The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 29, 1921, Page 1

“AS this frightful survivor of some extinct progeni- tor charged upon him with distended jaws, there came to the man quickly a full consciousness of the futility of endeavoring to stay the mad rush or pierce the armor-coated hide with his little knife. The thing was almost upon him now and whatever form of de- fense he chose must be made quickly. There seemed but a single alternative to instant death, and this he took at almost the instant the great reptile towered directly above him. IRL Weather Tonight and Thursday, oc- casional rain; moder- ate westerly winds, Forecast Famous Ape-M lan, Strangest Character in All Fiction, Eucounters Thrilling Adventures in Edgar Rice Bur- roughs’ Latest Tarzan Story, “Tarzan the Ter- rible,” Which Starts in The Star July 2 IN POLICE SHAKE-UP “With the celerity of a seal he dove headforemost beneath the oncoming body and at the same instant, turning upon jis back, he plunged his blade into the soft, cold surface of the slimy belly as the momentum of the hurtling reptile carried it swiftly over him; and then with powerful strokes he swam on beneath the surface for a dozen yards before he rose. “A glance showed him the stricken monster plung- ing madly in pain and rage upon the surface of the water behind him. That it was writhing in its death On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise TheSeattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 2, 1879. Per Yoar, by Mail, $5 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1921. agonies was evidenced by the fact that it made no effort to pursue him.” * & & Tarzan looked well in a Tuxedo. He was a member of the House of Lords. Yet beneath his pleated shirt beat a wild and savage heart. * % Read this latest and best of Tarzan stories in The Star beginning Saturday, July 2. FACES PRISON! oe * @ EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE DID SHE PAY THE CHIEF A BRIBE? | ENIES J. Johnson BI ¢ z F £ Pi Lj ¥ f ¢ |Going Down! caf ERvi gee, it pet 388 a s 3 i! d z 8 cipient rebellion by showing technic portrait of the usurper, Yuan “The next day we ‘billed’ the city by engaging dozens of sandwich- board men—the first ever seen in the ancient Chinese city--and by scatter. ing over 20,000 handbills thru the crooked, narrow streets. ‘We are now, fellow-cit‘zens, pass- “That iru the tail of Pons Winnecke, a leaking gas main; t vapor left behind by the cos- joyrider. . PLEASE OMIT FLOWERS Desks of Geattle councilmen are with flowers this week. Should have some made rp into flor- al offerings. “There was no display that night, andthe next day we demanded that the’ government give our concession tection, The governor smiled and ned 190 Manchu soldiers to guard the park. The Manchug were ‘enemies of the Cantonese and itched to get at them. “Wi Some steaks must Ford's mechanical cow. eee come from Seattle motorists depend too much on their horns and too little on their first one. He inhaled it like a cigaret and became a conscientious ob- Jector for the next 24 hours, “Halt an hour before the exhibi- tion was to open, we stationed the soldiers about the park. They didn’t | know what they were to do, and w | couldn’t tell them—we didn’t savvy | | their lingo, But when the mob start ed to come thru the bamboo fence we hit the nearest heads with husky | clubs, and the soldiers, grinning, saw the point. . “In the holes in the bamboo there was just room for the Chinamen to crawl in @e by one. The hundred soldiers were kept busy cracking the heads as they showed thru the open- ing. “Inside of 30 minute more than 150) very sick coolies were being dragged | away by their excited comrades, and |the re#t of the mob were dutifully | depositing Chinese money at the box | j office. “As a grand finale we set off a flaming picture of Yuan Shih Kal, | who tried to usurp the crown and} |who is the Cantonese’s idea of the| devil “The minute that it became : eee ENGLISH LIKE THE DICKENS ‘An advertisement from a Siamese newspaper: “The news of English we tell the latest. Writ in perfectly style and most earliest, Do murder get commit we tell of it. Do a mighty chief die, we publish it, and | {m borders of somber, Staff has each one been college and writ like Kip- ul and the Dickens. We circulate ry town and extortionate not for ertizements. Buy us." ee Fourth of July committee wants 1,000 pies to feed sailors. What're | they trying to do—sink our fleet? cee Congress votes down beer, says the newspapers. Shux, now we'll have to keep on drinking whisky! i one Carl Sawyer, Pacific Coast league umpire, uses a large wire cage when on duty on the field. It is guaran teed to stop the fastest pop bottle. Flour and Sugar Tumble 10 Cents Each A Hurrah! Jour dropped 10 cents Tuesday, Shih Kal, every Chinaman in the place started to throw rocks at it, The show ended in # riot, but | # good thme was had by all. “The queer thing about the display | was that it actually diverted the so tumbled 10 cents— || minds of the Cantonese from the rev per hundred pounds. Retailers olution, «It gave them material to! were enabled jo sell small lots at |! talk about for the next year, | ents # pound. “All the fireworks used that’ night sHe were manufactured in, Seattle.” Miss Bernice Evans, Seattle girl state’s witness, who has repudiated statements that | Police Chief Frank Reynolds (inset), of Bremerton, took graft money | Evans’ photo by Price & Carter, Star staff photographers. PAYING CHIEF} Girl Says No “Hush Money” Passed; “She’s Lying,” the State Thinks GIRL’S STATEMENT i E bie i : i F #33} ef fh il H fi § 5 No money was while I was ” eee BREMERTON, June 29.— Jail yawns today for pretty Bernice Evans, Seattle girl. witness for the state against Frank Reynolds, Bremerton’s accused police chief and churchman. ig Reports from Seattle that Miss Evans has repudiated alleged state. ments that “hush money” fund for the chief fre causing consternation here, in official circles and out. “I think,” said Prosecutor Ray Greenwood, who has charged Rey- nolds with extortion, “that the girl has been approached by some one any panned I from, her.—Miss SEATTLE LOSES |‘SADIE, THE a — a TION BASE| HECTIC TIME QUALIFYIN lp ON SECOND KITCHEN JOB WASHINGTON, June 29.— The house today refused to ap- Prove senate appropriation of yard at Bremerton, and $90,000 for a rifle range. It also declined to allow the steretary of the navy to accept a tract of land from King county, nee as an aviation base site, It acceped a senate appropria- tion of $1,000,000 for enlargement of the naval hospital at San Diego, HE SIGNALS WITH TORCH EUGENE, Ore, Ju trying to signal my fri will know I am not dead,” said Oscar Hanson, transient, to Southern Pa- cific Detective McClain, when discov: ered building bonfires every 100 yards or so between the rail4 near Irving yesterday, He was using a blow torch to start the fires. Hanson, who is being held in jail here awaiting a hearing on his san- ity, admits escaping from a state in- stitution at Sedro-Woolley, Wash. John Stout, 60, died in Virginia Mason hospital shortly after mid. night Wednesday, from injuries re- | ceived when he fell into the well at his home, Tuesday afternoon, at ‘Kd monds. Hiy relatives are not yet known, The boay was taken to the Home Undertaking Co, BY WANDA VON KETTLER F one thing I was certain when starting out Friday morning on my second job—I knew: that a cook book was snuggled away in my wicker suitcase. Inc y, I knew just where to find that section en- utled Food.” When 1 arrived at the house in the East Madison I was le by the “missus” to a hall cupboard, | Polishing six of them. where 1 parked belongings ° again decorated myself n the kitchen apron, A moment later 1 -found = myself staring down at a whole’ dinner set r and a beautiful ar. Miss Von Kettler ray of glasses, adl of which showed evidence of a pre- vious repast. Come to find out later the family had celebrated with a lit- tle dinner party the night before. oe ‘The suds were Just beginning to lap over the glassware when I heard a youthful voice shout melodiously from what 1 sup- posed to be the vicinity of the bedroom, “Hey, GEE, | WANTA’ GET UP.” And that was Billy, “Invalid|eq. q| Myself immensely, The glasses were ! | or misinformed in some way about the case, “But I'm going to call her as & witness, and if she testifies that she didn't give somebody money to give to the chief, I'm going to take steps to put her in the penitentiary for perjury. “I intend to see ner in Seattle to- day and have a talk with her. She'll either come clean or go to jail.” Further details of Reynolds’ al- leged transactions were disclosed by officials today. THREATENED GIRL WITH ARREST, CHARGE It is charged that he went to the Rainier hotel, operated by Jacob Biteman, on June 6, that he threat ened Betty Gordon, a roomer, with arrest, that Miss Gordon managed to collect from her own pocket and from friends sufficient money to mol- the frail little 6 year-old who was on a diet. Come to find out again, Billy was not the type of dieting invalid to lie on a sofa cushion in the sunshine and talk about lilly white clouds. Instead, he arose at 10 o'clock, crawled into a pair of overalls, yelled cally over something he want- mut couldn't bave, and finally made fér the yard. see In the meantime I was enjoying fo pretty, and I spent 35 minutes Somewhere there's some kind of a motto about taking things slowly and doing them well. I lived up to it, Not once did I permit haste to interfere with my thoroughness. When the mopping began, how- ever, I was called down in the first round. 53 “Sadie,” apoke the mother of Billy, “you'll have to rub harder if you're going to get the floors clean—you didn’t brighten up the bathroom very well. I think I'll get you a scrub- bing brush,” she added thoughtfully, “they're. really a lot better than mops,"" So I doggedly 1avored with more energy over the kitchen, Then be- gan the parade thru the house with a carpet sweeper, I like carpet sweepers. They aren't oozy like mops, and they (Turn to Last Page, Column 1) BREMERTON, J While accused —Polic Frank Reynolds’ is on his two months’ “vacation” on full pay of $150 a month from the city, | he intends spending all his spare time laying brick on the new Catholic church, at $12 a day. Reynolds is a deacon of the First Baptist church and secre- tary-treasurer of the Sunday school, —_—_—— lity the chief and save her the tncon- venience of going to jail, This y, amounting to $100, was un- to be “bail” for Miss Gor- don's appearance in court later, A couple of days after, it is al- leged, Reynolds collected $50 more “ball,” and on June 20. just before Turn to Last Page, Column 2) ~y she contributed to a| Cannot See Ring Fight “L'il Artha” Will Contin- ue to Be Model Prisoner on Day of Big Battle WASHINGTON, June 29.—If you were a fighter by profession and onetime heavyweight champion of the world— And if you were in a federal pris- on, with your sentence due to expire just five days after the Dempsey- Carpentier fight at Jersey City— And if, along about June 30—three I pear You days before the fight and a week before your sentence expired—a par. don should come, freeing you on the ground of good behavior and allow. ine you just time to srab.a train, and buy a ticket for a ringside ovat ‘Ob, wouldn't that be a grand and siorious feeling? Well, that’s what might have hap- pened to Jack Johnson, a compul- sory guest of Uncle Sam at the Leavenworth penitentiary. But it won't, Attorney General) Daugherty sald so today, He had considered doing it, after listening to numerous appeals for parole. “He's been a good prisoner,” Daugherty says. “He has done a/ lot to teach the prisoners how to keep themselves fit physically—take baths, trim their toe nails, and 80/ on, He has been a decided help in improving the condition of the pris- oners.” On the other hand, the seriousness of the offense for which Johnson was sent up, violation of the Mann white slave act, and the fact that |Johnson is not personally popular thruout the country, decided the jattorney general against commuting his sentence. And if—after having had your! hopes raised by half-promises of a pardon in time to see the big fight —the pardon didn't come; and you spent the afternoon of July 2 breaking rock inside the prison walis— Wouldn't that be the hardest pun-’ ishment of all? Johnson will obtain his release July 9, when his white wife will pay a fine of $1,000 attached to his sen- tence and save him from serving an additional 30 days, THREE INJURED IN AUTO SMASH Three persons were injured when two autos collided in front » of Brown's garage at Redmond Wednesday morning. One car was owned by the Sunnyside Investment company. The ownership of the other car is unknown. The injured occupants have been removed to a hospital. Burglars Try Twice and Quit Disgusted! Burglars who entered the shop of | the Beem Sign Co., 2131” Western ave., Tuesday night, ransacked the place, but ‘failed to find? anything of value. The thieves then entered the Admiral Cleaners and Dyers shop next door, They also failed to find anything there of value and gave it-up in disgust, Patrolman H. A. Holmes, who investigated, be- lieves it to be the work of boys, Will Be Sentenced | for Dope Activity, Lem Yat is scheduled to be sen- | tenced on dope charges July 11, He was found gulity Tuesday by federal jury. JERSEY CITY, N. J., June Pierre P. Garvin, prosecutor of H son county, New Jersey, will lay & formation before the county gral jury Friday that principals in Dempery-Carpentier fight are gi of conspiracy to violate the Jersey” boxing laws, it wae stated today. — the taw, he was ‘tordse information supplied by Jersey C pastors and representatives of jpternational reform bureau. The rata comes including is sought by the reformers. oa The charges laid before Garvin | Rev. Harvey L. Wyatt of the Cl men’s Community aa were same used yesterday efforts | fight. ‘The affidavits declared the is to be a prize fight and not exhibition to which the Jersey Umit such cohtests, that it corrupt the morals of Jersey youths, attract. undesirables to city and that the promoters made it easy to carry out a ti swindling game. “An investigation by the cutor of conditions shows that i crime has been committed or is contemplation by the promoters. the boxing exhibition,” Garvin ? “I believe that they intend to com- — ply with the law, but as this com.) — plaint has been ‘made to me, it my duty to submit the papers to grand jury and I will do so Friday afternoon.”” \ Clinton Newton Howard, secretary of the bureau, who was at Trenton today said he knew nothing of the change in plang for attacking the — fight. i Billy Sunday Says, “Let ’Em Fight Now” NORTON, Va., June 29.—The time to have opposed the Dempsey-Car pentier fight was before Tex Rickard had spent a barrel of money erecting the arena, William A, (Billy) Sunday. said here today, “I do not favor prize fights, but as it has been known for months that this bout was scheduled to take place, the time to have opposed it was before Tex Rickard had spent @ barrel of money erecting the prize ring. Now that the scrap is to come off, let us hope Jack wins, because rpentier is a foreigner and Jack is an American, “In my opinion, prize fights on Sunday is not as bad as a baseball game on Sunday.” It is a whe citizen that knows whether a girl is smiling or laughing at him, The Used Car A Sound Investment Thie used car long since has es- tablished itself as a factor in our economic fabric. It is an accept. ed fact today that the purchase of @ good used automobile from a re- sponsible dealer, whose indorse: ment may be received with confi- dence, {s a sound investment, The business of disposing of. used cars is rapidly being placed on a high: er plane, and the buyer need have no fear now in trading with a re- sponsible dealer. ‘The summer months are here, ‘The responsible auto dealers of Seattle invite youn close inspection of the good used cars which bear their indorse- ment 6N the classified page today,