The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 4, 1922, Page 1

an eco ase e Tonight end fresh Maximum, 53. ‘Today VOLUME 24. NO. 33. Airplane and Radio to Open North Pole Could you say that a young gir! listening to a love song over whe radiophone had a radiant look? one $$ LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE | out | * . LI!’ Gee Gee also declares that the female of the species is more deadly than the mule. ee There was a little flapper Went flap, flap flap And all the little men-folks Felt flop, flop, flop. ee Seattle's society set has had to take @ back seat. The radio set is now the ‘vogue. oe “Jobless Ex.Con Takes Owr. Life.” News item. Too bad he didn't ap- ply to Chief Searing. ar ® prohibition follows the American flag to the North pole, says Captain Amundsen. Quite so. That's one place where we never thought of going in order to get a drink. ee ITTLE BUFFALO BULL winds, ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours \ S} Wednesday, rain; westerly Minimum 42. noon, 46. a } Capt. Roald Amundgen, his ship “Maud,” and one of his monoplanes {= flight. ‘ADRY OFFICERS IN DEATH TRIAL Alabama Backwoods Farm- er Is Slain BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 4.—C max of a case which has attracted the utmost interest thruout Alabama |former federal prohibition officers land a former city policeman are scheduled to face trial for murder in federal district court The men will be prosecuted by the state of Alabama, with the United | States district attorney occupying the role of defense attorney. | The killing for which they are held |—that of a backwoods farmer—was followed by mass meetings of protest, demand for a federal investigation, subscription of a public fund for the widow and children of the slain man | and indictment of the officers by the | county grand jury, after charges of | murder had been sworn out by the A BUAFFAL®, N. Y., April 3-—Roy | local coroner Haynes, f prohibition com- missioner, declared today that berg " forcement of prohibition law more suc: than the most confident pro- t could have expected. eee A¥orner empress of Austria is ex- pecting her eighth child. Consider- ing the high cost of livirg, it is no| wonder that the Austrians exiled the royal family. eee POEMS OF PASSI Angel face, lit up with Lips as for a goddess fit, ‘Ere 1 sip from them the Sweetheart! Wait until I spit! oe Fifty members of the Ku Klux Kian listened to a sermon by a Seat tie minister Sunday. They probably wished to hear the Koo Koo Kluck eee } Parisian style makers say that | the feminine waist line is down | | to the knees now. We take it | | the hem of milady’s skirt is now | | her waist line — neck. oe One virtue of the telechronometer, the telephone device that charges Patrons by the length of their con- (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) | Claiming the men were acting in | performanes of , raiders, the government intervened land took the case out of the state courts. D NO BOOZE FARMER'S WAGON | State officers will be assisted in | their prosecution by Judge B. M. Al-| lan, probably the most noted crimt nal lawyer in Alabama, retained | by citizens. The killing for which the ex-offi cera will face trial is that of Curtis | Tidmore, who was shot September 2! of vegetadres to Birmingham early in the morning He died later, Defendants in the cane are W. E. (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) | [BIG STEAMERS SAN FRANCISCO, April 4.—The United States shipping board steam er West Nimrod and the Dutch steamer Wolsum collided at sea early today off Christobal, Canal zone, ac cording to private advices received | here from Balboa. ‘The exact extent of the damage was not stated but the message said the Wolsum probably would have to be drydocked. The Wolsum was bound for Port Natal, Africa, from Grays Harbor, Wash., via San Pedro. The West Nimrod was en route from Matanzas, Cuba, to Vancouver, BG will come here Thursday, when three | their duty as dry| last year, while driving a wagonload | IN COLLISION | the m } | ritory lies within the Arct | lover the North Pole. The Star Leads All Other Seattle Newspapers by ??,000 Copies a Day The Official Government Circulation Figures for the Six Months’ Period Will Be Out in a Few Days; Watch The Star for What They Disclos U. S. COLONEL SLAIN — IN HOME OF JUDGE! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Rotered es Second Clase Matter May %, 1999, at the Postoffice at Seattian Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, Explorer P Prepares for Most Modern Arctic Dash 2, (Copyright, 1922, Seattle Star.) Secrets of the North Pole are to} be unlocked by the airplane, the movie camera and the wireless tel | ephone. | “Modern {nstruments of science.” | it in said to have been confeased by | At no time was the identity of any | says Captain Roald Amundsen in| an interview with a Seattle Star! correspondent at New York, “will! give to the farmer, the manufactur er and the seafarer information of incalculable value of the Par North's mysterious effect upon conditions| here.” | Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, is in the East preparing for a fouryear expedition: that will! start from Seattie June 1. “By ship I shail float with the tee] fields acroas the roof of the world,” he naid. | With movie cameras we will get a photographic record that will never perish. And| by radio I shall be in daily touch, if necessary, with civilization, relaying reports that otherwise would be hid den for years.” MAUD IS TAKEN TO PORT WINSLOW | Amundsen, in his fifties, with graying hair and face lined by years of battling with the desolate ice fields of both ends of the earth, talks of his remarkable plans aa if at last science had made. easy the path of the explorer “Until we know all about out planet we are like children walking | in the dark,” Amundsen. “A} million square miles of unknown te Cirete.” | Amundsen's ship, “Maw Ie to | day at the James Griffiths & Sons’ Plant, Port Winslow, for an over-| hauling. She wag towed there Mon-! day from Lake Union. Later in the month she will be brought to the} Spokane terminal to be Inden with cargo for her long voyage. This! is being selected with great care and ix expected to constitute the best outfit which an explorer ever took into the North Amundsen estimates it wil take| four years to float with the ice! rows the North Pole. But 100| tons of food will be taken to last five years. AMUNDSEN WILL COOK FOR PARTY Ten persons will be in the exped! tion, including scientists. On the} “Maud” will be two airplanes, one} an all-metal monoplane provided by| John M. Larsen. The airplane equip-| ment $40,000 “Hundreds of explorers," Amund sen explained, “have tried to solve ysteries of the Far North. But they have not been equipped as we will be. We will not be prisoners} in the ice as I have been before, | and as ali Arctic explorers | been. “From the ship we can sail by air | plane over a radius of 100 miles. Ob- servations of upper air conditions and photographic mapas will be eas at cost fly made. Our radio will keep ua in touch with the world. Amundsen will occupy the queer Couble position of leader and chief cook! “You see," he laughed, “I am a (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) have| The Seattle Star SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1922. ADMITS SLAYING SPOUSE Alleged Confes- sion Tells of Serv- ing War Hero Poison in Salad BREMERTON, April 4.—Mra. Ruth Plumley was preparing the evening meal. There was noth- ing unusual about it, except one thing. Over one of the dishes of fruit salad Mra. Plaumiey sprinkled a paper of snowy pow- der, She had bought that pow- with the powder on it-at ber hus band’s plate, and the other at her own. ‘There were onty the two of them. She had sent her 11-year-old dangh- ter to Seattle to stay with Marks, WOMAN SAID ‘To HAVE CONFESSED ‘This ia the story of the tragedy an Mrs. Plumley to Prosecutor Ray Greenwood, of Kitmp county, here. Secretly, Mra, Plumiey had been in love for two months with a neighbor, & married man with a family, Lyall C. Wood, living across the street Wood had told her, she said, that if she would get her husband out of the way they would go to Seattle to. gether, 80 she bought the powder and put it on her husband's salad. Hugh C. Plumley came home after his day’s work in the navy yard, He ior was—a pipefitter here. He world war and was wounded at Belleau Wood, came home two years ago and married. Mrs. Plumiey was then 26. Plumley ate bis salad, relished it, tho it must have been a bit acrid. From across the table she watched him, and calmly ate her own. They went on with the meal, chatted, laughed, joked. He finished, and said, “I'm going down to play a game of pool be- “AN right,” watched him as he went out. Near the pool hall he col- psed. He died there, 20 min- utes after he had eaten the poison salad. An investigation followed, and FE. H. V. North, a navy yard chemist, declared he found strychnine Mumiey's stomach. Wood, the neighbor street, wae arrested. murder was the charge. jail several days He is said to have admitted an af. fair with Mrs. Piumiey. He had met her while his wife and children were in Omak, Wash Mrs. Plumiey, said, had been the aggressor across the Firet degree He lay in The arrest of the widow followed, | and her alleged confession. Wood was released, the charge against him withdrawn and lodged against Mra, Plumley She is in the county jail at Port Orchard today. Thursday she will be riven a chance to plead guilty or not guilty of the crime, In either event she will be tried before a jury. WORKERS FLEE FIRE ON SHIP HOBOKEN, N. J., April 4.-—-Fire broke out today on the former U. 8. army transport Mongolia, of the American line, Hundreds of men at work fled from the ship. The Mongolia was being converted into a passenger and freight liner at a drydock here. ‘The heroism of John M. Clark, elec- trician employed at th helped firemen to reach the hold where the flames were raging fierce ly, He was stringing electric lights on the ship when the fire broke out, and continued his work, making It poxsible for the fire fighters to see in the darkness and smoke. ‘The fire was soon under control It was estimated the damage would not exceed $3,000. Unele | in | he | Ku Kluxers Now Invade Universit y Cryptic “Sigma 3” Makes Appearance on Campus Has the University of Wash- ington Klux weether college students have perfected a similar organization fs @ question perpleaing student leaders and the administration. Small circular stickers, with a Gull black background and bearing in white only the Greek «ymbol Sigma and the Arabic numeral 3 | recently appeared conspicuously on | university and University district | buildings: At the same time threatening let ters were went to the editor of the University daily, the senior council and the president of the associated | students. The letters stated that “Sigma 3” contemplated taking over the .enforcement of the honor code at the university and would deal pe verely with offenders, No further acon uma been appar. ent from the organization, but the approaching spring s#tudent elec Hons may bring definite action from the mysterious group. It is along thin line that the former appearance of “Sigma 3° was directed. A similar campaign was launched in 1913 during the winter election for stadent officers, Stickers with the jpiee cryptic inscription appeared on it campus and student candidates received warning letters telling them [net to continue their race for office. lof the memberw disclonod. | ‘The final appearance of the organi- | zation was at a basketball game, Re tween the halves of the game the! lights all went out. When they flash. ed on again a large banner was seen | floating from the rafters of the var- sity gymnasium, bearing in giant! jcharacters the mystic “Sigma 2.” It is sald by university student} jleaders that the nature and identity jof the organization is ascertainable and that in case of any activity dur- jing the coming election measures | “Airplanes will take us| Md served in the marines during the| will be taken to check the “klans-| “protection.” men.” ‘SWAN LAKE PIPE JOB 1S AWARDED Grant Smith Co. Wins; First | Ave. Paving Work to Start Two of the largest contracts for | public improvements in Seattle were | awarded by the board of public works in special session Tuesday | morning. | Contract for the purchase and in-| | Stallation of the 15-mile Swan Lake | pipe line was awarded to Grant Smith Co. on their bid of $1,468,000. The} bid was for an. allsteel pipe, the {board rejecting the offer of the Con-| tinental Pipe Co, for the construe tion of five miles of wood-stave pip- | ing. The contract is expected to add | jmore than $500,000 to Seattle's pay- | roll this year, as all of the pipe line will be fabricated here ‘The Industrial bureau of the Cham | ber of Commerce switched its recom: |mendation from wood stave to steel | pipe line construction. The contract for the paving of First ave. from Pine st. to Atlantic st. was awarded to the Seattle firm of Jahn & Bressi on their low bid of $649,199 ‘The improvement of First ave. has | | been urgently demanded for many | years, | Adjoining property owners will pay | $404.945 of the improvement, and the | | municipal railway will contribute as its share $244,253. The contract in-| cludes the laying of steel rails, BANDITS SLAY) MONEY GUARDS| CHICAGO, April 4.— “Shoot | on drydock, | sight” was the order issued by Police | the flesh. Chief Fitzmorris, concerning the slay Jers of Policeman Ernest Cassidy and Philip J. Summers, treasurer of the | Royal Building & Loan association | The two were shot by five bandita | who snatched a satchel containing| $7,000 and escaped, MAY NOT er Per Year, by Mall, $6 to $9 $25 in Prizes Write a 100-word let- ter and win a cash prize. See offer on Page 8 to- day. U.S. 1S SUED FOR BiG SUM BY PACKERS Meat Men Try to Get Eight Millions for Undeliv- SAVAGE BE TRIED Butler Proprietor! Will Be Dropped; May Be Right ered Bacon Prohibition Director Roy Lyte and A it jhis assistant, Bill Whitney, say - they'll prosecute John Savage, pro-| WM, FORTERPIEED, prietor of the Butler hotel, with the| WASHINGTON, April 4— Swift & Co. are suing the govern- ment for $1,459,885.38. It is a test case. With Swift are joined all the other great Chicago pack- utmost energy | But Savage, out on $500 ball after spending 12 hour® in jail on Mquor| | charges, nO | h ‘t be < an unces he won m4 ri of 51000, And Savage seems to have the 335.28. dope. Gregory and Todd are chief coun- sel for the packers. Gregory was prosecute ” Assistant attorney general under Wilson, and triet ‘Alistay" theep kK Ava Todd was his famous trust-busting sald Tueneiay, after partner. pel pase readltheng = If the Swift case is successful, not “We can't tell until Friday, |°ly will the Chicago packers get anyway, as I'll be out of town their eight million and lawyers their until then. fees out of Uncle Sam, but it is ob- “You see, there are some wit | served the door will be swung wide neasen we haven't been able to |Pen for a whole flock of similar an ‘ | sults. find yet—and wo can't\go ahead |The Swift case is not » suit to “Of course, it would never do recover money or damages for goods delivered, but on the con- trary, to recover the alleged value of goods which were not delivered, but which might have been if the world war had con- tinued until «pring, 191 On November 9, 1918, Brig. Gen. ement was made within a few hours after Savage bad an damage | A. D. Kniskern, depot quartermaster claims growing out of their | at Chicago, called together represen- search of the rooms in the But- | tatives of the packers and informed ler.” | them the government expected to re- In spite of Allen's refusal to prom.| quire 60,000,000 pounds of smoked ine any prosecution, both Lyle and/|®nd canned meats for the army in Whitney declared they would do ev-| France in the spring of 1919. No ything in their power to push the | contracts were signed and no writ- cane. ten confirmation given. They denied the claim that Savage! ‘Two days later the German com fs said to have made that he had/ missioners signed where Foch indi- | cated on the dotted line, Savage wna arrested in an early. morning raid on the Butler Monday. | of the close of the war, the packers | went right ahead to prepare the ba- | con, at 50 cents a pound They were formally notified, how- Drive Union Miners | Out of Town, Charge | $ioiia00, that a “war onlers” were BECKLEY, W. Va, April 4.-Inves-| off. tigation of reports that 100 union| No goods were delivered. The gov- miners have been driven out of|ernment refused delivery when of- Stotesbury, W. Va, were begun to-| fered in March. The price of bacon day by District United Mine Work-| was then 50 cents. The packers held ers’ officials and county officers, | it till the market went to pieces in ‘The reports received by John Gath.| the fall then took a loss of $83,000,000 erum, union secretary of the district, | by the hesitation were that opposition had been Taking of testimony for briefs will aroused because an orggnization of | close in 60 days. mine workers was completed last | — week. MAYOR SENDS HIS BEST TO THE BOYS When the tle baseball team takes the field Tuesday afternoon for their first game of the sea- Liberty Bonds Hit New Record Prices) NEW YORK, April 4.—Joining in! the big upward swing under way in the New York stock market, Liberty || son they will carry with them the bonds today registered new high|| pest wishes of Mayor Caldwell. prices. |] “Fight hard,” telegraphed the The first and second 4s reached | $100.08 while Victory 4%s climbed to} $100.88, Louise Lovely, “In Person,” Captivates By Jack Hall mayor Tuesday, “but, win or lose, we are with you. I loved her sunny hair But I do not} the pitcures. and her winsome smile. We have with us, at the Strand,|iove Mary Pickford “in person” this week Louise Lovely—"in per-|the Mary Pickford who divorces one son.” man to marry another and gets Forgive a harmless old gentleman | sueq for money by another woman little joke if I remark that Lhave|Wwno said she helped Mary get a n Louise and she is indeed lovely | Mi0y jn salary. in person. There is magic in that term. person"—but those who guide I do not say Mary ever did any- thing wrong. She is, so far as I know, a good woman as well as a “in | the destinies of the cinema should be tajented actress, But there is no| chary in its use. Half the lure of mystery about her any more. We the luminaries of the silver screen | now all about her and her affairs, | lies in the fact that, tho we hav seen their moving likenesses many times, we have never seen them in She has had too much personal pub-; | lieity. | ‘The producers would do well, too, feeb me arrives when a movie|0t ‘© Jet some of their celebrities | edition vie| fan remarks: “Let's not go to that show this week; another ‘famous’ actor i# appearing there ‘in person,’ ”’ moving pictures will lose much of their charm. N TOO appear “in person.” I have in mind | a certain handsome actor who does well in heroic roles. I used to enjoy | him, But that was before I saw him | “in person.” He came mincing upon the stage, | preened himself, shot his cuffs, The robbery was in full view of [hundreds in the business district of | South Chicago last night COURTS smiled sweetly, and said in a girl | Not having been officially notified | escorted them to thelr homes. Coun: — er Advances OKLAHOMA, CITY, Lieut. Col. Paul Wi commandant of Post field, aviation headquarters near Judge Day was later $5,000 bond, pending a co quest to be held Saturday The county attorney's clared emphatically that gation” by county a o Coroner McWilliams - toda that Day told him the ha made improper advances Day. Guests at a bridge ever, say there existed, to all ward appearances, the utmost diality between Day and Beck, Mrs. Day is hysterical and the care of a physician. Judge Day is alleged to given the following version Lieut. Col. Beck's death County Evidence Man W. Withington: “A number of people been at my home, where were having a party. My ft and I had just taken some them home, When I n 1 drove up on the driveway side the house. ¢ “The window blinds were and the lights were on so” could sce into the house. I stop ped my car and saw Beck at my wife, They had quite | scuffle, f “I got out of my car, is into the front door and . As I went upstairs Beck ran into the dining room behind curtains, “When I came back with my gun in my told Beck to get out house. He started at tho he was going to hit I struck at him with I aimed to hit him head and the gun shot Beck. “We had eaten Skirvin with Beck party at home. 1 him for some time times,” According to guests at a bridge. |party last night, the officer's death occurred between 3 and 4 o'tlock |this morning, after Judge Day had ty authorities found Beck's body in the parlor of the Day home, They believe death was instantaneous. Beck had been a friend and fre quent visitor of the Days, friends said today ) Beck was well known in Washing. ton society circles, His wife died in that city about two years ago, c afterward being transferred to f field. He is survived by a mother | and two children. SCHOOL CHILDREN WIN HALF-HOLIDAY BY GOING ON JAG BEND, Ore., April 4.—Pupils at | the Alfalfa public school, 20 miles |” east of here, enjoyed a half-holl- Monday, ive of the scholars, ranging in age from 12 to 16, appeared at the morning session carrying bot- tles of moonshine whisky. The bottles were passed around, and soon the boisterous conduct of the scholars became riotous, The teacher was forced to summon help to quell the disturbance and dismiss the class. One boy boasted that he was in- dependent of bootleggers as he was operating his own still, County School Superintendent Thompson is investigating in an I confessed to you long ago that 1 was in love with Mary Pickford of ish voice: “Yes, girls, it is really (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) endeavor to trace the source of the booze,