The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 8, 1922, Page 1

Seattle. attle. TEN ARE KILLED IN CYCLONES: The Star has the largest Tonight and strong Temperature Maximum, 47, ‘Teday VOLUME 24. NO. 37. PAGE DE. EINSTEIN: “Saturday the food sale to be held by the Anacortes Improvement club will be store oecupled by the | Dr. BE. J. Brown, mayoralty cand | date, mys he will sive $100 to get) Walter F. Meier to debate with him | at the Arena. We wouldn't listen to either one ot | them for $100. . about their circuia- toot | “Dan Landon says he will ‘paw up the earth’ In the mayoraity cam- paign.”—The Star. But not throw mud. vere) GOOFY ANSWERS “Why did Ruth Plumley murder her husband?” asks Cynthia Grey. Probably wanted to kill him. eee a has voted for = milder Vol- stead law. On! Mary land, my Maryland! ee Captain Amundsen’s proposed ra- dio messages from the North pole ‘wl stimulate interest in Arctic ex- eoration, but a lot of folks will in sist that he bring back part of the pole as proof. fs "ir GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE VAMP, SEZ: | The neck of the waist and the | hem of the skirt will now join in » “When Good Fea- Lenin says he'd like to know what America’s policy is toward Russia. Well, it im’t an endowment policy, Lenny. . ° No better test of love I know Than that young heart which throbs With love while his sweetheart doth | eat Sweet corn off the cobs. ee | “Be it ever so homely, there's no face like your own.”—The Talieman | (Ballard high school). 7° on, tin happened to Btiliman case? oe 8 The latest fad is the radio trans-| mission of a kiss from a sweetie to| her patootie. Some sparking! 1 one | “Death Blamed on City Counesl.”—Htar headline, Wel they've certainly tried their darnedest to kill Beat .s o- NO FAVORITES “Among the darn fools ran- ning for mayor, one is Mr. (Torn to Page 7, Column 4) WEATHER winds. lin the world. by the way, i - Sundey, rain; northwest Last 44 Hours Minimum, 34. neon, 43. Se bak Ge coat her i to succeed. phan ean new, invigorating where such an needed, the cl: hoed. HE most interesting and promising fact in Seattle’s pres- ent primary cam- paign is the way the women are rallying cause and The Star believes they are going Mrs. Landes ought to be elected. nnsalllie, Seigtful, intelligent, aagrie- sive, and she will focus, influence leaner, finer, mane standards of Seattle woman- The Star is whole-heartedly in favor of the nomination and elec- tion of Mrs. Landes. lieves a majority of Seattle men will join with practically all Seattle women in honoring her with this sarrier circulation of any newspaper in Seattle. “The Star has the largest mail list of any newspaper in Seattle. The Star has the largest suburban ahenlation of any newspaper in Star has the largest circulation lead any Seattle newspaper ever had. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise to the of _ Mrs. Henry Landes. They are def- initely and united- in the city council, to the city hall a force. She is busi- a spot is badly more hu- No Jazz Prisoners--But With a Classical | String By Hal ’ Armetrony When tomorrow you paune amazed by the wall under the women’s quar ters of the county jail, charmed by Beethoven's wonderful sonatas, | Lisat's rhapsodies and Chopin's noc |turnes played on a piano and wafted thre the grated windows, you will [know (for this story will tell you jwhat was done today by Count George Hay du Barry. Count George, of Seattle, te a de- seendant of the famous Comtesse The Star be- Child Morals Probe Arouses Spokane Ire SPOKANE, April 8.—Judge R. M. Webster of the juvenile court was severely criticised here today for call ing @ special grand jury to investi. gate high school morals. One newspaper has denounced dodge Webster as an “old fool.” Judge Webster ordered, because has come to my knowledge that there is a growing frequency ‘of cases of child delinquency and crimes affect ing the physical and moral welfare of children in this county.” Children are furnished Hquor and narcotics, Judge Webster said, in restaurants and roadhouses, and “many high school boys and girls are misbehaving and indulging in improprieties and misconduct about said schools.” ‘The Inland Empire Teachers’ asso oat | ciation took the matter up in annual convention yesterday and denounced | jazx music, scanty dress and modern | dancing. | “Sazz Is lewd to the paycholog- ton State college. “Modern danc- ing is the maximum of motion in the minimum of space.” Dr. C. P. Cary, former state super intendent of public instruction, sald: drug exists that furnishes the x stimulus dancing does.” Dr. Cary defined the modern | “flapper” as “a girt of the wealthy class who is idle, smokes, dresses in extremes, sleeps all day and stays out all night.” Dr. Enoch A. Bryan, commis. | sioner of education of Idaho, was (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) WOULD EJECT RUSS GENERAL | WASHINGTON, April 8 —Gen. Semenoff, Cossack anti-boishevik | chieftain, now out on ball in New York on charges of a fur importing firm, will be ejected from the coun. | try as a “murderer of American sol- diers and butcher of Innocent wom- en, men and children,” if plans made today by Senator Borah carry. IS 32 CENTS PROVED FORTUNE DENVER, ApriJ §.—John Carring- ton told police he had only 32 cents A search revealed 177 on his person. $25 In Cash Prizes SEE Page 12 \JUROR ADMITS TAKING BRIBE CHICAGO, April §.—Henry J. Smith, a juror in the trial of | Simon O'Donnell, former presi- dent of the Chicago Building Trades council ,on charges of ex- tortion, today confessed to state's attorneys that he received $1,000 for voting for acquittal, |LANDON FOR AUTOBUSES Outlying residence districts are en titled to autobus transportation. This was the high light of a speech |made by Dan Landon, mayoralty ean. |didate, at Mountain View in the |North Green Lake district Friday night. “The elty should not assume an jarbitrary position in |transportation question,” he said | James Tv. Lawler, president of the Tax Reduction council, spoke in hearty indorsement of Landon’s .an- |didacy: | handling the | In business he ts plain George H. du Barry, president of the Du Barry |Piano company, 1404 First ave. And lnow, the story— Yesterday the editor of The Star got « letter, It read: “Would it be presumptuous on our part to ask you to publish in your |enteemed paper a request for a piano for the girls at the King county Jail? “We «pend so many long and tedious hours here. Some of us are accomplished, and a piano would be highly appreciated.” ‘There was more to the letter, bat you probably read it Inst evening on |The Star's editorial page. Anyway Count du Barry did. And he sat down and wrote a let- ter to the editor himeeclf, He wrote it on the stationery of Count George Hay du Barry and Countess Jean én Barry — beautiful stationary with their names and their family crest, rampant lions and a castie, at the top ‘The letter eald: “The request for a plano by the unfortunate sisters in the county jail, as intimated in kind paper of this date, finds a vi bration on the music chords of my heart. “Allow me to offer these musical- ly-hungry souls the solace of music, and I will give them a sweet-toned plano, on the one condition that no the keyboard and themselves.” Were there women in the county jail who could play anything but jazz? The editor wondered. Prob ably not. Perhaps Count du Barry would give the plano anyway. A reporter went to see him about it. He would not. “When I sit down at my plano,” ho said, sincerely, “I am nearest then to God. It is the only time, I think, that I get very close to God, My | plano is not to be degraded. | * would not give something to jour sisters that would degrade them. I would not wish them to play ‘My | Beautiful Over Me.’ I would not give them my piano for that, would 1? No, Not for rough-and-tumble stuff! MANY GOOD SONGS, HE SAYS “But there are many good songs. I think they know them. If they will play them they will be unlifted and will like my plano and I will give it to them.” And they will get the plano, and Count du Barry's letter with it, and the editor was wrong when he pre sumed t * was no woman in the jail who plays anything but ja | because | “phere aln't nobody here that does play jaz said a rapturous voice Jover the telephone. “Nothing but jclassics go with us. There's several of us that plays classics, Will you tell that count that we thank him, all of us—we can't. thank him enough, tell him—even if he in a count. He's all right. He under. stands.” fo, now, you know. | Count Gives Instrument to jazz music will be allowed to curee| Doll’ and ‘They Go Wild! SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1922. Pi TWO CITIES WHICH Seager JAIL SPEEDERS CUT Mra. Elizanetn Cheney, Cleveland society woman, who was sentenced to tee days in the workhouse for vio- | friendships these two judges have re-| {fused to let off traffic ordinance of- fenders with small fines and suspend- od sentences. lating traffic law, MEIER REFUSES TO ADMIT PACT Declines to Discuss Backing of Matthews | THREE-CENT FARE WOULD LOSE IF UP TO 28 CANDIDATES If the fate of the Erickson 3% cent car fare bill, by the people tion, May 2, were left to the candidates to be voted on at the final elec. 28 for mayor and city counell it would be lost. ‘This conclusion is reached as result of a poll of the candi- the Voters’ Information league. Each candidate was asked how he stood on the Erickson measure. Three refused to answer. Elev- en were non-committal. Four. teen were emphatically opposed to the Scent fare. . dates by Backed by Rev, Mark A. Matthews’ pro-Jap Union League club and its reputed $50,000 campaign fund, Wal ter F. Meier, candidate for mayor, makes this answer to a question by the Voters’ Information league “I am not the candidate of any par ticular organization.” ‘The Voters’ Information league sent a questionnaire of 21 questions to all candidates for mayor and city jeouncil. The questionnaire with the answers of all but three council can didates, who refused to be bothered with it, is now off the press in folder form, It contains valuable Information for the voter and may be obtained at j the league's headquarters, 301 Haller | building. | ‘The three candidates who did not Janswer the questionnaire are Will- iam Hie! n Moore, T, H. Bolton and A. G, Barbour. ‘The league says jof them, “Possibly they think the | voters are not worth informing, or they may have no ideas to advance, or have decided they don't care whethe ALL y, | Low TAXES HERE In the questionnaire mayoralty aspirants pledge, if elect: ed, to work for reduction of taxes. Dr. E. J. Brown says he plans to “remove all grafters and those suf-| from | fering from sleeping sickness” the payroll. T. J. Cunningham says, “T have (Turn to Page ‘ 1 Column 5) the seven! The Seattle Star Bntered as Second Clase Matter May &, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879, Per Year, by Mail, $6 to $9 ACCIDENTS IN HALF GIVEN JAIL SENTENCE [Both Detroit ond! Cleveland Have Stern Judges BRING RESULTS ORKHOUSE _ sentences curb speeders and re- duce street accidents close to | 50 per cent. Experiences in Detroit and | Cleveland prove it, in cold statistics. Hoth cities are antomobdfie manv- facturing centers. -Both approximate @ million population. Both bave suf. fered @ rapidly mounting death and injured list from traffic accidents, It so happened that the traffic courts of Detroit and Cleveland were |at about the same time placed under \the jurisdiction of judges who be. Meved jail mentences were the proper doses for traffic ordinance offenders. Roth judges have courage. Irrespec- tive of pulls, personages, or personal “One of our motoreycle men, who | Judge Corlett, “caught only two speeders going more than 27 miles an hour last week.” | Women house terms the same as men. MONEY AND PRESTIGE | WON'T SAVE THEM | “It makes no difference to the vie- tim of an autoist whether the car is driven by a man or woman,” said Judge Corlett in sentencing Mrs. | Elizabeth Cheney, society woman, to | two days in the workhouse for driv- ing her electric autonbile past a street car as four passengers got off. Money and social prestien carry no Influence in the Detroit court either. It was Judge Bartlett who sent John Duval Dodge to the work- house for five days, where he washed dishes and shoveled coal. (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) SEATTLE PUBLIC NOT WORKING TO REDUCE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS “The Seattle public ts pot co- operating with our efforts to con- trol the alarming increase in auto deaths,” according to Lieut. C. G, Carr, head of the police traffic de- partment. “We are combatting the tn- creased recklessness by more revere sentences, and taking away the driver's license, Jail ts going to yawn for some persistent traf- fic violators. “Our department ts showing | creased efficiency, nevertheless. Traffic accidents during the first three months of 1922 are numbered at 1,884, as com- pared with 2,084 in 1921. Statig- ties on persons injured are as follows: 1922, 815; 1921, 272. Fatalities for 1922 total 18, as compared with five in 1921, Only two women have teen killed in auto accidents this year, | The last synopsis of the opening | chapters of “If Winter Comes” to be printed in The Star appears in this issue. If you have not commencedread- ing this great new novel, this is your chance. Turn to page 6 and start in. | usually has 40 arrests a week,” said | in Cleveland get work: | The S Star has the largest six-day circulation (by 15,000) of any newspaper in Seattle. The Star has the largest city circulation of any newspaper in The The Star has the largest street sales of any newspaper in TWO CENTS IN SEA’ a John Duval Dodge, Detroit million- |aire, who was sentented to five days in jail for speeding. JUDGE TO TELL KILLING STOR Oklahoman Will Testify at Inquest Today BY 1. E. CAYLOR OKLAHOMA CITY, April 8— Judge Jean P, Day, millionaire, was to tell the coroner’s jury to day how he killed Lieut. Col, Paul Ward Beck in defense of his home and his wife's honor. ‘The judge was to be the chief wit- ness at the coroner’s investigation, opening at 2 p. m. The story which the white-haired jurist will tell is the same as he re- peated many times since the killing. The main part of it follows: That « party of friends, of which the handsome army officer was a member, had spent the evening at |the judge's house. ‘That cards were played, but noth- Ing except near beer was had to drink. That the judge left to take other guests home, leaving Mrs. Day and Beck alone. That when he returned he saw Mrs, Day struggling with the guest of the | house, ‘That he went upstairs, got his re- volver and started to drive Beck from his home, That Beck clenched his fists and showed fight. That he etarted to hit Reck over the head with the revolver, and it! |exploded accidentally, killing the man, | “The Oklahoma code"—as old as | | the state—which say that a man may kill another in defense of his wife's ‘honor, will free Judge Day, a close friend stated today. | Forest Hughes, prosecuting attor. |ney, continued investigation into ‘what he termed “hidden angles” of the case. |, Hushes sald he did not believe that Pay had told the whole story of the killing. |. ‘The army board of inquiry probing | {the death of the “Chevalier of the Air Service,” arrived here shortly before noon with a dozen other Post field army officers and will attend | jthe inquest. — “Elijah” to Be Given |Again by Request | Seattle people have requested that “Elijah” be presented again Saturday | night, and the east and chorus of the pageantized oratorio have agreed. This will make it possible for more aa 20,000 people in all to see “Eli- ah.” Practically, all the seats will be sold at $1, reserved price seats being held onty in Section A and a smal! part!t of Section D. Tickets are on sale all t day Saturday, ares, t jand allowing a wall | sweep down on the c did not not been set. \Seventh Victim of crashed in midair with a Goliath pas: senger plane over Thieulloy, died in the hospital here today, seventh view _ on sattle. Vilage aS = >) SLOMt Feet Loss Will Be Clon ' to Million in Texas. the little village shortly night, Nineteen houses ished. . The storm struck Ta a m., after passing thru tl seuer st SA three persons were injured by a cyclone which g northwestern section Okla, Mrs. Robert Scants was kil two babies died from injuries, — Fifteen houses were 4 Fire broke out imn the twister. Forty houses were blown veg Texas, and the freig! he Katy railroad station tong by « high wind storm. | women were seriously injured, A report from Ballinger, | clared that six persons were ki Rowena. Ratenig Eg Ph sees, te d Ranger, ant “senor Oxia. eee RBALLINGER, Texas, Aprit least six persons are known o dead in a cyclone which struck Re ena today. Six residences molished. Heavy rains which ac the storm have held up reacue Many people have fled attired ¢ in their night clothing. ‘The dead are two children of Kavatil, a child of Joe Kouy pono ga white man and two - aaa WATERS MENAG ILLINOIS TOWN Volunteers Struggle to Pre- vent Disaster ; SPRINGFIELD, 11, freses Floods along the caused nearly half a mies Ga dol- lars damage today. The high water caused damage at Beardstown, where @ of the town was flooded. The there was estimated at $100,000, Scores of volunteers worked ishly thruout the night in an effort to prevent the levee from bi of water The stood at 22.1 feet early today, the [highest in years, but watchers bes _ lived the crest had been reachediaeay the city wa saved, Amundsen Off for Seattle Next Week Capt. Roald Amundsen, Arctic ex+ plorer, will leave New York for Se= attle next week, according te word received today by H. H. Hammer, | of the Universal Ship & Trading ~ Co., Amundsen's local agent, Amundsén's plane will fly a the continent, but Hammer said know whether it would piloted by the explorer himself, % The exact day for the start hag Plane Crash Dies PARIS, April 8—Piot Duke, of be British express plane which im of the most terrible accident in’ ‘he history of European civilian avila.