The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 24, 1922, Page 7

6,000 HOME BY FLAMES Householder, Awakened by Blaze, Rescues Sleepers Just in Time Awakened by fire that broke out earty Friday from an overheated heating stove, BE. Allen, of Hickory Heights. one mile north of Seattic on the Bothell highway, aroused his sleeping family and succeeded in get. ting them out of the Durning house. Neighbors, attracted by the glare came to thelr assist: and telephoned the fire depart. | ment. While Engine Co. No. 17 and Fire Truck No. 9 were rushing to| the scene under the direction of Bat talion Fire Chief J. EB. Kenney, the Beighbors attempted to save the Seeds from the house. Within five minutes, however, tae flames had gained such headway that FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1922. DESTROYED A. 8. M. HUTCHINSON | By A. S. M. 1 was impossible to enter. Allen e@cape was considered miraculous. ‘When the fire apparatus arrived, the house was almost destroyed, and as ‘The loss is estimated at $6,000 on ‘the house and contents. Allen car Pied $2,400 insurance. APPEAL IS WON BY OLE LARSON Supreme Court Orders Case Dismissed OLYMPIA, March %4.—The s#v- court today ordered the case 8S. Larson, former president the defunct Scandinavian Ameri an overdraft, for which he received loaning, according to the high- @f court, occurred when the over ‘was made. The giving of the onty changed the evidence of indebtedness, and did not constitute @ lean. AKE SHAKES LOS ANGELES! Citizens Rush From Homes to Streets night. People rushed from their houses into the streets. No damage was reported. PITTSBURG, Kan—Mrs. Beanie Hasson returns to her parents after escaping from ber divorced husband, who kidnaped her March 12, after administering a beating. LONDON, March 24.—The German mark on the London exchange today was quoted at a record low of 1,530 to the pound. Cloth Caps Special 95c One-piece and 8-piece styles. Wool Tweeds, Herringtones, Checks, Plain Colors, fully lined. Sizes 6% to 74%. Un- usual value at 95¢. —DOWNSTAIRS STORE FREDERICK | & NELSON the best seller America. It i THE Monday, “If Winter Comes” Don’t miss the first installment of “The Greatest of . Modern Fiction” Hutchinson - of England and s to appear in STAR March 27 COAL STRIKE PLANS TALKED ‘Efforts for Truce Are Continuing I i : i i if as i with | and | bolt ist i E BF i i i : i ' ¢ 5 s {The United Mine Workers’ “war council” of 116 members, met here today to map out battle plans for | the nation-wide coal strike, called for midnight, March 31 Answering the summons of Preai- dent John 1. Lewis, national and Matrict officers, composing the mine policy committee, outlined action to be followed in what is termed “the Sreatest strike in history.” Approximately 600,000 workers In beth bituminous and anthracite fields are involved in the orders of the all-powerful miners’ guiding | body, assembled here in important | special seaston. ! Danger of « eptit In the ranks of the United Mine Workers of America was averted today. Frank Farrington, president of the | Tino miners, who has been hold ling out for separate state wage ne gotiations with operators, threaten jing an Internal break in the union, told members of the mine policy |committee meeting here, illnoiv miners would strike with other bi tuminous workers April 1. “We're going to strike on April 1 and we're going to keep on striking |until some of the others holler,” said Farrington. | | Farrington thus exploded the fear }of international officers that the | Illinois miners might break with the main body and prevent the strike jeall for April 1. eee |Harding and Staff Discuss Coal Strike WASHINGTON, March 24.—Wayn of avoiding a coal mine tieup on April 1 was one of the principal topics of diseussion at the meeting today of | President Harding and his cabinet |it was indicated. Attorney General | Daugherty and Secretary of Labor | Davis were-expected to present sug [gestions for action by the executive. |_ Action by the president probably would take the course of inviting the |operators’ and miners’ representa | tives to a conference in Washington. | Harding feels that a strike at this jtime would seriously interfere with the revival of business and is known to be anxious for a settlement of the controversy. Would Drop Peace Overture Demands | INDIANAPOLIS, March 24—The | six-hour day and fiveday week de |mand of 600,000 coal miners, or-| dered to strike April 1, will be | dropped as thelr first peace over-| ture if bituminous mine owners con sent to interstate wage conference, according to belief expressed today at United Mine Workers headquar. ters here. ® & TREE rs TREE (8 TEA fH SoLitt e TEA | Cylan | three—four. HERE’S MORE ABOUT WANDA DANCES STARTS ON PAGE ONE regardiess of the place and the mob, immediately upon the stoppage of th orchestra, “Seems aa if everybody having an awfully good time—don't you think so? Which always gives the clue for the gentleman to remark about the music and the slick floor, and keeps things harmonious until the naxopohone resumes ita misery and everything is plain mailing. “HIM™ COMES IN AS AN | ASSISTANT REPORTER Now the first polished floer de voted to the bliss of modern ball room entertainment visited by us was that at the Douglas School of Dancing. I say visited by us. There were two of us, Him and me He was a kind, generous in the capacity of partner only to the extent of go- ing and coming. At the aances he could frolic with whomever the fair he pleased. He needed not to risk the leather on the toe of his shoe thru any obligation to en- tertain me. And because I ex- plained so specifically, he com sented to jotm the expedition. Meanwhile, I needed to self, on tripping the light with Seattle's representat Which I did, And the first victim was a tall, stately gentleman with gray hair, who wore dancing pumps, and who | blosnomed into view that first night |at the Douglas dancing hall, |A STEPPER FROM | THE WORD Go | But this gentleman happened not jto be the “nice old man” type who | stopped in the middie of the floor jand counted the beats. The gentle | man wasa stepper with much eristo- cratic poise who, I learned during the course of the trot, had “always been interested in the latest dance move- | ments.” Now, he knew dancing and all its littie tricks. Others there knew dancing and all its little tricks. Young men and girls, 60 or more, glided, shuffled and dipped to the time and melody of the four-piece or: chestra on the stage. But a few One nice old man who simply Ive dancers, to the time of “Wabash Bl he wasn’t much of a dane yet But he figured that he “might as well get in and learn now as ever * tha laince anybody who expected to min. | 4 gle at all had to know how In the “ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR” HIS SWEEBT NOTHINGS His little explanation is supple mented with a sudden stop, @ mo. ment’a contemplation, a gentle step fordward, and the words. “I lost out there—here we go—one—two slide, slide.” Now the thrill of the evening came to me when I learned that 1 was just three centuries be hind-time. The youth with whom I danced knew how to lead, so I observed not at first that we ered as Thad nover uvered before, But noticed suddenly that the whole blessed room was maneuvering —like- Quality wise, Its occupants walked ex actly when we did. ‘They hes tated exactly when we did—and shuffled ahead, It was all very didn’t have any hair at all, confided | THE TWOSOUGHTIN > being combed Friday for traces of | two men who are wanted by Sheriff Matt Starwich in connection with tho murder of Daniel Alexander | MacDonald, who was found buried jin @ gravel pit near Ronald sta- Uon Wednesday, | ‘This was the latest development in the murderhunt Friday, Star wich said that the two men had/]| been seen angrily talking with) MacDonald outside Dept. No. 1,|[) supertor court, on the third floor of |}) |the County<ity building, Tuesday, |[) |Mareh 15, In company with an other man whose identity is knowy and who is at present in Seattie, The following day MacDonald |}| was murdered and the same men are believed to have been seen standing by a bonfire in the gravel) | pit that night by a workman named jf) | Graves, who reported to Starwich.| | Another clue to the murderer was! & telegram received from Chief of Police Shute, of Edmonton, Alta, mying that a man named Daniel) A. MacDonald had deserted his wife |]| there after disposing of his prop erty for approximately $13,000. The/]) murdered man was known to have|[) come from Edmonton and had con-|}) | siderable money, in property and/}) | other holdings. | Attorney Horace HI. Guth, war aiding Starwich tn the murder in- vestigation Friday | HERE’S MORE ABOUT SEMENOFF STARTS ON PAGE ONE |forces seized ite furs in Vladivostok, filed action, tying up the rich fur | [shipment being brought over by | Semenoft Semenoff, tm his 40's, dressed tn | civilian clothes, slightly bald, with | pleasing manner, is frankly surprised | 1) at all of thin. | “It wae largely to disprove any |]! lcharges against my wartime activi | |tiew that I sought to enter the! United States,” he said. “I am aware | of the unkind feeling the people of |f| America bear toward me, but this i due entirely to the work of my |}, enemion. “In me you see the reprenentative of the Siberian people collectively They want to ond forever the strife) and terrible conditions now existing I hope to unite these people into a new Siberian republic. That te what |Drings me to America and Europe. “I go to Washington, then to Paris. I will raise money for our cause. | “The Chita and Viadivontok gov-| ernments, which are frequently | clashing, must become part of the new democracy with Irkutsk an ite capital, It may be necesmry to use| force in accomplishing this “Siberia must have a foreign lean to encourage development.” Credential, purporting to show 81-1) berian peasantry and monarchists | join the Comsacks in seeking a new) republic headed by Semenoff are car. | ried by the chieftain. How he will gain aid in America, he does not aay.| In Paris, tho, be will get in touch | with former czarist leaders, Fut one thing is certain, Semenoft |]! will not ally himaeif with the Japan one in this new move, He so de | clared himself, following his alliance | with them which resulted in Japan. | ese occupation in Siberia. Semenoff | |wought to collect for servicers ren dered. Japan refused to honor the! claim and deported Semenoff to Manchuria, | The suit of the fur company was |an unexpected biow, ih “I have no way of knowing about | thin.” be declared. “There han been much thievery in Siberia, all laid to| my forces. A large, roving force, | such as my army, was difficult to control, but in every instance where | jan atrocity was proven the gullty were punished, many by execution.” Semenoff has been allowed to en ter America an “in transit” to Bu. | rope. He will have 60 days from | hin entry until he must mL There | will be no restrictions placed upon || him during that time, but his plan in to go to Washington, then sall for | Paria. | | | | | present that night were learning the art of maneuvering their feet. AND |THE MAJORITY or TF K WERE PERSONS WHO AD REACHED Tr VOTING AGE A | Gbop MANY YEARS AGo. | unusual. With the hundreds of | specini litde steps and idiosyn | eracies of the dancers, a whole | ball room of people today sim- ply don't work together. Yet I said nothing, I wouldn't let) on for a million dollars that I) wasn't up to the Intget. When the| music ceased, however, I confided to | the youth that I wanted to “find out the name of the piece” and pranced him across the floor toward | the orchestra when, Ho! Douglas, Jr., | himself, managed the traps and bells. | And Mr. Dougiaa, innocently en. | thuslastic about answering the halt |}| smothered question about that last |! dance, replied exuberantly, “Oh, don’t |}! you know—that’s the minuet. | there about 1733.” And the youth spoke up, seemingty tickled to death, “Oh, didn’t you know what you were doing?” And |then he explained, “Well, you see, | I've been coming up here quite a Jlong time, and the minuet Is played | Just ones each evening. Yeu they danced It considerably bach | | | fur—well wt wort of a feature dance.” | | Seemed to me that everybody up there at Douglas hall had been “com- ||| ing a long time.’ & ed as if every | body waa fort of uainted and | {| clubby, Even the fair partner, I be. |! lieve, observed the good fellowship and wanted to JOIN the club, At, | least, I observed, him dancing thre | dances straight with a dark-eyed, coy |}} young lady. Seemed to me that was |{! too much for any young man, so||| took him home, It really in best to be careful of young men these days, It's terrible ||| the many temptations they encounter and the danger in which they lie of fT) having their dear, Innocent minds | corrupt— Rut we won't go into that The following night we attended a regulnr dancing class at Little's, ||| and frolicked about with the playful residents of the University district. | | (To Be Continued) SEATTLE STAR MEN SHOT; LOGGER HELD) |Distressed Steamer {Supreme Court Must Makes Port Safely|Pass on Girls’ Garb PAGE |“Best Dressed. Man” Is Reported Dead | CHERBOURG, March #4.—The| LAWIUSNCHE, Kan, March 24 LISBON, March 24—The su@den | ABERDEEN, March 24.—Albert| american steamer West Carruth, for|Judee Hugh Means » ned & © | death in England Count de Fim | Swanson, logger, wan under arrest! some time in distrens off this port, MUrrer te ~ pees one ueiro, former chamberlain to Queen | nae here today, charged with emptying ®| anchored in the rondatead here yew-| ative Tencen and Maude Bochsnen | Amelie of Portugal, came aa % great Cities of Northwest Combed six.snooter in a poot hall here yen | t the right to reterh te coho! Without (eae Oe wanes Dire, ee | Uy . siehan OME dines ka” day. 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