The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 15, 1921, Page 1

o ing car tracks and paving . The job must be done, but it is not necessary to block both sides of the street wh e, ile working on o nly one side. instead of a handful of workmen on the job, the largest number possible should be employed in order to free this important traffic center from any obstruction whatsoever in the quickest possible time. If the private traction com pany had the job to do, it would probably be compelled to work at night. The city ought to do the same. New York built its subways without blockading traffic to the extent it is done at Pike and Third. Ew Weathe Tonight and occasional southerly winds, Temperature Maximum, 42. VOLUME 23 Peeves: Short Skirts. They “Ain't Artistic.” Aileen Objects. Her Ankles Are Fat. ‘Thie te the first of o series of articire whieh the various members of The att lt of Ge things that te BY AILEEN CLAIRE ‘There are peeves thar make you sappy But the peeve that makes this peeve I sptil to you. WORDS AND MUSIC ae what they ought to be, Mr, Editor, but when I think of my pet, private and pathological peeve, I can only splutter and choke like a Ford on @ cold day. My big peeve is short skirts. ain't pretty, they ain't convenient. much of anything, In ‘alking down Second avenue these is like a promenade thru the ‘Chamber of Horrors. Somehow every with a beau: verse, if the away the (“Her name shall never be bandied ’ Is Asked “tax Puget Sound Power @ Light C making them party to any further street car suits, wae filed Monday af- ternoon by the power company. ) 16 Prairie Wolves Attack Autoist SPRINGFIELD, Colo, March 15. —While Licyd Williams was repair ing his automobile on a lonely road Rear here, a pack of 16 prairie wolves attacked him. to fight them off until he could start his car. The pack chased him for # mile. : " ; Autoist Freed of Blame in Accident A coroner's jury exonerated: Mike Pontono, of 2619 Day st. whose auto fatally injured Joseph Alien, 6: of $11 Maynard ave, March $%. Th jury recommended a safety sign, similar to the one at the junction of E. Madison and E. Union sts. and 12th ave., be placed at Seattle bivd. | and Fourth ave, &, where the acci dent occurred. Won by Waiting ROUND THREE “If youse can't lick your own sparring partner, Kid, I can see your finish when youse gets in the ring with Pat Kelley. Why don't youse jelt the -boy wit’ your left, the way I keep tellin’ youse?” Kid Malone’s manager, Tim Neely, was talking earnestly with the panting pugilist during an interval in a practice bout at Miller's gymnasium. “1 ain't worriting about Pat Kelley. Dat kid's an easy setup. rm wait him out, dats all. Youse watch me.” ‘Tim snorted. “Ya-aa-ah,” he eneered, “you waited out dat Chicago Red and see what you Kot by waiting—". The bell rang at that mo- ment, and the Kid was soon too busy blocking the blows of his opponent to hear further, until the round was over. Then le returned tv his cor ner and addressed the waiting Tim. “Anyways,” said the Kid, “I answered an ad in The Star yeuterday and I'm going to get me a job over in the steel mill, Dere ain't no coin in the fight game, anyhow.” (To Be Continued) jon the He managed | Wednesday, rain; strong Last M Hoary . Minimum, 36. noon, 41. “LEP SAYS INDIAN 10 | LOVE SUIT \Former Guide Denies| Charges Made in Sensa- tional Divorce Case BY JAMES R. KELLY (Copyright, 1921, by the United Press) MONTREAL, March 15.—Fred Bauvais, the French Indian guide named in James A. Stiliman’s divorce | suit, was found today by the United | | Press. He was located in a suburb of Montreal | When I found him, he was busily | engaged in clipping the stories of the | Stillman divorce case from the New York newspapers. | “It's a lie,” he declared, angrily | tossing the clippings on the floor, He made a sweeping denial of all | the charges alleged to have been | | brought by the multimillionaire New York financier, connecting his name) “Thig matter has been in court be hind closed doors since last Novem | |ber," Beauvais said emphatically, speaking without a trace of an ac- cent. “It was made public at last so} that Mr. Stillman's charges implicat- Ing me could be given the light and an Indian. He has polished manners and a smooth, courteous demeanor. He is well dressed, apparently has plenty of money and would not be of place in any drawing room. don't want any publicity,” Then he added: “Fred. Beauvais, the guide, is dead.” He declared he was thru with earning his living in that way. Beauvais refused absolutely to men- tion Mra. Stillman. "She can't be discussed,’ he mid about.” He declared he would not cross the berder again and that he would have nothing further to do with the case. ‘With regard to the reported raid Stillman Jodgs in Quebec | province, during which shots were fired, Beauvais said: “The firet I heard of that was! when I read it in the newspapers. The only shots I ever heard around the place were those fired by young James Stillman, jr, who did @ lot of shooting at targeta every day.” |HAS STILLMAN BOYS | PICTURE ROOM Beauvais spoke affectionately of young Stillman, who is 16 years lold. He pointed affectionately at a |picture of the millionaire banker's son, which was on the mantel above the fireplace in the luxuriously fur. nished room. Beauvais refused to discuss the child, Guy Stillman, in any way| whatsoever. I learned that Fred Beauvais and | his brother, Arthur, hed been in- terested in finding Isabel Arm | strong, formerly a nurse in the | Stillman household, who was wanted |as a witness for Mrs. Stillman. | Arthur said she was finally lo cated at Pasadena, Cal., but that liawyers for Stillman had secured her consent to testify in his be- half and that she had returned East for that purpose. Arthur said he had just come back from New |¥érk, where he had consulted with | Mrs. Stillman’s attorneys Arthur also said he had never} |neard of any fight of any kind| lduring his period of employment | | with the Stilimans and he ridiculed | lthe report that @ quarrel had taken | place in which shots were ex | changed at the Quebec place | “| feel very indignant at being | referred to aa a half-breed,” Fred Beauvais said. “Our family is one lof the oldest in Quebec.” j a ed | Stillman Hearing | Ordered Postponed WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. March | 15.—Supreme Justice Morschauser today granted an indefinite adjourn- ment of the hearing on Mrs. “Fifi” Potter Stillmanfs motion’ for addi tional alimony and counsel fees, | pending trial of the divorce suit brought by James A. Stiliman, pres. ident of the National City bank. Request for the adjournment wan made by John F. Brennan, counsel for Mre. Stillman, \Caldwell Believes in Preparedness, Yes Mayor Caldwell believes in prepar cdnem, He has just hung a pair of snowshoes in his private office. | | \ }as manager of the | Governor On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise SEATTL (REVEALS SECRET MARRIAGE || They kept it a secret almost two years—ina Claire, stage star, and James Whittaker, Chicago pianist.. Now Ina ad- mits they were married in a little town near Chicaga, in BONUS READY (DRY DIRECTOR TOLD TO CHOP ON WEDNESDAY Payment to Ex-Service Men! Starts Tomorrow With the delivery Wednesday of} Joy for the bootlemgers! a $5,000,000 of bonus bonds} ‘Dry Director MeDonald Tuesday to the purchasers in York, | ¥8*# ordered to remove one of hin three inspectors, This is in payment of soldiers’ bonuses formity with a general retrench expected to begin immediately, ment program thruout the country cording from Olympia. | by the new regime. The auditor's office ix| John J. Montgomery, in charge of ready 1,000 warrants to)t¢ral — prohibition — enfor ent claims stated agents here, expects an order for him to cut forces, too. tically ail claimants will be paid by May 1, it is estimated. Some! Bandits Rob Woman $11,000,000 will be distributed to ap-/ f G Cc. proximately 67.000 former o roceries, as men in the state bag of groceries a #1 ten ie Benita ‘Shanley the county | ere axes from Mrs Schilling. auditor's office, Lieutenant Gover- | 7702 Fifth ave. 8. Monday night by nor William J, Goyle filed his ap-|‘¥° Maggs whe has ner up at Fue Plication for a bonus based on two| Pras drive and Myrile a, years of service as a captain of | PAndite wore gray mackinaws the 363rd ‘infantry, Gist division. | He was in the St. Mihiel, Mouse | and Argonne engagements. He gave his address as 6604 Latona/ ave., Seattle, his occupation | Motor Car Deal His. Forces iswue New was ac} to word state to mail te, it and is prac service | A at Income Tax Crowds Jam Revenue Office “There is a cool $100,000!" William T. Beeks, chief deputy ers’ association |revenue collector, indicated a thin His bonus, computed at $15 «pile of income tax returns received month, will amount $360 uewd Late comere jammed the eee office on this, the last day to escape Governor Hart Signs)!" Soldier Bonus Bill Steal Truck Load appropriation of sitoono0 ter| Of Gum and Candy an appropriation of $11,000,000 for the veterans’ compensation fund,| Backing a truck up to the door of Hart yesterday signed|the Queen City Candy Co. 1537 house bill 287, providing for the pay-| Westlake ave, N., thieves stole a ment of soldiers’ bonuses whole load of candy and chewing Five senate and five house bills| gum, valued at hundreds of dollars, were signed by the governor. Monday night and n SDAY, MARCH 15, 1921. The Seattle Star. Entered an Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Yoar, by Mall, §5 to §9 QUESTION: WAS BEER T00 NEAR? Also Is It Better to Break Speed Laws Than Date With Wife? Whether two glames of near beer are enough nick man courage to fly at a policeman: Whether it ts more prudent break the speed Jaw or an appoint ment with the wife— Whether the joy of being mtoxi cated is worth $10- Whether the diminutive colored man amote the copper or the copper kicked the colored man— IT ALL HAPPENED IN POLICE COURT ‘These momentous questions were flung at Police Judge Gordon this morning. nd upheld the speed law, decided “near” to give a to a “soune,” amt Mid the other two problems on the table. J, Wommel was the speeder. had been doing miles per hour Westlake ave. “1 was hurrying to keep a date with the folk’ he apologized. Twenty dollarst’ growled judge Raymond F. Belleran’s case. re quired 10 seconds for disposal. Four words were spoken “Drink? “Yes. “Ten dotlare.” It was Waiter Washington, an undersized, elderly negro, who started the fireworks that put un: Jusual pep into this morning's ses jsion. Policeman” Christenson testi- fied the He ruled against the wife | ‘County Officials Say Col- lecting Will Raise Taxes $5 to $10 Per Capita Protesting the new poll tax law « “unworkable, county treasurers and sheriffs of King, Spo- kane and Pierce with the exception of County Treasurer Will jam A. Gaines here, arranged Mon day to urge Governor Hart to veto the measure, according to King |County Assessor Frank W. Hull Indignation, Hull maid, is brewing in every quarter and the imprac | teability and injustice of the law, to. | gether with the costliness of putting it in operation, are becoming more and more apparent FEARS SOLDIERS MIGHT | NOT RECEIVE BONUS County Treasurer Gaines said that | while he was not strongly in favor of ansessors, counties, $10 is & reasonable amount to fine the measure, he thought the former! soldiers might not receive their bonuses unless the money was rained | by the poll tax. On the matter of bonuses both Hull land Sheriff Starwich declared “the | poll tax will strike moat veterans as jan effort on the part of the legisla ture to penalize the people of tb | state for voting in favor of a bonus.” They were confident that other |means might be employed to raise the money with far leas objectionable fea tures. Under the law Hull will be required to lint avery tian and woman in the county between 71 and 50 years old, excepting only the idiots and the in jsane, The county treasurer will be required to collect $5 from each per son on the list. And Sheriff Star. wich will be under obligation to call Ordered to Reduce Size of con: | on every person who dors not pay and take his shoes or his hat or any property he has that may be worth $5 PRIESTS AND PAUPERS PAY OR LOSE PROPERTY “There are no exceptions,” Hull ex plained. “Ministers, sisters of char ity, priests and paupers must pay by June 30, or be stripped of any prop erty worth $5 that the sheriff can lay his hands on. “Moreover, the assessor will be re quired to take & census of the coun ty at a cost of some $25,000, and then he won't be able to list all the peo- ple who are subject to the tax. We will accomplish this: We will create an expense that wil) result in rais- ing the ante of the taxpayers some 5 to $10 a year in order to collect @ tax of $5 from them. “The tax is wrong. anyway- wrong from the bottom up. There hever was a political economist who advocated a tax that will fall in equal amount on the rich and poor Poll taxes have been instituted in other places, but they have worked their own doom, and are now prac tically obsolete. “I'll te}! you this the registration lists in order to check up on people, It seems ridic. ulous to punish men and women who try to be good citizens by voting.” Starwich explained that in case the tax becomes a law, persons depu tized by all three county officials concerned with col! Jon will be sent out to list the people for the as sessor, make collections. for the treasurer and inflict penalties for the sheriff. “And then you won't know whom to penalize,” said Hull. Chisels Bumps Off “1 was on @ strest car in civilian clothes, Thin feliqw got off the car at Third and Union, turned atound’ and began using abusive language at me. Then he hit me.” KICKIN Washington was charged with dis- orderly conduct. He took the stand. “Il was getting off the car,” he said. “There were ladies in front of me and this policeman behind me. The ladies were slow in get |ting off. This policeman kept kick ing me all the way off the car. “I turned around and asked him what he was kicking me for, He said, “Aw, who you talking to? Then he hit me and I hit bim, He hit me first, He followed me off |the car and tore my coat. Some | friend of his came up and advised | him to leave me alone, but he said, ‘I ought to take 4 couple more cracks at the —_'" The judge a case, It not #0 passed the |was clearly a purzier, but knotty as J. B. Heffeifinger's. Hef feifinger was accused of being drunk. Two policemen testified One said he smetied liquor on Hef felfimer’s breath; the other said he hadn't got that close to the prisoner, but had noticed that Hef. felfinger was trying to start a fight. - Heffelfinger said both “of them were wrong.” “1 was sick,” he said. “Had been in my room a couple of days in the Alps hotel. Had my tonsils removed. I was going down the atreet to get a bowl of chicken soup. Met a friend. We had two near-beers. Then I went on. This first officer grabbed me. I couldn't talk loud; only whisper. ‘Speak up! he said, ‘How much money you got? I said ‘A few dollars,’ He went thru my pockets, Then he hit me in the mouth,” ‘How long did you stay in jail?” asked the court teen minutes after he locked up. I've lived in Seattle for years.” “sit down,” said the judge. the next case.” I will not use j Railway Chief Henderson was busy Tuesday chiseling the bumps off the car wheels of one of his elec- trie limousines. A special transpor- tation committee of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce will be enter: tained Saturday by a ride around the city on a street car | “Call Chariot’s Wheels! April’s Moon! ‘Lilies! Juan, Juanita Wed! OAKLAND, Cal, March 15. With the April moon beamipg overh Juanita Miller, daugh ter the ,late poet Joaquin Miller, is to enter the cyele of “white lilies of fulfilled desires,” The fulfillment is to come, she announced at her home here to- day, when she marries) Jobn Miller—she has renamed him “Juan” red-haired Onkland photographer, wiso leaped ‘over Juanita’s back fence 4 time ago and landed in bed All of which with a mystic by Juanita in her life into bolized by flowers that the cycle of the would be heralded by red-headed man short a tulip accordance scenario written which she divides h sym. and foretold white lilies the arrival in @ tulip cycles, } of a bed. The advent of John Miller in the tulip bed ended for Juanita, she said, the cycle of “pink tulips of curiosity.” Juanita a-number of months ago divorced Juan Reavis, her “red love,” who answered her “thought waves” from the Phil- ippine islands, came to Califor. nia and married her. Their romance ended, accord- ing to Juanita, as she had pre dicted in “the death of the pax sion due to its own unbearable fervor.” . The wedding in April, Juanita announced, will be in a “ca- thedral of trees,” where “an altar will be erected and upon it. will be offered a Caprine sac- rifice, Just to please the eccentric epicurean gods of Romance.” .- wilt be, one glorious and and—the Juanita and she said. spiritual the real Juan,” \FIGHT COMING ON SULLIVAN? }Council May Cut Police Secretary’s Salary That the salary of the secretary of police can be reduced by the city council was the opinion handed | down Tuesday by Walter F. Meier, | corporation counsel, in response to an inquiry made by Philip Tindall, | chairman of the council finance com- | mittee The ruling is believed to foreshad ow a fight on Charles Sullivan, sec retary of police Meier also held that the civil serv ice commission could reclassify Sul | livan’s job, but could not reduce the jcompensation during this year. | Two “Millionaires” |Need Shoes; Got Any Ho, men! Got a, pair of partly- worn shoes, say size 9 or 10, that j you're willing to give to a couple of millionaires? Couple of the boys working at the Millionaires’ club, 98 Main st. need them The chud is serving Scent meals to down-and. j outers It needs all sorts of sup | plies. Etheridge and Morris Accused PORTLAND, Ore. March 15.— | Criminall manipulation of affairs is | definitely charged against Fred S. Morris and John L. Etheridge by Receiver W. D. Whitcomb of the de. funct bond firm of Morris Brothers, Inc., in Whitcomb’s final report just filed with the federal referee in bankruptcy Senate Adjourns Special Session WASHINGTON, March 15,—Tho senate adjourned sine die at 11:86 m, today a. The Great Sea Horror; or, What Happened at Magnolia Beach | BY E. P. CHALCRAFT | off before I could get details or learn 4E city editor slammed up the| who she was. Get out there as quick telephone receiver with a click.| ly as you can,” “Trace that call! he said to the Th pporte girl at the switchboard. “Taxi—quick!” leaped to the command It was but a few minutes past 12 The first afternoon edition had just gone to press, and several reporters were loafing at their machines cleaning up less important copy, or | preparing to go to lunch | ‘The city editor turned to the one nearest and handed him a scrap of copy paper. “Woman just called in that house has been washed into the | taxicab Sound at Magnolia bay,” he ex “Smith cove,” he said to the driver, plained. “Says she saw it go down.|“and never mind the traffic cops. laid something about several drown ed, but was #0 excited that whe rang|the talking if we're stopped.” on the © office boy| | &| double and leaped into the , waiting I've got my police pase and will do} Settled back In the car, the report-|@long the foot of Magnolia bluff. ee took out of hia pocket the piece| The day before there 1 been lof paper the city editor bad given|@ severe gale along Puget and him and scrutinizea tt the heaviest since the storm that “House washed in bay—-Magnolia | Blutf—saw fall—floating in water |weveral—maybe 12—thinks drown ed—-"" It was a memorandum of what the city editor had been able to make out of the jumble of words that had flowed over the phone from hia excited informant “H'h,” the reporter mused as he} sped along. “Looks like it might be ‘a pretty fair tale at that. Never can tell what's coming up next in this game.” He dismissed the taxi at Smith | month cove and started across the long, nar-| an hour was still sweeping the spume row bridge whose far terminal rests | from the combers, and into the teeth on the strip of gravel beach that runa|of it the reportor strode to look, sank the barge Pierrie earlier in the A wind of close to 40 miles jsearch and to inquire of all he met for trace of the reported catastrophe. | see | at | sta the city desk the city watch, polished editor d | | thrumm, at his His fingers ° top nervy ously ‘Terr minutes to go for the final,’ he said to the managing editor, “and not a word yet.” He started as the phone rang, thd ‘snapped the receiver to his ear. “Got the lowdown,” came the voice over the wire, “Found the house and have all detail How many editor snapped, to be set up. | \"Eleven hens and a rooster,” |reporter said laconically, la chicken house!” drowned?” the city thinking of the head the “Tt was VENING DITION iil GUNPLAY IN COURT; | Uproar Breaks Out Over leged Insult to Mother of Clara Hamon BY CARL VICTOR LITTLE COURTHOUSE, Ardmore, March 15.—Clara Snfith Hamon the stand today to protect | mother’s name and save fer lifes | The pretty girl, garbed in « | tafiored suit and tailored: hat, th | to the stand. | She seemed to have full « herself. Clara's testimony came |a period of intense excit which men in the audience were: larmed bf deputy sheriffs and W © {the uproar started after a ¢l |by Prosecutor Brown that, Cl \family lived’ on the Hamon “Wiid Bill McLean, Clara's | ney, resented.the charge sharply his caustic speech was ch , the audience, the near: rict. Hh eed The girl, charged with L, Hamon, said: HAMON PAID HER COLLEGE TUITION “I have known Mr. Hamon years. He paid my tuition at b college at Fort Worth and New ingtop. iam 4 i a nn * ourtroom cleared by the judge, | a “E e his stenographer ana later his private secretary, é “Yes, he and | have occupied joining rooms at the Randol hotel. 5 “I knew he was a married yes, sir, I did.” + November 21, when Hamon was shot, was described as follows by Clara: | “We had breakfast at 11, | to his office. room. “He came back to the room afternoon. We had a very conversation. He rested for a “I got in my car and started ride about 6, and rode for an “When I got back, Mr. Hamon was seated in front of the hotel. . “I went up to him. SAYS HE GRABBED HER; CURSED HER “He yelled, ‘Where in the Beoil have you been?” is “I replied, ‘Please don't make = scene; we'll go to the room.’ “Again he grabbed me by the ‘ ang shouted, ‘You , where you been?’ ; “I got up from the chair. afraid of Hamon. ‘I saw a look th his face I never saw before. “He was crazier and drunker than he had ever been before. “I rushed up to my room. rang for Bill, the porter, “Mr, Ham@h slipped in with Bill, “I was afraid of Hamon, I wanted to hide from him, for 24 hours. “Then we could go to California, as the sweet lovers we had always been before “Mr. Hamon again called me, ‘You He 1 went back to Twas F SAYS HAMON KICKED HER . “He choked me—he kissed me--he threw me on the bed—then he jerked _ me off on the floor. “He kicked and kicked me again on the back, “He pulled me up and threw me © 4 against the window. ; “He twisted my arms, bent my fim gers back * ‘He shouted, ‘I'll slit your throat,’ “He said: ‘You've been riding wit someone.” e “He saw a knife on my dresser/an reached for it and said: ‘I would Just as soon slit your throat,’ “I knew the time was coming. “I reached to the window sill and got my little gun. “He backed up bebind a chair, RIBES SCKNE AT SHOOTING passed him to get out of the room. a r ached the door with the gum ted. Ie dashed off the light. From the: light over the transom I saw him raise a chair, “He hit me with the chair—the gun went off," Clara, undaunted, picked up the gun and stepped before the jury to re-enact the tragedy, “T married Mr. Hamon's nephew, it was a marriage of conven- I never lived with him,” she in answer to McLean's ques * but ience said tion, “T used the name of Hamon whea (Turn to Last Page, Column 2)