The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 3, 1922, Page 1

Maximum, YE@ ( WEATHER Tonight and Soturdey, snow or rain; fresh southwest- erly winds homoge Last 24 Hoars — © ——— } Home Brew folks! The groandhog couldn't see its shadow yenter- day and we will have an early spring. Yeah, carly next sunr mer. D. W. Henderson, superintendent of transportation. mys Pete Witt was all wrong. Perhaps that was the rea son Pete left in such a hurry, eee Both Pete and Ole Hanson beat it for Lon Angeles, where they would have lots of ounpany. ° art GEE. GEE, Tw af orice Canon Biss says there are 7,000,- = 006 dope fiends in Seattle, but we cannot belp feeling that he has not counted the nearbeer addicta eee The man where here wan to toot "passe wp rope an carry brief cases.” sig & O. S, “but could you say that carry grief cases?” ~ bees. But some of these oan carvers often have eee ‘The White Cross é petting vp 8 Strong fignt_ecainet the Double Cros. WHATS BECOME OF— The boy who believed that, if he pat a horsehair in water it would turn into a snake? eee If Jobnny Dundee in wise bell do ; shadow boxing before tackling Shade. eee Seattle bootieggers are using prune Juice to color wood alcohol. the news get around that prune | Juice is being used and the demand for wood alcohol will die out eee Every Goat-Getter, 1 grant you, annoys, But there is only one “getter” ; Who upsets my poise, And he ts the bird, The king of kill-foys, Who always comes back with “Yes, but MY engine, boys!” eee Ton TUT BELLINGHAM, Feb. 3.—S. E. Bugg of this city has a ‘This exg measured 914 inches around the long way and 714 inches the other. It 6% ounces. — Newspaper dispatch. an great problem, we'll bet, is going to be, “How Are You Goin’ to Keep Him Down on the Farm, Now That He's Seen Paree! . Dayton engineers announce that they have discovered | new fuel for auto mobiles, So did the gasolme manufactor ere—they discovered kerosene. . . INCOME TAX FACTS Bootleggers can deduct from their income tax report all fines assessed against them, 78 fam Jones was quite penurions; For bargains he was curious Three-doliar booze caused Bill to laugh And also wrote his epitaph oe County commissioners praise Prose. @itor Malcolm Douglas, Because he didn’t order that ferry probe? ore ; & City employes stand a etvil rervice amination and can be civil when| they feel like it Would wash the dishes? o7e The end of the China muddle Is Rear, way the newspapers Dit’'ya ever notice that these here desperate bandits never | Picks on @ landlord? { | Traged yin Home Bars Enjoyment Laugh of Husband as He | Died From Bullet Brands Widow BY JACK JUNGMEYER LOS ANGELES, Feb, 3—Mra Julia Johnson at 25 is self-sem tenced to a life without laughter. Even acquittal in the court where she is being tried on @ ,| charge of murdering her | band, Thomas P. Johnsen, cannot | Festore the precious gift of glee. For always the sound or impulse jot mirth will bring ghostly echoes of ithe cachinations that mocked her heart's desire and sparked the shoot- ling which she admits Julia Johnson once chuckled easfty and often. With her husband at amusing things. With her little gtrt, tenderly. With and at the world— until, as she declares In extenuation of the Killing. Thompson turned their home into a bootleggery. He taunted and tortured her with cackies of derision, says Mre. John- lxon, when she asked him to remove |iMictt Liquor from the house and pro tested his entertainment of boors guests in the presence of their young daughter. Four times on the fatal day he laughed thus, so her court stery goes. Once when she spoke of the tnfin youngster—amusedly! Again when she thought to fright len him into compliance with a re volver-contemptuously! | A third time when Thompson ar jrived with a bootleg customer—pro- |vokingly taunting her with lack of ence hia actions might have on the) SEATTLE, WASH., 3, 1922. #- Woman Dooms Self to ‘Life Without Laughter in Probe of Film Death | Photoptey Industry May | Be Taken East as Re- sult of Murder NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—Head | quarters of the motion picture world may practically abandon jollywood and move Kast to Long Island. This plan, said to have been string of scandals surrounding Coast. POPE ELECTION | wv rss i, istrnerourw sactias ai were reported be quietly secking a young New York broker, whose identity is being kept secret, to question him in an effort to bring to light more facts about the murder of Unsuccessful William Desmond Taylor. ehs Dero een vane fo bave oar tah been prominent in movie society. a tren anye Ne Hay 04 He is described as a friend of a | ROME, Feb. 3.—The second bal) seeminent movie netress Jot of the sacred college for a sue] He came from the Hast, according cemor to Pope Benedict XV. Wlig the story which detectives are in unsuccessful this afternoon, & Puff) vostigating. shortly after the actress of smoke from the chimney of tht / returned from a trip to New York 1S CONTINUING [Two Ballots of Cardinals Is |sistine chapel indicated to th€! some months ago. | word. Detectives gave no tntimation of | The smoke iawued from the chapellwhat lieht they expected he may pos lehimney late this afternoon and thelsibly shed on the mysterious slaying Hunt Man TO END © DISARM PARLEY \U. S. Congress Is Expected to Halt | All Construction | on Navy Vessels) BY CARL 1. GROAT WASHINGTON, Feb, 3.—The final plenary seasion of the arms confer lence was cafied today by Secretary lor State Hughes to meet tomorrow 10:30 o'elock At thin “cleanup” session of the conference three nine power treaties, \giving China a new status by freeing jher from foreign domination, will be |prosenteq for the approval of the! world. ‘The “association of nations™ idea Ibroached by the White Houne ts dead [an far an the Washington conference is concerned, it became known today. Ner will any action be taken on| q int 19 of the orteinad Chinese prin: L which eimed at future gather at vital and lachtevements probably will be made by Secretary Hughes ‘The meeung tomorrow wil be the sixth plenary session of the confer ence. It gomes exactly 12 weeks after the first meeting of the confer ence on November 12, when Hughes |startied the world with his compre: hensive program for Lmiitation of {naval armaments. The heads of the nine delegations | met today t6 do the final bernishing jon the three Fur Eastern treaties. | ‘The full Far Eastern conference was lealled for thig afternoon to approve) the documenta. Already & move ts under way in) congress to past epeedily a resolu tion partly carrying out the naval |tmitation treaty by stopping all con struction work on American batlie: ident of Armour & Co., before him to explain alimony pay- Just tet | [nerve to use the weapon! | waiting crowds dispersed, knowing The last time as he was loading | there would now be no result of the Nquor into an auto and his wife, in @| cardinals voting before tomorrow. frenzy, as she professes, punctuated! ‘rie allots of the first gathering, jher final unavailing plea with @ bul-|neia at 19 o'clock this morning, had let—the astounded cackle of death 3) been burnt, together with a wisp of he fell into her arms! straw, and the necessary majority An arrest in the case ls expected | ships. before tonight. ‘This would save the American tax: It was rumored thruout Holly: | payers more than $5,000,000 monthly. Wood that police bad established) Icrforts may be made to pass & Jealousy as the motive for the mur | resolution ordering a halt before the der of the veteran director, and were |senate finally ratifies all the arms looking for a man said to have ex-/ conference treaties now believed vir Did'ya start “Polly and maa | Paria” in The Star yesterday? Polly's | It we could all do as we please who| Likewise | the ena of China. | eee one of “I can never laugh again.” says Mrs. Johnson. “It would stick in my bring—tho I intended only to fright jen, not to kill him.” |Germany Is Gripped by Railway Strike! BERLIN, Feo. 3.--The general rail |atrike held all Germany in a para lyzing grip today. An odd train here and there was the only sign of traf-| fic thruout the entire country. Many | American business men and others| are marooned in various parts of the country. |Canada Urged to Fight Dope rt VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb, 2 Resolutions calling upon every tfia| bedy in the Dominion of Canada to organize and fight the dope evil will be sent out by the public commit tee which is battling the narcotic ring Make Up Your | Saturday || Shopping | List From the Ads || in Today’s Star | | Seattle’s livest busi- ness institutions are || making strong bids for your trade. The advertising columns ings for you today. throat for the tragic picture it would | are just full of sav- || Cash in on them. | debt beenot lower than 4% preseed a deep-rooted hatred for Taylor, because of the latter's atten- tion to a woman. HAD INVADED TAYLOR HOME ‘The wanted man ts said to have in. vaded Taylor’s beautiful bungalow at Weatlake terrace court on several oceasions and to have been driven away each time at the point of a re volver The theory that a woman wag te- | eponaible for the murder stood upper each cardinal! most after 24 hours of investigation into the mystery of the shooting of |had not been secured by any cardi. j nal No communication whatever was | permitted to pass between the cardi | nals and the world which waited. Every effort has been made by Can inal Gaspari, as cardinal camerien prevent an untimely leak of in » wtihin the walls of the con. clave, each cardinal spends much of his time in his private apartment. | Meals are served separately and masses celebrated by ily eports from Naples of the ar-| Taylor, whose record as a war hero rival of Cardinal O'Connell, received] veteran of the picture industry and here today, were later said to be| director for the Famous Players-Las- incorrect. T American cardinal| xy corporation made him an out- cannot arrive before Sunday. standing figure In the Log Angeles motion pieture colony. | Mabel Normand, screen comed! jenne and star of Mickey” and “Mol- ly O,” was the last person to see Tay- lor alive Miss Normand has not been work ing at the Mack Sennett studios since | (Turn to Page 7, € Columa » Dublin Concerned IN MINE BLAST m4 + | Rescuers Search for Nine Bodies in Shaft | BROWNSVILLE, DUBLIN, Feb. 3 the negotiations between Sir -A breakdown in James r Feb, 3. lead caadeah Craig, Ulster premier, and Michael | | Hundreds of rescuers, working In! Couins, head of the Irish provincial |shifts of one hour each, continued | Couins, heed or ae eweulted trom | |their search today for nine bodies! ® . their attempt to meet formally Irish soll, was today regarded as ex- tremely critical. Instead of peaceful co-operation be- tween the north and south, economic and legislative war may result, The provisional government may steps to obstruct the work of the ates mine, Owned) ister parliament which was estab Frick Coke company.| igned under the better government — of Ireland act. The mutual recogni |Foreign Debt Bill tion established by the firet meeting Adopted by House |“ of Craig and Collins will be forgot WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. — The! | house today adopted the foreign debt | refunding bill as amended in the xen: | ate, after President Harding had tel-| ephoned house leaders withdrawing hia objections to the bill The amendments Harding did not} approve were th providing that | | the interest rate on the $11,000,000 per cent, and that the bonds of the debtor tions must matare within 26 years. |imprisoned in the Gates mine dix aster | Sixteen bodies have been brought |to the surface, | Twenty-five miners were believed lto have been killed yesterday when a gas explosion occurred In the sec: | jond vein of the bag the H. ©. in STORM WARNING A storm) warning was ordered displayed at 9 a. m at all stations in Washington and Oregon north of Marshfield. “he storm is central in British Colum bia, moving slowly southward. It wil) cause fresh to strong south west gales from Cape Blanco north, today and tonight. southwest Over Breakdown! on | take | | tually certain. NO FUNDS FOR PAVING, CLAIM Officials Say No Remedy in Sight for Streets Klimination of $187,000 from the annual budget for street maintenance is responsible for the shameful condition of Seattle streets, it was declared Friday at the city hall. Only emergency work can be ecar- ried on by the street department dur {ing the coming year as the result of undue economy on the part of the lelty council | With an appropriation of only |$480,000 to keep up 1,230 miles of limproved streets, 200 miles of un- [graded streets, 950 miles of cement | sidewalks and more than 500 miles of sewers, the streets and sewers de partment will be able merely to pre. vent the city’s highways from be- jcoming absolute menaces to life and |limb during the coming year. | DISTRICT BUILT ON SAWDUST “The wholesale district below Yee. ler way is built upon sawdust and/ mill debris,” Maj, O. A. Piper, super: | intendent of streets and sewers, de | clared. “It is impossible to keep the |pavements there in decent condition, The entire district should be refilled.” | Piper pointed out that originally |the waters of Elliott bay came up jto Second ave. and Yesler way, and |the district was filed in with the refuse of the early sawmills. Repavement of Virst ave. Piper said, will begin a» Keon ng $680,000 worth of railway bonds are sold. Some of the worst spots in Seattle : between the railway which the street car depart ment ig unable to repair for lack of abe | Acting Mayor Yleaketh declared | Friday that the work of repairing the sinks and holes in the pavements here should be pushed as fast as | possible, not only to remedy traffic conditions but to furnish work for the uncmployed, First in News—First in Circulation (by 11,727 copies a day)—Call Main 0600 to.Order The Star at Your Home—50 Cents a Month—Why Pay More? ; POTE GIRL ADMITS FIRING FATAL SHOT! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise j The Seattle Star Butered as Second Clase Matter May & 1699, at the Postoffice at Seattia Wash, under the Act of Congress March 4, 1679, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to 69 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY | q [i o | 3g Oo za fern — — — 4 ety TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE . if TS ay fy A bee 4 Mrs. Mary we wh ak fat a ap Seon sid eon. Ieidnaping | she nurse wi son, George Ro’ ree i ‘dey from thee inicage home bed tarted with him for Mrs. Robbins’ Ticercoa pei onthe Coast. Police took the nuree.and th Utah. After fire. eA rie ee the charge an appeal to the courte, and the nurse was ordered released, A Chicago judge ordered Robbins, son of George Robbins, long a vice presi- ments. This shows George Robbins III and his mother. GUNSIGHT PASS BY WILLIAM MacLEOD RAINE Copyriaht br William Macleod Raima All rights reserved. Printed by permission of amd by epecial arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company. DAVE SANDERS, young range rider with the D Lazy R outfit, ts duped into racing bis pet pony, Chiquito, against’a disguised race horse owned by AD MILLER, who, with his confederate, GEORGE DOBLE, balt-brother of the ranch foreman, DUG DOBLE, has come into the cowboys’ camp with the express purpose of winning their: money thru a “framed” race. After Chiquito is beaten) Sanders has a fight with Miller and George Doble, who get revenge by stealing Chiquito, Sanders, with his friend, BOD HART, goes in pursuit, reaching the town of Malapi after some hard riding. Now go on with the story. CHAPTER V Supper at Delmonico’s Interrupted] The two D Bar Lazy R punchers|he snaps his fingers?” ate supper at Delmonico’s. The res “You suré ao click yore heels taurant was owned by Wong Chung.| mighty loud, Miss.” Dave caught in A Cantonese celestial did the cook-/ that soft answer the purr of malice. ing and another waited on table. The| He remembered now hearing from price of a meal was twenty-five| Buck Byington that years ago Em- cents, regardiess of what one ordered. | ergon Crawford had rounded up evi- Dave helped himself to bread from | dence to send Shorty to the peniten- a plate stacked high with thick |tlary for rebranding thru a blanket. slices. He buttered it and betsx. tol, (Turn to Page 13, Column 1) eat. Hart did the same. SO chee, monico's nobody ever waited ‘an thal meal was served. Just about to at-| tack @ second sfice; Dave stopped to staré at his companion, Hart was| looking past his shoulder with alert | intentness, Dave turned his head. Two men, leaving the restaurant, booth to the right,” whispered Bob. | Jury Disagrees, Ten Stand- The men were George Doble and ing for Conviction a cowpuncher known as Shorty, a| ceca broad, heavy-set little man who ee worked for Bradley Steelman, Ptood | SAN _ FRANCISCO, Feb, 3.—Ros- coo (“Fatty”) Arbuckle has failed a ous business of his own. He wan wearing a Chihuahua hat and leather chaps with silver conchas. At this moment Hop Lee arrived with dinner were paying the cashier, of the Rocking Horse Ranch, what jmecond time to win vindication on Dave sighed as he grinned at his Brad Steelman's handy man, that “They just stepped ovta that timd he was not engaged on nefari Virginia Rappe. The jury in his second trial, after more than 40 hours’ deliberation, yeame into court at 11:30 a. m. today Ard reported a disagreement. members of the jury stood for friend. “I need that supper in my system. I sure do, but 1 reckon 1/ conviction and two for acquittal on don’t get it.” the fina! ballot, “You do not, old Mzard," agreed} The jury was discharged immedi- ately after the report was read by the foreman, When the jury left the box it was Jearned that it had stood 10 to two for conviction and not for acquittal, as had been indicated. District Attorney Brady sald >in- formally that as a result of the jury favoring conviction he would con- sider sending Arbuckle to trial for a third time. The judge took no action in setting a now trial. Court will convene Monday for that purpose, Arbuckle did not change expres. sion when the foreman announced considerate guy I ever did trail. Why couldn't he ‘a’ showed up a half-hour later, dad gum his ornery hide?" They paid their bill and passed into | the street. Immediately the sound of ac high voice arrested their attentic It vibrated indignation and @read “What have you done with my father?” came sharply to them on the wings of the soft night wind. A young woman was speaking. She was in a buggy and was talking to two men on the sidewalk—the two men who had preceded the range riders out of the restaurant } Hart. “I'll say Dobie's the most in-} | 1 “Why, Miss, we ain't done a thing| disagreement. It was an old story to him—-nothin’ a-tall.” ‘The manjto him now, his attitude seemed to Shorty was speaking, and in a tone | indicate, Minta Durfee clung to his side and the moment court was adjourned they made at once for the door, To the barricade of reporters Arbuckle shouted; “No statement now,” and they, made their way ou of honeyed conciliation, It was quite plain he did not want a scene on the street “That's a lie.” ‘The voice of the firl broke for an instant to a sob. “Do you think 1 don’t know you're aes you do his meanness for him when | | her childish treble was faint, it | charges of having taken the life of} told the girl that she was pone amare lorie COMMAND MOTHER a0 nee Soe ition, “was not pulled off at | Summit ave. It is being enacted in this courtroom. That int little girl is being forced te to a lie. That little girl never the gun in her hands.” It was a day of sensations. in the memory of courtroom atts bas such a scene been enacted. The first sensation came Treva was called to the stand, |ly after court reconvened. As as the child, who was pale as ghost, but remarkably composed, been sworn, Judge Alston sent the jury. “How old are you, Treva he . in a voice that was full of come pas: fon. “Fifteen, mir,” she replied. trated to the farthest corner of court room, so tense was the ;ment. ‘The girl nodded, a took hi ror, half of gratitude, in brightened eyes. TAKES UP STORY AGAIN room, she took up her story fatal evening. She testified, hard tones, almost as if she were (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) Sidelights at Everett DeathT rial | Stiger was _cross- examining Mrs, Bertha Wilkes about the events on the evening when Gas Danicison was killed in her home. He wanted to know what she had on at the time. “A apron,” she teld him. The word “apron” evidently means nothing. but s bib te Stiger; he wanted to know what she had on under that. “Why,” sbe colored slightly, “why, II had on a corset cover and underclothes and things—just like you would wear.” dudge Guy C, Alston had te threaten to clear the court. eee Almost everybody at the triaf seems to have a cold. ‘That makes it pretty hart fog (Tarn to Page 7, Column Qa