The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 21, 1921, Page 1

Miss Frankie Kiolet. (Photo by Price & Carter, Star staff photographers.) w VOLUME 23 | Weather Tonight and Sunday, fair; moderate westerly Temperature Last 3 Hours Maximum, 66. Today noon, 62. mds. Minimum, 46. Frankie Kiolet wins The Star-Unt versal Film company $1,000 moving picture content. The girl who goes to Universal City this summer to play 10 weeks in|“JUST MISER, the movies at a weekly salary of /'M SO HAPPY” $100, is one of a struggling family So, when she waa told she had of eight children, the daug won the contest, that she was as | hard working Hatlard mille: |wured of $109 every week for 10 sister of a Vallant overseas veteran | Weeks and a chance to go on up and of the world war |up In the movies and become @ great Bhe ts a girl Seattle may be proud star—the great star, perhaps—a! Cedar Mills, thelr combined wages| were no more than suffictent to keep up expenses and drive away want. Ale, of without stint—«weet, lovely, lov-|lump came into her throat and tears | able, demure, petite, Parisian, shy To her the contest has been a/before she could speak and say: | wondrous fairy tale Last winter,| “Oh, I am so happy! I guess I'm when her father was out of wo it/the happiest girl in the whole world. was her wages from the Washington | I'm so happy I'm—Just miserable, theatre, where she was cashier, that/I'mn so happy.” | kept the family going, paid the| The judges told her several days monthly installments on their home|ago, just after they had given The at 7339 Diet ave, N. W., the taxes, | Bt their “sealed verdic the grocery and butcher bills |not to be opened until Saturday I as a burner It becamé obvious at once that! the winner must be Informed, that | en when Mr, Kiolet foun work der at the Seattle plans for her shopping tour and fare well reception might proceed and ar. rangements be made for her depart ure South, But the announcement was much for her, Her happiness, rush of business, the glaring Ii at the studio where she worked b fore the camera nearly all one night all these things played her out. Yesterday she was unable to leave her bed, Her shopping tour, plan Into her eyes and it was a long time |Ned for today, had to be postponed until Monday, and all her schedule in like manner, was disrupted. DECISION REACHED WEDNESDAY EVENING Wednesday evening the reached their unanimous agreement and gave their verdict. sprung as 4 surprise Accordingly, On the Issue of Americanism There-Can-Be No Compromise Batered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of Congress March SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1921. The Seattle Star 4, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 too the judges |appeared tired Reluctantly | t” that was|the next day they allowed it to be) tired to another room. Alonzo Vietor | unsealed on the promise that it be| Lewis, the sculptor, who had served | into the contest conductor | make <—SHE’S THE WINNER! UNASSUMING LITTLE GIRL WINS GREAT MOVIE PRIZE! went to the Washington theatre at 717 First ave, where Frankie wag seated in the ticket window, ag Hed and told her the judges er and several other xisia to report at The Star at 8:30 that evening, Just before $:30/ tho Jodges and her contest offtciaig"iathered at The Star. At 8:20 she came, She came alone, weartng the sim- ple little blue drest and plain blue hat that she herself had made, the |mme she had worn each time she had been called for test films. She mniled |bashfully to a chair in a corner, She It was quite plain she had not guessed. The judges and other officials re as one ef the judges, was asked to the announcement WOULDNT | BUY SOAP. | 100 S| Strike While Tax Mr. Home Owner, NOW Is Chance fo r Square Deal! ee roe a itled to a square deal. tax, revision hyly as she entered and went | when| Frankie was brought in. “My heart's in my throat,” he auld, “at Ih Ao it.” f He and the contest conductor went out: to where the winner, | waited, just gs she had done % times during the contest pi HADNT EXPECTED SHE WOULD WIN At no time had she would win. “Where are the other’ girls?” she asked. “Sore of them here before 1 .do.* “They'll be along,” the~ conductor | lied again. “We'll have to go ahead without them,” Lewis added. “If you'll just? step in, Miss Kiolet.” The conductor opened the door the judges’ room. The girl |came forward, hesitated, paled a Hit” (Turn to Pages, Column 2) Ph ey wort't sat. that, 901 anti] the tax, ino is called, and ac The convening of th makers will not prevent the’ city council, the county com- missioners, the school board, and the port commission from reducing ¢xpenses in their various departments. "Tie EXPECTED IS HAP | GIVEN JOBS er wr sondgala ef “rath~ gr rma a ae beca his es' - Husband Balked at $ 1-125 Ex-Service Men singliaal ee use wealth is not in real estate or mer. chandise. Cars. of Merchandise \ ing Dime, Wife Says; Chil- dren Go Unwashed Refusal of Clyde Matthews to give his wife 10 cents to buy a cake of s0ap with which to wash the chil- dren's faces for school, wrecked his don't @ay by day, and in 600,700, 900 fhowmna Sears its light will| woman gets divorce be Friend Husband wouldn't sive ‘a dime for a cake of soap, Still, Mrs. Elizabeth Matthews wept bit- terly on the witness stand Friday rel had prepared the way. Her story ied to a discussion be. tween court and witness as to the disposition of her children. “The juvenile department has placed them with a public welfare organization to offer for adoption,” anybody ts likely to slip up on /she said. Work ‘Since Friday Thru Star Campaign ‘The century mark was passed 1 The Star's campaign to end unem ployment among World War veter- ans of Beattle when Mise Laura C. Curwell, assistant to the adjutant of RainierNople post, American Legion, reported Saturday that 25/ mote exservice men had been pro vided jobs since Friday noon. This makes a total of 103 jobs| filled during the week At the same time Miss Curwell re ported 19 more veterans listed for work. They are: Norman FE. Mitchell, Presser, tailor shop. Beacon 513, | |make any statement to the contrary LIE, and they lie de- In fear of a special session which would give home and property owners the same square deal as in New York and! California and a score of other states, the deceptive and wholly unfounded assertion is being repeated that it would pass the buck from local officials to our state legislators. NOTHING IS FARTHER FROM THE TRUTH. The meeting of the state legislature can in no sense in- terfere with the reduction of expenses locally. Those who |liberately and with malice aforethought. The tax problem 1s too important, its solution has too di- rect a bearing upon the prosperity of our state and city, to be screened by false and misleading propaganda. Our taxes are high or low because of two facts: 1. The cost of government—the overhead—the operating expenses—salaries, rents, improvements, interest on bonds. The sources of income—the tax system. 2. . VERY EFFORT must be exerted to secufe every pos- sible cut. homes and personal property. A Indeed it means that unless The Star dedicates itself to this task fully as much as to the convening of a special session. There is no conflict between the two. then levied upon ALL classes of wealth, not merely on session NOW means two years saved—at least. Costs must be cut—and it is called now, there is dan- ger of getting no tax revision at all for 10 years or more. Strike, Mr. Home Owner, hot! NOW, while the tax fires are If you delay, you may never get the square deal you are entitled to. Beware of the smoke-screeners. Don’t be sidetracked. You've got to have the 5) or you will remain, beyon ial session of the legislature, the peradventure of any doubt, es you have been heretofore— Robbed in Organized At- tack on N. Y. Central NORTH TONAWANDA, N. May 21—Bandits today stopped & westbound fast freight on the York Central railroad on the born branch near here, held the fi vervece’ round tele a? ee volvers, robbed cars valued at tases che coompel: a About 26 bandits took part in holdup-and six motor trucks were, used to haul away the loot. r The train was stopped as it going up a heavy grade. The 26 dits were all armed and the was easily overpowered, The robbers stopped the train funy 45 minutes to remove the Seventeen cars were broken and when the train reached cake of soap. ‘The court was puzzled. Walter Anderson, $13 Third ave} Qur local officials cah deal, and MUST, with the firgt. It Lock- by “Did t to that?” J W,, truck driver. “ , Twenty-six bandits held up one| Frater ee) Ce: TE eee Seecinnin. 10le Boyiston 18 their duty to reduce the overhead to the lowest possible | THE TAX GOAT! = ier, it Sas eenretiat by raik @on't send out as many trains now ms they used wt . ’ sharply. “That was the man,” Mra. Mat machinists helper. G. A. Murphy, 801 Union st, pile That’s only part of the tax solution, however. The other part is to see that the overhead is borne by STUDY TAXES train, says news dispatch today.| “No,” she replied. ave., time keeper, stock room clerk,|point. The cost of government must be slashed, and slashed | 5 ‘Gosh! Another profession getting Divorce Proctor Eugene Meacham| William H. Milroy, 1722 Boren/deeply. Taxpayers are in no mood to tolerate ANY extrav- | 4 “overcrowded! Or is it because they | interrupted to make matters clear, | V6. farmer. | agance “Who was George?” ho asked A. Rounds, 1912 Minor ave., - HARD LIKKER| thews replied, “that I ra @river engineman. , t py oe with.” F ewey Th C. Calvert, Yesler hotel, store |@Veryone who should bear it—and the legislature alone can Lone nae Holds 7 Bay mone apne She was granted a divorce. man. remedy the present defects in this respect. A comprehensive study of the tax Liquor—whether he drank it or U Ove: land M . Sietit cold tn the ‘hind: Dean L. Andrew, 1421 13th ave., ae ation problem will be undertaken by | whether he didn't—is the big ques-| Pp bate ca i My ~ " book binder. i $ | RAM. lay i abe wretery eres. Loses Proposal, Cheater Hi. Burch, 310 Biaine st, |7TMHE SECOND PART of the tax problem is the one that |‘’.ccsuon or tnsincers. ‘ia was| vorce cane of fan C Carlnon and Cari |wuthorities and sheriff's and police The mighty sneeze. Girl Ends Life 2%; eee ba17 rightn ave certain: influences now seek to cover up. They don’t |decided at a meeting held Friday) 1 Cartoon, being heard by John D spread toxgptigation of the Sobel Zhe awful headache. iends. |.NEWARK, N. J., May 21—Mre. | weai'cemens or brick work. “w*|want it mentioned. They don't want it discussed. They're )mir contemplates four de-|Jurey, sitting as special judge in the |of the maiiear of the Southern Pa: * Peee thet Galt wick. Mabel Connelly, 19, committed sul-| George W. Brandon, 2806 Dear.|afraid of it. And they have a reason to be. For years) ities research, budget, taxa.| superior court cific Overtan Limited near, New: ® pollen serum shot in the arm. | = . Caete theatre here ater El- born st, brakeman, logging road |they have looked upon Washington as the easy mark among |tjon and administration. A central! yfrs. Carlson instituted the action, Noeaknast soe al in sheriff's and. Phe gore arm. oe proponal of marriage. . Fetused) J. V ne hae 7702 16th ave. /the states of the Union because of its lax taxation system. | committee of 12 is be organized, ciatming her husband drank ‘exces-| pee pease are Suriuile tee % . rons variou cee see — ——— Webb, 4123 W. Etmgrove| The man who lives at the Arctic club and receives an | aike ot life, men fromm curious | sively, flew into violent rages which |robber, who overpowered Mail Clerk Tear ener am Struck on Head | b *; anything, drives Chevrolet. income of $50,000 a year from stocks and bonds and bank |have an attorney and a business | ;tujred men, to held him and that! Ralph Decker. sorted over the Si y Roy W. White, Liberty hotel, | ing id t ti t, di *t kel of Pring Tree. ‘The association | N° has frightened co-tenants of/ bags of first-class mail carried, and pehtier sneeze. Fragment ofa Saw| aubseian, dineelk Utdien comtet: jin erest, and mortgage interes‘ rey pay verge pros Logi hep ort 10 per cent of | teir house near Fort Lawton as|escaped with seven bags filled with muttered curses: Struck on the head by a piece of | Edward Police, 4649 Lucille st, |taxes for local purposes. The man who owns a § OME, | il rcventer towards. this work. | PUdly as he has scared her. mail after forcing Decker to stop tie continued headache. grouch. sneeze. Hay fever! injured. jSardner, janitor, warehouseman. . be an executive secretary, clerks, e - . The accident occurred at the com.| Wm. M, Mahoney, 3110 Ferdinand | if the tax agitation is confined only to a demand upon local | quaitors, accountants and statisti. — ba ines wala ahaa Weis the Ste Gon dasa ANOTHER SLICE OF THE OLD |pany’s mill in Fremont Friday night. |": €XPert packer household goods; | officials to reduce taxes. But when the tax agitation goes |cians who will be on pay P y y Le ing val HAM (Vincennes, Indy Commercial.) A I%pound son was born yester @ay to Mr. and Mrs. Hershel! Hamn ds out the cigars. Mother and are doing fine. vee At this season of the -year the neighbors’ chickens are heartity in favor of open gardens openly ar rived at. F. P. A. calls attention, in his just ly-celebrated Conning Tower, to the fact “that the fellow who wears facts, but we have noticed that chaps | who wear those 0-0 glasses frequent | dy part their monickeré on the left) wide. oUc bug house now holds Mrs. Pratt, | Bhe's nutty, there's no doubt; Gone from this life In Abner Beck | He asked his wife | To shave hig neck. broken saw, Harold Coon, 21, em. ploye of the Bryant Lumber Co., in Lakeside hospital possibly fatally Coon is 82319 28th unmarried and ave. N. Shows at the Theatres OU will find com- in the advertising columns of The Star today. This is just another instance of the way the ads can be of servict to you. ently. lives at | machinery salesman, warehouse and |construction laborer. Wm. Phillip Dowle, 210 W. Lee st., truck driver, H. BE. Ammerman, 752 N. {auto mechanic, truck driver. Louls Wand, 1515 Boren ave., store 88th st., fi romance refuses to be barred. We're becoming a matrimonial bureau in addition to several other |things,” smiled Lindley as he told the story Seven months ago there were in Seattle @ young veteran and his |eweetheart. One day the young man moved suddenly, and before he ca ed the girl to tell her of the change, | she, too, had gone to another address ‘Then the young woman, in read ing the lists of unemployed veterans printed In The Star, came across her | sweetheart's name, She immediately | went to Adjutant Lindley and waa riven her fiance's telephone number. ‘They have arranged to meet Sun- day. Sheriff Smith would arrest him. “I voted for Smith and just wondered | if he'd do his duty,” Mead said. Suiith did, | | |that is $150 a year more than’the rich slacker. | tho it may be mortgaged to the hilt, pays $150 a year. And Naturally, the wealthy slacker isn’t worried in the least farther, when it begins to center attention on a vital sore| spot, when revision of the tax SYSTEM is demanded, when | a special session of the legislature is urged, then he begins And the smoke screen is erected. It is then you hear this specious, unrighteous, selfish plea: “Never mind tax revision. local expenses.” All that’s necessary is to cut S AN INSULT to your intelligence, Mr. Home Owner. This sort of thing is the same sop that has been thrown at you year after year. A showing will be made that the | But you must not be satisfied with it. You must not be| jsatisfied with anything that puts you at a disadvantage with the home owners in New York, and in California, and in Oregon, and in a score of other states. You've been the goat long enough. Whenever tax revis- ion was attempted in the legislature, heretofore, it was killed in committee. The real tax slackers were able to do} \cause the eyes of the whole state would be upon them. And |that’s why they are shaking in their boots at mention of a special session, | While the committees to be organ-| the central committee will ers, there will ized by be composed of volunt The woes of the homeowner were presented at a meeting in the old Ballard city hall Friday evening. A. M. Fritz, executive secretary of tect, called attention to the growth of school costs. Tong Men Attack and Fire Building SACRAMENTO, May 21.—Chinese tong war in Northern California took a more serious turn when today more than 60 members of the Hop Sing tong cornered a group of Bing and began shooting into the burning | building. Oil Strike Rumor at Forks Denied Report that a rich oil strike had been made at Forks, Wash., 18 miles rumor was started by Seattle persons who were visiting the vicinity of Forks, Extensive oil prospecting is being carried on in that district. Carlson, in his answering affidavit, sets forth that he is an exceptionally industrious and well-behaved man. He exploits the subject of drinking on the day before Christmas, when I came in from the woods drenched with rain, I have taken a few sips of blackberry wine which my wife made from berries on our premises. h Mary B. Frund. The| clerk. to wince. begins to worry. And the shoe begins | the Voters’ Information League, -pre- dy The mother was Mary oo With all the work that Is coming | . And he beg ¥ e e he general conditions, and| /,<7eex {t because she was eo proud Was only on this possibility tial aa father ‘9 a well-known meat cutter N ; - |to pinch. sented the « 4 of her product and I wanted to please | holdup would have netted the bandit and has a smile that takes as he ew into Adjutant Hervey Lindley’s of- James Stephens, former school archi-| anything, King belleves. He asserts that only a small quan- tity of whisky is in the house, and that is there because a woman friend of his wife brought it there, explain- ing that a man representing himself as a federal prohibition agent had | given it to her after he had arrested some men loading liquor on a boat. Carlson is a metal trades worker. He and his wife were married in Portland in 1913. They have a 6- fynthetic porcelain collar usually has plete information to live, In the meantime, both ved |tax levy had been cut a few mills, and you'll be expected to |jongs in a general, merchandise | year-old son. Many spectators are | cat, then quickly go thru 21 sacks of his neck shaved rough. about the new shows || !n Seattle, but could not find each |ie satisfied, etote at Locke, set fire to the store} at the hearing. mail, picking out letters and pack- Which may or may not adhere to other, ¥ . ages that seemed to contain valu- Two More Confess to Bombing Plot CHICAGO, May 21.—Two new confessions fronf men accused in connection with the bombing and slugging plots in Chicago's labor She changed her mind #0 often that POISE OTR ND a |from Port Angeles, circulated in/ troubles, were announced by police! ramento. An automobil Bhe wore the diame thing out. Read th BERTHOUD, Colo—Lorin Mead's|that in REGULAR sessions, when a multitude of other |socttie saturday, was denied by | today. ing at the side of the snail arigha see Real em con- only excuse for stealing an automo-|measures served them as smoke screens. In a special S€S- | representatives on the spot. As| James Sweeney, leader of the! the bandit threw the car door open, AU REWARD sistently and persist- bile was that he wanted to see if}sion they couldn't get away with it quite that easy, be-|nearly as can be ascertained, the! gang which bombed scores of build-| Ry the light shed from the interior |ings here, and Andrew Bartlett, ac- [eas of being the chief bomber, Fitamorris Postal Inspector Lewis of San Francisco has been going over the Ust of mail said to be in the car at uable from the car it was purely by accident,” stated King. : Currency or checks might have’ been sent in the mail without the letter having been registered and it The robber boarded the train jelther at Roseville or Sacramenta, |As the train sped east, he entered the mail coach thru the end doom, Mail Clerk Decker says he was sore ing mail at the time, when he was |struck on the head with a blackjack, bound and gagged and rolled on the floor. Helpless, Decker watched the ban- | dit lock both end doors of the mail ables, He made this selection with- in 10 minutes, Decker sad, and put his selections in seven mail sacks, Suddenly looking at his watch, the bandit ordered Decker to arise and pull the emergency cord. The train groaned to a stop a mile east of Newcastle, 25 miles from Sac of the car he had just robbed, the — bandit tossed the seven mail confessed, Chief of Police Charles| into the automobile and its . announced. aped away.