The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 14, 1922, Page 1

j ' k Pilgrimage to the Orient shows «Mayor Caldwell as center of a pa Jama party Good night! ee2e FROM SHAKESPEARE’S “RADIO AND JULIET” Radio, Radio, Temperature L Maximum, 46 VOLUME 24. NO, 15. ~ cw WEATHER Tonight and Wednesday, rain: moderate southeriy winds. Today Noon, 37 ast 24 Hours Minimum, 36 <= | Fatima, Fortune Lost, FIGHT ACCUSER to Land of Veils CITIES’ Back “Tacoma boy's voice has a range ef five octaves,” says newspaper. Huh, that's nothing! They ought to hear little Homer Brew, Jr, when his mother dusts his pantaloons with @ bair brush! . Store windows are decorated this week with the new spring styles for women. It is very costly display— empecialty for husbands. ‘What has become of that 13- story office building that Seattle doctors were going to erect? Looks an ff the boitem had drop ped out of the tonsil market. eee ‘The thriftiest man fm Beattlo ts 192t, so that he could claim $1,400 «xemption a wife, Published photograph of Shrine Wherefore art thou, Radio? Whet's in The air? A code by Any other weave length Would sound as sweet. eee Nose-diving in an airplane as a cure for deafness is to be tried out in California. Sounds like cutting off one’s head to cure a headache. see “Brother Jones needs a little cheerful tonic and we suggest } that some of the old-timers | call upon him.”—Item in the Se- attle Elkogram. And then we ‘suggest that they call upon as. eee | neient Order of Hibernians to Bold St. Patrick's day celebration in! the Masonic temple this year. The millenium is upon us! 7 ee Li'l Gee Gee says there is a dead! Man in a West Seattle undertaking Hl hay establishment who has been waiting three months to hear from his rela. tives. Beattie reatanrant advertises two fried egex with toast for world’s w ing away in the depths of poverty ens 91,500,000 FRAUD CHARGED! GOVERNMENT SEIZES OIL PROMOTER! The Star Goes Into 11,727 More Homes Every Day Than Any Other Seattle Newspaper | | The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, ‘9. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1922. DREAD RETURN Taste of American Freedom Makes Her Envious HATESHER VEIL) BY RUTH ABELING NEW YORK, March 14 Fatima has Dread for her feliow voyager on her journey back to| Afghanistan as a charge of the Brit- |ish government, The princeas, who ts the sultana [of Kabul ts to mall tomorrow. | } | |1 am very glad I came. Princess Fatima, photographed just before her start back | to Afghanistan. One Man Gets More MoneyThanThereIs March 14.—Hen-, amount and offered to pay 10 per SAN JOSH, B. Stewart, and grain store pat man in the world to Stewart, former holder cal, here, is John D. in theory. | proprietor of a small | the | fled in court here Stewart 1 cents. Boy, page For the most ever attributed to Old Joe Normaicy. | John D. wag $1,500,000,000 i AP | now get this!—| A PEAK IN THE POLLYANDES “There were a few high spots | on the peak of Linda's soul and $3 an investment of $100, And Stewart has 04, 840,332,912,685.16. Ste +t made his vast fortune on plus a judg: to one of them homed a small ment just han down by flock of notes of rapture.”"—Gene = J. R. Welch. Stratton Porter in “Her Father's | in 1897 George J. Jones was run Daughter.” [ming a store on the outskirts of Si tA had Jone, Stewart was his friend Prince of Wales is doing a lot of! Jones was expecting a shipment of sight-seeing in India. Sort of India | goods on January 1% and had to meet rubber trip, as it were. | " ee | © best a dentist ever) says is “THAT'S ALL? thing Mayor Caldwell has a camel, He calla the thing Nilette; The camel isa pretty beast But smelis not like a violet. see rence? A camel would smell But what's the di by any other nami bad! * | : | Say it with pe cur flowers | will come afterwards, * 24 Mischa Elman, violinist, says he is looking for a wife. We have never looked for a wife but we have fre quently waited for one. Bey use submarine chasers, That's (he idea—a chaser after the drink Be that as it may, C. Sharpe Minor is the organist the Lafayette | Square theater, Buffalo sight draft for He $100. STORES THAT ADVERTISE Are live tutions. They want your busines bad enough to ask for it thru the columns of your newspaper. Having got- ten you to their store once, it is their aim to treat you so well that you will keep on com- ing. You will find it pays to read the ads carefully from day to day and then patronize the advertisers. The best offerings of Seat- tle’s best stores appear in The Star. business insti- ked Stewart to lend him that | jets and started work as an automo: | cent interest a month, Stewart testi later Jones’ stor consented, burned of the | Jones went to Montana and became alth championship, is pin-|® cattleman, Two months! down She came with a heavy purse and bedecked with jewels; she returns Practically penniless, adorned with only a few pearls and the large sapphire in her nose. The princess is the victim of a number of persons in whem ehe mis placed her confidence. Among these ie Stephen Weinberg, who Intro duced hereto Preskient Harding. Weinberg hae been indicted on @ charge of impersonating a com- mander of the American navy #t the time te took the princess to the White House. * The princess had two large expec: tations on her arrival. One Was to/ dispose of a huge diamond for $250,-/ |000 and the other wan to obtain a | l grant of land from President Hard- |taxes on the Skagit power site and ling. The diamond she finally had to | power lines and rights of way. give an security for a $2,000 loan: the president told her the land grant | was impossible. “Bo I have been disiMusioned in some ways,” says the sultana, “but For i have (Tarn to Page 7, Cotumn 4) TORNADO KILLS 12 OKLAHOMANS McALLESTER, Okla, March 14— Twelve persons were killed, 14 In |jured seriously and more than 60 hurt by tornadoes and wind storms which «wept Southeastern Oklahoma late yesterday, according to reports received here today The greatest loss of life was re ported at Gowen, a mining town, 40 miles cast of here, where 10 were said to have been killed and more than fifty injured when a twister struck that town about 6 o'clock last night. Two were killed in a tornado that struck Sulphur, a summer resort | near here, late yesterday afternoon. ‘The property damage wil amount to approximately $600,000, it was ow timated. At Sulphur the courthouse was partially demolished and more Stewart wrote and asked him for | than forty homes were wrecked He received no answer, | his money ihe say: *. Then last to San Jone with $300,000 in his pock- August bile salesman, Stewart immediately eued for his Judge | $100 and the interest since January California debt can't be outlawed if the debtor the at. Welch said 18, 1897. leaves Jude a judgment Of cours | judgment be money But Ste for be Under Jones returned law. “I order that enterd the 16." Ste favor of an against George sum of $304,840,- than there | Stewart's not being theoretical! th world wit ‘art can't collect the wuse it represents more in the eatinfied h world's rich ext man, He wante something m substantial and has an eye on Jan $500,000 as part payment If Stewart paid income tax on his judgment, the government could the war debt, repeal the income tax and pay a dividend to all citizens! Arbuckle Jury Is Being Chosen| SAN FRANCISCO, March 14 Slow progress towards selection of a jury marked the opening hours of the third trial of Ror Patty”) Arbuckle for alleged mansmughter growing out of the death of Virginia Rappe One juror had been temporarily passed when court ned today. the only result of the first day's se. sion STE P. WRIGHT, 64, prom jinent Shriner, died at his home in Butte, Mont., Saturday, ‘The twister which struck Gowen leveled about 30 homes and rendered about 50 homeless, The majority of Gowen were miners ilies, those killed at and their fam Food, clothing and tents were be Jing rushed into the stricken towne by the Red Cross. The Sulphur unit of the National Guard is patroling th there and assisting in clear ing away the debris. The ruins are being carefully searched for mor bodie The dead at Gowen have been re. moved to morgues at Hartshorn. Physiciang at Gowen fear the death toll will be increased. NEWLYWEDS PLAN TO STUDY LAWS TO KEEP OUT OF JAIL They were young and ob viously new! ey asked C, A, Johnson, filing clerk, for a complete the city ordinances “It's an unusual request,” John son demurred he girl blushed rosily “You sé¢,” she explained, “Id ward and I are just married and we wanted to be sure to start our wedded life the right way. We thought we would study all the city so there wouldn't be any chance of us breaking the law.” After Johnson had that there were over ordinances, the young blushing rosily, ¢ te very eds, city et of ordin, explained 5,000 city puple, still Princess | FACES HAMER! | Blow Being Aimed Girl Is Brought to at Ownership by; Official’s Trial on! Municipalities of Charges of Dope-| | Rperiel Dispeich to The Star By Hal Armstrong OLYMPIA, March 14.—A! rap Butchart, the school girl, to} smashing blow is being aimed | wrom Federal Treasury Agent Av-| at municipally owned utilities) gustus B. Hamer is said to sewel in this state. \ trated narcotic drugs in exchange| The 1923 state legislature] tor ner persona! favors, was brought is counted on by the foes of| over from the United States immi- public ownership to deliver) «ration station Tuesday morning to F | the punch. the marshal's office in the postof- Anti-municipal ownership lead- | fice building to testify against the ra are working qulslty new to accused official. | rer the US. that will. mals Her blond curts bobbed seneity bone for cities | as she was led into — rear room torewe their own std | away from curious ey, She Dower planta, or even their water altppnet into = chair and ; geome swung shod feet in care | ‘Here te the pian: free fashion, looking younger, if | Make every munictpally owned pe a Day taxes for #tate and county urpoRes. This would mean that the | city of Seattle, for example, would bave to hand over thousands of dol- lare to Skagit county every year Since Hamer’s arrest on the eve- ning of January 13, when the girl is maxi to have been stopped as she} wan coming out of his office door carrying a package of an opium de-| |rivative in her stocking, she has been confined in the immigration station under a doctor's observation. | She had nothing in her appearance | Tuesday morning to indicate she was ever a heavy user of “dope, Sno. homish county, likewise, would get a | slice of taxes on the lines and rights of way | MIGHT MAKE HIT IN “COW COUNTIES” that | *| ‘Thig also would mean that the city | She waa “fresh as a daisy,” as one of Tacoma would have to pay taxes | deputy tnarshal put it to Mason and Kitsap counties, be-|HAMER WAITS cause the Lake Cushman power site| FOR HALY HOUR in situated in Mason and the power! The trial of Hamer started tn lines will crows Kitsap. |Judge Jeremiah Neterer's crowded State taxes would be levied against | court every municipally owned utility. | hour That this scheme will find favor | alone with many of the so-called “cow | paid county” legislators is evident, be | mus cause they will be convinced that| He |such a tax bill would lower taxes for | were the rest of the people in their coun: | some room, but not for fully half an after Hamer had stalked in| « big bulk of a man, quite and wearing @ gray cropped! che. | seemed weary. His rhoulders | bent slightly forward, as by | great weight. Dark pouches ties. Jealousy of the big cities will hung beneath his eyes. Very soberly | |help the antimunicipal ownership|he sank into a seat, crowd Twelve men were called into the! It ig pointed out that whereas many of the utilities have been Gers bed Page 7, Clann ». jury box and the tedious work of winnowing out the ic mar and) (Torn to Page 7, Colum: ‘adldG ‘aa Tiga OSTRANDIERO=S™ CHAPTER I hed been. “Why, Frank! You're back again vivacious and safer” The young woman in| mourning held out her hand to the| chauffeur. “My aunt wrote Laurel, her cousin, a little dark-eyed, and like sister. The car swirled up the driveway, you jand halted before the steps of the) were a prisoner in Germany.” |wide porch, upon which a slender, “It's fine to see you, Miss Pay,” | white-clad figure stood. |returned the chauffeur. “They| Fay had only time to note that turned us loose after the armistice.” |/the piquant face seemed as child-/ He hesitated, “I--I'd like say, |ishly naive as ever, before her miss, that we all felt something ter-|cousin folded her in tense em: |rible—the servants, I mean—when | brace, |the news came about poor Mr. Tu-| "Oh, Fay! Fay! dor.” | transport never would get in.” | He shut the door and, climbing in] “Laurel, dear!’ Fay kissed her| behind the wheel, drove down the} warmly, and mounted the steps to} village street, Fay's soft blue eyes) meet the gracious figure advancing had blurred at the reference to her| toward her \brother, but she winked back the! ygrs erminedly | toc was one of the most | tend summer colonies, and | | a I thought that Tudor was i twenty-five, thirty-seven and with the delicate ularity of feature whicn| ery Cove of Sandy | exclusive r irre Just act beauty {Fay looked at the superb estates thing about her was pretty; her] [which had once been so familiar/piond hair and soft blue eyes and] | with a sense of bewilderment. Every-/the rose-leaf skin, which was inne} | thing seemed just the same, just 48 /cent of the slightest line. Her still she had remembered it, and yet/girlishily slender figure moved with there appeared to be a subtle, In /a slow, rhythmic grace. \tangible difference. Conld it be] Later, during the meal, Fay| merely her nerves again, those/ studied her aunt and cousin cov- wretched over-taxed nerves which | ertly | had driven her from her reconstruc-| It seemed there was a strained! {tion work in France? jnote in Laurel's vivacity which be She leaned forward impulst jtrayed a nervons tension, | “My aunt and cousin; they are} She was puzzling over it when| both well, Frank the girl remarked: “Yos, Miss Fay." “You haven't asked about any of | way sat back once more. Dear|the old crowd, Fay. Now that the Her uncle's widow was own biowd, men are back it (Continued on Page @ Aunt Clara. is as close to her as her like the old | (oTrton tat imperil wotentate (Pales as Prosecutor Asks \ternal revenue department windows. |the time PPP PPAR PLL LLLP PPL PPP PPE PRP PPD PPP PPP PP PPP PPO ‘TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE _ E.L.Garretson, Former Shrine A L [ F GE Chief, Is Dead| Passes Suddenly at His Home on Lake Steilacoom 'Texa s Aviation Enthusiast Held | in $25,000 Bonds — ! to Face Trial ; | | NEW YORK, Ma March 14.—Sey- mour E. J. Cox, Texas oll pre use of the malls and beld in S15: 000 bonds, He said he would not resist ex- Authorities allege Cox promoted = | $1,500,000 stock fraud deal. He arrested in front of the Hotel. ie had been missing since the Ine of February and was traced | Texas to Michigan and thent cae New York, Cox has been in promincence foe several years, getting some 4 by entering two specially built planes in the Paris international meet im | 1920. Stockholders of the General Oll company, a $20,000,000 concern, , Which later went into recet “Photo by James & Merrinew TACOMA, March 14—Ellis Lewis Garretson, imperial potentate of the Shriners of North America in 1920 and 1921, died at his home at Steila- |coom lake suddenly early today of heart failure. Garretson, an attorriey here, was! their money in tne eae, 800000 ec }tor four years illustrious potentate | x ee of Afifi temple of Tacoma. He had been prominent in Masonic circles | for more than 20 years, | Garretson, who was 49 years old, 1S ‘CONDEMN was a native of Iowa, but had re sided here most of his life, Surviv- ing him are his widow, a daughter | and hig pafenta, Col. and Mrs. H. F. presided over the Shrine conclave at} Portland in 1920. As a special hon- or to him, the imperial divan staged a ceremony at the Country club,| LOS ANGEL Es, “March 14.—Madae near Tacoma, following the Portland |!ynne Obenchain, her personal ore session. It was the first time such | eal on the witness stand over, today & ceremony had been presented in | Sat silently listening to the argument the West. jof Charles W. Fricke, deputy proses Garretson accompanied the Shri-|cutor, who was trying to convince @® ners on an excursion to Alaska that |Jury that she is guilty of the mure left Seattle after the Portland and |der of John Belton Kennedy. e Murder Verdict Tacoma meetings. As she listened, an air almost of relief was upon Madalynne. She -|ON smiled. “The worst is over” seemed to be her attitude. | WOMAN'S STORY IS ATTACKED Only one more day for the pay | Kennedy murder, charging that she |ment of the income tax. |talked freely about things that had And as a result, Seattle citizens are /no direct bearing on the crime, but |teday squirming in and out of the | failed to give a full account of the \elevators of the federal building. | acts necessary to clear up the mur. floor, and presenting their names! tHe charged her directly with falsi. and one-fourth of the tax at the In-|¢ing about her own omvection with the tragedy at B y Glen, According to officials of the depart-| The arouateine eeiuiaie referred. ment, all individuals with income |to what he designated “her wonders March 15, will be “set upon” by the | °) ed, Madaly: authorities immediately after the| ("was inconvenient for her to telb records are investigated. And all of | acts. those likewise will be “set upon who | He painted a picture of the pretty” was tense and pale, yet occasionally she Fricke attacked her story of the forming in long lines on the second | ger, taxes to pay, who fail to file by/¢ui iapses of memory,” which, he have not by March 15 deposited one- ; defendant as a woman scorning the vreThat one toulth or first payment,” |love of her husband, Ralph H. Oben« say those officials, “must be paid by |Chaim. and two weeks after her. mars or the entire sum imme. |"iase to him, going back to Kennedys diately becomes payable. Only thase | her former sweetheart, who make this first deposit by the |CHARGES DEATH 15th may be permitted to make fut- | CO RACY e ure installment payments on June| “She is a murderess!” Fricke cried. eptember 15 and December 15,| “It is not contended that she fired Those delaying now will be request.;the shot that actually slew young jed after Wednesday to make pay-| Kennedy, but it is charged that this |ment on the entire sum immedi. | defendant entered into a cold-blooded ately.” agreement with Arthur Burch or meone else whereby she was to an |lure him to Beverly Glen and then ‘rom | to kill him.” So far no count of those filing hi been made. Officials in charge state no approximate number. all appearances, however, half the| Fricke warned the jury that the town is surging in at this last mo-|defendant was a higher type of ment to “pay 9," mentality than is usually foun@ facing a jury oh a murder charge. “And when you consider the story at this defendant tells," he said, remember that the lips of J, Bel- ‘ton Kennedy are sealed in death, and INCOME TAXES HIT LOW MARK) so we must accept her version of i ace yh A rg bo fe he said and what occurred out come taxes reported to the govern-| there in that dark glen on the sum- ment this year will be the smallest | ter night, jin five years, treasury officiuls| "sy te) you she has no regard of estimated today ‘the eleventh love for any man, Having men at hour’ for filing: 1833. -retur her beck and call has been her de= Tho total of income and profits| xine thruout, I shall not take up the taxes, which will be reported by/testimony of her former husband, Ralph Obenchain, because to me it only proves that she made a human | doormat of him.” midnight tomorrow will approximate | $1,600,000,000, the tax experts be-| (Turn to Page 7, Column 3)