The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 11, 1922, Page 1

he Crick, t of rma mark, TUT burg 2 Tonight and Vv grow; Maximum, 45, VOLUME 24. NO. 39. The city treasury has a cash bal- ance of $11,357,534, but they'd better dates take office. eee Ethel Barrymore is here this owe in a play called “Declasne.” don't mind writing it, but we pi hate to have to pron . getting so that a person is al- most afraid wear a union sui these days, Rest Ae Polar explorer, is flying New York to Seattle. | On WEATHER fresh westerly voinds Temperature Last 24 Hours Today noon, 43. Wednesday, rain or Minimum, 88, Seattle’s Favorite Newspaper by 15,000 Circulation The Seattle Star | Batered as Hecond Class Matter May 4, = Peooy Davia at left and Ellen Me- Intyre Grafton at right. :|Three Women Say = | He Rushed Them, ; to the Altar | NEW YORK, April 11~Courtattp | |bas been reduced to the art of sales {ficiency by Joseph Donald Grafton, Taking the overland route, as it/according to three women who say 5 were. |he rushed them after whirlwind woo- < see [ings to the marriage: license: office. a ua DREN UNRORE 4 sf ‘The New York grand jury haa been ‘4 ager Fame Prog 4 ray hearing bigamy charges against $ ene etree em ses has becn Grafton. The witnesses against him ‘ made which authorizes them to wear are Mra, Ellen McIntyre Grafton, ;: trousers off duty."—Army and who says he deserted her on their ¢ areata: a ee |honeymoon to marry Mrs. Mary Mar 3 A contrib proposes that the mayor |4Fet Laird Grafton, whose stage| 4 and counetionen be choren by lot in-/“"@ screen name is Peggy Davis. stead of by ballot. Under that sys-|_ “He was a super-salesman of bim- tem 2 good man might have a/ lf a# & husband,” says Pessy eee eee | “Be certainty had love sales effi. Be that as it may, jeleney reduced to a science,” says AL ¥. Flesh in in the Mrs. Ellen McIntyre Grafton. 4 vaderwear | business | The first wife says she had been a see Spokane educators may that the modern flapper is worse than the girl of last century. The modern girl is no worse, only faster. Traneporta- tion has improved a lot in the last | century. cee “If Winter Comes—”" Well, what if it does? cee LITERARY NOTE Is Corporation Counsel Walter F. Meier the author of the novel, “To Have and To Hold”? ores TROUBLE AFOOT Says the shoe to the stocking, “I'll rub a hole in you.” Says the stocking to the shoe, I'l be darned if you do.” -* And now we are told that there is/ a big kick im the jfulee of sauer- kraut, but this may be only German propaganda. eee That big vote of confidence ten-| dered to Lioyd George does not en-| | Landon Baker, Chicago’ heiress, bade | title him to be called a confidence man. mandits here steal a boat-load (Turn to Page i, Column 2) Tariff Bill The detailed ctory of the new tariff bill, réported out in the senate today, will be found on Page 10, It will be of interest to every busi- ness man. in a furniture bookkeeper owned by Grafton’s brother in Pitts- burg. She recounts that Grafton in duced her to break an engagement | |to a childhood chum and married her jlast November 23 at Youngstown. They came to New York and— Let Peggy Davis continue the jstory: “I met Mr. Grafton when I was making movies in Florida, encountered each other in my board- ing house. He called all his sales |aclence to his aid and before I knew it—~in seven days after we had met I was completely sold on him.” The two women met, compared {marriage licenses, then caused the grand jury investigation. Meanwhile a third woman, living in Pittsburg, says Grafton had gone 20 far as to get a leense to marry | ‘her, also after sales efficiency court- | ship. MARY ON WAY TO MARRIAGE NEW YORK, April 11—Mary | farewell to America today. | ‘The girl who left Allister McCor. | mick waiting at the church in Chi. |cago, left the Ritz with 63 pleces of luggage and two maids and boarded the Aquitania, | “Tell the world I'll marry Allister, | the dearest man I know, in June,” | she said. Miss Baker plans a visit to Paris, after which she will join her fiancee }in England and nis wife, COMPLAINING that a buyer was | Joseph Donala érafton and two use it up before the winning candi. | omen who claim to be his wives— store | We) 1899, at the Postoftice at Beattie, WALL OF WATER HITS TOWN! Wash, under the Act of Congress March #, 1979, Per Year, by Mall, $6 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1922. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE DOES THE HONEYMOON LAST? WIVES, HOW'D YOU ACCOMPLISH IT? In it pomsibie for a wife to hold her husband's love as completely as she did in the sweetheart days? If you ‘think you are a success ful wife, if your husband really loves you as in the days before marriage, write Cynthia Orey what your recipe is, How have you managed to keep alive the sweetheart love thru wedded days? For the best answers to this problem ,The Star will give ag prizes ‘free tickets to the Metro. politan theater for the perform- ance of <The Unloved . Wife,” ‘coming do, that theater for a five- day epgagement, beginning Tues- day. Apr! 18 All Ietters should reach the of- fice_by Monday evenipe. “The Unioved Wife” profeases to answer the question of how to hold a husband's love, and has created editorial comment thruout the country. ] MRS, PLUMLEY DENIES GUILT Faints When Arraigned on} Charge of Murder PORT ORCHARD, April 11—| Pleading not guilty and intimating | that she would attempt to establish | jinsanity, Mrs, Ruth Plumley, 28, | fainted in court today when she was | | arraigned Superior Judge | Walter M. French on a charge of |murdering her husband, Hugh C. before “|Plumley, Bremerton navy yard | worker, | Mrs. Plumley has admit‘ed that she put poison in her husband's salad while she was infatuated with | Lyall Wood, Bremerton garage man. | "rench set the trial for the face of an objection | counsel, Ch Miller, ttle mayoralty | Miller maintained more |necemsary to bring a witness here | from Colorado to testify that Mrs.| Plumley was insane County Prosecutor Ray R. Green- wood represented the state e H./ | Arbuckle Cam Is Coming to Close} SAN FRANCISCO, April 11-—Kvi dence in Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle's | manslaughter trial was expected to} come to an end today. | The defense, with a crossfire of | witnesses which kept a proc passing thru the aisle to the witness } stand and back again, closed its case late yesterday. The state was to offer brief rebut found for her home, but he backed | tal today, Prosectting attorneys raid | | down after he built a fire in the fire. | they thought that they would finish | | place and saw the amoke, Marguerite | before night without difficulty, If Wainwright brought sult in superior | they do, arguments will begin tomor |court Tuesday ngainet J, W. Lang-| row and the case will reach the jury lelear, builder of the fireplace. She|April 13—one month from the date! [asks $901 damages, the trial opened, ie rolled @ wad of wut deep back inte the reresere of his face and shet spang inte the top of = brase—er—re- The National Guard of the state was to go to Camp Lew- is July 9 to 23 for field train- The guardsmen of five other states—California, Ore- Montana, Idaho . and igh be there. ington'’s 2,200° infan- ‘try and artillery are expected to take in big maneu- | vers, army training and experience, with the regulars now at Lewis. The plans were all made for the Washington men. Camp Lewis has scores of good barrack buildings, with shower baths and recreation rooms, a first class hospital. And Camp Lewis proper is fonly a short distance from the rifle range and the artil- lery range. The cost of sending the Washing- tén National Guard to Camp Lewis for the annual summer training | would be lower than to send them to Murray. Uncle Sam would stand much of the expense. The adjutant general, Gen. Thompson, dropped in on Gov. Hart a few days ago and told him about the plans, And the gov | ernor promptly vetord the whole scheme. Washington's Guards- men can't go to Camp Lewis, where there are barracks and where the ranges for practice are located. No, sir! The governor wants it known that he's the commander of the National Guard, and, by ginger, he’s going to be commander! So the 2,200 Washington men, in- fantry and artillery, will camp in the sun-baked field of Murray, several miles away from Camp Lewis. But—and here's the secret! The artillery is to have a new camp. The | state's going to build it. ‘That'll cost | a lot of money—the state's money— (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) $25 in Cash Prizes $15 first prize, $5 second prize; next five, $1 each, The Star offers these prizes for 100-word let- ters. The letters are to be written about satis- factory transactions made thru ads in The Star from April Ist to 15th, based on service and savings. For in- stance, if you select your new spring suit or hat or shoes, or buy your Sunday dinner’ from items advertised in The Star, write a letter to Ad-Reading-Pays Editor, care The Star, and give full details of the trans- action, Confine your let- ter to 100 words and be sure it reaches The Star by April 20th. For the best letters prizes will be awarded as above listed. SESeeee tees. MILITIA j | There are three major reasons why. | MEIER SHOULD BE BEATEN SERSSRRRRRRSeRReeeeeeeee APPLIES SELESMAN EFFICIENCY TO COURTING REASONS TO DEFEAT HIM (EDITORIAL) Walter F. Meier ought to be defeated; that is the most ob- vious fact in the mayoralty campaign. In the first place, because he enjoys the highly-organized, liberally - financed support of a special interest clique. While this clique mas- querades under various names, it is best known in the cam- paign as “The Washington Union League crowd.” Not all the members of the Union league, by far, are selfish or de- signing, not all are carrying exes for the voters to grind— BUT the little group which is now steering its affairs are selfish and designing, and they are carrying axes for Seattle citizens to grind. Onie of these plotters is a Séattle Yninister who panders to wealth and to greed and who is the most bitter, most ex- treme, most tory power in Seattle politics today. He hates labor with an unreasoning intensity of hatred that reminds a person only of a war-time German’s hatred of the English. He is pro-Jap, pro-special privilege—AND PRO-MEIER. It is because of this individual’s support and because of the support of various other selfish men who are ready to spend great sums of money to bring about Meier’s election, and who are spending it, that MEIER SHOULD BE DEFEATED. Then there is a second reason. Meier has proved himself to be primarily a job-hunter. He runs for the office of mayor while remaining on the city payroll as corporation counsel, contrary to the well-established, well-understood precedent which would require him to resign the one office when he seeks the other. He has recognized the correctness of the principle in the past by insisting upon one of his subordinates observing the rule. Now he excuses himself for not resigning by pointing to some other cases in which the rule was vio- lated. He does not tell you this, but it is a fact, that in the instances he cites the candidates who refused to resign as he now refuses WERE DEFEATED. If Walter F. Meier held a deep conviction that he had a real public service to perform | as Seattle’s next mayor, he would have promptly cut all ties and have plunged in whole-heartedly to be the next mayor. | But with the idea uppermost in his mind of hanging onto a | public job at any cost, he has disclosed the shallowness of his sincerity. A third reason why he should be beaten: HE IS THE CAN. DIDATE OF THE CITY-COUNTY POLITICAL RING. Se- attle is sick to the point of nausea of the manner in which its municipal affairs have been handled. Meier is the only city hall politician running and is the candidate, of all the candi- dates in the race, whom it is most logical to suppose would con- tinue the same sort of mismanagement, the same sort of ex- travagance and cheap politics. Coupled with his personal failure to keep faith with the vot- ers of Seattle, by resigning as corporation counsel, this joint support by city-county politicians and the money-spending interests puts him beyond the pale of the independent voter’s consideration. MEIER SHOULD BE BEATEN—DECISIVELY. iy Tal the tt MERA ay | HREE GOOD FLOOD B LEVEE Ilinois Te own Water-Swept; The levee protecting B from the Illinois river broke before noon today, releasing of water on the city. Twenty-six square blocks flooded within a few minutes, Residents of the city had constantly for five days t strengthen the levee to hold back: flood waters. ‘ The flood did a large amount | damage but no lives were lost habitants of the threatened t had heeded the warning and out, taking their personal ings. eee F KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 1 Two dead, seven injured and $ damage was the toll estimated: from floods, dust storms, to1 and snow storms that swept p the Southwest in the last 24h Rivers in Kansas, Oklahoma, souri and Texas were flooding lands. Dust storms swept Texas: Oklahoma in places. Snow f Western Kansas. Tornadoes seven near Joplin, Mo, Mrs. Joe Herring was killed | wind storm near Frederick, Okla, One man was drowned in f] waters near Liberty, Kansas, eee SPRINGFIELD, O., April 11-0 man is dead, four persons are in hospital and property loss will near $100,000 today as the result of a cyclone which swept over Clarke ai Champaign connties last night. — eee INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 1 Rain storms sweeping Central diana today had swelled rivers a streams to flood stage. Winds _ great velocity accompanying the rains fall in some localities razed buildings: and did other property damage, eee ST. PAUL, Minn., April 11 Northwest was storm-swept Sheet, snow and high winds erij telegraph wires and train se Rivers thruout the upper Mississippi basin have approached flood stages DETROIT, Mich., April notes life was known to have been lost and property damage running into thew. sands of dollars was being caused to day by floods thruout Northern! Michigan. Guy Stanton, 34, lost his life attempting to save the Lost Rb dam near Onaway. Physician Is Held in Girl Death Dr. L. C. Neville was held by 81 iff Matt Starwich Tuesday, pe: the, filing of a complaint by Pro cutor Malcolm Doyglas, following verdict of a coroner's jury that the blame for the death of Miss . 26, on the dortor.’ The _ coroner's jury decided that death was due to an illegal operation, The died last Thursday, at Roanoke gamle tarium ora Utterback,