The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 23, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER Tonight and Friday ate rein; Temperature Last 2 Maximum, 48, ) Today noc On the Entered as Second Class Matter May Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattia, _SEATTLE, WASH,, THU WHAT CRITICS | HAVE TO SAY! | NIVERSALLY the reviewers have Pronounced A. S. M. Hutchinson's novel, “If Winter Comes,” to the most unusual and worth-while of the year. This is the next serial story to appear in The Star. The first chapter will be published Monday. Read these criticisms: “It Winter Comes" deserves the attention of all readers who “If Winter Coméa™ in not onty & thrilling tale, it is an import love fine prose combined with ant work of art T do not know deep and warm feeling for char when I have had more continu- acter, ° * We think that ous enjoyment in reading a new “It Winter Comes” tx the best book. “If Winter Comes” is one novel in English which has of the best books of eur times. come from the war. —William Lyon Phelps in The || —Heywood Broun in The New York Tribane, New York Thnes, This is a novel of distinction. It is penetrating, bubbling Have no doubt about that, with humor, pathos and genu- * * © There is a sense of tement. * * * The power tm the way the whole round of the war, thing sweeps along, thru the de- touched ly slightly, was never velopment of character and tn@ more skillfully done even in unfolding of plot, to the tre “Mr. Brittling.” © ¢ * Because mendoufly intense climax, that it ts the novel of an expert craftsman, it is vivid and real —VJohn Farrar in The Bookman, you rarely find in contemporary fietion, —John Clair Minot in The Bosten Herald. In its inspiration, its insight | and fagh in life, “If Winter “If Winter Comes" © ¢ © } Comes" ranks as a rich and im- ts q real novel. It is as real as portant piece of work. * * ¢ “If Winter Comes” should be widely read both for its charac terizations and its story. —Emily Calvin Blake in The Chicago Daily News. “If Winter Comes” is more than a mere novel, it is an epic Poem of very great beauty. It will last long after most other a golden dripping sun spatter ing a lake with wave nuggets. It ts as real as @ rising moon slowly changing the outline ofa mountain into a sea of silver. And it is as romantic and as artistic. * * All in all, “It Winter Confbs” ts so fine that it blurs one’s vocabulary. One can only say: “Here are rich gifts.” —Fanny Butcher in The literary products of this age | have gone to an obscure and Gileage Tribune. | unlamented grave. No finer novel has been writ. =| E. Sherwood in Life. ten in years. —Chicago Evening Post. Please let a fellow-writer con- sratulate you very heartily on “If Winter Comes,” the best new novel I have read for many a No review, no amount of com- ment or praisacan reveal the warm humanity of this story. ° © © If ever the mirror were held up to nature, it is beld up by Mr. Hutchinson in “If Win- day | ter Comes"; jf ever man were Sir James Barrie | recreated in a literary image, by i that man is his Mark Sabre. The book is one of the very |; best that has recently appeared. —Literary Digest. ’ ow | ORGANIZATIONS PLAN JAP PROBE! ~:: | Action May Be Aftermath of Saito Speech As an aftermath of the speech made by Hirosi Saito, Japanese consul, last week before the Ro | tary club, business and fraternal organizations of Seattle were con- sidering Thursday an investiga tion into the Japanese question in and around Seattle. This course of action was suggest- lamb. ~~ boy, lambie! o- “Elevate the Pedestrian,” headlines | the Literary Digest. That's what Se-| attle’ speeders do. eee Ghost stories are all the fad. But the only ghost that interests us is) the one that walks every Saturday | ed to them Wednesday night by | {Councilman Philip Tindall, #peliking oo | before Seattle chapter No. 2, Disabled 2f Dr. E. J. Brown can guarantee! American Veterans of the World & painless method of extracting tax War. | pp ctection ‘ts aanured, | As a result of Tindall’s speech the | | chapter adopted a resolution specif. | ically urging the Rotary club to “un | dertake a study of the subject of Japanese immigration and land occu- | pancy in this country.” | “The Rotary club,” | the disabled veterans, fi ward in its determination to be fair, Sherman said “War Is hell,” but he| has permitted itself to be made a tool Bever had to listen to campaign | in4 catepaw of Japan.” (This in ref. | speeches in Menttie. | erence to the club's denial of the re 8 speech as published } Henry Ford has evolved a method of manufacturing flivvers out of cot-| ton. “Hey, mother, I've just run into «| street car, Come on out and darn) up Lizzies” Tindall had told sae “leaning back . rt of & ver young fellow we know |p° ‘Phe'Gtars Once went to a motor shotw; } “Japanese propagandists will use When he came ewey to the utmost the communication of He had a coupe | the Rotary club officers to prove how And two chummy roadstera in tot.) sniquitous’ is the opposition to im ere migration. “Organizations like the Rotary club, which want to be fair, | should begin by being fair to | their own country. Whenever the safety of the American peo | ple is at issue no man has a right to take sides with a foreign na- tion. If they do not understand the extent and immensity of the Japanese menace they should in- vestigate before taking sides with | Japan.” He urged that, in addition to the | Rotary club, the following organiza S. doughboys are Rhine they will| | When the U. Withdrawn from the miss their pretzels, “-. | SPRING IS HERE | Lay away the faithful checkers, the | chess and dominoes. Our zeal for them is waning as we | don our thinner clothes. Bring out the trusty horseshoes, the | pepfal, gay croquet. From morn till night we'll play them, | all the happy, livelong day. { oe Mrs. Kathryn Miracle, council can-| tions look into th Kiwanis | @idate, has made #0 many campaign | club, Elks, Moose, Eagles, other fra- speeches she has temporarily lost| ternal bodies, labor unions and bust the use of her voice | ness and profession societies. Why not get your wife to file for| ‘T. 1. Monson oftice? tary club, said Thursday thay he A ainined had no knowledge of the refolu eg | tion,” but that, if received, it would} Dean Stephen I. Miller of the | University of Washington with | draws from the mayoralty race. | Who said that colleg doesn't | a man common sense? | be given courteous consideration. j ,/REALESTATE | ach 6 reais iat") MAN DROWNS, jugsling lessons. =| your arms with| . The body of Walter S. McNetl, 65, | eee oe tt ee ke 8/715 N. 72d st., a real est orm Ave vag found ficating in Green lake “1 roll my own,” the pool shark said. chy dep ae woth the flapper, “It is to laugh, a 5s - ry ‘ basulcbm Fon roll your own with a Uttle bull gy ya ashore and notified Coroner Yhile 1 £0 eon the Otte Ww ‘orson | | pitta oraastied ” G McNeil, who had been in the realty | busine n Seattle for 19 years, diw fi uc © passin with | busin in 8 1, ee ee appeared from home January 16 the bonus is the buck private. fe British jailed Gandhi to stop the and had not been 1 sinee } tening suicide thre He leaves a widow and a grown er-Gandbl, | ProperGandhi, | | | b saantes THY, WORLD'S UNLUCKIEST MAN ‘The body was found near the 6800 Bat King Solomon block, on E. Green Lake way together wit! thea hier of And he had and 300 concubines. Four Bandits Rob eee | Dawsone these radios! We héard Chicago Loan Bank 4 man in Havana order drinks fo three last night. CHICAGO, March 23.—Four armed 5 6 #2 men today held up and robbed Ber | ad Refuses to| ger'n Loan bank, on 8. Halsted st., of “Congressman Volst Retire.”"—Headline. Possibly ) waitiig until prohibi‘ar $20,000 in cash and jewelry and on he | caped, jeording to an offic | freigther West Wash, under the Act of Congress March RSDAY, MARC! H 23, y 1922. 3, 1979. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to #9 First in News—First in Circulation (by 11,727 copies a day) —Call Main 0600 to Order The Star at Your Home--50 Cents a Month—Why Pay More? $$$ ——$——————— EEE sh TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE BIG FRAUD CHARGED! BONUS BILL UP FOR PASSAGE! HOUSE PLANS C hristy Does VOTE! Measure | Brought Under Special Gag Rule, Which) Speeds Action BY CARL D. GROAT WASHINGTON, March, 23.— The four billion-dollar bonus bill was taken up for passage by the house today ‘The special gag rule, enabling its backers to put it thra with. ont alteration was called up in the house shortly after It con. vened, at 11 o'clock, and the sem- blance of a fight was started, The house overwhelmingly adopted the rule permitting the bonus bill to come up immediate A, under “suspension of the ‘The roti call vote stood 276 te 126, SUBMARINE IS SUNK; 23 DROWN \British Diver Goes Down in Ocean Crash LONDON, March 23.—The British |submarine H42 sank In the Medit orranean off praitar, following a collision with wtroyer today, i announcement a ¢ from the admiralty An Exchange Telegraph mesdage said all hands had been lost. ‘The H-42 carried a crew of 20 aed | and three officers The ad | H42 was | matile. t is feared the submarine was totally lost with all hands,” the com mu The accident oceurred off Europa point, in 600 fathoms of water AMERICAN SHIP SINKING AT SEA: PARIS, March 23.—The jee arruth ia sinking 17 808 signals mmed by H. M. 8. Ver ique said miles from Cherbourg. | have been received. 7 NEW YORK, March 23.—An SOS call from the West Carruth, 17 miles from Cherbourg, was relayed from the liner Krooniand, 1,000 mites out from here, and announced by the New York radio station of the Inde pendent Wireless Co The distress signal read; “SOM from steamship West Carruth, 17) miles west of Cherbourg, sinking. | cedg immediate assistance The West Carruth is listed as «| United States shipping board freighter You’re Missing Something Good if you don’t read the ads in The Star today and every day. The very cream of the merchan- dise offerings of all Se- attle is advertised in Th Star. You can save money by reading the ads in The Star. You can get the latest style news by reading the ads in The Star. If you're not doing it already a lot of STAR RIGH' TODAY— NOW. jralty report enld that the | i] } Says Men Make Flappers ‘Not Like Em Howard Chandler Christy and reproduction of his portrait Mrs. Christy. BY ALICE ROHE ! NEW YORK, March 23.—For 26 jyears Howard Chandler Christy has wet the fashions in Americ “tn girls. | Continually in that quarter of a} lcentury this popular {Nustrator has | sent the Christy girl into every cor ner of the globe where aera! |magasince are read | “lay Howard Chandler Christy, | boghtatl painter an well aa illustrator, | | | |" still setting girl styles. “What do I think of the changes in the American girl?’ he repeated, pausing before a joyous decorative | —? he was painting, portraying Jant figure of a young girl 1, I like her better today than ever. Of course, I do not refer to the flapper. The real American gir! | has certainly changed since first I aw her. freer clothing and freer . ris have improved physi “all and mentally. Think of th orseted, big-hipped, rather stiff girls of 26 years ago and the un ted, free young persons of today! The }Ameri¢an girl has not been hurt in the least by her broader education | and knowledge “But again I say I do not refer to the flapper who is—well—I don't like hert “Do you believe that artists estab lish types—in real lite?” “Perhaps—but no artist Is respon: |eible for the flapper!” “Rat you draw flappera, don't “Oh, yom, I have to—she is a very noticeable figure in our modern life.” #"To. whom should lay the blame for the flapper?” “Well, I have noticed that when- ever a sweet, refined, innocent, sim- ple girl enters a room filled with flappers, all the men make for the sweet young girl at once.” “Yes, and then—?" “And then ceed to make a flap; replied “Bo far ag art is concerned—there ia much more datitude in drawing the modern girl than there was in drawing her mother or aunt. Ath letic#, sports of all kind, the war, liberal education, business — every: thing gives her more varying| “phases?” one of her!” he N ew Unwritten Law May Protect Women BY ROY GIBBONS CHICAGO, March 23.-Another un written law m ded to the one} now recognized that has prompted cores of American juries to free | slayers, legal experts here believe. | The pres@nt unwritten law protects | the sanctity of the home. It holds }a man is justified in killing to pro tect the honor of his wife. | ‘The new unwritten imw, it is be lieved, will protect in the same way | the sanctity of motherhood. Wheth | ler this new law will be recognized | jhangs on the answer to one ques tion 14 a wornan justified in killing her d after he repeatedly has tor- | her because of inability to) hildren when she herself has | jardently wished for childreng | A Chicago jury will ans@er that | question when it finds in the case of | | Mrs. R Ab narmson, 39, who has jadmitted, polle way, that she shot ae? husband, Louis, 43, to death. Mrs. Abrahamson charges that in} |tour years of tnarried lite her hus: | band continually reproached her for failure to bear children and scoffed at her because of the birth of one child, brought into the world dead Mrs, Abrahamson has surrendered to the police. A coroner's jury has recommended she be charged with murder. “I want women to judge me as they would like to be similar circumstances,” Mrs, Abra |hamaon said, as seAted on her cot in| }a cell at Cook county jail, she told |me the whole story of her life and its t lies, “From my earliest days T was used to hard work,” she said, “I was sent to work in a factory as a child, #1 knew little of pleasure, As I grew to womanhood I met few young men. “Working at my machine tn the ory or fiding to my home at t in a crowded street car I dreamed of the day when I should be someone's wife — someone's "y 1 met Louis—how I hate that name now! “He won me with his smile. years we wore wed (Lurn to Page 9, Coumn 3) Four they ingmediately pro. | x judged under | en years ago at a little party | LIBRARY CAN’T LEND “IF WINTER COMES” UNDER TWO MONTHS Like the waiting list of an ex- clusive club is the roster of names of persons clamoring at the Seat- tle public library for a chance to read A. 8. M. Hutchinson's novel, “If Winter Comes.” 4 Altho the eirculation® depart- ment of the library has a dozen copies of the volume, a person ap- plying now will have to wait at least two months to get the book, the department said Thursday. However, relief from this con- gestion will be furnished by The Star, The first installment of “If Winter Comes” will be printed in this newspaper Monday, MAY BE STRIKE TRUCE! \Government Plans Her ee 3 UNSOLVED |< WASHINGTON, March 23. | the soft coal strike scheduled | for April 1. [for Apri earned that|Recent Slayings ead |Vice President -Farrington, Seattle Police and head of the Illinois coal A jers, is negotiating with t | operators there and that probably an agreement has already been signed as to | wages and conditions. That agreement} of course, will not |be made public until after Sheriff’s Office By S. B. Groff Within sis days, three men have been brutally murdered in Seattle. Not a single arrest has been made by the police depart- ment or sheriff's office. The finding of the bedy of the job of solving an additional The secretary declined to talk further as to the progress of ne| Sime mystery Saturday night, kotiations, but it i# known that) ‘mm dere prem tag hs fete the blame for failure to get to ee eee p= le gether rests neither: with the gov-| Pedy im an alley way off Wash- | | ington st., between Fourth and ernment nor the miners, who have/| Fifth aves. all along signified their willingness|" || Gach, of the three murders vie to meet, but with the operators, who fNaunt all suggestions for a confer with the others in point of mystery ence and propare to tie up. the| #24 apparent lack of motive or clues mines and-smash the union. |" seDoasld naar trom al A ‘With from 30 to 40 per cent of/'ons, been murdered in Seattle and he soft coal mines of the country | nis body carried by auto to a point jshut down, we are still producing | near Flonald, where a shallow grave more than enough for our vag - was scooped in a gravel pit. The said Secretary Davis today. |bedy was found by workmen, Me- |could not have clearer proof that | Donald's head had been beaten and the soft coal industry t# overmined | gashed with a Watchet or a monkey and overmanned.” wrench. He formerly lived at the “This strike is not going to be| Rex hotel, 657 King st., and had been settied in a week or two weeks,” |dead several days when found, ac- another government official told me. | cording to the coroner. “It ig claimed that with 60 days’| Legate’s murderer shot from the | supply on hand, and spring coming | dark, as the officer sat in an auto, April 1, at which time the; Daniel Alexander ap pid tpg Ph ned Ronald station, Illinois district may pull out seabed thes thee eld ae f the general strike and con-| tim of murder. tinue working. Last Friday, Patrolman Charies Secretaty of Labor Davis has| ©. Legate, 2102 14th ave. S., was tried in vain to bring the miners| found shot to death, his body and operators together to prevent) lying at fall length in an auto the tleup, but Davis told me that| mot his own, in « garage at 1242 jhe has little hope of a meeting| Main st. the heart of Seattle's iy Gene Chnelid Menai (cose BLAME RESTS nat. les Tennant WITH OPERATORS detective department received | indicaselsiand, B. C. SAVINGS OF POOR VANISH! Co.” Scheme Now Held on Accusation Alleged to have mulcted scores of small investors out of their savings by promising them employment and making fraudulent representations, J. T. Read, president of the Can- peg American Lumber Co. was | heid in the county jail Thursday on a charge of grand larceny, unable able to furnish the required $1,500 iturthering his ~ scheme, according to Deputy Prose- cuting Attorney _ Ralph Hammer, _who prepared the charges. George S. Kahin, attor- J.T. Read ney for the Better Business bureau, declared that that organization had dur- ing the last few months saved prospective investors more than the Canadian-/ Tamber Co, ‘Just how much money Read did obtain from investors will not be known until a check is completed. The Canadfan-American Lumber Co, was incorporated under the laws of Utah, according to Hammer. Read had an elaborate prospectus, which included photographs of tim ber far removed from the supposed location of the company’s supposed mill and holdings on Vancouver He claimed, it is stated, that the company owned and operated a large lumber mill, which he said was a going concern and was making money, all of which is de- lelared to be untrue. Papers in Hammer's posses sion include two options on tim- ber land which Read claimed were owned by the Canadian- American Lumber Co, One shows that he paid down $1 and owed $80,000; while on the other tract he paid $1 for the option and was to pay $1,304,000 before he could on, the miners would be insane if|on. the left side. they counsel resistance, but it t| A bullet pierced Legate’s cheek jnot so simple as that. We must|and he féll to the floor of the car, |remember that soft coal miners have been idle a good share of the time the past year and complete |so far as mining is concerned is but a step more. Op the other jhand, spring farming is going to | give a lot of the boys work enougn to eke out their union benefit funds and jt is my opinion that the strike (Turn had Page 9, , Column » Rickard Girl Says She Forged Checks | where the murderer stooped to feel | his heart, and a second later sent a second bullet crashing thru his fore head idleness nnant admitted that the’ Legate murder had completely baffled him. are said to be of little value. The Legate muraer has creat- ed a furore in police circles antong all who knew him, The impression still exists that the murderer of Legate will never be arrested, altho if popular theories among the police are correct, he walking Seattle NEW YORK, March 23.—Attack | is at present ing the character of Nellie Gasko, 12,| Streets with perfect immunity to one of the witnesses against George| arrest. L. (Tex) Rickard, Defense Counsel) Suzuki's murder, while spectacu- Max Steur today made her admit be- (Turn to Page % Column 2) even cut a stick of timber. | Prospective investors signed a con- \tract which promised them a job at the mill, and Read took their money jin advance, it is said. Among other |attractions, the contract, copies of j Which : are held in the prosecuting at- | torney’s office, promised that if an What clues are in Tennant's Hands | employe.investor were assigned to a lesser job his pay would not be cut. “At one time,” Attorney Kahin said, “Read had signed up eight foremen. Other positions were filled many times over, also. No one who had money was refused a job. He specialized on persons who were out of employment but who had a little money saved up.” Read was arrested Tuesday night by Detective R. R. Herbert on « (turn to Page 9, Coumn 3) ing a check forger. Under Steur’s questioning, the girl said sho forged the name of Julius Berliner, of the Echo Cement Co., where she worked, She made out checks to “F. Hurley,” a fictitious character, signed Berliner's name, indorsed and cashed them, she said Three checks, for $30, $56 and $30 Killed By Wanda von Kettler Charles 0. Legate, veteran Se- attle policeman, was murdered March 17 by two men and one woman, all users 6f dope! At least that is the verdict of the spirit world, for whom “Sun- shine,” said to be the child spirit guide of Mrs. F. EB. Brad- were specified in the testfmony Rickard, famous sports promoter, | before Justice Wasservo: with mistreating girls. Denby Threatens to Chop Warships WASHINGTON, March 28 ley, spoke at a seancd held in tary Denby and other high na irs, Bradley’s home at 119 |thorities have threatened to cut the| Boren ave. Wednesday night, navy to 12 battleships, six less than unshine” is the spirit reported the number allowed the United| to have told of the murder of Police: States under the 5-0-3 ratio of the} man Charles Legate 11 days before arms conference in case cong its happening, at a seance attended vy en it was passes the bill reducing the listed personnel to 65,000 my learned today, by six Seattle people, non-profession- al spiritualists, who testified to the truth of the statement regarding the Ghost Tells Who Policeman rning. Wednesday night's seance was held primarily to question “Sun- shine” further about the murder mystery. Mrs. Bradley, the non-professional medium, was clothed in a soft, white, flowing gown as she sat in the center of a circle of friends. The circle was composed of nine persons, seven women and two men, Above, a deep blue light lent a soft, shadowy tint to the room. On the mantelpiece a |grain of incense smouldered in an Oriental bowl. I had been commissioned to ques- tion “Sunshine,” should she enter the circle again, regarding Charles Legate. She had told, according to the six individuals, of the murder (Turn to Page 9, Column Q $45,000 by warning them against . American