The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 24, 1921, Page 1

Tonight yx § {ilk VOLUME 23 Greetings: Have you a job for a Veteran of an auto for the Decora- tion Day parade? eee “Germans Fighting With Poles,” gays headline. Not so deadly as with canes With posse in pursuit, Everett quartet is heading towards Canada by heck eee ‘The democrats still have a chance, Declares Bij Jennings Bryan; ‘They've lost thelr shirt, but not their | pants, ‘Their tears they'll now be dryin’. eee “Prisoners Saw Way to Liberty,” @ays headline. or ertet eyesight? ee ‘They spend as much as we do in Castor oil will never be a popular | Medicine until it is necessary to get & doctor's prescription and feel wick- ed while taking it. 7 ee “Dig heah cost o° livis “says Man- @y Morgan, “is gettin’ somethin’ aw- ful! Would you believe me, a single Dear Home Brew: What has be. ome of the automobile thieves who pry bed steal cars? I've been read- he papers carefully and every time I hear of a car being stolen I've hurried around there and left mine in that very spot. But up to date nobody has offered to tkae it. ‘What would you advise me to do? AMOS TASH. oee PSALM OF LIFE—FROM CRADLE TO THE GRAVE Carried. Married. Harried. Buried. eee Rather late to call your attention to it, but a colyum is only a coylum, and we can't publish everything in a day. But what we started out to way was that one day last week While it was raining and the streets siris cross the strpet. fushed boldly across, while the other hesitated. One wore silk hose. ‘The other did not. Guess which one hesitated. You are right. eee IT ORTA BE THERE, ANYHOW The modest pussy ,willer Nods by the babbling brook; We say #0 just for a filler—* We haven't been down to look. eee Every small town has a genius who imagines he can repair his own ‘watch with a pocketknife. see A married rounder usually has a hard time trying to square himself, according to Police Judge Gordon. ose OUT OF SIGHT Classical Dancer—Doctor, I want to be vaccinated; somewhere it won't show. * Doctor—My dedr young lady, I'm) afraid I will have to do it Iinter- pally. Be A LITTLE OVER TWO FEET Dear Homebrew: What “is the proper length of a girl's dress? ANXIOUS MOTHER. $6 A WEEK PENSION FOR MOTHER OF 28 EW ORLEANS, La., May 24 Any woman who hag 24 chil dren #hould be pensioned by the state This was the comment of Judge Andrew H. Wilson of the juvenile gourt when Mr«, Angelina Dyer. deother of 24 children, told her story and asked that Lewis Dyer, 48, father of the children, be com pelled to support the youngest living child, 14. The only pension Judge Wilson could give Angelina wag $6 « week alimony, which he ordered Lewis to pay. ee Quartet hasn't got to the quarts yet. were rather sloppy, we observed two | One of them) Weather and fair; moderate west- erly winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 71. Today noon, 65, Wednesday, Minimum, 53. Here are comparative costs PER PERSON in Seattle and San Francisco for 1919, the latest official figures: SEATTLE SAN FRANCISCO ory pau r “ “ THE TOTAL TAX KATE, HOWEVER, WAS: ort 1.09 Seattle San Francisco 33 ‘35 $26.47 $12.05 60 end The operating expenses were practically the same in the two cities. od ia But the tax rate was more than twice as high in Seattle 8.05 - Why? Because the home owner Is the gout here, and so is the owner Street Lighting 1° of personal property, and so is the owner of any real estate, or ma Municipal Courts m4 chinery, or merchandise, They pay ALLL the taxes here In San Fram Superior Courts ... of cisco, other forms of wealth ALSO pay, In New York, the income tax Sheriff .......... ‘ . the property tax. Mothers’ Pensions .. 0 pr Mined " Seattle pays lees for police, fire, health and park work than San Fran It pays more for schools, library, garbage collection, and superior It pays less for municipal court work and street lighting. figures, They are the latest official fgures. practically apply this year. clseo, court. These figures are the 1 The same comparisons wi SON On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Batered as Second Clase Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of Congre: STAR REPORTER, GETS BIG STORY Interviews Girl Detective Who Is Help- ing Rid Seattle of Dope Traffic Frankie Kiolet, winner of The Star Universal Film company picture contest, was The Star's star reporter to find the mysterious unknown girt White been smashing Seattle's write a series of artiries for The Star. She like a veteran, and this is her story: s BY FRANKIE KIOLET FOUND THE GIRL today who has _ pe sl up the drug ring here. and she carries a gun. eto of her work she does in Chinatown, but she lives) a nice apartment in a big hotel uptown, 7 That’s where! talked to her this morning. moodiately com npecr poighe ogry now that I had found her, ing how she had gone down into drug dens to many drug peddlers and broken up several rings of white men and Orien tals who were seiling narcotics even to young boys and girls, TELLS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FADDLE PLAYER She was leaving town, she said, and would do day she would tell me what happened to the fiddle player late last night. The fiddie player ig in Jail. He fell into Mixa Several days ago the grew suspicious of him. him. She was convinced he was selling dope. Meeting him face to face on a street corner him. She wished to buy some. He would sell. Last night he was to make the delivery. Miss Dulsac's agent would see Hung waa to hurry to the Crown hotel, one of those 10-and-15 cent bed places, at 215 First ave. It was arranged that Miss Dulac'’s agent would meet Hung there, pay him at the carnival and give him a signal. him the money and get the “dope.” When Hung emerged from the door at 219 Washington rt, he hastened off and was lost in the carnival throng. Mies and told her agent, another secret agent of the Whi! was coming. The secret agent summoned two policemen, see Hung when the Chinaman approached. An: tiny closet In the room where the delivery was to be made, agent hid under the bed. THERE THEY LAY IN WAIT FOR HOURS They waited—Baerman in the hall, and the secret agent sprawled on the floor bene: hours, three hours® It was taking Hung an unu: Finally the door of the room opened slowly and the Chinaman stepped in, Baerman, running down the hall, popped out of the sloset gun and crawed from hiding. Miss Dulac’s trap was sprung. Hung had the “dope” wotlld bave found it. and se it up again, There were several “b explained to me are tiny bundles of cocaine an, sprang They took him to jail at 2 o'clock this morning. She wears it in a holster under the way she handied it, I guess she knows Mies Dulac showed me her revolver. her sweater. It's emali but, how it will shoot. Her work must be terribly interesting, but I wouldn't care for it. would be a good subject for a movie, I'd think. the movie, but in real life it’s too exciting. I told Mies Dulac that she is a brave, brave things whe'd done—arrested a dope seller once. of her gun, “stuck up” a drug den a few nights Thrilling—espectally for a girl She'll tell you ‘about it in her articles, I hope, would. (Miss Kiolet today received a telegram from Carl Laemmle, president of the Universal Film Manufacturing Co., and a letter from Priscilla Dean, Universal star now in Portland, complimenting and congratulating her on her victory in The Star contest. These letters are printed on page four of this edition of The Star.) e told me about a Chinaman she trapped pA mg She watched for him all evening. She saw a door at 213 Washington st., and almost im- e out of another door at 219 Washington st. Unwittingly he admitted he was selling both morphine and cocaine. N, P. Anderson and R. F. Baerman, of the narcotic squad, from headquarters. Baerman was sta tioned in a dark corner of the hallway in the Crown hotel, where he could Anderson doubled up in the clonet hidden in his shoe, where only an expert searcher He had ripped the inside lininy. single handed at the point today, She was Cross worker who hi dope ring, to interview her and induce her to covered the assignment been doing so much Her name is Claire last night, wanted some rtories tell- get evidence, had arrested so. But for my story to Dulac’s trap. She watched and trailed one night, she “vamped” Dulac stepped to a phone Cross, that Hung derson was stuffed into @ The secret math the bed—an hour, two wually long time. in behind him. Anderson The White Crom agent covered Hung with a put in the “dope” indies,” which Miss Dulac d morphine. It I wouldn't mind playing in girl, She told me a lot of ago, and things like that, She promised me she 48 Are Killed in Anti-British Riots| A CAIRO, Exypt, May 24-—Forty-| This is jelght persons have been killed in the | 1 janti-British riots at Alexandria, it was officially announced here today. | 8 to th One hundred and ninety-one per-| sons were wounded There was 4 light resumption of | considerabl rioting today and the demonstrations | spread thru the province, HE WORLD LOSES ‘Or Cut Down Fires Is S, forestry service is sending out jecare on the part of all [hope is that 1921's fires will number |total recorded last year, anize to Make of ppeal to Public Fire Protection week. The 16 public to aid in urging persons. The ly less than 1.438, the A ° ANOTHER ARTIST! ity Air Metropolis While Paul Devin, engineering. For the purpose of organizing ao student. was absorbing the beauties tivity to make Seattio an aerial lof a lecture on “Differential Cal-| metropolis the Aero club of the jeulus, some needy fellow student) Northwest will hold a dinner at the lifted hin drawing set, it was report-| Butler hotel, June 4. Among the ed to the police Tuesday, Now Paul) things hoped for is @ coast-to-coast can't draw. \airplane mail service SEATTLE, WASH it MISS KIOLET, March 3, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1921. “OF THE STAR” The winner of The test, snapped by Price & Carter, Star staff photographers, the stepped out today on her first NEMADDET SANT AME WOMAN HERE IS POISONED}~THRU PORTLAND Husband Finds Her Coma; May Die Deep mystery shrouds the strange case of Mra. R. ©. Morton, Diller ho- tel, who has been unconscious at the sanitarium since early Monday evening as a repult of pol Columbus soning. Dr. G. R. Marshall, die. (He declares that soning in the afternoon that she the attending physician, saya that the woman may point to some kind of alcoholic pot Mra. Morton told her husband early Star-Universal $1,000 film actress con- as FLOOD SWEEPS Interstate Bridge in Danger of Going Out PORTLAND, May 24,—Engineers admitted grave danger today that the Union ave. approach to the interstate bridge, connecting Portland and Van- couver, Wash., would be washed out by flood waters. Day and night crews have been working incoseantly for the past 48 hours, attempting to stem the im pending washout with sand bags. Today, with both the Willamette and Columbia rivers rising™ with ‘in- creased rapidity, the situation was indications in going to visit friends in @ nearby hotel. She! ,amittedly very grave. was cheerful and happy at the time. The interstate bridge Is near the At 845, when her husband called | gonfiuence of the two rivers. for her, she had pital, The party of friends had nor been drinking, according to Morton. Morton had gone uptown a little earlier In the evening. She was gone for about half an hour. It that during this time she received the poison that may cause her death. Love Not Returned ; Girl Tries Suicide An. overpowering love, that she feared was not reciprocated, Miss Karen, 27 years old, death Monday evening, shadow of Just lapsed into | coma. She was rusMed to the hos- from the Oregon side, Should the Union ave. causeway give way, as anticipated, interstate vehicle traffic will not be stopped. Urges Probe of Southern Warfare WASHINGTON, May 24,—A reso- lution for a senate investigation of the West Virginia-Kentucky border warfare was Introduced today by Senator Johnson, California. The | resolution was referred to the sen- ate labor committee, Mra. is believed carried into the when she locked the door of her room at £08 Columbia st. and turned on the gas. Smelling the deadly fumes, Mrs. FE, proprietress of the rooming Peart, houxe, summoned = Amil neighbor, who battered down door and pescued the girl. Later she told detectives why she had attempted | to kill herself. PORTLAND, Ore., terday after having been effects, of himinjuries. Kruger was 42 years old a family. Dapper Bandit $40 With Gun’s Aid| 1761 W. Spokane st., carefully-dressed bandit entered his store and robbed A. BR. Smith, lost $40 when a him at the point of a trace of the robber hag been found. May 24— Wille | jam Kruger, brickmason, rescued yes: | hours beneath an avalanche of| bricks in the basement of a house on which he was working alone, died at a honpital here early today from the | :| You Can “| Save A great many dollars during the course of a month if you will make up your shopping list from the ads in The Star. You'll be sur- prised how the savings will count up. Engle, buried for | and leaves The best offerings of Seattle’s best stores ap- pear regularly Star. Gets in The gun, No Fin connection with The @tar'é cam: The bridge has two approaches | The Seattle Star 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 JAPS TAKE JOBS FROM VETERANS 75 Employed as Private, Chauffeurs as Ex-Soldiers | Go Unemployed More than 75 Japanese are em ployed a» private chauffeurs in Seat- Ue at present, to data In the possession of Hervey Lindley, adjutant of Rainier Noble post, pagn to find work tor every veteran of the world war in the city, SHOULD BE FILLED BY EX-SERVICE MEN . Every one of those jobs held by Jap chauffeurs should be filled by ‘an exservice in,” Lindley de- clared Tuesday, “Here we have list- ed scores of expert drivers, many of whom have families to support, and yet these good jobs are held by aliens.” The license number of every auto- mobile driven by a Japanese is list- ed in the legion’s report. The em- ployment of aliens in other lines of Work is being probed, also, ‘Tuesday morning saw 20 calls for work filled by veterans, while 12 more ex-service men in need of em- ployment registered with Miss Laura C. Curwell, in the Rainier Noble Post adjutant’s office, basement of) the Stuart buiiding. The latest veterans to register for employment are: Fred L. Carter, 160 27th ave., trucx| driver or helper. Richard E. Barbee, 1811 17th ave., chauffeur, truck driver, mechanic. V. M. Brannan, 5536 35th ave. E., salesman, storeman, Harry Lyons, laborer, J. F. Muekler, 5025 12th ave, N. E., stationary fireman, Robert H. Woodard, 710 Columbia st., carpenter's helper, Eber W. Badcon, 3245 47th ave, 8. W., salesman or general office work, Wm. A. O'Neill, 1615 Eighth ave, wholesale shipping clerk, groceries, notions, Angelo Alfonso, borer, Benjamin Knox, Hotel Yesler, de signer. Milton V. Le Claire, Georgian ho- tel, cigur or hotel clerk, any kind of hotel work, Rene M. F. Gheguiere, Hollywood apartments, wholesale or retail sales- man, traveler. One day last week an ex-service man was placed in a permanent job as carpenter, at $6 a day. Monday his wife came into the “employment headquarters, “My husband needs a man to work for him at 50 cents an hour,” she said. “He said to be sure and get a veteran.” The man wanted was easily found ‘That's the spirit that will’ soon ri move the stain of keeping deserving men in need, Thief Trades in Old Phonograph Records enter the honorable thief! When a burglar broke into the home of Mrs, D, G. Gleason, 161 | John st., he stole 26 new phonograph | records, But in exchange therefore he left 34 used and worn retords. One of the recggds left behind was “Oft in the Stilly Night.” But the thief left nothing in ex- change for the miscellaneous col- lection of tablecloths, dresses, knives and forks and evening gowns that he, carried away, In Auto Smash-Up; Back Is Sprained |¢; Weyland Pomeroy, 6756 2ard ave, N, suffered a severely sprained back | as the result of an automobile ac- cident Monday night, Pomeroy’s machine collided with another car and overturned, 1484 King st., la- THE TOTAL OPERATING EX If You’d Get the Gist of the Tax Situation STUDY THESE FIGURES——. NSES WERE: Study the above figures, They are correct. ‘There are extravagances in this city Francisco. EXTRAVAGANCES OF ALL SORT MUST BE CUT OUT. R TAX RELIEF WIL . OUR TAX SYSTEM fe ATE ED INCURRED IN 1919 PER PER They tell the story. There are extravagances in San HOWEVER, , x ¢ WT COMPLETE, ITION “1WO CENTS IN SEATTLE FLEEING DESPERADOE HEADING FOR CANADA! Dan Beard Writes for You Boys! Dan.Beard Dan Beard, national Boy Scout commissioner of America, has written a series of articles for boys who read The Star. He tells how to make canoes, log boats, aquariums, fishpoles, bird houses; and how to learn to swim like an expert. Beard has spent his life in work in the interest of boys. He knows what they like to do, Watch The Star for these in- teresting summer stunts for boys. The first is on page seven today. Plan Evidence to Pardon Mooney SAN FRANCISCO, May 24.—Dis- trict. Attorney Matthew Brady an- nounced in court this morning that he is now preparing new evidence in the Mooney case for presentation to the governor which he believes will leave little alternative other than pardoning Thomas Mooney. Mooney is serving a life sentence for alleged complicity in the San Francisco preparedness parade dynamitings of 1916. Auto Overturns; Girl Is Fatally Injured BREMERTON, May 24.—Miss Ger- trude Wilant, 22, was fatally injured when an automobile in which she was riding overturned on the Navy Yard highway about a mile trom the head of Port Orchard bay. Dust thrown up by a passing car blinded the driver, H. and he plunged off the road. The car capsized and Miss Wilant was severely crushed beneath the ma- chine, Harvey Statement Is Under Inquiry WASHINGTON, May 24.—-A reso. lution asking Secretary of State Hughes to inform the house whether recent statements of Ambassador George Harvey regarding America’s | entrance into the war‘ were or have! been approved by the state depart- ment, was Introduced in the house to- day by Representative Flood, Vir- ginia, democrat, member of the house foreign afters committee, L, Bartley, | POSSE ON Two Jail Breakers Bellev to Have Been Seen at large Tuesday morning. Sheriff W. W. West, of which he was charged with one Fred Petefs, and Ward had be sentenced to the state penitent on a grand larceny ¢Harge. Chester on Trial as un KANSAS CITY, Mo. May Forty-seven veniremen, chosen as panel from which the jury will drawn to decide the fate of D Chester, charged with - first murder in the death of Miss {Barton, were being examined - {prosecution and defense counsel | Supreme court here today. The lis expected to start late this | noon. Howard Winter, fiance of Miss. ton, and her companion on the of the alleged murder, October 3 will be among the first n called. Winter identified Chester ag | the man who held up the car shot Miss Barton at the prelimi hearing. Twenty dollars a minute was remuneration received by a dayil burglar who broke into the room C. 8. Nicklin, Conklin hotel, Ws ave, and Virginia st., Tuesday ling. Nicklin left his room for minutes, during which time prowler stole a gold watch and valued at $6 Battle for Five ° Hours in Irel DUBLIN, May 24.—Nineteen lice and 80 Sinn Feiners battled five hours near Newport, | M . it was announced at Castle, The Sinn Feiners were driven } When police reinforcements be 2 b flanked them, One constable wag killed and a aie trict inspector was wounded, Several republicans were wou Memorial Gateway to Be Dedicate: The memorial gateway at South Park playfield, erected In hon: — or of the service men who went that district, will be dedicated day, at 7 p.m. by the women of the © Civie Improvement club of South | Park. Ex-service men are invited attend. Of 112 who went to the from South Park, only four killed. é