The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 4, 1921, Page 1

[FORCE AT COURTHOUSE FIGHTS LOWER SALARY! bx § WEATHER wd §=Wednesday, northwesterly winds Tonight moderat Temperature Last %4 rs Maximam, 66 Minimum, 49, Today noon, 52 On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Wash., under the Act of Congress March 2, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle VOLUME 23 ES SEATTLE, WASH., TUE SDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1921. ,~x 6 Ii} HOME| EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Py 22 Plural; The lar ia Oat Cleled Seats tercrile Paper _ Star’s daily paid average circulation as shown by postal statement of October Boo et a NSE, flaked ceeher cebb'y oles" Other evening paper’s daily paid average circulation as shown by postal statement of October 1,1921................ 000 ccc ceeeeee cece cece ene n es DOE Number of homes by which Star leads................ | | WIFE HEARS CHARGES IN nity TT Greetings, Folks! Men's fall hate are felt. So are the prices. eee ‘Worder bow much chance Abra- bam Lincoln would have of attend Poison Flypaper, Husband’s Last Iliness, Auto Payment | Southard Case Features BY ROBERT A. DONALDSON | TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Oct. 4-~- That Mrs. Lyda Southard, alleged | | “female Bluebeard,” on trial on a charge of poisoning her fourth hus- band, Edward I Meyer, committed | | the crime in order to obtain his 810,-| 009 insurance for the purpoge of com: pleting payment on a “Cadiliac road: | ster she Yad ordéred,” Is the theory | | upon which District Attorney Frank Stephan was working today, in pre- far as it ever | senting his evidence in court. RANCH MANAGER INDORSES NOTE | H. Granville Haight, manager of the Blue Lakes ranch, where Meyer | testified that Mra. Southard said to him: ! “I can make the payment all right | by September 1 (1920), because I ex: | pect to have $8,000 or $10,000 by that) time from land that I own in Mon- tana.” Haight made the note payable on} September 15. Meyer died on” sep- + | tember 7. ‘The state alleges that, as a matter | of fact, Mrs. Southard possessed no} land whatsoever. Montana, and) was really counting om. the $10,000! from the policy wiyiety whe had per: | suaded Meyer to tak@ out on August | 16, 1920-—the day etter their mar-; riage. Mrs. Carrie Howe, of Muscatine, Towa, and Haight, t iret two witnesses called by t! wave “what is considered hi etal ing testimony Mrs. Howe, the first fied that on August 25 ith ard went to the rai fo stay with her bustand a few days, after having spent only one previous night with him there, staying in- stead at a Twin Falls hotel and giving as her reason that she was “not feeling weil” and that “the doctor was treating her for ty-| phoid.” SAYS WOMAN BROUGHT POISON FLYPAPER Mrs. Howe testified that when Mrs. Southard arrived she brought with her several packages of pov von fiypaper and proceeded to put some of it in saucers. Meyer was taken, vjolently sick (Turn to Page 14, Column 2) testi- “$f we can’t have the fitneys, at we can have jitney carfare, in one of our secret agents. ane) LIKE TO SEE IT Now: i€ Fatty, who found his cel- lar of booze intact when he returned home, would only send a blueprint of its construction here for official Inspection! Si ges in window of electric sup- Phy Pos on Third ave: “Why Kill Your Wife? Let Electricity Do It.” Some girls’ idea of being perfectly frank is to stand between you and the sun. 4 * { corn could hear Nigrls «olla fof the leaves,” C.N. R, “do you think would be shocked just the | AudreyMunson on Trial for Scanty Attire ST. PAUL, Oct. .4—Audrey Munson, wearing a smile and her street clothes, went on trial here late today, charged with conspir: acy to corrupt the-publie morals, She immediately demanded @ jury trial, and examination of prospective jurors disclosed that not one asked to ¥@ excused from duty. The Twentieth-Century Venus was arrested here at a theatre during the showirg of her film, “Innocence.” It was charged she posed “almost nude” at the per formance, - The criminal court building was jammed with men, Reports cir. culated about town that the fa Mous model w h p in the courtroom to or Innocence of the charges preferred against her by the Ghurch Federation. Her defense, it was said, is that display of her “divine form” was “art.” and nothing more. Judge Calvin Miller disappaint- ed the eager crowd when it was announced that Miss Munson would pose for him and the jury at a private exhibition today. Miss Muson satin court with a little purse in her lap. The film “Innocence” ts also to be shown the jurors and the judge. Ben M, Judel, Miss Munson's manager, faced the same charge as the model He didn't pose at the show which resulted in the complaint He took the tickets. The wrist watch Is a great trav | It has traveled from the ankle and ig now on the | going to iblish or Phage filed seat Mein GREAT MYSTERIES Why clothing manufacturers de- sign men's suits so that the pants and veat never meet. City councilmen, up for re election, are laying plans to ride into office on a 5-cent fare. . . days wet. oe Whatzziz? Whazaiz? | “Wanted, to rent, 5-room bungalow | on Queen Anne Hill Must have damp cellar.” — Advertisement in Daily Paper. dry humor these . Ain’t Human Nature Grand? Fatty Arbuckle is getting in the) movies, He is being photographed fn jail with his wife, without his wife, But the little scene which got | him into jail is the picture would draw the biggest crowds. that | | Giving a slant at the baseball page, | It looks ae if this isn't going to be an Indian Surmmer. y | tober 8. | been made Modern Dancing Dreadful Says Irene Castle; Calls Rolled Stocking “Sloppy” BY RUTH AGNES ABELING THACA, N. Y., Oct. 4,—She folded one slim leg back and then settled among the cushions. Irene Castle Tremaine was ready to talk. ; Modern dancing?-—it was suggested by the music from a restaurant nearby “Dreadful! Shakes your teeth out?’ satd she. Rolled down stockings? “A sloppy, old fashioned habit.” Present-day fash fons? “Unlovely, Too many indefinite lines. There must be a decided sil- houette if smart. ness and beauty are to be achieved.” The source of her own gift for style? “From my mother.". And she refuse to modify it American women? a the smartest, the most charming and the love- Mest womerd on earth.” says Mra. Tremaine, and then, with her luminous smile, “because American husbands are the most generous and indulgent husbands." Home life? “Oh, it's just fine.” With one slim hand Mra. Tremaine bowled over Joy, « Belgian Griffon, about the size of your pet cat, and began slapping its fat, round stomach. “Im not domestic, tho, and if I had to order the groceries Y'd never eat.” Her own dancing career? “At an end. I'll never dance professionally any more. ' couldn't find a partner. I know almost nothing of what the dance steps for the winter are lable to be, And T used to like dancing better than anything else.” She was slapping Joy's plump stomach again. And Joy loved it. You could tell by the way he flipped his excuse for a tail, Joy is about six years old and one of thore lit- tle shaggy fellows with a none whieb you simply know, by in stinet, ix there. FEE PROTEST AT U. SWEEPS THE CAMPUS The spirit of protest against the tions are rapidly falling into line in high fees at the state university,|the campaign for reduced fees, The which has swept the campus and|UNiversity Dally characterizes the |campaign:as @ “reasonable protest, city for the past week, will @64/D | ang goes’on to criticise the present be expressed at'a second mass meet-) system, The Washington Alumnus, Ing to be held oh the campus Oc-|the Sun Dodger and the Colurnns will @ petition to be |Sarry editorial comment directed ah Plans for « petition to be] against the high teen now In force e 1 9 hg ie as ct i | ‘The Alumni asosciation of the uni Irene Castle Tremaine He always accompanies Mrs. Tremaine on her journeys. And weeps at the door of the hotel suite when she leaves for a pertod. Kiki, over whose woolly brown head some 10 years have passed, is less demonstrative Mra. Tremaine is slim, quite as slim as you expected, with hair) just a tinge red and bobbed. Her face—wistful, sen. nitive, eager, vital. Her voice heavy. You wonder where all of its depth and weight stays in so slim a person. And her feet—such little feet! Her dress was something dark, accented with a brilliant color which might have been called red if that could express its gorgeousness. There was a collar which stood up and away « little and a string of pearls. Fat the pearls—ah,. there was the secret! Instead of falling close to her neck line, they were around the collar, #0 they almost outlined her shoulders and accented their straight slimness. Therein ts the difference that makes Irene Castle Tremaine a real individual. Jed to the university administration | vergity has gone on record ag being and the state legisinture will be dis-| absolutely opposed to the present cussed and a permanent organiza, | fees. A meeting at the Bon Marche | m 4 tion perfected | has been called for Thursday noon Everywhere on the campus) dis jumni, Hill says “the alumni are un- cussion of the new fees and COM! aiterably op: tp the fee syatenk demnation of the added charges §| o¢ tha oe tt fe centenary tb encountered. Instances are mult! | the princtple of equal opportunity in plying of students no have s#uf-| education.” fered hardahipa because of the in-| yr Don Palmer, a member of the creased cost of so-called free educa-| executive board, says that the alum- tion. It is estimated by officials of | ni wit! back any work of the students the university that feveral hundred | or administration to lower: fees of the students who failed to return Bee to school were ‘unable to do #0 ve: | cause of the increased céet | Illegal Fees ‘to Be President Hem Suzzallo has de-) Returned, Sometime ¢lined to expresdy himself at once tn | answer to the protests which have| While ‘schoo! officiald have ceased | collecting the high school fees which Masty other members of the ad-|werbe held {llega by the superior ministration and faculty have de-| court last week, no effort is being clared themselves in favor of the | made to refund the fees already tak: movement omfoot to prevent fur- em in. © ’ 4 ther increase at the next meeting| Reuben Jones, secretary of the of the legislature. | school bdard, said )today that the Gunner Berg, chairman of the ex. school board would take up the mat ecutive committee, says that the peti- ter “in a short time.” The finande tions will be ciroulated to get a cen-| committee, he explained, was now us of student opinion, and expresses | considering whether to accept the ronfidence that practically all the| court's decision as final or make. a students will eign ° | test” case of it ‘These petitions will carry the reso-| be mage, it would be months before lutions adopted at the last mass|any fées would be gefunded, meeting, and will be used by the ad- In the meantime, Secretary Jones ministration in their fight to increase | is receiving dozens of calls a day appropriations and decrease tuition| from pupils and parents, protesting and other feqs at the next session of! against the Injustice of making part the legislature, [of a class pay fees and the rest get ~ Student organizations and, publica- free instruction, pa | by Matthew Hill, president of the al- | Should a test case} Union Representative Pro- tests Reducing Pay of Janitors Violent opposition to drastic cuts in the allowance for court house maintenance featured Tuesday's seasion of the annual county budget hearing. J. H. Kennedy, representing the union men, provided the liveli est scone of the hearing to date in voicing his protest against the reduction, which in- cludes a salary decrease of $12,500, Not a single member of the force jemployed to care for the court house escaped the ax, the salary allowance being cut from $75,980 to $63,480, a reduction of $12,500. SALARY CUT $300 jeutting the pay of and entirely doing away with al- lowances for extra help during the | vacation period. | The county superintendent of | buildings’ pay fs cut from $2,700 to $2,400; his foreman is reduced | from $1,980 to $1,800, and the of- fice of aanistant foreman, with a salary of $1,680, is entirely elimi- nated Other reductions included: Twenty- four night janitors with total salary, reduced $4,820; day j Jan’ or, $1,500, cut $180; two win- | dow washers at $1,600 apiece re- duced to $1) $1,600, cut $360; rekeeper, re duced from $1,680 to $1,500; marble cleaner, two night watchmen and matron each reduced from $1,500 to $1,820; telephone supervisor, at | $1,660, cut $180; two telephone oper. ators, $2,880, reduced $260, and heat ing engineer, cut from $2,420 to $2,220. Items providing $300 for extra help for the heating engineer and $2,000 for general extra help during the vacation period were cut 100 per cent. ‘The reduction of court house “ex- penses’ was nearly as large as that of salaries—-reaching a total of $11,. 900—but this occasioned no protest. This decrease was brought about by material cuts in allowances for vir tually all supplies and the total elim. ination of many items, such as win- dow shades, furniture and fixtures. BATTLE EXPECTED OVER GARAGE BUDGET Another lively battle was expected when the garage budget came up, as all employes must suffer a severe re- duction in salary, a total of $1,980 being cut from the $19,500 salaries lallowance. The superintendent, 1 $2,700 a year, gets a $300 cut; the head mechanic and the machiniat jeach drop from $2,400 to $2,160; the |four mechanics, at $2,100 apiece, get }a 10 per cent gut, and the méchan- lies’ helper and stockman, each draw- ling $1,800, draw a similar ’ reduc- ‘tion. The opening moments of the morn- (Turn to Page 14, Column 3) Free Ad for a | | | Dr, Frank R. Loope, The Star's bed-ridden reporter, editor of The Star's weekly department, “Sun- shine Smiles for. Shut-Ins,” an- nounces that he has entered a new fieid of business activity. Altho paralyzed and unable to arise without assistance, much} less canvass from house to house, Dr, Loope has, nevertheless, un- dertaken the task of getting sub- scriptions for the Curtis publica. tions, the Saturday Evening Post, |] Ladies’ Home Journal and the |] Country Gerttieman. “I do my reporting for The Star |] by telephone,” said Dr. Loope. “Tt || occurred to me, am T lay here, that I could get subscriptions to maga- zines in the same way, So I wrote .the Curtis Publishing company “and got &m agéncy.” ‘Those who care to subscribe to Dr. Loope’s periodicals may do so by phoning him—he a phone at his elbow—Capito! 7. Those who seldom think of such things nay expect a call from the maga- jo ‘broker ‘most any day. \ | | BUILDING | SUPERINTENDENT'S | | | ‘The reduction which particularly sroustd ‘Kennedy's ire were those * * * * * anaee® a HE STAR is today filing at the postoffice the sworn state-_ ment of its circulation for the last six months as required © by the United States government of all daily ne - pers. It shows the average paid daily circulation of Star from April 1 to October 1 to have been 67,672. This is a GAIN IN ONE YEAR OF 9,034. . The Star’s closest competitor, an afternoon daily, repo 55,945 daily paid average for the current six-months period. This gives The Star an acknowledged lead of 11,727. The actual, present lead of The Star is a great deal lz than that, because during the month of September our p daily average was 70,570. According to this figure our p lead is nearly 15,000. The Star prints these facts with a great deal of satisfaction, but not boastfully. And we would like now to reiterate a statement that v made to our readers one year ago, on the occasion of passii a similar remarkable circulation milestone: A Paper With No Axes to Grind “We do not lay claim to superlative editorial ability. Rath do we feel that The Star’s growth is due principally to its pendence—to its absolute freedom from business and po alliances that-make candor impossible and sincerity-diffieult. “We have no axes to grind. If we censure a man or an in tution, it is solely because we believe such censure will result public good. We prefer to praise rather than to condemn. would rather help a good cause than hinder a bad if the public good demands that a bad thing be fought, w: fight—you bet your life we will! “No man or institution is powerful enough to swerve ' Star from what it believes to be the right course. Neither there a man, woman or child, however humble, who, hav been wronged by The Star, cannot ask and receive from * . ’ 7 i Star Reporter || newspaper a direct and sincere apology. The little h produced herewith (the heading of the “Beg Pardon” dep ment) appears in these columns once or twice a month. does not appear oftener is due to the fact that our try to be fair, try to be accurate, try to give all the AND GENERALLY SUCCEED. > e e We'll Try to Enlarge ‘Plurality’ Again “Our older readers know these things. It is not for benefit that this article is published. Many of them have The Star thru thick and thin for 20 years. They have Ix its faults and forgiven its mistakes—and watched The grow bigger and bigger, better and better, year by year. Th have originated many of our features, and suggested many a our aggressive campaigns. « “To our 45,000 new readers (this year 36,000, estimating for readers to each copy of the paper sold), we wish to give th assurance: No GOOD thing is too weak to find a champion ii The Star. No BAD thing is too strong to fihd in The Star enemy. With your help and YOUR suggestions, The stands ever ready and anxious to help any movement or ins tution that will make Seattle or the whole Northwest a bet place in which to live. “THE EDITOR and THE STAFF.” ‘ What The Star said a year ago it also means now. We are vastly proud of our enlarged “plurality.” And we intend to de serve and win an even larger one. : ‘ MAHONEY HAS .'SEE HOPE FOR ~NEW EVIDENCE 5-CENT FARES|SEATTLE SHIP | | Alleged new evidence has been! Advocates. of the S.cent fare! ‘The big steel Americ | discovered inthe case of James B./ordinance, introduced in city coun: | freighter Arizonan went Mahoney that may get him & new paves end! i * rican were|fog near Limekiln, in the trial, accorfing to Attorneys 14*/thanic voter Mastthe temaare fT ; |Johnston and 1. B. Schwellenbach All but three of the councilmen | | counsel for the convicted wife mur-| have announced their position on the | derer. cheaper carfare ordinance. Council Motion; for a new trial was to be . }man R, H. Thomson is out of the filed sin superior’ court Tuesday, /city; A. 'T. Drake declined to discuss | counsél Said, to be aggued probably the measure until the committee of | Saturday, What the’new evidence”) the whole takes up the ordinance, is they’ did not disclose. nd Robert B. Hesketh was non-com- Mahoney was reported “all right”) mittal, ald and Erickson ‘ha’ by county jaflers Tuesday morning.| Observers at the city hall were of}fayor of the reduction, Since the verdict, invoking the/the opinion Tuesday that the 5-cent jand Hesketh are denth penalty, Mahoney has beenjfare ce will muster suf- | favorably restless, it ia said. , ficient votes in the council to become ure. © | ]