The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 13, 1921, Page 5

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1921. Postmistress’ Story of. Murder Puzzles Police | | a? Ours, Miss Lena Clarke and Fred Miltimore | Mystery Enshrouds Motives of Killing in Florida Hotel Aug. 13.—A]was a $38,000 shortage. Miss Clarke said she suspected Miltimore. Both |she and Miltimore later were candi- jdates for postmaster, and during their candidacies $20,000 more in cancelled money orders disappeared. y | This, too, she said, she believed Mil said she tried to get him to sign & statement regarding the earlier tage and that he refused.” the. she once had told police she shot Miltimore, Miss Clarke Chief Vestal on this second oc- that if she shot him, she remember it. following day Chief Vestal —, the woman and said she im that in a dream the night before the hotel room scene had come back to her, and that she was sure be would find eeme.cl the tier money in the bathroom of her i Hl 58% i ESEE fight ix & 8 eS REG in the flush tank. Police bétieve This man, they say, might easily have slipped into the rodm and shot Miltimore after Miss Clarke had © | drugged him and gone for police. it post-| For French pastry look up Boldt's. Beach, there —Advertisement. is CSEY HIP CONTINUOUS TOMORROW TILL. WEDNESDAY NEW ALL-STAR VAUDEVILLE | FEATURE PHOTOPLAY Burke & Burke “A earner “Ma DOLL” In “A Western Union Flirtation” Frank Shepard & Co. “Bunkology” Royal Trio Novel Gymnasts Rita Shirley Song Studics j | Filipinos jcharges gthat the Filipinos are not ~)FIUPINOS ARE REGULAR FOLKS, Resent Charge They’re Not Fit for U. S. William Philip Simms, famous writ wtih the istaw By William Philip Simms) (Written Expressly for the N. BE. A)| MANILA, Aug deen more rot written about Filipinos | than probably any other people in| modern times. Before seeing the Philtppines for myself I had somehow got the idea that the natives were mostly re formed head-hunters and that their favorite dish was rabbit-hound Most Filipinos, I vaguely thought, | Greased in a geestring on week days and on special occasions, like the cap- | ture of an unfortunate mimdonary or something, they added an extra string of colored beada, THEY OUT.AMERICAN THE AMERICANS ‘The truth is the average Filipino is the best fox-trotter, one-stepper, henl- tator, walteer, shimmier and toddler that ever shook a couple ankles. He dresses in Broadway styles, probabiy has a college education, knows how to mix a milad dressing better than a French waiter and, if called upon to do #0, could make Chauncey ,M. Depew look to his laurels as an after-dinner speaker. First among the guilty come the World’s Fair preas agents. There is nearly always a bunch of! MHA #8 PSGHyXe souAN;ZT 20 eROI091 pino natives, Muth is always made of the story that their favorite viand is dog meat and their costume, of course, is abbreviated next to nothingness LIKE INDIANS TO THE COLONISTS These natives are to the mass of Filipinos precisely what the Amert- can Indian was to the American colo- nists One of the most refined homes saw was a Filipino girl. She was the kind you would like to have holding on to your arm as you entered Abbaye, in Paris, con- scious that envious eyes would be leveled at you—and her. The most enthusiastic poker players I ever saw, in any cilme, cast or west, are the natives of these very islands. Poker is the most American of indoor sports. One of tho mest refined homes 1 ever had the honor of entering was Filipino home. It was not so elaborate as some I have scen, bat in none have I wil more beautiful devotion brothers and sisters and parents and children. The hospitality of the Filipinos ts proverbial and reminiscent of the Old South, now rapidly disappearing. Your hosts cannot do enough for you. Gentle, courteous, they wait on you at table, keeping your plate ftiled with specially prepared dishes and. at one stage or other, never fall to introduce you to some carefully guarded bottle of rare old Spanish wine, or some liqueur of which the host is particularly proud. NOT LIKE THEY'RE PAINTED Sull it is not an uncommon thing in America to see pictures of griz- zied old murderers holding onto the skulls of their victifhs; pictures of flerce-looking negriton staring wild- animaleyed out of trees; pictures to -|of nearly nude females under the caption of “Filipino Belles,” and so on and #o forth, all conveying the impression that of such are the Phil- tppine islands made up. There are 10,350,730 people tn the islands, according to the last cen. sus, which is not yet off the preas, Only 846,999 of these belong to the semicivilized category, the non Christian class. All the reit are schoolattending, church-going Christian people, who till the land, itve in houses, rear | families and carry on in more order. ly fashion than some communities in the United States In short, the Filipinos, taken by and large, are regular folks, will do well to remember this,” There is deep resentmnt among against indiscriminate “fit” to became American citizens: that they are a “menace to our civili. zation,” and such talk Whether the Filipinos are granted their independence or retained under the United States flag, some senators and congressmen back home will have to curb their language if they wish Filipinos to retain a ehred of their affection for America. In his next story Simms gives you his own views as to what ac- tion United States should take with me islands. Appler & Appler i Featuring MUNTE BLUn Mistatare Roves i MARY THURMAN PANTAGES Matinees—2:30 BEGINNING MONDAY MATINER Nights—7 & 9 ALEXANDER PANTAGES presents JAN RUBINI Sweden’s Young Violin Virtuoso MLLE. DIANE The French Chanteuse Stan & Mae Laurel “No Mother to Guide Her” Burns & Lorraine The Cromwells Broadway Thieves Sensational Gymnasts THE SEASON'S COMEDY KICK WHITE, BLACK AND USELESS “The New “Blacksmith” Comedy and Pantages Weekly News a GENERAL ADMISSION: MATINEES 25¢; NIGHTS 40¢ Jean Gibson Galli Curei of Syncopation murder, ‘Dentist Accused ‘by Girl on Deathbed POCATELLO, Idaho, Aug. 13 Genevieve Burns, who swallowed 12 dichloride of mercury tablets last Friday, is dead today. ‘The girl gave a statement to her mother recently in which she charged Dr. Blakemore, loca! dentist, with being responsible for the act He is being held on a charge of as- sault with intent to commft mur. der ‘This charge may be changed the district attorney states to EVERETT.—Governor Hart sched wled to address Stillagyamish valley pioneers at club's grove, Arlington, next Tuesday Today in — Congress SENATE Not in session HOUSE Considers administration farm cred tte bill Ways and means committees con- tinues tax revision work. Judiciary mittee considers autt- beer bill tleup. M4 a fi 1 ii StIsiStici THE SKATTLE rAR Wilkes Co. in Melodrama STEED DENIES WOMAN ADMITS MRS, WILLIMAN New Vaudeville Programs Times, | | 1—Anne Berrymar, Wilkes. 2—Bertha Burke, Palace Hip. 3—May Laurel, Palace Hip. WILKES PLAYERS IN MELODRAMA display of comedy talents of Burke jand Burke-—Joe and Bertha—the Lovers of thrilling mystery plays, | Players featured in the act. the modera melodrama pitched in a| Frank Shepard is a card trickster natural key, will delight in “Three | whore feats are accompanied by Faces East.” which will be present: | scintillating comedy chatter, ed by the new Wilkes Players at| ‘Three stalwazt chaps are the the Wilkes for the week beginning | poyal Trio, whore routine of aerial tomorrow matinee. This is the DIMy | and equilibristic feats is maid to in by Anthony Paul Kelly in which | clude some new and thrilling iho Violet Heming appeared in Seattle | vations last season with tremendous suc| iia Shirley ts a pretty yotng cows. Thru his general manager.) woman who has won laurels as @ Dean B. Worley, now in New York,| musical comedy star. Thomas Wilkes was able to obtain) Artie and Gertrude Appler present the new play for use of his dra |, gracefully arranged revue that is matic stock companies, and its first | reptete with dainty dances and jing- Presentation takes place in Seattle.| tng tunes “Three Faces East” is a master-| Monte Blue and Mary Thurman piece of ihternational spy plots and) are featured in the feature photo- counterplots, Not once does it lose| piay, “A Broken Doll” ite interest and at no time does it ata disclose the solution to the puzsle until the last few minutes of the| MUSICAL OFFERING COMING TO PAN play. It has a remarkabie thrilling | scene In its second act when London| A high-class musical act heads the is raided by airplanes. new show opening Monday at the Bn order to properly produce the| Pantages, Alexander Pantages is play it has been necessary to en-| presenting Jan Roubini, the Swedish ®age 4 number of character actors| violin virtuoso and Mlle, Diane, | to portray the types presented. Fred | French chanteuse, in a new offering. Dunham will have an unusual role | These two artists are already gnown | and one by no means easy in ite) and popular Seattle vaudeville | demands Alice Elliott will be seen | audiences and have an offering that as Fraulein Helgne, the central fig-| is delightfully different. ure in the play and one that affords| The comedy kick of the bil comes her fine opportunities. jin “The New Blacksmith,” present é ed by White, Black and Useless. | The fun develops from the efforts | COMEDY OFFERING of a new blacksmith to shoe a mule AT PALACE HIP that doesn’t fancy wearing shoes. An outstanding feature of the new Original patter interspersed with show at the Palace Hip Sunday will | songs and inimitable travesty is be a comedy idea that ts novel, ex- provided by Stan and Mae Laurel in| ploited in “A Western Union Flirta: | their laughable success, “No Mother tion.” This lively offering is said|to Guide Her.” to be an admirable vehicle for the “The Galli Curel_of Syncopation” “SALAD Tea is so delicious and refreshing— ac certaint must try it. wae KING INTERVIEW AN OLD MURDER “Absolutely Nothing to It,”| Confesses Slaying Spokane| Says London Editor Man 15 Years Ago PORTLAND, Ore, Ang. 13.—"Ab-| SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 13.—The solutely nothing to it,” was the em.|l5-yearold mystery of the shooting phatic denial with which HL Wick a masey en a mn, ¥ Be ham Steed, editor of the London! was golved late here for a mbort stay, met! lice received infor woman who died rece couver, B.C bed to the | She Hutchinson, accord ing to the police version of the con fewxion, for a Spokane man who was | connected | which failed. | The woman, in the crash man, She that a in Van- y sed on her his interviewer's query concerning contes ng. the new famous o “King George” in terview On one subject alone did b up” and talk freely, That was about Ireland. “The king’s reply to Mra, Mac Swiney had a tremendous influence on the settling of the whole prob- lem," Steed said. “Then Landon executions, and all the prog! reas that had been made was lost, ‘The good effect of the king's Belfast | speech was also nullified by the Brit-| ish government's precipitancy.” Thruout his discourse Steed painted Lioyd George, British pre mier, as the chief obstructionist to the successful culmination of Irish peace with England {stool “loosen who lost her money blamed the Spokane followed bim here and because he and Hutchinson looked alike, shot Hutchinson in the belief that he was the banker The banker is still living here, but is not engaged in the banking busi ness at present. came the Faulty Compasses Blamed for Wreck VANCOUVER, B. C, Ang. 12. Faulty compasses were to blame for }the wreck of the steamer Canadian | is what Jean Gibson calls herself on | Exporter off the Qregon coast two the program. weeks ago. This was the testimony Programmed “Broadway \today before a marine court of in | Thieves,” @Bur: Lorraine are \quiry of Capt Bradley, who said | expected to give an additional com: |that on several occasions he had re edy punch to the bill, ported his unsatisfactory compass to Maude and Frank Cromwell are ‘the management of the Canadian athletes. government fleet of steamers. as yesterday when po-! with a Vancouver bank rAGE 5 TESTIFIES Declares Lydia E.Pinkham’s Vege- | table Compound to Be the Best Medicine for Girls and Women | Hamilton, Ohio. —“ Thad | euch awful pains in my back | could hardly stand on my feet and I ba lhad eye ad for nee ears and two the feat doctors + the city, bt me getting worse and only y, had ounds. I saw your advertisementand Ptook eight boxes of Lydia E. 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One of the biggest scenes is the forest ranger, driving through the hushed court room straight at the lumber king’s throat! CHARLES CHAPLIN —IN— “THE CHAMPION” “One of his fastest comedics! “OVER THE HILL” “Over the Hill” Is Smashing All Records in New York, San Francisco and Seattle “EVERYONE WHO HAS A MOTHER OWES AS A DUTY TO SEE ‘OVER THE HILL.’” EN IT —Portland Oregonian — PRICES SPECIAL MUSIC BY A LARGE EVENINGS: 80¢, 55¢, 85¢ A Few Seats at $1.10 Augmented Orchestra MATLNEES: 30¢ AND 55¢ THESE PRICES INCLUDE WAR TAX METROPOLITAN