The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1920, Page 1

)E PALMA LEADING BIG RACE barn rhediringinn pA DL DLL PPRPP LP PPPPPPOR PAPRARAL ADELE L LL LLL LL AL ms TH EW A Ill ’ On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise eSeattle Star wwe Weather ght and T moderate wind Forecast Entered as ecund Clase Matter May 9, 1999, at the Poetoffice at Seattle Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, Per Year, by Mail, SE ATTLE, WASH, MONDAY, MAY 1920. <= Swan sas ws SS We ETT INVER AS IT SEEMS T0 ME DANA SLEETH '/CITY PAYS UTE TO ESTERDAY was Memorial Sunday and it seems : ting that a column of current comment and opinion, such as this, should consider the meaning of yl nation’s most solemn day of remembrance. d yet, as I sit here staring a diminutive typewriter in| te, and seek some really worth while tribute to our, Men Who Fought in Three Bee 1 bakin to Neon. as od ne Wars Parade in Honor of e nan cen no mo jo justice day than he can to boundless eternity. Only the Departed Comrades oe the oo ic ; ing oils Ag tie ee Ms ERR PAUR Aoyrupag ieee ‘and phrases, the mock emotionalists, the practicec with reverenee, and with tender s, and the ready pamphleteers can uncork their hands, Seattle today paid gentle S tanks of liquid gas and rave. tribute to her heroes who have lallo ved spot,” “a martyred dead,” “long blue lines passed beyond. It was a day not i be amt Ga tha ation It cn entirely given up to sadness; the “gleeorious sacrifice ¢ e nation’s altars”; you! spirit of triumph was in ¢ the type of spellbinder spume that has bespattered us| and the city laid flowers and y Next to a political spellbinder, and &r#ves of the natio jonal Fourth of July yelper, deliver us.from the) {ht with » es ode, the Memorial oration, and the Memo Ay Spe petty hal 0 e, } ation, a e Memor queror whose arms have sever been defeated. HEN I think of Memoria! day seed tocall it, Ilgre think of the dead days of thirty years ago back on the bleak es of Nebraska. In those days I think we had really some of the heroic Gay should breathe upon American patriots have s ball game, a town dance, a couple of prizefights and an Face to show how our throbbing hearts beat in ac d with the four immortal! de was the second, possibly the the baked | World war closed Hluecoated vet of Gettysburg and the Wilder ught San Decoration day greatest, Mer: 4 mince erar ness, their Juan hill and Aguinaldo, and their grandsons wearing the overseas caps of Chateau Thierry & the whole town got up early, and hung a flag over the front “%! the Argonne, marched side by holwted it to half-mast in the front yard side In a great parade. Ae a day of quiet, business stopped, children at their play put the, 'A DAY OF FLOWERS AND er on loud yells and boisterous shouts. | MUSIC; TEARS; CHEER Win the morning everybody! Tt was a day of flags and flowers, fer the union Memorial of martial music, gay uniforms, im one of the churches, whe: Sidelights: drums, bugles, tears and gladness. preached to by some unt And it was celebrated solemnly it preacher who had licked under an almost cloudless sky Mayor and Ex-Chief. Yo Color Line. by sheer moral force every As carly as 9 o'clock, veterans! twenty years, and who jafoot and in automobil shed Win vestments and along with Sherman and men who knew what hero- and what suffering was, Many Veterans Walk. Scot in Kilts. HERE was no color line in the parade. A negro sergeant | marched side by aide with his white comrades in action, ore apirit sons who fot boy inh-faced khaki and ‘hor ‘women in tie uniforma of patriotic and fraternal organizations, and of |weveral colors and races, began gath ering in the neighborhood of First ave. and Lenora st. where the parade got under way at 10 BANDS PLAYED THE MUSIC OF WARS Bands played the music familiar in thrée wars, airplanes darted and cir AYOR CALDWELL was one of | Cled in the sky, and spectators, bank Of Sons of Veterans; then the paraders. Tho he attained |@¢ on both curbs, stopd with bared the local G. A. R. posts, /the.rank of major in the adjutant |" and cheered and brushed away Pet) hale and husky: men with | general's departme he did not Yasrant tears as the paraders passed. Sg8, too, and withered arms, and wear his uniform Behind him| It would be hard to say whether ie sockets: And the Woman's & few paces was Joel F. Warren there were more men among the had | whom he discharge f than among the march chief. era. The parade traversed First and Second « ex as far south it meant for brother to brother by the throat and die at diteh, there to be} Into a gory ooze. | a eee ER the sermon the téwn | marched: the town fife ‘and drum corps, composed today recent ctators see > MALCOLM DOUGLAS and| Cherry st. and an fa north as several other veterans of |! 4, and marched south again at h ave. and to the First Pros byterian church, where the day's im ¢ services were held on its feet practidaily were to be sounded fought disease 4 and famine on lonely ‘@ver the graves of the soldier Chateau Thierry a town militia company fired | the civ war ca from old 11-pound Spring: | the parade, kicked worse than a 10-) 2 o> goose gun, and the drummers |f[WIE Elks furnished she the muffled rojl, and the bu carry the veterans pm Bit off key, sounded taps, and| weer a score of the : or walked home in the hot were a score of the old-timers who dust, or scurried home in|ed on walking—and did a mighty | *Prinkled with blooms at 6 ‘arly summer rain, and nice job, too. blossoms migh ried ow’ we did after the Sunda Ae receding tide in honor and memo mon; sort of tired, and emo: IRST came Tom Miles, drum ma. Of our sailor dead. exhausted, and rel and jor for the El 4 S$ VICTIMS IN ¥ te begin being ordinary routine | Crawford White, drum major for the JAL AUTOS again Eagles There we i was the , . po 4 as guards f frymen who led press the ent Graves taps atuon to but re old-timers who flower-lad vd the cemeteries 4 p.m waters of the harb w and the be ca t on the me eee THOSE days—maybe it is merely a romantic boyish THE Ic memory—it seems to A down we really observed Me |help but morial day. o the First Presbyterian « Sw fe were stil! pioneers; we “lindo: tae gidmorial’ ox Palnedat | Wdirect, unaffected lives; the| eid. The anawer poses of war still shadowed, our om te Bork " and in ever hamlet lived mer oe e Whe had lived war, women who had “poor MON." t L. dressed in his war kiltie)—lon ahea fe still Pee tear pad - ™"-| and, on invitation, he joined the pa-| The parnde dead, who were stuck away n jraders, He fought under a different | police and "some weedy corner of the {ftag, but in Srotor attent ng line of paraders came hed the street you couldn't onder how thes lived Dreher, with e >» give an a said a tall Scot,| remembrance to the ad gone was led by a platoon of the Seattle police band town the same ¢ atize emen p 1 the fe wtill believed ; us, that this was the great gountry in the world; that our #0l-| 150, Wier dead had died for a great prin-| ing tne pantie tn the ciple; that Abe Lincoln was an im.) “a mortal, and that the man who bad) » a. xy of the buddies who donned not been eager to respond to his} thats 2A, vlan te country’s call was a scoundrel be p Abii» neath contempt 2A doubt if in all this broad iy @ven one simple little hamie be found that on Memorial day ‘the old spel! that for the day 4 the entire nation in humil-} solemn = reve for the ‘of its soldier | ainly, when | tawdry, banal, «p ular, and ly heartless oratorical wash floods us from professional writ ONDER how many were required to pregs all thone potless white suits, the Elk parade! arm strokes | spectators Grand M hal A. W. | his staff followed the and behind him came Brig. Gen. Maurice Thompson of the tate guard ond bis staff and the guards men under his command with rifles nuldered Mayor Caldwell and rporation Counsel W F. Meter or of the 4 marched side by Then came men whe fought in the Grand Army and half good many|a dozen veterans of the Confederacy they rat-|“LADIES FROM HELL” the fife| JOIN MARCHERS criterion | White men and black, olive drab, some in khaki | Freckle- Faced Boy in uniform, marched in the forma tion that pushed the Germans back ee speakers on this, our day of |Wanders From Home trom the Western front and gave Ge, t0 thone who died that Billie Pierce, 9-year-old Renton| the ex victor And with them fit live freemen in a republic boy, felt the call of the straw | march 1 many men of Canada, and certainly, when I read and he season Sunda and wand » highlander or two in Kilties, the alien, sneering chatter a lafield, according to a report made! “Ladies from Hell” and the “Singin’ Mation’s government, ideals and | Monday by the missing lad’s mother, | Caneyesins.” ements, I find no reverence,| piN\e, besides his worn tennis she In the center of the column, be Jand slouch hat, may be identified by|*ide Old Glory and Understanding and but little hope the future la field of large brown freckles radj-|"¢kimental emblem, floated a blue that called attention to! Bo, ing as that is how I feel| ating from the vicinity of h we, | banner : ~ eheot ei otk arte any.” a Wednesday, th® second. anniver | Thierry which is to bout Memorial day HEY DID AND of Chauteau ve 25 a 9 elebrated by its Seattle survivors by PT. JIN TO | HE’S NOW IN JAIL shana SPC NE, May 31 “Just taste When (CHANGE NAME) inn reached the lest. Presbyterian aeiaroico. May 21.~-Be If it ain't the best moonshine you |cburch, the Washington National avery American who hears his | ever tasted I'll go to Jail," said Ralph ; guardsmen Ijned against the ev at ones begs him for some,|C, Henry, Stevens county farmer, |¢ither aide of Seventh ave. and let M. Jin of the Japanese iiner| when detectives arrested him the others pase thru a lane of pre announced he will! Ralph had moonshine in jugs, bot.|#ented arma. his name to something else| ties, cans and jars when his auto was| Corporation Counsel Meier entered in he returns to Japan. stopped, He's in jail (Turn to Page 2, Column 7) in the very bones | t Hastie and police platoon, “unies" for [ip _# year or more showed of three daily bulging waistlines: et [fue Civil War fife will see a more if the we tled the drums piped any ies ‘aquares" by | thele tt} the gray and drum parade and and hear | #8 some not the head of the parade bon a ‘Washington | TEARS AND CHEERS GREET VET Rita Dane Advises Salesgirl Beauties |) DEAD IN OF GREAT Greatly Interested in Contest Soloist With Raymond Hitchcock Is Tells of Stage’s Greatest Temptation! HERO DEAD | Miss Rita Dane Rita Dane would “What confidential n somebod: She was awakened in the middie of ter upon a stage career? r beauty sleep Monday morning at the home of her parents, Mr. and) IN y INTE! > Mrs. ©. W. Christensen, 1220 High CONTEST land and asked a v per: who was like to whisper * the place Miss Dane STAR-ZIEGFELD SALESGIRLS’ BEAUTY CONTEST If you are a salesgirl in a Seattle store and wish to ner of the $100.a-week position in 7 Mayflower photoplay starring Miriam Cooper, TAKE THIS COUPON to the Bushnell studio in the Arcade buildin hew studio in the Eitel building, and the coupon filled out for entry thru The Star, pecify whether (Street and Number, City and Employed as a salesgirl by ......... (Name of store) (if you sell » write “General” tm thi some in| Date .. dda 0. (Signed). oi sativa 's (Your signature here) |Berlin Soldiers Promise Loyalty, | BERLIN, May 31.—Several com | manders of the Greater in garrh son today visited Dr. Gassler, minis: | lter of finance, and informed him that they and their troops had taken office to protect the constitution by | force by either the right or left H, GALS, GALS! GET THIS NOW Declaring that “80 per cent of the furs sold originated on rabbits,” the] light and fell 30 feet Washington tate Rabbit BF: rs’) broke. Jansociation discussed plans Saturday | He to further the development of thelt | cull | industry. pital Monday. | Agnes Charlton, omma Wells, night While the ebatted, William ack roof. He stepping two may have a information would you give to a girl about to en report: | ber a student In Queen Anne high sehool before mpete for the honor of representing Seattle in the contest to decide the win iegfeld's beauty show and in the James & Merri- where your picture will be taken (etween 17 and 25) Department jlearned to be punctual and industri- ous, and with these two habits, half bee? battle is won in the theatre,” Roof climbing resulted in disaster | AUTOS Cc RASH; igainst any attempts at a coup|for William Charlton, 8, son of Mrs, | 29 Second ave. | His mother took him to visit Mrs | when three aut 1526 First ave. Sunday | Pacific women clumbed onto t on a when the glass | fracture of it was reported at city *hos TRAIN, AUTO ACCIDENTS Minor Accidents poe Ma. j |Many Seriously Injured Smashups at Three Dif- ferent Places Today Twelve persons were reported dead early today in tra’ vd au tomobile accidents in three differ ent places in the East. More than a score were seriously in jured in the smashups In an Oklahoma train collision, five were killed and many in- jured, according to early reports. Relief trains with nurses and doctors were rushed to the scene. Five in an avto party were killed and another seriously injured in Ohio when an interurban car crashed nto the machine Two were killed ina train wreck ir Twenty p drowned in a cloudburst in England: Four passengers in an airplane, in M were killed when the craft plunged to the ground. Many were linjured by explosion of. the gas Noe FIVE KILLED IN “TRAIN SMASHUP TCISA, Okla, ‘May %1—Five! * and Pennsylwan ons are reported “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE 22 AUTOS IN START CONTEST | Machines Out of R During 250 Wiles INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY, May 31.—Ralph De Palma, in a Ballot, took the lead from Kene Thomas, in the same make of car, after the th mile station was passed in the sweepstakes here today. Boy- er, in a Frontenac, was third. Five drivers were forced from the race by minor accidents dur- ing the first 250 miles. 72. INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY, Ind., May 31—Te the music of roaring motors, 22 of the world’s greatest drivers got under way in the 500snile international sweepstakes here at 10 a m. today. Barney Oldfield, acting as pacemaker, piloted the drivers around the course for the — first lap. He was accompanied by Al C. Faulkner, president of the Los Angeles Speedway. Joe Boyer, in a Frontenac, was tf the lead as the cars dashed acrosm ithe line for the start of the race, Gaston Chevrolet, Monroe, Chevrolet, Monroe, third; Frontenac, fourth; |Sarles, Monroe; fifth; Jeane {sagne, Ballot, sixth; Tom © Deusenberg, seventh; Andre | Louis Kline, Peugeot, eighth; Porporato, Gegoire, ” (ia and Jim Murphy, Deusenberg, Trae for —s Jap, 1:40;53.. ri persons were Killed and 25 injured, | 945 | aur fatally” and fonr © others “we4Seds smiles an-bowe. 2 riously, when Frisco passenger | trains, west bound No. 403 and east |bound, No. 112, met in a head-o collision half a mile east of White Oak, Okla., early today, according }{o reports received here | Both trains were running about! 44s miles an hour when the crash jcame on a sharp curve, the con. ductor of No. 112 said. No. 403 wus several hours late and running t high speed to make up time it was reported. According to the Frisco telegraph ator at Chelsea, Okla. near the scene of the wreck, orders 1b been issued for the trains to Jat Vinita, but No. 403 moved out of Vinita by mistake. No official state- |ment, however, has been issued by the railroad officials as to the cause lof the wreck The two eng’ |gether by the impact | Both engineers died at their posts. The fireman on each train declared from their beds at the hospital at Vinita this morning that they were ordered to jump for their lives while the engineers remained at the throttles. GAR HITS AUTO; FIVE ARE DEAD nes were welded to- took up the study of music and be gun to attract attention as a mem of Broadway productions, is 1 tensely interested in the Ziegfeld to select the prettiest salesgir! in America as a candidate for fame She made good in the * early in her stage test as an actress. sfeld “Fol experience. Miss Dane is with Raymond Hiteh: in “Hitchy-Koo,” filling a wr engagement at the Metro- politan. Her own start is still fresh in her memory and she AKRON, Ohio, May 31 to convey to the salesgirl who is on| sons were killed when an the road to stardom. lear struck an automobdi TERRIBLE TEMPTATION field Center, about three : here early today The dead are: EVA RAF Five per nterurban has a secret miles from RTY, 18, 18 RTY f, all of Gram that brings girls who try Dane. of th failure to many, many the stage," said Miss 1 am just at the beginning long, hard fight that every} young woman must go thru to|? achieve substantial success, and I know what the lucky salesgirl will bee onfronted with. } “I think that for the girl with charm, vitality and personality the stage offers the best field for achievement, and a successful salesgirl must have all of these qualifications. So the winner in this contest will be mighty for- tunate, if she can juer the worst of all stage sins, | The highly inquisitive reporter | |urged Miss Dane to reveal the secret.|-rwo men were killed and 0 passen, MISS DANE REVEALS |xers injured when Lehigh Valley’! | THE TRAGIC SECRET |train No, 6, “Well,” she finally confessed, “this|New York, crashed into a derailed doesn't sound very romanite, but it’s| freight engine 12 miles west of a tragic fact Sayre, Pa., early today “Laziness brings girls to grief than any The stage, from. grand. epere tj Four Killed When vaudeville, including the * movies, Airplane Cra: hes means heaps ahd heaps of the hard * eat kind of work. Of course, a good| MEXICO CITY, May 31.—Killing |saleairl isn't afraid of work; she has |!t# four, passengers Instantly, a large military plane crashed to the ground here yesterday, As it struck, the gasol tank exploded, — injuring| more than a score ess bystanders, \Flood in ‘England Causes 20 Deaths 31.—Twenty | missing in 8S LUCINDA Akron, Ohio Miss Catherine Grampian automobile, was injured so severely that she may die The automobile engine went dead jon the tracks, it was said eee Two Dead; Ten Hurt in Train Smashup WILKESBARRE, Pa BARCUS, 19, Rafferty, also o more promising PET DOG KILLED | A pet dog was the only casualty lided on the} LOUT x Auburn, The n ny car of Kdward R. Neal, 1421 Belmont | the flood struck an auto driven by W. H |a cloudburst | Hanson. of Bremerton: Neal's car| The inhabitants ricocheted across the road and hit|seeking shelter from a thunder |Neil H. Peterson's machine, All| storm when a thrée-foot wall of the | three cars went over the bank, and| water suddenly swept thru the town, Hanson's pet dog was killed, Han~| washing whole terraces away and son lives at 1219 Fourth ave. destroying rows of houses, highway, ne aky were indoors the sixth passenger in the | bound from Buffalo for | | Waved off the track by officials on e River Ludb, due to) {Mat tire in the first lap. He was jagain in a few seconds. ¢ | Ralph DePalma received a ovation as he appeared on the He took the pole position by lof his trial speed of 99.65 miles an hour. At 25 miles: Boyer, first; Klein, Frontenac, second; sagne, Ballot, third; Joe Monroe, fourth; Haupt, Meteor, fifth, | Time, 16:37.91. Average, 90.24 mes an hour. After 17 minutes delay because engine trouble, John Bolling Boyd in a Richard's and resumed rac Boyd took the mech: seat Andre Boillot was forced out in the 16th lap by engine trouble. At 50 miles the standing was Boyer, Frontenac, first; Kiein, tenac, second; Chassagne, third; Gaston Chevrolet, fourth; Rene, Thomas, fifth. 83:05.30. Average 90.67 mileg an hour. The track record for this distance was 92.14 miles an hour, established — by DePalma, Packard, in 1919, | ANDRE BOILLET | OUT OF RACE | Andre Boillet, Peugot, was anently out of the race. Ralph | Palma took fith place in th jap. After 75 miles the cars were running as follows: Boyer, F nao, first; Chassagne, Ballot, pin Klein, Frontenac, third; Chevrok Monroe, fourth; Rene, Thomas. fifth. Time, 49.39.81. Ave erage, 90.61 miles an hour, De Palma, in 1919, established a track record of 92.12 for 75 miles. Officials announced Klein did not finish the 100th mile. Positions at the end of 100 miles were: | Boyer, first; Chassagne, second) n Chevrolet, third; Rene |Thomas, fourth; De Palma, fifth; | Neither he nor his mechanician was enth; Mileton, eighth; Hill, ninth and Murphy, Deusenberg, tenth. 1:05:40.63. Average, 91.36 miles an hour. | De Palma’s record for this distange on this track was 92.70 miles an hour, jestablished last year, Art Klein, in a Frontenac, turned over coming out of the north turm Neither he nor his mechanician were ee tho thrown on the track, spill occurred on the 40th lap, a lana put the car out of the race. AG |broken steering knuckle caused the | spill. Jean Porporato, in a Greigore, waa his 22nd lap. He had lost much time |in the pits and, as his car conti to act badly, out of the race, THREE ARE OUT AT 125 MILES At miles the drivers and ears definitely out of the race were Boll: let in a Peugoet; Klein, in a Fron. tenac, and Porporato, in a Gregoire, Howard, in a Peugoet, was in the | pits for an indefinite stay, . |ROVER LEADS AT ND OF 150° MILES Ralph De Palma in a into the lead in the Pie | miles). An error by the ‘ responsible for Boyer being © with the lead at that time, De held the lead until the | (47% miles), when he was the pits for tire changes, | gaining first place. The 150 miles was: Boyer, Frontenac, first; Time, — the Officials ruled him ee