The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 17, 1922, Page 1

} | (ae ana ERRRRRNNREN a Registr At the ~ Near \. This city “ined wisdo s ci fresh ‘Tempera Maximum, 46. VOLUME 24. NO. 18. winds. are Last 24 Hours Minimi Today noon, 43, $$ $$$ $$! tizens. southerly um, 32. n Seattle is woefully slow! Only 71,000 voters have qualified to date. unicipal election more than 100,000 registered. \0 Seattle citizens are remiss in their civie duty! “ing a crisis—a crisis that can only be succe SS: ful NET SPREAD RPOLICEMAN FOUND SHOT TO DEATH Sunday, from 8:30 to 5 o’clock. S ly passed by the com- Importan sures affecting every person in the city, every home and property tions! owner, mus cided. Far-seeing, honest men should be chosen for public office. Register now! F The Star Goes Into 11,727 More Homes Every Day Than Any Other Seattle Newspaper, Home Brew | Greetings, folks! The top o° the mornin’ to ye! eee St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland, but that wasn't anything to What De Valera did. see Li'l Gee Gee, th’ office vamp, sug that we run nothing but Lim- today. No chance! We don't ™ fant to have our readers Dublin up with laughter. eee We told Ea Tierney, out tn the composing room, that the reason the snakes left Ireland was because they couldn't stand the Irish. And then . that the Irish have oe their independence, they won't have furnish the rest of the world with their great generals, writers and po Rosten woman “One of the most serious problems upon the Pacific coast arises in con nection with the presence of Orient als.” -- Walter F. Meier, mayoralty | date. | Sryener. no doubt, is referring to the serious Hindu probiem in Seattle. eee WEAK Now that we have sarvived Canned Goods week, we suggest: Kippered Prune week. Holeless Doughnut week. Wartless Cucumber week. eee San Francisco judge says you can judge a woman by the way she ar ranges her hair. “Take off that boudoir cap, Clara- le, and let me see where you were last night!” oe And you ean fre- quently judge s | an by the con- i dition of her hair. ee THERE MAY BE MORE, BUT— |approach and the smugglers start SEIZE Fight Gun Battle! With Runner and March 17—A | th: i il th iil Hi | automnobiten: tle with the bootieegers * at the foot of Tiffany st. in the Bronx. A customs head- quarters squad had cruised up the East river in the darknas of carly morning, searching for smuggicra, when they noticed an automobile on the bank winking its headlights as if signaling. The customs launch put into shore and found a bootlegging gang at work removing cases of liquor from the twomasted schooner Vik- ing. The cases were being expert ly stacked in an automoblie truck. | A signal was given of the launch’s| vil if to flee. Finding themselves una to get away with their lquov,| they turned on the outnumbered| customa squad and put up a bat tle. For more than a quarter of an/ hour revolver shots were exchangea, until finally all the men weer cap tured, Jotn Johnston, Viking, captain of was arrested. the] OBENCHAIN CASE IN JURY'S HANDS “No Pity for Beauty,” Judg Warns Panel e | } LOS ANGE rior Judge March 17.—Supe- Sidney Reeve today MotherW ants to ‘Pawn’ Her NewbornBabe Seeks Home for Child While She Learns How to Work By Aileen Claire Beattie has been thru some hard times of late, and the tragic severance of family ties by the sharp edge of poverty has been an all too frequent occurrence. “Tm at the end of my rope—I can't support myself even, let alone my baby——won't you find some one to adopt her? How many times sorrow-stricken mothers have ut- tered that appeal to The Star! But today The Star found a new type of mother. She may than the others—but she has too much youth and courage to submit tamely to defeat. So, instead of giving away her baby, she wants to “pawn” it! If some one will agree to take In the baby for six months, while she attends business college and learns how to make a living, she believer Unat she will be able to take it out of “pawn” at the end of that period. She's not the usual type of woman who comes to my desk for aid. She was so young and pretty and, yes, even chic—for, altho, on close inspection, her clothes showed hard wear, she wore them with the unmistak- able air of » woman of culture and refinement. She was embarrasned—what wom. an wouldn't be?—but she plunged into her sorry little story with typical bravery. “Il was married got out of “when I was had two babies then # little boy. dearest little things in the “Everything went fine for the first couple of years, but then she smiled wearily, with an air of an school,” 17 soon an she related. years old, We firet a little girl world | disillusionment that no girl of her | the age has @ right to wear, —I guess all marriages happy. “Just before the second baby came things got so we couldn't go along together any more—and got a divorce. “I wan awarded the custody of the children—and alimony. But my hus band hasn't paid me any yet—and, while I could prosecute him, it would be awfully hard to get any money so Ww! ‘a the ? ve never earned my living be- ‘but then can't be 1 I've borrowed enough money to go to business college, and I’m sure that in love her baby no more and both are the| "| short.skirted, bare-kneed, rouge-lipped The Seattle Sta Entered a Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 SEATTL 2, WASH., FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1922. | Girl’s Home Is Blighted om np Ai Freed, 1s Happy AT US ‘Mrs. Asquith Is Frank in Taking | Ten Punches at BY RUTH ABELING TOUR WITH MRS.| MARGOT ASQUITH, |March 17. — America has) made 10 distinct impressions! on Mrs. Margot Asquith,) drawing-room politician, diar- ist and lecturer. And the 10 Impressions gained by thin tumour Engtishwaman, the wite of « former British premier, are not, |altogether flattering. Here they ure! \as she told them to me: SOCIETY Your social life ts terrific. You have 50 guests at dinner | jand you call it a party. Your hospi |tality ie slightly exaggerated.” | WOMEN “ I find all women everywhere | | a who with to succeed socially are much the same. They have! hearts, brains—yen, it's safe to nay | lbodies--cut out after the same pat | ltern. So America surely is not dis- Unctive for ite women w have so cial ambitions, But among business | women you have a very characteris tic element, conservative and charm: | ing. However, I don’t see how Ameri ‘can business men can employ certain | sacesssesusuecs| | 4+ +t te i ++ | hee females who talk too much. I find verage young business man a more polsed, more elegant person | than the average business woman.” | HOMES Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers a hg! = prelobiay ry Telegrams of congratulations were being received from len to whorn I could apply the term | /ederal agents thruout the country today by Augustus B. housewife’ with any degree of eor-| Hamer, treasury agent here, who was freed by a jury yes- rectness, Then where are your house-| terday of charges that he had violated the anti-narcotic laws bebeses AW Age re ae of courve.| in alleged illicit dealings with Mae Butchart, 18. Hence the Com sy Faget, Cheam ® Hamer smile, “I knew,” he said, “that I would be exonerated as soon as Augustus B. Hamer une | 28 PE alge bs Pens ges grande 2 DIE AS LOCAL | my case was heard by a fair-minded jury. I'm grateful and little time to learn something. So| glad it’s over.” | *. * & * & * * The registration books will close on March 28. You may register any day, except sattle needs you! Needs your citizenship! Seattle needs your best advice, your soundest judgment, your most honest convice- ARAARA DALLA DDD P DDD PD PPP PPPS MURDERER! Mayor Caldwell says he is going | made a long and detailed charge to to get a mate for the camel he|the jury in the Madalynne Oben brought back from China. Fine! | chain case as it was about to retire| ‘Then we can point with pride to twoland decide the fate of the young! inhabitants of the city who rarely| woman accused of plotting the mur-| HITS N, P. FLYER si xmonths I'll be earning enough to support my babies, alimony or “a alimony. Fey "Bis in the sneninifese— [Trains in Collision Near no | By Hal Armstrong | Gust Hamer is free. They were jshaking hands with him today down at the federal building and slapping say everything ts for the best, but sometimes it's hard to believe.” She lapsed into silence again, and jooked for some time, blankly, into HOME ti TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE UNDERWORLD © IS COMBED FOR SLAYER! Futile Attempt Made to Mislead Police 7 Into Thinking Companion Committed Suicide | Shot twice thru the head, the body of Charles 0. Legate, veteran Seattle policeman, 2102 14th ave. S., was found at |5:10 a. m. Friday in the back seat of an automobile in a | garage at 1242 Main st. The two bullet holes, bloody fingermarks on the automo- | bile, a third bullet hole thru the floor, evidences of a struggle, | and the unnatural position of the body, are held by the cor- oner and the police to be convincing evidence that Legate © was murdered. “Any theory of suicide is unten- able,” Deputy Coroner Frank Koepli declared. “At least four! shots were fired in the garage, and only two exploded cartridges were found in Legate’s revolver, What is more, we have identified two bullets, one thru ‘i the floor and the other thru the £ar| Detectives and special details of po Age wall, as police bullets from Leg-|iice are searching the entire district ate’s revolver, making {t apparent | near i2th ave. and Jackson st. in @ that he fired at his murderer,” lgeneral cleanup of suspicious char Together with Patrolman Tom |icters. Walsh, Legate had been patrolling |" On February 11 Legute and his district up until 1 a. m. Friday. |were suspended for 30 days by | Legate then told Walsh he was going |of Police William H. Searing for on an errand and disappeared. At 2/fatiure to keep their district free of o'clock Walsh checked in for Legate |immoral women. This action foe at headquarters, When Legate failed |owed the arrest of May Curtis, @ to return by 2:45, Walsh called Serst |negress, who owns and operates & BE. W. Pielow and they began &|house of disrepute next door to the ~ search. As Legate often left his|earage in which Legate was found |automobile in the garage, they de-| murdered this morning. Several at |cided to look there, and they broke /tempts have been made to obtain the spring lock and entered. evidence on the place but each time 1 the raids were tipped off. is ! j . floor of an automobile, his feet from a house sticking out the open door and across the street. May Curtis his head jammed across his was fined $250 recently in police breast, leaning against the op court as a result. Since that posite door of the tonneau. time conditions in the vice dis- trict are said to have been on the edge of an cruption. Legate ‘was never popular in the district and it is thought he probably fell a victim to some person whom he was forced to arrest in the performance of his duties. Captain of Detectives Charles Ten- nant personally took charge of the case. * S&S # Murdered Officer's the neck, having been fired from above, Evidence was found that der of John ton Kennedy. * | He then instructed them to retire! Woe suggest that they hang one of |and elect a foreman before Bailiff those W. ©. T. service flags on|Clark Reader would escort them to the came! house at Woodland park. . take a drink. @ corner, “She didn’t tell anything but the truth,” she said at length. “It seems a pity—" “It seems a pity,” she re Widow Is Overcome By S. B. Groff Out on Beacon hill, in a beautiful little home at 2102 14th ave. S., Mrs. “I've found one lady who's witing | Butte on Grade to take care of my little girl, but no| will take the boy + months old, you know—for jess than $25 a month. And I simply haven't that much money. geo on the back. The government's once proud case is shatterea. The jury was not con- vinced that the charges were true- that the trusted veteran agent of the one he's only 2 | “We were making plans for com- pany on Sunday,” she continued, presenly, wiping her eyes, red from weeping, “and now we'll have com- SPOKANE, March 17,—Two per-| jsons were killed and three injured when Butte local No, 20 crashed | luncheon, | ° | ‘The matter of sentiment was the ecording to a biliboard sign the | first point covered in Judge Reeve's| ‘Unless I can find someone who'll |head-on into Northern Pacific train| United States treasury department « | Anna Legate, widow of Patrolman] pany aij right! a wie way to get along is to Smile. | instructions. He directed the jury to|take him in I'll just have to quit|No. 1, westbound, the crack North | had baited a weak girl with “dope” |, ested, “that it ts always like | Charies ©, Legate, who was mur- peccbarlle ee ver committed suicide, 4 ‘We've smiled so hard our face is |base its verict entirely on the evi-| school and stay at home and look |Coast Limited, on a mountain grade| “nd then misused her—and pro-| that, a woman sacrifleed to save | dered Friday, rocked to and fro, sob-/ 1 know he didn't, He was too wrap chapped but the grocer still keeps | dence in the Beverly Glen tragedy, after the baby—and God knows r Butte, Mont., early today. nounced him innocent | aman, And Mag is only just a | bing heart-brokenly. \ped up in our Iittle girls and Sa insisting that we pay our bill. and that pity and compassion for the | what'll become of us if I don’t learn ‘he crash occurred east of Butte.| And the girl, Mae Butchart, the| child.” Her two little girls, Agnes, 10, and) home here, And everybody liked oe beautiful defendant must play no|how to make a living and just keep |The fireman on the local and an un. |witriess, whom the government tried) ‘rhe grandmother silently _re.| Florence, 12, patted her shoulders af-| him. _ These bimbor whe part in the peration. on «inking farther and farther into identified hobo were killed, according | feebly to protect and failed—? threaded her needic. The mother|fectionately, unable to understand| | “I think somebody shot him whi! femedies live on the Taking up the question of consplr- | debt a tor 12 ORE distance telephone reports to! In the Butshart apartment, three| went on, in a monotone | the portent of the tragedy: that had (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) of the and. acy which is charge “Really"—her face brightened for |the Northern Pacific office here. | roo: 6. bane: ‘ 4 o ; | darkened their little home, Charles, | —— tithe er Wee SIX. lynne and Arthur C the first time—* hee & very 3 | rooms in the basement of the West As Mae vat there on the witness | darkened ir the stepson, who is 21, wag absent) for a few moments, cleaning his fa-/ The names of the dead and injured | mingter, last night, a sad mother and were not given. Jan aged grandmother sat. . They conversed little, © grand. I. B, Richards, general superintend- | 7 | wi wewin, pmething, and Jent of the N. P., phoned from nis |™other was gy ae titches, mehow, were mishbe- Tacoma office that ho had been in.| the stitches, someho having and had frequently to be |formed of sf 0) |formed of the wreck. No passengers | 114564 out, The mother stared at }stand, and his lawyer was accusing | [her of—those awful things—1 won. | for ® few |dered what anyone could see in her | . |face that would make them think| “Oh, they told me Charlie Ded come | she had led a long life of debauchery, | Mitted suicide,” Mrs. Legate sobbed, | vdeinanis dee tt, “put I knew he hadn't. ‘They've mur- dered him, The bardlet wrote a blurb of spring | fendant To fill his colyum out; | “conspir He sang of sun and bird and bum | direct evide With colyumistic shout. only be shown by And then he opened wide the door | dence." And looked up at the sky, the court pointed out that be shown by wonderful baby there just MUST be like to have him fi eee Anyone who wants to help the little mother in her plucky fight it seems to me . can rare} nd ¥ circumstantial evi womeone whe . a little while. SHOPPERS, After he had cut himself severely When lot-—a flock of mowflakes fet| can get further details by call | were hurt, he said, but a fireman z “I know what that lawyer showed | «19 was eo happy last night, when ATTENTION! ‘And bashed him in the eye. with a large knife in an effort to| ing the City Editor of The Star, {named Caldwell and a hobo were|‘¢ ¥® her all those prison prictures for and | ne kissed me and the little girls and . . [commit suicide at his home, 217 W.| Main 0600. killed. | “Mae's gone,” she sald. Her chin | asked her if she knew what men they | went to work. He was always happy | ‘OU will take a great HELUP! HELUP! Thomas st, Mark Rubley, 40, was| For obvious reasons the mother’s| ‘The North Coast Limited ts the| @uivered. were. He is a clever lawyer, I hear | and loving. I never dreamed that he | bg deal of pl i Wanda von Kettler, Star reporter: | taken to the city hospital in a seri-|name and address cannot be pub |same train which was wrecked some “She's in good hands. I think it|he is the smartest in this town. He| wouldn't come home a-again"—her | Py pleasure in ess, eays Seattle has gone mad over | ons condition Friday afternoon, lished. weeks ago near Ellensburg. will all come out all right. They (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) | voice trailed off into a sob, making up your Satur- Oriental costumes. Judging from «some of. the costumes we see down town, we would say that the flappers have gone mad over the tricky styles day shopping list from the ads in today’s Star. Foods, meats, clothing, H. Brew Thinks Rotary Club Didn’t Do Right by Our Bob made famous by Eve. shoes, millinery, furnish- FALL MAY KILL By Homer Brew sonic club rooms, Wednesday, and! ‘The next day the President of the|made of the speech was the fact that |the unanimons condemnation of the| side my campaign. ribbon! What ada et ‘ es a (FAMOUS FIGHT REFERER) |4#te too many dill pickles, THirosi| Rotary Club, the Past President /it wasn't the Mr, Saito delivered | President, the Past President and the| will my ‘old top-sergeant in the n fact, at- MAN Well, I see by the papers Saito, imperial consul of the Japan-|and the Mleven Directors caused|at the Rotary club luncheon. | n Directors that is affecting] Marines say now?” ever you are likely to LOCAL wo | folks, that the Rotary po 4 of ese government in Seattle, was de-|to be printed in a sententions pub-| Not content with this sweeping de- Bab. It is th Snaget that he has} ob iy just a young fellow trying want to buy tomorrow— 5 e fe ile, er t jer. |livered of a speech, in which he| lication what purported to be the/tense of the Imperial Japanese Con-|deliberately gone out of his way to/to get along in the newspaper game. m vi i ii Bodiy hast when Mie sen down national "Aucotiation. of Fey |tiurentened the United States with| aneech of the Imperial Japanese ech "the Dreadect, the Past Pras {Betas te Japatees Government and [inter eyine Demers ante power ea ae pmig®, fisht of sta K., Thureday| clubs, with s membership of |WaF within 10 years if Phil Tindall | Consul dent and the Eleven Directors of the |¢xpose their plans for taking over | without hurting any one's feelings, || 2 ay S Star at prices ight, Mrs. A. E. Ernst, 65, was| 90,000 leading business and pro- | didn't quit kicking the Mikado! 1+ was w perfectly good speech—| Rotary club of Seattle today issued a | Ballard, South Park and the straw: | He has always been in accord with|| that mean substantial reported unconscious and in aj fessional men in 24 countries, | around one of the best we have read since |ietter denouncing our friend Bob and |berry ranches of Bainbridge island. |the great doctrine of the Rotary club, |] savings to you. critical condition at Providence hos-| has unanimously condemned Bob returned to the office (we belonged to the Happy Hour De-|declaring that they regarded his at “What will Judge Ballinger (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) Mak pital, Friday. “Bob” Bermann, ore of thie and, bating society, but it sounded as|tack as a deliberate insult to the| and Dr. Matthews think of me See eee Date _Make up your shop- The aged woman in some ma hired help around The Star wrote an accurate ac nt of |much like a Japanese speech as Dan|membership of the club. now?” he sobbed this morning. | See statements by Mr, Ber- ping list as you read ner stumbled, causing the fall. Sh office, the address, ax did the reporter | Landon trying to talk Chinese to one Poor Bob! He is almost heart. “And Jost think! I will never be | mann and the Rotary club on The Star. has been unconscious since the ac Tt seems that Bob went down to| for another Seattle newspaper (of his clients. broken! able to wear the decoration of | page 17. | a Rotary club luncheon at the Ma-| who was present, ln whort, the only criticism to be] It isn’t the shame of it; it isn't) the Order of the Rising Sun be- ; cident.