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FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1922. WEALTHY YOUTH SODGES PRISON Millionaire Son Released by| Judge | DETROIT, Mich. Marcty 17.—| Jobn Duval Dodge, of the million aire family, sentenced to serve five days in prison for speeding, was re leaned today on a writ issued by | Cireuit Judge Jayne | Dedge «pent one night t the house of correction. ‘The writ was issued on appeal by | Dodge's attorneys, dectaring that he was being illegally detained. ‘The judge ordered Dodge held in @ustody by the sheriff until 5 p.m. . today when the hearing on the pe- fition will be bent. Dodge was sentenced to five Gaye | the workhouse by Judge Bartlett | conviction of violating the laws, His lHeense was revoked up he must return to Kalamazoo, where charges against him, alleging violation of liquor and auto laws are . ‘These were the outgrowth of a ride Sunday night during which Emmeline Kwakerneck, normal HERE’S MORE ABOUT REFEREE BREW STARTS ON PAGE ONE mitted to celebrate St. Patrick’s day) { CORK, March 17.—A pitched battle between members of a free at out a welcome to the national holiday, On ite march thru the streets it was met by the Valernites who attempted to dispose the musicians. Some of the extremists opened fire and three bandamen fell. The fire was returned from the ranks of the band, a republican being seriously wounded. After a fight, the contestants were separated by the arrival of | military police. eee DUBLIN, March 17—TIretand cole. brated St. Patrick's day by hailing the birth of the Irish Free State. The national festival wag utilised for a vigorous campaign thruout Ire land in support of the peace treaty | with Great Britain. | Speakers everywhere declared this | the greatest St. Patrick's day Ireland) has ever known, and declared that Erin stood on the threshold of free dom. | Michas! Collins, head of the pro visional government, went straight) to the heart of the disaffected area, | South Cork, whage he addfenned sev-| ¢ral meetings of his constituency. ‘The fighting Irish leader wag the center of a demonstration at Skib- bereen. Commandant McKeown was to speak at Mullinger and other mia land towns, while further protreaty Policeman Charles O. Legate and Mrs. Legate Ireland Celebrates Saint’s Day With Cheers and Bullets SLAIN MAN WiTH WIFE / colonies, made a holiday of Ire land's national fete day. Rejoicing | took the form of celebrating estab Mahment of the Irish Free State. The Gactic league olds an Irish music festival at Queens hall here tonight. This morning the Irish guarts paraded at Windsor castle, Queen Alexandra's shamrock waa distrib- uted to the troops. Similar parades of Irish regiments thruout the em pire were ordered. HERE’S MORE ABOUT HAMER CASE STARTS ON PAGE ONE wanted people to think she knew them.” The mother’s dark eyes flushed. “He wanted,” she sald, bitter ly, “to make them think Mae had made a practice of going to hotels with such men as her companions — ex-convict, And who are exconvicts but men who have been put in prison to repent and are supposed to come out reformed? There was Garnet MeGee’s picture. Poor Mickey MeGee! Of course Mae sald she knew him in those prison clothes, Why shouldn't she? Why, Mac knew Mickey long before he went to prison, when they were children together.” Again the mother’s chin qutvered, and her eyes filled. The grand mother picked up her scissors and sipped a long hem, and did it over. today as he saw fit. [demonstrations were planned f0F |jwwEwER HURT ANYBODY By agreement of all concerned, no) session of his trial on charges of | heaving taken the life of Virginia ” Rappe, was to be held. | I" 12 permanent jurors were | finally selected late yesterday. Eight men and four women make up the ary. ‘Alexander Buys P Fast Steamship | Columbia, efvilian fi of the United States navy.) and one of the speediest veanels on the Atlantic coast, w’ purchased for $1,250,000 from the United States shipping board Thursday by H. F. ler, president and representa- for the Pacific Steamship Co., in} fashington, 1). C., according to offh- | dials at the local office. PH Mayo, Galway and Roscommon. Republican followers of Eamonn De Valera were equally busy thru-! out the holiday, The former “preal- tour of the south. He will address | antitreaty gatheringr at Waterfora City, Thurles and other centers near | Tipperary during the week-end, Demonstrations were planned for Dublin by treaty opponents. ‘This evening Irishmen of all creeds and factions were to bury the hatch: et at the annual banquet of the Knights of St. Patrick, at the Shel- bourne hotel, Dublin, where Ulster: men and Sinn Feiners sit down to gether in peace for at least one day in the year. . LONDON, March 17—St Pat rick’s day was celebrated thruout | the British empire today. Irish societies in England and the | put in shape during the them, and give you th Phone East 0251 We Must Have Room for 75 New Maxwells Now on Way From Factory Have a large and complete stock of good use! cars, all O. K.’d by our shop, which were Will accept any reasonable offer on any of without brokerage or red tape. WM. T. PATTEN MOTOR CO. | | | | | | | winter. e best kind of terms, 1401 12th Ave. |IN HER LIFE" “We hear and read a lot about the terrible vengeance of the dope ring.” Mrs. Butehart suddenly spoke morning the trial wit! | dent of the Irish republic" began @) again. “But I'm not afraid for Mae. She's just @ child. | Why should I be? She never hurt anybody in her life. | “How did she get to using—dope? Il wonder. How do so many™ “Ill tell you.” ‘The grand mother spoke for the first time, “Girts, now’days, tell their moth- ers they're going over to some girl friend's house to spend the evening. And instead—" “| heard a girl the other night,” Mrs. Butchart broke fn. “She was telephoning to some other girl. She wasn't more than 15 years old, and she was telling the other girl over the phone that they would go down town and to a cabaret—I have an idea—" She broke off, and when she wpoke again it was of her daugh- ter. “Mae,” she sald, “couldnt stay here in Seattle. Not after the things they said about her at the trial, Why shouldn't she go away? She needs a rest—poor little girl She wants to hide. “What was it to her to go on the witness stand and testi- fy against that mant And what did she get for it? dust a blackened nanre—jost nothing —but dirt and filth thrown at her. “But !t was always that way, and always will bea man hiding be hind the skirts of a woman. I know men—they’re all alike. The man, who was accused, goes free. I saw them elapping him on the back down there. And my little girl, who told nothing but the truth, must run away and hide in shame.” She stared into the corner again tn silence, and the grandmother's needle went on nolrelessly making stitches look quite|™ that seemed to right. It took the jury just 45 minutes to decide between Hamer's story and the girl's, his story that he was us ing the girl « igeon,” anc hers that he ¢ dope” to gain her favors, and they decided the girl's story could not be believed Today a high federal official sald: admire that girl for the way sho stuck to her story. No doubt she believed it true. Peo- ple who use ‘dope’ have weird hallucinations. She bared her soul to help the government. The government owes that girl something—owes her a lot, Poor / iri” never UNIVERSITY POST NO, 11 American Legion, will con prog of official war pictures at| the ptune theater, 46th and Brooklyn ave, Thursday evening, , | said, THE -_— HERE’S MOKE ABOUT POLICE WIDOW STARTS ON PAGE ONE he went Inte that garage to investi gate womething, THe had no known enemies, but maybe somebody he had arrested did it “I heard a ring at 2:20 o'clock this morning, and I got up, thinking Charlie had forgotten his keya I went to the door to let him in, and {hore stood Capt. Hedges and two ot fleers, And Capt. Hedges told me Chartie had shot himself! “I just laughed at him, because I couldn't imagine that my husband was dead. ‘Then @ aick fear gripped my heart and 1 maid, ‘Captain, you can't mean it? But be said it wan Ho, “The fact that Charlie was mur dered makes me feof better, beantune I Just couldn't stand it if I thought he had done it himself.” Mra, Legate was nearly prostrated with erief and kindly neighbors were caring for her and the little family, She wanted wee her husband's body, and insisted upon making the trip againet the advice of frienda. Florence and Agnes, the gtria, ap- parently were unable to realize that their daddy had them. ‘They chatted. with the neigh bers and comforted thelr mother in an abstract way to (a HERE’S MORE ABOUT | MRS, ASQUITH || STARTS ON PAGE ONE |1 have watehed your fine country homes from train window# and have said of this one or that one, ‘Now, there must be a very happy home." Tho, of courve, the furies may be playing within.” PROHIBITION Prohibition, which I always “ its effects, ax I see them in America. Lord Lee (first lord of the British admiralty) mys my statement that there in drunkenness among Ameri. can young people is ‘cruel, ludicrous and untrue.’ I wish it might be at least the latter. But T am over whelmed with letters from all over America agreeing with me in this opinion, American people are dynam fe; they always will overdo a pro teat.” JAZZ America has a remarkable ecense of rhythm I beard litte beyond your colored melodies (meaning ‘jaze’) but I like this sort of melody. It le splendid. It carries one on. After hearing it |} should may, ‘Not strange that “ |so muchT “ LITERATURE Bookstores and newsstands dot '@ every city and town. At every crossroads station one sees books, magazines and papers for mia I le fo much reading matter, And what good it does you? Can any people digest #0 much? But the effort is to your credit.” 4 FLAPPERS You make too much of your @ Mappers. You take them too seriously. They'll outgrow It, before you can realize.” COURTESY You do rush about, every. @ where, but you're very polite. There is a surprising amount of cour. teay in public conveyances. No, I haven't ridden in the subway, yet— but I think I'll risk it once during the rush hour, just for an experience. 1 expect to wurvive it as well as the next one.” DRAMA Your drama is vigorous; quite often improper, but free from coarseness, You make @ good job of handling tndelicate situations deli- cately, Your American actresses are more finished, more beautifully gowned, more convincing than Eng. lish actresses, But Englishmen are much better on the stage than the men of America.” PRESS “10 I don't Uke your newspe- ‘They even hurry me And then they “ © pers, They are too hurried. attention to what I say, and too much to who I am.” SAFE-CRACKER FOILED BY GIRL Carl Mclean, 53, a negro janitor, was arrested Friday after Mra. Hazel Wallace, a clerk In the office of Dr. Don H. Palmer, 619 Lumber Exchange building, had caught him in the act, It is alleged, of opening and looting her employer's safe. Mrs. Wallace bad just taken the money from the aafe to the bank, and upon returning, she told the police, she saw McLean seated on a cot, with the nafe door opened. She had left ft locked, she said. Fr. Lean nntil Patrolman R. R. Moulton arrived. COAL STRIKE IS DECLARED INDIANAPOLIS, March 17—A na- tion-wide coal strike will “take place on April 1,” William 1. Green, secre- tary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, said unreservedly today in a statement written for the United | Press, ‘est upon the mine owners who refused to meet union representa en In interstate wage conference ‘Bishop O’Dea Tells Declaring that the Catholic church is in no way backing or collaborating with any political organization pur porting to be indorsing political can- didates with the favor of the Catholic chureh, Rt. Rev, Edward J. O'Dea, bishop of Seattle, issued a statement Friday morning. “With the politteal action of tndt viduals, or of organizations, neither I nor the chureh which T represent, has anything to do,"' Bishop O'Dea “IT personally always refrain from taking t in party politics, and the priests of the Catholic church are forbidden to engage in such matters,’ been taken from @ favored, is most harmful tn | have! |America moves its feet so fast and | wonder how you get time to devour | don’t print what I say ag I would) have it printed. They pay too little} She slipped out quietly and called | Irish, tte janitor, who held Mc- | | en raid all blame for the strike lag provided by the existing contract. | Stand of Catholics | SEATTLE STAR ‘TRAIN ROBBERY ATTEMPT FOILED |Loot Thrown From Express | Car Recovered GALESRUNG, Th, Mareh 17 Daring attempt,to rob an express joar of the speeding Santa Fe train |No, 7 wan frustrated early wday | The agent at Williamefield, jmiles from here, saw a large box thrown from the door of an ex: | preen car an the train went by. | Pollee of Galesburg and Chilli cothe were notified and packages | strewn all along te’ rightof-way | were recovered. | Henry Johnson, negro, who was |mear the seene at the time, was arrested, He denied participating, | declaring two white men boarded train at Chillicothe it was two the believed the two men escaped from the train as It stopped at Gales- mare. | Local Panta Fe officials believe tmost of the loot was weartng ap pare! id had been recovered. KILLS HUSBAND | AS HE SLEEPS! Lights Match to See if He| Is Dead CHICAGO, March 117-—Mrn. Tiona | shot and killed her | Abrahamson husband as he lay asleep today She lit a match to eee if he was dead, calmly dreamed and wsurrend | ered to polton. | | “He chited me because of my inability to have a child,” she told police. “I just couldn't stand it! any longer.” After saying she “was very tired; | | this haa been @ horrible night,” she was allowed to rest before continu ing her story. The story: “For three years, ever atnon we) | were married, we wanted a baby [None came He chided he. His! |abose became wore. “I Jost courage, I wrote a note telling him he would never have| an heir. This made matters worse. “Last night he read the papers and retired, I bid a revolver under the mattress, When I awnkened | ary BONUS HOPES APPEAR SLIM BY CARL D. GROAT | WASHINGTON, March 11 Chanees of ramming the soldier bonus thru the house Monday, under the “suspended rules” gag plan, looked stim today to many leaders, The reasons for this belief are: 1, Speaker Gillett is opposed to) euch procedure, and he holds control, | 2. The movement to oust him should he refuse in strong, but polit fea} expediency dictates to the would be ousters avoidance of & party sean dal now, in advance of the elections | 2. Powerful elements in the house, including many ex-service men, have neoured wufficient elgnatures for a party confe: © on Tuesday; and this petition will be put in if neces. Failure to heed such @ call would be unusual and provoke ad- verse criticism. this morning I took the gun and shot him thru the temple. Then I lit a match to see if death had) come “I dressed. Here I am No, I am not sorry.” Sponges are abundant in the Au- wtralian seas PAGE 7 NATIVES ATTACK BRITISH POLICE Demand ‘Release of Promi- nent Agitator LONDON, March 17—A Central News dispatch from Nalrobl, British Hast Africa, today naid that a mob of nearly 1,000 natives with blud eons attacked the police station, de manding release of Khutu, «a prom nent agitator, They refused to din perse when ordered, and the military fired a volley into the mob, killing 20, wounding 30, and scattering the rest. ANTONY, ANTONY! LISTEN TO WHAT CLEO JUST DID! Mra. W. ¥. Palmer, 8715 First ave, N. 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