The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 7, 1922, Page 1

Vv THE STAR IS ELECTED SEATTLE’S MOST POPULAR NEWSPAPER BY 15,000 PLURALITY | Passenger Airships Fall Flaming to Earth After Collision On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Bntered as Second Clase Matter May 8, 1809, at the Postoffice at Seattia, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 8, 1579. Per Tear, by Mail, 5 to 69 Tonight and Saturday, rain; fresh southwest ‘twoinds. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 61, -Minimum, 46. Teday noon, 46. i i LEA2 rif g 3 §& srz 4 i i & = Lf If we remember aright, eee Henry D. Hall, Union league @idate for the council, used to our comrade be has And the secret? fs not rel to the famous @f pigeons of that name, The rookie made a clever hit, — And then a groan was heard. His teammates nearly threw a fit Because he ran to third. . ° years! paint would show. Mayor Caldwell will throw the first |“". naton Dall at the opening game here. The spouse. oe I did thin,” ‘This fellow Sabre in “It Winter Comes” ia some little eut-up. oe Mrs. Kathryn Miracle, council can- 1 himeelf, @idate, says she is paying her a expenses out of her own pock- -rogighs this is so, she is the first woman we ever met who had a pock- et or kept her money in it. eee There was an old man in Wenatchee | weit, Whose methods of business were anatchy; Te gobbled the crop Till they formed a co-op, Mut now all his schemelets don’t hatchy. eee hire eel National Baby week ts May 1-6. All mothers will ha’ J babies this week, if convenient -___4 | Commissioners really wants to get elected we sug- | sioners gest the slogan: A strip “NO BEER, NO WORK! * The new police manual forbids Se- | estimated at $5,000. attle coppers from smoking, cussing,| ‘This lafiding area chewing gum and shooting craps lable for Won’t Reveal His Secret Process for Duplicating “Qld Masters” also the tax. Te BY ROY GIBBONS keep ite record tt sheald ~ ie te at pee CHICAGO, April -1.--Climb four Fickety flights of stairs to a garret studio perched at the top of one of the most ramshackle buildings of Chicago's Latin quarter and you'll And a $1,000,000. secrett The artixt is Theodore Van Cina— | and he's a chemist as well. The parrot is Balboa, his chum. That's a process of making over. night duplicates of old masters, so) | [perfect that the most discerning ex-| pert cannot see a flaw. Van Cina is the only living person | who knows the secret, he says. And he has just turned down a} $1,000,000 offer from the representa- tive of « European art gallery. He'll _jcarry the secret with him to the grave, if he dies in poverty, he de- use,” says Van Cina, “I am not a trickster. To commercialize old masters would be like rising up and} striking my own mother. become a plagiarist.” At noon today Van Cina could/ paint a reproduction of a Raphael, / Van Dyke or Rembrandt. morrow morning by a chemical pro- cess he could age the picture 500/ His duplicate would be so/ accurate that even the cracks in the Van Cina, a Hollander, stumbled | on his secret while studying art at| The Hague 30 years ago. | noble took Van Cina un \der hin patronage and brought him mayor has had practice throwing. vera) original old masters which many things, including the cow * jhe asked Van Cina to copy minutely ’ says Van Cina, “until | I learned that my patron had been | borrowing these masterpieces from jhis friends and returning my coples to them while keeping the originals | “When I threatened exposure, my patron committed suicide.” Van Cina has done decorative work for the queen4nother of Holland. He old masters for his friends or him- AVIATION FIELD WILL BE BUILT For the mayoralty candidate who| morning by the county commis | 614 pea 500 feet wide and onoe-| half mile long straightaway from the water, will be graded, at a cont| inspection of all elevators at least : but the council has} will be avail-| ignored ng the government air-| t Theodore Van Cina, sole owner of @ $1,000,000 art secret. Left, Van Cina at work on an old master re- Production. Below, one of Van Cina’s reproductions. Walter F. Meier, who is sel’s office two years ago for prosecuting attorney, | I shall not | Before to- job-hunter. hypocrisy. Meier Insincere: (EDITORIAL) mayor, stands before the people today as an insincere official, an insincere candidate, When one of his deputies in the corporation coun- the plan unless the deputy resigned. In taking that attitude Meier ‘was right. The deputy was obliged either to give up his ambition or to step-out of the office he then was holding. Now Meier, a candidate for mayor, refuses to resign as corporation counsel while he seeks the higher position. He adopts exactly the contrary course to that he insisted his deputy take. He was right in the first instance: wrong now. And he knows he is wrong. But he is willing to sacrifice his convictions in order to insure himself a political job. That is why he stands before the people branded not only as a job-hunter but as an insincere His is insincerity of a sort that is closely akin to SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1922. WEAVER OF WOOL WANTED TO MAKE WAYFARER ROBES ‘Weavers, in a Weaver with a loom. If you can qualify, notify F. W. Strang, of Strang & Prosser in the Empire building. asking Seattle to elect him planned to be a candidate Meier refused to sanction He did the former. | No Inspection Appropriation for Two Years Failure of the city council to comply with a state law Is di- rectly responsible for the death of Herbert Pratt and a dozen other victims of etevator acck Authorize ye ig i dents, according to officials Fri- “WHERE'S THAT SLIPPER?” Work at Sand Point day. Mr. Homer Brew: “What a boy you as pn . iy ade re for asking questions. Td itke to | ‘The ‘council hag steadfastly Sow would have happened if 1'a| Immediate construction Of ®/ ised to grant an appropriation for ‘many ‘questions when I wasilanding area on the Sand Point) wevator inapection here, altho the om | avia | o ready for use " - . 70 emer Brot, Jr.i Mayes vows |sViation field to be ready for M0) necessity of adequate supervision have been able to ankwer some of mine.” |by the middle May § |has been brought home again and . lof June was authorized Friday) eain by horrible accidenta. | By CITY C The state jaw requires a thoro Jonce a year, the statute and permitted he operation of elevators with y . ractically no supervision, But it doesn’t say anything about | planes built by the Boeing | P | , Sostionsing ‘Airp! and will also furnish| James EB. Blackwell, superintend- f oe a muitable field for the plane of|ent of the city building department, : BUILD SOMETHING Capt ald Amundsen, who will] has been fighting for two years for | neat radio receiving set ea | take airplanes on bis coming voy-| funds with which to hire inspectors. eattz, Me ooeetroeted 7 ateriat, [see to the Far North GAVE WARNING one ure IN LETTER "Huge Sum Sought tor Wor Ba- con” announces a Star headline. Humph! Sinews of war, eh? film | produced to date, New motor developed by a French the smallest bicycle engine | well and the elty council recently, he In a letter addressed to Mayor Cald. gave full warning of the dangers of O'LEARY SLAYER TO FACE CHARGE Will Be Tried for Carrying Concealed Weapons Upon affidavit of William Short, president of the State Federation of Labor, a complaint charging carry- ing concealed weapons was filed against Frank Leslie Friday before Justice of the Peace C. C. Dalton, A | warrant was issued for Leslie's ar- rest. | It was a gun in the hands of Leste |that Killed Johnny O'Leery, well jknown Seattle boxer, on March 10, after, it is claimed, O'Leary attacked | Leslie and struck him on the head, The trouble is said to have arisen over the fact that Leslie was work- ing in a shop where union labor had declared a walkout The witnesses are John D. Car- | mody, deputy prosecuting attorney; |Goroner W. H. Corson and William | Bethel. Bethel was charged some time ago with abetting an assault, |allowing “death-trap” elevators to op: erate. “Three times I have tried to get an appropriation out of the council for this important work,” he said, “Rut so far Oliver T. Erickson is the only | councilman who has come out in fa- vor of an appropriation for elevator lMnspection.” “Whether or not the deceased shot from the front or the back fa one of the greatest questions in- volved in thi case, The X-ray would jtend to indicate that Beck was not looking at Judge Day at the time of the firing of the fatal shot. 4. “Another important matter I think has been entirely overlooked is the proposition of a handkerchief being found in the clinched hand of Paul Beck, What had Beck been doing with this handkerchief tmme- diately before the gun was dis. charged? 5. “Previous'to the shooting Day and Beck had been very good friends. What = extraordinary —_ occurrence changed the mental condition of one towards the other? TWO QUESTIONS; K IMPORTANT yhat caused Mrs. Day, after ooting, to moan, ‘Oh, my Hughes declared the questions of the handkerchief and the alleged Column 3) Taft Attacked for Dining Out So Much WASHINGTON, April 7.—Chief Justice Taft was sharply criticized in the senate today by Senator Norris, Nebraska, for “hobnobbing” at too many social functions with the “idle rich.” No man, Norris said, “can etick his legs under the tables of the idle rich every night” and be fit to sit in judgment the next day on those who toll, Social activities here are seri- ously affecting public business, he asserted. Today’s Star is Chockful of Seattle's best merchandising of- fers for Saturday— Grote Rankin Co., page 3. MacDougall Southwick, page 4, Grunbaum Bros., page 5. The Rhodes Co. page 5. Spelger & Hurlbut, page 5. Frederick & Nelson, page 7, Boston Shoe Co., page 8. Gatelys, page 8. Eastern Outfitting Co., page 9. Colegrove's Restaurants, page 10. Bon Marche, page 12. Ernst Hardware, page 13. Lundquist-Lilly, page 13. Cheasty’s, page 14, Markets, pages 16, 17, 18, 19, Baseball Special, page 20. Fahey-Brockman, page 24. Don't forget The Star's $25 cash contest for the best letters on the value of reading Star ads. Do tails on page 7. aera hurchmen, Where Do You Stand? (EDITORIAL) Some gentleman in the Seattle Federation of Churches has brought about the adoption of a resolution which, in a vague and roundabout manner, condemns The Star without naming this paper, for its policy in Japanese matters. The resolution does this by the unfair expedi- ent of classing The Star with some other news- papers to which it is in no manner related and with whose policies it often diametrically differs, and voicing a blanket condemnation of all. (For the full text of the resolution see news story on page 2.) For the benefit of the crooked-thinking gentle- man who wrote the resolution, whoever he is, and to keep the record straight in this Japanese ques- pe The Star is going to summarize briefly its nd: The Star regards with deep concern the contin- uing influx and aggression of endo < og 9a this Coast. The Star favors any honorable Amer- ican course that will halt that in its U ‘ a 2 . The Star will do éverything in its power to the-mnuggling of Poms oct into. the United States, to prevent gross violation of the “gentlemen’s ree to make the “picture bride” scandal forever a thing of the past. The Star is whole-heartedly and outspokenly against the intermarriage of Japs with Ameri- cans, as pro} by Viscount Shibusawa in Se- attle last fall and as advocated by other Jap lead- ers. Such a program would mean giving our white women over to Jap men for breeding pur- poses solely, and The Star is against such a hide- ous proposal now and forever. The Star frankly regards as a national menace a situation in which Jap children born in this country become automatically American citizens, with full American rights, and yet at the same time retain their allegiance to the emperor of Japan. The Star is going to voice its disapproval of this condition as long as it maintains, and urge steps that would make its continuance impos- sible. Yet, while The Star, for these and other rea- sons, feels that the Japanese problem on this Coast contains elements more dangerous to future American safety than does the negro Ss in the South, The Star holds no personal hostility to ro Japanese resident, and while a Jap is a law- ful resident of this Coast will go the limit to pro- tect him in his personal rights against any un- just attack—exactly as we would any other indi- vidual. The treaties that have come out of the Wash- ington conference have received the earnest in- dorsement of The Star. The Star applauded the calling of the conference, hailed Secretary Hughes’ proposals with unadulterated approval, has spoken consistently and often in favor of the treaties, and has advised the Washington sena- tors to vote for their ratification. We did this, con- vinced that the treaties would do much to lessen SEEKING VAST {contraband opium, valued at $2,400,- the danger of war in the Pacific and would re- move many causes of irritation between the two countries. That, in brief, is where The Star stands as re- gards Japan and the Japs. If the Seattle Federa- tion of Churches, or any member of the federa- tion, differs with that program, it or he is wel- come to differ. The Japanese question is one of major importance to the people of this Coast and this nation—yes, and to the peace and security of the civilized world. The Star has discussed, and will continue to discuss it, without passion or mal- ice, or jingoistic spirit—but fearlessly and can- didly. Seattle churchmen, are you with us or against us in that stand? See SIX KILLED IN PLANE CRASH! Home il TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ~ OPIUM HOARD NEW YORK, April 7.--Hocrds of made. 000, involved in a huge drug smuggling conspiracy, was sought opium valued at $600 a pound, : here today by federal authorities, fol- lowing raids last night in which ar. rests of suspected dope sellers were Men already in custody are sus- pected of being members of a firm which imported 4,000 pounds of gum that the accident That the should pass close enough to within striking distance would most unusual event, but for # to collide was described as virtt impossible. So far’ as is known, only two nesses to the tragedy in the which left no survivors, French villagers, who saw the planes crash and fall flaming the ground. The airplanes ‘were of the closed type and the passengers wel trapped, with no chance to use Parachutes. ie The service was noted for its Mability and safety. In the o of a single express plane near don two years ago, Owen an American actor, was hurt, but a case of airplanes liding in midair has not been to this service, BALK ON NAM MAN FOR CHIEF Mayoralty Candidates Are Reluctant on Police Ira D. Landy, one of the candidates for nomination for mayor, suggested that The Star today poll the mayoralty aspirants, asking each who, if elected, he may appoint as chief of police. Lundy intimated that he consid: ered this one of the important issues in the campaign, inasmuch as the mayor only can appoint the chief and, thru him, is held respon. sible for the city’s morals and ad ministration of its laws. To Lundy's suggestion Candidate — Dan Landon laconically replied: ” “Among the darn fools rum — ning for mayor, one is Mr, Lundy.” Landon added that he could not at this time name his choice for chief because his mind on that) 7] point was not made up. Walter F. Meier said he had made no promises or any deter mination on the matter, z “When I go into the mayor's of fice,” he said, “it will be with a free hand to appoint any man chief I think will be on the job.” UP TO MATTHEWS, IS RUMOR ON STREET It is being rumored in political | corners, however, that Meler, | a elected, will retain Chief Willlam H. Searing, if Rey, Dr. M, Matthews intorses the retention, Maj. Thomas J. Cunningham, en< dorsee of the Bolo club for mayor, _ is said by some of his opponents to be showing some favoritism towards Louis F. Lang, former — chief and Bolo brother, but Cun: ningham denied emphatically that he had promised any man the job. “If Mr. Lundy wants to’ tle him. (Turn to Page 16, Column @ A