on the Lincoln high school grounds; the other south of Walla | Walla playfield. | BAPTISTS PLAN to erect a $250,- |000 religious and community center three other denominations can be in: duced to assist. d five-year-old daughter fall Both | | oczk 160 feet into Niagara gorge. blive, DANIELS MAKES NAVAL CHARGES [Assails Sea Policies of | Roosevelt and Taft WASHINGTON, May 15. tary Daniels today assailed the naval polictes of former Presidents Roone- velt and Taft, declaring they per mitted. the United States to lone tts place as necend naval power of the world and allowed Germany to pass us. Tho greatest strides in the history Jof the navy were made under Pres dent Wilson, he déclared. Continuing his defense before the senate naval investigating cormmit- Daniels amerted the Wilson ad- ministration retrieved the navy from the position it drifted into under the ‘wtandpat” policy of Roosevelt, ‘AILED TO ‘aft, he said, falled to recover the lost ground, and as a result the Wilson administration in- herited the whole situation, “Retween March, 1913, and Sep | tember, 1916, the navy increased in personnel, efficiency and matertal more than tn any similar peice pe- ried in our history,” Daniels as worted. Measuring the navy’s strength by ships built and building, Daniels maid “it fell back” undér Taft. From 1904 to 1910 congress authorized only 10 capital ships to Germany's 20, he maid. “President Roosevelt, in his annual menrage in 1906, held that for the immediate future there need be no increase in the number of units. “It was in keepipg with these reo ommendations that the United States tat the outset of a how era in battle ship construction adopted the stand pat policy by which we were fore doamed to lose our position as sec ond naval power. “No headway was made tn the Taft administration toward retriev. ing the relative strength we had lost under Roosevelt.” “You have been told that the tack of large preparations before the war was & grievous fault in the present secretary of the navy. If that is trae it ts a fault that tes more at the @acr of presiding secretaries of Becre- tea, 191 “Under the Wilson administration we find that for the first time in |program than Germany. The Wil- son administration took steps to ae cure for the United States that po tion by reason of the policy which prevailed in thone years. “In the first Wilson administration the navy be came better organized, better offi cored, better manned and better nup- plied with ammunition and more ef. fictently and more economically gov. erned than before in its history. Federal Agents With the arrest of George Wong, customs agents believe they have apprehended one of the leaders tn an Oriental smuggling organization that been supplying Portland and |Tacoma, as well as Seattle, with smoking opium. Wong was arrested by te Hamar and Watson at the fhter- urban depot, after he had purchased & round trip ticket on the electric road to Tacoma, then climbed into an auto ktage that was about to de part for the same destination. Two G-tael tins of optum, worth $150, were found in his possession. Customs agents say that the cap- ture was made as a result of long surveillance, and intimate that other arrests may follow Announcement of Wong's arrest was kept secret until Friday after- |noon, pending further investigation of his movements. He was bound over to the grand Jury on $500 bail, MRS. J. H. FARNSWORTH, resi. dent of Seattle for 30 years, died Friday at her home, 410 18th ave N., ot the age of 81 . Funeral serv: ives will be held Sunday at 2 p. m., at the Bonney-Watson chapel. Banker Sued for $100,000 miss “MAUO L. CEGALLOS NEW YORK, May 15.—Miss Maud L, Ceballos, known on the stage as Mona Desmond, wants $100,000 heart at the University af Washington, if aim trom Clifford R, Hendrix, for. made me promise to write her, jmer New York stock broker. Sho claims they became engaged liast August, that she has been sup: NIAGARA FALLS.—Thomas Mer-| porting him, !n good measure, since ship, that time, and taht he refused to marry her in February because of her inability to bear children, we the navy, presidents before the war and congresses before the one of years congress authorized a larger sition this country had lost during the Roosevelt and Taft administra three years of the SLEUTHS TRAPIB OPIUMSMUGGLER George Wong Trapped by ‘Heart Bal BIG DOUBLE BILL STARTING TODAY QUEEN OF EMOTION | | | | yw ~ A DAUGHTER OF TWO WORLDS ” ] A real play. Brimful of excitement, romance and pathos. From Jennie Malone, of the underworld, to a young society debutante. Then the call of the old world—and a decision. A new triumph for Norma. —AND— CHARLIE CHAPLIN fi King of Comedy in his best MILLION LAUGH SUCCESS “The & Count” & T Girl Leaps Down Elevator Shaft to Escape Slave Sale ters from New York, but did not re ply “When Mrs, Muscoline returned te Syracuse she introduced me to her husband and they took me out te dinner. They kept asking me to ae company them to Detroit REGAINS CONSCIOUSNESS IN DARKENED ROOM in “We ate in a North Side restaurant, and from then on I have no memory of what occurred until I ne gained consciousness in a dark rooms jin Detroit. | “Upon gaining my senses I found PLANNED SALE OF GIRL TO myself in bed. I had on a silk Rb HIGHEST BIDDER IN CUBA mono and high-heeled low shoes. I Department of justice operatives, #80 had on a beautiful heavy silver who followed up the leads developed |racelet with flowers and vines by the Syracuse girl's case, advised Worked in it. At the side of the bed her that they had evidence that the| Were satins and silks which I had Muscolinos, who are to serve prison Dever seen before. I couldn't figute terms in Leavenworth, planned to|0Ut where I was or where the things turn her over to a “ring” which |Came from would have sold her to the highest “Peeking out from behind the cur bidder in Cuba. tain I saw a Attle light coming thra Still with adhesive plaster over aa partly opened door. There was ® cut in her forehead and with an arm big man walking back and fo! and wrist black and blue from in- slapping his hands behind his back, juries received when she jumped|I heard Muscolino talking in another down an elevator shaft to escape her )reom and learned that we had only captors, who had imprisoned her in|been there a short time. A colored a Detroit hotel, Miss Le Clair de-|man and women then came to the Htailed her experiences, |door of the second room, but Ming, “Why, when I first met Mrs Mus-| Muscolino was not in sight. ‘colino I thought she was a fine RUNS AND JUMPS {woman and that she wanted to aid|jN7Q KLEVATOR SHAFT me in every way,” stated the Syra-| ,, Jouse girl. “But now I know what| “1 Was badly frightened and al meant |cided to make a break if I died . the attempt. When the man got “JURORS IN TEARS WHEN one end of the room I dashed 1 TOLD MY STORY” the bed and thru the door. ¥ “The jurors were in tears when I/Screamed an alarm and chased told my story, and when they re-/me. I couldn't find the stairs, 7 turned in six minutes with a verdict | there was an elevator shaft at lof guilty, each juror came over and|®nd I jumped into it, “ |shook my hand, telling me they were} “I thank God that I'm safe {so glad I had a mother waiting for|back with my mother.” the at home. “I first met Mrs, Muscolino when I ushered her to a seat in a local thea- tre, She told me that she lived in New York and when she left she I liked her very much; she had never said anything out of the way to mo. I didn’t tell mother of her friend as mother had warned me| WALLA WALLA.—Dan against people with whom the family|and Joe MecGaskill, convicted was not acquainted. When Mrs.| sabotage, sentenced to 6 Muscolino went away 1 received let-|to 10 in state RY SYRACUSE, N. ¥,, May 15.—Char- lotte Le Clair, 18 years old, pretty | Syracuse theatre usher, who was en- ticed away from her home in this elty to Detroit, was destined to be sold on the auction block in Cuba, local officers believe. Conviction in the Michigan city of Joseph and Genevieve Muscolino, also of Syracuse, on a Mann act| white slave charge, and the return to this city of Miss Le Clair bared the ramifications of a white slave trade that extended from the States to Ha- vana. bd FUNERAL SERVICES for Mathilda A. Aabling, wife of A. Aabling of the Aabling Seed will be held Sunday at 8 p. m. the Bonney-Watson parlors. Aabling died Thursday of asp’ tion.