The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 30, 1921, Page 14

Girl-Teachers DR BROWNS SALARY CUT, HE RESIGNS Head of School Health De- partment Out; Drastic Re- ductions Effected Dr, Ira C, Brown, head of tho school medical department for | the past eight years, resigned Friday. Hig resignation was the | result of his salary being reduced from $5,000 to $8,600 a year, and of a reorganization of the school medical department in line | with a program of economy pro posed by the tax reduction coun- | cll recently. | The school board voted for the abolition of the position of assistant medical director, held by Mra, May Della M. Park, and the releasing of 15 nurses. { DR. BROWN GIVEN THREE MONTHS’ SALARY Under the new plan and economy 10 nurses will be left in the department, two in the parental school and eight for general field! work, In recognition of his services ren- dered for the past eight years, mem. bers of the school board voted to} give Dr. Brown three months’ sal ary and without a vacation, The salaty for the néw director to be appointed by the board will become $3,600 9 year. Dr. Brown stated privately Friday What he would be willing to remain at this salary provided the staff of the department would not be made inadequate to cover the department. Approximately $68,000 was the cost of the department last year. In a report made to the school board by the tax reduction council of Seattle, thru their committees, It ‘was said that salaries in the school) Friday night became an inmate of department are too high and should | the county jail. be cut. The committee based its! She ts charged with bigamy, fol epinion on comparison with other) lowing many alleged jumbled accu cities, The tax reduction council be- Instructed to Roll Them Up SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.— Girls hoping to teach school in San Francisco will kindly roll up thelr silken hostery above their knees and remove any surplus carmine from*their Lipa, Mrs. Helen P. Sanborn, presi dent of the San Francisco board of education, tasued that edict to- day when she laid down these plans and specifications for the proper dress of school teachers: No lipsticke—for “they are the last word in bad taste.” No hand-painted eyebrows—for “they are silly.” No “beauty windows” — they're “scandalous,” No rolleddown hosiery — for they are “idiotic,” No jet earrings—for a teacher must not pose as “an tmateur Carmen,” No “wasp walsts™—for they are “unhealthy and insane.” | And don't wear too short skirt, too low a waist or bobbed hair—for Mrs. Sanborn said she had no words to describe them, Mrx. Sanborn issued her warn ing that violators of those rules |] could not hope to pam teachers’ examinations after a country school district wrote to the state board of education, asking help in finding a teacher who “was clothed below the knees and above the waist.” WOMAN HELD Wed to Both Chinese and Irishman, Is Charge Irishman, and Lan On Tal, a Chi- nese, The wife declares that her mar by doing $800,000 and $1,000,000 will be effect- former husband, Ansel Cowles. Her marriage, then to Lan On Tal, she |says is legul. But Black declares that he and the present Mrs. Ortelle Cowles On Tal were married a second time im Tacoma after the six months to this effect has been se- cured by Deputy Prosecuting Meacham, from Tacoma, the ceremony was said to be per. “Over the Hill” tells a story as old as life itself and as new as the present mo- ment. It is a story of mother love divine— of beautiful sacrifice suffered uncomplain- ingly and finally re- warded. A cinema masterpiece that plays upon the human emotions, producing laugliter, tears, thrills and spasmodic ap- plause at will. AS BIGAMIST Mrs, Ortelle Cowles Black On Tat} Attor- where records in STOLEN BANK NOTES FOUND |Four Recovered; Balance Believed Here | Following the discovery of four #100 «bills, stolen more than two jweeks ago in a daring downtown robbery of two bank messengers at Second ave. and Spring st, the rob bers escaping with $26,000 In cur | reney, detectives announced Friday night that the stolen money Is being jcireulated In Seattle, The billa were discovered by Minx | Lola Gromman, cashier at the | Puss'n Boots confectionery, They were given to a waitress in payment |for a dinner check. ‘The billa had been issued from the Seaboard Na tional bank, and an investigation is under way to determine the source from which the bank received the money. When Miss Gromman discovered the stolen money in the cash draw- boa she phoned the detective depart jment. Detective BR. KR, Herbert answered the call and inventiguted a man named John Maloney, propric tor of the Switzer hotel, 1612% Sixth ave. Maloney readily produced [three of the stolen bills, which had 'been given him, he said, by the Sea- board National bank. | Investigation proved that he prob- ably had recelved the money there, |as there was no record kept of the |billa, They were identified as part of the loot seized by the robbers, by the serial numbers, Come to Take Pair Held for Forgery Deputy Sheriff Frank Crockin and Detective W. G. Leonard, both of Los Angeles, arrived in Seattle Bat urday to ¢ Into custody George | Johnson, former clerk in the Bank of Ttaly, and Jack Collins, who are wanted in Los Angeles on charges of forgery. Johnson and Collins are known as) | the forgers with a new system, hav. [ing, it ts alleged, drawn checks | amounting to $1,175 on dormant ac: jcounts -in the Hank of Italy, in which Johnson was employed. Arrest 2 on False Advertising Charge O. M. Sparks and George Dye were arrested Friday night on a charge of false advertising. Accord-| ing to P. C. Beazley, prosecuting | witness, Sparks and Dye advertised land in Skagit county with decep- j tive and misleading statements in a local paper for the purpone of nell ing worthless underwater sandy voll, Asks $75,000 for Husband’s Death Marion C. Slocomb filed suit against the Great Northern com- pany for $75,000 damages Friday, general contractors to place|as a result of her husband being subcontracts with Seattle killed by a Great Northern train af Monitor, November 27, 1919, dear’ Acker’ & Rudelpho Velent: 'S an old, old story that Jean Acker tells—love in poverty; mis ery and disillusion when fame and fortune smile, Not #0 many years ago she was struggling for any sort of part in the movies and Rudolpho Valentine was an obscure cabaret entertainer, with an uncertain future. But they loved and were willing to fight tt out together, and vo they were mar- ried. Today Valentino ls known wher. ever filme are shown as the dash ing hero of “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” and Jean Acker has tasted of stardom—BUT— She has tasted, too, of sorrow. For fame and fortune killed her TNT Here 1 husband's love. All this she recited in a sult, filed recently in Los Angeles, Cal, for separate maintenance, “He told me I was in his way— that he had his career to think of,” ald Mien Acker. “To me he ts still & wonderful boy; but to him I am only a wife.” “We started life together with ttle elee but love,” «he continued. “Fame and fortune found him. He deverves success, and I'm proud of him. But the best part of him, that which I loved and stilt love, gave way before the wonderful things hat came with success--and left me only memories,” Gives 300 Business Men Thrill ROPOLITAN STARTING AT 8:15 P.M. SUNDAY TWICE DAILY THEREAFTER AT 2:15 AND 8:15 P. M. The se aay of all times that has broken all ew York City, now playing its forty- seventh week in that city. Los Angeles and Portland are still talking about this wonderful picture, while it is now taking San Francisco by storm—SEE William Foo PRESENTS PRICES Sx: A cinema dramatic production as simple in theme as the characters who enact this noted picture that has been ton’s noted poems, “Over the Hill to the Pogghouse” and “Back Again.” ' Evenings (Reserved) rEW Matinees (Unreserved) ......27c, 50c WAR TAX rLus emmed from Will Carle- nATS THE SEATTLE STAR FAME ROBS HER OF HUSBAND STATE SEEKS — WATER CONTROL Californians Will Combat Private Companies SAN FRANCISCO, statewide movement fornia’s “white gold” for the people was launched today. A committee of leading Californ- jans announced in a signed state ment the preparation of an initiative constitutional amendment designed to put the people in running with | the private power companies in the development of the last natural re sources of the #tate~water and | hydro-electric energy. ‘The measure brings under state control the development and distri- bution of hydro-electric energy and| water. It makes available state credits) tor the development of hydro-elec- trie power by municipalities or irri-| gation or water districts, Provisions of the act would be carried out by a water and power board of five members. Sponsors of the movement Include irrigationists, financiers, members of | the League of Municipalities, en- gineers and representative men from all parts of California, ‘The measure is known as the Cali fornia water and power act. It was prepared after a eeries of confer. ences in San Francisco, Los An- geles and Sacramento for the last six weeks, A score of attorneys and engineers aided in the drafting | of the measure. ‘The California water and power act provides what the recently de- feated Johnson hydro-electric bill provided, and in addition places etate credits behind communities wishing July 30-—-A to save Cali | Greenba | sion to which she has devoted her: to move in on their own resources, The bill is somewhat similar to the one operating with undisputed suc cess in Ontario, Can, Tacoma Woman Is Hurt in Accident Miss C. Clubb, of 451 South EB et, Tacoma, was seriously injured Fri- day night when thrown from an auto driven by Milo Bigelow, also of Ta- coma, on the McKinley highway. Bigelow received several cuts and bruises. Bigelow, driving at 27 miles an hour, attempted to pass a Chandicr | kane the men were declared to have going In the opposite direction and/ stolen the auto after having robbed wan forced off the road into the/a gas station July 20. ditch, His car stop. ‘ was completely | then robbed the postoffice at Ephra- wrecked, while the Chandler did not/ta. They were seen crossing the So Beautiful Censors Don’t Object to Her 108 ANGELES, July 20.— Olive) Ann Alcorn, 21, who boasts of ap pearing in public more scantily clothed than any other American | dancer without censorship or dis approval, is to be immortalized in mural figures as the most beautt fully formed living woman. For this purpose she was com petitively selected by a coterte of fa-| mous sculptors and painters, includ. ing Prince Paul Troubetskoy, Jean Manheim, J, Bond Francisco, Joseph Coburn Frank, F. Von) Schneidan and Possner. To be painted by an artist yet to be} chosen, she will grace the frieze of & $2,000,000 theatre now being erect ed here. “I do not want to make a mere physical display of my body,” she| explained in justifying the profes self eince girlhood. “I want to demonstrate what natural living and wholesome thinking ean do in and through one’s physical self. “It's the motive, not the appear ance, that audiences censor, The public has time and again shown that it is able to discriminate be- tween suggestiveness, the perversion of beauty, and the inspiring display | of that physical perfection toward which we all aspire, “The artificial shame with which Most people invest their bodies is a pernicious outgrowth of clothes, which have come to be regarded a an integral part of the so-called civilized human being of the temper- ate or colder climates, “Until this ‘clothes-made mor. ality’ is stripped from the funda-| mental morals, we need not expect to progress far toward the golden human age. Indeed, on the other) hand, the perversions it begets will | continue to make more alarming the | social problems of the day.” Seek Bandits Coming Here in Stolen Car Believed to be heading for Seattle in an automobile stolen in Spokane, two bandits who operated recently in Spokane and vicinity are being hunted by police and deputy sher- iff, In a telegram to Chief Sear- ing from the chief of police in Spe The bandits Vantage ferry and are believed to be Misa Clubb, with serious cuts onj coming this way. her head, !s unconscious at the coun- ty hospital. . .27c, 50c, 77¢ 1,00 DISABLED VETS PLAN CAMPA Aim to Help Exe Help Themselves Disabled Veterans of the War, yesterday by Grantvedt at ditions that will enable them come self-supporting. The plan for obtaining f which to carry on this worl jg] being worked out in detail, The veterans plan to ball. All merchants destri ate with the Disabled thelr campaign They are asked to can Dp Grantoedt at The committee has offices: — a Securities buliding, ‘Third ay, aie ‘ Stewart st. M’ALESTER, Okla. head, lifer, penitentiary. need aid now before the |organizations can make the |sary arrangements, it was undertake this work, This campaign will a committee q Hiliott 1902, to will be Elliott 1992, killed in riot —Los Angeles Times. Special Musical Score by a Large AUGMENTED ORCHESTRI