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

CITY SPENDS $42,000,000 YEARLY! CAN YOU IMAGINE IT? Citizen, did you know that Seattle city port after thoro investigation, as accurate. ing $8,000,000, and spend $1,750,000 a year. Registration is and schools are spending $42,000,000 a year? A The mayor and council are directly and indi- And it’s YOUR MONEY! dragging. It is far startling total! rectly intrusted with the spending of $35,000,000 Don’t you think you had better do something from the figure it ought to be. You have been he figure has been compiled by the Voters’ a year; the school directors handle $6,000,000 ; about it? Better express yourself. shirking. Think of that $42,000,000 a year—and Information league and is vouched for by it, the port commissioners operate terminals cost- Then, WHY DON’T YOU REGISTER? quit being a civic shirker. The Star Goes Into 11,727 More Homes Every Day Than Any Other Seattle Newspaper Tonight and Friday, rain; mod- erate southerly twinds. Temperature Last 4 Hours i Maximum, 44, Minimum, 35, Today noon, 43. Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 VOLUME 24. NO. 11. <P SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1922. : TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE iMRS. OBENCHAIN FACES JURY! Big Crowd Fills Murder Court. LAN (Mere Wheel Chair [STORY OF _ LLK| _ His Big Ambition!) TT OVE IS RELATED! ‘Madalynne Smiles Faintly When She Home Brew Howdy, folks! Seattle girl ar- resed for having revolver strap ped to her knee cannot be ac- order will be extended to include! Mayor Caldweil. | | eee | Argentine roologist declares he has seen @ prehistoric reptile. Kind of stutt om om this | 1 sbcmaypndl arama 2a fpcag tr || Some folks aspire to riches; others to political ieithe U. @ City counciimen hope| || distinction or artistic triumph. : | || And’David D. Foster—to a wheeled chair! i MILL Big Plant to Make It’s a modest ambition—one could be purchased for what you'll probably pay for your Easter suit. Yet to Foster it seems as unattainable—and as desir- able—as the greatest fortune or the highest honor. Foster, a bachelor who has long since passed into the Tin ane cam ni orice? Seattle Center Seattle for pga %y sae little cabinet shop in Begins Harrowing Defense in iz | Bs MGUY Wee ee er nee Los Angeles Crime Trial Until— Fickle Dame Fortune deserted him. First it was the post-war depression. Business was at a standstill, and, try as he would, debts began to pile up —for the first time in his life. LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 9—Madalynne Ob clad in black and appearing very beautiful, today es superior court to‘clear her name of mu . For the first time, since she has been held to answer 1 actually st bran diet, but she says that the | (only effect thus far has been to make ‘ber oe | | Chamber of Commerer was work: r Perhaps the best fng,Thereday, on @etalls of And then, last May, misfortune turned.to disaster. | the death of John Belton Kennedy, Madalynne : > tang ie do with the plsn te establich heare » 120-booen He was stricken with paralysis—he lost the use of both || alone. _ a J we togeriaiceiy prgpesaess prema legs. | Altho her friends, attorneys and Ralph Obenchain, her He had neither kith nor kin to care for him, and he was too proud to appeal to his friends. So for months he suffered in silence, living God knows how, and hoping and praying for the end. Then, a few weeks ago, George S. Shelton heard of the case. He made arrangements for Foster to enter the poor farm. But even that meager fortune was denied him. The poor farm building burned last week. Shelton got busy again, and made arrangements for the Volunteers of America to take care of Foster for his remaining days. So Foster is assured of a place to live, but— He is unable to move himself, and the Volunteers have no funds to provide a nurse to carry him around. So he wants an invalid chair. Can't you think of some way that he could get one? divorced husband, gazed intently upon her every Madalynne was far away, standing on the brink of j telling a jury of her broken romances. Women were asked to remove their hats so that spectators, ‘crowding every available inch of the court room, could see. | Madalynne’s voice was almost in- audible. Her lips were blue, and! trembled. ‘This, however, was the! jonly demonstration of emotion she| | showed. SCANT SMILE ON HER FACE A scant smile, almost Mike a mask, | was stamped on her white face as she took the witness chair and) was sworn in by Rugby Ross,| clerk | | “Is Madalynne Obenchain your! true name?” asked the clerk, | A nod of the head and a faint/ “yes” came from the defendant as) she prepared to mount the chair) and tell her story. | Judd R. Rush, her senior counsel, | cleared his throat, readjusted his! huge bulk in a swivel chair and} asked: | “Mrs. Obenchatn, where do you! *e- Seattle has the lowest death rate in the country, but this cannot be) blamed on the tongmen or bovtleg- gers. propositions to make silk manufac ture a basic Industry of the region | waa expected soon { Thursday's action by the eee THOSE RUDE FANS | Doe Kelton, boxing commis | sioner, has barred all “booing” at prizefights in Seattle. Boooo! | eee formerly of Patterson, N, J. and others, to move the silk cen er of F 4 = Fs 7 FY} i H . Suggested methods for showing one’s appreciation of a husky wallop ‘to the proboscis: Mild clapping. Cries of “Weil done, Old Chappie.” | A grateful kiss planted on the left | ear of the boxer as he leaves the! ring. ‘A bouquet of violets and tea roses) to be tendered at the conclusion of | the first rownd. 1 ‘An autographed copy of Mra. Car-| rie Nations speech on the Demon Rum Exhaustive and detailed reports Made during the last few years by the University of Washington and by Japanese and Chinese allk mis sions visiting here are on file at the |Chamber of Commerce, The opin jons of these experts are unanimous in declaring that the Puget sound country Is ideal in every respect for the manufacture of silk—superior, in fact, to the Atlantic coast-—and that Seattle, with her unlimited water. power, is the logical manufacturing | ere A sim ame emi Doctors Wife Says fense warrants it, administer a sharp Peggy Marsh [people here,” Butterworth mid | slap on the wrist © Thursday, “we can extablich a fac! : ia the county jafl.” ER YOU KNow Amour THIst | NEW YORK, March 9.—Peggy Marsh, chorus girl, who fought a long,| ‘Ory and make silks this fall for the uS an S elS “How long have you lived there?” | “A When a contestant refuses to fight he should be severely reprimanded kbam's ‘wagon ts making| losing battle for a share in the Marshall Field estate, has embarked on a/ 1923 spring trade. All we need Is to little more than seven/| Gatly trips to the lake now."—Mercy-| new career, She and her recently wedded husband, Albert L. Johnson, are| ®*t the thing started. The rest will By Hal Armstron. jstockings, and some other papers | months.” | eo . | on the vauderille stage, and the litigation with the Fields is dropped. j take care of itself.” | y bd |showing he had sent registered | 4 want With these changes in her life, Peggy has begun to lose her fear of the| The following points are made by | For several hours Thursday | package East | “Can you tel as when you | 0 These bootiegxers who are attempt- July horoscope, which, she says, has always heretofore brought her diffi- those behind the proposition | Mrs. Lily Rinkenberger, the | “E put them back Into the pocket | brought there Ing to raise the price of whisky had) oot) Ganger and sorrow | better be careful or somebody will |” pass a law against them. ¢.° 8 Seattle is the logical site for man beautiful wife of Dr. Frederick | book, took them out again, not know t sy ge in the morning of icaheat.| The latest photo of Mada- facture of silk, because thru this| William Rinkenberger, physician c u c wh I decided at last to port passes practically all of the| and surgeon of Seattle and Los | ine “has to do. f devidua Ot lest 1°| Mrs, Obenchain, in reply to lynne Obenchain, on trial | Chinese and Japanese slik that goes| Angeles, occupied the witness ensuin, on a charge of connection } & R | papers out, and await what he had to i series of questions by At-| OM Twenty-six American marines who ] abo r to i a rr Job jt the Atlantic coast for manutac-| stand at the trial of their divorce | Papers out, and await what he had (0) (1 so ay not had| with the murder of John Bel- ture. suit here and, restraining tears, | | acc | | were found guilty of engaging in a to letters or property since| ton Kennedy. The picture 6 ine! “When he came home he asked Wil-| ht with Nicaraguan police were | RAW C related some of the incidents that | “W he had bee , | be: Tentecised trom eight to 12 years’ im-| i ay. . led up to their separations. ie if he'd found the pocketbook. 1|*h he us Ge eek Betton Ken.| 228, taken when Mrs. Oi prisonment each. Join the marines! | SS é Oo (ZA Oo S! | "This raw silk, valued at many mii-| “During our courtship,” she said — ye Sat gaewiiary Sen, anal nedy in his lifetime?” asked Rush. chain was recently escorted to a + 2. | | wor of dollars annually, is shipped |!n low, even tones, “I went to him| \°,¥¢ pre See Sl ee nee ‘The defendant hesitated a moment. | Beverley Glen, the scene of. | y : roast US, to the Bastern #ilk centers e with @ problem that I was deeply | Vil! took it, b ergo ot ara ge ee | guzed at her blac’ ‘ ‘ O There was a runner in the school BY J. F. RICHARDSON labor’s plan, as follows: i t n wf rs, chiefly ee ene ’ side, closed it, and put it into his her black gloved hands, and | the crime, at the time the jury And quite a girl was the, WASHI TON, March 9.—Organ- RECLAMATION — Immeds- jin New Jersey, there to be manu. | Concerned abou new he was an pocket without a word. | Teplied softly, “I did.” | visited the place. | WAS N, 2 eCLAM/ Bit ar. |ath I was a member of a ohurch, At this point Rash i pales wits There also was a runner in } ; at ol {factured into cloth, made into gar i . jee enh eal a % Is point ish introduced —sniesiintnisheenaoweni papal tag Botabes ized labor's program for remedying | * ate development and ex |ments, and then shipped back to|4 Sunday school teacher. I raid I said nothing. He said we would) «peopte's exhibit No. 67," a note | eee the unemployment “situation has| tension of reclamation of arid, | seattle and the Pacific Coast to be| “ ‘Will, our marriage is approach: acoma to visit his father and| which Madalynne admitted she | wasn tone bean announced by President Sam-| *Wamp and overflow lands in ac- | distributed by the wholesalers ahd inf. Later we may have children— | mother. ou hod hig Seer ig hpeagee wrote to Kennedy in May, 1920. ASEBALL NOTE leo | lers. Consequently, the buying |i hope we will.’ And I asked him, Very happy eh hap han I'd : “If you really beli Bill McCurdy says “The Bat,” |e! Gompers, and in consonance with cordance with plans laid down | retailers. Consequently, the buying 5 geen: Man tee A ee te. ile par It read: “If you lly believe I ‘ | plic pays, a ion to alae |how we were going to bring them | “ at the Metropolitan, is knocking | the decree of the A. F. of L. execu-| by the United States reclamation | Public pays, in addition to the valne | ates sic od re | ents remarked about It, and also that| Wa Unfaithful te you, T want to . . a nal gertlon * of the goods, the transportation | ¥P. know. Please return my letters " for a home rui |tive council, organized labor will » inland waterways com- { I seemed so quiet - “4 | . twice acrosa the continent | “Ble waid, ‘Oh, suit yourself about | * **e" ;: “ and pictures.” e008 |tively enter the campaign this year| mission, ete, That's her way,’ sald Will, hrilling !t| with cs ker eal a" Every condition favorable to the |that. You know that I belfeve when nah : “Did be return them?” Rush Bill says the play is oo i ne | a cand es and workers to real- | WATERWAY DEVELOP. | manufacture of silk exists in Seat-|@ man’s dead, he's dead, and that's) (Tarn to Page 7, Column 3) | asked. _ Pee greg! ae ae nore peel af ig &-_ MENT—To include Muscle | tie, the experts state in their re-/the end of him, But sult yourselt’ | -| — #No.” {Explosion in Park Hurls ‘urn % here 8 oven x . hoals, Long Sault on the St. | ports | ‘Then, after Willie came and I | “Did you correspond with Ken-| i — a | Lawre ee, and undeveloped pow- | Climatic conditions here are ideal, | Was teaching him to say his prayers, nedy from that time until you ar-| Worker Thru Air | er in the Appalachians, the | fumidity should be constant for the | Will came into the room where we The N Styl jrived in Los Angeles early in _— | Hoeky mountains and Pacific | pest results, th cree, and the|were, and said | e New Styles 1 Venturing too close to a } Const ranges. extremes in Seattle are much leas “‘What tie deuce are you | | “No, T didn't write him again.” charge of dynamite during Ow 0 | INLAND WATERWAYS — (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) javegey lap ites / font oe for Spring | did you come to 108! bigsting operations in Woodland | sippt pi ere ter goo “| become @ success,’ | — park Wednesday night, H. A. 5 z 5 . 2 toustwise canal systems along | MLAN IS DEAD | A will sa nkenberger Will be described fully LOUDER Baker, 53, a park laborer of 2229 | the Atlantic and the Gulf, the | continued, nusband did - hogan 1 left Chicago January 4, and ar-| Federal ave. was blown bodily St. Lawrence project. | IN EXPLOSION nak me to « ,t0 church. To help in the ads in The Star rived January 7," she said, refresh-) thru the air ana was picked UBLIC HIGHWAYS — En MEAGASA’ DALLA: ¥t.%. Miadth | seccunls tattantnn an ten eee from day to day, both ty» Rape meer biden ey note) up unconscious and with the | ro Bo Sometinies ta tab be p rf {hook en I arrived here I went| ejothing torn from his body. He | « actment of bills calling for | 9—One man was killed and 16 in e and lowered her voice so k word d illust: to the h of a friend, Mrs. Lillis wd By Homer B: | expenditure of $100,000,000 addi | jured n an explosion in the Niagara tal aE +f Imost inaudible, som: if are adeeb Ww ia Fragen © tiny t. ‘ i yea wes rushed. te the Lasseee am rew Baap gen Ins plosion ne Nia ‘| tha was almost inaudible, some si ie oe a | Weidoft, on Coronado s' staye rating sa Pg we y tional to the $75,000,000 already | Walls Power Co.'s tunnel today, the | times biting her lips in evident ef tions. This is just an- || here until January 24 | ares Ee bat Soe es hich hould base| vot yecond within 24 ho * " ., , courage . P value “Did yor Hendehe ies had no! The foltortng income tar dank ts a model upon which you should Ye ; Lats second within: ure __ |torts. to keep up her courage, other phase of the valu |_ “Did you advise Kennedy that you] termined Thursday, but it was our report for 1981. Homer Brew, formerly of the Infernal Revenu FORESTRY — Devel t In the first explosion one man was|rexcuing Ir composure at times : |were coming to Los Angeles - : avs puncte at ykboRg a led and 10 ec . ‘ ’ able service you can get roca said they might prove fatal as Department, gives sample answers to the questions which have puszled| of national forest roads, {Killed and 10 injured. In both cases | when it seemed she was about to J No hile akelt'"t0 “baliowen ste, Ran Beattle taxpayers for the past month. Giddap! trails, telephone lines, fire tow. | the blast caused by dynamite | preak, Mra. Rinkenberger told of the by reading The Star’s |} Her answer was so weak that the! 00, anise hats ers, planting of trees on 80,000, | filing to explode when the workers | occurrences that caused her to sus eioartiat 1 |court admonished her to speak| 0 Sane wie (Form 18, Bust 36) 000 acres of desert land, ete, | were blasting and later struck by ®| pect her husband was turning his af advertising COlUMNS |) iouder | Baker had been working with @ | uid oh ee Are you a citizen of the United | tenes. ste [workman's pick when loosening |fections to another woman. || carefully. |_ She acknowledged the instruction POMMADY | of labaress Syonmnitiae ..No, I was born in Fremont...... Are you married? SING — Extension of | ston. ND PURSE s with a strained, wan smile, {boulders Stem: She See er ee - > 9 ite trea federal loans for housing | Le oun | | Puget : x camp site in the park, After plac Who wants to know? Do you smoke in bed?......No, my wi | ON FLOOR | “Tell of your first meéting with construction purposes to remed: ‘ | n hen, of course, |/x ‘ ‘eq ing a charge of explosive beneath t me. y railroads for new construction. She told of finding his pocketbook . course, Kennedy after you had arrived, ; ‘On New Year's Eve, 1921, were you supporting anyone?......No; 1| ® shortage of housing facilities “Phe problem ot unemployment |on the floor of their home one day|| there are plenty of || Rush said ja huge stone and lighting the fuse, couldn't even walk myself. How many children are dependent upon you) now xisting for 2,000,000 per | ot ne solved,” saya President | where he had dropped it | m Reg “T first saw him on a street car,|Baker and his companions ran for for support? One, but he get's lithe support from his father, We! sens. This would call for loans | Compers, “So long ag men and wom.| “I opened it,” she said. “He had money-saving bargains || re didn’t see me, 1 telephoned him| Safety. The charge apparently did can't even support ourselves, aggregating $20,000,000, len eager to work, in a country filled | Just returned from a trip. It was the|! sdvertised daily, as well || his home on January 14. I talked | Not Ko off and Baker returned to 0 RAILROADS — Adoption of | with untold riches of materials and | first time he hadn't brought me a| to him; told him I wanted my let-|{nvestigate. ‘The explosion occurred INCOME ¢ President Harding's origi |iand, are denied the opportunity to| present when he came home from a as the style news. ters.” when he ames. writs a few feet of 1. Salaries, bank stock, cigar checks from the Spring Cigar Store, cam nal uggestion providing for work, our society is bankrupt in its trip. In the pockethook I found a ‘What were your cS ract words, as|the stone, which was shattered to (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) payment of $500,000,000 to the most important essential.” receipt for the purchase of some silk (Turn te Page 7, Column 2) bits, >