The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 28, 1922, Page 1

BLAST SHAKES in | HOME. EDITION Ratered as Becond Clem Mi May ©, 1809, at the Post Greetings, folks! Aren't you Just too excited for words over Princess Mary's | wedding? Lil Gee Gee, th* office vamp, says | ashe hopes the royal couple will be | to no trouble in finding a nice, comfy apartment. eee STRICTLY IN THE MODE “Princess Mary will wear a wedding dress of cloth of silver with a sheen of moonshine.”— Newspaper item. . @ quart for 17-year-old Scotch. one “Russell Is Hit in Wilkes Play” says a headline in The Star. what hit him. rotten egs. POEMS OF PASSION Jazz-ababy! Kissya? Maybe! jae Be that as it may, White & Black | are blacksmiths in West Seatiie. ore "Bout time ror the candidates to start making speeches. Just another | one of the little hardships of life that we have to bear uncompluin- ingly. a “I never hated to Landru, the French Bluebeard, Now that Canadian money ts at) par again, Seattle visitors in Van. wer will have to pay as high as! But it} ts left to the reader's imagination | We hope it wasn’t a! SEATTLE, WASH.,, TUESDAY, (SOME NEW RELATIVES OF MATHILDE M’CORMICK Aon D=*) CHEER ROYAL BRIDE Princess ‘Mary Is Wed to Viscount BY PERCY M. SARL LONDON, Feb, 24.—Viscount Lascelles and bis bride, Princess whe were married this | eral days, left Paddington at 4:12 pm, eee WESTMINSTER ABBEY, London, Feb. 28. — Princess Mary, of Britain, today became the bride of Viscount Lascelles, In a wedding ceremony mark- | the couple to Weston hall, Shrop- | ASSERTS CHEST | FUNDS DIVERTED Ms ivauee (Collins Says Railroad Bills cael Being Footed The first complaint that a por Historic Westminster abbey was a/tion of the funds of the Commun | scene of unsurpassed beauty today |'t¥ Cheat being misused and ax the princess, on the arm of her | *@Uandered to no good purpose was who was guillotined the other day, ts father, King George, moved down the | ade Tuesday by Welfare Commis not the first man to jose his head | aisie to the magnificent alter, where |@Oner Josiah Collins, one of the over women. . PROGRESS = THE TAYLOR ASE El eB have a clew show. ing the murder was committed by a lish clergymen assisted in the cere | Munity Chest. jealous man. Tuesday — Murder was committed by a jealous toman. Wednesday ted by a man and woman. venge. ‘Thursday— by a mail carrier looking for letters. Friday a dope fiend. Saturday suicide volver with which he » Object, re- Police think Taylor com- first hiding the re shot himaelf. Rdnilnaiew s more lemons than any other state ex- cept the state of matrimony. ee Now that the Nortnwest Products | st has closed we cast our! of the following slogan, mitted yesterday On land or sea, arly or ta Must be Northie TODAY'S HAPPY THOUGHT After congre than a big city council. . A movie ia trying to obtain control of the!) We thought it was| business, sce who were after it. Sign in Third ave. window: “Our: 2%cent underwear will tickle you to death.” That beats being scratched to | Inside the palace the princess’ | Commu ity " fund, are the death, wedding morning began auspictously, | three following Travelers’ Aid work be ie 3 Queen Mary obmerved the p ant | er Dr. Tiffin, former coroner, files n#| ancient custom of herself waking her! Miss Reick. an organizer of the} Jate for the school board. | daughter | lers’ Aid society, sent out trom | ing hie past experience, Tif. j At 11 o'clock the throng that had | take charge here at a} (Turn to Page 4, Column 6) By Homer Brew Dear Mary: You will no doubt be surprived to hear from me after my long silence. One rea- son that I have not written is because I learned that you were keeping company with a fellow named Lascelles and I was afraid might find one of my letters and get jealous, Believe me, Mary, it was not because I have grown cold. Your marriage toda ‘surprise, as your invitat in the ew nothing o the mar in The EXTENDS. W18 CONGRATULATIONS congratulate you upon « I feel eure that you have married into a good family. Mr. nails and I | until 1 read it ge Laygelles is not very well known in Murder was commit- Murder was committed | honor and obey her husband, -Murder was committed bY! pronounced an't much more | author says Wall Street Homer Brew Writes to Princess Mary Viscount Lascelles stood waiting | In a@ brief but impressive Chureh| Collins went into conference at of Fnaland wedding serv the} 11 a. m. at the Chamber of Com couple were united by the archbishop | merce to lay his complaint before of Canterbury Fifteen other Eng the board of directors of the Com | SAYS FUNDS | | mony. King George pimced Princess | DIVERTED Mary's hand in that of the viscount.| Briefly, Collins’ complain} is that Princess Victoria Alexandria Alice|® part of the money subscribed by the people of Seattle a few monthe purposes anly |Mary, as she was called during marriage service, promised to Io in | 480 for charita who | now being wrongtully diverted to | aa the archbishop | Pay high salaries to unnecessary words | Travelers’ Aid society workern sta stood pre ly erect the concluding | that made them man and wife. | tioned in the King st. rallway } | After the dean of the abbey had | depot | Ostensibly, he says, three Travel. uttered his blessing, and the coliects, | the closing Aid women have been placed n hud been |!" the depot “to break up the white finiahed, the audience, led by the|Slave traffic.” This traffic, he de |echoir, sang “God Save the King.”|clares, iv a bogy that no longer ex This was the only departure from | ists, if it ever did, in Seattle's rail the customary ceremony of the| " | Chureh of Bnatand. Collins pointed out, the The fashionable audience “gue ed while the abbey rang with the sing- PSinaap | ages of belo or the wel n and girls passing Then the little wedding party, : The raliroad paid | which now included Queen Mary sat 6 diated tmey the customary address, hymn and the benedict c railway mainta in rons to look n and the dowager queen, went work ‘ettheieiiie daw senna ints the chapel, where the reg- it ai ths ivaveerd ister was signed. The route of | 4iq wo » hag found) the procession from the palace to jit path i eatin, “tend the abbey was lin ten, of thousands by 8 jconvenient as a matter of ecc |to dismines its two d These two ex-ma y this morning. The! Cc, Wynegar and Mrs. of th ¥. {are widows and, tho entirely depen- y jdent upon their n resources, and ne with a «tna yn to support be- | des, find themselves walking the | t of a job, nut paid out of the omy matrons. alace was the target | ing for the hore was the Mecca of ea f |GORGKOUS CARRIAGES jst LEAVE PALACE | ; whealen a wealthy | (Turn to Page 8, Column 2) pene nr wmnva sm nemo“ Start Today [EF you are not al- ready reading the advertising columns of The Star regular- ly — START TO- (Tarn to Page 8, Column 3) | all reports speak very | d I hav no doubt | Seattle, but highly of him trustees of the fund | ¥ the said. lof bootlegs 3RUARY 28, “922, bing Up After En- gagement to Oser New international master To begin with Mise McCormick Will acquire some unsuspected “in lawa’* right in Chicago These new relatives include L. Burgy and his wife, Mra Sophia Burgy, cousinsin-law to be, and their ¢ er, Miss Helen Burgy, neoond ¢ n-in-law to be, pictured above. Burry he is a first cousin of Oner He sald a lot more than that, too, when Mathilde's father, McCormick, failed to tle © res on the Gold C Harold F. wax enthusias “My family have prond names,” | ver was “My @ general in my great-mrandfath the French army and Burgy says his father was a brother of Oner’s mother. Dis patches way Oser is but 4%, | Mystery Cloaks Detention of “Bootleggers” LOS ANGELES, Feb, 28.— Two unnamed men were arrest- ed here early today and were held incommunicado in the county jail, According to o rumor which officials refused to verify, they are to be questioned in connection with the William D. Taylor murder mystery. The men were 1 on a charge “In- Laws” “Are Bob- relationships | Emit |? ng, and the Hip Sings today who are an interior decorator, sayn t Burgy’s effort to pay his| ects at the McCormick mansion grandfather was with Napoleon.” | but | in Barsy has said he really is ‘2 ARRESTED IN TAYLOR PROBE} _PLANT 2 HURT! The Star Goes Into 11,727 More Homes Every Day Than Any Other Seattle Newspaper. The Seattle Star . Per Tear, by Mall, 05 to $9 “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE — - CHINATOWN IN TONG WAR GRIP jon face and body, but city hospital physicians said they would recover. The mon were pulverizing fuel at jthe time of the accident. They | wore alone in the room, which pre-| Bow Leongs $ Rally to avenge | Member’s Murder With three powerful tongs in a death struggle for supremacy, Seattle's Chinatown today was in the grip of one of the most wide- spread wars of its history, The tong war has been raging inter. mittently for several weeks, but deevlopments of tne last 24 hours have added fuel to the flames to such an extent that they now threaten the entire lower section of the city, Heretofore the war has been only j wit 1 te born of the co ming marriage between the Hip Sin of Miss Mathilde McCormick, heiress |tongy, but the mu to the McCormick and Rockefeller | T#coma milvons, and Max Oser, Swiss riding |{TOMt of the Seattle r of 8, ¥ Bow Le ban depot Monday | third | is sale |Goon Sing, a member of the Hi jarrayed against both the Bow and the Bing Kung. | They William Wong Sing, Sing, 36, a doctor. volvers, The shooting occurred in the | midst of a large crowd of passen- gers at the Tacoma interurban station, Occidental ave, and Yes- y s shot once thru the three times thro the i | smoking revolver under omobile and run down the street until he was knocked down by a pede tn and held until he police |500 1 Pupils F “ig PORTLAND, Feb. 6 companies massed 4 schoo! this morning fighting a | da: y fierce blaze which started in the roof from an overheated chimney which threatened the destruc fon of the en re than | sound: a | Dail Renown Fight ih on Free State Pact tour men on tria! are represented by DUBLIN, Feb, 28 resumed Sts fight on the Irish No details of the arrest or of their | state treaty today. jasserted connection with the Taylor | mystery were made public if you should take it into your head DAY! It’s a profit- | Meanwhile, ward i, Sands to come out here on your honey-| 4 : 3 missing valet, was being sought in moon you will be extensively enter-|| able habit—one that || mexico, following receipt of several tained by some of our best families 1 save i tips that the missing 8 700€ jtlps thi I think I could Introduce you to h eo, wa phy fe jthe slain picture director is in that some of Our most prominent people | 1ard co ) ZS |) country here and no pains would be spared} 9, . 3e- | Sands is believed to be close to |to make your visit a pleasant one. | hee must buy. Be | the international line, according | With a Uttle social maneuvering |] gides that, you will to information received by Sher. could get you a card for the Sunset | latest in- if William 1, Trager. He crossed get the lub and probably for the Jefferson | i i | park golf links. I know Mr formation regarding ! Cheshire Mit of the Butler ho. style s | ‘ould be glad to give reduced|| styles, etc. for yourself and husband at| The best offerings is hotel | . Pm You would not need to make any|| Of Seattle’s best 11 changes ay to costume for the are very simple folks | land never judge anybody wy the (Turn to Pago 8, Column 5) spe visit stores appear in The Star. as we | i at Tijuana, it is believed, and is now either in that town or at Mexicali. An asserted Chinese dope ring lead , taken into cus the night, were with: whom. Taylor had. trouble was intimated by members of ‘the fedeyal narcouc squad. .| weeks, during which time the ne et under Griffith was to for- ¢ its policy for presentation to | secretary of | the dail No other business was scheduled | it British governor general, The after Sinn Fein parliament an adjournment of cab) mul | for today's meeting Egypt Is Created Partly Free State, and Bing Kung Six men were held tn the clty Jail are slayer; Ah 25; Jiobert and Jung All the men rrested in raids on lodging and all were armed with re Burning Building i: Fourteen the Holla. met seven | i } Skagit Bay jwhich sold th ernment meander line | tide tlers. the company rep | would be [which would reciaim the land |make it as valuable as tracts in the Skagit delta and | MEN ARE BURNED ATWORK Fumes Explode and Rock District in Vicinity of | Heat Plant Buildings were rocked for a block around and two workmen were severely injured Tuesday in « coal gas explosion in the Puget Sound Power and Light Cos steam heating plant at Western ave. and University st. The injured are: Jesse Williams, 4317 ave. Palatine 1107 Howel st. d severe burns Geiger, ) men suffered vented a larger casualty list. ‘The first, intimation of trouble was a blinding flash, followed by o [deafening roar, which brought bun dreds of persons to the street from | nearby offices. The two men, bad-; ly seared, were hurled against the/ wall and a pipe was smashed into & hundred pieces. A fire alarm was turned tn, but fo blare resulted. Assistant Fire Chief George Marlowe carried the }men to the city hospital ‘The explosion ix said to have been | caused by spontaneous combustion onsiderable damage was done to the batifing. FOUR ON TRIAL FOR BiG FRAUD | Men Accused « of Mulcting to have been shot down by Public Out of $50,000 Accused of oudialina the public out of $50,000 thru a fraudulent reclamation scheme, Oliver M. Sparks, George E. Dye, E. €. Hart and Charies A. Sparks went on trial in federal court Tuesday before Judge Jeremiah Neterer, Det an, accused jointly with the quartet, was granted a tion of his who per- . 8. Attorney Judson Faulkner that his client's chances for justice would be jeopardized if he were tried with the others, The accused men promoted the Development company, nds between the gov and the low two forks of river to prospective set The government alleges that wented that a dike| built by the fali of 1921, and for truck farm ne between the Conner flats ding to As a matter of | t, a the indictment government reports showed the land to be absolutely worthless and past all hope of reclamation, The lund was sold in tracts averag ing 16 price of $25 an acre, company, it is alleged, claiming | it would be worth $350 an acre ag soon as the dike was completed. The complainants are Benjamin | |Dighton, BE. Taylor, W. EB. Purtier |Gus Plotz, Robert B. Claire, J |Lindiey, A. G. Mewsbrom, Leo Pare Dail Eireann free siderable difficulty ercising six peremptory , Victor ©. Kelly and others, The | Attorney 5. H. Flick, A jury was impaneled after con. the defense ex challenges and the government four. |Witnesses Called | LONDON, Feb. 28 Egypt ia eign state, subject to certain reserva tions, it w officially announced to- | day. The British government has | terminated its protectorate subject to |'Three Allenby, | Harry informed | reservations, ord the sultan of Egypt of this fact to poe the [the state treasury, the first witnesses were being sub. poenaed house employes. for Small’s Trial § SPRINGFIELD, I, Feb. trial of Gov. Len Sinall, harged with conspii to defraud today, Most were Rob Messenger | LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb. 26 armed bandits overpowe Nordloh, ed and en ’ | | | = { | | Hy Hy set for March 6, @ state |& | S been created an independent sover-| Three Armed I Bandits § : messenger for the | First National bank of Ludlow, robbed him of $7,000 today, bandits escaped, | The |i (EDITORIAL) Our $1,000-a-Day Ferry System Is Saved Once More H, see the pretty emblem! It is a double cross. missioners’ office and it glows with a soft the pontoon bridge matter is discussed. when they kept the current turned on so long and the voltage ran high. The “courthouse crowd” is very much afraid that something might interfere with the volume of the ferry business, a business which nets the county such a magnificent # Lake Washington would do that. SO—what if they do double-cross the citizens? * Not Home Folks + * to be found in the situation at Boxboard plant is trying to re $3.75 per.) The gratification is in knowi that the plant is foreign own headquarters San Francisco. As far as The Star can learn there is not another 12-hour establishment | in the state. *# #*# @ Tapped on Wrist O well advertised thru sub’ ranean channels was the $ day cock-fight staged in a big barn south of Kent that enthusiasts came from California, Idaho and many intervening points. A hun- dred birds were in readiness. The “fun” would have lasted the day thru, much to the edification of the crowd. And then the prosecuting attor- ney reduced bail of the three men arrested (under fictitious names) from $200 to $100 each. Wonder where and when the next fight will be. Probably soon and near by. * * “Free Air” if Two: Seattle men sit in rooms where a gas burner is consuming the oxy- gen and where the doors and windows are so tight.as to keep out the fresh air, and die. * A lot of the rest of us are doing the same. thing all the time, only gradually. We keep car windows hermetically sealed. We loll about in stuffy offices, We shun “night air” in our bedrooms. We starve our blood corpuscles which are crying for oxygen—while an ocean of it, free for the taking, lies all about 2 and@above us. The two men died in an hour or so. The rest of us who go without air die five or 10 or 20 years before God intended we should. It hangs over the county com- | purple light every time Monday it almost turned pink’ loss. And the pontoon bridge across HERE is this much satisfaction Port Angeles where the Crescent | tablish a 12-hour slavery shift. (At x