The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 5, 1922, Page 1

eee moderate erly Temperature Maximum, 54. Today VOLUME 24. NO. 60. | 3 Generations Wiped Out by Poison Parsnip Dinner Home Brew 7 DE oR Howdy, folks! Rumor that Mayor Caldwell is about to pro- claim a Weekless Week de ¢lared unfounded. | ee Now that Kindness to Antmals Week is over, we can throw the bull egsin, = “Our First Year,” by « Bride, ts ‘The Star's new serial. We suppose will be followed by “The First Hundred Years; They Are the Hard- est.” by a Married Woman. eee SAMUEL PEPYS’ BREW ‘Thursday, Mey 4 early and to catch @& Capitol Hin car, but after waiting 10 utes for the conveyance was) ed up by Jno. W, Stokes of the Tonight and Saturday, showers; southwest- winds Last M4 Hours Minimum, 44. noon, 52, ———$_—$—$$$______ pe AFTER EATING WILD VEGETABLES Only Two Mem- bers of Whole Family Survive Tragedy On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Clase Matter May 8, 1999, at the Postoffice at eatin Wash. under the Act of Congress March #, 1879, SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MAY 65, 1922. She Loves Her Baby Too Much to Keep Him; Wants to Give Him Fair Chance By Aileen Claire “My children never bad @ chance. Their father was killed when they were young, and I had to take them out of sthool and put them to work. So they didn’t get any education—and new It's too late—and they'll never be anything but common laborers—existing, not living. Yow a grandson—and it | | | cause we do love him so. “You see, we know what misfor-| tune Ie, * * © My children—there are | |four of them—have never had a chance, on account of poverty. Just | a common schoo! education, and then | | they've had to get out and work to} | keep @ roof over our heads, | “I thought maybe my eldest daughter had got out of 1 when she |married Inst yoar—but she hadn't, TORNADO IN TEXAS TAKES TOLL OF TEN Wind, Rain, Hail) Wreak Havoc in Pathway Thru State Capital AUSTIN, Texas, May 6—~Torna- does which swept Austin late yester day took « toll of 10 lives, injured 60 and caused property damage ex- ceeding $500,000 Accompanied by a downpour of rain and hail, the funnel-shaped cloud | struck the capital ety shortly before dark. Penn aviation field and Oak Hill, a suburb, were the hardest hit ine were known to be dead at Oak HIM and one at Penn field. Bix were whites and four negroes. Seven of the eight large buildings at Penn field were demolished and THE STAR IS ELECTED SEATTLE’S MOST POPULAR NEWSPAPER BY 15,000 PLURALITY AAA AAAI SIRNA PPP EPP PPLE RPL |ONE TERM ENOUGH SAYS MAYOR-ELECT Per Year, by Mall, #6 to 69 He eels Banned inN ew Dance Back to Old Two-Step Time TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE BROWN PLANS QUICK ACTIO looks | something went wrong-—and her hus-| the eighth seriously damaged. Mke he'n got the same kind of life city ball cigar stand, who drove me) dowstown in his Buick, kidding me the while about Dr. Brown, which I) not much relish. | art my typewriter and 4!4 write) eeveral gags about Dr. Brown, but (he editor did object to them, saying | ‘we should wipe the slate clean, I with «cave them for a few {months when methinks they will come in handy, And so nothing/ hall, then, where Mayor awe aia kid me excessively | cause I had wagered several sh.dings that Dr. Brown woult net be! dlected. Home again in the evening on the Capitol Hill car, with every: | body still kidding me about Dr.| Brown, altho it seemed not a joking matter to me. And so to bed. : eee accuone oporty that when they eat soup they whistle jess eee be Ruth had his tonsils removed os . This will greatly Improve his hitting powers, as he will be Detter able to spit on his hands. eee HELP! HELP! ‘The Boy Scouts are helping folks clean up their yards and Little Homer Brew, Jr., sy he wished they would help him clean up several of the kids in his class at the T. T. Minor eee American soldiers are going to be Yeft in Germany, according to the| war department. They're still watch hg the Rhine. | . Remember the ha moment when you could say “That Man's s Army"? Army” and not “This Ma ore SEND IN YOUR ILIKEMS Hi. L. 8. chortles thusly: A man I like Is Bara Gatches; He has his own Supply of matches. ¥. M. J. insults us in thi I like my read- Ing matter solemn; I find it in The Home Brew column. While Frank Plerce, the millionaire author, sends this to Us in our dark: | et hour: Aa A guy I lke Is Landon, Dan; But I like him better Asan Also Ran, oe way: 1 wus up me on the street me one-half of $200, But ¢ the cash with nd . . 14 winds blows on filmy lace unprotected necks; | “One nice th iz about the garage mech. ’ remarks Ralph Hall, “is that he never charges anything for | the grease he leaves on the cush fons.” eine ie | ADV | “Woman Held as Lady Blue- | beard.”—Headlin We recomme! left today for Rell 4 the Mayor Caldwe m, where Fest om chal wer the ret the electio And while it, they might decide who won the Dempsey-| Willard tight. meet tn ape t 1ey'r@ about |Hont wag the only one Jed to paint on! [the strong chemical, |Thornas Lantkin, ORIGINAL, Ont, May 5— Seven members of the La Crotx family are dead here today as a result of eating wild parsnips. The dend: doseph La Crotz, 75; Napoleon La Croix, 40; Mrs. Napoleon La Crotx and four children, aged 11, 10, 8 and 6. Two younger children survtve. years, nated with strychnine, An tn- quest the deaths sc- cidental due to strychnine pol soning. PROBE BRANDING OF U STUDENT Fraternity’s Initiation to Be Investigated With Wallace D. Hunt, 19, sopho more at the University of Washing: |ton, being treated at his home, 1213 Eg. |burns on his face, President Henry Alder st., for nitrate of sliver Suzzallo was conducting an invest! gation into the practices employed at a fraternity night, where Hunt ie said to have lreceived his disfiguration. | Hunt was being tnitiated tnto Kap-| Jl the doors in Tacoma,” and that University of Washington oarsmen, |champtons of the Pacific coast, fraternity. pa Pal, a premedical With eight others, he waa “branded,” | nitrate of allver to suffer ft ie said, with serious consequences. According to Wendel Clausen, re it was intend gent of the fraternity nose of each candidate with the ni trate of stiver. Hunt claims that tn addition to this 4 long, flowing mustache and a goatee were stained on his face with which caused severe burns It will be a week, attending phy clans said, before Hunt will be i ° ne bis classes at the univer: | to resume his Jing to hervett M aity Presifent Suzzallo declared that students have been warned repent edly that neither dangerous nor vul gar practices would be tolerated dur. Ing Initiation ceremonies. Officers of Kappa Pst, who were ed upon Friday to explain to President Suzzallo, are Wendel Clausen, regent; Henry Reed, president; L. secre historian, ot Mr. and the and h Hunt is the so tire J. W. Hunt. He has a brother. Pa-| trolman Bernie Hunt, on the Seattle police force. I GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME Spring — heck, no; summer — ts here! The ctty hall janitor was busy Fri ing the window awnings in ation for hot weather. ASKS TO BE LOCKED UP BEFORE HE KILLS POLICEMAN LOTHARIO Ac using @ polleeman of being too friendly with his wife, A. B 21, salesman, walked into headquarters Friday with his wife. handed a revoiv Colliler, police Lacey F request that he er to Capt ‘ with the be locked up be fore he shot someone.” Mra, Lacey, after treatment for numerous bruises and a discolored optic, said to have been inflicted by her lewser half, was also lodged in jail, on an open charge. ahead of him. But he sha'n't—h going to have # chance—oefore it too late, ° © o* ‘The speaker @idn't look Itke a grandmother, Neatly, tho cheaply | Greased, ahe carried herssif with the it of @ young girl, and there was only the slightest suspicion ef gray tm her dark bair, But her eyes were fold, old as the ages—oid as sorrow it- self, ¢ j "I want to give & teaby away,” sho hed announced. “Not say bahy—but my little girl's, “It's a boy, = lovely, lovely much! But we've got to give him away just the | THIEVES VISIT. P.-T, A. WOMEN |Mayor Said Doors Were) | Unlocked; He Was Right TACOMA May 5. ‘hen Mayor C. M. Riddell tntroduced Mra. C. Arthur jarney, state president of the Par-! initiation Wednesday | ¢Mt-Teachers’ association, at the con- | amount. vention here yesterday, he told her) jthat “the locks had been taken of |the visitors would need no keys. When Mrs. Varney returned to the home of Mra. J. C. Todd, where she was ® guest, ehe found that Mayor | | Riddell had spoken the truth. Burg: | lars had entered the house by means | ® pans key and had stolen val uable articles belonging to herself. Mrs. Todd, Mra, 8. R. Boyton of} Bellingham and Mrs. H. 1. Copeland | of Walla Walla, who were also guests at the Todd home. the Todd) Almost simultaneously with the re port of the burglary of | home to the police came a telephone | }eall from Mrs. Arthur R. Warren, saying that her home had been burglarized and that articles belong: 4 to Mre. Charies | aed yh a ler of Seat n of Beattie, and Mrs. her home, had heen stolen All of the victims were attending the convention at the First Method. int church and all were elther county or state officers of the organization. | NEWS PLANT SET ON FIRE | LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 6.—| Fire Chief H. J. Griffin and city de \tectives today were pushing a vigor ous investigation of an attempt to |burn the Los Angelos Record build ling shortly before midnight. lath and paper were piled high against the rear of t | | he buflding and ignited, Flames were fiscovered | shooting to the hefght of the two- story structure by Charles Burkhart, la passerby, who called the fire de | Patrolman C. R. Stevens, who ar rived at the scene immortistely after Burkhart had turned in an alarm, saw two men fleeing al the Pa cific Electric's ele toacke whieh parallel the newspaper building and gave chase, They escaped SCHOOL GIRL | | IS MURDERED MEXIA, Texas, May 6.—Posses! and mobs, led by bloodhounds, toda sought the slayer of Bulla Ousley, a pretty school ¢ The « body was found a mile} ‘om her home, the face mutilat and 80 stab wounds on her b: She had been criminally assaulted, | | night mand deserted her within @ few| Students at Bt Edwards’ college months a@ter their marriage. | were rushed into the concrete base- “And then the baby cana, © © @| ment of the building, Five were in “We could keep him, of course, | Jured and college buildings were bad. by serimptng and saving even more|)y damaged. The gymnasium was de- than we do now, But what chance | Molished would he ever haye?: North of the city one of the two "My daughter's Just « tactory girt | twisters dipped into the state school fhe can't earn more than enough to) ro deaf, dumb and blind. Two keep body and soul together andthe | Fore injured and several buildings most bey’d have to start helping damaged ae toon aa he learned to talk. Hundreds stood near the state cap 7 tte} building and watched the twist Aces Ga, agit get Se |Set es tes ouent etrware ‘Bot thing to do. There must 4 |were in motion at the same time. 2 about six miles apart. Debris could somebedy who wants him, an@ |), seen plainly as it was lifted and who'll take him in and give him | p* "eon plate’ a chanes—the chance my own season sors Nat sas gut m Salt Lake City Ie Menaced by Floods touch with the family by calling The Star, Main 0600 SALT LAKE CITY, May 5. —Rest- dents in the southwestern part of the city are battling with foods today, | caused by the rapid melting of snow in the mountains. Water from Par- | ley’s ergek awept into the busine | district of the section known as} Sugar House today, Warning was given of a bad Mood. Many streets have been under wa j ter in some parts of the city for the! past few days, and the danger ts stondtly Increasing. Many business houses have pract! cally ceased business in Sugar House, | while all employes gre attempting to! stem the flood by building dams may of maid bags and digging canals, FUND FOR CREW REACHES $3,910 $3,500 Must Be Raised by Saturday Night Atumn! crew fund committees are Row within $3,600 of their goal. A day and a half remains to raise this At noon Friday $2,910.40 war on the subscription list. A total | of $7,600 im necessary to send the PACIFIC SHIP to Poughkeepsie tn June to compete in| the intercollegiate regatta on the| Hudson river. | Crew fund committees realize that strenuous activity is necessary if the fund ts to be completed by Saturday Persons who desire to help | ¢ may send a contribution to the office | of the general committee, 2111 L. C. Smith building. Contributions not previously ac-| knowledged were received from the SAN FRANCISCO, May 5.—The/ | steamer Fairfield City, en route from | the South Sea islands to New York, | ran ashore near Honolulu, T. HH. early today, according to private grams received hera The nea was reported smooth and} it was believed the vessel was in lit tle danger. following: | Hoquiam Rotary | club New City Officers Stuart Agen, $60; G. W. Fischer Sclwabecher Pron, $05; Julus| to Speak Saturda Lang, $25; J. C. Marmaduke, $25 Newly elected city officials are to Peters & Powell, $25; M. Sullenger, | speak at the Millionalr club Saturday $25; New York Life Insurance com | night and tell of thelr plans for re pany, $25; Winlock W. Miller, $25; \teving unemployment and conduct J. W. Maxwell, $26: Imperial Candy |ing municipal affairs company, $25; Preston, Thorgrimson | Mayor Hugh M. Caldwetl has heen & Turner, $25; Moritz Thomsen, $25; asked to preside at the meeting, | Thorndyke & Trenholme, $25; Wal-| which is open to the public ter B. Nettleton, $50; Judge Stephen J. Chadwick, $26; Martin & Martin, 25; Asahel Curtis, $10; Lenore Saturday | White, $1 O. Syitiassen, $2; Miller Freeman, F. Sweeney, $10 Shoppers | Capt. J. 8. Gibson, Laube & Grin i - ‘ stend, $25; “Kitty Poker There's a fine list of — " " Seattle's most enticing Poison Cause of bargains in today’s Star. i i Roston Shoe Co.—Page 2. Choir Girl Death Grote-Rankin Co.—Page 3. DANVILLE, Tl, May 6.—Polson ain ge cee iy was found in the examination of Browning King & Co. Page 4 MacDougall.southwick Co- 4 the vital organs of Gertrude Hanna, choir girl found murdered in the basement of the Presbyterian church Pe at Hoopeston, according to advices runvem mations 6. reaching John Lewman, district at The Rhodes Co—Page 6. torney, here today. | Bpelger & Hurlbut Details of the traces of potson Frederick & 2 found were not made public, pend Cease et the Sheu ing receipt of the final report of ayers t the examination from Chicago “Who Are They?"--Page 10, physicians, expected tomorrow Shon, Masche—Page Xd. With definite information that Fastern utfittitg Co the « died of poison, Page 13 redout their efforts to trace the Heiman's Millinery—Page 12. source of the drug. Market Ads—Pages 14, 15, 5 16. Will Urge Negroes Sitio Pere aT Migrate to Africa | pages 18 ana 19 Marcus Garvey, president-goneral Shaner & Wolff--Dage 20. of the Universal Negro Improvement Used Car Special Page 22. association, will address a mass meet aioe ay ‘pomh svetiaheds teed ing of ne ‘oe in thin city Me 29, to from today's Star and see how rge the migration of negroes to Af. much you will save. jena, where, ho says, great wealth awaits thelr industry, RUNS ASHORE | ;: ‘J. P. Morgan Will Gilda Grey enough that New York is beginning to pick up its heels when it dances! Pearance! Something that harks! Given the fox trot rhythm, the back to the days of twostep'dance, an Miss Grey explains it, is rhythm, when society dancing was! done thus: & matter more of toes than heels.| Take regular dancing posttion. It's been an eon or more since) one hasibeen able to find, in the/ing forward, Indy backward, take smart dancing places, anyone but/four light, quick steps with heels the hopelessly old-fashioned, potsing| off of the floor. on the toes.' Heels and all have| Second movement—Pivot, alter danced of recent days. nating stepa. But there's beginning to be «| Third movement—Four light quick change! steps similar to first’ movement. To Glida Grey, a terpsichorean Fourth movement—Four gliding marvel, who nightly entertains the/ steps to the right and then to the Muests at one of New York's fash- left, during which the heels are on jonable. eating places, belongs the the floor. credit for swinging soctety dancing| Fifth mevement—Dip twice and back to something of a matter of| then break into the original step for toes | repetition of the entire series, Miss Grey's new dance ts Ty-Tee| In all of these steps except the hit!), named for the South Sea gliding there ts a natural incllna- of which she «ings as ahe tion toward putting more zest into dances. It is done to fox trot/dancing than has been the rule of rhythm. Her art ts principally sojo| late, Thete 1s a tendency toward dancing, but her society version of! long steps and swank which means Ty-Tee in simple and interesting death to the close position. CAVE MAN KILLS \THREE MEN DIE GIRL ON CLIFF IN GANG ATTACK ae | pink 3 Posse Searches Mountains Shooting Follows Kidnaping for Murderer of Policeman FIAVERSTRAY + Y. May 8—| CANTON, ©, May §.—Three men Searching parties led by detectives were killed and two probably fatally were tramping today thru the moun: | wounded in a battle between police tain fastnesses and ravines near here and gungsters here late yesterday, | in an effort to find clues to.the cave BY MARIAN HALE A new dance has made its ap inles, | The gun fight followed kidnaping| man believed to have slain Lillian! of q motorcycle policeman who at. White, whose skeleton was found on| tempted to arrest the bandits for & mour.tain cliff April 9. | speeding. Police toaay declared they The cave, in which the man was|had evidence the gangsters came bellev.d to have slain the girl, has| here in a plot to free “Oklahoma been found. | Slim” Stevens, sentenced to the Can It ta located on a mountain a short | ton workhouse, distence from the top and about a ‘Those shot down tn the fray were hundred feet from a cliff which is| Eddie Stevenson, Cleveland, gang alreort perpendicular. | member; an unidentified bandit and In the cavern searchers say they| Ralph Hoffee, Canton contractor, fond rugs, blankets, cooking utensils | member of a posse which pursued the | and many primitive furnishings, | bandit car after the kidnaping. Detectives believe when the girl| George Brainer and Harry Harper, loft home she went to the secret! gang members, were both shot thru| and joined her ‘lover trysting plac the head and are belleved dying, | in the cave. while Jesse Io. Vogle, Canton police-| That the cave dweller and the girl) man, and Robert Boston, posse mem. Mved together in primitive fashion] per, also were wounded. for some time In the cave, detectives! The bandits barricaded themselves say is indicated by evidence found) in a farm house when pursued by po- in It | lice and civilians, after kidnaping the Identity of the girl was made from | patrolman, After the fight, the gun- her skeleton aftor former Police Cap-| men fled to a near-by wood and were tain Grant Willlama of New York | surrounded, ity had worked for weeks to “recon struct” the body from clay. Mrs. Baker Denies First movement—Gentieman mov-) ery, with the heading of bee Grand Haven, Mich. letter, dated June 13, “The bearer, Eddie Brown, in our employ for three proved @ willing and ca | Fead: | been fi “I have never in my life,” \Dr. Brown, “left a job that I not have goye back to if I | That ts the principle on which I everything. : “I am making no promises now |to what T shall do mayor of attle, neither am I even ny appointments. After I taken office, I shall study the varie ous departments of city government, just as I examine a patient comes to me, Then, when I at a diagnosis, I shall take what steps are needed to effect a cure. “This may result in some changes jot personnel. I don't know. At any rate, IT am not interested tn indie | viduals, but in departments.” Dr. Brown declared that his only Promise is to keep the pledges made to the people during his campaign. Dr. Brown will remain in Seattle until Sunday night, when he will leave for a week's rest at Wenatches, WILL STAY FOR RYTHER RECEPTION “Tam gotng to stay over for the reception Sunday in honor of my olf friend, Mother Ryther, I take pride in the fact that I was able to assist in straightening out some of the diffle culties that arose in connection with Mother Ryther’s home. She is a won derful woman, Few people really know her.” Dr, Brown says that fn the 50 years he has been dealing with the public, he has evolved four principles by which every public servant should be guided, “A man must first of all be hom est,” he said. “Second, he must be able, Third, he must have the cours | age of his convictions, And, fourth, he must be loyal to himself and friend: SLAYER DIES IN THE CHAIR McALLISTER, Okla., May 5.—Sam Watkins, confessed murderer of Mra. Cora Jones, a neighbor, went boldly to the electric chair and was electro cuted at the state prison here today, “I'm not afraid,” he said, when be ing strapped into the chair, He was pronounced dead tn three minutes. THE KING COUNTY Bar assoctas tion will hold a dinner at the College club May 17 at 6:80 p.m. | | Plan for Divorce} ® N YORK, May 5.—Mrs, Mar Sail for Europe garet Emerson Baker today denied NEW YORK, May 6.—J. P. Mor-jrumors she was secking a divorce gan and George Whitney, of J. P.|from her husband, Ray T, Baker, dl Morgan & Co., sail for Kurope on|rector of the mint at Washington. — | May 13 to discuss an international] Mrs. Baker arrived here aboard loan to Germany, it was announced|the steamer Rotterdam from Bou-! today. logne aod Plymouth, Whole Story of Making Radio Told on Pg. 20