The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 29, 1921, Page 1

ae, eather og ht and Kerally fair moder- ate westerly winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 56, Minimum, 42. Today On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Wednesday, noon, 46, Entered an Second Clans Matter May 3, 189 9, at the Postoffice at Seattle ee 3-Year-Old Is “Pinched” Hair Out of Curl? No Longer Happens. Losing Seattle's Trees. Danger City Faces. Sieh weak taembern of ne Siar start tell what dispicases them ‘Most, and why. BY “LUCIDA” AM to write of my pet “peeve! haven't used that word " for in my own mind Ss: I often, “M&S represented a crouch? —. sulkiness, or an ce of spoiledness. In the ver- on: of the dictionary, “Glosely related to 10 ts defined as ; difficult to please, onatly I have never liked the word and hate to acknowledge that I Rave a disposition with a tendency | “that way. Yet we al! have our ideas Little | Of smal “miseries,” and “a ing now and then is relished the wisest men." Femember several years ago being to fill out a series of questions “| He Finds Jail Life Joyful | ‘& Dook called “Mind Photographs.” | ANawers were to be given to such in- | | terrogated points as “What ts your © favorite flower,” “your favorite col or.” _ author,” ‘season of the year,” “beck.” “music,” “place to reaide.” Away cown at the bottom of the list © were more personal queries pertain: | One in| © tag to one’s individuality “What is} it I recollect was ‘dea of misery?” ITE MISERY ¥ FLOORED HER j question nearly “floored” me. 8 long time to write my an on that dotted line. This le what I put down: “Hair out fh ff you want. To me, at that ft meant misery, with a capital Now—it might “peeve” me. @ifference? Straight hair! Ye ‘At that time, when a dense ‘@ drenching rain took all the out of a well-curied coiffure, I wanted to do so much as (A afpmateenean advisers in the parlors and their clientele, Keeping perfectty dressed hair. ‘That answer won't do now. tae fibe.” There is al- ‘ you know—such ng canst in one, etc. They are , sometimes, and I don't that the consequences of any ¢ told ever caused me to be itive couple near one at & How's that for one? Ever experience? One of those you know, where one of the has seen the play previously, @elights in informing her leas sister. “Now she “isn't to marry, him at all. Oh, no! fs going to run off with the other ” The finish =2" ho lore interest is lost and # pretty ie being woven so beautifully fm the play ts killed. Now that does | me. A legitimate “peeve.” “Another: A windy day; new spring | fashions. windy corners and idle men. Oh, well, “slippery hills,” and | “miasing a car’—I'm going thru the © guote category. on ght nl WILL HER TREES ong if "could change the! F into “grieve” I might i nahiog worth writing -* gubject would be “trees | fenttle going to lose many more ot| "her beautiful old shade trees, like | those that have been meenne = ft avenues in this @f ours? I certainly would “* grieved” if it were to be so. I have watched daily for weeks Big, tall, beautiful old maples, with | trokes of the av, felled to the ground. I have seen blocks of| trees literally due up and carted) gway; I have counted two and three | Blocks, consecutive blocks» destitute | of trees in the parking strips in the residence portions of this city. I have geen the newly-planted sod over the “graves” of the once lovely shade trees and have sorrowed. The answer for the destruction of all that was fast making our avenues lovely is— what? Inquiry of property owners has brought the information: “Too expensive to keep. Constant uplifting of cement walks to cut away long tendriled roots, ruinous to sewers and pavements alike, necessi tates it” ‘Maples and poplars seem to be the chief offenders, according to persons | who have been thru the experiences, ‘We all profit by mistakes. Now, why not advise the newcomers in this city, the propective home builders? ‘Why not pass to them information about shrubbery and trees of slow growth, to the mistakes our fathers and fore fathers made before us? Some time ago 4 professor of the University of Washington gave a talk at the Sunset club on the sub- fect of “Landscape Gardening,” “The City Beautiful,” or some such theme. The point which impressed me most | fn his discourse was his recommen- @ation of dogwood trees for the park- ing strips of the city. Among his reasons for the substitution wer The dogwoods were native treen; «© of slow growth; and twice yearly bore the lovely white blooms Which are such @ delight to the eye. Can't something be done to save the beauty of our residential portion of the city? if #0, I'l ty glad, and | truly glad, 1 bad @ ‘peevay ¥ keep them from making | land recreative eames, ' | | }which would catee great “Howard,” lost 3-year-old boy, held at police headquarters. | —Photo by Price & Carter. | |, 7Kinda early for you,. son, ten't| it?” Lavigne asked “Howard.” When} the boy refused to talk, he waa! pinched.” | Wagonman F. H. Davey kept care: | Pinched by a big “Dull” because jhe was wandering down First ave. |“without visible means of support.” except his pudgy legs, when the bie A thought he should have had least a mother’s apron strings to ¢u1 guard on him during his ride to | eustain him, “Howard,” aged 3,.W%s/the station. &@ ride in police patrol wagon) 1. ceculiar angle of the missing | | Tesetay, mording boy case was that at noon, his moth-| |, After being booked, be was lodged)... ‘44 not reported him shiesing. } jim elty jail in charge of a police | After first appearing “sore” at the | matron. 1 pe . Patrolman J. Lavigne found “How. | Coppers, “Howard” warmed up to them and aeemed quite contented at ard” at First ave. and Seneca st. the unusual attention he received. jat 8 a m “Howard,” dressed in joveralls, red knitted cap and réa| When locked in the matron’s | sweater, was hugging a big red ap |rooms, /he expressed the wish of ail ple. jottenders nna go hom ‘ALLEGED TRAIN Page One, ROBBER CAUGHT Column 3. | Delbert Hmith, said to be last of Breryboay has ft! | the gang of train robbers who held | Fishin’ tackle time. ardens up at Endolyne, t lupghe Northern Pacific between 8 pring? Stiff question, says auto |Cloud and Minneapolis, Minn., the | night of Webruary 18 and escaped skan natives jobless; canneries |with a large amount of registered ert down. | mail, ix In custody at Salt Lake City, | ,. ow according to a report received In! “pian tour Europe; Ralph Schoen- Seattle by J. 8. Swenson, postoffice |feld and wife. inspector. | Why husbands leave, home: Spring | housecleaning! Sunday night | Smith was arrested Sunday night) pounion of old grads; |by postoffice inspectors in Salt Lake, | nich: yeaterday according to the report. His pals| ? h for that second-hand Queen Anne Statewide budget system backed were all captured shortly after the |by Associated Industries peorw New consolidated ticket a open at 1010 Second ave 'He Thought He Was GPatb Coie en Route to Heaven Lecture series, pusreine, begun Tuesday noon, Y. W. C. “Goin’ to heaven @now,” thought| shocking! U pO Ba | Charles Morrigen, 6205 Palatine ave.,! ters temblor 3,000 miles away. | Monday night when he saw an auto| [Jjabilities, Rogers, Brown & Co., |bearing down on bim at Third ave. | pankrupts, $7,500,000, filed in’ federal and Union st. The auto ran over | court. | both his feet. Morrison has been in five other accidents recently. offices rects | Machinists gamble, say copm; 14 arrested in union hall in Collins oo NE a building. | Janitor J. Hunter, negro, dissoly ing mash. Still selzed at 1718 Minor ave. Zollerbach Paper Co. sues Frank | | Waterhouse & Co, for $7,737.37; fed: | eral court. | Sign o’ spring. Howard Shrope, | Erwin Prairie, trusties, Willows stockade, elope, { Gorged thief sought. Stole bacon, cheese, butter from auto at Fourth ave. and Virginia st Wireless Censor Is Out of a Job WASHINGTON, March 29.—Presi- ident Harding and his cabinet today |decided on removal of navy censor ship over commercial wireless. Beacon Hill Folk to Meet Wednesday | ‘The Beaeon Hill Community Coun-| Hard times ‘Thirty appli leil will met Wednenday at 7:45 p.m.,| cants for job of second loule lat the Beacon Hill school building.|ams at Fort Lawton The evening is to be giyen over to] Good hearts rally sociability, music, dramatic readings! Children's Orthopedic checks. Keep it up’ note take ex. | | to support of | hoypital; send | jtax, and Mee. | Mayor Hgigh Caldwell, | mill on June Wash, under the Act of Congre The Seattle Star ‘arch 3 1879, Per Your, by Mail, $5 to $9 EDITION BATTLE, WASH, Governor Charged With Misfeasance for Signing Poll Tax Measure Formal request for petitions for the recall of Governor Louls F./ Bart, because of his action In fom tering and signing the poll tax law, was filed today with J. Grant Hinkie, secretary of state, by two Seattle people Thome signing the request are! Joseph R. Manning, Seattle under ltaker, who has been the prime factor in organizing opposition to the poll George Maclaughlin, prominent clutwwoman. In petitioning Secretary Hinkle they charge that G r Hart ie qutity of minfeanance office in signing the bill, “well that the enactment of such a law was an unwarranted and inequitable meas ure, tending to burden and distress the citizens of the state of Washing ton and deprive them of their inher ent rights and Liberties under the constitutional apd common eo Se ee oe thereny apon People imponsibie @f performance, introns and sorrow thruout the state thru} its enforcement, and that he did con- nive and coordinate In his executive | capacity with the legislature no that | the maid bil) would become law no that the citizens of the state would be deprived of their rights under the constitution and the laws of the wtate to refer said measure and law to a referendum of the citizens of the mtate.” Seeretary Hinkle ts required by / law to draw up petitions. Manning said today that actual work of cir culating them will begin as soon as| they are received. He snid that he in receiving hundreds of letters from | all parts of the ‘state asking al | Petitions. “We will have no trouble getting | | sufficient signatures” was his confi dent prediction. To secure a recall | election 100,000 valid signatures of Feaistered voters will be required. Court Fight Over 11 Inches of Land Over 11 Inches of land Cart Richter | and 8, W. Myer have gone to court. | Richter, proprietor of the Hamburg inn In South Alki, says the cavepof his building have projected 11 inches over the adjoining Jot since 1907 and that Myer must not now be allowed to continue a building that will wets inst them. He wants either title to the 11 inches or an easement that will allow his eaves their place in the sun Passed Car With Open Gates, Charge D. 0. Bump, 42, manager, was arrested Tuesday for passing a street car with open gates on Eaat- lake ave. He was released on bail. Hugh in Poll Tax) County Assessor Frank W. Hull slipped one over on the chief execu tive of the city, when he requested Tiesday, to have the department heads list their | ¢ employes for the poll tax, As head| of his own department, Caldwell will hi his own name at the |¢ head of the list. ‘Poor Fish Choked on Sawdust Diet M. C. Perkins, proprietor of a saw. Patterson creek, is choking the poor fish with his sawdust, ac cording to a complaint filed in jus tiee court by the prosecutor, at the request of the game warden Tues. day Sued for the Price of a Punch Board Sued by Dwyer & Co, for the price of a punch board and the prizes therewith they say they sold him, Peter Dereiko, proprietor of a store in Kent, is defending, in Judge 0, W. Brinker's court, with the claim that the sheriff descended on his place on 1917, and toted the things to place away. tide, Large auto in 10 feet found off end of F 18. | Low of water | Owner wanted insurance, police say. mt former lieutenant at the Vancouver leultural colle \He’ll Tell Hughes | courtship. ano Owner of Moonshine | Hens Is Fined $100) the firm name of Haller & Whitt pe TU ESDAY MARCH 29, 1921. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE FIRST STEP TAKE _ IN RECALL OF HART Oldest Business Block Is Disappearing Pioneers Tell How ‘It Defied the Fire B Above, Boston blockjiasit appeared just before wreckers started their work of destruc- tion, Mow as it it appears to today.—Photos by Price & Carter. With the caaual of the Boston! block at Second and Columbia, Seat- | tle lowes one of its historic land. marks, and a'lot of old-time business n are Josing the business home in |which they have resided for three paden Under the ruthless hammers of the | a king crew, the pioneer brick business bullding of the city is fast |making way for a modern steel Vash. y mn de rand Was * utnea® uete ehang toe ines |structure that will be the home of ey 7 © [the ttle National bank, | ing the heart and the purse of a pretty young co-ed of Oregon Agri:| With the stuunchness of the |sturdy men who built it, the Boston block has stood for 33 years with practicallf nothing in-the way of re-| pair® It was built right. It was| Jbullt tight. The bases upon which t rests would have supported a| EX-ARMY MAN’: PORTLAND, March 29. Robert Warsaw, Ind., Ore. Douglas, ,of “I knew him just a month,” the girl told the authorities in describ. ing Lieutenant Dougias’ dashing "We were to be married He said he needed money badly, So I made him five loane—$750 in all, |*tructure of twice the weight. It my college money—all I had. | BUILT YEAR BEFORE BIG “Then he left Vancouver, and he| FIRE BAPTIZED IN FLAMES didn't write to me any more. Thirty-three years ago was 1888 be. told me he had a the year before the big fire. That's part of the countr when the Boston block got its bap. oncluded tearfully. |tism—but let some of the men who went thru that ordeal tell of it her |the abstract and title business under | He was burned out in the dis: | A, Starika, 'ss petona fire: that started inca tittie owner of ‘the two moonshine hens, who were hatch-| Sint anon at the foot of Madison ing two barrels of mash in the) son June 6, 1889. He then moved basement of @ house at 911 Connect:| intg the Boston block, taking the jout s#t., Saturday, was fined $100] Ory ‘soare » could get—a for violation of the city Uquor laws | ?ooy, “RN he in police court Monday afternoon. Roch’s barker shop. pee Stick-Up Asks Match “The fire,” said Whittlesey, “swep but Takes $6 Also Jup from the waterfront as tho noth Jing could stop it. Men were working might and main to save the new “Gimme match,” says “stick-up." building, But {t would have gone | H. L. Arnett, deliverer for Ruben: stein pharmacy, obliges; with | except for a row of maple trees that stood in front of what was then the |Seuttle National bank. They served as a sort of break, while they lasted land gave the men time to save the| space later also Man Suspected in [and eave’ tt Theft Exonerated | 1 ¥ GROUND FLOOR John Sherman, 2812 W. Nevada ror $125 A MOD st., arrested on suspicion of being a| One of the pate tenanta in the partner of C. Bdmonda, West Seattie | building was Jack Haley, who at the jeral 4 lay & | county, Charles Whittlesey in 1889 was in| © | ha master burglar—exonerated—re-| time had the finest grocery store in leased “ (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) TEN ARE DEAD | WRECKE BUILDI Gas Leak, Bomb and works Are Theories Explosion Cause CHICAGO, March 29-—~Ten torn to death and 60 injured when an explosion rocked Italy,” im the heart of | tenement district. The blast occurred in the of the Joseph Well Paper Ca, | 14th and Halstead sta, which the “Bloody Nineteenth” where Chicago Italians reside, The damage will run close million dolars, police estimated, | Officials of the company they believed the explosion caused by a gas leak. They sald th j had no labor troubles or feuds, | BOMB IS THEORY | OF THE POLICE Police, however, immediately to work on the theory that tf plosion may have been caused. bomb and part of the political | that has been waged in the Nineteenth” for yeara, ‘ A torpedo cap was found by © of Detectives Mike Hughes, reached the scene soon after ti aster. Police are also working on at fe Pp over the city when the alarm of disaster was given. _ Fire crews from all points The explosion was not followed. atire, so the fire fighters becante waged in digging the dead wounded out of the wreckage, |” Three dead have heen taken ow and it is estimated that at least thres others are under the debris. Injured were rushed to im hospitals in the vicinity. Pas The three victims of the ex who were pulled from the ruins badly mangied. It is expected identification will be difficult, if = impossible, The explosion was heard for around. Heavy plate glass windows smashed on the sidewalks withim | radius of one mile, Pictures in homes were crashed { the floors. A cordon of police was . ly thrown about the scene, to | back the frantic Italians who | to the scene to determine if any thelr relatives were among the ums. Pleasant-mannered Italian grown wiid over the fear that of their loved ones had been kill injured, battled with the police) § see if they could identify any of | victims, The first body to reach the morgue was identified with ty as that of Mike Tipansky, 82, ROSENBLUTH T0 BE BAILED OUT) irs: ere: ii: sesiesne r ch 29.— +| CROWD IS SILENT W YORK, March 29.—Former | (O00 ES APPEAR ‘Thousands of Italians, men, and children, held back in their peated ‘efforts to rush the lines, fell into silence as they two bodies pulled out and ° put = stretchers, The foot of a girl, still neat with tte satin pump, was. placed on a white canvas-covered stretcher—waiting for ie the remainder of the shattered A horse, with its legs blown | was still alive wheff firemen arrived — | Its suffering was ended by a revolver shot. The Weil Paper company was sum rounded by shabby cottages inhabited N Captain Robert Rosenbluth, held on a federal warrant in connection with the death of Maj. Alexander P. Cronkhite at Camp Lewis, Wash., October 8, 1918, ordered re- leased today on 000 bail ey United States Judge John Cox. eee was All federal charges against Capt. Robert Rosenbluth and Sergeant Rolland R. Pothier, former army men and alleged smyers of Maj. Alexander P. Cronkhite at Camp Lewis, October 25, 1918, will be dropped, according to the recom: mend the attorney gen United States Dis- y Saunders, Pierce was understood here uesday, will prosecute the two on| “Many of these little homes were smashed to atoms and the occupants, bleeding and bruised, forced to the street. These unfortunates were cared for by more fortunate fellow countrymen who took them in their homes and cared for their Injuries, Police estimated that loss from the explosion will reach the million dollar mark, This included the wrecked factory and the little homes near it trict Tg y convinced,” Saunders upon his return “that the govern Acquired title nor ceded jurisdiction of the Camp Lewis site at the time Maj. -Cronkhite was killed.” “This does "not mean that the two men will not come to trial,” Saun “for Prosecutor Selden, of | ma, told me that Pierce county stands ready to progecute them.” The exact spot where Maj, Cronk hite fell is three or four miles south of Camp Lewis, Saunders said, on from ment ‘Tacoma, had not the state Lindeberg Fights Extradition Case SACRAMENTO, Cal, Mareh 29— The question of returning Jafet Lindeberg to Tacoma, Wash. for the old O. Shuffert ranch, It is/ trial has been continued for two marked by a small monument, {weeks. The attorney general's of Capt. ‘Robert Rosenbluth and/fice made this request today and s& Sergt. Pothier are charged in federal} was granted. court in Tacoma with the willful and| Lindeberg, who ts wanted in the premeditated murder of Maj, Cronk-; North on charges of muleting @ hite, ‘These charges will be drop-|Tacoma bank, is fighting extra@h ped, upon orders from the attorney |tion. His counsel raises the com general, if he acta upon District At-/tention that the requisition from) _ torney Saunders’ report and recom-|Governor Hart, of Washington, mendation. It is considered unlikely |does not show the indictment @s & that he will do otherwise, was returned by the grand jurg.