The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 15, 1922, Page 1

A AR nnn WEATHER Tonight and Thursday, rain creasing southeasterly wind, decoming strong gale. Temperature Last 44 Hours Maximum, 45. Minimum, 38, Today noon, 44, The Star Goes Into 11,7 The Seattle Star Batered as Second Class Matter May & 1899, at the Postoffice at Geattian Wash, ender the Act of Congress March %, 1879, “VOLUME Home Brew Howdy, folks! When a tittle | CHARGE PRICE movie star with a future becomes entangled with a man with a past—well, that will do for the Present. Dan Landon will make a good run for mayor if he doesn’t contract the} deadly murphine habit, Why doesn't somebody nominate R. A. Ballinger—he'd get the Japa Bese yote. WAIT UNTIL HE GROWS UPt “The leading role in ‘Fair and Warmer,’ at the Wilkes theater this week, is played by T. Daniel Frawley, a rising young actor."— | Newspaper review. | . we : Trade Commis- ‘ We wish our police report A tell us what the coppers u: sioners ccuse c And we would | they the city.” is always saying the police are throw Pears og ou a, Association What has become 2 be Be in| WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.— only goid-tipped cig~ | Charges that the Western Pine eee Manufacturers’ assoclation is be ing conducted for the primary purpose of fixing prices so as to Main large profits were today by the federal trade com mission. In a report to congress the commission asserted the as sociation has endeavored to reg- ulate production so as to keep up ‘The commission also charged that o ¢ 5 there has been active cooperation to A Canadian corporation is seeking a franchise to operate a fleet of auto buses between Seattle and Vancou ver, B.C. } We suppose the line will be heavy. Qy patronized by Canadian Club men. eee Be that as it may, Harry Crow Is secretary of the Stanwood Commer. | cial club. But he doesn't croak—he crows. ' FIXING POEMS FOR YOUR ASH CAN maintain prices between the Western Ah, can he broad jump? Yes, sirce,| Pine @lanufacturers’ association, the| A record always flops West Coast Lumbermen's association | Whene'er he dons a track suit, ‘cause }and the producers of pine in Call | He's always futl of hops. | fornia. ee In periods of deprension,” the re. Jacques Bergues, dashing young | port says tion members tmsurance agent here, climbed to the have resorted to concerted reguia-| top of Mount Rainier, You can't! tion of production for the purpose of | Xeep a good man down. | maintaining prices arrived at thru| “the assoc! as [concerted action, and as a basis for laundry recurring cyclen of increased prices} Srrbere are seing te when demand springs up again A good, clean | PRICES ADVANCED lime is promised. | AGAIN IN 1 | In the fa If they have many more killings again advanced, in the movies the industry itself will pleted stoc be among the fatalities. oe. of 1921 prices were| on the basis of de-| ka, brought on by a reduc | }tion of over 60 per Gent normal in| | that year. Notwithstanding a nat ae Pe oes wee | wide housing shortage, members home BREWS GREAT PRIZE || mate that their production for 1922) ‘CONTEST | | will not be over 50 to 60 per cent of Home Brew wili give a plush- their 1921 production, and there is lined Ballard transfer to the ear | | trade talk of another runaway mar-| rider who sends in the most | | ket.” | | | suitable name for the Galloping The Western Pine Manufacturers’ | Bathtubs whieh masquerade in sociation is composed of manufac | Seattle as one-man cars | Idaho, Western | Here's a list already suggested: | | Bastern Oregon and F i Electric vibrators. {lington. The effect of the associa | One-room roller skates, | | tion's activities have been felt partic. | Keared peanut wagons, | | ularly in the Middie West, the com. 1 rersy in Mon: na, | Portable kennels. mission said f Fare compressors. Other charges of the commission | Overstuffed tea wagons. were | Corn poppers. { “Despite many price reductions in| x .. sa | other lines, the present quotations of the association are ‘fa advance’ I think the Mormen prophet was = | eal sania An awful funny man; ot wer tic ~ I womler how bis wives enjoyed “Officers of the association have! » His’ prophet-sharing plan, warned members that the advances alltrge |made since the war threaten nation-| An Ohio woman died yesterday of | alization of the industry ” | “talking sickness.” Read this to Whee ite organisation in 1668 the| your wife. ers | assoc jation has given uninterrupted | NORTHWEST SLOGAN (Turn to Page 8, Column 1) tered in the Northwest Prod ‘Boy and Girl Die | as Home Is Burned CHICAGO, Feb. 15.—Walter Sex-| jton, 12, and his sister, Grace, 10, dien learly today from injurie when their home burned, was caused by stove ucts contest by a well-known mem. ber of the Bootleggers’ union:) | Osky, Wow-wow, Northwest Whis- | ky, Oui-ouil George N. Brown, who admits that he is the champion walker of the world, is appearing at the Moore this week, George might try walking up the Queen Anne counter-balance, cee caused The blaze! overturned oi! J | an Youth Will be served; But that is no reason Why Johnny Should have his oatmeal Before grandfather doest -O, Heck. INCREASE THE BUYING POWER OF YOUR DOLLAR GEATILE stores are offering very special induce- ments these days. The cream | offerings found in the ads in The Star. It’s a good habit—read the ads || today and every day. With Clay Hite and Austin & Salt barred from holding prize- fights here, Jimmy Malone is the only promoter left. Now it-they | give Jimmy the gate the boxing | | situation in Seattle will be excel- lent. one | OL OT THEM GROCERY BILLS | An American scientist hag discov ered a cure for the hook if somebody would onl for little Homer's tape | ee | A girl with cotton socking» never seen a moune, says Li'l Gee Gee, th office eramp. } one | Below her bosom Above her knee Her new suit fit her perfectly. Above her bosom Below her knee | | 4U that one could sce was she. | —Pegoy G. SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNE HAN Suicide Is Laid to Contract Marr ‘Reaper Conquers Cupid in Odd Ro 727 More Homes Every Day Than Any Other Seattle Newspaper. SDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1922. LEAR, cold day in this climate and at this time of year is often a first aid to influenza. The grip thrives under such conditions. It is so easy to _catch cold and perhaps contract the beginning of a serious illness. So, keeping fit physically is a double duty at this season. Exercise, moderate and sensible eating and sufficient sleep make a fine prescription for health. The Star. prescribes them for you. Beside: , fresh air is the we ARAL LPL, PPP PPP PLL LPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPPS Prominent Los Angeles Attorney, Enraged by Suit for Divorce, KILLS WIFE, MOTHER AND SELF Three Children in Family Are Made Orphans by Tragic Deeg Por Year, by Mall, $6 to $9 ———— — — Eee “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ‘Bite i wrld’s best tonic. 4 * % GEE NAN Aa 1—Mrs. Ida Tarang-Hamilton, whose blasted romance with W. A. Hamilton is held re- 2--Mrs. Carrie Hamilton, a former wife of Hamilton's, said to have been divorced. this 22nd day of December, 1921, have promised to wed, the following week, W. A. Hamilton, in the event that I find it m sary to go to him and borrow money, even in the nt of 50 cents, receipt of which would require my signature. “(Signed) MISS IDA TARANG.” rem That oddly worded marriage tract, scrawled in a feminine hand on a notebook leaf, was the only ex planation left by William Albert Hamtiton, 41 mn mathe | matics at th y of Wash ington, whose was f Tuesday in a room at the Sheldon hotel, 1402 Fifth ave., with a bullet hole thru the head | Back of the note Mes a tragic ro. mance that beggars the efforts of fiction writers. It is a romance of © against money, age against youth That Miss Tarang did “find it ssary to go to him” is evi denced by the fact that the two | were married by Kev. M. A. | Matthews on New Year's eve in the Windsor apartments—virtu- ally next door to th the bridegroom w weeks later, neymoon, Th y returned to Seattle— si that time his mind—and, altho shocked, friends were surprised when they learned of his suicide, According . to friends, this Was) woisage, mister,” she volunteered, Shoe told her story in a flat, tone Hamilton's fourth marriage. He had! 4, te man who inquired her busi-|lesx voice, Married in November, | a non, Doric, 14-year-old football star, | vous “please—I want to give this/1920, influenza made her a widow in Detroit, Mick wayh | within a year, She worked a little Three years as an instructor at lifted a tattered flap of the| while—but only a little while. A vis the university devele a college ro-| robe, dinclouing the puckered face of |!tor was coming-~a tiny stranger, mance between Mi rang and! month-old baby. The baby stared| Who Was never. to see his fath Hamilton, According to his friends, | with ine, wide eye and gurgled| and she had to prepare for him. Hamilton fell deeply in love with his | moistily, Then the flap descended—| She had saved a few dollars—but pretty pupil. She apparently did not| as tho the woman wanted to guard| the doctors’ bills and hospital bills reciprocate his affection |the infant from the world's profane “Hamilton had been suffering from | sponsible for the latter's suicide, 38—Full length view of Mrs. Tarang-Hamilton, seemingly to avold contact with the bored a hole thru the window and ab be ne of py marri morose and shaken that bis responsible st PLACK MONDAY und bullet erash 1OIDE Wants to Give Baby Away; Take It, Name It Yourself TOOK ¢ suicide ¥ Monday ne t marriage { eldon hote thru hi le passed thru the drawn shade, his wedding. Ham n his £ nd w dow Tara n r oh auitodan t his winded sent v un a abt tie fw a he lodged in the Crary building, across wemed to th foot rvous | 9c be f ne street. Hamiiton for three ch Queen where his teams won th utive championships. He graduate of Cornell university and City of New York 1 never played football himself, fond of golf and other years was a at Anne high por ta Mrs. Tarang-Hamilton could not be We at Crockett st ind nesday her hh ow Neighbors said she had left town. office. lface might have been both physi much | pain | fre She cut om a forlorn Her clothes flapped dismally and she tottered. Her | orcs pretty once, but it v mental- Her hat was jammed on with the weeping. By Aileen Claire figure cal and as she walked into The Star)removed be drawn with and her eyes were red air of a woman who has thrust vanity behind her. In her irms Wé plush earriage robe. ulous hands, ware nervous disorders and a mental col ean you do it, do you think is * said C. N, Dickinson, attor-|the woman qu 1, anxiously y for Hamilton, “He had continu-| she sank inte a chair, “You see lily moved his lodging qu s,| I've GOT to do it.” rh ¢ a tiny bundle, wrapped in Everyenow and then she bent over the bundle, peering down anxiously, patting it with trem- : | pr 10 mount up, and the little hoard was lelse had any right to remove or to} | by the tin on January rotically exhausted the t Event hay “{ tried to get up and find some (Purn to Page 8, Column 3) iage mance ome at} crap of} PROBE! Spring’s Here! | Mother Nature So Informs Us 4 | | | | | : Gunmen Taken After Desperate’ Battle; Others Are Questioned | i BY FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW LOS ANGELES, Cal ‘eb, 15. —Mack Sennett, prominent mo- tion picture producer, was ques- tioned carly today by District Attorney Woolwh staff ine vestigating the William D. Tay- Jor murder, He talked freely | and offered every assistance in | helping solve the mystery. | Bight alleged blackmailers and | Professional gunmen, argested in connection with ar case after « pitched battle with offi | cers during the night, will be | { } | | | | grilled by Woolwine today as to their whereabouts on the night of the murder and what they know about the killing. | A number of prominent persons, | who heretofore have not been men- tioned, were quizzed by investiga-{ i i tors. Their names were withbeld. | Brisk walking | EXTORTION GANG [Bows a wood path 1S ROUNDED UF |To chat with | The men under arrest are John | Marich, 31; Emil Gutte, 49; ‘Michael Kzasich, 44; August Beillich, 26;/ 5° - me tg Frank Bergo, 44; Henry Suziek, 37;|“Hebruary’s going, Jack Randoff, 26; Henry Akolza,| She tells you. |? a A ninth suspect Freel ie The pussy willows, | The roundup was accomplished |«pyiap oc. im |by federal and county officers and |. With silken catkins | private investigators after the band|Of downy, red-tint gray had . attempted $20,000 |“Are in their prime. |from the president of a Los An-|“Spring is here.” | gelex corporation —MR. ANON. | A letter was sent the Intended victim, threatening bim with death |~ Jif he did not deposit the money in | | MURDER GLEN, rted house at Broadway and pers planted a fake bundle of! os ANGELES, Feb, Shama the spot described and/ Brrency at the snot described nd |iymme Obenchain will again enter the closed in on the blackma 9 debate poem (Turn to Page 8, Column 4) | ns are being made today in Superior Judge Reeves’ court, where BLUNDER WITH her trial for alleged participation in jthe murder of John Belton“Kennedy jis under way, to take the jurors and \“Salts” That Killed Five | Tampered With, Claim prince 1s in the trial to Beverly By E. P. Chalcraft Glen, scene of the tragedy. CHEHALIS, Feb, 15.—“There Mrs. Nature. “January's gone, to extort currency at | | It was in this lonely Vale that Kennedy, who was in company with Mrs. Obenchain, was shot to death | just struck a match in the |dark, according to Madalynne’s story. | ag she Last Tribute Paid to H. G. Nicholas} Funeral services were held Wed-! | has been too much tampering with the evidence in this case, |nesday at jonney-Watson's for | | Somebody is liable to get in bad | Harold Gardiner Nicholas, —man- et.” aging editor of the Post-Intelli lgencer, who dropped dead in his joffice Monday night. Seattle news- paper men, most of them associates of the dead man on the Post-Intelli- y This is the warning issued by the coroner's office here today, | following the latest developments of the probe into the mysterious death of the five children of Kd- ward Rhodes, of Klaber, who suc | cumbed after taking “epsom Paid Daily ers. Cremation was service mother,” “I have found that some of the} vital exhibits were handled and even | thig office was noti-| Dr, Otto F. Wiesinger, deputy | for Lewis county, declared, OBE MAY fied,” Th on Sunday of this ¥ circulation for any Star pointed out that on one day the alleged record by 28 per cent, passed it, » he would make no further | analysis of the and the contents of stomachs, now being chemists at the Unt | Washington, W 7 two circumstance that; make tho investigation | “ pending upposed salts ch of a fi Tho Star, like other papers thé w ment of an American admiral that was wrong, the world was hoaxed may futile It has been learned that some of | |the contents of the package from) motl#r had mixed what | were | yet jwhich the believed to be epsom sal But, as wo said yesterday, the lremoved by Dr. J. N. Fle! who | |was the first medical man to arrive | or on any one day of the week is in response to Mrs. Rhodes’ frantic} 3 call for aid, | What is “Neithef Dr. Fleicher nor anyone | that of any ot larger, It is KR MORE than [touch thi | Wiesinger contents of that package,” 1, “Examination of the as the sole province of |this office. If the ¢hemical analysis } (Turn to Page 8, Column 7) bring out these facts, denied nor covered up. gencer staff, acted as pallbearers, /of State Hughes sailed for Bermuda to follow the |today on the liner Fort Hamilton om a vacation. Is Important Thing ttle paper which boasted that fits circulation of 100,835 nek “set a new high w eattle newspaper” Tt says that The Star made the 128,75 mistice, The Star did not fake no apologies to make for that whimsical chapter of war sidelights, any one day or that any other newspaper prints on any one day pportant is THE PAID DAILY AVERAGE. The Star's paid daily average is many THOUSANDS LARGER than Seattle newspaper, advertising. The next sworn postal statements in April will And these are facts that can neither be SISTER : Panic After Slays Two an : Fe Self in Home LOS ANGELES, Feb, George 4.. Boden, preminent Angeles attorney, killed his and her mother and then mitted suicide here today, ing to a report to the police, Three young children, two of them girls, were made by the tragedy. ‘The shooting sent the district about the Boden home panic. Capt. C. F. Jackson, University police station,-was: to rush reserves to the North 1] bart Boulevard district upon of numerous frantic calls, Boden’s wife, Mary, 37, filed for divorce against him last D ber, according to neighbors. He every effort to effect a tion, but without success. Today he called upon her pretense of bringing an Insts of the temporary alimony of month allowed her under an | sued by Judge Summerfield, He urged her to return te She refused. Enraged, Boden Is sald te drawn a revolver and shot the police report, He gun on her. Mrs. Boden’s sister, Mra Walters, of Bakersfield, death in the wild shooting episode By plunging head foremost thru h~ room window and fleeing for her Ry the time police arrived had shot and killed himself, three bodies were found in the room. The Boden children—Dorothy, Virginia, 11, and Donald, 8—were school at the time of the shooting, — 9 MEN HELD IN DISASTER WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. of involuntary manslaughter today made against nine men responsible by the coroner's jury the loss of 97 lives in the Knick bocker theater disaster January 28, The men were held under $5,000 bail pending the action of the grand jury which meets on the case next — week. x Hughes on Vacation, Sails for Bermuda NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—Secretary Average eo mark in net paid is aggrieved because The several years ago we exceeded and on other occasions also sur- “faking” a story first armistice”; orld over, printed the announce the war was over, The admiral The Star did no faking and has number of papers we print on unimportant. It is INCREASINGLY the 11,727 which we have been