The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 22, 1922, Page 1

f) THE STAR IS ELECTED SEATTLE’S MOST POPULAR NEWSPAPER BY 15,000 0 PLURALITY (GOV. HART TO RUN AGAIN! beh Oe HOLDING POW-WOW! HOM EDITION moderate | an en pee ‘There ts just one thing against Dan Landon—he is a lawyer. There are two things against wen—he is both a lawyer and a tit, eee Brown has led a hand to mouth for mayor be thankful for. o > wanaed the bimbe in the side show who this Jackson st. grape. de. od temperamental, epera start PASTORAL The a decked with daisies | Candiesa, of Tacoma: fourth district, challenge to the assembly: And oretets that are Bluey; But 1 must milk 10 cows a night Or my Jerseys go ker-fluey! eee One good reason why you should vote for the Montiake-Stadium bridge | ts so that university students can get | to their § o'clock classes on time. eee Easter weather, unsettled. Easter dills, same. eee HOME BLUES Sometimes we contemplate feeding our to the Disarmament fans attack military training at the University of Wash- ington because they say it instills warlike ideas in the minds of the young. After two years of training In the cadet corps, the average student doesn’t care if he never sees a unl- form again. oe To make a man really hate the military idea, compel him to do| “squads right” for two years. Pereonally, tne one ing that killed ambition to be = general was the | DR HAIL TO HART: Governor Hart appeared at the university crew race yesterday attired in an old gray sweater, Being a voluptuous chewer of tobacco, the Gov. has probably decided that the upkeep of a vest is too costly. oe Hart is in town today to explain the benefits that have resulted from his civil administration code. Where ts that little bull? LIFE OF LITTLE CHAPTE:! ‘Twas in the luxurious offices of Can Film company in Mukil- Il, looking sweet and ding hands with Ru- te la Roquefort, handsome cast ing director NELL Nell's sweetness hadn't impressed Rupe as much as her sim- plicity had, The door opened and the stranger ack Heart Rupert!” he old tricks | Up to your BANG! Rupe bit the dust. | ‘The office carpet had been full of It Come, Littie Nell,” said the stran I'm taking you back to Bal the hot ‘Tuesley, he powing his way thru compowed of Scoop Hogs, Al Lawrence, et al, left (To Be Concladed) ee “1 thought you had given up burnt- wood art, dearie.” “Ferdinand, how can you be #0) heartless? This is plet”’ ee The guy that referred the other night to Maj. T. J. Cunningham as the water-boy of the mayoralty fight pyobably got soured. Sunday, cloudy; southwesterly TACOMA MAN =" Charles B Hurley Slated Chairman of Permanent Organization By Ralph J. Benjamin PASCO, April 22.—Chartes B. Hur- ley, of Tacoma, is slated to be chair man of the permanent organization of the Columbia Basin Irrigation league, formed here yesterday by 500 delegates from Oregon, Washing- ton and Idaho. This was learned to- day. Hurley was agreed upon as head of the league inte Thursday night. His absence, however, pre vented his election. Until the formal organtzation of the board of trustees of the league, Charles Hebberd of Spokane ts ae Ing chairman, He was choren can’t drink of more tect here Dire eee any Se cree noes ao eee coo prim Second congressional district of Of the Columbia river basin: ‘Of the league ate Washington, D. E. Skinner and C. D.) Stimpeon, of Seattle: third district, | Charles B. Hurley and Frank N. Mo. | H. D. MeMilttan, of Ephrata, and} Peter McGregor, of Hooper; fifth dis Lane, of Spokane. ‘The Pendieton, Ore., district ts rep- resented by S. F. Lowel! and James | H. Sturgis. The North Idaho district | trustees are J. H. Morrow, of Coeur | @Alene, and E. D. Farmin, of Sand | point. |" ‘The last act of the Columbia baxin | | conference was the sending of a tele | gram to President Harding, Seere | tary of the Interior Full and the) senators and representatives of Ore gon, Washington and Idaho urging support of the Smith-McNary trriga- | tion revolving fund bill and announce ing the plans of the Basin league, | The first meeting of the trustees of the Basin league will be called |soon by Charles Hebberd, temporary chairman, it was announced. The trustees are expected to indorse the sending of J. M. Ford, secretary of the Bpokane chamber of commerce. |to Washington, D. C., to open offices and start the drive tn congress for a bill creating a Columbia basin com mission. CREW RAGE DUE | 3:30 SATURDAY Is Postponed for Second Time Classic Disappointment again met the | crowds which «warmed the barges, launches and shores at Lake \ington this morning to witness the, annual crew classic between the unt. veraities: of Washington and Califor nia. Rough water forced a postpone ment, and the crews are slated to start this afternoon at 2:20. | The course hag been changed, with }the finishing at Lake Forest | park Tt ts believed that this course | will lessen the effect of the wind on the shells, Both crews will leave the boat | house for the starting polat at 3 p,m. | | line ‘Guilty Man Given 30 Years in Cell) | WASHINGTON, April 22.-—A sen. tence of 30 years in jail was im |posed today on Howard Leslie Holt 40, dancing. master, on & charge of misconduct with one of his pupils, «| 12-year-old girl. | Chief Justice McCoy, in Imposing sentence, said that some of the Jur-| ors favored the death penalty, per rmissible under the law governing | jsuch offenses, Councilman Drake Goes to Hospital Councilman A. T. Drake went to | Riverton sanitarium Saturday for a long rest. Drake was recently de- | feated far reelection. He has been | sick for more than two yearn, and! |has spent considerable time in the | th im the hope of regaining his h Ith. | | wer On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise e Seattle Star Batered as Becond Class Matter May 8, 1699, at the Pestotfice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 8, 1670. Per Year, by Mati, $5 to 99 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, A COLUMBIA BASIN PROJECT NORTHWEST All Sections Now United to Make Big Land Dream Come True PAsco, Apeit 22.—The Pacific Northwest has reawakencd! For more than 10 years it hae slumbered, while California step- ped inte the lead, Here and there a few men of vision have attempted to stir the giant from its sleep. These men bave built sturdy, growing communities — Yakima, Wenatchee, Sunnyside, Prosser, Pasco, Brewster, Kenne- The facts of fatiure and neglect =k yor North: start the CHALLENGE IS HURLED Mayor John A. Gellatly hurled the “God put this desert here and the water up there in the lakes. If we trict, Charles Hebberd and T. 6. /are to succeed our watchword must, be, it shall be don: going to do about it? Five hundred throats shouted the answer to the challenge The slogan, recalling pioneer dayn and pioneer spirit of fight, is “Basin lor Bust"? Charles Stinson, of Pasco, briefly told the purpone of the conference. Dan Scott, himself a pioneer farm. eT, now state director of conservation and development, called the meeting to order. John A. Gellatly, of Wenatchee, was chosen temporary chairman. John T. Hartman, of Seattle, pledged the whole-hearted support of bis city. N, W. Durham, of Spokane, pro- posed forming a definite, fighting or ganization and announcement of a clean-cut policy With @ yell of applause two com. tmittees retired to frame the ground work of the organization. Rola ', of Everett, brought assurances of support. What are you James Ford, seeretary of the Spo kane ¢ hamber of Commerce, told of ducted so far BILITY or BASIN PLAN Ivan Goodner, state reclamation en gineer, explained the Goethals’ report in detail, showing the feasibility of the, basin project B. Faville, iy Oregon Bee the Yakima nber of com: put his city ecord for the project L. Waller, of Pullman, brought cheers from the delegates. Fred Insinger and Frank McCand leas and EB. F. Gregory, of Tacoma, Soots, of erce, tary pplat Every section of the P fic North west was represented. There were men from Idaho, Pendleton, Port jland, from every irrigated district and scores still arid It was like an old-fashioned polit! cal convention. It had the fervor of | @ revival meeting. It demonstrated the Northwest is again altve, is plunging into a great, virile, con structive pioneering program Thus was born the Columbia Basin Irrigation league Each congressional district chowe two members for the board of trus teen The league ts 4 (Turn to Last finitely on record «e, Column 5) Breaks Expected in Mi: ippi Levees MEMPHIS, Tenn. April Breaks in the Mississippi river levees at two points near Arkansas City, Ark, hourly expected Several hundred men have been dispatched to the weakened spots which were discovered today, One Bath in Year Wife Gets Divorce TACOMA, April 2 son was awarded a decree of divorce here Friday afternoon after she ten tified that her husband, Harry Park inson, would take but one bath a year and that under protest, of Portland, epoke | Helen Parkin: | Perpetual Light Now Princeton Professor Says He Has Developed Con- tinuous Illumination PRINCE TON J, April 23. ~The dawning of an era of per- Petua) Hiumination was seen by fclentixts today In an announce- ment by Professor E. Newton Harvey, of Princeton university, that he had developed a continu: ous cold light, called lucerfin, CAN CARRY LIGHT IN YOUR POCKET ‘Thin ts @ step which science re Garde as equal in importance to Invention of the wireions, the tel- ephone, telegraph, phonograph, airplane, automobile and other Modern devices, Continuous cold light eventually will do away with all forma of artificial (ligmt nation, according to belief of aclentiats. It witl be possible for & man to carry & bottle of Neht in his pocket, Permanent globes Of light wil} be sumpended in the | streets, in public buildings and in residences Gust at present the new discor- @ry bas not reached anywhere near the final stage of develop ment. Exhibited by Professor Harvey, !t had the appearance of @ emall blue flame flickering in water Ina flask. However, it ts possible to read by the faint etow. Tt is pol [! Me oor aes Aeveloy graph was emus it gave forth Dut @ faint, scratchy sound, and the movies © in the days when they were jumping blurs, hard on the even. IT BURNS WITH | COLD BLUE LIGHT ‘The new eubstance burns with | a cold blue light. Professor Har vey calls it a protein, which he has succesded in isolating after eight years’ experimenting, from | bacteria, fungi and. insects Once he succeeded in isolating the luciferin, Professor Harvey was confronted with the problem of making it permanent. It would glow for a while, then flicker out This wan because it | burned only #0 long aa oxyen was applied to it, and the oxygen also had the effect of destroy. ing It Now Professor Harvey has per- fected a chemical process where by the oxygen is separated from the luciferin immediately. after the contact which produced the light and then joins with it again. This produces continuous light rays without wearing out the luciferin In ite present stage of develop. ment, however, the light growe dimmer over a considerable pe riod of time, but f slowly that the change is y tleaable, This is ome are over by adding «mall quantities of lucif erin. Further experiments are expected to result in a method of automatically replenishing the luciferin or of making the lucit. erin replenish Iteelf, FIREFLIES, INSECTS | AID EXPERIMENTS | Professor Harvey's | ments wtarted with firefli | other insects which gave forth | light. However, he his greatest step when in Japan he discovered a shellfish (Turn to Last Page, Column MAN IS DYING While on Job Struck down by an automobile whose driver is alleged to have disregarded his signal to stop, Andrew Shaw, 40, 7035 Jones ave. N. W., was perhaps fatally Injured Saturday morning. Shaw, an employe of the city water department, was standing guard over | stretch of unsafe paving at Allison |st. near Franklin ave. The «treet | had been « to traffic, and Shaw, | holding a red flag, had been there to warn off motorists. According to the injured man’s companion, the driver of the au- | tomebile paid no attention to Shaw's flag, and drove straight into him. The machine did not stop until » front wheel had passed over Shaw's body. tationed | pital, suffering the brain and a p | ture The Meense displayed by the auto mobile is said to have been issued to Charles Thompson, of Kirkland, but no arrests have been made, wible skull frac IN AUTO CRASH \City Worker Struck Down) Shaw was rushed to the city hos) concussion of | APRIL 22, 1922, 200 MINE MEN PREPARE FOR AT HEAD OF | AWAKENING | ontheWay| prary TRIAL “cli BASIN LEAGUE) CHANCE Excitement Tense! as Accused Men Flock to Town, for Legal Fight) BY CARL D. GROAT CHARLES TOWN, W. Va, April 22.—Up here in the peaceful hills overlooking the beautiful Shenandoah valley, far from the hatreds and feuds of the West Virginia mine war country, more than 200 miners were gathered today awaiting trials starting Monday on charges ranging from assault to murder and treason— the outgrowth of the miners’ march on Logan county last sum mer. Upon the outcome of thetr trials in the ancient courthouse where John Brown of Kaneas wan sentenced to death more than 69 years ago will rest to a considerable degree the f ture of unionism and “operatoriam in thin state of atrife Five blocks from the courthouse, John Brown was hanged for murder and treason after bis band had tacked Harpers Ferry, The same charges fice some of the miners, with the death ity © pomnibility, Men wha sh tee dict dire doings. hese fendants are treed or convicted. The United Mine Workers, with virtually every leader of their organ- ization in West Virginia on trial, and | the operators of the state, are pre paring for a titanic legal struggle over the principle of unionism The first contingent of men for trial came into this Uttle village of 4.000 people last night on the “mi- ners’ special.” They were eturdy men with cold eyes and hard muscles overalls and flannel shirts Witd rome of them came their fam: |illen—"the women folkx” and their babies. ‘The drawn faces of the moth ern beepoke the anxiety in their | hearts and told the story that life in |the mine fields in one of hard reali | thes. | Charles Town resembles a “boom | town’ * in the Went just after a big | oll strike, Never before has it had so many guests, There in an air of tenes, expectant excitement similar }to that of John Brown days, the old timers may '5 DIE, 30 HURT . 108 AN [dead and 3 8, April 22.—Five recovering from fright |ful burns was the toll today, fotlow jing the gasoline explosion at Downey | Yenterday when a company of volun |teer fire fighters was hurted in all ctions by a blast that wrecked a rvice station and surrounding | ‘The dead are: | Edward Vandegriff, 58, retired: | Lester Johnson, high echool s Ham C. Jarvis, Clyde Weirbe k; Walter Pulley, druggist |Patrolman Killed by Fleeing Bandits ST. LOUIS, April 22 « patrolman and | killed by two bandits who held up the | O'Connor was shot | Morris & Co king plant here to. }day. Two other policemen were in. | jured, ‘The bandits escaped with about $60. Interesting | You will find The Star’s Classified columns exceptionally interesting these days. Maybe you want to buy a home. You'll find it advertised in The Star’s Classified. |} Or an auto, The cream of Seattle’s offerings are in The Star. | Or maybe you want to | rent a house or an apartment. The Star’s || Classified can help you here, too. It’s for your |] service—use it. mountaineers. Some of them were in; BY EXPLOSION, Michael | ave. N. this city and Tacoma. phatic. he was jilted. { statement today: the engagement. “Our courtship was broke a blue “T will not marry her. to avoid at this late a family row. Who's next!” | | Aged Swain Jilted i ‘Perfect Woman “She Broke Engagement, So I Won’t Wed Her,” Says Judge-Messen- ger, 66 Years Old Judge V. W. Clough, ex-jurist from Brewster and until recently Western Union messenger “boy,” and “the perfect woman” he found “after turning down 18 fine ladies,” will not be married tonight. “The love spell is broken—the optimistic spirit dead,” Judge Clough explained today The marriage of the grandparents is postponed forever.” There had been, he said, an 11th-hour turn of events. About 7 o'clock last evening the judge was playing with his two grandchildren in his apartment at 525 Seventh 66 years old, He was thinking fondly of the seven more grandchil- dren his intended bride would bring to his family tree on the morrow, when the telephone rang. It was “the perfect woman,” Mrs. Ellen Hopkins, 58, of What she said was short but em- It left no question in Judge Clough’s mind that The blow was disconcerting, of course, but the ex- jurist and messenger managed to issue the following “No wedding tonight. She is a noble little woman, but she scolded her lover on the eve of wedding day and broke 80 sweet and placid. The storm without a rainbow. Family rows is what I intend in life. I refuse to be “The article announcing the wedding was out and con- gratulations were coming to us from friends, besides thousands of smiles and optimistic pleasantries—at home, censured. “The love spell is broken—the optimistic spirit dead. jatart the TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ——_-__———_—_— KING LOUIE ANXIOUS 10 KEEP CROW (Fact Is Announce at Pasco; s Now in in Seattle ’ essiol Louie Hart is going to for governor again! It’s 3 fact. The gay, glad news | quietly but nevertheless ficially spread in Pasco day, when 500 men rep ing nearly every section Washington met to form ti Columbia Basin league. It's always customary to tet t folks In on the news of the lernor’s intentions at meetings | the word from the go not make the announcement, With the news that Hart will jagain came tim word that the republican party central was to meet in Seatth & campaign. C |the best information obtainable fr the governor's close political in Pasco, the republican Dan Landon and Dr. E. J. Brown, rival candidates for may- or, clashed at two meetings Fri- day night, one in Woodland Park Presbyterian church and one later of street car men. Earlier in the day Landon peared on the University of Wash: | ington campus and spoke to stu |dents and faculty, after Prof. 1d mond 8 Meany had insisted that the aided in the operation. After his encounters with Brown, ‘Landon was captured by a commit: | tee of Eagle lodgemen, carried bod lly to their hall, acclaimed as attle's next mayor,” applauded dur. jing @ speech and pitted in a wrest ling match against the lodge bear, | Brown, in Friday night's speeches, he number “political tn- | that he says he intends |to kick out of the city hall if elected from 600 to 750. Brown spoke first at both meetings with Landon, He was about to leave the street car men's meeting, after his own speech, when Landon called him back, advising him that he might like to reply to some of the things he, don, was about to | nay TELLS OF FEUD WITH HANS( Landon ed that after Hanson was elected mayor. Brown | had insisted that Hanson appoint as head of the health department a close friend or relative of Brown This Hanson refused to do, Landon | dec Ole} said, causing him to fall out with Brown Brown admitted he had | brought Hanson out as a candi | date and elected him, but said | he later caused him to resign. | Landon said he had personally | one to Hanson and recommended| MAYOR FIGHTS| ‘TO KEEP CAMP, Protesting against the proposed jabandonment of Camp Lewis aa a | permanent training Mayor Caldwell dispatched telegrams Fri- |¢ay night to Washington's repre |sentatives in congress urging them |to dissuade the military authorities |from destroying the famous home jot the Sist Division | Senator W. L, Jones tmmediately |got in touch with the secretary of |war, who promised to do his best | to save Camp Lewis, | Mayor Caldwell declared that the | | citizens of Plerce county raised ove: | $2,000,000 on the understanding that | the cantonment was to be used as a | permanent divisional training camp. | hy | for of ability, “It is my the war.” Brown accused Landon of being af- fillated with Thomas M, Murphine, “Se. | Dr. W. T. Christensen and C. B. Fita- | gerald, and said Landon had already “political slate.” made up & 0 JOB FOR EITHER OF THEM “I am affiliated politically with nobody,” said Landon, no circumstances, if I am elect- ed, will Mr. Murphine or Dr. Christensen be appointed to any office. “I say emphatically nor will I ever be, clique or political never been, fluenced by an Dr. Jay his following.” Brown pilfered a plank from Lan: | law enfor n’s platform | ment jomeone has sald James Duncan | j¢ will be chief of police if I'm elected,” Brown announcer ny |ring of any kind. “But Oliver T. Erickson went to Brown's office the other day, | He found Brown in conference with Thomas and Ed Russell, a for mer official of the Associated Indus. tries and lobbyist in the legislature oJap interests “Hrickson askea Brown the-reason for the presence of Thomas and Rus: sell and felt suspicious of Brown and strict ed, of police myself.” In all ode ii was Wealthy Rancher’ 8 Slain Body Found STERLING, body of John rancher, was authorities under a Larson's barn Crook yesterday, with a shotgun, on his ranch, his speeches Friday, Landon reminded his audiences of the fact that he was one of three who had voted in the sen- le against the administrative ure, and the lone senator to vote against increased tuition fees at the university, that he had al- vays cast his vote honestly for © thought to be the best of all the people. Colo, Apr Larson, found on his He had Landon and Brown | Clash at Meeting the retention of Dr. J. 8. McBride, then health commissioner, grounds that McBride that department efficiently and that war wag then in progress and a man such as McBride, was re- ap-| quired to handle the job. understanding,” Landon, “that the reason so many of the police are opposed to Brown is because he resisted their attempts to j candidate take off his collar and had | clean up the city of undesirables ana people affiieted with disease during “Under that I have “I will be chief | 70. wi by county pile of hay in ranch near en killed Larson lived alone on the bad handled is all set Saturday night to-— Indorse the governor’s cote out reservations, Approve the poll tax. Declare Loule is one fine Kittle. ernor. Assure the folks that the ministration has made good. Spill cascades of figures | by Hart's bookkeepers in Oly | show that Loule has saved billion | or is tt millions?—in cash for the | payers of the state, eee STATE 6. 0. P. MEET JUNE 1 The state republican conven. tion will be held in Chehalis < dune 10, Delegates to the state conve tlon of the G. 0. P. will Beane lected in any manner the central committee may nate. This was the decision of the republican central committee at its meeting Saturday morning fn the Frye hotel, A resolution pei the county machines to handpick delegates to the state convention | adopted after considerable di |Mark Reed, state legislative Shelton timber man, proposed hand-picking pl ae After Reed had stated his plan whereby county committees might away with county conventions, |Groff, state senator from 8; complained: “Isn't there some way we can to this without being so plain?” So the state committee reworded its resolution to permit the county {committees to call conventions: it they want to, or to select delegates as they see fit to the state conven- |tion if that plan suits them best: | Several delegates opposed the blunt |wording of the plan, declaring that would make people say that the "| state convention was hand-picked. It was understood that the hands” picking plan ts favored by most of the committee because of fear that so-called radicals will get into the county conventions and into the state meeting and disrupt party harmony, Other committeemen from Eastera — | Washington said it was nearly fm: possible to get anyboay to attend county conventions anyway and when only a few delegates showed up the foes of the republican party made a lot of fun about it. Chairman Charles Hebberd ane nounced that Gov. Louls F, Hart will address the committeemen Saturday evening at a banquet in the restate rant in the basement of the L. G. \Smith building. He will tell of the: first year's operation of the state — administrative code, William on wald ins Laube, of Seattle, will speak on first year of the national admint tion, It ts expected this session indorse both the state and national — administralons and defy the demo crate,