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

Yi] Tonight generally erate we *) x ao and esterl Tomperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 67, Today noon, 60. Wednesday, cloudy; mod- winds, Minimum, 55. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Clase Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., TU —From drawing by Neysa “Michael Angelo would have fainted for joy with the beauty of his (Carpentier’s) pro- file, which is almost pure Greek,” said Neysa McMein, famofs wld softer visiting “this beautiful person who is attracting so much of the world’s atten- |DEMPSEY’S EYE Greetings: Have you paid your poll tax yet? eee A man should Keep onty enough money to live on comfortably,” says john Wanamaker, How much is t, John, for the man who married Pegzy Joyce? ° . City council leaves for the Skagit today to determine how to spend that extra $5,500,000 needed to complete the first unit. . , Cheerful people are safd to live the ingest. Maybe ,that explains why hotel clerks die young. ee SELAH! Beneath a mossy mound, In the cold and soggy ground, Is sleeping poor old Tolliver Mc- Gee; He wet his thirsty throttle From a likely looking bottle, seemed to be. eee ‘The bureau of mines reports that the U. 8. has 2,522,500,000,000 tons of minable coal, but that doesn’t “mean that you'll get it any cheaper) this fall. eee An Accommodating Laundry We solicit wet wash from people) fn the country. Bring it with you. We will wash it nice and clean while attending to your other business. Crowell’s Laundry in Charlotte (N. . Observer. . says Mrs. Corinne “Join a party,” convention in Newark, N. J. Yes, virls, and if you can’t join one, give JOSH WISE SAYS: ‘Th’ view never appeals much t’ th’ steeple jack. . The sun do move Even if it do not shine, Yesterday I read In a newspaper A story About Jack Dempsey, And not once Did the man who wrote It Say that Jack ‘Was a great, big, good-natured boy. ose “Motor Bandits Steal $17,000."— News’ Headline. Wonder what agency they had? see “Execute Quartet in Chair.” line. Probably were guilty of urdering “Sweet Adeline.” one Household Hint Locating an incandescent bulb in the dark may be simplified consid- erably by attaching a sprig of garlic head te aul, But he found it wasn’t what it) Advertisement | Roosevelt Robinson to a woman's | Body BY DEAN SNYDER July 2. As far as is known at the present time the champion's eye is the only vulnerable spot on his superb body. His chin has never been accused of being a weak spot—not in all his \67 ring battles. ling punches he would get a great/ ovation from his backers—and he | will have plenty of them. It would hurt Dempsey's pride tar! |more than his fighting strength to fans with blood streaming down his black muzzled face. On the other hand, Carpentier | would do well to remember what happened to Jamaica Kid, the negro sparring partner who first opened that wound on the champion. Dempsey hit the Jamaica lad so hard that he was out just 15 min- utes following contact. The norma] fighting Dempsey isa tiger, but the mad Dempsey is two tig The wound was first inflicted two years ago when Dempsey was train- ling for Jess Willard at Toledo. It healed well. Willard never had la chance to reopen it after losing his |memory in that | round, ‘The recent ripping open of the soft | eyebrow gave Dempsey an awful grouch, He wants to be in his Best |trim when he goes against his first |real challenger. He has bathed the.spot with alco- make it heal from the inside first. done a good job. He doesn't mind being socked o1 the chin or in the nose. He can tak punishment. fussed with. He'll be guarding that spot tn fight if he doesn’t forget. {unless he wants to fight a mad man. Jurors Impolite; Like Hart at Tax Confab Charging that a juror slept while he made his address, Attorney R. J Meakim has asked the superior court to grant a new trial to hig client John E. Allison, recently convicted of a statutory offer in Judge Mitchell Gilliam’s court. More Union Men Ask for Sunday Funerals Boilermakers and shipbuliders are the latest members of organized la bor to join in the protest against the | proposed prohibition of Sunday fu nerals. Workingmen charge that | Sundays are the only days when they ean find time to aitend funerals, FIGHT TARGET’ | Only Vulnerable | Spot on His Jack Dempscy’s lame ieft eye will | |be one of the chief targets Georzes Carpentier will be shooting at on If the Frenchman could reach the | lame eye target with one of his fly-; face an audience of 40,000 or 50,000) first disastrous | hol a hundred times a day, trying to| Right ,now it looks as if he had) | 3ut he doesn’t want his eyebrow) | training and he'll cover it in the big | But our guess is that Carpentier | |had best not rip that wound open | McMein in New York World. magazine artist, the other Old Glory in Rags as State Bays Joy Autos OLYMPIA, June 21. — Sharp criticiam of a state administra- tion which squanders enormous sums of money on expensive auto- mobiles for its officials but which is too poor to buy a new flag for the capitol building wag voiced here today by Mrs. Maud Gard- ner of Seattle, president of the Ladies of the G. A. R. Mrs. Gardner took one look at the flag which hangs in tatters on the state house flagpole and said: “When I was down here at the legislature Jimmie Davis prom- ised me that enough money would be appropriated to buy a new flag. This one is a disgrace, but how can they buy new flags when so many public officials need new automobiles?” The Ladies of the G, A. R., the Women's Relief Corps, Daughters of Veterans and G, A. R. opened a four-day state encampment here Monday. About 1,000 delegates are tn Olympia, cramped in quarters that can house only 600, | ARRESTED FOR | BEING MARRIED | Held three hours tn jafl on a charge of having married, Asa Lee, | 24, well khown to the sheriff's office d to peace officers thruout King unty, obtained his own release and that of his bride, formerly Miss Ms arle Lorraine, 20, on a writ of ha as corpus in Judge Walter M. | Pi rench’'s court Tuesday, Lee escaped frem the sheriff Mon day afternoon and fied toward Bv- erett, picking up Miss Lorraine at her home in Lake Forest park, when he passed, Deputy sheriffs, in close sursuit, arrived in Everett just after joah Shakespeare, justice of the peace, had performed the ceremony. Found in the Frye hotel here, Tuesday morning, the couple was ar. rested and brought to the jail room in the courthouse, where each was | placed in a separate cell and given | bread and water while attaches of the courthouse and others thronged into the room and jeered. Habeas corpus proceedings were j instituted by George Meagher, city attorney, assisted by Oscar H. | Springer, chief clerk of the superior | court, and the writ was made return. | 3 able forthwith by Judge French. | Sheriff Starwich escorted the couple lio the courtroom, after giving the bride a bouquet of flowers, | After Meagher had addressed the | | court, Judge French ordered the cou ple released and publicly censured the sheriff, “Miss Lorraine's father,” he said, “is a very close friend of mine. I want the bride to know that if she or any of her friends have anything | to do with a wedding ceremony again, | they won’t be treated this way if |they come to my own Kitsap! county.” Lee, the bridegroom, has been a deputy sherifg three yeara, |he has put into effect a genera duction on gtaple’ jave., |day for Mrs IN ISDAY, JUNE 21 , 1921. TH EW f/: ATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE VE SHIPS LO WEIRD MYSTERY ORT BODIES ASHORE! CAFE REDUCE | LAPDOG PRI Sharp Cut Is Noted : Generally in Eat-| : ° ° ing Places in This, A City ‘That food prices In Seattle ree taurants have dropped greatly dur- ing the past few weeks is apparent to anyone who believes in signs. “Strawberry shortcake — 5 conta.” “Braised breast of amb with vegetables—35 orntn” “Ted eres, - ang cents.” “Coffee, tea, milk—5 cents.” Placards announcing price cuts like these are a common sight on the streets of Seattle today. But what ts back of it? Is ft Just a matter of close competition that leads restaurant men to hang out attractive “specials,” or ARE food prices in the throes of a general downward revision? PRICES ON DECLINE, SAYS CHAUNCEY WRIGHT MAN “There is no question but that food prices are coming down,” H. Carlton, superintendent of serv- ice for the chain of Chauncey Wright restaurants, said “Sugar today is practically on @ pre-war basis, Flour, potatoes and other basic foods are slowly lowering in cont. “Just the other day we cut our race track and Danish coffee cake from 40 to 25 cents and knocked off a nickel all down the line on pota- toes.” The Wright, restaurants have re- | evening. Then don't duced strawberry shortcake and/ cream from 35 to 25 cents, and are| | serving braised breast of lamb, with vegetables, for 35 cente—a dish that a short time ago would have cost) from 50 to 65 cents, James R. Boldt, head of the Boldt string of restaurants, reported that 1 re- including lines, |meats, eggs, potatoes. Vegetables and fruits, he said, probably will come down still more. Ralph Wing, buyer for Wing's caf- eteria, 1409 First ave., declared that there was no question but that food prices were on the downward trend, and have not yet reached bottom. “Take butter and eggs,” said Wing. “They are being put into storage now at less than half the cost last season. That meang they will be cheaper next winter than last, BOOSTING USE OF STRAWBERRIES “Just now the bottom fe out of the strawberry market, and we are boost- ing their use by selling shortcake and strawberries and cream at 6 cents, And we are not losing on them, either.” Wing has recently cut 7 cent drinks to 5 cents, prime ribs of beef for 25 cents and one-half of a spring chicken for 30 and 35 cents, The Nortonia cafeteria, 1421 Fourth aye., hag made the following reduction Soups, 7 to 6 cents; milk, 7 to 5; certain pies, 8 to 7 cents; ham- burger steak, 20 cents to 15, and fish cakes, 15 to 10, All potatoes have been cut from 7 cents to 5. Thé Boulevard cafe, 1422 Fourth has reduced its special mer- chants’ lunch, which includes soup, entree, drink and dessert, from 40 to 85 cents, in addition to making cuts in potatoes and other items, The White Lunch, 1310 Third ave., advertises two eggs, any style, 15 centa, and is making a special of three doughnuts for 6 cents, Woman Disappears; Suicide Is Feared Fearing that she had committed suicide, police were searching Tues: Anna L, Hollenbeck, who early Tuesday morning disap- peared from her home at 4663 Kast ern ave. leaving a note on the kitchen table telling the location of her valuables, M.; | He is serving /asservate that he is as homely as 1 ARNS BRIDES Marital Referee} Says Don’t Wed) if You Can Live| Without Him A giggling Bne of “starry-eyed” June brides waited at the door lead ing to the marfiage license bureau at the County City bullding today. Downstairs another line waited wearily outside a door marked “De- partment of Public Welfare.” They were the June brides of yeaterday, come to confide their marital trow bles to the sympathetic ear of gre] McDonnell, investigntor of ‘Marital troubles brought to her at- tention in King county. Mrs. jcDonnell’s “do's” for the June bride are all “don'ts.” “Don't! she says, “Don't marry hin unless you can't live without him,” she urges with fervor. “The chances are you will he happier without him. But if you must have him, don't forget that your first duty is that pt a home- maker, not a lap-dog. “Don't forget that your husband is a child. All men are children. Pet them when they are tired and listen | to them sympathetically when they; come to you with their troubles, A wife who loses the confidence of her husband thru lack of understanding and sympathy is like the mother! who discourages the first confession of a child “Don't feed him any more sweets than are good for him. An over-fed man gets as fick as ‘an over-fed child. You wouldn't drag a tired and sleepy baby to the movies. The chances are you'd have a fretful expect your husband to be pleasamt under the same circumstances, “Don't be a pal to your husband. | He can find plenty of them. Be a mother to him. He needs it. And at the same time you'll be a better wife.” HOMELIEST MAN CONTEST IS HOT When The Star and the Rainier’ Noble post of the American Legion opened the homeliest man contest Monday we did not know that thou- sands would be fighting for the rasp- berry crown. But such is indeed tho case! The mere mention of the name of Dan Landon, state senator and man about-town, as entitled to the laurel wreaths of im-pulchritude, brought out a storm of protest. “Landon? Shucks!" came the ex- cited chorus. “He's an Apollo Belve- dere, a Wally Reid, a second Jack Sullivan?” Dan Salt jumped into the ring to Clay Hite; Carl Reiter's wail of an- guish could be heard over on Hood canal; while. Frank Réppe'’s waiters | forgot to charge $1.25 for a pair of eggs, so indignant were they that their boss should not be named as a rominent candidate for the unbeau- tiful honors. The Homellest Man wif sit next to the Queen of Beauty at the big Fourth of July celebration being staged by the veterans. But he must first be clected, and like the major. ity of elections, money will play an important part. Each candidate will be assessed one cent as a campaign fund, Votes will.be one cent. Any- body can repeat as often as he likes. Send your nomination to George M. Brazer, Homely Man Contest edi tor, care of The Star, Funds raised go to The Star-American Legion em ployment bureau. Here are a few of the late nomt- natic Matt Starwich, Ed Milne, Alex Pantages, Bert Gray of the Se- attle hotel, and H, Alfred Owen, sec- retary to Mayor Caldwell, Want to carry air mail, Seattle to Victoria? Bids for coming fiscal year close at Washington city deme 28, Tangible Results: Results: NIL! (EDITORIAL) HE governor’s “extravagance” conference accom- plished nothing. Just that and nothing moré. Instead of an intelligent discussion of ways to cor- rect our taxation system, so that the burden of gov- ernment shall be equally distributed, there was sense- less shouting against our schools and a demand, led by Mr. Shorrock of Seattle, that teachers’ pay be returned to its former degraded level. pli of an insistence on an economical adminis- tration at Olympia, of an intelligent budget system all down the-line, of a cessation of pleasure-car buying for every official from dog-catcher to governor, there were cries for a savage cutting of pay of clerks and other under-employes—and amuse@ laughter at a sug- gestion .that elective officers’ salaries be likewise reduced, Adjournment was the high point in constructive results attained. The tax slacker was worried at no stage of the proceedings. The pork barrel legislator was worried not at all. The over-paid political hangers-on and the grafters derived only enjoyment from the spectacle. It was another boom-boom session. Its utter lack of accomplishment is illustrated the fact, as}cor- respondents note, that Governor had no trouble aiseane bay mest off it. "4 * * HART SNOOZES AS TAX REDUCERS TRY VAINLY TO REDUCE BY HAL ARMSTRONG After Rueben Jones, secretary of * OLYMPIA, June 21.—Determined,|the Seattle school board, had an- they declared, to slash payrolis, weed | nounced a cut of four and one-half out deachead employes, trim office | mills had already been made in the expenses and otherwise curtail board budget for next year without spending public money next year.|touching the main salary list, Dl- county and city tax-levying officials | rector Shorrock declared: were returning home to the four| TELLS ABOUT corners of the state today, following | EDMONDS RECALL Gov. Hart's. conference on retrench:-| The facts are the budget has ment here yesterday. not been reduced at all worth men- While séated on the platform j tioning. We've got to attack the presiding, Gov. Hart went to | payroll." He was followed by O. sleep twice during the conven L. Miller, of the Edmonds, Sno- tion, and was awakened by State Treasurer Clifford Bab cock. It came to light during the con ference that school boards in some parts of the state were contemplat: | ing building “teacherage,” or cot tages for teachers, at public ex pense. The convention, on motion of W. H. Abel, of Montesano, rec ommended they forego this expend iture and, wherever possible, defer construction of all school buildings for the present. BE. Shorrock, of the Seattle school homish county, Chamber of Com- merce, who said; “We're so interested in high taxes that we're holding a recall to get |rid of our school directors because they're spending too much money. We abolished saloons. Now all the money we used to get from liquor taxes goes the bootleggers. I can teach the high schools of this state for 75 per cent less than we're paying and give ,better ser- vice. Cut salaries. They'll whine for a while, but they won't quit.” Jack Boyle, Snohomish county board, introduced the salary cutting | Commissioner, Everett, dectared: resolution. “Mr, Jones and his school board “A condition exists," eald Shor-|in King county are one reason for rock, “that is causing a Jarge|high taxes, We've got teachers amount of money to be taken from| Who are waiting for nothing else the pockets of the people. It isn't/than to forfeit their contracts and producing results.” He then pro-| £0 to Seattle, where they get higher posed the following resolution, which | Wages.” carried: It was bad going for the public “Whereas, A very large proportion | schools when Carl E. Croson, Seat- of public expenditure is in payrolls;|tle school director, came to the “Resolved, That a reduction of (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) payrolls proportionate to the reduc Le RRESE? SaMRERUE NE tion of the cost of living is neces-| Fireman Is Stabbed sary for the reduction of taxation.” bya Negro Sailor Loud protest was voiced by R. F. Faussett, Everett city attorney. J. A. Klugian, 23, 3450 1, Alder st., WANTS TO SEB fireman, was arrested at Skinner & TAXATION REFORM Eddy’s shipyard No. 2 Monday night I don't want to see any salaries |}, patrolmen T. J, Rudd and S. Ken- cut,” said he. “What I want to see | nes, following a fight with a sailor, is the whole system of taxation] Kluglan was stabbed in the left changed. I want to see taxes paid | shoulder and was rushed to the city by those who should pay them,/ hospital, where his wound was and salaries not curtailed but | dressed. He was then taken to city raised.” jail, where he is held under $100 bail A small minority voted with! on a charge of disorderly conduct. Faussett against the Shorrock reso-| Early Tuesday Manuel Johnson, lution. 26, negro, was arrested at Skinner Not a word was said during the|}& Eddy yard No, 2, and identified by Kluglan as his assailant, convention concerning the ruthless spending of state funds for elegant automobiles for state officials. A heated battle raged all after: noon about the public schools. Sev eral speakers declared the reason public schools are costing 36.59 per cent of the total tax levy for 1921, or $26,589,160.30, is because the schools are “supervised to death.’ Others attributed the high cost of school operation to “frills.’? T. J, Harrison, Benton county commissioner, recalled that $75,000 had been spent by one school dfts- trict to build a gymnasium. Maniac Barricades Self; Fights Police After barricading himself in his room at 2209 Yesler way Tuesday and threatening to kill anyone who came near, Isaac Karansky, 44, a Russian sculptor, was taken to police headquarters, violently insane, by Patrolmen W. Dench and George F., Reynoids after a fierce struggle. RIVERSIDE, Cal, June 21. “When the school board woke|Sergt. James E, Jones of Washing- up," he added, “they found they|ton, D. C., was instantly killed and hadn't enough money left to build| Private Lester J. Overton was slight- a house where the ordinary ihdi- ments of education could be taught? ly injured this morning at. March an altitude ef 300 feet. Governm’t Pra Baffling My oe of Missing : Off East Coast NEW YORK, June Lawrence Richey, in gator for Secretary Ho said today that he is oin those of sailors from a the vessels lost in the sea mystery off the © t. <% eee BY RALPH F. COUCH ‘WASHINGTON, Jurie 21. nation of their records today Land merce department officials to that a total of five ships have s teriously disappeared off Cape teras within the last few This is in addition to the the Carroll H. Deering, a echo which sailed ashore with no one © board except a parrot, The vessels missing are the itt, carrying a cargo of sul from Texas; the Albyn, which from Norfolk last October and appeared, and the Yute, @ which was last heard trom by less last November 14. The n of two other missing vessels are the possession of the commerce partment but officials are ni to give them out, BRITISH, FRENCH ARE CO-OPERATING, Other developments in the seas mystery which is engaging the at- tention of four government depart- ments today were: The British admiralty and the” French ministry of marine are ¢ operating with this government its investigation. The state department hag acceph ed the theory that “foul play” may account for the disappearance of the — 12 men on the Deering, © Information reached officials here that at least one foreign ship was reported attacked by men in @ launch while lying in harbor at Newport News. Belief that foul play accounts for the disappearance of the Deering’s crew was expressed by the state de- — partment in notifying consulat offi- cers that the ship had disappeared, The instructions recounted that _ the Deering, on the night of Jan- uary 29, passed the Cape Lookout lightship, and that someone, speak- ing with a foreign accent, hailed the _ lightship asking that the home of- fice be notified the Deering had lost both anchors, ITALIAN VESSEL IS ATTACKED 2 Two days later the Deering, with all sails set, drifted onto Diamond Shoals and was wrecked, The attack in Newport News har bor was on a tramp Italian vessel, The vessel asked help from harbor police three times in one night, de claring attempts had been made to” board her. The police saw no one | and decided that bootlegzers were (Turn to Page 7, Column 6) Decide to Kill Prohibition Bil WASHINGTON, June 21.—The house rules éommittee virtually hag: decided to kill the Volgtead supple» mental prohibition bill in its present form, Chairman Campbell, Kansaa, said today “The committee does not want to.’ allow the measure as it is now writ. ten to be rushed thru congress, it wen't,” he told the house in sponse to an attack made 6n the ner, i a4 field when an army plane fell from]and industrial alcohol industries @ coghmittee’s action in delaying it J give representatives of the ehe ebance to present thelr opposition,