The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 13, 1922, Page 1

mann rn dome Brew Weill, well, well! Look who's here! If it isn’t our old friend, Dan Landon, himself! eee Over the top, with the vest of luck Dan! . One disadvantage of the radi phone is that it requires a headpiece which is more than some have. people This is a highly appropr’ b tonight. place. The prizefighters have dogging it there all winter. cee OR HAVE DISTEMPER There is just one difference be- tween a dog show and a cam- paignally—the dogs don’t make speeches, t Ira Lundy, oralty candidate, is beginning to use quotations from the Bible. Other candidates are merely addressing each other by Biblical titles. eee F. J. Brown favors five-cont ear- | fare. But it is so hard to enteh | our Eddie im his present state of mind - 4 And now th On Seattle «treet corners to make it easier for jawalkers. ey IT’S TERRLBULL! “I don't wanna run for a city job— (Not ‘at I couldn't land it); I don’t wanna run for a city job— But all my friends demand it!” “Trouble Brews in Bourbon Camp.” Headline. Ien't his a new way to make bourbon? . A bootlegging colleze has been es ftablixhed in Seattle, They will hold _s (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) i re putting linoleum | DAN LANDON Now read Hal Arm * * * Got Education % Dan Landon Honest Product of the Farm Grew to Manhood in Nebraska Is Temperamentally a Thinker BY HAL ARMSTRON strong’s biographical story 6 * %¢ & by Great Pluck | It was in the suffocating summer of '79 that there rolled ball of dust. Dog show opens at the Pavilion out of the southwest corner of the state of Wisconsin a great abou ¢ | church It traveled slowly southward down the sun-baked plains | until it came to Nebraska, and stopped, and out of it came a) | prairie schooner and a family- | girls and four young boys. They were the Landons, and one of the boys, then three years old, was Dan. Those were days of privation and unending labor ‘or pio- j 'neer farmers. ahoe. He had supervision of it well. He was growing feat and gangly When he rode the lead horne on the | breaking plow, his long legs dangled nearly to the ground. He seldom spoke, except in monosyliables, but did a jot of thinking. At 13 he was tenging 60 acres of corn and 50 acres of small grain, and Wag with the thresher crew. In winter he and the other children went to school e distant from their home, and Dain suddenly devel oped unexpected powers of and joined the debating woclety When he was 20 he had licked every other aspiring young orm tor around Syracuse, Neb. in open and fair detrate, and that year, for the first time, he had been allowed to go to Lincoln to see the old soldiers’ reunion of the state am speech | It was while in| Lincoln that he went thru the University of Nebras ka bulldl and shw a sign over a door, “Nebras College of | Law.” He looked flong at the sign jand over him cam@ a compelling de | sire to enter the gollege and study law That winter he went to the { At the age of 6, Dan was a trained man with the family garden, and he kept At 9 he was doing the work of a general farm hand. | Lincoln Normal school, and the next summer he took home to the farm with him a lot of books When he went to the cornfield he carried a lunch with him a book under his arm, At lunch time he ate, and stadied law, The next year he was of age. Normal! school burned and Dan t The a ly approacted the university sought out the dean of the law school, The dean asked him what he wanted, and the longlerged young farmer was so excited he lost his speech and for a full minute stood there fumbling hi« buttons, standing | first on one foot and then the other, blushing “All right,” enid the dean, “if that's |the way you feel about it, you'd bet ter give the young lady there your name.” The young lady finally extracted the information from the youth that his name was Landon, drew from him some further admivsions as to his age and entrance qualificatic and the state of Nebraska starte making Dan a lawyer. He had entered the school (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) —father, mother, two young | ‘LANDON AGAIN " SCORES “GANG” “Ring Is In; Vl Clean It DAN IS THE MA The Star believes the candidate here pictured to be the best material for the next mayor of Seattle that is available for the voters’ consideration. paper and on succeeding days. ie atin ota a nace. ay ay Our reasons for this belief will be set forth in tomorrow's t Dan. Out,” He Predicts At two big ‘—- ——— | | | | political meetings in Woodland Park Methodist Episcopal brary, don, can and in Wed the exday night, te for mayor, Green air Lake i. Dan Lan n chal lenged the power of the moneyed ring attempting to buy ment by pla ng its hand.pic ke the city govern ed ana well-heeled candidate in the city hall. | “The ring hall, its: work n squand clean out th said Landon. Mimons of If la t of grafters in the m is already in “We h doth elect eeen have| ed, I'l NN NPP PPR PPPS | —Photo by Price & Carter, Star Btaft Photographers)| Plane had struck a the city] purchasing agent's department.” | Walter F, Meier addressed a meet ing in the Ross Marche, Th ave N. W. and Bertona st., reminded } audience that he had twice served as corporation counsel, and promined, if elected mayor, to administer the du ties of that office with the “same ef. ficiency.” | Need of a r of the old “ tle Spirit” w wed by H ner, addressing the meeting at Wood. land Park Methodist church. Brown advocated a 6-cent Dr, B.S street car fare Skagit projec litical incurables. At the sam: Cunningham spoke d said it was for the voter meeting completion ¢ und removal of “po: Maj of the T. J. for reduction of thryn taxes to choows between a lawyer, a dentist or & business man for mayor Mrs, Henry Landes, Mrs. Ka Miracle, F. D. Hayden, Charl Gallant, Hugh T. Parker and ¢ candidates for city ¢ tid Pr. C H. Clark poke c Tifti date for school director Reduetion in the cor ed Charles | meeting. nt by the Turner, ul ot cent es H ifford uneil , candl: | per kilowatt f electric current was ad Ira D, Lundy in @ speech ransp Miller rtation Cunningham addressed club, and this | Turner spoke against completing the Skagit project, The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor _ The Seattle Star Entered aa Mecond Class Matter Ma: VOLUME 24. NO, 41. ne SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1922. HUGE BLAS ROCKS TOWN Sir Ross Smith Marc Antony of the Air Death Plane His Cleopatra Crash Ends Strange Romance True Love Didn’t Run Smooth Sir Ross Smith, Mare Antony of the air! That's not a mere figure of speech. Dissimilar as were their lives, their deaths were identical. Mare Antony died at the hands of Cleopatra, the woman loved the best in all the world. BRITISH KILLED! Lieutenant Are Dead; Planned World Flight LONDON, April 13—Sir Row Smith, famous British aviator, was killed today when the ma chine in which he was to atiempt a flight around the wortd crashed to the ground at Brooklands, Lieut. J. Kh. Benaeti, who was to have accompanied Sir Koss on his flight, also was killed. Sir Row was flying for the first time the plane which had been balit for his attempted Might around the world, It had been flown succem ty but half an hour before by a pilot of the Vickers company, and turned over to Smith for a trial. The crowds which were watching the famous aviator on his first test flight were horrified to wee it go into & nore «pin over Brooklands, The machine whirled down at ter- rifle speed and crashed. CORATED HORGE Both airmen were instantly killed Sir Ross Smith, who was dec lorated with the British air cross and knighted by King George for his suc cessful flight to Australia, was one of Britain's best sirmen, Sir Keith Smith, brother of Sir Ross Smith, arrived too late to fly with his brother, but in time to wit ness the disaster Sir Keith, overcome with emotion, saw the great airplane dashed to | pieces at the end of ft# nose dive | from a helght of 3,000 feet. He was | among those who rushed to the spot on the race track where the giant bi portion of the fen and found Sir Rows dead, «til! strapped to his seat, Lieut, Bennett Was still alive in his seat, teribly in- jured, and died immediately after ward EVE-WITNESS TELLS STORY OF TRAGEDY An eyewitness of the air tragedy told the United Press the first story of the disaster. “The giant airplane, which had just been tuned up for Sir Ros by Vickers mechanics, made a perfect ascent from the aerodrome here,” the witness said, “It climbed siowly in great spirals to a height of 3.000 feet ‘Sir Rows was in the best of humor » took off. ‘Just like he was off for that around-the-world Might,’ a workman exclaimed, and then something went wrong. We who were watching saw the nv of the machine dip sharply toward earth Airmen at the drome said he was ‘putting her into a sone dive to test her strength, hut that (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) $25 in Cash Prizes necond, $5; for the a satis thru an ween April $15; each of H Fimt prize, next five, $1 best letters telling etory tran The Star, 15th a good example from already received: Star acti ad in Ist and Here's ng those Seattle r Friends: suit T bought at last week #0 delighted me that I want to express my thanks for the advertisement in your paper th my attention to this ecial sale; also for many m that have 4 guide and time r to me My shopping tours are often planned while reading The Star, thus making them pur 11 pleasures, After all, why spend hours, even days in tiresome, fruit leag searching when one can find in print just how, when and where to buy? Thanking you, Sincerety, The new drew Other letters will be found on page 9 tn today’s Star, All letters in the contest must be in by April 20th, Address Ad-Reading Pays Mditor of The Star. Reattia, 1 to ’ rfticm at y 4, 1899, at the F ” ver Year Wash, under the Act of Congress March | | he | And the giant airplane in crashed to death was Sir Ross ) Romeo ever felt for his Juliet. which the British airman ’ Cleopatra. He loved the mammoth “ship” with all the ardor that any | Ina way it seems fitting that the two should have passed on together. Gallant flyer and gallant plane were found locked together ir. a death embrace when horrified spectators rushed to the spot where they had plunged to earth. ee Maas | ‘The flyer’s strange love for his Plane is deseribed In his own words in an article which he contributed to the March, 1921, issue of the Na| tional Geographic magazine, In which | he described hin epochal fight from London to Australia in 1919. Commenting on the machine tn} which be made the London-Australia | ly identieal to the ‘ship’ in which he died—he wrote “A small machine is ideal for short Nights, joyriding the heav- | ems, or sight-seeing among the | clouds; | the big bombers which a | } stem of the machine, thru which the will of the pilot may | to | trivances of man's ingenuity. j “The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man In the air a ma chine ceases indeed to be a mere | plece of mechanism; it becomes | animate and ix capable not only of primary guidance and control, | but actually of expressing the pilot's temperament. “The lungs of the machine, t engines, are again the erux of man’s wisdom. Their marvelous reliability and great intricacy are almost as awesome as the human anatomy. When both engines are going well and synchronized to the same speed the road of the exhausts develops into one long- sustained rhythmical boom— boom—boom. It is a song of pleasant harmony to the pilot, a duet of contentment that sings of perfect firing in both engines and says that all is well. | | | | attle that it threatens, if not city off, as far as horticultural shipping is concerned, from | the rest of the country. appointed by Maj. O. A. Earwig—Your Foe Now a Menace to Four Cities Quarantine on Seattle Feared 15,000 Property Owners Are Warned Star to Answer Questions About Pest BY ROBERT B. BERMANN | “This melody of power boomed pleasantly in my ears, and my mind sought to probe the inserut- able future as we swept over the coast of England at 90 miles per hour.” eee +But Sir Rom wasn't all poet. ‘The course of true love, whether between man and machine or man and woman, never runs smooth, And TWO CE ® BLOWU Home : | Edition TS IN SEATTLE ——aemenentll a, 18 IS FATE TO FOU Port Terminal a Charleston, S. C., Is Shattered Munitions Crash CHARLESTON, 8. C., April 12. a shipment of munitions exph joded today a few days later we find Sir Ross penning the following in his diary: ‘This sort of flying is a rotten game. The cold is hell and I am a silly aww for having ever em- barked on the flight.” And this in the midst of the suc comful flight which brought the air man immortal fame and a £10,000 prize from the commonwealth of Aus- tralla! e- Possitty the best commentary on the remarkable character of the flyer | is to be found in his description of} the days immediately following the completion of his Might to Australia. | He had startied the world by his achievement—and yet the mere feat of establishing a world’s record meant so little to him that he wrote: “+ * © And now we were to be bewildered by an amazing ar- ray of cables and telegrams. They arrived in great 15-minute shoals from every corner of the globe. “What had gone wrong? Sure- ly, everyone had gone mad—or had we? Why all this fuss and excitement? In our race cross ing the globe we had not read » newspaper, and, beyond the locsd natural attention evinced at our numerous landing grounds, we knew nothing of the interest the | rest of the world was taking in | the fight, | “Great, Indeed, was our aston- Ishment, on turning up back files of newspapers, we read of our exploits, recorded with a degree of detail that must have taxed the imaginative resources of edi- torial staffs to gray hairs.” | The earwig menace has reached such proportions in Se-| checked promptly, to cut the | This is the statement of Captain E. F. Chase, engineer} for the city streets and sewers department, who has been |thorities yesterday and with visions Piper, superintendent of streets of jail the general vanished. and sewers, to take charge of the anti-earwig campaign! which is being waged by city, county and state authorities. jer to pring in the Russian refugee: in connection with a civil suit for $475,000 brought {| The same problem con- fronts Tacoma, Olympia and Portland, according to Chase, who s the earwig \gained a firm | those cities. | “Unie we ggt the earwig under control at once,” Chase said today, “other cities will refuse to accept] shipments of fruit, vegetables or! flowers from Seattle for fear that the products are infested with the |inswet.”* This, however, according to Chase, is only one of many ways in which the earwig is an active menace to the health and prosperity of every: one in Seattle, | He tabulates the principal evils of | the earwig as follows: } 1 E ause it is a filth-carrier and e contaminates food and clothing, | it spreads all manner of diseases. ! Because no one wants to be; 2 bothered by the pest, it depre jclates the value of ‘any property | where it appears, | becoming a “Flower City” until the| has | nuisance ‘< abated, foothold in 4 |tirely eliminated. jhas mailed out 15 attle property owners, ordering them 3 It destroys flowers, fruits and © vegetables, thus making it tm: possible to achieve its It is a public nuisance, which ¢ will require constantly Iner ing efforts against it until it is en- So alarmed is Chase by the growth of the problem that he is ready to invoke a state law which permits him to foree prop- erty owners to take immediate action to stamp out the pest, This law empowers the state to have the property disinfected if the owner refuses to do it him- self, and the cost of this opera: tion becomes a lien against the property. This lien, of course, would en- tail far more expenge than the property-owner would be put to if he abated his own ground, With thés decision in mind, Chase 00 postals to Se- (Tug to Page 7, Column 4) | Driver Tries to Suppres Casualties From Crash Attempting to pass : machine on the Bothell bicheay: 8 Seattle-bound Everett auto jf stage crashed into the ditch é overturned Thursday. Passencers were in the bus at the time, and at least one was severely injured. ; E. J. Schlotman, of Everett, driver, attempted to suppress the tent of the casualties, reporting a Sheriff Matt Starwich that no one was hurt At the Seattle General hos pital, however, where one of the victims was taken, it was re ported that several others had been badly hurt, altho none was received at any local hospital, The one known victim is Junior Hurt, 3-yearold son of KB. Hurt Arlington, who was severely cut by flying glass on the head and ‘ Altho in no danger, it was said child would be confined to his bed a week or more. Schlotman told the sheriffs office he was “forced” to swerve sround @ car ahead of him. Gen. Semenoff Is Dodging Sheriff 5 NEW YORK, April 13,—Gen. Greg ory Semenoff, who rode at the head of his Cossack band, spreading terror thru Siberia, is hiding from a New — York sheriff. pee The general's attorney an ‘3 he will surrender before night. The Cossack commander's bondsmen dée= cided to surrender him to the au Sheriffs and detectives hunted him: unavailingly. They have a court orm 5 3 Escaped Convicts Are Eluding Posse SAN RAFAEL, Cal, April 1%.— The three convicts who escaped last | week from San Quentin penitentiary had entirely eluded the posse which was thought to have surrounded them yesterday near Arbuckle, ao cording to advices to prison authors ties at San Quentin today, Man Dying After Duel With Bandit — SAN JOSE, Cal, April 13.-—Pedre Reyes, local merchant, is believed dys ing today, following a gun duel with —~ a bandit who tried to rob his store, 4 Both men emptied their revolvers at each other, Reyes said the bandit was badly wounded. Poilicevare look« ing for the robber, who is believed to be headed for Oakland, — 4