The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 20, 1922, Page 1

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He is lucky if he is a/ gained entrance to the house. eck Smart Set and doors of the room where the tots } +e t had been stopped with paper DEEP STUFF \ The children’s grandfather said j Many « Seattle eye specialist |e found the gas burners turned turns ow " in specialist. | 0D. —— | ‘The mother, Mrs. Horace J ‘ 2 * said to have left CHAPTER it. leven 2 ey had not heard from “Stranger,” said Big-Hearted Sher- | in eo maid they ‘he ” ore kind ain't wanted much | "°F Fo Wa Br hese parts since Little Nell FAUNAS! © hain't said much, but we IRL SINGS HER trusted yore city ways and IAW ~ , es none whatever. You WAY TO LIBERTY |' Tolman.” CHICAGO.—Myrtle Stern sang her 1 Jim twirled his seven-| way to freedom when she wan ar and gazed thoughtfully down|raigned for passing fraudule ward Mukilteo, whence | checks. She said she used the money ened with geur point,” uzzie of B. H. 8. Jien's from his 8. Plexus.| nocent of wrong-doing arley Fulton's cigars is t of tobacco, I didn't put city Nell’s head. There However,” he continued, wanly, Tl go—lear allard in the dis an innocent man hall says the worst case tion be w was of 4 had fu en English th Irish potatoes. ot Fable: Once there was a Seattle ‘ bootlegger who didn’t say it was 28 The first skirmish to eliminate compulsory military drill at the University of Washington takes (Turn to Page 8, Column 4) | today WEATHER Tonight and Friday, fair; moderate southerly terns, Temperature Last 4 Hours Palmed Off Babes on Husband for Love of Them Mrs, Wilbur L. Libbey (center) haa | £8m¢ for children The Seattle Star RAR ARAL AAA APPR PAPE VAST EXPLOSION BURIES SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Batered as Second Clans Matter May %, 1499, at the Postoffice at feattin Wash, under the Act of Congress March 4, 1879, Per Year, by Mail, $5 to 69 WOMAN WITH BOGUS CHILDREN FREED Oh, Fans! It’s a Silly Game-- This Baseball Jack Hall Could You If He. Wasn't ina r Hurry By Jack Hall Baneball ia silty game, when you! | | } Show jodme to think of it tt im, conten, @ eect. eased | Better than mar.) been released by Illinois authorities ,b8- More exhiliarating than cro Baseball season opened yesterday ;who arrested her on a charge of hav. |T*t ! Bot it ds, after af, « game—a fu ing transported foundiings from Ll Ind, ett), | pets to her farm home at Deer Creek, without formal adoption | candidates can keep busy explaining | ceedings. Four of there foundlings—Francs Robert (right), and two others |‘@%sular course unt! he arrives beck | pro- | tile game, las swiftly in whieh «a man strikes a! ball with a bat, |nideruble distance. and then running | an poksible around a rec propelling it a con-| she presented to her husband as|*t the starting point. | <n | If be rucceeds in returning to thie! her own. She said two of the twins—were children of Libbey and that the other two were her children by @ previous marriage Libbey claring that she Melow), a children—{Deint before qiwith the ball what? I don't satisfy his love for children ‘THREE CHILDREN DEAD FROM GAS | Believe Tots Were Murdered | While Asleep HOUSTON, from gas Can a man be sent to/ had been turned on while they slept to cuidivate b latest whe § g a cou San Franc in Pi p gave Texas, April 20.— children were found dead in bed here | Civic reports maid ner V pol When he of songn the judge de o was rice the SEATTLE GIRL WITH BELLS ON GARTERS STIRS COURTROOM ANCISCO, Her ap was accom. panied by the tinkle of a myriad little bells anc when she seated herself in the with their source was rev were hung on little loop to a dainty garter. if “It ig the latest in Parts fads, April treated to the is and Seattle styles Roberts, treat when ‘4 in divorce court as wit ness in behalf of her sister, Thelma Je’ to a good cause. 20. ot she Mra attached ‘Three {starting point tagged it counts one. tangular course This home.” |The » | madty course furt He is run scores is euch a denirabl high-salarted |Place, why leave it? salesman, has forgiven his wife, de. /OUt of breath running around a ree / was guilty of the trickery only because she wanted to|Where you started from? starting Tt may be there t# some thing symbolical about thic ung man, full of hither and thither, he knows not what by somebody one if the know. And Why get only to return to| point is called} “home.” vigor. dashes pursuing and when | finds himself no f advanced than in his youth one.” This may mean / that he is one poor fish looking back | lupon a misspent life | But symboliem has long been for-| 20 SEATTLE, WASH., Seattle Gas Service Not Up to Snuff Local Company Not Showing Efficiency That Make Reduction of B. T. U.’s at Tacoma a Success. TACOMA, April 20.—Inefficient management! Indif- ference to the public's rights! An entire lack of desire to give service! These are faults of the Seattle Lighting company which are responsible for the soaring bills with which Seattle gas consumers are monthly confronted. This is plainly shown by a comparative study of the Tacoma Gas & Fuel Co.’s methods, which was just made here by a Seattle Star correspondent. If the Seattle concern would put into effect a number of the scientific, modern ideas for the benefit of its cus- tomers which have been inaugurated here, Seattle gas bills would greatly decrease, even tho the present rates | and the present low “B. T. U.” standard were maintained. |Up-to-Minute Executive Manages Tacoma Plant D. J. Young is manager of the Tacoma plant. He came here from San Diego two years or so ago when Elmer Dover, now assistant secretary of the treasury, resigned. Young is an alert, up-to-the-minute public service ex- ecutive. He is highly educated, scientific-minded, an in- ventor of note—and he believes whole-heartedly that the public is entitled to the maximum of service at the mini- mum of cost. He was an ardent advocate of reducing the required heating units in the gas a year or two ago when a loom- ing fuel oil shortage promised to make that step impera- tive as well as desirable. As a result of his urging, the state commission okehed the change in Tacoma from 570 British thermal units to 470. At the same time the Seattle company was au- thorized to reduce from 600 to 520. Young promised that if this step were allowed he would see that thru efficiency methods the service would be otherwise improved so that the number of feet of gas used by any customer to accomplish a given task would not be increased. Tacoma Now Getting THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1 If the ball player's life ie misepent, Best Gas Service | gotten. what shall we say of the fan? He roots for the Seattle team? Why pride? Not one professional player in a dozen lives in the city | suppe goes cut iday | time an with cons Yet the fan drops his ells him! ttle” ing the team | ssineas.and | k, day after | If hoarse every | n strikes the | iderable force and runs 1 a rectangular course. } letes the journey, the| fan is delighted. If he fails, the fan in depressed. If a “visiting” player. who, perhaps, was born in Seattle scores, the fan ix plunged into the ldepths of despo: ney Life is real and earnest, and our | civilization is in danger if the men| ot this nation, who ought to be de-| voting themselves to bigger, finer, | | more worthwhile endeavors, persist | jin giving themselves so utterly to} illy garne "The women, too! What Is to be./ come of the home, the rising genera tion, if mothers, forgetting home ties und duties, f etting motherhood | and wifehood, go day after day to the ball park? i I could preach at some length on| thia subject, and I m sure I could ‘rouse the public to an appreciation | of the peril toward which we are drifting—only—the fact is—it's press | time. And I've simply got to go out} to the Rainier Valley park to nee] what Vernon shows us today | Widow Stricken | at Church Phone) | Mrs, Sarah, Prosser, a widow living at 715 Bell st., died in an am: | bulance on the way to the city hos. | pital Wednesday night, after having been suddenly stricken while using | |the telephone in the First Presby- | terian churc Mra. Prosser staggered to the wash: | room a ummoned immedia 1 feli on the floor Help was but #he died | in a few moment | Apoplexy lof her death. morgue. was given The body is in the| as the ne Young says he has made good on this promise. Other Tacomans who have observed the experiment maintain that Tacoma is now getting the best gas service of any city in the country. A sidelight on this is the fact that in March the company received a total of but 327 com- plaints, including all sorts, the lowest number in 14 years. This, with 14,000 consumers being served. A careful check has been completed to determine just what the result has been of decreasing the calorific value of the gas. The change was made in the middle of 1920. Mr. Young had compiled a record of 2,500 homes, res- taurants and other typical small and medium users. No customers who used gas for heating were included. In every case houses were selected where the same occupant had been continuously in the premises for three years. From 1919 to 1920, when the B. T. U.’s were reduced, there was a gain in gas consumption on the part of these 2,500 customers, Mr. Young reports, of slightly more than 4 per cent. He says this is the normal rate of in- crease due to an aggressive and successful campaign on the part of the company to introduce new appliances, From 1920 to 1921, the first year following the change, the 2,500 consumers made almost exactly the same in- crease in amount used, slightly more than 4 per cent. Mr. Young says an examination of their bills would fail to show at what time the B. T. U. change was put in, so little effect did it have. The B. T. U.’s had been reduced 30 per cent. A pro- portionate incre of 80 per cent in the consumption would have logically resulted had not other steps been taken. Hard Work Achieved |Excellent Results This was accomplished by dint of much hard work. There are 28 factors, he says, affecting the amount of gas which will be required for any certain duty. The B. T. U. element is an important one of the 28. for instance, the weight of the gas must be just so— and always uniform. The pressure must be uniform. The chemical constituents must be watched with scientific precision. And then there are a whole string of other (Turn to Page 8, Column 2) se GRAND JURY CALLED FOR FERRY PROBE Judges Yield to) Request Urged by __ Prosecutor! Douglas A grand jury to report May 8 for | the purpose of investigating alleged | fans in connection with operation | ¢ the county ferry was called Thurs- yo morning by Presiding Judge Cal 8. Hall. The call was tesued after a half. hour conference by eight of the #u- | perior judges, who unanimously voted that charges made against the coun. ty commissioners and Capt. John L. | Anderson, lexece of the ferry sy) | tom, by residents of Bellevue, should | be investigated. ] “Charges have been made tgainst jcertain county officials,” Judge Hall Pee and we feel it is due them to! have a chance to clear themselves.” TWO KILLED IN BOOTLEG WAR; NEW ORLEANS, 1a. April 20.-—~) | Frankie Russell, prize fighter, and | Michael Walkh were shot to death | | while in an automobile in the down- | town district here today. | Police arrested Philip Gehiback and | Arthur V. Mason on a charge of mur-| | der, .Two women, Ethel Reynolds) 0 Jand Juanita Stevens, were held as| material witnesnes. Officers maid the | shooting waa the aftermath of « feud between bootlegrers and gangsters. | Russell and Waish were riddied as |they drove past another machine! | containing the four prisoners, police | said. (BOY DESTROYS STOLEN BONDS) : NEW YORK, April 20,—Betrayed| by & bey companion who refused to/ | go into hiw plans to steal a few hun- | dred dollars and then go to Arizona and reform the West, Robert Byrnes, 15, bank memenger, is alleged to have admittied to police today that he threw $121,000 off Brooklyn bridge, | “It was In securities and negotiable | | paper, and T couldn't figure any way | to cash 1," the youth is said to have | confessed. Robert asked aid in his plans, GIRL WITNESS IS RELEASED ALBANY, Ore., April 20.—Search | lfor the bedy of Frank Bowker, who} disappeared Sunday night, and who believed to have been murdered 4 the body thrown into the Cala ia river, continued here this roing. Russell Hecker, Walter Norris 1%, to andW w aes refused. charged with the murder of Bowker, is held in the |Portland city jail” ineommunicado, | awaiting furtber developments in the | cane | Nellie Lainhart, the only material |witness in the case, has been re leased today, after two days’ con-| {finement. The girl is alleged to be the sweetheart of | Hecker 'HOUSE PASSES BIG NAVY BILL WASHINGTON, April 20—The| naval appropriation bill is now before | the senate, As passed by the house | last night, it carried approximately $251,269,000, and provides for an en-| listed personnel of 86,000 men. An attempt to boost the number of en-) | listea n still higher will be made jby “big navy" forces in the senate, | but indications are the house figure will stand. } The total carried by the bill now ts! approximately $18,000,000 more than| the appropriations committee house | recommended. |Ford Authorship of Letter Denied | PON, April 20.—Henry | Pord did uthorize the statement {that he a the government | $29,000,000 in war profits, according to a letter received today by the treasury department ‘The letter, written by Ford's secre. tary, declared Ford was not respon: sible for the statement and did not see it until after it was published, WASHINC not repal | to go alo urge of spring in his veins, suddenly | Gov, | federal “If Dan can take time to go, by | Col. Robert A, Brown, commander We'll all go along | the | Crook, Neb., | the food-stricken districts, jon our team. HE STAR IS ELECTED SEATTLE’S MOST POPULAR NEWSPAPER BY 15,000 PLURALITY TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE War Material Horror Cras Engulfs To 1800 Soldiers Reported D as Ammunition Explode Shell Strikes Church an Hundreds of Civilians Die. 9; LONDON, April One been buried. Part of the town where the explosion occurred is in By Hal Armstrong Dan Landen went to yester- as" 's opener with Mra. Jackson ° vw pei and chairwoman of the legislative committer of the Fed- erated Women's clubs hadn't seen a ball game since the days when the batteries wore mus taches and the outfield had long whiskers. She sat beside the big nominee for mayor in the box of their hosts, Keiter & Bernbaum, cigar dealers, and talked polities, ask- ed questions and saw Seattle out walloped and out-galloped by Vernon, 3 to 1, then said: “I do enjoy these close contests. How often do these games come off? Every week or two?” In the party was Mr Kelter, senior, father and father-inlaw of the firm, who witnessed his first | game in 20 years He and Mrs, Silhangh had dropped into Landot baugh accepted . and Mr. Keiter, with the announced: ginger, so can I. | with the boys.” And so it was. Mr. Keiter’s hat, about the seventh inning, slid back over one ear. He peered over the rims of his spec: tacles, tramped on his bag of pea- nuts, and yelled “Take that umpire out! But his umps stuck, tho tt must be | admitted he minded his knitting a lit- | Ue closer after that Dan shucked peanuts for Mrs. Silbaugh and himself and wateh- ed the game slide away with dis- appointment. What he asked, “do those letters 'V' and ‘S’ stand for on those’men's shirts?” “Vernon and Seattle,” Dan, soberly. “1 suppose,” she said, “these play- ers are business men from Vernon said .—A terrific | Wednesday among war material at Salonika, according t |news agency dispatch from Athens today. Eighteen hundred soldiers are reported to have buried among ruins of a barracks. Hundreds of ci | the vicinity have been killed, according to the report, Fires broke out and a panic ensued. The explosion occurred at noon tongnrngeH It was hour for the troops. The barracks, in eating, ery following the blast, and many were I hundreds of which flew in all directions, ing the first explosion, burst after hitting a church. Hundreds of persons, mainly children, were said to them are extras,” body gets killed another man |take bis place and the game cam. |right on.” ‘s office to congratulate | tary of War Weeks today gave him on bis nomination and Dan said | to the army to render all possible he was going to the game. Mrs, Sil-| sistance In relief flood work Landon's invitation | the lower Mississippi river. } pitted against our own business! men “Well,” Dan smiled. “Not alto | gether. That pitcher out there, for instance, lives in Portland, but plays | “You mean that man who keeps throwing the ball all the time?” she asked “Yes, ma'am,” said Dan. “Do you know his name?” she asked. “Roy Gardner,” he answered. “No, Harry Gardner, Roy went into other business, Missed his calling; should have been an um- pire.” “I don't understand the game any more,” said Mrs. Silbaugh, regret- fully, “so if 1 ask foolish questions | | } | | | | supplies will be furnished, sary, and after the flood waters have — subsided, army engineers will assist — in draining the Mooded lands and in — | repairing levees that may be dam | aged by the high waters, 30,000 ACRES Thirty thousand acres of rich agtie jcultural land were inundated when ® ‘levy on the big muddy river at Mun physboro broke today, explosion which they you must excuse me. Why those men in red sweaters a row that way on that bench! “They're waiting to bat. & Dan expla she said. “Tf “Oh, I see,” It was the seventh inning, and fi a minute it looked as if Seattle going to tie the score. The | crowd was yelling. The crisis | Dan recovered his hat and his nuts, and Mrs, Silbaugh said: “We women down at the legie lature, when we wanted some senator to make a speech for one of our bills or needed belp of (Turn to Page 8, Coluyn 1) AID SENT TO FLOOD A WASHINGTON, April 20. In response to a telegram from McRae, of Arkansas, assistance, Weeks di Seventh corps area, at Fort to give all possible aid to and other if neces. Food, clothing, tents ARE FLOODED - MURPHYSBORO, TL, April 20—< SWEET YOUNG THING FORCED TO TELL AGE WHEN SHE SPEEDS “What's yer age?” asked the desk sergeant of the sweet young speed demon Thursday. None of your business,” she snapped. “I didn’t have to tell it to register, and I'll not tell it here.” “This ain't the courthouse,” ne: plied the sergeant, as he waved a wicked pen ovér the police blot- ter. “This is the city jail, and you'll see the inside of it if you ain't careful, We're awful hard on speeders.” She told him. i os ‘