The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 8, 1922, Page 1

| a Sen eae a Base See ESPRRES a38 ( ligt eter THE STAR IS ELECTED SEATTLE’S MOST POPULAR NEWSPAPER BY 15,000 PLURALITY BANK CRASH UNDER PROBE rain; moderate Maximum, 49, UL WEATHER Tonight and Tuesday, Temperature Last 34 Hours CEP icp kan. ae noon, 48, occasional southerly winds, Minhoum, 36. Mntered as Beoond Class Matter May VOLUME 24. NO, 62. <=> 4, 1899, at the Postofficn at Beattie, Wash, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Sta Per Year, by Mall, $6 to 0 under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879. SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, MAY 8, 1922. Romance Causes Probe of Kidnap Plot Charge Howdy, folks! After reading about the telechronometer, we are ready to believe that hell is paved with bad inventions. eee Making people pay according to the length of their conversation is/| inequitable. Think how much it} would cost a councilmant eee For tricks that ore dark, And ways that are vain, The Telephone Co. is peculiar. saucer, PEPYS BREW lay, May 7 us ey I did go to Dogfish bay on a clam hunt with friends, Dut the only clams we caught were those taken out of a can by Bill Dix- on, which mattered not, as we were very merry. And Sol Haas did fail! out of the skiff, and aid accuse me of tipping the boat, but I am of the be- lief that the elam nectar went to his head. And so to Eagle Harbor, but no clams there, either, altho Bob Ber- mann did give me his new clam gun with which to shoot my prey. And fo home thru the locks and to bed, very weary, for, indeed, it was a full day. ! eee Re that as it may, Clarence Shim- plefinny: is a pupil at a Vancouver, | Wash., school. eee VERS LIBRE Cloads like magenta tamales. A tepewrhen Risase © rebar towel on the Tiny aracitie juan orchastvn standing | on Ite head smid cauldrons full of boiling | tiie politely plazed Minuet in G on 0| He politely era Pre teats a2 Plomenty Into o dish of rhubarb, % butterfly diee—fiutter, flatier, fet! eee | Don't be frightened, fotka, that is just an advertisement for the new) sorrespondence school In free verse that we are going to open soon “ef Whenever this colyum lacks potee, Just blame the composing room boys; If they don’t like our stuff They can aure treat it rough— But I don’t know WHO that annoys. “2 “Poindexter to Come in Augus' —Headline. But he may go in Sep tember—i¢ not in November. oe ‘The Biblical story of the creation must have been written by a base-| ball reporter. It starts out, “In the| big inning eee United we mmoker Aivided we get no cigaret premiums. ee Las week we took a Dumb Belle to! lunch, and when the wife com (Turn to Page 4, Column 4) | THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE Old as All the Ages, Yet Always hew In the Theme of “THE | COLOR OF | HER | SOUL” Which Ie to Appear Serially in The Star Beginning Next Friday It Is by S. B. H. Hurst, of Seattte Author ot “COOMER ALI” DAUGHTER OF (coRPsHEaD ) SENATOR AND HERO IN LOVE Attempt to Oust, Britisher Charge} in Unusual Case at Washington | | Rat } BY JAMES T. KOLBERT WASHINGTON, May §& Yoil of complete mystery secrecy today was thrown : | around the alleged attempt to | | | kidnap Alexander EB. Robertson, said to be a British war hero, because of his reciprocated love for a United States senator's daughter, Miss Mary Culbertson of Texas Outstanding from the maze of the unusual love wffair ia the apparent fact that Senator and Photo by Price @ Carter Btar Mtalf Photographers Chief of So far no reply has been made by the Cuibertsons to the charges of Robertson that pri- vate detectives endeavored to kidnap him and get him out of If people want telephones they must the country, because of his love pay this company, or do without. for Miss Culbertson. The Brit- Formerly the company charged a/' isher swore out a warrant for t or S fiat rate that was considered by | one of the detectives, J Fr. subscribers high. When the tele Ellis, at Bloomfield, N. J. chronometers were inetalied the Cc, B. Jurney, secretary to the Osa ggpeasee » represented that the cost senator, according to inform irvice would be poor 4 cut. tion here, has left for Newark to take a hand In the situation and it is rumored a meeting of Miss Culbertson and Robert son may be arranged in the hope of quietly ending the af. fair, which has already greatly disturbed the senator and his wife. ‘The British embassy will safe guard the interests of Robertson, Area Here‘: Maj. Gen. C.C. C. Morton Is} ntertained While on Inspection Tour After an inspection of Fort Law: ton in the morning, Maj. Gen. Charles it was learned at the embassy to- C. Morton, commander of the Ninth day corps area, was the guest of honor The embassy, however, dors Monday noon at a luncheon given by not consider the strange love af- | the Chamber of Commerce at the Ral fair one which should cause dip | nier club lomatic representations to the Aas the guest of Col. Oscar Cha American government, and it Gen. Morton was to meet federal, plans no action along that line, | state and city officials at Fort Law believing Robertson can obtain redress for any wrongs which may have been done him under |of the United States at American laws. | Washington hotel First word concerning the al | Gen. Morton ts fn Seattle on offt ton, and at § p.m. wag scheduled to ation of the Army the New laddress the Asso: leged efforts to get the young | cial duties, he aaid, but plans to re lover of the senator's daughter | main here for another day, just to out of the country was received | get acquainted with the people and by the embassy when Rebert- | with conditions son's aunt, Mrs. Mary T. An» | The Ninth corps aren Includes Cal drews, of New Jersey, called to | ifornia, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, see Ambassador Geddes a short |Utah, Montana, Wyoming and time ago, She said the veteran had been kidnaped and taken to after his arrival in Seattle Boston for virtual deportation j Lewis, Saturday night, Back of the unusual love affair Gen. Morton went to Fort Ward. is the strong feeling of the sen- | Where he wag the guest of Col. Mer ator and his wife that their ram. daughter, who ts 21, is too young Gen, Morton commanded the 29th to marry and that they desire |combat division in France, and h her to marry an American. | received many decorations, including Robertsc and the senator's the distinguished service medal, the daughter fell in love while both croix de guerre with two palms and were students at the University | the insignia of commander of the Le-| gion of Honor, After the armistice, he supervised the program of recon struction in Hawai! of Texas. Their romance budded rapidly Misg Culbertson came to Wash- ington and Robertson went to | At 9 a, m. Tuesday, the distin Syracuse | wuts hed soldier ja to visit various lo- When he came here a short |cal army headquarters, At 11:15 he time ago to visit Miss Culbert will review the University of Wash. son, the parents learned for the ington RK. O. ‘ The Hundred 1 entertain him at the evening he wil har. Per Cent club wi and in first time that the young people were engaged luncheon. be taken on a cruise about the The parents objected. The matter was turned over to Jur- | bor. Gen. Morton will leave for Spo. ney, the senator's secretary, and | kane at 7 p, m. ft was said he had worked to break off the engagement or at least bring about a postponement |Wound 11 ‘Convicts | in Prison Battle (Turn to Page 4, Column 2 COLUMBIA, 8. C., May 8 Eleven | ° lconvicts in the state penitentiary Harding Rebuffs Goes Wocnded, tes periaelig, When * : prison guards and firemen put down Children Again Py ie ico convictn. the pris WASHINGTON, May President! eners attempted to burn the chair Harding again declined to see the| factory. They were armed with sticks at the| and kniven, with their told Mayor- Elect Brown children crusaders who called White House y, in line announced campaign Secretary George Christian them he would inform the president to Speak on Trip of their call, and would let them | know if the president desired to nee| Altho he planned the trip primarily them. as a vacation, Dr twin J. Brown, Mra. Kate Richards O'Hare, who Seattle's mayor-lect, no left Bun, led the band to the White House day for his ranch in jrant county, said, on leaving today, that they| has accepted an Invitation tu speak would continue thelr daily visit until) at the electric jubilee to be held in the president seey them. |Hphrata May 12 and 18 CHARGE PHONE STEAL! Citizens of Everett Up in Arms Over Telechronometer and Big Bills By Hal Armstrong EVERETT, May 8.—Telechro- nometers that measure telephone conversation as a gas meter measures gas, only more so, have been In use here a month, an people today are sore to the polnt of desperation. Instalied first in Everett on the lines of the Puget Sound Telephone company to test its efficiency, the telechronometer, If successful, it is intended, will next be put in use In Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and Portland. ‘That it has been and is eminently succeastul trom the company’s tand- lowing fact: Telephone bills this month are enormous. Some have increased a third over last Month's bite, Others have doubled. Others trebled. The company has no competitor tn this field. Its franchise is exclusive he company has nent f |trona their billa for 0. it ny tele chronometered convernation, The |e | MRS. FRED ALLINGTON, 2628 |Grand, on a four-party line, learns |that In 20 days she bas talked 170 “telecrones,” or minutes, the company $1.90. She formerly paid $2 for the use of her phone 30 days WILLIAM BURY, ! 8722 Smith, potnt may be adduced from the fol } | and owes! TRUE MOVIE LIFE Wildest Days of Sudden Success fa depicted by a famous author who knows the screen world from an experience of nine years— in telling of the romance and adventures befalling « New York society woman when she fied to Hollywood from ber husband. Be sure to read this late popular novel— BY LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE Author of “The Brass Bowl,” etc. THE NOVEL OF MOVIE LIFE IN HOLLYWOOD Appearing in 24 Installments, Beginning MONDAY, May 15 -IN— THE STAR TEXANS LYNCH \NATIONALP,-T.A. FOURTH NEGRO Rangers Rushed to Scene to Prevent Violence Delegates From All Over Country in Tacoma KINVIN, Texas, May §.—Two de CONVENTION ON { | ] 260|John L. | | GRAND JURY ALSO ON LEGATE CASE TWO CENTS IN SIN SEATTR INVESTIGATION IS INAUGURATEE ‘Searching Inquiry County Body Court Monday Investigation into the failure of the Scandinavian An can bank of Seattle, which closed its doors last June, be undertaken by the county. grand jury that conve |the county-city building Monday. This was indicated by the questions put to prosp jgrand jurors by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney T. H | terson while the jury was |supervision of Presiding Judge Calvin S. Hall. Is to Be Made b Impaneled in being impaneled under It was already known that Prosecutor Malcolm De had been gathering evidence fraud lodged against the county commissioners gas jof Belleyue and in connection with the unsolved n Patrolman Charles O. Legate. The bank probe came as = surprise, ‘This question was repeated to each of the 10 men and seven women who comprised the grand jury as finally seated. Each was also asked if he was re- lated to any member of the Seattle police department or to any county official. Judge Hall stated that tf any juror had had trouble with a county offt- cial he might be excused, None ac- cepted this challenge, The grand jury was first called for the purpose of investigating charges against County Commission- ers Claude C, Ramsay, Lou Smith |and Thomas Dobson by Bellevue res- idents who told Prosecutor Douglas that costly improvements had been | made with county money to enhance the value of property owned by the officials. FRAUD ALSO 1S ALLEGED Fraud in connection with the leas- ing of the county ferries to Capt. Then the matter of the Legate the| murder was brought up. It has been charged that the police department is deliberately shielding the killer jand that an investigation, it is said, mays, “For the 20 days, I owe the TACOMA, May §.—More than company $1.70. A good many days | " |delegutes from all parts of the | we used the phone only once, Sey |tachments of Texas Rangers were) i) itt me et ere today for th Jere! days we were not at home and | rushed to Kirvin today foliowing 82) opening of the National Congress | didn't use it at all. My old rate|outbreak of race disturbences, of Mothers and Parent-Teacher, as was $2 a month Frederick Green, nogro, wan lyneh-| sociations lasting all week. : s hs. 4. E. BELL, 2227 Rucker—| eq today-—the fourth to die by mob] Mrs. Milton Higgins, national My Dill is far higher than T ex-| sion since the ult an’ murder |President of the P.T. A., arrived| | pected. We aren't using the phone av Wula Ausley | De? last week during the state much now, The service is not|of pretty 1T-yearold Wule Ausley | convention and will direct sessions good, My bill for the 20 days in|here last Thursday | this week. $4.45. 1 used to pay $2 a month.| Green, 23 years old, wag {mplicated| Oregon was expected to send 100 I'll try it another month, then have |in the crime by "Snag jthe phone out if this keeps up.” | MRS,-FRANK COOPER, the president of the Citizens’ tional bank, got a bill for 20 days and had the phone | out | GEORGE W. | got a bill for $5 1 long distance call costing $1.05 lremainder was for ecrones former flat rate waa $2 a month MRS. W. H. GRIFFITH, 2318 25th wife of taken EDWARDS, 2229 luded one His ‘I haven't used my phone much, but my bill reads $1.95 for the 20 jdays. I have been paying $2 a ROY J. FA NOR, 2114 | “My bill is $1.95, but I don't use my phone hardly at all, That's the reason. I don't like this system at all, My daughter-inJaw owes $3.75 for the 20 days, We've both been paying $2 a month.” MRS. G. 8. ROSE, 1524 Wetmore. got a bill for for the 20 4 THE RUCKER AVE, GROCERY jreports that their bill ia no more than |their old flat rate bill be fewer calls from the outside,” said the proprietor. “I haven't kept track |When people call up to give me an Na-| $7 for} The! delegates and California 12. Wash- Curry, who confessed before he was burned. | Curry said that Green was with them | negro, ater. when the girl was anxsnulted, ‘The body of Green was found/ebration of 10,000 school children hanging to a tree half-way between | Friday. Fairfield and Kirvin, | Tonight's program includes a ban- eee jquet at the Tacoma hotel, with | AUSTIN, Texas, May 8.—Governor| greetings from the national Neff today ordered two detachments | cers. of Texas Rangers to Fairfield, | ae county seat of Freestone county, im: | mediately, to prevent an uprising by | that Sheriff Mayo declared KLUX PROBE IN SESSION ington state hag 49 accredited dele-| The big feature of the convention | will be the annual Stadium day cel-| was offi.| street car conductor, would result in a sensational “shake up” of the department In giving his instructions to the| was an observer, two Japanese in” Jury Judge Hall laid emphasis on the matter of secrecy. The jury was also instructed to at some time dur- ing its session visit the county jail nd make @ report on conditions there, This is a routine duty of the grand jury L, G, Horr, 227% Belmont ave, N., appointed foreman by Judge | Hall, Other members of the grand | |jury ar Mrs. Lydia A. Schuesler, R. F. D. | No. 2, Auburn; Alfred T. Winsor, 7653 85th ave. N, W.; Mrs lie W. Sargent, of 32nd ave, N, W.; Mrs Ga , 3511 Ashworth at Peter T. Thompson, 8721 Gre wood ave.; G, V. Slater, patho tl 2201% First ave.; R. Flakstad, sales- man, 5118 Interlake ave.; Fred Bice, Laura M Anderson also was alleged. | foot in connection with cha bi YACHT WRECK’ THREE DROW San Francisco it in M as Result of Tragedy SAN FRANCISCO, May 7, ness circles and San Francisco were in mourning today for Hanify, lumberman and owner; Edward <A. Chi | Wealthy steamship man end CG | Petter Anderson, yachting pilot, wh |were drowned some time Sati |night off Hayward, in San bay. The bodies of Hanify and of C |tain Anderson were recovered. were locked together, indicat! |terrific struggle, one to save other. Christenson's body was found today. An alrplane was sent to search the yaeht belonging to Hanify | which the three started from Sai ito Saturday night on a yacht cruis to San Mateo, sighted wreck of the boat yesterday ing. Answering signals from |plane, in which Christeason’s rowboat went out to the wreck recovered the two poties, | Both Hanify and Chrisienson | wide business interests on the including lumber and timber ings in the Northwest an] heavy ine Ease in coastwise steamship limes, Both were directors of the San Frame elsco Olympic club. BELL DEATH DUE TO WEAK HEAR |Coroner Announces Fi M o sald negroes of Freestone \ bare Genus te aioune the| 108 ANGELES, May 8.—The Los| farmer, Maple Valley; Mr et After Post Mortem death of three negroes burned at the | Angeles county grand Jury convened | Hoon, laundry worker, 2012 Wait st.; | Seber stake at Kirvin Saturday for the as- jat 10 a. m. today to open its investi-| Bernhard Swanson, clerk, 182! N.| Death of Clarence J, Bell, 62, sault and murder of Miss Eula gation of Ku Klux activities. | 67th st.; Mrs, Ella Green, 3315 “gist | estate agent whose body was Ausley, 17 r-old schoo} girl | Just before the session started Dep. jave. 8.; Frank Dunn, laborer, 816 23d) in a vacant house at 417 Ga Capt. Frank Hamer of Ranger |PUty District Attorney Doman, who, | ave; Mrs, Mary A. Martin, 721 734) st. Saturday night, was due to heart headquarters company at Austin will| With District Attorney Thomas Lee| st.; Mrs, Etta B, Nelson, 1312 Jobn | raijure, Coroner W. H. Corson ai leave at once for Fairfiel! with one Woolwine, will conduct the exam./st.; Willlam J, Brown, clerk, 5241) pounced Monday. Corson held i detachment of rangers, ‘The other | {nation of witnesses, announced that | 44th ave. 8. W.; Henry W. Moffatt.) noct mortem examtnation Sunday, “There may | order they me what they want| quick and then hang up. No, I don't get much chance to ask them if} there isn’t something else they'd like this morning.” V. H, LARISH, 1608 Baker, maid his wife used the phone just once a for the 20 days, She and her day detachment {is to come from Mort | the day's evidence would probably be Worth under command of Capt, Tom Hickman. IF LOOD GROWS he masked raid in Inglewood as a basis for the investigation, Later, he said, witnesses would be called to tell of events and facts re. jlating to the Ku Klux Klan. IN SALT LAKE} FUNERAL SERVICES for Dr.| Mason, 58, who died Sunday, at2pm SALT LAKE CITY, May 8.—|Josiah Heavy rains have added to the flooa| Wil! be held in the Sugarhouse district of Salt/th® University Undertaking com: Lake today and many citizens aro| Pany’s establishment, aiding the street department in pil-| ing up sang bags and other obstrue- | |stater took turn ‘ip thee ls e tions in an endeavor to keep the/| HOME IS FOUND FOR jother up, to even a % n | water trom stores and homes, Sev jealls.” Larish got a bil | water and scores of rein ld are} The week-old baby for whom a for the 20 days and told the company | riiieq || nome was sought thru The Star to come and get their phone. | Much anxiety ts felt by many rest last week has been adopted, His KR, J. FAUSSETT, city attorney, | dents regarding the Mountain Dell) | grandmother called up Monday to said the company represented that|qam, which ts about six miles from|| say a well-todo family living in his bill would be cut from $2 to/sait Lake in one of the canyons.|| the country had taken in the $1.70, In all likelihood. Insten 1, |The water i, pouring over the spill little fellow, and that he will be he got a bill for the 20 days for |way in a heavy stream and the rains given the chance that his moth. $2.90. “And we've been curtailing'are adding to the force of the moun-' | pr'a poverty precluded (Turn to Page 4, © wn 5) tain stream % confined to establishing the facts of | mechanic, 6011 41st ave. S. W. eee ILEGATE CASE man Charles ©. Legate, murdered March 17 in the Main Street Garage, | 1242 Main st. INQUEST DUE Located al days ago in Hitch.| Bell disappeared Friday from his cock, Okla., Emmanuel A. Wietz will| son's office in the Seaboard building: return to Seattle to testify at the|when he took the woman, now coroner's inquest and grand Jury in Monday at} vestigation of the death of Patrol-| house. | the garage. lhy | shown Captain of Detectives Charles Ten- nant announced Monday that he had solved a telegram trom Wietz, ask-|Cash Register Co. ing transportation to Seattle. ‘The inquest will be held immediate- upon is believed. Legate’s Coroner W his arrival, it body will be H. Corson's orders, Developments in the murder inves: tigation during the past week have/ter company, cording attorney for a startling trend, to Lady Willie Forbus (Turn to Page 4, Column 2) ac Wietz formerly owned | grational chureh, exhumed at Police were seeking Monday woman, last seen with Bell, in hope that she might give accurate: jinformation on his death. were no marks of violence on Balle body. |being sought, to view the vacant Funeral services were to be Monday afternoon at Keystone Gon+ Burial was to be at Washelli cemetery. a Founder Is ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 8 The body of J. H. Patterson, man of the board of directors founder of the National Cash was taken to D today for burial, Patterson dro dead of heart trouble while on e ala. en route to this city, 5 7