The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 12, 1921, Page 1

Eg Well “VOLUME 28 Tonight Weather and casional rain; moderate southerly winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 42 Today noon, 36, Sunday, oc- Minimum, 34, 'HAMON’S G. 0. P. POWER TOLD AT TRIAL On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Cl Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Se ttle, W nh. = a|Baby: ™ | Unwise Mothers. Babies on Trains. Foolish Feeding. Lack of Sleep. BY MRS. MAX WEST 7 With the flood of books and articles on the care and feeding time, it seems as present tal principles of her business. My awakening There were P with children on board, them in the dining car é \ by’s food. we SHAT THE BABY D TO BAT het rolls, soft and apple dumpl appear. mother’s idea at i & then one to the baby. In urging him in his mouth. ‘The process was at v3 bright and attractive. to the club | *to run about from Ad fog, or chatting. - Iaat one of she replied, “Oh, at 7. 10 or after. ‘ UF whimper and fret fired out that qouldn’t urge him to 3 * an hour similar ones, it in not pays heavily her column = send me your queries: > oa with a thick sauce poured over it. Assuming thix to be the mother’s| funch, I waited with interest for the baby’s milk, plain bread, an eee, oF & cup of soup, or a baked potato to But no! That was not the all, and she began) ready for publication Monday. repeated, last with | the dumpling |¢&st odlum on the soldiers’ bonus, MKS. MAX WEST, THE STAR, KATTLE. of babies} and young children constantly pour- ing out from many sources at the} if every young mother ought by this time to have learned at least the fundamen. to the fallacy of this pleasant belief came lately when | I was taking a long railroad journey. | a number of mothers and every mow and then I sat near a pair of One noon a) young mother with a baby about a/ year old sat next to me, and I cov: ertly watched the ordering of the | (See Editorial Com ‘When the meal came it consisted} of chicken salad, covered with may-|day from J. R. Manning, a Seattle and thick, hot, at once to feed him from her OW" AMERICAN LEGIO! First a forkful of salad to herself, Naturally he/| tions, gould make but little headway with | have agreed to serv the hard bits of chicken, his teeth | “Among Being so tiny, and when she added of the soft inside of | Legion posts.” mouth became so full ication wag out of the! bie In financing the referendum. this dilemma held her coffee cup to his/ wil! push it thru,” he said. to drink, until at} want to put it over within 90 days, | he managed to swallow what he | before the poll tax measure becomes the more the ail same jour- a different) maternal unwisdom, almost bonus fight was won the statement | Who arrived from Michigan to help He was between 3 was made that a 1-mill tax would pro- years, a thin, nervous child, It was 7 o'clock when they had time far believe that the poll tax is necessary to have been put to bed. But/to raise funds for the bormua. the mother took him back | COUNTY ASSESSOR car and permitted him | ALSO OPPOSES IT one to another | the strangers seated there, read-| dignation They talked aad beought' up. with him, and the mother, Detnontty proud of his conquests, ‘Geged him on to show him off. At |terly opposed to the poll tax. the women present asked her what time he went to bed, and ‘most any time. sometimes not until | the He: ATMS 6 Se M0) buries, be thought. would fil 90 jail charged with extortiote J Bat presently the baby began to He was s0 thoroly even his mother further activity, | and at last he was borne off In a fit | of hysterical crying, to the bed he Qught to have been in for at least In both cases, and in many more the mother who pays the price of her own tgnor- ance of proper methods of care. It is the baby who at last pays, and often SExD STAMPED ENVELOrRS West requests that readers of elt addeensed stamped costo: if they wish per | 'rance Hopes U. S. WASHINGTON, March 12 3 Will Cancel Debt ,,. ‘The coming to America of Rene Viviani Freneh former premier has two main objects, it was stated in semi official advices recetved in Washing ton, France destres: 1. To sound out the Harding ad ministration on the French indebtedness to being canceled Buropean affairs by « league of nations al of this government A considers opinion, it in indi the United States ev ntuall of it. parches for Los son, rriv ing for Mrs. 8. Patte was suppored to have on the steamship Pr day. question the Uni States, and determine whether th ia any possibility of the French debt | oft re 2. To draw the United States into! “modified or by any othe agreement which meets the approv je section of French | 4 here, believes will for. t 45 give the allied debt, or at least part oman Due on Ship! ¥. M. Mizner, of Chico, is search-| of Trinity Parish ch who d here|the Lord Jesus.” ident Thurs-| services his subj _ IN SEATTLE Manning Organizing Com- mittee to Lead Fight to Kill Measure ment on Page 6) | A statewide referendum on the new poll tax law will be started, with Se tattle the center of activity This was the announcement Satur. : undertaker, who Thursdgy in a state ment to The Star branded the tax as “damnable piece of work.” committee partially formed to push ‘the referendum with all possible | speed thruout the state. He promised | to have the names of the committee AND LABOR INTERESTED “I have men from various occupa- irreepective of polities, who "he said. them are representatives [from labor and from the American Manning said he expected no trou- “There is no question but ‘that we “But we a law.” ‘The poll tax was branded ae an attempt by Governor Hart to when Seattle Post No. 18 of the dult-looking | A™erican Legion Friday night adopt- ed resolutions bitterty attacking it. The new law levies a $5 tax ow every nan an@ woman tn the state from 21 to 60, whether rich or poor. | The resolutions were adopted ab | Most unanimously. It was declared that when the | vide for the necessary funda Now, i at the meeting said, legisla jtors are trying to make the people The ex-soldiers were wild with In when the matter was | County Assessor Frank W. Hull Saturday was-ranged with those bit Hull declared the proposed law | impracticable, pointing out that col- lection would be highly expensive and law diffieult to enforce, The |property owners who ape already ‘There was silence, since mo ont) paying heavily and others would de | jieved to have b to undertake her education, it tho no one agreed with }vine ways of escape. | Pam — . . ney . Social Distinction | 7 | Is Waived by Cops Social distinctions between Charles lones, 66, negro longshoreman, who possesued grapo, and T. Matson, 33, boliermaker, who possessed Scotch whisky, were waved aside by the dry } squad, which took possession of both | Friday night Forgot to Look at | the Calendar; Snow! | Weatherwright Geo. Salisbury for | got to look at the calendar Saturday | morning, and as a result snowflakes | began to fall over the city or ge promises that we will have a little | rain Sunday |Pantages Buys 42d | Theatre at Portland Pantages of Seattle | Alexander bought his 42d theatre today. A deal for the purchase of the | Hippodrome theatre, Portland, was lelowed for $500,000 Satur cord ing to E. Milne, Northwest man lager of the Pantages Theatre Co. Pantages now owns personally 22 atres. The company, of which he is head, owns 42. Town's Population | Takes Big Jump | LANCASTER, Ohio, March 12- North Berne increased it# population 74 per cent today. The population was 19. George W. Frazure moved his family of 14 there. Japanese Cabinet ' Sustained in Vote TOKYO, March 11.—(Delay What amounted to a formal. vote confidence in the government w given today when the peers defeated a resolution impeaching the cabinet by a vote of 164 to 121 The resolution had been introduced by 115 peers and was based on al |leged irregularities in the depart ment of education. ft THE REV. W. H. BLISS, pastor rch, will speak ke of ning The Su Sunday morning, on "Th un t will be premacy of Christ,” Manning Saturday said he had a/ under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 The Seattle Star Per Year, by Mall, $6 to $9 * TH LATE EDITION SATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1921. i ---at the End of the Week WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO:| HARDING Because, this summer, she will bring to the Cornish School of Mune artists nation- | wide renown, This will attract many people to Seattle from all over the Northwest, and will give the city enviable adver- tiging. Miss Cornish haa the reat old-fashioned “Seattle Spirit.” some of USE WEAPON TO. "FORGE PAYMENT Woman and Brother Face Extortion Charge To collect a bill cf $200, Mra. BE. J. Johnstone, 218 Harvard ave, N., ac companied by her brother, T.. Gill. her get the money, is alleged to have fone to the office of C. W. Antill, teal estate denler at 524 Lumber Bx- change bidg., at noon Friday and two hay beaten him until check for the amount. Antill, complaining to Deputy Prosecutor J. D, Carmody Saturday, declared Gill smote him with the butt of a revolver. Mrs, Johnstone, whose story, the prosecutor sayn, agrees with Antill’s in every other | respect, is alleged to have declared jher brother merely used his fists, WOMAN IN JAI; BROTHER FLEES SOUTH Mrs. Johnstone is in the county Hal) Git ta be been on his way to he wrote a has been fixed at $2,600. Califorrtia, In explathing her point gf view | Mrs. Johnstone is said to have told }Carmody: “My husband had «0 much Christian training that it Spoiled him for business, My broth. er came from Michigan and did the |Job right. if you catch him you'll do a mighty good job. I've got the MISS NELLIE CORNISH—| WILLIAM L. LINDSLEY | | { | $300; now what are you going to do) about it?” | Mrs. Johnstone hax a mit for the | money ling against Antill in su |Perior court. She alleges the debt arone in a real estate transaction According to ‘her, she and brother went to Antill's office and demanded payment Friday noon Antill replied that he would consult his lawyer. Gill, her brother, amote Antill, it is alleged, telling him he had better make his decision immediately without advice of coun- nel SISTER CASHES CHECK AS WRITER IS HELD Antill decided. He wrote the check, thinking he would stop pay ment by telephone at once But’ Gill thwarted him. “Take her the check, “and cash it at the bank while I stay here and watch this bird.” Mrs. Johnstone went out immedi ately and had the check certified Whether not the check had «1 could not be learn by Carmody Saturday. or Cannery Boat Loses Chinese and Opium The cannery boat Libby Marie | minus one of her crew Saturday, and Chung Sai is minus his liberty and a can of smoking opium Customs officers searching the ves nel arrested Chung when they found the opium in his pocket, They also |found, #ix nds n shee in a trunk, but everyone aboard denied ownership |Auto Stalls; Driver | Is Hurled Thru Air Stalled on the car tracks at Howell |xt. and Summit ave, Friday night, | the auto of W. R. Grisson, 7440 Hain lier ave., was hit by a street car, bad lly damaged, and Griason hurled thru the air and painfully injured, Mr irinson was badly n up Grisson was trying the lauto off the tracks at the time, her | ] then | this,” he said to his sister, handing jen Because Mra. Lindstey, wh day with a whole flock of children, grandchildren and great-or children present, dedieves in keeping young and cheerful. constantly, and her mind is more younger. William L Beattle postoffice for 28 years. On hy means £5 years of constant service. on Western ave tet him. active than many folks sleeve ta a white For 20 years he has They like him that well! Dear Miss Grey: Some time ing it is a question for science to answer. these nearly all are brunettes. logical viewpoint. puzzling question? “Anzious to Know.” sion: “WHY DO MORE BRUN. PICK: . Friday, March 18, has been chosen! CLINTON, Okla., March 12. as the day on which the three local| eral persons were reported burned winners | i¢ Seattle Star-J. Parker /to death in a fire which today de Read, Jr 000 scehario contest will! strayed the Grace hotel, a four! be announced The three judges, Glen Hughes, J, "ery brick building here: P. Lynch and Daisy Henry, will meet| Hotel officials were unable to] the first of the week to select from @| make an accurate check on balance of 15 manuscripta the three} winners, whose scenarios will imme And MRS. M.M.LINDSLEY . on Bunday, will celebrate her 90th dirth- and- She reads much landsley, hor “Uttle boy” of 65, has been with the He ta entitled to retirement, but Western ave. won't Why Do More Brunettes — Than Blondes Disappear? I-saw an article in a paper in:regard’to-the fact that nedrly all the girls that leave home, according to the police records, are brunettes. They are unable to give any satisfactory answer as to the reason, claim- As shown by these records for 12 consecutive months, every day of the year there has been at least one girl reported missing in Seattle to the police. Of I have followed your columns closely for some time and I notice in many of your discussions, some of your correspondents answer from a scientific or psyeho- I wonder if some of them can make a How about it, readers? Get out those thinking caps and let’s not disappoint Seriously speaking, it should prove both an interesting and enlightening discus- )TTE GIRLS DISAPPEAR THAN BLONDES?” Rev. guests because the register was de stroyed in the blaze. The hotel ac- the | and at 3 OLL TAX REFERENDU | MISS VIOLA NORRBY— | Because, when we went to war, and Star carriers scaree, ahe undertook to fill the gap by being a carrier hereclf, She has done s0 well with her route on Capitol Mill ¢ has expanded be- yond her capacity to cover it all, 40 she has parceied out part of it to her younger brother. customer is her friend. lausible answer to this ANXIOUS TO KNOW. —CYNTHIA GREY. ENARIO SEVERAL DEAD (BOOTHS DUE:IN WINNERS ‘SOON IN HOTEL FIRE "QTY AT 3:15 | Gov, Hart has been asked to pre. seft Gen. Bramwell Booth, world or- ganizer of the Salvation Army, who was scheduled to reach Se today, at meetings Sun sonic Temple. Meetings will be held at 10:30 a. m nd 7:20 p,m, ‘The work of the Salvation Army will be discussed at the afternoon meeting. diately be forwarded to J. Parker : Mayor Caldwell will introduce Miss Read, Jr, who will then place them, Commodated about §0 guests and it) Evangeline Booth, commander of the along with winners from five other | was reported almost all of the rooms | Salvation Army in the United States, cities, before a board of six socieeey | were occupied last night. | who is accompanying her brother on including the most oy ame — The:-origin of the fire has not |* world tour of Salvation Army producers in uthern California yo posts, Others who will be heard-at Phase six men will choose the three| een determined. The los is eati-| Poms. Tike Tetade the winning scenarios and prizen of | MAted at $60,000 [Mv A. Matthews Maj. Walter Mabee, $2,500, $1,500 and $1,000 will be} | Robert $. Boyns and J. W. Spangler awarded the authors. a The Seattle Star received over 2,000 manuscripts in the contest | Prefident Appeals for China Relief ‘Doug’ Is No a WASHINGTC March 12.—An h masinnoron. staren 2-4"! Her Physician people of China was issued by |] prog ani , March 12.—A President Harding today galaxy of learned M. D.'s was dis China's distress was described by |] Mined and Douglas Fairbanks, L. Harding as “tragic and he urged D. Qaugh docor), | today yvfore that, in view of the friendship that |! Charge of the peculiar case of has always ex between America Mary Pickford and China, ¢ thing possible be “IT am Mary's new physician,” done toward relief |] announced the acrobiic of “America's sweetheart.” Thomas W. Miller iun't well, Doctors don't know . Just what alles her They Property Custodian | his too much acia in her blood WASHINGTON, March 12. They advise her to spinach Thomas W. Mille of Delaware, has for 80 years an keg with each been named alien property ‘cus meal. They say she must take a todian, it was announced at the tablespoon of this and a tablespoon White House today of that nine times a day Mary Is Sick; Miss Plekford is going to g w pI seen mi nly leave r Vera ship When ean good dose of her husband's Wm. Husband Named | firicion travel and. new as Immigration Chief |). icte cane of ol WASHINGTON, March 12.—-Wil and a busy trip—that’s the lam Walker Husband, of St. Johns rest she could enjoy,” said ‘ bury, Vt, was named commissioner Fairbanks, weners of immigration in a lat of The two movie britie nominations sent to the ate to! | oe Mexico City Sunday, going by day |] way of San Antonio and La wee !] Tex. Later they will visit $10,000,000 Loss Cruz. Then they will go by . * : |] to New York in Shanghai Fire || °.4y)h) 6 be pack? v SHANGHAT, March 11.—(Delayed.)|| Mary feels right t Ten million dollars’ damage was|| go to the devil,” declared , here today when fire, which|] banks, who now wears a for 24 hours, destroyed six || tache. filled with silk, warehouses This Thief Likes The several spots of paint on Ritchie Kingen’s overcoat didn't worry the thief who removed the spots and coat from the office of the Hotel Oxford, Second ave. and Vir | #inia st, Friday |All School Warrants Are to Be Called in Constituting the largest call for re- made in county treasurer March 19 all the outstanding warrants of Seattle School District 1, amounting 2,700,000, will be paid on pres At his office, Approximately 20,000 warrants are included in this call and will place the district on a cash basis for the first time since last June Totally Dependent Upon Whistles Now demption of warrants ever the King annou county, C. Christianson, 1700 18th ave }was entirely dependent on whistles Saturday. His watch was stolen | from the ho © Friday night |Tacoma Woman Lost |Pearls on a_ Visit| While visiting here Friday, Mrs. |. Knutzen, of 802% S, 38th st coma string of pearls, 20 inches long, she reported to urday, Camouflaged Coats} to | TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE HE SENT WORD T0 Witness at Hamon Gifl’s Trial Says Jake Was Re- publican Leader of U.S. BY CARL VICTOR LITTLE ra COURTHOUSE, Ardmore, Okla, March 12.—The dead Jake Hamon's | political power was revealed today in the trial of Clara Smith Hamon, his | secretary-protege, charged with his | murder. “ Jake Hamon's pal, W. D. WN | former police chief of Ardmore, now in the oll game, in testimony for the state, said: 7 | “1 was with Jake just before he died. Jake and I talked polities, I think he was the republican leader of the United States. He told me he would die and begged me to go straight to Warren Harding to get some of his friends taken care of ALPH R. KNAPP— | Because he is a@ ‘fine, living, | With political jobs.” ee | flesh-and-blood example of < LAWYER ASKS ABOUT i boy's book hero. He might star | REPUBLICAN VICTORY ‘ : in a volume entitled, “From Nichols’ testimony came as the re- e Newsboy to Legislator.” Knapp |Sult of cross-examination of “wild ce got his start years ago in Seat- | Bill” McLean, Fort Worth, counsel ‘ for the accused girl. It was brought about by this leading question: . “Didn't you and Hamon discuss the great republican victory at the polls?” Nichols’ testimony was concerned with corroborating = | said that Clara shot Hamon while he “OF TACOMA MAN Sc one of\the youngest members in the legislature Thursday. tle carrying The Btar. He was which adjourned | caressed his hair. Nichols stood up well under croms examination, Fy 8. Sallis, chauffeur, who Clara from Dallas on her wild toward the Mexican border, Citizen Is Slain and Wife Wounded called to the stand after Nichola. | TACOMA, March 12—A small,| He said that the defendant tried to dark man, speaking with a foreign! Set an airplane at Dallas, but when accent, was .being hunted today as | *h¢ failed she hired him for the trip, the suspected asasein who, late last | for Which she paid him $150 and @ night, shot and killed Harry E. Hal-| sh tn the front. nana len, 27, assistant superintendent of | rode in the the Griffin Wheel company, and | me.” he said. “At en | Wounded Mra. Halien. | She told tne ehe hed-ehot «maki | Footprints of the murdered pbe-| § - = neath the windows of the home of| Attorney General Freeling, besa Mra. Hallen’s parents, whom the cou: | CULOr, brought out the point, wails ple had been visiting just previous to | <r ae beens oo Rleniget the shooting, were definite clues on | OMe, oe © eye be gape 30 Peng which the police were working preg egy agg = en hae On cross-examination, McLean 3 asked the witness if he had ever been The slayer had emptied a rain bar | convicted of a felony or charged with rel and had moved ft from one win-| 2 crime. Sallis made denial dow to another to stand up on while|" «you aidn't give the defendant @ he peered in at his intened victims. | statement because she didn't offer | Neither Mra, Hallen, who ts in the | ‘ou any money,” exclaimed McLean. hd&pital, with two bullet wounds in| bagroR TELLS OF jher leg, nor her relatives, could| WaMon's STATEMENT jascribe any motive for the attack. ‘Sallis said he had sold a statement Police still held to the theory that | o¢ Tuna flight t hd red |the shots might have been fired by| Sq) et > & DEWaPAPSE disgruntled employe of the Wheel company, recalling the fact that an |, Nev. 7. J. Irwin. First Presbytert assassin on two different occasions | tater was called to the stand, ‘; mtly attempted to take the life . told him of Nick Kramer, foreman at the| goittwine tetore he died: sume planf. iramer has left the] “st have been living with Clara jclty since these shootings. ootky. were bet The description of the murderer, | Smith pad ee Oe as given today by Mrs. Hallen, tal- M Rev. lied exactly with that of a man seen | ;, clean fought hard to Keep Raw. |by her brother, Walter Richmond, at| Wore continually made by defense jthe scene of last night's killing. ‘obdned . % FOUR SHOTS FIRED Excerpts from the sermon Irwin BY MURDERER preached over Jake Hamon's body, Four shots were fired by the mur-|in which he said if Jake Hamon derer, Mrs. Hallon said. Two of them | didn't go to heaven, he didn’t want to struck her husband in the body and| go, were read, two plereed Mrs. Halion’s leg below At the time of the sermon it was Fa the k believed Hamon's death was acciden- Hallon died 40 minutes after being | tal, shot, while being removed to a| Melean read the following from hospital the sermon: As the couple were walking along a darkened street, a man stepped |from behind a telephone pole and} | without warning opened fire, Hallon | fell, pulling Mrs. Hallion down with him. | Altho Mrs. Hallon and her husband jhad no enemies, to her knowledge, the police incline to the belief that the motive for the crime was re- venge. “Why God permitted this accident I do not know. SAYS HAMON’S SINS “WASHED AWAY” “If Jake Hamon is not safe in the hands of his Master, then I am lost.” Rey, Irwin said he knew Hamon haa@ accepted Christ before he died, that his sins had been washed away. “Hamon told me he prayed to be a relieved of his sins,” said Rev. Irwin, “He said he repented his life with | They Tell ’Em About | cia smitn, | i. “I know his sins were forgiven,” George Washington) court was adjourned at noon untit | ‘They told all about. the ‘constitu.| 9 ® ™. Monday, following Rev. Ir- on of the United States and who | Win's testimony. ’ Jerry Foster, garage man, was the was George Washington, and every: | | thing, in Federal Judge Neterer’s| first witness for the state. when court Saturday. Naturalization hear-| Court opened today. He said’he had | ings we seen Clara Hamon toting a gun sev- in progress . eral times in the last year. Foster said he saw Clara the day after Hamon was shot. He declared | Clara's hands and throat were not scarred, as the defense maintains, the result of Hamon's alleged abuse, Judge Champion is going to recess: | Mrs. MacSwiney Is | Not Engaged to Wed LONDON, March 12.—The report of the engagement of Mrs, Terence MacSwings. widow ofthe lord mayor | at 2 p, m, today until Monday, he of Cork Arthur O'Brien of the | Announced, | Irish Self ('etormination ledgué, has | SAYS HAMON PAID been denied, O'Brien himself issued | CLARA'S GARAGE BILL Foster téStified that Hamon al ways paid Clara's "garage bill, Under cross-examination by “Wild Bin” McLean, defense counsel, the witness did not recall whether the bills contracted by Clara before Joe died had been paid by the Hamon the statement false. that the report was Young ‘Banquet Is Taken From Store | ven luscieus pies, two slabs of | estate, | on, pie of botled ham, candy “The defendant was planning a 1ceo were Stolen from the|trip to California shortly before of H. Polzin, 1515 Westlake |Hamon was shot,” said Foster, W. B. Nichols, former chief of po (furn to Page 4, Column 4) ave. day. N,, he reported to police Satur-