The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 9, 1922, Page 1

toi Maximum, 40, Today Tonight and Friday, rain or snow; moderate southerly Temperature Las! First in News—First in Circulation inds 24 Hours Minimum, 31, noon, 36, a Howdy, folks! It begins to look as if all the girls are trying to outstrip each othe, . oe * The ground hog may tell us how much winter we'll have, but he can't give us a line on the gas. eee We're glad that the globe hasn't| ghifted its axis or done any real dam- age to itself. We expect Henry Ford | to bid on it sooner or later and we) ean get a better figure from him if it's in good shape. j 7° . NO WONDER THEY » Do you realize, little star, What a lucky Bum you are, Being an eternal light, Out ali day and lit all night? eee Of course nature never makes a! mistake, but she might have made it & little easter for a man to scratch behind the shoulder biades. eee Homicide, aseasst- mations, multiple marriages--no won- der they have to pay those movie astai such fabulous sal- orien. cee Little Homer Brew, Jr., named aut his kittens after movie actresses, but recently he had to change Mary Rishtend to Jack Hot. that have Did'ya an HONI SOIT, ETC., ETC. The garter dropped, The Kink he stopped And raised the frail supporter. The courtiers smirked, The Countess shirked Before the glances toward her. The Kink, albeit, Swift of wit, Arose to the occasion. “Don't be dismayed, My lads,” he brayed— ‘Then followed explanation. “Hark ye well, I know this belle,” Themobdle Kink he told ‘em “The sock’ stick I know by hick, I've found out “There’s no more immorality in the Hollywood colony than in the New York stock exchange,” says Adolph Zukor, film mag- nate. Well? Jimmy Malone and Clay Hite, Se- attle boxing promoters, ew pped | ches in an argument the other night. Malone received a black eye and Hite spent a few hours in jail It was the first fight in Seattle that | we really enjoyed. The city te got nickels one of the Gropa into pay ste ticna without getting central, Will Hays is going to inmpect the Hollywood movies. Bet his wife goes along. LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word—BUNK. It's pronounced—bun-que, with ac cent on the bunk It means—handing the people what | they want, peddling the brain salve, | to give forth lush thoughts for the | booboisie. It comes from—Latin “Bunkerend ” to write movie advertizements, Companion word—polities. It’s used like this: “Writing a col yum like this is mostly a matter of ] | | | um. bunk.” eee Do you like myn- tery fiction? Wait until you get your income tax blank, Science says the distance between the earth and Mars varies between | 25,000,000 and 200,000,000 miles. Boy, | call a taxi—Life. ! o- Ed Newcome had a Leste He thunk he understanded ; He cranked her with the spark ad- vanced, | Bow he cats left-handed. . .-* 4 | iEE, TH’ OFFICE {| AMP, SEZ: | | Admitting that marriage is a | | great institution, who wants to | | ‘ive in an institution? | K ¥ LI'L GEE x uzie is on the scrub} t the University of Washin, no sign that she’s ing Just because ton is course ULSTER ‘TROOPS MOVING Orangemen A ¥ @ company before he gives you a job. Kidnaped; Grave -: Situation No ow nee rr . frontier separating the northern Provinces from the south. A first line of defense has been strung out along the border and Ulster rendered practically impreg- nable against attacks by extremists of the Irish republican army. Release of the 200 Ulster captives kidnaped yesterday was expected to follow this military maneuver on the part of the unionists, The British government has or dered General MacReady to send British troops to guard the northern | frontier when the Ulster government requests them. The houses of prominent Orange ten within a 40-mile area were at: tacked by the Sinn Fein raiders, armed with revolvers and bombs. Casualties were Newtown. ized and fully armed to prevent fur- | Pl ther raids. He announced he had ar-| ranged for distribution of arms | protect the border.” } in Opinion by ‘Douglas Leaves| Matter to County Heads th th struction of a pontoon bridge be- tween Mercer island and the west | ot shore of Lake Washington, directly up to the county commis: | ge sioners Thursday, as a result of aN |e Jopinion submitted to them by Prose: |in cuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas. [op those who are trying to secure the| bridge offered to pay the cost of the hulls, in compliance with the gov ernment’s offer to sell at $100 each, if the county commissioners would bid for the hulls \n the name of King EF in, county, The draft for $1,500 was | mi tendered The commissioners submitted to/ Prosecutor Doug King county's liability if it made the purchase As ® result of the opinion, indica tions were Thursday that the com- | no missioners would not |th tion as to the county’s Mability. ‘The opinion states that because of the vagueness of one paragraph of the proposal, the county might |th | jot find itself involved in litigation over |##!d B. C. Barnes, of the Barnes Bak Of course. Then read the hulls, In case the bids are ac-|ing company, who In president of the cepted by the shipping board and|local bakers’ Asrociation. “As a mat the advertising columns of | erred te ter of fact there never was any re . title to the hulls transferred to King |t¢T , The ftar cacahiliy. acd |county, the county would be respon. |Justification for such jpr opinion prob: | sible for their care. Action on Douglas’ meeting of the commissioners. !Debt Refunding Act ru Signed by Harding! 1 housework oe Otto Horn of | Yes, yes, the tuba. You guessed it WASHINGTON, Feb, 9.—~President | Vi Harding today signed the foreign | in debt refunding bill within an hour co’ after it reached the White House. bu some instances—anc they got their jo! even of getting any pay for most of their work. METHODS ARF TOLD TO STAR of gervices for which he received not sands of about March 1 of last year,” Acker. | tho. man related, ment in a local newspaper. ‘PLAN TO RAISE reported when bread within the next few days, as a| Sinn Feiners ambushed. police at |Tesult of what they call a climbing |market on wheat, “to¥vanced three times during the last 10 |days, they said, and Montana flour, pound in lard, was putland Tacoma the wholesale price in| yp, Early this week representatives of figures |down as long tle Baking company, nounce an advance shortly compelled to follow.” ws the question of | pakeries, Inc. losing money period of the p agree to the going up, we | citizens’ plan, because of some ques-|vance, at least to the level of Port liand and Tacoma ably will be taken at the next full) De, Hoffman Given awarded $1,780 damages against the (by 11,727 co On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Sella Se eee need eee Oe ee re ee ee Per Year, by Mall, $6 to 9 SEATTLE, WASIH., THURSDAY, “FEBRUARY 9, 1922. Stock Victim Tells How He Was Mulcted Thru Promise of Job Beware of Employers Who Demand an Investment Before Putting Any- one to Work, He Warns By Robert Bastien Bermann Shun the employer who demands that you invest in his This is the warning that is being sounded by erstwhile nployes of and investors in the defunct Mutual Sales Co., | which had offices at 1003 Western ave. They know. They invested their money—the savings of a lifetime, in And now all the return that is [fered to give steady employment to men who were willing to Invest $600 jin the company “His scheme sounded fine. —Herbert P. Hammond, under of the upper space in stores, much | Indictment by the federal grand in the same way as ads are put in| jury, for using the malls to de street cars. He represented that he! |had contracts with a number of na ‘There is no prospect of realizing tionally known concerns, an well as| penny on their investments—or with some local companies. “He also told me that the com- or four hundred dollars, pommibly. | Tt waa/ Qn advertising proposition—the use| CHARGES BRUTAL for Failing to Pronounce Word with an & year-old bey until he was marked black and bluc because he could not pronounce the word “never,” Miss Anna Swagert, a teacher at a charge of assault in the third degree. |pany had virtually no debte—three | [of Mem “Alice Mottman, ‘The bey is Howard Hoffman, son Howard, ac leording to the testimony, had diff “Both of these representations I|Cuny with his writing jeasons on the ‘The methods used by the company | Afterward found to be falee—the com-|gueeiay before Thankagiving. He mention $244 worth *ervice profitable to them, and thou- a taken In foF stock penny: |-ran teed, nesording to the Books, to|Dree Ackerman's story le typical of the | pay off old debta, dozen or so Seattle men who “in- Fes KNOW, vested” in the company |So HE Bit “I'm getting ahead of my story, I didn't know any of this at |the time—and I bit. I gave Ham- (Turn to Page 7, Cotamn 5) “SILENCE PLOT” “I first heard of the company “thru a big advertise It of-| PRICE OF BREAD | Bakeries Declare Cost of|Battle Started ‘Against “Un- ‘2 Ingredients Soaring seen Power” ‘That the bakeries of Seattle may| BY FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW |be compelled to raise the price of LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 9. —The district attorney's office | today assumed leadership in the flour, lard, sugar| William D. Taylor murder case. Sir James Craig, Ulster premier, and other Ingredients, wag the state A battle was immediately sent & message from London order-| ment made Thursday to The Star by} launched against the “unseen ing that the constabulary be mobil-| officials of certain local baking| power” alleged to have silenced witnesses and tampered with evi- dence and police officers in the baffling mystery. lanta. Washington flour has been a4. 3% a percentage of which in used in the | torney, was reported to be preparing making of bakers’ bread, has ad-|to turn the Madaly Obenchain vanced $1.20 a barrel since the first | murder trial over to subordinates for of the year. Sugar has gone up al-| prosecution and devote bis entire at |most $1 per hundredweight from the| tention to unraveling the Taylor jlow mark, they said, and there has | case. with a corresponding | 18 ON CARPET ‘The investigation was centralized at Woolwine's office today W. C. Doran, chief ceputy district attorney, was in direct charge, crease in other shortenings. These bakers declare that, even at | ¢ former low prices of materials, | ey have been losing money since | b-ead was reduced in price Noverm-| ceeding on Woolwine's orders ber 11 Whether King county secures 15 | price was too deep for them to stand, shipping board hulls for the con-land that bread i selling in Seattle |today for leas money than in any They say that the cut in| Henry Peavey, negro valet of the slain motion «picture director, was limmediately called “on the carpet" as the new investigation got under way her city on the coast. In Portland avey found Taylor's body after the. murder. It wea intimated that the grilling given the negro belund closed doors slop clues cating for exam i clistue acquaintances otf |Taylor, including the three or four (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) ~ Do Chances to Save Appeal to Youp ven cents a pound loaf and 10% nts a pound anda half loaf, while | Seattle the price is six and nine} nts respectively, according to their “We are trying to keep the prices as we can,” said Guat president of the Seat: | but the advance i markets may compel us to an ‘The flour ay be Rasmussen, {ls are doing so, and we Harry Mosler, head of the Wentern said: “T am convinced atevery bakery in Seattle has been during the low price t two months, end ow, with the prices of all materials may be forced to ad “It in utterly imnoesible for many the bakers of Seattle to maintain | eo present prices for very long,” evailed here recently thoroly today and every day. Seattle’s stores are offering very special in- ducements these days, and the cream of these offer- ings are advertised in The Star. $1,780 in Damages’ Dr. Cart Hoffman, former exalted ler of the Seattle Elks’ lodge, was Thursday Frater’s sult on ictory Rubber Co, Inc., Superior Judge A. W. urt, Hoffman brought mo promissory notes, IN FILM MURDER Thomas Lee Woolwine, district at-) Pro-|ard did not ery while he was being jple more strokes and brought him i | defense counnel objected to her testi. | mm \are believed to have jin their bunks, Bes | | | | | “spanking” ax blows applied .o other |parte of the anatomy. | witness, |reported by wireless last night 1, |returning to were outlined for The Star today by |Pany had only ‘experimental corm} James N. Ackerman, 1336-4 Seventh |trects’ with most of ita clients; thgt |somnued ever the, werd “Sexet nes . | ave, who lest $600-——which he had |ia, the advertisers were under no Ob | ia " put oF eee Saba fares pene te aan ator |, “Finally he balked and refused to jread after I had encouraged him to the word.” Mins Swagert , “so I took him into the closet bee gave him several strokes with the blackboard pointer. Again he re. fused to read and I gave him a cou- back into the classroom.” TEACHER IN WORK FOR 18 YEARS Mim Swagert said she had been teaching for 18 years and that she had no idea that she had marked the boy, Howard's aunt, Mra. Maud Hoft. man, testified to the black and blue marks on the boy's leg. “Howard,” asked Arthur Futchtn- son, Miss Bwagert's attorney, “when your teacher whipped you did it hurt worse than when your mother did it? “Yes, it did.” Howard declared jemphatically, and a titter ran around the court room. Mixs Cordelia Thiel, deputy prose. | cuting attorney, sought to show that Miss Swagert had been discharged from the Seatfle schools several years ago for beating a child, but y and was sustained Miss Swagert brought out some of BEATING ‘Child Tells Court He Was Bruised | Left to right, above: Andreas Lang, “Peter”; Guido Mayr, “Judas.” Oberammergau Passion Players Turn Down American Movie Offer BY MILTON BRONNER LONDON, Feb. 9.—Five hun dred thousand dollars runs into many millions of marks at pres- ent rates of exchange. But an offer of that amount «by American movie producers has been spurned by the vil- lagers of Oberammergau, Ba- varia, tho they are all tut ruined by the war, the revolation and | men. : post-war economic troubles. | Le Cri de Paris, a flippant French American producers wanted ex-| anti-German weekly, recently said: clugive rights to film the famous| “The Oberammergau Passion Play. The | the ‘Christ’ married far from Oberam- villagers thought acceptance of the |mergau: ‘Judas,’ a private soldier, fell offer would be commercializing their ' before Verdun, and ‘Joseph,’ a fer- holy drama, | vent communist, was killed at Rosen: ‘The Passion Play will be enacted | heim by the white guards.” mained away from the Passion Play, |it would spel! ruin for almost *every family in Oberammergau. savings of | thrown into the production. But there's no danger of such mis- fortune. applications for seats have been re- jcetved from Americans and English- the fine points of corporal ppnish- ment “Afterwards,” she said, “T be gan to wonder if possibly the marks had been inflicted when I applied the last few strokes after the skin had been warmed up.” She defined “flogging” as striking in the face with the hand, and The first witness for the defense Irene Reed, an 11-year-old third pupil, She testified that How rad whipped “IT see you have a dark mark un der your eye.” anid Attorney Hutch- inson,” how did you get it?” “Ob, 1 bumped into another girl at play.” she sald Tittle Howard made an excellent The grilling cross-examina- tion hy defense counsel failed to con- |fuse his testimony. [RESCUE CREW OF TRANSPORT NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 9.—The en tire crew of the burned steamer orthern Pacific has been accounted | for, The men were landed here to day on the steamer ‘Transportation and the tug Wylie. Four éngineers employed by the Sun Shipbuilding € Chester, Pa., | yurned to death ie Dollar on Way Back to Port FRANCISCO, Feb. 9.—The| Dollar, which left anuary 30, for Manila Vancouver, miles from Vancouver, that she port, No cause was was a n. ee \Dismasted Ship Is Found Off Florida SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9.—The steamship Hawk State, San Fran- cisco to Baltimore, reported by wire- leas during the night that she had picked up the barkentine 8S, G. Wild- or off the Florida coast, waterlogged and dismasted, according to marine advices here, MEP vat hia ® BP jing plans for scrapping ships, on the huge stage at Oberammergau | There's only one element of truth next May, just as it has been per-|in all that. formed every 10 years since 1863. Ottile Zwink, who played Mary in This information comes to me di- | 1910, was married the following year. rect from Oberammergau and should | Hence she's ineligible for that part set at rest the wild rumors that have | this year, been current to the effect that no| But “Judas"—Johann Zwink—was Passion Play would be given. not killed in the war. And Anton These rumors were based on the! Lang, Christ of 1910 and 1900, will supposition that the villagers feared | play in the same role again this year. a boycott of the play by nationals of| Georg Lang, sculptor, will act as the countries formerly at war with director. Nearly 700 will take part. Germahy and that, the old player§| One hundred and twenty-two. will could not » form. | have speaking parts. Ford Will Get Chance to Bid on Doomed Warships BY HERBERT W. WALKER _ mier ship junker of the United WASHINGTON, Feb, 9.—Henry | States. rd Sat be Areca the “graveya of ships’—have come ord e > t Ford will be given an opportunity 0) castorr vessels of many nations to be bid for the American battleships to! broken up for junk, be scrapped under the naval Umit | tion treaty, {t was learned today at| the navy department, Ford recently announced that he was willing to bid for the American | navy and break up thé big ships into scrap iron, It became known today that a spe- cial board, headed by Admiral Tay: lor, chief naval constructor, is study- and that there is a strong sentiment for | selling these vessels outright to con: cerns which would junk them. Naval officers are said to oppose a spectacular sinking of the doomed ships in mid-ocean, believing that the | steel can be used for peace time pur. poses, Says Jenkeed Navies Worth $30,475,579 PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9.—The junk value of the navies of America, Britain and Japan is approximately $30,475,679—less than the cost of one new dreadnought. Tho estimate was made today by Joseph G. Hitner, president of the Henry A. Hitner Sons’ Co, the pre Charge He Plotted Murder for Weeks CHEHALIS, Feb. 9.—Attorneys for the prosecution of James Slagle, charged with first-degree murder for the killing of his wife in a rooming house here, December 31, continued to cagl witnesses today to testify. bes fore a crowded courtroom that James Slagle murdered his wife after a | week of premeditation, Eyidence brought out yesterday [tended to show that Slagle had bought liquor to nerve himself to the |deed, but that when he was found | bending over the body of his wife he was sober and more calm and collect: ed than those who found him. Seattle Man Among. Avalanche Victims GROVELAND, Cal. Feb. 9-—-An avalanche, which swept down Camp 20 at the south portal of the Hetch Hetchy tunnel, resulted in the death of two men. J. J. Marshall, an elec- trician, was killed instantly. Derrick | Boyd, @ machinist, died in the com: pany hospital here this morning. One other man ts reported badly hurt. Boyd leaves a widow in Seattle. eee Boyd's name is not listed in either elty or phone directory NICK MANDIC, 3425 28rd ave. S., poured kerosene in his stove Wed: day night. The damage is estl- mated at $200, Paula Rendl, impersonator of. Mary ‘ Magdalene; A “Christ” with his son, Karl; Martha Veit, “Mary.” Below, Melchior Breiteamter, It is true that if spectators re For the the whole village are Already more than 60,000 ‘Holy Virgin’. has married; es a copies a day)—Call Main 0600 to Order The Star at Your Home- -50 Cents a Month—Why Pay More? | ODL LAL ARAL PL {BOY OF 8 ACCUSES TEACHER! RRP PPP PPD PPP PPP PPP PEO | IRELAND IS NEARING CIVIL WARFARE? TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE aa SAYS JAPANES CROWDING | Urges Immigration to Stopped WASHINGTON, Feb, 9.—Ts between America and Japan cant be permanently averted” unl anese immigrants are kept out ¢ California, V. 8. McClatchy, of ¢ fornia, declared today before | house immigration committee, “The Japanese are plying at an alarming rate and ing Americans out of industry, government must awake to ger or America and Japan at war. The Japanese problem | California . will. tear down, , | quickly, unless we are careful, : good will built up with Japan arms conference.” McClatchy urged that all Ji immigration be stopped and effectual measures be taken to vent the present wide i new births of the Japanese tion already in the United States, a clared, are multiplying three as rapidly as the whites and they are checked “will some number the white people state." pete with the Japanese in many in- for his own labor and for that of his wife and numerous children figure that would starve a wi man.” ‘ McClatchy made the statement that out of 90,000 Ameri- can-born Japanese who are claiming rights as American citizens, only 73 have applied for citizenship papers, The “gentlemen's agreement” now governing Japanese immigration has clared, pasa eid its abrogation, BESIEGED MAN KILLS HIMSELF MANITOWOC, Wis. Feb. 9.—A |four days’ man-hunt was ended when. |John Donahue, murderer, shot and killed himself In a besieged cabin, Near Donahue's body was found @ note which read: “I killed Jack Pow: ers and I am sorry that I did.” Donahue, according to the widow of the victim, killed Powers during a quarrel in Donahue's cabin on Janu. ary 28, Powers accused Donahue of jbeing too friendly with Mrs, Powers, Mrs, Powers, who went in search of her husband, told police she was beta prisoner by Donahue. She es- jeaped, however, and brought a posse back with her. CRASHING over an embankment into a park near 8ist ave. S. and Jackson st. Wednesday night, a small automobile was wrecked, The occupants fled from the wreckasv 1 oi. The Japanese in California, he de. “It ts useless,” McClatchy said, — “for the white people to try to com | dustries. A Japanese will. contract — startling been an utter failure, MeClaichy de |