The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 6, 1921, Page 24

UNIVERSITY THE SEATTLE STAR Resembles Priscilla Dean MONTANAWILL ‘GARTERS r GFOR | BURIED GOLD Scientific Assistance Given Search for Spaniards’ Hidden Treasure BERKFLrY, cal, May 6. that everalturing will o” the wisp buried treasure. Probably the most dramatic bunt treasure trove in modern times on \ Linking it with the gripping old/ Gales of fiction is the character of the lone prospector, picking bis way thru dosert hills in the Imperial val. | Mey, there to stumble upon that good "friend of all treasure taloa—the time: | faded papers, preserved in a roll of ‘animal skin. ‘UNIVERSITY TAKES UP SEARCH Bot right there all connection with @geOld traditions comes to an end, nd the tale swings into its modern at the University of California with Professor Herbert E. Of the department of history, as character, Into the office of Professor Bob fon there came the other day John Mayerof?, a young prospector, with BR Fecord of more disappointments than successes to his history. May- — brought with him three faded torn pieces of document. Time i made almost illegible the writing done in Spanish—-and the crude that one of the bits of paper “I was prospectin’ down in the Im. _ perial valley, way down In the south. | @astern end of California, when 1/ found this thing underneath a big Fock," the prospector explained sim “I took it to the village of Pot and some fellows translated it/| said it was a chart to some treasure.” “Mayeroff was skeptical. Fate had “Pooled him too often. He had been | ‘told that Prof. Bolton was one of the experts on early Spanish _ Exploration in the world, so he had to him. ‘CE ON 40B _ And right there and then science ‘Went on the trail of buried treasure. With all the equipment of a great @piversity laboratory at his com- the professor went to work. Photomicrograph, the chemistry south: end of California today with Mod. | @rn science has gone on the trail of Bot | Seattle Girl Is “Double 9 man who will pay Aileen Sevener, Seattle girl (above); Priscilla Dean, Uni- versal star (below). When Miss Sevener had been made up the same as Miss Dean, the judges eliminated Miss Sevener from the $1,000 contest because she looked too much like the Universal actress. * * * Early in The Star-Univerm! Film company contest it heeame apparent to the judges that among the nearly 1,000 contestants there were several girls who strikingty resemble screen stars already Since it was the object of the con test to discover if possible an alto- gether new star for filmdom, these “doubles” were scratched from the semi-finals, tho in several instances the judges were loath to do so, * * * 8 * And there ts no doubt that Mins Sevener would have been put tn the semifinals had it not been for her resemblance to Priscilla Dean. Some of those connected with the contest thought she looked little enough like Mise Dean to be entered in the semifinals anyway, so Miss Sevener was put to the crucial tort. | With several other “doubles” she | was taken to the studio and made | Up after the same fashion that Mle | Dean was made up for “Reputation.” + Little Miss Aileen Sevener, for tn. She was posed in one of Mins Dean’ =| * oe, was found to be a remark-|ponea, and the camera proved the | gn ayes i pear able “double” for Priseifla Dean, | judges were right. She does took | “enough gold to Universal star, who will be seen next | like Priscilla Dean. of 60 week at the Clemmer theatre in| Semi-final contenders were notified | decks horses | -eputation,” |ty telephone yesterday afternoon to university | Miss Sevener resides at 9025 60th | report at The Star at 10 a m. to-| of the early |2¥* S Her mother maid if Aileen | day. | 26th century which |@4 not win the $1,000 contract to| The judges interviewed them, ask- | expedition which set |P'4¥ {9 pictures, the prize offered in| ¢d them fill jout a questionnaire, had 553 and traveled |""* contest, she would take her/ them panoramaed by the moving pio | of how daughter to Los Angeles anyway to ture camera, and began the work of Frenchmen | ‘TY out for the movies. | grading them for the finals, Beare puree comvines| UJ, S, FIGURES DON’T JUSTIFY STEEL TRUST'S WAGE SLASH! d fabulous wealth, CH WASHINGTON, May 6—Government figures on the cost of Uving o} Bixty horses and mules were loaded | t Justify the 20 per cent decrease in wages announced by the United | with gold and silver from the | St@tes Steel corporation, Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Fed and the expedition resumed its | ©Ttion of Labor, said today. ‘An encounter with Indians | The average cost of living tn January of this year was 100 per cent d which resulted in every |Ngher than in 1913, these figures show, he said. During the first three | of the party being slain, but | months of this year the price reduction on food products composing 28 | Until the treasure was buried and | Per cent of the family budget was 12 per cent. Only by working overtime te directions for its recovery | °#n the steel workers hope to make up the deficit between wages and the) ‘the location of the mine written | Cost of living, Marrtson said, | buried under a rock. Prof. Bolton declares there ts no vie pn edad T cosgpart of the documents; they tten ae lean oxt-aeck on, Paper and bear every proof of ess. King of Siam Has Plenty of Heirs CONSTANTINOPLE, May 6— the Siamese royal dynasty is in no @anger of dying out even if the king _ @ticks to his intention of remaining ‘@ bachelor. For the king has 70 brothers! ‘The king's father had 90 wives and grandfather had between and 3,000 wives. ‘The news that the king has decided to remain single follows his an- motncement cancelling his engage ment to Princess Vajiraoudh on ac- count of the girl's ill-health. {EASY FOR HIM 7,000 | : QUAKERS ACTIVE IN RELIEF WORK LONDON, May 6~—The Friends —or Quakers as they’re known tn America—are healing many of the wounds that war made in Europe. ‘The Quakers alone, of all outside agencies, have been permitted to ‘send working representatives with | food and drugs across the border into suspicious Russia, English Quakers are helping to feed young and needy students in 20 Ger- man universities and high schools, American Quakers are feeding up | wards of 700,000 European children | daity. In Austria the Quakers are collabo- | rating with the American Relief Com. mission. Smallest Chinaman Sues for Freedom LAPORTE, Ind, May 6.—This ts about a divorce. ‘The long and short of ft is that Che Wah, smallest man in the world, has | sued his wife, who is more than three | times as tall, charging that she aban doned him, Che Wah, 28 inches tall, traveled with a cireus until 10 years ago as the Mongolian Tom Thumb. | Hie weighs 40 pounds, is 83 years old, and wealthy. | His wife is nearly six feet. She married Wah after his first wife had | died. A son by his first wife grew to be a normal-sized man. Judge Pennington has taken the| ENGLAND SEES — HEAVY BURDEN LONDON, May 6.—Bngtishmen cannot have any relief from present high taxation for at least 20 yearn, says James Parker, junior lord of | the treasury. “National debts and expenditures are very hard to get down,” says Parker. “In the 100-year period, from the battle of Waterloo up to! 1914, Britain's national debt had been reduced only three-tentha, “We live in speedier times, and our capacity for reducing debt with our enormousty increased pro- ductive power is much greater, but Parker thinks that the cost of| running the British government dur. | Ing the next decade will be at least $5,000,000,000 a year, A sponge superior to animal spon- ges comes from the dried fruit of a vine in the flat lands of Ecuador. WANTED: BURGLAR; MUST KNOW HOW TO SIMMY’ A WINDOW Lucile Brown will have to take with her a burglar accustomed to Jimmying windows when she re turns to Medical Lake, Altho the Women's Industrial Home and Clinic at Medical Lake closed its doors when Governor case Under aay Isement. Neck Broken, but He| Walks About, Cured) LONDON, May 6-~-lL. Mennie, 70, has a broken neck, but he walks about the streets of Hoxton like any eorge Washington Tecum- seh Sherman Jackson Simp- son, porter at an Avalon ho- ‘tel, "has achieved fame for his ability to put a regulation , baseball in his mouth without ‘batting an eye. other man. Paralysis set in after | the accident. It was treated suc cessfully and doctors say Mennie’ life will not be short antic Judge in Praise o of Empty Courtroom) LONDON, May 6-—In opening the Westmoreland county court Jus-| tice Atkins congratulated the county | on its immunity from crime of suf. ficient importance to come before him. . Hart vetoed its appropriation, the institution still exists and Lucile Brown, committed there by Jus. tice of the Peace C, Dalton after conviction on a vagrancy charge, must be sent to the home, That is the ruling of Judge Everett Smith Thursday on the petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought by Attorney Adam Beeler, in behalf of Miss Brown, because she has been held at the county jail awaiting traveling rds longer than the law allows ases like hers, Judge Smith intimated his will ingness to appoint a guard if the request is made, He suggested that section 13 of the administra tive code provides for the ad. yancement of funds to an institu tion established by the people when the funds run short, -WHY DO MEN LET ’EM FRAZZLE OUT? ide.” BY AILEEN CLAIRE “Why do men never buy garters | un the old ones absolutely fall) Execution ot" This was HANG PRISONER: the weighty and mys | terious question that I hurled at KR. A. Lefebre, who selis ties and Is First Legal Since 1905 Bh V. D's and green caps at the | Hatton-Oliver shop on Beeond ave MISSOULA, Mo: May ¢.—The firwt Iegnt hanging in Misnoula since!" jie brushed a fly speck off the| advertisement of the handsome| young devil in the Arrow collar. | s | "It's @ deep question,” he an Ane | wered; “and that has long worried the haberdashery § frater nity.” “Are 1905 will take place May 27 Curtounly enough, the same sheriff who 16 years ago made the a ee monte for the last executions, has been reelected and will spring the trap again this month. garters haberdashery? wear’ ‘em out jon't wear B. ¥ 1 hope you kne er Koen NOW | NEVER HAVE TROUBLE KEEPH) A SOCK ON THIS — Well D's oF vw what T mean around boasting ght a new palg that he haw Just be fact, 1 nurprised to on note! er That seem to gel They don’ queried. ot exactly | related.” “Well, why they Joseph Vuekovich, a Syrian, tn tbe] but they're closely the penalty for torrid ties and scintillating #ox pro fusely, but when to the graceful garter, it comen murder, they 2 He was convicted on Aprit| Mra, Jerry She eve mother of three small children, The | shooting took place on one of Mis ‘em unt Etat y don't 4 ‘em? wait nosedive men buy of shooting They soula's principal down-town strests Jealousy i» said to have been the! motive. Vuckovich, ance his convtetion, has exhibited no dread of the future. He baa slept well, according to jail authorities, and has maintained a} cheerful demeanor | The last legal hangings here oo ocurred in 1905, when seven men PREE | silastic about being eaten and keeps The cartes ever lets anything | hin shells cloned together. et into his stomach. He turns his| Hut the starfish has other ideas stomach inside out and persuades it) The pull of his sucker feet upon the to surround and digest his food. musnel’s shell is not very strong by five Indians and two whites—were| ‘The things he eats are mainty| human standards but it is very con put to death at the same time. Will | mussels, clams and similar two-shell: | stant m Houston, now reelected, was the | ed shellfish, | UlUmately the munsel opens his iff in charge, When @ starfish catches much a| shell @ trifle to take a peek or gut ” shellfish he bends his arms abont|a breath of water and it sayw open kes hold of the shell with the|by just that much. The starfish treds of little wucker feet that|has got his toe tn the crack Wednesday at her home, 1418 37th|cover the lower surface of each) J’resently he guins another hun ave, were held at Bonney Watson's | arm. }dredth of an inch and keeps pulling. at 10 a. m, Friday | Usuntty the mussel ts not enthu-! Where food ts concerned he is as FUNERAL SERVICES for Mre | and Eliza Ellen Fleeheart, 65, who died | bu IedseriaeL Ceaten er their Perhaps the re not article 1 in that gar are of adornm pury in purely uwtiitt tere Their The Starfish Is a Wise Little Animal; If Hungry He Sends Stomach Out to Din patient as a cat at a rat hole and when he haa once got hold musele it is all over but the fu around the shell of the hapless mus) of a| sel who is being deve surface of this protrud- there oozes a fluid ithe 4 it is this fluid e digesting, 4 dige 1 the food is taken up by the stomach membrane much in nary stomachs which re- onventionally inside the And this predatory stomach 8 a thorough job of it. hen a starfish is thro with a wel the inside of the shell is as an as tho scoured with a brush, oured. ral m the Bo soon ns the mussel nach the fight and opens up a the wtarfish begins stomach, Thin ts located on the underside ot the central portion of tt fit 4 ordinarily it ts tucked rt “It you are so fortunate esto find a starfish in the act of dining you) m will ¢ the membrane which is the stomach thrust out from the cavity which usually holds it and into or ndone ether to operate bis Once main house ah Drawn from life for Fahey-Brock- man, to show variety of models and types to be had at our Great Up stairs Stores, y a IN \ mM Noy a u MA Don’ t Put Off Buying—You’ll Not Bettey + Either the Price or the Clothing No Matter How Long You May Wait or Where You May Go SPRING SUITS = “” $20 HIGHER THAN 4 OVERCOATS $40 with our usual upstairs saving of $10. 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