The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 8, 1922, Page 1

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 Mon AAR ALDARA DAD AD AD ne PPL LPL PPP PPP EPP PPD PPP PDP PP PPE PPP PPP 31 MEN ABOARD NEW WRE | Quench Fire on Northern Pacific; Local Ship Flame- moderate to ‘Temperature Maximum, 42. Toda; VOLUME 23. Howdy, folks! Thank Ged we @on't live in Hollywood! cee One movie star writes love notes like a I3yearold grammar school girt; another reads the Police Ga zette, Where is this wonderful artis tic taste that the peopie | | movie bave been tng us about? Howe VAMP, SEZ: You can make « typewriter noiseless; but you can't stop her trom powdering her nose. o- } Dan Landon gave a party last Right to the scribes and pharisees, ard neglected to send us an ihyita- | tion. And we're the guy that efect-/ ed Dan the homeliest. man tn Seat- | tle: j | } | ey ren * OUR DAILY FICTION | Once upon a time there was a [man who appeared before the 1 | city council to protest against | j | a street assersment who didn't | | a | begin his speech by saying, “I | | have lived in this city for 20 | | 4 years; I am an American cith | | | { zen, and I pay taxes—big taxes | —on my property.” | eck SRG aaae so SLITS. FI ead F eee i 3 ‘Sfunny. Nobody has announced | Dr. E. J. Brown for mayor—not} even Dr. B. J. Brown. { eee ©. Helle fs « student at Columbia ‘University, New York. Anna Church Coffin, Alonia Sweet, G. I. Will and » Belle Hopp are feliow students. eee A mon of note Eating corn, eed “If the pree e eat trend con tinuea, you may wake up ene 4 fine morning to Fy find every soda i fountain in the land selling beer like chocolate 4 fee cream.”—Prohibition tor Rey ©. Lyle before the Ministery’ Union. a eee \ Dew't make as ery, Ror, don't make ws er. eee “Seattle mountain climbers are fready for their dash to the summit ’ (Turn to Page 4, Colamn 2) Stretch Your || Dollars EAD the ads to- |! day and every day in The Star. Take advantage of the savings they of- fer. You will find the buying capacity of your dollar in- creases to a most sur- |) FORECAST Tonight and Thursday, rain; easterly pales yy noon, 39, | who entered Vassar at 15, |G, 69 Etruria st. strong south. Last 4 Hours Minimum, 36. School Work Is Made Play! Go Thru 8 — row: Dr. Eliza Taylor Ransom,| her daughter Eleanor (at left) and her daughter Ruth who} entered Tufts Medical school HAVE YOU COMPETED IN NORTHWEST PRODUCTS | Slogan Contest | Advantage in Getting In Early. $50 in Cash Prizes for Winners Limit of 12 Words for Each Entry. On the Issue of Americanism nied that they in from the $20,000 fund given them by the ef of the camp There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Ratered a2 Brcond Clase Matter May &, 1899, at the Postoffice at Geaitia Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1670, Per Year, by Mall, #6 to 69 SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1922. ARD SAYS NO FUND DIVERSION Disagreement “Over Amount for Community House Park etstantastiaiies Wednesday de d to divert $5,000 ty council for the construction Woodland park auto tourist At a meeting attended by a large Aelegation from the Chamber of Com. merce and many interested citizens, ithe park box favor of epending every cent ¢ appropriation on the camp site, differed on the amount to be ed on the erected overlooking Green Lake. on record in the but xpend. house to be community | been made attractive to them.” ‘ Ss a D. B, Trefethen, spokesman for the Stream of Mail Is Beginning. Leslie souctatvodtion comnts of > = the Chamber of Commerce, protested ete ae ee, fade—Pudge| vigorously against cutting down the i ' ».00 . cot ty gunses| Way 0 dscthere cat tom a estimate for the community | 5.0 )| around, Northwest Products here . . e oe . Chairman Tt. J. Fisher and G. C.| 1.00 ( oe Pudge E. Apple, 212 17th) weer of the park board declared —— | aint aildite,. gable saben thie eae 7,000 would be expended on the $50.00 ) | ronising Northwest Produete..Pudne {community balding. If anything re a ng Northwe reduc ‘UGK | mained of the $12,000 believed neces A stream of Pacific Northwest | © ens ; Tth ave ‘ pes a the plotting, grading and im Products slogan in coming to The head ml Pe hes wear awell, I'm 11! provement of the camp sites, it would Star office with every mail. Have |! because they are Northwestin. apent on the building. you sent yours? Producta.—R. Is, 100% West-| Chamber of Commerce officials and The contest will continue the rest | 4ke N the park board will take up the ques of the month, but there is an advan I use Northwest Products, best/tion of the amount to be spent on tage in getting your entry in early, | °° ve nd I get my money’®ithe community house in the near because, in case two persons submit | Worth.—R. 100% Westlake N |future, to work out means whereby the same wording, the first received | larger sum can be spent on the gets the preferene. The slogan should contain not more than 12 words. You may sub- mit as many as you please, Write your message on 4 postcard or stip| of paper and mail it, together with | your name and address, to Slogan Editor, The Star, Seattle, Wash Following was the first batch re- ceived North, Fast, South, West Northwest always could produce the| CITY TO PROBE PHONE RATES, | | Hesketh Signs Ordinance for Investigation our own | best.—Jack Davis, 712 22nd ave. &.. | he city of Seattle Wednesday I always liked the best, and we get! marshaled its forces in {ts fight that in our Northwest. Douglas | against the telephone company. | Macfarlane, 724 22nd ave. 8. | Acting Mayor R. B. Hesketh A new link in the old chain of| household commodities — Products signed the ordinance which author izes the department of public utili | ties to investigate telephtine Northwest | Herbert E. Russell, Apt. rates | |for the installation of a phone and sell, Apt. G. w a, AB. 6 a $1 fee for restoration of service. | “ Northwest Producta—The Huneh to Housewlves."——-Herbert E. Russell, | Apt. G, 69 Etruria st | Germaniy: Walkout Home grown! Loca] made! North. prising and gratify- || west Products for every. trade Brought to Close . # | Pudge KE. Apple, 212 17th ave. BERLIN, Feb. 8.--Socialist mem ing extent. | Buy at home, boost your town:| bers of the government have fo: | The best offerings Northwest Products best to be found. |a final compromise with the striking Pudge EB. Apple. 12 17th ave. railroad workers, and the t Oy te Ap | East is Hast, West is West, North. | which alyzed Germany ¢ a] —— of Seattle’s be st | west Products are the best.—Pudge | definite end to City electricity stores appear in The ||#. Apple, 212 17th ave | water and transportation workers | Star Marn, save and buy the beat all| also agreed to return to work, and —oe lopportunities in Producta of North-| the German capital, after two terri a | Pudge E. Home-made, ble days without light or water, was struggling back to norr Apple, local 2 17th ave trade, North stru men find unaccounted | destroyed |Charge Two Neste yoture. 23 MISSING IN HOTEL BLAZE RICHMOND, Feb, &.—Fire the smoking ruing of the Hotel Lexington to trace of the prsons still for in the fire which the building yesterday ee bodres of victims who per in the fire are in morgues. hi hed Soldiers Killed! |and regulations, and which empow-| wasHINGTON, Feb. §.-Char Vature’s pla " | | WAS i eb. Larges Becopiny ares. ecko sieciwe ers Corporation Counsel Walter F |that two negro foldiera with the | 8 m . |Meier to prosecute the complaint ‘ | Products."—Herbert E. Russell, Apt.|.° hy oe JA. B. F. in France were killed with: G, 69 Etruria st. fer grove Ehone corporation. ut {Out apparent cause were made be ‘ es >roduet Corpse Of experts wi De PU tore the se » investigating com Northwest Products naturally #at-| 19 work in the city's sweeping. In inty—Herbert E. Russell, Apt G,| ei ion im Pa | mittee today 69 Etruria st pen ype Re 0S hg Pate eat | One negro shot down for ; . j Plaint against the company ts their! auinkenness and the other was Northweet Products crown & NeW | arbitrary regulations charging $3.50) Quien pee an k < Grits era in productions.—Herbert E. Rus ynched because he waa walking ith a French girl, it was alleged, | BY LEO H. LASSEN (Sport Kaltor he Star.) IMMY MALONE and Clay Hite, Seattle boxing pro- mote etaged an added attrac. tion at the Pavilion ‘Tuesday night that wasn’t advertised be- forehand Hite, the party of the first part, spent two hours in one of ‘He Wasn't BiG MAN | INFILMS QUIZZED in! Grades in Two Years Mother Declares Child| Tangled Clues Should Stay at | Home Till 9 BY E. M. THIERRY BOSTON, Feb. 8. —A marvel of child education has been ac- complished by Mrs, Eliza Taylor lowed by Police me 3 |BY FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW Her daughters, Ruth and Blea LOS ANG nor, went thru the ordinary mY Pam Sewe wes precebacy eight-yoor grammar school course in two years! Kleanor, at 15, entered Vassar last fall, Ruth, at 17, is in Tufts Medical school. | Ransom, internationally fa- | mous as # physician, and formerly within the scope of investiga tion in the William D. Taylor murder case today when oper atives of the district altorney’s office questioned ove of the biggest independent figures in Hollywood Mur-| der Probe Fol-' f Samuel Piles and * Jones See Harding WASHINGTON, Feb, §.—Sam- . Piles of Seattle, United States senator, being urged for under secretary of state to suceeed Henry P. Fletcher, was presented to Presi- dent Harding by Senator Jones of Washington today, There was no intimation from the White House as to whether Piles would be appointed, JOBLESS HIS PREY CHARGE! the motion picture business, it was learned by the United Press. This man, recentty divorced, was said to have been madiy in love with an actress who ly held = =Taylor in higher esteem than she did the man now being questioned. ‘The man under surveillance wae the only one of the half dozen biggest men In the picture game in Hollywood who did not attend Taylor's funeral yesterday, investl- gators said. He i reported to have proposed marciage on numerous occasions to the actress whose silken night- gown police detectives amsert they found in Taylor's home shortly after he was shot. MILLIONAIRE SON 1S MENTIONE! Still another investigation agency was interesting itself today in the son of a miulti-millionaire Easterp family. This young man has also been known in Hollywood for some & public school teacher, condemns the existing school rystem. She says schools ruin children’s brains, / “They're calling Eleanor a prod igy,” ake waid. “1 eay whe tan't. Look | at my other daughter—she did the wame thing. They can't both be prodigies. Anybody ean do the mame} thing.” ‘This iy the Way Dr. Ransom |* aid he Rm She didn’ te sche! eal nape Hn Fears old. Meanwhile she tanght them to read and to add and she taught them about the outofdoors— | flowers, grass, soil, rocks, stars, | cht them to learn by playing. They had no study hours. Everything was a game. “A child's brain isn’t property de oped at #ix to begin cramming in ‘ormation into it,” said Dr, Ransom “1 wish it were possible to keep | every child out of achool until nine. Unfortunately there cannot be such 4 revolutionary reform of the educa tional ryrtem. Many parents aren't 24 J to the task, financially or men-|time as an anient admirer of the actress who is today the nucleus SCHOOLS TEACH of the Taylor murder investiga SENSEI 8 THINGS tion hoe b renselens things.| “We are looking today for a few And they keep children confined in| necessary bits of corroborative evr rooms and in seats and bind them dence to support the theory ai- by rulew and regulations and system. | ready partly borne out by recent The child would be healthier out:| discoveries,” one detective said. doors | “Someone ts going to be arrested “Graduates of the present school system are empty-headed. They grow mediocre adults. They can't coneentrate, they never learned how They had their education pounded into them. They don't learn faster and better because schooling hasn't and suddenly—for the Taylor murder,” Under Sheriff Eugene Bis- cailux said today. “And it will not be Edward F, Sands, Taylor's miss- ing valet “Mr. ‘Taylor was Jealousy and not revenge. The police took a diametrically maite view % killed tain D. L. Adams The police hunt, ia being concentrat into kitied = thru Mrs. Ransom, who looks “motherly” than she does poltician, hits straight from the! shoulder against the present day school system in spite of the fac that her husband is headmaster of | more ike a Taylor,” sald Cap. “We want him Adams indicated, 1 almost solely Boston's largest public school on an effort to arrest the former “Give me a child of 12 who can | secretary? read and write and add," she says,| Tho possiblity that Taylor was a ‘and in a year T ean show you a| victim of sia was being con- child with a complete elementary sidered by ves today n ex education. of the alleged “double ‘Ruth and Eleanor both went | personality” angle of the murdered mystery-shrouded past Taylor was shanghaied in lower New York, he had often told friends here. He was carried to Cape Horn and was unable to work his way back for three months, Before he was slugged and shang ‘Taylor had @ good position through the grades in two years and then went through high school in the customary four years, That's 12 man Teach no se a blackboard by ob Make tt play regular hours of confinement, no schedule. | Make it fascinating. CAN LEARN BY IMITATION jects halted }and apparently was wrapped up in [his wife and family. “A child will learn words and! Investigators today expressed be. learn to read, and then to write,| lief that the blow he sustained might just by imitation. Don't bind down| have caused @ loss of memory, ac- the brain with rules. Spelling can| counting for the fact that while he learned by visualizing words. returned to New York, he apparently “Our girls went outdoors and] ve no other ¢ to his wife and (Turn to Page 4, Column 5) |baby daughter and never returned es to them. When his brother's wife, Mrs, Ada STORM WARNING Deane-Tanger, came to him, seeking | information to her missing hus A south storm warning was ordered displayed at 7:30 a, m. band's whereabouts, detectives ray they have learned that Taylor insist: Wednesday at all seaboard sta-||¢d to her he had no brother. tions in Washington Oregon. || They cannot account for his mo: The storm i central off the ||tive in denying the relationship, He Washington coast, moving south east. It will cause fresh to strong was not trying to hide, they are con fident. His image was flashed on the southeast shifting to southwest gales today and tonight. silver sheet from coast to ce aa extensively in advertisements (Turn to Page 4, Column 2) the Pavilion, Hite ts sub-leasing the Pavillon to the Cascade club and he tried ‘to close the doors before the smoker got under way W. H. Searing’s palatial apart ments, after the fracas, and Malone, party of the second part, went home to the wife and kid dies with a discolored left optic. The party of the first part lant night charges that James Malone and Rut Malone objected and so did leorge O'Malley, Cascade club reveral of Searing’s bluecoated promoters, owe him something henchmen like $1,500 for rent for use of But before Clay took the side st and | Looking When Punched in Eye dicted by the last federal grand jury, was arrested Tuesday night at Beaux Arts by Deputy U. 8. Marshal Joe Knizek. According to J. A. Estabrook, the complaining witness, | company placed in @ local » offering to provide jobs af $6 a day investing $500 ‘or $750 in the cern, KE and then discharged “for lack of work.” Hammond, maintains that the ad- | vertisements were inserted by an em- | ployment agency, without the knowl- jedge of the company. According to officials of the Better Business bureau, the “game” which the company is alleged to have played is one by which unscrupulous —swindlers, taking advantage of the wave of unemployment, have mulcted hundreds of unfortunate famibes out of their life savings. Out of work and te | find a means to support his fam- ily, the worker falls a ready victim to the wiles of the “em- ployer.” ‘This is, however, the first prosecu- tion of the kind that local authorities have been able to push, Often the victims, penniless and sick at heart, so completely lose their faith in hu- jman nature thru their exerience that | they believe the officials must be in league with the swihdlers and thus jew a complaint as useless. | jv |offices on Western ave. up to about a year ago. DENBY IN FAVOR Asks House to Approve Ac- ceptance of Site tary Denby sent a letter to the house today asking congress to ap- prove the navy department's sel of three naval bases on the Pacific coast, He recommended ac- ceptance of the site of 5,340 acres at Alameda, Cal. as a base for ves- sels, 225 acres at San Pedro, Cal., ‘or a submarine base, and 400 acres at Sand Point, Wash., as a base for heavier than air naval planes, to the hoosegow he managed to land one good princh, Malone says he wasn’t look- ing when the blow landed, but © he'll have to do come tall ex. plaining as to how the*eye waa painted. * Hite ts out on $100 bail, He 1s charged with disorderly eo. duct. yk x Fred HL. Peterson, attorney for | ‘The Mutual Sales Co. maintaine® OF SAND POINT WASHINGTON, Feb, 8.—Secre- th—Why Pay More? | Battered in given as 20 miles northeast Fathoms lightship. was used by the war department @ transport. It was used to ‘a troops from France after the ™ and on January 1, 1919, she ashore off Fire island. All the were rescued and the vessel was sul sequently floated. She was armed by the war department during the | ‘The vessel was known as a “Sinz ship, In April, 1915, she was caugl and buffeted in a storm off the Ps cific coast which imperiled her passengers. As a transport she ashore off Fire island while troops from France and it was eral days before some of the | jously wounded soldiers with nurses could be taken off, Northern Pacific was built as @ | senger express for the: Portland & Seattle railroad. : ‘The rescue of the burning ves sel's crew during the night was ae complished under the greatest ficulties, ‘The steamer Transportation most of the rescued crew on while other vessels etood by. — coast guard cutter Kickapoo the tug Arapahoe left Cape navy yard to go to the No Pacific's assistance. c°ee : Steamer Bought to — Replace TACOMA, Feb. 8.—The Pi Steamship company pufchased steamer Northern Pacific to tak place of the ill-fated Governor Admiral line, which sank foll a collision with the West H over a year ago, She was to christened the H. F. Alexander, a the president of the line, and pi on the run between Puget and California porta. } | —