The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 4, 1922, Page 11

DAY, MARCH 4, 1922, —~ Over Federal Appro- | jon for Study of Earth Tremors up NGTON, March Br it may seem, o lity sent $15,000 was slipped into appropriation bill day, by the unanimous of California senators tatives, and it is that ne objection will to its passage by any of cliher house of com je an appropriation for assist. tists of the University ot | Leland Stanford Univer ‘other interested scholars, to | a way by which earthquakes be foretold as to time, place, ef intensity and general di- | ‘of the shock. e cRUST is a “fautt™ in the earth's) rent . entering the United Guise from a point near Yuma, on line, runs in a general Seperrenter'y direction across Im walley, the Sierras, to the Coast | thence up the coast thru the Crut mountains, .Pulo Alto, Jose, San Francisco, Santa Rosa finally out into the ecean off California, It is known as} | tae “San Andreas Fault, this that the seve ef the Pacific states have occurred. | Phe plan is to select a place on “tault.” drive a concrete pillar in concrete foundation, well fate the earth, take measure. showing its exact location to then draw direct lines to building, New York; Bunker it, Boston; totem pole, THEY'LL DEVELOPMENTS wing taken all these meas- WHEN } TELL HIM ANYTHING ~You"RE SPO)LING Him! OH, | DIDN'T HURT BY QUAKES, HIM —- HE NEVER MINDS HIM = HARDLY ToucHED YOURSELF ALITTLE —THE OuTCAST— ‘Jim Jeffries | | Charch Rebuke LO8 ANGELS, March 4. — The James J. Jeffries brand of retigion | may work splendidly on the James J. Jeffries ranch tn Burbank, but ta} Los Angeles ministerial circies today | it was forlorn and friendless, | Tobacco and liquor and profanity, | in moderation, are all right. accord menument has moved. For it is | Conditions will pick up and we canjing to the views the exchampion | all the time, sometimes slow Uke an army worm. can ancrtain when coming and where they | Patterson said, fast, |again rum our plant a full week and | wil! expound if he takes the but always hUMpINE | go back te the three‘tower’ day.” | ‘all “We will pay the o wage. We promise no wage cut.” eee 4 I5e, 25¢, 50¢, 7T5e, $1, Except Sat., Sun. and Holidays Mats.: 15¢, 25c, 50c, Except Sun. and Holidays MRS. SIDNEY DREW “PREDESTINATION” “The Laughing Stock of Vaudeville” JAMES JACK PINTO & BOYLE “MYSTERIOUS MUSICAL TRUNK” WESTON’S MODELS Masterpieces From Famous Galleries QRay of Western Sunshine Axsisted by Phil Sheppard “The Unusual Fellow” GLADYS BUCKRIDGE & BILLY CASEY With the Trado Twins Present Ornamental Song Hits dack Thomas at the Piano Pathe News Topies of the Day A Domestic Comedy by Edwin Burke Under the Direction of Lewis & Gordon RAY & EMMA DEAN In the Overnight Comedy Sensation With the MISS LOIS BENNETT RAYMOND WILBERT Orchestra .' mourners’ bench and 5 THEATRE === ==: TWICE DAILY 2:30 - 8:15 tory as now planned, in company | with hin friend, A. F. Futterer, Dfbte } j authority. Tobacco and liquar and profanity jand James J. Jeffries bimuelf, in |mederation or otherwine, are all wrong, the Los Angeles pulpit vo | leiferously amerted in locdl newspa- | perw today “Jottries’ beliefs will not meet with & ready reception,” said Dr. Gustav A Briegicb, Presbyterian. “Lf hie God ia as liberal as report. 04, Jeffries bas had a nightmare,” commented Rev. K. P. Shuler, Metho dint. leftries won't be weleormed on any wech principles as he has aapounced.” Rev, J. W. Brougher, Raptict, said. “That's all right,” Jeffries com mented. “I haven't got any use for [the churett anyway. They shouldn't et excited. or reformer. Futterer, 11 I'm net an evangelint | If I go on a tour with not pack along a/ try to load/ it up. | “My idea in to do what the churches aren't,doing. I'm gaing to! try to give a straightaway message | |from Chrixt right to a man’s heart:| not in the way some of the churches | Lioyd George today summoned Imad. | cord have distorted and exploited the bas | ers of the conservative party, inciud.|te the shippers that they linge Austen Chamberlain, Arthur J,|'ke to continue the oid arrange ste truth. KATTL The Great American Home ] YOU OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED oF HITTING CHILD LIKE THAT - THE VERY 14 ARE KILLED IN BUS CRASH! New York Central Train Hits Jitney PAINESVILLE Failure of the driver of a jitney bus loaded to capacity to see the watch man's red danger signal was believed by authorities today to have causes the grade crossing accident here, in which 14 persons were killed, four probably fatally injured, and others | lest reriously hurt A New York Central fast maw train, speeding at 60 miles an hour crashed into the jitney, hurling bod: ies of the dead and Injured along We track for 400 yards. ‘The accident occurred shortly be fore midnight. Not one of the 1» passengers of the jitney escaped in- Jury or death. Charles Sullivan, the one survivor who was able to talk, said the bus @id pot stop before going over the crossing. ‘ A. W. Barnes, grade crossing watchman, said he shouted warnings to the driver of the bus and tried to stop him, but his voles was drownea by the rear of the speeding train. All of the bodies were mangled al- moet beyond recognition BRITISH FACE FRESH CRISIS BY ED L. KEEN LONDON, March 4. — Premier COUNTY HOME BLAZE PROBED Lives of 185 ‘Aged Inmates | Menaced by Fire Investigation of a fire that dam: | aged the King County home at Georgetown late Friday, endanger ing the lives of 185 aged inmates, was begun Saturday by R. L. Laing, acting fire rehal, Inspectors laid the blame to defective wiring. Whipped by a fieres wind, the fire made rapid headway in spite of a driving rain and destroyed the north half of the building at a loss of! about $35,000, The 186 rooms were morfly eecu- pied. Many crippled people were in the bullding. The work of rescue was so capably handled that no inmate was injured or scorched. One in- mate, Ed Ryan, bemoaned the loss of a pair of shoes ‘The hero of the fire ts Harry FE. Harvey, orderly, who discovered the bine, threw a indder against the! outer wall and climbed to the attic! with a fire extinguisher. The flames drove him out. As he waa descend inkk the ladder it broke and he fell tite as he was brought to the gal-| Tlinois if petitions sent out by the! about eight feet. Tie wan gashed over the right eve. Reecued inmates were rushed to the King County hospital, where hot coffee awaited them. HERE’S MORE ABOUT RAILROADS STARTS ON PAGE ONE ee had the Pacific Coast Co, ewiteh the carload around to & coal plat- form where it was unloaded, and charged the shipper for the ewitch- ing. More carloads followed, some con taining heavy hardware, and there) was some more switching. In each) care the Milwaukee charged the shipper for the switching, and the lshipper kicked to the state board) jabout it. Business continued to pick up jand stil! more people landed at Codar Palla. But did the Milwaukee set a couple of men to work building ® platform upon whieh to un load heavy staff? It did pot. It notified the board of public works that because of the in- Cedar Falts abolish the altogether. To keep from building » platform, that for pro | smart business? | ‘Then there's the fuel wood rate lense that has cost the people of| | the cities « fot of money all winter. PUBLIC PAYS FOR THIS ONE ‘The roads and fuel wood shippers wanted some sort of standard freight rates made. S80 the board) [of public works held a hearing and made some rates. ~ But it was necemary to estab- |tish just what a cord of wood is. | Heretofore many roads had been |fieuring a cord of wood at from) | 200 to 210 cuble feet when it was) dumped loosely into the car at the shipping point. | The board of public works found that a cord of cordwood could be put in 128 cubic feet and put those | ngures into its order, Immediately the order became effective, the railroads notified the fuel shippers! that hereafter all fuel wood would) |be figured at 128 cubic feet to the) The roads tated in letters would | Za) “0 bet there are thousands just| Balfour and Lord Birkenhead, go| ment. but that the board of public ttke Tam, who haven't the least de- sire in the world to affiliate with a urch. They're the ones I want to I want to tell ‘om that the only stepping stones t@ aaivation: hanging on to the simple decencies and man to/ man right doing will get you across| just as well with Jehovah,” POSTAL CHIEF | IS SWORN IN ASHINGTON, March 4.—Policies jot Will H. Hays will be continued in| ithe postoffice department, Dr. Hu |bert Work declared in taking hin oath aa the new postmaster general | today j | Foremost among these policies in the “humanising” of the postal serv Hiee, which he characterized |ly kindness” in dealing with the mem bere of the postal aystem. He indt cated that for the present marines would continue to guard the m |altho the department t# now organiz ing its own system of guards. a “mere. | ‘Husband Sues, But | | Wife Gets Divorce P. J. McCormick, once « candidate for eheriff of King county, sued his |wife for divorce, but the latter, Mr \Marle McCormick, was granted the |decree after Superior Judge Boyd J Tallman had heard the evidence Fri |day. Mrs. McCormick was awarded | $2,600, while McCormick got the prop: lof $19,000 againat it | pro British orty, valued at $12,500, but with debts | and for not taking sufficient care of | Chequers, his magnificent country estate, A weekend cotference of the utmost importance began. Altho the unionist revolt held by Str George Younger was checked ‘Thurs day night, Lioyd George was deter. mined to reach a complete under: standing with the less radical lead. of the party this week-end or hand in his resignation ‘The speeches, last night, of Austen Chamberlain and Sir Laming Worth: ingthn patehed up the situa tion which arose from an attempt by the Younger group to force Lioyd George's resixnation or @ general election, but they have left the Brit ish politics) situation in a state of uneasy truce. ors HARVEY NO TO BE FIRED WASHINGTION, March 4.—-Prest dent Harding today authorized an of ficial denial of reports published in London that he had decided to ask George Harvey, ambassador to Great Britain esign or that the envoy was planning to do no. LONDON March 4 The Daily Herald's correspondent de President Harding has “defi decided” to us Ambassador Harvey to resign The Herald understands that only the question of Harvey's successor is delaying the resignation Harvey has been eriticised for bis attitude, says the Herald, political clares nitely George American interests in London ILKES Week Beginning with Sunday Matinee The Selwyn Theater, New York, Success “BUDDIES” A Sentimental Comedy V. HOBART with Mu By GEORGE | works had decreed otherwise, #0/ there wasn't any choice. | | The board never intended to lapecify 128 cubic feet as the cord ‘for all kinds of wood, because it is | well known that when a cord of wood is dumped into a car it takes up about 200 cubic feet. The rail- rhadn simply seixed upon the 128 foot clause to put over a rate boost of about 33 per cent, for |that is what it amounted to, The | fuel mv protested, The board made a supplementary order fixing) the cord of loosely piled wood at 192 feet. The railroads promptly 'jumped into court and had this order kicked out because the sub-| | Ject had not been dealt with at the board's official hearing | ‘Then the board ordered | hearing and it wae held in conjunction with the ‘commerce commitnsion. is still pending, j &- men declare they are being| ofrged for freight on hundreds of s of wood that are never |hadied, simply because of the rati | roads’ arbitrary action In making| | Stu- another reeently interstate A decision| | 128 cubic feet the cord limit. jdenta in the University of Wasu-| |ington “helped the state board by| | going down into the wood yards and loading and unloading cars, and} measuring contents. | It is common practice, the wood dealers claim, for the railroads to charge for freight on 14 cords to the car when not more than 11 cords of wood | are actually in the car, And the public is paying the bill; has paid it all winter, Seattle’s Own Family Theater asic Staged under the personal direction of T. DANIEL FRAWLEY An Evening of Music, Laughter and Tears ! 10—Musical Numbers—210 AT A $2.50 Production POPULAR WILKES’ PRICE | the first, DYING YOUTH IS EXECUTED Harvey Church Carried to Gallows CHICAGO, March 4—Harvey Charch, half-dead, from a bun- ger strike of 43 days, was taken from his cell cot and hanged at the Cook county jail at 3:4 P. m, yesterday, He pald with his life for the murder of two auto- mobile salesmen whom he lured to his home and murdered with the object of obtaining pos semsion of an expensive auto mobile. As Church was carried to the gallows, « final plea to save him was made before Judge Scanlan. It was futile. The trap was sprung six minutes ahead of the scheduled time, Churoh was carried to the gallows, strapped to a cane arm chair, He showed absolutely no signs of} lows and as the hood and rope were adjusted. Me appeared an = dead man. Despite the fatture of Church to show any signa of consciousness, the jailer asked: “Church, have you anything to say before you are hanged?” A stillness spread over the little group in the court yard. There was ho answer, He apparently never | beard the query. No prayers were sald. There wan none of the formal ceremony usually | connected with hangings, When | Church falled to answer the jailer’s question, the trap was sprung imme- diately. ‘Three minutes after the trap was sprung physicians announced that life was exinct eee CHICAGO, March 4--Efforts by Coroner Peter Hoffman to conduct post-mortem examifiation of the bedy of Harvey Chureh to deter | mine whether he had been dragged, before being hanged for the murder of two automobile milesmen, were viocked today by Church's parents, Hoffman declared he believed) Church had been kept in a drugged condition for more than a month be. fore he was hanged #0 that he would not “squeal” on accomplices. BEAR CAGERS GET A SHOCK University of California recently “slipped up’ in basketball, Under. | l estimating the strength of the Olym. | Pic Athletic club five, the Collegians sent the second.string quintet across the bay to ‘Frisco. After holding the Cotlegians to @ 12 to 12 score in | the club team walked away to a 27 to 18 win in the last period. None of the Bruin first varsity were | present to fill the gaps when things went wrong. Yale Swimmers Set New Swim Mark in Meet NEW HAVEN, Conn, March 4.—In @ meet here yestertity with the College of New York, the Yale University swimming team set a new Intercollegiate record of 2 minutes 43.5 seconds f 250- yard relay. The reco ing team is composed of five men. DRIVES PELLET FOR 415 YARDS} Credit for one of the longest drives | in the history of golf must be gi en} to Frank Dennis, 20-year-old pro sional of the Crewe Golf club, I land, The ball rolled 80 yards it struck the ground, the total div | tan-o from the toe measuring 415 | yards, according to a London dis patch, ' ree Wills Norfolk fight Tuesday might. Roberts doesn't clam very high, but pected THEM WIMMIN! __| fciinae"shiterysci i THEM WIMMIN! ees After battling thru the first period Tenny Taonard han postpened his boat of a hotly contested soccer game to| With Charley White, saying that an in- & oneal tie, a game between two | )irtd Nand will prevent ere nenny te teams of French girls degenerated | +) tting timid in into a free-for-all fight, says a Paris | bin wire, The battle started when one | ¥" of the forwards knocked an opponent | for a row of shanties with a right to of hardest puts to erack the jaw, lightweight ranks. WANT BOXING BROUGHT BACK Boxing will soon be legalized in) Billy Miske pugilintic Al fi nde in ® preliminary to the Now that George ing wellerweights of England, Benny Carpentior te fight- Ted *, athletic commiasion of Chicago are aigned. mission to secure more than 626,000 | names, Pinkie Mason, who came over trim It in planned by the com-|Tacoma to box a draw with Hoy Me- Cassin Tnesday night, looked good to away con- thick-chested t him at that, JACK DEMPSEY |icticitischact rir" WRITES MARCH| Jack Dempsey, heavyweight box ing champion of the world, has com- posed a march, which is to be dedi cated to the sporting writers of the world, says a New York wire. The champion’s first effort will be pro- duced at the Hippodrome, with a prize of a season's ticket to the theater to the person suggesting the most appropriate title. WOODWARD THEATER ‘Third at Madison Phone Elliott 2564 THE HOME OF SPOKEN DRAMA b ve Week of March 5—Starts Sunday Matinee Hazel Whitmore SUPPORTED BY ALEXIS B. LUCE AND A NOTABLE CAST, IN “SCANDAL” ALL SEATS ARE RESERVED NIGHTS 50c—35¢ Plus War Tax MATINEES SUNDAYS WEDNESDAYS SATURDAYS MATINEES ANY SEAT Plus War Tax NEXT WEEK—“THE MARRIAGE OF WM. ASHE” METROPOLITAN _ === MATINEES WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY ‘Tomorrow WAGENHALS & KEMPER Present THE DRAMATIC Nights in New York Broke All Records for a 3 weeks’ ran in San Francisco. ‘Two record-breaking weeks at Los Angeles. “Lt certainly is one grand show.” —LAfe. UNQUESTIONABLY ONE OF THE SEASON'S BIGGEST AND MOST ATTRACTIVE or RINGS SENSATION OF NEW YORK AND CHICAGO EVENING WED. MAT, $2.50, $2, $1 $1, Tie, Be | $1.50, $1, 500 'ax ‘nx —SEATS NOW SELLING——~ SAT. MAT, 2, $1.50, $1, Se jun Tex,