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CREASES to House Fighting Is g in Belfast; Death Rate Now 27 . Fed 15—Houreto ting In the suburbs of Bel- out again this afternoon. roll stood at 27 and 100 fu the streets where the sniping on. and Sinn Fein sharpshoot- in trying acres “Mother” Jones PITTSBURG, Kin. Fed. 15—If| here encouraging several thousand & general coal mifers’ strike | Kaneas miners who are on strike. spring, “Mother” Jones, 87, vet-| “Mother” Jones had been in Pitts Jeran of a score of spectacular strikes, | burg hardly an hour before she made will be one of the central figures. | & speech to miners and their wives. For wherever a mine workers’ dis.| “Mother” Jones is a. favorite pute developa, thither goes “Moth among strikers’ families because of | Jones. her motherly face and snow white | She spurred miners to activity in hair. the bloody West Virginia disorders “I use strong language,” she says. last summer. "But that's the only way to get re- And right now the aged woman ts sults.” Hearts and Dollars Drama in Hollywood BY JACK JUNGMEYER tions following the asmasination of LOS ANGELES, Feb. 15.— | William Desmond Taylor. director. “Hearts and Dollars” is an apt More than all the maxims of wine men it has brought home to hard [headed business men and to tem. peramental artists as weil, the money | value of reputation, And the dictum has gone out thru Tt is written by fear, jal the picture camps, to bigh and Fear that warm, indisereet hearts | low, “It's good business to be good!" may in & moment wipe out cod for-| 19 its enforcement this will mean tunes staked by the magnates on | as cortsiniy, do mepiiions will protect rexpectability of themselves, tha Pe ‘The comparatively new , mor. ality clause in sercen stars’ con tracts will be whlely written as an insurance measure, | ‘The “personal liberty” of the | ators off the tot and outside the studio iy colng 2 be more great ly_restricted, Young men and women com. Ing to the sereen will have to be equipped with character as well ae talent or beauty The house of movies is to be pu- strictly in order kept so, Trish re the pro and|the conventional it vereen celebrities! This dread om the part of the fi- nanciers and their leutenants is | very apparent to even the most |gasual observer, Agitated by a num- jber of recent scandals and crimes involving picture folk, it wan notably | quickened by the Arbuekle case and has been spurred anew by investiga-| Rickenbacker Takes Airplane Joy Ride OMAHA, Feb. 15.—Eddie Ricken-| ‘80 per cent of the! backer hopped off for San Francisco! The names of many screen per Saso-'| from the local air mall field at 745 sonages by offictal investigation members. this morning in a plane piloted by have been linked up with the Tay- intained a' Jack Knight Knight will carry lor mystery in the hunt for motive, Rickenbacker to Cheyenne, where a and some of these names, on the change of pilots will be made. verge of publicity, spell fortunes in Rickenbacker wil! spend the night sured only by continued public ap- }in Salt Lake City, leaving there, proval. | Thursday morning, and arriving at} Authorities complained that ob- . | San Francisco Thursday evening. He! stacles were placed in the way of is making the trip by special permis. the murder prove when it reached sion of the air mail service at Wash-| toward the movie camps; that there ington. ‘seemed to be a conspiracy of mt lence” on the part of certain banded ; | Physician Indicted interests apparently concerned more for Double Murder! in shielding reputations than in clearing the enigma of Taylor's BELLEVILLE, Ill, Feb, 15.—Two | 4" indictments charging Dr. Robert X./ McCracken, prominent physician, with the murder of Mrs. Clara Rich: | wine and her aged father-in-law, W!> liam Fichwine, January 9, were re-| | turned by the grand jury today. | The body of Mrs. Richwine was found on a table in the dining room| of the Richwine bungalow on the outskirts of Kast St. Louia. She had [been shot to death. Her father-in-| |law waa bound In the basernent with These are all viewed as evidences Of the fear that springs from money jeopardized and that will hereafter dictate more restraint. of hearts bonded to industry. that his organization had with the Western Pine nut aasociation in price F Were indignantly denied Wed- by Robert B. Allen, secre. of the West Coast HERE’S MORE ABOUT BABY b eaepe & bullet wound in the left temple. |] STARTS ON PAGE ONE come for a change tn !ts' personnel. ore in held up for 60 days and is wath releaged now because} ore Hoover has decided to an- his policy toward trade cor- this week. work,” the mother concluded, “but— f Sal but seems like I'm not as strong as Pine Association | used to be—an' I just can’t do it . | So I've got to find a home for him.” , Denounces Action | tier tace vom momentarily beau PORTLAND, Feb. 15.—"Charges|tiful for all its tear stains, as she that the Western Pine Manufactur-| looked down on the bundle in her ers’ association is being conducted | @™*. for the primary purpose of fixing) “His tices and obtaining large profits Wry name she repeated the never nus been any col- | action between the associa- POS @N prices or anything else As 4 of fact we have been fight. Peach other on tariff, on carloa bine nim on freight rates and om are false and cannot be substan-| “/2¥—Wwhy, he basn’t any, eye vilgpee-tirced bed brid | ‘You eee, 1 sort of thqueht it Bare oo cloacly competitive that A. W. Cooper, sec-etary:manager| Micht make me love him morn i¢ 1 Ve even Rot outside the limita-|of the ansociation, with headquar-volcy choked, "1 love nim too avon : i : mies chaehied, e him too ef good diplomacy and are ters here, made this sweeping de now. But 1 GOT to give himoup. a at war nial to charges brought by the, 7) a absurd. | Cooper declined to go Into a de and 1 don't just know what I'll do WPT believe that the federal trade | tailed denial. He took occasion, after that.” on could be made a con. | however, to score the federal trade/ body, and I do not believe | commission ay a body whowe charges|.-5°0, ary % small but healthy, should fe abolished. But when it) “are appalling and libelous, mad | Gata’ or tint conthen enitaeae ed ly OE oe geead Prowecutor,| which would not be ‘tolerated in a|to anyone who calls the olty editor and jury and tries a case in|private commission or organiza-|of The st of the presentation of any ' tion.” a. i wea Bs pi gs ah THE TRUTH ABOUT THE KU KLUX KLAN Exposing a Colossal Conspiracy against American Ideals, American Institutions and American Womanhood “The Face at Your Window” and “The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Ride Again” 8 Reels of Thrilling Pictures with a Message of Warning to American Manhood and Womanhood Metropolitan Theater, Seattle, Wn. Friday and Saturday February 17th and 18th, 1922 Saturday Matinee 2:30 P. M.; Evenings, 8 P. M. Admission 75 Tickets on Salo at the Theater THE SEATTLE STAR MINE CRISIS UP PARENTS BURY |VETS PROMISED | TO GOVERNMENT Workers Say Intervention Alone Can Stop Strike BY FRED ©. JOHNSTON INDIANAPOLIS, Feb, 15.—Gov ernment intervention is virtually the only hope of averting # national coar strike April 1, a high officer of the United Mine Workers said today Tt was maid many mine operators desire a strike in order to unload wurplus stocks of coal at high prices and will stand pat on their deter mination to refuse interstate wage negotiations with union representa tives, Union leaders feel they have gone the limit tn concemiona by recom mending to the miners’ convention that the present wage soale be main. tained in the face of hundreds of resolutions from local unions, de- manding @ better aehedu } With ‘this situation existing, offi cers of the United Mine Workers will appeal once again to the opera tors to open negotiations. Failing in thin, there te nothing left except to stand by their guns for expiration of the present agreement at mid- night, March 31, Without an agreement the men will quit work, the officer mid. If the government acta In the matter, it wan sald, the first «teps probably Will be against the operators on the ground that they violated provisions of the contract calling for a wage conference prior to March 31. HERE’S MORE ABOUT POISONED TOTS! JUSTICE AGAIN Start Life Over Following | House and Senate Leaders Funeral for Brood of 5 Sure Bonus Will Pass CHEHALIS, Feb. Yo-Mr. and) WASHINGTON, Fen, 15.—TNepub- Mrs. Edward Rhodes, of Kiaber, are) lican leaders of the house will try ntarting life over again today. |W reine the soldier bonus funds by Yeuterday they buried their entire | paring down the budget and thru brood of five, who died from the ef the mavings effected by the naval fects of medicine which the mother | holiday, nepresentative Mondell, Administered in the belief that It 86 Wyoming, house leader, said today Aprom malta, ‘The republicans have practically to thetr Levolated ets one, to face % ded to drop the plan of raining the money from special taxes, & males the future as bravely as may be until time has mellowed some of the bitter | tax or a bond insus, be mid. eee ness of the hour. WASHINGTON, Feb, 15.-— There “Of course ra AF game, They’ jot the stuf them. wey will be @ bonus for ex-service men, |house and senate leaders told the This by the tribute, in the United Preas today words of # neighbor, that the 1,500 persons assembled shout Cl Regardiens of the stand of Presi- [dent Harding against raising money the quintuple grave paid and hls wife, It had been feared that one or both parents would (to pay the bonus thru either taxes break down. under the weight of (proposed by the house waye aud their sorrow. At first It was f° (mens committee or thru a bond is ported that the father, who had [wue, ieaders were hopeful that the nod partaken of food for four (fetter Harding has promised to send days, would be unable to coin, [would help them out of their diffi. oultion. ‘Thin letter was expected to go from but he was one of the first to climb out of the family auto, The only visible approach to a breakdown came at the conclusion of morrow, Persons in touch with the the services, when the parents led executive claimed it would offer the the long line that filed by the opened | congress jeaders little, if any, help biern. their car and taken home, From its the bonus problem, front porch they can cateh a glimpse) Meantime, the congress chiefs of the HBolsfort cemetery, where | were pondering over several methods their children reat, jof raising funds. Some of thene are Altho the services were scheduled) 1, Taking savings which are ex for 2 p. m, the crowd began to aa | pected an the fruit of the naval lim. the White House either today or to- | Both were hurried away w/in the way of a concrete solution of WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1922. | HERE’S MORE ABOUT POISON STARTS ON PAGE ONE of the remaining contents show trace of poison, the question will arine, ‘Was there polson in the upper |portion, which was removed?’ * | The action of Dr. G. HM, Dow, | Lewis county health officer, in aak department to lorder all shipments of epsom «alts withheld by the West Coust Grocery | jing the state health |Co., of Tacoma, who vent out the | fatal change, m also the subject of erttielm Dr, Dow, who ts the fam |fly physician of the Rhodes family. had no authority ag health officer to make such « request, it is maid. | | SAYS WARNING | WAS GIVEN j | It wan in effect, it in declared, a| | warning (hat might have enabled the | Went Court Grocery Co. to remove any trace of error in their packing |department, if such error had been |made. This has not been determined jan yet. | Altho Dr. Dow, as the famfly phy-| wician, wan first to be called after the fatal effects of the medicine| made themselves apparent, Dr, Fieicher was the first to respond, “I received a call shortly after § ™m. Saturday.” Dr. Dow related, |“When they told me the condition | of the children, I told them to rush | them to town, as I was in bed and they could get here quicker than 1| could reach the Rhodes home. “I got everything in readiness and | | waited. At 10 o'clock they had not | larrived, #0 I enlied up and found that Dr, Pleicher had been sum-| |moned. The children were all dead| DRIVE STARTED ¢ ON PONZIRIVALS * Arrests Expected in Chicago Investigation CHICAGO, Feb, 15--Another al lnged “Ponzi” plot was unearthed, a cording to authorities today, wher four creditors of Charles H. Apple started = bankruptcy proceeding» against him. . . CHICAGO, Yeb. 15-—Authorities obilized today to rid Chicago of Ponzied finance.” Investigation of financial concernn, which already has cansed the col lapne of two companies alleged to have taken @ steady stream of gold from the savings of the gullible for ¢ign-born, was expected to result in more arrests, State and federal officiais conferret to determine just what offense, un. der the law, was committed by Ray: mond J. Bischoff, 26-yearold “wix ard,” who drew as high ax $60,000 a day from residenta of “Little Po- land,” with a lure that 100 per cent would be paid. A warrant alleging operation of a confidence game already has been served on him, Wederal operatives, on advice of Judge Landis, sought to | find evidence to support a case of us- jing the malls to defraud, a federal offense. Bischoff blamed his downfaN to = large extent on Leslie Harrington, for whom the police pf the nation are seeking. Harrington, whose three aides ‘were arrested during a raid on his office, fled before the storm broke. It is alleged he drained $1,000,000 semble hours before. From all the near-by towns and countryside, and as far away as Puyallup, hey came. Autos, carriages, hacks, bicycles and other conveyances were soon parked for a mile along the road. MOVIE MURDER STARTS ON PAGE ONE they came for it. A vicious pistol battle resulted. The district attorney's office ts in- clined to believe at this same ® which has apparently been organised for some time and vio timized several men, may have made attempt to extort money from Taylor. NORMAND CHAUFFEUR taking Co., AGAIN QUESTIONED neral The five white caskets were | William Davis, chauffeur for Ma- lawered Into separate graves, lying bel Normand, who drove her car side by aide. when she paid her last visit to Tay- adieniiaialittiunitidad jor the night he was kili¢d, was again | crom-examined, . James ("Slim") Stewart, confessed bootlegger, who yesterday produced sensational new evidence in the Tay-/ lor case, has dimppeared, | PRIEST ACCUSED “eiemseccomae | OF FRATRICIDE i“! J bo or the |[tapture of the murderer, | MONTREAL, Qua, Feb. 16— Tnvestigution of the murder mys |ChArKed with deliberately murdering wee nell naif brother to get bi tery to date has failed to eleminiats © Father Adelard Delorme, a leven one suspect, District Attorney © joy “1 Catbolic priest, in held in prison here, | Weetwine told the United Press 10) 17). socused of having insured the y jlife of hin half-brother, ve All the evidence and all the prin omen : Jr oinere Saceaes en Gipals in the case are still under the 400. '1.-'325.000, and of killing him microscope, he said. Charles A-j eu.’ gaye later.” Jones, forme fo ache ret hvu: | Raoul’s body, with six bullet holes wine's Seid agent in the Investigalin tne head, was found in a suburb on, said: om of Montreal January 6 In my entiation, the investi¢® | warner Delorme was arrested late afoot, acroan the fielda. The services, simple and brief, were conducted by Rev. Edward Har ris, who has christened and marriea most of the Chehalis valley real- dents, Deputy Coroner Otto F. Wiesinger, jas an official of the Bticklin Under- tion is tending toward exoneration of/ aay in coroner’ court when |POrtunmity for local agents.—Adver-|but was not discovered until hours weveral of thone whose names hare been conntcted with the tragedy,” Jones, however, refuned to say who they were, eee . TAYLOR TRAIL IS AMYSTERY HARPER, Kan, Feb. 15.—The trail of William Desmond Taylor, slain motion picture director, who pent several years in and near the famous English settlement of Fun nymede. near here, disappeared when he left as completely as did trace of the director's slayer at Hollywood, | Altho {numerous Harper county |ronidents recall that Taylor, then lknown as Tanner, lived in Harper county for several years while in his “teens or early “204, there ls no record jot when the family left or where {the jury returned a verdlot of mur ider and suggested that the priest be held. The story of the crime, an built up by the prosecution, reads like fic- tion. Father Delorme in accused of having influenced his half-brother for years, getting him to make out a will in bis favpr and to have his life imaured for the benefit of hin heirs, Raoul was spending his Christmas vacation with his half-brother when he was slain, The night of Janua be said, be was going out with * party of good people.” "MOTHER! |Your Child’s Bowels Need they went. At the time the boy, Wir “ i ; ” liam, son of Oscar Tanner, was| California Fig Syrup known as a roving, imaginative youth, with cravings for sports and recreations, The town of Runnymede was named for an English town, fotlow- ing the arrival in this part of Kan- san of a large number of English families in the early ‘S08, Doug one Mary Warn Public to Look Out CHICAGO, Feb. 15.—-Dougias Fair- and Mary Pickford warned the They said the real stars in Molly wood work too hard to be interested in wild orgies. . stomach is sour, tongue breath bad, remember a good clean: ing of the little bowels is often all that is necessary, coated, Another Marriage Ask your druggist for genuine “California Fig Syrup" which has of Taylor Scented aircctions for babice and children at SHARON SPRINGS, Kan, Feb. ll ages printed on bottle. Mother! 15.--WillMam Desmond Taylor, movie You must say “California” or you director, murdered in Los Angeles, May get an imitation fig syrup.—Ad. was married in Wallace, Kan., or vertisement, Sharon Springs, in 1890, to Mius —4 Olive Randall, according to the belief jof many old settlers here. The marriage records are being thoroly gearched, but they were not kept up to date tn the early ‘Gos in this section of the country. cee \Interest Lost in hy Loquacious Yarn SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15.—Po- lice lost a large part of their interest in Charles Carsan's story that Kd. | ward Sands hired gunmen to kill William Desmond Taylor, movie di. rector, when their informant volun: Ar Y F t 1 teered he knew a man who could f ALG SOUL FCG EXPENSIVE clear Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle of {the manslaughter him. | However, investigation of Carsap's almost too complete tale continued, 7 Keeping the feet shi f charge against pert e Old Shoes look like try werk promptly done turned to you parcel 0. Lt. Gov. Coyle Will Talk on Auto Taxes Lieut. Gov, W. J. Coyle will ad |drews the Engineers’ club of Seattle |at ite Thur and pont ¢ our 3 ahines FEOERAL SHOE lay noon luncheon on “Automobi wxation as It Applies to State Highway Construction in Washington,” nehalia, directed the fu- | [public yesterday that America will| lose the motion. picture industry un- leam criticism of its people stops Roth stars said many countries would be glad to welcome the induw-| frurry, mother! Even a rick child jtry loves the “fruity” taste of “Califor. | “All te not folly at Hollywood,”! nia Hig Syrup” and it never falls to Doug said. He displayed four bll*| open the bowels. A teaspoonful to-| ters on his right hand to prove it | gay may prevent a &ick child tomor: | _zrom work! he said. row. If conatipated, bilious, fever Yes; from work!’ agreed Mary. ish, fretful, has cold, colle, or if | jitation program and paying them to service men. 7 2. Levying of a sales tax. | 3. 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