The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 3, 1921, Page 24

NABLE "DEMANDED Condon Tells Alumni Offer of Metropolitan Company Isn’t Fair “Unless the Metropolitan Buflding Co, will make a reasonable offer to the University of Washington, their ‘efforts to finance a hotel on t of the University tract will be useless.” This was the prediction of Dea John T. Condon, head of the law Bhool of the university, in a talk be- fore the University Alumni associa. tion Thursday, Condon related the history of the ‘Metropolitan lease, and detailed the Many concessions that have been Miade to the building company dur dng the past ten years. INS WHAT ‘¥ AS! “Now, all they want,” he declared, “is a 19-year extension of thelr lease ) @m one whole dlock, another half Block for a heating system, and a Pen-year extension of the time in Which they can erect permanent “gtructures on all the other property Owned by the university.” The university, Condon added, ) praactically gave the Metropolitan | interests $600,000 with which to build / the Stuart building. It permitted them to retain their temporary ) shacks on the property, which » brought in over half a million dollars in rentals, “By extending the period still fur- @her in which they can maintain * temporary structures, the Met ~ fopolitan company will make $1,200, 000," he pointed out. ‘Dean Condon emphasized that the _ Metropolitan theatre, under the pres- “ent lease, would be turned over to the university in 1954, but that the ee cmaltten interests want to hold the building for another 19 years— ‘Without additional compensation. RIDICULES HALF-BLOCK ING PLANT "Phat the half.block on the west Has ft LOS ANGELES, June 3 Marie Baily the mind of a child? |may be saved from a 10-year term in prison, jand considered beautiful by |was found guilty by a jury many Angeles of the murder of Clarence | Hogan, formerly a movie actor. The background of the tragedy was un-|in prison “Child Mind” Her Defense She Killed a Movie Star it can be proved that she has she|clared that the revolver Marie Baily, wistful eyed, slender | f in Los sion, the weapon was discharged. THE SEATTLE STAR canyon resort frequented by plenick-| ers. She admitted the crime, but de-| ad been arged during a struggle. Sb ught to end her life, she testi Hogan pad grabbed the gun while wrestling for ‘its posses: dis had and, But a jury did not credit her story and so she was senten Now, however, the you: usual. Hogan had at one time been| woman's attorneys are seeking an a “window dumm posed in windows as a wax figure. | moron; had been an actress. | child.” Mario They Baily had met professionally, and tho she married Edward Vancouver business man, she is de- ‘Bide of Fourth ave., between Univer! cared to have had an affair with | and Seneca sts., is necessary for heating plant for the proposed ho- was ridiculed by Condon, who d that the Metropolitan com- ‘Was merely camouflaging, 50 the desired lease extension id take in as much ground os wants a hotel,” Con- eaid, “but we don’t want to build } at the expense of the university then turn it over to the Metro tan Building Co..” ‘The law school director pointed out it the university tract is practical- tax free—that the Metropolitan Save over $175,000 in taxes yearly. He charged that an was being made to bludgeon §@ regents into accepting an offer ‘would injure the university, “The Metropolitan company de- inded an immediate answer to proposition,” he said. “They it, and they didn’t like it, And they’re howling.” Bathing Vamps Are inned From Coney YORK, June 3.—Coney America’s most famous play- d, will have few if any bath- “vyamps” this year, is a resolu- unanimously adopted by the ut of one hundred of that of the universe is passed by board of aldermen. The resolu- is considered the most drastic ‘the history of the land of the ot‘ dog” and if it is made an T © there will be thirty po to enforce it. Not a feminine re knee, much less an afikle, will seen on the beaches this year, ‘and V-necked bathing suits will be gated and censored off the Skirts will reach to the Socks will be prohibited, neumatic Raft for Aid in Air Travel ZONDON, June 3.—A wonderful weight raft, for use in the tof a forced descent on the _ ‘water, has been devised for cross- air expresses. The appa- Patus comprises two cylinders of ‘@ompressed air, which, when valves @re turned, inflate in 30 seconds two floats and enable the raft, tho | fits total weight is only 56 pounds, | t© support as many as four people. Rainmaker Brings More Than Wanted "MONTREAL, June 3.—Charles M. “Hatfield, the “rainmaker,” has sat- fsfied everybody in Alberta, except the secoffers, for he has made good Riis word and produced rain after extended drought. In fact, he luced so much rain that the farmers begged him to cut off the “water. He was paid $1,000 for the work. He used a tower 24 feet high containing secret chemicals. HELD FOR MARRYING HIS OWN DAUGHTER, MAN KILLS HIMSELF BALTIMORE, M4., June 3.— John M. Jones, who, in 1918, mar- fied his own daughter, Anna D. Jones, in this city, has just com- mitted suicide by hanging in a Jeell in the jail at Jacksonville, Fia., where he was being held for a detective who was to bring him to Baltimore for trial. A warrant for Jones’ arrest was issued several months ago, after his daughter reported the marriage to the state's attorney. Ste gtr said that at the time she married her father she thought he was her stepfather. She sald two children were born to them. When Jones learned of the warrant he fled to Flor. ida. A detective traced him to Jack- gonville, but Goyernor Catt re- fused to honor the requisition papers, The detective went to Florida on other business last week, and while there reported the affair to the new executive, Zovernor Edwards, who honored the requisition papers and or- Jered the arrest of Jones, us | Hogan. | Some time passed and Hogan and Marie Baily met again in the Los Angeles film colony, Last Decem ber Hogan was slain In a California | that is he had/appeal on the ground that “she is a} with the mind of a mere | This plea ts based on her actions! Baily, a/in court during the trial. That she| is subnormal, they point out, was in dicated by “her unnatural calm whil being grilled on the stand; her ap-| parent lack of understanding of sim. ple, everyday matters; the child-like manner in which she speaks and the| Umitations of her vocabulary.” | “CAN’T COW IRI | WITH FORCE”, CROZIER, | WHO QUIT, DECLARES, BY MILTON BRONNER LONDON, June 3.+-Brig, Gen. F. P. Crozier, who resigned as head of the Black and Tans in Ireland as a protest against their bloody re | prisals, Is considering going to Amer- jica to present to the American pub- lic his view of the Irish question. Crozier probably knows more about reprisals than any other indi- vidual. He says: “America can help clear up the Irish situation by bringing the pres- sure of public opinion to bear in favor of a public inquiry of charges I have definitely made regarding conduct of the auxiliary police forces in Ireland, the crimes they have com- mitted and the manner in which Jus- tice has been thwarted.” QUIT WHEN CADETS HE FIRED WERE RESTORED Crozier resigned when cadets he had discharged were restored to duty by superior officers, Crozier, 42,,has been a soldier all his life. He has served in all parts of Africa, At the start of the world war he was a captain. He ended as a brigadier general commanding the famous “Welsh Bantams.” He won the Distinguished Service Order and the Croix de Guerra, “Irish Secretary Greenwood re fused to promise a full public in- quiry of my charges,” ho said. “These are in effect that murder, looting and other forms of terror- ism were practiced by government troops during the six months I held office, “I maintain that my position was deliberately made tmpossible because of my determination to enforce dis- cipline and end police crime, COULDN'T TALK WHILE HE REMAINED IN, SERVICE “If my enemies ask why T didn’t make charges when I commanded the auxiliaries, Iv reply that I was then in office subject to orders of my superiors. I tried to bring reforms from the Inside. Now I'm a private citizen trying to force reforms from the outside, by throwing light on methods practiced in Ireland. “I am not a friend of Sinn Fetn. Where Sinn Feiniers commit crimes, due proces of law, and not by so- called reprisals, which often fall upon the innocent. “Only a public tribunal, indepen- dent of the Irish office, can estab- lish the truth or falsity of the When his mistress goes shopping in San Francisco, “Pigmy” nestles comfortably ‘in her handbag. they should be punished, but under | charges I make and the evidence I) am prepared to give. “Since resigning I have come in contact with hundreds of Irishmen of | all degrees of political opinion. I do) not think the Irish situation is hope less, “FORCE WONT COW IRISHMEN” “We will never get anywhere by oppression. Force won't cow Irish.) men. “The best possible thing Britain | could do would be to withdraw all the Black and Tans from Ireland to. morrow. Put in the regular army. “In the minds of Irishmen, the police are now associated with a reign of terror. There is no such fecling against regular troops. “Then pacify Ireland by offering her not fake home rule, but real do-| minton home rule within the British empire, “Dominions Tike Canada and Aus- tralia are virtual republics within the British empire, Treat Ireland the same way.” Parisian Costumers Make Seaweed Gown! PARIS, June 3.—Those shining strips of seaweed which, frilled and fronded, are washed up by the sil very wea, have given Parisian cos- tumers a new idea, and behold—the seaweed gown, Black taffeta with its lustrous sheen is the materia most favored for the seaweed gown. | Too Much Milk Is Westfield’s Bane WESTFIELD, Masa. June 3.—The onty milk problem here is that of getting rid of it Tho the retail price is only 12 cents a quart there is far more production than there| is demand, and what cannot be dis posed of is fed to the stock. Chicken Thieves’ Took Hound, Also PERTH AMBOY, June 3.—A Matawan, a chicken farmer bought | six costly chickens recently, and, to! protect them from thieves, bought a} rabbit hound. He clamped the hound | to the chicken coop. The next morn- ing he found that thieves had taken | hound, chain, chickens and all, When he barks it’s so loud you can almost hear agen Can you beat it?’ UNIVERSITY HAZERS PELT SHOW PEOPLE WITH MOTH BALLS BOSTON, June 3.—Three Har- vard students going thru one of their initiation stunts for admis sion to a fraternity were also ini Uated to the pe and inhabi tants of the City Hall ave. p @tation after, it is claimed by the officers, they bombarded the actors and audience in the Or pheum theatre with moth balls and a discourse of the divorce of the peace treaty from the league of nations, ‘They were later re leased on ball, but will be called upon to answer charges of dis turbing an assembly, Girls With Short Skirts Ostracised CHICAGO, June 3.—Thirty nice young men of the Evanston Congré gational’church don't care whether or not they break a poor girl's t, Gently, but firmly, they have out word that they propose to ignore all young ladies who wear she skirts, They won't walk out with and they won't speak to such a girl, Father Is Meanest Man, Declares Judge LONDON, June 3 mearest man I ever came across. You deserve it all. Stand down,” said the Aberdare magistrate to a merchant who prosecuted his son, Howell T, Whiting, for theft. It was shown that the son received only 20 cents for 14 hours’ work. “You are the | (KILLED ON EVE. "OF HIS WEDDING | —— \Bride-to-Be Reaches Bed- side Just Too Late o BOSTON, June 3.—In just one week 21-year-old Daniel Moore, of & Swift terrace, Everett, would have led to the altar of the Chureh of the Immeculate Conception Miss aCtherine Crowley, of Dorchester. |The pair had furnished their. little japartment in Kverett, and were awaiting the opening of their mar- ried life, But yesterday Miss Crowley was summoned from the sewing table at her home, where she was engaged In the hundred and one little bits of | needleworw that occupy brides-tobe |to the Massachusetts General hos pital. When she arrived there she learned her fiance had died just 15 minutes before, with her name on his ps. A fracttred slcull was the canse. JAt the plant of the New England Coke & Gas Co, South FE t, a heavy timber had fallen from a coal hoist Into a group ofewhich he was one, ‘The of it rebounded and felled young Moore, inflicting a deep wound, os well as fracturing his skull, He and Miss Crowley had been engaged some months. They were old schoolmates. Mrs. Margaret FB, Ward and Mra. |M. Murphy, Seattle women, elected delegates to national convention Women's Catholic Order of Foresters. That's Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan at the left, but who's that with him? The bearskin shako of the British royal guard practically conceals the face of the Prince of Wales. Hirohito’s visiting England. SETS NEW MARK | IN‘ALPHA’ TES Student, at 43, Attra Educators’ Attention ‘The first person on record to mak a perfect score—212—In the army} “alpha” intelligence test, John Nolan, student in the engineering de- partment at the University of Wash- ington, is attracting th tention of educators thruout the country. Nolan's feat is all the more req markable in view of his history. He is 43 years old, For years he has knocked about the world, as lumberjack and froustabout. fought in the Spanish-American and again in the world Wag, He was, severely shell shocked int France, and altho his mind is sirging with) vitality and brilliance, he has bare enough physical strength to walk. Nolan says bis mental powers di not develop until about five ago. He has been at the university for 16 months, In that time he b made 165 ¢redits, or double the num- ber made by the average student, Records show that the hight previous mark In the “alpha” t was 207, made by a Yale professor, The average for army officers and students is 135. Nolan comple the test in 13 minutes. The allo time is 17 minutes. ental in Northold Inn = Northwest Writers At a meeting Thursday night association changed its name to the Free Lances, Virgin Wool Suits Selling New Arrivals of Gabardines $20—$25—$30 smart belted models in all sizes—tan and olive colors—particularly suited to this climate NOW. ‘ FAHEY-BROCKMAN BLDG. (Entire Two Top Floors) THIRD AND PIKE ‘AHEY~- Up-stairs Clothiers at $40 The Fahey-Brockman Upstairs Plan Cuts the Price of Good Clothing to the Bone—Their Prices End Where Others Begin HE best make of clothes for men and ‘young men on the market today—honest clothes made from virgin wool—can be bought at Fahey-Brockman’s for prices that in no case exceed $40 and in many cases are less. These remarkable values are due entirely to the way Fahey-Brock- man buy and sell clothes. They call their plan the Fahey-Brock- man upstairs economy plan, which means that they buy and sell good clothes well below ordinary prices. Several factors enter into this fa- mous plan, that has built them from a small concern to the leading men’s clothing house on the Pacific Coast in a few years. These factors briefly are: This plan rock-bottom vantage of makes them Low rents, volume cash business, elimination of all extravagance in do- profit each. - Summer ith a , , Our Qnaranto d Save, L ing business, no credit losses, quick turn over, low margins of profit on many sales and plenty of advertising. allows them to buy at market prices all the year round and to take instant ad- any drop in market prices while the clothes are still fresh and fashionable. It also hosts of friends, be- cause their policy is to serve many satisfied customers at a small prof- it each rather than a few at a large Suits ‘ARCADE, BUILDING . (Over Rhodes Co.) SECOND AVENUE i. Brock} Buy upstairs and save 41099| 5 hey |