The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 10, 1922, Page 1

The Star has made a gain of 8,882 subscribers on EVERY week day (more than 40,000 readers) in the last year. This is an unprecedented record. It gives this newspaper a clear lead of MORE THAN 15,000 over the second most widely circulated Seattle paper and 20,000 over the third. Tonight and Tuesday, rain; fresh southwesterly winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 50. Today neon, 43. VOLUME 24. NO. 38, Howdy, folks! Ain't these “blue Mondays” heck? ee | Conan Doyle is in this country to; tell us of spirits. We dont mind} | prohibition, but we hate to have it! rubbed in. | eee | “Was the car crowded, dear? | “Crowded? Why, the men had | to stand ™ } eee } ‘The majority of candidates for city | q offices are opposed to Erickson’s three-cent carfare bill, says The Star.) Is this an argument for the Erickson | Lundy also declares that he will permit no liquor to be served at banquets. Ca q And hete wo haven't attended a banquet for over twovyears because 4 we considered them such dry affairs! | oe. Spokane is all het up over the con- dition of flappers’ morals. Why, biess ‘em, the little dears haven't any! oe | Spokane educator defines jam dancing as the “maximum of motion | in the minimum of space.” But George du Barry, who gives a piano to the girls in the city jail. says he doesn't want them to use it for jazz dancing! a YEAH: ‘The Star begins a contest to find out who were the 12 most foolish wives that ever lived. Married men will have a hard \Goethals Approves of Co- mm, 38, ‘BARS UNION FRO Workers Are Ordered Ejected From Homes! RAPD ARAR ADEA PDE DDE DDE PPP PDP On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Bntered as Second Clase Matter May 2, 1 At the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, Per Your, by Mall, $5 to 69 ES [Now—to Work! Gen. Goethals’ report places the Columbia Basin project on a new basis—a more concrete, understandable, attainable basis. The whole country now has the assurance of a real author. ity that the plan is feasible from both the economic and engineering standpoints. The question as between the Pend Oreille gravity method of irrigating the basin and the pumping scheme seems decisive ly answered in favor of the former. What should be done now is for the people of the whole state to get together on ways and means of carrying out the development. Spokane and Se- attle Chambers ef Commerce must forget thelr bickering In order TO WORK INTELLI- GENTLY AND HARD with the rest of the state to push this project to completion. It | is a six-year job and the sooner we get started on it the cartier will we be enjoying the im- mense advantages that will follow in its wake. Reclamation ‘SM Plan Is Held Practicable lumbia Basin Project OLYMPIA, Apri 10.—“The Cotumbis basin project ts a8 | much @ national one as were the Panama canal and the Alaska railway, and will, if completed, add much more to the national wealth than either, The work should be provided for rnd car- ried out as were these other two ARCTIC PLANE ON WAY iCapt. ‘Amundsen Starts on Flight From New York to Seattle NEW YORK, April 10—Capt. Roald Amundsen, Polar explorer, left here this morning in the JL. all-metal monoplane, for Cleve- land, on the first lap of his tramcontinental fight, ‘The route to be followed on the transcontinental flight is from here to Cleveland, Chicago, Oma- ha, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City and Reno, to Sacramento and the. At Geattie the explorer will reake tinal preparations for his fiveyenr drift across the ALLER NAVY PLAN ASSAILE ‘Sec. Roosevelt Condemns |*r.. arrivon, today 67,000 Limit BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Assistant Secretary of Navy (Copyright, 1922, by Seatt.c Star) WASHINGTON, April 10.— The naval bill as reported by the house appropriations committer, cripples our navy. It gives us only 67,000 men. We believe in the limitation and reduction of armament. We have proved the honesty of our belief by our accomplishments. The naval treaty just ratified by |the senate limite and reduces Our |thought an electric light fume had! Mrs. Alfred H. Brackett, were sum. COAL FIELD ti SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1922. Girl Chorister Dies From Shot Fired in Churc Bertha Miss Bertha Brackett Suc-| | cumbs After Sensation- ° al Scene at Service | By Hal Armstrong | Miss Bertha Brackett died in Minor hospital Monday morning from the effects of a bullet she fired into her breast while standing in the choir of the First Baptist ‘church at Harvard ave. and Seneca st., Saturday evening singing a hymn. | Fight years ago, it was learned today, Miss Brackett | | suffered a nervous breakdown and was for some time under | | the care of specialists in a private hospital. | | Last December she is said to have had a slight relapse, |but recovered quickly and had been in unusually happy | os lately_in spite of the breaking of her engagement to/ Brackett, Who Shot Herself To Death Loft Of The First Baptist Church During The Evening Service On Sunday. & young man now in the East. 4 | Sunday she went to church as usual with Miss Sallie Shelton, secretary of the Mountaineers’ club and sister-in- law of Prof. Joseph B. Harrison, a University of Washington instructor, living at 4742 11th ave. N. E. “She must have become suddenly ,selection and the congregation had | deranged,” sald Mins Shelton’s sister, |become calm, Dr. Bailey returned | “There was/and announced: | feertainly no reason for her act. She| ‘The sister is sick in mind. She in had been very happy recently, Wejonly slightly wounded and in compe had never seen her so happy ltent hands, We will proceed with the | With Miss Shelton, Miew Brackett | service.” went to their usual seats in the choir] He then went on with his sermon, | jloft land the congregation, when he had| | Dr. Ambrose M. Bailey, pastor, had | finished, went almost directly out, | said a prayer and read from the |s#topping but a moment in the vesti- | | Seripture, and announced Handel's bules to comment upon Miss Brack |hymn, “Christmas.” He had not yet |ett's act | begun his evening sermon on the| Meanwhile, Dr. J. W. Thomas, | |topic, “Moral Resurrections.” | physician and surgeon and an usher | “A crowd of witnesses around hold /in the church, hed burried to the thee in full Mixes Brackett room where the girl had collapsed | sang. It was the last line of a verse. |and ordered her rushed at once to! |Aa the organ pealed the postiude &) Minor hospital, nearby muffled shot was heard. Some| Miss Brackett's parents, To Do,” Was The Onl, Explanation That She Offered. Mr. and time deciding who the ether 11 national projecte—By direct ap- [navy and establishes a fixed basis | popped out. Mint Brackett sank|moned from their home at 2005 N.| poe propriations. j for all nations concerned a ratio of imply into her seat. | Broadway, and at the hospital join. 9 ae This is the recommendation of Gen. | 5-5-2 between Great Britain, the| she stood up quickly. Alferd Board-| eq Dr y and many others (A O one S a Fifteen shots from @ bootlegger’s| George W. Goethals, who, after an| United States and Japan, respect-| man, 314 W. Galer st, standing next | trom the church and choir in the chant | extensive «urvey, declares the Colum. |!v¥ely to her, ansisted her to the door of! hospital waiting room, while Dr Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum; | bia basin project feasible from both| We believe in peace lanother room, followed by Mist Doro-|-phomax probed for the bullet 9 gS ay e ering and an economic If our belief ix to be more than idle » nock, daughter of City En. 2 Drink and you're blind or laid to|an engineering a “ try Dimm «' ¥ It was a 38caliber miaste and had cad dpoint. He favdres the Pend |thought, we must maintain the navy | gineer A. H. Dimmock lcieined Mien’ Menahetita ‘henst. 3 Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum. | Oreille gravity plan, setting the cost | agreed to as just and equitaie in the 1 am all right," Miss Brackett! io4 entered near the fifth rib and EO ae at $145.56 an acre, or $26.14 less than | last conference of the nations insisted. “It was quite the right) wiped the left lung. Ite re 1 “Civil War Injury Proves Fatal,” | original estimates. This year Wngiand will have 104,-| thing ‘to do.” |was extremely painful and the eries| By Robert B. Bermann , ?¢rfectly good night at one of says @ headline in the Jersey City! He explained that he recom. | 900 men wage Pg The Japanow®| Dr. Bailey teft the rostrum hastily. o¢ the victim were plainly to be|“When you get toa man in the case,| re, *enderioin's most notorious Journal, telling of the death of a| mended the gravity instead of [W!!! have 68,000 men. Under this /and the church was in confusion. but! near in the room where Dr. Balley| They're lke as a row ay ine +] cabarets, 85 | the pumping plan because it de- | ill. we will have but 67,000 men ly momentarily, What might have | . é age f Hell,” she murmured in a : man of 85. naan este vf “5 . “land the others waited. For the Colonet’s Lady and Judy! jast a op) bag y eee | velops the greatest screage— Ship ithout men amcunt to! peen a panic was averted by Mra. B./"™ 11° ot out, the patient | Oaredy last, dying gasp. here wasn't Cordell Hull, national chairman of fee seven, ae againat 1403, |nothing. If this bill Is passed, there |x, Hoardman, the director of the). 4 ints unconsciousness and| Are elsters under their skine.” nuthin er me ter do,” the democratic party, is coming to| 00; construction cost ty lower; fore, it cuts the naval ratio between | choir, who urged her singers to con- aed than und te the Seakchare toad ' olathe Bpokane. He would come to Seattle! operating cost is lower; it is xim- the countries to about 2 78 and 5/tinue with the song. lites Miatiate's conditiia wan veed So one Rudyard Kipling Bertha Brackett was born to but they can't find enough democrats| pler and more reliable, and it | 4nd 3 with the United States on the) geverai verses were sung, and| Miss Mracketts condltx ‘eat ry] philosophized a number of years an entirely different world from to form a reception committee. does away with the necessity for <i ans lwhen the man soloist had finished | cane ’ ui ““Y! ago in one of his typically ome 8. - ane |» treaty. The United States, under the — se cynical verses. he daughter of culture, well ‘The last democrat In addition to the 1,753,000 acres |treaty, has 18 battleships that she I, Thruout the night nurses had been But it remained for a gently todo parents, she had what is In Seattle was Steve that will be irrigated by direct flow | ™may retain. Under this bil' ehe can 4 I T. k busy answering telephone calls and! pr0q s5.year-old Seattle ¢1 commonly referred to as “every 0 “ rndbteoraaaingaane . ed, 25-year-old Sea girl to 4 under the gravity plan, 91,000 acres | keep only 13 in full commission, She 1ano Is aren ee ey Ag learn Miss! Gemonstrate the point. advantage may be reached by a pumping lift of | has to put five in ordinary with only yn eters eng ‘gee os ee She went thru high school and less than 150 feet, and 137,000 acres|200 men on board. A battleship . Pne attempted. it is said, to fire a : . the University of Washington, ° second bullet after the 5 Flossie O™ > : The city streets department put In| by a slightly higher lift, Goethals | without a crew is not a battleship | to al omen nd bullet after the first. Several Flossie O'Mara—or Judy Bhe a t> an. exclusive ’ 2 | | > people in the choir and in the congre.| O'Grady, if you will; it makes no bayer 65 miles of roads in 1921. The steam | says. at all. It is @ naval relic. 4 difference—was a child of th girls’ sorority and moved in the lier in politics? | WOULD PREVENT The battleship alone is not the gation say they distinctly heard, aaa A aie best circles of society, both on oT . wg | 7 | after the first shot, the click of the| Slums. 2:2. = {FARMER EXPLOITATION navy. With it must go the neces nmates fa | . the campus and in town, SPRING SONG |” Goethals urged Washington state|*fY complement of smaller shi | hammer on an empty chamber of the Her earitest reco Mections were When the tmlhad Uiieee the The sun ix showing shines of spring,|/Cor'nis Mirca to prevent explolta., Without these smaller ships the bat-| Just as Count du Barry prom-| revolver pe he pe rageeatl norte er wees: Senet The bards are showing signs of sing; | 0° Cr (he farmer should the project|tleship Ix helpless, With only 67,000} ised, at 8 o'clock Saturday evening,| ‘This was confirmed when the gun| Muiilieu Bhd Rint y aed cause she needed the money, but Unless the buds are quick to burst, | ried thru men we have to lay up hundreds of|a truck backed up to the big door} (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) wiabshtnernar of tite edhe merely to give her something The potes will all be popping first. ‘The report, a voluminous document | thousands of tons of our auxiliary | of the county jail and a piano was| A al p to do ee) 5 raft | hittes r ed up the a | waht Sh o : larly, iach ideas’ puotataes ta MOtee ©? 20 Sopaventne panes wot) NT, 1. oy:sge as ih ont kong| ie ndens ‘iclo the wendhn's. Qual |, Flossie went to school when- | and sang in the choir of one of ndre e's * | thoroly into every aspect of the situ, ith but 67 e" Ping stairs into the wome | * ever. the truant officer managed 7 7 - teaching in a New York university ation, all of it leading up to the state. | bUt 703,952 tons of combatent ships | ters | $25 in | to baton taoes” ae egal i tor the most fashionable places of for $50 « week. He can afford to. | ons: # + glee finsland Keeps | qhe 18 women inmates, who had Cash Prizes day, that wasn't often. bake ogy Ala ee ale ok hia TAOS See “In my judgment the project (eee ine uy for service, aNd) written ‘The Star that day saying as ze. But she acquired plenty of sp aden Raed eae Five paydays, Apri : is feasible, not alone from the |Janan 689-456 tons, they were sadly in need of music knowledge of sorts and was | @% stan test Steniie tin Troe days Brnpne one standpoint of construction, but nace the treaty we are allotted | 1, cheer their lonely hours, today The Star offers $15 thoroly able to take care of her. inet. A Mano Musee Sian, Good! But Easter’s aftermath from that of economics as well.” | 4 DAvy equal to that of Great Britain, ‘The Star this letter | 4 A r ° ca ny Gee thie Wer tether eave but Muggsy’s counterpart on a Dwindles one away! | ‘The project, he says, could not be| nd 40 per cent greater than that{ sent The Sta te beaeeitel, ‘Gee first prize, $5 second es Heh agen payne different social plane. wt x |tinanced thru bankers, who loan on | 0f Japan. Should this bill become «| Phin Al caged ize, $1 each for next car and a geal Then into her life came Love— VICE we e is the e|law this relationship would b ah ry ay ;, “ ‘ A and Unhappiness. GEE GEE, TH OFFICE | [existing securities, nor is (ie wit | destroyed and we would he siaced In| Words fail to express our grath | for the best 100- It is best, possibly, not to As long as the two emotions VAM! bio SP aadat, Gaethals therefore] ® » inferior to both of them.| tide, We had a lovely concert word letters telling of a || ponte fs Meeipcsinig 5 od worked side by side, she got r ay not be | /eral sove sorngen " The departme ove oat vening in our audi- ataar Ke eB | | of making a living; suffice to say | ap in iad . comp! y des, should handle it Th artment has asked for 96,-| Saturday ¢ K Pig se satisfactory transaction that she was a Social Problem of | Ons very well—for, as it has ° “Tho located in the state of {000 men. This ix the minimum num-| torium, ® program pe from the standpoint of etal Pr teen remarked before, sinhaprl: 7 ber necessary at this time to man! #nd classics, but no jazz, The 4 | the deepest.dyed variety. ness is a natural state, if prop. ge a ng c ar fleet. With only 67,000 me a teal tone of the piano is simply service and profit made In spite of this she was quite erly blended : ? id i sone hoseordphe péowlve ty Aas _ + ORE . , vartia Dp! J one da 6 Lapeangrage e PS Hi oe o confined |naval ratio is broken marvelous, thru’ any advertisement esr bn Nt ae ed But one day Love departed on erybody ought to eat corn, says| the srsieet gi nye at aii | We are put in « position inferk owe have tramed and bung thei! {1 ‘The Star | one Muggsy Flynn, Then into buy Sines cli 25 ert or other, Tel o Ty| thereto but will extend to all | 6 pt a position infertor 6 ha med a u Star, er - salen ae el—and Un- rt or other, Tell it to Ty |to Great Britain and lietter from the Count and Countess | her. lite came Love—and Un: happiness reigned undisputed in Cobb, Don Vickers, coach A Trained Car of the Crystal swimming team, has a car which, he » does a craw! | down Becond ave y evening dur- | Pe 1% the rush hour a “ee OTTA PASS, LEO?” | Six months of the year the sport ing ed's name is mud around the office, but when the baseball season | starts the boys all tell him how good his stuff is. parts of the United States, Thru In The Choir | “Tt Was The | RULING Mine Worke Tent Colonies it South Ordere Away CHARLESTO Ww. April 10.—One of the drastic injunctions against t bor in recent years was sued by Federal Judge Clintick here today. The temporary rest order prevents all further tempts of United Mine ¥ ers of America to on filed last October, : with a petition to Judge A: the federal district of ana, | abolish the check.off. Judge Ande son's decision against the has never become effective, The temporary injunction w granted to maintain order in nonunion field during the : coal strike, Judge McClintic The tent colonies in Mingo have housed striking miners as | their families for more than @ The miners were ejected from pany-owned homes when they the union. court - plication of the Borderland Coal Co , om, y PLANS TO COALS INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April | Attorney General Harry M. D erty invaded the center of activities in the nation-wide | Strike today, presumably to take | government's first concrete | toward ending the suspension, The attorney general was stood to be preparing a moti quash the government's ¢ charges against 226 coal mine ers and union officials ret a federal grand jury here un Sherman antitrust law ia spring of 1920. Many operators in refusing to a ter interstate wage ni ti } with union representatives, gave | their reason the pending * which were aimed at collective gaining practiced in the wage conferences. They declared the ture of the indictments prohibited” such conferences as provided by the scale expiring April 1, Prosecution of the case has been delayed while ators and union officers living outs |side Indiana fought legal pi 2: ings seeking to remove them to the | jurisdiction of Judge A. B. Ander son's court here. ASK CANDIDATES ABOUT UTILITIES Self-Supporting Kind Are Favored by Eight Candidates for the city council jhave been polled by the Voters’ Im _ formation league, 301 Haller building, on the question: “Do you believe utilities publicly owned should be self-supporting?” Three candidates, William Hick- |man Moore, ‘T, Harry Bolton and @ |H. Barbour, did not answer, it pace will be kept with the | Our power of defense ix crippled, |du Barry Their philanthropic The period to be cov- || ier oy oe Pgh at A PRE Bertha's heart Right answered “Yes.” ever-increasing demand for food- | Our influence for ~eacw and justice | spirit will be rewarded in their own|| ered is April 1st to 15th || ea side by mide che got alone” Whereat Bertha acquired are. | One, George W. Parker, rept stuffs of all kinds, which will | is limited, and we are relegated to a| happiness, as it more blessed to inclusive ‘end’ . letters Sie water, biter an By ord volver and spoiled a_ perfectly Not necessarily Be furnish increased business for all | secondary position | give than to receive, You may feel ‘ etvers ' Be: . good service at the church where The remaining nine gave various (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) | ‘To limit the personnet of our navy| assured we will take good care of|}/ Must be in by April || ait Mm 2. ee state, if she was a choir singer. answers, as follows: 7 ae % |to 67,000 men would be ® national) our prize, for we were like little 20th. ae _ : ‘ “Tt was the only thing to do,” Alexander J. Allen—Yes, but not ity , vaiting aS Ge Cay Te: Gapar ted om she murmured in a last dying /Self-purchasing, calami children on Christmas eve, waiting | : | the ‘wings of a‘ quarrel over & ying ¥D i * 2 , i ~ lf, 1 Santa Claus. | Get busy. Address |} ‘i gasp. D, Hayden—Yes, but they should THIS 18 FOR JACK LELAND ‘ ol edges died I : 5 bindle of snow—and Unhappl not be expected to pay for them: dack Leland, ‘your father Is APRIL 16-22 has been set aside by| “Our thanks and well wishe ette: to. Ad-Reading- | ness reigned undisputed in |“When you get toa man in the case,|selves in an unreasonably short dead, Western Union main office ||President Harding ag Forest Protec. | happiness and prosperity are i\| Pays Editor, Seattle Wioele’e Gee Pasatre. the a2.0-veuratibuen: ron is holding a message about it for ||tion week, while April 22 has been| mous to the wonderful paper | Star. Whereat e acquired a |For the Colonel's Lady and Judy M. G. Johanson — Some, such as you. designated as the golden celebration |The Star and to Count and Countess | | bottle of corr poison and O'Grady water and light, should be selfs of Arbor day. |du Barry.” ' 4 swallowed it, thereby spoiling a Are sisters under their skins.” (Turn to Page 7, Column 4)