The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 7, 1921, Page 1

sSTORM OF PROTEST OVER ‘ANKLE CONTEST’ dl | Odd and Weather fair; nd warm frost Temperature Maximum, 53, Today noon, tonight. On the Friday fair ner; heavy Last ME Minimw 48, Entered as Second Class Matter Ma y 3, 1899, at the Po SATTL E, wtoffice at Seattle 8 WASIL., THU Wash, Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 Th EW (= Ui IRSDAY, APRIL Uz 1921, Pet ves: Grimy Buildings. City Not Spotle Clean-Up Splurges. Don’t Go Far Enough. ‘This is the twenty-first of @ s ties of articles in which members of ‘The Star start tell what displeases them most, and why BY JACK HALL os ARE MANY beautiful bulldings in downtown a | T know. 1 saw them, years ago. » Bince then, they have pens) “Become covered with the soot nail | grime of a decade. Dirt makes me peevish. neck and ears because I| m, ack, | Imagine, then, the effect of b! buildings, which re wou Beautiful after a ba ESSES STRANGERS VISIT OUR CITY Fy At distresses mo. It mer who sit ves with a sticky Mussy sensati when Ap not he 4 Praises of Seatt Every year he Wp Week.” Father get Backyard with his rak of the winter season Is p Lup. The man di the tal as well sing the town ‘Clear nth be the re we have “ rubbish abbis does rest. T nce section is spick and span Sfter the annual cleaning. Fine bust A few of the downtown bul their accustomed bath. ten clean and beautiful ht, spring sunshine of Bound. The Smith building, stance. That's as far as the Mplurce goes. ‘The buildings which WERE beau tiful continue to collect soot and fn Puget | for in clean-up grime. ‘The buildings which are clean look ghostly, dotted here and up and down smoke-colored of the city streets, | ISN'T FAIR | SEATTLE 18.NOT FAIR TO SEATTLE. ‘& Seattle fan—BUT— ‘was shocked when I walked up Becond ave. on my return from a Tecent trip. | Seattle looked dirty. I had just @ome from a Southern city that i famous for its spotless downtown @ructures. The comparison pained @e. It peeved me. It made me Petulant as I thought it over. Seattle is a great city. Eventually. She will be to the West Coast what New York is to the East. It is in @vitable. Nature planned it that way. | ‘Then, why, for the love of Pete don't Seattle building owners giv: the town a chance— AND A BATH? A hostess cannot make with dirt under the divan. A city cannot win strangers with time-stains on werd business dress. friends ee Autos Seized, | Booze Cache Sought | Following the serure by deputy sheriffs early Thursday morning of | three automobiles and eight and ohe-half sacks of liquor on the Tacoma highline road near Des Moines, Sheriff Matt Starwich and ®@ large force of deputies began scouring the woods for 40 or more gacks of liquor believed to have been hidden by the alf@ged booze runners when they were chased into the brush. Ed Gunderson, Mike and Custro Arvesson were placed under arrest and rushed to the county jail, while other deputies remained on the| scene. The eight and one-half sacks of liquor were said by deputies to have been found in Gunderson’s machine In the cha another automobile was fired up by one of the ne ties and several bottles were broken by the shots, the a uties say. Tacoma Denies Our Ferry Is Leased TACOMA, April 7.—County Com Missioner W. E. Williams today nied Pierce county has leased King county ferry, Robert P for the Gig Harbor run, but ted that an offer has been made take over the big ferry boat for 10 years. | th to LONDO ard Sha’ with wonderful success in Germ Austrian and Hungarian capitals. | But the famous English play- wright has written to his attorneys in these cities asking them to try to! prevent further showing of the suc consen. He says he umphs.” Why? | That's best explained in the letter Shaw wrote to his lawyer In Buda | pest” “The success of plays in Buda- | pest is naturally gratifying to me as an artist. I have to thank you for| having lodged to my credit in the} Angio-Austrian bank the princely but platonic sum of 1,083 kronen for a few performances ot my shortest play; a trifle in one act “Consulting the current rate of ex-! April 7.—George Bern- "s plays are being revived n, can’t afford such tri-| Lorne deacons have had some }had been intended | white. | by insurance. | charges that it was in collusipn with | coma |and super-tax to the Nickel Cigar | Again Is Being Smoked in Chi CHICAGO, April y" back in Chic gar has returned. jekel d, bright band made its appearance fol lowing the announcement of sev eral chain ciga of drastic brands of smokes. ch rf and tobace EDIFICE IS DESTROYED | Firemen Battle for Three | Hours Blaze That Spreads to Nearby Home we es and oth ors cuta in cert the abun © crop were aper of the causes, dealers said { smokes skyrocketed 10 cents during the re believed to o have been sta | incendiaries ive-ce Fr . Column 3. | ave loss is placed James A. Bantor, The f ead at 000 by the I pastor to the 9 ¥. Ma $ Mrs home 13d at. Sunshine. Safety week. Nobody killed. Bootleg business slow. Historicht! Quarterty, just off the press. Mor aincers’ club Friday at ¥. W.C. A Dr. G. C, Embody, fisheries profes ONLY FURNITURE SAVED o's Vas eer St Snares 9 to limit regtetrs IS NEW PIANO . year, board of The only article of furniture saved from the ruin is a new piano| Mail for Nethel that had just been installed. It was|¥er points to leave taken out undamaged by fire, but You may now write to ye water soaked. jin Western Samoa at re Two thousand age rates. furniture and the $15,000! Y. W ting were reduced to ashes.| ment in employment cond! There was some insurance on the! ing March. ing, possibly $5,000, the pastor A. C. Petridgs, sold auto he didn't own, with grand larceny. James A. Sexton, Woman's Relief | to celebrate at armory at 2p. m™ Maj. Gen. Wood dectines invita tion to speak to Tacoma Commer celal Club. Hasn't time Money’ on tables in rummy game in 8. & 8 droom, 1510% Third ave. Police arreta 11 men. The “Enchantress,” annual first noticed about 11 H. P. Diamond, tiv ' ining the church on Fifth he gave the alarm. The fire department fought deaper ately for hours to save nearby homes | i h structure bias It was 2 a. m. wh declared out. April, 1921,/ to meet 6.30 anty n the fire was on to 4,500 ide Kuskokwim May 1 friends A post next and Seattle dollars’ worth of C. A. announces improve jons dur alleged to have) charged | “There is a very strong prevailing | impression,” said Dr, Ranton, “that the fire was the work of incendiaries. | | work done of late, ‘There have been many petty thefts, The church has been entered and everything, you might say, that was movable was stolen. Boys—that's it.” OVERHEATED STOVE MAY HAVE BE THE CAUS! The fire might, however, have| been due to an overheated stove or|spring opera at Meany hail, Que, the Rev. Mr. Banton said.| campus, Wednesday night, April 20.) Choir practice had been held in the| Women's Democratic club to dim | chureh last evening, ending at 9|cuss women in political lige at o'clock, and during practice a fire] Meves cafeteria at 2 p. m. Satur had been built in the stove | day Since last May $8,000 has been| “He threatened to kill me,” Edith subseribed to remodel the church. It} L. Fuller sajd of Charles Edward to begin work| Fuller, Tacoma judge grants her early thin summer. The money will | divorce. now likely be used as the nucleus of| Over 100 college athletes coming | a new church building fund. The | to University of Washington Sat-| Rev. Mr. Banton is secking a tempor- | urday, ave 3. Intercollegiate re ary place to hold services mean-| jay mm: Cre are of Morris Bros, bank rupt brokers, to meet with reorgant | zation committee at Frye hotel at § |p. m. Thursday. Spar Plant Burns; Chief of militia bureau asks ap. Total Los $4, 500 | ntment of Maj. John H. Hood, While a watchman slept, in the/G. A. C., as Inapectorinatructor of office, the Pacific Northwest Spar| Ww. N. G. coast artillery here and at Ce 6 Nickerson st. caught a Walla. at 1:56 a. m. Thursday. He rt Bush, awakened by the crackling of tim-| Rhodes* store, bers and rushed out of the office to|retary of Washington see the center of the main building | ers’ association. in flames | With jonded gun and 18 cartridges The company building, valued Villalabas and R. C. Gonzales, with ita contents at $4,500, was de arrested Said they beat stroyed. ‘The loss 1s partly covered | way from Spokane Tacoma Rotarians I. Lang tnves-| grill—"Seattle Spirit,” Thursday. The} Hart,” “Mr. Poll Tax.” and ts mystery, |on "D of the Mountain.” been caused by| Burglary charges placed against refuse burner,/T. R. Rice and Fred Sipple | cuxed of having entered the General | | Mere Co.'s plant at Renton | Police Capt T. Mason appeared | at central with blue blinders lover his eyes Thursday. He was one of the judge the nkle contest at | the auto show Wednesday night Yo-Ho! Summer's coming. Park f par | superintendent of in made executive sec re State Retafl at n Jinks | overnor debate Inspector R. the blaze of the fire may have rk from the sald. | ource but it a sp a ame | Feusinene Deny Mongolia Riots TOKYO, April 6.—(Delayed.)—De nial that the Japanese government is at the bottom of the present dis-|board is taking am steps to pro: turbance in outer Mongolia or that| vide for the summer recreation it is sup arms or ammunition | son by installing new apparatus and to the Russian Mongolian forces op-| fixing up tennis courte and bathing | erating there, was made in an in-| beaches terview by the Japanese foreign | “My Life fice, The foreign office also denied | teresting subject ehureh to be at in a Harem” of address Monday by Marian Williams, 12 years an in| mon-|mate of a Utah harem, with four lother wives | A Mrs a Chinese fac of working for Chinese on the the resto | archy ion jing | glory change I tind that exactly 15 shillings to pa this amounts to on which I shall income tax British govern What will remain of my 1,0: kronen taxa after it has pald Hungarian I do not know; probabl your government will take 1,08 kronen out of the bank and wend me| 3a bill for the balance, ment, dec |Judge W lgrant a short respite that | which MURDER OF Hired Him and Pal to Slay Whist Expert BUFFALO, N. Y., April 1.—Roy Harris, 22, clung to hin story today that he and @ pal, “Bill” Dunkin, killed Joseph PB. Wtwell, millionaire lubman and whist expert Harriw ording to police nw that lant June they murdered Et well in his New York apartment having offered $5,000 by @ “Mrs Id" to do the “Job The as to the po. lice, wan that while sunning them before New York hotel and Dunkin found by Aly The taxi his to under atory, ac Fairet story related relves Harris a truer driver t cad we take @ Entering “Mra. Fairch the plan befo Elwell out and offe paid $50 « The next me well's home « k them well the they quickly She wanted maid. found laid vehicle, 1." who re them. of the way 95,000 for the job. § » account, Harris waid ng the two entered on Toth st. Harris ared that Dunkin did the shoot ng. The prisoner axserted that he got only $450 after the murder and that bie pal must have double} cromed him. Police have established the fact that Harria was tn New York at the time of the Elwell murder. A they |New York detective was sald to be om route here te-continde questioning © whieh the prisoner has been subjected. Harris connected himself with the Elwell cause, police said, before they had a oan to question . Mother Goes to Pen as Baby Is While her lstnonthold baby boy was being buried in Seattle Thurs Mrs. Gladys Primeau, 21, who left the child locked all day home here, $121 Ninth ave. 8. W enabling it accidentally to take pol fon, wan to be taken from Tacoma to the atate penitentiary to serve a lone to 15-year sentence for burglary Frantically her jailers Wednesday she begged night to urge Superior Askren, at Tacoma, to she might cattle to attend the fun Jaxt-minute permission D. is grant Mra with tion with had been manslaughter here in the death of the In Justice of the ePace C. G. Dal ton’s court Wednesday the prose cuting attorney had the charge dis miswed and turned her over a peace officer who took her to Ta charged connec babe Primeau o }coma in which clty she was under | 15 r a suspended sentence of one to years, impo: in February burglary Gen. Wood to Speak at Noon, Saturday Tho there was some doubt Thurs day as to when Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood will arrive in Seattle Sat urday, it was believed he meeting at the Metropolitan tre at noon. There ia still the exact time if he in now seems probable, ing will be held. 7 liner Wenatchee, going to the Philippines, was to have salied Saturday morning, will be held long enough for Maj. Gen. Wood to make the noon address. The Wenatchee, at 11 a& m., probably will at 6 m. will public thea doubt of his arriva the forenoon, the noon meet to but as some as comes on which and he ts scheduled to sail leave P. “Under these circumstances I beg f you to do what vent 6 you can to pre ny further performances tak place, as T really ct ny more continental successes. “In B having lin several of my overwhelmingly ful Nothing can complimentary to an author. “I have not the heart to give you the Berlin figur I read of the ap preciation of the mark, but I assure you that I appreciate it a littl I do the Austria If it were not for the of it all I had far better my plays performed at all trust that the moral’ elevation uced by my plays may be suffi nt to offset the pecuniary dam: by the war to the unfortunat uthor, plays success be an revival more not have be done in her} the baby will be buried junseen by the mother. | nnot afford | EXECUTIONS “Death Farm” Owner Georgia Says He Is In- nocent of Killing A, SHELLNUT April 7——John Williams, proprietor of the Ja» per county “death farm,” on trial for took the witness etand to aay tm bin wn betatt } In unsworn statement to the jury told of a vinit of federal hiv place and their inves of alleged peonage condi BY E COVING oN, Ga., }8. he agents to Ugation tons, They told me nothing wrong—the they found was th carried a Yevolver.” they had found the worst thing t one of the boys Williams made a sweeping denial of knowledge as to how the three negr be was accured of slaying were killed. | “Hefore maid. As tor the other eight men killed Jasper county I will explain that natixfactorily at the proper time, he naid. Williams referred to Clyde Man |ning, who accuses him of srterma the murder of the negroes, as “negro who has been treated mighty | good.” “They must have done something to force him to make the statement he did,” said Wiliams | “ rpad tint negro ‘& thowsind times. jomeagl gona ghh gat gry ao He had no money and I paid bis | doctor bitia. “When the federal agents bad left my place, Manning appeared to be mad because I aid not uphold him in a le he told them. “He threatened then to ‘do some- 4, I am in Buried) thing.’ as he said the detectives had | told him he, as boss, was guilty of | working negroes under peonage con- ditions.” Villiama’ unsworn statement, un der Georgia laws, prevented counsel from questioning him. It also will give the defense counsel the last argument to the jury Williams declared he called all_of his negroes before him following @ visit of federal agents investigating alleged peonage conditions on his place WORKED NEGROES OUT ON BAL | “I told them told me I was technically | worked ny negroes whom bailed out of jail | “1 promised the detectives 1 would not work any more ‘jail birds” I |told the negroes to leave if they | wanted “All left my place except one He said he didn't have any money I gave him some money and my son carried him to the railroad station |I never saw any of them again.” $40,000 teudai in the detectives had able if 1] I had SAN FRANCISCO, April 7.—Forty thousand dollars in jewelry was se cured by bandits who staged a dar ing daylight robbery of the jewelry store of Morris Maisler on Valencia at. today | Maisler left the store at 10:30 a, m. deliver an order of goods. He locked the store when he left On Wis return 20 minutes later he |found the lock had been broken from the door and practically Jin the store had been taken Ace ing to Maisler, a $30,000 |necklace and a quantity of watches |rings, diamonds and other Jewels |were taken. Couple Crazed With Hunger Make Threat TACOMA, April 7.—Carl Benson and wife, Norwegian residents of McAleer Station, terday were 1 in the county Jail after they reported to have made threats » the John McAleer resid was thought that the couple were insane, but when an alienist board had examined them it was de cided that perhaps they had become from hunger and want ne Benson's related in broken nglish how they had gone, without » to pla: k success, from p! of work, obsession that some or against him and ts. pre from keeping a job. sent to the county servation, Six Dead; ; 30 Hurt in Train Wreck | SOMERSE April 7 Six | dead and 30 were injured when t Royal Palm limited passenger train of the Southern railway, went into the diteh at New River, Tenn., ‘yesterday, has a grudge The couple were hospital for ob are | Frisco Are Stolen! | tra” enting him | Pile in innocent,” he) | 1 have | | | everything | » in Search | | Benson appeared possessed with an TS IN SEATTLE — BOYS SET CHURCH AFIRE PLANTATION Winner Will Meet Gladys | B.ELWELL MAN DENIES May Become Lending Lady| CONFESSED ‘Youth Says Woman in Taxi| Seattle girls competing in The | the movies, Star-Universal $1,000 motion picture) Less than a year after her first actress contest will have the example | appearance she was playing title of a Portland girl before them when | roles. thelr first test films qre taken, some | Her first star part was that of the time within a week little circus girl in “Pink Tights.” The winner of the contest will! gince then she has appeared in meet the Portland star in Universal | «picky, Business." my oe City, and may compete with her for | Giri,” and “All Dolled Up. the title of leading lady in the Uni-| she has just completed and will versal lst. ‘next be seen in “Desperate Youth.” ‘The Portland girt is Gladys Wal-) | King county girls may enter the ton | $1,040 contest by filling out the ac- Less than two years ago she was) companying coupon, pasting it on going to a high school in the Ore-|the back of their photographs and gon metropolis, mailing to the Contest Editor, Se Her rise to stardom is one of the | attle Star. suddenest in motion picture annals.| ‘The winner will receive a ten- She had been cast for a small “ex: | weeks contract at $100 a week from * part in a comedy—a part that/the Universal Film Manufacturing called for a good swimmer and diver.|Co,, with traveling expenses paid She played it largely as a joke, |from Seattle and return, if the con- having no intention of remaining in'tract is not made permanent. ENTRY COUPON The Seattle Star-Universal Film $1,000 Motion Picture Actress Contest (Must be resident of King County, Washington) Occupation Place of Employment agree to abide by the rules of The Seattle Star-Universal Film Co. $1,000 contest, to appear for test films if and when I am called Gf it ts possible for me to do so), to go to Unifersal City for a 10-weeks' contract at $100 a week if I am selected as the final winner, my traveling expenses to Universal City to be paid, and my return expenses also to be paid if I do not obtain a perma. nent contract. Signature (Girla under 14 must have the following agreement filled out) signature to the above agreement T have witnessed, is under 18 years of age but has my permission to enter.The Seattle Star Universal Film Co, $1,000 contest and to fulfill the terms of the agreement as printed. BiSMature co ccccccceeecrereesseceserece eoeeeesenseeweres Relationship |5,000 Homeless less, a survey of the fire zone today : ° showed. in Fire at Tokyo) tic tire was the tiesest in Japan TOKYO, Apri 7.—Fire which yes-| since 1913, terday swept the Asakusa district | ‘The burned digtrict was composed of Tokyo destroyed 1,400 buildings |of poor, small houses, occupied by and rendered a total of 6,000 home-|the poorer classes WOMEN'S CLUBS IN STIR OVER ‘AFFRONT’ W. C. T. U., Churchmen and College President Join to End Exhibtiion Indignant church and club today declared war om Seattle's pret. tlest ankle! In round terms they denounced the prettiest ankle contest which is ber ing conducted this week at the auto show as a “disgrace to woman+ kind.” Fired by an attack made on the contest by Jerome Shaffer, a schook a Het jentertainer, speaking before the Pare ent-Teachers a lation at the Rainier school Wédnesday afternoon, they hastily Weyer a telephonic protest campaign today. TELEPHONE DEMANDS CONTEST BE STOPPED Under the able leadership of H. B. Sinton, 440 42nd ave. S., of church and women's organiza! were importuned to start all of their members telephoning to the head of the auto show, demanding that the _ ankle contest be stopped. Mi they announced that they Souls piel sonally attend the contest tonight confirm the reports they had “It Is terrible—simply awful,” Sinton said to The Star over phone today. “When Mr, called our attention to the fact terday afternoon that Seattle and women are parading behind screen, displaying their limbs to the contest and aroused the ta by his denunciation of it, MOVEMENT Grows LIKE A WHIRL Within an hour and : ait morning, Mrs, Sinton told The she had enlisted the sympath of pe club leaders, the W, T. U. and Mrs, Blanche Mason, of the wome: $ and girls’ prot division, These included Mrs. H. E. Mi secretary of the Federation of We en's clubs; Dr. Tiffany, president: Pacific college; Mrs. F. L. G. © a women's legislative worker; Rey, H. I. Chatterton, president the Seattle Ministerial associatio the secretary to the Rev. M. A. thews, and Mra. Jackson legislative representative of hoon Washington W. C. T, ey all denounced pond} the contest, Mrs. Sinton said that she attempt to have all these people tend the auto show tonight and the ankles on their own behalf, and that on the strength ofthis a publie mass meeting of protest might called later in the week, if it was cided a mass meeting would do good. Mrs. Silbaugh voluntarily phoned The Star today, “I wish to protest against the test M the name of my tion,” she said. “I have a fee that a show like this is entirely of place,” Miss Bolton, asked by The today what she thot of ankle tests, Mid “It depends altog upon how you logk at it, T su; She added: a . “I think it is perfectly all rigt if girls want to show thir ankles.” | Informed of the campaign the displaying of ankles, she said: “Don't they show them on street every day?" Call Bloodhounds Off Convict C MONROE, Wash, April 7. Though the bloodhounds have b recalled, a posse is still searching fe ‘Tom Sullivan, a trusty at the formatory, who took “French leave from the reformatory farm early terday. There have been no ae ; to which direction he took, co i to reformatory officials, It is lieved he has escaped completely. SAN FRANCISCO, April 7.—Four Chinese tongs went back to again today with the expiration their truce last night. One casualty thus far bas been re. ported. Cheu Wah was killed at. Belmont, near here, during the night? _ The four tongs which took up their guns again last night are Jung Yings, Suey Dons, Hop Sings and Bing Kongs.